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l r oacj bL* 9th ’ 1866 (2 J Ud 7.30 „ wd 6 a. P- is lnd it * n >. L^taou^ ••Potion l - CO, > ‘ff 1S60.} ' c “awrne. lock a. m, ,rld ge at s l2£deot ■X ‘ants, ‘W.Pron- d to con- 'Heston 4 Water-nt. ®" Vo,lr. i-ewla j lav aunah 101* [savann j ah Daily Herald POOUSHW « Rrrr , Satannad. Gaobola. Te“ u8: Rye Cento. ....S3 60. 00. (fH 11, 11 wo: ^ of Tt u I-ines for first to- » w-r ! ”>"t r L(h subsequent one. Ad- ^r»^in th“ niornine, will, it desired, n.'^-'T'V.V"i.M.ut .^trH Charge. > ev f {.jllNTIIVG. J° T5 „ ., a udoro« 1 l' u l' <lom '- G1V uEGISIaATUBB. , s.-.uwe," 1 jltt-r a ,,J 1 r-i i.l an« ,,‘l till .Mo: evaileJ, l»3 IPX >oo D. Gran- flU any log, fur tela, ror ate ran :ities of um bus. Mobile, j Mem- >rlty of tabillty l it are i’ Plat oraey, Also, g Cot- ■u-nt tb' ll„- State -E fill.) eville, March 3, 1866. session. Milled^ .^vFTEBNO f ambled at 3 o'clock. " . oS r mnl) BEAD ISO. .llection of debts, lid Lost. 1*290 of the code. I ui act requiring cotton and •Vli'li li.-ts of their stockholders. matter. lutrodneed a bill to incor- ,1 Lumber Company. 1,(11 to incorporate the town county. granted to Mr. Scanderet, of .Mr. Dodson of Ca- r.f sickness, morning at 9 o’clock. llle, March l i a. in., pursuant to ad- ie chair, of the .Senate, corrected. It appears ouucement that the bill lying near the city of thorities of said city, had in*. Mr. J. A. W. Johnson tioii of the Senate on said of 18 to 12. unis <•! the State lying in the l.crmauent endowment for the distillation of grain, and for ed. the laud by the United s ,.t colleges to promote agricul- ■ arts. Passed. pt »-3 1.1 th* puli' 0 '' 1.1 the mechan i THIRD READING. i diugs of the southern f t 11 .' 11 r : oi tli«* Brunswick and Florida Railroad, I -, ion '«* t! “* 1,1 Mail * railroad. Passed. Iijjj.t,. th, . ounty of Screven from the first t'o^n'ahioual district Passed, ihori/.,* tin.' Justices of the Inferior Court of uniy. to lev) and collect an extra tax for „urt house and bridges in said county. ■oal1" •••nil'll t jiarticstime to make writs of certiorari .,•> it allows ten days. Passed. ,\ivc the military code of Georgia as it exist in' war. Passed. a. ilitatt- tie- trials against tenants holding t. ■r|» rate tlu- Muscogee Insurance and In- Mbiatiuli. Passed. ,.rj»-ratc the Southern Mining Company. •rpnratc the Lookout Valley Mining Com- }j. relief of executors, administrators, „1 tru-i.. s in certain cases. PassecL i-iJ'-p-d bill to vest certain lands of the nfy authorities of Macon was taken up . pjiecial order for Wednesday next, adjourned till 3 o’clock p. m. ENATE—AFTERNOON SESSION. re-assembled at 3 o’clock p. m. 1>E RILLS ON THIRD READING. •umboat, railroad and express com- >*: -o n cei^ts for freight. Passed. . .ti -n i i the pardon or £psey Wood, a female • fused. ili • authorize the Justices of the Inferior Court of aiiiy to issue county bonds. Passed, it. iiiaugt: the lino between Paulding and Carroll It•lu.vrpi*rate the North Western Mining Com posed. »m.ori*orate the Okefenoka Land and Caual id; Lost t in. rjM.ratr the North Georgia Petroleum and : Company. Passed. ' ti ■M-.nit.- tho aur*flresx U —a Mill Com]any. Passed. , . .v • ** * 1 ^ a A lutiou to allow tho Secretary of State a clerk. I to. lutK.ii to authorize the Superintendent of the n and Atlantic Railroad to aid persons living hi r.ad m building stock gaps. Agreed to. luti.m that the General Assembly will not en- auy proposition to relieve stockholders from ept in certain cases. Indefinitely «po|ed. • • I it: ii t.. authorize the Governor to appoint a fit ifll" »» nt person to aid the Hon. David Irwin in iGpiliug th«* laws. Lost. - - was received from His Excellency con- information in relation to the finances of the Ihr■ini ssage, with accompanying documents, -• M ri. I to a committee cousteting of Messrs. Stru kland, J. A. W. Johnson, Bower and - ’ . of the session w r as spent in reading House | r Ji tlie s«-. .»nd time. 3d j •turned. HOUSE. h U»UNS met at 9 o’clock JOCttlLfllt. hijer tiv th*; Chaplain, ikjuuriial was read and approved. Ht rules were suspended and the bill to authorize ^ 1 •• rit"t' to remit a portion of State tax upon eer | iu. -oiitiugi u<: tes was taken up and passed, dilution was adopted allowing the Secretary of Milt t > bay.- a clerk. >nat. t in tor organizing county courts was made ^;1" ml "i dcr for Tuesday next. ’ psy Woods, a convict in the Peniten pursurant to ad spasmed, alio opardoi Chatham Free School to sell certain i J. W. Martin, a convict. Passed, id section 4275 of the, code. Passed. ^ mak. s house burning and burglary at night punishable with death. nil (ungulate rate of interest in this State. Post- indefinitely. H'.us*- a*].i<mrued till 3 o’clock p. m. AFTERNOON SESSION. Th' House met at 3 o’clock p. in. -E 1ULL8 ON THIRD READING. fcl 'l t-'puuihh horse stealing with death. Passed. c cs in equity to be rendered in Bill tt» alloi <baiijl*ri • iu illegal seizures in this State. Passed. '1‘orati; the Georgia Express Company Bait. biii i. *Wd. Bib t< Bill ft bill to aiiuw aij, Ulilo i..r tl„., Hwlliuseaili, o'" iol m. linn 4797 0 f tin; code. Passed. ""i"'i„,niti- tin, savings Bank of Augusta. • I" a! Ill;; section of the code. Boat, il"-1 >iu i oi oflieers of the Bank of Savannah. is t<> own land in Georgia. Laii i-sint. •'Bed till to-morrow morning at 10 Tuesday, March 6. SENATE. N Iiai, Diet at the Lour of 10 o’clock s:.u t . — lut uuur oi iu o cioca a. m., ptir- ™ wnljoiimment. r yraj'-r th,. journal was read and approved. to reconsider the resolution etent person to • ing the code.— Excellency the s for the stay of >pted child of S. iu • de. Passed. in traded daring ■ ode. Passed. >{ the common i sad. i 'ray and Gordon -lining and Bolling ’ ‘his State to ad- of guardians, ei- > Brunswick Im- fiining Company. M a ifufachiring Gom- »urt of Richmond . tax. Passed. ■;.inst trust estates. aits of the city of •r members of the ita. Passed. f, f Madison a city. jf superintendents ral counties of the Charter of the city of Brunswick. h y. Holding the Superior ■• l10 votera of Georgia the question The journal was read and approved. The bill to allow aliens to hold lands in this Stale lost on yesterday waa reconsidered. Leave of absence granted to Mr. Martin and Mr. Dodson. NEW HATTEB. Mr. BarneB of Richmond—a bill to incorporate the Augusta and Summerville Railroad Company. Mr Swearinger of Decatur—a bill to incorporate the Mechanic's Saving's Bank. Mr. Hanison of Chatham—a bill to legalize the ap pointment of L. J. B. Fairchilds as Treasurer of the county of Chatham. The special order—the. bill to organize County Courts—was laid on the table for the present. The rest of the morning session was taken up In discussing the General Appropriation bill. House adjourned. REPLY OF Hour. JOSHUA HILL To the Sixty-nine' Special Legislative Friends of Hon. A. H. Stephens. Gentlemen—I have read your review of me and my recent speech on the Sanatoria election. I have never had a newspaper controversy, nor have I the slightest desire for one. - In your case, I would naturally, seek to avoid “the war of the many with one,” if for no other reason than the great disparity of num bers. You have entered into an elaborate argument to prove that I was wrong in saying of Mr. Stephens that, under the circumstances, he could pot escape a suspicion of having encouraged his election to the Senate. Yon say, after presenting-your array of facts, that “Mr. Hill must fall back upon his judgment as being biassed by his attitude.’’ I admit I am not in fallible. I may be obtuse. Whatever may be the general effect of your reasoning and facts, I cannot help thinking that some, more incredulous than the rest, will attribute to Mr. Stephens the amiable weak? ness of being too easily “over-persuaded.” He did not refuse the high office as often as Csesar did the “kingly crown,” and yet Cseaar wa9 slain tor his am bition. But there was but one Anthony importuning Ctesar. Unlike the men of Athens, I am not, “in all things, too superstitious.” It so happened that I had been warned,and that, nut in a dream,but with my eyes and ears open, at least one week before the first meeting of the Legislature—that a shrewd and knowing politician predicted the election ol' Alexander H. Stephens and Herschel V. Johnson, as Senators'. I never forgot the prophecy, nor ceased entirely to look for its fulfill ment. It at least broke my fall, and, I think, made James Johnson’s descent easier. Speaking oi prophets, gentlemen, hereafter commend me to this political diviner. Yon cannot make le3S of it than a curious coincidence. Some, to whom this fortune-telling had been com municated, and who may be too appreciative of a jest, regarded the animated contest between Messrs. Gar- trell and PecpleB as the best joke of the aesson. It re minded old - turfmen of a gallantly contested four utile race, with broken heats, and the cheers of the crowd, as the fleet steeds came neck-and-neek, thun dering down the last quarter stretch, were almost audible. But tbs gallant contestants were in the end, reminded of that beautiful Scriptural aphorism, “the race is not to the swift.” They both ran well, and each was nigh the goal, bnt it was never intended (at least so thought Fatalists and Prenestinariaus) that either should win. You attack my pretensions to loyalty to the govern ment of the United states, and demand, with an air of triumph, “What is the plea of loyalty set up by Mr. Hill?” Y'ou then proceed to contrast my poor efforts to save the Union, to the Herculean labors of Mr. Stephens to preserve it, and succeed in convincing yourselves that Mr. Stephens has the better record. I never doubted its Buiting you better, nor questioned that Jefferson Davis' record pleases many of you bet ter still. Mr. Davis is entitled to all the credit that attaches to unflinching devotion to a cause that he consented to embrace and defend. Had I loved the cause, I could but have honored his constancy and de termination. I never regarded the cause and the South as synonymous. I could not look upon the re bellion with favor, when I felt that it waa absolute ruin to the South, and a curse upon my whole coun try It is surely no fault of mine that gentleman should refuse to read my reported speeches and published letters. Had time dono so, they would now remem ber the uniformity of sentiment prevading them, and their ardent nationality. This is characteristic of all I said or* wrote during my public service. But I am aware that I never had any particular claims upon the public regard, farther than being esteemed some what above that contemptible thing, a professional politician, in independence and candor. I never sought to win notoriety in any manner. Unlike some of whom I wot, l was not ashamed of the position of a private gentleman, living secluded from the world, and but little known beyond the small circle of friends surrounding me. And if a single one of you im agine that my election to the Senate would,in my own opinion, “add a cubit to my stature,” or for an hour increase my vanity, you know little of me. No; I have weighed “the guttering bauble," Fame, lor luug years have been aocustomed to say of it, that anything less than the reputation of Clay or ’ ‘ ’stoArYlwditjycrthjeeking. - vere teachings of misfortune,Have enabled me fo bear up under the frowns oi former friends, and— “To suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune," without repining. For me to undertake to convince you that I loathed and abhored disunion or secession, and that I never failed to rebuke it, when I came to speak or write of it, would be to make myself ridiculous; and to acknowl edge that your estimate of the value of my opiniohs is the universal one. As highly as I respect you 1 can not cohsent to abide your judgement of my insigni ficance. As for my recognized devotion to the Union, it was a fact fixed in the minds of such men as John 0. Crit tenden, Stephen A. Douglas, James Fearce and : Hen ry Wintou Davis, aU of whom, “had they but served theirGod with half the zeaT’they served their country, would now be, us I hope theyare, bright angels in a better world. And of the living, let me name John Sherman of Ohio, Gen. John A. Logan, Charles F. Adams, Dawes, Thayer, Mr. Seward, and Morrill, and I might add, all who knew me or observed myj>oliti- cal course. In the midst of the bloodiest scenes of the wicked and causeless war through which we have passed, it j was a source of heartfilt comfort and consolation "when my household-gods lay ahivered around me,’ to know that I was still cherished as the friend of the Union by my old associates throughout the nation. And to that settled conviction as to my character and feelings, I am greatly indebted for marked courtesy and kinkness. Every man in Georgia, of ordinary intelligence knows that I have been looked upon with distrust and uukindness, and am yet, for my attachment to the Union. How many of you have denounced me for my national principles? Which of you have censured; Mr. Stephens for his abandonment of his opposition to secession, and for consenting to serve in the Provi sional Congress at Montgomery, or for accepting the office of Vice-President of the Confederate States ?— Which of you blamed him for giving his counsel and personal influence to the rebel cause ? When was it that you complained of him for encouraging the peo ple to farther exertion to obtain a separate nationality and independence ? Let us be candid with each other, gentlemen. Do you not love and admire him more for bis identification with tho cause of disunion; and his consequent sufferings and imprisonment, than for his “early disrelish” of secession ? I had come near saying, of the doctrine of secession. I am not awara that either of your Senators elect baa, at any time, de nied the right of a State to secede, though both have condemned the exercise of the right for insufficient cause. I would not knowingly do either of them in justice*. But what if they still bold that a State may of right secede ? Do you condemn them for maintaining the opinion ? I have never sought to depreciate the effort of Mr. Stephens before the Legislature in 1060, to prevent se cession. It was meritorious. But I did complain at the time, and have continued to complain, that he did ing the people to require pi _ in writing, before electing them,? of the convention to the-j severe on secession. But like all my labors. Some or yon are aware that I am a member of-the still existing State Convention. I comotitied a grave error in that body in consenting-to absaflpn my an nounced intention to ittsigt^n'a rfcinhiaeittion of the Tote adopting the ordinance repealing the- ordinance of secession, for the purpose of declaring said ordi nance “absolutely null and viold.” I gave, Mt thei time, my reasons, abating nothing of any principles, and opinions, but reluctantly yielding to the solicita tions of friends of the Union, and being anxidus to avoid discussion calculated to, produce discord and Had I reflected properly on -She stikhilati^g' effect of the word “ repeal,” upon the doctrine of secession the right of a Slats to aacede -from the Uni a consequence, the legality of all lndflbl curred by such State for the prosecutio defence of the right of secession, I could n6t have been induced to forego my purpose. I could not have obtained a majority,for the support of my views. It was manifest tpat a majority were opposed to the re pudiation'!/ the' war debt.l and tfilt It was only carried To yield the willing assent of the mind, unreserved ly, to the absolute nullify,pf every act of every repre sentative body, intended to. sustain, in any manned the rebellion, is to reject the mole doctrine of seces sion. -Until this is dobs, 'there is no repudiation of tehest for the preservation of the Union. I recall, with melancholy interest, my last interview with my Indiana friend. It Wfls : by ifiiy own fireside in Washington. Georgia had. seceded, and I, agsagst the advice of true and sagacious frieiuU, was l paring to return to my home., Both of us were mounting the Mly and .madness that menaced tin peace of tho country. He drew, u,vi,!'“ the inevitable conflict he saw approau! ingly suggested that his son and mihsi might mee in d sadly strife, Strang era to. each- oahey, spd one p: them might foil by theother’shand-n-IliqffypaySibflfli prophetic. Few can ever know whet I have-loat, anc fewer still will care. Many think I was but too forth nste in preserving my own for spent life. I appeal no to man for sympathy, and,-y«t I have met it, w] fell upon my crushed heart aa the gentle dew ei) with Bring flowers. It cams not from the hearts at unfeel ing politicians. Oh, secession; aeoessibnl "Th; bruise is inourable, and thy wound la grievous.” <#>' yet thou liveat nnrebuked in Georgia- .. .' , A talented Georgian writes me tit regard to the elec tion of Senators, as follows: “Taking this flset Ip con nection with the tone of our press, and the L of our public speakers, it mpy well he said not refuse to sign the Ordinance or Secession, then was eaid of the Bourbons—’they haye learned hbtltihg move to reier it to the people, and, upon the refusal of and forget nothing by resolution.’ One would ^think the majority, to submit it to the popular vote, then call upon the Mends of the people to withdraw with him from the Convention. Years ago I < xvessaid to Hon. B. H. Hill my regrets that he himself did not take that course. It is not pleasant to advert to it, even at this distance of time; but the truth of history domanda it. What public man, of all Georgia, besides myself, was pub- icly burned in effigy in more places than one in hit own State, soon alter tbs fatal act of secession was adopted ? Think you it was because I favored dis union ? Was that then regarded a crime ? What se cessionist was treated in like manner V -Was Mr. Ste phens the object of such contempt? to which of yofi am I under obligations for denouncing such unjusti fiable and vindictive displays of feeling ‘towards me ? I pray you make me sensible of my indebtedness, that I may thank yoh. Was it for my inertness in the de fence of the Union, that I was thus contemned and despised by infuriated mobs? No; the friends of true liberty and order are never demonstrative; they are quiet and thoughtful. And to that one great, natural truth is the.country indebted for the blighting curse of secession. Itwse not number!,* that the concen tration of passion and prejudice,and the rabid spirit of intolerance, that effected disunion. Had tile honest, laboring masses, even of South Carolina, been appealed to as rational beings, and told by their public men that the State desiretTa calm ex pression of tho popular will as to the propriety of dis union, and that he who voted for the Union was to be regarded as the equal in courage, devotion to the State, and every element of inanhness of him that favored disunion, I feel confident the unwise step would never havebeen taken. Pardon me if I show some anxiety to refute the pre vailing |dea of your letter, lo-«it: that I, at beet, woe a mere passive friend of the Union, of doubtful char acter, while Mr. Stephens was enthusiastic and devo ted. I did not begin to make Union speeches in 1860. began five years before that, in denunciation of that unfortunate measure, known as the.. Kansas bill—the greatest blunder, except, peautpa, tbe defeat of the Clayton Compromise, ever made in American politick I msde no-other but Union speeches from that time to this day. I mode many very thorough Union speeches in 1859, and I860; several in the autnzpn (ft 1860, in Georgia, all of which appealed to the people to submit quietly and peaceably, as good citizens, to the probable -elec tion of Mr. Lincoln. In answered Mr. Wm. L. Yan cey, who was regarded pretty generally aa a respectable advocate of disunion. We both spoke In tne State 5°"“ ^ “"yOnd about the last! ~ The next evening I spoke to many _ “^^.^pwl^csame stand with Govi The pi •tor Kennedy^anT3epreaentatireWeStier,^ ,,1 ’“ l the abqjninahle heresy. It is a question < importance to the people Orthe satire L distinct sud emphatic renunciation of the doetrii secession by States that" have resorted to it to del the Union, should precede the return of such Si to a position of .equality iu the Union. with unoffend ing States. The folly of restoringaState to the Union, with the boasted right qf scQeseiou unin%>aired. and still maintained End daf&defl hy_ Ms prominent offi cers by a majority of the delegatee of a convention of the people, and by . majority of the Legislature, can only be equalled by an amendment qf the Fi Constitution, sxpressly admitting the right oT-'a for any cause, in its own judgment sufficient to WiUp draw from the Union. - ■ i This doctrine of secession, despite the mikchiefii ancr miseries it has produced is, this day, I fear, more gen erally tolerated, if not entertained, by the people of Georgia, than it wag when it waswetiuced 1 to prietioa The_ mass of mankind hale dkihar leiaSrd patience to investigate any great principle of govern ment. They are oftener influenced by arguments that appeal to their feelings and Interests, than to their stract sense of right Many favored secession, just a! some others opposed it, because they believed their action beneficial to themselves. The rebellion has proven a failure up to this time, but most of its devo tees yet believe it was right and that had it not been crushed by numbers; they would have realised all they were promised. On the other hand thousands of ear nest opponents of secession, who have suffered deeply by loss of fortune, and were made wretched by. the bloody casualities of war, have relaxed in their feelings, and are, by no means, pertinacious in main taining their former opinions, Man of 'SMiacity, fond of the adulatit>n! Qf; tasih.follows, and ambitious of place, know well this state of public feeling, and either sympathise with it or allow it to exist without attempt ing to correct it To be sure, there are prominent in dividual exceptions to tbe rule, but nqt sufficient to effect a change. Many limit their political vision to the boundaries of the State—content to shape its in ternal polity—without special regard for its Federal re lations. It is refreshing, in this dearth of sober reasoning, to find some of the foremost intellects that contrib uted all their powers to aid disunion, now openly pro claiming their opposition to the madness that would assert the right of the State to he represented in Con gress by just such individuals as the people, or their representatives might prefer, wholly regardless of their past history. These gentlemen perceive plgtaily that they themselves, though heretofore oftendfim- ored by the people with the highest trusts, are, by reason of their identification with, seoeaswn and war, no longer proper instruments to be chosen to rest ere cordial relations between the State and national au thorities. Recognising secession as a failure, and a principle to be forever rebuked; they now express a willingness to be considered as no longer available public men, and to retire from the political arena, yielding to such aa may be more agreeable an account of their i>olftical action to tha ; Fedurd-gpeerktifrik sud Consequently more- use fel to tbe fltete^JSM! A thy ’estimate'or such conduct? Whet think you of such modesty and self-denial ? These gentlemen found no difficulty in restraining their friends from wanton ly voting for them. What though you insist that all differences of opinion as to past political events . ahooM be consigned to ob livion, never to be reVlFed 1 Can you compel Con gress to adopt youfauggeattaKF’*; is not your will, but theirs, that must govern'.’ Sire' you quite certain that your practice agrees w|th your teachings ? It may intprgst some Who will take the what I write, to Isarp-e few split to myself and others,-Mflfh ffrelsl the eviflence of my good stabdinL with eminent Unioniste,_at a time,when there wee some merit in boing a Union man. - True love of the Union is like genuine, heartfelt piety. It is serene, uniform, forbearing; exhibiting itself in, every act, and. Without effort, convincing Ml men of Its deep stneerity. Afld, what is more,,it is independent qf the frowns or .blan dishments of meh.' Washington whs'Its lmpeMona- tion. How few were capable of appreciating lids grand patriotism—his exalted lavs of countfy. I first saw and heard read the celebrated CrittendSn Compromise resolutions in December, 1860. I was In vited to s room in Brown’s Hotel, Washington, «"8 there met some half dozen moderate but prominent members of the Republican party, I being the only Southern man present. Our host, a distinguished statesman and accomplished lawyer -of Indiana, then in attendance on the "Supreme Court, produced the fa mous “'peace offering,” 1n’his own elegant batiif and submitted it to the gentlemen present for their consid eration and criticism; This noble man. still.UA, pledged never to iaccept political effite.. Wmsll'ljn “Tho rank is but the guinea's stamp, Thd man’s the feowd-f&r a' that. 'Ti- Lest tbe President should be Impoa iJMriqtitiitYGeorgians furnished’him with i lei for. 1 He Understands it—he understands us allu He knows whatTitspendpd loyalty means, and know* how to .appreciate Senate Committee for. the Crittenden Compromise, and iof course that he was opposed to disunion. This, you; contend, makes a good Union record. Do yoti doubt, gentlemen, that the President or the Senate would have approved the election of Mr. Devla se lbo Senate by the Legislature of Mississippi ? Wrisk Ob jection could be urged against it ? Does any occur to you ? Has he not talents and a large experience to commend him? And was not he, too, one of the Prophets? It occurs to me to inquire of you what apology you propose to make for the renr inconsiderable vote you give the President’s Provisional Governor, James Johnson, for,8eUator? Iq your zeal for the Union, how could you forget his record? What had hp done to shake your confidence in his loyalty ? Was it his excess of kindness in recommending applicants for pardon to the President, that yon intended to rebuke ? His fine talents and personal worth were not unknbwri powerless in Georgia, but you are not so well assurred that t/OND Condem nation of me is destructive of my influence at 1 ington. It bebomds* necessary; now, to insure You miy succeed In convincing those who control tbe Government, that foe orgfiffihfctioiwbtaistapKidous rebellion to orefthrMIIte Cunstituticfeal flhNfsrkment of yourcbtmtry, Ynendtriflcellf Hundreds Of thousands of valuable lives lost in trying to maintain the su preme authority, together with the slaughtered thou sands cruelly seduced or driven to take arms as -ux sargents, is a light affiur. You may, by ingenious ar- gumentatjon, prove that the men most to bo trusted by the Government are those most prominently and con spicuously identified with tborebo! Government; the men whose names must live in history, more on ac count of the hfoh places they occupied in, the rebel Government fliau/p;- snyfhmg they ever dfib.in the the niches in your Capitol that may contain tho statues of Washington, Jackson, Webster and Clay, and forbiil your countrymen to look upon them again. Then wul the revolution prove a triumph and the Union becom?; a phantom. Bespeotfttlly, Joshua Hill. Madison, Ga., Feb. 10,1866. , •-’•I'lfTMfl LATKST WtWMCu J From Hfow York Filet to the 8th. HE AniffTOQTrvkx ***831 BEPRE9EN^ 1 !- rr i The leading ieature of the Congressional proceedings in both *iie Senate and ifammbk ern representatives. Senator Wilson introduce ries of resolutions, which were referred to the struction Committee, providing for their admission whenever the Legislature of their States shall place the froddmeiFou s perfect equality with the white in habitants in regard to all civil rights; grant-the privi lege of voting to negroes who have served in the- na- for emaniji&tion of flavee-cw-fluy.dtbt incurred to assist the rebellion. Tlift Reconstruction Committee report- tp tlie House wither aeries,, applicable only to.the of Tennessee, but which do not, as anticipatory These resolutions agree that Tennessee shall be ditions, including-the enfcur.unient’of the^provision of bef new. constitution excluding rebels for a term of .‘years from vdtlng or holding office, and the ignore- ment of all tebel debts and claims for slaves emanci pated. These resolutions, which were accompanied by aminority-report urging the right of the Tennes see representatives to immediate admission, and me morials and documentary testimony regarding aflhlrs they state that until these are compifofl with no Mato gov ernments organized ilit less 'imni i authority of the President or by^ctifb?of Ore people shall be recog nized by CongreuP^HSELSKrtiF The reeonstrucuSft’ ■p?SmlMfte6 r is continuing ita labors with zeal. A. large mass of testimony has been submitted By ‘the commiftee -to Congress. It chiefly refeja.to the condition of .tim. States vT Texas,! Florida anffiLouiaianC. J / * ' TBOOPS CALLED OUT IN CANADA. Montbeal, March 7; 1866—Great excitement preJ vails here. The morning papers state‘ that hut night Orders were received by (he militia authorities to call out tea thousAtid vbhmteers within twenty-four hours. Guards, have beep stationed at all the armories, and everything put in a state of defence for any emergency thatm«.*ri»e. .,i . , ./. THE Tkhtimony of gens. Johnston and lex. Washington, March 6.-,-Joe Johnston, in obedience to summons,' made his appearance -before the Recon struction Committee today. - He was questioned close* lyin reference to his impression*-tof affaire -inths south, and replied*.qb groat clearness m2—Sawim . Soap Manufactory. MOODY & BAERETT, Steam Seap Works, ISavamuali^CkA. USE, MAMIE, LITE AID ACCIDENT RISKS TAKEN In the following First-Class Companies: ■ I. Columbia Fire Insurance Company, of New York Fulton “ “ •• « of Hartford of Baltimore. cArrTAi— ....*506,000 .... 200,000 .... 260,000 .... 300,000 .... 500,000 .. 500,000 of Tallahassee 300,000 ACCJIDEKrT- K88RS.' MOODY At BARRETT would respectfully “A announce te the public that on and after Jan- luuy 1st Iter will run from their Soap, Works two wagons, with competent salesmen, who will visit evert family oBcfi a Weitk with Hard and Sort Soap, by ths bar, box, gallon or barrel, at prices lower than it can be pwohased in or ont el the city. We warrant our Soap to be free from all adulters- tions and to give entire satisfaction, or money re- nmded. •; ■ , ; SOAP EXCHANGED FOR GREASE OR SCRAPS. Special nVotice. We have bat one price for oar goods, and that price shall be satisfactory. Persons ordering from the country will find it will save time and money by sending na their orders; and If the goods do not sat- «fy In price and quality, seed them back to ns at our expanse. Orders addressed to MOODY k BARRETT, or JL J. GUILMAHTm k CO., 148 Bay street, Agents, will re ceive prompt and immediate attention. J4-tf ' For Sid© on the Wharf. ! /-WARN,.Oais. Apples and Potatoes, landing from V steamship Flambeau- Apply tb J. K ROWLAND, Jr., *Lower Steamship Wharf BELLS. Travelers' of Haitford....... .$506,600 Marine arwi Fire. Petersburg Savings and Insurance Company of Virginia. iv $500,000 gnf»ql_5 Home Insurance Company of Alabama 200,000 ^' I ^.rr‘' t, ~ M, '>LO 0 i n mi)i 1 i 360,000 LIFE. New England Mutual Life Insurance Company of Boston.... ”5 f* 8 *?* Knickerbocker Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York... . . . l ooJjJ** On Oreat Western, of New York. : Company of New York. Open FoUcii ■ in Commercial Mutual, of New York. AARON WILBUR, Agent, Na 89 Bay Street. Southern Palace DRY GOODS HOUSE. van iioqtr foobnc &I>L-. JCIsSUsSCq £E VTjDIXi'' that the secessionists were .the victorious party if cmi did not know the contrary.” ..”g One of the moat talented men in America fetid, to speech soon after the dose of the war; “ “We have di posed of the doctrine of secession -by the bayonet;- that aocute suggestion, that though the, State', has not the right to secede, yet that.the citizens ore bound to obey their State, and that war* by this State isnoi tibi on in them*” Do you not so regard the doctrine £6 tlemen ? If you do not, will you, favor the public wf your definition ? ,, ; j • . ' e- ’ " [Mr. Hill here introduces some extracts from a let ter of hie friend, the late itop. Jamas L. Psttigrq of '• South Carolina, dated 28tfa Janaary, 1862, ife which itlle’ writer denounces secession, declares his oonvicittofi of the ultimate failure of the southern ^nueej ana,, p: presses his concurrence in th* . political opinions Mr. Hill, which we ontit bn account of the length- ir the documents.—Ed. Hebald.] ‘ ■ ”, ~ You charge teat I became a candidate for. and “tried to get an office; the obtaining must have nude it impassible for him- fa . the oath,” Ac. I- waa no non a candidate 4 ernor than waa Mr. Stephana a candidate for - I deny trying to he elected. I ref used to administration of Gov. Brown, and to when assured that bydofoig so I oovM upon myself the opposition* him. and i down a third candidate. “Solitary and alons.’ floor of Congress, I had oaosused UtaMU tei of the U-S. Arsenti st Augusta said Port PaBakV Savannah. The Secsaaion Oecrentio* afeontebte prored bis hetion and thereby retmkfe}iMioP which of us dkl you sympathies ? JaisI ofij l ib permitting my mma to be rotofl Mu I ,iPP hoped to (nth the nucleus nfia southern conaervatire party, oppoeed to eeceeaton and wen and t £2““, A^ledtoifrbviffireaf.friymerftnmtod hvlng in this town and vicinity, all of v bear me witness that undsrn - would I ever tekqsn oath to < of the Confederate States, cr tho A thereof: We examined the official oath of the,! eniOT.end conchidadi that to fohn. ee.thr^ctvf military heed of. the State, the oath f Only did not apply. And H it JufeA. been elected, I would have snurned it. < ehorite have nude more chJaateTtoa* ing the office- The genriemefe to whpml men of high character, and "Ism feme,the! service.” I am proud to claim thecn-enm measure , i . j. , Navy Departments to use' such precautions *a may be deemed necessary by thsif respective heads, for the prevention and spresd of the cholera in this country the eHstllng'sqmmer. The Commerce Committee, to which the matter was referred, Wilt ropCfT fsvorably upon it in 8 few days. . la iDKATH OF OEM. QUANT'S ADJUTANT GCHXBAL. j Ook' 3f. 8. Bowers of Gen. Grant’s staff, was killed a railroad accident on tistjfflL A dispatch Bays “From passengers on the train st the time of'iha - accident of Coh-Bow^awa feMPed toe^foUcnnng par- the railing*of s S^^wh^^n^^Miatchel titans ’"tOVUMBiS body. His remains were, sent back to West Point dhargelhf-ilh officer detailed by Gen. Grant, who»o lined his jdarnty to this city.” JQQCA8»ofthl« celebrated Whisker. For Mtle proud to ei ,im tbem ae-iny , . u * »d they «ra pvend of my pctoctetas aud anycpuree, in- which few.anlwell nndanhmA''iiG‘j“ ;-. . i I . its Thai aootealon and war press denounced my j • - L ’‘ !J ' ’ ’ .Tall V- .T-ifl I J '- - l-nwG xtriour .1 C-21-i flve^fiBjhbete'Ofhls staff WMhburn, and other zn note, leave the city to-nl w ccmaoaife* D-- ■ Tui 1 ATTklrire T l tr ABSASBINATn FBXD. night, hewaeaacPCTtaed, by ' ***** iff a brick. Sind knoutf The brick was buried wiflx ehHgraaed hisright knee ;^h*t ttfe pistol ness. , ao 1 i -1 - TH * FBiaara, f ' . _ Navr JCoKK, March Tre-Du Eenfen excitement Win HUtiwrisfeTpuh^fo^te^we^beldjsst — various j*rfeof Hue ctiy e^ at Brooklyn, thousanddoliars wobonds wars sub BttSjMaSiteF, ing Of J ^ ■ .ffi-fe-A. for ’to B ELLS of any weight required cast to Oder, at short notice. An.expenence or over forty years in rastl^bells enables iu to. produce them or a’ si henry N. Hooper & co., mB Sm Boston, Mass. Xhonj&s Dixon, SAVANNAH,-GA;; £ffi|8i|RE-PACKER OP COTTON, WOOL Rides, Rkgs, Jnaks, etti., TN the best shipping order, at foot of Jefferson st. Building Material. •D hand Lime, Rosendale Cement. Plaster apd Hair for Plastering. For sale on icdl E have oi CRANE ft GRAYBILL. ■ W It rqut m3 rr717 MACKY, BEATTIE fe Co., .; *0» and 205 Bay street. Just Received, FIRKINS Extra Leaf Lard 25 T Jos » •i 2SJr.t8 ftyfprejpd-for^e by ,r. COLBY A CO. i ijjffiiViW _ In etoaa and fer sole fqr MtnateJc CHAB. L. COLBY A CO.j MACKY, BEATTIE k td.t ’ 966 end afe Bey street. ***macJ:y, bEathe i‘co:, 208 end 20§ Beys fil TTfHTzS P--T,' ■ ■ ' i A WATKINS, CMPORTERS AND ' '' , IN DRY GOODS IN Alain ITS BRANCBBB, 111 «fe 113 Congress St., Savannah. To Rent. Miscellaneous. Storehouse, A GOOD and convenient’ Storehouse for Reih — A Apply at 104 Bey street ja-tf ACE buttle Salts, near White Bluff- nine miles t Saraunah. Apply to PALMER A DEPPISH, Hard ware Store, 14S Congress st Wanted. Situation Wanted. ? T>Y a midlife aged man, Jn a wholesale dry goo-Is or JJ grocery store. Understands packing, inurkmg, shipping and receiving-gooda. -The very best of ref- erenceagivefo Apply at to? Bay street Book-Keeper and Clerk Wanted NTjflj, eVoSugMan. s resident of Savannah, toact aM Bookkeeper and Clerk. : Book-Keeper and Clerk,” Savannah Post miotf t AA nnft BUSHELS of PUau Christl Seed, the JUU.UUU: present asaaon. I toll pay cash for this amoant. at tlire« -dollars per honored pounds, •nd IdiSthte best seed for planting, also bags to de- rtver tbe crop in Savannah. Estimate <rf yield to each hand, $1,320 to $4,620. Seed and mT-4% T-Zf Challenge to aYi^ Centleman in the State of Georgia. I WILL wager $280 tint l ean produce an amateur Pistol Shot to shoot the pistol ga follows: Twenty shots at the word, or at deliberate aim ; distance 12 paces; string measurement; attiMspot: shoot torule with a smooth-bore pistol; the match: or if arceited to, must be shot at my' GaBfery ; the trtgtoi S not bf -shot with the. aiilsf.one. I* n| l only. This aljengp is left open for two weeks; money ready at my Gallery on Bay street, over Our House, where all the preliminaries can beareaogcd. At either of these matches is accetfed to,-# must coihe off four days af ter agreed npon. ,?•; . WM Capt. JOHN TRA VIS. Sti; EMPORIUM OF FASHION M RS. R. L. LOUIS respectfully informs tbe'clti- zens of Savannah that she has opened a breach of M’dme Demorest’s Mode of Fashions, of Neyv York, and is ready to receive orders’ for all kinds of work for ladies and children. She also keeps on hand the latest styles of patterns of every descrip tion. All kinds of ornamental needleworic, such aa Braiding, Embroidering, Stamping, Fluting, Ac., will tie done at short notice. • ' >- She also keeps on hand a handsome assortment of Dress and Cloak Trimmings, Embroidery, Silk and Braid, Cottons, Stamped Yoikes and Banda. «MB and s^e for yourself, at No^iei CONGRESS STREET, UP Fashionable Press »rid Ctoak Msklag. 128-lm JAMES B. DAWKINS, Attorney-at-law and Solicitor in l Stoddard's Bangs. / WANTED, t • j&ti j TYOARD, by March 27th, for' a gent Jj wife—In a private fomlly, where other boardem glfoisffi. Addreea C. L. Lock Box 132. eutleman and his there are no Orders for Lumber. ZS.KQZiUt i'A .HtXiSSO'li.. for Pitch ] Confer with (teo. <v drew mio-eodtw ti to receive orders Savannah, or ad- IER dco., , St. Marys River, «a GAINESVILLE, EAST FLORIDA. flfolasrly . . . : - EXECUTORT NOTICE. JOS. A. BOl - ° (Lato of Oolumhaa, I SHIPPING, PORWi General Comiwasion Merchant,