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N. S. MOUSE.
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IT 18 imE*I»KLL.TO UOLIVr.
Mutation is a characteristic of time. With
equal truth may It be said to characterize the
opinions and ideas of men. Iu tbo lapse of
time, creeds change ; so do government. Po
litical theories have their day, then become
obsolete.
“We know not what a day may bring
forth.”—finds illustration with ns. (treat
changes are made in the relative positions of
life. They are ‘‘TjjjfT* ** tmezpected.
fitrange-*-at first tummi Insupportable ; we
wonder at them—cordially acquiesce in thorn.
This is well. 'lt is wise, politic, lrcroic
Isabella of Spain witnessed wonderful meta
morphoifs take plaee in her day. Almost
Imperceptibly two empires blended tn one.
Nations dissimilar in taste ; of originally an
tagonistic views, became one under her benefi
cent rule.
For us are reserved the exhibitions of a
progressive tige. It is our let to note the
strangest freaks that nature ever discovered.
Tho remits of fanaticism are laid open to our
view. Hundreds aro forced to partake of its
bitter fruits. Its products nre' disease, the
gnawings of hunger, want. Are wo asked
to prove tho assertion ? Wo simply reply—
look about you. Behold our witnesses in the
omanciated ' forms that stalk our streets
They aro moro like spectres than men ; better
irupersinatiorm of (loath than life.
Would you bo more deeply impressed ? Go
mark the scenes In our hospitals. Is there
still a doubt ? Numberless newly made
graves In our Cemetery cannot fail to n movo
it. It is To lament it, will do
no good. To regret it, is all that can bo done,
as regards the past.
Every event teaches us a lesson. Every in
cident convoys to us a warning. If we aro
wise, wo gather knowledge from them. If
we are observant, we become cautious. Truths
which apply to Individuals, aro applicable to
communities. What proves to he beneficial
to the one under the same circumstances,
will prove beneficial to the other.
To avoid tho very appearance of evil, is re
ligious. To battle against it, is praiseworthy.
It is 'conquerable, but the contest oft times
grows desperate. Why ? Because upon its
first appearance, it is permitted to escape the
sturdy blows which invariably fell it to tho
earth. Thoso who would triumph over it
must be uncompromising.
Tbo peoplo of the South, aye, Iho Conserva
tlves of the whole country, may at once giit
on thoir armor. They will well to pre*
pare immediately for the contest which awaits
them. Already there is s stir (a the errenry*B
camp. Iloary headed Stevens, thoir loader,
lias thrown the gauntlet down—defying law
and justice, and right.
Tho battle may bo—it will be fierce, but
Jjrief. Firmly established cwi the great rock of
truth, let ua take courage; resolve that it
shall bo swept away ero we give up. Courage
and confidence is all we require, to give us tho
the victory. Let President Johnson’s faith in us
be Let us not give way to
doubt—for to doubt is dreadful; fatal.
The great National Party has flung its.banners
to the breeze. Let conservative's everywhere,
rally to the standard of tho constitution, tho
union, and tho laws.
Tho principles of this Nation al Party call for
equal justice to each of the great sisterhood
of States. They are based upon tho theory,
that if Massachusetts enjoys tho right of rep
resentation, so also ought South Carolina and
Georgia.
Tho platform of this party is as broad as the
country itself. Its object is the preservation of
that liberty which our forefathers' bequeath
ed to us-gVTho crisis is upon us. There is no
neutrnlvosition that can bo occupied. The
question is fairly and squarely put. It is this—
Have we liberties or not? Is the constitution,
which tho President so ably and manfully ex
pounds and defends, a thing of tho past and
not of tho present ?
Those aro grave questions. They interest not
only the mass of America, but of Europe.
After the close of a war which is termed a
union triumph, is it to bo developed that it is
so in name ouly ? When tho union has been
declared saved, aro we to witness its destruc
tion by a few crazy tauatica ? Wo shall see.
If the conservative men of the South and
the North do their Whole duty in this great
emergency, tho hydra-headed serpent ot fanati
cism will be ern-ihod forever.
Characteristic. —lt is stated that when Hon.
Henry J. Raymond was delivering his great
conservative speech on the fl >or ot the House,
in favor of supporting the wise and conciliatory
policy of the President towards the South, that
tho leadiug members of the radical party con
tinually intercepted him with malignant re
marks and questions ; doing all they could to
confuse him. Even*Speakor Colfix was upon
tho floor encouraging the movement.
This oertainly is about its mean and contemp
tible a course as could have been adopted. It
shows, however, the prescriptive feelings which
pervades thehearts of the enemies cf the South
iu Congress. They are not willing that she
should have a fair hearing. They do not
wish that any one in the National Legislative
Halls should even say a word in her favor.—
They want to “grind her to powder under the
Iron heel of despotism” without permitting a
friendly voice to remonstrate, or say aught
against their tyrannical course.
It Is gratifying to perceive that the South has
many warm friends in Congress : aud that
among some of the strongest advocates ot her
Cause are found men who have heretofore lig
urod prominently iu the Republican ranks. It
also will be seen that our champions will neith
er permit themselves to be brow-beaten or
Intimidated in the least by the radicals. Tfctv
have boldly met and stayed the storm that hid
been prepared tor our devoted heads. It Is to
be hoped that their efforts iu our cause will be
successful, and proves complete shield between
us and Northern fanaticism.
No Fay<»sto thk Radicals.—lt is said that
in circulation in Washington that
removals will soon be commenced ot United
States oSeials appointed at tho request of
memberi of Congress who are known to de
■OVUJS'C the poMoy of the Administration
Whither are We Drifting ?—Wo publish
elsewhere the particulars of another horrid
affair which took place at Doctortowa, Ga.
Henry Grantham, an old and respected citizen,
was shot down 'in cold blood. Mrs. G. was
cut and bayonetted— ce, head, and neck
beiDg fearfully mutilated—dragged through
the house and thrown senseless under a bed ;
she now lies in a critical condition. Mrs. G.’a
daughter was severely wounded in the head,
had a finger nearly cut off, and received many
severe injuries. Other deeds of violence were
committed on the • premises. These outrages
- v '>-{ejL*rDeHaitti h y tQßfty U*J#T troope
Sanmhf, 'Dc-cenaber 24. There Is no doubt
their guilt, -The blood of their victims was
(unci upon their garments.
“Wither are we drifting?’’ is a question
which may seriously ho asked by every reflecting
man in the S.mth. Matters, instead of becom
ing more eettled, are becoming worse rlaiiy.
Deeds of violence and blood are committed
more and more frequently. It is insecure to
walk tho streets of our cities after dark. The
stores of oar merchants and the dwelling* of
our citizens aro nightly made objects of plun
der. The residences in our suburb? aro assailed
by organized bands of villiaas and murderers.
Men are shot down In ’ the porches of their
own houses, and their families inhuman
ly stabbed and cut with bayonets and knives.
Surely those are evil times in which wo are
living
“Is there no remedy for all this?” remarks
many au anxious enquirer ? “Yes!” We ans
wer most emphatically, “Yes ! there is !” Aud
there is only one effectual remedy. Let the
evildoer, whoever he may bo—whethor white
or black, citizen or soldier, high or low—let
the law breaker be punished to the full penalty
of his crime. Let there be no hesitation ; let
no effort to shield the guilty be of any avail.
But the crime be proven, let tho perpetrator
thereof suffer for his rnisdoods. It is high time
some stern examples were made. The cause
of justice and morality require t The
safety and security of law abiding citizens
imperatively demand it.
We are rapidly rushing into a state of bloody
anarchy, Nothing but a stringent enforce
ment of the laws will Bavu us from deeds
which makes ones blood run cold to think of.
Let the laws be made a terror to, those who
break them, and crime will cease.
Thbßegdi.au Akmy.—A *Waahingtou dis
patch states that in the contemplated re-organi
zation of the regular army, it is alleged that
tho colored troops will compose a largo por
tion of tho same, and the respective regiments
will he recruited up to tho maximum nuin
bars.
We think it would be better for tho South’
to have thecolorea troops who are la tho army
kept tiiere. If they are discharged and allow
ed to scatter through the country, they teach
Iho negroes who have remained at homo, vi
cl ms habits ; they also teach them to perpe
tiato deeds of insubordination. Having
learned many bad things, they would soon im
part them to those with whom they associah
In short, the disbanded army soldiers are regu
lar firebrands ; have caused much mischief h
many sections when not under military disc,
pline ; and they will continue so to do.
But while taking the ground that it will be
well for tho South for the nogroes in the arm
to be kept thero, we will also say that it win.
be a great benefit to our people if they
could bo sent Irom our midst. /Their very
presence here has been the source of great
trouble. The idle and vicious freedmen con
gregato around the localities where they nr
encamped, and no good arises from their inti
mingling together. On the contrary much
evil has already arisen, and will continue r
arise as long as they are permitted to rema a
in this section of the country where the 11
borers are mostly blacks.
Troops are needed on the western plain;:.
We respectfully suggest that tho colored troc; <
be sent there. In those regions, resides no one
they can incite to deed i of rapine and ulna
a- r ; and they will be removed from the sec
tion wheie they are now doing incaluilab.
harm.
In times of peace, we think no class of
troops should be kept where they cause w;> -
like acts to be continually committed ; an 1
whoso very presence incites others to deeds if
violence and blood.
Coming to a .Sensible Conclusion.—Tim
New Yoik Times sees in the certificate of the
latiftcation of the Constitutional amendme- t
by the necessary number ot States, au offici and
recognition by tke Government of the
Constitutional equality of the States lately ar
rayed against the Federal Government with
the ether States; and very properly declares
that this act, while making an end forever o
slavery, at this time, “vitalizes the essential
principle of restoration.” We quote :
‘•lt is impossible for the Government which
has recognized the voice of South Carolina 10
be equally potent with that of Massachusetts,
and that of Georgia to have the same effect as
that of New York in tho amendment of the
organic law of tho Union, to deny them equal
functions iu tho Union. ’ The very highe-t
power of a State is to say yea or nay to a pro
posed amendment to tho Constitution. Tee
active exercise of that function necessarily in
volves all other powers. The Executive De
partment, which certifies to the ratification of
the jkmendaiout by eight of the late insuneo
tionary States, is but consistent in remitting
to them, as fast as possible, the full exercise
of all power. Congress, however, urged by
extreme men, will not dare to dispute the rati
fication, and undo the legal effect of the certifi
cate Aud yet it must either go that desperate
length, or soon, by au inexorable logical ne
cessity, admit the right: of all the States to be
constitutionally represented in its seats.”
T~erc iJ nothing now in all this—but it is
uttered by a party oTgan. whose associates in
Congress are every day and almost every tour
in the day, fighting this principle of tho equal
ity of States. It Is amusing, says tha New
York Express, how one holding stick opinions’
can vote to send States and State Representa
tives thus recognized to the vorjex of a com
mittee. creator’, to destroy the unity of the Gov
ernment and its great principle of representa
tion in Congress.
An Important Decision. —The Internal Reve
nue Department has decided that hereafter iu
assessing cotton a reasonable allowance for the
weight of the bagging and rope shall bo allow
ed A very important decision to cotton ow
ners,
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 10, 1666;
We say the parallel is only mediocre, because
while the avenues of Paris were crimsoned
with blood, and the basket under the guilio
tine was filled with the heads of many of the
noblest sons and daughters of France, law was
forced to give way before the advance of
anarchy, which hold in its hands, reeking with
blood, the black banner of crime. With us,
there is tho shadow of authority ; but it is a
shade so feeble, that it 5s lost in the darkness
of villiany that comes with tho dew of evening.
Danger, insecurity—nothing but these stare
us in the face. The light breezes pass unnoticed.
Fear mars the happiness of the family circle ;
because, while the members thereof talk to
each other, they know not but that a cowardly
miscreant may come to the window or door
and fire into tbo groupe. Indeed, whilst the
head of a family is committing them to the
care of God, he may be stricken down with the
cudgel of some desperado.
This state of affairs is awful beyond descrip
tion. It is terrible. In studying individual
safety, our peoplo lose interest iu everything
else. The chief thought of their mind is the
devisement of some plan, by which the city
and country can be rid of the infestuous band
that brings terror with the night. What avail
is the name of liberty, when no such thing is
known amongst us ? Why, a despotism with
safety is preferabio to a Republic where anar
chy holds the sway:
For all these evils, is there no remedy ?
What is it but au excellently organized police
corps, that gives perfect security in Loudon,
and even in negro-governed Nassau ? The
‘ Lees Miserabilea” conveys an idea of the
efficiency of tho French police, and why can
not|wo havo as good organizations ?
When rulers prove incompetent or unwill
ing to pieserve order, then it becomes the
poople to look to their own defence. A stop
should be put to crime, in our midst. String
ent measures, prompt action, is absolutely es
sential to this. Let our cit’zens take this mat
ter into consideration. That the views of
all may be learned, and the co cpeiation of
all secured. Let a public meeting be held at
once, and companies organized for the pro
tection ot our persons and property.
We hope that our citizens will not treat
ejely or carelessly t because it is
one of vital importance. Would it not be
well for our worthy Mayor to call a meeting
of the citizens for the solution and disposal of
this question ?
A negro was- recently frozen to death near
the government buildings in Louisville.
We clip the above from a Northern exchange
Not a word of comment do we find in regard
to it. In former days, were such a tjiing to
happen, when the negro was under the cire and
protection of his Southern master, columns of
billingsgate and vituperation would have been
published in regard to the matter. But now
things have changed wonderfully. The negro
is under the kind care and protection of his
Northern radical friends. He can die of star
vation, want, and disease —yes! he can freeze
to death, and it is all right in the eyes of those,
who for years have been shedding crocodile
tears of sympathy fa his behalf. If ever
misery was entailed upon a race of beings
through a profession of friendship, it has been
bestowed upon the freedmen of the South by
the negrophitists of the North.
It would not be an exaggeration to state that
since May last, at least three huudred thousand
freedmen efthe South, who before were pro
vided with good homes and all Ihey wanted in
the shape of food and clothing, have died from
loathsome diseases, or starvation.
And this is tho result of tho teachings of the
sleek, smooth faced, blubbering Exeter Hall and
New England fmaticai party, of which Sum
ner, Colfax & Cos., are the head and front lead
ers in our National Legislative Halls. These
men are now endeavoring to put upon us
greater burthens than we can bear, by uDjust
and unconstitutional legislation—all, as they
claim, for the ‘ benefit of the poor negro,”
whom they have ruined by their madness
and folly.
Out upon such phihnthrophy as this.
The Militia. —We notice in many Southern
States that the militia force have been organ
ized, and are in active operation; doing all
they can to suppress’erime, and to bring the
law breakers to justice. It is time that some
movement was made to raise an effective
militia police in Georgia—or to take some
steps, at least, that will put an end to the
crimes which is daily being committed. It is
e vident that the people have got to protect
themselves; and the sooner they assemble and
take some united action, the sooner will the
number of evil deeds decrease.
Every one should feel au interest ia preserv
ing order. No one should hesitate to do any
thing that will make the breakers of the law
afraid. The only way th’s thing can be ac -
complisbed is for all to unite together ia coun
cil and devise some measures that will speedily
deliver ns from this ‘Teign of terror” which
exists.
An Era or Crime.— Seme where in his writ
ings, tho gifted Poet, Young, says:
Night is tho good man’s friend and guardian
too ;
It no less rescues virtue than inspires
Time was when these words could be truth
fully applied to the different shades of society,
composing this community. But, alas ! within
a brief time, have they become the very op
posite of the term? we are now compelled to
use, in collating the news of the day.
So frequently havo we dilated upon this sub
ject, that it would soem preposterous—a useletg
"our conceptions of the duties of a journalist.
Justice to every one, with a jealous regard for
the common interest of all, is the broad plat
form Upon which wo Publicist stand. To dis
cry and denounce evil, is uono the loss bind
ing upon us, than to exhort to virtuous action,
it is then, in obedienco to this religious ru’e,
that we again venture to remajk “the situa
tion’’—the aggregated parcel of whose com
ponent parts exhibit acts of lawlessness hereto
fore unknown in this country, and which find
only mediocre paralled in the events, which
transformed hat was termed in its inceptions
'•a trugglefor liberty into the most disgraceful
riot that every swept through the streets of thb
French Capitol ”
Their Programme.—As time progresses, the
radicals of the North show their hand more
openly, and talk more boldly of what they
intend to do if they can carry out their plans
The frantic Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, said
in a late speech in Bureau county, Illinois : “I
“would rather help tear down the Capitol than
“allow the Sou’hem States to come back into
“the Union without jetting the negro vote.”
We are of the opinion that the question
whether the “South was out of the Union or
not” has been decided,. Tho v >ry.p4rty to
which Pomercy bJloags has, until within a
short time, claimed she was not. It is a little
too late for politicians of his stamp so change
their tune. The conservative portion of the
North have seen through tho flimsy patriotism
of Pomeroy and his compeers. Already have
they been rebuked and headed off in the U. S
Senate. The best thing that could happen for
this nation would be tho consignment of all
such to political perdition. Tho coimtry has
suffered enoueli from the deeds of radicals.
It President Johnson is sustained in his poli
cy, the days of these mischief makers aro but
“few and of short duration.”
The Kentucky Senatorshid.— We notko that
some of the Kentucky papers manlion Hon. E.
M. Bruce, as a proper person to be the succes
sor of Mr. Davis in the United States Ssnate.
Mr. B. is eminently qualified for the position.
Ho takes a broad national ground upon all the
lead ig questions of the day. He has already
had ; inch experience in Legislative Halls, and
is a practical, thorough business man iu every
respect. It is men of this stamp that are needed
in our Halls of Legislation. Had the Council
Chambers of tho nation been filled with them
in times past, tho lato disastrous war never
would have happened. If such men are sent to
Washington in future, many a difficulty will be
settled amicably, and this country will expe
rience a prosperity never before witnessed in
the history of any nation. Men of this charac
ter are our true statesmen, and should be
selected to fill places of trust and honor. It is
time tho peoplo had stopped selecting candi
dates for high places who neither know how to
manage their own affairs, or those of others
entrusted to them. One such man as Hon. E.
M. Bruce in a legislative hall, is worth more
than scores of impracticable, inexperienced
political demagogues.
Rather Cross Grained.— We see it stated
tn«i John Minor Betts, of Virginia, does not
want the delegates the South has elected ad -
mitted to Congress. When the South was en
deavoring to got out of the Union Mr. Botts
wanted to keep her in. And now that the
South desires to settle matters peaoeably ho
does not wish to have her.
We suppose the gist of tho whole thing can*
be summed up In a few words. Some men are
figuring less prominently since the close of the
war, chan they thought they woald. Hence their
bad feelings. .Their privato ambition seems
to be greater than their patriotism. The na
tion at this time has no use for individuals of
this stamp. The people want men who go for
country first and self afterwards, to fill offices.
Massachusetts Feeltxgs. —The Massachu
setts Legislature thinks that “unless some
thing is dene to overule the policy of Presi
dent Johnson,Jj everything will go wrong.’’
Anything that favored the South in the least,
never was proper in the eyes of Massachusetts.
For the past fifty years that State has endeav
ored to have tho rights of the South tramplsd
under foot. It was her fanaticism which caused
the late lamentable war. And although the
land has been drenched with the bilooi of her
best and bravest sons, still Massachusetts does
not yet appear satisfied, but wants more de
vastation, desolation and ruin. Her desire has
been gratified once. We see and feel the bit
ter results thereof. May all the future plans
of oppression of Massachusetts or her tffioiaVi
fail, They certainly ought to.
na- .iacM ■
The resolutions introduced.in tie House,
calling upon General Howard for information
concerning the restoration of confiscated lafeds
to rebels, and. the expulsion of the freedmen
therefrom, it is stated, will surprise the coun
try at the extent and magnitude of executive
clemency. —Northern Paper.
No one who is in favor of what is just and
right will be surprised. The surprised parly
will consist only cf those who supposed that
they were to get rich after the war, by taking
what they pleased at the South without pay,
or allowing the freedmen to da the same thing
—or, in other words, to carry on war upon
the rights of residents of this section, after
peace had been established.
Trouble ix Alabama.- -The negro troops at
Bladon Springs, Ala., have killed a citizen
named Edward Bass. They also threaten
the lives of others. While troops have been
sent to take their piace3. We believe that a
fair investigation would show that many of the
enormous crimes committed in tho South the
past few mouths, were either committed by
the colored troops, or by their connivaLce and
ins'igation. A prompt removal of all of them
from the South would, we think, have a good
effect. Ihe pernicous example they set, would
at least, be removed from the freedmen.
The Experience or A Florida Planter
01. T. J. Williams, apianter of Florida, state,
that with a force of about one hundred color
cd hands, ho raised, daring this year, from two
hundred to two hundred and fifty bales of cot
ton, each ha’s weighing five hundred pounds
We hope all our planters will have as good
success with their laborers.
The Steamer Savannah.—The steamer Sav
annah, which was sunk semo time since thirty
five miles this side of Savannah, is now so far
raised tha* her promenade deck is nearly fwo
feet ait of water. Her damages, it is said, are
not so great as at first supposed.
Hox H. W. Hilliard has returned to our
city from a trip through Alabama. During
his tour ho visited New Orleans. Ho speaks
favorably of the prospects of that part of the
South through which he travelled.
Sale cf Government Cotton.—There wa3 a
sale of three thousand bales cf Government
cotton in New York, December 28. Memphis
middling fair brought 57 Jc ; strictly middling,
5-Jo : low middling. 50gc. and ordinary, 45|c.
Interesting Intekvisw ct Fkibnb3 with tus
President.—A delegation of prominent gentle
m n belonging to the Society of Friends, rep
resenting thirteen different States recently
paid their respects to President Johnson, and
were received iu a frank and cordial manner,
the interview being of the most agreeable and
satisfactory character. In the course of a free
conversation upon the condition of tho coun
try, the Presidsnt was assured by the delega
tion that they had not sought tho interview
Tor the purpose of suggesting, and much l<*fe
dictating, a course of action in the existing
emergency. Ga the contrary, they came to
signify to him their admiration of his charac
ter and,confidence in his wisdom, and to as
sure him of their hearty support in the just
aud merciful policy which was guiding his
Administration.
Gen, Grant’s Private Opinion.— When Gen.
Grant passed through Richmond on his return
from his Southern trip to Washington, he ex
pressed himself as_being thoroughly satisfied
with the spirit ami policy of the people in the
Southern States. The General stated, in con*
that he was then hurrying on to
Washington, in order to use all the influence
ha could command in advocating the imme
diate admission to Congress of the Southern
delegation.
This i3 as it should be. With the President
and General Grant to advocate the cause of
forbearance, mercy and justice, we may look
forward with confidence to the speedy recon
struction of the Union—based, not upon the
strong hand of power, bat upon the respect,
love and confidence of the people.
Feiliso in Regard to National Banks.—
Late Washington letters say that there is net
a single member of Ceng rags thus far consulted,
but is in favor of Comptroller clerk’s recom
mendation that the National Banking capital
be increased to four hundred million dollars
The Western members are very generally for
it, as their States feel the need of increased
backing capital. Since the date of the report
of the Comptroller of the Currency, eight Na
tional Banks have been established in the
States lately arrayed against the Federal
Government with an aggregate capital of sl.
750,000. Tho total number of these institutions
now in operation iu these States is thirty six,
with a total paid in capital of four million, six
hundred and thirty dollars.
A Huge Stealing Operation.— lt Is stated
that John Scott, the cotton loan agent of the
Confederate Government, on the surrender of
Gen. Taylor, turned over to Gen. Canby 120,-
000 bales of Confederate Government cotton,
with his lists, books and accounts In perfect
ofaer. The
has all gone 3ome where, and that all the
government has received is about ten thousand
bales. This is tho biggest stealing transac
tion we have yet heard of. Some cne went
in to “make or break” sure. It looks, too,
as if someone bad made “his. pile.” The
Government is now busy in endeavoring to
find out who has the cotton—with not much
success as yet.
InfOßTATioxa at New York.—The import, of
foreign goods at New York has been very largo
for somo weeks past. During week ending
December 23, they were $6,463,518 against
$2,172,170 ia the corresponding weak of last
year. Os the large amount last week, rather
more than one half—s3,3o4 907—was iu dry
goods. Os the general merchandise there was
of coffee $559,32G, sugar $304,579, tea *2G6,-
717, and fancy goods $131,787.
The total amount of imports in October
reached $23,134,675 against $10,088,308 in
October last year, and the official figures for
November and December, when the returns are
completed, will show even a still greater rela
tive difference.
The Corn Crop. —The November returns
from the Agricultural Department at Washing
ton, shows an Increase over last year of 173,
846,450 bushels, nearly 33 per eent. More
than a third of this great crop hM been raised
by Indiana and Illinois. The gain In Icdiana
is 41,784,953 bushels and in Illinois 38,739,717
bushels. The gain of these two States Is 80,-
524,670 bushels—an amount equal to the en
tire corn production of Maine, New Hamplfcre,
Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Con
•uectlcut, New York, Now Jersey, and Penn
sylvania.
A Nbw Counterfeit Fiftt. —New counter
feit fifty dollar greenbacks are in circulation
at the North. It is excellent in the engrav
ing, the paper, the printing, and, indeed, in its
whole appearance, it is well calculated to d«-
ceive any but the most perfect of the experts
in such matters. The only mark to which we
can venture to direct pubiio attention 'as a
caution, ia that of the abseijpa of the button
mark on the lappel of tho coat on the figure
of Hamilton, in the body ot the bill. In the
genuine bills the 1 uttons are rather indistinct,
hut in the counterfeit but one is to be seen.
No Government Loan.— The National In
telligencer announces, upon authority, thrt the
statements that a loan of oue hundred millions
was, upon occasion of his recent visit to New
York, tendered to Mr. Secretary McCulloch by
the national banks, are a sheer fabrication.
The Treasury, it adds, has not at present any
noedof a loan, anl should such becom.i neces
aary, it would not beaccapted from tho banks,
but would be aclicited, and, doubtless, with
out trouble, immediately obtained from the
people.
Loss of ms Constitution. —The
Steamship Constitution, from Savannah to
New York, has been wrecked on Cape Look
out. Only the Captair aud fourteen other
were saved. There were but seven passengers
onboard. Her cargo consisted of seven hun
dred and twenty-seven hafe3 of cotton, and
about fifty packages of merchandise.
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Freight Accumulating. —We notice by tho
Atlanta papers that several 'hundred car load3
of freight are now at Chattanooga waiting
transportation ever the State road. Such cm
bsrgoes as this do an immense amount of dam
age to trade. Some mean3 should be adopteds
to remedy this evil.
Cotton from Louisiana On account of low
water, no more cotton from middle and west
ern Louisiana can be gent to market at present.
VOL. LXXV,—-NEW SERIES VOL. XXV NO. 3
Marshall House, Savannah, Re-Opbnkb.
There has manifestly been a great lack of
Hotel aocimmodation iu (Savannah of late.—
travelers have been compelled to seek, shelter
and quarters jn piivate houses and among
acquaintances. Meantime the former propria
tor of “Our House,” has not been an idle
spectator of the pressing want, and for some
months past, movements have been going on—
of transformation, reconstruction, reorganiza
tion, regeneration and reformation at the Mar
shall House. To-day that renowned establish
ment under the energy, tact, and perseverance
of A. B. Luce, E:q , is prepared to entertain
the traveling public, as only au experienced
caterer can.
lhe Marshall House, always capacious, en
joyed a good name cf yore ; and now that it
has been thoroughly iransiormed and modern
ized tho fame of mine host of “Our House,”
guarantees for the establishment in future
a career oi unexampled prosperity. We trust
commensurate wiih the lavish expenditure in
its remodelling to meet the demands of the
times.
A wayfaring friend, late from -Savannah,
who sought shelter beneath the ample pavil
lion of the “Marshall,” gives testimony to tho
recherche style of the new regime there. Eve
rytlring is in complete order from top to bot
tom the tables .are loaded with all the mar
kefs afford ; tho bar i.-g supplied with the
choicest of liquors. Connected with the
House is also an elegant barber shop, with
bathing conveniences ; a fine billiard room—
In short all them odorn improvements and every
thing that a traveler needs for comfort can
he found under tho roof of the Marshall
House,
A Disastrous Accident. One Man Seri
ously Injured.— About five o’clock yesterday
afternoon a disastrous accident occured near
the Lower Market.
The sills under the grocery store of S &
John F. Miller, gavo way beneath the pressure
of goods deposited therein.
Tho accident was as sudden as unexpected,
and it is a little remarkable, .hat although
there were several gentlemen fin tha store at
the time, the majority of them escaped injury.
James T. Easterling was seriously, though
we hope, not fatally injured. Falling through
to lhe cellar, a heap of boxes &c., wore pre
cipitatod upon him—mashing and bruising
him terribly. He was taken from the ruins
and carried home. Anothern gentleman,
whose name we failed to obtain, sustained a
slight injury. Tho damage done by the ac
cident was about one thousand dollars.
An Infamous Deed —An attempt was made
on Sunday night, to burn the residence. qfJSv
F. Russel!, Esq. on Walker street. Fortunately
the fire was discovered and extinguished be
fore much damago was done. This is another
crime to be added to the list of enormities
which aro being daily committed in our midst.
One of tho highest crimes, too, recognized in
the eye of the law. Theso rascals who infest
our city, caa be feroted out. There is no two
ways about it. In other places they are caugh t
aDd punished. Why should Augusta be a lo
caiity where criminals of all sorts can resort and
commit their State Tfison arid hanging offences
with perfect impunity. This thing ought not
to be. Some steps should be inaugurated at
once in this city, to catch law-broakers and
punish crime.
Another Gbt ;aok. —A wodding party In
carriages was rudely assaulted and Insulted on
Sunday night in Montgomery, Ala,, by a party
of drunken soldiers.' B 7 tho prompt action of
the gentlemen of the party scriou3 conse
quences were prevented. A little girl narrow
ly escaped death from a blow aimed at cue
carriage.
Outrages of this character are becoming al
together too frequent. We supposed soldiers
were sent South to assist in preserving the
laws; not to assist in breaking them.
A few examples would learn those who are
induced to do evil a lesson they perhaps might
not forget.
A Good Idea. —We notice, in a cotemporary,
the suggestion that a reward be offered for the
murderers of Edgar Carmichael. The idea is a
good one. Let a reward be offered at once.—
The apathy with which crime appears to be
locked upon, and the ease with which rogues
escape, are high premiums for law-breakers to
resort to this section. A3 long aa no more ar
arrests are made than we at present hear of,
just so long we will hear of all manner of deeds
of darknes 3 and violence being committed in
our midst.
KkVpiko Tinm at it.— On ' Monday we no
ticed some men who were hitched to a baij
with a chain—we supposo for the purpose of
preventing the ball from roUiag away—en
gaged in the very laudable occupation o
cleaning the cross walks on Broad street. On
Tuesday none were to be seen so doing. Par
ties who conduct themselves in such away as
to wear the ornaments spoken of above, could
not bo put to a better work than crosswalk
cleaning just at present.
Good News.—Since strict regulations have
been adopted in Columbus and vicinity, in re
gard to idle negroes, the papers of that city
say. that they are willing to make contracts
more readily than before. Get the idea out of
the freedman’s head that he is to be supported
in laziness and crime by the government, and
we think a majority will be willing to take
bold and work.
Disorderly Conduct. —Some drunken sol
diers were guilty cf very disorderly conduct
at the residence of Thomas Sweeney, on Green
street, on Sunday night. During the affair a
pietol was fired. The men were arrested and
taken off by a military guard. Very incon
venient, thing?, to a quiet, law abiding
citizen Not oniy inconvenient, but very an
noying also.
The Way to do it.— Garotters in Boston
a r e sent to prison for twenty years. That ic
the way to stop such proceedings. A few
such sentences in this tectlon of the woild,
would help restore matters to a healthy aril
bearable condition. Rogues like to live at
expense of the citizens, but when ycu come to
living at expense of the State,, it does not ap
pear to suit them as well.
* NEWS SUMMARY.
Thirty prisoners at the Shelbyvilie (Tenn.)
jail, recently overcame the jailer, turd all
escaped.
It is proposed to build a railroad from Chi
cago across the State of Michigan, to Port Hu
ron, where it will connect with the Canada
roads.
. .".mount of gas consumed fa Cincinnati,
in 1864, was nearly 187,000,000 cubic feet.
For ten months in 1865 it was 1C9.00C.000
cubic feet, paying a rovenue tax of $46,854.
There are uow iu operation 4,623 National
Banks with a currency circulation of $220 -
746,085.
Tho thermometer stood twenty-nine degrees
below zero, at Kearney, Nebraska, December
20th.
Govermental supplies, to the value of a mil
lion dollars, were destroyed by a supposed in
cendiary tiro at Camp Douglass, near Sait Lake,
December 19.
A lato gale on the coast has caused a largo
number of marine disasters.
The fur trade of New York foots up $1,000,-
000 per annum.
lhe U. S. Circuit Court for Massachusetts,
lias ordered ail tho numerous prosecutions,
under State laws, tor liquor selling, to be stop
ped and sent up to its own jurisdiction, a ques
tion of U. S. revenue being involved.
It i3 said there is uncommon activity in the
preparation for shipbuilding in the towns on
tho coast of Maine.
The Kentucky Legislature re-assemblee
January 10.
The militia officers are to be elected in Mis
sissippi at once.
The gold mines of Columbia river Oregon,
aro said to be the richest in tho world.
Gen. Halieck is spoken oi in California for
U. 8. Senator.
Damage done property in St. Louis, by giv
ing way of ice gorge below the city is estimated
at $1,500,000.
Tho proprietors of Montgomery Ala. Adver
tiser are introducing female compositors.
The loss by burning of Government ware
house at Salt Lake City, was $1,000,000.
The Court and jury of Crittenden county,
Ky., were recently relieved from duly toy
someone relieving the jail of the prisoners.
Tho Indiana Legislature want Maximilian
cleaned out of Mexico.
The Now England Manufacturers, not satis
fied with three hundred per ceat. profit, desiro
to have the taiiff raised.
Smuggling is still carried on extensively on
the Canadian frontier,
The receipts from Customs the first nine days
of the present month at the ports of New York,
Philadelphia, and Boston and Baltimore
amounted iu tho aggregate to about four mil
lions of dollars. The receipts from the same
ports during the month of November were
nearly eleven million.
A female-suffrage amendment to tho Con
stitution has been introduced into tho Indiana
Legislature.
Seven persons were’killed and several badly
wounded by a powder explosion at Wilmington,
Del., recently
Gov. Earson, or zxia., nag assurances iroia
Gen. Thomas that all tho troopa shall be re
moved from that State a* soon as the Gover
nor is satisfied that the exigencies of the times
shall have relaxed sufficiently to admit of it.
Dt. John 4b Baylor, u£ Carolina connty, Va.,
has leased his estate for ten years to a Scotch
gentleman named Black. Dr. Baylor is said to
receive three thousand dollars for the first three
years, and five thousand dollars per annum for
the succeeding seven years. Mr. Black design
returning to Scotland at an early day,and
will bring over a colony of emigrants. ,
Hon. Schuyler Colfax has written a lettm" u
which he declines being considered a cuudl
date for tho United States Senate. He says
that if he continues in public he prefers to re
main in tho House.
There is at present living in Sweden r young
man, aged nineteen, who is nine feet five 1:. i
in height. At eight years of age he 1,,., li ;a
feet four inches.
President Johnson has ordered Governor
Holden to prohibit the sheriffs of Ncrto C -•»-
lina from executing the provisions of the rev
enue law passad by the State Convection .hi. .i
levies taxes on business transactions f'„. : L-r: k
as January 1, 1865, when a largo por "n cf t'.s
State was within our military lines, —lu t.U
business was subjected to military taxes.
Commerce of tub World.— This is estlrr ci
to require 3,600,000 able-bodied men to La
constantly traversing the ocean, cf wherx
7,500 die every year. The amount of proper
ty annually moved on the water is front fit
teen hundred to two thousand millions ©f dol
lars, and tho amount annually lost by the .cas
ualties of the sea, averages twenty-five, mil
lions of dollars. m
A Cremona violin belonging to the late Sig
nor Piccioli, the mujie teacher in Baltimore,
at auction in that city last week for SIOO.
The Ctmnvs3ioner of Internal Revenue says
that the average annual taxable production of
the different kinds of manufactured tobacco
from September 1, 1882, to June 30, 1865, «u
42,809,168 pounds, which, at present rate*,
would have produced $1,936,795,55.
Tho reports that Secretary Harlaln would
resign are incorrect.
It is rumored that Secretary Stanton may
go as Minister to England, and Secretary Wells
aa Minister to Russia.
Gea. Thomas has been ordered to reduce
the aggregste force of troops in Georgia, Ala
bama and Mississippi to seven thomand, in
cluding regulars.
The Pacific Railroad is monopolizing atten
tion at Washington.
All volunteer medical officers are to be mus
tered out.
According to a Washington dispatch, orders
have been it-Bued by the Govnrnment for the
arrested of several of the late officials of the
Confederate Government, but upon what
specific charges has not transpired.
The Internal Revenue receipts, December 29,
wsre $1,300,000.
It is said thirty thousand more troope will
soon be discharged.
Raymond, of New York, is now the acknow
ledged leader of the conservative Republicans
in the Mouso.
During week ending. December 29, over
$4,000 000 in currency wero issued to Na
tional Banks.
Ti e C m iiigsior.er of tho Internal Revenue
haß decided that twenty, five cents is the highest
rate of stamp duty upon warehouse receipts,
whatever the value of the property dep;sited
or stored
Chief Justice Chase is reported to have said
that if, when holding a Circuit Court, he
should find the cage of the United States vs.
Mr. Davis on the docket, ho would proceed
with the cause the sime as any other, but that
he should certainly hold no Circuit Court in
Virginia so long as that State was under mili
tary r ;le.
The President, Secretary Stanton, and Gen.
Giant have been closeted together a great
deal recently.
The unpaid claims against War Department
amount to about $2 000,000.
The Indian Bureau will probably be changed
from Interior to War Department.
There in some talk pf re-annexing Alexan
dria to District of Columbia.
The London Times publishes a letter from the
Superintendent of the Atlantic Teiegrsphie
Company, announcing that the Great Eastern
will positively sail in June, 1866, to lay the
new cable and take up the old one, which is
a C Darned to be in the most perfect order by
t e daily tests taken from the time it broke,
and which vriil be continued daily.
It was recently decided by the Paymaster
General’s Department that urovost .Marahais
and mh-T members of the Board of Enrollment
are cot entitfel, when discharged, to the three
months’ pay proper, under the act of March
3d, 1665, nor to traveling allowances to their
homes.
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