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ahly made rcct use to \ ernon’s
library. Rut an ! how words exert a
powerful influence on the heart. Gos
nip ha<t reached her ear that her bon
'vmi loved Miss Ida Hargrove. Mr«.
Wayne had herselfapparentl) careless
ly. yet not unintentionally but design
edly mentioned the “fact” to her visi
tor! Elda. She had once cherished
<«n utter dislike for Elda, but after a
-light familiarity and intimation the
girh spirit, as shown in her words and
actions, Mrs Wayne was convinced
that Elda did not follow the type she
imagined her to be. Though Elda said
lint a syllable of it, she felt prostrate in
heart when Mrs. Wayne mentioned to
her that Vernon loved Miss Hargrove.
To her it was incredible. She could
not believe that hedecieved her when
eo fondly he made a solemn protestation
4 f love. Yet she could not avoid a
feeling of suspicion, lest it should be so.
And while struggling amid these bil
lows doubt she made the first and
plain discovery that she truly loved Mr.
Wayne. She also knew or rather had
reason to believe, that it was equally
mutual it any confidence could be re
lied in his words. Now could he have
so soon become alienated ? How could
she credit the words uttered by Mrs.
Wayne : “1 think Vernon had better
return to his beau ideal Miss Ida, with
whom he is so materially attached. —
Elda you should see how very lovely
►.he is. Her beauty more than coni”
jif-nsates for the inauly handsome looks
of Vernon." ’
[To be Continued.']
They Say.
From Sargeant’s monthly we take
the tollowing instructive dialogue which
is very applicable to a great many per
sons in the world. Profit by it.:
Mr. Tattle.—You are a stranger in
these parts, 1 reckon, Mister r
Mr. Rollins.—What makes you think
so !
Mr. T. Well, you kind ’o stared
about you as you got out of the cars,
as il the place didn’t look familiar.
Mr. K. Do you know a Mr. Rollins
in this town ?
Mr. T. Is it she that lives in the
brown cottage on the hill yonder?
Mr. R. The same.
\lr. T. Well, I can’t say I visit her;
nut I can tell \ou all about tier. Poor
woman !
Mr. R. Why do you sav that? Is
anv dung the matter with her?
Mr. T. She has a hard time of it.
poor young thing! A month after her
marriage, and just as the had got fixed
there in the collage, her scamp of a
feusband ran off to California.
Air. R. Scamp of a husband ! Ran
oJS ! (Indignant) What do you mean,
Sir? Checking himself) Excuse me,
\\ hat did he run ofl lor f
Mr. T. For robbing a bank ; so
they say.
Air. R. Who say ?
Mr. T. They say.
Mr. R. Who are they ?
Mr. T. The world generally Ev
en body says. People say.
Mr. R. Can you name a sing’e per
tain besides yourself who says it?
Mr. 'l'. Really, so many people say
it that I can’t think oi any one in par
ticular.
Mr. R. Perhaps I will quicken your
memory by and by. Rut what of Mrs.
Rollins.?
Mr. T. She’s on the point of being
married again ; so they say.
Mr. R. Indeed !to whom ?
Mr. T. To a Mr. Edward Ed
wards.
Mr. It. (Aside) Her own brother?
(Aloud) Are you sure of this?
Mr. T. Oh, yes! He has been
residing in the house with her. They
take romantic walks together. The
wedding is to lake place immediately,
so they say.
Mr. R. Who say ?
Mr. T. Well, I told you. They
cay.
What would yon have more ?
Mr. R. Who are they ?
Mr. T. How should I know? Y'ou
are the most unreasonable man 1 ever
met with. I say they say, and you
ask who say ? as if any better authori
ty could be given !
Mr. R. Did They Say ever say
that you were a meddling, prying, gos
sippiug, impertinent, mischievous, un
scrupulous, malicious retailer ot absurd
slanders ?
Mr. T. What do you mean, Sir,
by such language ? I’ll have vou
arrested. Lawyer Fleeceman is my
particular friend. If ttiere was only a
witness at hand, Sir, I’d make you pav
a pretty sum for this. Keep your
hands ofl", sir; kick me—kick me? I
see a witness yonder. I’ll have you
arrested for assault and battery. Kick
me if you like.
Mr. R. I shall not indulge you so
Jar. But take warning, sir, how you
quote Mr. They Sai y for your scandal
ous reports. Oid They Say is a cow
ard and a liar.
Mr. T. That’s libellous, sir. I
wish I knew your name.
Mr. R. My name is Rollins; and
that collage on the lull, there, is mine.
Air. T. Whengh ! You Mr. Rollins?
Mr. R. The same.
Mr. T. Didn’t you once rob a bank?
Mr. R. 1 once plucked a rose from
a bank in a friend's garden, whereupon
another Iriend playfully remarked that
lie had caught me robbing a bank.—
Some Irish laborers heard him say it,
and may have misunderstood it. This
probably is the foundation of your
•lory.
Air. T. But isn’t your wife going
to be married ’ Doesn’t she walk out
every and y with a young man ?
Mr. R. T.iat young man is her
pt> r, cousuiDptivt brother, who has
come here f t a change of air. Let
me advise you, friend They Say, to
look before you leap, another time.
l e feF**-
SAM’L H. SMITH a.nd KOBT. P. .MILAM
Editors and Proprietors.
Carters* ille, €ia, April 5, ISGT
A Succinct Statement of the
Military and Surpleniental
Acts.
We are indebted to the Charleston
Mercury for the succinct statement,
copied below, of the Military and Sup
plemental acts recently passed by Con
gress, and now ready to be enforced :
ELECTIONS.
1. Registration to take place of
voters qualified by the “Act lor the
more efficient government of the rebel
States.”
3. Election to be held to determine
whether a convention shall be called
voles by ballot to be indorsed convene
lion or no convention.
3. Election to be held for delegates
to a convention, if determined to be
called.
4. Constitution adopted by con
vention to be submitted to people lor
ratification or rejection.
The people, consisting of the regis
tered voters, are thus to be appealed
to three times for their direct action at
the polls.
THE VOTERS.
5. The voters to be registered must
have the following qualifications: 1.
Twenty-one years old ; 2. Resident
one year before day of election ; 3.
“Us whatever lace or color ; 4. Not
disfranchised for participation in rebell
on or for felony ; 5. Never been an
member of any State Legislature, nor
held any executive or judicial office in
anv State, and afterwards engaged in
rebellion against the United States ; 6.
Never having taken an oath as a mem
ber of Congress, or an officer of the
United States, or a member of a State
Legislature, or an executive or judicial
officer of a State to support the Con
stitution of the United States, and
afterwards engaged in insurrection or
rebellion; 7. Swears to the above
qualifications, with the addition “that 1
will lailhfullv support the Constitution,
and obey the laws of the United States
and will to the bast of rny ability en
courage others to do so.”
THE CONSTITUTION.
6r The constitution to be framed,
must be : 1. In conformity with the
Constitution of the United Slates in all
respects ; 2. Prescribes that the elec
tive franchise shall be enjoyed by “all
such persons, as have the “qualifica
tions” prescribed in the acts for the
election ofdelegates, to the convention ;
3. Shall be ratified b> the qualified
electors; 4. Shall be submitted to, and
be approved ol by Congress; 5. And
the Legislature of the State, under this
constitution, shall have adopted the
constitutional amendments, known as
article fourteen ; and, 6. Said article
shall have become a part of the Con
stitution of the United States,
REPRESENTATION IN CONGRESS.
1. Representative must nevsr have
taken an oath to support the Constitu
tion of the United States, as a member
of Congress or officer of the United
Slates—or a member of a State legis
lature, or as an executive or judicial
officer of a Slate, and afterwards en
gaged i:t insurrection or rebellion
against the United States; 2. Must
appear to Congress that the election
was one, in which the registered and
qualified electors had an opportunity
to vole freely and without restraint,
fear, or the influence of fraud; —and
that the Constitution meets the ap
proval of a majority of all the qualified
electors in the States ; 3. Must take
the iron-clad.
PUBLIC DEBTS AND SLAVES.
Amendment Article XIX. —The val
idity of the public debt of the United
States, shall not be questioned ; and
neither the United States nor any
State, shall assume or pay any debt
incurred in aid of insurrection or re
bellion, or claim for the loss or email"
cipation of any slaves. Congress em
powered to enforce Article XIX. with
appropriate legislation.
PENALTY*.
For swearing falsely, penalty perju
ry, to be prosecuted and convicted in
criminal courts.
Adjournment ofTongress.
Congress adjourned at 12 o’clock
yesterday, till the first Wednesday in
July. Immediately after the adjourn- j
meiil, President Johnson issued a
Proclamation convening ihe Senate in
extra session, on Monday, to-morrow,
i'he object of 'this is to enable the
Senate to confirm or reject a large
number of appointments made by the
President, upon which that body has |
as yet delaj-ed action.
week Blair 4* Bradshaw
will get their new Spring "Goods.
Tlic Income Tax.
The following is the form of making
income returns for 18(56, undci the new
law. The readers see at a glance the
character of the articles to be returned
upon, and the deductions to be made;
RETURNS.
1. From the profits in any trade,
business of vocation from whirh in
come is actually derived, or any inter
est therein whenever carried on.
2. From the payment ofjjlems in a
former year considered which
have not paid a previous income tax.
3. From rents.
4. From farming operations—a
moui'l of live stock sold, amount of
agiicultural products sold.
5. From profits realized l»y sales
or real estate purchased since Decem
ber 31, 1863.
6. From interest on any bonds or
other evidences of indebtedness of any
railroad, canal turnpike, canal naviga
tion or slack watel company, or inter
est or dividends on slock, capital or
deposits in any bank, trust company,
savings institution, insurance, railroad,
canal, turnpike, canal navigation or
slack water company.
7. From dividends of any incorpor”
aled company other than those above
mentioned.
8. From gains and profits of any in
corporated compay not divided.
9. From interest on notes, bonds or
other securities of the United States.
10. From interest on notes, bonds,
mortgages or securities other than those
enumerated above.
11. From any salary other than as
an officer or employee of the United
Slates.
12. From any salary or pav as an
officer or employee of the United Slates.
13. From profits on sales of gold or
stocks, whenever purchased.
14. From alt sources not above enu
merated.
Gross income.
DEDUCTIONS.
1. Exempt by law, §I,OOO.
2. National, Stale, county and mu
nicipal taxes paid within the year.
3. Losses actually sustained during
the year from fire, shipwreck or incur
red in trade, and not alreadv deducted
in ascertaining profits.
4. Losses on sales of real estate
purchased since December 31, 1863.
5. Amount paid for hired labor to
cultivate land from which income is
derived.
6. Amount paid for the live stock
which was sold within the year.
7. Amount actually paid for rent of
homestead.
8. Amount paid for usual or ordinary
repairs, excluding payments for new
buildings, permanent improvements or
betterments.
9. Interest paid out or falling due
within the year.
10. Salary or pay as an officer or
employee of the United States, from
which a tax has been withheld.
11. Interest or dividends from cor
porations enumerated above in para
graph six.
Taxable income.
A mount of tax at 5 per cent.
CARRIAGES, GOLD WATCHES, BILLIARD
TABLES AND SILVER PLATE.
(Schedule A.—Section 100, Act June
30, 1864, as Amended July 13, 1866.)
TAXABLE PROPERTY.
Carriage, phaeton, carryall, rockaway
or other like carriage, and any coach,
hack ney coach, omnibus or four-wheel
ed carriage, the body of which rests
upon springs of anv description, which
is kept for use, for hire or for passen
gers, and which is not used exclusively
in husbandry or in the transportation
of merchandize, valuable at exceeding
S3OO and not exceeding $500,' includ
ing harness used therewith—s 6.
Carriages of like description valued
above SSO0 —$10.
Gold watches, composed wholly or
in part of cold or gilt, kept for Use,
valued at SIOO or less—sl.
Gold watches, composed wholly of
in part of gold or gill, kept for use,
valued at above sloo—s2.
Billiard tables kept for use, and not
subject to special tax —$10.
Oz plate of silver, kept for use, per
ounce troy —50 cents.
Oz plate of silver, kept for use, per
ounce troy, exceeding forty ounces,
used by one family —50 cents.
Treaty In England.
London, April 2, M. — In the House
of Lords, last night, the Duke ol Buck
ingham, Colonial Secretary, said the
prospective transfer ol Russian-Ameri
ca, to the possession of the United
States, was a matter of indifference to
England,
has returned from mar
ket. Look out for new Spring and
Summer goods, next week.
BfcaiJ- Early’s Valley Campaign.—
George E. W. Nelson, Augusta, Ga. t
announces that he has nearly ready for
delivery “General Early’s Valley Cam
paign of Virginia, during the yefer
1865,” one-half the profits of which
are io be given to the Lidies' Memo
rial Association. Price per copy, sl.
Per dozen copies, $9.
Orders must be accompanied by the
cash, aud addressed as above.
V
—The radical newspapers are grow
ling over the indications of harmony
between the whiles and blacks, and at
the implied willingness of the South to
accept the Sherman military recon
struction bill. The radicals do not
want negroes and whites to hold
amicable meetings, nor do they want
the Southern people to accept this or
any other bill. What is wanted is to
keep the South out of the Union, so
that radicalism will not lose its major
ities in the North.
Masons in Georgia. —A list pub
lished in a Masonic paper shows that
there are 254 Masonic Lodges in the
State of Georgia, nearly equal to two
Lodges io a county.
An exchange says: Senator W’llson
wants the. Government to take charge
of the bounty due the negro soldiers,
because they have not sense enough to
take care of it themselves. He then
wants the negroes to take charge of
the Government.
The Atlanta New Era says that a
number of citizens arc about to migrate
to Honduras. As the color is not spe
cified, we presume blacks are referred
to. While men have better business to
attend to. Louisville Courier.
We have been informed yesterday a
company of thirty persons from Atlanta*
Ga, engaged qassage on the steamship
Trade Wind for Belize, Honduras, to
sail on the 4th instant. They go out as
emigrants.—A r . O. Picayne,Zßth.
The Massacre In the West.
Washington, April 2. —The capture
of Fort Buford, at the mouth of Yellow
Stone, Upper Missouri, is confirmed.
Col. Rankin, wife and child, and the
garrison, numbering eighty, were mas
sacred. The capture cost the Indians
300 killed and 1,000 wounded.
call the attention of the public to
the advertisement of Jr, C. W. Roback’s Stom
ach B tters in another column. These Bitters
have become quite popular wherever used, and
have recieved many enconiums of praise from
those who have baen the recipients 6f
benefit to a disordered system from their use.
Lansing (Mich.) State Republican.
Important Rumor. —There was a
report in town yesterday that Governor
Jenkins had telegraphed to Augusta
that he would be able to get the decis
ion of the Supreme Court upon the
constitutionality of the Military Bill.
— (Macon Messenger , 12/ h.
t
General Lee—The Convention.—
We have unquestionable authority for
saying that Gen. Lee expresses himself
strongly and warmly on the subject of
convention. He think? that it is the
duty of the people to accept the situa *
tion fully, as the only chance left of
preserving what remains to us, and
that every man not actually disfranchi
sed should not only take the necessary
steps to prepare himself to vote, but to
prepare all his friends white and color
ed, to vote, and to vote rightly. He
thinks the co-operation of all the peo
ple, officials and citizens, should be
prompt jmd heartv, and that our chief
object should be to get as quickly and
as quietly as possible back into the tin*
ion with sucli rights as are left us, a
the only means of saving anything and
of restoring peace, throngh which as
lone we can hope for better things.—
He thinks the oath proposed is such a
very good citizen not disfranchised
ought now to be able toa tke, as a sim
ple matter oftrUth and duty, as a citi
zen of the countiy Dis
i patch. 23rd.
“None but the biave deserve the
fair.”
No, and but the brave can live with
some of them in the “land of the free
and the home of the brave - ”
" ,
have received notice that
the Nashville and Chattanooga road is
again open, passengers being transfer*
red across the Tennessee river at
Bridgeport by steam ferry. Until the
completion of the bridge at that point,
only one daily train will run, leaving
Nashville at 5 a. m., connecting with
the 6:30 p. M. train from Louisville on
the Nashville road* Sale of through
tickets was resumed yesterday.—Lou
isville Courier.
their ut*v g'vds, next week.
Public Meeting in Walker,
At cording to previous notice a large
meeting was held at LaFayette, Ga.,
on the sth inst*
On motion of Lair son Black, &»q.,
the meeting wa* called to order* and
B. R. MeCutchen wa# requested to
take the Chair, and Thomas W. Cobb
requested to act as Secretary, which
was agreed to.
The Chairman explained the object
of the meeting to be kr the purpose
of taking into consideration the late
letter of Ex-Gov. Brown on the slate
of the Union.
On motion of John Handy, the Chair
appointed a committee of three, to
whom was referred the late letter ol
Ex-Gov. J. E. Brown, to wit J John
Handy, Peter Shaver and Jacob Sto
ver, who retired and in a few hours
returned, when John Handy, Chair
man ot the committee, ask leave to
make the following report, which was
granted :
The committee, to whom was referred
the late letter of Joseph E. Brown on
the state ot the Union, have had the
same under consideration ard report.
That we, the people, have just got out
of a sanguinary, bloody, disastrous
and desolating rebellion, in which
thousands of innocent men have been
slain, the country tilled with sutTering
widows and orphans, and our proper
ty and liberty has been lost and de
siroyed, all of which calamities and
misfortunes were brought on its by
peaceable secession, and that Joseph
E. Brown was Governor of Georgia at
the time tiie State seceded, and that
there was a majority of Union men in
the State and in the Convention at the
time of secession, and that Jjie Con
vention which seceded would not have
done so had it not been lor the influ
ence and extraordinary exertions of
the said Joseph E. Brown.
Your committee further report, that
Joseph E. Brown was the first man
who led us out of the'Unicn in great
haste, to our utter ruin, and he ought
therelore to be the last to attempt to
lead, us in again ; and that his late let
ter, therefore, is a lasting disgrace to
him and an insult to many loyal men
in the State, except the negroes he has
caused to be freed.
Your committee fired, and so report,
that the said Joseph E. Brown dicta
ted the let er to himself, requesting
him to write the said letter, for the sole
purpose of thrusting his views on a
suffering people, whom he has ruined,
and that his letter was written for his
own benefit.
We further report, that in our opin
ion it is unnecessary and unwise to
call the present Legislature together
for the purpose of carrying out the late
act of Congress. V\e think the Gov
ernor ought to issue his proclamation,
which he has an implied right to do
under the act of Congress, calling on
the loyal people of Georgia to hold an
election for delegates to meet in Mil-
Icdgeville at an early day to frame a
State Constitution, and that the first
Legislature elected under the new Con
stitution, ought to ratify the amend
ment to the U. S. Constitution.
On motion of John Handy, the re
port was taken up and agreed to with
out any dissent.
On motion, it was resolved that the
above report be signed by the Chair
man and Secretary, and that the Cher
okee Georgian, Cartersville Express
and Rome Courier., ate requested to
publish the same.
On motion of Lawson Black, the
meeting adjourned.
B. R. MeCUTCHEN. Chairman.
T. W. Cobb, Secretary.
“Stevens* Bill.”
The people need not be much
alarmed about Thad. Stevens’ Confis
cation bill. Well informed parties at
Washington write that there never was
a chance of its passage either through
the Senate or the House of Represent”
atives. Mr. Stevens himself told an
intimate friend that he had no hope
the bill would become a law, but he
would nevertheless offer it and make a
speech in its advocacy in order to re~
deem a promise and satisfy the de'
mand of some of his more immediate
constituents. It was promptly sent to
the lumber room of the House, thereto
remain until December next, when an
unavailing attempt may be made to
resurrect it. Meanwhile, the radicals
and semi-radicals in the South will at*
tempt to hold the infamous thing over
the heads of the people, and will also
use it to balm and delude the negroes
into acting with them under a false
promise that the lands proposed to be
seized shall be divided into homesteads
and parceled out for their benefit.
We repeat, that Stevens’ bill, with
the whole subject of confiscation, is
dead and buried, consigned to the re
ceptacle of lost things, and those who
teach otherwise dishonor themselves,
as they would dishonor the whites
whom they threaten, and the blacks
they try to delude. There is no more
probability of such a law being passed,
than there is that Mr. Stevens and his
co-workers will by some miracle be
transformed into good men and honest
patriots. —Atlanta Intelligencer,
Baptist Convention. —The Baptist
Convention of Georgia will meet in
Columbus on the 28th of April. The
Sun says:
“Arrangements are being made in
the various fatailies, members of the
congregation, for the accommodation
of the delegates who may attend, and
also to have them pass over the vari
ous railroads on one fare. The prom
ise is that the Convention will be
largely attended,”
ALLEGED HEAVY StYIAD
LIXU CI*ER4TIO. S.
An Ex-Rebel Commissary In
Trouble- Versataklty in Spec
ulative Elate 1 prise.
Shortly after the surrender of Lee
there came to this city an individual
named James F. Cummings, who had
been a commissary in the rebel service.
He here at once entered into, ii is alleg
ed, half a dozen concerns, such as
banker, broker, commission merchant,
&c., into each of which he put a large
capital. The manner in which he de
ported himself, and the large quauliiies
of money which he seemed to control,
soon attracted attention and excited
remark, especially as all other rebels
were known to be in desperate pecun
iary straits and actual want. It was
soon not only whispered but loudly
asserted by those who professed to
know of his performances in 1 he South,
that he had swindled nut only the rebel
government, under which he occupied
a position of trust, but citizens also,
especially of North Carolina and Geor
gia, on a scale' far beyond the wildest
imaginings of ordinary' villians. He
must have had large sums of money,
for he was known as one of the heav
iest stock operators on “the street,”
and it was variously stated that his
ill-gotten wealth amounted to from
three to ten millions.
A gentleman from Georgia who Is a
large manufacturer now brings suit
against the gay ex Commissary, and in
his affidavit charges that the said
James F. Cummings was in 1861 a
resident of Tennessee, where iie car
ried on the trade of a butcher; that he
came to Georgia in 1803 a poor man ;
that he is now reputed to be worth
seven millions, and that he used the
power of the so-called Confederate
government to take from hi in goods of
the value of $600,000. which he fraud
ulently converted to las own use, and
it was by like means that he obtained
the large wealth of which he is pos
sessed.
Upon many affidavits, all tending to
the same purport, Judge Leonard, ot
the Supreme Court, granted an order
of arrest, and on Friday the gallant
gatherer of hog and hominy for hungry
“rebs,” and quondam butcher, banker,
broker and operator in fancy slocks,
was invited by the Sheriff to a resi*
denee in Loudlow-street jail, where he
will have time lor wholesome reflec
tion on the mutation* whicn alteitd all
human affairs.
The case will present some interest**
ing questions of law, but will be main
ly looked after by the public for the
reason that it promises to develope the
full details, not only of this particular
transaction, but of many others, which
together lorm one of the most remark
able and gigantic system of traud and
peculation which have been brought
to light for some time. —[N. Y. Herald,
21th.
Denouncing; a Traitor.
Under this caption wc find the follow
ing letter in our Columbia exchange!,
from Beverly Nash, the colored man
whose speech at the receipt miction
meeting in Columbia, some two weeks
since, was fully reported in llvM* journal.
It explains itself, and we have only to
say, like our friend Selby,oftlie Phaen’x.
“we judge that Beverly is competent to
take care of himself.”— Charleston
Courier.
Columbia, March 28,1807.
Messrs. Editors —I see in your paper
of this morning, that at a meeting of
the colored peepie held at Union Hall,
on the 251 h instant, grave charges w**re
made against me, on account of the
speech, or remarks, made by me on
the 18lh instant.
This so called public meeting was
held in a hall which is thirtv-one feet
nine inches by thirty leet. Perhaps
there were two hundred and fifty
persons present. Well, who composed
that meeting ? I learn that the greater
part —in their unsophisticated credulity
—had been made to believe that my
notion Was to put them back into
slavery. This meeting was led on by
Bob Trice and his satraps, foreign and
domestic. Oh ! my eounttry, when I
think of the fate of the children of
Israel, I tremble for my people.
At this meeting! it was determined
that none ol my friends should be beard.
When Mr. Davis tried to speak, he
was hissed. Yet he would be heard,
and his remaras caused such .a division
among them that the chairman had to
take a vote three times to decide
whether the resolutions were passed or
not.
Now for the committee which brought
in the resolutions, which had been
previously prepared First, whp is Bob
Trice? He came here a hardshell
Baptist; the next we heard of him he
was a temperance lecturer { next he
became a Catholic, and now a bar
room politician. But I forbear. For
est, poor Forest, I leave you to
y.»urself—the worst company you
could have gdt in.
Now, Williams, did you not tell
three gentlemen of this city that you
came back from Florida dissatisfied,
and that you never wanted to have
anything more to do with the Yankees
—that you had come home to live
among your own people? You how
denounce me as a “traitor.” because I
have sympathy for my fellow-citizens,
be they white or black. If this makes
me a traitor I ask for no prouder
inscription on my tomb than “W. B.
Nash, the Traitor.”
Thank God. 1 can look up to Heaven
and say thatl never did pledge mvselt
to any man to vote or act against the
interest of my State. I am a Union
roan, but a South Carolinian.
Fitzsimmons 1 respect as a gentle
man. But I would ask the chairman
of this so-called meeting why he did
not publish all the resolutions passed ?
Is he riding the rail between the North
and the South? For shame, man!
When your prompters behind the
scenes prepared this resolution, your
heart failed you, and you would not
publish it. Like the owl. you fear the
light. I now ask you if you and your
party dare to mett me before the
people in daylight? I say to you, be
ware! lest when jou think you are
crushing a worm, you are grasping a
scorpion. Oh ! jackass ! jackass! the
lion is neither dead nor asleep.
W. B. Nash.
Mr. Jefferson Davis —The follow
ing preamble aqd resolution was intro
duced in the U. S. Seuate on Friday
last by (Senator Wilson (Radical) and
ordered to be printed :
Whereas, Jefferson Davis, citizen
of the Stale of Mississippi, was capt
ured by a military force in the service
of the U. S„ on the llth day of May
18«5, and has since been held in con
finement as a prisoner of State in For
tress Monroe, Virginia ; and whereas ,
the said Jefferson Davis stands charged,
on the highest authority, with the hei.
nous crime of conspiring to murder the
late President of the U. S. Abraham
Lincoln, and is also indited for treason ;
and whereas, the said Jcilerson Dams
Jias presistently declared his innocence
of the oflence charge and against bin, and
through his legal advisers, by all means
known to the law, has sought and de
manded a speedy and public trial by
due process ol law, before a civil-tribu
nal of competent jurisdiction } there
fore,
Jtesohed by the Senate, the House
of Representatives concuriing, That the
longer confinement of tiie said Jeffeisou
Davis without a trial, or the assign men t
of a specific lime for a trial, is not in
accordance with the demands of justice,
sound public policy, and the national
honor unite in recoiueudiug that the
s tiil Ji fTt rson Davis be brogght to a
speedy and public trial, or that he he
re leased from confinuncni on bail, or on
his own it cogn z.mce.
For the Carte (vi le Kx|«iy»".
April 30,1867.
At a meeting of the citizens ol Polk
County Georgia, held this day at Cere
ter Military House, lor tne purpose of
taking into consideration, the destitute
condition of the county and to adopt
measures for the relict thereof:
Wheieupon the following preambti
and resolutions were adopted :
Whereas our two last crops havini
almost totally failed; prior to till id
the contending Armies drained our com
tv and surrounding country, of hoi I
grain and stock of all kinds ; wh ch it
our present cuudition with a lew ex
(’options, leaves us destitute of bn a
or means to hit) with.
And whereas, many widows and <u
plum children, together with inauv tin
(■•ruinate freed men, who is now, a»
will hav to suIT . beyond c.iduratu'tj
unless they are spto-Jdv relieved.-'
And flirt her, that nvmy ol our prom
lieiit farmers win be loiCcd to abandc
there crops, unless they obtain assi*
ance.
Therefore, Be it Resolved, That a
cording to the appointment hei'etclo
made, that James F. Dover and Jo
Brewer, be and they are hereby appoir
ed to solicit aid fioin the North, Nor'
west and elsewhere. Whom we In
are so nobly contributing to the relict
our famishing country.
And. Be it further Revived, Tli
they be and are hereby appointed
receive aid distribute :ny contribute
that may be ma e t • t is c mnt
GEORGE W. MORGAN, Char m
John M. Srp.\Viwr. Hee/i'y.
Atlanta, Ga., April 3rd, 1807.
Messers Editors Express i— Hu
ness the past week, was about the k:i
as for the nrevioth, an the demand
some articles being heavier, for utli
lighter.
The demand for com, though Hgb
was in excess of the receipts, and
market is left with a grantly redu
stock. We quote the market firm
$1,37 for yellow $1.40 for whin
Quantity to arrive lighter.
Flour lias been in much more art
request, ahd the sales very much hr
ier than for the previous week. J
stoek has been reduced over one ill
We quote superfine at sl3, Extra 8
@ sl4, Double extra sls («) sls
Family sl6 @ sl7, Fancy from wl
wheal $17,50 (a$ $lB.
The sales of Th.corl were very in
heavier than for the previous w
which with diminished receipts, lei
considerably reduced stock on the i
ket. We quote shoulders at 13$ 1
rib sides 16 cts., clear rib do 15$
clear dp 16 cts., plain hams 17
sugar cured do 18$ (3j 19 ands
canvassed do 20 cts.
The stock of lard good. Den
fair. In barrels and tierces it is w
15 @ 15$ cts., in kegs and cans,
included 17 @ 17$ cts.
The receipts of hay have been v
liberal from East Tennessee, but»
heavy sales have reduced the stock
hand below what it was a week age
We quote Herds grass and Timotti
SSO per ton.
Salt is in fair supply, with a w
rale demand. We quote Virginia in
lbs sacks at $2,75, Liverpool s3,?'
Oats have stiffened a little am
to-day worth 90 @ 95 cts., slock
$1,25, sack reserved.
The demand for Baugh’s Raw E
Super Phosphate is unabated at
per ton.
The market is well supplied
yarns and shirtings, the former at c
@ $2,50, as per assortmeni and i
tation, and the latter al 18 cts. for st
ard i goods. A- K. SEAGO, f oil)