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D.WVSOX JOURNAL.
DAWSON GA , APRIL 20, ISG7.
A s<*nt*.
Mr. Elam Johnson, Power’s Sta
tion, n an »uthoi'z:d agent Ur this pa
p r Contracts made o! riccip's given
by Liui will te ratified by the proprie
tor.
Ely Otto, Esq , of Savannah Ga , is
our agent for that citv.
T. P. Slider, Esq ,is our agent for
Charleston, S. 0.
During a recent tbumler storm in
Bolivia, South America, about 100 per
sons were killed by lightning.
Emerson E'hridge has been nomina
ted as a candidate for Governor by the
Conservative Union Party of Tcnnes
bac, at Nashville, on the 1G h iusf.
A movement is already on foot at
Washington, to organiz) an expedition
to visit the newly acquired Russian pos
sessions. Application for the use of
Government vessels in charge of navy
officer; will be made.
Gen. Miramon, of Mexico, by prcc
lama ion, has raised the black flag in
that distracted and unhappy country.
The atrocious massacre of F.ench pris
oners by order of Esc -bedo, provoked
the proclamation of Miramon.
Lynch law was never mere common
anywhere than it is now in the North
west. A dispatch from Jackson coun
ty, Ijwa, says that three men named
Bioklin, Walker and Wcbrre, were on
examination for murder, and a cr.wd < 1
four or five hundred cit zens were wait
ing to hang them. Os course they were
not before a regular tribunal.
A chicken coop was recently built in
Calhoun County, Ala , and floated down
the Coosa river, over the falls at We
tumpka, and anived safe at Montgome
ry on Tuesday last, with two thousand
chickens, ducks, turkeys and geese
The Montgomery people are delighted
at the foul invasion.
It is stated from Washington that
the administration is in daily receipt of
correspondence from leading men of the
South, giving assurance that the great
body of the Southern peop'e are deter
mined to organize under the rccors’rue
tion laws lately passed, and that the
only disturbing elements in the South
are the imported poli icians from the
North, who are making every effort to
bring about discord between tnc white
and colored people.
Negro Political meetings.
I hose who have been present, or who
have s'udied tho reports of the politi*
cal meetings held by ourcolored friends,
says the Federal Union, must have no
ticed several peculiarities, that have
characterized all ol them. In the first
place, the best aDd most reliable por
tion cf our colored people, those who
wc rk on the plantatoin, and are trying
to lay up something to live upon in sick
ness and old age, take but little inter
est in politioal meetings. They see
that politics do not bring them vituaL,
of drink, or clothing, and that a few
men mauage everytbieg, and that they
are net consulted. In nearly all of
these meetings the colored people have
not been permitted to manage things
their own way, but the resolutions have
been prepared, and everything arranged,
cut and dried for use, by some mische
vious white Radicals, who have been
prowling about, trying to scatter fire
brands, arrow and death between tbe
colored people und their former masters.
Another fact has been noticed in all
of these meetings wbira a radical
spirit has been manifested by any of the
colored people. The radical portion of
the assembly is generally made up of
those who ficqueut the cock pit and
gambling cells—thofo who hang around
the cc mere of the street and tho whis-
ky slops ; who do Dot work, but get
their living by some sort of Ledgerde.
main. The substantial, honest, hard
woikirg and reliable colored men are
generaly di posed to bo friendly to the
white people with whom they
were raised. We would remind those
oolored Radicals who seem disposed to
follow the lead of their pretended friends
from the North, and to turn their backs
upon tbeir best friends at the South
that they had better count well the
cost before they act. If they cut loose
from the Southern white people with
whom they have been raised, and who
who are still disposed to be their friends,
and depend alone upon these who wish
to use them for their own benefit, they
will find out their mistake when per
haps it will be too late. They can do
much damage, but the greatest part of
of it wi 1 fall upon their own heads.
They can injure the whites, but in do
ing so, they will ruin themselves. It is
much the best for both races to live to-
gether ia peace and friendship, but il
the black people will not do that, but
go after strange gods, the Southoj' ,
whites will contrive to precure labor
from some other source, aud the blacks
will have (o look to the Northern foiends
for employment and support, and we
can tell them, that will be a very poor
reliance. After they have made what
political capita! cut of them they can,
they will have no more use for them.
&a«l fr'aiaiit) —.itan melaki u
artel Mint feu- (.a me.
We have just been inf rmed of one
of the saddest deaths that we Lave been
called npon to chronicle in roaDy a day,
by which a good eir'z- n, has been cu
'fT in tLe prime of )if<—and that too
when least cxprcic', yea, while flushed
with hnpeful excWm nt, engaged in Li
favorite sport. The particulars, so far
as wc have Doen able to gather them
frrm a friend of the deceased, arc sub
stantially t.s follows:
Seme two weeks age, (wo brothers
by the name cf Webb, were engaged iu
Turkey hunting, on Spring Creek, it
Early county, when tho unf rtunatr
man, Al’eu Gay, Jr , together with a
M . E van*, entered ti e same hammock
from another diric ion—also engaged
with their fowling pieces in the turkey
hnn‘. liith Gay and Webb b. i g ix
petimeed in the search f r this valuable
game, they were enabled to imitate the
pecu'ia" noi;o <f tbe turkey to perfec
tion. The thickness of tbe growth pre
vented their diseoveringf ach other—and
j each, mistaking the other for game, cau
! ti udy appreached the decoying noise,
little thinking of the imminent peril of
their respective situations. A portion,
of Mr. Gay’s clothing was at length seen j
through an openit g in tbe brush wood,
aDd the ottier, excited with the prospect J
of a fine haul, instantly fired at the sup- J
posed game and ran toward the object iu
order to get a surer shot when it fl w
up. But on reaching the spot, be
found his fiiend and neighbor bhot di -.
rcctly through the throat.
From the nature of the wound, Mr.
G., was unab.e to talk, but with pencil
and paper, told where his herse was,
| and that he thought Lo could reach
home—which he did, with tbe aid of Lis
fiLnd Medical aid was called in, but
little hope was given for his recovery.
Near night, on the third day after tbe
accident, he had gone into an adjoining
room, and seeing the great grief of his
family, took Lis Dcr.eil and writing,
urge*d them them not to gre’ve —that
ho was prepared to die—willing to go.
In a very short time af'er this he re
turned to his bod, in tho other room,
laid down, and in a few moments expir
ed.
The deceased was an industrious, and
good citizen—highly esteemed by all
who knew him; and his untimely de
mise is deeply deplored. He leaves a
grief-strickcn wife and five or six chil
dren. May that God who tempers the
winds to the bhorn lamb, watch over
theml
Virginia.
It is stated in tbe papers that Gen.
Schofield has informed a member ol the
Virginia House of Dd gates that the
disqualification to vote or hold office
does not apply under the reconstruction
bill to persons who were forced into tbe
rebel service by conscription, notwith
standing that they had taken an oath
to support the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, and served in any of the ca
pacities cnumcra'ed in tho prescribed
form of oath. This will reduce the num
ber of persons disqualified to vote or
hold office to a very Finall margin
The disqualification will be confined al
together to those who volunteered in
the early part of the war, few of whom
-re now living. The survivors aro prin
cipally of the conscript class, save per
haps, a few officers who held rauks from
the beginning, and obtained their com
missions by appointment.
A Large V\ heat (Jaop.—The ac
counts received by our exchanges from
almost every section of Maryland, Vir
ginia and North Carolina, speak of the
prospect of a large crop of wheat. A
Louisville paper says not only in Ohio
and Kentucky, but ia Tennessee also
the wheat crop is more extensive than
io usually soon, and promises an abund
ant yield. The Illinois State Journal
learns that the wheat in Sangamon and,
adjoining counties looks finely, better
than daring the corresponding season
for several years past. Wheat and oth
er cereal crops ia Texas, of which an
unusually Urge breadth has b en plant
ed, arc looking splondinly, and the
Lone Star planters anticipate the big
gest harvest they ever bad.
Surratt.—The Richmond Examin
er says in reference to the trial of John
11. Surratt: The American people
outside of the republican party, and ma
ny thousand within that party, want no
man murdered. The savagLm of 1865
has not, iudeed, died out, and will not
while Butler, Bolts aud Brownlow live;
but it is in a -minority. It is not neces
sary to propitiate it furthur with Amer
ican blood. The government may defy
it. Vengeance is dethroned and cupid
ity reigns in its stead Slaying sur en
ders its crown to stealing, and tbe gal
lows gracefully fades from view as Acts
ofConfi-cation come on the stage.
We take it, therefore, that Surratt’s
blood is not Decessarj.
In Washington ciiy Registration has
been completed in five wards of this
city—two more to be registered. Tbe
whole number of voters registered, g
far, is 10,036 —of which the blacks
have 5,26!); showing a majority, thus
far, of one hundred and one in ftvor of
the whites.
.te\i>|ia per l.uw*.
For the instruction and guidance cl
s me who may possibly need iof>rma
tion on tho sul j c f , wo copy the follow
ing :
Postmasters are required to give ad
vice by letter when a subscriber dues
i t take hi) pap:r from the office; and
givo the reason wf y it is not taken.
Neglecting to do so makes the Poet
master ritsp 'nslhle to tho publisher for
he payment.
Any person who takes the paper reg
ularly from the post e ffiev, whether he
has subscribed or not, is resonsiblo for
ehe piyincDt of the subscription.
Any one ordering bis prper discon
tinued must pay all or tbe
publisher may continue to send it until
payment is mode, and ciJlect the whole
amount, whether it is taken from the
office or not.
The courts have decided that refus
ing to take a news paper und pe’iodicals
from tbe post office, or removing and
leaving them uncalled r or, primu J'acie
evidence of intentional fraud.
The Georgia Injunction. —Gov.
Jenkins has returned from Washingtan,
| where he Las been engaged in bringing
< tbe Reconstruction acts before the Uni-
I fed States Supreme Court.
The first pointer a temporary injunc
tion to restrain until the suit shall be
finally decided on its merits, is set
down for argument and adjudication to
day, (Friday.) The Attorney has fil
ed an answer denying the jurisdiction
of the Court in the course before it, and
this defense will be first disposed of.
If the Court should sustain this demur
rer, the case will be dismissed : if of
the opposite opinion, the argument will
then proceed on the merits of the com
plaint.
Tlic Prei« Gang in Atlanta.
The representatives of the Southern
Press, recently a-sembled in conven
tion in Atlanta, seem to have been
most kindly and bospitab'y entertained
by the citizens of that place. A ban
quet was given them, at vvh’ch, for the
honor of the profession we are pleased
to say, there were no exhibitions ol
dirt eating or the belabbering of mili
tary men. Such toasts as a‘ A Free
Press," “Law,” “Liberty,” &c., were
appropriately responded to, and must
have produced about the same effect
upon the mephitic atmosphere of the
place, that a violent thunder shower is
said to have upon the murkoy air en
gendered by a July sun. General
Pope and staff, though spi'cially invi
*ed, were not present, and thus lo t an
opportunity of making the acquaint
ance of many gentlemen of position
and intelligence, who could have giv
en them much valuable information as
to the real status of public sentiment
in the Southern Territories.
The Washington Chronicle of the
21st says : “When tho Senato ad
journed last night, the impression
seemed to be almost universal that
there would be no quorum in either
House on the third of July next. The
feeling between the Senators and the
Executive was so cordial, compara
tively, and '.he intelligence from J'o
South promising submission to the
terms of reconstruction so auspicious,
that very few doubted that the groat,
measures of Congress hud anticipated
and forestalled all chance of difficulty
and dissension. The Senate adjourn
ed, leaving about twenty positions va
cant (mostly in the West), which, un
der the tenure of office law, the Pres
ident cannot fill.
Mississippi.—lt is said Governor
Sharkey, of Mississippi, has expressed
his intention, should the Supreme
Court refuse to entertain his petition
foi an injunction restraining the exeou
tion of the Military Reconstruction
bill, to make up a case for the indict
ment and arrest of General Ord, com
mander of the 4th Military District,
for treason against the State of Missis
sippi. He is determined to make the
Supreme Court decide the question,
whether agreeable to the judges or not,
before Congress cau “get a hit’’ at
him, as he expresses il. The question
arises whether General Ord, by the
aid of martial law, may not be able to
take care of himself, and at the same
time have the plucky Governor cared
for in soino fortress.
But recently there was a political
meeting held in Nasbvillve, at which a
colond man, one Alexander William*,
who bad formerly been a slave, and then
soldier in the Federal army, who desir
ed to express the opinions of his race.
The request was acceded to, and the
following ia repoited as an extract from
his spee-ih :
“He came forward amid a shower of
applause, and thanked the gentlemen
present tor the privilege of addressing
his fellow-citizens. lie said slavery
was abolished, and no law could restore
it; it was dead forever, and he, thore
f ire, could see no reason why the color
ed man could not advocate the cause of
his former master, but now best friend,
and hold and expiess bis political senti
ments without being called rebels and
copperheads. The colored people ought
to aid their old friends in the South in
restoring harmony and good government.
Their former owners were willing to
lend a helping ban 1, and tho colored
ciliz ns should uid them—they have
tie wealth and capacity, ami we the
strength and industry, 110 could see
no reason why we shoul I not work for
ut friends und Vote for them too. He
was proud to see what had been done
to day an I to hear the speeches made.
'This was the place to give the colored
man bis rights—here in the South,
wheie there are millions of colored
men—not in tho North, beyond the
Olii >. [Cheers ] Let us join hand and
band for tbe common good. We must
agree, or tbeic will be a fid iog out
lbe colored people o.Jy asked to have
tbeir rights, and the speaker felt coi fi
dent they would be more casi'y obtain
ed from their old friends than their new
and pretended ones. Ho endorsed eve
rything that had been said in the Con
vention, and was ready to lay down his
life tor such principles. [Applause.]
The best thing to be done is to unite
If we do that, there will be no danger
of failure.”
The reeling in Aorili Georgia.
\\ e gi e the preamble and resoluri ms
of a meeting held at, Cartorsville, Bar
tow county, on the 18ih iusf. in order to
keep our readers posted as to the va
rious opinions now held by our people:
Whereas, We, a portion if the citi
zens of Bartow county, deem it our du
ty, as well as our right, “whenever eve
ma) th’nk the emergency requires,” to
express cur views as to the merits or
demerits of any act of out public e,fa
cial; and in exercising said rights, we
feci ourselves compelled Loin promptings
of what we conceive to be our duty to
ourselves, our State, and our country,
to enter our solemn protest against the
action of Charles J. Jenkins, who, in
his official character, has, without regard
for the wishes of his constituency, acted
upon subjects not, warranted by the
authority of law, or by the circum
stances surrounding us, in throwing ob-,
structions in the way of ceconciliation
and the reconstruction of our State, and
bringing her back in full fellowship and i
harmony with our Govern -lent.
Resolved, That we view with aston
ishment and deep regret the attempt of
C. J. Jenkins to renew our difficulties,
and invite further legislation by the
United S ates G ngross
Resolved, That, having seen the des
olation and suffering caused by such ad
visers in the past, wc are determined,
by the assistance of our worthy district,
commander, General Pope, that this
people, in the future, shall ever show a
willingness to abide tho decisions of a
majority of tbe voters of the United
States, and obey the laws given to them
by our Congress.
Resolved, That the class of politicians
who have brought ruin upon our ocun
tro are no longer-worthy the stqip rt of
a free people ; that their sugg. s’ions are
only equalled in impudence by their
former attempt ct secession ; and that,
in future, we will trust our destiny in
the hands alone cf such men as are tru
ly worthy of the confidence of the gov
ernment of our fathers.
Resolved, That a oopy of these pro
ceedings be published in the Atlanta
Opinion.
W.m. L. Goodwin, Chairm’n.
Jno. C. Maddox, Seet’y.
An Official Oath Alone Disqual
ifies— A grc;t many are under tbe
impression thot the constitutional
amendment disfranchises all who have
taken and failed to observe an oath to
support tbe Constitution of the United
States. This is inenrreot. It is the
having taken an official oath, which dis
qualifies. We republish the third ac
tion of tie amendment, by riquest, to
show that this is undeniably the case:
“Section 3. No person shall be a
Senator of Representative ia Congress,
or elector or Pir.-ider.t or Vice Presi
dent, or hold any office, civil or military
under the United States, or under any
S ate, who , having previou-ly taken an
oath as a memhe.* of Congres, or as an
officer of the United Slates, or as a
member of any Sfato Legislature, or av
au executive or judicial officer of any
State, to support the Constitution of the
United States, shall have engaged in
insursection or rebellion against the
same, or given aid or comfort to the en
emies thereof; but Congress niay by a
vote of two-tt.irds of each House, re
move such disability.’’
Buried Alive.—A friend gives us
the account of a most terrible case of
burial alive of a handsome young lady
at Jacksonville Illinois. Some time
last summer, a young lady of seventeen
years of ago, suff-ring with the tooth
ache, weut to bed with a small phial
of chloriform for the purpose of quiet
ing her teeth. In the m rniug she
was found to all appearances dead, which
was coufirued by the opinions t { sever
al physicians who were called and ex
amined her pody. She was then buri
ed. A few days since h- r relatives
were about to run ve from Jackson
ville, having located in another State
and bad the remains of tbe youug lady
exhumed, for the purpo e of laking
them to their new Lome. Curiosity
prompted them to open the o fin, when
they taere horror stricken on finding the
corpse turned over, both hands full r i
hair, and her clothing torn to shred-*,
revealing the horrible truth that the
young lady had been buried alivo. Tbe
chloroform had placed her in a deep
trance, the awakei ing from which was
in hercoffia an! grave. The lady was
engaged to be married at tho time of
her supposed death. A moro heart
stricken case we never remember to
have read or heard of.—ludi. llcrald.
We copy the following paragraph
from the letter of a correspondent of
the Augusta Constitutionalist, written
from Rome, Ga.:
Choi —Wheat and oats are fine,
and promising, and with no untoward
circumstances, a magnificent yield,
equal it is confidently expected, to that
ot 1852. Fifteen bushels per acre is
believed to be a moderate average for
this county, from the next crop.
Fertile S|iot in alias ISanki uj*l
The Baltimore Sun notices some of
the fertile spots in the Bank upt Law.
It provides for tl e appo'ntment in each
Contrre-ssionnl District of tho Uniteai
State's of one or more officers culled
Registers in Bankruptcy. These offi
cers are t a fie selected by th ) Chief
Justi oof the United Ntates Their
Inis'ness will ho to act ns deputies ot
the and strict judge in all matters relat
ing to bankrupt estates. Their com
pensation will bo derived from fees and
itinerate charge*, upon a scale to he
fixed fiy the Supreme Court of the Uni
ted Status It is calculated that tbe
office will, in no ease, be worth less
than one thousand dollars per annum,
and in th* principal towns and com
mercial centres will he very lucrative.
Some idea may be formed of the im
portance and value <f the office, when
it is remembered that tho bankrupt act
practically supersedes the insolv nt
laws of all tho States So that at the
east the fees of each register will in
number, equal tho aggregate r»f all the
fees in insolvency of all the State
Courts in Life Congres ional D.stiiet,
anti ns ‘he rate of fees in bankruptcy
may fairly be assumed, according to
the) ratio of fei's in the Federal Courts,
to be four times.the rate of like servi
ces in the State) Courts, it will at once
be seen that the office is a nice little
provision Tho nomination for those
places rests with the Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court exclusively.
The Late Emigration to Liberia
—Wo were yesterday shown a letter
written by Frederick Ti met*, one of
the eo'oree! men who went to Liberia
in the* (iolconda from tn s port, ad
dressed to a gentleman in this city, in
whose service he had been prior t<• his
emigration. In it he says the cfllonists
were pleasantly located* at Carey sburg,
twenty miles up tho St. Paul river,
and w ro doing very well, making cof
fee, ginger, arrow rot, &c They had
been piovided vvitn lands about five
miles from tbe river in tho proportion
of twenty-five acres lo each family,
and ten apiece to the single men, and
amongst other improvements, had al
ready built three churches. Tilmer
thinks that emigrants can do wed in |
that country if they are willing to |
work. He was very profuse in his re-j
membrance to his former master and
mistress — Ch’n Courier
April Fool. —The Fredericksburg
(Ya.) Herald tel's of a merchant who
had a pleasant April fool joke all to
himself. He gave a ten-dollar coun
terfeit greenback to a country boy
whom rie did Lot know, but who,
while the merchant was out, passed i'*-
upon bis clerk for fifty cents worth of
sugar, receiving §D 50 in change.
Mexico. —lt is stated by a late ar
rival from Mexi o, that Escobedo has
issued a circular instructing that all
fore : gacrs captured fighting against
the Republic oe executed. Maximil
ian hail ordered that no republican be
shot without previous order from bis
bcaclqu .rttrs.
South Carolina.
Charleston, Airii 22.—Governor
Orr nas addressed a circular to tho Sher
iffs of the State, suggesting their nam
ing suitable persons as Registers under
the Reconstruction act. Ho states the
qualifications required, with tbe pre
scribed oatb. The names thus c*o!lect
cd aro to be furnished to General Sick
les.
Tho circular concludes as follows : ‘I
cannot too earnestly im* ross upon you
the request contained ia this communi
cation, and of transmitting your
at the earliest day practicable, if an ear
nest and cuergitie effort is not made to
procure the services of trus 1 worthy cit
izms to discharge these respective du
ties, they will be performed by stran
gers who may not have a oorrect appro
ciation of the wants of the community.’
Fire ia Savannah.
Savannah, April 21 —Frisbio &
Neason’r cotton warehouse was Totally
destroyed by fire, last night Between
five and six hundred bales of cot'on were
hurried. No insurance on tho budding.
P. 11. Behn loses three hundred bales
of cotton; insured Bah,ooo. Frisbie
& N-ason’s loss, 810,000; iusured
820,000.
The dwelling-heuse adjoining was de
stroyed—no insurance.
Total loss, 100,00. Thace firemen
were slightly injured.
The Negroes’ New Masters. The
Mobile Register makes a centre shot in
the following paragraph :
Lot it be explained to tho negroes
that out of every 400 pounds of cotton
that they raise they pay 825 to a N w
England master. The m w master gets
more clear profit from tbe negro labor
thin his former master ever got, and he
lives way rtf yonder in New England,
never caring a continental bow his no
groes fare, so long eg he can pocket
one third of all his niggers earn. The
negroes have changed masters and been
terribly swindh din the bargain. And
they have not got for masters the men
by whose fighting they became free, but
the men who sat down at homo »nd had
black substitutes killed for their bone
fit.
On Advertising.
A sage writer proposes tie following
pointed interrogatories, tbe answers of
which we oommend to our readers"
What made Birnum rich ? Adver
tising. What sold the Government
Bonds? Advertising. What male
Bonner’s Ledger? Advertising. What
made A. T. Stewart’s fortune? Ad
vertisiDg. What sold 110,000 ticke s
in the Crosby Opera House scheme ?
Advertising. What moves the business
world like an Archimedian lever ? Ad
vertising.
Freights eou the South.—The pa
pers announce that the Nashville &
Chattanooga Railroad is receiving
fr. igh s for all points South.
A DV EKTISEMEISTTS *
SIO,OOO
WORTH OF 1
I> It Y GOOD s !
AT COST roll GO DAYS!
To bo sold as early as possible.
NOW IS YOITII TIME 1
And in order f>rme to close out, these Goods and raise the amount of men T
need. I shall sell my goods for the next two mouths *
WITHOUT REGARD TO PROFITS.
I must have money, aud to get this I am compelled to
SAOHIFIOE GOODS !
To those who intend supply ing themselves. I would say now is your time
tuy goods chcaj • J y
fiicnper titan they have been Ottered in
this Market, Since the War !
I will sell them much cheaper than you cau buy them at any boure inSDaw.
sin, or in Macon. 3
All l ask is to came and try me, and then you will be oonvinced of what I
My terms arc STRICTLY CASH, or good security on Two month* time.
ir Amiss a*
NEXL’ DOOR TO E. B. LOYLESS’ STORE—LOYLESB BLOCK,
DAWSON, GEORGIA.
apr2G:2in
A We stcan Radical paper, lamenting
over the Connecticut defeat, a-ks: “Will
we learn ? Is it possible for us to waken
up from our after-dinner stupidity,
shake off the asses, owls and thieves and
summon the people to real issues?” If
you want to shake your party all to
pieces, shake away. Theie’ll be noth
ing left, of it by the time you’ve shaken
off the “owls, asses and thieves,” es
pecially the thieves.—[Mobile Tribune.
Public Meetings. —A writer sug.
gests that in would be just as well for
the productive industry, of tbe country,
if those who are lugging the negro in'o
polities would, instead, persuade him to
stay in the field and work —be better
for the negro, better for the white
man.
A Georgia negro has been obliged to
move S iuth from Cincinnati on account
of tho predjudiee against the blacks.
At a recent festival in Burlington,
\ t., a cake was presented to be voted
at ten cents a vote to the “handsomest
lady ’in the room. A saddle-“colorcd
lady” carried off the prize, and the Yan
kee girls wilted.
Butj.ek and tipjonh in New Orleans.
A letter from New Orleans says:
“On Mardi Gras, one of the masque
raders wore a military dress, the epau
letts of which were made of spoons.
Even the negroes, shouted ‘Butjer!’
Butler !’
Wisconsin takes the bad in the wo
man suffrage movement—the Senate
having concurred, by a vote of 10 to 9,
with the assembly resolution proposing
to amend the Constitution so as to ex
tend suffrage to all persons over tho age
of 21 years.
Oiling Boots. —Tho application of
castor oil to new boots renders them as
soft ns a buckskin glove. It is also the
bes 1 application that can le made to
render anew boot water-proof.
A Colored Man «App untf.d Rrgis
ter of Voters —Samuel J. B, Carter,
colored, a teacher, has been appointed
Register of Voters in Jackson county,
Alabama, under the Military Recon
struction Bill, at the request of several
white prominent citizens of Stevenson.
There is an extraordinary rinrr
afliat that the ladies will soon begin to
wear ‘real bonnets.”
A Washington dspatch says of
Thad Stevens that ‘his death at any
moment should not surprise those who
are accustomed to see him from day to
day.”
A cotemporary says : The ladies in
their new style short dresses seem to
have renewed their youth, and mat
rons of thirty, who have been in the
willow wagon business for a dozen
years or more, pass current as “sweet
sixteen.”
COTTON.—In New York, on the
22d, 25 cts.; Augusta, 22cts.; Colum
bus, Ga , 19cts.; Macon, I8c(b.
Daiisou Priec* Current.
Corrcolcd Weekly by W. E ORR.
Cotton 15 a 17 j
Delaines, 30 a 50 |
Lancaster, 40 a 45
Sheeting 24 a 26
Factory Yarns, 2 75a300
Coats’ Thread, 1 25al 50
Ex. Fam. F!our,ls a 20
Superfine, 13 a 16
ltice, 16 a
Sugar, Brown,. .18 a 25
Coffee Sugar,... 25
Syrup, cane,... .75 aBl
“ sorghum,6o a7O
Bagsing, Keut’y, 35 .. 40
** Gunny, 45 a
Rope, 18 a 25
Gandies, 5tar,...15 a 60
Dried Fruit,. ...10 a 15
Tobacco, 60 al 95
Soap, turp’utine. 16 a 2<i
Whiskey.... 3 OO a $lO
Coperas 10 a 16
j G01d,.... a 35
I Silver,.... 30
Prints,... .15 a25
Ginghins 87 a 50
Lard 18a20
Osnabargs 30a 32
Bacon, ...17a21
Corn,. .1 60a1 65
Tea 1 50a2 60
Coffee,... ,23a 38
Candy,.. ,35 a 50
Cheese,.,,,2oaßo
Salt, 1
Glass, 9 a 11
Butter ...85a 50
Kggs, .. 15 a 20
Beeswax,. 14 a 16
Tallow, 10 als
SnnT, ..1 OOal 50 I
Kails, , .1 a 10
5h0t,.... 20 1
Towder,. .80 a 75
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Under TUB “JOURNAL” PRINTING Offic*.
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ABS>TO PiinfUM.
CORN AND BACON ON Til
WE are prepared lo fnrni.-h Corn and Bt'
con, in quantifies to sail. Payable ob
tbe gathering ol tbe grown g crops.
MEGRATH & PATTERSON.
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JLand Wanted.
B\ the subscribor at Wooten’s Station, a
small unimproved place of 100 to 200
acres, with comfortable boi'dingp, in a healthy
locality two to six miles from Railroad iu Le« ,
Teir li or Suinptcr oouudes. I will purcha««
now and take stock, crops and provisioqi at
once. G. STOKES.
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c.ieinf irjrsuEMFF s.jle.
W' lh*L t* c s °ld before the Court Houia
1 Y door in the town of Morgan Calhoun
county, on the first Tuesday in June next,
within the legal hours of Sale. The following
property 10 wit :■ oue bouse and lot in tba
town ol Morgan Containing oue acre, ipore
or less, in Calhoun county, now occupied by
George W. Avera. Levied on as the prop*
erty of Samuel L. Foster, lo satisfy an exe
cution issued from the Superior Court of Cal
houn County, in favor ot Orran W. Massey.
Property pointed out hv Plaintiffs Attorney.
WILLIAM A. HATCHER,
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