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I i 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#.