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BILL ARP
ai>i j&ust* hts Constitvent*.
m{ /‘ef/c .*
1 ; J.!n - you on this oecashun with >
• j refined admirit ob ol tho great
, -ir* ‘! r 'it*n and the nice Jisjcritnina
• • it *h cD cans*'! you lo honor me by
Ktir foie* with a scat to the Sniate of
o oi ivy. For two sootueotwa and in. j
spirtu weeks the Legislature hav bin
iu ao’um -e>* : oß t one of whom I am
proud t- be which. For several Jays
** were engaged as scout*, making a ■
werteT lekunyaanee to tec whether
<3e°-gy wire a State or a Injun terry*
‘Wry we were in the old On
ion or o-i <>f it—whether flic and my
tfokes sod \ u and your /tikes were
somiab'dt f nobody, and las tty hut
by no ■*£*!•■- Vastly, whether nnr ph r
innocent children lorn tWrin the war,
wwte all ilk-gal and ha<f ‘to be bom
vtr agin *r not. This tast pint are
marh unac tried. but nnr women arc
Wilviscd to be calm and tenon.
My friends, our aint hat honestly
been to iris you all I r~k into the folds
of the gloryous old In ion. Like tho
prodygal eon, we 1.-l until id to lire
on, and ficlin lonr-t me and hungry,
hire bin and -capin and niakin
apology* for five or six mo .ths. We
hare bin seen stand in nlnr off fr weeks
and reeks, but dnrn the caf do they
kill for us They knw we're got
nuihin, for they rat up our substance,
and as for puttin rings on cur fingers
wc could'nt ex; •U it nniil they bring
bark the jewel* y they carried away. —
I cannot say, in tlu: langwidge of th*
poet, that ur labor hav been a labor
ol love, Cur wc'i ch: and inonstrus joor
encouragement to be shore ; hut we
bad all s< t nur heads towards the -tais
and stripes, an f we justly determined
that, come weel come wo, sink or
swim, survive or perish, thunder or
lightnin, we'd si p back or sneak bark,
or git back somehow or somehow clsa.
or we’d stay out forever nml ever,
ansn, and be hanged to ‘cm, so called, j
I golly.
I’p to this time it hav been mi up
hill business. The team was n good !
one and the trear all sound nnd the
wagin groaned, hut the road are per
haps the ruffrst. rnttenest cordvroy in
the world. It’s pull np and sketch,
and pull up and skotch. and et er and
nnonymus the skotch slips out and the
tongue cuts round ami assy we go >n
to the gully. Andy Jonson is the
driver, and ho anvs “go slow,’’ and he
hollers ‘.wo ! wo !” and loses tho road,
aml then we hsv bj eo back to the
fork and wait till he blazes the way.
He secin to be doio hi* best, but then
thsr is Sumner and Satan and Stevens
and I>avis and other l ; ke gentlemen,
who keep hollerin at him and crackin
his whip, and confus : n his idees, so
that sometiises we don't know wheth*
erhe’s gee-in or haw-in. My frends
about them fellers, 1 don't know what
1 ort to say. If you do, or if anybody
does, 1 wish they would say it. 1
don’t encourage euasin in nobody, not
at all, but if you know of a man that
esn't be broke of it durin his naioral
life, it rnont be well to hire him by the
year. If thor i- in all history a good
elk use and a proper subj k, it is upon
them hartleys, soulless, bowelless giz
aardless, fratrisidel suisidel parasidol,
sistersidel, abominabul, contemptibul,
disgustibul individuals. 1 sometimes
think of eni till my brain gits sorter
addled, and feel like becummin a vol
unteer eonvikt #f the Lunatik Asylo
rum. Charity iodines me to think that
old Sumner are crazy 1 think he ha?
been gitten worse ever since ho took
Brooks ©n the brain, and it do lerm
like the disease have pooved contagus.
If they are for Peace it must he the
Peace that passeth ill nnderstand
lo, for wo can't fathom it in
these regions. They fout us to free the
poor nigger but dident keer for the
in ion. The Western boys fout us
for the I’nion but dident keer for the
nigger. By double tcamin on us they
licked us and we gin it up, but now
the one dont want onr niggers and the
otlier dont want our Union, and its the
hardest skeduie to pleas cm on that a
poor vanishrd people ever undertook.
Its the most ha-dest war to wind up
that history rekords. Funnier Fatan
and Company, arc still a fussin and fu
min about the everlasting nigg'r- want
him to vote and make laws, and squat
on a jewry, and want to perhibit us
reberls from dum the same tJiing f r !
30 years to cum? Jecrusalatu! where;
is the cuss in man? They-ay its all
’■'ktht for a niggf r not to vote in Con
r - bekaus there aint but a few of
** Hnr: and its all wrong f, r em not
*” Vlt * in Georgy b-'kaus theres a heap j
ot cm hero, ami they talk Ixigik and
Hetarik atonziu to prove how it is.
“ p,! I haint got awhdo r aesel of
.*<■'like sum, bat as 5!...- is i m
iw*. f,K.r hiirh a nigger i- nigo-er I
•i >n t keer w! ar you smell h m. and a
vote i-s rote l don't keer whar you
drap it. 1 gody? they cant git over
that.
Tlie truth is, my litirw,! l
aometiu es feel like w • i* rx n ,
joverment. I fcU that w y tr r * ben
Mr-Gabon a ppm ted me a committee
eii fbe state of the Rcpubl.k. When
the Sekreury read ont my name all
up with the Bepublik, l rdt
f lat 1w i so reriifr,
mag^ftkn 1, -I n x fv. r, -ny- t M r
Prr-i.hrnt j ha. g. .- U‘ peljtyLiy .
~s* djhi r **• | ••-1-0 It il|’. r ,
any taihlik in t/,> >,.> , f
anlpCsr’ C it at li. is tie.L - .
speks. Thar was a p.uce in old Vir
ginity called l‘ort llepublik, but Mr j
Rebel General Stonewall Jackson wip
ed out its contents general yii 1 ‘*o*l,
and 1 liavcotain-e heard ©l it in North
ern literature. 1 have heard of a skrub
cossarn over about Washington they ■
call a llepublik, but, sur', it are likc l)
to prove the grandest imposture that
ever existed on a continent of free
dom, 1 suppose, sur, it are to be moved
to Boston or tho internal regions in a
! few days and 1 want nothin to do with
j it, Kxk use me, sur, but I must insist!
lon beiu respektably discharged,” I
took my seat amid the n ost profound
eat and tumul'nous silence ever seed,
and Mr. Gibxui remarked that he
woudeut impose the llepublik on no
resp ktable man agin his wishes. He
, then trun-feted me to the Fioants
Committee, and >cd lie HojkmJ we would
take immediate action, ti r the State
had no maueys, *s well as hirnsel, and
board was high and cat seteras fre
quent. This may not hav been his
< xaktual langwide, but is anglin to
ward it. 1 bowed my head and said
“ditto, exsep that 1 dont eat seteras,”
Fortlnvi.li I t clog rat’d various gentle •
; men for a temporary loan, but they
iron lent led a do.lar until Mr. Jen.
kii.sw.rn agarated, for they wanted
his name to the wetr. Thinks, says,
1, there’s a tan lost about tho wagin.
If we are n State, we can borry money
in Augu-ty. If we ain’t a State, its
none of our business to borry it at all.
If Andy wants to run tho machine his
own way. let him pay his own expens
ses. What in the dickens is a Pro
vision Government for, if it aint to get
up provisions and provide for a feller
generally. 1 made up my mind that
perhaps we had been humorin Andy
about long enuf. Wc had as much
right to a Governor os Ahbama.or
Soudi Cailins. He wants us back
about as bad as we want to get back,
and a little badaar, perhaps: and I c
■ needent put on so many unnecessary ;
air- about this Senator bisneas. If he
; fools with us much, we won’t elect no*
body—l golly we’ll take the studs j
and go backwards. 1 forthwith letur
nod to the Capitol, and sfretchin fortli 1
; one ot my arms, ses !,“>!.• Gib-on,sur i
I'm jour friend —l'm the friend of
1 your wife and children ; but es Mr Jcn
i kins ani’t norgerated s->ou the State
will collapse; * blight and glorious star
will be obliterated fioin off the st rped
r*g, nnd the President will lose about
nine supporters in the Federal Cong
ress. I move, sur, that fwe can’t git
i cur tjtvenir at on e like a sine qua
I non, we break up in a row and depart
i for Mex ieo. It took iike the small
pox, nml were carryod tumultuously,
j These proceeding wee tel*.- rat’d to
Witshinglott before the ink was dry,
! and wc reeceved orders forthwith to
norgurate our Govcnor and roll on our
cart. 1 lien the money came, and we
voted ourselves a pocketful apiece,
and took a furlo. My friends, that
wer a proud and glorious day, When
that great and good man was makin his
asst ctin speech, we all telt happy ; and
i Capen I>odd, the member from Polk,
remarkd that he would like to die
then, for lie neve.- expected to feel as
heavenly agin. The tears run down
his left *yc like rain- Uisothireyc
wer beat out by a Yankee soldier while
the Capen wer in prison, Ot course
the vilien wer tried tor it, and hung,
though 1 hain’t seed no mention of it
l in the paters. Alas! poor Wirz,
; sion congratulate you on bavin a Gov
’ enor once more, as in a Govenor. Oh!
i there is lif<- in the old land yet, and by
and ky we'l all mix up with our friends
at tho North, and we’ll transport them
Black Republicans into tho Afrikin
’ desert, and put ’em to teachin Hotcn.-
tots the right of suffrage. Winter
; Davis could there find a field of labor
I sufficient for the miserable remnant of
his deelinin years If he ain’t the
Winter of our discontent mentioned by
I Mr tihnkspere, l ooti t know who he
milooded to, and 1 want to git rid of
, him. He and his clan have done us
| much evil, an i I am induced to ex
i e'fiim in the langwidge of Paul about
Alexander the Coppersmith, “May the
LorJ reward ’em accordin to their
works.,
More anonymug, *
Bill Arp.
I'-S.—Cousin John Thrasher ses he
i liar studied laws week, and will be a
* canydate for sum high offi.- wli n we
weet again, provided wefciv him time
|to sell his cotton seed. I’ll say this—
art hav dne as much for him *. for
some of the caaydates, and nature
more, nnd h a cotton seed areas “ood
seed as 1 ever seed. I hope he “will
sucksoc. B. A.
One ot I ncle Nam s tree
agents in the other day,
tried a thousand of them in the art of
voting. He told them they should be
allowed to electa commissioner of their
own choice to s e after their affairs,
and directed all of them in favor of
a Mr. VY-gay “aye.” One long,
unearthly black yell went up “aye”,
<” ery particular nigger “woting” with
all his might. Then he told all oppos
jl Mr ’ W - ™te “no,’’ and every
d„,k., .. wowd” ten timis
harder than ever. Tber, npon the free
‘“V' r T*" 1 l°°ked ru.zled and arum,
and h,tally ~„r e ,k, t ni ., c „ \ m
•Id toils, and ought to be in— a very
’.vim pace. It j. evidemt ne „4
’ the palm,” not only in fighting
but in woiin> “ 0 0
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Wetiuelny..:an’F It, WGB .
Wo call tfic attrntion of our reU.
n> loilis Modical Card, published in an
other eotuiim, of l*r. It. W, Bns’oo. Dr
Uaalou will also give special attention to
lll* treatment of women, in which ha hat
no doubt that ha can give tho Hiaat parfaet
satisfaction. . .
1 • •
FOAHRXD.
Wa understand that i’rof. l*earl, thu
great Wizard and Manipulator of the art
duitohque, is to five one of his select eu%
lertainments at Seward’s Hall, iu this, city
on Monday next- This wil. be a rare
amusement treat for our citizens, as the
Professor is one ot the best conjurers, and
only natural born ventriloquist, now on
this continent.
mwiiAi,,
The Physicians of Tliomaa County, i'n
furra the Citizens that bills are due on
rendition of service, t.nd will he required
to he paid at once, as alo the claims of
the past, as we have to pay cash for I>rugs
and a living.
Tlic Kitdu ai *iirlt.
The Harper’s Weekly lias the fol
lowing infamous rebellious article, to
which wc call the attention of Secre
tary Stanton :
“ Ti e dispo-ition of the peopl • here
is to make heroes of tlio.-c who fought
nml fell in the rebel ranks. Only last
Nabbath one Rev. —■ Rogers, Rector
of the St. Laza-u- Episcopal Cliarch,
delivered a di.-coursc “in honor of th#
Coniederate dead.” This Rogers pro
poses to build in Memphis a cathedral
which “shall hand down to an admi
ring posterity the names of the heroes
who fell in a noble cause.’ 4 Three
thousand five hundred dollars were
pledged in two days for this cathedral.
; Does it nol stand us in hand to
: teach these men what, treasoa is, and
; ihe pnai-hment due traitors ?
It is common t ilt among the officers
here that the war ended too soon. VVe
! expect to ti'/ht it iij'iin, if too lenient
a policy is adopted by Congress in deal
ing with unrepentant and stiii proud
and haughty robed?.”
Very anxious >0 fight, oh ! Worn
der what battle-fields said “ ifib-rr /’
were on in the late war 1 They prob
ably belong to the last recruits, and
are now occupying the position ©f the
Ass in the fable, standing over the
dead Lion.
— 1 ■ ■
Gen. Grant’s Report.
In submitting his report Lieutenant
General Grant says he was impressed
from an early period of Ihe war, with
the idea that the active and continu
ous operations of all the troops that
could be brought into the field, re
gardless of season and weathtr, yrere
necessary to success. The armies.
East and West, acted without concert
like a balky team, no two ever pulling
together, thus enabling the con fed or”
atos to use to great advantare their
interior lines of communication, and
it was a question whether the Federal
numerica. strength and resource.- were
not more than balanced by Confeder
ate advantages and superior position
Convinced that no peac * could be ob
tained until the miJi ary flower of the
South was entirely broken, he deter
mined fiirst tome the greatest number
of troops practicable against the armed
for oi the opposition, preventing
liitn lrom using tho same force at dif
ferent seasons against firal one and
then another of the Federal armies,
and the possibility. Second, to ham
mer continuously against the armed
force of the South and their resour
ces until by mere attrition, if in’ no
°th*r way, there should he nothing
left but an equal submission with the
Northern section of the country to the
constitution. These views, General
Grant says, were kept constantly in
mind and orders given and campaigns
made to carry them out.
General Grant then refers to the
situation of the contending forces at
the date of his appointment, the main
armies of the Sonth being commanded
by Lee in A irginia, and Johnston in
Georg a ; the Federal forces being
commanded by Sherman in the West
and Meade in Virgi ia, General Grant
exercising general supervision of the
movements of all the armies. Sher
man was instructed to break up John,
ston’s army, go into the interior of the
Southern country and inflict all the
damage to the Confederate war re
sources and, if the Confederate show
ed signs of joining Lee. to follow
them up to tho full extent of bis
ability, while he [Grant] would pre
vent Lees concentration upon Sher
man.
General Grant then details his in
structions given to Generals Banks
Butler and others, and enters into a
detailed account of the progress of the
campaigns, and of Butler’s movements
against Drury’s Bluff General Grant
says that the time consumed lost to
the North the benefit of the surprise
and capture of Richmond and Peters,
burg, enabling Beauregard to collect
his loose forces in North and South
Carolina, anu bring them to the de
fense of those places. Subsequently
the Confederates attacked Butler, who
was forced or drew back into the in
trenchments below the James and Ap
pomattux rivers, -ud his (Hitler's)
army was as completely shut off from |
tuither operations diriectly against 1
Richmond as if it had been in a bottle
strongly corked.
General Grant give* a succinct ex
position of all the military movements
which resuited in finally stopping ‘he
war, and closes with a statement that
he knows no difference in the fighting
qualities vs the Eastern or Western
armies. 4
General Early
Jtx-Confedvrste Geucral Early
writes from Havana, under date of
December 18th, to the New York
News, as follows :
“Having seen it stated in several
papers published in the United States
that I am an applicant for pardon, I (
desire to say through your columns
that there is no truth whatever in this
statement. 1 have neither maJt nor !
authorized such application, and would
not accept a pardon from the Presi
dent of the United States if gratuit
ously tendered me without conditions
or restrictions of any kind - I ‘have
nothing to regret in the course pur
sued by me during the late war, ex*
cept that my services were rot of more
avail to the cause for which I fought;
and my fa:th in tlie justice of that
cause is not at all shaken by the re
sult. I have not given a parole r in,
currcd any obligation to the authori
ties of the L nited States, and 1 ut
terly declaim all allegiance to cr de
pendence upon, the government of
that country. 1 am a voluntary exile
from my own countiy, because I am
not willing to submit to tho foreign!
yoke iui'Ki.-ed upon i f . All declara
tions attribute 1 to me which are in. I
consistent with the above statement j
are eutirely without foundation, and 1 1
hope there will be no further misap-I
prehensions as te my position.
Greeloy oa tho President's Mes l
sago.
President Johnson yesterday trans
mitted 10 the benate deeply interestin'’
reports recently mule to him on the
condition of the South by General
Grant, General Howard and General
Sehurz, accompanying them wi,‘|i a
brief me sage, wherein he rccomends
an early restoration of the States lately
in rebellion to all tho rights and priv
ilege* which they forfeited by attemt.
ing to break up the Union
We find in the text of this message
no adequate reason for Mr. Sninneris
denunciation of it. If the President
had dem 1 ided o Congress that it aci
011 his judgment ratio r than its own,
then he would have acted unwarranta
bly” but as he ha.-simply given hi* own
view• ot the existing situation, with
rea-ons for Hugge-tiug a particular
course, he deserves neither denuncia
tion nor obloquy.
Iwo great ends are now in view: 1.
The restoration o! the Stales lately iii
revolt to their former po-itiou in’the
Union. 2. The protection of their
freed men from future oppresses* ion and
outrage. W are in favor of bulb tht.-e.
We are opposed to keeping the South
era States indefinitely in the condition
of conq.ier.-d provinces or territories;
we are m favor of requiring and pro
vid ne guarantees for the protection
and rights us their freedmen. There
may be those w o fancy that they are
favoring the .freed men’ by calling for
the execution of the re ho! chiefs; the
confiscation / rebel property, and the
perpetuation of Southern pupilage—or
rather, vas-aUge; but we believe there
is kinder and surer way of reaching
th© end we aim at. \\’„ Me n „ t i, ow
we could help the freedmeu by making
war either on the President or on the ;
rebels, who have thrown down their
arms.—Where we find either in fault, 1
we do not hesitate to say so: but we
judge that the true interest of the
blacks is to be subserved by cu'tiva
ting the kindliest relations with both
We trust there will be developed in
Congress the suavity and practical
sagacity required to secure at once an
early rest, ration of the Southern ;
States, and a perfect and perpetual
guaranty as the essential rights of I
manhood to their freedmen. And we
still hope to see Congresss and the |
President co-operate in securing the>e
beneficent and nowise inconsistent
ends.
JEWS
From n long and suggestive article
in the Chicago Republican, concern*
ing the Jews, we extract the following
The Jews rise gradually above the
avers e of mankind whenever their
immense mental resources and their
formidable intensity of purpose are
consecrated to religion, to- humanity,
to liberty, to letters or to art. Then
they become prophet--, reformers and
eomposers, and the moral and intel
lectual and artistic teachers of the
world, pioduciug Mendelshons, Spin
ozas, Neanders, Bernes, Heines, lUeh
els, and Meyerbeers. the
German political reformers of the pres
eot day there arc a great number of
young men of Jewish parentage, par
ticularly in Berlin and Vienna, who
are the most ardent champions of lib
erty. France possesses in Cremienx, j
the Jew, one of her ablest lawyers, I
and at the same time one of her most
unflinching republicans. And so
there are in every country Jews who
show that as soon as they devote their
great powers tq some ennobling j
p.ise, tiicv rxci•. us much in the high
er wjlks of thought and life as the
bulk of their fellow religionarics in
the lower. I
Southern Si>trlf.
There are many, says the Louisville
Journal, who will out or cannot appre- .
viate or understand the i.igh-toned
manliness and unbending courage ex*
hi hi toil by the Southern people in
I their defeat. i hey looked for eow.trd
, ly and cringing submission ; a bending 5
t of the tMiple kaee ami a bowing of the
haughty crest. They are disappoint ■
oil that they du not find the? c things.
The Confederates, though overwhelm*
od by numbers and completely subju
gated, does not forget his manhood or
• lick the hand that smote him. This
i has ot course excited surprise in the
minds of those win so slavish sj irits
would not have sustained them under
such calamities, ani they are .indigs
mint that we do not act ns they feel
and know they would act if similar.y
situated. Some Northern men, we .are
glad to see can appreciate the feelings
and c nduet ol the ‘ Southern masses.
Among them is Henry Ward Lcech
er, who in a recent spo* ch. said :
‘•Those flashes of Southern senti.
moot,- bitter editorials and tossing
■ heads, are not surprising when . we
; think of t he-scourge • that has sweet
i over them—that- a proud spirit has
I been obliged to confess defeat at the
hands ol men they despise—that their
property has boon swept away—their
sons slain - they reduce 1. from afHu
; encc to beggary. -When I flunk ol
i this, tire wonder is that they are as.
! temperate as they are. Coiis-ideri-ng
their fearin’ defeat and humiliated po
sition, f think they have behaved
well, It may not be fashionable, blit
I honor them fur the feeling they .ex,
K b it’” • ‘ ‘ . ‘
.T3rxr.Ke. iN His ••Cokk.kd Bot’ti.k,”
I . Th* n><Vs papcaß are taking a look at
i 13u11 *r tn his Corked bottle, and wonder
i wliether he will crawl out through the
nose, or kick his way out at the bot
tom, At present he looks like a I’rog
in an apothecary's shop pro ervd in
spirits. 11 :s friends say he wifi try to
extricate himself someh >w.
While upon I’utier, the follvying
reminiscence is drum tlie Memphis
Bulletin j Ust tit ha a
On Monday evening succeeding the
Malrmore Convention of 18G<), a gro-it
concourse of people gathered in front
of the residence of John C. Brock in
ridge at \Vnsh‘n_*ton. He had been
nominate! for I'resi lent by a portion
of his party, which had seceded from
the main body thereof, ami the ccllec
tion to which we allud wai assembled
! for the purpose of r- c'-iving bis ack
nowledgements. In the course of the
evtiing speeches were made by Toombs
Paris and Ynnoy.
Toward the close Mr. Benjamin F.
Hutler, a secessionist from Massa
chnsotts was called for, and spoke
fir half an hour more v o’en ly in favor
of Southern rights than any of his
predecessors. As he concluded his
harangue, the writer n 1 this brief
reininescnce turned to Andrew John
son. who bap'Muic 1 to lie standing near
at hand, am] inrprred what he tnought
of it 1 “By (i—d, sir,’ - he replied,
with characteristic warmth. M never
like a man to be for me than ] nr
j for myalf”—N, Y, Kxpress.
Lossks or Gkohcia Puri.io tijk
W’Alt.
The following estimate of losses dn
; ring the war has been made by n Ms
eon onrrespondenk of the New York
\V. rid:
The following figure*, showing the
losses of Georgia in the late war are
j submitted: The taxable wealth “of
the Stf.te in 18G3 trs returned by the
1 assessors tc the Controller General’s
I office, was 8840,011,127. There were
four huh Ired and eighty*Mx thousand
; one hundred and seventy slaves vain*
i do at 8194,000, lost bv being set free.
Losses sustained in the destruction of
property by Federal armies—estima*
j ted—Bloo,ooo.ooo, Losses by rail
road companies in indcdtediiess by
the Confederate Government, destruc.
tion of bridges, track, rolling stock
and depots, 8 80,000,000. Banking
5t0ck,89,500,000. Losses sustained
by private individual? in various ways,
815,000,000. Making a grand total
of losses sustained by the State of
Georgia alone in the late war 0f8398,-
1)86,000. Deducting this from the
original sum af 8840, 041,000, and wo
have left only 8442,055,000.
Fact and Philanthropy.
I'act—The freed men won't work,
! even to supply the.most pressing ne
cessity.
Philanthropy—Then give each of
them a forty-aore farm.
Fact—They hang about the towns
j to beg and steal.
Phil.--Then amend the laws so as
to allow them to sit on juries and test- •
if’y in the courts.
Fact—That they are naked and
home-less, and unless relieved, will
starve to death.
Phil.—l hen establish school* ■ for
their education, and churches for rheir
conversion. - j
Fact— They have neither foresight
nor economy, and are at once helpless
and dangerous.
I hil. Il.en obliterate, in your so
ciety all distinction on account of
color. j
Fact—They dostroy their children,
and and are themselves infected with
loathsome diseases.
Thil. —No higher, pro f could be
given of the unity of the human race,
or Ojthe higher moral endowments of.
the African. Give them an abnn
dance of bi les, tracts and testaments.
Fact —The women prositutc them
scKes, and the men aid them in the
traffic and divide with them the pro*
ceeds.
Phil.—This proves their eminent
fitnesa for the holy *tat of matrimony
which with ftie aid of Di ine Provi
dence, wo have introduced among
them.
Fact- —They are universally onfaitli
ful in the ma nr age relation.
PhU.-Jlns only slioxrs how like
they are t> ourselves. —Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Aurr.MUs Ward Insi res IIu: Liik
l kum to the conclusion that life war
so I'nsartin that the only way tor me
to stand a lair chance with other folks
was to git my life insured, and so L
called on the agent. of the ‘‘Garden
Angel Life Insurance Company,’? and
aii'Wered the following questions which
war put to me from the ton nv. a pa r uv
gold specks, by a sleek little man, with
as fat an old belly on him as onv man
’ i . , *
i ever owned.
Ist (>—Are vou mail or femail ? II
• • v •
so, state how long you- have been so.
‘2. Are you subject to fits, and if so,
do you have more than one at a rime.
| ■ dd. Wlrat is your figtiling weight.
I 4rh. lid you ever hvo any anees
tors,•and if so how much?
s.ih What, is your legol opinion ol the
* .constitutionality of the Secesh States,
j l). Did you ever have any night
j funres?
7th Are you married or single, or
are you a bachelor?
j Sth. Do yu believe in a future stato,
if \ u da, state it.
9th. ‘A hat are your private senti
ments about a rush on rats in bed;
| can it he did successtuUy? .
1 t)tj . Have you ever committed
suicide, and if so, how did it seem to
i affect you?
’ A fief I answered the above oues
.r■ r i
i tions hue a man in coiiurmatit, toe
slick little fat old fellow with gold
sp*cks on eed i was insured tor life,
j ami probably would remain so for a
term nv yours. 1 thanked him and
! smiled one uv my pensive .-miles.
Fron the N. Y. Herald
The Case of JeW Davis.
The radicals in Congress are not
satisfied to let the person whom they
cal! the‘•representative man of the re
hellion” pass out of sight. |ey pro
test against the oblivion to which the
good sense of the country is willing to
consign him; they insist upon keeping
him before too people a a culprit.
And though they .o not clearly cla
mor for his hi 0.1. perhaps go as
near to it a* would be consistent with
congressional propriety. In this ih.*v
follow closely those fierce big-U of the
great rebellion in lvuland, wb > n.u and
be satisfied with nothing le->s than the
death if Charles tho Fir-t; and they
put themselves i istorical y :n the one
cla*s with the violent elements ju the
French revolution that coolly took the
life of Louis the .Sixteenth. Was ii
wise to take the ife of either Chu-les
or Louis.'* \\ e can see the passions
that urged to tli -sc acts —the party
hates and violence that were to be
sati tied. We can judge the rpioMiom
from a safe historic dist-jnee, and. so
judged, the universal and ei*i„n of mod
era times ha.s I een that th'aa * xocutioim
were not o'ftly unwise, bnto’-uolly 00l
i>h. There were Llumleis of the worst
character, for they be ittled groat na
tional enus's into Vulgar struggle* that
lud revenges and ihir*t* for t>h>ol tu
gratify. The consent of w ser men to
those aets gave tho supremacy to tho
worst, e ements ol the parliament and
the assembly, and so paved the way
for the rim of the popular cause
Those executions are the blots and
stains in the hstory of the two great
events. It is useless to say that the
eases arc different They are identi
cal ‘ n nil sse - tial respects, ami win re
they differ, the difference is m t in fa.
vor of those who urge the execution ol
Davis, (’ha les and Louis were men
revered bv large classes of popultion as
legitimate, sovereigns; mid Davis was
respected as the representation.of the
sovereign majesty of a people—the
cliosen Executive who could do .only
their will, and whose personality was
sunken in his Office. ’
\Ve must take in this case higher
ground than any people or governnun*
| has hitherto had the moral couaa-e to
take. \Yc must throw aside the an
ci nt fictions and deal with facts as
facts. \Yc must recognize that men
| like Davis have had their grand uses
in the life of a ration; that they make
j those stands and cause those wars that
purify government and render it im
possible for it'to become partial and
tyrannical. Davis represented some
millions of men who believed that they
were oppressed, and who rt re with the
spirit of freemen. Shall we stultify
our history—our immortal declaration
by saying that the representative of
all those nien deserves death for hav
ing been their representative? Where
does government originate? With the
people—we declare by every fact of
our history. And with how many
people if not with eight millions? We
agree with the radical members that
Congress should take up the case of
Davis, but we believe it should take it
up only to set him at large on these
high grounds recognizing openly and
bravely as the sense of the America i
people that acts such ns his do wot de
serve death. Wc should as we feKd of
the terrible acta of British officials iu
Jamaica, wlio outbnrbarizc barbnri.<fn>
we shudder to contemplate British*
: judges sending men to twenty years’
penal servitude for the crime of desir
ing abetter government for their coun*
try. Let us be consistent with these
feeliugs, and set an example <r nation
al magnanimity that tuny put tkatpow
.er to the blush. Onr enu-e dors not.
’ call for any man’s blood, sfcd we uttot
not let partiiau hatred put it% bloody.,
stains on our national aistory.
Wira’s Last Letter to bis Wifs_
The late Captain Win, iu his im .
complete diaty, under date of October
! Ist, says that a man was at that time
placed in his cell to prevent any at
tempt he might make to take his >au
life, but the- loan fell .-v-.'eepv 11 *- wnitr
that the reason he did not put an end
to his existanee, was because what he
‘•suffered was the will of God; and itv
| the -eeond place, he owc>l• to hiiuselty
j his family aud his relatives, and to the
world at large-, to jprwxe hi- innocence.
A- an evidence of tire *a(Teeth u and
• education of Witz, we append his last
letter, written ju-t on this execu
tion. . ’ .. • ■ J
I • Old Capitol I’ri.soD. )
Washington, 1). C. Not. 10 l'-6. r > i
I • My Dearest wife and Children.—
When these lines reach you the hand
which wrote them will be stiff arid
cold. In a few hours from n>w [
shall he dead. Oh, if 1 c.u!d express
myself as I wi-b, if I could tell what
L have suffered when I thought about
you and the children! I tnu.-t learn
you witho-ut means to live, to tho iui
cries of a cold and cruel world. Lise,
<lO not grieve, do not despair; we shall
: meet again in a •‘•ter world Console
yourself, think as l do—that I die iu*
nocent. \\ ho knows better thau yoit
| that a!) these tales of C'uo.tb'.s and
murder- are nf-iniDUs lies, an J why
j should I not say it? A great itrtnj da
I, call tu * hard hearted, becau- V^l'tfill
■Wtliem that 1 lnvn nothing tocon fen*
: oh, ti link I. l a m r ent how the thought
that 1 must ilh; inri ,eo A must su.-taiu
me in the last h. ,ir, that when I shall
stand before my Maker i cau
‘‘Lord, vt the-** things you know I
n t guilty. Oh let my unm-rit and death
be an atonement.” Use 1 din rve..u
ei.ed 1 d-e, as 1 hope, as a Christian.
Ibis i* his holy will that 1 -hail dn,
lli-rrefo o let u- siy with Cliri-t, ‘‘Thy
, will, O Lord be done.”
1 hardly know whut lo say Jt,
! I*'* beg you. do not give away de
-pai*. Think that lam gone to my
j father, to your Fattier, to li.e Fath. r
ot all and that there l hope to uirt
you. Live f r the dear children
till, and tike ear- of ( ora Kiss L-r
tor me. K.i-s Susan and urrielia. sud
, te.il them to live so that we ma’
again sn ILmvrr, aoove the **kie*; ti-ll
.’o-io my la-t though-s, my butt prayet
i -had l>c for them.
\on ask-il me ab-itit Cora’s, srKiiul
,!l-. My ‘brar wile, yen must do inf-*
:as yiiu (link best.. In regir Ito your
j * ,m - t'> nrnp.; I advise fin t-i v.i.,*.
, until you lu-ar li-oiu ■ j
j written to my filler; i'i lie should U
*le 01. my brotm-r I* bone is aliv-. 1
; ‘Viol you Mi- aibtros. Von had ln
-1 ®■” .- l ” certifieato < t our tnarr ag*-;
also ol Cora’s birth arid have it appro
ved before a magistrate. If y-u sh-m’d
‘/<’ to kurope you would n*-rd it. b
-ball hand this letter to Mr jehads,
) who Wlil No-la-1 it t> you with -OUi.-eth
|er papers aJid books; this is all that- L
jo iu ii'avu yw*c but no, I can lsvs joa
•omothiug inor**, suuietLing b-tta, u*y
i Ido’Kiug, (jod bliss you all aud
ted you. God give you what ju*
stand in need of and grant that >*<u all
so live th-t when you die, jpu i \u *sy,
Lord th*>u cailest rn, hern I am.
fa re Wei I wife, rhildreo. ||. I will ml
j must close: farewell, (rod he with ns.
5 our utito.tunate husband and fa- •
j lcr. ||. W|HZ
. .tIABI. ('•NTMAUTH,
The following is a schedule of lla
Mail Fines in this section as publih‘d
by authority to continno until the SO
oi J une next.
014:! I’ioiu Stockton, W Oow Crk
and Stalcnvillc, to Jasper, Fla.,
i miles, ainl back, once :t week.
J leave Stockton Friday at 0. w.
arm e at at Jasper by t p. nt.
leave Jasper Saturday at (J a. in,
arrive at Stock ttn by 7 p. tu.
0144, 1’ rom \ aldosta, by TroMpvillfj,
to Nashville, 38 miles and backouces
week
leave \ aldosta Tuesday at 0 a. w..
arri>e at Nashville by op. ui.
leave Nashville Monday at 0 a. W
arrive at \ aldosta byG p. ru. ■
01-40 troiu Quitman, by Okapileo
and Radford’s .Mills, to Morveu, ‘H
tubes, and back, once a week,
leave Quitman Tuesday at 8 a %i
arrive at .Morven by 4p. m. *’ ‘
leave Morven Wednesday .*s•§ a iu
arrive at Quitman bv 4 a. ja’
0140 From ThomasvUl.s, by Grerm
field, to, Moultrie, 30 aijieaajMl back,
once a wefk.
leavejThonmsvillß*^h ur;M i H y^ a t 7
a. n,
arrive at Monliaie fey 7 p.* in.
leave Moultrie Ifrijay at 7 a. ni.
arrive at Thomusvilie by 7 p. m. i
KOBKIt rH. hakkim J
ATTORNEY AT LAW, I
Quitman, Georgia {
IWill practise in the Courts 0! 1
the Southern Circuit, !