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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME XXIII- ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 22, 1869. NEW SERIES—N 0. 22. Hi Some Cmtrier. 51. VWISEUj, Prop’r. PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY. RATES OF WEEKLY. is 00 ! 1 75 1 00 Oue roar — ——• Six Moutin— Three Month. BATES FOB TRI-WEEKLY. ## One — 3 jo Six Months.— - ' j 95 Throe Months —*"-• **"'*"U * * IXVAIII ABLY IX ADVANCE. To elute of Fivo or more en. copy will be fur- ^Cleau'Cutton Rag* w.ntod in exchanje for the w- ,hr " cen “ per **• M. dwixell. Proprietor. LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. Buie, of Land by Ad.cinietr.tors Exector. or rnartliaus aru required by law to be held on th. first Tuesday in each month, between the hours of tan in the forenoon and three in the Xraoon, at the Court Hott.e in the county in which the property!, .ituated ToSeaiVf these sales must be glean i lie gazette 40 day* prerioai. i pub- he given m j.a^uo.n..er,-through-* public gar '^otltYo%KXud , S;. of an e.tate, ” 1 \iu"c P th« 1 papphcation* will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell land must be - nblishcd for two months. ‘ citations for letters of Administration. U nsbip Ac., must bo jiublishod fb daea—for The Steamer TJndlne. Arrived at her wharf on the 14th, bring ing the following: PASSENGERS. J B Hill, Miss Cowan, J H Jennings a id family, C F Dykes, Mrs. Beverly, F M Hardwick, J H Mullin, Judge Thomas, 7 sterage passengers. CONSIGNEES. .. Hopkins, Dwight & Trowbridge, Ma guire, Cothran & Co., Berrys & Co., J Hart, Robt. Johnston, R L Mott, Mis. F. Berry, J B Edmondson, W S Cothran, Son & Co., JM Holbrook, Thos. Berry, V A Stewart, J M Elliott & Co., Williams & Gentry, Harris & Bro.,S ANoble, Pitner & Smith, Jones & Harper, Mitchell & West J J Cohen, Anderson & Lanikin. 115 hales of cotton, 300 bushels of wheat, cotten ‘seed, 200 sacks of fruit, 9 bales of fodder, .household g-.ods, 50 sacks of flour. Interesting to Tobacco Dealers. Mr. J. J. Armstrong; "Assistant Assessor for this District, reqUe-fs us to publish the following circular: [SPECIAL] ’ Concerning the Repacking and Relnspect- Ing of certain kinds of Tobacco. Treasury Department, ") Office of Internal Revenue, J- Wasuington.Doc. 28, ’68.) die Lrrt ,._ A dm ini. nation, monthly ,, t Ii 9 for diemieiion from Guardianship, 40 '"suiesfur the f»r»clo»eur« uf Mortgage ntu.t LA pUDIICUVM muuwij .... — —- — Ublishiutr Wit pftt»«rs, for th« fall sp»c« of tare« a-iuth.—fi-r compelling title, trom Executor, or Administrator., where bond hte been given by ikudoceared, lor th. Bill .pace o( three inuntlis. Publication, will always ho continued accord- , lf to these, the legal requirements, miles, ata- .rvasu ordered, at the fallowing BATES. Sheriff. S.le. per levy of ten linee or lee. S3 00 SheriIT. Mortgage fi. fa. eale«, per lory, . 00 Tax 0.'lector's sales, per lory, 00 Citations for letter, of Administration 3 00 Citation! for latter* ol Guardianship S 00 Xotics ot application for dismission from 4 60 Keiioa of application for dismission Twin ’ Guardianship,. 4 Application i. sell land ~ ... 0 00 Notice to s^^'Nrsand Creditors 3 00 Sale of LefeJl^ersquaro a 80 Sale of perishable property, 10 days.. - t 80 Kstrar Notice*, (today. 4 00 V.reeiaiuro of Mortgage, per square 4 80 ,,,n advartiaing his wife, fin advance) 18 0 gATUBDAY MORNING January 16. Correction. IV* publish in this paper a correction *f the flatemont of the prices of northern man ufacturing stocks, dipt from the August* Press, from which paper we took the erro neous prises as published in our last issue. In die former statement, *s copied in the Cockier, we suppose the exceeding high price of stock! was attributable to the sup posed fact that no dividends had be»B pai l, hut that all the profits went to the enhance ment of the o iginal stock. We still be lieve that cotton manufacturing would bo exceedingly profitable here, if properly con ducted. The Prion Factory has fully proved this. A late New York paper gives the following as the profits of the compa nies named: Election of Alderman. At an election,yesterday, for Alderman, to fill the place of J. C. Tcuibertou, resign ed, Chas. H. Smith was elected. Up to a short time before the polls closed, he had received every vote, and we presume he was unanimously eleoted. We are truly glad that the city is to havo the benefit of lib abilities and expe rience in our municipal affairs. Dividends lor the year 1868. Audroecogiii Mills, 10 per cent, Appletou, 20 “ “ Chicopee, 45 “ “ Everett, 10 “ “ IIxmiltoD, 8 “ “ Lancaster, 25 “ “ Manchester Print Works, • 9 “ “ Massachuietts, 14 “ “ Nashua, 13 “ “ Namkeag, 20 “ “ Pacific, 24 “ “ .Stark Mills, 20 “ “ Person&l. Hon. 13. II. Hill waa in this oity yester- day evening, says the Macon Messenger of the 13th, and stopping at Brown’s Hotel. From tilt following paragraph, we judga Mr. Hill has great faith in Goor .ia * fu ture, 8vsn if sibjeeted to the most mis chievous manipulations that Sadioal malic* rau suggest. We are glad te chronicle the* evidences of faith in the good time ahead, by such men ns Mr. Hill. \Y e quote from the Albany Newt of yesterday : Heavy Land Purchase.—Maser*. R. K. Groves & Co., of New York, came down utkar the war and bought two of the finest plantations in Dougherty county—the Hickory Level and Bsily places. They paid, we believe, $150,000 for the two places, which contain 8,500 acres. Fail ing to make the cotton planting business pay, they sold a few days ago, to Hon. B. H. Hill, ono-lralf interest in the ent re es tate, including seventy-five mule*, 10,000 ousbcls of eorn, fodder, sotton sted, plow*, harness, wagous, gius, etc., for $40,000— -Ir. Hill to have the oontrol and manage ment of the establiohment. The Miltonlau Tableaux. We went to pres* last night before the above named exhibition came off. It will be repeated to-night—Saturday—also on Monday and Tuesday nights. The follow ing is what the Atlauta Intelligencer says of it: ‘•Our highest anticipations of this exhi bition wero most fully realized last uigbt at the Masonic Hall, in witnessing the scen ic representation of Milton’s Paradise Lust, as illustrated by John Martin. The audi ence was nnmegons, and throngbout the whole ontertainmeut, from the rising of the curtain to the going down of the same, their eyes were held spell bound, either by the surprising beauty, vividness, grandeur, or magnificence of the panoramic display, as well aa by the sublimity of the artists’ con ception oi the ideal of the poet. We nan well believe that thb exhibition has everywhere created an intense excite ment. Its effect b certainly wonderful and indescribable, and we not only advise all lovers of the beautiful iD art to look well that they do not uisa thb intellectual treat but think that all others would enjoy the feast.” BgLJoel Flannegan and John Campbell, freedmen, were sent to the railroad yester day to work in the chain gang. Flanne gan for twelve months and Campbell for six months. Mr- McCraiv’s School. Thb excellent select school for boys will be resumed on the 1st of’ February—See adv. Pur Doc.—Wo are indebted to Geu. P. M. B. Young, for a copy of the annual report of th* Southonian Institution for 1867. State Tax Assessment- It will be seen in our advertbing col- uinns.says the Atlanta Intelligencer,tbnt the Governor with the assistance of the Comp troller, General, in accordance with the 1st section of the tax act of October, 1868, has assessed and directed to be collected four tenths of one per cent, upon the estimated value ofproperty rcturnsd by the tax payers of the State subject to taxation ad valorem. This will bring into the State Treasury, it b supposed, the sum of $500,000. Section 78 of the act of July 20. 1868, as amended by the act of December 22, 1868, provides that after tho 15th day of February, 1869, no smoking or fine cut chewing tobacco or snuff, shall be sold or offered for sale unless put up in packages or stamped as required by said act. It b represented that, notwithstanding the ex tension of timo, many dealers will be put to great incoovenience aud expense unless they can be permitted to repack stocks on hand umv in bulk packages into the pack ages as now required by law, under tltesu- pervbion.of the proper officers of internal revenue. In order to furnish the relief desired it directed that the repacking aud inspection of such stocks may: Joe made under the fob j lowing regulations, viz : Any dealer in manufactured-.tobacco who has made a true aud correct inventory and felnrn of the same to the. Assessor, and on submitting to him satisfactory proof that tlic tobacco which the dealer dcsireS to ri- pack and have reinspected . was properly inspected under the former law. and was included in his iuveuuwy.made pursuant to section 78 of the act of. July - ”0, ISCo, said assessor may direct au inspector of to bacco for the district to supervise the re packing. The tobacco having been put up in the packages required, may be packed iu cases or enclosures of such size as the dealer tuay desire. It will he the duty of the inspector to personally supervise the packing in these cases or enclosures and wlteu the work is done he will transcribe upon each case or enclosure the inspection marks and brands upon the original packages, and also mark as follows, viz : ‘-Repacked under my su pervision,” together with the date, the State aud district, and lib mvu name and official title; and ho will immediately make a detailed report to the assessor showing the number of packages branded, the Kind and quantity in each, and the name. of the person or firm for whom the inspection was made, w ith the number of original pack age, and the original inspection marks or or brands upon each package. The inspec tor’s fee will be the same as heretofore - es- tablbhed in each-district, to be paid by the dealer for whom the work b done. Thomas Harland, Acting Commissioner.' From the Atlanta Cunatitnti GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. -rf W EDNESDAY, JlW. 13, 1869. The Senate met pursuant to adjourn ment Prayer by llev. Mr. Quintard. A quorum being present. ' Mr. Speer offered a resolution that the Senate was ready to proceed to business,and that the Secretary be required to notify the House of thb fact A message was received from the House stating that that body was prepared to pro ceed to business and requested that a ccm- luittee of three be appointed to notify the Governor. The President appointed: Messrs. Nunnal- ly,McWhorter and Hungerfurd. Mr. Speer moved that seats be allowed to reporters on the floor of the Senate. Adopt ed. Mr. Speers moved that a committee of three be appointed to make rules for the ;over anient of the Senate. r ’ 9 The following Senators were appointed: Messrs. Speer, Nunnally and Harris and Ou motion of Mr. Me Arthur, Mr. Wooten and Mr. Candler were added. On motion of Mr. Borns,the Senate ad journed till Friday 12 o’clock. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Atlanta Ga., Jan. 13 1869. The House was called to order at 12 M. by the Speaker. Prayer by Rev Mr. Crumley. The roll was called and a quorum was found present. The Speaker, Hon. M:. McWhorter, of Green, delivered the following address to the House of Representatives before pro ceeding to business: Gentleman of (he House, of Representatives: It b with no ordinary degree of pleasure that we greet each other here to-day. Yet it is painful to know that one of our number is absent. Since our adjournment, death lias cutcied here and suddenly removed from earth to the Land of Spirits, oar brother and co-laborcr, the Hon. W. M. Butt, of Marion county. So energetic and efficient iu his actions, so congenial and coufiding in his nature, that “noue knew him but to love him, none named him but o praise” Peace to hb ashes. My duty, gentlemen,*8 your presiding of ficer, b simply to preserve order and to ex ecute, to the best of my ability, the Rules and practice controlling Legislative bodies. I hope, however, yon will pardon me if I again admonish you to be mindful of the interest of all classes and conditions of our people. If we expect to live in peace, we most magnify the law and make it effective. Otherwbe anarchy, confusion and bloodshed must follow. Let us be united as cne people in the maintenance of law and order, for by this alone can wc expect permanent peace. Since we last met, the nation by an over- For tbs Rome Conner. A Psalm of Life, Adapted to the Times. BY W. P. RIVERS. I. The receipts at the various ports up to this time, says the Savannah Republican, do not indicate that the large crop theorists whelming majority, has vindicated the re will realize their estimates. There has construction acts of Congress; let us then been a heavy falling off in New York, thb day, as an integral part of thb mighty Charleston, Savannah and Mobile, amount- j republic, bury our prejudices and our pas- ing in round numbers 125,000 hales, while , sions and cxccnte the law of Congress in the increase in Virginia, North Carolina, ; spirit and in truth. As I said to you on a New Orleaus and Galveston b, iu round ; former occasion. “This is our government,” numbers, 250,000, leaving an aggregate in- , let us perpetuate it—take it,for with all its crease of receipts to the amount of 125,000. j faults, it is to-day, the best on earth. The receipts at the Atlantic ports and Mo I cannot close these remarks without re- bile for the remainder of the season arc 1 ferring with pride, as a Georgian, to the obliged to be far lighter than in 18G8, the splendor and elegance of thb Hall. The Soatbere Land and Sottlamcat Agency. We are glad, iayi tha Charleston Ceurinr, to Ioara that a movement b on foot with n view to the increased population of the oouth by British and Northern settler*.— An, it is clear, would be of inestimable nlue in a commercial, social and agrieultu- ™ P° mt of *»'»■ It is a part ef the objaot ot the proposed company to publish widely vaong the capitalists of Great Britain and the North, tha true state ot things at the South. * It « to diffuse intelligence eenoerainr the soil, climate, productions, capacities, fertility, and healthfulness of the South so that at least a due share of immigration may come to the inviting fields of the Southern States. We had the pleianre of mahtmg, yesterday, Mr. Thao Bourne, who, h. 1 V “?. tJ P rouj; *te this result, and to h- the medium to bring together the eapi- ‘“d labor of the North and Great Bnt- m aud the landed and other proprietor* he South, haa formed a Southern land Gi r, e “ l9 . l nent agency, prepared to B «bun and the North a* weU act in as at fhs South. Mr. Bourne, at New Orleans aad elsa- ere, has met with warm encouragement. Ui * B , ta * convention was hold on Rail. d Tu “ d *y oP *bc Southern “'head Superintendents, at which thb Mtor, among others, came np for deliber- » schoiliU Jras appointed to draft at rpAi.ili ^ or .^ rs f ‘“d seoond clasi farts, immigrants^ 1 ** 8 ’ fOT intend * d se ‘ t, ' ,, “ d “f Trader 4 r L r “V ub “ ilt * d onr KTceutiv'o l ^ 1 * 011 *« ‘heir executive oommittee. te °* ^ eor g*» arc keenly alive > oa ty for their aity, but State, The Flow or Currency South.— The money article of the New York Jleraltl; of the 8th instant, says: “Forty or fifty mil lions of dollars have gone South, and have bean, or will be^ absorbed there. The flow ef currency iu that direction, at the present time, is still going on, bnt on adiminbhed scale. More will go in the Spring in the shape of Northern capital, which, under the temptation of the high price of cotton, is seeking investment here. Emigration has set in, and there will be a strong cur rent ia tha Spring. The revival of cotton culture b a fever just now with capitalbts.” Id confirmation of the foregoing, says the Chron. & Sen. we have been showll letters to the house ef L. & H. McLaws, of thb aity,authorising the purchase of a number of small ftrau, in Middle Georgia, of two and fbar hundre 1 acres in extent, and ndvbing that “Spring visits may bn expected.” high prices having brought the greater por tion of the evop into market. Last year owing to the obstruction ol‘ the western rivers, the crop was slow in reaching Nctv Orleans; this year the navigation lias been open throughout the season, and high prices have prevailed. Yet the receipts at New Orleans up to thb time arc but 473,000 of the 1,200,000 claimed for her, a figure which will hardly he reached,if approximat ed. The stocks at all the ports are also some 10,000 less than last year. | mighty fabric (the Messrs. Kimball) have From these facts and figures, the reader, ! erected for themselves here an everlasting will he enabled to form his own estimates of : monument to individual enterprise, the crop as compared withthatof last year. 1 earnestly hope our future with this city ——-♦ - ! may be as plea ant as the past, aud that our Georgia and Congress. j time and energy may be devoted to the city of Atlanta has far excelled the expecta tions of the most sanguine of her friends.— All that art or money could accomplish has been furnished here. Faithful to her part of the contract, made with the Convention, let Georgia fulfill hers also. Atlauta dr serves, and will receive, from the heart of this people, from the mountains to the sea board, that welcome plaudit: -Well done thou good and faithful servant.” The proprietors and architect of thb Commenting upon Senator Edmunds’ elevation our own State in all the depart- bili to reconstruct Georgia, the Boston Post j meats that can make her useful and great. Bloody Aeweat—One Negro Killed and Another Mobtallt Wounded.— On Sunday afternoon lut an affray occur red at Bailey’* Mill, about four mile* from thb oity, on th* Cumberland road, which mulUd in the killing instantly of on* ne gro, and probably the mortal wounding of another. # i The affray waa brought about in a db- pute between Mr. Alfred Hoy aad two ne gro blacksmith*, Aaron and Dick, in regard to some money matters, Air. Hoy and Aaron first got into the dispute, and after quarrel ing a while Aaron went off and got Dick and returned to where Hoy was. He told them to keep away and not to lay th.eir hand* upon him, or he wonld kill them.—— Aaron, however, walked up as if .he intend ed to ley hb baud on Hey, when he was ahot deed with a revolver; and as Dick sprang forward, Hoy shot him also through the head. W* get the particulars of this bloody affair from a gentleman who lives near where it occurred. He left home early yesterday morning, und up to that time Hoy had not been arrested, bat the civil authorities were to take the .matter in band yesterday. Our informant says that Mr. Hoy, when not in liquor, is a very quiet and peaceable mau,butwhefl under its influ. onco he b an exceedingly dangerous character to deal with, especially wheu he gets angry. Of'eourse he will be arrested as soon as it b possible to do so, aud the case wiil be^ very properly says: •“Outrageous as,the proposition of Seua- tor Edmunds bj and fraudulent as the ac tion of Congress would become if it passed any such resolution as thb, it b worth while to glance at tlic reasons that' are mockingly given fora stejj so- unprecedented. The general complaint is that Georgia b still, without a republican form.of government; tHe specific foult js that her. Legislature has expurgatedTne negro element from its halb. The more general, reason is of course the looser one, which may oonvebicntly htdkl eve ry prejudice, passion, and partisan interest that is crowed in it. The minuter one be comes no reason at all, when considered as the act of a "body that is just as ( frce to re fuse office to its colored population, if it so chooses, as b either Ohio or Indiana. From the moment when Congress accepted the organic law under which the Legislature was chosen, together with the acts of that body, in reference to certain well-known amendments to the Coiihtitutioh.And like wise accepted its representatives elected by the’people, doingso with its eyes wide open, ahd with a military commander a drawn sword over the acts ot the pec.ple of Geor gia, it Solemnly boiStfd‘ ‘ itsClf to Hciive 'the State for the future to the control of its lo- cal affairs,and to abstain from interference just as in the case of other States. As for piesuming'to meddle With the qualifica tions for Bieinbcrthlp or the ^legislature, it bhound jn the case of ’ Georgia'- just as it bound ftself^h’tbtf ease of Louisiana. In the latter. Gbv/W&rinohth, it will be recol lected, requested instrubtione from the Re construction Committee of Congress howto proceed iq a similar matter, and received for an answer that the question of mernber- I now declare this House ready to pro ceed to business. A message was received from the Senate announcing that that body was organzied and ready to proceed to business. Mr. McCullough moved that a commit tee of five be appointed to co-operate with a similar committee from the Senate, for the purpose of notifying the Governor that both Reuses had been organized and was ready to proceed to business. Motion pre vailed, and the speaker appointed the fol lowing members from the House: Messrs. McCullough, of Jones, Cobb, of Sumter, Sisson, of Fulton, Grimes,of Muscogee, and Darnell, of Pickens. Mr. Anderson, of Cobb, moved to ad journ till 12 o’clock to-morrow. Mr. Xvcedy moved to ainmend by ad journing till Saturday 12 o’clock, as the desks had not been arranged. Air. Bryant stated that he was. informed that the seats would he ready by Friday, and moved that the House sojourn till Friday 12 o’clock, which morion prevailed, and the House adjourned. * ship was“tcr be determined by their respect- lib duty, if practicable, to give the trial of ive houses, and no oath can be imposed ex- these cases precedence of over all other ebpt the oath prescribed by the State Cou- Btitutioh.” Why not the like rule for Geor- gia? If thbjis"repub'.ieanisiii” for Louisiana, 4Vaw.li P*/irn tlin - fi/tritirflceinnal Roffinifriii*. fresh from the ‘ congressional Reconstruc tion Committee,too, what makes it les3 so for Georgia? A'ndif neither Louisiana, Ala bama, Florida, nor’ the Carolines were pur ged of certain qualifying provisions for mem bership of their Legislatures under the Fourteenth Amendment and the Recon struction Acts,'by what rule of justice b Georgia now ordered to adopt regulations from which the other Southern States are relieved?” An exchange says Jnhal Early will lake advantage of President Johnson’s amnesty proclamation and return - home, singing. “Theyear of Jnhal E. b come; return ye wandering sinners, ha3£.”„_. dispue ed of according tOjlMjUtsdU,^. v country a The New York .Commercial AdvCrfbcr says: ‘lit is* ruinored .that.a ’ celebrated Parisian modisteis about tci si The Trial of the Ogeechee Prison ers.—The Ogeechee prisoners now in the county jail number eighty-five,with a strong probability that it wul lie increased to one hundred and fifty in a few day*. The pris on will he crowded almost to suffication, and the expense to the county will be fearful. Justice to the prisoners and justice to the tax payers of the county require that they should be tried at the earliest possible mo ment. The January session of the Supe rior Court will open on Monday next, and we hope Judge Schley will deem it to be business, so that the cases may be disposed of and the county relieved from the expense of substring them, at the earliest day pos sible. It has been suggested that there is a doubt about the existence of any law to authorize the drawing and summoning grand and petit juries for the trial of cases in the Superior Court, and if legblative en actment is necessary to enable the Court to empannel juries, every possible effort should be made to induce the -Legislature, which wc believe meets on the 13th inst, to act upon the question forthwith.—Savannah Republican 9th. An American traveler, who is now in Europe, writes home that, of all the cities in the world, Paris b the moat beautiful, London the dingiest, and New York the dirtest and worst smelling. Died.—Mr. E. S. Candler died in this ■ 911-y afternoon. He was at one of the State.— “Life is real—life it earnest," In these days that try the soul— And thb lesson soon thou 1 earnest, T’b the Dollar holds control. n. Gold b King the wide world over, Gold’s the Tenth that men receive; Gold, not God, b man’s Jehovah, Gold’s the Gospel men believe. HI. Tell me not in noble numbers— Souls may not be bought and sold; Virtue dies, and consciance slumber*— In the reckless ohas« fowgold. IV. Life’s a cruel, heartless battle, Waged for pluuder, spoil, aad pelf— Man with man, like horned cattle. Each one'pushinj fur himself. V. Lost to Virtue, Mercy, Feeling— Dead to Friendship, Honor, Shame, Human hearts te ice congealing! Loro is but an empty name. VI. Faith is nothing, Truth’s a bubble; Oaths are frost-work »u the pane; Principles are weeds aud atnbble— Burned by Lust and Love of gain. VII. Hearts are sick, and brains ara reeling— With the greed of gold insane; Brother from hb Brother stealing! Conscieue takes no guilty stain; VIII. In Life's heartless cruol battle, In this raging money-strife, God’s a myth—the soul a chattel, And there b no Future Life. IX. Not Eternal Bliss, nor sorrow Claims one thought along the way; Bnt to work that each to-morrow— Bring more money than to day. X Alan b weak, and Time u flying— Golden God’s aloi* can save: Seize the dollars—living—dying! They can cheer thee to the grave. XI. For the base, and venal-hearted, Fortune holds her market-place; Sell thyself!—from Honor parted— Gold will compensate Disgrace. XII. Trust no Frieadshipa howe’er pleasant; Fear no Justice overhead; Rush to Fortune in the Present— Over livieg hearts and dead! XIII. Rob your neighbor—not relenting; Crush the feeble in your way; Gold can purchase for Repenting— Time enough another day. XIV. Lives of RieL-menjail reminded us— Rich’es make the life sublime, Dollars eover sins behind u>— If they bribe not Death and Time. XV. Theft get gold some way or ether, Though ic costs you toil and pain; Though you rob and wrack your Brother, Conscience soon will sleep again. XVI. In the Church-yard at the altar— Let his foet-prints ne’er grow sold; Chase your prey, and never falter,— Have the Victim’s life or gcldl XVII. ‘Let us then be np and doing’— With a heart severe as Fate! Like the hawk, aad wolf punning, We must never learn te wait. Cave Spring Gn. CONGRESSIONAL. Fire In Philadelphia. Interesting Foreign Items. Washington, Jan. 14.—Senate. Air. Wilson introduced a bill amending the Tennrc-of-offioe. It restores the President’s control over the Cabinet and allows a salary to ad interim officers. Referred to Retrench ment Committee. A bill was introduced allowing Airs. Lin coin a pension. Mr. Snmncr introduced a bill to enforce the 14th amendment, saying event* in Kentucky rendered action imperative. The Supreme Court b arguing an insur ance case which involves the right of the government to demand coin tax from par ties doing business in coin. The House b engaged on the Niagara Ship Canal. Gen. Gilletn’s testimony before the Re construction Committee fuliy snbstantiates his report regarding the Mississippi elec tion. Philadelphia, Jan. 14.—A fire ou the orner of Ninth aud Chestnut, d> strayed the Marble Block. The fire is still raging. The hiss will be two millions, unless the safes preserve valuables. New York, Jan. 14.—The Herald’s Ha vana special has Neuvitas dates to 10th. Valinasedo was unable to reach the interior, and was surrounded and bard pressed by the insurgents. A portion of Matanzas volunteers have gone over to the rebels. Retnrniug troops aro destroying planta tions in their line of march. Anus are freqneutly landed for insur gents. GEORGIA LfCI^ATUliE. SENATE. From Washington. Washington, Jau. 13.—In the Senate Napoleen Loomb asked Congress to appro priate fifty thousand dollars to complete ex periments for telegrapliiug without wires or battery, using cloud instead of wiies. Re ferred to Patent Committee. Buckalew presented a bill amending rap resentation in Congress. It provides for the representation of unionbts. Referred to election committee. Abbott introduced a bill aiding the rail road from the Rio Grande to the Pacific. Sawyer introduced a bill paying govern ment employees South, who not having ta ken the iron-clad oath, if they take ordina ry oath of allegiance to support the Consti tution. Referred to finance committee. The bill amending act relating to habeas corpus, and to regulate judiciary proseed- iugs, passed 32 to 10. Conkliug, in explaining the bill, said : “There were eases arbing in the Southern States, particularly in Georgia, where the Northern stockholders in express and steamboat companies, were sued for prop erty taken by the public euemy. and the object of the bill was to enable the defend ants to transfer these cases to U. S. Courts to the end that they might go to the Su preme Court and have a decision whether the principle is the same as in the prize cases, and thb principle as a case of law 5 they are not able to get a ruling upon iu \ the State courts. A common carrier to dc- j feud himself technically must prove that ' the loss of the goods was either occasioned : by the act oi government or of the pnblie enemy, and in cases that had arisen the de- . foudauts were met by the instructions from f the judges of the State Courts, which de- j priced the juiy from giving any decision ' upon thb point. ( From Montgomery. AIontohmert, Jan. 12.—The Columbi ana Guide, a newspaper published at the county site of Shelby county, in thb State, says that'Judge Pelham, of the Circuit , Court, on a casecoming before him from the Probate Lonrtof thb connty, decided that the present Legblatnre b an illegal _ body and Governor Smith an unlawful offi- none but those who were loyal should par- y, Jen. 16, 1869. Senate called to order. Prayer by Rev- Mr. Prettymnn-. Air. Nunnally, Chairman of the Commit tee appointed to wait upon hb Excellency, reported that the message of the Governor was in readiness. . ; The message firom hb Excellency was received by hb Secretary, Sir. Davb. -On motion it was taken up and read: Executive Department, 1 Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 13. 1869. J To the Senate .paid ■ House, of Representatives: Upon the assembling of Congress on the 7th of Decemher last, being the earliest op portunity afforded for the purpose, the fol lowing communication was presented to that body: “To the Congress of the United States: “Having, as Provisional Governor elect, under the Reconstruction.Acts, been au thorized—by “An Act to ddoiit the State* of North Carolina, Louisiana, Georgia, Ala bama aud Florida, to representation in Con gress”—which Act became a law June 2a, . 1S67—lo icii-euc the Provisional Legisla ture of Georgia; and having by proclama tion.ludcr date, June 25, .13C8,actod upon that authority: and having, on the 4th day, of July, 1868,.been apppinfod Provisional Governor of Georgia, by. Major. General George. G. ,Mc_.de, commanding the ,Thi(d .Military District, uuder and by, virtue pf the power vested in him by tbeReconstruc- tion Acts, I deem it my official duty to rep resent to your Honorable body that the laws under which the Stale of Georgia was to, have been admitted to representation in Congress have not been fully executed; and ti> present for yturconsiderarion the reasons which lead me to thb conclusion. “By section VI of “An Act for tho more efficient government oi the rebel States,” among which States b enumerated the State of Georgia, it b provided that “until the people of said rebellious Stata shall be by law admitted to representation in Con gress, any civil government which may ex ists therein shall be deemed provisional on ly.” The government of the State has,” therefore, been, and must continue to be. provisional, until the conditions required by the Act which became a law Jnnc 25,1868, shall have been complied with by a Legis lature organized in acco> dance with the Reconstruction Acts previously adopted. “By section IX of the supplementary Re construction Act, passed July 19, 1867, it is required that—“all persons hercafterelect- cd * * to office iu said AIHitary Dis tricts * * * shall he requir T ed to take and subscribe the oath prescrib ed by law, for officers of tl.eUnitec. States. “The Government having becii Provi-. sional at the time of the assembling of the Legislature referred toj the law, therefore, required that snch j ersous only as were eli gible under the Recpustractipn Acts, should be permitted to participate in the necessary provisional legbUriou precedent to recogni tion as a State. The fact, however, b that all the candidates for the General Assembly who had received the highest number of votes, were, wit bout regard ts' Heir eligibil ity under the law, permitted to take seats in the provisional legislative body, and to to participate in the organization and the legblation thereof.—having first been sim ply invited to take an oath prescribed in the new Constitution, which Constitution, had not at that time become, and nnder law, coaid not then be, of force. “The result of thb failure to execute the law has been a defeat of the purposes which Congress had in view when passing the Acts,—these purposes having been the es tablishment ef a Loyal and Republican State Govenncnt, affording adequate pro tection to life and property, the mainten ance of peace and good order, and the free expression of political opinion. “The wise discernment displayed by Con gress, in requiring by its legblation that’ eligibility..!'! such other members as might apply for scats under the Constitution of the State aud that of the United .States— when legislative action should have vital ized the State Constitution; and that it is reasonable to suppose they would not admit to seats persons who fell under the disabili ty imposed by the act of Juno 25th, 1868, and by the fourteenth amendment. The result,'-! thb careful observance of the letter aud the intent »f the law would, it b believed. lave prevented the snbse- que.it legblative action, which, so far ns it may be permitted t» stand, has virtually overtlirawu the wise p-liey inaugurated by Congress. » : olivy so lately aud so -fully en dorsed by the American people at the bal lot l> x. The ]i—iti-'ii taken in my communica tion to t'ongri-ss a- to the requirements of the Rcoiiisiructioii Arts is founded npou the -T following official opinioti of the Major Gen eral who, under those acts, commanded the Third Military. District, which opinion waj announced previous to-the election for mem bers of thcGcucral Assembly, and by which all persons, wera put upon , notice aa to what would be required. From tlj» Atlanta New Era, April tv, 1967. “As the i pi cation of eligibility nnder the new trevisit.ml Government b now one of great interastr we have been at some pains to place before"our reader* an offieial opin ion upon thb point;. • : 1 , “A peratiu who had never held an office ; htfoee tlie-w*r. but who voluntarily aided aud abetted the rebellion by holding* civil office at oiic tjaie'darihg the wtr, sought the opiaiofiiof the-^ commanding General as to whetheehe-wonld- now be eligible if elected^. - ‘Wic gire> below the official opinion, by which.If will be seen that tbe-test oath w requited: .1 “Congress-will, however, no doubt pose an enabling act, rei.eving persons who; in gold faith, desire restoration of the Union, (and who have, proved their faith by their worka,) from the operation of the 9th sec tion, and of other disabilities, which wonld otherwba prevent them aiding in restora tion. H’dqo’rs Third Military District,"! ‘Department Georgia/Ala. and Florida Atlanta,"Ga., April 15, 1868. ) . The sixth section of the first Reconstruc tion Act of Congress declare* -That until the people of said rebel States shall be, by law, admitted to representation in the Con gress of the United States, any civil gov ernment which may exist therein, shall be deemed provisional only.' Ac. “Under the provi-ions of the fifth sec tion of the same act, ‘the people of said State cannot be admitted to representation in Congress until they shall have ratified the Constitution submitted to them under the Reconstruction Acte; and Congress shall have approved thesamepand until said 3tate-sbaff have adopted the amendment to the Constitution of the United States, pro posed by Cdugress.known as ‘Article 14/ and said Article shall' have become a part of the Constitutioodf the United States.’ These and other provisions of the Recon struction Acte clearly --show that whatever government may exist in Georgia, before the fulfillment of the abore conditions,niust •be deemed provisional only.’ The ninth section of the Supleuientary Reconstruc tion Act passed July 19, 1867,-requires all officers elected or appointed under the pro visional government of a State to take and subscribed the oath of office prescribed by law for officers of the United States.’ This makes a condition or eligibility to office un der a provisional government very mate rially different from either eligibility to reg istration us a voter, or eligibility to office un ter the provisions of the proposed Con stitutional amendment. ‘Before entering npou hi* duties, a pro visional officer is required, among other thing, to swear that he has neither sought, nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the functions uf any office whatever, under any authority, or pretended authority,in hostili ty to the United States. Mr.-;—held office under the authority cer. Judge Pelham is a prominent teem- ticipate in the establishment of a provision* I b ? r , of , t . he P art y> 1 al government which was thereafter^ to bej „fStateAf OroT^aihffc that State was , ed to his office at the same time the Begis- clothed with the rights and immunities of J - n fr ca tiHt v to the Uuiled States Be ' ■ latore and the Governor was chosen. ’ a State in the Union, charged with Ihe'care - — aud protection of the lives and property, and the civil and political rights of Ks citizens, is made the more apparent by the this. MISSISSIPPI. A Terrible Crime and Swtft Retribatiuu Memphis, January 12.—Saturday night a negro, named Abe Vanderberg, went to the house of. William Smith, an employe of the Mississippi Central Railroad, at Water Valley, Mississippi. After a desperate struggle he succeeded ic outraging the per son of Mrs. Smith, bnt not before he had strangled her little daughter until she was insensible. As soon as it was daylight, Mrs. Smith alarmed the neighbors, who with th* Marshal of the town, went in pnnnit of, and soon succeeded in capturing him. On bringing him into town, it was with the greatest difficulty the negroes who had assembled, were kept from burning him. ■a" ~ He was placed in jaU for safe keeping. That night, however, the Kuklux in strong fores came and took him ont and hong him yes terday morning. Mr. Smith returned boom and became almost a maniac on hearing of the affair, and taking a rifle want to tha spot where the body waa still haaging, cut it down, gathered rails, built a fire upon it, and while the body was horning, around it like* mad man. - Tbe Ogeechee Inaarrectlaa Seems to have “played ont”—si least for the present. The Savannah Newt of yes terday mentions the arrest of nine more prisoners,but states as a singular foot that the scouts—all uegrors—employed by the military to bring in the insurgents, have thus far foiled to arrest the principal leaders of the insurrectioiqbe adds: The prevalent belief on His hart of the people of this city is, that instead of a prompt vindication of the law* and the pun ishment of the guilty, tliai whole affair is to end in smoke, so to 'speak; for which the people have to pay at the rate "of a good round sum of money to meet the expenses which this trouble haa caused must come from out of the pockets of the white people. The State has bsen forced into an immedi ate examination of the prisoners, without time to procure evidence or mature a case, evidently with the design to effect a release of tlie prisoners for want of testimony. The affair has concluded without bloodshed, on ly, we fear, tc break’ out again for want of proper punishment. Telegraphic Markets. New York, Jan. 14— Stocks strong and unsettled. Money easy at 7c. Exchange 9{’. Gold 36J. Coupons of 1862, 12j. North Oaroiinas 65}, new 62}; Virginia cx-cou- pona 57,new 59.‘Tennossee cx-coupons G8j, new 68}. Floor dull ’ sod drooping. Wheat dull and heavy. Corn doil and about le lower. Fork dull; new mess 29 00. Lard droopiug at 19}. Cotton firmer at 39Turpentine dull at 52}a53. Rosin dedis&g *4 2 62a2 65. Freights quiet. London, Noon,Jan. 14.—Consols 92}, Bonds 75. .Liverpool—Noon—Jan. 14.—Cotton aiftfore; sales 15,000 bales. Xcferpool—Afternoon—Jan- 13.— Cotton active; uplands on the spot Ilf. afloat Iff; Orleans IUallf. Lard 72s 6d. Bacon 57«- Tallow 47s. consequences rthieh have ensned from ft., j,„i legwlati-m has to be talc, fiulure in fte snforeement oFthat Icgisla- ^State is yet ander provisional govern- --n « n meqE; mnd the msmbera of the Legislature consequently -ineligible to office under the provisional governn ent. It id not deemed necessary here to discos* the affect this •pew of the law may have ss to other uffi- Bni iegiaktiin has to be taken while tion. “I would, therefore, respectful! A DtaMMolate Husband. An importunate Hlioeier, who recently missed his wife, thus describes the “old gal:” “She is fire feet in highfe rather heavy, having very dark hair and «ycs, a short, concave nose, dark skin, a tittle black mus tache, thick lips, no front teetik, all the teeth in her head decayed, and mot much of them left except roots, round shoulders, subject to phthisic, a scar on hviedUnr bone, sauted by a burn, one or two scars on Ler foes, and one crooked rib.” Sumner and the Georgia Nig roe*.— A Washington special says: “How the Senate is Snmnsrized may be known from the fact that oae day this week he submit ted thirteen resolutions and petitions, and seren bills, all bnt on* of which were of a criminal character. One of his petitions, concerning the proper meaning of the four teenth amendment to the Federal constitu tion, was from two hundr 1 and fifty-two negroes of Georgia, all o' whom but two signed with a cross-mark, the column in intended for names of witnesses being en tirely blank. And these are ths class of people whom the Massachusetts Senators desires to rule the people of a State.'' Chrlaty and Wimpy. We see the House Committee on Elec tions have reported that Wimpy is not en titled to the seat from the Athens District, and that although Christy waslegally elec ted he is excluded by tbe iron clau. The Profits or Fertilizer*. Wo seethe Southern Agricultural esti mates, upon t he average report of experi ments made lastysarv that every- one hun- used, ndd- iiy wnte, the attention of your Honorable.. body to this subject, and ask that such steps be taken as bay lo you seem wiseaud prop-r for the obtaining of full information in relation thereto; and to the end that Loyalty may’ be protected and promoted by ths enforce! meat of the laws enacted by the Represen tatives ofthe American People. “Rufus B. Bullock. »By fhs Governor: LEhoene Davis. •“EjWeutire Secretary.” By the adoption of resolution* by your honorable body, setting forth in effect, that Persons were eligible to membership un der the act of June 25th, 1868, whisk pre scribed the conditions imposed by tbe pro posed amendment to the Constitution,- known as Article 14, which persons it was admitted bad taken an offieial osth to rap port- the Constitution ofthe United States, and afterwards gave aid and comfort to the enemies thereof by holding a commis sion nnder a State engaged in rebellion against tho United States, and aiding in various other ways the enemies of that government, and subsequently by your ac tion in excluding from your body a- large number of tbe citizens of the State and of the United States, who had been duly elec ted and seated, and who participated in ths adoption of the fundamental conditions im posed by Congress; members too, without whose votee those conditions would not bars bsen adopted, and your body having based that action uporr your deliberate judgment, that under the Constitution and laws of this State persons bavin/ a certain portion of African blood in their veins were not elligiMe to office, and such action being in very marked contrast with the policy and with the spirit of the reconstruction acts of Congress attention was naturally di rected to a careful examination of the law, to the manner of its execution, to ascertain how it was possible that these results could follow the adoption of the policy of Con- must l>e qualified to hold office under that , provisional government. “[official ] R. C. Drum, A. A. G.”' t . This position is further sustained by the following, extract front General Order* Nfi 61, gated Headquarter* Third Military Dis trict, Atlanta, April 15,1868: “11. The question having been submit ted whether the members of the General Assembly of this State, to be elected next week, trill bo required,before entering upon their duties, to take what is commonly cell ed ‘the test oath,' the Commanding Gener al is of opinion thatfoasmueh as said Gener al Assembly—should the Coustitutioa now submitted to the people of thb State be rat ified by them,and be approved by CongrMf uired to convene and adopt th* before the State can be admitted to repre sentation in Congresi; it amy be decided that the members of said General Amemhly are, while taking thb preliminary action,of; fleers of a Provisional Government, and aa such required, under the 9tk section ef the Act of Cungrcss of July 19, 1867, to take' the test oath.” If there were any doubt—based upon phraseology—as to whether th* provision of the ninth section of the Aet of July 19, 1869, requiring the osth to be administered should be made to apply, it would aeem that the eleventh section ofthe urns Act would, in thb case,render its application impera tive. The eleventh section reads as follow*: “That all the provisions of thin Aet, and of the Acte to which it b suplsmsntary shall he construed liberally .to the sad that all the intents thereof may be folly and perfectly carried out.” That such literal construction of the law waa expected b evidenced by the following extract from a communication of General Grant to Gen. Pope, under date *f August 3,1867. “I think your views are sound, both ia the construction which you givs to the laws grass by a large majority of the body pofr- of0oogrcs3 aud the of u.e suppor- tic. Iheresultofthisexaminationis cm- tera j omwt u6ee thlt when braced in the new presented to Congress. recon8t “ eti( £ U effected no loop-hole b left It is therein alleged that it there had oto give trouble and embsrratament been a litoral execution of the law,a primal It k ccrt .i D W ,h e duty of db- legislativc organization would have been jgJ eQmmanders to study what th* fram- hmited to those who could swear that they erg of the recons , ructi on Uw* wanted to ex- h* d never volnntanly borne arms m much as they do express, and to the United -States, and had never sought execute the fows according to that inter- nor accepted, nor attempted to exercise the ; .relation ” functions of any office whatever under any i p Ako Gen RawIiM ^ G tn. Meads, Jn- authority,or pretended anthonty in hoetili- . . 1S68 . .. The Keounatruction acta ara ty t° the samo. required to be conatrusd liberal!/, to At Such a body.when it should have adopt- j ca J that all tha iatents thereof, vb: Tin in tha dred pounds uf Peruvian gua ed one hundred pounds of cotton iron ‘“ j c d t h c condition, precedent to the adaria- j_ the crop. I hat would make . profit of; 6 ; on of th „ State £ rcpre , C ntation in Coro 1 r -« t » blu > hc *» t ofclTl1 -■

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Rome weekly courier. (Rome, Ga.) 1860-1887, January 22, 1869, Image 1