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GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
Mu.LEnotTit.Li, Dec. 6, 1858.
SENATE. —EIGHT BEMION.
Bill* Fused —To prevent the killing of certain
game birds (in Richmond) between the loth June
and l.Vh September in etch jeer
To incorporate ike Kioaniond Ecleriif College.
To provide for the payment of jurors of R ehmoud
county.
To change the name of the “Mcßean'’ to that of
“Augusts MaoulacUny.”
K/-solutions ADoritD —To adjournal 9J o'clock
P, M . io fa ore
Anthoi iring the appointment of another Protes
tor in toe Georgia Unitary Institute
Tue {Senate adjourned till it u nlock A 11., to-mor
row. . *
ftiu.LtDOKTir.LE, Dee. TANARUS, 1858.
senate.
The unfinished busmens of yesterday, the Bank
bill, with Mr. Stubbs’ substitute wee tak*u up Mr
H'l.bba now speke at u/roe length upon the amOi
y of the act t f ’57, and the need that there was
for Legislative interpretation.
Mr. Atkinson thought ihai there was nothing ob
scurs or amhigcou-* in the act or 185*. It was so
p atn that it was impossible for any one to misun
derstood i{ He was opposed to several sections of
the substuuto. , . . , „.
Mr Briscoe did not pretend to be familiar with
such cifficnlt subjects a* Banks and finance, but be
did not think the act of 57.50 very clear. Hetoought
that i! imposed aba dahip oo the Bank? He wish
ed that act explained, injustice to the Hanks. He
did rrot thttak the: any Bank could comply wrth the
exist!, g act, and thought I bat we haO no right to op
press them. The Banks were entitled to an interest
on their bills, and a premium equal to the cos: of
tram-porting the coin from the place upon which
they drew He concluded by moving to strike out/
from tue substitute, the clause authorising Bank?
to loan money to be employed in other {Rates, which
was r arned.
M Ward e (of Butt?) amendment to the pream
ble was adopted. In piece of ‘*n the manner re
quired by tos KicsUei cy, ’ these words: “u> the
Governor n toe manner reqiririd by law ”
irl- Farr s, ameoduient, .hat future suspensions
sea. operate as for tenures of cuartere by the
Banks, was lost.
>, ameudslant by Mr Fambro was adopted,
•‘ihat when tue capital ot Banks shaii be exhausteo
and their charter? expire, persona: iiabi.ity shall
attach to tne stockholders.
Mr Wmtaaer a arnecdinent ‘ that this act shall
not oflei;t the 7tb, Bh, 9tb, and 10th sections of the
ohtof 1857, wee lost.
Mr Buut eii offered the following amendment,
Wa'cb was ad .pled. ’ That any Bank officer who
make a iilae return shall be indicted for per
(ury, Ate.”
Mr. Reynolds spoke in favor of ‘be substitute.
Mr Tucker bad Uo objection to the substrate,
hu’ w iuld vote against it. The or giuai bill be
thought could be so perfected as t < answer, Alter
some uiscu-iou, the substitute was received id lieu
oi -the original.
lhebiiiao amended was now passed (1 aeDd
it to you). Ayes 65. Nays 46.
Al. the Supreme Court Dole laving been made
t ./■ i pecia! order for to day, the Senate took up the
il ,ure bnl, making uniform the decisions of the
( nun, and giving all decisions by a full beach, the
force ot legal enactments.
Mr Gibson of Richmond, offered a substitute
pealing tbs act of 1815, which created the Court,
us it hail wholly failed lu its object.
Mr Gibson was not in favor of abolishing the
Court but he prefeied his substitute to the bill be
fore tne benate He was opposed to having the
Court made the victim of popular olamor or party
eg slati jo Rather than thisbn preftrredto see
the ius’itutlos blotted out altogether.
Mr Hill of Harris was in iavorof the original bill.
He thought it would give permanence to th? law
and that the Court wou and be m .re careful E
future in in?king their decisions.
Mr. Thomas : He wnul’ vote for the substitute
of Mr G'tnon The total abolition of the Court,
aicoe,suited h's views.
The i-übstitute wae withdrawn for the present.
Mr B oodworth of Bike offered au amendment to
the House bill, allowing reversal of the decisions of
a full Court.
Messrs Uiiiof Harris, Wilookson, And Dawson
opposed th i amendment, as it defeated tne entire
opject us thv bfli. The discuss'ou continued till tk~
on?e <if the morning .ession. Tue amend cent its,
then rj cted, ayes 13—nays 60,nnd the bill passed.
Aym ol—nays 41.
Messrs Tu. ker, Bartlett, Hill of Harris, Bil’.ups,
Cooper, W'Ucussod and others participated in the
debi T e
[A heavy press of mat’er compels ue to omit sev
eral speeches, turu'iihed by our Reporter —liu
CdkON J
ArTERNCON SELL uN.
The bills io relation to, tbs Supreme Coir’ were
agmu taken up.
To reorganise the Judiciary (nm.flingthe S •
preme Court) vesting ml Judicial power iu the Su
perior, County and Justices’ Courts.
A-übstitute by Mr. Suepperd, repealing the act
establishing the Supreme Court.
Alter remaiks by Mr Thomas, the bill anc ?>b
etitute were laid ou the table. A yen 56, nays io
• To make all the sittings if the Supreme Court at
one place, as may be hen-altar Uesignated by law
Car ed— aye# 71, uays 35.
so prevent reversals of deraioue, except by a
full C’ouit. Tabled.
To repeal that portion of the Cons itution riquir.
-.ug Judges of this Court, to deliver their declenms
.m cadets at the Mms tan when they are tried
ptojv. nayc 1-
Tn prevent Judges of the Supreme, S.iperiur aud
Interior Ceurts from presiding in the trial of auy
, .*-0 o* auy cue of a class of cases depending upon
• : legal priocipiee as in auy oaee whire they
:nay have been consulted, deployed or lutcreoted
au aiv way, either before or after their election. —
PtWcfcd- _
The Bill providing for the election cf Commie
* loner* to codify the luws wf.3 read, to to acted on
to night.
The Senate adjourned
house.
As Mr. Kenan *aid, an soon a? jth© Uous* cbm
nieuced boldiog night eeerione, the bad of tho next
day would be consumed ia undoing v hut had oeeu
baftiiy done the night before.
.VloTio*t rott Reconsideration.—“To reconsider
bill lost yesterday, to increase the powers of Or
dicarie* of this S<ftte. List.
bill l"t yesterday increasing ta'r.nea of Solicitors
•ad Attoraey ChwanL Lost.
Bill lost last eveuiug to endow Oglethorpe Medi
©al College ot Savanuah. Carried.
Bill lost last night competing owners ol laud to
ret dm (he same m the county where the .amis lie.
Carried.
The meeting last night tested two hours, and the
reconsideration* this morning occupied the same
length.
Pirn House now took up the unfinished busiuets
of yesterday, to wit: The bili to re-organize Lhe
Georgia A-ylum for the Heat and Dumb.
Mr Milieuge, pro tem Speaker, took the Chair.
Mr Webster, of Fiojd, opposed the subetitute
adopted yesterday
Mr, Wilkes, of Lincoln, reviewed tbe action of
the C‘iiunittee. Mr. Webster frequently interrupts
-d him and insisted that it wa? a biow aimed at tbe
Executive of Georgia Mr. Wi kes disclaimed any
such iuteu’iou. either on his or the part of the ooui
mntee Ue hoped that the bill would pass.
Mr Cannon, of Wayue, opposed the passage of
the bill.
Mr Irwin, of Wilkes, said that the object of this
bill w*btß to provide against curb occurrences w
those of last t*ummtr. There who no intention on
the part of the committee to reflect upou the Chv
eruor. Mr. 1. concluded by ottering an amend*
tneut, inakirg the appomtuaeut of the Trustee* eub
ject io thj approval of the Governor, who is au
thorised to remove and 6.1 vacancies.
Mr Harris, of Glynn, opposed the amendment
ami the bill
Mr Gordon, of Chathair. ?*• in favor of the bill
be wanted to see a good l>oard of Trustees. nt:d
could not see what tne Governor had to do with it.
it was not apolitical or sectarian question.
Tee special order wae a bill to ippropnaie money
so- Atlanta Fire Company, No. 1
T u reasonsadvanced iu support of the bill were
that the Mate as proprietor of the Western A At j
’antic Kru road, n&d much property iu Atlanta.— I
(What are dre companies chartered for l Those i* *
>a\ at'.'nah. Augusta and Maoou might with equal
propne’y, aid from the various railroads there,
or even from private iLd*vidnajs who own build
mgs iu tt oae cities.) Laid on the tnble for the
balance ot the session A discussion as to a point
of order and the ui vision was taken again. The
mot mo to table was lost. The bill was uow before
the House.
Mr Hardeman of Bibb moved for Indefinite post-
p<;icm*r, which was carried.
The 11 ut*e aejourned and met o&aln at 3 o'clock |
1 h ikd Kudlno —To provide for the erection * f !
a ue* Femtculianr at ita present or eome more eli |
_-ib?e Kcality. Mr k*i tui i fit-red a substitute 1
vine debate e oU*d, and Mr. Diamond having ’
aoved for indefinite postponement, now called for [
the pre\ ou qurstiou, which was to postpone in i
definitely. The uictiou was ;ost. Avee6l, nays 80 !
Mi Kenan now moved the adoption ct tne sub 1
stitute whioh is to appropriate $3U,000 tor repairs, {
Ac Amended by Mr. Han:o, vs Glynn. The J
taosti ute •'as received, anu put upon its passage
Ayes 7T\nays6l So the bill Was passed, and
trausmitied to the Senate*.
l'o appn priate $17,600 for the “Eefcrm Medical
Cos Leg e ot ii -con. Motion to lay on the table for
tr.e b laocaof the session prevailed Ayes 78.
nap 55.
The hour having amved, the Houie adjourned
tih 7 tonight. ” KG
iliubcooiviLLE, Dec. 7, 1858.
U>atx. —most aiasiow.
Bills Passed—To incorporate the Planters’
ot Ha.ubridge. Amended by inserting the
me v daal liability clause
T : rm anew county from Gordon to be called
.V r (This was a reconsidered bili.)
Mu.LEDorviLLi, Dec 8. 185*
voaMN* sase.o*.
M; Colquitt moved to reconsider the bill passed
yes*May. in relation to the Supreme Court. He
to make the b.il prospective. The motion
was lost. Aves 3* ; Nays .
Raam>a or Bills.—To lay out anew
county t ie or Lowiuec, and appoint ooßumss'on
e*s for the saflM- Amended to miketV* Citizens j
of Lowndes and that portion cut iff to make
pay at expanse*. P.%*?ed
A reeo'ution was introduced and taken up for ,
the app- iutuient c: a committee to comer with a j
com-*pc ndicg committee on the part of the House
ite present condition of the business J
before the Legislator*.
a spirl.ed discussion ensued on these reso
.u ions, aac iht propriety of cwerruuog toe r.rviu
non to adjourn ea Saturday. Some members oon
lauded that rise Cyntuiu r .i*c havlig
cession to forty dv)*., it would be a oad Drecedeut .
to pro.oog the session. Others thought uiat uitm
rerc wtre here, am sent here to transact baainee* s
for the country, ani that they should do it
The resolution were adopted Ayes 6i*—nay- 33. |
The Senate bow ..vaupthe bus wee ot y©e *r-
the bt ; . providing :or the appoimusect of Lorn- l
mu-sicc ess to o a:-v the hr; of Georgia. Amendec, j
vxi?i*ad of allowing “three years to do the wrork.
twenty m ntl> was iLserted. This r quires the [
report to be mine :c l>c m p ace o *ol, and was j
agreea to. jjf.soo per annum was sinckea out, t
ands 4,biK for me ciilire of eaci.
Ccanmintotirr ws* ti -'pud. Aiu.tioato ppoic r !
one meirid if tlree Cumuitieionere fu tos., and ]
Ite bi : sxecewi WB* p.i-etn,
Tae <eu?:ri appropnvo a b'i iras taken up j
var.oiti.y •uieaaoo, aaued to. atd paseed. A>tr
Ml—do> il. is uot ofttD b,t !i-e aje and oaye
are calied t-pon tae geaerai appropriation bill.) Toe
Seaa'e a jourcea p.noiag action on the above bui
ad it is puseec tt tae aitertuoe eeeatou.
arpcaitooa stios.
Oraia itill***.-- I Toencourtg* Indigent yonag
man. and to pro’ ide for a Competent corps ct
Teachers tor She State. Lost, very jew voting for
** To repeal ail ia*e exempting stock owned by the
State B Vra Irf -tutiooe, from taxation. Pate
ad. Avee ‘6—nays T.
A a ifall giving cuCTeUoo to the In
far or Court* to establish election preo nets. Passed.
To require backs of this State, their tgenciee, or
foreign agencies to pay a county tax. Laid on the
table. .. ...
tur tb punishment us free pwiOH vs cotor for
wit -ting to entice, or lednoe D.evee to run *way.
FkKed.
io ai&ka desuuction of gardens, rubhirg or
c\sjd, Ac . Ac , a nredeinewoor. AmvL jed by
in ag uelkcisg monuinenu, tombe, Ac., end
ine Senate adjourned till 6$ o’clock, P M.
a co!. * a.atc Mr HU, of Hams, in naving, af
ire a huid lu loig fight, gotten Lie Dili for the -jar-
Cv>a ci BrnAe, through both Houece Believing,
id ur iu tbe ot tne eectepoc es tae
. i.%—appvinttd by tne Judge to detend a poor
laibLCtle wise baa neither tneuda nor reU-ivoe in
tte c ana who waa w*j poor t& employ ootm
t-e Mr. i j ... not an opportunity of aJf lg hie
then*, jur lice tdure he Court, but ha pereevered
and gotten hie * rdon here, aod cow bag the proud !
consciousness oi having dote ail he con and, and -av i
ed the life of one nti'jstly condemned, <a* he hon
eetiy believe*; to death by banging.
ROCSE
mght iEMioif, Dec. 7tb.
BiLis Passed.—To appropriate m< cey to com j
nlete tne Lunatic Aeyium , taken ap by j
lt beckon agreed to appropriating joooo j
it “ “ “. :::::::: jMwoj
S3MUOO
On the passage of this biU.the Ayes were 81,
Nays 50, &n<i trauemitted to the Senate.
Tow ss Inc ike irated -Djugiass, m C-ffee
County West Puiot, in Trcup. Lytuoma, n >ew
tou. Moultrie, m C"l<J?‘tt n ...
A bill allowing Justices of the Peace to bold
Court two *)■ **
morning session, Bth Dec.
The house met pursuant to adjournment at 9j
to Reconsider—M:. Hardeman
!?’ b:.. of yesterday to endow Reform Medical
f'jiiege of macon. Motion prevailed
The first special business wae, a bill to impose
additional penalties on the several Backs of this
State, to make them comply with tne Act of 1857.
Tne committee reported against the passage of the
bill Mr. H ‘.lyer, of Walton, who had introduced
this bill, sj. ?ke at some leugth on the subject. He
was in tavor of sepaiatmg the Kxchanges. aud the
circulation. Lo’ u.e Banks do one, say furnish the
o radiating medium, ani brokers the Exchange
Mr. Hillyer redected harshly upon the c .uduct of
the Banks under the lav- of 1857. (The ablest men
in the Scu'ii have acknowledged this a question too
deep lor item, but Mr 11. ibuugbt be knew ail
about it. It will be remembered that Mr 11. was
the gentleman who changed his vo’e at the last sea
‘si'/n and passed the Bank Act of 57 over the Exe
cutive veto)
Mr Gordon bad listened to the gentleman from
Watuu. He saw that be (Mr. U.) was full of a
speech. at,d be had listened to him with pleasure.—
lie Was m favor of postponing the b 11, as one bad
been perfected and passed in the Beua e, simitar in
its provisions, and he was in lavor of making that a
substitute tor this one. Though he was ready now
to meet the question, he thought that this course
would save time.
Mr Gwdon’s motion to postpone for the present
was lost. Ayes 63, nays 81.
Mr Gordon .-aid that it would be impossible, un
de.r the CuueV.utiuD, to act on this till before Satur
day in both Houses. He moved to made it the spe
ciat order tor t>iday Mr. Underwood ( Mr. Pickett
,n :b Chair,) cal od the previous question. Mr
Knu wished both these motions wundrawn aud
M the bill, if acred upon, come tip ou ite owumerite
aud be discu-sed. Mr Lesis, of'Hancock, was m
favor of Mr Kenan’s motion. He wanted some iu
tormaiion on the bill, and thought a good many
o’he s did. . . ~
Mr. 11 myetr proposed that both motions should
be witnurawn, allow Mr. Gordon to make a speech,
alter which let Mr. U.reuesr uisca.i ior the previous
question. ~
Mr Gordon insisted on his motion, woich wat
lest Mr. G. then spoke at some length, in defence
of tfe course pursued by the Banks
The Banks have fulfilled the only promise he had
made for them at the last sesti on, viz : they had re
sumed su months earner than the time which had
been allowed them by law. They stood to-day per
lec', with chartered rights; yet the rentkmanlrwn
Waitou warned then swept from the Slate —their
charters brushed out ot the statute books as you
would blow away cobvebi. Mr. G. ably defended
the Bsr.k? from the iinpu’a ions cast upon their
officers by this bill, acu by gentlemen on this flour.
Mr. Gordon read yjortious of Mr. Stubb s amend
ment, and said that one of the sections there met
the views as expressed by the gentleman in his hi i.
This section pruvideu th .t no interest greater than
7 per cent, should be charged, and no premium on
exchanges in the Sta'e, hut that upon other..?,
changes they might charge the customary premi
ums This w-bbright, and just, and allowed iu or
der to pay the expenses of ‘.. an;-pollution of specie.
Mg Gurdou concluded, giving M-- Udlyar Jits ;
calling him IheU Tremor s echo. He had aeon
tempi tor any man who would cu.u.u himself be
hind another. Ue thought Gov. Brown hh Jon.
wtnl j iu a greet many particulars right, but ou
this question b thought that he wae wrong.
Mr Un derwooii spoke in lavor of the bill, he !
hoped that it tLc previous question should be cahed
he might have the pleasure oi making that call.
Though he wae io lavor of getting through with
the husiuets beicre tbe House,yet he wanttd every
man who had anything to say ou the subjsot to ba
he ,id Mr. Hi.lyer’s bill only sought to impose an
, a liuonal penalty ofSor’Jj per cent per month, so
; as to tu?..o .hum .urn, j with the provisions of the
’ ,v- i ‘57 - - ‘ Act had bees passed with condi
tions by be n.wun’s of the 13ai k- and yet they com
plain ol anihit • He - untended that, ’bore was
no ambiguity bill was as p aiu iu i's_ meaning
as tue noon u?y un iu tie heavens. Everybody
Uuue eiood tiießaufc question, Ac. Throughout,
Mr U.’s speech was io erspersed with • rich, rare
ani racy’’ remnks ard queries, carried ou by Mr.
G and Mr. U. Air. U wao against the substitute,
! aud >u favor of the oiiginal bill. He thought the
i whoio question very main; very simple. 1 was a
i c L* ‘ lion De-.weeii ibe people and the Banks. He
■ concluded by moving the previous question, which
* he yielded, upon the condition that any gentleman
j who sbou and take tbs flour would occupy no more
who suou and take tne u- or wuu.u uccupy no mu,u
ame thau he h .and done, renew the call at the end of
I ,t. and insist upon liie can ior tbe previous quee
i lion. H? would yield upca no other condition Air.
! fienan said that he wae sorry to oe placed under
i such restrain!*, but be had lo submit. Ue (Mr. K)
i tbeuhad :hc Senate bill read, (which was pastel
j y. sterday.) and which la tbe substitute proposed by
| Mr Gordon.
Mr. Hillyer made a few remarks, by tbe pero n-
I spin ot Mr Keuun Alluded to tbe remarks ot Mr.
Gordon bi ut hie having a ooutempt for persons
i who thieldea tbeoiueives behind the Governor He
I was sorry that a g icmau for v Lorn both himseit
I aud the House entertain so high a a opinion should
| La e oeteuded meu who are in open violation of the
aw, Ate, ‘
Mr Gordon said he meant no persoual nflection
upon ibe ( eutlemau from Walton. Their position
aril relation? had been very friimdly, Ate.
.Mr. Kenan asked, ns legal gentlemen, what they
procure o hoc by these b.l s.
j He uiaiulK'ii’ inat this was a question for the
i I'lCioiary. !. vou oanuot punish tbe Banks under
1 .he Act >t 1857, how cau you do it I Ue thought
i the Act of ’u7 applied to tne Banks only while they
1 were under ivsyitrum. They were nut now, an i
ii e thought Liiese bills nugatory. The penalty had
! been imposed ou (Hem while in a state of suspeo
’ cion, aud that wbea ‘-V - I u._eJ, the penally tail
I to the ground.
Mr. Underwood renewed his call. Mr. Biilyer a
; bill was now put on its passage, the ayes and nays
demanded, aud the bill was passed. Ayes 87—nays
’ 56
i MotioD to transmit to tbe Senate was loet.
On motion of Mr. Milledg? o.’ Richmoud a resoin
, tion irom the Senate appointing a Committee from
bo h branches, to examine- into the business before
| tue Legislature aud report upon au adjournment,
j was taken up and adopted. Tue House and Seu
ate have each appointed three geuLteinen on the
committee.
1 he bill for the pardon of Burton H. Brooks was
taken u ; Peudicg the reading Os the evidence the
House adjourned till 3 P M.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
I The uctinisbed business of the morning was re
Burned, to wit: tb* bill for the pardon of Brooke.
Metis’. Luflman, Edwards of Harris and Smith
of Copeta,opposed the bill. Messrs. Hillyer, Smith
t,f Towns, and Harris of Giyun, spoke in favor
The bi l was patted. Ayes 66—Nays 56. Mr. fa
derwood voting iu the affirmative.
lhe House concurred, io { be amendmen Bby the
Senate on the ood fixation bill, and it was transmit
ted to the Governor for approval
The General appropriation bill wae taken up, aud
the amendments by the Scuate read.
The ainecdmeut increasing the salary of Dr Green
to f2,5i)0 was not concurred in. Some amendments
were concurred in, others disagreed to, d:o., aud
tiie House aojourned, pending this action.
Milledakville, Dec. Slh, 1858.
SENATE—RIOHT *EBSION.
Thikd BlADina—To repeal ail laws requiring
the Senate to couetitute a part of the Senatus Aca
demiens. Tabled.
To regulate the currency of the S’ate. (This is
thest/5 Treasury bill, fully reported on iia intro
duction ) Lost—aye** 24 ; Nays 70. _
To compel banka to reoeern their bills at their
Agencies, l^oet —Ayes ’*?; Naye 57.
Senate adjourned.
n.LtDGCVULLE, Dec 8.
Much of the morning -rp - r>u ha a been spent in
discussions for recon* i •’•aiiv-ns ana matters of the
kind. Oue, upon w liH . au interestiog tcck
place, was as to a question of p&* law.
The quectiou was this* : Whouher, winle tiieNen
ate wap m I'omtnvrae of th* Whole a call for the
p’--'V’;u' : q i‘s ! . nil amendment to a bill, after
being sust-iiued cut eff al* debate when the Senate
we >i out or couiUitkiee and took up Dili fo> its
papeage. night, Mr. Tucker in the Chair,
made the deoibion tuat it did nut, and conteodtu
that anew ca'< the previous question was no
ceesary; his decision was reversed, on au appeal®
by one vote . but this morning the Senate reouneid- •
erec ; upon which the ayes wert 66, ana the nay*- 38 }
The .-pecia; rct-j the ll* u>e Kiucaiionki i
bill, which I reported fully on its passage in tha
body, and which has beeu subjected to a “course'’
ot ameuduieats, additional sections, Ac, by the
Senate, which were “qual in number to those put
on tne o. ig ; .r ’in *'e B'n, anal must say now,
a? 1 d'd >,r i i‘£ passage through the House, that I
. j.o iv j” lotion, fcjonld tu:a a dibiraole
event aver teke * before giving it ro your
readers.
The bill as oy theSenaic ‘*lb' t io=ed.—
Ay *s 79; Naye 33.
luthectfs’ gos toe various aud
upon the passw ,e of the bui, mauy of the Senators
tona p#trl in aebates, tne eight minute rule I oe
lieve, be ug strickiy eusorred. Among number
I ma> mention the Hon. W. ii. Stiles of Chatham.
Tee mention of his name as having taken part in
tno aeuates on,this and the Bank question, will carry
more weigh: *uh ittha anything I could say of
him, it would be neec.ee* aud useless to ey teat
ne h is fully sustained tne high position, a? an orator
anu reasouer, which was exp<?<?ttd of him The
free negro bill, so often reported, was now taken
up. 1; is that one making certain effeaoeemm
mr.icd by that class of incdviduels felonies, and
puoish ng the guiitv by sale into slavery. Much,
much can be said upon cithsr side of this question.
Much has been said, and it is probable much will
be said ere a final disposition be made of iL A
wa r m, animated ensued on the
iug which, the hour Laving arrived, the Senate ad
journ*!.
BCCSk —NIGHT SCSJ'O.V
MILLEPOEVILLE. D: C 8, 1553.
T e General Appropris’ion bib, as amenoea bv
the Senate, concurred n in some particulars, and
disagreed to in others, was paased aud sent back to
the Senate.
‘■ Third Keadi.no —To amend the laws in regard
; to detlilting Tax payers, Ac , Ac.
Various ~ nenain^**.were offered. Mr. Smith,
j of Town® offer-i Among the amend
menu offered vh> by Mr. Gordon of Cbatnam.
i proposing to omeud one of the rectiooe so as to d:s
, criaunate m favor of cur men Bvtks, and against
; foreign Bank agene’es Some debate* a use, and
• the amendment was lost—sl :o7C*. Tn*s amend
i -uent pn>:oeec to t*x fcnngii agencies 25 per
cent L.g r ttan we tax our <nr t Banks. Mr. G.
.ueii rnaue the tr. .v .0 f -i highei than our
1 own Toie .vx), was lost.
The original bill, substitute, ameac.nsnts. Ac.,
were a.l read. \lt t-ok abuQ- an h *ur
Mr. Haraeinan moved that a Cou.m.ttee ot tuee
i be appointed to codify ana txpiain the bid and
j amencmiu s. . ...
Mr. Walker, of Henry, moved to further amend,
j h attaching two Fn..a4ieipcta Lawyers to gorouii'”
w’lh the Tax Collectors expiatn the bio
j Mr. Laffman moved that a Committee of three
j bv app. inton to /oife the wDole thrng out*.f tne
Hj? Tnese several propociiiona were ruled out
• ot orueV.)
Mr. Smith, of Towns, was surprise i that geo tie
-1 men shouiu make *o tight of a bi i which proposed
‘. to br into the Treasury from f40,000 to
. annually-
Mr Wliies, of Lincoln moved to table the whole
| concern, which was lost.
Alt- r a ,-eal of ta.a, amendments, propoeitions,
etc , Mr Smith withdrew his substitute.
Now the origiu&l bill was taken up, amended and
p">s.d. Yes M>, Nays 52.
| Is sorry to #ay that I cannot give you an idea
oi wLat the bid is. Should it pass the Senate it will
j be published. Ona thing is certain, it tfan up by
the root* ad former modes of taxation.
HOCSE—MOKMISO BEMIOK.
Milledgeville, Deo. 9, 1858.
The usual prc!iminan<e Deng through, a motion
: to re coosider a private b-ll prevailvO, and a motion
to suspend the regular order was lost.
Third Keadino—To appropriate f15,000 to
Oglethorpe MeOical College of Savannah. Kc-
I considered bill.) Aye* 60, cays 72. Loot.
On moticn of Mr. Lewie, of Greene, a bill /or the
pardon of Be>jbinin Knight, confined for life in the
i Peciten'iary, tor murder in Gwinnett was
taken up. A tew explanations, and Uit bit. passed
i without any deba’t y or dt*cu*tion, or remarks. (It
haa been raining here for a week, 1 u* tee eun came
out on the paosage of this bill.) Hurrah ! for Mr,
Diamond, who introduced this bill.
To repeal all Acts in relation to the eetablichmem
of the Supreme Court The bill propflip.- to ahplitk
u*%t Court, and was loet. Ayee 54, nays
I Those who voted aye were Messrs Bell, Black,
| Causey, Chapman. Fannin, Fincannon, Hali, Hardy,
I Hsrkness. Holden, Holm-s, Hopkins, Johnson,
Kimbrough of Hams Kimbrough of Stewart,
Kirby, Lazenby of Columbia, Lee, Little, Logue,
Mattox, McDaniel, McGregor, M Lean, Miarz.
Myers O’Neal. Smith of Coweta. Smith of Tatt
nall, Walker of Henry, W&ii, Webb, Wood and
Worley.
Those who voted nay were Mess ?. Allan. Autiy,
Barrett, Barton, Batts, Bigham, Boggeaa, Bract -.y
of Hancock, Braswell, Caunon, Coleman, Coley,
Cook, Cuer'on, Darden. DeLsmar, Dorming, Dun
i can. Emb?y, Everett, Fata of Fanin, Fata of
j Union, Faulk, Fortner of Emanuel, Fortner of
Wilcox Frederick, Follmore, Gav, Gordon, Gra
ham, Griffith , Gruveneune. Li ernes, Harris of Cobb,
Harris of Dougherty, Harris of Giynr, Harper,
Harrison, Hays, Heed Hihver, Kines, Hol-iday,
Howard. Hughes, Jones (peuan, Kendaii Lane,
LewA of Greene, Lew } of Uanoocfc, Lockett,
Luflman, McDonald, McEver, McWhorter, Mil
ledge, M.zeii, Muore. Moft,Monghon, Neal,Owens,
Phillips. Pickett, Pitrard, Powell, Pruett, Reid,
Rice, Roberts of Cherokee, Roberts ot Screven,
Schley, Sheffield, Smith of Randolph, Smith of
Towns, Spreyberry, Strange, Sweat. Taliaferro,
Taylor, Terrell, Tomlinson. Walker of Clark, Web
ster, West, White, Wilkes, Williams, Wimberly,
Wright and Young.
A motion was here made by Mr Lewis of Greene,
that both branches having resolved to adjourn on
the 11th iost., it was necessary that tbe House
should take up tbe Senate bills, and leave tbe
House bids over, or else there wool l be nothing
done by that time.
Tbe motion was put. It require* a two-thirds
vote lo effect this suspension of regular business.
The vote was token tbe ayes were 93, ana nays
nays 18. Mr. Underwood now said he would vote
in the negative, which would make a tie. Such a
scene a? ensued in the House beggars all descrip
tion Everybody waut-d to say something, and
Mr Lewis of Greene, having made ao Arithmetical
calculation, and demonstrated satisfactorily to Mr.
C. that be was wrong in announcing that his vote
made a tie. Mr U. aaol he was wrong, and de
claring the resolution carried , the House proceed
ed to act on
Senate Bills—Third Reading —To repeal an
Act preventing non-reoidents from hunting aud
fishlDg in tlua State. (Certain counties excepted.)
To alter and amend the laws of this State in rela
tion to notices by insolvent debtors. Passed.
To incorporate Trustees of a Presbyterian Church
in Liberty county. Mr. Gordon, of Chatham,
moved to amend by adding a section incorporating
tbe Savannah Flour Mil Company. Paseed.
To incorpora'e Washington Institute, Hancock
county. AineLded and passed.
To authorize Justices ot the Peace to hold Courts
two or more uays Passed.
To collect interest on open aocounts after they
are due, which day is first of January. Pasted.
To incorporate the town of Hawkiusville, iu Pu
ia-ki county. An amendment by Mr. Hughes, le
galizing the organizatrrn of a mounted police of
15:h I> ifrict, Lioerty county. Also: Tu include
the town of Ackworth, in Cobb county. Some
other amendments, and tbe bill passed.
To incorporate a Volunteer Company in Fort
Valley. Amended by .Mr. Gordon, to include the
Offlethorpf Light Infantry of Savannah, and
passed.
Amendatory of Aots incorporating the ci’y of
Americas. Passed.
To make a n-w county from Stewart and Ran
dolph, t• bs oalled Uayne. (Juitman was proposed
in lieu of Hayne, and adopted. The bill passed.
The rules were suspended and tbe Hon. A M.
Speer, former Clerk ot the House, wa? invited to a
seat on the fljor. Unanimously adopted.
JThis resolution was offered and adopted pending
a discussio . on tbe canity bill, which wae kept up
| for sir hour or more, wheu the House adjourned till
j 3 o'clock P. M.
AVTERNOON SESSION.
I Mr. Harris, of Glyon, moved that the rules in re
lation to acting on Senate bills be reßOinded, and
that the House proceed to act on ita own bills, as
tbe House bad acted upon all the Senate bills whioh.
had be n read here twice, and proposed to read
them up to-uight. By doing this many of the House
biffs could be gotten through with during the atter
nooL. Ad hour {nearly) was consumed in a debate
upon this motion, which vaslost.
Tire House proceeded to read bills of the Senate
for a first and second time.
The appearance of the old Clerk ot the House,
Mr A. M Speer, created much applause, and a
warm reception by the Houee.
The hour of adjournment arrived while the Sen
ate bille were being read. R. G.
Mili.edoevii.i, Dec. 10, 1838.
SENATE.
Were Ia Stenographer, I would give you an ac
rount of the doings in the S-nate last night, bu’
lo mere description could do so able a body justice,
and 1 should dislike exceedingly in my report to
iall oo far shot , of accomplishing my otjsc', as I
know I should iu attempting to convey an idea of
the manner of proceedings there last night. The
Senate seemed to have caught the adjournment fe
vor, and the most charitable construction to put up
on the conduct of some of the members would have
been, that they were ou an adjournment bretzt'.
The Journal shows action on trie loilowitig bills :
To make anew county from Hall, Habersham
aud Franklin i amended lo make anew county from
Stewart and Randolph. Passed,
i The General Appropriation bill was taken up.—
i Some cf the Senaiu amendments were adhered to,?
and some of the II u?e amendments. This morn
ing th e bill was egain taken up aud action on it
completed.
to i Adams, of Elbert, offered a resolution : That
the Secretary be allowed as many addrtioual Ulerßo
as would ba necessary to bring up the business and
a’jouro ou Saturday.
Mr. Slaughter submitted as a substitute n Reso
lution to adjourn on Wednesday, 15-h, which sub
stitute was, however, withdrawn The original was
siocDdrd strikiug out reference to an adjourment,
and adopted.
The substitute was now renewed and lost—Ayes
70, Nays 41—being less than two-thirds majority.
lluCuE Bills—Third Reading—To repeal the
Act giving the trial of slaves to the Superior Courts.
Alter a running debate the bill was tabled.
To appropriate $5,U00 to Augusta Medical Col
lege. Praised.
To provide for the appointment of a Board of
Visitors to Franklin College. Lost.
To prevent the libraries of Doctors, Lawyers aad
families from levy aud sale. Loet.
To amend the laws in regard to assignment of
dow<r. Pasted.
A bill iu rela ion to manumitting slaves, was laid
on lhe table.
The House Efucatioual BUI, as returned to the
Senate, was taken up. (See House proceedings.)
The Senate aejourned.
AFTERNOON session.
The Commiftee of Conference on the part of the
Seuateon the E:uoational BtTi appoiuted this after
noon are Messrs. Paine, Mallard and Strickla. and.
Toprovida for authenticating deeds, Ac., where
the records have been destroyed by tire. Passed.
To compel Judges of the several Superior Courts
to hold adjourned terms till the business be brought
up. Pasted.
To appropriate $30,000 for repairs of the Peni
tentiary. Passed. Ayes 70; Nays 47.
To provide for the authenticating of deeds and
other instruments in writing, when witnesses reside
our, of the Stato. Passed.
To amend the act in regard to adopting children
| Pasted.
Iu relation to division of property iu the hands of
AfluMnistrarora, Executors, Guardians, Ac. Passed.
To amend the acta in relation to issuing execu
tions. Passed.
To allow the Georgia Railroad to build a branch
from Union Poiut. to Eaton*on. Passed.
To provide for the app iuimeut of auditors in
oertain cases, in tLe Superior Couits. Passed.
To amend the Penal Code iu relation to joint
trials. (Allows one party to be tried by himself.)—
Passed.
To prevent slaves or free persons of color, with
or without permission, written or verbal, to sell
cotton or rice. Laid on the table for the present.
The Senate will have eome work to do to morrow,
as members * f the House would add some 15 or 20
of th'tr bills to each private billon its passage in
that body, (the House) as amendments. Almost
all these being local, however, they are not re
ported.
Pkktty Good—A gentleman from one of the up
per counties, arrived bore last evening, and never
having had the pleasure of seeing the General As
sembly ot the Georgia Legislature, repaired to the
b*'L-&te Chamber last night. He quietly waited till
tney adjourned, aud left, at the same time. This
momiog, bwug £-ktd whit be thought of it, he said
‘had never seen anything like it but once before
and that was a breaking up of a +gro camp-meet
'*g.
HOUBJS.
Nothing of any intereet was done last night,
Senate bills were read lorthe first time anda pri
vate bill ater numerous amendments, was Lost.
A’ t-r iheacj urnment the Democratic party met,
and after the first ballot, nominated Ex. Gov. H. V.
Johnson, aud Iverson L Harris, E:-q , candidates
for Commissioners to codify the laws of Go rgia.
Vnoug the candidates were Messrs. T. R. R. Cobb/
Hiram Warner, A. M Bpe?r. anu Judge J C.
Niooll of Savannah. Could >t have been positively
- announced that this latter geutleman would have
accepted, I think it iikcty he would have heeu
nominated Jurge Warner’s name was withdrawn,
upon a statement to that effect, that he would not
accept. The first business in order this morning was
a motion to reconsider the bill lost last night, which
prevailed.
Mr. Coleman moved to reconsider the bill parsed
yesterday, creating “Quitman’’ County. Motion
L^st.
lb* Educational bill, as amended by the Senate,
w&e now takeu up and read by sections. The first
b.cH ‘u was ruled oat of ordei. So tne house re
fu-ed to concur with the amendment of the Senate.
After a talk of some half hour, points of order Ac
raised, a motiou to disagree to all the amendments
of the Senate prevaileo, and the house then voted
tosend the bill back to the Senate, w'th notice to
the effectual they refused to concur in the Senate’s
amendments
The general appropriation bill, eeDt back by t'6
Senate, which tx-dy refuted to concur in eooie tec
f.oas, was next taken up. The amount proposed
by one amendment of the Senate was SBOO to be
paid the State Librarian. After some discussion
on ibis point, the concurred in the amena-
LQeu f The next amendment was to give the assis
tant Secretary and C*erk $250 extra. Agreed to.
To cut a ioag matter shun, ail the amendments
were cou nrred in.
Tne bill creating anew county out of Haber
sham, Had anu .Franklin, as amended by the Sen
ate was taken” up anu the comendmeui concurred
in.
Senate Bills—Third Reading.—To iooorpo
rate the town of Camilla in Mitchell county. Mr.
Hardeman moved to amend so to incorporate tfie
Merchants A Mechanice’e Insurance Company of
Macon. Ateo to amend the charter of the Eli jay
Railroad Company. Also to confer certain powers
on the Cos nmirsiobers oi Carroltoa, Carroll county.
Alro to lncc’porate the Excel Line of Steamboats
lorSavaLnah river. Tae amendments were agreed
to and the bill as amended wna paeetd.
To lay out a oouoty from Lowndes and Thomas,
to be called “Brooks.'* “Biackshear” was proposed
in place of * Brooks. ’* The bill was paaeea and
• B’o ‘ks’ t? the name of it. May the gooc people
of ‘•Brocks’’ shoe to Southern Rights, as did the
cistirgniahed man after whom the ceunty is named.
T~e bill to create anew Judicial Cir* nit, to be
called H ghwaseet*. with eome amendments was
loet. _ **
To point out the mode cf collecting certain ac
courts. Amended by Mr. Harrison, ct Chatham,
so as io point out the mode of lstu’mg disprees war
ran's .u Chatham. Some other amendments and
the bill passrd
To incorporate Atlanta, West Point and Mont
gomery Telegraph Compauy, with several* amend
ments ißCorporating various Companies, was of
fered
Pending action on this bill, the Senate cams in
and were received by the House glancing, and pro
eeeded to the election of Commissioners to codify
the laws of Georgia. The names of the following
fentiemen were announced: I. L. Harris, H \
ohueon, David Irwin, as candidates. Tne follow
ing is the vote :
1 L. Harris 193 i T R R. Cobb 59
H. V. Johnson 16c A M. Speer 25
D. I Irwin 200 j H Warner 5
M A Cooper 1 Wilhite 2
Smith of Coweta 6. Findlay oi Lumpkin. 6
Luff man ot Murray... 6 ! Blank. 6
So Messrs. Harris, Johnson and Irwin were duly
elected Commissioners, after which the House so
journed tiu 3 o’clock, when it resumed the incorpo
ration of the Magnetic Te.egraph Company, Ac.
Au amendment to ex end to lLCorporatkg the
town of Cuthbert, was offered. Also, to extend to
certain Railroads, Ac. Bill and amendments
passed.
To repeal certain portions cf an Act in relation to
new trials, Ac. Mr Bigbam offered an amend
ment. B.il and amendments passed.
A menage from the Senate notified the House
that the Senate v ould insist on its amendments to
the Educational Bi!, ana that they Lad appointed a
committee cf tnree tooosfer with a commutes from
the House, and a motion was mace to appoint a
committee of five to bold a conference with Senate
Committee on the Educational Bid. Mr Harde
man moved to lay on the table for the balance of
the teuton. Upon this, the ayee and nays were de
manded, and tie result was that the motion was
lost. Ayes 49, nays 82.
So the question oame up on the appointing the
couiznitvee, which was carried. The committee
were Messrs. Smith, of Towns. Lewis, of Hancock,
Harris, of Glynn, Irwin and Kenan.
To amend the incorporating Act of Knights of
Jerico. About ten local amendments agreed to,
and the bill Dassed.
To repeal certain portions of the attachment laws •
To alter the 14th Section, 50th Division _ Penal
Code, in relation to punishing of night burglary.—
Passed. , ■
The scene in tha House daring the past half hour
or so, was highly interesting; paper bails, stray ’
books, &.C., were"flying round, generally. R. G. j
Millegeville, Dec. 11,1858.
As our correspondent failed to furnieh ns a report of
the proceedings of tbe Senate on Saturday', we copy
from the Savannah Republican's report. — Editor
Chron.&Sent.
SENATE.
The reeolntion, loet yesterday, to adjourn?-*: die
on the 15th inst, was re considered; yeas, 50, nays
The rules were suspended and Mr. Sti.es moved
to take up and agree to a House resolution request
ing our Senators and Representatives in Congress
to urge the conetruction of a Navy Yard, on Btythe
Island. Adopted.
A number of bills was taken up, and House
amendments thereto concurred in.
Mr Reynolds got leave of absence for the re
mainder of the session. He addressed the Senate
in’eome feeling remark?, stating that he left, for the
las? time, a body of which he wae a member as far
back as the year 18x53. His sentiments were cor
dially responded to by the senate.
Senate Resolutions —Resolution requesting
the General Government to examine into and re
port upon the condition, value, &c., of the piue
forests of this State. Adopted.
Resolution requesting the Governor and Superin
tendent State Road to reduce the Ireight on Geor
gia iron. Motion to lay on the table, lost. Yeas
43, nays 46. Resolution then adopted; yeas 46,
navs -11.
Resolution to furnish the Choctaw Nation of In
dians w ith copies of Cobb’s Digest and the State
Reports. Adopted.
Resolution to refer the question of the redaction
of the General Assembly to the people. Laid on
the table lam not suprised that members are on
willing to put this question in the hands of their
constituents.
Mr Paine s resolution to authorise the Governor
to have painted a fuil length portrait of Gen. James
Jackson. Adopted.
Resolution to authorise tbe Superintendent of
S ate K ;ad, to lease tbe old iron, a? it may be taken
up to the Etowah & Canton Railroad C unpany,
on certain conditions. Amended by extending to
E.j-ry Railroad Company, and then adopted; yeas,
SU; nays, 38
House Resolution —Resolution to relinquish
the title of the State to certain lots in the city ot Co
lumbus. Adopted.
House Bills —Bill to pay to John H. Wilhigbt
the vaiue of a lot of land drawn by him in which
tae State bad no title. Pissed—yeas, 44 ; nays, 43.
Bill to abolish the public execution of criminals
in this State. A motion to lay on tbe table for the
session was carried; yeas, 46; nays, 41.
Bill to pardm Benjamin Knight, sentenced to the
Penitentiary for life. Tne bill was passed.
Bill to make Receivers of tax returns Assessors,
in certain cases, and providing for a reference in
caees of diseatiefaction. Paseed—yeas, 57; nays, 17.
Adjourned.
aeternoon session.
House Bills CoNTiNUED.BiiI to change the tax
laws of Ibis State iu c iuiormity to the recommenda
tions of the Comptroller. The bill is very vo’.umi
nous, and, upon the whole, a good one. The bill
was paseed
Bill to provide for ‘he support of the pupils in the
Blind Academy. Passed.
Bill to amend the act incorporating the Georgia
Air Line Railroad Company. Parsed.
Bill to compensate certain persons for apprehend
ing the murderers of Kaudrum. Paseed.
Bill to allow Guardians to olese up estates ot as
o -ased waids without letters of administration
Passed.
Bill to appropriate $25,000 for the completion of
the Lunatic Asylum aud grounds, and ssj)oo to the
Building Commissioners. Passed—Yeas 59, uaye
29.
Educational Bill. —The Joint Conference Com
mittee to arrange an Educational bill made their re
port.
Tbe bill appropriates SIOO 000 of the net proceeds
of the Siute Road, and the balance in : lie Treasury
after payment of the expenses of go venimeAt, an
naally, to be added to the present echool fund, and
distributed among the counties iu pr--portion to tbe
number of children between six and eighteen years
of age, to be used under the direction of the Infe
rior Court and Grand Jury in lhe elementary edu
cation of the children. The bill also provides a sink
ing fund for the payment of the public debt, togeth
er with a vai iely of details for which I have no room.
The report was agrot-d to.
Other House Bills. —Bill to allow Ordinaries
to issue executions fur costs, &o. Passed.
Bill to autuorize Sheriffs to appoint any number
ol Deputies that may be necessary. Li st.
Bdl for the protection of the interests of orphans.
Passed.
13ui to construct a Turnpke in Stiller co., with a
va ie.y of amendments, including SSOOO to the Re
form Medical College of Macon. A call for tiie
previous qn tion cut off discussions and ali amend
ments. Yae bili was ‘hen passed.
Bu! to amo-d tbe law ior periecting titles in esse
of the death of one ot the parties. Lost.
Bili to prevent the intermarriage of first oooßins.
This bill elicited a fierce discussion, lhe only argu
ment used against it being that it involved “an in
sult to such parties as may have heretofore Inter
married . ”
Mr. Bartlett made a short bat strong epseoh in
favor ol the bill. It was clearly established, he raid,
by reliable statis'ics, that seven-tenths of the idiots,
Innatios, and af and dumb, and blind in our hoepi
lais and asylums, resulted from the intermarriage
of biood relations. The bili was required by every
consideration of policy and humanity, and he hoped
it would pass
Laid on the tabie; yeas 56, nays 14.
Adjourned.
Correspondence of the Chronicle 4* Sentinel.
HOUSE—MORNING SESSION.
Afterthe usual preliminaries, Mr. Menlz, of Jack
son, offered a resolution to the effect that the Gov
ernor contract for the erection of galleries in both
the Senate Chamber and Representative Hall for
tbe accommodation of Repor ers, and moved to
take it up, which motion wasloe'.
Third Reading—Senate Bills. —To reguiate
garnishments aud attachments Passed.
To incorporate the town of YVsrenboro’. Passed.
To repeal all laws in relaliou to bead rights iu
Washington oounty. Passed.
For the better government of the Western & At
lantic Railroad. (Avery long bill with too many
provisions “to mention”) Passed.
To alter the 2d eection 6th division Penal Code.
Passed
To incorporate the Macon Insurance Company,
Paseed.
To incorporate town of Dahlonega, Lumpkin
county. Paesed.
To incorporate Fort Valley & Atlantic Railroad
Company. Paesed.
To amend the registry laws ot Savannah. Passed
To incorporate the Wills Valley Railroad Com
pany. Passed.
To extend the provisions of the act of 1850 in re
lation to tax collectors, & c , of Chatham county to
Richmond oounty. Passed.
To authorize Jailer of Richmond county to de
mand fees in aavanoe in certain oases.
To anthorize Guardians, Administrators, &c., of
R chmoDd county to invest funds iu Augusta City
Bonds. Passed.
A House bill in) elation to establishing deed, &o.
Loßt by five, as amended by the Senate, was read.
Tbe Senate amendment was not concurred in
To point out the mode in which children shall be
adopted, names changed, &.o. Senate amended, i
tnat the bill ehall not be retrospective in ite action. |
Adopted..
In relation to drawers of drafts, bills of exchange, |
&o. Tabled.
To provide for the takiugjof the next census.—
Parsec.
To amend the Acts in relation to carrying Ca3es
to the Supreme Court Passed.
To incorporate the town of Thomson, Columbia
county. Panned.
To amend the fees of the Ordinary of Richmond
county. . Mr. Harderncn wished to confine the
changes to citiz-ns of Richmond, as he did yester
day to the Chatham bill.
sir. Mill°dge in the Chair, called Mr. Gordon to
the seat, and ably supported the bill, but having all
the morning ruled out any amendment to Senate
bills, he tried to get it passed as it was. Mr M. threw
hitnself upon the mercy of the House, but an ob
jection being made. Mr. Hardemau’s amendment
could not come in, and the bill waa lost. Ayee 49,
Na>s 54.
To amend the divorce laws of this State. Allow*
divorces a vinculo matrimonii to marry again
Lot.
To alter certoirari laws of this State. (Provides
to apply in three mouths. Passed.
To exempt 40 additional members of the Indepen
dent Mechanics Fire Company of Augusta. Pass
ed.
To define s he mode of forecloebg mortgages on
real estate. Lost.
To define the liability of ‘ockhoiders in Banks
and other chartered corporations. (Personal liabili
ty does not cease od expiration of charter.) Passed.
To allow Ordinairies to permit Executor?, Ad
ministrators, Guardians, Ac , to cell property in
certain caeee. Passed.
To mike void all contracts minors, except for
necessaries. Passed.
To have criminal cases tried in the order in
which they
To a.ter and ameDd tbß rules of criminal trials in
the several Courts of this State. Passed.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Thd educational b'i! as ‘'gotten up” by the Con
ference Committee, dissented from report.
The bill reported by Committee was put on its
passage and adopted.
These a.e the priuc pal provisions of it—
-Ist. SIOQ,€OO to be divided between the counties
proportionally. (This is to come from nett earn
ing of the S'ate Road )
2nd A<ida poor t ‘hcol*fund to same fund, to be di
vided on same principles.
3rd. Requires Tax R ceivera to obtain the num
ber of children !*? *tou 8 and 18.
4tb. Grand Juries to devise plan and system un
der which it shall be used.
sth. U shall be used only to educate children in
the first rudiments of English education—reading,
wrifing and arithmetic.
6 h The Ordinary of the county to be Treasurer
of the fund.
7th. Tne Of&nary invested with power to require
teachers, before participating m luug, to make re
turns to him (the OraiLary) of tfce whole number of
children taught by said teacDer, between ages afore
said. The number which are taught English, higher
branches, and the rates of tuition iu elementary
branches and higher branches.
The Governor is authorized to issue circulars to
Ordinaries for such information as he may deem
necetsary for future legislation. And eome other
provisions are in the bill.
To givecdficers control of Executions in certain
cases, Ac. Passed.
To lay out anew county from Lowndes and Clinch.
Passed.
For the more epeedy rendition of fugitives from
justice. Tabled.
About this time Mr. Mi'.ledge, Speaker pro tem:,
said ii quiet was uoi restored he would stop all busi
ness. iHave you ev%r been i-ere at au adjourn
ment h
The House concurred in the Senate amendment to j
the tax bill. (The voluminous bill)
Tc extend to lumbermen, Ac., a lien on materials
used, Ac. Tabled.
To regulate Insurance Agents of foreign compa
nies. Tabled.
To provide for the payment of jurors in Camden j
county. Tabled.
To provice lor the appointment of anditore or
master- ia Equity in Superior Courts. Passed.
Tore organize the Supreme Court. is bill
proposes to repeal that portion of the act in r*l a tipn
to the Court, which requires the judges to write oat
their decisions at first term. Ac.* Passed.
To alter the manner of taking up cases to toe JAa
preme Court. Passed.
To repeal the act giving election of Attorney and
Solicitors General to the people, (to vest said elec-
UOQ in the Legislature.) Passed
Mr. Miilecge moved to reconsider bill in relation
to fees of Ordinary of Richmond county. The bill
passed.
About two hundred bills have been passed by the
House mostly local.
’ Tia now bP.M, and too late to get you up any
Senate report. If possible, will give it by next
mail. R. G.
Milledgeville, Sunday Morning* j
Dec. 12th, 1858. $
So far as the Senate was concerned, the last night
of the session was stormy and tumultuous, perhaps
without a parallel in the legislative history of the
State. A number of bills were acted on by both
bootee, but ae a list of the acts will appear in a few
days, it ia ucneoeeeary to trouble the readere of the
Republican with a detail of the proceedings. I shall,
therefore, coLfioe myself to the last battle in the
Bank War, and a brief allusion to the closing scenes
in the Senate -
When the Legislature adjourned for supper, Sv
turday afternoon, it was generally understood that
the Bach war was at an end. Suoh was the amount
of business i u tht House that it was believed it
would be iopoecible for Uem to reaeh ML. Stub be*
substitute, which had passed the Senate and been
t'ansmittod to the other house acme dass previous.
As regarde tbe Senate, there wae nothing that it
could constitutionally act upoo. N'o new billcould
be introduced at that stage of the session, and Mr.
Hillyer’e House bill, though received, labored UDder
the twc-fold‘difficulty of being substantially the
same as Mr. Tucker s bill, which the Senate had al
ready rejected, and of being at tne bottom of ;be
calendar, so tLat i: could net be reached before the
adjournment. Besides ail this, even the enemies of
the banks were obliged to concede that they had
| ac'ed handsomely in the matter of resumption,
while maDy had become convinced that it was next
to impossible for thm to place a clear and fixed
construction upon the Act of 1857. as regards their
duty in making their returns ludeAl, so far as ap
peaiaiices went, there was a general disposition to
iet the matter rest where it was. This, however,
was of but short duration. His Accidency, the lit
tle sntccrat who presides over the Executive de
partmen', had no thought of allowing the Legisla
tnre to adjourn without obeying bis behests and
clothing him with the necees&ry powers to prosecute
his war upon the banks.
He accordingly announced to his political friends
tnat if they aejourned without action, he should
issue his proclamation forthwith, convening them
and keeping them there until they ehall have com
plied with the demands of his message. In fact oar
little Cusar puffed himself into a fury, tie conse
quence of which was at a late hour Saturday night
when many of the friends of the banks had left for
their homes, the following proceedings took place
in the Senate. How the bill got to the top of the
pile, I leave to others to explain. An intelligent
member, who has watched the progrese of business
very closely, assures me that it must tave been
taken up out of its order. Os the facts I know
nothing.
THE BANK BILL.
The House bili to compel the banks to comply
with the Aot of 1857 in in king their semi-annual
returns to the Governor, aud to provide an addi
tional penalty for ail future violations of the same,
was taken up and read.
Mr. Gibson raised a point of order, and main
tainad that the subject matter cf tbe House bill had
already betn rejected by the Senate in its vote in
opposition to Mr. Tucker’s bill and the adoption of
Mr. Stubb’s amendment.
Mr. Stiles urged thepointof order, and read from
The Rules of the House aud from the Constitution,
in proof that when a biii is once diepceed of, no bill
containing the same subject matter can be enter
tained the same session. The delinquency charged,
an-1 the penalty imposed, were the same in Mr.
Tucker’s bill and the bill of the House now under
consideration. It ws therefore not competent for
the Senate to entertain the latter.
Mr. Slaughter held that the two bills were not
identical. If they had the same purpose in view
they aiffered materially iu their details, and the
point of order shou.d be overruled by the Chair.
M . Stiles and Mr. Gibiou urged their objection
and insisted that the two bids should be read, aud
compared.
The two bills were read and the objectors to tho
motion contounded.
Mr Slaughter, being driven from his first posi.
tion,fell back upon auother even more untenabie-
Ue insisted tnat the adoption of Mr. Stubb’s sub
stitute for Mr. Fucker’s bill, did not amount to a re
jection ol the latter. The Senate merely eaid they pre
ferred the subetitute to tbe original bill, and this
did not amount to a rejection or loss of the latter.
Mr. Stiles replied: The gentleman from Dough
erty was certainly mistaktn in this matter. The
bibs bad been read aud they were clearly identical.
Tbe constitution aud the rules liad also been read
and their meaning was clear.
The Chair decided that the adoption of a substi
tute did not an.ount to a rejection of the original,
but the original was merely laid over or euspended,
and coniti be again taken up in the event oi a liual
rejection of the substitute.
Mr. Stiles appealed from the decision of the
Ciiair.
Mr. Gibs jU addressed the Senate warmly on the
subject and appealed to gentlemen, whatever might
be’ their hostility to banks, not to wags war upon
them by a violation of the rules of the Senate, the
!aw ami tho Constitution,
Mr. Stubbs thought it could be made psrfeotly
plain that the decision of the Chair was wrong. He
cited several instances of legislation to show that it
was wholly inconsistent and untenable.
Mr. Slaughter eaid this was au important act of
legislation, and should not be defeated by a mere
technical ruie. The people had declared, by an
overwhelming msjority, that the banks were stand
ing out in defiance of all law, aud Senators should
Dot dare to go home to their constituents and tell
them they had done nothing to punish the outrage.
Ho continued to argue hat the adoption of the sub
atitute was no rejection of tue original and con
tended that the decision of the Chair w r as light
The rules cited by gentlemen did not sustain their
positi’ li
Mr. Billups: The question before the Senate was
simply whether the adoption of a subs; i ute amounts
tc r. rejection of the original, as contemplated by
the ruie. He thought it clearly was. Suppose the
Senate adopts a substi'ute aud sends it to the
House, aud tne House rejects that substitute, was
a competent for the Sena'e then to take up the ori
ginal bill and pass it ? Would any gentleman con
tend that it would be 7 Was it not clearly beydud
the power ot the Senate to do auy such thing 7
Mr. Williams of Terrell, took the eame view of
Mr Slaughter.
Mr. Stiles again spoke aud urged the position
previously taken.
M-. Colquitt should vote against the bill of the
House whenever it might come np, but it was clear
to him that the decision of the Chair was right.
Th? yeas and nays were called upon, sustaining
tbe decision of tbe chair and resulted; yeas 18, nays
30. 8o the decision ot the chair was sustained.
I ana not parliamentarian enough to c mteat this
dechion, but it appears to me teal oommon sense
ia clearly opposed to it, if tne Rules and the Con
etitution mean anything.
Mr. Harris, of Worth, then called theprevioui
question upon agreeing to the report of the com
mittee, the effect of v, hich was to cut off debate and
amendments. Tbe yeas and nays were called for
by Mr. GiDsod, and lesulted : yeas 46; uays 23.
Oo the question “Bhail the main question be now
put 1” toe yeas and nays were required aud being
taken, it appeared that no quorum voted.
The roll was then called, when it appeared that a
quorum was present.
Mr. and aughter moved that the Messenger and Door
Keeper be instructed to take charge of the door
aud allow uo Senator to leave lhe Chamber, except
by permission of the Senate.
A confusion of motions here arose which was
wholly incomprehensible to the reporter. In the
midst, though, Mr. Slaughter got the fl ror and went
into a long and indignant tirade agaiuet the ba: ks,
and gave notice that the Governor wae determined
some acti n should be had in this matter of the
banks, and would call an extra session if the Jjegie
lature adjourned without acting on the case and
giving him the power to punish the banks for their
defiance of the laws of the land. He would give
the Governor uli the support at his command to en
able him to carry out his purpose.
Mr. Stuobs replied in a spirited speech. He in
sieted that the friends of the banks ou this floor bad
ootne forward and presented and voted for a bill
that placed it enlire.y in the power of the Governor
to enforce the law against the banks. There was
no dereliction on their part, and he challenged
members to show that there was. They had made
every concession, and bad right on their side, and
were ready tc go before the country.
Mr. Gibson claimed the i ight to reply to the Sena
tor from Dougherty, wuo had made eome unautho
rised allusions to himself.
Mr. S.augbter withdrew his motion in order to re
move the ground of debate, aud thereby prevent a
reply from Mr. Gibson.
Mr. Pope renewed the motion, and Mr. Gibson
replied The motion of the friends of the Banks
had been alluded to and condemned. Thofle mo
tions were legitimate aud they were driven to make
j them by the attempt to gag the opponents f the
bill and crush out discussion by a call of the pre
vious question. The very brute had the right to
complain when he was trampled upon. Not con
tent with the previous question, they had actually
moved to shut up and imprison Senators and deny
them the right of locomotion. Was such an outrage
ever before attempted upou freemen ? Some sharp
words occurred between the Senators from Rich
mond and Dougherty, during which the latter was
gesticulating fiercely with his clenched fist, and de
claring that no man should speak of him disre
spect tuliy. The debate and turmoil subsided,
when
Mr. Hill, of Sumter, moved to adjourn sine die.
Tne Chair ruled the motiou out of order.
Mi . Hill then moved to adjourn till Monday morn
ing.
The Chair ruled that that was equivalent to an
adjournment sine die, and consequently out of or
der.
Mr Hill, then moved to adjourn, a3 the hour ap
poiuted oy the rule had arrived.
Ruled out by the Chair.
The previous question was oalled on a motion to
agree to the report of the Committee on the bill.
S- etained : yeas, 57, nays, 20.
Mr. Ni s, es desired to know if there was not a rule
that required the Senate to adjourn at 9$ o’clock,
and it so by what authority had that rule been: eet
aside without a vote of two thirds 7
I Ihe chair said no motion to adjourn had been
j mace.
I Mr. Hill, of Sumter, said he had made the motion
a half aozen times, but the Chair would take no
BOt'oe of him, and had once ruled him out of order,
j Mr. Stiles then said, with great excitement:
j Then, sir, there is no rule to keep me here and I
, shall leave the Chamber. Mr. Stiles and eome
other opponents of the bill then retired.
The bill was put upon its passage, and the yeas
anu nays being called, resulted: yeas, 56, nays, 13.
The eC*no from beginning to end was ainoDg the
most ex rite 4 that ever occurred in the Legis atuce
of Georgia, and at one time it appeared that it was
impossible to quell the strife. I learn that Gov.
Brown bad, already, his proclamation calling the
Legislature together Monday morning ii the bill
should fail.
Thus was it, that, under Executive dictation and
in at fiance o* the rules of the aate and the con
stitution of the State, this outrageous bill was forced
into the form a law.
It is now lUj( o’clock P. M., and the reading of
biiis went on ; but it was generally understood tha’
i; was impossible to enroll them, while amendments
were offered to every bili and adopted eo as to make
iLs success impossible. It ia unnecessary, there
fore, to make a no e upon them.
At 11 o’clsck a resolution was adopted for the ap
pointment ot a committee of two to co-operate with
a House committee to inform the Governor that
both houses were now ready to adjourn. -
The Cnair, (Mr. Colquitt) instructed the Secretary
uot to transmit the resolution until the Senate were
ready to adjourn.
A resolution complimentary of the President, Mr.
Geary, wae offered by Me. Paua and adopted. Re
peated caiii* were m*ue for the President* bat he”
was cot for-booming.
Mr. W iiiiams, of Terreli,offered a ■ esolutioc com
plimentary cf the Hon. Wm. M. Brown, President
pro tern. No response. B'miiar resolutions were
aieo aoopted in regard to tho other officers of the
Senate.
Mr. Guerry resumed the Chair before the adjourn
ment, ana took a feeling and affectionate farewell
of the Senate. With the close of the present session,
he remarked, closed hie public life, in pursuance ot
a purpose long since entertained.
Mr Terhuue, the Secretary, also tendered his
thanks in an appropriate manner.
Mr. Brewster, the Messenger, and Alread, the
Do r Keeper also responded to calls.
The excitmeut subsided, Me pra. Stiles, Billups
Tucker and Hill oi Sumpter, all responded hand
somely to calls upon them.
The House waa ia a good humor throughout the
session and some rich and amusing scenes occcred,
but I have already trespiesed sufficiently upon your
space.
Both houses continued in eesrioa (for the purpose
of enrolling ana signing bil s; ULti! 2 j o’clock, .Sun I
day morning, at which hour the Legislature < f 1858 I
adjourned without a day. S.
Distressing Accident near Jacksonville, !
Fla.—We learn that whi e a party of young adits
were on a visit to Hal day’s steam saw miil near
Jacksonville, a few days ince three of them—
Misses? Jane Dupont, Kate Ferris, and Doggett
- severely irj rred, to wit: Miss Dogger’s dress
comic* in contact with the machinery, she w as drawn
towards the works before they couia be stopped, and
had ter back and spine seriously hurt. In etriving
th extricate her from her perilous situation, Miss
Dupont bad her arm broken and Mias Ferris receiv
ed ecveral eevere braise?.— Nap. Rep.
Gene ralßcott.—The veteran and honored Gen
eral Winfield Scott is expected as a passenger in
tne Marion, which will be due in this city on Satur
day morning 18th inst-. and will leave in the Isabel,
for Havana, on the 19th inst.
The time and circumstances of the visit will not
permit full and formal demonstrations of respect
and admiration, such as Charleston, aEd the State
would de ight to render to one so worthy.
The old Chief, however, will find, we doubt not,
a warm reception and many a cordial salutation.—
Char. Cour %
Medicine or no Medicine.—Dr. Jacob Bigelow
hasjost pnb ished a work on the “Rationale of
Medicine,” in which he says :
“I sincerely believe that the unbiased opinion of
most medical men of sound judgment and long ex
perience ia made ud, that the amount of d°ath and
disaster in the world would be lees, If all diseases
were left to itself, than it dow is ut.der the multi
form, reckless and contradictory modes of practice,
good and bad, with whioh practitioners of adverse
denominations carry on their differences at the m
pease of their patients.”
WEEKLY
AUGUSTA, GA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, DEC. 15, IS3S-
The President's Message this morning eccu
pies all our available space, to tbe exclusion of our
usual variety,
Hillsborough Military Academy.
We commend to the attention of our reader tbe
advertisement of the above named Institution, local
ted at Hillsborough, North Carolina, which will bo.
opened on the 12th of January next. The discipline,
course of studies, terms, Ac., are amply set forth in
in ths advertisement. The chief superintendents
are represented as experienced and capable.
Cherokee Baptist College.
The next session of this Institution, located at
Casaville, Ga., will open on the 14th January next.
For terms, expenses, and other particulars, see ad”
vertisemeut.
Adjournment of the Legislature.
The entire population of the State, should, if they
do not, rejoice at the announcement of the adjourn
ment of the Georgia Legislature. We confess, we
feel sincere pleasure in proclaiming the fact, and we
as sincerely hope tbe State may never be disgraced
by such another. It is indeed humiliating, to any
man in whose bosom a spark of State pride exists’
to reflect that such a body ever disgraced the legis
lative halls of the State. Wanting in capacity and
patriotism, the most acceptable service they could
have rendered the State, would have been never to
have organised.
Pick.Porkets.
We are informed that one of the light fingered
gentry, successfully performed his manipulations,
upon the pocket of one of our citizens on Sunday
afternoon,’ at the Post Office, by which be appro
priated between forty and fifty dollars to his own
use. Those who have money in their pockets,
should be on their guard and keep out of crowds.
Fntnl Accident nt Waynesboro’.
We regret to learn that a gentleman named W.
Scott Williams was run over by a train of cars,
on Wednesday iast, at Waynesboro” Depot, and so
severe'y injured that lie has since died of his
wounds. From ths most reliable information we
can gather, it seems that the unfortunate man was
in the aotof crossing a side track, to reach the pas
senger train when he tripped and fell immediately
in front of an approaching train, which passed over
his leg, crushing and mangling it terribly. The
limb was amputated, but he continued to sink ra
pidly, and expired at an eaily hour Friday morn
ing.
Mr. W., wo learn was connected with the house
of Johnson & Hamilton, New York. He was a
young man, about twenty six years of age, a na
tive of this State, (bora in Montioello,) and has re
latives in this city. His father’s family, with other
relatives, reside in Greenviile, Ga.
I'lnnucial Eeliniates.
We are indebted to the Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury for a copy of the annual report of the
Hon. Howell Conii, Seoretary of the Treasury, to
Congress. From his estimates of the appropria
tions which will be required for the support of the
Government during the next fiscal year, (beginning
with the Ist of July next and ending on the 80th
June, I860.) including firmer appropriations appli
cable to the service.of that year, ($20,976,631,) it
appears that the entire amount required is estima
ted at $73,217,947. The following table shows the
several heads of expenditure :
Civil list, foreign intercourse, and
miscellaneous, including expenses
of collecting the re venue from sales
of public lands and expenses of
courts $11,629,535 11
To supply deficiencies .n the revenues
of the General Post Office 6,382,900 00
Pensions 852,000 00
Indian Department 1,866,419 49
Army proper, &e., including miscel
laneous objects 15,658,386 28
Military Academy 185,938 00
Fortifications, ordnance, Ac 2,165,766.‘10
Naval establishment 13.500,370 80
Total $52,241,315 68
To tbe estimates are added ntate
ments showing:
1. Tit 9 appropriations for the fiscal
year ending J une 30, 1860, made
by former acts of Congress, of a
specific and indefinite character, as
follows, viz .
Miscellaneous, including expenses of
collecting revenue
from custom $5,624,419 14
Compensation to the Gene
ral Post Office for
mail services 700,000 00
Arming and equipping the
militis .* 200,000 00
Civilizationofjndiana-.-. 10,000 00
Interest bn the publiodebt 1.902,314 36
—__ 8,497,724 50
2. The existing appropria
tions, part of Which
are required for the ‘
payment of the liabili
ties of the present fis
cal year, but which
will not be drawn from
the Treasury until af- . .
ter J une 30,1859, and
the balance applied to
the service of the fiscal
year ending June 30,
1860, viz:
Civil list, foreign inter
course and miscellane
ous -$4,270,957 24
Interior Department, (pen
sions aud Indian) 1,603,602 83
War Department - 3,361,097 76’
Navy Department 3,243,255 45
Total $73,217,947 46
At an election for Irireotors of the Bank of Au
gusta, on Monday last, the following named gen
tlemen were eleoted:
John Bones, M. Wilkinson,
Robert Campbell, John Davison,
11. H. Campbell, 11. Moore,
Wo. Shear, Jas. Brown,
R. A. Reid, Jas. W. Davies..
And at a meeting of the Board yesterday, John
Bones was re elected President for. the ensuing
year.
Governor of South Carolina. —The Charles
ton Mercury of Saturday says : —The Legislature
yesterday elected, on joint ballot, Col. Wm. EL
Gist, of Union Dietriot, Governor of South Caro
lina for the succeeding term of two years. Col.
Gist was for many years a member of the Senate
and in 1848 was Lieutenant Governor, during the
term of Gov. Seabrook. We believe that he never
qualified as Lieutenant Governor, but continued in
his Senatorial seat, where he served for several
years subsequently. Col. Gist is very widely known
throughout the State as a man of high honor and
character.
Brief Honey Moon.—On Saturday night last a
man, who booked himself as John G. Berry, ar
rived with his wife at Piedmont, Va. On Sunday
morning he took the express train for Wheeling,
leaving his wife behind, but carrying off her watch
and money. It was a runaway match .and Bhe had
only been married to him a week previous.
Interesting to the Coffee Trade. —All the
prominent firms in the coffee trade in New York
have, in a response to representations from the
trade in Baltimore, agreed to allow no tare on Rio
ooffee sold by them On and after the Ist of January
next, but to render bills to the purchasers at the
gross weight per weigher’s return.
Newspapers. —Some compiler of statistics esti
mates that there are 2,000 newspapers published in
the United States,oso in Great Britain andlreland,
56 in Russia and Poland, 30 in Asia, 26 in Portugal,
23 in Spain, lOln Australia.
Mormonism in New Jersey. —The Monmouth
(N. J ) Democrat says, that a man calling himself
Brigham Young, jr., has established himself in
Ocean county, and called his piaoe ‘’New Utah,” or
“Little Sslt Lake.” He has also induced three silly
women to join him, as a starting point. in his etock
of wives.
Interesting to the Catholic Church —The
Spanish government has laid before the Cortes a
bill for restoring to. tie clergy and the church their
former possessions. Not only the property of the
secular clergy, lost by the revolution of 1855, is
probably to be returned, butaiao that of convents,
which had been suppressed in former years , and
indemnification promised lor ah that had already
been sold in accordance with the law of 1855. The
total sum amounted to more than 3,000,000,000
reals, or about $150,000,009.
The Tide Setting Back —Last week a caravan,
consisting’of five wagons, laden with men, women
and children, passed through Wytheville returning
to Halifax county, Va., from Texas, whither they
emigrated about a year ago. Another party return.
iDg from Texas to Dinwiddle county, Va., paaaed
through the same town. The negroes, with the
“emigrants,” seemed particularly rejoiced at return
ing to “old VirgiEia,’’
‘Sale of a Circus.— lt is stated that Dan Rice,
the American humorist, has sold out his-interest in
the establishment known as “Dan Rice’s Great
Show,” of which he owned two-thirde. It is also
stated that ho received $25,000 in cash and a tract
of land in Texas containing 17,744 acres, on which
he intends to settle many poor families.
Novel Suit. —A young man in Cincinnati has
sued a surgeon for $20,000 damages for nnnecessari
ly cutting off hia ieg. He allegee that ether was
given him while in the hospital, and advantage ta
ken of his unconsciousness for a nice operation.
Dry Rot in Cotton —The last Lauderdale
(Miss.) Republican contains a prize essay on the
above subject, delivered by Dr. Peyton King at the
recent fair oi the Lauderdale County Agi icultnra
and Mechanical Society. He comes to the coaclu
sions that:
The dry ,rokprimarily and mainly proceeds from
diseased or faulty seed ; that dry weather very
much promotes it, and seasonable weather checks
or retards it; thirsty cr manured land is favorable
to it; and it will regularly increase more or less so
long as the present diseased seed are planted ; that
the great body of seed now planted are diseased ;
and that to eradicate the rot, seed must be obtained
free from it.
Judge Ruffin, has been elected, by the Legislature
of North Carolina, Chiei Justice, in piaoe of Judge
Nash, lately deceased.
Floggino in the Austrian Army.—By order of
the Emperor of Austria, the right hitherto excer
cised by military commandants to inflict corporeal
punishment has been curtailed. For the future no
comma Ming officer of a regiment can order more
than thirty blows with a cane or biroh to be given,
and no chef d'eecadron or eaptain of a company
more than twenty.
The Blare Trade—Tbe “Wanderer.”
The Savannah Republican of yesterday, (Mon
day,) contains the following notice of the yacht
“ Wanderer,'’ arid her successful voyage in the
3lave trade, and the subsequent events developed
in that city:
The “Wanderer.” —The rumor which we an
nounced in the Republican, of Saturday, relative to
the landing cf a cargo of Africans on ths coast or
Islands near Brunswick, we regret to learn, is borne
out by many circumstances, which, though not
strictly legal proof, are sufficient to carry conviction
to any mind, that this unlawful deed has been per
petrated. The landing of the Africans was the ab
sorbing subject of conversation on Saturday, the
paragraph in the Republican being the first incima
tion that our citizens bad of the occurrence; and
ail sorts of rumors were afloat, as to who were in
terested, bow it was dune, what were thepr, fi’s,
-and a hundred other things, wich nothing but ru
mor could originate. The report of the landing
having come to the ears of Jos Ganahl, Eeq., Dis
trict Attorney, who being already cognizant of the
fact that there were some suspicious characters in
town, made further investigations, end found that
three phreons bad arrived in the Florida boat on
Wednesday last in an apparently destitute o >ndition
and bad stopped at the Oity Hotel,’Where they had
kept quiet, under a pier, ot being indisposed, until
Saturday, when to prepare, it is supposed, for leav
ing in the New York steamship, they visited the
clothing establishment of Mr. Win. O’Price, and
spent some S2OO for olotbing. Tuis fact directed
the suspicions of District Attorney Gauahl towards
them, and he felt warranted in going before Judge
Nichols of the United States District Court, and
taking the necessary oath for their arrest,
Their names, as registered at the City Hotel, are
Juan Bt Rajesta, N. A. Brown and Miguel Aguir
vi.all hailing from New Orleans. The last name,
was first registered Miguel R jres, but Rajres was
afterwards scratched out by running tne pea
through it, and Agnirvi written after it. Upon
their arrest, Mr. Brown, an Americau, appeared as
spokesman ; the other two apparently were Span
iards, and could neither speak nt.r understand En
glish. Mr. Biowu, upon being addressed as Cap
tain, replied that he was not a Captaia, was in a
strange plac.-, where so lar from having friends he
really had no acquaintances. As Soon as it was re
ported arourd that tbe arrest had been made, Mr.
Gauahl was approached to know what bail was ne
cessary, to which he replied that it was rot a bail
able case, as the arrest was for piracy. Tney were
put in jail, and we undeistand are provided with
everything of the beßt. Mr. Ganahl, assisted oy U.
S. Marshal D. H. Stewart, is using every exertion
to obtain all the evidence bearing on the case ; and
for this purpose has sent to Brunswick to elicit in
formation current about the tra (action in time for
the examination, which will probably be on Thurs
day next. We (eel assured that Mr. Ganahl will
do ail in his power to have jus ioe meted out ; and
if upon trial they are tound guilty, such an example
will be made of them, as wilt put a stop to the slave
trade, at least, in his Disti ict.
A tug was dispatched to Brunswick to tow the
Wanderer to Savannah, but we learn that the ship
master, who had been left on board, and in charge,
retused to give her up—acting, it i supposed, un
der the advice ot the citizens of that piece. We
hear that tbe Collector of the port of Darien, who
has been on board the Wanderer, says that sue has
no appearance of ever having had slaves in her.
What was done with the negroes, seems to be as
important a question as any of the toregoing, and
rumor has been quite as busy with it. They weie
landed, we hearonJekyl Island, for which privi
lege it is said the negro tre.ders paid $15,000, and
that a steamboat from this city went down and
brought 150 of them past Savannah and up the river
to a plantation, from whence they were soattered
over the country. It is said the cargo consisted of
350, but it is difficult to believe so small a vessel
oould hold so many.
It will be recollected that this Yacht was arrested
last summer near New York on suspicion of being
fitted out for the slave trade ; but there was not suf
ficient evidence to convict her, and she was released-
Capt. Curry, ot South Carolina, was then in com
mand, as he is now, and staled that he had bought
her for a pleasure yacht, which was borne out by
her elegant appointments and small tonnage.
After beiDg released at New York, she oleared for
Trinidad, and thence to St. Helena, from whence
she now hails, and accounts for being without reg
ular papers now, by stating that this government
had no Consul there, aid she oould not obtain any.
Capt. Curry has papers purporting to be from the
native officials at St. Helena, but they lack the ne
oeasary seals
A gentleman in this city, who knows the builder
of the Wanderer, informs us that the latter was con
fident she” would never be engaged in carrying
slaves herself, but wou and accompany a slaver, and
when r. cruiser appeared, made all sad, and her rak
ish appearance would direct the attention of the
cruiser towards her, when she would load the oruieor
away, and attar getting the latter far enough off the
I track, would allow herself overhauled and upon be
ing found all right, then part from the cruiser and
seek the slaver. ’ “
It is with much regret that we are compelled to
believe that thin act has been perpetrated on Geor
gia boil. It has been our pride, to know, that while
the fanatics at the North were violent, in their
denunciations of our “peculiar institutions',” and
our sister States of the South were trying to lead uo
iuto favoring the extreme issi es ol the day, that Geor
gia stood firm in her conservative ‘principles; but
we oannot now call upon other States to do as we
do, we have broken the laws of our own land and
the laws of nations. We do uot utter these senti
ments in the expectation thut any body's mind wiil
be changed by them, because uo one has ever en
tered the slave trade to establish a principle, but
purely tor the money that can be made at it. Tne
deed baa been committed, and while but tew are
interested, the community will be visited by the
odium that such a transac ion will be sure to create.
Religious Persecution in Norway — M. Lich
tle, a Roman Chatholic prieet of Christiana, Ncr
way, has been condemned to a fine of .twenty-six
dollars, fur haviDg allowed a Protestant lady to ab
jure her faith and join his flock, without first obtain
ing the consent of the Lutheran clergy.
The ixiGs,ai.uoK Ba.k Rubbers Akejested.—
George Fish, Michael O’Brian and Altred Wallace,
alias “Morral,” have been arrested on evidence
leading tojthe belief that they were the burglars
who entered the Uuion Bank of Kinderhook, N It.,
on the 15th September, and stole some $10,00(1 in
gold and bills.
A Female Convict.— Sarah Jaue Rose, charged
with feloniously placing rocks on tbe track of the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, has been oonvicted
before the Cireuic Court of Marion county, Va., and
sentenced to the penitentiary for three years.
Clouds of Butterflies. —The Charlottesville
(N. C.) Democrat says that in the western part of
the State, during the mouth of August, at Ready
Patch Gap, and cloud of butterflies passed over that
section for eleven days continuously. As bo ex
pressed it, “there were considerable more than
ninety thousand millions,” causing many of the
settlers of that region to imagine thut the last day
had come.
France and the United States. —The Patrie,
a French paper, protests against the doctrine that
Europe is not to interfere with polilical affairs on
the continent, and scouts the “Monroe doctrine.”
It concludes a long article upon the subject, as fol
lows :
The United States will cot effect in the world
what powerful Russia, with her army of a million
of men, ifcith her fleets, with the genius of her
Czars, and with the discipline and the tenacity of
her inhabitants has not been able to do in Europe.
They will not succeed in contesting her legitimate
share ot influence wherever she may usefully exer
cise it. Wo do not at all intend to oppress them,
but they must know that Europe will not allow her
self either to be excluded or humiliated. It is ne
cessary that they should know that we will not aban
don either in the Atlantic, the Miditertanean or the
Black sea the cause of right and of civilization.
The Assessment of Philadelfhia for 1859.
The Board of Revision of Philadelphia have com
pleted the assessment for 1859, and the amount of
taxable property is represented to be $153,600,000
real estate, and $2,697,669 personal property, ma
king an aggregate of $155,697,669. This is an in
crease oven last year of about three millions of dol
lars. The number of taxabies this year is set down
•”at 103,850, a decrease of 3129 since 1858. This de
crease in the number of taxabies is found in the
manufacturing wards, and doubtless results from
the revulsion of business within tlie last year, whioh
has driven those out of work into the oountry for
employment.
American College in Rome. —The New York
Tribune states that collections are to be taken up
in the Catholic churches of that city next Sunday to
aid in building the proposed American college in
Rome. It adds:
Over a year ago a weal'hy, humane gentleman in
the Interior ot this State proposed building the
above at a ooat of SIOO,OOO, provided one
hundred subscribers oouid be found to subscribe
$i,060 each, and headed the list himself with a
thousand dollars. Soon after he died, and only
thirteen persons more were added to the list. But
now Archbishop Hughes comes to the “rescue,”
and proposes to rate the whole fund on Sunday
next. The Pope, it seems, heartily favors the plan,
and already the ground had been bought for $43,000
—the building lately oocupied by the French sol
diers.
Departure cf the Schooner Susan. —The
Mobile Tribune of Friday says:—The schooner
Susan, with her passengers aboard, went to sea
early Wednesday morning. After leaving the
wharf Saturday night she proceeded to the lower
fleet, and on Sunday took aboard her water. The
Revenue cutter chased the schooner, but the Susan
gained on her, and the cutter returned to the Bay.
At last accounts the McClelland was fast aground.
A fresh northerly wind has been blowing einoe
Wednesday morning, and the schponer is now
probably some two hundred or two hundred and
fifty miles on her voyage. She goes freighted with
a precious cargo. May the breezes be prosperous
and the fates propitious 1
Our information is such as authorizes us to pre
dict that the passengers by the Susan will land in
Central America without opposition from any quar
ter. The British and American fleets at San Juan
del Norte cannot interfere with the plans and pros
pects of the emigrants.
Hon. Pryor Lea, formerly a member of [Congress
from Tennessee, is writing a series of articles in the
papers, advocating a Rail Road from Aransas Bey,
in that State, through Mexico, to the Pacific ocean
He calls it the Central Transit Route. Its length,
he says, is about7oo miles—ls 9in Texas, end 550
in Mexico. It is advocated as becoming the best,
cheapest and shortest rente for the commerce of the
world, between the Atlantic and Pacific oceanß.
Extensive Forgeries at St. Louis.— Forgeries
amounting to several thousand dollars have been
recently perpetrated successfully at St. Louis by a
sharper dressed as a countryman, who obtained, in
genioasly, the checks of various firms, for Bma'j
amounts, in exchange for specie, from which he af
terwards adroitly forged checks for large sums. He
escaped with his plunder.
The number of steamers and sail vessels lost on
Lake Superior since the discovery of copper in that
regin in 1845, is fifteen, the value pf which, (with
their cargoes,) is $192,000. The number of lives
loet was ninety-five.
First Payment for Mount Vernon.—On the
2d instant Miss Ann Pameiia Cunningham, the re
gent oi the “Mount Vern n Ladies’ Association,”
cansed to be paid to John A. Washington the Bum
of fifty-men thousand dollart, with interest there
on, the said sum being the amount due on the first
installment. The payment was made through
Geo. W. R'ggs, Esq., of Washington, the treasurer
of the association.
The Reaction. —There U no surer index of the
change of public sentiment in Massachusetts than
is contained in the Boston Courier, a strong op
ponent of the anti-slavery party. It states that its
subscription list has increased over fifteen hundred
in two months, and is now larger than any journal
of its class in New England.
The Nicaragua “Kmigrauta.”
The rumor has been current since Sunday mc-ruing
that at 12 o clock od Saturday night a schooner, tav
ing on board some two hundred and fi ty Nicaragua
“emigrants,” was towed from our wharves into tbe
bay by a steamer. This rumor, which was at first
vagae.y hinted, ’8 now considered a certain*?.
The vessel in whidh the expedition is supposed to
nave sailed is the Susan, thr*e-masted cchooner.
We leaih that application was made at the Custom
House on Saturday to have her elea:ed for Key
W>et, H. Maury, master, which was refused—soma
circumstances attending the application baing re
carded by the Collector of the Port as suspicious.
Gen. W alker and bia band of adventurers have
probably succeeded in making gx od their passage
to the Gulf; but whether they will reach Nicaragua
roust depend very much upon chance. —Mobile
Register, 7ttiinst. *
Mobile papers of Wednesday, the Bth inst., etate
that the schooner Susan was intercepted in the Bay
by the revenue cutter of the Government. The com
mander of the Susan, Mr. Maury, gives the follow
ing statement of tbe transaction :
While beatirg down Mobile Bay on Monday,
December Gth, at half-past 12 P. M., the schooner
Susan, H. Maury master, to the northward of the
Fleet, was brought to and boarded by the U. S.
Revenue Cutter Robert McLciland, J. J. Morrison,
commander. The boardiDg officer was 8. B. Cald
well, i3 i Lieut* uant cf said cutter, who demanded
to see the schooner’s papers, upon which Mr. Maury
replied that he had not cleared, but was bouud into
the Fleet to get ready for sea, the schooner then
having her sgual dying for a water boat. Lieut.
Caldwell then returned to tbe cutter.
Soon afterwards he (Lieut. C) revisited the
schooner, and claimed her as a prize in the ua oe of
the Unit* ‘! Stites, and ordered the schooner to re
turn to Mobile. He ordered the sohoouer to be
tilled away and the helm t be put up, whereupon
Mr. Maury, master, denied his right to do so, and
immediately brought the schooner to anchor ; bu f
.Mr. Maury stated to Lieut Caldwell that he hbd
no objection to an tfficerof the cutter remaining on
board as a guest unul the schoont r was ready for
sea.
Lieut Caldwell then fired a pistol as a signal, and
the cutter immediately sent another boat in com
mand of Lieut. Geo. F. White, who came along
side, .mid staled as the orders of Ca, t. Morrison to
Lieut Caidweli to take the schooner to Dog River
Ber and anchor, and if he wanted an armed crew
he (Capt. Morrison) would send it to him Lieut.
Caldwell replied that he wouid go back to the cut
ter and see the captaiu. Lieut. White, with six
men, remained on board of the schooner.
Soon atlerwards Lieut. Caldwell, accompanied
by Capt. Morrison, returned to the schooner with
arms (pistols and cutlasses) in thetr boat. Captain
Morrison, upon stepping on board, inquired, “Who
commands this vessel?’’ To which Mr. Maury re
plied, *T aiu the commanderthereupon Captain
Morrison claimed the sohoouer as a prize to the
United States.
Mr. Maury asked under what authority liß made
the capture. • Capt. Morrison, replied that he did so
as a government officer, and by virtue of orders
from ihe Custom-house at Mobile, uot to let the
schooner pass below Dog River Bar. Mr. Maury
replied that such a course would be illegal, and
that he would most assuredly resist any such an at
tempt. Mr. Maury also gave orders forbidding any
armed me.ii coming on board, and stated to Capt.
Morrison that he intended taking his vessel into the
Fleet. Capt. Morrison then said that by virtue cf
the Custom house orders he would sink the schooner
Susan if she undertook to get under way from where
she then lay. After some further conversation be
tween Capt. Morrison and Mr. Maury, in winch the
former expressed his determination to take the
schooner to Dog River bar as a prize to the United
States ; and the latter expressed himself also deter
mined not to be taken a* r„ prize, iuasmuch as he
had violated no law. Capt. Morrison and Lieut
Caldwell returned to the cutter, lc&viog on board
White as a guest of Mr. Muury. The schooner theu
got under way and proceeded’on her course to the
Fleet in Mobile Bay. The cutter also got under
way, and stood the westward with her starboard
taokson board, the wind being to the southward.
Harry Maury, Mast. Sc’r Susan.
Panic Reports.
Go?. Brown has issued the following Proclama
tion, calling upon the officers of the various Banks
throughout the Slate, to make a return of the con
dition of their respective institutions :
To all and singular, the Presidents and Ca hiera of
Banks and Banking Institutions in the State of
Georgia:
Agreeably to an Aotof the Gsneral Assembly,
eutitled “An act to change, point out aud regulate
the manner in which the returns of the several
Banking Institutions of this State shall hereafter be
made, approved February 21, 1850,” I do hereby
oall upon you and require each and every one of
such Banks, and Bankiug Institutions,to make and
transmit to me, within thirty days of the date here
of, a just and true return, under the oath or affir
matioD of ita President and Cashier, of the state aud
condition of such Bank or Banking Institution,
with the names of its President and Dlreotora, aud
a list of its Stockholders, ou the day of the regular
weekly meeting of the President and Directors
thereof next preceding tbe date of this requisition.
And it is also hereby required, that each aud every
one of such Banks and Banking Institutions, shall
set forth, as now required by law, in their renpeo
tive returns, the good, bad and dcubttul debts of
each respectively ; aud that each of them shall state
in their respective returns, in a separate item, the
amount, of specie in ita vaults, and bona fide the
property of the Bank, at the time of the said week
ly meeting of it-3 President and Directors,
i In pursuance of the 11th Section of An Act of the
Grneral Assembly of this State, parsed the 22d of
December 1807, entitled “An Act to provide against
the !o;feiture of the several Bank Charters in this
State on account of Lon-Bpeciejpayment for a given
time, and tor other purposes therein named,’’ it is
further required that tbe President and Cashier of
such lUuk or Banking Instituted in their affidavits
to their respective returna’aa herein belore requir
ed, shall state that the Bank of which they are offi
cers has not, by itself, ire officers o** agents, in any
particular, violated the provisions of the last recited
Act.
Given under my hand and seal of the Executive
Department, at the Capitol in Milledgevilie, this
6th day ot December 1858.
Joseph E. Brown.
By the Governor,
11. H. Waters, Sec y Executive Department.
Pacific Unilrond.
We learn from Washington that the bill which
was introduced by Mr. Curtis, of lowa, in the
House of Representatives, Monday, to secure the
construction of a central Paoifio Railroad, provides
for branohes from two points on the navigable wa
ters of the Missouri river, one opposite to lowa,
and the other opposite to Missouri, the two branch
es to converge and unite within two hundred miles
of the Missouri river, and thence run to the naviga
ble waters of the Sacramento. The usual appro
priation of the alternate eections within six miles
are to appropriated, and the government is to ap
propriate to the contractors twelve thousand dol
lars per mile, to be reimbursed to tbe government
ia transportation of mabs and military stores. The
construction to be c fibred by the President to the
best bidder, as proposed by Senator G win’s bill.—
This plan starts at the outer rim of our present
railroad connections, and terminates on the naviga
ble waters of the centre of the California popula
tion. It ia claimed that it would be equally conve
nient to slave and free States, and torm connec
tions with all of our Pacific territories. It would
follow the emigrant route up to the Platte, through
Utah, and be sixteen or eighteen hundred miles
long. The bill was reterred to the select oommittee
on tbe subject of the Pacific Railroad, which was
revived for the purpose of its consideration.
The Electoral College. —The following fig
ures show the vote of the next Electoral College,
in case Oregon and Kansas are admitted :
Slave Slates. No. Votes
Delaware 3
Maryland 8
Virginia 15
Norih Carolina 10
South Carolina 8
Georgia 10
Florida 3
Alabama 9
Mississippi • 7
Louisiana - G
Texas \
Tennessee 12
Kentucky 12
-\rkaiioan 4
Missouri 9
Total, 15 States-. 120
Add J 9 free States 18f>
Whoe, Col!eg6--30G
N'jces y. to choice. 154
Free Stater. No. Votes \
Maine 8
New Hampshire - 5
Vermont 5
Maaenchusetr.d -. 13
Rhode Island 4
Connecticut 6
New York -.35
NewJersey 7
Pennsylvania -27
Ohio ...23
Ind ana. .13
Illinois II
Michigan 6
Wisconsin 5
lowa i
Minneeota 4
Kansas 3
California 4
Oregon 3
Total, I9Btates—lßl
According to the Iste elections for Congress, the
following 8t ites have given popular majority for
I Ohio ‘23
J Pennsylvania 27
j Vermont 5
| Wisconsin 5
j Illinois 11
I Total 157
the Republicans:
Indiana 13
lowa 4 |
Maine 8 |
Michigau : 6 |
illa.-sacNu-e:ts. 13
New York 35
New Jersey
Three more than would be necessary to a choice,
with scarcely a doubt that New Hampshire, Rhode
Island,. Connecticut and Kansas will add their
eighteen votes to the number.
A New Enterprise. —The Journai of Commerce
learns that a company has been recently formed in
New York city, whioh proposes to obviate the de
cays, dangers and difficulties of the pa- sage ronnu
Cape Horn, by establishing a line of powerful tog
I steamers to tow vessels from ooe&n to ocean through
the Straits of Magellan ; and that, provided tto go
vernment of Chile agrees to certaio proposals which
the company has already addressed to them, steps
will be immediately taken to carry the design into
execution. The projectors of the enterprise are very
sanguine of its success, and assured of its beneficial
results. They assert that the passage of the Straits
may be made quickiy and safely by vessels of any
tonnage, with the assistance of steam tugs, and they
calculate that the saving of time lo vessels passing
the Straits, as compared with “ doubling the Cape”
wou'd, on an average, be fully 29 days, basing their
calculation on Lieut. Maury's statement that the
average time required for rounding Cape Horn is
25 days. They calculate that the saving of 20 days
in interest and in insurance on vessel and cargo
and on wear and tear of vessel, &0., would be not
less than $1,600,000.
Efpect of Steam Fire Engines —The St. Louis
Insurance Company has announced that its fire rates
wll be reduced 25 per cent. This is a arge redne
tion ; and is put upon the ground that the introdno
tion of steam fire engines has diminished the risk
The Value cf Negroes A singular, but aocu
rate, way of estimating the price of field hands, says
the Savannah Republican, may be found in the
price ot cotton. For every cent a pound for cotton
a field baud will bring one hundred dollars ; for in
stance, the present price of cotton is 10 to 12 cents,
an i the price of a negro man is from a thousand to
twelve hundred dollars. The price of the latter
may not iluotuate as rapidly as cotton, but is not
the lees certain to follow an advance or decline of
any duration.
A Married Woman Elopes with Another
Man. — Her Husband Elopes mth the Coos. Toe
Cleveland (Ohio) Plaindeaier says:
A young German on tie West Side, a few weeks
ago, e oped with his employer's wife, and went to
Grand Rapide, Michigan, where they were married
The interesting pair look all the available articles
io the house with them, suoh aB spooos, linen, eto
The bereaved husband took the matter coolly, went
about his business and made no outward show oi
grief Last week his wife, having become sick ot
her new husband, left him and returned to her old
one, fetching with her the spoons, iraen, eto. Old
husband quietly welcomed her back to his bosom,
and the .woman oongratuiated herself on the pleas
-BDt upshot cf her looiisbness. But “phanoy her
nhealinks” when on awakening Sunday morning,
she ascertained that her husband had eloped the
nivht before with the hired girl, the pair takmg
with them the spoons, linen, eto., as t other pair bad
before them.
A Characteristic Mexican Battle.— There is
an announcement in New Orleans papere that To
bacco had fallen into the hands of the Libera s,
“afier fighting for seventeen days, with seven killed
on both sides.”
*A Mr. Cutting, ot Glendale, Mass., died recently,
by strangulation, a piece of meat having lodged in
hie throat, killing him in ten minutes.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
Rev. Daniel Kelsey has been elected President
of tbe Casaville Fema.e College, vice Rsv. Wm. A.
Rogers, resigned.
Two negro children were murdered in amo t
brutal and shocking manner by their mother in
Trenton, Ga., on the 27th ult.
On Tuesday last, in Savanuah ten shares of
Mediants’ &. Planters’ Bank stock sold for $97 per
share and thirty-three shares Planters’ Bank stock
for $92 per share.
New Counties.— -Four new counties have been
laid off during the present Session of the Legislature
“Clayton” from parts of Uenrv and Fayette—
“ Banks” from Hall and Ilaoeraham—Il*Q 1l *Q litinan”
from Stewart aud Randolph, and “Brooas” from
Lowndes and Thomas.
The Big Cotton Day.— Last Thursday was tho
big cotton day of the season. The etrtets we'-e
crowded with wagons, and cotton piled up. n the
side walks to tbe brauchea cf tho Bitads t-ees The
rush is now over, as but little has corns iu this
week. —Athens Banner.
Fir* -On Friday night iast, an out bouse upon
tbe premises of Mrs. Iklurph in Midway, ntar tb ; -i
city, was destro>ed by fire, in which tw . uej,r ichil
dren aged 7 aud 5 years veto uulorlunaieiy burnt
to death. Tho moilier was attending upon a sick
friend at another place; leaving the children al ue,
with the door tasteued.—Afif/crfgccJ.'u Recorder.
Cotton Blunt.— VVe learn from Mr. Albert
Marohuian, that he had tbe misfortune, last Weetx
of getting twenty-five nr thirty bales ot seed cotton
burnt. It wasmahouss andpene in the planta
tion. Mr. M. does not know how ths fire origina
ted. Sir. Marchman'ltves near Tarversvffie ii e
loss is soma two-thirds of hio entire cron.— Pulaski
Timet.
Rheumatism and Toothache —A friend in
forms us that, having Been it stated id a newspaper
the other day, that bruised hors -radish app.ted to
the wrist would cure rheumatism, neuralgia ..r
toothache, he resolved to try it at once, a lie *as
then suffering with a violent pfin in the shoulder.
He applied ii Vtoordiug to direction (on the tlJe
where jhe pain was located) and it cured him in e.
than fires minutes. It is worth tryiug. — Allans
Watchman.
A sad and fatal accident took place on one of the
freight trains ou the Southwestern Railroad, just
above Americus, iast Friday While the trim wi.b
in motion, one of the hands, named Scaibur.urh, in
the act of stepping from one car to another, slipped
aud fell betweeu them and ths wheels passed ( V
his legs, eeveritig both of them. The conductor of
the train knew nothing of the matter, and did not
miss Scarborough till after running eleven i> !
but meanwhile another train coming along took up
the unfortunate sufferer, who survived for only
about an hour after the ecoident. —Macon Tele
graph.
Another Warning. —Mr John Harris for many
years a citizen of this countiy, was fout and dend ou
the road side about nine miles below this plaoe on
Wednesday evening before last. Being very much
intoxicated bis h companion was unable to carry him
home al ine, and left him lor the purpose of procuring
assistance, but when he returned Harris was not to
be tound. A search was immediately instituted,*
but with no suocese until Friday morning following,
at which time ho was found ai above stated Tne
deceased was upwards of eighty years of nge.
This is another sad warning to bacchanalian revellers,
—Lawrenceviile News.
Steamer “Oak” Sunk. —We learn, with regret,
that thi6 steamer struck a snag some lit teen miles
below Macon ou last Sunday, on her downward trip,
aud sunk. We have not learned the particulars ot
the accident, but from a letter from Mr. Merritt to
Messrs. Rawls 6l Lathrop, we learn mai the hull will
be an entire loss ; the cargo (mostly flour and ba
con) ia but little damaged.
This loss falls heavy on our enterprising and en
ergetic townsman. Mr. Simon Merritt, who to the
principal owner of this boat.
The river between tho “Buszard Roost” and Ma
con is too bad for our large steamers, unless tho wa
ter is very high. The logs have tilled up the chan
nel so much that tho navigation of the river for for
ty miles to fifty miles (by water) below Macon, hi
exceedingly hazardous; and tho owners of the
steamers would dp well to abandon that pari tho
river until some means are adopted for clearing it*
out. —Pulaski Times.
Skillful Surgery.—We have been informed
that the folbwiug surgical operations were perform
ed on Saturday last, al the Infirmary of Dr Knott’s
Primary School of Medicine, belore his olat-a and
the Medioal gentlemen of the oity. Two of the sub
ject? we have seen since the operations, and they
appeared to be doing remarkably well. Tbe fiisfc
case was amputation of the thigh, sir ject t man
about 30 years of ago. Second, oxciarion and entire
removal of the left testicle aud appendages, sub
ject, negro man between 40 and 43 ycafe of ag*.
Third, trepanning head of a negro girl 7 yt-ars old,
for hydrocephalus; in the latter operation three
quarts of water were evacuated.
Weleardtbat chloroform was successfully used
on all these operations, and that the patient* mani
fested very hide, if any . consciousness ot p in. Os
course wa are uot capable of judging the K'icnunc
merits of such surgical pert, rm tnoed, Oul at 5 t
patients all eppuar tube di-ing well v-eju ’ge them
to have been skillfully treated.— Griffin South .
Good Pricks for Negrofs —At. a public sale of
the negroes belonging to the estate of Samuel F.
Dufl’ey, deceased, in this oity on Tuesday lust, the
following very good prides were obtained—tern*
twelve months’ credit :•
Jack 1C years old slllO
Elick 15 “ i -iOO
Charley 13 “ 1105
Henry 9 “ 957
Martha 11 “ 1130
Margaret, 10 “ I • J*o
Amanda 8 “ 910
KI leu 8 “ h>so
Arialine 7 “ 7-u
Emma 6 “ 561
Caroline 38 years old, and her 3 onihlren
under 5 1705
Caroline 28 years oid, and her two chil
dren 1905
Total -. $13,673
There were 21 negroes sold, iu all, of this euiafe,
the widow buying at commissioners’ valuation all
but the above. —Griffin South.
Atrocious Affair— About B o’clock on Sunday
night last, the Gth inst., two mgro men—o ,; e the
property of Mr. Perkins, tho other of Mrs. Keaton
—entered the house of Mrs Margaret Sadler, about
12 miles northeast of Baiuhridge, by breaking and. wn
the door, and commenced an attack on Mrs Sad
ler’s oldest daughter—aged about 18 y ears—oultirg
her on the arm and breast, and brui-iug her t e
but not woun- ing her mortally. Oue o* them next,
seized a gun from the rack and attempted to dis
charge it at Mrs. Sadler, hut finding it empty, com
menced beating her over the head with li, bending
the barrel and breaking off the breaching, so sev* re
were the blows. They also beat her with boards,
they had torn from the door, and cut her dreadfully
with knives. She survived only about two hours
after. The second oldest daughter made good her
escape, but two other children we e badly cut and
bruised-—one of them, a boy about 11 years old, i*
terribly mangled, and cannot possibly live. The
other is an infant, only three years old, wnich w.ll
probably recover.
A more fiendish and atrocious affair is almost?
without a parallel in tho annals of crime. The mur
derers, we are glad to learn, have been arrested,
and are safely lodged in jail in this place. M<> .
Sadler was a respectable, but poor woman, who
lost her husband—Mr Moses Sadler—about a year
ago, Her daughters, too, are above reproach.
This sad occurrence has spread a gloom over the
entire community.— Bainbridge Argun.
Sensible. —Two cotton p 1 enters are carrying on
a controversey in tho Pulaski Times, relat ve to
the ability ot the planter to set his own price on *l)ia
cotton and hold on to it till he gets it. We on ke
the following extraot from the lasi communicalK n,
signed “Big Creek,” which is marked by good old
fashioned horse sense:
I draw liberally myself on iny cotton crop, gone
rally, arid when the bills come due, what can 1 do
about pricing my cotton. I find merchants, negro
traders, and mule drovers are generally vr llmg to
extend ; Banks want their money to the day and
hour, and they are right. Then, sir, >ou ship to
your agents, and I assure you that if you participate
in those liberial advances, at thirty or ninety and yi,
you will never do much at pricing your on ton. I
will suggest to you a remedy fur your trouble in not
being able to prioe your cotton; get out of debt.,
owe nothing to any man, raise your pork, bora*-*,
and mules, and when your cotton is made, price It,
and if buyers don’t give the price you are indeoe.i
dent. I don’t do this myself, for I think I often
make money by going in debt, and often want to
draw on my crop. When Ido this, 1 take the
ohences, eeli my cotton to meet my dralta, and by
this means I keep my credit Rood for the next sea
son. Did you ever draw money on your cotton be
fore you sold it ? If you have not, try it once, you
have no idea how thankful I have felt to get enough
to answer my purposes in advance, and iately at
only 7 percent.
The Athens Faotory.—Tnis building is now
completed, and a portion of the machinery iu oporu
ti’in ; the remainder will be running by me first of
Jauuary.
Through the energy and en terpriee of Dr. J. 8.
Linton, the indomitaole agent or the company, the
building was completed and some of the machinery
going in a few days over twelve montha from the
day the former building was consumed by fire.—
What is still better, the old concern had paid the
original investment, back to the stock h- Idei *, amt
there was a sufficient surplus to rebuild and buy
machinery. It any m&n sa)S after this that eouth
ern manufactories do not pay, it is because they
have not such managers a* Dr. Linton. He Is a
“Southern Righto” man of the light rir.pe ; he unes
the rigip weapons in fighting the North, namely :
the development of Southern resources and rab
liehing Southern Manufactories. One such man is
worth more to the South than a regiment of a ga°ay
politicians who sit about the corners of the street
anjl bar-rooms and talk aboat dissolution, coffin,
regiments, war and blood-sbed.
The bui ding itself is a credit to the Architect,
Mr. James li Carlton, and the machinery is of the
latest improved patterns. The faotory has about
eighteen hundred spin ales ands rty looms An
experienced mechiniat iu the person of Mr. H. C.
Moody, has charge of the weaving department which
will be iu operation in January
After all, we do not know if the fire was not a
benefit to the company, as they have now a vastly
superior building and machinery.
Pans Him Around.
Our editorial cotempariee, far and near, may
perhaps prevent crime and misfortune, and aid the
cause of justice, by copying, or making a note of
the subjoined. During the last summer, a peroon
calling himself James W. Geary, came io this place
from Orange Spring, East Florida, and passed
some three or four months in this region He had
previously formed a casual acquaintance with an
estimable young lady of this place in East Florida,
where nothing was known to his prejudice, and
after prosecuting his suit here some months, and
satisfying her friends of his respectability and
wealth, succeeded in marryiug her While here,
he effected a contract for the purchase of Orange
Spring and Hotel in East Florida, and represented
that after a somewhat roving life and a Buccet-eful
quest of fortune in California, he had determined
to locate there for the remainder of bis life Ho
adverrieed the Hotel, bad a considerable amount
of printing d**ne, aod ordered supplies for it from
Savannah. About three weeks ago be took his
departure, leaving orders on his brother in law to
pay bis bile, and procurtd his endorsement to
drafts on New York, amounting to 1800 dollaia,
which he cashed at the Manufacturer's Bank. Alter
he had gone, doubts were nuggested by the l ank,
and a telegram to New York was answered “no
account with James VV. Geary.” He was followed
to Savannah —affected great surprise at the an
swer—said there must be a mistake. Mure tele
graphing was’had with no satisfactory result —and
meanwhile be dodged by way of Thunderbolt, es
caped by the Florida boat, having sent forward his
wife and servants by a previous steamer to Orange
Spring. While in Savannah, he had made ex
tensive purchases for Orange Spring Hotel, and
collected from odo of the banks a deposit of SSOO
under oath that he had lost the certificate. Ha
left the Florida boat at Fernandina, and has been
tracked over a devious route, under different
names, up into Southern Georgia, to Thomasviiie,
where he entered himself McGary, and collected
again from an Agency, with the certificate of de
posite, tne SSOO he had obtained from the Mother
Bank in Savannah on oath that he had loet the
certificate ; and after sundry other pecuniary viila
mee, he is traced up to Fort Valley, on the South-
Western Railroad, where he is lost eight of.
Brevity does not permit mentioLing half of
Geary’s villainies—even to robbing the children
He is undoubtedly one of the moet incorrigible vil
lains a-ive.
Geary, who was often in the office durirg his
sojourn in Macon, is about 5 feet 9 uohes b gh
etout—wore a heavy beard, very black, and a lux
uriant crop of hair, boib of which were dyed. He
bae a *car on bis forehead—another, as we are
told, in the back of his head, end a third on his
left shoulder. We suppose him to be about thir
ty-five years of age. His complexion is lights
uia conversation prompt and intelligent—appear
anoe that of a gentleman. Wears eye-glasses iu
reading.— Mann Tdegrtfk.y