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pt ' ' • - '’ffg. - •• - yyV SMaSESafflBSiBgagSaBajigSSKa^agf^agSSaa^ amm The Gheorgia "Weekly Telegraph and. Journal Telegraph and Messenger. MACON, FEBRUARY 23, 1871. •Live* Senator BUI on tlio War Pallt ly Times Ahead. We think the signs of another fierce fight among tho faithful in this State over principle, of course, i. e. plunder, are thickening every day. Bullock and Blodgett must gird up their loins, and get ready for the fray, or else make up their minds to eat at the second table. We Bee that Clift, that superfine, XXXX, double and twisted loyalist, and Bullockite of the first water, has been thrown overboard as Postmaster at Savannah, and C. K. O3good, ex-member of tho Agency from Chatham county, and a deter mined foe to the B.’s, nominated in his place. This is one sign. And now wo hoar that the trooly loil Kobb, Collector of Customs at Savannah, has lost tho number of his mess, and is out of a job, his suc cessor being announced asCoL John Bowles, son-in-law of Senator Josh HilL Mr. Hill is also credited with Clift's kicking out; so it ap pears that he has not been idle since his admis sion—at least in paying off old scores against tho Bullockites. That ho should do this is not at all surprising, and on the whole is rather com mendable, considering the character of those whoso heads he has demanded, and the indubita ble proof of his staunchness as a Grant man that his son-in-law’s nomination offers. How could Grant fail to recognize suoh a proof of fidelity and admiration as that ? Now, what aro Bullock and Blodgett and their crowd going to do about this ? Will they ao oept tho gago of battle thus defiantly tendered by Mr. Hill, or will they lower their colors and abandon tho field? We tell them that Mr. Hill never does things by halves, and that he has an Indian’s memory for injnriesreoeived. They have fought a strong fight to crash him, and if wo are not greatly mistaken he will make a stronger one to crush them. They have sought to cheat him of office and honor fairly won. and the way for him to get even is to make a dean sweep of all tho Federal pap-suckers in Georgia who owe their offices to tho influence cians, and recommendation of his enemies. We shall see of what sort of metal Bullock and Blodgett are made for a fight against Senator Hill—a friend of tho President’s, and occupying the vantago-ground of a voice and vote on every nomination that comes before the Senate. They assaulted him right gallantly when he was out side. Will they dare a3 much now that ho is inside? It’s none of our affair, but we hope they will. In their decision lies the germ of a very pretty quarrel, and wo stand ready,-as an impartial spectator, to cry brave and roe vietis with equal equanimity. If the fight assumes the character popular ascribed to that of the Kilkenny felines we shall endeavor to bear even that result with serene resignation. The Treasury rats all over Georgia who, in any way, aided or abetted the war of tho Bullock and Blodgett faction upon Mr. Hill, had better nibble’fast, for wo verily believe hard times and scanty rations are likely soon to bo their portion. What an impressive moral spectacle would be presented if they should all laavo to como out of their snug holes, and what tho deuce would they do for a living, now that Blodgett no longer runs the State road? The bare thought is too much for our tender sensi bilities, „and we hasten to dismiss the subject. To Fence in or Ont ? In tho Agricultural Convention yesterday a very spirited discussion arose on the question ctlf -Sie relative economy of fencing stock in or out; and, as might well be anticipated, the grazing and-the Agricultural counties held ex actly opposite conclusions. For, where grazing is tho main interest, it is manifest economy to fence in crops.; and vico versa whore cropping is tho main business. Then the attempt to compromise views by a system of special legis lation for counties, sprang, at once, the difficul- ty of reconciliating the opposite plans wherever they met. In order to talk over this matter in. telligently, we ought to know, approximately, what is the amount of plantation fencing in Georgia, and what does it cost yearly to keep it up? What is tho number and value of tho stock produced from natural grazing? Lotus see how these interests compare in value. Spanish Finances—Amadeus. A Madrid correspondent of tho New York Sun says that Sagasta borrowed $2,500,000 at the rate of one per cent, a month to pay January coupons, and gave three month’s bills on Lon don scouring them by a collateral deposit of Treasury notes bearing six per cent, interest, and hypothecated at the rate of forty-five per cent of their par value. Tho correspondent says: In fact Mr. Sagasta, the Finance Minister, is at his wits’ end to get along at aff. The official allowance mado to Amadeus is $1,500,000 yefj, or $125,000 a month. Of this, $1,200,000 a year js the King’s salary; $100,000 is the al lowance to his infant son, now ten years old; and $200,000 a year is given him to support tho royal palaces. It was reported not long since in the public journals of Madrid, that Amadeus had resolved to content himself with one-half of this great income; In other words, that ho had remitted to tho treasury three-quarters of a million out of his first year’s pay. This report was a pure fiction. Instead of remitting anything, he in sists on being paid in full. His pay for tho month of January, $125,000, ho required to be given him in advance; and no sooner had he squeezed the money out of the last faint relics of cash in tho treasury, than he hastened to re mit $50,000 of it to Florence. This looks as though ho did not regard his stay in Spain as certain to bo permanent, and was resolved to prepare against tho worst by putting out an anchor to windward. Tboubi.es op the Co An Trade.—Tho last three or four years have been signalized by ceaseless extortion and constant fuss in the Northern coal markets. Miners’ strikes and operators' com binations together, have fairly skinned the peo ple, and imposed an untold amount of suffering on tho poor during the herd Northern winters. And just now as tho long strike by tho “miners’ union” has oamo toja close, tho Now York papers of Monday announce that the people are threat ened with a “ coal famine” by reason of a com bination between operators and railway compa-' nies in putting an. exorbitant freight tariff on Lehigh and Susquehannah coal. All this series of troubles has arisen since the reciprocity treaty with Canada was annulled and provincial coal was shut out of tho Northern markets by tariff duties. Tho remedy, it seems to us, lies in admitting colonial dnty free. That will steady the market and put an end to all strikes and combinations. English Women op the Dat.—The Saturday Review complains that among tho aristocratic ladies of Great Britain, the habit of drinking to the point of intoxication is becoming common, andadds: “We aro sensible of a distinct moral relaxa tion among women, and of a new sort of unwo manly recklessness in the presence of men. We complain of a prevalent coarseness even among the virtuous, not only of manner, but of imag ination and pnrsnits, and wo aro sometimes tempted to prefer the age of Nell Gwynne or Madame de Pompadour to the actual confusion of dare-devil women and unabashed spinsters. It would seem that alcohol has something to do with this disorder, for the physical effects of it on women are proved by medical investigation to be precisely what would denaturalize them. Bv a very tight legal squeeze Mary A. Hugg ha? bean divorced from Oliver Hugg, in Chi- WfiP. Tlio Joint High Commission. The Washington correspondent of tho Herald of Monday repeats tho assertion that the “feel ing among prominent parties in Washington, without distinction of party is univerally in favor of tho idea that no settlement of our differ ences with Great Britain will be satisfactory to tho poople of tho United States, so long as the British flag as the symbol of monarchy remains upon this Continent.” Ho says that Howard’s resolution before tho Senate does not go far enough and will be substituted by a more much sweeping invitations to Great Britain to have the North American continent He states further, that “before both govern ments agreed to the appointment of a joint High Commission, it was arranged between Mr. Fish and Sir Edward Thornton as a preliminary basis of negotiation that tho British govern ment would agree to pay from fifteen to twenty- two millions of dollars and cede British Colum bia to the United States in consideration of the Alabama claims. As an offset to the money matter, however, the counter claims of British subjects would como in.” But as these offsets would probably consume tho whole indemnifica tion money, the acquisition of British Columbia would be too small ^balance, and tho “feeling’ in Washington circles is, that if Great Britain does not consent to withdraw her flag from this Continent the Commission cannot come to any satisfactory settlement, and certainly without such concession no convention which the Com mission may arrange will receive the sanction of the Senate. And as if to give more prominence to tho matter the same number of the Horald editor! ally declares it to bo the universal feeling among public men in Washington, and which ia but a reflex of the popular feeling throughout tho United States, that no permanent, cordial and friendly relations between America and England can be established until the British flag shall cease to float as an emblem of power over any portion of this Continent. If that is the “feeling” the Joint High Commission will result iu nothing better than fanning tho flame of discord and leaving the two countries to drift into war under the manipulations of the politi A war would doubtless leave the Ameri can Government in possession of all tho British Provinces, but secured at a monstrous price of blood, money, and public demoralization. THE GEORGIA PRESS. The people of Columbus aro rejoicing over the possession of an Opera House, which was christened by a grand concert Tuesday night. It is three stories high, will seat 1400 people, and cost in the neighborhood of $40,000. Mark Cabot, an employee in Jessup’s harness store, at Augusta, stabbed John Wilson, porter in the same store, on Tuesday, Inflicting a dan gerous, if not fatal wound. On Tuesday last, 3,561,C17 pounds of upland cotton, valued at $519,034.84; 22,905 pounds of sea island cotton, valued at $9,964; and $8,307.47 worth of timber and plank were ship ped from Savannah to foreign ports. Bryant and two or three other so-called white men, with a lot of negroes, have gone to Wash ington City to try and oust Corker, Democratic Congressman from the 5th district. The Savannah Republican favors the move to make a new county out of Clark with Athens as the connty site, and suggets that it be named Hull, in honor of tho late Asbury Hull, of Athens. Jos. Doyle, from Gardiner, Maine, a seaman, on board the British bark, Sarah A. Dudman, was drowned in the Savannah river, Tuesday, while attempting to escapo from the vessel. Judging from tho following growl the local of tho Columbus Enquiror has just been “slip pered.": A Matter or Taste.—If women could be con vinced that crinoline is more becoming to their persons than tho attenuated- three-ply styles of dresses now worn, and at the samo timo more economical and healthful, how long would it be before hoops would again become generally in vogue? The men almost unanimously favor crinoline. They also favor more brains and less external head packing. Savs the Savannah Nows of Wednesday: ANew Collector or the Port.—Wo learn from advices received yesterday from Washing ton, that Col. J. W. Bowles, late Assistant As sessor x>f Internal Revenue for tho Augusta District, and a son-in-law of Hon. Joshna Hill, has been nominated for the position of Collec tor of Customs for the port of Savannah. This report has created quite a stir among the carpet baggers and suffrage-slingers in the granite bailding on tho corner of Bull and Bay streets. The Madison Appeal says: High Water.—On Tuesday and Wednesday last, the waters of the Oconee and Appalachee rivers were higher than they have been before in many years. The Oconee was at one place over two miles wide. Tho ferry boats at Dan iel’s and Wills’ ferries areboth gone, and are now it is supposed somewhere in the Gulf of Mexico. Tho high water drove the rabbits out of the swamps, and we were with a party half of a day which succeeded in hilling upward of fifty du ring tho whole day, the majority of them large swamp or buck rabbits, weighing from five to eight pounds a piece. The Savannah News has the following addi tional facta with reference to the late horrible stabbing affair in that city: The Staley-Hungerfobd Affair.—Monday evening Mrs. Fogarty, the keeper of the house in which Sue Hungerford had been well nigh out to pieces, appeared at the Police Barracks in great trepidation, dressed in mala costume, and demanded protection for her household. She was evidently very much excited, and very eager that a police guard should be detailed for her relief. She told the officer in command that Mr. John A. Staley had called at her house that evening and demanded -certain papers which he alleged had been left in Sue *Hungerfofd’s chargo. Mrs. Fogarty said she knew nothing of thorn, bnt wonld go in and inqnire, and if the papers were there he should have them. Ho then demanded admission to Sue Hungeford’s room, stating “ it was all right, and hemust see her anyhow.” Mrs. Fogarty demurred, stating that in her present weakened condition Sue ought not to seo anybody, least of all him. At this point Mrs. F. noticed the gleam of a knife, and said, “God bless me! what is that?” “It’s tho knife that my wife ent her with," replied Staloy; “bnt never yon mind—that’s all right. I want to seo you privately. Step back here for a moment.” Perfectly terrified, Mrs. Fo garty complied with his request, and asked him what he wanted. “In the first place,” said Staley, “I want yon to promise mo solemnly that you won’t swear against mo, whatever yon do, or if you do it will ba the worse for you.” Mrs. Fogarty assured him that “whatever she might have to say when called upon for her evi dence, it should bo the truth.” Staley again cautioned her to “mind what she was about,” and a visitor knocking for admission gave Mrs. Fogarty tho chance to escapo to her room, assnme male attire, and hasten with all speed to the Police Barracks, where her story was soon told. Suo Hungerford yet remains in a very precarious state. In her deep distress she has found many personal friends eager to ad minister to her relief and assistance. Her re covery may be regarded as extremely problem atical. The HawkinsvUlo Dispatch reports very high water in that connty, and nearly all tho bridges over tho various creeks swept away. The Hawkinsvillo jail was broken open last Thursday night and two criminals liberated, one of whom is Buck Dominead, tho negro murderer who has been several times respited by Bullock. Tho same night two stores were robbed in the neighborhood. The Albany News soys there was a terrible hurricane in Baker connty last week—the sec ond this month. No lives were lost, but on Hon. Reuben Jones’ place 25 bouses were blown down, and Mr. B. H. Hill’s plantation was stripped of buildings, sheds, fences, eto., and several mules badly injured. On Colonel Flewellyn’s place five mules wore killed. Mr. Irwin Brown, a very old and respectable citizen of Dooly oounty,.died last week. He Tlio Georgia State Agricultural Con vention. proceedings of the second day. Pursuant to adjournment, tho Convention met at nino o’clock, and was opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Tucker. Tho Secretary read the minutes of yesterday’s session. The report on the order of business, as in troduced by CoL Capers, was read and adopted. Mr. Nolan, of Hancook, offered a resolution requesting the Convention to adopt snob means as trill more successfully sustain connty organizations, and appoint a committee for that purpose. Adopted. The following gentlemen compose that com mittee : Messrs. Capers, Vason, Lee, Brown, Newman, Dr. Hamilton and Gen. Phillips. The report asks for tho funds duo tho Society under the act of I860, and a continuance of tho same. It also recommends the appointment of an efficient person, who shall visit tho counties in Georgia and organize in each an agricultural society, with proper compensation for his ser vices. A motion was mado and seconded, that the report of the retiring Executive Committee be reconsidered. The following gentlemen compose tho com mittee to examine into tho practicability of establishing Agricultural Colleges: Messrs. Sohley, Yason, Lee, Lawton, Janes Steadman and Toon. The committee on Emigration and Land Com pany aro Messrs. Howard, Barnett, Barrow, Schaffer, Irwin, Flowellen and Paine. A motion was made and seconded to amend the minutes so that all resolutions shall bo handed to, instead of being read by the Secre tary. • A resolution was introduced by Col. Howard to prevent horse racing, velocipede riding, skat ing rinks and the exhibition of monstrosities at State Fairs. Referred to a committee of four. Messrs. Capers, Leo, Howard and Gary compose the committee. By Mr. Ragsdale, of Dekalb—a resolution instructing the Executive Committee to award premiums in future in money, agricultural im plements, maohinery or some other article of value at the option of the party entitled thereto. Resolved farther, that in offering premiums on field crops there shall bo no limit below which the premium shall not bo awarded, bnt shall bo given to tho most successful competitor. Mr. Jones, of Randolph, submitted the fol lowing : A tax of 22 cents per bale is levied and collected upon all cotton shipped to Savan nah from the interior; and whereas, this great discrimination against ono branch of industry, is unjust and injurious to all interested; be it Resolved, That this Convention disapproves of said tax, and earnestly invokes tho Mayor and Council of our chief seaport to repeal tho samo. Mr. Baldwin, of Schley county, offered the fol lowing resolution: That tho Executive Com mute bo requested to offer a premium for the cheapest bale of cotton, and one hundred bush els of corn produced in tho State. By Mr. Foote, of Gilmer: A resolution re quiring all persons, in applying for tickets of entry for premiums, to make a written state ment vouched for by two other persons. And if any fraud shall afterward bo discovered, then such steps shall be taken as to exclude such persons from any awards the Society may have granted. By Mr. Bloodwortb, of Griffin: That the Ex ecutive Committee refer samples of field crops to a committee, and withhold names of com petitors from the committee. Referred to Ex ecutive Committee. Mr. Sweet, of Clinch, tendered a vote of thanks of the Convention to the citizens of Macon for their kind hospitalities. It was moved and seconded that the rules of the Convention bo suspended for tho purpose of having read the report of tho Executivo Committee. After the reading of the report Mr. Samuel Barnett, of Wilkes, was introduced, and pro ceeded to deliver a clear, concise and practical address on the very important subject of Labor; on the conclusion of which CoL Frank Schaffer, of Clarke county, delivered the following ad dress : Mr. President and Gentlemen of the Conven tion: The subject of immigration has occupied the attention of this body sineo its reorganization. A bill was drafted in 18G9 and presented to the State Legislature, which provided a thorough system of agencies, both here and in Europe. Its main object was the encouragement of actual settlers, but it extended official aid and protection to all proper emigrants. The system of spreading information in this State and the duties of the officers to be ap pointed were carefully defined, while the dis bursement of the funds required and the chief supervision of tho entire department were con fided to three prominent citizens of the State, a Board of Immigration, honorary officers, whose actual expenses and a per diem during the time officially engaged were to be paid. This Board was to meet every three months, inquire into the conduct of the department, and to report to the Governor fonr times a year. In place of this bill, the Legislature adopted one entirely different Tho important feature of the State Board appointed was omitted; a feature to which the Commissioner of your honorable body attached especial importance. In the new bill no sort of supervision over the agents was provided; the agents might prove to be incompetent, or pursue a wrong system— they could not be removed or chocked. I believe that to the departure of the Legisla ture from the spirit of the bill so carefully con sidered by this Society, the chief cause of tho scanty results apparent, may be ascribed. Yet, I cannot but entertain the opinion that the labors of the Commissioners elected must have resulted in some good. I perceive from their report that a very grave erase intervened to frustrate their exertions; the unfortunate political condition of the State at the time— and above all the serious injury done the fair reputation of our State by tho proclamations of tho Governor. This Sooiety, through whose agency tho sub- j&ct of immigration into Georgia was brought prominently before the world, nevertheless has no part in any failure that may be deplored. To-day the bill which was repudiated by your body no longer exists. The road is open for a renewed effort by the Society itself, which if made, I confidently believe will result in n hearty co-operation of the next State Legisla ture. It is therefore respectfully suggested to this body to revive tho Society’s Immigration biff of 18G9 ; to create a special Department of Im migration of the State Agricultural Society and to apply to the Legislature for a suitable sum in aid of that department. Under tho super- vision of your Executive Committee, and in tho hands of men practically acquainted with tho business, complete success must follow. As I have recommended at various times for the past five years, the great object of tho de partment should bo the introduction’of actual settlers. Laborers and servants to relievo the necessities of the planters would follow them. Where these wants are urgent and the money can be raised to advance the p&ssago money, and the difficulties are passed which may be expeot- ed, this system will be found a valuable adjunot, but my experience has taught me that upon this basis alone a permanent and steadily increasing immigration will not be established. When yon induce a man to go into a new country in order to become an owner of tho soil, you make him at once a participant in the weal or -woe of the State. Almost insensibly to him love for his new fatherland will spring np in his heart and gradually it becomes so stroDg that he would not abandon that soil even for the home of his fathers. He will bear cheerfully with any temporary check to his prosperity, and even serious misfortunes will not dishearten him. The laborer or servant on the other hand, de pendent at the best, having no interest in his employer's welfare, attached to nothing but his monthly wages, will easily be discouraged by any slight trouble that may befall him, which, to the other would have appeared but a trifle. From that moment a desire to change rises in his breast. . With an enlarged knowledge of tho was found in the road.with a out over his right | country and its conditions, he desires highor nine cases out of a hundred no kindness he ever received will detain him. And if he have or imagines to have, any senou3 erase of com plaint against tho people, the climato, or tho food he receivod, he will not fail to spread the most injurious reports, to the permanent injury to the locality wbero he received tho first aid to escape from a condition which consigned him to the most wretched misery. The next wo hoar of him ho has joined his countrymen out West. Thi3 picture is not overdrawn, that has been the result in many of our States since the war, and thero are no doubt gentlemen upon this floor.who can bear testimony to it I grant that where you introduce large bodies at once, and especially take care that you have among them a certain number of young women so as to create inducements for family life among them, many of these ovil results might be lessened or even entirely avoided. This leads me to hope that those settlements winch have been made in some parts of our State, will go on to prosper, as I learn they do, with great satisfaction. But when you combine the two systems, in troduce actual settlers and laborers together, immigration is sure to be made permanent and highly profitable to all concerned. This I illustrated in Virginia, where, when I at first began to send actual settlers no demand whatever for labor existed. But, nevertheless, these actual settlers were in some cases accom panied, in other cases followed, by laboring men. The introduction of actual settlers created a demand for additional labor. Where, on the contrary, only laborers were sent it was found exceedingly difficult to find for them anything to do in the part of the State they went to, and they soon returned North to seek work else where. As to the greater material value of actual settlers over mere laborers to our State, in de veloping its resources and increasing its taxable property, this is so patent to me that I desire to say but little. Another practical illustration: Sixty-four actual settlers whom I officially di rected from the 15t of March to the 15th of June, 1879, from Hamburg, Germany, por steamer to Virginia, brought to that State, besides great amounts of household effects, clothing, seeds, and farming utensils, 134,000 Frassian dollars in cash. Sixty-four imported laborers would have brought nothing; yet involved an outlay of somo $3340 cash. Again, tho settlements made by actual set tlers. : I sent to Lunenburg county, Virginia, raised the value of renl estate in that connty one hundred par cent in less than a year, and increased tho income of tho State from that county many thousand dollars in cash. What effect wonld a like amount of laborers have had in these respects ? Has Jones county in this State experienced a rise in the value of real estate in consequence of the immigration into it, and how much additional income has tho State Treasury derived from it, are ques tions well worthy of consideration. I leave this subject now and will say but a few words concering the way in which emi gration must be worked in Europe; which will probably interest you. The procurement of emigrants is a matter of business; emigration is a simple business trans action, and must be treated as such; all those concerned iu it must seo something to bo made out of it, otherwise there must be failure. No matter how great your sympathy with a Frenchman may be, if yon can’t see that will ho bo of servieo to you yon won’t pay his passage money and employ him; nor would ho como, however he might admire you, if he saw no prospect of bettering his condition. Per contra, no matter how muoh a German with money in hand, might be told that he would do hotter out West, if you can convince him that he will make more money here, he will invest here. And you will soil to any one that will meet your conditions, as every business man wonld do. It was a difficult matter for mo to get a foot-hold in Germany upon tho plea which I advanced, that my countrymen would have the better chance with us; but after I had succeed ed in inducing the first settler to go South, when he found the land was good, ho bought it; when he found the people treated him kindly, received him with Southern enthusiasm even, he reported back enthusiastical'y and the work was commenced. All over the Continent there exists regularly licensed immigration agents ; men, who every often make that their sole business; who will for a commission try to fill the order you give them. Everything is system on the Continent; and only through the medium of these agencies emigrants mtl$ be obtained; no matter, whether yon wish servants, laborers or actual settlers. These agents have to furnish bonds to the government to give security for the following: 1. That they will faithfully apply tho money entrusted to them by the emigrant for the pro curement of his passage across the sea in safe and well provisioned vesseL Here is to be remarked that no person except this licensed agent is permitted to make any ship contract. 2. That they will in no •way persuade persons to emigrate; but transact business with such persons only who obtained their government emigration passes withont which documents no emigrants aro permitted to leave tho country. 3. That they will recommend only such for eign countries to the emigrant as are in the Government’s opinion unobjectionable, and bo- yond doubt adapted to the successful settlement of tho outgoing citizen. Any and all transgres sions of these regulations are visited upon the emigration agent with severe pecuniary penal ties. To succeed in interesting any such agent in a new State seeking immigration, yon must be prepared to show him that ho runs no risk; that it is a safe business, and that you are a safe person to do business with. To get him to take an interest in directing to you men with means in order to become actual settlors, you must hold out to him a commission on the land which the settler he furnishes yon may pur chase ; and yon must give him security that those commissions will be paid him whenever suoh settlement is made. ’When ho furnishes yon a laborer he requires his commission at once; and to secure him that tho commissions will be paid him for actual settlers, which is payment in prospecto. Ho will require some thing more than your personal security; he will want the security of your State. While, then, the procurement of mere laborers and persons, for whose passage money is advanced, may, withont difficulty, bo undertaken by pri vate persons and associations, it is already dif ficult, without official character, to induce labor ers that pajr their own passage to go to your State, and totally so without such commission from your State when yon want to get notual settlers. Acting tinder such a commission for Virginia, even tchcn the State was under mili tary government, (my commission was signed by Wells) I have uniformly found little or no dif ficulty in inducing these emigrant agents to trust my honor that the commission I promised them would be faithfully paid whenever I re ceived official notice from Virginia that suoh settlement had taken place. Tho home emigra tion agents on the continent being under such close superrisiou, yon will readily understand that matters are yet more stringent in the case of foreign agents. With them the severe laws existing which construe tho enlisting of emi grants to he sedition and conspiracy, are rigidly enforced with from six months to two years imprisonment. The United States Consnl at Berlin, Mr. Kreissmam, informed me when I visited him that these laws had been visited npon two Northern agents, and that no interpo sition on his part, or that of tho United States Minister, conld save them. While no European continental power, save Russia aud Turkey, re stricts the free right of any oitizen to emigrate after the duties to his State are discharged, all look with a jealous eye upon any attempt to persuade or entice any ono to leave the country. An official commission has often given me a hearing when, os a private agent, I wonld not have been suffered to optin the subject in be half of my State. It has often given me access to official persons, and secured to me civilities which,as a private agent,I nsver would bavo had. I havo mado diligent inquiries, and I know no instance abroad whero a private land company has been successful. If you ask why? I need only say that, among other delccatble manoeuvres, this is owing to the shameful way with which Northern rascally land-sharks havo plundered and rained the poor emigrant that entrusted his all in to their hands. This distrust of American character extends also tons, and we have to bear evil consequences of actions in which we had no part whatever. To steer safely through all these rocks you will perceive that the agent whom you entrust with the important mission of representing ono of your most vital interests must possess both character and tact. One of the most serions inconveniences I found in my endeavors to obtain actual letters existed in this country. Wherever an emigrant Isent, settled, the land immediately jnmped np in price, and I was constantly uncertain' whether tho state ments I made in regard to tho price of lands in a certain section of the State was a correct one at the time that. statement was made. I found, also, that lands securedat a certain price by us, which we expected to settle shortly, were suddenly withdrawn by the owner, who demand ed a higher price, because the land had not serious difficulties that thero was continual dan- BY TELEGBAPH. ger of having tho whole operation swamped. Tf ' ' ’iris uncertainty finally obliged me to tempora rily close my office, and go to Virginia to endeav or to straighten up matters. I found there great inefficiency which can only bo remedied through sufficient legislative enactments which, I trust, Virginia Will not be tardy in making, if she does not wish, to lose greatly in her fine prospects for immigration, which havo cost years of labor. To obviate this very serious difficulty, it is pro- What Peace Is Worth! Versailles, February 22, via London, 5:30 A. si., 23.—Tho Emperor received Thiers to day, and General Chausey was present at the interview. • Peace is considered concluded, though the treaty has not yet been signed. The Germans will probably enter Paris on Sunday.next, but with na triumphal ceremony; important information, but jnat-A, ? materially modify any rej£* what had been fully conside^d 13136 Tho Secretary of State d * brief letter, giving, in outline i_ done, and the list of erneditihr 0 * 0 ^^ interior, together with uS°£.'gj Tho date named above was ecbi cfj as the probable timo of roaei.i* C0 , mcit ain!] sister® 5 * onowho'has M bX omS riUaot remain long ia.tho city: f«Tu» •Ld elation experience, my friend, Mr. Hut- J*™** Fabraar * 23,-Amved Out, Ville ° a S?, J—NewafromRioJaneiro js exploring La Vega. General&S* in received by mail steam- to Azn . a ’ ohd Profs. Marvin anain! 11 ^ re. Affairs at Montevideo I fl oco . *? tho samo direction, vitK i revolutionists have been I exa “ iain g tne copper region, n. V*» TQt»Hnn io nnerlvr I DlftKlDg A thorough botfininnl ton, formerly a citizen of this place, and lat- I de Pans, terly General Agent to Virginia in England, I London, February 23 that tho best plan wonld be for tho Agricultural to February 2, has been Society to form itself into a Joint-stock Immi- ® r - The news is meagre. gration Company, each memherto take asmnny are improving. The revoiuuonisis nave De-— ■ ma ^j n „ a'tkoronch'‘'hr,tn^“‘ v V shares as his financial ability warranted-those acd *® insurrection is nearly ended. D r. Newcomb owning lands to pay for tho shares in land at a r ® oa ^ s the example of Americaand t P g medical re,*^ fair valuation- and those without land to pay in adds France will soon recover from her oflft cash-then let tho Society use its influence with P resoat condition, provided she abandon use- £”»«i wseUent tho Legislature to get tho State to become a U^waro &****■Nfcgj share-holder to the extent of $10,000, $15,000, . LoMDoa. Febramry 23.-A dispatch from Pans or $20,000. This would give tho Company a dated the 22d, says nothing is known yet of the SaZfSXsSSS**, whi <* thefi fair working capital to commence with. Then Prussian terms of peace. The Figaro, how- I . ^ . tbo miccls f wa > kas beeaow* let the lands bosoldin alternate sections to set- ®Y 6r > says the terms are conciliatory. The J n trodu Ce d obXcks L?? 0 ° f its teS tiers who would work them according to the Momteur of Versailles says the war indemnity Sot premise ^ eatii « Enmnaan Rvstem and at eost-Drice on Ions demanded by tho Government is two milliards f uia nor premise. L to induce iiimi grants to como. He war- pf thalers (two thousand millions of dollars) « ss -^A-aaSff sssfr - gggaagaaags distingushed gentleman of the Society AU railways leading to Paris are x+M- suggested that the State receive as secnr- . , T _ . . . - numerous The ow-r . ate ity for tho cash advanced for tho purpose Tho Pans Momteur says Trochu has :resigned The oxp<»tahoniB of inaugurating the system, from the joint stock | at the request of Thiers, »nd retmed to pnvate “il ra the Tennesse^r ^aon lands of this Sooiety, as many land-shares as | kto- nesse Nantucket ami crew °f tt 5 T would cover tho money given by the State. But A disturbance at Nice has been suppressed. *autuci.c* andl Yontic row a!l M I should say that tho State, when it has boon , ®» 0 Ganl013 ^ Lord Lyons, too British “alter J practically demonstrated that the system is a Ambassador, and Chevalier Nigra, tho Italian J° ^ntoIgodaiCuba m care of iajg* success, ia consideration of tho enhanced value Mamstor wiU soon go toParis ra order to afford opDortmrifv of ^^ V “ a > Cabs >*t of real estate throughout tho State and conse- Th f®rs the moral support of their Governments tSr^ quently enhanced taxable property, wonld re- la *ko peaco negotiations. dr=ssed to the CommWJl 6 - 16 * 8 U turn tiffs stock as a freo gift to too Society. _ Bordeaux, February 23 -Tho Momteur, of “ r ~ sse £ lnc are ofs £ In a recent letter to the members of tho Bordeaux, announces that tho armistice ^as Broadway, New rT been prolonged to tho 26toinstant ,at midnight. :° They will be forward^ tof- «I ussaraguya Saak tuto in Franco. I have no doubt but that their February -3. La Batrio, of to-day, . . embarrassed r 13 introduction in largo bodies, settled in the same says Bismarck has communicated hisconditions |!a officerl^riS neighborhood in this State, would bo highly Cabinets of Vienna, London and N™ n beneficial to the State. This would bo their St. Petersburg. should ba naid t!l 9 c; first homo in too United States in modern Bans is tranquil So of the ately ’, Jast ^ times, and at a period of soro need, hailed by Veesateles, February 23—Tno Momteur, S«“!“! n 8 ‘ e “ ne r, anovel event for them as a deliverance from prospective pr0 - offioial, of Versailles, -justifies Germany 8 de- Bomrago occuned. In hoSapremeCoct,: traded distress. Their introduction would cost I ““d for an indemnity of two millions ot “olBnttame in,.ita history, auAmeri^ less in point of money, since they are nearer thalera. n«?nrinM‘noi a « CaSe situated to our shores, and by chartering ves- A London dispatch from Arras, 23d, says the “ 8 S n ^de as principal wunsei npoaw,, sels at Brest or Havre, a direct trade could bo moats around that city havo been filled with here. Col % inaugurated during the fall and winter season * or defence. « CommiLnn with France, the vessels taking cotton in return. _ A despatch from Dieppe 22d says the Eighth ^“nnss on, consented to undertab a, A recent suggestion mado in a city paper of German Corps, belonging to Montenffel’s army, and won it. founding a line of steamers for tho purpose of composed of Hecklenburgers is arriving ~~ — bringing in immigrants I hold to bo impracti- B?ore, and, if peace is signed, will embark for ™ in Dawson.—One of the most dial cable for the reason that in our climate and Hamburg direct. n _ . - _ j conflagrations that ever cccured ia with the system of labor contracts, it would not .. WaseimotoiIj February 23.—-It is reported Georgia, broke out on Wednesday ni&vi a ssrassttrssiKrssi I—* *** >° •*» <«» a seasons of the year, this may be done too. In the meantime it would not be difficnlt to induce tho steamers of Germany on their way to New Orleans to touch at Savannah for the purpose of landing emigrants to Georgia. I was awaro but yesterday morning that I bers of the Senate will resign. " I placo, and before the fire could be subia ■Washington, February 23.—R. W. Healy has destroyed the entire row of buildiacsiav^l been nominated as Marshal for South Alabama. I - -, . . ® —I Col. V. A. Gaskill is here as the agent of I ^^ated-eighteen in number. IV.U Georgia to secure agricultural land scrip for I es “ ma * e of the loss, hut are informed by Hij that State. Gaskill has assurances from high G - Greer, of Dawson, thatitmustbeverjlj eye, from whioh death resulted in a few day:.* wages and naturally seeks them, and in ninety- been settled in the first year. This led to suoh These remarks have been written down in great haste and without any material at hand to give you more facts. I bespeak, therefore, your kind indulgence. If any of the numerous As sociations represented hero shoold desire further had been requested by tho Secretary 0 of this quarters that the sorip will be issued as soon as and but little of it will fall nponicsaniae Association to address you on immigration. | ^^fSiegaS^re here from Ohio, Ken- Tb ° ^iagP^sarethepri^ tucky, Tennessee, and a delegation, from At- suaerers: ®* *• Uolhns, proprietor oi taj lanta, Ga., to urge tho passage of Sherman’s Air. McDonald, tin-shop; A.-J. Baldwin,^ bill regarding the Cincinnati' and Southern goods and groceries; Farmer, Sharpe 4ft ® 8 i^° a3 : - _ . •••,! , ■ , , .. dry goods and groceries; G, B. Tbomps::,j information on manypoints Ihavebeenobliged I Biver and Harbor bill which passed the I gooclaandarooexies• Pat Ward ~i~-. at to ignore to-day, I shall be happy to meet them to-day gives Washita river $51,000. 8° oas ana scenes Fat Ward, saloon; R at a future day they may sno^est. Senate.—Ttie Texas and Pacific Railroad Thomas, groceries; James&Bro. t groceris] — — , J , - . , ., bill, as returned from the House with amend- Kitner, dry goods: McKinnev A Lee. red Mr. Moses, of Washington county, then ap- me ’ te> waa laid before the Senate by the Vieo 7 ' H peared and read a very interesting essay on President. Howard moved that the Senate non- ^ tf f °7~. horticulture, which was listened to with special I concur and ask for a committee of conference. I overal other buildings, including the; attention Sherman moved that tho Senate concur. War office, two blacksmith shops, a barbershop,^ Mr. Barnett offered a resolution to tho effect ner . sa j£ amendments made by the House express office and storage room. The gooil that a committee be appointed to meet in Feb- “ de ® that toelsTnatemigh/know exa“ tly“ hrt ^®, di ? ereot houses , w . ere mosU ^ a * Te * tai J raary, 1872, for the purpose of revising the con- it was, he moved that it lay on the table until it baal y damaged condition. No lives lost 1 stitntion and amending the by-laws. Adopted, b® printed, whioh was agreed to. .. ~ ' _ j Mr. Jones, of Randolph, introduced a resolu- McGarrahan bill, aftera short and sharp Mh®- General Robert E. Lee bss mb J ’ , . . . .. discussion, showing that the bill could not pass application to Congress, proposing tosedii Non requesting the appointment of a commit- this session, was laid on the table. Government the Arlington estate, cotoh tee of five to memorialize tho next Legislature The lomt resolution of the Indiana Legisla- L,T„™r, ^ , , , ’ for tho passage of a law, having for its object U n . re > in favor of the removal of tho Capitol, . acres o an . a®® the inclosing of stock. Adopted. I P re ? en ‘? d r. Ths „ biU for ^tending section | conta . lna ? n elaborate argument to darif Tho committee is composed of , „ ,. _ „ , — i «——-"**» | wmen me property was sold.: and taeiriEd gentlemen: Messrs. Schley, Butler, Jones, and It imposes certain penalties for embezzlement * «... i ... , . Ragsdale. Indian appropriations resumed. A motion of th ° othcr ‘. [The introduction of this resolution engen- £ {£'^^C aing f t ^-^ 0n8 J rn , Ct i 0n r' d ™ ns of tbe f“ ted St f H _ L , _ . .. & or the Cincinnati ana Newport bridge failed— Court. The owners of Arlington, howcveia dered so much discussion that a motion was 22 to 29. The bill for relieving brandy distilled anxious to avoid litigation, and pZi mado restnoting each speaker in the future from grapes was indefinitely postponed. Ad-1 fair consideration to mako a valid tiie J deliberations of the Convention to five minutes.] jonrned. property. The rules were suspended, and Col. Capers . A prescribing the oath for Sana- - tor Miller, of Georgia, passed, and goes to the House Rents in New York.—The Neil introduced a resolution to memon&bze invoking President. j Tribune has an important city article i legislative appropriations for tho purpose of The bill relieving John Williamson, of Sa- I reference to house rents, showing the ptx fostering county agricultural societies. vannah, from political disabilities, passed, and in that city and suburbs for the next year. I The following committee were appointed to I 8°® s ^° ^ b ® President. I leading real estate agent remarked to tb ... T -it , c „ I A Conference Committee was ordered on the I porter: memorialize the Legislature: Messrs. Capers, bi u for bridging the Mississippi. - P “There is no doubt about it, rents art I hilips. Brown, Bee, Newman, ana Hamilton. I The Fortification Appropriation bill passed. I go down. There is a frightful number efts Mr. Barnett, of Wilkes, introduced the fol- B gives over one million and a half, exclusive and stores empty, and to be empty. Tb: lowing resolution: That a committee bo ap- °f )ja® x P® n ded balance. I that so many stores are vacant is especiaSji ~ .. . _ . .. River and Harbor Appropriations were taken nificant, because the money hastobeeff pointed to receive suggestions as to the proper up . Jone3> of Kentucky, said only one fourth them to pay for house rent. * * If In: subject matter of investigation and experiment of the sum appropriated was for toe South, mistaken, thero will be a farther fall of ia for tho various county societies connected with I AVith_ an amendment giving $25,000 to the rents in New York this spring of at least ff* this organization, and their distribution among I Gachita river in Arkansas, the biff passed. I cent. Landlords will not endnre so many^ the several counties, and that tho Executive A j ° * t*. , houses this year as they didl last year. * ‘ “7 ~Fire in Savannah. one told me yesterday that there are 9 Committee effeot the distribution. Savannah, February 23.—Colonel John S. I bouses empty in Brooklyn alone. There a Various resolutions were introduced in regard Monroe, Mayor of New Orleans at the time it be a* 1 l ea st half that number vacant” to some action being taken relative to the next was captured by Butler, and who was impris- A veteran auctioneer expressed the ■ State Fair, bnt as a committee bad been pre- ° ned for a l Q ag time by that General, but who opinion, said there were monte*** i , ... , .. , ..... I has been a resident of this citv since the war than at the same time last year, and ha tw? viously appointed for the purpose of establish- ended, died suddenly this evening. there would be a greater exodus to the sstej ing its place of location, all resolutions wera | A disastrous fire occurred here last night, de- | Gian last year, tabled. stroying Hodgson’s block on bay street. Loss The Committee on Foreign Immigration, about $250,000, about half of which is covered through its Chairman, authorized tho President insurance. ’ of tho Convention to appoint a committee of paSdThe'andRitomondRdlSy three to attend the Legislature and urge npon | bill with amendments—ayes 21, nays 17. It IN MEMORIAM. Mizfah Lodge, No. 47, Fr and A/I ] For toe first time since our organintiis s Lodge, cur labors have been disturbed tytl!:’ that body the necessity of encouraging foreign go®® back to the House, whera it will be passed enco of an intruder in our midst, whose immigration. The expenses of said committee to ~ morr °w. hand has “loosed the silver cord,” sal b*j* to be defrayed by the Convention during the I I golden link in the mystic chain of period of twentydays, if necessary. This resolution caused considerable discus- | “ ™uuu on me pare or me democrats to | Y"’ ™ *" v::, i-atf aion bnt was finallv adonted xedistriot too Stale. * about our hearts, fora worthy, faitbM ana • nr’ , Du -J j ' . , Boston, February 23.—’The ship Golconda, craftsman has been stricken down and borne AI eBsr ®* Scbley, Howard, Grier, and Bonner f rom Liberia for Baltimore, was ashore on Nan- to return no more forever, delivered short addresses favoring the resolu- tucket shoals. The Captain sent his wife and Our beloved brother, Levi Hesbi Wire, * tion. child and some passengers ashore in a boat, called from the labors of earth, to participi Mr. H. F. Rees, of this city, being requested when a vessel was sent to rescue the Golconda, my8 teries of the Celestial Temple. 0a tha to express his views in relation to foreign immi- s^Lora, Febra^°23 -The Boardof Trade f ebra «Y. 5871, the summons' gration, and in regard to the importation of adopted a memorial to Congress, asking for tho him duly and truly prepared, wormy ^‘ ^ natives of his own country, Norway and Sweden, I appropriation of a million and a half dollars dod > his disembodied spirit waa coc did so in a very felioitous style. for G 1 ® improvement of the Mississippi be- Gie veil, and there brought from now t. n rrw « tween Gie mouth of tho Missouri and Cairo, by to tho light of a glorious immortiMy- 7 Jli- T Devolved, That it is the means of dy] - es and olher struoturea vhich ’ ri g Brothe b r WD . a * wa8 60 weU known toua* sense of this Convention that but ono annual tend to strengthen the river and give greater more than an affusion to his person*! <*»■*! fair shall be held, at such time and place as the .depth to the channel in time of low water. I, . atnrv ig that of Executive Committee may determine. New York, February 23.-The French con- “T * ? oi “ ”™7T", * « It r. , tributions now exceed $100,000. man and true, ent down in the mri-t Mado tho special order for 9 o dock today. A fall length portrait of Washington, said to “ess, Mr. Steadman introduced the following reso- be by Rembrant Pealo, the ownership of which I “Leaves havo their times to fa!!. . ,, ^ lution: That this Association shall be known has been for somo years in litigation, sold to-' —*♦»—*» north rt* by the name of The Georgia State Agricultural, day for$250. HechaniMl 'and Manufacturing So.f.tv, und that all parts of the constitution conflicting be $10,000 for failure to make tho returns required so altered as to conform to the proposed by law. change of name. . Washington, February 23.—The question I tos^’wM^ded wUhTtoTrata-bowolbcp^ J Gon. Wm. M. Browne occupied the speaker’s whether the position of belligerents enabled the B ut what sib all toe nleasure of earth stand, and read a remarkably interesting and Confederate States to pass a valid title to prop- ^ “ 0 R0 ri 0S oftbo beat** tasriucriv. of Oriamchins . SSSSS^.&ZSSSSii'Z SS-MKSSS-i-' State Agricultural College. . • caso of Knox vs. Lee, from the Circuit Court I reavement and sorrow, let us with beN A Gen. Wm. Browne introduced a resolution for Texas. The court below held the confisca- once, acknowledge the goodness »na w J tendering a vote of thanks to the Presidents of Gon proceedings void, and tho title of the pur- Heavenly Father, who, in His insernt* -® **. ..a™* h.™«, kindly furnished free transportation to delegates Court below having instructed the jury that any „ ore . , 1? : 7 -.nrbeloved^ U this Convention. Adopted. amount their verdict might give forthe plain- 1 tiff against the purchaser of the property at the WlNO > thlB 103819 has loat 9 * or a m J . . „ . tT1 . , . , confiscation sale, could be paid in legal tender I exemplary member, whoao danyw five from each Congressional District be ap- no { es> that question is also discussed in the ar- way consistent with the teachings of o pointed to attend the Agricultural Convention gument. Bowen has been held in a $5,GOO ored Institution. - bo hold in Selma, Alabama, during the first bond for his appearance at too criminal court Jtesolvcd, That a page in onr Eeco r Y '..^1 _ cated to his memory, and an appropriate i“- Tho President has signed the bill prescribing ba ]aced thereon> aspeoial oath for Senator Miller, of Georgia. £ 3. v. action, The High Commission has arrived. Resolved That a copy of ac ^ hC 4^ _ ’ „ J- . „ » , grossed and properly signed, be ion“° .j c |i From tho San Domingo Commission. Secreteryi uaaer goal of the Lodge, to the * . New York, February 24.—The Tybee has ar- the deceased; and that the same be P n0U 1 rived with dates from San Domingo of too 14th, | t ho Telegraph and Messenger. And flowers to wither at the north i And stars to sot—bat all, n ticii' l Thou haBt all seasons for thme own, I To him we mourn, tho destroyer came mer of life, whilo the sun of prospers ness was shedding its meridian' rays °P® week in May. It was moved and seconded that a committee five be appointed to attend the Planters’ Con gress at Selma, Alabama, on the 9th of Decem ber. The committee consists of Messrs. B. C. Yancey, A. H. Colquitt, Wm. M. Browne, CoL Capers and D. A. Vason. _ I and Samona of the 15th. She brings the fol- A number of gentlemen occupied the remain- lowing correspondence for the Associated Press: der of too day's session by giving expression to 1Q -, their opinions as to tho various methods of cul- _ 8a ? 1 Dominoo, February 14, ] 871. rivaling cereals, fruits and vegetables, after The Commission met last evemng and ex- which the Convention adjourned to meet again ob a n g®d views in regard to the work remaining . — - f aitts’ this morning at 9 o’clock/ K to be done, and the propriety of forwarding a See advertisement of Dr. But» -/oriH 1 preliminary report. Investigations, so far as headed Book forthe Million—H&rnag® , i made > ^ particularly as to toe result of toe mother column. It should be read by Twenty-two bodies h%ve been recovered since first few days, begins to open a wider field than t nn <m-dAwtf — a the New Hamburg aooident, and this is sup- was expeoted at the first of the week, and it was —YI/,]„ .-.f - moti 10rB posed to include ail the victims. The last found | I stS^^^tenns^f Fraternally submitted, i I J. EJDIETT BlACKSBE^ I (YJJ Geo. S. Joses, | I E. J. Johnston flee*! . . of their arrival in Washington. 'Upon the ques- stantiy speaking in was that of Simmons, the engineer, and it was J tion of a brief report by mail, it was decided not of the magical effects of Mrs- unmutilated. Tho man was drowned. * to send it, in view of toe fast that considerable i fox soothing infants teething. ^Vhitoonib 5
