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MARIETTA GEO.,
TUESDAY MORNING NOV 22 . 1861.
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THE 14TII GEO. REGIMENT.
It is painful to read even the recital
of the suffering’s of this Regiment in
Western Virginia. Exposed to all the
evils of a bleak and desolate country
three-fouiths of the Regiment sick
with scarcely any protection and no
comforts in that uninhabitable region
is a deplorable condition. They have
asked to be removed. Why the force is
kept there the government understands
than we do—but we can see no reason
■vvhy they should be thus destitute.
TAKING PRIVATE PROPERTY,
The constitutional ground upon which
Gov. Brown rests his late seizure is ex
ceptional —while it may be construed to
admit the right of the State in extraor
dinary cases to take prix ate property
upon the payment of just compensation
i it is very far from affirming the power
to take it at will. The two construc
tions involve just the difference between
the right of a citizen to hold property’
as against the right of the government
to take it. If Gov. Brown can fix the
value of salt at $5 per sack he can fix
it at sl. If he can seize salt—he in ij
seize any sp cies of property and the
result is that individual wealth is held
at the discretion of the executive and
the State is no longer dependent upon
the people who created it.
The bill which has just passed the
Senate is less objectionable in its as
sumption of power —we do not know
that it conflicts as much with constitu
tional right as with sound policy. No
law was ever passed to regulate trad
that did not recoil upon those it was in
tended to serve and the attempt to give
to salt, bacon,or any other commodity a
price lobs than their market value is
simply absurd. The effect will be, in
evitably, that traders will not purchase
such articles and the consumers must
get them as they can or do without.
The bill fixes the prices at 60 per
cent over the prices of April last. Cot
ton was then selling at 10 or 11 cents
and domestics at 7or 8. Cotton is now
selling at 7 and domestics at 10 and 12
This was esteemed extortion -but the
bill authorizes an advance upon this.—
But, upon pork, of which it is known
there is an inadequate supply in the
South, the bill fixes a price far below its
present market value.
Wc suggested to meet the evil of the
day, a law, defining extortion, with pro
per penalties and we are not sure that
the Legislature has found abetter reme
dy-
THEIR ISIS ON THE MISSISSIPPI.
New Orleans, Nov. 20.--The most
intense anxiety prevails here with re
gard to situation of affairs on the Mis
sissippi, near Columbus, Ky. A grand
combined attack by all the enemy's
forces, land ami river, is anticipated at
any moineitl. Commodore Hollins is
there in command of our river liotiba.—
He to-day sent orders by telegraph f. r
all the available boats and the steam
ram Manassas, to go up immediately.
A floating battery of 20 guns goes up
at 9 o’clock to-night. It will be towed
by four boats, and it is e\| ected that
the voyage will occupy eight davs
All ihe river pilots have impressed into
the Confederate service. Seventeen
thousand troops ami seventy pieces of
ordinance are at Columbus.
THE INDIANS TR(>r BI.ESOSIE o\
THE TEN l’RO\ I! ER.
The Ilous'on “Telegraph” < f the 4th
inst. contains a letter giving an ac
count of a light I etween a scouting
party ot fexans, eight in number, and
a baud ot Indians, which took place on
Ihe 23d ult in Hamilton countv, Texas.
One Texan Rob ?rt Cai ter, an old and
highly respected gentlem m, was killed
and three others wound d. The 7e,'e
•jraph, commenting upon the above,
says:
Ihe last mail from the frontier briefs
us the following letter. We have re
ceived other accounts of Indian foray-,
which led us to believe that f’.k. 's
great Indian treaty is an unmitigated
humbug. Ihe Indians are certaii.lv
becoming is troublesome this tall as
« \ei ami at least two ri gimeuts of ran
gers will be required topi teet the fron
tier this winter. Wetrust -hat since
thin war is our business at piesent, the
war will be carried on ’knite to the hili'
against all our enemies. Nothing but
the extermination of the Indian* will
ever save our frontier settlement-
THE MARIE TTA SEMI' WEE KL Y ADVOCATE
MESSAGE OF PRESIDENT DAVIS.
Richmond, November 19, 1861.
The following is the Message of Presi
dent Davis, read before Congress to
day.
To the Congress of the Confederate Stales :
The few weeks winch have elapsed
since your adjournment lias brough us
so near the close of the year that we arc
now able to sum up the general icstilis
The retrospect is such as should fill the
hearts of our people with gratitude to
Providence for liis kind interposition in
their behalf.
Abundant yields have rewarded the
labor of the agriculturist, whilst the
manufacturing industry of the Confed
erate States was never as prosperous
as now. The necessities ol tne times
have called into existence new branches
of manufactures and given a fresh im
pulse to the aciivity of those heretofore
in operation. The means of the Con
federate States for manufacturing the
necessities and comforts of life, within
themselves, increases as the conflict
continues, and we are gradually becom
ing independent of the rest of the world
for the supply of such mili ary s ores
and munitions as are indispensable for
war.
The operations of the Mmy, Soon to
be partially interrupted by the approach
ing winter, have afforded a protection
to the country and shed a lustre upon
its aims, through the trying vicissi
tudes of more than one arduous cam
paign, which entitle cur brave vobins
teers io our praise and our gratitude.—
From its commencement up to the pres
ent period, the war has been constantly
enlarging i s proportions and extend'
ing its boundaries, so as to include
new fields. Jhe conflict now extends
from ihe shores of the Chesapeake to
the confines of Missouri and Arizona.—
Yet, sudden calls from the remotest
points for military aid have been met
with promptness enough, not only to
avert disasters in the lace of superior
numbers, but also to roll back the tide
of invasion from the border.
When the war commenced the enemy
were possessed of certain strategic
points and strong places within the
Confederate States. They greatly ex
celled in numbers, in available resour
ces, and in the supplies necessary for
war ; mili ary establishments had been
long organized and were complete ; the
navy, and lor the most part, the army,
once common to both, were in their
possession. To meet all this, we had
to create, not only an army, in the face
of war itself, but also the military es
tablishments necessary to equip and
place it in the field. It ought, indeed,
to be a subject of gratification, that the
spit it of the volunteers and the patriot
ism of the people, have enabled us, un
der I’rovidence, to grapple successfully
with these difficulties. A succession of
glorious victories at Bethel, Bull Run,
Manassas, Springfield, Lexington, Lees
burg ami Belmont, has checked the
wicked invasion which greed of gain
and the unhallowed lust of powe r
brought upon our soil, and has proved
j that numbers cease to avail w hen direc
ted against a people lighting for the
sacred right of self-government and the
privileges of freemen. Alter more than
seven months of war, the enemy have
not only failed co extend their occupa
tion of our soil, but new States and Ter
ritories have been add, d to our Con
j federacy ; while, instead ol their threat
| ened march of conquest, they have been
' driver. to assume the defensive ; and
■ upon a fair comparison between the
i two belligerents, as to men, military
means and financial condition, the Con
federate States are, relatively, much
stronger now than when the struggle
commenced.
Since your adjournment, the people
of Missouri have conduct d the war in
the face of almost unparalleled difficul
ties, with a spirit ami success alike wor
thy of themselves ami of the great cause
in which they are struggling.
[ Si .cc that time K ntueky, too, has
become the theatre of active hostilities.
i The federal forces have not only refused
' to acknowledge her right to neutrality
in the war, but have invaded her for
the purpose of attackin •’ the Confed t-
• ate Stales. Outrages of the most des
potic character have been perpetrated
upon her people Some of her most
eminent citizens have been seized and
borne away to languish in foreign pris
. ons, without knowing w.io were their
accusers, or specitiea ions ot' charges
made against them, while others h ivi
i been forced to al and >n their homes,
families and property an 1 seek a refuge
in distant lands. Finding th it the Co:i
--' federate states were about to be inva
through Kentucky, ami that her
people, alter being deceived into a nr
taken security, were unarm- d and in
danger of being’ subjugated by th" 6- l
erai forces, - nr armies were ma: h- 1
into that Slate to repel the enemy an I
prevent their oceupi. icy of certain
strategic points which would have giv
en them great advantages in the v- n
test -a step which was justified, not
only by the necessity of seit' i feirn -,
on the part of' the Confederate Stales,
but dso by a desire to aid the pc 'pie
of Kentucky. It was never intend' -1 I y
ti.e Confederate G vcrmneiit to*’ n iner !
or coerce the pe ude of that St .te, but.
on the contrary, it Was declared by oir
Generals t at they wouL; withdrw ti: ir
troops it a f :. r d Guvernm nt w-.mi 1
do lik.-w.se. Proclamation was also
ma le ot tm- desire t > respect the n u- i
tiali’y of Kentucky ami the intention
to abide by the w isiies- t her pimple, as
a . - ? ■■ ■ free t
opinions. Ihese deci ;rations wre ap
proved by ne. ami Ish übl i. gar lit
as one', f the best effects of the march
of our tv ops into Kentuckv. i; it s
I
end in giving to her people the liberty
of choice and free opportunity to decide
their own destiny according to their
own will.
The,army has been chiefly instrumen
tal in prosecuting’the great contest in
which we are engaged ; but the navy
has also been effective : n full propor
tion to its means. The naval officers,
deprived to a great extent of an oppor
tunity’ to make their professional ski I
available at sea, have served with com
mendable zeal and gallantry on shore
and upon inland waters; further details
of which will be found in the reports of
the Secretaries of the Navy and War.
In the transportation of the mails
many diticulties have arisen, which will
be fully developed in the report of Post
nias’er General. The absorption of the
ordinary’ means of transportation for the
movement ot troops ami military sup’
pl es the insufficiency of rolling stock
of railroads for the accumulation of busi
ness resulting' both from military
operations and the obstruction of water
communication by the presence of the
enemy’s fleet, the failure and even re
fusal of contractors to comply with the
terms of their agreements, the difficul
ties inherent it; inaugurating so vast
and complicated a system as that which
requires postal facilities for every town
ami visage in a territory so extended
as ours,have all comuined g tO impede the
best directed efforts of the Postmaster
General, whose.zeal, industry and ability
lu-ve been taxed to the utmost extent.
Some of these difficulties can be over
come by time, and an improved condi
tion of t e country, by the restoration
of peace ; but others may be remedied
by legislation, and your attention is in
vited to the recommendations contained
in the report of the head ol that depart
ment.
Ihe condition of the Treasury will,
doubtless be a subject of anxious inqui
ry on your part. lam happy to sty
that the financial system alrca ly adopt
ed, has worked well, so far and promi
ses good results for thefuture. To the ex
tent that Treasury Notes may be issued
the Government is enabled to borrow
money without interest, and thus facili
ate the conduct of the war. This ex
tent is measured by the portion of the
field of circulation which these no es
can be made to occupy. The proportion
of thefield thus occupied, depends again
upon amount of the debt for which tney
are receiveable; ami when dues, not on
ly to the Confederate and State Govern
ments, but also to corporations and in
dividuals, are payable in this medium,
a large amount of it may l e circulated
at par. i here is every reason to be
lieve that the Confecerate Treasury
Notes are last becoming such a medi
um. Ihe provision that the Notes
shad be convertible into Confederate
stock, bearing eight per cent inte.est
at the pleasure ol the holder, insures
them against a depreciation below the
value of that stock, and considerable
fall in that value need not be feared, so
long as the interest shall be punctually
p lid The punctual payment of Uns in
terest has been secured by the Act
passed by you at the last session, im
posing such a rate of taxation as must
provide sufficient means for that pur
pose.
For the successful prosecution of
this war, it is indispensable that the
means ol transporting troops and mili
tary supplies furnished, as far as possi l
ble, in such manner, as not to interrupt
the commercial m elcourse between
our people, nor place a check on their
productive energies. To this end the
means of transportation from one sec
; tion of our country to an »th *r, must
I be carefully guarded and improved ami
; this should lie the object ol anxious care
! on the pari of the Mate and Conft-der
■ ate Governments, so far as they mav
have powerover the subject. We have
I already two ma n systems of through
transportation from the Nurth to the
South; one from Richmond and along
I the seaboard, the other through Wes
tern Viiginiato New Orleans A third
might be secured by' completing a link
i>t about forty miles between Danville,
in Virginia, and Greensboro’, in North
Carolina. The construction of tins com
paratively short tin would give us a
through route horn North to South in
'the interior of the Confed, rate St i es,
and give us access io a p »pulatiou and
t > military resources, iron which wt
are now in great measure deburred.—
A c sh mid increase greatly the saletv,
and capacity of our means of transpor
ting military supplies. If the construc
tion of this load should in the pidg
' ment of Congress as it is in mini* imlis
pensable for the m >re successful prose
cution <>!’the war. tiie action of the Gov
eminent will not b • restrained bv the
e'iistirutional objection which would
attain to a work t »r commercial purpo
ses, and your attention i.- invited to the
practic.iUilily d s -curing its e udv com
pletion ly giving the necessary ai l to
the c-impaiiy organization ami adminis
tr ition.
If we hinband our mean.- a:.-I make a
jmiici'His us * of our r.-s nrces, it would
: o diffi -nit to fix a limit to the period
during which we could conduct a war '
against the a.ivers ry whom we en
counter itiu very i tin ts which he
makes to isjl ite al; i invadi- us must
exh su-t iiis means, w* d-t tney -eivv to
complete the circle and >1 ver.dty the
productions H our industrial system.
i’ue rec instruction whi m he ~eeks to
effect by arms lecomes daily m.o.e an i
more palpal*.y imposs ble Not only
the cans- - which in luce i us to .-eparatc
still exist in full force, but they have
i een stimtr hem-d; ami whatevt rd mbt
miy h ive hug.-red in the minds t any
qtieut events It, instead ot being a
cis solution vs a league, it were indeed i
a rebellion in which we are outraged
we might find ample vindication for the
course we have adopted in the scenes j
which arc now being enacted in tiic
United States.
Our people look with contemptuous
astonishment on those with whom they
have been so recently associated. They
shrink with aversion from the bare idea
of renewing such a connection —when
theysee a President makingwar without
the assent of Congress—when they be
hold judges threatened because they
maintained the wiit of habeas corpus,
so sacred to freemen when ‘hey see
justice and law trampled under the
armed heel of military authority and
upright men and innocent women drag
ged to distant dungeons upon the more
edict of a despot—when they find all
(his tolerated ami applauded by people
who had been in the full enjoyment of
f reedom but a few mon hsago—they be
lieve that there must be some radical
incompatibility between such a people
and themselves. With such a. people
we may be content to live at peace, but
the separation is final and for the inde
pendence we have asserted we will ac
cept no alternaiive.
The nature of the hostilities which
they have wag’ed against us must be
charecterizml as barbarous wherever
it is umli'isto.i.l. They have bombard
cd uud'd'ended villages without giving
noiice to women and children t» en
able them to escape,au 1 iuone instance
selected the night as the period when
they might surprise them most I'fl.-e
--tually whilst asleep and unsuspicious
of dinger. Arson and rapine, he
destruction of private houses and pro
perty and injuries of the most wanton
character oven upon non-combatants,
have marked their forays along our
borders and upon our territory. Al
though we ought to have been admon
ished by these things that they were
disposed to make up >n us war in the
most cruel and relentless spirit, yet w
were not prep tied to see them fit out
a large naval expedition with the con
fessed purpose not only of plunder,
but to incite a servile insurrecl on in
the midst of us If they conveit their
soldiers into incendiaries and involve
us in a species of war which claims
non-combatants, wome i and children
us its vi< thus, they must expect to be
I rented as.outlaws and enemies of man
kind. There are certain rights of hu
inanity which are entitled to res
pect, even in war, and he who refuses
to regard them forfeits his claims, if
captured to be considered as a prisoner
ol war but must expect to be dealt
with as an offender against all law, hu
man and divine.
But not content with violating’ our
rights under the laws of nations at
home, they have extended heir injuries
to us within otherjurisdi tions. ihedis
tinguished gentlemen, whom,with your
approval at the last session, I com
missioned to represent the Confederacy
in certain foreign Courts have bee 1
recently seized by the captain of a Un
ited States ship-of-war on board a
British steamer on the voyage from
the neutral Spanish port of Havana to
England. They have thus claimed a
general jurisdiction over the high seas
and entering a British ship sailing un
der its country’s flag, violated the
rights of embassy, for the most part
held sacred even amongst barbarians,
by seizing’our Ministers whilst under
the protection and domains of a neu
tral nation. These gentlemen were as
much un ler the protection ol th 1 Brit
ish Government upon that ship and
beneath its Hag as ii they had been on
its soil, and a claim on the part of the
I lited Slates to seize them in the str< et
of London would have bet n as well
founded as that to apprehend them
where they were taken. Had they
been malefactors and citizens of the
United they could not have been arr'-s
ted in the British ship o on British soil
unless under the express provisions of
I a treaty and according to the forms
therein provided lor the extradition of
i criminals.
But rights the m >st sacred, seem to
' have lost all respect in their eyes.
\\ hen dr. Faulkner a formin’ Minister
1 of th" ( nited Slates to France, coin
i missioned before the secession, of Vir
ginia, h s n ative S ate, returned ingood
faith to Washington, to settle his ac
counts and fulfill all the oblig’tii >ns
into which h>- ha<l entered, he was p r
iidiously arrested and imprisoned in
New York, where he m>w is. Tin* un
i suspecting couti len 'e with wii.cii ir-
I’l-p H’ted I ahis g>Vi I’ U III' ‘ 111 was ablls-
: ed. Hid hrs desi
them used o 0.0 iiq . ..
In conducing this war wc have
s uicat Ho aid an i p ’ ipi.as" 1 n » alliance,
iflensive or defensivs, abr tad. \\ c
have aski’d fora recogii is.-.j place in tm?
great family of na Lm- But in doing
so we have dmii an I■ 1 noth ng fir.'
which wc did no off -r a fair equivalent.
she advantages of intercourse are
mutual amouust na ions, and seeking
to establish diplomatic i<d.. .s
were only end" iv wing t > place that ,
in’erc"urse under the regulati m of pub
lic I <w
l’< rliaps we It id th" right, if we had
chosen to exercise it, to ask to know
wa.-tiier th • principle, th it Idock .des
to i>e biud'ir.?’ must lie effectual, so so|-
e n ily amio'i .ce J oy the great p >we r .s
of E’lrope at Faris is to be generally
ens-w "d, or applied only to particular
pat ies When the Confederate States
at your last session became a parrs to
the deed trati m referring tv tins pr uci
pie of international law, which has been
recognized so long by publicists and
Governments, we certainly supposed
that it was to be universally enforc
ed.
The customary law of nations is
made up of their practice rather -han
their declarat ions, and if such declara- ,
tions, had only to be enfoiced in par—
ticular instances, at the pleasure of
those who make them, then the
commerce of the world, so far fr on
being placed under the regulatiim of
a general law will become subject to
the caprice of those who execute or
suspend it at will. If such ,is to .
be the course of nations in regard to !
this law, it is plain it will thus become
a rule for the weak and not the strong.
Feeling that such views must be ta
ken by the neutral nations of the earth |
I have therefore caused the evidence |
to be coll ‘cted which proves complete
ly the utter inefHci ncy of the pre- j
claimed blockade of our coast, and '
si all direct it to be laid before such
Governments as shall afford us the
means of being he n d.
But although we should be benefited
by the enforcement of this law, so sol
emnly declared by the great Powers of
Europe, we are not dependent upon
that enforcement for the successful
prosecution ol the war. As 1. ng as
hostilities continue the Confederate
states will exhibit a steady’ increas
ing capacity to furnish their troops
| with food clothing and arms. If they
! should be forced to forego many of the
luxuries and s>m • of the comforts o!
: life, they will at least have the conso
lation of knowing luut tney are thus
daily becoming more and more inde
pendent oi the rest ot the world. If in
i this p "cess ' tior in the Confederate
1 State.-, should be gradually diverted
fr<,m th se great S mthern staples
which have given life to so much of the
eomtr.erce of mankind, into other chan
nels, so as to make them rival produc
ers instead of profitable customers,
hey will not be the only or the
chief losers by the change in the direc-*
of their industry.
Although it is true that the Cotton
supply from the Southern States could
only be tota ly cut off by the subver
sion of our social system, yet it is plain
that a I ng’continuance of t iis blockade
might, by a diversi m of labor and an
investment of capital in other employ
ments, so diminish ihe supply as to
hr ng ruin upon those interests of for
eign conmries which are dependent on
that staple. For every laborer who is
diverted from the culture of Cotton in
the South perhaps four times as many
elsewhere, who have found subsistence
in the various employmcn s growing
out of its use, will lie forced also to
change their occupation, while the war
which is waged to take from us the right
of self government can never attain
that end.
Ii remains to be seen how far it may
work a revolution in tin; industrial sys
tem of the world, which may carry suf
fering together lands as well as to our
own. In the meant rm ,we shall con
tinue this struggle in nimble depend
ence upon Providence, from whose
searching scru uiy we ca not conceal
the secretsol the hearts, an Ito whose
rule we confidently submit our desti
nies. For the rest, we shall defend
ourselves. Liberty is always won
when th r exists the unconquerable
will to lie tree; and we have reason to
know the strength that is given by a
consciousness, not only of he magni
tu le, but ot the righteousness of
our cause.” JkfF"Rson Davls.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
HOUSE.
Thursday night, Nov. 21.
The JI nise me’ at 7 o’clock. On mo
tion House bills were taken up for a
second reading. After reading a I ,rge
number of bills,Senate bills were taken
up and read the first time.
The House hen ad j mimed to 9 o’clock
to-morrow moining.
SENA E.
Fridav, Nov, 22, 1861. 10 o’clock,
she Senate Convened, and opened
■ with prayer l>y Rev.
I he Journal was read.
Also the bill io suspend the statutes
' of limitation- until the close of the war
which was passed
Also the bill requ ring the party con
v <’t"d n c ial pros"cutions to piy
the Cost o. w Im-sses which was lost.
Also the >;l| au’h >i iz ng Gu ir lians, '
1 rustees Ex u’ors, ml A lministrators :
to invest in 1 mfederate bonds lands
and negro s w nch w t.s p tss" I.
\ls » tin- ii in reference to th" con
‘ u’l ■ :i"e ■ <• t ns sin Superior and Li
fe; i »r c.>.i,• s ol this Stu e.
1 * ’i >’ !' 1 'ordon of Chath mi
< 'ty eon. l- w<i .ii d. Ine bill wis
th"U p i"c l.
\ls> a bdl author zing certain free
. s us of color i i '' iss • m i • y to sell
th-ms Ive.s into perpe’in.l slaverv.
dr. Lam* of \\ alker offered a substi
tute requiring all free p -rsotis of color
to 1.-av. th" St ite in 90 days or toclio .se I
owners. Ihe bill and substitute were i
laid -m the table for the present.
Mr. Kille i chairman of the 'lilitarv j
c mimit ee reported a bill authorizing
the raising of 20,000 troops for the de
fence of the Coast.
Also a bill to guard against per
sons leaving comp.nies which they
hive j nrnd, which latter bill was read
the first time.
Mr Alexander chairman of the Pen
itentiary committee reported the Insti
tution to be in a flourishing an I pros -
peious condition, under the m niage
mentofof its Principal Keeper James
A. Gieen. (he convicts had been em
ployed principally in making airny
equipments. They bought the Insti- I
tntiuii was doing well enough. They
ieccoininend that the Governor appoint :
2 tit and proper persons who in couju nc’
tiun with the Principal Keeper shall de I
vise some means, and proper altern
tions so as to classify the criiiiin Is..—
I 7he resolution otha r fleet w:.s intro
duced and passed.
HOUSE.
Friday Now 22. 1861
The House met a 9 o’clock, iq*
by Rev. O. L. Smith, rnembei
Brooks.
i rh . Journal of yesterday was i ■ 01.
Judge Cabiness nn»ved to i< < msaier
the resolution appointing » committee
to visit ‘he ta te Read aral investible
its condition.
| It was sustained by essi s Cabiuews
I Du Bose, Wiittle, Al JI. id <»nd Dr.
i Cochran.
I It was opposed by M -SIR Bigham,
’ Lee, Thomas, Norwood, end Hargroves
and the motion to reconsider was lost
I’he first clans ■ fixiri"’ the C vernor’g
' saiarv al $3,000, was agreed to on yej
terday.
I'tic salaries of the J ndgew if the Su’
prem-5 PiHirt, wm th mxi item un.ici
cousidei at ion.
i horn as of Whitfield, to
s like <m $3 000 nd insc> $2,2v0.
Mr t)w us m .V"d o amci.d by n
sei t ing $2,500.
Messrs Wnittle, Lester, mitb. Dir
Base and Norwood, sustained the re.
port ot the committee ; In* question
was divided, and the motion ‘o strike
out was sustained bv iessrs thilberson
i Dumas Render and Thomas.
I Ihe motion to s like out was carried
Mi Thomas moved to fill the blank with
$2,500. Mr Lee moved to fill sinamd
by adding 11 during the war,and to be
$3,600 after p ‘ace is m de.”
.vir Cnlbers' n moved ti a lay the amend’
ment on the table.
Mr Love sustained the, motion not
became he agreed wi h the mover, t nt
i because the proposition to diminish cur
rent salaries was unconiist i I uri-mal.
Mr Norwood offerd a prov;s which
Mr Lee accepted as a siil'sti'ii.<•,
The question was to insert a sum in
lieu ot $3,000.
Mr Dußos" moved to fill the lank
with $2,800. Lost.
Lester of Cobb, m ved $2,625, which
was 25 per cent, d dilution.
' I homas of' Whitfield, moved $2,500
which was cal l ied.
' The next item was the salary of the
’ Reporter of the Biipreme Gu. t.
1 The comnii tee earned $ 00, which
was agreed to.
> AFTEIINOON SEA MOV
’ The special order, a bill to fix the per
Jtem, of members &c , was taken up.
b Briscoe of Baldwin moved to fill the
1 blank fixing the services of t l> e President
of the senate ; nd Speaker oftne House
both $8 a day. L .st.
Six dollars was proposed and adapted.
The next clause, the pay of members
was taken up.
Mr. Bloodworth m >ved to fill the blank
’ with $4.
Mr. Norwood proposed $5
' Mr. Dever proposed a s Jury of s2off
! for the session.
Mr. • orwood opposed > h ver’s motion
Schley of K’ichuioiid, ( »posed that a
committee be appointed to price the
value of members services, and fix ll*
1 price accordingly
‘ Adams of Clark, proposed i hat the
roll be called, and e .eh meinin r report
what he thought his servic. s were
worth at pleasure.
Mr. C'doersori defeiiib d hi. .....
in favor of re reiichm nt md r form
IL- was in favor of filling Hie blank
wit' st.
Mr Bri-coe spoke in favoi of filling
the blank with $5
I homas of Whtlfieid. m ,d< . f ieelions
speech in favor of s'» H< was in fa
vor of r< trem h.n nt. md that in ms.
jndgm 'lit is a suflieient r trenchment.
Mr. Bloodwor b, favored $1
The vote was on fill u ■ |>te blank
with $•> —it wise irried I>*» tin* sound
on a ca 11 for a I.v ion
Mr Oliver sp k" in favor of In in •-
ti m, an 1 Hie vol' was hu ; . ly ui Ge
alii, n Hive
Ihe eyes and ii iy.- wto culled for,
and wi*ie ayes 97, nas 14, ai. l he
bl i»d< was fill. I v."H. s.> j’Jjp ( j, t-
I tee reputed $4 foi •s' ry 20 « ' s
| travel.
• I'l bjfe L"V" m ved to aii|. i With
; $4 Mr. Gif >s ui in »ved i • <m id by
filling Hie blmk with $2. Mr Black
lav H’"d the ainmidmeiit Mr. W .suing,
‘on moved to insert 5 cents per m le.
Mr. Dover tliHight su Ii a r.t" would !>e
i just io those who live off the toad.
Mr < horn is fav .red $4 Mr. Render
'bought he n i cage sh idd be esti
mated by h" most direct route. Mr.
Smith and Mr. Hook favored ti.<* repor..
of the committee. Hie v »te wis upon
the larges sum $4, and it was adopt, d.
i’he se. tion as amended was agreed to.
Ihe next clause wa.a tm salary of the
Secretary of th * Sena e The committee
reported $3,100, from which all the sub
i clerks shall l>e t aid. r. Le • pp"-i d
I the report. He did not th.iik :he mount
. sufficient, ami moved to inser $3 500.
Judge ‘ abiness did m.t thoik 3,500
enough. Last year tha • ffict had
received 6,942 dollars, lie mov d to
till the blank with 400 it was )".-t.
Air. Dimas prop ,s<*d o tin rm* ’.lank
with 3,500 dollars tr. i'ii >m s and
Mr. Gwen fivond tlui motion, and r.
I Smith from the coinmi.tee, was will ng
to accept tiie am ndmciJ. •• r Briscoe
and Washington favored he motion,
and it was adopted.
The secti hi as a.n-'.rle I w - ag-eed to.
Tue next sec i 'ii related t > the s.i a y of
the Clerk of the IL.u-e.
Mr. Lester prop >scd to fill the blank with
, $4,000.
Mr. Trammell of Cato >sa. in >ve i t-> fill the
; blank with $4,500. Lo-t.
The qneatio.i *;is th -n <>n ihe motion of Mr.
Lester, and the ba n wa- filled with $4,000.
The next seetiun presiding cumpeu«ation