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The Georgia "Weekly Teieo-raph and. Journal && IVTesseiiger. Telegraph and Messenger. M\CON, DECEMBER 19, 1871. Should the Planters Use Fertilizers ? It is difficult to see bow any other than an affirmative response can be made to this in qoiry. The objections to plant stimulants are equal ly applicable to all descriptions of manures. Two years ago, the writer burnt up a promis ing field of corn, by using cotton seed too freely. And yet this is considered par excA- lenet, the very best fertilizer for the cereals. Tti Liberty county also, some seventeen years since, be hauled out and spread upon the list orridgp, just beneath the seed, twenty-eight two-horse wagon loads per acre of well rotted stable manure, which bad never been exposed an hour to the weather. The cotton came up sleek and vigorous, and grow off finely. But marked the sequel. A drought of ten weeks deration set in in June, and the plant never reached a greater altitude than 2$ feet. An examination of the Lills revealed the fact, that the manure remained in a perfectly dry, inso luble state, and had rather injured than bene- fiited the crop. If a pumpkin seed was planted on, or by the side of the barn-yard dung hill, and copious mins and a dripping season succeeded, the growth would be like Jonah’s gourd, aDd ‘'some pumpkins” astonish the natives. But let the almost vertical sun of this low latitude beam and heat upon the oreepiag giant, for long weeks, end its anaconda folds would shrivel up and col lapse, and “nary" pumpkin will reward the expectant sower. But wbo doubts the value and efficacy of good farm-yard manure ? We lay down the postulate then, that just in proportion that any given fertilizer abounds in ammonia, potash, phosphatio elements, or other plant food, will be the ratio of benefit or injnry that inures, under certain conditions, to the growing crop. Wet seasons prcdace astounding results; pro tracted drought will blast the over-stimulated vegetation, and evaporate the turning sap which gives vitality to its exuberant growth. The oonelasion then is obvious. Cease to condemn your guano, which, if it did not act in the man ner described, would be spurious and valueless, and learn to apply it to yonr lands judiciously, both with respect to quality and the character of yonr soil. Used in combination with long, or nnrotted manure as aa absorbent, the effects will be more permanent, aud the bnmiog principle less concentrated. It is safe to say that 125 pounds per acre of any standard preparation, may pro duce very satisfactory results in ordinary sea sons, and in the event of dronth will not blight the crop. Applied in large quantities the plan ter must fake the risk, which as has been shown A not greater than with barn-yard manures or compost. But w© will reserve for another article our views as to the quantity employed, and the best mode of applying commercial manure. The present object of the writer is to urge the con tinued use of these plant stimulants. The country is now cursed with a system of labor, ignorant, intolerant, and unreliable. The freedman is a creature of to-day only. lie will undertake no job where the returns are not in- atcaianeous. Hence the fences of the country are rotting down, com cribs in a tottering con dition, and the farmer has no heart to plan and execute improvements in the future. We saw an AUamaha rice planter recently, whose plan tation was stocked with negro laborers, taking out from Savannah with him a force of Irish men to open the ditches, construct trunks, and prepare the way for the summer work of the gentlemen oPcoIor. In Liberty county where the^ soil is alluvial and generally requires drainage, the negroes, wbo are masters of the situation, cannot be in duced- to- open the canals and vents to the ^vamps and creeks, but eke ont a miserable ex- - tenee upon the worn out, and nut grass in fested hills and old fields. The bottoms, teem ing with fertility, are fast relapsing into their original state. For similar reasons, experience has shown that under the system of joint cultivation which *o generally obtains, the freedman cannot be depended upon to collect and manufacture ma nure on the plantation, even when, as is seldom Uta case, the materials are at hand. Indeed, how many farms have we seen where the clean ings of the stable remain from year to year, be cause Samoo won’t do tbe extra work needful, to apply the precious substance to the barren soil. The only salvation of the country, then, from sterility, and the constant diminution of agri cultural products, is to be found in the intelli gent nso of concentrated commercial manures. At this important crisis a wise Providence has revealed the rich and almost inexhaustible de posits of animal petrifactions,aboundinginphos phatio matter, in the delta of two of the rivers of asister State. Avast array of evidence both at home and abroad has demonstrated the incalcu lable value of these mineral phosphates for ag- rionltnral purposes, when dried, crushed and properly troated with acid and ammonia to ren der soluble and available their latent virtue. Already many millions of capital are invested for this purpose, and healthy and active compe tition will effectually guarantee the public against fraudulent adulterations. Tbe struggle even now begins to assume the form of who shall furnish the richest compound at the low est price. The use of these fertilizers, then, under the new regime of labor, will prove an urgent and growing necessity with the planters. Oar up lands all require manure, rest, and rotation of erops, to preserve them from running down, and reducing the proprietors to beggary. This fact is the more patent from the present ruinous rates of taxation. We advise our agricultural friends then, to post themselves as to the constituent elements of the sail they cultivate, and after ascertaining tic peculiar properties and deficiencies, buy such stimulants as are beat adapted to their wants. We propose hereafter to write upon the beat method of applying these fertilizers, the quan tity to be used, etc., as derived from personal experience. Time and space forbid any farther elaboration of the subject at present. Poon Texas 1—A special Washington dispatch to the Baltimore Gazette, of Thursday, says that Akerman will be appointed United States District Judge for Texas. We offer our sym pathy to the people of that unhappy Stats.— After having been cursed with anoh a Governor ae Davis, and-such a band of robbers and thugs as yelp at his heels, it seems almost fiendish to aond such a malignant as Akerman to enforoe (he infamous bayonet and handouff law after the-fashion he has set In South Carolina. Surely Texas has been selected as a special victim by the Washington Commune. But what business had she to go Democratic by 80,000 majority? The Cohmxttee Undeb the Boas Bill, re cently passed the Legislature, consists of one member from the 8enate and two from the House. Oar Senator, Hon. Thomas J. Sim mons, is the Senate s representative on the committee, and its chairman. Messrs. Gar nett McMillan, cf Habersham, and John J. Hall, of CpaoD, represent the House. The committee will commence its sessions in At lanta on the first, day of March, 1872, and sit util the first day of May, following. Collapse of the Reformers. The civilized and Christian world were de lighted last summer with the disinterested zeal displayed by the Grant Radicals in the great cause of political reform aud honest government against Tweed and Tammany Hall. The severe, and nnspaiiug, aud indignant virtue displayed by these gentlemen in their onslaught upon Tammany raised the hr pea of mankind of a speedy return to the Spartan age when public service was its own reward, and men refused to take money in payment for official labor. Never did people clamor so loudly as they for pushing investigation into every nook where corruption might lurk—from chimneypot to cellar; nor so sharp to suspect or so prompt to decounoe everything resembling whitewashing and con cealment. But we are Sony to say these fierce reformers have suddenly burst their bilers. They are collapsed. They have become dumb dogs that winna bark. Tbe United States Senate and the Radical cauccsses of the Senators over Trumbull’s resolutions for raising a joint com mittee to overhaul and expose tbe frauds and corruptions of tbe national administration have proved too much for the indignant virtue of these gentlemen. They will not have the hungry dogs of impartial and universal investi gation nosing promiscuously round that sty. There is a great deal about those particular premises which they have no desire should see the light. Mr. Trumbull wants a joint committee with full powers to push investigation into all the charnel houses of corruption. He and others bring testimony to the most monstrous abases calling for tbe freest inquiry. But that is pre cisely what these other Reformers will not have. They insist only npon a Senate com mittee with very limited powers and always under the control of the administration ma jority. . M| The Month’s Revenge. The New York Journal of Commerce says tbo South is taking philosophical revenge on her political haters by holding agricultural con gresses. If many of ber ablest citizens cannot be allowed tbe privilege of voting aud holding office, and so contributing to tbe general public good, they can at least make the men of Wash ington feel bad by showing tbe tranquility of disabled Southerners under such circumstances. Partisans have their Congress at the capital, where they can wrangle over the division of the spoils, and plan new ways for reducing the South to political nonentity; but the people of that region find their solace in congressess of quite another and more innocent variety, where the prizes are for pumpkins and other gigantic vegetables, and the eloquence of man finds its loftiest flights m explaining the pattern of a new worm fence, or the latest thing in churns. For every political esnvention held at the North, the South responds, as if by malice prepense, with a “Fair” or “Exhibition,” and now, to exasperate Radicalism to an unbearable de gree, it holds a full blown Agricultural Con gress. At this gathering nearly all the South ern States are represented. Even South Caro lina, harried in a part of her territory by Federal troops, keeps calm enough to despatch a number of delegates to Selma, where the bucolic body meets. For several days, proba bly, the Agricultural Congress will present the maddening spectacle of Southerners talking earnestly over the merits of rival cucumbers, as if for the express purpose of shoveling coals of fire on the heads of Radical law-makers at Washington. The very name—Congress—it is perceived, must be intended for a satire on the other concern; the real object being, all the time, to contrast the coolness and peace of the one with the heat and fary of the other. Under such nn enormous provocation, we may look for the offer of amendments to the Kn- klux act to make it more severe. Such audacity must be punished. Congregational Singing. We were not a little struck with a set dis course pronounced npon this snbject by one of onr pastors on a recent occasion. The argu ment in behalf of this branch of pnblio wor ship was very pointed and elaborate. The speaker fortified his position by quoting many apposite passages of scripture, and insisted that the duty was of a positive and binding na ture. He was expected when entering the pul pit to give beaten oil to the people, and the other office bearers of the church likewise, had their labors and functions - prescribed, which they eonld not neglect, and be connted guiltless. So with the department of psalmody. The praise of God in the great congregation, was most specifically and emphatically enjoined by tbe directory of church government, and the teachings of holy writ. This was not intended to apply only to the few who usually couducted this portion of divine worship. He was not op posed to choirs; on the contrary approved of them highly as leaders of the sacred music and essential to proper harmony and unity of exe cution. But God’s praise could not be dele gated to others, or made the occasion of artistic and formal exhibitions of operatic talent, as was frequently the fact. AU were required to join in the exercise, and aid in raising those swelling anthems and joyous songs of thanks giving which reverberate through the vaulted arches of heaven and are wafted to the very throne of a jealous bnt merciful God. He be lieved. therefore, that general attention should be directed to this subjeot, and individuals and congregations ought to learn musio and im prove themselves in church psalmody. The writer had the opportunity some months since, of witnessing a pleasing illustration of the above reasoning in the choreh of that noted and eloquent Sootch divine, Dr. Hall, of New York. At least one thonsand five hundred souls thronged the seats, aisles, and galleries, (the latter several tiers high,) of the spaoions taber nacle, all hanging with breathless interest npon the speaker’s solemn utterances. After the reading of the first hymn, a single individual, book in hand, asoended the stage and taking his stand at the right of the [Sinis ter, raised the tone in a sonorous tone. Tbe whole congregation joined in, assisted by the organ, and a mighty volume of sweetest har mony rising load and clear from the vast as sembly, went np like the shout of a host to heaven. The effect was grand and inspiring in the extreme. Mnsio is indeed a powerful auxiliary in the worship of God, purifying the thoughts, and intensifying the devotions of believers. It wields a magioal influence also npon the masses, and we eonld wish that every choreh of *11 de nominations in the country was blessed with a cultivated ohoir and singing oongregation. Thb Question op Meat.—The supply promis ee to be abundant, and henoe lower prices may be expected. At Cincinnati for the week end ing December 18th, the reoeipts of hogs were 67,989, against 49,835 same week last year, and, the total for the season was 350,287, against 239,474 last year same time, showing an in- ase of 110,718 head. These are the figures given by Kennedy, Eckert ds Co. Com is so plentiful in some sections of the West that it is being need for fuel. Fob honest assessments, commend ns to the “doomed city.” Only one-third of Chicago was destroyed, yet tbe loss is estimated at $200,- 000,000; while, before tbe fire, the whole taxa ble property of the city, and the county in which it is situated, was only estimated at $102,000,- 000.—Ledger. THE GEORGIA PRESS. Capt. Little, a well-known pilot and steam boat man of Savannah, died on Wednesday. The residence and moat of. its contents, of H. H. Parks, tax receiver of Muscogee county, at Linwood, near Columbus, was burned last Tuesday night. The inmates did not wake dp until the fl-imes were almost on them. The Chronicle and - Sentinel of Thursday, says: Specie Robb key—The Thief Abbested bx Railway Conductor —On last Tuesday night, when the down train from Macon to Augusta reached Culverton, a negro man informed the conductor, Mr. Thomas Turner, that a heavy robbery had been perpetrated in Hancock county that afternoon, and the robber might get on the train at some of tbe stations, and try to reach Augusta. He stated that Mr. Wm. Dickson, who resided a short distance from the town of Sparta, had been the sufferer, and that he lost about tnree thonsand dollars. Some time after this the train reached the de pot at Warrenton, aud a negro man got on aud took a seat in the second class car. When the conductor went to him to collect his fare he paid it in specie, and stated that he wished to come to Augusta. This and other ciroumstances, led the conductor to believe that this passenger was tbe thief of whom he had heard at Culverton. He determined to await awhile, however, before making an arreet, and did wait until tbe train reached a point between Saw Dust and Dealing, when he took him in onstody. The negro gave his name as Bussell Warren, and confessed his guilt as soon as he was arrested. He was searched aud two bags containing gold aud sil ver were found secreted on his person. When the train reached this city, Mr. Turner tnrned his prisoner and the money over to the police. The contents of the bags were connted yester day afternoon. One contained one hundred and three dollars and twenty-five cents insilvor, and thirty-nine dollars in gold coin. The olher contained thirty-nine dollars in gold—making in all one hundred and eighty-one dollars and twenty-five cents in speoie. The thief will be held to await the action of Mr. Dickson. He claims to ba from Charleston, and went to Hancock to visit his wife, who lives in that county, in the employment of Mr. Dick son. He says that he was secreted near the house for some time, waiting an opportunity to perpetrate the robbery. On Monday, just after dinner, Mr. Dickson and his wife left the plan tation m a buggy, and be then saw the chance. He entered the honse and took the tin box, con taining tbe money, from a bed room. He made bis escape undetected, and retired to the woods, where he opened and rifled the box. After wards he made bis escape to Warrenton, in tending to take the train there, and go on to Charleston. A good size ohuok of a row oeonrred Wednes day afternoon, at the Upper Cotton Press at Savannah, between two or three white men and over one hundred negroes. It commenced with a fight between a white man and a negro, which was taken np by some of the latter’s friends, one of whom advanced on the watch man of the yard with a cotton-hook, and was shot and mortally wounded by the watchman. We find in the Savannah News of Thursday, long account of a bloody affair, which hap pened at Station 8J, in Appling comity, on the Macon and Brunswick Railroad one day last week, the parties thereto being Matt Ashley, of Coffee county, a well-known and wealthy citizen of that connty, and two brotho:s named Robert and Bryant Williams, of Appling county, which resulted in the death of Robert Williams, and the serious wounding of bis brother. A fend has existed between tbe parties for many years. After the shooting, Ashley jumped into a buggy with the Sheriff of Coffee county and has not been beard of ace. We find the following first rate advertise ment of the two Conleys in yesterday’s Atlanta Constitution: The Conleys.—Georgia has a dynasty of Conleys now in the imperial chair. Conley, the father, exercises by the grace of an acci dent the functions of Governor. He signalizes his reign by a revolutionary opposition to the Legislature constitutionally finishing the needed legislation of the State. He also seeks to brand the stigma of repudiation upon a mere act of inquiry into the condition of our distressed finances. Conley, the sob, is a United States Commis sioner, and uses bis authority to over-ride the sacred writ of habeas corpus, and imprison in nocent men without bail in ignominious con finement. Having drawn from the Treasury $11,500 for a pamplet, that valuable work the “Analysis of the Georgia Constitution,” costing at liberal estimate a thousand dollars, and worth nothing, be has become emboldened to extend his legal labors to the role of prosecution. Conley the 1st inaugurates a warfare against the Legislature through the offensive agency of the State temples of CloacincL Conley the 2d rearrests discharged freemen and hold them in the toombs to await the testi mony of alleged hog thieves and negro equal izers. Verily, the depths are being sounded. Geor gia is drinking to the dregs. Stockton, of the Augusta Constitutionalist, and Fildes, of the Quitman Banner, were in Savannah on Friday, and oysters and “Artillery Punch” “riz,” in consequence. Rev. James McBride, of Quitman, has re ceived a call to the Baptist Church of this city, and will remove here about tbe first of the new year, as we Icam from the Banner. An infant child of Mr. J. T. Holland, of Colnmbns, was poisoned last Wednesday, by an overdose of laudanum, administered through mistake by its nurse. We elip this item from, the Columbus En quirer, of Friday: Goneebence Anecdotes.—While the question of the insanity of a member of the Conference was yesterday being considered, one pieaoher stated the case was clearly not one of mental nnsonndness, as the accused could at any time preach an hour and a half to two hours. The Bishop shook his head and remarked, “That’s a bad symptom.” We think so too. A preacher from one of the lower counties asked to be dismissed from the Conference, on tbe ground that his horse had died and he was not able to wade through his circuit. The rea- Rons for withdrawal were deemed good and suf ficient. The Professorship of Modern Languages in the University of Georgia, made vacant by the cent death of Prof. Smead, will be filled by spe cial election at the meeting of the Board of Trustees! on the 19th inst. Tbe Augusta police made their regular annual raid on tho draymen of that oity, last Friday, for not -taking ont license. Nineteen were bagged and made to settle. There are only 19C drays for that large oity. The Gainesville Eagle says more than fifty families arrived there last week, from Ander son and Oconee districts, South Carolina, on their way West They represent upper South Carolina in n most deplorable condition. The Eagle also says that Mr. James Wofford, of that connty, had one of his hands horribly laoerated by a circular saw, last Wednesday. It was cut through its entire length. The last Hawkinaville Dispatch relates one of the most wonderful occurrences of whioh we have overheard. It says that the Baptist preach er of that plaoe received a $100, a few days ago, which was due him for services rendered a country church ten years ago. Major John W. Cameron has succeeded Col. Davis as manager of the Screven Honse, Savan nah. The latter had been running the house only since October 1st. ’ ^ ia “ The fine for driving a dray too fast through the streets of Savannah, and trying to dodge a policeman who proposes to interview you, is just $10 or fifteen days free board—whichever you please. We think this tariff quite moder- e. Suppose Macon adopts it ? Savannah sent Liverpool 5,103 baleb of cot ton, valued at $458,697 34, last Thursday. The celebrated ootton ease of G arsed vs. W. A. and Jeremiah Beall, was erguedin the United States Circuit Court, at Savannah, on Thursday, by Messrs. Robert Toombs and Linton Stephens for the plaintiff, and B. H. Hill for the defen dants. A decision waa to have been rendered tbe next day. ■ , ... Judge Alexander in thb Huntbb Case.—The Thomasville Enterprise offers tbe following ex- traordinay argument in behalf of the action of Judge Alexander.in commuting the sentence of Hunter from death to imprisonment for life, after the Supreme Court had refused anew trial and the Governor a pardon. We agree with the Savannah Republican that if there be merit in the plea, better burn np the law books at onoe : and abolish Legislatures, and swear all Judges tc decide all cases according to “conscience!” Says the Enterprise: Judge Alexander is known to be a eonRcietioua Christian gentleman, a lawyer of fair ability and a Judge of firmness and dignity. Whatever may be the feeling of the. citizens of Brooks against him, with all due deference to their opinions, we venture to say that if ho erred in the case of Hunter, he erred on the side of con science. Conscience has something to do with Christian men, and the fiat has gone forth as irrevocable as creation itself 1 thou shalt not kill,” and what creatnre or corporation shall presume to annul the law of God ? We admit that if men accept the positions of Judge they are bound by the laws of men to pronounce the sentence of death upon the criminals of that law; nor do we mean to imply that Judge Alexander was governed in ibis’ way by any considerations of tho Divine injunction, for we know nothing whatever of his opinions on tbe case ; bnt we merely design, in jnstification of onr remarks, to bint at the invincible strength of the dtfei.ee that may be set up in favor of all who shrink from executing the highest penalties of our criminal laws. The dwelling honse of Col. W. P. Barks of LaGrange, was burned last Monday night. Farnitnre saved and house fully insured. * The Cartersville Standard says the Carterc- ville and Van Wert, or Cherokee Railroad, was enjoined on Monday last, at tbe instance of the creditors and the company vs. H. I. Kim ball and H. Clews & Co., we learn. CaptainD. W. K. Peacock was appointed receiver by Judge Parrott. Says the Rome Commercial of Friday The Fibe in Van Wert—Pabticulabs as to Loss, etc.—The fire in Van Wert on last Thurs day night, burnt out tho Masonic Lodge; Messrs. Simpson & Phillips, who lost about $2,500; Jas. Wright^ who lost store, dwelling and stock of goods worth at least $4,000; and Henry Kingsbury, whoso loss was about $2,000. There was not a cent of insurance on any ot tho property, and is consequently a total loss. W. D. Barbour was held to bail at Atlanta, on Friday, in the sum of $500 on the charge of counterfeiting nickels, and $500 additional bond on the charge'of passing said connterfeit nickels. We clip the following items from the Atlanta Sun, of yesterday: Isoendiary Wobk.—A gin house belonging to Obediah Thompson, near Bolton Station, on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, was set on fire about 9 o’clock on Thursday night The building was fired in three places. In tbe build ing were 125 bushels of peas, 500 bushels cot ton Bced, a small lot of wheat and some farming utensils, belonging to Mr. Thompson; also, eight thousand pounds seed cotton, belonging to Mr. J; W. Spink, son-in-law of Mr. Thomp son. Nothing was saved from tbe building. The loss by the fire ageregates some $1200 or $1600. Probable Attempt at Assassination.—Yes terday, immediately after the Senate adjourned, four buck negroes approached the door of the Senate Chamber and inquired for Capt. Whit. Anderson, the door-keeper. Capt. Anderson soon appeared and asked their business. They, in a very insulting manner, said they had come to demand an explanation and satisfaction for his conduct at the polls of the Third Ward on the day of the election. The Captain, to avoid an altercation with them, said he had no ex planation tc make, and quietly admonished them to leave. At this moment one of the party stepped back, and placing himself in a threatening and defiant attitude, cursed Capt. Anderson, and said if he would step down stairs he would very soon have satisfaction. The Captain stepped back into the Chamber to get something-to defend himself. When he re turned he could just discern the tops of their heads retreating down tho Capitol steps “double- quiok.” He followed them down stairs, but when he reached the door they wero far down the street, running for life. Sonth Georgia Conference. Correspondence Telegraph and Messenger. ] The annual session of this ecclesiastical body is now being held in this city. The represen tation is unusually large, and from the reports of various sections, tho past year has been ono of great aotivity and wonderful snocess to the obnreh. Bishop WightmSn, of Sonth Carolina, is in the chair, and dispatches business with an energy and smoothness rarely excelled. It was remarked by many members of the Conference that they had not witnessed such progress in the regular business of the session as was made on yesterday, in one day’s lime. Rev. J. Blakeley Smith, of Macon, was ap pointed to his old post, as Secretary, with Revs. H. D. Moore, 8. D. demon and' I. H. Hopkins, as assistants. There were about eighty members answered on roll call,' and many more came in on tbe noon train. Several documents from tho Nashville Pub lishing House were read, showing that estab lishment in a prosperous condition. ± Dr. E. H. Myers, the newly eleoted Presi dent of the Wesleyan Female College, of your city, resigned his position as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Orphan Home, and the Rev. J. W. Hinton was elected to fill his place. erf; After the variouscommittees were announced the Bishop entered upon the examination of the character of Elders. Ninety-one names wero called and their characters passed. Rev. James Jones, of Macon, was retired from the active list, and granted a superannuated relation. The Bishop remarked that it wsb a sourco of gTeat gratification to see that there were no complaints made against a single one out of so large a num ber. , “ There have been only two deaths among the membership of the Conference—the lamented Dr. J. M. Bonnell, aud Rev. J. S. Ford, both of Macon. Among the visitors are Dr. L- Rosser, of Vir ginia, Dr. A. G. Haygood, Sunday School Se cretary, of Naahvi'le, and Dr. Jesse Boring, At lanta. Tbe superannuated list of preachers, whioh is comprised of the worn out men who by disease aud the infirmities -of age have been disabled from active labor, and are placed on the retired list and supported by voluntary contribution from the people. Three members of the list were plaoed on the effective roll and will be given regular work. The following applicants were received into the Conference—R. M. Lockwood, George C. Thompson, Wm. J. Green, John Domingas, J. F. Mixon, B S. Key. LeReye. Columbus, Deoember 14,1871. .The remainder of yesterday was taken np with tbe examination of oharaoter of the under graduates and their eleotion to Deacon and Elder’s orders. Three were admitted into membership, and before their admission, Bishop Wightman made a most impressive charge— eloquent and clear. One of the most impor tant duties of a Methodist minister is to resign his own will as to the ohoioe of his appoint ment. As the organization itself is a volunta ry association bound together in the bonds of a common dependency, the congregation Bur- renders their right to choose their own pastor, and the preacher to choose his own congrega tion. Another, that he must go wherever ho is How Ho Was Cornered. We see that Senator Reuben Jones, from the Ninth Diatriot, put Brook, Radical, (and “light ning calculator") in a very dose corner daring tbo debate in tbe Senate on the report of the Committee on the State of the Republic. Brock said he never -wasted to see Georgia under military rule again—that he longed to see the day when peace and prosperity would reign all over the State. Senator Jones got ont of pa tience wiih his whining hypocrisy, and imme diately asked him if he (Brook) had not signed an address to the “Republicans of Georgia” in which the Legislature was denounced as an il legal and revolutionary body, and the declara tion made tj^at Republicans could not have pro tection at the polls—whioh document had been forwarded to Washington, and the plain pur pose of which was to invite military interfer ence by the Federal Government? This ques tion pnt Brock in a regular horse sweat, and made him torn several different oolors all at once, bnt after a fit of the dry grins he made answer that he had signed such a document, bnt that he did not know what was in it at the time of signing! As a “lightning calculator,” and where his pocket is oonoerned, Brook is a grand sucoess, but we don’t know a more decided failure as an answerer of a plain question. As old John Go- vode used to say, he is a “frod,” in that line. Official Politeness. That suavity whioh should mark the inter course between the co-ordinate deportments of government has been put to some rude shocks by Uouley, and the last one of them is set forth: The committee charged with communicating the action of tbe General Assembly in relation to adjournment to the acting Governor,reported that they had performed tbeir duty, and had been informed by Hon. Benjamin Conley that he did not reoognize the fact that there was any General Assembly in session, bnt that if he did he probably would have something to com- munioate. That is decidedly corl, to come from a man who has positively no legal right at all to the Executive chair he occupies. What Mr. Conley might have had to commnnioate to the General Assembly, supposing be bad not struck their flag, stopped their pay and disowned them alto gether, we suppose may have been Bullock’s confession of eight pages, that all the bonds be bad been issuing were illegal or fraudulent. Be that as it may, Conley was not polite, and, indeed, it is said he has been in a chronic fret all the session. He is ont of temper, generally, and will get worse, we fear, before he begins to mend. Light Breaking In on the Bonds—Bnl- lock Heard from at Last. The bond inquiring bill is working. The in formation is coming in. Bullock was in Albion the first of this month. He writes Mr. Conley about some of his issues. He charges that our over issues of bonds were made in Gov. Craw ford’s term, twenty years ago. He uses tbe following paragraphs, rather re markable ones, it must be confessed; ‘The only bonds of the State marketable and saleable, and for which the State is liable, issued during my administration, are tbe bonds pre pared and executed by Gov. Jenkins, the quar terly coupon gold bonds, tbe semi-annual gold bonds given in exchange to the Brunswick and Albany Railroad. “If the latter the State shonld only recognize them as binding when the road is complete and in operation to Cuthbert; the same is true as to the indorsement given to that road.” He further says that only one issue of the Cartersville and Van Wort Railroad bonds are legd. He observes a discreet silence about his ever issuing bonds, and simply goes back on them by saying they are no account. The information given shows that $600,000 of currency bond? weie issued in 1868, and $2,000,000 in 1870, for temporary use. Of the $000,000, $332,000 have been returned cancelled, and $268,000 substituted for tbe school fund. Of the $2,000,000 issue, $500 are cancelled in tbe Treasury, and the rest are in the following hands, where they have no business to be : Clews & Co., New York $800,000 J. Boorman JohnsoD, New York 120,000 Fulton Bank, of Brooklyn 50,000 Russell Sage, New Fork 530,000 Bullock had engraved $4,000,000 gold bonds in 1870 Of those $3,000,009 wero issued and $1,000,000 are in the Executive office unissued. The $3,000,000 are in the following hands: Henry Clews & Co.. $1,750,000 Russel Sage... 500,000 Fourth National Bank 300,000 A. L. Whiton, New York 100,000 H. I. Kimball 250,000 J. H. James. 1 100,000 Bullock took $614,500 of Gov. Jenkins’ issue. Of these $175,000 were returned to the State Treasurer, $175,OCO exchanged for old bonds, and $261,000 sold aud paid in interest on State bonds. Bollock issued $880,000 of lithographed gold State bonds of the second indorsement of the Brunswick and Albany Railroad, and after wards $1,880,000 of engraved bonds to be sub stituted for tbe litographed bonds. Of the $880,000 Clews & Co. sent back $598,000 some time back, and reported tbe other day that they bad bad tbe other $282,000 unknowingly in their office, which their clerk failed to send as in structed. These are the facts so far obtained. We have not space to comment. We Bhall say something hereafter.—Atlanta Constitution. sent, obedience being the requirement ot all who enter the communion. A profound im pression waa made upon the entire audience— many were moved to tears. . The committees have nearly ail matured their reports and will bring them tit daring the day. Tbe Bishop and hla cabinet are progrearing finely with the arrangement of the appoint ments, and will be ready on Monday night next A number of local preachers were eleoted to Deaoon’a and Elder’s orders and will be ordained on Sabbath next : 1 i>»i •>. v* %. j Dr. L. Rosser, of Virginia, addressed the Con ference in behalf of tbe M. E. Obnreh South in Washington Oity, D. C., and aged liberal con tributions to relieve its emberreiimiants. Rev. J. B. McGhee was appointed to solicit subscrip tions in the Conference room and oommnnity. The next session of tbe Conference will held et ■ I years experience, was, at his own request, plaoed upon the superannuated list Dr. J. B: McFerrin, 8 a oratory of the Mission ary Board of the M. XL Chusoh Booth, Wee in troduced and will address tbe Conference on Missionary matters to-morrow it 11 o’clock. Columbus, Go., December 15,1871. t Thomasville, in Southwestern Georgia, oqnaty bushwhackers. . J. W. Tallsy, anoidmferisteraf forty-fimr ~ Another Hint to Mb. Vance.—The demo cratic Senators have united in a letter to Sena tor elect Vance, of Notth Carolina, asking him to withdraw his claims on the ground that there is no probability that he rrill be admitted, and therefore be ought to give the North Carolina Legis 1 ature an opportunity to send a man in his place who will be admitted. We find this paragraph in a special Washing ton dispatch to the Baltimore Son, of Thurs day, and for fear the editor of the Columbus Sun may not see it in his Baltimore namesake, we reprint it for his special consideration. It seems the representatives of the Democratic party in the Senate do not agree with our Co lumbus cotemporary as to the wisdom of being “forever unrepresented,” eto. They are in a po sition to know bow much good one vote and one voice can do thtm and the country, and being practioal men, with no torn for theatricals, they want that assistance if it be possible to get it They also knots that they can never get it through Gov. Vanoe, and therefore, like hon est men, they tell him so. There can be no other course for him to pursue now, as a pat riot, than to promptly return bis credentials to the Legislature aud allow that body to send somebody to Washington who can represent North Carolina inside the Senate chamber. Suspension or the Habeas Corpus in Floexdj . The New York Herald of Tuesday, has the fol lowing special from Washington: The President has determined to suspend the writ of habeas corpus in Jackson connty, Florida, and bis proclamation to that effect is expected to-morrow after the Cabinet adjourns. This determination has been pending for some time, but its execution has been delayed by the assembling of Congress and the preparation of the message. Jackson oounty has about four teen thousand inhabitants, and rejoices in a record of one hundred and seventy-nine un punished murders since Andrew Johnson an nounced that peace and good order reigned in all the borders of the United States. Repre sentative Horace Maynard, Chairman of the sub-Ku-klux Committee, to whioh Florida was assigned fair investigation, submitted his re port to Senator Soott two weeks ago, and the Utter laid it before the President, with the re mark that it offered strong grounds for Execu tive action than waa ever presented in Sooth fhwJiwa. The President thinks so too, and hence to-morrow’s ptoelamatiao, which Mr. Akerman is to have ready for the Cabinet Calhoun connty may be inoluded in the proeU- mation aa it is a hiding plaoe for the Jaekaon The tedious Tontine of flirtation, introduc tion, courtship, engagement and marriage was- successfully gone through with by an Arkansas couple in thirty-aix minutes. joS Taoia’^o to Paeton is ungracious enough to remark that many American ladies, were they sentenced to be hanged to-mcqrow, would ask, as their first Rets of the General Assembly of Georgia, i’aiwed at the Session, 1871. To provide for a special eleotion for Gover nor, to fill the unsxpired term of Rufus B. Bullock, late Governor, and for other purpo ses—paf sed over Gov. Conley’s veto by a two- thirds vote 22d November, .1871. 1. To repeal an act entitled an act to make it lawful for the legal voters of the oity of At- lanta to vote for Mayor in any one of the Wards of said oity, provided, 'no person shall vote but one time at tbe same eleotion, and U prevent any person from voting for Council men for any other Ward than the one in which he actually resides at the tima of voting. As-, seated to Ootober 25, 1870. November 10. 2. To incorporate the Van Wert Slate Mining Company, and for other purposes. November 24. 3. To incorporate the Excelsior Slate Mining Goinpany of the oounty of Polk, and for other purposes. November 24. 5. To alter and amend seotions 1035 and 1038 of the Revised Code, and for other purposes. November 28. ■ hi !?»«>*■■ 1 J 6. To explain and alter section 244 of the Revised Code of Georgia. November 26. 7. To repeal the 20th section of an aet ap proved October 25, 1870, and for other purpo ses. November 29. 8. To amend an act entitled an act to author ize the Mayor and Council of Rome to subscribe, not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars of stock, in the Memphis Branch Railroad Compa ny, and for ether purposes, approved October 26, 1870. 9. To abolish the Oity Court of Macon, and to repeal an act entitled an act to create and organize the City Court of Maoon, to define the jurisdiction thereof, and for other purposes. December 1. 10. To change the charter of the University of Georgia, so as to add four additional Trus tees to the Board, and give the election of said Trustees to the Alumni Society. December 2. 11. To authorize the Connty Commissioners of Pike county to audit claims of officers for extra services and for other pnrposes. Decern ber 2. 12. To compensate grand and traverse jurors of the Superior Courts of the counties of De- Kalb and Pulton, and to authorize tbe tax col lectors to receive jury certificates for county taxeB, and to pay constables attending the Su perior Courts of DeKalb and Fulton counties. December 2. 13. To compensate grand and traverse jurors of the county of Polk. December 2. 14. To amend an act to create a board of commissioners of roads and revenue for the county of Glynn, passed in the year 1870. De cember 4, 15. To repeal an act entitled an act to provide for an election, and to alter and amend the laws in relation to the holding of eleotions, ap proved Ootober 3, 1870. December 4. 16. To authorize the revision of the jury box in the counties of Cherokee, Twiggs and Falton December 4. 17. To amend an act approved Ootober 18, 1868, entitled au act to incorporate the Meml phis Branch Railroad Company, and to grant certain powers and privileges to the same, and for other purposes; and to legalize and make valid the organization of said company. De cember 4. 18. To repeal an aot entitled an act to make permanent the site of the pubjic buildings in .and for the county of Heard at the town of Franklin, and to incorporate the same and all acts amendatory thereto, assented to December 26, 1831, and for other pnrposes. December 4. 19. To repeal an aot entitled an act to change the time of the annual meeting of the Legisla ture of this State, approved October 25, 1870. December 4. 20. To repeal so much of an act assented to October 17, 1870, as creates tbe Alapaha Judi cial Circuit, and to add the county of Lowndes to the Southern Judicial Circuit, and the coun ties of Echols, Clinch, Coffee and Ware to the Brunswick Judicial Circuit. December 4, 21. To change the line between the counties of McIntosh and Liberty. December 4. 22 To exempt fireman from jury duty. De oember 5. 23. To repeal an act entitled an act to organ ize the Diatriot Court, and define its jurisdic tion, and for other purposes; approved Ootober 28, 1870. Passed over the Governor’s veto, December 7. 24. To alter and amend section 178 of Irwin’s Revised Code. Passed over the Governor’s veto December 7. 25. To authorize the payment of ten per cent, interest on one hundred bonds of one thousand dollars each by the Sohofield Rolling Mill Com pany. Deoember 7. 26. To ire >rporate the town of Colquitt, and to provide for the election of Commissioners for the same. December 8. 27. For the relief of 0-“P. Anthony, Tax qsMtioa, “Havel a hanging drew?” Collector of the county of Clay, and his securi ties. December 8. 28. To amend and add to the law of arson in' the State of Georgia. December 8. 29. To amend au act for the better regula tion and government of the town of Sparta, in tbo connty of Hancock, and the acts amenda tory thereof, and for other ptuposes. Decem ber 8. 30. To incorporate the Oglethorpe Fertili zing Company, and for other purposes. De cember 9. 31. To incorporate the Ohattahooohee Manu facturing Company. December 9. 32. To incorporate the Atlantic, Fort Valley and Memphis Railroad Company, and for other pnrposes therein mentioned. December 9. 33. To amend au act to incorporate Newcan and Americas Railroad Company, and for other purposes, assented to August 2, 1870. Deoem ber 9. 34. To authorize the Ordinary of Gwinnett oounty to i«sue bonds for the purpose of raising money to bnild a Court-house. December 9. 85. To provide for levying and collecting a tax for the payment of bills for insolvent crimi nal costs due Benjamin L. Cole, late Sheriff of Chatham county, and W. H. Bullock, late Clerk Superior of Chatham county. December 9. 36. To incorporate the Grand Bay Paper Manufacturing Company. December 9. 37. To authorize the corporate authorities of the oity of Dalton to issue bonds for educational purposes. December 9. 38. To authorize a counter showing to a mo tion for a continuance in the courts of this State. Deoember 9. 39. To incorporate the town of Tilton in Whitfield oounty, and to appoint commissioners for the same, eto. December 9. 40. To authorize the Ordinary of Cobb oounty to issue and negotiate bonds and provide means for the redemption thereof by taxation, for the purpose of building and furnishing a courthouse in the oity of Marietta, in said oounty of Cobb, eto. December 9. 41. To make it legal for sheriffs, coroners and other levying officers to sell certain kinds of personal property without exposing the same before the court-house door at the time of sale. December 9 42. For the eleotion of a Board of Commis sioners for the couDty of Soreven, define their duties, and for other purposes. Deoember 9. 43. To change the law of distribution so far as affects tbe separate property of married women. Deoember 9. 44. To authorize the Mayor and Council of the city of Cuthbert to issue bonds for educa tional purposes, and to assess and ooileet to pay tbe same. December 9. 46. To amend an act entitled an aet to in corporate the town of Clarksville, in the oounty of Habersham, to appoint oommiasionen for the same, and tor other purposes, approved September 16,1870. Deoember 9. 47. To authorize the ooporate authorities of the oity of Dalton to purchase and donate to the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad Com pany, a site upon whioh to ereot the machine shops of said company. December 9. 48. To authorize the Tax Collector of Madi son connty, to receive certain jury certificates for servioe as jurors rendered in and oounty, in payment of all taxes due said oounty, and for other purposes. December 9. 49. To amend an aot nsoonted to Deoember 31, 1838, entitled an aot to establish and incor porate s medical college in the city of Savannah, and to explain an aot assented to December 31, 1857, entitled an aot to extend aid to the Sa vannah Medical College. Deoember 9. ... Flotti Puddmo.—Take one quant of sweat milk, one teaepoonful salt, half a teacup of sugar; mix. boU and thicken with one teacup of wheat floor, wet with oold milk and stir until it boiis again, then remove che fire. Whan half sold add two well-beaten eggs, sad fiav« with notmeg or lemon. Add maina it yen half an hour. To be eaten odd, with or without sweetened cream. aekaanviBe (Ala.) Republican aeya there tea lady living at Columbiana, Shelby county, who nave birth to a child a few dns ago, at the «ge of seventy-three years. Shete tbe mother of several children, the youngest of whiefe, be- ia thirty-two yean eld, and the children alao. The etdiady kehakkabls A Thrilling Hi, kerto -AJ H A >1 Report. From tbe Chicago Tribune.'] A member of Troop D, 8evenrt.Tr Cavalry, writing to t& paper, gives the following anmaino 0ttle Su the manner in which Gen. Coat*, some Chioago visitors who went on*\ 8tw t* mams for a little buffalo-shooth* w N sure the trooper that no report of *“• which he details so graphically ^ the Chioago papers by any of &e They were too modest, for that • * * * One almost equaling it when the festive Chicagoese seeking that little relaxation 52. , cares ; which they found. IfterTa S cesefal chase, the party found itself miles from Hayes, tired and a camping ground for the night ' soon blazing cheerfully, boff.fo ’ T* > steaks roasting and frying nicely .77 > appetites to do them justice' Next and cigars, with which the Chicagoe^® 1 * supplied, luxuries for the trooper m*!* 1 *' generally out of . reach, bnt thigcB.T?^ had them plenty, and enjoyed them ' The Genual, wishing to afford little amusement during the ey e l^ tained them with stories of surmise 9,41 ties committed by Lo, until he excited to tLe proper pitch for 1 dreams, which he kindly pertain,,, to enjoy until midnight, when he « innooent dreamers a finishing tonrh 4 night proving favorable, the troon^T * divided, allowing about forty 8 g ing party and to represent Indians T* 4 mainder to defend the camp. readiness, the party on post loudly “Who comes there?” A regular from the attacking party was the oeived, then a volley from the carbine, * tling fire with revolvers, shouting veffir * screaming—the attacking patty m4ir7!L* all tho Indian imaginable, and a sTeft®! 1 ' more. The sleepers were by this time ertit wide-awake and made to understand £ the matter—that they were expected they expected ever again to see Chictgj * brave defenders fought nobly, shooting v*’ the air, entreating the Chicagoese toL' firm, fight for their homes and and to fight, bleed and die for their/ try—never let the Stars and Stripes be graced by allowing a few hundred uS Indians to whip us; not more than tZ one at most, probably less; wh&t’s tteeJ try good for if not worth fighting for? Soa, them did fight, and from them the most dm! was apprehended, as they fired at over their antagonists. Of coarse they J quickly placed under the wagons to keep* trom shooting somebody. During the HU festive old chap was heard bewailing bjJ bitterly; “Oh, why did I leave myhoaiJ family, friends and business, every camion •! the world, to come out here rad ba kaJ by tho bloody Indians ? Oh, dear, oh, & what shall I do to be saved?” At this, so® told him to grab a root; bnt he said he oot find the root. “Fifty dollars to atj that will take me out of this,” but then w| no taker. The fight lasted near one hot:, casionally somo one would drop, and e crawl away or be carried by a few comnu when he would, of course, be all right and u pitch in. Finally victory was declared for" defenders; and then it waa the few remit on the list of wounded received all the vi sible, which meant plenty of wine. Q: number wished they had remained vos; bnt it was too late for that. In the morning wounded were reported sent to camp, bnt of the inquisitive wished to know what be of the killed and wou&ded Indians. “0b, are always carried off of the field as sooti they fall.” That settled the matter. Whelk the visitors were informed of the true stilt: affairs before their return home, I neverleuu One of them said he would have an accent! the fight published. I never bad the pkd of reading the account. An Act [To provide for a special election for Gorancj to fill the unexpiiced term of Rufus B f " ' late Governor, and for other purposes. Whereas, By the resignation of Bafts 1 Bullock, late Governor, the office of Gored has become vacant, and the duties of said efb are now beiDg discharged by Honorable E* jamin Conley, President of the Senate it a time of said resignation; and whereas, a Constitution provides that the General Aas| bly shall have power to provide by law forfl ing unexpired terms, by special desk j therefore Section 1. Be it enacted by the Geceitl h-| aembly, and it is hereby enacted by en:h:”| of the seme, That a special eleotion for C ernor shall be held throughout the State, b| the Third Tuesday in-Deoember, 1871, to £ the unexpired term for whioh Rufus B. was eleoted, which raid election shall be beli^ is provided by Irwin’s Revised Coda, as of fa: prior to the third day of October, 1870, arii Constitution of this State, for the regular «j tion for Governor and members of the I M*.*| Sec. 2. Be it farther enacted, etc., That: retains of said election shall be sealed ttplj the manager and direoted to the President ^ the Senate and Speaker of the House of Bep senatives, and transmitted to the person e:sj cising the daties of Governor for tbe ® being, who shall, without opening tbe sill s turns, cause the same to be laid before!! Senate, if the Senate be iu session when -I ceived; and if received during tbe re<*« f the General Assembly, then so soon General Assembly convenes, the same sbsi-^ laid before the Senate. Section 3. The Senate shall forthwith mitto the House of Representative said rets if the General Assembly shall then be in»| sion, or as soon thereafter as the General* semblyconvenes, and such proceedings!, thereafter be had for convening the two He* in the Representative Chamber, opening s returns, counting, publishing the vote, an!> daring the result of said, election, as proof by article 4, section 1, paragraph 3, of tbeu stitution; and the Governor thus chosen 0J be inaugurated for such unexpired term, K’-f manner heretofore praotioed .in. this Ban, the next day thereafter, at 12 o’clock, u. See. 4. Be it further enacted, That f > person be found to have received a the whole number of votes cast at said e then from the two persons having the of number of votes, who shall be in IMjJ decline an eleotion, at tbe time' append." the Legislature to elect, the General Ai shall immediately elect a Governor, or if the election be contested, then™* Houses Of the General Assembly, in J 0 ®- sion, presided over by the President of tMj ate, shall hear the contestants; anddec:>* «, contestant has been elected; and in sutfi-* session a majority shall decide. Sec. 5. All laws and parts of lawri with this sot be, end the same are J pealed. Janes M &n«. Speaker Honse of Represents | J. D Waddell, Clerk House ol Representatives- L. N. Teuco* ■ President of the Seri-1 T. W. J. Hill, Secretary of the Senate. xh house. « Passed over Executive veto the November, 1871, by a constitutional _ as 110; nays 86; end ordered to * mi tied forthwith to the Senate. ^ f J. D. WiDn&£» I ( herebys Passed over tbe veto of tus Governor, by a constitutional majority 28; nays 14, this November SSd, 187>- T. W. J. TTtt.l, Secretory 9 Outbreaks in Missobippl—There »PP**** 1 some duger that Mississippi will disciplined. It is quits oertsin that " men were guilty of tbe outrage* some of the negroes in that State, be the case. The Memphis Appeal, of ni “The resulting anarchy and murder upon negro role has •mpUfisd tnMtatSppL We lestojf MsrtiUu Guetta tha* on Tucaday'*** ussy negroes from the sooatry »w®, villa entered tbet town with *“ endtfcresteasdthe release* _8MMSW3f—* sad brother at tbs _ u array * referee of certain P to WM doing well »t hat soeanats. nrert tfcs Hatons HMMasiUnc*- rborf* prompt vJ proved klwaff s nSTinto*
