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. — Tlie (Georgia, "Weekly Telegraph, —.. Gen. Grant—Tli© TeawenfCMBee Bill/ and the CongresslonaS Majority. { We published on the fourth page of yest;-* day’s Teleobaph, the disclosures of a Hen-1 Washington correspondent on the new ad sharp issue between Gen. Grant and Cocoes* upon the repeal of the Tenure of Office ML Hardiy less piquant and interesting a the following from the Washington correspond ent of the New York Worid upon the same subject: Gen. Grant has on three oeoasioDs\*' nce Tuesday, expressed his intention, in t^L’® 3 worthy in emphasis of Andrew JacksoD, to have the Civil Tenure bill repealed. His first utterance of the kind was to Washburne, at his (Grant’s) residence on I street, on Tuesday night, after the receipt of that day’s World containing the disclosures of Butler’s dcdg e to have the bill repealing the Civil Tenure act lie over till after a day long enough to lit Mr. Johnson pocket it with fatal effect. Jf- • Yesterday morning a Senator of the Skte of Missouri, just about to depart home fcr the recess, called to pay his respects and to say good-bye to Gen. Grant,at his headquarters. The conversation got on to politics, and the Senator rnude the imitative remark: ‘•General. I think the Civil Tenure law has worked badly, and will work worse.’V To this opinion Gen. G/aut replied exactly in the following words: ‘•I think so, too. I aca glad you think so. That law must be really repealed before I begin.” Two Congressmen came to see him. One was Mr. Washburne. The other is said to have been Senator Stewart, though some say it was Senator Williams. To these gentlemen Gen. Grant declared that he believed a purpose existed not to repeal tho Civil Tenure bill in good faith, and that Congress had better understand that, if there was any double dealing de signed there was another Congress to fix things straight. •» This in truthful substance, almost in lito ral words, is what Gen. Grant said to these two Congressmen yesterday afternoon. Gen. Grant said “he wanted it understood that he thought the Congress of 1S69-70 must meet in March.” Gen. Grant said the same day that “he wanted it understood that the Civ il Tenure bill must be really repealed before he began.” This means that Gen. Grant believes the Civil Tenure law will not he “really” re pealed by this Congress.' •- It means that he intends to have the next Congress meet and “really” repeal it “before ne begins.” Gen. Grant demands that Congress shall back down from the Civil Tenure law and leave him as free-handed as Abraham Lincoln was. I will try to show that plain facts prove Congress to be opposed to the repeal of the act. No one has even proposed to repeal it except Gen. Butler. He merely introduced the repeal bill without a word of comment, or statement to tell what the bill was. The gravamen of impeachment was al leged violation of the Civil Tenure law. The burden of impeachment speeches was glorifi cation of the law. Mr. Williams and Mr. Wil son made elaborate arguments to prove its constitutionality and policy, and insist that it be a permanent part of the government This Judiciary Committee must report the bill Butler offered, if it be reported at all. The committee met every day of the two weeks’ session. During all these meetings, fourteen in all, the bill was never even named once. Every day the committee adjourned for want of business, therefore they did not con sider it their business to take up the bill. Tbe committee are undoubtedly opposed to the bill. Tbe House undoubtedly follows the committee. Business languished every day in the House. Beo. Butler never once asked after or for his bill. This proves he has no desire to bring it up nofv In the Senate cot even a motion has been made touching the repeal of the law. It is regarded as a permanent part of the govern mental machinery. Thirty-five Senators voted to convict the President as guilty of violating this act. Of.these thirty-five every one who made remarks justifying his vote, applauded the law as not good merely for a day, but for all time. These thirty-five are one more than a majority of the Senate now. They have been reinforced by Southern Sena tors who slavishly agree with them. The Sen ate are committed to the law and cannot re scind it without stultification. The repeal of the law would deprive the Senate of what they believe (or profess to believe) one of their constitutional prerogatives. The Senate are very strict to adhere to the Constitution —as they understand it. The law give3 to the Senate the practical power of appoint ment. and enables them to dictate the reten tion of whom they will. This power makes many Senators rich. It is plain that the Sen ate will not repeal the law “ really,” as Grant puts it. But the dodge, as seen,” was to ap pear to repeal it, yet insure the pocketing of the repeal by the President out of spite against Grant. Thisdodge has been exposed. There- stilt of the exposureis that Gen.Grant substan tially issued yesterday the first proclamation of President Grant, convening the Forty-first Congress in March, with the express purpose of having the Civil Tenure law really repealed. It is felt to-day in Washington that the Congress cannot repeal the law, and that it will stand. It is felt that calling the Forty- first Congress will not help matters a whit That body will not have the two-thirds in the House to enslave the Executive. Not having two-thirds makes Grant a majority and Congress a minority in case of a contro versy. Besides, in all proportional respects, and nearly in all individual respects, the Senate of the Forty-first Congress will not relinquish an emolument and a power to any President who dictates before he is inaugurated. . It is felt—and Washington is accurately acute to catch the real meaning of events that an irreparable breach has been made between the President to be and the Con gress as is, which the Congress to be will only aggravate. Cost of Canal and Railroad Trans portation.—At the meeting on the 17th in- • stant of the polytechnic lecture of the Amer ican Institute, Mr. McAlpine, the eminent Engineer and President ot the American Society of Civil Engineering, ^ spoke of the great importance ot canal traffic. He stated that the freight traffic from.the West over the Erie canal to tidewater is greater than that of all the trunk railroads leading into New York. Last summer one hundred uDd fifty canal-boats passed into Albany every day, bringing with them two hundred and sixty tons of freight each ; while an entire train only carried two hundred and fifty tons. He spoke strongly against the enormous charges exacted for carrying freight on railroads, and tho general mismanagement of tho railroads. The present cost of freight traffic ought to be reduced at least two-thirds.. No railroads have ever been located in this country with a view to the direct transportation of freight. Owing to the sys tem of shutting off freight trains to permit the passage of passenger trains the time em ployed ; n the transmission of trains was dou bled, and consequently the expenses largely increased. A train on the rails not in mo tion was nearly as expensive to the company as if it were in motion. Practically, the on ly difference was in tbe wearing ot the ma chinery and of the rails. Mr. McAlpine call- ed on the rising generation to provide dirbet and cheap transportion, and not to neglect the immense advantages of canal transporta tion. One benefit he might point out was its cheapness. It would cost seventy-five dollars a ton to send freight to San Francisco by (raii, a distance of about 3,000 miles. It was 19,100 round the Horn to the same city, s® 1, it would coat but twenty dollars a ton to ih'F it by that route.—New Tod: Stockholder. It is now stated that that remarkable “The Opium Habit,” was written by Mr. Hi Day, of New Haven, who has eaten ovei pounds of opium, but who freed himself the habit in less than six weeks when he up his mind to it. In western Now York lives a man uann who has had thirty-one children '•>>' on ' 3 He is both a Ring and a patriarch- 1HE TELEGRAPH. MACON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1SG9. The Atjgcsta and Macon Railroad.—The Augusta Constitutionalist, of the 31st, says: We had the pleasure of a call from George H. Hazlehurst, Esq., Chief Engineer of the above road, yesterday, and through him learned that the City Council of Macon subscribed on Mon day night last for fifty thousand dollars of addi tional stock to this important enterprise. The citizens of Macon are fully aroused to the im portance of an early completion of the road, and liberal individual subscription will also be made. We learn, also, that President Magrath, of the South Carolina Road, and Judge King, of the Georgia Road, were in consultation in this city yesterday, as to the best means of pushing the Macon Road through from ASllede- villo at once. The distance from the latter place to Macon is only thirty miles, more than one-half of which distance is already graded and ready for the iron. If Judge King and Colonel Magrath will only determine to have the line completed, they have the means, and can put it through in a few months. This is on important [connection both for Augusta and Charleston, and we trust that it will not be per mitted to lie neglected any longer. Rough Weather on the Atlantic.—Accord ing to the reports of marines recently arrived from sea, the weather on the Atlantic, the past month, has been unusually severe, with violent gales and storms, and many vessels have put in to Bermuda and other ports to repair damages, after vainly endeavoring to reach a Norther* port; while those that have succeeded in reach ing their destinations were seriously crippled in loss of spars and sails. Some of the Western bound ocean steamers are now making long pas sages. The Ctrnard steamer Tarifa, Captain Murphy, is twenty days out from Liverpool, bound to Boston, with ten cabin and one hun dred and seven steerage passengers on board, but as she is a staunch ship, no serious appre hension of disaster is felt. The steamer United Kingdom, which sailed four days before her, has just arrived at New York. Gen. Grant and the President. Speculating upon the supposed hostile person al relations of Gen. Grant and the President, the newspapers have wondered whether General Grant would extend the customary New Year’s official civilities to the Chief Magistrate. The telegrams, however, state that his staff made a formal official New Year’s calL Indeed, if we may judge from the Herald, there is a good deal of misapprehension in respect to the character of these personal relations. That paper says there is no doubt that amicable relations between the President and General Grant will soon be re-established. The Christmas amnesty procla mation received the entire approbation of the President elect before Mr. Johnson’s signature was put to it, and as it is well known that the Genera] has been consulted on various other State matters it is fair to presume that nothing remains to confirm the entente eordialc between the outgoing and incoming Executives but the formal shaking of hands. General Grant is de termined to have peace. B. A. Wise. Our indefatigable neighbor in tb : House Fur nishing line makes his New Year’s announce ment to-day. Mr. Wise’s arrangements for business are very perfect. Everything of Euro pean manufacture which he deals in, including all descriptions of crockery and mantel and ta ble ornaments of porcelain, glass and bronze - household and pocket cutlery, and many other matters he imports directly to Savannah, and can supply by the wholesale as cheaply in Macon as they can be bought in the Northern markets— thus offering a great convenience and economy to country dealers, who can rely upon being able to retail these articles as cheaply as they are re tailed in Macon. His stocks of goods are am ple and embrace a variety too great for specifi cation. W. A. Huff Announces his programme in his usual style this morning. His arrangements, it will be seen, are complete and extensive. They comprehend establishments in Tennessee for slaughtering and preparing meat and lard for market, and for buying and collecting from first hnpttg, and shipping to this market, the enormous supplies of all kinds of provisions, breadstuff's and for age, which Mr. Huff weekly distributes in Mid dle Georgia. The existence and vast operations of such a house are very creditable to the en terprise and sagacity of its proprietor, but for the good of Georgia, we would far rather its energies and capital were employed exclusively in collecting and distributing Georgia raised sup plies. We hope the time may come when nei ther Mr. Huff nor any other corn and provision dealer, will have to go out of Georgia to get the most ample supplies and still do a vast business in the collection and distribution of bread and meat crops of our own production. We do not think it will be many years before this consuma- tion will be realized. The fertile regions of Northern Georgia ought certainly to produce a surplus ample for all deficiencies in the other other sections. Findlay Hilling and Manufacturing Company. This company has been partially reorganized by the election of some new directors who are well known to the public as efficient business men, and it is now calling for additional capital. We refer the reader to their advertisement for terms and conditions of the new subscription. Tho effort to utilize the fine buildings, machine ry, and material left by the late Robert Find lay, and which have been leased by this company on advantageous terms, has too much of prac tical common sense in the idea to fail, with any reasonable management. The establishment it self was the natural outgrowth and development of tho public necessities originally, and a far more active and urgent necessity for it now ex ists, ana is rapidly impending, »ly>n its projector ever saw. Let men, who have the capital to spare (and there are many such), come up with additional subscriptions sufficient to start again all this idle capital and machinery. It is bound to develops into a handsome business and a profitable stock, if backed as it shonld be. The University of the gonth. reader is aware that for several years the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Southern States, have been maturing arrangments for the establishment of a grand central literary and theological school of a high order. Before the war, the site had been selected in a highly Balhbrions region of Tennessee; but the dis orders of the period precluded further progress^ Tbe “University of the South," however, is now in operation, and we have the satisfaction of referring the reader to itsfirst announcement, in our advertising columns. Gehtin & Toeulten.—See card of these gen tlemen. Mr. W. B. Griffin of the old house of W. B. Grinin & Co., of Savannah and Mr. John F. Trenlton of Eufaula, Ain - ., have formed a co partnership for the transaction of factorage and commission business in Savannah, Georgia. They are both well known to many of our readers jig to business capacity and integrity. Augusta Daily Press.—The first number cf < this successor to the National llepublicanreached na yesterday. It is a small, well printed and in dustriously edited sheet. *, :V.-'” ‘ OUTRAGEOUS CONDUCT OF THE 0GEECHEE NEGROES. White Men Shot at, Beaten and Driven from the Plantations. 038 MAX SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEES MUR DERED. Tbe Women and Children In the Hands of a L&uleu Gang of Negroes. NOTHING KNOWN AS TO WHAT HAS BEEK DONE WITH THEM. HOUSES PLUNDERED AND GOODS DESTROYED BY THE BLACKS THEY DECLAReIEaT THEY HAVE COMMENCED WAS. NO WHITE HAN TO BE FER9fITTE2> TO LIVE ON THE OGEECHEE- From the Savannah Morning Jtw Extra, Dec. 30:4.] In the Morning News of to-day we gave a detailed account of Sheriff Dooner’s trip to the Ogeechee river plantations, to arrest a party of negroes, against whom warrants had been issued for larceny and assault with in tent to murder. The Sheriff and his officers barely escaped with their lives, and the scenes which occurred while they were down in that country, among the negroes, they state to be indescribable. The negroes acted like a pack of demons; they could scarcely refrain from slayiDg the party, and shouted, yelied and conducted themselves in a most outrageous manner. They appeared to be thoroughly organized, armed with new mus kets, with bayonets, and to have regular leaders, or captains, who directed all their movements. Negroes whom the white gen tlemen had never seen before, and whom they did not know, suddenly appeared, and were recognized as leaders by the negroes. ESCAPE OF CAPT.TUCKER AND MAJ.MIDDLBTON The Sheriff and his posse were accompa nied to tbe plantations by Capt. J. F. Tuck er and Major Mott Middleton. These gen tlemen also went back to station No. 1 with, and left them there, and then returned to their own plantations. Finding that there was some trouble brewing, and hearing threats against their lives, they started on horseback to leave that section and return to the city. Knowing that the negroes were in the vicinity of station No. 1, they struck off in another direction, reached the river, were terried across, and arrived at No. 1 1-2 just as the train was leaving there for Savannah. They were taken on board, and arrived at this city early this morning. SUBSEQUENT RIOTOUS ACTS OF THE NEGROES. Having driven off the Sheriff and his offi cers, the negroes appear to have divided them selves into companies, each under command of a captain, and they thus marched back to the plantations. On their way they met George Baxley, one of Mr. Middleton’s over seers, whom they surrounded in the woods and robbed of bis gun and everything that he bad about him. One of them struck him with the butt of a musket, and they threat ened to kill him. The negro women ap peared particularly anxious to have him murdered. Finally, however, they released him, and he started off through the woods to Southfield Plantation. When near there he heard shots fired and shouts and yells. He met his brother, a lad of twelve years of age, who had fled from tbe place, and who told him that a gang of negroes had been there, sacked the houses, and driven his father way. The two then turned in an op posite direction, ascertained tbe route taken by Messrs. Middleton and Tucker, and pro ceeded to follow them. Arriving at the river, they found an old canoe, and met a fisher man who was also endeavoring to escape. The latter and the boy got into the canoe, and started across. It was not large enough to contain the whole party, and George Bax ley had to swim the river. Having put tbe stream between themselves and the negroes, they proceeded to make their way to this city. They were pursued all the way to the river bank by a gang of the blacks. THEIR OPERATIONS AT SOUTHFIELD PLANTA TION. About four o’clock in the afternoon one company of negroes, numbering about twen ty, with muskets and fixed bayonets, headed by a captain, with a sword, came marching up the road to Southfield plantation. Mr. Reddic Baxley, R. C. Winn and James Don nell were in the barn yard. The negroes came into the enclosure and proceeded to at tack two colored men who were employed as watchmen on the plantation. These men, Fortune Brown and George Bunyan, ran, and shots were fired at them by the party. One negro was seen to run up to Fortune and make a lunge at him with a bayonet. He fell, but whether he was killed or not is not known, as none of the white men saw him afterwards. The negroes then turned to Mr. Baxley and demanded to know where Mr. Middleton had gone, at the same time utter ing the most horrible imprecations against that gentleman and George Baxley, swearing that they would kill them. They pointed their muskets at Baxley, and declared they would kill him if he did not tell them tbe truth. He made answer that he believed they had gone over to Bryan county. This party then went off in the direction of the river. ATTACK UPON MR. WINN. In the yard, one of the negroes had point ed a pistol at Mr, Winn, and threatened to shoot him. After this gang left, he went from the yard to his house, situated out on the road. As he reached it he saw another company coming up. Feeling himself pow erless to make any resistance against such a crowd, be stood in the doorway of his house and awaited their coming. His frightened wife and children gathered about him, all expecting that the negroes were coming to murder them. When about fifty yards from the dwelling they motioned to Winn to leave the door; and he, expecting they were going to shoot, jumped out in front of the house, and away from the door, to save his wife ana* children from being fired at. As he jumped he was caught by the arms by two negroes who had come up, and they held him while a third struck him a tremendous blow over the right eye with the butt of a musket He fell senseless at their feet, and the blood flowed profusely from the wound. The scoun drels, supposing him to be dead, left his place. On recovering Air. Winn arose from the ground, and sat down upon a chair, with the blood still streaming from his wounded forehead. While sitting there, another ne gro came up, cocked and pointed a musket at his wife, saying—“You’ve got a gun in there,—you, bring it out here.” She gave the negro the gun, when he said there was another, and be wanted that also. She then S ave him a rifle which was in the house, and e went away after saying to Winn, that he had better leave quick, or they would mur der him. His wife implored him to go, say ing that she and the children would beg pro tection and shelter from tbe negro women at the quarters, and if that was refused, would try aud make their way to the city. He then left the house and proceeded about fifty yards out into a field, where he lay down in the high grass to conceal himself until dark. ATTACK UPON MR. BAXLEY. After the first gang quitted the premises Air. Baxley left the yard and went up to his house. He was sitting in oae of the rooms when the gang which had attacked Winn came up to his door. Some of them march ed intp the house and ordered him to come out. As he was in the act of rising from the chair, be was siezed by two or three of 'them and dragged out into the entry, where he was suddenly struck on the back of the head with the butt of a musket. A second blow on the side of the head felled him senseless to tlie floor. When he recovered his senses the negroes were aronnd him kicking him. They then dragged him out side, and told him that they intended to k ; Jl and throw him into the swamp for the buzzards to eat, and told lum to prepare to die. They beat and punched him with their muskets, and finally fired. ii volley at him, The balls vrimtle 1 close p ist him, but lie was not struck. They then told him to run for his life, and as he ran they fired another! volley at him. He went about a hundred and fifty yards from his house and hid in a ditch. WHAT THE NEGROES SAID. While lying in the ditch Air. Baxlc-y heard several parties of the negroes, who came close to his hiding place, declare that they would kill Air. Aliddleton aud George Baxley, and that no white man should ever live on the Ogeechee neck again ; that they were ful ly armed and organized, and would hold tlieir position. THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THEIR HANDS. All the white men having been driven away JWinn's) wife and two children started over to Baxley's. Here they met Mr. Ik Baxley’s wife.-Mr. George Baxley’s wife and their children. They then started to go to the nagro quarters, to beg the negro women to take them in and protect them. As they were crossing the yard a crowd of the ne groes came up and stopped them. In a few minutes they started up the river, driving the defenceless womon and children ahead of them. Mr. WinD, from his place of con cealment, witnessed this transaction,!but was powerless to prevent it. What has become of these poor people is not known; nothing but outrages, perhaps murder, could be ex pected from those who thus dragged them off THE HOUSES THUNDERED. The negroes next turned their attention to Basley’s house. The provisions and such things as pleased them, they carried off. Air. Winn saw them taking out goods and heard them smashing the crockery and furniture, all the time whooping, yelling and scream ing like devils let loose upon earth. They made Air. Middleton’s house their headquar ters, and occupied it all during the night. The provisions, and some/rther things which suited their fancy, they carried off. SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN KILLED. The negroes also attacked James Donnell, a white watchman. Winn saw them strike him with the butt of a musket, and after wards heard shots fired, and heard them yell ing. Nothing has since been seen or heard of Donnell, and it is feared that he has been murdered. Fortune Brown is also supposed to have been killed. George Bunyan escaped by concealing himself in a large fan, at the rice mill, until dark, when be left the prem ises. The negroes are very bitter against the two last named. ESCAPE OF WINN AND BAXLEY. Shortly after dark all became quiet, and Winn ventured from his place of conceal ment. The negroes had left that immediate vicinity, and nothing could be seen Or heard of them. Air. Baxley’s dog, which they had shot, was howling piteously with pain, and the plantation dogs, finding nobody at the houses, were running around, barking and hunting their masters. Winn proceeded cau tiously forth, and was hailed by Baxley, who had just crawled up out of the ditch. Wound ed, faint and bleeding, they bound up their wounds the best they could, and traveled through the woods all night, reaching town early this morning. Their injuries were at tended to, and the two men then taken be fore the authorities to make their statements. THE ROADS PICKETED. This morning Mr. Waller, residing below Middleton’s place, attempted to come to the city with his family, fearing further trouble. He found a heavy force at No. 1, with pick ets out, and all approaches guarded. He was compelled to go to No. 1 1-2 to take the train for Savannah. Another gentleman who attempted to come in by the Ogeechee road was stopped, questioned, and foundj great difficulty in making his way to the city. THE INTENTION OF THE NEGROES. The declared object of the negroes, in these outrages, is to make it impossible for white men to live in that section, and then take possession of the plantations themselves. They now have matters in their own hands. They have seized upon the houses, and hold under their control the rice mills, and several thousand bushels of rice, which will probably all be stolen ere they can be ejected. WHERE THEIR ARMS CAME FROM. Parties in -this city keep the negroes sup plied with new muskets and bayonets, for which they receive an equivalent in rice. This matter should be looked into by the au thorities, and the miscreants guilty of such conduct, brought to justice, and a rope’s end. SWORN AFFIDAVITS OF WINN AND BAXLEY. The following affidavits were made this morning by Messrs. Winn aud Baxley: State of Georgia, Chatham County :—Be fore me, Henry S. Wetmore, Ordinary of said county, personally came and appeared Red- din Baxley, who being duly sworn, deposeth and says: I live on the Ogeecliee, at Southfield Plantation. I am overseer of that planta tion. About four o’clock on the afternoon of the 29 th of December, I was in the barn yard, when I saw a body of fifteen or twenty ne groes coming up the road. They were armed with muskets, some of which had bayonets on them. There was a man at the head of the party armed with aswrod.who appeared to be captain of the gang. They came into the barn yard where I was and asked me where Air. Middleton had gone, and threat ened to kill me if I did not give them truth ful information. I told them that he had gone over to Bryan county. They chased two colored meD, one named Fortune the other named George Bunyan, who were watchmen in the fields, and shot at them. I saw a bayonet lunged at Fortune, but do not know whether it struck him or not. I have not seen him since. Banyan hid in a fan in the mill and escaped. They presented guns at my breast, and offered to strike me with the butts of their muskets, if I did not tell where Mr. Aliddleton had gone. They said that they intended to kill both Mr. Middle- ton and my son, and went off in the direction of Bryan county. I then locked up the mill and went to my house, when another party came up. There were about twenty in the second party. They came right into my house, presented their guns at me, and said that they intend ed to kill me. I raised up out of my chair, and as I did so they seized and dragged me outside of the door of my room. They knocked me down in the passage way with muskets; one struck me on the back, another on the sido of the head. I was knocked senseless. When I came to. my senses they were kicking me. They then dragged me down the door steps, and took mo up before their whole party, telling me that they would put me out in the swamp, and let tbe buz zards eat me. They kept punching me in tbe back with their guns, and told me to prepare to die. They loaded up their guns and fired at me, the balls whistling all around me, but none of them struck me. They then told me .to double-quick, and I ran. They fired at me again as I ran. They hal lowed at me, “clear yourself, you rebel . If ever we catch you here again, we’ll murder you. Before they let me go they took away everything I had in my pockets, and said that if I would not give them the money they would go to my house and make my wife give it up. After getting away from them I bid in a ditch. While I was there I heard parties who passed my hi ding place say that war had now commenced and that no white men should ever live on the Ogeechee again. About eight o’clock at night I crawled out of the ditch. I saw Mr. Winn coming along and hailed him. I also, while in the ditch, heard them say that they had formed companies, and had captains, and were going to hold their positions. They alap 6woro that they would kill Mr. Middle- ton and my son George Baxley. Air. Winn and myself made our way to town, through the woods. I recognized one of the party who assaulted me. R. Baxley. Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 80th day of December, A. D., 1868. Henry S. Wetmore, Ordinary C. C. State of Georgia, Chatham .C^knUj—Before me, Henry S. Wetmore, Oh county, personally came and* ard C. Winn, who being duly eth and says: Hive at Soufchfi on the Ogeechee river; lam rif On the afternoon of the 29th < saw an armed body of negrijfes aary of said ipeared Rich- forn, depos- l Plantation, center there. Ibecember, I lame into the arithmetic, book- barnyarcl and chase Fortune and George | Agricultural Education. Bunyan. They fired at them, and said to j From the Baltimore Sun.] each other: Kill the —.kill 1 . . , „ . _ , „„„„ , them. I said: Have mercy on them ; don’t I oi A Jul ?> I862 > whlch ( kill the boys. One of them presented a re- ; *PP™P at n ed Jffl bl . lc la “ d ? tbe a “ ount 0 volver at me, and said : Damn you, we’ll fix j 10,000,000 of acres to the endowment you off time enough. I then came out of the * S® 9 f or l ? 8t ! ucti0n “ agriculture and barnyard, and went towards my house. This j ge “eebante arts, has opened for solution to party then went off, as I suppose, in pursuit ^se engaged in cdncaUonal practice a prob- of Air. Aliddleton and others When I got j • lnter 1 e8 K t a “ d €( l ual Acuity, to tbe house I saw another crowd coming up i - de t s ’S ced th ® * aftct “ ent >> e the road.8 They came within-fifty yards of i » ** ™ ds aathor of the my house, and motioned to me to come out; f hl ’-^ ‘ , c ? m 1 • bill proposes to es- away from the door. Aly family were stand-! ab! ‘ sh Q at le . as ^college m every State ing in the doorway, and, fearing that they j Jl. a £U .^ e and P er P® U . 1 , a foundation, acces- would shoot and kill some of my folks, I i t0 all f ’, but <*pec.ally to the sons of toil, jumped away from tbe door. As I jumped 1 ^ Cre adthe ne . edfbl fences for the practi- I was caught by two of them; they took 1 c “* avocatlo , n ? of life shall be taught-where hold of my arms, and as they did so, another neitbe , r tbe bl .S bcr S ra ?, es of classical studies, struck me on the right temple with the butt I nor , 1 m,bt . a ty drill our country now so of a musket. I bled profuiely. They then [ greatly appreciates will be entirely ignored, asked me if I was one of the men who had • and wbere agriculture, the foundation or all made the report I told them no. They then j P resent and futur ? prosperity, may look for It is a tonic of acnera! and t, mTO ; no left me and went to Mr. Baxley’s. A negro ; tr °op so - earnest fiends, studying its familiar) i wel? worth v of the best at'tmf came ud afterwards and made mv wife "ive recondite economies, and at last eleva- late < > well worthy of the best atteu- S£ m, p t £SIEMS “as j fit * <*. m m* >»» •< w**-** leave there, that if I did not they would kill j ■ e i ir eis ^’ ) lavo ^ e comparison with the most me. I then went off and lay down in the j ac f 7an c c d standards of the world. The bill high grass. While there, I saw my family , Ef. es , , r eac l 1D S objects, but properly, as_I and Mr. Baxter’s family go to the negro quar- : \ eavea .f° tbe 8t a f es considerable lati- tersto ask for protection. Before they reached ; * ude V? car rying out the practical details.” there they met a company of negro soldiers, j lu the words of the law itself, the endow- who turned them back. The last I Eaw of ls * or support and maintenance of overseer of accounts, i keeping and surveying. “ Seventy-one mode! farm schools were in operation in 1851, with over 1500 students in attendance on r, courseof practical instruction extending through three years. “The district or regional schools are a higher grade of schools oi theoretical and practical agriculture. They have three ob jects in view: “First. To form enlightened agriculturists by teaching them the principles of agricul ture. - “Second. To offer an example, or model of practical agriculture of a high order and constantly advancing. “Third. To make experiments for improv ing the cultivation of the soil.”—Bernard's National Education- in Europe. We propose to continue in future numbers the examination of European schools of agri culture, with a view to comparison with our them, they were being marched off at the ■ *?. ast oa ®.college (in each State) where the head of this gang. A crowd broke into Mr. lading ^object shall be, without excluding Mr. Baxter’s house and carried off his goods., , H scientific and classical studies, and in- I could hear them breaking up and destrov- ; military tactics, to teach such ing things. They shot Air. Baxley’s dog in ! tranches of learning as are related to agncnl- the house. I lay in the grass until dark, when I ture a “ d t ,.. e m ®cbamc arts, m order to pro- I got up and started lor town. I met Mr. ; “ ot ® tae liberal and practical education of Baxley and we dfcne on to town through the ; the industrial classes in the several pursuits woods. Richard C. Whin. : and profe^ions of life.” Sofhday ^fDwtmb^AHL, 1868° ^ f °- sterea g|cufture''by toaTffing^^iSly’.the * henry 8 Wetmore sciences bearing upon it, and their practical O-dinarv Chathar^Sntv application. So strong and general is this ordinary Gbatbam County. i mpre ssion, that the act is commonly called *what 13 to be DO]SE ? the u agricultural college law.” Yet mechanic These statements have been furnished the , arts are in its terms placed in immediate con- authorities, and what they will do in the nection with agriculture, military tactics is premises remains to be seen. Immediate ac- : included in its requirements, and all without tion of some kind is imperative, to rescue “ excluding other scientific and classical the women and children from the hands of studies.” The use of the word “ liberal,” in these fiends, and to teach them that law and the same connection, helps us to the inter order must and shall be respected. pretation. Special scientific instruction first excitement in the city. j agriculture and then in the mechanic arts, The rumors of these troubles have created a 5 d w ,’. tb tbem such liberal culture as general intense excitement throughout the city, and edaaatl0n demands, the people are greatly exasperated by the ; The law contemplates, apparently, schools reports. We have presented here all reliable i or a PP.li e( J science:in combination with that facts that have transpired up to this time. i °^ cudure wb,c ^ was looked for in our _ ; old systems. i Three States, Maryland, Pennsylvania and | Michigan, had agricultural colleges already A Ray of Hope. T T‘t*i??uoL I>{,p!, ‘ ch ' ] , jin existence when the law of Congress was « 8 r hH^ J!?^L^ p08,t . ,0n8 ! 0r C0 “" enacted, all of which embraced the same idea, 6 a retu £ n to s P e .? le j and provided in their courses of instruction, K. a S i PM1 * i >y R- the n0W fam ? as Jay lor in their general plao, for special scientific Cooke. A Philadelphia paper says that Air. j instruction, with labor in the field or the ™°lre has laid before the authorities at ; workshops, and that general course embraced Washington a carefully prepared plan not; in 0U r older colleges: ?“ - //° r f ac ^. 0 . m P^ 1 ® bin o . tbis des ? rabIa ; Since the Congressional enactment, Con- but for funding the national debt. The de- i necticut, Alassachusetts, Rhode Island, New tails are not given, but that Air. Cooke lias, at j Y or k Hew Hampshire, Vermont, Iowa, Wis- . - , - - r , . . least, one correct notion upon the subject, is j C onain, West Virginia, New Jersey? Ken- incensed wite, took her departure leav- evident We quote: tucky, California, Maine, Kansas and Illinois, I “« th ? g? llant ? a P tain sad ‘y contemplating “It contemplates, among other things, such j m „ k i n V with the three first named, eighteen | the unJ ucky contretemps, a policy toward the Southern States, as will j i n a q t have established new colleges, or ap- ' T hasten the development of their resources and ; p i iec i to existing institutions the proceeds of i To True-hearted People of Geor- put them m a condition to take care of them- the land grant. I selves, and contribute their share toward the • j n Rhode Isiand the land fund was voted ! Again we come before you to plead the common burdens. By accepting in good faith, j by the Legislature to Brown University, i cause ot our unboned dead. As you may A Dead Husband has Another Family. The New Orleans papers tell of an unsol- dierly trick played by one Captain Hukle, formerly of Springfield, Massachusetts. Hukle cut a dash at New Orleans early in the war, and was a great ladies’ man. Very singular ly one day the papers, announced his death, and the captain said it wa3 too good a joke to be contradicted. Soon after, fie married a New Orleans lady, resigned bis commission, and began speculating in cotton, in which he has been very successfully. All went smooth ly untilan unpleasant episode occurred, which is thus narrated: A few weeks ago a Aire. Hukle, from Springfield, Mass., arrived in this city for the purpose of conveying the remains of her hus band, who died in the spring of 1863, homo for interment. Bat surprising as it may ap pear, tbe grave of the deceased could not be found. Almost in despair, she applied to the chief of police for information. The officer knew a man of the same name, and it was barely possible that he might be a relative. Inquiries were set on foot, and the street and number of residence were found. In com- S any with the chief tbe widow visited the ouse, aud was hospitably received by tbe rosy-faced matron of the relative. He was not in at the time, and she was courte ously invited to stay to dinner. This she did, and at the appointed hour the rela tive came in. But the scene that ensued is indescribable. In the supposed relative the lady recognized her husband. Wife second went into hysterics; wife the first was pale and calm. She talked like a preacher and to the point. She told him he had acted shab bily, and even ventured to call him a villain, bigamist and other epithets not exactly par taking of the description of endeerments. He didn’t attempt to deny them. She was perhaps quite correct; but he begged she would think of the exposure. She would do this. The five years’ desertion entitled her to a divorce; a handsome sum was put at her disposal, and the once sorrowing, but the new condition of things, it will be in their power, by the adoption of a liberal policy on the part of the government, to secure the ad vantages of the national banking system, aa they have not yet done, and be in the way of putting their great resources to profitable ac count. The value of the cotton crop this year approximates $400,000,000, and with the pro ceeds ot the rice and tobacco crop added, the South will have a moneyed basis equal to any demands that may be made on it. This ele ment, he maintains, must be taken into ac count in any solution of the financial problem that has a chance of success.” If tlie country is to enjoy at an early day the benefits of a sound currency it will be be cause the South will have furnished to it the means of resuming specie payments. The ex ports of this section were always sufficient be fore the late war to furnish the importers of the North with specie enough to pay for all their purchases abroad. Cotton, rice, and tobacco, would, if our rulers were wise, soon be produced in such quantities as to enrich the whole country. Without these, neither the bankers, nor Congress nor all the finan ciers in Wall street, can bring about specie payments. But if Congress would pursue a liberal and statesmanlike policy towards the South, by removing the tax upon tobacco, and leaving cotton also untaxed; by encour aging the negroes to work, instead of bribing them to remain idle; by freeing the people from all apprehensions of future trouble, in stead of keeping them in a perpetual turmoil; by surrendering to the people the right to manage their internal affairs in their own way; by withdrawing from amongst us all such officers as meddle with politics aud seek to use the negro as a stepping-stone to power, thus making him unhappy, querulous, dis contented, and valueless as a laborer, instead of happy, contented, and valuable; by doing, in a word, just what and nothing more than justice demands should be done—the pro ducts of our industry would soon make gold and silver as abundant as they were previous to our recent troubles. We trust that Mr. Cooke will be aBle to convince Congress that in legislating for the humiliation of the Southern people it does not exalt the negro, but ruins him as a citizen, and undermines the prosperity ot the entire country. Brownlow a Secessionist. Brownlow’s Knoxville Whig, of last week, comes out for the separation of East Tennes see from the balance of the State, and its erection into an independent State. Section al jealousies, on account of railroad favors, and the unpromising financial condition of the State, are given as a reason. But there are better grounds for believingthat the real reason is the miserable manner in which Tennessee has been “reconstructed.” East Tennessee is the only division that has a considerable white Radical population. In the other parts of the State most of the Rad ical votes comes from the negro population; in addition to this, it has been found necessary to disfranchise a majority of the whites of the State in order to give the political control to the Radicals, and there is not likely to be “ peace” as long a3 thU wholesale disfran chisement is kept up, and that it cannot long be kept up every sensible man must know. As soon as the white men of the State are allowed to vote, the Radical vote in Tennes see will come to an end. Butin East Tennes see the Radicals maybe able to maintain tbeir ascendancy, if it is separated from the other sections;” and it is doubtless with a view to the future of the political parties of the State that its Governor, over his own signature, assents to a proposition for its di vision. If the Radical scheme of forming a con trolling negro Radical party in the Southern States is successful, it must lead to the same kind of feeling that prompts this movement in Tennessee. All of the “reconstructed” States have nearly equal territorial divisions, in the one of which the white Democrats would have a majority, and in the other the black Radicals would be in the ascendancy. It 13 hardly possible to maintain political harmony in a contest between races, such as this kind of a division would bring about Tho weaker party in the State would soon strongly advocate its division, with a view of ridding themselves of a condition so annoy ing and dangerous. One of our most encour aging indications is that of the failure of the Radicals to unite the negroes and array them solidly on their side in a contest of .this kind. [Columbus Enquirer. A Cause fob Careful Conduct.—Of all the many struggles that take place in the heart, there is none so terrible as when the first convictions force themselves upon us that all our previous course has been one grand error, and when the acts-on which we have prided ourselves, the wisdom that has made ns win, the vigor that has proved weakness, the prudence that wo have found folly, the penetration that has been but blindness, the meanness of our ambition, and the darkness of our light, stand revealed in their nakedness and deformity. which is pleged “to supply the demand of a i know, the Legislature of 1866 made a small scientific and practical education for the pres- appropriation, aud appointed us trustees of ent day, besides which, all the courses of in-! the fund, to bury the dead ot Chickamauga, • hrown and a ‘ on S the line of Sherman’s march to structiou given in the University are thrown open free to the students in the agricnltnral department.” In Connecticut, the Sheffield Scientific School, of Yale College, receives the benefit arising from the land fund. This is a depart ment of Yale College, and strictly a school of science, and has no farm attached to it. In New Hampshire, the fund has been appro priated to Dartmouth College, whose “Chan dler Scientific Department” and “Thayer School of Architecture and Civil Engineer ing” are to form “the basis of a national school of science.” There is no farm here. In Vermont, the Agricultural College was es tablished, but by subsequent legislation, this new institution was incorporated with the University of Vermont, at Burlington. We do not learn that there is any farm connected with the institntion. With all the other colleges, so far as we are informed, there is a farm, if not a workshop, and it is generally provided that daily manu al labor of one to three hours, with instruc tion in practices, shall be carried onpavipassu with the scientific teaching in the schools. What is worthy of remark is that each State has independent of_aoy other, and al most .without consultation or interchange of views, fallen npon its own course of instruc tion. All have, we believe, accepted with alacrity the Congressional grant, and in most of them the colleges are already in operation, while others are in course of organization. Yet in the absence of anything like concert of action, we find them, almost without ex ception, making the experiment—for it is an experiment—of coalescing, of uniting in harmony, a liberal and a special education. The leading idea of the experiment conforms to the suggestion of the act of Congress, and that agrees with the institutions in existence in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Alichigan, when it was enacted. It meanB that boys must be educated, liberally and at the same time specially; liberally in general culture, and specially as to the pursuit they are to fol low. The language of the charter of the Maryland College i3 very much that of all: “An Agricultural College and Model Farm, which Bhall, in addition to the usual course of scholastic learning, particularly, indoctrinate tbe youth of Maryland, theoretically and practically, in those arts and sciences which shall enable them to subdue the earth, etc. What is to be further remarked is that this is an American idea, and American institu tions only have adopted it, and are vigorous ly working it out, with what success, or with what effect on the interests of education re mains to be seen. That it is an American idea, will appeas from a brief glance at European institutions of learning. In the first place, we do not find that existing institutions have adopted or added to their old course, a course of in dustrial science, or anything approaching to what we call practical education. If any such case exists, it has not come to our knowl edge. On the other hand, while in France, Switzerland, Prussia, Austria aud England, and other European countries, there are schools of applied science, and industrial schools of every degree, the instruction is special, and does not aim to substitute the teachings of ordinary schools. Looking first to France, we find a system of agricultural education thoroughly organ ized and pervading the kingdom. The law of 1848 provides for three degrees of profes sional instruction in agriculture, at the ex pense of the State. 1. A farm school in each (86) department, and ultimately for each (363) arrondissement. 2. A higher seminary, called a district or regional school, embracing two or more departments, and 3. A national agronomic institute, a sort of nor mal school of agriculture. The farm school in each department is a rural enterprise, conducted with ability and profit, in which the pupils perform all the labor, and receive a practical coarse of in struction in agriculture. The objects aimed at are; first, to furnish a good example of tillage to the farmers of the district, and sec ond, to form agriculturists capable of culti vating, intelligently, either upon their own property, or that of others, as farmers, man agers, overseers ol cattle, etc. “ The sohool h open to pupils who are at lc>st sixteen years of age, have a good con stitution, and have received an education in the primary schools. “The practical course extends through three years. The first is devoted to simple manual labor; the second to the charge of animals, and the third to the oversight of various operations on the farm. The hours : appropriated to study are devoted, first, to 1 copying and writing out the notes taken of ; the Instructions of the different leaders; sec- | ond, to reading a manual of elementary agri- • culture, and third, to iessous given by the Atlanta, and to gather into a common resting place the remains of those who were not un der the protecting care of local memorial as sociations. For this purpose the citizens of Marietta gave us a beautiful site, immediate ly on tbe railroad, into which, with our lim ited means, we have removed over twelve hundred bodies. Hundreds still remain un- cared for in the neglected corners and road sides, and the battle-fields where they fell, to be trampled by the beast of the field, or turned over by the plowshare. Another small appropriation was made by the last Legislature—too small, however, to continue, with any hope of success, so great an under taking. The general Government has spent millions on tbe Federal cemeteries of Marietta and Andersonville. The humblest colored soldier who died in the Federal service, has a well guarded, beautiful and costly resting place, marked with slabs of purest marble; tower ing monuments attest the gratitude of their Government, while our noble heroes are stiil left in silence and neglect. Shall this dis graceful neglect continue, or can we get suclf aid as will enable us, with the opening spring, to place them all in consecrated ground ? May we not beg the aid of every Georgian ? Can they continue deaf to tbe cry of their un coffined dead ? Will not their friends and neighbors and comrades, in the glorious cause for which they fell, see to it that their bones no longer moulder, uncared for on the hill side? We ask not for graded walks, nor railings, nor marble slabs, nor Heaven pointing monuments. We know that Geor gians will educate their sons to give all this in the future, but we do ask for tbem now au untrodden grave, surely that is little’ enough for the most lowly, can it be refused to those loved martyrs, who, for our honor, our homes, our flag, our all that was dear to us, risked their lives, and fell where brave men love to fall—on the field of battle. That our cause was lost was surely not their fault, nor has defeat lessened our obligation to them; then,in the name of humanity,and in behalf of Georgia’s honor, we appeal to you as Geor gians, as Southern men and people of every community in this State, to remember these men died defending your right to worship God according to tbe dictates of our own conscience, and we earnestly ask each Pastor to act as our agent in his charge to receive and forward to us for thi3 work. As another means to the accomplishment of this object, by our earnest solicitations, a small party oi the ladies of your State, whole-souled, country-loving women, have consented, for the benefit of this special work to give a aeries of concerts in the prin cipal cities of the State, and thereby aid to wipe out the record of Georgia’s ingratitude, as it now stands forth in her dishonored graves; and, in the name of the mourning hearts or tbe land, we thank them. AIbs. Chas. J. Williams, Columbus, Miss Mary J. Green, • Resaca, Trustees G. M. Association. The Geobgxa. Senators.—A Washington correspondent of the New York World says: Joshua Hill, Senator elect from Georgia, who was assured by Senator Sherman of aduiis- siorf, has at last gone home, and said he would not return until he was telegraphical ly advised either that his credentials would be received or rejected. It comes out that Governor Bullock exerted all his little influ ence to have the credentials signed by him self, at least deferred until some action was taken in regard to the condition cf affairs in the State. Hill accuses him of duplicity, and Senator Sherman was pretty free in his state ments regarding him last Monday. No no tice at all was taken of Dr. Miller, the other Senator, who has not so openly espoused Radicalism as his colleague. Senator Pat terson, of Tennessee, however, intends to offer Alillers credentials on the oth, and his case will then be on a footing with Hill’s. v Histobx with a Vengeance.—Edward Pollard has just unbotiled his malignity in a fiction which ho terms an “account of Jeff. Davis’ flight from Biehmond.” The misstatements are positively disgraceful, and no attempt is made to disguise the bitterness of the writer toward Mr. Davis personally. The fellow does not even comprehend the geography of Mr. Davis’ line of retreat. He refers to Griswoldville as the home of Mr. Stephens, where he said Air. Daris remained for several days, and was insulted by the ex-Vice President, and thence sends the fu gitive President north of the Chattahoochee, from which section the Federal army had retired. Heaven help the South if such men are to be her historians.—Savannah Republican. A Norwich woman thought she would pull a black stick out of a box of peppers, and picked up a three foot snake.
