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DAWSON JOURNAL.
D/.MIFCN < A., MO. f<>. 4*1)7
txg- ii midbig nuttUr on every page.
TLn N< w Oi'k'iis Timrt says it i
bow gonrra'ly conceded t v those who
hate taken the trouble to inform them-
Bolvik upon the Kaljcct, that the yield
of sugar in ljousiana this year will be
Oiucb bttialler ihnn was at first anticipat
< and.
The Chic-go Tribune says: It coat
ju,t about SIO,OOO tor every rebel who
fell by bullet or disease, while engaged
in the attempt to destroy the Union.—
'The Tribune thinks it costs tan times
as much to kill an Indian.
First Bale of Gforg'a Cotton.—
Tlio fust bale has boon received nt
Fort Gains. It was raised on the
plantation of Mr. Solomon Cohen, in
Clay county, and purchased and
bought by J. F. Walker, of Fort
■Gaines, at 30 ernts per pound.
L ttrrs have been received from Santa
Anna by his tiioudb in N<.;? A 'k, dat
ed the 11th ins*. At that time he
was a prisoner in Catupotchy, but en
joying considerable jersonal freedom.
He bad cot bcaid of MaxitniHian’a
death.
T BAcnCßs’ Convention. —T. e teach,
ers of the State propose to hold a Con
vention, at Atlanta, on the 221 of this
Editors throughout the State
arc r< quested to give publicity to the
fact. We shall givo further parlioular
as we obtain them.
The New York Tribune says : “John
Slidell is at pnejnt livtug near Paris,
as well as his son-in-law, Erlanger. the
Hebrew tanker. It is said, on appa
rently gred authority, that although he
is most ami us to pass his last days in
America, ho has latterly given up all
hope of ever again seeirg his native
Jatd.”
Tiie Maryland Convention on
Slavery —She Convention at Annap
olis Wednesday finally adopted the De
claration of Rights, cne of the features
of which is the section dcclarirg that
“slavery shall cot be established in Ma
ryland,*’ and demanding eon pensation
from the United States for its abolition
The vote on i's adoption was seventy
(woyeas and seventeen nays.
Presidential. —The Mobile Times
has hoisted the name of U. 8- Grant
lor President, and that of W P. Fcs
seeden for Vico PiCb.dept Ihe limes
bag an article on the sutjec* of the heroic
order, in which the pinnae that Lfds on
the warrior’s brow is the most promi
nent fcaturo. It is thought the extreme
nun of the party will nominate Jden
Wade for Prcsidept, with Lacing, (00l
ored,) of OLp, or BrowJjw, of Terincs
*ee, for Vice—probably the former, as
he is decidedly the ablest and best man.
As the Southern States are being rcccn
strucled they will no doubt vote the
straight out radical ticket.
Our Country. —The Southern Re -
corder calls attention to a communica
tion in its columns from T. 0 Peters,
who was commissioned to travel over
the South, ad make a report of its ag
ricultural products, and says: “There
18 no use for (Southerners to talk about
ft better country than our owd. It is
true that our political situation is just
at this time, unpleasant, but in a few
years, perhaps ill two, there will boa
change for the better. We have as fine
a country as the sun shines on ; all that
js needed, is energy and a wise agricul
tural system. Manure and cultivate
well, and rich returns will repay tho la
borer."
The Fall Trade.
The prospects of Eouthern trade next
fall, according to the Charleston Mercu
ry, tie very good.
The Mercury says : “There will be
more money in the country this fall
than there was last fall, and it wi’l bo
more freely used in other ways than in
plantation expenses. Then, by the oper
ation of the free-labor system, money
will be distaibuted in small "quantities
over tho whole of the interior. This
will go to build up small stores through
out the c untry, and these stores should
be additional customers for this city,—
Our merchants will be prepared to sell
goods as cheap as they arc sold in ibe
Northern markets, and they will sell
thorn on similar terms of payment.—
Many of the Northern firms are with
drawing from the interior Southern
trade into which they rushed in 1865-
66. They find that they can deal bet
ter with the large city merchant or face
tor, and prefer te have their transactions
with them- A great part, indeed the
greater part, -of tb« goods bought in the
North, have been bought at ‘ihisty
days,’ and where there has been any
great extension of time, the difference
has been added in some way to the
price of goods."
The ea'erpillar has made itsappear
anec on several plabtalions in Marion
county, in East Florida.
p- It sectiiM that Stanton likes his pa- 1
Mfinn as Secretary of Wa-Jtoo well to
j resign upon a mero hint from the P.es
i idont that his “room ts picfcrul lo to his
! company.” Ho las Leu t.« tfi -U in |
writing that bis rosignafiouwoi.lt be
( acceptable, and yet lio holds on. I i.-
tho first time, we believe, that ho high
an office in this country has been di--
j graced by such action ; but it is not ]
I surprising when we remember that ;
Stanton is a Radical. Anything tb<y
will to resort to in order to keep power
in their hands. Even Congresf—tba'
i body by whoso action the world judges
tho enlightenment of the country alter
getting the reigns of government in its
hands, stoops to the degradation < fusing
' its high authority for partisan purposrs
—Radical members perverting their
oatli of office, aud stigma'iring tho land
in the eye of an enlightened world.
In remembrance of these the things,
we would urge upon Georgians the im
poitunce of keeping this party in cheek.
If a Convention i“ forced upon us, let
us see to it that it is not a Radical con
vention. P, because of tbo diversity
of opinion on tho subject among the
whites, and tbo strength of tho negro
vote, we are unable to.defeat the wbdc
measure, we can defeat the main purposo
of the Radical Congress, which is to
so reconstruct Georgia and the other
excluded States, as that their represen
tatives will side with that hell-born
party, which seeks not only to ‘‘rule cr
ruin,” but to rule, and then, like Nero,
glory in destruction.
Then let tho people of Georgia re
frain from fighting each other over
questions of minor importance, or local
issues that arc already dead, and uni‘c
against the office-loviog, oath-perverting
oountry ha'ing, nußcegioating hypo-j
critical Radicals. The cunuiog rascals j
present these measures in such a way as
to divide us. Th<ir only hope of suc
cess is in our division. Will wo grati
fy them ? have opposing party candi
dates—split the white votes, and let the
Radicals and negroes step in ?
Confiscation and Repuwation.—
A writer in a South Carolina paper says
that “Cot fiscation is the ghost that still
haunts many of the landholders in tho
State. It li# sup in fearful appari
tions to disturb their dreams by night j
and their mere philosophical nflections
by day.” All this too, notwith
standing the fact that we have bad re
peated prcofß that the vast majority
even of the Radical party in Congress
are totally opposed to coi.fiscatioH in
aDy shape.
The New Yi.rk Times says Northern
bond holders might just as well be
bauutod with the ghost of repudiation,
because one er two unprincipled men
have had the audacity to propose it, sov
cftly cr openly. Vvc believe that one of
these ghost* might as well be feared as
the other, a ltd jyc have no doubt that if
Phillips’ system of confiscation were car
ried out, it would quickly be LHctfcd
by an egitation in favor of repudia
tion.
The Cowing Elections —The nest
election outside the unreconstructed
States will be that of Vermont, which
will occur on the 3d cf September ;
and the day after, California and the
othei extremity of the Union will fol
low. A few days afterwards on tho
9th of Septunbcr, Maine will be heard
from. Nearly a month will then
elapse, at the end of which time the
great States of Pennsylvania, Indiana
and Ohio w ill ongage in the political
struggle—their day of election being
the Bth of October. Next wijl come
the elections that oeeur on the first
Tuesday of November —the sth. They
uro New York, New Jersy, Delaware,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Kansas,
Missouri, and Nevada. Colorado will
vote on the 12th of November, which
will close the list of Fall elections.
Truth from a Union Shrierrr
Flake, of the Galveston Bulletin, a
notorious Northern Radical, says:
“We may just ns well state the truth
at once, Whatever rights or privi
leges have been bestowed on thefreed
j men by the North have been given of
| necessity. It is a great mistake to
| suppose that there is any superfluity of
I love for colored men in the bosoms of
I Northern people. There is an intense
! haired of rebellion, but no more for
I the negro than can be conveniently en
joyed. The lines of .distinction be
; tween the races are deeper, broader,
1 and more indelible in Quaker Pennsyl
vania than Mississippi or Texas. It
I would not be strange if, some time in
[ tiie far distant future, the negro would
be forced to appeal to the South
agajnst Northern prejudice.”
There is some hope that II ay ti, long
distracted by diseeutions, will now en
joy an interval of repose General
Balnavo, the new l’re.-ident, begins his
administration with the general ap
proval aud support of the people, and
recently, on taking the oath of office,
promised to see that tne laws were
faithfully executed, and to “preserve
the country from the calamities of rev
olution by a wise, prudent, liberal and
exemplary administration of its af
fairs,” i
'I lie Each! lick y Hied ion.
The election in Kentucky has result
ed in a glori us Demon ratio triumph by
a m>.j rity estimated at 00,000. 'lie
Dciiioerttts have touted almost theca
tire Legislature. Liuisv'llo ci'y and
county, for the first limn in ull their
poliiieal history, semi an unbroken
D‘mocratio delegation ro tho Legi«]a_
ture. Tne AYtrs ts- throM says: The
Democrats of that city and their breth
ren throughout, tho State have achieved
a victory of which they may feel proud
and have seut a greeting to the friends
of Crnstitulionnl liberty throughout
the continent.’ This result shows the
loathing which bigh-sou'ed men have
here for what is so ineffably mean, and
oontcmptablo as Radicalism. Sllch
unanimity among tho voters of a great
State is otherwise unaccountable. Or
dinarily you could not raise a question
>o absurd that you would not get more
voters for the wrong side than Kentucky
has now given the Radical ticket. This
is sotno little compensation fur tho over
throw and degradation ol poor Tennes
see.
What an instructive contrast has been
preieutcd by tbo elections in the two
States. In TeDnesse Radicalism rules;
in Kentucky, Democracy. In the for
mer the Radicals have disfranchised
more than two-thirds of the white pop
ulation and enfranchised all the Hacks;
and to overawe and intimidate the Con
servatives, the infamous Rrownlow or
ganiz'd a militia, composed of negroes
and the worst whites in this Btate, who
did his bidding by preventing thou*
sands from votiDg who were entitled to
the priviledge. By this shameful mock
cry of an election, the Radical party in
Tcnnesse is triumphant. Ilow differ
ently were affairs conducted in the Dem
ocratic State of Kentucky. The glo
rious result there is due solely to the
will of the people, unawed by bayonets,
with perfect freedom of action fur the
masses. The Radicals had their candi
dates in this State, as they bad in Ten
nessee, but there were Bo soldiers to
browbeat and drive them from the polls.
The members of the Democratic party,
though in so a great a majority, made
no attempt at intimidation. The Amer
ican people would do well to ponder
over the contrast thus presented them.
Which election is most in accordance
with the true idea of Republican gov
ernment— tbs ous in Tenncsse or that
la Kentucky.
The Virgin■ m Convention-
The humiliation of the Virginians,
says the New York Neico, may bs re
garded as complete when wc read of the
great mixed assemblage of whites and
blacks, or rather of blacks and
for the neg Toes have the precedence and
the majority, recently in convention at
Richmond; and when we arc told that
the eld familiar names of Carrington,
Watkins, Gordon, Lewis and Flournoy
arc to be Fund on the list of the white
delegates. The political equality of the
flecdmcn carries with it a certain
amoattS of social equality, and Ctetcr,
Moses, Sulon, and the rest of tbo
new ruler* of the South, may “breas do
Lord” that the day of their triumph
has come, and “sound, sound the joyful
sound of freedom.” This is all very
well for abas: n 5 the pride of the haughty
and insolent people pf the Old Domin
ion ; but how will it be when Ctescr,
Sam, Moses, Solon, Bud the rest of
them, come up to Washington todorken
the halls of Congress f This is lu em "
barrassing question ; but sufficient unto
the day is tiie evil thereof,
In London, recently, a case occurr
ed showing the dangers of insuffi ient
ventilation. A young man employed
by tiio Great Western Rahway Com
pany had gope to sleep odd night jn a
room of the company, ar.d was found
dead next morufng. It appears, from
tho facts elicited at the inquest, that
the room measured only ten feet by
twelve, and that it had four gas burn
eis, two of which were lighted when
the young man entered it to relievo a
follow clerk. The deceased had gone
to sleep sitting on a bench , and be
coming overpov ered by the foulness
of the air, from which all vitalizing
properties bad been extracted, he fell
forward against a fender, and hi» neck
striking tho edge, be died of ttrangu
lation A yerdict of ‘accidental death’
was rendered, but surely the company
w hich furnishes such a room for its
employees to pass the night in was not
guiltless of the young man’s life.
A Georgia Invention.— The Co
lumbus Sun notices the invention, by i
Georgian, of anew wheat drill. Tne
machine consists of six drill tubes and
plows affixed on two wheels with such
gearing as to operate and feed by the
motion of the wheels. The machine
bears the appearanse of the front of a
two-horse wagon. The drills are about
eight inches apart. There are two sup
ply boxes, one for grain, the other for
compost manure or guanc—both so ar
ranged as to limit the feed to any quau
tity desired to be put on the land. It
will, with the services of two horses antj
driver, put in and manure from ten to
twelve acres per day. Mr.JSelduth, of
Columbus, is the iuventer and manu
facturer.
Itvgistr.'ilioii in (ieoritiu.
AcaterA, August 13.—Registra
tion returns from 47 counties give
about sixty thousand voters: majority
1 r tiie blacks six thousani six hun
dred an 1 Seventy-three. In districts
where the vhites are largely in the
ascendant Bo returns have yet been
banded in, though large numbers of
wl iteß have not registered. It In be
lieved that when tho returns cornu in
from all districts the whito voters will
have u dear majority of over twelve
thousand.
IlttET Sugar —The importance of
the attempts now being nndc in llli
ne Is to manufacture sugat from beets
arc illustiated by the fact that the su
gar imports of the United States during
the fi-ical year, ending on tho 30‘h of
June, 1800, were valued at $39,505,-
G 77, in gild. This industry has been
eminently successful in Europe, and
there is no good reason why it should
not also succeed in thisC itntry. Near
ly 400,000,000 pounds of beet sugar are
annually male in France, Germany,
Austria, Russia and Belgium. One
factory in Germany employs 3,000 op
eratives and occupies buildings which
cover twelve acres of land, and ha» a
capital of $10,000,000.
Some onterprjsing merchants in Sari
Francisco arc doing a good business. It
seems a Chinaman cannot go to heaven
unless he is buried in China, so as they
die pretty fast in California, their bod
ies are sent to China. The rats with
which the ves-c ls arc infested, grow very
fat on the passage, aud the ship master,
after delivering what remains of his
cargo of dead UhiDamen, makes a good
thing by selling the ra‘s to tho living
ones, who mo as fondtf theta as an
epicure is of green turtle.
It is stated of the late Charles Denni
son,of Pennsylvania, recently deceas
ed, that just before the adjnirnment of
the late Congress he called on the Pres
ident hi relation to appointments fer
his disti rat. J,[r. Dennison was a Dem
ocrat, and the Senate had rejected his
friends, as fast as they had been sent
in, “R r s no use sending in any more
names,” said he. “If )ou sent in the
names of the twelve apostles they
wouldn’t confirm but oce of them It
is not dificult to guess tie one he
meant.
A Tlrownlow “aielisL" captain, Jo
seph Alexander by name, h.d an old
grudge agaiust a man named Vires, a
citizen of Louden, Tennessee. Having
at his back fifty “loyal 1 * scoundrel-, he
hud the unsuspecting Vires arrested and
brought befote him. After subjecting
him to numerous insults, as we learn
from the Knoxville Free Freis, Tires
was sentenced to eat grass or go hungry.
Vires refusing to comply with the cap
tain’s command, the guard wss directed
to enforce the order at the print of the
bayonet, whereupon Virus was consider
ably punctured, Lut sti’l refused to nib'
Me. Upon the remonstrance of some
ci izens with the valiaat commander
Vires was released, and at once got out
a State warrant for Alexander, who was
promptly arrested by the sheriff of that
connty, and would be tried at Loudon.
TrrE Surratt Case.—The jury in
this cane, being unable to agree, have
been dismissed by Judge Fisher.—
There was considerable excitement up
on the question of dismissal—the pris
oner's Attorney opposing it—which it
was /eared would result in a personal
diffimiUy between Judgo Fisher and
Mr.Bradley, one C f Surratts defend
ers. A majority of thb i u T favored
an acquital, Fisher has i*a\K and an or ‘
der prohibiting Mr. B.’s practining ! n
his court, which the laser says he has
no right to do
Fisher is a dyed in tlra wool IJadi
cal, and is no doubt determined to
hang the prisoner it hp can possibly
do so.
In Paris, next month, in connection
with the Exposition, a series of dog
races is announcod. The .dogs to take
part in the contest wi 1 be brought to
Paris from all parts of the country,
and the railroad companies have agreed
to transport them at half price. This
is something novel in the way of sport
ing, and we are at a loss to see any
thing in it beyond trie gratification of a
taste tor low amusements. Trials of
speed between horse 6 have this to re
commend them, that they keep up an
interest in the training and education
of a noble and useful animal whose
service are indispensiole to man ; but,
except, perhaps, in the saseof hunters,
there is nothing tp recommend similar
contests between dogs.
The Coolie trade is springing up
quite briskly at Havana. A correspon
dent of the N ew Fork Journal of Com
merce states that four cargoes, compris
ing 1,082 Coolies, arrived in that port
in a single week, and the ships employ
ed were all sailing under the Spanish
flag. The mortality on shipboard of
these unfortunate (Doolies is reported to
have been quite large.
A “great brute c>f a husband" ad
vertised in the morning gapers for a
stout able-bodied man to hold his
wife’s tongue.
Address tu the I'rc.dnieu.
BY 3. A. STEWART, ROM^OA.
Freed me it of the South :
In my first address, I told yon what
my friend Bab, the drayman said ; and
iu my sroond l gave tho viows of Bill
Sikes, uuotber friend. I will now, af
ter urging you to re read tbeir opiuions
and sayings, present in this, my third,
aud lust address, what I liavo to say
myself. .
In tho first place, let me urge you,
if you vnluc tho present aud future
welfare of your race, and the good Will
and assistance of the whites, to keep out
of politics awhile longer, and have noth
ing to do with reconstruction measures,
now distracting our country, They are
not intended for your good by those
who advocate them They seek only
to use you as voters to keep power ia
their own l.a-;ds
Ole of them a Northerner, address
ing me one day, a few months after tho
surrender, remarked that if we, the
Radicals, dou’t pave the way for the
niggero to vote, tho Northern, or Doug
las D inocraey, Who fought to save the
old government and the Union, would
unite, and vote us out of power, la
thus addressing me, having been intro
duced to cim as a Union man, he
thought I was a Radical, and would
approve his suggestion; and he was
much surpv.sed when 1 told him that,
as a true triend to the ‘fniygertf as he
called them, i would advise them, un
der the circumstances, to not vote at all
having as yet no safe qualification for
exercising that important trust.
Ami I farther snggeated to him the
propriety of abridging, to some extent,
tho right of suffrage in the hands of
white men, since the abuse cf that priv
ilege ly the uneducated, the young and
anexoerienced of our country, had in
volved us in war. A mare mature age
than 21, 1 remarked, would qualify us
better for a safe exercise of ibe voting
ing privilege ; and being a young man
himself, I remarked that ho waa Dot
old enough yet to vote ; since voting
means governing, and governing rashly
or unwisely meaos ruin. Old men, I j
continued, of manure judgement, who
love their country, and hate parties, 1
secret Laaguers, and conspiracies, were
the only class fit to govern; yet if eve
ry body was allowed to vote, young and j
old, black and white, male and female!
—the experience find ignorance thus
brought to the polls, would never fail;
to place ambitious or incompetent men j
in power to involve us again in war.
Not relishing the moderation of my
views, tho young radical made no fur
ther development of the designs oi his
party. But be said enough to sa'isfy
Etui that tho only use they have for h
black m:.a is to got his vote to keep
them in power.
The reconstruclion measures are de
flgned 5 r this purposo; and the Radi
cals intend to drag anil deceive you into
l polit:es>. and if necessary, to compel you
to take up arms to support them in pow
er. Now, in view of tbcao fact?, I
would again urge you t> have nothing
to do with these reeonstiuctiou mcas
urcs ; for as sure as you do, a conflict
will spring up between you and the
whites, that will finally .end iu your
ruin, or the reinslavemcnt of your race ;
and hers 1 will tell you how this will
be brought about. These reconstrue
tion measures takes the vote lVom the
while man and gives it to ycu, and in
do'og this, the radicals tell you they,
the radical party, lire your best friends;
but to make sure of your votes, they
teach you to hate the whites with whom
you have been raised, tell yru that you
have nev*r been paid any thing for
your labor, and the land South belongs
to you, that you have been cut with the
lash, and that now is year time to de
mand justice. Now, if you listen to
any euch teaching*, srrcl suffer year
selves to be influenced by them, you
a: and the white ibcd you have been raised
with, will become enemies, aad a war
of races will follow as sure as there is
a God in heaven ; and you, being the
wesker in point of numbers and intil
ligenee, will either be driven from tho
country, or reinslaved. The only way
to cseape this calamity is for you to re
fuse positively to have anything to do
with the reconstruction measures—nei
ther to register nor vote; or if you have
already registered, take my advice, as
a friend—don’t vote at all for any con
vention, or any’ o’y, atterd no political
mc€u 'j"»‘join no Uaion Leaguers, or if
vou have, w.:' ldra w at once, and thus
prove to white ro.> that J ou I)avG }°°
mueh sense to help thmU set up another
war. Do ;his dow, and you ! V1 “ ® oni '
mand the c mfidence and respect o. a ”
our best men North and South, and the
time will come when you can bo safely
entrusted with all the political p:i\i
legcs really essential to yt ur welfare,
VotiDg now w ilt not make food cor
clothing, nor money, nor frioßds.
Young men under 21 vote, yet
they have the protection of law-r-rsa in
your ease; you never voted, yet you
have the protection of law, and will
continue to have it, whether you vote
or not. T.en, I say again, don’t vote
now for any body; there is too much
strife yet amongst white folks, too much
bad foiling, 100 much bitterness be
tween Republicans and Democrats, too
much revenge to gratify, too many
wrongs to redress, and so long as this
lasts, your only safety is iu having
DOthing whatever to do with
polities, This is the advice of one who
h s no interest in political questions, ex
cept to promote the peace, prosperity
and happiness of all our people, through
tho instrumentality of good govern out.
One word more in codlcupiod : Y’our
professed friends tell you there is uo
protection to person or property with
out a vote, and yet they propoe to take
the vote from the white man and give
it to you. Now, if they are mean
enough to da this, if I were in your
places, I would not accept t^^iffer. —
But I would tell them that if the white
men South with whom I have been
raised, can’t vote, they shouldn’t give
me a vote. I wouldn't have it under
tho circumstances. I wouldn’t thus
help them to hold pawer. This I think
is good advice, aud 1 hope you will heed ,
it. It is the advice of as true a Union
man as ever breathed.
HOItKIIILU OlTKACIl!
.Imlge .1. W. C. Ilormi Ulortal*
Hr wounded.
' teariy yesterday morning ottr town
wae excited to a great degree, by the
rumor that our respected fo'low citi
zen, Judge J. W. 0. Horne, of the
Eastern section of tho county, Bear
Danville, had, the even ng before, been
shot by some o! his negroes and mor
tally wounded, A later rumor, yes
terday afternoon, stated that .be Judgo
was dead', but this was n premature
announcement, as the Judge was alive
last night at 12 o’clock, but in a very
critical condition.
The facts of the case as we have
learned them from tho best authority
are a« follows ; During the afternoon
of Monday, a stripiliug son of Judge
Horno had some difficulty with a col
ored girl in the field, who challenged
him to a fight or tussle, in the course
of which youcg Horne knocked the
girl down.
At night tlifs son was sitting op> the
porch, when J ndge Horne stepp'd! out
wf hts house into his yard, when he
saw oee of hi» negro men with n
dnublo barrelled gun in his band,
whom he asked, what he was doing
with a gun, with an order to put it up
On the instant the gun was fired twice,
the negro throwing down his gun and
running off At the same moment
aoothi r shot was fired from a short
distance off. One ball entered the
abdomen and another the side and
passed into tho bowels.
After the Judge was shot be stagger
ed and fell sending a discharge or two
of his pistol after the retreating negro
who first fired at him.
The son hearing the firing ran ont. in
pursuit of the retreating negro, but fall
ing into a pit in the yard, they escaped.
Oa his return, he found his father lyiDg
on the ground, shot as above stated, and
bis face and head dreadfully bruised
.nd cot, as if mangled with the butt
end of a gun or pistol. lie was remo -
ed into the house and all the attention
possible was given to bis case.
Word was immediately sent to oar
rflieient Military Commandant, Capt
J. M RobinsoD, who, with a file es
men, immediately repaired to the scene
of the difficulty for tha purpose of ar
resting the perpetrators of this oa rage
and murder. Ho met one niau on h’s
way to town and took bins back, while
five others who had made their way
here, were subsequently arrested, and
are now lodged in jY, under strong
gu >rd, awaiting the issue of thß event,,
as to the life ot their viatim and- the
necessary legal steps es affidavit aud
warrant, before they arc tiwned over to
the civil authorities.
It is said that there mon all confess
ti having shot the Judge and boast it
the deed. It is al io stated that there
are ten more implicated in the h!;»dy
drama which was- probably long pre
meditated, as it is know a that a breed
man on an ad j iuing plantation, on
hearing the report of lire-erins at Judge
Horne’s-on Monday, iaisaediatily t «..k
his pistols aud left, aod had nut return
ed.—Americas Citizen, Aug 111/i.
Yewsiisi<t Oilier items.
It is said that J tiar< z will be sent
to the Uni ed States as Minister «f the
now administration, if he declines r.e
electkm ft> the Presidency.
Mr. Quilp modestly asks way ia a
country winter like a Black Crook ?
Because there is so ianny bare limbs
to be seen.
Sheridan has removed a forge num
ber of aldermen iw New Orleans, and
appointed others that suit him better.
A colored woman of Boston, Mrs.
Harper, lectured Monday tight m
Richmond, the burden of her song
being slavery, freedom, past and iu -
ture,
Emigrating free dm on have returned
to South Carolina from Liberia, bring
ing gloomy aeeoun‘B. Southern freed
rnen are advised to stay at home.
These are called, “dog days” prob
ably because there is so much grow
ling abont the weather.
If the ant gives an example of in
dustry, it is much more than a good
many unties do.
Five thousand and ninety dogs have
been killed in New York this tstisoft,
for which the city has paid (12,695,
There have been registered in Lou
isiana whites au I 78,230 color
ed persons— majority for the latter
37,004,
Dr, Carroll, tho Roman Catholic
candidate, has been elected Lord May
or of Dabljn f r 1868.
New and dangerous counterfeit two
dollar United States Treasury Notes
c.re in circulation. They are well ex
ecuted and calculated to deceive. All
bills of this denomination, and especial
ly new bills, should bo carefully ex
amined.
The Missouri nawsnapers report or.
enormous wheat crop.
The lines entitled “My irit Droops’
aro declined. Let the poet try some
spirit drops, and if that don’t help him
he will have let her “droop ”
Flour, to be delivered in twoweeks,
was sold in Staunton, Va., last Satur
day for $7 per barrel.
Forty three per cent, of all the
deaths in New York ari said to be in
fauts under a year old. This cut-
Herods Herod’s slaughter.
The radicalised negroes’of the South
are said to favor Thad Stevens for
the Presidency. If Brownlow should
enter the l ets for their favor, the only
way to settle the matter would be for
Satan himself to step in and overtop
them loth.
Bum&’a Report.—^Tbo followi D »
appears in ButUr’s report a* Cotnmia
sioner of Exchange during a portion of
the rebellion, as having been telegnpb.
ed to that offi'e by Gon. Grant;
It is hard on our men field in South
ern posons not to exchange them, but
it is humanity to those left hi the
ranks to fight- our fealties, every one on
parole, o r oth urwise, becomes an aetiva
soldier at once, directly or fndireotly.
If we commence a system of exchange,
wfi'.oh liberates all the prisoners, ne
wilt have to fight on until the Sontb i«
exterminated. If we hold thoae eanght,
they are no more than dead men at thm
particular time, and to release all robel
prisoners North would insure Sherman’s
and. font, and would compromise oar safe
ty here.
It seems to ns that ought to settle
tho oontroversy about the cruelties of
Andersonville and the horrors es the
Libby and Castfo Thunder.
Coming Out. —Polk Watson, color
ed, publishes a card in the Franklin
(Tenn ) Review, in which be says:
“I deem it my duty to state that I was
a member of the Loyal Leage in thin
place,but after being a member for aoure'
time and finding :t was no placo for
colored man, I have withdrawn.
In with drawing I would appealit»<
my colored fellow-citizens to ahatnhta
the league and let in join the great con
servative party whose motto ia 'univer
sal amnesty and impartial suffrage.'
Polk is altogefhar right, and hie
good example should be followed brav
ery colored man in the Bout?i.
More than one hundred and fifty
thousand pounds of. woel have be< re
purchased this yenr at Morenui, Mi
chigan, nt an average piice- of forty
three and one half cents...
ItVAIiKILI).
Near Cuthbert, 6a.,.aa the Bth iosE, br-tSw
Rev. Tl.us. T. Christian, UdL. Livr C. IMri
of 6a., and Miss Miiiv R_ Om*, 0 f
of the former p?acp.
OBITfJARI.
PIED on (he SJst of Jill v. in TrneiT Coun
ty ot a lingering disease,,Cicero C. Speight.
The deceased was bora \sih November l»2(i r
and was about 47 years of ago at the time of
hU dea'li. Sro. Speight was * rmmiber ot
6’hnrch ; was au honrrahte, upright
man, a good citizen, and higldp esHt-eined by
alt who knew tiirr.. His Fulfi lling* were so-if—
tense thus ho spoke but iittie et Ida provpecta
for another world, but from his consistent
lire, his friends l,n»» remlor'ahte assurance
tirat. uiT is wi ih 6ro. Sp igtir was never mat
lied, huideavesbehind brothers and sisters,
with his numerous fi lands to monm his loss.
?te waa buried bv hw brethren *f she Ma
sonic order, with due sb4 appropriate crromc
tiicg. THOS. T. O.
wVfW */f/ ff’i’fiSdJtm /#-
Ta All W ifom it May Ivikcfjl
HAVIKff disposer! of my .“tori of gtods,
I nm endeavoring to wind up mr busi
ness i»t this place and ournesily request those
who are indebted to tne to come forward anrf
settle. When not at my reshrsnef, i may be
found at APr. Feepks’ ‘downing Ri nm.
J. A. J/OtIKE.
Dawson, G'.„ August 16, 1607.
BEESWAX!
. BEESWAX!
N aaa rotfybs Deeswas wanted, for
which we wilt pay the highest'
market price ia Groceries.
Aug J4-2tr» PRATT A COCHRAN.
!>«•« Postponed Sheriff’s Stales.
’ H.I. be seld before the Onrt Hnu*»
Ts ieevin the own o'. Surhri'le Lto
County, on the Srst Tuesday in fk-pt. nm,
within (be legiil houis es sole. Hie following
property to-wit f CoO 6f fund Nos. )4f, 148.
and 17U, lying in the lhtb Distiict of Lee
coontr, lerietf on by virtue of two tux fi fa*,
issued by 6 orgsr C. Kdwards rs Becaturr
Jones, for bis State ffß-ih county tax tor the
year 1866. Property pointed out by George
C. Edwards, T. V., August 6th, JS6T.
). 6. M, KINK*>S, Dept. Sbff.
ACC SUUMJPV BAM.EB.
ON the first Tuesday in September Beat,
will be told before die t'oart House
door iu the town of Starkville, Lee county,
between the usual hours of sale, the follow
ing property to wit: Lot of land No. Sir, in
the Fourteenth Distiict of Lee county; two
sorrel! mules, one foirr-horse ivagon, sud fif
teen head of stork caltre. Aft levied on an
the property ol Wade H. Mims, by tirlneof
a diatrees wnrrnirt in favor ol Phillip West,
vs. Wade,il. Mime. Propelty pointed out
by plaintiff. J. G. JAICINNON,
August 6, 2867. D. Sheriff.
CIIOR6IA, Webster County:
r J'O W. 0. B. Adams, Adm’iristrator, and
JL Nancy Adam#, A dm’* upon the citato
of B, I, Adatn«,la*c of said comity, deceased
You are hereby notified that by virtue of a
commission to tls directed, fiom the honora
ble Superior Cout of said conr.tr, we shall
on the seventh day of September next, ealrf
upon lets if laud llumbel3 one hundred unit
seventy-six, one hundred and seventy-seven,
and two hundred and seven, in the eighteenth'
District, lor the purpose of admeasuring, lay
ing ell and assigning dower in and to the said
lots of land to Nancy Adam*, w dow ofJB .
I. Adams, deceased. Given under our bauds
and ofl'cial signatures, this August 7lh, 1867.
A. J. WiirprsN, L B. Causst.
11. 11. Mott, M. 11. Hust;,
Jas. S. Aven, Commi. stoners.
Terrell Superior Court, )
Mar Term, 1867. )
IT being represented to the Court by the
petition of W. 0. Carter, Administrator o£
Robert If. Carter, deceased, that by Deed of
mortgage dated *he 10:h day of November,
1858, James R. Bynum conveyed to the said
U&hirt M. Carter, a lot of land situate, lying
and being in the town ol Dawson, in said
county of Terrell, containing six- tenths of ap
note, more or less, known in plan of said
Town by No. (86) Ninety tlx for tbe purpose
of securing the payment of two certain pronj-.
I*3ory notes made by tbe said James R. By
num, to the said Robert M. Carter; one of
them due the 25th day of Ferenb r, 1860,
for the sum of Seven Hundred and Fiitv Dol
lars each, making the sum of Fifteen Bund*
red Dollars, whic 1 ; notes are now due and
unpaid.
It is ordared that the said James R. By*
num do pay into this court by the First u*y
of the next term, the principe interest and
cost due on said notes, or show cause, if nj
lie has, to the contrary, or tbs(in default then?
of a toiecloaure be granted to the said W. C,
Carter, Adminlstra'ror as aforesaid of said
mortgage and tbe equity of redemptions or
tbo Said frames tt. Bynum therein be forwer
barred, aftd that seivice-bf title Role bo pet*
feoted on sa'd James R. Rynutn according
to Law.
A True Extract from the Minutes ot tbi»
Court, August 13th, 1868.
j. C. F. CLARK, Clerk.