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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
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Freights.—AY6 understand that freight
on cotton from Augusta to! Savannah, by
steamer has been reduced'to §1,50 per bale.
So much for the completion of the Augusta
and Saranual) Railroad.
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Deferred.—We have received a commu
nication from a large number of the friends of
Mr. Stephens in the Georgia Legislature
which wo are compelled, from want of room’
to postpone until to-morrow.
Ocmulgee Cincnrr.—Wo are privately in
formed that Augustus Re-o, Esq., of Madi
son, has been appointed by the Governor,
Judge of this circuit to supply the place of
Judge Harris, elected to the Supreme Court,
until an election can be had by the people.
Progress op Reform.—The Methodist
Church, of Savannah, have rented a portion
of their pews for the present year, and arc so
liciting donations to enable them to purchase
an organ.
EET A certain class of papers of New
England ore constantly saying that there ex
ists in many portions of the South an intense
hatred of the Northern people. Arc the
Northern people, asks an exchange, as a
body, doing anything to remove this antipa
thy, if it be true that it exists?
<Jen. Wilson turned Expressman.—Wc
«eo it stated that Major-General J. H. Wilson
has resigned his commission in the army and
accepted the Northern agency or superinten
dency of the National Express Company, ot
which Gen. Joseph E. Johnston is President.
He is expected to commence its active man
agement in New York within a fortnight.
Tiie “Geokoia Citizen” Redi vinous.—In
auothcr column will be seen the advertise
ment of Dr. L. P. W. Andrews, who will soon
revive his Daily and Weekly “Georgia Citi
zen.” Ilis old patrons are requested to ex
amine his advertisement. We wish him
abundant success, and welcome him back to
the editorial ranks, and doubt not that he
will give us a spicy and readable sheet. lie
lias obtained a new outfit and will print a
noat paper. Send in your dollars.
WniTB Man’s Day.—That was a liberal
idea of some Congressman to set aside one
day in every week for the business of the
country, to be styled the “White Man’s Day.”
No doubt the Radicals will think it entirely
too much time to be wasted, and go against
the motion.
What Next?—The last diabolism pro-
1*060cl in Congress, is to levy a tax on the
Soutncrn States to pay the expense of keep
iag troops among them. It seems wc are not
only to submit to military law, but to pay for
the privilege of having it.
Tlio sooner Andy Johnson disperses that
“rump parliament ” or teaches it to behave
itself, tlio better for the country.
New Law Firm.—Public attention is in
vited to the card of Messrs. Browne & Ruth
erford, Attorneys and Councellors at Law,
Athens Ga. The senior member of the firm,
•Gen. Browne, will be recollected os the able
editor of the Washington Constitution in
years past, and more recently as a member of
President Davis*staff, nc is a good lawyer
and a thorough business man, whilst his inti
mato acquantance witii men and things in
Washington affords him superior advantages
iff transacting business with the departments.
The junior member of tlio firm is a young
gentleman of promise in his profession, and
belongs to that old and highly rcspotnblc
Georgia family of this name.
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Stirrino up Matters.—The purchase, by
certain parties in Savannah, of a large amount
ofWayneaboro’ Railroad stock just on the eve
of & permanent lease of tho road to the Central
Company, and the declaration of a stock div
idend of some forty to fifty dollars to the
share, which circumstance took place some
years ago, is uow undergoing ventilation be-
loro the Superior Court of Chatham county.
The affair created much talk at the time and
the sellers considered themselves very badly
taken in. The city of Savannah was tlic great
est sufferer, and it is she that is now bringing
suit.
The Constitutional Amendment—The
following is the Constitutional amendment as
it passed the House of Representatives, Wed
nesday last.
“ReprcseDtativeafchall be apportioned among
the several States which may be included with
in'this Union according to their rcrpective
numbers, counting the whole number of per
sons in each State, excluding Indians not tax-
esj; provided, whenever the elective franchise
shall be denied or abridged in any State on
account of race or color, all persons tile rein
of such race or color snail lie excluded from
the basis of representation.”
THE GEORGIA SENATORS.
As we expected, tlm Northern press has
commenced to open on tiie election of Messrs.
Stephens and Johnson to the U. S. Senate.—
Tho Washington correspondent of the N. Y
Times leads off ns follows:
“The election of A. H. Stephens and Ilcrscliel
V. Johnson os Senators from Georgia is
received here with regret by (he lxsst friends
of the South connected with the government.
That two men should have been selected chief
ly because of their prominence in the rebel
lion, and who cannot take the oath, simply
embarrasses the work of restoration, and the
Southern people in the end become the chief
hofferers. The election of Provisional Gov
ernor James Johnson and Joshua Hill would
have been a very encouraging^ sign of Hu
moral effect of which the South is very much
in weed.”
Per eonlrq, wc shall give to-morrow the
reasons of our legislators for voting for Messrs.
Stephens and Johnson.
J'ROM CANADA.
APPREHENDED FENIAN INVASION.
New York ,Fcb. 3.—The Herald’s Toron
to dispatch last evening, states that the Fc-
uian attack on the Canadian frontier towns is
hourly expected—that the Provincial milita
ry arc under arms in all directions, and trains
kept ready at that place and Hamilton to
transport troops to any point.
Hamilton, C. W., Feb. 2.—Gen. Sweeney
and Col. Roberts, passed through this city
last night on the express train. Col. Booker,
the Mayor, and the Chief of Police, passed
through the train and viewed the sleepers.
IMMENSE DESTRUCTION OF GOVERN
MENT STORES BY FIRE-
Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 3.—The Junction
City (Kansas) Union, says the Com in is.- try and
Quartermasters’ warehouse, r.tFort Riley, was
burned on Wednesday. The loss is estimated
'.l. Sl,on ' •. .\ " :i v.'.ts- iVf.l.
LOSS OF A GO > ERNMKNT VESSEL AN L)
ALL ON BOARD.
Ni:w York, F« . 2.—Tit- United States
steamer Narcis us was iost <luring one of the
.i cent hit .n:- ..t the entmnee to Tampa Bay,
Florida, : i about forty persons—all on
.«) ird perished.
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS—
POLICY OF THE SOUTH.
The close observer, wc think, can descry
too great an anxiety to get hack into the
Union—or rather to get our representatives
inti Congress. Not that the recognition of
our members elect is not a mattes of right,
and one that should engage our earnest
cffoits, for to that extent wc sympathise with
and endorse tho sentiment. We allude to
thtt spirit that would sacrifice the great prin
ciples that lie ot the foundatioh of free gov
ernment in order to secure this privilege, as
deserving of condemnation.' Wethinkmuch
of the difficulty arises from Southern poli
ticians, men who are out of office, and would
get back again into the Union, where alone
they can bo restored to position and promi
nonce, on any terms. Self has too strong a
hold upon their affections for the honor, glory,
ami permanent interest of the country to be
taken into the account. We would warn our
people against the influence of such men.—
Many of them would have us agree to any
thing rather than that they should be longer
kept away from the loaves and fishes. The
great body of the people have no such mo
tives. Their chief interest in government i9
founded on the protection it affords them
and all their efforts should be directed to the
creation, out of the present political chaos,
of such a government as will afford that pro
tection. They have no interest in making one
that will practically prove a perpetual ene
my to their rights and prosperity.
The policy of the Radical majority
in the present Congress is to keep out
the South until by ex parte legislation
they can succeed in so changing the
constitution that we shall be powerless
for all future time. They have tlic South in
duress, and think they will be able to make
her agree to anything rather than be left out
“in the cold.” Tlio only political right they
are willing to give the Southern States is to
commit suicide—to change the fundamental
law so as to bind themselves and their chil
dren hand and foot They can do tliis,butthc
simple right of representation in the national
councils is a privilege with which they cannot
be trusted. Will the South agree to act apart
in the Union on such terms ? Will 9be con
sent to be members of tho Union for the pur
pose of carrying into effect Northern dictation,
and for none other? We hope not. If she cannot
enjoy her sacred privileges, wc can sec no rea
son in calling upon her to perform her duties,
even granting that every constitutional amend
ment to be submitted to her is free from ob
jection. If she is in the Union for one pur
pose, she is lawfully in it for all constitution
al purposes. If she is out of the Union, the
Northern Congressmen have no right to call
upon her for the performance of any act that
can only be done by members of tlic Union.
On principle, therefore, wc think the South
ern States should refuse to entertain any prop
osition looking to a change of the Federal
constitution, so long as their representatives
arc refused admission to the halls of Congress;
or if they entertain such propositions, that it be
done only for the purpose of rejecting them.
There is not one, matured or in contempla
tion, that docs not seek to undermine tlic
rights of tlic Southern States, destroy the very
spirit of the government, and entail upon us
a perpetual vassalage to the North. Rntlier
than submit to such a futc, wc should be will
ing to remain unrepresented and with a mili
tary government over us for ten years to come.
Tiie hardship in that case would be tempora
ry, for an enlightened public sentiment would,
sooner or later, come to onr relief; but a
change of the Government itself is a work for
all time, nnd wc should not only live under a
perpetual despotism, but with tlic harrowing
reflection that wc, ourselves, helped to forge
and rivet the chains.
Wc hope there is yet something of true wis
dom, if not of Roman virtue, left witii tlic
people of the South—that they will contem
plate the circumstances that surround them
with the manliness of freemen nnd not the
servility of slaves—that they will do all that
justice and patriotism require for a restora
tion of the Union under the constitution, nnd
the harmony wc once enjoyed—but that they
will not, for a thousand Unions, sell them
selves nnd their children into bondage.
Our true policy would be to refuse to enter
tain any amendment to the constitution that
may be proposed by the present Congress, or
the men in Washington who style themselves
the Congress. If the Southern States are in
the Union—and no judicial tribunal in tlic
country would declare otherwise; indeed it is
conceded by Northern representatives io the
act of submitting amendments—then there
is no such thing in existence as a Federal Con
gress, for the body now assembled is not or
ganized as the constitution declares it sb»U
be; and there is no other basis upon which
an organization can take place. If the courts
are not thoroughly corrupt, they will set
aside every act and resolution passed from
the first Monday in December, os null and
void. There is no escape from this conclu
sion. Why, then, should the South recognize
and accept as lawful that which has no au
thority under tlic fundamental law of tho
land ? '
There can be but one alternative, and that
is that the States of the South are not in the
Union. In that event the present Congress is
a legal one, but this consequence follows as
inevitable: no amendment adopted by the
Southern States can be legally a part of the
constitution, for only State* in the Union
have tlic power to legislate upon that instru
ment.
Lands for the Neorokr.—Senator Trum
bull has introduced a bill in relation to the
Frcedmen’s Bureau, in which he proposes to
reserve three millions acres of good land
the State of Florida, Mississippi, and Arkan
sas, in parselsof forty acres each, for the use
ofnegroes. Tims the whites arc to be
robbed of their land—all that remains to them
—to furnish homesteads and farms to the
“freedmen,” who may employ their former
masters, at fair wages, to till the soil they
once called their own,
SmallPox.—The Inferior Court) of the
several couuties in this State, and the author
ities of all incorporated towns and villages,
are referred to an act just passed by the Leg
islature vesting in them certain powers for
the prevention of tiie spread of the small pox.
It will be found in this issue of the Telegraph.
Forgiven.—Adelegution from that portion
of the Cherokee tribe of Indians who sided
with the South in the late struggle, called on
the President, with the representatives of the
"loyal’' portion of the tribe, Ia--t week. They
said they were "all loyal now,” when the
President complimented their frank confes
sion, and gave thorn the right hand of fellow
ship. Tlmd. Stevens & Co. are unwilling to
extend tlic same reception to the white men
of the South.
NEGRO TROOPS.
We shall not charge the Secretary of War
with a spirit of mischief. That would, perhaps,
be to do him injustice. One of two things
however, is certain: lie cither designs evil, or
is incompetent to decide what is for the good
of tlic country. Were it really his purpose
to perpetuate alienation between the people
of the two sections, to generate strife and dis
cord at the South, anil to create arguments
for the contiuation of military rule over
our people, he could not more effectually ac
complish that end than by the policy tlin
seems to characterize his administration o
the War Department. The Northern press
say he is identified with the Radicals, but this
can hardly be the case; at least the President
does not so understand him.
One of tlic most serious and galling hard
ships that Mr. Stanton continues to inflict up
on the Southern people, is the presence and
insolence of negro troops—a thing wholly un
called for by the necessities of the Depart
ment, or the condition of the country. Small
garrisons, of a dozen men each, at tho leading
points in the various States, would lie ample
for all the necessities of the case; and these
should—as General Grant promised some
time ago,—be composed exclusively of white
troops. That our former slaves should be
sent here with muskets in their hands to lord
it over us and keep us in subjection, is a
contempt of Southern feelings which the Pres
ident should not allow. There can be no good
feeling so long as the Southern people are
thus treated, and the harmony of the coun
try, if not respect for us, should prompt to
on immediate change in the policy of the Gov
ernment Besides the indignity, no commu
nity is safe with such an armed element in
its midst, os the shocking outrages committed
wherever they have been stationed for several
months past fully establish. We bad
hoped when the hotly that had so long
darkened our streets took their depart
ure some weeks ago, that the citizens of Ma
con and its vicinity would be free from the
annoyance for the future; but already we
have their places supplied, if not in numbers,
with more than on equal disposition for harm.
The outrage on the persons of a white shop
keeper and his clerk on Cotton Avenue, with
which they celebrated their advent, is a fair
sample of what we may expect from such
brutal creatures; and if such things continue,
instead of giving protection to anybody, they
will fill the country with bloodshed and
strife.
Tho citizens of Macon, nnd every other
community thus afflicted, should take the
matter in hand, and through the Governor
protest to the authorities at Washington
against a policy that is so pregnant with
harm. We would here urge the matter upon
the attention of oUr State Executive, with the
hope that he will interest himself in bclialt
of his fellow citizens, and by proper repre
sentations, made directly to the President,
prevail upon him to withdraw all negro troops
from the State. They are of no service what
ever, as most of the commanding officers of
districts and posts will testify; but on the
contrary arc a great expense and a perpetual
rock of offense.
Schools for Freedmen in Macon.
More than four thousand colored people,
of both sexes and all ages, are enjoying the
privilege of instruction in the schools in this
city, established, since the advent of peace,
by the charitable people of the North and
under the supervision of Rev. Mr. II. Eddy,
and Mr. Rockwell, assisted by ten or twelve
ladies from the Northern States. These la
dies are the teachers, and they are said to
evince energy, zeal and talent in the manage
ment of the schools.
ifjTbere arc four morning schools, one in each
of the four African churches: there is one
afternoon scliool, embracing the mere ad
vanced pupils of the morning schools; and
there is one night school, where freedmen of
every coler, size, age, of both sexes, meet to
learn. In the morning schools about six hun
dred attend; and as many as three hundred
and fifty sometimes nttend the night school,
which indeed may be denominated a mixed
school on account of the heterogeneous char
acter of the pupils; for from old men of sev
enty down to the mere child, and from the
old married dame to the sprightly yellow
lass, all sizes and ages may be seen there.
It is a common thing to behold the young
ticcdmen going to and from tlicir schools,
Webster in hand ; and it is to be hoped that
by tlic proceedings good seed arc being sown.
We must confess that we experience a feeling
of commendation for those who-have left home
and all its comforts to come so far and en
gage in a work so-essentially of a missionary
character, and we hope that our citizens will
encourage those efforts to benefit and improve
the people who are to live amongst us-, wheth
er we will or not, and to whom wc are to
look for faithful servants. Let ns not shear
ourselves unwilling to behold the elcvuticei,
mentally and morally, of those who were once
our slaves; but ca the contrary let us prove
ourselves, to the extent of our ability, to be
the real friend of the negro, and his best well-
wisher. The Southern people are eminently
a missionary people: let them not be so prowl
as to condemn or animadvert upon those who
are engaged in a real missionary work, which
the fortunes of war have placed it out of ouc
power properly to perform.
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An Important Order.—The Quartermas
ter General lias issued the following order:
u Officers on duty in the several military de
partments arc hereby instructed that General
Order, No. 77, from this office, dated Decem
ber fifteenth, eighteen hundred and sixty-
five, are not to be so construed as to authorize
the seizure of animals which being branded
‘C. 8.’ are not shown to ever have been in
possession of the United States, or to bare
been included in any surrender of the rebel
armies.” Under this order, we presume,
many who have had their horses improperly
taken will be able to have them restored.
Tiie Fxeedmen’s Biel.—This bill, which
lias passed the Senate and is now in the House,
is meeting with strong opposition from the
press. Tlic New York Sun sums up the bill
as follows:
“The practical effect of tlic measure would
be simply to entail a heavy expense upon the
Government; to increase the discontent of the
negroes; to give the planters more ground for
grumbling, and to perpetuate an institution
that has, taking everything into consideration
proved itself a national nuisance.”
ES?" The “Star Line”,' of “steamships be
tween Savannah and New York, has been sus
pended under an extraordinary case ot ill-
luck. Two of the 6tcamers were lost at sea,
one burnt at her wharf in New York, and the
two remaining are laid upon for repairs.
THE GEORGIA U. S. SENATORS.
Vic print, on our first page, a letter from
the friends of Hon. A. H. Stephens in the
Georgia Legislature, vindicating him against
the implied charge of having been privy to
their intention to run him for the Senate, af-1
ter a positive refusal to become a candidate.:
It will be read with interest, as part of the
political history of the times.
We allude to thedocumcnt editorially more |
particularly for the purpose of bringing be
fore the country the real motives that con
trolled the Legislature in making choice of
Mr. Stephens for the Senate. We commend
those reasons to the Government at Washing
ton, and to the Northern people generally.—
It will be seen that Mr. Stephens was elected,
not for his opposition to the Union, but be
cause he maintained the Union so long as his
State remained a member of it, was from the
beginning, and still is, opposed to the doc
trine of secession, and in taking office under
the Confederacy simply accepted revolution
as a fixed fact and desired to do the best for
liis countrymen in the situation in which they
lmd placed themselves against his earnest
warning and remonstrance. Mr. Stephens,
too, accepts the results of the war, is pledged
to abide by it and use all his efforts for res
toration and harmony; and he is too high-
minded and honorable a man for any one,
North or South, to bring liis sincerity into
question. As such he should be acceptable
to the Government and Northern people. It
is only a factious spirit that can object to him
as a representative in Congress, and we feel
persuaded that all the sober, reflecting men
of that section will concede that the choice
was both a wise and a safe one.
What we say of Mr. Stephens may also be
justly said of Ex-Governor Johnson, his col
league. He and Mr. Stephens have acted to
gether, in every respect, nnd been moved by
the same opinions and sentiments for the last
five years. Gov. Johnson ran on the Douglas
ticket for Vice-President in opposition to the
Disunion party who supported Breckinridge,
and he was the great Ajax of the Union in
the Georgia Convention that resolved on se
paration. He, too, with a sympathy that
was entirely natural, sought to steer his coun
trymen safely through the political breakers
upon which they bad set sail, against his ad
vice and eloquent protest.
If such men are not to be trusted in the na
tional councils, it simply proves- that the
North desires no pence, no rc-union, and are
at least resolved to erect a military despotism
over these States.
The President of the United States, we
feel sure, understands the position and feel
ings of these gentlemen, and will appreciate
the motives of Georgia in selecting them as
the representatives of her sovereignty in the
Senate. He knows them to be loyal nnd true,
nnd men whose abilities will illustrate their
State in the national legislature. We are
gratified to see that so sterling a journal as the
National Intelligencer, and also the Buffalo
(N. Y.) Courier, regard them in their true
light, and are ready to give them a cordial
welcome among the law-makers of the Uuion.
Extracts from the remrrks of both these jour
nals will be found in another part of this
paper.
TnE Slavery Agitation to b£ Perpet
ual.—The purpose of the Radicals, says the
Boston Post, is to agitate continually. This
was declared by Mr. Phillips at the late meet
ing of tlic Anti-Slavery Society. He said Mr.
Sumner and Mr. Wilson urged this course up
on the abolitionists. “They want every anti-
slavery journal, every anti-slavery society
continued,” was the assertion of Mr. Phillips.
Thus it appears that these Senators arc in
confidential communication with men who
jire denouncing the President as a traitor to
the interests of his country, and saying the
country is unsafe under his administration.
Sumner and Wilson privately advise and di
rect the conduct of the bitterest opponents
and enemies of the President, and then avow
on the floor of the Senate that they are his
most trustworthy friends and truest support
ers.
Crops and Labor iu Cuba.
A correspondent of the N. Y. Herald
writes ns follows under jdate, Havana, Ja:i
27, 1866:
the sugar cnor.
From all accounts the coming sugar crop
promises to be very large, fully as large as
the last, which was greatly in excess of pre
ceding ones during the past few years. It
A Horrible Tragedy in Florida.
The most heart rending occurrence we have
ever been called upon to chronicle, took place
at Monticello, at 11 o'clock, (night) the 9th
inst. A young lady of education and refine
ment, and who, bv her upright deportment
and Christian virtues, by her gentleness and
kindness, liad drawn to her a host of friends
and admirers, for two months past, it appears
. . I has been gradually losing licr mind. Her
will be about a month later, however, owing - . , °
iT*». a* r-™ ...i.;„i. ’*i friends saw with deep regret that insanity
Reunion op the Episcopal Church or
Georgia with that op the United States.
—The following letter to Bishop'Johns, of
Virginia makes an announcement of interest
Savannah Diocese op Georgia.
Tothe Right Reverend Johns, D. D. Bishop of
the Diocese of Virginia:
Right Rev. and Dear Brother : In pur
suance of the 4tli resolution passed at tlic
second Council of the Protestant Episcopal
Church in the late Confederate States, which
convened in Augusta, Ga., Nov. 8tli, 1865. I
hereby give you official notice under my hand
and seal of the Episcopate, of my withdrawal
from that Eccliastica! Confederation, and of
the reunion of the Diocese of Georgia with
the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Uni
ted States of America.
Most sincerely do I trust that all the Dio
ceses may be very soon battling side by side
for tlic cause of Christ in tlic world.
Given under my hand and the seal of tho
Episcopate this 3d Jan. A. D. I860.
Stephen Elliott,
Bishop of Georgia.
W. II. Harrison, Secretary Diocese of
Georgia.
Parties in the House.
The New York Herald publishes an enu
meration to which we attach little or no im
portance, but some may have stronger faith
than ourselves, and regard it as proof that
the Radicals arc reckoning without their
hosts. It says:
There are in the House, ms it is now consti
tuted, excluding the Representatives from the
eleven Southern States recently in rebellion,
one hundred and eighty-four members. Of
this number forty-one nre Democrats. Fifty-
three Republicans voted in favor of a quali
fied negro suffrage in the District of Colum
bia, and arc therefore entitled to be called
conservative Republicans. Besides these, there
were eleven members elected as Republicans
who voted against negro suffrage in every
form in which it came up, both qualified and
universal. Their names are recorded with
the Democrats on every vote taken on that
measure. This gives the anti-radical strength
of the House one hundred and five votes, as
follows:
Democrats 1 41
Conservative Republicans 53
Republicans vot'g with Democrats on each vote 11
Total 105
This leaves the Radicals only seventy-nine
votes out of tho one hundred nnd eighty-four,
giving that fraction the benefit of all the
Republican absentees when the vote on negro
suffrage was taken. The most favorable cal
culation, therefore, that canbc made for the
Radicals, gives the conser votive portion of
Congress twenty-six majority over them.
to the excessive drought from which tlic en
tire island suffered more or less during last
summer and fall. That there will be no fall
ing off in the quantity ot sugar, which ought
naturally be the case, must be attributed to
the counteracting good effects of an improved
agricultural system and tlic introduction of
the splendid machinery which is now to bq
seen in such profusion on the plantations
throughout Cuba.
VALUE OP NEGRO LABOR.
The sale of a lot of negroes near Havana at
a very high figure lias been looked upon by
some as an indication that the present condi
tion of the laborsystem is safe for yet a little
longer. The negroes, eighty-five in number,
six or eight of whom were over eighty years
of age, and some ten of them from ten to
twelve years old, sold at an average of one
thousand dollars each. The true explanation
of this high price is simply the great scarcity
of labor, while it is by no means an indication
of a confidence in the continuance of the pre
sent system. Tlic purchasers of this lot can
afford to resell them at a loss after the crop
has been gathered, having in tlic meantime
been so fortune as to secure so many more
hands to hurry up their sugar, already a
a month behind.
REPORTED ARRIVAL OF TWO CARGOES OF AF
RICANS.
There is a report, which comes to me from
a most respectable quarter, tlmt two cargoes
of Africans have been landed within a short
time—on what part of the island not known.
Possibly the eighty-five negroes above allu
ded to are a portion of these cargoes.
DEMAND FOR COOLIES.
Another consequence of the scarcity of la
bor is the increased importation of China
men, who put large sums into the pockets of
the importers. I find in Spencer’s Commer
cial Bulletin that four cargoes, expected to
arrive, have been sold during the past few
days. Three of those cargoes brought twen
ty-ounces a head—about three hundred and
fifty-seven dollars in gold; and the fourth
twenty ounces, or three hundred and forty
dollars. A great many more cargoes are ex
pected ; for the demand for labor of all kinds
is incessent. Chinamen hire out at $25 a
month, and negroes who are good field bands
fetch §30. One of the largest importing
companies in Havana has jnst been fined §2,-
000 for a violation of the rules regulating
proper and humane treatment of coolies on
board vessels.
An Act entitled an act to prevent the spread
of Small Pox in this State:
Whereas, The Small Pox has been introdu
ced and is likely to spread into every county
in this State, thereby causing great expense
and trouble to the people.
Sec. 1st. Therefore, lie it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of Georgia,
that the Justices of the Inferior Court of each
county, or the corporate authorities of any
town or city in thi9 State, within the limits
of which any case or cases of Small Pox may
appear, or has appeared, are hereby author
ized and impowered to provide a suitable
hospital for those so afflicted, and to furnish
them with medical nnd any other attention
that in their judgment those so afflicted may
require; also, to provide proper quarantine
regulations to prevent the spread of said dis
ease. Provided, that no person or persons
shall be forced to leave his or her home to go
to said hospital wlien they arc properly pro
vided for and guarded at their own expense.
Said Court shall not pay any expense of any
ease so situated.
Sec. 2d. That said Courts or corporate au
thorities shall make, or cause to be made, a
proper nnd just account of all expenses accru
ing from said quarantine and other attention,
either medical or nursing of all of whom they
have under their control, and who submit to
the regulations of said Court or corporate au
thorities.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the
Inferior Court and the said corporate author
ities in the several counties and cities of this
State, be nnd arc hereby authorized to levy
an extra tax sufficient to pay all just and
equitable debts contracted under the provis
ions of this act.
Sec. 4. That his Excellency, the Governor,
be and be is hereby requested and required
to procure the necessary quantity of genuine
vnccine matter at such reasonable compensa
tion as lie may contract for, nnd have the
same transmitted to the Justices of the In
ferior Courts of each county in this State for
immediate use.
Sec. 5, All law3 or parts ot laws militating
against this act be and the same are hereby
repealed.
Passed in the House 30tli of January, 1866
Passed in the Senate.
Assented to by the Governor, 5th of Feb.,
I860.
Published for the information of the Info
rior Courts of said county in the State.
Probable Fialubeof the District Suf
frage Bill.—A Washington correspondence
writes on the 1st instant:
I The House bill for tlic extension of the
right of suffrage to the blacks of this District
may be pronouneed dead. The Senate, it is
pretty well ascertained, will pass that bill in
its present form ; and that if they do pass it,
it gill be vetoed. Substitutes for the bill are
to be offered in the Senate. If Mr. Morrill’s
bill to repeal the charters fail, it is intended
to offer as a subititute the billofMr. Jenckcs,
which lie proposed in the House, and which
provides for a qualified suffrage. Probably
the entire measure will fail.
was rapidly being developed, but never
dreamed that it would terminate in the horri
ble tradegy we are about to record.
On Tuesday night, as stated, and for seve
ral days previous, she was absent from her
home,'enjoying the hospitality of a friend.—
At about ten o'clock she retired to her room.
An hour later, a youth who was boarding in
the same house having occasion to pass by
tlic lady’s door, heard her offering up to the
Throne of Grace, nil unusual fervent prayer ;
and pausing to listen, imaged he smelt burn
ing rags. Immndiately notifying the gentle
man of the house the family rushed to the
door of the young lady’s room, and .being
unable to effect an entrance burst the door
open; when, oh! horror of horrors! there sat
the maniac in the centre of a feather bed en
veloped in the flames, whilst, with hands
clasped together, she petitioned the God
Heaven nnd earth. Upon entering the room
the rescuers heard a voice, in tones of rapture,
issue from the flames; “O! ain’t this glorious!
Ain’t I a martyr.” The fire was prompt
ly extinguished, when it was found
the poor lady must have been burning
for some time; for from her waist down
every vestage of clothing was destroyed, not
withstanding she was dressed in heavy wool
en fabrics, and had on a broad-cloth cloak.
The character of clothing she wore was all
that protected the upper portion of her body.
The flesh upon the lower portion of her body
and limbs was actually baked brown, and
notwithstanding, we arc assured she did not
appear to snffer pain. She was conveyed to
her home, and on last Saturday morning still
survived, but by this doubtless lias passed to
that land where the weary fiud rest.
From all the circumstances attending this
trucly lamentable tragedy, it is evident the
unfortunate maniac premeditated her own
destruction. She moved all her clothing
from her own home, destroyed her ainbro-
types and letters, and after all was ready, set
fire to her clothing, (hanging in a wardrobe
in her room,) and then deliberately igniting
herself, jumped into bed.
The heart sickens at the ricital. In the cn
tire history of maniac freaks, we have no re
collection of anything that will compare with
this. Wc knew the young lady as an es
teemed friend; we admired her dignified and
reserved disposition; we prized her for her
kind and gentle heart, and honored her for
those Christian virtues that are so enobling to
woman. We shall always revere her memo
ry. It is best that mother earth should re
ceive her mortal tenement, for Heaven will
welcome her spirit. Earth, for her had no
joys-—the future would have been a blank.—
Her soul Is at rest. God listened to the pray
er of the same orphan, and He heard the ma
niac’s wild prayer amidst the flames.— Quit-
man (Ga.) Banner.
Military Triumphs.
From tho Mobile Advertiser.)
We read the other day in some paper of a
proposition to collect the guns captured from
the late Confederates in the late war, at West
Point, and inscribe upon each the battle in
which it was taken, and so garner them as
trophies of war. Gen. Delafield met the prop
osition with an objection that, being ot Roman
origin, was worthy of a Roman sage and sol
dier. He declared against the wisdom and
policy of commemoratingrin American his
tory events which every true patriot would
wish forgotten—events which told of bloody
strife between men of the same tongue and
race, nnd living under the same Government.
W c have said that the noble thought was of
Roman origin, and sprang from the nation of
antiquity, that had most indcllibly written
its wisdom and its courage with pen and
sword upon the history of the world. The
reasons why this great people refused to ac
cord triumphs in victories like these arc well
worth being revived in support of General
Delafield's true American stand. In Napo
leon’s life of Julius Caesar we read:
“The triumph is accorded for victories
which enlarge the territory, but not for those
which only recovered lost ground. No tri
umph in civil wars—in such case, success, lie
what it may, is always a subject for public
mourning.”
In Smith’s dictionary of Grecian and Roman
antiquity, there occurs the following instruct
ive sentences in a passage on the subject of
one of the restrictions on granting a triumph:
‘•That the war should have been a legiti
mate contest against public foes, and not a
civil contest Hence Catulus celebrated no
triumph over Lepidus, nor Antonius over Cat-
aline, nor Cinna and Marius over their antag
onists of the Syllan party, nor Caesar after
Pharsalia, and when he did triumph after his
victory over the sons of Potnpey, it caused
universal disgust. Hence the line of Lucan:
“Bella gcri plaeuit nlulos liabitura triuraphos.”
The way to Select Flour.—First look
to the color ; if it is white with a yellowish
or straw color tint, buy it. If it is very white,
with a yellowish or straw color tint, buy it.
If it is very white, with a plush cast, or with
specks in it, refuse it. Second, examine its
adhesiveness; if it works soft and sticky, it
is poor. Third throw a little lump of dry
flour against a smooth surface; if it falls like
powder, it is bad. Fourth, squeeze some of
the flour in your hand; if it retains the shape-
given by the pressure, that, too, is a good
sign. Flour that will stand all these tests, it
is safe to buy. These modes are given by old
flour dealers, and they pertain to a matter
that concerns everybody—the stuff of life.
BSP A dispatch from Washington says the
original letter of Yulee, of Florida, giving an
account of the plot and plan of secession,
written some time before the first act of rebel
lion took place, has been placed in the hands
of the Government, to be used as a part of
the evidence in the trial of Jefferson Davis.
| The negroes of Stnuntou, Virginia.
have bought the old market house of Mrs,
Margaret Crawford, intending to make it a
church. On New Year’s day, the Spectator
says, they assembled then; in such numbers
as to make it so dark that tlic chickens, think
ing it was uight, went to roost.
“Bread and Butter.”—Hall, in his jour
iial of Health, gives us the following bit of
wisdom:
“Bread and butter arc the only articles of
food of which we never tire, from early child
hood to extreme old age. A pound of fine
flour of Indian meal contains three times as
much meat us one pound of butcher's roast
beef, and if the whole product of the grain,
bran and all, were made into bread, fifteen
per cent, more of nutriment would be added.
Unfortunately, the brail, the coarsest part, is
thrown away; the very part which gives
soundness to the teeth and strength to the
brain. Five hundred pounds of flour gives
to the body thirty pounds of the bony ele
ment. while the same quantity of bran gives
more than one hundred and twenty-five
pounds. This bone is lime, the phosphate of
lime, the indispensable element of health to
the whole human body, from the want of the
natural supply of which multitudes of per
sons go into a general decline. But swallow- ___
ing phosphates in the shape of powders or in i Mr. Peter Ormond, a Manchester cot-
syrups, to cure these declines, has little or no ; ton spinner, has taken upon himself the task
effect. The articles contained in these phos-1 of repairing liis parish churches at a cost of
pbates must pass through nature’s laboratory: ' one hundred and fifty thousand dollar,
must be subject to her manipulations, in alcm- rtom iv VnuT^mv
23P” Lydia Peacock, a blushing maiden of
forty-three summers, has mulcted Henry Snell,
who bears the weight of 77 years, out of
§3,000, in tlic Warren county (Ohio) courts,
because lie promised to wed her and didn’t.
Gen. Sherman has written a private
letter jo a prominent gentleman in Columbus,
Ohio, in which he takes strong grounds
against any interference in the Mexican im
broglio.
Wheat Crop in Northern Georgia.—
The Rome Courier of the 1st says the wheat
crop in that section never looked more promis-
“A Lively Business.”—George Francis
Train is doing a lively business in Chicago.
He went there to lecture on “Chicago and
Omaha.” followed it up with an address on
“protection,” and is uow announced for a
speech before the Fenians. He i3 also expec
ted to spout on “Temperance,” appear at
McVicker's, preach at Trinity Church, play a
champion game of billiards, nnd found an in-
•sane asylum.
bics specially prepared by Almighty power, in
order to impart their peculiar virtues to the
human ftame; in plainer phrase, the shortest,
safest and most infallible method of giving I
strength to the body, bone and brain, thereby ; EeT* Eugenic is no longer looked up to, in
arresting disease, building up the constitu- England, as the great oracle of fashions; the
tion, is to eat nnd digest more bread made English ladies are more governed, now, by
out of the whole grain, whether of wheat, the Princess of Wales, who is younger and
corn, rye or oats.” ; more gay, and, therefore, better fitted to set
— ' the example.
BF“‘ ‘Madam,” said a very polite traveler pgf “Where do you hail from ?” queried a
to a testy old landlady, “if 1 see proper to i Yankee of a traveller. “Where do you rain
help myself to this milk, is there any impro- j from f” Don’t rain at all,” said the astonish-
priety in it ?” ! ed Jonathan. “Neither do I hail-; so mind
“I don’t know what you mean; but if you your own business.”
I mean to insinuate that there is anything nasty
in the milk, I'll give you to understand that
| you have struck the wrong house 1 There aint
a first hair in it, for as soon as Dorothy Ann
told me the cat was drowned in the milk, I
went and strained it over.”
The young man fainted.
£3P*Eugene Maffit, son of John N. Maffit,
late of the Confederate States Navy, has been
released from Fort Warren, by the United
States authorities, on liis parole. Ex-Presi
dent Davis’ brother-in-law, Mr. Howell, is still
in the casemates of that delightful institu
tion.
FREEDMEVS BUREAU BILL.
The following is said to be the bill extend-
ing the powers of the Frcedmen’s Bureau a
it passed the Senate, anil will doubtless com
mand a large majority in the Ilouse.
Section 1. That the act to establish a Bu.
reau for the ReliefofFrecdmen and Refugees
approved March 8, 186."., shall continue in
force until otherwise provided by law; shall
extend to Refugees and Freedmen into Dig.
tricts, each containing one or more States not
to exceed twelve in number: and by and with
the advice and consent of the Senate, appoint
an Assistant Commissioner for each of said
Districts, who shall give the same bonds and
receive the same compensation and perform
the same duties prescribed by this and the act
to which this an amendment: or said Bureau
may in the discretion of the President be
placed under a Commissioner and Assistant
Commissioner, to be detailed from the army,
in which event each officer so assigned to duty
shall serve without increase of pay or allow
ance.
Sec. 2. That the Commissioner, with the
approval of the President, shall divide each
district into a number of sub-districts, not to
exceed the number of counties or parishes in
each State, and shall assign to each sub-dis
trict at least one agent, either a citizen, an
officer of the army or enlisted man, who, itan
officer, shall serve without additional com
pensation or allowance; and if a citizen or
enlisted man, shall receive a salary not ex
ceeding $1,500 per annum; and such agent
shall, before entering on the duties of his
office, take the oath prescribed in the first
section of tlic act to which this is an amend
ment. Each Assistant Commissioner may
employ not exceeding six clerks, one of the
third class and five of tlic first class; and
each agent of a sub-district may employ two
clerks of the first class. And the President
of the United States, through the War De
partment and the Commissioner, shall extend
military jurisdiction overall the employes,
agents and officers of this bureau, in the ex
ercise of the duties imposed or authorized by
this act, or the act to which this act is sup
plementary.
Sec. 3. That the Secretary of War may di
rect such issues of provisions, clothing, fuel
and other supplies, including medicaf’stores
and transportation, and afford such aid, medi
cal or otherwise, as he may deem needful for
tho immediate and temporary shelter and
supply of destitute and suffering refugees and
freedmen and their wives and children, under
such rules and regulations as he may direct.
Sec. 4. That the President be authorized
to reserve from sale or from settlement under
the Homestead or Pre-emption Laws, and to
set apart for the use of freedmen and loyal
refugees, unoccupied public lands in Florida,
Mississippi and Arkansas, not exceediug in
all three millions of acres of good land; and
the Commissioner, under the direction of the
President, shall cause the same from time to
time, to be allotted and consigned in parcels
not exceeding forty acres each to tlio loyal
refugees and freedmen, who shall bo pro
tected in the use and enjoyment thereof for
such term of time and at such annual rent as
may be agreed upon by the Commissioners
and such refugees and freedmen. The rental
shall be based upon the valuation of the land,
to be ascertained in such manner as the Com
missioner may, under direction of the Presi
dent, by regulation, prescribe at the end of
such term, or sooner if the Commissioner
shall assent thereto. The occupants of any
parcels assigned'may purchase land and re
ceive the title thereto from the United States
in fee, upon paying therefor the value of the
land ascertained as aforesaid.
Sec. 5. That the occupants of land under
Major General Sherman’s Special Order, dated
at Savannah. Jan. 16, 1865, are hereby con
firmed in their possessions for the period of
three years from the date of said order, and
no person shal be disturbed in or ousted from,
said possession during tlic three years, unless
a settlement shall be made with the said oc
cupant by the owner satisfactory to the Com
missioner of tlic Frcedmen’s Bureau.
Sec. 6. That the Commissioner shall, un
der the direction of the President, procure
in the name of the United States, by grant
or purchase, such lands within tlic districts
aforesaid as may be required for refugees
and freedmen dependent on the Government
for support, and he shall provide or cause to
be built suitable asylums and schools. Bat
no such purchase shall be made, nor other
expenses incurred, until after appropriations
shall have been provided by Congress for
the general purpose of this act, out of which
payment for said lands shall be made; and
the Commissioner shall, from time to time,
cause such lands to be valued, ailoted, assign
ed and sold, in the manner and form provi
ded in the preceding section, provided al
ways that the said lands shall not be sold
for less than the cost thereof to the United
States.
Sec. 7. That whenever in any State or dis
trict in which the ordinary course of judi
cial proceeding has been interrupted by the
rebellion, and wherein in consequence of any
State or local law, ordinance, police, or other
regulation, custom or prejudice, any of the
civil rights or immunities belonging to white
people, including the right to make and en
force general contracts, to sue, to be parties
and give evidence, to inherit, to purchase,
lease, sell, hold and convey real nnd person
al property, and to have full and equal ben
efit of all laws and proceedings for the se
curity of person and State, are refused or de
nied to negroes, mulattoes or freedmen or
refugees or any other person on account of
race, color or any . previous condition of
slavery or involuntary servitude except as a
punishment for crime, wherof the party shall
have been duly convicted, or wherein they,
or any of them, are subjected to any other or,
different punishment, pains or penalties for
the commission of any act or offence than arc
prescribed for white persons committing like
acts or offenses, it shall be the duty of the
President of tlio United States, through the
Commissioner, to extend military protection
and jurisdiction over all cases affecting such
persons so discriminated against.
Sec. 8. That any person who, under color
of any State or local law, ordinance, police
or other regulation or custom, shall, in any
State or district in which the ordinary course
of judicial proceedings has been interrupted
by the rebellion, subject or cause to be sub
jected any negro, mulatto, freedman, refugee
or other person on account of race or color,
or any previous condition of slavery or in
voluntary servitude, except as a punishment
for crime whereof the party shall have been
duly convicted, or for any other cause to the
deprivation of any civii right secured to
white persons or to any other or different
punishment than white persons are subject to
for the commission of like acts or offenses,
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
be punished by a tine not exceeding one thou
sand dollars or imprisonment not exceeding
one year or both ; and it shall be the duty of
the officers and agents of this bureau to take
jurisdiction of and hear and determine all
offenses committed against the provisions of
this section, and also of all classes affecting
negroes, mulattoes, freedmen, refugees, or
other persons who are discriminated against
in any of the particulars mentioned in the
preceding section ot this act, under such rules
as the President, through the War Depart
ment, shall prescribe. The jurisdiction con
ferred by this section on the officers and
agents of this bureau is to cease and deter
mine whenever the discrimination on account
* ot which it is conferred ceases, and in no
j event to be exercised in any State in whim
the ordinary course of judicial proceeding*
has not been interrupted by the rebellion, nor
in any State after it shall have been fully I®*
stored in all its constitutional relations to the
United States and the courts of the State and
of the United States within the same nre not
disturbed or stopped in the peaceable courr-'
of justice.
pi?" The Kentucky Senate lias passed
bill to incorporate a bank in Louisville, u ’
be controlled by negroes. The bank is
hibiteil from having any connection with the
Freedmcn's Bureau.
It is .-aid that one of the Indian chief'
i\v in Washington City lias been marrie
now
eighty-five time