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Newspaper Page TextThe Greorsia "Weekly Telearai^h and. Journal <Sc Messenger, Telegraph and Messenger. MACON, DECEMBER 14, 1809. The President’s Message. It would be quite unfair to attempt a literary criticism of a document transmitted a thousand miles ortr the telegraph wires. Mistakes must occur in the transmission. There must needs be some errors of substitution and omission— some jumbling of sentences and disarrangement of periods. The art of telegraphy is still im perfect, and many are employed in it who are not yet fully up with all its advances. But, making all allowances, it is one of the wonders of the earth that a document of that length should be sent, letter by letter, a thousand miles after most people are abed—then find its way into type so as to give a very accurate idea of its original meaning, and be printed and scat tered by thousands in Middle Georgia by break fast time in the morning. • Obviously the message makes no pretensions at all as a State paper. It is simply a series of brief suggestions upon public topics; but many of them are ingenious and strong, and some are original. Of this character is the proposition to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to re cover its paper at a fixed price, as a scheme to countervail the operations of the gold specula tors. The treatment of the Alabama claims controversy, too, is both original and adroit. The tariff and tax questions are also handled very cleverly, end treated exclusively as mere revenue topics without allusion to tho moment ous politico-economical questions which underly them. Gubais whittled down very smoothly and adroitly, and Spain patted on the back in tho same manner. The truth is, as a political document tho mes sage presents no salient points whatever. It considers no subject in the light of political principle or in its constitutional or legal as pects ; and it would be unjust to expect that much of statesmanship from tho President It is a subject with which he does not propose to be acquainted. Such ideas as ho hurriedly dropsupon the topics raised in the message are, in the main, well expressed. The tone of the message is generally conservative,. and will meet all the reasonable anticipations of his po litical friends. A Washington Correspondent and Commis sioner Capeon.—The Telegraph and Messen ger has a Washington correspondent afflicted with very comprehensive views of his “mis sion since in his letter published on Sunday, ho not only gives ns extensive disquisitions up on the Chinese question—manhood suffrage— Massachusetts isms—and the views of the Bal timore and Norfolk press, but he even comes down to Macon and undertakes to correct the statements of this paper in reference to the pro ceeding of the late Fair. He says that Com missioner Capron did not deliver the speech re ported in our paper as delivered by him during the Fair. We have already said that Mr. Ca pron did deliver that speech, and still insist not only that we are right, but in a position to know better than our Washington correspondent. If our friend will tell ns, in few^ words, tho gossip of Washington and leave us to chronicle the events in Macon and other parts of the world, we will accept that as a fair division of labor. Bad for John.—The Californians are waxing hot over the prospect of the Chinese flood. They are particularly bitter against the propo- sition to raise the subsidy of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, which they look upon as the chief agent in the matter, from the present figure, $500,000, to $1,000,000. A large meeting was held in Congress Hall in San Francisco on the evening of November 24, at which the most inflammatory addresses were delivered. Particular stress was laid upon the opium smuggling practiced by the Chinese, and the importation of prostitutes which they carry on. A council was organized for further ef fort, and the prospect is that strong measures will be adopted. A Denver, Ool., paper has tried its hand in good faith at a description of a ball. It tells us that the married ladies of Denver “always did discount the girls in grand dress, and they do it still,” and it mentions several who were “chiefs-of-stalT for stylish grace and superb harness.” A certain “quiet class of married ladies,” however, all likewise mentioned by name, “were as usual, well attired, though not fashionably storming,” and of this latter class, it is said, they “may be quoted always sterling —the style of wife it pays to have.” Hurbt It Up.—The Herald says that Mr. Craig, for many years the general agent of the Associated Frees, and a gentleman whose atten tion has been much given to the subject of tele graphing, has'completed an invention calculated to facilitate for the public the use of that great means of communication, the telegraph. His apparatus, he believes, will immensely reduce tho expense of telegraphing, and that it will at once save time and money are the features in its favor that he presents. Virtuous Indignation.—We find the fol lowing paragraph in the New York Tribune: “Mr. Spencer S. Mead, who made a foolish attempt to expedite the publication of a com munication in the Tribune by means of.five dol lars, is requested to call on the cashier of this establishment and get his money back—and his communication with it.” If Mr. Mead had “gone” say $10 “better,” he would pretty certainly have been spared the trouble of calling for his communication. An immigration agent tells a Tribune Wash ington correspondent that he has settled eighty families of Danes near Olcalona, Miss., and is confident that within the next ten years lie will have introduced 20,000 Scandinavian families into Mississippi and Alabama. An immigra tion society has been formed among the plant ers at Okalona, and 1500 acres have been given to the company to be sold at a low price to. ac tual settlers. .Good, But . Shortly after the recent great rain-storms and freshet in the New England States, a resident of Boston, who owned a mill property in Maine, dispatched an agent to as certain the condition of his property. By due course of mail he received the following reply. Dear Sir: I arrived here this morning—found the dam by the mill site, but no mill by a dam site. One of the New York World’s reporters “ in terviewed” Hoyt, Sprague & Co., a large wholesale dry goods house, on the present state of trade. Mr. Greon, a member of the firm, told him“The Southerners are the best buy ers we have now. We anticipate a very large trade from the South after January.” According to the decision of a recent court- martial in Texas, maiming and disabling a pri vate soldier for life by tying him np by the thumbs, only costs the brute who does it twelve months’ suspension from rank and pay. His name is Calmar, Captain of cavalry. Messrs. Toolsidas, Jadargee, Mooljee and Thaekersey, Bombay merchants, are in Mobile for the purpose, the Register says, of obtaining a closer insight into the cotton business as trans acted in this oonntry. Bombay has sent the first crop of cotton through the Suez Canal. The Conspiracy Triumphant. We suppose it may reasonably be set down that legislation for Georgia as recommended by the President, will be . rushed through both Houses of Congress as speedily as possible. We are obliged, now, to conclude that the present status ot the State* will be changed, and the wickedest wishes of her wickedest enemies al lowed full swing. The iniquity of this measure is hardly a fit subject for newspaper discussion at this date. The vocabulary of indignation and invective, has already been well nigh exhausted, and hardly anything is left for a wise man to do bnt to meet it in the way that shall be the least harmful to his interests, first, and second to en grave it on his memory for future nse. This much he may do without being charged, either with unwisdom or vindictiveness. We do not think the people of Georgia, at whom this last and cruellest blow is levelled need, or will ever need, any instruction on that point however. We, at least, are willing to trust them. We do not suppose that even the chief con spirators, themselves, have the least idea of securing any permanent hold either upon the offices or political control of the State. They know, as well as we do, that the project of radicalizing Georgia has been weighed in the balance and fonnd wanting. They are just as well assured that the anti-radioal party, the Democratic parly of Georgia will rule this State, as they are chagrined at the knowledge that it is so. We are sometimes surprised that men so “eharp” as some of them are, should make any calculations or take any steps that do not recog nize inis Tact. It seems as if they do not, how ever. They are driving ahead as if their lease of power spanned to the next century, and as if there was no such thing as popular retribution. Governor Bollock fears to meet the Democratic Legislature of 1870, and fixes upon a refuge in the Senate. Treasurer Angier has waved back the hungry horde from the.people’s money bags, and he must be thrust from office.. The negroes must be re-seated, and a working ma jority of radicals secured to carry out any and every scheme of greed or revenge, the leaders may concoct. All legislation that is not dead against the white man must be wiped from the record, and preparations made to revive and blow to a white heat the antagonism of race. These can alone be the objective points of this base conspiracy. To name them shames and angers every honest man in the State. Their results are patent. How far they may prove injurious to our material interests rests somewhat with us. We cannot avert, but we may somewhat deaden the blow. We can meet it with’ the same serene courage and fortitude that has ever characterized and illustrated Southern character. We can oppose to its venom the same placid and unshaken patience, and high-souled consciousness of right and jus tice that has won, even from our enemies, their unwilling admiration. We can steadily pur sue the safe line of good citizenship, with all its obligations, duties and responsibilities. Wc can steadily labor at the noble work of regener ating our material interests, building up our broken fortunes, and restoring to our exhausted land the elements of a fresher and stronger vi tality than it has ever known. We can plant and sow and reap, and learn even in the bitterness of nndeserved political trials, lessons that, when our day comes, may give our triumph added brilliancy and our power new elements. We have entered upon a career of material prosperity that not even legislation inspired by hate, and regardless of every consideration that should move men not sworn to destroy their country, can tong retard. We are getting a place for our lever, and no man nor party can keep us from it. Therefore, we say to all: Don’t despair. Never consent to believe that the cloud has no silver lining, the night no end. We have much, very much, to live for and took forward to. To sink into apathy, to relax our braced muscles and steady nerves, now, would be unworthy a people with a record far less glorious than ours. Whatever betides, let ns not give history cause to write us down not only conquered, but spirit broken—not only defeated, but cowed. This fair land is ours for all time to come. Its des tiny is in our hands. Let us make it golden with a richer prosperity, a higher civilization, a stauncher devotion to principle than the world has yet seen. And above all, let ns wait pa tiently and remember reed. Southern “Rolling Stones.” One of the principal causes of our poverty is that there are so many “rolling stones” amorg the people who till our soil. They gather ro “moss?’ to add to the aggregate heap, because they are always either moving or preparing to move. They make a bad crop, or don’t like their neighborhood, or take up an idea that the climate don’t suit them, and away they go, leaving a gap that should not exist. Just now, as it happens, there is quite an exodus of this sort of people to “fresh fields and pastures new.” We don’t suppose what the newspapers say will stop them, for men generally prefer to leam by bitter experience the consequence of their own folly. That trait in human nature has this compensating advantage, too: that the lesson does not often need repeating. Now, if these restless souls would listen to ns we would tell them that all the defects they com plain of can be cured in time—that bad crops are not always the results of bad seasons, bnt of bad cropping, and that neighborhoods are pretty much what men choose to make them. H a man puts it on climate, and runs off to Texas or elsewhere in a Southwesterly direc tion to get rid of chills or bilious tfever, be is almost sure to jump out of the frying pan into the fire, with the addition of frontier roughness and a wofol scantiness of all sorts of educational nd social advantages. We have no hesitation in saying that there isnopart of Georgia where this exodus is going on, bnt what is abetter country in every respect, and with an enlightened system of agricnltnre, than any portion of Texas. Perhaps the true secret, at last, of a great deal of this restlessness is indifference or oppo sition to this very thing of enlightened farming. That sort of fanning is a great deal of trouble. It makes very heavy drafts npon temper, ener gy and patience. Its rewards are great, bat only to be won by a combination of qualities that “rolling stones” do not generally possess. They prefer the old system of wearing ont their lands and then seeking fresh ones. This policy is the lazy policy, the policy of those who hate trouble and whose range of vision is only limi ted. Bnt wo want all these people to stay at home and leam the new lessons a new era has brought to us. Wo want them to remain and help their fellows to prove that not only is there “life in the old land yet," bnt a life whose vigor, and richness, and redundancy will shame even the present’s sunniest visions. We want them to stay and leam, as we all will, that land ought to become better instead of worse, from being worked, and that when we know how to raise and deport our crops, how to re store what we takeoff, how to add to that which is deficient, and how to make a bank of deposit for our wealth in our land, and to be able to draw from it at will, as we con do by enlightened agriculture, wo will have fewer rolling stones in Georgia, and our State will completely .and steadily grow up into a populous, rich and thriving State. The Fredericksburg (Ya.) Herald says there was a perfect avalanche of land-buyers, and of the families of those who had already made purchases in that section of Virginia, in that city on Tuesday night of last week. The President and Genrgfa. The President, in his message, makes the following recommendation in respect to Geor- gia : Under these circumstances, I would submit to yon whether it would not be wise, without delay, to enact a law authorizing the Governor of Georgia to convene the members originally cleoted to the Legislature, requiring each to take the oath prescribed by the reconstruction acts, and none to be admitted who are ineligible under that clause of the amendment. This recommendation settles the matter, be yond a reasonable doubt. The expelled negro members will be reinstated under act of Con gress, and the Legislature will be purged by the reconstruction tart oath, which oath is as fol lows: “That I have not been disfranchised for partici pation in any rebellion or civil war against the United States, nor for felony committed against the laws of any State or of the United States; that I have never been a member of any State Legisla ture, nor held any executive or judicial office in any State and afterwards engaged in insurrection or re bellion against the United States, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof; that I have never taken an oath as a member of Congress of the United States, or as a member of any State Legis lature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support tho Constitution of the United States, and afterwards engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof; that I will faith- fullysupport tho Constitution and obey tho laws of tho United States, and will, to the best of my ability, encourage others so to do; so help me God.” That was the oath prescribed by the Recon- struotion acts, but held by General Grant, while in command of the army, to be inappli cable to the members elect of the Legislature, who,- by his direction, both in Georgia and Louisiana, were required to take oply the oath prescribed by the constitutions of their respec tive States, under which they were elected. What will be the practical consequence of its application to the Legislature of Georgia, as now constituted, we have no means of determining. The Radicals say it will turn out twenty to twenty-five Democratic members, and substi tute for them so many defeated black and tfhite Radicals. On the other hand, Democrats have told ns that it will drive out less than half a dozen Democratic members. It is not unfair to presume that the Radicals have studied into the matter closely and discovered that it will prac tically annihilate the Legislature as a repre sentative body of tho people of Georgia. It was a remarkably poor showing in that particular before, but, under the purge, it will bo like the last expiring snuffle of tho Barebone Parliament. But, although a farco as a representative body, it-will be powerful in the way of squandering the public money, nnd, backed by Congress, it will be armed to the teeth for every species ol public mischief. Gov. Bullock, in a letter to tho New York Times of the 4th, dated at Washington the 2d instant, says: The questions involved in tho Georgia matter are of vital interests to the country at large in connec tion with tho stability of the measures adopted by Congress for tho puiposo of restoring tho late rebel States to loyal relations with tho Union, and, as you aptly say, “ the timo.has como when Congress must go backward or forward." Tho Congress of the United States, or tho rebels of Georgia, led on by Toombs, Hill, etc., must triumph. There is no element in the Republican party of our State of a proscriptive character, or of that class termed “bitter enders,” none who desiro harsh terms imposed upon our opponents, nor do we de sire military Government. In tho Constitution sub mitted to and adopted by a large majority of the people there are no proscriptive or disfranchising clauses or test oath qualifications whatever, and onr treatment of, and propositions to. onr political oppo nents have been of the most liberal character. But by the mistaken lenity of tho military commander at tho time the Legislature was organized uoderthe recon struction acts, opposition members—who were dear ly disqualified by the reconstruction laws and by the bill providing for the admission of the State, which enacted the disqualifying clause of the Four teenth Amendment—were permitted to become ac tive participants in the legislative organization, and they thus obtained the power by which they have been able, practically, to nullify tho whole recon struction policy. Ail we aBk or dcBiro is that Con gress shall provide for the enforcement of its laws heretofore enacted. We desire no new legislation, no additional terms, believing that the proper en forcement of the acts already adopted will enable us to maintain onrselves before onr own people. With any semblance of a fair and free election, and an honest count of the ballot, a majority of the vo ting population of onr State is Republican. I indose a copy of the preamble and resolutions adopted by tho Execntivo Committee of our party on the 25th nil, which sot forth very dearly onreon- dition and our desires. . Thanking you again for yonr article, I am very respectfully, Burrs B. Bullock. Washington, Thursday, Dec. 2,1869. With anything like a “fair and free election' the people of Georgia will show Bollock and Congress, too, the wretched fatuity of a policy which looks for the maintenance of party ascend ancy by the arts and devices of slander and re pression of the white race. The Chroniole and Sentinel calls attention to tho fact that while cotton has advanced in price in Liverpool for several days, it has not mate rially advanced here. We quote as follows from its article: Heretofore an advance of a penny in Liver pool was equivalent to a rise here of 24 to 3 cents. Indeed, tho market hero generally ran ahead of the advanoe across the water, bnyers anticipating a further rise. Now, a marked ad vance there meets no response from the home market. Bat let ns look at tho other side of the pic ture. If cotton is reported dnll in Liverpool our market sickens; if a decline takeB place there of a farthing down goes our market a cent or two. Why is this ? The cotton buyers say that it is the price of gold which now affects the home market. This is the only reason which they pretend to give, and, doubtless, there is some weight in it. But it by no means satisfactorily accounts for the wide margin between the Liverpool and homo markets at this time. Cotton is worth to-day in Liverpool 25 cents in gold—equivalent to 31 cents in our currency. To this should be added the premium on ex change, which would make the actual value in our currency 35 cents. Yet the planter is real izing only 22 to 23 cents, the difference being from fifty to sixty dollars a bale. We do not say that Southern buyers make this much, but wc do say that the planters lose it, and somebody must make what they lose. The speediest and best remedy for this con dition of affairs is the establishment of direct trade with Europe, and the requirement of gold for all cottons sold. When these two points are established and enforced, producers will receive a fair price for their cotton in proportion to the ruling rates in Liverpool. But as long as we maintain the present system, which maintains a large class of middle men, and gives the abso lute control of the market to the New York cotton brokers, we must he contented with what ever price they choose to give. The Savannah News publishes a copy of an ancient document in the fotm of a return of Solomon’s Lodge, No. 1, of Free and Accepted Masons, to the Grand Lodge of Georgia, daring the year A, D., 1788, (A. L. 5788.) It is well known that this venerable association was in stituted by General Oglethorpe soon after his landing at Sunbnry,in this State, and continued to “work” np to the Revolutionary War. For over ninety years tha return has laid among the arohives of the Grand Lodge, and safely stood the migrations of that body from Savannah to Milledgeville, and from Milledge- villa to Macon, and was found by Brother J. Emmott Blackshear, tho Grand Secretary, (while searching for the original charter of Solomon’s Lodge, No. 1, granted by the Grand Lodge of England in 1733,) and was returned to the Lodge daring the last Annual Grand Communication. The original is written in a bold, free hand, on a sheet of laid foolscap paper, and, in spite of its age, is clear and distinct as the day it was written. The Republican announces the death of a lady highly esteemed among the Catholics of that city. It says: Mother Ellen, Superioress of the Convent of St. Joseph, situated on the northwest comer of Pine and West Broad streets, departed this life, at the Convent, at about six o’clock on Friday evening, after suffering nine days with pneu monia. Mother Ellen was born at Ysinjeanx, France, abont fifty years ago. She was educated in the Convent of Our Lady of. the Sacred Heart, at Puy, and was received into the order of St. Jo seph at the age of 18 years. She was the Su perioress of the Convent of St. Joseph, at Yain- jeaux, her native city, for ten years, and about two years.ago she, with three other sisters'of the order, left their native land and came to America to found a Convent in the city of Sa vannah. The News chronicles the death, on Sunday, of Col Aaron Wilbur, a prominent citizen of that city. He was a native of Vermont, bnt re- moved South soon after he became of age, and located in Richmond, Virginia, from which city he removed to Savannah in 1853, since which time he has been engaged in the insurance business. His energy and well known business capacity secured for Mm the position of man ager of the Southern branch of the Knicker bocker Life Insurance Company of New York. He was also President of the Home Insurance Company of Savannah, and a Director in the Merchants’ National Bank. The iron-clad monitor, Dictator, wMch sailed from Savannah on Thursday, was compelled by a severe gale experienced off the Florida coast to put back to that port, arriving there Sunday morning. She will repair damages, and pro ceed, at once, to join the Gnlf Squadron.. Miss Susan Stephens, .of Lumpkin county, committed suicide last week. Heavy rains in that county, and Wimpey, who claims a Con gressional seat from the Gth district, gone to Washington—all of which facts tho Signal-man at Dahlonega communicates. Mr. Carter Langford caught four beavers, weighing sixty-three pounds, last Saturday, in the Chattahoochee river near West Point. The Atlanta Constitution notes the passage through that city, on Sunday, of two now and handsome engines for the Macon and Bruns wick Road. One, No. il, was named in honor of the late A. E. Cochran, and No. 12 in honor of the late Thurston R. Bloom. The Constitu tion also informs ns that twelve or fifteen new passenger coaches for the Macon and Brunswick Railroad are expected to pass through there tMs week. Dr. Redwine.—The condition of Dr. Redwine is such as to give promise of Ms restoration to Ms friends and a life of usefulness. Dr. West moreland, the man who shot Mm, has been .in dicted by the grand juiy for the offense, and is still in jail.—Constitution, GfA. We get the following from the Monroe Adver tiser, of yesterday: . . A young Mr. Harbuok. who was living with his father, Jas. Harbuck, Esq., near Colloden, in this county, was felling a tree on the 2d inst, and in consequence of its falling in a different direction from what he expected, he made an effort to get Ms little brother, who was near by, out of danger, and was himself caught and in stantly killed. ; - • ■ And now in this rebellious State, a negro gets a diploma for two wooden trays of Tupelo gum at the late Kn KIux Fair in Macon. The colored fellow-citizen resides in Butts county, and signs himself Frederick Ward. Forsyth has been literally overrun with drum mers from tho North and West. They appear to be pushing a lively trade. Trade during the past week was very good. Merchants and bnriness men generally appear to be well satisfied with their transactions. Neither of the Columbus papers publish the President’s message. The Savannah Republican comments at length upon the message. We extract as fol lows : " ' ‘ ; • The President fails to tell Congress and the country where he finds the authority for such action toward a State wMch both Houses of Congress have, by solemn resolution, declared reconstructed and fully readmitted into the Union as a free and independent State, What is there to prevent a similar interference with the government of any other State whose in ternal legislation happens not to snit the no tions of the President and CoDgress ? The President, too, is very imperfect in his political history of Georgia/ The negroes were expelled in January, and not in defiance of the decision of the Supreme Court, which was not rendered till June, and many months after the Legislature had adjourned. The last act of the Legislature with reference to the matter was to refer the question to the Supremo Court, in wMch they were defeated by the Governor. How does the President know bnt that the Leg islature, at their next meeting—wMch will be the very first opportunity—will reseat the negro members? This anticipation of their action in the premises evinces a foregone conclusion to pounce on Georgia in any event, and simply because she is not Radical. We submit,' this is not fair doaling. And if fairness is protended, why discriminate against Georgia, by putting on her legislators the iron-olad oath, which was not required of Virginia or other States? Bnt, we suppose it is all right, and, as we said be fore, we prefer a clean sweep, if tho people of Georgia are to be ruled out of their own gov ernment. The Constitutionalist disposes of the message in a very “short, sharp and decisive” style. It says: From the telegrapMc report of Mr. Grant’s message we do unhesitatingly pronounce it a clumsy and disjointed document, in perfect keeping with the bluntness of the individual who penned it, but unworthy of the Executive of a groat people. The P. U. S. is especially hard on Georgia, and, with a zealotry that does not rise above the narrowness of the partisan, he puts a wrong construction on the expulsion of the negro members, so-called, of onr Legis lature, and suggests a course which will cause chaos to reign again. Well, let Congress drive ahead, if it should so elect, with its mongrelism and its test oath. The imposition will come from them ; the disgrace will not be ours. In a very short time we shall probably be called upon to endure fresh trials—trials that will test our manhood—but as we are firm and true and strong in the right, so shall we emerge, before many years, more glorious and more puissant than ever, and give these tyrants a taste of the cap they havo so freely commended to our lips. Congress can give much trouble, but it cannot make us slaves without our consent and co-op eration. The Constitutionalist says the Charlotte, Co lumbia & Augusta, and the South Carolina railroads, have entered into an agreement to unite in the completion of the bridge over the Savannah river, at present in course of con struction by the former road, at the foot of Washington street, upon the original plan, with only a single track, to be used jointly by the two roads when finished. The Chronicle and Sentinel says the Georgia Railroad, under its present management, is doing a splendid business. Tho following ex- Mbit will compare favorably with that of any road of equal dimensions in the country: Gross earnings for November, 18G8....$ 94,000 Gross earnings for November r 18G9.... 137,000 Increase in 18G9 over 18G8 $43,000 The receipts for September, Ootober and No vember, 18G9, in excess of the same months in 18G8, are $135,000. The Chronicle and Sentinel notes the sale of tho plantation of Robert Allen, of that connty, to a Northern man named Little, for $50,000— half cash. Tho Chroniclo and Sentinel says that on and after yesterday, the local rate on cotton over the South Carolina Railroad to Charleston and over the Central Railroad to Savannah, will be one dollar and twenty cents per bale. The editor of the Atlanta Constitution has had a call from Mayor Laohlin McIntosh, form erly of Georgia, but now doing businoss as a land agent in PMladelphia. Mayor M. says there is a general inquiry North for Southern lands by Northern and Eastern men, who, with their usual sagacity, perceive the advantages of the genial climate, superior soil and abundant element of wealth in the water powers, miner als, and timbered lands of this section. This spirit of inquiry extends to the West, where many, realizing that mpre production is not wealth, are looking to the diminished cost of transportation and readier markets. The heavy taxation and increased cost of liv ing are crippling thousand of men of moderate means, who aro trying tc sell out with a view of coming South. The Federal Union is on the record for Macon as the place for permanently locating the Fair, Bin: — r —— We believe that Macon is the best place under all the'circumstances. Many of the necessary buildings are already there, and the people of Macon, by profiting from their experience, can probably do as well towards accommodating such a crowd as any other city in Georgia. Let us have the Fair established there, and then all the arrangements for accommodating the people will soon be made. . The Southern Recorder says an attempt was made on the night of the Gth instant, tofiro Mo- Oomb’s old hotel Turpentine had been ponred on the floor and fire applied, bnt it was discov ered in time to prevent much damage. From the local column of the Constitution, we get the following items: While in conversation ^vith Maj. Madison Bell, .Comptroller General of the State, to-day, we learned that the appropriation of $20,000 as a printing fund for 1869 was about exhausted, warrants to that amouut having been drawn upon it, and that he would not pass any more claims upon that fund until' a new appropria tion is made. Wc also learned from him that no net earnings of the State Road had been paid into the Treasury for the months of October or November. Through Travel.—Eighty-eight through passengers caine up on the Georgia Railroad yesterday morning. Fifty-five were colored, and thirty-three white emigrants to the West. U. S. Commissioner’s Court of Claims will meet this morning, at the office of Arnold & Broyles, at 9 o’clock, for the purpose of taking testimony in several large cotton -cases. Judge Daniel Pittman is the Commissioner. One of the cases involves the sum of $100,000. We concentrate the following beams from the Columbus Sun, of Tuesday: Paper Man to be Rebuilt.—Steps are now being token to rebuild the Rock Island Paper Mills wMch were burned by Wilson’s Yankee raiders in 1865. Teams have been purchased and numbor is now being hauled there. It is expected to be completed and in operation by the middle of next year. The establishment was one of the largest in the South before and during Confederate times, and was a paying in stitution. It manufactured excellent material for newspapers and coarse letter paper. The location is on the Alabama shore, some three miles above Columbus, where the water-power is surpassed by none on this continent. The property belongs to tho Winter estate. We are glad to learn the mills are to be rebuilt. What Culture Can Do.—To show what Geor gia may produce, Mr. C.. A. Peabody stated Saturday, in the Agricultural Society, that he had seen twenty varieties of Irish potatoes from New Jersey at the Macon Fair, and beside them the second growth of the same from Geor gia. Mr. Forney, and other gentlemen, on see ing them, expressed the greatest wonder at the productiveness of the soil The Mobile and Girard Railroad.—Rails were being laid yesterday on the bridge across the Conecuh river. This will bring the road within six miles of Troy. All the officials are confident tho trains will be running to Troy by January 1st. An Opinion.—Mr. Peabody, on Saturday; gave the opinion of a Northern man concerning the Fair at Macon. Ho said “ it was a big thing, but too much talk.” Tha Enquirer says the Southern coloredMetho- distsin that city, with the aid of the whites, have purchased for $500,from the Baptist Church, the edifice near the Palace Mills, at present occupied by Public School No. 2, where they held service for the first time on Sabbath last. “ The Savannah Republican says that on and after the 7th inst. the Atlantic and Gnlf Rail road Company will receive freight at their de pot, in that city, for all stations on the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, including HawMns- ville, for Macon, for stations on the Macon and Western Railroad, for Atlanta, and for all points beyond, at the same rates atpresent charged by the Central Railroad, nntil the 15th inst., when a general reduction will bo made, and that due notice will be given when , the line is ready to carry passengers. The Sandersville Georgian learns from a pri- vote letter that Richard Nelson, convicted of mnrder at the last term of the Wilkinson Supe rior Court and sentenced to the penitentiary for life, has been pardoned by the Governor. Also, Washington McDaniel of the same county, sen tenced to be hung on Friday next, has been re prieved nntil January. The Courier says tho Rome millers are now getting wheat from Tennessee, laid down there at a cost loss than $1 40—though this is still the price in Rome. Com is in demand at $1 00@ $110. The Mercerisn, the organ of the students at MeTcer University, informs ns that Wm. M. Sims, of Washington, Ga., has been elected to the position of Anniversarian, by the FM Delta Society of the University, and John T. Prior, of Madison, Ga., to the same position by the Ciceronian Society, John L. D. Hillyer, of Forsyth, Ga., Final Orator of the Ciceronian, and Paul C. Hudson, of Brothersville, Final Or ator of the FM Delta Society. We find the following in the Atlanta Era: To the Georgia Press.—We are requested by Mr. John L. Conley, State Librarian, to state that it is his wish to commence, on the 1st of January, a file of all tho papers—daily, tri weekly, semi-weekly, or weekly—published in the State, and if publishers will forward Mm copies he will take pleasure in carefully filing them all. This seems to us to be a matter of great public interest, and wo hope publishers will forward their papers from the 1st of Jan uary as requested. Papers will confer a favor by copying tMs notice. Those who comply with the request will address their papers to the “State Librarian,” Atlanta, Ga. Cariosities of Taxation—Internal Revenue Receipts 1868 and 1860. We find in the Richmond Dispatch an abstract of the internal revenue collections from all sources for the present year, compared with those of 18G8, from which wo make some quo- tions. Spirits of all kinds, we find, paid, at 50 cents a gallon, in 18G9, $45,026,401 74, against $14,290,730 93 at $2 per gallon in 18G8. To bacco paid this year $23,437,707 57, against $14,947,107 53 last year,of which chewingtobao- co paid $13,639,934 94; $3,206544 83 on smok ing; $4,957,679 67 on cigars. Of taxes on gross receipts, railroads paid $3,255,487 20; insu rance companies, $1,323,330 14; express com panies, $570,568 68; steamboats, $222,964 87; telegraph companies, $205,441; theatres; ope ras, eto:, $231,052 74; stage-coaches, $183,128- 51; ferries, $114,978 28; bridges, $51,24718; lotteries, $60,329 23. On speoial taxes, retail doalors paid $1,835,099 14; wholesale dealers, sales not over $50,000, paid $1,405,094; whole sale dealers, sales over $50,0000, $4,081,696 14; lawyers, $337,818 59; lottery ticket dealers $58,- 240 35; hotels, $587,162 71; manufacturers, $1,222,675 81; physicians and surgeons, $489,- 410 26; stallions and jacks, $325,602 85. Of the income tax, there was derived from personal in come, $25,025,068 86; from bank dividends, $9,769,185 69; from railroad companies (divi dends), $2,831,140 03; from railroad companies (interest on bonds), $1,603,846 51; insurance companies (dividends), $847,563 33. On articles in schedule A, there were derived from billiard tables, $22,805 92; from carriages, $184,035; from silver plate, $704,537 48; from watohes, $47,286 69. The Mormons are said to be growing hostile towards the Gentiles, and to have formed a camp of fifteen thousand men, and the Unitea States Government is said to have organized d movement of military toward Utah in conse quence. A dispatch dated Stockton, California, No vember 24, says : “ Belle Boyd, who has been confined in the insane asylum for some time, gave birth to a child yesterday, and has so far recovered her mind that it is expected she will be discharged in a few days.” England and France are making great ef forts to settle the differences between the Vice roy and the Sultan. Benjamin Baker is a Floridian, who this year raised a crop of $7000 worth of pineapples on one acre and a half of ground. The losses by the late fire at Galveston foot up nearly one million dollars. TELEOBAPH. FROM WASHINGTON. Washington, December 8.—The Election Com mittee had no meeting. Various bills were introduced in the House for reference, including the allowance of ono hundred end sixty acres homestead to soldiers and sailors, and exempting their property equally with bond holders from taxation. In the Senate, Ferry introduced a joint resolution abolishing the test oaths, with' some pungent re marks that the time of their usefulness bad passed. The President asked regarding the progress of the Cohan revolution. Wm. B. Woods, of Alabama, has been appointed Circuit Judge of the fifth Circuit, and George A Pearce, of Maryland, for the fourth Circuit. The House is engaged on the census bill. No appointment yet for the vacancy on the Su preme bench. The choice undoubtedly lies between Attorney General Hoar and Judge Erskine, of Geor gia. Wiiliam M- Wood, from Ohio, who was an officer under General Thayer, was supported by Senator Warner, General Sherman and Ohio In fluence. Spencer, favored Humphreys. Wood has been one of Alabama’s chancellors. The Spanish minister to-day gave satisfactory as surances to the State Department that the gunboats now at New York would not bo used against Peru; and as a consequence tho Peruvian minister is sat isfied, and no longer insists on their detention. The Secretary of State has, therefore, directed At torney Pierrepont to enter a nolle prosequi in Court to-morrow, the result nf which will be the release of the Spanish gunboats. The Virginia Legislative Committee had an in terview to-day with General Butler, Chairman of the Committee on Reconstruction, with a view to the immediate admission of the State. They will be successful, but it is said the admission will be accompanied by a required pledge that the Consti tution shall be faithfully carried out. Revenue to-day $250,000. The'Senate confirmed Belknap Secretary of War. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy, sent in a num ber of nominations, which were referred, including Geo. P. Shepley, of Maine, first; Lewis B. Wood ruff, of New York, second; Wm. McKennan, of Pennsylvania, third; Geo. A Pearoe, fourth; Wm. B. Woods, of Alabama, fifth; George A Yeaman, of Kentucky, Gth; Thos. Drummond, of Illinois, 7th; Lorenzo Sawyer, of California, 9 th; no nomi nation (or the 8th. Also, Charles Clinton, Assistant Treasurer at New Orleans. The Senate caucus committee nominations were adopted. Williams introduced a resolution, that no State shall be allowed to withdraw its ratification of the United States Constitution. - The bill relieving some five hundred from polit ical disabilities, which passed tho. House, passed the Senate and goes to the President. Among the relieved is Clanton Duncan, of Kentucky, and Judge Ackerman, of Georgia. The Judiciaiy Committee was directed to inquire whether, within the borders of tho United States, the rights secured by treaty stipulations or the four teenth amendment, were denied to any person. Washington, December 7.—The Great Northern mail going Sonth failed to connect this morning on account of a snow-storm which prevailed North and West, generally delaying trains. A gale prevailed, but no disasters on sea or land are reported. The Commissioner of Agricnltnre, in a report to the President, estimates tho cotton crop at two millions, seven hundred thousand hales. Senators and members of the House elect, and several members of the Legislature of Virginia, paid their respects to the President this morning. They thanked him for the recommendation in his message/ • The President hoped the future conduct of Virginia would justify him. Tho delegation asked the appointment of Alexan der Rives one of the new District Judges. Tho Election Committee havo appointed a sub committee to consider and report on the.Louisiana elections. Mr. Kerr is a member of the sub-com- mitteo and in consideration of the Louisiana cases is virtually made a member of the Election Com mittee, and can have Its privileges regarding a minority report. In tho House, tho topics of the'message aro being referred to various committees. The part refer ring to Virginia and Georgia- goes to tho Recon struction Committee. Special treasury agents Bell and Elder have been removed for alleged complication with revenue frauds of tho British brig Oriental, at New Or leans. In tho Senate, Mr. Morton introduced a joint resolution admitting Virginia and tho admission of her Senators and Representatives. Mr. Trumbull introduced a resolution making it penal for any member of Congress to r-eommend a person for office under a minimum fine of fivo thousand dollars. In tho Supreme Court, Farmington again '. Saun ders, from the district of West Tennessee, tho de cision of tho Court below was sustained. The cot ton tax, imposed under the internal revenne law of 1866, in the Court of Error, was taken up; the plaintiff in error contending that the tax is invalid, because unconstitutional; as being a direct tax without apportionment, and as being a tax on State exportations. The Committee on elections reported'favorahly on the credentials of Heften, Dox, and Sherrard, of Alabama. They were sworn in. The Reconstruction Committee meets Thursday. The admission of Virginia is expected on Friday or Tuesday. A Caban letter to the New York Tribune contains accounts of three engagements on the lltli and 13th of November. The Spaniards attacked the Cuban position at Malagua, in large force, and were re pulsed with heavy loss. Subsequently, a heavy column of Spaniards were routed at Anguada del Santo, near Trinidad, and were pursued by the Cabans to-the suburbs of tho city. A detachment of Catalans were annihilated npon the lino of tho Paerto Principe Railroad. CONGRESSIONAL. Washington, December 7 — Senate—A bill was introduced to encourage the international exhibition. The Senate adjourned while the President’s Secre tary entered with nominations. House.—But! er introduced a bill to repeal tho ten ure of office act. Stevenson, of Ohio, introduced a bill, two-thirds of both houses concurring, for the removal of po litical disabilities npon the adoption of the fifteenth amendment. • FROM ALABAMA. Montgomery, December 8.—In tho Senate only local bills were actod on. In the House, a lively time was had over the re port of the Election Committee to eject Mr. Brown, member from Chambers. It was not disposed of at adjournment. Judge Busteed is here, it is understood, to hold a Bankrupt Court. The following resolution was adopted by the Huntsville Bar at the late session, and causes much comment here: Resolved, That the Hon. Richard Bnsteed, by the dignity, courtesy, impartiality and ability with which he has dispatched the business of this term, has won the respect and esteem of the Bar, and entitled him self and the court over which he presides to public confidence. - • FROM ALABAMA. Montgomery, December 7.—In the Senate, a me morial from the Board of Regents of the State University, was read. It asked heavy donations from the State, and acknowledged that the Univer sity, as at present controlled, had not been a suc cess, and that in consequence of the enemies of the present faculty, only thirty pupils were in attend ance. Owing to the sickness of tho presiding officer, a President pro tem. of the Senate was elected. Royal, (negro,) and the only one in tho Senate, was nominated. Worthy, the only Democratic Sen ator, declined, and nominated and voted for Royal Barr, late Surgeon General of Ohio, was elected. A bill was introduced to divide the State into fonr judicial districts and for court to he held twice a year by the circuit judges qf the different circuits, similar to the circuit court system of the United States. The common school hill, which provides for tax ing property holders to build school houses and to pay teachers, was discussed. The effect of the bill will bo to teach the negroes at the expense of the whites. In the House, resolutions were offered asking why teachers of public of the members said the money wJ!?^ ^ Superintendent. Some stated t^Uhe ^ 6 ” 7 ^ got to the Superintendent’s hands A bill was reported, nnfavorablv. to lhnll city court of Selma and also to revise JtS* ^ digest all the laws of the State. ’ pabll8 -»aa NATIONAL BOARD OF Richmond, Va., December 7.-The ^ 7® the National Board or Trade, accommr.U^" 1 '* two hundred citizens and a large nnmbefoM*^ sailed on an excursion this moving on th/ ^ I««c BeU, of tho New York ahd Richmond collation was given on the steamer, at whi.W A were made by Mr. Fraley, of Philadelphi a Ropes and Guild, of Boston; and Mr T. i 1{ * Srt ' Paul On arriving at City Point they Petersburg, where a banquet was given th. Jc ,0f Board of Trade of that city, at JalretVa the conclusion of the banquet an express n.- , M for Norfolk with many members of the Bdaid. who are to be received thereby the^ of Trade of that city. 7 “ 9 A committee of the extreme wing of th. „ lican party left to-night for Washington the admission of the State. °PPow FROM- LOUISIANA. New Orleans, December 7.—A Washinef^ a- patch, stating that Dr. Fsulkner is there ting against his removal from the Monroe sana, Land Office, is commented on by the Pi M HIT as follows: Dr. Faulkner, alluded to i a th/? 8 patches, is the samo individual who was Pnb v p by the newspapers in tills city and countrymw/ made a bold attempt to swindle a life inenm!? company. That this man should he retainedT* office of trust, under the Government, is s shame. ' CI ^ C 8 Col Alexander, the * absconding bogus torn, agent, is sojourning in Windsor, Canada. 7 The Custom House has a supply of witer Ti compromised with tho water-works. TEXAS ELECTION. Galveston, December 6—The counties of He- Clennan, Fort Bend, Walker, Bexor, Washington Hill, Colorado, Montgomery, Brasora, Bsshn Grimes, Jackson, Victoria, Bowie, Cass and Datfe« give Davis an aggregate majority of 6,822. counties of Bell, Ellis, Falls, Congell, Wilkicson Hays, Travis, and Caldwell, givo Hamilton an sgn* gate majority of 2,049. McCIennan county, umS. dally reported for Hamilton, went for Davis. GENERAL NEWS. New York, December 7.—The elections are pro- greasing unusually quiet. A candidate fora!J er . man in the twentieth ward was dangerously shot Lawrence, Mass., December 7.—The Democrats elect the Mayor of this city. The Council is eqm!!t divided! Philadelphia, December 7—The Merchants’ Exchange, on the comer of Third and Walnut street*, is burning. The chandelier fell, and within ten minutes the whole building was in flames. FOREIGN NEWS. Paris, December 8—Glois Bezoin has been elect ed deputy for the fourth Paris district by seventeen thousand majority. The ministry have resigned. Emile Ollivier, with thirty Liberal adherents, it forming a newpaity, from which the formation cl a Parliamentary ministry is possible. Letters from Madrid report Prim leaning towaria the Republicans. Eiorence, December 8.—A ministry crisis is pending. The King authorizes General Ceallii r to fomi a new ministry. London, December 8—The correspondent of the London Times is excluded from Roms. Vienna, December 8.—Austria demands the sanc tion of the European Powers to cross the Turkish territory for the prompt suppression of tho Dalma tian insurrection. Madrid, December 8.—The Republicans have ap pointed a committee to investigate the cases of Be- pablicans held for insurrection. Paris, December 8.—The Prince of Montenegro protests against Austrian occupation, and Piuesii sustains Montenegro. Paris, December 7.—The Austrian Government reports overwhelming proor of Prussian participa tion in the recent Dalmatian insurrection. Preparing to 'Break Up Congress. What does ; Mr. Trumbull mean by his bill fining nil members of Congress who recommend persons for office ? He surely must entertain ultimate and sinister designs against the exist ence of thalEody. The idea that such men ss now ran the' Congressional machine can give their whole time to legislating for the good of the country and nothing else, is preposterous- Mr. Trumbull shonU know his associates better. Why, if this source of revenue were cut off, Congressmen could not get rich in one session. They would be compelled to slave out three or four terms, before realizing enough to set npa brown-stone; front, with tnadame in velvet and diamonds, miss in pearls and silk, and green backs by the armful. Mr. Trumbull mayfad some backers among those members who have made their fortunes oat of offioo seekers, and wish to be rid of farther boring, bnt the tribe of frosh leeches who are on their first draw aid fight him to the death. The Democratic Press and Mr. TUl’l Proposition. We are happy to note the fact that the Mac® Telegraph, Columbus Sun, Savannah Bepabn- can, and other able and influential Democrats journals of the State fully sustain the policy ® the Intelligencer on the ill-advised proposition to reseat the colored members and ratify th* fifteenth abomination.—Atlanta Intelligent^ of December 8th. The last we hoard of our friend, the Atlanta Intelligencer, he was with the Macon Telegi*?' 1 and with Mr. Tift ia the proposition (not to tdt for the fifteenth amendment but) to reseat the negroes. How the’ Intelligencer got where he >s now, and when he got there, we do not see clearly. But it is a question of goat’s wooL • is a matter of no-acoount any how, as the thing turns ont. YVe should have been quite willing to have compromised with Congress by reseat ing the negro members, if that would have don* it; bnt as Congress is not in the humor for W- commodation, let them follow their bent what becomes of all these sage and saga® 00 * prognosticators in Georgia, who said there was no danger that Congress would touch ns how, and laughed at the apprehensions of tbs Telegraph as timid, old womanish, and so ® Are they not shrewd—sagacious—safe counse lors—Solomons ? Can’t they see through a oi®’ stone? L. M. Stanton, cashier of the well 1®°” dry goods honse of J. B. Farwell & been detected in pilfering goods from his ployers. The aggregate amount taken abont $4,000. He restored $2,500 and was lowed by the firm to leave for parts uukn [Chicago Dispatch Yes, and ten to one he turns np somewhere® Georgia, say abont the time of the n „ olt e ^ tion, and pilfers something else in the a fat office. When .a man has been fonn in this sort of thing at the North, he puts on cloak of extreme “loyalty," and hies him ward, where, it is no exaggeration to say, peculiar talents have, under the working 9 ° thing called “reconstruction,” been to an alarming extent. We have not heart last of Stanton, depend npon it. St. John’s River.—The Columbus says the steamer Panasofka, during the ^ part of the month of November, navig*t» ^ St. John’s river, in Florida, a distance 0 hundred and fifty miles above any p 16 , navigation. It is now practically demons . that this river is navigable for steamers ^ hundred and fifty miles. The country * ^ the portion of the river thus visited for ^ time by a steamboat, is described aa* offering fine inducements for settieme • ^ An Indiana man, of an enquiring ^ mind, put one end of a gun-barrel int _ ko[ber ii ,, - - _ whether ** anil looked down the muzzle to see was loaded. A coroner’s jury dec-idea suspicions were correct.