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gatosoit |flurnal. J. L. D I'EBHV JIAV, ) j- Editors. HI. B. MERIWETHER' ) ».* s oa\ a 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, <<«•