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II VO iHIfc tSUBi f. We bavo ftltl . -V _y. did not intend I rite , .r; and their princi , • f -on,, indeed the only reason wa= that 4 it make- no 4if frrence whether they tak<- t :! .‘they never took an oath to np< rt the laws and fiopitltobw of the States 1 efoie the war.’ and they .... go reason or necessity for do** .. n m ‘’ We tell all ;*ueh ? .both j elsewhere, that these arc/ ... good reasons why- they, should t ike the amnesty oath, and, also, that; :ii sa imme and an 1 • pressing Duty for so doing.; No man will (J ~ v , no rnatteF how ardent a seces it he may have been—or how. „-:1 he la wre “be inde** . sodenee of the Confederacy, or bow ieh he t sgrete the duukoan failure ; that man will deny that] , n feited all prot m, and Rimed all allegiance to the Gor* • , | n t jit of the I faited . States when gteU ■ ceded from the ( .’ ion —/’ \o man Will deny that he is now in i ‘Sion and obo ‘"look to no other Bfee but the Government of the U ni- ’ ; States for. protection of both life ty. Ji is his duty, tbeß, to acknowledge his allegiance to the gov- ■, ernment uniter which he lives, and it .. . i.; intefeit to become, as soon as possible, inv< sted with all the rights i of citizenship. He may if he choose, livc here, and never cad a vote, or he qualified as an officeV of the State gov* inent, but He ex j cl sto he secure in theenrjoyment oi life, liberty and property, poder the laws of f lu-... J ‘ni ted State s c jweroment, as well as those of bis own State* Can be ask, on the. one hand, privileges, for which he 18 not wining to render any reciprocal oblig ■ i* i’ / Hut why stand aloof f 1> > ota believe that slavery has been abolished contrary to the constitution of the United State ? ■ if you do, re.; fusing (o take the amnesty oath ‘will • never re-establish slavery J :as well stand on the shores of time and mil ‘ bark the spirits from eternity that hive crossed ofer the dark river of death during the four years of war. Bat there is •< pressing i ■■ ity fiow for every man worthy of citizen* ship to take tin*, oath. He is needed to assist the State ho loves, and whose ’ ban net of wisdom, justice and mode* ration, covers him, to renew her life, and to enter once more upon a course of prosperity and greatness. The right of suffrage is a sacred right ; the high est known to the citizen. Will any nan consent to be taxed, and be dis franchised at the same moment ? Is it mainly to occupy such a position f If forced upoa hhn would he not fight? Why, then, voluntarily assume such an attitude towards the government ? A common sense view of the subject will convince every just and reasona blc man that he cannot discharge a higher duty to himself and his coun* try than tO-step forward and take the amnesty oath. Again wc advise eve ry man who can do so to- hesitate Dot a day before takiog the oath when an. opportunity is o ff’ered.— MHlC(!q<vHle / n ion . m OP i lloiiiltle Prediction. Professor Leonidas, mi Indianapolis astrologer, after looking at the rings around the sun, makes the following horrible prophecy : —“I observe by (bn planets that a dreadful plague will commence in. Russia, originating from silks brought over Jrom Egypt, Cairo and Turkey. It pill extend across the Hattie Sea, desolate. Germany, cause immense mortality in England, and then spccad to the United States This .dreadful epidemic will spot the people like a leopard, and turn the flesh to a purple black. The pesti* lencc will carry off such ah amount of mortals that there will not be enough left to bury the dead or give them. Christian burial. . The streets of our cities, towns and villages will be swars tned with the dead and dying. The groans pod yells of horror will fill ev . cry breast with consternation. Con fusion will abound on all. sides. The death-kid’ll will cease to toll as the malady rages in fury. The infected wilt fall.and die wherever they take if. The stench of .the dead will be. come so common that the survivors will not heed it ‘ v ► It is estimated that the expense of taking care of the “freedmen” by the government amounts to hot less than eighty thousand dollars a day, with a -probability of its largely overrunning -•hat figure. (T[j; Southern (hitfrprisf.’ LU( ItJ9 <BBYAN/eDII 08, o A. \u cm sm. . He are requested to announce th.at Mrs.. Capers has . - imed her . for V gn i girls in the Methodist Church. At.the request of several friends,At is con sented to take a elass of young ladies in the higher branches of English Literature. Mr-. OA qualification-as a teacher .apd disciplinarian arc unqesti6ned . . .—•■■■■. * , *• IndVpf nd.f-rit C un.Hiila ts >.■ for thf* Stni* C!o veil lion. We arc requested to announce DEN NING B. MOOBE, HSNBJMITCHELL, Kbd JAKES McDONALD, as independent candidates for the State Convention. ‘ • • Wf afa'request* 1 rj state’ .that Col. A. T. Mclutyer will . address the people of thoCoiuitj 511 this Coo rt House oa Sat- ‘ or lay next in conjunction with CdL J, 1:.. Alexander. . • e OSOa ■ ——*•* ‘. The Savannah Herald says - the Hera. James L. Seward, of Thomas County, for* merljr rnernfcer of the National Congi ana the State .Senate, vu recently pardoo ed. . .. . . ‘ ; •• W’or n 7 We had the pleasure of meeting ‘iir otir sanctum, on Thursday last, Capt., W. W.. OoaboK of Savannah, formerly on the staff- of. Gen. Mercer, and. later xm that of Brjg., GenL, Smith. We taire pleasure in announcing that having again associated himself with liis old partner in the c-otn-. mission huhiness, I he'firm of Tixox 1V -Goto* do* ut Savannah, again tendor tbeir servi- CCH to't Iff.-ir old friends *&ncL acquaintances j in Southern Cteorgia. They are too'v known ioriqsire recommendation, a-nd -we simply refer the reader to t-heir card in our advertising columns. ‘ . IIE 4 Tll OFJ OI I A I9f cLE A iv. • it is with ‘deep regret sre haveto record the death of this estimable young, man. Pdrhaps no young man was. better ‘kpoyrn in Thomas County, and we are sure none was more favorably known, than Jons Ji. slcL*as. Pjrorhis earliest youth he was accustomed to business, SO exoeL lent a character that, he was tnil} beloved ■* by ail who knew him. • He served with dis- i tinction under commission in the late war in the 29th Georgia Ileaim-nt, and the dis ease which caused his deatli had its origin in his campaign exposures. He died at 2 o’clockP. M., on Sunday the 17th inst. T and was buried in t lie family cemetery on the following Moday at 0 o’clock with Ma ; sonic honors. . • - - * Town toiindl. Last week we called oh (lie Town Cotin cil to organize and resume its functions. We.did this not for any expected to derive from its operations', ‘ for we do not See how -the minutest mnlhurnatical • . i • ‘ . calculation on the subject could show any dividend iri our favor; but’ many citizens in the country are complaining that ncyrocs. and whUftmn arc killing their cows, -hogs and sheep, and selling them in this market —and in to i the citizens of the country, if not for the protection .'of our . inn community, the council ought to be organized.and the laws enforced. This cattle stealing can not he stoped as long 18 the theft is not questioned in the* mar ket, hut when every man is obliged to bring the mark and brand and record t-hern’ with the Clerk of the Market before lie can sell hi,s meat, much of it will at once be ended, at least, our own citizens will no longer be giving it encouragement, by pur*- chasing tho stolen property. . • i M 4 ■ * Eledioh Day. Wednesday the.lth day of October is the day for tlm election of delegates to the State Convention. Those who have not taken the oath of.allegiance, let them -do so without delay that they may exercise the high and important privilege of voting for or against the men who are to control the destinies of the .State, Jt isn privi lege nay, a duty every man owes to bis country, to vote, that a decided majority My be given to one party or the other, tad the true 80ntitn0|it{a. of the people obtained: Some of our eotefnpo?ariaa. arc counseling the, pebple to vote for no “broken down politicians.” We do not say this, for the fjuestion now is. who are no/ the •broken down politicians of the Si.Mtb ? , ‘riif whale South is bfokqpdowß. And yf our -opinion the luoketi down poli tieUiii uire übout at? good u.s the men who insisted on running them, upop an error heretofore upr.il.they Mpre.hmktn down.—’ i What we have to .say i this. Don t vote I who led you into, error, for they, map ...- in. . They ; _ Itoyatt* that they were right then, and they will j prove it to yoi pew awarfliekii in all j . .y they wrll-come out wrong i|NO. When a man sYeafg he is right and qalis j bqaveh and earth to witness —appeals to ! your- manhood —your ( family iohnsd, sod conjures you by your j loyalty—y out .Christian virtues‘and alii your hopes, of peace and happiness—he ] may still be’ as far from the path of recti tude and right, as .the'timid doubting man .—and much further from it than the man j who.fears to compel-you f may be in i the’ wrong.’ Politics.is.never right unless ! ‘you find yoorsetf on the atrowg side—and l Sa the secret of the politicians suq* ‘ cess.- - . • I . • ... - ■ # r’- . COHattli ICATXD. Jff. Eijitor:--i learn that a report is in circulation Ibat l.am an “open mouthed” . negro suffrage min. • When. I first- heard • this report my c • was not to notice ; it, but upon* reflection. I think it tetter to a statemeht. on the subject. - - j Same time ago the Northern people were J Very bitter against us.- The feeling among . them see’med to be, to keep ns under mills : tary rule until we should eonsent to uni- , ▼era • gya * lflrage. ‘.At that time it was ] uncertain what position President J ohnsou ! r would take-; foot the probability'seemed to [ be tbat he would be against-.us also. Uhs 1 der. these elreitpstances I expressed the = irpinion that jit would J.c better.- for us- t.o ’ adopt a Constitution similar to the constia : tution of New fork, which mile frs free ne- ; gro< - ... wn- three, hundred - dollars.} .worth of real estate pud can-read aid write to* vote. Thisv.was *y opinion, not} • • or. .of negro Suffrage, but because I preferred a small c-vil to a • great one# Dodersiich a constitution there i would not be, perhaps more than one liun dred negro rotes in-the .State,. an 1 this ! would not materially affect us, but if we* •are to. 1 pt under military rule, we are utterly ruined. But circumstances have greatly. Changed since I expressed -that’ .opinion: The President has manfully ta-. kqn position ob our side.- and there is 4 large, and 1 hope,*.majority party Sat the Ni rth who stands by him • n this qai stion. Ido not now think it ueceseory to have, any stfeb provision in the constitution—l would upt vote’ for it mysolf, nor twould.l r ad vibe tiny one rise to do so. .1 am a ever have been opposed.to negro.suffrage, • and Would n< t favor it to a limited extent, i except.to avoid a. still greater -evil. As ! ’ the case now stands 1 am opposed to it at together. But Mr. Editor, ibis report has been put in circulatiou,’ not to injure- me, but to injure the regular nominated candi- :. dates for. the Convention. I favor their election because they propose to carry out the policy of the government, and promote thereby, the interests of the people. lam no candidate for office, nor Unless my feel ing.*? change, do l ever expect to.be again, but I do.feel a great interest in the Welfare of this community and*of my State. Let me therefore beg my fellow citizens to be ware.'how they follow the counsels of rash mens We have suffered enough already,’ let us not bring other and still heavier ca . lamities upon ourselves and the country. • • • r. e. love/*. . Western A Allantic Railroad, i- It is confidently hoped . that this great State work will shortly be turn,, cd ovebliy 1-he military Authorities to Gov. Johnson. The Atlanta Intelli gencer learns that His Excellency re* • cently met Maj. Gen. Thomas, and, after a conference with him, appoir ted the following gentlemen directors.and officers of the read, to whose conduct , it will lie entrusted alter it passes into civil hand's.: Directors.- liichard Peters, of AS lanta; Robert M. Goodman, of Mari etta ; J. .11. Parrott,. of . Carterville; Robert Isattey, of Dalton; h Whitman, of Ringgold.’ Super in tauten L —R obe rt Haugli, of Atlanta. . . ‘ ‘ . ‘ Treasurer.-*— Miles G. Dobbins,.of Griffin .—Macon Mirror. • .; Tlic I own Wentocrats. The Democratic party of lowa has dropped, its time- worn appellation, and adopted that of. “Union/’ /i he vState Convention adopted . resolutions for taxing government bonds and against negro suffrage, which seem to be tlic cardinal principles of the opposition. Tbps. 11. Renton, dr., Republican, is their candidate for Governor ; indeed, their State tipket is composed princi pally, it.is said, from the same party. The New York Herald thinks that the course of President Johnson will, in all probabi ity, be sustained by all the central and northern States, even . including Maine, thus leaving New Kngland, with the exception of Maine out m the cold, We should not be surprised to see such a.rcsult af the fall election's, in whic.h event thedaeobins ill l)C bowling in outer daiknesb. vr.Domxio. i • • •“ . • lt©i ion in the Rtpuiriic. Pimentel, the lk<H the State. .’ ’ —■ • . ‘ • . • . Q Cabral Appointed Protector. fFrom the New \ork Herald.J By the arrival of the steamer (Juba at Ha Yana <m the’ 21st in-, t . we. are hi receipt .1 Bt.‘- Domingo advices *pio the Bth of August. •. The capital and other towns of im portance (in a . (eogtH doc union: headed “ Popular Manifestation,” pub ;- Led in St. ‘Domingo on the 4th,) have protio.unced against Gen. Pimen tel, who, since January, has been car-> tying OB what be.l the Deform’ ’] ist government with a high hand, and have declared in favor of General Jose Maria Cabral, naming him Protector of the xepublic ; authorizing him to take immediate possession ofthe.su . urn command., and devise, such measures for the preservation of the country and the public interests as he may iu me necessary until anew gov> ernment can he i Gen. Pimentel,*wbo,in January la marched i'nto Santiago at the head of his troops,.making himself • master of | the situation .and proclaming nimself at the head of .the government, is | charged in .the “Mabifegiatiim” with j acting since that time in -complete ae- ; fiauce of all daws, and order ; persecute j ing the numbers of the provisional gov< lent, loaoiDg. . citizen.? with | chains, and threatening them with* death; setting aside the elections ofj delegations to the National CoovetL tiW, ‘ordering their arrest., and causing new members tp be elected snbsetvi ent to bril)ery; so. far. fopgetting the j lawsof humanity, and civilization as to •.r. * v - • publicly offer a reward for the head of Gen. Polanco* who; before him, was at. the head of the provincial government; favoring projects threatening the/*le— gitimate government of IJaytb—thus endeavoring to inv Ve rt govern . ment in complications;|vitl ‘ ‘ lic and m atte. • \ • ) A . . ‘:.ru- \ tkras of justice cr.f b the needs of the church. ‘ j liidlau TroiilUp • on tSicFrcm-j •• ■ . ties* of Toy css* 1 si:vv. ORE.EAxs,;Ang, 20. . The steamship Mari] o'sa has'arrived from New York Nearly a million . dollars . in specie has arrived here within the last; two days. • I \ : Texas advices report the frontier in a: worse condition than ever before.— The Austin and San Antonio papers are filled with accouts of outrages by the Indians and highway robberies.— Steps have,- however 4 .- b( cn taken by the military to afford protection to the frontier settlers,- The telegraph is being extended from Houston to San Aiftonio, Shreve port and Vicksburg. • The condition of the blacks is, with a few exceptions, represented to be'satisfactory. - ■ The worm continues its ravages on j the.cotton in the. luwer . counties of J exas. • . . . . • . At a public meeting of the citizens of six counties resolutions were pars ed accepting the situation, and pledg ing support to the national governi ment and . Governor Hamilton, ao. kncwledging the abolishment of slave* ry and asking Governor Hamilton to call a convention. AY. J. Jones, of the United States Court of* Alabama at the time of the secession of that State, and con tinued in the same position by the suci ceeding regime , has been arrested at Montgomery and bonded In $20,000 to await trial. . . . ‘ —■ % • • - y Two Hiiital Murders. Burlington ; l Y., August 28. Mrs. Ephaim Griswold, a wealthy old lady, who resides in the west, part of* \\ ilhston, Y t., about seven from this city, was-found in her barn brutally murdered. Her husband.was absent from home at the time. The perpetrator of the deed is . as. yet uq known. A large amount. of money, was in the house, which is missing. • Boston, Mass., Aug. 28. In Concord, Mass., last tveek, a young man named, Michael McManus was found dead on the scaffold of a barn, with a bullet wound through his load. Brync McDonald, the uncle of McManus, has been arrested on sus picion of having perpetrated the deed. The Mississippi Convention, The Mississippi CeuStitutionai Con** . vention. which has . ;tt;fc f c.: a- >-j -----hare of public attention . - account ,pU hed* its import&nt is fk, and ad journed sine die. The following importan mental measures of Twcocstruction on the Union basis received ti - sanction [of that body . Ist. Repeal of the O .nee of | Secession passed In ISCI. and all laws since passed by the Legislature eon*, fiietuig with tbi.Constitution- of the United States,or inconsistent with the standing- of Miss-'.'O'Pi- i as- a. loyal State in the restored Lnion. . 2d. Slavery- or involuntary servi ture, except for crime, is forever abol ished in the State of Mississippii • 3d.- 4° election for members of Congress and State officer.-, ordered to he, held oh the first- Monday in OctO* her next. ‘.. 4tlo A formal- appeal has been [ made to President Johnson to extend r.cion to Jefferson Davis.. It also devolved upon- the next [ Legislature by jpw “for the ;.protection and security of the ‘persons and property of the mtedmen of the State, and guard them ami the State against any evil that may arise from their sodden emancipation.” • A manorial wibs alio adopted pray ing the Goverment to remove neg: • troops from, the State. • : ‘ A loading Republican paper, of N. York, commenting upoti the doings of the Convention, expresses • itself entG rely satisfied, and says the declaration that the Secession Ordinance is null and.void,.involves sn absolute aban don ment of the doetrino of the right of secession. ’ Thai it”.is-a full and fi nal acknowledgment'th at . the- | ederal Constitution, both of- right- and in fact—both <]<>■ jnrh. and de flu:tQ~*-\ft supreme. It says more than thin, on that score, it is impossible to ask.. , ; • • The Constitution gmendment, de* arinj that‘‘neither slavery ‘met in voluntary servitude, 1 fisher wise than for .the punishment of brittle,'thereof the party shall have been convicted, shall hereafter exist ia the; State-*’• — adopted bv the strong vote of cighty gix to elev**is pre^euiinehtly factory. • It memorial prety ing for. the freedom ©f the ltebel Drerfldent, will ban lv IViruisli any new reasons for such aa. act, and will carry very little weight, ’* i*’ • • • Frauds Jnthe Army Fay Kc paiimeut. The New York Herald makes men of fraud,s that -have recently been dise<jvered in the Pay Departtiien't of the army,.which indicate an extensive system of robbery and plunder in that branch of* the service. ’ The Herald iff .of opinion that when the'full extent rs the robbery is known, Hie r< cent fi. . nancieTng enterprise of that ’ hopeful youth, Ketchum,. will -sink into insig* ‘ niticancc.- The disclosure thus far in volve Col-. Binncy, recent Chief -PayY DiJSter of the Ilichnioud District, with .it is said; some fourteen of his suhor.’ -dinates. It is stated also that the op* era Hon Mias extended beyond thd Ilich. mend District, and that a’ iarsre num ber-of Northern .paymasters are in-* voived in similar tram-actions. Simul* taneously with this, corrupt practices* of some soit arc discovered in the Pay Department of New York, and one party,of*whose guilt there is Undoubted evidence, has been arrested.. It is aK leged that the crime in this case in volves forgery... . >’ —.- : An editor, who . has good paying subscribers, has offered up the follow prayer : “.. . . • . “ May they live in clover the rest of their lives, Have plenty of cash and—rcapital wives ; May. they know no fear—do'just right, He temperence get tight; We wish them full cellars and barns, May the 7 never neglect their immortal consarns. . • . • , * Alas! how few are they, wlro ean adopt this language. Aj r e have a few (like “angel visits”.truly) for whom we daily lift this supplication. But in the greatness of our benevolence, we would gladly include all. Will you not be moved by the piospect of such intercessions, and enable us to do so ? We have it on the very end off our pen to quote ‘The prayer* of the* right eous availefcli much,’’ but deem it not exactly apropos. -* ►- —— Marrying a woman for her beauty, says some.modern Seneca, is like eat? | ing a bird for its Binging. , -.