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DAWSON UN A I,
JDAYV3OM GA, APRIL 12,1867.
A gen t»-
Mr. Elam Ji iinson, Power’s Sta
lion, is an autbor'zed agent for this pa
p- r. Contraetß made of receipts given
by him will le ratified by the propric
« IH.
Ei.y Otto, Ehq , of Savannah Ga , is
our agent for that city.
T 1\ Slider, Esq ,is our agent for
Charleston, S. 0.
A few days ago several men in the
neighborhood of Melville, Georgia, un
dertook to capturo a person named Siaff,
suspected of being a horse thief. He
attempted to escape, and ODe of the men
slot him dead.
The Jews in the various nations of
the earth number, as is estimated, not
far from seven millions, abt ut the same
as in the most prosperous days of the
n .lion in ancient Palestine.
Ex-Senator Foster, of Connecticut,'
has been nominated us Minister to
Austria, in place of Mr. Motley re
signed, and Ccwau, rejected.
It is estimated that at the propo ed
rates for the government advertising,
dry-nurse radical papers in the South,
the bill will foot up am.ually two mil
lions of dollars.
An official -statement just published,
gives the popula'ion of the cry of Lon j
don at 1,416,919 males, and 1,621,072
femmes. The number of births in the
city during the year 1866, was 107,-
992; the number of deaths, 80,129.
Brick Pomeroy stayed two hours in
Atlanta, during which he took time to
see the editors, oat his breakfast, and
eave fifty dollars ‘-for the most charit
able object in the town.”
A law has recently taken (fleet in
Missouri making it a misdemeanor,
punishable by fine and imprisonment,
for a man »o abandon his wife or chii
dren under twelve years of age, or tn
neglect or refuse to maintain and pro
vide for them.
It is 6aid there is seme daDger of a
war between France and Prussia on the
East- rn question. If we could effec
tually command the peace we’d do it,
bat as we can’t, all we can say is “fight,
you’re no kin.”
The Radical New papers are growl
ing over fbe indications of haimony
between the whitos and blanks, and at <
the implied willingness ol the South to
accept the Sherman military recon
struction bill. The radicals do not
want negroes and whi es to bold ami
cable meetings, nor do they want the
Southern people to accept this or any
other bill. What is wanted is to keep
the South out rs the Union, so that
radicalism will not Lee its maj ritiesin
the Nor h.
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The Thing to he Tested.
As we anticipated, Govcnor Jenkins
is preparing to test the validity of the
military bill before the Supreme
Court of the United States. He has
very wisely employed as counsel for the
State, Charles O'Crnner, of New Yoik
and Judge black of Pennsylvania—two
of the ablest lawyers in the couutry
We are glad to know that this action of
Congress is to be shown up in all its
bearings, and weighed in a Constitu
tional balance, as it will, perhaps rest
a prop at least for the restoration of iaw
ful government in the country at some
future day. It will at least set the lov
ers of a constitutional government at
the North to thinking and, place the
political situation in the proper light
before the world. Whether it is likely
to stay the work of territo*ialization in
the South cr not, we are unable to di
vine ; and we do not feel warranted in
the attempt to inspire hopes in the
hearts of our couDtrymeD,'whieh are so
liable to be erusbed at a moment. The
only redress we can confidently rely up
ou is id a future day—when the States
have regained their places in the Feder
al Government—even if it be through
the way pointed out by a Seotional
Congress. Let us attain this posiiion
at the earliest possible day—feeling
that the means employed will justify
the eDd to be accomplished, and we miy
yet see New England repent heartily
for the precedent they have i augurated
for the political chastisement of States
and Sections.
We have read thoalle f e ition of Judg
esShatkie and Walker in behalf of
the State of Mississippi praying an in
junction against the President and his
officers appointed to carry out the pro
visions of the Military bill. It is re
plete with Judi.ul logical and u a swera
ble Constitutional argurat n*, but we
fear it will prove as chuff before that
fanatical sj iiit which has already been
t n noved by the breathing of patriotism
and the oft repeated principles of Con
stitutional liberty.
We can but desire, as a true South
erner that our section may be benefitted
by this appeal to the highest tribunal,
of the land, but we would warn our peo
pic against cherishing too fond hopes,
lest they be rendered still more unhap
py by seeic g them blasted.
Tilt- Opinion* of Military lUen.
There is in our bumblo opii.i >n, says
the Ailauta lutcll geucer, something of
‘•atmuniacy —as old ‘ llilly Walker” in
days that arc past used to say—on the
part of that portion of the press who
see in the opinions of Lee, Beauregard,
Longstrcet, and others of “that ilk,”
and in their advice to their Southern
fellow-citizens on the "political situa
tion, ’’ the opinions and advice of merely
military men, wLieb weighed in tbs
balance with theirs, would fail to even
counterpoise the saa'es. This is sheer
DODsen.e. Such men as Lee, Beaure
gard, Loogstrcef, high as tbeir claims
are recognize ! to bo upon the affections
of our people, on account of their mili—
tary services, have other claims which
cn'itle tbeir opinh n-t and advice to as
much consideration at least, as that of
any member of the editorial fraternity,
or any pJitieal essayist. They are, in
the firs' plice, each and every one of
them, men of ALutbern birth, of finish
ed education, of strong na-ive intellect,
and, in the second place, so deeply im
bued with the spirit of patriotism and
lovo to their native South, that it were
folly not to recognize their opinions and
advice upon the “political situation” as
important, and as worthy of considera
tion and of being followed as those of
any other profession or class of men in
the South. Washington was a military
man, and yet he was a statesman. Na
poleon, the first, was a military man,
and yet he, too, was a statesman. Wel
lington was a military maD, and was a
statesman. So may it be written of
military men in ancient times—of Cae
sar and of others whose names are in
scribed upin history’s gage as combin
ing both the characteristics cf warriors
aod statesmen. We confess to being
one of those who pay much respect to
the counsel and advice of such men as
Lee and his gallant ccmpeors, especially
in regerd to the du'y of tho people in
tho present anomalous condition of the
Sruthern States, and we regret to see
(Sorts made to resistor weaken tbeir in
fluence with our people. When battle
was the order of the day, they headed
the Confederate battallions and most no
bly did their duty. If wc do not now
respect the opinions and seek the coun
sels of such men, in the name of God
whose opinions are we to respect, whose
counsels shall we s- ck ?
Conservative Meet ins; in Chat
tanooga.
Chattanooga, April 6.—A Conser
rative Union County Convention was
held to-night o elect delegates to the
State Convention, without distinction of
race or coi r." It was a largo and most
enthusiastic meeting, in size about 500
colored and 300 whites. The officers of
the meeting were all original Union
men and speakers the same. It was ad
dretsed by William Fletcher, a leading
Colored citizen, just before adjournment.
He said if he was fit to vote and fft to
sit on a jury, be was fit to hold office.
He had been told that the conservatives
were hostile to the colored man. What
he had heard to-nigbt| et him thinking
He was going to read, study, and vote
for himself. The Radicals say they are
going to carry all the States, therefere
they wouldn’t miss him. He was greet
ed with applause.
The rosolutims favor a return to the
Constitution, oppose Brownlow, and fa
vor a more liberal school law and eco
nomical administration of Government.
A Chance for Fame.— The Mobile
Advertiser very justly remarks that
the position ol power held by the Dis
trict Commanders opens a field of no
ble ambition to a truly wise and good
man Without departing cne jet or
lit’e from the strictest letter of his or
ders, it is in his power to build up and
leave behind him in the hearts of the
people and in the future history of
these times a resplendent monument
to his fame—a monument that will
tell of thd moderative self-denial and
abstinence of a Washington, or a Cin
cinnati, in the wise use of Pro Con
sular powers, and which shall out'ast
and outshine in history those that
memorize the conqueror's career of
blood and desolation
Black Crook —We are indebted to
Messrs. Haver s & Brown of the Macon
Nows Depot, for a copy of this work—
a wonderful history, which has been
creatiug excitement in New York The
atres for months. They will send it to
any address on recei] tof 75 cents; of
it can be had of their agents on the
trains, together with all the popular lit
e ature of the day.
The government sold during the
past year, $12,204, 799 worth of pos
tage stamps an l enve'opes. We sent
abroad, 4,543,630. We sent nearly
3,000,000 newspaj ers, and received a
li’ tie over, 1,000 900. The number of
post offices is 23,828, of w hieh there
has been re-opened in the rebellious
States, 2,778. Forty-six cities have
the free delivery syslem, and the pan
gives excellent satisfaction.*
A ‘quad of soldiers escorted five
negroes to the lock-up in Charleston
last Monday, beuone they insisted on
riding in one of the street cars, against
rule and cu tom.
Koportcd Indian Jluswacre.
The Philadelphia Inquirer publishes
the following extract from a jrivate
letter received in that ci y on Satur
day from .Fort Bu’ly, D TANARUS., und dat
ed February 25th, 1867 :
"By the upper mail, which a r'ved
' here to day. wo heard some very bad
news from Fort Buford. There-was
one company ol our regiment station
ed there, under the c mmand of Colo
n«d Itunkin The Indians made an at
tack on that little band, and it appears
from all accounts that th y fought
bravely until ou'numbered by tho red
skins, who killed them all but the Col
onel and wife. They then took them
a few ynrds from the post, and having
built a fire, tied tho Colonel’s hands
and feet and put him in the fire, while
h s wife was compelled to see him
burning After that was done
they mal treated her in a shameful
manner, and having rolled her up in a
buffalo r.»be, they task ned her on a
I wild norse and turned him loose. God
! onlv knows how long she was on tho
j prairie, but it happened, very fortu
nately, that the mail carriers for that
fort encountered her in that condition,
j und after tney bad heard who she was
j they took her in their charge and re
turned with her and the mails to Fort
Rice.
“Th j Indians wer e 1,800 s'rong—
our men only 96. They fought them
three days; hut on the third day the
Indians took tho place, scalp ’d all the
dead, and those who were officer: 4 they
cut up into small puces and ate them.
That is considered bravery ? It wil*
not be good for them if they make
their appearance around this fort. We
are very well guarded. There are six
eompat ies here—four of infantry, one
of cavalry and one of artillery The
weather here has been very cold. We
have lost nearly all of our stock—fro
zen to death."
The massacre a': Fort Bifford is con
firmed by official advices. Colonel
Rankin was killed. It is supposed
hat Colonel Rankin shot bis wife to
prevent her from filling into tho hands j
of the Indians.
The Selma Times of the s‘.hsays :
Pursuant to a call in the_ daily papers,
(here was a meeting of the It publican
party, of this city, for the purpose of
appointing delegates to a cou 'ty con
ty Convention to be held at Selma on
the 13tb prox. The meeting was thin
ly attended by both whites and blacks,
there being about seventy five of the
latter and twenty five of the former
present. Alter some unavoidable de
lay tbemeetin' was orgonizod in front
of the Court House, by calling W. N.
Gilmer to »he chair, and the appoint
ment of Rev. J. Silsby and Joseph
Drawn (colored) as secretaries. On
motion of Col. B. F. Scaffold, some for
ty delegates white and blr.ck were ap
pointed.
Gen. Pope. —The Third of the Mili
tary Districts of the unrepresented
South, has been placed in command cf
Gen. Pope. His district consists of the
State of Georgia, Florida and Ala
bama. This is the D strict Gen. Thom
as was appointed to command, and the
change was made at his request. No
ticing this matter, the New York Com
mercial Advertiser says:
“The ups and downs if life are well
illustrated in the case of Major General
Pope. Less than livo years, ago this
officer was looked upon as an arrant
biaggart, a first class military charlatan,
who, with his ‘headquarters in the sad
blti,’ had needlessly sacrificed thousan Is
of brave men at the battle of Bull Hun.
While some bitterly denounced him,
others expressed commisseration for
‘poor Pope,’ and he quietly passed from
theseenoof immediate hostilities, and
retired to a distant frontier to fight the
red-skias. Now, this same officer is, at
the request of Gon. Thomas, assigned
to the important command of one of
the five Southern Departments, embrac
ing the States of Georgia, Alabama and
Florida. The truth is, however, many
believe that Pope was unfortunate in
Virginia though the fault of others,
and that the second battle of Bull Run
would have had a different termination
had no jealousies prevailed among offi
cers. Gens. Thomas, Resecrans and
Halleek have never wavered in their
high opinion of Gen. Popo’s military
ability.”
Letter from Hon. Rcvcrdy
Johnson.
The West Georgia Gazette has re
ceived the following letter from the
Hon. Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland:
Senate Chamber, Mar. 25, 1867.
'Dear Sir :—Yours of the 18th is re
ceived. My vote f>r the bill you refer
to was given, not because 1 approved of
it, but because I knew that if defeated,
or not carried out by the S >utb, other
measures ruinous to them, in every way,
would follow.
1 wished by my vote (hoping that
the South would not doubt my desire to
seruc them, and the whole oountry) to
place myself in a eondition to advise
them more effectually to acceptance
than I would be if i had voted against
it.
My advice therefore is, and I give it
mast anxious/y, that the proper course
to be pursued by you is to organize un
drr the act at onoo and in good faith
Very Respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
Reverdy Johnson.
B T. Castellaw, E-q.
The Pleasures of Fame.— General
B. F. Buffer got into the Pennsylva
nia Avenue car in Washington a few
days since. The car was quite full
As soon as he entered one of the pas
sengers stood up and said: ‘ Ladies
and gentlemen, put your hands upon
your pocket-books. Ben Butlor is in
the cur.” Butler got out at thq next
crossing.
General Orders from General
l*o|te on Assuming I omm und
ol the 3d Military Dislriet.
Il’t) Quarters 3d Military Piv , I
Montgomery, Ala, April 1, 1867. j
Oito Eits >
No 1 j
In compliance with Genc/al Orders
No 18, date 1 Iliad Quarters of the
Army, March 15, 1867, the nn lersign
ed assumes command of the Third Mil
itaryDis'nct, which comprises the States
of A'abama, Georgia and Florida.
The District of of Georgia and Ala
bama will remain as at present constitu
; ted, and with their present commanders
except tnat the Heal-Q larter t of Geor
gia will bo forthwith removed to Mil—
j lcdgeville.
The District of Key West is hereby
merged iuto the District of Florida,
which will be commanded by Col. John
T. Sprague, 7th U. S. Infantry Tue
llcad-Q larters of the D strict of Flori
da arc removed to Tallahrssee, to which
place the District Commander will traus
for his Head Quarters without delay.
1. The civil officers at present in
offices in Georgia, Alabama and Flori
da, will retain their offices until tho
expiration of tbeir terms of service, un
less otherwise directed iu special case-,
so long as justice is im-ariiilly and
faithfully administered. It is hoped
that no necessity may arise for the in
terposition of the Military authorities
in the civil administration, and such
necessity can only arise from the fail
ure of tte civil tribunals to protect the
people, wit! out distinction, ia their
rights of person and property.
11 It is to be clearly understood,
, however, that the civii- officers thus
rb'lined in office shall confiae them
selves s'riotiy to the perl >rmancc of
their ofiio.Ll duties, and whilst holding
their Otfiecs, they shall not use any in
fluence whateVb’ to deter or di-suade
the people from taxing an active pa ; t
in reconstructing tbeir bi'te Govern
ments, under the act of Congress to
provide f>r the more tffi iieut govern
ment of the rebel S ate3, and the act su
plementary thereto.
111. No election will be held in an 7
of the Siates cunpriced in this Milita
ry District, except such as are provided I
for by this act of Congress, and in the
manner therein established, but all va
cancies in civil offices which now exist,
or which may occur by expiration of the
terms of office of the pn e rit incumbents
before the prescribed R'g stration of vo
ters is completed will be filled by appoint
ment of the General commanding the
District. John P.pe,
Major General Commanding.
iUonkcyw fur Picking Cotton.
A communication in tho Ga’vest n
News, from a Texas planter, furnish s
evidence that an attempt has abso’ute
ly been made to teach monkeys to
pick cotton. The writer says he was
u cotton plainer in Georgia in 1849,
but being obliged to visit the Island
of Frindad on business, he was pre
vailed on to puceha-e sogie monkeys
there, in order to make the exp‘ rimen
as 'o their capacity for labor. He
reached home with twenty-three of
those creatures, which cost him, deliv
ered on the plantation', 81 800. Hu
gives the following as his experience:
I was mighty well pleased when I
received my monkeys Their arrival
turned my plantation topsy-'urvy. —
For two weeks nothing was done by
whites or blacks but play wv th the
monkeys. The overseer got one of
tne brightest looking, and remained at
his house mo tot the time watch ng
the monkey's tricks, ands must eon -
fess that my w fa, myself and children
were in the same business Seei >g this
wou'd not pay, I began making prep
arations to go to work. I hud reck
oned on one negro managing ten mon
keys, and five mor.keys pick ug as
much as three negroes.
For the next two weeks all h snds,
whites and blacks, were engaged in the
cotton fields teaching monkeys. Tho
result was somewhat different from my
calculations. Instead of one negro
managing ten monkeys, etc., it took
ten negroes ,o manage one monkey,
and then tne mousey did not pick a
pound or an ounce of cotton. I be
came disgusted, gave all my neighbors
that wou'd ac ept, a monkey and
about a fortnight since sold the last
eight to a ttave.ing menagerie at 85 a
piece. My monkey speculation has
thrown me behind six weeks in cotton
picking The next time Igo to Trim
dad, I don’t be ieve I shall want any
more mor.keys.
A Cabbage as is a Cabbage.—
Brick Pomcry has had a present of a
cabbage, such, a cabbage ! Here’s his
description of it and how he's going to
dispose of it:
It was a perfect Colossus among cab
bages, uod evidently giew in a4O acre
field i'self, and probably if it could have
had growing weather a few months lon
ger, it would have ooventi the entire
forty acres. We have been specu'a
ting what we should do with it, and
have oome to tho oonolusion to pickle a
quarter of it, if we can find barrels
enough, save another quarter for the
wiuter supply of cut cabbages with our
oysters, reserve the third to book with
corn beef for the next twelve months,
and donate the last quarter to certain ig
norant and brainless La Croose Repub
licans, to fiill up the vacuum in their
upper stories, and leave them furnished
with a cheap substitute for brains.
New York to Speak.—The Nation
al Intelligencer says the conservatives
intend to make national politics an is
sue in the coming election for mem
bers of a Slate Convention in Now
York, and that journal predicts quite
as signal an overthrow of the Radicals
a< th t which recent'y occurred in the
State of Connecticut.
It is said negotiations are on fort
for the sale by Russia, to the United
States, for seven millions dollars, of
her Noith American possessions on the
Pacific. The United States would
then hold all the coast frortf San Fran
cisco to Behrings Straits, excepting a
small strip at Vancouver’s Island.
Noui and other 1 1 chin.
The Chamber of Commerce of St
Paul, Minn , has donated SI,OOO for
the destitute of the South.
The American side of Niagara Falls
has gone back about 150 feet within
two weeks, in consequence of the fall
of huge masses of rocks.
The monument to the memory of
General Scot*, will be of cannon cap
tured during the Mexican war, and will
cost $22,000.
Germany will send a clock to Paris
thut will show the time at twenty-six
different points iu all parts of the
world.
The house of Mr. Hicket, with five
of his children, was burned at Sutfield
Center, Ohio, on the night of tho 27tb
ult.
A resolution amending (he Constitu
tion i'[ Ohio so as to confer impartial
suffrage has passed tho Senate, 23 to
11.
A company that insures female
beauty against accident from the ago
of 15 to 30, is the latest thing in the
insurance line.
Fred. Douglass was recently refused
admission to the Huff House, in YVino
na, Minnesota.
A resolution was passed at a pub
lic meeting in Augusta, Ga., a few
days ago, requesting the City Council
to have the freedmen registered, in or
der thut they nay vote at the next
municipal election. The Council ro
plied that they were willing to execute
tho provisions of the military bill, but
couldn’t do it until they received prop
er instructions.
It is stated that an ex-Fe leral offi
cer, who has a plantation near Selma,
prevented his negroes from attending
the recent demonstration in thnt town
by the. long-haired buibarians and their
dupes. The Freedmen’s Bureau
should look after that ex Federal.
Jrazy New England A dance
was late ] y i Q a rural town in Maine
the procceu’ 4 o{ wllich arc to bc expend
ed in the pure-. aso a b ear sc.
At an election to a vacancy in
the Fif b Wisconsin on *" e
13th inst., Hon. H. L. Pa’mer, Demo
crat, was elected by a majority °l
about one thou-and The city of Mil
waukee, which gave on’y 431 Demo
cratic majority in the Congressional
canvass last fall, increased that major
ity to 700. The result, says the Mil—
wau’rie News, may be taken as a sure
criterion of what the Democracy will
do on a iurge sca’e in future elections
Importuncc of the Kussiaii Ac
quisition.
One of the objects ol the President
in convoking an extraordinary session
of the Senate, is that it may act on the
treity jest made with Russia for tho
ce si on to the country of the extensive
region lying in tho northwestern part of
(his continent, and known on the msp
as Russian America, or Rus.'ian Pos
sess ms.
It especially includes the strip 400
miles long which extends dowD the
eiast, intervening Letwc(n Brinish
America and the Paifio ocean. The
ces ion excites intense interest. IlAu
ent'a' parties regard it as significant of
Russian policy in view of the impend
ing European complieariens of the Eas
tern question. The price to be paid for
the Territory, rs asked bj Russia of the
United States, is ..bout seven millions
of dollars. Cheap enough, doubtless, al
though the territory and Abntian is
lands include!, are valueless except for
their whaling harbors, fisheries and
furs
The Meanest Place in tue World.
—Chicago has failed to raise any mon
ey to aid the starving poor of the
South. The Committee app irited by
the Board of Trade to solicit subscrip
tions reported that they had failed in
the object of their appointment. Mem
bers ot the Board had generally mani
fested a reluctance tosubscribe any
thing, and the totalamount of subscrip
tions obtained was so small that the
o mrritte and and not think it proper to send
it, but rather that it should be return
ed to tho subscribers. A motion to
that effect was made to the board,
and was agreed to with great unanim
ity. The total amount of subscrip
tions obtained was not stated by the
committee, but it was .subsequently
ascertained to be only about $225.
National Rrpub.
This brings to mind Mr. Baldwin’s
story about the stran jer who, dying in
Chicago and going to the gates guar
ded oy St. Peter, was refused admit
tance, St. Peter saying there was no
such place on earth as Chicago. A
map was produced, the place pointed
out and the stranger admitted ; “but’’
St. Peter said, “I’ll be hanged if you
aint the first man that ever came here
from Chicago.”
A convention of N irth Cirolina “loy
alist’ and oolurd people was held at Ral
eigh. During the procedings, a rich
iccident occurred It. seems that the
clerk of the convention had inserted the
term ‘colored’ on his roll, opposite the
names of the colored members. On the
roll beinj called at the session referred
to, Mr. Col. Rev. James Sinclair, bet
ter known as the fighting par 1 on,’ arose
and moved that the term ‘cob red’ be
expunged, as not respectful to the col
ored delegation. James H. Harris, an
intelligent and respected colored man,
arose and said he did not see any good
reason for the proposition. The record
was literally true. God had made them
colored men, and he was not ashamed
of anything God bad done. He w:s
not ashamed of Lis color, and be hoped
the gentleman from Roberson was not
ashamed nfhit! The ‘ fighting parson’
caved in.
The Connecticut Election—
The Rcnulli
The National Intelligencer has the
following as a double leadod editorial:
Glorious news greets us from the
North. “The land of steady habits.”
nobly meets tho expectations of the
friends of constitutional government.—
The tide of Radicalism is turned, and
the freedmen of Connecticut have proud
ly proclaimed that the Constitution is
still in force; that tho rights of tlie
States shall not be trampled upon ; that
the Government shall not bo oonsolida
ted in the hands ot a Congressional di
rectory. The sceptre of power is wrest
ed from the hands of it cn who, under
the pretence of putting down rebellion,
have inaugurated a revolution which,
striking down tho safeguards of person
al liberty, would destroy the indepen
dence of the Executive, the sacred func
tions of th>-Supremo Court, and the
precious guaranties of constitutional
government. The intelligent oit'zens
of Connecticut rebuke t Congress which
insnlts liberty by reariug a military des
potism in the midst of a free rt public.
Never was a political struggle more hot
ly contested. Never was money more
lavishly spent by defeated partisans.—
Never was official influence more shame
fully prostituted to serve the ai-us of
ambitioDs politicians. Never was a con
stituenoy more fl >oded with adroit spec
ial pleaders in behalf of a designing na
tional legislature. Never was th* p. n
more unscrupulous in its efforts to make
the worse appear the better reason.
Never were the passions engendered by
a war more violently appealed to. But
neither money, nor patronage, nor elo
quence, nor an army of ofice-holders,
nor a subsidized press, not vile passions,
availed the plotters against the Constitu
tion. The revolution is stayed. The
war upon our submissive brethren of the
South is ended. The will ol Congress
is no longer the supreme law, bat the
Constitution and the laws made in pur
suance thereof. Connecticut has spoken.
New York will follow, in the eleo'ion
tor constitutional delegates. Pennsyl
vania, the keystone of the arch, will vin
dicate the integrity of the Government
as our fathers framed it, and the Union
will be maintained, not according to the
changing mandate of a Congress, but
according to tbo Constitution which
sprang from the sagacity, the p. triotism
and the sufferings of‘‘the men of ’76.”
Mr. English is elected by a marjtr
tty equal to that by which he was beat
en a year ago. Three Democratic Con
gressmen have been elected to one Riu
ical, instead of a solid Radical delega
tion, as in the I s‘. Congress. It is but
the of the end. Men of Con
oeeticut TOU have proven yourselves
worthy of ‘be the vanguard of
freedom. Then-*' oll owcs . J°u an »n
--during debt of gratiiu^* s which will nev
er be forgotten.
The State Road. —The Atlanta
Opinion l of Thursday says:
‘‘We are informed 1 y Maj. Wallace
that he paid into the Treasury of the
State $60,000, from the prtfi’s of the
Western and Atlautic Railroad I'>r the
month ot February last. The same
amount was paid in for January. The
business of March, however, did not pay
expenses. Socomplote was the blockade
on the roads above during most of the
month, that the freighting busine.-s was
almost suspended. Thus it appears that
the people of Geotgia are losers in a
and iuble sense when the feeders of this
groat State work are closed.
With an ordinary business and gv>d
management, this road will net to the
State a half million of dollars annually.’
Connecticut Gone to Thunder.—
The following is the announcement of
tho conservative triumph in Connecti
cut as it appeared in tho Washington
Chronicle of Tuesday:
At ha’f past cne o’clock last night
General Granger received the follow
ing dispatch trom the New York Tri
bune office:
“State gone to thunder In three
counties we lose 900—in VVindom 80,
New London 500, New Haven 400.
Scheme reckons English’s majority
1,200.’’
We learn from a correspondent of
tho MacoD Telegraph, from Crawford
Cos., that the Secretary issued through
the Military authorities at Macon, the
following ord.r:
Headquarters Dist. of Georgia, I
Macon, Ga., April 3, 1867. }
[Extract.]
[Special Order No. 14.]
1. In the absence of the Govenor of
the State, preventing action on a peti
tion submitted in the case of the State
vs. Shepherd Alias Cornell, colored,
sentenced to be executed by hanging in
the Courts of Crawford on the sth in
stant, the Sheriff and bis subordinates
for Crawford County Ga , aro hereby
.ordered not to execute the s<n‘enee pro
nounced by Judge Cole in the case, and
to suspend all actions iu the same, with
a mow of giving opportunity to the civil
authorities of the State to commute the
sentence The Sheriff will, therefore, i
under this order, confine the said Shep
herd, Alias Henry Cornell, colored, in
the common Jail of said county, and
keep him UDder safe custody awaiting
further orders, to be issued in the prem
ises under pain of disobedience for dis
regarding these orders inany particular.
By command of Col. Caleb C. Sibley
U. S. A.
(Signed) John E Hosmer,
1 t Lieut. 16th U. S. Infantry.
Baptist Convention.—The Baptist
Convention of Georgia will meet in
Columbus on the 26th of Ap.il* The
Sun savs :
“Arrangements are being made in
tho various families, members of the
congregation, for the accommodation of
the delegates who may attend, and also
to have them pass over the various rail
roads on one faro. The promise is that
the Convention will be largely amend
ed.” '
The Democratic majority in Conect
icut is 850. A hervy gain.
Cooking TnirE—Lotty Er»i M
»»yt<: Dip tho salted pieces of tripe ia
corn meal, and fry in butter. Let the
buttor (a small portion) be quite hot be
■n P ut, ' n 8 * n t * ,e tr 'P«. a "d then it
will become a handsome brown color
Another way is, to cut the tripe in very’
small squareb or strips, and stew in
milk, at last adding a little butter, pen
per and salt. ’ * ™
Can’t Bbaii Grief—A gentleman
who was in YY ashington, when the
news from ( onnectiout was received
by telegraph, sat by a gentleman in
tne of the hotels, who expressed him
ae.f as follows: “D the misera
ble little State !we sent them money
enough to have bought up every deV
ilith copperhead in it I’
The Liberals have M.xamili.n in a
tight place at Qnareto, Mexico and h.
has appealed to the Unite I States toij!
torfere for leniency to him if captured
which the government has done/ ’
MARKETS.
Macon, April 9,1867. -Cotton-*
few sales were effected in the moroiniT
at22e. for Middling, but nothing dime
after the reception of the unfavorable
noon dispatches.
SAVANNAH’ April 8-Sales to-daf,
107 b .les middling upland, irregular, u
27c. the market closing dull » n d
heavy
There were no transactions in sea is
land cotton, and prices are nominal.
Columbus, April 9.— Our market
was perhaps a litfle easier yesterday than
on Saturday, but the same quotations
are given us-say 22c. for middlings.
Very little doing. 6
New York, 6tb, P . M._Cotton an
changed, sales 1600 at 271*29. Floor
Srn. ; e lat $10.25a1 4 50 Corn advanc
ed 2a3 ctv.; mixed $1.25}al 28J
DIED.
‘f !e ., n!^ ht ° f the7th inßt ‘‘ °f Tvphoid
fever hrtlf Janies aged about 6 year's, the
son of Judge J. C. F Clark, ot this citv.
Fond parents, mourn not for little Jimmie,
be has but obeyed the call of his blessed B*l
ha not o . T rK \ nnS of c,orr ' -here he will
be not only free from the troubles and suf
'g? ° f tMa worM > but *herohe will enjoy
perfect peace and happiness forever. When
ever you think of him, remember Jesus ia
call ng you to the skies, and «. often as , ou
visit the place where his loved form lies be
neath the clod, sav with n your heart, “It is
weH wni, ,hc t-biid.” Then, with your heart
lifted t>p to beaten, siy ;
VY ith all ocr soul, O Lord, we g\tc
The child thy love hath snatched away :
On earth we would not have him live
With us wc would not have him stav.'
“When Jesus in the cioudr appears,
with him we ehajl in plorj reign
We and the children he hath glVen,
iuseparaUr joined in Heaven.^
PASTOK,
A'etv •ftfvcriiseiinnts.
IHLI* SELITs
FURNITURE, UcggifS and Roekewayt at
Cost, (or Itie Cadr, aa I wieb to close
out that branch of mV bu«inei>*.
April 12th, 186“’ la, E. B LOYLUS,
C'l lOOItGE A. Terreii ronulft
X Whereas, Jesre Tucker app.'-es (o teg
for le'lers of dismission from the estate of
J. W. Tucker, late of said count?, deceased.
These are to cite and admonish all persons
concerned to be and appear at my office with
in ihe time prescribed by l.iw, and show
cause, if any, why said letters should cot be
granted.
t Given under mi hand and official signs,
ure this April 14ib, 1866. T.M. JOSES,
Ordinary.
HARNESS, HARNESS.
DOUBLE LINES,
BUGGY BRIDLES,
BLIND BKIDLES,
RIDING BRIDLES,
HALTERS,
MARTINGALES,
breaching
A’l hand made, of best material,
and offering at exceedingly low prices,
ut ORR, BROWN & CO'S.
N OTIC Id.
SIXTY days after date, application will b«
made to the Court of Ordinary of Terrell
County for leave to sell the real estate belong
ing to the estate of Sidney H. Smith, late ot
said county deceased. J. B. VANOVER,
JOUNM. WALKER,
aprfi:oOd Adni'rs.
BANKRUPT NOTICE.
' I’HE undersigned having made an arrange
a ment with ihe Hon. Edward G. Harden,
of Savannah, Ga., wbo was Judge of the Con
federate Circuit court duting the war, to at*
tend to bis Baukrupt Cases in the U. S. Fed
eral Court, will prepare the papers on appli
cation to him st his office in Cuthbert, Rtn
dt Iph county, Georgia, and forward them im
mediately to Savannah, where they will re
ceive the prompt attention of the Hon. Ed
ward G. Harden.
He will have blank forms in a few days.
KD. RANDOLPH HARDEN.
aprs:4t
ADMINISTRATOR'S SALE.
WHEREAS, agreeably to an order from
Court of ordinary of Calhoun Coun
ty, Ga., Lots of land 149 and ISO, in the 4tn
District of Calhoun couniy, belonging to the
petite of Halcomb McCorquodale, deceased:
were put up aud sold at public outcry before
the Court House door of said county on the
First Tuesday in March, (Terms one half cash)
and said lots of land were bidden off by Pe
ter E. Lawrence of said county. And
wnereas the said Peter E. Lawrence having
failed to comply with the terms of said sale.
I hereby readvertiae the sale of said land
(being lota 149 and 150 in the 4ib district of
said county) in the manner aforesaid on the
First Tuesday in May next between the legal
hours of sale. Sold for the benefit of tho
heirs and credi .ors.
REUBEN McCORQUODALE, Ad’s.
Southwestern Railroad.
WM. HOLT, Pres. | VIRGIL POWERS, Sup
Leaves Macon 8 A if; arrives at Eu
faula 5 30, P M ; Leaves Eufaula 7 20, A M ;
Arrives at Macon 4 60, P M.
ALBANY BRANCH.
Leaven Smith viiie 1 4«, P M : Arrive* at
Albany 3 11, PM ; Leaves Albany 9 86, AMf
Arrives at Sioitbvillo 11, A M.