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(• J 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