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DAWSON JOURNAL.
DAWSON, GA JAW. 25. 1866.
THE EXPERIENCE OF THE
Fariuvrn iu INGO.
Wc have searched our S utlieru ex
changes with constant attention, in or
der to and aeover, lor the benefit of our
readers, tire results of the experience
of lust year in connection with the ne
groes as laborers. We find the testi
mony and the deductions very diverse
and conflicting. Some have arrived
at the conclusion that nil operations
with the negro as a hired laborer,
must necessarily end in disappointment
and disaster; and that the only safe
method of employing him is by a shoe
iu the crop he cultivates. Others again
allege tho precise opposite, and appeal
to experience in proof. Some tell us
that large farms arc ino.-t economically
and profitably cultivated ; while others
uver that small lartns and a number of
laborers few ent ugh to admit of close
watching, are indispensiblo conditions
of succes ful agriculture.
A'l discord is harmony not under
stood ; and from this seeming confu
sion wo may deduce a consistent les
son. The general tcachiog is that
there is no prescription which w ill suit
every case ; that the extent of agricul
tural operations and the modo of con -
ducting them, must correspond with
the capacity, the energy’, and the
means, of each particular farmer, just
a* in other avocations Some men
make fortunes as wholesale merchants ;
whei-e others, from want cf capacity
or means, would quickly become bank
nipt, though these last might do a safe
nnd respectable business us retai'ers.
Hence, it would be absurd to mark
out to both ela ses the same sca'e of
tperations. The armour must fit the
man,—whether the sling of Daivid or
tho weaver’s beam of Goliah So of
faming. The man who has not
means and capacity for manag : ng a
large farm, will doubtless do best on a 1
imall farm ; but if he possesses the
above requisites, let him expand his
operations to correspond with his abil
ities. Farms must not all be large,
they mud not all be small, to produce
the most profitable results. They
must be cf all sizes for all capacities
a id all means.
**rbe Urge übipg may venture more,—the lit-
He boats must keep near shore.”
An analagous lesson may be drawn
fr. m the experience as to; the best
mode of employing negro «. These
vtlk. j, aV e money to pay wages with
promptness, and with industry and ca
pacity to attend to their bu.iness, and
who cultivate good lands, will do best
to hire the negroes; -that is the rule
for them. Those who cannot raise
money to pay for labor, or who are la-
V and mtend to remain so, or who
cultivate thin lands, will do very indif
feremlv at best; but they will do best
to share the crops with the laborers,
that all may starve together. It is
•«rtam to be unprofitable unless in
very rare cases, but it is safest. They
"ill never have their lands well tilled
nor their crops well harvested and
cared for They will have to suffer
all the evils of negro improvidence and
love of holiday, but they will only
store the consequences.
The policy which promises best as a
"hole, w to cultivate only good or ma
nured lands, to hire a sufficiency of
labor for that purpose, for money wa
g*s, and to attend closely to one’s
business. Hired labor on poor lands,
without fertilizers, will bring any far
mer to pove’ty. Find good laborers,
•nd attach Uum to the homestead bv
comfortable houses, kind treatment,
and fair dealing. Overcropping «to
be avoided, not only in laying out too
Urge a crop, but in un Staking more
than we are capable of; but there is
also such an evil as under-cropping,
"here a man’s operations are below
tb* level of his abilities and opportuni
ties Let both be showed. The sea
cons were very unpropitiom, last year,
end the best efforts often met with
meugro results. Hut it is belter to
work than to grumb'e,—better to
atrnggle than to repine,—and the har
vest of 1867 may be those of two years
in one.
Makubjnq Trees.— Now is a good
‘•me, BftJS the Maine Farmer, to put
»me manure round your fruit trees.—
The fall and early spring rains sill
«a»-ry tho soluble elements into the
. ' Md cau »* to start with tresh
in early spring and summer.—
Apple trees will send ou. their roots a
distance for food. We recently cut off
r,K >t* * *i*tanee of forty f ßot from an
•pple tree, Thu. a .ingle tree may ex
t*nd its roots across the diameter of a
•trcla two hundred and fifty teet in
•rcumference. Wears inclined to
the belief that manure suould not be
placed eloee to the trunks cf the trees
l*Ot at a distance of a few feet from
•hem. *
ScrruoK ik the Territories.—lt
is understood that the President has a
veto prepared of the bill recently pass
ed providing for universal suffrage in
the Territoiks.
Till! lin li mcii t Siheine.
The impcaccment scheme el the Obi >
Ncgrrphilist Ashley, is coming to grief
It is “struck dewn in the boure of its
friends,” and there seenjs now to be a
general icamperiug among the leuding
Radicals to sao who shall first get from
und r the mighty load of iufamy and
disgrace, which this violent measure is
likily to bring upon all who shall *>e
-0( me connected w ith it.
So far as we have seen, says the
Chronicle A Sontiuel, there is to’ a sin
gle leading paper of the Radical party
North, which has yet attempted the ad
vocaey of Ashley’s project. Oa the
other hand we Gad in the last few num
bers of the New York Timop, several
columns of that paper filled with ex
tracts from tho different Republican
Journals, all of whom deprecate the ill
ad vi.-cd action of tho extreme Uidicals
in bringing this matter before Congress
It is true that while many of the e
journals thus disavow the action of Ash*
I ley as in any way binding upon their
: party, many if not the most of them
declare their belief that the conduct of
the President has been such as to jus
tify impeachment. Yet from prudential,
reasons they oppose tukiiuj any action !
justyH. In other words they fear such
preoeedings,prostrating as they will inev
itably do, the material interests of evory
section cf the country, will cause a reac
tion in public sentiment and hasten the
period so confidently looked for by Mr. ■
SewarJ, when the second, sober thought
,cf the American people will be aroused
to a full appreciation of the danger,
and cause them to hurl from place an!
power those who have not the control of
the Government.
Nine-tenths of :be Radicals doubt
less desire tfie overthrow and di-grace
of the President. They hate him even
more bitterly if that bd possible, than
they do the white race at the South,and
nothing would give th tn more sincere
pleasure than to accomplish Lis down
fall, provided, they do not thereby en
tail ruin upon their party. Very little
do these tiir.e-sorving patriots care foi
the institution of free government which
would most certainly go down in blood
and dishonor upon the success of their
scheme. Free government to them is
nothing now but an empty name. Par
ty succe-s and party power is all that
they work for, and incidently of course,
the punishmmt of the Southern people*
But this impeachment matter is about
to develop at the North and West a
bitter feud in their own ranks, and rath
ci (.bun hazrA-iid fcuefi a calamity, tboy
will, as we think, almost unanimously
abandon Ashley and his few adherents
in Congress. Even Forney, tho most
litter and unscrupulous cf the Radical
tribe, begins to doubt the p-nji’e y of
any further actioD,now that tic ques
tion has been submitted to the consid
eration of the Judiciary Committee.
Forney declares that there is noth
ing in the action which was taken by
the House in ieferriug tho matter which
pledges Congress to the impeachment
of the President. Indeed this imp of
iniquity ga so far as to declare that ‘im
pcachmant is rot a necessary conse
quence of the most successful inquiry 1”
Why not? Because ‘a new panic will be
a sureresu’t of impeachment,’ and the
rir filled with the groans cf the
week for Ihe express purpose of enoour
aging the wicked.” Even the course
of “foreign journals, who are hastenirg
to swell the chorus of indignant war
ring,’ is viewed with dktrust, somewhat
akin to fear.
Tho people of tbo Sonth havo on'y
to attend to their own business, eschew
ing, as much as possible, national poli
tics, and letthe President, the Supreme
Court, and the Northern Conservatives
fight the battles for the Constitutional
Liberty with the corrupt and unscrupu
lous majority which now hive control
of the Legislative Department of the
government. At least we think that
there is no cause to fear anything worse
than we are now suffering.
The Debt and Future of tue Uni
ted States —The London Spectator,
in alluding to the prosbect of the pay
ment of the na ioncl debt of the United
States ere loug, remarks: “It vtill be
the greatest deed Democracy has ever
done, the one which will come most
clearly home to property-holders, which
will most radidly di°sipa'c the idea that
Democracy is distinguished by ‘an igno
rant impatience of taxation,’ or by an
indisoosition to pay upnonorall) claims.
No Despotism will be able to show such
a financial account, no constitutional
monarchy a better one, and successful fi
n: Dee tells heavily with cultivated man
kind. The tide of emigration will set
in with double rapidity, and the last re
maining deterrent to Brittish North
America will have been removed.—
Meanwhile, whether the dream is fulfill
ed or not, America, so long as she rais
es this surplus, pospeses a force which ij
is difinult to estimate the extent, can,
for example, spend without a loan as
muoh as the whole out.ay of Great Brit
tain upon her army and navy—can
waste every year, without increasing her
taxes, as much as the lean with which
i Napoleon paid for his Dalian campaign.
Tilt’ Test Oalli Ineouslilii
lioiiss I.
| “Warwick,’’ tho reliable correspond
ent of the Telegraph, writes from Wash
ington, under date of the 17th, that the'
long !o ked for decision of the United
Stats Supreme Court, in relation to test
oaths, were delivered <*n the 24 iost, in
the presence <f an auditory that filled
the old Senate Chamber te reph ti n
and was compoicd airiest altogitberof
eminent and distinguished lawyers. In
relation to the test oath act of C<r press
oaieed in 1862, the Court decides it to
be unconstitutional. It required the
exaction of a test oath from lawyer', be
fore they could praotice iu the United
Slates Gouts. The court deciles that
Congress had no light to pass any Fuch
act; that every tilzm ifthe United
States, whether law3 er, doctor, ni reliant*
editor, printer, Lruner, or mechanic is
entitled tn bo s cured by the laws in
the peaceable pract’ee of his irado or
profession, and not to be hiuehred or
debarred from practicing the same, by
j any unc n nstitulional leg slativc enact.
ment. In relation to tho test octiis cx
acted of clergymen in Missouri, before
j they were allowed to rxeroise their sa
i cred fractions, the court dcci les* that it
Jis unoonstitu’i mal, and that the legis
| lattire of Missouri has no right to pass
any each act.
These decision*, if coarse,’will carry
j y into every neghborhood of every
Southern State. They show that, al
though fanaticism ruled tho hour dur
ing the war, yet the time has now come
when all the unconstitutional acts of
Congress, pass&d during the war, are
to bo stricken from the statue book.
This has been done now, in regard to
the act authorized tho creation of mili.
tary tribunals to supersede courts of law
and in regard to the act required the ex
action of test oaths. But this is oniy a
beginning. The court have dow before
them two other cases, directly involving
the constitutionality of two other acts
of Congress, passod in 1862 and 1863.
These also wtll be decided to be un
constitutional, and thus tho good work
will go on.
The rage of the Radicals, at these
decisions of the Supreme eourt, is bound
less! For five years they have shown
their contempt of the law and the con
stitution, and have trampled both un
der their feet, while they have ridden
rough-shod, alike over the rights of
States and of private individuals. Now
that they are brought to a dead halt in |
their lawless career, they know not what •
to make of it. Their bluster about a j
reorganization of the Supreme Court is j
only so much empty wiud, as they are !
themselves compelled to acknowledge. I
They are trying to derive oonsclatien <
now, from huggmg the delusion that the
people of the North will sustain them,
if they conclude to announce, in a leg
islative foim. that the peoplo will not
submit to such interpretations of the
law, even from the Sup r cmc Couit.
A Female woman of color’has been
lecturing lately in Nashvilie. The
press of place says sho is honored
by large audiences cf negroes, of all
sexes, and that the is educated strictly
in accordance with Northern ideas, and
imbued *ith political principles hot from
from the fiery brain of Oberlin piofes
sors. In one of her lectures she said :
The South is the theatre of our peo
ple. In the North wo are overshad
owed by a civilization that is four hun
drod years in advance of us. The old
foundations of society are overturned.
Cotton was the great power which kept
slavery in existence. I would have the
colored man get this cotton into bi
hands. If thi re is a man in this house
who made one bale of cotton for his
master, let him now go to work and
make two for himself. Let him say * I
will Jo something for myself.
So many destitute pass through Chat
tanooga who spend the night huddled
together promiscuously, without either
bedding, fire, or food at the Union pas
senger depot, that the Nashville and
Chattanooga railroad company propos
ed, in conjunction with other roads cen
tering at that point, to erect buildings,
fitted up with all needed appendages,
purchase food, hire cooks to prepare
meals and watchmen to keep up the fires
through the night, and in this way re
lieve, to a considerable extent, the suf
fi ring now experienced by destitute
travellers.
Farm for the Poor.— The Romo
Courier says the Inferior Court ol
Floyd county has purchased a farm
of 120 acres for the benefit of the poor
of that county. The Benevolent So
ciety of Rjme proposes to pay fifty
and lkirs a month towards defraying the
expenses of the place. We trust the
examp'e set by the good people of
Floyd will be followed by other coun
ties in the State
The question is a ked ; who is Ash
ley—the leader ia the impeachment
scheme? A Louisville paper says :
“He has played many parts, having
been successively chrk (n a store-boat,
printer, law student, boat builder,news
paper publisher, and druggist, before he
became what he now is, the hat being
the least of all.
Fork has been selling in Upper East
Tennessee for six cents, and oorn for fif
ty cent, per bushel.
Rewi I tenia.
When the vote was taken on the con
stitutional amendment in the Maine
House of Representatives, there were
welvo votes la oppo. i:ion. Hotter than
wo expected.
An Augusta editor has born present
ed with a turnip which measured twen
ty-Dinc inches in ciroumfercnoe, and
weighed nine pounds.
Major Moseback, Bureau Agent fir
Columbus District, has iasued an or
der that tho regulations of last year, re
quiring contracts to be made with freed
men through the Jjureau, are still in
force, and freedmen hired without such
contracts are at liberty to leave their
c mployers at any time.
Gcd. Butler has sued the La CrcsEo
Democrat for libel, laying damages at
8100,000.
A market man in Harrisburg has
manufactured a sausage 59 feet 3 inches
in length.
There seems to bo no doubt that
Head Centro Stevens is still secreted in
New York city. He is said to fear the
indignation of Lis couutrymen.
The population of Paris is over two
inilious, by the census of 18G0.
An American citizen is now taxed
&b rnt four t.u e as much as a cit’zen of
England.
General Stcrliug Price’s son, Celens,
was married, the other day, in .Missouri,
to tho daughter of Gov. T. E. Price.
Tho prices of leading articles of con
sumption are ninety percent higher at
the present timo than they were btfore
the war.
Almost every decade in our country’s
history ending with the figure 7 has
marked tho beginning of a financial
crash or severe depression.
One ol our exchanges thinks Mexi
co will bo better off if Napoleon and
Seward were both in Paradise. To
this another replies—Yes, but how
would the citizens of Paradise like it ?
A Little boy in Pittsburg, Pa., got up
early on Christmas morniog to ascer
tain what Santa Claus had put in his
stocking, and in passing the stove set
his nightclothes on fire, and was dead
in a few hours.
Since the process of photographing
upon silk aDd linen has been peifected
in France, many persons havo their por
traits upon their linen instead of their
names or initials. Washing, it is said,
does not injuro the portraits.
Public Arts.
j -An b*» embracing tho following pro*
( visions was passed by the Gcrier. 1 As
| scmbly of Georgia at its recent session :
Section 1. Tho General Assembly
iof the State of Georgia, do enact, That
from after the pa-sage of this act, it
shall not be lawful for any person to
bathe in any stream or pond of water on
the Sabbath day, in view of any
road or or pass way leading to or from
any house ci religious worship.
Section 2. He it further enacted.
That any person violating the first sec
tion of this act shall be considered guil
ty cf a misdemeanor, and upon convic
tion thereof, shall be fined in a sum not
exeeediug five huudred dollars, or inipri s
onment in the common jail of the conn
ty, at the discretion of the court, not
exceeding Fix months.
Section 3. Repeals conflicting laws.
Appri veil 13 h D comber, 1806.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of f?c r
gia, 1 hat the Justices of the Inferior
(JoUrt of the several counties of this
State tha'i have, and are hereby invest
ed with, ihe power to fix the fees of
jailors for die‘in » priioneri confiinel iD
jail on any ground whatever
Approved 12th December, 1866.
Also an aet an add an editional sec
tion to the 4th division, part 4th, title
Ist of the Code.
Section 1. The General Assembly
of the State of Georgia do enae‘, That
if any father shall wilfully and vulan
turiady abandon his child or children,
leaviug them in a dependent and desti
tute condition, such father shall be guil
ty af a misdemeanor, and on conviction
thereof, shall be punished as fur other
misdemeanors.
Approved 13ta D.cember, 1865.
And the following:
General Lee. —Nothing could be
more modeit and unobtrusive than tho
course of Gen. Leo since tho surrender
to Gen. Grant. lie las had nothing to
do with polities, and, as wo learn, does
rot so much as read the newspapers
II s time aßd attention are exclusively
devoted to the performance of bis dudes
as President of the Wasningtnn Col
lege, where upon % salary of 2500 or
3000, he lives in the plainness and sim
plicity which have always characterized
the man. His example is one which
should command the respect of his ene
mies aad the imitation of bis friends.
No one ever hcaisfrom him a solitary
word which savors of querolousness or
discontent. Cheerful, faithful, and true,
he is grander in adversity than prosper
ity,and, tested by all circumstances, ex.
hibils an equanimity of spirit which is
proof alike against the flatteries and
frown of fortune. —Baltimore Trans.
Wendell Phillips has issued anew
msnitesto, saying that all South»ra
oaths «re ludicrous and provisions lor
and sfranchisamcnt aro waste paper.—
Who, in theso rebel communities, for
we will not even call them Sta es, will
ever enforce them ? Is the C.vil Rights
Bill enforced anywhere at the South?
Let the whito South ouoo obtain what
she plots for—a place inside the Gov
ernment—and she will break through
all constitutional barriers exactly as she
did bes .re 1860.
Tub Ahsinatios Charge —The New
Y r ork Times--Radical, but not always
oblivious of truth und right—refers to
the infamous charge of Mr. Loan, of
Mis c.uri, against tho President, nnd
lends Mr. Loan a dig in the fifth rib,
as follows :
“The Judiciary Committee owe it to
themselves and tho country to make a
j prompt repott upon this matter.—
I They should lose no timo in making
full investigation into it. and requiring
Mr Lr >an to make good the charge
he has made, or, at least, to bring to
their knowledge tho evidence on which
he makes it. We risk very littlo in
saying that he has not the slightest par
tide of such evidence. lie has made
the charge in the mere xvantonness of
party feeling—to gratify his personal
ui and political resentments—and to pro
mote, by what he deems tho most eli
gible method, his own political ad
vancement But the Committee should
lose no time in ascertaining the truth,
and in giving it to the country. By
every day of neodless delay they will
make themselves accomplices in this
outrageous and disgraceful calumny.’’
This is a reasonable call, but then
‘.ho Committee will no more do it than
they retracted a similar charge against
Mr. Davis, after they found out that
a man hud been bribed to swear to
it.
Destructive Fire—Three Thou
sand (Sales of Cotton JBurued.
About thre, o'clock yosterdav after
noon, the n< w and spacious brick ware
house of John J, Grant & Cos., kuown
as the “Planters’ Warehouse,” in the
upp* r pait of the city, was discovered
to be on fire The rapidity with whioh
the flames swept through the buildmg
was astonishing. The tiers of cotton
bales conducted the leaping flames
along, like broom sedge in a brisk wind.
In a very few minutes the fire was all
over the wareh use, tbo towering flame
rose far above the roof, and the intense
heat of burning cotton drove every one
outside tho walls. The fire engines
w ere promptly on the ground and work
ing wi.ha will to save the adjacent
buildings, it being at once apparent that
no human power could save tbo ware
house. VVe are glad to be able to state
[hat they did prevent the destruction of
any of the adjoining stores, though they
had to \v rk very daringly and to en
dure great heat in doing so. The three
store h >u~es on Broad street ’fronting
the warehouse on that side wire all
saved, though the proprietor must have
suffered much loss in ihe hurti'd re
moval of their goods, and the reai estate
owners must have sustained much dam
age done to the buildings,
Thirewere, acrordiog to the best au
thority from which we oould get infir*
mrtion, about tti.ee thousand bales ot
cotton in tho warehouse, worth say
8330,000. Not more than twnfy Lai s
were saved, and at least one of these
was 1 urniDg when rolled oaf. NVe tear
that by far the greater portion cf it was
uninsured. We have heard of large lots
held by tho following parties, but hate
not heard of much that was insured’:
Richard Buchanan, of Russell county,
Ala., 300 bales; Mr. Stoue, a octton
buyer of this city, about 70 ; and Hon.
Mr. J. Crawford about 40 bales Plant
ers cf the surrounding country held
many lot-, of various sizes, of their own
raising, and the lo s will fall very heavi
ly upon them.
The warehouse, as we have said, was
anew and commolious one, built since
tho great raid < estroyed the old one on
its site. It was owned, we learn, by
Mr sirs. J. J Grant, John Buchanan
and Jutncs Ku'sell, and cost in its con
struction about $15,000. It is arid that
it w: s not insured.
The total loss by this couffigration
mart exceed four bundled thousand dol
lars—all swallowed up in an hour cr
two by the insatiablo eleinont. The
lots wHI fall very heavily upon our city
aad people so little able to sustain such
a loss.
Tbc origin of the fire is not known.
It is stated that some bales of cotton on
tho top of a high tier were first discov
ered to be on fire. This was near the
office, fronting on Brian street near
Broad. Thence the flames spread with
such great rapidity through the sheds as
to ariosi all efforts to roll out the cot
tn.— Columhus Enquirer.
The Probate Court of Cincinnati, a
few days since, refusra a marriage li
c< to a negro because his intended
bride was a white woman. We suggest
that when Congress meets, a committee
be appointed to inquire whether, io this
case, the Civil Rignts bill has not been
violated. Tho doctrine of negro suf
frage which the Radicals are pressing
with so much vigor presumes that a
neg-ois as good as a white man. The
same party oppose female suffrage as a
political heresy. The inference is tb«r
they consider a negro man as bet
t»r|. ban a white woman. But this can
not be the reason why they will cot
permit the negro man and the white wo
man to intermarry, for they marry white
women themselves. Perhaps they con
sider it a fair compromise with Jtheir
black friends to give them the ri<ri.t to
vote, ami keep all the rest, of the° goed
things for themselves. We imagine,
however, that when their attention is
called to this suhjeot, they will move
for the repeal of the law, fir maoy of
them will doubtless wish to marry negro
womeD, and the law will bo iu their
way —Louisville Courier.
Among tho other defences of Eng
land is a volunteer staff corps, formed
of railway officials, which is so thor
oughly organized, that it undertake",
“in a spiace of thirty hoirs, to place in
any given spot 150,000 troops, 60,000
horses and 100 gnus,” and not only
that but “to collect in twenty four
hours SO,OOO ‘navies’ for the construc
tion of fortifications and field works ”
The defensive army of England num
bers 20,000 regular troops, 120,000
militia, and 150,000 volunteers.
A li K X A If I> £ R & W II 1 T El
NO HUMBUG.
■ —.
GREAT REDUCTION
-IN-
D R Y GOODS
ALEXANDER & WHITE’S!
MACON, GA.
TN onlsr to prepare for a Urge and Splendid Stock of Sprlr.c and Somme n
I Goods, wc will close out the balance of our S ock at Otufitfu I)n <
Now is the time to buy CHEAP GOODS and gcod GOODS at
Alexander & "White’s,
41 sMscojrn sr.,
DR, L; B. ALEXANDER.
Houston, Cos.. Ga I
io Ws C. WHITE, ’ 1
jan ISfh.tf.) MACON, Oa
COMMERCIAL.
Savannah, January, 22.—Cotton
dull and nominal. Middlings 32a33
Augusta, January 22.—Cotton—
Sales of 150 bales at 310. The market
ffat and irregular.
Charleston, January 22- -Cotton
declined halfocnt; Sales 300 middling
at 325 33.
New Orleans, January 22.—Cot
ton dull and ea-ie”. Sales of 2,350
bales Low Middling at 315; Middling
824. New Yord exchange half cent dis
count. Freights uncharged.
Macon. Jan. 22, 1867.—Thero was
a brisk inquiry for good Cotton Ibis
morning, at 28 cents, with little offer
ing. The noon dispatches, quoting de
clines in Liverpool and New York,
checked the demand, and salts could
not bo effected in the afternoon at
over 27} cents, at which figure the
market closed.
Nf.w York, Jan. 22.—Cotton—
shade lower; sales 280 bales middling
uplands at 34u345-
Montgomery, Jan. 22 1867. —Cot-
ton—Business was restricted yester
day, but few lots changed hands ; sac
tors were asking higliei rates. \Ve
quote the market active and firm at
275a28} cents for middlings, buyers
paying tax.
Mobile, J n. 22 —Cotton is in fair
demand; sales of 1200 bale-, market
closing dull, with prices easier than
yesterday. Middling, 31 ■}.
Puritan Hospitality. —The Rich
mond Times is responsible for the fol
lowing ;
A Southern clergyman if gr at emi
nence was invited some weeks ago to
the Ikuso of a lawyer cf distinction iu
a nnthi rn city. In the midst of an ani
mated conversation with the family, din
ner was announced
“My dear Mr S.” sail the hospita
ble lawyer, “our dinner is ready, and wc
must beg you to excuse ui for a short
time. Ids good enough to glance at my
library while wc are dirdng ”
The wife of the noble Yankee host
wap, however, so deeply interested in
the eloquent dr-course of the Sou!here
clergyuiaD, that she did n t want to
lose that intellectual treat, even while
enjoying a more substantial repast She
■ there ’ore offered the following amend
ment to the proposition of her husband:
“Perhaps, Mr. S , you womd prefer
sitting by tho fire in the diriii g room
and continuing yam interesting aod e' 1 -
ffying remarks while we are eating cur
dimer.”
The clergyia in. however, havh.g th«
carnal weakness of his eloth for a good
dinner, declined both of these hospita
ble invitations and returned to his ho
tel in a frame if mind not exacily se
raphic.
I’uitcit Slates Itnliana) Demo
cratic Convention.
Wc find the following in one of our
exchanges . There will be a United
States National Democratic C invention
held in tho city of Louisville Kentucky,
organized at twelve o'clock, noon, of
Tuesday, may 2,1867, on which occa
sion the democrats of the United States
are invited to meet for the purpose of
consultaiion and a reorganization of the
party, and for the defending of the con
sdtutioual liberties of the States and
people.
Every Congressional D'strict in the
United Btates, from Muine Jo Califor
nia, will be entitled to two representa
tives in the Convention, and there will
also be one from each State and territo
ry at large to be elected by the district
delegates, and it is suggested that no
tice be given by the democrats of each
district, and tho aforementioned dele
gates be elected as soon as possible.
Tho object of the above national Dem
ocratic Convention is to reorganize Jor
victory on the basis of the principles of
cur fathers —equality cf States—no tax
ation without representation— equal tax
ation, law, order and domestic tranquil-
tty.
L't the memories and examples of
the past —tho darkn;ss of the future,
and the hopes of posterity be our guide
and our strength in this great effort io
defense of the right, the principles of
liberty and the success of that self gov
ernment whieh derives its strength and
support from the consent of the gov
erned. The People.
United States, Jan. 8, 1867
Southwestern Railroad.
\VM. HOLT, Pres. | VIRGIL TOWERS, Sup
Leaves Macon 8 AM\ arrives at En
faula 6 30, P if ; Leaves Eufaula 7 20, A M ;
Arrives at Macon 4 SO, P M.
ALBANY BRANCH.
leaves Smitbville 1 46, P M ; Arrives at
Albany 3 11, P M; Leaves Albany 9 35, A M;
Arrives at Sinithvill* 11, A M.
The Originator of “Southern
Confederacy.” ' 1
In that department of Gen. Hill’*
Maga*,ne-The Land wc Love-known
“The Haversack,” we find the follow.
The Southern soldiers are interested
to learn the name of him, w i lo ug _
e “ 'I 5 , 0 es P re ssion “Southern Confeder
acy. In a former number and tbo mag
azme, it was Miown thatßrownlow was
among the first, at ,he South to avow
the determinatmn of “dying in the last
T I'-’ /eV} 6 P rGSe ‘va.iou of slavery.
In his fifth letter to his reverend broth,
er ryne, he fitvors an alliance with
h ranee as a means of establishii g a
‘Southern Confederacy.” Hear the ho
!y and consistent raar'yr from Tenues
see.
I, Fir ,would favor an alliance tcith
trance as a means ot more effectually
punisuing and starving out the Aboli
tionists of the North. This far-seeing
monarcu ot the French would unite with
us on our own firms , as it would afford
him an opportunity to crush the com
merce ami manufactures of Old England
and make hir Lei she is dependent up
on her ancient enemy, as well as atone
for villainous treatment of bis illustri
ous unele, Nepokon Bonaparte. Dj _
solve the Union, you infamous villains
and we shall make this proposition at
once t” Louis Napoleon, a most sagacious
monarch, and lie would quarter at New
Orleans 200,000 Frenchmen, ■nd a’
Chesapeake 200,000 more; we would
then command the Mississippi V a ]|, v
whip the Northwestern states into (llftt
S iUTHERN CONFEDERACY a V d
we would then tarn npsn the New
iand States, and cause the hurricai e of
civil war to rage and sweep from Ma
son and Dix’in’s line to the cod fid.vri.s
of Maine, until we would eziiosai h
the last Abolition Lo'huld rn the emt -
ri ’t tof America ! Face to face, knife
to knife, steel to steel, and pike to pike
we would meet ton, and as we w uld
cause you to bleed at every pore, we
would make you regret, in the litter ay
onics of death, that y. u had i vjr kit any
cot c rn for the African race 1
l’lom whom did iho rew “apostle if
liboity” borrow the phrase f The Mat
■ rsack warns to km w his name, bis c -
recr during the war, and h : s present
statu?, if he is Mill living.
/ le Giilfin .''tor says tl e Savannah
Griffin at (1 Noith Alab ma ruhotid is
now progressing with commendublo
rapidity. Quit© a largo lor e is ht
wi>ik, under the immediate supiTvisimi
of Joe Hears, an old railroader, and
tins Brown, who are making a fplen
uiil showing. The depot grounds ate
being graded, s' ops are to 1 o immedi
ately put up, a construction train will
be upon the road within the next sixfy
days, and by the first of Awguef, wo
will astonish the natives of Newnan,
" ui'tle of the eng ire *Cruw
, nr(v being e instructed especial
ly lor this road.
iu.v icitfii.o.
On the 13th by Rev. Win. Huhbard., Miss
Allic Bates and Mr. B. 11. Adams.
On the 17. hby the same, Mips Sallia Nowri
and J. flerson Austin.
I.’VjIBAUL A€*m, DAH&M, GA*
S. R. WESTON,
General Insurance .lycnt.
REPRESENTS good aad reliable compa
nies. Will lake fire and life risks.
Losses adjusted and paid promptly.
January 25tb, 3m.
Di solution.
rllE Law Firm of Wooten & Iloyl ia tbs»
and y d3 cl and by mutual consents
Both of them will give their attenfci on to tb@
business of th« late firm
C. B. WOOTEN,
January 25th '67. L; O. HOYL.
p KOIICiIA, Calhoun f'ouaty*
vX Whereas, Isaac Coalson, applies to mo
lor letters of .Administration on the estate of
Dennis Coalson, late of paid county dec’d.
These are therefore to cite and’ adrrouisb
all persons concerned to be and appear at rfff
office, within the time prescribed by la*,
show cause, if any, why said Tetters should
rot be granted. Given under my hand and
Offic ; al signature 20th Januarr, 1807.
W. E. GRIFFIN - , OyU
Al>mi§TßAfoß,S SALE.
WILL be sold under an order of the
Court of ordinary of Calhoun Coui ty,
on the First Tuesday in March next, the fol
low ing property belonging to the esute of
Malcomb McCo quodale, dccead: Lots of
land 149 and 150, in the 4lh District of Cal
houn county. Sold for the benefit of tho
heirs and credi or?.
REUBEN McCORQUOPALE, Ad’r.
voujrrr court session*
HEREAFTER the sessions Olathe county
Court of Terrell county will be held »
follows: The first quarter session (known as
the semi-annual session.) fourth Monday > n
February. Second quart r session on the
>hird Monday in May. Third quarter session
(known as the semi-annual session,) on lb®
touith Monday in August. Fouitb quarter
session on the third Monday in November.
Return day to all ibese-essions, ten day
before appearance, except in eases c ‘ att '7'
merits, claims, garnishments, and »” ®‘
like priccedmg service mutt be perfected
teen days before eppearrnef.
W. G. PARKS,
jan !5 Judge County Court, T. C.
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