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•fri-Wtriiln llqnffiliciut. GLu., ~W. W. HANCOCK, Editor and Proprietor. Tuesday, Oct. 16, 1866. Cotton Raising In the South. The tone of the Press in some in" stances, at least, upon this subject, is not what it ought to be, in our judg— . incut. For instance it is maintained that the good eld time of raising cotton in the South, have passed away, in conse quence of the present character of the labor system and the uncertain condi tion of the country, and that it is now the duty of the planters to try their band at the raising of some other sort of crop. Corn has been recommended as the principal one, by some. Others have urged the production of hops and the Castor Bean, while nor. a few have announced that the cultivation of the fruits was the tiling. In a wan'd, there seems to be a determination to expel planters * from their cotton fields and force them to do anything but to raise cotton. Now, all tliis looks to us as if we were trying to bite off our noses to spite pur faces. It is the very last thing the planters should do, or even think about —and those who would advise them to this course aits giving bad advice.— They are not intending, wo know, to do harm, but the effects are the same; it will result in great mischief, as every one will see who will reflect only a mo ment. In the first place the planters really have no tune to be trying other pro ducts, much less are they in a condition to do so. The most of them are bare of funds, and must do something which will make them speedy returns in the way of money; and as there is nothing which will so effectually reach this end as cotton raising, they should stick to this one work and not abandon it for anything else. Suppose they try corn. ’Vliat then? Will it pay to give hands from one hundred to ore hundred and fifty dollars per, annum to raise corn on land which will not produce five bushels to the acre? Would this be_ wise ? Will wheat do when you can’t make more than two or three bushels to the acre? Does not every planter in Geor gia know that this is no grain country and never will be ? Why then fool away your time, labor and money in this direction ? If you want to go into the grain business, then we would say, go to the border or North Western States. There you will find land suita ble, and you will be amply remunerated. This is the country for cotton, and the sooner we wake up to the fact the bet ter. We can’t grow grain here to any advantage, and, therefore, we should not think about giving it our attention And whether we raise grain or cotton we must have negroes to do our work at last. Slander. We have known a country society which withered away all to nothing under the dry rot of gossip only.— Friendships once firm as granite dis solved to jelly and then ran to water) only because of tliis love; that promis ed future as'enduringas Heaven and as stable as truth, evaporated into a morn ing mist that tinned to a day’s long tears, only because of this; a father and a son were set foot to foot with the fiery breath of anger that would never cool again between them, only because of this; and a husband and bis young wife, straining at the bated lash which in the beginning had been the golden bondage of a God-blessed love, sat mourning by the side of a grave, where alt their joys lay buried, because of this. We have seen fhith transformed to doubt, hope give place to grim dis pair, and charity to take on itself the feature of black malevolence, all be cause of the spell words of scandal, and the magi*' inutterings of gossip. Great crimes work great wrongs, and the deeper tragedies of Unman life spring from its larger passions; but woful arid melancholy are the uncatalogu ed tragedies that issue from gossip and detraction; most mournful the ship wreck made of noble natures and love ly life by the bitter winds and dead salt waters of scandal. So easy to say, yet so bard to disprove—throwing on the innocent all the burden and the strain of demonstrating of their inno cence, and punishing them as guilty if unable to pluck out the strings they never see, and to silence words they never hear. Gossip and slander are the deadliest and cruel man has forged for his brothePs hurt. Look out! Counterfeit twenties are in circulation. TELEGRAPHIC. EX-PRESIDENT DAVIS. IM DO RTAN T CORR ESPONDEN CE. Washington, Oct. 13. —The Presi dent has addressed the following letter to the Attorney General in regard to the trial of Mr. Davis. Executive Mansion, ) Washington, D. C., Oct. 6th, ’66. ) Sir : A special term ofthc Circuit Court of the United States was appointed for the first Wednesday of October, 1866, at Richmond, Va., for the trial of Jefferson Davis, on the charge of treason. It now appears that there will be no session of that Court at Richmond during the pres ent month, and doubts arc expressed the regular term, which by Law should commence on the fourth Monday of No vember next, will beheld. In view of this obstruction, and the consequent de lay in proceeding with the trial of Jef ferson Davis made the prosecution for treason now pending in that Court, and there being, so far as the President is informed, no good reason why the Civ il Courts of the United /States are not competent to exercise adequate juris diction, whether the district or circuit in which the state of Virginia is inclu ded, I deem it proper to request your opinion as to what further steps, if any, should be taken by the Executive with a view to a public and impartial trial of the accused according to the Constitu tion and laws of the United /States. 1 am, sir, very respectfully, Andrew Johnson. To Hon. Henry Stauburv, Att’y Gen. In response to the above, tire Attor ney General under date 1 ‘2th inst., says: I am clearly of opinion that there is nothing in the present condition ot Vir ginia to prevent the full exercise of the jurisdiction of the civil courts. The actual state of things, and your several proclamations of peace and ofthe restor ation of civil order, guarantee to the civil-authorities, Federal and State; im munity against military control or in terference. It seems to me in this p/ar ticular there is no necessity for further action on the part of the Executive in the way of proclamations, especially as Congress, at its late session, required the Circuit Court or’the United States to be held at Richmond on the first Monday of May and the fourth Monday in November in each year, and author ized special or adjourned terms of that Court to be ordered by the Chief Jus tice ofthe Supreme Court at such time and on such notice as he might pro scribe, with the same power and juris diction as at regular terms. This is an explicit recognition by Congress that the state of things in Virginia admits the holding of the U. S. Courts in that State He also states that: Mr. Davis re mains in custody at Fortress Monroe precisely as he was held in January last, when, in answer to a resolution of Congress, you reported communications from the Secretary of War and the At torney General, showing that he was held to await his trial in the civil courts. No action was then taken by Congress in reference to the place ot custody. No demand has since been made for his transfer into civil custody. The District Attorney of the United States for the District of Virginia, where Mr. Davis stands indicted for treason, has been notified that the prisoner would be surrendered to the United States Mar shal upon capias under the indictment; but the District Attorney declines to have the capias issued beeftrse there is no other place within the District where the prisoner could be kept, or where his personal comfort and health could be so well provided for. No application*has been made, within my knowledge, by the counsel of Mr. Davis for a transfer of the prisoner to civil custody. Recently an application was made by his counsel for his trans for from Fortress Monroe to Fort Lafay ette, on the ground chiefly, of sanitary considerations. A reference was prompt ly made to a board of surgeons, whose report was decidedly adverse to the change on the score of health and com fort. I am unable to see what future ac tion can be taken by the Executive to bring the prisoner to trial. Mr. Davis must, for the present, remain where lie is until the court which has jurisdiction to try him shall be ready to act, or until His custody is demanded under lawful process ofthc Federal courts. The Attorney General suggests that, to avoid any misunderstanding on the subject, an order be issued to the com mandant of Fortress Monroe to sur render the prisoner to civil custody whenever demanded by the United States Marshal upon process from the Federal courts. Mr. Stan bury encloses a letter of the United States District Attorney of Vir ginia, who states in answer to the ques tion why no demand bad been made upon the military authorities for the surrender of Mr. Davis in order that he might be tried upon the indictment found against him in the United States Circuit Court at the term held at Nor folk in May last, that two reasons had influenced nim in not removing Inm from their custody, lie says the one relates to the safe-keeping, the other to his own personal comfort and health. I have never had any doubt that lie would be delivered to the United States Marshal of the District whenever he should have demanded him on a capias, or any other civil process, 03^.The man who is attentive to the! ladies is a beau—but when they don't, like him he is a bo-er. Columbus, Ga., October 6, 1866. Editor Enquirer: —l understand that the Radical journals ot the city of New York are in the daily habit of publish ing statements that Northern men are not tolerated in Georgia and other cot ton States, that it is even dangerous for a.Northern man to attempt to travel through these States, Now I wish to call attention to facts which demonrtrate with mathematical certainty the falsehood of those state ments. There arc to-day in this State, and in this very city, accomplished*book-keep ers, and accomplished and skillful artists, men of unitnpeaclied and unim peachable character for integrity and untiring industry, who were in comfort able circumstances at the beginning of the war, who have lost every dollar’s worth of property they had on earth, and some of them were robbed of all their clothing with the exception ot what they had on their persons at the time of the surrender of the heroic General Lee, who are literally starving for want of employment, while old citi zens ofthe State are going to the same city of New York, and importing from that modern Babylon, men in no way superior to those of their own State who are suffering for the want ofthe salaries they are not permitted to earn. Why is this? It is because the employ ers are impressed with the belief that the great mass, of the Southern people arc laboring under the delusion that nobody can do anything quite as well ns a man from New York or Boston ! Whether this plan succeeds or not, its adoption proves very conclusively that, if Northern men are not tolerated here, and if it is dangerous fora Northern man to even travel through Georgia, neither the employer or imployees seem to have thS slightest knowledge of their danger. Interest is the power that governs the action of business men, but in this easel am much mistaken if the next six months do not disclose the fact that employers, and not the Southern people, are the victims of this delusion. X. Y. Z. Hiring Freedmen lo go to Tennessee* Several gentlemen having been in our community, recently, hiring negroes to go to Tennessee or elsewhere to pick cotton. We presume this is right, yet must confess there is a little ob scurity in regard to some of these ar rangements, For instance, it is alleged that these Freedmen are wanted for plantation work, yet these agents, so called- claim to be entitl 'd to govern ment transportation for tlmn. One of them showe.l Gen. Tillson’s order for for transportation for an unlimited num ber, as we understand, of Freedmen, over the Central, Georgia and Wes terrf and Atlantic Railroads. We can’t exactly understand how it is that the government should take so much inter est in tUeeepnvate enterprises. These Agents are not trying to get vagrants and those out of employment, but all if the ablebodied hands they can find— including women, in some cases. They have even paid the debts of hands— voluntarily, in some cases, and been forced to it in others—in order to get them. The F reed men not nnfrequent Iv show their penchant for ‘ Punic faith,’’ by making the desired contract, having their debts paid, anil then giving their new employers the lurch. But, per haps, we ought not to complain of tliis, for negroes must have their style of smartness as well as other folks.— Rome Courier. Order Respecting Cotton Steal ing.—One of the great difficulties un der which the cotton and rice planters now suffer is from the small thieving of negroes and others taking off these staples in driblets, which though sepa rately of no consequence, amount to considerable in the aggregate. General R. K. Scott, of South Caro lina, lias issued an order, under date of September 20, prohibiting bartering or trading ‘‘iu these products on the highways, commons, rivers, creeks, or inlets of this military district, without a written license from the Mayor, in tendant, or other competent authority,” and declaring that those who shall buy these products from persons employed on plantations may be required, on complaint ot any citizens, to produce satisfactory evidence to the post com mander that all the parties interested have expressly consented to the sale; and, in default there of, such purchaser shall be deemed guilty of receiving stolen goods, and punished according ly.—National Intelligencer. A similar order in Alabama would have been serviceable last fall and winter. Cotton pilfering will no doubt be car ried on to some extent tlie present sea son, if it has not already commenced, though we have heard ot none in this city, nor its surroundings. It would be well to keep close watch however.— (Mont. Advcr.) An order ot the same kind would do no harm in Georgia, as all the negroes have not died. £sjT' Mrs. Denison says that she never yet saw a bashful man who was not the soul of honor. The man who is bashful in the presence of ladies is their defender when the loose tongue of the slanderer would defame. A newspaper correspondent has discovered in Suffolk, Virginia, two negro children, a brother and sister, who have live perfect fingers and a thumb on each hand. Had nature similarly favored Butler, how he would have extended and enlarged Upon his “ opportunites.” — (Exchange.) ftnv JUlraliscmcnts. FALL TRADE ! JYe w Goods! Cheap for Cash! ~\Ve are now receiving and opening our stock of FALL AND WINTER GOO^S, iu which may be found Prints, Clenched & Brjwn Sheetings and Shirtings, Hosiery and Gloves, Dress Goods, Flannels, Linseys, Tweeds, Kerseys, Blankets, Shawls, Nubias, Ladies’ Cloaks —a nice assortment-—and any and everything pertaining to this Department. We also have a heavy Stock of 31EN’S, BOYS’ & YOUTHS’ ©ILOTKIDINI©, BOOTS AA T 13 5520 ES, Hats and Caps, We can fit your body or suit your pnr.se, regardless of the dimensions of either one. In short our Stock is complete, and suit ed to the wants of the people, and we there fore respectfully invite our friends to walk up, examine our Stock, and get their share, before it is too late. WINDSOR & JOWERS, Next to A B Addison’s Confectionery. Oct 1G ts IN CHAMBERS, ) Amerieus, Oct. 4th, 1866. j ST is ordered by the Inferior Court, that Wright Brady, Green M. Wheeler,oJpjhn V. Price, J. W.C Horne and ParkerE. be, and are hereby appointed a Connie to select some suitable location for the erect a Poor House for Sumter County, The loAo contain One Hundred acres of land ; and Commiitec to ascertain Ihe price at which suWT a place may be purchased, and report at the meeting of this Court in November next, and that lha Clerk notify said Committee of their 1 appointment. J. L. ADDERTON, J. I. C. A. J. WILLIAMS, J. I. C. B. ,T. HEAD, J. I. C. JAS. W. SLOAN, J, 1. C. A true extract from the minutes of Sumter Inferior Court Oct. sth, 1866. Oet 1 ff B. AT. WHEELER, C. I. 0. T H E FALL TRADE I N OBOOSBIHS AND PROVISION S IS NOW UNDER WAY AT J. N. SEYMOUR, CIIERUY ST., MACON, GA. Merchants, Planters and others may find it to their interest to give him a calk HIS MOTTO IS CHEAP FOR CASH! HE IS NOW RECEIVING A HEAVY SUPPLY OF WESTERN PRODUCE AN I> General Groceries. he also keeps on hand Bagging, F. ope and Twine, Nails, Tobacco, Cigars, Lorillard’s Snuff, Scot -'ll and Maccaboy, Smoking Tobacco, LIQUORS IN BARRELS AND CASES. Drop in, Buyers! I promise to do my best to please. I have a strong force of industrious Young Men,, ready to put up your purchases with expedition, haring employed additional help. J. If. SEYIIIOtJR. , Oct 16 ts Macon, Ga. DU- J. T. LAMAR otters his profes sional services to the citizens of liottsfoicl and suriouudisg neighborhood. Can always be found at his office, day or night, unless pro fessionally absent. Oct 0 3ai. I IIAKDEMAN & SPARKS RENEW Ihe tender of tl/cir services to the Planters of Georgia, and the Public gen erally as SStanijoitM £ Commission* UKRCniNTS, and are prepared to receive, store, and sell Cotton, or other produce entrusted to their caje. We flatter ourselves, that an experience of thirty years in the business, will enable us to give entire satisfaction to those who entrust their business into our hands. In the sale of Cotton, especially, our knowl edge of the markets, and particularly of those whfi wish to purchase, and the quaiity and grades of cotton desired by them, will enable us to sell cotton on more advantageous terms than the producer can—thus securing to him the highest, market price at the time of sale. Our efforts will be to please those who pat ronize us, and our references is, 10 planters from every section ofthe State, whose interest we have for years struggled to maintain and rromete. OctHJm b7b7 wiser CHERRY ST., MACON, GA. dealer in Houso Furnishing Hardware SILVER PLATED GOODS, Glass, China and Earthen Ware, Talkie and Pocket Cutlery, £yf“Tin and Wood Ware, Brooms, Brushes’ Feather Dusters, &c. Sieves, Hollow Ware’ Cooking Utensils of every kind. oct. 16 3m' A Hare Chance 1 V OFFER for sale at. FIFTY PER CENT 14 BELOW THEIR CASH VALUE, a Dwelling House and lot, and Store House and Lot, all in the city of Amerieus, Ga. The Dwelling is close to the Square, lot large, and a beautiful location. The Store House is new, and in perfect order. Apply to. F. M. COKER. Oet, 11th. Im. Dental Notice. HAVING retired from the firm of Ford & No ble, I have resumed the practiced m , pro fessi«*n alone. I tnav tu found, for the present, at all liou'R during the day, at Cos k s Plner... graph gallery, on the E :gt side of the Public Thankful f r the post patronage of my I solicit a continuance of their fa j \V. VV ''FORD, Wmi l ts Dental urgeon It ! ITst t icain* I offers for sale a nice resident MM of about twelve acres with a t-rritll Beamed house anda well <>f water on the prem ises. The place is situated about 1 1 2 miles of Amerieus. on the road near Felder’*.. Also, about 500 acres of land, lying on each side of Murkalce creek, about 200 acres cleared, and good Comfortable houses on it, and a fin.' mill seat, with plenty of water, without bavin.*- a pond, about 14 foot fall of water; wood cnoiish on the place to pay for it and a!? ex pense to get it. Part of the land in the inc rpo iat« of Amerieus. Good bargain to be bad by applying to [oct 11 Irn] EB. LOYLESS. NO TICE. IVILL he rented on the 25’h of October, one I? lot of land, belonging to Jas. H. Wil-ouG tatr, lying ten miles east of America!, with good dwelling hoti-e and gin bon -o, and One Hundred ad twenty acies, more or less, of open land on the place at the plantation, at 11 o’’ clock, to the highest bidder. Terms Cash, oct 11 if W A WILSON, Adm’r I J. W. CARIIINQTON, JAMES GARUN Lit, President, of Augusta, Ga,, Oonst’list. Vice Pics’l & Scc’y. ’ IHS GENERAL Furchasing Agency, 30 Broadway, TK» V OUnCBASE to older, any article wanted, mi' 1 gly or in quantity, from this City or fiorn Europe, for consumers or dealers, for rise or weir, comfort or luxury, and at prices guaran teed as low as could t>e obtained by the custom er in person. TERMS—For over Ten Dollars in amount, and for all perishable goods, live stock. &e,, a remittance wi'h the order, or provision for city payment when filled ; under 10 Dollars. C. O. D Commission on minor oider and tine goods Five per cent. On staple goods in quantities, machinery, implements and vehicles the « sual trade Commissions. Consignment* of produce, received in remittance, and piomptly and can . fully attended to, ihe usual advances mad* n Bills of 1 La-ting. Ail orders for Cauhinoton & Cos. left with Agents of the Southern Express Cm. a th a gov ; eminent stamp envelope, will be fen warded free of charge. Address oct ] 1 liu* CAR KINGTON & CO. W J. LAWTON, It. T. LAWTON. ! 3 L EDMONDSON. | Lawton- Lawton & Go., IJ KO W N 110 U»U ST REE T. MACON, . .GEORGIA, WHOLE 'ALE dealers in Bagging, *v;pp, Corn, Ffiy. Oats. Ba irn. Flour, Sugar, Coffee, I Leather. Mackerel, &c . &c , Having rem ved t * our new and commodious Buck store on Fourth Street and having ample storage room we have concluded to accept consignments of Cotton, Bacon. Fiour, &o &c . on bulk* Cask orders for anything in our line promptly tilled. LAW ION LIW ON. &C 0 Sept. 15 - 3m. One .Price Store j rpilE inquiry is often made “ How is li that | Speer & Hooks sell Goods ho cheap?”— j The reason is that 'hey buy for the CASH and I sell for the CASH. They take no risks. They have but ONE PRlCE —the lowest marke I price. The public are invited to call and examine their large and well assorted stock of Goods, which they are now opening. SPEER & HOOKS. j Amerieus, Pept 27, ts To Tax Payers* ALL persons who do not come forward and pay heir City Tax, by tin ‘2oth of October next, executions will he issued against them for their taxes. United States Treasury notea. City Council - r sumter county money are received for Taxes Done by order of Council. I eept2o 1m JOHN FINER, City Marshal. RARE CHANCE JOB INVESTMENT! VALUABLE CITY PROPERTY POP S A.LE! SIX tioto tors FOR STORE ROOMS IMMEDIATELY ON THE SQUARE! I NOW OFFER FOR SALE THAT WELL known and valuable property iu the city of Amerieus, known as the Amerieus Hotel, certainly the most eligible and prominent stand in the town for business houses. There arc PIX LOT'', the corner one embracing 30 feet front, and the remainiug five 25 feet each, and all running back 100 feet. On the corner lot could be built a magnificent 'IOWN HALL, so much needed in the city, and which would pay a very high rent. In the rear I offer 175 feet front on College Street, ami running back about 180 feet. Now is the time to buy properly in Amerieus. It is advancing rapidly, for the reason that it ! is a capital place for business and one of the most healthy places in South Western Georgia Aqd besides the society is proverbial for its in telligence. Apply to the undersigned. C. W. CHARLTON* Amerieus, Ga., Sept 27, 1800 ts j To Cotton Shippers. WE ARE PREPARED TO MAKE LIBERAL CASH ADVANCES ox C onsig’ n m ents OF C O T T O IST To the well Known liouse of NORTON, SLAUGHTER & CO-, NEW YORK. And JOHN K GILLIATT & CO, LIVERPOOL. We can safely promise Hie fullest satisfaction lo all patrons of the above rich and favorably known firms, OUR AGENTS AT AHERICUS, COLUMBUS, ALBANY, M iCON, GRIFFIN. WEST POINT, LaGRANGE. NEWNAN, ATLANTA, MADISON, And the house of e. p. Metcalf & co., savannah, a a., Are at all times prepared to take charge of, pay taxes and other expenses, and make ADVANCES UPON CONSIGNMENTS. E. M. BRUCE & CO. Bankers and Cotton Factors, Augusta, Ga. Tl. C. ROBSON, AMERICU3, GA. Agent, for the above firm of E. M... BfttCE & CO , and is prepared to make liberal advances upon, pay taxes and take charge of consign ments ofCotton to New York and Liverpool. Oct. 4-1 m INFERIOR COURIvT” Regular Term, Oct. sth, 1866. / T is ordered by the Court, that the Tax Col lector levy a tax of One Hundred percent* upon the State Tas, to redeem County Curren* cy, and a Tux of Fifty per cent, an the a State Tax for County purposes. B. J. HEAD, J. T. C. A. J. WILLIAMS, J I. C. J. L. ADDERTON, J. I. C. JAS. W. SLOAN, J. I. C. A true Extract from Gie minutes of Sumter Inferior Court. 14. Mr. WHEELER, Oct 5 ts Clerk I. C. A Small Farm lor Sale. ONE and a half miles from the Court House, o-n tlie Oglethorpe road, containing nine ty-five acres, about 50 acres cleared the bal ance very well timbered. A comfort able duell ing with 4 rooms and necessary outbuildings, £00(1 water and healthy location. Also, 14 aores timbered land within th» in* corporation, ying due east of Mr R. H. Dan iel. It can be divided into lots to suit purchas ers or l will sell the whole. There is not a handsomei cr healthier locati n in the city of Amerieus - [ Oct. 6, tf] 8 I*. JONES.