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president Grant's inaugural address will
be found in another column. Like all
similar documents, it will disappoint
many of Bis supporters, but to the South
It speaks with no uncertain voice. We
have nothing to hope for from the new
administration. The affairs of the gov
ernment are to he administered, not, per
haps, in a way to please the extremists of
the Radical party, but certainly with no
reference to the wishes or interests of the
Southern (States of the Union. Under a
6 bow of brave words, and an admirably
feigned assumption of independence, there
plainly runs a current of subserviency to
party behests, and an assurance to its
leaders that their wishes and counsels
will not be disregarded. Grant is a Radi
cal, and a slave of the bond-holders at
that. ri > much is plain, and that is the
long and short of the matter. If any
gouthern man can see anything else in
this utterance, he is more of an optimist
than we even dare try to be. Let the South
know the fact, and he warned accordingly.
We trust the Legislature of Georgia will
reqiond in a fit manner to Grant’s cham
pionship of the infamous 15th amend
ment. Now, more than ever, is it their
duty to show themselves deaf to every
appeal, come from whence it may, that
calls upon them to violate their oaths of
office, to assail the Constitution of the
United States, and to write the epitaph of
State independence. Their duty is but
made the plainer by the defection of him
who, with an oath to preserve, protect,
and defend the Constitution scarcely dry
on his lips, urges his fellow-citizens to a
shameful assault upon one of its most im
portant provisions.
“PLANTATION MANNERS.”
Some years ago, when the inllueuce of
tiie South prevailed at Washington aud
gave tone to society as well as legislation,
the envious Yankee Congressmen com
plained of nothing so strenuously as what
they chose to denominate “plantation
manners.” In those days, we had some
thing like honesty in law and decency in
private life at the National Capitol, hut
the feverish and hypocritical Puritan
Paul Prys, affected to discover nothing
but hauteur in the men aud flippancy in
the women who led the Washington
world at that time. These saiutly agita
tors were blatant in proclaiming the
changes they intended to bring about
when their hobbies and their representa
tives should rule the roast. Time, in its
revolving cycles, gave these sour reform
ers the victory ; it likewise afforded them
an opportunity to display the quality of
their virtue. After a while “plantation
manners” ceased in the Halls of Congress
and in the social life of the city. Puritan
morals came into vogue, and here, from
theirown sources, we have apt illustra
tions of how much heaven and earth have
been benefited by the transfer. The New
York Tribune’s eorrespoudeut, writing of
thesceueat the counting of the electoral
votes for President, said :
“The rules prohibiting the privilege of
tlielioor were suspended, aud down there
on lounges, and sofas, aud Representa
tives’ seats, were ladies and children,
wires and relativesof honorable members,
relieving the sombre aspect of the cham
ber. Hut there were others, too; noted
lobbyists, and even strumpets of the
street, some way or other, found admis
sion. There was Mrs. Cobb, the pardon
broker, and Mrs. So-aud-So, wnose repu
tation is not doubtful. How they got there,
who invited them, no one, perhaps, will
care lo tell,or acknowledge,but were there,
to the disgrace of our civilization aud the
shame of the House.”
So much for the first witness. We pass
t> the second, who is no less a shining
Radical thau the correspondent of the
Chicago Republican. He thus testifies :
“immediately outside the left hand en
trance to the [Senate, looking from the
Vice I'resident’s desk toward the main
doorway of the chamber, is an elegant
apartment. It is handsomely gilded and
frescoed, elegant carpets cover the lloor ;
luxurious arm chairs aud lounges are
numerous, and everything invites to re
pose aud quiet and abandon. It is the re
ception room of tlie Senate. It is easy of
access from tiie chamber. This room is
notoriously the greatest assignation place
in Washington. At any time during the
session of the Senate, the visitor may see
there, in brazen elFroutery, knowu wo
men of ill-fame. They are attired in cost
ly fabrics, diamonds aud lace, and the
latest fashions. Senators do not hesitate
to come from their seats and the work of
legislation at their bidding. Tbe officers
of the Senate know them, or if they do
not, they ought to ; but instead of being
debarred admission, they are allowed to
ply their vocation in the very Capitol of
the nation. I do not say that all the ladies
who go there are of this character—bnt 1
do say that in the course of a siugle day
more than a score of this class of people
are to be fouud in that room.”
Picture it—think of it ! A Chicago
Radical is absolutely forced to blush for
the profiigacy of the Senate of the United
States, whose least vice is that of drunk
ness! Aad this is the Senate which holds
so tenaciously to what it assumes to be
the rights of man aud true Republican
liberty. This is tbe Senate which Grant
wlli have to fight. The man of mystery
is called upon to combat the men of de
vious ways. If the impulses of the sol
dier are really honest, his chief dauger is
right in the pathway of the Senate, whose
seething corruption has souuded the un
hallowed depths which Juveuallaid bare,
in days of old, for the horror and instruc
tion of mankind. — Augusta Constitution.
Rights of Country Papers.— Our re
spected cotemporary of the Bainbridge
Argus, observes the Augusta Press, cer
tainly entertains peculiar notions as to
the rights of country newspapers. In its
last issue it plainly tells the Macon Jour
nal and Messenger that while it is
willing to see its agent solicit patronage
in tbe way of obtaining new subscribers,
that it “ does not recoguize its right to go
beyond aud seek job work aud official
advertising, to which it cau justly lay no
claim.” This is absurd. City papers,
like those of the country, have a right to
all tbe patronage they can obtain iu a le
gitimate way, not only in every county in
Georgia, hut throughout the country. If
the law does not forbid the county officials
of Southwestern Georgia from advertising
in a Macon paper, then a Macon paper
has clearly the right to seek their patron
age.
Free Cotton to France. —The Mobile
Board of trade officially announces that
on and after June 12th, 1869, all cotton
carried into France, will go duty free.
THE REMOVAL OF THE CAPITOL.
This journal has had very little to say
on the question of removing the capitol
back to Miiledgeville, because, while we
have always thought it should never have
been taken to Atlanta, we were willing to
let the Legislature take the matter in
hand, and correct the error. We are sat
isfied now, however, that’t is idle to look
for action from that body, unless stimula
ted by the sharp spur of popular opinion.
They seem to have become demoralized
somehow, and incapable of giving effect
to what they really desire themselves, and
what they know is the wish of their con
stituents. That there is a clear majority
of the Legislature favoring the removal
we are emphatically assured. As it takes
two-thirds, however, to put the question
en train for success, we fear that number
cannot be obtained without the people
speak out in meetings, and through the
press. Let an organized effort be made at
once, and all over the State, for such a
consummation. The time and circum
stances are peculiarly favorable, just now.
We believethat a grand rally of the friends
of removal will prove perfectly successful.
Let it be made at once. Arguments are
plentiful as blackberries, and every day’s
developments at Atlanta of the burden
preparing for the tax payers of the State,
growing out of the removal to that city,
are adding to them. It was a swindle
from the start, and like a hall of snow, the
swindle grows in wickedness aud cost
every day.
While upon the subject, we desire to
exchange a few words with the Atlanta
Constitution, which paper has worked
itself into such a fury over the question as
to make some statements that are decided
ly out of place in a journal claiming to be
Democratic, andstill more in one that has
a due regard for accuracy iu dealing with
facts. A late issue of that journal contains
the following:
The people of Georgia voted to locate
the Capitol at Atlanta. As much as she
is viilified and traduced by her jealous
rivals, they dare not charge her with bar
tering her political principles for the Cap
itol. Macon, Columbus, Savannah, Au
gusta, and other points, by voting for the
new Constitution, located the Capitol in
Atlanta, whilst her own citizens, from
their honest objection to that instrument,
voted largely against it. Now these very
parties are damning us from Dan to Ber
sheba because we have the Capitol.
It is amusing to see how reckless of the
truth they are in most they have to say iu
regard to Atlanta. They betray a mean
spite and a vindictive spleen wholly un
worthy of the press. They imagine that
they are to be swallowed up body and soul
by Atlanta, and with no means more
laudable to prevent it, they prostitute i
their columns to falsehood and detiaction
of the basest kind. We do not remember
to haveseen, among ail the articles written
upon the subject, more than half a dozeu
that could lay claim to fairness and can
dor. The people of Georgia, we repeat,
located the Capitol by their vote iu Atlan
ta. Should the question be submitted to
them again, they will ratify their former
act.
A more glaring aud extraordinary mis
statement was never penned than is set
forth iu the first paragraph of this extract.
The peopie of Georgia did not vote to locate
the Capitol at Atlauta. A lot of uegroes
went through the forms of doing that
thing, aud their voice was declared the
voice of the people of the State. Theques
tiou of removal was cuuniugly complica
ted with other questions, and iu this way
managed to get enough negro votes to jus
tify the announcement that it had been
carried. The whole thing was a fraud and
a swindle, hut we doubt if even a majority
of the negroes really favored the removal.
With the Columbus Sun we have no idea
that “asingle white man iu Macon, Colum
bus, Savauuah or Augusta, who wears a
clean shirt and speaks the truth,” voted
for removal, or would vote that way now
if the questiou was fairly submitted. The
tax-payers of Georgia opposed, aud will
oppose the removal on the score of econ
omy aloue, if nothing else. This, of all
times, is the one when that consideration
is and should he first consulted.
As to the “mean spite” and “vindictive
spleen” alluded to by the Constitution, we
have little to say. That charge is as base
less as the assertion that the people of
Georgia voted for removal. At least, we
have not seen any manifestations of that
character in our exchanges, and we ex
change with nearly every paper in the
State. Such words and charges answer
admirably when argument is lacking, and
“spite” and “spleen” are swelling in the
heart of the person who so glibly charges
their manifestation upon others. Iu con
clusion, we desire to range ourself unde
the bauuerof those who are calling and
working for a measure favored by a large
majority of the people of Georgia, aud
which is imperatively demanded by that
foremost consideration for poor people —
economy. We call upou the people and
their newspapers to speak out right now,
and with no uncertain voice. We put
our advocacy of the measure upou this
ground first and foremost, and we call on
all who are feeling the burdeus of the
iniquitous taxes they are required to pay,
to join us.
(TBIS REFUGEES.
Outrages ou Americana In Ilmrana.
The steamshin Juniata, from Havana,
arrived at PbiladeJpuia uu vuo -uu u.i.
She had ou board about sixty passengers,
the larger portion of whom were refugees
from the island of Cuba. The Inquirer
says:
From one of the refugees we have re
ceived the following statement concern
ing the abuses to which Americans are
subjected iu Havana. He states that
about twenty American citizens are at
present imprisoned in the Careel de Ta
cou, merely on suspicion of being con
nected with the insurgents, aud that the
attempted interference in their behalf by
the Unitea States Vice-Consul General
has been totally disregarded by the au
thorities of tlie island. Mr. Utly. the
Secretary of the United States Consulate
in Havana, was thrown into a dungeon,
where lie is still imprisoned, without the
least deference or regard to his positiou as
a United States official.
Mr. J. Brito, a naturalized American
citizen, applying fora passport to leave
Cuba for the United States, last week,
was unceremoniously seized while iu the
passport bureau, and conducted to prison, j
where he was coufmed for three or four ;
days aud then set at la.ge, without any
reason being giveu him for this unjustifi
able violation of his person and right.
The larger number of Americans resi
dent in Cuba are anxious to know what
steps our Government is likely to take for
their protection, as they know not at what
moment they may be thrown iuto prison
aud otherwise outraged.
Among the Cubans themselves, neither
wealth, rank nor sex is respected, and
hundreds of all are being daily led to pris
on. The body of volunteers who now
garrison the city of Havana have ex
pressed a determination to hang or other
wise kill all Cubans who were impris
oned in Havana on the 20th of this month.
A Liberal Subscription. —The Co
lumbus fc>uu, of Wednesday, says that oti
Monday night, ata church meeting, $6,100
were subscribed by ten persons, towards
building a Catholic Church in that city.
From three more $1,500 were expected.
Father Ryan subscribed SI,OOO.
"V i t a sine Literis Mors est.
PRESIDENT GRANTS INAUGURAL AD
DRESS.
BT MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.
Your suffrage having elevated me to the
office of President of the United States, I
have, in conformity with the Constitution
of our country, taken the oath of office
prescribed therein. I have taken this
oath without mental reservation, and with
the determination to do, to the best of my
ability, all that it requires of me. The
r. spousibilities of the position I feel, but
I accept them, without fear. The office
has c< me to me unsought. I commence
its duties untrammelled. I briug to it a
conscientious desire arid determination to
fill it to the best of my ability, aud to the
satisfaction of the people.
On all leading questions agitating the
public mind, I will always express my
views to Congress, aud urge them accord
ing to my judgment; and, wiien I think
it advisable, I will exercise the Constitu
tional privileges of interposing a veto to
defeat measures which I oppose. Rut all
laws will be faithfully executed, whether
they meet my approval or not.
I sh til, on all subjects, have a policy to
recommend, but none to enforce against
tiie will of the people. Laws are to govern
all alike—those opposed to as well as those
who favor them. I know no method to
secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws
so effective as their stringent execution.
The country having just emerged from
a great rebellion, many questions will
come before it for settlement, in the next
four years, which preceding administra
tions have never had to deal with. In
meeting these, 't is desirable that they
should be approached calmly—without
prejudice, hate or sectional pride, remain- j
beriDg that the greatest good to the great
est number is the object to be attained.
This requires security of person and prop
erty, and freedom in religious and politi
cal opinion, in every part of our common
country, without regard to local prejudice.
All laws to secure these ends will receive
my best efforts for their enforcement.
A great debt lias been contracted, in
securing to us and our posterity, the Union.
The payment of this—principal and in
terest —as well as the return to a specie
basis, as soon as it can he accomplished
without material detriment to the debtor
class, or to the country at large, must be
provided for. To protect the national
honor, every dollar of Government in
debtedness sbou Id he paid iu gold, unless
otherwise expressly stipulated in the con
tract. Let it be understood that no re
pudiator of one farthing of our public debt
will he trusted in public places, and it
will go far towards strengthening a credit,
which ought to he the best in the world,
and will ultimately enable us to replace
the debt with bonds, hearing less interest
than we now pay. And to this should be
added the faithful collection of the reve
nue—a strict accountability to the Treas
ury for every dollar collected, and the
greatest practicable retrenchment in ex
penditure iu ev_ry department of Govern
ment.
When we compare the paying capacity
of the country now—with ten States stiil
in poverty from the effects of war, hut soon
to emerge, I trust, into greater prosperity
than ever before —with its paying capacity
twenty-live years ago, and calculate what
it prolmbiy will he twenty-live years hence,
who can doubt the feasibility of paying
every dollar then, witli more ease than
we now pay for useless luxuries? Why,
it looks as though Providence hid be
stowed upon us a strong box of the
precious metals, now locked up in the
sterile mountain of the far West, which
we are forging the key to unlock, to meet
the very contingency that is now upon us.
Ultimately, it may be necessary to in
crease the facilities to reach these riches,
and it may he necessary, also, that the
General Government should give its aid
to secure this access. Rut that should only
lie, when a dollar of obligation to pay
secures precisely the same sort of dollar to
use now, and not before. Whilst tne ques
tion of specie payments is in abeyance, the
prudent busiuess man is careful about con
tracting debts, payable in the distant
future. The Nation should follow the
same rule. A prostrate commerce is to be
rebuilt and all industries encouraged. The
young men of the couutry —those who
from their ages must be its rulers twenty
five years lienee—have a peculiar interest
in maintaining the national honor. A
moment's reflection as to what will be
our commanding influence among the na
tions of the earth iu their day, if they are
only true to themselves, should inspire
them with national pride. All denisons,
geographical, political and religious, can
join in the common sentiment.
How the public debt is to be paid, or
specie payments resumed, is not so im
portant as that a plan should he adopted
ami acquiesced in. A united determination
to do is worth more than divided coun
cils upon the method of doing. Legisla
tion may not be necessary now, nor even
advisable; but it will be, when the civil
law is more fully restored in all parts of
the country, and trade resumes its wonted
channels.
It will be my endeavor to execute all
laws iu good faith—to collect all revenues
assessed, and to have them properly ac
counted for and economically disbursed.
I will, to the best of my ability 7 , appoint
to office those only who will carry 7 out
this design. •
Iu regard to foieigu policy 7 , I would deal
with nations as equitable law requires in
dividuals to deal with one another. I
would protect the law-abiding citizen,
whether of native or of foreign birth,
wherever his rights are jeopardized, or the
flag of our couutry floats. I would re
spect the rights of all nations, demanding
equal respect for our own. If others de
part from this rule, in their dealings with
us, we may be compelled to follow their
precedent.
The proper treatment of the originaloc
eupants of this laud—the Indians—is oue
deserving caretul study. I will favor any
course towards them, which tends to
their civilization, Chistiauizatiou, and ul
timate citizenship.
The question of suffrage is one which is
likely to agitate the public so long as a
portion of the citizens of the nation are
excluded from privileges iu any State. It
seems to me very desirable that this ques
tiou should be settled now, and I emer
it' i tfi^‘Ufe,°^. a ßd- e xnress the desire that
teeuth article of amendment to the Con
stitution.
In conclusion. I ask patient forbearance
oue towards another, throughout the
land, and a determined eflort on the part
of every citizen to do his share towards
cementing a happy Uuiou ; aud ask the
prayers of the nation to Almighty God iu
behalf of this consummation.
U. 8. Grant.
A New Manufactory in Augusta.—
We are gratified to announce another ad
dition to the manufactories of our city,
aud one sustained by Northern capitalists,
too, which the monstrous slanders circu
lated by the Radical press at borne and j
abroad, concerning the insecurity of lif- !
aud property iu the South, has hitherto
kept away.* A gentleman from near
Syracuse, in New York State, arrived in
Augusta, not long since, in search of au
eligible site for the location of a helve
manufactory, aware that, from the vast
timber resources of Georgia, aud its con- I
sequent cheapness, an establishment of
that character would be certain to yield a
large profit on the capital iuvested. For- j
tuualely, while iu this city he learned j
that the property known as the Nelson
Bobbin Factory was offered for sale by its
owner. An examination convinced him
that tiiis was the very place he needed,
aud accordingly, after some little negotia
tion, it was purchased. Since that time
he has gone steadily to work, improved
the building, erected his lathes and other
machinery,'and the manufactory will soou
be in full blast, turning out helves for
Northern consumption. This gentleman
is also a partner iu a large establishment
at his former home, near Syracuse, which
is engaged iu making hoes, shovels.spades,
rakes, pitchforks, axes, etc., and tbe han
dles that are made by his machinery here
will be shipped to the former place for use.
He has found no difficulty iu procuring
tbe timber suitable for this purpose, and
has already contracted with one party for
nearly four hundred cords of poplar wood,
and with another for nearly three hundred
cords of the same material. —Chronicle a
nd Sentinel , 4iA.
MACON. GA.. TUESDAY, MARCH 9. 1869.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
From the Constitution.
Monday. March 1, 1869.
Senate. —Senate called to order by the
President.
Grayer by Mr. Hinton.
Journal of Saturday read and approved.
RCLES SUSPENDED.
The rules were suspended aud a reeolu
tion offered by Mr. Speer, tendering a
seat on tbe floor of the Senate to Gov. W.
H. Smith, of Alabama. Adopted.
THAT THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND.
A message from Gov. Bullock, enclosing
j the action of tbe City Council of Atlanta,
asking tbe appointment of a joint cornmit
i tee to adjust the matter of furnishing tbe
! Capitol with furniture, aud recommend
ing that the request of the City Council
be acceded to. The Governor claimed that
the necessities of the situation demanded
tbe course pursued by him iu expending
the thirty-rive thousand dollars, aud that
under the contract the City Couueil of
Atlanta was bouud to furnish the Capitol
with appropriate furniture.
The message was taken up.
Mr. Nuuually ottered a joint resolution, '■
which was adopted, appointing a joiut |
committee of four from the Seuate and j
six from the House, to consider aud adjust j
the matier of furnishing the capitol build- |
iug, and that one hundred copies of thev 1
message be printed.
The Chair appointed the following ab.
the committee on tbe part of the Senate,
viz: Messrs. Nunually, Smith, 36th, Fain,
and McArthur.
BILLS ON FIRST READTNG.
Mr Candler—to amend section 3763 of
the Code ; for the relief of defaulting tax- j
payers for 1868 ; to require the Secretary
oi State to keep a recorded list showing
the number aud title of all acts deposited i
in his office, aud to provide a peualty for
permitting such acts to be takeu from his I
office, or to keep said list; to change the 1
lines between DeKalb aud Gwinnett, so [
as to include the residence of L. R. Wor- I
mack iu DeKalb.
Mr. Smith, of the 36th—To fix the sala
ries of messeugers and clerks of the Gen
eral Assembly. [Fixes it at $360 per au- !
num, with actual necessary expenses to t
and from residence, after 1870 ]
Mr. Nunnally—To amend the act incor- ;
porating Savannah, Albany and North I
Alabama Railroad.
Also, to provide a more speedy mode for
enforcing liens in certain cases.
Mr. McArthur—To detiue the meaning
of the term wild and unimproved lauds.
Mr. Me Whorter—To allow Judges of
Superior Courts to send to the Peniten
tiary for safe keeping parties charged with
crime, when they deem it necessary, aud
for other purposes.
Mr. Wooten—To amend the charter of
Athens aud the various acts amendatory
thereof.
Mr Griffin, (6th.)—To authorize the
Ordinary of Lowndes county to issue
script to raise funds to erect a Court-house.
Mr. Htiugerford—To incorporate the
Atlauta Savings Bank. (William Mark
ham, Lewis Schofield, E. L. Jones, D. G.
Jones, W. D. Cook, aud their associates,)
capital stock $20,000.
Mr. Colmau—i'o amend acts incorpor
ating Rruuswick.
Mr. Winn—To change the time of hold
ing Paulding Superior Court. (To he held
second Monday in March aud September.)
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON CLERKS.
Mr. Wellborn, chairman of Special
Committee on clerks, reported that the
Secretary had acted in accordance with
the resolution of the Senate author zing
him to employ additional clerical force,
but they would recommend the Secretary
to discharge five clerks, if lie cau, with
out detriment to public interests. Laid
on the table for the present.
JOINT RESOLUTION.
Mr. Merrell offered a joiut resolution for
the appointment of a Joiut Committee, to
report at the next meeting of the General
Assembly, on equalization of labor of
Judges of Superior Courts, aud the neces
sity for the creation of new Judicial Cir
cuits; but the rules not being suspended,
he withdrew it.
EXECUTIVE SESSION.
A message was received from Governor
Rullock which, the Governor’s private
Secretary stated, required to be considered
iu Executive session.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
The unfinished busiuess beiug the con
sideration of the bill retroceding five acres
of land in Atlauta to tbe heirs of Mitchell,
was resumed.
The President left his seat, calling Mr.
Wellborn to the Chair.
Mr. Wooten made an eloquent and elab
orate effort in behalf of tbe bill, basing iiis
argument on the idea that the State had
abandoned the land in questiou, but threw
no new light on the subject, though
making the best speech on the vexed
question.
The President resumed his seat.
Mr. Hinton opposed the passage of the
bill iu a logical speech, having the floor at
the hour of adjournment.
Senate adjourned until 3 o’clock, p. m.
House. —House met pursuant to ad
journment.
Prayer by Rev. Dr. Rrantly.
Journal read and approved.
Mr. Rethuue moved to reconsider the
bill lost on Saturday to ameud section 3598
of Irwin’s Code, so as to have only three
Sheriff's sale days in the year.
Mr. O’Neal aud Mr Price spoke iu favor
of reconsideration.
Mr. Warren moved to .lay on the table.
Y'eas and na\s called on motiou, and
were, yeas 52; nays S3.
Y eas aud uays vailed on motion to re
consider, aud were, yeas 49 ; nays 60 ; and
motiou to reconsider lost.
Mr. Watkins moved to reconsider the
bill appropriating money to the Rev. H.
C- Hornady, pas-ed ou Saturday, aud mo
tion to recousider prevailed.
Ou motiou of Mr. Guliatt the message
from the Governor was taken up. He
preseuts the communication from the
Mayor and Council, and asks that a com
mittee he appointed. He thinks that the
city of Atlanta should pay the money
spent for furniture, etc.
Mr. O’Neal moved to appoint a commit
tee as requested by the Governor.
Message and resolution was, on motiou,
laid on the table for the present.
SPECIAL ORDER.
The veto of Mr. Price’s resolution by
the Governor, referring the eligibility of
the negro to tbe Supreme Court, by spe
cial order, was taken up and read
poue It. leas auu 7 uaya -* equaied, and
were: yeas 46, nays 51.
Mr. Flournoy moved to lay it on the
table.
Mr. McCullough moved to make it the
special order for first Monday in April.
Y’eas and uays required, and were: yeas
32, nays 54.
No quorum voting on motion, the roll
was called to ascertain if there was a quo
rum present, aud there was found to be
103 members present.
Vote was then taken on Mr. Flournoy’s
motion to lay it on the table, and yeas and
uays required, aud were, yeas 59, nays 39.
and the whole matter was laid on the table.
AFTERNOON SESSION—MARCH 1.
Senate.—Senate called to order by tbe
President.
A large number of House bills were
read the first aud second time.
SENATE BILLS ON THIRD READING.
To incorporate the Central Georgia
Banking Company of Macon, and the
Muscogee Banking company of Columbus.
Passed by a constitutional majority.
To repeal so much of the act of 1868,
levying a tax to pay costs due officers on
insolvent criminal cases in Muscogee,
Richmond and Macon counties, so far as
relates to Muscogee county. Amendment
that nothing in the act shall effect any
rights accruing under the act repealed.
AuieudnSent adopted by yeas 17, nays 13.
Bill, as passed.
To incorporate the Savannah Banking
aud Trus’ Company. Passed by a con
stitutional majority.
To relieve J. K. Davis, of Thomas coun
ty. of payment of taxes for 1866. With
drawn
To incorporate the Georgia Male and
FemaieMutaal Life Insurance Company
amended by the House. Amendment
concurred in.
Tj create a Land and Immigration Bu
reau (from the House). Laid on tfce ta
ble.
To define and regulate court contracts.
Lost.
To amend act to give landlords liens
l on crops of tenants. Tabled.
To autl o-ize Ordinaries to appoint Com
missioners to layoff dower. Passed.
To change time of bolding Clayton Su
perior Court. Tabled.
To incorporate the Workingmen’s Mu
j tual Benefit Association of Savannah
Passed.
To repeal act authorizing Road Com
: missioners in Glynn county to appropri-
I ate bands to work on a certain creek,
j Passed.
To prescribe qualifications of Justices
of the Peace and Constables in Savannah.
Passed.
SENATE BILLS SECOND READING.
To authorize the settlement of the ac
counts between Devine, Jones and Lee.
of the Pioneer Cotton Card Corapauy, aud
the State, in the courts. Referred to Ju
diciary Committee.
To amend section 2741 Irwin’s Code.
Referred to Judiciary Committee.
To provide for farming out Penitentiary
convicts. Referred to Penitentiary Com
mittee.
To incorporate the Augusta and Hart
well Railroad. Referred to Committee
on Internal Improvements.
IN EXECUTIVE SESSION.
The Senate in Executive session con
firmed the appointment by the Governor,
of C. B. Forsyth, of Dallas, Paulding
county, Solicitor of the Rome -itoiici&i ,
cin u it, and W. A. Adams, df Men wetlier
couuty, Solicitor of the Tallapoosa Circuit, j
RESOLUTIONS.
Joint resolution authorizing the State
Treasurer to pay out standing bonds. Lost.
Resolution refunding J. F. (Strickland, 1
Tax Collector of Haralson county, amount
of taxes overpaid in 1866. Passed.
1 SENATE BILLS FIRST READING.
Mr. Winn—Repealing section 178 of
the Code.
Mr. Griffin of 6th.—For relief of W.
B rad ford, former Tax Collector of Low ndes
county.
Mr. McCutchen—To re-attach Walker
county to the Cherokee Judicial Circuit.
Mr. Fain—To encourage the building of :
miilsaud manufacturing establishments, j
BILLS FIRST READING.
House.— Mr. Anderson — To change the I
time of holding the Superior Court in
Paulding county.
Mr. Smith —To change the lines be
tween the counties of Pulaski aud l’el- :
fair.
Mr. Grimes—To incorporate tbe Georgia
Water Mills Company of Columbus.
Mr. Rosser—To arneud tbe charter of
Athens.
Mr. Rainey—To extend the time of col
lection of taxes iu Schley county.
Mr. Shumate—To prevent fraud in lay
ing off homesteads.
Mr. Wilcher—To change the lines be
tween the counties of Talbot aud Taylor.
Mr. Nunn—To authorize the county of
Glasscock to retain the tax for 1868 to
build a jail.
BILLS FOR THIRD READING.
A bill to authorize the executors of John
Burroughs to pay a certain sum for the
maintenance of an aged colored woman.
Lost.
A bill to incorporate the Georgia Meth
odist Mutual Life Insurance Company.
Passed.
A bill for the relief of the securities of
Samuel Dawson, Sheriff of Lumpkiu
county. Passed.
A bill to incorporate the Muscogee
Manufacturing Company. Passed.
A bill to allow the sale of spirituous
liquors in the town of Spring Place.
Mr. Shumate amended by adding the
clauseto incorporate 'liunuel Hill. Agreed
to, and bill as amended passed.
A hill for the relief of F. M. Taber.
Passed.
A bill to authorize the town council of
Brunswick to donate land to the Macon
aud Brunswick Railroad and Brunswick
aud Albany Railroad. Passed.
A hill toauthorize Robert Humphrey to
practice medicine. Lost.
A bill to change the lines between the
counties of Cobb and Paulding.
A hill to authorize Dr. O. O. Osborn to
practice medicine. Lost.
A hill to authorize Willis A. Johnson,
administrator, to sell property on the
ground belonging to the estate of Willis
Johnson. Lost.
A bill to compensate grand and petit
jurors of Bibb county. Lost.
A bill to change the lines between the
counties of Henry and Spaulding. Passed.
A bill tD change the lines between the
counties of Meriwether and Coweta. —
Passed.
A hill to authorize an election of ten
commissioners for Bibb county. Passed.
A hill to levy a tax on dogs, pistols aud
guns, of two dollars, iu the couuty of
Macon. Lost.
A hill to provide for the collection of
tax in Jefferson county to pay insolvent
cost. Lost.
A hill toauthorize the Ordinary of
Glynn county to levy tax for county pur
poses. Passed.
A bill to change the lines between the
counties of Clinch anil Coffee. Passed.
A bill to authorize James H. Shackleford
to plead aud practice law iu this State.
Lost.
A hill to allow T. B. Thomson to peddle
without license. Passed.
A bill to provide for election of Mayor
and Council iu the city of LaGrauge.
Passed.
A hill to provide for payment of grand
and petit jurors iu the couuty of Pierce.
Lost.
A hill to provide for payment of insol
vent cost to officers of couuty Court in
Pulaski county. Lost.
A bill for relief of Samuel Glenn, of
Oglethorpe county. Indefinitely post
poned.
Senate bills were read the second time.
A bill to incorporate the Georgia Reed
and Fiber Company. Passed.
A hill to incorporate Southern Masonic
Insurance Company. Passed.
A hill to regulate business of insurance
companies not incorporated. Passed.
House adjourned.
Tuesday, March 2, 1809.
Senate. —Senate met. Called to order
by the President.
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Griffin, (21st.)
Journal read and approved.
UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
The unfinished business being the con
sideration of the hill to retrocede five
acres of land in Atlanta to the heirs of
Mitchell, was resumed,
h ■*Jl°or the
of the bill.
Mr Hinton made an elaborate and earn
est effort in opposition to the passage of
tbe bill.
The President left his seat, calling Mr.
Harris to the chair.
Mr. Winn called the previous question.
The President resumed his seat.
The call for the previous question was
not sustained, by the casting vote of the
President.
Mr. Holcombe moved to lay on the
table.
The yeas and nays were demanded, with
the following result:
Yeas Adkins, Anderson, Bowers,
Brock, Burns, Candler, Corbitt, Dickey,
Griffiu, (6th,) Harris, Higbee, Holcombe,
Jordan, McCutcbeu, McWhorter, (Sher
man, Stringer, Welch and Winn —19.
Nays—Colman, Collier, Fain, Gignil
liat, Graham, Griffin, (21st.) Hinton,
Hungerford, Lester, McArthur, Nunnally,
Smith, (7th,) Smith, (36th,) Speer, Well
born and Wooten—l 6.
So the bill was tabled.
RESOLUTIONS.
Mr. Hungerford asked a suspension of
the rules to offer a resolution that no new
matter be received after March 3d, butthe
Senate refused to suspend the rules.
Mr. Winn asked a suspension of the
rules to offer a resolution to instruct the
Judiciary Committee to report a bill al
lowing any citizen to peddle in the State
without license, but the Senate refused to
suspend tbe rules.
Mr. Merrell asked a suspension of the
rules to offer a resolution that “ whereas,
section 1032 of the Code requires the laws
and journals to be delivered to the Execu
tive within ninety days after receipt of
the manuscript; that the Governor is re
spectfully requested to inform the Senate
if tbe manuscript was furnished the State
Printer, and why the laws and journals
have not been distributed according to
law.” Rules suspended and the.resolution
adopted.
Mr. Holcombe asked a suspension of tbe
rules to offer a resolution that the General
Assembly adjourn on March the 12th sine
die. Rules suspended aud referred to a
joint committee of three from the Senate,
aud as many as the House may appoint.
Mr. Wooten asked a suspension of the
rules to otter a resolution that hereafter
no motion for reconsideration will be eu
tertaiued when made by a member voting
in the minority. Rules suspended, and
two-thirds not voting for it, the resolution
was lost.
SENATE BILLS ON THIRD READING.
To amend the act to prevent the sale of
lottery tickets in the State. Lost by yeas
17, nays 18.
To incorporate the Independent Tele
graph Compauy. House amendments
concurred iu aud hill passed.
For securing the collection of costs due
otlicers of courts, and to compute the '
same when paid iu curreucy. Lost.
To authorize the Governor to contract J
with railroads receiving State aid, for the j
employment of a certain class of convicts
from the Penitentiary. Lost.
To create anew couuty out of the couu
tiesof Troup and Harris. Tabled.
To increase the fees of J. L. Howell, I
constable in Lumpkin county. Lost.
To give Ordinaries concurrent jurisdic
tion with Judges of the Sui>erior Courts
iu foreclosing mortgages on personal prop
erty, and enforce all lien 9, except mort
gages ou real esiaie Passed
To arneud garnishment laws.* Lost.
To change the linees between the coun
ties of Bartow and Gordon. Passed.
To arneud the act for the relief of debt
ors, allowing third parties to come where
defendants refuse to avail themselves of
the act. Discussed until hour of adjourn
ment.
HOUSE BILLS ON THIRD READING.
To change the time of holding Superior
Courts in thecouuties of Putuatu and
Towns. Passed.
THE PEABODY MEDAL.
The resolution relative to preparing a
gold medal, to he transmitted to the Hon.
George Peabody 7 , of Loudon, was with
drawn.
The Senate adjourned until 3 o’clock,
p. M.
House. —House met pursuant to ad
journment.
Journal read and approved.
Mr. Sparks moved to reconsider the bill
lost yesterday, to compensate Dr. A. L. C.
Magruder. Motion prevailed.
Mr. Hall, of By un, moved to reconsider
the hill passed yesterday, toauthorize the
City Couueil of Brunswick to donate laud
to Albany 7 , and Macon and Brunswick
Railroad for purpose of amending. Mo
tion prevailed.
Mr. Erwin moved to reconsider the hill
lost yesterday, to ailow Dr. Osborn to
practice without license. Motion prevailed.
Mr. O'Neal moved to take np action of
the Seuate appointing a committee to in
vestigate contracts made with the city of
Atlauta. Rules suspended.
Mr. Bryant moved to concur iu action
of the Senate.
Mr. Scott, of Floyd, was opposed to the
motiou to concur. He said tiie House
took deliberate action on the suhjeet mat
ter ou last Saturday, and it was laid on
tiie table. Now, how cau this House act
upon tiie same subject matter they have
before settled? He protested against
making Georgia a party to the suit. He
was not au enemy to Atlanta, hut was in
favor of the Capitol remaining here. He
wanted this whole matter referred to a
committee asked for by Mr. Duncan, from
Houston, to devise menus to recover this
$31,000. He hoped that the House would
uot concur in the Senate resolution.
Mr. Shumate ottered au amendment
that the committee should uot arbitrate
the matter, but they shall report facts aud
recommend such action as they deem
necessary.
Mr. O’Neal—He said that the State was
already a party to the contract. Tiie Gov
ernor and the City Council of Atlauta
have asked that this committee he ap
pointed for the purpose of settling this
much vexed question. There had already
been enough vituperation ou this subject.
Mr. Shumate said this was an important
matter; we are now using furniture paid
for by the State, and if we continue so to
do without objection, we are pledged to
pay for it. We say this committee shall
not be arbitrators; they are uot required
to say who is right—the State of Georgia
or the city of Atlauta. There is no time
now to stand and cavil over questions of
ettiquette. Govern r Bullock asks the
appointment of this committee for tiie
purpose of settling this question, let us
adopt it, aud if the city of Atlanta has not
complied as she should have, then we can
go hack to where we have a capitol. This
is no place to discuss tiie differences be
tween Miiledgeville aud Atlauta.
Mr. Bryant said lie agreed fully with
Mr. Shumate. He said that this resolu
tion was to settle this matter. If Atlanta
should pay this money and refuses to do
so, then we will take tiiis as an emergency
aud go to Miiledgeville. He was a friend
to Atlanta aud wished the capitol to re
main here, hut the city must comply fully
with her contract.
Mr. Anderson —The money of the State
is gone; there is no use to talk about Geor
gia’s being a party to the contract now.
She is a party—her money is gone. If we
are going to use this furniture, we must
pay for it, or require others todoso. This
is a move in the right direction, aud he
hoped the resolution would he adopted;
this committee will settle this much vexed
question, and saddle on someone this
debt. It should he composed of good and
true men.
Mr. Guliatt said he hoped the committee
would he appointed. False impressions
had gone abroad about the liability of the
city of Atlanta. He was a member of the
City Council when this contract was made,
aud was satisfied that tiie city had fully
complied with her contract.
The previous questiou was called and
sustained. The amendment was agreed
to, aud resolution adopted.
Several hills that had passed the House
aud been amended iu the Seuate, were
taken up, aud amendments read and con
curred in.
Rules suspended, and Ssnate hill incor
porating Independent Telegraph Com
pany. Passed.
Mr. Salter—A resolution to adopt act 15,
as proposed by the Fortieth Congress, as
an amendment to the Constitution.
SPECIAL OKDEK.
The special order of the day being the
Educational bill, it was taken up and dis
cussed by Mr. Bryant, and lie moved to
A biii io aid the jLfruri3”wicK'and 'Ainany
Railroad Company. Substitute recom
mended by Joint Committee.
Mr. Hall, of Glynu, spoke of the great
importance of this road; said it was a part
of the route now contemplated by capital
ists to San Francisco, California, and lie
thought the day was not far distant when
this would be accomplished.
Substitute passed.
Ou motion of Mr. Tumlin, it was trans
mitted to tile renate.
Mr. Maxwell —A resolution tendering a
seat to Mr. Hall, of Thnmasviiit? Adopted.
On motion of Mr. Burnell, the bill to
open and const)uct a railroad from Ma
rietta to Jasper, and to incorporate the
same; and also a bill giving aid to the
same, was made the special order of to
morrow, 11 o’clock.
A bill to the Van’s Valley
Manufacturing Company. Passed.
A bill to amend an act to protect plant
ers from imposition in the sale of fertil
izers. Passed.
Mr. Scott —A resolution to appoint a
committee to ascertain if the preseut ;
Treasurer has used funds of the Slate im I
properly. Adopted.
The Chair appointed as the committee ;
Messrs. Anderson, Bethune and Sparks. '
A bill to prevent the destruction of joint
fences. Lost.
A bill to prevent the collection of taxes
in the counties of Muscogee, Richmond
and Macon, to pay insolvent cost. The
Senate amended by striking out Rich
mond aud Macon counties, and adding a
proviso that vested rights were not to he
effected by this bill. Amendment agreed.
A bill to amend the charter of the city
.ofGriffiu. Passed.
A bill to incorporate the Darien Bank
-1 ing Company.
Mr. McCornb amended by adding Mer
chants’ aud Planters’ Bank of Miliedge
ville to the privileges aud immunities of
the bill incorporating the Darien Bank.
A bill to incorporate the Georgia Im
porting Guano Company. Passed.
A bill to authorize agents and attorneys
to make oath to pleas.
; A hill to amend sectiou 3329 of Irwin’s
Code. Passed.
Mr. Gray—A resolution that no drafts
I on the Treasury for traveling expenses,
j incurred by committees, be paid until
i such have been submitted to the Finance
I Committee.
Rules suspended and the resolution
adopted.
A bill to allow William J Avery, of
j Meriwether couuty, to peddle wittiout li
' cense. Lost.
A hill to make trespass, in certain eases,
i penal. Passed.
A hill to alter and amend sectiou 4010of
Irwin’s Code. Passed.
A hill to amend the charter of Albany.
Passed.
A bill to dissolve garnishment iu cer
tain cases. Passed.
A hill to refund money to the couuty of
Baldwin.
Mr. Gober moved to indefinitely post
pone Motion prevailed.
House adjourned.
Afternoon Session, March 2.
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
Senate. —To amend the act for tiie re
lief of debtors. Amended and passed.
To incorporate the Rome and Summer
ville Turnpike Company. Amended aud
To exempt from poll tax (>ersons who ;
are blind. Passed.
To secure reuts and proceeds of home- |
steads to tiie support of families for whom j
the homestead is set apart. Referred to
the Judiciary Committee.
To provide for payment and distribution
of poll tax. Tabled.
To require Justices of the Peace to ms,ke
out lists of persons liable to pay taxes Ln
their districts. Passed.
To relieve tax payers liable to double
taxes. Lost.
To incorporate the Tazewell Cotton Man
ufacturing Company. Passed.
To authorize the payment of the rem
nant of the fund raised to build anew jail I
in Chatham Couuty, to the Mayor and !
Council of Savannah, for the repair and
enlargement of the present jail. Passed
SENATE BILLS FIRST TIME.
Mr. McArthur—To authorize the Macon
•{'Brunswick Railroad to build a branch
road to Albany.
BILLS SECOND READING.
A number of Senate aud House hills
were read the second time aud referred to
appropriate committees.
HOUSE BILLS FIRST READING.
For the relief of J. E. Price, William
Pilcher and R. C. Black, securities on
bond of S. Dawson, deceased. Sberitt of
Sumter couuty.
To authorize the Ordinary of Glynn
county, to levy a tax ou Slate tax for
county purposes.
To authorize the election of ten com
missioners for the couuty of Bibb, aud to
empower tbe Ordinary to issue county
bonds to drain the Macon reserve.
To change the lines between thecouu
ties of Cobh aud Paulding.
To amend act t > enlarge the boundaries
of the town of LaGrange.
To chauge the lines between the coun
ties of Meriwether and Coweta.
To change the lines betweeu the coun
ties of Spalding and Henry.
To authorize town commissioners of
Spriug Place, Murray couuty, to issue
license to retail liquor.
To change the lines between the coun
ties of Clinch and Coffee.
For the relief of Fairman F. Taber, and
his wife Louisa Jane Taber, formerly
Louisa Jane Patch.
To incorporate Georgia Methodist Mu
tual Life Insurance Company. [J. W.
Burke, Jeff. G. Pearce, E. E. Rawson, G.
N. Lester, A. G. Haygood, W. M. Crum
ley, I. L. Hopkins, N. J. Hammond, G.
W. D. Cook, F. M. Richardson, Er
Lawshe, E R. Sasseeu, Walter Branham,
W. J. Evans, Luther M. Smith, W. Ez
zard, aud W. P. Harrison.]
Senate then adjourned.
Wednesday, Match 3, 1869.
Senate. —The Senate was called to or
der by the President.
Prayer by Mr. Bowers
The Journal was read and approved.
RECONSIDERATION.
Mr. Nunnally moved to reconsider the
action of yesterday in tabling the hill to
retrocede five acres of land in Atlanta to
the heirs of Mitchell.
Mr. Fain called the previous question.
Messrs. Adkins and Smith, of the 7th,
opposed the call.
Mr. Holcombe moved to lay on the table.
The yeas and nays were demanded, and
the following is the vote.
Yeas—Messrs. Adkins, Anderson, Bow
ers, Brock Burns, Candler, Corbitt, Dick
ey, Harris, Higbee, Holcombe, Jordan.
McCutchen, Sherman, Smith, (7th,)
Stringer, Welch and Winn—lß.
Nays—Messrs. Col man, Collier, Fain,
Gignilliat, Graham, Griffin, (6th,) Griffin,
(21st,) Hinton, Hungerford, Jones, Lester,
McArthur, McWhorter, Moore, Nunnally,
Richardson, Smith, (36th,) Speer, Well
born and Wooten—2o.
So the motiou to lay on the table was
lost.
The previous question being called, the
yeas and nays were demanded on tiie
question to reconsider. The following is
the vote:
Yeas—Colman, Collier, Fain, Gignil
liat, Graham, Griffin, (6th,) Griffin, (21st,)
Hinton, Hungerford, Jones, Lester, Mc-
Arthur, McWhorter, Nuunally, Smith,
(36th,) Speer, Wellborn aud Wooten—lß.
Nays—Messrs. Adkins, Anderson. Bow
ers, Brock, Burns, Candler, Corbitt,
Dickey, Harris, Higbee, Holcombe, Jor
dan, McCutchen, Moore, Sherman, Smith,
(7th,) Stringer, Welch and Winn —19.
So the motion to recousider did not pre
vail.
[Air. Hinton voted nay because he con
sideied the subject as purely a judicial
question, and notone legitimately for the
consideration of tiie Legislature.]
Mr. Smith moved to reconsider action
on hill to amend act to prevent sale of lot
tery tickets in the State, sustaining the
motion in opposition to legalizing lotteries.
Mr. Wellborn moved to lay the motion
to reconsider on the table.
The motion to table prevailed, by yeas
17; nays 16.
Mr. Griflin moved to reconsider the ac
tion on the bill to secure the rents and
proceeds arising from homesteads for the
use of families for whom set apart.
The motion to reconsider prevailed,
c.MJW-VV.o ot £ u _ llljp CD L . an amendment,
tides for the family, ktten
lion, and tuition at school. MJQ '
The amendment was adopted, and the
bill passed.
SENATE BILLS THIRD READING.
To prevent railroads in this Htate from
being held responsible for killing any
species of slock running at large.
The Committee on internal Improve
ments recommend an amendment, “pro
vided that the railroad companies erect
lawful fences on either side of the track.”
Mr. Huugerford opposed the bill.
Mr. Fain advocated the passage of the
bill. Motion to table lost.
Mr. Hinton offered an amendment that
nothing in said act shall be construed as
to authorize tho fencing in of the State
Road.
Mr. Holcombe moved to indefinitely
postpone. Lost.
Mr. Hungerford moved to except the
roads in bis district. Motion lost.
Amendment of Mr. Hiutou lost, and
report of the committee disagreed to.
On the passage of the bill the yeas and
nays were demanded. Ihe following is
the vote:
Yeas—Messrs. Brock, Burns, Fain, Har
ris, Jordan, Merrell, McWhorter, Nun
nally, Richardson, Smith, 7th, Smith,
36th, Speer, and Welch—l3.
Nays—Adkins, Anderson, Bowers, Gig
niliiat, Graham, Griffin, 6th, Griffin, 21st
Hinton, Holcombe, Hungerford, Jones,
Lester. Moore,Sherman, Winn,aud Woo
ten —16.
So the bill was lost.
For relief of W. Johuson A Son, and G.
J. Lewis, of Upson county. Lost.
To exempt from jury duty members of
Watchful Fire Company, of Cuthbert, and
Neptune Fire Company, of Thomaaville.
SENATE BILLS FIRST READING.
Mr. Merrell —To incorporate Bowden,
Carroll county.
To add Fayette county to the Atlanta
Judicial Circuit.
SPECIAL ORDER.
The bill to prevent monopolies by rail-
VOL. LX.. NO 61.
road companies was made the special or
: der for 1 uesday next.
HOUSE WILLS THIRD READING.
ro incorporate the Desotah Manufaetur
! ing Company, of Floyd county. Passed
; by casting vote of the President.
To make it penal to hunt with tire by
night, in the counties of Brooks, Floyd'
Thomas aud Randolph. Lost. ’
To make it peuai to hum with firearms
or dogs on the lauds of others, without
the consent of owners, in Gwinnett, De-
Kalb, Bibb, aud other counties. Tabied
for balance of session.
To authorize the Ordinary of Fulton
county to issue bonds to meet outstanding
bonds. Passed.
HOUSE AMENDMENTS TO SENATE BILLS.
To iucorpbrate the Merchants’ and
Planters’ Bank of Milledgeville. Con
curred iu.
To amend section 4410 of the Code.
Concurred in.
To incorporate the Georgia Guano Im
porting Company. Concurred in.
To amend the act to prevent imposition
ou planters iu the sale of fertilizers. Con
curred in.
HOUSE BILLS ON FIRST READING.
To aid the Bruswick and Albany Rail
road.
To incorporate the Southern Masonic
jnsnrnnee l ompany.
To incorporate the Georgia Reed ami
Fibre Manufacturing Company.
•To incor|»orate the Muscogee Manufac
turing Company.
To authorize the citizens of Brunswick
through tlieCity Council, nr st .|i
land to the Brunswick Kaili ...
To Yegulate Insurance Companies not
incorporated in this Stale.
To carry into effect the recommenda
tions of the committee on the accounts of
tiie late Treasurer ami Comptroller Gen
eral.
A number of House bills read the sec
ond time, and referred to appropriate
committees. • *
RESOLUTIONS.
By Mr. Wellborn—Adopted.
Instructing the Committee on the State
of the Republic to report to-morrow on
the bill to briug on the election for Con
gressmen.
By Mr. Smith, (36t1i.) Adopted.
That ttie Senate meet hereafter at 9$
o’clock a. M , and adjourn at 1$ o’clock l*.
M. each day.
Senate adjourned until 9j o’clock to
morrow.
House. — The House met pursuant to
adjournment.
Prayer by Rev. Dr. Brantly.
Journal of proceedings of yesterday read
and approved.
Mr. Duncan withdrew his motion to re
consider resolution to appoint u committee
to confer witli City Council.
Mr. McCullough—A resolution request
ing the Senate to return bill granting aid
to Albany and Brunswick Railroad. Mo
tion made to suspend rules to take up
lost —yeas, 49; nays, 80.
Mr. McCombs moved to reconsider bill
lost yesterday, to refund money to liald
win county for building bridge across Oco
nee river. Motion lost.
BILLS THIRD READING.
A bill to prevent fraud in laying oil'
homesteads.
Mr. O’Neal, Chairman of Judiciary,
spoke at length against the bill. -
Mr. Duucau rose to speak on the bill.
Mr. Lee rose to a punt of order; that
the subject matter of this bill lisd been
before the House and been Indefinitely
postponed, aud this bill, under the rules,
could not now be entertained.
Mr. Anderson said Mr.JJaruell, of Pick
ens, introduced a bill similar to Ugh, but
that it did not cover points that are con
tained in this bill.
The bill could not be found, aud the
Chair overruled the point of order.
Mr. Duucau continued iu favor of the
bill.
Mr. Harper, of Terrell, spoke in favor
of tiie bill.
'Mr. Haussey followed, advocating Hie
necessity of the bill. He called the pre
vious questiou aud was sustained.
The yeas and nays required, and wen
yeas 99, nays 24. Bill passed.
Mr. Bryaut—A resolution of thanks to
Dr. Kauiuel Batd for furnishing his Jour
nal for the use of this House. Rules sus
pended and resolution adopted.
Mr Carpenter, of Hancock—A resold
tion to investigate tiie payment of hand*
to heat and light the Capitol buildin--.
Adopted.
Messrs. Carpenter, Hisson and Wilehel,
were appointed.
Mr. McCormick —A resolution tending
tiie use of the House to the Republican
party, for tiie purpose of holding a Con
vention on tiie stii instant.
Tiie Chair ruled that a resolution ha<s
been adopted by this House denying any
further use of this hall for political meet
ings.
Mr. O’Neal said that this resolution
would only r t peal the other resolution so
far as relates to this meeting.
The House refused to suspend the rules.
On motion of Mr. Harper of Terrell, the
rules were suspended and the (Senate reso
lution looking to adjournment, nine die,
outlie 12th inst., appointing joint com
mittee, etc , taken up, adopted and Com
mittee required to report on Thursday
next.
Harper, of Terrell, Grimes, McCullough,
Walthall, Smith, ofColfee, were appointed
from tiie House.
A bill to incorporate Brunswick, Cuth
bert and Columbus Railroad Company,
and to grant Slate aid to tiie same. Yeas
and nays were required ou tiie passage of
the bill, and were: yeas, 62; nays, 65.
Passed.
Mr. McComb moved to suspend the
rales and take up the bill to alter Article
10, Section Ist of tiie Constitution (re
moval of capilol to Miliedgevilie.)
The yeas and nays were required on the
suspension of the rules, and were: yeas,
71; nays, 60. Three-fourths not voting for
suspension of tiie rules, tiie motion was
lost.
Mr. Fitzpatrick—A resolution :
Whereas, Through tiie good offices of J.
isl. Bryaut, Bamuel Bard was tendered tiie
thanks of this General Assembly; there
fore, be it
Resolved, That the thanks of this House
is hereby tendered to Mark Pomeroy, Cary
W. Styles, Ben Wood and J. E Bryant
for meritorious services rendered the Dem
ocratic party.
The Chair ruied the resolution out of
order.
peai irom cne 'clecndk'r, would not an
t Mkce- r . n,»ir Lilt
company, and thrit thanks snofcftPHßt e ij».
voted one without thanking ah.
SPECIAL ORDER.
A bill to incorporate the Marietta and
Jasper Railroad Company. Passed
A bill granting State aid to the railroad
from Marietta to Jasper, Pickens county.
Mr. Haussey moved to amend by grant
ing aid to every railroad now in contem
plation, and that may be for the Dext five
years to come.
Mr. Flournoy spoke against the bill
Mr. Hamilton—A resolution requiring
the appointment of a committee to inves
tigate to what amount the State had en
dorsed bonds for railroads.
Mr. Anderson said he had stood shoulder
to shoulder with the gentleman from
Washington (Mr. Flournoy) in fighting
the principle of State aid. This Legisla
ture, in its wisdom, had seen fit to over
ride them, aud had granted aid to several
sections, and now for his section he de
manded the same principle be applied.
He did not expect to vote for the bill, a.-
though the road run in front of Ids 'J° or >
but he wanted to see if those who have
been so lavish of State aid, were going to
vote against it when his section wauled
11 Mr. O’Neal and Mr. Price spoke in favor
of the bill. „ . '
Previous question called.
Yeas and nays required, and were-yeas
43, nays 04. So the mil was lost.
House adjourned.
For congress.— A correspondent of the
Handersville Georgian suggests the name
of Hon James S. Hook, of Augusta, as a
suitable candidate for Congress in th aoth
District.
Shocking Accident— Mr. Henry E.
Lucas. Jr., one of the most esteemed and
successful cit zens of St. Thomas parish,
near Charleston, accidentally allot and
killed himself withs pistol, on Monday
last.