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DU..I. 11. McCALL,
QUITMAN, GEO.,
Boirers his Professional services to the citizens of
B R (Quitman and surrounding country.
RtlPDmce at bis Drug Store, on the corner.'
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QUITMAN, GEO,,
RESPECTFULLY asks the patronage of the
, citizens of Quitman and surrounding coun
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JR O.
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in throe months regularly, from the Ist of March.
February 24, 1866. ly
Dr. F. 11. Lewis,
Surgeon Dentist,
IS NOW LOCATED AT
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AND is prepared to do all branches of Dentis
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k .7&r Not having been able yet to procure an
tOffice. he will call abrevidences, when desired.
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<> Mr. A. -J.
Hpring and Summer
[goods,
a AT.GRBOVERVILLE.
Bpilh subscriber is now receiving his Stock of
Spring and Summer Goods consisting of
*VKLIGQES,
MUSLINS,
|| GINGHAMS.
Kottonades, stripes.
H BROWN AND PLANTER'S LINEN,
mu IR TINGS,
WT SHEETINGS,
fc-i , LONG CLOTHS,
IJirjß BED TICK, AC.
HBKs. Misses’ and Men's Hats
Hr and Bonnets;
BgpjHO.vs- Flowers, Wreaths, Plumes. Gloves.
Mr 1 DIES HISSES HEX AND CHILD REX' S
■ x ' BCOIS AND SHOES,
[ Groceries, Hardware,
CROCKERY,
L Saddles, Bridles , Girths ,
BRI, l|c other ar'i too teipous to mention.
sold at Me market price.
§ JOHN M. RAVSOB. I
Bfrtillc. AprUn. 1866. 13-ts
sii inifM mmii.
Bill Arp is Called Bifore the ltecon
struclion Committee-
SU ITR ESSEI) TESTIM 0 N Y.
To the Editor of the. M<troj>olitan Record .-
Mu. Editor : Mufdsr will out. ami so
will evidence. Having seen Ran Rices
testimony before the Destruction Commit J
tee, 1 have felt sorter slighted because no j
mention ain’t been inide of mine. 1 sup
puse it|!ms been suppressed but lam not
to be bid out in obscirity. Our country
is the special jury, aid by and by tins
business will go up before it on appeal.
The record must go up fair and complete
and therefore I’ll take occasion to make
public wbat I swore to. I said a good
deal more than I can put down Mr. Edit
or, arid at times my language was con
sidered impudent, but they thought that
was all the better for their side, for it il
lustrated the rebellious spirit—l heard
one of’em say : “Let him go on—the
ruling passion strong in death. He’s
good States evidence.”
When I was put on the stand old Bout
web swore me most fiercely and solemnly
to speak the truth, the whole truth, and/
nothing but the truth, and I observed
that he was then entertaining about t
| quart of double rectified, and it lookri
like it had soured on his stomach. Old
| Blow was settin off on one side with a
| memorandum book, getting ready to n< tfte
- down some “garbled extracts.”
Old Iron Works wua Chairman, afnd
j when he nodded his Republican head,ydd j
Boutwell says he : “Your name is Arp, I ;
believe sir ?”
“So called,” says I,
S “You reside in the State of Georgia,
do you ?”
| “I can’t say exactly,” says,” I. “I live
in Rome, right in the fork of two pijun
I rivers.”
“In tie State of Georgia.” says he
i fiercely.
“In a state of uncertainty about that,”
says I. “We don’t know whether Geor
gia is a State or not. 1 would like for
[you to state yourself if you know The
state of the country requires that this j
matter should be settled, arid I will pro
ceed to state.”
“Never mind, sir,” says he. 'How old
are you, Mr. Arp ?”
“That depends on circumstances,” says
I. “I don’t know whether to count the
last five years or nqt. Durin the war
your folks said a State couldn’t se
cede, but that while she was in a state j
of rebejlion she ceased to exist. Now !
you say we got out and we shan’t get j
back again until 1810. A man’s age has
got something to do with his lights and
if we are not to vote, I think we ought
to count the time. That’s about I
as near as I can come to my age sir.”
“Well, sir,” says he ; are you familiars
with the political sentiments of the citi
zens of your State ?”
“Got no citizens yet sir that we know S
of. I will thank you to speak of us as !
“people.”
•• HBKE SHALL THE PRESS THE PEOPLE'S RICJHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY PEAR AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN.”
QUITMAN, GEO., FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1866.
“Well, sir,” says he, “I’ll humor your
obstinacy. Are the people of your State— ;
“Don’t speak of it as a State sir, if you I
please. I’m on oath now and you must j
excuse me for being particular. Call it
a section.”
“Mr. Arp, are the people of your sec
tion sufficiently humbled and repentant
to come back into the Union on such
terms as we may think proper to impose?’
“Not much they ain’t says I, “1 doiit
think they are prepared for it yet. They
Iwould’t voluntarily go it blind against
[your hand. They say the deal wasn’fair
land you have marked the cards and stoic
Itlie trumps, but at the same time they
| don’t care a darn what you do. They’ve
become indifferent and don’t care nothing
about your Guy Fawkes business. 1
mean no respect to you, gentlemen but 1
was swore to tell the whole truth. Our
people aint a noticing yon only out of
curiosity. They don’t expect anything
[decent or honorable, or noble from you,
[ and they've gone to work diggin and
I plowin and plantin and raising boy chil-
I dren.”
| Right here the man with the memoran
| dum scratched down a garbled extract,
I and old Boutwell says he: “What, do
I you mean by that sir ? What inference
Ido you intend ?” I’m statin facts,” says
11, “you must draw your own inferences.
■ They are raisin boy children. Any harm
lanout that ? Any treason ? Can’t man
■ raise boy children ? Perhaps you would
j like to amend the Constitution and stop
| it. Old Pharaoh tried to stop it among
| the Israelites, but it didn’t pay. lie tinal-
I ly caught the dropsy in the Red Sea. We
[ are raisin boy children for the fun of it.
I They are a good thing to have in the
I house, as Mrs. Toodles wood say.
I “Mr. Arp arenot the feelings of your
people very hitter towards the North ?”
“I beg' your pardon, sir, but you’ll
have to split the question, or else I’ll have
to split the answer, Our people have a
very high regard for honorable men brave
men, noble-hearted men, and there’s a
heap of’em North, sir, and there’s aheap
of widows and orphans there we. are sor
ry for ; but as for this hero Radical parly
they look upon’em like they was hyenas
a scratchin up the dead for a livin. It’s
ias natural io nate ’em as it is to kill a
snake, It’s utterly impossible for me to
tell the strength and length, and bight,
depth and bredth of their contempt for
that party, They look upon a Radical
as—as—as —well as a beggar on liorsc
back—a buzzard sailiu round a dead
eagle —a suck egg dog crcepin up to the
tail of a dead lion. They talk about hir
in Brownluw to abuse ’em, to use lan
guage on them, like he did a few years
ago when he spoke against Pyrne. It
they do hire Brownlow he’ll spatter ’em,
lie’ll daub ’em all over and slime ’em and
slobber on ’em about right, and it will
stick forthe pores are open and their mor
als spongy. Pd like to stand off about
ten rods and hear him spread himself.—
It would ho worse than a squirt-gun full
of cow-slop, and 1 have no doubt would
give general satisfaction.”
“That’s sufficient, sir,” says old Bout
well “lif it was it was in their power
to do so would your people renew the
fight ?”
“Ndt unless they could fight the Radi
cals (ill alone, and all the world agree to
“hands off.” Even then there wouldn’t
be no fight, for we couldn’t cotch you.”
“What do your people say on the sub
ject of negro equality ?”
"They say it’s a lie sir—it don’t exist
by nature and never can it practice. Folks
were not created free and equal. That may
bp a theoretical truth, but it’s always
Keen a practical lie. There’s grades of
• society every where. There’s men T give
jibe sidewalk to, and there’s men that
'gives it to me. There's men that I vote,
and men that vote me, and the grades
up, up, up, step by step, from my sort to
Mr. Davis and Mr Stephens, and Gener
al Lee, and Howell Cobb and Ben. Hill,
and their sort ; for they are the highest
in the nation ; and then again it goes
from me down, down, down, to the nig
gers and the Republicans and the Radi
cals and that’s as low as they tun.—
There aint no equality and you cant
make one. We’ll vote the niggers certain
I’ll vote Tip, and Tip’s a’head centre ’
He’ll vote about forty and the first thing
you know we’ll elect seven big' black
greasy niggers to Congress. W e’ll do it
certain —seven of’em 18 carats strong
with African musk. Ihe other rebel
States will do the same thing and you’ll
have about fifty of ’em to draw seats
with, and you can all stick your legs up
on your desk together and swap lies and
vermin and shampood at the same shop,
ami the fair sexes can set together in the
gall ries and mix odors and fan their
scent about promiscuous. We’ll give
you a full benefit of your Civil Rights bill
see if we don’t.
Yon go on—play your cards. We are
bidin our time. We are payin your tax
es and your duties and back rations for
1864, and licenses, and your infernal
revenue and obeyin your laws without
havin any hand in makin ’em, and we
are cut off from pensions and public
lands ; and you sold a poor man’s still
in my county the other day because he
couldn’t pay your tax on some peach
brandy he stilled for his neighbors some
two years ago 5 and soon youll be sellin
the laud for the land tax, and your are
tryin your best to play the devil general
ly"; but you’ll catch it in the long run
See if you don’t. Talk about Fenians.
When the good men of the North and
the South all get togethor, they'll walk
over the track so fast that you wont have
time to g'et out- of the way. You’ll sub
side into obscurity, and your children
will deny that their daddies ever belon
ged to such a party. Excuse me, gentle
men, but I’m a little excited. Five cents
a peund on cotton will excite anybody
that makes it. Tax on industry-—on
sweat and toil, Protection tariff's for
Pennsylvania and five cents a pound on
Southern cotton —half it's average worth
and your folks will manage some way
or other to steal the other half My ad
vice to you is to quit this foolishness and
begin to travel the only road to peac
Old Blow couldu t keep up with his gar 1
bled extracts.
“What makes the President so popular
at the South ?”
“Contrast, sir—contrast. The more
he ain't like your party, the more popular
lie is. lie would treat us about right, 1
reckon, if you would let fliim but
you bedevil him so that sometimes he
I don’t understand himself. I don't think
| he knew for a while whether his Peace
Proclamation restored the writ of habeas
corpus or not. But do you go on and
impeach him, and that will bring matters
to a focus. I’ll bet you’d be in Fort Del
aware in a week, in a week and the
Southern members be here in their seats, j
and they’ll look round at the political j
wreck and ruin and plunder and stealage
that’s been goiu on they might exclaim
in the language of the poet—
“ Whose pin here since l’sti pin gone?”
"Mr. Arp, suppose we should have a
war with England or France, what
would the rebels do?”
“They’d follow Gen. Lee, and General
Johnson, and Longstreet and Bragg and
old Bory. My opinion is, that Gen. Leo
would head the Union army, and Gen
Grant would he his Chief of staff, and
Gen Buel would rank mighty high, and”
“What would you do with Gen. Sher
man?”
“S r.y’you mentioned him We’d have to
hire him, I reckon, as a camp tiddler, and
make him sing “Hail Columbia” by fire
light, as a warnin to the boys bow mean
it is to burn cities and towns and m ike
war upon defenseless women and chil
dren. No, sir our boys wouldent tight
vptdor no such ”
At this time the man with the memor
andum put down some garbled extracts.
“Do you think, Mr. Arp, that il the
South should ever hold the balance of
power, they would demand pay for their
negroes?”
“I can’t say, sir. But I don’t think the
South hdpmythiiig that way. We
got tillin' before the war h>r their
vittels and clothes and doctor’s bills, and
we got it now for about the same. It’s
all settled down that way, and your Bu
reau couldcnt help it. The only differ
ence is in the distribution.- Some of 11s
don’t own as many as we used to, but
everybody has got a nigger or two now,
and they’ll all vote o n ofI.JA nigger that
wouldent vote as 1 told him, shouldent
j black my boots.”
At (his time the Committee looked nt
one another, seeming to be bothered and
I astonished. Garbled extracts were put
j down with a vim.
Mr. Boutwell says lie, “Mr, Chairman,
I think sir, we are about through with
the witness I think, sir, his testimony
settles the question as to what we ought
to do with the Southern traitors.
The chairman gave mo a Republican
nod and remarked, “Yes sir, I think we
do. The scoundrels burnt my iron
works.”
Whereupon I retired / having given
general satisfaction
Ydurs truly,
Bill Arp.
Prentice on Brownlow-
Like the Augusta Chronicle & Senti
nel ”we do not generally approve of
newspaper invective, and lienee have
not presented our readers with the open
ing scenes in the tilt now going on be
! tween l’rentice, of the Louisville Journal,
and Brownlow, the Governor, so-called,
\of Tennessee. But Frentice lashes His
I Excellency with such inimitable grace
! and vigor that wo present his rejoinder
| to the last bulletin of the Governor:”
| Old Governor Brownlow, after keep
ling the filthy hole in his head shut for
j weeks, comes out with another attack on
us in his Knoxville Whig, which has
i even been a disgrace to Knoxville, to
Tennessee, to civilization and to uncivil!- j
! zation. lie never has mind cnougli to
j keep his body from rotting—consequent
j ly he has always been a mass of putri-j
faction; he has never had sufficient com
| moil sense to last him over night so that
!he wakes up a miserable fool every
| morning; and this last effort of his in the j
Whig is the poorest, feeblest, the jejun-j
j est. the most contemptible that we have •
j seen, even from him. It dosen’t rise:
I even to the low level of the invective. I
j There is no more talent in the writings j
\ dian in the scratchings of a dung-hill |
| fowl upou a dung-hill. It is a mere conj
catenation of vulgar epithets and liugfl
, vile lies, for which there is not
as the thin and shadowy
ken and iivii, infuriated, and imflßH
or no man -so weak that,
dig that we road of, li“ jL~ .
g.iii.-’ folio- .do h
io •■Jm
1 - x <9
• ■ '■ s’ agyglg 1 ,
• ''FPwfimmrP
.1 jag
is a full bubble floating on the surface of
a cess pool
It is pretty extensively believed in
Nashville that Brownlow is insane. We
don’t believe it. Insanity has been de
fined to be the entanglement of thoughts,
but he hasn't thoughts enough to make
a tangle. ‘Tis a pity for him that he
isn’t insane, for it would ho the oiqy ex
cuse, utter mental imbecility excepted,
for the disgrace he is inflicting upon the
State in which he dwells. Ho calls him
self a man of God. He professes to be a
messenger of “peace and good will to
men ” He holds himself up or out as a
saint ordained and annointed to establish
the spirit of Christianity among mankind.
But he has ever promoted strife and
fights and bloodshed in neighborhoods,
lie has been a pest, an itch, a leprosy, a
yellow plague in every community, lie
lias distilled venom like a human bolnui
upas. 11 is tongue has ever been “set on
lire to hell” to kindle (lie wagging mem
her. Beelzebub’s tail is forever coiled
like a snake around the old miscreant’s
neck. There has never been any more
religion or decency in his sermons or his
prayers, or his exortations, or his talk at
death-beds, than in the yelling of hyenas,
the cursings of pirates, or the abjnega
tions of ballots. lie has desecrated the
house of God as much by the blasphe
mies as if he had stolen the sacramental
vessels or used them in treating his con
gregation to apple jack. It is a wonder
that in his pulpit he has never been trans
fixed by the forked arrows of God's ven
geance. Ho professed to guide men to
iLeaven, and curses them to boll. He
would go for universal damnation, provi
ded he could be exempted himself. In
his black robes and white craval, he
might remind one of a black snake with
a white streak around his neck.
What an infinitely miserable old man
this must bo. He never did a generous
or kind thing in luh life. He was ever
meditating the gratification of his malice.
He has ever been seeking to steal upon
his unsuspecting neighbors like a cat
upon a bird. Every man has a deadly
antipathy to him. They say there are
people who have such an antipathy to
black cats that th, y instinctively know
j il one is within a hundred yards of them
in the darkest night, and we are sure that
decent people would recognize his p%ux
imity at twice the distance, lie can
have no healthful sleep, only convulsions.
The whole of the beautiful world—sky,
earth and sea—must be as black as Ere
bus to his eyes. Every sound must be
to his cars like a shriek of the damned;
every drop of rain must seem to him a
blasting sirocco; every morsel of food a
dose of infernal brimstone.
The poor old wretch must feel terrible
remorse. He must feci as if his ribs
were red hot gridirons, broiling his en
trails. If every malignant and accursed
lie he has told were a coal of fire upon
his body, he would writhe and twist into
a taller mountain of flame than ever the
old Tartans did. His heart is uh black
as ten thousand devils. He sees behind
him only the mounds over (he graves of
buried victims, and before—only the
Dead Sea of Despair. Heaven, earth,
and even hell abhor him—though the
latter will manage somehow to gulp him
down. His very face looks like that of
a dead man, who mistaking a hoy’s toot
ing-horn for Gabriel’s trumphet, has got
up for judgment before his time. IDs
evil passions have killed every semblance
of human nature in his features, if there
ever was such a semblance there.
People of Tennessee ! Io ! your Gover
nor!
“With one hand clenched to batter nones,
While ’tether elans ’bout Paul and -Moses.”
What two Virginia Girls Did.
Among the strangers in Philadelphia
at this moment are two ladies from Mar
tinsburg, West Virginia. Yesterday they
were purchasing a seed drill, a mowing
j machine and other agricultural imple-
I ments,Svhosc cost in the aggregate was
I about eight hundred dollars. Their home
j was very close to the theatre of the late
! war. Between the two contending ar
i tides their houses anil their barns were
j burned, their horses and their cattle driv
en off, their only brother conscripted into
i the Confederate army, and themselves
j left utterly destitute and homeless. And
: one who, seeing a young lady such as
' we saw yesterday, had been told that she
| had personally plowed and planted many
acres of land, would have laughed to
scorn the party so informing him. Such,
j however, is literally the case We learn
ed the facts from a gentleman residing
l in the vicinity. The smoking ruins of
the farm upon which these young people
resided had scarcely cooled when the
neighbors lubbed together, built them a
sort of bam. Horses were loaned to
them, and the girls with their owil hands
ploughed the ground and seeded it with
corn. The crop grew apace, and with
they harvested it. They
t a gi
| •pjjk .- .me 1 I these went
KH.O- the
l it alone
I iides of the war
‘ ” " » 'pml'l r* '!"• :ii'i!i:v
’4'ii mf*£ ::
JEsW
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- .5 : :y. waiie
r, lie
[53.00 per Annum*
NO. 21.
buildings td astfes. One of the young
ladies lias since married, but the others
still do duty as their own “overseers,”
and they themselves purchased venter 1
day and directed the shipment of the ag
ricultural implements to which we have'
above referred. The wonder to the deal
er was, that a ledy delicately gloved, ami
attired as though she had never over
stepped the bounds of the boudoir, should
descant experimentally and intelligently
upon the respective merits of the diflet
ent reaping machines, and upon the com
parative value of the different patents for
threshing out the cereals.
These young ladies were educated in
Philadelphia, and are well known to
many of our best people. Rhitadelphia
North American,
Village Destroyed by a Tornado.— The
Savannah Merchantile Mirror gives a
graphic account of a tornado that swept
over the village of Saxton, Beaufort Dis
tried, S. (J., 011 ’he 4th iust. It says :
The village consisted of fifty houses,
forty five of which were destroyed. Some
of the houses were carried a distance of
three miles with their inmates in them.
Many of the freed people were killed
and wounded—-men women and children
Near the village was a pond into which
several were blown and drowned. All
the furniture, trunks, chests, bed clothing
wearing apparaland greenbacks of these
unfortunate creatures were carried away.
From the succeeding Saturday to Mon
day the remaining freed people were en
gaged in searching for and burying the
dead. Trees were also uprooted and
blown a great distance.
Saxtons village is situated about one
mile back of 1110 city of Beaufort.
It is also reported that a large dwell
ing house of Mr. Benj. Capers of Lady’s
Island was blown down and the trees on
the enclosure uprooted.
We give the above facts, says the In
dex as stated by “the reliable freedmen.’
- -
A queer genius who call’s himself Josh
Billings, discourseth the proverbs follow
ing :
Wo are apt tu hate thorn who won’t
take oqr advice and despise them who
do.
It is dredful cazy tube a pliool—a
phool—a] man kau be one and not.
know it.
Real happiness don't consist so much
in what a man don’t hav, as it duz in
What lie don’t want.
“Large bodies move slo,” this ere
proverb don’t apply tu lies forthe bigger
tha ar tha faster tha go.
A man running for oflis puts me in
mind ova dog that’s lost—he smells ov
everybody 110 meets, and wags hisself all
over.
Most ov the advice we rosea re from
others iz not so much an evidenso of their
affockshun for themselves.
If you want tu git a sure crop and a
big yield for the seed, sow wild oats.
What a man spends in this life, ho
saves ; what he don’t git wan’t incut
for him, and what he saves he loozes.
When a feller gits a goin down hill, it
dus seem as tho cvry thing had bin greas
ed for the kashun.
If tliar waz nothing but tiuth in this
wurld, a fool would stand just as good a
chanso az a wizc man.
ltize ally, work hard and late live on
what you kan’t sell give nothin awa and
if you doiitdie ritch and go tu the devil,
yo ma sue me for damages. [N. 8.-The
cbove remarks are not intended to bo
personal.
Marrin for lov ma be a litile risky, but
it is so honest that God kaut help hut
smile on it.
I argy in this way if ’ a man is
right ho can’t be too radikil if he is rung
he kant be too conservatiff.
There is 2 things in this life for which
we are never fully prepared and that iz
twins.
Genuine Eloqunce —There are riS peo
ple in the world with whom eloquence is
so universal as the Irish. When Leigh
Ritchie was traveling in Ireland he pass
ed a man who was a painful spectacle
of pallor squalor anil raggedness. Hi.»
heart smote him, and he turned hack.
"If you are in want,” said Ritchie “why
don’t you beg !”
“Surely, it is begging I am ycr lion
or.”
“You didn’t say a word.”
“Os course not. ycr honor, but see how
the skin is spakin’ through thetrowsers!
and the bones cryin’ out through me
skin ! Look at me sunken cheeks, and
tho famine that’s starin’ in my eyes!—.
Man alive, ins’t it beggin’ I am with a
thousand tongues ?”
Worms in Pork.— . The papers, says tho
Nashville Union, all over the country aro
making a great fuss about worms in
pork, Since we entered the army in’6l,
this lias been nothing new to us. The
boys used to grumble about them some
times but we always thought the worms
had the most reason to complain.
gssy The London Times closes an arti
cle on the American negroes as follows :
“Their place there is no denying it, is
service and submission. A Jaw of nature
we canuot alter and the best their friends
can do for them is to find out the posi
tion and occupation that fit their quality
the best, and advise them to accept thc-j
cheerfully.”
