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ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, May 8, 1886.
miliar) Order—Xlie Chain Sana.
The following “general order” has been is
sued at “ Headquarters District of Georgia,”
hearing dale the 1st instant, by CoL Caleb C.
Sibley, U. S. A. We publish it for the informa
tion of all concerned:
1. The use of the “ Chain Gang ” as a mode
of legal punishment in this State having been
abused by the authorities empowered to inflict
such punishment, is hereby discontinued, ex
cept in cases connected with prisoners sentenced
to the penitentiary.
All Post Commanders within the limits of this
State are hereby directed to enforce this order,
and report any action on the part of the civil au
thorities who refuse to obey the eame.
A Growl from “Old Tbad.”
The New York Herald, under the foregoing
heading, says truly, that ‘Old Thad. Stevens’ is
not as well pleased as he ought to be with the
promises made to the Southern people by Sena
tor Wilson in view of their bom fide fulfillment
of the reconstruction laws of Congress. In a
letter to the newspapers, Mr. Stevens first quotes
from a late speech of the Senator promising that
there would be no impediment to Southern rep
resentation in Congress if they elected Union
men, and expressing the opinion that in recon
structing Virginia the results would be a Repub-
can Governor, Legislature and two United States
Senators ; and then the indignant radical leader
of the Commons responds—that such promises
are calculated to do’mischief; that they throw
obstacles in the way of future reconstruction;
that much is to be done before any of the rebel
Slates, or any Representative or Senator front
any one of them can be recognized. He wants
to know, too, who authorized any orator to say
that there will be no confiscation, and “who is
authorized to travel the country and peddle out
amnesty.” And then Mr. Stevens, in his most
amiable mood, observes: “ I would say to the
most guilty- expect punishment, and then qui
etude ; but first a mild confiscation to pay those
wlio have been robbed by disloyal men. These
are my wishes, and mine only, perhaps;” but,
we may add, perhaps not. Nevertheless, we re
gard it as morally certain that each and every
one of the States concerned in faithfully meeting
these reconstruction laws of Congress will be
" re admitted into both houses regardless, as here
tofore, of the objections or opposition of Mr.
Stevens and his little faction of implacable radi
cals.”
Such are the views of the Herald in regard to
the letter of “ Old Thad.” which is thus intro
duced to the notice of its readers by the Wash
ington national Intelligencer:
OFFICIAL PROCLAMATION FROM TIIE LOYAL
LEAGUE.
Black Stab Chamber, I
Washington, April 27, 1807. f
7 o the Editor of the Chronicle :
I find the following in the Chronicle of yester
day :
Fortress Monroe, April 25.—Senator Wil
son arrived here in a special boat this morning.
He was received by General Burton in the fort,
and a salute of eleven guns was fired.
lie addressed a large audience of blacks and
whites in the Butler school house, near Hampton
Roads. lie urged upon the colored people to
vote for that party founded on humanity and
equal rights to all. They were to assist the Re
publicans of the North in modifying the State
constitution, and securing the protection of their
tights. He impressed upon them the necessity
ot industry and education, and staled that with
them depended the success of the election and
convention of the Republican party in Virginia.
He regarded Johnson as the sole cause of the
unsettled condition of the country, and spoke
forcibly against his policy. He said there would
be no impediment to Southern representatives in
Congress if they elect Union men. He closed his
remarks by asserting that he would leave Vir
ginia with a full conviction that a Republican
Governor, Legislature, and two Senators would
be elected.
He will leave for North Carolina tliiS afternoon
Much articles as this are calculated to do much
harm. They throw obstacles in the way of
future reconstruction, being quoted and relied
on as pledges by the Republican party. Hence
much trouble arose front certain loose and in
definite expressions contained in a bill which
was reported by the Reconstruction Committee
of the Thirty-ninth Congress, though never pass
ed. It was perverted by faction and folly into
an argument against the whole party and Con
gress. This generally arises from the Careless
ness of the reporters; sometimes, doubtless,
from the inadvertence of the speaker.
No man should make promises for the party
By what authority does any one say that by the
electiou of loyal delegates they- will be admitted?
By what authority say that Virginia will elect
twu loyal Senators, while in truth there is no
Virginia ? Much is to be done by the people
and Congress before any Represent afire or Sen
ulor or State can be recoguized. Who author
ized nny oratpr to say there wonld be no con
tiscation, as in another place ? Those things
are too flippantly said; I think they had better
be gravely pondered.
Who is authorized to travel the couutry and
peddle out amnesty V I would say to the most
guilty, expect punishment and tlieu quietude;
but first a mild confiscation, to pay those who
have been robbed by disloyal men. These are
my wishes, aud tniue only, perhaps.
thaddeus Stevens.
Washington, April 27,1867.
Now we do not pretend to say which is right,
Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, or the Penn
sylvauia Commoner, Mr. Stevens, as to the im
portant matter of difference between them. In
one respect we recognize the force of the latter’s
assertion iu his letter that “ uo man should make
promises for the party.” Our experience teaches
us that this is dangerous, and that they have
rarely been redeemed by any- party. While in
the United Suites Senate, Sherman, Wilson, and
others, may well be termed leaders, still Sumner
may also be considered one around whom satel
lites revolve obedient to liis behests, while in the
House “ Old Thad. ” has no peer as the party
leader, nor has he. indeed, in either branch ot
Congress or before the masses of his party
throughout the whole couutry. Notwithstand
ing we are told too by the Herald “ it is morally
certain that each aud every one ot the States
concerned in faithfully meetiug these reeonstruc-
tiou laws of Congress will be re admitted into
both Houses regardless as heretofore of the ob
jections or opposition ot Mr. Stevens and his
little taction of radicals,” still we look with no
little apprehension to the future iu that respect
when we hear the significant growls ot “Old
Thad." at such an assumption. On the one
hand, tho Southern people are assured that an
acceptance of the reconstruction acts ot Con
gress and the election ot Union men to Congress,
will insure restoration ; on the other, that it will
not—that more, much more must be done by
that people “ before any Representative, or Sen
ator, or State, enu be recoguized; ” that “ the
most guilty" must “ expect punishment, and
then quietude, but first a mild confiscation to
pay those who have been robbed by disloyal
men.” Here, indeed, the Southern people are
placed in a dilemma, front which we see no pos
sible chance of escape. They can only “ trust
to luck,” but luck has so repeatedly gone against
them, that the trusting to it again, while they
must do so, gives them but little consolation.
Verily do we live in strange times, no chart to
direct our course, uo port of safety in sight!
Washington Gossip.
It is stated that Mr. Davis has determined to
reconsider his declaration that be conld not ap
ply for pardon, and if he is not arraigned at the
May term of the court at Richmond, he will file
his papers lor pardon in accordance with Ute
conditions of President Johnson’s proclamation:
bo say his friends here.
There is no doubt that the Judiciary Com
mittee have received notice to rc-assemblc next
week, pursuant to adjournment,*to continue the
impeachment investigation. The sergeant-at-
arms prepared several subpumas on the 29th
ultimo, for witnesses, which will be served in
time for the meeting of the committee. The
intention is to close the investigation by the first
of June, and to report the evidence, as directed
by the House, at the meeting in July. All the
evidence which has been taken thus far is being
printed at the government printing office, for the
use of the committee and for distribution when
the injunction of secrecy is removed.
Parties deprecate a favorable decision iu the
applications for injunction in the Georgia and
Mississippi cases, they believing it would throw
the country into a state of anarchy and contu
sion, defer restoration of the South for a long
period, and agitate the public mind. All the
work which is so happily progressing in the way
of reconstruction would be destroyed, and a fear
ful conflict between Congress and the executive
and judicial branches ot the government would
commence. That would call Congress together
in July if nothing else would, and the probability
is that the President would be impeached aud
removed forthwith, and the Supreme Court re
organized at once. There is no doubt that Con
gress would assert its supremacy in the most de
cisive manner.
It rs noticed that all the respectable papers of
New Orleans are attacking the inode of registra
tion adopted by General Sheridan, and there are
other indications that that officer, in Ills great
desire to play Radical partisan, will bring on
some difficulty between himself and his supe
riors, which may result in his removal from com
mand. The Radicals would delight in such an
event. It would furnish them with a fresh sup
ply of ammunition to keep up their war upon
the President.
The people will see, iu the protest of Thad.
Stevens, against the declarations of Senator Wil
son, concerning reconstruction, a fair illustration
of the truth of what the Democrats have always
told them, to-wit: That the Radicals desire no
restoration of the Union, and will have none, if
they can avoid it; tor as between Stevens and
Wilson it is not difficult to determine which ot
the two speaks by the book. The former is em
phatically the leader of his party, the latter only
a follower—and a very insignificant one, at that.
Moroan County.—A gentleman who resides
in Morgan county, informed os yesterday that
the crop prospect there is decidedly encouraging.
Wheat never better, corn up and growing oil
finely, oats look well, and cotton pretty fair,
though affected some by the recent cool weather.
He represents the people as in good spirits and
hopelul of being relieved of their present em
barrassments at no distant day.
Death of an Old Journalist.—The Mo
bile Aitoertiser d■ Register ot the 1st, comes to
hand clothed in mourning for Ute death of Thad
deus Sanford, Esq., which occurred in that citv
on the 80th ult. The deceased was at one time
editor of the Mobile Register, which position he
filled for twenty odd years. He was known
throughout the country as a gentleman of supe-
t for abilities, and of much worth.
The Financial Prospect.
The New York Tribune, of a late date has the
following in reference to matters of business:
The bank statement reflects the paralysis in
general business. Tho deposits are reported as
increased $3,500,600, and legal tender to an
equal sum. The increase in speculative move
ments is attributable in a great degree to an idea
that the exchange of compound notes for three
per cent, certificates is an expansion, such as du
ring the rebellion advanced quotations so rapidly.
The proposed exchange can have no great effect
iu expanding prices, but the reason maybe seen.
No private holder will take these three per cents,
in exchange for compound notes while 5-20s sell
at 107$, and gold sells above 125. The banks
will take them to save interest upon the reserve,
and be content to make three per cent, instead of
six per cent, as at present, and that is the extent
of the operation of the substitution. There is
no movement of the treasury, present or pros
pective, which wifi add to the volume of the
currency, and any temporary^ accumulation at
the commercial centers, causing low rates of in
terest on demand, in turn stimulating specula
tion, will be soon followed by higher prices for
capital and disasters to speculatous who mistake
an eddy in the financial current which Is still
running out, for the return tide ot prosperity.
At no time since the close of the rebellion lias
the treasury been moving so efficiently in the
direction of specie payments by converting short
debt culling for currency, into fuuded debt matu
ring eighteen years ajiead. Borrowers will do
well to bear iu ntind that every dollar funded is
placed where it is made the employer of capital
until the maturity of the bond when it will com
mand money again. The 7-30s will all be funded
in fifteen months, together with the compound
notes, and the department can then turn its at
tention wholly to the funding of the plain legal
tenders. As that point is approached money
will increase in buying power, and commodities
now considered cheap, wifi be bought at much
lower prices, including 6 per cent, gold-bearing
bonds.
Georgia.
The New York Journal of Commerce is urging
capitalists to turn their attention to the South as
offering a tempting field lor safe and profitable
investment. It says of Georgia:
The opportunities for this are abundant; and
if the investor seeks to speculate, there are sure
openings for increasing his capital two, five, and
ten-fold. There is no point where this is more
manifest than in the neighborhood of Augusta,
one of the most beautiful cities of the South.
Those splendid residences at the Sand Hills,
known to all travelers in old times as the abodes
of health, wealth, and luxury, are in many in
stances offered for sale at prices fabulously- low,
and plantations near that city- are to be purchased
at rates which must be doubled within a year if
the crop be a good one. Who can doubt that
this portion of Georgia will rapidly develop
wealth ? Georgia itself is one of the most re
markable States, in natural wealth, on the earth’s
surface. Within its boundaries may be grown
nearly every article of food and luxury known to
tbe tropic and temperate zones. Bananas and
oranges, tea and coflee, cotton and corn, apples,
melons, peaches, potatoes, whatever the ifnited
States and Cuba can produce, Georgia can also
produce within her limits. Her mineral treas
ures are also vast and varied; gold, and iron
and others metals, abound in her mines. Slate,
marble, and other stones, are in her quarries.
The New South Carolina.
Old man Forney’s Philadelphia Press is get
ting very sweet on South Carolina. Our friends
ot the Palmetto Territory ought to feel en
couraged. The following is from the Press :
The resolutions adopted at the late meeting of
the freedmen at Beaufort are specially- significant,
on account of indications they give ot the charac
ter of the new South Carolina the Republicans of
that Stale ace endeavoring to construct. They
prnpose that its corner-stone “ shall be freedom,
and not slaveryand “ that of all the thirty-
seven States, which are now about to constitute
one solid phalanx in the Union, not one of them
shall have a constitution more republican in form
or superior in any way to the one f ’ they are about
to make for the “ ancient and venerable Com
monwealth ot South Carolina.” They promise
to have Presidential electors, chosen by the peo
ple instead of the Legislature, as heretofore ; to
establish free schools; to relieve the poor and
destitute, and to uphold and defend “ tbe true
interests and honor of the whole country.” One
such new State would be worth a thousand ot
such nullification, secession, aristocratic, feudal,
and treason-hatching Commonwealths as the old
South Carolina, which aimed constantly at the
debasement of the bulk ot her population, and
at the destruction of the Union.
A Northern Miter** Views of the Free4-
mei mad hi* Character.
One of the editors of the New York Journal
of Commerce, who has recently been in the South
making personal observation of matters and
things in general, refers as follows to the freed-
man and bis character:
“ To the inquiry made of Southern gentlemen
and ladies in all parts of the South, ‘How do
the negro mothers take care of their young chil
dren ?’ the answer was almost invariably, ‘They
wonld rather hare them die than live.’ To some
extent, also, tbe fathers neglect their families.—
It is a new thing for a negro to have to apply his
earnings to the support of children, or to the
payment of physicians, or the purchase of medi
cine. Hence, when the Creed man receives his
wages, he is tempted to spend it on his own com
fort or luxury. How few of them understand
the idea of saving ‘ for a wet day.’ We saw
a very respectable and intelligent negro who,
while a slave, had saved money earned in over
work, to the amount of $600. Within two years
past he had speut it all in supporting his family,
and said that now he had hard work to keep
body and soul together. It is plain enough that
employers will find the free system far cheaper
than the slave system; but whether the laboring
class can stand poverty and its ills, to which
they have never been accustomed, is another
question, and one in which the future of the
South is very deeply involved.”
There is much truth in the foregoing estimate
of the freedmen in our midst. We have wit
nessed many painful incidents ot mothers neg
lecting their children, and of men abandoning
their families, nay fleeing from, rather than
abiding witb and aiding in tbeir support The
relation of husband and wife is, in a great de
gree, disregarded, save by the most intelligent—
looked upon ratber as a convenience than as ini
posing the most sacred of all obligations, and
too burdensome to tbe husband when it entails
the support of his wife and children. It will
require more than one decade of time, we appre
hend, ere educational influences will correct this
blemish, if we may so term it, in the character
of tbe negro freedmen. Hence how important
it is that every effort should be made as speedily
as possible to bring them under such influences,
especially as they are now considered, and will
doubtless continue to be, citizens of the South
with political privileges such as are, and to be,
enjoyed by the white man who is not disfran
c-hised by the law-making power.
AVliat'tlie Coil of the Tariff* Is?
Some idea* of the cost of the Tariff policy of
the government—that is, of our congressional
government—may be formed by the reader in
the perusal ot the following from the New York
Post, a journal which stands high in the estima
tion of the great commercial circles of the North
That paper says:
“ So long as tariff duties are levied on six
thousand different articles, so long the govern
ment will have to keep up a costly standing army
of coast-guardsmen to keep out smugglers; so
long as internal duties ore laid on ten thousand
different articles, so long the government must
keep up a costly standing army of spies, inform
ers, searchers, and other agents. All these offi
cers live well, have large salaries, and grow rich
off the savings ot the people, who are obliged to
pay taxes on sixteen thousand different articles,
under a stupid, wasteful and oppressive system
of taxation, which Congress ought at once to
abolish in favor of a sensible system.”
It was Mr. Calhoun who, in the vigor of his
intellect, said that there are a hundred thou
sand office-holders of the government who lived
upon spoils, and whose influence controlled the
elections. It was George M. Troup who, in
1810, said, that the party in power lived upon
the spoils of office, but gave no encouragement
to the then proposed change, by adding, in an
ticipation thereof, the opposite party had to be
tried. The one hundred thousand office-holders
iu the time ot Mr. Calhoun have increased to
thrice, if it does not now quadruple that number,
just as from the expenditures of the John Quincy
Adams administration—denounced at the time
as inordinately extravagant—have from thirteen
reached hundreds of millions. Whither is the
country drifting? What with tariffs upon
foreign imports, and tariffs upon home industry,
we are fast approaching a crisis that capital
may well dread, for industry, though it may for
a time submit to the exactions of power and men
in office, will be sure not to submit loug. The
day ot reckoning will be sure to come.
Aueuita City Officer*.
The following appears in the Augusta Consti
tutionalist oi Saturday:
“ Yesterday morning the drowsy inonotouy of
our city was aroused and varied by the report
(which spread on the wings ol the wind and the
fleet coursers ot tbe officers of the police,) that
an order had been received from General Pope,
appointing a Mayor and Board of Aldermen in
the place ot the incumbents who were continued
in office by an order from the military forbidding
the usual election in April ult. Many (we will
not say all) of the gentlemen appointed to posi
tion on the board were taken completely by sur
prise. The following is a copy ot the order read
at the regular meeting ot the old board yesterday
morning:
Headers Third Military District, t
Atlanta, Ga., April 30th, 1867. j
Special Order No. 12.
The term ot office of Mayer and Board of
Aldermen of Augusta, Ga., having expired, the
following officers are appointed in their place
until registration can be completed and an elec
tion held in accordance with the laws of the
United States.
By command of Brevet Major General John
Pope. G. K. Sanderson,
Capt 33d U. S. infantry, A. A. A. G.
Mayor—Foster Blodgett
Aldermen—First Ward.—James B. Bishop,
Thomas N. Phil pot, Heniy T. Peay.
Second Ward.—Ephraim Tweedy, Samuel
Levy, Joseph B. Reynolds.
Third Ward.—Benjamin Conley, Win. H.
Tutt, Jacob B. Platt
Fourth Ward.—David L. Koath, R. B. Bul
lock, Otis G. Lynch.
On the back of this order was endorsed the
following:
Augusta, Ga., May 3,1867.
John A. Christian, Esq.. Marshal of the City of
Augusta :
Sir —You will notify the Board of Aldermen
appointed by the foregoing order, to meet at the
Council Chamber at twelve o’clock, noon, this
day, to lie sworn into office.
Very respectfully,
(Signed) Foster Blodget,
Mayor of the City of Augusta.
After the reading of these documents, the
the Board of Aldermen adjourned.
The new officers have been sworn in.
Sound Advice.—A correspondent ot the
Memphis Avalanche, writing from New Orleans
furnishes the following:
I find that a large number of persons who con
templated planting cotton have abandoned the
intention, and will plant corn instead. The wis
dom of the latter course must be evident to every
one who gives the matter ordinary calculation.
The lowest figures at which cotton can be raised
this year, allowing two-thirds of a bale to the
acre, will be twenty to twenty-five cents a pound.
Labor is more uncertain than it ever was hither
to. The cotton crop of India and Egypt will be
at least five million bales. Steam plows aud all
manner of labor saving appliances are being
used in those countries to supply the necessities
ot planters, and the result will be a large crop
of cotton, which will be sold profitably at eight
cents, so we cannot compete with them. Eng
lish operators here have made these calculations,
and will not advance on prospective crops here,
hence many planters have prudently arranged
to let cotton alone. He who raises provisions
that will free us from the domination ot the
grain producers in the North, will prove himself
a goodand wise man.
Street Cabs in New Orleans.—There are j
two hundred and twenty-five cars on the New
Orleans city railroads, and they carry daily about
sixty thousand passengers. The street lines are
thirteen in number, and their total length is very
much more than a hundred miles.
Horrible Outrage.—The Mobile Times
gives the details of a horrible outrage commit
ted by negroes upon a family named Peters,
living on Dog River, at no great distance from
Mobile. The brutes broke into the house at
night, beat the father and sons until they were
insensible, outraged the mother and daughter—
the latter a girl twelve years of age—stole some
thirteen hundred dollara in gold and currency,
and made their escape.
Every effort is being made to capture the fiends
and bring them to summary punishment. As
before remarked, such outrages are of terribly
frequent occurrence, and in most instances may
be traced to the pernicious influences set to work
among the black population by bad white men
who are trying to use that class far their own
vile and villainous purposes.
The freedmen are not tbe only persons in tbe
South to whom the General’s good advice should
have been addressed. The rebel* “ in their new
condition ” w ould not be doing any harm if they
were to go to work to realize visible means of
support. If there were not so many loafers
about (he whisky holes in the South, and not so
many illicit still's at work, there would be more
corn in the cribs and in the ground.—Cincinnati
Commercial. •*
In regard to illicit distilleries, onr Buckeye
©otetnporary is slightly out of bis reckoning.
There are very tew of those humanizing institu
tions in the Territories. Our people lack the
genius and capacity to run ’em—it takes North
ern and Western enterprise to do that success
fully, so that we are pretty much dependent on
Cincinnati and other marts in that direction for
our supplies of popskull and busthead.
[fob the intelligencer.]
Communicated.
To the Editor cf the New Era:
I have just read in the Era an article copied
from an Alabama paper, urging the General
commanding the Third District to issue an order
prohibiting the people of Georgia from using
their legal and constitutional tights in the col
lection of their just debts. And this revolution
ary recommendation you fully endorse.
Have you ever thonght of the fact that credi
tors had some rights as well as debtors* And
have yon ever inquired who a large number—
perhaps a large majority—of creditors are in
Georgia? Do you not know that widows and
orphans constitute a large portion of the credi
tors of this State, and that they have been pre
vented for more than six years from collecting
anything that is due them ? The land and other
property left litem by their deceased husbands
and fathers, have been sold on a credit, and tlie
purchasers have owned, possessed and enjoyed
all the benefits, income and profits of this prop
erty for many years, while “stay laws” have
protected them from being compelled to pay the
price promised. And yon are now asking the
distinguished General whose headquarters arc at
Atlanta, to go outside ot and beyond the Acts of
Congress, under which he came to Georgia, and
to turn law-maker—no, law-destroyer—and to pre
vent these widows and orphans from collecting
enough of the money that is due them to buy
food and raiment. If General Pope is entitled
to the high reputation he enjoys, it is believed he
will not listen to such unconstitutional and inju
rious advice.
All administrators, executors, guardians, and
other trustees have been, lor more titan six years,
prohibited from collecting the money due them
in their fiduciary character, and you now ask
that military power shall be used to further pre
vent them from collecting the money due them
and paying it over to widows and orphans. Not
a great while since I heard a guardian begging
a man who had borrowed the money of his
wards—orphan children—and who had used it
for years, to pay him enough to purchase food
and clothing tor the children. But he did not
get it. And you are asking the military—a dis
tinguished General—who has been sent to Geor
gia for no such purpose, to prevent by force of
arms, the guardian to whom I have referred col
lecting enough of his wards’ money to board
and clothe them. General Pope, I believe, has
too much regard for right and justice, law and
the constitution, to do any such thing.
From what are you asking the militaiy to re
lieve the debtors of the country? From the
payment of their just debts. The courts protect
them from the payment of unjust debts. They
have borrowed money, purchased property, and
have used both for many years, without paying,
or even trying, (many of them) to pay back the
money borrowed, or the price of the property
purchased, or any part ol it, and you ask that
poor and suffering creditors—many of them with
no other means of living—shall be prohibited—
not by force of law, the constitution, right, or
justice, but by the power of the sword, from col
lecting any part of their just debts! And you
tell your readers that you are “advancing.”
Well, Doctor,if this be “advancing,” pardon
me for insisting that you “open” again the
“ rear,” and enlighten your readers from another
direction. “ Advance backward.”
I know men who owe tbeir neighbors and
have goods and family supplies for sale, and will
not let their creditors have either food or cloth
ing in payment of what they owe; and, per
chance, when one can be found who will sell his
goods to his creditors in payment of his debts,
the creditor certainly pays a large profit to his
debtor. And these honest debtors must have
military power brought to their aid, to save them
from the great burden of paying a just debt
Will not General Pope have enough to do in
faithfully discharging the duties imposed upon
him by the acts of Congress, without being an
noyed by the voluntary and unasked advice of
those who want him to usurp undelegated pow
ers, and to pass an order denying to tbe credi
tor class of the people their legal and constitu
tional rights, and protecting the debtor class who
have long disregarded their promises to pay m a
still farther disregard of them ? Yes, you advise
General Pope to prevent the courts enforcing
their judgments and decrees, and thereby close
up the avenues of justice. You advise him to
prevent the widow-and orphan from collecting
enough of their just dues to purchase food and
raiment. You advise him to protect those who
have long failed and refused to comply with their
promises, by arbitrarily oppressing those who
have done no wrong in denying to them their le
gal and constitutional rights. And this advice
is an “advance” is it? If so, by all means
Doctor, open your “rear” again and advance
’tother way, for I doubt not it will be as instruc
live and less offensive to the large body of the
people.
What heads and hearts have those who advise
the military to overturn by the power of the
sword the Constitution and laws of the coun
try? Justice.
Affray at Campbelltou.
The meagre particulars of a most unfortunate
occurrence, on Wednesday last, at tbe above
point have reached us. The affair is to be all the
more regretted from the fact that the parties in
volved are all neighbors, and gentlemen of high
respectability in Campbell county. Our infor
mant states that the difficulty originated witb
William J. Camp and James Gorman, both ol
whom, it appears, had indulged freely in the use
of liquor on that day. In the discussion of po
litical matters between those two gentlemen, the
subject of loyal leagues was introduced by Mr.
Camp, who was bitter in their denunciation.—
This gave offense to Mr. Gorman, and caused
him at a subsequent hour to assault Mr. Camp
with a stick at the post office, when the latter
drew a pistol for purposes of self defense. At
this juncture, and with a view to prevent vio
lence, Dr. T. A. Howard endeavored to get Mr
Camp’s pistol from him, and in doing so was
it is feared, fatally shot by Mr. C. Mr. Henry
Brock, another citizen, in making an effort simi
lar to that of Dr. Howard, was also mortally
wounded. Meantime, Mr. James Gorman had
armed himself with a shot gun, and was in search
of Mr. Camp, who had entered a physician’s of
fice, near at hand, and closed Ute door. While
demanding admission at the door, Mr. Gorman
was shot from the inside by Mr. Camp, the ball
taking effect in the leg, and producing a wound
that will necessitate amputation. These are
about the particulars, so far as they have been
furnished us by one of our citizens, who learned
them from a gentleman who was in Campbell-
ton at the time of the painful transaction. Mr.
Camp was not apprehended by the officers of
the law, and now remains at large.
Putnam County.—A correspondent of the
Macon Telegraph, in Putnam county, writes:
I have heard bnt little complaint about tbe
freedmen winking. Where they are treated
well, (and that is now pretty general) and well
fed, they seem disposed to be industrious and
contented. On* thing I fear, as producing, or
ratber continuing difficulties for next year similar
to those which now surround us, and that is, I
tear our farmers are planting too much cotton, or
not enough corn.
Many of onr most discreet farmers are putting
in about equal quantities of corn and cotton. 1
think there is much wisdom in such a course,
and if they allowed com to predominate largely
it certainly wonld be to our advantage.
There is another difficulty we have to contend
with here, which I presume is general: I allude
to the scarcity ol provisions to carry out first
calculations among the farmers. Many have
commenced on a much larger scale than they
can “work up to.” A great many are now out
ot corn, many oat of corn, bacon and money,
and some without even friends to help them in
this great hoar of their need.
The London Times says:— Judging from tbe
effect of each adverse rumor in Berlin or Paris,
the impression would seem to be entertained
that any rupture between France and Germany
wonld be tbe signal for every nation m the world
to repodiate their obligations.
Brevities.
The Chicago PostH jubilant over General
Schofield’s warning to the Richmond Times.—
'The radicals would no doobt like to see every
paper in the South suppressed that hesitates to
fall into their extreme policy. They will hardly
be gratified. There is no public sentiment any
where that will tolerate or approve any such
measure, and if the Post doesn’t know the fact
now it will find it out alter awhile.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue has
decided that wagons, carts and drays made to be
used for farming or lumber purposes, and bag
gage or express wagons made for carrying
freight exclusively, and not to be used as plea
sure carriages, are by act of March 2d, 1861, ex
empt from taxation.
The New York correspondent ot the Phila
delphia Ledger says: Among the latest arrivals
in town is General Butler. There is good au
thority for saying that he will revisit the South,
and New Orleans even, some time in the course
of the ensning summer, with a view of following
up the campaign begun by Senator Wilson in
Virginia. He says the people down there are
laboring under serious misapprehension as to his
views concerning them, and he is anxious to
have them corrected.
A convention of the leading manuiacturers
of Philadelphia, New York, Pittsburg and Bos
ton has been called to meet in New York on the
8th instant The movement has been rendered
advisable by the depressed condition of the man
ufacturing interests throughout the Middle and
Northern States.
Thad. Stevens, we see, is very decidedly
snubbed by the Wilson journals in Massachu
setts. How it will be when Congress re-assem-
bles, is . not so certain, but we hope he will
become snubbed to the end, for his atrocious
doctrine of confiscation.
A bill was introduced into the Tennessee
Legislature to incorporate the Nashville Boule
vard Company, when an Unconditional Union
ist arose and protested that he should support no
bill having the name of Beauregard in it!
One of the latest dainties sold in the streets
of New York is Italian sausages made of mule
flesh. They are "bought and eaten with avidity,
and will probably drive the old fashion dog sau
sages out of the market.
The Richmond papers for the last lew days
have been reticent in regard to the “delectable
cuss.” What’s the matter ? Has he subsided
under the manipulations of Senator Wilson ?
An ex-federal officer, who employs fifty ne
groes on his plantation near Selma, called them
together a day or two before the Radical meet
ing in that city, some days ago, and represented
matters to them in such a light, that they de
clined attending the meeting, but went content
edly to their daily task of making com and cot
ton.
Congress may have been consistent with its
promises, as some of the new born loyalists con
tend, but as we have watched the proceedings
of that body pretty closely without being able to
discover the fact, we should be glad to have the
particular instances pointed out.
Brownlow’s Whig calls a correspondent ol
the Springfield Republican a liar, slanderer,
coward, etc., to which the Republican responds
that the only suspicion it ever had as to its cor
respondent arose from the fact that, among his
references as to character and ability, was
Governor Brownlow himself.
The following is a neat hit at those dilatory
people who are always behind time: Some one
said to a person of this class, “ I see that you
belong to the three-handed people.” “ Three-
handed ! that’s rather uncommon.” “ Oh! no;
common enough—two hands like other people,
and a little behind hand!”
A wedding party assembled at an appointed
day in Sigel, Mo., but the bridegroom did not
put in an appearance. The guests were shock
ed, the bride hysterical, until a nice young man,
one of the spectators, offered himself in place of
the faithless swain, was accepted and matjied on
the spot.
President Johnson must be gifted witb
ubiquity, if he intends to keep all the engage
ments the newspapers and the newspaper cor
respondents are cutting out for him, the ensuing
summer. Now he is going to make a tour through
the South, all the way to New Orleans. Now
he is going down East to assist in some Masonic
celebration—now he is going to New York, on
private business, and now—but it is hardly
worth recording other excursions until he has
got through with these.
One of Jo3h Billings’ maxims—“ Rize arly
work hard and late, live on what yon cannot
sell, give nothing awa, and it you don’t die
ritch, and go to the devil, you may sue me for
damages.”
James Mullins, a fragrant member of the
radical party, has been nominated for Congress
in the Fourth District of Tennessee, to run
against Hon. Ed. Cooper, one of the best men in
that or any other State.
Advices from Havana state that numerous
failures have occurred. The provision house ot
Hapez, Trapaga & Co., for a large amount
wealthy planter, Argudine, suspended, his liabili
ties are two and a half millions, which his as
sets will pay. Senor Oviedo, the diamond wed
ding man, made arrangements with his creditors
for $250,000, which enabled him to pay, and
thus saved him from becoming bankrupt.
A telegram from Paris to the Daily Tele
graph, says that there is no truth in the rumor
that France was about to declare war. The
Emperor is said, however, to be prepared for
any emergency. When the Mexican transports
return, 50,000 men can be landed on any coast.
Two citizens of Newport, Maine, have been
fined six dollars apiece for carrying a citizen of
that place to the town hall and compelling him
to make a public apology for expression of joy
at the assassination of President Lincoln.
A woman in the penitentiary at Joliet, Illi
nois, has confessed that while living in a house
of ill-fame in Chicago in October last, a 9tranger,
who said he was from New York, was mutdered
in her room by the keepers of the house, Ed
and Ida Stockton, for his money, amounting to
ninety dollars. The man is now in the peniten
tiaxy. The woman has been arrested.
A member of the Literary Association, of
Macon, Ga., recently delivered an address before
the society on the “ Genius of Misfortune.” It
is published by request It closes thus: “ The
soft rays of a Jane moon or the mild beams ol
its starry attendants tranquilly reposing upon the
placid bosom of a silvery Jake, or playing hide
and seek upon the dimpled stream, wandering
qnietly to its ocean home—is lovely. Bnt the
wild glare of the lightning leaping madly from
its clond-retrcat, and flashing ghastly over the
storm-lashed wave—is grand.”
When Emma, Queen of the Sandwich Islands,
visited Dublin Castle, during her recent tour in
Great Britain, the Lord-Lieutenant ordered the
regimental band to play the Hawaian national
air, when it at once struck up with the sonl-
stirring strains of “ Hokey-pokey winky-wang.
King of the Cannibal Islands!” the effect of
which can be better imagined than described.
A letter bearing the following inscription
was dropped into the Newark Post Office without
any stamp: “Bummer’s letter; shove it ahead;
dead broke and nary a red. Postmaster, pat this
letter through ; when I get paid I’ll pay you.”
Jorum was told of a Bopper at which goblets
ot ice, formed by evaporation, were used from
which to drink champagne. Jorum heard the
story through and then exclaimed, “ Well, ice
wear.”
Kentucky.—Reports are in circulation that
Kentucky is to be placed under tbe command of
a militaiy Governor. There are States farther
North that need reconstructing more than Ken
tucky.
State New*.
Tint Savannah Republican has been informed
that a diabolical attempt was made on Wednes
day night, to destroy the down passenger train
on the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, about one
and a half miles above Valdosta, by placing two
cross-ties and a string-piece across the track.
The obstructions, however, were discovered by
the engineer in time to prevent any damage.
Had this fiendish attempt succeeded a wholesale
destruction of life and limb must have taken
place, and we hope the party concerned may be
ferreted out and brought to justice.
The Cuthbert Appeal states that the Clerk of
the Inferior Court of Randolph, has received a
large quantity of corn for distribution among
the poor and destitute of that count}'.
The same paper says: The rain storm which
occurred the previous week, exceeded in quanti
ty and violence, any visitation of the kind that
has visited this vicinity for many years previous.
The injury to the land from washing can hard
ly be estimated. One planter told us his farm, the
•next day, looked as though the Chattahoochee
river had passed over its surface. Much cotton
has been destroyed also, and the scarcity of seed
renders bad stands probable.
A gentleman from Calhoun county states
that on the 25th ultimo the most awful hailstorm
on record fell in that region. Cotton and corn
were cut to pieces, and wheat literally destroyed.
That important crop was in the “boot” and
ready to shoot out, hence a clear sweep was
made of it. Planters were plowing up their
grain 4o supply its place with corn or some
other provision crop.
• The Cuthbert Appeal expresses a hope that
now the court house at that place is once more
in the possession of the civil authorities, the
several courts will resume their regular sessions
without fear of further interruption in the ad
ministration of justice.
The Dawson Journal sayB: We are now hav
ing splendid weather for the growing crops—
profusion of April showers, interspersed with
glorious sunshine. Corn in many fields is a foot
and a half in height, and it is generally in a
fine, healthful condition. *The gardens present
a decidedly living aspect; “greens” (would that
they were greenbacks) are abundant. Man and
beast seem to enjoy the prospect, and no one
would imagine that our cow belonged to an
editor.
The Citizen, Atnericus, says: A son of Mr. J.
C. B. Smith, of this city, about seventeen years
of age, sickened on Wednesday evening last and
died the same evening. He was a brother of
Mias Anna Smith, whose sudden and mysterious
death occurred a week or two ago. This dis
ease, we understand, was of a congestive char
acter.
The Citizen also states that on Wednesday last,
Col. G. M. Dudley, who has been a practitioner
of law for forty years, took formal leave of his
brethren of the profession, in open court, his
Honor Judge Vason, having suspended business
for the occasion. Col. Dudley is prompted to
retirement by reason of age and feeble health,
which gives no promise of restoration at an early
day.
The Rome Courier of Saturday says: The
Convention of the M. E. Church, South, for
Rome District, assembled in this place yesterday.
There were some 70 or 80 delegates present.—
The Baptist and Presbyterian churches have
tendered their pulpits for the Sabbath. In the
absence of the Bishop, the Convention was or
ganized by the Rev. Mr. Haygood, Presiding El
der. Rev. J. W. Heidt was elected Secretary,
and Samuel B. Smith, Assistant Secretary.
A fire occurred on Broughton street, Savan
nab, a few days ago, which destroyed property
to the amount of $3,000. No insurance.
Tho League.
We commend the article below, from the
Knoxville Commercial, to the consideration of
colored people of our section; .
During the progress of the war it became a
military necessity, and Abraham Lincoln issued
his emancipation proclamation, and the colored
citizens became free. But alas, by the song of
the syren a large proportion of the colored citi
zens of Tennessee have lost their liberty, and
they are again enslaved. The colored mau in
all the other States is free. He is free to act for
himself, free to think for himself, free to vote for
whom he pleases, and in each and every particu
lar, he is a free man. But it is not so in Tennes
see. We have a class of men who came among
the colored citizens with what they call a League.
These men, by deception, persuaded the colored
man that the League was good for him to join,
and by lair promises they succeeded in getting
large numbers to sign away their liberties and to
place themselves in worse bondage than that
which they had just been released from by the
emancipation proclamation.
When the colored man joins the League, he
then by a solemn oath swears away his liberty.
He can then no longer act for himself—lie can
no longer vote as he pleases, and support such
measures as bis judgment shall convince "him
is best for his own interests, and why? He
has sicorn an oath to do as these League man
agers tell him to .do. He has sworn an oath
to vote for just who, and what, the League
tell him he must vote for. He has sworn
an oath that he is no longer a free man,
bat that the League governs and controls him,
and hold him as their slave. He has sworn an
oath, that he is not capable of being a free man,
and, therefore, he swears to let the League do
his thinking—his acting, and his voting, because
be must vote as they say. He swears that he *
will not be a free man, but a slave to the League.
Little did the colored man know that a trap had
been set for him, when he joined the League.—
Little did he dream that, by so doing, he was
selling his liberties, and his manhood, to future
ill for himself, as truly as ever mortal sold his
bouI to perdition. These leagues are formed by
designing men to control the weak minded and
ignorant, and to make them their servants and
tools, and as soon as the men who control them
have accomplished their own selfish purposes,
they laugh at the victims of their treachery, and
the League has answered the purpose for which
it was brought into existence, and becomes a
thing ot the past.
Colored men of East Tennessee, you who have
not fallen into the snare, shun it as you would
the poison ot the upas tree. You who have
been caught, and are now held in bondage, as
sert your rights as free men, and regain your
liberties as soon as you can. It does not become
any race of men to be herded like cattle, and be
driven to the ballot-box, and made to vote as a
few designing leagues may want them to, and
for their benefit alone. Let the colored man iu
the League compare his situation with the free
man, who is at liberty to be a free and independ
ent man.
Sensible Teachings.
The colored people of Tallahassee, Florida,
had a mass meeting recently, and invited Gover
nor Walker of that State to address them. He
complied with their request, and, among other
things, told them;
I am happy to meet you to-day under these
wide spreading oaks in the Capitol Square, be
neath the blue vault of heaven. This is the
manner in which freemen should meet to consult
concerning their public affairs. 1 am, as I have
ever been, opposed to all secret political associa
tions. Let all the people, both black and white,
meet in public as you do to-day, and make known
and discuss their sentiments and their complaints
and then truth will be arrived at, abuses and er
rors corrected, and good feeling and harmony
promoted. But when there is a secret society
that meets in some dark place, and bars the doors
and persuades men, one at a time, to go in and
take perhaps a terrible oath and sign a pledge,
no good can come of it. The members of such
a society cease to be freemen and become slaves
to those who manage the recret organization.—
For though after joining the society its members
may become convinced that its objects are not
for the public good, they are afraid to say so, be
cause when they attempt to exercise the rights of
freemen they are stopped with the cry of, “ Re
member your oath, remember your pledge.”—
In times of war and public disturbance there may
be some excuse for secret meetings, but I can
conceive of none in peaceful times, and in a free
country like this. The laws and the officers,
both State and Federal, will fully protect you in
meeting in public and giving full expressions to
f EOR TBE INTEI.LTGENCEK.]
I saw, iu a Georgia newspaper, a short time I your views, whatever they may be, and therefore
I warn you to give the cold sbonlder to any
man who should endeavor to persuade you into
hibit the administration of justice in the courts I some tccret place to take an oath or sign a pledge
since, a recommendation to General Pope to pro
of the country, by not allowing the enforcement
of contracts in compelling the payment of just
debts. Not being acquainted with General Pope,
I knew not what effect such a recommendation
might have upon him. But I have just read his
letter of the 22d ult., to Governor Jenkins, and
am pleased to find in it the following words:—
“The object of recognizing it (the ‘State Gov
ernment of Georgia,’) at all was only that the
ordinary course of business in the civil tribunals,
and the administration of the laws of the State by
the customary agencies, might not be interrupted
further than was necessary for the strict execution
of the laws of the United States.” “The exist
ing State Government was permitted to stand
for the convenience of the people of Georgia, in the
ordinary administration of the local civil laws, and
to that end it should be carefully confined.
(The italics are mine.) These assurances—
pledges—thus formally given by General Pope
to the people of Georgia, will not be violated by
him. He has the character of a soldier and a
gentleman, and his word will stand. For he
will never find it “necessary for the strict execution
of the laws of the United States,” to take
away the “the convenience of the people of I suggestion to General Schofield, commanding the
binding both your souls and bodies to any par
ticular action. Your bodies are free, and no
power under heaven can take that freedom from
you, but the freedom of your minds is in your
own keeping; let it not be stolen away from'you
by designing persons—remember that
“ None are free but whom the truth makes free,
Aud all are slaves besides.”
The New York Herald and tbe military
Commanders.
The Herald alludes to General Sickles and the
flag business at Charleston as follows:
Gen. Sickles has acted with a good deal of
judgment and wisdom in many respects, although
we do not altogether like his meddling in that
flag business. It was rather too small an affair,
inasmuch as it was a mere matter of taste. Dif
ferent people like different flags in public pro
cessions ; some effect red, some black, some blue,
some mottled and some striped. Taste in ban
ners and standards, like costumes, is of the
medley order. For instance, the Moslems on
certain occasions carry a horse’s tail. Occasion
ally we find a pair of unmentionables preferred.
A woman’s rights procession might most appro
priately adopt a pettticoat for their device on their
standard. Gessler, the tyrant of Switzerland,
insisted upon the people bowingftdown to his
cap. It is always better to have these things to
shape themselves.
The Herald of the same date makes a sensible
Georgia, in the ordinary administration of the
local civil laws,” and to prohibit, as he is asked to
do, “ the ordinary course of business in the civil tri
bunals, and the administration of the laws of the
State by the customary agencies.
What opinion must General Pope have of a
man who publicly requests him to violate the
solemn assurances he has so recently made to
the people of Georgia ? Has any one, can any
show that it is “necessary for the strict execution
of the laws of the United States,” to prohibit
Department of Virginia:
General Schofield, commanding Virginia, has
got into collision with the Richmond press. If
he would leave the press to correct the press, be
would save himself a.vast deal of trouble. It is
too paltry a business for a distinguished General
to try to conduct any paper. The more violent
a journal is, the more certain and speedy the re
action. During the war, the Richmond papers
were full of tbe grossest abuse of Abraham Lin
coln, “the Yankees,” and so forth. When we got
a batch of them, we always published tbe most
violent of their articles, and had a good laugh at
the ordinary administration of the local civil 1116111 for tlie next tV7 ° da vs. We took their at
tacks in the best of humor. Therefore we advise
laws” by the courts of the State, and to prevent
the enforcement ot honest contracts between
man and man ? Such a necessity will never ex
ist—unless it b<, perhaps, in the mind of some
one who desires and is courting an ephemeral
popularity. I cannot perceive how General
Pope, who is a soldier, and whose unstained
honor is more priceless than life, can treat with
respect any one who desires him to disregard his
assurances and violate his pledges.
But I may take a wrong view of this matter.
If I do, I hope yon will set me right, while
others will pardon me. O. P.
our military chieltains in the South—Generals
Sickles, Schofield, Pope, and the rest—not to
meddle with the press.
military Removal In Alabama.
On Tuesday morning Major Joseph H. Sloss,
Mayor of Tuacumbia, received from General
Swayne tbe following letter:
Headquarters District or Alabama, i
Montgomery, Ala., April 30,1807. f
Joseph H. Sloss, Tuscumbia, Alabama:
Sib—Enclosed you will find a copy of an or
der of General Pope, removing you from the
office ot Mayor of the city of Tuscumbia, and
appointing Lemuel Cockbum to the position.
n „„ t .. rtr —. .t i Upon the application to you of Mr. Cockbum,
Great Cry and Little V. ool. The New I you will transfer to him the authority you now
York Times, Republican, thinks Mr. Wilson’s I hold. Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Wager Swayne, Major General.
In which letter was enclosed the following
order:
Headquarters Third Military District,
missionary labors in in the South are not likely
to prove profitable. It says:
Senator Wilson’s Southern tour seems to be a j
care of great eiy and little wooL The flock sur
rounds him, but there is no chearing done, and j
he is likely to come back empty-handed. The j
blacks listen to him, but wonder what all tbe
CT, 1
(Georgia, Alabama, and Florida,) v
Atlanta, Ga., April 15,1807. j
Special Orders, No. 2.
I. The municipal election held at Tuscumbia.,
pother is about. The whites let him alone, and A1 th , t - f . ...>
have not paid him the compliment of getting | * ^ ara nftha !i°: atloa
angry at anything he has said. He has rated
them to his heart’s content, and they hear him
with civility, if not with respect, ana then Mr.
Wilson packs np his stock of platitudes and dia
tribes and takes himself off unnoticed to the next
town. It seems rather dull sort of work. It is
not, we mav be sure, exactly what the Senator
bargained for. If there had been a disturbance
anywhere what a theme it would have supplied
him with—what a martyr he would have return
ed! As it is, he comes back in the position ot
one who thonght to move the universe, and finds
that he has not made so much stir as a gadfly in
Summer. The Southern people soon found out
that it was not an earthquake or a whirlwind
which bad come among them, bnt only a reed
shaken by tbe wind. And we say that this is
very discouraging for poor Mr. Wilson, and we
hope he will bear np bravely under his adver
sities.
of orders of the General-in-Chief ol the army, as
well as orders from these headquarters, and not
having been conducted in the manner and ac
cording to the late acts of Congress, is hereby
declared nail and void.
II- Lemuel S. Cockbubn is appointed Mayor
of luseumbia, and will be obeyed and respected
accordingly.
(Signed) John Pope,
Brevet Major General Commanding.
Official copy.—J. F. Conyngham,
1st Lient. 25th U. S. InFy, A. A. A. G.
Buy Land.—The New York Tribune ad
vises people to invest in land. It says:
We met a farmer in Eastern Illinois last win
ter who took up his land at $1 25 per acre
thirty-three years ago, and is now selling merely
the timber from it to settlers on tbe adjacent
prairies at $100 per acre. This is but a sample
of what is doing throughout the West. There
New Orleans. The total number of regis- millions ot acres of timber yet to be bought
tered voters in the parish of Orleans under the for $1 25 per acre which will sell for $100 or
new law np to Tuesday evening, the 30th ultimo, | °ver, P® r ^ cre > within twenty-five years,
according to the official list furnished General
Sheridan, was 10,699. Of these 8687 are blacks,
aad 2012 whites.
Every County.—It is stated that one of the
political missionaries, hired by the Red Bepub-
For eighty acres of public land the Govern
ment charge is but $100, while it may be bought
with agricultural land warrants for $50 to $80.
Even $10 pre-payment secures 160 acres of Gov
ernment land.
t Bishop Early.—The papers announce tl e
bean party to «,nv^t the ffouth ^’radicalism, I ? om thei, £ Ma *
J . .. , * with which he has been afflicted for some time,
will commence his labors at Macon and visit and which many of his friends thought might
every county in the State.
I prove fatal.