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THE SOUTHERN OPINION. by AS ASSOCIATION OF PBISTIJItS. Oilioo on Broad Street, opposite the Post Office. K. C. Shorter, John M. Floyd, Isaac B. Pilgrim, Willis it. Jones, J. F. Arthur. JOHN M. FLOYD <C CO., PCBLIBUER9 AND I'BOPKIETOHS. Subscription Bates, Payable in Advanco: DAILY SOUTHERN OPINION,per annum, $5 00 For a less time, per month 50 SOUTHERN WEEKLY OPINION, per ann. 2 to Si x months • - 1 00 ZKii" All letters on business should be addressed to a. C. Shobtek. TUESDAY MORN INIS, JUNE 2, 1868. A DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION HAS BEEN CALLED TO MEET IN TIIE CITY OF ATLANTA, Oh Wednesday* July 22? 1868. Let us have a lull representation from flVcry county in the State. Col. Gaskill’l Lktthr. — We request on r friends throughout tlie State to give ( '<>l. Gaskill’s letter a reading. He study to the Kails until the last moment, and it is no more than natural that he should de sire to cover his retreat by pouring into them a few rounds of their own small shot, which he gathered in their camp. Radical Retrenchment. —The Radicals are all the time raising a hue and cry about retrenchment, just as though some body but themselves were to blame for the infamous recklesness with which they are squandering the treasure of the people.— They remind us of the thief, who, when fearing detection, raised the cry of “ Stop, thief!” to divert attention from himself. If retrenchment is such a fine idea, why don’t they practice it while they are in power, and abandon their present policy of stealing the honest earnings of the over taxed people ? The estimated cost of the impeachment trial, a purely Radical measure, is $300,0C0. The pay of General Rousseau, summoned from Oregon, netted some SO,OOO. Other witnesses, $3,000 each. It is reported that the bills for printing the tickets of admis sion amounts to $6,000. And all this is to gratify the malice of a few men in the Radical party. Look at this as a sample, voters of Georgia, and say whether you are willing to accept the rule of a party whose extravagances and stealages make tlie expenses of the Government nearly a thousand millions of dollars a year in time of peace. Every man who votes the Radical ticket next November, votes to hang about his neck a millssone of taxation which he will find in the end to be more than he can car ry. And the Radical platform pledges themselves to tax the people to pay every debt that they thus contract, and say that any man who is not willing to assume his proportion is a criminal. Let the voters rebuke these scoundrels at the polls, and teach them they have gone beyond the limits where the people will no longer tolerate their villainy, and that the people will now use the ballot as an engine in defense of their rights and liberties. A Lower Deep Still.— Washington correspondents charge that General Grant took a most active interest in the impeach ment of the President, and relate with great circumstantiality how he visited Senator Ross Friday night before the vote was taken, and using every effort to get from him a pledge that he would vote for conviction. If Grant had not already be fouled his reputation with the slime of positive and undeniable falsehood and treachery, this transaction would damn him to eternal shame. As it is, however, it can’t hurt him. Like Joe Brown, and the majority of his hummers and pimps here in Georgia, he is too deeply dyed to take any darker tint. We can conceive of no greater a mistake than would have been the failure by tlie Radical mob at Chicago to nominate him. He is their best exponent and representative on tlie Amer-. ican continent. Radicalism, in its last analysis, is Grant. So says tlie Journal & Messenger. Brick Pomeroy says it is rumored that he was in the United States army during the war, and that he will give a reward of one thousand dollars in gold to any person who will prove the fact. We can say to our friends that they need give themselves no trouble to make any inquiries. “Brick ”is not a fighting man. If he was, he would have been in the Con federate army during the war, the place where all brave and honest men were found who claimed to believe the doctrines he advocated. “Brick” won’t fight. Grots in Delyalb County.— Corn and cotton looks promising, we learn, though a little backward. Farmers are busily at work “catching up” from their back set by the late rains. Wheat is heading out finely, though the rust has made its ap pearance on the blade. Hopes are enter tained that it will not reach the stalk. E2T The Hebrews of St. Louis are mak ing arrangements for a grand mass meet ing, to take place some evening this week, for the purpose of taking united action against the nomination of Gen. Grant. — There are about 2,200 Jewish voters in St. Louis. CgTWe fear God, and the fear of man is not before our eyes.— Mrs. Era , '27th. You had better fear the Devil, as you will probably have more dealing with him than with any one else. ftgrThore Is no longer any doubt that cotton is again in danger. A factor in New Orleans has received a jar of the regular army worm from a planter. TARTY ORGANIZATION. There is nothing so essential to tlie suc cess of a political party in a.canvass as or ganization, and yet tlie Democratic party of Georgia have not taken a single step to ward it. The party is to-day as destitute of organization as it might be expected to be if the party opposing it was composed of honest men, who would not resort to any political chicanery. What is needed now, is perfect organiza tion. The people of every town, hamlet and village, at every possible place in tlie country, should organize active, working clubs. The disuniouists have their Leagues and secret societies established all over the State. The loyal people must counteract them by tlie organization of open clubs everywhere. Let every man be known, so that the public may understand him if he turns traitor. it lias now become the cc.atnon duty of all patriots to save tlie country from tlie ruin which the ruling traitors are now hastening it. Every man has a duty to perform, and lie who neglects it now, is deserving that worse than con tempt which falls upon the indolent, pas sive being who feels no interest in tlie cause of human liberty. Use reason, compromise with every vo ter upon minor issues, lay aside prejudices which have grown out of past differences, and go in to win. Votes are what we want’ and to get them we must be politic. We are right upon tlie great principles, and with a proper amount of policy, success is sure to crown our efforts. Begin tlie canvass now. Hold meetings at every cross-road, wherever a few honest people can be gotten together. Labor to convince those who do not understand the great principles at issue what their duty is, and what will be the terrible results of tlie success of tlie unscrupulous dema gogues who are trying to subvert our free institutions and bury beneath an absolute despotism every vestige of our once’great and free government. Now is the hour to strike. Human lib erty lian<gs trembling in tlie balance; the seething billows of despotism are now surging against the very pillows of the temple of our liberties, threatening, at any hour to undermine and bury them beneath tlie bloody flood. Tlie lamp of freedom has burned low upon the altar, and unless brave and honest men again pour upon it the oil of liberty, it will flare and go out, and civilization will be swept backward an hundred years toward the dark ages. Now is the hour for freemen to work, and ac cursed be he who does not put his shoulder to the wheel and help to put the old Con stitution and free government upon the great highway to peace and prosperity.— Let every man act, and act with an earn estness and honesty worthy of tlie great cause in which we are engaged; and “He, who doeth all tilings well,” will give victo ry as a reward. Tiie Georgia Masonic Life Insurance Company. —This Company was organized in Macon in 1807, says tlie Messenger, and lias been very successfully conducted. It now numbers over sixteen hundred mem bers, and is increasing its membership with extraordinary rapidity. The provisions of the organization are as follows : “ All Master Masons in good standing and in good health, hale, sound, so as to be able to gain a livelihood, and a member of a Lodge, upon the recommendation of the W. M. of tlie Lodge of which he is a mem ber, or a director of the Company, upon the payment of a fee of six dollars, shall he entitled to membership. Then, upon the death of a member of the Company, each surviving member shall, without delay, within ten days after receiving said notice, pay to the Company the sum of one dollar and ten cents. The sum so called for is paid within sixty days to the widow and dependent children; if there he no widow and dependent children, to the mother and sisters, share and share alike; provided, nevertheless, that the insured shall have full power to dispose of the sum accruing upon his death by will.” The six dollars paid as an entrance fee, constitutes a per manent fund, the interest of which goes to meet tlie expenses of tlie Company, and should there be an excess, such residue is paid in dividends to the members thereof. ESP Some time ago we read a statement that the mines of I’lumbago, or Graphite, the material used in making lead pencils, in Cumberland, England, had been ex hausted, and were getting uneasy for fear we would soon be pencilless. But we are gratified to learn of a large mountain of tlie article in Siberia, enough to last a thou sand years, and we shall rest easy on tlie subject for a while. E2P The grasshoppers have entirely de stroyed the wheat crop in the Texas coun ties of Bell Williamson, Cornell and Mc- Lennan. The pests arc all over Northern Texas, and it is feared that the wheat crop will be destroyed throughout the entire region. JSPGen. Grant is said to be in hourly receipt of telegrams from all quarters, pledging him such a vote as never was given before the re-election of Abraham Lincoln. — N. Y. Tribune. Pledges are easily made, but you will find it hard work to get the votes. Destructive. —Advices from Louisiana represent the wholesale destruction of the cotton crop by the army worm, the fore runner of the caterpillar. Farmers are plowing up their cotton fields and plant ing it in corn. Tlie many newspapers throughout the country speak of Colfax as a printer. Such is not the case. He was formerly ed itor ol the South Bend Register, but is not a printer. WEEKLY SOUTHERN OPINION. ADMISSION OF THE SOUTHERN STATES INTO THE UNION. The New York Times (Independent) in an article under the above caption, says: “ It is quite as important, moreover, that the people of these Southern States should resume control of their own domestic af fairs. They should be again allowed to make their own laws and elect their own rulers. The whole machinery of their State Governments should again pass into their own hands. The reign of Military Commanders has lasted long enough.— Never in accordance with the spirit of bur institutions, has it been justified ex cept .by the necessity which ihc peace of society and the preservation of order were assumed to create. Tlie general testimony of all parties from the South now is, that this arbitrary form of government is no longer needed, and that it may safely be with drawn. So far, at all events, as the admin istration of civil and political affairs is concerned, military authority is no longer required. ’There is no longer any reason roily an army general should override all civil authority in any Southern State, why his will should supersede-the actiomof its Legis lature or set aside the decision of its Gov ernors, Justices and Courts of law. Tlie people of the South arc now fully capable of taking charge of their own affairs, and there is every reason why they should be allowed to do it.” The people of the South have submitted to ajul been actors in this farce of recon struction about long enough. If they are States under the law cf reconstruction, they were States before tlie passage of the Reconstruction law, for they had thor oughly reorganized their State govern ments. elected rew State ollicers, had re cognized tlie authority of the United States, and had done everything that would be required of citizens of any State. The Reconstruction law re cognizes them as citizens, and competent to make a Constitution. Did the passage of that law make them any more loyal or trustworthy than they were before? If they have tlie right to make a Constitution now, why did they not possess it before the passage of that law ? The law itself removes no criminal disabilities; it imposes penalties upon a large number of people who have never been arraigned before any tribunal for tlie commission of any crime; and yet it regards the people as now pre pared to make the organic law for their lo cal government. Tlie people should now demand tlie full rights and privileges of citizens of the United States for themselves and their States, and if these are denied them, then they should refuse to perform any of the duties incident to citizenship. If Georgia is a State in tlie Federal Union, then her citizens are entitled to represen tatives in the Councils of the Union, and the State is entitled, as a State, to exercise all the prerogatives that tlie*Sfatc of New York does. If Georgia is not a State in the Federal Union, and all of her people are deprived of any participation in tlie affairs of tlie Government, she is no State at all, and the collection of a tax from the peo ple for the support of a State Government is an infamous wrong, and without the shadow of law, and the people should not pay it. If they are citizens, let them de mand all tlie lights and privileges incident to citizenship—if they are not, they should decline performing any of the duties of citizens. The citizen is indebted to the Government just in proportion to the amount of protection and service given him by tiie Government, and nothing more. The Congress has recognized these people as citizens for certain purposes. There are no'degrees of citizenship; a man is cithern perfect c.tizen or is not a citizen at all. If tlie people of Georgia are citizens, they have a right to assemble in Convention to-morrow, frame anew Constitution, have it ratified, elect new State ollicers. and set up anew Government, and unless they are admitted to representation at once, they should do'it. They' have bemi badgered about long enough. If they are men they should be treated as such. If they are slaves, there is no occasion of going tluough the farce of submitting any ques tion to them. WILL GRANT RESIGN 1 Many of our exchanges are asking this question, and as we suppose they mean to invite opinions as answers, we freely give ours that he will not. The olliee of General gives him too many advantages in tlie coming election to be thrown away. An honest man, who depended upon his own merits, and the merits of the princi ples he advocated, would, upon accepting the Presidential nomination, resign the office which placed in his hands tlie votes of the people of ten States. But Grant possesses none of these qualities. From the days af his cotton speculations at Corinth and Holly Springs, Miss., where he drove the Jews out of his army because they offered him a fair competition in the cotton business, he has been given to little tricks of dishonesty and double dealing. It is, therefore, but reasonable to suppose that he would follow' his natural quality of dishonesty in promoting his political in terests just the same as he done to advance his financial interests. More than this, Grant knows that he cannot depend upon the principles enuncia ted by the Chicago Convention for his elec tion, as the people of the great Northwest will not be humbugged by his platform, and they know him as a soldier, have learned him, too, at the cost of blood; and ills personal character, either for ability or morality, is so well understood that lie will be repudiated at the polls by every honest, sober man in that great section. This, then, makes it necessary for him to keep control of the army, so that lie may take advantage of the great power given him by the unconstitutional Reconstruction law to override the will of the people of the nc groized States, and, where force will ac complish it, compel them to vote ior him. It is true he might see how easy he could obviate all this, in the appointment of Reg istrars, but he cannot trust them all. Grant will not resign. He regards the nation as his spoil, and he is ready to re ceive it as such,as though it belonged to him, and tlie people will find that he, like Louis Napoleon, will never surrender, voluntari ly, any office or position of power which he regards as his spoil, and if lie should, by fraud and force, get the Presidential office, he will never give the people the trouble of voting for another President while he lives, lie will stay there, and, as an evidence of tlie fact, lias said that “no man should be a candidate for tlie oflicc more than once.” CALL FOR A STATE CONVENTION. We publish in another column the Reso lutions adopted by the Democratic State Central Executive Committee on Thursday last. It will be seen that they have adopted the wisest course possible, that of callin£"jrStateTlonVention, to meet in'this city on tlie 22d of July. Whether Georgia is allowed to exercise her Constitutional right of voting in the Presidential election or not, tlie Conven tion is necessary. The condition of tlie State and Nation demands that the honest men of the whole country should meet in Convention, and consult as to what will be the most proper course of action to restore Constitutional liberty and the harmony which would result from the restoration. The honest people of the country see plainly that a continuance of tlie Radical party in power will result in the entire overthrow of our Republican form of Government, and establish a centralized despotism. The Democratic party desires to avert this terrible calamity, and perpet uate the Government of the Constitution, Government of our fathers. To accom plish this desire, they must defeat the Radical disuniouists in the coming Presi dential election, and if they hope to be victorious, the} - must be armed and equipped, and well drilled for the battle. The party must organize, and do it now, so that when the general council is held on the 22d of July, each count}' in the State may be prepared to give a good report of its work. Now is the great crisis in the history of the Republic. The people can save it or let it go to ruin. The only sacrifice neces sary is labor. Life is worthless without liberty, and thousands have given up their lives for the liberties we now can save by labor without shedding a drop of blood. We answer for the people, they will do their duty and do it successfully. ANOTHER ACT OF INFAMY BY THE RAD ICAL JACOBINS. After the passage of the House resolu tion, proposed by Mr. Boutwell, Colonel Woolley was arrested by the Sargeant-at- Arnisof llie House, and incarcerated in the Room of the Committee on Foreign Af fairs. After a short confinement he signi fied his willingness to answer any proper questions that might be asked him, and at the request of Mr. Butler was brought be fore the Managers. The question asked him by Butler, was in regard to the dis position which he made of the $20,000, which the smelling committee had traced to liis possession. Mr. Woolley replied that tlie question was not a proper one, and lie declined to answer, saying that the matter inquired into was a subject of con fidential communication between himself as a lawyer and his clients, and requested to have the question and his statement referred to the House for its decision. Mr. Butler denied his request and ordered him locked up again. This infamous act of oppression has no parallel in tlie history of modern govern ment. It finds a precedent only in the old Spanish Inquisitions, tlie torture-rack and the thumb-screw, and is only the forerun ner of acts of the same barbarous cruelty. Because Col. Woolley will not violate bis honor as an attorney, and expose the pri vate matters of his clients, he is seized by the cowardly emissaries of a cowardly, brutal despotism, and imprisoned, until he betrays the sacred confidence reposed in him. Here the guarantees of the law that an attorney shall not be compelled to be a witness against his clients, is sought to be violated, and because the attorney claims for himself the protection of tlie law, the inquisitors, by tlie direct sanction of God forsaken scoundrels with whom they are associated, and who style themselves “ the House of Representatives,” seize upon his person and have him confined near them, where they can, eacli day, have him brought fortli and taunt and insult him with such questions as only the most cow ardly and-malignant devils outside of tlie infernal regions can invent. Can it be possible that the American people will submit to such acts as this ? Will they sit longer the passive witnesses of their own degration, seeing every pri vate personal right, which the laws guar antee to them, swept away by a gang of cowardly thieves who, if they had their just deserts, would long ago have been hung, or sentenced for life to some peni tentiary? " It is strange that the great people do not understand that one short step towards despotism, if allowed by them, will be fol lowed by others, until at last they find their necks beneath the foot of some brutal despot. They indeed must be blind, who do not see that every guarantee given by the Constitution and the laws for the pro tection of the private citizen in his person and business, is being broken down by tlie Dracos now in power. Destitute of man hood and honor, indeed, would be the people if they tolerate tlie continuance of such out rages. A people who would sit down and throw their liberties away, are unworthy to enjoy tlie rights of men, and deserve to be [slaves. Are the people of the United Slates —the once free people—now sunk so low in pride and courage that they will quietly see the wrong go on, [and yet not even protest against it ? We do not think they are, and shall look for their honest verdict in November. Call fora State Convention. The Central Executive Committee of the Democratic party of Georgia met at Macon on Thursday last and adopted the follow ing resolutions: “ Resolved, That a State Convention be called to be held in the city of Atlanta on the22ddayof next July, to be composed of delegates to be appointed without re gard to number by tlie Democrats and Conservatives of. the several counties of this State, for the purpose of consulting upon such questions as may be presented for consideration, and in tlie event that the State shall be admitted into the Union, and permitted to vote in the Presidential elec tion, also to nominate an electoral ticket to be run by the Democrats and Conserva tives in the ensuing election for President and Vice-President of the United States. “ Resolved, That we recommend that each county shall be entitled to double the number of votes that it has Representa tives in the Legislature under the new Constitution.” E. G. Ca banish, Chairman. A. W. Reese, Secretary Fro tern. ESP A dispatch to the New York Herald from Washington states that a paper has been prepared in the House of Representa tives and signed by the Democratic mem bers, requesting the National Democratic Executive Committee to extend an invita tion to the Conservative soldiers’ and sail ors’ organizations throughout tlie country to attend the National Convention on July 4th, to participate in its deliberations. — The paper will be forwarded to the Chair man of tlie Committee at the earliest mo ment. "Brick Pomeroy say.4of us: “The At lanta Opinion has been purchased by an association of printers, and is now called tlie Southern Opinion, is a straight out white man’s paper, and always most wel come to our table. it has heretofore been a kind of “go-easy” concern,.but is now in for tlie fight.” The Griffin Star says: “The Southern Opinion, printed at Atlanta by a combina tion of printers, is one of the sprightliest Dailies published in the country. Success to the boys—and may their circulation reach thousands.” Thp. Drmocratic Candidate. —The New York Sun, which professes to have been nose-counting,i says that Pendleton will have 138, and McClellan 104 votes in the Democratic National Convention. The Sun is not Democratic authority. tSTThe prospects of fruit in the North ern counties of the State are said never to have been more favorable tiian at present. Unless something in the future should de stroy it there will be more than can be utilized. Peaches will be most abundant. . CgTlie Mobile News says the work of grading on the New Orleans, Mobile and Chattanooga Road has been commenced, at a point three miles north of that city, and will be prosecuted vigorously. Csf*The Radical meeting called to ratify the Presidential ticket, on Saturday even ing, in St Louis, was a failure. ES”Foster Blodgett still remains in jail awaiting the issue of the suit of Cratigle against him. For the Southern Opinion.] Horrible* I dreamed a dream the other night When every thing was still. I dreamed I saw old Belzebub Come sliding down the hill. My Printer's Bill was in his paw And blood was in his eye. Says he, “Young man ! your ‘wenzul* ” draw, •‘Or else prepare to die.” I gazed old Soot}' in the face, And read the only chance, To avail myself of saving grace, * Tv:as pay up in advance . A Rare Literay Effusion.—The fol lowing literary effusion. says the Richmond Dispatch, was lately received of a freedman by a merchant of this city : “ Misthur : “Sur, —Es you is supposed uv my Krap of Terbacke (2 Gliists) H would bee mose unbleged to mee an turn ovur ther pro seeds uv ther sail to isrull skott of U is not supposed nv it pleese pal isrull skott tenn dollurs on my akkount an eeep de demand uv arten pain yore kumieshyuns until I kails fur et. “Yore mose buyant servant, Quashing the Indictment. —Well! Mr. Johnson remains in tlie White House. Tlie eleventh was deliberately, and we doubt not, judiciously selected as the arti cle that would command most votes. This failing, all fad. There may be those who deem it wise and well to admit Senators from the reconstructed States, and force a verdict of guilty by their votes; but we cannot concur. It might have been well to defer the impeachment until those States should be represented iii the Senate; but, having initiated it, we think it would not do to admit new Senators to vote upon it after tbe testimony was taken and the ar gument closed.— N. Y. Tribune. Now and Then. — “l am a Democrat, every man in my regiment is a Democrat, and when I shall be convinced that this war has for its object any other than what I have mentioned, or the government de signs using its soldiers to execute tlie pur poses of the abolitionists, I pledge you my honor as a soldier that 1 will carry my sword to tlie other side, and cast my lot with that people.”— Col. U- S. Grant in 1801. Tax Payers, Head. For tlie year i SOO the expenses of all de partments of the Federal Government were only sixty-four millions of dollars, and the customs" alone paid six-seventlis of the whole amount. In the four succeeding years there were paid out of the Federal Treasury, three THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND FORTY ONE millions of dollars, making EIGHT HUNDRED AND THIRTY-FIVE MILLIONS TWO hundred and fifty thousand per year! This exceeds by eleven millions tlie whole Federal expenditures from the be ginning of the war ol the revolution to the time that the Jacobin party came into pow er, and almost equals the amount by which England increased her debt in the long space of one hundred and twenty-live years, embracing a period of frequent do mestic disturbances and gigantic foreign wars. These amounts do not include the ex penditures of States, counties, cities anil towns in the four years referred to, which were enormous. The Government of the United States is now expending, after three years of peace, upwards Os THREE HUNDRED MILLIONS PER year as against sixty-four millions in 1860. We have expended and destroyed in sev en years nearly half the wealth of the na tion, are under a debt of two thousand live hundred millions of dollars, and are tax ing the people at the rate of three hundred millions per year; for let it be borne in mind that the people have to pay all this— a part of the people, we should say—for remember that those best able to pay— the scrip nobility— the holders of the bonds— pay nothing, and nearly one-half tin amount of our taxes go to support them in luxury, and give them the power to lord it over us. These are some of the fruits of seven years of Jacobin rule—all to the disadvan tage of tlie country. Why have we been subjected to all this ? To free the nigger! Who has been benefitted by that? Not the nigger, certainly, for he is in an infinitely worse condition than in 1860, and will sink lower and lower every year, as the history of liis race, and all experi ments like that now going on with him, demonstrate. Not the white men of the South, for they have lost three thousand millions of dollars worth of productive property, in the hare act of freeing tiie nigger, and become ut terly impoverished and ruined. Not the White men of the North and West, for their commerce is destroyed, their ships have disappeared from the ocean, their greatest and best market lor their agricultural products and manufactures, the South, has been cut oft', the great sta ples of the Southern States, which were formerly the basis of our foreign ex changes, and the mainspring of industry and prosperity, no longer load our ears, freight our ships, cover our wharves, till our warehouses, keep our spindles in mo tion, furnish employment to our opera tives, and afford them the means of com fortably and respectably fedeing, cloth ing and educating their families, but in stead, there is general depression in busi ness, a diminishing demand for labor, a lack of remunerative wages, high prices of the necessaries of life, exorbitant rents, heavy taxes, and sullen despair, or desper ate resolve to lisvea change and relief, en tering into the minds of the laboring mil lions, the wealth produces and tax payer of our country. We have furnished a few figures and fact® to enable them to see what condition we are in, the causes which have produced it. who are responsible for it, and we leave them to relleot upon tlie bearing of what we have presented, and consider the remedy which should be applied. Let them ponder and decide! Choose ye whom ye will support, the authors of those things, or those who have opposed and endeavored to prevent them. La Crosse Democrat. Sail and Humiliating. We presume and trust that there are but very few readers of the Republican who will not deplore with us. and sincerely la ment the removal of that honest liigli toned gentleman and faithful officer, Capt. McGowan, who has so efficiently dis charged his duties to tlie entire satisfaction of all parties ai Tax Collector, and the sub stitution of a vile cream re —tiie murderer i of a colored prostitute and a cowardly as sassin, to that responsible olliee. We have personally sufficient and good reasons for feeling sad. but outside of this we do not fear to state that this fraudulent installa tion does not meet with the approbation of one solitary respectable citizen of Chatham county. We should be glad to hear tiie name of the party who have sunk so low as to become the bondsmen of this pair of noble brothers. It is but fair that their names should be given to the public, in order that public opinion may deal justly and fairly with them, according to then just deserts. —Savannah Republican, 281/i.. Hdq'rs Third Military District.! {D'pt of Georgia, Florida, <£ Alabama,) > Atlanta. Ga., May 22d, 1808.) Special Orders No. 110.—[Extract] —VII. James McGowan, Tax Collector for Chatham county, State of Georgia, is here by removed from office, and is directed forthwith to pay over to the Provisional State Treasurer, all moneys belonging to the State of Georgia, for Taxes in his hands, at any time alter January 13th, 1868. Said McGowan is also ordered to turn over to his successor in office (Charles H. Hopkins. Jr.,) the “Tax Digest” for Chatham coun ty for the year 1807, and all other bonds, papers and property pertaining to the office of Tax Collector lor Catham county aforesaid. By order of Major General Meade. R. C. Drum, Ass’t Adj’t General. Official: (Signed) George Meade, A D.O. Hdq’rs Third Military District.) (D'pt of Georgia, Florida & Alabama,) [. Atlanta, Ga . May 22,1808 Special Orders No. 110.—[Extract.]—Vi 11. Charles 11. Hopkins. Jr., is hereby ap pointed Tax Collector for the county of Chatham, State of Georgia, to till a vacancy. By order of Major General Meade. R. C. Drum, Ass’t Adj’t General. Official: (Signed) George Meade, A. D. G. A Child With Four Legs. — A few days ago, Mrs. Corban, wife of VV. H. Gorham living on the farm of James Tharp, Esq., two and a half miles noitli of Millville, Lincoln county, gave birth to a female child with four distinct and well develops legs and feet. The extra pair of legs are in front of and rather between the natural pair, and are fully developed and as well shaped in every particular as the others, except that they are shorter, and are re versed, so that the toes of the feet point to gether. The most wonderful feature of this curious freak of nature is that the genera tive and urinary organs an-also in dupli cate. The mother and child are both doing well. These facts are vouched for by Mr. John Tharp, a trustworthy gentleman, who lives on the place and has seen the child.—Nash ville Banner.