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AUGUSTA, GA.
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A LK**o.\ FOII THCU.U
We have virtually entered on anew era. We
trust It will be an era of good feeling, and an
era too of noblo deeds and illustrious virtues.
Let the dead past Wry their dead, but let us
so act in the living present, that Heaven may
look down approvingly i-pon ind rbat
coming generation* ini* ri*t up ar. call us
blessed.
As wnfMnve? the country w« heboid r-vri)
where the foot prints of desolating war. Tbe
civilisation of the country has sustained a
heavy shock The piety of the church las
been damaged. Industry and enterprise Lave
been crippled Family circles havo been bro
ken, and fondest hopes have Wen luthh ssly
i rushed. These are the facts. It behooves us
to accept them in a irtfcicar.d manly-pitit, and
t o collect our remaining energies urn I resourc- 1
es, physical and moral, for the task of repara
tion. With a wiser system of poliev w<- ure
lully persuaded that the material beauty and
grandeur of the South can lie fully restored,
and even greatly enhanced before the ex
p'rution of the • unent decade Tb* mine eii
thusiasm and energy which has hieu applied
to the prosecution of war, it now Mimed to
industrial will speedily and velop the
mineral wealth and agriculluial i.-iourees oi
the South, nod will multiply'und extend her
manufactory and railway system until they
shall attain an eminence inferior to no pot lion
of tl e United States
These speculations, however, hav e mainly to
do with thelutuie, whereas we are chi* fly con
cerned with the prerent. Tb>; physical culler
lug and destitution wrought by the wai is just
uow beginning to he appreciated Our'ruiued
finances- our exhausted commissariat ; the
scarcity of the precious metals; ti e Hidden col
lapse oi what were regarded- as colossal for
tunes; thousands of laborers discharged from
employment—all these things must inevitably
produce a degree of suffering unprecedented in
our history. W hile this cannot be wholly pre
vented, It. may be greatly mitigated by a time
ly liberality on tire part oi those v.b haveam
ple means at their command.
During Iho reign ol high ‘prices and large
profits consequent on the inti ition *. f tire cur
rency, we had frequently to record instances oi
princely liberality to the poor ; shall we not
witness similar displays of benevolence under
the new order of things about to supervene.
* Individual effort, however, will not be ado
qnate to the emergency There must be co-opera
tion on the part of the State and municipal
Governments if we would escape that famine
and pestilence that not unfrequenlly follows in
the train of war.
At such a time it behooves the church too in
its various branches to set an ox imple worthy
of its founder whose daily bn-iness was the re
lief of human suffering Let the minis try ad
dress itself to the task of soothing tin excited
passions of men ; appealing to their higher in
stincta ; exporting the poor to patience under
existing hardships, and urging the rich to
larger and more expansive charity than they
hive yet exhibited. And if there he one heartless
SSylock who will persist in grasping alter
gain at the expense of widowhood and orphan
are, let him in the name of God and outraged
humanity be spurned from the fellowship of
decent and respectable people
KX/rOUTI ».
Wo had a right to expect that with the dose
of the war, the system of extortion which it
efcouragedwotildalftocea.se. Hut wo liad this
reasonable expectation disappointed. The
cormorant tribe of extortioners toe still in the
field ; insatiate as ever in their greed, exorbit
ant as over in their demands. The excuse for
their boundless exactions during the war, was
the uncertain value of Confederate money ;
but now that a cutrencv ol fixed and certain
value h»s become the circulating medium,
they seek to renew their iniquitous extortions
with unblushing effrontery and mendacity.
In our city markets unheard of prices in
gold, and silver are charged for be necessaries
ct life, as if the unprincipled sellers were de
termined to starve the suffering poor, and ex
tort the last cent from an impoverished cum
ui unity. Provision are held back by those
who have an abundauce, with the evident in
tention of producing a scarcity <hi(h will en
able the holders to obtain unfair and unheard
of prices. Iu fact a conspiracy seems to x\yt
amougst our population to starve
out the poor, and wring from the. necessitous
their last dollar.
Such conduct is shameful and disgraceful in
the extreme. What sort of hearts mu-1 those
have who at a time like this, when thoussnda
are on the brink of starvation, withhold the
necessaries of life, or dole them out at rates be
yond the reach of the poor, and even the rich
who, owing to the sudden change which has
come upon them, have but little money They
must be hardened to adamant by un avarice
which is as remorseless as it is wicked and un
j ist. The curse of God uiusf te-d upon such
it humanity.
To look at our meagre markets, one would
think that there was a famine in the land;
that the earth had relived law inerejse; that
there was not food enough in the country to
•übeist our suffering people Rut m. h is uot
the tact. The granaries and storehouses of
our planters are oveiriowiug with abundance,
while the earth is teeming with the
of a bountiful season. The difficulty is that
supplies are held back by a hard and griping
avarice, which not satisfied with fair and
remunerative rates, wtuld take advantage ot
t he'ueceßsities ot the people, to wring from
them prices which these Shylocks know they
canaot attord to pay.
We cannot adequately express our abhor- i
renoe of the heartless extortioner. He is a
monster without conscience ; a mere financial
machine to grind the faces of the poor ; a de
graded idolater at the shrine ot Mammon ;
a wretch in whose soul, if he 1 as on.i—wliich
we very much doubt—covetousness has extin
guished the last spark of generous feeling ;
to whose breast charity, pity, and remorse are
utter strangers. He would sec the poor perish
before hts eyes for lack of the food which he
withholds, so that he might but dutch the al
mighty dollar, and add to his ill gottea gains.
Is there no remedy for this growing vice of
extortion ; this gangrene in the holy p litfc.
which is eating out all public viituoand pi i
vate charity T We know of none but the strong
nm of authority and the keou knife of public
justice. At oommos law, extortion was a mis
demeanor, punishable like other misdemeanors !
by fine and imprisonment. This provision of ;
the oommoD law which has fallen into disuse
should be revived. The extortioner should be
to know and feel that he is a criminal: an
against the laws; an enemy of socie
ty. wfc9 rtwuM be reitrained Md »•<*• «-
ample of. In the present unsettled and revo
lutionary state of things, a suffering common!
ty invokes the interference ol military power
for its relief and protection. We are giad to
know that we may expect tibia week the Pro
vost M*»:sbal of this city fco regulate market
prices, to put a check upon the exactions of the
extortioners. Let them then beware, for they
may rest assured that their day over.
but to force us to come to-th* ir terms, they
may threaten to refuse to bring' iu provisions
unless permitted to sell them At their own
unrighteous prices. Let them do this, if they
car*. But we warn them befcre.hand that
they wil soon have cause to repent iheir un
yielding avarice, and stubborn disregard of
the claims of humanity When the United
States lax gatherer shall come around to col
lect the four yea r s arrears of taxes, which he
will, and that speedily, they will wl«h that
they Lad sold their surplus at lair prices when
they bad an oopoi tunity, to acquire the meanfe
of paying him
Wo also learn that greenbacks are refused
by some of our market * v >eople. Have not
three people yet learned that this Is no.w the
legal currency of the country, ar.it rbat the re
fusal to take it will be regarded as treason,
as rebellion against the United State® govern
ment, now re established over us ' If they
do not know this, they will soon be taught at
in a uauner which may not be quits agreea
ble.
We i egret to have to express our sell wittz
such severity on this subject. But we are
satisfied that soft words and appeals to the
gentle charities of our nature, would be
thrown away upon the tribe of heartless and
merciless extortioners, whom we seek to in
fluence.
I All A.\ AMXRIfftV,
W« iMiiec upon anew order ot national af
faira. For four years the country has been en
gaged m a great struggle That stiuggie has
not ouly been wasteful of life, of property, of
resources of every description—but it has check
ed the sentiment that formerly existed, which
fdr the want of a better expression, we maj
style pride of country. A fierce secri ;nal com
diet raged. That for the time chilled the all
embracing sentiment which takes in the whole
country. Now that it is ended, we hope that a
geuerous patrioiism will grow. That th e old
pride of country will spring up. That era ulna
lions and recriminations will die out.
II a wise policy guides the Admiuistratic n at
Washington, we look for the happiest results.
We Uruily believe that a magnanimous oourrte
towards tin States aud citizeus lately arrayed
in hostility against the Government, <of the Uni
ted States, is the wisest as well as the nobles t
policy.
It will win tho hearts of the people to the
support ol the government. It will exlinguish
resentments, aDd eucotirnge the citiaens of all
the Stales to a beaity return to that free inter
communication that existed up to the breaking
out of b -tiliues. We nmst bear in mind that
the lute conflict, so well lought on both sideß,
was a civil war. In all such war 6, there are
n tense feeling while it continues. There was
much to inflame tbe parties. The press did
its part towards inflaming the temper ot tbe
combatants. Outrages were committed too,
that shocked the moral tv.nso- of mankind. But
now th .t the war is ended, we must inaugurate
uot ouly peace, but we must encourage the
growth of a love of country as expansive as the
wide spread boundaries of our territories. We
must feel that we are Americans Nothing
must be done to humiliate the States lately Rt
war witli the Government, nor to wrong tfce
citizens of those States. A prompt r esumption
bv the Stales of their former relations to each
other and to the government of the United
States, should take place. Nor should the
slightest obstacle in the way of the
restoration of perfect harmony. The Govern
ment oau afford to .be generous. If the now
President shall rise to a noble comprehension of
the state ot the country ; if he shall discard a.ll
resentments from his own bosom ; if be shn 11
turn away bis ear fiom all evil counsellors ; if
r.e shall banish from his presence men w ho will
seek to make this the occasion for securing a
triumph to their sectional views ; ff in short lie
shall show himself to be an American Pkm.i-
Dr.NT- then we believe that he will see himself
surrounded by an American People. If the
late war has demonstrated anything, it ha3 re
vealed the great truth that the Trans Atlantic
na'ions have no sympathy with us They were
content to see the civil wav rage ; to see the
oreat Republic torn asunder; to witness the
prostration of ihat growing power seated upon
this North Amer can Continent, which, like tne
infant Hercules, premised to rise into a mature
strength that would enable it to crush the eue- ‘
rnies of treed cm. -i
Hereafter let us cheiish a patriotism broad
enough to take in the whole country. Then
shaft cur power and our glory rise into propor
tions grander even than those of Romo in her
proudest days; then shall we enjoy domestic
tranquility; then shall we spread our Institu
tions al! ever this Continent; aDd then it shall
be a noble boast to be able to say, I Ait an
American.
SUPPORT THE" UGYKK.MHE.Yi ,
Within the past few Jays this country has
undergone a great ebauge. It has passed Item
under the rule of one power .to that of another—
from an unstable government to one wlxieh
ha» proved itself to be strong and indissoluble-
We are now living u»der tba constitution of
the United States That i| the Government of
this country. This is a fact we must alt adm.it
whether agreeable or not to out feelings. This
is a fact which cannot be controverted.
There is only one course then left for ervery
sensible man to pursue. The course is ajj lain
one. It is simply to support the
der which we live. If any man has come or aloes
come to toe conclusion that he cannot live, un
der the government of the United states* the
remedy for his imagined grievances eaih be
easily applied. He can leave the ecuntrj - for
a more congenial clime. If he does not ’wish 1
to conform to the laws of the land, let bixa go
to a land whose laws he prefers to obey. If
dissatisfied persbus will do this promptly, truly
it can be said of them that “they left their
country for their country’s good ’*
Thru is one fixed fact all should now recol
lect It is this. Whatever may be the policy
ot the United States Government in regard to
the past, it will have but one. and only one
policy in the management of its affairs iu fu
i tUVe - ‘ ppositw to the government
icill be promptly put doten, and the partieip<m\s
executed at once.” This policy has already been
announced. It has already been carried out
in South Carolina. Parties who have been, in
sane enough to defy the powers that be, under
! the name of “guerillas,” have been shot as
soon as captured without form of trial. We
are satisfied that this thing will continue to be
done. That the government will act upon the
old maxim that “forbearance has ceased to be a
virtue,'' and that farther leniency on it* part
would be a curse against good seeL'ty > good
morals, and good government.
Our people ought now to be fully convince
that If is folly, yea more, that it is madness for
any one to suppose that the United States
i Government can be successfully resisted by
force of arms. It formerly had equals. But
now it sion!* a I the head of nations—-the
greatest and most formidable of any earthly
power. Its resources have not been impaired
in ihe least by the late gigantic war—they are
j inexhaustible. In short, as a is
j stronger now, and has a firmer position, than
when the late lamentable struggle was inaegu
t ated .
Let us then look at matters calmly and dis
passionately. Let reason resume her sway
Let us then accept things us they really ex
ist Let us forget the past, aid only think of
the glorious future. Let us not vainly en
deavor to do that which we cannot, but let us
do that which we can—become iaw abiding
citizens, aud support the government
rAll AXoTtitSK
Tne tmioiy of the American Union rrom its
first organisation in 1789 to the close of 1860,
was marked by a national prosperity unequal
the annals of the world. Its vast terri
tory, stretching from the St JotM's to the Rio
Del Norte, and iron* the Atlantic strand- tc
where th:- Chogori rolls Us farthest flood, was
the abode of thirty millions of freemen, hap
py in the conscious possession of a noble
heritage and a most princely patrimony. At
this very juncture, however, the South was pre
cipitated into a revolution which has just ended
iu disaster to her arms and the complete res
toraiion of Federal authority.
It would serve no useful purpose to discuss
uow the causes, aeoiet or open, of that revolu
tion ; nor to debate the alleged grievances
which preceded it. Let it suffice that the sol -
emn verdict of the American people has con
demned the movement as unwise, unconstitu
tional and unjustifiable, That decision cannot
be reversed ; and it is the dictate of common
sense, experience and patriotism itself, to ac
quiesce in this adjudication. It becomes then,
au interesting inquiry, what will be the prob -
able destiny of the South with a restored na
tionality. The obvious policy of corrupt and
designing demagogues is to produce the im
pression that the downfall of the Confederacy
is the rujn and degradation of the South. We
scout (his suggestion as au atrocious libel on
the United States government, aud a grievous
insult to the popular understanding. Seventy
years of peace ami plenty under the constitu
tiou of 1787 is a standing refutation of the
statement. And if this is not enough, we have
constitutional guarantees numerous and explic
it, and the most unqualified pledges from the
highest officials at Washington in direct dis
proof of the assertion.
We. will not encourage the belief that indi
vidual offenders of a high grade may uot suffer
the penalties of transgression. But we do be
lieve that the chief arm of the Government
will not be to inflict punishment tut to repair
titfc waste of war, and by a judicious policy to
aa'ttance the highest interests of the whole
country—North, South, East and West. Nor
does it require any extraordinary foresight to
predict .that the traditional policy of the South
must undergo material modifications. That
policy has .been too often stationary if not re
actionary ia its spirit, and hence in the middle
of the ninetet nth century we have a civiliza
tion almost leu dal in its characteristics. Com*
merce languish* 's ; manufactures decay ; agri
culture is shamefully detective both in theory
and practice ; wh He common schools and me
chanics’ institute* are repiobated as Yankee
notions unworthy of the descendants of Cava
liers and Huguentite.
Os courts along with these changes the incen
diary dogmas of Oaihoun most be abandoned
as wholly Incompatible with a permanent gov
eminent ; and that most pestilent heresy ot
Secession, the ” Iliad of all our woes,” most
be thrown aside as am exploded political hum
bug It wffl also insure to the advantage and
prospective elevation of the South if tbey in
dustriously foster a patriotism as broad as our
nationality and as as the boun
d aiea of the Republic.
These observations, it will be seen, penetrate
to the very pith and marrow of this struggle.
That man only looks at the surface who does
not peroeive that the causes tp which we have
alluded, underlie the contest; and that it is
less a war of sections than a conflict of ideas,
in which the fresh aud generous impulses of
the age have prevailed against the obsolete
toemulas of an antiqnalted statesmanship.
We find, therefore, no reason in the present
s.spect of affairs to conclude that the failure of
the late movement will remit in more than
temporary injury to the South, despite the ra
vages of the v* ar. Her resources, if properly
developed and rightly applied, will secure her
both prosperity and renown. This cannot be
realised, however, without an honest submis
sion to the wa tbority of the G*.*vernment. No
man is a hjeo and to the South who desires to see
her scourged, and preyed upon by guerilla
bands. We need rest from the burdens and
factions of war. Famishing wom en and starv
ing children, appeal to us to stay this murder
ous contest, in which thsre is neither profit or
honor to be acquired. The interests of civi
lization itaeif demand that the energies of our
people should be turned into other channels,
and to the accomplishment of other objects than
butchery and bloodshed.
We say to our countrymen that in a great
measure they are entrusted with the keeping
of thgir destiny. Let passion eease and rea
son resume hex wonted sway. „ The Govern
ment of your fathers dot s not seek to oppress
you. The sooner this truth is recognized the
sooner will law and order be inaugurated
throughout tbe wide extant of this suffering
land, and the sooner too wlii your own “Sunny
South* ’ become what it is capable ot being, the
pride of every land and “the joy of the whole
earth.’ ’
Outrages up thb RoaT>. —On Thursday e?e-e
niug some parties tore uj i about fifteen or twen
ty yards of the Athens B."ouch of the Georgia
Railroad a few miles tfcia k 'ide of Athens. Ihe
down train ran off the tract. 1 Parties
tore up the road robbed the paaeengeM. The
General commanding the U, forces
section learning of the outrages,. pursued the
lawless individuals, overtook th* recovered
the stolen plunder, and compel!e. t fkera to n '
build the road. What further pun biisseßt was
administered we have not learned.
Oar people can here see that the T uow
under a government which can and wi u protect
them if they will only obey the laws - eo *‘
duct themselves as good citizens to.
Secretary S*war».—-The latest news %*•
have from the North announces tl tat Secretary
Seward and his son are iaprovi ng rapidly ;
and the prospect now is that both , will speedily
rscorer.
R£MJM?TfOA OF TKADtt-
We hope soon to see a resumption of ttade,
I business flowing again in its old channels, and
i gating jtn former marts. Nothing would so
■*vuch conduo** to speedy reato atiou of pros
‘v and good feeling. Commerce is a great
peri L' -»r as well as humauizer. It is eesen
tidily peaeeru.* ,ts tendencies, binding men
. 3 V nlr - . together with the ties of
and communities ® ...
mutual interest and and umpiring
feelings of fiiendship am* confidence.
The revival of business be an inealcu
labi? bltssiug to the South at ti!*** lr
would at once relieve her numerous w >ct6 af *
ter the privations of years; and especial >
her pressing need of a circulating medium,
caused by the collapse of the Confeduate cur
rency. With the obstructions remover) from
our rivers aud our railroads repaired, so as to
enabie our people to carry what products they
have on hand to market, money would soon be
come sufficiently at undent, and the sunshine
of returning prosperity again gladden our
land
We need mu h There is a distressing scar -
city of even the necessaries of life, and Ihe
country Is almost destitute of all kinds of
merchandise. Ou; agricultural impb-meats
were worn out. and our stock, of horses and
mules reduced so low that there is not suifUjent
for the cultivation of theswii Let the avenue 8
of trade be re opened and ail these pressing
needs will be immediately supplied There
suit will be the diffusion of contentment and
amicable feelings in the minds of the people
We are glad to know that the United States
authorities are ready to lend cur people the
necessary assistance aud facilities in re; airing
railroads and reviving commerce iu the South.
{< are also pleased to ieam that the govern
ment is interesting itseii actively and zealously
in providing the removal of the torpedoes from
the Savauuah river, and repairing our railroad
communications with the sea board.
It is by such exhibitions of magnanimity aud
good will that a people lately arrayed agaiust
each other will be soonest coDi-iliftted and con
verted into friends.
hoveTaDVICK.
Some ol our late official* do not
appear to be willing to look at thing* as
they exist ; to deal with realities. They vainly
imagine that the late revolution has not ceased
in the States of Virginia. North and South
Carolina, and Georgia. They carp at the gov
ernment, and fro daily eudeavoring to stir up
bitter, dissatisfied feeliugs in the bosoms of
those who have heretofore looked up to them.
Gentlemen, all such actions on your part are
wrong. You are noi oply doing yourself a great
injury, but you are also injuring the commu
nity in which you reside. The only thing you
can now do, if you remain iu the country, is to
obey the laws and submit to the decrees of the
powers that be. Better do it quietly, and with
good liumof, than be compelled so to do. It
is far more desiraole that every thing
■ball go on peaceably and quietly, than to have
continual wrangling and fault finding. No
good can be accomplished by the latter course
On the contrary much evil will grow out of it,
not to the Government, but to yourselves.
We are glad to notice that some of our offi
cers are giving their men good, sound, sensible
advice. Among their number is Major Gener
al Young. Here is what he says to his late
command :
Soldiers ! The commanding General of your
department has included you in the surrender
c f his command to the United States forces un
der General Sherman. He tells you th.,t the
last hope has vanished ; that ne
takes thin course to prevent the further out
pouring of the blood of our gallant and glori
ous army—that blood now so precious to onr
eountry. 1 consider it my solemn duty as
Jrour commanding officer to tell you that I be
ieve it is your duty to your families, to your-
Belves hud-lo your country, to accept the terms
offered sou by General Sherman, which are
generous, and, under all the circumstances,
magnanimous.
He guarantees safety to your persons and
pioperty, so long as you abide by the laws of
your State and remain at home. Accept the
terms, therefore, and return to your homes.—
General Lovell has, in my absence, given the
proper orders for the disbanding of the troops
in their respective States. Let me thank you,
my brave men, for your suffering and fortitude
in the camp, and your gallantry on the field of
battle, and the entire co operation of officers
and men in all of our undertakings. I bid you
a long aud an affectionate farewell.
THB POLICY OF TUB ADViIYIBTR ATION.
We publish this morning a full and accurate
report of President Johnson’s reply to the ad
dress of GuV. Mortoii in behalf of the Indiana
delegation. The tone of this address is far
more conservative than a majority of our read
ers anticipated, and we heartily congratulate
the country on the prospect of a mild yet firm
administration.
Os course there aie rcsticsi and dissatisfied
persons who will carp at the utterances of the
address, and as far as tbeir influence extends
will use it to the disturbance of the present
quiet. We sincerely trust, however, teat there
are few who wili persist in a line of policy so
manifestly fruitless if not suicidal.
If they are uot prepared to acquiesce in the
existing order of things, and to cultivate a
spirit of peace and charity, they ought to leave
the country. No man has a right to claim the
protection of a Government iicrn which he
withholds kis allegiance It may be regarded
as the fixefi policy oi the United States Gov
ernment to suffer none of these selfish and mis
ehievous agitato; = to lemain in our midst.
Ou tbe other hand there can bp no longer a
doubt that the masses of our citizens who con
duct themrelves with becoming propriety, will
not be molested for opinions they may have
heretofore expressed.
fn conclusion we invite a caretul perusal of
the address as calculated to allay the fears of
our people in regard to wholesale proscription
wr confiscation of Southern men and property.
Protect the Hospitals.— We learn that at
Covington the Government offices and stores
have been sacked by ihe populace. The bos -
pital was stripped of everthing. This is very
unfoitunate. The hospitals throughout the
country should be protected, as a large num
ber of sick and wounded soldiers are yet to
p ass through the country on the way to their
homes, and many will perish by the way un
les; they receive the care and attention which
can be afforded only by keeping the hospitals
intact. Citizens should loo i after this matter.
From up thb Road. —Every depot up the
Georgia EUilroad ; we are informed, has been
“cleaned oat.” These illegal operations should
be stopped at once. To our friends in the
country we will say, bear with patience these
ills and protect yourselves the best way you
can for a few days. A sufficient force has al
ready started for various sections of the State
to protect the peaceable disposed citizens from
outrages.
Apxbti op G. B. Lamar.— We learn that G.
B. Lamar, Esq , of Savannah, has been arrested
and gent to Washington. D. C. We are not in*
formed of tbe charges preferred against him.
A RO-J, A NATION
T ? THR OFFICERS AftO MEMBER? OF TtUE
OJCA’EHAI. vS K.YIBI.Y.
The magnitude -d *li.- events that have occur
red since vein tub: ad -uiument aud are now
transpiring in on- ptblic affairs, affecting as
they do so seriously the e.uety, security and
welfare ot the people of the State, render it
highly pi "per aid expedient that the General
Assembly should be in session again at an ear- 1
ly day, to consider of tbe existing state of
things and to provide tbe best means which
’hey, in their wisdom, may be able to devise
meeting the exigencies of the times.
The two most distinguished Generals of tbe
Confederacy, commanding the airnies upon
which we* mainly relied for the defence and
maintainance oi < *ut cause, having been com
pelled bv overwhelming' numbers to capitulate,
it now devolves upon statesmen find patriots
in the civil department of Government, to do
all in iheir power to prevent anarchy, restore
and preset ve order, i’nd save what they can of
liberty and civilizilioii.
Y~ou arc ihertfore hereby required to con
vene in * xtraordinaiy s-.ssion at the Capitol in
Milledgeviile. on Monday, the twenty-second
day of this present mouth
Given under my hand ami the Gteat Seal at
the Capitol , of the Stite, this third day of May,
1860. Joseph E, Brows,
til K PiiE RAT DUTY
Whatever nmy have been our past differen
ces oi opinion, it is now manifestly the duty of
every good citizen to ayoiq all expressions
and to shun every line of conduct that
tends to excite bittemes-i, and to
hoeiility to tne constituted authorities
Gen Upton of the Pnited States Army has
arrived Wednesday ami Ims assumed military
command of this city and department. His
bearing in ali his intercourse with the ('unfed
t derate authorities tots been courteous, aud ev
erything about him betokens the true gentle
man and the accomplished officer.
We are satisfied that his administration will
be tnild but firm No needless severity will be
exercised, but all* factious opposition to the
government will be sternly discountenaneed.
One of his most important duties will be the
preservation of public order and the protec
tion of public and private property.
Voluntary organizations of citizens can ef
fect a great deal, but there will be no infallible
security apart (tom a competent military force
stationed at this point. Borne parties we learn
are very sensitive with reference to this
matte*-, but we have tie doubt a vast majority
of our citizens would greatly prefer the ar
rangement suggested.
Ge.i. Upton, however, will do that which he
ooiiceivea be-t tor ail parties asd we
bespeak iu his behalf a hearty support to those
measures he may inaugurate.
A contrary course wili be damaging to every
interest ot The country we profess to iove.
Washington News —Since the assassination
of President Lincoln it has been directed by
General Augur that no one be allowed to paa*
.the pickets or finis oucrcliag Washington un
less ou a written pas.* from headquarters, or
whbn personally known to the officer in charge
or enmoftnder of a tort. Canal boats on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal are allowed to
pass, subject to a search at different points.
Citizens, however, do not require passes to
leave the city by railroad going north.
President Johnson hai removed his resi
dence from the hotel to a private house.
By direction of the President, the Depart
ment of Virginia, and su» h parts of North Car
olina as may not be occupied by the command
of Majot General Shermau, and including the
Army of the Potomac, will constitute ihe Mili
tary Division of the. James. Major General
H W Halit ck, United Biates Army, is assigned
to the Military Di> ision of the James,
Caught a Tartar. —Two members of tbe
“appropriating” profession attempted to ga
rote and rob Mr. P. Sharkey, at his own lot,
ou Thursday One seized him affectionately
around tbe ueek, while the other was execu
ting a dank movement ou his pockets. Quick
as thought Pat’s boot flew up aud struck the
adroit fl.mkev under the chin, precipitating
him into a contiguous gutter. The first men
tioned professional teicased his embrace and
took to his heels. Mr. Sharkey was too fleet
for the villain, and, after a short aud exciting
chase, overtook him, and grve him a terrible
and deserved thrashing Three cbeprs for
Sharkey.
Mi nar
After It—According to the terms of the
treaty between Gen. Johnston and Gen. Sher
mau the specie which was mn off from this place
by order of Mr. Davis belonged to the United
States Government. It was part and parcel of
tbe property surrendered. To the attempt to
keep it from the United States authorities was
simply an attempt to defraud that Government.
We learn that a party ofU. S. Cavalry
have started in pursuit of Ihe fleeing specie.
Guerrillas at Work. —According to the
Charleston Courier, guerrillas have been at
work injuring the railroad near that cUf, and
committing other depredatiouj. The govern
ment has pronounced ail this .lass as outlaws.
Several have been captured by the military
authorities in Carolina and executed at once,
Outlaweh.- Gen. Mosby and a portion of
his men have refused to surrender, and still
continue their operations in Virginia. They
have been pronounced outlaws, and a price of
two thousand dollars set upon Mosby’s head.
Some of his late c-omiades in arms it is stated
are now hunting him.
Gen. Rosser. —This General was cut off
from Gen. Lee’s army after the evacuation of
Richmond. He refused at first to be bound by
Gen. Lee’s capitulation. His men, however,
refused to fight any longer, and he was com
pelled to disband them.
The Central Railroad. —We understand
the General Government has about thirty-one
bnndered men now at-work repairing the Cen
tral Railroad. More will be employed at once.
It is the intention of those who have charge of
the o ork to have the road in complete run
ning order in three weeks.
A Singular Coincidence. —lt is stated by a
correspondent of tho New York Herald that
the same person who o wiied the farm ou
which the fighting commenced at the first bat -
tie of Manassas, also owned the house in
which General Grant aud General Lee drew
up the articles of surrender.
Arrival at Savannah.— Gen. Gilmer and
staff, and Gen. Potter and staff are at present
in Savannah.
Gen. Sherman in Savannah.— Gen. Sherman
I* at present in Savannah on a visit.
[From the New York Times ]
THE OATH OF ALLEBIARCK la IHARLBS-
Our Charleston correspondent states that
“the work of admioisteting the oath of alle
giance is progressing with an astoDishine de
gree of rapidity.” Applicants present them
! selves, he says, in such numbers, “that five
offices have had to be opened for tbeir accom
modation in different paits of the city. They
belong to all classes and embrace not only
those who were in the city at the time of its
capture, but many who had fled and have since
returned.
This development is a fact of great signifi
cance. The question that has been constantly
recurring during this war is : Whether the sup
pression of the rebellion by force would not
leave behind it a moral contumacy and a pas
sive resistance, which would bejeven a sorer
evil than Southern Independence itself. A great
deal has been said about the likelihood that the
South would prove, if overmastered, only an
other Ireland or Poland—a perpetual hot-bed
of disaffection. It was not easy to pat down
this objection to the war, because it was impos
sible to establish by argument that this case
would prove an exception to the general his
torical fact that the spirit of rebellion endures
though its body is crushed. We might reason
that this was not like most other, rebellions, a
struggle against usurped power, or against the
domination ot a different nationality, or against
some obnoxious form of government, but was
a movement suddenly eprung upon the Sfcth
ern people without cause in the interest of an
unrighteous institution, that when this insti
tution shall be broken down with the rebel
lion, the Southern heart would of itself quickly
resume its right position. We might urge the
fact that this rebellion Is peculiar in being car
ried on against a people bound lo the South
not only by community of blood, and language,
and teligion, and republican sentiment, and
historical association, bat by the closest geo
graphical connections, and by the strongest in
tervening of material interests. But alter all,
though much could he inferred, nothing could
be proved. It still remains a question" wheth
er the spirit of rebellion would survive the re
bellion, and if so, what would be its intensity.
The general readiness of the people of Char
leston to take the oath of allegiance virtually
settles the matter. That city was the cradle
of secession. No spot in the South was im
bued with ranker treason or was more fanati
cally devoted tp the Confederacy. It is the
place wheie rest the ashes of Calhoun, and the
place of all others which it might ba supposed,
his dark spirit would forever overshadow.
Not even the most hopeful here in the North,
looked for any thing more than a few faint
glimmerings of Union feelings in Charleston for
a long time after the Union arms should oc
cupy it. Everybody would have called the
presentation of the oath of allegiance to
Charlestonians the extreme test, of the moral
force of a triumphant cause. Everybody
ought now to accept the success which that
oath has met among Charlestonians as conclu
sive proof that the rebellious spirit will perish
with the rebellion itsell, and < hat full recon
ciliation will not only be practicable, but easv.
Os course, we refer to the body of the South
ern people. We do n« t look for any conver
sion of the rebel leaders to Unionism. They
will carry their malignity to the grave. Guilt
like this penetrates to the marrow and cannot
be purged. But this will in no wise hinder
the general reconciliation, It is only necessa
ry that these leaders 6hould be stripped of the
physical powers they now exercise, to destroy
all their moral influence. The untold woes
they have brought upon the South will gener
ate intenseat hate. In calculating upon the fu
ture conduct of the South anything which these
prostrated leaders might do or will do may
be safely left oat of the calculation.
Undoubtedly the gqvernment will duly meet
these manifestations of renewed loyalty with
the most liberal spirit and policy, Constitu
tional submission once secured, it will leave
nothing undone to expunge every bitter memo
ry and secure a whole souled attachment. It
is tbe interest of all parts of the country that
the South should be raised to prosperity at the
earliest day possible. Wisdom will require
the South to banish all heart bnruings and all
repiogin and to labor loyally and manfully
for this end. The earns wisdom will also re
quire the government and the Northern peop e
to aid in the work with|every demonstration of
goodwill.
New York Money Market—April #2.
The stock market was moderately strong
and aotive at the first board this morning. Erie
was higher ac the close than at yesterday’s
second board, Nogr York Central £, Michigan
Southern I£, Reading 2£, Northwestern I},
Quicksilver 1. Government securities were
firm. Coupon sixes of 1861 were £ higher, ten
forties
At the open board, at one o’clock, tbe mar
ket was less active, and quotations ou a por
tion of the lipt were a shade lower. Erie closed
at 77fc, Hudson River 107. Reading lo3|, Mich
igan Southern <>4*, Cleveland and Pittsburg
72|, Rock Island 95£, Northwestern 3C|, Fort
Wayne 96}, Cumberland 48}. Later, on the
street, the market was rather dull, but steady.
The board passed a resolution to meet only on
Monday morning at the usual hour for }the
transaction of necessary business prior to Wed
nesday.
Gold continues fifm under a present and
prospective demand for shipment on account of
returning five twenties and other causes. The
next California steamer will bring a very light
amount of specie, only about seventy thousand
dollars having been shipped by her from San
Francisco; but a further sum will probably be
added at Aspinwall. The volume of business
in tbe gold room is small, there being no dis
position on the part of speculators to operate
in either direction to any material extent. The
room will be closed, in accordance with a vote
of the members, on bothgMoaday and Tuesday,
in respect for the memory of the late President.
The opening quotation was 149}, from which
there was an advance to 150}, followed by a
decline to 149f.
Government securities closed firm. The
bonds received by the Persia, estimated at
about two millions and a half, have exerted no
influence upon the market. Those were a small
portion of those sold “to arrive,” and ordered
by houses on this Bide in anticipation of the pre
sent condition of the markets. Foreign ex
change is steady, and bankers ask 109} for
their long bills. Sales have been made at 109}.
The shipments of specie to-day aggfegateds79,-
600, of which the New York took $21,500, the
Edinburg $13,000 and the Corsica $45,222-
making for the week $83,922.
The supply of money is still in excess of the
wants of borrowers. Five per cent, is the com
mon rate, with exceptional transactions at six;
but balances are offered in some cases at four.
This great monetary ease is stimulating the up
ward movement on tbe Stock Exchange, and
for the present the tendency of prices is deci
dedly in the ascendant.
The discount line is inactive at 6 a 8 per ct.
for first class paper.
The business at the Sub-Treasury to-day was
as follows :
Receipts for customs $450,000
Total receipts 2,248,830
Payments 2,287.363
Balance 31,967,664
Subscriptions to government loan 1,248,000
■ i 1 "*
Pkrs*4*banok.—When with fluttering heart
you make your few first struggling steps to
ward the gaol of your endeavors which pliced
far onwards in the dimness of futurity, is only
illuminated by the rays projected ttpon it by
the dark lantern of hope, while ever and anon
you stumble againßt the stones that bestrew
vour path or plnnge into a quagmire of disap
point uent —when you feel distressingly con
scious that you are alons, with no friendly
hand to beckon you on, no guiding voice to
lead you safely past the dangerous by-paths
on to the high-road of security ; amid all this,
and ten times worse, persevere ! What a man
asks that he shall hare! what, a man seeks,
that he shall find ; where he knocks, there
shall a door be opened unto him—only he must
persevere ! To alter, in borrowing, a well
known thought, the first requisite for success
is perseverance, the second is perseverance,
and the third is still—perseverance! To perse
vere, is to defy the frowns of fortune and tbe
world, to snbdue circumstances to out will, to
conquer demons, to seale precipices, to re
move mountains ! Oh! that we eould imbue
the young with this indomitable spirit—that
we could cry with trumpet -tongue to the fee
ble, to the taint-hearted, to the desponding,
to the world and wo-oppressect—’persevere i
How Lorsi
taken in a Sv
These are about
with semi oyiinn
tom is flat, and th
form of an atch. * , aar
for the ingress of th, open
ing are placed short of wood,
in^f > the bi M arranged that
n 6 Lri l K ea f ll 7 separate and allow the lobster
ays*:
uTZSZ't '“ p lhri,,1 * k wliich
A long line is attached to those note; a heavy
stone, sufficient to sink them, is placed in them
and they are baited with the heads and off
of fresh fish, and sunk to the bottom It \£t
low water mark, the other end of the lin«
made fast to a block ot light wood, called a
buoy. The fishermen go out with their whet
nes lreightcd with these pots, and drop them
at short intervals along the snore. During the
season of lobster fishing, which lasts from
March to July, hundreds of these buoys may
be seen bobbing up and down like so many
seals heads. The fishermen visit them every
morning, draw up alongside with their boats,
take out the lobsters, replenish the bait, and
drop them again in the water.
The lobsters, when first taken, are very*
fierce, and seize with their strong pincers upon
whatever may ba wdhin their reach. When
thrown together in the boat, they will grapple
with each other, and tear off each other’s
feeters and legs. Without much care in hand
ling them, the fingers of the fishermen get
many a hard bite. To prevent them from in
juring each other, the fishermen provide sharp
pointed wooden pegs, which they insert into
the joint or hinge of their pincers, which pre
vents them from closing. When they have
visited all their pots, y row to their land
ing place. If they now wish to preserveithem
for several days, they put them into a long
box or kennel made ot planks and b.,red full
ot holes, which is moored in the water ty: a lit
tle distance from the shore. If they wish to
prepare them immediately for market, they are
taken ashore In hand-barrows, and carried to
a sort of sbed, in which is fixdd a large caul
dron. This is filled with water. A brisk fire
is kindled under this kettle, and when the wa
ter boils, the living, crawling, squirming lob
sters are thrown into it and covered with a heavy
plank cover. Here they are kept boiling un
til their color, which when taken jut of the
water was a dark green, becomes a bright
scarlet. They are now ready for the mar
ket. In ihis State we see them for sale on the
stalls in our cities, and hawked about the
streets. —Boston Olive Branch.
Father and Daughter. —There is no prettier
picture in domestic life than that of a daugh
ter reading to her aged father The old man,
while listening to her silvery notes, goesnack
to other times when another one sat by ais
side, aud whispered words he noveV vi’.l hear
again; nor does he wish to do so; tc- ia • t
evening light ho sees her image reflected in uor
chfld, and as one by one gentle emotions steal
over him, lie vails his face, aud the daughter
thinking him asleep, goes noiselessly in search
of other employment. Virgin innocence watch
ing over the cares and little wants of old age,
is a spectacle fit for the angels. It is one of
the links between earth and heaven, and takes
from the face of the necessarily hard and self
ish worl i many of its harshest features.
Houses of the English in India . —A letter
fiom Bombay has the tollowiug concerning the
houses of the English there : We have no
bells, no door-locks, no carpets, curtains, ohim
ney-pieces, fireplaces, no passages oi stairs, no
house-door, no servants' hall—though about
twenty servants—no garrets, no gas, no house
maids, laundry maids, dairymaids, etc., etc.
I could give you a still longer list of etceteras;
but, lest you should think your cor respondent
has lapsed into saygtge life, I must proceed to
explain how all these are made up for. t
-instead of bells, we use our own good voices;
aud there are so many servants that one is sure
to turn up as soon as we call out“Royl”a
well known sound to Indian houses, “Boy”cor
responds to the French garcon, and is very
probably answered by a l *boy” of three score
aud ten. Instead of door-locks, there are bolt 9,
and sometimes only books and eyes. As the
doors do not shut very close with these, it is
convenient for lotting out the must-rats, as I
found last night in my room. Our feet are too
hot already, without carpets ; mats do much
better. Everything hung on the walls is a re
fuge for mosquitoes, so curtains are superfluous,
except, of course, mosquito curtains, without
which we should be eaten up bodily. It would
be dreadful to think of a blazing hearth or a
warm fireside here; so grates, chimneys, chini
ney-pieces, and fire screens are unknown in
Bombay.
Just look at the plau of the house, and you
can see how we can do without a house door,
remembering that a veranda runs before the
house, and there is always a man sitting in it
doing nothing, whose duty it is to announce
visitors. Instead of passages, the rooms all
open into each other and into the veranda.—
This, like many other good houses here, has
no second floor, so there are no stairs. As for
housemaids, and all sorts of maids, their work
la done by various sorts of men ; it is very well
done, too, and not like John, who succeeded so
ill in milking Tiny, in the old song. A ser
vant’s hall lor servants’ meals there cannot be,
where no two of the servants will mess togeth
er ; they are of all casts, and live apart, some
having their wives on the premises.
Slander not others because they have sland
ered you, Bite not a reptile because you have
t been bitten by him.
Friendship requires action; love requires
not so much proof as expresMons ot love. Love
demands little else than the power to feel
and require love.
OFFICIAL •
* 3 ft 0 , CM) 0
REWARD.
THE
rutosiufc.trfi' of the cxitkd state*
Has; issued his proclamation announcing that the Bureaus
of Military has reported undoubtabls evidence that Jef
ferson Davis, Clement C ay, Jaoob Thompson, George N.
Saunde.a, Eeverly Tusker, and Will tern c. Cleary, Incited
and concerted the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, and the at
tempt upon Mr. Seward.
He therefore offers for the arrest ot Davis, Clay and Thomp
son, one hundred thousand dollars each; for that of Saunders
and Tucker, twenty-five thousand dollars each; for that o
Cleary, ten thousand dollars, JAMBS H. WILSON,
ssay* tfd&tfwlK MeJ. Gen. U. S, A. Comd'g;
1 0 O 7« O o
REWARD.IN GOLD.
HEADQUAR 'ERS OAV. CORPS 1
Mllitarv Division Mississippi.'
Maeon, Ga„ May 6, 1864.)
One Hundred Thousand Dollars Reward in Gold will b
paid to any person or persons who will apprehend aud deliver
JXf* PERSON DAVTS to any of the Military authorities of
the United States.
Several million* of specie, reported to be with him will be
come the property of the captors.
J. H. WILSON,
mayT tfd&tfwlß Major-General IT. S. Army. Oomdy
- *
i- w Two months after dato, application will be be
Honorab. , the Court of Ordinary of Richmond c , ' v
lea, Mtoseli the land belonging to the Estate of rv'lhiam
Skinner, late of said county, dea-taeed.
. SARAH K. McCORKLE.
aplluwl-j Admlniscatriz. •
~
J. w Two months after date, application will be made to tho
Houorable Ordinary of Greene oounty. for leave to sell two
h uses and lots in toe city of Gresnesboro, also four negroes
(to wit) Lucmder, Julia, Libeller and William, the property
of Henry E. Hunt, late of said county deceased, for tne bene
fit of the heirs, ana to pay the debts of sai > deceased.
’ JOHNG. HOLTZOCkW, Adm’r ,
aplß SwlS of H. B. HUNT, deceased.
miOTicE
Iw| wo months after date application will be made to the
Honorable the Court of ordinary of Richmond county fur
leave tosol'a negr > man slave named Jack, belonging to tha
Estate of Ann U. Hughes, deceased.
THOMAS SWEENY,
a;4 Bw!4* Administrator,
mTOI’ICE.
Iw| Two months alrer date application will be made to the
Honorable the Court of Ordinary of Richmond cc*nty, for
leave to sell one negro slave named cam, belonging to the et
tate ot John C. lteea, late of said county, deceased.
NBWNnN hicks,
inhM SwlS Adm r.
OTICE. ' '
Two months after dale application will be made to
the Honorableth6 Court of Ordinary of Columbia county, for
leave to sell tho regroei belonging to the Estate qf J.J. bond,
deceased J. MADOX,
apil Bwl7 Executor,