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R. ELLIS & CO., Froprietors.
Volume XVIII.
COLUMBIA TUESDAY, NOVEMBER , ms.
Banks and Rail Roads.
We publish in another column a bill introduce*!
by Col. John Milledge, of Richmond, into the
House of Representatives, having relation to the
above subjects. Its provisions strike us as being
proper. There can be no question that much of
the evil with which our people have been afflicted
from the collapse of insolvent Banking Institu
tions might have been avoided if a proper consid
eration had been taken of tfee policy of granting
their charters. Those who are acquainted with
the practical details of our legislation understand
with what hurry and incousideratenesa such mat
ters are generally pushed through the formative
process. In granting the charter of a Bank, it
seems to us our Legislators should know some
thing more than the names of the corporators and
the locality of the Institution. Some reflection,
at least, should be indulged and an opinion form
ed upon the expediency of the grant. The prod
igality with which these benefit* have been lavish
ed upon the people convinces us that very little
consideration has been destowed upon this subject.
For example, our Legislature of 1854, (we believe)
chartered the “Bank of Morgan,” to be located in
the town of Morgan, Calhoun county. This vil
lage has between two and three hundred inhabit
ants, and though they arc an industrious and thri
ving people, they have about as much use for a
bank as a horse has for five legs. Fortunately
they were saved from bankruptcy by the failure of
the scheme to go into operation. Other banks in
other places, with as little reason or necessity for
their creation have made a beginning, emitted
their bills and, after a flourishing existence of a
few months, died of utter emptincuts —perpetuating
their miserable memories by the losses they en
tailed upon the community they pretended to
bless.
The above general observations apply with equal
force to Kail Road charters. The indiscriminate
granting of all such applications cannot but oper
ate with prejudice to the interests of the State, and
considering that the bill of Col. Milledge will have
the effect to check this prodigal expenditure of
franchises, we hope it will become a law.
Tnc Next Congress.
After the result of the elections in October, we
published a table showing the new members elec
ted up to that time, and also indicated how parties
would stand in the next Congress provided there
was no change in the delegations from the States
yet to elect.
The House, including Oregon, consists of 237
members. In the October elections eighty five
members were elected—fifty three Republicans and
thirty-two Democrats. The elections which took
place yesterday in 2s ew York, New Jersey, Mass
achusetts, Delaware, Illinois, Michigan, and Wis
consin, according to the returns received, has, in
all probability, resulted iu the election of fifty-one
Republicans and fifteen Democrats. This will
make the strength of parties already elected stand
as follows :
Dem. Rep.
Elected in Oct. 32 53 j
De Nov.. 15 51
47 104
The States yet to elect are Alabama, California,
Connecticut, Georgia. Kentucky. Louisiana, Mary
land, Minnesota, Mississippi, New Hampshire,
North Carolina, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas
and Virginia, which elect eighty-six members. In
the present House they stand as follows:
Dem. Rep. Am.
ft” 7 12
Add already'elected 47 104
114 111 12
Iu the States yet to elect the Republicans may
gain two members in Connecticut, and the Demo
crats will, iu all probability, gain six meml>er9
from the South Americans in Kentucky, Tenn
essee, Georgia, North Carolina, aul Maryland.-
Such a result will make the next Congress stand
—Democrats 118, Republicans 113, South Amer
ican* 6. In no contingency can the Republicans
have the control of the next Congress. — ft ashing
ton States.
Western & Atlantic Railroad.
We have received the report of the Superintend- •
ent and Treasurer of the Western ami Atlantic
Railroad for which we make acknowledgement to j
the proper source. Gov. Brown, has already in his
message given such a complete view ol the opera
tions of that road that it would be superflu- ‘
ou§ for us to refer our readers to the detailed items
in this report. We should only find a confirma
tion of what the Governor has told us, and what
the Treasury vaults and records demonstrate, that
it has made monthly payments of $25,ff00 iuto the i
State purse from the time it parsed under its pres
ent administration. The people ot Georgia, sit
ing in judgment upon the conduct of their j
ageuts, return the unanimous verdict of well done ;
good and faithful servants. We take this ocea- j
sion to signify our regret that we were not able to
accept the polite -.invitation of the Superintendent
to take an excursion over the road at the time ap
pointed.
Lease of the State Road,
A proposition ho* been presented to the Gov
ernor, and will we learn be by him presented to
the Legislature, to lease the Western A Atlantic
Railroad for the sum of $325,000 per annum.—
The parties are most responsible gentlemen, and
among them are the names of Dr. Collins, Hiram
B Troutman, Esqr., James Dean, Esq., Judge
Holt, and others, chiefly of Macon and vicinity*
Overland Mall from California.
St. Loris. Nov. 7.—The mail from £an Fran
cisco to the 11th Oct., has arrived.
Tue Alta Californian says advices from Frazer
river are discouraging, and thousands are return
ing. g m
Letter from t om. Kearney.
Navy Yari>. New York. Nov. 3, 1858.
Hon. llouell Cobb y Secretary of the Treasury:
S, R ; _i had the honor to report myself to you
on the Ist instant, for temporary duty iu the Light
house Board, of which C ommodore Shubrick, it
would seem, is the permanent Chairman. It is
true he entered the Navy a few months earlier
than myself. I have served only fifty-one years,
and I am now ordered by the Navy Department
to a temporary duty, growing out of the Commo
dore's absence on other duty. lam to be under
your department. Had I been ordered on sea ser
vice, I should feel gratified iu leaving my present
command, the Navy Yard and Station of New
York. lam sorry to trouble you as a -Cabinet of
ficer, in no way connected with the Naty of the
United States, but I feel it due to myself, for 1 am
at a loss to know what exact position I am to hold
in the absence of Commodore Shubrick. I will
take this opportunity of adding —alter expressing
my surprise at my sudden removal —that, if poli
tics have had any agency in the matter, no great
er mistake couldhave been made. It would hard
ly be expected of me to ehauge au opinion and to
serve any policy, by swerving from a just course
in doing so, whether white or black he the color
of the party. #
Very respectfully your obedient serv t,
L. KEARNEY.
Landlord—“Mr. Editor. ITT thank yon to gay
I keep the best table in the city.’
Editor—‘‘lll thank you to supply my family
with board gratis.”
Landlord— “I thought you were glad to get
somethto fill up your paper.”
Editor—“l thought you were glad to feed men
for nothing.”
Its a poor rule that won't work both ways.
Exit landlord in a rage, threatened to have
nothing moro to do with the office,
it ‘ : l
(From the Daily Federal Union.)
Abstract of Proceedings In the Georgia Legislature.
SENATE.
Friday Morning, Nov. 5.
The Senate met and was called to order by Hon.
Jno. E. Ward, President, at 10 o’clock, pursuant
to adjournment.
After the readiug of the Journal, Mr. Slaughter
1 of Diugherty introduced a resolution allowing the
Seuators 20 days further time, in which to make
their reports to the Senatus Academic us. After
I Bniedebate the President ruled the resolution out
of order.
The *Senate then resolved itselfinto the Senatus
| Academicus, his Excellency the Governor in the
| Chair.
i Hon. Jno. E. Ward made a report as Chairman
j of the Com mi ttee appointed on yesterday, recom
mending the passage of a bill embodying the
• spirit of Gov. Brown’s message, providing for the
| support of Public Schools, and for other pur
j poses.
j Mr. Whitaker of Fulton, moved that the bill
! ami report be transmitted to the General Assem
l bly. Agreed to.
A debate of some length arose upon the resolu
tion of Mr. Slaughter of Dougherty, fixing the
i itme for the Sen at us Academicus to reconvene.
Mr. Ward, oFChatbain, offered an amendment,
inserting the word 26th of Nov. The resolution
1 as amended passed unanimously:
The Senatus Academicus then adjourned until
the 26th inst.
The following bills among others were read for
the second time; with Mr. P. H. Colquitt in the
Chair.
| A bill to lay out and organize anew county
from Warren, Richmond, Columbia, Glasscock,
Burke and Jefferson.
Mr. Beall of Warren moved that the bill be re
fered to the Committee on New Counties. Agreed
to.
A bill to alter the/.aw on new trials. Referred
! to the Judiciary Committee.
‘ A bill preventing the manumission of Slaves.—
Referred to the Committee on Judiciary.
A bill to aid the construction of the Elijay Rail
Road.
A bill to organize anew County from the coun
ties of Chattooga, Walker and Gordon.
A bill to alter the Law in regard to the liability
of drawers of bills, drafts. Ac. Referred to the ,
Judiciary.
A bill to alter the Ist Section of the 3d Article
of the Constitution, iu regard to the places of the
sittings of the Supreme Court.
A bill to alter the Judiciary and to provide for
the alternating of the Judges.
• A bill to alter the Ist Section of the 3d Article
| of the Constitution.
A bill to incorporate the Macon Insurance Com
pany.
A bill to repeal the act, prohibiting non-resi
dents from hunting in this State,
A bill to organize anew County, from the coun
ties of Henry and Fayette, to be called Butler coun
ty, site Jonesboro.
A bill to abolish the Law preventing the intro
duction of Slaves in this State, which was read
the first time.
The Senate adjourned until to-morrow morning
at 10 o’clock.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Friday Morning Nov. 5, 1858.
The House met pursuant to adjournment. The
roll was called, the Journal read and the House
proceeded to business.
Bill* Introduced.
Mr. Schley, of Burke: A bill to allow parties to
contract for money, at any rate agreed upon. The
provisions of this bill do not extend to Banks and
Bank agencies.
Mr. Awtry, of Cobb: To alter the time of hold
i ing the election of county officers in the several
counties of this State, from Ist Monday in Janua
ry of each year, to Ist Monday in October,electing
i them for two years. Under this bill Tax Collet*-
! tors will hold their office for two years, and their
bond in the respective counties will be double
what it is now.
Mr. Moore of Clark: To regulate the disposal
| of free persons of color in this State.
This bill proposes, that nil free persons of color
{ who are in this .State on the Ist of January 1860.
; shall be sold into slavery, or choose for themselves
a master. In the event of their sale, one third of
: the money goes into the county treasury, and the
f balance into the State Treasury. This bill is to
be published in the Public Gazettes, and the Free
States will he requested to open their doors for
the reception of such as may wish to emigrate to
them.
Mr. Mott, of Muscogee: To make valid and
binding the subscription,by the eityeouncil of Co
lumbus, to the stock of the Mobile A Girard and
the West Point A Montgomery Railroads, and to
legalize the ordinances of the Mayor, and Alder
men of said city to provide means for the pay
j ment of the same.
Mr. Luffrnan. of Murray: To alter the 11th
Section of the Constitution of this State.
Mr. Price, of Pickens: To alter the law in re
lation to divorces —and repealing that portion of
the law requiring two concurrent verdicts in or
der to grant a divorce.
Mr. Roberts of Scriven: To compel Justices of
i the Peace in this State to give bond and security
; for the faithful performance of their duties.
The House took up the resolution, offered on
| yesterday, by the gentleman from Chatham, in
• relation to the introduction of new matter, for the
| consideration of the House. The resolution was
: amended so as to read, ‘‘Resolved, That with the
I concurrence of the Senate, no new matter shall
be introduced for the consideration of this House
after the first day of December next, unless by a
vote of two thirds of the members.”
The resolution and amendment was adopted and
transmitted to the Senate.
Bilb Read Second Time.
To add an additional Section to the Constitution
|of this State. Committed.
To establish a general system of Education.—
! Committed.
To abolish imprisonment for debt in this State
! referred to Judiciary Committee.
To alter and amend the charter of the city of
Columbus. Committed.
To repeal the Bth Section of the tax Act of 1804.
Referred to Judiciary Committee.
To prevent the improper increase of Railroads
and Banks in this State. Committed. 200 copies
| ordered to be printed.
To aid and encourage the Ellijay Railroad. Mo
tion to print 200 copies withdrawn. Mr. Kenan
gave notice, that when this bill came up for a third
reading, he should raise a point of order. He
paid that if this was but a continuation of last ses
sion, this bill could not constitutionally be acted
upon now, as it had already been acted upon and
lost. The bill was committed.
A message was received from the Senate, through
their Secretary, reporting the action of the Sena
i tus Academicus. Accompanying the message was
a bill for organizing a system of free schools. Af
! ter a running debate upon the propriety of reading
the bill, in which quite a number of gentlemen
participated—after a variety of motions, some
! lost, some withdrawn. Ac., Ac., without making a
final disposition of the matter, the House adjourn
ed to ff l o o’clock to-morrow morning.
The House seems wholly intent upon doing the
Public Business in the shortest possible time. It
is absolutely necessary that they should not meet
every afternoon, as the Committees must have
time to attend to the various matters with which
they are charged.
A Bill Introduced by Col. John Mlllcge, of Rich
mond.
To be entitled An Act to require certain person or
petpitH* uho desire to obtain either a Rail Road
or Bank charter , or charters, to give notice of
their intended application to the Legislature for
such purpose, d'e.
Whereas, Many Railroad and Bank charters
have hitherto been granted without due considera
tion, often against the will, and frequently to the
injury of the people of this State—for remedy
whereof, , rr ,
Ist. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General
Assembly met. and it is hereby enacted by the au-
I thority of the same That from and after the pas
; sage of this Act, it shall be obligatory on any per
son, or persona, who may desire to be made a body
politic, either lor the purpose of constructing a
Railroad, or doing a banking business, to give no
j tice of bis or their intention to apply to the Legis
i laturc next ensuing, for au act of incorporation,
in two gaisettes published at the Capital, five
months, (a months,) prior to the month before
! the meeting of the General Assembly ; which said
notice of intended application, if for a Railroad
charter, shall fully set forth the name and resi
dences of the original corporators—it. name,
| lcn-th, and termini, and amuußt of capital sup
-1 posed to be necessary for the building of said
Road and the several’ counties through which it
: is intended to pass. If notioc of intended appli
! cation is for a Bank charter, iu like manner it must
state fully the names of the original corporators,
whether residents or non-residents of the State,
the name of the proposed Bank, the amount ol its
capital, and place where it i* intended to be loca.
ted.
THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES.
Sec. 2d. And be it further enacted, That it shall
, be the duty of someone of the original incorpor
ators of either of the above stated proposed incor
porations, to file in the office of the Executive of
the State, one month before the meeting of the Le
gislature, a copy of both of the gazettes in which
#aid intended application for chartered privileges
is printed, with the certificate of the publishers,
that said nofree was running in the papers for five
consecutive months prior to that time. Whereup
on it shall lie the duty of his Excellency, either in
his annual message, or shortly thereafter, to com
municate to both branches of the Legislature,
what notices of application have been made and
filed iu his office, either for Railroad or Bank char
ters, whether the several provisions of this act
have been fully complied with—accompanied with
such remarks touching the wisdom and expedien
cy of their passage- or rejection, as his general
knowledge of what may or may not be expedient
to the interests of the State, may suggest.
Sec. 3d. Be it further enacted, That if, after
due notice of application for charters for either of
the purposes above specified, according to the
terms and provisions of this act, the parties mak
ing said application, should fail to have introduc
ed a bill to carry out their design, or if introduced,
from some cause it fail of a passage, or is vetoed,
then, in the happening of either of these events,
the notice given becomes void and of no effect, and
the provisions and terms of this act must be again
as fully complied with as if no notice of applica
tion had ever been given-*-a new notice on each
succeeding Legislature being required.
Sec. 4th. And be it further enacted. That all
laws and parts of laws militating against the pro
visions of this act, be and the same are hereby re
pealed.
UIInolH Flection.
Chicago, 111. Nov. 7.—Eighty three counties
have been heard from. If the counties yet to hea,
from maintain their vote in 1856, the democratic
State ticket will be elected.
From Mexico.—Dates from Vera Cruz to Oc
tober 22d have been received.
A rumor was current in Vera Cruz that Cabos,
the commander of Zuloaga’s forces near Orizabar
had received orders from tho City of Mexico to
join Echeagaray at Jalapa.
It was reported that Gen. Dogollado, comman
der of the constitutionalists, entered Guadalajara
on the sth of October.
The Boletin (official) of Zacatecas, announces
the town'of Lagos taken by the constitutionalists
from Zacatecas andNeuva Leon.
From the Galveston Civilvian.
The Great Battle between Vidaurri and Ml ruin on. A
San Jacinto Victory.
Brownsville, Oct. 12.—Some weeks ago I
wrote you that it was impossible for the northern
faction iu Mexico long to sustain themselves in
opposition to a government having its head quar
ters about the city of Mexico and sustained by the
Catholic clergy. Recent events have verified that
statement.
Geucral Santiago Vidaurri is emphatically whip
ped out and used up ! Vidaurri—after having en
tered the city of San Luis Potoei without opposi
tion. and about which so much was said, findinfi j
that the presence of his army was obnoxious to the j
citizens, retreated from the city to the Hacienda j
“La Parada,” about eight leaguee from San ’
Luis.
On the 26th September, Gen. Miramon sent a i
detachment of 1,300 men to reconnoitre his camp, ;
with orders to fall back in the event of an attack, j
On the 28th he sent out a large detachment, with ;
similar instructions; and after having made him- j
self thoroughly acquainted with Vidauiri’s strength .
and position, on the morning of the 29th prepared
for a general attack. His army consists of 11,000 |
men, officered by ibelxist men in Mexico. Having j
determined to make the attack with the bayonet j
and lance alone, he detailed 3,000 men to retain j
as a guard for the artillery and military stores. — j
He then ordered 3,000 lancers to take positions on j
the right and left wing of Vidaurri’s army, at safe
distances, and hold themselves in readiness to cut 1
off the fugitives in the event of a rout. Placing j
himself at the head of 5,000 in fan try and cavalry,
lie movedtoWard the camp ofViduarri.
So soou as silence was restored the bugles sound” j
eu, and the army advanced with fixed bayonets j
and lance, orders having been given for not a mus
ket to be tired until the batteries should be taken, j
As the attacking armies advanced, Vidaurri’s gun- 1
ners were distinctly seen holding in their hands j
their lighted port fires, awaiting the order of their ;
commanders : but the army of Mexico steadily !
advanced. When within 200 yards of Vidaurri s j
lines the order to tire was given, and 60 pieces ol j
cannon and 8,000 small arms belched forth their !
murderous Kail upon the assailants. In an instant,
and before the troops had time to waver, the order
to charge rang down the line from the sharp voice :
of Gen. Miramon ; the order was obeyed, and be- j
fore the artillerymen could reload their pieces, a j
large portion of them were lanced at their guns, j
and the batteries were taken. Simultaneously
Miraiuon’s infauty had fallen upon Vidaurri’sro/- j
untarios with their bayonets with such fury as j
was irresistible. Lances and bayonets were clott- j
ed with blood, while bullets pierced the frighten- j
ed fugitives. Footmen were trampled under the
feet of the cavalry that had been posted upon the
right and left of Vidaurri, and many of them lanc
ed.
Tne plain to tho north and east of the Hacienda
was covered with fugitives, flying towards the
mountains, almost breathless, from the impetuous
lanceros.
It was a San Jacinto victory; 500 are reported
killed: 1,100 wounded—one-half up posed to be
mortally; 2,000 taken prisoners; the balance made
their escape into the mountains, with the excep
tion of about 250, mostly officers, who escaped
with General Vidaurri.
The victors took 560 mules and horses, 320 wa
gous, 60 pieces of artillery, 90,000 pound ol am
munition, besides muskets, and the usual amount
of camp equipage.
General Vidaurri, in an express to Monterey, j
wrote, “ All is lost,” which, being interpreted,
means that he will no longer handle the public
revenue.
Our Affairs with Mexico.
Despatches under date of Vera Cruz, October
17, have been received at the Navy Department,
from Commander J. A. Dahlgren, in command of
the sloop-of-war Plymouth,gixing the particulars
of the visit of that vessel to Tampico, and of an
interview with President Juarez at Vera Cruz.
The Plymouth arrived at Tampico on the 3d ul
timo. Commander Dahlgren immediately com
municated with Mr. Chase, the American consul,
who gave him copies of affidavits bv Victor Bas
tion and Christian Herman Schultz, citizens of the
United States. Bastien declares that “on the first
•lay of October he was arrested by an officer of the
constitutional army, who conducted him to the
commissariat, where a peremptory demand ’“as
made upon him for the immediate payment of
$2,000, as a forced loan ; that he refused to pay it,
and that the officer then escorted him by force to
the military barraeks, where he was incarcerated,
and remained until coerced to satisfy the said un
just exaction.”
Mr. Schultz had imported a quantity of mer
chandise valued at over $12,000. The merchan
dise was seized by the authorities of the central
Government, and* a demand made upon Schultz
for the payment of duties a second time to that
party. This Schultz protests against as in viola
tion of the existing treaties between the United
States and Mexico.
Commander Dahlgren bad an interview with
Gov. Garza, of Tampico, who assumed the respon
sibility for the forced loan upon Bastien. saying
that be was ready to make indemnity to him for
the injury done. In reply to inquiries Gov. Gar- j
za said that he had a great disinclination to prac
tice similar molestations upon citizens of the Uni
ted States, but necessity might compel him to re- j
sort to like contributions on all merchants, in
which those of the United- Stotes would, of course, ,
be included. Commander Dahlgren remonstrated i
against the propriety of this course, and remind- j
ed Governor Garza that the l nited States Govern- j
ment had fully approved ol the course of Mr. For
syth in resisting similar exactions upon American
residents at the city of Mexico ; aud that a con
tinuance of such course would eudanger the friend
ly relations between the two countries. Governor
Garza would bind himself to nothing further, but
promised to write to his Government, that of Jua
rez, for more particular instructions.
Under date of tho 17th of October, at Vera
Cruz, Commander Dahlgren gives the particulars
of an interview with President Juarez, relative to .
the complaints of Bastien and Schultz, at Tarnpi- j
co. After detailing the case of the first. President -
Juarez declared “that the practice (of levying j
forced loans) was improper, aud should not be j
continued, aud that he would so instruct Govern- i
or Garza by the next British packet.” Os the case
of Schultz he had no information. President Ju
arez exhibited every disposition to prevent our
citizens from being subjected to improper annoy
ances, and repeated his desire to sustain
understanding with the United States.— Wash
ington Statet.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1858.
COLUMBUS, WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 185*.
Black Republican l'roniiuriamcnto.
We extract below a few paragraphs from a
speech recently tnade by William 11. Seward, Sen
ator in the Congress of the United States from the
State of New York, and high priest of abolition
ism. From the relations of Mr. Seward to the
Black Republican party we are justified in regard
ing the sentiments proclaimed in this speech as the
authoritative exposition of the programme of ac
tion and the settled purpose of that organization.
He is a sagacious, shrewd, far-seeing man. He
has too much caution to take a position in which
he will not certainly be sustained by the instincts
and sympathies of the northern mind. He has
accurately sounded northern feeling on the ques
tion of slavery and he knows its depth and how
far he may \euture with safety. We sav, there
fore, that we may assume that Mr. Seward repre
sents the opinion of the Black Republican party
of the North, when he declares that there is au es
sential and inherent antagonism between the Slave
power in the South and freesoii power in the
North—an antagonism which will necessitate a
conflict that shall result in the fiual and complete
overthrow of one or the other principle. It is the
policy, as well as a necessity, of that party to take
an advanced, ultra position upon the settlement
of every question between it and its antagonist.—
Based upon one idea alone, agitation is a necessa
ry element of its existence—the sole guarantee of
its success. Some new battle must be iu anticipa
tion, some new triumph ever in prospect, to hold
its votaries iu compacted array. Accordingly, its
history demonstrates that its conduct has been in
conformity to this principle. Its beginning was
small aud its pretensions insignificant. We will
not follow it through all the phases of its miracu
lous growth. It is enough for our readers to know
that with unabashed front, it, to-day, is grasping
after the control of this Government, and defiant
ly proclaims its intention to assert the supremacy
of free labor in the cotton fields of Georgia and
her Southern Sisters. He says :
Our country is a theatre which exhibits, in full
operation, two radically different political systems
—the one resting on the basis of servile or slave
labor: the other on the basis of voluntary labor of
freemen. The laborers who are enslaved are all
negroes, or persons more or less purely of African
derivation. But this is only accidental. It was
the antagonistic political tendencies of the two
systems which the first Napoleon was contempla
ting when he predicted that Europe would ulti
mately be either all Cossack or all Republican.—
Never did human sagacity utter a more pregnant
truth. The two systems are at once perceived to
be incongruous. But they are more than incon
gruous, they are incompatible. They never have
permanently existed together in one country, and
they never can. It would he easy to demonstrate
this impossibility, from the irreconcilable contrast
between their great principles and characteristics,
i But the experience of mankind has conclusively
i established it.
* *******
Shail I tell you what this collision means? They
j who think that it is accidental, unnecessary, the
i work of interested or fanatical agitators, andibere
| fore ephemeral, mistake the ease altogether. It
j is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and
i enduriug forces, and it means that the l nited
! States must and trill. sooner or later, become en
■ tirely a slesveholding nation, or entirely a free-la
bor nation. Either the cotton and rice fields of
) South Carolina and the sugar plantations of Lou
i ifiana will ultimately be tilled by tree labor, and
| Charleston and New Orleans become marts for le
! git i mate merchandise alone, or else the rye fields
| and wheat fields of Massachusetts and New York
j must again be surrendered by their farmers to slave
! culture and to the production of slaves, and Bos
| ton and New York become once more markets for
I trade in the bodies and souls of men. It is the
| failure to apprehend this great truth that induces
i so many unsuccessful attempts at final compromise
j between the slave and free .States, and it is the
j existence of this great fact that renders all such
j pretended compromise, when made, vain and
| ephemeral. ******
Tnc Yellow Fever.
The Daily Delta states that four thousand eight
j hundred aud fifty-eight persons have died of this
j epidemic in New Orleans from tho week end
! ing 27th of June to the week ending 31st of Oc
| tober.
jZSgF*A Contention of Southern Rail Road inan
| age re will be held at Chattanooga, Tennessee, on
| the 23d instant. The principal business of the
; meeting will be the establishment of a thorough
i schedule of passenger aud freight rates. This has
i been contemplated for some time in consequence
j of the new competition inaugurated by the open-
I ing of the Tennessee and Virginia Rail ltoad last
spring, and by the rapid progress towards com
pletion of embryo lines. Among the roads which
will be represented at the Conference are the Bal
timore and Ohio, New Orleans, Jackson and Great
Northern. Mississippi Central, East Tennessee
and Virginia, Memphis and Charleston, and Cen
tral Georgia.
/y&gP'On the 2d inst., the ceremonies, previously
announced to take place, at the completion of the
monument to the memory of Gen. Charles H. Nel
son, were performed at Calhoun. The cadets of
the Georgia Military Institute, under the com
mand ofMnj. A. V. Brumby, a large number of
I the comrades in arms of the gallant Nelson, and
friends and citizens, were in attendance. The eu
logy was delivered by Judge E. K. H ardin.
A Price Fic.iit at Lafayette, Ind.—Fancy
stock is going up, aud prize fights are not without
their effects. Robert Jones and H. W. Chase, two
limbs of the law, had a fist-fight in Court, at La
fayette, on Friday last. The Lafayette Courier
gives the following graphic account of the first
round:
“Mr. Chase gave Mr. Jones the lie, whereupon
Jones planted a well-directed blow between the
two eyes of the aforesaid Chase, and was about to
follow up his advantage, when Chase aforesaid
‘got home,’ as the ‘fancy’ express it with a beau
tiful ‘right counter’ on the frontispiece of the afore
said Jonee, and the attorney for the plaintiff drop
ped. as limber as four cent muslin, lie came to
•time,’ however, and closing with the railroad at
i torney. piled him into the jury-box in a very un
! comfortable shape.”
As the parties were both exhausted, friends in
erfered, and had the second round postponed.
All the butterflies of fashion, all the drones
tof loaferdoin. all the wasps of criticism, with a
goodly sprinkling of the different kinds of busy
bee? of trade and commerce, combined together to
make a large audience for Piecolomini upon her
latest appearance at the Academy, says a New
York paper.
General Wm. Walkers visit to Washing
ton, it is believed, was undertaken for the purpose
of protesting against the proclamation of the
President, so far as it charged unlawful designs
against himself.
| Practical Jokeing.—ln a certain flourishing
village down Eastward; where flourishes a literary
, institution, a gentleman took one of a family of in
fant puppies, and gaining entrance into a neigli
| bors house before the folks were wide awake
I enough to know what he was about, chucked the
little creature among a litter of kittens of like ten
der age. Puss made no distinction between the
stranger and her own offspring, and he on his part
took kindly and confidingly to his new nurse. —
Great was the astonishment of the household when
it was discovered (as they supposed) that their eat
was the dam of a puppy. The news of so porten
tous a birth spread over town like wildfire. Peo
ple came in flocks to see the sight. The fortunate
possessor was offered $5 for the little monster but
! declared that he would not part with it for five
! hundred. That the case might not fall of due au-
I thentication, two physicians of the first respecta
! bility were summoned to inspect and report upon
i it. They jointly and severally scrutinized the aui
j mat, and found that it was certainly a puppy, hav
| ing all the characteristics of the dog race except
the paws. Those were pTououneed to resemble
cat’s claws. The perpetrator of the joke couldn’t
hold in any longer. The cat was out of the bag
in a twinkling, and if the doctors outlive the mem
ory of their essay in comparative zoology they
will be more lucky than most victims of a “sell”
MILLED r,EVILLE CORRESPONDENCE.
Milledgkyille, Nov. 8, 1858.
Mr..Editor —Since* my last communication
to you, two bill* have passed the House, which
interest the citizens of Columbus; one, carrying
out the resolutions of the meeting at Temperance-
Hall, in reference to the subscriptions to the
Mobile & Girard Railroad—legalizing the al
most unanimous vote given in favor of subscrip
tion by the citizens; and the other, altering and
amending the charter of the City of Columbus. I
enclose you the latter, which you can publish for
the information of your numerous city readers.-
\on will perceive that it changes the election of
Aldermen by Ward*, jand requires that they he
elected by the votes of the whole city—also giving
the Mayor Jurisdiction and power to try certain
offences mentioned in tho act.
T. R. R. Cobb. Esq., addressed the members of
the Legislature Saturday evening (6th inst.) on
the subject of Free Schools. He is an engaging
and impressive speaker, aud is much enlisted in
the greatcause he advocates* .Still, he presented
views which were not endorsed by even the friends
of the system. He undertook to show that free
dom from taxation was a “curse,” and while
he did not approve of a high tax, he believed
a small tax increased our loyalty to the State.—
Some may owe their allegiance to their State to
the small pittance they put iuto the Treasury, but
the patriotic citizen will love most when it protects
him in the enjoyment of his rights, and imposes
upon him no burthens in the way of taxation. Mr.
Cobb endeavored to show that the reduction of
taxes benefited only the rich, and that the poor
had little or no interest in it. That a? the poor
man paid little or nothing into the Treasury, he
had everything to gain and nothing to lose by
taxing the community. This was down-right
agrarianism—that it is right to take from the rich
to benefit the poor. Then we should be made to
support our neighbors and their children for the
sake of republican equality and equal rights !
State aid bills to Railroads, absorb in the Legis
lature all other bills in importance. Everybody
wants a road and the State ought to build it. The
people may not be aroused to a sense of the great
danger to which tho State is exposed by the pass
age of these bills, but the Legislator, who has the
moral firmness to oppose them, and discharge his
duty, deserves well the gratitude of the people.—
Should the five or six roads be granted a loan of
the Slate’s credit, which are now applying before
the Legislature, the sequel will be a crushing
I State debt—a depreciation of State Stocks and a
paralysis in ull the departments of commerce and
| lra ' , “-
| An animated discussion took place to-day in
■ t he House, in relation to raising a committee to sc*
j lect a site for the Penitentiary, in which Messrs.
; Kenan of Baldwin, and Smith of Towns, were the
I chief disputants. Anew county bill passed the
Senate and was transmitted to the House. It was
I taken from the counties of Fayette aud Henry
; aud is to be called Butler. There arc many
! more bills of this character before the General
i Assembly. The State has more counties now
j than she has room for their Representatives and
| Senators. Eight were made last session,
j I notice here the Hon. James L. Seward of the
! Ist District; also Judges McDonald, Lumpkin and
i Bennmg, who are attending the Supreme Court
{ session.
! Hon. John A. Tucker, the Senator from Stew.
| art, has arrived after a delay at the Courts for a
| few days. He hold? a commanding position in the
s Senate. In this connection. I might say, Slaugli-
I ler ol’ Dougherty is gradually winning his way to
; rank and place. C.
A Bill Introduced by lion. R. L. Mott.
‘To be entitled An Act to alter and amend the Char
ter of the City of Columbus.
Ist. Beit enacted by the Senate and House of
i Representatives of the State of Georgia in Gener
al Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the
authority of the same, that from and after the pas
sage of this ad. it shall he lawful for the citizens
of the city of Coluinhus, to elect by general ticket,
a Mayor and twelve aldermen, which election shall
be held at the Court House in said city, on the
second Saturday in December, in each and every
year. Provided there shall be two alderman elect
ed for aud residing in each ward, us now designat
ed by law. and provided further, that, each voter
shall designate upon his ticket the two persons
voted for as aldermen, for each ward, and the two
persons in each ward receiving the highest num
ber of votes given in, in said city for aldermen of
each particular ward shall be declared elected, and
said Mayor and Aldermen when so elected shall
hold their offices until their successors arc elected
and qualified.
2d, Be it further enacted, That the Mayor of
said city shall have the power and authority to try
all persons charged with retailing spirituous li
quors within the corporate limits of said city, with
out a license, first hud and obtained from the said
city authorities, as now prescribed by law, also to
try any and all persons charged with the commis
sion. of the following offences within the corporate
limits of said city, to-wit: The soiling or furnish
ing a slave with spirituous liquors contrary to law,
for fighting, malicious mischief, keeping a disorder
ly house, the keeping, permitting or maintain
ing a nuisance to the annoyance of his, her or their
neighbors, and for the petty offences against the
health, peace and good order of said city, and upon
a hearing and conviction by said Mayor for any
of said offences, he shall impose upon the offender
such fine for the same as have been or may here
after be prescribed by the laws of this State, or
the ordinances of said city. And upon the failure
of the parties to pay said line and costs as the same
shall be ordered and directed by said Mayor to be
paid, then said delinquent may by the order in
writing of said Mayor be imprisoned in the city
Guard House or in the common Jail of Muscogee
county for such term of time as has been or may
be prescribed by law for the punishment of such
offences.
2d, Be it further enacted, That the Mayor and
Council of the city of Columbus shall have the
power to establish and keep up one or more public
market in said city, for the sale of poultry, eggs,
butter, and all other meats and vegetables of any
kind, aud all other such articles as are usually
rendered at a public m arket, and shall govern the
same by such rules and regulations as said Mayor a
Council shall deem necessary and proper, and may
proscribe and enforce, fines and penalties for a vio
lation of market laws and regulations. Provided
however that said Mayor and Council may grant
private licenses for the sale of marketable articles,
or any of them at a place or places in said city
other than the public market upon such terms, reg
ulations and control as the said Mayor and Coun
cil may adopt.
4th, And he it further enacted. That all laws
and parts of laws militating against this act be and
the same are hereby repealed.
YUgil A. Powers, Superintendent of the South-west-
Railroad.
On Thursday last, at a meeting of the Board of
Directors of the South-western Railroad, Mr.
Virgil A. Powers, the Chief Engineer, was elected
Superintendent iu place of Mr. George W. Adams,
transferred to the Central Railroad. Mr. Powers
is au accomplished Engineer and an experienced
Railroad man. He commenced his career as an
Engineer in the prelimary survey of the Central
Railroad, made by Col. Cruger, in 1834—was ap
pointed an assistant Engineer to the late L. O.
Reynolds, in 1536, and has been connected with
the Central and South-western Railroads continu
ously, from that time to the present, with the ex
ception of three months’ serv ice as Chief Engineer
of the Pensacola and Georgia Railroad. Mr. Pow
ers was also associated with Mr. Holcombe, in tho
survey of the Macon and Ooluiubys Road, and on
the Milledgeville and Gordon Road. He was con
nected with the corps which surveyed and located
the South-western Road, and the Albany and
Americas branch. We predict ho will prove em
inently worthy of the confidence bestowed on him.
We welcome him to Macon. —Macon Telegraph.
Newspaper Consolidation.
Washington, Nov. 10—The Washington Stales
published in this city and the South published at
Richmond, Virginia, were cohsolidated to-day.
The paper will be published in this city, and beedi
■ ted by Roger Prior. The paper will be devoted to
the defence ofno person or clique, but will advo
cate sound Democratic and State Rights doc
trine.
COLUMBUS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1855.
State Aid to Rail Rond*.
As Was to be expected, applications for aid from
the State in the construction of Railroads, are get
ting to be a staple article in the proceedings of our
Legislature. In advance of any action upon the
subject, we desire to enter our protest against the
inauguration of that system. We object to it both
upou principle and policy. We are here treading
upon ground which was formerly the arena of
fierce, political controversy. It was then sought by
one of the great political divisions of the country,
to incorporate the policy of internal improvement
among the accepted dogmas of national politics.
The same arguments were advanced then, as now,
for the adoption of the system ; that it would de
velope the resources of the country and add to the
prosperity of the whole people, and that the
schemes were too grand and gigantic for accom
plishment by individual exertion. The instructed
moral sense of the people rebuked this position
with the declaration, that the system was partial
and unjust; that it was essentially wrong to tax
one portion of the country for the benefit of anoth
er; that the duty of government was best dis
charged when it whs confined to the enactment of
wise and equal laws for the protection of liberty
and property, and abstained from all interference
with the employment of labor and capital; that
sohemesof internal improvement should be left to
individual interprise, for that if they were a profit
able investment of capital, individuals would cer
tainly undertake them, and if unprofitable, both
parties, individuals and the public, hud better let
them alone. These positions, which we need not
elaborate, commended themselves to the judgment
of the American people, and the theory, at least,
of internal improvement by the General Govern
ment was left without support. The .same consid
erations apply with equal directness and force to
even’ appeal for aid for similar objects, from Gov
ernment, whether State or Federal. They are
simple and intelligible. They address themselves
to the common understanding of men and compel
its assent.
“ The dull swain treads daily on them with his
clouted shoon.”
But it is said, by the advocates of State aid,
that the State is not asked to enter directly upon
the system of internal improvement; sho is only
required to lend her credit —to give her endorse
ment to bonds of the various companies under cir
cumstances and conditions which render the fact
of her ultima:e loss an impossible contingency.—
If this can be done, the request, we must admit, is
not very immodest. But hold ! wo hope we will
be indulged in suggesting softly that someone
will have to pay for the road. We have every rea
son to suppose that payment will be made, as far
as practicable, in bonds. Money is never used in the
payment of debts until every other means of set
tlement are exhausted. The State will then certain
ly be nominally liable for tho amount of her endorse
ments. But these bonds must be paid. They cannot
run always. In the meantime the earnings of tho
roads have to meet the periodical instalments of
interest. Is it probable that the/ will be able to
do this? Can it bo considered possible that, in
addition to this, they will be able to pay the in
stalments of principal ? How many of the roads
that will epringinto existence under this wholesale
system of State aid, will not be able to pay in ad
dition to their running expenses, the interest upon
the cost of their iron. A few weeks ago, Georgia
Railroad Stock sold in Augusta at ninety cents in
the dollar. Over this road the produce of nearly
one half the area of this State and a large portion
of eastern Tennessoe and Northern Alabama finds
its way to market. The Muscogee Railroad Stock
has been down to sixty cents in the dollar. Look
at its sources of revenue ! The State Road, it will
be admitted, penetrates the most productive section
of the State ; yet, with all its Tennessee and Ala
bama trade, and under the incomparable manage
ment of Dr. Lewis, it? earnings do not pay six per
cent, on its original cost. The Central Railroad
is the only road in the State and, perhaps in the
South, the stock of which remains permanently at
or above par value.
Now, if such be the true report with reference to
the great central highways of freight and travel,
what must be said of the probable value of the
stock of the thousand and one schemes, to connect
the little villages all over the country with these
main trunks, which will bo stimulated into being
by the prospect and promise of State aid ? The
idea that the State is only lending her credit to
such enterprises, without even a cbancefof ulti
mate responsibility, is fallacious. She will be
called upon for the payment of the bonds as they
fall due, and when she turns to reimburse herself
she will find of what value is a mortgage upon
worthless property, or a recourse upon broken
stockholders. The grand result of the operation
will be that the State will become the proprietor
of most of the stock, and as wc cannot always have
Governor Brown an<l Dr. Lewis to manage such
property for us, we object to the policy as well as
the principle, of making tho acquisition. If she
comes out of the entanglement with her credit un
scathed—without the stain of repudiation upon it,
she will be largely indebted to tho care and gui
dance of a favoring providence.
A Wild Cat Gone In.
Great excitement was created in Peoria, 111., a
few days ago, by the failure of Curtiss A Cos. They
were the owners of the “Cherokee Insurance and
Banking Cos.” at Dalton, Ga., and it is supposed
that they had $150,000 of that currency in circu
lation. This they refuse to take in payment of
their own debt,?. The mob threatened to tear down
their hanking house, and the military were notified
to be ready to restrain them.
United States Army.—The present military
force of tho United States consists of nineteen reg
iments of the line, composed of the following corps;
Five regiments of cavalry, four regiments of ar
tillery, ten of infantry, making a grand aggregate
of thirteen thousand rank and file of all arms.—
This little army covers an area of over two mil
lions of square miles, being two-thirds the area of
all Europe. There are eleven hundred commis
sioned officers, including one hundred medical of
ficers. eight hundred and fifty of’ whom graduated
at the Military Academy, and two hundred and
fifty civil appointments. The nativity of those
officers is as follows : Born iu the United States,
1,060: Ireland, 14 ; France, 8; England. 6 ; Ger
many, Scotland, 2; Austria, 1; Portugal, 1 ;
Spain, 1; Cuba, 1; Turkey, 1; at sea, three.—
The militia force of the United States is computed
at 3,000,000 effective men.
A Great Speech.—A correspondent writes to
the Petersburg (Va.) Press :
lam 53 years old—l have heard many speech
es—the speeches of such meu as Webster, Cal
houn. Sprague, Cushing, Leigh, Rives, Randolph.
Giles, Taylor, Dodridge, John T. Brown, Jeffer
son Davis, and not behind any of them, Harry
Clay and Dick Morris, of Hanover; but ihe speech
of Prof. Halcomb, of the University of Virginia,
which I heard last night, during the two hours of
its delivery, for matter and manner, for the elo
quence of elocution and the powers of argumenta
tive structure, was not surpassed by any one
speech I ever hoard before. All the elements of a
great speech considered, I think it was equal to
any I have ever read, except one or two of Ed
mund Burke’s.
Let this speech be published and read, and no
other speech need ever be made in vindication of
the negrodom of the South, in tho judgment of the
world in this ago, or in aiil of the more Impartial
judgment of enlightened posterity. It was the
only speech I have ever heard, to every opinion
and expression of which, my instinotiv*e convic
tions, enlightened as if by the mingled rays of
natural trath and praetioal justice, responded
AMEN.
MILLEDGEVILLE CORRESPONDENCE.
Milledgeville, Nov. 9th 1858.
Mr. Editor: —The House was engaged this
morning in the reconsideration of a resolution, lost
yesterday, appointing a Committee to locate a site
for the Penitentiary. Messrs. Kenan of Baldwin,
Smith of Towns, Hardeman of Bibb, II illyer of
Walton, and others participated in the debate.—
The resolution was considered a test question
whether tho Penitentiary should be removed. The
vote stood 67 for re-con side/a ti on and 75 against
it. The debate occupied the whole morning.
Iu the Senate many bills of a local character
passed. None of general interest. Hon. James
Gardner and William H. .Stiles are here. The Su
preme Court are engaged on the docket of the
South-Western Circuit.
While Milledgeville is not overrun with visit
ors, there are many beautiful ladies here, who
grace frequently the galleries of the eapitol with
their presence.
The Proprietors of the Hotels are accommoda
ting, and have good servants. No sickness among
the members.
Georgia Legislature,
SENATE.
Monday Morning, Nov. 8.
The Senate was called to order pursuant to ad
journment by the Hon. Wm. M. Brown of the
county of Marion, who on taking the Chair,
thanked the Senate for the honor conferred upon
him at its last session. He would endeavour to
proceed with impartiality.
It being the regular order for the third reading
of bills the following bills were read a third time
and acted upon:
A bill to allow the Justices Court# of Lee and
Sumter counties to commence their sittings on
Friday and sit for two days if necessary.
Mr. Bloodworth of Pike, said he was opposed
to the passage of the bill on the ground that he
had introduced a general bill covering the whole
ground. He opposed local legislation where it
could be prevented.
Mr. Hill of Harris said the gentleman did not
fully understand the bill, it was to change the
times of holding the Inferior Court, his bill does
not comprehend such a state of facts.
Mr. Ward of Butts, said lie was opposed to
local legislation when it could be obviated by a
general bill. Mr. Slaughter of Dougherty
thought it a local bill and ought to pass.
On motion of Mr. Guerry of Randolph, the
bill was laid on the table to be taken up at any
time.
A bill to aid in the construction of the Elijay
R. R. Referred to the committee on Internal Im
provements.
A bill for the relief of Lawson Cody, amend
ment by inserting the name of Emily Shaw. Mr.
Dawson wanted “light, more light,” on the sub
ject. Mr. Robison of Talbot, said that as to Mr.
Cody, his wife petitioned the Legislature, she was
a young woman, and really wanted to marry.and
ho would think it an outrage to refuse her. The
petition was read, signed by Mr. Lawson Cody
and Frances Cody. Mr. Gordon said that, as to
Emily Shaw, she was a young woman, wanted to
to marry, and by the way, was really pretty. The
bill as amended was passed.
A bill amending acts regulating tavern and re
tail license iu this State; passed.
A hill to increase the salary of the Superinten
dent of the W. A A. R. R.
A bill to repeal an act preventing non-residents
from hunting and fishing in this State. Amended
by Mr. Hart by omitting the’ counties of Glynn,
Liberty, Chatham. Mclntosh, Camden and Bry
an. As amended the bill passed.
A great many bills were read the second time
and referred to the Committees, with Mr. Arnold
of Henry in the Chair.
Mr. Harris, of Worth, from the Committee on
new Counties, reported a bill recommending its
passage, to organize anew county from Henry
and Fayette, to be called Butler county, the coun
ty site to be at Jonesboro’.
Mr. Johnson of Fayette amended by filling
certain blanks in the bill. Mr. Whitaker by al
tering the county in some respect.
A memorial was then read, signed by about
1,500 voters of the two counties. Mr. Wilcoxen,
of Coweta, said that he was opposed to the pass
age of the bill, on the ground that there was no
necessity for the county. Ho had understood,
from good authority, that a great many of the
names were not voters of the county, and some
were even fictitious.
Mr. Johnson, of Fayette, said that the petition
had been before the Senate fora whole year, and
it was now too late to raise such au objection as to
the names of the signers of the petition. He
thought a majority of the people of both Henry
and Fayette were in favor of the bill. He did
not see why the Senator from Coweta, should in
terfere, it was not his county! Mr. Reynolds of
Newton, opposed the bill, he was opposed to new
counties any how, he was opposed to the cutting
up of the counties of the State. He hoped the
bill would not pass*
On the passage of the bill, the yeas were 73,
nays 37, and the bill was passed.
Afterwards, several bills were read a 2d time, a
portion of the time Mr. P. 11. Colquitt in the
Chair.
During the reading of the bills 2d time, Mr.
Whitaker of Fulton, moved to refer the bill incor
porating the R. It. City Bank, to the Judiciary
Committee. Mr. W. A. Harris, of Worth, sug
gested its reference to Governor Brown, which
brought the House down.
The Senate then adjourned until to-morrow
morning at 10 o’clock.
HOUSE.
Monday Morning, Nov. 8.
The House met this morning at 10 o’clock. The
roll being called, the journal was read and the
House preceded to business.
Bills Introduced.
Mr. Kenan, of Baldwin, to alter Ist section of
the 3d article of the Constitution.
Also, to appropriate the nett earnings of the
Western A Atlantic Railroad, to the payment of
the debt of the State, and to the reduction of the
taxes of the people.
Mr. Embry, of Carroll, in relation to the Ju
risdiction of Justices of the Peace; raising their
jurisdiction to the amount of SIOO.
Mr. Boggess, of Carroll, to aid in the construc
tion of the Savannah, Griffin, and North Ala
bama Railroad.
State aid seems to bo gaining ground, judging
from the number of projects now asking for it.—
Would it not be better to pass a grand State aid
bill? Then every Railroad could participate in
the benefits without.special legislation for any.—
Then no portion of the State could complain that
another section had enjoyed benefits denied to it
self. More anon.
Mr. Bell, of Campbell, to allow Judges of the
Superior Courts of this State to hold adjourned
terms when necessary.
Mr. Neal, of Cass, to compel grand jurors to
return all offences which came under their know
ledge for six months prior to the sitting of the
Court for whieh they are sworn as jurors.
Mr. Sprayberry, of Catoosa, to increase the
powers of Ordinaries of this State.
Mr. Awtry, of Cobb, to amend an act relative
to the exemption of certain property for sale.
Also, to amend the laws relative to the Poor
School Fund of this State.
Mr. Fortner of Emanuel, to appropriate money
to clear out obstructions in Little and Great
Ohoopie rivers.
Mr. Westmoreland, to give State Aid to the
Georgia Air Line Railroad.
Mr. Underwood, to authorize the Governor to
appoint a committee to examine into the affairs of
the University of thi.*State, and to recommend a
a proper location f r the same, and a plan for en
dowing and reorganizing the same.
Mr. Lewis, of Green, to abolish the public exe
cution of criminals condemned to death in this
State, and to provide for their execution in pri
vate.
Mr. Powell, to allow Constablcain any District
to levy executions in any other District in his
county.
Mr. Groveustcin of Effingham, to extend the
jurisdiction of Justice of tho Peace.
Mr. Lewis of Hancock to compel Judges to write
out their instructions to Juries, Ac.
Mr.—, to repeal all law-s chartering lotter
ies in this State.
To add an additional Section to the Constitu
tion of this State, authorizing no appropriations
of the public money tq any other purpose than
paying tho expenses of tho government, without
first taking the popular vote.
Mr. Irwin of Wilkes, To increase the salaries
of Attorney’s and Solicitors General in this
State.
To repeal an act respecting the trial of slaves by
the Superior Courts.
To repeal an act respecting the trial of slaves by
the Superior Courts.
Also relative to the division of property by
Guardians, Administrators, Ac.
To vest life estates, Ac,
PEYTON H. CULGUITT, ( Edit
JAMES W. WARREN, i ’
Number 45
Relative to the issuing of executions.
For the employment of auditors in certain
cases.
To amend the laws establishing the Supreme
Court of this State.
Bills Read Third Time.
Xo allow persons to contract for money at
any rate of interest. Referred to Judiciary com
mittee.
Pending the discussion upon the adoption of a
Resolution, appointing a committee, to examine in
to, and report upon a site for the erection of a
Penitential; , provided it should be removed, the
House adjourned to 3 o’clock, this afternoon.
Monday Afternoon.
After calling the roll, the House proceeded to
the unfinished business of the morning.
Upon the call of the yeas and nays, the House
failed to adopt the resolution. Yeas 59 nays 77.
Bills Thisd Reading.
To regulate and dispose of free persons of
color.
Made the spec ial order for Thursday next t
To repeal an act to render certain the payment
of teachers of poor school children. Referred to
Committee on Education.
In relation to establishing deeds, records, Ac.,
which have been destroyed by fire or other casual
ties. Passed.
To make valid and binding the stock subscribed
by the city of Columbus to the Mobile A Girard
and \\ est Point and Montgomery Railroads, and
to legalize ei . tain ordinances, Ac., after amend
ing it the bill was passed.
To amend 11th Sect. 4th Art. of the Constitu
tion. lliisi lutes to the emancipation of slaves
Referred to the Judiciary committee.
To repeal the Aet requiring two concurrent ver
dicts to grant a divorce. Referred to Judiciary
committee.
To amend the several acts in relation to the as
signment ot dower. Referred to Judiciary com
mittee.
lo appro; riate money to the Medical College of
Georgia. Referred to select committee.
To require Justices of the Peace in this State to
give bond and security for the faithful perform
ance of their duties—laid on the table for the
balance of the session.
To add an additional section to the penal code
of this State. This bill punishes all who circulate
abolition documents with confinement in the Pen
itentiary, not less than one or more than 10
years, or hues them not less than $2,000 nor
more than —referred to the Judiciary com
mittee.
Bills Introduced.
Mr. Price of Pickens, to abolish the Georgia
Penitentiary. To he abolished after the Ist day
of January next —appoints a committee of three to
meet a similar committee on the part of the Senate
to digest a jx-nnl code for this State.
Ihe House adjourned to 10 o’clock to-morrow
morning.
Mr. Hardy of Jackson, to prevent lions of judg
ments for a longer time than six months.
Mr. Hughes of Liberty, to allow Tax Collectors
t” assess property when they are satisfied that tho
owners have given it in at too low a valuation.
Mr. Wilkes of Lincoln, to add an additional
section to ihe Constitution ofthisState. This bill
requires that no county line shall be altered and
im new comities made without a vote of two thirds
•f both branches of the General Assembly.
Mr. Davis of Marion, for the relief of widows of
intestates. Also, to point out the manner in which
witnesses residing out of this State shall establish
certain deeds, instruments, Ac. Also, to repeal
certain parts of the tax acts of 1852 and 3.
Mr. Gwen of Mclntosh, to make the election of
members of the General Assembly annual..
Mr. Fannin to regulate the duties of the sever
i al Judges in this State. No Judge shall sit on
j any case in which he has been employed as eoun
| sol, or has any connection, whatever. This in-
I eludes Judges of Supreme Court.
Mr. Smith of Randolph, to authorize Ordinaries
j to issue executions for costs.
! Mr. Roberts of Scriven, to allow Coroners
’ where exercising the duties of Sheriff, to appoint
■ deputies.
j Mr. Daniel of Telfair, to allow 7 per cent inter
! est on open accounts.
i Mr. Smith of Towns, to create and set apart a
| permanent School Fund for this State.
A bare synopsis of this and the following hills
would occupy so much space that we forbear.—
They, with their kindred bills, are each in the
hands of tire appropriate committees, and when
the committees report, as they will soon do, a bill,
it will be printed entire.
Also, a bill to amend the law's in relation to tax
defaulters, tax upon Rank Agencies in this State,
tax upon the lottery offices and the ticket venders
ot the same. To alter the oath of Tax Collectors,
Ac., Ac.
The Eastern Bank.—Gov. Moore having is
sued the necessary proclamation on the Ist inst.,
the Eastern Bank of Alabama, commenced oper
ations under the most favorable auspices, on the
2d. The whole amount of stock subscribed for is
nearly $270,000, and half that sum is now in the
vaults in gold and silver, in accordance with its
terms of its charter. The small remnant of stock
open to individual subscription will soon be taken,
and it a list of stockholders as substantial as any
bank could ever boast, a directory, the most pru
dent and -fficient, officers the most competent, and
the good wishes of the whole community furnish
any assurance of success, we may confidently an
ticipate a most useful and prosperous career for
the Eastern Bank of Alabama.— Kufaula Spirit
of the South.
Lord Vapler’s Despatch to the State Department.
The substance of the despatch of Lord Napier
to the State Department, in regard to Nicaragua
matters, is represented to be, in effect, that the
Nicaragua Government will avail itself of the aid
of the British fleet to prevent the landing of Amer
icans emigrating to that country, for the purpose
of colonization. Every American who visits Nic
aragua, tor the purpose of settling in that coun
iry, will only be recognized by the British Govern
ment as a fillibustcr, and treated accordingly.
The whole question is now settling down to a
British protectorate over Nicaragua. This is just
what we have been trying to impress upon our
people for the past three years. Arms and ammu
nition were furnished by the British Government
to Costa Rica, and other Central American States,
in the first place, to drive the Americans out of
Nicaragua, after they had been peaceably invited
there by a very large portion of the people of that
republic. It was through British intrigue that
Costa Rica, Guatemala, San Salvador, and Hon
duras com billed for that purpose, and raised the
bloody flag and war-cry of “ death to nil North
British guns in the bands of the Costa Ricans
broke up the Nicaraguan Transit route while un
der the control of American citizens, and the
British fleet at San Juan protected the Costa Ri
cans in holding the property they robbed from our
people when this outrage was committed. The
Ulaytmi-Bulwer treaty, then, was a dead letter in
the eyes of the British Government. It can cover
“Monsieur Belly’s” scheme, but not the rights of
American citizens, notwithstanding they were
in peaceable possession of the Nicaragua Transit
route.
These are all facts, and are sustained by records
at the State Department. If not there, the facts
can be substantiated by the very best testimony.
The policy of the British Government will soon be
distinctly understood. It will assume a protecto
rate over Nicaragua, and American emigration to
that country will be strictly prohibited.
The British Government was instrumental in
procuring the expulsion of Americans from Nicar
agua ; and now, having them out of the country,
its policy will be to keep them out.
Will the American people tamely submit to such
encroachments of British power ?>— Washington
States.
A Gov. Non-Plvsskd.—The other night as
the Ministers were returning from Conference, on
the East Tennessee (Ga.) Railroad, an amusing
occurrence took place between Gov. Brown and
Parson Brownlow. Just before the cars arrived
at Knoxville, Gov. Brown came up, and taking the
Parson by the hand, remarked :
“How do you do, Brother Brownlow ? I am
happy to see you.”
The courtesy was returned, when the Governor
continued :
“1 hope you will moderate in all your notions
of propriety in regard to your fellow-citizens—live
a good Christian —aud last, though not least, be
come a good Democrat.”
The Parson, with the eccentric look peculiar to
himself, stretched himself up and remarked:
“Governor, an old gentleman of your politics,
many hundred years ago, took our Saviour upon a
mountain, and preached just such a sermon.”
The outburst of laughter can be better imagin
ed than described. — Cinn. Gazette.
Dr. Stone, a celebrated physician in New Or
leans, on being asked how many yellow fever pa
tients he had lost, replied, “about ticenty-five htin
drtd,” as that number remains still unaccounted
for after the other physicians made their report!*