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that you ure but carrying out tbe de
crees of an unconstitutional act of a par-
iyizcd Congress ? It is a well known and
accepted legal maxim, that a delegated
power cannot bo delegated. The Con
stitution of the United States, which you
arc sworn to observe, protect and defend,
says that Congress may suspend the priv
ilege of the writ of habeas corpus when
rebellion or invasion do imperil the pub
lic safety. Now, although this power is
delegated to Congress only by the Con
stitution of the Republic, yet, the act of
Congress, approved April 20, 1871, seeks
to delegate this power to the President,
and allows him to exercise liis discretion
in deciding when the “rebellion or inva
sion” referred to in the Constitution,
miliar with a few facts; but one known to j dictate the terms of union, and frame
be, and recognized among, scientific the policy which is to govern the new
men, as thorough in his department; to party, and the Democrats are to accept
Brown was
shall be considered as existing. This,
Mr. President, invested you with impe
rial power, and you might well have
turned away from the sceptre which the
Mark Antonys of .Congress tendered to
you. But your Excellency—your Majes
ty, I might add—seized the tendered
power. Yon did more. In your procla
mation of October 17 hist, yon proceed
to carry on this delegation of a delegated
power. You delegate your power to the
United States Marshal, and he is author
ized to delegate to his deputy, and he to
a soldier, and he to a citizen, and thus it
comes to this, in the last analysis of the
mutter, that the suspension of the writ of
habeas carpus rest*, finally, in the hands
of any United States soldier or negro in
the once sovereign State of South Caro
lina.
Against this as a Carolinian, as a citi
zen of the United States, as an heredi
tary freeman, I raise my protest, however
ineffectual as it may be. Further, I raise
my protest, and the protest of all in sym
pathy with me, against all your military
proceedings in this State. These pro
ceedings, instigated by personal malice
and for partizan purposes, have inflicted
a heavy blow npon the industries, as well'
as the liberties of our people. They are
uncalled for. I affirm that the civil arm
was strong enough to execute the law in
South Carolina, and that a grievous wrong
ha3 been done to this State by tlio very
hand that should have been raised in
sympathy and defense.
And now, Mr. President, let me say to
you, that if your purpose be to break the
spirit of our people, and make them bend
to the yoke that has been laid upon them,
even your giant* strength, as the head of
a powerful Government, will not be equal
to the task. Our people will emerge
from the waves that now threaten to bury
their all. Out of chaos will come order
—out of decay will come life. With our
climate, our soil, onr resources, our men,
our women, with all the bounties oi a
good God spread before us, we shall not
despair. Nor shall we abandon our mo
ther State in the hour of her greatest
need. Claiming only what is just and
fair, standing by only what is right, we
shall hold on to the broken altars of the
State and pour upon them in lavish
streams the rich libations of a more than
Roman devotion.
If you can rise to the heights of your
duty, it is plain what your Excellency is
called upon to do. Withdraw your sol
diers. Recall your military edicts. Re
mit us to peaceful pursuits. -Think of
Burke when he relented, and pardoned
something to the spirit of liberty. Think
of Camillus, when, by a magnanimous
policy, he made the conquered people of
Latinmn the friends of Rome, and thus
added to her power and dignity.
Your Excellency appears bent upon the
policy of making war upon the Southern
States. Pardon me for the suggestion
that you cannot, if you regard your fame,
retire too soon from this campaign
against your own countrymen. The only
enemy before you are the men, women
and children of plundered, struggling
communities.
The great heart of the peerless Lee is
still in death, and the war-worn veterans
o. the armies of the Confederacy are
making their bread by the sweat of their
brows. You can, Mr. President, win no
honors in your present aggressions; and
even if honors were possible, it might be
well for you to bear in mind the sugges
tion of a Christian heart, that
••Peace hath Uer victories no less renowned than
I am, respectfully, yours, J. P. T.
The Polytechnic Institute.
We need in Georgia a comprehensive
Polytechnic Institute, where those sub
jects will be taught that are supplemen
tary to the gymnastic or disciplinary
studies now pursued at the colleges. We
need an institute where our young men
can be trained to be practical chemists,
mechanical and civil engineers, mining
engineers, architects, builders, scientific
agriculturists, scientific mechanics; where
the opportunity and inducement will be
offered them to adopt these industrial
professions that are destined to play so
important a part in our civilization. Our
strength in the future lies in educating
our sons for their varied industries, as
our weakness in the past lay in sedulously
avoiding them. But what do we require
to constitute a polytechnic institute that
will create and supply the demand for
this scientific education? We need, first,
the appliances necessary to teach modern
science, such that, at tho present time,
do not exist in any institution of learning
in Georgia, and such that cannot be ob
tained without large means. Among
them are chemical and physical laborato
ries, where opportunities will be afforded
students of becoming practically famil
iar with the applications of science;
museums of ores, minerals, soils, imple
ments, etc.; models in Architecture, En
gineering, Mechanics, etc. These being
the appliances wherewith to teach the
applications of science, would constitute
the needed ground-work or foundation
whereon to build the proposed Institute.
To use this scientific material there
should be secured competent professors,
earnest men, devoted to their work; and,
in addition to teaching the motives of
scientific investigation, and the applica
tions of science, the determining the geo
logical, minerological, and physical re
sources of the State should receive, in.
the proposed Institute, immediate atten-
tion. It should be, emphatically, a State
“^tihite—working to develope both the
“ and physical resources of the
whom should be assigned tbe duty of
making a mineralogicul and geological
survey of tho entire State, of preparing
charts indicative of its mineral wealth,
and its diversified soil, and of
collecting a museum of minerals and soils,
tcc. Til's survey would be tbe work of
years, but with a proper division of the
time in the lecture room and in tbe field,
it could be satisfactorily accomplished.
Then geological excursions would also
afford to special and advanced studeuts
an opportunity of acquiring this practi
cal knowledge, which would prove of
positive value.
This institute should also have a Pro
fessor of Physical Geography, whose duty
it should be to make a physical survey
of the State, and collect statistics of the
agricultural products, and the manufac
tures of tbe different sections. Charts,
exhibiting the result of these surveys,
should be published, on which should be
indicated the water-powers, the valuable
timber, the climate, products qf the soil,
with statistics of population, &c., thus
illustrating the natural wealth of Geor
gia. We possess a princely domain, ex
tending from the mountains to the sea
shore, embracing nearly sixty thousand
square miles, yet concerning much of
this domain we possess very limited
knowledge. We can obtain more
reliable and accurate knowledge of
Colorado or Nevada in two hours, by re-
fering to the United States reports, than
we can acquire of Georgia, by a resi
dence of as many years. We know not
of what we are capable. We know not
what wealth we possess. We know not
what valuable mineral deposits may lie
hidden in the bowels of our mountains;
nor what rich beds of phosphates may
be in our low lands.
As sensible men, desiring to develope
our State, it becomes us to know these
things, to go to work sensibly and suc
cessfully, to exhibit to ourselves and the
world, the material wealth of our State.
If, under the direction of the proposed
Polytechnic Institute, whose establish
ment we advocate, the mineralogical,
geological and physical surveys were
completed, or partially completed, and
then were published the charts illustrat
ing the varied soils, the climate, the fall
of rain, the valuable mineral deposits,
the geological formations, the rivers and
streams, with the horsepower, indicating
the capacity of the waterfalls, marked at
the proper localities, the valuable tim
ber, the railroads, the varied agricultu
ral products, &c., &c., of what inesti
mable value would they be to the State?
How could we estimate the rich harvests
that we would enjoy from such a work?
Can any reasonable doubt be enter
tained of their beneficial influence, were
such charts and statistics, giving an epi
tome of the natural wealth of Georgia,
distributed in the centers of capital and
immigration of the old world ? How
otherwise can we we successfully invite
capital and immigration, unless we show
to the world the superior natural advan
tages proposed? and how otherwise can it
be done so economically and satisfactorily
as in the manner proposed, under the
direction of a State Institute?’
There is one other officer essential in
the proposed Institute, who, in our
opinion, should have connection with the
State and the people. The Professor of
Applied Chemistry should be the State
chemist, whose duty it should be, for a
nominal compensation, fixed by law, to
analyze specimens of fertilizers used by
planters; and whose certificates of analy
sis, in such cases, should be the requisite
legal evidence to establish fraud, and
render the claims of the vendor void.
The protection thus afforded to the agri
cultural community would far more than
repay to the State in money value, the
entire amount, requisite to found this
much needed institute of applied science.
We do not pretend to enumerate all
the officers needed in the Polytechnic In
stitute.. If the State should establish it
with a wise liberality, it would expand as
our necessities would demand. But even
with these departments we have enumera
ted, filled with earnest., consistent .men,
can we justly estimate the value of the
investment to the State ? Can we esti-,
mate the immediate benefits that would
arise from a judicious distribution of such
physical charts as we have described, in
inviting capital and immigration, or the
remote good in giving a new impetus to
our energies and opening new industries.
This is not a fanciful Utopian scheme.
We have revolved it in our thoughts for
years. We commend its consideration
to the thoughtful members of the Legis
lature. All that we advocate can be ac
complished if we will exhibit a commen
dable State pride, and, for the time,
place prejudices of locality in abeyance.
Rugby.
it, not only unreservedly, but thankfully.
They are simply to vote a new set of Re-;
publicans into place and power, and when
they have done this they are to have all
the advantage they can derive from a
barren compliment on their “honor and
magnanimity. ”
This, however, is not all. After ad
monishing the Democracy that it is their
duty to yield everything, they are cooly
told that ‘‘both wings of the Reform
party will stand on an equal footing in
everything, and that there will be on
each side equal willingness and zeal to
support a Presidential candidate selected
from the other.”
The one great object of the proposed
combination is avowedly to keep General
Grant from becoming President for a
second term. What tbe World calls “the
elements of opposition,” are quite simple
and are thus stated: First, “A crusade
against corruption in office.” Second,
“Amnesty to the South.” Third, “Sup
port of the Revenue Reform; or Free
Trade Movement.”
Undoubtedly these are all issues of
vital importance. They involve, more
over, measures of reform that tbe Demo
cratic party has all along been in favor
of almost to a man. But wbat reason
have we to believe that the Republican
opponents of General Grant will agree
to unite with tbe Democracy even on this
narrow platform, Let us look into this
matter a little. Mr. Sumner is known to
be opposed to the renomination of Gen
eral Grant. It will be admitted that
the Massachusetts Senator exerts a wide
political influence in the New England
States. Can he be brought to recogzize
the justice of “Amnesty to the South?”
Is lie not among the foremost support
ers of the infamous Ku-klux bill? Liv
ing, as he does, in a State in which man
ufacturing corporations have.profited so
largely by a high protective tariff, and
with his known views ou the subject,
would he turn short round and advocate
“Revenue Reform?”
Take next the New York Tribune.
That journal, it is veil known, is the
most zealous and persistent advocate of
“a high protective tariff” of any in
the country. . Can Mr. Greeley, who
controls it be induced to favor
“ Revenue Reform?” We leave “Free
Trade” out of the question entirely. It
is true that Mr. Greeley does not person
ally favor the re-election of General
Grant; but he has, nevertheless, through
the columns of the Tribune, avowed his
purpose to support the Republican nom
inee for the Presidency, whether it be
General Grant or any other man. It is
true, also, that the Tribune has fre
quently' clamored for “Amnesty to the
South.” But, by one of those paradoxes
it is impossible to reconcile with good
faith and honesty of purpose, it vehe
mently defends the Ku-klux law and the
dictatorial powers with which General
Grant is clothed.
We cite these two prominent instances
as illustrating how little ground there is
for supposing the Republican elements
of opposition to General Grant can be
brought to unite with the Democracy
even upon so simple a platform as that
laid down by the World. If both Mr,
Sumner and the New York Tdbune
would spurn the platform, what right
have we to suppose that the bulk of the
anti-Grant wing of the same party would
not do likewise? There is nothing more
demoralizing than to desert principle for
expediency. We have had proof of that
in the Vallandigham “New Departure,’’
and of which the World was the foster
father. Are we to be tricked again into
a similar delusion ?
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
TWENTY-FIFTH DAY S PROCEEDINGS.
Tlie World’s New
Departure
From the Baltimore Gazette.
On Saturday last the New York WoHd,
mental
State.
According to our conception there
should be a Professor of Mineralogy and
Economic Geology; not a Sciolist, fa
in a double-leaded article, gave in its for
mal adhesion to the proposition of an
other “new departure” for the Democra
cy. The language it uses is, in some
respects, so cloudy and vague that it is
impossible to say whether it adopts out
right the “passive policy” advocated by
tbe St. Louis Republican, or the organi
zation of an entirely new party, in accor
dance with the views of Carl Schurz.
What, however, is quite clear is that the
Democratic party, which cast nearly two
millions of votes at the last Presidential
election, is advised to enter into a coali
tion with the Republican opponents of
General Grant, numbering at this time,
according to the suppositious estimate of
the World, some four hundred thousand
voters.
No one, we apprehend, will doubt for
a moment the cordial welcome that would
be extended by the Democracy to so
large a reinforcement of anti-Grant Re
publicans. But it is quite another and a
very different thing for two millions of
Democrats to go over to four hundred
thousand Republicans^ especially as the
World, lays down as the basis of such a
coalition, that the Democrats would be
bound in honor and magnanimity to con
cede to their Republican allies as much
as they ash. What does such a stipula
tion amount to, if not to a thorough and
complete surrender of the larger body
to the smaller ? “Of course,” adds the
World, blandly, “it wonld be an
insult to either side to expect it to
make any sacrifice of •principle.” It
italicizes the word “principle,” fo'r the
purpose of making it more emphatic, and
yet, at the very* time it does so, it urges
the Democrats to concede to their new
political associates “as much as they ask.”
Practically, such a concession amounts
to this—the Liberal Republicans axe to
SENATE.
Wednesday, Nov. 29.
Senate met, President Trammell in the
chair. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Warren.—
Roll called; present—Messrs. Anderson,
Brown, Bruton, Burns, Cameron, Can
dler, Clark, Colman, Cone, Crayton,
Deveaux, Estes, Erwin, Griffin, Heard,
Hillyer, Hinton, Hoyle, Jervis, Jordan,
Kirkland, Kibbee, Lester, Matthews,
Nunnally, Peddy, Reese,Simmons,Smith,
Steadman, Wallace, Wellborn and Welch
—33.
Messrs. Hinton, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Lunatic Asylum, Matthews aud
Welch were absent on yesterday inspect
ing the Asylum, preparatory to making a
report of its condition to the General As
sembly.
Journal approved.
A bill to incorporate the State Agricul
tural. Land Grant Board, and for other
purposes, being the special order of the
day, was then taken up. This bill pro
vides for the establishment of two Agri
cultural Colleges, one at Dahlonega, the
other at Milledgevilie, in pursuance of act
of Congress donating 270,000 acres as a
foundation for these Colleges, with the
Executive Committee of the State Agri
cultural Society a Board for the selection,
care and disposal of the lands so granted.
Mr. Bruton offered as a .substitute a
bill which makes the Georgia State Board
of Education, as now. constituted, the
Board for the care and selection of these
lands, and that this. Board shall report to
the General Assembly, with which the
final disposition of the lands shall re
main, and supported the same, insisting
that the Board provided for by the bill
is large and indefinite, and that the best
policy would be to locate aud secure these
lauds, after which the Legislature can
dispose of them more intelligently and
advantageously than if the power of dis
pos’tion was lodged in private hands.
Mr. Clark said the benefit of the bill
ought to be enjoyed in common by both
races, and contended that Congress
designed the donation for the benefit of
all citizens indiscriminately.
Mr. Campbell offered an amendment,
always provided the benefits of the fund
shall be divided equally between all stu
dents, without regard to race, color or
previous condition, and contended that
the spirit indicated by Congress should
be pursued, and the donation should be
disposed of, without prejudice, for tho
general good.
Mr. Brown, offered an amendment
the substitute appointing the Governor,
President of the Senate, Speaker of the
House, Presidents uf the agricultural
colleges and Hon. E. Steadman, as a
Board for the purposes indicated by the
bill.
Mr. Hinton spoke in favor of the sub
stitute of Mr. Bruton, on the ground
that the fund should first be received and
made subject to the control of the State
before it is disposed of.
Mr. Bruton called the previous ques
tion.
The amendment of Mr,
lost.
The amendment of Senator Campbell
was lost. ..
Ayes 8; nays 27. f-
The substitute of Mr. Bruton was lost:
Ayes 18; nays 19.
Mr. Brown offered an amendment, ad
ding the President of the Trustees of the
Male Academy, at Marietta, to the Board
provided by the bill; lost.
Mr. Smith offered an amendment add
ing the President of the Trustees of the
Agricultural College to said board.
Lost; ayes 16, nays 18.
Senator Campbell offered an amend-
ment,adding the President of the Atlanta
University to the Board, and making
that University one of the recipients of
the fund—ayes 18, nays 18. The Presi
dent voted no; lost.
Mr. Hinton offered an amendment of
the sa ne tenor, relating to the South-
Western Agricultural College; lost.
The original was lost by
Ayes—Messrs. Brown, Burns, Estes,
Erwin, Heard, Hillyer, Hoyle, Jervis,
Jordan, Kirkland, Reese, Richardson,
Simmons and Wellborn—15.
Nays—Anderson, Brock, Bruton, Cam
eron, Campbell, .Candler, Clark, Colman,
Cone, Crayton, Deveaux, Hinton, Kib
bee, Lester, Matthews, MoWhorter,
Nunnally,Peddy, Smith, Steadman,
Wallace and Welch—22.
The House resolution to modify the
resolution to adjourn on Thursday, 30th
inst, so far as to* hold an afternoon ses
sion on that day was taken up and con
curred in.
The hour, for the election of a Public
Printer having arrived, the Senate retired
into the Hall of Representatives, and
President Trammell took the chair. Mr.
Hillyer, of 35th District, nominated W.
A. Hemphill Mr. Hillyer, of Camden,
nominated S. W.. Grubb. The vote
stood: W. A. Hemphill, 154; S. W.
Grubb, 7; Jake Born, 1; Rough Rice, 1;
and W. A. Hemphill was declared
elected.
On motion the Senate then returned
to the Chamber.
A message was received from the
Governor, ad interim, stating the ap
proval of an act to repeal the 20th Sec
tion of an act approved October, 1870.
• A but to incorporate the'Hawkinsville
and Eufanla Railroad, was read the third
time and passed.
A resolution recommended by the Ju
diciary Committee, to whom was referred
a correspondence between Hon. O. A.
Lochrane and Hon. David Irwin, rela
tive to the . revision of Irwin’s Code,
that the work of revision be suspended,
for the present, was adopted.
A resolution providing for the discon
tinuance of all suits against the Treas
urer to recover interest on deposit of
State bonds, and declaring his exemp
tion from liability thereafter, was
adopted.
A resolution, requesting the Governor
to furnish the county of Jasper with the
Reports of the Supreme Court, allowed
by law, which have never been received
by that coupty, with several amendments
proposed; tabled.
A resolution, requesting our Represen
tatives in Congress to use their influence
to procure payment, by the Government,
to the Cherokee Indians now in the State,
of an amount of money now remaining
due under the various treaties with the
Nation; adopted. '
Bills on first reading:
By Mr. Smith—To incorporate the
People’s Savings Bank of Newnan.
By Mr, Hillyer—Fixing the fees of
Constables of the several Courts of Ful
ton; also—To amend section 3781, by in
serting the word criminal before the word
case.
By Mr. Matthews—To explain and
amend section 3652 of the Code, relating
to the duties of the County Treasurer.
By Mr. Lesteiv—To provide for the dis
charge of the duties of Ordinary of Chat
ham county. ,
To incorporate the Darien Telegraph
Company. V -
The Senate then adjourned until 10 a.
m. Friday. ,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
House was called to order by the Speak
er. Pra yer by Rev. Mr. Jones. Journal
was read and approved.
Mr." Pou moved to reconsider so much
of yesterday’s nroceedings as relate to the
passage of a bill to incorporate the town
of Colquitt, on the ground that one sec
tion in the bill is unconstitutional. The
motion prevailed.
Mr. Gray moved to reconsider the loss
of a bill exempting land lying in cities
and towns when used for agricultural
purposes from taxation. This motion
prevailed.
Mr. Simmons of Gwinnett offered a
resolution declaring the seat of Mr. Page
of Lee vacant, he having been convicted
of a felony in Sumter Superior Court.
Joiner ,of Dougherty moved to refer
the resolution to the Committee on Priv
ileges and Elections. Messrs. Snead,
Guerry and McMillan thought the reso
lution premature. The motion to refer
prevailed.
Bills read the first time:
Mr. Hiedt—To provide for a registra
tion of the voters of Chatham county. .
Mr. Woodward—To exempt maimed
persons from payment of poll tax.
Mr. Goodman—To authorize Douglas
county to take stock in the Georgia West
ern Railroad.
Mr. Woodward—To incorporate the
town of Vienna. Also, to amend an act
to incorporate the town of Montezuma.
Also, to authorize the classification of
public roads in Dooly county.
Mr. Edwards—To construct a Railroad
from Elberton, Georgia, to intersect with
the New York and New Orleans Air-Line
Railroad.
Mr. Nutting—To incorporate'the Cen
tral Insurance Company, of Georgia;
also, to incorporate the Nutting Cotton
Manufacturing Company, of Macon.
Mr. Phillips—A resolution to appoint
a Joint Committee on Wild Lands.
Mr. Sargeant—A resolution to pay
Dennis Hammond’s last quarters’ salary
as Judge for the year 1862.
Mr. Hoge—To repeal 8th Section of
an act to levy and collect a tax for the
support of the Government for the year
1869; also, to incorporate the Northern
Bank of Georgia.
Mr. Franklin—To entitle F. W. Dawes
to practice medicine.
Mr. Jackson—To appropriate $1500 to
J. L Miiler for services rendered as Re
ceiver of Returns, etc., in Fulton county,
in year 1864.
Mr. McWhorter—To authorize Ordi
naries to appoint Road Comraissionera
Mr. Simmons of Gwinnett—For the
relief of Mr.J. M. Peden, former Tax
Collector of Gwinnett.
Mr. Pierce—To amend the charter of
Sparta.
Mr. Walters—To relieve the securities
of N. O. Alexander, Tax Collector of
Jasper couoty.
Mr. Griffin of Houston—To exempt
Justices of the Peace and Judicial No
taries from jury duty.
Mr. Beaseley—To compensate joreis in
Jefferson county by paying them mileage.
Mr. Pou—To allow Nicholas Fogarty
to practice medicine; also, to change the
time of holding Muscogee Superior Court.
Mr. Bunn—To make it tho duty of
Tax Receivers to collect Agricultural sta
tistics.
Mr. Crittenden—To relieve maimed
and indigent persons from tax.
Mr. McNeil—To protect persons in
rearing oysters and fish in tide
waters; also, to create a Board of Com
missioners of Roads and Revenue for
Glynn county.
Mr. Snead—To incorporate Oglethorpe
Manufacturing Company of Augusta;
also, to prescribe the mode of payment
of costs in criminal cases to Magistrates
and Constables in Richmond county.
Mr. McNeil—To protect tho people of
this’State against the discrimination by
railroad companies in the transportation
of passengers and freights.
Mr. Pou—To amend the law relating
to fences.
Mr. Hudson—To amend the charter of
the Americus and Isabella Railroad Com
pany.
Mr. Hall of Upson—To prescribe the
manner of enforcing attorney’s Hens.
Mr. Barksdale—To change the line be
tween the counties of McDuffie and War
ren counties.
Mr. Slaton—To change the line be
tween Wilkes and Taliaferro counties.
Mr. Cumming—To amend an act to
facilitate the sale of real estate, and to
encourage immigration.
Mr. Sargeant—To incorporate the
People’s Savings Bank of Newnan.
On motion of Mr. Goldsmith the rules
were suspended, and. a resolution pro
viding for the appointment of a commit
tee to investigate the claims against the
Penitentiary, was adopted.
A resolution reported by the Commit
tee on Internal Improvements, providing
for the appointment of a joint committee
of one from the Senate and two from the
House, to visit Washington to aid our
Representatives in obtaining aid from
Cougress for the construction of a Canal
to connect the waters of the Mississippi
with the Atlantic coast, was read.
Mr. Jackson moved to amend by add
ing the Superintendent of Public Works,
Messrs. Bryan and McMillan thought
it unbecoming in this great State to send
men to Washington to lobby a measure
through. They favored leaving the mat
ter in the hands of our Representatives
there.
Messrs. Jackson and Wofford of Bar
tow did not think that these parties were
to act as lobbyists, but that owing to the
magnitude and importance of the work,
all available measures for its success
should be adopted.
Mr. Griffin of Houston, also, advocated
the adoption of the resolution, and ex
plained some of the great advantages to
be derived from the canal.
The hour of 12 m. having arrived, the
Senate came into the Representative
Hall and the General Assembly, Presi
dent Trammell presiding, proceeded to
the election of a State Printer. W. A.
Hemphill was elected.
The Senate retired, and the House re
sumed the consideration of the resolu
tion to appoint a committee to go to
Congress, &c.
Mr. Pou opposed the resolution on the
ground that no good could be accom
plished by this committee if Congress
does not listen to oar Representatives.
On motion of Mr. Lang the resolution
was laid on the table.
Bills on third reading:
To compensate jurors in the counties
of Rabun and Towns; passed.
To establish a permanent Board of
Education and Orphanage for Bibb
county; passed.
To change the time of holding Rich
mond Superior Court; passed.
To authorize the reception of inter
rogatories from Postmasters, etc., during
vacation; lost.
To authorize the payment of fees to
officeis of the District Court in Richmond'
county; passed.
Leave of absence was granted to Messrs.
Barron and Hendley.
House adjourned.
aftebnoon session.
A large number of House and Senate
bills were read the second time, when the
House adjourned until 3 p. m. to-morrow.
ate, and before he ceased there »
uiere waij
scarcely a person in the house w v,f „
not weeping. It was then Was
that the exercises for the term ‘* ounce $
pended. Then the students, wiferM
eyes aud sorrowful hearts
around their beloved aud honSffi®
structors, Professor Lewis and Twdi la "
W. Smith, to wa them CSf
A SlUDEKx,
Special Correspondence of the Sun.
Monticello, Ga., Nov. 24, 18"i
Striking out boldly, and with <1.
wide open, from Forsyth in a Norther?' 1
direction, I soon came upon the
hills and glades of old Jasper. Inbv™
years this was very properly termed 8 ?!!
banner county of Middle G&onria V* 6
liounsli somft rtf
flourish some of the most weoltliv i
prosperous planters in the State 7 ^ 1
second to none in point of intellS
and refinement. • teDc '
&££ 2Ss*e a*** L « * *
State Road Defaulters Required
to Wallt up to the Captain’s
Office and Settle.
EMORY COLLEGE.
Seniors’ Farewell Token of Re
spect, &c.
Oxford, Ga., 24th Nov., 1S71.
Editors Daily Sun; Friday, the 23d,
will long be remembered by the students
and Faculty of Emory. They assembled
at noon, to present testimonials to Prof.
Lewis and President L. M. Smith. After
prayer, Mr. Ira E. Smith, appointed by
the senior class, arose, and after a few
appropriate remarks, addressed Prof.
Lewis, saying:
“Learning, sir, that you, prompted by
a sense of duty, have renewed your con
nection with Emory College, the senior
class have deemed it proper to present
you with some memento of their friend
ship. (He then handed him a large and
handsomely bound Bible). Accept, sir,
this sacred volume as a slight token of
the love of the senior class, and rest as
sured that wherever your lot may be
cast, you will carry with you the kindest
wishes, and will be followed by the
prayers of your pupils, that the blessings
ol God may rest upon and crown your
labors.”
Prof. Lewis then arose, and in a beau
tiful speech, thanked the class for their
kind wishes and beautiful gift.
When the Professor had taken his seat,
Mr. J. K. Hines, of the Senior Class,
came forward and addressed Dr. Luther
M. Smith, as follows: “Honored and Be
loved President—I have been appointed
by my fellow students to give, expression
to some extent, our admiration for you as
a President, and our love as a friend, and
also to present you with this waiter and
its contents, as a parting gift from the
students of Emory College.”
He then presented him with five hand
some pieces of silver plate. After a few
appropriate and teaching remarks, Mr.
Hines returned to his seat.
The Doctor then arose and thanked the
students for the handsome and beautiful
present, which he said he would always
treasure as a sacred token of their friend
ship.
The speech was affecting and appropri-
Resolved, That the late Treasurer of
the Western and Atlantic Railroad, and
other officers and agents of said road,
pay immediately over to the Treasurerof
the State of Georgia the balances re
maining in their hands belonging to the
said State of Georgia, being the earn
ings of the Western and Atlantic Rail
road whilst in possession of said State.
Resolved farther, That said late
Treasurer, and other officers and agents
of said Western and Atlantic Railroad,
shall not pay to any of the late officers
of said road, or to any of the persons
now claiming to be officers of said road,
or to any persons appointed by Rufus B.
Bullock, late Governor, as Commission
ers to look into the affairs of said road
or to any other person whomsoever, anj
part or portion of the said balance re
maining in their hands.
Resolved further, That the Treasurer (
of this State, call upon the late Treasur
er and other officers and agents of tne
Western and Atlantic Railroad immeai
ately, and demand of them the balanw|
of money so due to the State as above
set forth.
Provided, that nothing intlieforegoin j
resolutions be construed as express^
the sense of this House that the balance
admitted by the said officers and agents,
are the real balances due.
James U. Smith,
Speaker House Representatives,
J. D. Waddell,
Clerk House Representatives
L. N. Trammell, President Senate
T. W. J. Hill, Sec’y of the Senate
Approved Nov. 17th, 1S71.
Benjamin Conley, Govern*
as a class, ranged
But, alas! tfae^
brightest jewels in the persons of W
promising young men, and swept aw av
hundreds of thousands of her proper^
thus leaving desolate her onee dSt
households, an d casting a blight upon\S
progress, which time can never efface
Kllf ollA Lnn ~ ,
fuf ^ as ’.,_ iu a ff»** measure, over.
come the shock, and to-day things nw
sent a more cheefing aspect to that of fi v '
years ago. Herpeople are energetic, ami
(mil Kov » *
determined, and her rich acres have this
year been made to teem with a very f a ; r
yield of corn and cotton. Each succeed!
mg year but encourages her hardy son,
to renewed efforts, and as things be<dn
to right themselves, the succeeding
eration will feel but little the effects of
the new order of affairs which now so
sadly discommode the present.
_ Monticello is the county seat. At one
time in her history she vied successfully
with any inland town in the State, as re
gards population and wealth. Situated
on a range of hills, it is surrounded by
rich valley of vast extent, which annually
poured thousands of dollars of trade into
her lap. But, like all other places which
have, since the war, been denied the
great convenience of railroads, she is
quiet and still—though there is yet con
siderable trade carried on with the im
mediate country surrounding; but the
greater portion of that to which she is
justly entitled now goes to CovuHon
Eatonton and Forsyth.
The railroad from Griffin to Madison
will run through Monticello. Railroads
are all the topic there now, and even
property has slightly advanced at the near
approach of the cars. Some five hun
dred hands are at work on it, and before
a great while the line will be completed
through. Then the survey of the Atlan
ta and Savannah Road passes here; and
that of the proposed road from Macon to
Knoxville. These lines are not mere
myths, but will, no doubt, be actually
built in the coarse of a few years.
These prospects highly elate the citi
zens, and well they may; for their accom
plishment will make Monticello one of
the most thriving and prosperous towns
in the whole South.
All she needs at present is a dozen or
so of just such men as Col. J. W. Pres
ton, a good country paper and a little
help from tne outside world.
W. H. M.
Executive DepartmeN', l ,
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 28th, 1871 I
I, R. H. Atkinson, Secretary * ®
Executive Department, do hereby 11 ® 1 '
fy, that the foregoing and witliii ® a
true and correct copy of a resjl°“? a
passed by the General Assembly a* " 5
present session, and approved
Governor. R. H. Atkins#)
Sec’y Executive Depart®^-
State Treasurer’s Office, 1
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 29, 18/1-
To the Idle Officers and Agents in arri f : ;
with the Western tO Atlantic
Sms: In compliance with the ^
going resolutions passed by both H°®7
and approved by the Governor, it v; /
comes my duty to demand of
payment to the Treasurer of the St*j® j
Georgia the balance remaining i® 2
hands belonging to the State of Gew f
being the earnings of the 'Western®
Atlantic Railroad whilst in posse^
the State. And I now demand of
and all of you, the said officers aud ipr
so in arrears, the immediate ptfjJjJ
into the State Treasury the full bah"
of money so due the State. v
N. L. Angier, State Treas
habitM:’
Scott Mitchell, a colored
Augusta, had a wife, toward whom ^
borne Caddern, another soffiragj 9t > i Ji
spooney. Mitchell couldn!t stand N]
as that,” so he shot the other feb? )ld y
upon the streets last Sunday, bb
pie all say it was a “good shot- .
lawyers have volunteered to
Mitchell.