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Telegraph and Messenger. I General Assembly of Georgia.
MACON, DEOEsaBEB 5, 187L
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PROCEEDINGS OP THURSDAY.
| Reported for the Telegraph and Heeeenger.J
Hodhk.—The House met at 8 F. it—Speaker
Fbeiobt* west from Hew York, Boston end 1 Smith in the chair. ■
Philadelphia were sdTsneed to 40 cents per 100 mnoh of
pounds to Oinatanati; $1 to Chicago; $1 29 to I jonmal m routes to the adoption of sreeo-
Bt. Louis, and other points proportionately. lotion for the appointment of a oommittee (i
Th* Chattanooga IncxubzasY.—Jake Smith, adjust the claims against the penitentiary. '11
the negro who set fire to Chttanoogo, haa been | -gjand the following
On motion of Mr. Kibbes the bill vu tskan
itp by Motions. v
Amendment* were proposed, exempting vari
ous counties from the operation of the bill.
Mr. Beese opposed toe amendment on the
ground that the bill would be so enfeebled as
to beoome worthless by these exemptions.
Mr. Normally thought that there ought to be
some provision in the bill which referred the
question to the Grand Jury of each county.
Mr. Niehoia moved to amend that no one
shall be eligible to the office of Judge of mid
court who is not a licensed attorney.
Air. Borns favored the bill as reported, and
thought the suggestion to refer the question to
the Grand Juries a good one. He considered
the Court provided for by the bill the best that
oould be devised, and would save every year
thousands of dollars to the State.
Mr. Brown insisted on Senators being al
lowed to exempt their own counties if desired.
The people he represented did not desire this
Court and be was not willing to leave the mat
ter to the Grand Jury, which often did not really
represent public sentiment
Air. Simmons moTed that when the Senate
adjourn it shall adjourn until 3 o’olock. Car
ried.
Fending the discussion of the bill the hour
of adjournment having arrived, the Senate ad
journed until 8 p. ic.
Housx of Rxpmsxntattvxs.—The House was
called to order at 9 a. it, by 8peaker Smith, and
prayed for by the Chaplain.
Journal read and approved.
On motion of Mr. Price the rules were sus
pended, and a number of House bills were read
the second time.
On motion of Mr. Bush the rules were farther
suspended and the bill to incorporate the town
Colquitt was taken up and passed with an
amendment.
A bill to appropriate $2,000 for the heirs of
the late CoL AX. Sheftall, of Savannah, a Revolu
tionary offioer, in full satisfaction for a just
claim against the State of Georgia, was read
the first time. Also a bill to raise a revenue for
the support of the Government for the year
1872.
The unfinished business of yesterday, to-wit:
The bill to repeal the usury laws was resumed.
AXr. Scott said that the matter is one of great
public interest and should be carefally consid
ered. Away back in the history of the past
under the Mosaic law it was considered disre
putable to charge any usury or interest, for the
two words were identical in meaning then.
Subsequently, however, the venous civilized
and limiting interest has been adopted and used
in our own State for years past, and he is un
willing to cat loose from old and tried land
marks.
Mr. McMillan opposed the repeal of the usury
law, remarking that interest, when not regulated
by law, is regulated by the risk incurred by tbe
lender. When propexty is plentiful and indi-
tried and sentenced to twelve years in the Pent- I bills were read the third time:
tentury. Tbe proof against him was so distinot A bill to repeal the act of 1870, changing the
•■'tn leave no room for any other inference, time for the annual meeting of the Legislature.
. ... fioiiiectnre than that Jake was TM«®d- This will fix the time of meeting on
probability, or conjeoture than that Jake was MCOnd Wednesday ^ January as prortded
one of the guilty incendiaries. I in the Constitution.
Siuu. Pa*.—-The Nashville Union asd I a bill to repeal the usury laws of this State
of the 30th ult, says small pox is and to fix the rate of interest when no amount
**ing in Cincinnati to an Manning extent, and iS^^nffleflnitely
it has reason to think is prevailing at some po^p^ the bill y
points not very remote from Nashville. That Mr. Simmons, oi Gwinnett, favored the pas-
paper recommends increased care in vaocina- sage of the bill as a measure generally desired
U».„d..
care everywhere. 1 portion as other articles of value.
Mayob Hata was non at inventus about the Mr. Bash favored the bill, and wanted all per*
same time on Wednesday, and was supposed to I sons to be made to stand np to their oontrmots,
footloose on Thanksgiving day. He will be tor a mole, as to say no man «h«» pay man
required to find bail in two millions. An order than 7 per cent for money,
was issued from the Supreme Court in Albany on I Mr. W. D. Anderson opposed tbe bill in an
isaras&'s.rcssaa:
sub property, Ann rAfimnng him t/i know cause | that when article** of value are for sale money
why he should not be absolutely enjoined. j 13 a medium of exchange, snd will be forth-
Fxte Fset and a Half of rain in eleven I coming when the actual demands of trade and
months of 1871—that is an enormous rainfall I co Fl me 1 £ C0 demand it
_ . . - . I Mr. Bacon favored the passage of the bill and
and gives stronger assurance of short and ln * j said that usury laws have been founded upon
ferior cotton crops, than all tbo figuring of I the erroneous idea that the government can reg-
dealers and speculators. Cotton abhors a soil Mate commerce and trade. The law as it stands
gion east of the Mississippi has been in that | tend to make money cheaper by bringing per*
condition during the most critical periods of the I sons other than sharpers and usurers in compe-
last crop. tion as lenders.
Thb Spaniards BAMPAST.-Foreign telegrams Mr - Camming favored the bill and could see
a an. a a*. « - . n ,. j . Iso reason why 7 per oenh should have been
report that the Spanish Government has deter- fixed npon> Why £ ot 3 or ten, or why not
mined upon shipping thirty thonsand more | say that money is worth what it will bring? Bat
troops to Cuba, to put down the insurrection, I as this law of 7 per cent, has been of such long
and perhaps put on a grim front to Fish, Grant 8t8 ?djfg. b ® was willing to make a compromise
, , , f rnu it * and allow the rule to be fixed st 10 per cent,
and Robeson s iron pots. The Northern papers bnt he waa real , y oppoged to ^ restriction,
represent Fish as flopping abont in a very believing that the idea of usury laws was founded
threatening manner over the atrocious massacre I in superstition.
by the Spanish Government of those unlucky I Jackson favored the passage of the bill
. , , , , _ , _ , , J urging many reasons therefor,
boys who insulted Gonzalo Castanon s grave. i bill to amend an act to create a Board of
A Tebbible Snow Stobm.—Dispatches from I Commissioners for Glynn county. Passed.
Utah report snow six feet deep on a level, with I A bill to incorporate tbe town of Franklin.
drifts from twenty to one hundred feet deep. ^ House bill to incorporate the Steam Wagon I vidu al credit is good the rates are low j but
Previous dispatches to the twenty-seventh ulti- Oomnanv nf Genroia Read first time when large homestead provisions are of force
mo, say that the stermhadraged for eight days, Leaved absence wsl gSSd to Messrs. imprisonment for debt ia contralto law
during which they had not seen the sun. The Clark, Cato. Booth, and Johnson of Jefferson. " s * £a to the lender are great, snd high fates
aanag wrnen taey rnm noa wean urn jon. xne ^ ^maton of the bill to repeal for the of borrowed money are natural con
wind was high enough to prostrate great fora* the n8nry *j a the Houseadioumed nntil D^ar. I sequences,
trees, and several persons had been lost in the I to-morrow.
drifts. That is an elegant country for railroad- I
ing purposes—calculated to make people hardy PROCEEDINGS OF FRIDAY,
and industrious. I
A Subscription Candidate —Tbe Washing- ht*tEH?'*at/ I for ita use & atin 8 the 851110 *i“ 0 - The law as it
ton correspondent of the Baltimore Gazette Warren ’ PJ J I *"»*» * -*and ought not to styd.
says a paper is in circulation requesting Horace I Journal read and approved.
Greeloy to become a candidate for President, . Mr. Wellborn moved to reconsider a bill to
. ... . ., 7 I incorporate the Land Grant Board and for
and what is more, the paper is signed by such other pnrposeg> lo8t on Wednesday, which mo
prominent names as Wm. M. Evarts, Charles tion prevailed.
O’Connor, Horatio Seymour, Senator Thurman, j Mr. Matthews, chairman of the committee ap-
and bears also the signatures of numerous and in- P 01nt ®d to inspect the furniture, silver ware,
1 eta, of the Executive Mansion, reported the
same well kept and in good order.
Mr. Reese offered a resolution that if any
conlest shall arise between the person eleoted i „„„„„„ . .
toaillhejme.pi^tem.t B.fa.B Bullock, "” 0 TJL ™
Ion correspondent of the OinoinnaUI Gezelte I SStoof GovnnorJorbelSeenl’njotherpl.Ln wfmiin™-.“S SJ ^ Dr ™ p,U " e
says, November 27th: Foster Blodgett, who has and Hon. Benjamin Conley, in regard to such • ‘ r Lls 83818181100 on S81 d occasion, ' n “ v -
reoently been indicted at Atlanta, Ga., for mal-1 office, that such contest shall be referred-to the
appropriation of railroad bonds, in conjunction I tribunals of the State, the decision of
... ,, . ,, which shall be conclusive and shall be respected
with Governor Bullock, has arnved in this city. and obeyed by the peopIe o{ thi8 sta(e Ad ^ pted
He proposes to continue tho contest he inaug- bills os fiest bzadiko.
urated last winter for a seat in the Senate, but Mr . Simmons-A biU to allow the town of
tho Judiciary Committed aro prepared to report I Forsyth to issue bonds to purchase the Monroe
adversely on his case as soon as Congress meets. I Female Institute and the Hillyer Male Institute.
Blodgett has the impudence of Old Nick. . Mr. Nichols—A bill to change tho time of ,
rr c niT1A , wl TTw wvttw A a .. holdiDg the fall term of Lee Saperior Court. | effectual and reliable
I he oocth Uaeoli.sa ivu-KLUX A South Ai so a bill to change the time of holding the I Mr. GriffiD, of Houston, opposed the bill,
Carolina correspondent of the Nashville Union I Superior Courts of the Brunswick Circuit. I urging that no legislation was necessary, and
admits the existence of so called Ku-klux or- I Mr. MoWhorter—A bill to amend the several would be oppressive, and would retard inrmi-
ganizationa but maintains the utter impossibility 80,0 incorporating the town of Cartersville, gration.
__ tt_ . Bartow county. Mr. Johnson, of Clay, called the previous
of g-fling along without them. ^ lie says every jjr, Richardson—A bill to compel all persons question. The motion was sustained,
villago and cross roads was provided with stores owning wild lands to make return thereof to On the motion to indefinitely postpone the
the tax receiver of the county where the land yeas and nays were called for with the foliow-
lios. ing result: Yeas, 88; nays, 55. So the bill was
Mr. Hoyle—A bill to allow executors, admin- indefinitely postponed,
istrators or agents, to foreclose any lien arising A bill to change the line between the counties
nnder the statutes of this State or any lien of Douglass and Carroll was read the third time,
laws, and for other purposes. Also a bill to Mr Heard presented a petition from a large
amend the fee bill of Justices of the Peace, number of citizens, and moved to disagree to
prescribed in seolion 2G48 of the Code. Also a the report of the committee whioh was adverse
bill to fix the costs in tbe Superior Courts of to the passage of the bill, urging that the citi-
Bandolpb, Terrell and Clay, and to prescribe zens who desire this change were cut off from
the fees of offioers in certain cases. Carroll connty without their consent.
Mr. Trammell—A bill for the relief of Thomas Mr. Goodman favored the report of the com
E. Lloyd. mittee, and said that a part of the persons af-
Mr. Hoyle—A bill to require the clerks of fected by the bill were formerly in Campbell
the Superior Courts of the Pataula Circuit to I county. He also presan'ed a petition from over
keep a receipt docket. two hundred citizens of Douglass county asking
Mr. Hinton—A bill to make the employment that this bill may not pass,
of any servant whatever daring the term tor The motion to disagree with the report of the
which said servant may have been employed a I committee prevailed and the bill was passed,
misdemeanor. I The bill to change the line between the conn-
Mr. Wellborn, Chairman of the Committee I ties of Walker and D-ide was lost,
on the State of the Repnblio, to whom was re- A bill to create a Board of Commissioners of
ferred a resointion looking to payment for Roads and Revenue for Floyd, Berrien, Eifing-
emancipated slaves, reported tbe following: ham, Sohlej, Sumter and Greene. Passed.
Whereas, The war lately waged by the United Leave of absence was granted to Messrs. Sto-
States Government against the Confederate vail and Snead. House then adjourned nntil 3
States was, from the beginning of tbe year | p. if.
18G3 nntil tbe close of said war, carried on for
the express parpose of emancipating the slaves,
and emancipation having been received and
considered by all parties as a resnlt of the war,
Therefore, resolved, That tbe Senate looks
with disfavor npon the move emanating from
the republican side of the chamber, having for
its ostensible object the obtaining pay for
emancipated slaves; that public opinion nowhere
deems such a result possible, and that no good,
but on tha contrary positive evil would attend
its agitation.
On motion of Mr. Simmons, the Judiciary
Committee was requested to report on Monday
mocxuDR.
The Finanoe Committee, to whom was referred
a resolution directing a settlement between
John Jones, Esq., late Treasurer and the pree-
ent Treasurer, reported a resolution that the
lent Legislature had fully investigated the
books, accounts and voucher* of Mr. Jones, by
joint special Committee, that aaid Committee
reported that Mr. Jones had prodaoed and ex
hibited to them his books, vouchers nod ac
counts, showing a proper disposition of the
funds of the 8tate that had earns into his hands
after his last annual statement in October,
1866; that aaid Committee by resolution direct
ed Mr. Jones to turn over aU his official books,
etc., to the present Treasurer; that in accord
ance therewith Mr. Jones had made three ap
plications at the Treasury to be relieved from
his bond and get the proper receipt therefor
and was each time refused. In view of all
whioh, the Committee directed the account
dosed. The report was adopted.
A bill requiring the Governor to withhold his
endorsement on railroad booda nntil an amount
shall have been contributed by private persona
equal to tbe amount of the endorsement applied
for. Passed.
A bill to equalize tax returns in this State.
Pending its discussion the hour of adjourn
ment having arrived, the Senate adjourned
until 10 a. it Monday.
House.—The House met pursuant to adjourn
ment, and was called to order by the Speaker,
and prayed for by Rev. Mr. Heidt.
The journal of yesterday was read and ap
proved.
Mr. Goodman moved to reconsider so much
of yesterday’s proceedings as relate to the pas
sage of a bill to change tbe line between the
connties of Douglass and Carroll. Lost.
Mr. Fain moved to reconsider the action of
this House on yesterday in indefinitely post
poning the bill to repeal the usury laws.
Mr. Pierce called the previous question, and
the call was sustained.
Tbe main question was voted down and the
motion to reconsider went over under the roles
until Monday.
Mr. Johnson, of Clay, moved to reconsider
the loss of a bill to make penal the breach of
contracts by laborer or employe.
Mr. Johnson said it was a bill of vital impor
tance. It would give the farmer a reliable sys-
lEtaThyBands,
TO UX XEMOBX Of XX BB0VXBE, OAPMIX XDWAEO F.
BOWBBB.
Into Thine own hands, O God, do we gbra Mm,
Aye, into TVo* own hands, O God ;
Into Thy sheltering araa we have given
The idol Thou loaned us, O God
tha unscrupulous rascal who plunders flats I Atlantic Railed ,t,.n ,.,7 ~~
in the wrong plaoe. Should midden calamity Ut* otSoem at aaid road, mr ti
overtake him, it is a judgment; should the now ekiming to be .af*of ttu. 1
visitation meet the pious stock jobber juat as he say parson? uppointedbT RnT* 4 ^
turns “a corner ” it ie an afil.oUve providence l*u Governor,
that puts u ehurok in mourning. I tbe affair* of aaid ” -° kv
When a workman in Some, irrevereoUy whonwoevec, any part or n^rH 07 ° t! *' Li
_ , . ^ handling an image, or donning an eoeleaUatioai I •*** f.nLt ”. l ~r u<>L ot
W* placed on Thy bosom our Boy-end sweet fin- garment, falls ill, the religious by-standers see Resolved further ^ *
n» i ^ in the calamity the manifest anger of God. State, call upon the late t
Of long cherished oomrades, (while new Thee he When a priest falls dead at the altar, it is a I oflloergand iwSiteof th! X 1 '***^? sJ}
Ungenl I complacent summons to go up higher. The Railroad immediate)v
heathen who saw the frightful oonsequeneea of balances of mcr.cy so drSt f ofl
professing Christianity in the day* of Nero, in- set forth 1 1 the StateL
_ _ . . . ferred that being of all men most miserable, tha Proviued Th. ‘ ; ,
Qod a finger did at touch him. Hesleptl and that Christians were the most wicked. The Chris- olutione be constra*d«»v^ uefort 8obJ
•lumber I tians drew a oounter inference from the oalam- this House that the hTi?*£f ei81n 8 the
Waa all that we learned of tbe wav lities of the Emperor*. So the Jews thought said officers and . admitt*
that the man born blind was deprived of eyes due. 8 ’ a . re ;he real I
because of his parent’s sin, or may be his own, j Speaker Hon««
and regarded tbe tall of the Biloam tower as a I n * 6
special judgment npon the poor mien eritshed by I
the faD. So the spectators who saw the serpent
fasten on the hand of Paul inferred that he was
lingers)
Of buds from the meadows, immortal, of Heaven
Are weaving our Darling a crown.
That whispering Angela (whila none were around
him)
Won all of his heart that dark day.
He heard, and he only, the soft soothing measure
That God aent from Heaven to waft hack Bis
treasure;
a murderer, who, though he had escaped the
He felt the bright glory, unspoken, that bound him, I shipwreck, waa not permitted to live.
Clerk House - l
As God looked so lovingly, down.
Into Thine own hands the Angela conveyed hum,
Into Thine own hands, O God;
Softly asleep in Thine own arms they laid him,
How sweet thus to leave him, O God.
How sweet thus to leave him 1 How aweet the re
lying I
Now, all this is natural, and the teaching of
our religion, whioh lays suoh strem upon the im
mediate sovereignty and providence of God, is
easily made to corroborate the habit of judg-1
meet
ways are, to destructive ageneies, calamity:
B»«ia*Co*Lxx J G 0T(
’taji
undo to corroborate the habit of judg- j L R A ^AtAin«>n’
Exposed, as human life and property*- B^sxtment,ThSebT^tif.*tS
re, to destructive agencies, calamity is I going and within ia a tine and Z,
continually presenting itself for vindication be-1 resolution passed bv the OAr^®? too P!ti
fore our theology, and aa our theology aoknowl-1 its present session, and
And as tojhine own bands the Angela conveyed | sion of displeasure, but often the reverse, it ne
cessarily happens that if we judge at all we
judge partially and arbitrarily—not according
to the mind of God, but according to the easy J To the **• Hi
rule of discernment furnished in our own. Aif w arr «n
The great fires in the west, like all other great ^ and ^tlattitc Batiroad;
calamities, have been eagerly “improved” by . Him—In compliance with the forem,,
many preachers and writers to sustain their dif- pawad by both House* and in~
him
We heard this—“Come home to tby rest.”
Macon, December 1,1871. E. B. C.
approved
Secretary Executive De^’.
State Tbeasueh’i rw I
Atlakta, Ga., November 29 «!M|
ferent views of philosophy and to give impetus I Governor, it becomes my duty to
I to their particular hobbies. When the cholera I P s ymeut to the Trei»«
‘PFftirvJ
. tn Aj
twwuiie Ul 1119 WWW 1 — r ——— auw wwran J - , n - -—— — ib'l
created considerable in-1 flrst visited Boston almost all the preachers saw 0 ‘jf eo '? , a 0,0 balanoe IBmmfeii.
terest in this community, especially among M n 14 0 judgment against Intemperance, because “monging to the State of OeorpLiJ
’ lal science and the theory anti-drink was the hobby of the time. Subae- earnings of the Western snd AGuS,?
cine. That the complete qoantly it was the anti-slavery, and calamities road ^ lul0 “ possession of the But* ,
lave.*. .Ft 1 S A_1 - i WOVO iniavnaataJ a^O.’.al. mk. 1 DOV dARlAn(1 rtf AOrtl* Avvil all -*• ^ 4
nations allowed and oonntenanced interest but! tern of labor. If wiU only affeot the evil doer,
were careful to limit it. This plan of allowing Ignorant minds do not reoognize the moral ob-
*•»»»*— ligation of a contract, and the law must make
flnentinl Republicans in all the Northern States.
If Horace can secure about 3,500,0C0 signatures j
to the petition he might run with safety.
The Host. Blosteb Fodqett.—The Washing-
Mr. Pon favored tbe passage of the bill, and
could see no sense in telling a man who owns
$10,000 that be shall not have more than $100
for it during a year, but allowing him to invest
the same in brick and mortar and get $2,000
Mr. Richards called the previous question.
I Call sustained.
On the motion to indefinitely postpone, the
I yeas and nays were called for, with the following
result: yeas81; nays G5. Bo the motion to
| postpone prevailed.
A message from the Governor was received
| saying that tbe bill to abolish the City Court of
Maoon had been approved and signed.
A resolution by Mr. Heidt tendering the
thanks of this House to Rev. Dr. Wills for his
The reso
lution as amended was adopted.
BILLS ON THIBD BEADING.
A bill to amend the law relating to the with
drawal of claims. Passed.
A bill to make it penal for employer or em
ploye to break a contract for labor or service
was read the third time.
Mr. Pou favored the bill in an eloquent
speech, urgiDg that it operated equally upon
all parties, and tended to make contracts more
where the farmer’s cotton and corn stolen from
his field by moonlight or cancelled by tho pick
ers, was traded for whisky, and there vis no
redress by law for this or any other wrong. Ne
gro jurors were a fatal bar to conviction, and
in case of conviction a pardon from Scott was
at band by due course of mail.
“The cotton crop is always underestimated,
so say dealers; bnt Commodore Manry, in a late
paper read before the Rockbridge Agricultural
and Mechanical Society, says that from 1823 to
I860, tho average orrr-estimate was 21J per
cent. He estimates the actual lass of planters
and gain tot speculators on crops since the war,
thus
Oar total cotton production since the war is in
round numbers 16,000,000 of bales; and the
fluctuations in price are owing chiefly to the lack
of correct information as to yield. Supposing
planters to have sold on the average only half
the crop of each year at the lowest figures—then
according to this way of putting tho question
they have lost on tho crop of 1865, $96 000,000;
on the crop of 18G6, $41 000.000; 1867, $67,-
000,000; 1868, $30,000,000; 1869. $68,000,000;
and on the crop of 1870, $70,000,000; total,
$372,000,000, or an average of $62,500,000.
An Honest Official Spectoatob.—Let ns
congraulato Grant’s administration on the fact
that it has one honest, outspoken specula
tor on the oilloial list. That man is Gen»al
Schenck, United States Minister to the Conrt
of St. James, who has been nsing his office as a
traveling agency for the sale of a silver mine,
and being arraigned for the same, his friends
in Washington, through a dispatch to the New
York Evening Post, a prominent Republican
paper, put forth this defence:
Washington, November 27.—Mr. Schenck’a
personal friends are defiant One of the most
prominent of them openly declares that if any
inquiry is sent to him on the subject of bis
connection with the Emma Mine he will answer
that it is none of tho business of the govern
meat. Members of the same clique say that
Gen. Schenck only accepted office for a short
time, to pay his expenses to and In London,
While he should negotiate the sale of this mine,
snd in order that tho position of Ambassador
might aid him in selling it; that when the gov
ernment inquires about it, he will resign at
onoe, pocket its profits, and return, to speculate
in something else.
South Cabolina.—Scott’s gang of negroes,
ctlled a General Assembly, met in Colombia last
Tuesday. In Ins message bb states tho whole
publio debt to be $11,994 908. which he knows
from severe personal serntiny to be correct,
nothing being suppressed. Ho argues that the
depreciation cf the State credit is due to persis
tent threats of repudiation, made by individuals
and the press for political purposes, without
whioh the debt would not now exceed $10,000,-
000 Ho is confident that ihe State will pay all
her obligations to the last cent. He recommends
that the Legislature prohibit the borrowing of
money or contracting a debt to meet the current
expenses.
Ho condemns extra sessions of ihe Legisla
ture, without which tho attacks of the opposition
could not be so successful. He urges tbe Leg
islature to make the session short and econom
ical, and recommends that fixed salaries instead
of a per diem bo given to members of the Leg
islature; that numerous i.ffices bo abolished;
that tho salaries of all officials except Judges be
redneed one-third; that the tax on real estate
be lessened; that a license s» stem be adopted,
and rice, cotton and railroad tonraga be taxed;
that the bonds of the State be taken at par in
for kad bought at tax sales, on the ti-
s . "'‘raated by the State; that publio
“ as ““
He reviews at length the causes which led
him to ask a suspension of the habeas corpus
nnder the Ku-klux law. He claims that concil-
lation proved useless, and courts wouldnot act -
that the whites mistook magnanimity for weak-
ness. He declined to call out the militia, be-
causo it consisted of negroes, who would have
been slaughterd and the people led to believe
that the conflict wai between the negroes and
wh'tos, instead of between the friends of the
government and its enemies.
them do it. The law. as it now stands, is inade-
quate and the people demand the passage of
this law.
The motion to reoonsider was lost.
The Speaker announced tbe following com
mittees :
To Investigate the Official Conduct of R. B.
Bullock—Messrs. Hoge, McNeil, and Payne.
To Investigate the Management and Adminia
tration of the Western and Atlantio Railroad—
Messrs. Snead, Phillips and Goldsmith.
To Investigate the Fairness or Unfairness of
tho State Road Lease—Messrs. Fierce, Nether-
land and Hudson.
To Investigate the Conduct of Commisssoners
to Audit Claims against the State Road—
Messrs. Wofford, of Bartow, Head and Wood
ward.
Mr. Simmons, of Gwinnett, moved to sus
pend the rules to take up a bill to incorporate
the Lind Grant Board. He urged many reasons
why prompt action on the bill ahonld bo taken.
Mr. McMillan also favored the motion to sus
pend.
The motion was lost.
A bill to prohibit and make penal the pur
chase and sale of agricultural products after
dark. Read third time.
Mr. Rawls moved to except Effingham connty.
Lost.
Mr. Simmons, of Hall, moved to except the
county of Hall. Lost.
Joiner moved to exempt the counties of
Dougherty aud Camden. Lost.
Davis, of Clarke, moved to exempt Clarke
connty. Lost.
Mr. Griffin, of Houston, opposed the bill as a
measure calculated to work a hardship upon
certain persons and to injure tho agricultural
Interest of the country.
Joiner opposed the bill as a bad measure,
which would disorganize labor.
Mr. Hudson said that the bill was intended to
prevent petit larcenies. He was in favor, how-
over, of recommitting the bill in order that it
might be perfected.
Richardson and Floyd opposed the bill and
proceeded to disouss the merits of it
Mr Pierce made the point of order than on a
motion to recommit would not authorize the
discussion of the merits of a question.
This point was raled as well taken.
Mr. Pierce called the previeus question on a
motion to recommit
The call was sustained, and the bill was re
committed.
A bill to amend the charter of the city of
Macon, to prescribe how And when elections for
Mayor and Aldermen, eto., of said city, was
HOW A MAS FEKLS WHEN POISONED.
An Interesting; Paper—Tbe Snflerer’a own
Statement.
The Harrisburg State Journal, says:
The recent case of poisoning in tha lower
section of the city has oreated oonsidera
terest in this community, especially among
men versed in medical s*’ ' '* -*
and praotioe of medicine. , * I „ — T „„ . . „
restoration of the patient,af ter havisg taken one wera interpreted aooordingly. The multitude J p 2. v demand of each and all of yon, a,
grain of stryohnine—one of the most subtle and I and variety of sins in a large, suddenly-created °™ O0r0 “d agents so in arrears the in*,
powerful vegetable poisons known—was owing I 01t y afford singular opportunity to seleot the IP 0 ?® 1 ®® 4 tbe State Treasury tha fnj
to the skill, prompt aotion, and very valuable crime that brought down the vengeance of fire. anoe 01 mon ®J 80 due the State,
remedy employed by the attending physician, I Brother Haven, who is aiway ready to declare I N. L Asoa
no oandid or nnbiaaed mind will deny. Annexed I tbe mind of God, interpreted the fire to be a I State
is the patient's own statement, which will be revelation against sinning on Sundays, besides ■ —
read with interest: on other days, as Boston does. Mr. George Tbe Trouble with Spai
Habbisbubg, November 22, 1871. Francis Train seems to trace the fire to oertain Lock Warlike—Active
The cause that led me to commit the rash Chicago misdemeanors to himself, who was rations. '**
act of whioh I am abont to give an account nan I irreverently handled in that oity. Many who | , ,
be of no particular interest, and omitting all remember the broad flames that swept the flanks I Under date of November 29th, the
allusions to motives, and making no attempt at ot Sherman’s march, and the horrible burning Son’s Washington correspondent tekgna
excuse, I will simply state the circumstances of Colombia, aee in the fires of the Northwest follows: e ^
the case, whioh I think may be of interest to I “d of its great war emporium the retributive Official advices received by the
those engaged in the advancement of medical judgment of God. yesterday and to day indicate thst'w.
science. I am induced to do this at the request There is no laok of tins to be burned for. volved in no inconsiderable diffimW
of my friend and physician, Dr. E. H. Ooover, Ohioago is a proud, vain, and wicked city. The Spain, whose officials in Gaba WaT!
with the assurance that the case is a remarks-1 inhabitants were much given to the Nebnchad-1 time %hown an utter indifference to tilj
ble one, likely to attract tho attention of the nezzarwayof oontemplating the great Babylon tection of the life and proDertv of juL"
medical profession everywhere. they had built. It waa a oity of eager traders, oitizens. The Cuban volunteers thmi
“On the morning of November 20, 1871, at and commercial communities are not remarkable maltreated Americana and driven them*
abont 11 o’clock, I swallowed nearly, if not quite, for lb® dominion of the higher qualities of the a reoent period out of Havana. This *
one grain of[stryohnine, which had been in my | *>nL Many of the people of Chioago had ment, aware of this, has repeatedly i
possession since the 6th instant. I was sitting I sprung from vulgar, unscrupulous greediness to j this condition of affairs to the aatlionfi.1
on the side of the bod in the second-story back I vulgar, unscrupulous wealthinees. AU their Madrid, but without any other restiTi
room, in which apartment I have slept since I bad nature had been expanded and hardened I promises of early action which van i
have occupied the house. I took the powder, by prosperity. There was profuse ostentation, fulfilled. Yesterday affairs’became sotL,
dry, from tho paper, and held it in my mouth g*ot« self-indulgenoe, ooarse pride, and abomi- ing at Havana that the United Slates Cm
nntil it had become moistened with spittle,when I ®able hypocrisy. Many adventurers from other general telegraphed that American eitiimJ
Iswallowed it; walked to the table and drank a plaoes had brought contributions of sin to this officials needed the immediate protfeal
of water; went into the room over the J great fever-house of domestio ungodliness.— j this government. The matter vww 1
en, and hid the paper in which the poison There was much low vioe, many groggeries and the attention of tl
i>een, and then went down stairs, where I gambling houses, and worse resortsof depravity, armed fleet of for
a seat in a rocking-chair fa front of the I Religion itself was vulgar, ostentatious, pig- ordered with all poa
. In the course of five minutes I began to beaded and feeble-hearted. It built fine ohurcb- be plaoed in immi
feel slight cranps in the calves of my legs. My e8 > cultivated denominationalism, softened tbe I the Consul-general.
sitting by the table, sewing, and I prescriptions of the gospel by all the comforts The commanding officer of the fleet hd
asked her for a couple of crackers, which she °f. luxury, and sustained the lowliness of the structions, as is learned from an emiKha
gave me. The cramps had by this time in- spirit by surroundingsthatremindit of its right worthy source, in oase the Cuban volnstial
creased in intensity, and extended to the feet to be ptoud. There was an enormous quantity stroy the Ufa and property of Amerixas
and thighs, causing the most intense pain. 11 °f whisky distilled in Chioago, and there was a dents, to demand immediate apology and a
asked if there was an egg abont the house, and B*® 8 * deal of it drank, amidst oaths and brawls, ration, and if they are refused to firo tier
being answered in the affimative, told my wife I obscenity, and blood. There was a great deal of the fleet on the oitv of Havana The gr-a.
to break it and give it to me raw. She then of gambling done in secret dens, in glaring Nipsio, now at Pensaoola, will leave UftJ
suspected that I had taken something, and be- temples of fortune, in stock boards and count- ing, while the Terror, there undergo id
gan questioning me closely about it. ing houses. There was a great deal of coarser, has been ordered into commission loti
“I expected soon to be in eternity, and thought I nnmawhrwiabls wickedness. There was a great patched at once to Havana al-o Tie S'-
that no human power could avail to save my deal of ill-gotten gain there. Much of the city has been ordered from the Brooklyn Kin I
life, so I told her what I had done. She imme- ' W83 cemented with blood and stuffed with plan- j to the same destination wilh all pebble i
diately raised an alarm, and Mr. John Hoyer der. Chicago was a favored vulture glutted with patch, while the Severn and Nantasfceu.il
came in, followed by several other neighbors. I the “profits" of the war—“profits” being tbe J ready on their wav to Cuban wafers A.’a|
The egg was given me, besides a large quantity modern plural of the ancient “prey,” and signi. Lee, commanding the South Atlantic sojit®
nf wfirm cnlf. txrafnr arid ofvAnr> lea or>4 « I fvinu flnnii taIran frnrn hnlh eiriaa fKo io r> nnr ° i ■ . - . , .
AITEBNOON SESSION.
Senate —Several House bills were read the
first and second times.
House —The following bills were passed :
The Senate bill abolishing the Allap&ha Cir
cuit
A bill to legalize the revision of jury boxes.
A bill amending tbe garnshment laws.
A biU to amend laws respecting noncupaiive
wills.
A bill to incorporate the Maoon and Knoxville
Mr. Bruton opposed the adoption of the re- j Railroad,
port, and said that he had introduced the origi- A bi n to oarry into effect article 5, section 12
nal resolution in order that it might be known ( Q f Constitution
to the world what the South and its property A biU to amend [ he charter of Milledgeville-
holders had suffered by the emancipation of I Several local bills were passed and others lost,
slaves. .... . ,, I A bill to extend the right to unite parties in
Mr. Wellborn supported the report on the I matrimony to lawyers was lost,
ground that the resolution could only be fruit- A telegram to Senator Black announces tho
less, at least for good, but on the contrary at death of Hon. Wright Brady, a member of the
the present juncture would be extremely in- House, at his home m Sumter connty. S. L.
jnrious and impolitic. I
Mr. Brock opposed tbe intimation in the re-1 Senate.—The Senate was called to order by
poit that this was a republican measure, and 1 President Trammell, and prayer by Bov. Mr
moved to strike out so much of it as relates to Warren.
that matter. He opposed the original resoln- The journal was read and adopted.
_ I The unfinished business was taken up. It is
Senator Campbell hoped so much of ihe re- j bill to create a County Conrt in each connty
port as threw the onus of this measure npon j n j be state.
the republican party wonld bo struck out, and I The consideration of the several sections was
said the republican party disowned it. I resumed.
The motion of Mr. Brock to strike ont “the J Mr. Weloh moved to amend section second
move emanating from the republican side of I go as to require said conrt to be held at the
the Chamber, was lost by: _ Ayes—Messrs. | county site. Adopted,
Anderson, Brock, Campbell, Candler, Clark,
Colman, Crayton, Deveaux, Wallace, and
Welch—9.
Nays—Messrs. Black, Brown, Burns, Cam
eron, Cone, Estes, Erwin, Griffin, Heard, Hicks,
Hillyer, Jervis, Jordon, Kirkland, Kibbee, Les
ter, Matthews, MoWhorter, Nicholls, Nnnnally,
Peddy, Reese, Richardson, Simmons, Smith,
Steadman, and Wellborn—29.
The resolutions reported were adopted by
ayes—Messrs. Brock, Brown, Burns, Cameron,
Campbell, Cone, Crayton, Estes, Erwin, Grif
fin, Heard Hioks. Hillyer, Hinton, Hoyle, Jervis,
Section 3rd was amended to the same effect;
other slight amendments were made.
Mr. Erwin moved to lay the bill on the fable.
Lost.
The bill as amended was then passed.
Mr. Hinton, Chairman of the Oommittee on
the Lunatic Asylum, offered a resolution which
was referred to the Finance Committee without
beiDg read.
Mr. Bruton—A bill for the relief of Martin
Chester.
Bills were read the seoond time.
On motion of Mr. Erwin, the rales were sns-
® ir ^ an d> Kibbee, Lester, Matthews, I suspended to take np a bill to amend an aot ia-
McWhorter, Nichols, Nnnnally, Peddy, Reese, I corporating the Memphis Branch Railroad Com-
“■J°®,j 8 **dson, Simmons, Steadman, Wellborn I P any on third reading, whioh was passed,
and Welch—31. A bill to change the line between Greene and
Nays Messrs. Anderson, Brnton, Clark, I Morgan counties. Passed,
eveanxan Smith 5. M r , Hillyer introduced a bill to incorporate
bills ON teibd HEADING. the Atlanta Oar Manufacturing Company.
A bill to amend the quo warranto laws of this A Honso bill to alter and amend section 178
State—providing that the same may be heard of Irwin’s Code relating to the pay of members,
by the J edges of the Superior Conrt in vacation. Mr. Brown moved to lay the bill on the table
Passed. I on acccount of the necessary absenoe of Mr.
A bill to cany into effect a bill to provide Reese, who specially desired to be present,
for an election—providing for duplicates of Lost.
election returns to be sent to the President of Mr. Nnnnally moved to refer the bill to the
the Senate. Passed. Judiciary Committee. Carried.
A bill to change a portion of the line of public Ayes—Messrs. Anderson, Black, Brnton, Camp-
road leading from Savannah to Skidaway Nar- bell, Clark, Colman, Crayton, Deveanx, Erwin,
rows. Griffin, Hioks, Hinton, Jordan, Kirkland, Kib-
Mr. LeBter offered a substitute empowering bee, Nicholls. Nnnnally, Richardson, Smith,
the local authorities of Chatham comity to make I Wallace and Weloh - 21.
the changes desired The substitute was Nays—Messrs. Brock, Brown, Borns, Came-
adopted and tbe bill passed. I ron, Cone, Eites, Hillyer, Hoyle, Jervis, Jones,
A bill to create a County Conrt in each ooonty Lester, Mathews, Peddy, Simmons and Well-
in this State. (bom—15.
A resointion by Mr. McMillan providing for
the printing 1,000 copies of Dr. Wills’ sermon
was adopted.
A bill to repeal an act to amend section 3151
of the Code. Passed.
A bill to repeal first and second sections and
to amend the third section of an act to prescribe
the mode of granting and hearing injunctions,
etc., approved in 1870, was read third time.
Mr. Graham explained the old law and the
nature of tbe act sought to amend, and was op
posed to the passage of the law.
Mr. Hnnter was opposed to the act whioh is
sought to be modified as an innovation upon the
old law. He was in favor of the passage of the
bill.
The bill was passed.
A bill to chango the line between the connties
of McDuffie and Columbia. Passed
A bill to alter and amend Section 4476 in rela
tion to vagrants. Indefinitely postponed.
A bill to enforce contracts of immigrants and
laborers. Indefinitely postponed.
A bill to alter the law in relation to compen
sation for taking down testimony in cases of
felony. Passed.
A biU to create a new judioial circuit. Lost
A bill to amend the road laws of this State
so far as they relate to Lnmpkin connty.
Passed.
On motion of Mr. Hoge the rnles were sus
pended, and the Senate bill to change the law in
relation to tho writ of quo warranto, etc., was
read the first time.
A bill to incorporate the Exohange Bank of
Macon. Passed.
A message from the Governor was received
saying that the following acts had been ap
proved and signed, to-wit:
An act to chango the charter of the State
University so as to add four additional Trustees
to be elected by the Alumni Society; also an
act to authorize tho County Commissioners of
Pike county to audit claims for extra services,
etc; also, an act to compensate jurors in
DeKalb and Fulton counties, etc.; also an act
to compensate jurors in Polk county.
A biil for tho relief of W. H. Bullock, and
heirs of B. L. Cole of Chatham connty was
passed, and on motion of Mr. Russell was
ordered transmitted forthwith to the Senate.
A bill to authorize the tax colleotor of Madi
son ro receive jury certificates in payment of
tax. Passed.
A biU to incorporate the Grand Bay Paper
Manufacturing Company. Passed.
A bill to establish a Board of Commissioners
for Meriwether county. Passed.
A bill to authorize the tax collector of Meri
wether to keep his office at the Court-honse.
Passed.
A bill to incorporate the town of Bntledge.
Passed.
A bill to prevent tbe sale ofspiritons liqnor
within one mile of Clemons Institute was read.
Mr. McMillan moved to disagree to the re
port of the Committee which was adverse to tbe
bill. Mr. McMillan’s motion prevailed. After
considerable discussion the bill was passed
Laave of absence was granted to Messrs.
Lumpkin, Jc-.nsof Terrell, Colby and Mc
Whorter.
A Senate bill to protect the people of
Georgia in tbe illegal and fraudulent issue of
bonds was read tbe third time and passed.
A bill to amend the charter of Sparta. Passed.
A bill to require all persons who own laud in
Miller county to pay tax in said county was read
third time.
Mr. Bosh moved to disagree to the report of
the Committee which was adverse to the bill.
The report was agreed to and the bill was
lost.
Mr. Hndson introduced a resolution announc
ing the death of Hon. Wright Brady and declar
ing that this Honse will adjourn in respect to
his memory nntil Monday next at 10 a it.; also,
ordering tbe chair of the deceased draped in
mourning, and directing the clerk to transmit a
copy of the resolution to the bereaved family.
This resointion was unanimously adopted.
8. L.
of warm salt water and strong tea, and a mes- tying spoil taken from both sides—the fruits
sesger was sent for Dr. Ooover. I of both plunder and contracts.
“About the time I called for the egg I at- I Now, that is a terrible bill of indiotixnnf, and
tempted to rise from the chair, but fell to tbe I oipable of great amplification. Bat, on the
floor with convulsions in the lower extremities, I other hand, there was salt there. There was
which became violent on the least attempt to I re£ d> honest manhood; there was true piety;
movo, and the feet were drawn in towards each I there was fervent prayer; there were kindly
other, becoming stiff and immovable save as the hearts; there was a holy struggle for the truth
occasional convulsions shook them. Unsuccess-1 ip the midst of a crooked and perverse genera-
fol attempts were made to bathe them in hot I tion. God had mnch people in that place. Snp-
water, each effort to raise me bringing on a vio- P 08 ® the fire had swept over Boston andde-
lent paroxysm, in the last one of which I thought I Toured even the holy place whence Brother
my jaws had beoome unhiDged. I was now per- I Haven sends forth the oracles of God, could
fectly paralyzed from tho hips down, and suf- I n °t a revealer in Chicago hive adduced whisky-
fering the most excruciating pains, which be- I drinkirg, and Sabbath-breaking, and cbihl-
gan to extend upward—the muscles of tha shonl- I m nrdor and phariseeism enuugh to justify the
ders and neck soon being considerably convuls- S®ry ways of God against tha worn-out hub of
ed, the fore arms still being free from pain. the universe? Is New York any better? Is
“I now bado my wife “good bye,” and pre- there not sin and mock virtue enough there to
pared for the final struggle, which I knew must make it prudent for the people to look to the
be near at hand, as I had become rigid from the rainbow for a sense of security against another
neck down, save the forearm. The convulsions deluge ? Is Baltimore or St. Louis kept s»f e by
of tha muscles were becoming fearful, and the I righteousness ? Was the great fire in Caarles-
tortnre awfnl to endure. And now came on a t°°> or Richmond, or Columbia the testimony
tremendous oonvulsion. My hands were drawn | °f God that the sins of those cities were worse
in to my sides, with the fingers drawn apart, than the rectangular rascality of Philadelphia ?
and slightly bowed, and the jaws became rigid. That quiet little lumbering town in the Notth-
I felt myself raised as if by some mighty power, I west, where a hurricane of firo devoured its
immovably, with only my feet and head tonoh- population in a moment, what had it done worse
ing anything. I heard some one say, “It is all than the others?
over with him 1 ” and felt something like a black Alearned doctor of divinity we wot of, a great
pall settling down npon my brain, when I be- I rabbi and expounder of Scripture, pronounced
came unconscious of everythiog exoept my own the burning of a neighbor's barn to he a judg-
agony, which was now beyond all description, ment upon him because he had irrev-rently re-
I could feel my heart fluttering like a wounded putted that the doctor was seen to kiss a certain
bird, and my brain beating and throbbing with widow, whom, nnder the circumstances, it was
an irregular motion, as though at every beat it not indecorous to kiss, but rather amiable and
would burstfrom its confinement Every joint pleasantly human in so great a divine. It did
was locked, and every drop of blood seemed not occur to the irate oracle that if such confla-
stagnated. I remember thinking it could not grations were inflicted because of innocent cov-
be long thus, when I must have lost conscious-1 ®nanted osculations, and the irreverent incident
ness. I speech of them, common in a barbarous aud an-
'I remember nothing more nntil I felt a sen- sympathizing world, barns would be very nnsafe
6ation of relief, as though the garments of P lac ®s of deposit for grain, and insurance poii-
doatb, which had been drawn over, were now 0168 should provide against conflagrations by
being drawn back. Those terrible cramps courtships.
seemed to be descending towards my lower Look at the difficulties begotten from the un
limbs A sweet feeling of relief stole over me, justifiable use of God’s name in such matters,
and I began to be again conscious. Turning Take the case of Chioago. Undoubtedly many
my head—of which I now had command—I Baw I good people were burned out; undoubtedly
Dr. Coover kneeling at my side, pouring medi- many of the worst esoaped. Most of tho distil—
cino into my month from a spoon, and spoke icries were spared; most of the groggeries and
to him, remarking: “Here is the man that can I gambling hells and houses of infamy esoaped,
save me,” or words to that effect. but the loss of churches and benevolent institu-
“I was now free from crampB as far as the 110118 was singularly great. Churoh-goers suf-
hips, and was folly couscionsof all that was go- fered more than Sabbath-breakers. To call this
iDg on. I could feel the crampB receding before 8 8 P®°ial judgment of God ia to expose our re-
the antidote, and leaving the limbs free from Hgi°a to the gibe of the mocker of tbe old
pain nntil after the second dose was adminis- heathens, who ridiculed their inconsiderate
tered by tho doctor. From that timo I resumed J babble abont tho judgment of the gods by
consciousness, when I was entirely free from I Making Jupiter lament that his thnnderbolt,
cramp, with the exception of a little in the feet aimed at the head of a sophist, had gone amiss
I was then moved into an adjoining room and aQ d set a temple on fire. Tho man takes a
placed upon a pallet, feeling comparatively 8 roal deal upon himself who ventures to ex-
couifortablo. I had but one attack of cramps P° s ® tbe sacred name to such a sarcasm as that,
afterwards, which was immediately relieved by On tbe other hand, Providence is denied al-
a dose administered by my wife—the dootor together. We are brusquely told that the fires
having left for a short time—and when he re- were the result of inconsiderate and reckless
turned I felt that the poison was completely building with combustibles and handling of
neutralized. petroleum The only lesson to be learned is,
‘I have since felt no retnra of cramps or I more consideration of physical laws, violation
convulsions, have had a good appetite, and of which exposes to the oonsequeneea equally the
could be out of bed wore it not for the soreness just aud unjust. Now, we have less patience
of the muscles, caused by the intenso pain to with this view of the matter than with the other,
which they were subjected.” Foolish application of the thought of God is in-
[Signed] comparably wiser than no thought of Him at alL
The following is the remedy which was used Setter blander about Providence than deprive
in the case referred to. Having permitted a the heart of man of its greatest comfort in the
typographical error to creep into the paper, we I straggle with the world, and the experience'of
deem it advisable to re-pnblisn it for the bene- men of its sternest and most necessary lessons.
Better be presumptuous Christians than sink be
low tbe moral condition of heathens, who, in all
their darkness, held strenuously to the one sav
ing element in their religion—the Providence of
a superintending God. For a hoism is the su
preme folly, and a God who hBS nothing to do
with human affairs is no God to any human
soul
How, then, are we to preserve our faith ia
is now in Washington, bnt was active to diii
orders of the government, in dispa'cbis
vessels so as to be ready for any ea
Owing to the rigid censorship over w
at Havana but little is known here of sta]
mediate events whioh have compelled Ihti
snl- General to appeal for assistance. Eli
condition of affairs with Spain a rising o»l
the Hornet difficulty and the tresic^j
Americans in Gaba is sufficiently shorn h 1
diplomatic correspondence to warrant top
eminent in the startling measures it hist
fit of onr readers:
Hyd. choral, J onnee.
Bromide potass., 3 drachms.
Water, IJonnoes.
Syr. orange, 2J ounces—(mix.)
Rev. De. Bond, the prinoipal writing editor
of the 8t. Louis Christian Advocate (he resides
in Baltimore), is blessed with so large a stock
of common sense that his editorials aro always I terpretation ? How are we to get the lessons of
worth reading. See how he treats a difficult b 18 judgment and avoid the presumption of
judging others as we are distinctly forbidden to
jnd^e them? The problem is as old as Job.
We must defer onr essay at it nntil next week.
PROCUXATIOJT OF THE STATE TBEA8-
UBEK.
State Bead Defaulters Required to 'Walk
ITp to tbe Captain’s Office aud Settle.
subject ia the following artiole:
administering god’s judgments.
Sitting here in Maryland, where the air is
foul wilh the smoke and scent of Western fires,
ravaging prairies, devouring towns, andoaicin-
ing the ashes ot Chioago, onr thoughts have
been directed to the awfnl snbjeot of the jndg
ments of God—a phrase by which the self-com-
plaoent religionism of all times is aocn9tomed I Resolved, That the late Treasurer of the West-
to designate afflictions that fall npon those that ern and Atlantio Railroad, and other officers
have humbled its dignity, or outraged itB pro- and agents of said road, pay immediately over
priety, or contradicted its theology, or excited to the Treasurer of the State of Georgia the
its envy by unjustifiable prosperity in worldly balances remaining in their hands belonging to
pursuits, which, as others pursue them, appear the aaid 8tate of Georgia, being the earnings of
eminently nngodly. Bins to which religionism the Western and Atlantio Railroad whilst in pos
hes no mind are very offensive to it. The man session of said State.
who will not gamble at faro, bnt only in stocks, Resolved farther, That said late Treasurer and
profoundly stirred with indignation toward ‘ other offioers and agents of said Western and
Letter from John Quincy Ada
Scathing Review or the Grand
nasty.
Sr. Louis, November 29. — John
Adams, of Massachusetts, has written at
which will appear in the Missouri Bepnfc
to-morrow, in which he warmly endorses:
oalled passive policy for the Democrats hi
next Presidential election. In the ooarse
he ssys:
'lam satisfied that the coarse would be*
and patriotic, and Ishonldbe glad to so j
Democracy concnr in snch a resolution. I]
gard the present administration as a
calamity, a continuance of which shoe.';I
averted at almost any sacrifice, not becao4|
Republican in politios, but because it is 1
character, sordid in tone, ignorant, corre;>4
arbitrary; because, more than any we to4
it has disappointed the hopes and deadest
generons aspirations of the gpod men of«
ties; because it is doing more to perms:
disunite the States than the government
ferson Davis ever did; because its chief cn*
ctive of no means of free government bsiri
tary force, and no motive of publio sens j
private profit. Four years more of enchtj
ucation in family patronage and martini k*J
so blunt the keen sensibilities of popnbti;
that onr ignoble incabas nrght ai well r "
a fixture. Now, I believe th->.t the
party is powerless, alone, to relieve ns.
it is without hope of carrying the next' .
I have no doubt that if the votes of W'J
States lately in rebellion were necessary‘-j -
the Democratio candidate they would 10
out. In counting a mere majority, eve> 'l
oonld be mustered, they will not be p 0rtt: .'f
eleot a Democrat to be the next
Nothing will then remain but civil w* ror ; '
mission to a usurper, and it is difficult to_J r
which alternative would inflict the Bt° re i! *
ruble injury upon the habit of free g®** 1 *.
To dismiss an incompetent effieiti ' L J~rl
governmental crisis, the Missouri
the only reasonable possibility which is 0 -
“But while I frankly avow my
the project, I do not think lightly cf ®
serioue obstacles to its adoption. It
due the pride of party and break tho
party discipline. Now there are few p- 1
stinate passions than the sentimental
whioh men offer that vague abstraction^'
glory, and, not many of the creeds of j*
are as despotic as a “platform.” It wm
fioolt task to bring a party yet gloving
recollection of a mighty past, and hutch
ing with anticipations of a great futor 0 _ O
the head of the column and the com
the field to allies who were yesterday ^
■Nor is there any strong guarantee “V
allies will not flinch at the last. F al y 1
are seldom famous for the high m or ^,„
whioh can abide unshaken the ***..
sure that forbids tha rupture of W
if they dare fling down the gauntlet 1■ J
to the death with the President, it BUS 11
sible for the Democrats to rise to ic® t
where the hnmitiation of the partis* 11
the satisfaction of the patriot. ...
“But it is charged the sacrifice ** ^
or worse; that it will surrender
scheme of Democratio liberty bK® tf
to its enemies. I do not so forbodc .*> ^
I oan’t believe that the protestjagaic* 1 ^
rial government can be weakened by K
band which deserts it because it 13 ^; 3 ,
liberty. Will the enemies of corrnpUj® .
disband becaase they unite with 1A
have sickened and turned away
of corruption ? • an friends of the U A
preserve and proteot it more conlI ° nrl
refusing to hold up their hands, wu
saken their own friends rather to _
further ? It seems to me on the e® ^
the strength of support which tn» -p
would bring to the rescue of the P' tt 1
Democracy would be in exact prop® 1 pi
severity of the blow to tho pride 0
oratio party, for these principle® ® ,y«|
indeed to men who can abandou
ancient and honored name and n®‘ •
to those who dare to follow them ® >1
the soorn, contempt and obloquy * I
political treason.’’
