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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH.
Bill to allow Sheriffs to make arrests out
of their counties. Passed.
Bill authorizing the payment of money In
Terrel county for suppression of small pox.
Bill to allow parties 5 days to make writs
of eentiorari Passed. ,
Bill to provide for payment of teachers ot
poor children for the year 1865. Passed.
Bill to appropriate money to bring up Re
ports ot Supreme Court, and to empty D. B.
Sanford, of Greene county, to do the same.—
Passed.
Milledgeville, Feb. 21,1806.
nOUSE-AFTERNOON SESSION.
The IIouso reassembled at 3 o’clock.
BILLS OX THIRD READING.
Bill to change the time of holding the Su
perior Courts of the Western Judicial Circuit.
Passed. . .
Bill to incorporate the Cherokee Mining
and Manufacturing Company. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Blairsviilo Aiming
and Manufacturing Company. Passed.
Bill to authorize the Inferior Court of
Greene county to levy an extra tax. Passed.
Bill to authorize J. J. Kirkland, a disabled
soldier, to peddle without license. Lost.^
Bill to incorporate the Chcstatco River
Hydraulic and IIoso Mining Company.—
Passed.
On motion of Air. Smith, of Hancock, the
use of the Hall was tendered Hon. A. H. Ste
phens, Senator elect to the U.'S. Congress, to
address the General Assembly.
Adjourned.
SENATE.
Milledgeville, Feb. 22.
The Senate met nt 10 o’clock, a. m. Prayer
by Rev. 8. E. Brooks, of the Baptist Church.
After the reading of the Journal, Mr. Stro-
zicr introduced the following, which was
agreed to: , ,
The Scnato of the State of Georgia do re
solve, Thnt in honor of the anniversary of
the birthday of Washington, and in honor to
his comprehensive patriotism which embraced
Ills whole country and produced counsels of
wisdom, moderation, justice and universal
fraternity in the stormiest periods of her his
tory, the Senate do now adjourn till 10 o’clock
to-morrow morning.
The Senate then adjourned.
HOUSE.
The House met nt 9 o’clock, a. m. Prayer
by the Chaplain.
The Journal wns rend and approved.
On motion of Air. Moses, of Muscogee, the
action of the Houso on the bill to repeal the
Act prohibiting the marriage of first cousins,
wns reconsidered.
The special order of the day, the bill to
authorize the Inferior Courts of the several
counties of the State, to levy and collect an
extra tax for the support of indigent widows
and orphans of soldiers was taken up, and
liefore arriving at any action on the same, the
House entertained a motion to adjourn in re
spect fo the day, and to -isten to the address
of Hon. A. II. Stephens.
Adjourned.
Mir.LEDSEvn.LE, Feb. 23,1866.
Bill to prescribe and regulate the relations
of parent and child, among persons of color
in this State. Passed.
Bill to add an additional clause to section
2535 of the code. Passed.
Bill to prescribe and regulate the relations
of husband and wife among persons of color
in this State. Passed. .
Adjourned.
HOUSE.
Tho House re-assembled at 3 o’clock, p. m.
Mr. Cabness, of Monroe, introduced a bill
to incorporate the Franklin Mining and Man
ufacturing Company.
Mr. Glenn, of Whitfield, a bill for the relief
of Moses S. Collins.
Mr. Harrison, of Chatham, a bill to incor-
E rate a Company for laying down carriage
il ways in the city of Savannah.
BILLS ON TntRD BEADING.
Bill to change the lino between Spalding
and Pike. Passed.
Bill to change tho lino petween Laurens
and Wilkinson. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Columbus Manufac
turing Company. Passed.
Adjourned.
Milledgeville, Feb. 24,1866.
The Senate met at 10 o’clock. Prayer by
Rev. S. Q. Brooks. '
Mr. Black offered a resolution to prevent
the distribution of the mail among the mem
bers until after adjournment Lost
Mr. McDaniel, a resolution to prohibit the
introduction of new matter after Monday
next Agreed to.
Mr. Gresham, a resolution that the General
Assembly adjourn on tho 10th March next—
On motion the resolution was amended by
inserting the 13th of March and passed.
BILL ON THIRD READING.
Bill to authorize Freedmen to perform the
marriage ceremony between persons of color.
Lost.
Bill to regulate proceedings of insolvent
banks. The bill proposes to allow the banks
in the payment of their bills to estimate the
value of the same at the value of gold ot the
time tlio bills were paid out by tho banks.—
Pending tlio consideration ot tbo bill .the
Senate adjourned till Monday morning, 10
o’clock.
HOUSE.
Milledgeville, February 24tli.
The House met at 10 o’clock, a. m.
Prayer by the Chaplain. _ .
The House took up the unfinished Imsiness,
the bill for the relief of indigent widows and
orphans of deceased soldiers, and after reject
ing a motion to reconsider a substitute (lost,)
laid the bill on the table to take up the regu
lar business which was the call of the roll for
the introduction of
new matter.
Mr. J. J. Jones, of Burke, a bill to alter sec
tion 1564 of the Code.
Mr. Russell, of Chatham, a bill to legalize
and make valid certain acts of Notaries Pub
lie.
Mr. Stcwait, of Spalding, a bill to increase
the pay of the Compiler of the Laws, and to
provide for tho early distribution of copies of
the same.
Mr. McDougald, a bill to change the line
THE SOUL’S APPEAL.
I have not wealth to crown thy brow
With precious wreaths of pearls;
I may not bind the diamond's light
Within thy glossy curls;
I have not gold to purchase robes
From ludU’s costly loom;
I cannot bring tbee foreign plants
Of gorgeo is, costly bloom.
My borne U not where fashion dwells,
in balls of burnished gold;
Nor yet beneath the ivied roots
Of kingly castles old.
I have not e’en a simple cot
O’crhnng by whispering trees,
Where the golden sun-beams pause to rest
Amid the downy leaves.
Yet I have dared to kneel to thee;
Though bumble born and poor,
ril offer tbee the truest heart
That maiden ever wore.
Then give to me but thy sweet love—
’Tis all my spirit craves;
ril lean around thee as the shore
Leans ’round the beating waves.
For tby sweet sake, Fll labor on,
Till tame shall crown my brow;
And wealth and pride before my blows
■ Their haughty heads shall bow;
And I will lay thy tender form
Upon my heart to rest;
My soul would swell with mighty strength
With thee upon my breast.
Thou wilt be mine, I know—I feel—
I read it in thine eye—
My heart’s best wish is known and heard,
And registered on high.
For thee Fll brave the roughest storm,
Or love the hardest fate—
If thon art near to cheer me on
My spirit’s nOblc fate.
A member of Congress was tugging a
well-stuffed carpet-bag into the House the
other day, and on being inquired of by a col
league, replied that he was taking in a few
amendments to the Constitution, which he
proposed to offer, as he wanted to show his
constituents that he was up to legislation.
The President is said to be dissatis
fied with Napoleon’s expressions in relation
to Mexico, and it is reported that he will
soon send a message to Congress on Mexican
affairs.
Tho Senate met at 10 o'clock, a. m., pur- between Muscogee and Chattahoochee coun-
suant to adjournment. Prayer by tho Rev. S. tICS -
E. Brooks.
The Secretary of the Senate, Jno. B. Weems,
Esq., being detained by sickness from .Iris
place at the Secretary's desk, on motion,
Fletcher Sneed, Esq., wns appointed Secreta
ry, pro tern of the Senate.
NEW MATTER.
On the call of tho roll for the introduction
of new matter, Mr. Butler introduced a rcso-
tion in relation to the payment of the bonds
and coupons of the State over due.
Mr. Mims, a bill to change the place of
holding a Justice’s Court in Scriven county.
Mr. O. P. Bell, a bill in relation to judg
ments against Trust Estates.
Mr. Thornton, a bill to incorporate the Met
calf Manufacturing Company.
BILLS ON THIBD BEADING.
The bill to lay off the State into twenty
Judicial Circuits, and to provide for sessions
four times a year was taken up, and after
tome discussion wns lost.
Bill to allow the redemption of real estate
sold under execution within a specified time.
Passed.
Bill to amend section 4220 of the Code.—
The bill seeks to change the law which re
quires persons convicted of murder and re
commended to mercy to be confined in the
Penitentiary for life. Lost.
Adjourned ..until 3 o'clock, p. m.
Prayer
The Journal was read and
HOUSE.
The House met at 9 o'clock, a. m
hy the Chaplain,
approved.
Sir. Kibbce, Chairman of the Committee
appointed to examino the State Library, sul>
mitted his report with resolution.
The Committee on Military Affairs, report
ed acnui-t making any appropriation for the
building ot the Military Institute, either c.t
Marietta or at any other place.
NEW MATTEIL
Mr. narlan, of Gordon, a resolution in re
lation to stock gaps on the Western and At
lantic Railroad.
Mr. Moses, of Muscogee, a bill amending
tho charter of the Insurance Company of
Columbus.
Mr. Quillian, of Whitfield, a bill relative
to the publication of decisions of the Supreme
Court.
Also a bill to change the lino between Mur
ray and Whitefield counties.
Mr. Glenn, of Whitfield, a bill for the re
lief of George Cox, of the county of Wliit,
field.
Mr. Snead, of Richmond, a bill to incor
porate the City and Loan Association and
Savipgs Biink of Augusta.
Mr. Mitchell, of Thomas, a bill to author
ize the levy of an extra tax in the county of
Thomas.
Air. Phillips, of Habersham, a bill to ap
propriate *25,000 of the net earnings of the
W. & A. R. R. to the Orphans’ Ilotnc.
Mr. Frost, of Troupe, a bill to incorporate
a Savings Bank, in the city of LaGrange.
Mr. Evans, of Newton, a bill to amend tho
Revised Code of Gcorga.
Mr. Bragg, of Wilkinson, a bill for tlio re
lief of Tax Collectors.
Mr. DnBose, a bill to amend the charter of
the town of Sparta.
Tlio bill for the relief of the indigent wid
ows and orphans,of soldiers, was taken up
and discussed. Pending the discussion, the
nouse adjourned till 4 o’clock, p. m.
Milledgeville, Feb. 28,1866.
SENATE.
The Seuato met at 8 o'clock, p. m., and im
mediately proceed to read bills tho second
time.
Atr. O. L. Smith moved the suspension of
the rules enable him to introduce a resolution.
Agreed
Air. O. L. Smith then offered tho following
which was unanimously adopted:
Resold l, That the General Assembly do
hereby express tlielr cordial endorsement of
the sentiments contained in the able and pa
triotic address of the Hon. Alexander H.
Stephens, delivered in the Hall of tho House
of Representatives on the 23nd instant, and
that a copy of the same be entered upon the
journals of the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives.
Mr Moore, from the Judiciary Committee,
introduced a bill to change the penal code.
Fifty copies of tho bill were ordered to be
printed.
SENATE BILLf «>N THIRD READING.
Bill to incorporate the Columbus Street
Railroad Company. Passed.
BUI to incorporate tho Life and Accident
Insurance Company in Atlanta. Passed.
Air. Byrd, a bill to amend Part 4tli, Title 7,
Paragraph 452 of the Code.
Air. Yason, a billto repeal sections 1593 and
2635 of the Code, and all other Acts which
forbid aliens and foreigners to acquire real
estate.
Air. AIcLcndon, a resolution of refusal to
entertain any proposition to sell or lease the
State Road.
The House again took up the bill for the re
lief of indigent widows and orphans of sol
diers.
The bill, after unimportant amendments,
passed. ^
Lcavo of absence was granted Air. Moses
the balance of the day on account of sick
ness.
Air. Adams, of Clarke, introduced a bill to
amend Section 3988 of the Code.
Also, a bill to amend Section 3604 of the
Code.
Mr. Haralson, of Gordon, a bill to alter the
rules of evidence.
Air. Glenn, of Whitfield, a bill to define jthe
mode of ascertaining the number of indigent
widows and orphans ot soldiers and indigent
soldiers, and all other persons who have to
be supported by taxation.
Air. Gartrell, of Cobb, a resolution in rela
tion to the pay of claims of Postmasters.
Adjourned till Alonday morning 9 o'clock.
WENDELL PHILLIPS AW THE PRES-
IDENT.
Wendell Phillips delivered an address in
tlie Brooklyn Academy of Alusic on Tuesday
evening last, in the course of which he used
tho following:
But you will say the President also agrees
to this theory of the’South and of Gen. How
ard. The campaign of Virginia was fought
against representative rebel Lee. The present
campaign is fought against Andrew Johnson,
who leads the hosts of the Confederacy. (Ap
plause.] The question has sliifted from the
camp into the forum; it has shifted from the
cannon into ideas; and the great momentous
discrimination needed to-day Is, where the
party lines run. Camps fight well when they
are drawn up opposite each other; the diffi
culty is when they are mixed. Tho difficulty
of the present moment is that men are con
fused as to where the Hues run.
I will tell you my idea. Grant headed tlie
Northern host: Leo tlie Southern. Lee has
been whipped, and the battle settled. To-day
Congress heads the Northern hast, and Andrew
Johnson the South. [Loud and continued ap
plause.] And until you awaken the North
to stand behind Congress and enhearten and
encourage it to recognize its own leadership
and that of its enemy, tho State is not safe
for a moment. Congress had been many
months looking to a party which said: “We
believe in universal suffrage, in the rights of
the negro, in bis right to land and to justice;
but, Air. Johnson, don’t dream for a moment
that wo will ever oppose you.” You know
how tho South ruled us for fifty years by
simply saying, “I am willing to break.” The
President had up to the present ruled Con
gress in the same way, but at last Congress
had turned and said', “We are willing to
break.” Now comes our second trial. Does
the President dare to bring to bear upon Con
gress the patrongo of the Government ? If
he does so, we shall see whether 1866 is to do
what no year in the history of this country
has ever done. Show us a Congress could
stand erect against a President of its own
party. A Whig Congress did once stand firm
against a Democratic President, but never in
the history of the Government was a Con-
gress able to stand against a President of its
own party. That work has now to be ac
complished, or the idea of the North is to be
sacrificed for tlie time being.
* * * * * * *
We have crushed South Carolina, and now
the President means to crush Massachusetts.
Well, we accept the tear. If he succeed* he shall
write his name higher than that of Burr or Ar
nold, for the treason which theg attempted and
failed in, he carried ; hut we will write it side
'by side with them—the traitor that tried and
failed—if we win. [Loud and long-continued
applause.]
The above “loyal” language fell from the
lips of the Magnus Apollo of Republicanism,
and, if course, we shall hear no complaints
from any “loyal” quarter. It has become ex
tremely fasliionoble, says an exchange, among
those tolerant' individuals who taught that
any criticism upon “tlie Government” was
flat “disloyalty,” to denounce and abuse the
President of the Uni tod States with a free
and liberal tongue. Now they find this to bo
a very agreeable recreation. Heretofore, such
performances were supposed to be highly re-
I prehensible—but, “as the boot is on the oth
er leg,” an entirely different notion appears
We must
JET" Aliss Alary Walker, the female phy
sician, who has been in and around Washing
ton a great deal during the past few years,
wears the bloomer costume, and is often mis
taken for one of tho sterner sex. She ap
peared at the door of the Senate gallery the
other day and was about to enter, when the
doorkeeper said; “Pass to the right; this is
the ladies’ gallery.” “I’m a lady,” indignant
ly replied the doctrcss. “What do you wear
pantaloons for if you are ?” inquired the
doorkeeper. “I guess I have tho right to
wear what I please.” “So you have, but I
have no manner of knowing that you arc a
lady, therefore I can’t let you go 'into the
gallery.” Alaiy finally convinced him that
she was a female, and she was permitted to
enter thejadies’ gallery.
Liabilities of Telegraph Companies.—
A suit against the United States Telegraph
Company, tried at Detroit, last week, resul
ted in a verdict of $47.49 for plaintiff It
appears that in Alay last, Julius llhasca, em
ployed as a cigar maker at Detroit, being
anxious about his family telegraphed them at
Yonkers, N. Y., and received no reply after
three days, started for Yonkers, where he
discoverer! no dispatch had been received.
Just on the point ot return to Detroit the
dispatch came to hand, having been mailed
at Albany. Rhosea sued for cost of dispatch
($2) and traveling expenses to Yonkers and
return, and won his case.
Hf During a debate in the House, on
Thursday, in relation to an appropriation
for refitting up the White House, Air Stevens
said that, although the President desired to
have it furnished in tho most economical
style, it would take this amount in addition
to the $30,000 already appropriated this ses
sion. He added that nearly every yseful
article, including bedding, furniture, the
gold spoons bought in Van Buren’s time, as
well ns ornaments, had been removed from
the White House, by irresponsible parties,
during the six weeks succeeding the death ot
Air. Lincoln.
Says tlie Hartford Times: The time
lias come for all those who support the Presi
dent to act together, manfully, and in a man
ner that will aid him in his struggle to pre
serve the Union. lie needs the moral and
political support of ali Union men, as he pa
triotically breasts the spirit of disunion, and
tlie actual measures of the disunionists in
Congress. lie takes r. noble stand. Stay up
his hands, freemen of the Union, as you value
tlie liberties bequeathed to you by George
Washington and his compatriots of tho Itev*
olution. .
ing Company. Passed. live and learn.
ggy"The Lancaster (Pa.) Intelligencer, in
announcing the success of the Democratic
ticket at tlio home oi Thnddeus Stevens, says
that an endorsement of his policy was sought
by liis friends, who used every effort'to carry
their ticket, but in vain. It adds: “Yester
day’s work convinced every Republican in
Lancaster City that the Democratic party is
still a living reality. They found it fully pre
pared to meet the vital issues of the present
day. Tho energy displayed by it in yester
day’s election will mark the contest which
will commence with tlio nomination of a
candidate for Governor on the 5tli of Alarch
next. We give our opponents fair warning
that we intend to elect a Democratic Gov
ernor next fall, and to turn ont the radical
members of Congress who voted for negro
suffrage. Wc shall go into tbe fight fully
determined to win, and with a confident reli
ance on the good seise, the honesty, the pa
triotism, and the just pride of race which
characterizes the white men of Pennsylvania.’
Emigration from tiib SocTn.— It is said
that as many as fifty thousand young men
from the Southern States have settled them
selves in New York city to seek their for
tunes. Many have gone to Baltimore, and
we presume that there is scarcely a Northern
city of any magnitude that docs not number
such representatives of tho South among its
population. The universal stagnation and
paralysis of business that succeeded the war;
tho scarcity of money, the impossibility of
getting employment, and the gloomy future,
all conspired to induce many of our active
anfl energetic young men to remove to places
where money was plentiful and employment
attainable. There also arose two formidable
schemes thnt threatened, and still threaten, to
drain tlie South of her population—not only
of that valuable portion of lier population,
consisting of active nnd enterprising voung
men, but of whole families—almost of com
munities. Wc refer to the Brazilian and
Alexican emigration schemes.
[Richmond Whig.
When a man has been faithful in the
honest performance of his duty, he is thought
better off if success attend him in this world.
But if it so happens, in the providence of
God, that these material results do not follow
that performance, still he carries in his own
mind the consciousness that he has tried to
do what is right in the sight of God, render
ing to everybody his due. contributing all he
can to the general happiness and improve
ment, diffusing as much enjoyment and con
tentment as he can in the little circle of which
he is tlie centre; with (his consciousness he
goes through life “happy as a king, though
he may not be the king,” ends it in felicity,
and goes where there is an end of all these
controversies, because there is but one God
and one Father, before whom all his children
arc equal.—Chief-Justice Chase.
fr5T*Thc New York Times says, a striking
evidence ot decay into which the agricultu
ral interests of South Carolina havo fallen, is
f&und in the fact that imported rice is now
used at Charleston.
“Decay” is not the word, except as the le
gitimate sequence of destruction. The agri
cultural interests of South Carolina and the
South generally will, very possibly hereafter
decay—but only because they have first been
destroyed.—Charleston Jlsrsary.
A Pointed Retort.—The Chicago Times
savs:
On Tuesday, in the Senate nt Washington,
Senator Henderson made an allusion to Air.
Baldwin, one of the late Virginia delegation
to the President, whereupon ensued tho sub
joined colloquy:
“Air. Wilson asked if that was not tlie Bald
win who was a member of the rebel Congress
and who nominated Gen. Lee for Governor of
Virginia.
“Mr. Henderson understood it was.
“Air. Sumner inquired if that was the sort
of men who gave advice to the President.” _
Is this Sumner the man who, in a speach in
Boston last fall, denounced the Union ns
“seething with smothered curses,” and re
peated Garrison’s blasphemy that “tho con
stitution is a league with death and covenant
with hell”? Is this the sort of men who fashion
our legislation ? What docs the insolent trai
tor in the Senate of the United States ? How
dares he question the loyality of any person ?
pr The Richmond Dispatch thus takes
off tho affrighted state of Northern politicians
over the body ot the defunct Confederacy :
The Poor South ! Will it not Die ?—
The body of tbe late Confederacy, laid out in
state, still “frights the souls of fearful adver
saries.” It cannot be interred until the ‘crown-
er’s quest’ has settled the entire question of
name, house, and history. But those who
view the body are apparently ever in terror.
They see a spasm, a twitch of a finger or a
toe—nay, the eye winks—“it’ll come to life
yet!” they exclaim; and as it would by no
means do to interfere with a verdict and the
fees, tlio dead must have a thrust in the jug
ular, or else in the pericardium. They are
ever determined to make sure of hfm, nnd
ever determine that he is not yet made sure of.
Character of Lincoln by Bancroft.
There was little, if any, fulsome eulogy,
in the late commemorative address of Air.
Bancroft. Of the character of Lincoln, he
thus spoke:
In his character Lincoln was through and
through an American. He is the first native
of the region west ot the Allcgbanics to at
tain to tlie highest station, and how lmppy it
is that the man who was brought forward as
the natural outgrowth of the first fruits oi
that region, should hare been of unblemished
purity in private life; a good son, a kind
husband, a most affectionate father, and as a
man so gentle to all. As to his integrity,
Douglass his rival, said of him, “Lincoln is
the hones test man I ever knew.” The habits
of.his mind were those of meditation and in
ward thought rather than of action. He ex
celled in logical statement rather than cxecu
tive ability. He reasoned clearly, bis reflec
tive judgment was good, and his purposes
were fixed, but like the Hamlet of his only
poet, his will was tardy in action, and for
this reason, and not from humility or tender
ness of feeling, he sometimes deplored that
the duty which devolved upon him had not
fallen to the lot ot another. He was skillful
in analysis; discerned with precision the cen
tral idea on which a question turned, and
knew how to disengage it nnd put it by it
self in a few homely, strong, old English
words that would, be intelligible to all. He
delighted to express his opinions by an
apothegm, illustrate them by a parable, or
drive them home by a story. Lincoln gained
a name by discussing questions, which of all
others, most easily lead to fanaticism, but he
was never carried away by enthusiastic zeal;
never indulged in extravagant language;
never hurried to support extreme measures;
never allowed himself to be controlled by
sudden impulses. ’
During the progress of the election, at
which ho was chosen President, he expressed
no opinion that went beyond the Jefferson
proviso of 1784. Like Jefferson and Laiay-
ette, he had faith in tlie intuitions of the
people, and read those intuitions with rare
sagacity. He knew how to bide bis time, and
was less apt to be in advance of public opin
ion than to lag behind. He never sought to
electrify the public by taking an advanced
position, but rather studied to mbvc forward
compactly, exposing no detachment in front
or the rear, so that the course of his adminis
tration might have been explained as the cal
culating policy of a shrewd and watchful
politician, had there not been, seen behind it
a fixedness of principle, which from the first
determined his purpose, and grew more in
tense with every year, consuming his life by
its energy. Yet,* his Sensibilities were not
acute. He had no vividness of imagination
to picture to bis mind the horrors of the bat
tle-field or tbe sufferings in hospitals. His
conscience was more tender than his feelings.
Lincoln was one of the most unassuming of
men. In time of success, he gave credit for
it to those whom he employed, to tlio people,
and to the providence of. God. He did not
know what ostentation was. When he became
President, he was rather saddened than ele
vated, and his conduct and manners showed
more than ever his belief that all nten were
born equal.
For the Telegraph.
OH ! TELL ME WHY.
Oh ! tell me why do maidens fair,
Their corsets lace so tightly ?
Is it to make a waspish waist—
Disgusting and unsightly?
Or is the rose that natnre paints
Upon their blooming faces
Hideous, that they blast it thu3
By hateful stays and laces!
Oh no! for when that lovely cheek.
Grows pale, e’en unto fainting,
They do not throw asido their stays,
But quick resort to painting.
Come then, dear girls, make this resolve,
Be it understood between us
We’ll wear no more the hated stays,
And soon we’ll rival Venus.
Macon, Go., Fib. 3, 1366. Nzwo.
A Good Character.—A good character is
to a young man what a firm foundation is to
the artist who proposes to erect a building
on it; he can well build with safety, and al l
who behold it will have confidence in its so
lidity—a helping hand will never be wanted;
but let a single part of this be defective, and
you go on a hazard, doubting, distrusting,
and ten to one it will tumble down at last
and mingle all that was built on it in ruin.
Without' a good character poverty is
curse—with it, scarcely an evil. Happiness
cannot exist where good character is not a
frequent visitor. All that is bright in the
hope of youth, all that is calm and in the vale
of tears, centers, in and is derived from a
good character. Therefore, acquire this as
the first and most valuable.
Frogs do not croak in running water,
and active minds are seldom troubled with
gloomy forebodings. They conic up from the
stagnant depths of a spirit unstirred by gen
erous impulses or tlie blessed necessities of
lioncst toil.
SaP Tho Connecticut Republican State
Convention endorsed the President and the
“Republican majority” in Congress. The in
ference is that Old Thad. Stevens and Sore-
back Sumner are left out in the cold.
Beast Butler Compelled to Disgorge.—
Smith & Bro., bankers of New Orleans, from
whose vault Beast Butler stole $50,000 in
gold, brought suit against that individual
for the amount, and have recovered the .en
tire sum.
Love at Fourscore.—The inhabitants of
tlie village of Burlescombe, near Wellington,
have lately found an amusing topic of con
versation in an event which has just occurred.
The “blind god” having by some means or
other found liis way into the heart of one
James Holland, a youth of eighty-one sum
mers ; lie appears to have become infatuuted
with the charms of a “blushing damsel’?
named Sarah Holly, who has only just turned
threescore-and-ten. The suit of the enam
ored swain being looked on favorably by the
village lass in question, tlie gay Lothario led
his bride to the altar in triumph, and the
nuptial knot was tied by Rev. J. AI. O’Neil.—
The young people have been in receipt of par
ish relief for some years past, but that trifling
drawback does not appear to have stemmed
“the course of true love.” This was not the
first entrance of tlie parties into matrimonial
life, for the bridegroom found in liis bride a
second wife, nnd tlie bride found in the
bridegroom her third husband.
Little Things.—Springs are little things
lint they are sources of large streams ; a helm
is a little thing, but it governs the course of
the ship ; a bridle-bit is a little thing, but see
its use nnd powers; nails and pegs are little
things but they hold the parts of large build
ings together; a word, a look, a frown are
all little things, but powerful for good or
evil. Think of this, and mind the little things.
Pay that little debt; it is a promise, redeem
it—it is a shilling, hand it over; you know
what important events hang upon it. Keep
jour word sacredly—keep it to children, they
will mark it sooner than any one else; and
the effects will probably be as lasting as life.
Mind tbe little things.
“Old Bumblebee.”—Was the cognomen
of T of Newbury. He gained the ti
tle from the fact of hiscatchinga horrible bee
one day as he was shingling bis barn, and in
attempting to destroy the insect with the
hatenet, cut off the ends of his thumb and
forefinger, letting the insect go unharmed.
Other mishaps happened to the old codger
on the same barn. In one of his abstractions,
he shingled over his spare hatchet; and, cut
ting a small apperturc in the building to let
in daylight, this man actually set a wooden
pane, as being economical and not likely to
je broken. Uncle T , in one of his
oblivious freaks, nailed his left arm so firmly
between two boards of a fence he was put
ting up that he had to call for help to get
extricated from his self imprisonment. • He
once put a button on the gate instead of the
post. But the rarest freak of all was when
ho ran through the streets with his hands
about three feet asunder, held before him,
begging the passers-by not to disturb him,
as he had got the measure of a doorway with
him.
Torpedoes.—There are some persoms who
seem to treasure up things that are disagreea
ble on*purpose. I cannot understand how a
boy that never had been taught better might
carry torpedoes in his pocket, and delight to
throw them down at the feet of passers-by, to
see them bound—yet I can not understand
how an instructed and well meaning person
could do such a thing. And yet there are men
that carry torpedoes all tlieir life, and take
pleasure in tossing them at people.
“Oh!” they say, “I have something, and
when I meet that man I will give it to him!”
And they wait for the right company and the
right circumstances, and then out with the
most disagreeable things. And if they are
remonstrated with, they say,—
“It is true,” as if it was a justification of
their conduct.
LATE AND INTERESTING TELE
GRAMS FROM OUR EXCHANGES.
SEWARD ON THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON’S
SIR.
SPEECH.
The reply of Secretary Seward to Arr. Big
elow’s dispatch, inclosing the speech of the
Emperor Napoleon, in reference to Alexican
affairs, lias been printed, which will be for
warded to Europe to-day. Air. Seward
alludes, with considerable severity to, and
denies the assertion of the Emperor, that our
Government had been invited to join France
in her Mexican intervention before the intro
duction of French forces into tlie army of
Alaximilian.
TIIE FREEDMEN’S BUREAU IN LOUISIANA.
The Tribune’s special says: It has now
come to light that .the instructions under
which the Freedmen’s Bureau in Louisiana
was so completely disrupted in November,
its 200 schools brought to a close soon after
wards—its freedmen and discharged colored
soldiers arrested as vagrants in the streets of
New Orleans, without trial or process of law,
and the orphans of freedmen returned to
their former slaveholders as apprentices, were
imparted by the President himself, and that
General Fullerton acted in accordance with
executive instructions.
THE OBDER PERMITTING THE PUBLICATION
OF THE RICHMOND EXAMINER.
Tho following is the official order of Gen
eral Grant, permitting the publication of the
Richmond Examiner.
Hd. Qrs. Armies of the U. S., J
Washington, Feb. 19, 1806. (
Afaj. Gen. A. H. Terry, Comd’g Dept, of Vh.
General : Your order of the date of the
13th inst, taking military possession of the
Richmond Examiner newspaper, published
in Richmond Virginia, and prohibiting its
publication, made in pursuance of the direc
tions of the Lieutenant General Command
ing, is hereby temporarily suspended, and
the Richmond Examiner will be permitted
to resume its publication upon the express
condition that in the future it will not pur
sue a course inimical to the government, or
to the growth or expression, in other words,
of Union sentiments among the people of the
United States lately in rebellion, or to the
cultivation of friendly relations between the
people of this State, or any of them and
other States of the Union, and that it will
not in any wise fail in its editorial corres
pondence or transfer of articles from other
newspapers to give support, countenance and
friendship, to acts and expressions of loyalty
to the Union and its supporters.
■ By Command of Lieut. Gen. Grant.
(Signed.) T. J. Bowers, A. A. G.
A NEW FREEDMEN’S BUREAU BILL TO BE IN-
I FEEL I’M GROWING
WIFE.
I feel I’m growin
I feel Fingrowing auld,
My steps are frail, my ten arc
_ My pow is unco bauld;
I \ e seen the snows o’ fourscore vest*
AULD, GtDjl
auld^gude wife-.
bleared,
The SouTn Carolina Railroad.—We
learn from the Charleston Courier that the
Board of Directors of the South Carolina
Railroad Company held a meeting on Wednes
day evening, immediately after the adjourn
ment of tlio Convention of Stockholders, and
unanimously re-elected W. J. Alagratb, Esq.
president oi’ the company for the ensuing
year.
PLEASANTRIES.
A Connecticut farmer a few days ago, wann
ed a blanket to wrap round tlie feet of his
aged and paralytic wife. He went to the barn,
and in his absence the bed took fire from
spark in the blanket, and his wife was burned
to death.
Little Ella is about four years old. One day
she committed an act of disobedience, and
her inotber in correcting her, spoke in no gen
tle tone of voice; the child threw her arms
around her mother’s neck and exclaimed, ‘My
dear mamma, pray forgive me! It Iliad only
known how spunky it would have made you,
I wouldn’t have done so.’
Concert was given on Friday night
last, at Athens, Ga.,the proceeds of which arc
to be devoted to the erection of a Cenotaph
to tho memory of the “Hero Dead” of Athens
and vicinity. The ladies and gentlemen hav
ing tlie immediate management of the enter
tainment in hand acquitted themselves ad
mirably, while tbe large audience in attend
ance was composed mainly of the beauty and
fashion for which thet town stands pre-emi
nent. The snug little sum of or more
was tho receipts of the evening.
At. one time nt Gibraltar, there was a great
scarcity of water. An Irish officer said “he
wns very easy about the water; for h.e bad
nothing to do with water; if he only got his
tea in the morning and his punch at night, it
was all he wanted.”
The King of Denmark has recently given
unrestricted religious liberty to the Methodist
Episcopal Church in his dominions; and the
United States Consul nt Copenhagen, takes
this for tbe text of a congratulatory epistle to
the American board of missions connected
with that church.
John Adams, in his defense of the - Ameri
can Constitution, says: “A man may defend
the principles of liberty, and rights of man
kind, with great abilities and success, and
yet, after all, when called upon to produce a
plan of legislation, he may astonish the world
with a signal absurdity.”
Do you propose to put Ike into a store,
Mrs. Partington ?” asked a friend.
“Yes,” replied the old lady, “but I’m pes-
tiferinus to know which. Some tell me the
wholesome trade is the best, but I believe the
ringtail will be tho most beneficious to him.”
Somebody has found bat a new way of tak
ing pictures, by which they can be better tak
en in the night than in the day time. A photo
grapher has missed several from the frames
that hang by his door, and dosn’t approve of
the new plan.
“Well. Charley,” said a friendly gent to an
urchin of three y ears on Christmas Day, “what
did you find in your stocking this morning ?”
“Find,” replied the young Iiopeful, “why I
found a big hole.” The questioner gave the
boy one cent.
The latest new tiling. about tlie wedding
celebrations is tlie Sugar Wedding. It is tbe
sweetest thing Hit, and is celebrated at the
end of the honeymoon—thirty days after
the marriage.
Try to do Good.—There arc many ways.
The field is the world, opportunities offer on
every hand, and the ways and means are al
most innumerable. You can speak for God.
You chn recommend religion by your life.
You can point sinners to the Saviour. You
can pray. You can distribute Bibles and
books and 1 tracts. Always carry some one
with you, and sell or give them; scatter them
everywhere; put leaflets in your letters to
friends. You can write; there are religious
papers which will print and scatter your
evangelical seed as on the wings of the wind.
Use these helps; speak through the press;
and wherever you arc, and by all the means
in your power, and in all the* ways open to
yon, try to do good, and you will not live in
vain. God will bless you; and in the great
day many will arise and call you blessed.
Try to do good.
Divine Svmfathy,—“I kaow their sor
row.” Exod. S: 7. Man cannot say so. There
are many sensitive fibres of tho soul tlie best
and tendercst human sympathy cannot touch.
But the Prince of suilcrers, He who led the
way in the path of sorrow, “knoweth our
frame.” When crusting bereavement lies
like ice on the heart, when the dearest earthly
friend cannot enter into the peculiaratics of
grief, Jesus can, Jesus does. He who once
bore my sins, also carried my sorrows. That
eye now on tho throne was once dim with
weeping. I can think, in all my afflictions,
trodcced.
It is stated that Mr. Doolittle will intro
duce a new Freedmen’s Bureau bill to-day,
incorporating the President’s views.
The Chairman of the House Committee on
Freedmen, Mr. Elliott, is preparing a new
bill providing for a Freedmen’s Bureau.
SUFFRAGE IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
New York, Feb. 21.—The Post’s special
»ays: The Senate Committee on the District
of Columbia has decided to report the House
suffrage bill and ask' its immediate passage
by tbe Senate.
AFFAIRS IN TEXAS.
Brigadier General Gregory, Commissioner
of the Freedmen’s Bureau for the State of
Texas, under date of Galveston, Jan. 31st, re
ports to General Howard a very satisfactory
state ot affairs thronghout that State.
A DELEGATION OF MERCHANT TAILORS.
Washington, Jan. 21.—A delegation of
Merchant Tailors arc here from Pennsylvania
and Maryland, joined by some of the trade
in Washington, to appear before the Com
mittee of Ways and Means, with a memorial
to obtain an amendment of the Internal Rev
enue law. They say they are now required
to pay sixty dollars on every thousand of
gross receipts, which they think altogether
too much. They are willing to pay what is
recommended by the Treasury Committee,
viz: $5. on $1,0C0.
PROCEEDINGS OF CONGRESS.
Washington, Feb. 21.—Mr. Garfield, of
Ohio, caused to be read a telegram from
Columbus, Ohio, giving, a report of a
caucus of the Union members of tbe Legis
lature of Ohio. The resolutions recognizes
in tlie action of tbe Union Republicans in
Congress an exposition of their principles,
etc.
The House, by a vote of 108 against 37,
laid on the tabic the motion to reconsider
the vote by which the House yesterday passed
a resolution, to the effect that no Senator or
Representative shall be admitted into either
branch of Congress, from any of the late re
bellious States, until Congress shall first have
declared such State entitled to representa
tion.
Mr. Dawes called up the contested election
case from Indiana, concluding with a resolu
tion that Daniel W. Yoorhecs is not entitled
to the seat now held by him, but that Henry
L. Washburn was entitled to it.
reception of a southern emigration
AGENT IN BRAZIL.
New York, Feb. 21.—The Herald’s Rio
Janiero correspondent of the 20tli, states that
Gen. Wood, the Agent of a number of South
ern Associations of Emigrants, in his explor
ing trip on his arrival at Rio Janiero was re
ceived with courtesy, and attended by the
officials and people generally. He had an
interview with the Emperor and all his min
isters, and received promises of all the land
he required nt the minimum government
irices, immediate citizenship for all colonists,
reedom of religion and the press, control
of their own municipal regulations nnd edu
cational institutes, and free importation for
five years of all necessary articles. From Rio
Janeiro, Wood and party passed into the in
terior of the country, to make an inspection
of it, transportation being furnished them
gratuitously. At tbe towns they were re
ceived with orations, entertainments, balls,
dinners and enthusiastically welcomed. The
General will report favorably on tbe projected
emigration thither.
THE FENIAN CONGRESS.
Pittsburgh, Feb. 20.—Tlie Fenian Con
gress effected a permanent organization to
day. Col. M. Murphy, was re-elected Speak
er of the House, P. F. Rattsford, of Philadel
phia, was elected Secretaiy, anti Captain
Nolan, of Pittsburgh, Sergeant-at-Arms.—
The two Houses then went into joint session,
Jas. Gibbons, President, in thochnir.
The action of the convention is harmonious
and enthusiastic. The determinations is un
animously expressed for immediate, effective
and active measures. The message of Presi
dent Roberts and report of Gen. Sweeney will
bo laid before Congress to-morrow.
A large public meeting was held to-niglit,
at which several large contributions were
made and a large donation of arms prom
ised.
Pittsburg, Feb. 21.—The morning session
of the Fenian Congress assembled this morn
ing and approved ycstbrdayls business. The
Committee on Credentials reported the arri
val of additional members. The Executive
message was read and unanimously received.
President Roherts resigned, and recommend
ed Gen. Sweeney’s election to the Presidency.
INDIANA UNION STATE CONVENTION.
Indianopolis, iDd., Feb. 21.—The Union
State Convention held to-morrow will be
largely attended. A caucus is to be held to
night for general interchange of opinion and
the discussion of the question of indorsing
the President or Congress. The conservative
element seems to be in the ascendancy. Both
sides arp disposed to harmonize.
GENERAL BUTLER.
New York, Feb. 21.—Tho Express states
that B. F. Butler lias paid to Smith Bros., of
New Orleans, the $80,000 in gold which they
alleged lie abstracted from their vaults, to
gether with interest, all costs, and Sheriff’s
charges, making an aggregate of over $150,-
000.
NEW YORK BOARD OF ALDERMEN INDORSE
THE PRESIDENT. .
New York, Feb. 21.—Resolutions were
O’er hill and meadow fa’-
And Minnie, were it not for vou,
I’d gladly slip awa’.
I feel I’m growing auld. gucx wife-
I feel I’m growing auld;
Fra youth to age I’ve kept it warm
The love that ne’er turned cauld ’
I canna hear the dreary thocht
That we maun sundered te,
There’s naething binds my pair old
To earth, gude wife, but thee. ^
I leel I’m growing auld, gude wife—
I.feel I’m growing aula;
Life seems to me a wintry waste,
The very 6un feels cauld.
Of worldly friends ye’ve been to me
Amang them a’ the best.
Now riflay down my weary head.
Gude wile, and be at rest.
ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS APPRoym
BY THE GOVERNOR CONTINUED/
No. 51—An Act to provide for the election a
Town Council for the town of Ringgold in
toosa eounty, in certain cases. 1 111
52— An Act to legalize the acts of John C. Wn
and all other persons in this State acting' U (
dinarics under commission from his Excelk:'
James Johnson, Provisional Governor.
53— An Act to authorize the Justices of the Infer,,
Courts of the County of Heard, to lay and coll,,
a Tax for certain purposes. "
54— An Act to amend an Act incoiporatlnr uJ
Town of Weston, Webster county, Georeia mT/l
cd March 6,1856.
55— An Act to change the time of holding i
Court of Ordinary of this State.
56— An Act to alter and amend paragraph li3J 0
ugl*.
57— An Act to allow Attorneys and Soliciton c
this State to argue their causes in the Suprt&|
Court of Georgia by written argument, andf 1
other purposes.
58— An Act to fix the times of holding the Sape!
lor Courts of this State and for other purpos*!
59— An Act to repeal an Act entitled “An Art til
amend the Charter of the Macon and Weiterrl
Rail Road, assented to December 14,1833. ij, a '|
An Act to amend an Act to amend tbe Chsrterc I
the Macon and Western Rail Koad Company u’l
sented to December 14,1863,” assented to Mari-J
19,1864. I
60— An Act to authorize Artemesia A. E. JonttS
wife of James M. Jones, of Bibb county, tort!
celve any property she is or nay hereafter be »l
titled to by inheritance or otherwise where tb<|
same is not limited over in the same manner
though she were a femme sole. ' J
61— An Act to repeal an Act assented to Decembel
10th, 1803, incorporating the Town of Elbert!
and all Acts amendatory thereof and to re-in E
corporate said town and give the Town Council
“Ho" was afflicted,” in all iny tears, “Jesus | unanimously adopted by the Board ot Aldei
wept”—Macduff. “ men to-day, indorsing the President’s veto.
of said town certain powers hereafter specified I
62— An Act to amend the 3934 and 3985 sections oil
Code of Georgia
63— An Act to amend an Act to incorporate tb
Town of Smithville, in Lee -county, and to cot-
fer other powers on the same.
64— An Act to change, define and make perms,
nent the county line between Irwin and Wilco:
counties.
65— An Act to alter and amend an Act to.constitnt
the town of Cuthbert, Randolph connty.acitr
to provide for tlie election of officers, define tf
powers of the several officers of the city os w,
as said corporation,, to extend the limits of Cu(
bert, and for other purposes, assented to Di
her 19,1859.
66— An Act to change the time of holding the
ferior Courts in the counties of Floyd, Pi
Paulding and Campbell of the Tallapoosa
cult
67— Ah Act to authorize the Inferior Court of
den county to regulate and prescribe the rata
ferriage in said county, and for other purposes
68— An Act to repeal the 2d serf ion of an Act e
titled an Act lo provide for tlie payment of
cere presiding at the polls on elections here
to be held in Taliaferro connty,and for other
poses therein mentioned.
69— An Act for the relief of Arthur Hutchison of
countv of Campbell, administrator on the esi
of Benjamin G. Barker deceased,against a tax:
fi fa issued by the Tax Collector of the countj
Clinch.
76—An Act for the relief oT Terry I-. Cox, a com
in the Penitentiary of Georgia.
71— An Act to relieve certain persons herein n
from jury service in the several courts in
State.
72— An Act for the relief oi Isaac Hardeman, of
county of Jones.
73— An Act to reduce the bond of the Sheriff
Forsyth county.
74— An Act to incorporate the Chattahoi
Mining Company.
75— An act to change the county line between
counties of Lee and Terrell, to add a portion
Lee to the county of Terrell, and for other
poses. n-
76— An Act to authorize tlie Justices of the Inf
or Court of Scriven county to levy a tax for
support of the widows and orphans of dei
or disabled soldiers of said county.
77— An Act to declare valid all official acts oi dh
officers (both principaland deputies) of this S*»2
whether said officers have been pardoned by til
President of the U. S. or not.
78— An Act to repeal an Act entitled “An Act tj
encrease the per diem pay of teachers entitled w
the benefit of the poor school fund of this State,!
assented to March 3d, 1865, and for other pel
poses.
79— An Act to amend the 6th, 8tb, and llth «<■
tions of an Act incorporating the town of Geor; f
town In Quitman county, and to add ac.diti” 3
sections thereto.
80— An Act to extend the time in relation to i
ing grants on head rights so as to extend the t
for the same until the 25tli day of Decembi
1868, and to authorize the Secretary of Staten
issue grants to ali surveys now in offic
81— An Act to incorporate the town of Ste
in the county of Newton, and to confer upon flj
citizens of said town the privilege of cicct
Commissioners with certain rights and pov
therein enumerated.
82— An act to authorize the appointment of Yes
due Masters in the several incorporated to*
and cities of this State.
83— An Act to amend section S830 of the Code i
Georgia.
84— Au Act for the relief of Martha A. I .ester, I
the county of Fulton.
85— An Act to repeal an Act to amend the.Cbsftl
and corporate laws of the city of Milled.-!
villc, as to the mode of electing Aldermen, ‘l
serted to March 7th, 1865.
RESOLUTION 3.
2.5—Resolution requesting the Comptroller Gene;
al to furnish certain information in regerd tetr
Banks of this State.
2*3—Resolution requesting » mail route to bee
tablished from Doctor town to Ocraulgceville. |
WORK, WORK t
Now, Isbould like just to set before
large assembly ono or two liappy statement!
of divine truth, compressed in a very ft’j
words, set forth in clear and pointed foir"
which, like a nail in a sure place, liavo ta’
possession of very many niinds, and, i» I
answer for myself, have held possession
my own mind for many years. When I r
about to enter on the ministry, I was one (
engaged in conversation with a very dear <
Christian friend, who has long since gone J
his rest. He said to me: “You are about
be ordained ? ( ’ I replied, “Yes, I hope inj
few months.” “Well,” said he, “when f
are ordained, preach to sinners ns you t
them: tell them to believe in the Lord J«
Christ, nnd they shall be as safe as if
had got to heaven: and tell them then i
work like horses.” Now, I think that is *
admirable tract. We there have divine trt
presented to us in a verry good form, and J
such a shape as will assuredly take posses"^
of the mind. “Preach to sinners as yon
them.” . No preperation: just as you
them ; just as they arc brought within j
hearing; just as, in the providence of <
they arc submitted to your ministry, ‘ ‘u
them to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ,!
they shall be as safe as if they had go? 1 ]
heaven.” h: • •
And then wc are to tell them to work, i
They arc to work from love to Christ;
are not to work in order that they may*
tain salvation, but to work because they 1'
obtained it. Having mentioned that t:
let me mention another. - Many yeare ag*l
dear Christian lady lent me a veiy old be-1
which is, I believe, now out of print. J-s
turned over the leaves of that book, I ft-
that it contained sundry verses which
rather rude in their structure; but though'
setting was rude, tbe gospel shone out t
There was one passage marked by the f
old lady—a passage with which I was
delighted that I read it again and agaift
which fastened itself in my mind. Inm 1,
peat it to the meeting:
“Ah, I am black, and yon are black;
' Wc all arc black by sin;
And only God can know how black
All of us are within.
Can Jesus ever look on such ?
Yes, blessed be bis name,
This is the state he found ns iu,
By nature still tho 6amc.”
Here was precious truth conveyed in
words, conveyed in a brief form, and con^
cd in such a way as was calculated to
an impression on the mind and ti e
that would remain for maty yean—"
of Huron.
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