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About The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1866-1868 | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1867)
fIpFSON JOURNAL. DAWSON GA, WAY 17, I*o7. Tbo I).root rats have iuado u clesc sweep in Ken lucky—ilccted the entire Congressional ticket. Election of Uishoi*.—At the Geor g's Annual Episcopal 0 invention, late ly n ecssion at. Macon, Rov John B <k with, of New Oi leans, was unanimously elected Bishop of the Diocese of Geor gia, in place of tho litnontid Bishop Elliot. Wti.sot in North ('aroll' - a.— The Rod String party in Nor h Carolina overe so well pleased with Senator j WiVoii’# s|*>ecri at Raleigh and other points in that Territory, that they er.- j dy/se him lor the next Presidency. It is said that E. Halbert, Eq , of Atlanta, has been appointed by Gen. Pope, Snpcrintendent of R gi-tration for Georgia. Also that Mr. Halbert is looking rut tuitable men fir registrars in the vafPus counties of the State.— Mr. H., is well known to the people of Georgia, r.cd hi' appointment is decid «dly a eonserva'ive act upon the part of Gen. I’epe. Taddeus S'evens’ memory will live as long rs freedom is dear to the Amor lean. lie has reached the utmost height es true Stitcmanship—K<nth em Ex. We think there’s one more “lift” be -deserves yet, ard that is where J ibn Brtwn redid his “mission of mercy.” i An exchange ways the great need of the Bouth is freedom from egitat'on That's so—but the South will never have that exemption as long as the Radical par'y North eon'inues tc Bend its emioaries into Southern territory I for the special and avowed purpose of ugitathm Tiie Injunction Cases. —The Su preme Court (probably under the com bined threats of and fferent Congressmen and tho leading prints of the N r'h) have decided that the Court had no ju risdiction in the case of the State ot Georgia praying for injunction to pre vent tho carrying out of the reeonstre tion measures of the late Northern Con gress. This and e'sioo is exactly what ! we expected from the Supreme Court. Itsleasc of Ex-Presideat Davit \Y tile it is oar sad duty to chronicle 1 the dismissal of the Georgia li.junotion 1 Dill, this week ; the good tidings of tho ‘ release es our loved chieftain Davis, ! will, to a great extent ameliorate the ' depressing tendency es that decision. ' Never was a purer patriot subjected to ‘ grosser indignity; nover was a more 1 disgusting page added to American his- 1 tory than the unjust imprisonment and 1 foul calumnies heaped upon the head of 1 this noble man. We are told that even v in the Court room—just before the case was taken up, some blood-loviDg hound f of tho domineering Republican party f forwarded a dispatch to the presiding 8 Judge, admonishing him to remember c the horrors of AndersoDville. it was 1 without the Binders name, however, and 1 well may tho scoundrel have been c ashamed to give his name to the fiend - ish uttempt to call up tLe memory of 1 this cowardly, lying insinuation. Every lover of truth and just govern. " ment must rejoice that Jefferson Davis is at least allowed to give hail, for his 1 appearance at the November Court; and ' it is a source of gratification to those * who cherish a hope for the future peace- * ful unity of the States to know that the ‘ name ofHorace Greeley heads the list of ( his sccursties. It itsp’res the hope that 1 by the time reconstruction does take * place, a sufficient number of the North- ern people will have learned the damn- : ing intents of the Black Republican ' party to insure tho return of a Consti- ] tutional Government. Aod if, by unity 1 of aotion on the part of true Southern ! men, the degraded tools of the Radical party are kept rut of the councils of all the Southern States, in reconstructing the Government, we shall earnestly look for the day that New England will re gret the prosecution of that false philan fhropy which has already disgraced the greatest nation in the world. The belief is expressed 1 y some—and and it is ours also—that the scenes en acted in this ease are the last of tl e wicked drama. Instead, we do not know but the perjured government officers who caused the President t j offer are ward for an innocent man, may be brought themselves to answer for their crime against law and humanity. Senator Wilson ar Atlvnta The speech of Mr. Wilson at Atlanta, it is said, was radical, revolutions: y and insulting. He repeated what he said at Charleston, that during his travels in the South he bad not receiv ed the slightest disco irteey from any one. A cotemporary, commenting np on this admission, remarks: If Senator Wilson shall aceomp'ish nothing more than to show that free speoch has become a reality in the Bouih, he will have done a good work. It is to be hoped that steps will now be taken to make free speech a reality in the “loyal” States, a result which the President’s tour to Chicago last year demonstrate I was very far from being attained. Y«tlNf-WI:Hc nml Colored. N.it to vote in the £jou h says the Mobi’e Register, in tne coining most important elections, is to vote against the South. Every solitary vote will be tied saury to prevent Alabama (Geor gia) from being as completely radical izod cs Congress and Massachusetts are. Such being the plain state <1 the ( case, the man who is inclined to ab stain from voting because be is disgust ed with the present bad condition of things and w ill have nothing to do with po’ities, does himself and his country a great wrong. And ho will j finally wake up to find what is now bad, intolerable, and to reproach l ini - J se’f w ith having failed to use his vote jo avert it. I If the “speculators” in free^ negroes ! should manage so to delude the color -1 ed men as to induce them to combine I against tho white ra e, there is all thr more reason why not a .solitary white ballot shou’d fail to be deposited. — But a man’s duty is net all done whet) he votes himself, lie should use every means of influence that is just and hon orablo to demonstrate to colored voters that a combination amongst themselves against ihe whites is a measure fraught w ith nothing but nrschief to them, and can h'dp nobody but the stranger ad venturers who are trafficking in their votes and ti ifleing with their best and permanent interests Thetw o co’ors are dependent on each other and those who labor to seperate them are guil'y j of just such a crime, ".hough on a lar- : < ,:or scale, as that which enters the ! fatn’ly circle, and by the arts and vii- j lainous in'rigues of an logo, separates husband and wife, father and son, r.nd brother and sister, in jealous and deadly I ud. But while the labor of tho colored j man is so useful to the white, and the country needs it to devo’opo its pros perity. it h still not absolutely in.lis- ' pensable. To lose it w ould be incon- [ venient and injurious but only for a [ time, lecause ti, can Lo supplied by white labor from alt Datis cf the world. But the dependence oi the colored man upon tho white is immeufate and absolute. It is a question of bre.: H with him, sot ho cannot live without employment, and when ho allows him- 1 self to be mod as a tool by designing men and to be set up as an enemy to h : 8 white employer, it follows, of j course, that the employer will iook | out for another employee And it is idle nonsense to stuff the colored man with the idea that Congress can pre vent this state of things by any law it can pas. The colored men should re member how they were deceived by tho “speculators” a year ago last Jan uary, w hen they were told that at the beginning of that year all the lands were to be divided out among liiern. Congress did not do it An lif Con gress ever does confiscate Southern property, the colored men may be as sured that it will not be for their ben efit—there aro too many poor and needy “loyal” white men at tho North to gobble up these lauds to give the colored man a chance. Again : if tho colored men conduct themselves in so hostile a manner that the while people cannot employ them, they wi 1 have to lull back tin the | “long-haired barbarians” for employ- j ment and livelihood- But as these gentry are adventurous fortune-seek ers themselves, and their pockets are only open to get, but not Lo give, the colored man cun calculate bis chances of a living from this quarter. I here i never was a clearer or a plainer case to tninds that are capable of thinking, j Every consideration of interest, po icy , and duty, present and luture, counsels j the two races in their new relations to move and work along in harmony an! ; in mutual good will and trust one with another. The colored man cannot do without the white, and he is a fool and unfit for freedom if lie allows any thieving scoundrel to come between him and nisbest Iriends and on’y he’p- j ers in his time of need. Plain Rules for Tax Payers.— According to the insnictions from the Comptroller Genernl of Georgia, John T. Burns, Receivers of [uses must re quire each tax payer, when making re-i turn®, to give a list of tho names t fall j 1 e dmen in his or her employ, between I the ages cf tweeuty-onc hud sixty. This giving the names of frcelmtu will not bind tne employer for the payment of their taxes. Receivers are made agents for receiv ing the returns of wild lands; aud in receiving such returns they must require a seperate return of each tax payer of bis ".“ild or unimproved lauds, giviug name post off-’e. Dumber of acrci, num ber of district and value of the laud. ■ Tax payeis must t-akt an oath to an swer truly ail lawful questions of Re ceivers concerning taxable property. It is a'so made the duty cf the Re ceiver, to require ali persons making returns of land in his county, to return the same by district and number, if they l ave any such designation ; and where they hate n t, then by such description as will enable tbe Receiver to identify them. Receivers are prohibited from receiving any return of lauds which docs Dot so disigoati them, and tbe 1 Uomptrolci General is prohibited from allowing any Receiver coinpensatisn or 1 per cen'.age for bis services, who re ceives returns is any other mat ncr Wlmt t The Montgomery Mad says t rump tho sir ngc revolutions of trade, the cu bic hr ugla us the intilligfi.ee, Ibecth er day, that v.heat was being shipped from I/vtrpool to New York. The ex planation (f this is that California i.- producing the cereal cheaply and itsuib abundance, by means of coolij labor— the same coolies that the fana’ics in Ban Francisco aro endeavoring to expel the country—that she is bretnting the great Sic Ban granary of tLc world.— Flour in San Francisco can bo bought for five a- 1I“ra par barrel! In gold ! ’lhc wheat which is now in transit from Liv erpool to New 1; rk, is California whea", wtiicb had teen shipped to k Liverpool or a marketand Europe, hitherto one if the best customers that we had, is so well supplied with grain, that she does rot ass >rd tho necessary “market”— a loaf of bread oostit g moiu to-day in the ci:y o? New Yirk, than it does iu Liverpool or London.! Ye wlo u ; cd to boast that wc fed aud clothed the world, can not f"i and it, or clothe it ei her, si cheaply as England can. \\ i h n> matket for our breadstuff*, and wiih no cotton to send to market the coming yc:r. how arc v. e to arr nge our balance sheet, with eur bated enemy, the Brit ish! r ? Shall wc issue more green backs, send more corrupt stock jibbers to Congress, and give the “eagle” an additional tweak, that be nay scream louder still, over our “black brudder?” Wc aro a fist nation, and are going fast er to the d—l than most of us sup pose. The Suddenness of Crevasses. — To show with what terrible r: pidity the Mississippi may plunge a settlement in to ruin, ne quote from the Carroll Rc ! c-rd, of the ffib, published at Lake Providence, La. On Wednesday, of the previous weik, says the Record, between :12 and 2 o’clock in tho morning, the , levee iu front of the town either gave i way or was cut intenti n illy, (there aie diff rent opiuions about the matter, for at 12 o’clock it was apparently perfect ly safe,) and at 2 o’clock when it was discovered, tho water was running through the break in a volume about ten /'■et wile —and so swift was tho current, and so rapidly did the water increase in volume, thin! nearly the wh. le town was under water before *>‘ e •!“«» t cou!J be given, and it actually was tl:0 L os some before they barely h«.ct i."' J 5 1,1 realize the fact that the lcvcc had brok en, while by G o’clock the tho highest part of the town was f >ur feet under water. Relief was given as quickly as possible by the citiz ns of the country around, and by 12 o’clock nearly cvety one was moved out of the water. There was, of course, much suffering and con siderable less, as is always the case on such occa.ions. It was a sad sight to see so many women and children de prived cf their comfortable and pleasant tomes, i Sews aisit OSSicr Items. It is announced that slavery is abol ishtd in Brazil. The Democratic candidates for Judge and Clerk were elected in Baltimore on Wednesday by nearly two-thirds of the whole votecast. Tbe Crown Prmcess of Prussia, who is tbe daughter of Queen Victoria, has a telegraphic office in her palace at Berlin, and convorses daily with her mother through the wires. Alabama exchanges all speak favor ably of the prcspect for a good wheat crop, and that, if no unforseen accident occurs, it will be larger than it has been for years. A society called tbe Reform Fashion Association has been organiz'd by tho citizens of Houston county, Georgia. Calvin Barber and wife of Norwich, j N. Y , are parents of twenty-two healthy children, seventeen of them girls.— Some of these have families of their j own. The generous citizens of Navada, 1 have sent forward $1,C59 iu gold, for the relief ts the sufferers t f tho South. ; The Knoxville Whig of the Ist says :! A veiy large quantity cf corn is now lying at the Eist Tennessee and Gcor-[ gia Railroad depot awaiting shipment, j A Washington correspondent sty3; ihai it is the opinion of the best legal minds iu Washington that the Georgia Injunction easo wiil tc thrown out of tLe Supreme Court; that even lawyers who sympathies with the South admit the case is hopelessly weak. A dispatch from Seymour, Indiana, says about two hundred men entered that town yesterday and forcibly seized a negro named Mitchell, aud hung him. Thc-palso seized two while men named Stewart, and threatened to hang them. The cause of this violence was the rob bery of a store its that county, in which the3e three men were engaged. At a negro political meeting in Au gueta, recently, a female missionary, j Miss Julia Sherman, delivered a lecture j upon tbe use ot tobacco. | COTTON.—Wc give the quotations i ffir the* principal markets on the 14th, j Macon, *20a21; New York, 28; Bui- S timore 27 ; Savannah, 25; Augusta, 25 , Liverjiool, 1 Forney John W. Forney, iu bis speech to a e 1 rid delegation which w: icd upon !im j ist led ro ha ‘tailed away to sea,’ sai l : ‘ I believe the day h coming, and that is net fardistau’, when from the ■ a’-: of South Carolina (hire viiil be in die halls . f (long iss a blick man abler ban 0. Uaiiiorin ever war, and that bale, will go from the fkatc of Ken uicky, at least as alio a black man as Ilet.ry Ciey.' If a foul, black hoar' is ever likely to : 'or tic ski", wo and >n’t blame oil For -1 niy forgoing in fur the blu< kin in, for litre's no tcllii g how soon be’h to one. I Mr. Davis. T’i dcr a writ from the Supreme Courl ! of the United States, Goo. Burton, com" ' tnai dant of Fortress Monroe, received orders from die I’residont to deliver Mr. Davis to tho officers of the Court The following dispatches refer to his 'departure fiom Monroe, and arrival in R'c: round—.where, we suppose, his trial will at. or.ee begin. ; lout’ie t Monroe, May 11. A ! l-irgo crowd assembled at the steamboat j landing. At an early hour. Mr. Davis jlt ft Foi tress Monroe, after two year’s j imprisonment. Tne leave taking was | touchingly impressive. Mr. lKvis walk !ed with Gen. Burton on one side, rnd ' Dr. Cooper on tho other —followed by I Robert OuM, hii brother, .Mr, Davis, ; trom Vicksburg, wlo accorrpanied Mrs. i Davis and her sister, and several fiiands. I The countenance of tho distinguished Prisoner was cheerful, and he received many friends with gieat cordiality on ! the boat. Ilewasatrired in a plain ; dark suit, felt hat, and was pale, very thin, his appearance feeble, arid bis hair i quite gray. Richmond, May 11—The steamer 'John Sylvester, with Mr Davis on ! board, arrived this afternoon at half-' I past live o’clock. Ling bcfi.re.bis ar- 1 I rival tho mili'nry arrangements bed j Icon made by Gen. Sob fie 11. A dc : tateuraent ot i .f.-mtry from the 29;b j regiment was present, and sentinels ; \vi re posted at intervals enclosing about j one hundred yards squire of the wharf. . Outside of this line a large crowd of ne | groes and a few whites were gathered. ■ J'he brows if tho surrounding bills were [pretty thickly crowded with spcetatois. | Maj. Vance, of Genera! vdiofiold’s Staff | who was in c tumor '. ' 1 a detachment I of cannoneers, of the uib artillery, tium [hiring about fifty, as a guard ldr the I carriages. As the steamer hove in sight ! with the U. S. 11 ig flying, the rooit in | tense anxiety was exhibited by thej i crowd to get closer, but there was no J ! demonstration—no cheering or biss- I ing When the steamer was made fast, i Hun. J s Lyons wen’- on b ard, and al ter a feeling meeting with Mr. Davis, ’•sought Mrs. Davis ashore sn.l conduct rd hoi ’o a carriage, f> flowed by tho two servant who attended !•«. In a sow minu»J s r ' T.' )) over the gangway, aco.} J£“j Hutton and Dr. Cooper. q , very muched changed from wn- _ l *- citizens of Richmond remember him- I looking much older, and rather haggard and feel 1 1 ; a full gray beard eoutiibu ted much to tho change, lie wore a hravy black overcoat, and came ashore with a very firm st. p. Tic nariy ii mediately g't iuto car riages, and si rrounded by the mounted guard, drevo rapidly by a side street, up, towards the Spottswood Hotel, thus cli--j appointing, the large crowd v-hicb had, gathered oa Main street, near the wharf, I to see Mr. Davis, On the trip up, Mr Davis was quite i cheerful, and, as be had no guard, walk cd steely about the beat, conversing! with tbo passengers, who were all anx ious to speak to him. Hi said lit le about his imprisonment but spoke in terms of warmest affection of Ex i’rcsi dent Pierce, who visited him on Thurs day last, lie said there was no mao living for whom he entertained a higher regard. At Brandon, on the way up a num ber of ladies had gathered to speak to him, who shed teats on seeing him.— They nearly ail had been atquaiutances of bus family during the war. A lady named Mrs. Davis, of Rich mond, who got on the boat at Norfolk, died in the ledie-’ cabin shortly after reaching Richmond Two bridal par ties came up on the same boat There i< a large and and curious, but orderly erowl around tbe Bpo tswood hotel, waiting to get a glimpse of the prisoner. He will rema ; n in Gen. Bui ton’s charge until produced in C urton Monday. Tne citizens generally, in deference to the wishes of tho authorities, staid away from the dock, though many of; them were stationed in tho doors and; windows al ng Main street, to seo Mr. J Davis as he passed up. Ho occupies the same su'tc of rooms at the Ppotts wood that lie did in 18GI. It is the opinion, expressed by odc of Mr. Davis’ counsel, that if hail is re fused him, the Executive will intervene to prevent his further confinement until the trial comes off. Many of Mr. Da vis’ friends will visit him to night and to-morrow. Later —The crowd around the Spot ts wood dispersed after vaiuly waiting to i seo Mr. Davis. Ho has a private parlor, and takes his meals in Lis own room. ! This evening he received the visits of nearly a hundred of our mist prominent citizens, among them the pastor of St. 1 Pauls church, where he :. st received the news of the breaking of Lee’s lines, i There is no restriction of is movements, and he has tho liberty of the house. I A Dutiful Son. —A dutiful eon, j named Duian, the other day sued his i father in a New York court-"for thefu | neral expenses of his mother, and a verdict of slOl was rendoied in his fa i vor. j Kansas. —Thousands of cnttlo have ■ died in Kansas, dating the past win i ter, from exp< sure and lack < f proper . food. The mortality has been espec ! tally severe in the Southern part of the ' State. One company hns lost twelve thousand in two or three weeks. .Fir. Da via Bel awduu Bail. Richmond, May L) —The United States Court loom Mas crowded thi morning. A military guard was sta ;ioued around it, and a strong police force inside. About tw n’y ladies were among tho spectators; also, fifty no procs. At eleven o’clock, Mr. Davis vra» brought in and took a scat next to the nrisouer-box, with Gen.'lbirton an! the Marshal. A servant accompanied him Mr. Duvis was sitting by an open win dow, and remarked "It is a little cold, isn’t it and be was thcD removed to a seat near his couuscl, in front of the J udge. G< neral Burton’s return to tho writ was read, and the Judge complimented G n 15 in obeying the law, and re lieved him of the custcdy of Mr. Da vis. The Marshall immediately served a B nch warrant on Mr Daviq to answer the Norfolk indictment. Mr. O’Cinn-.r spoke of Mr. Davis’ long impiHOnment and feeble health, aud asked that be be bad and. There being no opposition, on the part of the prosecution the bail was fixed at one hundred thousand dollars. The Judge aDtiounecd Lis readiness to accept i the bail; stating, at the same time, that tlie responsibility of the delay in bring j ing Mr. Davis case into Court rested upon the Government, and not upon the District Attorney. He also said that halt the bail should be given by persons residing in the Stale of Virginia. | The sureties then came forward— Horace Groely bi ing first, followed by Augustus Schell, Ged’l Jackson and others. A number of gentlcmeu re siding in Virginia offered their names as bail. Mr. Davis was congratulated by his ft lends, but there was no dcmonjtation jor noise of any kind. After givng bail | to appear at the November term of Cjurt ho was taken in a coach to the Spotts woid Hotel. As Mr. Davis came out the Court house and entered ibc carriage, there was a loud cheer from tho negroes out side, and about fifty of them gathered around the coach aud shook hands with him. He has remained quietly in his hotel all the evening. He will visit Canada in a day < r two to see his children. The first names signed to the bail lnnd, after that of Jefferson Davis, are Horace €1 eeley, Augustus Schell, and Jackman; a 1 ttle farther dowu is the the name of John Minor Bolts. The Virginia residents who signed were prominent ci ixms ot Richmond, mer chants and lawyers. I There seems to be a general feeling I of relief among the citizens and author ises, tLat Mr. Davis i j , at last, at Lbcrty. Cur .lortlteru Friendt. \Ye copv the following extracts from an editorial in the La Cross (Wisconsin) Democrat— 1 Brick” Pomeroy’s paper— reviewing bis travels in the S..uth. [Parties desiring to take “Is:ick’b''i paper, can Lave their names forwarded by leaving them (with $2) at this of fice.—Ed?.] We the train, tie n:ti=c!o, the industry t ‘ iat country to 1 elp pay taxes. If wC l et t^s P CO P‘ C Moce, they can support t!n.nivJ. ,ves aI>( l more. If wo do not, they will njL l" or tl'fy can not. The war ruined them.! <l,l^s thousands. The wealth of tbo utb was in slaves and land. The slaves were freed by war And to the winds went wealth on wb'tih the South paid b>xcs. The war killel her brave men by the armi s. It r.-ed up her horses and unties. Northern officers stop mi.lions and millions from the South. Thou sands of homes were actually robbed of all tLat was dear and valuable Thousands mere were _robbed and then burned. Sherman went from At lanta to the sea, and e strip of land twenty miles tvid", hill and plain, was left, desolate, with thousands and thou sands ol woman end children without a bed a shelter, an ounce of ford, a horse, cis, mule, pier, chickens or agricultural implement. These people now beg and starve, and livo in woods, in little cab ins etc.,and die of starvation, 'lhe ab’e b idi'd negroe-i ran away leaving the old and tbe y"U“g negroes to stiff r. Planters would plant more, but they lack for mul s, plows .and labor. There is land there but the capital and the la bor was 10-t by war. It is no easy mat ter to build a house when you have no lumber, no nals, no money! It is hard to have a home, when your furniture was stolen by army thieves for robbing generals ! It is hard to work a farm when you have no mules, rtliws, hoes or cotton gins for they were destroyed by the war It is too bard to employ nogree- when you lack money to pay them, food to subsist them, prods to clothe them, and lying, mrddhsome agents of freedman’s bureaus fill tbe ears of ignorant ncgiocfc with s'orics about a geucral confisca tion, and a life of idleness, and when th-y charge each ten dollars for finding him or her a situation; charge tbe em ployee ten dollars each fir bis help, and “regulate” that no labor shall be em ployed except on tbefe firms. It is too bard f r the women of the ! South to sit in cabins and know that tho books, pianos, paintings, spoons sil verwnre, carriages, bibbs’ lamiiy relies Le. &c., are now beautifying the homes jof those in the North who still war up jon a conquered people. And it is hard for that people to have j heart to labor, or brain to plaD, or dc ! sire to accumulate, or ability to half pay taxes, when radicalism still grabs, and jabs, ar.d worries, and tramples up on a crushed and ruined people. There is no fight in the South. But there is a desire to repair the damages war has wrought, and if the North ex pects the Sou"h to be other than a tax upon us, there must be more liberality. Wc do not know so much of life as wc should in tho South. The people there are men and women, erratum ofcduea ti nus wc are. They have their ideas, their whims, their notious, their good streaks their bad streaks very much as Northern people have. None ol us an perfect. But we can nil of us La moie liberal than wc are, and all will bo bet ter f r it. To i p»pr ss the Sou h, now is to broalt her enterprise and to iueieisc our taxa tion In the North. To he just is to be great—to be liberal is to bo prosperous. Put the South on bar honor. Let her rcgu.ate her own affairs, send such men as she chines to Congress fir surely the victorious North bs not afrafl of a week, unarmed people. PoillU tai oliiiu-ltcjibtrtllioii of Voters. The Charleston papers contain the order of Gen. Sickles in reference to the work of registrat on in the Second Military Distri r, which is to com mence'ot» tho third Monday of July next. The Mercury ca ls tho attention of the people to the order, urges its importance, and sajs; Unless the Supreme Court of the United B'.ales at it j piresent sossion de clares the act unconstitutional, null anti voiJ, tho registration will take place and will be followed by voting The whole framework of our State organization and ev ry right in the community is involved in the action : taken by our citizens in this business j and it requires no reflection to arrive at the importance of all registering who I are entitled to vote. For weal or woe for conservation or for Radical ruin, [ this mutter is going to decide tho Lite of our people. If ruined, they aro to have a voice and hand in their destruc tion, and ei.her apathy or timid and hopeless time serving wi 1 accomplish the end of making the country unen durable—without security for life or * property, and with a disgu-ting and degrading war ol taces. It is inenm ! b» nt upon us to rise to the real zatior. ! of our true pos tion ; to understand the difficulties and dangers by which we are surrounded, and to shape our ! course with wisdom and judgement and discretion, no less than with courage, [ fidelity to ourselves, and the vigor aod i energy of a community striving for existence—for every in crc.l, and for every right, and for every hope, which makes life valuable. However unpleas ant and humi'iatiug the very dirty work of canvassing and electioneering, it cannot bo avoided, and must be : done. Wo have faith to believe that the people of the State will do their ( part honestly and actively, with a manly patience and good sense The } State can and will bo saved from the Radical inundation and overthrow which otherwise is likely to prevail over our rights, property, and civiliza tion. In this great impending emer gency South Carolina expects every man to do his duty. No good citizen who can vote should fail to r-gister ; sind we trust that such men will be ap pointed to conduct'lie registry that r.o suspicion of party trickery or foul play can possibly rest upon the remits of the ballot boxes. This seems clearly j the intention of General Sieke>s’ order. The fo'hnving is the form of the oath which registration oIE ers have to 1 take : “I, A. 15., do so’e.Y.my .iwefir (or af firm) that I have nev r vo'untarily borne arms against the United States : since I have been a citizen thereof; 1 that I have voluntarily given no ai’’, countenance, counsel, or encourage ment to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that 1 have neither sought nor acce;tt and, nor attempted to' exercise the functions of any office whaic ver under any authority or p'e teoded atuVriij* iu bos ility to the United Stater; that ! htve not yield- j ed a voluntary support to fthY ) reten ted government, authority, power, or j constitu'ion within the United Status, hostile or iuimical thereto. And I do I further swear (or affirm) that, to the j best of my knowledge and ability, I will support and oeffnd the Constitu-' tion of the United States, against all enemies, foreign or domestic ; that I will bear true faith an! allegiance ti the same ; that i take this obfigation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion ; and that I will well and faithful y discharge tho du ties of the office on which l am about to enter. 8o help me God.” Bread—Where is it to C me From ? — What an important question, and oh, who can answer it? We believe we would be safe in as sorting that, should the wheat crop fiil, thr-re are not one dozen farmers in this country who will have corn euough to carry them through to the next crop, j A largo number of the planters have planted full crops f*r every horse and Laud they could procure, and now bavo not a bushel of corn in the crib, nr n dollar in posscssi >n to buy with; there is no one from whom they can purchase on time. A large maj uity of onr farm ers are in this eargiry ; should no rc !i‘f cotnc, a failure in the present crop fi inevitable. It would certrinly be a good policy ; for our business men to hold a conven- : tion semetthoro in the South, and try to i fall upon some {lan by which a sufficien cy of the nee ssarios of life may bo fur- i nisbed to our farroe-s, to enable them to j mature the growing crop. If the busi ness men of the South would firm | themselves iuto a relief firm, arid pur- | chase corn, &e., North and West, and ; sell it on time to our farmers, aud, to ! sccuro themselves, take a lien npon the | growing crops, and, if nccess.ry upon, real estate, they would thereby save the j farmers and country from ruin, and, we thiuk, enrich themselves in the opera tion. Unless something of this sort is done, it will not require a prophet to j f retell our destiny. We call upon our brethren of the press to either endorso and urge our suggestions or point out a more excel lent way. Brethren, to (he rescue ! SamlersviKc Georgian B ih Queen Victoria recently pre'ented a costly portrait of her Iloyal llivhness to Mr. Feabody. It cost over $75,000. Mr. Poabndy intends to exhibit it, prob ably iD New York and the provinces— one half the proceeds to g) to tho South ern Relief Fund, and the remainder to eiroc Real charity. An Uhly Rkpibt from the Ditr 1 outcgas.-*— odoucl Scott, one of tla prisoners sent to the I rriugus duri D i; thovO' - , under the chargo of being a spy, passed through Holly Springs last week, having by the iuterceiaion x>{ iba Commandant’s daughter, obtained hia release. It is quite common, Colonel S. reports, tor tbo prisoners to be seven !y lashed on their bate backs for the least impudence or indiscretion. For accidentally spilling a Cup of paint, tl Je Colonel wes severely punished. Atrong tho prisoners still in tbii horrible bas til ; are C dolouel Bt. Ledger Grcnfels I ispcetor-General on Gencfal Brago’J Stuff, sfterwatd Inspector-General of tho j Cavalry o' the Army of TeUntssee, who has been s- vcrcly fligged a offinber of times ; and Mr.- Alex. 15. Stewart. «| 9 was tried for arson, conv oted and sent to the Dry Tortuga* for life. TLe (caloft ; fence was, that Mr. 8 , in company witfr j several gallunt Cmfcdcrates in *1 §63 1 ma le an attack upon the steamer Ruth* t between M in pi is aDd Rinttflph, cap ; tured and burnt the boat, taking and destroying about $4,00*.,000 in grecn -1 bac ks. —Hotly Spsinga (Mits) Reporter “You Must aeb be Burnt!”—. With regard to Senator Wilson’s tour through thp 8 uth, an old gfen-flemaa | down in Pennsylvania wtites : ‘Who is authorized to travel the coun try and peddle out amnesty ? I would say to the most guilty, expect punishment j and then quietude; but first a mild oonfi-ention, etc.’ John lJunyan records that when Christian was proceeding on his pil grimage, he passed by the cave of an obi, fcebV ‘played out’ giant, who sat behind tho bones scattered at his door* way, and mumbled ou f , “Yon must all be burnt; your mast all be Sbrnt,’ And that was pretty much all that was done about it..—[Richmond Times. Neuraiuia.— A correspondent writes to us that haviug sferived great benefit from a simple remedy for neuralgia, he thinks! t ought to be made public. He says be ha? suffered for over twtntjf years from attacks of severe neuralgia in the legs, somttiroes almost causing lameness. M dic'd treatment, change j of air, and other remedies being without effect, ho tried a change of clothing, and wora very heavy, warm red net woolen drawers, and this relieved him Our crrespondent B'a‘cs his opinion to be, that a large amount of the n«u , ralgia cases now so common might b# relieved by rxtreu e’y warm wolen cloth> ing, and savs that the heaviest aod most expensive silk will not answer; Philadelphia Ledger. lliciim 'Nt, May 11.—The African Chu-ch is and. nscly packed to night, the audience being about equally di ided in cnlrr. and outside of the building an Ea st mhlage nearly a? large aro corgregat ed. Mr. Grce ly spt ke and pointed out thi obstacles which had impeded recon s'ruction, commencing with tie assassi nation (1 Lincoln and coming down to Johnson's policy. The r e tmostse. rinus obstacle, he thought, was unw’ J linpno3s on tne part of the Southc;n people to g : ve the regroany rights e: * cep" those they were fo’crd to. TI I must be corrected, and then there will be peace at the South. Completion op Four (Jains* TlXf** road —We are pleased to chronicle the fact that the railroad from this point to Fort Gaines is ohee mere in f ill opera t on. The ears mako daily trips to and fro, and the good people o f Clay cotfnty are highly delighted that they S’# a; aw in connect on with all the great marts of commerce. May it be long ere a military ncees c>y ty shall again isolate their fl 'tarishtnjJ town from the enter world. Steam h now the breath of lif • itr ev ry town aid city .—‘CulfiLrrt Appeal Found Tt Quito a commotion wn» kicked up in Kansas Cily a lew days ago, growing out of the report that the body of a child had been found to nu out-of the-way street nf that flour ishing borough. The indefatigable coroner at once summoned a jury, sb" s they, proceeding to the place indicat ed, dug up —a rag Laly. Mrs. Daniel Kent, of East Walling, ford, Vermont, left her house to go to her husband, who was Wiling rnaplo sap in the woods, tire other evening Fusing her way, she wandered for some time, and at length fell and died front exhuus'ion when within twen’y rods of bomb. AeeirTag ti Gr iv.chor' Brawnlaw the registration of v tori in eight coun ties of Tennessee’is null and Void. The Radicals in East Tenness.ee arc reported to he deserting the standard cf Brown low in ecodJerible lumbers. ITT Alt US ED. On tlie morning of the 6th irsb, by Judge Wm. Adams, at the rrsflenCe of J. J. P‘ el, Mr. Jno. T. Bostick, to Miss Georgia Owe a both of Webster County. On the evening of the Bth inst., by the Mr. Caywood, at the residence of the bride Mr. Wm. Chappell, to Mrs. Nancy T. SM*'*, both nt Webster County, __ JYew •Advert iteot en i ALDEIIOFF’S INSTITUTE. For Males and Females. THE next Session of this Schiol nienee on Judo 10th, and contin only len weeks. | Terms as heretofor-. . .he Eie- No more pupils will be received g j, ' montry Branches, beyond * r L, ’jtudy milted. Applicants must be ante 1 nglisEh Qrnmniir. M ILW. ALPSHOFT y*- I Pawson, M.ylT^ 'NOTICRI , l«r, of A aieT'Cus Oa., given tor rent of W., Hollies, of the subrcflber, in AII T ‘ re(ere the Ist of October next- Aha *» . fr per warned against paying teem ° . pod but raypcir. E. u. nm J" 11 •! m.
