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COLUMBUS FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 12. THE WEEKLY SUN For 18G9. A papor Inferior in no respect to any one of the kind in Georgia In addition to the regular political and telegraphic news, and editorial matter, each issue will contain an interesting story. The carefully prepared market and commer cial reports, made up for our Daily, will be inserted in the Weekly : and the agricultural and literary department of the paper will receive due attention. The terms upon which we offer the Weekly are so reasonable, that we feel assured no newspaper, North or South, can afford to fur nish at a le3S cost the same amount of read- matter and general news and intelligence. Tho Weekly Sun has already a large circu lation in the surrounding counties of Georgia and Alabama, and thus offers and affords to advertisers unusual oppot tunitles for reaching the popular eye. In making the appeal, we may be allowed to express the hope, that the time has arrived when it may no longer be said, of the paople of the South, that they give to their Press a meagre and reluctant support. UNUSUAL. OFFER TO CLUBS. By reference to our subscription rates below, it will be seen that we offer the most advanta geous terms to Club subscribers. By the for mation oi Clubs at the various country Post Offices, the Weekly Sun, tilled with matter of the greatest variety and interest, may he obtained at a rate cheaper than any journal of similar size and Importance in the country: Single copies k 2 50 Clubs of 3 copies to same post office, 2 25 each. “ 5 “ “ “ “ 200 “ “ 10 “ “ “ “ lIS “ “ 15 “ “ “ “ ISO “ *#-Ulubs must all commence and end at same time. Address THUS. GILBERT Sl CO., Columbus, Ga. The Messrs. Lo !—The Montgome ry papers notice two Indians on the streets of that city selling blow guns. We presume these were all the property left them by Sheridan and his bummers. Summer. —The Boston Post says “It was rigid party discipline that se cured Sumner’s election. We do not believe lie received a vote from a man who announced his choice from person al preference.” Miscegenation that Pays.—lt ap pears that Harper, the carpet bag mem ber of the Louisiana Legislature, who recently married a “nigger gal” in New Orleans, had an eye to the perquisites. The bride is worth several thousand dollars. Who ark They?—The following named parties have been appointed As sessors for the Fourth District of Geor gia, viz: Cornelius Vanarcdale, George W. Stoddard, Norton J. Chandler, El dorado Knight, Charles Blocker. Two Millions fob Mules. —The statement is made in papers published in Kentucky, that the “Blue Grass” section of that State alone, has sold to the South, this fall and winter, fully $2,000,000 worth of mules. Death of a Prominent Tennessee an.—John R. Brauner, one of tho most prominent and worthy citizens es Ten nessee, and late President of the East Tennessee hihl Virginia Railroad, died at Mossy Creek, ou Monday, of apop lexy. Gen. Battle —The many friends of this distinguished gentleman will be pleased to learn that lie has quit follow ing after Sam Rice, and intends devot ing himself to the honorable and remu tive occupation of tilling the soil. Lunatic Asylum. —This establish ment cost the State for the year ending October, 18«8, $77,00:1 70. During the year the patients aggregated 489, of whom only 81 were full pay, and 19 part pay patients. At present there are 208 male, and 181 female patients being cared for. MIDDLE GeoIIGIaN. We have receiv ed the first number of a handsome semi weekly of the above title, published in Griffin, Ga , by Semen G Burr, Esq. Mr. Burr is an old and exp. rk-nced hand with pen and scissors, and will make a papt r t hat deserves encourage ment and success, all of which wo wish him. Musical Monthlies. Pelvis, the Celebrated musical publishers of New York, has sent us copies of two of his monthlies, “Ihe Parlor Companion” and the “Glee lLvo." They are filled with the latest and choicest selections of music, vocal ami m-trumeutal, and arc well worth the subscription price— three dollars per annum. IMPROVKMKNT IN FOIICIKG THE CIIL tivation of Cotton and other Plants —This is the title of a little pamphlet neatly illustrated, giving in detail the plan of Phillip Poullaiu, Esq , of Greensboro, Georgia, for raising a large amount of cotton on a very small area of land. We arc indebted to the author for a copy, ami would suggest to our planting friends to give it an examination. “Sharp and Quick.”— Hulbert has permitted the Stale to have twenty five thousand dollars of the earnings of the State Road for llio month of January. This is about ony third oi what the road should earn aud pay monthly; but we are truly grateful that Hulbert allows the State so much, even though Bullock should gobble il up, or the Legislature squander it in speeches at nine dollars a day. ErcßNTKie Typos. An exchange says : A printer iu Pawtucket,Rhode I-luiid, spends all his spare earnings tu giving turkey dinners to Nmv England jails. We have one iu our office who lias kept himself poor by giving Sunday School picnics, aud buying candies and song books for the Sunday School chil dren. Sam Rice. —Sam Rice, ot Moutgom ery, has written a very long letter. Wc have read it, and after this cout'essiou would not dare to inflict it upon the readers of the Sun It is a very wordy and lame attempt to get out of the nig ger party, into which he jumped some time since. He invites the special at tention of the Montgomery Mail aud Advertiser, and Mobile Register, and will doubtless be very promptly if not pleasurably gratified. Repudiation. We have received from the author, Isaac Butts, Esq., late editor of the Rochester Daily’ Union & American, a pamphet giving brief rea sons in favor of Repudiation, as drawn from the history of all countries in re lation to the war debts. We of the South have been put through the repu diation process by military force, but Mr. Butts’ phamptet will doubtless find many readers and friends among the Northern people, who are preparing to throw off the heavy load Radicalism has laid on their shoulders. “Beaulah” Eclipsed. —Dora d’ls tria, the Wallachian Princess, is be lieved to be the most learned woman of our times. She reads and speaks fifteen languages, writes beautiful novels and profound essays, has a thorough knowl edge of the most intricate positions of the Oriental question, is a brilliant con. versationalist, and, at the same time, very handsome and graceful. African M. E Conference, Bishop Brown, Presiding—Fourth Day Divine service by ltev Uobt. Stri,k land. Bishop Brown in the Chair. ltd! called and minutes read an 1 approv.-.l The Conference proceed with th. 11 h question, “ Who have been elected aud ordained Deacons aud Eiders thia year?” The following are tire names of those received on trial as iiim-rarft ministers: Richard Mahone, SHU 'bi sou, Lewis Davis, Henry Hardy, Wes ley Mapp, Henry Redd, L v) lick 11. Williams, Latry Thouia:-, DauiJ M Gehee, Alfred Dunwoo.iy, Washing’*”! Benjamin, Jeremiah Brown. The hymn - ‘JeoUs, the name Rigb over all,” was sung Thu Bishop here gave stii.it charge and advice to those received on tiial, showing them what they are aboui i • do, what they should do, and wbui they must do, to be usilul to their church, aud good citizens. Here the hymn “A charge to keep I have” was sung. After which sixteen ministers wi re taken into full membership in the Con fereuce. Adjourned to II P. M, AFTERNOON SESSION. Bishop Brown in the Chair. Minutes read aud approved. On motion the following persons were ordered before a committee on exauii nation for Deacon’s orders: G W Wil iianis, Samuel Ross, Geo Reed, Jeretni ah Bowen, S II Robertson, Daniel Brown, Martin Johnson, Jesse Dinkins, Larkin Mathis, Thos 8 Smith, Henry Redd, Elijah Penamau, Washington Benjamin, Thomas Dawson, Wesley Mapp, Lacy Beck, Daniel McGee, Jas i Jackson, Lewis Davis, Green York. On motion Conference adjourned to 9 a. m. to day. The New Route. — The steamer Barnett, of the Barnett Line, is now loading at the wharf with cotton tor New York via Feruaudina. The agent of the Line informs us he was offered more cotton than the boat could carry. The Barnett makes the initiatory trip on the new route, and is in charge of the veteran commander, Captain Dan Fry. Her other officers are well known and trusty men. The Shamrock, re cently purchased by this line, will be running next week. These boats cou nectat Apalachicola with the steamships Beaufort, Lavacca, Florida, Alliance and Dudley Buck, making a close con nection for Cedar Keys and New Or leans. Success to the new line. .— « « Atlanta in Trouble. —The Ailauta Constitution is greatly exercised over a petition of a Mrs Mitchell, to the Georgia Legislature, asking that body to give her the five acres of land in thr, city, known as the Rail Road Park. In the course of a long article it says : Mrs. Mitchell has already employed able counsel and commenced su.i in the Courts fora quarte" of a million more on the other side of the Railroad. If “natural justice aud equity” be on her side, she and hers will soon be rolling In affluence. The General Assembly of Georgia will have assumed an important aud doubtful duty, when il undertakes to remove from the Judiciary llie settle meut of casts which by law properly belong to that tribunal. Let the case proceed in court. If a judicial tribunal can settle a question of prerogative for the Legis lature, why cannot the Legislature settle the claim of Mrs. Mitchell ? Sumneu Pipes, but his People will not Dance. Among the items of Washington news wo find the following: Ex-President Roberts, of Liberia, was one of the guests at Senator Sumner’s dinner table last Thursday evening, ihe first instance in which a colored man j has been invited in Washington to dine 1 with a senator. Roberts is a negro, a respectable and i nte lligt nl one, and Sumner took his dose of nigger equality in a diluted form. But it sc.ms Unit the people of New England will not swallow Ihe dose, even in a diluted form. The Cincinnati ! Commercial gives the following incident which is highly characteristic of the people among whom it occurred : A daik skinned youth in N irihfiel I, Vermont, son of a French father and a Creole mother, handsome, intelligent and estimable, was recently turned out of a dancing school in that town on ac count ot Lis color. The young men id the class voted nineteen to twelve in favor ot the outrage, while the young women sensibly voted nineteen to one against it, but the latter voice was very consistently rejected. The Twin Radical Republics —lt will he remember, and that the thing called a Republican Government, which is run in Mexico by Juarez, was pul up by the Radical patty in this country. In a late Havana dispatch we find the following item in regard to the Mexican Congress: Ailitti. ttliy occurred in the Mexican Congress on the loth nil., caused by a misunderstanding ot parliamentary rules. The Speaker lelt the chair and retired from the chamber. He was joined L) 17 members, and the House was left without, a quorum The affair was subsequently arranged, and the se ceding members returned the next day to their seats. The fellow concern in Washington has just had a scene more disgraceful still. We would like to know if the Mexican Radicals arc copying after tlitir American brethren, or vice versa? The Generous Radicals. —The Ma con Journal and Messenger has a spe eial dispatch Horn Washington which tells the tale of Radical liberality to the disfranchised whiles of Georgia. Hero is tl.e record ot the asiotiuding political genersoily : The report ot the House Committee on Reconstruction gives relief to the following persons from Georgia : Noah L Cloud, of Decatur* county Foster Blodgett, and W. C Dillon, of Richmond county. Nathan Land, of Bartow county. H. II Pettis, of Fulton couniy. G H Lester, of Oglethorpe county VV. w. Paine, of Chatham county. Blodgett is well known as a peijurer and scoundrel generally. Dilhm is one o! his pimps who umrdeied a iiihii in Augusta some lime since. Paine, is a practicing Attorney in Savannah. The balance we never heard of before. If Radicalism does not make greater st rides than this, it will die out in the North before it obtains a foothold iu the South. Death of the Oldest Mason. —The Erie Dispatch states that Joseph Met calf, who died in that city on Wednes day last, at the age of ninety-four, was the oldest Mason in the United Stutes. It says : Mr. Metcalf was born in Massachu setts, but early in life removed to Ver mont, in which State the prime of his life was spent —removing to this city about twenty vears ago. His mind was clear and bright to the last, and his re collection of the past was exceedingly vivid. His reminiscences extended back to the days of Shaw’s rebellion, in 1794, and ha *. all the ire* hue as •» nar ralive of yestertlay. His venerable fig ure will be missed from the meetings of the sachems of Masonry, where, as among the extensive circle of his ac quaintances, he was held iu the highest esteem. _ Real Estate Sale.— On yesterday C. 8. Harrison & Cos. sold at auction a portion of lot 184, oppposite the Perry House, containing 20 feet front and run. ning back 100 feet 10 inches for $620. On the premises is an eight room house. For the Sun and Times. LABOR AND LA BORERS*. This stems tube the gieat want oi the country. We hear from every sec tion almost ol tin; South Ihe complaint coming up of a starchy oi laborers ior the planta’i ms. We at fiist thought i here night piobubly be a mistake in regard u> it; that laborers were as abun dant ash, retoibre, and to a great ex lent this must be true; but neverthe less it is also true, that available planta ti -u laboi is glowing scarcer, aud still m >re so yearly. We know of acer l.uuty that very many planters in every direction hav- not this year been able io obtain their usual supply ot hands, ..ad very fe w have an extra number. — Willi these facts before us, we arecom p» lied to letl aud to admit that laborers are grow ing scarcer aud becoming more j difficult to obtain. The question natu rally aiises, where basil gone to? aud eeboaoswirs where. It is difficult to determine where it has gone to. We iliiuk that while many colored persons have died for want of food, clothing, cleanliness, &c., quite a large number liaviug made some money this past year, are setting up for themselves, by u iiting or buy ing land, others are en deavoring to live easier by trading, ex pressing, draying, &u., while quite a number are using their money in en. (leaving to obtain an education. Again many have gone to iht-ir old homes in North and South Oaroiinas, Virginia, Maryland, Ac., and quite a large num ber are finding their way to the old free States. From all these causes aud oth ers that are operating and must continue lo operate with increased force lor years to come, and without emigration of laborers to take their places, the scarcity must necessarily continue, lo increase, even at the North and west, where on account of their kind of agri- culture, machinery, &c., it needs much less labor than our system of culture , does. Yet, even there, labor is scarce aud high, even with the yearly influx ■ by emigration from abroad, Tins be- j ing an admitted fact, the great question arises what can be done to remedy this evil, which is beginning to be so keen ly felt in many sections of our country? We answer: there are remedies which if resorted to by our people, will, to a very large extent, relieve us. The great remedy presented by our leading agriculturalists is emigration. We arc free to admit, that to a considerable ex tent, this will help us, but not to the ex tent they anticipated. Immigration will certainly help to develope the re sources of the State, to build up the w aste places of our section, but in a dis, It rent way from what many of us antic ipate. We expect these emigrants to come here and hire themselves to us like the negro, and labor in the same way, and for about the same pay. In tliis way we will be disappointed. The great majority of emigrants, who are worth having, who come amongst us, will want to buy a home at once, if pos ■ ilile, or very soon after their arrival, au.l cultivate their own laud, notours, li is true, in a large number of emi grants there will be some, and perhaps many, that cannot buy land, aud will have to hire out to labor; but many of them will be unreliable, and yet re quire more than we can afford to pay. The negro for our climate, and system of cultivation, is the best we can possi ; lily get, or ever will get; but as that labor is lessening we must, of course, introduce other into our section, con3e qucntly we must enci urage emigration, aud aid and assist il m every possible way. But there are other remedies, in some respects more important to us, a., pen pie, than emigrating. The iirst, per haps, in importance is to learn lo woik aud help ourselves. Everybody must go to woik; eveu our youngest sons 14 a very early age must be taught to work ami learn to depend on their own ef forts to a considerable extent. Our daughters, too, must work in their sphere, and ail learn to labor, until it shall become both honorable and sash ionable. But another and very important rein edy is, to cultivate less land and culti vale it well; not labor to sec how many acres of corn or cotton we can put iu, but rather how much cotton and corn you can make to the acre. This we must do, and the sooner we realize the truth of it, and act upon it, the better. Our farmers seem to think that unless they can cultivate from 200 to 500 acres they cannot make a living; while many, very many, who eveu cultivate more land than this, do not eveu make a liv ing, but frequently break at it. What a great error and even delusion we are laboring under in regard to this matter. Are we not aware of the fact that two thirds of the agriculturalists in France support their families on an average of only 8J acres of land, and thousands of farmers North support well and make money on from 5 to 20 acres of land. But, say you, we cannot do that in this country, because our lauds are too poor and our climate is not suited to heavy culture. Your lands are too poor. Now this is the point which I am laboring to reach: Your land is too poor. I agree with you. Your land is too poor, and though some of you have what you call rich land, and may pro duce 20 or 80 bushels of corn or a bag of cotton to the acre, eveu this I con sider too poor. You should labor to make every acre of your rich land pro duce 100 bushels of corn, instead of 20 or 80, and 2 or 3 bags of cotton instead of one bag. This'is what you should labor for, and this can be accomplished and has been already. Then labor will not be so scarce and difficult to obta'n, for instead of 10, 20 or 30 hands, 1,2, 5 or 10 will be all sufficient, not only to cultivate all the land necessary to sup port on, but to make money at the ope ration after paying your hands well. This, then, is the great and present remedy. But you still say, our land is too poor. Well, then, I reply, enrich it; make and save all the manures you can, and then buy all you can or need. Fertilizers are now abundant at your i very doors and at reasonable rates. Leading agriculturalists who have tested the different kinds of fertilizers, are pro pared to decide as to which is the best, and may be relied upon. Mr. Dickson, of Hancock county, whom vve have all heard of, says the Peruvian Guano, Flour of Bones aud Plaster, are reliable beyond all doubt. Mr. Chas. A. Pea body, of our own section, and whom we all know, says the Peruvian or Pa cific Guano are the most reliable of all. I'lmt obtained of the authorized agents, j guaranteed pure, are certainly reliable, others speak favorably of Mapes’, Rhodes’ and others. But these men we know and can depend safely on their judgments in this matter. These fertil izers are at hand, and warranted pure and at as low a price as any one can ; obtain them at, even from first hands, with expenses added. Then we say again make all the manure you can aud buy all you can or need. Don’t culti vate poor land, but make it rich, very rich, the richer the better. Well, yon say, that advice all seenis good, but will it result well? I answer, it will, if you cultivate your laud thoroughly it will pay you well and save much labor. The saving in labor, stock and feed will more than pay for all your manures. We propose now to give you sure evi dence to prove the 1 -'1 remits from this system > •• T ' •'. A tract ol live a-;. .1 land in Bit! lock county, was prepared, lids year, by thorough plowing to the depth of fifteen inches, enriched by the application of 2,500 pounds—soo pounds to the acre— of mixture ofPeruvian guano and phos phates. The hill system of planting was adopted, and the yield was fifteen bales of clean beautiful cotton, and fine quality, each hale weighing 500 pounds. —Era, Dec. 10, 1868, Bullock Cos., Ga. Large Corn Crop. —Mr. E. B. Grif fin, who resides near Pine Grove, in this county, and several neighbors have been engaged during the season iu a worthy rivalry in corn raising. Mr. G. experimented with only one acre of good swamp laud. This was heavily manured with cotton seed, thoroughly cultivated, and first planted in double rows eight feet apart. In June a second planting was made in the water furrow between the other rows.— The measured yield of this acre is one hundred bushels fine corn. A neighbor, from eight acres of land, similarly planted and cultivated, made sight hundred and sixty-four bushels. Another neighbor, with same cultiva tion but a single planting, gathered an average of eighty bushels prr acre.— Union Springs Times , Dec 1808. From Southern Cultivator. My laud is v.hat might be called Pine Bant us, the older portion, with ordina ry i-uoure, would not bring three hun do S pounds of seed cotton lo the acre. 1 experimented on a field o ten acres, planted Dicksau’s seed—applied 400 lbs. , Soluble Pacific Gu m,), the growth and trailing of the crop supuh, nothing equal lo ever been seen in this sec l ion oi Ihe counlry, and if the worms hao not swepl ail llie lop Mild end bolls, il would have made two bales to the acre. As bad as il has rained out, it has in ole a bale to Ibe acre To a half acre, near my dwelling, that I had -owpened las* winter, I applied 200 hs of Pacific Guano in t In-- di ill and notwithstanding excessive wet weath er, in August and I'm wmms, which took ail the late crop, I have picked over 2 00 lbs seed eoiton from the half acre I hold 1 hat no mat; can afford to plant cotton without Guano Charles A Peabody, Near Columbus, Ga. Mu Dickson, Hanem k County, Ga. The following description ol a 20 acre lot planted 18G8 in cotton : The Land is tolerable level, and for pine land, is pretty stiff, has been in cultivation 00 or 70 years ; planted in colton two last years. Applied 400 lbs. guauo and bone dust, 200 lbs. salt aud plaster to each acre. The worms cat off the foliage and young bolls, but not withstanding the injury by drought and ravages by the worm, the yield is fully from 1 lo 2 bales per acre. Here, then, is evidence of the truth of my operations. Now, then, let us ali go to work and make the land we culti vate rich. Don’t be afraid that you cannot make corn enough on 5, 10, 20, , or 40 acres, or cotton enough on 10, 20, or 40 acres. Make your land bring from S 30 to 100 bushels corn, and from one to j two bags cotton, and you’will make al! the corn you need, and as much cotton as you ought to make. It ifrtrue it will | cost you something considerable for | manure, but it will certainly not cost I you half as much as labor and stock i will, lo raise the same quantity on poor ■ laud. But, you say, lam not able to ! buy manure ; hut you are able to buy ! stock, and hire hands, and support them. Hire only half the number of hands, buy only or keep half the amount of stock, aud put part of that amount in fertilizers, and you will soon have money to buy this food ior your land and crops, which is so essential to keep it up and to enrich you. Plant less land, make it rich, cultivate it well, and it will pay you for your labor and expenditure. W. Words Bravely Spoken. Some scalawags smarting under the editorial lash wielded by Col. Clay, edi tor of the Huntsville Democrat, have threatened to murder hint. The Colo nel who has survived the.battles of two wars, and has faced brave men iu lion orable conflict,,pays his respects to the miscreants in the article below, aud furnishes a fair opening for a scalawag funeral or foot-race. He says: We have had some intimations, re cently, of a purpose to hold us person ally responsible for .lie manner in which we have held up to the public scorn aud indignation, the acts ol some of the scalawags, who have associated themselves with the carpet baggers and negroes, for liie oppression of the true people of the South. In our long edilo rial career, we have not been accustom ed to speak or write, with baled breath or iu doubtful phrase respecting matters that concern the public interest. We are almost too old to begin to do so now. We regard the freedom of the Press a sacred right, guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and the public sentiment of the cm airy. It is a right to be exorcised with discretion and a due regard to the public welfare, us well as the rights ol individual citizens. We regard the public welfare as imperiled, whenever, the rights of individuals are trespassed upon,’and shall never, knowingly, be guilty of such trespass. Nevertheless, we regard the public welfare paramount to ail individual claims of exemption irom the criticism of the Press. Hence, we shall continue to indulge our usual freedom iu the discussion of men aud measures, whenever we consider the public welfare demands it, without spec ial reference to the wishes of the par ties involved or their adherents. We know that our position as Editor involves grave duties and responsibili ties. God being our helper, we intend to discharge these duties, according to our own conscientious conception of them, without fear, favor or affection, reward or the hope thereof; nor do we intend to shirk any of the respousibili ties properly belonging to our position. Our purpose is to march “upward and onward and true to the line” of duty to our God, our country, our family, our selves, aud not to be swerved from that lino by political prescription, the de mands of despotic power, or individual efforts to intimidate us. We shall continue to cry aloud aud spare not, against all social, moral and political evils aud evil-doers, especially the carpet baggers and scallawaggers, who have shown a contemptuous dis regard of the natural and constitutional rights ol the true people of the South, and, with the help of the bayonet, and by negro votes and Congressional legis lation, have usurped the Government of our State and planted themselves in power and place on the ruins of popu lar liberty. If need be, we had as well fall, a martyr to principle and the rights and liberties of our people on our edito rial tripod as on the field of battle. We intend, therefore, to vindicate both the freedom of the Press and the freedom of our countrymen, despite all attempts at duress, come from what quarter they may. _ p The Quo Warranto.- We learn from the Savannah News that the writ of quo 'warranto, granted by Judge Schley against White, the Clerk of the Superior Court of Chatham.county, was served on him on Monday last. It reads as follows : Chatham County Superior Court, ) January Term, 18C9. J In Re. —The application of William J. Clements for leave to file Quo War ranto vs. Richard W. White. In tlie above matter it is ordered that the petition be granted, and that the Solicitor General of the Eastern District of Georgia do file an information in the nature of quo warranto, at the relation of William J. Clements, calling on the said Richard W. White, acting as Clerk of the Superior Court of Chatham coun ty, who is alleged to be a person of color, having in his veins one-eighth or more ot African or negro blood, to show’, twenty days after the service on him of a copy of said quo warranto, before the Judge c f said Superior Court, at the Court House at Savannah, at 10 o’clock, a. m., by what warrant, or right, or law, lie holds said office aud discharges its duties, and recives the emoluments thereof. Order granted February 4tlr 1869. The writ was filed Monday, aud is returnable on the las day of the present month. A Georgia Nimrod.— The Milledge ville Recorder says : Mr J.'R Andrews, of Jones county. Oil last Saturday night, while out lux hunting, ha i the good hick to scare up rather peculiar game for ibis region, iu the shape of a real genuine Catamount, and after a run of two hours and a half, caught it, having five hounds. After a hard fight, the dogs killed it. The Cata mount measured four feet seven inches in length, and twenty two and a half inches high. We have one of the paws in our possession, and it is rather an ugly looking lor fighting, the foot being mar two inches broad, aud the claws three-quarters of an inch in length. On the 1881 ult , he jumped three red foxes, and al i-r three hours aud a half tun, caught all three. The Right Sort of Welcome The New Orleans Bulletin welcomes Sherman to that city synoptically, thus: Gen. Sherman, you are a successful sol dier, and a real military genius, but youi- name and fa mo are covered all over with acts of diabolical cruelty and outrage, which ought never to bo forgot ten or forgiven. TELEGRAPHIC. Fr»ui WiolilniiUiii. Washington, Feb. 10 —Application was made to the Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus or the Tortugas prisoners. The Court look no action. House last night considering revenue, adopted amendments giving Commis siouers authority to exempt distillers of apple, peach and grape brandy from the provisions of the act relating to the manufacture of spirits at discretion, but not to reduce the tax; also, placing compounded <4 spirits on a footing with refiners. Gov. Holden, of North Carolina, in behalf of himself aud other loyalists, telegraphs llie North Carolina Senators to oppose uuy reduction of the army which will reduce the Federal garrisons in North Carolina. Congress did nothing until 1 o’clock, when the Senate came to the House and the couo\ of the electorial vote pro gresses. The Capitol is densely pack ed. Ou au amendment yesterday to the suffrage coßStituional amendment, eu franchising participants in rebellion, the Senators voting nyo were Bayard, Buckale w, Davi.-; Dixon, Doolittle, Ferry, Fowler, Grumes, Ilirris, Hend ricks, MoCreery, Norton, Patterson of Teun.; U.misey, Rice, Robetrsont, Saw yer, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Vickers, aud Wilson. Loiigstreet aud Frank Blair are here. Grant has returned. A company of U. S. infantry, from I N. Y., passed through here for Wil mington, N. C. At 1 o’clock the Senators arm in arm j came to the House. Wade took the Chair; Colfax seated near him. Senator i Conkling and Representatives Wilson, of lowa, and Pruyu acting tellers. — ! Pruyu read the Democratic votes, aud j Conkling aud Wilson alternated reading 1 Republican. Ail went smoothly until j Louisiana was reached, when Muffins, j of Teun., objected, saying no valid election was held. Joint session aud separated. House voted 20 to 03 to | count Louisiana. Senate, after a long struggle to draw in extraneous matter, voted to count Louisiana. Houses agaiu met aud proceeded with the count until Georgia was reached, when Butter objected, because the Georgia College had not voted ou the proper day, aud for other reasons. Much confusion en sued, which Wade ended by ordering the Senate to its own chamber. House then voted 150 to 41 that Georgia not be counted. Senate, alter a most perplex ing aud laughable struggle, declared in fact concurrent resolution concerning Georgia’s objection in joint session out of order. Houses again met in session in absolute conflict. Wade ordered Georgia to be read as by concurrent res oluiiou. Butler objected. Wade would bear no objection Butler appealed from Wade’s decision. Wade would allow no appeal and ordered the cohnt to proceed. Butler moved the Senate have permission to retire. Not in or der. Butler insisted they should con trol thefr own hall. Amid most intense excitement. Wade ordered the count to proceed. Conkling commenced read ing the result but his voice was drown ed by cries of “order.” Noise became deafening, when Speaker Colfax sprang to his desk, proclaiming the Yice Presi dent must be obeyed in joint session, aud ordered the Sergeant at arms to ar rest disorderly persons. Colfax was ordering and appealing probably two minutes, during which time the Sergeant at arms lmd distributed his men well through the House before partial order was restored, when the reading of the result and the proclamation followed, and the Houses separated. Senate immediately adjourned. In the House Butler introduced a res olution that Wade’s aud the Senate’s action was a gross infraction of the rights of the House, which resolution was pending when House adjourned. Washington, Feb. 11.—A young woman named Mary O’Neil was arrest ! ed at the White House, who said she was sent by the guard to assassinate j Mr. Johnson. A double barreled pistol, j not loaded, was found on her person, j She is evidently crazy. House—Butler’s resolution against the I action of the Senate is progressing, j Senate—A joint resolution was re j ported consenting to a bridge between | Cincinnati and Newport, not less than 400 feet span. The Judiciary Committee have asked to be discharged from the further con sideration of the practicability of re straining Judge Underwood, of Virgin ia, from nullifying the action of the Virginia Courts. The Reconstruction Committee con sidering the majority report, will oppose admission as urged by Eggleston’s par ty. There will be a minority report. The Election Committee have con sidered the Louisiana election contest. They will report Simon Jones not elect ed, and neither Hunt nor Menard, col ored, entitled, because their election was invalidated by intimidation and fraud. Gov. Smith, of Ala., departed hornc- wards. Grant and Colfax will be officially in formed of their election Saturday. Mudd’s pardon will reach him middle of next week. Customs for the week ending 6th inst. $3,000,000. Reconstruction Committee’s vote on admission of Mississippi: ayes, Bing ham, Norris, Fayne; noes, Boutwell, Brooks, Beck, Brennan, Farnesworth. It is confidently asserted the Senate Judiciary Committee will report to morrow on Virginia. Senate—Bill for bridge between New Y'ork and Brooklyn tabled. Wilson reported a bill amending the army rules and regulations. Davis presented the following joint resolution: That the noise and disor derly conduct of Benj. F. Butler aud other members of the House during the counting of the votes for President and Vice President, whereby said business was disturbed and obstructed, is disrep utable to the sail! Benj. F. Butler and other representatives acting with him, aud a wrong and insult to the people of the United States. The resolution went over under the rules. A bill providing for the execution of judgments iu capital cases, passed. Resolution for preventing medical history of the rebellion, recommitted. Senate resumed consideration of the currency lull. Conkling felt satisfied the country must wait for an extrication from its financial difficulties until the advent of the new Secretary of the Treasury. Several long speeches. The bill allowing machinery for re pair imported free of duty, passed. The House devoted all day to Butler’s resolution censuring Wade, «an 1 iu the Senate Bingham denounced Butler’s conduct fiercely. The House meets to night to consid er naval pensions, and resumes Butler’s resolution in the morning. Velocipede Time. —The best veloci pede time made in France, so far, is a mile and a half in four minutes and fifty seconds. SCHMTZERL’S PHILOSOPEDE. A NSW BALLAD, BY HANS BREITMAN. “Hans BreUman”has caught the velocipedci fever. His enthusiasm is tempered somewhat, however, by the fact that a friend of his named SchniUerl once made a wonderful velocipede which killed the inventor, whoso melancholy death is sot forth in the following ballad: Herr Schnitzerl make a philosopede, Von of de newest kind; It vent rnitout a vkeel in front, And hadn’t none pehind. Von vheel vas in de mittel, dough, And it vent as sure as ecks. For he sthraddled on de axel-dreo Mit der vheel petween his looks, Und ven he vant to sthart id off He paddled mit his veet, Und soon he cot to go so vast Dat avery dings he peat. He run her out on Hroader slitreed, He shkeeted like der vind, Hei! how he bassed de vancy chaps, Und lei dem all pehind! De vcllsrs mit de trotting nags Pooled oop to see him bass; De Deutschers all erstannished saidt: “ Potztausend! H’as is? das?” Hoot vaster shtill der Schnitzerl flowed On— init a ghastly smile; He tidn’t toouch de dirt, py shings! Not voncein half a mile. Oh, vot ish all ills early pliss! Oh, vot ish man’s soocksess? Oh, vot ish various kinds ol dings'! Und vot ish habbiness! Ye find a pank rode in in deshtreedt, Next dings der pankish preak; Ve falls, und knocks our outsides in, Ven ve a ten-shtrike make. Fo vas it mit der Schnitzerlein i < In his philosopede, His feet both shlipped outsidewanl shoost Ven at his exdra speed, lie letted oopon der vheel, ot coorse; De vlioel liko blitzen flew; Und Schnitzerl he vas sclmitz In vaet For id shlislied him good in two. I Und as for his philosopede, ! Id cot so shkared, men say, Id pounded onward till it vent Ganz teufelwards ai'ay. | Hoot vhcre ish now der Schnitzerl s soul! Vhere dos his shbirit pidet In Himtuel, troo do endless plue, It takes a medeor riel* Special to the Journal and Messenger. GEORGIA EE GISLA T tilt E. Wednesday, Feb. 10, 1801). SENATE. Air. Wellborn, who had the flo.ir j > » terday at the hour of adjournment, re sumed his argument in opposition lo the House resolution to ruler the ques tion of negro eligibility to office lo the Supreme Court. He closed by calling the previous question, which was not sustained. Mr. Morrell said he thought the reso lution could be amended so as to har monize all parties. As for liiuiselt he occupied moderate ground. His amend meat proposed to bind both Houses to abide the decision of the Court, and to request their constituents to abide it; to carry out the views of Congress as to the construction of the 4'li Article and the Reconstruction Aets; to recog nize the equal rights of citizens irre spective of race, color or political opin ion. After remarks by Mr. Holcombe, the question was put, and the motion to re consider was lost, yeas 15, nays 18. Air. Adkins took the floor in favor of reconsidering his resolution to reseat the expelled negro Senators immediate ly. Being reconsidered, the resolution was laid on the table. The Senate passed the general jury bill of the House. lIOUSE. Mr. Crawford moved to reconsider the bill lost yesterday, to allow the col lection of any rate of interest. Lost. On motion, Mr. Tumliu’s hill lost yesterday, to reduce the tax on circuses was reconsidered. The bill was amend ed so as to tax them one hundred dol lars in towns having ten thousand in habitants, fifty dollars in those having five thousand, and twenty five dollars elsewhere. The bill as amended was passed. The House spent much time in dis cussing the Land Immigration Bureau bill. Mr. Ellis introduced a bill to provide for building anew State House. Mr. Salter introduced a bill to confer the right of suffrage on women general ly. It is said that Parrott refuses or de clines to reassemble the Constitutional Convention. The Republicans held a caucus yester day, and will hold another to-morrow, to discuss the propriety of the pro tern. President, Dunning, reassembling the Convention. The Governor vetoed the bill to pay Bird and Knolbe for artificial limbs furnished maimed soldiers. Derisions of ll«« Supreme Court or Ueoriti*, Delivereil nt Atlanta, Feb ruary 2, 1N69. Furnished by N. J. Hammond, Supreme Court Reporter, Expressly for the Con slitulion. Joseph R. High, Plaintiff in error, vs. Jas. McHugh, Defendant in error. From Morgan. Brown, C. J.—Under the scaling or dinance of 1865, the parties to contracts made between Ist June, 1801, and Ist June, 1805, have the right to give in evidence to the jury, the consideration of the contract and the value thereof at any time; and the intention of the par ties as the particular currency in which payment was to be made, and the value of such currency at any time, and the verdict and judgment rendered shall be on principles of equity. The evidence in this case having been fairly submitted to the jury, in accord ance with the ordinance, and there be ing sufficient evidence to support the verdict, and the presiding Judge being satisfied with it, this Court will not set it aside. Judgment affirmed. J. C. Barnett, A. Reese, for plaintiff in error. J. A. Billups, for defendant in error. James C. Mcßurney, Plaintiff in error, vs. Patrick Mclntyre, Defendant in error. From Bibb. Brown, C. J.—l. A tenant has no right to sub-let the premises without the consent of the landlord, and when done with his consent, the sub-tenant is the tenant of the landlord, and he aud not the tenant has a right to proceed against the sub tenant in case he holds over. 2. When A, the tenant, sub let to B, who was also required to pay rent to the landlord for the part sub let, aud at the end of the year for which they held the premises, A and B were rivals in securing a lease from the landlord lor ' the ensuing year, and both claimed to have rented the premises for the next year, and B remained in possession, the | relation of landlord and tenant did not exist between them. • 3. When A applied to the landlord to | lease the premises for three years, which was refused, but it xvas agreed that he i might rent for one year, and that the j written lease should be executed at I another time, and A laid down his notes | for one year's rent on the landlord’s ta | ble, which A afterwards claimed as the ! evidence of the contract, the notes not j having been returned: Held, that the i language used in the notes must be ta j ken most strongly against A, and that | the expression in the notes that they are j for the rent of the store occupied by A, will not embrace a lot adjoining the 1 storehouse, fenced off to itself, which I usually went with the store before it was so fenced. I Judgment reversed. ! O. A. Lochrane for plaintiff iu error. Whittle & Gustin, A. W. Hammond & Son, for defendant in error. 1 Bloody Reaping. —The insurrection at latest advices was ragiug with all of [ its horrors iu the fair island of Cuba. The New York Tribune of the 6th inst. thus gloats over the carnival of blood. It says: A cable dispatch, forwarded yester day afternoon from Madrid, by the spe | cial correspondent of The Tribune, conveys the authentic intelligence that the Provisional Government will, on the assembly of the Constituent Cortes, submit to it a Constitution of which the great feature will be the abolition of slavery throughout the Spanish domin ions! Thus do the Nations reap the golden fruits of our bloody sowing ! “Loil” Poetry.—T. P. Parker, llm “great poet” of Philadelphia, contribu tes a “piece” to The Morning Post, en titled “The Inauguration of Gen. Grant in all his Glory.” Here are the best stanzas —reference is made to the final battlo before Richmond : The Rebels see clearly that I am no mouse ; We will win this great battle, tlion for the White House. jMy horse for the battle—his name ts Mury; 1 By the Fourth ot next March I will be tn all > my Glory. SATURDAY MOKNIN«, FBB. 13. We copy in this issue, au article from the La Grange Reporter, on llie subject of reviving the project—agitated before the war—of a Railroad from LaGrange to this city. Such a road, when built, would be of advantage to our people in shortening the distance to Atlanta, some thirty miles in comparison with the present line of transportation. It would also afford planters of Harris and a portion of Merriwcther counties, a convenient transportation to our mar ket. . We have a partiality for the West Point route, which would be equally advantageous to our people, in cheap ening transportation between this efty and Atlanta. We allude to a direct road from Columbus to West Point, to be along the East margin of the Chattahoochee river, and which, from the information we have of the surface of the country over which it w ill pass, can he built for as small a sum per mile as the proposed road to LaGrange. Being some twelve or fif teen miles shorter, it will he much easier to accomplish. It will have the effect of developing some thirty miles of Georgia’s water power, which’is the finest in the world, and which, without such a road, is useless for miles. The road would have the effect of opening up this vast and extended water power to the world, and within a few years, property would be erected on it that would add largely to llie resources of the State Treasury, to say nothing of the advantages it would be to the country adjacent to the line of the road. Taking this view of the enterprise, we feci no hesitancy in saying this road would command, as it would deserve, the fostering care ol the Slate so tar, at least, as to give its endorsements to the bonds of the road to the extent often or twelve thou-and dollars per mile. It is the iiUeri si a so ol llie West 1 oiut and Atlanta road i bat it should be built, and we doubt mu the Stockholders in that road will give it a material helping hand. Since Columbus has lost, ali ol lid invest men's in railroad cntci piiscs and has been put at the mercy of a giant corporation by late movements, it is a ma’ter of vital importance to all of her interests that she should have some outlet to the sea other than those offer ed. This short road will give to Co lumbus a competing route. Since the above was put in type we 1 have received the billowing letter from an intelligent correspondent at West Point, which wo commend to the atten tion of our citizens: West Point, Ga., Feb. 8, 1869. Eds. Sim—Dear Sir : Hope that you will pardon me for trespassing upon your valuable time, as editors have the good of the country at heart more than all others, or at least they are generally listened to as advisers for the public good. I notice being discussed pretty generally, a Railroad from LaGrange to Columbus. I have thought for many years the Columbus merchants were loosing a great deal by not having a road more direct from the provision country, and have been working hard with the Directors and Stockholders iu the At lanta & West Point road to extend to Columbus, telling them they would meet with hearty welcome from your business men. As the road from La- Grange would be twelve miles longer than from this point, I urged them to start from here. My great object in wanting the road from West Point to Columbus, is to developc the water power of the Chattahoochee. It is equal to any in the South, and with a road running near its banks, would, iu a few years, present to our view the great center of manufacturing at the South. The citizens of West Point have erected two large brick buildings, four and six miles below, on the west bank of the river, and will have them running du ring this year, at a cost of near $250,- 000. There is one three miles above Columbus, making over $300,000 in vested in manufacturing on tlie proposed line. I know of no road in the South that offers greater prospects for local busi ness—besides should factories be erected along the river, Columbus will be the headquarters, thereby increasing the business of Columbus many dollars. We will suppose there will be no facto ries along the line. We have twelve mile3 of the road running, and the ground equally as good as any you can find from other points. Say the twelve miles cost SIBO,OOO, (which is a low estimate,) invest it in grading from here aud you reach Columbus. If the Columbus business men will come for ward with the liberality that they have always done, I see 110 cause why the road cannot be built. I think they see the great necessity of having an outlet or some competing line. Mr. Wadley has made them pay this season nearly enough to make this connection. If consistent with your views and agree able, would be glad if, when you are writing upon this subject, that you would call the attention of capitalists to the great manufacturing power that is between West Point and Columbus, aud this road would bring it into mar ket. I know of nothing that would be of greater interest to this section of the country. Tragedy in Arkansas. —A Memphis dispatch says: A terrible shooting affray occurred at, Mariana, Phillips county, Arkansas, last Saturday, resulting in the shooting and instant death of all the parties con cerned, whose names are TUos. aud Ar thur Slaughter aud Arthur Freeman.— The former were front Mississippi, aud the latter from Alabama. A Moving Appeal. —A Virginia ed itor, having exhausted all known modes of procedure to wake up tardy subscri bers, bit upon this : “If our delinquent debtors could sec us at this 1:30 a, m., in our night gown, rocking tlie cradle of the Junior Editor while the dear good mother sleeps, they would not have the heart to withhold what they owe us.” Eccentricities of Public Men.— An exchange says John Adams was re markable as an early riser, as a great smoker, and as a lover of cider. It was common with him to rise at 3 o’clock in the morning, and read, smoke, and drink cider one or two hour- before the rest of the family was stirring. When he went out to dine, he was never at ease unless he bad with bint his own peuter plate, to eat from. It was his in variable custom to take the latter arti cle with him wherever he went. Greeley Wants Negroes at ehe Ball —The Tribune of the 81b con tains tlie following in relation to the approaching Inauguration ball: We venture tp say that while General Grant probably selects the company that best suits liis taste, both among while men and black, he will not de cline to mingle in a public entertain ment with men whose votes assisted in his election. If a black man was good enough to vole for the Republican par ty in North Garolina, he was good enough to attend the Inauguration ball in Washington. bo Carpet-bag: Uovcrnor of South Carolina ami bis Colored brethren. The Cincinnati Commercial says : The fact that the Governor of South Carolina is an Ohioan givesau addition al interest to the following extract from a Columbia, South Carolina, letter in the New York Times : “Pursuant to time honored custom, Governor Scott gave au entertainment early in January a soiree dansantc —which was very fully attended. The General Govern ment, officers of the military garrison, carpet baggers, the party friends of the Governor, and three residents of the city. The elite of tho city was not there ; aud those of the place who were there had never been at a Governor s entertainment under the old regime. Another unexpected feature marked this party—there was no negroes there. Although the Governor had ventured to extend his recognition to a mulatto or quadroon girl when traveling upon the cars, he had not the courage to in vite his colored friends to his entertain ment. This fact was significant. It raised an outcry of indignation ; jnutly by the negroes themselves, but chiefly by office seekers, who arc keenly alive to every opportunity of demonstrating • their championsnip of the colored race. Prominent among these volunteer cham pions of negro equality is lion. I*. J. ' Moses, jr., (candidate for next Gover i nor,) present Speaker of the House ol | Representatives —a Jew by race, and ol the class of politicians known here as scalawags. Moses agitated this exclu sion ol the negroes from the Governor’s drawing-rooms, aud won large luvor I among his sable friends. And so deci ded among the negroes, and those who I needed negro votes, was the sensation against His Excellency, that that official was compelled by the pressure to lake a ; decided step to counteract the prejudice ! against him. This step was to establish a sort of levee—an evening once a week ! upon which the Governor’s rooms are I open to all colors and both sexes—every | Thursday evening.” A Strange Item in a Strange Place.— The uncertain character of the New York Times, which but a few days since urged tiie reconstruction oi. Geot gia, is exemplified by the following ex tract from the issue ot that journal of the Bth inst. Senator Edmunds has introduced a resolution designed to exclude the elec toral vote of Georgia, in the preamble to which he says that the right ol that State to represent ition in Congress is still undetermined. Is this quite cor rect? Georgia has complied with all the requirements of the Reconstruction law, and has been formally readmitted to the Union and elected members to Congress who have been allowed to take their scats in the House. First Indictment fob Sending a Challenge.— At the instance of T. B. Garrett, colored, William 11. Francis, colored, lias been indicted for sending him a challenge to fight him a duel ou the 28th of September last. The chal lenge grew out of politics, and the hos tile letter reads as follows : T. B Garrett: As you taken the part of the man Bowen, and has repon to tho speech made at St. Stephen’s Parish, I now challenge you for a duel on Mon day morning, 28th inst., at 6 o’clock, in whatever way you deem it proper. [Signed] W. 11. Francis. Francis was arrested and gave bond to appear. Francis is a Democrat, and Garrett is a Radical.— Charleston News, 9 th inst. An Augustian VistTETn the At lanta Opera House.—We find the following in the letter of a travelling correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel: Went on up to Atlanta. Called at the Opera House. Ascended one or two flight of steps, aud asked a man “where was the Representative Hall.” 11c re plied, “down stairs.” Went down stairs and asked another, and lie said “upstairs.” Believing they did not know what a Representative Hall was, I left impressed with the truth of the following let off, from a fellow in the heat of a social confab, which I learn occurred not far distant. The facts of the certification are thus: “Isl owed a man hanking money, and was to make him a lawless tenement, and he infused to decept, aud was than to take out an intachment on my property, I would kill him of he was the last man under the maccanals of Heaven.” Hearn this fellow has been appointed trustee of a school. Atlantic and Gulf Railroad.— At the annual meeting of the Stock holders of this road at Savannah, on Wednesday last, the following gentle men were re-elected Directois for the ensuing year : John Screven, John Stoddard, A. M. Sloan, W. 11. Wiltberger, Hiram Rob erts, Wm. Duncan, R. D. Arnold, Chas. Green, E. C. Anderson, Octavus Cohen, J. L. Villalonga, of Savannah ; J. W. Spain, of Brooks county ; A. T. Mc- Intyre, of Thomas county ; Wtn. O. Fleming, of Decatur county; C. J. Munnerlyu, of Decatur county. The News says the whole number of votes cast was 12,245. The whole number of shares in the stock of the Company is 36,912. Os these the 12,- 383 recently transferred by the city of Savannah to the Southwestern road could not bo voted, owing to the in junction. This latter number of shares accounted for would leave 12,281 un represented at the meeting. If the owners of these side with the owners of the 12,245 represented, the South western road has not gained a control ling interest by any means. Soutii Western Rail Road .—'l lie annual meeting of the Stockholders of this company was held in Macon on Tuesday. The President and the old Board of Directors were re elected with the exception of Howell Cobb, deceased, whose place has been filled by John L. Mustian, of this city. Thu Board con sists of— Wm. S, llolt, President. directors : Wm. M. Wadley, T. W. Furlow, John E. Jones, Alex. R. Lawton. John McNab, Virgil Powers, John L. Mustian. A dividend of $4 per share on tlie general stock, aud of $2 per share on the consolidated Muscogee stock, was declared, payable on tmd alter tlie 17th inst. Carpetbaggers in Council. —The National Intelligencer says: A caucas of the Southern Senators was held on Friday night, to secure unit ed action on several matters relating to the South. One is to secure a fair share of the Fedctal offices or to prevent eon lirmation of others. Another is to talk over railroad matters and to combine to carry through their local schemes, to gether with the new bill of the combin-! ed Pacific railroad companies. A third, and the one under discussion, was a plan to insist on payment of salaries for the full period of the Fortieth Congress, anu block legislation on some vital measure, if necessary, until the demand is complied with. Before any conclu sion was arrived tit the caucas was brok en up by the Sergeant-at-arms of the ! Senate, in search of absent Senators to secure a quorum for tlio evening session of the Senate. Religious Notice —Rev. 11. Van derhost, Presiding Elder of tlie Colum bus District, of the Georgia Colored Conference of the M. E. Church,South, has reached the city, where lie will re side, and will preach to-morrow, (Suu day, 14Ui) at Pierce Cluipcl, in the lower part of the city, at 10 a. in., 3 p. 1 m. and 7 p. m. Tbc Railroad lo Uoliinibun, It will be remembered by many of our readers, that, prior to the late wav, a railroad company was organized, and two lines from La Grange to Columbus were surveyed and sufficient stock sub. scribed to begin tiie work of grading. The war put an end to the operations of the company, Ad It tie »r no active i u terest has been taken in the enler|ui se since the close of the war in ,;i, hBl . quence of the impoverishi and eondit,, t the people. We refer to this m i order to present a levv fuels in . ■ n , tion with-the subject I t the . s|iic ;: ,| consideration of the people of L (linuge and of Troup and Harris cotu.iies, win, live on tiie line of the road as it was surveyed. 1. A road will lie built either from La Grange or West Point to Columbus. 2. It is considered more to the inter cst of the Atlanta & West Point flail, road Company, which will probably take stock in such an enterprise to start it, from West Point. 8. Started froAn West Point, the road will he some twelve miles shorter, ami will give the Atlanta & West Point flail, road the benefit of the freight from lie low to Atlanta, Augusta, Ac., the whole length of their line. 4 A railroad from La Grange, via Hamilton to Columbus, will receive more local freight, besides serving as a trank or feeder for llie Mobile & Girard Railroad in the transportation of iron, produce, &c., from Tennessee and tip per Georgia to the cotton regions <>i South Alabama. 5, ]t will also be the duvet transpor tatiou of groceries, Ac., from Mobil, and New Orleans to Atlanta and all ol Upper Georgia and this part of the Stale, ! (j Such a road, theTefore, will certain ly pay good dividends -we think liettci than if started from West point, The foregoing considerations make it very important to the people ot La Grange, and the lower end of Troup countv, and more particularly the pen pie of'Hamilton and Harris county, to I ,r o to work and endeavor to revive and resuscitate their old Company if possi j ble. If the road is started from West Point it will be of very little importance to the great bulk of tbo planters of Hat ris county. They, of all others, are (In most interested in the building of lb, proposed road, being cut off from all railway facilities. To the landholders we especially commend this important enterprise. By ite constraint ion, limits anils of acres of land will be enhanced iu value at least one hundred per cent, besides the planters, living on the line, could more readily get their produce to better markets. At least two-tliirds of the through freights over tiie Atlanta A West Point Railroad go to Columbus. 4he propos ed road would give to our Columbus friends a shorter and more direct line of transportation, and less expensive freights on the produce they purchase from the grain and produce country above, and perhaps would lessen llteir freight hills one-third, lienee, they arc directly interested in the proposed road from this place. With the road running to this place from Columbus, interest and profit would suggest its extension up through the Southwest corner oi Heard county, Ga., through Randolph county, Ala., up into Northeastern Alabama, and form a junction with the road from Sel ma to Rome, making it a short trans portation for the produce, coal and iron of those regions to this part of Georgia, Columbus and South Alabama. Such a line of railway would be a safe invest ment and would develop the rich re sources of a vast territory now hidden in obscurity. Take a map and see il our ideas are not practicable. We suggest the following plan for building the proposed road iu the event sufficient capital in money cannot be subscribed, viz : 2. The landholders find comparative ly a poor market for tlicir surplus land. They have more, in hundreds of install ces, than they need. 2. Let all such invest one-fourth, or even one-half, of it ns capital stock in the proposed road, which, witli the road in operation, will make the re mainder more valuable than their whole possessions at present. 3. Induce capitalists at the North, or elsewhere, to build the road ttnd receive payment in these lands at fair prices. We are inclined to believe that the last proposition would be readily ac cepted by moneyed men who would like to invest in real estate along the line of a railroad and we do not see that they could make better or cheaper invest ments in any other way. They would thus secure cheap lands to be soon en hanced in value by the completion of the road they would build. The foregoing are suggestions thrown out for what they are worth. To us they appear practicable. Wts trust those who arc immediately interested, will give them the consideration we think they deserve. If the friends of the pro posed road to Columbus from this place intend to act in this matter, the sooner they begin the better it will be—for we tell them that, unless they do act prompt ly, a road will be built from WcstPoiut to Columbus, and that in a few years. We would be glad to see what our Columbus contemporaries think now of the proposed road. As they are ever alive to the advancement of their city, wc have no doubt they will, as in the past, do all they can to promote the in terests of their people, and will give the subject merited consideration. l.a Grange Reporter. Meade finds an Imitator in Texas. —Meade will have someone to sharo the infamy he won in the Ashburn case, as will be seen by the following extract from the “Southwertern,” a journal published at Shreveport, Louisiana: The unparalleled tyranny of the mili tary authorities at Jefferson, in arresting fourteen or lifteen citizens, and the kill ing of anuther without cause, has called forth a scathing article from the Texas Republican, which wo think they de serve. It is too long for our columns, or wc would publish it for the facts it contains as well as for the well applied castigation. It is evident from the aili cle that the military authorities had hut one object in view, and that was to iy rauize over the people of JeflVi .-on h" no other cause than the alleged mimic 1 of George \V. Smith by sonic link person. The authorities, it seem.-, me pursuing their work with a vim wonky of a better cause. In some respects n resembles the Ashburn affair in Gem gia. The detectives use every effort to make the freediuen purger themselves by implicating some of the first citizens. In this respect it resembles the Ash burn affair, aud w r c have no doubt many of the persons under arrest were impli cated in this way. The killing of Capt- Perry was brought about at the instance of Col. Mallory, the military mayor, who litis no hesitation in admitting the j fact. The parly who shot Capt. l'crry was turned over to the civil authorities and given a mock trial before a scalawag judge aud discharged. Oh, justice, where are you ? Not in the possession of Winston Banks, judge eighth district of Texas. The citizens of Jefferson arc under a reign ol' terror equal to that of Robespierre. Wo sincerely condole with them aud trust their situation may be made known to the higher military authorities and their sufferings and hard ships alleviated. Georgia Home Insurance Compa ny. —Among the many insurance com panies that have presented their claim? to the public, there are none which I"’' 1 sess more advantages to insure:* tl> ,l!l the out) whose name heads this untie- It is a home institution, officered by gentlemen of Columbus of the great! - expericncc, reliability and integrity Tlie exhibit made in our advertising columns shows the excellent financial management of its allairs. The Direct ors have declared a dividend of eight per cent., and a scrip dividend to hold era of “participating policies” of twen ty five per cent. This scrip is received in payment of premiums. The Coin pany stands on a solid basis, and is rap idly prospering. All losses are prompt l .' adjusted and paid. The insurer in lioec companies always has the advance- 1 ; of knowing his money does not his section, hut remains there to add >’ its prosperity, and continues in oircula lion. The “Georgia llomo”isasroliab l e, prompt and safe as any company m _ ll "‘ land. Office in Columbus Bank build i ing-
