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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
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pg~ We learn, from Washington, that
Bishop Early had an interview with Presi
dent Johnson, on Friday, relative to the pro
perty of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South. The result of the interview is not
stated.
fST* One of the signs of warm work in
Mexico is that the London Times is going to
repri out Dr. Mackay as correspondent. Bev
erly Tucker has already gone for the London
Herald and Standard, and other leading
English newspapers are preparing to send out
representative.
{8T The Augusta Constitutionalist learns
that Gen. Brennan has authorized the City
Police of that city to arrest all violators of
the law. The soldiers will be turned over to
the militaiy tribunals, the freedmen to the
Freed men's Court, and citizens to the Record
er’s Court.
Have we ko Wobd of Cheer f—We con
sider this a pertinent question at the present
juncture of affairs. President Johnson has
done an act that sounds the death knell of
Radicalism, and struck a blow for the freedom
of the South—the North is holding meetings,
firing cannon, and shouting huzzas over the
victory—are ice, the people to be emancipated
.from military tyranny by this noble triumph,
to keep silence and send no responsive echo
to our Northern sympathizers, no word of
thanks to the patriot who has stood between
us and oppression f We cannot believe that
such is the feeling of the Southern people.
Then let every city and towd of the South
call together their people, recognize the arm
that is bared for our protection, and, if pos
sible with the means at our command, fire a
national salute over a national victory. We
hope to sec $Iacon among the first to move
in this’great public duty.
The Veto of the Senate.
We are informed by the telegraphic dis
patches that the reading of the President’-
message in the Senate “created intense feel
ing on the part of the Senators and members
of the House, as well as the spectators in the
galleries, but without any open manifestations,
except at the close of the meeting, when loud
applause shook one section of the gentlemen’s
gallery, mingled with determined hisses and
emphatic blows of the Vice President's ham
mer.” The Viee President said the message
would be entered upon the journal, and mov
ed the Senate now proceed to the considcras
tien of the bill. Mr. Lane moved the mess-1 0 j <. C q Ua i rights.”
age be printed, and that consideration of the we su bmit, what sort of philanthropy
THE NEW HOMESTEAD BILL
In the course of one or two articles, which
appeared some days ago, we took occasion to
analyze the conduct of the negro worship
pers in Congress, and to show that they were
animated more by a desire to humiliate and
degrade the Southern people than any real
solicitude for the welfare of the negro race.—
“Negro equality” we showed, was nowhere
more thoroughly discarded than in Northern
statute books and Northern society.
As an additional and unanswerable proof of
the insincerity of these radical disturbers of
the public peace and harmony under the pre
text that they arc struggling for equal rights
to the negro, we would cite the Homestead
Bill, now pending in Congress. This meas
ure proposes to set aside, for the benefit of
the emancipated negroes of the South, a cer
tain portion of the public lands, as home
steads for themselves and their children-
great public charity indeed, were it in point
offset what it purports to be. But look at
the localities of the apportionment and tell us
if it is not a clear case of holding the promise
to the car and breaking it to the hope.
Homesteads on tho public lands were al
ways in our opinion, mere clap-trap to catch
votes. It is giving to the poor man some
thing upon which he has not the power to en
ter and enjoy, for he must first emigrate with
his family at an expense which he has not the
ability to undergo, and afterwards will re
quire a year's support on the wild lands be
fore he can dig from them the means of sub
sistence. Such are the embarrassments that
stare the government beneficiary in tho face
under the most favorable circumstances.—
But in the measure now before Congress
for the benefit of the negro, we have an ad
ditional one that reduces the government
charity to a cruel mockery of poverty.—
Where are these lands situated that are re
ferred to in the bill under discussion ? Does
Congress propose to grant homesteads on the
public lands generally, allowing the negro to
make his option of soil and climate ? Oh
no! Is the great and teeming West, with her
virgin soil and magnificent climate, or even
Texas, thrown open to negro immigration
and settlement? By no means. The great
Loon to be conferred consists of the unappro
priated lands in Arkansas, Mississippi, Ala
bama and Florida^—Southern States—where
everybody knows every foot of tillable soil
has already been taken up. The pine bar
rens and swamps compose the generous dona
tion now proposed to me made! The mag
nificent territory of the West is reserved for
Northern immigration; not one foot of it
can be spared as an offeiing to this doctrine
bill be postponed till to-morrow at 10 o’clock.
The motion to print was agreed to. Upon
the question of postponement the yeas and
nays were taken, resulting yeas, 17; nays, 28.
Mr. Lane said he felt warranted in using par
liamentary means to secure postponement;
he moved that the subject be postponed till 5
o’clock, yeas, 17; nays, 20. Mr. Lane then
moved to adjourn, but this was disagreed to.
After other desultory motions, Mr. Sherman,
who had voted with the majority, said it was
hardiy fair to refuse opportunity for discus
sion to those who had expressed desire for it,
if four-fifths of the body should defermine to
consider the subject. Seeing that it would
be in the power of two or three to keep the
Senate in session all night to no purpose, he
therefore moved to adjourn, which was car
ried without division.
In the House, as was seen from our dis^
patches, Stevens became exceedingly billious,
and gave intimations that he felt there was
danger of a terrible upheaving around him.
THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE,
In an editorial on the President’s veto,
says:
“Wo deeply regret this, and wc think he
will have to regret this course more deeply;
for this veto will be understood by all that
is brutal and ruffianly at the South as giving
license to every abuse and oppression of the
blacks that white malignity and rancorous
hate can devise.”
This is one of those false statements, so
common in Northern black Republican pa
pers, by which the minds of the Northern
pe iple arc poisdned, and which do such foul
injustice to the South. Let Greeley, and Jail
the radical defamers of Southern people know
that there docs not exist at the South a bru
tality and ruffianism that desires to abuse and
oppress the negro—that wc feel no maligni
ty not rancorous hate towards tho blacks.—
Wo have accepted, in full, tho circumstance
of their emancipation; tfb regard them as
citizens—os our necessary laborers—as the
men and women who are to live in our midst
and upon whom wo are to lean in a great
measure for material prosperity; and wo do
not wish tlfcm harm—wc desire not to injure
them, but wo do desire their amelioration,
elevation and improvement. We arc treating
them kindly and are seeking to make
out of them a reliable class of labor-
on, knowing that they are adapted to
our climate, that they comprehend the South
ern methods of culture, that, better than any
other laborers, they will harmonize with our
southern character, and that, if unmolested,
they will prove faithful to us. But wc know
them to be unfit for the powers with which
Radicalism would invest them: we know them
to be incompetent to exercise polical junc
tions; wo insist that they me unprepar
ed to be put on a political footing with the
whites of tho South; and wc could not con
sent to sec them exercising powers they know
not how to use, and the exercise of which
would be a degradation of Southerners. Yet
we never have, beyond the existence of
slavery, abused and oppressed tho negro, even
calling that an abuse, which wc do not; and
did we feel even inclined to do so note, wc
know that both interest and policy, in loudest
tones, require an opposite course at our
hands. Away, then, with that political clap
trap, that affected commiseration, that decep
tive spirit of crimination, which is forever
charging us with a desire to maltreat our
former slaves I
The premises, then, upon which Greely
bioes his opposition to the President’s veto,
and which cause him to “regret” its accom
plishment, are false—unfounded and libel
lous—the simple truth being that there is no
“white malignity and rancorous hate” at the
South to “devise” “abuse and oppression of
the blacks.” And, if this be the case, and we
ftnoto it to be so, why may ho not withdraw
his opposition to the veto, and withhold his
censures ot the President t ' If he is a sensible
and honest man; if he is a patriot desiring
the success of truo constitutional principles;
'if he really wishes for tho harmony, tranquil
ity and prosperity of the whole countiy, he
will at least do that much justice to the Pres-
ident. if he will not assume nobler and lof
tier grounds, and sustain him in his truly pa
triotic course I
is this? Is it not a fraud upon the poor ne
gro to pretend to do him a favor when you
know- a boon is offered to him that must turn
to ashes on his lips ? Out, we say, with such
hypocrisy I
THE
PRESIDENT
PEOPLE.
.VXD THE
exercise in their unconstitutional exclusion
of their fellow members from the Southern
States. 'Whether he will resort to the extreme
measures indicated in my letter of February
5, I do not know. But you may rely upon it
that he is determined that the Southern States
shall be represented in Congress by men of their
The rupture between the Pesident and
the Radical Republicans of Congress, as man
ifested in his veto of the Frecdmcn’s Bureau
Bill, makes it nccessaiy for each and all—
for the people at large—to take sides and de
clare who is right and who wrong.
It has become necessary for all who intend
to support President Johnson, and to sustain
him in his measures, to come forward boldl
and range themselves together in his favor.
For ourselves we do so willingly. "We do
believe that he is right. The cardinal points
of his veto message—that the measure is un
constitutional—that its extravagance is im
mense—that no such, legislation as tho Bill
proposes should be adopted while the South
is unrepresented in Congress—and that the
Bill places in the President’s hands too great
an appointing power—lift him, at once, to
an elevation ot political wisdom and honesty,
that cannot but excite tho admiring com
mendation of the world.
This message and, indeed, all the con
comitants and all the dangers and responsi
bilities of his position, place him in a situation
for making his name more undying than that
of the great Jackson himself. Let him but
fully act up to the real demands of the crisis;
let him, in securing early reconstruction and
equal rights for all parts of the Union, usher
in the dawn of that bright day of prosperity
which is ready to make blush the eastern ho
rizon of our country’s hopes; let him by a
bold and decisive policy—a policy dictated
by clemency and wise statesmanship—secure
general harmony and good will for our dis
tracted and embittered land, and he will earn
for himself the proudest wreath that fame ever
yet twined around the hero’s brow, and ob.
tain for his now undivided country the most
glorious prosperity and the loftiest rank
among the nations of earth.
The South surely stands by the President,
but will the mass of the Northern people do
so I For the sake of real justice and human
ity, for the sake of real peace and concord,
for the sake of our country’s happiness and
prosperity, wc hope they will. Doing so they
will make the day of Columbia’s real glory
and happiness burst resplendently upon tho
world; not doing so, they will spread a pall
of darkness over the land.
hundreds, who verc brought here, having had
their passage pud from New York by their
employes not nore than six or eight persons
remain in this valley. Hence, the planters
have abandoned the immigrant system. The
unreliability of this class of laborers has put a
ou>n choice. i decisive end to the operations of the agencies,
Mr. Pollard, the able (but I suppose unre- ! intelligence offices etc., that latterly thrived
constructed) editor of the Richmond Exami
ner, is now in this city, and had an inter
view yesterday with the President. His pa
per was recently suppressed by General Ter
ry, for two causes, 1st. for publishing a witty
and funny, but perfectly harmless account of
certain ball, given by certain army officers
State Items.
Dr. Alexander Means, has got the small
pox, in Oxford, Go.
A New York gentleman, (we suspect we
know liis name) has sent $200 for the relief of
the poor of Atlanta.
A private letter received in Atlanta from
Gen. Forrest, dated from his plantation, in
Miss., says he has no intention of leaving the
United States, but that he intends to remain
in the country and act up to the requirements
of his parole.
Cruel.—An exchange, in a commercial no
tice, Jcruelly alludes jto the rapidity with
which the hams of a grocery merchant were
going off, as if to convey the idea that his
bacon hams were a choice article, when he
really meant that the grocer removedjhis own
parts with swiftness from a street brawl.
on. John Bell, of Tennessee, predicts
that the next twenty years will decrease the
colored population of the South, on account
of their profligacy and indolence, from four
million to one fouth of that number. It is
to be hoped the Anglo-Africans will take up
the shovel and the hoe in good earnest, and
prove to the world that the Honorable Bell
has not toll’d the truth.
Gen. A. R. Lawton.—It will be seen, from
the cord which appears in our columns, that
General Lawton has returned to Savannah
and resumed the practice of his profession, of
which he is a distinguished member, in
ciaticn with General Heniy R. Jackson.
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE
U OF THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH.
Significance of the President’s Speech to the
Virginia Delegation—Suppression of the
Richmond Examiner—Mr. Pollard at the
Mercy Seat—Mr. Bancroft and his Oration—
What is thought at Washington of the Em
peror Napoleon’s Speech.
Washington, Feb. 16,1865.
The speech made by the President on the
10th inst, to the deputation of Virginians,
is justly considered here as one ot the most
encouraging signs of the times. It cannot be
possible that tho President would speak so
decidedly as he did on this occasion, and to
the negroes, without a meaning and a pur
pose. His meaning unquestionably is, that he
is convinced that to lean any longer for sup
port on the Republican party, would be lean
ing on a broken reed; and his purpose pro
bably is, to enforce his policy of restoration
by the use of these executive powers with
which he is clothed by the constitution, and
to look to the statesmen of the Democratic
party, and such men as Senator Cowan among
Republicans, for the supporters of his admin
istration. I know'that the President has re
cently been represented assaying that he had
no intention of looking elsewhere than to “the
letter.) “I am coming to an understanding
with the Emperor Maximilian, to fix the epoch
for the recall of our troops, in such away that
their return may be effected without compro.
mising tho French interests which wehave to
defend in that distant country.” His speech,
and the questions growing out -of it, have
been discussed at the last two meetings of
the Cabinet It was at first regarded as
vague and unsatisfactory,because the Emperor
plainly intimates that there are certain
French interests in Mexico which he has to
defend, and that theFrench troops in Mexico
will not be withdrawn as long as he himself,
or Maximilian, regards these interests as be
ing threatened or imperilled. But Mr.
Seward, it is said, demonstrated that the
French interest in Mexico were amply se
cured by the firm establishment of the
present Mexican government; and that
neither Napoleon nor Maximilian would con
sider those interests qs menaced, or as being
in the least danger, as long as absolute neu
trality on our part is observed. There can
be no doubt that Napoleon has been satisfied
on that point, or else he would not speak of
fixing an epoch for the recall of his troops
frqm Mexco. Warwick.
party that elected him” for the support of his j AffricnIlnre ln North*Alabama-PracUcal
administration: But Ido not believe that he ; Working of Immigrant Labor,
ever made any such declaration. t Siiekanoogsa, Alabama*. )
“Tho party that elected him 1” That was ; February 18,1866. [
not the Republican party. The Republican Editors Telegraph;
party never elected him to be President— j I find my journey eastward, along tho line
Tho opinions of the Republican party to- j of tlm M. & C. R. R.,—that there will not be
wards Andrew Johnson con easily bo as- an average of one-tenth of tbo open land in
certained. Large bodies of men like the po- this country cultivated this year. As an cx-
litical parties in America speak through their ample of the prospect I will cite this vicinity,
party organs and their party leaders, who and Under the former certain labor system, this
which, are the exponents of their views.— small depot shipped over three thousand
Tho Republican party speaks through such bales of cotton yearly and the planters also
papers as the Washington Chronicle, the Chi- raised full supplies of produce necessary for
engo Tribune, tho New York Independent, operating the business. This year, at the
the Chicago Republican, the St Louis Demo- fullest calculation of the product of the same
crat, (strangely mis-named paper,) the New countiy, it will not reach three hundred bales.
York Tribuno; and through such men as Not even the shrewd yankec speculators, with
Sumner, Stevens, Shellababer, and Schenck. negroes hired from the Freedmcn’s Bureau,
What is the language of these men ?— have any good prospect of success in plant-
Sumner and Stevens do not hesitate to de- ing. The best anticipations are on those
nounce Mr. Johnson as an usurper and a for- places where the proprietors have rented and
eigner. Mr. Stevens says it is “monstrous” entered into shares with tenants,
to recognize him, or any other man from “the ■ The system of employing Dutch labor lias
defunct States,” as an officer of the govern- been completely abandoned throughout this
ment. countiy. It has proved the most expensive
I am persuaded that the present state of and least satisfactory experiment ever tried in
tilings will not continue much longer. Events **!**«**■ Almost in every instance the em-
are rapidly shaping themselves to that com- P^°y er ^ ias ^ en cheated y
plexion when the President must take his
stand on a platform essentially Democratic.—
The indications of this grow plainer every
day. The President will not much longer
brook the tyrannical assumption of power
which the Rump Congress have arrogated to l )rovc( ^ t0 p e *V? most ’
, employes m tie coun
been cheated by the immi
grant. Their misfortune is that they get
the meanest and most unreliable class of peo
ple, who come to this country, void of
honor and easily influenced to abrogate I >qectings.
the most solemn compact,, they have
unsafe and uncertain
employes in tie country. Out of several
BV AN OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT.
nON. F. W. ADAMS.
This talented gentleman is Clmrmaln of the
House Finance Committee, a position of great im
portance at any time, lint now particularly so,
owing to the variety and delicacy oi theperplexi-
ing questions of taxation and finance. He repre
sents, and has done so for many years, the county
of Clarke, and was bom and lives in the bcantitol
and classic city of Athens, tbo seat of the State
University.
When very young, he was appointed to the re
sponsible position of Cashier ot the State Bank at
Athens, and though a thorough and snccessfnl
banker, it must be a source oi regret to his friends
that he is not a lawyer, for nature seems to have be
stowed on him with a lavish band, all the qualifi
cations necessary to moke him a brilliant and suc
cessful one. He is ayonngcr brother ot that good
man and fine preacher. Rev. H. J. Adams, of whom
it can be truly said, “none knew him bnt to love
him.”. Mr. Adamaisa young man, of I should
think, not more than thirty years, and no man can
look to the future with fairer prospects of useful
ness and honor. He will no doubt be soon sent to
Congress from bis district, and will make his mark
there os ho has done in every other position in
which he has been placed. He was exempt from
all military service during the whole war, and yet
volunte red twice in the Confederate army, and
commanded a battalion at the close of the war.—
He is a pleasant and graceful speaker, never rising
witbont he has something to say, and when
he ha* expressed himself in a few well
chosen words directly to the point, sits down.
Many others conid imitate him with benefit to
themselves and relief to the House. His powers of
plain and lucid statement are not easily to he sur
passed, his style is natural, simple and clear, his
reasoning equally plain and distinct, preferring al
ways the shortest road to conclusions. When oc
casion requires it, he can rise to a strain of effective
and striking declamation, and though never at
tempting any flight oi a lofty kind, yet lie never
fails to reach whatever he aims at. His under
standing is penetrating and solid, so that with ex
traordinary quickness of perception he has a sound
and mature judgment, candid, manly and confiding;
meanness and craft are strangers to him; no man’s
moral character stands higher, although he baa a
singular aversion to cant and humbug. He Is an
exceedingly easy and well bred person in bis man
ners, is naturally ardent and impetuous, of a quick
and sensitive temper, regulated by good sense, and
a perfect recognition of the rights of others; a true,
warm and constant friend, and an open and frank
enemy. Mr. Adams, in the opinion of the ladies, is
the handsomest man in the House. He is well made,
tall, erect and slender, has a dark blue eye, fall of
expression and fire when aroused, brown hair that
a woman might envy, and his intellectual and deli
cate features bear the impress of sadness that indi
cates the thinker and the sufferer. ,
IION. W. R. BEDWINE.
The gallery of Legislative Photographs would
be incomplete without including in the pen and
ink sketches of notables the Hon. member from
Fayette.
Modest and retiring in disposition, he rarely
enters the field of debate, but his practical good
sense secures for him an extended influence and
renders him a most efficient and useful member.
Zealous in the discharge of his duties, he is ever
prompt to advocate and support all principles
founded in truth and justice, and like Collins
ram, “having a head of his own,” he is not easily
induced to change opinions once formed, or
depart from a line of policy once adopted.
There is a world of “Pickwickian” hi
on the innocence and gullibility of numerous
unsophisticated victims. Like Othello’s,
their occupation is gone.
The only system lor regenerating our entire
country, that we can depend on is tenantry.—
I have much hope that eventually all our
loved and beautiful Southern country will
at Richmond; and 2nd, for the enormous of; blossom like the rose beneath the magic touch
fensc of spelling Washington thus—Y-a-n
k-c-e C-a-p-i-t-o-1.
Mr. Pollard, of course, wants the President
to rescind General Terry’s order, and to per
mit him to resume the publication of his pa
per. I feel safe in saying that his very reason
able request will be granted, and that full
permission will be accorded to Mr. Pollard to
publish his paper, without any restriction
whatever. He will be allowed to spell public
with a l, honor with a u, and the name of the
Federal capitol by any combination of letters,
that pleases him. The day of newspaper sup
pressions is over, even in the South.
Mr. Bancroft is not reapingmucli honor for
his eulogy on the late Mr. Lincoln. Every
intelligent person whom I have heard speak
of it, condemns it for its exceedingly bad
taste. It is the universal impression, that
even if the facts bad justified what ho said,
his remarks upon the conduct of the English
and French governments were entirely un
called for and out of place. The occasion
was by no means, a proper one to indulge in
such animadversions. It is true the French
minister was not present. But he would have
been present, if 3Ir. Bancroft had not written
him a note, telling him in effect that he had
better not come, as he might hear something
about Napoleon that might not be pleasant
to him. A similar note was addressed to Sir
Frederick Bruce, the English Minister, and
to Count Wydcnbreck, the Austrian Minister.
The latter followed tho example of the Jfar-
quis Montholan, and stayed away.
With a singular disregard of propriety,
Sir Frederick Bruce not only disregarded the
the warning and came, but he actually sat out
the whole thing. He paid dearly for his te
merity. The Republican of last evening said
“We have heard many expressions of surprise
that Mr. Bancroft, in his oration, should havo
inflicted such a severe castigation upon Great
Britain, in the presence of Sir Frederick
Bruce, who was there by courtesy (by the ex
press invitation of tho President of the Sen
ate, Chairman of the Committee of arrange
ments, the Republican ought to have said)
and hence, obliged to submit to the broiling.”
It is the duty of the foreign minister to be
jealous of the honor of his government, and
to vindicate it when assailed. In this in
stance, if the British minister erred in going
to pay respect to a murdered President, he
has endeavored to atone for the error since ;
for within a day or two past, the Austrian
minister has declined an introduction to Mr.
Bancroft, and Sir Fredrick Bruce has refused
to attend a dinner party where Mr. Bancrott
was invited.
It is singular, that no correct version of
of what Mr. Bancroft actually did say, has
ever been published. My notes, taken on the
spot, and my recollection of what Mr. Ban
croft said, are very different from the printed
text His tone and language, in speaking of
both England and France, were much more
violent and denunciatory than appears in the
printed copy. He denounced tho whole pol
icy of Napoleon in Mexico. He ridiculed the
attempt ot Napoleon to establish an Empire
there. He declared that the Mexican Repub
lic must be restored, and that we must do the
work. The more violent and denunciatory
was his language, the more enthusiastic was j
of that class of intelligent and well disposed
labor. In its success, the old system of large
plantations will disappear and the generous
land will be made more productive than the
most sanguine anticipate. A good system of
legislation, relief from onerous and burthen-
some taxes and immunity from the presence
of armed guards aud unnecessary garrisons
will soon effect such a result. How soon will
the inducements be offered? We patiently
wait to sec.
The Old Negro.—Messrs Editors: In your
paper of the 22d instant there appears a
paragraph headed “The oldest in the State”
in which it is stated that in the Brick house
near Mr. Boardman’s residence is an old col-
ered man who if he lives to see the 30th of
this month, will be 120 years old. We dis
like to give rise to any unpleasant reflections
in the old man's mind by predicting his early
demise but we deem it our duty to assure
him, however painful it may be, tlmt he can
not survive till the 30th of this month
There is another old gentleman in our town
who if he lives until the 80th of this month,
will be 260 years of age. He carries on
flourishing business not more than two squares
from the “Telegraph Office” and is as active
as a man of twenty-five. Wc deem it entire
ly unnecessary to give his name as lie is w
known to the business men of Macon. Be
sides, be may be like an old 'maid, rather
sensitive upon the subject of age.
Uirondelle.
Remarks.—When the thirtieth of February
comes, we will divulge tho name of the old
negro.—Editor.
Nails.—Wc have lately heard the question
asked why the different sizes of nails are des
ignated by the word penny ? The answer is
given in the following extract from a note in
Marsh’s Lectures on the English language;
“Six-penny, eight-penny, ten-penny nails,
are noils of such sizes, that a thousand will
weigh six, eight or ten pounds, and in this
phrase, therefore, penny seems to be a cor
ruption,of pound.”
A Northern Paper on the Bnrenn Bill.
We clip from the Boston Post the following
opinion of the measure just silenced by the
veto of the President. We are pleased to
see, also, that many of the leading Rcpubli
can journals at the JNortli entertain the same
views:
“Senator Trumbull’s Freedmen’s Bureau
Bill is an enormity which he will find the
American people unwilling to endure. Ex
travagant, unconstitutional, arbitrary and op
pressive, it cannot stand the test of enforce
ment, and will be consigned to that catalogue
of extreme {measures which arc generated in
party purposes. It is not designed for the
benefit of negroes, but to maintain a horde of
office holdera—of partisan leeches upon the
public treasury, at the enormous expense of
at least twelve millions of dollars per annum,
drawn from the heard earnings of the labor
of the country! It is an attempt to practice
a cruel imposition on tho honest people of
the United. States for the purpose of sustain
ing a certain set of men in power under tho
guise of protection to the freedmen; an at
tempt so shameless and apparent that the
warmest friends of those who propose it—the
most zealous of tho Republican papers—feel
constrained to expose its iniquity and to cau
tion Congress against its enactment into
statute law.”
. The President and Gkn. Grant.—Wash-
thc applause from every Republican member ington, Feb. 23.—The National Intelligencer
of both Houses. I feels warranted in contradicting representa-
My translation of that part of the Emperor j ‘j 008 which huve extensively published,
■v , . . _» . , r . •• ! that some alienation of feeling between the
Napoleon s speech w hich refers to Mexico, is , president and Lieutenant-General Grant was
follow*: (I d*ci not received an official j evolved as a consequence of the suppression
copy of the speech, at the time I wrote my last I and revival oi the Richmond Examiner.
onesty of
purpose and “Weller" humor in his composition,
and no one in the legislative social_ circles here
can offer richer contributions of wit and aae::-
'dbte, or enter with moro spirit and general
l warmth into the amusements attending convivial
'rqectings.
-When in intimate society with those of a
; congenial temperament, he is'sometimes induced
to lead the conversation to such topic as his fun-
'l^ving disposition suggests as proper to the
■ occasion, and no one who has a loveof true humor*
could be long in his company without tho im
pression that, though a deeply thoughtful man,
ho has an abundance of animal spirits, u
vivacity inexhaustable' and a mirthfulness tbt
carries (perhaps “thrusts”) all gravity before it
lie has also o happy faculty of adapting him
self to every difference of character: is patient
with tho erring, encouraging to the weak, frank
and conversable with the intelligent, jovial and
gay with the “bon vivants;’’ ana by the exhibi
tion of the most amiable andattractivequalitics,
and the preservation of a love-winning demeanor,
he has endeared hipaself to a largo circle of
friends upon whom lie exercises, in a greater or
less degree, a happy and beneficial influence.
Puling tho late war Mr. Redwine rendered
most e cient service as Captain of a company in
the 10th Georgia regiment, and as Division Pro-
vost Marshal in the army of Virginia, until the
wishes of the citizens of his'county called him
from the field to represent them in the councils
of the State. How well he discharged the duties
of tho trust thus imposed, is best evidenced by
the flattering endorsement given to his official
conduct as arepresentative, in his being aseccond
time honored with the confidence of his constitu
ents; and it is to be hoped that the enviable rep
utation that ho has won will secure to the State
for many years to come tho continued services of
this practical business man and thoughtful legis
lator.
[to be continued.]
MILLEDGEVILLECORRESPONDENCE
LETTER IX.
Milledgeyille, Feb. 23th, 1806.
Tho anniversary of the birth day of tho na
tion’s father, the great and the immortal Wash
ington, opened auspiciously at Milledgeviilc.
The sun rose magnificently, shedding his “orient
beams on herb, tree,flower, glistening with dew
the air was pleasant and delightful, and all na
ture wore a cheering and animating appearance.
The Father of his Country was not forgotten ;
and it was remembered that he was tho father
not of one, but of all sections of tho country. His
paternal counsels were administered for the good
of all the people. May his spirit imbue the
hearts of au!
All hearts were animated with the desire or
once more hearing the sweet voice, and weighing
the sagacious counsels of Georgia’s beloved son
—Hou. Alexander H. Stephens. For a longtime
this voice has been as silent as the grave—to hear
it revived animates us with tho hope of Consti
tutional liberty—the favorite theme of Georgia’s
reat orator. .
On account of tho ball at night, given by the
Firemenof the city, Mr. Stephens accepted the
invitation to address tho members of the General
Assembly of tho State in the day time. The
hour of 12 o’clock, meridian, was selected for
this imposing occasion. Strangers flocked in
from the surrounding towns, eager toho ar the
voice which had so often animated and encour
aged, and counselled tho people of the State.
The Hall was graced with beauty and fashion,
and noarly every available seat or place for
standing was at an early hour monopolized. The
ipeaker entered the Hall—an outburst *3 ap
plause greeted him; and every eye followed him
to the stand from which he was to address his
countrymen. His voice was electric. The still
ness of death pervaded tho entire auditory, and
tears from many a heart welled up into the eves.
qTe speech occupied about an hout and a half
in the delivery.
Previous to the speech proper, Mr. Stephens
addressed his auditory in the following off-hand
introductory remarks:
“Before entering upon the duty assigned me,
you will excuse a few prefatory remarks. What
1 intend to say is, the discharge of that duty has
Been carefully prepared and written. This it is
my purpose to rfead. In doing so I may disap
point many who may bo expecting something
more interesting, or at least more animating in
manner and action. The reason of the course I
take is two-fold. In tho first place to prevent
any mistake or misrepresentation of what is said
qn so important an occasion, I think it best that
it should be said exactly as it is written, that the
record of what is said should speak for itself.
In the second place tho subject is uot fitting
or an oratorical display even if I were able to
make it What I shall say is intended for your,
calm judgment and serious thought, and not at
all for bare entertainment. You, will, therefore,
pardon me for reading instead of speaking to
day. Give me your ear only now to tho senti
ments thus uttered. Consider them afterwards,
weigh them, ponder and heed them or not as you
may think their bearings npon tho best interests
of the country require you.”
Mr. Stephens then proceeded to read the
speech, a copy of which I have forwarded to you
Mr. Stephens is beloved in Georgia. Tho whole
State have implicit confidence in him, ana the
country at large know that he is a safe counsel
lor. If allowed to take his scat as United States
Senator, he will go for the good of the whole
country. He is not sectional in his feelings; bnt
has the greatest earthly desire to see the United
States thoroughly united in Reeling and senti
ment, and on the high road to prosperity and
fame. Who would be afraid to trust Mr. Ste
phens ? Who does not know that he is the very
soul of honor ? that what he has promised and
is willing still to engage to do will be faithfully
carried out ?
Both houses showed proper respect for the
great day by an early adjournment Tho day is
ouo long to bo remembered in Georgia.
Richmond.
Eleven men frozen to death in the vicinity
of Hamilton, Minn., on the night of the 20th
ultimo.
Maximilian has ordered the building of a
garden near his palace at a cost of $120,000.
A new horse breaker lias appeared in Eng
land—an improvement upon Itarev.
The Duke D’Aumale writes for the French
Sunday papers.
Lewis Cass, perhaps the oldest of living
American Statements failing daily, and liis
death is hourly looked for by his relatives.
The Tycoon of Japan presented Townsend
Harris with a sword of honor. Mr. Harris
has presented it to General Grant.
Trinity church, in New Haven, Ct., is to
have a new organ with two thousand three
hundred and seventy-three pipes.
A barouche and horses were stolen in the
street of New York a night or two since.—
The driver was knocked off and the thieves
drove away unmolested.
The Republican party in Connecticut arc
at swords’ points on the question of whether
they will sustain the Ad ministration of Presi
dent Johnson or not. Their meeting at Hart
ford, to ajipoint delegates to the State Con
vention, was as discordant as the Tennessee
Legislature.
Few things in this world trouble people
more than poverty, or the fear of poverty,
and indeed it 13 a sore affliction; but like ail
other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its anti
dote, its reliable remedy. The judicious ap
plication of industry, prudence and temper
ance is a certain cure.
Jesse R. Grant, the father of Lieutenant
General Grant, has been appointed Postmas
ter of Covington, in place of II. Cummings.
The United States Senate has also confirmed
the appointments ct Captain James Iludnall,
of Pennsylvania.
Trial of Mr. Davis.—The editor of Louis
ville Journal, who has lately returned from a
visit to Washington, publishes the following
significant paragraph:
“No matter, dear reader, what you see in
the papers, Jeff Davis wont have a military
trial, and he won’t be convicted. And if he
were convicted, he would be pardoned.—
Though no card-player, we ‘speak by the
card.”
A writer of the Lake City Press desires the
removal of the cilice of the railroad company
from this city to that place.
Work of the Legislature.
Some of our contemporaries arc in the hab
it of belching forth anathemas against the
Legislature for “doing nothing” in their long
session-we are inclined to think, in most cases,
without stopping to inform themselves as
to what the Legislature has really done. Ac
cording to our observation, the present Legis
lature has been a working body. True, they
have passed no startling measure, inaugurated*
no radical reform; but they have done what
is better—they have legislated, and very large
ly, on the business of the country, giving fa
cilities to capital and labor to work out our
redemption, which after ail, is the most im
portant matter practically that can come be
fore them. There has been very little politi
cal legislation, and we are all the better off
for that.
The following brief article, from thp Co-
lumbus Enquirer, will show some of the im
portant business that the Legislature lias taken
up and disposed of:
An Encouraging Sion.—Every one who
has read the daily reports of the proceedings
of the Legislatures of Georgia and Alabama
must have remarked the uncommon number
of bills of incorporation. Companies seem
to be forming in nearly every county for the
employment of associated capital and labor
in some industrial enterprise. Many of them
are for manufacturing purposes, others for
mining or boring for oil, and others for af
fording increased facilities for transportation ,
or farming. The people ot the two States *
arc evidently awake to the necessity of ex
ploring of new avenues to indusitial prosper
ity and progress; and, notwithstanding the
fact that their moneyed means are curtailed
to an extent never known before, they are
embarking in varied enterprises of improve
ment with a spirit and activity to which we
have been wholly unaccustomed.
It cannot be denied that much of this ac
tivity in developing all the resources of our
Southern country is due to the abolition of
negro slavery. The strongest advocates among
us of the old system were always aware that
with its many blessings and advantages—
blessings to the blacks and advantages to tlfe
whites—it bad also some injurious effects.—
The greatest of these was, perhaps, the invet
erate disposition of planters to invest all their
surplus incomes in more negroes and fresh
lands. These were the chief “improvements”
that engaged, their attention and absorbed
their means. The acquisition of more hands
and the raising of more cotton was the goal
which each man had set before him, and
which he never fully reached to the day of
his death, because the approach to it always
stimulated him to grasp at still more hands
and bales. The consequence was, that lands
were impoverished and abandoned for newer
and fresher possessions, and but few of the
planting community could be induced to in
vest liberally in enterprises for permanently
improving the country and developing its
many resources.
The multitude of bills for ncorporation, to
which we have referred above, afford good
grounds for the hope that our people arc al
ready adapting themselves to the new condi
tion of things, and that, being forced to give
up the advantages, they will also make haste
to relieve themselves of the disadvantages of
their late “peculiar institution.”
telegraphic
DISPATCHES TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
TENNESSEE UNION CONVEJfTlOf.
Nashville, Feb. 23.—The Union Cojven.
tion adjourned after passing resolution de-
daring that the people of Tennessee ire ex.
eluded from the benefits of the Union qijustlj
and heartily endorsing the President) policy'
especially his veto of the Freedmen) Bureau
CONGRESSIONAL.
Brazil.—Wc have already mentioned that
the fine steamer Margaret is up at this port,
to sail on the 1st proximo with emigrants to
Para, Brazil. Maj. Hastings, who has been
the indefatigable agent of those who seek
new altars and firesides in South America,
will sail with this expedition and give per
sonal attention to the interests of these and
other colonists who have preceded them.—
Wc hear that there are many families, espe
cially in Missouri, who arc turning their en
quiries to the means and prospects of emi
gration to Brazil. It is a new and sad thing
in this land to see any of its once happy and
contented people preparing for voluntary ex
patriation. It ought to be a solemn warning
to the statesmen of the nation, that there is
something fearfully wrong in the State, when
Americans arc induced to fly from America.
How short a time is it since these United
States were held by the “oppressed of all
Nations,” and boasted of by us, as the asylum
in which civil and religious liberty were sure
to; find peace and safety. Now alas! tbo
native bom are seeking theso things under
the shadow of a Brazilian Empire.—Mobile
Advertiser.
Massachusetts . Legislature.—Boston,
Feb. 22.—In the Massachusetts House of
Representatives yesterday afternoon, a series
of resolutions were adopted regretting the
act of President Johnson in vetoing the
Freedmen’s Bureau bill, asserting that it is
the duty of the President to give the negroes
that protection to which tho gallant conduct
of the colored soldiers entitled them.
The resolutions were referred to the Com
mittee on Federal Relations.
The House refused to receive a resolution
thanking the President for his veto. Passed
by a vote of 9 to 18.
EgT* Secretary Trenholm has testified that
at tho downfall of Richmond, the Confeder
acy had but three hundred and twenty thou
sand dollars in specie; that neither ex-Pres-
ident Davis nor any member of the Cabinet
took any of this, but that it was paid out to
the soldiers of Gen. Johnston’s army.
pW The New York Tribune expresses its
surprise that Southern men should hesitate to
commit peijury for the sake of holding office
under the General Government No doubt
it appears strange to the Tribune.
BILL TO CONTINUE THE FREEDMEN’S
BUREAU TWO YEJRS.
Washington, Feb. 23.—A bill has been
introduced in the Senate to continue in force
the Freedmen’s Bureau for two years longe r
in the Southern States, which was referred to
the Committee on Militaiy Affairs.
An animated debate ensued on the question
of taking up Stevens’ rzsolutisn relative to the
admission of the Southern States which was
decided in the affirmative, and the resolution
discussed, but no vote taken.
In the House the Vorhees contested election
case was decided in favor of Washburnc, who
was sworn in.
MISSOURI DYED IN THE WOOL
St. Louis, Feb. 23.—Both Houses of the
Missouri Legislature havo passed resolutions
tendering support to the Senators who voted
to sustain the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill in op
position to the President’s veto, afld the ma
jority in the House of Representatives who
were in favor of the same and kindred meas-
ures. * '
MOBILE COTTON MARKET.
Mobile, Feb. 23.—The sales to-day were
500 bales. Middling is quoted at 43 cents.—
Sales of the’ week, 0,300 bales; receipts,
9,209 bales; exports, 1,690. Stock on hand,
7,299 bales.
GREAT VETO MEETING INLOUISVILLE.
Louisville, Feb. 24.—A large and en
thusiastic meeting was held here last night in
honor of the President’s veto of the Freed
men’s Bureau bill. Gov. Bramlette presided.
RUMORS OF CABINET CHANGES UNFONDKD.
New York, Feb. 22. — The Tribune’s
Washington special says: Statements tele
graphed hence, that there is to be an imme
diate and general disruption of the cabinet
are entirely gronudless.
NEW YORK MARKETS.
New York, Feb. 20.—Cotton is firm; sales
1800 at 45a4Ccfor Middlings.
Gold, 137 1-8'
THE TWENTY-SECOND IN AUGUSTA
Augusta, Feb. 22.—There was no military
display to-day. There was a grand parade
of the Firemen and contest for prizes.
LATER FROM EUROPE.
COTTON FLAT.
SEWARD CHARGED AS HEAD CENTRE
IN THE HOUSE OF CqMMONS.
New York, Feb. 22.—We have Liverpool
advices to the 10th instant.
MARKETS.
The sales of cotton in Liverpool on Satur
day amounted to 7,000 bales. The market
was fiat with a partial decline of l-4d.
Five-Twenties, 07 3-8 to 67 5-8. Consols,
861-2 to 865-8.
POLITICAL.
In a debate in the British House of Com
mons the Fenian conspiracy was charged to
America as its origin, with Mr. Seward as its
real head centre.
The cattle plague was the leading topic in
both houses of Parliament.
, Official dispatches have been published
from the French Minister at Washington.—
They havo decided the Bagdad nfl’air and
states that the United States has decided not
to engage in a conflict with France.
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.
POPULAR DEMONSTRATION IN FAVOR
OF THE PRESIDENT.
A SPEECH FROM THE WHITE HOUSE.
Washington, Feb. 22.—A demonstration
by the citizens of the District of Columbia,
to-day, was attended by ah immense concours:
of citizens. The meeting was addressed by
several prominent individuals, and resolutions
to support the patriotic policy of the Pres : -
dent were adopted and presented to him at
the executive mansion. The President made
a speech in response, in which lie reiterated
his devotion to the Union, and declared that
the Radicals were endeavoring to break up
the Union which the people had fought to I
preserve. His remarks were greeted with •
great applause by tho vast gathering.
General Lee Before the Reconstruction
Committee.
The Washington correspondent of t>
Chicago Times gives the following interest
ing account of Gen. Lee’s appearance before
the Reconstruction Committee of fifteen at
the Capital:
Gen. Robert E. Lee appeared this afternoon
before the joint committee of fifteen on F*c-
construction, though his evidence was given
to the sub committee, composed of Messrs.
Washburne, Conkling, of New York, and
Blow, of Missouri, who have the State ol Vir
ginia under consideration.
On entering the room where the full Com
mittee were in session, but three members out
of a dozen present spoke to the witness, who |
seemed to notice the fact. He was»soon taken
before the sub-committee, where his examin
ation proceeded at considerable length,
though it did not elicit any prominent state
ment, beyond what might have been antici
pated from the known position of the wit
ness. He was quite reticent, and did not
volunteer any remark beyond the proper an
swer to the questions put to him. Ho said
that, so far as he had opportunities for leant-1
ing, tho people of Virginia had accepted the
result of the war in good faith, anil weft
anxious for a restored amity in the Union.—
When pressed by a question, he is said to
have intimated that the feeling for the Union
.was much stronger jnst after the close of the
war than how, for there appeared to him
some impatience among the people that men
who had not been identified with the war ®
the South should be prevented from repre
senting the States in Congress. He declared [
that there was a disposition to treai tn f
freedmen well, as well for their own inters 1
ns for the white people. He expressed a de-1
cided hope that the government might en
dure forail time, and regarded the course 0
President Johnson and Gen. Grant towa®
the South as liberal and liuniauc. ,
It was plain to the committee that Gesep-
Lee found himself in a very unpleasant {*»>
tion, and he did not communicate vet)
freely.
A crowd awaited his appearance from
committee roam, and followed him fro® tm
capitol down Pennsylvania avenue to his m 1 ;
tel. A large number of people iuCn ca*^S
on him, but he avoids, as far as possible, a 1 1
publicity.