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Tuesday Morning, January 9, 1866.
The A.Iininifttrntion nml it* Enrmie*.
Ail eyes are now turned to Washington
city to see tlio combinations and plan of
attack, which the Radicals, led by Sum
ner and Stevens, will develope on the re
assembling of Congress. Both Houses
met on Friday last, and we may reasona
bly expect that the programme of the con
tending parties will soon be made known.
As for President Johnson, he has put his
foot down ; and we believe he will keep it
down just where he has put it. Tho Rad
icals, on the adjournment in December,
were not so strong as when Congress first
assembled. The President’s policy had
gained strongly, and was daily adding
new elements of power, when Congress
adjourned for the Holidays. Sumner has
been to Massachusetts, and consulted
with his fanatical followers, and Stevens
has been to his home in Pennsylvania to
consult the Oracles in the Coal settle
ments. Correspondents from Washftg-
ton predict that Andrew Johnson will
whip the fight, and secure a majority for
the Administration, at least in the IT. S.
Senate. It is useless to speculate about
the result. We are but clay in the pot
ter’s hands, and must take what comes
and make the best of it. We can all hope
for the success of the President in carry-
OULETHOR^ t'NTVEIWITV.
\\ e arc Jfecippy to inform the public
that the excises of this valuable in
stitution, our venerated Alma Mater,
will be resumed on the 16th iust. The
Institution had suffered so much froiji
the loss of its distinguished President,
and the wreck of so large a portion of
its endowment, that we had hardly
hoped to see it on its feet again so
soon.
We are therefore truly gratified to
observe (see advertisement in another
column) that its halls wili be speedi
ly re-opened.
In addition to the regular Collegiate
course there will be an irregular and
scientific department; also a Prepara
tory and Academical School. With
out disparaging the usefulness of the
dead languages, it is evident that
many of our young men have lost so
much time and means by the war,
they can only aflord to spend a short
time in such studies as will speedily
fit them for business. A larger pro
portion must study book-keeping;
must by all means learn Agricultural
Chemistry, Geology, Mineralogy, En
gineering, and such other scientific
branches as will enable them to de
velop the valuable Agricultural and
Mineral resources of our State, and
build our Railroads and Manufactur
ing establishments. Our mineral wealth,
promises to equal that of any other
State, and is slumbering in the bow
els of the earth for lack of intelligent
enterprise amongst us. As we have
lost so much by the recent struggle,
let us qualify our young men to open
up these hidden treasures of gold,
silver, copper, iron, coal and petroleum,
that we confidently hope will yet re
store Georgia more than her former
wealth and prosperity.
We are glad to see that besides
those of the Faculty long and favora-
ing oat his scheme of restoration and re
construction, and for tho admission of our known as instructors of youth, the
Senators, and Representatives; hut that is
all we can do.
We have been pleased at the indica
tions of a change of base on the part of
6ome of the Republican leaders, and we
expect yet to see the President use his
power so as to secure a majority of Con
gress. Let us be patient, and hopeful,
and in the meantime, do no act that will
injure the President, or iu any manner
strengthen the fierce opposition arrayed
against him and his plan of reconstruction.
Negro Troop*.
We do hope Gen. Grant’s suggestion
about removing the negro troops at the
South will be adopted. They occasion
more trouble here than all other causes
combined. They have caused more mur-
mstitution has secured in the depart
ment of Physical Sciences the services
of an energetic young Virginian, who
comes highly recommended, not only
as a finished scholar, and elegant wri-*
ter, but who from the experience of a
four years campaign in his native
State, in different capacities, has gain
ed a high degree of qualification for
the instruction and control of youth.
Under the direction of such a corps of
teachers, old Oglethorpe must again
enter upon her wonted career of use
fulness, both to the Church and to the
Country.
Don’t he discouraged.—Young
ders to be committed in the last six mouths, j man ^ discouraged if you find
than were perpetrated in any six years
before the war. They are the great stum
bling block in the way of the restoration
of the former peace and good order that
characterized all Southern communities.
They do incalculable harm to the freed-
men by their example and their bad ad
vice. President Johnson ought to disband
them at once, or take them to the frontier, j
where they can do no harm to anybody
but the wild Indians, or themselves. The
conservative press at the-North will do
the country good service by ringing this
subject in the President’s ear, from day to
day, until the negro troops are disbanded,
or removed from the South.
WILL TIB E It 1*0 IT?
We saw in one of our exchanges
a proposition made to the Freedman’s
Bureau, that the negroes should be al
lowed to vote whether they would re
tain their freedom with all its cares,
sufferings, starvation and death, or re
turn to their former masters and mis
tresses and enjoy that care, protection
and comfort, of which they have been
deprived by men who were entirety
ignorant of their situation, or of their
wants and wishes. As all. male and
female are equally interested, it would
be right that all should have a vote on
the subject. We are aware that the
Freedman’s Bureau has not the pow
er to grant such a request, but if they
should recommend it to Congress, that
body, if they wish to be consistent,
could not refuse to give the negroes
their choice. If they were allowed to
vote on the question, many no doubt
would vote to remain as they are.
Many would prefer the vagabond life
they are now living, with the prospect
of starvation before them, but we be
lieve a majority of tho negroes in
Georgia would now rejoice to return
to their old masters, and spend the re
mainder of their days in that ease, se
curity and plenty, all which they find
they have lost by the change. But
will the Abolitionists give them the
chance of voting on this, to the ne
groes, all important question ? We
fear not. We believe they dare not
trust tkem to vote on that question.
EP’The year 1866 began, and ends on,
Monday.
lit hard work and little pay. Work is
honorable, and industry will certainly
have its reward. At present, the man
who is out of debt, and making a bare
support, is well of. Don’t be dis
couraged because you can’t get mar
ried just now, and take a wife’s cares
|and troubles on your shoulders, in ad
dition toyourown. Wait a little long
er. Honesty and industry will soon
put you in a position to get a girl who
will divide your sorrows and your joys.
At any rate, don’t be discouraged be
cause your wages are small—the con
dition of the country requires every
business man to practice economy.—
You should do the same thing. Work
on—a brighter day will dawn on your
efforts, and your labors be crowned
with a fruition of all reasonable hopes
and expectations.
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Do wc Move?
It has been supposed that the progress
made in science and art cheapened labor,and
reduced expenses. One would not think
so, after being informed that the charge
for fare between this city and Macon, on
the cars, is Three dollars—distance 37
miles. Twenty-five years ago the stage
fare between Milledgeville and Macon,
distance 32 miles, was Three dollars! It
seems from this that travel by railroad is
as expensive in 1866, as it was by stage
in 1840. Do we advance t True the
Central R. R. suffered very heavily by
Sherman’s raid, but we do not think the
company ought to expect to recover by
causing our already impoverished people
to make good its losses—losses which
were not peculiar to any class or condition
amongst us.
—+
A VOICE FROM THE GRANITE STATE.
—The Republican State Convention
at Concord, New Hampshire, has
adopted Resolutions in support of
President Johnson’s restoration policy.
Messrs. Sumner and Stevens may well
look to their laurels, when the Re
publicans of New Hampshire rebuke
their Radicalism.
The white advocates of black suffrage
in the District of Columbia, being unable
to cast over seventy-five votes out of sev
en thousand, in the election on Wednes
day, are now pretending that they stayed
away from the polls, as they preferred to
petition Congress on the subject, rather
than show their strength by voting,
The Sew York H.wald’s Plan of Compro
mise. *
Tlie Editor of the New York Herald
iB always ready with a panacea for the
troubles of the times. He discovers an
irrepressible conflict between the Presi
dent and the Radical majority in Con
gress, and straightway he comes forward
with a compromise, which he professes to
believe if adopted, will ‘‘cover the whole
ground of existing difficulties with the
late insurgent States.” Here is his plan,
which ho proposes to make a part of the
Constitution.
Article—, Section 1. Every State shall
have exclusive jurisdiction over the right
of suffrage within its own limits ; provi
ded, however, that no person shall be ex
cluded from the elective franchise on ac
count of color, race or religion.
Sec. 2. All persons engaged in the late
rebellion against the government of the
United States are hereby restored to all
the rights which they have forfeited ; pro
vided, however, that this shall not apply
to rights of property in regard to which
legal interests of third parties have inter
vened.
Now, if this proposition should be adopt
ed, one or the other party to the “compro
mise” would get badly fooled: In our
humble judgment the Editor of the Her
ald is entirely indifferent as to which it
may be—the Administration or the Radi
cals. After giving exclusive jurisdiction
to the States, regulating suffrage within
their own limits, respectively, the Herald,
in the same breath, takes it away. If
there i9 any meaning in tho proposition, it
is that the States, while they may uot ex
clude negroes from voting on account of
color or race, can make other qualifications
which would exclude the ignorant and
pauper classes. In other words, tho Her
ald would make money and education pre
requisites to the exercise of the right of
suffrage. By this rule the South would
be still further weakened in Congress.—
Nearly the whole of the black population,
and a large percentage of the white popu
lation would have no representation in the
lower House of Congress. Instead of sev
en members of Congress, Georgia would
get, probably, three or four. The Presi
dent is iu favor of leaving the whole ques
tion of suffrage to the States, without any
provisos: The Radicals are in favor of
regulating this, and other questions touch
ing the internal policy of the States, by
constitutional amendments under congres
sional legislation. There is no middle
ground to stand on between the opposing
policies. The President must triumph or
there is noRueb tliiDg left with us as State
rights—the government becomes a con
solidated power—and the next step will be
to monarchy.
We have strong hopes that the policy
of the President will prevail, and the coun
try be saved total wreck in the vortex of
despotism.
Some of the Sicns.
The following, taken from the Augusta
Transcript, presents, in a brief space, some
of the straws by which the reader may
tell how the winds blow in the political
world. Referring to the debate on the
President’s message, communicating the
Report of Lieut. General Grant, tho N. Y.
Times says:
Mr. Sumner, following Mr. Stevens,
has charged the President and Gen.
Grant with “white-washing” the South ;
and in order to invalidate their testimony
in regard to the good faith with which she
has accepted the results of the war, pro
duced a scrap-book full of newspaper ex
tracts and private letters. We are told
that it took him nearly two hours to read
it, and notwithstanding that it was inter-
spered with scholatic platitudes, it fell
with a dead weight. Senator Cowan re
plied, iu a half hour’s speech with brillant
effect. Never was Senator more com
pletely vanquished than Sumner; for
when Senator Cowan pronounced tho
collected batch of extracts which were
read, as the production of anonymous
scribblers and disappointed cotton thieves.
Sumner folded his scrap-book and stole
silently away- The Times' letter re
marks of this delivcrence, that, “his facts,
though ever so strongly arrayed, weighed
not a feather in the scale against the plain
statements put forth yesterday over the
signatures of President Johnson and Gen.
Grant.
The Transcript adds :
The two speeches to which we have re
ferred have effected a breach in the repub
lican party, and will result in new organi
zations both in Congress and iu the coun
try at large. The Washington correspon
dent of the Louisville Courier gives an
intetesting account of the affiliations that
have already taken place. He states
that the Democrats are a unit in sup
port of the President and are aided by
Senators Doolittle, Dixon, Cowan and
other Republican Senators, including Mr.
Foster, the President ; in the House, Mr.
Raymond, the coufidental friend of Mr
Seward, is rallying the Conservative Re
publicans to sustain the President, while
Thurlow Weed ridicules Thad. Stevens
in New York Times, and the staunch old
Evening Post; with lingering love for its
old Democratlfc principles, denounces the
Pennsylvania Cossack in bitter terms.—
Even Forney, never honest, hut alwavs
astute, indorses the policy of reconstruc
tion. He declares that on the Stevens
policy “no party can he held together in
the free States, in the face of incessant
turbulence, dissatisfaction and bitterness
that must spftijtf *11 over the Union as a
consequencC Of bo chaotic and unsettled a
policy. ;
The Southern Members of Congress
held a caucus in Washington on Tuesday,
and decided to return to their homes, leav
ing only one Member from each State to
represent ttfem before the Joint Commit
tee of the two booses.
. '}!•■: ‘ •
AGE1* ANIS INFIR.TI N’ECSBOKM.
YytJ see that the Freedman’s Bureau
has decided that the former owners
most support the aged and infirm ne
groes left upon their hands after every
negro that can work has bUea taken
•from them. This, it appears to us,‘is
so manifestly unjust and cruel that we
can not believe it will be sustained by
the Abolitionists themselves. The
reason given by the officers of the
Freedman’s Bureau, is, that the owner
has had the labor of his former slave
when young and in health. This, in
many cases, is not a fact. Most ol the
negroes were purchased in families and
the purchaser took the old folks be
cause they were the fathers and moth
ers of the young negroes, and they
wished to make the young ones con
tented by keeping the family together,
and thus they expected to be paid
for taking care of the old and infirm
by the labor of the young and healthy.
But to take from them the means of
support, and then compel them to sup
port the old and infirm negroes is an
impossibility. Even the Freedman’s
Bureau can not compel men to per
form impossibilities.
General Iiitclligeuee.
Denib of Mi-ary Winter Dari*.
Baltimore, Dec. 30.—Hon. Henry Win
ter Davis died here to-day, of peumouia.
Idp 1 " 3 The Provisional Governors of the
Southern States have all been paid at the
rate of 83,000 per annum. Gov. John
son’s share amounted to Si,000.
The Hon. Revcrdy Johnson made an
argument in the United States Supreme
Court on Friday, in the case ex parte of A.
II. Garland of Arkansas, against the con
stitutionality of the Congressional test
oath.
Georgetown, following the example of
Washington opened the polls to test the
sense of the citizens on the subject of ne
gro suffrage. Of over eighteen hundred
votes cast only one was in favor of thus
extending the franchise,
The Mills House, in Charleston was
opened on Wednesday last, for the first
time since the commencement of the war.
Resolutions in favor of negro suffrage
have been indefinitely postponed in the
Missouri House of Representatives.
—France has now seventeen large com
mercial steamers running between Europe
and the American contiuent aud her colo
nies.
—The wife of a German snrgeon died
recently in Paris. When friends came
to condole with him he was found to be
busily dissecting h^Hbody.
Concord, N. H., Jan. 3.—In the Re
publican State Convention to-day resolu
tions were adopted declaring that the
tone and temper of the President’s Mes
sage meets with warm approval, which
argues well for the success of the Admin
istration.
Resolutions were adopted declaring that
a scepter, planted by the foreign bayonets
of A ustrain despotism in Mexico, is a stan
ding insult to our power, and a menace to
our republican institutions.
New York, Jan. 4.—A suit was com
menced in the Superior Court to day
against Secretary Stanton, by Jas. Mad
dox, for alleged imprisonment, claiming
damages to the amount of 8100,000.
Cotton steady at 52 1-2.
Gold 43 1-S.
Burial of the Confederate Dead.
The funeral of obsequies of the dead
a of the Eighteenth Georgia Battallion (Sa-
vannah Volunteer Guards) were observed
with appropriate solemnities at Laurel
Grove Cemetery yesterday afternoon.—
Notwithstanding the* inclemency of the
day, at the appointed hour 3 o’clock, a
very large number of our most respectable
citizens, ladies and gentlemen and youth,
including the relatives and friends of the
gallant dead, had assembled at the en
trance of the reception vault, where the
boxes containing the remains had been,
placed side by side aud covered with lau
rel wreaths and boquets of choice flowers
The sad company had gathered round, and
in the silence of deep feeling—more ex
pressive than the military pomp and swell
of martial music, with which the last hon- :
ors are paid to fallen soldiers—awaited
the performance of the burial service by
the attending clergy. Alter the arrival
of the Metropolitan Fire Company, in a
body, among whom, as in the crowd, we
observed many veteran voluuteers in the
late war, companions in arms of those
whose manes they had come to honor—an
appropriate hymn was sung ; after which
the solemnly impressive burial service of
the Presbyterian Church was read by
Gen. Tiilsm’s Circular,
direct attention to the last
tier from the Assistant Commit ° r '
of the. Freedmen’s Bureau fo r T
State of Georgia, which we publish
We
r fr
of the,
Tillson, in instructing
to-day,
Gen.
agents to compel the freedin
ally, to accept tail- contracts
tl.e,n haa adopted a com* dm, W( i£
by the needs and interests of ail
his
cn » gener-
es. The country can neither
ciasg-
recover
Secretary Seward to Travel South.
Washington, Dec. 21.—Mr. Seward,
Secretary cf State, and his son, assistant
secretary, have, upon the advice of phy
sicians, embarked for a short voyage to
a warmer latitude in the South Atlantic.
Mr. nun ter, chief clerk, lias been ap
pointed Acting Secretary in the interval.
—Twelve hundred negroes in South
Carolina have returned to their former
masters. They had been living on gov
ernment rations in Charleston.
—There are 6,000,000 acres of land
for sale in Missouri at 81 25 per acre.
—Why is the James river like a keg of
lager beer. Because they both flow into
the Dutch Gap.
C^We are informed that the colored
troops, for some time past on duty at this
post, are to be mustered out of service in
a few days.—Avgusta Cons.
When shall we be able to make the
same gratifying announcement as regards
the large body of negro troops quartered
around Macon? Isn’t it about time Mr.
Staunton, that our eyes should be removed
from the sight of ebony in unifrom ?—2 ele-
graph.
Easily Satisfied.—The Chicago Repub
lican relates a story of an elopement, in
which the husband was easily pacified.—
A couple from Jerseyville stopped at the
American House. Carlinville, and rep
resented themselves as man and wife.—
The pair went to bed at night, but were
scarcely uuder the blankets before a man
arrived with an officer and had the first
arrival arrested and lodged in jail. The
latest arrival then took “tother feller’s”
place in tho bed, representing himself as
the woman’s lawful husband. On Tucs-
dav the injured Benedict had the guilty
parties arrested, hut a compromise was
effected by which the woman agreed to go
home with her lawful lord.
Rev. Dr. I. S. K. Axson, of the Inde
pendent Presbyterian Church. After the
reading, a most fervent and feeling prayer
was addressed to the Throne of Grace,
by the Rev. Sylvanus Landrum, of the
Savannah Baptist Church, the ceremonies
being closed by the Right Rev. Stephen
Eliott, Bishop of Georgia, who prefaced
the closing burial service with a brief but
most touching allusion to the solemn oc
casion, which thrilled the hearts of all
present. The funeral rites feeing over,
the remains of those who had been identi
fied wero borne to the family lots of the
deceased for burial, while. the eleven,
whose remains could not be identified,
were hurried in the Savannah Volunteer
Guards’lot, togeiher, as they Lad mingled
their blood on “their field of glory.”
When the graves had been closed over
and strewn with wreaths and evergreens
and flowers, the sad throng withdrew in
silence, many a kindred heart experienc
ing a relief that the loved and lost ones
had been gathered to rest in the bosom of
their native soil.
Savannah Herald 1*/.
A correspondent of the Ohio State Jour
nal gives the following anecdote of Tom
Corwin, on the night he received his death
stroke :
When as last the press about him les
sened, I sat down by Lis side. What be
happened first to say to me furnishes one
of those strange coincidences which help
to invest our lives witn a tinge of the mys
terious and awful, and which makes us
superstitious. One of his first utterances
to me was a startling description of what
Tom Corwin was to be iu twenty-five min
utes after its utterance. It was this : He
said. “You are more bald than when 1
saw you last, the day before I sailed for
Mexico.” I said, “Yes.” He said, with
the semi-solemn, semi comical face which
has become historical, “But, then, Julius
Csesar was bald.” I said, “But, Csesar
had fits.!’ Then he assumed a serious
manner, and said : “twenty years ago, I
saw a man fall in apparently unconscious
paralysis, when in the midst of excited
discourse. He was carried out by his
friends in this condition, and his first act
of consciousness was to utter the words
you have just said : ‘Caesar had fits!’”—
In twenty-five minutes after, I assisted in
carrying Corwin out in the precise condi
tion he had so strongely described.
Sober Advice to Congress.—There
is at least one miud at the North that
comprehends the public sentiment, and
truestaftw of affairs in the Southern States.
The great difficulty in the way of both
the white and the black man at the South,
is the mischievous disposition to meddle
with their relations on the part of those
who are entire strangers to both, and must
in very nature of things, bring all they
toucli to grief. The Southern people
know the negro best ; their sympathy for
him is more sincere and practical than
that of anybody else ; and it is to tlieir
interest to treat him kindly, and do the
most for his comfort and hapfiness. This
latter fact the Northern fanatics, and some
of tlieir agents South, seem utterly inca-
pablo of comprehending. They have
been reasoned with and importuned by
Southern men, but all to no purpose.
Will they then harken to the opinion of
Northern men at their own doors, and men
who have agitated on slavery as much as
the most of them ? With the hope that
they may, we copy the following well con
sidered opinions from the New York Times,
the leading organ of the Republican party,
and controlled by men who rank among
the ablest of American journalists. It
says :
The great problem of keeping the two
races together in the lately insurgent
States on terms which shall be mutually
advantageous, must be solved at the
South—In the local Southern Legisla
tures, in the local courts of justice, in the
Executive'fconncil chambers of just such
Governors as Judge Jenkins. Every fea
ther’s weight of extra official pressure
from without will most surely produce a
reaction in the minds of the better dispo
sed of tin: employers at the South. And
nothing that the philanthropy of t he North
can contribute will be a compensation to
the freedman for his forfeiture of the good
will and kindly co operation of those who
have heretofore directed his labor.— Tele
graph.
its industrial prosperity, nor canordpv
ami security of person or property h
restored, while the land is f u || 0 j be
gros who will not go to work and who
have no h>nest means of support W
think it would have been both iV» J
beneficial had Gen. T. also ordered
that where freedmen are compelled tt)
accept contracts there shall be an
abatement of the wages offered; for
the reason that a planter cannot count
so confidently on the faithful observ
ance of the contract by one who is
forced into it, as by one who enters
into it voluntarily. Of course the
compulsory class cannot be considered
as valuable as the voluntary contracts
There is another order of General
Tillson with which, under the circum
stances, we do not find fault, but the
reason given for which we regard as
untenable. It is the order requiring
late^lave owners to continue to take
care of the old and infirm. Humani-
ity requires that this class shall be
cared for, and w r e are glad to have
Gen. aTillson’s testimony that the
late masters are generally cheerfully
extending to them a support. But it
evinces a disregard of facts that ought
to be taken into consideration, to say
that because late minsters have long
had the services of these negroes, and
were required by State laws to take
care of them, they are therefore equal
ly bound to do so now. When so re
quired by State laws, they wsre able
to take care of them, because they bad
the services of the able-bodied negroes
of the plantations (many of them sons
or other relatives of the infirm class)
to assist them in so doing. The plan
tation economy was an integral sys
tem, all the parts of which were nec
essary to sustain it. When the Gov
ernment took away the effective work
ing force, it knocked away the prop
that upheld the whole system; it
withdrew the efficient workers, and
with them the means by which the
owner was enabled to provide for those
who could not provide for themselves.
But it is a most honorable tribute to
the late slaveholders of Georgia to
say that they are cheerfully accepting
the task of caring for the infirm ne
groes after their efficient hands have
been liberated. We wonder how
many such examples there are at the
North—how many poor Irish or Ger
man “helps” are provided for in their
old age by former employers who for a
a score or more of years had the ben
efit of their faithful service when able
to work '?—Col. Enquirer
Value of I'oufcderutc Currency.
The Legislature of North Carolina havingap-
pointed a joint select committee to determine and
report upon the proper rate of gold as compared
with Confederate currency during war, the com
mittee made the following report:
3 he joint select committee, to whom was refer
red a resolution on the scale of the depreciation of
Confederate currency, state that th-y have had
the same under careful consideration, and after
mature deliberation; ask leave to submit the fol
lowing report :
The Confederate Prices of money jrom May 1,
1861, to May 1, 1865.
MONTHS.
1861
1862
1863
1664
.
1805
January
$ 1 20
$3 00 $2100
$50 00
February....
......
1 3C
3 00
21 00
50 00
March.
. . . T
J 50
4 00
23 00
60 00
April
1 50
5 (-0
20 00
100 00
May
.« I 10
1 5!
5 50
19 00
.Tune
1 10
1 50
6 50
IS 00
July
1 It
I 50
0 Oil
21 00
August
1 10
1 50
14 no
23 00
September...
1 10
2 00
14 00
25 00
1 12
1 15
2 00
2 50’
14 00 26 00
14 00 30 00
November. ..
Deember ....
1 2U
2 50
20. U)
35 00
Doc 10 to 20
42 00
49 OOj
Dee. 20 to 30
—
The scale includes the entire month, from the
first to the last day, except the month of Decem
ber, 1864, which is divided into three parts ouao
count of rapid depreciation.
C. L. HARRIS*
For the Committee.
The foregoing will be valuable for reference,
and may be regarded as a precedent by tlie Leg
islature of oar State, when it shall take action on
the same point. •
Through to Savannah in One Day.
The Augusta and Savannah Railroad is
now so near being completed that passen
gers can now go between the two places in j board, and every day’s subsequent prae-
one day. J he trains leave Augnflta at j tice will increase the quantity of work she
six A. M., and arrive in Savannah at 10 ! can accomplish. There is no more honor-
The publishers of the Montgomery Ad
vertiser are advertising for a number of
young ladies to learn the printing business
in that office—that is, to become a type
setting machine. They 6ay: “An in
dnst'ritm?, swift moving compositor, can set
at a moderate calculation, six thousand
ems per day, and the price per thousand
is sixty cents.—A tuition of two to four
weeks duration will enable an intelligent
woman to set enough types to pay her
P. M. Passengers now have to ride only
twenty-two miles on coaches. This part
of the road, we arp informed, will soon be
completed. ■
able employment, and we pledge ourselves
to see that the strictest order and mutual
respect shall be maintained in our office
under this new system.”
On a recent occasion Gen. Sickles ac
companied ex-Gov. Aiken, of South Caro
lina, on a visit to his Sea Island Planta-
tson, on Jehcsse Island to assist in persua
ding his former slaves to enter into labor
contracts for the ensuing year. they
found the negroes totally unwilling, how
ever, to enter into such an arrange® 611 •
The prominent difficulty in their minds
was the hope and the expectation that t 0
Government would divide out the lan 3
among them. The following colloquy
took place between Gen. Sickles and one
of the “head ruen” on the plantation :
“General, cant you send to tbe^ g° e *
ment, and ask ’um to let us buy d e an ’
and we will pay for de lan’ in two y ear ®>
and if we no pay for ’um den let the g°
erment take de lan’ back.”
The General replied that such an ^
rangement was impossible; that the ^
c|id not belong to the Government; u
Gov. Aiken, their former master. wt, °,
every body knew, was a very kind®
and would’ pay them good wages,
reply was: w
“Well, massa Gen’l—den we ns
b’long toMosser? and den dy goberme •
take us from Mosser, and gib us
Den can’t de government do de same
jelan’?”
Not bad logic that.