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tOVB IS ÜBSIV
Huso le the rosy islands of the AV< t
Tit"*', -a . ds a t*l,'!i kj aU tee c.i ::u. ntJRi h.ir.
\i«'A re, day iirtd l.gfH, lire north stud is a treat,
For Love lives there.
Thence wandering in (lie noontide of my life,
A goddess slept troth out the shadowy green,
With pensive eyes, and lips by love’s s'.rct ■ strife
Oj eutxl between.
A I through the dewy coolness of tl.e l<av> s
Kolfocd a vole'! which tauglit us 1a,,,* to woo—
Thu voice of love in visionary eyes—
•‘Cuckoo! CueKno!”
And, cheek to cheek, we lay among the ben;,
And thtough the room we wandered hand in
hold.
And alt the goodness of the Lord wo spent
l pun that sntumor land.
Thou, stooping down, she Whispered in my car—
" t’hcrc is a itutrvclous tocutaln in tire woo-J,
And, til-inning there, whoever coiuctii itero,
Bliall Hnil it good.
“cor, diluting there,- his name shall grow a
U.llllO
lvnown unto men through ait the fir abodes,
Ami, mounting up as incense smoke, his fa-.se
(Shall reach lh-< efods.”
The , Itirni ug quick, I touched her ou the month,
an t said, “0! sweetest, ret this mat for- be;
1 ask uot. a ,y tiling of North orHonl.lt,
Hut love from thee!
“I never mom will lay iny lance in rest,
Nor in the sio- mos bnilie shall my or. and
F. ret; It, likelbe foam,against I tie fix man's hrekSt..
For love is best.
‘ And !- n nvM.ary t.l itll the world,
\ad roaniin ,' o'er Hie aas witli liringry heart;
In tins deep I sty my tattered sails are luried—
-1 will not pari
“From tbeeand trom tire tresses of tliy hair,
Tangling my sense,and troni ttiy perfect, a roast,
And troni the sweetest lifts Love any where
If is ever kissed.
■'Trample upon me with thy dainty feet.
Upon thy slave, who breaks his captive bow ;
Hut front thy led. which trample on me, sweet.,
1 will uot go.”
From Putnam for March,
IVby Women UimH get Husbands.
“ No, not if I know myself,”unit] a (inc
loolring young follow to another line-look
ing young fellow at Dclnionico’n one even
ing- ' p ' p’'
“No; ami why not?” was liis answer.
“ You have been very sweet on Miss Julia,
and it was generally understood that you
meant something. Why not?”
“ Is it generally understood that I, Jo
seph Howland, bachelor and bank clerk,
am a fool ?”
“Not exactly that,” his friend said,
laughingly. “But why not? Come!”
“ [listen to me, Peter, I, Joseph How
land, bachelor and bank clerk; am in re
ceipt of two thousand dollars per year. I
have tastes, F have wants, I have indul
gences, and have a mother who is poor.
As thecas'- stands, I get ou with till this
very well. Where should I he if F mar
ried Miss Julia, or any other girl that 1
know ?”
“ Why—lml old Pickles is rich.”
“ May lie-so; hut his money is his own,
and he means too keep i(. i do not hear
that his daughter has a penny.”
“ Yes, hut lie would give his daughter
something."
“ Perhaps—a good wardrobe, a few tea
spoons, -i pair of ear-rings -and then! -
Why, Peter, my ample income would not
pay for Miss Julia’s clothes. Her father
does not propose to endow Ills children
until bodies; and when he dies may not
he worth one penny. Is that pleasant to
look at?”
“ Not exactly; but you take rather a
practical view of matrimony.”
“Yes, fdo; and [ promise to take it be
fore, rather than after. Before, it stands:
two thousand dollars, and all Hills paid ;’
after, it would stand thus :
itoupe rent -rf.atxi
Heim cxpuiit - - 5,000
l'lbtHe% eU 1,500
Theatres, eiitmlics mid other nceesr-itie*. ~. .1,000
Where, then, should I he?”
“Oh ! hut old Pickles would do some
thing. And, besides, you put the figures
too high.”
“ How do I know that the father would
<io anything? He lias never endowed ids.
daughter. lie has brought her up to live
at the rate of twelve or fifteen thousand
dollars u-year ; but he has never (settled a
penny upon her. Do I propose to put my
self before him as a beggar? Not if 1
know myself! Have I put the Figures too
high ? Then halve them, ami where
should Ibo?”
“ Well, it may be all so ; but people do
get married, somehow—women <laj some
thing themselves, 1 guiss, eh ?”
“Not a thing—not a thing. No lady
expects or intends to do anything but
spend money. Now, Peter, put that in
your pipe and smoke it; and do it before
you go any further with Miss Foster. No,
Peter; women, now, are uot worth a
tinker’s mill dam—that’s what t think.”,
Such was, in brief, the conversation that
l happened to hear one evening at Del
monico’s. The last invidious remark was
certainly rough, if not profane; but it
served to express a condition of mind, ora
state of facts, which caused me to relied,
.lust what a “ tinker’s dam ” is, l have no
means of knowing ; but J believe it to be
something very worth less indeed,
I reileded with myself—for i had no
body to talk to —that marriage was becom
ing more and more rare ; that i ! was, in
deed, more and more undesirable; that
moic and more meu, and women too, were
indulging in illicit connections; that mar
riage, when it did take place, svas becom
ing more and more mercenary; and that
divorce was getting to be more frequent.
1 remembered some ugly figures and facts
how the streets of iionuoii swarm and
reek with wretched women; who have
neither home, husband, child, nor friend ,
how in the city of Paris, are sofne seventy
five thousand known unfortusuites, mal
h'-urcttxm, known to the jHdiix; how, be
side these, was a vast, vast crowd of de
cent women, not abandoned, whose love
ami virtue arc simply commodities which
they sell, whereby they live I knew,
too, that these women arc almost none of
them sinners, willingly; but that they
sell themselves for money, because they
fiml it dillicult or impossible to live in any
other deceut way. It i-s well known that,
while the appetites of men a e gross, those
of women uic delicate—rarely gross. It is
well known that, while many men are
hunting and watchful for prey, a woman
with such a nature is most rare. Believ
ing, then, as 1 did and do, UiaS women do
not willingly live bad lives; that they do,
from their very nature, desire love and
marriage; that Clod intended H for them,
and for them, and for all oC us —I was
forced to ask : “What does it; all mean ?
Whence—why—what?” I was perplexed
—knew not w hat to ask.
It is quite certain that these crowds of
pretty creatures, who swarm our streets,
who display their charms so charmingly,
do not intend to bepiuisanees to their hus
bands when they get them ; do not delibe
rately say to themselves: “I must be a
lady, and must spend five or ten thousand
dollars a year in doing it; and my hus
band must get it for me, for I cannot earn
one cent myself.” They do not say this,
and do not intend to be a load too heavy
to bear, and yet- !
I.ct mo illustrate. It lias been my mis
fortune to hear such tilings as this for tlie
last forty years : “Oh, tiiesc dreadful ser
vants! What can we do? They do not
know how to do a thing; they must be
seen to night and day; not a cook that
understands her business,” &c., &e, Good
manners forbade me to say, what perhaps
I may be pardoned for saying here: “La
ities, do you know that every man has to
see to his business, day and night ; lias to
watch over his clerks ; has to give direc
tions here and there again and again ; has
toßpein! his lime with his men in the field,
in the workshop, on the ship's deck ; lias
to work and watch and worry, in order to
have his business done properly and
promptly ?” I might have asked, though
I never did: “Ladies do you know how
to do any tiling? Canyon make bread?
Can you* cook a piece of beet? Can you
cut and make your child’s clothes? JJo
you know whether j>otatoes should lie
boiled two hours, or twenty minutes ? Do
you know what your meat bills are jier
month ? Do you know how much is eaten
and how much is wasted, in your Imuse?
In line, doyou understaiidyourbusineas?”
1 have never asked such foolish questions,
and am sure that I should have been told,
if I had, “that cooking was not their busi
ness.” If I had been ill-natured—as lam
By J. W. Burke Ac Cos.
not—l might have said: “Ladies, what is
your business?”
i iMoot men prefer to look forward, i can
not my.self see. very far into the future,blit a
good way into the past. Iu that past, I
see that tiie patriarch Abraham killed the
meat, and Small his wife cooked it; that
she made c kes, and baked them herself
for the angelic visitors; and site was not
the less a princess for having done it. Are
tvi- doing any better stow ? If the man
finds the meat, might t ol the \* < bmhn cook
it! Ur, if “society” iu so changed that she
eanuot, might site not Fie an amiable and
contented wife-accepting what she gets
with gratitude and a smiling face? Jam
t«»ld by a carping bachelor, that, as a rule
women are pleasanter and livelier with
anybody than their husbands. I no long
er wonder that matrimony is becoming
difficult, and may become impossible.
Now, if matrimony is to become more
and more dillicult, who will stiller most
by such a state of things? It must bo
woman. For, try to make her intoarnan,
a-, souse may, it is impossible; she is his
equal, but she is not a man. The grape
vine and oak ate equal, but not the same.
Whoever builds bis ship with the grape
vine will come to grief; whoever jnakes
wine with the acorn will have a bitter
month. Woman needs the strength and
courage of man, and lie needs her cheer
fulness, hdr sympathy, her consolation,
if man does not marry her, lie will use
her and trample upon her, he does it now
in Paris, and in Loudon, and in New
York. Kite will be liis mistress, if she is
not his wife. And then, when she is sick,
or ill tempered or stupid, lie will throw
her away. If she is his wife, the mother
of his children, the partner of bis succes
and the consoler oi liis Failures, then,
and only as such, will be cherish, defend
and sustain her. Time was when woman
was described as the help-meet- of man.
Was it only a phrase, and meaningless?
Possibly; hut then, words iu the Jiible
mostly did mean something. The time,
too, was, and yetis in some quarters of the
world, when a v.onian was a help-meet,
and accepted and worked up to her posi
tion as such. She did not demand every
thing, and do nothing.
Why is marriage easy and universal in
such a country as Japan? Life, there, is
simple; two or three small rooms, a lew
dishes, a mat upon which to sleep, one
dress, a til tie rice, and some fruit—these i
suffice lor all, rieii and poor alike, iu a !
great city like Yeddo, which husacivili- j
nation as perfect and as old as ours. And j
it is uot a life of stupidity or barbarism; i
all can read and write; manners are good;
books and pictures are plenty; theaters
abound ; processions an I festival days en
liven life. Jt is easy to see therefore, why
marriage is not a fearful tiling iu that far
off hum ; and by contrast, it is easy to un
derstand why fesv liave the courage to
dare it here.
It is quite certain—and eveyr honest
woman will agree with me—that the
spending of money does not insure hap
piness. it is quite certain that the superb
wardrobe iliat I have heretofore set down,
does notin any perceptible degree insure
a blissful marriage ; that wealth even does
not insure it iu any known degree; and
3'et these influences are poisoning society,
and driving people into strange courses;
one of which leads to vice, another to
eelilikcy, and all to selfishness aud ruin.
It is not neetssary, I believe, to assert
that iam the friend of woman. It is Fre
es me J am so deeply and devotedly her
champion and admirer, that I write this
sermon. And as I am writing it, let me
say that, while Mias Busan Anthony and
Mrs. George Train tire clamming for wo
man to vote, and to work, aud to sing
bass if they wish, we are clamoring for her
right to be a wife aud a mother ; which
the tendencies of the times threatened to
rob her of. We ask lier to stand for that
—to insist upon that forever. Weallinu,
and challenge the world in its defence,
that woman is the equal of a man hut nut
t/n, mine— by no manner of means; quite,
quite other than man ; not intended by
the Creator to be the same, or to act in
the same sphere, or to do Lite same
work Our mannish women and woman
ish men have got in to a sad confusion of
ideas in their eliorts at a sensation, which
seems iike to he a failure. Clear up that
confusion. Woman and man are equal
but not the same; eacii completes the
other. There is no perfect man, and no
pel fu M Yi unaMt witliout miurferv ami
children. Fault completes ami perfects the
other, or would do so were marriage what
it was intended to be. One step further:
man can do liis work best, and woman
can do Lei work best, but tire question is,
and a vital one too, what is his work
aud wiint is her work ?
Miss Anthony and Mrs. Train, if I un
derstand them, claim that woman can do
jusl what man does, and lias a right to do
it, and cun do it as well. Now I claim and
assert that man cannot do what a woman
can do, nor do it as well; and a part of it
he cannot do at all. I claim that the great
function of woman is to be a loyal wife
and a loving mother; and I defy the
world that a man can do that at all. I as
sert that ;licre is no work in this world
equal or comparable to the production of
a race of royal men and women ; and that
1 alii mi to be the greatest, vitalest, noblest
work a woman can do. I aflirm that no
woman, lie she doctor, artist, writer, law
maker or soldier, can do anything com
parable to that. I aflirm that, tiro very
moment site abandons lier great work,and
attempts to do the work of man, she is
likely to fail ; and if she proposes to sub
vert the laws of her being, which are the
laws of her Creator, she will go to the
wall.
In the great business of the world, wo
man cannot compete with uia i, because
she cannot do them as well. She isa per
petual invalid, as all know, aud cannot be
relied upm to do man’s work year in and
year out; this is one great fact of lier ex
istence which cannot be ignored, and it
settles tlio question, if nothing else did it,
of her ability to compete with man. There
is no world’s work in which she is equal to
man ; not even in some directions where
men fancy she is supreme. Man invents
and works out even the fashion plates
which show woman how she is to dress
herself; and even in making and cutting
In r own dresses, mail is her superior.—
One small fact will explain this curious
inability to do business; for several thous
ands of years, women lias insisted on but
toning her own clothes,and lier children’s
i lollies In hind; so that by no possibility
can they dress themselves without help.
It is most curious and significant.
From the Sunday Republican.
K»r!y Life of H. I*. I.cl’onnor.
IJY lIIS UNCLE.
Nuubin Ridge, Ky„ Jan. 1868.
In wiiting the early life of my nephew,
l labor under great itilliculty in committ
ing my thoughts to paper. When very
young, I acquired some facility in the use
of the pen. For many years 1 was made
secretary of every corn shucking that 1
attended, and ttiis, witii the experience I
had in killing hogs, made the pen my fa
vorite instrument. Os late I iiave prac
tice) very little, and am not very ready at
writing. As my subject was brought up
by me, wh.tevcrl write of him maybe
relied upon.
i voted for Gen. Jackson three times —
three times at each election in which he
was a candidate. I also frequently vote
for him now. At one of the elections I
put in three votes for his opponent.
In reply to your request for my photo
graph, I adopt a response which I recently
made to a similar application from a com
mittee of old women in Cheyenne, who
asked for my own and Hans l’atrick’s:
Ladies, my kind and gentle friends,
As you request, your servant sends
A salt-«mt-t>epper photograph
(H ti. l\ L. c. to make you laugh,
i he picture's good, the subject, true.
Which (please stud price by return mail) I
give to yon;
1 also send you some of mine.
Not quite correct, but genuine;
Tills was taken forty years ago,
lb-lore my head got bald you know.
And now to you ma v look quite queer,
Put right to ihose who love their beer;
M,y besl respects i herewith send,
(Provided you’ve a stamp to lend);
Ar.d say to hoth.tf any yon want.
That eggs is eggs, but two from too you can't.
The measureof this poetry is little outof
joint, but fully equal, in every particular, I
think to that of the father of the great
Ulysses.
I never had much money in my life,
and still have. For this reason I have
given the bulk of my fortune to my two
sons, thereby rendering them paupers.
My nephew declined to accept anything,
saying lie thought lie could get a situation
on a street car, at a dollar and a half a day,
which would place him beyond immediate
want.
Hans Patrick Le Connor was born long
ago In'tween p- »n. iu the evening and a.
m. in tiie morning, anti at the same hour
every succeeding day for a week. The
house iu which ho was horn is still stand
ing, butt he ground upon which it was
built has teen removed. It is popularly
believed to have been carried off pots, by
a smallb and of Feuians, to fill up the
Dutcli Gap.
The In fan. Hans Patrick received his
mainmariai balm in the usual way, aud
not through the instrumentality of a
patent bottle. One ol his caprices, when
yet a child was to scream with all the force
of bis little lungs when, lie was severely
chastised by liis parents. This singular
iiabit was but a foreshadowing of that ge
nius which lias rendered him so eminent
a his maturity.
The early training of Hans Patrick was
unexceptionably moral. 1 remember, on
one occasion, be was desired by a party of
rude companions to go into a field and
steal a watermelon. He refused, aud said
he bad been tauglit that it wgfSj*;rong to
take other people’s melons. * The boys
first coaxed and then threatened him, but
he held out stoutly to the end. i have
heard it intimated that lie knew there
was a man concealed. -jn the field with a
double barreled shot gun and a bull dog.
Hence his melancholy objection to enter
ing. This statement mayor may uot be
true, or both. I cannot say.
Almost as soon its he cotud go alone, the
subject of my sketeli manifested the
strongest kind of friendship for mules.—
The first time he ever rode a mule by him
self, he was about six years old. I had
left ho i e to be gone all day, when ho sad
dle ! the critter «ud rods, #.oib teen miles to
a camp-meeting and back again. He was
so small he had to stand on liis head to
put liis feet in the stirrups. Then he would
turn a half hand-spring and mount. He
used to break all the mules iu the country,
and sometimes broke their necks. 1 have
known him to harness u mule colt when
tie had to climb a ladder to put tiie bridle
on. He hadn’t much taste for horses;
they were too tall for him. Occasionally
he would ride one. His method of sad
dling and mounting the animal displayed
a wonderful ingenuity for one so young.
He would select a horse from the pasture,
drive him under the shed, climb on top,
with a saddle and bridle on Ills arm, and
then drop down on the horse’s back w ith
tlte saddle under him. He would then
crawl out on the horse’s neck and put on
the bridle. He would often get upon
horses in this way wbeu he was preparing
to break them.
If ever a circus came to town with a
pair of comic mules to amuse the public,
Hails Patrick was the first boy in the whole
community to rip a hole iu the canvass
and slide in. This was dqubiy gratifying
to him, as it enabled him to see the mules
and appeased his appetite for ripping up
canvas. If there was an elephant along
he would get ten cents from home to buy
apples for him. Usually, however, he
would eat the apples himself,and persuade
other boys 100 feed the elephant. This fact
gave rise to a remarkable saying, which is
now very generally quoted, to-wit: “Char
ity begins at a circus.”
1 must not overlook one other event iu
the history of our young hero, which I re
gard as having cx -ieised an important
influence ou his whole life. 1 was build
ing a log house iu Green county. The
logs were to be hewn a foot square and fif
teen feet long. These had to be hauled
al*out two miles to the place where the '
house was being erected. I generally
worked a very huge pair of mules, and \
Hans Patrick told me one day, if I would
buy Him anew knife (of about the suita- j
blc size for ripping open circus tents), he •
would haul logs one day by himself and j
save the expense of a lured band. He was !
then about twelve years of age, and small
of his size. I told him it was impossible .
for him to load the logs by himself, but he i
insisted he could do it with perfect ease,
and I told him he might make the trial. I
then seut the hired man secretly to watch
him to see that no accident should happen.
Inaljouttwo hours the wagon appeared
bringing a huge load of logs, “How iu
the world did you manage to load?” I in
quired, fori considered it utterly impossi
ble for him to have accomplished tiie feat
alone.
"O,” said.he, " the mules and 1 loaded.”
“The mules and you! what do you
mean r '
He then explained how he had man
aged. liy hitching tiie mules to lite side
of the wagon, he had contrived to u|*set it
over a pile Os logs. By means of a long
chain they were (irmly fastened,the mules
rehitched and the wagon pulled right side
up again, when, of course, it was loaded.
Toe remainder of my logs were hauled in
this manner. I bought three new knives
the next day, and the next circus that
came that way went out of town with a
mammoth rent in the canvas.
v\ bile living with me, Hans Patrick
used to take my stock to water, ft was
no uncommon thing for him to stand upon
a bare-backed mule, three feet high, and
ride a mile at a time, without falling oil'.
He began to practice this sort of equestri
anism by standing upon the back of an
ox, that furnished a broader and safer
foundation than the mule’s. Once he was
accompanied by a companion, who'•at
tempted to staiiu upon another ox. The
attempt was too much for him. He slip
ped up and fell off, slid down a hiliseveial
hundred feet into a barrel of ice water,and
was drowned.
My hero was very fond of planting
small grain. Formally years he was in
the habit ofsowiugall my oats. He would
stay in the Held atul toil all day, and if at
night he had any oats left he would go
aud sow them in the wood.-. These
ho facetiously termed “ wild oats.” He
acquired such a passion for this kind of
sport that lie sometimes practices it even
now, merely to remind him of It is boy
hood, I suppose.
Yours, &c.,
TJje billowing beautiful and touching poem
written by Or. F. O. Ticbnor n ol Columbus, tin.
is taken Horn that excellent periodical, “TJi<
I soul X!H Love
Tlie writer hopes that the following lines maj
embody ns milch poetry as truth, for they are, lit
fen is, the sole monument to
LITTLE filFlEff.
Outof the local and foremost tire—
Out of the hospital walls, as dire;
Smitten of grape-shift and gangrene,
(Eighteenth halite, ami Ac sixteen;)
Spec ire, such as yon seldom sea—
Little Gillen ot Tennessee!
"Take htni?—and welcome!" rhe surgeon said
“Much your Poctor can help the dead !”
Aud so we look him. and brought him where
'J he balm was sweet on the summer air-
And we laid him down on a wholesome bed.
Utter Lazarus, heel to head! •
Weary war wI In (hr bated breath,
Skeleton boy against skeleton Death;
Months of totiure, how many such !
Weary weeks of the stick aud crutch!
Still a glint in the steel-blue eye
Spoke of a spirit that woulrln’l die!
And didn’t ! nay, more! iu dentil’s despite
The crippled skeleton lenrnrd to writ"
■‘Dear Mother” at first, of course, and then
•‘Dear Caplain"—inqnii ing about the "men.”
(Captain’s answer— "Of eighty and live,
Oiilen and I are left alive!")
Johnston's pressed at Die front, they say ;
Little Gillen was up and away !
A tear, his first, as lie bade good-bye,
Dimmed the glint of Ids steel-til tie eye:
“I'll writs , If Slurred;” there was news of light,
Hut none of Uiflon! lie did not write!
I sometimes fancy that when I’m king
And my gallant courtiers form a ring,
A ud each so thoughtless of power and pelf.
And each so loyal to all but sell,
J’d give the best, on his heuded knee
Yea, barter Die whole— for the Loyalty
Ol Utile differ) of Tennessee!
Homicide. —On Tuesday or Wednesday
of last week, Mr. Edmondson, overseer on
Col. Bray’s plantation in Baker county,
discovering that a quantity of bacon had
been stolen, attempted to search the houses
of the employees on the place, to which
some of them objected. Mr. Edmondson
then obtained the assistance of a few
neighbors and returned to the search, but
was met by the men and told that lie
should not search tlie houses, when an al
tercation ensued, which soon lead to the
use of arms.
Several shots—perhaps a dozen or more
—were exchanged, killing, we are told,
one negro, and severely wounding another,
while Mr. Edmondson and another white
man were slightly wounded. —Albany
News, 11 )lh.
Failure of National Banks.— Bethel
Conn., March o.—The First National Bank
of this city has closed its doors. It ceases
to he a public depository,
Leokuk, lowa., March o.—Tlie First Na
tional Bank of this city has suspended
business. The Government funds have
been withdrawn.
\laco»i- Bn., Wedwesdfiy, March 18, 1868.
FUDS WASHING TON.
Bpochil OiupaUli to the Haiti more Huu.
Future Steps in the Impeachment Trial —
Summoning the F resilient—Speculations
as to the llcmlt—The Impeachment Wru.
The McArdle Case, Arc.
Washington, March o.—lt is expected
that the writ of summons in the
meat trial will be- : veu upon too Presi
dent tomorrow. The appearance of Mr.
Johnson will be put in by his counsel on
Friday next, and a time then fixed for the
commencement of the hearing regularly.
Nearly all other interests were to-day
centred in this case, though the only mat
ters expected to be disposed of were tlie
right of Mr. Wade to participate in the
trial and the organization of the court.
There are various and most remarkable
comments made upon and deductions
drawn from the proceedings of to-day,
some claiming that the general result of
wliat transpired indicates that the trial
will be decided by a strict party vote
against Mr. Johnson, whilst others find
confirmation of their belief tliat the Sena
torg generally will try the Case purely
upon its merits, aud render a verdict con
scientiously upon the law and the evi
dence. You have details of to-dtiy’s pro
ceedings before you, aud can judge what
warrant there is for either of the above
stated opinions, which are expressed re
spectively by the radicals, who expect a
verdict oi guilty, and by the conservatives,
who rely upon an acquittal.
At tiie President’s ."state dinner to-night
there wore pre.out, beside himself and
family, eighteen democratic members of
the House, with the ladies < i tiieii several
families, ami the Hon. It. J. Walker and
Hon. W.S. G roes beck,
It is understood that the impeachment
writ is signed by the Chief Justice, aud
directed to tiie sergeant-at anus of the
Senate, commanding liirn, within four
days of return day of writ, to summon
Andrew Johnson, President, Ac., service
to be by copy, personally, or at the resi
dence of the accused. The writ recites the
proceedings of the House and Senate.—
The form of writ substantially follows the
analogies of practice in civil courts.
Data.
Bpecial Dispatch to the U-ilUinore Ban.
Chief Justice Chase and the Impeuchnu id
Management—The Court Organized, Ac.
Washington, March{Notwithstand
ing tlte crowd was so great in the Senate !
to-day, the best of humor appeared to pre- j
vail, and the f>uz anti hum of talking was :
continuous, no one seeming to care about <
anything the Senate might do previous to j
the hour of one o’clock, when the court of I
impeachment would again lie formed. ;
Mr. Wade rapped louder and oftener than j
yesterday for • rder, but it was no use ; tiie
galleries soon learn what Uinilof metal a
presiding officer is made of, and shape
their courseaeeordingiy. Mr. Wade lacks i
the grand essential of a presiding ollieer, i
innate dignity.
There were several striking points in !
the proceeding*—as when Mr. Howard
left iii* seat, and, coining immediately in
front of the Chief Justice, raised tiie point
of order that ft was not competent for ones
Senator to ofiject to another Senator, and 1
that liter*- was no power in the Senate to
prevent Mr. Wade from iieing sworn in;
that the Constitution was imperative on
the subject, and it was the duty of the
presiding officer to immediately tnlminis
ter the oath to him. Then, with the
evident purpose of forcing the Chief
Justice, in vulgar parlance, “to show liis
hand,” Mr, Howard insisted tliat the
chair sFmuld gtvenn immediate decision
1 on the point lie had raised, without debate.
Hy the triumphant and half-insulting
manner of Mr. Howard, and the signiti
cant looks whicli passe*l ia-tween Humner, !
Chandler, Drake and some other- 1 , ft was *
plainly to be seen tliat tfie impeachment)
party thought tfiey liad succeeded in call- !
ing the previous question. Mr. ' base, i
however, was too wily to be caught in Una j
manner, and threw the onus of dividing '
the question on the Hen ate.
Under the rulings of tiie Chief Justice’
tiie court was finally organized, Mr. Hen- !
dricks, after an excited controversy over ;
points of order made by several Senators I
to the interruption of Mr. Dixon, having i
temporarily withdrew hi*objection to Mr. j
Wade being sworn as a trier of Lite Presj- j
Tiift ftHly « -W,
sworn in were Messrs. Doo. j lx*, KUinuntls
and Patterson, who are now engaged in !
making stump speeches in Now Flump- !
shire.
Tlie rules framed by the Senate for gov- \
erning the impeachment trial were adopted ;
by the court.
The friends of Mr. Wade aver to-night \
that he will not vote on any important 1
questions during the progress of the trial,
even should he not he challenged by the 1
defense. But after what has been seen j
grave doubts may well he expressed of I
this. The extreme Radicals are charging 1
Mr, Chase with being in the interest of
the President, and is determined to throw j
obstacles in the progress of tiie trial; but j
none have denied that he has so far borne
himself with all proper dignity and
impartiality. At one time to-day he
seemed a little unnerved by tlie perpetual
din with which he was beset, with points
of order of the impeachment party, but he
speedily recovered himself. Q.
Special Dispatch to the Cincinnati Commercial.
tiii; iioT-iir.Aus wokstrd.
Exciting scene at tlie Organization ol
tlie Court of Impeachment*
Washington, March 6.
The Chief Justice stated the case as it
stood at the hour of adjournment yester
day, from which it appeared that the
pending motion was that of Rcverdy
Johnson to postpone the consideration of
Mr. Hendrick’s objection to Mr. Wade’s
admission as a member of tlie Court until
tlie oilier Senators were sworn in. Upon
this question, he said, the .Senator from
Connecticut is entitled to the lloor.
Mr. Dixon immediately arises with books
and documents before him, evidently pre
pared for a long speech against Wade’s
admission.
Mr. Howard, of Michigan, who is the
leader of impeachment in the Senate, lias,
however, prepared himself since yester
day with a question of order, and is
prompt to rise to it and interrupt Mr.
Dixon on the threshold of his argument.
Mr. Dixon is slow to yield. Not very
sharp at hearing at tlie best, Ills ears have
a little extra wax in them to-day, and he
proceeds until Mr. Howard utters a third
time iu a loud voice, not unmixed with
anger, “ I call tlie Senator from Connecti
cut to order.”
This time the Chief Justice interferes,
raps with iiis gavel, and asks the Senator
from Michigan to slate his point of order.
Mr. Dixon sees, rather than hears, that
something is wrong, and a friend at iiis
elbow whispers close into ids tar what tlie
matter is.
Mr. Howard makes the point of order,
that under tlie Coustititutiou every Sena
tor must be sworn as a member of tiie
Court. The Chief Justice requests Mr.
Howard to reduce iiis point of order to
writing, which lie proceeds to do.
While Mr. Howard is bent over the
Secretary’s desk with a sheet of foolscap,
Mr. Dixon, who lias been standing up all
tliis time in tlie attitude of one entitled
to the Hoor and not inclined to yield
it, proceeds witii iiis speedi, but lias
not fairly got under way when Mr.
Drake rises from across the chamber
and calls him to order, and makes
tlie point that lie lias no right to speak
until tlie question raised by Mr. Howard
is decided by the Chair.
By this time Mr. Howard has got his
point in writing, and he submits it to the
Chief Justice. Tlie Chief Justice hands
it to the Secretary, who reads it to the
Senate. He then says that he prefers to
submit it to tlie Senate for decision rather
than decide it himself.
Mr. Dixon again essays to address tlie
Senate, but is again called to order, this
time on the ground that a point of order is
not debatable, to maintain which half a
dozen Senators liave copies of the rules,
and are ready to read tiie one applicable
to tlie case. Four points of order within
live minutes, and four Senators ready to
make four more, if necessary, rather than
let Mr. Dixon go on. But Mr Dixon is
undismayed ; being slightly deaf, lie only
hears a very small portion of what is being
said, and at any rate, he has a speech, and
is bound to make it.
It looks as if matters would get pretty
badly tangled, aud from tlie galleries tlie
Chief Justice seems to be tlieonly one who
is not annoyed or excited, or who keeps
the points of order from running into one
another and making the confusion worse
confounded. He is as grave and self-pos
se; e-.'d in the midst of the parliamentary
whirlpool as if he were on the beneli of
lb 5 i iprerne Court listening to the dullest
of- -eelies. The Chief Justice decides
th ile the rules of the Senate do not
p ' *g‘l debate on t* point of order, the cus
tom of die Senate does allow it when
the matter is referred to the Senate for de
cision—as much as to say that Mr. Dixon
may proceed, which he immediately does;
for though he has not been able to hear
wiuti the Chief Justice inis said, a friend
at hU elbow lias heard it all, and poured
it right into his ear.
The ini (teachers discover unmistakable
signs of dissatisfaction at the decision of
the CFiief Justice. Mr. Sumner grumbles
something to Mr. Howard, who sits next
to him, and Mr. Chandler looks daggers,
though lie uses none. A strong radical in
the reporters’ gallery, who, doubtless, re
flccts the sentiments of his political freinds
oti the floor, says: “We are sold out by
Chase,” and evidently thinks so. Hut
Dixon is determined to speak, amt jumps
from the point of order raised by Mr.
Howard, right into tiie middle of a sfieecii
on the great question at issue, which is
Mr, Wade's admission.
Mr. Sherman calls him to order again in
lesr than three minutes, ami insists that
lie is not speaking to the question, which
is that raised hy Mr. Howard; but Mr.
Dixon goes ahead, nevertheless. It is
bow half-past two and ;the impeuehers are
becoming very impatient.
HHooks as if tiie flood-gates of rhetoric
to lie opened again, and uo telling
how many days may be consumed before
the court is organized. At last Mr. How
ard rises to still another point of order,
which is, that under the rules for (lie gov
ernmentof the Court of Impeachnient,
questions of this character must be deckled
without debate. Here is f something ttiat
will certainly stop Dixon ami the re.-t of
them ; but t lie Chief Justice denies them
this consolation, and again incurs their si
lent censure by deciding that Die rules for
the government of the court are not ap
plicable to the Benate in its present con
dition, nor until all the tSenators are
sworn, which immediately draws Mr.
Drake from his seat, and from him, in a
voice which cannot conceal its anger,
“ From that decision I appeal to the Sen
ate.”
The excitement is now intense. It
• looks like an ill-omened beginning to aH —
! the decision of the Chief Justice appealed
( from so early—and as the yeas and nays
are called, the court is Watched with
| great solicitude on the floor and in the
galleries. The result is announced in
[ favor of the Chair by 24 to 2o at which
; the gentlemen's gallery breaks out in
faint demonstration of applause, which
the Chief Justice sternly lebukea and
promptly suppresses. 'J ids, though not
in itself decisive of anything but the im
mediate question put, is looked upon as
unfavorable to the Impenehers, who are in
favor of crowding things through In the
shortest jtossible time.
Ho the debate is allowed to go on.—
Dixon concludes bis speech. Roverily
Johnson follows him, and then Hendricks
rises, and after a few remarks, says lie lias
concluded to withdraw his objection to
Wade’s admission, the debate having at
tract'd the attention of the country {n
the subject, and thu# accomplished all he
wanted.
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TUB M * ,\V«. I.US.
Ski t, !, of the Mown, J'li iuk rn Apjjointed
to Cmuluct th> hnpttuh mi nt ProreoutUm.
Washington CorresponUenee of the Cincinnati
Cumbmisihl
THAU. BTCVKXtt.
Old Thai!, is put on be Committee fora
sort of figure head. It Is not expected, of
cour-e, that be will do much of the hard
work, t>r tie is to. feeble for that. Hut
be was j»tit on at his own request. Ton
old for labor, he is not too-otd for vanity.
It was a compliment due, however, to the
zeal with which lie lias persecuted t‘ e
President since tlie day of Ids induction
iftto the White House, for it will he re-
Jienibfcied that he was the first to de
nounce tile, reconst ruction police of Mr.
Johnson 14= l.e had previously denounced
> iriW;-j
eontust*
Mr. Stevens in this matter, and, doubtless,
sees nothing but his own success refiected
in the impcacliment movement; but for
that matter hesi-es nothing bin himself in
anything and when he sees himself as
others see him, he sees a most impractica
ble comj.ouud of useless egotism. Be
tween the opposition of Sumner and of
Stevens to the President, there has l>4en j
all the difference between the harmless ;
flash of “ heat lightning ” that plays '
a cross the horizon of a summer I
eveningaud the vividgiarethat heralds the !
roar and destruction of artillery on the'
battle-field. Old Thad. is still young ;
enough to be envious of his triumph and
vain enough to give ten years of life for it,
if he had that much to give. The desire
and the hope of accomplishing this one
otcect have done him more service than
the pharmacopeia for six months past.—
He lias been younger and heartier since
the subject assumed an earnest form than
at any time in tiie past five years, or there
is no truth in appearances.
MB. BOUTWELL.
Mr. Boutweli represents, in a singularly
well-proportioned degree, tiie intellect,
the malevolence, arid the earnestness of
tiie impeachment. Unquestionably the
alilest. man connected with tiie movement,
he brings to itall'the bitterness of Hum tier
without his idiocy, all the vigor of Ashley
without his ignorance, and all the deter
mination of .Stevens without his infirmity.
Plausible in his speech, bright in his in
tellect, and uoflinching in bis purjiose, lie
! will lie felt more than any of his associates
in the management of the prosecution.
The personal appearance of Mr. Boutweli
is very prepossessing. As I said on a re
cent occasion, he would pass for a Presby
terian minister as to manner, voice and
! appearance in private company.
Mr. Boutweli was Democratic Governor
of Massachusetts once, and was a Demo
cratic member of the House under Pierce’s
administration. You would not think, to
hear him talk now of equal rights and
eternal justice, that he once construed the
declaration of independence in the exclu
sive interest of white men, and shook
hands with tiie slaveholders on the propo
sition that negroes had no rights which
white men were bound to respect, it is
even so, however. 1 talked to a man the
other day who once had heard Boulwcil
make “the strongest kind of a speeeh’ T
against the Abolitionists But lemjwra
mutant <r cl no* rnutaiiiur in Mix. The
times change, and if we don’t change
with the times, so much tiie worse lords.
SI K.
The personal appearance, and military
ami political history of General Butler are
so well known to the country, that it is
hardly worth while to say a word about
either in this letter, except that it is neces
sary to do so, to complete a feeble attempt
at giving something of a sketch of each
manager. John Randolph once said that
the dome of the Capitol was a great ex
tinguisher of provincial talent —a remark
the truth of which has been evident in
Mr. Butler’s case. He has not been “ex
tinguished” perhaps, but he certainly has
failed, since his advent as a member of the
House, to command the attention and re
spect which lie thought were in store for
him. He expected to be the chosen leader
of the House, at least on all strong politi
cal questions, ami especially in this matter
of impeachment, but the attentive reader
of Congressional proceedings can not f■ i 1
to have noticed that he lias been com
pelled to be satisfied with a very subor
dinate part in the drama all the way
through.
It took a great deal of hard pleading to
get him on the list of managers last night.
He will do milch less real service in the
conduct of the case than Boutwell, yet
he will push himself further forward, and
I shall be much disappointed if he does
not try very bard to make it appear that
lie is Dealing the heat and burden of the
whole thing.
MR. BINGHAM.
Politics, like misery, makes one ac
quainted with strange bed-fellows. Bing
ham and Butler joined baud in hand on a
subject like impeachment is a good illus
tration ol the truth of this maxim. It was
about impeachment that they first quar
reled in a caucus a year ago, and kept up
the quarrel until it disgraced tiie House
and bored the country, and people sighed
for an altercation between a couple of Eng
lish fish-haw kero as an improvement upon
its tone and dignity. “Brought upon a
bottle and fed with a spoon,” was strong
in words but weak in wit, unless reinforced
with italics and foot notes. Then in re
turn, Booth's diary was nourished, and so
on ad nauseam usque— amt all about im
peachment, or produced by it. But these
two gentlemen have shaken hands and
made up, and doubtless eacii one is very
sorry wliat lie said to tiie other. Mr.
Bingham, now that he lias been converted
to tiie impeachment scheme, will of course
enter into it with ail tiie zeal of a
new convert, which, coupled witli the
ability lie possesses, will give him a con
spicuous place in its history. He will
furnish the rhetorical flourishes, not the
convincing arguments. If it is proposed
to accomplish anything by his speeches,
it will be necessary to have decision follow
close alter them, for if the Court adjourns
over till Die next day tiie effect will be ut
terly lost. Tliey have about them that
particular quality of champagne which
renders immediate use necessary to proper
appreciation. They are good only while
in a state of beady effervescence; but when
permitted to seine down, otieis not unapt
to be astonished that there is no little iu
them.
Bingham is a sh ut, thin, old-looking,
gray-hairud, ami very nervous man, with
out any stt iking < h uacleristios of feature.
He in a r"i a pretty imagery as ap
plied to ;*oiiticul topics, and is never at a
loss for rhoice language, even to express
ideas, if it comes to rug
ged argument lie will be entirely surpassed
by lioutwcli and by
WILSON, OF IOWA,
Who is a man a good deal of the Boutweli
strijie—a strong reasoner, an excellent
lawyer, and a most obstinate man. He
lias nothing of BoutweU’s scholarly per
sonal appearance, but looks more like a
well-to-do Western farmer, than a mail
with good claims to consideration as a
statesman, and unquestioned merit as an
author. I had occasion to describe his
personnel a couple of mouths since, and I
then spoke of him as a man who deserved
a great deal of credit for opposing impeach
ment while his party clamored for it. But
the party has got the better of him now,
and he lias been whipped in with the rest.
He is a man of great power in argument,
and will add more than any other man
except Boutweli to the cause he has es
jKiused, and to its management before the
Senate. He is very cool, collected and de
liberate in bis method of presenting a case,
and sticks to his point with great perti
nacity till he carries it, undaunted by ob
stacles, and undeterred by opjiosition. His
style of address, as of dress, is plain and
unadorned, but there is something about
it which carries conviction with it more
certainly than tiie finished oratories of
others.
In the munagementof the impeachment
before the Hon ate, fits industry, which is
unceasing, and his knowledge of prece
dents, which is extensive, will come into
good use, and lie will probably be relied
upon to do much more titan liis share of
tiie laborious work before the committee
of seven.
WILLIAMS, OF ILNNSVLVANIA.
Williams, of Pennsylvania, comes next
on tiie list. He is an old gentleman—
more than sixty, l take it: short, thick,
full-faced ami grey-headed. To iiim be
longs ttie honor of the authorship of tiie i
impeachment rejiort of last November, i
which Boutweli, with good Yankee i
shrewdness, took pains to disclaim. And j
well he might, for such amass of bom - 1
bastic twaddle was never before impressed
in printer's ink. 1 was about to copy a
few sentences by way of illustration, to i
show the style of man Williams is, but I j
shall forbear. Buttice it to say that it is a |
splendid vindication of tiie historical truth 1
of Martin Chuzziewit, so far as that book
relates to the style of our public men. j
Williams is a vain old person who im
agines himself the be-all and the end-all
of the House, if not of the world. He j
speaks with tremendous voice, and thinks !
himself abundantly competent to lay down 1
tiie law aud the Gvapei to any body. I
don’t know what he was put on the Com- I
mittee of seven for except as an uuavoida- j
ble tribute to bis vanity, for the fly ou the 1
earr-wbevt t; not ~**.<<_•: • ; '
for tiie revolving spokes than Williams is
that he has furnished all t he brains for the i
impeachment scheme. He’ll tell it to you :
in privnte conversation.
“Have you read my report, sir?*’
“No, sir.”
“Big document that, sir. The law is all j
there, sir. They have come to it at last, 1
sir. You will find it laid down uncontro
vertibiy.”
Perhaps you may read “ my report” af- j
ter this solicitation. If you do, you have 1
more patience than the iiumble individual
who now addresses you, for J confess that J
before reaching (he fourth page, I shied I
the “ big document” across the room in I
disgust, and it was accidentally drowned !
in a slop bucket.
GENERAL LOGAN.
Tiie West is familiar with Gen. Logan
and his style of oratory, and the people i
may judge how he will figure as one of j
tiie-even w ise men 6f America. For my- |
self, 1 confess that I never see the Gen
eral in a set speech that I am not reminded
of certain six-penny prints cf the battles 1
of tiie late war—in which a purple cannon :
is represented us belching fortli tiiree or !
four inches of red paint, which will do
either for blood or lire, according to the
purchaser’s fancy. As that picture is to
true art, so is Logan’s speech to true ora
tory. If there is any fustian or bombast i
wanted on the trial, the General will fur
nish it, hut law and reason not a word.—
He is neither a reasoning man nor a law
wig man. He would come beat into play
if it could so happen that A. .1. could be
be convicted by tiie sheer force of great ex
pectorations. Except upon the line car
pet of the Senate Chamber, I can't see
how John can make his mark in an im
peachment trial. Mack.
The Feeling in New York.—Speak
ing about the impeachment feeling in
New York, a correspondent of the Louis
ville Courier writes :
The men who do think seriously on ini- j
peachment, and talk of it, seem quite con- j
lident that the conspiracy will fail. I do I
not speak of the Radicals, though even j
they, or many of them, are losing courage, j
but of the solid men who take a common- j
sense view of things and never let passion i
run away with their judgement. These
men, for the most part, regard impeach
ment as practically dead already. They
don’t go very deep into the subject, but
perhaps theiropinions would not he found
ed any better if they did. The feeling of
confidence is nowhere more noticeable
than in Wall street, where one might ex
pect real danger to be scented most keenly.
The hulls and bears are not at all disturbed,
but light away over Eric and Pacific Mail
just as they did a month ago. Business,
too, is getting over the stun it received,and
wholesale men tell md the prospect lias
improved greatly in a week. The publi
cation of the a 1 tides of impeachment has
done a great deal toward bringing about
the present calm, for every sensible man
that read them saw at once that they were
too frivolous to insure even a probability
of conviction. Men who considered the
President ns good as removed when the
excitement first broke out, no*v say lie is
safe to serve out his terra,and large wagers
are offered that he will beat bis enemies
afterail. And if lie does—if they fail to
convict him after all the disturbance and
alarm they have caused, over goes their
apple cart next November, to a dead cer
tainty.
Th e Osgooi i-Dolby Walk.— Mr. James
R. Osgood, of Ticktior & Fields, publish
ers, and Mr. George Dolby, Dickens’
agent, have published a card in relation to
their recent walking mate}). The distance
was thirteen miles. Mr. Osgood won the
match in two hours and forty-eight min
utes. Mr. Dolby was but seven minutes
behind him. The snow whs a foot deep
during the walk.
The Boston Sunday Courier has a special
dispatch from New York which announces
positively that tiie Herald has been of
fered for sale within a day or two, and
that certain partners in tiie Tribune Asso
ciation oro negotiating for the purchase.
The price is understood to he $1,000,000,
exclusive of the new building, but iuclud
j ingthe four new presses, which cost $400,-
I 000.
Yol, TSo. 2.
From the Atlanta Intelligencer.
rKot'i:coioes of the Georgia
NEGHO CONVENTION.
Slitpflttli Day.
The Convention opened with prayer—
Dunning in the Chair.
The Journalwas read.
The following communication from Gen
era! Meade was read:
Head’qrs Thikd Mil. District, )
Dkf’tof Ga., Florida, and Ala., \
Atlanta, March 7, 18118. j
Hon. J. Ti. Parrott,
President Constitutional Convention:
Sir—l had the honor, on the 29th inst.,
to receive the resolution of the Convention
framed February 28th, 1808, requesting
me to provide tiie means of defraying tiie
expenses of the Convention to March lltli.
Immediately on its receipt, I sent for the
Provisional Governor aud directed him to
confer with members of the Convention
and arrange such plans as would be ac
ceptable and practicable. The Governor
informed me that ou his proposing to ad
vauce a further sum of $15,000 the Con
vention would dispense with the issue of
scrip authorized by my General Order No.
24, and in lieu thereof would be satisfied
with the issueof certificates of indebted
ness to be countersigned by the Comp
troller General, and to be paid at tiie State
Treasury, whenever tiie special tax was
collected. This arrangement was approv
ed by me, the money ($15,000) will be
paid to the Disbursing Agent of the Con
vention, and the Comptroller General is
now here, prepared to countersign the
certificates of indebtedness whenever pre
sented to him by tiie Disbursing Agent of
the Convention.
Having thus fulfilled my part of the pro
posed arrangement, I was surprised to see
a resolution in this morning's paper pur
porting to have been passed yesterday, re
quiring tiie tax collectors “to take up
from the holders ail such scrip or warrants
as may he presented to them, and which
have been issued by the Provisional Gov
ernor or Comptroller General, to pay the
me inters and officers of the Convention”.
luasmuch as this resolution is not in
accordance with the understanding had
w ith the Provisional Governor, as report
ed to me by that officer; and as there are
besides grave objections to it, I deem it
my duty, to prevent misunderstanding, to
advise you that I am not able to give my
approval to it, and my reasons therefor,
which reasons, I trust will prove uecepta
b e to the Convention.
My reasons are—that in order to raise
and pay tothe Convention, in advance of
the collection of the atiecial tax, the sum
of $5,000, I have had to disregard the just
claims upon the Treasury of the civil offi
cers and the State institutions, which I
only did on the expectation of the return
to tlie Treasury of this amount in time to
prevent any serious inconvenience arising
from its abstraction, if tiie resolution
passed by the Convention is sanctioned, it
will take ftorn the financial officers of the
.State the means of carrying out the plans
on which the advances were predicated.
If the Convention‘prefer the plan indi
cated in the resolution passed yesterday,
to tiie understanding I had with the Pro
visional Governor, I am willing to permit
tax collectors to cash the certificates of in
debtedness, but shall be obliged to with
hold the promised payment of the £ 15,000
which was only to be made on the condi
tions already stated. Very respectfully,
your obedient servant,
Geo. G. Meade,
Major General U. 8. Army, Commanding.
A motion to rescind that portion of the
journal relating to authoriziugtno tax col
lectors to pay over to tiie delegates money
as soon as received, for the scrip which
they may hold prevailed.
The report of the Committee on Miscel
laneous matter was read as altered and
amended os follows :
WHKKiwi All the civil officers of the
State are rtMr provisional until this State
is represenlll Congress; and whereas,
the interests of Georgia require that all
the civil offices shall lie fiiled by ioyal cit
izens, according to the provisions, of the
Constitution being framed by tilts Conven
tion, at the earliest practical moment, and
for the purpose of avoiding any unnecessary
delayer loss of time, ami useless expense '
to tiie Btaa*: It is ordained, th.it an eiee
sueti places as may be eftSignateef by the
Commanding General of tiie District), tor
vting on the ratification of tbe Constitution
for the election of Governor, members of
the General Assembly, Representatives to
the Congress of the United States, and all
other officers to be elected as provided in
this Constitution.
And at said elections on the ratification
of the Constitution, and for Governor,
members of Congress, tnetnbersof the Gen
eral Assembly, and all other civil officers,
the qualification tor voters shall be the
same as prescribed by the act of Congress,
known as the. Sherman Bill, for voters, at
the election on the ratification of tiie Con
stitution ; and at ail elections under the
provisional government. And Major Gen
eral Meade is respectfully requested to give
the necessary order to carry into effect tiie
foregoing provisions, and cause due re
turns to be made and certificates to issue
by the proper officers. And he it further
ordained, that tiie regulations established
by Uongress for voting upon the ratification
of tiie Constitution aud for voting at elec
tions under the Provisional Government,
shall apply to the election of officers afore
said, and the persons so elected shall con
tinue ill office till the regular succession
provided for after the year 1808, and until
successors are elected and qualified.
Upon any voter bei 11 g challenged he shall
take the following oath :
You do solemnly swear (or affirm) that
you have been duly registered agreeably to
the acts of Congress ; that you have 'not
prevented or endeavored to prevent or
dissuade any person from or to vote at this
election; that if tiie Constitution u|>on
which tiie vote is now being taken is rati
fied, that you will truly and faithfully sup
port it. Ho help you God.
The follow ing amendments by H. K.
MeCay wore made to the report. After
“1868” in the 9th line of the 2d paragraph,
“so that said officers shall each of them
hold the offices as though they were elect- ,
cd on the Tuesday after the Ist Monday in
November, 1 SOS, or elected or appointed
the General Assembly next thereafter.”—
And after the words “on the ratification of
the Constitution” where it last occurs:—
“But this ordinance shall not apply to
justices of the peace who shall he elected
at such time as shall be provided for by
tiie first General Assembly until otherwise
provided by law.”
O. D. Davis offered the following amend
ment, which was adopted: After the word
“April” in the sth line the figures “1868.”
T. P. iSallbid said that the oath attached
to the report was not in accordance witli
the spirit of the Sherman Bill. He moved
to strikeout after the first paragraph.
'J'. J. Speer thought the oath the very
best thing in the report as it would prevent
voters from being unduly dealt with at
elections.
J Murphy said they were not going any
further than tiie act of Congress required.
R H Whi Ip fey moved to strike out the
words “ or dissuade.”
J moved the previous question.
Tire chair did not recognize tiie motion.
A W Holcombe was surprised at the dis
position manifested whenever certain
members attempted to speak, to gag them.
He was surprised at the change which had
taken place since Saturday, when those
gentlemen declared positively that tiie
Constitution would he rail lied by a ma
jority of at least 40,000. He could not see
how if they were so confident of the suc
cess of tiie Constitution, they should at
tempt to inaugurate a system by which
the people might be prevented from cast
ing their votes. The speaker was about to
refer to some infamy or infamous acts
when he was called to order by the Chair.
Mr. Holcombe wanted to know why it
was that certain members were always in
order and certain other members were
never in order.
The Chair decided his language unpar
liamentary.
Mr. Holcombe was sorry that he had
deviated from the strict parliamentary
rule,and was proceeding with his remarks
when he was again called to order by tlie
Chair and told that be was out of order.
Mr. Holcombe. Will the Chair please
inform me what 1 am to do.
Hie Chair. You can speak to the mat
ter under discussion hut do not deviate
from the parliamentary usage.
Mr. Holcombe was perfectly lost. He
did not know wbat to say, and we must
confess that we sympathized witli him as
; he was completely “ bucked and gagged ”»
by the Chair. We were not however as- ‘
tonislied, when we knew who was in the
Chair.
The vole, after some further discuss ion,
was taken ou the report as amended when
it stood yeas 78 Hays 18—adopted.
On motion of H V M Miller, the Re
port of the Committee on Revision was
taken up.
The greatest portion of the day was oc
cupied in the reading of the Constitution,
as preeented by the Committee on Revi
sion, which we regret we cannot give in
our issue this morning, but hope to <k> so
at a no very distant day.
The Convention affine*ned to meet at
3 ’clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Convention resumed its session at
3 o’clock, p. m.
The reading of the Constitution was
continued.
J. E. Blount moved to rescind the fourth
section of the Judiciary report.
R. H. Whiteley moved the previous
question. The motion prevailed.
The motion to rescind was lost.
J. E. Bryaut moved to amend that por
tion of the Constitution relating to taxa
tion, for the purpose of taking an appeal
form tiie decisiou of the Chair.
The Chair decided tiie proposition out
of order.
Bryant appealed from the decision of
the Chair.
H. V. M. Miiler rose to a point of order.
The Chair decided the delegate (Bryant)
out of order.
The appeal was withdrawn.
The Constitution was adopted, so far as
it came before the Convention.
B. Conley otiered the following a- a
separate section in the Constitution :
This Constitution shall only be amended
by a convention of the people, < idled .by
two thirds of the General Assembly.
A long discussion ensued, and everal
amendments were otic red.
J. E. Bryant oh! red a .nbstiiute for the
whole, as foil u ;
This Constitution imv be amended by a
two-thirds vote ;f l • .■u re- .ve Legisla
tures, aud by a submission of the amend
ments to the qualified voters for final rati
fication. But the General Assembly shall
not call a convention of the people in the
electiou of delegates to which any person
qualified to vote by this Constitution shall
be disqualified; and the representation iu
said convention shall be based ou popula
tion; nor shall the light of suffrage ever
be taken from any person qualified by this
constitution to vote.
The following amendment by F.
Blodgett to the above substitute was
accepted :
Provided, that the General Assembly
shall not call any convention for the
purpose of amending this constitution
till after the expiration of ten years.
The substitute was adopted down to the
words “ by this constitution,” and the
yaes aud nays were called ou the portion
relating to representation, when they
stood : yeas CO, nays 57. Adopted.
The Convention adjourned to 7 o’clock
A. M. to-morrow.
Slxly-ftixtli Day.
Atlanta, March 10,1808.
The Convention opened with prayer—
Parrott in the Chair.
The Journal was read.
J. If. Bryant offered the follow ing ordi
nance:
The par pie of the Strife of Georgia in
Convention met do ordain , That the elec
tion for Mayor, Aldermen, Councilman
and all the officers elected by the people
in all cities and fneorjfortated towns iu
this State, where the official term lias ex
pired and vacancies have not been filled
by appointment of the military authorities
shall commence on the first Tuesday 111
Slay in the present year, and the General
commanding the Third Military District
is respect fully requested to give tiie neces
sary orders to carry into effect tiie forego
ing provisions, andeause the returns to G
made and eertiflentes of election to is -19
by the proper officers:
And he it further ord-uiutd, That, the
regulation, established by Cong re-- for
voting upon the ratification of the Consti
tution aud for voting at elections under
the provisional government, shad apply
to the election of officers as aforesaid, and
the persons so elected shall continue in
office till the regular .succe.-s.um provided
for, after the year 186 Sand until successors
are elected and qualified.
Upon any voter being challenged he
shall take the following oath :
You do solemnly swear (or affirm) that,
you have been duly registered agreeably
tothe acts of Cong res-; that you have
not prevented or endeavored to prevent
any person from voting at this election—
so help you God.
The following substitute -
’VVhefTffiff* titm puli iiidu n..
election of municipal officers in the towns
and cities of the State for the year is. 4
has passed, elections shall be held iu said
towns and cities ou the first Wednesday
in June, ISO'S, and persons so elected shall
hold tbeir places until the regular elec
tions provided by law for said elections,
and until their successors are elected and
qualified.
The yeas aud nays were called on the
substitute, when Lhej stood : yeas, 53 ; nays
68. Lost.
J. E. Bryant asked leave to strike out
the “first Tuesday in May” and insert the
“20th of April.”
R. H. Whiteley called for a division on
the motion to strike out, when the vote
stood: ayes, 67; nays, 21. Passed.
The ordinance was adopted as amended.
The following reports of the Committe on
Printing were read. A long discus-ion
ensued, pending which the Convention
adjourned.
Resolved, That the Committee on Print
ing be, and they are hereby requested to
procure tiie publieatiau of fifty thousand
copies of tiie Constitution in cheap form
for the use of the delegates of this Con
vention, and tiiat the Chairman of the
Auditing Committee be required to issue
warrants for payment of the same, and the
disbursing officer be authorized and is here
by required to pay the same.
Resolved, That the Committee on Print
ing be, aud are hereby authorized to pro
cure the publication of 100 copi sos the
proceedings anil debates of this Conven
tion in book form, aud that the legislature
is required to provide for the payment <T
the same.
Resolved, That the Committee on Print
ing be, and are hereby authorized and re
quired to procure tiie publication of the
Constitution iu the following newt-papa rs
of the Htate: Augusta Republican aiid
Constitutionalist, Savannah Herald an i
Standard, \1 aeon Telegraph,<'oluitibus I;;, -
quirer, Atlanta New Era and Opinion, Grif
fin American Union, one time each week
until tiie election to ratify the Constitution
be held; provided tiie expenses shall not.
exceed three hundred dollars for each
paper, and the Chairman of the At. iiting
Committee be required to issue warran -
tor payment of same, and Disbursing oi'ri
cer authorized and required to pay the
same.
Sixty-seventh I)a > •
Atlanta, March 11th.
The Convention opened witii prayer. -
Dunuiug in the Chair.
The Journal was read.
The following was read :
Headq rs. Third Mtr,. Dip., )
Department of Georgia, Ala. and Flu. '
Atlanta, Ga., March t>, 1868. J
General Orders No. 55.
To insure the collection of tiie special tax
provided for in an ordinance of the Con
stitutional Convention of the Slate ol
Georgia, passed on the eighth day of
February, IS6S, within the time specified,
it is hereby required and directed that till
owners of property or their agent shall,
between the 2<>th of April, and the first of
Mav, 1868, pay to the tax collectors, at
such points in the county in which the
property is located as the collector may
designate, the tax due on the property
owned or represented by them. All piop
ertyon which the aforesaid tax remains
unpaid at the latter date, May Ist, 1 . ,
will be levied on by the tax collectors, in
accordance with tho provisions of the or
dinance.
Collectors of taxes will, without a- lay,
designate the points in their respective
counties at winch they will meet the tax
payers, specifying the date at which they
will be at each place.
By order of Major Genera! Meade.
It. C. Dri m,
Assistant Adjutant General.
Official :
Geo. Meade, A. D. C.
G W Ashhurn offered the following
substitute to the re|«»rt of Cbo Crmmitt e
ofSeven appointed to procure names < t
persons desiring to he relieved from po
litical disabilities.
Whereas, The strength of republican
government is best promoted and its prin
ciples maintained by the broadest platform
of enfranchisement, and
Whereas, a portion ol Georgia s ciii
zens are under polititicaldisabilities which