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Tile Cxeorgia “Weekly Telega-apli arid Join-mil Mlessenger. Telegraph ..1 tag.-. »S«« MACON, DECEMBER 14, 1869. Tho “Georgia Imbroglio.’? The Atlanta New Era printed in pamphlet form the secret proceedings of the caucus of the Radical Committee, held on the 24th day of November last, in which Congress is appealed to, in behalf of the united and unanimous Re publican party of Georgia, to take immediate retributive measures without awaiting the action •of the Legislature of the State. Tho New Era, therefore, knew all about that dark conooction long ago; but, like the caucus, he kept secret knowledge. He did not impart it to his readers. He kept it as safely ns the oommittco, until after he, like them, had dis- oovered that an article in the Tzleqbakh an® Messenger made further secreoy unavailing. But for that article the secret would doubtless have been preserved by both the Era and the • Committee, to this day, in order to give time for the active agents in the conspiracy to ope rate on Congress, while tho people at home should rest under the impression that Congress would wait a reasonable time upon the Legisla ture of Georgia. ^ It was to steal a march on the State. It was lighting her upon the bushwhacking principle. It was an attempt to destroy her from under cover—a sort of political assassination by sur prise and stealth. When thi3 attempt is discovered by the Tele- graph and laid bare to tho public, Foster Blodg ett sends us a copy of the resolutions and simul taneously tho New Era for the first time last Sunday betrays any knowledge of their exist ence by reprinting them without note or com ment! But what imparts to the proceeding a more deadly treachery to the interests of Georgia is tho fact that the New Era has been, so far, to all human appearance, persistent and consistent nits effort to heal the breach between tho Leg islature and Congress. It ha3 steadily assured the Legislature of its power to reconcile this difference, and even in the number of Sunday publishes an article from the New York Times headed tho “Georgia Imbroglio” and calls upon the Georgia Democratic press and the Legisla ture to be on their guard, and look out for squalls, and washes its hands of all responsibility. But all this long time it has been privy to the conspiracy for tho taking off, no matter what the press says or what tho Legislature does' Could anything bo more crafty or Jesuitical? He flies in his paper the flag of conciliation and accommodation^ and carries, buttoned up in his pocket, the death warrant and all the de tails of execution and burial. Let the Legislature be careful what they do, says tho New Era in his paper, and don’t give them a chance to do anything, secretly agrees the New Era in the caucus. Be careful what you do, or you will be cut off, says tho New Era in his paper; cut them off before they have a chance to do anything, says the New Era in the caucus memorial to Congress. These aro the politics that remind one of the old times of Guy Faulkes, tho Inquisition, the St. Barthlomew massacre, the plot of the meal* tub—Cardinal Mazarin—the Medecis—or any other black period in history when honest man kind walked over cunningly-contrived traps and pitfalls. The Last Spike Driven. The last spike on the Macon & Brunswick Railroad was driven a few hours ago, and that •grand highway to tho sea is now a fact accom plished. Surely, after fifteen or twenty years of earnest endeavor in behalf of such a work as this, it would have been proper that its final oompletion should have been signaled by some extraordinary demonstration of pnblic joy. It should have been inaugurated by pnblic pro cessions, speaking, illuminations and bonfires. The authorities of Macon and Brunswick should have shaken hands over the last rail and cross tie which bound the seaboard and the interior together in indissoluble ties of a community of Interest and constant daily intercourse. Bnt, unluckily, the cars and the motive power have not arrived by means of which the popu lations of the two cities could have been brought to the central point These means of locomo tion are in transit, and it will bo some days yet before passenger trains can be run upon the road. They will probably be started about the 15th instant To-morrow, we understand, the first through freight train will leave Macon for the seaboard by this route, and we hope it will be the beginning of a heavy trade. It has been the good fortune of all the Georgia railroads that their actual traffic has exceeded the most sanguine expectations, and we doubt not this will bo tho case with tho Brunswick railroad. Exactly. The Tribnne, referring to “ revenue frauds’ and “whisky smuggling” in Alaska, naively adds: “ It seems that wherever the Star-Span gled Banner waves we are bound to hear of rev enue frauds. ’ Of course you aro. It is not the flag, though, that's at fault. It is the fault of those who wave it, and who claim exclusive proprietorship of it —that’s all. Time was when tho flag did not wave for such purposes as now disgrace it. Then it was the symbol and guarantee of official integrity at home and abroad. Now its folds are used as a cloak for tho most appalling and unblushing raids upon the people’s pockets that ever delighted knave3 or disgusted and impov erished honest men. - Geobob Joses, publisher of the New York Times, and owner of one-third of the stock, is trying to buy oat the stock held by politicians, and run the journal independent of politics. We hope Mr. George Jones, publisher, may •succeed in his efforts. If ho runs his paper on •the lino it now occupies he will find himself in an “elbow” of poplar disapprobation much 'harder to get out of than that of the famous “Mincio." As matters now go, the Times is -winning a reputation among the more thought- •fnl and liberal Republicans far from onviable— one which would cause the dead Raymond to turn in his coffin if ho knew of it. When we see one of the foremost journals of tho country prostituting its powers to farther such base and wicked schemes against the peace and safety and rights of Georgia as those lately unmasked by the Telegraph as® Messenger, there is no sort of question of the propriety of its being run “independent of politics.” As the family of Mr. Theodore Parnell, who was moving from Darlington, S. 0., to Missouri, were assembled around a camp-fire, about six miles from Augusta, on Thursday night last, a man mounted on an iron-grey horse, rode np to •the oamp, and without the least provocation drew his pistol and commenced firing into the enoampment. He discharged two shots, one of which took effect in the hip of a little girl, about six years of age, standing by the oamp fire. The base wretch then rode off, without the least explanation as to who he was, or what prompted his infamous act. The Tennessee hog market is quite activo. The Cleveland Banner says number one hogs sell readily in that market at 10 cents per pound, net, and are in good request. A good lot was bought a few days ago, for which the purchasers paid 8jj to 9 cents, gross. ViHKns Ream, the smart, good looking girl, who “sculps” for a living, is at present engaged in the herculean effort of idealizing Brownlow's classic features in marble. To the Senate and House of Representatives : In coming before you for the first time as Chief Magistrate of a great nation, it is with gratitude to the Giver of all good for the many benefits we en joy. TTe are blessed with peace at homo, without entangling alliances abroad to forebode trouble; •nith territory unsurpassed in fertility—of area equal to the abundant support of five hundred mil lions of people, abounding in every variety of use ful mineral, in quantify sufficient to supply the world for generations, exuberant crops, variety of climate, adapted to the production of every species of earth’s riches, suited to the habits, tasteB and requirements of every living thiDg. A population of 40,000,000 of free people, speaking on o language, facilities for every mortal to acquire education, in stitutions closing to none the avenuo to fame, or any fortune that may bo coveted: freedom of pul pit, press and school; revenue flowing into tho na tional treasury beyond requirements of tho govern ment. Happily, harmony is being rapidly restored within our own borders; manufactures hitherto unknown in our country are springing up in all sections, pro ducing a degree of national independence unequal ed by any other power. These blessings and count-, less others are entrusted to your care and mine for safe keeping, for the brief period of our tenure of office. In a short time we must each of us return to tlio ranks of tho peoplo, who havo conferred our honors, and account to them for our stewardship. I earnestly desire that neither you nor I may be condemned by a free and enlightened constituency, nor by our consciences. Emei ging from a rebellion of gigantic magnitude, aided as it was by tho sym pathies and assistance of nations with which wo were at peace, eleven States of the Union were four years ago left without legal State governments. A national debt bad been contracted; American commerce was almost driven from tho seas; the in dustry of ono-balf tho country had been taken from tho control of capitalists and placed where all labor rightfully belongs, in the keeping of tho laborer. The work of restoring Stato Governments loyal to the Union, of protecting and fostering free labor and providing tho meaus for paying the interest on the public debt, has received ample attention from Congress. Although your efforts have not met with success in all particulars that might havo been desired, yet, on the whole, they havo been more successful than could have been reasonably antici pated. Seven States which passed ordinances of secession, have been fully restored to their places in tho Union. The eighth (Georgia) held an elec tion at which she ratified her Constitution, republi can in form, elected a Governor, members of Con gress, a Stato legislative and other officers required. The Governor was installed, the Legislature met and performed all acts then required of them by tho reconstruction acts of Congress. Subsequent ly, however, in violation of tho constitution which they had just ratified, as since decided by the Su preme Court of the State, they unseated colored members of tho Legislature and admitted to. their seats somo members who aro disqualified by tho third clause of the fourteenth amendment—an ar ticle which they, themselves, had contributed to ratify. Under these circumstances, I would submit to you whether it would not be wise, without delay, to enact a law authorizing the Governor of Georgia to convene the members originally elected to tho Legislature, requiring each to take the oath pro scribed by t%o reconstruction acta, and none to be admitted who are ineligible under that clause of the amendment. Tho freedmen, under the protection which they havo received, aro making rapid progress in learn ing. and no complaints aro heard of lack of industry on their part, where they receive fair remuneration for their labor. The means provided for paying the interest on tho public debt, with all other expenses of tho gov ernment, are more than ample. The loss of our commerce is only tho result of tho late rebellion, which has not received sufficient attention from you. To this subject I call your earnest attention. I will not now suggest plans by which this object may bo effected, but will, u neces sary, make it tho subject of a special massago dur ing the session of Congress. The March term of Congress, by a joint resolu tion, authorized the Executive to order elections in the States of Virginia, Mississippi and Texas, to submit to them Constitutions which each bad pre viously framed, and to submit tho Constitutions cither entire or in eeparato parts, to be voted upon. At the discretion of the Executive, under this au thority, elections were called in Virginia. The elec tion took place on the 6th of July. The Governor and Lieutenant Governor elected havo been instal led ; tho Legislature met and did all required by this resolution and by all the reconstruction acts of Congress, and abstained from all doubtful authori ty. I recommend that her Senators and Represen tatives be promptly admitted to then- scats, and that the State be fully restored to its place in the family of States. Elections were called in Mississippi and Texas, to commence on tho 80th of November—two days in Mississippi and four days in Texas. The elections have taken place, but the result is not known. It is hoped that the acts of the Legislatures of these States, when they meet, will be such as to re ceive yonr approval, and thus close tho work of re construction. Among the evils growing out of tho rebellion and not referred to, is that of an irredeemable currency. It is an evil which I hope will receive your most ear nest attention. It is a duty—one of the highest du ties—of the government to seenre to citizens a me dium of exchange of fixed and unvarying value. This implies a return to a specie basis, and no sub stitute for it can bo devised. It should be com menced now and reached at the earliest practicable moment consistent with a fair regard to the inter ests of the debtor class. Immediate resumption, if practicable, would not bo desirable. It would com pel the debtor class to pay beyond their contracts, the premium on gold at the date of tbeir pnrcbaee, and would bring bankruptcy and ruin to thousands. Fluctuation, however, in the paper valuo of tho measure of all values, gold; is detrimental to tho interests of trade. It makes tho man of busi ness an involuntary gambler, for in all sales whero future payment is to be made both parties speculate a3 to what will bo the value of tho currency to bo paid and received. I earnestly recommend to you, then, such legis lation as will insure a gradual return to specie pay ments, and put an immediate stop to tho fluctuation in value of currency. The methods to secure the former of these results are as numerous as specula tors on political economy. To secure the latter I see but one way, and that is to authorize th9 treasury to redeem its own paper at a fixed price, whenever presented, and to withhold from circulation all cur rency so redeemed nntil sold again for gold. The vast resources of tho nation, both developed and undeveloped, ought to make our credit the best on earth, with a lees burden as taxation than citizens have endured for six years past, tho entire public debt could he paid in t>-n years, bnt it is not dcsir- ablo that tho peoplo should bo taxed to pay it in that time. Year by year the ability to pay increases in rapid ratio, but the bnrdcn of interest ought to bo reduced rapidly as soon as it can without violation of con tract. Tho public debt is represented in great part by bonds, having from fivo to twenty and from ten to forty years to run, bearing interest at the rate of six and five per cent, respectively. It is optional with the government to dispense with tbeso bonds at the earliest period after their expiration in tho least time mentioned upon their faca. The time has already expired when a great part may bo taken up. and rapidly approaching when all may be. It is believed that all wliich aro now duo may be replaced by bonds bearing a rate of interest not exceeding four end a half per cent., and as rapidly as the re mainder become due that they may be replaced in tho same way. To accomplish this it may be ncei ssa- rv to authorize the interest to he paid at either of three or fonr of the money centres of Europe or by any assistant treasurer of the United .States at tho option of holder of bond. I suggest this subject for the consideration of Congress, and also simul taneously with this proposition redeeming our cur rency as before suggested at its market value at tho timo tho law goes into effect, increasing the rate at which cnrrency will ho bought and sold from day to day or week to week at the same rate of in terest as gold pays upon its bonds. Tho subject of tariff and internal taxation will necessarily receivo your attention. Tho revenues of the country are greater than tho requirements, and may with safety be reduced': bnt as the fund ing of tho debt in a fonr or four and a half per cent loan would redneo tho annual current expenses largely; tlms, after funding, justifying a greater reduction of taxation than would bo now expedient, I suggest tho postponement of this question until the next meeting of Congress. It maybe advisable to modify taxation and tariff in instances where un- just or burdensome discriminations are made by tbe present law, bnt a general revision of the laws regulating this subject, I recommend postponement for the present. I also suggest a renewal of the tax on incomes, bnt at a teduced rate, say three per cent., and this.tax to expire in three years — with the fnnding of the national debt, as hero sug gested. I feel safe in saying that taxes and revenne from imports may bo reduced safely from sixty to eighty millions per annum at once and may be still further reduced from year to year, as tho resources of the country develops. The report of the Secretary of the Tre&snry shows the receipts of tho government for the flecalyear ending June SO, lobe 6370,943,747 expenditures inclnding interests, bounties ect., to bo $321,490,597; estimates for the ensning year are more favorable to the government and will no donbt show a much larger decrease of tho pnblic debt The receipts in the Treasury beyond expenditures have exceeded the amount necessary to place to the credit of the sinking fund as provided by law; to lock up the surplus in tlie Treasury and withhold it from circulation, would lead to such a contraction of cur rency as to cripple trade and seriously affect the prosperity of the country. Under these circumstances, the Secretary of tho Treasury and myself heartily concurred in tho pro priety of using all surplus currency ia-the Treasury m purchasing government bonds, thus reducing tho interest bearin ingdebtedness or tho country, and of submitting to Congress the question of the dis position to be made of bonds so purchased. Bonds now held by the Treasury amount to $75,000,000. including those belonging to the sinking fund. I recommend that the whole be placed to the credit of the sinking fund. Yonr attention is respectfully invited to the re commendations of the Secretary of the Treasury for the creation of tho office of Commissioner of Customs and Revenue; for increased salary of cer tain classes cf officials, and the substitution of in creased national bank circulation to replace the out standing three per cent, certificates; and most especially to his recommendation for the repeal of the laws allowing Bbares of fines, penalties, for feitures, etc., to officers of the government or to informers. The office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue, one of the most arduous and responsible under the government, falls little short of Cabinet position in its importance and responsibilities. I would ask for it. therefore, such legislation as in yonr judgment will place the office upon that footing of dignity commensurate with its importance, and with a character and qualifications of that class of men required to fill it properly. As tho United States is freest of all nations, so, too, its people sympathise with all peoples strug gling for liberty and self-government. Bnt. while so sympathizing, it is due to our honor that wo should abstain from enforcing our views upon un willing nations, and from taking an interested part, without invitation, in quarrels between different na tions, or between governments and their subjects. Our course should always be in conformity with strict justice and law. In international and local affairs, such has been the policy of the administration with these questions. For more than a year a valuable province of Spain, and a near neighbor of oure, in whom all our people can not but feel deep interest, has been struggling for independence and freedom. The people and government of tho United States entertain the same warm feelings and sympathiesfor the peoplo of Cuba, in their pending struggle, that they manifested throughout the previous struggles between Spain and her former colonies in behalf of tho latter; but tho contest has at no time assumed conditions which amount to war, in the sense of in ternational law, or which would show the evidences of a de facto political organization of insurgents sufficient to justify a recognition of belligerency. The principle is maintained, however, that this na tion is its own judge when to accord rights of bel ligerency either to a peoplo struggling.to free them selves from a government they believe to ha op pressive. or to independent nations atwar with each other. Tlio United States have no disposition to in terfere with the existing relations of Spain to her colonial possessions on this continent. They believe that in duo time Spain and other Eu ropean powers will find their interest in terminating those relations and establishing their present de pendencies as independent powers.' Tliosedepend- endes aro no longer regarded as subject to transfer from one European power to another. When the present relation of colonies ceases, they are to be come independent powers, exercising the right of choice and of self-control in the determination of their future condition aud relations with other powers. Tho United States, in order to put a atop to bloodshed in Cnba and for tho interest of the neighboring people, proposed good offices to bring the existing condition to a termination; but the offer not being accepted by Spain, on tho basis on ■which wo believed it could be received by Cuba, it was withdrawn. It is hoped that the good offices of the United States may yet prove advantageous for the settlement of this unhappy strife. Meanwhile, a number of illegal expeditions against Cuba have been broken up. It has been the endeavor of the Administration to execute the neutrality laws, no matter hownnpleasant the task, made so by the suf fering wo have endnred from lack of like good faith towards ns by other nations. On the 26th of March last, tho United States schooner Lizzie Major was arrested on high seas by a Spanish frigate, and two passengers taken and carried prisoners to Cuba. Representations of these facts were made to the Spanish Government as soon as official information reached Washington, and the two passengers were set at liberty, and the Spanish Government assured the United States that the Captain of the frigate in making the capture had acted without law; that he had been reprimanded, and tb&t the Spanish authorities in Cuba would not sanction any act that would violate the rights or treat with disrespect the sovereignty of this nation. The question of the seizure of the brig Mary Lowell, at Bahama, by Spanish authorities, ib now the subject of correspondence between this Government, Spain and Great Britain. The Captain General of Cnba about May last, issued a proclamation authorizing the search of vessels on tbe high seas. Immediate remonstrance was made against this, whereupon tho Captain General issued a new proclamation and limited the search to vessels of the United States authorized by the treaty of 1829. This proclama tion, however, was immediately withdrawn. I have always felt that the most intimate rela tions shonld 'be cultivated between tho United States and independent nations on this continent. It must be well worth considering whether new treaties between ub and them may not he profitably entered into, to seenre more intimate relations, friendly, commercial, and otherwise. Tho inter- oceanic canal, to connect the Atlantic and Facific Oceans, through the Isthmus of Darien, is one in which commerce is greatly interested. Instructions have been given onr ministers to the United States of Columbia, to endeavor to obtain authority for a survey, to determine tho practica bility of the undertaking. In order to comply with the agreement of the United States to the annexed commission at Lima, for the adjustment of claims, it becomes necessary to send a commissioner and secretary to Lima. The good offices of the United States to bring about peace between Spain and the South American Republics having been accepted by Spain, Peru and Chili, a congress has been invited to be held in Washington during the present winter. A grant has been given to Europeans of an ex clusive right of transit over the territory of Nica ragua, to which Costa Bica has given its assent, which it is alleged conflicts with vested rights of cit izens of the United States. The Department of State has now this subject under consideration. Tlio minister of the Peruvian Government hae made representations that there was war between Pern and Spain, and that Spain was constructing in or near New York thirty gunboats, which might be uied by Spain to release her naval force at Cuba, to operato against Pern. Orders were given to pre vent their departure. No further steps have been taken by tho representative of the Peiuvian Gov ernment to prevent the departure of these vessels, and I, not feeling authorized to detain tlio property of & nation with which we are at peace, on mere Executive order, the matter was referred to the Courts. The conduct of the war between the a Hies and Republic of Paraguay, has made intercourse with that country difficult. It has been deemed advisa ble to withdraw our representative from there. Towards the close of the last administration a con vention was held in London for the settlement of outstanding claims between Great Britain and tbe United States, which failed to receivo the advice and consent of the Senate. The time and circum stances attending the negotiation of that treaty were unfavorable to its acceptance by tbe people of the United States, and its provisions were wholly inadequate for the settlement of grave wrongs sus tained by this government. Injuries resulting to tbe United States by reason of tho courso adopted by Great Britain during tho war, increased tho rates of insurance; in diminution of transports and exports and other obstructions to thb do mestic industry and progress; in its effect on the foreign commerco of tho countiy; in tlio de crease and transfer io Great Britain of onr com mercial marine; in tho progress of the war and the increase of its cost, both in treasure and the delay- ingof its suppression, could not be adjusted and sat isfied, as ordinary commercial claims wliich contin ually ariae'beteen commercial nations. And yet the Convention treated them simply as such ordiinary claims, from which they differ more widely in tho gravityof tlieir character than tho magnitude of their amount. Greatevenasis that difference, not award wsb found in tlie treaty and not an inference conld be drawn from it, to remove tbe Benso of unfriendli ness of the courso of Great Britain, In our strug gle for existence, which had eo deeply and univers ally impressed itself upon tho people of this coun try, that a convention thus misconceived in its scope, and inadequate in its provisions, would not have produced the hearty, cordial settlement of the pending questions, which alone is consistent with tho relations which I deairo to have firmly estab lished between tbo United States and Great Britain. I regarded tbe action of the Senate in rejecting the treaty to have been wisely taken in tbe interest of peace, and as a necessary step in the direction of a proper and cordial friendship between tho two coun tries. A sensitive people, conscious of their power, aro more at ease under a great wrong,' wholly unatonod, than under tho restraint of a settlement which sat ieties neither their ideas of justico nor their grave senEo of tho grievance they have sustained.. The rejection of the treaty was followed by a state of public feeling on both sides which I thought not fa vorable to an attempt at renewed negotiations. I accordingly so instructed the Minieterof the United StateB to Great Britain, and found that my views in this regard were shared by Her Majesty’s Minister, . I hope that the timo may soon arrive when tho two governments can approach tho solution of this momentons question with an appreciation of what is duo to the rights, dignity and honor of each, and with the determination not only to remove the causes of complaint in the past, bnt to Ipy the foundation of a broad principle of pnblic law, which will pre vent future differences and tend to a firm and con tinued peace and friendship. This is now the only grave question which the United States has with any foreign nation. The question of renewing a treaty for a recipro cal trade between the United States and British provinces on this continent, was favorably consid ered in conformity with the recommendation of Congress.' An appropriation to abolish mixed courts for the suppression of the slave trade is un der negotiation. '■ , _ _ _ It having como to my knowledge that a corporate company has organized under British laws; pro posed to land upon the shores of the United States, and to operate there, a submarine cable, under a concession from tbe Emperor of the French, of an exclusive right, for twenty years, of telegraphic communication between the shores of France and tbe UnitedStates, with a very objectionablefe&ture of subjecting all messages conveyed thereby to the scrutiny and control of the French Govern ment, caused the French and British legation at Washington to be made acquainted with the proba ble policy of Congress on this eubject, as fore shadowed by a bill which passed the Senate in March last. This drew from tho representatives of tho com pany an agreement to accept aa a basis of their op* erations the provisions of the bill, or such other en actment on the subject as might be passed during the approaching session of Congress; also, to use their iufiuence to secure from the French Govern ment a modification of their concession to permit the landing of any cable belonging to any company incorporated by the authority of the United States or any State in the Union, and on their part not to oppose the establishment of any snob cable. In consideration of this agreement, I directed the withdrawal of all opposition by the United States to the landing of the cable nntil the meeting of Con gress. I regret to say that there has been no modi fication made in the company’s concession, nor, so far as I can learn, have they attempted to' secure one. Them concession excludes the capital and citi zens of the United States from competition upon the shores of France. I recommend legislation to pro tect tho rights of citizens of the United States, and the sovereignty of the nation, against such an im position. I shall also endeavor to secure, by negotiation, ml abandonment of the principle of monopolies in ocMO telegraphic cables. The unsettled political condi tion of other countries less fortunato than our own, sometimes indnceB their citizens to come to the United States for the solo purpose of becoming nat uralized. Having secured this, they return to their native countiy and reside tliero without disclosing their chaDga of allegianco. They accept official po sitions of trust or honor which can only bo held by citizens of their nativo lands; they journey undor passports describing them as such citizens, and it is only when discovery, after, perhaps, years of quiet, threatens their persons or their property, or when their nativo State drafts them into its military ser vice, that their change of allegianco is known. They reside permanently away from the United States; contribute nothing to its revenues; avoid duties of citizenship, and only make themselves known by a claim of protection. I have directed tho diplomatic and consular of ficers to scrutinize carefully all such claims of pro tection. The citizen of the United States, whether native or adopted, who discharges his duty to his country, is entitled to its complete protection. While I havo a voice in the direction of affairs, I shall not consent to imperil this sacred right by conferring it upon fictitious or fraudulent claimants. Invitations have been extended to tho Cabinets at London, Paris, Florence, Berlin, Brussels, tho Hague at Copenhagen and Stockholm, to empower their representatives at Washington to simulta neously enter into a negotiation and to conclude with the United States conventions identical in form, making uniform regulations as to tho con struction of parts of vessels to be devoted to tho carrying of emigrant passengers, as to quality and quantify of food; as to the medical treatment of tho sick, and to tho rules to bo observed during tho voyage, in order to secure ventilation to promote health, to prevent intrusion, and to protect tho fe males, and providing for the establishment of trib unals in tbo several countries for enforcing such regulations by summary process. Your attention is respectfully called to tlie law regulating tlie tariff on Russian liemp, and to tho question whether to fix tho charges on Russian hemp higher than they aro fixed upon manilla is not a violation of our treaty with Russia, placing her products upon tho eamo footing with those of the most favored nations. Onr manufactures are in creasing with wonderfal rapidity under tho encour agement which they now receivo with tho improve ments in machinery already effected and still in creasing, causing machinery to take the place of skilled labor to a large extent. Our imports of many articles must fall off largely within a few years; for tunately too, manufactnrcs'are not confined to a few localities aa formerly, and it is to be hoped, will be come more and more diffused, making the interest in them eqtialin all sections. They give employment and support to hundreds of thousands of peoplo at home and retain with us tho means which otherwise would be shipped abroad. Tho extension of the railroads in Europe and the East is bringing into competition with onr agricultural products liko pro ducts of other countries. Self-interest, if not self- preservation, therefore, dictates caution against dis turbing any industrial interest of the country. It teaches us. also, the necessity of looking to other markets for tho sale of onr surplus. Our neighbors south of ns, and China and Japan, shonld receive onr special attention. It is to bo tho endea vor of tbo administration to cultivate such relations with all these nations as to entitle us to their confi dence, and make it their interest as well as ours to establish better commercial relations through the agency of a more enlightened policy than that here tofore pursued towards China. Largely duo to tho sagacity and efforts of one of our own distinguished citizens, tho world ib about to commence largely in creased relations with that populous and with that exclusive nation. As tho United States have been the initiators of this new policy, so they should be most earnest in showing their good faith in making it a success in this connection. Iadvise such legislation as will forever preclude tho enslavement of tho Chinese npon our soil un der tho name of Coolies, and also prevent American vessels from engaging in tho transportation of Coolies to any country tolorating the system. I also recommend that tho mission to China be raised to one of the first class. On my assuming tbo responsible duties of Chief Magistrate of the United States it was with the con viction that three things were essential to its peace, prosperity and fullest development. 1st. Along with these is strict integrity in fulfilling all our ob ligations. 2d. To secure protection to tho person and property of tho citizen of tho United States in each and every portion of onr common country wherever ho may choose to move, without reference to original nationality, religion, coloror politics, de manding of him only obedience to the laws and proper respect for the rights of others. 3d. Union of all the States with equal rights un- destrnctable by any constitutional means. To seenre the first of these, Congress has taken two essential steps. 1st. In declaring, by joint resolution, that tho public debt shall bepaid, principal and interest, in coin ; and 2d, by providing the means for paying. Providing the means, however, could not succeed, the obj ect desired without a proper administration of tho laws for the collection of the revenue and an economical disbursement of them. To this subject the administration has most earnestly addressed it self, with results, I hope satisfactory to tho country. There has been no hestitation in changing officials in order to seenre an efficient execution of tho laws, sometimes too,where,in mere party view.undesirable political results were likely to follow; nor any hesi tation in sustaining efficient officers against remon strances wholly political. It may bo well to men tion hero tho embarrassment possible to arieo from leaving on tho statuto books tho so-called tennre- of-offlee acts, and to earnestly recommend their to tal repeal. It could not have been tho intention of tho framers of tho Constitution, when providing that appointments made by tho President should receivo tho consent of the Senate, that tho latter should havo the power to retain in office persons placed there by Federal appointments against tho will of tho President. The law is inconsistent with a faithful and efficient administration of tho gov ernment. What faith can an Executive put in offi cials forced npon him, and those, too. whom ho has suspended for sufficient reason ? How will sneb officials bo likely to servo an administration which they know does not trust them ? For tho second requisite to our growth and pros- perify, time and a firm but linmano administration of existing laws, amended from timo to timo »b they may bo ineffective or provo barsli and unneces sary. aro probably all that aro required. Tho third cannot bo attained by special legislation, but must bo regarded as fixed by tho Constitution itself, and gradually acquiesced iu by forco of public opinion. From the foundation of the government to tho pres ent time the management of the original inhabitants of this continent, tho Indians, has lieen a subject of embarrassment and expense, and has been attended with continuous vobboiies. murders and wars. From my own experience upon the frontiers and in Indian countries, I do not hold cither legislation or . tbe conduct of tho whites who como most in; contact with tho Indians, blameless for tho hostilities. Tho past, however, cannot bo undone, and tho ques tion must be met as wo. now find it.- I liavo at tempted a new policy towards tbeso wards of tlio nation—they cannot bo regarded in any other light than as wards, with fair results so far aa tried, and which I liopo will ho attonded ultimately with great success. The Society of Friends is well known as' having succeeded in living in peaco with the Indians in tho oarly settlement of Pennsylvania, whilodheir white neighbors of other sects in other sections were con tinually embroiled. They aro also known for their opposition to all strife,, vihlipico and war, and are generally noted for tlieir strict integrity and fair dealings. These considerations induced mb to give the management of a few reservations of' Indians to them, and to throw tho burden of tho. selection of agents upon tho Society itself. Tho result has proved most satisfactory. It.-will bo found more fully set forth in tho report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Superintendents and Indian Agents noton the Reservations and officers of tho army were selected. Tho reasons for this aro numerous. Whero Indian Agents are sent there, or near there, troops must be sent also. The Agent and the commander of tho troops aro independent of each otbor, aud aro sub ject to orders from different departments of the Government Tho army officer holds a position for life—tho agent, ono at the will of tho President; tho former is personally interested in living in har mony with the Indian and in establishing a perma nent peace, to the end that some portions of his life may be spent within the limits of civilized society— tha latter lias not such personal interest. Another reason is an economic ono, aud still an other tho hold which the government has upon a life officor to secure a faithful discharge of duties in carrying out a given policy. Tho building of rail roads, and the access thereby given to all tho agri cultural and mineral regions of tha country, is rap idly bringing civilization in contact with all the tribes of Indians. No matter what ongbt to be tho rela tions between such settlements and the Indians, the fact is they do not harmonize well and ono or the other has to give way in the end. A system which looks to tho extinction of a race, is too horrible for a nation to adopt, and cannot be pursued without entailing upon itself the wrath of all Christendom and engendering in tho citizens a disregard for hu man life and the rights of others, dangerous to so ciety. I see no substitute for such a system ex cept in placing all the Indians on large reservations as rapidly as it can bo done, and giving them abso lute protection there. As soon as they aro fitted for it, they eliould be induced to take tbeir lands in severalty and to set np territorial governments for their own protection. FoFftdl details on this subject, I call yonr special attention to the reports of the Secretary of the Ul terior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Tho reoommendation of tbo General of the Army, that appropriations bo made for the forts at Boston, Portland, Now York, Philadelphia, New Orleans aqd San Francisco, if for no other, is concurred in. I call special attention to the recommendation of tbe Chief of Ordnance for the sale of arsenals and lands no longer of use to the government. Also to the recommendation of the Secretary of War, that the act prohibiting promotions in the staff corps of the army be repealed. ’ The extent of country to be garrisoned and the number of military posts to be occnpied, is the same with a reduced army as with a large one. The number of staff officers re quired is more dependent upon the latter than the former condition. The report of tho Secretary of tho Navy accompanying this, shows tho condition of the Navy when this administration came into office, and the changes made since. Strenuous ef forts havo been made to place as many vessels in commission, or render them fit for service if re quired, as possible, and to substitute the sail for steam whilst cruising; thus materially reducingthe expenses of the navy and adding greatly to its ef ficiency. Looking to our future, I recommend a liberal, though not extravagant, policy toward this branch of tho public service. The report of tho Postmaster General furnishes a clear and comprehensive exhibit of the operations of the postal service, and of tho financial condition of the postoffice department. The ordinary postal revenues, for tho year ending the 30th of June, 1869, amountod to $16,444,510, and tho expendi tures to $23,693,13L Yonr attention is respectfully called to the recom mendation made by tho Postmaster General, for au thority to change tho rate of compensation to the main trunk railroad lines, for their services, in carry ing tho mails; for having post routo maps executed; tor reorganizing and increasing the efficiency of tho special agency service; for the increase of the mail service on tho Pacific; and for establishing mail ser vice under tho flag of tho Union'on tho Atlantic; and most especially do I call yonr attention to his recommendation for tho total abolition of the frank ing privilege. This is an abuso from which no one receives a commensurate advantage. It reduces the receipts for postal service form 25 to 30 per cent, and largely increases tho servico to beperformed. Daring tho year ending 30th of September, 1869, tho Patent Office issued 13.762 patents, and its re ceipts were $686,889, being $213,926 more than the expenditures. I would respectfully call yonr atten tion to the recommendation of tho Secretary of tho Interior, for uniting tho duties of supervising tho education of freedmen, with the other duties de volving upon tho Commissioner of Education. If it is the desiro of Congress to make tho census, which must bo taken during the year 1870, more complete and peifect than heietofore, I would suggest early action npon any plan that may bo agreed upon. As Coogress, at tho last ses sion, appo nted a committeo to take into considera tion such measures as might bo deemed proper in reference to the census and to report a plan, J do- siBt from saying more. I recommend to yonr favorable consideration the claims of the Agricultural Bureau for liberal appro priations. In a country so diversified in climate and soil a3 ours, and with a population so largely dependent npon agriculture, tho benefits that can bo conferred by properly fostering this bureau are in calculable. I desiro respectfully to call the attention of Con gress to tlio inadequate salaries of a number of the most important officers of tho government. In this message I will not enumerate them, bnt will specify only tho Justices of the Supremo Court. No change has been made in their salaries for.fif- teen yoars. Within that time tho labors of tho court havo largely increased, and the expenses of living havo at least doubled. During the samo time Con gress has twice found it necessary to increase largely tho compensation of its own members, and tho duty which it owes to another department of tho government deservoa and will undoubtedly re ceive duo consideration. There are many subjects not alluded to in this message, which might, with propriety, ho intro duced ; but I abstain, believing that yonr patriotism and statesmanship will suggest the topics and the legislation most conducive to tho interests of tbo whole people. On my part, I promise a rigid ad herence to the laws, and tlieir strict enforcement. ’ U. S. Ghast. Washington, December 6th, 1869. Hiring Hands. The time for new contracts and arrangements for another year of agricultural adventure is now rapidly approaching, and there are proba bly few among agricultural readers whose minds are not occnpied with the general subject matter of labor engagements for the year 1S70. A wide discrepancy of opinion still exists among planters as to the best method of con tracting for labor—whether npon shares or stip ulated monthly wages. Personal experience on this snbject will, of coarse, control the jadg. ment of almost every man, whose experience has not been unsatisfactory; bnt, after all, the best way to determine the relative merits of the two systems would be a general comparison of results, if that were practicable. Bnt results are, of course, vastly modified by the personal application, energy and judgment of planters. The man blest with an ardent, act ive, energetic temperament—a sound, practical judgment and that indescribable faculty of con trolling subordinate minds and infusing into them a portion of his own enthnsiastio, active and laborious spirit may accomplish more npon a less judicious system of hiring, than a lax, un systematic, and easy going neighbor who works .pretty much on the principle of letting things tike care of themselves, would npon a better system. We have heard the most opposite views and personal experiences npon the different plans of hiring. A few days ago one of the largest, most sagacious, liberal and at the same time money making, planters we know of, was delivering his ideas at length npon this snbject in onr hearing. He said tho war had deprived him of considerably upwards of 100 valuable hands, audleft him with a large landed property of nominal value. He determined to invest lightly the first year and cultivate but little land. He wished to take the year for observation and reflection upon a fu ture planting policy. He therefore hired but a few hands by tho month, and the results of thoir labor were so disheartening that he would have been glad to have sold out every acre had it been possible to do so short of a ruinous sac rifice. ;> •; When Christmas came again, he determined to abandon the wages system and give all liis hands a proprietary interest in the crop. He sat down independently and digested a system for himself, upon the plan of offering very lib eral inducements to his laborers. He proposed, on his part, to furnish house rent, fuel, (that is to say, the privilege of cutting it fjroin the land,) and agreed to<illow each able-bodied negro the privilege of keeping a hog in pen at his own expense—also of milking'’one cow from the herd on paying a dollar Weekly. He also stip ulated to furnish and feed ail necessary stock, and provide utensils, wagons, etc. On tbeir part,: they must feed and clothe themselves, and* work faithfully, Sundays and Fourth of July excepted, for stipulated hours, from Christmas to Christmas. They must lose all time at stipulated rates which is consumed in other holidays aud in sickness, unless arising from some bodily injury sustained in the course of labor on the plantation—an account of wliicli loss is duly kept with tlie laborer. They agreed also to keep the plantation in order as to fences, etc., and also to pay one half the wages and expense of tlie plantation manager, who is tlie common agent of both parties, and pledged to equal and exact justice* to both. When the crops are gathered the laborers are entitled to just one-half, excepting only tho corn shucks and cotton seed, the former of which was rough forage for the mules, and. the' latter duly applied to manuring the land. Upon this basis, our friend had been working ever since the year 1866, with the most satisfac tory results both, to himself and .the laborers. He said ho had no trouble with them at all, and bnt a few days ago he made the point against an increase of salary to one of his managers, who olaimed it on account of increased magnitude of operations, that although the operations were increased, the difficulty of management was far less than it was even in the days of slavery; and this point his intelligent manager conceded at once. The negroes were ’very sharp overseers npon each other, and made every one of their num ber stand up to duty without flinching. More over, they were far less liberal in allowing ex oases for lost time than the manager or himself, and they permitted nothing and nobody to inter fere with the best possible results of the' joint adventure.. The division and settlement were religiously exact. Every man not only got every cent he was entitled to, bnt his mind was satisfied of the fact. These hands were all prospering and had accumulated money—a few of them as much as a thousand dollars apiece. Onr friend said that several of his neighbors who thought he was working npon too liberal a basis, had since adopted his policy with equally satisfactory re sults, and he was persuaded that this was the best and the true plan of farming in Georgia. We give this report for what it is worth, pre mising that it comes from a very intelligent source—that it is no donbt strictly true—and and that it is a patent fact that the anther has made a great deal of money under the system in the last three years. Mrs. Partington and the Tides. The traditional ambition of onr Yankee friends has always been to prove to the world the omnipotence of their ingenuity, canning and enterprise. They havo embodied that am bition in the cant expression “that some things can bo done as well as others!”—that is to say, that there is literally no impediment in nature unconquerable by their ingenuity and persist ence. They have bnt to conceive an idea or a purpose, and its realization and accomplishment are matters as certain and assured as the fiat of omnipotence. Accordingly, when tlie legions of the Northern States opened the South to the reforming hand of New England, it was sternly decreed that the political, moral and social ideas of New England shonld be embodied, Vitalized and realized in the emancipated negro, and the white oocnpants of Southern soil should thenceforward be a proscribed race, like tbe Moabites, the Jebnsites and the children of Ammon—hewers of wood and drawers of water to tho regenerated African, crammed with all the wisdom, knowledge and virtue of tho true pilgrim stock. And, truth to say, this New England idea has been followed ont with a vigor and persistence worthy of its origin. Tbe whole power of Con gressional legislation and the wealth of the Treasury have been, as they would say, “conse crated” to It. It has been followed ont with a single eye by tho Radical party over every ob stacle of reason, religion and common sense. All the operations of the Freedman’s Bureau— all the amendments of the Constitution—all the reconstruction acts—all the military orders ot turn everything topsy turvey—all the habeas corpus suspensions—and every part and parcel of that extraordinary course of the Government sinc6 the war, has this foundation and purpose, and no other. U 0*5 And that it is hot and cannot bo accomplished is dae simply to the fact that, after all, New England is not, as she imagines, omnipotent! She can do a great deal, bnt she cannot subvert nature. In the ways of legislation she is fruit ful ; bnt, after all, the laws of God will prevail against those of New England. Irving says that when the pilgrims landed at Plymouth, they agreed hastily, in a pnblic meeting assembled, “tube govemedby the laws of God until they had time to make better ones;” and, although the idea underlying the resolution has descended to the posterity of the present day, we believe itia a false ono. In attempting to carry it out by inverting the position of the races*, New England has been able to reduce many portions of the South to a condition of great distress, confusion and inse curity. She has thrown our whole political fabric intomins; but even the foundation of her new edifice of a dominant Africanism is not laid, nor can it be laid, because it is against na ture. Mrs. Partington, could not sweep back tlie tides with her broom. Mr. Sumner can’t control Southern politics with the negro. The reason is the same. The forces of nature are too strong for both Mrs.. Partington and Mr. Stunner. Let our friends in Georgia who are troubled about a new departure into the shady regions of reconstruction console themselves. The Rad ical Partingtons in Congress cannot subvert na ture, no matter how desperate are their decrees. The white people of Georgia cannot be legisla ted under the negro. There are too many of us. The evils to be inflicted will only be tem porary. We shall survive a third repetition of the New England experiment. * NO RESURRECTION. Death of a Free Government—An Eloquent Extract.. ..." The following beautiful extract is from a speech delivered by Hon. D. W. Yoorhees, of Indiana: It is a melancholy spectacle to behold a free government die. The world, it is true, is filled with evidences of decay. All nature speaks the voice of dissolution, and the highway of history and of life is strewn with the wrecks which Time, the great despoiler, ! has made. But the hopes of the future, bright visions of reviving glory, are nowhere denied to the heart of man, save* as he gazes on the downfall of, legal liberty. He listens mournfully to the autumn winds, as they sigh through dismantled forests, hut he knows that their breath will be soft and vernal in the spring, and that the dead flowers and withered foliage will blossom and bloom again. He sees the sky overcast with the angry frown of the tempest, but he knows that the the sun wiiL reappear, and the emblazonry of God cannot perish. Man, himself, this strange connecting link between dust and Deity, totters wearily, wearily onward, under the* weight of years and pain, toward the tomb, but how brief ly his life lingers around the dismal , spot. * It is filled with tears and grief, and tbe willow and cypress gathor around it with their loving but mournful embrace. And is this all ? Not so 1 If a man die, shall he not live again ? Be yond tho grave in the distant Adienn Hope pro vides an elysinm of the soul where the mortal assumes immortality, and lifo becomes an end less splendor.. Bat whore, sir,,in all the dreary regions of the past, filled with convulsions, wars and crimes, can you point yonr finger to the tomb of a free commonwealth on which the an gels of resurrection 1 have ever descended, or from whose sepulchre the atone of* dospotism has been rolled away ? Where, in what age, and in what clime have the veins of conslitn- tional freedom renewed their youth and re gained their lost estate ? By whose strong grip has the dead corpse of the Republic, once fall en, ever been raised? The merciful Maker who walked npon the .waters and bade the winds be 'still, left no ordained apostle with power to wrench apart the jaws of national death, and re lease the viotim of despotism. The wail of the heart-broken over the dead is not so sad to me as the realization of this fact. Bnt all history, with a loud, unbroken voice, proclaims it; and the evidence of what the past has been is con- clnsive to my mind of what the futnro will be. Wherever in the domain of hnman conduct a people, once possessed of liberty, have surren dered these great gifts of God at the command of the usurper, they have never afterward proven themselves worthy to regain their forfeited treasure. A Quakeress, jealous of her husband, watched his movements, and one morning aotnally dis covered the truant kissing and hugging the ser vant girl Broadbrim was not long in discover ing the face of his wife as she peeped through the half-open door, and rising with all the cool ness of a general officer, bs thns addressed her: “Betsey, thee had better quit peeping, or thee will cause a disturbance iu the family.” The celebrated Dr. Gregory, in the oourso of one of liis medical lectures at Edinburgh, sta ted.:- “One oannot stand perfectly motionless for half an hour; that he had once tried to do so, and had fainted at the end of twenty minates the blood requiring the aid of motion from the body in order to retain its fall circulating power. Chanoes of Com ate.—It is now said that the Pacific Railroad is working changes in the cli mate of the plains, causing an abandonee of rain to fall where continuous droughts prevail ed. This extraordinary phenomenon, if trne, is thought to be produced by a better equilibri um of eleotrioal currents. It is remarkable how sore onr radical con temporaries feel whenever a thief is whipped in Delaware.—Prentice. Grand Jury p rea TTr~~— Dl,ne ttUor Uoanty. * -- FaU Term JJW mental make lowing crops in diffsrent parts of tvT andl, WJ been blessed by a kinTprovifc' 10 '^ ’ dant harvest. F aencfl v.tk , c And, notwithstanding the m which have been committed 05 of the State, we, comparatively few to report. y vety apea^. The colored population have most sanguine expectationsof tlb^ bo* m labor and.deportment 2d. We, through appropriate have examined the condition of C > bmlffings, roads and records We find the public roads cinch ii^ 6 Ct the last term of tho Court • “ cat and bridges built and repaid parts of the county. Yet Sf room for improvements • and J! U ' asassaasiSsa aftS&BSi'aS!* them correct. The books of ^T^ Treasurer deserve special natJt ,, !erl ness. The balanced the nrer at the last term of the Conttl^J Since that time he has received other sources, $1203 CG- mil-;* ^ $3278 52. There has beenpaiStf * and other expenses $2977 S'* • in the hands of the Treasurer ??*<£ The taxes for this year have not yet 4th. We recommend that the L* 1 begtm upon the Court House be the Jail made secure, the Jailor’sTf ished and garden lot added and the use of the Jailor, and b for comfort of prisoners. In taking leave of His Honor, Jud,.;,. we tender him our sincere thanks hr i! tinguished ability and despatch of burr? for courtesy extended to our body We tender eur Solicitor General' Col Whiteley, our thanks for his V»’ri c >— and gentlemanly deportment to this bob We request that these presentin'"-.! Jighed in the Journal & Messesow William H. Hoggaed, Fonaa Raymond Caiy.jr, ci Win, II. Adams, Jefferson S. H. Adams, A. F. Loosa E. C. Brown, J. L. Mdfam J. H. Bodiford, RRMcCaS J. P. Broadway, Robt. Kboik T. H. Caskie, R. H. Solos® T; D. DuPont, J. a Thoani -£-£ n s! e ®. A. M. George J. W. Fleming, H. H. Hall, R. F. Hoy, If. Jeffries. Baker Superior Cora? November Terra, l&b. At the request of the Grand Juiy, ha ed that the foregoing General Pns’eatoe published in the Telegraph & Mss: and the cost of the same be paid by thel Treasurer of Baker county. J. Johnson, J.S.C.S. IS A true extract from the minutes of Ed perior Court, December 2d, 1869. Thomas Aim Presentments of the Grand Jujl Houston County, FOR THE AUGUST ADJOURNED TZEE, 15CS. I We, the Grand Jurors of I chosen, selected and sworn for the Anpal journed Term of I860, make the followisgJ eral presentments, to which we respectful;! the attention of the court, and the chias] the county: We have, through appropriate C01 examined the county records and finances. 1 find the books of the Ordinary and Clerk of j Court well and properly kept Of the fim condition of the connfy, it is to be regrs that there are yet many claims against thee: ty unpaid. And we regret to find that A have been made by officers, and passed and I dered paid by the authorities, which venJ entirely unwarranted by law, exhibiting a of lessness in the expenditures of tho funds dll connfy, much to be regretted in its preset J poveiished condition. We would re recommend in fntnre a thorough en of all claims and accounts presented, I they are passed and ordered paid We have examined the condition of theN House, and find the inmates comfortiWri vided for and well satisfied. Tha home and!( ing ore needing repairs and some neve are necessary, and that accommodations! be provided for colored paupers. We 1 the Poor House, under the present mamj to be the least expensive way of providlngl the poor of the county, and recommend iaf tinnance. * I We have examined the Court-house udl it in good order. The Jail wo regard isif graco to the county. It b^ing in a diliphfl condition, altogether unfit and unsafe foj detention of prisoners. We would recosiu to the proper authorities the necessity of b ing a new one, but as this has been to I time to time by proceeding grand juries,! has not been heeded, we see no necessity f new the recommendation. L We have examined the tax books for uni sent year, and report that we find to* | amount of property given in by lb- v*M zens to be $3,144,861, and the amount f'j by our colored citizens to be $ , iJ,t i b :s’4 in the aggregate, the sum of $3,170,Si®.J amount of county tax levied is eigbt-iaj 1 one per cent., which will make the tax * amount to $25,367. Wc find the book ^ and properly, kept. Upon examination of the roads and s throughout the county, wo find tku*J order, with a few exceptions. Wc recommend that such roads and «*P_ need repairs he put in order at once. ' I *| ther recommend the opening of a what is known as the Ross lliil. Tk^'f which this new road will run, is ‘ J J. Dickson Smith, who has geuerouJy a right of way for said road to the c0 “ D ?j further recommend that the road CM***! in that district take immediate steps road at ov.ee. We further reccommend that onr rfp tins in the State Legislature have »»* ? for. this county similar to the M* I' 1 ’T Lowndes and Macon counties entitled ■ to prohibit and make penal the ^ i: T chase of agricultural products in Lowndes and Macon, after night, by M j tenants by the year, or hired jabor^ ' 1 without written permission from th'®. the land on which the same was WP • ■ authorized agent.” We farther recommend that as the insolvent costs has become a serious^ the county, we earnestly solicit th® ?*' an act in onr next LegUnture, requiring the party prosecuting tog- 1 and security for the coats in the <***• 1 We recommend the Ordinary to I .1 Giles, Esq.', the snm of ($25,00) | dollars for • professional services k 'm body. We further rocommend that» r the feed or boards of prisoners, . be reduced to (35) thirty-five eemA p* * In taking leave of his Honor, Jn ? i tender to him onr high appro®* ‘ ^1 ability and impartiality with which 1 t dnoted the business of the coop-_ /J thanks to CoL E. W. Crocker, for his promptness and courtesy > Jury. _.™. 1 We reoommend that these Pyj JM published in the Maooa Daily- 1 ■ Messenger. . James P. Belvin, J. S. Larkin W 8h- J. G. H &noc«* Archibald | Asa Wood*™, q W J. Hay 1 * Geo. H. 1 R. G. B. Daniel, James Turrentine, L. M. A rant, Jos. W. Wimberly, Thos. J. Cater, D. J. Walker, B. J. Harrison, Derrill H. Culler, • •“ ^ oha re 1 Ordered by the court that the ments bp published as requested. By the court A true extract from the minut^ 8 Superior Court, August adjotu Thomas M. Ksmoot, ■ — —~ An immigration agent stotw (M tied eighty families of A Miss., andi* oonfident that w^ years ho will have introduced jj Scandinavian families m bama. AninaaigatiaB" among tho planters at Okaloda, 9 dzod aoreo haw boon given tow-^ bo sold at a low prioo to aeto* 1 ™