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TTIiSUAV .WOUtiISG, MAY 12,1808.
Tiik Puosi’KCT —From a short tour
through a portion of Cobb county, we are
gratified to observe that the prospects, thus
far, for t he inconiii g crop is rather fiattei
jng. The wheat crop is decidedly promis
ing, and the planters are at work in good
earnest, endeavoring to reconstruct the
country and repair broken and lost for
tunes by the sweat of their brow —by hon
est toil in the field. The white men, par
ticularly, are performing double the amount
ot labor, perhaps, ever performed by the
same class of persons. A few freed men are
to bo found in each neighborhood, who are
doing moderate work; but the truth as. the
majority of them have not the “sand in
their gizzard,” and will not “come down”
to hard held labor, lint the farming set
tlements have not many negroes in them—
most of them having become disgusted
with the country and removed to the cities
and gone into business.
We were pleased to find the Concord
Manufacturing Company, who are erecting
a cotton and woolen manufacturing estab
lishment of considerable proportions three
and a half or four miles South-east of
. Huffs Station, on the Western & Atlantic
Hailroad, driving ahead in good spirits,
determined to make a successor the enter
prise. The principal stockholders in this
important enterprise are M. L. Huff, Esq..
Kev. Hubert Daniel and Joseph Daniel.
The zeal and energy with which the
farmers of Cobb county are pushing for
ward their business under adverse circum
stances, is worthy of all praise, l’oor Sambo
and Cully, they no longer form an impor
tant link in the thread of life in this sec
section of the country. Having become
free they expect to live and grow fat upon
what they haw. done in years gone by,
and are regarded as a cancer upon society
rather than a< helpmeets in producing
food and raiment.
Are the People of the South Antag
onistic to 'mi. National Government?
Every decent man who reads the Jacobin
papers throughout tiie North, must be dis
gusted with the lying reports constantly
published by them of the hostility of the
Southern people to the authority of the
Federal Government. The evidence that
such reports are lies is so palpable that
they scarcely need refutation. We have
the evidence in this military district.
General Meade has under' his command
in three States only three regiments of
troops. Does any sane man suppose that
three thousand, or even ten thousand sol
diers could enforce the military orders or
the laws of the United States if the people
were disposed to resist them? Everybody
knows the fact that the people could sweep
that number of troops from the State, de
stroy railroads, cut telegraphs, end render
the effectual movement of any small num
ber of troops impossible.
The Southern people are not hostile to
the United States, baton the contrary, w ill,
aid and defend its Constitution against any
enemy* whether domestic or foreign.
The Treason Plotters.— The Radial
traitors and Jacobins at Washington seem
to be tin li just now with plans of carrying
out their work of treason anil the over
throw of the Republic. Their last plan
looks no doubt very feasible to them. They
propose to add live additional Judges to
the Supreme Court, enact a confiscation
law, under cover of which they hope to
steal what little is left in the South, and
then have the Supreme Court render a de
cision sustaining their course, if any one
should get an opportunity to appeal to that
tribnnal. With Ben. Wade as President,
and Grant at the head of the army, they
think they will have no difficulty in car
rying out their scheme.
YVe think they will have to amend their
confiscation act by compelling somebody
to purchase property sold under their de
crees of confiscation, as it might not he
healthy for the purchasers, or those hold
ing titles to the property under them, to
live on and enjoy it in this country.
Confiscation Again.— The Jacobins at
Washington are now discussing again a
plan of general confiscatiOT in the South,
in case Ben Wade becomes President.
Thad. Stevens declares that he will never
abandon his scheme of confiscation.
They may succeed in passing a law au
thorizing confiscation, but we are mista
ken if they do not experience a little diffi
culty in executing it. They will very
likely have to increase their army to about
a million of men, and then kill oIV the
loyal Democracy of the North.
Sacrilege.—The nickel coin issued from
the United States mints in Philadelphia
have stamped upon them the words “In
God we Trust.” The acts of the party who
now control the Government would indi
cate that they had better change the motto
to “The Devil We Serve,’’ as it would be
nJuch more appropriate. The idea that a
Radical ever thinks of God with the least
respect is a mistaken one. They respect
neither God nor man.
Retired. —Commander J. C. Beaumont
lias been placed on the retired list.
TIIE REVOLUTION.
It is a pitiable fact, that the American
people, and those claiming the exalted ti
tle and positions of statesmen —those in
power as the rulers of the land —are una
ble, in the light of all past experience, to
see the result of the revolution which they
arc now forcing upon the people. There
arc, no doubt, many weak minds who im
agine that we are progressing in the work
of universal freedom in this country, and
that in the end the result will be the most
perfect freedom and happiness to all. Poor,
deluded beings; the shadows of a few
years will dissipate their delusion. Our
own history furnishes us with ample pree
dents without going back to the history* of
every nation that has or is now existing
upon the face of tiie earth.
For nearly* a century, the Colonies were
absolutely free. The government to which
they* owed allegiance made no attempt at
direct oppression. The people obeyed the
same laws on this side of the Atlantic that
were imposed upon English subjects at
home. No distinction was made between
British subjects here and British subjects
anywhere else. Tiie people ot all sections
and portions of the British Government
were bound by* the same laws, and all en
joyed the same privileges.
But a change of ministry came; and that
body had no affinities with the Colonies.
The revenue demanded to support the
home government was greater than the
home people could bear, and the oppres
sion was commenced by imposing taxes
upon the Colonies that were not imposed
upon the subjects beyond the sea. Revo
lution followed. Why? Because tiie gov
ernment did not stop with one act of tres-
pass upon the liberties of the people, hut
one by one it restricted and took them
away, until at last its rule was absolute
tyranny; and freemen of the Colonies,
roused at last by keen blows of tiie iron
rod of the ruler, rose and smote hack again,
and were successful. This was the nat
ural sequence of encroachment upon the
liberties of the people.
If the result in our ease is not satisfac
tory*, let the thinking man go back to the
history of the Roman and Grecian govern
ments, and follow history from that time
down to to-day, taking each w itli all its
changes and misfortunes, and mark the
cause of them. Each was organized under
a system that gave equal liberty and pro
tection under the laws to the people. Time
passed in each case, ambitious bad men be
came rulers, and little by* little they* en
croached upon the liberties of the people,
taking away some little privilege at a time
when some excitement of a public cliarac
would prevent its being noticed, until op
pression would become so terrible in its
character that the people would at last
awake to find themselves bound band and
foot with tiie shackles of slavery, and revo
lution the only source through which any
relief could be reached front their slavery
was necessary.
In ISGO we had a Republic—the citizens
of one section enjoyed all the rights- privi
leges and immunities of all the others, and
the rulers were restrained and controlled
by* a high law* proscribed by* the people
themselves. Then came war, and in tiie
name of "Military necessity.'' lirslyi.no and
then another of the rights of the people
was absolutely annulled. These rights
were taken from the people upon the plea
that the Government under the Constitu
tion was in danger, and that to save it and
the liberities guaranteed by the Constitu
tion they must submit. The war ended.
These rights were not restored by the
rulers who still said a necessity existed
that required the people to make still
further sacrifices. In the name of liber
ty the civil governments of ten States
have been swept away and a Mili
tary* despotism set up in their stead. The
Congress of the United States has passed
from being one of the eo-ordinute branches
of the Government to the entire cotrol of
each of the other departments of the Gov
ernment, and creates laws entirely* ignor
ing the Constitution and the States,
claiming “that it is a power higher than
the Constitution itself." These are but the
advance steps of absolute despotism to
which we are hastening with all tiie speed
that characterizes this fast age.
And where will it end? We look for
ward to one more Presidential election;
and perhaps the success and inauguration
of tiie Jacobin candi iate; but after that we
must pass through another revolution to
enjoy anything like civil liberty*. And that
revolution will come, because the Jacobin
leaders have determined to rule, be the
consequences what they may. War is as
certain within the next four years as is the
dawn of another day—and that war will
not be between the States, for the States
will then he powerless, but it will be a war
between the people and the despots who
are crushing them. God grant that it may
not be, but unless the People hurl them
down and establish the princples of liberty
again under the old Constitution we may
expect it.
£5? The New York correspondent of the
Charleston Courier thinks it almost certain
that Senator Hendricks, of Indiana, will
be the Democratic nominee for the Presi
dency. lie predicts that the first vote in
Convention w ill be as follows : Pendleton,
100; Hancock, 115; [ail the Southern States
and Pennsylvania,] McClellan, 53. and
Horatio Seymour, 40. Neither having a
majority, and an agreement upon any one
of them being impossible, this correspond
ent thinks that Senator Hendricks will
then receive a pretty general vote and be
come the nominee.
Jt2P A Western paper proposes John
Morrisey for the Presidency; not because
lie is the most fit, but because he has “fit”
i the most.
WEEKLY SOUTHERN OPINION.
RECONSTRUCT LABOR.
Reconstruction is the term used in these
latter days to signify change, and in no
one tiling does the interest of the country
demand a greater change than in labor, both
as to the manner in which it is perform
ed ami the credit that should attach to its
performers. No State in the Union can
boast of a worse labor system than can
Georgia. In almost every* department of
production, agricultural and mechanical,
we find the same want of earnest industry*,
competent system ol application, and gen
eral economy of the force and products of
labor, which are so essential to our pros
perity.
, Among our farmers, we are sorry to see
almost a total indifference exhibited in re
gard to the advancement ot their interests.
All desire to make money and to live in
comfort, yet they never call into exercise
the least ingenuity or practical economy
to aid them No thought seems to be giv
en to the use of any improved farming im
plements, or to taking care of what they
have. The farmer or planter hires his la
borers, sends them to his fields, and then
sits down to await the result —seeming
never to realize the fact that, if he would
advance his interests, he, too, must work,
and give his personal supervision to all his
affairs. And not only this, lie must shorn
by example that more work can
be done in a day than is now the rule.
Labor is lazy and needs hurrying by ex
ample. The patience that allowed slave
labor to idle away time should now be
cast aside. In Illinois where corn seldom
sells for more than fifty cents per bushel,
and other farm produce in the same pro
portion. the pay* of a full hand is S2O per
month and board and washing, the em
ployee having the same kind and quality
of food that the employer lias. And
yet the Illinois farmer makes money—and
the reason is that his employees do twice
as much work each day* as is done here.
In the mechanical department many of
these same difficulties exist. The me
chanic is poorly* paid, but little encouraged
in his efforts to improve his trade. Asa
man he is scoffed at by a large lot of con
temptible loafers who sit about in idleness
and call themselves gentlemen—men whose
whole souls and ho lies are not worth one
drop of the honest sweat that falls from the
workingman. Herein is the wrong. The
mechanic should be encouraged, and he
who employs him should exact full labor
for full compensation and should give,
with the compensation, all the respect
which the man, as a man, would be enti
tled to if worth millions. Working men
should work and employers should fully*
compensate them.
The Military and the Discharge of
Radical Negroes.—A great many notifi
cations were served upon citizens yester
day to forthwith appear at Col. Crofton’s
Headquarters to answer for the alleged of
fense of discharging radical negroes. It
seems that the aggrieved parties had gone
before him and sworn that they had been
turned off for voting the radical ticket at
worthless rogues and rascals who had been
dismissed for thieving and drunkenness
and general rascality. We hardly know
what the intention of the military
in the premises. But they will not
attempt to lorce our people to employ
men they do not want. The idea is pre
posterous. and cannot be entertained for a
moment. —Macon Journal and Messenger.
We agree with the Journal, that the mili
tary have no right to say who people shall
employ, and we imagine they won’t under
take any such a tiling. They* have tiie
same right to discharge a servant whom
they do not want, that Col. Crofton or any*
other man has. without being accountable
to any one for the act.
Georgia and General Hancock. —The
Boston Post says: “The name of Hancock
is the favorite one in the South among
Democrats and Conservatives —who desire
only the complete reinstatement of tiie
Union —as a candidate for the Presidency*.
With Georgia holding practically the bal
ance of political power in that section, and
the section itself capable of deciding the
issue between the two parties in the
North, it may turn out that the single
State of Georgia, on which Radicalism has
been trying to force an obnoxious Consti
tution. will be the final arbiter of the
political contest. At any rate, the state of
the vote in the South makes it apparent that
the preference of its people for a Presiden
tial candidate deserves careful regard frain
the rest of the country. That the name of
General Hancock should bo the favorite
one with them, when his distinction as a
Union commander is equally clear in their
sight, with bis ability* as a Union states
man, is the highest satisfaction they* can
give that they* are anxiously waiting for
the restoration of the Federal Union under
the authority- of the Constitution. With a
majority of the Northern votes for tiie
Democratic and Conservative candidate,
and a similar majority of those of the South
for General Hancock, it requires but slight
perception to discover who tiie candidate
is that may be constitutionally elected
President next Navember.”
Still at It. —The negroes were out in
force last night again, and going through
their military drill on Walnut street. lias
any special act been passed or order issued
exempting the city of Macon from the
operation of the laws in such cases made
and provided, or is it that the officers of
the law have not the courage to do their
duty ? We leave others to answer these
questions. As General Meade reads tiie
Telegraph, we beg leave to bring the mat
ter to Ids immediate attention. Would a
military drill of the whites be allowed by
the authorities? Who believes that it
would ?— Macon Telegraph.
We suppose if any of these negroes
should be discharged for carousing about
at night instead of attending to the labor
they are paid to perform, their late em
ployers would be ordered to appear before
somebody.
MACHINERY VERSUS THE NEGRO.
Since the close of the war the peoole havc
been perplexed upon the labor question,
how to get force sufficient, and how to so
contract that force that they could make it
constant and reliable. The Coolie impor
tation scheme was talked of, but it was a
failure and died out, and the planters were
compelled to accept the negro, and lie has
given more trouble, and has been a greater
expense than his labor was worth. The
Freedman’s Bureau has, without doubt,
made its best effort to harmonize all mat
ters between the employer and the negro,
but it has signally failed from the reason
that the negro will not work steadily or
industriously. The people are growing
poorer and poorer each year, and only
from tiie fact that their labor costs more
than the value ot what it produces. And
what must be our deductions from the ex
periment. Simply that it is a practical
argument against the present system of
labor, that negro labor under the present
regime is ruinous and must be abandoned
and another system adopted in its stead.
Let us take statistics for argument and
sec if there is not a remedy*. By the cen
sus of ISGO, Georgia had a mile population
of 302,733. Illinois had a male population
of 250,020; leaving a majority of 43,713 in
(“fjfvor of Georgia. Georgia then had 8,002,-
753 acres ofTiind improved in farms, while
Illinois had 13,096,374 acres improved in
farms, or 5,033,G1G acres more in Illinois
than in Georgia, and y*et Georgia had been
thirty* years a State when Illinois was ad
mitted to the Union.
Now, the question may naturally enough
be asked, Ilow could the people of Illinois
with a male population of 43.718, (to say
nothing of the female blacks who worked
in the fields,) less than Georgia., should cul
tivate .tire millions thirty-three tl uusand six
hundred and sixteen -acres more of land than
Georgia did, and that too when labor could
be controlled ? The answer is to be found
in the same statistics. The cash value of
farming implements and machinery* in I
Georgia was $6,844,373; while in Illinois it j
was $17,235,472; leaving a balance in value j
of farm implements .nid machinery of $lO,-
391,085 in Illinois. If the proportionate
value of the products of the two States are j
calculated, it will be seen that Illinois was 1
neatly* one-third ahead of Georgia.
The whole argument is in a nutshell. —
The people of Illinois buy and use labor
saving machines. They buy a reaping '
machine for S2OO. It will cut twelve acres j
ot wheat per day, with one man and two j
horses to work it. The reaper is a certain
servant and is always ready. Twelve
hands would be required to do this same
word, at a cost of sl2. to say* nothing of the
cost of what they* eat. Harvest (wheat,
oats, barley and rye) usually last about
thirty* days. At twelve dollars per day, the
reaper would earn three hundred and sixty
dollars during this harvest, to say nothing
ot its earnings in cutting meadows, for by*
simply changing the sickle, it becomes a ;
mower. But if tiie fanner who owns the.;
r — ui. — u ....t „t >:ii, . i-;,[ s pel* acre.,
he will earn with one hand and two horses, ■
six dollars per day*, or SIBO. during the
grain harvest, and by any kind of care the
machine will last five years.
But the reaper and mower is only one of
the many thousands of labor saving ma
chines in use in the Northwest. They
have their patent threshing nnichineSrtheir
corn planters and their corn drills, their j
double plows, their hay rakes and hay j
stackers, and in fact a machine to do j
almost every kind of work. And these i
machines must become the servants of our
agriculturalists in the place of the negro.
Any reasoning man can see at a glance the
economy of their use. Four men sup-'
plied wi h proper machines can cultivate
almost any plantation in Georgia.
Then there is a harmony* and pleasure in
working this class of servants that is never
found in working white men, much less j
negroes. They never have holidays for
pic-uics, etc., never talk polities, or lose
time going to vote, and the Freedmen’s
Bureau has no jurisdiction over them.
YYill our people ever learn economy and :
their interests enough to employ this class ]
of labor?
Washington Rumors. —The New York
Herald’s Washington dispatch, of the sth, j
states that Senator Fessenden has prepared i
an opinion that there are no grounds shown ■
in the evidence or argument justifying the j
conviction of the President.
Mr. Morrill offered Mr. Fessenden an
adverse opinion, but failed to convince j
him.
Several other Republican Senators are I
reported to have followed Fessenden’s ex- j
ample. i
It is now reported that anew party. ;
headed by Chase for the Presidency against :
Gen.. Grant is to he formed by* Fessenden,
Henderson. Trumbull, and other moderate
Republicans.
Indian Outrages. — A train was attack
ed bythe Indians nearTuloraso, New Mexi
co, in April. Eighteen wagons and their
contents were burned, and all the mules
captured. Os thirty-seven men who went
from Tuloraso to the relief of this train,
seven were reported killed. A short time
before thirteen persons were killed by the
Indians near tiie same place.
Another Head Off, — The Macon Tele-*
graph, of the Oth, says: “We have informa
tion that Judge John T. Clarke, of the
Pataula Circuit, has been deposed from
office, by the Military Commander of the
District. The reasons have not transpired,
The Court in Randolph has been suspended
in, consequence.
Z%T We understand that tiie citizens
who were ordered to appear before Col.
Clofton, at Macon, yesterday*, have been
discharged, the charges being false.
THE ELECTION.
We publish this evening the full returns
from ail the counties hut two, Irwin and
Telfair, in which no election was held.
The following is the result:
Governor. Constitution.
Go rili >n. bullae's. For. Against.
Ist District $.343 12,382 12,8*79 7.884
2d District, 14,25 t 11,816 12,309 13,246
3>l District, 11,604 11,891 13 325 10,937
4th District, ;n,Urt 13,682 13,377 10,725
6th District, 0,610 17,464 17,69! 9,249
Oth District, 853 7,784 9,135 7,450
7th District, 13,154 8,049 9,625 11,274
76,485 83,303 88,913 70,110
RECAPITULATION:
Total for the Constitution f 8,?43
Total against the Constitution .70,110
Majority for the Constitution 18,233
Total for Gordon ."76,485
Total for Bullock 88,482
Maiority for Bullock 6,377
Tiie Radicals have a majority of eight in
tiie Senate and seventeen in the House.
Georgia Election Returns.
For Governor. Constitution.
Counties. Gordon. Bullock. For Against.
Appling 233 59 62 233
Bartow 1484 754 955 1185
Banks 266 314 367 225
Baldwin 723 990 990 713
Baker 842 257 344 683
Berrien 279 40 49 298
Bryant 161 900 70 387
Brooks 420 610 650 378
Bibb 1911 2192 2209 18111
Butts 499 882 410 482
Bullock 405 42 114 3D
Burke 503 2133 2121 492
Chatham 2780 4171 4523 2731
Calhoun .371 431 422 313
Camden . 33 511 514 20
| Charlton 33 96 101 25
Coffee 122 107 113 114
Colquitt 535 Ml 511 538
I Clinch 176 220 252 142
Crawford 574 535 511 588
I Chattahoochee 551 277 304 512
Clark 830 1068 1075 807
Columbia 457 1222 1232 436
Clay 418 319 319 438
Cobb 1311 536 674 1193
Cberokee 693 3 9 415 627
Coweta • ..1021 1126 1189 996
Carroll... 624 562 570 618
Clacton 349 326 416 233
Chattooga 495 207 225 459
Catoosa 428 230 356 31)4
Campbell 177 539 574 414
Dade 281 65 94 247
Delvalle..* 902 281 301 675
Dougherty .1151 1668 1095 1013
Dooley . 467 740 514 69 1
Decatur 665 1038 1012 673
Dawson 150 283 3/7 136
Elbert 760 221 224 754
Earle* 597 355 356 590
Echols 155 50 103 81
Effingham 248 228 237 240
Emanuel 295 166 209 222
Fannin 139 324 314 131
Fulton 2857 1944 2229 2019
Forsyth 580 836 376 534
Flovil 1223 604 810 1174
Fayette 483 4(19 44 1 395
Franklin 477 350 487 320
Glynn 77 51(1 511 75
Gwinnett 86.6 505 547 841
Gordon 7.87 828 422 706
Gieene 60S 1532 119.3 729
Gilmer 22S 374 357 216
Glasscock •• 241 176 2 41 219
Hancock 525 1394 18-3 6 9
Hall 554 43 1 655 3SI
Haralson .. 2’)4 219 2 3 152
Henry 7xo 614 t.*>s 718
Heard 4:4 435 411 4 3
II .listen 1866 1526 1572 1791
Harris 975 10*35 1152 915
Hart; 312 542 512 168
Habersham 255 297 390 153
Irwin (no election)
Jackson 5-5 670 739 4141
J toper 665 769 799 647
Johnson 233 105 207 191
J.-fferson 428 1> 52 10*8 41>,
Jones 559 718 765 500
Luo 573 M3 820 588
Laurens 386 sl‘» 512 377
Lown les 355 611 7 5 231
i.i.eiy 145 711 6:4 143
Bill coin 350 406 410 368
Lumpkin 385 270 2.3 378
Mon r. e 18M 1346 1350 I*lß6
Marion 731 353 SMI 740
Mns.oieo 1169 1649 1693 lew
Morgan 465 1202 1219 396
Mad i-on 880 216 220 360
Macon 682 1017 1053 580
Murray 509 35 I**B 3:1
Milton 5 9 97 107 4So
Men i wether 778 112) 1172 60S
.Montgomery . 23.1 34 88 2.2
Mclntosh ..... .... 150 625 645 150
Miller 210 187 230 lot
Newton 988 1001 LU7 953
Oglethorpe 557 1144 1180 510
Bike 850 5 9 589 Sou
Putnam 467 lUB2 1 97 434
Bierce 95 199 2*9 69
Pulaski 702 81-9 829 679
Baubling ... ... 412 429 suli 267
Pickens. .2.2 8:1 4:9 210
Polk 6:H 337 851 589
Quitman 356 6 17 356
Rabun 320 180 192 207
Randolph 1118 6,37 7 5 10.87
Richmond 1746 3077 3153 1.22
Schley 374 389 335 366
Screven .... 225 673 740 224
Stewart 941 752 762 !r22
Sumter 1355 1249 1312 1285
Spaulding 801 670 698 769
Tavlor 575 536 540 57*:
Talbot 768 Pit pin 754
Taliaierro 316 627 (323 30*.
Telfair (no election)
Terrell 852 332 311 861
Twiggs 961 1128 117* 193
Towns 195 21*9 226 1 9
Tatnull 2-1 73 140 219
Thomas 337 1221 1233 280
Union 3.79 282 309 3.16
I lisi'n 785 728 738 765
YV alien 725 612 053 6i7
Wilkes 672 979 9 2 6 •
White 273 219 237 250
Webster 444 292 , 212 430
Wilcox 281 8 119 p*9
Warren 544 1133 114 1 494
Washington 1228 1175 1100 1232
Wilkinson .. 645 931 9-7 *,titt
Worth 248 81 98 225
Troup 1215 16.su 1735 1.43
Whitlield 775 657 959 528
Walker 659 509 61 0 559
Wayne 02 34 43 55
Ware 109 108 1"9 100
Another Election Ordered in Troup.
A passenger just from LaGrange, says the
Columbus Sun of tiie 6tli inst.. reports that
lie had it from the best authority that Gen.
Meade had ordered another election in
1 Troup county on account of the numerous
j frauds perpetrated by tiie Radical mana
-1 gers and registrars.
C3F*August Belmont lias written to the
! Congressional Democratic Executive Com
mittee announcing that it w> nid lie im
possible to get the National Executive
Committee together in time to change the
day and place for assembling tiie National
Convention.
Egotism. —Robert Browning, tiie Poet
writes to the New York papers to correct
an error in regard to the parentage, of his
wife, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. lie !
say*s she is not tiie daughter of an English j
merchant, but ot a private gentleman. A j
distinction without a difference.
IST As the Radicals are a little perplex- [
ed as to who they shall elect United states j
Senator with Gov. Brown, we would re
spectfully suggest tiie Hon. A. A. Bradley,
of Savannah, as a most proper and suitable
representative of the Radical party.
1®” Lucy Stone and other horny, whip
cord women of Massachusetts, are urging j
their hobby of female suffrage before tiie
Legislature of that State, now in session.
| They have little o.* no prospect of success,
however.
Persecution of Soutltern IVlelliodist
■a East Tcuiicsscc.
A short time since, says the Nashville
Banner, a revival of religion, conducted
by ministers of tiie Methodist Episcopal
Church South, commenced in Jonesboro,
East Tennessee, and in less than a week
there was an accession to the Church of
over one hundred new members. The ser
vices were held in the Court House, the
Radical wing of tiie Methodist Church
having taken forcible; possession of tiie
church edifice.rightfully belonging to tiie
Church South. As might be anticipated,
the Radicals were aroused, and, in keeping
with their tactics, commenced a furious
crusade against those who were laborin'*
so earnest!}* for tiie conversion of souls.
An indignant “loyajist,” burning with rage
at what was going on, thus vents his rage
in a communication to the Jonesboro
Union Flag, bold!}* urging mob law* to put
a stop to tiie revival. Just listen to his
“loyal” gusli:
Editor Flag : lam sorry to sec that
there has been progressing in our midst a
rebel revival or religion for the past few
days, headed by men whose hearts are as
black as tiie mudsills of the eternal world,
and whose arm-pits are dripping with the
purest blood of East Tennessee's loyal
sons, shed in the accursed rebellion. Such
characters, or in other words, such demons,
are damned, not only with the Contempt of
every true citizen, but tiie execration and
scorn of every living being. It were they
w ho turned the cogwheel) of the rebellion,
and brought about the dreadful calamity
01 four years’ carnage and devastation.—
Are these pusillanimous usurpers to occu
py our Court House—tiie temple of jus
tice—in tiie very teeth of our ioyal men,
who offered themselves a sacrifice for lib
erty? God forbid. Then let tiie loyal
people take hold of this matter, and clean
them out. Certainly our County Court,
composed as it is of true and good loyal
men, are not going to suffer such a stain
upon the fair escutcheon of Washington
county, as to allow these rebel scallawags
to desecrate our house of justice. If so.
they are not the men tiie ioyal people of
Wa hington County take them to be. Let
them rescind the order for tiie occupancy
of the court house at once, and thus show
upon which side they stand.
Commenting on this, the Union Flag,
witli its characteristic liberality, makes
this infamous proposition:
Let tiie members of our County Court,
who have a drop of loyal Wood in their
veins, come up like men at the next term
of the Court and drive these rebel emissa
ries from tiie temple of justice. Let them
beware of the pressure brought against
them by rebels and copperheads, and allow
no “persuasive e.oquenee” to turn them
from the patii of duty, and they will re
ceive the combined aid of every loyalist
ill tiie land. We trust every Union soldier
throughout tiie country will be in Jones
boro on liie first Monday in May.
Nashville Races.—We take tiie follow
ing suinmurj of the first and second days
races from the Nashville Banner:
First Place. —Green stake, for three year
oltls, mile neats, (- xcnipting all three veal*
olds that weiv winners in their two Year
old form). ssi) en: ranee, play or pay, the
Association adding sax). Closed with the
following nominations:
A. C. Frun.kiin's eii. e. Donovan, by
Bulletin ; dam by Ambassador dis.
General Tiiomas Duncan s hr. f. An
telope. b} Avalanche; dam Gazelle,
by imp. Albion pd ft
E. A. Smith’sdi. f. Columbia, by imp.
Bonnie Scotland; dam Youm*
Fashion, by Monarch Also, ch. L
Beauty, by imp Bonnie .Scotland;
dam Aiani ide. by Mariner p i ft
General G. W. Mareing's o. e. Scir
misher. by Loyalty; dam Wood
bin, by Lexington o.
i’eter Mitchell's blk. e, Elgin, by
Shelby; dam L-i.iy Barn, by Emit. 1.
Time—l:67 1 J
Second Place. —'l ho second race was for
the Association purses. ) leatJ j,, r
all ages.
1. A. E. Smith enie ed gr in.. Nell
Gwynn (i years old. by imp. Bon
nie Scotland; dam by Chorister 2 J
2. s. 1’ !\ ideiier entered h. h.. (.oiita
wah. aged, by imp. Albion; dam
by imp. sovereign 1 1
3. F. Bissicks entered eh. f.. Maggie
Hull' el*. 4 \ -'ii-- old, :>y Ausrrali n ;
dam Heads 1 Sit*, nv imo. Glencoe. U dis.
4. I*. M in-belt ei.iered bile. h.. Fat
Cleburne.syeaiso >l. by Hiawatha;
diun by im Emu 4 2
Time—l:ssJY 1
Second day s iSuuintnry. —Association
purse. $200; ilasii of two miies.
1. Johnson & Fattcrson entered b.li..
Gen. Rousseau, aged, by Commo
dore; dam Nota Brice, by Cost
Johnson. llSlbs. * 2
2. A. C. Franklin entered eii. m . M i
lia. 4 y. e., by Jack Malone: dam
by Tennessee Citizen, loi lbs. 4
ii. E. A. Smith entered ch. li„ Cliiek
atnauga, sy. by Jack Maione;
dam Allmiii. by Albion. lib lbs. J
4. F. Bissicks entered ch. 111.. Maggie
Hunter. 4 y. 0.. by Australian ; dam
by imp. Glencoe. 101 lbs. 1
Time- First mile. 1:58; two miles, 4:02.
The Randolph Cask.—TUe c ase of the
military authorities against Hyland fian
doplh wasbrougnt before a military tribu
nal at Selma on Monday last,
Tiie following is Uie charge upon which
tie prisoner is arraigned;
Charge.—-Assault and battery with in
tent to murder. (Code of Alabama 3670.)
Specification.— In this, that Hyland Kan
doplli. a citizen <>f Tuscaloosa county. Ala
bama, unlawfully ami with malice afore
tiiouglit did a-sault one Bains Kddings. a
freed mail of color, with intent fclouionsly
and with malice aimvthought to murder
him. tiie said Bains Eddings. . This at Tus
caloosa count}, oil or about March 2*>, 1868.
Ti e examination ot witnesses commenc
ed, tint it is now rendered certain that Mr.
Bandolpii will have ids trial before Judge
lib-teed at Montgomery, where lie will at
I least, have a snow of justice.— Adverii
! a er, Ith.
Loss by Fire. —On Thursday morning
about- >:a} light, the mill and cabinet work-
J shop of our townsman, Cupt. T. Ford, an 1
son W. J. Ford, w ere discovered to lie on
j lire—the Haines just tie 11 breaking 01. c
j through file building as i! but a few uiin
j uies on lire iiioitgii too lar idvetnel to
save t.lie csfaWi.-iuntMi*. IVe are into *m> 1 1
that file loss su.-t.lined b;> tiie owners is
j about $2,500, SSOO of which was in newls
I mamitaelured cabinet work. —Mirth Ga.
! lleyublicun.
| Down in Mississippi at, a colored
j Sabbath f-ehool, a few w eeks ago, t.lie de
| vout teacher asked the question. "Who
j died for you ?” After a spell of silence and
a spell ot whispering, a “little nig.” about
forty years old, replied, “ Abium Liueun.”