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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
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,m 1|C gorgeousness of lienutifully tinted
•* plates and colored covers. It is prin-
’ i holf»” Krencl1 und htt,f in English ’ and
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? (he Indies. S. T. Taylor, 340 Canal
I l!on . v Y. *5 per annum, $3 for six
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Broskn National Basks.—The Comp-
.. 0 f Currency lias written »letter, dated
‘T inJt| in which ho states that “The First
v.Vionil Hunk of Attica” is the only National
nL that has failed under the National sys-
4 Capital *50,000, circulation 45,000, re-
*^vahle by 11,1 National Banks in the United
P ar ' and redeemable in lawful money
q>oii presentation at the Treasury of tl»c
I nitol States. '
f^NTR.'i- Raiuioad.—We were shown a
„, c h yesterday, by Wm. B. Johnson, Esq.,
•• this city, from the Contractor on the Ceb-
ipl Railroad, in which he says, “we will join
at Millen on the 1st February.” This is
.(**1 news.
* bv also learn that the Contractor feels ccr-
uin, with reasonable weather, of his ability
, , j lsVt . the entire line to Macon in running
jn | fr during the month of 3In|. The super-
•nieture. of both wood and iron, is all ready,
, n ,l nothing remains but to smooth off the
foundation and lay it down.
1 ivoniKH Good Deed.—We perceive that
■he liberality of the Macon and Western
Railroad 1* not confined to one end of the
Mayor Williams, of Atlanta, acknowl-
fjgts the handsome donation of throe liun-
,lmi dollars from the Company to be used
fur the benefit cf the poor of that city.
Just here n thought occurs to us: As the
Mncon and Western Ims act the example, we
suggest that the other three roads termina
ting sit this city might do a vast deal of good
Kt a very small expense, by delivering, each,
to His Honor, the Mayor, a train load of wood
• for the benefit of our suffering poor. Notli-
i n .r, wc apprehend, would be more accepta
ble.
Kjy“A terrible accident occurred Thurs
day at Atlanta. The wall of a building in
the course of completion, on Peachtree street,
tell, crushing six discharged Federal soldiers
under the ruins. Two were instantly killed,
and the other four injured so seriously that
tier are not expected to survive.
There is a powerful movement
ifeiougliont the Northwest in favor of free
fide and the modification of the protective
tariff to a revenue basis. Free trade leagues
aw king organized in the leading towns and
rifles. The Chicago league has been fully or-
ganued, and the unities of many leading citi
zen-of both political parties appear in the
!i>t of ofiicors.
Roll on the ball, Iloosier friends! The
South will stand by you to a man—provided
ycu give us a chance to be heard.
gos Tox.—This fashionable Monthly,
Important Rumou.—Wc heard it stated
last night (nays the New Orleans Delta, of the
btlid that Gen. Sheridan had given orders
fur all vessels leaving this port for the Rio
Grande to stop at Galveston and take on
the troops. This seems to indicate a deter
mination on the part of the distinguished
commander of the Gulf Division to be pre
pared for any emergency that may arise on
that troubled frontier.
A Goon Financial Operation.—The ap
pointment of Wm. M. Wadlcy, President of
the Central Railroad, has proved a good in
vestment for the stockholders, who have made
by it more in ten days than they will pay oat
m his salary in ten years. The high reputa
tion of Mr. Wadley, as a Railroad manager,
give immediate buoyancy, to the Company's
«tock, causing it to advacc in the market from
M to 75 cents.
Mr. Stephens and ‘tiie UNioNisTs.”-The
following statement lias been telegraphed from
Washington City, and is going the rounds of
the Radical press, North and South:
“A letter written by lion. A. II. Stephens,
■*»e Vice President of the Southern Confeder
acy, has t*ecn received here in Washington,
in which he says that the original Union men
«f Georgia suffer greater persecution now on
?cconnt of their sentiments, than they did
during the days of the Confederacy.”
We have no hesitation in pronouncing the
above statement, like most of the telegrams
from Washington about matters South, utter
ly untrue. There is no persecution of Union
wra in Georgia, aud we know Mr. Stephens
too well to believe ho would make any state
ment that is not entirely correct.
“THE GREAT \EE»
SOUTH.”
Wo find in a radical paper, under the above
caption, the following volunteer advice,
which, no doubt, the Southern
estimate at its full value :
The leading men of the South seem to think
that the panacea for all their ills to get hack
into the Union.and he restored to their old po
litical status; that this being accomplished,
a new era of prosperity and plenty will dawn
upon the ruins and destruction of their late
rebellion. What they ought to do is well
stated by the New York Commercial Adver
tiser. “Why,” asks this paper, “should the
Southern States be so clamorous for readmis-
sion into the Union ? Will the mere fact of
their having a representation in Congress con
duce any to their present temporal welfare t
Recuperation is now what they require above
every thing else.- Instead of hanging about
the balls of Congress for admittance, and be
coming discontented because tlie doors are
not forthwith thrown open to them, they
should rather concentrate all their energies
and labor upon a task of restoring its former
prosperity to their section. Long years, at
the shortest, will be required to obliterate the
marks of desolation left all over the “Sunny
South” by the iron heel of war. From the
Potomac to the Gulf, and the Mississippi to
the coast, the “Confederacy” has presented a
wild scene of ruin aud desolation. Now if
out Southern brethren are sagacious and far-
sec! ig they will give themselves wholly to
the work of recuperation, leaving the ques
tion of reconstruction to take eare of itself for
the; present; food and raiment arc now whfft
are required at the South.”
i 7 or consummate and concentrated impu
dence, the English language contains nothing
to equal the above. We are tyrannizing over
you: rights, outraging your feelings, and
forging chains for you and your posterity;
but what of such small matters as these!—
Yon people of the South are starving; you
need bread and clothing and shelter; go to
werk and make them by the sweat of your
bro v, and don't he troubling yourselves abour
such trifles ns Northern insults and oppres
sor r ! This is the arguement. Could any
thing lie more diabolically indifferent to eve
ry consideration of justice nnd honor*
VYe have, in the language quoted, the com
pliant of the South and the response of the
Noith. The history of the times furnishes no
more striking illustration of the distinctive
characters nnd sentiments of the two peoples.
The North arc a calculating race, devoted to
the rules of political and domestic economy,
absorbed with the Almighty Dollar, and re
ducing all questions to an issue of pecuniary
loss and gain. If n thing be profitable, it is
WgA& Interest is tlie true touchstone of merit
in everything, excepting those fanatical in
stincts which came over in the Mayflower, and
wive sucked in with -their mother’s §milk.—
AT THE uttered in the ears of the world, for tyrants
in every age and land are cowards.
Yes, the Southern people will labor for
bread; they will seek by energy aud thrift to
people will build up the wa-teplaccs and repair the wreck
of a merciless invader; hut at the same time
they will recollect that they arc men, in all
respects the equals of their would-be masters,
and though powerless, they will never cease to
protest against injury and to demand their
great, indefeasible republican right to cast
their vote on the laws by which they are to
be governed. Deny us this, and you set at
defiance the Jaws of God and the public opin
ion of civilized mankind.
The South, on the contrary, are tv people of (Changed tU#tav#taa to Harries’favor, as It was «vl-
senriment, of emotions. Interest nnd thrift
have their power in moulding Southern ehar-
acter, hut all arc as nothing when honor and
right aro involved in the issue. The noble
impulses of their souls arc not weighed in the
balance with worldly gain. They had rather
die in penury than live in affluence upon
sacrifice of honor.
National Express and Transportation
f ompaxv.—A meeting of the stockholders of
this company was held in Richmond on Tues-
f° r the purpose of reorganizing under
‘he amended charter. Mr. Hugh W. Sheffy
was called to the chair, and General Moore
acted as sccrotaiy. The chairman stated the
puqiose for which the meeting had assembled,
and the treasurer made a statement, showing
that *132,000 had been paid in, and over *4,-
330,000 subscribed. Gen. Joseph E. John-
»ton was unanimously re-elected President,
*itb the old Board of Directors. The secre-
sported the following as the list of sala-
fi« agreed upon; President, *10,000; Snper-
wtendent, *4,000; Secretary, *2,000; Treas-
Urer - *2,500; Agent at Richmond, *1,500;
Clerks and Messengers, from *50 to *75 per
month.
Ipon a motion to reduce the President’s
^'aiy from *10,000 to *0,000, a protracted
debate sprung up, which was finally put an
tad to by the author of the resolution moving
‘o lay the whole matter on the table.
SrpREint Court.—The election of Judges
the Supreme Court by the Legislature, yes-
■wday, will take many by surprise, as the
MMccssful gentlemen—at least one of them—
*** not considered among the most promi-
nent candidates. Perhaps, however, the
^ch and the State have loet nothing from
H*hfact The gentlemen chosen arc Hon.
verson L. Harris, of Baldwin, and Hon.
Dawson A. Walker, of Whitfield. Ofthelast
°*oed gentleman, we know but little, and
! ^ferc can offer no opinion of his merits as a
h*jer; but in the selection of Judge Harris
*** Legislature has done itself great honor,
will receive the cordial approval of the
P*°plc. No better choice could have been
“•fie; for with sterling integrity and a sacred
‘b-wl for justice and truth, he unites exten-
** w Attainments in the law and a fearless na-
i{ Ur ° thst would execute it under all circum-
c *- We congratulate the peonlo of
in securing the servi
people
of such
Occupying the moral stand-point they do,
it is a hard thing to argue with these devo
tees of Mammon. Sentiments that would
move the hearts of other men, would be to
them as “ pearls cast before swine.” We
allude, of course, to the predominant faction
including its politicians and masses, at the
North. There are good and true men there
not embraced in the parallel, hut they are
overshadowed and powerless. But let us
look into the terms of the advice quoted and
sec how far it is applicable to the present
condition of the Southern people. We arc
told that physical “recuperation” and zealous
concern for onr “temporal' welfare,”
wliat is most needed at the South,
that wc should attend to these consid
erations exclusively, and that we should
not be “hanging about the halls of Congress
for admittance and becoming discontented
because the doors are not thrown open” to
us—that “food and raiment are now what
are required at the South,” and that we
“should leave the" question of reconstruction
to take care of itself.” This, perhaps, would
lie good advice to its authors, hut in this
case it happens to be extended to tlie wrong
people. These worshipers at the shrine of
Gold may not be able to appreciate the sen
timents that animate the Southern people—
their sense of wrongs inflicted upon them, and
their desire to have those grievances remov
ed. It may 1ms nothing to them, but we con
aider it a matter of some importance that we
sbonld contend for and obtain the rights
guaranteed to us in the fundamental law of
the land. It may be nothing to them, but tee
regard it as a great hardship and wrong that
we sbonld lie taxed and made to bear our full
proportion of the burdens of a government
in which wc have no part or lot, except to
minister to its pecuniary necessities. It may
be nothing to them, but we claim it as a mat
ter of justice and right that we should not
lie confined to the poorest privilege that is
enjoyed in the veriest despotisms of the Old
World—the right to make brendjiy the sweat
of onr own brows. It may be nothing to
them to emancipate the white man from bon
dage and invest him with the rights of hu
manity, but tee consider tho obligation quite
as great as it is in the case of tho black. In
tlie emphatic language of a Senator who is
indebted for his present position of influence
to the worst enemies of the South, wc would
ask these servile, souless counsellors, is it of
no practical importance whether eleven States
with their ten millions of people, shall be
taxed and governed without representation ?
With less than ono third of that number of
people our forefather i, because the Parliament
of Great Britain, in which they had no rep
resentation, passed laws to tax them, declar
ed the independence of these States. Is it of
no importance whether these eleven States
and ten millions of people shall govern them
selves under a republican form of State Gov
ernment subject to the Constitution of the
United States, or whether they shall be held
as vassals, to be governed for an indefinite
period by the unlimited will of Congress or
by tlie sword f It is of no practical impor
tance whether the flag of our country, for
which half a million have laid down their
lives and which bears thirty six stars as an
emblem of an Union of tliirty-6ix States,
speaks a nation’s truth or is a monstrous
falsehood ?
Answer these questions to your own con
sciences, if they be left to you still, and to
the bar of the World’s opinion, before which
you are sure to be brought into judgment, and
whose decisions no man can with safety dcs-
MILLEDGEVILLE CORRESPONDENCE
LETTER III.
Mn.LEr.GEVir.LE, Jan. 27th, 1866.
Editors Telegraph:—The election for Judges ot
the Supreme Court is over; and you are already
apprised of tho fact that Hon. Dawson A Walker,
of Dalton, has been elected for the long term in
place of Hon. Richard F. Lyons, and Hon. Iver
son L. Harris to fill tho unexpired term of his
Excellency, Gov. Jenkins. Of course a vacancy
is created in the judgeship of the Ocmulgee Cir
cuit which Judge Harris has just vacated.
Tho election was the most exciting one I ever
witnessed. The candidates np te the very time
of the election had seemad confident each of suc
cess. Particularly was this the case with the two
candidates for the long term, who ran alone on
the third voting. Bets, I have understood, had
been made as to the result
As soon as the Senators bad taken their places
in the hall, the General Assembly organised, and
the voting began, the utmost silence reigned in
the room. All .over the hall might have been
seen mSmbera keeping tallying sheets. The gal
lery was crowded with spectators, ladies and
gentlemen, Who were silent, but interested spec
tators of the work that was going on in the hall
below. His FxceJleney was present, but his
countenance did not betray the preferencewhich
he must hsvo hod for one or the other of tlie can
didates. The .names ofGen. II. L. Benning, Hon.
R. F. Lyons and Hon. D. A. Dawson were put in
Domination for the long term. The fiist voto
stood, Benning 70, Lyons 50, Walker 78. The
second voting, Benning 87, Lyons 19, Walker 95,
After this the name of Judge Lyons was with
drawn by Mr. Lawson of Putnam. On the third
vots, (I do not say ballot, because the voting was,
as required by the constitution, vim wee) the ex
citemcnt had increased to its utmost intensity.—
When 90 members had voted each candidate
had received forty-five—a tie. Ater this Walker
kept ahead and came out of the race justsix votes
ahead of Benning. There was a considerable
venting of feeling after 'the result had been
ascertained—Walker’* friends exulting and Ben
rung's friends chagrined and disappointed.
Judge Harris was elected on the second voting.
He received jnst one hundred votes, aud lacked
two of havings majority. Rather than hare a third
voting, two ot the *f the other candidates
pise.
No doubt there arc many at the North who
would drown tlie voice ot our people as it
rises up nnd utters its protests against in
justice, tyranny, and oppression. The tyrant
never likes to hear the cries of his victims; or
dent ho would basoVtcn ccrtoiuly elected had Un
vote been allowed.
The whole voting was as follows:
LONG TERM.
1st vote.—HewyL. Benning, 70; R F. Lyons, 50;
D. A. Walker, 78. Whole number of votes 198.
3d vote.—Henry L. Benning, 87 ;R. F. Lyons, 19;
D. A; Walker, 98. Whole number of votes 301.
3d vote—Henrys L. Benning, 98; Lyons with
drawn ; D. A. Walker, 103.
SHORT TERM.
1st vote.—I. L. Harris*, 84; Barney HUl, 19;
Wm. Schley, 18: II. Warner, 59; R. M. Clarke,
33. Whole number of votes 303.
3d vote—I. L. Harriss, 102; the rest of the vot
ing not announced.
The House of Representatives have parsed a bill
requiring all the railroads in the State, to conform
In their charges for freight and passage to those
allowed in the charter ot the Georgia railroad of 1833
It Is understood that these charges arc 5 cents a
mile for passage, and 50 cents a hundred miles for
freight. The Central Railroad is not limited in its
charges by its charter, and the Macon and Western,
I understand, is by its charter allowed more than
the Georgia Railroad. If this la a chartered priv
ilege belonging to the Macon and Western road, I
da not sec that it can be altered. The Central
Railroad certainly needs the sympathy of the peo
ple in its present distress. It has over a hundred
miles still to put in repair, and when the road is
completed, the cotton will be all out of the coun
try, and but little freight will be offered. It is a
public work oi the first importance to the people,
and the present is not the proper time to bear
heavily upon it.
Injustice, by the same bill la done Express
Companies, which are a great public benefit—
Thcs^companles Lave already existing contracts
which the Legislature lias no right to impair.—
During the war invaluable service was rendered
the Government and country at large, os well as
the army by these companies. A vast amount of
free business was done by them for hospitals and
relief societies during the war. This bill would
strike down at a single blow the National Express
Company of Gen. Joseph E. Johnson, which was
established with one o?its objects to give employ
ment to ex-Confcdcrate officers and soldiers.
The remedy for the high charges complained
of against these corporations, might have been
reached by requiring the several railroad* of this
State to return to the provisions of their charter
and this itself would have been bad enough, since
their charges before the war were on a gold basis,
whereas, they must now be on a basi* of the V.
8. currency. It is to bo hoped that the Senate
will give the subject the attention it demands
and not aid in the perpetration of a wrong to
these institutions.
It ipight bo said in justification of tho seem
ingly exorbitant charges of the corporations re
ferred to above, that they havo to pay from one
to throe hundred per cent, higher for skilled la
bor than they did before the war, and that the
price of nearly all articles used about a raiiroad
has advanced in the same proportion; and that
most of them have at this time empty treasuries.
These institutions have all lost heavily during
the war; and with their rolling stock la a mis
crable condition, and the roads needing new
rails, they deserve better treatment at the hands
of the Legislature.
VOTE ron ELECTION OP JUDGB OP SUPREME COURT.
At the election forjudge of the Supreme Court,
the following is tbc result of the 3d ballot, tbe
name Hon. R. F. Lyons having been withdrawn:
VOTE OP SENATORS.
Foa Gas. II. L. Besxixo—Messrs. Harwich,
Bedford. Black, Bowen, Brown. Crawford, Dickey,
Fuller, Gholston, Gibson, Griffin, Gresham, J. F.
Johnson, Kenan, Mims, Moore, Overstreet Ow
ens, Simmons, C. II. Smith, Strogier, Thornton,
Turner, Wilcox—25.
For Hon. Dawson A. Walker—Messrs. W. A.
Bell, Butler, Daley, England, Exzard, Freeman,
J A. W. Johnson, Manson, McDaniel, Parries,
■ - Jgj- -
From Washington.
In tlie Senate on the 19th., Mr. Doolittlo I
presented the credentials as Senator from
Florida ot ex-Provisional Governor Marvin
spoke in most complimentary terms of Mr.
Marvin’s character and claims for admission
and read extracts from his valedictory ad
dress on retiring from the Governorship.—
Mr. Sumner replied, expressing great respect
for Mr. Marvin, but contending that he had
failed to do his whole duty as Governor, and
read letters descriptive of the condition of af
fairs in Florida to show that the people of
that State arc still disloyal and not justly en
titled to claim the admittance of their repre
sentatives to Congress. The credentials were
then laid on the table.
Tlie bill giving the appointment of pen
sion agents to the President was considered
for a short time, and was then laid over, nnd
the bill enlarging the powers of the Freed
man's Bureau was takes up. After a speech
in opposition to it by Mr. Hendricks, demo
crat, of Indiana, and one in its advocacy by
Mr. Trumbull, republican, of Illinois, an
amendment was adopted restricting to three
years’ duration, instead of making them per
petual, the titles of the negroes to abandoned
Southern lands on which they were located
by General Sherman, and the Senate adjourn
ed.
The House went into committee of the
whole and after other matters proceeded to
the consideration of the President’s annual
message. 3rr. Doming of Connecticut took
the floor and made a speech favoring the radi
cal programme of treating the Southern
States os conquered provinces, and dictating
the terms of their readmission into the Union.
He was followed by Mr. Smith of Kentucky,
who spoke at length in favor of the Presi
dent’s policy of reconstruction, and against
tlie idea of a State committing political sui
cide. At the conclusion of his remarks the
House adjourned until Monday.
FROM MEXICO.
New Yqriyiapcrs give the correspondence
in full which lately passed between General
Weitzel, commanding United States troops
at Brownsville, Texas; General Mejia, the
imperial commander at 3fatamoms, and the
American General R. Clay Crawford, of the
Mexican republican army, in relation to cer
tain republican prisoners condemned at 3Iat-
nmoras to be shot, In accordance with 3Iaxi-
roilian’s decree for the execution of all those
found in arms against his forces.
It seems that a train of fifteen cart9 recent
ly left 3Iatainoras for San Fernando, loaded
with valuable goods, and guarded by a small
number of imperial troops. When about five
leagues from tho city it vftis captured by a
party of liberals. Tho owner succeeded ’ in
making his escape, and reported the facts to
General Mejia, the imperial commander, who
despatched a force of the contra-guerillas and
rnral police in pursuit of the captors. About
ten leagues from the city they overhauled the
liberal party, surprised them as they were at
breakfast, and after a desperate resistance
succeeded in capturing them. Eleven were
killed at the first fire, and the balance were
captured and taken to the city. As is usual
arrangements were immediately made for the
trial of the prisoners, preparatory to their be
ing shot.
General Weitzel, in the name of his govern
ment, protested against this barbarity, and
3Iejia responded that it was a matter in
which the Americans had no right to inter
fere, and that the execution of the decree
must be proceeded with. To another letter
of General Weitzel’s, in which, in accord
ance with General Sheridan's instructions, he
informs 3Iejia that in future correspondence
with our officers he must not style the 3Icxi-
can republicans bandits, tlie imperial Gen
cral again repels what he considers foreign
dictation, and replies that all future commu
nications of similar purport will remain un
answered. It is rumored tliat Mejia has been
superseded at Mntamoras. The preparations
of Generals Escobedo and Crawford for an
other attack on that place continued; but the
imperialists have greatly strengthened its
defenses since the previous assault The lat
ter officers’ efforts to raise men in Texas for
Juarez do not seem to meet with great suc
cess. It is suspected that Qrawford has a nice
financial speculation in his eye, which can be
greatly subserved by the capture of 3Iutamo-
ras, and which is thought to be much dearer
to him than the Mexican republic. The im
perialists are reported to be preparing for a
new and vigorous campaign in the North.
The Herald says: “A statement of affairs
in 3Iexico, prepared by the imperialists for
circulation in Europe, and depicting a fine
and flourishing condition of matters under
3Iaximiliun’s rule, is given in connection with
our Mexican correspondence. It represents
that tbe republican military forces have near
ly disappeared, and that the remnants of
armed opposition to imperialism which still
exist havo degenerated into mere predatory
bands of robbets, and that order and civiliza
tion aro being rapidly established throughout
the country under tbc benign sway of the
Emperor.” .
A leading member of the Cabinet Is said
to have expressed the opinion, after the pas
sage of the Negro Suffrage Bill by the House,
that, if it passed the Senate, the President
would certainly veto it.
J. Wilson Schafer, former Chief of Staff to
General Butler, has just returned from an ex
tended trip through the Southwest, and gives
a discouraging account of the temper of the
people he saw and conversed with. He has
been before the Reconstruction Committee
twice.
The Episcopal Ciicroh in the South.—
Bishop Elliott, of Georgia, has written a
communication to Bishop Hopkins, of Ver
mont, announcing tliat. in response to the
many fervent appeals from Churchmen in all
parts of the South os well as the North, he
has deemed it his duty to withdraw whatever
objections he had hcretoiore urged to imme
diate and unqualified reunion. Bishop
Elliott further states that lie lias been in com
munication with Bishop Wilmcr, of Alabama,
on thesubjcct,and that prelate was so prompt
to second the desire of his brother bishop of
Georgia, that he at once took the necessary
steps for dissolving what yet remains of tlie
independent Southern Church, so called.
Hence, tfic General Council that had been
called, instead of the next General Conven
tion of the whole church, will never meet
amount
here.
of war-ruhbith left floating
TIIE
THE
Respectfully,
Planter.
Quillain, Bedding, Russell, Strickland—14. |
For Benning, Messrs. Asbury, Barer, Bennett,!
Benson, Bragg, Brown, of Early, Bnsh, Byrd,
Cabanlsa, Cook, Dixon, of Macon, Dodds, Doxicr,
DnBose, Ford, Frazer, French. Cartrell, Gibson,
Hall, Harrison, HUl, Holliday, Hollis, Uockenhnll,
Humphreys, Johnson, cf tferec. Jones, J. B., of
Burke, Kibbcc, Lawson, Maddox, of Fulton, Mal
lard, McComb, McDougald, McLendon, McQneen,
Morris, of Montgomery, Mitchell, of Thomas,
Moses, Moughon, Pickett, Philips, Pottle, Red-
wine, Robson, Russell, et Chatham, RnsseU, of|
' s , “‘ in the Supreme Judiciary of their j if he be so far gone in brutality as to revel in
‘ Ute - ' I their sufferings, he at least fears to have them
Muscogee, Sale, Scandrett, Smith, of Hancock,
Snead, Stapleton, Starr, SwcarUsen, Tench, Thom
as, Wall, Watkim-. White, Wicker, Willis WU-
liam-,ofBtran, Wilkinson, Wlaaingbaia. Woods,
of Floyd, woodward, Womble, Mr. Speaker.—73.
For'Walkcr, Messrs. Adams, Alexander, Baynes,
Boyd, Brown of Houston, Brock, Burch, Bylug-
ton, Cameron, Candler, Cloud, CoUey, Dart, Da
venport, Dickson of Walker, Dodson, Dorsey,
Durham, Edge, Ellington, Evans, Fincannon,
Frost, Glenn, Green.Grogan Gr>ss, Gunnells, Ilar-
db, Harlan, Hargett ,Hicks, Hinton, Howard of
Bartow, Howard of Lumpkin, Hodges, Hudson,
Hughes of Twiggs Hughes tf Union, Johnson
of Forsyth, John-un of Henry,Kirby,Mattox, of El
bert, McCullough, McCutcbcn,McDowell of Heard,
McDowell of l’ike, McRea, McWhorter of Greene,
McWhorter ol Oglethorpe, Mirell, Moreli, .Mor
row, Mitchell of Gwinnett, Montgomery, Oates,
Peeples, l’owell. IJuilliau, Bag.-dale, Render,
Rhodes, Ridley, Robinson off i.pptiugton, Robin
son of Laurens, Robison, Rogers, Roundtree.
Ruraph, Sharp, Shaw, Shepard, Sims of Bartow,
Simms ot Newton, Smith of Clinch, Spear, Stal
ling.-. Stand eld, 8 tan to a, Stewart, Sumner, Swann,
Tin ker, Uinphrey, Weaver, Williams of Bulloch,
Williams ot Dooly, Woods, of lloigan-—HI
Richmond.
miscellaneous.
The President has relieved 3Ir. 3Iarvin of
tbe position of Provost Governor of Florida,
and recognized M. Walker, the elect of the
people, as the Governor of the State.
Despatches have been received in Wash
ington from General Sheridan, at New Or
leans, in which he disavows all knowledge of
the filibustering expedition by which the
town of Bagdad was captured from the Mex
ican imperialists. He says his orders to sub
ordinate officers have been to preserve
strict neutrality. He disbelieves the popular
account of the affair, and considers it a “sen
sntional story.” i
In Peru there had been no further revolu
tion to disturb President Prado, and he was
pushing his schemes of reform and war prepa
rations vigorously. Tho Peruvian govern
ment had not yet formed a coalition with
Chili against Spain; but the expectation still
was that it would soon do so. All the other
South and Central American republics were
still enjoying the unusual season of profound
peace heretofore noticed, the conflicting par
ties being too much interested in the designs
on Chili of their common enemy to devote
themselves to their favorite pastime of revo
lution.
Gov. Worth in his 3Iessage to the North
Carolina Legislature on the 19th, recom
mends the confirmation of proceedings under
provisional rule in the State, the repeal of all
laws in conflict with perfect allegiance to the
national Government, and the adoption of a
judicious militia system. He thinks there
will be no necessity of continuing the Frced-
men’s Bureau after the. restoration of the
State courts, from which he says the negroes
can get full justice.
AFFAIRS IM SOUTHERN GEORGIA
Thomas Couxtv, Ga., Jan. 31, I860.
Editors Telegraph : Would you like an oc
casional item of news lrom this section of
Southern Georgia ? I will begin, for the new
year, nnd hope others of your subscribers,
better fitted, will keep yon advised on all
matters of general interest.
First, allow me to thank yon for the sub
ject matter and general appearance of your
paper. It is gratifying to many old friends
of the Savannah Republican here, to know
that its Editor is at a point accessible to us,
and that we can again enjoy the benefit of
his cultivated mind and large experience.*
The “labor question” is adjusting itself with
us, much more readily and satisfactorily than
was expected by even the most hopeful. As
a general rule, the freedmen are provided
with homes aud seem disposed to act in good
faith towards their imployers. A large ma
jority are working for part of the crop—one
third nnd find themselves, or one fourth and
everything furnished them. The work of
preparing for a crop is rapidly going for
ward. The smoky atmosphere, and the fire
at night on old trees left standing in the fields,
lighting up the horizon for miles around, call
up pleasant memories of “oldffn times” (to
those of us who have been absent soldiering)
and assures us “there is life in the old land
yet!” 3Iay the new year, so auspiciously lie-
gun. be a happy one to all classes!
So far from being enemies of the
freedmen, or wishing to take advantage
of bis ignorance, onr citizens are treating
them with a kindness and forbearance that
could not have been looked for. None wish
them better, or will more cheerfully aid them,
than their late owners. They are beginning
to see it, nnd there are already signs of an
approaching “era of good feelings.” We
may hope that this year will settle the fact
that white and colored may live and labor
together harmoniously, if no outside, “dis
turbing influences” arc allowed to come in,
causing distrust and bad feeling. I hate to
say anything of the Frcedmen’s Bureau, in
this connection, since it is an agency of’the
Government, (which is disposed to deal kind
ly with us,) but I must think, if the support
ing force attached to it, was composed of
white troops entirely, it would be better for
the interest of all concerned.
One noticeable feauture in. the arrange
ment of hands for field labor, is that the
freedmen generally refuse to hire their wives,
preferring to keep them indoors to cook, spin,
weave, tend the garden &c. They will not
be persuaded that, for this year, at least, all
should work out, that their income may lie
as large as possible, but seem determined tlicir
“darling Nelly Grays” shall “trail in the
cotton and cane” no longer. It is causing a
scarcity ot labor that is beginning to be felt,
but if the wife will do lier duty at home and
not become a “dead weight” to her husband,
the plan may work well. Otherwise the hard
earnings of one will be lost in the sloth and
idleness of the other.
While our people arc thus entering on a new
order of things, and endeavoring to adapt
themselves to their altered circumstances,
there is a subject, full of alarm, continually
thrust upon their attention. I allude to the
prevalence of horse stealing and kindred vil
lages now so unblusliingly carried on in our
midst. Can nothing be done to arrest it ?—
Not by appeals to conscience, for that will re
quire time—but by working on the fears ot
lawless men ? Scarcely a night passes that
somebody’s stock is not stolen in this connty,
and what is very strange, the thieves are never
found out, or the property recovered. The
conclusion is forced on us, that there is a nu
merous and well organized band of plunder
ers, extending perhaps, over several connties
of South Georgia and Florida. We have
borne our losses as uncomplainingly as possi
ble, heretofore, hoping when the Courts were
opened nnd civil law re-established, the guil
ty parties would be ferreted out and punish
ed, or at least, steps would be taken to pre
vent suck occurrences in the future. But the
evil grows, nnd unless the Legislature comes
to the aid of tho people, some will be left
without tho means of making a support this
year. Already many of our citizens are strait
ened for stock to work their farms, having
had somo stolen during the winter. It is not
safe to buy, even if the money is at command,
there is so much uncertainty as to the real
ownership of such property on the market—
But we are not entirely at fault, in the mat
ter, though the rogues may think so. There arc
“out-cropping3” here nnd there that may lead
to valuable discoveries. Low-flung white men
for instance, who never owned a dollar before
or during the war, have now mules and horses
for sale. This stock is generally purchased in
a distant market and brought here, while
that bought in this county, is carried off for
disposal 1 The business is a paying one—per
haps the best that a man of versatile genius
*The Junior Editor takes tlie responsibility- of
permitting the publication of the foregoing com
plimentary portion of this letter, contrary to the
taste, and’ inclination of the gentleman to whom
reference i- made. B.
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
Special Correspondcnc« of the Dally Telegraph
The Negro Suffrage Bill—Credentials of the
Senator from Florida—Abolition of the
Test Oath for Southern Lawyers—-The Af
fair at Bagdad.
Washington, Jan. 30.
The mere passage of the negro "suffrage
bill by the House of Representatives
by no means implies its passage by the
Senate, or the final success of the meas
ure. There is no previous question in the
Senate, and tho bill, there, will be opposed
by such Senators as Messra. Doolittle, Cowan,
Cresswell, Sherman, Van Winkle, and Willey,
all Republicans, but all opposed to negro
suffrage. It is possible, however, that the
bill may pass the Senate, hut if it does it
will surely be vetoed by the President, and
there arc not two-thirds ot the members in
cither House, who will vote for its passage
over the President’s veto.
Senator Doolittle, of Wisconsin, presented
yesterday the credentials of Goremor 3rar-
vin, of Florida, Senator elect from Florida.
In doing this he said:
“I desire to say that personally I have
known this gentleman for nearly thirty yeafs,
and of his character and high standing dur
ing that period, and for his loyalty to the
Government of the United States during all
this struggle, it gives me great pleasure to
bear testimony. His services as a judge of
the United States in the District of Florida
for many years are known to the whole coun
try. His ability as a judge in the adminis
tration of our laws and admiralty jurisdiction
are known not only to this country but to
the world; for one of the best works ever
published on admiralty jurisdiction, which
is often quoted in the courts of England as
well as in our own was written.by him. And,
sir, it is with great pleasure that I can say it
—and upon this subject, in my mind, there
is a very great distinction—he is capable and
willing to take the oath which Congress has
prescribed as being necessary to be taken by
every member of Congress nnd of the
Senate when they enter this body. For my
self, sir, I shall be prepared at this mo
ment to ask that he should be swbrn
in at once; and if the members of the Sen
ate knew him as I know him, I can hardly
conceive that there would be any objection.
But, sir, from deference to the opinions of
others who surround me, who desire further
time to look into the question which con
cerns the Suites in which Vie insurrection has
existed, I shall not make that motion at this
time, hut I intend to make a motion which,
for the present, will dispose of this question.
Before doing so. however, 3Ir. President,
desire to state, that I can do so in no better
form nor clearer languarge than by quoting
what was said by him when, as Provisional
Governor, lie was about to retire and surren-
def the administration of affairs of the State
of Florida.
3Ir. Doolittle quoted at length from the
valedictory address of Governor Marvin, to
which lie referred. %
.MEXICAN PEOPLE ON
EMPIRE.
Tlie Now York Time-;' correspondence,
writes cleverly of wind he saw on Ute road
from Puebla to 3Iexico. Wc quote a portion
of Iiis letter referring to the temper and wishes
of the Mexican peojilc, of whom we arc so
anxious on this side tlie Itio Gran do to rid of
theirtyranny! The letter bears date the 2ml
instant:
Wc were constantly stopped and asked if
the Empress were coming. Streamers made
of handkerchiefs of all sorts of colors were de
pending from strings stretched across the
road. Every little group of poor huts had
its string-full spread. At the larger villages
there were gatherings of people, mostly In
dians, now and then playing to weary the
time away while waiting for their Ma-yesties. :
Wc fuond the streets of 3fexico c!«:> orna
mented. But the sovereigns have not yet.
made their appearance. I wonder if those
poor peasants are still waiting, and if the
bands arc still playing on the road. I should
not wonder if they were, for here people ;
have a patient way ef endurance that is al
most incredible. Would it not be as
well, however, for the Emperor and Em
press to see that their subjects be
properly informed, and not be made to waste
much time merely for a sight of their
persons. I hud forgotten that time is nothing
here, nnd may add that as long as time is not
money in 3Iexico, os everywhere else, 3Iexico
That was a noble act on the part of a Re
publican Senator, gracefully done. But
what response did it call forth ? 3Ir. Sum
ner of 3Iassachusctts, to his shame be it said,
with that utter disregard of n!l the proprie
ties, and courtesies, and decencies of life
which characterizes him, rose and slandered
the people of Florida nnd the Senator wllom
they had sent here. He bored the Senate with
a long tirade about what lie called the “dis
loyalty” of the people of Florida, and re
peated his stale and silly falsehoods about
the ill-treatment of the negroes now in that
State.
All debate on that subject was of course
out of order then; but at the proper time,
the people of Florida will he vindicated from
the unjust aspersions of this vain and empty
pretender.
The resolution which has passed the House,
on the motion of 3Ir. Tliuddcus Stevens, to
repeal the act requiring the test oath to be
taken by lawyers in the Southern States be
fore they can practice in the courts of those
States, will, I learn, be passed also by the
Senate. The President will gladly sign it,
and thus one of the odious and unjust meas
ures of the former Congress will have been
swept away. A beginning being thus made,
there is some hope that other measures of that
Congress, equally odious and unjust, will
share the same fate.
The reported capture of Bagdad, by fili
busters under Crawford and Reed, has not
yet been confirmed, but it is, nevertheless,
fully credited here. It is probable that the
whole thing was planned in Ncw r York. I
know that some 300 desperate characters left
that city about a month or two ago, bound
for the Rio Grande, under the influence o
promises made to them, and money paid to
them, by the active and unscrupulous agents
of Juarez there. Each man had his expenses
paid, and was promised the sum of §600 a
year, to be paid monthly.
It is probable that this affair will involve
us in very gravo difficulties with France. At
tho time when the seige of 3ratamorus was in
progress, strict orders were sent by the Presi
dent to Gen. Sheridan, to prevent all such
acts. If the reports of the affair which have
been received here arc true, it is difficult to
see how anything short of the dismissal of all
the officers who have licen to blame in the
matter, will be accepted by the French Gov
ernment, as a sufficient disavowal of the
act.
The absence of 3Ir. Seward, at this crisis,
would be a serious matter if it were not that
the affairs of tho State Department arc con
ducted with great ability, and in accordance
with 3Ir. Seward’s views, by 3Ir. Wm. Hun
ter, the vetem chief Clerk of the Department
3Ir. Seward is looked for to return in about
two weeks.
In regard to the affair of Bagdad, no one
here, who is conversant with the military situ
ation in 3Iexico, doubts for a moment that
the placo will be immediately recaptured by
the French. Warwick.
cannot progress in civilization. Expensive
triumphal nrches have been erected in the
streets here, and considerable money must
have been wasted. Would it not be as well
to spend that same money in cleaning those
filthy streets. We met the Emperor at a short
distance from 3Iexico, on his way to meet the
Empress. He stopped, and we had a good
opportunity of seeing him. He looks better,
fatter and happier than he did four months .
ago. Tiie escort was composed of about
twenty-five Austrian troops. The impression
left upon our mind by the conversations wc
have had with the people while on our way,
is that the Sovereigns are really personally .
popular. We asked everywhere, “Where is
Juarez?” Now, it will hardly be believed
in New York, where every one imagines
he knows where the preserving President is.
that I am yet to find the first man who •
knows, or attempts to guess, or wishes to
know. I am still to meet the first man who
advocates the restoration qf the old state of
things. Every one Is doubtful, and full of
fear as to the stability of the present system. ’
These poor Mexicans have so often changed .
masters, and every new comer have bandied t
them so roughly, that they are rather amazed *
to see what is now going forward. The ef
forts ot the government to try to do justice
to all. and to push thccountiy ahead, is so *
new, so unexpected a way of proceeding, that
they can hardly believe that it can last. As
to the military movements, battles and vic
tories, hatigingand quartering, and the where-*
abouts of tiie Republic of Mexico, the people *•
of New York know all about it. They know
also when the Emperor is packing. They ,
know als*> how much he Likes with him.
They also know when the French are going
away. B*t heft 41 these great events are In •
a mist of darkness, and nobody knows any
thing about them.
TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE.
PRESIDENT JOHNSON ENDORSED.
Some boys, while skating on the Licking
River near Cincinnati, on Monday last, dis
covered an aligator. Unluckily, the water
in that latitude had proved too cold for him,
and he was frozen stiff. On being dug out,
and easy virtue could turn his attention to. It | he was found to be six and a half feet long,
costs next to nothing to get the start, for in j with a jaw eleven inches long. He is sup-
cverv neighborhood there issome negro post- j P oscc ^ to be one of two that some soldiers
, * „° ,, I brought up from New Orleans eight months
ed on all stable arrangements in Ins ncin- j ago, and which escaped from them.
ity, who will steal a horse or mule, and de-: —
liver him to a white man for ten dollars.— £if“ Dr. Everett, of New Orleans, claims
Nobody gets shot, though men with double ‘° have invented a new telegraph, requiring
barrel guns arc frequently hidden out al n .° ■■ mtte j'ies or poles. It is no-
• , * . : ticed approvingly by the Picayune, which
night, to get a chance. _ says the aparatus is simple, the process onsv.
Again, allow us to ask what is to be done ? j and the alphabet easily understood.
something must be done and that quickly, or
tit , m . - , . New York, Jan. 19.—The cotton market
Judge Lynch” will hold a session of Ins j, >unc bang«d; rales 900 bales, eloeiu
Court in this section, and dispose of a large! at 50c.
quiet
In the Tennessee Senate, on the 19th, the.
following preamble and resolutions, reported,
from the Committee on Federal Relations
were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, The great union party of the.
United States, now in possession of the ad-*
ministration of the Government, is pledged
by its history, principles and present position, •
to tho maintenance of liberty, the freedom of
the press, aud speech, the preservation of the
authority of the United States overall its ter
ritory, as well as the Constitutional rights of'
all the States.
In accordance with that history aud as the*
results of those principles, it gave to the ad
ministration of the late Abraham Lincoln, nn
undivided and enthusiastic support; by which*
he was enabled to guide the ship of the State
safely around the storm of mighty rebellion,
to a peaceful harbor, and
Whereas, The present Executive of the,
United States, elected to the Vice-Presidency
by the great Union party of the nntion, and
called by the Providence of God to fill the.
Chief Executive chair, has. by patriotic de
votion to his country, entitled himself to the
confidence of every p'atriot. Especially would
we mention that noble illustration of patriotic *
and unselfish devotion to country, above par
ty, which he gave, when on the — day of De-;
cember, 1860, lie rose in the Senate of ihc
United States and boldly denounced treason, *
and, in a masterly manner, exposed the soph
istries and falsehoods of secession; and then •
again, on the — day ot February, 1801. For
this he was unanimously denounced by his
former political associates in his own section,'
but still lie stood firm among Southern Sena
tors, faithful among the faithless, and, in spite •
of a whirlwind of detraction and denuncia
tion which raged around him, lie gave to ;
Abraham Lincoln a hearty and bold support.
In 3Iarcli, 1863, lie accepted office from him
—the office of Military Governor of his State, •
partially redeemed lrom the black flag of»
treason—which office lie held for three long
and terrible years, laboring nil the time, with
patience and assiduity, to "restore law and or- *
der to the people of Tennessee, which had '
been taken from them by traitorous usurpers.
Belonging, as we do, to the great Union par
ty of the nation, without regard to past po
litical differences, and indorsing, as we have ’
done and now do, the administration of An
drew Johnson as late 3Iilitary Governor of
Teunessee, therefore,
Rctolted by the General Assembly of the State
of Tennessee, That, confiding in the integrity,
political honesty, and exalted patriotism of'
Andrew Johnson, President of the United
States, we hereby pledge to him our hearty
sympathy and support, in his efforts to re- -
store all parts of the United States to peace
and union.
3. Resolved, That true patriotism is nation
al, not sectional, and knows no North, no
South, no East, no West, but embraces in its •
cares and interests our whole broad country,
recognizing the right and welfare of all peo
ples and races within its ample bounds to
exact justice before tlie law, and, regarding
as we do, Andrew Johnson as the embodf-
ment of this sentiment, we pledge him our
support as the President of tlie United States. .
3. Resolved, That in retaining as his con
stitutional advisers, the Cabinet of tlie late *
President, Abraham Lincoln, wu have the *
pledge and security that the policy that gui
ded the administration of that exalted patriot
amid the storms of war, will be pursued, now *
tliat peace and prospective prosperity smile
upon our beloved country.
4. Resolved, That the present State govern
ment of Tennessee, having been inaugurated <-
under the auspices and administrative guid
ance of Andrew Johnson, as late 3Iilitary Gov
ernor of the State, wc recognize it as onr
bounden duty, and it is our pleasure to main- ’
tain the same in the spirit nnd for tlie ends •
for which it was inaugurated, viz: tlie com
plete restoration and permanent establish
ment ot freedom and civil law and order to
long suppressed and down-trodden people.
Resolved, Tliat as the rightful represen
tatives of the loyal people of Tennessee, and
constitutional legislators of the State, we
earnestly invite all the citizens of tho same,
while forgetting the past, to cordially unite
with us around the standard which leaves our •
nation’s flag of “beauty and glory” in support •
of the national cause, and the national ad
ministration of our great fellow-citizen, An
drew .Johnson, now President of the United
States.
Concerning tho freemen tlie Richmond En
quirer says: “We must feed, clothe and ed
ucate tln/se helpless beings, and the sooner
we resolve to assume the obligation and pro-;
vide for its honest fulfillment, the cosier it
will lw far us all.” This i-s more than i-uia-
ner nnd Stevens would do if the whole negro
population were starving.