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The llaukrupt Hill.
The bill is a document of sixty-eight
page s. The lollowing is an abstract of
Us contents:
Sec. 1. (Mollies the United States
district courts with jurisdiction in cases
of bankruptcy.
Sec. 2. (Jives circuit courts of the
United Stalds general superintendence
ami jurisdiction, and authorizes them to
act as courts of equity.
Sec. 3. Provides for the appoint'
incut by the district courts of one or
more registers in bankruptcy in each
Congressional district, to assist the
j tulge.
Sec. f. Defines the powers of the
register in bankruptcy to make adjudi
cation of bankruptcy, to secure the sur
render of any bankrupt, to administer
oaths, take proof of debts, etc.
S.-c. 5. Authorizes the judges of
the district courts to direct the attend
ance of the register at such places as
they rnav deem proper, and empowers
the judges'to remove the register and
tiU vacancies.
IL’C. 6. Authorizes suitors to appeal
front the registers to the judges in cases
of dispute as to the law.
Sec. 7. Provides lor compulsory
attendance of parties and witnesses.
Secs. 8,9, 10. Provides lor appeals
and prescribe rules of practice.
See. 11. Prescribes the method of
availing of the act.
Any debtor whose and flits, provable
under this act, amount to over three
hundred dollars, may petition the dis
trict judge of his district, stating his
insolvency, his willingness to. sin render
ins estate and a schedule under oath of
liis debts and his creditors, with the
natute of the debt in full, and an in
ventory, also under oath of his assets.
Such petition shall he an act of bank
ruptcy, and the petitioner be adjudged
a bankrupt. The judge shall thereup
on issue a warrant, (or the register if
there be no opposing party.) directed
to the United States marshal of said
district, authorizing him to publish the
necessary notices, to wit: 1. That a
warrant in bankruptcy It is been issued.
2. 1 hat all payments ol debts to such
debtors are forbidden. 3. That a meet
ing of the creditors to prove debts and
choose assignees, will lie held in a
court of bankruptcy, not less than ten
nor more than ninety days alter issuing
ol the warrant.
These notices are to he published in
a newspaper and served on each cred
itor.
Section 12. Provides for a meeting of
credit rs, at illicit a register shall pre
side.
Section 13. Prescribes that the ma
jority in interest of the creditors shall
ohoi.se one or more assignees, who, il
approved by the judge, shall be quali
fied on giving bond.
.Section 14. Directs that the judge
(or tt there is no opposing interest the
register) shall convey to the assignees
the entire real and personal estate ol
t>ie bankrupt, but from this assignment
are excepted household and kitchen
furnituie, and such other articles as the
assignee may indicate, not exceeding
live hundred dollars in value, the
wearing apparel of the bankrupt and
Ins family, his uniform and arms, and
any other property hereafter exempt
limn attachments or levy by United
States laws.
Section 13. 16, 17, 18. Presents the
duties and powers and the methods ol
proceeding of the assignees.
Section 19. Authorizes creditors to
a-scit and prove any contingent claim
they may have against the bankrupt as
drawer, endorser, surety, bail or guar
antor, or as tenant.
Section 20. Provides for set oils in
ail cases of probable claims.
becliou 21. Prohibits any creditors ol
the bankrupt from slicing him after he
avails himself of the act.
Section 23. Provides the method of
proving claims—that is by producing
legal evidence before any register in
his district, or if the creditor is a non
resident, before a United States com
missioner.
Section 2.1, 24. 25. Respects details
nt practice in the presentation and
prool ot claims.
Section 26. Authorizes
ation, ol the bankrupt on oath by the
courts, as to his debts and assets, and
requires iiis Wile to attend and give ev
idei.ee it necessary.
Section 27. Pres cribes that all cred
itors, u ho prove tht'ir debts, shall share
auke, except that wages to an amount
not exceeding fifty dollars, for service
performed in the preceeding six months,
shall be paid in lull.
Sec. 28. Prevents the priority of
debts.
Sec. 29. Allows the bankrupt, after
six months from the adjudication ol
bankruptcy, or it no debts or assets
U'.tiiin sixty days, to apply for his
discharge, which the court, after due
noti n', shall grant, if the bankrupt has
honestly exhibited his condition.
Sec. 30. Prohibits a second bank
ruptcy, unless by consent ot creditors
except wncre the assets amount to sev
esuy per cent, of the debts.
Secs. 31 ;o 35. Concerts details,
pronounces against frauds and the like.
See. 36. Provides tor involuntary
bankruptcy, declaring that an abscond
ing debtor, a debtor who makes assign
ments to usdraud, against whom an
unsatisfied execution lor over one hun
dred dollars stand, who makes an as-
Mg ament to give preference to special
creditors, or who has suspended for
tourteen days, the payment of his
commercial paper si,ail. on the petition
"*! my creditor, be adjudged a bank
rupt.
Ihe remaining sections, eleven in
number, prescribe the proceedings in
-»ich case ami the various fees ar.d
costs.
|k Jxjitess.
SAM’L H. SMITH asu ROBT. P. MILAM
Editors and Proprietors.
Carters title,Ga,March 1 >, 1567.
lie Cheerful /
Why is it that our people go bowed
down, with eye-brows knit, and elon
gated faces, as though they had lost all
the friends they ever have had or ever
hope to have ? Come, gentlemen,
cheer up!—cheer up! There never
was a night so dark but that it was suc
ceeded by day, nor a storm so violent
but that il was succeeded by a calm.—
YVe are in the midst of a terrible polit
ical convulsion, which makes the old
ship ol state reel and rock like a ship
at sea in a storm, but let all on board
be calm and self-possessed, if human
efforts prove unavailing in our
anee, there is a higher power to which
we can look with assurauce, whose arm
is ever out-stretched to give deliver
ance.
May not our fears and misgivings
be all premature —unfounded. What
if the negro is allowed to vote and hold
office?—is that going to enslave us?
It is a humiliation, it is true, hut not
moreso than to be conquered. But we
are disfranchised and the negro enfran
chised ! Well, that we hate, but few
of us ever voted anyway, while we en
joyed the liberty. But we are to be
under military rule ! Well, let us only
behave ourselves and attend !o our owe
business and military rule will not in
terfere with us. In other words, let
us adapt ourselves to the circumstan
ces be which we are surrounded, inas
much as what cannot be cured must be
endured. The thing is not as we
would like to have it, but if we can
only get our consent to abide it, half
the difficulty will be overcome. Let
us bold up our heads and work on—
buy and sell, plgnt and reap, build up
and continue to improve—as '.hough
nothing had happened, for we must
live any how—and quit magnifying our
troubles, by day and by night, and it
will all work out right vet.
From the Augusta Chronicle <s• Sen., 9 thinst
hev. Jenkins.
We had the pleasure of meeting yes
terday his Excellency Governor Jen
kins, who spent a day in our city yn
his way to Washington City. Thk
Governor goes to Washington in order
i» have a conference with the Presi
dent in relation to the status of
Slate Government under the Sherman
Bill, and to ascertain, it possibly to
what extent and under what restrictions
and limitations the civil government of
the Slate will be permitted to adminis
ter the laws.
The Governor counsels the people of
the State to remain quiet and firm uib
til further developments are made of
the plans of the Radicals under the
Sherman Bill. *He deprecates any
undue excitemeul, and counsels mod
eration, forbearance and manly forti
tude. He thinks that the whole South
should lie united in whatever action
may be hecessary to be taken, and
fears that precipitate action will not
only divide our people but at the same
time defeat the ends proposed to be
accomplished. The questions involv
ed in the enforcement of the Sherman
Bill should be submitted upon a proper
case made, to the action and decision
of the Supreme Court, and if that tri
bunal should decide against the consti
tutionality of the measure, he hopes,
and believes there is sufficient vitality
left in the Government of the United
States to enforce its decrees; but if the
Court should, contrary to his expecta
tions, sustain the law, or the Govern
ment piove powerless to enforce its
judgment, if in out favor, he thinks it
will he tune enough then to take into
consideration the various plans sug
gested tor making the best we can of
the Sherman Bill.
The Governor expressed his views
very fully and without reserve, and we
regret our inability to give even a full
outline of the interesting communica
tion which we had with him.
It will be seen that the position ol
the Governor is substantially that
which we have advised the people of
Georgia to lake— nonaction. We a
>ain repeat, that the people remain
quiet, firm, and forbearing. Nothing
can possibly be gained by hasty and
precipitate action. The only possible
efleet which an attempt to shape popu
lar opinion now can have will be to
divide, embarrass, and confuse our
people; The Governor will return
again in a few days, and doubtless he
will give to the people of the State the
benefit ol such information as he mav
be able to receive at Washingt. n.
best thing we can do, at
this time, is to lie low and keep quiet
until Gov. Jenkins returns, when he
will, doubtless, advise us what to do.
Then let us do it with our might.
Second Quarterly meeting
for the Cassville Circuit, M. E, church
will be held at Brandon’s chapel, on
the sth Sabbath proximo and Satur
day before.
T. M. Compton gives three cents
for clean Cotton and Linen Rags, in
goods at low prices.
He sells ladies’ shoes at $1,60 to
$4,50; mens’ full stock wax brogans
$1,90-to $2.30; Salt $3 per sack;
Mens’ hats $1,25 to $6.50; Stick can
dy 40 cts. per pound; Cocoanut, rock,
pea-nut, French kisses, etc., cream
candy, 60 cts. per pound; Commercial
Note P iper 25 cts. per quire; Letter
Paper 35 to 40 cts. per quire; Cap
Paper 35 to 55; Legal Cap 50 cts. per
quire; Bill Paper 50 cts. per. quire;
Buff Envelopes 15 cts. per pack.
—At a printers festival lately the fol
lowing toast was offered : “Woman
—second only to the press in the dis
semination of news !
<6?*lt is reported that nearly five
hundred buildings, of difierent kill ds,
floated past Chattanooga
—-- .
t® 1 The jail in this place was broke open, on Mon
day niifht last, and all the prisoners made t htir escape.
They broke the lock on the door. They lelt us no
greetings.
The Superior Court of this County is now in
Session, Judge James Milner presiding. Several mem
bers of the liar fr im a distune are present. The bu
siness on the Dockets heavy, involving Con.ederate
money, obligations, Ac.
tSfThe first train from Knoxville to Dalton, since
ti e iate freshet, arr ved at the Utter place on Tues
day evening last No damage to bridges reported on
that Hoad. Three bridges an the Stale R >ad washed
away, and several miles of track submerged. At last
accounts the Tennessee River had swept away the ci'v
bridge at Chattanooga, end a good portion of '.he city
was partially submerged, as high up as the Crutchfield
House. Several bridges gone on Nashville A Chatta
nooga Road.
53?” The weather for the last ten days has been very
unsettled, though very mild. The rain has been most
incessant, so much so that nearly all out-door work
had to be suspended. Farmers are unable to do any
thing upon their farms, wriich is giving them a back
set, we fear, that will require much hard labor to re
gain, as some of them have not yet run a furrow ; in
the meantime, the growing wheat crop is doing its best.
A little sunsl ine now would help the feelings of ali
classes and conditions of men, as it would drive away
dull care, which so paralyses our energies.
fyoid “Uncle Dabney” P. .Jones, the great Tem
preauce Champion of Georgia, died at his home at Pal
metto. Ga., on Friday last, the bth. Truly, a gie<.t and
gooJ mau has fallen.
{3F“Tlie Baltimore Kplscopa! Methodist Conference
voted unanimously in favor of the proposed change in
the name and discipline of said Church, which con
firms the change.
has appropriated one million dollars
fur the relief of the stai ving people of the South.
ty Pay what thou owest us — Express.
C3P“\Ve invite attention to the advertisement of R.
H. Jones, Dealer in all kinds of vehicles, such as car
liages, buggies, Ac. of whch he has a fino assortment
on hand at this time, at. his Repository and Manufacto
ry in this place. He also has a fine lot of materia! for
putting up v- hides to order. His shops are all in full
iJast, in « vry department—making and repairing.—
H s old work, wi.'ch has been runniug f.-r years about
Cartersville is a sulaoient recommendation,
old friend, Sam Patillo, is all “sitting” sew
ing and a cutting, garments for the seedy and naked.
He can cut you as genteel a lit or make you as neat a
suit of clothes as any other taJor in these parts, and do
it as cheap, lie is a gentleman who attends Btrietly to
his own busines , and in erleres with no one’s e'se.—
He is a bard working, sober, »trai.v man, and well de
serves the patronage of the public. We have tried
him and therefore spe ik advisedlj. gee card.
here has been quite an up-rising of Fenians In
Ireland lately, in which several counties were over run
and some blood spilt. S -veral battles had been fought
between the Fenians and Her Majesty’s troops.
IST" Agreeable to latest account* Gen. Schofield has
been appointed to the command of the District of Vir
ginia, aud Gen. H incock to the command of the Dis
trict of Louisiana and Ttssfa*. The other appointments
havt not yet transpired.
/ , /
v following is a list of Daily, Tri-Weekly, anil
/Weekly P ipers and Periodical* taken at the (Jarters
\ville Post-Ofllce, at this time, to-wit:
j Atlanta Medical Journal, Atlanta, Ga.
I Abbe Ville Banner, Abbeville, S. O.
American Stock Journal, Ac., Coataville, Pa.
American U.iion, Griffin, Ga.
Athens Pie.t>s, Ath-ns, Tenn.
Ashville Nnvs A Western Farmer, Ashvillo. N. 0.
Baltimore Weekly Ameiican, Ba.timore, Md.
Battim re Episcopal Methodist “ “
Bellderlesche’s Journal, New York.
The Bapth t, Memphis, Tenn.
Cnronioie A Sentinel, Augusta, Ga.
Constitutionalist, “ *•
Cincinnati Dai y Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Chicago Daly Times, Chicago, 111.
Cherokee Georgian, Dalton, Ga.
Constitutional Union, Washing on, D. C.
Chr stiau Index A S uthwestern Baptist, Atlanta, Ga.
Charleston News, Charleston, S. 0.
Cincinnati Daily Commerc at, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Carolina Spartan, spaiianbu g, S. C.
Chiistian Observer, Richmond, Va.
Commercial Argus, Memphis, Tenn.
Cultivator A Coun ry Gentlemen,
Columbus Enquirer, Cos umbus, Ga.
Child’s Del ght, MaouD, Ga.
Children’s Guest, New York.
Canada Farmer, Toronto, Canada.
Day Book, New York.
Bawson Journal, Dawsor, Ga.
Demoresi’s Monthly Magazine, N. Y.
Druggists’ Brice Cunent,N. Y.
Die Carteslanb, Cincinnati, 0.
Daily Opinion, Atlanta, Ga.
Dental Casinos, Philadelphia, Pa.
Era, Atlanta, Ga.
Evening Post, N. Y.
Eclectic Journal, Richmond, Va.
Fort Valley Wf ek'y Ledger, Fort Va ley, Ga.
Frank Leslie's Beys’ A Girls’ Weekly, N. Y.
Goilcy’s Ladys’ Book, Philadelphia, P.
Griffin Tri-Weekly Star, Griflin, Ga.
Greenbrier Independent, Lewisburg, West Va.
Georgia M eekly Telegraph, Macon, Ga.
Gardner's Monthly, Ac., N. Y.
Hall’s Jou nal of Health, New York.
Horl culturist A Journal of Rural Art, N. Y,
Intelligencer, Atlanta, Ga
Industrial Commercial, Louisville, Ky.
Israelite, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Journal of Commerce, N. Y.
Jacksonville Republican, Jacksonville, Ala,
Ladies’ Home, Atlanta, Ga.
Louisville Courier, Louisville, Ky.
“ Journal, “
Land We Love, Charlotte, N. C.
Ledger, N X.
Litei ary Ecle'tic, Cincinna'i O.
Lynchburg V rginian, Lynchburg, Va.
Memphis Argus, Memphis, Tenn.
Bulletin, '• “
“ Appeal, “ “
“ Post, “ “
Mountain Signal, Dahlonega, Ga,
Metropolitan Record, N. Y.
Middle '-eoruia News, Madison, Ga.
Monitor, Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Montgomeiy Daily Mail, Montgomery, Ala.
Magazine of Horticulture Ac., Boston, Mas*.
Maryland Farmer, Baltimore, Md.
National Inteil.geucer, Washington, D. C.
National T* mperauce Advocate, N. Y.
Nash.ille Weekly Gazette, Nashville, Tenu.
News, N. Y.
News A Herald, Savannfth, Ga.
N. Y. Observer, N. Y.
Onandaga Weekly Courier A Union, Syracuse, N. Y.
Pnoemx Tri-Weekly, Columbia, 8. O.
Peterson's National Mag-cine, Philadelphia, Pa.
Rome Commercial, R ime, Ga.
u Courier, 11 “
Right Way, Bosto”, Mass.
Republic, N. Y.
Staunton Specta or, Staunton, Va.
Southern Cultivator, Aiheus, Ga.
Scott’s Monthly Magazine, Atlanta, Ga.
Scientific American, N Y.
Southern Recorder, Milledgeville, Ga.
Presbyter’an, Colum Is, S. G.
“ Christian Advoca-, Macon, Ga.
“ Enterprise, Greenville, 8 C.
** Farmer, Memphis, lean.
Tribune, N. Y.
True Witness, C inton, S. C.
Uniieu States Mail. N-w Yorh.
Wasnington Chronicle, Wa-hicgton, D. c.
Witness, N. Y.
Washington Gazette, Washington, Ga.
Youth’s Temperance Banner, N. Y., and several oth
ers not enumerated in this list, all of which are read
by citizens of this community. Now who Bays we are
DOt a reading people? T. M. COMPTON, P. U.
■ [from the Rome Courier. J
B ILL ARP ON THE SITUATION
Rome, Bio Shanty Territory, No. 3.
March Bth, ’67.
Mr. Editor :—My intention was to
have remained in dignified obscurity
the small remnant of my miserable
days, but my friends Bob Hide. Sam
McCrackin, Tip and other respectable
gentlemen of all sexes and both colors,
seem to be dissheveled about the times,
and insist on my views about the mo
mentous state of our sufferin country.
The good people in Atlanta have got
shaky in the knees, and its the duty of
evefy good citizen to keep the disease
from spreadin if he can. 1 haveut beer,
to Washington, nor been playin senti
nel on a wrftch tower, but my observa
tion convinces me there is a power of
fuss on hand about something. " Poli
ties look squally and alurmin. Bill
Sherman overrun the country ant! de
stroyed and carried away our proper
ty, and now his brother John is finish in
up the job by robbin us of the rights and
liberties our forelathers won. General
Thomas is playin Vantoun with his 21
orders—puttin harmless boys in the
barracks for tableauin with an old reb
el flag—accusiu us of all the crimes in
the decalogue ; such as murder, larceny,
rape, arson, burglary, bigamy, perjury
and suicide, throw in up in our teeth
the magnanimity of our conquerors , as
Lein our safety valve from death and
Beelzebub. Good gracious ! what an
awlul people we are. And now comes
Joseph, the sentinel, with iiis long,
winded message ot consolation, telliu
us how we may flee from the wrath to
come —skeerin the people to death, and
gettin everything in a stew. YVhat
made him in such a hurry? whv did
ent he keep silence for a few days until
the veto was signed, anu the bill was
passed? Why dident he give Mr.
Jenkins a chance ? II the times was so
perilous, why dident he go and see Mr.
Jenkins, and give him his opinion in
private and save all this excitement?
Mr. Jenkins is the Governor; lie is the
sentinel on the watch tower; he’s the
pilot of the old ship ; he’s the people’s
choice. He can call the Legislature
when its necessary.' If he is in doubt
about it, he can consult with Lumpkin
and CoDb, and Hill and Cooper, atul
Hardeman anil Gibson, and Brown ,
and decide what ought to be done, and
the people will be satisfied. But while
the ship is in a storm let all the deck
hands keep silence. 'The word will
come from the Captain soon enough.
May be that Joseph feels sorter re
sponsible lor the fix he’s got us in.
May be he’s repentin for the didos he
cut up, and the seeds of disorder he
sowed durin the war ; but I doubt it.—
I don’t think his ambition or his vanity
sees anything but his own importance,
hi ooks like he thought the Capital was
moved to Atlanta, and he was Gover
nor still. lie’s afraid the people will
think lie’s dead, and just as soon as a
big thing happens, and little before , he
clutches the occasion—seizes the op
portunity, delivers his message, stirs
up the people, sets the Gate City in a
ferment, gets his name in the Herald
and the Tribune. s Joe Brown, a whale,
big leader, conspicuous, fame, history,
Mr. Jenkins nowhere, Milledgeville
gone up, Joseph E. runnin the ma
.chine, in Atlanta ! !
Wei 1 , I don’t know what is at the
bottom of all this, but I am afraid that
while Joseph was in Washington some
body carried him up onto a high moun
tain, and showed him a Kingdom or
two, and he fell down and worshiped.
These little kingdoms that a man
sometimes sees from the top of a moun
tain are mighty demoralizing.
But I notice that all this fuss which
Joseph has kicked up is confined to the
towns and cities, where a heap of folks
live, who liavenlgol much ot anything
to do. The farmers don’t know much
about it and care less—the whole con
cern is a god send to some folks. I
know an old worn out politician who
has been poking around for six months,
tryin to revive the Democratic party for
a livin, and now he’s in his element.
Parties are formin, and the old hack is
in his glory. He’s sorter like the New
Era as yet —he wont take a side, he
wont join issue, he wont commit him
self, he’s keepin an open rear as the
Era says (l wish that paper would
take an astringent.) But my Iriends
we’ve got nothing to be ashamed of.
Since the war our pursuits have been
peaceful and honorable. We needent
humiliate ourselves through fear of
what humankind can do to us. If the
Radicals imend to confiscate us, they
will do it. and no acceptance ol Sher
man’s bill will prevent it. It they
want our cabbages, they are going to
have ’em. If they will ride over one
law, they will over another. If thev
disregard Mr. Johnson’s great argu
ment, they’l disregard anything. I
don’t know how it is generally, but
there aint an unpardoned rebel in this
county, and if‘they confiscate they
have got to declare the pardons all
void. Nobody knows what they won’t
do, or when they will quit doing it,
and my advice is to suffer and be
strong, endure everything and accept
nothing. All is lost save honor, hold
up your manhood, don’t lick the hand
that’s raised to strike the blow. Joe
Brown’s banner says “all is lost save
honor, and that is only tolerable I
thank you, it grows puny and weak.”
He says we can have representation in
Congress, Who by? A man who can
take the test oath, and can confrul the
nigger vote. Who wants such a repre
sentation? How long before he w’ould
jine the Radicals and go in for confis
cation. II he controlled the nigger vote
he’d promise ’em land or anything else.
Demagogues have always controlled
the ignorant whites, demagogues will
control the ignorant blacks. Who con-
trols the nigger influence in Tennessee?
—rihy. Bruwnlow and his party. Ten
nessee has done just what Joe Brcwn
waits us to do, and now look at her
anii weep !—a nigger candidate runnin
for Governor. *
But suppose we had representation,
and had elected all good men, fair men,
just men, what could they do for us?
Just nothing at all. With the present
Radical majority all our votes would’nt
undo anything that has been done,and
with a Radical President they could do
as much more as they pleased. Just
let ’em all alone, rope, more
rope; history is repeating itself, the
crisis will come some time, tyrrany and
oppression must run its course, Joe
Brown’s programme 'no it. One
of his resolutions made**, swiin,
I felt like taking chloroform, lie
would make the whole yankee nation
believe we loved ’em like brothers, and
wanted ’em to come out South, and
let us hug ’em. Well, all that sorter
stuff is played out. There aint a
hundred men in the State that lias any
more respect for a radical than a hy
ena, and Joe Brown knows it. But
the good lord knows our hearts, and
how fondly we cling to those moderate
men of the mighty North who would
save us from the humiliation that
awaits us. Let a kind word be spoken
to a subjugated reb. and the warm
blood quickens in the veins.
Oh, but here are the Union Leagues,
somebody says, what are they goin to
do with us? Never miud my friends,
the Union Leagues aint agoin to hurt
nobody. They are made of flesh and
blood like we are, and they are citi*
zens, and their fate will be our fate. —
They are as much disgusted at Sher
man’s bill as anybody. They are our
neighbors and our friends, and if there
is some bad men among ’em, there is
enough of the good to make ’em do
right. So keep quiet and be easy, and
the Union Leaguers are not going to
trouble you. If they want to save
their own, it don’t follow that they
want to steal yours.
But Joseph is afraid we can’t stand
a military government. Well, I know
its humiliating, withering, crushing,
but we have stood it, and can try it
awhile longer. We can do it till we
can do better. Military Government
aint the cause of our poverty and dis
tress. Its a government higher than
Thomas, or Sherman or Sheridan. Its
the loss of crops, the want of rain.—
The military never stopped the corn
from growin, and there’s just as much
rain in one platform as another. If
the Good Lord will only blesss us
with abundant harvests, everything will
go on smooth enough with the humble
and honest people who drive the plow
and hoe the corn. If they prosper,
everybody else will too, if they mind
their own business. We will have to
quit talking so much, and quit writing
altogether—muzzled lips and a gagged
press. Ive done took warnin myself,
and quit. Had my life insured in the
Knickerbocker, and the policy wont
allow me to expose myself, to jump in
to unnecessary peril. The military can
out write us anyhow. Folks say the
pen is mightier than the sword, but you
put ’em both together, and they 1 flank
a man out of his liberty, and may be
his life, in double quick. The Mayor
of this tu.vn had a little billet Join with
General Thomas the other day, and on
ly come out second best, though it
wasent an open field nor a fair fight.
I thought myself that 21 order must be
a hoax, got up by Brick Pomeroy, or
somebody, and was lookin for the Gen
eral to come out in a card denyin of it,
but l soon found that it was a genuine
Robesperean document. I still think
Iris posterity will deny it some 20 years
hence.
Well, I was mighty mad. I would
have given a hundred dollars to have
played Vantoun with him one hour,
just to have been turned loose in the
papers, all free, no gag, r>o jail, no
barracks, no bayonets, no guard. 1
would have got such a grin on him for
the next six months as would have
made everybody except Brick Pome*,
roy forget that Beast Butler stole spoons.
“Livin on their magnanimity!” I tell
you that got me, that burnt me, when
1 knew there wasent enough magna
nimity in a ship load of all such to sup
port a poor Reb twenty four hours.—
Magnanimity! My opinion is they’ve
lost the seed, and don’t know now
what the commodity is. I was as full
of epitaph as Brownlow is of pisen.—
Language come to me spontaneous;
regular hidelifters, that would have
peeled the bark from a man’s carcass
like skinnin an alligator. But you
see I was in the cautious state, and
had to smother my feelings. I think I
should have gone up with spontaneous
combustion if my wile hadent broite
the spell with her comick scenes.—
She is an amusin and iuterestin woman,
but much given to music in these days
of numerous and lively offspring, but
jest as soon as order 21 come out she
hunted up the "gray jacket ” and the
••conquered banner ,” and just such a
solo soiree as I have 21 times a week,
was never heard in Big Shanty before.
She seems to take a delight in lettin
the rebel flag on the title page "seethe
light,” anJ "flaunts it about” in my
face because I call myself a Union
man. She says that part of the order
about Gen. Hanson’s remains was
founded on scripture, and so was Phil.
Sheridan’s about Gen. Johnston’s, for
Solomon says in Ecclesiastes, "that a
living dog is better than a dead lion.”
My opinion is that it will be impossi
ble to harmonize these women durin
t-his century. Such orders as 21 will
cut off all hope of it. I think if Gen.
Thomas hadent been a Virginian, he
wouldent have issued it. Ive noticed
when a Virginian f fall* heavy
and fur. He gits further over on the
side again us than anybody. Ive heard
that the General and Edward Johnson
were both powerful secesh, and got
mighty impatient because the Old Do
minion was so slow in movin. The
Geueral said all the good oflieeis would
be gobbled up before she seceded.—
Well, they say old Gen. Scott got hold
of ’em about this lime, and took ’em in
to a high mountain, and showed ’em a
kingdom or two, and the General fell
down and worshipped, and Ed John-,
son wouldent. 1 tell you my friends,
a man ought to be careful about going
up onto these dangerous mountains,
and this leads me to remark we ought
to petition Mr. Johnson to put over
Big Shanty a General who stood square
to his State.
Hope for the best, my friends, Don’t
immagine you see panters and injuns,
because we are in a Territory. Don’t
mistake a Bureau track for a bear sign.
Don’t fear, it will be sickly, because
Florida is hitched on to our digains.
Attend to your business, Keep oil of a
high mountain, and all will be well. 1
would say more but my wife’s music
lias begun.
Yours, respectfully,
BILL ARP.
P. S.—l date my letter from Big
Shanty, as I bear these three ‘diggins’
are to have that name. Let us ail be
thankful we know where we are. For
two years its been doubtful whether
we were in or out. Mv opinion now is
that we are out, and I heard a female
voice say whoopee ! B. A.
Military Governors, Southern.
It is said that the President, in
assigning officers to the districts, will
be limited in his selection, to the fol
lowing names :
Major Gen. Ilalleck, Sherman,
Meade, Sheridan and Geo. L. Thomas
—5.
Brigadier Generals, McDowell, Rns
cranz, Cooke, Pope, Hooker, Hancock,
Schofield and Thomas—B. Besides
these there are, as beads of departments
on staff’duty at Washington, with the
rank of Brigadier, Generals Lorenzo
Thomas. Meigs, Eaton, Delafleld, Dyer
and Barnes; Holt, Judge Advocate
General, and Fry, Provost Marshal
General,
llow Brownlow’s Suffrage Law
Works. —A firm in Nashville, one of
the largest and most respectable mer
cantile houses in the West, paving
annually many thousand dollars taxes,
lias including clerks, six persons em
ployed in the concern besides the
porter, who is a negro. The latter is
n->w the only one of the whole concern
who is allowed to vote under the pres
ent Brownlow Constitution. The point
of the joke is that the negro was the
bitterest rebel of ail, and was an officer’s
servant in the late rebel army and
while fighting by his master’s side, he
was the third man over the ramparts of
Fort Pillow, where he fell like a
thunderbolt upon the negrois who so
gallantly surrendered that stronghold.
The liunkiujtt Hill.
Several of the Richmond papers con
tain a copious synopsis of the Bankrupt
art, passed at the close of the recent
Congress. The National Intelligencer
says : It is understood that this law
sweeps away all Stale insolvent laws
and stay laws, and laws of imprison
ment for debt. As soon is we can
procure an official copy of the bill we
will spread it before our readers.
Gen. Grant on the Military Gov
ernment Bill. —Gen. Grant, on good
authority, is reported as saying that he
regards the Military Government Bill
as very unwise legislation. So says
the Washington correspondent of the
N. Y. Times.
Philadelphia Bulletin says
that Mr. Stevens has prepared, and
will report ni a day or two, an elabor
ate confiscation scheme for the South,
which he will support in a carefully
prepared speech.
Washington, March 8. —Gen. How
ard’s official report estimates that 32,-
000 whites, and 24,000 colored per
sons in the South will require food
before the next erop is made, and that
it will require 52,000.000 to feed them.
Washington dispatches announce
that the President is about to make an
entire change in his Cabinet, retaining
only Mr, McCulloch as Secretary of
the Treasure. In the new programme,
Hon. A. 11. Stephens, of Georgia, ap
pears as Attorney General.
Washington, March, 9. —The Sen
ate Judiciary Committee has agreed to
report a measure supplemental to the
reconstruction bill. The House Judi
ciary Committee accepts it with some
amendments which have not transpir
ed. It directs that the General of each
District shall cause a registration be
fore September, 1867, then cause an
election of delegates to the convention,
appointing election officers, etc. Sec.
six provides that the commanding
General may delegate these powers to
to acting Governor, on his taking an
oath to faithfully perform them.
Impeachment. —A member of the
House Judiciary Committee stated on
Saturday that there was not one word
of truth in the statement that the Com
mittee had agreed to present articles of
impeachment to the Fortieth Congress.
It was stated to be legally impossible
for a commitie of this Congress to sub
mit any report to the next Congress.
A report, nowever, will be made on
this question to this Congress.
JGT'The Washington Republican
states that Mr. Peabody made a will
in 1856, which demonstrated that he
was then worth llftv million pounds
sterling , and it is estimated that the
increase of his fortune by good man-*
agement has made it amount to one
hundred million sterling—five hundred
million dollars.
Richmond, March 8. —Five thousand
negroes met to-day to ratify Sherman’s
bill. The negroes are advised to vote
against an constitution of the proposed
convention, llunnicutt heads the
movement.
It is thought that at Strawbery Plains
and its vicinity a million bushels of
grain have been lost.
Extra Session of the Virginia
Legislature.
Richmond, Ya.. March 2 —The
Govenor lias called an extra session of
of the Legislature for Monday next.
Presiding Officers. —The Fortieth
Congress have shown no better taste
in choosing presiding officers than the
one which preceeded it. The selection
shows the animus of the body, and
what the South may expect. Ben
Wade, of Ohic, is President of the
Senate, and Schuyler Colfax, ol Indi*
ana, Speaker of the House.
3g&,Raphael Scmines has assumed
editorial charge of the Memphis Bulle-
tin. In his salutatory he suggest that
the only way by which the South can
benefit herself, or be ol any service to
the country, is to attend to her
industrial interests and let politics
alone. —Mobile Advertiser.
A colored woman has just died in
Richmond, leaving 35 < liiidren to mount
hePdealh. She was only once mar
ried.
The New Congress. —When it as
sembles on the fourth of March, Mon
day next,) the new Congress will he
without members from Connecticut,
California, Kentucky, Rhode Island,
New Hampshire and Tennessee. The
present Congress lias one hundred and
eighty-four members ; twenty.nine of
these seats in the new Congress will
be vacant on the fourth ol March, bv
reason of the States above named not
yet having held their elections. Os
course the Southern States will, as now
be unrepresented. It is supposed that
after a session of a week or two. an
adjournment will take place until tin*
middle of May, by which time elect
ions will have been held in Couneei'-
cut, New Hampshire and Rhode Li
aml.
Bar Two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars’ worth ol properly * v as dcstrov -
ed in Kansas, by the recent frtsbi t m
the Kaw river.
Our Military Commanders.—Ti is
announced in our telegram from \\ ash"
mgtnn, with seeming authority, that
the President has determined to ap
point Generals, Sherman. Meade, Han
cock, Scofield and McDowell to the
command ol the live military districts
into which the South is div ided by the
Sherman bill. We are not ambitious,
says the Macon J'elegrojih. of military
masters, or masters of any sort, bin as
we have no option in the premises, we
tbink these selections will give verv
general satisfaction to the Soulhuu
people. They are all considerate,
reasonable men, and as we expect to
behave ourselves as prisoners cf war,
they will have blit little to do, without
further assignment of duties hv Con
gress —and heaven alone knows what
:s coming next. They will, no doubt,
get along most harmoniouslv with our
people. We presume they will be
along at an early dav.
A Gigantic Land Suit, —There is
nftw in litigation in the Supreme Court
of the United States, a claim one
hundred and sixty years old, and in
volving over two hundred thousand
acres of land in the State of Michigan.
New Advertisements.
THREE or FOUR fir»t class hand* without families.
Liberal wages offered. Apply to
it. H. ROWLAND, cr
WM. L. lOWLAND.
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