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gatosoit |flurnal.
J. L. D I'EBHV JIAV, )
j- Editors.
HI. B. MERIWETHER' )
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Thursday, February 6/fi, IMS
19* Rending matter on every yngt."&t
HIUfII.Y IMPORTANT TO
COUNTY orriCERS.
It will be seen by the following Or
der from General Meade, modifying
General Pope’s Order No. 49, that the
restrictions on adveitieeinents under
B*»'.e or Municipal Laws 01 Ordinanc
es have been removed, and that Coun
ty Officeiscan now advertise in their
own County papers:
Ist, All pnjiers except such as
threaten appointed officers wjlh vio
lence or future prosecution, are to be
nllowed to receive advertisements, un
der State or Municipal Laws cr Ordi
nances.
2nd, When there is but one paper
in a county, .it may receive such ad
vertisements irrespective of its politics.
3d, All military and civil officers,
Registers and persona in military era
pby, in the Third Military District, are
to see this order enforced.
jy Our readers will observe from tbe
Prospectus oo the outside, thit the present
issue) is the first No. of tbe Third Vol. of the
‘•Dawson Journal.” We expect lorr.ake this
an interesting journal to all those who are so
liberal as to give us their patronage. Our
term* will be positively Cash, which, now
a days. Is the only means by which a paper
can be kept up and ca-ried on successfully.
Let us Not be Despondent.
The people of the South have shown
a courage and fortitude in time of war
that do other nation has ever exhibited;
and although the rude bands of oppres
aion are now grasping our very vitals,
let us still possess, und hold as sacred
to cur hearts, that indomitable courage
and fortitude, that it so characteristic of
a truly brave and honorable people. Let
tu not submit to despondency; let us be
cheerful, and dispossess our minds of all
those forebodings of an evil and gloomy
future, and “see what re-inforcement we
may gain from hope, if not, what reso
lution from despair.” A re-action, j
aooncr or later, in the atfaiis of our coun- 1
*«7> will most inevitably take place, and .
then tbe right, we hope, will odcc more
rule again. Let us remember, and cher
ish forever the 'remembrance, that this
is OUR country ; and honestly is it our
birthright; and if need be, wc will die
for it, Lccau?e it is our rightful iuheri
(um; liu nn, Lt-a***, where we woulu
wish to be left alone in ti e foil orj y
ment of our rights and privi»"g rs as
peaceable citizens.
Wbat more could a people do, than j
we have done, to satisfy that insatiate '
und revengeful heart of tbe Radical
North ? And yet, they wouljl spit upon
us, and trample us into the very earth
itself—disclosing to the world at odcc,
their worse thaD cowardly dispositions
to persecute the most submissive and
powerless, but bravest of people. With
much quiet fortitude has the South, for
nearly three years, berno her ruthlest
oppressions. She has already suffered
sufficiently to atone and compensate fer
all the wrongs (?) of which she may
have been guilty or accused : and now
feeling so keenly tbe wrongs yet inflic
ted upen her, her energies are brought
to a stand, and are becoming paralized
in most of her industrial departments.
Tbe tide of trade is ebbing fast; and
that enterpri. ing energy and interest in
agricultural pursuits that formerly were
so characteristic of tbe Southern peo
ple, are threatening a disastrous ruin
upon tbe country, by their steady and
rapid decline, which is but the too fatal
result of such remorseless oppression.
And yet we say. that the Radicals, who |
infest oar country a9 vermin and poison
ous serpents witb fiery tongues, whose
very breathings have filled our sunny
clime with vapors of the most deadly
poison, which have been shtffl and from
the breeze by the black race, and are
now having those drunken effects that
they so wontonly desire, aDd who have
so unfortunately escaped the hempen
rope, and now walk the earth unhung—
yea, we say those meanest of the human
(?) species are now straining every nerve
to establish Negro Supremacy; to place
in the hands of ignorant savages, the
iron rod by which we are expected to be
hereafter ruled, and which they would
have to wave over our heads in triumph
forever* The Radicals are sanguine of
these expectations; but we can safely !
say to them,that all their enjoyments in j
which they will ever participate in these
affairs, will be in their delusive anticipa
lions, for it will; never fall to their lot to !
realize them. The negro cannot rule
this enlightened Southern country —he
never can.
The Radicals and negroes themselves
are striving, and will continue to strive
for some time yet, to destroy that old
fine of demarkation that has always
heretofore existed between tbe moral
and soeial characters of tbe white and
blaek races. And if we would quietly
submit to those vile proceedings, with- 1
out a murmur, their ignoble intentions I
and designs would gradual y be tff 'Cted,
und would eventually injure so deeply
the moral and religious chaiactrrs of the
country, that it would be no ni’To than
a suitable habitation for suvag s For,
to biot out of existence this delineaiion
between the two races, and cause them
to become equal in sociability, morali
ty, and social virtues,can never be effect
ed, < Dly through a relf-d.'crr dation on
the part of the white raee, f r it is pos
itively certain that the other can ucvej
be elevated in a moral and soeial point
of view. They arc possessed of precious
little more than their natural instincts,
whieh can nevet be improved ; tbercf*re
it remains for us to ssy whether we will
ever be placed on an equality with the
uegro or not. it is true, that by contin
ual practise and habit, the itferior ani
mals, those beings whose ‘-little all flows
in at once;’’ those who, “in ages, no
more could know, or do, or covet, eren
joy,” can be taught many things, the
learning and full com; rubensi-m of
which, requires net a shadow of reason
In fact, the negro can be taught to use
the plough and the hoe, hut he can never
learn to rule this Southern country
Therefore, let us stand firmly together,
and not stoop iD the least, to anything
whatever, that might incline us to a
character bt Death tbe one that we now
so honorably cherish and sustaio. Let
us still continue to bear a record that
will ornament the pag sos history for
ever.
From the Macon Telegraph.
Cotton Culture of tliu South—
No. 1.
Editors Telegraph ln venturing to
occupy your columns w ith a Serbs of
letters on the Cotton Culture of the
South, and the new and o'd fields that
now seem to rival us in the world’s
market, I feel it necessary to make a
few preliminary observations on the j
agricultural condition of the South in
the past and present, together with
the "habits of our people, in order that
a candid mind may draw a fair con
elusion of our agricultural cDndition,
and answer for itself the great ques
tion now patent to us all, “Is it true
that the war has not only emancipated
our slaves, but has taken from us the
control of the cotton market of the
world
The white population of the cotton
growing States of the United States
may be safely es imated at 2 700,000
or about 550,000 voters. Eighty
thousand of this voting population in
1860 produced five hales and over ol
cotton per man. Now for merchants,
professional men and mechanics, I de
duct double the number of planters,
say Jlio,oot> and 3500 for planters un
der five bales, leaving for idlers or non
producers, 25 000, or one half the vot-
: ng population.
Tha.‘ Ibis estimate is a fair one, and
under the m- ,k ra,l)cr l, iuti «ver 'b I
believe nine out J w iII froe! y a ‘ J ‘
mit. Let us, then exa»C' no pcc
we can give any good reason .'' by one
half of the population in our midst ...’'“l
non producers, and at the same time
inquire into the condition of these peo
pie.
Asa body of agriculturists and pro
f ssional men, there is no doubt that
they have as much it not more general
intelligence and education than any
equal number of the 6ame occupation
in the world, and it is equally true
that these same men have never made
any real effort for the advancement in
civilization or education of what has
been lorg known as tbe “poor whites”
of the country.
The history of these people—for
they may be said to form a distinct
class and have a separate nistory—is
really remaikahle, and if carefully ex
amined may go very far towards solv
ing the problem of the future destiny
of the newly creuted lreeduieu in this
land of the sun.
Originally of Scotch, Scotch-Irish
or English descent, their pedigree may
be said to be good ; yet how different
has been their advancement in e luoa
tion, wealth and even manhood, from
the same stock of people that came to
America about the same time and set
t’ed in the colder clime of Pennsylva
nia and New Jersey.
| That the general intelligence, wealth,
' industry, enterprise nnd social worth
jof these States* is largely diffused
! among the d* scendants ol the Scotch
and Scotch Irish, is hevond n doubt,
while in tbe Cotton States it is equally
true tha’ the same are known as the
“poor whites,” and have large claims
on the id er.ess, ignorance, poverty
and destitution of tbe whole country.
It is useless to and sguiso this great fact.
It is painfu ly and stubbornly true,
and while it is so it requires no philos
opher to speculate cm its cause. With
millions of acres of land to be bad al
most for the asking, and with a miid
climate, which enables them to live
with little or no labor; witb few or no
real wants that nature could not sup
plv, and so sparsely settled that fan
cied wants were and are comparative
ly unknown, t hey have not had the
same inducements to labor nnd im
prove their condition that their breth
ren in a colder climate had, *at.d the
consequent result is, that they are
probably in the scale of civilization
und knowledge, but little improvement
on their ancestors. It is a common
suying by many persons that such a
person js naturul'y indus'tious, but I
doubt if one such saying in a hundred
is true. Habit may in some few cases
make an industrious man ; but want,
real or lane ed, is the moving eau*o,
the great mainspring of industry and
action, and this lever ha- never yet,
,and probably never will, be brought
to bear strong enqugh uj on them to
improve their condition equal to that
of their fellow men in a colder climate
und more inhospitable society. 1
might illustrate tin idea by com, aring
the condition of our lower classes with
the Mexicans, or the natives of Central
America, Spaniards by descent—but I
conceive the mere statement to any
though'!ul mind enough.
If, '.hen, the great t ody of Scotch,
S otch-Irish and English, or rather
their descendants in tlie Cotton States,
huve lived for u century, and still live,
and are satisfied w ith their mode of
life, without education, without the
cotnfors of file, without labor, will the
Ameiicun citizens of African descent,
in tbe same climate and with fewer
real wnuts and n lower sca'eot civili
zation to start on, be any improvement
on them ? Will his wants make him
industrious, und force him toluborauy
more than it has the white men? The
resu-t of experience of over two years
of freedom under the most favorable
auspices that any agricultural people
ever had, il it does not answer the
question absolutely in the negative,
gives at leust abundant reason to be
lieve that one or two years under pres
ent low prices will most certainly do
it. Weelaunee.
Frocu tlie Southern Watchman.
Restoration)!
All hope of a dcceut Reconstruction
under the Sherman Shellabarg r bill
mob as will be acceptable to white men
—having faded out, nothing now
remains to tbe people of
Georgia but the htpo of Reconstruc
tion—a restoration of the present State
Constitution, which was adopted in
1865, by the delegates elected by the
People of Georgia.
If the Consiitution to be framed in
Atlanta by New England adventurers,
white and black, wooly-pated negn e 3 ,
pcijurers, scalawags, &c.—(we take it
for granted that the decent men of the
Convention will not vote for a Constitu
tion which such people will be likely
to frame) —shall be ratified by the ne
groes of Geo gia, it will only be tempo
rary in duration—it will last ouly so
long as tbe Radical party lasts. It will
not amount to reconstruction. It can
uot outlast tbe corrupt faction which is
the author of its being. That fiction will
expire before the return of Christmas;
and, like the horse iD the Dcgro song,
“when it dies, it dies all over,” and, like
the hog, it will awaken to no resurrec
tion !
What, then will follow ? A resto-.
[tt ‘ion of the present Constitution, wit!
the full ' c e n g E i , i° c by Congress of tbe
constitutional doctrine that each State
has the right to 00u. * t<! own octt *
affait (’Deluding i n Hs cwu
way. Then will Georgia and au ber
pi escribed States be recognized as con*
ponent parts of the Union—the odi
ous test oath will be repealed, and her
representatives—whomsoever the people
see fit to select—take their scats in the
councils. Nor will reconstruction
stop here. The Constitution of tha
United States will abo be restored, eve
ry paragraph and every syllable of it
except such portions as relate to slavery.
Nor will it end with this. The Gov
ernment will be restored to its ancient
landmarks—tbe expenditures will be re
duced to an ccouomical standard, and
public officers held to a strict accounta
btlity. Nor is this all. The prosperi
tv of the country will De restored. La
bor will rccc ve its just rewards aud
capital will find pr* titablj investment.
Is not this glorious Reconstruction
worth working for—is it not worth
praying f>t ? How may it be accom
plished ? Simply by defeating the vile
Radical party, who have demonstrated
that they are enemie* to God and Lib
erty ! Ob, is there an honest whit
man in America who will not faithfully
labor, toil, hope ani pray for the acci m
plisbmcnt of so grand a result? L
there a win e man in Georgia who will
dare openly avow in broad daylight that
he has auy sympathy with the vile Rad
ical scum of tbe earth who are seeking
to destroy the publio liberties aud inau
gurate a war of races ?
“If such there be, go mark him well,
For him no minstrel raptures swell;
| High through his titles, power and pelf,
The wretch, concentered all in self,
Living shall forfeit fain renown,
Aud, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unbocored and unsung.”
Tbe morality of some people is like
their crockery ; they have two sets, one
for show aDd one for use; and they
both answer the samo purpose the one
satisfies the minds of other peoplo, the
other their own. Rut this much may
serve the purposes of this world they are
ts uo value for the next.
From the Montgomery J/fil.
Kadicitl Struggle to Secure Al
abama.
The intelligent aud gencrslly accu
rate correspondent of the B si on F at,
writing from Washington, under date
January 24 h, Buys :
“Facts haye come to light which jus
tify the belief that tbe extent which
President .Jobn*on ha** been gr g-1- and, -
ceivcd by his subordinate (G o . Gran )
has not yet been made piddle. 'J here
are reason to believe that the treachery
has net been confined to matters per.
taining directly m Mr. Slant in’* r *'
ration to th- War Office, but ; >■ a 1
the managf merit of on. of tii 8 uth
ern military de-par'men's. I* may fie
premature to allude to these things, Nil
they will be made public at the proper
time It has been said that the Presi
dent, in exchanging Gen Pope for Gen
Meade, “swapped the devil l>r the
witch.” It may hcarafter be made to
appear that there was no swopping for
for a “witch,” but that treachery was
quietly at work outside as well as in
side the War department. It may be
divulged that Gen. Meade urged the
propriety of postponing the Florida
Convention, but be was directed to al
low tbe orders of Pope to remain un
changed, aud that tbo correspondence
on tLe subject never reached the Presi-
eye until eight days after the
Florida Convention had been in session.
These sta tling facts should be known
to the people, whose government is
thus uuderminded and destroyed.”
We have lo doubt that Gen. Grant
forbid the revocation of the orders of
Gen. Pope, because of the near ap
proach of the Alabama election, upon
whieh depended tbe hopes of the Radi
cal party. So soon a* General Meade
arrived at Atlanta aud took command
of this District, be was waited upon by
several delegations rrom Alabama, com
p 'sed of our best oitizoos, who caller*
his attention to tbe outrageous aud un
disgusted frauds committed at tbe elee
tion tor Convention in this Sta'c, under
the auspices and with tbe connivance
of General Swain. It was declared to
him by men whose words have never
been disputed, that the Alabama Con
vention was never called in coniormity
to the Reconstruction Acts. They
asked for an investigation into the mat
ter. If such an investigation had been
held, with the result which was cer
tain to follow, it would have been an in
evitable sequence that tbe Convention
and all its acts would have been declar
ed invalid by military order, and anew
election for Convention called.
Gen. Meade was disposed to grant
the investigation. Asa soldier of high
position, and a man of honor and jus
tice, he declared bis purpose to have
the charges examined into forthwith,
A few days after the committees waited
upon him he instructed tbe military
eommandcr at this po3t to hold a [ re
iim'nary examination, in order to deter
mine whether reasonable grounds tor
suspicion of fraud existed—sufficient to
justify the submission of the matter to
a military couimi-sinn Tbe prelini'na
ry examination was held, aud we gather
from the witnesses who appeared before
it that it was proved beyond reasonable
doubt that not less than one thousand
illegal voies were east at the several pre
cincts of Montgomery. While this
preliminary investigation was precced
jn - the persons who were interested in
* evidence received letters
1 X»."' K»S«» «»•".-
ing the reports of gene.’" s ’! fraJ'* at near
ly every ballot box The evidence .' , °b
leered was sufficient not only to justify
the assembling of a military commission
to investigate the facts, but actually I
proved that, after casting aside the fraud
ulent votes, there were not enough left
to give validity to the Convention or
any act done by that body. The inev
itable consequence of the calling of the
commission would have been to have
postponed the vote upon ratification of j
the Constitution, and to have started
the whole reconstruction programme
afresh.
Unfortunately, just at this time, the
people of Florida made a public call up-!
on Gen Meade to examine whether the
Convention about to assemble in that
State was a legal body—declared teat
it was carried by tbe grossest fraud?.—
As tbe coriesp ondeut of tbe Post says,
G n. Meade urged upon Gen. Graut
the probriety ot postponing the Florida
Convention, He would, also, with the
same spirit ol justice, have urged the
postponement of the Alabama election.
It is probable that he did so. Rut the
Radicals became alarmed at the certain
effect of such exposure, aud doubtless
consulted with Wen Grant as to the
best mode of suppressing investigation
until Alabama should have beeo brought
into the Radical camp. He therefore
ordered Geo. Meade to keep in force the
orders of Gen. Pope. Gen Pope was
at Washington to keep Gen. Grant post
ed as to tbe effect of his orders, and
General Swain remainei at Atlanta as
spy upon the conduct of Geo. Meade.—
In other words, Gen Meade found bis
hands ried, aßd his power impotent for
remedying wrong. With Swain at bis
elbow, dictating political manoevers to
his very mi.itary family, and with Pope
at Washington, bringing Radical influ
ence to hear upon Graut for the reten
tion of his political General Orders,
Mcado found that Pope and Swain were
stib in e'muimd, arid that he was mere
ly the puppet of political tricksters.—
, N<> w nd. i the teb gnph informed us
i yesterday ibaI he has a*ked to be re
( lit-ved.
| The retention of Pope’s orders scour
ed tbe following results. Pope’s.orders
had declared the Alabama Convention
legally assemble. Gen. Meade must
act iln re fore without questioning its
validity. It. bad called oo election for
rntifi atiin. The election therefore
in ist be held and n > and Loo very of Irauds
«nti charge it pi pe's order allowed
negroes to vote in au\ county upon af
fidavit i Lat they had been regia ered
ids' when . even though their names
may h vi t-ceii struck from tbe registry
i the in tiis where they may have
i g-s ed thins Ives in properly
In othtu ft rds the ro cuti uof Pope’s
oruers was a command from General
tirant to Meade to let the Lauds stand,
to permit other frauds, and to couul ev
ery fraud trout vote iu the interest ol
his Radical political master*.
NotwitbvtaudiDg this feaitul conspi
racy against them, the people of Alr
bama arc determined to do all they can
to defeat the Radical scheme. It they
succeed, they will still demand an inves
tigation into the fraudulent conduct of
tbe Radical civil and military officers.
If they fail, they throw themselves upon
the justice of the people of tbe United
States.
Plain Talk lo The KaiSteuls.
In the Rouse ol Representatives, on
Friday, Mr Rrooks, of New York, said:
We intend to undo what has been
done by this Congress, aud we shall,
sooner or latet, have the power within
the walls of the House to UDdo it all.
j These proceedings in Ohio and N w Jer
sey are but the beginning of the revolu
tion whieh has already made its ap
pearance elsewhere; and the precedents
and prerogatives and powers whieh the
majority iu this II m*e is now assum
ing in the most revolutionary manner
we intend to make u*e oft* undo all
| those revolutionary and violent proceed
j ings. So (he honorable gentleman from
! Massachusetts might as well make n
I his mind now to see tbe beginning of
this great reactionary movement. We
do not intend to deprive the negroes of
the South of their liberty. We intend
to allow them a five fifths representation,
not a three-fifths one, which the negroes
jin the Nortbare having Rut we do not
intend to allow, so far as we can help
it, the people of the North
to be brought into negro co
partnership ia government on the
floor of this House, r to be ruled by
the black majorities, by rotten borough
negro constituencies iu the South.
We do not intend to be tuled by auy
such goverumeut as that, aud all the
processes ot legislation by w hich that
has been reached, or is to be reached.
Through State Legislatures, as in Ohio;
through State action, as in New Jer
sey; tnrough 50,0U0 population major
ity in my own State, to be increased
next year to 100,000 If this House
gees <>n with those proceedings we in
tend to undo them all. I repeat, that
everything which has been done is to be
undone. The voice of the people is no
longer beard in whispers, bvt in the
loud r -ar of the whii Iwiud, coming from
all parts of the country ; aud it wili
sooner or later unseat a lurg < majority
ot those -vho 'now consult t -he mej t
lty on ihto floor, putting in i heir places
ihe Democracy of tne country if the
statistics cf elections are examined even
now, it w*il he found that a 1-rgo ma
jority of members on this side of the
House hold their seats here and vote
here on these bills who no longer rep
resent their constituents, but arc actmg
in utter defiance of the people who s;nt
them there.
Suicide.
About past three o’clock on yes
terday afternoon* the usual qu.et of our
city was <7 a sbo « klu ß ocour
rcnce. Col. R. G Harper, one of our
respected citizen*, * n a state of
mental abberrition, suicide
by shooting a rifle ball tDto bis o."' IDS -
Gol. Harper bad been absent for sev
eial weeks on a visit lo bis plantation
in South western Georgia and returned
to his family in this city a few days ago,
in a depressed state cf mind, probably
cau*ed by tbe distressed state of tbe
country, lor which he has always mani
fested a deep concern, together with the
continued affliction under which lie has
I labored tor tbe past, three years, oonfin
[ ing him for the greater p*rt, ot the time
tn h - bed bur th- symptom.- f dernng
incur, we learn) were n >r of such a *:;..tr
ader to cause alarm, -r ;*:ni to the sup
position of any inn ntioo to commit the
unfortunate ad which ended hi* life.—
Having procured a rifl trom Mr J. M
L' vy he took it into the bae.* rim tan
adjoining building, seated him*' If firm
ly in a chair, placing the muzzle 10 hi
forehead and discharging its contents
by plactug tlierarnrcd on the trigg r ot
the gun. Tne rep Tt ol the gun brought
those of the citizms who were ne*r by
into the room wbeu he was found in the
position above B‘ated, with a ghastly
wound iu ibe forehead and his braiu-*
scattered in his lap. Tnis Occam nee
has east a gloom over our entire commu
nity* He leaves a wife and daughter
and a large circle of relitives and devo
te! frieuds tj mourn hi* untirne'y e -d.
Covington, Ex.
Efforts arc lo be made immediately
to replenish the cn pry c* ffers of the
Holy Father, so at to enable him to
pay his zouaves and gens darmet. One
hundred new canvassers, mostly lay
priests, will be sent to the United itates
to solicit contribution St. l’oter’s Fence.
Wm. Jones, a Chicago Miliionarie,
died a few da vs since.
From the Atlanta Intel'igencer.
Cii:jn*it ;■ iil l.i'tttil Decision On
'I he <{u<‘stiou of ItlorlKiixe.
Li the District vj the. United States for
the Northern District of Georgia
In the matter of Lewis ) In Bankruptcy at At
S Salmons, Bank-* lanta in said dl<irict
rupt. ) Jauuar; 23*1, Is6B.
In thin case the following question
or law on tin jurisdiction of this court,
arose before tn>', pertinent to tbe pro
ceeding in the above case, to w>t:
Has tbe court the power to order
the sale ol the estate ol ibe bankrupt
incumbered by lien, nnd ttie money
nr-sing from the sale bmught into
court to bo distributed to the creditors
bolding the securities.
Lawson Black, Register
Opinion o/'the Register.
i By tlie first Miction of the Bankrup
Act, this court bus complete origins)
jurisdiction of all trio assets of the bunk
rii| t, and has power to do all matters
ami things in virtue of tbe bankruptcy
\ up to tbe final distribution ol tbe es
tate. Under this grant of power, this
court has tlie right to pass any order
jor decree it thinks proper for tbe pur
pose of doing equity to all parties at
interest, and to collect all the assets of
a bankrupt, that which is encum
bered and that v Rich is uot encumber
ed.
Alt tbe assets of a bankrupt includes
all tlie property of a bankrupt, in
which tlie assignee or tbe creditors of
a bankrupt have an interest; this sec--
tion gives the court full power to col
lect all the assets of a bankrupt, aud
sections 14 and 20, point out to tbe
| court, the manner, in winch all tbe as
sets of a bankrupt may be collected
witnout delay, and at the s me time
do complete justice to all parties a; in-"
i terest in the case.
And first, under the 14th secticn if
the property secured by lien is worth
more than the debt for which it is se
cured, ihe court has power at t's dis
cretion to order tbe assignee to pay
the money and redeem tbe property,
and it tlie assignee has no money to
redeem i', tbe Court will order the
equity of redetnp ion to be sold sub
ject to the eneumberance, and the pur
chaser gets a complete tit e to the
pioperty, when he satisfies tbe seemed
; debt in this manner The Court serves
the interest ol all the parties in a sum
mary way, and by sec ion 20, if the
proper y secured by lien is of ie*s val
ue than tbe debt, tbe order of sale has
to be reversed, because no person will
bid for tie property in that conditon;
lor his reeson this sec ion gives the
Court power to pass an order to se t
the property iu uny mariner it thinks
proper, and as tbo property is of less
value L un tlie secured debt, the only
manner in. which the interest ot the
several parties can bo secured, is to
order the property sold, and the mon
ey arising man tne sale brought into
t ourt, iheie to be distributed m tne
same manner as if tne property hud
bet n sold in a court of law to satisfy
the liens.
I"hits mode ol sale is silling tbe prop
erty free from encumbrances, whether
it is so expressed or not, the same
thing exists, where the property is
mortgaged lor more than its vu ue, and
the homestead of ttie bankrupt is in
ti uded in the property. How can tb a
property be disposed of subject to the
encumbrance? and bow can theii
t crust of the parties be severed except
by a sale of the property free lr«m cir
cumstances as above elated. And un
der the same section the mortgagee
has the right to take tbe mortgaged
property as its value, by an agreement
•jetw eu him and the assignee, and
tbe assignee then makes a fraudulent
agreement as to ihe value ot property,
or fail or refuse to agree upon the val
ue of tbe proper y ? In either case
this court has power to pass any order
it ihhiks proper, for the purpose of as
ceraining the value of trie properly,
and if the Court should be of opinion
thai a sale of tr.o properly in market
overt, is tbe best way to a«cer:uin the
Value of the property, who can be in
jured thereby ?
It is then-lore, the judgement of the
Register that the Court has full discre
tionary power to sell and dispose of en
cumbered property of the bankrupt in
any manner it thinks proper; and that
tbe title ol such put chaser at such sale
is or can be made perfect by act of
the purchaser ; all of w hich is hereby ’
submitted to bis Honor, the Judge of
tbe District Court, lor his approval or
u ;s!ipproval, at the request of Mr.
Hoyt, Attorney at Law
Lawson Black, Register.
In the milter of Lewi* )
S. Salmons, Bai k-k
rupt. j
Erksuine, J
After a careful consideration ot the
' Bankrupt liitv, I think it was the in
-1 tendon of Congress to confer on tlie
Cou i Ihe power to and sposc of the en
cumbered property of (lie bankrupt in
any manner it might, in its discretion,
deem bust for the in crest of all eon*
cerned. It is also my opinion, that in
ihe case before me, the purchasers w ill
take tbe property, when sold, free Iron)
all incumbrances, die lien being trans
ferred irom 'he pioperty to die fund
The judgement ol Mr Register
Blaek is approved. The Clerk wi 1
please cer i y this approval tt Mr
Blaek.
Atlanta, Ga , Jan. 28th, 1868.
Cosil’tTiTioN. —Ther* is a lively tim -
bet wen he 8 uih western ltailr ad and
(he steamboats. Ihe boats reduc'd
the price of freight by taking entt- n
from this place for dzvann U* v*a B.m
bridg ■, Ga. The reduction was sufficient
toseod a great deal of eotiou by that
route. The S nth western R R. sbow
intr llnir wunlid enterprise, determined
not to be behind Land in the struggle for
rade. A lively competition took place
>n yesterday morning for a lot of cotton
between the representatives of the boats
and the Railroad*—it culminated in
bringing the ptice of carrying from 85-
l 50 to $) 50 per bale to Buvani ab —Ru
faula Non.
EKO.n NEW YOKE.
It it mo ml l»ro*p<‘«-t of a War
Willi England, &c.
Nkw York, February, I.—This
morning’s World him the following dir*
patch from ii» special correspondent,
dated Washington, Jan 31.
“President Johnson i» about to de
clare to Great Britain the American
ultimatum. The tergiversation of Sec
retary Sewtiid is of avail no more.-
Another and higher authority has de
termined upon the course which is to
be pursued in respect to the claims of
the U. 8. government Great
Britain.
“I am authorized to sta'e moat con
fidently and decisively, that the legiti
mate demands which have beenjtoo
meekly mged by the Sec'ty of State
upon the British Cabinet are te be mi
forced a. whatever hazard.
“The Bri'ish Minister, Mr. Thorn
ton w ill probably be presented to Pres
ident Johnson on Tuesday. Although
the addresses that are to bo exchang
ed between tbe President and Minister
Thornton may be gaurded and serene,
the fact is that a speedy and satisfac
tory response must be made by the
Biitish Government to the ultimatum
of the Exeeut ve of the United States,
or else a declaration ts war against
Great Britain will inevitab’y ensue.
J R. 8.”
John Mitchell and others addressed
a Brooklyn socie'y last night for the
benefit ol the Manchester marfis.
A party ol revenue officials were
mobbed in Brooklyn, and some of
them setionsly injured.
lleadq'rs, 3d Military DisY, }
j (Georgia, Florida and Alabama.) V
: Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 1, 1868. S
j General Order No. 21.
Geueral Orders Nos. C and 11, from
these headquarters, bearing dates, re
spectively, January 10 h and 16tb,
1868, will be so construed as not to pre*-
vent or interfere with the collection of
j ,a A fSS in the States of Alabama and
j Georgia, according to the manner pre
scribed by the laws of said Blares for
said collections.
By order of M jir General Meade.
R C. Drum,
Assistant Adjutant General.
A Mississippi editor has received two
and >zm pumpkins, a load of shucks, soar
potatoe* aud a lot of corn by
way of subscriptions. He calls it “signs
of prosperity.”
The 9000 inhabitants of Akron.
; Ohio, spent over 82,000,000 lust year
in buiding dwellings andjinanulaclur
iug cstatdishments. ,
The Colorado L& 'is'ature derotes a
large poition of its time to th - passage
<>t divorce bills, every ot.e of which
Gov. Halt Vetoes
•Ye tv alt! vef liscm eu Is.
AN ORDINANCE.
COCXi IL CHAMBER, Jan. 6, 18fi8.
B ■ it Ordained, by the I’resid- oi and Mem
bers of the Council U Dawaou, that the foi
loftiDg shalJ be the
Itfitrs for Licenses Cor 1868*
To sell Spirituous Liquors, not bv re
tuil, in quuiuiiies lees lean one gal
lo "> $15,00
Retailers of Spirituous Liquors, |<m oo
; Hilliard Tables, eock,
I Ten, or any number, Fin Alley, loi|>
Hot* I*, each, 26,00
Pr vale Bojnlitig Houses, when tran
sient person* are entertained, each, 25/K>
Auctioneers, each, 1(1 0O
D Ruerrean and PhO'©graphic Artists '
, ea h . BfC
Circa* or Fhow, for each exhibition,
not. more thaa 0,5 go
''oni-i-ris, e**ch, not rrere than
One h"r*e Drays or Wagons, hauling
tor hire, each, g
Two ho'Bl* Drays or Wagons, hauling
for hire, each, ]2 00 1
More t'an two horse Drays or Wagons
hauling for hire, each, J& oo-
Clerks lees lor issuing license,, y
Be it further Ordained, That Retailers of
Spirituous Liquors be allowed to take out li
cense quarterly, and that n license for anoth
er purpose may he taken out quariertv by
applicants paying clerks tee for issuing. *
tut r, * k- BROWN, President.
T. M. Jos us, Clerk.
COUNCIL CHAMBER, Feb. 4, 1868.
Be it Ordained, By Ihe Connell of Dawson .
that tlie rate of lionise to sell Spirituous
Liquors not by retaii, hi (r'a»'iuc»
oue gallon, shall be fitteen dollr.es—that said
; rate Os license be embraced in the Ordinance
adopted January 6th, 1868, .dative to rates
|ol he n*e fur the year 1868, and that said
, Uroiniuiee so adopted, together with jlhis, be
published In the Dawson Journal and that
any person engage I in at>r business or tra*fc
ließinbed in siid Ordinance, after three (S)
dais from the publication ot siid Ordinance
without a license from t ie proper authorities,
shall be found not les* fun twenty duller#
lor each day or part of a day so engaged.
Lksot Brown, President? 1
I- At. Jonrs, t’erk.
New Finn! New Final
_____ .
r | ''HE urdersigi ed having formed a eopart-
I iiersl.jp, sre i.ow occupying the new hofld
iug formerly cecupred hy Wm. Wootek, on
•M-'in street, first riooj fou„h of the ‘Joutad'
Office, and w ; l! keep everything usually found
in a fl-st cla»* Family Gmcerv, at sucb.prieds
as will induce all to 'trade that ca’l on (hem
CEO WELL A HOOD ' ’
Diwson, Oa , February 6 1868 -'tf A
1W (HIT UP
dawson:
RAUSHENBERG, ROGERS &CO.
If A\ E open and a New Cabinet Shop, Oh
l Smith «idc Public Sq are, mere they
ire prepared 10 make and repair anvthftlgTti
ihe Fuiu tuie line: such as Waffiyuhes, Beau
re,un, Bedsteads, Jtc, Ac., They are also
pteparrd to put up CoffinsWany d%C'*tioo.
A. RAUSHKSBEnG.
Jvssn Hweeii*.
IS. H. Brown. >
fvt 6'68 fun C. JoitltAN.
0. J CI RLKT. . WILD C. CLKVKLAM'.
GURLEY & CLEVELAND,
A TTORNEYS A T LA W,
At Ilford, Bahcr County, <<«•