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, aJJ k j n( j ? , executed with neatness and
dispatch. Our material is all new anti
we have competent workmen capable of
doing work as well as any one, either
North or South. Our prices are such as
render it unnecessary to semi your orders
Vorth. We are determined to regain our
1,1 custom and do work well ami at a
HMALh PROFIT. Bend us your orders
gnd we insure satisfaction in work ami
prices.
KOBE & BURR.
Daily Journal Mehsf.no kr, will be
furnished members, and others tlesiring
Hat Miledgeville during thesession forsls<l
We have one of the most able reporters
correspondents in the BtHteaml can prom
ise full and reliable rejKirts of all proceed
ings of both Houses. Itev. F. L. Brautly
in Milledgervllle, is mir authorized agent
lo receive subscription money, or money
remitted by express will be at our expense
and risk. ROBE A BURR.
A Four Handed Game Just for
Amusement.—(Job I). 8. Brin tup, Dr.
James M. Calhouu, Col. Frank H. Little
and Dr. J. I*. Hambleton, are running for
Congress in the 7th District of Georgia to
nee which is the strongest. The election
takes place on the 2Hih.
Veto of tho Mississippi Relief Law.
Governor Humphreys has vetoed the
bill entitled “'an act to regulate final pro
cess on judgment and decrees in certain
cases.” Like all other stay laws of re
trospective operation, it violates the con
stitution by impairing the obligation of
contracts.
Better Time. —The Augusta Presssays
that passengers taking the 5,50 train from
Augusta now reach New York in forty
eight hours.
The Ran Jacinto, arrived in Savan
nah last Tuesday—her first trip since she
was partially burned in New York. She
ban been very substantially and elegantly
refitted, and brought out seventy-live
cabin passengers and a large freight
“lmpahtial Suffrage.”—Ex. P. M
General John H. Reagan, lias addressed a
lung letter to Gov. Throckmorton, of Tex
as, advocating “Impartial” suffrage, or
suffrage without distinction of color, based
on the ability to read intelligently the En
glish language. Mr. Reagan thus reasons
as affording the last, and only chance
which now remaius to the South of recov
ering ii<*i-former position in the Govern
ment. The late action of the Texas Log
wlature, rejecting the radical amendment
with great unanimity, shows that Air.
Reagan carries no great amount of popu
lar support with him.
A heavy tide of immigration is
pouring into and through South-west Mis
souri. Our streets are thronged every
day with wagons. A large number of dis
franchised rebels, from Central and North
ern Missouri, are on their way to Texas.-
The State can well afford to exchange
them for loyal men from the North.
Springfield Patriot.
fcSt The gale of Tuesday was severely
felt along the entire coast of New Eng
land. At Providence and Newport consid
erable damage was done by the unusually
high tide, and several buildings were un
roofed. In Portland, newly built walls in
the burnt district were thrown down, and
* number of steamers were detained in
port and others compelled to put hark by
the severity of the gale. East of Portland
the telegraph wires were thrown down.
A Picture.— The St. Joseph (Mo.)
Herald furnishes this emigration picture :
1 esterday morning a party of emigrants
part'd through this city eu route to Knn
sa Sand creaetd some excitement owing
to the very model conveyance made use
°f- In a “dog cart" leisurely reclining
upon a mattress, wore an old woman and
J'oang girl, both enjoying the luxury of a
pipe ; U»e old man and his youthful son
hsiug hard at work giving the necessary
locomotion to the vehicle.
ThePokk-P ai'kini> Season. — The New
Albany {lad) Ledger of Tuesday says ot
the condition and prospects of the coning
hog-slaugbteriug reason around the falls
of the Ohio, that “not a single contract
lias been made either in New Albany.
Louisville, or Jeffersonville, There will
he a large ling crop the present season.
There is att abundance of the best corn to
feed them on, and for this reason, feeders
are not likely to crowd the market until
their supply of corn is pretty well exhaust
e 'b It is believed that nearly four hun
dred thousand hogs will he slaughtered in
the cities around the falls during the pack
tog season of 180(5—67. There are no prices
wtablished, the views of packers being
widely different as to what should or will
‘'theopening rates. The priceitisbe
“'ed, however, will between six aud a
;' s and seven and a-lialf cents. These
"Ves are, however, the mere guesses of
"'ters. The probabilities are that the
* u togprice will be the sameasatCin
t from Cordova, Mexico, extols
“ 1 Portion of the country as follows :
, Ir hni and climate cannot be beaten,
""Waled, by any portion of the world,
all that is needed is security to make
■'the garden spot of the earth. We can
il?e easily tbreecropsof corn inthetwelve
m °nths; plant sugar cane only once in
1 lor seven years : coffee once in twenty
■'“ ara ; cotton once in seven years ; tobacco
ace 'D three years ; vegetables mature at
au y time, and all give a large yield aud
We ll, and find a ready market at our
’° r - This is a better farmiog than stock
Quutry, and beats the world for fruits.
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The Brunswick Railroad
Is making an application to the Legis
-1 dure tor the endorsement of certain
Bonds to be use i in tlic purchase of iron
for the extensio o t their track, and they
propose to secure the State against any
possibility of loss from such endorsement
by mortgaging the completed and unin
cumbered line of road to the State for
about one-half its value.
The proposition involves neither ex
pense nor the danger of loss to the State,
and we hope it will meet with the most
favorable considertffion. Something is
due that wide section of Georgia which,
without this road, must forever remain
isolated and undeveloped, and with it,
will soon teem with life and energy—ex
porting large quantities of lumber and na
val stores, and yearly enlarging the
amount of its agricultural products. We
do not question that, with a carefully
guarded loan of its credit for this purpose,
the Stale will largely increase her own
revenues without incurring risk or ex
pense. ,
A glance at the Treasury reports will
show legislators how little this undevel
oped section upon the line of the Bruns
wick Railroad is able to contribute to the
public revenue, and at what dispropor
tionate cost the administration of justice
is maintained in them. They constitute
the only remaining considerable section
of the State, absolutely inaccessible, ex
cept at a cost of lime, money and labor
which outweighs all inducements to col
onization, and never will be reached by
the band of improvement and progress
until this road is built. There is not a
public reason which weighed in favor of
the Western and Atlantic and Atlantic A
Gulf Roads, which does not plead trum
pet-tongued in advocacy of the very mod
erate request of this company.
We bold, moreover, that the completion
of this road is essential to the protection
of the interests of a large portion of Mid
dle and Southwestern Georgia. All are
interested in the reduction of freights
which cannot be effected without compet
ing outlets to the sea. Augusta, with
three outlets to the seaboard, receives and
forwards her freights at about one-third
the cost of Macon, as we are informed and
believe; and the excess of cost over the
ratio of distance is a burdensome tax on
the great mass of people living in Middle
and Southwestern Georgia. With com
peting outlets prices would soon settle
down on an equitable basis.
We ask our legislators to look at all the
facts—to read carefully the able communi
cation in another column, atul 'then, if
they find they can push on the Macon
and Brunswick Railroad without expense
to the State, by the endorsement of these
bonds, they will pursue a liberal policy in
this matter.
“The Other Bide oi the Aadersonville
Question.”
New York, Oct. 4,1864.
Robert Ould, Richmond, Va :
My Dear Sir: In my recently publish
ed history of the war, entitled “The Lost
Cause," I have devoted an entire chapter
to the exchange of prisoners and their
treatment in the prisons of each belliger
ent. I have on these subjects stated and
developed certain facts which I believe
were not entirely known even to the peo
ple of the South, and which appear to
have startled the Northern public, and to
have shaken the judgment formed at the
I rial of Wins. The New York Times says
these statements might deserve attention,
if the author gave his authority for them."
Now, sir, will you do me the favor to
examine the chapter of “The Lost Cause’
referred to, and say how far its statements
are sustained by your correspondence and
personal recollections in your office ol
Confederate commissioner for the ex
change of prisoners. I refer especially to
those statements which contain the new
version of Andersonville, aud the extra
ordinary circumstance that, in 18<>4, the
Confederate authorities offered to return
the sick and wounded Federal prisoners
without equivalents! Excuse my trouh
lingyou with the inquiry, lint the ques
lion is of gtcat. importance; it is a vital
point in the historical reputation of the
South ; aud l am not disposed to pass by a
challenge so distinct and pointed as that
of the Times. Very truly and respectful
ly, yours, Edward A. Poulard.
Richmond, Oct. 6,1806.
E. A. Pollard, />y.:
MyDkarSik: Your note of the lilt
iust. has been received. 1 have read your
chapter thirty-eight of “The Lost Cause’
very carefully twice. There is notone sin
gle "statement therein contained, relating
to matters of exchange or to transactions
in which I was concerned, that is not
strictly and accurately true. 1 do not
think the gentlemen who had charge
of the subject of exchange of prisoners ou
the part of the United Slates Government
will controvert any material statemeutyou
have made relating to that subject. lam
quite confident that my offer in August,
1861, to deliver the Federal sick atul wound
ed, without requiring the delivery of Con
federate equivalents, will not be denied.—
The fact that the United Slatesauthorities
| acted upon the offer, and at a lato
dispatched steamers to the mouth of the
Savannah river to receive the men, ought
to be sufficient prool, if any denial is
made. Yours, truly,
Ro. Ould.
The Stewart Donation. —It is stated
that Mr. A. T. Stewart has declined to ac
cept land or any assistance whatever in
carrying out his project of building siuab
tenements for the working classes, but will
himself hear the whole expense, which is
estimated at five million dollars. It is fui
ther stated that Mr. Stewart has consulted
an arehietect as to the erection of the
houses, and that the work will be proceed
ed with as soon as possible.
Thecod-fishery is good in the North Pacif
ic. Three vessels at Ban Francisco, last
week, landed 127,000 fish.
Dr. Pusey is about to follow up bis cele
brated Eirenicon by another volume,
which will shortly appear, entitled“ Ca
nnot Rome Give Authoritative Explana
tions which the English Church Can Ac
cept?”
[communicated.]
The Macon and Brunswick Railroad.
1 he State of Georgia, by the industry
and enterprise of her people, and more
particularly by the foresight and liberality
of her Legislature in establishing and for
warding her admirable, though yet incom
plete, system of railroads, has so developed
her internal resources, that not only has
her wealth multiplied, but she has earned
the well deserved title of the Empire State
of the South.
The line of policy that she has so loug
followed in fostering and aiding internal
improvements, which has so greatly en
hanced her prosperity and the comfort and
well-being of her people, she is now urged
to abandon.
Some few demand this change from nar
row-minded prejudice. Others, having in
terests in works already completed, are
either short-sighted or selfish enough to
oppose on that account new works of pub
lic and general benefit. But there is a far
greater number who, at this time, honest
ly and in good faith, oppose all schemes
looking to the State for support, on ac
count of the impoverished condition of the
people. They would gladly see enterprises
of public utility carried through. Nay,
say they, we would wish the State to con
tinue to extend her helping baud, as she
has done in the past, to many public works
now finished, were it not that we require
all the money in the Treasury for the sup
port of the poor, the education of orphans,
and the necessary expenses of State oov
erument—objects of pressing and para
mount importance. This objection springs
from just and honorable feelings—worthy
motives which command respect and care
ful attention.
In a time like the present, when the peo
ple and the State are alike embarrassed, it
is a sufficient answer to ninety-nine in a
hundred of the applications for legislative
aid. It is an answer which evinces the
prudence, watchfulness and justness of
those, who in single good faith, advance it
—so long as the revenues of the State re
main in their present low condition.
But if these objections are eminently
suitable and proper to an outlay of public
monies, they, by no means apply to in
stances where not a dollar of expenditure
is jequired, or even asked for. They “fire
not solid or even pertinent as arguments
against our hitherto wise and prudent poli
cy—a policy which has placed the State of
Georgia foremost among her Southern sis
ters, as a similar one has done with New
York at the North, making her au Empire
by herself in wealth and population.
These arguments all start with the admis
sion that the State ought to lend her aid
and to encourage when necessary, great
enterprises of general and public benefit.
This obligation is far stronger at present
thau at any other period, for it is now not
only politic but it is our interest and duty
—we are impelled by stern necessity to
make the most of what is left to us ; by ev
ery effort hi develop our hidden wealth,
and to bring under cultivation the now
unemployed and unavailable lands in our
State, if we ever hope to attain ease and
comfort, or to regain our former prosper
ity.
A stranger looking at a railroad map of
Georgia would note with surprise the fact
that while most of the State was intersect
ed with railroads, those great and vital ar
teries of commerce, there was still a large
section wholly destitute of railway facili- |
ties except along its borders. This section !
embracing that large expanse of territory j
lying between the cities of Macon and Ba- '
vuuuuh on tlie North and Albany and
Waynesville on the Bouth, comprises an
area of from 150 to 200 miles in length and i
over 100 miles in -breadth. It contains |
within its limits 30 counties, in whole or j
in part, forming nearly a quarter of the i
whole area of the State. Hundreds of
thousands of acres of valuable laud lie
uncultivated for lack of easy transporta
tion to market, and vast tracts rich in pine
'timber and naval stores are unavailable,
because inaccessible.
The whole produce of Northern, Middle
and South-west Gergia, now finds its way
to market along a single circuitous chan
nel to one seaport. No comjietition, no
rivalry, no efforts to attractor retain busi
ness by increased accommodation, or re
duction in charges and freight. Merchants
in the busy season often suffer from delay
in forwarding goods; and when they final
ly arrive, are forced to charge apparently
extravagant prices to reimburse them
selves for the heavy outlay for freight
and the delay. Planters and farmers are
thus forced not only to purchase their
goods and supplies at unreasonably high
rates, but at the same time they fail to re
alize the full value of their cotton aud pro
duce on account of the heavy freights to
New York. Thus, while at first, it would
seem to be chiefly advantageous to com
mercial men to have another outlet to the
ocean, to the great producing classes the
benefits would be more decided and two
fold.
The Macon and Brunswick Bailroad Cos.
applies to the Legislature this session for
Btale enc c.iragement to assist them in
completing their road through that large
; section now wholly destitute of railway
! facilities, and at the same time in opening
anew avenue for trade and travel —one
i not only leading to the finest harbor on
the Southern coast, but also offering a
’competing line to Savannah. This appli
cation is not made for a draft upon the
State Treasury—it does not call forone dol
lar of the public funds, it does not ask
that any tax be imposed upon the people.
The request is simply that the State will
give its sanction and encouragement to a
work of undeniably great public utility,
by endorsing the Company’s Bonds to half
the value of the amount of property to be
mortgaged therefor.
The road is now finished ard running
for 50 miles, well equipped aud in good
order. The Company have most of the
balance of the road graded and ready for
the iron. They find it difficult with the
present scarcity of money and poverty of
1 the country to obtain this iron, and they
ask the State, not to subscribe for stock, or
to advance one dollar, but simply to en
dorse the Company’s Bonds to the amount
of SIO,OOO per mile for that portion of the
t road already built and in running order,
MaCon , Georgia, WftWyduj .Morning. Norember 14, 1866.
and in like manner for other portions, on
ly after they are finished and in operation.
The security is good; it is ample for any
contingency; for it is unencumbered, and
its value is double the amount of the
Bonds the Company can issue. The rights
of the State as endorser are most favora
bly provided for, and are guarded by the
bill iu the strictest manner. The State
simply loans her name, reoeiviug therefor
twice the amount of property as security.
When one reflects that the State can
thus, without embarrassing her people by
taxation or withdrawing any monev from
her Treasury, open that extensive and now
unprofitable portion of her territory, in
the'same manner as by the State Road she
opened the Cherokee country, and at the
same time can give to the whole interior a
new chaunel for trade and travel at re
duced rates, they can readily appreciate
the moderartion and justice of this appeal
to the Legislature, and the many impor
tant results to be expected from its suc
cess.
The writer has but little doubt that if
the members at Milledgeville would care
fully investigate this question, they would
not fail to give the bill now before them, a
cordial support. Let not the Empire State
depart from acourseof policy under which
she has reaped so great wealth and pros
perity, when an application is made, not
as has been the custom »or money, but for
her favor and encouragement—the mere
loan of her name on safe security.
D.
Violating Oatlm.
During the past few years the attention
of the people has been frequently called
to the solemnity of oatns of allegiance.
We will not pause to discuss bow much
harm has been done by the administer
ing of this oath iu thousands of cases
where its high character has been debased.
To the present purpose it is enough that
the supporters of the majority in Congress
have been especially distinguished for
their denunciation of those who have vio
lated the oath to support the Constitution.
The deliberate violation of that oath is a
grave offence—a high crime. There may
be circumstances under which one who
has taken an oath of allegiance is absolved
from the obligation. The naturalized
American citizen is no longer bound by
the oaths of allegiance he may have taken
in Europe. There is always understood
in taken such an oath, the possible excep
tions which may occur. Rut no one can
doubt that any Southern man who took
the oath to support the Constitution, with
deliberate intent to violate the oath, was
guilty of a great crime. Nor is it at pres
ent necessary to discuss how far . ny man
has sinned who violated that oath on the
plea that he was absolved ;»y the secession
ordinance of bis State. If the rebellion
bad been successful, it would have been
held a good excuse, and history would
have given the successful establishment of
anew government as the justification of
disloyalty to the old. touch is always the
verdict of history where revolt is success
ful and becomes triumphant revolution.
But the rebellion proved a failure, and
there is no such aid in discussing the mor
al wrong done by those who violated their
oath.
This, however, is plain: whatever of
fence they committed, the same offence is
justly chargeable on some of the members
of the radical party. This parallel is very
close.
The majority of (he members of Con
gress who, in their official capacity, have
refused to admit States in the Union, to
be represented in Congress—viewing their
conduct iu the most favorable light, by
supposing that they believed they had a
constitutional right to reject the represen
tation of ten States—stand upon precisely
the same ground, and are equally deserv
ing of censure with those rebels against
■ the government who believed in the right
■of secession. The one believed in a right
;in the States which they did not possess.
Nothing can be more plain than that the
persons comprising this majority have \ i
'olated their oaths. Charity forbids that
: we should say they have done so-with de
liberate inteut: but the fact is easily de
| monstrated beyond the power of contra
diction.
The oath that every one of these mem-
I bers has taken is “to support the Constitu
tion.” Article 6, Sec. 3. The Constitu
tion says (Art. 1, Sec. 2), “The House of
Representatives shall be composed of
members chosen every second year by the
people of the several States which may be
included within this Union, according to
their respective numbers." In both these
clauses the word shall is employed, mak
ing the duty imperative. Yet the persons
composing the majority in Congress say
that ten States shall not he represented.
The Constitution says (Art. 5), “No State,
without its consent, shall be deprived of
its equal suffrage in the Senate." Yet
the majority iu Congress say that ten
States shall be deprived of their suffrage
in the Senate. Can auything he more
plain than that both these exclusions are
in violation of the explicit requirements
of the Constitution which every member
of Congress is sworn to support?
The President is also sworn, “according
to the best of his ability to preserve, pro
tect, and defend the Constitution," He
behoves that the requirements of the Con
stitution above quoted are imperative up
on him to do what he can to admit the
representatives of these ten States, being
all in the Union. Why should lie be not
only censured, but denounced, for keeping
his oath? Let us have respect for the
oath on all sides. There lias been too
much of the notion that this oath was a
mere military measure, binding ou rebels,
but not obligatory ou radical politicians.—
Journal of Commerce.
A young lady traveling from Louis
ville to Nashville a few day ago was ob
served to have a peice of court plaster on
her lip. When the ears emerged from a
tunnel the court plaster was on the lip of
a young man. Neither knew how came
it there.
A Richmond paper says Dutch Gap is
now m uch navigated by sail vessels
and steam tugs.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE
reported rem tiie journal and messenger.
Milledgeville, Nov. 9, '6U.
SENATE.
The Senate met at 10 o’clock A. M.
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Yarborough.
Mr. Ezzard moved to reconsider the ac
tion of the Senate yesterday on the bill
(lost) to reduce the pay of members and
officers of the General Assembly. Lost.
Mr. Bar wick introduced a bill to amend
the Act for the relief of Administrators,
Guardians and Executors.
Air. Carter, A bill for the pardon of F. B.
Wise of Butts county, in the Penitentiary
for the crime of murder.
Air. Freeman, A bill to extend State aid
to the Air Line Railroad.
Mr. Gresham, A bill to relinquish by the
State its contingent interest in the land
known as the “Macon Reserve,” to the
City Qpuncil of Maoon upon the payment
of SIO,OOO to the Orphan’s Home.
Mr. McDaniel, A bill to extend the aid
of (he State to the Savannah, Griffin and
North Alabama Railroad.
Air. Paris, A bill to allow tho redemption
of real estate sold under execution, within
a specified time.
The Joint Committee on the Constitu
tional amendment submitted their report,
which was read. The report closed with
a resolution that the Senate decline to rati
fy the amendment.
On motion of Air. Moore, the resolution
was agreed to, yeas 36, nays 0.
The bill to incorporate the Lumpkin
Porcelain Alanufacturiug Company was
passed.
Bill to amend the charter and change the
name of the Central Railroad and Canal
Cos. Passed.
The House bill to incorporate the Cowe
ta Falls Manufacturing Cos. of Columbus,
Ga., was passed.
Adjourned.
HOUSE.
November 9, 1566.
House met.
Prayer by Chaplain.
RECONSIDERATIONS.
Air. Brock, of Harralson, moved to re
consider bill lost yesterday, To rej>eal all
laws creating lines on personal property,
which lias passed into the hands of third
parties. Motion lost.
Air. Bulloch, of Talbot, moved to recon
sider a bill rejected yesterday iu relation
to estrays. carried.
Air, Byington, of Clayton, moved to re
consider bill, (lost yesterday) To author
ize redemption or change bills issued by
W. &A. R. It. Atotion lost.
Senate amendments to bills of the'louse
relative to locating county site ir Bartow,
county were concurred in.
Judge Warren, was invited a seat iu the
House.
NEW MATTER.
Mr. Hand, of Baker, To provide for let
ting out the Public Printer hereafter.
Mr. Hardeman, of Bibb, To incorporate
the “Ocuiuigee Building and Loan Asso
ciation.”
Mr. J. B. Jones, of Burke, moved to
have 500 copies of Mr. Schailer’s essay on
tile Labor System of the South printed.
Agreed to.
Mr. Sharp, of Cherokee, Resolution
asking Congress to repeal tax on tobacco.
Mr. Green, of Cobb, A. communication
looking to and recommending appoint
ment of a commissioner of Emigration.
Mr. Stallings, of Coweta, To give en
dorsement of the State on the bonds of the
Savannah, Griffin and Nortfr Alabama
Railroad.
Mr. Tench, of Coweta, To alter and
amend the Penal Code of Georgia.
Mr. Rogers, of Dade, To compel persons
to pay tax on land in the county where the
land lies.
Mr. Hockcnhull, of Dawson, To allow
persons owning Mills, Mines, &c\, to draw
waters over intervening lands.
House took up resolution of the Senate,
relative to adopting the Constitutional
Amendment. The House concurred with
but two dissenting voices, Messrs. Elling
ton of Gilmer, and Humphrey of Fannin.
So botli Houses refuse to “add a Four
teenth Section" to the Constitution of the
U. S.
Senate resolution asking certain infor
mation of the Governor as to the Peniten
tiary was concurred in.
NEW' MATTER CONTINUED.
Mr. Swearingen, of Decatur, To author
ize payment of Superintendents, Clerks,
&c., of elections in Decatur county.
Mr. MeWliorten, of Green, For the pro
tection of Factors and Commission Mer
chants, who furnish supplies to planters
and farmers.
Mr. Humphreys, of Lincoln, To repeal
part of Section 636 of the code.
Also, To amend section 4,632 of the code.
Mr. Howard, of Lumpkin, To extend
State aid to the “Air Line Railroad.
Mr. Moses, of Muscogee, To allow
Pierce Lewis, a minor, to settle with his
guardiau.
Also to regulate sessions of Supreme
Court irnust meet Ist Monday in May and
November, and continue in session till all
the business is finished.)
Mr. Barnes, of Richmond, To authorize
certain advances to officers and members
of Gen. Assembly.
Mr. Siewart, To amend 1,53f!d section of
the code.
Mr. Spear, of Sumpter, To locate the
Acade my for the deaf and dumb iu Macon
Mr. H ughes, of Twiggs, To prevent
sale of articles of agriculture by employees
without a written pet mit of the employer.
Mr. Robson, of Washington, To amend
charter of Mt. Vernon Academy.
Also,- To amend sec. 3,555 of the code.
Mr. Glenn, of Whitfield, For the relief
of J. T. Bridges, and J. Samson.
Also, a resolution authorizing support of
\y. <fc A R R to take up change bills issued
. by W & A R R.
Mr. Ford, of Worth, To change line be
tween Dourghty aud Worth.
Also, To relieve purchasers of slaves
from payment for the atirne.
Adjourned.
Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee are
troubled with the hog cholera.
The Beauty of Old Age.
I often think each tottering form
That limps along in life’s decline
Once bore a heart as young, as warm,
As full of idle faults as mine!
And each has its dream of joy,
Its own unequalled, pure romance;
Commencing when the blushing boy
First thrilled at lovely woman’s glance.
And each could tell his tale of youth,
Would think its scenes of love evince
More passion more unearthly truth
Than any tale before or since.
Yes ! the could tell of tender lays,
At midnight penned in classic shades,
Os days more bright than modern days—
And maids more fair than modern
maids.
Os whispers in a willing ear;
Os kisses on a blushing cheek,
Each kiss, each whisper far too dear
Our modern lips to give or speak.
Os passions too untimely crossed—
Os passions sllghtedor betrayed—
Os kiudred spirits early lost,
Ami buds that blossomed but to fade.
Os beaming eyes and tresses gay,
Elastic form and noble brow.
And forms that have all passed away,
Ami left them what we see them now.
And is it thus —is human love
So very light and frali a thing?
And must youth’s brightest vision move
Forever on time’* restless wing?
Alustall the eyes that still are bright,
And all the lips that talk of bliss,
Ami all the forms so fair to sight,
Hereafter only come to this?
Then what areal 1 eart h’s treasures worth,
If we at length must lose them thus
If all we value most on earth
Ere long must fade away from us?
A Man with a largo Family.
The Old Woman who lived in a shoe is
the traditional representative of the pa
rent afflicted with a large family. The
Old Woman might have had seventy
childien; perhaps she had more; certain
ly “she had so many she didn’t no what
to do.” There is a man in Bristol, how
ever, wfflo beats the Old Woman out of
sight in respect to the number of his fam
ily. ‘‘How many has he then ?” the read
er wili ask. Well, to reply with the same
precision of language as was used by the
member of Parliament, who, not being fa
miliar with the priciples of Euclid, once
described a rent in a ship’s side as “about
as long as a bit of Btiing,’, it may be said
that George Muller of Bristol has more
than a mile of children. Place them in a
line, with a couple of yards between them
and then count up what will be covered
by one thousand one hundred and fifty
children, —that being the number for
which George Muller lias to provide daily.
It is considered a large family when fif
teen sit down to the table, —but eleven hun
dred and fifty ! That is something like a
family. Wliat a fortune the man must
iiave to fill so many mouths. It is a re
spectable colony that lias to be dealt with !
Eleven hundred and fifty dinners for three
hundred and sixty-live days a year; ditto
break fasts and teas ; eleven hundred and
fifty children to clothe and educate! Then
they live in houses which are more like
castles than ordinary dwellings. Beds for
eleven hundred and fifty ; schoolrooms for
ulevua hundred and .fifty ; play-rooms for
eleven hundred and fifty ; play-ground - for
those who are old enough to dance on the
spring-board or swing on the round-about
and toys for the little ones. And then
there is an army of nurses, and teachers,
and servants. Again the reader will say,
“What a fortune the man must have!”
The surmise is entirely eroneous. Grorge
Muller is a poor man. He has nothing
but what people choose to give him, and
the rule of his life is never to ask anybody
for anything, and never to publish the
name of anybody who gives him any
thing. What! A poor man keep eleven
hundred and fifty children in these hand
some dwellings, feed them, clothe them,
and educate them? Preposterous? Ho it
would appear; and yet it is not preposter
ous, when the matter is explained, al
though it may have something of the won
derful, and even of the miraculous in
it
George Muller, whose name will proba
bly hereafter be identified with orphan
ages, as the name of Robert Raikes is
identified with Hunday schools, is a Prus
sian by birth, having been born at Krop
penstaedt, near Halberstadt, in 1805. His
father was a collector of excise for the
Prussian Government. In 1820, Mr Mul
ler came to England, with the intention
of becoming a missionary in connection
with the London Society for Promoting
Christianity among the Jews. This con
nection, however, never was formed, and
he became the minister of a small congre
gation of “Brethren” at Teighmouth. 1 u
1832, he went to Bristol, and with Henry
Craik, the eminent Hebrew scholar, be
came a minister among the Brethren there.
These co-workers stipulated that they
should have no fixed salary,—a practice
which Mr. Muller adopted at Teighmouth;
and from that day to this Mr. Muller has
never had any salary, although he has |
preached regularly in Bristol for over for
ty-four years. A man who has no means ;
who declines to accept a salary, and who |
also makes it a fixed rule of live never to
ask any body for anything, is in rather a j
puculiar position.
Mr. Muller having adopted this course, J
had nothing to depend upon but what peo
ple who knew his habits chose to give
him. One person would send him a pre
sent of a hat, another would send him a
suit of clothes, and it happened at times |
that these precarious gifts did not always
come exactly when they were wanted, 1
and Mr. Muller occasionally was dressed iu
the reverse of what is called “the ex
i treme of fashion.” Btill he preached,
I cheerfully ; and shortly before 1836, not
withstanding the fact that many a time
i be had not sixpenoe iu the world, be con
| ceived the idea that it was his duty to do
| something in the way of providing for
; poor orphans who had lost both father and
I mother by death. Accordingly, on the
11th of April, 1836, he fitted up the house
he was then living in at No. 6 Wilson
Street, Bristol, for thirty orphans, who
were to be supported in exactly the same
way as himself, —that is, by the bounty of
donors, who, under no circumstances,
were asked for anything, and whose names,
whether they gave much or little, were
never published. Viewed as au ordinary
attempt to provide for orphans, thin was
au extraordinary experiment.
What followed is a perfect romance of
faith and benevolence. Often after Mr.
Muller had filled his house with orphans,
he was reduced to the last extremity to
provide for them. Sometimes he had to
sell furniture to supply them with food. He
made it a rule never to go into debt, and
to pay for everything as it was bought ;
and many a time at the close of the day he
had no money for next day’s supplies.
Still the orphans never went without
ample clothing. The struggles were ex
traordinary ; and the maimer in which
the extreme necessities of the hour were
frequently met is one of the most singular
stories that ever was written. Mr. Mul-
ler was an enthusiast in the work he h id
undertaken ; and believing that all need'
were supplied m answer to pr ver, ii
went oti increasing his accoinuiu ia ion
for orphans. According to ali ordiumy
calculations, he had gone too far \vkli im
practical philanthropy ; but as there w. iv
still more and more orphans brought t<>
him, he took them in, ami then his home
got too small to hold them. lie was al
most over-whelme<l with pecuniary difli
culties, hut inste-i 1 of being dismayed he
took another house. The two houses be
came too small for his ever-increasing
family, and he took a third house, and
than a fourth. Into these four hou < - his
family of orphans increased to one hun
dred and eighteen; and as the number
continued to increase. Mr. Muller decided
to build a I urge bouse, in which tie could
place all the orphans together. Ib' select
ed a site at Ashley Down, about two miles
from Bristol, and the building cost over
fifteen thousand pounds, Still he never
asked for any money. People began to
see the work he was engaged in, for they
could see the orphans and the magnifi
cent house which li id been buiit tor them.
The New Orphan House at Ashley
Down was intended for 1 1 tree hum.-v'.!
and thirty orphans, l.ike the four rented
houses in Wilson Street, however, th
vast establishment soon liecomc to small.
Then Mr. Muller built a second house for
four hundred more orphans; but afU r both
houses were full, orphans were still brought
from all parts of the country to Mr. Mul
ler’s doors ; and seeing that Ids accommo
dation was still too small, be erected a
third house, to hold lour hundred and lli ' y
more orphans. Those three houses arc
now full. The expenses in connection
with them last year—independent of tin
cost of building and furnishing -wa • ovc
twelve thousand pounds, this being t li.-
current annual expense. Mr. Muller ad
heres to his old plan ; nobody is asked for
any help, and all this money comes up
annually. There is no regular list of con
tributors, as in connection with other in
stitutions. Since Mr. Muller commenced
the oaphanage work, he lias received for
the orphans the extraordinary sum of
£233,48u 11s. 1 jd. He publishes strictly
kept accounts: but whether a donor givt.-
a penny or a thousand pounds, no name is
given. It is no uncommon tiling to see in
these reports gifts of £I,OOO, £2,000, £.{,0011,
and upwards, and the only indications ot
the personality of the donors are a couple
of initial letters.
In the reception of the orphans there is
no sectarian distinction whatever; and,
without favor or partiality, the orphans
are received in the order in which appli
cation ns made for them. No intin-t i
required to get a child admitted; the only
limit is the accommodation. Home time
ago, Mr. Muller found that his three large
houses, built for eleven hundred and titty
orphans, were full, and he has l ommeiiw i
the erection of a fourth, which is to he fol
lowed by a fifth. When these new hou- -
are completed, there will be accommoda
tion for two thousand orphane.
The institution lias already become
more than national. It is known in all
parts of the world, as we may see by tin
list of contributions received during the
last year. The contributions include do
nations from all parts of England, S< el
land and Ireland, from tin I . i
from Australia, from Natal, from IVmara
ra, from NeW Zealand, the United Mates
Gibraltar, the (Jape of Good Hope, and
many other places. The donations vary
from a few coppers saved by an errand
boy to a thousand pounds. Home iie-iple
send jewelry to be sold lor the benefit ot
the orphans, others send various articles ol'
clothing, and others send money. Thou
sands upon thousands of pounds in e.ish
anil notes have been dropped anonymous
ly into Mr. Muller’s letter box. The do
nors who reside in Bristol have before
them the great work; and the New Or
phan Houses being open to the public on
certain days in the week, they me visited
by persons from all parts of the country
Tlie three houses now in operation con
tain, as already staled, eleven hundred
and fifty orphans. Each of the lions.-, am
built on the the very best principles to in
sure the health of the inmates. The vari
ous rooms are heated by steam, and tin
ventilation being excellent, the rate oi
mortality among the children is very low .
The girls are trained for servants, and re
main in the institution till they are eigh
teen or nineteen years of age ; the boys re
main till they are fourteen, when they are
sent out as apprentices to such trades as
they may select. It is an interesting sight
to see so many orphans well cared for; but
when it is known how they are provided
for—nobody ever being solicited by the
founder of the institution to give anything
—Mr. Muller and his family give a
complete answer to the cynics who as
sume that ostentation is, in some way or
another, mixed up with the world’s chari
ty.
Hymen Storms Tin: Mir.i.s House.—
Yesterday our friend Purcell was taken by
surprise, and his fortress was in the pos
session of the attacking party before he
was aware of their presence. Under the
circumstances he was glad to compromise
matters by ceding his first floor, and pav
ing the tribute of a magnificent supper.
The enemy were Georgians, from An u -
ta, some thirty or forty in number, male
and female, forming a dashing and enthu
siastic company. The leader.' of the par
ty, a young gentleman and lady, had un
der their particular charge the torch of
Hymen, which had recently been lighted i
in Augusta, and they had sworn never to
I allow it to expire. The company will re
! main in Charleston for two or three days
| for the purpose of enjoying themselvc
! generally; and to judge by the quarters
which they at present occupy, they will
| succeed beyond their highest expectation.
They have two magnificently furnished
! public drawing rooms, and a sumptuous
private parlor for the bride and groom;
| a bridal chamber, the fitting up of which
we leave to the reader’s imagiuati >i, and
i any number of other sleeping apartments
| for the rent of the crowd. Last, but not
least -they have the use of ti, Indie's or
dinary as their dining room. Had they
gone to New York, they might, by spend
ling ten times as much money, have se
cured equal accommodations ; but cer
tainly would not have b.en able to meet
with the same attention as they will ; l
| tiie Mills House.
The bride and groom have our good
I wishes for their future welfare, and w>
hope that their recollections of Charleston
may always he pleasant on ••>.- Chari- Jon
Neu-g.
Mk. Peabody’s Wealth.- Mr. Pea
body’s fortune is variously estimated, and
I conjecture is busy trying to discover wliat
!be is worth. In 1815 he was numbered
'among the millionaires of London, and
1 during the following ten year-- his busine»-
! great ly increased. In iB6O lie was said to
I he worth $15,000,000 in gold, and he h. s
endowed various charatie.s in the princeiv
sum of $5,000,000. Mr. Peabody i- now
probably worth $10,000,000 or 815,0h0,0
for the increase of his property during tin
past six years has been considerable, for
tune has not smiled on him in vain, for
seldom has so bountiful a giver Been num
bered among men.
V<>!. IVIII. "Vo. 54
Tuo Couuiy Court.
| i t'roui the Curuaicle.]
In our issue of the dist ult., we gave
, suiuc of the reasons which led us to the
c inclusion, that the abolishment of the
County (Mart would be a serious pecuni
ary injury to tire people of the State. We
, propose now to otter n few suggestions up
ton its importance, in its relations to our
politico-military situation. It is not nec
'-ary that we should remind our readers
that the civil p nvorof every branch of our
State Government arc even now exercised,
in whole or in part, by permission of the
military power of the United States. Tiie
Operations of the l-Teedmen’s Bureau,
with its almost unlimited power over the
civil laws, are still in existence through
out, the length and breadth of the State.
I'ho officers of this huge und tyrannical
machine, claim the power under the law
of Congress, organizing the Bureau toliear
I and determine all cases of dispute or dis
agreement arising bet ween the lreednien
and the w hUe people of the State, and ail
| cases of criminal violations of the law com
! milled hy the freed people. The. military
>■ mimaoder of the DiSfTlotof Georgia, who
j is also chief of the Freedman’s Bureau for
I the State, has, since the organization of
t he county < 'ourt turned over to that tribu
nal the right to try nil cases growing out
the difficulties between tin* white people
and the negroes, and also, lias yielded to
it the power to arrange and try Ibe freed
men for violations of the criminal laws of
the State, If the County Court. iB abolish
ed, and the power to hear and determine
all cases which arc now cognizable by that
court is transferred to the Jnsticoa of the
Fence in the different militia districts,
there are great reaeons to fear that the
military power will again intervene, and
assume for it elf, the rightthrough numer
ous officials, to try all those cases, Iwitli on
t be civil and criminal side of the Court, in
which the freed men are parties in interest.
It h is been difficult, in many localities In
the State, to procure even for the County
Court, jurisdiction in these cases. In
every instance in which that court has
!*";n permith-d to exercise jurisdiction
over the persons and property of the freed
men, it lias been through the consent of
the chief of the Freed men’s Bureau. The
rh/ht of tin- Slate through its duly organ
ized judiciary, to try all persons within
lie: limits who are charged with the com
mission of crimes or the violation of her
civil laws, ha - not been recognized. Wo
are not in a condition to enforce such re
oguition. We exist as a State, merely by
tiie will of the military.
In our efforts to relieve ourselves from
the burdens imposed by the enforcement
ot the County Court system, we should
take care that we do not entail upon the
people of the State a more grevious sys
tem. If we have to choose between the
two evils let us take the lesser. The ques
ti.Tn in our judgment is narrowed down to
a choice between the County Court and a
t'reehmeii’s Bureau Court. Between a
Court organized under the laws of tbo
State—presided over by our best citizens,
and governed by known rules of law and
evidence, and a Court in which the sword
of the conqueror presides, whose judg
ments are founded upon no system of laws,
where process is enforced by the point of
the bayonet.
We would therefore respectfully but
iii inly urge the present Legislature to al
ter and amend the law organizing the
Court, so as to relieve it from the evils and
inconveniences, whi*h the experience of
tiie last few months has developed, but by
all means to retain the leading features of
the present law. The question as to the
Irequeiiey of tlie*terms of the Court—the
amount and character of the jury duty to
be performed at each term, and the extent
of its civil jurisdictions are all matters
which need some alterations and changes.
W e believe that these can be made so as
to satisfy and quite the clamor that is now
j raised against its coutinuace.
We trust that members of the Legisla
ture will calmly survey the whole situa
tion, an<l that their action will he such as
to promote the good order, peace and safe
ty’ of the people of Hie State.
Texas vs. Ohio. -We may he thought
premature in predicting that at no far dis
tant day beef packing in Texas will rival
the Western States. The fact has been
fully demonstrated by Messrs. Hughes &,
.Swartz, of our city, that beef can be suc
cessfully packed. The above parties have
been furnishing beef to vessels in our port,
packed throughout (lie summer mouths,
('apt. Lillie is now setting up his machine
ry for putting up beef in bermatically
sealed cans ol fifty pounds in each can.
W e predict for < apt. L* success in his new
enterprise. Where fine oysters can be
supplied at twenty cents per hundred,
green turtle, weigning four hundred
pounds, at sl, and beef cattle, weighing
seven hundoed pounds, at S2O per head,
we can see no good reason why the road to
fortune is not open to men of capital and
enterprise.
In no State of the Union can he found
such pasturage as in Texas, and her al
inost limitless prairies can hardely he ex
hausted for generations to come; conse
quently the facilities for stock raising are
i greater here than almost any other section
|of the American continent. The wealth
| of Western Texas consists mainly in stock
cattle, horses, and sheep. The expense of
.bipinent to a profitable market is, how
i ever, a large item on the debit side, and is
also attended with a good deal of trouble.
; By the process of slaughtering and pack
! ing here, if successfully performed, a far
| le>s expense will be incurred than by ship
i ping on foot. —lndianoUx Time*.
The New Musket for the French
ARMy. —It is announced that the new
musket vv Inch was repeatedly tried at the
: camp of (.'batons is definitively adopted
by the War Department. It is somewhat
shorter than the weapon now in use in the
French army. It weighs only 16 pounds
Id ounces, carries a satire bayonet larger
than the old one and the bariel is rifled.
It can be fired, it i» said, fifty times in
tour minutes; iu the ranks,on an average,
ten a minute ; and the soldiers- fire with
case seven or eight shots a minute.
Ibe Albany day boats ou the Hudson
have withdrawn for the season.