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tion act, passed 2.3d <»t March, 1S67,
prescribed an oath ior voters at the
elections to be held tor the Conventions
in the rebel Stales. This oatli requir
ed the voter to swear that he had never
safely lake tne oath prescribed for ii
Senator or Representative if he after
wards engaged in rebellion against
the government of the United States.
What is meant by the administration
been a member of any State Legisla- j of a general law of State,or the admin-
ture, nor held any Executive or Judi- istration of justice ?
cial office in anv State and afterwards j To a.sceilain the true meaning of
engaged ir rebellion or insurrection j the word, it is best to appeal to lexico-
aoainst the United States, or given aid j graptiers of acknowledged authority,
or comfort to the enemies thereof; that I Webster in bis unabridged dictionary,
lie bad never taken an oath as a mem- which is, 1 believe, acknowledged in
her of the Congress of the United j this country to be a work of the high-
States, or as an "officer of the United | est authority, defines administer as lol-
Staies, or as a member of any State lows :
Legislature, or as an Executive or Ju- \ “To act as ' minister or chief agent
dicial officer of any State to support the j in managing public affairs, under laws
Constitution of the United States, and ora constitution of government, as a
afterwards engaged in insurrection and j King, President, or other supreme of-
jebellion ao mist the United Slates or Nicer. It is used also of absolute Mcn-
aid or comfort to the enemies atchs,who rule not in subordination,but
is most strictly applicable to limited
Monarchies, and other supreme exec
utive officers, and to Governors, Vice
roys, Judges and the like, who are un-
given
thereof.”
The second supplemental act, pass
ed 19th July, 1S07, puls a legislative
construction upon the above oath. It
enacts that tin true intent and mean
ing of ttie* oath prescribed in said sup
plemental act is (among other things)
“that no person who has been a mem
ber of the Legislature of any Stale, or
who has held anv Executive or Jmil
der the authority of laws. A King or
a President administers the govern
ment or laws when he executes them or
carries them into effect. A judge ad
ministers the laws when he applies them
io particular cases or persons. In short,
cial off ce m any'State, whether he has j [a administer is to direct, the execution or
taken an oath to support the Conslilu- application of laws. 2. To dispense,
tionofthe United States or not, and j as to administer justice or the sacrament
whether fie was holding such office at
the commencement of the rebellion or
held it before, and who was afterwards
engaged in insurrection or rebellion
against ttfe United States,or given aid
orcomfoit lo the enemies thereof is en
titled o lie registered to vote; anti the
At a late period the appointment ol (justice, may not safely Lake the oath
Notaries Public was vested in the In- j prescribed by the late act of Congress
ferior Courts of the respective counties, for members of the Legislature of this
which was the case till the date of se- ; Stale.
cession. They were mere local com- ! I am, gentlemen, very respectfully,
mercial agents. A few years before; JOSEPH E. LROWN.
the State seceded, they were authoriz-1 To Messrs. J. E. Bryant, Dunlap,
ed to issue attachments and administer j Scott, and others.
oaths, but they bad no Judicial powers;; ^ tetter from Foster Blodgett-
no right to hear or determine any ques- j A fiord to fair minded, men, Regardless
tion, or to administer jyslice between | of •party.
man and man. ; Western and Atlantic Railroad, j
As to militia officers there can be no j Superintendent’s Office, >
pretext that they are disqualified unless i Atlanta, Ga.. J<*n. 17, 1870. )
they had civil duties in connection with j Editor Constitution.: In consequence
their offices as such; which authorized | of having taken an early and active
them to administer justice, or some gen- i part in the organization and success of
era! law of the State. Such was not: the Repub'ican party in this State,!
edge the receipt of your letter of lo-1 or writing of the great commercial cities |
day. In my judgment your right to a i of the South.—Sav. Rep. Jan. 22nd. !
seat in the House of Representatives
the law of Georgia. It is equally clear
that municipal officers of cities, towns
or villages, are not disqualified, unless
they had some general jurisdiction in
addition to their municipal functions.
I am aware it is contended that every
law connected with the Government of
the State is in some sense public. And
the Attorney General has arrived at the
conclusion that the Stale Librarian No
un prepared to expect much abuse and
misrepresentation lrom party newspa
pers ; uor do I claim or expect any
mitigation of this abuse and misrepre
sentation in virtue of the fact that I am
a native Georgian, and have devoted
the greater part of my life to the ad
vancement of what I honestly conceiv-
to he her best interest, politically.
As a politician I have always been con-
is not forfeited by. your failure to be j
present in the House at the time when :
your name was called. If it be nec
essary I will, on your application, take
measures to insure you an opportunity
to lake the oath before the organization
is completed.
Verv Respectfully, your ob’t serv’i.
ALFRED H. TERRY,
B’A Maj. Gen. Com.
Hon A- H Stephens,
YVe have seen a letter from this gen
tleman, dated Crawfordville, 17th inst
Special Telegraphic Corr., of The Constitution.
IMPORTANT FROM WASHINGTON.
Gen. Rjger to be Appointed Provisional
Governor of Georgia—Legality of the
Military Commission Referred to Hoar
— Georgia Congressmen to be Recog
nized.
Washington, Jan. 22.—It is stated j
and believed here, that Gen. Ruger j
will be appointed Provisional Gover- j
nor of Georgia.
The question of the legal right ot the
Military Commission to determine on !
in which the writer says Telegraph 8/ • the eligibility ot members of the Geor-
taries Public a.id Road Commissioners tent with politician’s fare, as awarded
were all public officers, because they
each discharged some sort ol official
duty under the laws of the State. So
they did, and so did many other classes
of persons not mentioned by him.
by party usage in this and other South
ern States.
But as an individual citizen and bu
siness man, I do not feel willing to
nrant a license to those with whom I
If a Road Commissioner is a civil j may differ politically, to wantonly as-
' officer administering a general law ol j sail my business and personal cbarac-
To afford to give, or furnish, as to
administer relief, etc. ^ „
Tne same authority defines the word S the State, why is not a Road Overseer j ter ; nor do I believe any intelligent or
execute to mean (among other things) lo
carry into complete effect, incomplete, to
j finish—we execute a work undertaken,
that is, we pursue it to the end. To
words Executive or Judicial office in carry into effect the law, or the judg-
anv Stale in said oath mentioned, shall i meat, or sentence on a person, etc.
be. construed to include all civil offices j It seems verv clear, from this author-
created by law lor the administration of | ity, that the officer who executes a law,
anv general law of a State, or for the j is one who carries the law into complete
administration of justice.” I effect, not one whose duties and aulhor-
The ad to promote the reconslruc- ity are interlocutary, or stop short
lion ot die Stale of Georgia, passed ltie completion. As, lor instance, an
22d ot December, 1861), requires that cer having authority to issue a warrant,
‘each Senator or Represei tative. before or au attachment, but no authority to
taking his seat, shall, in addition to die j hear the case, or make any decision in
oath or oaths required by the Consti- j it, render any judgment upon it, would
' not be an executive officer, because bis
of
offi
tulion of Georgia, take an oath that he
has been relieved from disability by
a civil officer? He warns 4lie hands in
obedience to law, and takes control of
them, and works them under his direc
tion; and reports them to the Commis
sioners to be fined iri case they are de
faulters. But like the Commissioner lie
takes no oath to support the Constitu
tion and executes no general law 7 , as a
public officer.
As the law stood before the war, in
spectors of beef and pork, inspectors of
lair minded Democrat will claim or at
tempt to exercise any such license.
And as you have, upon former occa
sions, expressed a willingness to do
me justice, and to draw the proper dis
tinction between the business and po
litical character of an opponent, l have
presumed to request the publication in
your columns of the following letter,
addressed me bv the present Treasur
er of the State Road, Mr. I. P. Harris,
inv successor,
a ulhoritv
act ot Congress, or an oath that he lias j of what
never held ail office or exeicised the
duties of a Senator or Representative
in Congress, nor been a member of the
Legislature of any Stale oj the* L nited
States, nor held any civil office, ere*
ated bv law lor the administration of
anv general law of iho State, or tor the
ail minis/rat inn of justice in any State, or
under the laws of the United Spates;
nor heft anv office m the military
naval service <>f the United Stales, and
thereafter engaged in insurrection or
rebellion against the United States, or
gave aid or comfort to its enemies, or
rendm d except in consequence ot di
rect physical force, any support or aid
to any insurrection or lebellion against
the United Slates : uor held any office
under, or given any support to any gov
flour, inspectors of flour, inspectors of
lumber, pilots, commissioners of pilot
age, tobacco inspectors, jailors, escheat- Western and Atlantic Railroad ^
ers, etc., were all officers in the broad* Office of Treasurer, >
est sense of the term, acting under the j Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 14, 1870. )
laws ot the State. II Road Commis- j Col. F. Blodgett, Superintendent:
lops short of the execution j sioners ate disqualified, why are not; Dear Sir; In reply to your inquiry,
he has commenced. Nor would I all these in the same condition ?
I have the honor to state that i lie a*
such an officer be a judicial officer, be- j All jurors act in an important official j mount of cash turned over to me by
c.ui'e he has no authority to give judg- capacity under general laws of the | yourself as former Treasurer, amount-
mentor decide upon any matter in dis- | State. Why ate they not included ii» ed lo ninety-two thousand, nine bun
puie. The very mention of a judicial the disqualified class ? Again, a gen-
officer at once conveys to the mind the | oral law ol the ictate provides lor the
idea that he lias authority to adjudicate j administration of the estates ot all de-
causes, or render judgments ol some j ceased persons by executors fir admin-
sort, or in some class of cases. While istrators. W hy are they not also in-
ihe mind arrives with equal facility at j eluded ? All marriages are celebrated
or 11lie conclusion that no person is an ex- j under a general law ot the fetate. Then
ecutive officer who does not have pow- why not include each minister of the
er to execute some law 7 ; that is, not gospel who solemnizes a marriage under
simply to do certain ministerial avts, j this general law, and makes his official
Inn to carry law into complete eject.— return of the tael to the Ordinary ?
And m tins case it must be a general • The principal keeper, and other officers
tired and nine and thirty nine one
hundredths dollars ($92,909,39.) War
rants, noie3, etc., equivalent to cash, a-
mount to sixteen thousand two hun
dred, twenty-two .and fortv-three one
hundredths dollars.
Very respectfully.
Isaac P. Harris^ Treasurer.
This statement, taken in connection
with the one made by you a few even
ings since, is quite sufficient, it seems
lo me, to refute the slanderous state-
iw of the State as distinguished from j of the Penitentiary, act under a general 1 ments and insinuation that had been
a local law, confined to a particular j law ol the Stale. So does l!*e Super- set-afloat hy certain parties in Atlanta
county, eitv, or district. intcndeiit and other officers of the Lu- and elewhere ; and in addition lo the
I conclude, then, that no officer is in-{ natic Asylum, a “d 'I 10 officers of the j above, I will say that the records and
eminent o° any kind, organized or act- ! eluded in the disqualification who did j Academy for the Blind, and of the j books of the offices of Superintendent,
j n .r in Umility to the United States, or j not have authority to administer a gen- j Asylum lor the Deaf and Dumb. All i Auditor and Treasurer, of the State
levv ia•> war against the United Stales.” i oral law of the State by applying it to ; persons appointed to appraise an estate, I Road, areopen to the inspection of any
These are the different Constitution-1 particular cases or persons, or who did | and all commissioners to assign dower | gentleman who may* desire to satisfy
al ami statutory provisions on this sub
ject, which it is necessary lo construe
together lo arrive at a just conclusion
the oath prescribed for the members of
the Legislature l>y the late act of Con
gress.
I apprehend that comment is unnec
essary to convince any lawyer or in
telligent person that the terms Execu-
l have authority Vo administer justice, j to the widows ot the State, act under j his own mind on this point,
as by Irving causes between inau ami general laws. Il road commissioners Nothing is sought to be concealed
man, and rendering judgment in some are ineligible, why are not all these? from the public, in the management of
persons or property
as to the true scope and meaning ot j wav binding on persons or property,! It the Sta*e Librarian is disqualified, this road ; and I know it to be the de-
or who did not have authority to tie- j why is not the Captain, of tbe .State j termination of the officers named, as
cute some general law of the State bv House Guards? He has no military : well as my o vn, to discharge the du-
carrying it into complete effect. Con- commission, and is paid a salary from ties imposed by their respective posi-
siruing the Constitutional provisions j the treasury. And il he is, why is not i lions, in such a manner as will effectu-
Uncle Ben,” the good old African ser- I ally refute the slanderous innuendoes
varit, so well known to the people of i of personal enemies and the prejudicial
and tiie acts ol Congress together, 1
see no other rational conclusion as to
tive and judicial officers, mentioned in | their true intent meaning.
The Fourteenth Amendment intends
to disqualify only such persons as were,
the 3d section ot the <>th article of the
Constitution of the United Slates, a?
originally ratified ; and the same terms i in die general acceptation of the term.
in the 14th Amendment ot - said Con
stitution, and in the Act ol 2d March,
1807, were intended by the law-givers
to
Executive Legislative or Judicial offi
cers of a Slate, or officers of the United
States, such as were contemplated bv
to reter to, and lo embrace ibo same j the tramers of the original Constitution,
class of officials, and none others. when they directed that they should tioned above is simply absurd.
But it had been found in practice by | take an oath to support the Constitution I While I admit there may be some
the persons appointed to register voters j of the United States. If my time would
in the different StaLes, under the two I permit, which it will not, l should have
last mentioned acts, that persons who j to extend this opinion lo too great a
had held Executive arid Judicial offic- length, were I to undertake to apply
es, before the sect
tive States, claimed that they had nev-j mentioned in the published opinion of
er taken an oath to support Hie Consti- the Attorney General, to which yon
tution of the United Slates, as required specially invite my attention and ask
bv the 3d section of the 6th Article ;— i my opinion as lo its correctness: Suf-
aud upon search, no such nath could be ! fice it lo say, that in mv judgment, his
found. To meet 'hese cases. Congress ! opinion embraces certain classes ofofti-
declared, in the act of July, 1867, that jeers who by no just or known rule of
Georgia, who for so n any years, under j feelings of reckless and unfair political
different administrations, built fires and i opponents.
swept, and kept in order the offices of! Verv respectfully,
*he Stale House, for which he was an-I FOSTER BLODGETT,
nually compensated from the treasury ? j Superintendent, W.and A. R. R.
With all due difference, I must sav J *
that the position insisted upon for the | Important Correspondence,
exclusion of the class ol officers men- ! Representative Hall and General l'crry
Write to Each Other.
House of Representatives, )
difficulty in drawing the line with per-! Atlanta, Ga., January 13, 1S70. )
feet accuracy between officers, or per- j Brevet Major Generul Alfred H. Terry,
sons acting under the laws of the Stale, \ Commanding District of Georgia :
for
who are, and those who are not em-| General:—I beg to present
sion ot* their respec- these rules to all the different officers braced in the disqualification, probably j your consideration the following facts,
the nearest approach to a general rule j and respectfully request your opinion
would he to say that the public civil j upon the same.
officers of the Stale, commissioned hy ' I respectfully inform you that at an
the Governor, who accepted their com-j election belli in this State, on the 20th,
missions and qualified prior to the pas- i2lst, 22d and 23d days of April, 186S,
sage of the Ordinance of secession, who j tor the ratification of the Constitution
were by law required to take an oath to j and election ot members of Congress,
suen person should be ineligible | construction, are or can be included in support the Constitution of the United j Governor, members ol the Legislature
“whether he has taken an oath to sup- 'he disqualification intended' by Con- j States, are to be considered officers for j and other State officers, 1 was elected
the administration of the general laws
of the State, or lor the administration
of justice, and are disqualified.
The act of ISth of December, 1816,
required all officers, civil and military,
to take an oath to support the Constitu-
port the Constitution of the United I gross.
States or not.” In many cases the oath ! Take the ease of the State Librarian
may have been taken and lost, and as j as it existed prior to the war. No oath
it was the duty ot each Executive and j of any kind was required. He simply
Judicial officer to take it, before enter- ! took care of the Library, and did such
ing upon die discharge of his official | services connected with it as are
functions, Congress intended to say I usually performed. What general law tion of the United Stales and of this
that such presumption should be con> of the State did he execute or carry I State. But the act proceeds to show
elusive. In other words, if. he held the into complete effect? What genera! j what is meant by the officers to which
office when it was his duty to take the j law did he administer or apply lo par-1 it applied, when it adds, “and the form
oath, he should hr* ineligible, whether 1 ticuiar cases or particular persons? What* ol said oath so to be taken, and sub-j by the late act ot Congress, and ask
he took it or not. But ii could not have justice did he administer between man ! scribed, shall be forwarded with the ! permission to do the same. I was re-
been the intention ol Congress to go j and man ? What causes did be hear \dedirnus to qualify the said officer, or | fused by said Chairman. Having had
further than the original Constitution j and deietmiue, or what judgments did he taken and subscribed at die time of j it intimated to me that 1 would not now
and the 14th Amendment went, and he have authority to render ? To stale ; receiving said commission.
to the House of Representatives from
the county ol Glynn. My name was
included in General Meade’s order de
claring who were elected to the Gener
al Assembly. I this day presented
my sell before the Chairman, who is
now holding that position by appoint
ment of Governor Bullock, and rep
resented lo him my willingness
to subscribe to the oath required
| be permitted at all to take said oath
prescribe new disabilities by rendering I the case is lo argue it. He, in Ho "just j The class of officers who were to j ami occupy the position to which I
a class ot officials ineligible wno were i scns«», administered any general law of j lake the oath, then, appears to be. such j was legally elected, I am induced to
not Executive or Judicial. Congress j the State, nor did he administer justice, only as received commission. Such as I trespass upon your time to the extent
proceeded to define the terms Exec a- j The SilIW ; is true of a Road Com- it was usual lo send out a dedimus j of informing me whether or not my be-
tive or Judicial offices ; not to create j mUsioiirr. Ho is simply appointed ! from the Executive office to qualify, ing absent at the call of my county,
new^Usabilities by declaring a class j with others to see that the roads, I This is no doubt the broadest sense in ! from Providential causes, will debar
oi officers not Executive or Judicial, to j bridges and causeways, are kept in or- ! which the framers of the Constitution j me from qualifying as a member of the
er in a district of a f ew ,„j[ es j„ ex . j intended lo u$e* the terms Executive j Georgia House of Representatives,
and while he
be disqualified. T l *o language used
bv the act of Congress is ; “And the I tent; and while he may i mpose a fine I UM( | Judicial officers. 'And further, it is my intention to re-
words XjX/cuticcor Judicial in any State j upon a defaulter for retusiim to work ! I apprehend the Congress of the Un-j new mv application to he sworn in be-
in said oath mentioned, shall be eon the road, lie has no <rc ° 1 - - - ” ! 7
strued lo include all civil offices creat-1 as an officer who administers ^r^v^er) 1
ed by law lor the administration of any j oral law ol the State in anv lo ' °
.. gal sense
fie was required t (> l;i j. e
no oath t ' support the Constitution () f
of the term:
general law of a Slate, or for the admin
istration ol justice.
And I may here remark that the act the United Stales, or any other Consti*
ol 22d December, 1869, uses the very j luiioid
fiame language in the oath prescribed' A Notary Public, prior lo the war.
ited States would dismiss an applica
tion for removal of disabilities made by
fore any proceedings are had in the
House of Representatives, and if still
lor members of the Legislature. The
case seems, then, to turn m a great
measure, upon the true meaning of the
Word administer of ad ministration, p v
ery person who held any execu-
tivfc .oi: judicial office before the war, in
WtfWfb iie administered any general
of the Stale, or in which he admin
istered justice, is ineligible, whether he
took ail oath to support the Coustitli-
4iou or noi, and such persons cannot
fell in the same class. By the act of
1816, die appoiutmerits ot Vendue Mas
ters, Notaries Public and Lumber
Measurers, was vested in the Commis
sioners ol incorporated towns, or the
persons in said towns in whom the in
corporate powers were vested. No
Commissions were directed to be is
sued, and no oatli to be administered
to them, by the act to support the Con
stitution of the United Stales.
a Notary Public, a State Librarian ap- “hindered or interrupted” in doing so,
pointed under the law as il stood in j to prosecute the guilty party under the
Georgia prior to the war, a Road Com-, 6th section ol the act ol Congress, De-
missioner, a Road Overseer, an Exec- cetpber 22, 1869.
"tor, Adimnisliator, Grand Juror, and In such case, will the United States
the like, with the prompt reply. You ■ Marshal be permitted to execute the
are under no disability, and need no I warrant or process which may he is-
relief,” sued, without military interference ?
In conclusion, 1 need only remark ! I have the honor to be General, very
that l see no legal reason why a per- j respectfully, your obedient servant,
son who held the position of State Li-I ROLAND B. HALL,
brarian, Notary Public, Road Com
missioner, officer of the militia, or offi
cer ol a municipal corporation, if in
the latter cases they had no general
civil jurisdiction, to administer a gen
eral law of the State, or to administer
Representative Glynn Gounty.
Head’qrj- Mil. Dist. of Ga. >
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 14,’69. j
Roland B. Hall, Es</., Atlanta, Ga.
Sir : I have the honor to aeknowl-
Messenger
“I ain now a little better than
I have been—am able lo sit up, read
and write a little; but I cannot walk
or even stand without assistance.
“Please accept my thanks for the
interest you manifest in my well-being
both physical and spiritual. Be assur
ed I am perfectly resigned lo the will
of God in all my afflictions. I endeav
or, with the patience of Job. to bear
whatever await i me under His dispen
sations ; and wuh a lull faith in His
mercy, though the atoning mediation
of the Redeemer; and also further*
with a firm belief that “all things work
together lor the good of those who love
God” and put their trust in Him.
“A leading object with tne for years
—indeed from early youth, has been
so to live—so to conduct myself in all
things—so to discharge, by the assist
ance of Divine Grace, all the duties of
this’ probationary term, as to be ready
to leave this sphere of existence for an
other, a brighter and a better one,
whenever the summons for my depart-
uie may come. This world, however
much I may have been engaged in its
active scenes during my day, has nev
er had any real attractions for me. I
have, it is true, taken a deep interest
in them, but at all times more from a
sense of duly, than from any other con
sideration.
“I now feel a deep interest in what
is going on in our State, and in reply
to your inquiry on this subject, all I
can say is, that il I utter no word to
the public, and take no part, even fee
ble as I am, it is only because I do not
see that anything I could say or do
could possibly effect any good. God,
in his infinite mercy, only knows what
is to become of this country and its in
stitutions.
“I can say no more now, except to
repeat my thanks for your letter, and
return to you mv best wishes, now and
forever.
Yours truly.
ALEX. H. STEPHENS.”
How “From Greenland’s lev
Mountains” Happened to be Writ
ten.—Some thirty or forty years ago
sermons were to be preached on a par
ticular Sabbath in the town of Wrexham
iif the North of Wales, in behalf of the
Society for the Propagation ol the Gos
pel in Foreign Parts. The clerk of
the parish church, lo whom, in those
times,* belonged the selection of the
singing, came in very disconsolate to
the Vicar of the parish and told him
that there was tin hymn suitable lor
such a subject. The son-in-law of the
Vicar happened to he at that time vis
iting him ,and the Vicar, turning to his
son-in-law, said : “You are a bit ofa
poet ; you see the distress of my clerk,
and what he lias to do ; I wish you
would relieve him by writing a hymn
for this occasion, and we will have it
struck oft* and printed. Let it he ofa
simple, easy measure, and we will
have it sung on the Sabbath.” The
son-in-lawof the Vicar retired to a cor
ner of the room and in an hour and a
half produced a hymn. That hymn
was sent to the printers, sheets were j
struck offand distributed in every pew
and it was sung on the next Sabbath.
Twenty years afterwards, the same
Congregational minister of Wrexham
hunted up in the lumber-room the/fnan-
uscript of this old hymn, and this was
the autograph which I had the pleas
ure of looking upon—“Reginald Heb-
er,” and the hymn was :
“From Greenland’s icy mountains,
From India’s coral strand
a hymn which has inspired, perhaps,
more of missionary.spirit in the church
es than any other.—Rev. W. Morely
Punshon.
COTTON.
The receipts at all the ports lo the
latest dates fool up 1,489,S04 bales,
against 1,177,174 hales at the same
time last year showing an increase in
the total receipts at the shipping points
of 312,630 bales.
The exports to foreign ports during
the same period have been 784,060
bales, an increase of 170,803 bales
over those of last year which amounted
to 614,275, bales. Of the iucrease,
both in receipts and exports. Savan
nah shows the heaviest gain, life a-
inount of cotton received thus far since
the 1st Sep. being 320,942 bales, or 100-
666 bales more than were received
lust year at the same time, while her
exports to foreign ports amount to 126,-
S49 bales or 66,676 hales over the ex
ports to the same points last year.
The stock at all the ports lo the latest
dates foots up 409,165 bales, against
304,346 bales last season (an increase
of 104,819 bales) which, together with i
the stock in the interior towns not in-
in
gia Legislature, has been referred to
the Attorney-General hy the President,
His opinion will be promulgated on ,
Monday.
The President said to-day, to Treas
urer Angier, that the validity of the j
election of Joshua Hill and
Miller, would be recognized.
Tuesday, January 25, 1870.
LEGISLATURE.
Nothing done last week. Military Com-
H. V. M. I mission busy in investing the ineligibility
! members. Legislature organised on
n r* , • at i tt- Monday, 24. No particulars.
Curious 1 acts in Natural History.— r
The rattlesnake finds a superior foe in “Things have changed, l'ears ago.
deer and black snake. Whenever a I Georgia was an independent State, but
buck discovers a rattlesnake in a situ- ! now she is nothing but a dependent State—
ation which invites attack, he loses no i s ' ie sicnply lives, moves and has a being at
time in preparing for battle. He makes l * 10 General Government.”
un to within ten or twelve feel of the | Things may have changed, but princi-
snake—then forward, and aims to sev- pies never. The above we clip from the At-
er the body ol the snake with his sharp lanta Intelligencer, and strange words, and
bifurcated hoofs. The first ousel is strauger sentiments, coming as it does from
most commonly successful ; hut if oth-1 a paper that prides itself upon its Deraoc-
erwise, the buck repeals the trial until | raC y. Such language will do verv well
heculs tbe snake intwai,.. The rapid!- , or thMe ctlIi tbemse!vos Republic.™
tyanu fatality of his skillful manoeuvre , . . . ,,
liave hut a slight chance for its victim I f 8 P“k'"f- rampant, reek,
either to escape or lo inject its poison ! leM R,a '?*' s ’ wl10 lo ” k l T on *>"
into its more alert antagonist. Th e ! Constitution as a bit of old paper without
black snake is also more than an equal ^ Cleaning, foree or effect. It well accords
antagonist against the rattlesnake. i with the views of such meu as Sumner,
Such is its celerity ol motion, not
only in running, but in entwining itself
Butler, Drake, Bullock, Farrow & Co.; but
for men who believe that we have a Con-
round its victim, jtliat the rattlesnake stitution, and one that should be maintain-
lias no way of escaping from, its fatal j e j > protected and defended, such language
embrace. When the black and rattle- j falls bargh oa their ‘ e ars, and wounds
snake are aoout to meet for battle, the i • c • • i. j ,•
.. i — . . , . , their seuse ot justice,• right and equality
former darts torward at the height of , . , . „ , ,
his speed, and strikes at the neck of ^e very quick, especially when one of
the latter with the unerring certainty, j our own . bonsehold g ives aid aud coiaf «t
leaving a foot or tw 7 o of the upper part i t0 enem ’ e8 even ready to strike a blow at
of his own body at liberty. In an in-! our ‘Rarest interests,
stant he encircles him within five or; Because usurped power sits in the legia-
six folds ; ho then slops and looks the ] lative halls of the National Council, aud
strangled and gasping foe in the face, i dares to trample with unholy feet the
to ascertain the effect produced upon j charter of the rights of the States, and be-
hod y* ^ ^ ie s ^ ,nws signs j causo th e people who could and should
of life, the co,] 3 are multiplied and the I holi (Ueir entalives in check , te
screws tightened—the operator all the . . - . .
i • i ° , • • - , asleep or indifferent to their unconstitution-
whue narrowly watching the counten- .... .
anceof the helpless victim. Thus the j aI usur P a,lons * •* uo rea ^“ *at ™
two remain thirty or forty minutes— should tamely bend our necks anti invite
the executioner then slackens one coil, j *he yoke that is heavy aud grievous to be
noticing at the same time whether any i borne, because there is not an arm lifted
signs of life appear ; if so, the coil is just at this time, strong enough to strike a
resumed, and retained until the incur- i constitutional blow for our deliverance”,
cerated wretch is completely dead. T he j The great error that we have committed
moccasin snake is destroyed in the j as a State, has been that we were passive
same wav. when we should have been energetically
DfltfS Worth Itemeniberins. I active in resi8tin g ever y encroachment of
1180—Glass windows first used for Congress from the day we laid down our
light.
1236—Chimneys, first put lo hous
es.
1252—Lead pipes for carrying wha
ler.
1290—Tallow candles for light.
1299—Spectacles invented by an
Italian.
1303—Paper first made from linen.
1341—Woolen cloth first made in
England.
1410—Art of painting in oil.
1440—Art of printing from types.
1450—Variations in the compass first
noticed.
1453—Pins first used.
arms, or when our State was counted as a
State abolishing slavery. We should
have demanded admission to Congress in
1S66, and taken no step backwards. The
more we have yielded, the more a vindic
tive aud fanatic Congress have demanded
and so far has it gone, that we find a pa
per claiming a high seat in the Democratic
temple, coolly telling the people “that we
simply live, move and have a being, at
the will of the General Government.”
We do not claim to be par excellence a
Democrat, hut we claim to be more, a State
Rights in principle, under every and all
circumstances; for as truth crushed to
power.
We will
1477—W alches first made in Ger- I ear th will rise again, so the great princi-
many. j eg g UaraD teed to each aud every State
1543-Barometer invented, by Tor- | th . held in abeyance> wi n a69er t them-
rtcot, in Italy. , , •> , , -J
1590—Telescope invented by Porta! , , , .
and Jansen. j takes a 6econd sober thou g ht -
1603—Theatre erected in England j never confess that our State lives by the
i by Shakspeare. i will of Congress, any more than that we
{ 1608—Thermometer invented by | would acknowledge ourselves the slaves of
| Sanctorious. the mau who might happen to hold us
1619—Circulation of the blood dis- ; down by mere physical force in a contest
covered hy Harvey. ^ ! We endorse emphatically, and would that
1625 —Bricks first made of any re- ! every one wbo believes in the rights of the
quired s i z |*-... : State, would march up to the line as laid
1626—Prints in color invented. ' . , • i- Hp was
tv T ^ li* u i down by Gov. I roup, in his day. ne was
1626—Newspaper first established !
1630—Shoe Buckles first made.
not a man of policy, expediency or com*.
1635—Wine made from grapes, in ! P™» is » E te,t *> ere i"™ 1 *-
England. j ed, and the issues involved then, were as
1639—Pendulum clocks invented. ! vital as those involved to-day. Hear him:
1641—Tea first brought to Europe “If the United States choose to rely
from China. ! on these, (a military chest and armed
1641—Coffee brought lo England. I men) and Georgia, taking counsel ot
16 Sugar-cane cultivated in the her fears, shall make an inglorious sur-
West Indies. i render of her rights, what will remain
1646—Air guns invented. ! ol the fruit of her toil and blood and
1649— Steam engine invented. j public virtue, but a consolidated Go\-
1650— Bread first made without i eminent, in which the sovereignty and
yeast. I independence of the States being nierg-
1756—Steam engine improved by ; ed, nothing is left her but the power of
Watt. a municipal corporation to settle the
1759—Cotton first planted in the strifes and contentions of individuals
United States. within the freedom of it.
1763—Fire engine invented. ; By encroachment on the one side,
1785—Stereoty ping invented in Scot- i and acquiescence on the other, every
land. * | day brings us nearer to this result, and
1788—Animal magnetism discover- j il we cannot find safety in the first
ed by Mesmer. i principles ot the Constitution, we can
j find it nowhere.”
Cure for Burns.—The white of We would as soon acknowledge our chil-
an egg has proved the most efficacious ; dreu bagtardgi a8 to acknowledge that we
remedy for burns. Seven or eight sue- | ^ ^ # Sta{e> in the broadeat and truest
cessive applications of this substance I b word> according t0 tbe genius,
soothes pain, and effectually excludes; 8 -' ns . , . . , . v A t . ,
the burned part front ihAir. ThiJ intention, and spirit of th. Fed,,,! com-
the air. This. . . M .
remedy seems preferable to collodion j pact* O ur children might be stolen from
or even cotton. « s - bat we woald never cease tbe 8earcb
-— j nutil we found and reclaimed them, and
4 A Whaler.—Young Snooks, look-: ,h e latter may be, and has been denied a
eluded in the general receipts and ; ing at the large posters, which adorn j po i; t i ca i ex i s t e n ce , wrenched from os by
amounting to 103,572 bales, makes a the street corners, announcing the pub- j ^ force of ba ts> but wo sba ll uever
stock of5 11,737 bales, or 153,407 bales lication ofa new storv in the Atw York 7 .. , ..
over last year, stock including interior I Weekly called “The Boy Whaler," re-! " ,r,t " d ° wn *“
stock. Below we giro the compara- j marked : “That must be a story abont | bayonet, .ad pl.ee ournel.es under the
live receipts and exports to foreign ; a school master; they are all boy-; °f tb e Federa Constitution as in er-
ports at the various shipping points to j whalers !’’ That boy is sharp, isn’t he ? j preted and handed down to us by our
the latest dales
Recf’ts
Exp’ts fou’n p’ts.
Chronicle Sentinel.
1870. IS69. 1870 1869.
New Orleans 519,30*2 491,015 321.033 298.640
Mobile 19*2,134 137:627 80,346 60.391
Savannah 320,94*2 5*20,276 1*26,849 60.173
Charleston 150 144 109,833 40,397 18,848
We submit these figures for the ben
efit of those who are in the habit of
overlooking Savannah when speaking the business of the Slock Exchange
The Commercial Advertiser says
that the total sale of the New York
Stock Exchange for 1869 amounted to
10,573,15S shares of stock against 19,-
813,402 share in 1868. Here is a
tailing off'in one year of over forty-
seven per cfctit. or nearly one-half of
fathers.
Out upon sueh a heresy as euunciated
by the Intelligencer, let him wear chains
wbo will, but we 3trike for freedoms birth
right—a free State.
Ohio has I,03S,575 children be
tween five and twenty-one. 1 here
are 22,372 more boys ancUglrl#.