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H 'iTtffrW sr# M [1/ VOLUME XXXVI.] MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30. 1866. jOUGHTON,NISBET,BARNES&MOORE Publishers and Proprietors. * mu JO*. H. IJI8BKT, U:l:lcr*. <b\)i Jtbcral Pinion 0 Js published Weekly, in Milledgerillc, Ga., Corner ot Hancock Wilkinson Sts., At $3 a year in Advance. ADVERTISING. T<u<«!F''T.—One Dollar per square of tenlinesfor f# r>b insertion. frib ites of respect., Resolutions by Societies, (Obit- ,i i>a iiee-dinc six lines, Nominations for office Coin- -jnicationsor Editorial notices for individual benefit,) We J< * 8 transient advertising. Legal Advertising. g'i*:itFa sale*, perlevy of ten lines, or less, |2 50 Mortgage ti fa sales per square, 5 00 T« Collector’s Sales, per square, 5 00 C ations for Letters of Administration, 3 00 a “ “ Guardianship, 3 00 letters of application for dism’n from Adm’n 4 50 •< “ “ “ “ Guard’n 3 00 inpi'n for leave to sell land, 5 00 Vitiees to Debtors and Creditors, 3 00 .ales of laud, .pc , per square, 5 CO perishable property, 10 daya. per square, 1 50 E-tray Notices. 30 days, 3 00 Foreclosure of Mortgage, per sq.. each time, 1 00 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. -a *« of Land, bv Administrators, Executors or Oii'iiaiis, are required by law to be held on the first Ta - lay in the month; between the hours of 10 in the forenoon and three in thealternoon.atthe Court house At 1 ,.; couuty in which the property is situated. X'ltioe of these sales must he given in a public ga- (e .w 40 days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of personal property must he j ven in like manner 10 days previous to safe day. Notices to the debtors nud creditors of an estate mu-t also hepuui.-hed 40 days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary (or leave to sell Land, &.C., must be publish ed for two mouths. Citali ?a« forletters of Administration Guardianship, tc.,must be published 30 days—for dismission from Administration, monthly six months—for dismission from Guardianship, 40 nays. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be published n tn'Jily for four months—for establishing lost papers, for the full space of three months—for compelling titles f r ,„u Executors or administrators, where bond has L«- n given by tho deceased, the full space of three months. 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The Children's IPrriycrs. “OF seen IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.” Three white-clad forms beside the bed, With little hands upheld, Wb en all their toys are laid away, And the noise of day is quelled ; And mother hears them each repeat, « With voices earnest, low and sweet, The simple prayer Nile teaches there : "Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child.” Fond kisses and "good nights” from all, As rosy cheeks are laid On snowy pillows, then, calm sleep Till dreamy night shall fade, Good angels bend above each face 'I hat silent lies in smiling grace ! Though toil and care Our lives must share : “Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child.” O, loved and sinless little ones, When years have led you on, And she who lingers o’er you now To her reward has gone ; When the toys of life are laid away, And evening comes, still may you pray, With faithful hearts, As life departs : "Gentle Jesus, meek «n<] mild, Look upon a little child. ” George Cooper. NUMBER 26. In liie Eu«h wilti t!ie Ilnniln! t’otiro. The doctors told me I must die if I re mained in England, so I considered that sufficient reason for wishing to go abroad. A sea voyage, I was told, would be neces sary, so 1 fixed on Australia as a country I should take some time to reach by sea; so 1 went thither. Aftor a tedious voyage we reached Ade laide, and as I had a friend there I at once went to him. The voyage had almost en tirely restored my health; and as 1 did not wish to remain idle I determined to seek employment of some kind, I was re commended to try for a place in the moun ted police corps, as it was a capital tiling I tor excitement and adventure. 1 procu- j red the necessary references, and presen- j ted my6elf to the inspector of tlie coips. j Being of tho regulation bight, and having , undergone the necessary medical exami nation, I was admitted in due form o the corps of rangers or mounted police. But a difficulty arose; I was innocent , of the art of riding, an .art which in the! bush, is of chief importance; I don’t mean elegant riding, hut the art of sticking in j the saddle under any circumstances. So i I had to learn this accomplishment, and during my probation 1 -was put on duty at i Adelaide as a foot policeman. I, a gen- ■ tleman of liberal education, a “Peeler/”; That is nothing out of the way, though; timber which abounds in Australia makes travelling across the country no light work. YY e took two or three black servants with us to make us fires, etc. It was a splendid journey, as regards the scenery, but there are always plenty of drawbacks in the bush. 1 lie poisonous snakes, which are very numerous all over the country, are the great terror of all travellers, their bite is almost instantly fatal.—The natives with all their busberaft, know no cure; preven tion, therefore, is all the traveller can do. Leal her boots of the strongest description are worn, which reach up as far as the hips; no snake’s bite can penetrate these. The snakes, too, are far morn frightened of men than is generally imagined, ncr will they attack a man unless first provo ked. Camping out at night, then, saving the snakes, was glorious work. The sky of Australia is blue ali the. year round, and at night the sight of the wonderful expanse of blue studded witty stars, is one never to he forgotten. A fire is kept up all night long, to scare away animals; there are no animals of prey to he in fear of, however. On a winter’s night this camping in the bush is not so pleasant, the cold is so in tense. I he rangers usually prefer in tlie winter to push on to some sheep farmer’s, where there ii always a roaring fire, and genuine hospitality to greet them. "When the place is approached where the thief is supposed to he, the black detective is sent out to see if he is really there. The blacks live in small encampments, each family having a mud hut, so each hut has to be searched. When the thief is found, the detective whistles, and the hoopers rush into the encampment and seize him. This is no easy matter. A black is.as slippery as an eel; the only way to he sure of him is to take him by the h of the head; from any other grasp he will wiggle away like “greased lightning through a goosber- ry hush ” The punishment for thieves is usually flogging, performed by a stalwart ranger. It takes a great deal to hurt a black, he is so tough. I have seen a black knocked 1 down twelve times in succession and thor- ' ougblv kicked as well, without his scorn- : ingin the least degree disconcerted. The whites arc compelled to he very severe with the natives, for being surroun ded by immense numbers of them, if they were once t<> find font the white man was in the least afraid of them the result v> oulu he far from pleasant. Therefore iLe white on all occasions, maintains his supremacy. When the natives do rise against the whites the result is verv dreadful. Yv T lii!e COUNTING HOUSE CALENDAR, 1866. nearly all the members of the corps of I ^ was at Adelaide a ranger met bis death rangers are men of classical education and j ^ 1<5 Lands of a black, "he ranger had good birth, who can quote their Homer and been sent to arrest tho man, hut met with Virgil as well as they can shoot a kanga- i a different reception from * at w $ w '£ (T r- d- ~ 'a C- 2. rr ^ « ri; ® Jut. 1 2 3 4 5 fiJt'Lr. 7 8 <J 10 11 12 13 11 15 16 17 .31!* 20 21 22 2324 25,26 2,; 1^,29 30,311 J 2 J fl5 ’ T 4 6' 7 8 11 12 13 14 1“ 10 L I 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28; j i | . i 1 l I I 1 ; 2; 3; **»• 0 6 7 8 1110 Sept’r 'll 13 13 1 r 15 16 I* 1(8 192021 22,23 21 125 26 27,28 29,30j3l| Ami ] 2 3 4 5 6 7 0cto»’r 8 9 I01l'l2 13 14 j 15 |6 17 18 19:20.21 •22 23 2 1 25 26 27 28 •20 30 'll | | | 1 2j 3j 4, 5 ; c 7 8 “'10 11 12; Noth. 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UA., CONTAINS THE - d intelligence from all Quarters. f: »the effort of the publishers to make their i. urnal in all respects acceptable to the people ''T-or^Ia. with whose interests it is identified.— J: ‘pares no expense for news by telegraph, ex- " ‘sand mails, lrom its own reliable correspoud- - •■! its local aud general commercial nows is a »lty !:hms.—Per month, $1: 3 months, $2‘50: J-r year, §10. , . . Aovertisng.—Itsvalueas an advertising me- i im i 8 unexcelled. Advertisements inserted at •■ per square of ten lines of nonpariel lor hist in- ‘‘Rion, and SI for each subsequent one. A liu- ‘■‘I discount made for long advertisements on '•“ ■=<? inserted for a long time. Sov. 14, i860 15 4t ill ARLES L. COLBY & CO., CORNER RAY & ABERCORN STREET, SHIPPING, COMMISSION AND Forwarding Merchants, SAVANNAH, GA. I I HE HAL advances made on consignments J to our friends in New York, Boston and Liv- tr P'>ol. Our facilities for doing a forwarding bus- • :, "ts are superior, as we have a line of steamers i 1 * 1 tliH Savannah and one on the Altainaba We 'dl forward Produce to tho North or to Europe, tying charges, &c , letting same follow goods Agents for Life. Marine and Inland Insurance— “ iK kg taken at lowest rates. ^'ov. 4, 1865. roo, or kick a black. Therefore I fouad myself iu very good society. It tock three months before I was pronounced a good rider; the lessons were uo joke. To begin with—bush horses are not the most tractable animals, and my first lesson con sisted in trying to ride round the school at full pelt, without a saddle, a heavy cav alry sword in the right hand and the reins that which he had expected, for the black rushed at him with an axe, and clove his skull at oue blow. As a race, the blacks are fast dying: out; of several tribes, which so short a time ago | as ten years were well known, not a single | individual remains. As civilization in- j creases, aud cities spring up, the blacks ' are driven further up the country, where in the left, with a stalwart captain cursing 1 they have mote difficulty in obtaining suh- and swearing at my stupidity. j sistencc; they die if kept long in a city. The teachers are most severe and reck- | There is at Adelaide, at the present time, less: on one occasion two troops of horse- j a venerable black, who is about ninety men were to ride against each other, aud j years old, a great ago for one oi his race, turn suddenly; the teacher’s orders were and who is the last representative of his 14 3m VINEGAR! VINEGAR!! I I jWNE CIDER VINEGAR in Store, and Bile by „ , T- A. CARAKEF., Agt. Jan. 13th, 1SG6. 24 ^ for “ride, ride like devils, aud never mind a lew broken bones—the hospital is han dy !” The men rode at each other full tilt, and two unhappy wretches, not being quick enough, were thrown in the collision and trampled on, an arm of one, aud the leg of another being broken. However, 1 was lucky enough to escape any severe hint, and soon became an expert rider. The horses of the hush are a native breed, and have a curious vice which the troopers call “bucking.” The horse sud denly stops, and raises his back in the centre, invariably throwing the rider, however skillful. Horse fiesh is very cheap; a fine animal will not sell for more than thirty pounds, while young horses sell for one pound a leg. A trooper’s liorso is his best friend; for very frequently in camping out the horse will be the only companion of the man. It is astonishing how attached the bush horses grow to their masters, and how fond the latter are ot them. A trooper will of ten rise once or twice during the night to make sure that his horse has not got his legs twisted in the tether. The horses themselves are incredibly strong, but some times after a long journey they will sud denly drop down and die; this happened to my own horse. We had been on a ter rific journey, when on a sudden I was pitched off, and the animal sank down and died. I fell on my head, and my comrades thought I had been killed, for the shock seemed to have knocked all the breath out of my body. My bush-life soon commenced in earn est: A notorious sheep-stealer, a black, had been committing depredations again, and I with a comrade was dispatched to find him. Looking for a black in the bush is like looking for a needle in a bundle of. bay. Englishmen alone would never suc ceed in finding a runaway native; the ser vices of another black is pressed, and lie acts as pioneer to the police, who do the part of actually capturing the thief which the native alone would he unable to do. The services of one peculiar native are generally retained; he is part of the police, in fact. The natives well know that if he is on their track they have no hope ot escape. The natives always Know the foot-prints or tracks of each other; they know each other as well by the footmark as we do each other by the countenance, therefore it can be seen what an invalua ble aid this kind of black detect!'e is. Sheep-stealers always leave tracks, so they may always be found. On the occasion of my first camping ont we had several hundred miles of stiff coun try to traverse. The low brushwood of tribe. The natives r.jo not particularly prepossessing in appearance as a rule, but there are seme very good looking men amongst them; they ail, however, Lave remarkably good teeth. They aie. very gin6 to consider his duties a bore, and the blacks a set of priggish, lazy rascals. He is not so delighted with bnsh life as he was at first, for he had lost himself once or twice, and discovered that there are such things as snakes to disturb one’s peace of mind. At this stage he usually becomes disgusted with his monotonous life, and leaves the force to sheep-fanning. Now, tin's last employment is very profitable, while the highest wages of a trooper do not exceed ten pounds a month. The chief qualifications for a sheep-far- merseemsto bo that he can lie on his back and smoke a pipe, swear a little and drink a grent deal. TLe farmer or owner usually employs an overseer at a high salary, who entirely manages the stock aud secures the returns. On this man the whole business devolves, aud this is by no means light. Each season of the year has its separate duties; there is the lambing in the spring time, and it is no easy matter to attend to the wants of fifteen or twenty thousand slieup, which is about the usual number of stock. The shearing is also an important business, and takes a great many weeks of hard work. One efficient shearer will shear as many as one hundred and sixty sheep in twelve hours, 'i he shear ers are generally strong Irish or Welsh men. Nothing seems so profitable iu Australia as sheep farming; besides num bers of private individuals, there are now several companies. These sell shares in a sheep run at eC2,- 000 each, and the profits triple themselves in two years, so that any one with the ne cessary money may soon make a fortune; and the investment is perfectly safe, as the returns are independent ol all risks aud contingencies, by which the private farmer is often a loser. The fanners them selves are generally a lazy set of men, who prefer smoking a pipe an l reading uovels (which are sent out by the thous and) to tramping or riding a number of miles 011 a frosty morning to look after the stock. The Government sells land and sbcop together at a pound a sheep; therefore a .£15,000 run means a tract of country and fifteen thousand sheep. 1 often sta}*ed with many of these far mers, and very hospitable I always found them. \S ith one especially near ’my sta tion. I became very familiar, and used frequently to go out hunting with him. Kangaroos are the animals which are hunted (after the manner of foxes) in Aus tralia. \\Y had a kangaroo club at our station. The hunt is very exciting. The kangaroo clears an immense distance at one leap, so that the horses have bard work to keep up with it. On one occa sion my farmer friend and I were out bun ting wild cattle and a wild ox charged aud tossed my friend, who descended some few feet off'. I thought lie was killed, and find ing him motionless and white, I began to be alarmed. A doctor in Australia is a rare being; you may never expect to find one closer at hand than 300 or 400 miles Therefore, in time, the bushman becomes Lis own doctor, and gets a knowledge of hone set ting, etc. In the present case I had to carry the wounded man to a sheep-farmer, who had some reputation as a surgeon, and who soon set matters right. But the feel ing of being alone in the bush with a dead or wounded comrade is very strange. Dastardly Assault on a Distinguished Clergyman —Monday night last a gentle man passing the corner of West and Wal nut streets discovered a man lying in an insensible condition on the sidewalk.— Procuring the assistance of several per sons who were in the store of Air. May- field, near hy T , they brought the inanimate body in the building, when it was discov ered to be the Ilev. Thomas J. L islier. Mr. Fisher’s skull was fractured, aud bruises were discovered upon several por tions of his body. He had doubtless at that early hour— before nine o’clock—been made a victim of one of the many unprincipled high- Upon Air, Fisher’s person was found $41.20 in money, hut his gold watch was gone, so that the thief had evidently only partially robbed the gentlemen. Air. Fisher was conveyed to the resi dence of his sister, Airs. Bibb, on Grayson street, where he is receiving the medical attention of L>rs. Lewis, Rogers aud Polk. It is the opinion of these physi cians that Mr. F, will have to undergo process in order to save liis [ Proceedings of the Legislature. • SENATE. January 22d. The order of the day was for the read ing of bills the third time. Bill to authorize Silas Ralls, an infirm and disabled citizen of Emanuel, couuty, to podiile without a license. Lost. Bill to authorize the sale of all the lands of the State, whether surveyed or unsur veyed, lying in the Okefenokcc swamp.— Opposition being manifested, to the bill, on motion, it was. postponed for the pres ent. Bill to authorize any person maimed in the late war to peddle without liccuso.— Postponed. Bill to authorize H. L. W. Craig to practice medicine. Postponed. Bill to require certain prosecutions to be nolle j>rosstqni. Passed. Bill to repeal the acts amendatory to the charter of the Alacoa and Western Railroad. Passed. Bill to amend the charter of the Dalton and Jacksonville (Ala.) Railroad. P.- S3- ed; Bill to allow 10 percent, interest, to be collected if agreed npon. If more than 10 per cent, is contracted, only the princi pal may be collected. Where 110 rate is specified the rate of 7 per cent, is said to be understood. The bill was passed; years 2i>, nays 16. This bill was introdu ced by Air. Gresham. Bill to incorpoiafe the Goorgia Express Company. Passed. The next order was for the reading of hills the second lime, after tho completion ot which, a house resolution requesting the opening of mail routes in this Btate was passed. Air. Hughes, of Twiggs—A resolution in reference to tho Confederate Cotton Loan. Mr. Woods, of Floyd—A resolution in reference to contracts made during tha war, arid requesting the Judiciary Com mittee to bring in a hill to adjast all each contrabts. Mr. Shepherd—A bill to define and es tablish the sir names of freedmen and for other purposes. Bills 011 third reading were taken up and the following bills were passed : A hill to authorize the Inferior Court of Elbert county to levy a special tax for county purposes. A bill to incorporate the town of El- bertor., and to repeal certain acts relating thereto. A bill to repeal all laws against the dis tillation of grain into spirituous liquors. A bill granting certain privileges to per sons living along the line of the Western and Atlantic Railroad. Several bills, upon their third reading, were referred to appropriate committees. Senate bills, on first and second reading, were taken up and read. A resolution asking for the pardon of Jefferson Davis and all other prisoners of the late Confederacy, now confioed, was offered by AD. Ridley, of Troup, and referred to the Committtec on the state of the Republic. Tho Hall was tendered to J. A. Jack- son to deliver a lecture—subject; The Relief of the i’eople. HOUSE. January 22d. Air. Pottle—A hill to change the name of the Alilledgcvillo Railroad aud for other purposes. Also a bill to amend 4391st section of the new code of Ga. Also a bill to amend the 17?Cth section J teres of the code. A Iso a hill to alter and amend certain sections of the code of Georgia, relating: to the payment of claims against the es- of the assault. It is scarcely necessary for us to say that that the Rev. Mr. Fisher is one of cunning aud crafty, and will betray llieir dearest friends without any compuncliou. They have a great passion lhr intoxica ting drinks, though it is punishable by law to give them auy drink of a spirituous na ture. Polygamy is common with them. They seem to show very little signs of u>- tellect except in the way they hunt and procure their food. One of their methods is very ingenious. A small animal, \cvy _ common in Australians tho wallaby, a j way men who frequent our streets sort of cony. This creature is so acti%e, that to watch it would seem almost an im possibility. The natives tie some feath ers plucked from an eagle to the end of a long lithe picco of canc. They approach where the wallaby usually may he found, and wave the canc and leathers about in the air. The wallaby seeing tho shadow, and trembling for his lile, is so alarmed that the huntsmen easily spear him. Iu this way they will take nearly as many animals iu a day as we shoot pheasants iu a batteau. The black, like a dog, travels by scent, if he cannot see a track, and it must be very indistinct to baffle his perception. He will discover by scent whether a com rade has been in the same place before him. It is this quality which makes him kg valuable to the Ausli&linn police. I may safely say that without the aid of the black detective, very little would have ever been done in the way of detection. As a rule the black confines his misdoings to stealing, chiefly cattle; murder by him is rave; even among themselves the na tives do not often commit this crime. It used formerly to be the custom to hang the culprits tor every crime, hut that is now abolished. Alany years ago, men travelling up country used to provide themselves with what was a kind of “li cense to shoot Macks,” and “killing -was no murder.” The sport-loving traveller would frequently indulge in what wo should call a decidedly sensational pas time, which lie called “black bird shoot ing.” But this sort of tiling is all of the past now. The life of a trooper in this part cf Aus tralia is extremely dull and unvarying. After a few months he lias read ail-the books within a few hundred miles; found out that the tobacco is vile and the spirits very questionable; and that his comrades very good fellows in their way*—are very dull and uninteresting. He has ceased to be interested in the country, aud be- tates of deceased persons. Also a hill to repeal 742d section of code, Ga. Air. Stanford—A bill to extend the civil jurisdiction of Courts in various coun ties of this State. Also a bill to fix the fees of the Justices of the Peace in the several counties of the State. Air. Shaw—A bill to change the mode of expounding Jurors for trial of criminal cases. Air. AIcDowell—A bill for the relief of persons therein named, and to pay expen ses of sufferers of Small Pox in Pike county. Air. Frazer—A resolution requesting the Governor to communicate with the President, requesting the omission of a portion of oath to he taken by Postmas ters. Air. Hinton—A bill to amend section 1385 of the Code in reference to the sale of estray property. Mr. AIcDowell—A hill to authorize the Inferior Court to levy aud collect a tax to compensate P. G. Alorrow and others for expenses incurred in Small Pox cases in Heard county. Air. Brock—A bill to authorize Sher iffs and Constables to pursue iuto any county any person charged with criminal offenses without being signed by a Judi cial officer. Mr. Hill—A bill to amend section 4613 cf the Code. Also, a bill to incorporate the Atlanta Canal and Water-works. Air. Aladdox—A hill to incorporate the Atlanta Street R. R. Company, and for other purposes. Air. Morris—A bill to authorize all per sons who have been engaged iu the prac tice of Alcdiciue for five years previous to the first January, 1S66, be allowed to practice charge and collect for the same. Air. Stewart—A resolution that the messei ger of the House be instructed to procure a carpet of Gunny Bagging with which to cover the floor of this Hall, which was adopted. the trephining process in order to save his j _ Mr. Weaver—A bill to change tho life. Last evening he was still alive, but I time of holding the Court of Clay couuty, has been wholly insensible since the time in the Pataula Circuit. SENATE. January 23. Air. Owens moved to reconsider the ac tion of the Senate iu the passage of a bill to establish a conventional rate of interest not to exceed 10 per cent. Mr. Owens on making tho motion ad dressed the Senate in favor of abolishing all rates of iutc-rest and of allowing such interest to be collected as might have been agreed upon by the parties. lie was replied to by t\lr. O. L. Smith. The motion to reconsider was lost. Air. Kenan asked and obtained leave to change his vote of yesterday upon the In hill. Hi6 \ote now stands in favor of the hill. His cbj ' ion was that 10 per cent was too low a rate. Mr. Bedford introduced a hill to provide for the stay of executions. Also, a bill in relation to the collection of executions in certain cases. Mr. Wilkinson—A bill for the relief of the most eminent pulpit orators of the j administrators, executors, guardians and State—well known and universally popu- trustees, and for other purposes lar in the Baptist Church of the South, and a gentleman of the kindest humors nud most enlarged principles. [Louisville Courier 10th. Gen. Forrest's Black Brigade.—It will, doubtless, somewhat astonish those in the North who have been led to believe that the freedmen here are “agan” Forrest to the death, to learn that on yesterday he left for his Mississippi plantation, por stea mer Bart Able, with two hundred and twenty-four male laborers together with their children. With them he has made satisfactory contracts, and designs render ing a good account in the way of tho sta ple next fall.—Memphis Appeal. Destructive Storm at Nashville. —The Nashville papers make mention of a heavy and very destructive hurricane which passed over that city and vicinity last Alonday. Among other damage done, Air. Harrison—A bill to incorporate the town of Vetnonburg. Also a bill to incorporate the Hydraulic Compressing Cotton Press Company of Savannah. Afr. Hodges—A bill to authorize the Inferior Court to pay over the State taxes of 1S66, one half for the use of widows and orphans, aud the other half to he ap propriated to build a Court House and Jail in Butts couuty. Air. J. J. Jones—A hill to amend the 1670 section of the Code of Georgia. Also a bill to compel railroads, steam boats and Express companies to give re ceipts for property which is offered for transportation. • Mr. Sharp—A hill to authorize the coun ty of Cherokee and other counties similar ly situated, to appropriate the State tax for 1866, for the erection of Court Houses and Jails. Mr. Williams—A bill to fix the fees other ( __ was the blowing down of about fifty feet j 0 f coroners j n t h e ee veral connties in the of the walls enclosing the State Peuiten- gt ate tiaiy. It is thought that rice will never again he produced in auy quantity in the South. The whites cannot, and the negroes will not cultivate it. Mr. Redwine—A bill to add an addi tional section to the charter of the town of Fayetteville. Air. Aloses a bill to amend the 2462 sec tion of the Code. Mr. Crawford, a bill to amend the char ter of the Town of Athens. Air. Daley, a hill to amend the 24C6th paragraph, part 2d, title Gth, chapter 3d of the Code. This bill provides that when all the parties in interest reside in th* county whero intestate dies, or when ap plication is made for Letters of Adminis tration, or Letters Testamentary, to allow I Citation to be perfected by giving written j notice of said application by posting no- j ticc at the Court House door and at two I other public places in the county. | Air. Gholstou. a bill for the relief of maimed soldiers. It provides that the State shall furnish artificial limbs to snch soldiers. Air. J. A. W. Johnson, a bill to incor porate the Atlanta Street Railroad Com pany. Capital $150,000. Air. AIcDaniel, a bill to compensate Ordinaries for administering the Amnesty oath. Air. Owens, a hill to repeal Section 3778 of the Code. It allows parties at suit to be witnesses—the fact of their being in terested to be considered in giving credit to their testimony. Also, a bill to incorporate the Savannah Steamboat company with Insurance pow ers. Air. C. II. Smith, a bill to incorporate the Atlanta Loan Association. Air. Butler, a bill to incorporate the Savings’ Bank of Augusta. The Homestead bill, which was the spe cial order, was taken up and after some discussion was • referred to the Judiciary Committee. Air. Redding introduced a bill to make valid private contracts made daring the war. HOUSE. January 23. Leavo of absence was granted to Messrs Vason and Winningham, to attend to im portant business. ’The resolutions of Air. Frazer, relating to the modifications of the Test Oath in reference to the Postmasters, were refer red to the Committee on State of the Re public. A resolution to bring on the election of U. S. Senators was offered, but was lost for want of three fourths vote. An effort was made to take up the Sen ate resolution bringing on the election of Supremo Judges to-day, but was unsuc cessful. ' Bills on second reading being order of day, quite a number of hills were read and referred to appropriate Committees. Tho resolution was passed in reference to claims upon the State Road for services rendered under the contract of J. W. Glenn. The resolution authorizes claim ants to make out their claims and present them at ouce. Tho Judges of the Supreme Conrt wore in consultation on the I5th on the constitutionality of the test oath, on which there is a difference of opinion. General Grant, under orders from the President, is withdrawing all troops from the Southern States except the garrison* of United States forts at important point*. Gen. Jim Lane spoke at Topeka on Thursday night, ou reconstruction. He supports the President’s message and re construction policy in the strongest posi- siole terms. Ohio Senator.~~On the 18th inst. the Ohio Legislature re-elected Mon. John Sherman, United States Senator, over his Republican opponent, Scbenck, by 53 majority.