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GhORGIA JUURNAL & MESSENGER,
J. \V. RI KKG Sc Proprietor!!.
A. W. iSKl.fti-J, / _ ~
M. KOSCt ! Editor*.
AMENITIES OP THE PRE*».
In an article upon thin subject, we are
glad to see the La Grange Reporter en
dorses our own views heretofore expressed,
by remarking that, while feeling very
sensibly the necessity of dignifying a no
bler vocation, cases have arisen within
the past few years when we have had to
descend to jtersonalities the more effectu
ally to '■each certain members of the edito
rial fraternity, in order to castigate them
and hold up their contemptible eflbrts to
degrade tbc white race of the South, to a
Just public scorn and condemnation. VVe
could not combat their principles—for
they hud none, any more than the high
wayman who grasps your throat and
demands your money or your life. We
could no more stop to observe the ameni
ties of social life with the one than the
other. For two years we have had in
Georgia a party and its press who have
liad us politically by the throat, demand
ing our self-degradation, backed by the
military and threatened with the direst
political punishment—-not upou principle,
but by mere brute force. These presses
were couducte 1 by men who were work
ing our degradation for the spoils they
received, and not for the respect they
entertained for the people of Georgia.
Towards them we could not observe the
usual amenities of professional men. They
were lighting us politically as the high
wayman his victim. The one demanded
our political degradation, the other our
life. We could give the highwayman our
money to save our life, but wtf'could not
give the assassins of our political life our
self-respect, or treat them with the usual
civilities of editorial courtesy.
THE OGEELIIEK TROUBLES—ANOTHER SIDE
OF THE PICTURE.
Senator Foinery h s received letters
frouatheOgeeche ■ (Georgiu)district, which
give a different version of the recent diffi
culties Un-re from that heretofore pub
lished, coining from rebel sources tiirougii
tiie Associated Press, il now appears that
the negroes there have been working
under some swindling contracts for astiare
of tiie crops made. Last year they were
told that there was nothing for them and
submitted quietly, but tiie same dodge
being repeated this year, toe negroes
thought it was going too far, and seized
the crop, to a share of which they were
p >licy, wo at once gave it our approval,
eutitled.
The above is a dispatch from Washing
ton, to the Cincinn iti Chronicle (Radical.)
Tiie public can see for themselves how
hopeless is the task of getting the truth,
even concerning matters of indisputable
fact, to the ears of the Northern people.
Here is a party of savage, lawless, inflamed
negroes turning out armed and in military
array to drive out the wiiites of a particu
lar section, and seize their goods and chat
tels swearing the is theirs, and
they would have their own laws or none,
resisting tiie law and maltreating its of
ficers, pillaging and plundering to their
heart's content, and respectable journals
say it was nothiug but efforts to get wages
out of which “rebel” employers bad
swindled them! How is it possible for
the pe pie of the North even to take the
first step towards doing us justice, when
even our efforts to save our lives and prop
erty' are characterized in this manner?
V/e have almost concluded that it is hope
less to try and make the North see the
truth. They seem given over to the
demon of unbelief. Let them learn it as
they ;may and when they may—if they
ever do. In the meantime our role is plain :
To look neither to the right nor to the left,
but plough tiie furrow straight on to the
end of the row, whose name is thrift and
a regenerated country. We are bound to
live down these, and all other slanders.
They are noxious only to out-at-elbows
seediness and poverty. Arnoug the people
who so unsparingly manufacture them for
our hurt, that is a crime. Work! work!
work! This is the Alpha and Omega of our
duty and ourdeliverance. With full pock
ets once more, we will make our slander
ers eat their words.
VYHAT THE LEGISLATURE WILL DO.
We think it quite likely from ap
pearances, and from what we hear, that
the difficulty about negro eligibility to
office will be met, when the Legislature
convenes, by a resolution declaratory of
tiie willingness of that body to submit the
whole matter to the Courts, State, first,
and theu National, if necessary. We see
no objection to this method of settling the
question, if indeed it will be accepted asa
settlement by the reconstruction “ ring.”
When first suggested to us by Col. Tift,
some weeks since, as possibly our best,
policy, we gave it our approval, espe
cially when informed that the oppo~
nents of further reconstruction inside tiie
Republican party, both at Washington
amt in Georgia, thought it would demor
alize tiie extremists, and afford an oppor
tunity for the substitution, instead of the
Edwards bill, of some other measure less
objectionable.
We said nothing of it then, deeming it
wisest for various reasons not to develope
our line of battle prematurely. As Cou
gress has reassembled, however, and Col.
Tift has returned to Washington, with a
pretty good idea of what will be the action
of Georgia, there cau be no barm in dis
cussing the question now.
PHICHI.Mx A BLADDER.
A correspondent of the New York
World sends the following communication
to that paper :
To the Editor of the World:
(Sir—Will you call upon the executors
of the late l'haddeus (Stevens, to state un
der oath if there were not SIOO,OOO Pacific
.Railroad bonds found among his assets,
and not mentioned in his will.
When it is remembered what a Peck
snitliau howl of admiration weut up all
over the land from the admirers of this
wicked old man over his incorruptible
honesty and hatred of corruption—how
he sent back presents of greenbacks, etc.,
with a fine show of scorn and indignation,
the point of the query will be readily per
eived.
Mr. Stevens’ executors have the floor.
We shall be glad to hear from them.
Address ok the State Agricultural
Society. —We earnestly invite theserious
consideration of every reader of our paper
to this address. It will be found iu an
other column of this issue. The ap
peal made, and the questions to be answer
ed, concern every man, woman and child
in Georgia, and we waut to see such in
terest awakeued in them as was never felt
before iu any subject in Georgia. Read
and re-read Col. Lewis’ stirring remarks,
and resolve to make the mass meeting at
Atlanta, iu February, a grand success.
Officers of the Central Railroad.
The Hoard of Directors of the Central
Railroad and Ranking Company have re
elected Mr. Win. M. Wadley as their
President for the ensuing year.
Mr. William Rogers, late Actiug Mas
ter of Transportation, has been appointed
Superintendent of the road.
Col. J. F. Waring, late Treasurer, lias
been appointed Forwarding Agent, vice
J. M. Selkirk, resigned. Mr. Edward Me-
Intire, late Auditor, takes Mr. Rogers’
place as Acting Master of Transportation.
Mr Fripp, has been appointed Audi
tor, and T. M.Cunningham,Cashier. The
other positions are filled as heretofore, viz:
G. W. Scattergood, Road Master; B. L.
Rouliueau, Master of Machinery ; C. C.
Millar, Master Car Builder; and W- O.
Charlton, Paymaster.— Savannah News,
bth.
[fok the journal and messenger.}
ADDRESS OF TIIE STATE AGRICULTURAL
SOCIETY TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA.
Tiie several Conventions of Planters
and Farmers assembled in Macon, on the
loth and 11th ult., finally united under
the existing organization of the State Ag
ricultural Society, formed in 1846, and lib
erally chartered in 1853 ; and when so uni
ted, took a wide aud comprehensive view
of all the questions most vital to the agri
cultural Interest. I am directed by the
resolution of the meeting to call your at
tention to one or two important features
in its action.
Without preliminaries, then, I ask you
to look at the proceedings of this meeting,
und answer, under a solemn sense of your
duty to yourselves and your country, if
the questions raised and the objects con
templated by this meeting are not of suf
ficient moment to eulist the effort and
sympathy of every man and woman in
Georgia. No one can answer, No. Ad
mitting, theu, as you must, the importance
of tiie movement, can you stand idle?
Can you in derogation of all your past
history stand confessed delinquents? Ev
ery consideration forbids. What, then,
shall you do? The meeting at Macon
points the way. It is to organize. Let
the people of every county hold public
meetiugs at once, aud organize Planters’
Clubs or Agricultural Societies. Let those
immediately identified with agriculture
let the tillers of the soil begin the work,
and all trades aud occupations dependent
upon the prosperity of the agriculturist
will unite with you in active aid and sup
port. At the same meeting which organ
izes your Planters’ Clubs, appoint 1 full
delegations of your intelligent, practical,
successful farmers to attend the meeting
of the State Agricultural Society, which
is to meet in Atlanta on the first Tuesday
in February next. [See Appendix.]
At this meeting, questions the most
vital to your welfare are to be considered.
Among them are such as the following :
is it not important that the Legislature
should establish a laud office in connection
with a commissioner of immigration,
which office spall furnish all persons wish
ing to purchase and settle with full in
formation of the location, value, and prop
erties of lands that are for sale ?
is it not important that the Legislature
should make an annual appropn ition to
the State Agricultural Society sufficient
to enable it to establish a Department of
Agriculture, as a means of collecting all
facts aud information of general in
terest, tor annual publication—of aiding
the Society iu defraying the expenses of
its annual meetings and fairs—iu collec
ting for such meetings w'hatever is valua
ble, curious and interesting iu natural
history—iu scientific progress? Other
Siales and nations, the most advanced iu
all culture aud refinement, encourage, by
material aid, cuch organizations. Why
should not Georgia? The policy of the
preseut Legislature, in many features, has
beeu wise aud liberal. It is only ueeessary
for you to consider what legislation your
interests require, aud to give proper ex
pression of your wants and demands, and
your claims will be admitted—granted.
There are other questions, not less im
portant, which must be answered, not by
legislation, but by intense thought aud
relleetiou, the result of this thought aud
reflection reduced to practical application,
and each man’s final conclusion inter
changed freely, in common council, for
the benefit of ali. The people of the cot
ton belt must auswer whether or not the
free negro is now the best laborer availa
ble for the cotton field, or whether, as
some think, “ he must slide,” die out, aud
give place to another. They must auswer
whether any laborer, white or black, cau
labor through the seasons necessary to
produce and gather a cotton and corn crop
iu this climate, and have the leisure and
preserve the aptitude requisite to any de
gree of mental aud social culture.
If it is the interest of the cotton grower
to save the negro, then what is the best
system of management—upou wbat terms
best to employ them—for wages iu money
or for a part of the crop. Is it advisable
to tenant them ou separate farms ? What
restraints aud penalties can be legally im
posed iu your contracts with them to com
pel the fulfillment on their part. Ou al
these points, every man needs every other
mans’experience and advice. Able cim
mittees have been appointed to make re
ports in February; the meeting cannot fail
in interest. It was never more important
than now, that all should contribute some
thing to tne general fund of knowledge.
Let ttiose who have beeu successful iu the
management of the freedmeu’s labor, give
the Convention in February written state
ments in detail of their system. Let those
who have failed in the management oi
this labor state in detail what was tbeir
system, and why they failed. Let the
Convention be furnished with copies of
the contracts under which you operated,
accompanied by financial statement of the
expenses aud profits of the operation. Iu
this rnauuer, extraordinary interests may
be imparted to the proceedings of the meet
ing and great good accomplished.
The Agricultural Society, by the terms
of its Charters, is designed to encourage
all improvement iu niecUauical arts, man
ufactures, mining,etc. All Societies or As
sociations organized for such purposes are
requested to send delegations to the Con
vention.
Auappealishere madetoindividuals who,
in any part of the (Slate, have given careful
reflection to the situation of affairs—W’ho
have studied closely how the freedmau’
labor is to be managed so as to make his
labor profitable to the employer, aud at
the same time make him a contented and
happy laborer —aud who have put the re
sultof their reflections into successful prac
tice—to come to tiiis meetiug in February
aud iu written essay give the whole coun
try the benefit of their couusel and experi
ence. If you cannot attend send iu your
papers.
An appeal is here made to the Christian
Statesman and Philanthropist, who has
considered the Btatus of the freedmau iu
all his relations, to government, citizen
ship, society —his wants socially, religous
ly, mentally —who has considered what
are the duties of the superior race—to the
negro in all these aspects—who has possi
bly conceived tome measure or policy
which it maybe the duty of the firmer to
adopt—to come forward with written essay
and give the country the benefit of tbeir
suggestions. If you canuot attend send iu
your paper.
Au appeal is here made to every press
iu the State to publish this notice, aud to
give the aid of the editorial pen, not once,
but repeatedly, in urging the people to
action. There is not a press iu the State,
some portiou of whose readers would not
be reached by any other. Then let every
press publish, aud every editor write, aud
again write, as if the work aud duty was
exclusively his own.
Certainly these times invite us to com
bined eflort. Can any one doubt that the
salutary solution of this new labor prob
lem that is upon u- demands the united
ettbrt and wisdom of all heads, hearts and
hands? Can any doubt that the present
remunerative prices of all Agricultural
products is almost euough to entice the
crowded idleness of our thoroughfares to
the delightful labor of the field ? Can any
doubt that the present impulse in favor of
high culture, and increased—more extend
ed culture, if quiekeued and wideued aud
deepened, will go far, not ouly to increase
our wealth and happiness as individuals
and as a people, but far also to diminish
the crime and profligacy that is every
where—iu high as well as in low places?
Let, then, our mass-meetiug in Februa-,
ry make its utterance full and distinct on
all questions. Let the Legislature give
the required, needful legislation. Let or
ganized efibrt everywhere speak. Let the
press teem with article after article, with
thought after thought iu the good cause.
Let individual effort and enterprise, wher
ever successful iu solving the difficulties
of these times, come forth and make itself
heard. And when all have been heard, and
all truth and wisdom havebeeu combined,
and fully aud distinctly uttered, and care
fully heeded, who will doubt that our
South will yet become what it ouce was,
THE BEST PLACE TO LIVE IN THE WORLD.
By order of the Convention.
D. W. Lewis, Secretary.
Macon, Dec. 19fA, 1868.
FORM OF CONSTITUTION FOR COUNTY
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
The undersigned, citizensof coun
ty, by affixing their names to the sub
joined Constitution, and by paying annu
ally two dollars for membership, or ten
dollars for life meml ersbip, do form them
selves into au organization to be known as
the County Agricultural (Society—
the objects of which will be encourage
GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER
mentofall improvement in agriculture
and of all the kindred arts and sciences
which tend to increase the profits and
pleasures of agricultural labor, and render
home life ou tne farm attractive and
happy.
The officers shall be a President, elected
by ballot by the members preseut the
close of each annual meiting; one Vice-
President from each military district iu
the county ; a Secretary and a Treasurer—
all elected in the same manner at the
same time.
These officers shall constitute an Execu
tive Committee, who shall have the power
to fix the time and place of holding the
annual meetings and fairs, and to prescribe
the rules aod regulations to be observed in
the management of the same.
It shall also be tue duty of this commit
tee to encourage the monthly meetings of
the Society, especially during the period
of preparation for tillage of the
crops; aud to briug before such meetings
those topics aud questions for colloquial
debate, but calculated to keep up the work
and the spirit of improvement. It shall
further be the duty of this committee aud
of its individual members, to procure,
from time to lime, written essays and ad
dresses on appropriate subjects frohi per
sons distinguished for tbeir success in
agriculture, or for their learning in the
kindred arts and sciences.
The Secretary shall keep a full and per
fect record of the proceedings of the {So
ciety.
The Treasurer shall make, whenever
caked upon by the rtociety or Executive
Committee, a full exhibit of the financial
affairs of the Society, and be the keeper of
the Society's funds.
The President shall have the power to
call a special meeting of the Committee
or the Society when, in his opinion, the
interest of the Society requires it.
ISsgf" All papers in the State please copy.
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SUPREME COURT OF GEORGIA.
Ist—Pataula Circuit.
2d—Soutwestern Circuit.
3d—Middle Circuit.
4th —Eastern Circuit. •
sth—Brunswick Circuit.
6th—Southern Circuit.
7th—Cherokee Circuit—Twocontinued ;
Gordon 2 ; Bartow 4.
Btii —BlueltidgeCircuit—Union; Lump
kin 1; Gilmer 1.
9th—Tallapoosa Circuit.
10th—Coweta Circuit—Four continued ;
Fulton 6; Fayette 1 ; Troup 1; DeKalb 1.
11th—Flint Circuit —Two continued;
Henry 1.
12th—Northern Circuit; One confin
ed; Warren 2; Oglethorpe 1.
13th— Western Circuit—Two continued;
Hall 1.
14th—Chattahoochee Circuit—One con
tinued; Muscogee 5; Chattahoochee 2.
15tli— > aeon Circuit —Four coutiuued;
Houston 1 ; Bibb 5.
16th—Ocmulgee Circuit—Two continu
ed ; Jasper 2; Wilkinson 3; Morgan 1.
he above is tiie order of the docket of
the December Term, 1888, of said Court,
which will resume its session on the Sec
ond Monday in January, 1869.
The first six circuits have been disposed
of, except one case from the Middle, which
was placed in them from the Northern
circuit by counsel, aud three other cases
taken to the hereafter docket.
When the Court took recess, one of the
continued cases, aud Nos 1, 2 and 5 of the
regular cases had beeu argued. The other
continued case had beeu put to the heel of
that Circuit by consent
No. 3 of the Cherokee Circuit will tie in
order for argument at 10 o’clock, a. m.,on
Monday, the 11th inst. (That Monday
will not be used for consultation.)
We will get from the Reporter, every
evening at the close of the Court, the ex
act status of the business, and publish it
uext morning, so tiiat the counsel abroad
may not be kept in uncertainty as to the
probable time when they will be needed.
—Atlanta Constitution, Bth.
YE PEA-.YLT.
[From the Norfolk Virginian.}
Among much other useful anil interest
ing matter in the January (1869) number
of the Carolina Farmer , published at Wil
mington, is au article “on the mode of
planting, culture, sowing, &c., of peauuta.”
It is from the pen of “N. N. Nixou, Por
ter’s Neck, near Wilmington,” aud pro
fesses to be “the result of an experience
of more tiian fifty years of toil aud anxie
ty.” He describes the character of the
soil best adapted to the peanut, the mode
of preparing the land, the planting, the
culture, and the harvesting. Various lo
calities in Virginia are peculiarly adapted
to this crop, and many persons have
recently engaged in its cultivation who
never did so before. There is iu many
quarters a strong desire forthe information
containedin Mr. article.
be lias received “innumerable letters of
inquiry from persons at a distance, and
from a 1 points iu the South.” Mr. Nixon
speaks very encouragingly of the profits
of the crop, but expresses the opinion that
it cau never be made a staple crop for the
South, as it is not an article of prime
necessity, and the production of it could
soon be made to exceed any demand that
might ever arise. He tells us that the
exports from Wilmington, N. (J., from the
crop of the past season, will probably
range from eighty-five to one hundred
thousand bushels. He thinks the largest
crop prior to the war ranged between one
hundred and forty and one hundred and
fifty thousand bushels. The yield of good
laud varies from thirty to fifty bushels to
the acre. He says that peauut culture is
very exhausting to the laud, aud that
unless the soil be assisted by the abundant
application of manures, a crop, even one
year in two, would at last, if not very soon,
so exhaust lands that they would not pay
the expenses of cultivation. He has lor
ten or fifteen years pursued the system of
raising but one crop of peanuts iu three
years on the same land, following it with
a crop of rye.
GEORGIA SUGAR.
We insert the following from the Mil
ledgevilie Statesman, of February 9, 1829,
in order that our readers may see whai
was doue in, aud thought of, the culture
and manufacture of sugar in Georgia forty
years ago. Considering how easily the
cane is cultivated, and the vast amount of
sunarand syrup annually consumed, wq
are surprised that so little attentiou is
bestowed upon its culture by our farmers
of the present day. The Statesman, of
the date above given, says:
Messrs. Seott & Belfour, of Savannah,
offer for sale thirty-seven hogsheads and
tierces, and eighteen barrels of first quality
Georgia manufactured sugar. This is pro
phetic of anew aud truly auspicious era iu
our history. The time is not far distaut
when tiie hogsheads of Georgia sugar, in
the market will outnumber the bales of
cotton, and at twic6 their value. A pound
of cotton is worth no more than a pound
of sugar in any of our markets, while in
the iuteriorit is worth little more than
half. It will obviously be a very advan
tageous comparison in favorof cotton, and
that the same acre of laud, with equal til
age will yield about three hundred pouuds
of sugar to one of unginned cotton. If the
latter is worth two cents a pound, and an
acre, upon an average will produce four
liuudred pouuds, the proceeds would
amount to eight dollars, while the cane
land, it is believed, would yield twelve
hundred pounds of sugar upon an average,
worth eighty dollars per acre, besides the
syrup which follows of necessity. This is
twenty-five per eent lower than any cal
culation we have seen; and experiments
give oue hundred dollars as the minimum
result per acre But we have chosen to
briug down the calculation to our inferior
quality of pine lands, to illustrate their
value, and to induce those who think no
lauds valuable that will not produce ten
dollars worth of cotton to the acre, to plant
the same in cane, and prove, by honest
and fair experiment, whether it will not,
with equal labor, produce, in truth and in
fact, au income ten-fold more valuable. —
Augusta Press.
GOOD WORDS.
For the followiugcomplimentary notice,
we beg to make our best bow to the editor
of the Marietta Journal:
The Journal and Messenger comes
to us with the New Year, beautifully en
larged. It is one of our most vafuable
exchanges, and we believe it is the largest
Daily in the State. Its columns are pre
sided over with ability, talent and enter
prise. The chief object of the proprietors,
it seems, is to excel —to make the Journal
one of the best papers in the South. May
success crown their efforts. Those of«ur
subscribers who desire an excellent Daily
paper, besides their country Weekly,
would do well to subscribe for the Journ
al and Messenger. Macon.
Journal and Messenger.— This old
and popular journal has been greatly ex
panded. It is well sustained by the busi
ness men of Macon, and is worthy of their
confidence. It isconducted with eminent
ability by our friend A. W. Reese.— La-
Grange Reporter .
MACON COUNTY PRESENTMENTS.
We, the Grand Jurors, ebosen forthe September
Adjourned Term of Macon Superior Court, suimiit j
the following general presentment*:
The following recoin mendatioDS of the last Grand i
Juries of Bibb aud Houston counties meet our ap- j
probation, and we beg leave to engraft them as a
portion of our presentments:
We recommend that authority We obtained j
from the Legislature for the appointment by the j
Judge of the Superior Court of five Commissioners ‘
annually, who 6U&11 be eligible to reappointoent at j
the discretion of his Honor, whose dtty il :
shall be—
-Ist To direct and control all the eonnty property j
according to law.
2d. To assess all taxes m special purposes.
3d. To establish, alter or abolish all rtfeds, ■
bridges and ferries in conformity to law,
4th. To establish election precinct* in mlitia ,
districts.
sth. To examine, settle and allow or rejed all j
claims which may be pre.-ented against the cojnty. ;
Cth. To examine and audit thaw accounts >f all !
officers having the care, keeping,col- j
lection or disbursement of money belonging to the j
county or appropriated to its use and benefit, «id
bringing them to a settlement.
7th. To make such rules and regulations for the
support of the poor, for county police and patrol
for the promotion of health and quarantine as the
public good may require.
Bth. Tb regulate the penalty for peddling,
the license fee therefor, and to regulate and control
all kindred subjects.
The present Grand Jury desire to ineorporatethe
folio wing amendment, to-wit:
That 6aid Board es Commissioners be require! to
make a report to the Grand Jury of each Spriig
Term of the Superior Court of all accounts auditid
and disbursements of the public money, and sad
report be incorporated into and become a parfof
the general presentments of said Jury.
Through appropriate committees we have ex
amined the public buildings, and find that it is
necessary to have the court house re covered.
therefore recommend that this be done, (ind
be otherwise thoroughly repaired and j
We find that! the jail is perfectly secure In every j
respect, except that one of the windows needs new
gratings. We recommend that this be attended to,
and that sanitary regulations within the dungeon
be more strictly enforced by the Sheriff. We re
commend a stockade or other structure
be erected around the jail as an additional security
and as a comfort to its inmates.
We also recommend that as a security to the
court house against fire, that the houses aud lauds
known as the Walter property be purchased, pro-!
vided it can be done at a reasonable cost, and thatj
these houses be removed forthwith.
We find the books of the different officers of the
county kept in a neat and correct manner, reflect
ing much credit upon those officers.
We find that some of the public roads, without
permission from the legal authorities, have been
changed, such changes being greatly to the detri
ment of tiie good citizens thereof, aud we do most
urgently request that the Ordinary require these
roads to be placed upou the original grounds.
We recommend that the Ordinary see to it that
the road laws be rigidly enforced, aud we respect-i
fully request that he report to the next Grand Jury
all neglect of duty upon the part of Commissioners
of roads.
We particularly call attention to the bad eoudi-i
tlou of the roads leading from Lanier Ferry to
wards Fort V T alley; from Nixon’s gin-house to the!
Houston line; from Winchester to Travellers’i
He t; aud from Grangerville to Turner’s Chappel. |
We recommend that the proper authority be re
quested and strictly enjoined to have the street
opened on the original route from the court house
to the river, aud that the ferry be established and
kept in order, as a matter of justice to the citizens
of the county.
In consequence of the increasing amount of petty
crime iu the county, the penalty for which is less
tliaii imprisonment in the Penitentiary, we recom
mend to the Ordinary the preparation for, and the
employment of, such criminals in chain-gangs upou
the public works of the county; hire them out, or
turn them over to the Governor; thus, as we be
lieve, lessening expenses of the county.
We recommend, also, that all moneys now in the
County Treasury, raised for edueatio nal purposes,
be appropriated to the payment of the tuition for
this year of the children of maimed and deceased
soldiers.
In taking leave of his Honor, Judge Cole, we
tender him our sincere thanks for the able, digni
fied and impartial manner in which he has dis
charged the onerous duties of his office, and hope
that amid the blessings of peace, harmony aud con
tentment he may long live to adorn the judicial
ermine.
We tender to our youthful Solicitor General, E.
W. Crocker, Esq., our thanks for his courteous
deportment and strict attention and counsel during
We recommend that the above presentments be
published in the Daily Journal and Messenger.
L. M. Folton, Foreman.
Jno Causey, David Bigelow,
JnoTCooyle, Elijah Cloud,
Jno S.igh," A G Stewart,
II T Gaines, 8 L Turner,
.Jacob Hiley, R H English,
A T Jolly, J C Loyd,
B T Marshall, H T Jordan,
I* D Fredrick, J B Smith,
Jno C Hogg, WmHafer.
HE A Candler,
On motion of E. W. Crocker, Solicitor General,
ordered that the foregoing presentments be pub
lished in the Daily Journal and Messenger,
pursuant to the request of the Grand Jury.
A true extract from the minutes of Macon Su
perior Court.
JNO. M. GREER, Deputy Clerk.
January Bth, 1809.
Trade of the City.
At the present juncture it Is a pleasure to revert
to this topic. The planters, now that the great
staple commands so remunerative a price, have
cause for gratulation, and we are happy to say our
merchants too, have something tangible to cheer
them. Never, we are assured, was a better business
done in Macon thau that which the month of De
cember closed upon. The Christmas holidays were
followed by a temporary lull, but trade has again
revived—the improvement of the last few days very
decided. From now till Spring our merchants will
have a busy time —the trade of that season is ex
pected to be unusually large. The planters are in
fine spirits, and so soon as the “organ
ization of labor” ou their plantations they wil
purchase largely iu this market. Money with them
is abundant. They have profited by the experience
of the trying past—made comparatively few debts,
and consequently have been able to retain a fair
proportion of their crop. It is estimated that one
third of the crop is now in the hands of the farmers
and planters; for they have sold only sufficient to
meet their obligations. They have acted with cir
cumspection and wise forecast. And trade is thereby
the gaiuer. Though many of them have raised
abuudant corn, yet there must be necessarily
heavy purchases made later in the season, by many
others. Os Bacon but little has been made by any
of them. For these needed supplies there is no
available market comparable with Macon. For
Western produce what market can compete with
it? We have had recent evidence that those who
tried to make better bargains outside of it have met
with signal failure. The stocks which the heavy
December trade had run low are now replen
ishing with all the rapidity afforded by the am
ple facilities at the command of our merchants.
They are preparing for an immense business, and
the planters trading here will find no lack of sup
plies to meet all demands. While we have the
pleasant assurance of the return of prosperity to
our city, we look out upon the vast extent of Mid
dle Georgia with no less well founded hope. There
is no liner planting country on the globe. In view
of the superb resources of this opulent section, it
is egregious folly to turn to more distant sections
in hope of fortune. With a soil unsurpassed, there
needs but improved agriculture, suited to altered
circumstances, steady improvement of every home
stead, and judicious use of fertilizers, to draw from
mother earth the weath in which she abounds. Emi
grate, indeed! This is the land of promise,
rather.
We recently visited South Carolina, had person
al intercourse there with trustworthy men from
all sections of the State, and their testimony was
anything but encouraging as to affairs there—in the
low country especially, the planters are In a pitiable
plight—and the miserable negroes tending to bar
barism There will probably be many an emi
grant from that quarter—it may be to the West.
Better send their Calebs and their Joshuas to spy
out the laud in Middle Georgia, or thereabout.
They may not return loaded with the igrapes of
Eshcol, but we would warraut them a “branch” of
cotton bolls equal in bulk to the clusters of the
ancient rivulet.
Valentine*.
Messrs. J. W. Burke A Cos. are prepared to fur
nish dealers In Valentines a fine assortment, at re
markably low prices. Their stock will comprise a
great variety, and at any price, from the cheapest
to the most expensive. Small dealers can buy of
this house as low as they can get them In New
York, with the additional advantage of being able
to procure them at short notice, and in small
quantities. See their announcement in our adver
tising columns.
Petrrson’s Magazine for February.— This
favorite received and for sale by J. W. Bcaa* A
Cos.
NEWS FROM THE OGKEUHKK.
Operations of the Officers—The Law Being
Quietly E ■forced— Sixty-seven of the In
sargents Arrested —If one of the Principal
Ringleaders in Custody.
[From the Savannah News, Bth.]
Last evening 8 fieri IT Dooner, Deputy
Sheriff Russell, aud others, arrived from
the Ogeecheo, having in charge sixty
eight prisoners, who were captured there
yesterday*, and from those who have ac~
eompanied tiie exjiedition we have col
lected a lit’le in formation regarding its
operations.
We gave yesterday about all the matters
of interest that occurred up to the time
that our informants of the previous day
left. The military had gone iuto camp ou
the Grow place, aud messeugers had been
sent out to summon the negroes against
whom the Sberitf' had warrants to come
up and surrender themselves, notifying
them that any resistance to the lawful
authorities wouid be punished.
In the course of the afternoon a uumber
of tiie negroes came up, aud Col. Sweeney
told them what was required of them, and
then dismissed the crowd to their several
homes, telling them to inform the others
that they must all make their appearance
the next morning. The soldiers aud cit
izens then disposed of themselves the best
they could to pass tiie night, which
was cold, damp and disagreeable—aud
not iu the least conducive to comfortable
sleeping in the open air.
Yesterday morning the negroes came
up quietly and surrendered themselves.
The whole number not appeariug, Capt.
Isaac Russell, Deputy Sheriff, and two
other white men, went to Heyward’s,
Southfie and, the Elliott place aud other
plantations, and ordered the negroes to
come up to Col. Sweeuey’s headqua'ters.
That officer also sent out several colored
men to notify them to the same effect.
By afleruoou about sixty negroes were
present. They wero formed in line and
placed under guard. Several others were
arrested by the officers. Some of them
were quite impertinent, declaring that
they would not go, aud declared that the
officers could not take them. The muskets
aud the bayonets of the soldiers had a
powerful persuasive influence, however,
and the unruly parties, when that was
exerted, became very quiet, and went
along without any trouble. Sheriff Doo
ner thought it Lest to bring the prisoners
that lie bad secured to the city. Col.
Sweeney was applied to for a guard, and
furnished a sergeatn and ten men. These,
with tiie posse of citizens, were considered
sutticieut. They were marched aloug the
road to Station No, 1, none of them offer
ing any resistance or attempting to es
cape.
Captain Russell noticed two negroes
following the party, and went back to see
what they were after. One of them was
very impertinent when questioned, and
swore that no officer could take him.
He was arrested, and was recognized as
ithe man who h and taken Sheriff'Dooner’s
and Deputy Sheriff Mendel’s pistols, on
tiie occasion of their first trip to the
Ogeechee.
file officers, with their prisoners, left
Station No. 1 about half-past five o'clock
yesterday afternoon, and arrived in this
city a little after six. The prisoners were
theu marched up to the United States
Barracks, where they were placed for the
night. Commitments will be made out
against them, and they will probably be
turned over to the civil authorities to-day,
and seat to jail.
None of the principal ringleaders have
been arrested. Solomon Farley was not
to be found at all. Others who were
known to he leaders of the gang have also
kept out of the way, but, whether first or
last, the officers are bound to have them.
Two negroes, one called Dock Williams,
and the other named Haines, came aud
offered their services to Colonel Sweeney
as scouts, and summon the others to come
up, and have acted in that capacity. The
former, the negroes say, was the principal
leader and cause of the trouble. He was
formerly the property of Major Thos. E.
Lloyd, and said to be oue of the smartest
i negroes on the Ogeechee. The blacks also
say that when he came to the plantations
he notified the principals to leave aud
summoned the dupes and under-strappers
to come to Colonel Sweeney’s headquar
ters.
Many of the negroes are highly incensed
against some of the Radical apost esof the
city. Mosts Bentley came to our office
yesterday, and said lie had not been to the
Ogeechee. The negroes say that he was
there; and they also denounce Josiah
Grant as liavingdeceived them by speeches
and promses.
On Heyward’s plantation, and on Alder
man Burroughs’ place the negroes have
been perfectly quiet. Some of these ne
groes were uit-ii p—>®.t wutcti opera tea
at SouHifield aud Prairie, and these were
arrested.
(The officers visited Southfield and Prai
rie plantations, which the lawless and in
surrectionary negroes had completely
desolated. The house at Southfield, one
«|f the finest mansions iu tiie Ogeechee
qountry, remained but a wreck of its for
mer appearance. The furniture had beeu
carried away, the windows broken, doors
stove in and tiie place filled with dirt aod
filth, as though it had been used as a pig
wallow. Tiie ovo!seers’ and watchmen’s
holies had been treated in the same man
ner and the whole year’s crop of rice car
rier off. A few stacks of l ice not threshed
outremaiued, but the rest, some four or
fivt thousand bushels, had been carried
awty. At the Prairie place tiieir opera
tions bait not been so extensive. They
had also visited the Cbeeves place and
robjbed it to some extent.
There are sixty or seventy other negroes
uotjyet arrested, against whom the Sheriff
haswarrants. He will return to theOgee
chea at once, with his officers, and pro
ceed to arrest them. The two companies
ofimilitary which Colonel Sweeney took
down still remain on the Ogeechee, and
wllstay there until complete quiet is re
stared, and all the disorderly parties ar»
reiifed. The soldiers have rendered effi
cifit aid to the i ivil officers iu the per
fotnauce of their duty, and have couduc
tel themseves well throughout the whole
aflir.
TIE RECENT TRANSFER OF RAILROAD
SfOCKN AND JUDGE COLE’S INJUNCTION.
fre understand that the injunction
grdited by Judge Cole, of the Macon Cir
cuj, to restrain the Southwestern Rail
road Company from purchasing certain
rafroad stock from the City of Savannah,
is 4ot regarded as alFecting the transfer
in Roy manner. The contract was con
summated atonce, afterCouiicilsanctioned
it,and the transfer made, all tiie papers
n*«essary drawn out, signed, sealed aud
dttvered. An injunction might have
stJpped the transfer while it was in pro
gress ; but a court cannot grant au ex post
folio injunction. It cannot stop a trans
fer) which lias already been made, iu that
m|QU*r. Tiie Southwestern Railroad
Catapiny cannot well be restrained from
purchasing that which it has already
bought. If the matter is to come before
tire cotrts, it will have to be presented iu
some Oiher form.— Savannah News, Bth.
Wetre not lawyer enough to say wheth
er the above extract be correct or not.
We understand, however, that the injunc
tion tfoes farther than is indicated by our
and restrains the purchasers
frem paying interest upon the bonds of
tb* city of Savannah, and from voting or
in any wise coutiolling the stock pur
chased ; and tiiat the Bill in question
pnys for a rescinding of tiie entire contract
—lot only restraining all concerned from
talng any steps forward, but requiring
eaCi and all of them to take the back
trank, aud that speedily.
However, we are no lawyer and have
talßn, and mean to take, no part in the
grdfc controversy, being perfectly williug
to l*we the matter where it now is jn the
haflMs of the very able and learned Judge
of His Circuit. If our cotemporary sup
pose! that Judge Cole does not know wuat
he ifiabout, or has transcended the legiti
mate bounds of his authority, he much
mistakes both the learning and integrity
of ocr distinguisbad townsman.
PROFITS OF THE RICE CROP IN LOUIS
IANA. —A friend just down from St. James
parfcn, assures us that a rich planter in
thatregion, having planted all the cane
he otuld obtain this year, found one hun
dred aod six acres unused. On these he
determined tosow rice for the use of his
family aDd his farm hands, as well as for
sale, if fie should succeed in the attempt.
His rice crop filled fourteen hundred bar
rels, the greater number of which he diu
poeed-of ou the plantation at s2l a barrel;
and the entire c.st of plowing, sowing,
and preparing the grain for market was
$4,000. If he had sold ail the barrels,
which he could easily have done at s2l,
his clear profit would have been $25,400.
[New Orleans Creeent.
THK OGECHEK PRISONERS.
The Savauuah Republican, of Saturday,
9ays:
Between eleven and twelve o’clock yes
terday morning, the sixty-seven prisoners
arrested by Sheriff Doouer, and t rought to
the city on Thursday evening, in charge
of a guard composed of United States sol
diers detailed for that purpose by Geueral
Sweeney, were marched from the Ogle
thorpe Barracks, in this city, to the Chat
ham county jail, iu charge of a tile o
Uuited States soldiers. When they reach
ed the jail, they were drawu up iu a line,
four deep, in front of the door, where
they were addressed by Justice P. M. Rus
sell, Jr., who had issued the warrants for
their arrest, and also for their commit
ment, to await the action of the civil
authorities. He informed them that each
and every one of them had been charged
under oath with the offeuces defined in
the fol owing sectious of the code of the
State of Georgia:
“ Section 4249. Insurrection shall con
sist iu any corn fined resistance to the lasv
ful authority of the State, with intent to
the denial thereof, when the
ifested or intended to be mauMmld, by
acts of violence.
“Section 4250. Any attempt, by per
miasiim nr otherwise, to iadupf oUjers'lrC
r. -Midietfr' ■ t:. vftTf
authrffity of the State, shall 'constitute an
attempt to iucite insurrection.’’
After readiug the law the Justice in
formed them that these offenses, witii
which they were charged, were not baila
ble, but if they desired to do 90, each could
have au examiuatiou of his case before a
bench of magistrates, at an early day,
when if found innocent they would be dis
charged. He also informed them that they
were not bound to make any statements
or admissions tending to establish their
guilt. The warrauts for their commitment
were then hauded try the Sheriff, one by
one, to Mr. Waring Russell, the jailor,and
each name was called, the prisoner march
ed iuto the jail, and was searched, im the
whole sixty-seven, only two knives, and
a few bullets aud buchshot were found.
One portion of them appeared to be
alarmed, another portion polite and re
spectful, aud several of them sullen and
insolent.
When the man Jackson, who refused to
give bis name, was called and asked what
his name was, he stepped forward in au
insolent and swaggering manner and said,
“ My mudder never give me any udder
name but Jackson, hut I call myself Jack
son Joseph.”
Jackson was one of the men who point
ed a gun at the breast of Sheriff’ Dooner,
aud ordered him in the most insolent
and ferocious manner to give up his arms.
We understand that nearly every man of
the sixty-seven commuted to jail yester
day, were present, with arms iu their
hands, aiding and assisting iu 1 lie rescue
of the prisoner Solomon Farly, and in the
robbery of the sheriff and his deputies.
The prisoners expressed an anxiety for a
speedy trial, and we hope the civil author
ities will be able to accommodate them.
The Republican further adds :
Mr B. F.Sbeftall, special Deputy Sheriff,
left the city yesterday on the morning
train, and arrived at Station 1 at half past
eight o’clock, aud remained at the camp
during the day. He found all quiet. At
about three o’clock p. m., Aleck Stevens,
alias Anderson, one of the colored rneu for
whose arrest a warrant had been issued,
came in and surreudered to the military
authorities. Another negro, named Scipio
Brown, was found loitering about the
camp and was arrested. He is said to be
a desperate character, aud one of the lead
ers of the gang. Mr. Sheftall left at live
and a half o’clock p. m., with the two
prisoners above named, and upon their
arrival in the city they were taken to the
Oglethorpe Barracks, aud will probably be
committed to jail tins morning.
We understand that both white aud col
ored runners are being sent out to bring
in the negroes foi whose arrests warrants
have been issued, aud the prospects are
fair for securing and safely lodging in jail
most of the parties in the course of a few
days. Nothing has been heard from 8 >l
- Fariy, the leader of the gun*, and
the greatest rogue of them all, and it is
feared that he has succeeded in making
his escape.
The Ogeechee prisoners now in the
county jail number eighty live, with a
strong probability that it will be increased
to one hundred and fifty in a few- days.
The prison will be crowded almost to suf
focation and tb« expense to the county will
be fearful.
WHATGRANT THIINKS OF DIVERS MEN.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York World, of the 4th inst., gives
the following as Grant’s opinion of vari
ous men, as given recently in private con
versation with friends :
General Grant regards E. B. Washburne
as honest and a friend in need. He can
have whatever lie wants from Grant. Graut
considers Rawlins as a brother—a man ca
pable of filling any place, but too poor to
take a Cabinet position. Senator Morgan
merely as a bag of dollars ; all his Sena
torial labors being to secure his re-election.
Fessenden as the ablest statesman in the
Senate, and a man of the highest order of
intellect, catholic views, large and well im
proved experience, and great moral cour
age. Sumner he considers as a great
scholar, finished orator, and faithful rep
resentative of his State.
I kuow nothing personally of Wendell
Phillips, said Gen. Grant lately. I should
have respected him, and accredited him
with more honesty of purpose, if he had
opposed my election. I eertaiuly could
never support a man I thought as weak
and bad as he professed to believe me.
Logan is the coming man of Illinois.
When Douglas died his mantle fell upon
Logan. His gallantry and success in the
field are not properly appreciated by the
leaders of the party. Senator Morton is
too much of a politician to be a safe finan
cial adviser, and makes greater elfort to
make hts views popular than to demon-*
strate their soundness. When Morton
adopted the greenback fallacy of Pendle
ton, he underrated the integrity of the
masses. When he endeavored to show a
way to specie resumption he overrated
popular avarice.
James Gordon Bennett is a Scotchman.
No man born in Scotlaud becomes accli
mated to this country. He lias always
conducted his journal on the principle
enunciated by the Scotch man who advised
his son John, “when you have money
marry a woman who has money, for any
woman may turn out ill, but Gad, the
money never will.”
Henry Ward Beecher don’t want office,
but he would be a better preacher if he
were less of a politician, and a better poli
tician if he were less a preacher. It is
impossible to have a philanthropy that
will fearer a whole nation and yet fit Ply
mouth Church.
Gen. McClellan is an able soldier, good
citizen, and a pure man. He has great
powers of organization, and the army of
the Potomac was the best organized and
best disciplined army the world ever saw.
For accomplishing this the country is in
debted to McClellan. While to a large
extent McCleliau lost the confidence of
the country, he never lost the confidence
of his army.
Butler is not so bad as his enemies rep
resent him. I have no ill-will towards
him, and am satisfied there would never
have been any difficulty between us, if it
had not beeu for the misrepresentationsof
other parties. There is no truth in the
report that George Wilkes arranged our
differences. There is nothing in common 1
between Wilkes and me except a fondness
for horses and the turf. Butler is a man
of great force of character, and he would
he a leader in any country in which he
lived.
Greeley is a great and good man, and a
faithful, honest and efficient advocate of
the cause of human liberty. He always
seemed to me to exaggerate the right side
of human nature, and underrate its dark
side. He exaggerated the capacities of the
negro, while he underrated the crime of
Such men are always the
dupes of men of inferior abilities.
Raymond always reminded me of a,
jumping-jacket. He is heads up or tails
up, just as Seward or Weed movts. When
Raymond goes wrong I feel like forgiving
him then, for he knows not what he does.
Nobody supposes him to be anything but
the mouthpiece of Seward and Weed. He
is a brilliant writer if he would be inde
pendent. Seward is a man of great ability
and very little principle. If he had not
introduced his politics to Weed he might j
have been a statesman, but Weed being '
a very corrupt politician, Seward was
dragged down from the elevation of states
manship to the lowest depths of dema- 1
goguery. Johnson would have remained a !
pure, true patriot, aod wise President, if
he had been removed from the baneful in
fluence of Seward.
—lt is said that the former trial of Sur
ratt, and the preparations for a second
one, cost the Government about one hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
—The Legislature will re-assemble on
Wednesday next.
THE DANGER TO PLANTERS.
We have so often, about this time of
the year, urged the advantage of so
"pitching” the crop as to make sure of
plenty of provisions, and devote only the
labor loft after attaining this assurance to
the cultu r e of cotton, that the advice may
be considered a chronic habit of ours.
But actual experience, says the L oluinbus
Enquirer, so invariably proves the correct
ness of the policy advocated, that we are
conteut to be judged by the results. 1
never was a time when sucii a w-aqrffcg
was more needed than at present. T*ne
high price of cotton may delude many
into the conviction that the staple is sure
to command a good price uext winter, no
matter how large a crop they may make.
We l>eg leave to call the attention of those
whoso believe to two facts, which they
will readily admit: Ist, that the prevail
ing high price is due to scant stocks in
Liverpool and the other great markets;
aud 2d, that an American crop of probably
two luLjlious o£ baJea rafsed pu
brought* nearly if not quite as
much money iuto the pockets of the plan
ters as a crop of four millions of bales
would have brought.
On tLis subject we adopt and commend
the observations of the Federal Union :
“Whenever our planters have raised their
provisions and then devoted the balance
of their strength to raising cotton, they
and their household have been comforta
ble, aud they have made money. But
when deluded by a rise in cotton, or an
ardent desire to become ricli suddenly,
they have employed all of their force iu
making cotton, they and their household
have fared hard, and at the end of the
year they have found themselves burdened
with debt. The reasons for this are so
plain and obvious that we should think
none could be again deceived, and yet
there is reason to fear that many this year
will again make the fatal mistake, and by
turning all of their attention to cotton,
uegleet to make a.sufficiency of provisions,
without which no planter can be prosper
ous. Last year our planters were wise, and
made their provisions, and then made
what cotton they could, and the conse
quence has been that what little cotton
was made brought a good price, and at
the end of the year the planters had the
money which their eotiou brought to
themselves, aud many of them are out of
debt because they did not have to buy pro
visions. But if the high price of cottou
shall delude them to turning ail of their
attention to cottou and uegleet provisions,
the same old story will be told again, cot
ton will be down, provisions will be high,
and the planters will have to pledge their
next crop for provisions. The safe and
sure plan is first to make plenty of provis
ions, and then what cottou you can, and
then, whethtr the price of cottou is high
or low, you are safe.
WASHINGTON SPECIALS.
CLAIMS OF SOUTHERN LOYALISTS.
Washington, January 6. —The ques
tion of the claims of Southern loyalists,
which absorbed the principal atten ion of
tiie Senate to-day, presents the following
points, urged for aud against their pay
ment. For their payment a very consid
erable party in both Houses advance these
reasons. Most of tiie claims are Held on
quartermasters’ vouchers, for property ac
tiiully given the army, or taken by it when
they were in stress. Many of the claims
arise from property destroyed by military
order. Not to pay them when backed by
loyalty in the claimant, rates Unionist
and Rebel alike, without remedy, and
equal iu the eye of the government. The
whole amount needed to pay all probable to
he presented would be less than $25,000,000.
Not to pay them, the vouchers at least,
will be practical conUscalion and repudi
ation. Opposed to the payment of claims
are what appear to he a more considerable
party, who declare that all the property in
the enemy’s territory was liable to a pro
priation, and had to stand the chances and
changesof war. That the magnitude of
the rebellion made it a belligerent, and
made all within its lines constructive bel
ligerents This much against the pay
ment ot claims iu any event.
The other points presented in opposi
| tiou go to demonstrate tiie inexpediency
!of the payment, at least now. They are:
That there is not enough money to war
rant ttieir payment; that to pay one would
necessitate the payment of all ; that to as
certain the loyalty of each claimant be
yond question would be impossible, and
that Congress would be imposed on in
thousands of cases ; that, even if demon
strablo loyalty could be proved, tiie non
combatants who took no active part iu
rebellion would have good claims, how
ever much they sympathized with it; that
the amount required would he 5500,000,000
at least. These are the arguments on the
surface of both sides. A reason not stated,
but more sincere than any of these, is the
purpose of Congress to appropriate no
money,even in payments,to parties South
Property, especially land, there is to be
practically sold for a song into Eastern
iiands, for political purposes generally,
and for private reasons, which redound to
the profit of several Eastern and Western
Senators. It is a part of the same policy
which lets the levees dissolve iuto the Mis
sissippi, and gives no relief to Southern
harbors ; in faet gives nothing but recon
struction and taxes and indirect confisca
tion. None of theseclaims wili pass, this
session at least.
THU CIVIL TENURE BILL.
General Butler is privately canvassing
the House to find out how many members
will vote to repeal the Civil Tenure bill.
He was at the work Tuesday and to-day.
He finds almost every man disposed to
wait until General Grant develops bis
course. The prospect he esteems discour
aging, unless he can make repeal a party
question, by order of caucus. A careful
canvass of the Senate reveals the present
sentiment of that body on the questiou of
repealing Civil Tenure law almost to a dot
as follpws. However conjectural such
work may appear now, it is beyond dispute
that the tally herewith printed is the one
in private circulation to-night among
members of both Houses, and accurately
represents how the Benate views the prop
osition to relinquish au equality of power
in the dispensation of patronage. The
list is: For repeal, twenty-eight. Against
repeal, thirty-nine.— World , 7 th.
grant’s cabinet.
A statement, derived from excellent
sources, throws the most satisfactory lights
that has yet beeu shed ou the appoint
ments that are likely to be made by Gen
eral Grant for the positions of Secretary of
War and Secretary of the Navy. Admiral
David D. Porter will be appointed, it is
said, Secretary of the Navy pro tern., and
will hold the office until the naval survey,
which creates three admirals, is completed
and approved. He will thereupon resign
and accept one of the three offices so con
stituted. General Schofield will take posi
tion in the Cabineton thesame conditions,
and thus the recent projected legislation in
the Senate about limiting the number of
offices to be held by one person will be
avoided in these two particular instances.
THE ELECTORAL VOTE.
Messengers arrived to-day with the vote
of the Electoral Colleges of Vermont ami
Maryland, which were deposited with Mr.
Wade. All the Sta'es have been heard
from now except those ou the Pacific
coast. The messenger for Cailforniastarted,
butdied at Pauamaofsmall-pox contracted
on the steamer. When he found he was
about to die he delivered his papers over
to some friend with power of attorneys
authorizing them to deliver them to Mr.
Wade. There is no law making the power
of attorney valid in this matter, and, as
the case is unprecedented, it will probably
require some action of Congress to place
the vote of Calif >ruia legally in the hands
ot Mr. Wade. Nevada has not been beard
from yet. The messenger from Oregon
is reported snowed up in the Rocky
Mountains.— Herald, Ith.
The Cotton Factory a Success. —We
are pleased to state that there is no Jonger
any doubt as to the building of a Cotton
Factory in Americus. Bona fide subscrip
tions to the amount of SUX),yoO have been
subscribed, and we learu that $50,000
more-can easily be obtained. From a
notice in another column it will be seen
that a meeting of the Stockholders has
been called to meet at the City Hall, on
tbe 4th day of February, to elect officers,
and for the transaction of other business.
\Amerieut Republican, 11 th.
THE RIGHT TALK.
The Savannah New* h is discover*,,
the building of the Macon ami IJru V 1 ’
Railroad is "demanded by Uie fitH ‘'
Ueorgia,” and neither tiie Central tl |f r *
other competitor will be allows K '
people to defeat their wishes. j(,
disclaims any intention *on the '
Savannah to do that tiling, and tr
Central railroad has no such di> .
heartily approve and respond t<
generous senti tEei •
£may be permitted, however to ... !
dihut a note of warning from a .
Savannah courts very a .
had something to do with thi- '
ing change Id temper. Thearti. i,
l>elow, from the Thomssvillc J,,/
furnishes the text for the remarks
quoted from the News:
HOW WILL IT DO IT?
Th > Savannah Morning N i
purchase of 1200 shares of t| it . ' ‘
the Atlantic & Gulf Ratlr( ,iV u
J2e|itral Railroad Cooiptuy. w; , ; '
HR teat h blow” to th** Macon'& is,‘
road, and greatly cripple the ' '" ; T
gia & Florida Road. now iu proc.... r ‘
I struction between lhoiua-vid
! bany. Some how it other v•'
[ shake off tiie impression t) !a - p...', ■
! uttered this ominous prediction ' *’
| kind of glee or secret delimit «t 11-
' pect of ruin to ihissectiou of conn r '
conceived tiie great Central Kai f , ,
nopoly to have in store for ns.
publican also approves the transfer <,
city stock, but it does not indulge ~
same predictions. Now, for inlurni
we desire to ask how arc we to l>,. j
so roughly by the Central Hail road ' y.
tilate the subject, gentlemen and 1,-,; 1
into the light. If Savannah hag m*
' her mind that she does not w»ut j.
! ville nor this section of Georgia '
1 then, Thomasville and its surround
! country will not force their h-hc ’
! upon her. We have >tate aid to tli >
; Georgia & Florida Railroad, and,
help of our good ci'i/.. IW, We no a , :
j plete the road in spite of the Ceutriii
! uopoly; and if the Gulf Hoad is to i>ei
I ed against us, why we will just t i
twenty miles more of railroad and ,
with the Pennsacola and Georgia
Monticello, whither the growing cit
Fernandina and Jacksonville are air
inviting us. Weceita'nly |.refer tin- |, r ,„\
perity and growth of citie- of our , *
State ; hut commerce will iuvariab v.
theshortest,cheapest and most eunv'u,,
channels. Jacksonville is s:«id t<> i„
miles nearer to Thomasville than >.
liah, and being a good shipping...
haps we we would not stiffr by t ecUi .
But all this aside, we do not agree»
the New* that the monopoly <*t ■ .
tral road will either prove ad ,tli 1.
the Macon and Rrutiswi. .; 1 H, nr
will seriously ii 'ute tbc s.i u'a t;
and Florida sou :.
We know nothing about the fir
raugements or the present operate...
the Central Railroad Company, l„
those who control it arcgentleim ap
prehensive views Jam! posses—d »| ; .
nary circumspection, as, we believ- ii,, v
are represented to be, they alrcau
ceru tiie shadow of obstacles winttitu
loom up in the future and present a f
idable harrier to any attempt on tb-ir;
by money or any other power, to ,
the prosperity and thrift of : >iy con
able section of the Stale. Railroad clut
ters are granted by the people wli m
support them, and those whft iufuw v>
taiily into corporations can also mono:
their tendency to mischief. But it «r
judge the Central Railroad Compa \ •
what we conceive to be the great olj>.
railroad companies in general, itrect;>t
us that there exists abundant room for
legitimate enterprise and prodl both
tiie Central and for the Atlantic au-lt..
Railroads.
If by securing the control of the la'.r.
the former terminates tiie “ruiuoosc .
petition ” on the Chattahoochee, the ;•
suit was well worth the investin'uteri '
Company, aud does not nece.-sai It <■; r
the people of particular sections ai >: ,
liues, or deprive other localities of r
power to form railroad connec ions
are unwilling to believe the (Vlll■ ai If.
road Company guilty of so much ingrati
tude as would appear from a eour-e ol 1
monopoly, ami we therefore conclude t
giving it as our opinion tint a ju-t a
fair interpretation of tiie motives of 1
Central Railroad Company, in ).ur< h i c :
a controlling interest iu I tie Allan'..•
Gulf Road, may be found in t lie fiesiie
that Company to pocket aii the pi '
arising from railroad extensions in
er/i Georgia and Alabama, and to do ti.at
it was necessary to control the two pr
pal lines, in order to destroy competition
and establish equilibrium. This lu.lv to
done without injury to any other t< ■
section, aud we hope to see this n< >*• "l
the matter established and b,>th road
pushed forward, the one to Pe/wac la and
the other to Mobile.
THE NEW YORK MIAMIJKR OF COMMERCE
ON KEKLMIYU SPECIE PAYMKYI'S.
In the New York Chamber of Com
merce to-day an important decision t -k
place upon tiie means of returning t<.-|
cie payments. Mr. A. A. Lowe, the Ev
ident of the Chamber, introduced a 1 - -
Jution f .voring the purchasing and c:
celling of gr*-eubacks at a grade;,
reduced premium, and the luuding«.! t “
public debt at a lower rate of intei. -t.a:
made tbe following remarks: He
that, according to the Constitution.:-
ouly power Congress had in the im
was to coin money ami regulate thecin
lation thereof, but the war confermi»
necessity that could not be
Paper money is a departure from
authorized standard, and win it C •*-
assumes it, it should at least regain
value, but tliis it has never done. J'a;-
currency has no fixed va ue. He said tu
we can now pass from the paper curren'v
to that of specie without lie dang l -:
difficulty that is generally inn.-.'
During the war our people w.ie
tomed to hear our EnglMi friends -
that the Soutli could never be sillju.o ■
but the result has proved that 11
; prophecies were chimerical, ami it * -
i demonstrated that our fin ncial croa.
‘ prophecy iu vain in regard to au e..\
return to specie payments safely.
The legal tenders shoubi be refio.
day by day, and thus with agra-nui
traction all dangers can be avoidoi.
only question that remains ton«-su.-••
is, how rapidly shall the contraction m
place. In any result l.anks aud imiivi ■
als must take cate of tiiemseivc-. ■
malady is known and it remains lor
apply the cuie. Our circulation in
a coin as a basis. A financial j an
preheudiug both paper and coin c
work harmoniously together or la-
Senator Morton, .Mr. Lowe said, im
ported that there is three hundred in
dollars of gold «n the country- H* 1 ’
error. Tiie exportation of gold, as
locking itup, is impoverisiih:tc ll ‘ ‘
try, and will ere long bring tin i ' . 1
if a cure is not speedily applied, i '
not believe ttiat there is more tna
hundred and fifty million dollars'-.
to perform all the functions of ir ’•
the only wonder is that it can i e h ’
135 when it is considered that we a e
stantly sending it out of the cou' .O-
J. B Chittenden, in contending
motion to refer the resolution' ■" a . .
mittee. made a vigorous speech m -- 1 4
a speedy return to specie pay . ’-: .
act of Congress. —Special
Louisville Courier-Journal,
Striking Contrast.—
liticaliy, the best of the Sotithei • •
and Georgia tiie next best.. At- ■
that the States which are tiie D* - r ,
ly are also the best financial-'- , j u ,,
fiscal year ending on tbe 30; li o. ‘' 4
Louisiana contributed the
of taxes collected iu the ten
States, and Georgia the next
former paying $«,943 948, an-i jMI
spite of Congressional recoustru
spite of Governor Bollock s g' ' -
lations of the State’s credit, and in i...
the great evils of the wa, '. t -
government, making U C. 1 " 1 -S ’,*,em '
sum of $5,545. 958, while Floridag t
thoroughly Radical of »b-
Staves, contritmteii only
South Carolina, the m«»t “ * eXI .J
and Radical ridden of aii the 4
Florida, very little m-re. Tru .
close relation between a • ail iOD.' 0 D.'
situation and her financial con
Louisville Courier-Journal,
Testino theQuebtion.-A
ence of the Columbus Enquirer _ (lon
tbe following piau for testing tb »!l
of whether or not the State Cap.- 44
remain at Atlanta: , hpV me< :
Let the Legislature, the i-' x ‘
again, provide by la -ess the | 1
election for members ot C g os , lie j,.- y
pie shah vote .on the Q l4 w hl bs \,
tiou of the capiUl-whelber l Tbis 1*
it at Ailauta or Millefiig ue9 tio» » n
my opinion, will settle the quest
only legitimate way.