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rtiANl A TATOR POMEROY 8 LITTLE GAVE StMjrebvwbing in this day wty;$ <n»r- TWftMon in high fifteen is noldiug sn«» carnival to ©ontf-mplat-i the re* nW ^Mb by Mr. York of tte Kaures Lotos fc*«T*to the bribing schemes ot S- in ior Pomeroy. That wily politician who tes for years been staffing the pamo re; from Riibeuiim and oommissioi • te this Cma before the Genual »Wy of his State tor re-el.: He «M powsceaed of a waoieeomo coi.fi denea in nis re-election—a confident! Which long cuunnued sace.-a, even though that Micuesj be in villainy, in spires. Bnt to ondt> assurance doubly su> be fain would **»nrn the rotes of a .o« Whose rotes ho considered certain. On* 4)f these was York. York was not a Pom eroy man—not ry any means. Ba B conversation with P oiattvy u> adroitly in icated that he might be in duced that way, provided the 1-riDe «i*s s mple. It was ample—$7,000. Pomeroy was confident, aud would nave l»een elected on the first ballot to--. York been a Poineroy man. But lr wasn’t, aud when his name was called b reapouded by sanding tne $7,000 of bri:-*- monsy he hail revived to the Speaker’s «Wfc, and immediately thereon telling Abe whole story so effectually as to for ever lose to Pomeroy the Kansas Sena tonhip. DU. ANGER. Yesterday morning, Mr. Nicholls, in be Senate, moved to reoonsider somnch •f the previous dav's proceedings, requir ing ex-Treasurer Augier to refund certai i interest on the State funds drawn by him. After considerable discussion by Col. Nicholls, Mr. Simmons and Mr. Lester for reoonsideratioD, and Mr. Brown ■gainst it, the vote was taken and stoo l yeas 23; nays 11, and the motion pre va led. Mr. Nicholls then moved a sus pension of the rules in order to offer the ye -onsidere I motion to the Finance Com mittee, which was carried. It is to be hoped that this, what seems to be a persecution of Dr. Angier, is not prompted by unfriendly motives or to gratify any personal spirit as is suggested by t-ome. We do not pretend to know all the facts connected with the discus ■ion of this subject. We only wish to ■ay that we hopethut justice shall prevail. Ii the law did not require i iterest upon funds deposited in bank by the State Treasurer, and Dr. Angter and his sureties being wholly responsible to the State for these funds, we do not ■ee what right the State has to enquire into the public funds except to know that they are lorthcoming when needed. Dr. Augier has never failed, that we know of, to meet fairly, squarely and promptly, all his obligations as Treasurer of the State. It is to be hoped that this question Will be disposed of with justice to ♦ be State and honorably to Dr. Angier, who has done so much to preserve the State’s funds and save her credit. Let no per sonal considerations enter into the dis- oussion of this subject. smut or rax Georgia press. I’he Macon Tdegr,tph is Opposed to the Ka Klux bill ( coding before the Legis lature, and rays: We <•<' net qn««tlo», la the test, the root!tm of iko-e who favored the bill, tor amon* lte friends are , L ;. t of the verv heat men in the Senate; bnt we do tti ink inch leffielation la a waits of time, to aay the set. if not positively mischievous In it* possible re- au'.M. and therefore uawlae and impolitic. The Bmggold Courier thinks “ that t re ten year* Hindi have elapsed, reproach win attach to ev«ry legislator of the pres ent evasion who votes against an honora- ' j hit) adjustment of tbs bona question; for I ever* mcoerdive y*«*r will demonstrate J :.,oTe aud more the groat impolicy, an | v,< h ns violation of principle thereby in- . ulvwi. ” lhe Chro»id- <£ Sentinel says lhat “the ir.i'iguMit protests of a number of the t aking journals of ibe Bute—city and .ouuixy—reflecting as tuey did the opiu- •ons of the great mass cf the people, have apparently caused a halt in the op erations of tne Bond Ring,” and that “ they seem to have at Lst disc -vered iliat their ‘magnanimous’ oomprunise w til encounter certain defeat when offered in the Legislature, aud to be preparing a retreat, at least f ir tne present.’’ The Chronicle continues: •< They know that one ot th- parties wnoae »n dorsement wae aak»d, »:.d whom they published to the world ax approving the plan, has written that he >« opposed to It; ana they have reason to believe that another one of them win not sign a report in it* lavor. instead of the bond Committee being prepared to endorse it, as stated, the able chairman of that committee announced in his place the other day. If we mistake not, that he abonid oppose any payment of these illegal and fraudulent obliga tions. '' 1 he Columbus Enquirer does Dot re gutd the Apportionment bill, wbien \as passed the House of Representatives of tne Georgia Lu isiaturo us meeting the demands of the occasion, and says that it is a mere make-shift to accommodate three or four new counties with Repre sentatives of their own, without reduc ing tne whole I: umbel of member 1 -. Tut Euquier concludes as follows : W bat the interests of the Slate require, in onr ju gn ent, is the reauction of the number of liep- resen'sttvss at least one-half. This would give a body lully large enough tj represent directly every area of territory and auy number of population for which a special representative is ne. ded. We believ , too. that it would corn ct many evils 01 legislation and secure .. ore independence of local excitements and personal cliques in a manner which we suggested the o her day. Tne Rome Bulletin thinks that— GRUMBLERS AT NBW-PAPBMB Horace Greeley, in spanking of gram blers at newspapers, thus hit* the nail on tae head: It u strange how eloee men reed the papers. We never see anything H at anyliody don’t like, bat we soon hear of i- and every bod v tails ns of it. If, how ever, oDce in a while we happen to say a good thing, we never hear of that; nobody seems to notice that We may pay some man a hundred compliments, and giue him a down pufli. and ho takes it *11 m a tribute to hit greatnaas, and ho never thinks of it; never thinks it' does him any good. But ii we happen to say things this man don’t like, or tombing he imagine is a reflection on bun or his character, see how quick ho flares up and gets m%*l aboat it, All our evils are duiy charged to us, but we never, apparently, get any credit for what good we do,” One of our oxehacgaa, in spvakiag of newspapers, and what to expected of them, very forcibly rauiai ks that “ there is no bii*iu«-*e in all the wide world so subj^et 50 sponging as the art or trade of printing a new»pa?ar. I r rvaily seems to u* ti at pubiio corporations*, societies an-l assooiatii'Bi in gvosrai, have peculiar id«*senout priutera. They think weoDght to print, put! »nd pabnsn ail for noth- hg, tbs' is, ‘free gratis;’ in other words, Uit y xv* m a*»u>nit>li-d if w< ask noli-pins- o"dv for obituary »eea, of thank*., tribut * of re*p»e<, ^tfacasi comma; ic— tions, or anything else that only inier- ,-*& a fwr persona, and not lhe gen eral reader. Tu.-J inink it oo*i» no money to ailverlist*, pnift, si« Ami -!iu» o»ia and Another wdi s. oiig • Thai fotgw. thd '.iii-i busuicas 0.^1^^ tnein known ; ihov ?orK'»' priutsrn’ mk ittaka nint-Nu. li of totir is»a.x.-b- f..'i!unss; they furg^i »k.»: it h*k»e money to pav aompoi'.iWr* —to ouy mk, type, , ud papvr; asni, ls^wy, (hay forget svei* U> toank you for gratuitously pufllug thair vus»Bf»sor serving h* publin. No- only do country eihtuis tviffcir from these inflictions, but they are also oompelled to listen patiently to the dull nonsense soute folio h who wants to intro- uoe Kamsobatkiun baths, agricultural suranoe-pills, or sngar-ooateii dou ie buck-action washboards. We ieel sure nai if we were a provincial editor we would live very cheap, because we should get “Hired for nothi.-g.” A-jnr apportioxmbnt bill. A0 this bhl hat paned the Home., on Thursday, it provide* three repreeenta- tivee each to the counties of Bibb, Butke, 0 latham, Fulton, Houston and Rich mond. Two representative* to the counties of Bartow, Cobb, Clarke, Coweta, Carroll, Decatur, Dougherty, Floyd, Green, Gwinnett, Hancock, Harris, Jackson, Jefferson, Macon, Monroe, Meriwether, Muscogee, Oglethorpe, Newton, Stewart, Sumter, Talbot, Thomas, Troup, Wash ington, Wilkes. One representative each to one hun dred and three counties. Bill takes effect after expiration of terms of members of the present Gen eral Assembly. of EX-STATE TREASURER ANGIER. Dr. Angler's accountability to the State for interest paid him on deposits, having sprung np in the Senate, we deem it bat an act of justice to republish the aotion Ii Georgia whb lia 'it- lor these bonds, she ought to pay them. To say that these bond-holdeis as a gene ral thing, were innocent purchasers, is not the tael bullock andTre.curer Angier were »t war all ihi- time about the bonds, and Clews & Oo. knew as well when they sold the l ends, that ihry were not legally i.sued. as they do to-day. So did every banker and S.ock Speculator North and in Euaope. Georgia hae receiveil no benefit Iron) these bonds, and should not pay one dollar of them. The Northeast t>eorgian is in favor of a State Convention foi a revision of the Constitution. The editor says that our “old time-honored laws aud enactments were obliterated, and in their stead were substituted suca legislation as suited tbe corrupt party then in power.” lhe Georgian grows warm and concludes with these energetic expressions : So we aay, let there, by all m ana, be called a Con stitutional Convention, to aaaemblo at an early day; and let it be composed of the people of Georgia, why have the good of the whole State at heart. It ie the only vent left for us, and one which we should not hesitate a moment to seize npon. Let it meet, dis cuss our laws, and we hope, wipe our every trace left upon onr dear old state by the vandals who held undisturbed sway for so long a time. II. P. rARROW VS. T. HARD EM AN. From an article in the Washington Chronicle, of Friday the 7th inst., i [ marked oopy of whieh was yesterday re of the Legislature, December 8th, 1871, ceived at this office, we see that “Henry on that subject, which, it is to be hoped,. P. Farrow, United States Attorney for Will be permitted to stand as a final set tlement of the question: Whereat, It has not bean oustomary to require the Skate Treasurer to pay into the Treasury interest on deposits of State lands. Be ii thereto e resolved, That the Treas urer of the Stake shall not be held liable for any suoh interest; and, Be it further resolved, That suits now pending against the present Treasurer involving duoh interest nnder the provis ions of aeotion 86, paragraph 8 of Irwin’s Revised Code be discontinued, and that the Attorney General is hereby instruct ed to dismiss said snits. These resolutions were unanimously passed in both Houses, and the people <pt the State seemed to be satisfied with what appeared, and ready was, an act of -jastioe to a man who had done so much to save the public treasury from the plundering clutches of political thieves who, like, birds of evil omen, ; had ho vered over our beloved State to devastate and ruin the public credit of Georgia. It was Dr. Angier who stood between the peoples’ treasury and the plunderers, and saved ns from irreparable bank ruptcy. ■osrBA r or turn constituti omal com- rpmriop. In the Hoasti, yseUsday dmruing, Mr. Pierce meted to rioouide* the nation of the Room Jho pfeviotoiAy ta defeating fee bid pmvuUag. ies a ; Qom»tjj»dbonal Contention, f The motion uni apposed by Mr. B<*e Emotion —- fee vote wm deffeted bj^ays'MT to $6 yeesaad fee bid i* therefore dsfcawu. or * dil At fee enhttW **>k fen pe« tom feat fes mnwiim tat Bolding a &**»* Gonvoattoa fenblAba of need* weighty w«ttarse to ounwnoe every unprejudiced ■bind wife ito nsofesfty. ffeafe OonveL- t.&os expafetfe^ and‘should b, ■v-.uded always fe lonw saabnoluto neo«e arty doaaaus aaypra fe—s. a Georgia, appeared before the Committee on Disabilities in the benate,” on the previous Wednesday, “to show why Hon. Thomas Hardeman, of Georgia, should not be relieved of his disabilities. ” According to the article in question, Farrow makes ont a very poor case cfeainst Ool. Hardeman. None of the statements he makes is he able to verify. He is then simply to use his influence as a Republican, to deprive, as long as pos sible, a Democrat of his rights as a free man. Desperate because his party in Georgia is soorned and kicked and spit npon by every deoent man in the State bereft of all power in the State as it is, and rotting and seething in its own past corruption; committed-to history as the most stupendous combination of political perfidy and official rottenness that ever dit-graoed the governmental annals of any State; we say, that Mr. Farrow, seeing fee utter hopelessness rv| his party in Georgia, seems to be now engaged in the work of endeavoring to alternate his own t-ffioial existence in the Federal service by traducing the reputation of one ut Georgia’s noojt^l sous. We envy neither his political aaaoeia- : tinas or aspirations. We regret to see a tuan.-pTSoaLherp blood, of a noble South ern family, engaged in a work tha* seems to hifiv^.Uo higher object 'in view. MHtf- Greeley's wilgcontinuBan tcpi I id diaonaaioa. The Is vast in totyiont*. ! 1 - » » discussion an to whether ihp “On • Lmx'a Aid Society” of Haw York nboul or will aaoeivn from hiawiteta fee nmoap tequmfeed in fes wfll to ik Protoinen •luxeoa of Haw York tepel fee very idc* of such an aeoaptanoa, sums it tea bean ciocoverad that Mr Gneley’a urpba -NAHa win ha* bnt a pUfenes l«ft tkm A GRATEFUL EDITOR T?jo editor of the Pniladelphia Dispatch has been made the bappy recipient of some interesting reading matter, and he Very properly expresses his tiiai k < thus- We owe onr thanks to Judge Kelly or the latest Patent office report. We iready have sixteen hundred of these in erestirg volumes iuour iitfle library, bnt they bave been read aud re-read so muuy lues that we know ev<r» t^age of t bern by heart. This new volume came oppor tunely aud gratefully on Christmas morn ug, and that night we gathered our lit tle family arouud the tiro mid read it hrmigh to them. The affectmg tale en titled ‘Improvement in Monkey Wrench es,’ seemed 1c touch every beart,uud when we came to the climax of the little story aboui ‘Reversible Pie-boards,’ there was not a dry eye between the front door and the stable. During the reading ot the piteou narrative entitled ‘Gum Washers for Carnage Axles,’ the whole family gave expression to boisterous emotion, and the hired girl was so muen excited that she lost her ori sence of mind, and went around to her mother’s inadvertently with six pounds of 8ugur and a butter-kettle full ot flour, and came home at midnight in toxicated. We cau never sufficiently thank Judge Kelley for tne innocent en joyment thus turuished us. The memory of that happy evening will linger in our minds very muoh longer than that hired girl ever lingers when she lights on a lot of substance which she thinks will suu the constitution of her aged parents.’ i j.'ii a yna • ftfeb Watoon, of fea.Macon Telegraph ludlwri sn •“Odeto.Arttfiary Panok,” bu Hmrls, of fed Savannah News, the credit ud its authorship. Artillary punch Is a very reokieas bavarsge and we caution •uryoang (friends agajinat its ass, unless may pesaeas the uaeal.seif-oonuroL . A young wbfnsn, whose name is .lot givsu, atteriipfed'to' ooramit stueide ip Savannah Wt Weftarettoy. "The old, •yd atqry,** of lbvk. v rt3n and ‘desertion. IW The Marietta Journal says that JotJ Grey ton dangerously cat John 4ikC-S in fee aide with a knife, at Dalles, ask "Wtok. Afe- The Greenes bora Herald bee got a new head, wortn two or three >Qd the editor says he don't intend any • l Ouble or expense in making that paper uaak add readable. How let him buy a »«W Aram for the whole K«pes. TUB LATB COMMODORE MAURY. The New York Herald, concluding a notice of the late Commodore Maury says, “ The lesson of this life of a bold stu dent of nature, mag greatly encourage our original investigators, as ik may also show theneeeisity oi the seientifh) ap plication ofjtheir deductions and ' dis coveries to me practical wants ot man kind. Sir Humphrey Davy, in ocmtriv- ug thelittta safety lamp for fee protec tion of the miner, and Maury, ia fee simple plan ol his ocean aquarra, set ex amples of milming fetfir to>orefcieal knowladga a whieh wifi always ba remem bered by the world, and which all phi losophers may imitate. Thp. yaaable works and monographs of the '£tament American geographer hkvh begn 7 trans- ated into fee languages (of all civilized nations, and still continue high in au thority.*’ ALEXANDER a. STMPBMSS. The following article on the candidate in the Eighth District wa take from the New York Commercial 'Advertiser : “ This little irrepressible human steam engine, with s big braiuj and scarcely anybody to speak of, is oue of the most auoomplished parliamentarians tha world hss ever seen. For tact, alroiWieas, and the art of ‘maccauvbr.ng’ in a deliberative body, no man la fee oounuy is his supe rior. He playa off tb« rules ol dsLvte against an adversary a* Paul Morphy would pi .y his cUMsmen. Id days before the war, we have watched this inspired manikin circumvent an adverse majority of tbs House, until the spectator forgot all about tbs subjeot urder discussion, in sheer admiration of fee cleverness with which Aleck snared his antagonists m fee meshes of parliamentary law. He will be an acquisition to Congress. By ail means, let him go back. ” MW'The enterprising publishing house of Hulk A Williams of Hewport, has no dertaken fes publication in this country of The FertmiyhUg Retiew simultaneously wife its appearance in England, at fee redaoed pace of fitu cents, and fee Aral number prinked under this arrangement has just hash issue a. It is tbs most no- tioeable otgmn of advanced thoaght bow published in Ragland, and Messrs. Holt and Wdbassa desarvs fee thanks of read ing psopls^n this aids of fes Atlantic for fee onterpmae and liberality they nave displayed ia patting it within suy reach of alL gfeT* T ha crowded state ot onr columns to-day, forces tha omiteon of tha usual “Spin! of fee Preas" and otter atitraial THE APPORTIONMENT BILL OP MR. HILL, OF TROUP. Atlanta, February 6, 1873. Editors Sun: There is one subjee 1 of legislation that demands the most earn est thought of our public men. Besides the recuperation of our wasted fortunes, it is the most important that can engage the attention oi the American statesman. It is the protection of State lines—the bulwarks ot Republican freedom—from the terrific assaults of the Federal Gov ernment. It is the prevention of those linee from becoming mere, ciphers. It is the restoration of the self-sustaining bai- anoe oi our Federal system. How can this be done ? By the eleva tion of the States in tbe scales of pow er. How can that be accomplish ed ? Variously. One means—and that is the tendency of this bill —is to foster in the hearts of the people a distinctive love, respect and admiration for the S*ate as an entity. Ideas govern the world. Batter, beat, baru into the brains and hearts of the people the idea that their State is indeed nation. M.»kc the State government an object of pride to its citizens. Ele vate the dignity of its offices. Make them worthy of being sought for prizes of givat distinction. Let tne Gubernatorial chair be scarcely sec. rid to the Presidency. Let membership in the Legislature become as great an honor as a seat iu Congress. Georgia lsconltssed y, to-iay, the most prosperous ana influential Southern State. This is due to her proud adhe rence, iu every exigency, to political truth, and too to the greatness of her sous. She stands alone among her sister Southern States iu her refusal to stultify ht r previ ius noliti at utterances. Am: what other of her sisters has a son whost voice is heard and respected all over the Anglo-Saxon world? But this mil will increase the number of her great sons. There will be an ascousiou in the scale of intellectual progress all along the lines, from the humblest subject up. The man who, under the operations of that law, shall a few years from its passage, stand pre eminent over the great body of our legis labors, will have to be a man indeed—a giant. How prouder than the Roman then will the Georgian be when he says I am a Georgian “ That this is true political philosophy is patent to even the most ordinary ob server of human life, conduct and mo tives. To be one of 75 members will, of oourse, be more desirable than to be one ot 175 in the same State. To be a rep resentative of three thousand constitu ents is more flattering, indeed, and more honorable than to represent only 1,000 To draw $11 per day will certainly be more enticing than $7, and more lucra tive, aud yet under this bill it will cost the State lees than now. Therefore men ot more character aud position will seek these places. Tnere- fore there will be new incentives to the aspirants to qualify themselves. There- lore the character of our legislators will be very much elevated. Therefore wiser legislation will result, and therefore our State will grow greater, and we will firmly fix in tbe minds and hearts of the people the idea that Georgia is ■ nation and State lines not a myth. How.if' this m good political philoso- i*,u _:n *»• i Stops are being token to organize a young men’s debating olnb in Valdoste. The balmy breezes are nightly laden with fee compound extract of guano. Evan J. Harvey, an old citizen of Put nam county, died at his residence on the 30fe ultimo, aged 60 yearn. Mb. Henbt Holland, an aged citizen of Bartow county, died very suddenly one day last week. The spring term of Bartow Superior Court commences on the first Monday in March, and continues two weeks. Rev. Mobgan Callaway, D. D., will preach at Greenesboro to-morrow and every second Sanuay thereafter. Twenty-one negroes “joined the tern peraoce” at Rome, on Tuesday night last, aud fee Commercial is happy. The News says there has been a great deal of si'■knees in "West Point very re cently, resulting in the death of six or seven of onr inhabitants. Thb foundation of an Episcopal Church is being laid in Cartersvillo, and lhe timber for its construction being de livered. The members of theBnai Brith Lodge of Albany are again making preparations for a grand ball, to be given on the 20tn instant. E. A. Soullabd, Savannah, cleared Wednesday for Bremen the ship Specu lator, with a cargo consisting of 2,314 bales upland cotton, valued at $200,000, The Commercial states that the Epis copalians of Rome have determined to enlarge their church building so as to increase ito seating capacity about one- third. The Albany Central City thinks that wood and cabbage rogues should be healed of their desperate disease by rea sonable doses of bullets and bncksuot administered while they are in the act. McBkjde & Co, the t nterprising and liberal wholesale crockery dealers of this city, have presented the Methodist Church, at Cartersville, with a beaut-ful hall lamp. Mr. Richard T. Patten, for thirty >tais a resident of Columbus, died in teat city Wednesday morning, after a wasting and painful illness of several weeks, aged about sixty years. Lust Tuesday a considerable amount of miscellaneous property was sold at salr but. fc< Du nsl estate was put up, but bid iu. There is evidently much iringeney in the money market in that titude. W/JVZ* P/UE Fl»» Cllmau-niBmi D *PoilU-v»._ Product*, *»c. It was my pleasure to spend a d av at the above place, and right well did I* en jov the beautiful balmy air of that moan, tain clime and picturesque scenery whj u greets the sojourner on every side. j t • indeed a lovely spot, and after doing ^ place, and seeing the mineral springs nature’s great fountain of health, tasting their healing waters, I oan re^Oiiy understand why there are bo many ^ cottages being built, so many new ho going up and so much life and active displayed on every hand. Situated is, 1,320 feet above the level of the and amid such surroundings as abor. j* scribed, there is every trducemoni f!', those wishing to escape the opn reefi ° beat of the large cities to make a pii Rr im age here during the summer, and th.. pulity with which Gainesville has grown since the Air Line road was finishwh simply surprising, for now there is dent population of 3,000 aouls, whu-t during the oomiog summer, will no donbi least phy'. 'and if this bill will accomplish or tencTto SfibSmpKsh the desired end, let Georma^fii&Je Empire State of tbe South, lead Off, Ana^rMnflueBoe will be felt in bebalt-df freedom from the Kennebec to the Bio Grande. Other States will fol low in her;footsteps, and soon this meas ure, I believe, will caton the attention of tbe toiling millions in every State, and the flame of freedom will glow like the burning bash on the mount. I say the toiling millions will approve of it; and my assertion is founded iu good reason. There are many elements of popularity iu fes measure. It secures dispatch and economy. It is well known that a.few men Jo the legislation of the S’»*e anyhow, and the balance are chief ly figureheads lending neither exertion nor counsel to the deliberations, and the business could be done more rapidly if they were not there. Now, common sense, and business sense, too, requires the lopping off of fee superfluous, es pecially as a matter ’of economy. The bill does, this and L cr'ealj deiil more. Nobody will-object to rt H ire a few small politicians, and even sdsap -of tham, being aspiring, will not-uV^ecf long It will find immense fawx Ktfe.feu people. But these last artt mweiy , what wii! first ealeh popular, akteuricui—the I main idea as set forth in fets' artiale i* : doubt less the originating btotte uf fee bill, and it is the eonoaptiob^ef fee statesman and a measure ot tne purest Democracy. Build up your waste plaoea, develop your material resources, mate your elate prosperous by every device of hu- .man mil aud statesmanship; but above all elevate fee importance of your State government by wiae legislation, ana in common wife teve ol the Union, foster for fee State the spirit that made Rienzi exclaim: " Why. In that *l<Ur d*y Slit Vm graur than a king ■■ and as sure as efieok follows cause, esto perpetua may wife confidence be written upon our Federal banner. One op the Pboful The last North-Blast Georgian bad a local paragraph headed “Apologey.” Now let the editor apologise for bt* nua. spelling. >t( The Savan emit Advertiser, diwUBDg Uit) t* .LdfLS ion, iu a lengthy editorial o bj«b to tei* oocclutfeh: John D. Lawson ai d Joseph Barton wcie ordained deacons in the Baptis church at Cassviile, on Sabbath last.— Elder E. S. V. Brian t, of Cartersville, has been called to and accepied the pas toraie of this church for another year. Brother Smith, of the Cartersville Standard and Express, complains tnat Cartersville is ignored and passed over unnoticed by all troupes and companies proposing to afford aumusement for the public, and mournfully asks “why is it?” The Rome Commercial states that the shipments over the Rome railroad for ‘anuary, 1873, are as follows : Cotton from Rome 819 bales; from Selma, Rome and Dalton road 1,479 bales; from Ooosw river 149 bales. Car wheels, axles and car work 230,183 lbs; manufactured iron 76 575 ib«; hollow-ware, castings, etc., 10,000 ibs; nails 1,344 kegs; railroad spikes 149 kegs; stoves 289. The Valdosta Times, of the 5th inst., has this paragraph: The colored Justice of the Peace elect by ten votes has been ousted. His opponent’s attorney, we learn, only examined about one-third of the ballots and found twenty-one illegal votes. This was sufficient, and without further contention his colored majesty surrendered his claims. The editor of the Dalton Citism was shown a few days ago by Mr. Eason, of the firm of J. M. Lowry & Co., a sample of cotton grown on the plantation of Oapt. 8. P. Greene, in Dogwood Valley, in Whitfield county, the staple of which was as fine as any we ever saw. It was from a bale weighing 630 lbs., which was produced on a single acre, and sold for 17i cents per pound. The Macon Telegraph has this to say in regard to the health of Maoou : No case ot meningetis, nor of any thing approximating tbe disease whicn prevailed so violently in a few cases a short time since. There are still somi. cases of violent colds, influenza and kindred ailments, some of wnich detain feu patients at home, but nothing serioas is'hktly to result therefrom. As regard, fee small pox, no new caae has been re ported in several days. Those who have had it are all convalescent None of the case* have been of a malignant type, anu needed only a due amount of caution to bear the patients through safely, borne ol them Were never ill enough to be com polled to keep their beds. The editor ot fee Columbus Enquirer puahss his enquires to the bottom. Says he, “Is there any had ? If there is, whai •ortof ■ place is it?” As to fee firs* ’question, we think there ia; bnt k> what sort of s place it ug we think the Colum ns man will have to aee for himself. A mew mail route to to be establish* from Washington, by Baker’s Ferry t Elberton and back, once a week. Leov. Washington Wednesday at 8, a. u.; at rive at Elberton 6, p. m.; leave Elbert. . Thursday at 8, a. m.; arrive at Waahin ton by 6, p. m. Bide have been invite for carrying the mail on fee above rou —proposals to be made before fee 3d d q y>t Maroh next. The above route wii commence on fee 1st of next July, ana oontinte till fee 80fe June, 1875. be temporarily increased to at 4,000. But this is not all. The vast and unde, velopod mineral wealth which lies btm«i beneath the hills and mountains to th* northward will, I trust, in the near fu ture, be utilized and make this, asnutors designed it. a most wonderful place 8 My visit was for the purpose of obt»m. irag information upon the mittrd question, and after an hour spent with the hero of mineral resonrcee in G orgia—Dr. Stephenson—I left the “village among the hills” perfectly be- wildered as to the character and extent of the precious metal, ores and stone* that should make thiB lively region# great point of attraction for capital and settlers. The rain fall for the month of January was 7.70 inches, which is somethin? rather remarkable. The mean tempera ture for the same time was 36.8 degrees. To-day (February 5th) the thermometer indicated at its high st ooint 63 degree Dr. Stephenson will be a valuable man to the State, should the Legislature agree to make a Geographical Burvey. H ow rhe State can aflord to let tins great and most important matter be delayed longer lam at alossti. determine. It should be the first thing to claim the at tention of the General Assembly, for with the great exodus of the laboring population to tue west tht-re is an urgent n ceswty that some steps should be taken to stay this tide. In the development of the tniueraland manufacturing interests, the greut secret lies; and let tne proper legislation be rnaue for a geological survey, and tbe formaiiou of an Immigration Bureau, at d with tbe proper persons iu these posi tions, backeil by liberal appropriations, a result not dreamed of may be spedily attained. Tr is trom this point (twenty- one miles distant) that persous mij reach, by stage or private conveyance, Dahlonegwhere a branch of the State Agricultural College has been established under the immediate charge of Col D. W. Lewis. Alreudy 150 pupils are in the school. Patties who wish to prospect in the mineral fields can find good accommode • ion at the ho els, especially at the Planter’s, where every attention will be paid them, aDd good rooms furnished to families who wish to make a long stty. I saw on the streets a large number of wagons from the mountains, loaded with farm products, which were selling at the following rates: Corn, 75 cents per bushel; fodder, $1 50 per bundre I; eggs, 26 cents per dozen; chickens, 20 to 22 cents apiece. Eubt. Senate Scenes.—The Senate started out iu an argumentative strain yesterday morning. They strained several fiue points—(needed g—rease to oil tbem)- we thonght of tho camel— Not onr handsome Tnnls ®— A* its spalt mid oud de •‘P 1 ’— going tnroagh the eye of the needle. Speaking of Tunis, thongb, had he been in mtvliocks seat, he wovld have grubbed up that K. K. law before the Doctor could have arranged his speotaclee for an old- fashioned anti appropriation talk, or be fore the Senator -from the 39th oould make a commencewtdif of an announce- ment of the sentiment of his judgment; but, al-aa, poor “Chewnis.” After a few Poavey-ish remarks (with which, or whom we agreed) the law became A parcel of that penal code Which furnished hands to build or other internal improvements. This is the construction we put on the law, in spite of Senator Anderson’s re marks. The construction of a Railrori is good business, even Anderson will ad-1 mit. Provided, they are not made (next to the) engines of destruction of the colored western exodions. Several | of the Senators were disappointed & some pet o ils. It’s wrong to be km 1° magistrate any how. Bnt then * c can’i always have things as we wish them, sii chear up, oh 1 ot the “ 20th” and DjO' tor dry the dewdrops on the crystal Jen* >f thy “apeot.” We’ll git home by au- >y (to Miliedgevtlli) than dare Atlanta to knock the chip off yonr k» again. The S Bate adjourned lesvmg McCauiey Wyly singing “We wont V iiome till Sunday morning.” Hir Kon. A. H. Stephens, the dietic- guislied fcx-Vuse President of the Com -irate Status, and at present Editor c» Atiaa a Sun, to a candidate for Gm£ r in oaU btn Georgia district. He * nominated by fee Oonser»*Uve* oi | distnot to till fee vacancy caused by w d-ath of Hon. A. R, Wngbt. Hu. idn to curtain, as he bae noopposi” 1 , I* rat h. a proud day for Georgia. »- •rurjocious ->r Xhe whole Sonih . “•HUe Aleck”-nauiuvs his seat , Uniwv. S**tjaj C< -tigress. We regard li ■ ' *.V i mresentaiive man of o° n j STS iaalfafla aw .p uion —R,tbes<»^ 1,h \ lAsmbenois N, 0 F-h 5,’73. -iEUi in., w oeforr jnetetdn t J I ua opcaker pro. tern, was a poeb .« way Utijjo: fee resold turn of thsL . r item Scaley county, settled fee Q .1 -o4. Ii ',vsy# l a this wise: “Those ml *€ ot tue- resolution of the genii' ^ j ruin Souit-v, will pie»se make it man oy saying t”