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THE SOUTHERN OPINION. m ASSOCIATION OF PBir.TCIO. O.iice on Broad Street, opposite the Tost Office. R. C. Shorter, John M Floyd, Isaac B. l’ilsrrim, j (; Wilkinson, Willis It. Jones, J. F . Arthur. JO H V M. FLOYD «t CO., VI ItUSII BBS AND PKOVRIKTOHB. Subscription Kates, Payable in Advance: DAH.Y silt TIIHIIN OPINION*,per annum. *5 00 i*'.»r a If ." i iin«'. l»er month i,( ' SOl'Tilr-liN ' KHIvLY OPINION*.per nun 9<6 I, ~r, in-siness.should be addr. seed tot' 'no thr 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.”