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TUESDAY MORNING, FEE. 13, I860.
Krauties ok TVPor,it.\rirr.—Saturday last,
wrote, ill our usual legible hand, tlie fol
lowin'*' paragraph, anil committed it to the
t’ndcr mercies of the printers:
•■Gen. Grant deserved .just what he got. lie
lmd no business to invite such a creature ns
Butler into the society of gentlemen.”
'Hie next day—the holy Sabbath day—we
were put into an admirably devotional mood
by reading the following in our editorial col-
tum:
“Gen. Grant deserved just what he got. He
had no business to invite such a creation as
Butler into tlie sanctity of gentlemen.”
Butler is certainly a part of the “creation,”
though mankind may blush to own it; but,
then, the “*anctity' of gentlemen—what an
idea!
Mn. Davis not to be Tried by a Jin.ita-
bt CoruT.—The Louisville Journal gives the
following assurance: No matter, dear reader,
what you see in the papers; Jeff Davis won’t
have a military trial, and he won’t be convic
ted, And if he were convicted, he would be
pardoned. Though no card player, we
“we speak by the card.”
Dn. Wn n. Turpix, a well known drug
gist of Augusta, and an excellent citizen
died at his residence near that city on Thurs
day last; aged about seventy-six years.
A lot of negroes, cighty-live in num
ber, six or eight of whom were over eighty
years of age,and some ten of them from ten to
twelve years old, sold at an nverage of one
thousand dollars each in Havana,
So says an exchange, on the authority- of a
letter to one of the New York papers.—^
Now, where did' this lot of negroes come
from ?. Children from ten to twelve years of
age, and old men above' eighty Were hardly
brought all the way froth Africa. Were. they
not most probably a part of • the stock in
trade of certain Northern colonization socie
ties, said to have been recently formed ?
Northern JIkn in tiie South.—A corres
pondent of tlie Boston Post, writing from the
South, says: “I feel safe in saying that if the
truth in regard to the condition of the South
ern States, socially and financially, was fully
comprehended by Northern capitalists, the
Sonlh would be amply supplied with all
needed capital to devclopc her wonderful re
sources—resources beyond anything the
North, or even the South, dreamed of before
the war.” He pays that when about to start
on his tour, many friends attempted to
dissuade him from his purpose, urging
that it was personally dangerous for a
Northern man, at the present time, to
travel in the South. “Yet,” says he,
'I have traveled quite extensively in the
South, conversed freely with all classes of
Southern people, with quite as great a sense
of personal safety and comfort as you can
possibly feel in walking from your sanctum
to your house in Boston. Indeed, I feel called
upon to hear my testimony to the hearty
cordinlity and uniform kindness with which
I was everywhere received and treated."
Such is no doubt tlie experience, if not tlie
confession, of all Northern men who come
South and behave themselves.
Two Views ok Gen. Howard.—The editor
of the 'Worcester (Massachusetts) Spy is a
member of Congress, and a letter from Wash
ington to his paper, dated December 27,
shows that a favorite Radical idea is to di
vide the lands of the white men of the South
among the negroes by a military decree. The
letter says:
Nothing can lie more evident to any observ
ant student of Southern affairs, than that the
vast landed monopoly which slavery built up
needed to he destroyed with tlie institution.—
After looking over the whole field and then
being required to choose between giving each
slave, head of a family, five acres of land or
an endowment with the ballot, I think I
should have chosen the land and left the suf
frage to come, as it surely will. This trans
fer from slavery to free landed proprietor
ship, could have been inaugurated by the
Frccdmen’s Bureau. That it-would have
been is evident from General Howard’s re
port, had not the President’s policy interfer
ed, first cramped, and ultimately destroyed
any hopes thereof.
The Washington correspondent of the Com
monwealth, having nothing better to do, writes
as follows:
“Gen. Howard lias put his foot into
it again,’ to use a homely but expressive
phrase. He went to tlie annual resurrection
of that fossilized piece of pro-slaveryism—
the American Colonization Society. In a
speech there ho committed himself in favor
of colonization as the key to the colored
man’s fhture! Since then he has lent his
sanction to a scheme, got up by one of its
subordinates, to purchase onc-half of the
State of Florida, for the purpose' of negro set
tlements. Is Gen. Howard weak-minded ?
Can’t he learn the new thought, or unlearn
the old ? It seems not. He is full of good
intentions, without doubt: but you know the
old proverb as to the pavement of a certain
place.”
SPICY AFFAIR IN THE HOUSE.
From tlie proceedings of the U. S. House
of Representatives on the Oth instant, we
make the following extract:
Jlr. Rousseau, rising to a privileged _ ques
tion, read from tlie remarks of Mr. Grinnell,
of Iowa, made yesterday, as follows: “His
tory repeats itself. I cannot say whether the
gentleman (Mr. Rousseau) wnsfourycars in the
war on the Union side or four years on the
other side—but I say that he. degraded hii
State, and uttered a sentiment I thought un
worthy of an American officer, when he said
tliatlie would do such an act on tlie complaint
of a negro against him.” Only this much
was read, but the preceding remark, to which
this referred, was as follows: “The honor
able gentleman from Kentucky (Mr. Rouss
eau) declared on Saturday, as I caught his
language, that if he were arrested on the
complaint of a negro and brought before one
of the agents of this Bureau, when he became
free lie would shoot him.”
Mr. Ronsseau said: “I prounounce the as
sertion that I have degraded myself as a
false, foul slander, and unworthy to be uttered
by a gentleman on this floor.”
Mr. Grinnell—I referred to the gentleman’s
remarks as I understood them, the gentleman
having withheld them from the Globe. Iliad
desire to do him injustice. I criticised the gen
tleman’s language,"and I stand-by that criti
cism. If I cliff not correctly represent what
he said, I beg pardon
Jlr. Rousseau—My object was not to. get an
apology, hut to say what I have said.
Mr. Grinnell—The gentleman’s language is
no offense. I stand on my rights as a mem
ber of this House, and discharge my duties
as I umderstand they should be discharged.
M hen I criticised the language of the gentle
man from Kentucky, I did so from a sense of
duty, and I thought that language unworthy
of an American officer and of his own State.
Mr. Rousseau—I understand that the gen
tleman is a preacher of the Gospel; and yet
he lacks charity toward all men. I am a new
member of this House, have endeavored
to behave with the utmost courtesy. It does
come with exceedingly bad grace from the
gentleman who slept in safety while others
were fighting on the battle-fields, to make
such a remark concerning me. He could not
exercise the most ordinary charity ; but when
a gentleman had gone out of his seat, he got
up to insult him, contrary to the rules of the
House.
Mr. Grinnell—I have only to say the gen
tleman has paraded his profession of arms
before this House- I have not paraded mine.
The gentleman says I am a clergyman. I
have to answer, I was a man before I was a
minister. I claim to be a man and an Amer
ican citizen. I am not ashamed of my origin
and profession, and I stand by my constitu
ents, my jjpnpiples and my country.
-T iIS THE TEST OF LOYALTY »
The New York Herald, which is radical
and conservative by turns, as if it feared to
lose the patronage of one or the other of the
two classes at the North, is. very indignant at
the refusal of admission to the Southern mem
bers of Congress, and graciously favors its
readers with a plan by which the whole mat
ter may be adjusted. It says:
The mode of treating the application of
the Southern representatives on the part of
Congress is plain and simple. Congress, un-
ler the constitution, is the judge of the qual
ification of its own members. Both houses
should, under this authority, examine closely
the record and standing of every person ap
plying for seats from tlie late rebellious
States. The committee to do this is that on
Elections, and not the Joint Reconstruction
Committee. If in this examination only six
representatives from all tlie Southern States
have a clean, loyal record, admit them, and
reject all the others. If there is hut one man
among the whole lot who remained true to the
Union during the war, then admit that one man
and reject all the Valance. If a man remained
firm against all the pressure that was brought
to bear upon him during the existence of the
rebellion he certainly can be trusted in Con
gress now. He should be at once admitted,
and the others sent home for the people to
send men who have not been disloyal in their
place. It may be said that the Southern peo
ple will return a set ot .men in their places
equally obnoxious. If they do, all that Con
gress has to do in the premises is to refuse to
receive them. If the South are in earnest in
their desire to return to the benefits of the
Union they will not long persist in sending
disloyal men to represent them if Congress
pursues this course. There is no better way
of testing the honesty of their professions
than this. Nor can there be any better guar
antees for the future than by Congress estab
lishing the policy of admitting Union men
only, and rejecting those who took part in
t&e rebellion against the government. The
policy now pursued strengthens the old seces
sion party in the South and places the Union
men at the mercy of that class.”
It is not very clear that it the advice of the
Herald, should be followed, it would work any
material change in tlie status of whose whom
it is pleased to characterize as the “Union
men” of the South. But we have a word to
say on the merits of its main proposition, viz:
that Congress should admit no representative
from the South except those who stood by the
Union throughout the late civil war.
"We would ask, is this the sort of peace that
the North intends to give the South? Is it
willing to be on terms of amity and brother
hood only with those citizens of the South
who opposed secession and the war ? Is re
construction to take place on the basis of the
disfranchisement of the great body of the
Southern people ? "What sort of peace will
that be ? How must the ostracised class feel
toward a government that denies them the
rights, and yet calls upon them to-perform
all the dnties and bear all the burdens, of
citizens ? Can they feel reconstructed, har
monious? Put the rule in operation, and
what sort of a republic shall we have with
ninety nine hundredths of the whole votiDg
population of the South incapable of holding
office under their own government ? In point
pf fact, the number would be . infinitely less
than one in a hundred. Confine
it to men of capacity, and it would not
be one in a thousand. The great mass of
the Southern people participated in the war
in some form or other, and to say that all
such shall be disfranchised for life, would be
a great national wrong, under which there
never. can be a spirit of loyalty and good
feeling. A man must he more than human
to love a country that has plcaed him under
a perpetual ban. "What sort of opinion can
Northern people have of us when they ex
pect such thiDgs at our hands?
If every man who took part in the war for
independence is to be incapable of holding
office, what means the close of the war, the
proclamation of peace, the amnesty of the
President ? Are these all solemn mockeries
of the things they purport to be f If the
great body of the Southern people, including
those who took part in the war, arc pardoned,
restored to citizenship, authorized to elect
members to Congress, their Governors and
Legislatures and do all other acts that citi
zens may do in a State professedly one of the
United States, why is it that one of these
same individuals cannot act in a representa
tive capacity? If he is disloyal for the latter,
why not disloyal for the former ? Can any
human being give a reason that will satisfy
even himself? "What inconsistency I
What is to be the test of loyalty for the fu
ture ? The States will be admitted as loyal
—how can they be so and the people disloy
al ? What i9 a State politically hut
the people who inhabit it? Are
we to understand that they are re
stored to their places in the Union because
of a "belief in the loyalty of the great body ol
their citizens, or of the very few who refused
to take part in the attempt at dismember
ment? Certainly not on account of the lat
ter. What evidence, then, are citizens of the
South expected to give of their honest deter
mination to support the government ? They
have laid down their arms, acknowledged
their defeat, pledged themselves to abide by
it, taken the oath of allegiance .to the United
States, and complied with all the conditions
that have been named as essential to restora
tion—what more can be expected of honora
ble men, qncl why is it that they are not to be
believed ? If they are to he trusted in every
thing else, why not to represent their people
in official positions? Is it to be the policy of
the Government to regard everybody who
took part in the war asetisloyal and unsound?
We shall have a delightlulsvstem of republi
canism under this wholesale proscription.
The North does hut little credit to its own
moral sentiment when it thus distrust every
body and is incapable of appreciating the
honor and good faith of Southern men who
have borne arms for the independence of then-
section.
It is a libel on the Southern people to say
that they have chosen mop to represent them
in Congress on account of their disloyalty.—
So far as this State is concerned, they were
chosen for their ability, their high honor ns
gentlemen, and with the firm assurance
that they accepted the results of the war in
good faith, and would use their utmost efforts
in Congress to restore harmony and perpet
uate the government formed by our fathers.
The people of the North can rightfully expect
no more at our hands, and so far as we are
concerned our State might be excluded from
Congress for a thousand years before wc
would reverse our action and send represen
tatives to suit other people and not ourselves.
, Then, let Congress repeal its odious Test
Oath which excludes a whole generation of
Southern men from participation in the gov
ernment, and must make them alien enemies
for life. The men who can take it are not
one iota safer and more reliable than those
who cannot, and its utter abrogation is essen
tial to the restoration of liberty and free gov
ernment, as it is to harmony and equality
between the sections. In the language of the
National Intelligencer: “The South is now-
contributing to the support of the Govern
ment to the amount of millions monthly, and
yet these people have no representatives in
Congress—their voice is not heard there, but
they are taxed without representation; nor
can they have representation as long as this
oath continues to be administered. Their
men of honor and ability will not take it,
and if there be any w"ho would, they could
not in any just sense be called worthy repre
sentatives of the people, or creditable to Con
gress.”
IST" We see the following toast going the
round of the papers: “Woman : now and for
ever, one and insufferable.”
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
(Reported Specially for the Macon Telegraph.]
MrLLEDOEviLLE, Feb. 12, 1866.
SENATE.
The Senate met at 10 o’clock a. m.
The rules were suspended and Jlr. McDan
iel introduced a bill to regulate tlie sale of
spiritous liquors in small quantities. The
bill proposes that before license are issued, a
person desiring to retail, shall give bond not
to keep a disorderly house.
Mr. Carter, a bill to authorize the levy of
a specific tax on all spiritous liquors distilled
in this State. It proposes a tax of 50 cents
per gallon.
Mr. Graham, a bill to repeal an act requir
ing incorporated Cotton and Woolen Compa
nies to publish lists of their stockholders.
BILLS ON THIRD BEADING.
"Bills to exhonerate Sheriffs and their depu
ties from liabilities in certain eases. It refers
to cases where bonds were given on a con
federate basis of value. Passed.
Bill to prohibit itenerant trading in certain
articles without a license. It refers to ground
peas, butter,. eggs, poultry, water melons,
etc. Lost by a vote of 12 to 18.
Bill to punish with death house burning
and burglary at night. Passed.
Bill to require persons exempt by law from
jury duty to serve as tales jurors. Passed.
Bill to change the time for holding the Su
perior Courts jjof Paulding, Floyd, Polk and
Campbell counties. Passed.
Bill for the relief of persons under arrest
for offenses committed against the Confede
rate States. Passed.
Bill to allow Attorney and Solicitors to
argue their cases in the Supreme Court of this
State in writing. Recommitted to the Judi
ciary Committee.
Bill to provide a more summary mode for
the enforcement of Mechanic-,’ liens. Lost.
Bill to amend the Charter of the town of
Elberton. Passed.
Bill to prevent persons from inducing labor
ers to forfeit their contracts and to abandon
the interests of their employers. Passed.
Bill to alter and amend Section 459G and
4507 of the Code. Passed.
Bill for the relief of the Muscogee Build
ing and Loan Association and the Columbus
Building and Loan Association. Parsed.
Bill to exempt from jury duty all persons
active members of incorporate Fire Com
panies of this State. Lost.
Bill to fix the time of holding the Supreme
Court of this State. It fixes the time at the
first Mondays in June and December of each
year. Postponed.
Bill to incorporate the Hansell Manufactur
ing Company of Campbell county. Passed.
Adjourned.
HOUSE.
The House met at 9 o'clock, a. m. Pray
er by the Chaplain.
The journal was read and approved.
Mr. Kibbee, of Pulaski, moved the recon
sideration of the action of the House, on the
bill to fix the fees of county officers. The
motion prevailed.
NEW MATTER,
Mr. Glenn, of Whitfield: A resolution
asking the Secretary of Treasury of the United
States, to suspend the collection of the inter
nal revenue tax, and to allow the State to
assume the same.
Mr. Dixon, of Walker: A bill to extend
the time of the completion of the Coosa and
Chattooga Railroad.
Mr. French, of Schley: A bill to incorpor
ate the Buck Manufacturing Company of
Schley county.
Jlr. Snead, of Richmond: A bill to incor
porate the Commercial Insurance Company of
Augusta.
Also, a bill to incorporate the Augusta
Mutual Insurance Company.
Mr. Groce, of Screven: A resolution that
no new matter be introduced after the 16th
instant and that the Legislature adjourn sine
die on the 28th instant. Lost.
Mr. Kibbee, of Pulaski: A bill to repeal
an act allowing Ordinaries to charge certain
fees.
3 Mr. Lindsay, of Lee: A bill to change the
time of holding the Superior Courts of Lee
County.
Mr. Cook, ol Irwin, a bill to remit the tax
due tlie State from tax payers for 1864 and
1865.
Mr. Cloud, of Henry, a hill to change the
line between Henry and Butts counties.
Mr. Hill, of Fulton, a bill to exempt from
street duty all members of the Hook and
Ladder company. Also, a bill to incorporate
the Gate City Foundry, Car and Jlacliine
Works.
Mr. Maddox, of Fulton, a hill’ to incorpo
rate the Union Express Company.
Mr. Rnssell, of Chatham, a resolution- to
ask the Governor to pardon from the peniten
tiary Epsey Woods, of Franklin county.
Mr. Hollis, of Union, a resolution request
ing the Governor to ask of the President a
withdrawal of colored troops from the State.
The resolution of the Senate in relation to
the seizure of cotton was referred to the Ju
diciary Committee.
BILLS ON TimtD BEADING.
Bill to punish freedmen for living in adul
tery. Laid on the table.
Bill for the relief ot Administrators, Guar
dians and Executors. Passed.
Mr. Glenn’s resolution, asking the suspen
sion of the collection of internal revenue tax.
was passed.
Bill to alter section 3320 of the Code,
Lost.
Bill to compensate commissioners for pre
paring the Freedmen’s Code. Passed.
Bill to authorize the county of Early to levy
an extra tax. Passed.
Bill for the relief of Martha Lester of Ful
ton county. Passed.
Bill to create a new judicial circuit to he
called the North-Eastern Circuit. With
drawn.
Bill to legalize -acts of Deputy Clerks.—
Passed.
Bill to increase the per diem pay of Poor
School Teachers. Passed.
Bill to amend the charter of Milledgeville.
Passed.
Bill to authorize Sheriffs and Constables to
administer oaths. Lost.
Bill to amend section 4391 of the Code.
Passed.
Bill to incorporate Planters’ Insurance Com
pany, of Columbus, in place of Merchants’
Insurance Company of Columbus. Passed.
Bill relative to tlie Bonds of Justice.-
Passed.
Bill to repeal sections 1775 and 1776 of the
Code. Passed.
Bill to change the mode of empannelling
Jurors for the trial of criminal cases. Lost.
Adjourned till 8 o’clock p. m.
HB9
A Turnip weighing nine and a quarter
pounds, from the plantation of Mr. W. Dan
iel, Green county, is on exibition in Augusta-
83F” Flake’s Bulletin, a thorough Union
paper and government organ, at Galveston,
denounces Gen. Howard’s management of the
Freedman’s Bureau, and speaks of him as a
religious hypocrite.
The last steamer brought the intelli
gence that Prof. Agassiz’s exploration of the
main stream of the Amazon alone had result
ed in the discovery of no less than eleven hun
dred and sixty-three species of fish, which
is a greater number than exist in the Medite-
ranoan.
Dyke’s Station Burnt. —We leaKn that
the freight depot at Dyke’s Station,' on the
Macon & Brunswick Railroad, nine miles offj
was destroyed by fire on Saturday ni^fit last.
One account states that the contents were
saved, and that the fire was accidental; an
other, that everything was burnt, and that the
fire was the work ot an incendiary.—Hawh-
imxille Dispatch.
ANOTHER SPEECH FROM THE
PRESIDENT.
Reply to a Delegation from Montana.
He Stands by His Recent Declaration of
Principles.
Washington, February 7.
INTERVIEW OP A MONTANA DELEGATION WITn
THE PRESIDENT.
This morning a large number of citizens of
Jlontana Territory, now in Washington,
called on tlie President. B. Jl. Pinny, United
States Marshal for the Territory, Chief Jus
tice Hosmer, Gen. Barrow, and twenty-five
or thirty others, were among the number.—
Jlr. Pinny addressed the President on behalf
of the delegation.
Gentlemen : It is no ordinary pleasure for
me to meet you here on this occasion, and to
hear the sentiments you have announced.
To receive so large and respectable a body
of intelligent gentlemen from that region of
country from which you come is highly grat-,
ifying to me.” “In response, sir,” addressing
Mr. Pinney, to the eloquent manner in which
you expressed the sentiments of whom you
represent, I might content myself with sim
ply returning my thanks for your kind ex
pression, but you have made some allusions
to which, under circumstances surrounding
us, I cannot be indifferent. You have allud
ed to great principles of our Government,
having been enunciated in a paper sent a
short time since to the Congress of the Uni
ted States. The declaration by me of those
principles was not the result of impulse—it
was the result of a thorough and calm con
sideration of those great truths.
If I should take hold of a piece of machine
ry that had been constructed and trained to
runharmoniously in one direction, and at
tempt by reverse action to run in opposite di
rection, Psay no one can mistake the doctrine
ot that message. _ It is very easy for persons
to misrepresent it, and to make assertions
this, that or other lias taken place, or will
take place, but I think I may he permitted to
say to you on this occasion, taking all my an
tecedents, and going hack to my advent in
public life, the cardinal doctrines set forth in
that paper have been my constant guide.—
After havin'? gone so far, it is too late to turn
and take a different direction. They will he
my guide from this time onward, and those
who understand them may know where I
shall always be found when principle is in
volved.
Here let me -say to you, in order to disa
buse the public inind, as far as possible for
an individual to do so, that my public career
is well nigh done. The sands of my politi
cal glass has well nigh run out. If I were
disposed to refer to myself, I might trace my
career back to the log cabin; and then an
Alderman and Mayor in a village; and then
through both branches of thelegislature, and
then for ten consecutive years in the national
House of Representatives; then through the
gubernatorial chair to the Senate of the Uni
ted States; then Provisional Governor, with
a slight participation in military affairs; then
Vice-President, and now in the position I oc
cupy before you. If I can be instrumental
in restoring to the Government of the United
States—in restoring to their true position in
the Union those States whose relations to the
National Government have for a time been
interrupted by one of the most gigantic re
bellions that ever has occurred in the world,
so that wc can proclaim once more that we
are a united people—I shall feel that the
measure of my ambition has been filled, and
filled to overflowing,
“And at that point, if there be any -who
are envious and jealous of honor and position,
I shall be prepared to make them as polite a
bow as I know how, and thank them to take
the place I have occupied, for my mission
will have been fulfilled.
“In saying this in the performance of my
duty, and in response to the encouragement
you have given me, I feel that I am in a con
dition not to be arrogant; not to feel imperi
ous. I feel that I can afford to do right, and
so feeling, God being willing, I intend to do
right, and so far as in me lies I intend to ad
minister this-Govcmmentupon the principles
that lie at the foundation of it. I caninform
aspirants who are trying to form their combi
nations for the future, who want to make one
organization for one purpose and another for
another, that they are not in my way.
“I am not a candidate for any position,
and hence repeat that I can afford to do right
—and being in that condition I will do right.
I make this announcement for the purpose of
letting all know that my work is to restore
the government, not to make combinations
with reference to any tuture candidacy for
the Presidency of the United States. I have
reached the utmost round. My race is run so
lar as that is concerned. My object is to per
form my duty, and that I will endeavor to do.
“Let us, then, all join in this great work
of restoration, and while we are restoring
and repairing the breeches that have been
made, let us also unite in the work of mak
ing new States, and populating them with a
people who are worthy of the Government
which protects them, and let those new State
governments he founded on principles in har
mony with the great machinery devised by
our fathers. So far as regards any aid or as
sistance that can be given here, in the pro
gress and in the consumation of this great
work of building up new States, as well as in
the restoration of all the former States, you
will find me a willing and a cordial helper.
“Gentlemen, I did not expect this demon
stration, but you will please accept my
thanks for the compliment you have paid me
on this occasion, and the encouragement you
have given me in the discharge of my duty.
“All I can say in conclusion, is to assure
you that any assistance you may need from
this quarter will be most cheerfully given to
advance the interests of the community you
represent.”
FROM SOUTH AMERICA.
Alliance Between Fern anil Chili—The
War Between Paragunry and Brazil
New York, Feb. 9.—The steamer New
York has arrived from Aspinwall, the 1st.
The Golden City left Panama on the night
of the 28tb, for San Francisco.
News from Peru states that that country
had made an ofisenive and defensive alliance
with Chili, and declared-.war against Spain.
It was hoped at Lima that other South
American Republics, especially Columbia,
would accede to the treaty.
A Peruvian frigate, and steam corvette had
left to effect a junction with the Chilian fleet.
All the Spaniards residing in the Province of
Lima had received orders not to leave the
country, and have their names registered for
surveillance. The Peruvian Govemmcnthad
also taken other precautions to have reprisals
at hand in case the Spanish fleet should take
possession of any port on the coast, or inflict
any other heavy damage.
The mail from Valparaiso had not been re-
’ ceived.
Sailing vessels from the Southern coast re
port the entire Spanish fleet concentrated at
Valparaiso. That city is probably thorough
ly blockaded, and perhaps attacked by the
Spaniards.
The attempted revolt in Panama was frus
trated.
Nothing important had occurred at San
Francisco.
New York, Feb. 9.—A Buenos Ayres cor
respondent writes that the loss of all the Pa
raguayan troops that had invaded Brazil by
crossing the Araguay river, was followed by
the precipitate retreat to their own territory
of all the forces that were oucupying Corri-
entas. The work of concentrating f the allied
land and naval forces had progressed, so thpt
on the 25th of January they would make a
grand combined attack with 45,000 troops
and thirty war steamers on the Paraguayan
stronghold of Huawaita, on the Paraguayan
river. This is a place of immense strength,
mounting over one hundred heavy guns and
rendered difficult of approach by chains ex
tending across the river, and it is supposed,
by submerged torpedoes, and having to back
it a Paraguayan army of 15,000 or 20,000,
and a considerable fleet. The march of the
allies in pursuit of the retreating Paraguayans
across the province of Corrientas to the Par
aguay river, thirty miles, through an almost
uninhabited country, is described as one of
the greatest difficulty and suffering, and hun
dreds of the troops perished on the way, and
many others deserted.
Great Fire at Hilton Hbad.—We learn
from the Savannah Herald of the 9th, that
about 5 o’clock on Wednesday morning, a fire
accurred at Hilton Head, which did an im
mense amount of damage. The fire was the
work of an incendiary, and was started in
the forage shed, into which the railroad runs,
which was consumed, together with the-guard
house and other buildings adjoining.
Had it not been for the heavy rains which
wc have bad for several days past, the proba
bilities are that (in the langUargs of our cor
respondent) the entire place would have
“gone up.”
About fourteen thousand bushels of com,
one thousand bushels of oats, four-hundred
and fifty bales of hay, and three hundred
bales of straw, were consumed.
TELEGRAPHIC.
DISPATCHES TIJ. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
NEW YORK JIARKET
New York, Feb. 12.— Cotton is declining;
sales at 44ca4ac.
Gold, 138 7-8.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, Fc-b. 12.—No business done
in Congress to-day, this being the occassion
of Jlr. Bancroft's address in memory of Jlr.
Lincoln, which was delivered in the presence
of a highly distinguished audience.
Death of the Chief Justice of Kentucky.
Glassgow, Ky., Monday, Feb., 5.
Wm. M. Sampson, Chief-Justice of Ken
tucky, died to-day after a painful and pro
tracted illness.
Still Further Reduction
VIA
AUGUSTA AND SAVANNAH.
Through Bills Lading arc now given by iho
Southern Transportation Company,
to New York, by this route at $11 00 per bale on
Cotton. Consign to your friends North, Care
JOHN A. MOORE, Augusta.
Send me Railroad Receipt and I will give through
Bill Lading, expenses following the cotton to New
York. Insure through.
CUA8. J. WILLIAMSON,
Ag’t. Southern Transportation Company
at T. R. Bloom’* office, Macon, Ga. Icbl3-lw
The Contemplated Change in the Cali-
net.—The New York World has the follow
ing remarks on this subject:
President Johnson is still in the early part
of his term; and when lie reconstructs his
Cabinet', we suppose he will aim to compose
it of statesmen w-howill go through with him
to its close. Of the seven members, he will
doubtless take two or three from the Southern
States. It is well known that Mr. Lincoln
tried to do this, although the party that elec
ted him had no existence in those States; and
he failed only because the persons to whom
he offered places declined to accept then}.—
President Johnson will, therefore, have a
precedent which the party that elected him
cannot very well impeach, in going outside
it to-find appointees. It may, indeed, be
said that the relations of the Southern States
have changed; that when Mr. Lincoln offered
offices to their citizens they were still in the
Union, and represented in Congress, whereas,
at present they are not. But the Republican
National Convention answered this argument
in advance. When they went into one of the
Sfates now denied admission to Congress for
their candidate for Vice-President, they set a
precedent which they could more easily com
plain of anybody else for following, than of
Mr. Johnson. It is in consequence of that
selection that he is now at the head of the
government; and it would be the climax of
absurdity to say that States which may pro
perly furnish a President cannot furnish a
cabinet officer.
B5F”A Yale alumnus of twenty years stand
ing returned, after a long absence, to visit his
alma mater, and was very courteously, re
ceived and shown around by Prof. T- .
After having exhibited to his guest most of
FOR DUBLIN, GA.,
AND INTERMEDIATE LANDINGS ON THE ]
AI.TA M A HA AND OCONEE ELVERS,
THE LIGHT DRAFT STEAMER
P. B. COODSELL,
CAPT. J. M HOLMES,
Running in ’ Connection with the Steamers
H. M. COOL AND ELLA, .
To Savannah via Darien, will receive Freight for
the above places. Apply to
B. A HERNDON,
Dublin, Ga.
or M. A. COHEN
Savannah, Ga.
Goods consigned to care Ot A. A. DcLermc,
Darien, will receive prompt attention. febl3-lm
the modem improvements, the Professor said
to him:
“You have now seen, I believe, all that is
new in the institution except the gymnasium.
Come, let us go up there, and I will roll a
string of ten-pens with you.”
“What, sir I” exclaimed the guest, starting
back in real or simulated astonishment.
‘Why,” exclaimed the Profeasor, “we have
a fine alley in our gymnasium, and I would
like to go there and roll a string of ten pins for collection -
with you.”
“Roll ten-pins with you, sir,” exclamcd the
alumnus, with a gleam of malicious fun in his
eye: “Why, sir, I was expelled from the
college for rolling ten-pins!”
BagT" A New York correspondent tells the
following stories of Comodore Vanderbilt:
“He has a will and an obstinacy that cannot
be equalled. He got mad with Collins and
Swore he would run liis line off the ocean, and
he did it. Fifteen years ago he held some of
the bogus stock of the New Haven Railroad,
issued by Schuyler. He demanded pay of
the Company. His demand was refused. He
told the Railroad Company lie wonld hand it,
if he spent all he was worth. So ho has fol
lowed the Company through all the courts for
fifteen years, and at the close of the last term
of the Court of Appeals, the Court of last re
sort, gave him a decision by which he gains
$750,000 and costs. Vanderbilt is a “big
gun,” but he will never be translated on ac
count of his amiability.
The Stevens Faction.—The full strength
of the faction of confiscators in the House
was yesterday brought out on the amendment
to the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill, moved by Mr.
Stevens. The amendment in question, sum
marily stated, was to declare the whole of the
Southern States to be conqurcd territory, or
more practically, to take everybody’s prop-
erty and -give it to everybody else. The
party of general confiscators numbers exactly
thirty-seven, neither more nor less. That it
should number even so many as this is a reflec
tion apon our civilization. But, all things
considered, it is, perhaps, a matter of felici
tation that the faction is no stronger than
it is. Let us invite all our readers to care
fully scan the list of confiscators.—N. York
Times 7.
MARRIED ,
On Tuesday evening, 5th instant, at the resi
dence of the bride’s brother, R. M. Ellis, Esq.,
by Rev. Lewis Salomon, J. M. B. Dexsox, Esq., to
Miss Mart I. Ellis, all of Twiggs connty, Ga.
TO RfST.-
A NEAT House with four rooms and three fire
places, with ont buildings, and the best of
water on the lot, in East Macon. Call on
T. J. & D. LANE.
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Mattresses, Mattresses!
A FEW JIATTRESSES, made in the best style,
and guaranteed to be of good and perfectly
clean cotton, for sale at
GEO. R. BARKER’S,
feb!3-2t* Cotton Avenue.
BROWN HOUSE.
OPPOSITE PASSENGER DEPOT,'
MACON, GEORGIA.
REFITTED MB 'REFURNISHED
PROM BASEMENT TO ATTIC.
COMFORT, CONVENIENCEANDLUXURY
COMBINED.
My faithful Porters WILLIAM, MATT and DAR-
BAH, will he in attendance and transfer baggage
free on the arrival of every train,
E. E. BROWN,
janlG-3m Proprietor.
List of Arrivals at Brown’s Hotel.
Febkuaby 12, I860.
Geo Welling, C S Watson, P A Whitlock, Miss
Clifton, C R Cassford, P E Convoisie, J G Stephens,
J C Smith, D T Bootcrs, Col W C Freeman & Lady,
A V Brumby, H C Randefi, E Muroe, W K Hall, G
C Connor, Alfred Shorter, Lewis Tomlins, Miss
Sidney Brown, C W- Brown, H H Howard, Jas A
Smith, J Alexander, A E Marshall, C E McGregor,
B M Branner, J A MeElroy, J x Harrison, Geo
Johnson, J C Smith, J M Wnlker, J H Phinizy, W
A Wright, E T Allings, E H Bacon, A B Stillwell,
H JSpraybciry, A S Woodward, Maj L H McIn
tosh, J Jt Hill & fwo Ladies, W P Trammell, J W
Childer3, Mrs McCord, Jas W Reiil, Jas M Russell,
L B Alexander, Rich Wallers, H C Westbrook,
Jliss Jennie GiUmore, R S Jackson, T J Pratt, FA
Ragland, CY/Hunnicutt, Mrs Hugos, M Westmore
land, Thos Dixon, M T McGrigor, J M Strules, D
E Spivey, J M Amos, Gen Phil Cook, J Hiday—
Georgia. T F Wisson, M Stephens, A F Spiller—
Fla. TM Yardley, WE Franklin, JB Scobey, W
T Edwards, Joseph E Scobey—Tennessee. Wm
Busburee—-S C. U R Ellyson—Va. T A Laurence,
Miss P Laurence, J C Crowell, S A Williams, A P
Knox, G M Hcrvitt—Ala. J C Elliott—Ark. G
Sollcys—Texas. C Jones . EPittard—N C.
F Hall—England.
K J. JOHNSTON & CO.,
NO. 6 COTTON AVENUE,
Have just received choice selections of
Ladies Watches,
Leontine and Cliatelaln Chains,
Cluster and Singlo Stone Diamond Rings,
Heavy Plain Gold Rlng3,
Gold Belt Buckles,
Gold and Silver Thimbles,
Gold, Coral.and Jet Jewelry,
Gold Box and Glass Pins) Sleeve Buttons & Studs
Ivory Jewelry Assorted lor MomingToifttte, &c.
Colt’s and Smith & Wesson’s Revolving Pistols,
And Cartridges first quality.
Violin and Guitar Strings,
Violin Bows,
Accordeons &c., &c.
To which public attention is respectfully invited.
febl2-3t*
Ware House Notice.
P ARTIES holding receipts for Cotton stored in
our Ware Hogge, are requested to present
their receipts and move their cotton out by the
1st of May, as the business will be discontinued
and Ware House disposed ot If not taken out by
that time, we will turn it-ovor toother Commis
sion Merchants for storage. We hereby notify par
ties holding our receipts that we will not be re
sponsible lor cotton in onr possession after that
date. HARRIS & ROSS,
Ware Houso and Commission Merchants.
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Macon Journal & Messenger, Savannah Herald,
Mobile Advertiser & Register, Richmond Examin
er, Augusta Constitutionalist, and New York News,
copy two weeks and send bill to Macon Telegraph
W. A. HUFF
HAS NOW IN STORE AND FOR SALE
S AlaT
500 SACKS LIVERPOOL,
500 BARRELS VIRGINIA.
F la O XT XX .
100 BARRELS FALLS OF OHIO,
100 “ HENDERSON’S BEST,
100 “ EXCELSIOR XX-XX.
100 « VARIOUS BRANDS OF SUPERFINE.
CORN AND MEAL.
1,500 SACKS GEORGIA MIXED,
1,600 “ WESTERN WHITE AND YELLOW,
500 BUSHELS PRIME WHITE ^EAE, WATER GROUND.
OAT
1,000 BUSHELS WESTERN,
500 “ GEORGIA SET!».
BAGGING ANU ROPE.
10 BALES INDIA BAGGING.
100 Coils and Half Coils RICHATfBSON’S GREEN LEAF ROPE.
ALEXIS RR AG G,
ADREW WESSON. JR.
BOOTS, SHOES, AND LEATHER,
No.ll.-.DEY ST., NEW YORK,...No.11
ALEXIS BRAGG & WESSON,
SUCCESSORS OB TUX Olfc) ZSTABLISMD FIRM OF
ALEXIS BRAGG* WARREN,-
Wholesale Dealers in Boots, Shoes
and Leather,
B EG to invito the attention of purchasers to
their splendid stock; adapted to all sections of
the country, and which they offer at the lowest
market prices.
Special attrition paid to orders.
ALEXIS BRAGG.
febl3-3m ANDREW "WESSON, Jr.
EDWARD LAMBERT,
Bankei aiid Broker,
NO. 30 WALL STREET,
NEW NT O R K .
OVERNMENT Securities, Stocks, Bonds soul
\JC Gold bought and sold on commission, and
carried on the usual margin if desired.
Interest allowed on Deposits snbject to Sight
Drafts. .
Southern money bought and sold.
Unsettled Northern claims adjusted.
Particular attention paid td the negotiation of
Commercial Paper and Bills of Exchange.
febl3-cod2m
Chestnut Grove Whisky.
^^NOTHER supply just received by
McCALLIE, JONES & DAY.
Seed Oats, Hay, &c.
KAA BUSHELS PRIJIE SEED OATS,
DUU 60 bale3 TENNESSEE HAY,
4 barrels PICKLED MULLET,
200 bushels GROUND PEAS,
10,000 lbs NEW BACON, HAMS, SIDES and
SHOULDERS.
In store and for sale by
McCALLIE, JONES & DAY,
febl3-lt* Cotton Avenue.
List Consignees per S. W, R. R.
Macon, Feb. 12th, 1806.
Redding & W, V Powers, Russell & P, Job
Cherry, O F Evans, E Price, D Ripley, TB Rnssell,
Dorsett & H, H W Ralford, Lewis (freedman,) An
derson & Son, Scott, P & Co, McCalllc & Jones,
H J Lamar, Zeilin & Co, E A Wilcox; Newton &
L, A O Bacon, T J Flint, A J Stewart, R L Joice,
E O’Connell, Knott & Howes.
Reward.
S TOLEN from the subscriber, five miles north of
Montezuma, on the night of the 10th instant,
two horse MULES—one tall, high-head sorrel, long
mane and tail, and blind in one eye, hut hardly
perceptible; the other a small bay, left eye out,
roached mane and tail. Said mules passed through
Marshallville, Ga., on thellth, en route for Macon,
in possession of two freedmen.
febl3-3t , B. P. LEWIS.
Dancing Academy,
T HE subscriber respectfully informs his"patrons
that lurlvTil open his Dancing Academy this
day, the 13th inst., atPowell’s Hall over Schreiner’s
Music Store. Tuition -days Tuesday, Thursday,
and Saturday. Tuition hours from 4 to Q r. M.,
for young ladies and masters. Gentlemen’s Class
from 8 to 10 r. u. Same days as above.
Terms S15 00 per twenty-four lessons, three les-
sonB per week.
feblS-lw* A BONAUD.
AUCTION SALES
THIS DAY (TUESDAY) AT 10 O’CLOCK,
A. 31., BY
Longley & Walsh.
Saulsbury & Markley,
GENERAL COMMISSION MERCHANTS
FOR THE SALE OF
Lands, Cotton, "Wool, Lnmber, Naval Stores, &c.
AND FOR THE PURCHASE OF
ALL KINDS OF MERCHANDISE.
162 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.
REPRESENTED BY
J. A. SAULSBURY, late of Macon, Ga.
THOS. C. MARKLEY, late of Atlanta, Ga.
Sole Agents in New York for Croasdale’s
Superphosphate, the beet Fertilizer known. Price,
$60 00 per ton.
iy Agents for Excelsior Lubricating and Tan
ner’s Oils.
BBFBR TO
Carhart & Curd, E. Saulsbury, Winehip A Cal
laway, Macon, Ga. fehl3-4t
NOTICE.
rjlHE “National Express and Transportation
JL Company” having madc.a requisition of five
(5) her cent, on the Stockholders of the Company,
payable 1st February, 1SCG, Stockholders residing
in Maeon and vicinity, are requested to call at once
and pay the same to
WITHERS A LOUD, for
WM. M. WITHERS,
fcbl3-3t Commissioner.
STOLEN,
F ROM the subscriber, near Oglethorpe, Ga.,
about the 1st last, one Mouso Colored-Mare
Mule—medium size, blind In one eye and cross
eyed. A liberal reward will he given for the re
covery of said Mule, also for the thief.
G. W. SMITH,
febl3-tf Oglethorpe, Ga.
o*
CONSIGNMENT
600 SACK OF COTT«N SEED.
Growth 1665—just received and for sale cheap
by J. H. ANDERSON & SON.
S25 OO REWARD.
S TOLEU on Saturday night from my stable in
in Yineville, a dark bay^iare about 7years old,
marked on back by saddle, white star in forehead,
left hind leg white up to ankle, and tail bitten by
stock. Any one returning said Mare to me will re
ceive the above reward.
feb!3-3t P. H. BONE.
Land for Sale Cheap.
hteen acre lot, one nine acre lot, and
one sia
1 "
O NE eigl
one six acre lot for sale cheap, close to the
one si
of Ma^cn. They are desirable pieces of land,
and will be apld at a bargain if application is made
early to
febl3-5t* I. C. PLANT.
Stocls. Peas*
500 BUSHELS PEAS—WHITE AND SPECKLED.
Cjrround. Peas.
- >
2,000 BUSHELS SELECTED, KSt «OOD SACKS.
100 BOXES FAMILY SOAP.
Caiiidles.
50 BOXES ADAMANTINE CANDLES.
SUGAR AND COFFEE.
20 SACKS PRIME RIO COFFEE,
25 -BARRELS A, B and C—Also &5 barrels plain BROWN SUGARS
Cotton Seed.
3,500 sacks PRIME COTTON SEED, from 1865 crop, at §1.50 per bnsli.
Macon StLeetiner.
4,000 YARDS MACON MILL SHEETING.
50 BOXES J. C. HOCKADY.
JENNY LIND,
MARYGOLD.
4NO. S. HALE.
FARMER’S TWISm
VARIOUS BRANDS.
50
Iron Safes.
2 SPLENDID IRON SAFEi—Large and Medium Size.
1 SPLENDID PUJbTON AND HARNESS.
1 TOP BUGGY AND HARNESS—GOOD AS NEW.
ONE TW0-H0RSE WAGOfr-BEST IN GEORGIA.
50 BARRELS PRIME CANE,
50 “ GOOD SORGIIFM.
$1,000 IKT
$1,000 11ST
mm
GOLD.
SILVER.
W. A. HUFF.