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DAWSON JOURNAL.
DAWSON, GA. MAR 15, ISG7.
Mr. E'.am J iinson, Pt wor’s Sta
tion, i; an aathor'zcd agent fir this pa
per Cootraetß’t! ado o 1 r eeip’s giver
lij him will lo ratitioU by the prujuir.-
tO’S.
Ely Otto, Esq , of Savanuab Ga , i.
our agent for that city.
T. P. Smufr, E <i,i? our agent for
Charleston, S. C.
Traveling Agent.
Mr. A. .1. riarp is general traveling
agent for tl is jinjier. All contracts
made or receipts given by him, will In
rrtiSed by the proprietors.
Mr. Bright, in one of his late
speeches, pui 1 that one half of Scot
land is owned by twelve persons, and
one half of England by onj t undred
and sis y.
The Southern belief Committee
have slipped from New York thirty
thousand busl.e’s of corn in equal
quantities to Charleston, Savannah,
nnd Mobi e.
lion. I.inton Stephen o , of Georgia,
is union j the arrivals at one of the
New York Bote's lb- is on his way
to B a:on to be m inied to a lady of
that oty. So says an exebango.
Our Jliu r ary Rulers —lt is au -
thoritatively announced that. Generals
Sherman, Mead, Hancock, 'feDowe!i
and Sehofiel 1 will command thss five
Military Districts made by Sherman’s
Reconstruction Pill
pRrrARINO to go into a Territo
ry.—A gentleman residing on a farm
near Richmond, a few days since, in
view of the passage of the territorializ
ing bill, addressel the Commissioner
of Agriculture, begging him to su' and
in about five hundred bushels of pra -
rie grass and ten buffaloes.
The Atlanta Njw Era says it is
thought the bridge over Ruining Wa
ter, on the Nashville an! Caittanooga
Railroad, which was washed, awry last
Wednesday, will be rj’.l .c'd i.i two or
three days. The Era dees not think
the damage en the S ate an 1 Tennes
see roads will interrupt freight and trav
el more than two or three days.
Piling it On. —Not content with the
infamy hoiped upon the South by the
last Oorg-e's, old Sumner, s’ill smart
ing from the well-deserved links of a
B„u’h Car,lliiiau’seanc ; opens the for
tieth Congress with his fiendbh howl
ing for a cowardly revenge. lie pays
Sherman’s hill is incomplete io’s not
go far enough.
Verily, if the pafrio's of old could
arise, they would bludi wi h shame
to behold to what depths the principles
of liber’y established by them have
been sunk by the demagogues who now
have a once great government in their
bands.
What llicii Culture Will Du.—
The Sou'll Carolinian relates an in
stance in which the wife of one of the
Chancellors in Mnrlbor >’ district set
opart a quarter of an acre of the veg
etable garden to Cotton, anJ cultivat
ed it with the house domestic?. She
made, in spite of unfavorable season
nine hundred and eighteen pounds of
Cotton, > r an average of nearly three
bales to the acre What better illus
tration could be offered that tho true
policy of our planters is to make up
for the scarcity of labor by high cul
ture. A proper application of artifi
cial manures wllin k: our thin and
impove ished lands equal to a garden
in produetivene s.
No Concession.— Tho Philadelphia
Age has a very sensible article on the
situa i' n, in which it says that not one
inch should be conceded to the march
of usurpation. Concession wil! not
satisfy the greedy app tites of the men
who are now leu iing the asau't upon
the rights cf the States and the lib r
ties of the peoplj. Ninety-nine points
given up without a conteApy and still
the party in power would use force to
tear the rema'ning right or liberty
from the grasp of a reluctant pec pie
It is now the confessed intention of
the Radical party to destroy the South
ern States, and govern the territory
by military pov er. Is that an Ret
which should be accepted or applaud
ed ? If not, then the means must be
taken to prevent the mischief. One of
these means is an appeal to the Su
preme Court, and the Enquirer is right
in urging that duy upon the people
of Virginia ar.d the South.
The B 'nbridgo Argus thinks that
there i» little dcubt bat that the people
of Decatur county wid subscribe a suf
ficient »mrunt to secure the completion
of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad to
to that eity by the first cf October
They ought to do it, and we believe
tLey will.
There have been heavy rains in Co
lumbus, and the Sun of th: t city thinks
that the unustal flood will drown out the
•eed which has been put in the ground.
The Fort Valley Weekly ledger is
offered for sale.
Gone to Washington. — Governor
Jen!.ins las gun ti Washington to
confer with the j roper authorities in n
pard to the o, urso if action on the pan
of our pco) hi which woulJ be likely to
do in ist towards restoring peace and
prosperity to the country. Wo see it
stated that tho Governors el the other
Southern States have gone tothe caji
t.d for the ssme purpose, we hope there
will Lo c mo< rt of aeti in on their part.
They eccupy a please to know our po-
I sition and dangers, and we hope our
| j.eofle will he prepared to take tl eir ad
iviccmihe nutter on their return
1 provided the govern ts are united in re
onmuiendiig a plan for net ion. Abuvi
all things, let us keep down divisions
and political discord.
News and other FlesHt.
Tho Chattanooga Republican says :
All know that one of the ablest papers
in the country is c lited by a negro
One of t’ c ablest lawyers in tl»« coun
try i a negro Aud the same might
with truth be said in every walk ot
ifa.
I- is not true that Ben. Butler w.ll
resigu his seat in the S.mate of the Uni
ted S:at:s to become one of th - tho
ltiigadlcrs. lie says his ambition for
glory and spo. ns is satisfied
A Missouri paper says there is a very
pero pliblc agitation in tho hemp mar
ket since the announcement of the pas
sage of the Southern Military bill over
the l’resident’s veto.
The Far West has in the last five
years yielded in gild an! silver (he
enormous sum of three thousand million
dollars.
A Washington dispatch says : Sur
ratt will doubtless prove an alibi on the
night of the assassination, lie is [toques
ti mab'y implicated in the original con
spiracy for the abduction of President
Lincoln, but that ivas changed to an as
sassination *pdot but a few hours before
the bloody deed was committed.
I In tho cveut of he death or removal
iuf the President, old Bon. Wade will
! succeed to the Presidential offi c
1 A3 the radicals have decided that the
! communities of tho S uth are not
j States, let us hope they will take oeca
j sion at an early day to make p rovision
for the security of the debts of the late
States.
In its di ci.don in the Milligan ease,
, the Uoitcd S ates Supreme Court gave
| expression to the fell iwing :*'Civil liber
ty and maitial Lw can cannot endure
together : the antagonism is irreconcih-
I hie ; and in’ the coi tlict, cne or the oth
er must perish.”
The Salt Lake Videtto announces,
that the work of‘‘Geutlo expulsion’ by
the Mormons is still progressing. On
tho 15th of January two prominent cit
iz in° received mysterious notice to quit
the place or takr the consequences.
Accepting the invitation as iuvitable
they left.
A Virginia paper says in irmrc than
one half of tho counties in Virginia
the oegrocs out numbered tho whites.
Tney can command the Legislature
The majority of the Legislature, under
the Sherman bill, may be negroes. Al
lowing for tho influence of property and
intelligence, a number of the members
of the may boa grees.
Steamer St Charles Sunk —The
Mobili Tribune siys it i? r ported in
that city, that the fine steamer St.
Caarlc3 struck a snug on the Alabama
river last Tu’sdiy, near tha Lower
Beach Tree and sunk. Nothing is said
as to the cmdition of her cargo. The
presumption is, it. is badly damaged.
Something New —One’ of our ex
changes savs that a novel mode of ship
building wi l bo attempted atSaaduskv,
Ohio. A steamboat boilor is to be plac
ed in nos tien, and the boat built around 1
it. This idea may work well, but it!
looks to us much Lko the idea of the
Irishman for casting cannon, which we
remember navingread many years sinor.
Bat said it was the “aisie -t thing iu the
world to cast a cannon. AU you have
to do is to get a long hole and pour
melted brass or non round it.”
Burning of the Steamship Anda-
LUSIA. —Tho steamship Andalusia,
from New \ r ork, was burnt off Cape
Hatteras on last Saturday, and Edward
North, Burscr, James McMnllen, En
gineer, Jacob Lockman, Pilot, with
four of the crew and four passengers,
are missing. The remaind r of the
passengers and crew arrived in Charles
ton yesterday on the steamer Manha
tan. It is to he hoped tho missing per
sons may have been picked up ar.d sav
ed by some other vessel.
Spiritual.—YVe have received a pa
, per published at Augusta, Ga ,—the
j Impending Epoch,” containing five com
munications from the spirit land from
j tho late Abraham Lincoln. They were
; wri'ien through the mediuoa of a lady in
i "lex .s, and the principle political foa'ure
in them is that the “love and gentle
ness of woman” in tho counsels of the
i nation is all that will save cur llepubli
i can ins itut ons from final over brow.
I J. 11. Washington, son of the late
incumbent, has Leon appointed Bo t
mas’er at Maoon, Ga.
Washington Kcwi and Items.
The National Intelligencer, referring
to the fi st day’s proceedings of the For
tictli Congress, says:
‘By formal vote, the roles of the
LI iu*o were suspended for one week. |
As i! the tnimrity arc nut m ffieicrtly
in the < f the majority, tho latter
has virtually declared that there is to
he no parliamentary hut tho will of the
m j ri y. The doctriuo of tho law,
( lironiole, that the will of the mnj irity
is to override the law, thus g< ts a prac
tical assertion on tho very firat day of
the F iti- th Congress. If that spirit
is to matk its deliberation,' hi w many
of that vast concourse will be unaided »o
be called freemen ere it has run its race ?
niOTEST OF PRESIDENT JOHNSON.
“In the Bouse on Monday, shortly
after the organitali >n of tho Fortieth
Cergress, tho Speaker announced that
the President had signed the army ap
propriation bill but had done so under a
protest, which he read as follows ;
Jo the. House <f Eejiresmiativrs ;
‘‘The act entitled‘ an act making ap
propriation for the support of the army
for the year ending June 20, 1868, and
for other purposes,” contains provisions
to which I must call attention. These
provisions aie contained in the second
section, which in cctain cases deprives
the President ol his constitutional func
tions as commander-in-chief of the ar
my, under the lixth section, denying to
Siatcs of the IJuirn the constitutional
right to protect themselves in any emer
gency by means of their own malitia.
These provisions aro out of place iD
an appropiation act. lam compelled to
defeat the necessary appripriationa if I
withhold my signature from the bill.
Pressed by this circumstance I feel con
strained to return the bill with my sig
nature, but to accompany it with my
protest against the section which I have
indicated ’’
Andrew JonotoN.
THI BANKRUPT bill SIGNED.
“The President has signed the bill
estub’ishing a uniform system of bank
ruptey. This bill is now a law, and
will take effect at once. The Intelli
g "rtcer thinks the enactment will bo
hailed with great gratification through
out the eountry, and especially in those
States where aic yet to Lc found tha
wrecks of the financial disasters of 1857,
as will as those necessarily attending
the late, war. It is understood that
this law sweeps away all Stale insol
vent laws and stay laws, and laws of im
prisonment for debt.
THE FLAG OF OUR UNION.
The Washington Republican says
there w s once a flag of the Union ; but
now ten of the “pretendeJStates” Lave
been converted into five military di -
trials, and it is not au easy matter to
Jay to define the flag which Congress
would recognize as tho emblem of our
Government.
80UTH2SN reconstruction.
“Data,” of the Baltimore Sun, says :
“Private information recived here gives
the assuranco that tho Southern people
will at ones accept the situation aud se
lect delegates to form a convention, in
pursuance <4" the military government
hill. A delegation from Virginia have
been here and consulted leading
on the subject. They also called on
the Picsident and made known their
purposes. They learned from Mr. John
ton that, so far as the administration
was concerned, the law will bo executed
so the letter.’’
PROTEST OF TIIE CONSERVATIVES
The following is the pro'est of the
Conservative members of Congress
against the organization on Monday,
which tLe elerk saw fit to decline re
ceiving.
\Y bereas, it appears liy the record
just made that tho, following States,
seventeen in number, aro not now rep
rest-n'ed upon tho floor of this House,
viz: The Status of New Hampshire,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina. Geor
gia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Texas, Tennessee, Ken
tucky, Ca’ifornia, and Nebraska—
States entitled by act of Congress, ol
Match 4, 1802, and subsequent as ful
rows : New Hampshire, 3 ; Rhode Is
land, 3 ; Connecticut, 4; Virginia, 8 !
North Carolina, 7 ; South Carolina, 4;
Georgia, 7 ; Florida, 1; Alabama, 6;
Mississippi,s; Loui iana, 5; Texa--, 4;
Tennessee, 8; Kentucky, 9 ; California,
3 ; Arkansas, 3 ; Nebr ,ska, 1; in all
eighty Congressional districts, now un
represented on the floor of the House;
And whereas, of these unrepresent
ed States seven are of the original
thirteen that, in 1787, met in conven
tion and created the Constitution of
the United States—New Hampshire,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina and
Georgia—a majority of tho origi
nal ; therefore, we, members of the
Fortieth Congress, do now enter our
most solemn protest against any and
every aclion teuding to the organiza
tion of the House until tho absent
States are more fully represented.
[Signed by the fol owing Representa
tives :]
James Brocks, N. Y.; A J. Gloss
brentier, Penn.; YV. 8. Hollman, la.;
J. M. Humphrey, N. Y.; YV E. Nib
uck, la ; M. 0. Kerr, la.; Cum. A.
Eldridge, YY'ia. ; Stephen Taber, N.
Y.; P. Van Trump, Ohio; D. M. Van
Aukec, Penn ; Lewis Ross, III.; S. 8.
Marshall, 111.; Fernando Wood, N..
Y.; J. Lawrence Getz, Puna.; \V. FI
Robinsen r N. Y. ; D etnas Barnes, N.
Y.; John Fox, N. Y r .; F. Stone, Md.;
Georgs W. Mo gan, Ohio; Cnas Sit
greaves, N. J.; B. M. Boyer, Penn.;
H. McCullough, Md.; Chus. Deni on,
Penn.; Stevenson Archer, ML; J. F.
Noe!!, Mo.; YV. Mungen, Ohio; Ohas
Haight, N. J.; John \V. Chmdler, N.
Y.; John V. L. Pruyn, N. Y.
Closv ui> tile Stan Us.
Tho following from tho Richmond
Enquirer is rathtr significant:
‘•ln this, tho crisis of our fate, lot u
stand together. Let there be no wrang
ling,no impugning'of motive, no want
of clarity, no refusal of justice. 11
wo differ, let us endeavor to per.-uade—
never to ridicule to intimidate; and
when action is determined or, let that
determination be a concession to cvcry
honest convicti ip, or even prejudice,
that can honorably ar;d wistly be con
sulted. When finally the collection is
r eached, let all sustaiu it, an 1 wo shall
survive the storm of fanatical ty anry
which assails us, and preservo enough
of freedom on which to build, in the
new form of government that ap
proaches.
“Such infamous madness cannot last
always. Some great financial or poli.i
cal calami y will scourge our enemies
into justiee. or the idol of irresponsible
power, which they are now worshipping,
will fall on them and crush them.
“Meanwhile, let all true people draw
more closely to each other, and join
hands fjr the work that is here, and for
that future work to which we shall he
called.
Good Girls in the South —The
Holly Springs (Miss.) Reporter knows
several girls in Marshall county who
were raised in the lap of luxury, with
fine carriages to ride in, and money by
the thousand to spend, before the war,
who can now chop wood, drive a two
hrrse wagon, go to market, and do all
the house work. They can go to tho
kitchen, toe, and prepare a dinner equal
to a French cook. And then call on
them in the parlor, they will treat you
to such music as would make tho houri
listen with wondi r and admiration.—
These girls have cheerfully conformed
to the cht r go in their pecuniary cir
cumstances. The R-porter thinks they
are worthy of being the wives of the
greatest and best in the laud, and so
think we.
Must Bear It. — An indignant plan
ter tells the Mississippi Index some
thing of his experience with freedmen
as laborers- “If Caesar,” says he,
“complains of a slight pain iu bis mis
ery, and ri fuses to work, C ito straight
way declares he’ll not go to the field
unle.-s Cse ar does. This demoralizes
John, who demoralizes Bob, who be
gets, di-satisfactions in J,ff, who keeps
some other hand back, until sometimes
the whole set are at a stands'ill on ac
count of the delinquency cl one, Wc
are not allowed to whip them, sir, and to
sec the lazy rascal rUnding like posts
over lands that need every hour of their
time—why, sir, old Job himself couldn’t
hold his temper under such aggrava
tions. The coun'ry’s gone up, sir—
gone up 1”
Tho Covington (Ga) Fxammcr says,
so far as our observation extends, tho
wheat crop in this section is looking ex
ceedingly- fine. If no disaster bflails it
later in the spring, wc may safely cal
culate cn cxcfclhnt crops. The great
misfortune i?, that there is ;ot Lal'f as
much sown as there should have Lccd.
However, we hope our planters will
make up tho decpiit bv putting in a
large crop of corn. Under the present
political aspect of the ccuDtry, what wc
need is a full suppdy of the staff if life.
Will our farmers yield their co-opicra
tion in relieving the pressing necessities
of our section ? Plant corn!!
Wiiat tiie Radicals Will Do. —
The Baltimore American of Tuesday
last said :
“The loyal people intend to purify
the insiitutious of this great Republic.
They have resolved upon this, not only
as a measure of abstract propriety, but
of political and national safety. In this
they will not be hindered by the Su
preme Court or any other brauch of the
Government. The people are the Gov
ernment —the controlling power, Ttie
judges, l ; ke the President, arc tire mere
intsruments through whom they work.
All must yield by some means or other,
sooner or latei, to the deliberately form
ed judgement and will definitely ex
pressed by the people.”
And the Gazette of Wednesday com
mented as follows :
“So passes away the Constitution of
the United States, and with it constitu
tional government and civil liberty.—
Millions of men on this confluent to
day stand as completely divested of po
litical rights aud the protection of any
laws as ever did the liege subject of any
absolute mon;jiich on eartb. Into the
future wo shrink from gazing. Confis
cation and rapine, ruin und confusion,'
must soon begin their ruthless work,
and where and wheu will they complete
it, no man may know.”
Gov. Ofowa’a Speech.
Desiring to keep our readers posted
on all sides of the political questions
no* being agiUt and, we publish below
that portion of Gov. Brown’s Atlunta
Spieeoh which refers directly to tho
duty of our pieoplo In regard to the hc
cejitance of, and acting upon the re
const uotion measures recently adopt
ed by the United States Congress:
Supipo o you refuse to accept the
terms of this b 11, will you get any bet
ter '{ When Cor gross presented to us
the constitutional amendment which
disfranchi-ed but a mu. ill class, and
we rejected it, did it present to us the
same measure alone a second time ?
No! But they said you have refused
this measure, nnd now you shall ac
cept it and univu sal- suffrage too
Suppose, now, you refuse to act up
on the pr sent oiler What miy we
expeot but general disfrunuhi ement of
all who engaged in die rebelli n, and
a general confiscation act But it is
said that the bill disfrancliis s a large
class of our follow citizens. True, it
disfranchises a largo and highly intel
ligent class Who are'hey!* It dis
franchises all who were m. rollers of
Congress, or officers of the Unite !
States, who had taken an oath to sup
port the Constitution ol' the United
States, and afterwards engaged in the
rebellion. There were uw United
States officers in Georgia prior to the
war, except postmasters. But it dis
franchises every officer of the Execu
tive, Legislative and Judicial depart
ments of the State Government who
had taken the oath to support the
Constitution of the United States and
engaged in the re e lion. This em
braces all persons who have at any
time been Governors of States, mem
bers of the Legislature, or Judicial of
ficers. In the latter class is embraced
all Judicial otlic rs who have a rhdit
to try causes, from a Judge of a Su
preme Court down to a Just ee of tho
i’eaee, who had taken said oath and
afterwards engaged in the rebellion,
as we are now to call it, what
ever may have been our ojinidns.—
But there is g large class of officers
who are not disfranchised, although
their offices required them to take an
“nth to support the Constitution of (he
United States.
No man und r twenty- even years
of a je is disfranchised ; because a man
hud to he twenty-one ye .rs old to hold
au office ti at required him to take t' e
oath to support ttie Constitution, and
it his now been sax years • since the
war began. N- ilrier mil tia officers,
nor country officers, not judicial, are
disfranchised—as sheriffs, clerks, tax
collectors and receivers, county- treas
urers, constables, coroners, road com
missioners, notary s probli , &c Is it
not better, that the cla sos embraced
in the disqualification submit to it thuD
that the whole inn sos white men who
aided in the rebellion be added to the
excluded eiass, and the propmrty of the
whole pieopde confiscated ? Ido not
feel that it is degrading to submit to
the t rms of the conqueror. If so, all
who hear me are already degraded.- -
You all took ttie amnesty oath, when
so i cq iiied, to sa' e your property and
avoid punishment. Why did you not
then discover the degradation, aid
adopt the do nothing, dignity policy
which gentlemen now talk so eh quent
ly about? Those who act and men
should have a little more charity for
those who propose to act now. Wly
did not gentlemen p ut themselves up
on their dignity and manhood, when
nquired to abolish slavery, repudiate
tho war debt, and abrogate the oidi
nar.co of secession, which we had
passed with so much defiance ? If we
could take til that, nnd maintain our
“self-respect,” I think we may take
the balance of the dose, which we are
informed shall be the last, without
rna'dng as ugly faces as some of u.s
now make Let us put a 1 tile sugar
coating around it, and swallow the pill
at once and 1 e done with it; waiving
the “dignity” for a time ns we have so
eften been compelled to do. Those
who have taken the amnesty oath and
voted for all thes j measures, now claim
that they have dono euotvlt. 80 we
all thought, but the conquerors say
I not, and it is iur misfortune tlait they
j are in p/c.sition to decide that question
: for us without consuming us.
At the close of the war, part of us
| were arrested, and for a time we Lad not
i the option of leaving :hc country. B t
1 all 1 f yon, gentlemen, who were Dot un
dar arrest, scad that opportunity. The
way was open to Mexico, Brazil, Uaua
da, or F iropic, or to any other part of
the world. Why did y u not go? 1
| suppose you stayed (itber fir choice or
neces-ity. Many had aged parents,
wives or children, or all together, for
whose support they wore respoosible-
They bad not the means t go and carry
them to a strange land. This cla s—a
very large one—if they had no other
attachments to bind them to Ei 1 country,
remained from necessity. Avery large
class, noddeu s , remained because, with
all its faults, they still loved their na
tive land the best, and were unwilling
to exchange this land with i's Govern
ment for any other. Most of those who
then left have since repented and re
turned. We then chore this as our
Government, and again placed our
selves under its protection. What fol
lows ? It is our imperative duty to
vive it our allegiance, and to support its
flag wherever it may wave, against every
enemy, foreign or domestic. Thire is
neither manliness, dignity nor good faith
in any other course.
Anew era has dawned upon u°, and,
whether for weal or wee, we must act
our part, and make the brst wc can of
the situati n. YVe must accommodate
ourselves to circumstances. God lias
given us a magiiitiient country. It
needs development. \Ye lack labor. \Ve
lack oapital. Let us invite both. And
when Norther* and Western men come
among us, let us treat them as friends.
In war we were enemiee. Tho war has
ended, and we are again under the same
government. Our ancestors were the
same. Our blood is the same. Then lc
us do all in our power to heal the
wounds opened by the war, and as little
as possiulo to irritate. This is the only
way to advance lur own prosperity.—
The more population we have, and the
m ire thrifty, the more valuable is tho
firmeT’s land, the better tho merchant’s
trade, the more pitients the doctor has,
the more eases for the lawyer, tho bet
ter tho freights on the railroad, and,
indee 1, tho better for ovary interest of
tho whole State.
I am assailed beeausil have rccun
incndcd c.ur people do what the conquer
or ri quires on the suffrage question.
Men are gravely disessiug the question
whether the negro shall bn allowed to
vote. This is a useless waste of breath.
Congress has settled the question for u°.
We have no power to prevent it. They
are now voters. Tnut is not low the
question. It is, shall the great mass of
our white men vote ?
If we accept the position and act up
on if, the ballot will reman in the bands
of n : nc-tcnths of the white men of the
white men of the South. If we refuse
to du so, it wiil be taken from them aud
given to a- very small class of white
men, aud tho negroes. During the war
the blacks acted nobly. We sent our
white men to the fi Id, and the negroes,
who know our failure was their freedom
stayed at home and acted ai protectors
to our families, and rrnde a supiport fir
them and th"ir masters in the field The
fortunes of war have placed them upon
terms of civil and political tquali'y
with us. Many of them has nursed our
children,others 1 ave been the compan
ions of our boyho el, and our servants
in manhood Their interest and ours
mint be a great degree identified in»fu
liue. Woaf sense is there, then, in
such action on our part as will alienate
them and moke them our enemies? I
think wc had better keep their friend
ship, and show them by kind and just
treatment, that we are their best friends,
In giving this advice, I trust 1 may not
be connidered ass Ifish. I am not
c mrting their votes. Tney have no
right to vote for me, as I am inelligible
to cflire 1 ain caught on three horns
of the dilemnf, if you will allow the
expression, as i have been a member of
the Srato Senate, a judge of tho Supe
rior Cjurts, and the Govenor of my
State, and I have taken an active part
in the rebellion. While I may be de
nied the political privi eges of a cit'zin,
I am not unconcerned about the future
of the country. I have children, rela
tives md friends who are not dLfmn
chised. I wi.ih to see their government
and their country the best it can be
mad'.
North Carolina teginlatnro.
la the North Carolina II use ot Uom
mens, cn the 28th ult., Mr. Scoggin 111-
! troduced tho following preamble and
resolution :
Whereas, the Federal relations be
tween and among tho S‘a‘e-i comprising
i the Government of the United States
have, at least to a very great extent,
been dissolved anti
Whereas, it is the duty of the loyal
1 people of sail Government and
1G iu mb rs to render all the aid iu ihelr
[ newer to unite aud firmly establish said
I Government upon a true and loyal basis.
Be it taerG re,
“Resolved, Tint it is the sense of this
House, that we accept in good laiih tho
act recently passed by the Csngress of
) the United S.ateq f r the purpose of
reorgan zing the States, aud will
use every (fl irt to carry cut the same
upon a true ahd 1 yal basis.”
Mr. UuicbiasoQ offered a substitute,
providing for submitting the question
of “Convention,” to a vote of the peu
pb.
Mr. Morehead moved to amend the
orig rial resolution by inserting after
the word “peopio” in the preamble, the
words, -‘without regard to coiur.”
Mr. Scoggins rd'oscd to accept this
amendment
Mr. May moved to lay the amend
mui and resolution on the table. The
yeas aud nays were ordered, and the
House refu ed ;o lay on the table,
Messrs Autry, Collins, May, Turnbull
aud W l iarns, of Martin, voting in tho
negative.
Mr. Bicbardson moved tha the Homo
go luio Commit ee of the Whole on this
matter.
The motion wai laid od the table on
m tion of Mr llu ctiiusi n.
Mr. Kenan moved to refer tho whole
subject to tho Committee on Federal
Relations.
After a protracted discussion, this
in lion prevailed—yeas 08, nays 25.
Holders of soason tickets to the 1
Paris Exposition aro to be photograph
ed, ana tho likeness to bo put on tho
ticket
A Superstition. —A peculiar su
perstiiion exists among all the Indians
ol the Pacific, coast, und is adhered to
with such tenacity as to be a great ob
stacle to their civilization. \\ henever
a death occurs in uno of their houses
they leave it and burn tho budding
No efforts ol the agents have been
able to eradicate this foolish custom.
A Protest Aoainst Emigration
to Brazil. —Thomas K. Biecbcr sends
a hearty rcmi nstrauce f om Rio dc Ja
nciro, against any further emigra ian
cd' mechanics and laborers from the
United States to Brazil. He says those
that are already there are in a condition
of great distress, as it is impossible for
for them to compete with the slaves
and cheaper working men in doing the
ordinary tabor of tho country. A well
managed colony, he thinks, might suc
ceed, but lor solitary poor men it is a
poor place.
The Southern Recorder has been en
larged and greatly improved in typo-j
graphical apperrance.
Ex Provisional Gov. Jas. Johnson,
of Georgia, has been at last confirmed
as Collector ot the Port of Savannah.
It has been the proud boast of re
publican government that it rists up
on the free opinions of the people.—
But the Congress of the United Btates
proffers to the people of the South a
plan of reconstruction which wields
tho sword in one aDd negro suff rage
in the other hand.
Consistency. The Cincinnati Com
tnerctal, which is generaly overflowing
with gratuitous f.dviee to .ho recoa
struoted, says:
Ex-Governor Brown, of G e0 r K i a
and Governor O.r, of South Carolina’
have both pronounced in favor of J
nntt.ng the negro to the ballot. With
the dnU of sentiment at the Nor; hand
South in favor of general suffrage
those who propose to oppose confirm
tty with the policy of Congress hi’
cause of this additional requirement'
hope for belter terms hereafter ? t?
they do, they hop a without reason.
And yet the same number of the
Commercial from which the above is
taken announces the failure i n th o
Ohio Legislature to submit tho
of negro suffrage to the people of
State.
Will Got. BeoWnlow hTve *r,
PETITOR ?—The Radicals hereabou"'
arc deeply concerned upon this qaesti 0B
They ask it the first thing in the moral
ing—-rcnest It throu K hoat the day,
go to slei'p upon hut night, none tha
wiser. They can obtain no satisfactory
solu’i mos it. and cannot tell whether
they shafl bring oat their fine orators
from the North, to give ns the bemfit
of their trmneudous eloquence. YVe
have evory disposition to ease the pain
which ; ffl ets them, but unfortunately
are unable to do so in an official form.
We have, however, a very decided im
pression on the snhj-ct, which is that
competitor will boa pa'riot, and a his
gentlemsn whoso ‘loyality,’ whose devo
tion to the Union, the constitution, and
to tho peace and liberties of this people
cannot he impeached We are of opin
ion, also, that that person will likewiso
he a sueccssf il competitor of Gov.
lLowalow. If this opinion will afford
any comfort to our Radical friends we
shall be graiified.— Nashville Union
United S ates D strict Judge Bastced
performing in Alabama, is softening a
little since his bte furious fulmiDStioa
against ‘ the nbels,” end seems loci m
prchind 1 etti r the line between tie
possille aid impossible. He says in
a late charge ;
“The distinction b( tween the duty of
allegiat ce to the laws and respect hr
the law makers was happily il ustrated
in one rs the pub ie j lurnals of this city
some months cince. In a brief editoji
a in the Times, Mr. IRnry S . Pul
reu arked : “Obedience to the laws is a
duty ; adnrr ion .f >he laws cannot 1«
compelled.’ All that this court claims,
or claims to enforce, is this obedience.
It earnestly desires the (.flection of thu
I people for the government aud its ad
miuistrations.”
•VfiD •lihirtist taunts,
( tliOßtilA, Terrell CuMMly:
" T Whereas, J. U, Gamble applies for let
ters of Gaardiansbip of the |mnn< aud
property ol Vista nnd Jan es It. Wilt,«i,Lr,
minors of James B, Wilbanks, dec< ased.
These are then fj-e to cite and admonish nil
persons concerned io be nnd npp, «r ut n,»
I office wi'liin the lime prerciihvd h\ law.uid
jehowcau-e, if anv, why said loiters Mould
not begr. mted. G:veo under my I and and
cdfi ial sigi a'ure (bis March Sth 1807.
Alar 6'h 1866 T M JONAS Ord’j,
i CAX/Tioisr.
THIS is to forewarn all persons fromlmV
inp for » certa n note, made parable lo
VV. r. Xicliola, or bearer for $3,6H0 in (old,
the consideration then of baring fai ed 1 do
not intend >o jay it, except t>r b,w.
March 15, ts ’ TIIOS. H. STEWART.
The Cherokee Georgian insert twin,.
Bargains, Bargain*!
* NE IF ESTABLISHMENT!
r |''HE undersigned takes pleamre in inform
-1 ieg liia ’r ends and the public peneraiW,
that he h now fitted up in the store hour"
ormcrly occupied byJonrs, Reddick & Cos. o< t
S?a n s’reet, and ia preparr and (O give thebiß
of birpaina'n the way of
DRY GOODS,
BOOTS AND SHOES,
LADIES DRESS GOODS,
Fancy and Toilet Articles Ac. Ac.
Give me a trial before mnk'np vonr pur
chases. BENJAMIN WIGGIhS,
MarlS-2m. Dawson Ga.
TERRELL SHERIFF SALE.
\\! ILL be sold before the Court nouse
V Y door in the town of Dawson Terrell
co., on the first Tuesday in April next, within
| the legal hours of sale, the following proper
ty to wit: one house and lot, in the Town of
Diwson Terre!) Corin'}, No. not known, but
known as the place now occupied by C. A.
Crowell. Levied on ns the property of W.
N. Ducker to sa'isfv four Justiee Court fi la's
issued from the flit) district G M., cf Floyd
County Ga., In favor of A. W. Caldwell vr.,
W. N. Ducker, which fi la’s have been tranr
fered to T W. Loyless. Property pointed
out by T. W Lot less, transferred, levy made
and returned to me by a constable. ~
Also at the same time and place, will he
sold one lot of land, No. (281) two hundred
and eighty one io the Third District of Ter
rell County. Levied on as the property of
Richard Maltbie to sa'isfv threa Justice
Court, fi fa issued from the 1154, District G.
M , of Terrell County, ia favor oi El'jah Bel"
flower vs. Richard Mai bic and Myron We«-
ton security.
Property pointed out hy E. Belflower.
Levy made and returned to me by a codbl*'
ble.
Also at the same time and place, will h®
sold one Two Horse Wagon. Levied on a*
the property of John W. Kennedy, to satisff
a fi fa from Terrell Superior Court in favor tl
John B. Perry vs. John W. Kennedy, maker,
and Jesse Darden, endorser.
Also at the same time and place, will »®
sold, a lot cf Law Books, about twentv in
number. Levied on as the property of
W. Blair, to satisfy an execution issu’ and from
the Superior Court of Terrell County in f* T ®
of Isacc Dennard vs. W. W. Blair. Proper J
pointed oat by Plaotiffs Attorney.
S. F. LASSETER.
marß:tds Sb
Special nalitr's Sale-
WILL be sold before the Court H®®\«
door, in the Town of Dawson
County, on the first Tnepdav in Aprx
withia the usual hours ol Sale, the
property to-wit: one ch «‘ ,,t of , c h^rrie9 s,
lords and a one horse wapon an h w
levied on as the property of J ° bn . ” pd from
to satisfy one attachment fi fa f
the county court of Terrell couri y, , y
of John Whitaker vs John Lwiter, p F"
pointed out in said fi f«. ro rerTS,
March 6th '67- L. M.