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123. To revise, alter and amend an act incorpo !
rating an Insurance Company in the city ©f Co
lumbus to be called the Merchants Insurance Com
pany. and change the name to the Merchants and
Planters Insurance Company,
124. To incorporate the Kenesaw Mining Com-
pany. .
125. To consolidate the ofiices of Receiver of
Tax Returns and Tax Collector for the counties ol
Effingham and Gilmer.
(26. To change tlie line between the counties of
Upson and Crawford, so as to include the residence
of Loouaid Worthy in the county of Upson.
( . To repeal all bnt the fifth and ninth sec
tions of an act incorporating the town of Bruns
wick in Glynn county, and for other purposes.
12o. An act supplinitutary to an act, incorpora
ting the North Georgia Mining and Manufactur
ing Company.
129. To incorporate the Rome Gas Lightj'Com-
paiij’.
131). To incorporate t he Macon Canal and Wa
terworks, to authorize tho Mayor and Council of
tiie city of Macon to subscribe to the stock of said
Company, and tor other purposes.
131. To ievy and collect a tax for the support ol
the Government for the year 1866.
132. To allow the Ordinary of Polk County to
keep the records and papers of his office at his res
idence, till the building of a Court House.
J33. To legalise mairiages between tarat cous
ins, which have been contracted since 11th De
cember 1863.
134 To wive certain powers to the Judge of the
City Court of Savannah ai.d for other purposes.
135. To ehange the terms of the bupei ior Courts
of Worth comity.
13(1. To authorize the City Council of Augusta
to change, alter or create new’ wards in said city ,
and for other purposes.
137. To appropriate money to repair and wind
lip the State House clock lor the year 4 866.
133. To incorporate the Blairsville Mining and
Manufacturing Company.
133. To incorporate the Georgia and Alabama
Petroleum Mining Company.
]40% Altering an act defining the corporate lim
its of Ncwnao, and for other purposes. .
14]. To enable persons w hose fences have been
destroyed by the Federal forces in Effingham
countv, to build stock enclosures, and to make
intrusions upon said enclosures a misdemeanor.
142. To change the line between the counties
of Dwoiy and Pulaski, so as to include the resi
dence of John Bembry in Pulaski county.
143. For the relief of certain Physicians in the
State.
144. To incorporate the Bucks Manufacturing
Company, in Schley county.
145. To repeal all laws heretofore passed by
the General Assembly prohibiting the distillation
of corn, wheat, potatoes, rye, peas, <tc., into spir
ituous liquors. .
]4t>. T<> appropriate money to pay D. B. San
ford to bring up the unfinished business of the
late Clerk of the Supreme Court, R. E. Martin,
deceased.
147. To regulate Court cost in certain eases.
14s, To change the line betw een the counties
of Wilcox and Pulaski.
149. To ratify certain acts of Executors, Ad
ministrators, Trustees and Guardians, and of Ju
dicial and Ministerial officers, and for other pur-
poses.
150. To incorporate a town to be called Vcr-
nonburg.
151. To authorize the Inferior Court of Glynn
county to compel hands subject to road duty in
any one district in said county to perform road
duty in any other district.
152. To make valid certain acts of the Justices
of the Inferior Court of Polk county.
153. To authorize the Justices of the Inferior
Coult of Tene.il county to levy and collect a tax
for certain purposes.
154. To authorize the Inferior Court of Greene
county to levy an extra tax for the purpose of
building a bridge across the Oconee river, to re
pair bridges of said county, and tor other pur
poses.
155. To incorporate the North American Fire
Insurance Company of Atlanta.
156. Requiring certain criminal prosecutions to
be nol pressed.
157. Repealing an act requiring the Cotton and
Wool Factories to publish list of their Stockhold
ers.
158. To amend the 3 856 sec. of the Code, as far
as the same relates to Chatham county.
159. To incorporate the kanseil Manufacturing
Company in Campbell county.
16<t. To incorporate the Oostanaula Steam Boat
Company, with powers of insurance.
161. To incorporate the Savannah Steam Boat
Company, with powers of insurance.
162. To incorporate Wahatchee Mining Com
pany.
Ju3. To change the county of Screven from the
first to the fifth Congressional District.
164. To authorize the Justices of the Inferior
Court of Clark county to raise money by an ex
tra tax or the issuing of boi^.
165. To incorporate the Dawson Manufacturing
Company.
B 6. To revive the Military Code, as published
in the revised Code, and to repeal all laws passed
since the adoption of said Military Code, inconsist
ent with its provisions.
167. To authorize the Justices of the Inferior
Court of Bulloch county to levy and collect an
extra tax for the building of a Court-house aud a
bridge in said county.
168. To incorporate the Vulcan Iron and Coal
Company and to confer certain powers and privi
leges.
169. To incorporate the Atlanta Canal and Wa
ter Works Company.
170. Amendatory of the law relating to the es
tablishment of lost papers.
171 To relieve securities upon bonds for crim
inal offences committed during the war with the
United States upon certain conditions.
172. To incorporate the Georgia Express Com
pany.
173. To incorporate the Georgia Life and Ac
cident Insurance Company of Atlanta.
174. To incorporate the Mining, Manufacturing
aud Improvement Company.
175. To carry into effect the 9th clause of sec
tion 1st, ardele 5th, o. 1 the Constitution.
176 To authorize the Ordinaries to administer
oaths and receive compensation therefor.
177. To rccrulate the distribution of the Com
mon School Fund of Echols county..
178. To amend section 3.478 of the Code.
17J. To authorize the Inferior Court of Rich
mond county to levy an extra tax for county pur
poses.
186. To amend an act incorporating the town
of Brunswick ; to define i;s jurisdictional limits,
and for other purposes.
J31. To amend the 4,467rh section of the Code.
18.2. To exempt from street duty all persons
who are or may become active members of either
of the existing Hook and Ladder or Fire Compa
nies of Atlanta.
]«?,. To change the Tine between the counties,
of Murray and Gordon.
184. To authorize certain sales to be made in
other c-ountms in this State than where such sales
are now required bylaw, and where certain kinds
of property has been removed out of the State, to
authorize the sales of the same in the State where
it has been removed.
]«5. To repeal paragraph 183, articl l r title 4,
chapter 1st of the Code.
186. To incorporate*the New Era Mining and
Manufacturing Company.
187. To amend and alter the Charter of the city
of Columbus
183. To amend part 2d, title 3J, chapter 2d, ar
ticle 4, section 3d, of the ( ode
189. To incorporate the Dalton Petroleum Min
ing Company.
190. For the pardon of John W. Martin, now
confined in the Penitentiary for murder.
191 To prevent the illegal seizure, detention,
or removal of property in the State, and to pre
scribe the punishment for the same.
192. To alter and amend the 4,275th section of
the 5th division of the Penal Code; also to alter
and and amend the 4,285th section of the same
division. ,
116. To amend the 2d section of an act to incor
porate tho Empire State Iron and Coal Mining
Company, and confer certain powers aud privieges.
117. Relative t« the Bonds of Trustees.
118. To add au additional section to an act, in
corporating the town of Faycttville, and amend
section 3d of said act.
119. To incorporate the North Georgia Mining
and Manufacturing Company.
126. To change and define the times of hold
ing the Superior Courts of the several counties of
the Western Judicial circuit.
121. To incorporate the Cherokee Mining aud
Manufacturing Company. «
122. To incorporate the Georgia and Alabama
Mining and Manufacturing Company.
193. To amend the 1350th section of the Code.
194. To incorporate the Columbus Railroad
Company.
]95. To incorporate tho Atlanta Mining and
Rolling Mill Company.
196. To prescribe and regulate the relation be- ers, privileges and immunities which have been
tween husband and wife of persons of color
197. To change the time of bolding the Inferior
Courts of Lincoin county.
193. To add an additional clause to the 2,531st
section of the Code.
199. To amend an act incorporating an Insur
ance Company in Augusta, to be calhd the Com
mercial Insurance Company.
200. To prescribe and regulate tho relation cf
parent and child among persons of color.
201. For the relief of Moses G. Collins.
202. To incorporate the Cuthbert Manufactur
ing Company, aud for other purposes.
203. To amend an act incorporating the Ogle
thorpe Insurance Company of Savannah.
granted to the Macon and Brunswick Railroad
Company
270. To incorporate the Metcalf Manufacturing
Company.
271. To establish the Southern Bank of Amer
ica. tk
272. To organize a County Court, define its ju
risdiction, and for other purposes.
273. To alter and amend the laws in relation to
apprentices.
274. To define the liability of executors, admin
istrators, guardians aud irustees in certain cases
and regulate the settlement with the same.
275. To repeal section 285 excepting the 5th
clause of the 1st section, and 3d clause of section
204. To extend the time for the completion of! 287 ot the 1st article, 5th title, 4th chapter of the
the Coosa and Chattooga River Railroad
2U5. For the election of a .Superintendent of
Public Roads aud Bridges in Wilkes, Muscogee
and Lincoln counties, and such other counties as
Ri-»y adopt, the provisions of this act, and to deline
the rights and duties, aud repeal all laws incon
sistent with this act.
206. To amend the 4,792d and 4,793d sections
of the Code.
207. To repeal so much of an act to add part
of Paulding county to Carroll, and a part to the
coun'y of Fioyd, and for other purposes.
298. Supplemental to, and explanatory of the
2.462d section of the Code, relating to the admin
istration of unrepresented estates.
209. To incoi poeate the North Georgia Petrole
um aud Mining Company.
210. To remit the taxes of 1864 and 1865, and
for other purposes.
Code.
276. To authorize the Justices of the Inferior
Courts of this State to purchase a farm for paupers
and for other purposes.
277. To authorize the Ordinaries to issue tem-
poriny letters of administratiou and to require the
party to whom issued only to give bond and secu
rity i'or double the value of the property other
than real estate, and for other purposes. ^
278. To organise and establish an Orphans
Home in this State.
279. To define the term “persons of eoler” and
to declare the rights of such persons.
286. To repeal an act to allow the Ordinaries to
charge and receive certain fees, assented to Dec.
14th 1863, and to authorise them to charge and re
ceive the following fees in addition to those speci
fied in the Code.
281. To fix the amount of compensation to the of-
211. To incorporate the Columbus Manufactur- \ fivers and members of the General Assembly shall
ing Company receive until otherwise altered by iaw.
212. To consolidate aud amend the several acts
incorporating the town of Bainbridge, in Decatur
connty.
213. To incorporate the Lookout Valley Mining
Company.
214. To incorporate the city of Madison, and
for other purposes. ,
215. To'amend an act assented to December
12th, 1863, amendatory of the 2,480th section of
the revised Code.
>216. To authorize the Chatham Academy, The
Free School and the Union Society to seii their
interest in certain vacant lands in Chatham county.
217. To incorporate the town of Springfield, to
appoint commissioners, and for other purposes.
218. To allow parties time to make writs cf cer
tiorari in certain cases.
219. To compensate Ebenezer Starnes, L. E.
282. To alter and amend the 1629 section of the
Code, to strike out the 3d provision of said section
and to add additional provisions thereto and to re
peal sections 1630 and 1631 of the Code.
283. To alter and amend sections 1338,1339,1340,
1341,1343, 1351,1353, chapter 4th of the Code.
284. To repeal the 2635 sections of the Code and
to substitute another in lieu thereof.
285. To alter and amend paragraph 4424, part
4, title 1st of the. Code.
286. To legalize certain marriages in this State.
287. Todefine and regulate Court contracts and
prescribe the manner of enforcing the same in the
County Courts.
238. To authorise the rendition of certain de
crees in equity during vacation aud to legalize
certain decrees already rendered.
289. To authorize the transfer of all civil cases
Bleckley, Win. Hope Hull and Samuel Barnett, uow on dockets of the Inferior Courts to the
1 County Courts.
290. To change the time of holding the Supe
rior Court of Lee County.
291. To make it penal for any officer, agent or
other employee of any Rail Road company in this
State to charge for freight or passengers transport
ed over said Railroads above the rates now allow
ed by their charters
292. To authorise any Sheriff, Constable, or
commissioners, &c.
220. To increase the pay of the Compiler and
provide for the early distribution of the laws.
221. To incorporate the Ellijay Miniug Compa
ny of Georgia.
222. To repeal all laws making it penal for the
people of this State to receive and circulate Unit
ed States currency.
223. To authorize the Inferior Courts of the
several counties to levy and collect an extra tax other arresting officer of any County of this State
for the benefit of indigent soldiers and indigent I t0 anest any County wherever found, any per-
families of deceased soldiers of the late t outed.- son charged with crime under warrant issued by
d for other purposes. any judicial officer of the State, and to carry tho
ernte and State troops, and lor otner purposes
224. To provide for the payment ot teachers of
common schools for the year 1865.
225. To incorporate tho Gate City Insurance
Company.
226. To incorporate the Carroll Manufacturing
Company.
227. To alter and amend the several acts incor
porating the city of Atlanta.
228. To authorize the Inferior Court of Ran
dolph county to issue bonds.
229. To alter and amend part 2, title 6, chapter
2d, section 2,416 of the Code.
230. To change the line between the comities ot
Muscogee and Chattahoochee, so as to make the
Upatoie creek to the Chattahoochee river the di
Tiding Hue.
231. To alter the rules of evideuco in certain
cases.
232. To legalize certain contracts made by ex
ecutors, administrators, guardians and trustees
with persons ot color and white persons, and to
authorize the making of such contracts in the fu
ture, and prescriba the effect of the same
233. To incorporate the Georgia Manufacturing
and Paper Mill Company.
234. To incorporate the LaGrange Savings
Bank.
235. To authorize the Inferior Court of Thomas
county and ol Liberty county to levy and collect
a tax for certain purposes.
236. To authorize the Judges of the Superior
Courts of this State to designate the place of hold
ing their Courts in those counties in which the
Court-houses have been destroyed, until the re
building of the same.
237. To alter and amend seciioii 1290 of the
Code.
238. For the relief of Milley Howard, wife of
S. P. Howard of Pierce county.
239. To incorporate the Savings Bank of Sa
vannah.
240. To incorporate tho Eagle and Pfccenix
Manufacturing Company of Columbus.
241. To add an additional clause to the loIOih
section of article 2d, chapter 7th, part 1st, title
16th of the Code.
242. To alter and amend the 4,435th section of
the Penal Code.
243. To define the liabilities of Vendue Mas
ters in cerlain cases.
244. To amend an act authorizing married wo
men to deposit money in Savings Banks or Insti
tutions now^chartered or which may hereafter be
chartered by the State.
245. To incorporate tho Yonah Gold Company.
246. For the relief of maimed indigent soldiers
and officers—citizens of the State—who belonged
to military organizations of the State in State or
Confederate armies.
247. For the relief of administrators, executors,
guardians aud trustees, aud for other purposes.
248. To define and provide for proving liie time
from which records shall be counted in cases
where the recording has been or may hereafter be
delayed from tlie vrant of books in the ptoper
office.
219. To incorporate the Grand Bsv Manufac
turing Company of Berrien county.
250. To incorporate the Gordon Mining and
Manufacturing Company. *
251- Making provisions fora division in kind of
lands belonging to the estates of deceased per
sons and lying in several counties, and to protect
the rights of minor distributees in the same.
252. Accepting for the 8tale tlie donation by
the United States of certain lauds to the several'
State's and Territories which may provide colleges
lor tho benefit of agriculture ami the mechanic
arts by acta of Congress, approved severally, Ju
ly 2d, Ie62, and April 14th, 1864, and for other
purposes.
253. To increase tho fees of the Clerk of the
Supremo Court, to*rrgu!«te the fees of Ordinaries.
Clerks, .Sheriffs and other county officers.
2o4. To nllow Clerks of the, Superior aud Infe
rior Courts of McIntosh county to keep their offi
ces moro than one mile from tlie Couri-house.
255. To incorporate the Augtuta Mutual Insur
ance Company. •
2->6. For the relief of John S.- Edmondson of
Wilke# county.
257. To authorize the Inferior Court of Bartow,
county to issue bonds to raise revenue for county
purposes.
268. To alter and amend thechurter of the town
of Sparta, jn the.county of Hancock, so as to al
low tlie commissioners thereof to increase the li
cense fee for the retail of spirituous liquors.
259. To incorporate the Oostanaula Steam Boat
Company with powers of Insurance.
260. To authorize the Governor under certain
circumstances to arrest the State tax upon laud
for the year 186S.
261. To incorporate the Southern Mining Com
pany.
262. To incorporate the Brunswick and Aita-
maha Canal Company.
263. For the relief of administrators, executors,
guardians and trustees in certain cases.
264. lo alter and amend section 1367 of 3d ar
ticle of the Code.
265. To repeal so much of the 1655th section of
the Coda as prohibits the marriage of persons
within tho fourth degree of consanguinity.
266. .To incorporate the Steam Cotton Mill
Company.
267. To authorize the Governor to issue and
regulate tho bonds of the Slate whereby to raise
money for the payment of the public debt and in
terest thereon and meet appropriations made and
to be made by the General Assembly and to pro
vide a security for the same.
268. To incorporate the Central Georgia Mauu-
acturing Company.
269. To repeal an act to legalize the proceed
ings of tlie Southern Stockholders ot the Bruns
wick and Florida Railroad Company—to change
the name of said Conipanj’, and to amend the act
of incorporation—to extend the cJiHrter thereof
aud to facilitate the building of said Road, ap- j
proved December 16th, lbCl-r—to change the name
carry
accused to the county in which tho crime i# alleg
ed to have been committed for examination.
293. To repeal a repealing act entitled an act to
repeal an act and the acts of which it is amenda
tory entitled an act, to provide for the indigent
deaf aud dumb citizens ot this State and also to
provide for the appoinment of a commissioner, to
regulate his duties, affix his salary, and appropri
ate money therefor by increasing annual appro
priations, and for ether purposes, approved Janu
ary 13th 1852, assented to Dec. 15, 1862.
RESOLUTIONS.
No. 1. Resolution relative to adjournment.
2. In reference to the continuance of case#
against the banks of this State.
3. Authorizing the Treasurer to make certain
advances.
4. In reference to selling the debris of the Geor
gia Military Institute.
5. Requesting the revocation of the order of the
Secretary of War relative to branded stock in this
State.
6. To instruct the Inferior Courts to report des
titute widows, orphans, aud disabled soldiers.
7. In relation to the improvement of the public
grounds and buildings.
8. In reference to the President of the United
States.
9. Ralative to a revision -of the Code of Georgia,
by Hon. David Irwin of this State.
iu. Authorizing his Excellency, the Governor,
to borrow, upon the faith and credit of the State,
the sum of one hundred thousand dollars.
11. Requesting the President of the United
States, if not a withdrawal of troops, a surrender of
private property and a restoration of the writ of
“habeas corpus.”
12. To appoint a committee of three from the
House, and two from the Senate to take into consid
eration that portion of the Governor’s Massage
which re-lates to the State’s interest in the|Card
Factory.
13. Authorizing the appointment of a Joint
Committee to inquire into the present condition
of the Executive Mansion.
14. Requesting the Governor to intercede with
the President for tho restoration of property on
Wilmington, Whitmarsh, Skidaway, Sapelo, and
all other islands to its lawful owner, etc.
15. Requesting the Governor to call upon the
several banks of this State to make a return of
their condition, conformable to law now existing
within ten days.
4 6. To authorize the Governor to prosecute tho
claim of this State for cottou lately seized by the
Federal army.
17. In relation to the Card Factory recently in
operation in tlie Penitentiary of this State.
18. In reference to a final settlement of the
State's interest in the Cottou Card Factory.
19. To appoint a joint committee to draft a bill
authorizing or establishing an Orphan borne or
homes.
29. Respecting the penalty of the Bond given by
Aaron iornby, principal and Edwin R. Harden,
security. v
ci. Requiring (be Comptroller General to fur
nish certain information.
22. Relating to the Commissioners appointed
by the late Convention to investigate the condi
tion of the finances for 1861.
23. Providing for the appointment of a joint
committee to examine into the proceedings of the
Board of Directors, appointed for the Western &
Atlantic R. H. by the Provisional Governor.
24. Requesting the Secretary of the Treasury
of the United Suites to suspend the collection of
the internal Revenue Tax of Georgia and request
ing Congress to aiiow this State to assume and
collect the same.
25. Requesting the Comptroller General to fur
nish certain information in regard to tho Banks of
this State.
26. Requesting a mail route to be established
from Doctortowu to Ocmuigeville.
27. Appointing a Committee to examine the
State Library.
28. Expressing the cordial eudorsoment of (he
General Assembly of the address of the Hon. A. H.
Stephens.
29. Accepting the benefit rf certanactH of Con
gress of the U. S. donating public laud# forcer-
tain purposes therein mentioned.
39. Requesting the Governor to raemoralise the
Secretary of the Treasury in regard to the seiz
ure of Cotton in certain cases.
31. Authorizing the distribution or disposition
of surplus books iu the State Library by the State
Librarian, under the direction cf the Goveruor.
32. Requesting the Post Master General to re
commend the establishment of certain Mail routes.
33. Appointing a committee of sixteen to digest
and repo, t to the next Legislature a system of
Common Schools.
34. In reference to a committee appointed to
provide com for the destitute.
35. Allowing the Secretary of State to employ
a clerk in his office.
36. Requesting the Governor to pardon Epsey
Wood, a convict iu the Penitentiary.
37. Requesting the Governor to instruct the
Superintendent of the \S eslem <Xl Atlantic Rail
road lo give certain aid to farmers and other per
sons upon said road.
38. Asking the President to open certain Mail
Routes in the State of Georgia.
39. To authorize certain persons to cast tho
vote of the Stste iu elections held by the Atlantic
and Gulf Railroad Company.
40. Allowing M. P. Quillian certain privileges.
41* Authorising the Comptroller General to au
dit certain claims for printing and publishing.
is a hit of information
Dry Fjskt.—Hero
wor Jiy of attention :
Moisture generally penetrates the soles of boots
—the upper leather is not easily wet, and is easily
dried. To render the sole impervious to water,
ge the name 1 order your Loot-maker to cut pieces of canvass in
of the Brunswick and Florida Railroad Compa-; the pioper shape, dip thorn in melted pitch or
ny—to revive the charter of said Company and iar, and lay I hem upon the inner soles of the
extend the same—to con/br upon the Brunswick ! hoots. This simple process, it is said, will insure
aud Albany Railroad Company the rights, pow j dry feet without making the boot clumsy,
Anecdotes of Henry Olay.
tita BOYHOOD AND 1119 SENATORIAL CAREER.
The North American Review, for Janu-
ary, has a very savory article on the boy
hood of Henry Clay, and gives the follow
ing account of him as he Attended school
and appered as a Clerk in Richmond :
“We catch our first glimpse of the boy
when he sat in the little log school house,
without windows or floor, ono of a ham-
ruing score ot shoeless boys, where a good
r, at a red, irritable, drinking English school
master taught bine to read, write and
cypher as far as Practice. This was the
only school be ever attended, aad tiiat was
all be learned at it. His widowed mother,
with her seven young children, her little
farm aud two or three slavos, could do do
more for him. Next, we see him a tall,
awkward, slender stripling of thirteen,
still barefoot, clad in homespun butternut
of his mother’s making, tilling her fields,
and going to mill with his bag of corn
strapped upon the family pony. At four
teen, in the year 1791, a place was found
ior him in a Richmond drug atore, where
he served as errand boy and youngest
clerk for one year.
Then occurred the event which decided
his career. His mother having married
again, her husband had influence enough
to procure for the lad the place of copying
clerk iu the office of the Court of Chancery.
The young gentlemen then employed in
the office of that court long remembered
the entrance among them of their new
comra-te. He was fifteen at the time, bnt
very tall for his age, very slender, very
awkward, and far from handsome. Hit
good mother had arrayed him in a full
suit of pepper-and salt ‘figginy,’ an eld
Virginia fabric of silk and cotton. His
shirt and shirt collar were stiffly starched,
and bis coat tail stood out boldly behind
him. The dandy law clerks of metropoli
tan Richmond, exchanged glances as bis
gawky figure entered, and lie took hia
place at the desk to begin his work.—
There was something in his manner which
prevented their indulgence in the jests
that usu^Jlv greet the arrival of a country
youth among city bladea ; and they after
ward congratulated one another that they
waifed a little before beginning to tease
him, for they soon found that be brought
with him from the country an exceedingly
sharp tongue.
Of his first service, little is known, except
tlie immense fact that he was a mere dili«
gent reader.
As be grew older the raw and awkward
Btrippling became a yonng man, whose ev
ery movement bad a winning or a com
manding grace. Handsome heneverwast
but his ruddy face and abundant light hair,
the grandeur of his countenance, more
than atoned for tho irregularity of hia fea
tures. His face, too, was a compromise.
With all its vivacity of expression, there
was always something that spoke of the
Baptist preacher’s son—just as Andrew
Jackson’s face bad the set expression of a
Presbyterian elder.
But of all the bodily gifts bestowed by
nature upou this favored child, the most
unique and admirable was his voice. Who
ever heard one more melodious ? There
was a depth of tone in it, a volame, a com
pass, a rich and temper harmony, which
invested all he said with majesty. We
beard it last when he was an old man,
past seventy, aud all he said was an ac
knowledgment to a group of ladies in the
largest ball in Philadelphia. He spoke
only in the ordinary tone of conversation,
but his voice filled tho room as the organ
fills a great cathedral, and the ladies stood
spell-bound as the swelling cadences roll
ed about the vast apartment. We have
heard much of Whitfield’s piercing voice
and Patrick Henry’s silvery tones, but
we cannot believe that either of those nat
ural orators possessed an organ superior to
Henry Clay’s majestic bass. No one who
ever heard him speak will find it difficult
to believe what tradition reports, {hat he
was the peerless star of the Richmond De
bating Society in 1795.
The following reminiscences of Mr. Clay
are from the pen of the Hon. Thoa. Ewing,
who wrote them as a contribution to a san
itary fair:
Mr. Clay, with all his terrible power of
denunciation was in ordinary debate
pleasant and playful. When dealing with
an ordinary adversary, he olten reminded
me of the lines in Milton’s description of
Eden before the fall:
“Sportive the lion ramped, and in his paw
Dandled the kid.”
On one occasion, the year I do not re
member, but it was the first time the
Whigs carried aa election in the city of
New York, I found him early iu his seat
with a newspaper in his hand. As soon
as the journal was read, he-rose quite out
of order—announced to the President (Mr.
Van Buren) the Whig' victory, spoke of
their noble efforts in the cause of their
country, and of their brilliant success.
Your own fellow citizens, Mr. President—
the proud capital of your noble State—
lias made its voice heard in our halls, iu
defense of the Constitution of our country.
Ah! Mr. President, does not this warm
your patriotic heart ?”
The impudence and absurdity of this
appeal was too much for the dignity of a
presiding officer. Mr. Van Buven's face
drew itself into I know not how many in
describable lines, in which the comical
predominated, and ho slid down in hiH
scat until nothing of him was visible but
the smooth top of hia head. He n>on call
ed some one to tho chair, came down, took
a pineb of snnff with Mr. Clay, and after
a wholesome laugh between them, the
morning business went on.
His classical allusions (English classics)
were few, but sufficiently happy. His at
tempts to cite poetry generally failed.—
On one occasion he attempted the hack
neyed quotation from Hamlet—
“Let the galled jado wince, our withers are un-
wrnng.”
He mistook tha last syllable, aud with
great distinctness and fine emphasis made
it “unstrung.” Watkins Leigh fiat on bis
right; I on bis left; both at the same in
stant, in suppressed voice, pronounced the
word “anwrung.” The double prompting
confined him ; he drew himself up and
with stronger emphasis made the word
“hung.” He stood with a very pleasant
and unembarrassed countenance until the
laugh, which had become general, subsid
ed, and then with a gentle shake of hi9
head and a long drawing out of the first
word, said: “Ah ! murder will out.” I
almost imagined be bad slipped on pur
pose to show his adroitness in recovering.
But his wit was sometimes displayed in
a less kindly Spirit. All will remember
Mr. Buchanan's disiugenuoug letter ou the
subject of ‘bargain and corruption.’ Mr.
Clay never forgot, never forgave it, and
never tailed to take occasion, and it none
arose, to make occasion to punish it.—
About 1S34 or ’35 a matter of some inter
est was under discussion. A leading Whig
or two had spoken and two or three of the
rank and file of tho Democratic party, bnt
no Democrat then prominent. Walker of
Mississippi was speaking. As he was
drawing to a close, I observed that Mr.
Clay was paying unusual attention. The
moment Walker closed, he eprang to his
feet and for five or ten minutes w ith great
vehemence of manner, saying nothing but
simply vaporing. He boasted that tlie
noble Whigs came cut ou every question
that arose, with promptness and decisiou,
while the Democratic leaders put their rank
and file forward to skirmish, while they
lay by and waited and watched the popu
lar indications. “Come out,” said he,
“come out like men And define your posi
tions. Let us hear from you : I call for
the leaders of the party.”
Mr Wright aud Mr. Buchanan sat near
each other on a lino with Mr. Clay, who
obviously directed his remarks to one or
both of them. Mr. Wright looked up for a
moment, picked with his finger the hair
behind his ear. and turned to his writing.
Mr. Buchanan looked up and listened,
and when Mr. Clay took his seat, arose
and replied with high indignation—was
surprised at the gentleman from Ken
tucky: “He kuows well, and the Senate
can bear me witness, that I am prompt
and aireet in expressing ray opinion on
subjects as they arise, but I choose to take
niv own time, and consult my owu .con
science. The gentleman from Kentucky
need not expect to force me into this die
cussion, or any other until I choose to en
gage in it. Mr. Clay in his blandest man
ner assured the gentleman from Pennsyl
vania that he had no reference whatever
to him—“far from it,” said he, aud with
mighty emphasis, “I called for the lead
ERS OF THE TARTY.”
- Mr. Buchanan appealed to tho Senate;
the gentleman from Kentucky fixed bis
eyes upon him and addressed his remarks
to him throughout. Mr. Clay, in his soft
est and most conciliatory tone and phrase,
said he could well conceive how the gen
tleman from Pennsylvania had fallen into
the error. “I often,” said ,he» “suppose
that gcutleman is looking at me when in
fact be looks quite another way.” [Mr.
Buchanan had a cast of the eye.J I said
to Mr. Clay when he took his seat, “Your
first blow was cruel, but magnificent; the
last savage warfare—tomahawking.”
“Ah! d—n him,” said Mr. Ofay, “he
wiites letters.”
The Presidcm’s Remarkable Speech.
There is an account given in classic
history of a Samian wrestler, whose name
was iScLES, who was born dumb, but hap
pening to witness on one occasion the
perpetration of certain outrages, flagrant
ly violative of the law, the indignation
with which it filled his virtuous soul rose
to such a pitch, that it snapped the string
which held his tongue in silence, and he
poured down upoo the heads of the guilty
culprits a stqrm of eloquent denunciation.
President Johnson has been for some time
past some what similarly situated. He
has had^to stand off and fold his arms,
while repeated efforts have again and
again been made as it were in his very
presence to offer to the Constitution vio
lence, and inflict upon innocence, outrage,
bat having no seat in the Senate or the
House, his tougvie was comparatively tied,
until his friends, the people, came rolling
in waves mountain high up to his .very
door, and with their hoarse voices called
loud and long to him to come forth and
tell them what he thought and how he felt.
Forth he did como, and we dare say when
he saw that sea of upturned faces flaming
with patriotic indignation against the ful
ly of bis foes, he felt the frail string which
holds in modest captivity the nervous lan
guage of true manliness, snap, as distinctly
as ^Egles ever felt that string that held
his tongue snap, and down upon the guilty
heads of the disunion Radicals he poured
out tlie obliterative denunciations cf bis
virtuous scorn, in a much more magnifi
cent style than the gods ever Allowed poor
■rfEgles to talk. For it the nation owes
him an eternal debt of gratitude. Trea
son is their crime, and it is snivelling hy
pocrisy, and fulsome flattery to call them
anything but traitors, and in the general
application of that delectable epithet to
them which is now being made by every
body, they are realizing the truth of the
old Spanish proverb, that “curses are like
yonDg chickens and will como home to
roost.” They sec-m to be iufuriated be
cause he applied to them that opithet, and
we cannot find it in onr souls to find fault
with them for that. Their rage ia perfect
ly natural and entirely excusable. They
are precisely in the fix of an old lady we
have read about, who once lived in Greece.
Her name was Acco, and notwithstanding
she was haggishly homely, fools bad flat
tered her until she really believed that she
was angellically beautiful. Unfortunate
ly for her, however, about that time some
ill-natured meddler invented mirrors. Of
course she soon made a rash for one to
gaze upon her own loveliness, but alas,
Alas, what was the result. ‘History tells
ns that she no sooner got a glimpse of her
hideousness than she immediately hnng
herself. Well, what is the President’s
speech ? Nothing more nor leas than a
mirror wherein the Rads can see them
selves, and they are following Acco’s ex
ample in proving two important facts—first,
that the mirror is faithful; second, that
they believe it. If Acco had not believed
her mirror told the truth, she never would
have liuug herself, and if the Rads did not
know that President Johnsou’s mirror
properly reflected their deformities, you
would bear nothing about all this furious
rage with which they are frothing at the
mouth about this time. It reminds us of
an amusing anecdote told of Carolina’s
greatest lawyer, James L. Pettigrew (re
cently deceased.) He was once furiously
denounced to his face as a liar, scoundrel
and thief, all of wbicb epithets he past,
bat his assailant wound up by calling him
a d—d Federalist, whereupon he knocked
him down. A friend who witnessed it
asked him, ‘‘How does it come. Mr. Petti
grew, that you allowed him to call you a
liar, scoundrel aud thief, and then kuock.
ad him down for calling yon a damned
Federalist t” “O,” said ho, “everybody
knew that he lied when he said I was a
lilr, scoundrel and thief, bnt when he said
I was a Federalist, the fellow told the troth,
and I was bound to knock him down to
flatter public prejudice.” How that is
precisely what’s tho matter with the Rada:
they know and feel that the President
when he denounced that triumvirate of
cowardly seditionists, Stevens, Snmner and
Phillips, as traitors, that it was the trnth
he was uttering, and to flatter the prrjo.
dices which they knew patriots cherished
toward real traitors, they are preteuding
to boil over with indignation. It is said
be ought not to have made that speech.
What else could he do ? The people ttent
to his very door and made the weikiu ring
-with shouts for a speech. His respond
was as unavoidable as it was unanswerable.
That is not all; it was tho truth and will
prevail.
Truth when spoken, in these degener
ate days, boldly by men in power, seems
to be endowed with an immortal vitality.
Tho words of the great and good seem to
possess a creative power, as did the words
of those who, it is said, once Teigned on
Mount Olympus. Whenever the president
of a council of the gods wanted to turn a
man into an animal, he coaid do it with a
word, and poor Forney will be very apt to
realize that, even in these days when such
a man as Andrew Johnson speakB the
word, a trimming politician can be very
suddenly metamorphosed into a “dead
duck,” and that fanaticism knows never
enough about galvanism to a7er Again re
suscitate him. We read in ancient lore
of au irapndent aud importunate hanter,
who once attempted to take rather imper
tinent liberties with Diana, when she
spoke that word that suddenly changed
him into a stag, ami he was thereupon
torn to pieces by his own hounds. >iow
that is to be the fate of Sumner, Steveng,
Phillips & Co. They have been taking
impertinent liberties with the President;
and he has spoken the right word at tbs
right time and place to brand them for all
time as Traitors, and those pAsaioru
which they so long have been employing
astbeir dogs to devour traitors, will now
be let slip upon thorn, and not nolike the
unhappy Acteon, they are righteously
doomed to he torn to pieces by their owe
hounds.--Baltimore Home Sf Trade. Journal.
The Condition of Ike Sontb.
Letter front Hon. Waddy Thompson.
Greenville, S. C., Feb. 12, 1S66.
Dr. Van Evcrie :
Dear Sir—I was indneed to subscribe
for The Day Book from having read your
work on “Negroes’ and Negro Shivery,”
which I consider the most comprehensive,
profound and exhaustive disenssion of tbe
subject that I have read. I do not doubt
that time, the surest test of trnth, will de>
monstrate the correctness of every opinion
expressed in that book. It is so long a
time since I withdrew from all public em
ployment, and political reputation is so
transitory and evanescent, that this opin
ion may prove of little value. You may
not even remember my name. There may
be others who will. If there be any sueb,
I trust that they will at least believe that
the opinions I express are those which I
entertain. They will remember that in
1S33, when a popular torrent swept over
Sooth Carolina, I was one of the few pub
lic men in the State who breasted it, and
the only one who did so successfully.—
From that timeffto the secession of 1861,1
have been in a small and hopeless minority.
Persistently opposed to tho policy which
culminated in secession, after that I had
no alternative bnt to sustain tbe action of
my State. I did not doubt tho right of
a State to secede from the Union. This
right was expressly reserved in the ratifi
cations of New* York aud Rhode Island,
and the reservations by those States enur
ed to the benefit of all other States. This
was tbe doctrine of tbe Republican party
of 1798, at the head of which was Mr. Jef
ferson, the greatest of American states
men. Yet I bad fears that this right would
not be conceded by the othe States, and
I do know that the gesnlt of a conflict of
arms would be disastrons to tbe South.—
An infant and a strong man armed is
hardly an exaggeration of tbe inequality
of such a conflict. My greatest surprise
baa been that the South could bare main
tained it so long.
Kentucky had given the most solemn
assurance that she would resist, if coercion
were attempted. I still believe that if
that great and powerful State had redeem
ed this pledge, tbore would have been no
war. Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Seward had
disavowed all purpose of military coercion.
Tbe two most potential presses of tbe
North, the Tribune and Herald, bad ad
vocated the same opinion. I thought that
the stronger the array presented by tbe
South, tbe greater would be tbe chance of
compromise. In as far as the “free” State*
were concerned, the movement was amply
justified, bnt I thought ther measure inex
pedient. I had not lost all hope of escap
ing tho threatened catastrophe, and whilst
I had full perception of the impending
danger, I had little hope from the efficacy
of the proposed remedy, but when mj
State acted, I considered that I no longer
had the right of private judgment, and
could not separate my fortunes from those
amongst whom my whole life had been
passed, and who had so often and so high
ly honored roe. If those, however, who
precipitated the movement were in error-
aod as to that, there cannot now be two
opinions—it was but a mistake, and they
were influenced by no feelings but of the
purest aud most unselfish patriotism. I
know there were many who weakly yi«W*
ed their own judgment to an overwhelm*
ing popular torrent. 1 know not on*
whom 1 believe .to have acted from any
more unworthy influence; Leonidas and
the three hundred who died at Tbermopj"
1© were not animated by more sell-devot
ing patriotism. Why, then, the feeling of
ferocious malignity still manifested
wards ns ? The worst that can be said is,
that we made a mistake on a constitution
al question ; but that this mistake ***
vindicated and illustrated by as high cour
age and virtue as have ever been exhibit
ed by any people. Treason is a eri® f '
and should be punished even with death-
But is death the proper punishment for a
mistake on a constitutional question 1-^
Doea any one really think that Jeffer** 0
Davis, Robert E. Lee aud Stonewall J* 6 * 1 '
son did not honestly hold the opinion
which they acted, that paramount a| le ’
giance was due to the State in vbic
they lived! The war is ended, aD1 *
what is the duty and poliey of tbe con
queror ? Par cere subjects* would be
policy of‘all honorable and generous n»*
tares. Do not all considerations of *
policy lead to tbe eame conclusion *.
will not say that any policy, however *[
and liberal, can restore the South to tw