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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
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Hollies, of the subrcflber, in AII T ‘ re(ere
the Ist of October next- Aha *» . fr per
warned against paying teem ° .
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