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Journal. ELAM CIIRISTIAA', Kililor. t) . 1 IJ • S O .V, Thursday. January Mh. ISO** J©* Reading matUr on every ]>nye.“%zii I‘AIiTICI LAK NOTICE. All Sheriffs, Ordinaries, Clerks and oilier (so ea’lni) * provis'onnl officers” of the State, who have been accustom ed to send their advertisements to the Journal and other Conservative jour nale, are informed that they can now resume their usual channels of busi ness, Order 49 and its author having left the country for a trip up Salt Riv er, and trereps none to molest or mslce'thcm afraid. Is Cicit. Meade a Radical ? This is dow the all-important qur. tion with our’people generally. The straight and cr< oktd-haired niggers of the Atlanta bogus convention ask it with fear end trembling; Ilulbrrt, the “starp and qu : ck,” registration man nervously fumbles over his lists, to make that “alout thirty five thousand” story appear plausible. Maikbam, “Potash” and their fellow-toadies, bocomn weak in the knees and turn pale at the announce ment, in answer to this question, that Gen. Meade is a gentleman and a sol dier. We are glad to bo alio to hope for the honest performance of bis duty as a soldier. The change of ermmarders gives abundant cau»e for encouragement to the Southern people. The new com mander accepts toe position with the distinct underderstanding that John Pope’s manner of “running the ma chine” was disapproved by tho Admin istration, while the course of Hancock, as marked out in his first order, declar ing civil law superior to military, and to be sustained by the mi i * ary at all haz zards, was made a spec ial object of praise and commendation. Gen. Meade must take this as hieiulc ci action. lie can not choose, but follow in that line, cr submit to decapitation. Are Wc n Nation. To the pompous question with which Sumner intrcduced his political har angue to the Western people, the Indi anpolisHerald replies: We arc a nation in which more than one half of the subjects are denounced as traitors to the Government by the remaining minority—a nation in which the head of the Government professes to derive its power from the consent of the governed, and yet governs one-half its territory without rucb consent —a nation which supports a freedmau’s bu reau—a nation wbieh gives the fran chise to a debased and ignurant race in one section, and denies them the same favor in another—a nation which grinds one section to powder between the upper and nether millstones of par tisan bate—a nation which defies Jno. Brown, and would hang Jeff Davis od a eour apple tree—a nation in which the widow cf a late lamented President hawks the fruits of shameless bribery and corruption through the streets of New York, and threatens to equoal if ■omebody doesn’t come down with the dost- Not to put too fine a point on it, aod without the least intention of beiDg profane, we might say we sre a h—l of a nation, or will be, if Mr. Sumner and kis school of patriots are allowed to run the machine much longer. Senatorial District Commit tees. The Macon Telegraph publishes the list of Senatorial District Conservative Committees appointed by the Hon. E. G. Cabanniss, of the State Central Com mittee. We havn’t room for the entire list, but below will be found tho ap pointments for this section oi the State : FIFTH DISTRICT M Ashley, Coffee; BF. Williams. War* ; J C Nichols, Clinch. SEVENTH DISTRICT. O L Smith, Brooks ; B B Moore' Thomas; D D Watkins, Colquitt. EIGHTH DISTRICT. H G Crawford, Decatur ; R J Bacon Mitcbell; J R Whitehead, Atillcr. NINTH DISTRICT. B H Robinson, Early; G W Colley, Calhoun; W D Williams. Baker. TENTH DISTCICT- G J Wright, Dougherty ; G AI Btokes, Lee; A J Macarthy, Worth. ELEVENTH DISTRICT. E T Tensile, Clay ; PL J May, Randolph; Leroy Brown, Terreff. TWELFTH DISTRICT. J M Scott, Stewart; G S Rosser, Webster ; D Alurrie Quitman. THIRTEENTH DISTRICT. T M Furlow, Sumter ; W G Sears, Schley ; W H Bohinson, Alacan. FOURTEENTH DISTRICT. R Redding, Dooly; Darling Johnson Wilcox ; N McDuffie, Pulaski. The Chairman Bays the Committees are requested to organize Conservative Clubs in their respective counties with out delay, and be prepared for action when the Constitution to be prepared by the Convention now in session in Atlanta shell be submitted to the peo ple for ratification or rejection. 'I lie Military Cliuogva in Hie feoulli. Under the foregiing heading, the | National lntelli>j*naer of tho 31st ult. contains the lolh wing signficunt nrti- ( clr, to which the attention of our read ers is invited .* “Although the designation of better men at an earlier day for commanding Generals than some who have dishon ored and disgraced the position* fr m w hich they have been removed, would have fulfi led the popular requirement, still the changes in command of a ShPriden or a Pop>c are gratifying in the highest degree to the people If Generals Meade and McDowell were uisjK'sed to correct the abuses .hat have arisen in ttie South under the misrule ol the Frcedmen’s Bureau and numerous officers ot the army, where by the honest and the true registration of the whiles has been defeated, and a false registration of blacks has been made, we do not see that at this of the proceedings they can effect any Important resnlt in the direction of a j vindication of law and the right Be sides, if they had powers in the prem ises, and should be disposed to exert them, they would doubtless be thwar ted by the black Radicals in Congress, who have, it would re-m, determined not only to lake “no step backward,” but rather to make advances in the line of continued mi-rule, and a still more intolerable oppression of the whites of the South. It is in the pow ‘ er, how ever, of the Generals named to I undo much of the wrong as to men and things that has been perpetrated, I and also in an especial manner to see to it i hat herealter the civic authorities shall be justly regarded and respected, | and that the greatly multiplying usur pations and oppressions in one or an other annoying, vexatious, and tyran nous form, under the color of military authority, shall be at once brought to a full stop. "Society in the South seems to be at almost the point of dissolution. An arehy is getting great headway. The blacks, governed by the uncontrolla ble passions belonging to inferior and uncultivated natures, and led by some brutal men of their ow n race, as well ns by worse while men, are more or les banded together to the neg’ect of the pursuits of labor under a condition of law and order, and are to a great ex tent, not only laying violent hands up on property which may minister to present wants, but in the dep’hs of the hate of which they are inspired by a criminal demagoguery, are absolutely destroying w hat, at no distant day*, will be a necessity to all the pieople, whites and blacks. “Rapine is getting to l>e the order of the day, at and unless it is speedily crushed out by the disurnient of blacks, and their immediate return to the peaceful wa : ks of life there is no foretell ng what fell results in crime a day or an hour may bring forth.— Viewed in this light, this fearful'y ex gent, and at this time almost supreme consideration, the detachment of men from command who have precipitated the piresent awful danger*, and the substitution of those who certainly have the abilities and, wo take it, the will to res'orc order out of chaos, and thus shed intense joy and satisfaction upon the minds of the people of the South, as well ns the entire country, is an act on the part of the President which will still more deeply ingratiate him with just men everywhere. ‘‘lt will be seen with lively satisfac tion that General Meade is ordered to repair at once to the seat M his com mand, while in the long peiiod that must intervene before the arrival of General Irvin McDowell from the Pa cific Department, the command of the j District of Mississippi and Arkansas I will devolve upon General Gilltni, ; whose thorough knowledge and expe rienced ability give assurance of a wi-e administration of affairs in the direc ! tion that he has been latterly entered upon with decided energy and success by General Ord.’’ The Atlanta Intelligencer says, the “powxb” which our Washington City cotemporary affirms, despite the “bl-ick Radicals in Congress,’' to be in the hands of the successors of Pope and Ord—“to undo much of the wrong as to men and things that has been per petrated, and also in an especial man ner to see to it that hereafter the civic authorities shall be justly regarded and respected, and that the great multiplying usurpations and oppressions in one or another annoying, vexations, and ty rannous form, under color of military authority, shall be at once brought to a full 6top’’—we trust will be exercis ed as soon as Generals Meade and McDowell shall ossum* command oi their respective military districts And we have no doubt that both these GeDerals will exercise th epower which they will possess, by virtue ot their of fiees, to relieve an oppres ed people from the annoying, Vexatious and ty rannous exactions which have been put upon than by Generals Pope and Ord, and especially by the former upon the people of the Third Military Die- triet Indeed we feel confident that this will b« the case General Meade i will soon assume command of this dis trict, and will not disappoint the rea- < eonuble expectations of our people of i a prt nij t redre-s of their grievances, judging from his past history as u gallant soldier and an honorable gen tlemen. Illin(I, Virions and Blunder ing Legislation. The exhausted and distressed con dition of this country, says trie Nation al Intelligencer, in consequence of tho destruction and devastation of the civ il war, and of blind and blundering and vicious legislation, since the war, is now fully admitted by all, and lelt by all Congress now assembles with a promise, in the words of Senator Wilson, that within a hundred days remedy shall We found for this state of things. There may he some who are credulous enough to believe it, or reek less enough io impose ihe belief on ihis subject by Senator Sprague j That Senator remarked, in ihe discus-1 sion of the cotton tax, "You will en deavor to go back upon your pust,leg islation to amend, to repair, to ! eul, to cure it, il you can. My judgment ip, that it will be the hardest task that was ever in the hands or minds of po liticians or statesmen.” We would have more hope of a successful accom plisbment of this task, if those who have promised it were not entirely bent upon the pit locution of piarty ob jects, which are entirely inconsistent with the restoration of industrial pros perity in this country. The legislation of Congress at this session has been directed to the object of securing the next Presidential elec tion for thie party now controlling Con green For this purpose they altered their ow n reconstruction acts, and pro vidt and that in the reconstructed States the majority of a minority of voters should control all the elections. If the whole vote of the State should be east by only a hundred fieedmen, the ma jority of that hundred—to wit: fifty one—is to decide every election, and by this most unjust and despotic meas ure they expect to control Congress, and tvereome the electorial votes of Conservative citizens in the Northern States. The House, also, in odder to remove any doubt which might have been raised ns to the unity of the Rad ical party, declared, bv a resolution, that they would take no step backward in their policy towards the subjected an i proscribed Southern States Again, too, in order to convince the country that they intend to use the who a power of Ine Government for the establishment of that Degro supre niacy by which they are to rule the coun'ry, they have pa Bed a negro-jnry bill, with the undivided support of the party. Wise legisla'ive measures for the re lief of the country are perfectly incom patible with the spirit and intent c f the Radical policy. Wliat a Pity. Whst a pity it is, says the Rome Courier, that Treasuer Jones refused ro advance HO.OOO for the “relief” of Aa ron Aipeoria Rradley, the negro from Boston who makes more speeches, and consumes more of the lime c.f the con vention than >ny other in it, and the thirty-seven other negro Constitution makers, and their white (God save the mark) allies. They have voted them” selves Dine dollars a day, and, no doubt they want the money, and want it quick It is no use for any obstructionist to sug gest that nine dollars a month is the cur rent price of such laborers, and a very different field would be better suited to their capacity.- Ru’ why don’t “the watchman on the Tower” come to their rescue. lie got “relief” to the amount of about two hundred thousand dollars, during the late war, while nearly everybody else was getting poor, and besides, it is gen era’ly understood that be is working these hands, and is to have the lion’s share of the crop. But if he refuses to furnish all the bacon and eollards want ed, then let some of tl o other candi dates for infamy, and the U. S. Senate, Governor etc., go snooks with him.— But isn’t this a pretty kettle of fbh any huw. The Convention well knowing that they had uo right in the world to draw a cent from the State Treasure, did not have the nerve to attempt to ■ pick the people’s pockets, but after they ! had got P< pe—who also has no lawful right or authority for doing any such thing—to hack them with his bayonets, then they bravely command the Gover nor to “stand and deliver ” But alas, for human hopes aDd expectations, their intended victim ha more nerve than they all. and bciide was “armed with honesty,’ aud they are now suffering un der the additional mortification of de feat. Foster Blodgett, Postmaster,has been suspended- G. W Summers, appoint ed special agent, takes charge of the Au gust* Postoffice. £3eTT,.e latest novelty was a goat race in Savannah on Christmas day. It bus transpired thut a move. I meat is being made which will have nu important effect on the work of m con truction A number ol leading spirits in 'he Conservative party are endeavoring to prevail upon the Leg islatures of those State* which have passed resolu ions ratifying the Consti tutional Amendment known as article 14th, and wbieb I.cgis atures have ob tained an anti Republican majority by the late ehetions, to repeal tho resolu tions ol ratification. T his, it is beiiev ed, they have clearly a light to do, as the proposed amendment, no* having been ratified by the requisite number of States—three-fourths—is' not yet a port ion of the Cunstitut on It is claim ed that if New Jersey, Ohio and Cali fornia should repeal the ratification resolutions the effect would surely he to prevent the proposed amendment from ever becoming engrafted upon the Constitution of the United States. That Forty Thousand DollsiV Worth. I For convenient reference, we transfer 1 the following compilation 'of the ordi nances and resolutions adopted by the lato b' gus convention, durii g its twelve days’ session in Atlanta, prepared for and published in the New York \N or id, by its able correspondent, who attended the deliberations of tbo mongrel as era Wage. No 1 . “Liberty if the IVess.” Resolved, That all lona fule repre sentatives of tbe press shall have and bold seats in this convention so long as they do not mi-riprefect the action of members or the proceedings of this body. Adopted 11th December. No. 2. Subordination. Rcso'vid, That a c mmittee of seven be appointed by tie Me ident te> wait rn Gee. P pc, commanding the Third Military Di-tricr, si and inf rm him that, in obedience to General Order No. 89, thb C riventinn is now assembled and organized, and invites bis pre.-encc in the Convention at hit p'easure Adopted 11th December. No. 3 Obligation of Contract. W IIFRKAB, Tae question of ass rd ing some relief to the people if 6e»igia from the burden of indebtedness which is now oppressing them, is likely to be acted upon by tlds Convention at seme future day ; and Whereas, Large amounts of property ar now levied on and about to be B.icri fioed at sheriff's sale ; and, * Wberca-y The debtors in snob cases should-be entitled to the benefits which may be conferred on other lebtors by the fu'ure action of this Convention, therefore, lie it ordained by tbe people of Georgia in Convention assembbd, and it hereby ordained by authority of the same, That from and afior the passage of this ordinance all levies which have been nr may he made, under execution i-surd fr yu any court of' this State; hail be suspended until this C 'nvention shall have taken, or shall have refused to take, final action upon the matter of relief; and that all sales under execu tion in violation of this ordinance shajl be null, void, arid of not fleet. Adopted 12th December. No. 4. Protection to JJome Industry. Whereas, The successful culture of cotton in Georgia is essential to the prosperity of the people and the full developement of the material interests of the Siate, and Whereas, The encouragement given to its productiou abroad, during tsp war, has largely increased that pr"duc tion, which has, in connection with oth er causes, so reduced its value as to se riously endanger its continued cultiva tion as a leading Btaple by our people; therefore, Resolved, That the Convention do recommend the repeal of the cotton tax and, if practicable, the application ot the repeal to the present crop. Adopted 13th December. Resolved, That the Convention con siders its repeal essential to the contin ued successful cultivation of cotton as the great staple of the country, and as a measure of relief to both agricultural I capital and labor. Resolved, That the Convention, hav ing eor fidence in the earnest, desiie of the Government of the United States to aid in restoring the prosperity of the people of Georgia, and the development of her material interests, do hereby re quest the President of the convention to forward a certified eopy of these reso lutions to the President of the United States, President of the Senate, and Speaker of the House of Representa tives, with a request that they be pre sented at an early day ta both Houses of Congress. No. 5. Fundamental I.aw. Resolved, That all ordinances ot oth er matter of a legislative character al ready introdoc and and pending are here by indefinitely postponed, and in future no ordinance or other matter of said character, not neee- arily connected with the fundamental law shall Vie entertain ed by the Convention; Provided, that the foregoing shall not apply to the matter touching the general relief of the peop’e ■ f the State. Adopted 17th December. No 6. “ The Patriot’s Reward.” Resolved, That the members of this Convention reetive the same pay and trijeage :.s had by the last General As sembly. Adopted 19th Diccmber. No. 7. “j The Earth the Saint's." We, the representatives of the people of Georgia, assembled in convention under the authority of the Congress of the United Stales, with a desire to re store loytlty, harmony, and tranquility among the peoyle, and to secure fjr our .State her proper place in the Union by repreeentation in Congress, respectfully represent to the Gcneial commanding this District, that, to insure theac great biessit'gs ft r i uisetves and t ur p"fiti ruy it ir essential that ttic officials who tx crcisc tbe civil functions of the prnvi - ionnl government of the State of G- r gia as r e gi.iz and by Cor.grcfS, shall b< Inyul to the Government of the United States, and acceptable to tbe mnj rit v of be pn pie of the State. We, the representatives of that me j >rity, are now striving to ovi retime >h* obstacle in tbe pa'h of resto.ation t civil iaw, and, therefore, respectfully petition ihe General c mmandih; this District, that a provisional Governor be appointed who will atsist in this great wi ik, and do red minced for that nnin’ment the Hon R. B. Hull eh, if Richmond county. Adopted 19 h December. No. 8. Resolved, That the Convention re quest the G ‘Timor to exercise ihe pow er given him by existing laws to mu— pi nd llie collection of taxis, it it his judgement the same can he and ne will - out it juri' g the credit of the Slate Adopted 19th December. No. 9. Resolved, That, as an acknowledge ment of the hist est appreciation, ttii- Couvention tenders t.h&nksjo ;h< U,.i . and States Govi run.cut tor tbe untarabdlcd magnanimity which has boon best- wed upon the cot qto red people, and great leniency given to n e nqut r- and foe, and for the promotion of harmony, pi act and pr speri’y, an everlasting Uoi n, 'Lis manifestation of g>aiituae is made ut der a conviction that it is tho voice of the poo; lc vtr have the bouor to repwi - seDt ; furthermore, for the philaurbn p ic, humane and beneficiary aetioos, g n eral protection given to tbe entire p«pu laou (particularly that riceivid from tbe department known a? tbe Fre dmen’s Bureau), we most gratefully acknowl edge, and from the most profound con sidera ions attribute such inagnuuimiy, generosity, and leniency given to tbe people, as being tbe great b|, se i g* and benifit- derived frctu a Republican G v eminent. Adopted 19th December. No. V. Resolve', That ibis (’ iven'i n take a recess fr in tbe 23 t day oi Decern L > instant, to the 8 h Gay of Jauu ry i.ex Adoptt and *2O h December. 11. An ordinance to levy and collect a tax to pay the Delegates and Officers con cede with tbe Convent! >n, as well as ail other it cidi n'.ai t xp> osi s: Be it ordained by tbe pe< pie if (J cor gis in Convention scumbled, Tha* it hall be tbe dut ol the Comptroller General of the State of Ge rgia to levy aid collect a tax of one-six ecntli cf one per cent, oa all the taxable • roper'y of thi- State, as tr'urr.ed upon the dige-o for the year 1867, in addition to iL> State tax ; aed the Comptroller-General sir 11 direct and require the tax collect ors in tbe several counties iu this Siate to collect the tax so assessed, or so much thereof as will defray tha expenses of this Convention, and pay the same info th- Treasury of the 8 ate of G ■ re*a on i r before the Ist of November, 1868 B it furll er oidaiued, *lhat the Treasury oi rhis S*a'e is hereby authi r izvd ar and directed to advance to the dis hurting (ffi -i rof this Convention, out If the Tr; a-ury < f this State, f-rty thou sand dollars to d< frry the expenses <f this Convention, ami the pay and mile i-.sge of its members and iflhvra up to the 23d day cf December, 1807. Be it further ordained, That A. L. Angier is hereby appointed the di-burs ing i ffioer of this Convention, ar and it is authoriz 'd to rociiveand receipt f r the sum aforesaid from the treasurer and to to pay out the same on warrant of ibe President of thrs C invention on the re port if the Auditing Committee The amount so advanced by the Treasuer, shall be replaced from the tax ordered by this Convention to bo assessed and oolleot for the ex; coses, pay and mileage of the members there of Beit further ordained, That the sever al tax collector shall receive the same per cent, for oolleeting the same a t bey are now allowed by law fer collecting the State tax. Adopted 20tb December. General itleade Arrived. General Meade arrived in Ath.nta at 1 1-2 o’clock Sunday morning ar and took rooms in the National Hotel On Monday morning he formerly assumed the duties of Commander of this milita ry District by issuirg the following or der . ll eadq’rs, 3d Mjlitaky Dis’tA (Georgia. Florida and Alabama.) > Atlanta, Ga., Jan. G, 1868. ) General Urdets No. 8. I. In oomphance with War Depart ment General Orders No. 104, M j- t General Meads- hereby asmnu s com mand of the Third Military District. 11. All existing orders will remain in force until revoked i r modified by or ders from these Headquar (rs. 111. The followrug 'ffioer- are an nounced as on the Staff of Mr.j- r Gen eral Meade, and wi.l be obeyed aud r< - spectod ace-nil!-ply : Brevet Bi padier Genera 5 R C Dium, Lieutenant Colonel U. S Army, A -i-tant A"ju'a- t G oral Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Camp bell D. Emory, Captain 9ih Infantry, Aide de-Camp. Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Ge-rg Meade ,oapt.3l-t Infau'ry, Aide dt Camp. By order of M j r G- non-l M ade. R C Drum, Assistant Adjutant G neial A good suggestion is that • f the Southern Cultivator, that our planters and farmers should plant a portion of their fields with early Northern cm. Ripening two or three months before Southern varieties in present fi- ld use, it would enable us to have food for mao and beast so much sooner. Though es pecialy advisable in a year of scarcd'y it would be at all time-i wise, oa it gives that constant succession of crops for sale which is the source of all succes-fu! fanning, besides at* ailing our-selvrs of the advantage of our longer grow ing season. * Tin* UadlialCviigrtM. Washington, Jan. 6. IJocre —A variety of bills and resolutions were in roiiuced—among them one to cre ate a h.cal steamboat inspector's office ul Cairo, Illinois ; another to make Bt. Joseph, Mo , a port of delivery ; anoth er to authorize e erks if record courts to administer oaths in b nkruptcy. Mr U. sin, Michigan, introduced a resolution directing the Committee on Reconstruction to inquire into the ex pediency ot authorizing the several (..’on tiiutionul Conventions,elected tin dir the Reconstruction Acts in the States 'ately in re be lion to appoint civil i ffieeis, whether State or county, 111 sain States, to act tempoiarily and unt I State ci institutions shal be adop ted therein and < ffieers shall be chosen and qualified to fill said offices—and tlfat, for tins purpose said i (inventions may remove all civ 1 officers now act in,. in said States. Mr Bouwell, of Massachusetts, moved to amend the resolution by ad ding to in tiuct lie Reconstruction i ommittee to inquire into the expedi ency of constituting said States each into a seperate Mi ituty District, under command of a G neral of the army, and also to inquire as to the expedien cy of providing additional legisla ion to secure the elective franchise to all; and also o declare, by act oft ongress that t e Provisional Governments set up in said States by order of the act - mg President are not republican forms ot government,. Mr. Upson accepted the amend ment. Mr Chandler, New Yotk, moved to j lay the whole subjec on the table, wn ch was no agreed to—yeas 28, nays 66 The then adopted. Mr Aldridge offered a resolution of thanks to Gen. Hancock, in accord ance with the President’s Message It was tallied—Bs to 28 Mr. Washburn ,of Wis , offered a resolution declar ng that the House utterly erndems he conduct of An drew Johnson acting Pre ident of the ; United Mat s for his action in lerrrov | ii»_ the -gallant’ soldier Gen. Sheridan, I from the command if the Filth M lita iy District ; at and that t> e hanks of the ' House are due General Grunt fur I.is | letter oi August last com! mmng the act of tfie said act ng t're-ident lor his . icmitval of 8.- ; clary Stanton, as well <as for the endorsement of General Sheridan in relat on o aflajrs in the State of Texas Adopted—yeas 82, nay 23 A trill making eight hours a day’s work w as passed. A measure expediting the payment of bounties occupied the House until the hour of adjournment Tmliaisola, Trxan, Kitinf Galveston, Jan- G Information has been received that all the business portion oflndianola was destroyed by fire on the 3d imtant l.os- one hun dri and thousand dollars. No insurance. The Custom house rid fifty other bui dings were destroyed, ft is sup posed to be an incendiary fire. Tfic 3ri «‘| rts.*i!>Ee Jngged. That j tstdelit, pertiti ggit.g, jeram bulatit g nuisance, A iron Alpeoria Bradley, has at last fallen into the hands of tie Philistines. The facts in the case, as wc have learn ed (bent, are as.follows .* Yesterday evening, as Mr. John E. Hays, editor of tbe Republican, was walking down tbe Bay with a friend, Bradley met tim end commenced talk ing about what he called tbe abuse of hitn-elf which appeared in (he lter übli eati yesterday mornirg. Mr. Hayes asked bun bow be dared to speak to him, aid orderi and him to leave or he would have no more scruple? in shooting him than he would a skunk. Bradley vi'lidr w, and Mr. II passed on io his i ffice. In a few minules Brad ley erne to tbe window, accompanied by several i egroes, ( shock hi-fist at Mr. H., cursed bint and dared him to come ■ut on the itreet. Mr. II paid no at tention to him, but, as he was becoming very violent, Mr. E. L. Board went i ut at and orderi and him i ff. Mr Hayes then went to the Exchange to get a policeman tojarrest, this disturb er ot the peace, at.d or; returning to his , ffiee saw Bradley corin' g up from un der the bluff with about a dizen negroes following-him. Bradley called out to him to come across tbe -treet ar.d see w hether be would do any shrotiog, at tbe same time partially drawing a pis tol, and cursing and at using him round At thin time Air James Stewart. Clerk of Council, and Mr. Thomas S. Wayne, City Marshal, came out of the Exchange, and Bradley made good time up 'he B y They followed him aid air or ti 1 lun mar the c rucr if B >an and Whit ker-treeis. Some of he n'-groij' hi c me quite i xc’ted and il' merdi and ha' he -to uld he taken be s« r, Capi Cook, where they said they could ge' justice. Btadh y wj*> taken to tfi P lice Bar racks On s arc 1 teg him. a C I’s na vy revolver, Hilly leaded, was found ou | him, : g"i Her ttilh a large roll 1 f green ! hacks and other articles He sn tried ! very loin to part with a rut moratidum bn k wh'cl, mav prohahlv co> tain tome inf rmati' D which be w uld not ilk to lav kr -wo U‘ wiii | r ibahly appear bd rc th- May ■»'t i- m run g. Savannah Advertiser. Episcopal.— Tt)« Macon Tt-b graph arm uncis by au'bor’ty. that Dr. Beck with has written a li tteV accep it g the office of Bishop of the d’occase «4 Geor gia. This is doubtless welcome intelli gence to our Episcopal readers, and we congratulate them in having secured the services of such an able Divine the D* pretn'ses to enter upon his off icial duties early in Alarcb. What class of women are most apt to [ give tone to society ? Tho belies. A Case in l’oiiii—Tlic* Uoud lioliliitg Sytimllc. Mr. A. B lent the Government in 1863-64, 8100,000 in greenbacks. At hat time gold was 250 p-r cent pre mium so tha the Government receiv ed in fai t, but S-P.OOO in gold. Upon this $40„000 in gold it i aid $6,000 an nual gold interest, or fiften pier cent. In addition, it exempted the bonds from Mate and local taxation, amount ing to two or three per cent more each year Thus, in four years, tbe bondholder who lent S4O 000 in gold, has received back $54 000 in interest, and bus hud h's taxes exempted for $4 000 or $5,000 more, making S3O -in all. 'i lie principal of his debt was payable under the law, in legal tender currency To so pay it now in greenbacks, would give him 75 or 80 cems in gold. But this does not satisfy him In despite of the agree ment, fie demands SIOO,OOO in gold from the Government, in addition to the $30,000 in gold which he bus re ceived in interest and taxes, to pay the S4O 000 which he originally lent in gold. Did anybody ever hear before of such un extortionate demand ? Wes there ever such an unexampled usury? Was there ever such an unprecedent ed robbery contemplatid upon tho treasury? Wtio that is not bought with money, and is a bondholder’s agent, cun iuvor it ? Only think 1 It is sou rfit to pay ft four year loan to the Governor nl of the Untjed States of $40,000 with $l3O 000, principal and interest! Will the people submit to such an outrage? \N ill they look on ard seo such a vil— lainly e nsumated ? If it should be dono, there would be notlfing like it as a swindle in all history If it is re pudiation for tbe Gov rnment nut to pay the debt which it owes to its creditors, what is it to pay. two or tbrei* tirres ns much money to them as they lent to it ? Is this not a robbery of the peop e for tho bondholders’ ben efit ? Is it not a. repudiation, on the part of the agents of I lie Government, of tbe obligations under which they are to the country ? The illustration which we give i.- a practical one. It i overs tl e whole i,u stion of the oodu tiolders in a nutshell.—[ ( incinnuti En quirer. (io Io Work. ’I Imre never was a time in the histo ry of any people w hen they were called ut n to use grei'er exertion or work ba i'er, than the pr s nt time is to tbe Suit'll. The cx raordinary lorscs sus tain and this year by the painting inter ests of the South mi 'he single article of cotton has produced a financial pres sure that will almost ruin u=, if every man d' cs not piractice tbe most rigid rci nomy ar and set to work With all his energy a> and industry to htar against it Labor omnia vincot is an old Latin max im peculiar ! y afplicable to the p ople cf the S.uth at this time. Labor triumphs ia #1 things, and uow at the beginning if the year, let every man, black and v.! itc, bear the truth of the n. xioi in mind and labor to over come the pressure —politically and fi nancially—which rests upon tho South. It can bo done An earliest, united and ni.mly i flirt on the part nr every able hi died mar, 'his year, will do the weik ; -nd on tbe first day if January next we shall see our granaries and smoke houses well fried with pruvi-irne; Radicalism cx'crtiiinitt-d r.nd a sound Constitutior al Democrat elected to the Presidential chair. God grant it. Enjaula Ntics. An Approved Hypocrite.—When Joe Brown made his Joe Miller speech < n Reconstruction—“perpetuity of the , Rad cal parly”—and such other pfg~- headed platitudes which now excite de risive guffaws, bis friend Henry Wilson, Senator from Massachusetts, swore that the law of Congress as it then existed was a finality. The fir.-1 thing Jeremi ah Colhaith,alias Henry Wilson did,. November, was to change the law sc to permit a minority of votes to settle the matter of convention, constitution, etc. Old Joe kicking up behind and before Wilson kicking up behind old •* Constitutionalist. The gross income of the Atlantic Cable, is §5,000 a day. • > •• ■ Negroes gamble and stab each .other in Memphis right merrily. A man in Cheyenne shot his threw bunk-mates beeanse they didu’t wakva as soon as ne did. i /, “CHeek swelters” are now advertised instead of' plumpest,” which Itfst to be the name. Wendell Phillips would fike *tm(f Radienfs to keep on trying toimpeffch. Once more would wipe them out of ex istence. ■'TWS There is a story' that the -Fenians mean to Catch Queen Viclofi'ii and ship her off to King Theodore of Abys sinia. Wendell Phili ps says the chipster • i tic of the American press is its syco phancy. ' ‘ " f *) Rev. A. J Rvan, author of the “G- nquered Bannt r ” lec\uring in Augusta, Ga., the proceeds going To charity It has been legally decided in Engl and that a stampeds mi/e of a sig nature bears the sam vane as ,|he writ en one. Asa Hnrtz has just started a weekly paper at New Orleans It is said that some distillers Wave suspended business because they could not compete with o tiers and remain honest. “An exchange call bakers “regular loafers.” What an ill bread felKew Fine Pianos. Parties wishing to purchase Grove- Steen’s justly celebrated Pianos, can s.ve from thirty-five to fiity dollars\jy app'ying early at THIS OFFICE, *
