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GOVERNMENT. -
.[ }•: I !•■ I 7 .1! SO N r>AVIS,
OK MISSISSIPPI.
ail:
IT. STEPHENS,
OK GEORGIA.
r THF. CONFEDERATE STATES.
n of La., Secretary of State.
; a,,.;' Ya.. Secretary of War.
j. r, of S. 0., Sec.'y of Treasury. i
of Florida, Secretary of Navy.
:ts. of Ala., Attorney-General. j
, of Texas, Postmaster-General. j
WEDERiTE COAOttESS—FIRST SESSION.
of the members of the j
manent Government ofj
J P. Beaj
j. VY Ran
fi.6. Men-
5. R. Mall
Til,is ii. \
JANUARY.
3d Mowfeyr, Chatham
*Flovd
FEBRUARY.
1st Monday,Clark
Luupkinf
2d Monday, Campbell
Dawson
3d Monday, Forsyth
tPolk
Glascock
Meriwether
W alto 11
4th Monday, Baldwin
Jackson
Miyni ot
Paulding
Taliaferro
Walker
JULY
1st Monday. Floyd*
AUGUST.
1st Monday, Lumpkin
2d Monday, Catnpbel
Clark
Dawson
3d Monday, Forsyth
Polk
Glascock
Meriwether
Walton
4th Monday .Baldwin
J ackson
Monroe
Paulding
Taliaferro
W alker
,M..\
list
Pei
, which meets in February
T ist- ii.sk (*) are members
igress..
IN ATE.
MISSOURI.
John B Clarke,
lv. L. E. Peyton.
NORTH CAROLINA.
George Davis,*
William T. Dortch.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Robert W. Barnwell,*
James L. Orr.*
TF.NNi.SSEK.
Gustavus A. Henry,
Landon C. Haynes.
TEXAS, v
Lewis T. Wigfall,*
W. S. Oldham.*
VIRGINIA.
(Not yet elected.)
MARCH.
IstThursd ay, Pierce
SEPTEMBER.
lal Monday, Appling
1 s tMonday, Appling
Chattooga
Chattooga
Cherokee
Cherokee
Coweta
Columbia
Columbia
Coweta
Crawford
Crawford
Gwinnett
Madison
Madiaon
Marion
M arion
Morgan
Morgan
"2d Monday .Bulls
‘2d Monday .Butts
Bartow
Bartow
Coffee
Coffee
Elbert
Elbert
F ayette
Fayette
Greene
Greene
Gwinnett
Pickens
Pickens
Washington
W ashington
Webster
Webster
F. s 1,
1.
I 9.
i 10.
idge,
Jilyu,
•me,
Trippe
REPRESENTATIVES,
j Dist.
NORTH CAROLINA.
W. N. H. Smith,*
R. R. Bridges,
O. R. Kenan.
T. D. McDowell,
A. II. Arrington,
J. R. McLean,
— — Ashe,
William Lander,
B. S. Gaither,
A. T. Davidson.*
SOUTH CAROLINA.
M. Patterson. 1. John McQueen,
2. \V. Poacher Miles,*
i 3. L. M. Ayer,
B Dawkins, ! 4. M. L. Bonham,
Hiltou 5. James Farrow-,
6. W. W. Boyce.*
TINS KSS*E.
Jos. B. Heiskell,
W. G Swan,
Tibbs,
J. B G>ard<:ushire,
Henry S. Foote,
Meredith P. Gentry,
George W. Jones,
Menses,
J. D. C. Adkins,*
John V. Wright,
D. M. Currin.*
TEXAS.
1. John A. Wilcox.
2 G. C. Herbert,
3- P. W. Gray,
4. F. B. Sexton,
5. M. D. Graham,
6. B. H. Epperson.
V1RGIN IA.
1. M. R. H. Garnett,
2. John B. Chambliss,
3. John l'yler,
4. Roger A. Pryor,*
5. Thus- S. Doeock,*
6. John Goode, Jr.,
7. Jits. P. Holcombe,
•8. D. C. DeJarnette,
9. William Smith,
Ah-x r. K. Botelcr,
John B. Baldwin,
Walter K. Staples,*
Walter Preston.*
Albert G. Jenkins.
Robert Johnston,*
Chas. W. Russell,*
Thursday aft’r, Montgomery
3d Monday, Cobbt
Calboun
Hall
Hart
Heard
Macon
Newton
Talbot
Tattnall
W are
• Thursday af. White
: Friday after,Bulloch
, 4th Monday, Clinch
Chattahoochee
Johnson
Lee
Milton
Putnam
I Kabuli
Twiggs
Wilkes
Thursday af.Habersliam
Monday af-
ter4tu Mon
an lia
Mr
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H.
id W.
YV T . Gi
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ins J.
Wr
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Villere,
M. Conrad
8.
9.
10.
11.
J
Dupree
Ins, Jr.
3d Monday Cobb
Calhoun
Hall
Hart
Heard
Macon
Newton
Talbot
Ware •
Bulloch,
(Thursdayaft. White
4th Monday. Clinch
jCliattahoochee
Johnson
Lee
Milton
Putnam
Rabun
Twiggs
AVilkes
.Thursday af, Habersham
Monday af-
f ‘ ) Echt
'“j Ellin
E chols
gharn
the 4th
Monday
Echols
- ii’ p 1.
Mapp,
mrs,
\V. M. Cook,
T. C. Harris,
CAspi-r W. Bell,
Adam II. Condon,
0. G. West,
L. W. Freeman,
liver.
,10.
11.
1*2.
13.
14.
45.
16.
GOVERNMENT OF GEORGIA.
‘8EPH K.
'C. ItAliX
'^N JONH
Person
• D. BROW
fHN BILL
M. MORi
BROWN, Governor.
T T, Sec’y of State & Sur. GenT.
8, Treasurer.
THYVEATT, Comptroller General.
N. Librarian.
U’8, President of the Senate.
F.Y, Secretary “ “ “
ARlfl- ' \KIN, Speaker of the House of Reps.
CAIGUNgtON, Clerk “ “ “ “ “
CAMPBELL, Secretary Ex. Department
waters.
■ HOWLAND, Sup’t. W. & A. Railroad.
KEEN, Principal Keeper Penitentiary
: Wind8<jr j Book Keeper
Siipreme Court Judges,
H - UAIPKIN, of Clark.
A JLNKIN'S, of Richmond.
“ i LYON, of Fulton.
Tl "l> AND PLACES OF HOLDING COURT.
Ii I—Composed-«f the Eastern, Mid-
■i 1* • .-wit-k Circuits, at Savannah on the
J uiuaYy and June.
v ' /- •'.'•M—Composed of the Macon. Bouth-
: ii- .ut-hce. ifudPataula Circuits, at,
k:, “ -1 ' hh Mondays in January and June
r ; '•( /). trict —Composed of the Flint, Cowe-
11 UMg . Cherokee and Tallapoosa Circuits.
|[ ^ tiie 4th Monday in March uud 2d
iu August. _
lj. urth District—Composed of the Western and
V ru ( 7.r- 1 s , at Athens 011 the 4th Mondays
^ iv and November. - *
Untrue—Composed of the Ocinulgee aud
»>•. at Miliedgeville ontho 2d Mon-
1,1 ancT November.
day.
APRIL.
1st Jr 2d Muu. Carroll
lat Monday, Dooly
Etnanue 1
Early
Franklin
Eultou
Grr.Je n
Pike
T aylor
W arren
Wilkinson
Thursday aft. Banka
2d Monday, Hancock
Richmond
Harris
Lauren a
Miller
Sumter
Tue sday.ifler .McIntosh
3d Monday , Glynu
HaraUan
Henry
J one a
Liberty
Murray
Oglethorpe
Pulaski
Stewart
Monday ) Worth
after, ) Bryan
4th Monday,Wayne
Decatur
DeKalb
Houston
Jasper
Lincoln
Schley
Whitheld
Wilcox
Friday after, Telfair
Camden
Thursday after Jrwin
Monday “ Berrien
Charlton
MAY.
lat Monday .Clayton
Giliner
Randolph
Sciiven
Upaon
2u Monday, Catooaa
Chatham
Fannin
Jefferson
Mitchell
Muscogee
3d Monday,Baker
Bibb
Burke
Quitman
Spalding
Troup
Union
Thursday aft. Towns
Uh Monday, Dade
Terrell.
LastMondsy .Colquitt
JUNE.
lst.Monday .Dougherty
Lowndes
•2d Monday, Brooks
Clay
3d Monday .Thomas
OCTOBER,
j 1 si2t 2d Mon.Carroll
list Monday Dooly
Early
Emanuel
F rsnklin
F niton
Giliner
Gordon
Taylor
Warren
Wilkinson
Pike
]Thursday aft. Banks
jid Monday, Fannin
Hancock
Harris
Laurens
Miller
Richmond
Sumter
3d Monday, Giynn
Haralson
Henry
Jones
Murray
Oglethorpe
Pulaski
Stewart
Union
Worth
Thursday ) Montgomery
after )
Towns
1th Moudv.Decatu r
DeKalb
Houston
Jasper
Lincoln
Schley
Tattnall
Wayne
Whitfield
Wilcox
Friday after Tellair
Camden
Thursday after. Irwin
Monday after Charlton
NOVEMBER,
lat Monday, Berrien
Clayton
Effingham
Randolph
Srriven
Upson
2d Monday, Catoosa
Jefferson
Mitchell
Muscogee
3d Monday.Baker
Bibb
Burke
Quitman
Spalding
Troop
4th Monday,Dade
Terrell •
Thursday after.McIntosh
Monday after. Colquitt
do 'do Liberty
Mon after Liberty. Bryan
DECEMBER. -
1 st Monday . Dougherty
Lowndes
2d Monday. Biooks
*OIay
3d Monday,Thomas
* May hold three weeks, if necessary, at each
term.
t Judge not required to draw Jurors for two
weeks; and not obliged to bold two weeks Cour
in the counties of Cobb and Lumpkin.
Tax Receiver*' and Tax Receipt Books.
The Recorder office keepd ou hand tor sale,
printed on good paper, blanks to form the above
books. Price seven cents per sheet. and 2;>
cents to be added for light binding-we paying
postage.
sent in advance.
Recorder Office. Feb. 18, 186*2^
The money iu every instance must be
A SHOEMAKER WANTED.
4 LIBERAL PRICE will be given iu the
A- purchase,or for the hire ot a gootlshoemaker.
Enquire at. this office.
Miliedgeville, Nov. 18, 18o2
46 let
h roin the Savannah Republican.
Richmond, Nov. 13th, 1SG2.
hat effect will the recent elections
in the United States have upon the war?
Will it bring us peace, or will it mere
ly change the character of the strug
gle without affecting its duration f—
l hese queries are common just now,
and the answers to them are as diverse
as as tlie faces of the questioneis. Pen
ding the canvass, the Republican or
Administration party charged the Dem
ocrats with secession sympathies and
disloyal purposes, and said it was “a
peace party in disguise.” The Demo
crats repelled the allegations of their
opponents, and avowed themselves as
in favor of vigorous prosecution of the
war for the “restoration of the Union,
hut not for the emancipation ot southern
slaves,” They also denounce the man
ner in which the government had con
ducted the war. and proposed to bring
it back to the practice of those princi
ples which have received the sanction
of civilized countries iu oilier parts of
the world.
The Democrats could not have said
less wiih any hope of success at the
polls, efeu had they been actuated by
the desires imputed to them by the Re
publicans. Possibly, there are some
among them who stilt entertain hopes
of a restoration of the Union through
the agency of the Democratic party ;
but it is more probable that the Hiielii-
gdlil in the party, seeing the impossibjl
ity of subjugating the South, and desi
rous of stopping the enormous loss of
life and waste of treasure involved in
a longer continuance of the war, have
determined to avail themselves of the
unpopularity of the Republican party
to bring the struggle to an end. The
Democrats have a wonderful relish for
power and spoils, and thev may hope
to be able to retain possession* of the
governnient for many years, if not gen
erations, against a party upon which it
may truthfully lay the responsibility of
the destruction qj the Union and the
loss of nearly half the States,
The Republican party, including
nearly* all the Governors of the States,
was about to withdraw from the sup
port of the Administration at the time
Mr. Lincoln issued his Emancipation
proclamation, and there is every reason
to believe he was coerced to take that
step against his own judgement by a
well-grounded fear that the party would
carry out its threat unless he yielded to
its abolition demand. The Democrats
on the other hand, condemn the procla
mation as unwise and unconstitutional,
anti declare their purjAse to conduct the
war on principles of common decency
and civilization. If Mr. Lincoln should
attempt, therefore, to put i*i practice
die policy avowed in his proclamation
the Democratic members of Congress,
after their acccession to power would,
if consistent, vote not to grant him the
needed supplies of men and money.—
Should tbe'policy of the proclamation
be thus defeated, the Republicans, who
are unwilling to have the Union restor
ed except upon condition of the entire
abolition of slavery would refuse longer
to support th? war, and would become
the earnest advocates of peace. They
do not wish us back with our slaves ;
and the Democrats, if they want us at
all. desire to have our slaves with us.
Under these circumstances the Gov
ernment would lie paralyzed and ren
dered wholly unable to conduct the
war with energy anil success. Indeed,
it does not appear how it xvould be
able to carry it on at all. Each party
would he strong enough to deteat the
policy of the other, and between the
two the war would fall to the ground.
For these reasons the friends of peace,
and, indeed, the friends of both coun
tries, may eonqratulate-lhemselves up
on the success of the Democrats and
Conservative Whigs.
There has been considerable skir
mishing of late in front of Culpepper,
in which o.ir cavalry alone-were en
gaged. Ou Saturday General Stuart
o r> -j
had a heavy skirmish, and though he
sustained considerable loss in killed
and wounded, he was entirely suc
cessful, driving the enemy back for
some miles. The object of the move
ment, probably, was to gain a more ad
vantageous position to post our ad
vanced pickets.
There are rumors of a retrograde
movement of the enemy. It has never
been believed by well-informed persons
that McClellan would attempt to march
on Richmond by way of Culpeper and
Gordonsvitle at this late season of the
year. The pretended advance was de
signed, doubtless, to influence the Fed
eral elections, and possibly to divert
the attention from the real point of at
tack. What that point is, it is yet im
possible to say. The plans of the ene
my, however, probably embrace four
grand objects—the seizure of our South
ern line of communications at Weldon
and Goldsboro’ in North Carolina, the
reduction of Charleston aud Savannah,
the reduction of Mobile, and the de
struction of Vicksburg. Having done
this, they may'hope, by holding Mr.
Lincoln's proclamation over the more
Southern States, to cull off' the greater
part of the forces now in Virginia, and
tfius leave Richmond open to an attack
by way ot Suffolk and Petersburg.
They may hope also, by their inroads
into "the cotton States, to induce the
authorities in those States to inu.:?h-re
iu the conduct of the wug aridilemund
that their troops be sent home tor their
own defense. If such be their policy,
it may be that attacks will be made
simultaneously at different points along
lhe coast, with a view to prevent a con
centration of our forces and drive us u>
the wall by overpowering numbers* A
month’s time will develop their real
policy.
The movement in this city, in behalf
of our destitute soldiers, has been
crowned with the most gratifying suc
cess. Jew and Gentile have respon
ded with like generosity and prompti
tude, and it is believed that eight or ten
thousand pairs of good shoes, and as
many socks, have been raised and some
twenty-five or thirty thousand dollars
in money. The people were slow to
move ; like Thomas of old, they re
quired to be shown the “bleeding feet”
of the suffering soldier before they
would believe. This painf ul proof was
furnished by the brigade of Gen. Evans
last Thursday, when many of the men
marched through the city in a snow
storm on bare fed and in tattered gar
ments. The President made a dona
tion to the committee appointed to so
licit subscriptions, and expressed his.
gratification that the people were thus
aiding the government in the great du
ly of providing lor its troops. Mr.
Secretary Memminger, on the contrary,
refused to give anything, saying the
whole movement was a reflection on
the government! The gallant sons of
his own State had just passed through
the ice covered streets of ihe capital,
barefooted and in rags, and yet he de
clined to give one cent towards their
relief, lest the government be accused
of neglecting its army ! Mr. Memmin
ger has taken his place in history ; lei
him keep it.
It is reported that there are several
cases of small pox in the city. It is
said the disease has made its appear
ance also in Danville. The cases in
Richmond have ud been sent to the
j smafl pox hospital, and every effort
will be made to pro -mt its spread.
The enemy has done ait he could to in
troduce the disease among us, and lie
has at last been successful.
I omitted to stale in the proper place,
that the cavalry attached to Cobb’s Le
gion sustained several casualties in the
skirmish alluded to above, as the fol
lowing list will show :
Fulidfi "Dragoons — Killed: Jacob
Scudder.
Roswell Troopers—Wounded : Lt.
Dvall, shot in the side.
Richmond Hussars; Killed : Henry
Rhodes. Wounded : Jas. L. Clanton,
in left shoulder ; J. Pinckney Thomas,
left arm and breast; A. J. Thomas, in
head ; tferg’t Finch, in face ; Serg’t
Galiaber, arm broken ; Chas. Bassford,
in head; Warren Thurmond, arm
broken.
Missing : Serg’t Thomas and Andrew"
Baw*.
The wounded arrived here last night,
and have been properly cared lor. The
Legion behaved very gallantly through
out the affair. P. W. A.
The Wandering George.—A cor
respondent of the Mobile Register
says: **
1 learn from a gentleman from Rich
mond that George N. Saunders, who
lately arrived from Europe, icmaiued
but forty-eight hours in Richmond,
most of which time he was closeted
with the President, and has already
departed on his way back. It is said
that he has effected an unlimited credit
to purchase everything we require, and
that contracts are eagerly sought to he
, made for furnishing us with all kinds
of machinery, &c., as well as steel-glad
steamers, a n number of which are ex
pected to be ready for the defence of
our coast this winter.
English View of the Republican Parly.
The London Standard has some exceed-
iuglyjnst and forcible views upon the Re
publican party of the Noith. The reader
will find the following extract from its ar
ticle, well worthy his attention :
The more we study the nature and con
ditions of the Federal compact, the more
evident it becomes that the purposes of the
Republicans were inconsistent with that
compact, unfair, and so far as we cau
judge, contrary, not merely to the spirit,
but to the letter of the Constitution. The
more we know of the conduct and the lan
guage of the spokesmen and the journals of
the victorious party, the meaner and more
dishonest do they appear.
We discover that our sympathy was ex
torted and our approval solicited on false
pretences that there was nothing generous
or humane while there was much that was
grasping, lawless and violent, in the Re
publican policy ; and that the South had
on it side, if not abstract iustice and per
fect right, yet at least the law of the laud,
and the. comparative right which all laws
assign to ttiose who defend even an unlaw
ful possession against fiaudulent claimants.
The objects of the Republican party were
understood to be the overthrow of Southern
ascendancy in the councils of the Union,
the exclusion of slavery from the territo
ries, the repeal of the fugitive slave law.
and the ultimate extinction of domestic
slavery throughout . the Union. It was
imagined that they were honest and un
selfish in the pursuit of these cuds ; that in
regard to the three former points they
were not acting iu llagraut violation of the
Constitution ; and that, even iu legard to
the last, it was possible that the great ob
ject ot universal emancipation might be at
tained by legal means, or, if not, tliat men
were justified in seeking it even through
the overthrow of all law, through revolu
tion, and perhaps through civil war.
Better information and a clearer knowl
edge of the circumstances of the Union
njakefft evident that, iu every respect, this
view of the political conflict was a wrong
one ; that no such “Southern ascendaucy’’
asiiad been alleged by the North had ever
existed ; that the exclusion of slavery from
the teritories, aud the repeal of the fngitive
slave lathough excellent measures in
themselves, would be acts of infamous bad
faith towards the South ; arid that the Ab
olitionists, with very few exceptions, bad
so conducted themselves as to forfeit all
right to make appeal to the supreme trib
unal whose judgments iu uatioual quarrels
are delivered through the ordeal of battle.
What was meant by Southern ascendan
cy f The South had only a miuority iu
both bouses of Cougress, and a minority
of votes in the election of the President.
W T hat ascendaucy could it possibly exer
cise, except through superior political
worth ? And this it undoubtedly bad. It
sent the best senators and representatives
to Washington ; it kept them there for
year after year, for term after term, while
those of the North were incessantly chang
ing ; its senators might almost be said to
hold their seats for life; its political leaders
were the ablest men of the Union; aud
they were, supported with a perfect una
nimity and vigor of action, wholly un
known to the divided aud demoralized de
mocracy of the Northern States. It is per
fectly true that a Southern party, with
the help of a strong Northern miuority,
might have ruled the Union by a mere
force of votes, without any moral or iutel
lectual superiority ; but it is not true that
this was the case.
Until the election of Buchanan, the Pres
idential elections had for thirty years been
carried by a majority of the Northern
votes. At that election sectionalism came
into play, and Buchanan was chosen by
the South with the help of only one third
of the Northern vote; and the North
avenged this defeat iu 1SG0 by electing a
President who had not three fifths of the
popular vote of the Northern States, aud
who had not a single supporter in teu of
the Southern States, and only a few thou
sand iu the other five. So much for South
ern ascendancy, or, as some rabid parti
sans have called it, Southern denotnina
tion. As to the territorial question, it is to
be observed that, as all the States were
equally entitled to the common territory,
Congress could have no more right to ex
clude citizens of Virginia than to exclude
citizens of Massachusetts with their prop
erty. and such was the decisiou of the Su
preme Court in the Dred Scott case.
Again, the exclusion of slavery from
those territories tended to injure and not
to benefit the slaves. It compelled them
to remain within the limits of the old States,
where their rapidly increasing numbers
must render them ultimately an object of
suspicion, and consequent severeity to the
inferior numbers of the dominant race.—
And, finally,it was not meut for their good ;
it was a piece of pure selfishness on the
part of the North. “The white man needs
this continent to labor on,” said Mr. Sew
ard ; and his followers accordingly exclud
ed free blacks from the Western States, as
they strove to exclude slaves from the
Western Territories. The fugitive slave
law was an essenfial part of the Constrtu
tion. It was not, and nover could be,
practically valuable to the slave States ;
but it had been the condition of their ac
cession to the Union, and while the Un
ion subsisted the North had no right to
break its plighte*! faith on this subject,
much less had the individual States any
right to nullify the Federal obligation
which they nominally professed to respect.
We quite agree with the Abolitionists
in holding this law to be infamous. We
think that no gentleman, no man of hon
orable feeling belonging to a free commu
nity, would consei^ to deliver up an es
capcd slave. We think that their accept
ance of such a condition waa discreditable
to the framers of the Constitution ; and we
should have applauded the New England
States had they manfully refused to be
any longer bound by sucli a compact, and
on that ground seeeeded from the Union.
Ant while they remained in the Union,
and accepted the benefits of the Federal
compact they had no business to repudi
ate any one of their obligations under it.—
We hold that revolutions are almost inva
riably foolish and wicked ; but we can
well understand that honest men might
think the abolition of slavery a just object
of revolution, and civil war a cheap price
to pay for it.
We do not venture to condemn those
who took this view, aud accordingly re
fused to hold office under, or swear allegi
ance to, a pro-slavery Constitution. But
this was not the conduct of the majority of
the Abolitionists. They would not give
up their share of the loves and fishes. They
would not sacrifice to Abolition anything
of more value than there conscience and
honor. They would not give up a fugi
tive slave, but they were quite willing to
swear that they would do so. They would
not refrain from intrigues against slavery,
but they readily swore obedience to a
Constituiion which strictly protected sla
very in the slave States. They aided the
murderous conspiracy of John Brown,
while bound by oatb to the laws which he
violated, and under whose sanction he
inet richly deserved punishment as an as
sassin and a traitor.
We i egret to say that there is on record
a resolution of a Republican Convention,
of which the present Secretary of the
Treasury was President, to the effect that |
it is their duty to God as Abolitionists,
and as hoping for the blessing of Ileaveu
on their cause, whether as citizens or
magistrates sworn to obey the Constitution,
to treat as null and void the clause which
refers to the rendition of fugitive slaves.—
This is to say, it is their duty to God to
commit willful and habitual perjury.—
With moralists of this stamp no liouest
Englishman can have the smallest sympa
thy. And it may be doubted whetlier.bad
thb motives and character of the Republi
can party as a whole been better under
stood—whether many Englishmen would
havesympatbised with a conspiracy against
the Union and the Constitution carried on
under the guise of ordinary political war
fare and under the protection of tlfese
laws which it was designed to subvert.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.
Saturday Nov. S.
The death of the following members
since the last session was announced from
the chair, when Mr. Culberson moved the
appointment of a committee of fi"e to re
port suitable resolutions in relation there
to : Messrs. Dumas, of Chattooga, Hud-
son, of Gwinnett, Kelly, of Glascock, and
Key, of Dooly. Mr. Kelly fell gallautly
upon the memorable battle field of Ma
nassas in August last,
A message was recieved from tl e Senate,
transmitting a resolution endorsing the pro
clamation of the Governor suppressing the
distillation of grain.
The bill to impose an additional t.- x
upon the net income and profits bf manu
facturers of clothing, leather, shoes yarns,
thread, tin and iron ware, and meichandize,
provisions, Ac., was referred to the Fi
nance Committee, and 200 copies were or
dered to be printed for the use of the
House.
A message from the Governor was re
cieved tranmitting a copy of a le tter from
Governor Letcher of Virginia, assuring
Governor Browu that salt contracts for
supply should not be disturbed by the Vir
ginia authorities.
Salt.—People putting up meat will
find that they cau save and make bacon
out of their fresh meat with a very small
quantity of salt. The process is tb use
brine alone—coveriug the meat with it
after packing closely. The time for the
meat to remain, of course, is determined
by the thickness—a few days for light
meat, just kHled, will answer. Iu this
way the same brine can be used again and
again, boiling it after using it ou tire meat.
Tubs, barrels, tie., to put it iu is all that is
wanted to save a large quantity of salt
that is now wasted. One bushel, with or
dinary care, will go as far as five with the
most careful mangetaent by the ordiuary
process. Cold water will not dissolve sb
much salt as warm, by about oue-fortb.-?-
Tbe meat will take only enough to cure it
iu this.—Jackson Jimuw/youa.
Honor to whom bouor is due.
Monday, Nov. 10.
The Senate met according tc adjourn
ment.
Mr. Boyd moved to reconsider so much
of the Journal ot Saturday as relates to
the passage of the bill to incorporate the
Empire State Iron and Coal Mining Com-
p*»y-
The Governor communicated a Message,
conveying correspondence between Gen.
Mercer and himself, in reference to the de
fences of Savannah and the coast.
Mr. Furlow offered a resolution authoriz
ing the Governor, and enjoining on him
the duty to use any and all negroes in the
State for the defence of Savannah.
Mr. Gibson amended by authorizing the
Governor to contract with any person or
persons for the completion of the defences
ot Savannah. As ainen.-led, the resolution
of Mr. Furlow was adopted.
Mr. Boyd’s motion to reconsider, as
above stated, was taken np and lost.
A bill to carry into effect so mpeb of the
1st clause, 6th article of the Constitution
as provides that the General Assembly
shall by law prescribe the manner iu which
the power to grant corporate powers aud
privileges, &c., shall be exercised, was
read the third time, amended and passed
Mr. Moseley, from the comroitree on
Printing reported a bill to let the Public
Printing to the lowest bidder.
The following new committee was ap
pointed by the Chair, under the action of
the Senate : *
On the Georgia Military Institute.-*
Messrs. Hansel!, Lewis, Gordon, Vason,
Echols. J. it. Brown and Harris.
Executive Department, ^
Miliedgeville, Nov. 10,1862. *
To the General Assembly :
I transmit to each House a copy of a let
ter from Brig. Gen. Mercer, commanding
at Savannah, dated 7th inst., informing me
that “a letter from the Secretary of War
has been received from him which with
draws from him all power to retain the ne
groes now working upon the fortifications
of Savannah,” and that “from this time
forward lie will make no further efforts to
secure labor himself,” and "if the people
and Government of the State mean Savan
nah to be defended, they must furnish the
necessary labor.”
Gen. Mercer also makes requisition up
on the State for negroes to work on the dc
fences.
I also append a letter from him, dated
8th inst., in response to one from me ask
ing him to make an urgent appeal to the
Secretary of War to send to Savannah , -
inforcements at an early day.
It will be seen by reference to the first
of these letters that the Confederate Gen
eral looks alone to Georgia for the me»D8
to defend her seaport city.
While the right is denied to the State
by the Conscription Act to call into the
field and retain in her service any portion
of her organize ! militia, or any part of the
material of which it is composed to defend
herself against the invader at a time when
the Confederate force within the State is
inadequate to the task, the War Depart
ment has withdrawn from their General in
command the power to complete the forti
fications which are indispensable to a sue
cessful defense. I submit the question for
the action of the General Assembly, and
recommend that prompt provision be made
to the extent of the ability of the State
for carrying out your resolutions for the
defence of the city to the last extremity.
In view of the fact that Georgia has fur
nished about 75.000 troops to the Confede
racy, who have rendered the most distin
guished services on almost every battle
field of the war, I cannot forbear the ex
pression of my deep regret that so few of
them should bo permitted to return to her
bosom to strike for their homes at a time
of so much peril, when the right even to
supply their places in the field, upon her
own soil, with others now at home, is de
nied to the State.
JOSEPH E. BROWN.
Headquarters Mil’y. Dist. of Ga., |
Savannah, Nov. 7th. 1862. S
To His Excellency. Jos. E. Brown,
Gocernor State of Ga. :
I have to inform yonr Excellency that
this morning a letter from the Secretary of
War has been served upon me. which with
draws from me all power to retain the ne
groes now working upon the fortifications
of Savannah. Every negro to the num
ber of 1.009, will leave me in a few days,
aud a portion are discharged to-day.
From this time forward, I will make no
further efforts to secure laborers myself.
If the people and Government of the
State of Georgia mean Savaunah to be de
fended, they must themselvos furnish the
necessaj-y labor.
The agency for the collection of labor
hitherto existing by my creation, will con
tinue only long enough to wind up the
present business.
1 have the honor to make a requisition
on the State of Georgia for 1509 able bod
ies negroes, to work on the defences of 8a
vannah.
I have the honor to be, very respectful*
ly, vour obedient servant,
H. W. MERCER.
Brig. Gen. Coind’g
Tbs Senate passed a resolution autber-
ieiug tbs Governor to impress the reqai.
site number of negroes to complete the de
fences, if he eould not get the work done
by contract.
Tuesday, Nov. 11.
Mr. Gordon, from the committee on
Banks, reported a bill for the relief of the
banks from the penalties incurred by the
suspension of specie payments. The second
section re enacts ?he stay law. The bill
proposes to relieve the bauks pn.vided
they issue five per ceut. of their stock in
change bills uuder the denomination of aim
dollar. The second section was stricken
out aud the* bill passed.
CALL OF COUNTIES.
Mr. Boyd introduced a bill for the relief
of Benj. M. Smith, of Lumpkiu county.
Mr. J. Ii. Brown, a bill for the relief of
soldiers families *d widows. Proposes
to increase rates of freight on State Road
25 per ceut. to be applied to tbeir relief.
Mr. Dyer, a bill to require Ordinaries
to pay any portion of the school fuud re
inaiuing on hand to t?e Justices of the In
ferior Court. ~ *
Mr. Hansell, a bill to amend the charter
of the Confederate States Fire and Marine
Insurance Company of Atlanta.
Mr. Gordon, a bill to re-enact the act
authorizing the suspension of specie pay
ment, and to make it operate until six
months after the close of the war.
Mr. Furlow, a bill to define the duties of
Sheriffs iu certain cases.
Mr. Jackson, a resolution looking to the
appointment of a Commissioner, by the
Governor, to audit the claims of persons
who sold guns to the State.
Mr. King, a bill to relieve from taxation
certain citizens of the 4th district, who had
been compelled to leave tbeir homes ou
account of the invasion of the enemy.
Mr. Moseley, a bill to change the line
between the couuties of Paulding and
Haralson.
Mr. Pinckard, a resolution requesting
the Confederate War Department to re
turn 20,000 pounds powder loaned by the
State.
Mr. Seward, a bill to amend the charter
of the Cotton Planter’s Bank.
Mr. Swearengin, a bill to incorporate
the Georgia Electric Medical College in
Atlauta.
BILLS ON THEIR PASSAUE.
A bill for the relief of Guardians, Ad
ministrators and Executors in Burke coun
ty—passed.
A bill to extend the time for paying
taxes in Bnrke—passed.
A hill to declare in force in Georgia the
Conscript law—indefinitely postponed.
A bill for the relief of tax receivers and
collectors in Burke—passed.
A bill to abolish the office of county
Treasurer in Stewart Jaunty—passed.
Mr. Gordon introduced a bill (the Ala
bama bill) to provide for the public 6nfety
—it authorizes the impressment of negroes
— 50 copies ordered printed.
Mr. Hanseil, a bill for the relief of John
G. Ballanger in Cobb county.
Mr. Pinckard’s resolution in reference to
powder loaned w as taken up, amended to
25,000 pounds, and passed.
The Senate adjourned until 10 o’clock
to-morrow.
Wednesday, Nor. 12.
The bill to let the public printing to the
lowest bidder was taken up. amended and
passed. The bill prflyides that all print
ing required by either branch of the Gen
eral Assembly shall be done at the capital.
The House bill for the defence of Sa
vannah was passed. The bill provides
that the Governor shall ascertain the ex
tent to which the Confederate authorities
will prepare for the defence of the city r od
authorizes the Governor to act, if the
means of defences are then regarded inad
equate.
The bill to change the time for holding
the Congressional elections to that iu
which the election for Governor is held,
passed
A bill to amend the road laws, passed.
A bill to suppress individual shinplas^ers
passed.
A bill to exempt soldiers from the Poll
Tax, passed.
A resolution to obtain possession of salt
in'the hands of holders who refuse to sell,
was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
The House bill appropriating 345,GOO to
obstruct the Apalachicola, Flint aud Chat
tahoochee rivers was passed.
A resolution requesting the Governor to
appoint Commissioners to audit claims for
guns, passed.
A bill to suppress distillation of spiritu
ous liquors was amended so as to authorize
the Governor to grant license for distilla
tion for medical and army use, and passed*
Judge Gibson opposed the bill, as cal
culated to so cheapen the price of Cora as.
to discourage its production. He urged
the necessity of liquors for the soldiers,
and alluded to the suffering he had seen,
which might have been relieved by it.
Mr. Hansell made an earnest ami eio
quent appeal in behalf of the suffering
poor of Cherokee Georgia, who must starve-
if the distillatiou of corn is allow.ed.
Thursday, Nov. 13.
A motion to reconsider the bill letting
out the public priuting prevailed.
While a resolution authorising the Gov
ernor tn sieze factories, tanneries, Ac., was
under dissenssiou, the message from the
Governor iu reference to the negro raid at
St' Marys was received and read.
Mr. King offered a resolution authorizing
the Governor to call out such portion ot
the militia as he may think necessary to
defend Camden and other counties on the
coast. The Senate then adjourned.
Friday Nov. 14,
BILLS INTRODUCED.
Mr. Boyd, a resolution discountenancing
the culture of a surplus of cotton next year
in other States, and recommending that
the two Commitees, on Agriculture be re
commended to report a bill to prevent its
culture to that extent next year in Geor-
gi»-
Mr. J. R. Brown, a bill to provide for tho
appointingof a Quartermaster for the Btate,
to keep an office at Richmond.
Mr. Dyer, a bill to provide for tlie elec
tion of CotfimissioaerB of the town of Mad
ison for 1863. r
Mr. Furlow, a bill to amend the act in
relation to lapsed legacies.
Hr. Gordon, a bill to incorporate the
Traders and Importers bank of Augua-
te*
Also, a hill to authorize William II.|Far-
rell to hold real estate in the State of Qeor
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