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“ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LEhI FREE TO COMBAT’iT.”—Jefferson.
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VOLUME XIX.
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY# AUGUST?. 1HG7.
- NUMBER 32.
Wtrklt) Jutcllipcrr.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, August e, 1067.
Important to Our City.
The attention ol our citizens, end especially of
our City Autlioritics, is culled to the following
address and series of resolutions, addressed to
the Baptists of Georgia, adopted by the Hoard ol
Trustees for Mercer University, at Its recent ses
sion at Pcnficld :
"1. Retolml, That it is the opinion of this
Board that the future prosperity of Mercer Uni
versity will be greatly promoted by its removal
to a more eligible location.
"2. Resolved, That, viowing this important sub
ject from this standpoint, wo deem it to lie our
duty to proceed at once to effect this desirable
end. 1st. By communicating oar opinion to the
Georgia Baptist Convention, to secure its assent,
and the co-operation of the denomination
throughout the State. 2d. By the appointment
of a committee to memorialize the next Legisla
ture, asking an amendment ol our charter, ena
bling tho Board to effect removal, ihl. By the
appointment of nn agent to ascertain how large
an amount enn be raised at any one place, in
bonds, notes, uml donations, which can lie made
immediately available, conditional upon the re
moval of the University and location there,
and wo will entertain oilers from favorable
places which may desire to have the Institution.
“.'i. Resolved, That in the present attitude ol
our allairs, we will devote our individual energy
to the support of Mercer University at Peiilleld,
until our arrangements lor removal are sntislac-
torily made.”
They were adopted after much deliberation,
and the consideration ol them ivies accompanied
by devout supplication lor wisdom from above.
The motive operating upon the mind of the
Board iH, the more clliciently to accomplish the
design ol the good men who laid its foundation
more than a generation since.
I bis is the first time that the subject ol re
moval has been acted upon by the Board. For
many years iL lias been agitated, and once or
twice discussed in the Georgia Baptist Conven
tion.
At this time the Board, considering the state
ot public seutimcnl on the subject, could not
avoid some action. With this view, and duly
estimating the importance ol a speedy and linal
settlement ot the question, decisive steps-were
deemed to be most prudent and «ise.
If removal will enlarge the sphere of useful
ness, the next question is, can that he done with
out injury to the endowment ? There arc other
questions involved, on which the Board has some
well-considered advice.
It is the interest ol Mercer University which is
committed to the care of the Trustees. Its pros
perity, usefulness, uud success, witii them ispara-
nuiunl to «fl oilier cousideratious.
The Prebdentaud Faculty are still in Peutield.
The exercises will be resumed, os usual, at the
appointed time; and the agitation and discussion
ol this subject need not keep away a single stu
dent. If the Convention shall advise the re
moval, und the amendment to the charter is se
cured, it will then require more thuu one year to
accomplish it.
The late Commencement exercises were en
tirely satisfactory, and in no sense behind similar
occasions in times of prosperity.
The Board saw proper to appoint me the agent
under the third section of resolution two. I,
therefore, invite correspondence and proposition!
from brethren, communities, uud corporations
towns and cities. D. E Butler,
President B. T. M. U.
It will he seen iu the foregoing, Unit the gentle
man whose signatsui .^’^henari.Aattireclod
"to ascertain how large au amount can be secured
at iu,y oue place, in bonds, nolcs, and donations
which can be made immediately available, con
ditioned upon the removal of the University and
location there,” and Hint offers will lie entertain
ed "Irom favorable places which may desire'to
have the Institution.” It is to this we would re
spectfully direct the attention of our citizens and
city autlioritics. All who have any knowledge
of the past history of Mercer University arc aware
of tho fact that it has been one ol the most suc
cessful institutions of learning in our State; and
all who have any knowledge oi Atlanta, are
aware, too, of the tact that it lint needs the es
tablishment iu it of some such institution ol
learning to make her progress an onward one in
the cause of education, ns it has been in all
other material matters. Indeed,ourown “Gate
City ” is sadly lacking in a matter so important
to its future growtli and prosperity, to-wit, “ in
stitutions of learning” in her midst. 01 com
mon schools for either sex, slio lias had, and still
bus, her (air proportion. Beyond this she must
venture, and the opportunity now presents itsell
in the foregoing proposition of “ Mercer Uni
versity.” There is no city in our State that pre
sents as favorable inducements lor flic location
of this most excellent institution in its midst, or
vicinity, us Atlanta does, and none that needs
such nib institution more. We trust that our city
authorities and citizens will 11 1cuke up" to their
interests in tins matter, aud that they will not
let escape them the opportunity now presented
of advancing the great cause of education in
their midst.
Confederate Paroles.—We very much in
cline to the belief that the paragraph going the
rounds of the papers to the effect that General
Grant had written a letter to General Pope, de
claring Ids concurrence in the views ol the latter
that a Confederate officer who opposes the Slier-
inau-SlicIlalmrger acts violates Ids parole, is en
tirely without foundation— that is, that no Hitch
correspondence occurred.
Tire (ollowing parole issued by General Grant,
uud which is the paper signed hy the .Confeder
ate army, would seem to settle the matter with
out iurther inquiry:
HvADuexKTEiu United States Fokcks, I
, tort. (
“I, the undersigned, ,n of the
, do solemnly swear that 1 will not hear
linns against the United States of America, or
give any information, or dp any military duty
whatsoever until regularly exchanged ns a pris
oner ol war. . Description: height ,
huir , eyes , complexion .
1 certify that the above parole ivns given by
me on the dale above written, on the lollotviiig
conditions: The above named person is allowed
to return to his home, not to lie disturbed hy the
uolilury authorities of the United States so long
us he observes this parole aud obeys the laws
which were In force previous to January 1,1S01,
where he resided.
By order of Brigadier General .
Captain and Provost Marshal.
Sumner on Walhussia.—We acknowledge
a copy ol the speech of Mr. Charles Sunnier on
Walrussia, under the frank of that honorable
Seualor. It is a hefty document, occupying forty-
cighl pages, royal octavo, and wo shall do our
selves the pleasure to look into Us merits at our
earliest convenience, if ever. We have only
room at present for the following significant ex-
raet:
“The trees are abundant, aud they are perfect
in size, not unlike
“ The tallest pine
Hewn on Norwe«lan hilla lo be tbe luaat
Of some great admiral.''
Pooty, aiut it V _
As farmers are often at a distance from meal
oiuikets, the following directions for keeping
meal may he of use to those who try it: Cut the
meat into slices ready to fry. Pack it iu a jar iD
layers, spriukling witii salt uud pepper just
enough to rnnke it palulalde. Pack on tho top
a thick paper or elolh, with salt halt an inch
thick. Keep this on all the while. The meat
wdi riiuuiu sweet and fresh several weeks.
The snobs arc about to be made happy once
more. A'exis, youngest son ol the Czar oi all
the Rusaias, is advertised to visit the United
States iu a short time.
The Tciiucmco Klccllonm
Tho elections in Tennessee occurred yesterday.
From the tone ol the press throughout tho State,
and in many instances the outrageous and incen
diary proceedings oi tho Radical party, a good
deal of trouble, and perhaps bloodshed, was np
prehended. Brownlow and his satellites had
made every arrangement to secure his election
and there is no doubt in our mind that they have
been successful, though some ol the more sail
giiinc of the Conservatives indulged hopes ol his
defeat, lint upon wlmt grounds these hopes were
based we could not see.
A Iriend, in McMinn county, East Tennessee,
writing life day previous to the election, snys:
“ About the election, the Conservatives arc
still hopeiul of good results. I saw a letter to
day Irom a gentlemnn of Nashville, who keep
Ihoioughly posted iu such matters, in which lie
states that the party there confidently believe
Etheridge will heat Brownlow for Governor—
that the Conservatives stand a good chance of
electing six ol the eight members to Congress, and
that lie (eels certain they will elect a majority in
lioth branches ol lliu Legislature.”
Wo trust the writer is correct in his calcula
tions, ns there is uot a patriot in all the land who
would cot rejoice to know that the bold, had and
wicked man who fills the position ol Governor ol
Tennessee had been defeated, and llmt the poo
pie nl the Stale were in luturo to he relieved from
such a terrible atlliction. But wo are afraid it
will lie otherwise, and Hint they have still great
er and worse evils, if possible, to endure at ids
hands, emboldened as lie will bo by a re-election,
We shall probably be able by to-morrow to tell
how it has resulted. As additional evidence ol
the peculiar style of the Radicals in conducting
tlie canvass in Tennessee, wo copy below a spe
cinl dispatch to the Nashville Banner :
Knoxville, July 30, 1807.
Messrs. Etheridge and Williams were not per
nulled lo spea'Rjft Jaekshorn to-day. Afle
making nn altcu|pL the Radical element was si
liirmidalila am) threatening that they desisted
As they were leaving the town a crowd tired
several shuts at them, and Mr. Williams was
si ruck in tlie hack witii a stone und severely
wounded.
To-day Mr. Etheridge spoke at Clinton lo
large crowd. The Conservatives were largely in
the majority.
A light occurred tiller the speaking, in which
John Woods, Conservative, of this county, was
hurt. Tlie aggressors were caught and punished
severely.
Plillllpa-CIiase—Grant.
Tlie Anli/SInrerg Standard is the organ of
Wendell Phillips, and Wendell Phillips is the
representative man of New England radicalism
Recently Phillips Inis taken alarm and doesn’t
like the look oftlie political prospect. He thinks
there is a good deal of bargain and intrigue on
hand to client tlie radicals proper out oftlie Pres
idential nomination, and is not desposed to re
main entirely quiescent while such tilings are
going on. lie don’t like Chase, and bus a per
t contempt, it not hatred, for Grant and Henry
Wilson. Ben Wade seems to lie something ol a
favorite with him, and yet he is not quite pie
in d to endorse the Old Buckeye.
A late number of tlie Standard bus a charac
Icristic article on thWuiibji -wlmt might bn me
privprlnudy termini n jVcler— in 'which tlie three
first named distinguished individuals nro dis
posed ol in quite an off-hand manner. Tlie ar
ticle seems to have been written about tlie close
oi the late extra session of Congress. We quote
from it as follows:
Mr. Chase’s mania lor I lie Presidential ollicc is
a melanelioly exhibition of which we have had
nmr.y painful examples among our public men.
Notwithstanding Hie activity o( his friends, and
the wealth ot the hank interest pledged to his
support, we tell him plainly Hint lie has uot tlx:
ghost ol a chance, lie Inis no popular strength
whatever. The mention ol his name uiukes not
a single ripple of lecliug or enthusiasm ill any
quarter. Why will lie not save himself from in
evitable mortification und disgrace hy refusing
longer to draggle the robes of his high otlice ill
the mire ol caucuses and conventions?
The Grant laetion, led by Henry Wilson, is
just now in tlie ascendant, and they confidently
expect to dragoon tlie Radical Republicans into
his support hy tlie old cry of expediency, and
the permanent importance of success. These
are the same tactics that saddled us with An-
dtew Johnson; and we give these gentlemen
fair wanting Hint we slml! light that nomination
to the bust extremity. Tlie cause ol liberty in
this country is not to he Add out twice on the
same plan without a determined struggle. The
Republican party Inis n number oi statesmen,
any one of whom, on a Radical platform, would
he unobjectionable, and would receive our hearty
support. Prominent among these is Old Ben.
Wade. We are uot, however, wedded to tlie in
terest of any candidate, but the attempt to crowd
down our throats a man of doubtful generalship
and unknown principles, will he resisted witii
every weapon we can command.
(Jelling Nervous.
The New York Herald is becoming nervous
over the prospective result of reconstruction in
some of the Southern Stales—that some things
are likely lo occur not thought ol at. the incep
tion of Hie programme, and which may not
prove of nn altogether pleasing character even
lo the blackest of radicals. The Herald sees, or
pretends to see, that the negroes, under the gui
dance of the leaders of that parly in the North,
will hold the balance of political power in the
South. It says Hie expectations of the whites
that they would lie able to control tlicir former
slaves, will not lie realized, and it is quite likely,
that journal adds, that there will he several ne
groes eleeteil lo Congress, and probably Senators
Sumner, Wade mid Chandler may have ebony
fellow-citizens sitting beside them in the Senate
chamber. When a negro is chosen to preside
over a State convention iu South Carolina, is it
uot reasonable to suppose several limy lie sent to
Congress, especially when we consider that in
many districts tlie negro vote is overwhelming?
Our distinguished New York cotemporary
merits commendation for its enterprise in hav
ing at lust discovered something that lias been
patent to the commonest understanding ever
since tlie adoption oi tlie Reconstruction acts
(if course, negroes will be di eted to Congress—
of course, the negro will exude in the same
chamber with Messrs. Sumner, Wilson, Wade Sc
Co. Why not? Isn't lie it “man and a bio
tlier,” and who shall step between him and the
lijeet ol his new-born ambition ?
If they will ki 3p an eye to windward, before
lung the Herald a id ilseo laborers will no doubt
liscover other aid more startling tendencies
.’lowing out of those measures, and which were
not at all calculated upou by them at the com
mencement of their work of destruction.
Dr. Stanton.—Staulou bus beeu made a
Doctor ot Laws, and Yale did the business for
him. The Secretary ot War can now repose
n Ids laurels. There was some discussion as
lo whether Stanton or Jack Hamilton should
receive this honor—hut it was decided that
Jack would have to wait. Brownlow will lie
next candidate. His chances have greatly im
proved since tlie Franklin riot. His frieiids lire
confident that his turn will come next. We
congratulate Yule ii|Hin its enterprise.
Cl.inch County.—The Savannah Newt d-
llrrald Inis been |iermilled to peruse a letter from
E. PdLbuiy, Register, and fmu it ascertain Hint
is4 voters have registered iu Clinch eouuty ,a large
majority of whom were white—the only colored
persons in that county being those employed on
tlie hue of the railroad, la Coffee county tlie
register expresses an opinion that the total vote
Will not exceed 450.
A Word (o our Vouiie Mon.
Tlie young men oi tho South, us a result of
the war, arc placed in a state of dependence, re
quiting tlie exercise ol every manly and heroic
virtue. Their own high hearts mid stalwart
arms must mold their future destinies. A con
viction of this fact, in its vigorous application to
well-directed energy, will [ic worth more to them
than a legacy of wealth. If they need exam
ples, let them look to the post, and learn how
most of the great men, whose names adorn tlie
history ol the world, wero, in a great measure,
“scll-irtndo men.” The light of their experience
will cheer them in the midst oi present adver
sity. To "labor and to wait" is the law of suc
cess in every department of life. Tlie path of
preferment is not always through blooming val
leys, and over shaded uplands: yet with knowl
edge and virtue ns Ilia ineonlives, tlie fountain
of truth nt length will lie gained and tlie laurel
of honor won. Thought opens the avenues to'
success, and labor accomplishes its practical
ends. Devotion, in part, to the business pursuits
of life, docs not necessarily imply neglect to tlie
intellectual powers. A division ol time between
mental and physical labor gives health and
strength to body and mind. Riches are vain
tilings; taking Hie wings of invisibility, they
lice away, leaving their possessor only the sha
dow ol a phantom as the reward of toil. In
deed, everything in life is valueless, when com
pared with tlie pearls of wisdom, virtue, and
truth. A young man should esteem knowledge
greater Hiatt wealth; lie should value hooks
more than orient gems; lie should remember
that tho very hooks which lie,discards, during Ids
leisure hours, for the saloon, the card table, tlie
place of amusement, are of such universal inter
est to mankind, ns,no? unfrcquciitly to contain
within their neglected pages, nil that is treasured
hy tin: philosopher, the historian, the statesman,
und the poet. If lie would live in ignorance of
the past, the wisdom orantiquity, let him (ail to
improve lli&gLmpuntunilies, though few they lie,
which lie liSt^md' h from his daily pursuit
ui the da4u<w nl ignorance will he his.
The in^utiiuo with which our country lias
-cii hlctfl.dWhlfsl opening the path of preferment
dike tn'a|Dncvcr yet, aside from his own oxer-
linos, clejBpi a young mail to positions of use
fulness.’ $$fh ilst, under our form of government
the clistN-es ol success are more generally dis
tributed, the necessity for personal exertion is Iu
like ratio Increased. Determined to excel, it.
tilers not how formidable may appear the ob
stacles in the way, the prize nt, length will ho
won. The pages of history, philosophy, science
ind poetry, are a perpetual fountain of inspira-
< ,n. Let us take, fur example, tlie Bible. This,
i oi lier hooks, is as the ocean to the rivulet. Its
igliesl wisdom is in its revelation oi the origin
and destiny of man. A history of the creation of
the heavens and the earth, with a knowledge ol
Him whose power nnd wisdom, Irom a world ol
linos, created Hie universe, is something which
the young dare not ignore as a pagan dream.—
nig men cannot afford to close their eyes
h the light ol nature, and tlie precepts of expe-
Tlicy should remember also that tlie
story of Thebes and Baliylun, tlie wisdom ol
■idem Greece nnd Rome, witii the count
less revolutions in government, society, morals,
religion and law, which ior sixty centuries have
louvulsed Hie world, have been Providentially
transmitted to them, as so many historic le
gacies of the past. They cannot appreciate
lie events ol the present, unless by tbe aid of
knowledge they are enabled to trace their relu-
ion lo the past. The sky that bends above
them is not so lieantiliil, without tlie lingering
stars the Imiul of scicncu paints in tlie dim twi
light of tho past. It they would learn wisdom,
acquaint themselves with their own heaven-ap
pointed destinies, they must give culture to their
minds, courage to their hearts, awake lo the
new era upon Hutu,nnd go forward in the march
of human progress. Everything is onward, on
ward forever. They cannot afford to lag in u
progressive nge. They have duties to perform,
responsibilities to incur, whose inlluencc is linn mi
ss as existence, and endless as the soul. They
should know that whilst living within them
selves, they yet subsist upon the food of minds
long since passed away, if lliey would rcacli tlie
under summit of their lives. If they rely
upon the pleasures of present enjoyment, they
wifi prove as barren ol happiness as the sterile
rock. They must, learn that lifi: lias 'nit little
present existence. The things of to-day arc
evanescent as die rosy lints upon the sunset
cloud. Every heart-throb, and every impulse of
the soul, must either cling to some idol ol Hie
past, or leap forward with brighter anticipations
to Hie future. Life is cither an eternal past or
an eternal future. How necessary, then, is it to
nurture it with a knowledge ot both I
Instead of groveling in ignorance, instead ol
becoming tlie slaves of darkness, our young men
have cause to lie thankful that the opportunities
of acquiring knowledge and wisdom are theirs
—that every avenue to success is fully and freely
open to them. They live in an nge, despite the
social and political disorders immediately sur
rounding them, In which tlie whole earth is being
l-.t up with a Hume ol light-the fountains ol
learning and truth pouring in upon tlie human
mind. They have cause tube thankful, however
ursed with laetion, that they live in a land of
hooks where the Bible is taught, religion upheld,
and virtue respected, even in the midst of the
most damning political heresies. Then let them
ntlier hope from despair, nnd success Irom de
feat, remembering Hint their minds may, with
per training and culture untold, and their
hearts expand, in tlicir advancement to perfec
tion, till at Icugllrnll human excellence attained,
tbe life of earth will imperceptibly mingle with
tlie life of heaven. Russell.
Rumors ok War.—Tho Baltimore Gazette,
alluding to tlie rumors of war Irom Europe, ex
presses the opinion that peace between I’russia
and France cannot he much longer maintained.
uly a lew mouths ago these two powers were
on the very verge nl a collision, but France, not
being so thoroughly prepared as her adversary,
manifested so great an inclination for peace that
I’russia could not well force the quarrel in the
face of the remonstrances ot the rest of Europe.
Napoleon lias, however, made the most ot tlie
respite afforded him, and will not bo now likely
to decline the combat, and, indeed, may bimsell
challenge it.
Repudiation.—The National Tntelligcnecr
says the work of repudiation and confiscation,
so plainly begun nt tlie last session of Congress,
ill undoubtedly be prosecuted at the next
session. It amounts to a general system of :i
livision ot property in accordance with the
principles of what Sir. Wade considers ns
Radical righteousness.” Tlie property of in
dividuals is to lie absorbed by the Radical rulcis.
Ill this greet game it is easy to see that tho
Government will get nothing, nud that tlie
people will lose everything. The usurping
Radical demagogues will sweep Hie hoard.
Death of a Ff.nian.—Sergeant John Lynch,
of Cincinnati, a member of tlie Fenian army
under General O’Neill, which invaded Can
ada iu June, 1860, died at the hospital of tlie
Sisters of Charity in Buffalo, at 9 o’clock on
the morning of the 26th ot a gunshot wound
received at the “battle" of Ridgway,
■ ol till-
Tho following beautiful extract is Irom the
speech of Hie Hon. James Bhookh, nl New
York, delivered in Congress, on (lie Till of July
lust:
Mr. Speaker, in flaming this hill no regard Inis
been paid lo, tlie history ol Hie past, not even to
a sentiment nor a recollection. When the name
of Greece or Rome or any classic land nr classic
institution is tingled iu our curs, whenever we
read of them in history, there is associated with
the Parthenon, nr with Marathon, or with the
Pantheon, tlie Capitolina Hill, or Tnrpcian rock,
something Unit touches tlie heart anil makes the
blood run warmly through all our veins. But
here is a Slate across tlie Potomac whoso history
is ours, Hint dirt more lor tlie creation oi this
government tlian any oilier Stale whatever: u
State more classic nitrl glorious in its history than
lire Parthenon ol Greece nr the Puntlicm ot
Rome; a State struck oat of existence tiy tlie
first section of this infamous hill. Sir, 1 have
been upon the plains oi,Marathon and by the
passes of Tliermopylie, add my heart has warm
ed ns I reflected upon tips history of the nolrle
Greeks Unit there saved 4»’-u- native land; but
never, never, amid all surti classic scenes have I
ever lelt. the enthusiasm which Inspired me upon
Hie rising grounds of Mount Vernon, liclnrc tlie
tomb of Washington, or upon the plains of
Montpelier, or upon tiunhciglils of Moutieello,
nr when I have lalleu on my knees before the
tomb of Marshall. In IIO part ol tin-earth wher
ever au American may go, in no place where
history makes a record of life, is tin-re ground so
classic and so glorious ns Hint within a fitly
miles’ radius around the city of Richmond, in
Virginia. There, within that radius, was horn
the father of ids country; there Unshed nut the
fiery and electric eloquence of Patrick Henry;
I here was horn the President ol the first Con
gress; there the homes ot Hie Randolphs and
Harrisons; there the illustrious Jefferson anil
Madisqn and Monroe; there was horn our Win
field Scott, and there have been nursed into ex
istence some of the most illustrious commanders
of our own Federal Army.
And yet this State whose record is thus bright
all over in history, a deformed Congress, a muti
lated Congress, a Congress bom from the blood
and genius of Virginia, strikes out from tlie
Union t hat glorious star, the star ot Virginia, a
lost pleiad in our own history ; a pleiad that will
return hack with some returning orb to shine
brighter and more beautiful in the constellation
ot our country, brighter than Orion or the
Pleiades ever shone in Urn nslronuiilical history
of the geographer.
South Carolina, ton, is struck tint, (lie land ol
Rutledge und ol l’iuekney, and of Marion, and
ot Sumter; Georgia, also, Unit gave the country
the two great Stales of Mississippi and Alabama.
Sir, whatever may have been the. errors oi those
Stales of the original thirteen, whatever wrongs
in tlie misjudgmenl of the Constitution they may
have inflicted upon the country, whatever crimes
they may have commuted, in tlie warmth
your hearts, if you were lint men iu your In-lings
and sympathies, you would feel now ns you feel
lor struggling Greece nc-for Hie Cretans in tlicir
contest witii tlie Turks, who are nut iullielim
upon thane people barbarities iu principle great
or than those you propose to iutlict in Hie act
before you.
Ilndlcaliam In Tonuesaec.
Below we have another illustration oi Hie re
bellions and incendiary teachings of radicalism
in Tennessee. And ju-1 what radicalism lias
produced in Tennessee, will it produeo in Geor
gia, and oilier Boutliern Stales, unless check
mated. The article is xuiieiI from the
villa Union ot tlie2fitli:
Monday was Ethetjlku's appointment at
Eli-zaheiliton. Maynsrrfyfts‘lisinil, ivus harking
at. his heels, nnd though informed thill- uml again
Hint it division ot timewmdd not lie granted hint,
ho had Hie impudence to ask it here. Being ol
iur.se again reluscd, Maynard went to tlie Metho
dist clmrcli, witii nearly nil the darkeys and
leaguers, and Etheridge spoke in the Presbyterian
church, to an audience of well-dressed and or
lerly people, about thirty ladies were present,
aud all while. Etheridge had Spoken about two
hours, and though frequently disturbed hy drunk
en Rads, had not been interrupted. But ns lie
was just about commencing the concluding nnd
most lienulilul partot Ins speech, tlie low unit
teringsof a company iu the street betokened the
approaching storm. Then curses and oaths ol
the most, horrid character were vociferated
against him and all who dare bo free, i. e. Onn-
scrvntivos; and in a moment more a young man,
tiger-drunk,” and hacked by some hall dozen
or more congenial spirits just outside of tlie
loor, stepped into the church, walked about half
way down (lie aisle, and in loud tones announced,
Emerson Etheridge can’t speak ill this place,”
accompanying the threat witii a fearlul oath,
made doubly so by its utterance in the sanctuary
in the presence ni'Indies, and nl the game time
lrew a revolver from his licit, deliberately cock
’d, nnd presented it at Mr. Etheridge. Fora
moment it looked indead as ii lie mold uot
peak in that place, and might never speak any
where else. The crowd sprang to their feet.
The ladies screamed, raised the windows, nnd
some jumped nut. But in an instant Captain
Garter, who sat. near by, sprang lint ween tlie
bully ami tin* speaker, turned the pistol down
ward, and wrenched the murderous weapon
Irom his grasp; ami Esq. Burrow caused an un
ceremonious and sudden exit of tlie young gen
tleman into the middle of the front yard. Quite
an excited crowd of Radicals gathered at the
door, and some came inside, and threatened re
venge; talking about “one of our hoys being
imposed upon,” “ seeing tlie tiling through,” etc.
By tlie influence nl tho better class nl citizens,
however, of lioth parties, the disturbance ceased,
Mr. Etheridge closed witii a lew remarks, nnd sn
the matter ended, much to tlie discredit, we are
sorry to think, of “old Garter.” Wliat a fearlul
commentary upon the liberty of speech.
Tlie lncts as above staled rye gel Irom a relia
ble eye-witness.
Enouuii of the Fast.—The New York San,
which Inis been inclined of late to wink nt the
reconstruction ideas of tlie Radicals, now avows
itself litcd oftlie obstructions and delays toward
a more perteet union. Now, we are told:
The North is hlamenlile lor Hie intemperate
manner in which tlie extremists act upon tlie
question of reconstruction. Whatever tire de
gree of culpability may lie, however, it must he
admitted that it would he heller for both sides,
and the country generally, il animosity were
now dropped, and its place supplied by that ex
cellent Christian maxim—charity towards all;
malice toward none. We have had enough of
the past, let it now lie forgotten. It can do no
good to gaze upon or brood over it, aurl tlie best
policy is to draw a veil over its dark scenes, turn
away, and henceforth look only to tlie bright
nnd Imppy future.
[communicated. 1
Meeting In I’HiillierHVlIlu District, lie
Knllr Count)', Georgia.
A citizens’ meeting ol this district having been
called to return tlicir tlmnks to tlie donors of
corn sent them through Col. (!. J. Forcocre, os
their agent, this day assembled nt said district.
Judge Z. R. Jones was called to the Gluiir, and
Rev. 0. W. Morris requested to act ns Secretary.
The Chairman ivas called upon to state the ob
ject of tlie meeting, which lie did in a few brief
and feeling remarks.
Tlie following preamble and resolutions were
offered by Hie Rev. G. VV. Morris:
Whereas, A farmers 1 meeting ol said district
was held on the 18th of May last, for tho pur
pose of devising a plan to procure corn for the
present emergency, and to assist in tlie coinplo-
tion of tho present crop; therefore, Col. G. J.
Foreacrc was appointed agent ior the district, to
make tlicir wants known before the benevolent
societies of tlie Western States; and, ii possible,
procure corn to subsist themselves and stock
upym, and aid. them in completing tiro present
crop. Faithful to the confidence reposed, Col.
Foreacrc repaired to Tennessee, Kentucky, and
Ohio, and procured some eight hundred bushels
of corn for the relief of the district, which was
duly received by the Relief Committee of said
district, and distributed hy them as nearly equal
to the needy of said district as they could, irre
spective of color, and to the general satisfaction
of all the participants, who nuntlier 1,284 per
sons, and 248 plow horses ; ’therefore,
llesolml, Tlmt we, the farmers ol I’nntlicrs-
vilie District, assembled this day for tlie purpose
of tendering our united thanks to Col. G. J.
Foreacrc, for his response to our cal), and the
faithful manner in which lie carried out our re
quest, we therefore tender to him our thanks for
Hie great favor coulerred in the lime of our great
need; and feel it a privilege to recommend him
as being entirely worthy of the confidence of the
citizens wherever liis lot may he cast.
llesolml, That we tender our grateful thanks
to Messrs. Dickey & Smith, of Nashville, Ten
nessee, lor ten sacks of corn donated to us; to
W. M. Cook, Esq., of Nashville, Tennessee, for
forty sacks of corn ; to the Rev If. Rope Yea-
man, of Covington, Kentucky, lor titty sacks ol
corn ; to Samuel A. Hiller, Esq., of Louisville,
Kentucky, for one hundred and twenty-three
sacks of corn und two boxes of bacon ; nnd-to
W. S. Hazard, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for one hun
dred and fifty sacks of corn—all of which was
leived in due time by the Relief Committee,
Wualiiiigtoii (;ohn1|».
Tho correspondent of tlie Baltimore. Sun
writes llmt, by direction nt the President a
proclamation lias been prepared, in accordance
with the resolution of the House, warning fili
busters that tlie penalties oftlie law will he visit
ed upon them, etc. But unless there shall Ire
more evident movements in tlie direction of
Mexico hy filibusters, the proclamation will not
he promulgated.
As yet tliu President lias not designated nn
officer to lake command of Hie fifth district, in
place of General Sheridan, who, il is understood,
will shortly lie relieved from his present service
nnd assigned to some other. About hull a dozen
nunics have been suggested, and the probability
is that General Hancock may lie assigned to the
command.
There is good authority for saying that it was
not, nor is it intended to relieve all the district
commanders, nnd the President has never enter
tained tire idea oi relieving any ol them, save
General Sheridan. II tlie latter Bind’, lie assigned
to other duty, it is understood that such action
will not be based upon the letter of General
Sheridan lo General Grant, in which tlie Attor
ney General’s opinion is characterized as “open
ing a broad macadamized road lo perjury,” but
upon the opinion ol tlie President that a less
partisan and more temperate aud liberal military
officer than General Sheridan should have com
mand of the States of Louisiana and Texas; one
that will execute the reconstruction acts to the
letter, and yet not recognize Hie behests of party
or faction.
“ Leo,” of the Charleston Mercury, sends Ins
paper the following:
The nomination of General Grant lor the next
Presidency, by Hie Republican Committee of the
State and city of New Y'ork, is n bomb shell
thrown into tlie Radical camp. Its explosion
has already broken up the unity of the party,
and will scatter far and wide its ‘'disjecta mem
bra." Greeley denounces tire movement as a
trick of Thurlow Weed and other conspirators
against tlie life of true Republicanism. It Grant,
lie says, falls into Weed’s clutches, lie will expe
rience the fate oi Oliver Twist in the hands ol
Fagiu. Weed, lie says, wil leach li#n to steal.
So Grant, according to Greeley, is lo lie Iqilnap*
ped and forced to dmHie jvdVk of Ihe^RaSjcu]
thieves. Congress, xnnPilrtwii-tiiinTs pnw^ps
doing this work very effectually already. ,
The Nfl^Yo(k Timet is lo follow tlie lead of
tlje CMMHuL%Hb:ed’s organ, and support
.ut’s uomiqutituiXlpjie New York 'Iribmu
HaejUs tjjj whSeTbtNEsj^w liich is now ex-
cTlefl and active. Tlie Radical party is breaking
upfinlo cliques. Tlie leaders will be divided, tin
llieyVll look to spoils, as the result of their lii-
jrofcg. -But there is much truth in the position
Tennessee—The Condition There.
The election for Governor, members to JJon-
gress, and to the State Legislature, takes ^mcc
in Tennessee to-morrow. Difficulties,.riot and
bloodshed arc apprehended, anti extraordinary
precautionary measures arc being adopted to
prevent their occurrence.
In tlie New Y'ork Times, of the 20lli, is pub
lished a letter irom Nashville, which gives a plain
unvarnished statement of the condition of nf-
firirs in the "volunteer State,” aud we subjoin
a portion of il below, in order that our readers
may see to wliat radicalism lias led in Tcunessec,
mid to wlmt it iB leading wherever it 1ms gained
a foothold. The writer says:—and we know
Irom oilier sources that he docs not color or ex
aggerate—
From much talk witii tlie Northern people
lately, I find that llio real condition oi things is
not understood, nnd the motives and purposes of
tlie people are singularly perverted and misap
prehended.
Our condition is n terrible one, ns a plain state
ment of facts wifi show. Our main trouble is
at present u threatened war of races. This, good
men everywhere aye striving to avert, and bv
extraordinary exertions we hope to avert it. It
pctual parly and sectional strife, and desire Hie
pacification and restoration oftlie Union,which,
as they believe, can be secured hy tlie election of
General Grant as President.
If it be true, as alleged, that Grant is tints put
consisting ol Rev. Joseph M. Iluey, HeTTI!.*Weed, that the people are tired of per-
Fnwler, Rev. George W. Morris, James Burns,
Esq., and W. L. Williams, Esq., and distributed
is before mentioned; lor which we, tlie farmers
of said district, do join in reluming, tins day,
n"r grateful thanks lor tlie favor conferred, at
the time of our great need—Imping the donors
nl the same will lie amply rewarded in this file,
and reap an everlasting reward in the world to
ciinie—ever praying the blessings of Heaven to
rest upon our benefactors.
All of which was unanimously adopted.
Mr. .1 J. Jones offered the following resolu-
will be impossible, to avoid riots and collisions
in some places, which will result in tlie loss ol
life. People abroad cannot understand this; let
me tell them how it is:
The negroes, wiio are not a ferocious people,
and whose general good conduct during the war
lues made thinking men every where in tlie South
feel kindly disposed toward them, since tlicir en
franchisement have been constantly lectured mid
preached to and prayed with iu loyal leagues ami
churches, hy a set of men who seem to have hut
one virtue, und that tire gift of continuance. They
arc daily promised forty acres of land each and
a good house to live in, and all tire offices of the
land, as soon as au error committed hy the present
Legislature cau he corrected, hy whicli they were
by the only blunder tlie Radicals admit they
have made, excluded Irom holdiug office and sit
ting on juries. They are told, in the most posi
tive mariner, that the fuilurc ol Brownioiv will
he the re-enslavement of tlie negro beyond ques
tion, and they are made to believe that in Hie ap
proaching election they ought, if it becomes ne
cessary, to light, and they will lie lighting for
tlicir own freedom when they do it.
With tlie prestige of being thcirspecial friends
who freed them, you can readily see wlmt im
pression such arguments will make upou tlie
minds of an ignorant people. It must he con
fessed that but lew ol our people have taken any
pains to remove these impressions and to put Hie
colored man rigid, at least not until very lately,
aud not until they had well nigh all beeu sworu
in on the side of hostility to the while people.—
This state of tilings, it is not’ to he denied, lias
produced much hud Idood, especially among
people who only look at lncts os they are, with- •
out much reference lo causes or effects. These
grievances are much augmented hy tlie enormi
ties of the men in power—a few men who are in
power hy accident, and from whom, toward the
while people, there is never a kind word, never
a single law made looking to the interests ol tlie
people, never a word of consultation with the
The Federal Union.—This respectable jour
nal has reached its thirty-eighth volume. The
editor, In alluding to the fact, says:
The present issue concludes tho thirty-seventh
volume of tlie Federal (luiiin. A lew names
remain on our bonks who Imve walked hand in
hand with the paper since its birth. They have
rend it in the liesl days of tlie Republic, and
lliey cling to it still, in tlie dark and sorrowlul
moments ol Hie nation’s agony. We intend to
keep tlie principles under which wo luive so
long (ought inscribed upon our banner iu letters
ol living light as long as a vestige ol our liber
ties remains; and when we can no longer advo
cate these principles we will draw the drapery
of dentil about tlie old paper aud let her die in
peace.
Health ok Macon,—The Telegraph, ni yes
terday, is sorry to know that considerable sick
ness prevails in different sections of Macon. The
diseases are principally intermittent fevers, chills
and many cases of summer complaint, caused by
over-indulgence in Iruit. No oue can lie too care
ful in eating unripe Iruit—es|iecinlly watermel
ons—as wo Imve heard of some severe ruses ol
cramps induced hy eating green melons. Such
indulgence may be good for the doctor, lait is
anything bill pleasant for tire sufferer.
Death ok Judoe Totten.—Hon. A. O. W.
Totten died at his home iu Jackson, Madison,
county, Tennessee, ou Tuesday of last week.—
lie was at one tunc Judge ol the Supreme Court
of Tennessee, and dignified that high bench with
a wisdom and impartiality that wss creditable to
bis reputation as a lawyer, and wou for him dis
tinction as a judge.
tion :
Resolved, Tlmt we, the citizens nl this district
do tender our united thanks to tlie Distribution
Committeo for tlie just and equitable manner in
which they managed and distributed the above
named corn.
Unanimously adopted.
Z. It. Jones, Chairman.
G. W. Mounts, Secretary.
Panthersville, July 23th, 1807
Meanness.—Anyone who would like to see
tho personification of meanness in a dogskin will
have Ids curiosity gratified hy hunting up the in
dividual who inis charge of the Washington
C'/ironiele iu tlie absence of Secretary Forney.
That journal has lor some time past been charg
ing the President with a want, of intention to en
force lire reconstruction laws. This lias been its
daily vocation lor months. But the National
Intelligencer having recently announced in a se
mi-official manner that tlie President would exe
cute those laws, tlie Chronicle, witii characteristic
meanness, goes oil in the following stylo: “So,
liter all the terrible tlireatenings, direful prophe
cies, and tearful bluster of Andrew Johnson and
ferry Black, Hie President will execute tlie ‘un-
couflilulional,’ ‘tyrannical,’ ‘despotic’ law just
passed hy Congress over ids veto ;" nnd so on
through n half column of sneering, jeering,
lioolhoy taunts. Such ill-mannered spleen and
bitterness is unworthy even tlie dog in Hie man
ger, and should draw upon Forney’s representa
tive the contempt even oftlie most unscrupulous
Radicals.
Fi.vnkevism,—General Grant wo believe is
only it limn; but if we may put faith in the ut
terances ol Jenkins, lie is a god, or a demigod.
His journeys to and Irom Ids barber's simp—the
hours at which lie rises and goes to bod, the
number ol ounces ol food lie partakes oi daily,
the color and cut ol his garments, are all libe
rally “ done up ” in print every morning, nnd
the important intelligence is, no doubt, greedily
ievoured, or it would not ho furnished. Such
mnu-worsliip is disgusting in the extreme to
cnsihle people, nnd is degrading to the national
character. It may do lor a nation of flunkeys,
but for il people who boast ot freedom and supe
rior intelligence, it is the meanest kind of pabu
lum. So says the New York Courier, which isn
live paper, and always readable.
Texas.—A correspondent at San Antonio,
Texas, writes to a New York paper:
1 am confident there wifi lie a lair and just re
gistration throughout the State. The only ex
ceptions will he in the sparsely settled portions,
where a few lawless men control the people
rattier through tear tlian in any other way.
While many portions of the South are suffering
for food, Texas tins enough and to spare, witii a
prospect of a larger crop of grain than ior years,
it is quite likely Hie cotton crop will he less than
last year, yet at tlie present time it is impossible
to make any correct estimate. To a Northern
man the price of beef here is astonishing; good
beeves that will kill from 600 to SOO pounds can
he purchased lor $10 or 12 a head, and as nearly
one-third of all the cattle in the United States
are in Texas there is comparatively no end to
tiic quantity.
“ Ltus Deo !"—Is tlie exclamation of tlie New
York Courier iu announcing tlie scattering of the
Rump Parliament, and then follows:
Congress lues adjourned! Tho President is
not impeached! Tlie whisky and tobacco frauds
have not been checked I Tho Indian war still
“ rages!” The State of Tennessee remains in a
condition of anarchy! The cotton crop ol the
South bids lair to lie a good one, notwith
standing tlie appearance of the “ army worm I"
The military commanders of tlie five districts
have unlimited power, and lliey can do as they
please with their serls and vassals! Mr. Seward
can not pay lor Walrussia! Sandlord Conover
lias beeu saved, for tlie present, from commenc
ing iris ten years ol imprisonment! Surratt is
still on trial, and things generally are in n mud
dle, and are likely to remain so until November,
when Congress will meet again to muddle ’em
a little more.
Tub Crops.—The Savannah Republican pub
lishes tlie following extract of a letter received
from a large planter of Dougherty county, Geor-
gill!
"I Imve just made a Hying trip lo Baker, Miller,
and Decatur counties, amt am happy hi i» able
to iulorui you tlmt the crops having received the
proper attention and cultivation, arc as good as
Hie lauds can make. Crops generally Imve been
well worked. Cotton crop was never better in
I this section at this season of ihe year.”
forward hy means ol a spontaneous movement people hy those in power. Nothing is
■ • • ■ over done at Hie Executive Muusion nr iu tlie
Legislature except with an eye to Hie perpetua
tion of their own power, the settled poliey lor
the accomplishment of which now is the degra
dation of the white people and tlie elevation
over them of tlicir former slaves.
In some ot tlie counties under their franchise
laws there are not us many white men allowed
to vote as there are offices to be filled. In other
counties under these laws, which in tlie aggre
gate exclude more than lonr-filths of the white
men, there is a larger proportion, but lor lear of
an accident, Hie Legislature eonlerred upon the
Governor, wtio is a candidate for re-election, the
power up to the time of tlie election to set aside
tlie registration whicli had been completed upon
his ow n motion and appoint a new Register.—
ot the popular mind, lie can have no competi
tion. An effort to resist that popular current,
when it shall once set in his lavor, will lie una
vailing. If tlie movement is really begun hy
slinky or lisliy Republicans, ns Greeley alleges,
the I) cmocraLs w ill rush to its support, hoping,
under his lend, to break down the present pow-
erlul organization of the Radical part}’. “ It is
a very pretty quarrel ns it stands.” Tlie ques
tion, Wiio shall lie the next President? will oc
cupy atteution henceforth, till it shall he nn
swered hy the election iu November, ISOs At
tne criming lull elections Mr mate officers it wifi
bo the leading issue.
Meanwhile, it will he remembered tlmt the
extreme Radicals claim Grant ns with them
heart nnd soul—at least to tlie extent of their
entire programme for reconstruction.
The Tribune and (ieneral Grant.
Mr. Greeley is somewhat annoyed at tlie nomi
nation of U. S. G. for the Presidency by the
New York Union Republican Executive Com
mittee, und expresses his disapprobation in lan
guage anything else than ambiguous. Evidences
d au inevitable split in the Republican party
Imve been patent for some time, and there cau
no longer beany doubt about it. Too many great
men iu tlie party, and it is hound to go to pieces
sooner or later—the catastrophe is only a ques
tion of time. The following is tlie closing para
graph of Greeley’s article:
We need not say ‘bat this nomination is in
the interest of tlie Democracy, but il il were
not, we should advise all trading politicians lo
let General Grant aud all our other great gene
rals alone. The people don't want to be engi
neered by fifth rate local clubs; want no Grant,
or Sheridan, or Sherman parties at this day. In
their good time they wifi settle tlie Presidential
piestion, nnd in the meanwhile are only amused
by tlie intense admiration ol Mr. Weed and his
friends for tlie virtue of popularity, and tlicir in
satiable appetite for soup. Since Lee resigned
at Appomattox Courthouse, wo have known no
such attack on General Grant as this. The For
lorn Hope could offer him no greater imperti
nence than to nominate him, for it he Inis I’rcsi-
lential aspirations there is nothing llmt could do
more to lessen his chances than tlie support of
renegade Republicans and tools of Democratic
wire-pullers.
Georgia—Good Nenllineiit.
A correspondent of the New York Repress
wrote from Oxford, Georgia, on the 22d instant:
The grout muss of tlie people, hot Ii white and
colored, are industriously engaged ill making a
subsistence, and if Hie ruling powers on earth
will deal as kindly with us, ns those of heaven
are doing, we may yet he a prosperous and happy
people. However censurable and unwise may
have been the course ol the leaders ot “the great
rebellion,” and however deserving of punish
ment, il would seem must cruel und unjust to
punish tlie whole South, including women und
children, for their misdoings. And yet the nefa
rious acts and threats oftlie Radicals hinder and
distress indiscriminately all classes; it anything
the innocent more than the guilty. IT the party
would but stay their cruel hands, nnd adopt and
carry out the views of Hon. Gerrilt Smith, North
and South would ieel the impulse and witness the
glow of a new prosperity in every department
ot business, and the exhibition of more genial
and kind feelings all over the land. Would to
God this could be I Snd I sad! sad I tlmt people
of kindred ties and interests, cannot live to
gether in unity. O, that great, magnanimous,
lorgiving spirits may rise up, North and South,
and with kind and patriotic words, still tho angry
storm ol sectionalism, which threatens to sweep
away every vestige of the beauty nnd glory of
our unce happy country I
The Oil Bubble.—A Pennsylvania paper
gives the following account of the oil region of
that Stale at present:
A visit to tlie lamous oil regions oi Pennsyl-1 vote am | ti, c negrns earnings, nnd it will do no
Vania reveals a sad scene ol waste and wreck.— . , ",
The reaction from the activity and excitement h*™ 110 waicn mem.
and speculation of two or three years is com j Our Augusta cotemporary says :
plete. The wells have generally been abandon- ! It has been pretty generally circulated in this
ed. The “companies” not caring to save such ] city lor tlie last three days that Hie Frcedmcn’s
small aflairs as steam-engines and tools in the j Savings Hunk has suspended payment Borneo!
wreck of so great hopes, these nro felt lying ' the frmlmen having culled for tho purpose ot
i ,. i i ~.i <i—» -r * drawing out tlie inimey deposited, were informed
that the hank could not pay just now. Tho
This lias lieeu done in all tlie counties where
i here was an ascertained majority against Browu-
low, and in many counties the Brownlow can
didate liir the Legislature lias been appointed the
new Register. In all these counties where new
Registers imve been appointed, no man, white
or black, gets n certificate wiio is not nn avowed
Brownlow man. Men wiio Inuglit through tlie
war on the Union side, as well as men who were
driven Irom home on account of their Union
sentiments, arc everywhere excluded from tlie
ballot. Ill our country there is a rebel Colonel
who 1ms lately liecome a Brownlow mnn. In
the same county is a Federal officer who fought
through the war, but who is not ior Brownlow.
Upon application by the latter for a certificate
lie was told by tlie Register lie could not get it
unless the rebel Colonel would indorse his Union
ism. This rebel Colonel had command of a ra
iment through tho war, aud came home after
the surrender.
Tennessee is tlie only country among civilized
men where elections are held in which the can
didates for office have tlie power to say who
shall vote.
Under this state of tilings you will not be sur
prised when 1 tell you that thousands nt our
people nre clamoring (or a military government,
and lliey would rejoice unutterably to Imve a
military commander placed over them. We are
in tlie condition ol peoples wiio in all ages of
tlie world imve cheerlully tempted kings to rule
over them.
Allow me to say, however, wlmt is a pleasant
truth, tlmt notwithstanding this oppression aud
these unheard-of evils, tlie leading men all oyer
tlie State are urging tlie people lo he quiet—to
endure these outrages—assuring them that time
and a returning sense of justice witii the party
in power will relieve us.
We have time and again proposed to tlie fac
tion in power that if they would make their laws
as liberal toward us as the laws ol Congress
were toward tlie people of the ten States south
of us, we would withdraw front Hie canvass and
the present strife.
< )ur people are making uo questions upon na
tional politics. Throughout all the State the
people desire nothing hut lo bo let alone. A
state of perfect obedience to lnw exists among
the people, and yet quartered upon them is a
standing army oi' robbers and murderers greater
in numbers limn General Jackson had at New
Orleans, under whose reign men Imve been
driven from home and crops abandoned all over
Hie State. If this tiling is continued, X submit
to the greut North, is it calculated to moke
friends or enemies? If enemies, is it believed
that il is the interest of the North that we should
lorever lie enemies because we have once been
at war ?
Victimized.—It would seem that there is no
end lo the schemes nnd plans, ou tlie part of pre
tended Iriends and blatant loyalists, to chouse
tlie poor negro out ol his little earnings. It was
only a few weeks ngo that a villainous arrange
ment nt Nashville to fleece the frccduicn was ex
ploded and its originators brought to grief, and
according to tlie paragraph below, copied from
the Chronicle <t Sentinel, something nearly simi
lar Ims occurred nt Augusta. There are a good
ninny cheap and handy patriots and blatant loy
alists in tlie country now, looking alter the negro
about loose. It is reckoned that, of engines
alono, two are stolen every day, shipped, nnd
sold. Farms are sold at every tux sale ior some
trilling matter ol tax—farms fur which thousands
and even hundred of thousands were paid two
or three years ago. Some ol tlie farmers of the
region failed to profit hy the oil lever that raged
all over the country. Near l’llhole there is a
farm, tlie owner of it reluscd $250,000 lor it,
while to-day the same farm, farm-house and all,
could not bring $2,000.
cause assigned for suspension is, that the money
was appropriated lo tlie support ol tlie Loyal
Georgian.
Tlie Ireedmen nre very indignant, and make
threats against the Yankee emissaries, who are
alleged to have swindled them out of their little
savings.
The negroes ol' the South will find out to their
sorrow, tlmt they are being made the dopes and
„ , . , , , Wm are now prating of political right# ami
given as the conclusion <d fired. Douglass speech . privileges and social equality.
in Norfolk, on the 4th of July: -*•»
“Had tlie Boutliern Confederacy not lieeu Repudiation.—Several Northern papers are
blinded by prejudice, she would Imve used the 1 talking out pretty lrecly on the subject of renu
means which were in her power to employ, of j diation. It will be some time perhaps beiore
achieving a lasting independence. I lint is, it . ... ... . u
the Confederate Government would have un- ! * 4 u y will venture to take it upas a rallying
shackled every slave, and as freemen, armed for j C£ Y* j'Ut enough is being said to set the masses
the fight, marched them, shoulder lo -boulder j t > thinking about it, and whenever the masses
w ith Hie whiles, to the field of battle— Imd this • u„i m .....
been done, said he, to-day you would have been I ? ‘ HU,at * m,4Uer
a Iree ami independent people. Mr. Liucoln | | ><i ' ,eve jump with their interest, tbe work
struck tbe key-note ol success just iu lime when i >s about hall accomplished, and its I
he issued hie Emancipation Proclamation.” i lion only a question of time.
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