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DAWSON JOURNAL
DAWSON, GA. IMAR.B. 1867.
Agent*.
M*. Elam J h.nson, Power’s Sta
tion, ii an authorized agent for this pa
per Contracts made o' r cei) s given
by him will be ratified by tbo proprie
tors.
Ely Otto, Esq., of Savannah Qa., is
our agent for that city.
T. P. Slider, E.-q , is our agent for
Charleston, S. C.
Thanks.—We return many thanks to
tboso of our friends who have been in
strumental in adding so largely to our
subscription li.-t, during the past few
and assure them that such efforts
on their part, will never lack for appro,
ciatiou.
Mobile Tribune learns through a pr
vate letter, that on Monday night last,
a destructive fire occurred at Nashville,
about 302 miles from Mobile on the
Tombigbeo river. A warehouse, eon
tainiug 200 bales of cotton, and a store
well stocked wi b provisions, were en
tirely consumed.
• Ministers. —Statistics show that
ministers as a class live longer than any
other portion of the community. Os 46
ministers whose deaths were reported in
the Congrcgationalist, during the last
year, the average age was 62i years
This speaks well for their temperance,
and shows that mental activity is not
unfavorable to long life.
The Peab dy Donation. —lt is un
derstood that no portion of the Peabody
donation for Southern education will be
applied in aid of our colleges or high
schoo’s; but will all be devoted to the
founding of common schools for the
children of the indigent. Agents are
now exploring the Southern States,
with a view to ascertain what localities
arc in greatest neod of such aid.
General Thomas, commanding the
department of Tennessee, has written a
very low and coarse insult to the South-
ern people, in a late letter to the Mayor
oi Rome, Ga., consenting to the libera
tion of certain citizens imprisonod for
displaying the Confederate flag in a dra
matte representation. Tbo Baltimore
American publishes the discreditable
document as “a noble letter,” and ap- 1
plauds Gan. Thomas for “giving the re
bellion one more blow.” Indeed 1
Gov. Brown’s Letter.
This document urging upon the
Southern people to get ahead of the
Radicals and complete the work of deg- ]
radation for them, is creating quite an (
excitement in some portions of our State, i
and particularly in Cherokee Georgia.
We see that meetings have been called ;
f l Atlanta, Dalton, Cartersville, and ,
other places to take action on the sub |
ject. We make it a point never to “go ;
it blind” on any question, and if ther® ,
is much light ou any political questions ,
now adays we “can’t see it.” We ,
have not been hasty to condemn the re
commendations of Gov. Brown ; not
withstanding the odiousness of the meas
ures sought to he imposed upon us, for
the question as to whether the adoption
of these measures will save us even
worse humiliation, and more bitter pills,
we admit to be a significant one. But
at the same time we are unable to con
ceive of lower or more humiliating
measures within the range of enlighten
ed reason. The past consistent states
manship of President Johnson in the
face of an overwhelming and vindictive
party majority, has forced the conviction
upon us that he, at least has tho good of
the whole country at heart. Ilis con
ciliatory and generous bearing even to
wards those whose toDgues know naught
but vilest calumny for him, scatters to
the winds the most distant idea that he
is working for party ends. Besides he
is in a position to know the purposes
and power of Lis and our opponents
better than any one else, and when he
sees fit to reccommend these meas
ures, we shall consider them as worthy
of the most sincere consideration on our
part. But so long as the President and
those whom we believe to bcoui friends
in the North, continue to fight the
measures, we deem it altogether unbe
coming us to turn against them and
court the disgrace of the radicals.
The best policy, in our opinion, is to
bear ourselves patiently, and await the
developments of the future. If any
actijn is taken, let the governors of the
several States bring the question before
the Supreme Court, in order, at least,
that the infamous outrages sought to be
imposed may be placed in their proper
light bes .re the outside world.
The threats of wholesale confiscation
to scare us into these measures we look
upon as empty buncombe, with no paral
lel in political history, and contrary to
the dictates of human reuson. At all
events we can’t yet become seared on
this poi Lt.
Tho 4,000 cit'zuns from
who sent a petition to Congress for the
establishment of a Territorial govern
ment, are composed almost exclusive
'y ol the newly created colored citi
zen.
Tire Veto Nl«*s age.
The President says, in effect, tnat
he has examined the bid to provide
more efficient governments in tho reb
el Slates, w ith the care which itH tran
scendent importance awakens lie is
unable to assent to it. The reasons
for his refusal are so grave, that he
hopes a statement of them will infli
ence patriotic and enlightend men. The
bill places ten States under military
rulers. He combats tho preamble. —
His informn'ion bliows that the people
are united, and have reorganized their
governments on the basis of peace.—
The face of the bill shows its object
not to be pea c. After the States
adopt measures no oriously objection
able, representation will be allowed
without reference to security of life or
property. The preamble’s excuse for
the bill, is admitted by the bill to be
false. Military rule is established, net
for the prevention of crime, but for
the enforcement of tho adoption ofodi
ois laws. Tho measure, in its char
acter and scope, has an object without
precedent or authority. It is palpably
in conflict with the Constitution, and
destructive of the biood-bought liberty.
Tho power given to a Brigadier Genr
eral is that of an absolute monarch
Ilia will is law. He determines the
rights of person and property, dispose
oflands and goods within his district,
and makes his own criminal cede.—
Everything is criminal which he de
nominates crime Every person is
guiby whom he condemns. He keeps
no record, need make no report, can
break up courts, and make judges and
jurors criminals His military court
is of his subordinates. Instead of mt
igating harshness, the single rule in
such courts would divide the respon
sibility, making it more cruel and un
just. Several provisions dictated by
humanity and introduced into the hill
to restrain officers, are in-op-rutive.—
Each (fficer may define cruelty accor
ding to his own temper. Gag, )a«h,
ball and chain lie within bis choice.
The military commander, under the
provisions of the bill, may condemn to
death without trial, thus avoiding the
Executive sanction. The authority
given that officer amounts to ab-olute
deeDotism, aggravated by the power
to delegate despotism to his subordi
nates, the bill declaring that he shad
“punish or cau e to be punished.”—
This power has been denied to Eng
lish Kings for five hundred years. In
all that timo, people speaking the Eng
lish language have borne no such ser
vitude.* It reduces the population of
ten States, regardless of sex, col r, or
condition, and strangers within their
limits to abject, degrading slavery.
It may be answered that officers are
just and humane. Doubtles they are
equally so with other classes, but the
history of the world is w ritten in vain,
if it tails to show the danger of unre
strained authority. It is, almost inva- j
riably, tyrannical when tho ruler is a
stranger appointed by an unfriendly 1
power. It was tried in Hungary andj
Poland, resulting in suffering that
aroused the sympathy of the world
In Ireland, though tempered by the
principles of English law, it begat in
indignantly denounced cruelties Tho
French Convention, arming deputies |
witji similar powers, sent them to the
departments, and massacres, murders
and atroiities followed. An irrespon
sible deputy never yields what the law
does not extort. Have wo the power
to establish and carry such a measure
into execution ? Certainly not, deriv- j
ing authority from tho Constitution or
acknowledging its limitations.
The remainder of the message con
sists in elaborate constitutional argu
ments, embracing copious extracts.
We learn from the La Grange Re
porter that a negro man, formerly the
propel ty of Mr. John J. Cook, of
Troup county, has been committed to
Jail for drowning his step child. The
child was found in the Chattahoochee
river, and the negro was arrested on
suspicion After being arrested, he
confessed the guilt, acknowledged that
he drowned the child, and gave as a
reason that he had nowhere to carry
it, nothing to feed it with, and desired
to get rid of its support. Humane
conclusion for an able-bodied man.—
He should be hung to the first limb.
State op the Poll on the Consti
tutional Amendment.—We append
below the Slates that have voted fur
the Constitutional Amendment:
For the Amendment—Connecticut,
Illinois, Irdiana, Kansas, Maine,
Michigan, Neva
da, N. Hamshire, New Jersey, New
York, Ohio, Oregon, Rhode Island,
Tennessee, Vermont, West Virginia
and Wisconsin. Total 19.
Against the same—Alabama, Ar
kansas, Delev are, Georgia, Florida,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mas
sachusetts, Mississippi, North Carolina
South Carolina, Texas and Virgina.—
Total 14.
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James Gordon Bennott, Jr , is re
ported to be engaged to, a young lady
belonging to the British nobility. An
other advertisement for the Herald.
ami other Item*.
The Democrats confidently expect j
to curry Connecticut in the State elec- \
tions which are U> occur on the 10th j
of March. We trust their marvelous j
faith will be rewarded.
The office of the Tallahassee Senti
nel was set on fire on the morning of
the 29th u t., sometime before day,
but the fire was fortunately discovered
by Mr. Buvkelaw, one of the proprie
tors, who was sle n pingin the building,
and extinguished before it had made
much headway.
The Atlanta New Era says that
President “Johnson is our on'y Lope,
and we shall not forsake him or his
policy in this fatal hour of Congres
sional sed'tion, conspiracy, rebellion,
heresy, schism, envy, malice, end all
uncharitableness.” And from all of
which we reverently respond, ''Good
Lord deliver us.”
The Chicago Tribune, a Radical pa
per, announces that just as soon as the
reconstruction question is settled, the
Northwest will vote solid for the abol
ition of extortionate and oppressive
dut : es and taxes, not levied to support
the government, but to plundei the
masses for the benefit of special class
es. New En 'land is likely to sit on
the stool of penitence by and by.
A Croesus died at Padua who left a
fortune of 12,000,000 francs. He could
scarcely write his name, and for fifty
years was a common laborer.
How it happens that Speaker Colfax
appears in Carpenter’s picture of “The
Death bed of Mr. Lincoln,” in viola
tion of the historical fact, is, that Pres
ident Johnson was first painted in,
where he belonged and was, bat in
consequence ol his growing unpopular
iy, the artist thought his presence
would harm the picture, so he painted
him out and put the Speaker in ! He
ought to have made a better trade
while about it.
The people of Marianna, Fla., haci
a meeting on Wednesday, of last
week, in reference to building a rail
road from St. Andrews Bay either to
Baiubridge or Quincy. Tho Floridi
an says that the general sentiment
seems to be in favor of connecting
with the Florida rather than the Goor
gia line of railroads.
The Rome Courier is pleased to
that the Legislature of Alabama or
di red a survey of tho Coosa river from
Wetumpka to that city, with a view
of making it navigable f r steamboats.
This will divert trado from the West
ern & Atlantic Railroad to the river,
and so down to Montgomery and Mo
bile.
We see it stated that it is proposed
to publish a morning papel on board
the steamship Greht Eastern, on her
v yageto and from America, across
the Atlantic. The paper will be call
ed tne Great Eastern Gazette, and it
is annnunced that a novelette, “The
Story of Two Hearts,” already has
been written, to be published in serial
form in the projected journal.
The Negro and Hi* Destiny.
Warwick, the correspondent of the
New York Day Book, writing from
the “Hills,” Alabama, says in his last
letter:
Very few peopb in Alabama know
it, but it is a fact, that Nick. Davis
has been perpetrating a sort of Radi
cal Convention in North Alabama. It
was a very lonesome little affair. I
note it on a humane principle of neg
lecting nobody on account of their mis
fortunes or insignificance. The thing
will assume some importance at Gree
ley’s “headquarters in New York.”—
There is uot one man in fifty in Ala
bama, who ever did or ever will hear
of it
Many negroes, very ma’ y more than
anybody here suspected at the time,
left the hill country ab ut Christmas
and went to the valley of the Missippi
and to Texas A considerable delega
tion left for Tennessee also. They
were induced to go by flattering prom
ises ol higher wages. Many farmers
here have not half the labor they ex
pected to employ. There is a panic
on the subject, and great fears that
lands will cease to have any market
value, and there may not be labor
enough to cultivate them. 1 think it
is all for the good of this section of
country. The negro is passing away
through the great valleys. The Yan
i kee cotton growers there will make
short work of him He will be “put
through” tecundem artem, to the infin
ite disgust of Gen. Oh 1 Howard’s Bu
reau. If we have not the energy to do
' our own work, why then, we can
\ starve—that is all 1 But we shall
work, and sow, and pasture, and cul
tivate 1 ur rich spots, and have to thank
God that we have so few negroes
among us.
Senator Wade if Ohio must, according
to the reports of nis admirers, be as ter
rible as the great African ant-eater.
Ono of these, speaking of his performan
ces on the Senate floor, says:
I have been told by Mr. Summer that
on odo occasion while Wade was speak
ing, Mason, of Virginia, tauchcd him
(Summer) on the Bhoulder, and, in a
tone of positive fright, said : “My God,
see that man prance!” On ano.her oc
casion, some oDe, Wigfall, I believe,
told oue of bis Southern colleagues that
he meant to reply to one of Ben’s speech
es. “Ob, for Heaven’s 6ake, don’t—
don’t rouse the old fellow. Wo’ve got
him quiet now, and better let him alone.
Tlic L«'gi»laturc.
Gov. Brown, in Lii late letter on re
construction, says :
It only remains for me add, that I
consider it the duty of the Governor of
Georgia to call the L gisLture tugethir
wi’hout delay, and to recommend the
passage of an act cal ir.g a convention
of the people of tffis Sute, to so change
our S'ate Constitution as to provide for
universal suffrage in conformity to the
measuro which has passed Congress,
known as the Shenna i amendment;
and to provide for the early election, of
a L"g : slature which will adopt the Con
stitutional Amendment ; n accordance
with said rrquirement. We now have
the assurance of Congress iu the pass
age of this bill, that tliis shall settle the
question of our admis'-ion. We shall
never gcr better terms. Let us comply
with them, aDd be ready to be repre
sented in the next Congress as soon as
p isdble.
I respec'fully suggest that the people
of the several counties of the State who
favor the proposed action, hold public
meetings, with as little delay as possible,
and urge upon the Governor to convene
the Legislature and recommend them to
take prompt action. The Governor and
Legislature were elected before the Con
stitutional Amendment whs proposed,
n 1 I respi ctfully submit tia ti is tho r
imperative duty, in the present condi
tion of the oountry, to take the ncces
sary steps to refer tdis question to the
people at the ballot box. The most ap
propriate mode of doing this, is to order
n elec:i >n for delegates to a Convention,
t> aet upon the proposition now submit
ted by C tigress. This they cannot
with propriety refuse, if the people de
mand it-. Let the people speak.
In connection with this subject we
give the following list of persons affect
ed by this bill, which will boos interest
at this tiu e.
1. All persons who, before the war,
wtro members of Congress or officers of
the United Btates and took the oath to
support the Constitution of the. Uuited
States and afterwards engaged in the re
bellion.
2. All persons who, prior to tho war,
were executive, legislative, or judicial
offioers of the State and took the like
i ah, and engaged in the rebellion.
Tbis embraces Governors, metnbcrsof
the Legislature, and judicial officers,
from a Judge of the Supreme C iurt
down to a Justice of the Peace, wh >,
at any time, held ther office and took the
oaib and af.erwards engaged in the re
bellion.
Who, then, are not excluded ?
I. No one is exclud and because be
hill an office u- der the Cons derate
States from Presi lent down, if he does
not fall within *one of the excluded
classes above specified. The simple fact
that ho was a Confederate Senator or a
Confedeiate General, or that ha took an I
oath to support the constitution of the
Confederate States, does not exclude
him.
2 No State or county officer L ex
cluded on account of his having held
the office and taken the oath and en
gaged in the rebellion, if he were not
an cxocu ive, legislative or judicial offi
e r; therefore, neither a lawyer, sheriff,
clerk, tax collector, receiver, county
treasurer, coronet, surveyor, constable,
or road commissioner is excluded.
3. As no man under twenty-one years
of age, when t'-e war began, held any
such office as disqualith and and none of
them t ok the oath to support the Con
•stitution of the United States during
the war, and as the war commenced
noarly six years ago, no man in Georgia
U'ider twenty-seven years of age can be
excluded. .
4 Militia officers are not excluded.
5. Tiie whole mass of oui people who
fall within none of the excluded classes
above mentioned, are free from tho dis
qualification, and may v >te and hold
any office in the State without regard
to the pari they took in the war.
SaocKiNO Case of Spontaneous
Combustion. —Here is a statement
which the members of'he Congression
al Temperance Society should ponder
deeply:
A well authenticated case of spon
taneous combustion occured at Colum
bus, la., Friday morning. Andrew
Nolto, a German, very intemperate in
his habits, was found dead in his shop,
his lips entirely burned away leaving
a ghastly hole, his tongue charred to a
crisp. His nose was also burned, as
if by fire coming out of his Dostrils.
and his clothes were still burning
when found No other part of tbo
body save tho air passages was burn
ed. Physicians who examined tho
body pronounce it a clear ca e of spon
taneous combustion. It is supfiosed
that the fire was communicated by at
tempting to light a cigar.
Planting — Sound Advice. —A Mis
sissippi planter gives the following sound
advice:
“There is danger that our own mis
guided policy may do as more injury
than at;y mere political movement.
Since our cotton is heavily taxed,
ought we not to raise that which is not
taxed ? As I have said before, the best
and wisest production which we can
have against high tariffs and high taxes
on our cotton is to manufacture the cot
ton which we raise, and I might add,
j produce the food which we oonsume.
‘lf we escape general confiscation,
' t! en there is danger that the policy
wLioh we have been pursuing (and
I I fear will coniinue to pursue) will pro
duce general starvation. I think it very
probable that Mississippi ; s in a worse
I conditien to-day, so far as the necessa
ries of life is concerned, than she was on
the day of the surrender. It is all ow
ing, I think, to our attempt to raise tpo
much cotton, in which we failed sig
nally, and chaoge of policy can alone
save is—raise our supplies and let cot
ton be the surplus. It requires such
continuous labor during the whole year,
j and is subject to so many casualities, it
is not safe to rely on it as the sole means
of providing ourselves with tho nccossa-
I ries and oomforts of life.”
Niggeralis.atiou.
In the opinion , of that truly conserva
tive journal, the National lutelligenccr,
one effeot es the “Sherman Bill” is,
tl at at the next election, if not before,
in any State, the voters shall be all no
groes, and such of the whites as are not
excluded from holding offioa under
the Constitutional Amendment.” This
being so that j mroal concludes au able
articlo upon it as follows:
These who are excluded from bold
ing office by the Consti utienal Amend
ment cannot, by the bill,, vote for del
egates to a convention to form anew
Constitution, which may be got up ‘by
(hepeople ’’ iu the provincialized States.
Os course there can be no authentic call
for a conventi n by the people. The
phraseology ia used to prevent a Con
stitute mal Convention. Bcsid°s, the
limitations of power by Congres over a
Constitution, if made, arc simply expe
dients to keep, upon one pretemo or an
other, the Southern States out of the
Union.
In an other article in the same issue
of that paper, the editors pronounce the
entire bill“an attempted repeal, by stat
ute, of constituti nal provisions. They
affirn that “the people of the Scutb a>e
cit,.zcns of the United States;” that “to
citizens the Constituti n guarantees ju
ry trial exemption from seizure and
search, the right to bear arms to a grand
jury presentment; yet all these are
swept away at the will a Brigadier Gep
eral and that of his subordinates.”
Entertaining similar views in re
gard to the bill, the New Ycrk World,
another eminently conservative j lurnal,
concludes, in its issue of the 23d instant
au able aDd lengthy article as follows:
We do not doubt that, in the end,
the Southern people could bafle the
Ridicals by simple, s'eady persistence.
But for this policy to prevail, they
must be substantially unanimous. Mere
persevereance without uuity will profit
nothing. If the Southern people split
ou this question, the dissenting minor
ity wi l unite with the uegroes and with
them, soon become a majority, re organ
ize the State, and get admitted to Om
gres-s. Whether this can be permanent
ly prevented we are no judges, and our
Southern fellow-citizuus are. It all de
pends upon whether the wbole Southern
people are sound to the core and infl x
ibly resolute If enough of them final
ly yield to make with tbo negroes a ma
jority, all the intermediate opposition
will be a loss of time, temper, quiet,
and material prosperity, wi bout any
compensating advantage. They ought
either to stand firm aud stand together,
or e'se take time by the forelock and
make the best of what cannot be helped
If they are going to blust- r now and
yield by-and-by, they will draw upon’
themselves the evils of both lines of pol
icy, and secure the advantages of nci
therc.
No one will dispute the soundness of
the advice embraced in the concluding
portion of the foregoiDg paragraph, nor
can any one resist the truths embraced
in ether portions of it.
A Connecticut Opinion.
Through the kindness of a friend, w e
have been favored with a copy of the
Norwich (Con.) \dvcrtisor, and it is a
source of gratification to us to see, while
many in our own section are beginuing
o reel and quake under radical threats
of annihilation, that even the conserva
ivo men and papers still speak out
boldly agaiast the ruinous policy of the
political demag'gues who accidentally,
or a season sway the power in the gov
ernment. Asa specimen of the senti
ments so freely spoken in that paper, we
give the following:
‘•The Government of Alabama and
Georgia are just as valid as those of
Connecticut and Rhode Island. This
bill, which undertakes to overturn them,
and subject tho people to tbe wiil of
military satraps, is a monstrous usur
pation of power, which strikes at. the
foundation of the government, if the
government of a State nay be extin
guished by act of Congress, on the ale
gation that laws f> r tho preservation of
tbe peace are not enforced—and crimes
occur every day in every State—then
the whole country is at the mercy of an
accidental majority in CongreFS, and the
written Constitution, by which it has
been suppOoed that the piwcrsof our
rulers were limited, aud certain rights
powers reta ned to the people and the and
Btates, is not worth the paper on which
it is printed. If this bo the rule, wc
are worse off than England France, or
even Austria, fur those monarchies have
an established and we'l-defined form of
government; whereas we shall be left to
the whims and passions of t:9 hour—
at the mercy of every demag' gue who
can for the moment command the neces
sary votes in Congress to put his do
signs, however monstrous, upon the stat
ute book. We have no patience to
deal with the hypocrisy and pbarisaism
by which these despotic acts arc carried
through in the name of Liberty and
Equality. The exclamation of tbe
Freuch victim at the guillotine : “Oh,
Liberty ! what crimes arc committed in
thy name I” might be repeated by
Washington if he could rise from his
grave and look, upon the men whi are
tearing down the temple of Liberty, hg.
and hie compatriots erected.”
Chinese Laborers. —There are Chi
nesc laborers now on a Louisiana plan
tation. The Nichitochos Times, of the
16th, says:
The coolies are good laborers and so
ber men. They are industrious and
perfectly satisfied with their new coun
try, and any amount of labor will be
performed by them provided the con
tracts passed are carried out to the let
ter, and particularly that about the pay
ment of monthly wages and rations.
Nuke Corn.
Will the South ever learn anything ?
A French oynio upon tbo restoration cf
the Baurbone, remarkod : ‘They have
nothing.” Shall we bo subjeot to the
same sarcasm ? What can we do with
out oorn ?
In the old limes, just beforo the great
crash of’36-’37, when everybody was
run mad ou the subject of cotton, just
as we ate now, a team —a poor, lean
mulo team—was staggering up Main
treet under a heavy load. Tb# owner
in a sort of apologetic way, remarked
to c knot of friends, “Upon my word, I
wish 1 did know wbat would fatti n my
mules. I’ve tried nox vomica and asa
fuedite, and every sort of thing, and it,
don’t seem to do a | a iclc of good.”
“Didyou ever try oorn '("’quietly asked
the DiogeDeß of the par'y. “If not,
perhaps you had better try it.”
We would warn the people to make
corn. Lessees don’t seem to care about
it; they come to suck out the substauce
and then, like wild geese,emigrate north
with their craws full. See to it you
leasers; make it a sine qua non that your
lesses shall raise corn. Your country
demands it. A full corn crib is better
than any full crib of any ether kind.
Chickens, mules, darkie.- and every liv
ing thing rejoioo in it. Who have been
the most successful planters in old
times ? The man of corn.
We are astonished to hear sensible
men advising people to make cotton to
buy corn with Even the old Indians
have got drunk. We know some large
plantations that bavn t got enough shuck
to make horee collars. Ot course the
owner of snch places ’’ain’t worth
shucks.”
The startling announcement was
made in town yesterday, that there
wasn’t a sack of com in town. Are we
to have a famine '/ It seems so. If wo
bow djwn to cotton and worship it and
neglect coro, we are bound to end in
famine. Would that some Joseph could
give us a lecture on the subject 1 He
is the only statesman, of whom we ever
hear, who got corned in the right way.
Look at your situation. You are now
in military parlance, in a “cul du sac,”
made cf gunny sacks. You’ve got to
borrow the money to buy tho corn ;
you’ve got to feed the mules to haul the
corn ; you’ve got to pay the driver to
drive the mules ta haul the corn ; you’ve
got to grease the wagon, etc , and ycu
can run on tho style of tl e “cow with
the crumply horn,” and pile up the dis
asters that spring from empty corti
eribg.
Don’t be satisfied with ordinary crops,
because we’ll have to begin to suck
roisting cars beforo the moustache is off
of them.
Let all the editors in our land raise
the corn song, and let t tie people j jin
the chorus, “raise corn I”
Let us do it quick, before Uncle Sam
Las a chance to tax uS. It ii the only
thing that isu’t stamped—that’s oue
cons datior.
It’s time for us to speak out and
warn people, plant corn ! May God
bless us next seasjn with a cornucopia
of corn 1 Notches Courier.
Effect* of llio .’Military Bill.
The New York Tribune gives the
Radical view of the effects of Sherman’s
Rill thus:
‘‘The immediate responsibility now
rests with the President, and after him
with the Southern States. He may veto
the bill, and they may refuse the offers.
Rut should it become u law, tho effects
will be these:
I. The Rebel States will retain their
present governments, under which no
p rsou who, as the third section of the
Constitutional Amendment enacts,
‘haviug taken an oath as a member of
Congress, or as an officer of the United
States, or as a member of any State
Legislature, or as executive or judicial
officer of any State to support the Con—
stitu itn of the United States,” shall
have aided the rebellion, is eligible to
office. And also under such govern
ments to discrimination in regard to
color shall be made in the elective fran
chise.
11. While these provisional govern
ments exists, the Rebel States are to be
divided into military districts, governed
by officers of the army, with power to
organize military courts superior to State
authority.
111. The people of the Rebel States,
whenever they are tired of this govern -
ment, may, by a vote of all there cit
izens, without respect to color, except
those disqualified from holuing office by
the Constitutional Amendment, elect
delegates to a Convention to form State
Constitutions. When these Constitu
tions are established upon the basis of
impartial suffrage, and are ratifiied by
the people, and when the Sta f es thus or
ganized have adopted the Constitutional
Amendmeut, they shall be admitted to
representation in Congress, when mili
tary rule will cease, and South Caroli
na and Texas will hold the same pla
ces in the Union as New York and Mas
saohu-etts. Nor is thero want of cause
to hope that this result may soon be
reached, for those provisions of tho bill
which at once establish Impartial Suf
frage make the freedmen equal partici
pants in the work ”
Reorganization to Begin at Onc*-
—According to the New York Even
ing Post if President Johnson vetoes
the reconstruction bill—which he has
done—Congress will at once pass it over
his head, and as soon as the bill thus
becomes a law, it is understood that cit
izens of North Carolina and Arkansas
will at once begin the work of reorgan
ization under it. ‘‘They are now mak
ing greparations for this important work
so as to secure proper oonoert of actiou
in the different parts of the States, and
though they expect to meet at first with
some opposition from the factiously dis
posed, they depend upen the United
States to protect them in exercising lull
and free discussion before the people,
and in holding the elections prescribed
by the act.”
According to the superintendent of
public instruction, thero are now one
r ound million of scholars attending the
f r oe schools of New York.
♦Vctr •tfhcrtigeuicntff.
BREAD! BREAD!
HAVING got our Bakery in there,
working order, we are erepared •-
msh the public with good Ireah Baker’* Br..A
every day, at our Store in Loyleaa Block *
Dawson, Mar 81m, BYRD & COKER
FOR BALK;
I offer for sale one yoke of Men and c*» *
Also five head of CaUle, and a flock
Uoata. Apply to me in Dawgon. ck °‘
marß:Zt P. M. HARDEN.
LKROT BROWS, TMOS.V
BROWN & STEWART
Ware House and *
(omissioY merchants
at Sharp A Brown’s old stand
wsojt
We'are determined to use onr utmoat en
dcavors to give entire satisfaction to all »iT
may favor us with their patronage • aild „
tar as possible to be to them, in this denari
ment, (what we have often felt, and what ...
ry planter must feel that he needs) j un and
reliable friend*. That we be the better ena
bled to catry out his ands gn, we ha< es. ver 1
aa buaines. agent the well known and reliable
Cnpi. John A. Fulton.
"A just balance," is our motto.
pianos! ~
-Arid Piano Tuning!
We are prepared to furnish to order the
following justly celebrated Piano Fortes via-
Hazleton & Bro’s, Steinway & Sons, John B
Dunham, E .rneat Gabler, Chickering & Sons'
and aDy other that purchasers may desire—at
manufactories retail prices—varying from
hundred dollars, according to the style
Every instrument warranted to give perfect
satisfaction. The very best references given
We pur ou loot every piano we sell and
keep them in tune twelve months free of
charge. Orders addressed to us for instru
ments or tuning will meet with prompt attet
tion. Address,
A. A. CLARKE & SONS,
marß:lm» Smithville, Ga.
TERRELL INFERfoiTcoURT,
MARCH TER,If, 1867.
Present their Honors, Samuel’L Williams,
Janies It. Knott, James M. Simmons and D.
A. Woolbnght. It is ordered y the Court
that ar election be held on the first Tueseav
in April next at the different precincts in
Terrell County, for Sheriff to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the Resignation of M. W
Kennedy, Sheriff March 5 h 1867
Samuel l. williams, j. i. c
J. R. KNOTT, J. I. c. ■
J. M. ,-IMMOXS, J I.c
D A. WOOLBRIGHT, J, I. C.
A true extract from the minmes of the
W. J ADAMS.
f 7 I.ORGIA, Terrell Comity :
V J Whereas, L S. A J. W. Johnson, llf p|j,. 8
for letters of dismission from the estate of
Jaiiics J, hasun, late ot Terrell county de
ceased.
These are, therefore, to cite and admonish
all presons concerned to be and appear at
my office within the time preseri bed by law
Hiid show cause,if any, why raid letterssiiould’
not be granted.
Given under mv hand and official signature
this March 8 h ’67. T. M. JONES, Ord’v.
Spevlal Butin 's .Sate.
ILL be sold before the Court Hon-e
” » door, ill the Town of Dawson Terrell
County, on the first Tuesday in April next
within the usual hours of Sale, the following
property to-wit: one chest of carpenters
tools and a one horse wagon and harness
levied on as the property of John Lisiier to
to satisfy oue attachment Ii fa issued from
the county court of Terrel) comity, in f.,vnr
of John Whitaker vs John Lasiter, proferty
pointed out in said 6 f•.
M .rch 6th'67- L. M. ROBERTS,
Special Baliff.
TEKKELL SHEICIEF KALI.
\Y 7 IbL be sold before the Court House
VT door in tlie town of, Dawson Terrell
county on the first Tuesdav in April next
the legal hours of sale, the following p-oper
tv to wit: one house and lor, in this Town of
Dawson Teirell County, No. not known, lut
known as the place now occupied by C. A.
Crowell. Levied on as the property of W.
N. Duekerto snisfv four Justice Court fi la's
issued from the PIH district G M , es Fiord
County Ga., Iu favor of A. W. Caldwell vs.,
W. N. Ducker, which fi fa’s have been tram—
fered to T W. Lnyhss. Property point* <1
out by T. W Lojless, transferred, levy made
and returned to me by a constable.
Also at the same timo and place, will be
sold one lot of land, No. (281) two hundred
and eighty one in the Third District of Ter
rell County. Levied on as the property of
Kicbard Maltbie to satisfy threw Justice
Court, fi fa issued from the 1154, District G.
M , of Terrell County, in favor of Elij ih Bol
flower vs. Richard Mal.bie and Myron Wes
ton security.
Property pointed out by E. Belfloa er.
Levy made and returned to me by a constas
ble.
Also at the same time and place, will be
sold one Two Horse Wagon. Levied on as
the property of John W. Kennedy, to satisfy
a fi fa from Terrell Superior Court in favor of
John B. Perry vs. John W. Kennedy, maker,
and Jesse Darden, endorser.
* Also at the same time and place, will be
sold, a lot of Law Books, about twenty in
number. Levied on as the property of W.
W. Blair, tositisfy an execution issued from
the Superior Court of Terrell County in favor
of Isacc Dennard vs. W. W. Blair. Property
pointed oat by Plantiffs Attorney.
S. F. LASSETER,
marß:tds Sh'lf
To tlte Justices of the Inferior Court
of Terrell County:
The last General Assembly adapted tha
following in the General Appropriation Act,
viz:
“Seation 85. And be it farther enacted,
That the sum of One Hundred Thousand Dol
iars, or «o much thereof as in the opinion of
the Governor shall be absolutely necessary,
be appropriated to purchase Com to gi'O
bread to such indigent widows and orphans
of deceased soldiers, aod disabled soldiers t#
this State, who, by reason of their extreme
poverty and inability to labor, need the sitn< ;
to be distributed under such rules and regu
lations as the Govenor may bresetibe. No
persons to be, or become a beneficiary oi
this fund, who are able to labor for bread or
purchase the same ; provided, that no pait
of the same shall be expended until the Gov»
i r tor shall become satisfied that a suffit iency
of Corn will not be contributed from volun
tary sources.”
In accordance with the above, I am di
rected by Uis Exdellency Governor Jenk B‘,
to call upon you to iurnish him before or by
the first of April, the number of eaoh class of
‘beneficiaries,in your county, entitled under
this Act.
Tho law requires all persons appljinp for
relief under this Aot, to make affidavit, or
swear as to their inability to purcha e bread.
The widow of a deceased so’dier to swear for
herself and children ; the Guardian or person
having in charge the orphans of a deceased
soldier, to swear for them, and the disabled
soldier to swear for himself. None are re
turned who fail to take the oath; and the
Justices of the Infetior Court are to allow
none to take it, who, in their opinion, are no
entitled under this Act. .
All persons interested will come lorwara
and report to me at once. By order ol
Court, M: ruh 9th q y CLARK
Ci’a lot Co urt ’