About Tri-weekly Sumter Republican. (Americus, Ga.) 1865-1867 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1867)
Trl-Wfcekly Republican, I Jfmericus, Georgia: * w HANCO o k. AE.lifor and Proprietor. JAirUAKV 20, 1867. They Seize the Southern %ailroads. The AVaskUfctcm correspondent of the Ginciunatl Gazette, exults that the South has bean declared a mere con quoi'ed provinjfco, with the practical con currence ofctße President. It secrnsfffiat the city of Macon ap plied tojjfrc Secretary of War for the restor&non of certain corporation prop erty. Je Inch the United States military auJliorities held, under claim that it Jot& a conquest. The case being re ferred to Holt, he, of course, decided against the city, lie founded his opin ion on the assumption that Georgia is a conquered territory, without State or municipal right. Stanton being ap pealed to, refused to restore the prop erty. The case was carried before the President, who declined to interfere. It is in consequence claimed that the latter endorsed Holt’s theory, and that the Southern States are to be treated as a mere territorial conquest. The correspondent—who will yet find that there is a flaw in his statement— proceeds to rejoice like a free-bootcr, as follows: Very many interesting questions arise in connection with this. The railroads of the South had been taken possession of by the Confederate Gov ernment, and were subsequently cap tured by our forces. They were then the property of the United States. lJy what right did Andrew Johnson, on the Bth of August, iB6O, give away millions of dollars worth of govern ment property ? By what authority lias the President restored confiscated property ? By the same reasoning that led to the above decision, the ti tle to much of this class of property would be vested in the United States. Can a President dispose of public property at will? Interesting and important decisions are startling the country every day.— Tills one may surely be classed among them. We find the above going the rounds of the newspapers, and publish it to show the rapacity of the Radicals.— Wc are not at all surprised that they claim our railroads. They have fully as much right to take them as their soldiers had to take the private arms of our citizens after the surrender,and after every body bad sworn allegiance to the Constitution of the United States. PjßOduceiis.—There are too many people trying to make a living with out work- —without contributing to the supply of food and raiment, and other necessities of the community in which they live. They wish to get their profits out of the producers, and others, whose business is a necessary adjunct to these producers. Such men add nothing to the wealt h of the community , they are drones. Some rhy meter jingles the following about the cars of such. *’ The shylock who, with head erect with honest people mingles, should cease to shave his fellow man and go shaving shingles. The lawyer would be better off his science far less pliant, who owned a little farm in fee and ■ made that farm a client. Wc have /some doctorg in our midst, whose talents they should use, by practicing the healing art—heeling boots and shoes. The minister, whose sage ad vice a moral lesson teaches, should try to “ watch as well as pray’’ and prac tice what he preaches. ’The world .should have its docket called, and sluggards all defaulted ; and those jshould be the upper ten whom labor has cxaulted.” |pl£sP““l\ bite peopleonnnot r.usocot | ton, especially on alluvial land!''— the .Baton Rouge Advo -8 cate, of tlie 16th says: » ppA friend in this parish, not being S'able to procure freed men last spring, «.|BC.t.to work with liis own boys ami S ’bne white man, and the result was a H&rop of 30 bales of cotton. Igg'fW’.C'-Would like to know where ne ®|gfo labor has clone better. And we Mgnow hundreds, if not thousands, of ■ white nicn who have labored half their H lives in the swamps at farm or other Hja*bor, and have only ceased because pthey got too rich to wish to work.— |h Sickly.men, perhaps, cannot, espccial jHlysticb as have laziness in their bones. Hdfor tire latter class we would prescribe Ban impartial tread-mill. if ' fcjjjfy It seems that there has been ■thirteen thousand cases of flogging in Bibo public schools of .Massachusetts in ■the last nine months. If one-tenth of had occurred in the South ■fejjrstrong would have been the clam- to put us under a territorial gov- or martial law. Massachu ■tetts, however, may steal a horse, but [B&diift! not look over the fence. Manufacturing in the South. The Baltimore Sun remarks that among the changes which arc likely to result from the late conflict between the North and the South, those of a commercial and manufacturing char acter promise to be the most conspic uous. Before the war, the natural course of the business was to send cotton from the South to the Northern Atlantic cities for the purpose of bring manufactured or re-shipped to Europe, receiving in return such goods as the planting States consumed. Now, the tendency is to localize the business of the South—to produce there, as far as possible, the manufactured goods re quired for homo consumption. With the growth of manufactures in the South, the advantages of cheapness on the spot, will be realized, and event ually she may undersell others, and send her surplus direct to such foreign markets as arc in need of them. Asa symptom of this introversion of trade, it may be noted that between seventy and eighty cotton mills arc now said to be in process oferection in the Sou thern States, besides sundry woolen ones, all tending to the change in trade and business to which we have adver ted. Nor is th.s tendency confined to the South solely, but seems to be ac tuating the people of the Western States also. There, too, increased at tention to the manufacturing enter prises is manifested, promising changes in commercial affairs not anticipated ten years since. These have been ex cited in the South by the late conflict of views antagonistic to those enter tained by the manufacturers of the Atlantic States. North Carolina Sets an Example. We printed a few days ago a law passed by the Legislature of North Carolina granting a full and complete pardon to persons in either army du ring the late war who had commit ted offences against the laws of that State. In this the Legislature was true to the ancient of North Carolina. In 1753, “an act of pardon and obliv ion” was passed by the Legislature of that State, “for the benefit of such American citizens in that State as had supported the King and Parliament during the revolution.” The men who composed the Legislature of North Carolina then knew that those who opposed the colonies in their ef forts to secure their independence were good citizens, and if taken by the hand would be as faithful to the new government as they bad been to the old. ft was this feeling that prompted them “out of earnest desire to observe the articles of peace, and on all occas'ons disposed to forgive offences rather than punish, where the necessity for exemplary punishment lias ceased,” to pass the “act of pardon and oblivion.” How forcibly the ac tion of the Legislature of North Caro lina then and now contrast with that of Congress ! The one would obliter ate all that is calculated to prevent a full and complete restoration of the most amicable relations between the sections of our Union, while the other would keep alive the feelings which would prevent us becoming one peo ple. Sound Advice. A late number of the Memphis Avalanche contains an admirable arti cle on the importance of the Southern people laying the foundation of a true independence. The first step to be taken in this question is to raise food for all our wants. The farmer who can fill with mors corn than he can use ; whose hay and fodder stacks will feed twice as much stock as he has; and whose turnip, potato and pea fields make him smile will never belli want. ITc can look his mer chant full in the face in December. More than that, lie will find bis horses, cattle, sheep and hogs multi plying and flattering; and it will even become a pleasure to have green pastures for summer and warm sheds and stables, for winter. lie will find lie has just begun life. His dairy and poultry yard will be the additional pleasures ; for lie will never fear empty cribs, or hay stacks with but a pole to show where bay once was, and with the surplus money he can beautify and adorn the farm, Con vert the old cabin, or the old double frame cabin into a handsome mansion of modern style. Furnish it with comfortable and elegant furniture.— Buy books and let the children begin to know the attraction ofhorue again. From this beginning we may reason ably count upon a gradual increase in manufactures until we shall find our selves independent of a people who hate us, and envy 11s our land and clime. We 'owe this effort to our children. Food first, and plenty of it. Then a crop of cotton. In this way, and in this way only, can the South cypr become truly Independent. Greelj’s Lecture in Washington. We learn, through the columns of the National Intelligencer, that the cxccntric Horace delivered in Wash ington, last week, his lecture on “The Lesson of the late Civil War.” Asa matter of curious information wc present our readers with the following sketch of the main points made in his address. Among other things he said : “ Battles arc the schools of the people, and civil war is the jury-box magnified. '1 he lessons of the past war is to tench us how to avoid future w.-us, and to this end lie first recom mended a moderate expansion of ter ritorial limits, and a concentration of power within itself. Every nation of teachers of this doctrine, and the re sult had always been against eon quest. The greatest peril of this country is the desire of acquiring new territory, and a fatal blunder of the American people would, by overwhel ming numbers, vote for the annexa tion of every country between the Gulf of Mexico and Cape Horne if called upon at the next general elec tion. The lecturer next discussed the nature of the late war, and its politic al relation to the formation of armies at home, and the gaining of sympathy and finances abroad, followed by local allusions to the difference of feeling between the worth and the South. Mr. Greely thought that Washing ton, Jefferson, Adams, and the early founders of the Government were re sponsible for the late war. If they had, with a sense of justice, been as keen to limit the duration of slavery as they were to abolish the slave trade, the late war would have been avoided. A State is either in or out of the Union, and if a State, there can be no such thing as constitutional amend ments as tests of their loyally'. If said Mr. Greeley, the proposition had been originally that, if after four years' of war the South should fail to gain a recognition, they should he permitted to rc.-ume their seats, lie believed that there would have been no opposition to their returning. The next point was negro suffrage, the speaker urging that the negro was the cabin boy of the .ship of state, and while he lived among us he was surely entitled to all the rights of citizenship. But, said Mr. Greeley, I may- be asked would 1 allow my daughter to marry a negro? Must the right of suffrage be confined simply to those who I would be willing to recognize ns son-in-law ? If so, I am certain the voters in this country, as far as I am concerned, would be the most select and limited body ever known. On the subject of reconstruction, he said this was a republic, and a true republican have no subjects, any more than a true republican can have slaves. If you ask what the conditions must be for the late Confederate States,! would say that when a black man, wearing the Federal blue, with black skin, can travel trough the South with as much impunity as a rebel in gray can through the North, 1 shall believe they are truly Hit, for reconstruction.' lie argued that punishment for dis loyalty should he summary and limit ed; but when postponed the justice ceased. The spirit of the age is against inflicting further punishment upon the impoverished and chastened South ; and in conclusion, he said he knew that every soldier of our victori ous army rejoiced that not another drop of blood had been added in pun ishment for an evil which at most was but tlie conflict of sectional ideas.” Greeley is a strange man, and says and does many strange things. Yet at heart, fanatic though he be, we believe lie is a kind and benevolent one. We respect him at least for the firm, consistant and decided stand lie lias taken against the continued con finement of Mr. Davis. A Livei.y Tncidnt at an Evening Faiity. —Once on a time, not long ago, not so far from Millersburg as it might be, a good hearted man, and long tongued, style-talking wife, attended a social party. Almost every three minutes his wife would check her hus band thus: “Now, William, don’t talk so loud. “Come, William, don’t lean back on the chair that way !” “Mow, William, don’t get noisy over there!” “Say, William, let the girls alone, and sit by me!’’ At last forbearance ceased to be a virtue, and the husband, who was really pitied by all in the room, rose and said: “1 beg pardon of the company ; but as my wife insists on being boss all the time, it is right she should have these.” And he deliberately took off his pants, handing them to her, and sat down in his boots and drawers. The company was astonished; the woman burst into tears ; the happy couple soon went home; but neither of them wore pants. How the affair was settled we cannot tell, but the last time we saw William, lie bad the pants' on. W T e are inclined to think she will not again boss in company in a hurry.— Holmes County Farmer. There are now three United Stales sol diers in the guard house at Augusta, charged with mutiny in threatening the Jives of their commanding officers. How to Sustain Your Local Paper L Lay aside your fears that the ed itor will cot rich faster than his neigh hors. •We have never heard of a inn making more than a decent living by the publication of a country newspa per, even if lie bad ever such a good business. A ease in point is an acquain tance of ours who Jims been publish ing some six or seven years, has had all the business of his own town and county', and a large portion of that of those surrounding; but with ail this he gets into tight pinches for money to buy bis white, paper with, as any other publisher with whom we arc ac quainted. 2. If the paper agrees \v : th your way' of thinking, subscribe and pay for it, and persuade your neighbors of the same mind to go and do likewise. Do not tell the editor to send you the pa per, without paying, and when you get to owe two or three dollars tell your friends who speak of it, that it will burst up one of these davs. The way', under such a style of the case, to keep a paper from “bursting up,” is for each subscriber to keep the edi tor’s books free from charges against himself Once we had to close, and on posting up, found that we had booked and outstanding some 8200 more than wc had capital invested. — This tiling of applying the credit sys tem to the newspaper business may be likened to a farmer selling out his crop, a bushel to the man, The sum each man owes for a bushel docs not seem of any account to the debtor, but the aggregate of these bushels may make or break the poor delvcr in the soil. 3. If you have a father, mother, brother, siste.r or friend of any kind re siding at a distance and arc able, sub scribe, pay for, and send them a copy, 4. 11 you have any printing you wish done, do not ‘jew” the editor down to a starvation price, and when he comes to make a.purchase of you, “spike on the tariff.” “If you have any advertising or job work you wish done, al<e it to your ‘county paper, except perhaps, vou may wish to advertise in more titan one paper. 0. L'o not run off to the city to get your handbills, labels, cards, etc., printed, because, forsooth 1 you can get a reduction of a few cents in price.— Support your own as you wish to be supported. .V man who is always run ning away from home with bis busi ness, little deserves the patronage <4 the community in which he lives; and as far as we are concerned, such will receive the “cold shoulder. ’ 7. If you have the control of any legal advertising, send *it to your friend. This kind' of business pays better than any other, and the more you can send to the editor of your pa per, the better for him and it. Li pro portion to the amount of the receipts of a paper, is an editor enabled to make it useful, amusing and entertain ing to the co limunity in which it is published. 8. Do not expect much of a paper when an editor is driven lo be his own compositor, proofreader.pressman and “devil,” and lias to run all over town every forenoon in the vain search of a “quarter” to buy something for his dinner. !). l)o not expect the editor to’make honorable mention of you or your busi ness every few weeks for nothing,— The space in a paper, and a man’s time, are worth something, and every notice comes back to the drawer oi the recipient in dollars and cents. An editor should not be allowed to go hungry, barebacked or barefooted,— They eat, drink ami wear just like oth er people. Iff. “Finally, my brethren,” if you wish to properly siistian your county paper, to live the balance of your days in peace with God and man, and occu py a scat in Paradise after death, prac tico the Golden Hide—“Do unto oth ers as you would wish they would do unto you, under like circumstances.” IFFT A lady living in the North Ward of District recently gave birth to four children a': one time. The same lady on a former occasion, gave birth to triplets, and on a still former occasion, presented her husband with t wins. Previous to this time she star ted with one. The pair lmve been married about seven years. Gracious heavens ! Who wants to start a subscription paper for that wretched parent? Only think of it- Four and three fire seven, and two are nine, and one are ten ! Seven years. Let us figure a little—five and six are eleven, and seven are eighteen, and eight arc twenty-six! Twentv-six and ten are thirty-six—the product of fourteen years ! Shall we try an ad ditional seven years? No, figures arc not our ‘best holt,’and weave get ting lost in the mazes of arithmetical progression. Miserable father, send 11s your address and we will forward you our lowest club rates —if the child ren arc boy babies you ought tobring them up good Democrats, and if they arc prospective candidates for hoop skirts and waterfalls, they should be warned against the wickedness of the Beast and Moax! If it is not pre sumptuous on our part, patriarch in prospective, we would advise you to “flee from the wrath to come” for a few years, and see what effect that would have on your family affairs. Who has your contract for cradles, prolific parent ? La Crosse has some capital cabinet makers! See tlicit' ad vertisements. —La Crosse Democrat. 8£91,X. !P. Willis, the well known writer, died in New .York on Monday last, in tho sixtieth year of his uge. TELEGRAPHIC, i General News. Washington, Jan. 24 — The Spanish gov- J ernrnyil, is understood to have received very kindly the overture of the Secretary of State for mediation in the South American war. That government, however, has no official information of the result previously tener ed for lmdiation by Lieut Britain and France. X r nvnui. .Tun. 24.—The House has passed the militia bill providing for a caval ry regiment., to lie composed ol whites and blacks, for each Congressional district, sub ject lo the ca'l of the Governor Al.-o a bid erasing the word '■ white” Iroin the suffrage laws. New York, .Tun. 24 — 'The FagV has ar rived lioin Havana, widi dans ol I‘Jih. The Me.vcan news states that Maximilian was on hi- way lo the city. Thu Revolutionists under Garcia were del rated near L-oit. The famous guerrilla, Camera, was kilkd near Orizaba. No abatement of small pox near Mntan zas; s; venty-lluee law cases reported on the Hill. The GuvdFimient is compelling vaccination. Fortress Monro*. Jan. 24.— The s'eamer Delaware, Ironi Charleston, has arrived here short of coal. She expeikneed heavy weath er. Ual-imcre. Jail. 24 —TheMaryland Leg i laturc has repealed llieLw selling negrois t t crime. Jefferson Citv, Mo., Jan. 24th — Bo’lt Houses of the Lcg’slatare pray Congress to repeal the acts paying fur ihe services of en titled slaves. The Colorado Legislature has passed an act over the tiovernoi s veto, prohibiting ne grois and mulattoes from serving as Jurois. Gov. Cummings, of Colorado, is en route for Washington. New Haven, Conn , Jan. 24—Gov. Haw ley has be: nre n uuiiialcd by lit,' Republi cans. FROM WASHINGTON. A NEW PLAN FOR t’.ECONS" lIL'CTICN. New York, Jan. 24 —A special to the New Y ork Times says. Since ’November j leading politicians, North*,nd South, Re publican, Democrats and Ex-Confederates alike, have been >.vo king up a plan of con ciliation between ihe N rth and South, the Executive and Congress. Stiff age and am nesty form the base (4 the proposition. For instance : South Carolina will adopt Massa chusetts suffrage, and Ihe President will is-j sue amnesty to South Carolina' Hudor 1 Massachusetts suffrage she will elect ffrad representatives, and Congress will deterniWki ou their admission. The Achnini divtion M seriously considering the proposition The Tribune’s special says (Jen. Aside}’ is, busily enaged in accumulating impeachment evidence. The gal'eries were densely crowdi and to-day to hear Mr. Stevens in liisenabling act, who I gave way to Mr.' Raymond, who wished to 1 speak. Gen Lewis, heretofore Resistant Bureau functionary of Tennessee, has been ordered to report to Gen. Sibley, chiol ftinetioiisirv in Georgia, as Assistant Adjutant Gererah i Gen. Gillent litis been appointed chief Bureau ' functiona-v for Mississippi, The internal revenue receipts to day arc ; half a million dollars. One official representation is Ihat the civil rights bill cannot be enforced in some parts of A 1 kansns. lor want o! an adequate force and oofnpo'ent courts (ton. Grant Ij.is or d-red additional troops to Gen. Ord, com manding in Arkansas- The Nebraska and Colorado veto is ex pect-. and to morrow. Congressional News. SENATE. 'Washington, dan. 24.— Petitions from Ohio wi-id-growers to increase pr action, and Pom citizens of i ndiaria ngai"st curren cy curtailment., were prevented. The Finance Committee reported the civil appropriation bill, with urn. mlmenls. The. Committee on Commerce reported a bit] to prevent smuggling. Passed. A bill granting aid to the Central San Francisco Ilaiiroud was postponed till to morrow. The tariff bill was considered, a ’large plumber of amendments were offered, but only one accepted—adding lo the fiee list books, maps and public lit r.irlcs. HOUSE, After unimportant proceedings tho bill giving the Agricultural College scrip to Tennessee, with amendments to extend Ilia operations of l he bill to ail the States, pro voked debate. Mr. Maynard disliked having Tennessee yokrd to the rebel States. Mr. Stokes also spoke, and was taunted With bis early secession letters. Mr Stokes said be had repented and entered the Feder al army ; he was ready to enter the saddle and stay there three years longer. Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania, said “oh hush !’’ ami the regular report says, in paren thesis, “ (lalighter).” The bill was further discussed. Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, maintained that his was the only Southern Shite with a Republican Government. Soutli Caro lina, Texas Kc., lie maintained were not States, An amendment was agreed to that, no Confederate should be a protessor. The President was called a usurper. Mr. Copper, of Tennessee, was called to order tor calling Mr. Kelley, of Pennsylva nia, a liar. The bill passed. Ihe Enabling act was taken up and dis cussed. Mr. Stevens said he did not regret the length of time spent in <1 fate on ti.e Ena bling Bill, but he found such a diversity of opinion on his side of tho House upon any question of reconstruction, that if lie did not. change his mind lie should relieve the mind of the Iloase of 9 ny question with regard to it, and would to-morrow call it up and move to lay it on the tabic.— [Good ! Eds.] LATEST FROM MEXICO—ORTEGA. IN’THE ASCENDANT. Brownsville, Jun. 24. —Escobedo, with the largest army yet assembled, is near Monterey. Several thousand dollars.have been raised in Matamoras for Gorlinas Cortinas says lie will be governor of Tamau lipas at all events. It is supposed that Cor tinns will pronounce for Ortega. Juarez arrived at Durango on the 26th- Juarez will establish bis capital at San LuisPo tosi. ! A negro patrol at Brownsville shot a citi zen and policeman on the lath. I Mexican politicians claim that Ortega will he President if Maximilian leaves, FROM LOUISIANA AND MEXICO, j Nkw Oih.eans, Jap. 24.—Gov. Wells' message urges the adoption of the amend ment, assumes that Congress will demand iinpttrlial suffrage, denounces the policy | and auti-conventionists f r the July riots. ! urges increased tax fir the maintenance of , the State credit, favors the appropriation of n proper proposition of the school funds for in groes, urges inducements fur foreign emi gration. i Mexican advices show that (be Liberals are f ressing forward ns the French leave- There are tunny fugitives, and general con fusion prevails. NEW BUREAU ORDER. Washington, Jan, 24. —(I nend How ' ard I as issued I he following circular : I lli reufter. and until fin tiler outers, no fees ! or charges will he exacted by officers of this ! 1! reau tor serv'ces rendered in making con tracts between freedmen and their employ ers, either in the examination, approving, 1 w'i'ncssiug, or registering ol contracts or olh.ei wise.” He requests Assistant. Commissioners to instruct their siiho' dinaii s to the above I, ffect He recommends written cell tracts ii a'l oases; verbal contracts occasion nun'll c infusion, Bureau agents are urged ..to do all in their | oxer to secure contractu fur freedmen and in tendering llnin their services for this object I bey should let it be understood that they wi 1 be rendered without charge to parlies concerned. IMPORTANT DECISION. MoxtoomeHy. Ala , Jan. 24 (’hit f Jus tice Walker ill live-red tin opinion in Ihe .Su preme Court re’ternting that the State was a tie facto- Gover.lined under the Con'elera cy. Guardians and administrators, whoin vislttl in Confederate bonds or receiv'd them in good hiith.nnd all kimlnd transac tions, are made valid by this decision. The Difficulties on the Delta, Planta tion Settled- As we suspected, l lie difficulty on the Delta plantation has been greatly cxaggri ! atetl, and the discontent and turbuh nee jof a few misguided lYcidmen has been magnified into a formidable insurrection. For this the public are indebted to the | mischievous intermeddling of a negro em issary. scarcely less ignorant of the* r glits j and obligations of ihe lately emancipated slaves than themselves, and to sensation I movers who have given currency to un- IbtScd rumors and reportr. The follow iuJfcjve bri eve, is about the upshot of ►the wlio'e mutter, as ascertained by our rt^Ljtcr District ol Sou'h Carol,mi, arrived here about two o’clock yesteiday morning, on the steamer Pilot Buy, from Charleston, .About, nine o’clock the General, with Capt. Brandt, proceed, dto iho scene of disorder, taking with them the nigger B:a Hey, the reputed adviser ami enunse'- lor of the lVcedmcn on Mr, t’hevcs’plan tation. Our reporter understands from Gen. Scott that the whole trouble has been more imaginary than real, and that the only arms the negroes had were clubs. j AY ho ii he attired in the plantation tiny I met him without any show of resistant-.-, I hut said they had been insiruclel that j they could not be removed from the hind.-: for two years. Sane of them lul l been born on the plantation and thought they had a life estate in ib The General told j them differently, informing them that tin condition of things hud changed; that they were, now free to w ,i k whore they pleased and I'm- whom they pleased, lmt that ;hey could not occupy the luids with out ike consent of ihe owner. After talk ng some two hours to the negroes, answering their questions and giving them ;onie good advice, sonic of them expressed their willingness lo con tract with the present lessee of the p ace, mid ihe others agreed lo leave at the ex piration of a Week. The General ordered Capt. Brandt to seh ct three disinterested parties, wlm, i-i accordance with llie law as it now stands, arc to appraise the improvements made by the freidimn on Iho f Lee, for which tl.i y arc tube paid, and at the end of the week those wifi ing to remain will make cun tracts, and the others will leave the plan tation:— iiac. Newts cl: Herald 2 -id iust. How to Prevent Cot.ll Feet—Cold feet are a nuisance—they arc inconve nient and decidedly uncomfortable.— Ladies, we understand, are frequently seriously troubled with cold feet, and vve presume that so long; as llu-y insi-t upon wearing thin shoes and thin and very small boots, especially during; winter weather, just so long will they be troubled with cold feet. A young lady has kindly Air 11 is lied-us with a rccipie, which she has tried and knows to be effective, that will .keep feet warm, and we give it without, however, recommending its general use. She says: “I am troubled with cold feet, but I manage to keep them warm by lying in bed every morning, until my mother has built a rousing fire and prepared breakfast. I then got up, place my feet to the front of tile stove, cat my morning meal, read the news and after wanning some flannels and wrapping them about my ‘poor feet,’ return to bed, where I re main until nearly noon. I repeat this .every twenty-four hours, and find it very comfortable. I think I shall sur-. viv e.” Mails Stopped —The Savannah Ad vertiser says: There is no mail corn- 1 munication with Darien, Bruna-w ickor St. Mary’s, so those of our people who have occasion to write to those places! may save themselves the trouble, at! least for the present, as letters for those points aie put in one pouch to await further order. Mails for Jacksonville arc sent by railroad, those for points up the St. John arc put in tho Jacksonville bag. Wir, ke s 800 th, Again.—The Washington correspondent of tho Cin cinnati Gazette furnishes tho following in his dispatch of the 16th iust.: x,— The diary of Wilkes Bogtlq'taken from his body after bis capture, is now in iho hands of tho proper investigating committee, having been handed over to it by the authorities. For some reason ils contents were riot used in the trial. It shows that lie was an agent of.l He Confederate government, and received money from it, and that at one time, at least, the plan was to kidnap Mr. Lincoln. It is believed to implicate only Booth and Ilarrold in the assassination. Tho entry made on Friday, the 21st of A pt il, only one week after the murder, .-hows lhut it must have been wristen in a perfect agony of mind. It describes his position, with a broken leg, in the midst of a swamp, alone, an outcast, an assassin weighed down by bis guilt, and a feeling that God would refuse forgiveness. It is i l og t c sn it a e y of human agony us seldom finds express inf in words. 11 ETCKN INC to “Massa.”—Wc saw Saturday some twelve?or fifteen negroes, timro than half of them under fifteen years of age, and all females except one who left their master, .Mr, C. Owens, of Fauquier, in 186.5, and made their way to this enmity, where they liavq, since lived. Some weeks ago the grown mem bers of the party wrote to their former master tolling him of their destitute con dit'mn, and iisk'og to be taken back as his servants. Mr. Owens consented to tho request, forwarded money l»-ie to relievo immediate necessities, and al-o to pay •heir fare over the railroad to their form er home. They loft yesterday niorni/rjf' on the Orange cars, and were rejoiced at the prospect, of again having a kind mas ter lo la!; 3 euro of them. —Lynchburg Noire, 1 \th. pro- MFmi.scmeuts. ANOTHER WAR Declared! merchant & CO., Ni xt door lo Mrd. Wiight’B Mil.incry Store, Americas, Georgia. VER TD'W rocfivine arid operrinij a luincK rit-uio and well neli Ct«.d nlotk of II GOODS, tLOTHU, Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, 2sT otions, In short everything usu.tlly kept in a first class stoic, to which m ey coidi-illy invite the attention <f the cifizois and stirmundiiKj: o. tint y, as they are d«tt( nuined to izive tin tii'- saii-fiic'io!! to ail who muv f »vor --them wifTi their paironegi, jin *2O 1m Boarders Wanted. TUIT? mb c iber will take a few DAY l 1 O.WlL't.lls, at S2O |m r month. Lie si d<D og convenient to the uj iare. j »fi 2i 4 ° H. HOOK'?. To 1 >ealers. i LAlbiE AND W ELL, ShLEC.LU STOCK xV OF DRUGS. M EDI OINKS. FFKFUMERY, FA 1 NTS, OILS, GLASS. I’UTTY, Ae. Sic- MASSENT,TUG. SON & TI.UHUS, Wholesale Druggists, jan 20 if Macon, Georgia, FROCK EDItfGS OF COUNCIL. ■ 'OUJOIL OUaYIIDU. ) .1, unary 14tu, ISO 7. f nracLAit mee'jno. Pn»«€»n< —T. Mi Kin-low. Mayor ; AM Lew is, A<l-tms, Bum 11. Mayo and (JoKb. Ab er.t Al 1 ("litin Minn es of last regular and adj mi ned meet* inn r-n'i Mud confirmed On in iMot» of Aid Brown, that tlie Council receive the ashes, mint of taxes, which wan* cm i it-d. v Ir- nerant traders, the Ist. week, SIOOOO ; for rr.eli wet k theieafcr, SSO 00 ; Provided, fliafc Mould suit! pasty jay -legiiHr taxes, said' amount so paid by them to be deducted there fr«*ni Yen !ue Mas!ftp. each, shall pay S3O 00, and also one half of cue pel cent, on their | sales. j Reading of infoimation docket dispensed ! with. | The chairman of Finance Committee re : ported on the followinc account* : one in fav or „f J. \V Ml*-, for 534 23 ; J W Hudson. $23 CO ; T. V. Login, s3l 20 and $lB 7*3, and j roe u>m *nded the same be paid. Adopted. | The Finance Committee made a report | on the bond siven by John Tiner, Clerk and iTieasnier. which was received and adopted, I W. I Murray’s. Oohb and Allen’s and A. B. Addison's petition for License to retail Li qu »is, and A. ft- Raiford & Co's petition for L’cen e -is vendue master, all ordered to take the nmil course, mul that tho value beTefor led to tin inCv* committee. Council adj aimed, T M FUR LOW, Mayor. ,T Tit er, Clesk. jan 2b 1 tr. Honey! Money t DURING the year just, closed, I sold goods to many on a shoit time, and to none fo* a longer time than the iiist of October His tv: Without snch assistance many would have been unable to have tarried on their farms,, and others c >uld not have fed their families. I am needing, mom y now, needing it badly,, and I must have it. lo those that I have commodafed 1 appeal for assistance. . Gemßj fonvaid at >nce«u flsettle join* accounts; if y*m can’t by money, tfive me your note.— My books must be closed aud that too,-quick** ■ y jan 24 2w. fi. M.'UAY. B 3£ > j£.i±i?t'sr GOOD CARPENTERS CAN find enuplojtßMmt, at good prices by ap plying to ‘ C. 11 VVHKATI.EY, j in lit lm Americus, CU.
