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Will ji've prompt attention to all legal bo ,
“near- i'!unified ro their care in the counties of !
the Southern Circuit—Decatur of the South-
Western —and Clinch. Ware and Appling of
the K-nnswick Circuit.
ttgCOFrict ovt-r Messrs. Woltf & Bi-thct'-.s ,
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C. C. RICHARDSON,
ATTORNEY
AND
COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
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L, O. IRVOL1),
RESIDENT DENTIST
THCMASVILLB, GA.
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; t Dr. .W TpTCLO WEIT
Havin’!* pen-’ met; loguti-A .a'VlinuutK.
.v ’ ‘ nil ■ - .c rrofrwioitid V i ii.
n-t to the public.
J at the Drag- Store of W. P.
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FRESH
DRTJCSrS!
OR I* S ROWER hun in>r returned from
New Yo- v and I'hiladflphia, With a large
“ii in irijule m
;’ r,hant’d w i agi eat deal ot egre i n
I- matHthtctn ei.- •- ibe countrv—eutL-:cit,-
t-c. v a icle in the Medical Department—
av am he p*o;osea to sell m an good to- u:s as
tm i ire lm,f in this tnarket.
|L‘' ‘1 o-. and pare ular vt''at’on to his
JargemapjAyef >
FANCY ARTICLES,
Sti’ h a-, s • - t ■ _ ic. Peiiime-. Poiuad.-s,
t • uoiics. Hu and Tooth liinshos. Conii:-
cVi all of which he dun *lt at
jX-t-l ito:*- Vi,.- ‘i iatoy of ‘he articles
Je r.w * uf*’- pi.-ii*v;ii \vV Iw II restore
to the hatft Lea i a horrtniTut snif of hair.'turn
gray hair to tt< heatiti, tad mu oral color, and
ivto eiite Wnoijo; vi uh to the LiJed vi-f*_e.
He would call special attention t” his large
muck of Piialoi .- N i.t:t LL otuiug Cereus. and
Ltird> Dloi'Ui oi Youth. Or* < a Cull.
P. S. ROW Eli.
June -.>5 25-ff
APOTHECARY
HALL.
W, P, CLOWER & CO.,
DIU OGTSrs.
Have reuoTaied auJ refined the Store next
to Young's Hotel, ior iLe purpose oi es
tablishing a
First Class Drug Store.
The new firm ask for a Bh:>*e of p;itr,ra
nge, and invite the attention of the citi
rens to the : r well selected stock of
Medic iiiea.
Fancy and Toilet IrUelt s,
‘aai*i atjtl Fei liinicry.
Fine iirecii null Ri.ii !i Teas.
Kerosine tamps anti Oil,
DI E STI FFS.
Toeeluei- with every other article usually
kept in a well appointed Dru B’ore.
gi-D’ PhjSiCi .n i're&L j ,~s carefully
prepared 4-if
dan ?4
DRUGrS
mirnmm.
The undersigned having purchase the
elogaiU Drug Store ol Dr. Lit ■ e, take
pleasure in announcing to the people of
‘Thoniasville, and the country genei-tHy.
that they have just received a lull supply
of fresh Drugs and Medicines, Paints,
this, Ferfumery, Stationery, et., e’c. Call
and examine lor youi selves
By siiict a.tenticn to busines-, courte*
ora and hpßorable dealing with our cus
tomers we hope to merit receive a libe
ral share of patronage.
WINN Si CASS ELS.
JsMRS N. Wish,
Sami el J. Cass els.
jan 17tf
ffIHE greatest Purifier and Disinfectant
J known—DARBY'S PROPHYLACTIC
FLUID. For sale by
W. r. CLOWER,
aug 23 Druggists. *
Commission Merchants.
Smallwood. Hodgkiss & Cos.
COTTON
F actors
, AND
OKNE R A E
COMMISSION
I m lsbhahts,
\o lO Beaver-M., Sew lork.
i J . L SMALi.vv.M>n, forinei ky Smallwood, Earle
A Cos and.l. L. Smallwood & Cos.
Th If. llo:r.Ki*->. Georgia ) Late Hodgkiss,
t* W SrdrT. Kinrida.’ Scott At Cos.,
D. If. Poolr. Georgia. ) New York.
! ‘
We arc prepared thruugn R-Stdint Agents
to Idvnurr on and Nell ('•lion in all the
Sotilhrrn Port*, or forward from Tkcxr
Prl to Viav Yorknt I . i > fipool Direct.
as or friend* may pieter.
Our Ccuuocti"ns ia Liverpool are such as
will giveour cumomers all the advantages of
! that market.
July 1 27dy
Duncan & Johnston,
COTTON FACTORS
COMMISSION
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SAVANNAH, :it: DEORr.lt.
REFERS TO
Col: A T. .Mcfatire, ‘I iiomasvUle, Ga.
: IV, 1. E Rcmt .'/ton. ” ‘ “ .
Jfotmld .MvLc.iii, I'-.p,
July .'-j tint
J. ITS. DA VISA CO..
AUCTION
COMMISSION
AN D .
Un’l’WuiKJ Il)Clvl|i(i)Vs,
TIIOM AS VILLT7, GA.
J R. S. Davis. A. Jeffers.
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f isonAßo rdo> ,
COTTON FACTORS,
cifflissi no mmim
Mox'diants,
,"V.'U. r.vVANNAH. GA.
\VM ll 1 IVON. VV>i. \V. CiOfillON.
May 16 tint
IOHN W. ANDERSON & SONS,
Factors and General
mm m fgrwmdie
Mci’diants,
( oinci- DrnTlott &- ISnan Slc. t,
SAVANNAH, GA.
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1 H.BttTAN, A. I• H ■I “, DC-y, T. W. S. .NV.Fk’.
Imteof J. Savaiiuah Ga., t'iuciauati.O.
j Bryan a Son
vivaa b,Ga
Bryan, Hartridge & Cos.,
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
BROKERS,
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Strt t attention given (o Coniigumcnts
and Collectioijb. apr 11 6ui
t . \Y. SIMS.Y ( J F. WHEATON,
I-ale of the laue of the firm of
Rep.iiidieuii. J ( Wilder, Wheaton A. Cos.
F. W. SIMS & Cos.,
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FACTORS AND GENERAL
COMMISSION MERCBASTS.
DEALERS IN
Mcr. li;*iilise, Proilure. Tim
>• , r.aiiHiei and Cotton.
('< >.amueutaand >.rdei> reajiecUuJlv solicit
ed. and wh. her by wagi.n, river, railroad <>r |
tea. will receive the stricte>t attention.
The Forwarding UuVuess carefully aud
promptly done. mar 7 fOdkn
J. L. VILLALONGA.
COTTON FACTOR
mfilllK m COMMISSION
Merchant,
No- 94 Bay Street,
jaw Ms 5 A 1.4 V.V.4 ff, OA.
W. Carvel H u.t.. J as. E. Mrris.
J. llanson Thomas, Jr.
Hall, Myers & Thomas
GENERAL
COMMISSION
Mcrcliants.
No. 0, Commerce St., Baltimore.
ittTt-rvuees :
|J- Hat an T ANARUS! om.ts. IWt Farmers’ and Mer
chants Ariiooal Bans, i son <V Gordon, t>av'h
j Kitki -.ad. Unite iV Cos , duo. Williams &
I Williams, Bee A f'o.. X. Y., Brien i tar
ft're. X Y., f Morton Su-wait. H 1,.
Whit rid we, D. H. Gordon, Va..
EdwardS Myers, J. P. Plea
sants .V bon. Thos. J
Carsoo & Cos.
Win. 11. Mat Fariand, Pie t Earners Bank.Y'a.
j Alar 14 H-6m
N'OTICE. —Two months afterdate I shall
apply to the Court of Ordinary of Col
j quitt County, for leave to sell all the Real Es
tate of William Vick, deceased.
JAMES ALDERMAN.
* Ang 30 60d Adair
Tilt SOUTHER* PEOPLE.
RfiP iRT OF GENUAL GOBHON GRANGER.
To H Ex clh .fy Andrew Johnson, Presi
dent oj the United Stares :
Sir :—ln obedience to instructions,
dated may 9,1806, directing me, while
carrying out a pecitic mission, 4i to
examine carefully into the disposition
of the people of the Southern States
through which I might pass, toward
the Government of the United States/’
I have the honor to report:
That in all the States I visited I
found no sign or symptom of organized
disloyalty to the General Goverment.
I found the people takingour currency,
and glad to get it; anxious for North
ern capital and Northern labor to de
velop the rosources of their wasted
eouutry, and well disposed toward ev
ery Northern man who eatno among
them with that object in view.
In some localities I heard rumors of
secret organizations, pointing to a re
newal of the KebeHion. On investiga
ting these secret societies I could dis’
cover in them nothing more than char
itable institutions, having for their
principle object <he relief of the wid
owsand. orphans cf Confederate soldiers
who hud fallen iu the war.
During the whole cf my travels I
found it to be as safe and as conveni
ent to mingle with the people of the
South, freely discussing any and every
topic that came up, as in any other
section of the United Stales. I was
often among them unknown, and the
tenor of their acts and conversation
was then the same as when my name
and official position was thoroughly
undersiood.
The people of the South may be
divided into fwo classes. There is the
industrious class, laboring earnestly to
build up what lias been broken down,
striving tu restore prosperity to the
country, and interested mainly in the
great question of providing food and
clothing for themselves and. families.
These form the great majority of the
people. Then there is another class,
an utterly irresponsible class, composed
mainly of young men who were the
“bucks - ’ of Southern society before
the war,_aml chiefly spent their time
in lounging round the court-rooms and
bars, iu chicken fighting and gambling.
These have been greatly broken up
by the war; many of them have been
killed ; but those who remain arc stili
disturbing elements iu the community,
and are doing much mischief. It is
this class of men, and a number of the
poor whites, who have formed gangs
for horsestealing. It is they who in
some instances have made attacks on
officers oi the Frcedmen's IJurcau, and
have ill-treated the freedmen. It is
they who afford the main pretext for
sayiDg that there is among the people
of the South & feeling of hostility to
ward the United States Government.
Bat they arc not the representative of
the Southern people. They form but
an insignificant minority in the com
munity', and even they are actuated
not so much by a feeling o! opposition
to the Government as by a reluctance
to earn their own livelihood by honest
labor and individual exertion.
That cases of authentic outrage have
occurred in the South is patent to ev
ery one familiar with the current news
of ihe day. But these cases are few
and far between, and it is Loth unjust
and ungenerous to charge the respon
sibility lor such acts of lawlessness
upon the whole Southern people
For some malicious purpose, accounts
of these isolated disorders have been
collected and grouped together and
sown broadcast over the North, so as
to give to the public mind an utterly
erroneous impression as to the condi
tion of Southern society. The fact is,
that wherever disaffection and turbu
lence have manifested themselves out
side the class to whom 1 have above
alluded, there has been some local or
specific cause to account for it. Law
lessness, like an epidemic, has extend
ed overparticular belts of the country,
and, like an epidemic, is equally trace
able to some initiatory cause. Chief
among these causes must’ be named
bad government, pillage, plunder and
appression.
For five years the Southern people
have been the subjects of gross misrule.
During the w: r their Government was
a military despotism, dependent solely
on the dictum of an individual. Since
the war they have been left more or
less in a chaotic state —tlmir Govern
ment semi-civil, semi-military, or rath
er a division of rule the military, the
Freed men’s Bureau and the Provision
al Governments. What might have
been the result of a different policy it
is not altogether idle to speculate.—
Hvery mil.tary man who served in the
South during the war will agree that
the heart of the great mass of the
people was not thoroughly in the strug
gle. The number ot desertions from
the Hebei armies abundantly estab
ishes tl is tact. Had a policy of wise
and statesmanlike conciliation been
followed out immediately after the
close of tbe war, it is more than prob
able that the condition and disposition
of the people would now be far better
than they are. But on the subjuga
tion of the Scuth the national author
ity in tbe lately rebellious States was
dviided and broken up into opposing
factions, whose action greatly hindered
the reestablishment of civil law and
good order so much needed among a
Tliomasville, Georgia, Thursday, September 20, 1806.
people demoralized by the most de- ■
moralizing of all agencies—civil war. I
The country wa* flooded with Treasury
agents who with their accomplices ‘
and imitators, fleeced the people right ,
and left, returning into thr United j
States Treasury for all the enorm us
amount of property they seized and
confiscated barely enough to pay the
cost of confiscation. Agents of the
Freedman's Bureau stepped between
the planter and the laborer, stirring
up strife, perpetuating antagonism,
and often adding their quota of extor
tion and oppression. On every hand
the people saw themselves robbed and
wronged by agents and gelfappointed
agents pro p ess‘ng to act under the
sanction of the United States Govern
ment. Need it be wendcred at that
among a community thus dealt with,
powerless to resist and too weak and
prostrated for successful complaint,
some bitterness and ill feeling should
arise? None but a brave and well
mcanin” people could have endured
unresistingly all that the South has
undergone.
In prosecuting this inquiry, I hard
ly deemed it fair to as'c more than
what had been the actions of the peo
ple of the South toward the General
Government. With their private opin
ions, their sympathies and their preju
dices T had nothing to do. Yet for a
more thorough understanding of the
question I made it a part of my mis
sion to investigate even these. 1 found
they had universally complied with
the conditions granted and accepted ,
at the final surrender of their armies
and cause. 1 found that they were
carrying out with good faith and alac
rity the requirements of the Constitu
tional Amendment abolishing Slavery,
and that in all the States except Mis
sissippi and Texas, the famous Civil
Rights I>;1! had been anticipated by
the action of the State Legislatures
previous to its passage by Congress —.
Further than this, I found that in the
repudiation of every dollar known as
the Confederate debt, the same piompt
action had been taken bv the State
authorites and had been uui v e rsallv
endorsed by the people ; and jl neither
saw nor heard any disposition, or any
thing that pointed toward a disposiiiion
to repudiate the National debt, or
to ever again revive the ius itution of
Slavery;
But while the Southern people arc
thus loyal, and have fulfilled all the
requirements asked of them by the
Federal (Jovernment, it is impossible
to disguise the fact, and the better
class of citizens do not attempt to dis
guise it, that there is among them a
deep feeling and a strong apprehension
as to the cause of their long contin
ued exclusion from Congress. They
believe that it is part of a set plan for
perpetuating the existence of the po
litical parly now’ in the ascendent, and
that the question of suffrage, readjust
ment of representation and taxation
are but excuses for still longer delay.
Thus regardless of the great interests,
not only of the suffering South, but of
the whole country, burdened with debt
and laboring under severe embarrass
ment, I found the prevailing opinion
among the most intelligent citizens, as
well as among the most anxious for
an early restoration of the Union, to
be that, if representation and an equal
and just co-operation iu the adminis,
tration of Federal affairs were much
longer withheld from the Southern
States, a feeling of indifference would
spring up toward taking any part in
filling Federal offices, and more par*
ticularlj’ toward filling their seats in
Congress.—that the people, in fact,
would stay away from the polls, and
allow the cledtions to go by default
to the great detriment of the country
at large. This feeling of indifference
indeed is already manifesting itself,
and is rapidly increasing, so ni'ieh so
that were it not for a few persons in
each Southern State who have found it
necessary for their existence to live
upon and hold office, and whose haunts
and occupations have hitherto been at
the Federal capital, I do not believe
that any clamor for representation
would be hoard.
What is needed to restore harmony
and prosperity to the entire country,
| both North and Scuth, is closer and
better acquaintance with each other.
I have been astonished to notice how
little people, even whose social rela
tions are all Southern, know of the
true state of feeling in that section
of the country. We need greater po
litical, social and commeicial freedom,
more frequent intercourse, and a kind-
I er appreciation of each other's pecu
liarities. The advantage to the coun
try in its present financial distress of a
reuuion of heart and sentiment would
be beyond enumeration. The broad
lands of the fertile South are now ly
ing almost in waste for want of means
and capital to cultivate them, when
every acre of the beneficent soil mi-ht
be a gold miue to its possessor were
the political relations of the people
better understood and acted upon.
I have the houor to be, your most
obedient servant.
GrORDON Gra.NQER.
tfaT* A Boston newspaper announces
that George Peabody intends to bestow
sbo,ooo each upon Harvard, Amherst
and Williams Colleges, of Massachu
setts, and the sum of oue million dol
lars upon Boston for homes for the
poor
Rtl, HEYRI WARD REECH
EK'S REPLV.
Peeksilill, Aug. 30, 1866.
Chan. Li Ifaipiue, Bren t. Brigadier
Genera/; If. lU. S/acum, Major
General ; Gordon Granger , Major
General t Committee. |
Gentlemen : I am obliged to you
for the invitation which you have 1
made to me to'a'ct as - Chaplain to the
Convention of Sailors and Soldiers
about to convene at Cleveland. I can
not attend it, but I heartily wish it,
and all other Conventions, of what
party socver f success, whose object is
the restoration of all the States late in
i rebellion to their Federal relations.
Our theory of Government has no
place for a State except in the Union.
It is justly taken for granted that the
duties and responsibilities of a State
: in Federal relations (end to its politi
! cal health, and to that of the whole
nation. Even Territories are hastily
brought in, often before the prescrib
ed conditions are fulfilled, as if it were
dangerous to leave a community out
side of the great boby politic.
Had the loyal Senators and Repres
entatives o 1 Tennessee been admitted
at once on the assembling of Congress
I and, in moderate suceegaion, Arkansas,
i.Uoorgia, Alabama, Nor:h Carolina and
irginia, the public mind of the South
would have been, fur more h althy than
it g, and those States which lingered,
on .probation to the last would have,
been under a mote salutary- iuflunce to
‘.good conduct than if-a. dozen.anul .-
[ watched over them. . .
i Uvcry month that we delay this health.
, ful ’ step complicates the case. - The
■ excluded population, enough unsettled
before, grow more irritable; the army
; becomes indispensable to local govern
ment, and supersedes it; the Govern
; meat at Washington is called to inter
fere in one and another difficulty, and
| this will be done inaptly, and some
times with great injustice—for our
i Government, wisely adapted to its own
: proper functions, is utterly devoid of
those habits, end unequipped with the
instruments which fit a centralized
government to exercise authority iu
remote Slates over local affairs. Every
attempt to perform such duties has
I resulted in mistakes which have cxci
j ted the nation. But whatever irnpru
dcnc there may bo in the method, the
real criticism should be against the
requisition of such duties of the Gen
-1 oral Government.
The Federal Government is unfit
to exercise minor police and local
government, and will inevitably blun
der when it attempts it. To keep
ha’f a score of States under Federal
authority, hut without national ties
and responsibilities ; to oblige the cen
tral authorty to govern half the terri
tory of the Union by Federal civil
officers by the army, is a policy not
only uncongenial to our ideas and
principles, but pre eminently danger
ous to the spirit of our Government.
However humane the ends sought and
the motives, it is, in fact, a course of
instruction, preparing onr Government
to be despotic, and familiarizing the
people to a stretch of authority which
can never be other than dangerous to
liberty.
I am aware that good men arc With
held from advocating the prompt and
successive admission of the exiled
States by the fear, chiefly, of its effect
upon parties and upon freedmen.
It is said that if admitted to Con
gress, the Southern Senators and liep
resentatives will coalesce with North
ern Democrats and rule the country.
Is tI)X3 nation, then, to remain dis
membered to serve the ends of par
ties ? —Have we learned no wisdom by
the history of the last ten years, in |
which just this course of sacrificing
the nation to the exigencies of parties
plunged us into rebellion and war ?
Even admit that the power would 1
pass into the hands of a party made up
of Northern men, and the hitherto
dishonored and misled Demorcracy j
of the North, that power could not be
used just as they pleased. The war
has changed, not alone institution?,
but ideas. The whole country has j
advanced Public sentiment is exal
ted far beyond what it has been at
any former period. Anew party
would like a river, be obliged to seek
its channels in the already existing
slopes and forms of the continent.
We have entered anew era ts liber
ty. The style of thought is freer and
more noble. —The young men of our
times are regenerated. The great army
has been a school, and hundred of
thousands of men are gone home to
preach a truer and nobler view of hu
man rights. All the industrial inter
est of society are moving with increas
ed wisdom toward intelligence and
liberty. Everywhere, in churches, in
literature, in natural se'enccs, in phy
scial industries, in social questions, as
well as in politics, the nation feels j
that the Winter is over and anew
Spring hangs in the horizon and works
through elements. In this happily,
changed and advanced condition of t
things no party of the retrograde can I
maintain itself. Everything marches
and parties must march.
I bear with wonder and shame and
scorn the fear of a few that the South
once more in adjustment with the
Federal Government will rule na
tion ! The North is rich—never so
1 ?icb j the South is poor—never before
so poor. The population of the North
is nearly double that of the L*outh.
The industry of the North, in diversity
in forwardness and productiveness, in
a'l the machinery and education re
quired for manufactory, is half a sen
tury in advance of the South. Chur
! cites iu the North crown every hill,
and schools swarm in every neigbbor
; hood; while the South has but scat<
; tered lights, at a long distances, like
light houses twiukling along the edge
of a continent of darkness. In the
presence of such a contrast, how mean
and craven is the fear that the South
will rule the policy of the land 1 That
] it will have an influence, that it will
contribute in time, most important in
fluences or restraints, we are glad to
believe. But if it rises at once to the
control of the Government it will be ;
because the North, demoralized by J
: | rosperity and besotted by grovcliog i
i interests, refuses to discharge its share |
! of political - duty. In such a case the I
South not only will control the Govern
ment, hut it ought to do it.
2. It is feared, with more reason, that
ihe. restoration of the South to her full
ind. pondcnee will be detrimental to
the li ecdineu. . The sooner we dismiss
from our minds'the idea that the freed
men can he classified, and seperated
from the white population, and nursed
and defended by themselves, the bet
ter it will be for - them and us. The
legi'd is part and parcel of Southern
society, lie cannot he prosperous
while it is uuprespered: Its evil events
will rebound, upou him. Its happiness,
and reiuvigoration cannot be kept
from his participation. The restora
tion of the South to amicable relations
with the. North, the. reorganization of
its industry, the reinspiration of its.
enterprise and thrift will all redound
to the freedhicn’s benefit. Nothing is
so dangerous to the freedmen as an .
unsettled state of society in ihe South,
yti him comes all the . pite anger and
caprice aod revenge, He will be made,
the scapegoat of lawless and heartless
men. Unless we turn the Government
into a .vast military uiachiuc their can
not he armies enough to protect the
freedmen while Southern society re-,
mains insurrectionary. .If Southern
.society is calm, settled and occupied,
and soothed, with new hopes and pros,
perous industries, no armies will bo
needed. Riots will subside, lawless
hangers-on will be driven off c.r better
governed, and a way will be gradually
opened up to the froedman, through
education and industry, to full citizen
ship, with all its honors and duties.
Civilization is a growth. None can
escape that forty years in the wilder
uess who travel from the Ejjypt of ig
norance to the promised, land of civili
zation The freedmen must take their
march. I have full faith in the res
ults. If they have the stamina to
1 undergo the hardships which every
uncivilized people has undergone in
their upward progress, they will in due
time take their place among us. That
place cannot be bought, nor bequeath
ed, nor gained by sleight of hand. It
will come to sobriety, virtue, industry
and frugality.—-As the nation cannot
, be sound until the South is prosperous
so, on the other extreme, a healthy
condition of civil society in the South
is indispensable to the welfare of the
freedmen.
Refusing to admit loyal Senators
and Representatives from the South to
, Congress will not help the freedmeu.
It will not secure for them the vote.
It will not protect them* It will not
secure any amendment of our Con
stitution, however just and wise. It
will only increase the dangers and
complicate the difficulties. Whether
we regard the whole nation, or any
section of it or class in it, first demand
of our time is, entire rc-union !
Once united, we can, by schools,
churches, a free press and increasing
free speech, attack each evil and se
cure every good.
Meanwhile the great chasm which
rebellion made is not filled up. It
grows deeper and stretches wider!
Out of it rise dread spectres and
threatning sounds. Let the gulf be
closed, and bury it in Slavery,
al animosity and all strifes and ba
i tieds!
It is fit that the brave men, who, on
sea and land, faced death to save the
nation, should now, by their viocc and
vote, consumate what their swords j
rendered possible,
lor ibe sake of the freedmen, for t
the sake of the South and its millions
of our fellow countrymen, for our own
sake, and for the great cause of free- |
dom and civ lization, I urge the im
mediate reunion of all the parts which
rebellion and war have shattered.
1 am, truly yours, |
lit\ry Ward Beech ir.
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A Quaker Woman’s Sermon.— Mv |
dear friends, there are three things
that I very much wonder at. The
first, that children should be so fool
ish as to throw stones, clubs and brick
\ h ats sn t° fruit trees to knock down
j If they would let it alone it
I would fall itself. The second is that
men should be so foolish as to go to war
and kill each other. If let alone they
would die themselves. The third and
last thing I wonder at is that young
i men should be so unwise as to go after
young women. If they would ‘stop at
home the young women would come
alter them.
VOL. VI.~Xo. oA
Tooitlun) l<az) Clrrka HoapiunSlm
nuN and Ifnnerrv-on
A groat reduction in the cxpey
of the Bureau, and a reform wl
would render it far less objectic
than it is now, would be effected ’ j
the discontinuance of all paidemp’
ccs not in the military service of- c
government. This would reduce
expenses for clerks, contract sur
hospital stewards, &c, the follow',
amounts: Georgia, $34,584 po
mmi; Alabama, §33,312; Mi
§30,27(3; Louisiana, $55,954 ; .
SIO,BB0 —making a total of $1
per annum.
All the labor performed b
employses, except perhaps the i
sional services of a contract si
might bo discharged by do Ui! iron;
the troops. In pevious report vo
have recommended the mergio;
duties of the bureau and the i:
We would again respectfully u
amalgamation, and that one
officers should be required to \
the joint duties, thus avoidii l!
expense of maintaining two c.-
meats.
GEORGIA,
The bureau in Georgia, uni-,
management ms the present ■ •
efficient assistant commissio. • .
vet Major Geo. Tilso®, has
cstly admitrstcred, and has ac< .
e l all the good ol’ which th
is capable. It has been as
. the Govcrucr, by the judges qi
Supreme Court, by the civil mo • .
lies, and to some extent by the.eh <
The ante nlcd Jaws of Gcor •
fully as liberal as those of any
era State, and pl.-.cc the negio. i
respects on a perfect equality ,
white.man as to his civil rights.
ALABAMA.
In lliis State Major-General V-
Swavne, the assistant comm:.-
’ has pursued a discreet and cnlV
policy in administering the af
the bureau, laboring on all oce
Secure the co-opcration of
authorities and to obtain
judicial machinery of the :.>t
cognition of- the rights cssci
the security and well-being oft 1 /
people. This policy of Gene*
ha® piuduced a much more
feeling towards the bureau that
where its agents ha.-vo assumed
i or else judicial, powers,
; Though the - administrate'n a
1 quarters haft been satisfactory,
. dinafe agents have been guilty .
side’ruble irregulaiities. The •
of several engaged in planti. J
given.
MISSISSIPPI —IIEAVV STEAH'-;.
The control of the freedmen’s :
in this State is in the hands o’ ,
General Wood. With the cx r ;
r of some localities the negroes .
ing industriously, and as a
i kindly treated and doing >..■; ; .
this, as in others we hav
officers of the bureau for.
. aDd called fines, and a..,i,y l ■ •
records. We found a marked in n;
of this kind at Grenada, where fa or:
er agent of the bureau, Chapin
ermore, did a thriving bunne.s ; . •
way of collecting fines, self .
and Government horses ani’
This officer seems not onl - .
collected fines ringing fro- ■; cer
to five dollars from the re: imu ;
marrying them, but also attempt <i t
exact lccs from resident white mini.
ters for giving thorn permission
marry freedmen.
The English Baptjsvs— Di.
Brock, of London, is on a visit j i, ‘
country as a delegate from li e IN
Baptists. At a meeting m Chi,u_
he. reported the following;
“As an evidence that the Bn, :: t;
of England were a live people, h
stated that they had rais* 1 in i .
years and a quarter <£250,00J ~ orifo
for church extension ptupos, .
London Association are builu..,:
church every year in someone
suburbs of that gre it metropolis
Spurgeon’s church had 3,800 u.
and was undoubtedly the larger.. C• =, >
tian church in the world >1; ’
deil’s had UOO members.. Hi. M t .
had 830. . Baptist Noel’s 550 The
Baptist churches of London are strom
| and aggressive bodies.’ r
j . ——
Girdling (he World. —Tl :I
I graph system as it now stands ieav
a vacancy between Calcutta, in
and Canton, in China. The
wires work to Calcutta, and run > •
the couutry from there. The R
line runs north of these poL ■ .
strikes the western continent j’ .
j ring’s straits. In order to fii
; terval and make the w ires cor \ ,
! along southern Asia, a com hr
been funned in this country w
. tat of £1,000,000, and Mr. M a
! has gone to place the wires fro i Cau
, ton to Hong Kong thence to .
(Foochow, Niugpo, Shanghai, j.
I thence to the main wire now be
j constructed by Mr. Collins across R. k
| ring’sstraits.
-
A Dacotah chap thinks he has foun t
Paradise. Hear him : “No in col.
tax ; no infernal revenue ; no p”ies to
l see if you treat a friend on Sir
i n o special police; no dog tax, no ,
tax, school tax or bounty fund. An l
to end with, Indians and half-b ■?
can’t tell one greenbaek from another
so all our ones arc tens.’’