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JOURNAL AND MESSENGER. S. ROSEfc 3 B.BUR.R, EDITORS AND PKOPEIETORS. ’ . JOSpPH CL.ISBY, Epitob. ItaTTr-.ci • " -'pTTOIT BATES- a One nonth g *' h “ 5 \[ !. 600 “ - “ 6 12 00 S@f* Nc psperccnt-iiiued. after expiratic n MSB Tuesday ' Authorized Agents. F’if«mla. Ala—B. B. Fields, ’ viile-K Peacock. 1 2?° Sriw»-0. H. P. McClendon. '•gS&Si Wilsc*, 1. H. Traylor. ifiSshalvUle-J. A. Sperry. P,.;rtiB —Jason Burr. §VoUville-H. H. Swatts. Wowj-th—Albert Vardeman. Milner—W. J. Howe, to.. n —John S. Jobson. To'botton—Jas. Collier. Fort Valley —J. M. Jordan, _ QuUlian and b. L. Brantley. Daffson —J. C. F. Clark. nriethorpOr-W. J. J. Smith. \naericus —W. P. Hames. 'Montezuma— I. Davis, iltenv—E. Richardson. Bainbridge —J. T. Wimberly. Ft 'Gaines—Geo. Brown, o noids—Dr. A- Coleman. n v ke»> > Station—T. H. Plan t. Montieello —Rev. W. W. Oslin. u.iv.-'dnsviile —L. C. Ryan. -to. above, named gentlemen are author i ed to receipt for monies due us, and de tlo per cent, of the amount as remu ,, tot ion for their services. uer S. Rose & Cos. TO ADVERTISERS. tVe are often asked by merchants, why AV e charge more than other city papers for advertising, and as it seems to be general ly understood that our terms are higher, ve will state that our terms are the same, and all contracts with other city papers wiU he duplicated by us. Our circulation i« exceeded by none iu the city, and ad vertisers-will find us accommodating in 1! tilings. - •*- ♦ ■ ODD TYPE METAL. Several thousand pounds of old type metal for sale very low at this office. POWER PRESS FOR SALE. A Montague Patent, in good order, capa ble of running off from GOO to 800 an hour. Will be sold for mere nothing, to get it out of the way, having no use for it. Apply at this office. MOTION AND NONPAREIL. Two good fonts of type, Minion and Non pa riel, very large, and in good order, for sale cheap at this office, besides any quantity of display type. Call early, as we are making room for new material, and will soil low. Aim Davis in Fortress Monroe.—We copy an unfriendly report from the New York He? aid, Fae ab basic, Ac. &2L-, The National Intelligencer, referring othe laic brutal speech of Thad. Stevens, ou the negro equality amendment to the Constitution, thus characterizes the man: ‘in a far as protense of argument is con cern '4 or digutty of parliamentarianism, or tit oncy of expression,, or respect of con stitutional law, or comity as a supposed publicist, or as a maa o: pretended honor, or of imagined human qualities, Mr. • Ste vens mils to make an impression on one in all the land.’’ Georgia Military Institute. From information received from Mil ledgeviile, the citizens of Fort Vally, Ga., arc making a bid for the transfer of the Georgia Military Institute to their place, which is quite favorable to tire State in her crippled condition. They propose to give the State one hun dred and fifty acres of land (equivalent to one thousand dollars,) beautifully located, with a constant stream of water running through it, with two fine springs Rear the rite; there being plenty of wood on the land to furnish the Institute for several rears. Also, five thousand dollars in cash, which is to lie paid in by the citizens, in four installments: Ist payment April Ist, and the hist January Ist, IS6O. Further, allowingthe State, through the Governor, to appoint one-lialf of the Board of Trustees, and they adopting all rules and regulations as have already governed the school, so far as practicable. The State only giving, by transfer, the charter with its privileges, as well as the library, chemical apparatus, etc., the most of which was destroyed at this place by Shbrman’s army, with the proceeds of the sale of the land and the debris of the old School at Marietta, probably worth from live hundred to a thousand dollars, which it is .proposed shall go into build up the hew school. The Raleigh, North Carolina, Stan dard, of the 2d, says that N. J. Perkins, a member of the Society of Friends, was waylaid in \Vayne county, on Tuesday, by two white men who cut liis throat in five places, and cut one of his ears so badly that he will lose it, and, also knocking out several of his teeth. His condition is con sidered very precarious. A man by the name of Needham, another member of the Society of Friends, was recently robbed of over twelve hundred dollars, in the same . comity. _ The Democratic members elect to Congress from Louisiana, disgusted- with the radical temper of the House, have left for their homes, pretty thoroughly con vinced that their chances for admission to his Congress are hopeless. Capt. Semmes.— The Times’ Washing ton special say s : The President and Cabi net have under consideration the argu ment of Capt. Semmes, claiming the right to be discharged underthe Sherman-John ston parole, but have come to no definite conclusion thereon. Until this matter is disposed of there will be no detail fora court to try Capt. Semmes, and there is a bare probability that the trial may be in definitely postponed. * BtSG The Albany Journal pronounces the address of Thad. Stevens infamous, and declares his “assumed leadership of the House is an unmitigated misfortune.” It further says that: If it had been determined produce a division between the two branches of the administration, this Pennsylvania Danton would be precisely the man to inaugurate a- His theatre is anarchy; his weapon, denunciation ; his work, disorder. With out parallel in ferocity and coarseness, he Nevertheless possesses a measure of politi cal ability which magnifies his capacity for evil, and prompts him to most shameful acts. The Process of Public Debasement. In an article upon the 11th, we pointed j out in an incidental manner, the process bv which the radical republicans in Con gress were seeking to debase the govern ment of the country so as to destroy the con servative features of the system, and make it responsive substantially without check or limitation, to the wildest popular caprices and the most violent party schemes. To have been complete, this view should hare embraced several points which we had no space to consider. We present the whole plan of operations briefly, as follows. 1. The red republicans arc seeking to de stroy the conservative vitality and force of the Constitution of the United States, un der the speeious pretence of amending it. There is yet too much traditional rever ence for that instrument in the Northern mind, (however vague, unintelligent and practically inoperative it may be,) to toler ate an open war upon the Constitution. We hear arguments in Congress openly supported by what the Constitution “should be.” against as open admission as to what “it is.” But the time has not yet come for the rallying cry “ Down with the Constitu tion,” in so many words, and the safer plan is adopted of killing it with amendments. . These scores of amendments have but one object and tendency—to break down the fundamental limitations by which minori ties are protected, and open an unobstruct ed sweep to the will of the majority as re corded at the ballot box. Indeed the no tion that a republican government is purely the government of a popular voting ma jority, wherein minorities, like the “rebels,” have no rights, but simply duties and obli gations—is so fixed in the Northern mind that anything standing in the way of the popular will, is already considered anti-re publican ; and this alone renders all con stitutional limitations and restraints ex tremely unpopular. The republicans see that their utter extinction, in the present condition of the popular mind, is only a question of time, and the shortest available path to the practical abolition of all Con stitutional safe-guards is to assail them one by one with amendments. In a few years the continual changes and modifications in fundamental law, would render the whole system so thoroughly contemptible, that all respect for it would be destroyed. The whole would sink into a dead letter. 2. The work of destroying the Constitu tion is carried on simultaneously with the work of debasing the suffrage. Our an cestors held but one opinion in reference to the permanency and value of the republi can system. It was a good and a secure government only so long as the primary source of political power was intelligent, virtuous and self restraining. The foun tain corrupted, the whole stream was poi soned; and as the best things become the worst fatally mischievous, under perversion, so a republican system would certainly more itself the most vicious and insupportable of all tyrannies, when wielded by ignorance under the direction of profligacy and corruption,. The deter- mination of the radical majority still fur ther to debase the American popular suf frage by introducing the emancipated slaves to the polls—voters without inform ation—without self-control—without judg ment—to a great extent, without virtue— credulous and easily misled to the worst of purposes, lias a deep and significant moan ing in connection with their efforts to destroy the Constitution. 3. Both those movements are in full blast in connection with their grand to tlohttse 'Congress. This is m In* done by the unconstitutional Test Oath, by which it is proposed to exclude all the in telligence of the South from Congress.— This specious contrivance, under pretence of shielding Congress from disloyal mem bers, will practically exclude Southern rep resentatives, and shutout from Congress the traditional foes of red republicanism in America—the jealous guardians of consti tutional limitation—(lie disciples and de scendants of the men who held consolida tion to bo the bane of a well regulated civil liberty—the death of pure republicanism. Who taught that even the restrictions of the constitution, without the check and balance of an unflinching maintenance of the reserved rights of the States, were in euflicient to preserve the harmonious and steady operation of the great republican system, and to defend minorities. All this formidable counterpoise to the aggressive schemes of the radicals, is ruled out by the ingenious contrivance of the Test Oath. 4. To lend additional force to this grand combined assault upon all the safe-guards and defences of the old republican system of America, every pretence is laid hold of to magnify the central power and increase its overwhelming influence. The official patronage of the Government, in the good old times when a few thousand compre hended the office holding legion, was a source of alarm to the statesmen of those days. The present number is stated by some of our contemporaries at not far short of half a million, and the worst feature of the case is that comparatively few of these hold offices contemplated or created by the Constitution, and many of them by no oth er law' than that of alleged necessity or convenience. In former times officials were restricted to government business, but now they assume supervision of almost every possible private interest. In former times, acting under law', they were govern ed by and respected law; but now they act under orders and defy law. It is to push the of the government to the utmost in this particular, that Con gress is now “extending the powers” of the Freed men’s Bureau, although it is no torious that their power in the States is al ready supreme. What might not a radi cal administration party in control of the government promise itself at the head of such an official phalanx qf half a million or less, wielding supreme power over the finances of the country, the fox-tunes, and to a great extent, the private IfUsiness of the people. Lxcmpt it from Constitution al restraints—give it the control of a de based suffrage—make Congress the subser vient register of its decrees, and Cxesar or the Sultan were puny and profitless des pots compared with it. 5. The. last point in the radical pro gramme we shall mention, is the practical abolition of State jurisdiction. This is al ready effected by the claims set up in be half of the Freedman’s Bureau; but is sought to be doctrinally established under the clause am en ding the Constitution so as to prohibit slavery. Under that, the radicals claim full jurisdiction over the political status of the citizens of the States, and this admitted and gained, will wind up the chapter of private and public defenses against, the tyranny of a majority, con trolled by a few- American Danton s, by enabling them to -deeide both who shall, and who shall not vote. When that last achievement is made. . the Republican leaders of the day will own the country, and maintain a securer—a grander des potism than t-lie world ha.- yet seen, or re alized. The South sees and feels, put t-au only point out the danger, it remains .to be discovered whether the Northern emieen atives wiH take the alarm injjmeJo save themselves and the Republic. Milledgeville Correspondence. MiLUElKiiiViant Feb. 12, 1-GG6. The gloomy morning of to-day brought with it a depression of feeling upon the pgrt of many of otn' legislators. Perhaps the long face of our friend Col. Jack Jones, or the leanness of his pulse, has had quite an influence to east agioomover the minds of our law-makers. They are not the only party that feet’this depression, for hotel and bar-keepers are getting very anxious toeolleet their bills. The Generl Assembly still continues to introduce new matter. Up to this time, there have been, in both branches, 'some thing near eight hundred bills introduced and read. It will take at least until the 15tli of March next, to dispose of this mass. It is true, one-third of them are unconsti tutional, and will be lost in that way ; an other third will be disposed of l*y the com mittees, and on their passage. Mr. Groce, or Seriveu, introduced :i reso lution in the House, this morning, declar ing that no new matter shall be entertained after next Friday, thelGtli, and _ that the General Assembly adjourn on the 2.Bth inst., sine die, but no action was taken up on it, and It is believed that it will not be adopted. There is an immense amount of useless legislation gone through with. All this changing of the Code and of county lines, are matters that could very we!! be defer red, until the people and the State Treasu ry arc better able to bear the immense cost, than they are at the present moment. It costs the State abouts2,soo per day to have these matters attended to. Thq people are becoming very restive under this enormous expenditure, and feel that matters of mere importance should engage the attention of their servants, especially In the present depleted condition of the Treasury. Gome of the members, especially the planters, are getting very anxious to return home and put iu their crops for t-lic coming season. Messrs. Stephens and Johnson, Senators elect, were expected here to-day to address the General Assembly, but on account of Mr. Johnson being engaged in a murder ease at Augusta, they have failed to arrive, but will be here, and it is supposed that they will Speak ou Thursday and Friday nights next. Tlieir views are anxiously looked for, and expected to foreshadow the policy of Georgia in the present crisis and remove the gross representations of defeat ed partizans at Washington. A Mr. Orff) an Agent for an Emigration Society, proposing to bring emigrants di rect from Europe to this State, will address the Legislators to-night, upon the im prests connected with that enterprise. The finance bill is about the only bill pending, that will cause any discussion in the Senate as ail other matter- of that char acter have been dispose 1 of. The House however, make speeches upon al most every subject, that is, some of them. in; Revk. The President and the Freedmen. The extended report of the interview be tween Fred. Douglas and a dozen other free negroes, claiming to represent <!.? freed men in the United States' covers three long and closely printed .columns, but perhaps the reader Ms had enough of it in what has already beeu published in the Journal and Messenger. Tt ended as it began in the threat qj" an appeal to the people: The President—l think you will find, so far as the South is concerned, that if all will inculcate the idea in connection with the one you urge, that the colored people can live and advance in civilization to hot-, ter advantage elsewhere than crowded to gether in the South, it would be better for them. Mr. Douglas—But the masters have the making of the laws ; and we cannot gait away from the plantations. The President —What prevents you? Mr. Douglas—We have not the simple right of locomotion through the Southern States. The President —If the masters now con trol the freedmen, would they not control his vote ? Mr. Douglas—Let the negro once under stand that lie has a right -to vote, and he will raise up a party that will rally with him. There is this conflict that you speak of between the slaveholder and’ the poor man. The President —You touch right, upon the point there. There is the conflict, and hence, I suggest emigration. If he can not get employment in the South, he lias it in his power to go when' he can get it. On parting, the President said that they were both desirous of accomplishing the same ends, but proposed to doso by follow ing different roads. Mr. Douglas, in turning to leave, re marked to his fellow delegates: '“The Pres ident sends us to the people, and we will have to go and get the people right.” The President—Yes, sir, I have great faith in the people. I believe they will do what is just, and have no doubt they will settle the question right, and hope that it will be submitted to them for formal ac tion. The delegates then bowed and with drew. The patience, courtesy and good temper of the President were rewarded in this respect, at least, that the tone of this “so called” delegation was far less imperious and insulting at the close than at the com mencement of the interview. Wo are bound'to admit that the President has a very happy faculty of dealing with all the varied and miscellaneous delegations which approach him upon public questions. Be maintains perfect dignity and good temper, and at the same time deals,, with entire candor and without the smallest attempt at diplomacy. Noticing the arrival in that city of the editor of the Rocky Mountain News, the Chicago Republican says : He crossed the plains by way of Santa Fe, and reports that the journey was but little troubled by the Indians. Everything is going on prosperously in Colorado. The next season’s yield of gold he estimates at from six to eight millions, though if the emigration is very large it will be rm>ie.— Breadstuff’s will be raised for the present population, but the new comers will have to be supplied over the plains. The pres ent population of the Territory lie esti mates at about 25,000, one-third of them in the city of Den ver. - —— Ex-President Burnet,- of Texas, has published a list of severe charges against Gen. Gregory, in his administration of the •Freedmen’s Bureau. Gen. Gregory says they are false and demands a retraction or a full proof. for the Jotfrnal and Messenger.] f GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. j Mx r.i. she; bv i eee, Feb. 12. 18*30. Pte VJ SENATE. The Senate factallo o'clock, A. M The rules were suspended and Mr! Mc- Daniel introduced a bill to regulate the sale i of spirituous liquors in small quantities.— ! Thg bUi proper's that before licenses are i issued, a person shalighv bond rad to keep I a disorderly lionse. Mr. Carter —A bill to authorize the lew I ofa-speeiiic tax on all, spirituous liquors ‘ distilled in this State. It proposes a tax of 50 cents per galicn. Mr. Gresham—A bill to repeal an act re- | tjUiring incorporated Cotton and, Woollen * Companies to publish Lists of their stock holders. % BILLS OX THIRD EEAiU-NG. Bill to exonerate sheriffs and their depu- j ties from liabilities hi certain cases. li re- i l’ersto cases where the bonds were given ou a Confederate basis of value. Passe,’. Bill-to prohibit itinerant trading jtopto tain articles without a license. T* hi r t ground peas, butter, eggs, melons, etc. Lost bv a yore, of 12*t\ to' Bil! to punish with dea'.topoiito burning and burglary at night, passed. b Bill to require persons exempt from J un duly to serve as tefb.-,- j U ro: s. Passed. • Bill to Grange the time of holding the superior tom.rU of Paulding, Floyd, Polk aad uai»tpl}oli counties. Passed. * I’d! for the relief of persons under arrest for offences committed against the Confed erate States; Passed. Bill to allow attorneys and solicitors to argue their eases in the Supreme Court of this State in writing. Recommitted to the Judiciary Committee. Bill to provide a more summary mode for the enforcement of Mechanics’ liens. Lost. Bill to amend the charter of the lovrn of Eroerton. Passed. Liil to prevent persons irom inducing laborers to forfeit their contracts and to abandon the interest of their employers. Passed. Bill to alter and amend section 4596 and •4597 of die Code. Passed. Bill for the relief of the Muscogee Build ing and Loan Association and the Colum bus Bulling and Loan Association-. Pass ed. Bill to exempt from j ury duty all persons active members of incorporated Fire Com , panics of this State. Lost. Bill to fix the time of holding the Su preme Court of this State.- It fixes the time at the first Mondays in June and De cember of each year. Postponed. Bill to ineorjKjrate the Hansel! Manu facturing Company of Campbell count*. Passed. Adjourned. . i lot’s ii. t The hi<rase myl at & o’clock A. M. Prayer by the chaplain. The Journal was read aiid approved. 31 r. Kibliee, of Pulaski, moved the re consideration of-the House on the bill to fix the fees of county officers. The mo tion prevailed. NEW ?!ATXilli. Mr. Glenn, of Whitfield—A resolution asking the Secretary of Treasury of the United States to suspend the collection of the internal 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 incor porate the Buck Manufacturing Company of Schley county. Mr. Snead, of Richmond—A bill to in corporate the Commercial Insurance Com pany of Augusta. Also a bill to incorporate the Augusta Mutual Insurance Comjmuy, AH\ Groce, of Screven—A resolution that 'uo new matter be introduced after the IGtli instant, and that the begisiuiure ad journ sine <lie on the 2Sili itsiasit. Lost. Mr. ICibbee, of Pulaski—A bill to repeal ant actaiLowim: Ordiii irio- i<» charge cer tain fees. Mr. Lindsay, of Lee —A bill to change the time of holding Mm Superior Courts of Lee county. Mr. Cook of I. win- A bill to remit the tax due (lie Stave from fax payers for iS64 and 1865. Mr. Cloud, of Henry A bill to change the line between -Henry and Butts coun ties. Mr. Hill, of Fallon—A mil to exempt from street dutyall persons members of the Hook and Ladder Company. Also a luff to incorporate the Gate City Fomnlery, Car and Machine Works. Air. Wadden, of Fulton—A bill to incor porate the Union Express Company. Air. Russell, of Char.un—A resolution to ask the Governor to pardon from the Pen itentiary Epsev Woods of Franklin county. , Mr. Hollis', of Marion —X resolution re questing the Governor to ask of the Presi dent a withdrawal of colored troops from the State. The resolution of the Senate in relation to the seizure of cotton was referred to the Judiciary ('ommittee. iv: i.i-s ox Titi t:i) !•;;•:a dixg. Bill to punish freedmen fur living in adultry. Laid on the table. Bill for the j'elief of Administrators, Guardians and Executors. Passed. Air. Glenn’s resolution asking the sus pension of coffee! ion of internal revenue tax was passed. Bill t<> alter section G.l2d of the code. Lost. Bill to compensate Commissioners for pretailing.Che 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 Fulton comity. Passed. Bill to create anew judicial circuit, to be 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 Alilledge villc. Passed. Bill to authorize sheriff's, etc., to ad minis ter oaths. lost. Bill to amend section 4391 of the Code. Passed. Bill to incorporate Planters’ Insurance Compatiy of Columbus in place of Aler chants’ insurance Company of Columbus. Passed. Bill relative to the bonds of Justice. Passed. Bill to repeal 1775. and 1770 of the Code. Passed. Bill to change the mode of empanneling iurdrs for- the trial .of criminal cases. Lost. Adjourned till 3 o’clock, P. AI. The exliorbitant rents demanded in this city and ..neighborhood, are the oc casion of grievous complaint at the present time. Landlords are pronounced insatia ble. An advance of nearly or cpiite fifty percent, for first class stores and offices is not uncommon/in choice locations. Conse quently, there is a more general inquiry with reference to purchasing, many ten ants preferring to buy rather than lease. — But here is anew source of trouble, tor property owners are disposed to make as little concession in the one case as in the othbr. What is wanted is more elbow room. The city is not large enough to hold the in habilanls.—Jonrnul of Corn. ~ Speaking of impending Cabinet changes, the Washington correspondent of' the Philadelphia Ledger says : There is now no doubt hut what impor tant changes in the Cabinet are near at hand. Tlie President- is determined to have harmony of action in the Cabinet, if he cannot have it in conjunction with Con gress, and you may, therefore, look for an unseating of two, if not three, of the pres ent members at an early day. B®=. Flake’s Bulletin, a thorough Union paper and Government organ at Galves ton, denounces Gen. Howard’s manage- j ment of the Freedmen’s Bureau, and speaks of him as a religious hypocrite. S' NEW YORK CORRESPONDENCE. Sumner’s Fonderctts Treatise on Govern ment —Copies of his Prize Speech to be Distributed through the Country—Fresh Indication* af Factual Disruption — Thud. Stevens Denouncing the Freed man's Bureau Bill—lmmodesty on the Skating Ponds—A. T. Stu art's Sccorj*' Libel Suit- — An Important Case— fiu/i of Trade —('of inn e*' * * T'wat aur.Ovrn Correspr , r >»denl.j r i Feb. 6, 15 66. It seems that (he It*- . _ „ . adical gentlemen who arrogate all the v*: ... ° . . -*tue, patriotism and m teuigence in inerican ] KIU!aM na ttire, can not agiee <- en among themselves. Sum n^F taken issue with Stevens, and the r f 3ttl -is, a very pleasant prospect of a mu lir.y in the disunion camp. Os course, it ; is not to be supposed fqr a moment, tliat Sumner’s eyes have been opened to the enormity of the offences he lias committed against tlie American people, or tliat there is anything in his present course to justify the suspicion that he is moving toward the stool of repentance. He belongs-to the Bourbon class, who learn nothing and for get nothing, and therefore, no sensible man would credit him with an intention to reform liis ways. But he has been on the uneasy seat for several weeks past, groaning under the weight of a speech on the state of the country, and anxious for an opportunity to remove its pressure from himself to the columns of the Congression al al Globe. Tlie calling up of the Stevens I amendment furnished the coveted oppor tunity, and Sumner availed himself of it , to get off the ponderous essay which bored ' the Senate yesterday afternoon and to ! day. : I.don’t know whether the Massachusetts i deity is in the middle or at the end of his | speech at this hour; hut I do know, as ! every one must, who has read his first in ! stallinent of it, that he did not speak to - the question yesterday. His sole object I seemed to be to prove to the Senate that j he is the only person in that body who ! comprehends what is meant by political ethics. 1 have looked over the beginginsr of tlie speech, and eould not find one point in it. it is a diseussive, pedantic treatise on government, and does not contain one word, of direct application to the subject, beforte tlie Senate. But Sumner com menced by stating, in general terms, that he objected to the amendment which Ste vens rushed through the lower House, and it is not improbable that he has said some thing to the point before this time; The speech has been in preparation ever since ike beginning of the session, and some of the Washington correspondents say that arrangements have been made to distrib ute about two hundred thousand copies of it through the country. All newspapers i are to be supplied, and as Air. Sumner is desirous to indoctrinate Boston notions, it is not unlikely that you will receive a copy before you receive this. He read the si eeeh yesterday from a revised edition, and during its delivery he was somewhat annoyed by Senator Johnson, who took copious notes of Sumner’s quotations, mak ing him give book and page for each ; and | it may be presumed from this that it is the i intention of the Maryland Senator to reply !at an early day. The principal significance s os the liarrangue is that there is a conflict j slumbering somewhere in the disunion bosom, and that when ii bursts its swad- I diiug clothes there will be a rage and gnashing'of teeth iu the ranks of the Radi cals. And the common opinion here U that the swaddling clothes cannot be burst 1 too soon. Then, as a set-off to the Sumner demon stration in the Senate, we find Stevens ta kingground in theHouseagainst the Freed | man’s Bureau bill: not, it is true, because he objects to the spirit of the bill, but be ; cause that spirit is not quite unchristian j enough to suit him. Like a generous phi ’ laurhropist as he is, he would give to all the emancipated negroes “homesteads'out of the forfeited lands of the public enemy,” i and he esteems it a burning shame to pro j pose to turn the negroes oil of tlie Sea Is ; land lands at the expiration of three years. “God forbid,” he piously exclaims, “that I should ever vote for a bill like this.” I This heartless, brutal old man, who would batter with his rough hoofs, the pallid face of the prostrate South, cannot see tlie “burning shame” of robbing the Southern people of their jusf possessions. He would give the Sea Island soil forever to a set of thriftless, semi-barberous negroes, and send its legal owners, men of his own race, as wanderers and beggars on the earth. Oh! how pure, generous and unselfish is the philanthropy that would give unto others what it has no right to take or to give. We are having the pleasantest sort of winter weather, and New York is enjoy ing itself as merrily as if it were attending the political funeral of Sumner, Stevens, and the whole rank and file of the dis union organization. The attendance at the skating ponds in the Central Park averages forty thousand per day, and of this number at least thirty thousand put ou skates and rush headlong into the in toxicating madness of the season. You would be astonished to observe the aban don which characterizes the movements of the fairer' portion of New York creation when they mount steel runners. They throw aside everything in the way of mod esty, and disport themselves as if there was not a pair of male eyes within tele scopic distance. If they would leave their hoops at home it would not be quite so bad, but they wear the hoops, and the con sequence is that they cannot skate ten rods without revealing the color of their gar ters. And the fair creatures don’t mind it g bit. Approposof the Radical antics—though I should have thought of it before —here is a "poetical squib which I clip from the Ale tropolitan Record. The flavor is in the last line: “Lot hate do its worst; there are moments when I All its sneers and its venom with contempt defy, For a time will yet come, though the SumneritS rave. That will bring back the freedom our forefathers gave. Short, short be the reign then of Stevens and Wade, And repeal be the fate of the laws they have made. You may. air, you may alter those laws, if you will, Hut the scent of the negro will hang round them still.” A. T. Stew-art has another libel case on his hands, and I think the issue will be more favorable to his side than that of the suit he brought against the Police Gazette. It seeius that the New York correspondent of the St. Louis Republican wrote a lJtter to that journal reflecting somewhat-severe ly on Mr. Stewart’s moral character. The letter reached the office when the editors were absent, so it was inserted without revision by the foreman. The editors sub sequently apologized for its publication ; but that did not satisfy Mr. Stewart, for upon learning, on Saturday last, that one of the proprietors of the Republican was in this city, he went before Judge Dowling and made a complaint against Mr. Knapp (of the Republican) and Mr. Colburn, the correspondent, the one for publishing and the other for w riting the libelous letter. Both were arrested, and after a prelimina ry examination, Knapp was discharged from custody, lie having satisfied the Judge that the letter was published with out the knowledge of the responsible par ties. The correspondent is held to await the action of the Grand Jury, and it is not unlikely that an indictment will be found against him. He is one of the assistant editors of tiie Tribune, and was captured by the Confederates w hile acting as news paper correspondent during the war. The case excites a great deal of interest among newspaper men, as the result will proba bly settle the question of responsibility tor libelous publications. Trade continues to improve slowly, but the oonvietion that all goods purchased now.must be sold on market tends to limit ttie inimediate wants ot buyers. <\q ere ' lieen no mate £^-e l irloc ot manufactured a feline must come before, the now on this market passes into i tt- *® °f retailers. The cotton market . only department of trade that shows 'cession. The demand is not active this .Leek," and the quotations for middlings have declined to 47|U 40. The receipts at the jiort siuc§ the Ist of January, are 58,596 bales, and since the Ist of September, 542,- 3o»bales. Government securities are ad vancing, particularly the PMOs autfT-SOs whieh.eail for interest on Feb. loth’and; March Ist, respectively. Kailroad shares are depressed. aud4he “low” interest seems to got tire upper hand, in Wall street, tkiid is steady at 12b. Thai bank statement shows a loss of £4,000,«X»0 in their deposits lass week; but the Sub. Treasury gained £9,500,000. Although the bank statement is unfavorable, it seems what they lost did not leave the city. Q. BY TELEGRAPH To THE JOIT.XAI; AXI) MESSENGER NEW YORK MARKET. New York, Feb. 12th.—Cotton declining. Bales at 44<« 45. Gold, 3b!. DANCROFT’S ADDKESB: \\ ASiiiNUTON, Feb. 12.—N0 business do ing in Congress, to-day being 1 the occasion for Bancroft’s address on the memory of Lincoln, which was delivered in the pres ence of a highly distinguished audience. Feats of Negro Soldiers.— The Co lumbus Sun and Times of the 11th gives two incidents which go to show that the negro troops recently sent to that city in tend to keep up the reputation they had previously acquired, in Augusta and else where : One of the first, ladies of this city was go ing to her. home on Front street yesterday afternoon about two o’clock. Xu her hand was held a portnionie, containing some eighty dollars, which she was swinging by the chain. She was met by a negro sol die” to whom she paid no'attention. In passing,the scoundrel seized the portinonie, and ran a short distance, and turning around, gave her a most insulting smile, threw the portnionie upon the ground and walked oft. The lady, thinking the negro I intended to insult her, picked up the book and found the money gone. Sin* instantly raised an alarm for assistance, but before gentlemen from the adjacent houses could reach the spot the negro then disappeared. Friends soon represented the case to the Lieutenant in command. His action'in the premises was good. He promised that he would use every means to detect the soldier thief, and that, if lie could he iden tified, he should be punished. He also stated that every citizen should protect liimself from insult, and his premises from robbery. On Thursday afternoon a lady on tlieup per part of Church street was bitterly cursed by one of these soldiers, when she had not said one word to him. -Another Radical Measure. The House, on Friday, by a vote of .31 to 12, passed the following bill: Sec. 1. All persons born in the United States, and not subject to any foreign pow er or tribal authority, excluding Indians, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States. See. 2. There shall be no discrimination in civil rights or immunities among the inhabitants of any State, or territory of the United States, on account of ras e, color or previous condition of slavery : but the inhabitants, of every race and color, with out regard to any previous condition of slavery, or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall have the to make and enforce contracts, to sue. be parties, and give evi dence, to inherit, purchase, lease, sell, hold and convoy real and personal property, and to full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, ami shail be-subject to like punishment, pains and penalties, and to none other, any !aw, statute, ordinance, regulation or custom, to the contrary not withstanding. Sec. 10, That it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, or such per son as fie may empower for that purpose, to employ such part.of the land or naval forces of the United States, or of the mili tia, as shall be necessary to prevent the violation and eafore the due execution of the act. ifciU In Nashville the money market is very stringent, and, money is worth 2 per cent per month. MARRIED, e On the 6tli instant, at the residence ot the brides brother iR. W. Ellis, Esq.) by Rev. Lewis Solomon, Mr. J. M. E. Uensox, Esq., and Mjs« M.-vttv E. El i.is, ali of Twiggs County, Ga. leblJ-it List of Consignees per 3. W. R. R. February 12, I>o6. Redding & \V., V Powers, Haskell & P., job cher ry, () F Evans, E Price, 1) Ripley, T B Russell, poiv sett & H., H W Raiford, Lewis ffreedaian,; Ander son & Son, Scott, P & Cos., MeCaller A Jones, H J Lunar, Zeilen & Cos., KA Wjlcox, Xewton i l„, A A Bacon, TJ Flint, A J Stewart, R L Juice, E O'Connell, Knott A Howes. New Advertisements. AUCTION SALES THIS DAY, TUESDAY, 13m, AT 10 O'CLOCK, A. M. BY LONGLEY & WALSH. fe')l3-lt OAK WOOD. XA Cords seasoned round oak wood, for sale at oO the Railroad, near the Gas Works. Call lids day and leave vour orders. • Also, a neat house .with four rooms and three fire-places, with out-buildings, and the best of wa ter on the lot, in East Macon, to rent. Call mi T. J. A 1). LANE. febl3-2t ON (MS I GNM.EXT. 600 SACKS COTTON SEED, GROWTH 1865. Just Received and for Sale CHEAP, 13 \V .i. it. Axnr.nsoN & son; fob 13-tit* DANCING ACADEMY. ’ r |UIE subscriber respectfully informs his patrons A that he will open his Daiicin s>- A. <i *a and my, This day, the 13th instant, at Powet's Ilall, over Schreiner's Music Store. TuttioX Ha vs—-Mondays, Thursdays and Sat urdays. • Tuition Hours— From i to fi o’clock, P. M., for Young Ladles and .Masters. Gentlemen's Class from 3 to 1 (To’clock, P. M. Teres:—Sls per 21 lessoft: -3 lessons per week. Ihhl3-lw , A. BON AUDI' Trompt 'payment, THE subscriber having been insured in Home Insurance Company, by E. C. Granniss, Esq., and been burnt out in the late fire ou Cotton Ave nue, has .been promptly paid up by the Agent—for which he tenders him nls thanks. Such Insurance Companies and Agents will do to trust. feb!3-lt* VALENTINE KAHN, New Advertisements. RALSTONSHALL, y MR. MAX STRAKOSH H\S THE HONOR TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE GHION! and SUSIN!, iO OPERA COMPANY, dADAU f? Hi mg U After the<2o3e*i their brP'bou season in X. w Orleans, will give a series of GRAND ITALIAN OPERA, Composing PERFORMERS.’ eorncien'cas Wed nesday, Peb. 21st. * ■ *a. Full Particulars sliortly. febl'tltt EL J. JOHNSON & CO.. NO. 6. COTTON AVENUE. HAVE Just received choice Hfrlootirms of LA DIES' WATCHES, an.l LKOXBTINE and CIIATELAIX CHAINS. CLUSTER an J SINGLE STONE ID IA. ivr OUST 13 RIN-GS, HEAVY PLAIN GOLD RINGS, >*n I :* l ii ) ‘ GOLD BELT BUCKLES. GOLD AND SILVER THIMBLES, Gold Coral and Jet Jewelry. GOLD BOX AND GLASS PINS, SLEEVE HUTTONS AN'I) STUDS, IVORY JEWELRY, assorted, For Morning Toilette, etc. etc., Colt's and Smith <£ Wesson’s Revolving llsto!* and Cartridges. First quality violin and Guitar Strings. Violin Rows, Accordeons, ot<\, etc. To which public attention is resjK.vtfully invited, fehl.l-tt LABOR QUESTION SETTLES, Cultivate Much less Land. USE ONE-THIRD THE LABOR. Raise Three Times the Crop BY MANURING WITH This Has Been Proved, And will be proved again, that it is the most economical mode of Planting in this section. Proved in 18(i() by JACOB FUDGE, Esq., in Hon.-, ton County. This is the Champion Fertilizer. From the Field and Fireside, Jan. Ist, Ist !.; The land selected for the test was a Sandy Pine Land, and would yield perhaps 100 pounds button per Acre. But this year it'rais. -t only hall a crop the whole year—from the first of April u. middle September, was too dry to develop* the best effects of any manure. On one acre NOT MANURED, prdtieed 270 pounds of Cotton. On one acre manured with Joe nmmds CROASDALE’S PHOSPHATE LIME, prbduee.i 621 pounds Cotton. Gain 331 pounds, .paying a net of 7 28. 200 pounds Horst's Phosphate Crime, pro duced 575 putt .ids Cotton —gain 365 pounds. 200 pounds American Guano proudueed I2u pounds— gain lot) pounds. 200 pounds Reese s Phosphate produced 510 pounds—gain 270 pounds, goo pounds Stovall's produced 165 pounds. goo pounds Ashes produced 130 pounds. Cow Manure produced ]os pounds? 2!Klponnds Mope’s Phosphate produced 600 pounds. S. C. EDG WORTH. This Manure has never had an equal. It comes to us with the guarantee of Prof. Booth, of the United States Mint, as inspector oi each barrel, and is warranted standard. WE SHALL SELL IT EXACTLY AT NEW YORK PRiCES, With the freight and expenses added. Do not delay a day, hut secure your crop this year, even if your hands only do half work J. K. ZEILIN <& CO., I'ebl3-2tawfm Agents. GEO. K. CRUMP, WM. A. tVRIGHT Augusta, Ga. Late Richmond, Va. GEO. R CRUJViP& CO., General Commission Merchants, AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN GROCERIES, LIQOUP.S, GRAIN, HAY, BACON, SALT, TOCACCD, CIGARS, FLOUR, 209 BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. . **** purchase and sell on Commission, Cot ton, Tobacco, Produce, and Merchandize of every description. Refers to the Merciqint# and Bank eis of Augusta, Georgia, and Richmond, Va. CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. febl3-lm NOTICE. rassPßirs tion ot five (5) per cent, on the Stockholders of t he ( ombany, payable immediately. Stockholders fobl3 ’»t WM. ' NOTICE. THE Sheriff can be found at his offieeat tlie Court House, or at the Auction and 1831011 of Messrs. J ohnson & jcfiols, near the Post Office, when not out on official business. „ . , J- JOSEPH HODGES, febl3-lt Sheriff. '.'' .4 * ’ * New Advertisements. ■ftti iii ■% ■ - —— !DIR/"sr GOODS AT COST. JOSX. ENGEL, 2d St., Ist Door from Boardman's f . | ti a , MACON, 0A.., 0 IS ottering his FALL and WINTER sloi-k of Goods, AT COST, To make room for :«i extensive lot of SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS, That are to arrive in a lev\ week-. H e has a large as-orment of UAL I COS, f . DELAINS, GINGHAMS, HOMESPUNS, LINENS, EA NT Y GOODS. A, Ladies’ Cloaks and Shaw's, As well as a very large Stock m READY-MADE CLOTHING. M!-h as,’ COATS, PANTS, VESTS, HATS, BOOTS, SHOES, &c., &,*. — ♦ + PISTOLS. A line Assortment of (’oil’s Repeaters. COUNTRY MERCHANTS Arc invited to examine mv at nek l*- fore i*ureha.«ing elsewhere. 1 am mined not to be undersold. feb!3-tf WM. a. whxohr, t,s. virus. *~. a. < at* m r Late Richmond, Va Augusta. Ga. Allan WitIQKT, GIBES & CO., GENFRAL COMMISSION AND Shipping'Merchan ts, AM) DEALEHf} IS (icain, May, Bacon and Guano, No. 7 } Jones Block, SAVANNAH, GA. Will rmvliH.se and soil on commlksinn, i ■ ton, Tobacco, Produce, and Merchandise ot e\en description. Refers to the Merchants and Banket. oi Augusta, Ga., and Richmond, Vu. CONSIGNMENTS SOLICIT ED fchn-iui FOR SALE. 1,000 Bushels COTTGN SEED, rai-•! lust year, HACON, UO\V PEAS, SM'» J<i.\G aud CHEWING TOB-H’t't), FLOUR and SYRUP. COLLIN'S A FOSTER, 3d st., opposite the Express Ot’ice. I'e!il3-3t • LAND FOR SALE Near the City of Macon, Ga. 300 ACRES LAND, l'- miles from th£cit-y of Maoou, known Umj C, 1 aii s y Pi ikmg left acres under cultivation, the li.ilanco, SDila.’lv* Woodland, heavily timbeiv.l, the L. st laud m im- Swamp. ALSO, 1,300 ACRES LA2T D , I miles from the city ,on the S. \\ R. R , known as the ( i%|RGIA, Twigg.s County—Whereas, Rotm V* ''dwell petitions the undersigned for letters ot Artni mint rat ton on the estate of Jonathan l id '"’in’. ate county, deceased : l hose are therefore to cite and admonish all persons concerned to he and appear at my oi nee, Withiu tlie time prescribed hv law, to show cause, it any they have, why said letters should not he granted. l,n ' ll ‘ r ,n . v hand and otHeiul signature tin F ‘. V «»., fcli. WM. O. DANIEL, i'. S. U. let>l3-.y*il and Ex.Orlleio Ordinal» A. T T 33 IST TIOIST ! TOBACCO BUYERS. CIAIJj on me if you wish a bargain. 1 uni ***** Cl Iv< tig a largo supply of (Tie wine Tobacco, va nous grades, and must sell. to-bU-lw. j. x. SEYMOUR. TO THE POOR! “OK .f.rp OTtt till Jf.f.V,” Wanf:n» a Little Land TO LIVE O> ! T will sell 14 acres of fine Lard in the out-ekirts J J. Macon very low. On the place Is a tin# orchad* and a common house, i will sell all together *T >•> lots to suit purchasers, as I have no use lor it. ■ or ' Rons wanting only one or two acres can be teem 1 o dated Apply at the .“Journal am Messenger” jan9-tf