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minutes to an hour for some gossip
friend to say the last word. .
7. Protect the feet ironi coldness
and dampness by loose, warm, thick-
soled shoes and an abundance ofclolh-
tor the legs and ankles.
8. Avoid compression by dress of
any part ot the body or limbs, as it in
terferes with the circulation of blood,
results in cold extremities, and conges
tion of the head or some of the inter
nal organs.
Extravagance of the Admialitratioi.
Johnson's Government Cheaper than
Grant's—Terrible Arraignment oj the
Radical party by a Radical.
Tuesday oflast week Mr. Dawes, of
Massachusetts Chairman of the Com
mittee on Appropriations, made a
speech in the House of Representa
tives that brought Gen. Grant and his
brother Radicals all np standing. VVe
copv from an exchange :
THF SCENE IN THE HOUSE.
Almost the first business undertaken
niter th' 1 assembling of the House was
1 he consideration of the bill for transfer
of the Philadelphia navy yard to
League Island. It was expected that
it would go through without any special
difficulty, although there had been
some intimations that the Chairman of
the Committee on Appropriations
would oppose it. Rut the blast that
subsequently came was unexpected.
Catching the eye of the Speaker, Mr.
Dawes, in a tranquil, easy and fluent
manner, began bis remarks.
MR DAWES* SPBECH.
Iii the beginning, Mr. Dawes showed
that under this measure, if it could
have been forced through under the
previous question, the Secretary of the
Navy could sell three millions of the
properly at private sale, of the Phila
delphia navv yard, to whom he pleas
ed, when lie pleased, and on what
terms be pleased—the only obligation
on. him being that he should obtain
tlie approval of the President, who
from the nature of his duties, could
pay no personal attention to the pro
ceedings. Mr. Dawe
whether the state of the Treasury
warraied the enhancing of expenses,
and called the attention of the House to
the estimates furnished for navy yards
during the next fiscal year, as follows :
Portsmouth, N. H., $577,000, against
$5u,000 last year; Boston, $747,041,
against $100,000 last year; New
York; $833 -511, against $100,000 last
vear ; Philadelphia, $111,935, against
$25 000 last year ; Washington, $551,-
775, against 850,000 last year ; Nor
folk, §25>,3I2, against $30,000 last
year. In short, the Secretary of the
Navv proposed, besides the $SOO,000
for League Island, a total expenditure
of $3,007 394, against $451,000 last
year.
MATHEMATICS.
The estimates did not inspire him
with much confidence, although the
Secretary promised to effect a saving
of $2,000,000 in the article of coal
alone, which had cost §150,000 for the
last two years. That was an achieve
ment in mathematics which found a
para
I its professions of economy and with
1 all the heraldry by telegraph and oth
erwise of reduction, there was but one
of these departments that did not esti
mate an increase of expeditures over
the appropriation of last year ; the
exception was the poor unpopular At
torney-General. [Applause] And he
hoped that it was not in consequence
of that remarkable trait in his charac
ter that it was contemplated at the
other end of the capilol to relieve him
from further public service and drive
him into private life. IGreat laugh
ter and applause.]
extravagance.
There was a new postoffice building
in New York, which, report said,
would cost $4,§00,000,and the granite
for which was estimated to cost $1,-
600,000- Were they going on with
such expenditures ! Were they going
to pul $3,000,000 from the old Phila
delphia navy yard and SSOO.OOO from
the Treasury into League Island,
when they might as well wait five
years ! Two things seemed tube de
sired—the reduction of the public debt
by the administration, and relief from
the burdens oftaxation bv ibis House.
[Applause by the Democrats ] Neither
of these things could he accomplished
without another thing which both over
looked a reduction of the expenditures.
How was it proposed at the other end
of the avenue to pay the public debt,
unless the expenditures vere reduced !
[“Hear,” “hear,” from the Demo
crats.] How did the House propose
to relieve the people and the enter
prise and capital of the country from
the burden of taxation under which
they were groaning unless the expen
ditures were reduced ! [Applause]
He would tell his amiable friend from
Maine (Mr. Peters) who had emanci
pated himself from the case about
pennies, and who had gone off’ in a
vain search for dollars, on which he
proposed to economize [laughter],
that it was the pennies taken by tax
ation off’the spikes, cordage and rig
ging of the ships of Maine that made
the commerce of the country decline,
questioned j ^Sensation]
RISE ABOVE PARTY.
He called upon the members of the
House to stand by the Committee of
Appropriations on the pledge which it
now gave to the country, that it would
cut down those estimates below the
the figures at which the country took
the power from Andrew Johnson’s
administration. In order to do that
they must forego any private interests
arid imaginary political gain in the
localities by expenditure of money.
[Sensation and applause] They must
rise above these considerations and
look to general results, and then the
finger of industry would again apply to
their work enterprise would gain cour
age, the country would go on in pros
perity and development, and the na
tion would in the years that were to
come build navy yards at League
Island and at New London, amplify
those at Boston and Portsmouth, and
all over the country. [Applause] If
that thsre was not much confidence ei- he taken and held as conclusive evi-
ther in the people of Virginia or the j deuce that such oath was lawfully and
Democratic party. I am exceedingly | regularly administered by competent
sorry that Senator made that remark,: authority.
showing his want of confidence in the ; And, provided further, That every
two million Democrats in the United j such person who shall neglect, for the
led one in tlie achievement of the
Postmaster General who proposed to
save §5,000,000 a year by the aboli
tion of the franking privilege, while the
franked matter would not produce
§200,000. He thought if the two math
ematicians who had prompted these
two Secretaries could he brought to
light and set to work, they could show
that the public debt might be paid
before the expiration of the adminis
tration, The book of estimates for
the next year contained appropriations
for public works to the amount of $24,-
025,173, against appropriations for the
same objects last year of §5,493,000.
The administration of Andrew John
son had been accused of profligacy in
expenditures. The people had tried
it on that charge, and.found it guilty,
and had taken from it the sceptre of
power and put it in the hands of the
Republican party on its profession*of
economy in the administration of the
public service. The people intended
to hold them to their promises. But
what was the first evidence they put
forth to the country of their determi
nation to carry out their pledges !
While he knew the ungracious position
lie occupied, he proposed to speak
plainly but only to his party friends in
the House. He knew there was not
much comfort to be derived from the
wounds of a friend. Andrew Johnson,
in the last year of his administration,
had estimated that he could carry on
1 he government for §303,000,000, and
that amount had been cut down over
$20,000,000.
What did li leir own administration
estimate that it would carry on tha
administration of the government a
years ! Why, §311,097,174.
AN INCREASE OF OVER TWENTY-BIGHT
MILLIONS.
Beyond the amount required by An
drew Johnson, and an increase of $49,-
628,537 o/cr the amount appropriated
for the present year—[commotion
among the Radicals, cheers from the
Democrats]—but this included an er
ror of over §7,000,000 in the footing up
of the Postoifice Department, which
would reduce the increase to $42,000,-
000 ; but lie believed that not enter
ing into the estimate was a little sugar
T)lum ot' 8900.000 fo- 1 Island ;
>1 Sam-
3rnas at
>f it, too
added
on bills
[Sensa-
if the
f were
ave no
ie ave-
uapitol,
dives of
1 inaug-
broad
ot the
via, a u
that should be the policy, then there
would be a reduction of expenditure,
so that thereby the people might be
relieved from the burdens of taxation
at one end of the avenue, and the pub
lic debt might be paid at the other. It
was with this view, and because he
believed it to be a test question, that
he would vote to lay the bill on the
table, and would on that motion call
the yas and nays, so that the people
might know who would stand by the
committee on appropriations in its at
tempts to curtail the expenditures of
government. [Applause.]
THE EFFECT IN THE HOUSE.
A very marked degree of attention
was paid on both sides of the House to
the speech of the Chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations. The
doctrines of prudence, economy and
care in the public expenditures were
received by the Conservatives in the
most cordial manner, and they repent-
edly expressed their satisfaction at the
outspoken enthusiatn and the courage
ous honesty of the gentleman from
Massachusetts as fully in accord with
the policy advocated by Democrats,
not in Congress alone, but throughout
the country. At the close of the
speech Mr. Dawes received numerous
congratulations.
Simtor Siulibury on Partlei.
The Eloquent Defense of the Democrats by
a Democratic Senator.
A few days since, Senator Morrill, of
New Hampshire, took occasion to
make an attack upon the Democratic
party as follows:
1 nave nearly as much confidence in
the rebels of the South in relation to
our financial questions, as I have in the
Democratic party. I believe that they
will support the honor of the eountty
about as faithfully, perhaps, as will
the Democratic parly, and when it
comes to the question of emancipation
of the colored race at the South, I be
lieve that the Southern rebels will be
as true, if not truer, to the caus of
freedom, than the Northern Democ
racy.
To which Mr. Saubbury, of Dela
ware, replied :
Mr. President: The silence of the
Democratic members of this body du
ring this debate has, on several occa
sions, met with atramadversions on the
other side. I, for myself, sir, am fired
of it, or, rather, I should say, I am tired
of some things which constantly, not
withstanding our silence, have been
said in reference to the party to which
I belong. There has not been a single
day since this debate cornu eneed tliaj
some persons, very wise in their own
conceits, have not seen proper to speak
m very^disparag ig terms of the Dem
ocratic party. VVe have heard to-day,
from one Senator, that he has more
confidence in the people of Virginia
than he has in the Democratic party.—
I do not know what his confidence in
the people of Virginia is, but his re
mark evidently was intended to mean
States. Sir, when those two million
Democrats shall hear it, when the tele
graph shall flash the news to them, I
am afraid they will be terribly paiped;
I am afraid they will weep at the idea
that confidence from so distinguished
a source cannot be 'afforded them.
Sir, it is time such remarks had ceas
ed to be made in the Senate of the
United States, especially when nothing
is said on our part to provoke them.—
Who cares for the lack of confidence
thus expressed ? Whom does it hurt?
Mr. President, when the parly to
which these Senators belong have done
as much to exalt the character of this
nation, to build it up, to make it re
spected at home and honored abroad,
as the Democratic party have done for
it, then it will be time for them to in
sist up a comparison between their
party and the Democratic party.
Sir, the Democratic party took the
management of your country in hand
when you numbered but fifteen States
and some five or six million people.—
Every foot of territory that has ever
been added to the United States has
been added by Democratic administra
tions ; every foreign war that has been
fought, heroically fought, every triumph
over a foreign foe that has ever been
achieved, has been achieved under a
Democratic administration.
What/has the Republican party done
that its advocates should taunt Demo
crats on this floor with a want of fidel
ity to the country, or that it should set
itself up as the great judge of the Dem
ocratic party, its policy, and its admin
istration of t lie country ? A brief exist
ence of eight or nine years ; a land de
luged in blood ; almost every acre of
your soil, freshened with graves; a debt
amountiug to billions of dollars ; a peo
ple crushed to earth by onerous taxa
tion and every safeguard of civil and
constitutional liberty set at defiance,
ignored,and trampled upon—these are
its achievements !
You cannot look at the history of the
Democratic party and charge it with
the violations of the fundamental law of
the land of which your party has been
guilty. During the period of sixty
years in. which it almost unbrokenly
administered the affairs of this Govern
ment, it never arrested one, no, not
even the humblest American citizen,
and tried him on a criminal accusation
except by due process of law. No
man’s house was invaded except under
legal authority, during the whole sixty
years that the Democratic party ad
ministered the Government; not one
public press was ever suppressed.—
This party of yesterday, when they
came into power, found a Constitution
under which the people ot this country
had lived lor seventy-five or eighty
years in the enjoyment of all the bless
ings of civil and constitutional liberty,
they found this Constitution, made by
the great and wise men who laid the
foundation of your Government deep
it) the principles ot constitutional liber
ty; and, without any experience in so
great a work, they set to work patching
it up, and patching it up, until now, if
the great tnen who made it could lise
from the dead or descend from heaven,
they wodld scarcely recognize the in
strument which they framed.
But, sir, I will not, unless further
provoked, indulge longer in this line of
remark. It is foreign, 1 admit, to the
subject which ought to be the legiti
mate subject under discussion. I have
only made these remarks because day
after day we in the minority in this
Chamber have heard denunciations of
the party to which it is our pride and
our honor to belong by gentlemen on
the other side of the Chamber. Sir, if
blows hereafter are given, blows shall
be received.
der, when it ignited and exploded, j Telfair, Marion, Wilcox and Irwin
forcing a flame of fire and hot tobacco counties, under an election proclama-
Tke Virginia Admission Bill.
The following is the text of the
Senate bill, which the telegraph, yes
terday, announced had passed the
House of Representatives. Doubtless
ere this it has received the official sanc
tion of the President, to put the mother
of States and statesmen back in the
Union, out of which she could never le
gally get, 1 according to Radical theory :
Be it enacted, fyc., That Virginia is
entitled to representation in the Con
gress of the United States, provided
that before any member of the Legisla
ture shall take or resume his seat, or any
officer of said State shall enter upon
the duties of his office, he shall take
and subscribe and file in the office of
the Secretary of the State of Virginia
for permanent preservation, an oath in
the form following:
“ I, -; do solemnly swear that
I have never taken an oath as a mem
ber of Congress, or as officer of the
United States, or as a member of any
State Legislature, or as an executive
or judicial'officer of any State to sup
port the Constitution of the United
States, and afterwards engaged in in
surrection or rebellion against the same,
or given aid or camfort to the enemies
thereof, so help me God.” Or such
person shall in like manner lake sub
scribe, and file the following oath :
“I , do solemnly swear that I
have by act of’Congrees of the United
States, been released from the disabili
ties imposed upon me by the fourteenth
amendment of the Constitution of the
United States, so help me God,” which
oath shall be taken and certified by
anv officer lawfully authorized to ad
minister oaths? and any person who
shall knowingly swear falsely in tak
ing either of such oaths shall be deem
ed guilty of perjury, and shall be pun
ished therefore by imprisonment not
less than one year nor more than ten
years, and shall be fined not less than
$1,000, and not more than $10,000,
and in all trials for any violation of this
act, the certificate of the taking of ei
ther of said oaths, with proof of the
signatqre of either party accused, shall
period of thirty days next after the
pasage of fifis act, to take, subscribe,
and file such oath as aforesaid, shall
be deemed and taken to all intents
aud purposes to have vacated his
office.
And provided further, That the Slate
of Virginia is admitted to representa
tion in Congress upon the following
fundamental conditions: That the con
stitution of Virginia shall never be so
amended or changed as to deprive any
citizen or class of citizens of the United
Slates of the right to vote who are en
titled to vote by the constitution herein
recognized, except as a punishment for
such crimes as are now felonies at
common law, whereof they shall have
been duly convicted under laws equal
ly applicable to all the inhabitants of
said Stale; provided that any altera
tion of said constitution, proscriptive
in its effects, may be made in regard
to the time and place of residence of
voters; that it shall never be lawful
for the same Slate to deprive any citi
zen of the United States, on accout of
race, color, or previous condition of
servitude, of the right to hold office un
der the constitution and laws of said
State or upon any such ground to re
quire of any other qualification for of
fice than such required of all other cit
izens; that the constitution of Virginia
shall never be so amended or changed
as to deprive any citizen’ or class of cit
izens of the United States of the school
rights and privileges secured by the
constitution of said Slate.
A New Officer for Georgia.—Or
der No. 6, in the Atlanta papers of
Tuesday, reads as follows :
Headq’rs Military Dist. of Ga., ^
Atlanta, Ga., January 17,1870. )
General Orders, No. 6.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel E. W.
Smith, Captain United States Army, is
hereby announced as Secretary of civil
affairs for the Military District of Geor
gia.
By otder of Brevet Major General
Terry,
J. H. TAYLOR,
Assistant Adjutant General.
“Secretary of civil affairs”—we con-,
fess we are puzzled. What does it
mean? Is Bullock displaced and
pitched overboard ? The things looks
that way, else what is to be the public
business of this Secretary of civil af
fairs ?” Let us hear from you, Cap
tain Smith ; have you no proclamations
to issue?—Sav. Rep.
Cotton—Messrs. Easton & Co., in
their last circular, call attention to an
apparent inconsistency in the estimates
of the Commissioner of Agriculture
concerning the cotton crop of last year.
He estimates the crop at 2,700,000
bales, aud yet says that the aggregate
product, according to all the returns
received, is a little more than ten per
cent, above the yield oflSGS. Easton
& Co., says that the yield of 1868 was
about 2,340,000 bales, and that ten per
cent, added to this would make only
2,574,000 bales lot the crop of 1869.
The • also suggest that allowance
should be made on account of the light
er yield of lint this season to the
amount of seed cotton. The New York
Financial Chronicle estimates that if re
ceipts hold up for the remainder of the
season in proportion to past years, the
crop of 1869 and 1870 will be 2,850,-
000 bales. _
Brnnxwick & Albany Railroad,
We learn from Col. C. L. Schlatter,
Chief Engineer, that Mr. J. Edwin Con-
ant (the head of the firm of J. E. Conant
and Co., contractors to coaatructthe entire
line from Brunswick to Eufaula) is arrang
ing to send German laborers to work on
the road. The first shipment of German
laborers was to be made ou the 19th in
stant, and a second in a week from that
date. Mr. Conant writes: “This is the
first practical step towards introdnsing
Germans into Georgia, as they will all
settle there, after they get through with
the road, and make good citizens.”
Oar plauters, who feared that the rail
road contractors would take their bands
from the plantations by offering high
wages, will be glad to know that the rail
road will be supplied with auuther class of
laborers, aud that when tbe road is finish
ed, they will be able to supply deficien
cies on tbe plantations by employing emis
grants.
We also learn from Colonel Schlatter
that tbe Board of Directors Lave tendered
tbe appointment of General Superintend
ent of tbe whole enterprise to Colonel E.
llulbert, aud that the prospect for a vigor
ous proseention of tbe road is cheering.
If Huibert accepts tbe place, we shall
take it for granted that all obstacles have
been overcome or thrust aside, and that
tbe success of tbe enterprise is reduced to
an absolute certainty.
Since the above was pat in type, Col
onel Huibert has arrived in our city. He
has accepted the appointment of Superin
tendent, and is now in charge of tbe en
terprise. He informs us that tbe work will
be pushed vigorously to eompfetiou. Tbe
company Lave iron in band to complete
the road to the junctiou with the A. Cc G.
R. R. at No. 9, and a contract has been
signed, sealed and delivered, with a Eu
ropean House, for ten thousand tons, to be
delivered at tbe rate of one thousand tons
per mouth—commencing on tbe first of
April. Tliia amount will complete the
road to Albany.
Colonel Huibert possesses great energy,
and intends to put tbe road through on
tbe ‘‘sharp and quick” schedule.
\ Albany News.
liquid down his throat, burning him
with intense severity, which was ag-
grated into inflammation ot the lungs,
from the effect of which he died in a
few days afterwards.
This fatal circumstance occurred in
Cherokee county, and is deeply lamen
ted by Mr Dickerson and friends.
LEGISLATURE.
In the organization of the House last
week, before the vote was taken tor
Speaker, the following General Order
was sent in. We clip from the Chron
icle & Sentinel the most important pro
ceedings on the occasion:
General Order No. 10 was then read
to the House as follows:
H’dq’rs Military Dist. of Ga.,
Atlanta, January 25, 1870.
Whereas, the Board convened by
General Orders from these headquar
ters to investigate the right ot certain
persons to hold seats i.i the House of
Representatives has made a report in
writing, by which report it appears
that
(three members declared ineligi
ble BY TERRY.)
R. A. Donaldson, of Gordon county;
E. M. Taliaferro, of Fulton county, and
J. H. Nunn, of Glascock county, mem
bers elect to the House of Representa
tives of the Stale of Georgia are not el
igible to seats therein under the laws
of the United Stales; it is therefore or
dered, that these persons are hereby
prohibted from taking any part in the
organization of the House of Represent
atives or attempting to exercise any of
the functions of a member thereof.
ELEVEN PASS THROUGH THE FIERY FUR
NACE.
And, whereas, the Board have found
T. F. Rainey of Schley, J. N. Harris of
Murray, R. W. Phillips of Echols, L.
C. A. Warren of Quitman, Joseph D.
Smith of Ware, William P. Price of
Lumpkin, J. B. Sorrels of Walton, G.
N. Harper of Sumpter, C. C. Humber
of Stewart, L. H. Walthal of Polk, and
Isham Radish ot Appling, eligible to
seats in the House of Representatives,
no objection will be made to their par
ticipating as members thereof in the
organization of the House.
ABSENCE CONSTITUTES INELIGIBILITY
IN SIXTEEN MEMBERS.
And, whereas, J. D. Burtz of Mitch
ell, J. A. Brinson of Emanuel, A. T.
Bennet of Jackson, A. M. George of
Baker, H. C. Kellogg of Forsyth, D.
Goff’of Randolph, W. J. Hudson of
Harris, D. Johnson of Wilcox, J. W.
Meadows of Johnson, J. H. Penland of
Union, R. C. Surrency of Tattnall, J.
R. Smith of Coffee, Hiram Williams of
Dooly, J. C. Drake of Upson, J. T.
Ellis of Spalding, Janies M. Rouse of
Worth, persons declared elected to the
House of Representatives, have refused,
declined, neglected, nr were unable to
take one or other of the oaths prescrib
ed by the act of Congress, December
22d, 1869, to promote reconstruction in
Georgia, although ample opportunity
for them to do so has been given them,
have become ineligible to seats in the
House. The persons have also filed
with the Governor their applications to
the United States Congress for relief
from their political disabilities, thus ad
mitting their ineligibility to hold tbe
offices to which they were elected.
It is, therefore, ordered that they are
prohibited from taking seats in the
House or participating in its organiza
tion and proceedings. By order of
Brev>. Maj. Gen. A. H. Terry.
SCOTT GIVES NOTICE OF A PROTEST.
After this order from General Terry
had been read, Mr. Dunlap Scott, of
Floyd, notified the Clerk pro tem, that
he would file a protest against it.
THE VOTE FOR SPEAKER.
Harris then verified the count of the
votes for Speaker, and announced the
following as the result of the electors :
Whole number of votes cast 133
Necessary to a choice 67
For R. L. McWhorter 76
For J. E. Bryant 52
For W. P. Price 4
For John Smith 1
lion from, Bullock and demanded that
they be sworn in.
The Speaker said that they might ,
be sworn in after a while, but that it
could not be done at the present time. ,
Mr. Scott then rose and said he de-1
sired to say that if it were, as the
Speaker had asserted, that he (Mc
Whorter) was acting under positive!
orders from Bullock and Gen. Terry
then he had no more to say, but would
submit to the bayonet ; but if this un-i
lawful thing was being done by the
Speaker’s own absolute will then he
would be found attempting to prevent
this and all other outrages of this dav
upon the constitution ami laws ot Geor
gia, and this flagrantly unjust tramp
ling upon the rights of the House and
the good people of this grand old, but j
down-trodden, commonwealth.
This sentence drew forth immense
>M%rn JltcBrto.
MILLEDGEVILLE:
Tuesday, February 1, 1870.
Ocmulgec and North Georgia Railroad.
We see from tbe Telegraph & Messen-
applause from the crowded galleries, j gei - that a number of the citizeu3 of Macon
and the speaker satd he would have . are discussing tbe propriety of buildi
them cleared and his dignity ( ?
served.
The election for Clerk was then
dered to proceed.
When Scott’s name was called
declined to vote as, he said, that
pre-
ing
j another Railroad. There is a charter for
\ such a Road as above named, aud we find
j the names of some of the leading citizens
| as incorporators. The proposed route is
through the counties of Jones, Jasper aud
believed the Constitution and’the laws j Newton ’ t0 some point in Central North
" ‘ ~ Georgia. Such a road would he of great
benefit to Macon and also to Savannah, for
it would ruu through as fine a portion of
of the Stale were being over ridden
THE BULLOCKITES MAKE A CLEAN
SWEEP.
The vote for the Clerk having been j
taken, the Speaker declared that the
result was as follows :
Number of votes cast 128
Necessary to a choice 05
our State a9 any we can boast.
It strikes us that there should be no
difficulty in getting subscribers to such a
road, especially in the counties of Jones
aud Jasper, cut off, as these counties are,
J. L. Newton (Bullockite) 78 j from all railroad facilities. We look upon
M. A. Harden.... ... .20 ! the building ot the Road as a certainty in
C. C. Cleghom 13i time, if it is not flanked by a movement of
L. Carrington. / ; the Central Road with one from Eatonton
Spalding 3
A. L. Harris 1
An election was then entered into for
door-keeper, and then resuiL ofthe vn-1
ting was declared to be as follows : . , . . . ,
° I ; mf> hprop r p, | j eats ot our seaport city demand that a Hoad
A. H. Gaston, colored*’’.*.’.’.*.*57 | from No ‘ 13 ou the Central Iioad throu S h
Milledgeville, on to Eatonton, thence to
on to Atlanta, which we conceive to be of
the utmost importance to the Ceutral Road
and to the continued growth and prosperi-
| ty of Savannah. The commercial iuter-
A COLORED MESSENGER.
An election for Messenger was then
held and
follows :
Monticello, and an air line to Atlanta, be
the result declared to be as j constructed as soon as possible.
The Georgia Railroad is naturally jeal
ous of any Road that may tap it and with
draw freight aud travel that it now com
mands. Such a feeling is natural enough,
but the business interests of the people are
M. H. Bently, colored. 65
Jesse Oslin 53
After the Legislature adjourned a
fight occurred between J. E Bryant,
conservative Republican, and Tweedy not to be hampered or thwarted ty corpo-
rampant radical, Bryant having dc*
nounced Tweedy 'in the House as a
liar. Bryant got pretty badly beat
over the head with a stick.
In the Senate on the 29th, Wynn, An
derson and Moore were declared ineligible
by the military commission
rations. Whatever may have been the in
fluence of such corporations iu the past,
the days of their power and influence are
numbered. The growing prosperity,
wealth aud development of our State can
no longer be bound by tbe selfish interests
of strong monied corporations. Tbe peo-
Graham and Moore declined to take the ! pie are emphatically for free trade and
T
oath and their places were filled by the
next highest.
The new Senators sworn in were
wick, Crayton and Dunning,
takes the place of Col licr, CraytonJ the I
place of Moore, aud DuuniDg the place of j
Wynn.
Ah election was then held for Messeu- ;
ger of the Senate, and A. A. Cameron was !
declared elected
; fair competition ; not caring for any par
ticular market, but desiriug quick facilities
Trawick to a ^’ aud going to the oue font °ft' er8 the
greatest inducements.
We are for Railroads everywhere and
in every direction, and hope to live to see
the day when Georgia can boast of as
many miles of Road as any other State,
An election was held for Door-keeper, | aot l a population that can sustain them;
for Railroads iuvite population, and popu
lation builds Railroads.
Mr. Jerry Cow)e6, who is a leading spir-
and a negro named William DeLyon, from
Richmond was declared elected.
An election was next ordered for a
Speaker pro tem., and C. R. Wooten and. . , _ , _
John Harris were nominated for the posi-! ln the P r0 P 08ed Ocmulgee Road, says
The Marietta Journal, of Friday
says:
A lad by the name of Win. Dicker-
son last week conceived an idea to
have a ‘little fun’ at the expense of his
much loved friend, a young lad, Thos.
Wilcox, and secretly filled a pipe with
powder and tobacco, preparatory for
a “ good smoke. ” It was passed over
to Mr. Wilcox aud he began earnestly
and vigorously to draw and whiff; an
explosion not taking place immediate
ly , gave him sufficient time to suck in
to the pipe stem a portion of the pow-
McWhortei’s majority 19
McWhorter’s majority over Bryant 24
m’whorter’s speech.
On taking the chair Mr. WcWhorter
made a speech in which he carefully
abstained from committing himself to
Hny line of policy, but closed by say
ing “let us forget the past, take hold of
the questions of to day and dispose of
them looking only to the tuture interests
of all our people.”
On Friday, a motion was made 63*
Mr. O’Neal of Lowndes that the House
act upon the Message of Gov. Bullocks
asking that the men receiving the
next highest number of votes be given
the seats of the members declared in
eligible, be reconsidered, which was
lost the day before.
A long debate ensued ; hard words
and hard feelings engendered. Chair
decided the resolution carried, and
the following persons were qualified.
W L Goodwin, of Cass county :
Jas. R Thomason (colored), of Carroll
county ; Win. Guilford (colored), of
Upson county ; Jacob P Hutching,
(colored), of Jones county ; Henry C
Holcombe, of Fulton county ; C O
Johnson, of Spalding county : Joseph
Armstrong, of Dooly couuty, and J
B Nesbit, of Gordon county.
No credentials were offered by these
men, but the whole were put through
in a lump.
Tbe Speaker then ordered an elec
tion for Clerk ofthe House to be held.
Mr. Scott rose to a point of order.
He said there were others present to
be sworn in, and called the names of
the Representatives who bad been
elected from the counties ot Madison,
tiou. After a ballot had been taken the
vote was announced as follows :
John Harris 19
C. B. Wooteu 17
Harris’ majority 2
In the House, James C. Nesbit, of Dade,
offered a resolution that the General As
sembly should appoint a Board of Commis
sioners, consisting of three members of the
House and two of the Senate, to negotiate
with the State of Teunessee for the purs j
in a communication to the Telegraph &
Messenger :
“The public benefits of the construction
of this road have been but partially refer
red to. Passing from Central Georgia
along the West bank of the Ocmulgee
River, it opens aud develops a rich and
fertile country which has suffered in ad
versity for want of railway connection to
markets. The tillage of, and increased
value of the fertile lands lying on either
side of the line and the consequent reve-
chase of that portion of the territory of the nues to the State, the development of tbe
latter, over which the right-of-way of the innumerable water powers of the Ocmul
gee, and streams flowing therein, as the
road rises with it to its source and thence
passing through Central Northern Georgia,
and developing its mountains, rich in iron,
coal, copper, gold, marble, slate and other
minerals, now heyond markets and trans
portation, as well as the opeuing of this
region witli natural advantages equal to
Kentucky iu the production of the cereals,
the grasses aud the raising of mules, cattle
and other stock—these ends, so desirable
to be accomplished, picture to us the pros
perity to our State as well as citizens of
that section dependent upon the comple
tion of this enterprise.
The charter requires this road also to
run to or near the Indian Springs, the
I fountain of health placed by the hand of
Atlautic or State road extends
The resolution was laid over until Mon
day, hud the House adjourned until that
time.
A Simple Cure for Burns.—In the
foreign scientific notes of Appleton's
Journal there is an account of an acci
dental discovery of a very simple but
effectual cure for burns, by the use of
varnish. A varnisher of metals, in
Paris, cne day got his hand badly burn
ed, and in his agony thrust it into a pot
of varnish at his side. To his astonish
ment the pain at once ceased, and the
wound rapidly healed. This cure be
ing reported around, persons in the j the Almighty iu the centre of this noble
neighborhood who had got burned j g tate . j t ; 8 presumed that the Legisla-
came to the varnisher and were cured j ture, in inserting this requirement, autici-
in like manner. The news circulated pated the day when the State would im-
far and wide, aud finally reached the prove and beautify this gift of Providence,
medical faculty, and the varnisher was j This road is not a competing road wit
ent for to trv his skill in the hospitals. • au 7 other now bnilt in the State. j 6 <
— l;, pletiou will benefit all other roads,
Its com
es-
He responded .o the call, and with bis j and North.,„ G.or g i.
varnish and brush has thus far succeed- * cf ' Bses tbe ]ateral roads . The city
ed in curing all on whom he has oper
ated. The philosophy of the cure is
verv simple: the varnish covers the
burned surface from the air, and gives
nature a chance to supply a new skin
under its protection. Tbe quality ot
of Augusta as well as Rome will derive ad
vantage from its distributions, It runs
somewhat parallel with it, but easterly
through a section entirely destitute of tail
way connection receiving no benefit from,
or contributing to the revenues of the State
the varnish mast, of course, be attend- i .ud^tbs'cTatrll
ed to.
and Western States, thus bringing to tbe
„ . State products of that section of the West
In the (Ecumenical Council over 300 ne \*> r reach us via Chattanooga, aud
Fathers refused to sign the petition in fa- cannot compete with that portion of the
vor of infallibility. Many others returned contributing to the State Road.”
evasive answers. The opposition propose ——
a counter petition, and assert certainly “Thiugs have changed. Years ago,
that they will have sufficient adherents to (j eorg j a b wa s an independent State, but
defeat infallibility.
now she is nothing but a dependent State—
. . , . , , . vr , . , , : she simply lives, moves and has a being
A jealous husband in Memphis broke ; a U f , General GovernmeDt .”
at the will of the General Government.
| Atlanta Intelligencer.
Out upon such a heresy as enunciated
chains
his wife’s nose because he thought her;
beauty attracted too much attention.
Mrs. Grant and the Gold Ring —A ^ j n(t Hj„ encer< J et him wear chains
Washington special to the Cb arie8t on w j )0 w jjj ^ nt we s t r ike for freedom’s birth-^
News, dated the 23d, says :
Fisk and Gould both testified yesterday
before tbe Banking Committee, They as
serted that by the representations of Cor
bin, the brother-in-law of Grant, which
were sustained by corroborating eviden
ees
right—a free State.
j Milledgeville Recorder.
We can say to our Milledgeville cotem
porary that, heresy though that paper may
cousider it. the Intelligencer uttered but
ces of his intimacy and influence with the solemn truth, wheu it put forth the para-
President, they were led to believe that | graph so severely denounced by him.—
President Grant had decided not to sell
the government gold. They therefore
bought. On tho first transaction, Mrs.
Graut’s share of the profit was twenty-
five thousand dollars, which was remitted
to her. They folly implicate Butterfield,
and. held one milliou on margin for him.
Years ago, was not Georgia an independ
ent State; and who can deny now that it
is dependant—dependant upon the will of
the Federal Government, absolutely and
imperatively so ; that “she simply ( lives,
moves and has a beiug.’^
exerci