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GEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSENGER j
J. W. BI7KHE & < 0., I'roprlelorß.
A. W. IIEKSB, I Editor*.
S. KOSK, \
MACON, TUESDAY. MARCH. 2, 1869. J
A YEAR’S WORK.
Just on? year ago, to-day, the Journal. |
and Messenger passed into the hands o' ;
its present proprietors. Very naturally,
at this prosperous point in the career of
the p3per we recur to past labors, which
have been so well repaid by an apprecia
tive public. We confess that affairs twelve
months ago, viewed from any standpoint,
bore no favorable augury for prospective
enterprises, and that embarking in the
publication of a commercial and political
journal was a venture of some hazard
Rut we are bound to say we entered the
arena, not altogether as a matter of busi
ness. We claim credit for a higher motive
when we put our energies into this work.
An almost disastrous year to the plant
er had just closed— business was nearly
paralyzed—our people disheartened—the
country apparently prostrate. It was
a time, if ever, for the tribunes of the
people to speak out. And actuated by an
impelling sense of what we owed the land
we love, and fired by an unwavering faith
in its vitality and power of recuperation,
we iaid bold of this engine, which of all
otht rs is the most powerful in the using,
to inspire a desponding people with hope,
and with a sense of the latent power that
was in them, to develop the resources of
their noble heritage—this broad, opulent
country.
it is our pride that through the trying
struggles of the year, this time-honored
sentinel has given forth no uncer
tain notes of warning, has maintained the
right, and has received the tangible evi
dence that it lives in the hearts of our
people.
It will no doubt be gratifying to our
patrons to know that our subscription list
is now more than double what it was at
the time we purchased the paper. We
assure them we shall spare no pains to
make it all that energy and the best talent
can make it. It is now conceded to be a
first-class newspaper—a live journal fully
up with the times. With increasing pros
perity we promise further improvements
in every department, commercial, politi
cal, agricultural, literary, miscellaneous.
Yet it is hardly necessary for us to make
The foregoing appeared in the Daily
Journal and Messenger of the 27th,
and we transfer it to the columns of the
Weekly, adding only a few words.
The Weekly, we are happy to say is
rapidly gaining in public favor. The
two weeks past the additions to its roll
of subscribers are numerous beyond
precedent in its recent history. Wo
shall relax nothing of our special en
deavor to make it tho best weekly pa
per in the country —not resting at the
point of excellence that marks it a lit
tle ahead of its rivals. We aim to dis
tance immeasurably all competitors.
Our friends will observe that Mr. Rose
continues his connection with the pa
per, contributing valuable articles to
its columns, and having under his par
ticular charge Masonic department.
The following is the varied contents
of this week’s issue.
FIRST PAGE.
Poetry: The Maiden of the Cottage.
Mr. Tift’s Statement, Riot at Jack
sonville. The Jeffersonville School.
Letter from Key AYest. Condition of
Adairs in Georgia. Southern Individu
ality. The Insurrection in Puebla.
Rebel Glorifying. Georgia Legislature:
Proceedings Monday, Tuesday, Wed
nesday. The National Banks in Con
gress. Assault on a Savannah Editor.
Death of Col. \Y r . M. Smith.
SECOND PAGE.
A Year’s Work. Be Warned in Time.
The Press Convention. That Conver
sation. The Fifteenth Amendment.
St. Klmo. Smells of Powder. Georgia
Legislature: Thursday, Friday. The
Pneumatic Dispatch Company. About
Mrs. Grant. Death of an old Citizen.
Editorial Letter. Interesting Letter
from Patrick Henry. Military Prepa
rations in Europe. The Lowest Depth.
Eagle Factory, Columbus. Bravo.
How Much? Georgia Stocks in New
York. A Wild Goose Story.
THIRD PAGE.
Masonic Department—prepared ex
pressly for the Weekly Journal and
M f.ssexuer bv S-. JLu*r..E*Vv i, Yti'tfl'keY
Reports, both Home and Foreign, etc.,
etc.
FOURTH PAGE.
Poetry: A sad Love Story ; Fading
Beauty. Our Planting Interest. The
Traveler’s Last Inn—a thrilling Story,
to l>e concluded in the next number of
the Weekly.
The Weather and Crop-Planting
Prospects in Alabama.— The Mont
gomery Advertiser, of Tuesday, says that
the almost unprecedented amount of rain
that has fallen since Christinas has re
tarded farming operations to such an ex
tent as to cause more than a passing men
tion of the existiug fact. At this date,
when farmers, as a usual thing, are well
up witii the season iu their preparations
for planting, little or no material progress
is perceptible on the farms of our most
energetic planters. The roads for months
have been next to impassable. It has
been with greatest difficulty that supplies
could be obtained from the city—it re
quiring quadruple the amount of time and
labor of ordinary weather for hauling.
1 he prairie lields below the city, iu many
instances, are covered with water and
have been for weeks. Os course this ren
tiers plowiug impossible. It now lacks
only a few days when the usual corn
planting season commences, aud we may
imagine the vexation aud perplexities of
our farmers at this crisis.
Be Warned in Time. —A few days
siuce, says the Augusta Press, of Friday,
we urged Georgia planters to raise an extra
quauity of sorghum this year, iu order to
prepare for the high prices certain to be
caused by the revolution in Cuba. Al
ready the effects of this revolution are to
be seen. The telegraph yesterday an
nounces that the export duty ou tobacco
aud cigars have beeu increased, and that
the duty on sugar has been increased one
dollar aud a quarter per hogshead. This
will affect the market iu this country, if
our people will be warned iu time the to
bacco planters of Kentucky, Virginia and
North Carolina will pitch a large crop of
the “weed,’’ and the planters of the cot
ton States will literally make the laud
llow with sorghum, which, in tbese rough
times, will be a good substitute for “milk
and honey.”
Actually Tested.— The farmers of
Newberry District, S. C., have an immi
gration society, who seem to be working
cowards practical results with quite a show
of success. Last week, iu addition to
some previously arrived, twenty more
white immigrants were brought on, and
have gone to work on farms in that dis
trict. Many more are expected very eoon.
MOBILE AND THE^Ol THERA PRLSS COX-
After an absence from editorial duty of
nearly two weeks, we return this morning
to harness, again.
Those two weeks have been spent in a
judicious admixture of work and pleasure,
whose results, we trust, the future w ill
abundantly show forth. We know that
the meeting of the Convention of the rep
resentatives of the Southern Press will
prove of the most decided benefit to them
and their class. Never before was there
so much spirit and earnestness in their
deliberations, aud the character of the
Executive Committee, to whose active
and watchful superinteudence their in
terests are entrusted, is the amplest guar
arantee of the character of the work to be
) achieved.
To paint in words our pleasant memo
ries of Mobile, and the large hearted,
generous, thoughtful and refined courtesies
so profusely showered upon their visitors
by the people of that city, would be as
impossible as to catch the fleeting colors of
a summer sunset, or fix upon canvas the
glowing tints of the raiubow. We have
placed them in the casket of our pleasant
est, most cherished recollections, and can
only say, as we do say: Vive, Mobile
aud her noble people! May her aud her
future be eveu brighter and more prosper
ous than her past, aud her brow be crowned
with the laurels of a golden, glorious
wealth and progress hardly ever dreamed
of now by the most sanguine of her citi
zens.
Os her efforts to shake off the chains
that war placed upon her limbs and start
afresh upon the race, we hardly have
space to speak. Among them, however,
we may notice the Mobile & Chattanooga
Railroad; a line of communication that
shall tap, and open to her enterprise
the riches of Florida ; and to dredge away
the bar that now blocks the way to her
wharves of ships of a large class. An ei -
terprise of this character is on foot, and
thre are high hopes that it will yet prove
a success. Mobile should, and if energy,
enterprise aud unflinching determination
can elfect it, will yet outshine even her
self iu her palmiest days. When we add
to these motive powers to success and
prosperiiy, the earnest God-speeds of those
whose hearts are so full of gratitude ami
appreciation of her knightly people, it is
almost an insult eveu to dream of failure.
It would he next to impossible to enumer
ate the many oqcayttiV 4 . ’WthbTng that
the warmest hearts, the moat intelligent
minds, and the most refined aud courte
ous instincts could suggest, was left un
done. Ihe alphabet of kindness on their
part, and of grateful appreciation aud de
light upon ours, is exhausted. The cup
was filled to the brim—so full that even
a single rose leaf would have made it run
over. Here for the present we stop. Jt
will be onr pride and our pleasure to recur
to the subject, in some of its very many
phases, hereafter.
that conversation.
We find the following details of the con
versation between General Grant and a
prominent Pennsylvania politician—men
tion of which was made in our dispatches
Saturday morning—iu the press dispatches
of the Nashville Banner, of Friday:
Among tho numerou , calls at General
Grant’s headquarters to-day was A. K.
McClure, of Pennsylvania. Mr. McClure
asked General Grant directly if he would
appoint Governor Curtin to a place in his
Cabinet. The Geueral replied that it
would be impossible to do so. Mr. Me
t said in tlia,t cast? lit; ft?ll CUlu
pelled to say that to give satisfaction in
Pennsylvania, an appointment must be
given to some man wno has been promi
nently identified with he Republicans,
and an active politician. To illustrate
what he said, he must be no such man as
G. H. Stuart, (President of the Sanitary
Commission during the war,) Bosie, Smith
or West.
Gen. Grant instantly replied he could
not see what objection any loyal man
could have to such a man as Mr. Stuart,
who had done so much for the country,
and was so widely known. Mr. McClure
then made some remarks about the pros
pects that if such appointment were to be
made, the Republican party would be de
feated iu the Pennsylvania election for
Governor next fall. General Grant re
plied :
“1 am not myself a representative of any
political party, although a political party
elected me.” General Grant concluded,
“I would not have you to understand that
Mr. Stuart is the mau selected.” The in
terview has been much talked about to
day. Mr. McClure says he has no doubt
from what was said that Stuart is the man
selected for the Cabinet.
THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT.
The Senate having passed, on Saturday,
the amendment to the Constitution kuown
as Article 15, regulating suffrage iu the
United States, it may be well to know its
provisions. It reads as follows :
.... j „i UOIU
mouses concurring, That the followin'-
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States be submitted to the Legis
latures of the several States, and when
ratiiied by three-fourths tlfereof it shall
be a part of said Constitution :
Article 15. The right of the citizens of
the l uited States to vote shall not be de
med or abridged by the United States, or
by any State, on account of race, color, or
previous condition of servitude.
Section 2. The Congress shall have
power to enforce this article by appropri
ate legislation.
On Thursday, the 25th ult., it was
adopted iu the House of Representatives
as the work of a cominitteeof conference.
As will be marked, it says nothing
about the right to bold office. Weieserve
comment for another occasion.
St. Elmo. —Under this caption, the
editor ol the Charleston Daily News,
Capt. f . \V . Dawson, gives his impression
of Mrs. Wilson, the authoress of Beulah,
Macaria and St. Elmo. The writer of this
paragraph, had the pleasure, in company
with Capt. D., of calling on Mrs. W., but
unfortunately found her absent ;from
home. At a subsequent visit Capt. D. was
more fortunate, aud its results are thus re
corded :
In the evening I had the pleasure of
calling on Mrs. Wilson, (Miss Augusta J.
Evans) the author of Beulah, Macaria and
St. Elmo. Mrs. Wilson is a tall sleuder
ady, with browu hair, a pale face, a rather
long.nose and small eyes. Her forehead
a f Ull . ber t ‘ x P ress ion somewhat
grase, but when she smiles her coun
tenance lights up wondrously and becomes
almost beautiful. Mrs. Wilson is now
copying the manuscripts of anew novel
shei3said to have been ottered
l '-T r . au enterprising young New
Yorker. The name of the new novel is
not known, and I have some curiosity to
see a work written in the middle of such
a racket as that made by rooster, chiekeu
and guinea fowl iu Mrs. Wilson’s beauti
ful home.
Smells of Powder.— a special from
Washington to the Louisville Courier-
Journal, of Thursday last, says that a
prominent Republican Senator, who has
had Interviews within a day or two with
the President elect, represents that one of
the earliest and most important features
of the administration will be a change iu
our foreign policy, especially with regard
to England. Keverdy Johnson is to be
iecaiied at once, and after his successor is
appointed, an entirely new proposition is
to be made for settlement of the Alabama
claims. It is intended to demand of Great
Britain, not only pay for actual damages
done to American shipping, but indemni
ty for the loss to American commerce,
never fully made up, occasioned by the
fear of rebel cruisers which drove the car
rying trade to British bottoms and to other
foreign flags. The present treaty only
covers the detailed and actual personal
damages.
THE LOWEST DEPTH.
Time was, says the Mobile Register,
when the Congress of the United States
was composed of men of honor; but that
time was before political degradation had
degraded all the moral qualities, and when
an observance Hf the Constitution of the
country was accompanied by an observ
ance of those other laws upon which aione j
society can depend for the preservation of j
its purity aud its happiness. But now
the most odious methods of espionage are j
practiced openly by Congressional Com- I
mi Rees'; and spies are kept in the em
ployment of men who sit in the seats once
j occupied by Clay and Calhoun, by Ran
dolph and Webster, and the sauctity of
the family fireside, and the privacy of the
bedchamber are invaded by hired inform-
ers. ready to gratify their employers by the
fabrication of any accusation, however
gross and improbable, which may serve
the purpose of the honorable gentlemen
who now represent the United States of
America.
‘ The last and most humiliatingexh’bition
of our country’s decay, occurred last week,
and is reported In the New York Herald
of the 18th, when the Senate Committee
for the District of Columbia succeeded in
sinking American reputation to the low
est depth. The facts are these : Mr. Cor
coran, of Washington City, had applied
t > Congress for the restoration to him of
an elegant building, which he had erected
before the war, and voted to public in
struction as an art guflery, but which had
been seized by the Government and used
as department offices. The pretence un
der which the Government holds the
building is, that Mr. Corcoran had sym
pathized with the South iu her struggle
for independence; and the Committee
were bent upon making out a case against
him, which might, to some extent, at
least, palliate the outrage committed
against private rights by this seizure ot
private property. Mr. Corcoran’s public
acts are well known. His sympathies
were with the South, but be took no part
iu-the struggle, and quietly went abroad
rather than witness the fratricidal war
which destroyed the fair temple of con
stitutional Government, under which he
had risen to rank aud fortune, the friend
and companion of the best men of all sec
tions of the country. Something more
than this was needed by the Committee;
aud the spy system was resorted to. A
negro waiter wa» cnllaA -a .. uu/,--aajai , u,
inewenator from Delaware, say at the din
ner table of the Russian Minister, that he
would give ten thousand dollars to have
Mr. Lincoln assassinated, and that Mr.
Corcorau said he would give teu times as
much for the same purpose. To procure
such false testimony as that, is base
enough to rival the baseness of the dark
est days of the French revolution ; but its
folly so far surpassed its baseness, that in
dignation at the infamy is overcome by
contempt for the imbecility of the men
who had resorted to this weak device. It
needs no argument to show the utter fal
sity of the suborned negro, when the
character of the gentlemen is known, and
when it is remembered that the Russian
Government was the firm ally of the United
States in the great conflict. Os course,
both the gentlemen denied the absurd
calumny; but the Committee were not
content with their share of disgrace until
they added the last scene to the humiliat
ing picture. They called a Russian ser
vant as a witness, aud attempted to extort
from him the import of conversations be
had overheard at his master’s table. Then
came the contrast. No, said the old Rus
sian, I have lived thus far witnout sink
ing so low, and I shall not now become a
spy. When that answer was made, we
had touched tne lowest depths. What a
scene for the future historian, when he
writes the dark story of these dark days.
A committee of honorable Senators in
Congress so degraded as to endeavor to
corrupt the fidelity of a poor Russian ser
vant —a poor Russian servant, so high by
comparison, that he looks down with
scorn aud contempt upon a Committee of
Senators in the American Congress !
EagleJFactory, Columbus. —We were
glad to greet, iu our ottiee, yesterday, Mr.
William H. Young, well known for his
enterprise, iu developing the industrial
resources of our State. Since the war, Mr. Y.
has been largely instrumental in rebuild
ing the Eag'e Factory, fn our sister city,
and we have been much interested in ex
amining several specimeusof fabrics from
its looms. These are turned out in great
variety, both coarse and flue, suitable for
Summer aud Winter wear for ladies, gen
tlemen aud children ; and he tells us that
the demand far exceeds the supply—that
orders are always ahead of work. To
,—um company is about
to duplicate its facilities for manufactur
ing, and is now canvassing to double its
stock ; that another building as large as
the present one maybe put up at once.
Among the specimens shown us, is a pair
ot cotton blankets, beautifully white and
soft, and seemingly everything that a good
blanket ought to be. They can be sold at
about half the price of a pafr of good
woolen blankets. Here, at once, is
an occasion of large demand for cotton,
that will be better met by manufacturing
the ai tides at home, than by sending
abroad our cotton aud importing our
blankets. \\ e wish there were very many
more gentlemen in our State with the
large upd patriotic business views of Mr.
Young, who would enter upou this race
of improvement. Georgia has within her
limits everything necessary for unbound
ed prosperity if she caii only find men to
guide her destiny and to develop her
vast xesourees.
Bravo!— Massa Greeley having said
that he would “print iu very conspicuous
type, for the eontemplatiou of their con
stituents, the names of the unblushing
grabbers” who dared to vote themselves
two years pay for four mouths work—
meauing the carpet-bag aud scalawag
vermin pretending to represent the South
in the Senate—the World replies : “Con
stituents,” quotha? The ouly constitu
ents of these “uubiushiug grabbers” (we
thank thee, H. <_t., for teaching us that
word! ) are a lot of ignorant field-hands, to
whom leaded brevier and solid agate are
all one, aud a squad of carpet-baggers less
lucky, but not less voracious than them
selves, whose only “blushiug” will be a
blush of rage at their inability to join the
“gale.”
How Much? —Will some übiquitous
ear-wig of a Washington correspon dent
do us the favor to fiud out aud publish the
exact amount of the “consideration” for
which the carpet-bag aud scalawag repre
sentatives from the South iu Congress,
so steadily vote for every measure put for
ward by New England and the Boston
and New York stock gamblers? It would
be good reading. Every man of them
lately voted for the copper tariff bill over
the President’s veto—a measure de
nounced by leading Republicans as
shamelessly wrong aud unjust toother in
terests and to the general interests of the
country. What-do our Georgia birds of
this feather realize upon this little trans
action ? “D. P.,” or “G. A. TANARUS.,” can’t you
tell us?
Georgia Stocks in New York. —Geor-
gia sixes closed at SO to S3 ; sevens at 92$
to 93; sevens, interest payable iu Georgia,
at 88 to 90 ; Atlanta eights at 78 to SO ; and
Savannah sevens at 90 to 91, in New York,
on Thursday last.
GEORGIA JOURNAL AND MESSENGER.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
[From the Atlanta Constitution. J
Thursday, February 25.
Senate. —Senate called to order by the
President.
Prayer by Mr. Hinton.
The Journal of yesterday was read and j
approved.
RECONSIDERATION.
Mr. Bruton moved to recousider the ac
tion of the Senate yesterday in referring
to the Committee on Petitions the memo
rial of Col. John Scriven, President of the
Atlantic & Gul Railroad, and the resolu
tion of the Board of Commissioners rec
ommending the purchase of the stock
held by the city of Savannah by said
Company.
Mr. Bruton sustained the motion in an
able and argumentative speech.
Mr. Smith, of the 7th, moved to lay it
on the table. Lost ny yeas 17, nays 18.
The motion to reconsider was lost by
yeas 15, nays IG.
SPECIAL ORDER—MITCHELL CLAIM.
The bill to retrocede five acres of land
in the citv of Atlanta to the heirs of Sam
uel Mitchell haviug beeu set down as spe
cial order for to-day, was taken up.
Mr. Speer moved that the report of the
Special Committee recommeudiug its pas
sage be agreed to.
The President left his seat, calling Mr.
Wooten, President pro tern., to the Chair.
Mr. Wooten dignifies any positioL to
which he may he called, and is an impar
tial aud efficient presiding officer.
Mr. Brock made an elaborate and logical
speech in opposition to the adoption ottbe
j report of the Committee. The State, in
I him found an able, earnest, aud eloquent
champion-
The President resumed his seat.
Mr. Hungerford favored the adoption
of the report iu his usual piquant aud racy
style. ~ , ..
Mr. Griffin, of the 21st, called the pre
vious question, which was not sustained,
by yeas 13; nays 16.
Mr. Adkins opposed the adoption of the
report of the Committee.
Mr. Moore was granted leave of ab-
motion of Mr. Harris, the Senate
agreed to meetat half-past two, to consider
House and Senate bills on third reading.
The Senate then adjourned.
House.— House met pursuant to- ad-
journment.
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Crumley.
Journal read and approved.
Mr. Hudson moved to reconsider the
bill appropriating money to the Lunatic
Asylum. He said that the amount appro
priated was eighty-two thousand fivebuu
dred dollars, aud he desired it to bi re
considered.
Motion to reconsider prevailed.
Mr. Williams, of Dooly, moved to recon
sider the bill to exempt capital from taxa
tion for five years engaged in manufaitur
ing cotton and other fibrous material. rou
"-vdiTVYbuer moved'to lot, __ ..
reconsider on the table ‘ y tlle motlo » to
The yeas and nays being required re
sulted as follows : Yeas, 99; nays, 42.
Mr. Shumate moved to reconsider the
action of the House on the resolution aid
ing the Special Committee appointee to
examine clerks, &e., to the Committeeon
Enrollment. Motiou prevailed.
On motion, said resolution was talen
up and adopted.
The joint committee to examine Wes
tern and Atlantic Railroad, made a e
port, and on motion of Mr. Crawfod
five hundred copies ordered printed or
use of the House.
Mr. Anderson moved to take up tie
Land and Immigration bill. Rules su
peuded and bill taken up.
He said that the people from the moui
tains to theseaboard wanted the measure
carried out. The only enemies to the bll
were iu this House, aud it was very in
portant that we consult the wishes of oir
people.
Mr. I* eider I’he House has just agreed
to exempt capital engaged in manufec
toiies horn taxation, and now the farmers
ask an appropriation of only teu thou
sand dollars for their benefit—cun any one
refuse it—the farmers pay the taxes.
Mr. Ellis, of Spaulding, said he had
heretofore opposed the bill—as the bill
had been modified, he would vote for it
rJteP f Sj t u of such actions of the
Mr. Lee calTeu inw previous question.
Sustained.
Main question put and yeas and nays
required, and resulted as follows : Yeas 76,
nays 58.
The bill was passed and transmitted to
the Senate.
Report fiom the Committee on Blind
Asylum was read. It recommends an ap
propriation of SII,OOO.
Mr. Williams moved to take up the re
port aud refer to Finance Committee. Car
ried.
On motion of Mr. Bryant, the Educa
tional bill was made the special order of
Monday next.
Mr. Gober moved to take up and recon
sider the bill regulating the letting out of
convict-!. Rules suspended aud bill taken
up aud read.
Mr. McComb ottered a substitute, limit
ing the number to be hired to one man to
fifty.
Mr. Williams, of Morgan, amended the
substitute.
Mr. Scott, of Floyd, said he hoped that
neither the bill nor the substitute would
pass.
Mr. Tweedy moved to lay the bill and
substitute ou the table. Lost.
Mr. Anderson favored the original bill
and opposed the substitute. He made an
eloquent appeal to the members to break
up the present system of letting out con
victs, and asked that the whole matter be
roforraG to a special committee of three,
tor the purpose of perfecting a bill. Mo
tion prevailed, and Messrs. Anderson,
Harper, of Terrell, and Shumate were ap
pointed.
Mr. Larnuui—A resolution that a com
mittee three from the House and two
from the Senate be appointed, to report an
early day for adjournment. Objection was
made to suspending the rules to take up
the resolution.
Mr. Laruutn said that there were some
members in the House who invariably
voted against any measure looking to an
adjournment, aud he gave notice that he
would call the yeas and nays ou this mo
tion, that the people might know who
were opposed to these measures.
Yeas and nays called, and yeas 99, nays
Umes suspended, resolution adopted,
and Messrs. Baruura, Mauland, and Max-
House ere appoiuted committee from the
Holden —A resolution tenderings
seat to Go! E. Huibert, Superintendent
Western and Atlantic Railroad. Adopted.
Mr.lumiD- A resolution that section
lb of the rules governing this body be aud
the same is hereby so amended as to pre
vent members votiDgin the minority from
moving the reconsideration of any action
of this House during the remainder of
the present session.
Motion to suspend the rules was lost.
The House then adjourned.
AFTERNOON SESSION—2oTH.
House— House met pursuant to al
journment.
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
A bill to amend an act incorporating
the town of Forsyth. Passed.
A bill to incorporate the town of Foirest
ville. Passed.
A bill to aniead an act incorporatiig the
town of Cartersviile. Passed.
A bill to authorize the Ordinaw of
Towns county to levy an extra tax tobuild
a jail. Passed.
A bill to amend an act incorporatiig the
town of Morgan. Passed.
A bill to prohibit tbe collection of a tax
to ouild a court house and jail in Birtow
county. Laidou the table.
A bill for the relief of \V. J. Hmsten
tail, of Chattooga county. Passed.
A bill to amend an act incorporatiig the
town of West Point. Passed.
A bill so provide for an election of Jus
tices of the Peace and Constables was
taken up aud tbe Senate amendment con
curred iu.
A bill to change the lines between the
counties of Harralson and Polk. Passed.
A bill to change the line between the
counties of Houston aud Macon. Passed
A bill to change tbe streets aud alleys in
the town of Dawsonville. Lost.
A bill to change the time of holding the
Superior Court in Putnam county. Passed
and transmitted to the Senate.
A bill to change the liue between the
counties of Cherokee aud Pickens. Passed.
A bill to extend the corporate limits of
the town of Fort Valley. Passed.
A bill to extend the jurisdiction of con
stables in Murray county. Passed.
A bill to repeal an act incorporating the
town of Mclntosh. Passed.
A bill to amend an act incorporating the
town of Hamilton. Passed.
A bill to incorporate the town of Thom
as ton. Passed.
A bill to authorize improvements to be
made on the Reserve at Indian Springs.
Passe i.
A bill to incorporate the town of Monte
zuma. Passed.
A bill to extend the charter of Tallulah
Fire Company No. 3, of Atlanta. Lirst.
A bill to authorize the Ordinary of Green
csuuty to levy an extra tax. Passed.
Mr. Williams, of Morgan—A bill to
change the time of boldiug tbe Superior
Court in Morgan coumy.
Hou-e adjourned till to-morrow morn
ing at 10 o’clock.
Friday, February 26, 1869.
The Senate was called to order by tbe
President.
Prajer by Representative Cloud.
Journal of proceedings of yesterday
read and approved.
RECONSIDERATION.
Mr. Merrell moved to reconsider the
action of the Senate on the bill to define
tbe meaning of sectiou 36-52 of the Code,
to be bat county Treasurers receive two
and a half per cent, on county funds re
ceived, and two aud a half per ceut. on
amounts paid out.
Motion to lay motion ou the table.
Motion to reconsider prevailed.
Mr. Merrell moved to amend the bill by
declating that couuty Treasurers shall
! receive on ail amounts received a id paid
out by them, not exceeding $3 000, five per
cent.; ovr $3,000 and not exceedingss,ooo,
four percent.; over $5,000 and less than
SIO,OOO three per cent., aud all amounts
overso,ooo, two percent.
Amendment adopted aud bill passed.
Ml Speer moved to reconsider action of
the feuate on the bill to authorize the
cou ty Treasurers of White and Haber
-BhiJi counties to receive jury certificates
io,»a\ rnent of indebtedness to thecouuty.
Jill reconsidered and passed.
Mr. Hinton moved to recousider action
ofSenate ou bill to repeal so much of act
if 1868, authorizing the levyiug and col
neting of a tax to pay insolvent costs due
canty officers as relates to the county of
Mseogee.
(ill reconsidered. Motion to postpone
adon until Monday next prevailed by
citing vote of the President.
fr. Merrell moved to reconsider the
aoon of the Senate laying on the table
thbill to incorporate the Atlanta Canal
ai Water Works Company.
he bill was reconsidered and placed on
thealeudar.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS,
he unfinished business, being the eon
siirationof tbe bill retroceding five acres
ofind iu Atlanta to the heirs of Samuel
Mihell, was resumed.
r. Higbee opposed the passage of the
biin a clear and concise effort.
r. Wellborn sustained the bill in his
eaiest aud forcible style,
le President resumed his seat,
r. Caudler opposed the bill, aud at the
ha of adjournment had the floor.
T. Nuunally offered a substitute for
thbill retroceding tbe land enclosed as a
pat to the representative of Samuel Mit
cbl, and repealing the act granting the
uses it to the City Council lor park pur
poe.
?>r. Hinton offered a substitute for botfi,
nJsfc-Mni/ *° allow the State to be sued
bytli> heirs of Mitchell, for recovery of
th« laid. Not acted ou.
RESOLUTIONS.
A itolution tendering seats on the floor
of th Senate to Hon. J. W. H. Under
wooi Hon C. H, Smith (Bill Arp), and
Mayr Hargroves, of Rome, and Hon. C.
L. ahlatter, of Brunswick, was unani
mouly adopted.
Saate adjourned to 3 o’clock p. m.
Huse.—The House met pursuant toad
jounment.
Payer by the Rev. Mr. Crumley.
r lie Journal was read aud approved
Sisson moved to reconsider the bill
to ixteud the charter of Tallulah Fire
Cojpany, No. 3, of Atlanta, Georgia. The
melon io reconsider prevailed, and the
biliwas referred to the Committeeon Cor
pontions.
Jr. Crawford moved to take up the bill
to prohibit the collection of special tax
fr Bartow couuty, and to refer the same
tcFinauce Committee. The motion pre
viled.
»Ir. McCormick moved to take up tbe
Spate bill to incorporate Georgia Mutual
Ad Society, for the purpose of referring
Ub same to the Judiciary Committee,
'll* motion prevailed.
M*. Flouruoy moved to take up the bill
toctate anew circuit, to be known as tbe
Ocoee Circuit.
Sdwiwestern Circuit, for the purpose of
reamg the second time. Read second
tin and referred to Committee on Ju
di<nry.
fie bill to make new Circuit to be
kiwn as the Oconee Circuit, was taken
Ul
he county of Twiggs was stricken out
o-he bill, and bill read third time, and
yis and nays required ou passage,
id were, yeas 57—nays 55, and bill
issed.
Mr. Hall, of Glynn, as Chairman of
becial Committee to examine claims of
lbany and Brunswick Railroad, made a
•port, and moved that two hundred
i)pies be printed, and reading of said re
ort be dispensed with at present. Motion
re vailed.
Mr. Bethune —A resolution requiring
he appointment of a Joint Committee to
ake into consideration the propriety of
nakiugauy more judicial circuits.
Rules suspended and the resolution
aken up.
Mr. Morgan spoke in opposition to the
esolution. He said anew circuit was
i<eded in his circuit, it would be a relief
his people.
Mr, Bethune said there was no cecessi-
V for the creation of ueweircuits, if there
/as any necessity for it the Committee
v*uld recommend the proper course.
itr. Morgan—How will you arrange the
c’vcuits in Southwestern Georgia 0
fit is necessary this Committee can
rommend a remodeling of all the judi
cl circuits, so that business can be
ejally distributed.
Mr Grimes said that action had been
tten by this House creating two new
Jlicial circuits, and it would not be fair
lotber portions of the State to refuse
lem new circuits.
Mr. McDougai 1 moved to lay the resolu
on on the table.
Yeas and nays required, and were yeas
>, nays 51. Bill was laid on the table.
Mr. Franks moved to take up the com
unication from the Governor. Agreed
I, and the communication was read. He
(fusing signature to the biil to bring on
le election for Mayor and Council in the
ity of Macon. (Mr. Sparks’ bill.)
Mr. Sparks moved to make the veto the
oeciai order of Monday next.
Mr. Ellis, of Spaulding, moved to take
p the bill to incorporate the Commercial
.ank, to concur in the Senate’s amend*
lent. Taken up and the amendment
cncurred in.
HILLS FOR THIRD READING.
\ bill to repeal section 197S of Irwin’s
Cde. Lost.
A bill to regulate the bringing of suit
securities ou promissory notes.
A bill to authorize planters to obtain
loans, creating liens, etc. Lost.
A bill to appropriate money to Hellory
M. Mathews in lieu of artificial limb.
Several members proposed to ameud by
adding meu from their counties, when
Mr. Tumliu moved to lay it on the table.
Carried.
A bill to aJow several Ordinaries of this
State to order hands to work roads in dif
ferent districts. Lost.
A bill to amend the charter of Georgia
Home Insurance Company. Passed.
A bill to give liens to plauters, amend
ing present law. Recommitted and re
ferred to Judiciary Committee.
A bill to repeal section 3,201 of Irwin’s
Code. Lost.
A bill to authorize John Sheffield to
peddle without license.
A bill to authorize the levy of tax in
Thomas county to pay insolvent cost.
Passed.
A bill to regulate the appointment of
overseers of Georgia Penitentiary. Passed.
A bill defining duties of Sheriffs in cer
tain cases. Recommitted.
A bill to au'horize deputy Surveyors to
lay off homesteads.
Amended by adding city Surveyors.
Passed.
A bill to change the manner of paying
Solicitor’s fees. Lost.
A bill to incorporate the Burn Planting
Compauy of Camden eounty. Amended
and passed.
. bill to allow Ordinaries to pass orders,
Ac. Passed.
A bill to fix pay of Clerks of Superior
Courts. Indefinitely postponed.
-A- bill for relief of D. &C. Bucy. Lost.
A bill to amend charter of the town of
Cave Springs. Pas-ed.
bill to amend charter of Columbus
and Hamilton Railroad Company. Passed.
A bill to amend the homestead law.
Lost.
A bill to ercst* the office of State Geolo
gist. Lost.
A bill to incorporate the Albany sod
Columbus Railroad Compauy. Passed.
A bill to appropriate money to the State
Agricultural Society.
Committee recommend a substitute re
pealing print law. Indefinitely post
poned.
A bill to authorize assessment of taxes
for curreut expenses in Talbot county.
Passed.
A bill to change time of holding Supe
rior Courts in the county of Pierce. With
drawn
A bill to define jurisdiction of Superior
Courts in criminal cases. Lost.
A bill to allow all maimed soldiers to
exhibit magic lautern shows without
license. Lost.
A bill to authorize the retention of the
county tax in Cherokee county to build a
court house and jail. Lost.
A bill to provide for the punishment of
officers for failing and refusing to hold
elections. Lost.
A biii making it penal to dispose of
personal property under mortgage without
the conseutof the mortgagee. Lost.
A bill to require all tax payer* to give
in their gold and silver to tax receivers.
Lost.
A bill to require sheriffs and deputies to
execute warrants from Justice Courts.
Recommitted.
A bill to carry into effect the 14th sec*
tiou of the sth article of the Constitution.
Passed.
A bill to levy a taxon dogs, to be appro
priated to educational purposes. ludeft
uiteiy postponed.
A bill to regulate the manner for letting
out convicts, and to protect those let out
from inhuman treatment. Passed.
Several leaves of absence were granted,
aud the House adjourned.
Atlanta, February 27.
Housk. —House met pursuant to ad
journment, aud was opened with prayer
by the Rev. Dr. Brautiy.
Journal read aud approved.
Mr. McCullough moved a reconsidera
tion of so much of the journal of yester
day as relates to the loss of the bill re
pealing section 1978 of Irwin’s Code. Mo
tion prevailed—yeas, 48; nays, 48.
(The repeal of this section re-establishes
the vendor’s equitable lieu.)
Mr. Seals moved a reconsideration of so
much of the journal of yesterday as relates
to the action of the House upon the bill
creating anew Judicial Circuit, to be
known as Oconee Circuit. Motion to re
consider prevailed.
A message was received from the Gov
ernor stating that lie had signed the fol
lowing bills:
A bill to authorize the Cleiks of the
Superior Courts of this State, to issue exe
cutions on judgments obtained in the In
ferior aud County Courts of this State, in
cases where the Clerks of said Inferior
and County Courts have failed to do so.
A bill to amend the garnishment law
of this State.
A bill to authorize Certain persons to re
move obstructions in “Glen Swamp
Creek,” “Little Ocmulgee River,” aud
their tributaries; to confer certain pow
ers aud privileges upon the same, aud for
other purposes.
On motion of Mr. Ervin the bill exempt
ing D. & H. Beussee, of Clark c'ounty,
from double taxation was reconsidered.
Mr. Williams, of Morgau—A resolution
iuvitiug the Hon. Mr. Obear, Mayor of
Macon, to a seat on the tloor during his
stay in Atlanta. Adopted.
BILLS ON THIKI) HEADING.
A bill to amend an act to organize a
Criminal Court in the several counties of
the State. Passed and transmitted to the
Senate.
Mr. Maull—A bill to define the qualifi
cations of voters in Columbus, and to bring
on an election of Mayor and Council.
Read first time.
Mr. Hall, of Meriwether—A bill for the
relief ot the heirs of Hiram H. Hussy, late
of Meriwether county. Read first time.
A bill to amend section 129 of irwiu’s
Code. (This hill requires the Governor
to issue commissions to all public officers
upon their taking the oath prescribed in
said section.) Passed.
A bill to attend section 3598 of Irwin’s
Code. Lost.
Mr. Fowler —A resolution requiring the
Governor, during the recess, lo refuse per
mission for holding public meetings and
caucuses, unless the whole people are
represented, in the halls of the Capitol
building, for the reasou that such meetings
would injure the building. Adopted.
A bill to grant amnesty to all persons
guilty of crime prior to June, 1865. Re
committed to the Judiciary Committee.
istffflfeW
cases. Lost.
On motion of Mr. Sisson, the following
communication from the City Council
was taken up, read and the table :
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
Atlanta, Ga., February 26, 1869.
To the General Assembly of Georgia:
The City Council of Atlanta beg leave to repre
sant to your honorable body that the oontract
entered into by the city to furnish suitable build
ings to the State for purposes of legislation and a
mansion for the Executive, seem so plain as to
admit of but one construction; but as much con
troversy has arisen in regard thereto in both
branches of the General Assembly, and no solution
having been reached, and as it is the impression
of this Council that the City of Atlanta occupied
a false attitude in the minds of some members of
your honorable body, it is the earnest desire of the
representatives of the city that a clear understand
ing of the matter should be had.
We, therefore, request that a joint committee
from your honorable body be created, whose duty
it shall become to confer with the City Council of
Atlanta to the end that a full, fair and frank inves
tigation of the matter in dispute may be had. Aud
the City Council of Atlanta, on the part of the
city, hereby bind themselves to abide by decision
which may be arrived at by proposed conference.
(Signed) W. H. Hulsey,
Mayor and Council.
Attest: Reuben Arnold,
City Attorney.
A bill to carry into effect the'3d section
of the 14th article of the Constitution.—
Lost.
A bill to enable the Comptroller Gen
eral to carry out the provisions of the Code
in relation to wild lands. Lost.
A bill for the relief of maimed soldiers.
A bill to appropriate S3OO to the Rev.
H. C. Hornady. Passed.
A bill to incorporate the Columbus &
West Point Railroad Company. Passed
A bill to incorporate the Georgia Male
and Female Life Insurance Company.
Passed.
A bill providing for the removal of the
county site of Wilkinson county. Lost.
House adjourned until 10 o’clock Mon
day morning.
The Pneumatic Dispatch Company
of New York. —The Pneumatic Dispatch
Company of New York has been boring
under Broadway for the last three weeks,
without the knowledge of the public. A
cellar was hired where, by degrees, the
necessary machinery was placed, and the
work of boring the tunnel commenced.
The men having charge of the work are
a party of English miners, who were but
recently engaged in the construction of the
‘‘pneumatic railroad tube” under the
streets of Loudon. Earth was first re
moved in front of the cellar, and the men
gradually worked out in the centre of
Broadway. The earth is not dug out, but
pressed away by a shield, exactly the diam
eter of the tunnel. The shield is forced
ahead by means of a number of screws on
the rear of the shield, worked by levers,
the displaced earth exuding through the
trap-doors in the shield. The progress
made is necessarily slow, about ten inches
per day completed. Bricklayers iollow in
the rear of the shield, and line the tunnel
with hard brick, to prevent the earth from
caving in. The principle by which the
cars will be propelled is stated to be as
follows : An ordinary railroad track is laid
at the bottom of the tube, over which the
cars are propelled by a current of air, and
made to return by the creation of a vacu
um. A flange, closely fitting to the sides
of the tunnel, is fitted to one end of each
car, upon the surface of which the air acts
in prepelling the car. The current air will
be supplied by immense fan-wheels, work
ed by Bteam at each end of the route.
About Mrs. Grant. —Our lady read
ers, at least, will probably like to know
something about the personnel of the
femme so soon to be mistress of the White
House. A Washington correspondent,
who is doubtless penetrated with a keen
sense of favors possibly t be won by
favorable protraiture, thus photographs
her:
Few women ever bore the perilous test
of sudden fame and fortune with a more
hearty happiness or more unassuming
grace. Is she pretty? No. She is a
roly-poly of a little woman, with beauti
ful neck, hands and feet. Her features
are well cut, but her eyes are crossed.
Some of her frie ds wished her to have
them straightened. “No,” she said, “Mr.
Grant had loved her ever since she was a
little girl with her eyes crossed. He bad
said that she would not be herself to him
if they were straight. Crooked they
should remain. If be was satisfied, what
mattered it to other people ?”
Death of an Old Citizen.—lt is with
deep regret that we have to announce the
sudden death of one of our oldest and
most respectable citizens. Thomas Jones,
Sr., died at his residence near Thomas
-yille, at 6 o’clock this morning, aged sixty
seveO years.— Thomasville Enterprise, 2Ath.
Dead.— Henry .A. Swift, ex-Governor of
Minnesota, died at Bt. Paul, the capital
of the State, on Friday last.
EDITORIAL LETTER.
John B. Gordon —How he proponed to
drive Sherman back — Early's Book —
Misrepresentation of the Facts—Lee en
dorses Gordon —General Grant.
From the Montgomery Daily Mail.
Louisville. February 19, 1569.
Duriug a loug rule with Gen. John B.
Gordon, from Atlanta to Louisville, I was
very much entertained with his remarks
relative to his celebrated flunk movements
in the first day’s bittle with Grant, and at
ttie battle of Cedar Mountain. Gen Gor
don is not inclined to be talkative about
himself, hut I drew him out by asking
him whether he had seen Gen. Early’s
little work iu which the defeat of the right
corps of the enemy in the night attack
was treated of as a small and very h z.trd
ous affair. He had seen it, aud was at
first iucliued to reply, hut upon reflection
concluded he would remain silent, espe
cially as Gen. Lee had written to him for
his report as to that affair, and had en
dorsed the facts as given by that report.
He prefers to wait for the publication of
Gen. Lee's history as the best reply to
Geu. Early’s injustice.
Gordon, when sent to the left of our
lines, found that his brigade over apped
the right of the enemy. At an early hour
he scouted in front of him and found no
troops. He saw exactly where the right
flank of the enemy lay, aud discerned at
a glance that not only could our troops on
the right, which were bard pressed, he re
lieved by a flank movement on his part,
but that the entire Federal army could be
doubled up. His plan was to charge down
on the enemy’s flank aud throw it into
confusion, and as he moved down in pur
suit, to be joined by the other divisions of
our army in quick succession —a move
ment similar to that which was executed
by Stonewall Jackson on a large scale in
the seven days battle. His idea was to
attack soon in the morning, hut he could
not get Early’s consent. It was ouly late
iu the day when Gen. Lee, after sending
repeated orders for a diversion lo be made
on our left, rode over himself and author
ized Gordon to carry out his plan at even
that late hour. It was sent about suuset.
Gordon moved out of his position, threw
his troops across the enemy’s flank and
charged. The effect was magical. The
defeat of the enemy was complete. The
ground was literally covered with guns
aud kuapsacks, and an entire corps was
driven hack in utter rout. Gordon cap
tured more of the enemy than his own
troops numbered, and lett three thousand
killed aud wounded on the field. After
pursuing the enemy a mile, and throwing
their troops in inextricable confusion,
night came on, aud iu consequence of
some Virgiuia troops which had crossed
the breastworks in their front to join in
the charge, firing by accident into his
men, Gordon stopped the advance. He is
confident, that had lie been permitted to
make the attack in the morning, Grant
would have been driven across the river.
Geu. Early, in his work, says that the
movement was a dangerous one, because
Burnside’s turps was testing in the rear
of the one attacked by Gordon. This,
however, was not the case, Burnside, as
may be seen from Bwinton’s history, was
on the opposite wiug of the Federal army.
The same movement which he executed
so successfully against Grant, lie after
wards made against the left of Sheridan at
Cedar Mountain. The plan was originated
by Gordon and carried out handsomely so
loug as he iiad the execution of it. He
doubled up the two corps of the enemy
aud broke them into fragments, with a
loss on their side of ten thousand, and on
his own of only two hundred and fifty.
They threw away arms and accoutre
ments and rushed through Winchester iu
utter route. The remaining corps was
demoralized, and w T ould have broken at
the first charge. Gordon ordered the en
tire artillery, fifty pieces, to gallop up the
pike and enfilade the reserve corps. At
the same time he prepared to move against
them without delay, with infantry. Just
theu Gen. Early rode up and exclaimed,
“Glory enough for one day!” Gordon
told him that no time was to he lost, and
explained what movements lie had or
dered for the attack upon the remaining
corps. Early said that it was needless,
that they would follow the others pretty
soon ; and so Gordon retired to his iui-
followed, and sent repeated messages to
Early that the enemy had rallied and
were massing upon his left. Receiving
no support, he at last rode over and told
Early that if something was not done his
army would be destroyed in twenty min
utes. One brigade was then sent to his
aid, but in tlie meantime the enemy had
enveloped our left, and by aid of his supe
rior cavalry, had gotten completely into
our rear. We all know what followed—
the ruin of an army, which had Gordon
commanded, would have swept Sheridan
out of existence, opened the path to Wash
ington, and lifted tiie seige of Richmond.
But it is all past now !
In the autumn of 1864, Gen. Gordon
proposed to Gen. Lee to take a division
and operate in the rear of Sherman, among
the mountains of North Alabama and
Tennessee. He believed that by dispersing
his troops, and moving wi hout baggage,
he couid keep the communications of
Sherman so effectually destroyed as to
raise the siege of Atlauta, aud foice hint
to retire. His plan was not to attack the
block-houses, which would require a bat
tle, or burn the bridges, which could be
restored in a day, hut to impede the track
at fifty or a hundred different points, and
throw the engines and trains in the ra
vines, thereby destroying the means of
transportation. A line of tiiree hundred
miles would have afforded him abundant
opportunity to make secret descents from
the mountains. Unfortunately, just at
that time he could not be spared from Pe
tersburg.
Gen. Gordon has a high opinion of Gen.
Grant. He gives him credit for a higher
order of ability than is generally given,
and believes that he is friendly to the
Southern people. Mr. Tift, one of the
Congressmen elect from Georgia, carried
a letter of introduction from Gordon to
Grant. He found Grant communicative
and very firm in his opinion that, since
the reconstruction of Georgia, she has a
right to regulate her domestic affairs to
suit herself, subject only to the Constitu
tion. In other words, his opinion is, that
so long as there is no constitutional amend
ment to prohibit it, Georgia or any other
State may decide for herself as to who
shall vote and who shall hold office. No
wonder that Wendell Phillips is beginning
to howl! If there is to be a Grant partv,
we should not wonder if in two years it
would be the Democratic party. But, as
Gen. Clanton says, let us at least wait for
“the inaugural.” Os course, the inaugu
ral will indicate nothing, nut the com
plexion of the Cabinet may be suggestive.
Everybody is on the qui t rive for the 4th of
March. yi t
Scientific Items.— Some bones have
recently been discovered at Neufehat
el, Switzerland, that belonged to an
antediluvian mamifer. Professor Ruti
meyer, believes that it formed a part of a
mammoth (elephas primigenitus,) similar
to those whose remains have been dis
covered in Siberia. The animal was a
contemporary of the men of the worked
stone period, previously to the glacial era
which seems to have put au end to its ex
istence.
At Windischgarsten, in Upper Austria,
a number of houses have been discovered
that formerly belonged to the Roman set
tlers on the Middle Danube. Numerous
household implements have been found,
besides several coins ranging from Marcus,
A. D., 161-180, toLicinius, A. D., 307, and
one coin of the reign of Adrian, A. D.,
A curious leaden coin was lately found
at Hampstead, in England. It is about
an inch and a half in diameter, and on
inspection it turns out to be a “bull” of
Pope Innocent IV., one of the well known
family of Fiesco, who sat in the chair of
Bt. Peter from A. D. 1243 to 1254. The
“bull” bears on the reverse the figures of
St. Peter and St. Paul, and is in a toler
able state of preservation and is likely to
be secured for the British Museum.
Raise Syrup. —The revolution in Cuba
may materially reduce the present year’s
crop of sugar, molasses, aud other neces
saries indigenous to that Island. If so
says the Augusta Press, pr.-es will le stiff
in this country. Let the farmers of Geor
gia be wise in lime, and prepare for such
an emergency Let every one cultivate
an abundance of sorghum. Do not treat
this suggestion with neglect. Labor is
much disorganize i on the island and there
are few evidences of a cessation of hostil
ities. Cider these circumstances, theerop
cannot be otherwise than “short.” Short
crops are invariably followed by high
prices. The South eau avoid the evils of
these high prices, if it will appeal to its
own generous soil. Let the appeal be
made, aud each farmer can raise a suffi
ciency of syrup to supply hisown family
and help to supply the demands of the
non-producing public.
How to make good connections—Travel 1
in first-class railroads. I
IXTERESTIXG LETTER FROM PATRICK
Editor of the Lynchburg Rf publican:
Tlie followi ig is » copy of a i; iter writ
teu by Patrick Henry to. neuf liis ilrurL*
ters, soon after her marria-• It j g 0 ®
valuable, perhaps, a- an ancient relie
and some wise counsel, and show his fear
about the success of our experiment. t> *
original is now in the possession of H J 1 *
scendant of Mr. Henry, who r-- i•!. „ **"
Texas, aud is a minister of the (io-j, ;■ ' Q
Williamsburg. May in,
My Dear Daughter : I regrei'verv much
that I could not get home toyour w, .iji,,,
I hurried from Philadelphia to u,j s
with the hope that 1 could gc a l: m\
portant causes disposed of in tin... i ,
been present on an occasion so ■> ,"*
esting to you as well as myself.
trial of Luniaford did not end in • ~
7th, and the impor;anc. >f hi- c le
well as the overestimate his friemis a ?
to place upon my poor service- ‘A,
have alone decided my stay; and l
several heavy cases iu corn : ready fAni*
present term, so I fear l shall not rWi A®
home before you leave for the u| per cm
try. 1 greatly regiet that such i> the c , '
but I certainly shall visit you in ’
merorfaii. BUm *
1 congratulate myself that you h- v .
married so intelligent and wortnv a ten
tlenaan. His wealth is ids sma lest com
mendation. If you do your duty ;iU(i
port yourself discreetly to your husbaud
your tuture life promis-s great happiness'
Ln the first place, convince him that Vo „
are what you profess yourself and 1 believs
you to he-u Christian. Take his coun-el
in all tilings, and never intrude yourself
upon him unsolicited. Be diligent in at
tending to your domestic duties never
trusting your sevauts too far The eve of
the mistress is worth a great deal more
dmn her hands. Let him see and know
hat you prize his friends, and on no ac
count should you ever indicate any friend
ship for tiiose lie dislikes. Be neat iu
your person—be amiable to all, most es
pedally to your husband. On no account
should you ever give him the leniotest
reason to suspect that you have any con
concealments from him, or thui you
hold communications with any, ls ,‘ t(l .
ially of the opposite sex n,’, „, Ul '
ter what the lelation may be-f ro m
which you may wish to exclude him
Some very serious family disturbance
have happened by ladies innocently hold
ing secret interviews with ministers and
physicians, from which the husband has
been excluded. You remember the ease
of Mrs , and Dr. M. . I a | u j Vi
thought they acted very foolishly— to u\ e
no stronger language—aud she certainly
did plant a thorn in General ’ s pj|| ow '
It placed her, too, in an awkward position
for when the disagreement became public'
she made the very defence that a guiltv
person would have done, and thalauinim.
cent one was obliged to make. But if
had consulted M. , about her malady
in the presence of General ,no harm
could have grown out of anything she bad
said to him. But this secrecy of communi
cation would have awakened the wrath of
any man, and M. was lucky in making
his escape. Avoid everything of this kinu.
Do not allow yourself to become excited’
if your husband in a moment of in Ration’
should speak a little sharp to you—the
management of his large estate will cause
him many perplexities you will know
nothing of—and hasty words may some
times be expected front any man, for all
are imperfect. Do not regard your hus
band as perfect, but he prepared' to over
look the foibles that are incident to hu
man life. Never allow yourself to deceive
him. I drop these suggestions because you
are very young, and llmt you may keep
them always in mind.
I spent two days with Geu. Washing
ton. at Mount Vernon. He had just ar
rived from the seat of government, at
Philadelphia. He aud Mrs. \V. are in line
health and spirits. Ho spoke of your up
proaching marriage and of your husband
in high terms, and sent you Ills felicita
tions. In fifty years, if our new Constitu
tion succeeds as well as he believes it w ill,
ami I hope it may, to have received such
a message from General Washington will
he something greatly to hoastof. iiis fame
is now overshadowing—far surpassing all
of revolutionary memory—and the entire
success ot our Republican experiment, if
it shad continue Republican, will exult
of renown, greater perhaps than tnopal
man has ever reached. Mr. Madison was,
also, with the General. He is, you know,
a man of the greatest ability, and seems to
be adding rapidly to his store of informa
tion. He, too, will fill a high destiny m
our country, but iu this 1 always intend
to be understood assaying, if the Const)-
tutton proves itself equal to the exp, Ha
ttons of its friends ami the hopes of nil.
James leaves early to morrow, and I
have made the Lest selections 1 could of
the robes. My love to all, an<i t- i tci;»iiy
toyour husband. Write lo tneun u\our
arrival at your new home.
Your lather, most affectionately,
P. Henky.
MILITARY URKIWR \TIO\s |\ EUROPE
A military correspondent of the London
1 tines gives a picture ot the present actual
stage of military preparations in Europe,
which show.-, that it is “without parade!
in the world.” live continental nations
have five and a half tniliiousof men eitl.tr
ready to march to-morrow or to follow at
short intervals. These are the forces of
the first-class continental powers, and do
not include Great Britain, Spain, Portu
gai, Turkey, Greece, Belgium, Hol'aml
or the Scandinavian nations. This in.
me use number, moreover, only embuceh
the more active elements, and not the
outsiders, who, it is considered, would lie
pretty certain to be called ou if war should
last two or three years, a contingency
w hich would swell the sum, ace. rdingto
the estimate ol the Times, to ten millions
armed men. Five millions and a half of
men already withdrawn from tin- work of
productive industry, witli the po-sibi!ity,
iu the event of war, of the horde of con
sumers being swollen to ten millions.
The imagination is staggeted at this
stupendous enumeration, but the cum
bers, vast as they are, are practically mul
tiplied at least five fold in their capacity
for destruction by the wonderful iuven
tions and improvements which have in in
made in mubketry, artillery and all kinds
of arms; in ammunition and carriages;
in facilities of transportation and other
points formerly unknown. It hasten a
favorite delusion of the idolators of mate
rial progress that civilization issteatn, ga-.
railroads, electricity; but, side by side with
the triumphs of peaceful invention,or
rather far ahead of them, is the “art of
human destruction,” which the Tim**
truly says “has for many years been al
lowed to take precedence over all other
arts. It has been studied with greater
skill, and made the subject of the most
costly experiments.” Here, then, in the
heart of Europe, tiie center and capital of
the world’s civilization, stand five niillhr
and a half of men armed with weapon?
made to carry as far and as accurately, and
to fire as rapidly as possible, and thus to
produce the utmost attainable destruction
of human life. What an inconsi-tent
being is man! What an anomaly iu the
whole animated creation!
Th 6 fruits of itis creative energies are
blasted, ere they have fully ripened, by
his appetit s for destruction ! With one
hand he rears the temple of civilization,
and with the other he pulls it down. b,J
like tiie animals, he is involved in deadly
struggles with those who are not hi- nat
ural enemies, and whose slaughter i-uo.
demanded by arty of his appetites. These
fiveandahaif millions of European sol
diers who are now' standing ready to rend
each other at tiie word of command, have
no hatred toward each other ; no interest,
except in peace; do not desire to be wh-re
they are. Even their monarchs | roFss to
wish for peace,aud probably are sincere in
the profession, but mutual jealousies have
induced them all to arms, and thus Eu
rope is covered {ill over with enormous
heaps of combustibles, which any stray
spark may set on fire, and involve the
Old World iu tiie horrors of a universal
conflagration. Alas, why will the many
thus allow the few to dispose of them to
life and for death ? Does not this condi
tion of things give tire lie to the boaste
enlightenment and freedom of man a
this period ; and in looking at it may D‘> l
one well ask if w e be not still growing m
the darkness of a stupid aud boorish age.
A Wild Goose Story.—We find in 811
exchange, without credit, a marvellous
story of a wild goose w hich was shot a
few years ago in Washington Territory,
and in whose craw was found a few grains
of wheat. Being very large and full, they
were preserved and planted. The vie.
was found to be so great as to to 1 *
propagation, until this variety, winch ?
known in the Territory as tiie
Wheat,” has become ajjstandard one m
thatsection of ihoc< mtry. Samples tin
wheat were recently sent to the
tural Department at Washington, bpo
examining the samples at the museum,
which there are some 2,000 varieties,
same wheat was found, being one ot .
samples sent from the Paris Expositto ,
and grown in Cuenea, in Spain.