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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 C (tutfrprisc 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, !