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Appuiiimieiilx of Preachers fur 1870.
Savannah District—J. W. Hinton,P. E.
Savannah, Trinity and Isle of Hope;
James E. Evans.
Savannah, Wesley Church and City
Mission ; George G. N. MacDonell.
Springfield ; Thus. B. Lanier.
Sylvian Circuit and Beaver Dam
Mission i W. T. McMichael and Chas.
J. Toole.
Bethel ; W. F. Robison.
Alexander ; W J. Baker.
Waynesboro ; N. B. Ousley.
Waynesboro Mission; R. F. Ev
ans.
Louisville ; S. S. Sweet and Julien
S. Jordan.
Davisboro ; Robt. H. Howren.
Sandersville ; N. B. Moorbouse.
Washington Circuit and Gibson Mis
sion ; S. G Chdds and F. M. Russell.
J. O. A. Clark ; Professor of Emory
College.
Macon District—Charles R. Jewett,
P. E.
Macon, Mulberry Street, Vineville
and East Macon ; Robert B. Lester,
and one to be supplied ; Macon Mis
sion, James Jones.
Macon, First Street; J. B. Smith.
Macon Circuit ; W. C. Bass.
Gordon Circuit ; John W. Burke.
Irwingion ; 13. E. L. Timmons.
Jeffersonville ; R. W. Flournoy.
Hawkinsville ; F. A. Branch.
Pulaski and Wilcox Mission ; To
be supplied.
Fort Valley and Marshallville ; B.
F. Breedlove.
Houston Circuit; C. W. Smith.
Knoxville Mi ssion ; Lucius G. Evans
and E. Barrett.
Perry Station : Walter Knox.
Havneville Circuit; W. W. Slew-
art.
Montezuma and Vienna ; James
H arris and J. Dun woody.
Swift Creek Station ; James Spence.
Wesleyan Female College; J. M.
Boimell, President; C. W. Smith and
W. C. Bass, Professors.
Editor Southern Christian Advocate ;
E. H. Myers, D. D.
Agent Emory College ; J. S. Key.
Columbus District—Thus. T. Chris
tian, P. E.
Columbus, St. Luke’s; O. L. Smith.
Columbus, St. Paul’s ; A. M. Wynn.
Girard and Wesley Chapel Mission ;
J. L. Littlejohn.
Muscogee Circuit ; S. D. Clements.
Hamilton Circuit ; C. A. Cornell.
Talbot ton Station ; J. O. A. Cook.
Taldot Circuit; R. J. Corley and
II. P Myers.
Pleasant Grove ; H. D. Moore.
Butler Circuit , R. F. Williamson.
Buena Vista ; J. O Branch.
Juniper M ission ; W. G. Booth.
Cussetta ; W. M. D. Bond and Y.
F. Tignor, Supernumerary.
Upatoi Circuit and Pine Knot ; G.
T. Tooke.
H. D. Moore, President of LeVert
Femaie College.
L. Pierce, Agent Sunday School So
ck tv.
Americus District ; J. B. McGeiiee,
P. E.
Americus ; R. W. Dixon and S.
Anthony.
B *thel; J. E. Sentell and J. T.
Johnson.
Oglethorpe and Ellaviile Circuit ; J.
W. Mills and John Skipper.
Magnolia Springs ; E. J. Renlz.
Starkville Mission ; To be supplied
by Speight.
Cuthbert and Georgetown ; E. A.
H. McGhee.
Spring Vale ; G. S. Johnson.
Dawson ; J- M. Marshall.
Terre'l Circuit and County Line
Mission ; G. B Embry.
Weston ; J. K. Armstrong.
Lumpkin ; D. R. McWilliams.
Florenoe ; S. R. Weaver, one to be
supplied.
F. F. Reynolds ; Agent Andrew Fe
male College. %
Bainbrulge District—G. C. Clarke,
P. E.
Bainbri Ige ; A. J. Dean.
Decatur Circuit ; W. II. Hays.
Spring Creek Mission ; to be sup
plied by W. Russell.
Colquitt ; Eppes Tucker and J. M-
Potter.
Blakely and Trinity ; D. O. Dris
coll.
Fort Gains ; B. J. Baldwin.
Morgan ; C. E- Brown.
Camilla ; J. T. Ainesworih.
Cairo ; P. C. Harris
Springhill and Thomas county Mis
sion ; Wesley Lane.
Grooverville ; W. F. Roberts.
Thomasville ; J. M. Austin.
Albany; G. H. Patillo.
Flint River Mission ; H. Puckett.
Agent Bible Society ; R H. Luck-
ey-
Brunswick District—J. W. Simmons,
P. E.
Brunswick Station and City Mission ;
C. A. Fulhvood.
St. Mary’s ; E. J. Burch.
Centre village Mission ; A. P.
Wright.
Waynesville ; J. L. W illiams.
Wareshoro ; J.'D. Maulden, and
VV. H. Thomas, Supernumerary.
Arlington Mission ; W. M. Kennedy
Holmesville; To be supplied by E*
Findlay.
Ocmulgee; D. Crenshaw.
Coffee and Irwinville Mission ; To
be supplied by J. Ware.
Stockton ; L. C. Peek.
Valdosta ; W. M. Walls.
Quitman ; J. W. Talley.
Morvin ; J. J. Giles-
Moultrie Mission ; M. H. Fielding.
AUamaha District.—L. B. Payne,
P. E.
Hinesville ; M. A. McKtbben.
Darien and Reynold? Chapel ; G. E.
Gardner.
Statesboro and Bryan ; W. M. Con
ley.
Dublin ; J. J. Morgan.
County Line Mission ; To be sup
plied.
Rocky Creek Mission ; H. C. Fent
ress.
Oconee ; C. C. Hines.
^scaaBamtaaa
Taliaferro
Mil ledge
Baldwin
Jacksonville; L. A. Darney : J. G-
Worley, Supernumerary.
Altatnaha Mission ; D. G. Pope.
Reidsville and Tattnall Mission;
W. W. Tidwell; W. F. Conley, Su
pernumerary.
D. D. Cox and W. A. Parks were
transferred to the North Georgia Con-
lerenee.
Marshall G. Jenkins was transferred
to the West Texas Conference.
Appoinlmeimofthe North Georgia Conference
Augusta District. : Weyman H Pot*
ter, Presiding Elder.
Augusta: St Johns, Alfred T Mann
City Mission, Jas V M Morris; St
James, Harwell H Parks; Asbury,
Caleb W Key.
Richmond Circuit: James M Arm
strong.
Belair M ission: To be supplied by
E P Bonner.
Appling Circuit, Win A Farris;
Thompson Circuit, 'Leonard Rush;
Warrenton Circuit, Thomas A Seales;
Sparta, Wesley P Pledger; Hancock
Circuit, Josiah Lewis Sr;
Mission, Felix P Brown ;
ville, Wesley P Arnold ;
Circuit John W Stipe.
Athens District.: Thomas F Pierce
Presiding Elder.
Athens, Clement A Evans; Second
Charge and Mission, Peter A Heard ;
Factory Mission, to he supplied; Wat-
kinsville Circuit, Ebenezer G Murrah
and one to lie supplied ; Madison,
Wm A Florence; Morgan Circuit, to
he supplied by Ben Hume; Morgan
Mission, Wm R Foote; Greensboro
Circuit, James A Means, Superintend*
ant; While Plains Circuit, John M
Lowery; Lexington Circuit and Color
ed Charge, Wm A Simmons; Wash-
ton Eustace W Spear; Broad River
Circuit, John W Heiilt, R A Seale,
Supernumerary ; Little River Circuit.
James H Baxter; Eatonton Wm P
Kramer; Putnam Circuit, John W
Knight and T H Timmons.
Elberton District: John H Brogan,
Presiding Ehfpr.
Elberton Circuit, A C Worley ;
Elbert Circuit, Wm T Norman ; Lin-
colnton Circuit, Win F Quillian Jeffer
son Circuit, Robert C Bonner, Benj E
Ledbetter ; Carnesville Circuit, John
H Marshourn ; Franklin Springs
Mission , to be supplied; Homer Cir
cuit, Britten Sanders Hartwell Circuit,
Amicus W Williams; Clarksvnie
Circuit, John R Parker; Clayton
upplied by Isaac G
to be
Neese ; Forrest Station Mission, to be j erection of tire-proof shops. The tetn-
supplied ; Fayetteville Circuit, Robert! porary wooden buildings, at present
Stripling; Cullodeti Circuit, Wesley occupied for that purpose, are extreme-
F Smith; Clinton Circuit, Cicero A ly dangerous, and are rapidly falling
Mitchell; Jackson Circuit, David No-1 into decay. Within the last year they
lan ; Liberty Hill and Indian Springs have been accidentally on fire, but it
Mission, Wesley G Hanson: Forsyth, j was fortunately discovered in time to
Francis A Kimball; Forsyth Circuit, j save the buildings, togi-thet with their
Joseph J Singleton ; William M Winn, j valuable contents, and thereby heavy
transferred to Mobile Conference ; ■ loss to the State.
James D Anthony, transferred to Mo- i The very high rates charged by in
bile Conference ; Julius C Bridges, surance companies for risks upon buil-
transferred to Northwest Texas Con- dings of this character, filled with val-
ference; Julius T Curtis, transferred I uable machinery, and generally crow-
to Mississippi Conference; Cyrus H ! ded with locomotives and "cars under-
Ellis, transferred to Arkansas Confer-1 going repairs, the premium—amount-
ence; Sidney H Babcock, transferred ! iug as it would to several thousand
to Arkansas Conference ; George Kra- j dollars—would in a few years erect
mer, transferred to Baltimore Confer-j first class fire-proof buildings,
ence; George H Patillo, transferred to j I can not belter state the very great
South Georgia Conference. | importance of a liberal expenditure for
Attanta. District.—Atlicus G. Hay- their erection, than to quote from the
good, P. E. annual report for 1867,'iff Maj. Catn’b
Atlanta, Wesley Chapel, W P Hnr-! Wallace, in which he says :
rison ; 3d and 4th Ward Mission, A G I “I would recommend the immediate
Dempsey; Trinity, W M Crumley ; j substitution of brick buildings, as near
Evans’Chapel, VV A Dodge ; Payne’s fire proof as practicable, for these
Chapel, W C Dunlap; Atlanta Circuit, unsafe wooden structures. These
WJ Wardlaw ; Fulton Circuit, J R
Mayson ; Decatur Circuit, W II Ev
ans ; Oxford Circuit, M VV Arnold ;
Conyers Circuit, Albert Gray ; Jasper
Circuit, A W Rowland ; Monticello,
F B Davies; Monroe, J W Turner;
Covington, D J Myrick; Lawrence-
ville, B J Johnson; Jesse Boring,
Agent Orphan’s Home ; G J Peatce,
Sunday School .Agent ; Josiah Lewis,
Jr. Protessor Emory College.
[Rowie Daily.
Mission,
Parks.
Dohlonega District: Will’s T Cald
well, Presiding Elder.
Dalonega and Mission ; Faancis G
Hughes ; Dawsonville Circuit: To be
supplied by J E Hughes ; .Gumming
Ciicnit : Alfred G Carpenter ; Cum-
ming Colored Charge to be supplied by
Lawyer Washington, colored; Canton
Circuit, to be supplied by C M Mc
Clure; Cherokee Circuit; to be sup
plied by J Newell; Jasper Mission :
to be supplied by A C Carson; Ellijay
Mission: to be supplied by J N Sulli
van; Blairsville Mission: Milford G
Hamby; Cleveland Circuit: Marion H
Fakes; Gainsville Circuit: Eldridge
K Aikin; Gwinnett Circuit: John W j
Bak< r; Alpharetta Circuit: Joseph
Chambers.
Rome District: Habersham J Adams
Presiding Elder.
Rome: Wm F Cook; Rome Circuit:
to be supplied by A Odom; Cave
Spring Circuit: Wm P Rivers;
Kingston Circuit: Robert H Jones;
Calhoun Circuit: to be supplied by
Thomas M Pledger; Tilton Mission:
by Samuel VV McWhorter; LaFayelle
Circuit: James L Laps; Subligna :
to be supplied by Samuel Brice ;
Dalton Station: George W Yarbro-
ougb; Dalton Circuit: Wiley T
Hamilton; Ringgold Circuit: Chas J
Oliver; Summerville Circuit: Wm D
Heath; Spring Place CircTiit: to be
supplied by H H Porter; Oostanaula
Circuit: John T Norris ; Cedar Town:
John A Reynolds.
Marietta District: Peter A Ryburn,
Presiding Elder.
Marietta: Anderson J Jarrell; Ma
rietta Circuit: To be supplied by W
L Davenport; Acworth: Wm J Scott;
RoswelJ Mission; Sarri’l J Bellah;
Powder Springs Circuit; Richard J
Harwell; Dallas Circuit: To be sup
plied by M G Norton; Carrolton and
Bowden Circuit: Marshal F Malsby;
Villa Rica: Jas N Myers; Harralson
Mission, To be supplied by A H Nor
ton, Sand Town Mission Wiley Steed,
Campbelltown Circuit, JnoJ Davis,
Carterville Circuit, Jas L Pierce.
Euharlee, To be supplied. Bartow, To
be supplied, Wm A Rogers, Presi
dent Marietta Female Colledge.
LaGrangc District: Louis J Davis,
P E.
LaGrange: Robt W Bighatn. Troup
Circuit and Colored Charge, Wm J
Cotter and one lobe supplied, West
Point and Long Cane, E P Birch,
LaGrange and West Point Colored
Charge, To he supplied, Whitesville
Circuit, T S L Haiwell, Greenville,
Trinity and Fletcher’s Chapel, Alex
ander M Thigpen, Jno W McGehee,
Concord Colored Charge, To be sup
plied by J N Maddox, Grantville Cir
cuit, Henry J Ellis, Chalybeate Springs
and Colored Charge, To be supplied
by J J Little, Merri wether and Colored
Charge Robt F Jones Palmetto Circuit
Colored Charge Jas T Lone, one to be
supplied by J W Hunnicutt, Francis W
Baggerly, Supernumerary, Newnan,
Dan’l D Cox, Franklin Circuit, Jno M
Bowden, President LaGrange Female
College, Morgan Callaway, Missiona
ry to China, Young J Allen, W A
Parks.
Griffin District.—Waller R. Bran
ham, Presiding Elder.
Griffin, Armenius Wright; Griffin
City Mission, John P Duncan ; Zebu-
Ion, John W Reynolds ; Pike and Pine
Mt Mission, to be supplied by W H
Graham ; Thomaston Circuit, David J
Kelsey ; Barnesville Circuit, Wm W
Oslin ; McDonough Circuit, John II
Harris; Jonesboro Circuit, Levi P
Slate Rond,
Atlanta, Ga. Nov. 26, 1S69.
To His Excellency, Rufus B. Bullock
Governor of Georgia:
Sir :—In reponse to your inquiry
for my reasons for the non-payment of
the usual amount into the State Treas
ury for the month of October; from the
earnings of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad, I have to stale that the pur
chase of five hundred tons of new rails,
costing thirty thousand dollars, to re
place a portion of those so worn as to
have become dangerous, together with
an unusual number of cross ties receiv
ed and paid for at our last estimate,
amounting to thirty-three thousand
dollars, making a total of sixty-three
thousand dollars, has exhausted our
surplus means so far as to compel me to
postpone further payments into the
treasury until such time as the surplus
has'again reached an amount justify
ing resumption of payments.
We have fifty miles of old and badly
worn rail, an early renewal ol which
safety and economy imperatively de
mand. T1 iis will cost five thousand
and five hundred dollars per mile, or a
total of two hundred and seventy-five
thousand dollars.
During the last fiscal year, we have j
laid down nine and one-half miles of
new rail of an approved pailern, with
fish joints, at a total cost of fifty-two j
thousand two hundred and fifty dol- i
lars.
This has been a heavy drain upon
our resources, but has been met, up to
this lime, without interfering with our
regular payments.
The renewal, however, has not kept
pace with the rapid deterioration ot the
old rail ; hence the necessity of fur
ther immediate and heavy expenditures
for that purpose.
During the present month, as before
buildings are of such combustible
material that we are in constant danger
of serious loss by fire; and although
Atlanta can, with "truthfulness, boast
as prompt and faithful firemen as any
city on the globe, and although our
tracks are so arranged that in case of
fire the larger portion of our engines
and cars could be removed beyond its
ravages, such '■ casualty could not
occur without a loss of machinery,
shop tools and material greatly beyond
the entire cost of new buildings. Were
th? Slate Road my individual property
l would not divert another dollar of
its earings, for any purpose whatever,
until all our shops, and a suitable
foundry in addition, were erected on
the most approved plan of fire proof
buildings.”
The pressing demand for the erection
of a union passenger depot at this
place for the comfort and convenience
of the traveling public, should not be
longer overlooked. The commence
ment of the work is delayed only by
the preparation of the plans and spe
cifications. It will cost from seventy-
five to one hundred thousand dollars.
This road’s proportion of the cost will
have to be met at an early day.
1 am, Governor,
Very respectfully,
Your ob’t Serv’t.
E. HULBERT, Sup’t.
The New Governor Mississippi.
J. L. Alcorn was born in 111. when it
was a territory. He is fifty-two years
of age. In ante-war times he was a
Whig. His parents, who were origin
ally South Caro'inians, removed when
he was quite young to Kentucky.
Some years later lie emigrated to Mis
sissippi, and he has resided in that
Stale ever since. He served in the
Confederate army, and was one of a
committee of fifteen who drew up the
ordinance of secession. A Dent paper
which summed up his record during
the canvass, gave it briefly, as follows:
“He was a Whig in 1859, a Union
man in 1S60, a secessionist in 1861, a
fire-eater in 1862, a peace man in 1863,
;t growler in 1S64, a rebel in 1865, a
reconstrucliqnist 1S66, a scalawag in
1867, a Radical in 1S68, and a bitter
ender in 1S69.”
The Nashville correspondent of the
Cincinnati Commercial says that Al-
slated, we have paid thirty-three thou-1 co . ni ' s ^ )ndl smait and rich, and is
sand dollars for cross ties. Requiring I said to oWM al1 °F Coahoma county
some twenty thousand for immediate
use, we advertised for the same at a
slightly increased price, (same as for
merly paid) which resulted in an un
expected and unprecedented number
being placed on the line of Road—a
much larger number, in fact, than our
immediate wants required ; but as the
parties furnishing them had done so in
good faith, it seemed but just that they
should be paid—especially as, in many
instances, the parties were poor, bad
exhausted their means in furnishing
them, and could illy afford to wait un
til such time as we might need them.
In numerous cases merchants had
supplied these persons with provisions
on a credit until such tune as they
should receive their pay lrom the
Road. The general failure of the corn
crop on the line of Road doubtless
caused a much larger number to be
furnished than would otherwise have
been.
In many instances payment for the
limber furnished was the only means
the parties had to enable them to pur
chase seed wheat. A postponement
of a settlement would have caused
much suffering. Under all the circum
stances it was deemed best to pay, and
thereby relieve the necessities of those
who would otherwise have been plac
ed in a distressed condition.
My able and accomplished predeces
sor, Maj. Campbell Wallace, in his re
port for 1S67, remarks as follows in a
simular case :
“You will observe that the amount
reported this year, of material on band,
is greater by twenty thousand dollars,
than for last year, In the straitened
and tlistresssed circumstances of our
people, 1 considered it not only my
duty, hut good policy, to aid as far as
practicable, such as lived near the line Jose ph
of the road to sustain and support i county,
their families, without depending on
the gifts ot the State, or the benevo
lence of private associations; hence
thousands of cross ties and cords of
wood, not needed for immediate use,
have been taken up and paid for.”
Embraced in the expenditures at
this time, is the cost of a Howe truss
bridge, al Allatoona Creek, to replace
the one substituted for the culvert
long since fallen down from inferior
workmanship.
The necessary removal of the debris
of the culvert will also involve a con
siderable further expenditure, to be
paid for as the work progresses.
While on the subject of expenditures
which are immediately necessary, per
mit me to remind your Excellency ol
the pressing demand upon us for the
said to own all of Coahotna
where he lives, and annually puts into
market over a hundred thousand dol
lars’ woilh of cotton-
Georgians Relieved.
The political disabilities of the fol
lowing Georgians have just been re
lieved by actol Congress.
Noah L. Cloud, of Decatur county ;
Wm. F. Wright, of Coweta county;
Foster Blodgett and W. C. Dillion, of
Richmond county ; H. H. Pettis and
John L. Harris, of Fulton county; G.
H. Lester, of Oglethorpe county ; W.
\V r . Paine, of Chatham county ; Wm.
H. Edwards and Amos T. Akerman,
of Elbert county; F. B. Hascal, of
Jones county ; T. W. Thurmond, of
Spalding county; T. W. King, of Mon
roe county; E. C. Granniss, of Bibb
county ; John C. Hendrix, of Atlanta;
James M. Bishop, Jesse Hendricks,
and Wm. Kelly, of Dawson county;
Robert D. Harvey, ol Floyd county ;
Wm. D. Bently, ot Forsyth county;
Enoch Humphreys, of Gordon county ;
G. M. T. Ware, of Pierce county ; G.
T. Davis, ofBrooks county; E. S. Grif
fin and James Hammock, of Twiggs
county'; John R. Hill, E. Richardson,
and J. M. Cooper, of Dougherty co.,
Benj. Conley, of Richmond county;
B. B. deGraffenried, of Baldwin co.,
James W. Green, of Upson county;
Nathan Gunnels, of Banks co., Thpm-
as J. Speer, of Pike county; Henry C.
Wayne, of city of Brunswick; Chas.
D. Davis, of Walton county; J. W. B.
Somers, of Newton county; Joel F.
Thornton, of Greene county, Wm. R.
Davis Geo. M* Hood, and Chas. P.
McCalla, of Richmond county; Wm.
M. Moore, of Warren enunty ; Dicker-
son H. Walker, of Walton county;
Dr. Thomas F. Green, of Milledgeville;
McWhorter, of Oglethorpe
Origin of the Word 'Tariff.—At the
Southern point of Spain, and running
out into the Straits of Gabraltar,. is a
promontory, which, from its position,
is admirably adapted for commanding
the entrance to the Mediterranean, a nd
watching the exit and entrance of all
ships. A fortress stands upon this
promontory, called now, as it was also
called in the Moorish denominations,
“ Tarifa. ” It was the custom of
Moors to watch all merchant ships
going into, or coming out ol the mid
land seas, and issuing from this strong
hold, levy duties accordig to a fixed
scale on all merchandise passing in
and out. And this was called, from
the place where it was levied, tarifa,
and from, this comes our word tar iff.
The XIV and XV Amendments.
Article XIV.
Section 1. All persons born or natu
ralized in the United States, and sub
ject to the jurisdiction thereof, are cit
izens of the United States and of the
States wherein they reside. No State
shall make or enforce any law which
shall abridge the privileges or immuni
ties of citizens of the United States,
nor shall any State deprive any person
of fife, liberty or property without due
process of law', nor deny to'any person
within its jurisdiction the equal protec
tion of the laws.
Sec. 2. Representatives shall be ap
portioned among the several States,
according to their respective numbers,
counting the whole number cf persons
in each State excluding Indians not
taxed. But when the right to vole at
any election, for the choice ot electors
for President and Vice-President of the
United Slates, Representative -in Con
gress, the Executive and Judicial of
ficers of a State, being twenty-one
years of age, and citizens of the United
States; or in any way abridged, excep
for participation in rebellion or other
crime, the butis of representation there
in shall be reduced in the proportion
which the’number ot such male citi
zens shall bear to the whole number of
male citizens twenty one years of age,
in such Stale.
Sec. 3. No person shall be a Senator
or Representative in Congress, or elec
tor of President and Vice-President, or
hold any offi ce, civil or military, under
the United States, or under any State,
who, having previously taken an oath,
as a member of Congress, or as a mem
ber of any State Legislature, or as an
Executive or Judical officer of any
State, to support the Constitution of
the United Slates, shall have engaged
in in surrection or rebellion against the
same, or given aid and comfort to the
enemies thereof. But Congress may,
bv a vole oftwo-thirds of each House,
remove such disability'.
Sec. 4. The validity of the public
debt of the United States, authorized
by law including debts incurred for
payment of pensions and bounties for
services in suppressing insurrection or
rebellion, shall not be questioned. But
neither the United States or any State
shall assume or pay any debt or obli
gation incurred in aid of insurrection
or rebellion against the United Slates,
or any claim for the loss or emancipa
tion of any slave, but all such debts,
obligations and claims shall he held
illegal and void.
Sec. 0. Congress shall have [ower to
enforce, by appropriate legislation, the
provisions of this article.
Article XV.
Section I. The right of citizens ot
the United Stales to vote shall not be
denied ox fabridged by the Uni ed
Stales,or by any State, ou account of
race, color or previous condition of
servitude.
Sec. II. The Congress shall have
power to enforce this article by ap
propriate legislation.
The Morton Bill.
In the Senate of the United States,
December 6, 1S69, Mr. Morton asked,
and by unanimous consent obtained,
leave to bring in the following bill;
which was read twice, and ordered to
be prin.ted:
A bill to promote the reconstruction
of the Slate ot Georgia.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the United States of
America in Congress Assembled, That
immediately upon the passage of this
act the military commander of the de
partment of which the State of Georgia
is a part, shall issue bis proclamation,
convening in the State House, at the
Capital ot that State on the second
Wednesday in January, eighteen hun
dred and seventy, ali persons shown to
have been elected to the Legislature of
that State by the proclamation ot Ma
jor General George G. Meade, dated
June twenty-filth, eighteen hundred
and sixty-eight. That when so con
vened in the Senate and House respec
tively, he shall cause them to take the
oath of office required by the recon
struction acts. That after they have
taken such oath they shall proceed to
the organization of the two houses, re
spectively, in the manner and form re
quired by law; no member elected to
be refused his seat on account of race
or color, and none to be admitted to
seats who are ineligible under the
third clause of the fourteenth amend
ment of the Constitution of the United
States, ami when the organization of
each house is completed it shall report
the same to the military commander.
The military commander thereupon
shall cause an examination to he made
whether in the organization of each
house the provisions of this act and of
the several acts of Congress providing
for the reconstruction of the late rebel
States, have been complied with, and
if upon such examination he finds that
the two houses have in all things com
plied with these provisions, he shall
notify them that their organization is
accepted; but if it shall appear that
either house has failed or refused to
comply with any of the aforesaid pro
visions of law, the military commander
shall forthwith notify them of the par
ticulars in which they have failed and
call upon them to correct their pro
ceedings and perform the requirements
of the law.
. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That
if, after their organization has been
completed and accepted by the milita
ry commander, as provided in the
preceding section, the Legislature
thus organized shall in due form ratify
the amendments to the Constitution of
the United States, known as the four
teenth and fifteenth, and shall in all
things comply with the conditions pre
scribed by the several acts of Congress
providing for the reconstruction of the
late rebel States, the State of Georgia
shall he entitled to full representation
in the Congress of the United Slates.
Sec. 3. And. be it further enacted, That
the late Legislature of Georgia shall be
regarded as provisional only, and that
its several acts, resolutions and pro
ceedings which were of a political
character, and were in violation of the
aforesaid reconstruction acts, or of the
act of Congress passed , known
as the Civil Rights bill, are hereby de
clared void.
Sec 4. And be it further enacted, That
any person who shall hereafter hold
and exercise any office cr-ealed by the
Constitution or laws of the State of
Georgia, or attempt to hold and exer
cise any such office, or to act, or at
tempt to act, as a member of the Leg
islature of the State of Georgia, who,
having previously taken an oath as a
member of Congress, or as an officer of
the United States, or as a member ol
any Slate Legislature, or as an execu
tive or judicial officer of any State, to
support the Constitution of the United
States, shall have engaged in insurrec
tion or rebellion against the same, or
given aid or comfort to the enemies
thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a
misdemeanor, and shall, upon indict
ment and conviction thereof, in the Dis
trict Court of the United States, be im
prisoned one year and fined in any sum
not exceeding two thousand dollars,
nor less than five hundred dollars, and
the provisions of this section shall be
applicable to anv person who shall
have been elected or appointed to any
office as aforesaid, or to membership
in the State legislature, but who, after
its passage, shall continue to hold and
exercise or attempt to hold or exercise
an office, or to act or to attempt to act
as a member of the State Legislature
in violation of the proceeding provisions
of this section : Provided, however, That
the term “executive officer/’ as used
in this section, shall apply to any offi
cer whose duty it is to execute or ad
minister any general law of the State.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted,
That as soon as the Legislature shall
have complied with the provisions ol
this act, and of the Reconstruction acts
before referred to, and the Stale shall
have become entitled to representation
in Congress as-before provided, it shall
be lawful for the Legislature to pro
vide, for the organization, equipment,
drill, subsistence and discipline of the
militia of the State, to be under the
command and direction of the Gover
nor of the State, as provided by the
Constitution there of; and until such
organization is effected, the President
be, and he is hereby, authorized to
place at the disposal of the Governor
of said State such portion of the armed
forces ef the United States as may be
required by him tor the preservation of
the lives and property of persons, the
peace and good order of the communi
ty, and the protection of citizens in the
free expression of their political opin
ions.
Sec. 6 And be it Jurtlier enacted, That
all acts and parts of aels in conflict
with any provision of this act, are
hereby declared to be repealed.
Personal Appearance of Mahomet.
The Louisville Courier-Journal com
piles from recent' English prints the
following personal description of the
Prophet of the Faithful Musselmen :
We feel inclined to think of Mahom
et very much as we do of Haroun al
Raschild, as something associated in
our minds with houris and slaves, pipes
and turbans, but divested of all person
ality, so that to have his features, dress
and conversation minutely' described
seems, like any other attempt to reduce
the ideal to the real, strained and un
natural. He is said to have been of
medium bight and very slender, with
large dark eyes, in which all the emo
tions of an ardent imaginative temper
ament found vent, exceedingly fond of
perfumes, gentle and winning in man
ner even to his seivants in a land
where servants are indeed slaves, and
when in one of his brilliant, fascinating
moods capable of swaying the hearts
of multitudes like reeds before a wind.
He was so considerate that be would
never allow an awkward little page
who was for ten years about his person
and blundered daily, to be reproved,
and his inferiors were loud in their
praises of his great benevolence and
gentleness. One of them declared in
truly Eastern language : “Hadst thou
seen him thou would’st have declared
that naught hut the moon could shed
such benignant beautiful rays upon the
earth.” Tradition says that he had an
abhorrence of strong drinks, and a na
ture which was essentially refined,
sensative and intelectual.
Chinese Wedding.—A Chinese
Wedding came off at Grass Valley,
California, a tew weeks since. The
Union thus describes the couple mar
ried :
“Tin Ti made his appearance at the
church first and alone. It is not high-
toned among the Chinese for the bride
and groom to be present together at
the marriage ceremony. He was
dressed in a dove colored blouse, knee
breeches, blue stockings, fancy shoes,
and embroidered skull cap. Tin Ti
having departed from the church, the
bride came up in gorgeous toggery hav
ing her hair set up in a ridge across
the middle of her head, from front to
back, with paste and large gilded pins,
some six inches high ‘alee same roos
ter’s head,’ as an irreverent Chinaman
spectator remarked. Below her head
she wore a frock, which hung loosely
from her shoulders, and made of fine
silk. This was looped up under her
left arm to one dollar’s worth of
gold buttons. The bottom of this rig
was about a foot from the ground, and
below it were white stockings and fan
cy shoes, with soles three inches thick.
It was manifest to witness that she was
agitated, and that her nerves was any
thing but steady. One American pres
ent thought she was agitated because
it might not agree with her health to
be an honest woman so suddenly.—
Another said she was as pretty as a
‘spotted pup’ in her diffidence. She
was, in spile of all remarks, put thro’
in proper shape, according to the no
tion Mr. Wan Kee and the Joshes have
of the marriage ceremony, and then sh^
was turned loose to find the haiaiuv r
herself.” 01
kutljern Jletoriitr
MILLEDGEVILLE;
Tuesdayi December 21, 1869.
Hovr to Make Slates Ratify,
We are informed of the introduction of
two bills in Congress, to which we wish
to call attention—bills offered by promi
nent Radical Congressmen, under circum
stances which justify the apprehension
that they may be passed. One is to ad.
mit Georgia as a State fully restored,
when her Legislature adopts the loth
Amendment. The other is a bill to °rant
general amnesty when the loth Amend
ment shall have been.uiade a part of the
Federal Constitution. The first of these
is virtually a bill to compel a State to a
dept that Amendment ; the second is a
bribe offered to leading and influential pol
iticians of the South to procure their sup.
port of the Amendment. At any period
of our history prior to the acquirement of
absolute power by the Radical party, sach
means of procuring an amendment of the
Federal Constitution would have bee gen
erally regarded as infamous and revolu
tionary. They are subversive of the great
principle upon which the Government was
based—the right of the people to form or
change their system of government, with
out compulsion or restraint. The fact
that such monstrous innovations as those
contemplated by these two hills cau be
proposed in Congress without arousing the
instant and burning indignation of the
whole country, is a sad proof of the de
generacy of the times and of the great
progress which we have already made to
wards the establishment of a central des
potism aggregating all the political rights
of the Statas and of the people.
The above is from the Columbus Euquir-
er, and our cotemporary with that un
questioned ability that characterises all
of his articles, puts the question in itstnie
light, and makes it one of an overshadow
ing principle that should not be ignored
upon the grounds of either policy or ex
pediency. Georgia is either a State or
she is not, if the former, then she should
demand that she be heard and respected
as such. That she is a State, even radi
cal usurpation will not deny, for she has
been so recognised a half dozen times by
Congress.
If not a State, then throw the “onus
probandi” upon Congress and wash our
hands of being particeps crimims in de
nying our rights. "What is done by vio
lence or fraud, cannot, and will not stand
the sharp and searching scrutiny of rea
son and reflection. Let us resolve our
selves, for the time being, into a conva
lescent, and bear the wrongs, insults and
brusies that we are too weak just now to
resent ; but let us not forget them when
robust health shall again strengthen onr
muscles and string our sinews.
That which is forced has no binding
obligations when the force is removed, or
the oath that is extorted by fear, sacred in
the keeping when snccor comes, no matter
from what source or quarter. We should
be the last people to fly in the face o:
Congress false'colors and give them to bi'
lieve that we will tamely submit to their
QDjust demands, when we shall have the
power at some future day to call them in
to question, and spit upon them as con
temptible. Georgia has had in days past
controversies with Congress, and it isn:
new thing after all. Our fathers neve:
yielded an inch, nor is their any necessity
for us, their children, to degrade ourselves
at the foot-stool of usurped power.
It is true, we may be annoyed and bar
rassed for a year or two perhaps ; our mon
ey squandered, and bayonets thrust of
fensively under our uosfes ; hut fidelity to
ourselves and to the Constitution we have
sworn to support, will bring its blessings
in the end, and we stand forth as a State
who knew our rights, and knowing, daren
maintain them. Georgia w’ill become the
synonym of all that is truly grand, noble
and fearless.
We cannot say in truth, that the pres*
ent is not without danger, for knowing
Congress as we do, we should not, in the
language of another, “ground our hope on
the reasonableness of the thing we ask
on the reasonableness of those of whom we
ask it; for who would expect discretion
of a fool, candor of a tyrant, or justice
from a villain.” Congress has acted*'-
punic faith towards the South ever siuce
close of the war; making no promise bn-
to break, no declaration but to behe. n •
no ultimatum but to dishonor. Let us i:
Georgians stand firm, regarding our rigb-
“For he who is true to himself. c an t ‘ ,L
he false to no man.”
Middle Georgia Fair Conipany-
We are advised that steps are bein=
taken to unite Greene, Morgan. J* s P e ,’
Newton, Putuam, Jones, Baldwin,
Wash
ingtou and Hancock counties, in a fTy
Agricultural Fair enterprise, to be e *\,^
the “Middle Georgia Fair Company- ^
Looking to this end, some of our eD
prising men in Putnam are now m ° vl ‘’
in the matter, and before long we
to learn that a capital stock of Slo.O ^
been taken, and that the work of P re P
ing a splendid Fair ground near
the center of this district, has been
menced. In fact, we have no dou ^
ourselves, for we know the men eng*o^
in the enterprise, and know that the
fail is not in their vocabulary-
The following we clip from the Y
Sc Messenger, and take pleasure iu f>‘
it publicity and suggesting to the. pi" 1