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The Tide of Radicalism Ebbing at
the North. —lndications are multiply
ing every day that the Northern peo
ple are becoming intensely disgusted
with Radicalism. Many of the Radi
cal journals are sensible of the reac
tion, and are shaping their course ac
cordingly. Among them is the New
York Times, which is now exposing
the unconstitutionality of the recent
reconstruction acts of Congress. It
asks, where in the Constitution does
anybody “find authority for Congress
to pass a law excluding certain States
from representation until they pass
laws or adopt Constitutions such as
Congress may prescribe ; or to subject
the civil functionaries of a State to the
paramount authority of a military
commander; or to decree universal
negro suffrage in the Southern States
as the condition of restoration ? We
can find no such authority, and never
could ; nor have we ever been fortu
nate enough to find one wlo could
point it out.’’
Notes Given for Purchase of Slaves
Void. —The Supreme Court of Louis
iana has decided that notes given in
consideration for the purchase of
i—-- ---.....11 on/1 pair) the case
coming up m an appeal from the JJis
trict Court, in which a contrary decis
ion was rendered. The Court held
that freedom was a pre.existing right;
and slavery a violation of that right ;
that contracts for the sals of slaves
did have the sanction of the law, but
when that sanction ceased the contract
ceased also; that a mortgage of the
6lavc to secure the payment of his
price pan 0 f the same transaction
and became nun ;» th<> same manner;
that the (prohibition (against laws im
pairing the value of contracts docs
not apply to the sovereign power, and
that its fiat is potent to release the
contractors as well as to set the slave
free. '
Attorney General?s Second Opinion.
Washington, June 15, p. m.—lt is un
derstood in official circles that the At.
torney General, ip bis opinion just
prepared, holds that the Reconstruc
tion acts provide for two governments
—Military and Civil; that both are
provisional and to be obeyed, but to
cease when reorganization of the State
Governments take place; lie also
takes the position that the military is
only to protect, all in their rights of
personal property, and for the preser
vation ot order and the suppression of
violence and crime. There is no au>
thority in the law for removal by the
Military Commander of the proper offi
cers ot a State, neither Executive nor
Judicial, or the appointment of their
successors; the Military Commander
is not authorized to destroy but is
bound to protect civil officers, a Mili
tary Commander being regarded as a
conservator of the peace and not an
abrogator of the law.
&UUinci /cc/ o U.C T*
a rather notable fact that of the class
just graduating at West Point, every
man of the first six scholars is from
the South. Ruffner, of Virginia leads,
and Sears, of Virginia, is third ; then
there are Mallory, of Alabama, Rogers
and Ilaupt, ol Georgia, and Griffith,
of North Ca.olina. In the next six,
there are three Tennesseeans, Pitman,
Maguire and Bell, while Turtle, of
Massachusetts, Greer, of Pennsylva
nia, and lleintzelman, at large, occupy
the other three places. Thus all ot
the first Bix, and nine of the first 12
places on the scale of general merit,
are taken this year by men appointed
from the South. This is the first time
in the history of the Military Acad
emy when the Southern States havo
swept off all the honors.
Munificence of a Stranger —We
learn from the Atlanta Int-.lligencer,
that Judge John Pearson, of Danville,
Illinois, has brought to that city at his
own expense, over one thousand bush
els of corn lor distribution to destitute
widows and orphans, every bushel of
which is contributed by himsoll. Ac
companying the corn is about ono hun
dred dollars worth of clothing, sent by
the benevolent ladies of Danville, to
be disposed of in a similar way.
John Pearson—let the name of this
good Samaritan be engraved on the
heart of every Georgian— Macon Tel
egraph.
From Mexico —New York, June
14. The Herald has a special from
San Luis Potosi, of the 28th, which
says that Juarez rejects the terms pro
posed by Maximilian mado at un in
terview with Escobedo. Maximilian,
Mejia and Miramon aro placed in se
parate cells and the guards doubled.
■The latter expresses little hopes of
Maximilian’s safety.
Large Sum in the Treasury. —On
Saturday last the United States Trea
sury held the largest amount of money
ever held at any one time sineo the
organization of the Government, to
wit: 8180,000,000, of which BD>2,-
000,000 were gold and $78,00i?,000
currency. This amount was reduced
$10,000,001) to-day by the maturing
of the June compounds and interest,
and on the 15th inst., will be reduced
89,000,000 more by the interest ou the
June seven-thirties.
Why Is It ?—Why is it, asks tho
New York Tribune, that in the cities
alone demonstrations occur ? In the
country, where there may be said to
be no constabulary, everything goes on
with perfect order and quiet. The
New York World has found the true
solution to the question in the fact
that on tho plantations tho negro is
brought into contact with Southern
whites only, whereas, in the cities in
cendiary Radicals have free access to
him, 'and are exerting all their energy
and ingenuity to breed mischief. If
the World was living among us, it
could not have shown a better appre
ciation of the real source of oqr trou
bles. — Macon Messenger.
Jiontjjcrn dßntcqirisc
(SE]£wEEKLY.) ’ •
L. c. BRYAN, : : : i Editor.
THOMASVILLE, GA.:
TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1867.
TALLAHASSEE.
In a lengthy article setting forth the
commercial advantages of Tallahassee,
Florida, the Bainbridge Argus advises
the citizens to abandon at once and
forever, the impracticable idea of build
ing up the port es St. Marks, and
adopt the entirely practicable idea of
constructing a Railroad to the Spanish
Hole, which, we believe, is
age off the port of St. Marks. The
idea of tho Argus is a good one. and
its arguments unanswerable. IFearc
inclined to support the Argus in the
position, and think we could add some
additional reasons why the citizens of
Tallahassee should adopt, and with
trreat haste, tho suggestion made: but
the time has not yet arrived for us to
speak on that subject. We would say
to Tallahassee, however, that it will be
well for her, if she is not found nap
ping during the next two years. If
she neglect her interests but for two
years from this date, what she loses
will be lost forever.
MEXICO.
In the overthrow of Maximillian
Mexico falls into the hands of the
United States. It is useless to hope
for any permanent Govcmment in a
country so distracted by factions and
demoralized by habits of plunder and
crime. Maximillian was her only hope
for peace and tranquility under Mexi
can Institutions. The same old rotine
of establishment and subversion has
now re-commened under Juarez, and
although he is at present the supreme
head, we expect soon to hear that the
followers of Escobedo have broken
out in open revolt. Thus will matters
continue in that bloodstained country
until the United States absorbs its
territory.
RESTORATION OP THE JEWS
f I he Jews of the United States have
organized themselves into an Israelitish
Government, having its seat in New
\ork, with the purpose of restoring
the Jews to the Holy Land. They
are preparing bonds to raise funds for
the support of the government, and
have already conferred titles of nobil
ity and appointed high officials to tho
government of the Jews in various
parts of the world. The Prince of
Germany and the Prince of the Medi
fnrrononn nrn lipn nK im rnnent CtCa*
tions.
WHEN WILL THE SOUTH BE
ADMITTED P
This question is easily answered-
When the Southern Stales have been
thoroughly Radicalized , and there is
no longet a possibility of Stevens’ and
Sumner’s meeting a Jeff. Davis, Rob
ert Toombs, or a Brooks in the balls
of Congress, they will most graciously
condescend to readmit tho contrite and
repentant South, to the great privilege
ot standing in the halls of Congress to
hear the Radical Asses bray.
A HORRIBLE MURDER IN
PIERCE COUNTY.
The Savannah Herald learns upon
reliable authority, that a gentleman
named W. S. Flynn, a North Caroli
nian, but resident of Picrco County,
was brutally murdered about 10 o’clock
on Friday night last, at No. 7J, on
the A. A G. R R. by two colored men,
Joe Williams and Green Jackson.—
Mr. Flynn was the koeper of a little
country store, and these two human
fiends murdered him that they might
rob the store, which they did, and then
set fire to the building, nearly consum
ing the body of tho murdered man.
'l’lie murderers were deteoted by a
hatchet which they used, and when
arrested and threatened with death by
the colored people assembled, they
confessed tho orirne and were com
mitted to tho Blaoksliear jail.
®a?*The Radical party of Georgia
arc preparing to have a grand rally at
Atlanta, on tho 4th of July, and the
“apostate rebel,” Joseph E. Brown, is
expected to head the concern and de>
liver another sweet Union spoooh.
Tin' Wheat Crop.—Sew Flour. —
From all sootions of the Stato come
the most cheering accounts of an un
precedentedly largo wheat crop. In
Cherokee alone we see it stated thi.t
the yield is almost sufficient to supply
the wants of the whole State. The
accounts from all parts of the country
indicate a bountiful harvest. Under
these circumstances flour must neces
sarily undergo a heavy decline.
New wheat from Georgia has made
its appearance on the New York Corn
Exchange. The ripening of the har
vest will advance northward at the rate
of twelve miles a day.
tefir* Tho revival in the Methodist
Church is still progressing, with glo
rious results. Many young p< ople
have experienced a change of heart,
and the Church has be -n blessed with
an outpouring of the Iloly Spirit, upon
its membership A “great and nota
blo work is still going on, whereof
the people of God are glad, and re
joice with exceeding joy. The meet
ings are held as follows : Prayer meet- I
ing in the morning at 9 o'clock, and !
preaching in the evening, at quarter
past 8 o’clock.— Tallahone Floridian.
HELL.
The Rev. Daniel G. Malory gives
the annexed account of the various
uses of the word hell in our English
Bibles:
In the New Testament, of the com
mon version, the English word ‘Hell’
is made to stand for three entirely
different Greek words, words that have
no possible connection with each oth
er, and not the slightest resemblance
in sound or sense. By necessity the
mere English reader must confound in
his mind and regard as one the three
places and conditions which tho sa
cred writers have carefully distin
guished by three very different words.
Hades, Gehenna and Tartarus.
Hades is used eleven (11) times in
the New Testament; Gehenna twelve
(12) times ; 'Tartarus but one (1).
The word Hades is properly iden
tical with tho English word ‘Hell’ in
its original meaning, before it had ac
quired its present signification as de
noting the place of future punishment.
It denotes the unseen world,’ or ‘the
spirit land,’ the place of departed
spirits, both good and bad, and with
out any reference to their character or
relative condition.
i ..:n .... „ij (11)
in which the word Hades is used ;
marking in each text the word which
translates it.
1. Mat. 11 ; 23. Thou‘ Caperna
um, shalt bo brought down to hell.
2. Mat. 16; 18, ‘The gates of hell
shall not prevail against the church.
3. Luke 10; 15. ‘Thou, Caperna
Um, shall be thrust down to hell.’
4 Luke 16; 23. ‘ln hell he lifteij
up his eyes.’
5. Acts 2; 26. ‘Thou wilt not
leave my soul in hell.’
6. Acts 2; 31. ‘His soul was not
left in hell.’
7. Ist. Cor. 16; 55. ‘O grave,
where is thy victory ?’
8. Rev. 1 ; 18. ‘I have the kevs
of hell and of death.’
9. Rev. 6 ; 8. ‘His name wa3 Deati
and Hell followed with him.’
10 Rev. 20; 13. ‘Death and Ileil
delivered up the dead.’
11. Rev. 20 ; 15. ‘Death and Hell
were cast into the lake of fire.'
Os these 1 and 3 are the same, anl
denote that Capernaum, which had
been very prosperous, should die out,
go down to death, as a man is dead
when his spirit is gone to Hades. It
had been exalted, as it were, to the
sky; for its wickedness it should go
down to the place of the dead. The
prediction was fulfilled ; the city per
ished, died out, and its precise locah
ty is unknown.
In 2 we have tho prediction that
the Church of Christ will never die
out, never become extinct. When a
man dies, and his spirit goes into
Hades, the ‘gates of Hades’ pre
vail against him, but it shall not be
so with the church ; it shall continue
to live.
In A \Cu liavo Divas, wLn ;■ rloa/l,
suffering in Hades, and conversing
with Abri ham, who, with Lazarus, is
also in Hades, though seperated from
them in some way by’ what is culled
‘a great gull.’ I do not discuss tho
meaning of.this parable; but it is
plain that Dives is only there in spir
it, his body being still in tho grave
awaiting the resurrection. He cannot
be in the place of future and eternal
punishment, for men go thither after
tho resurn ction, spirit and body to
gether. Dives cannot be suffering
from real fire, for only his spirit is
there and not his body.
In 5 and 0 there is reference to tho
spirit of Chiist being in Hades, the
place of departed spirits, between his
death and resurrection. We say in the
creed, ‘lie descended into Hell/
meaning that he really died as any
other man, and his spirit, like all hu
man spirits, went to Hides; but hit
spiiit was not left there, but came
back on the third day and was re-uni
ted to his body in his resurrection, as
ours shall be at our resuncction.
In 7 the word Hades is rendered
grave, very improperly. At tho ros-<
urreetion, when all spirits come out of
Hades, and all bodies to their graves,
and there are no more souls shut up
there, ‘then shall bo brought to pass
the saying, death is swallowed up in
victory ; O, death where is thy sting '(
No more death, and no more use fora
place of departed spirits.
In 8 Jesus Christ, who is ‘the res
urreetion and tho life/ says, ‘l hi ve
the keys of Hades and of Death/ and
so, at tho resurrection, when lie calls
tho dead to Irfo, it will be as if all
spirits were in ono great dungeon call
ed Hades, and all bodies in another
j called Death or Grave, as if he opened
tlie doors aud released them.
In 9 Death is presonified as a man,
riding on the pule horse, going forth
to the slaughter of men —to kill them
by famine and pestilence. Hades is
also personified as following after
Death to gather up the spirits as fast
as Death could kill.
In.tho great picture of ‘Death on
the Palo Horse/ the expression ‘Hell
followed with him,’ is absurdly rcproi
seuted by imps and devils flying all
along through the air. The artist no
doubt thought the hell of the devils
was meant, when in truth it has no
relation whatever to Satan and his
angels.
In 10 again Death and Hades are
represented ns two persons having
control, the one over tho spirits and
the other over the bodies of men. At
the resurrection Hell or Hades will
deliver up the spirits of the dead, and
Death or Grave will deliver up the
bodies, so that they roav be united,
and thus appear soul and body togeth
er, at the judgment scat of Christ.
In 11, Death and Ilcll, or the Grave
and Had) s, are represented as persons
having charge of the dead. And is to
be no more death, so there will be no !
need of these persons, and|to represent
this io a striking manner, they arc |
spoken of as cast into the fire and so
destroyed.
The second of the words translated
‘Hell’ is Gehenna, wich is used twelve
times.
The word means ‘Vale of Ilinnon.’
When Used literally it denotes a deep
glen near. Jersulem. In heathen times
it had been the place of human sacri
flees and idolatrous worship. Here was
the fircry Moloeh where children were
burned.
By tho Jews it was made the re
ceptacle of all the filth and offi-l of the
city, and its name became a symbol of
all that was horrible aod vile. In this
filth worms were generated, which
suggested the “undying worm’ of fnture
torment. Fins'were kept perpetually
burning to destroy the filth—the un
quenchable fin which became a figure
of perpetual terment. Here the bodies
of malefactors were cast after execu
tion. ,
So the natn- Gehenna became figu
rative of futire punishment and of
capital punisiment also. If a Jew
should in anger, or by way of warning,
threaten you vith Gehenna or tte fires
of Gehenna, ie might either mean to
threaten you with hell, or future pun
ishment, or with death by execution.
As we say, ‘lf the goes in his evil
courses he will ;ouie to the gallows ;'
I so a Jew might say, ‘He will come to
'Gehenna.'
Gehenna is used in the following
places:
1. Mat. 5; 22. ‘ln danger of hell
fire.
2. -Mat. 5 ; 20. ‘Body—be oast into
hell.
3 Mat. 5 30. ‘Body—cast into
lull.’
4. Mat. 10,28. ‘Des'roy soul and
body in hell.
5 Mat. 13; 9. ‘Cast into Ae//-fire.’
G. Mat. 23; 16. ‘More the child of
hell.
7. Mat. 23 ; 3S. ‘Escape tho dam
nation of hell ’
8. Mark 9; 43. ‘Having two bands,
to go into hell’
9. Mark 9; 45. ‘To go into hell.’
10. Mark 9 ; 47. ‘To be cast into
hell- fire.’
11. Luke 12 , 15. ‘Power to cast
into hell.’
12. James 3 ; G. ‘Tongue set on fire
of hell.’
If there is a single word which de
notes the place of the finally lost it is
Gehenna, and not Hades.
It will be noticed that the word Ge.
henna is used only once by any but
Christ himself, and that he uses it
scarcely at all except in ono discourse
—the ‘Sermon on the Mount,’
In example 0 and 12 the word hell
is used to den.-to exceeding vileness
and wickedne-s
In 4 and 11 I think plainly future
punishment is intended. Whether in
the other places capital punishment or
future punishment is intended, l leave
to tlie judgment of tho reader.
1 think. »»■ several instances, our
Lord means to sa\ that In; will, tor
certain offences, punish wbh thut pun
ishment which, in his k gdom, is
equivalent to Jewish capit , nunish
inent and the easting of tli, carcass to
the worms und the fires of Gehenna—
whatever punishment that may be.
We have looked at all the places
where Hades and Gehenna aro used.
There remains the word Tiirtarus. —
It is used only once, and that in a
verbal forqj.
2 Peter 2; 4. ‘God spared not tho
angels that sinned, but cast them
down to hell, and delivered them into
chains of darkness to bo reserved unto
judgment.*
This ‘Tartarus’ is the place of fallen
angels, and is neither the ‘Hades’ of
departed spirits nor the ‘Gehenna’ of
the finally lost.
How certainly tho mere English
reader must confound these threo
entirely distinct ideas, words, and
phrases.
If the translators had just transfer*
red these words into our English vcr.
sion instead of translating them all by
the one word ‘hod,’ they would havo
done a yiser thing, and by this time
the threo Words, Hades, Gehenna and
Tartarus, would become domesticated,
with such Words as Pentecost, Bishop,
Deacon, Baptism, Hallelujah, and many
others.
Those who read their English Bibles
would do well to compare these refer
ences with tho books they usually
read, and write on tho margin opposite
the word ‘hell’ or grave, in each the
letter h, or g, or t, according us the
Greek word in that place is ‘hades/
‘gehenna/ or ‘tartarus.’
The Vacancy on the Supreme
Bench. —Tho Augusta Chronicle and
Sentinel learns the gentlemen of the
Bar now at Milledgev'lla, attending
tho Supremo Court, have been can
vassing the question of a suitable suc
cessor tu tho lauiontid Lumpkin, ami
that the names of Judge Warner,
Judge E. A. Nisbet, and its esteemed
fellow-townsman, Judge W.T. Gould,
are spoken of in connection with the
vacant Judgeship.
It is thought in Milledgeville, adds
the ('hrouicle, that thetc will be no
collision between Goy. Jenkins and
Gen. Pope on this question, and that
the latter will recognise and ratify any
appointment that the Gnvcrnor may
make.
Now York Market.
New York, June 15 —Cotton quiet
and firm ; safes, 700 bales, at 270 for
middling uplands. Flour dull, 10 to
20c lower; superfine firm; State $9 ‘'o
to 10 25; extra 810 40 to 811 10 for
choie.. Wheat dull and nominally
lower. Corn dull, elesing at Ito 2c
lower. Whiskey q t Perk lieuvy;
sales 5,250 barn U at s2l 1?. Regular
beef steady. Lai I heavy; sales 750
barrels at 12 «to Kite; the latter lor
smalllots. Naval etoros rjuiet. Freights
firm
Murderer Arrested.— On the
night of the 28th of May last, a young
man who had been passing under the
name of Tomlinson and who bad been
previously arrested for larceny com
mitted in Quincy and elsewhere and
committed for trial, broke jail in this
city and escaped. On Tuesday he
was recaptured by Deputy Sheriff Ha
vis, in Bainbridge, Ga, who brought
him back yesterday morning and he is
now confined in the jail again Mr.
Havis got on his track at Monticello
where he had been arrested, but suc
ceeding in convincing the authorities
that it was a mistake, he was released.
He was again arrested on suspicion in
Thomasville but not detained, when he
went to Bainbridge, the Deputy fol
lowing and arresting him there. It
turns out that a more serious charge
lies agaiDst him than larceny. His
real name is said to be Charles Amb
rose, and that on the 2feth of Decem
ber last he murdered VVm. M. Orr in
Gwinnett county, Ga., but fled to this
State before he could be anei-ted. The
fact of the alleged murder was made
known to the State authorities on
Tuesday last by the arrival in this city
of Major Robert Graham, of Alpha
retta, Milton co., brother-in-law of the
murdered man, with u requisition from
the Governor ol Georgia on Governor
Walker for the prisoner, who also
exhibited a proclamation signed by
Governor Jenkins offering a reward
of Two Hundred Dollars for his arrest.
The prisoner having escaped and his
speedy capture not being anticipated,
Major Graham returned on Wednes.
day.
The prisoner is a young man, not
over twenty years of age, with a smooth,
youthful face, fair complexion, light
hair and blue eyes. — Tallahassee Flo
ridian.
Northern Negro Sufi rage Record.
Sumner proposes to extend negro suf
frage by Congressional enactment over
the Nm-tbern as well as the Southern
Within the last seven years
several of the Northern States have
voted on the question, with results as
follows :
At the first Presidential election in
which A. Lincoln was a candidate lor
Executive honors, (1860) New York
gave a majority against tho proposition
of 140,481 ! Lincoln’s majority at the
same election was 50,186 ! We par
ticipated in the election in New York
city, and know it to be a fact, that no
Republican could be found openly cir
culating halluts in favor of the propo
sition. and that it was almost impossi
ble, at the polling plac-s, to procure
an affirmative vote.
Connecticut, in 1865, at a special
election voted on the same question,
and by a majority of 6,272 repudiated
mongrelism at the ballot box. Tho
majority for the Radical candidate for
Governor at the Spring election was
over 11,000 1
Wisconsin, the samo year, rejected
ontTrapo by UUHO tb o
same time 10,000 majority for the
Radical Gubernatorial candidate.
Minnesota also refused to sanotion
negro suffrage by 2,513 majority, al
though choosing a Radical Governor
by a majority of 3.476.
Colorado voting on a proposed Con
stitution the same autumn, rejected,
by a vote of seven to one, the degrad
ing proposition !
The men who in each instance have
defeated negro suffrage aro Republi
cans l—La Crosse Democrat.
Noble Words of General Moltke.
The following noble words were
spoken by General Moltke, —the au
thor of the plan of campaign which res
ulted so disastrously to the Austrians
in thclate war,-to a newspaper corres
pnndont, who was about to take his
leave after a long and interesting con
versation :
“Go,” said tho General, finallv,
with a peculiar smile. “I shall iry t..
assist you, and as your pen will spe ik
to many, many thousands, tell them
that the last words of tho old Chief
of Staff of the Prussian Army were as
follows : “Let us hope that the results
of this uuparall led, short and success
ful campaign may bring about a glo
rious future for Germany and the grow
ing generation. In this severe ordeal the
King has weighed his people, and the
people have weighed their King.—
What a feeling to be a Prussian to-Jay
—from the King to tho least of his
subjects. And tho young men, in
whom the Prussian army must place its
confidence in future struggles, have
likewise been weighed; and so have
the patriotism of the citizens, and the
dovotedness of the whole nation.—
Prussia knows herself now! That is
the greatest result of tho war Ger
many may say now that she really is
Germany. Bhe may confidently look
into the future, for sho lias seen that
the I'russian eagle, on the day ot
Koniggratz, soared as victoriously, as
energetically, as resistlessly, as at
Fehrbellin, Leuthen and Waterloo.”
Military Appointments. —lt is un
derstood that Gen. Pope, our Military
Commander, does not consider it his
duty to intervene for filling vacancies,
except in such officers as are filled by
popular elect ious. It is inferred,
therefore, that he will take no action
in the matter of a Judge of the Su-
Ereme Court to supply Judge Lump
in’s vacancy, but leave the matter
whore it belongs under the law .of
Georgia, with the Stato Executive.
The Cincinnati Commercial (Radi
cal) says—“lt is a national shanio that
so imperfectly educated and ill-bal
anced an individual as Judge Underi
wood, should be endowed with a high
and responsible judicial position. If
tho Republican party has any solici
tude for its reputation or its tenure of
power, couusel it to gat rid, as speed- !
ily as possible, of such an iucubus as
this Virginia Dogberry.”
General Pope Invited to Savan
nah.
Augusta, June 15.—General Pope
and staff have been invited by the
municipal authorities to visit Savan
nah, and a committee has been ap
pointed to proceed to Atlanta for that
purpose.
From New York.
New York, June 15. —Sir William
Napier, brother of the ex-British Min
ister, was arrested hero on the charge
of purchasing from one 0. P. Menden
hall, of Baltimore, goods amounting to
83,300, and giving in payment a worth,
less order on an English bank.
Failure in New Orleans. —Advi-
ces from New Orleans announce the
ailure of the house of Edouard Du
passier & Cos., of that city and Harve,
France. They were extensive com
mission and shipping merchants.
‘•A League in Alabama Come to
Grief.” —Under the above heading the
Montgomery Mail says •
“Tho secret society framed by the
Yankees for the purpose of controlling
the votes of the colored people has come
to grief at Autaugaville. The honest
portion of the members who joined, as
they believed, a simple Union society,
finding that it was intended to bind
the conscience of the men, and com
pel themto vote the Republican ticket,
have bolted the concern, and broken it
into flinders in Autauga county,
The income of Harper Brothers, of
N. Y., is put down at $307,000 ; that
of James Gordon Bennett, 8292,000 ;
that of Benjamine Wood at 8186,000 ;
and that of Robert Bonner at $200,.
000.
The following telegram” has been
received : “Mexico, May 25 —Horace
Greeley, N. Y.--l’m in a tight place.
Come on first train, and do me as yoii
did by Davis. Say nothing to the
‘blockheads.’
Maximilian.
ftay* The widow ot the late Abra
ham Lincoln is going to make‘Racine,
Wisconsin, h r permanent home, and
has sold her furniture at Chicago.
Registration in Louisiana. —ln
Louisiana the registration of voters
still shows a large preponderance of
colored men over whites. So far as
heard from in the different parishes of
the Stale, there have been registered
13,093 whites, and 34,353 colored
men.
Confiscation for Slaves. —The fol
lowing is on* ol the new articles of
the Maryland Bill of Rights :
“Article 24 That slavery shall not
be re-established in this State, but
having beeu abolished under the p 1-
icy and authority of the United States,
compensation in consideration thereof
isl duo fi the United Stuffs
Poughkeepsie, N. Fi, June 1, '67. —
The city is filled with gossip over an
elopement which occurred here yes
terday. The hero of the affair is no
less a personage than Robert Henry
Hendershott, well known as the
“Drummer Roy of the Rappahannock.’’
His fair bride is the daughter of a
prominant u-erehant in Poughkeepsie,
a lady much o-teemed by those com
posing the circle in which she moved.
A letter from the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue states that out of
the whole population of the United
States only 400,000 persons paid a
tax upon incomes last year—in other
words, that out of thirty-five millions
of our people, less than half a million
ha-1 incomes of more than S6OO. Com
ment is needless.
Cotton —lt is said Savannah stands
second in rank as a Cotton port South.
That she has surpassed Mobile the past
season by an excess of nine thousand
bales, and Ims received one hundred
thousand bales more than Charleston.
That over sixteen thousand bales have
been received in Savannah from Mont
gomery, Ala. So reports the Journal
If Messenger.
•taP* Henry Gwinn, an intelligent
freedman of Savannah, on the eve of
leaving America for a short stay in
Europe, communicates an address to
the l reedmen of Georgia in the daily
News and Herald of a recent date. He
has lived, he says, in both sections of
tho United States; speaks “the words
of truth and soberness/’ though he
knows ho is calling down on his head
•the wratji of the Radical party.”—
He first asks the question, “are we
prepared, by education or otherwise,
to select the best men for offi e ? and
if not, to wh»m are we to look for ad
vice and guidance on this question,
which so do plv involves the fate of
our people ?” lie thinks the colored
people are not prepared to judge for
themselves, and should look to the
friends whom they have known from
their infancy, rather than to the stran
ger who preaches benevolence. He
concludes with the following invoca
tion .-
“To those then, my people, with
whom you have been raised and among
whom you were bo n ; to those aocus
totued to your habits and manners ; to
those among whom you live and whose
interests are dearly your interests;
to those who are the only parties to
whom you must look for work and
subsistence ; to those who sympathise
with you and jours ; to those among
you live anil move and have your be- .
ing,- aud, finally, to those who, as I :
believe before God. aretheonly friends
and preservers of the colored tuen, I !
enjoin you to turn—t - take example, f
advice and precedent from those whom
you know—and, while you treat the
stranger kindly, trust, above all, to old
and well tried friends ” i
Inferior Court.
IN CHAMBERS, i
Thomasville, June 8,1867. j
AGREEABLY to an Act of the Legislature
of the State of Georgia, passed and as
sented to on 12th of December, 1866, author
izing the Inferior Court to issue Bonds to the
amount of One Hundred Thousand Dollar* in
subscription to the South Georgia Ac Florida
Railroad Company, which said Act is herewith
published.:—lt is ordered, that an election be
held at the beventl precincU in this county, ou
Tuesday, July 2d, 1867, and all voters in favor
of subscribing the said amount of Stock to the
South Georgia Sc Flonda Rail Road will vote
“subscription,” and all voters opposed to sub
scribing stock to said Railroad, will vote "no
subscription,”
The condition of subscribing stock to said
Railroad is this. Every tax payer shall be en
titled to a special lax Receipt for the amount
of his Railroad tax, and when he has receipt*
amounting to the value of one or more shaleo
of stock hi said Railroad, the said tax ouver
may present said receipts to the County Clerk
and have turned Over to him certificates of
paid up Btock m the said Ra lroad Company to
the full amount of bis receipts. Said Tax Re
ceiDts shall be payable to bearer,-and when
said receipts shall be presented to the County
Clerk, in sums of one or more hundred dollar*
he snail issue to the holder of said receipt*’
Railroad** °* “ tock fur tlle *» the said
All manager* of said election will make
prompt returns of the votes cast at each pre
cinct to the County Clerk, properly attested
R jL hardaway, j. i c
ANSEL DEKLE, j. t c
HEN. MITCHELL, j. i. c
Attest:
Lebbeus Dekle, Clerk.
AN, ACT to authorize the Inferior Court* of
1 lioinan and Mitchell to isnue bond* for the
purpose of taking stock in the South Georgia
Sc Florida JU ml road ®
20. Section I. Be it enacted, et., That the
{?! er v!°n V ourt » of , the counties of Thomas and
Mitchell be, and they are hereby authorized to
issue bonds to the amounts, respectively ol one
hundred thousand dollars, and twenty fry#
thousand dollars.*. be issued in such sums and
payable at such times as said inferior Court*
may deem proper ; interest of seven per cent
per annum, payable severally at their reepec
tive comrt v sites ; provided. Hie citizen* of the
aforesaid counties give their consent thereto
before such stock is taken and such bonds
issued.
21. Sec. 11. The Inferior Courts of surdcoan
ties shall designate a day when the legal vo
ters of said counties shall assemble at their re
npecrive election precincts to give their consent
to said subscription.
Sec. 111. Repeals conflicting laws.
Assented to ‘«Jlst December, 1806.
J une 11 u
e®“\Ve find the following startling
announcement re tho Washington Na
tional Intelligencer of Saturday last.
Brh inst:
Mysterious Disappearance —It was
reported at Police Headquarters yes
terday, that Mr. Ferdinand McLeod,
oi Lake City, Florida, who is tempo
rarily sojourning at the National Hotel
in this city, had disappeared from his
room. His friends are much concern
ed about him, as he was known to he
in possession of a large amount of
money. Diligent search was mads for
him yesterday by his friends, as well'
as by members of the police force.
Mr. McLeod was the congressman
fleet from Florida, and his visit to
Washington was on business connected
with the Central Railroad, of whichf
he is President.
Coming Down.— The aspiring Jack
Hamilton, of Texas, cidcvcmt Con
gressman, Brigadier General, Gover
nor, nnd traveling pn)igroa-l mt-ante
bank, has been appointed a Register
in Bankruptcy for the State of Lou
isiana. This low-bred scoundrel was
a rampant secessionist at the com
mencement of the war, an<j solicited
money to raise a legion for the Con.
federate service. Failing in this, and
finding that the cause he had espous
ed would not succeed, he sold his
-laves, deserted his wife, and fled to
die Federal army; and, as a reward
for his treachery, solicited and obtain
ed the appointment of military Gov.
ernor over the people of Texas. His
brutal conduct in that capacity is well
known to the country.
<©“1110 Herald and Tribune aro
furious over the policy foreshadowed
by an extract from the Intelligencer,
telegraphed yesterday. The Tribune
says: “We feel that the President
is (reading on dangerous ground, not
only for himself, but for the country.’'
The Herald says: “Congress must
meet in July, it must meet with the
resolute will to carry on tho move
ment, now greater and more necessary
than ever, of impeaching and remov
ing Andrew Johnson from tho Execu
tive Chair- The Times says : “It may
be well to restrain such removals for
the future, but it will be a grave prac
tical mistake to reverse the action ta
ken hitherto, and a still greater blun
der to remove or punish the officers
for having taken it.
Greeley Signing the Bail Bond. —
The irrepressible Fotroleum V. Nasby
gives Mr. Greeley a tremendous rasp
; ing, in his description of the bailing
of Mr. Davis. What can be more
touching than the following:
Never «hel I forget the shout that
as-ended os Horris was a singin bis
name ‘‘Three cheers for Jefferson
Greeb-y and Horris Davis—on- and
inseperablc, now and foreter !” shout,
ed one cnthoosiasfic confeikit. “Im
mortality is yours,” sed another, seix
iug him by the hand ootjellj.
“Jefferson Davis is the big dog nv
the age, and you, ray dear sir, are
now the tin kettlo tied too hi*. Wbat
joy I What happinis! When pos*
terity spi aks uv him the’ll sp*ak uv
yu! ’ I coodent rcstrane myself no
more. Bus tin into tears I fell into
Greeley’s buzxnm and we embraced.
Ex he hedn’t big spectacles on he
sposed it was Davis hissetf, and he
busted into tears also, and there wux
one of the most striking tablooe ever
exhibited. I got awxj afors he dis
kivered his mistake.
1 *
Masonic Notice.
MKVBERS of St. Thomas I -ode*. No 49
■ » A M an hereby reepecffall, D< *j.
n. 1.0 a t th* Lodge koora.Thmmwnlle,
a Monday, the 24th fast., at IS o'clock A M
n * bich a»T It W. James Kmmet BUwktW.-;
IM. M n eipected to be preeent and wij
a.l :re«e the inutmitf. if »a,her. at other
Mwomc Lodee* ra good waoimg.sm iwspeet
lull/ invited to attend
By order of the W Jf
WIT " M CL '**