About Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1869)
; . • .. —.i.■ ■ - —-- * - --- - — The Greorgia, ‘W'eekly Telegraph. THE TELEGRAPH. MACON, FRIDAY, JANUARY is, I$60. Cotton. The receipt* at the various ports up to this time, says the Savannah Republican of Tuesday, do sot indicate that the large crop theories 19111 realize their estimates. There has been a heavy falling off in New York, Charleston, Savannah and Mobile amounting in all to 125,000 bales, ■while the increase in Virginia, North Carolina, ■ New Orleans and Galveston is, in round num bers,. 250,000, leaving an aggregate increase of receipts to the amount of 125,000. Thereceipts at the Atlantic ports and Mobile for the remain der of the season are obliged to be far lighter than in 1868, the high prices having brought the greater portion of the crop into .market. Last year, owing to the obstruction of the Western rivers, the crop was slow in reaching New Or leans ; this year the navigation has been open throughout the season, and high prices have pre vailed. Yet the receipts at New Orleans up to this time are but 473,008 of the 1,200,000 claimed . for her, a figure which will hardly bo reached, if approximated. The stocks at all the ports are also some 10,000 less than last year. From these facts and figures, the reader will be enabled to form his own estimates of the crop . as compared with that of last year. A-Mail Route Ruth Needed. Georgia, and we suppose all the other South ern States, are suffering greatly for the lack of . mail facilities, and we hope the Postmaster General will do what he can to help us. There-is one old and important mail route which has not been re-established since the war, to which we would invite particular considera- . lion on account of the large and populous scope of country which it would accommodate with mail facilities. We refer to the route from Oglethorpe, in Macon county, to Buena Vista, . in Marion—through a portion of Macon, Schley and Marion counties—a distance of thirty-five .miles, and supplying the old Postoffices of Grangersville, Poindexter, Fragoletta and Taze well. This route, we are authorized to say, can .be supplied with mails twice a week for $650 a year, and it will accommodate thousands of peo ple whose nearest postoffice is about fifteen or twenty miles from home—either at Butler, .•Oglethorpe or Americas. We would respectfully invite the attention of the authorities to this .route and, at the request of the people, ask its re-establishment Good Signs. Jt seems, says the Richmond Dispatch of the 11th inst, that the action of the Virginia Con ference, or some other good influence, has had a tranquilizing effect upon Congress. We pub lished on Saturday an extract from a note -written by a distinguished Senator, stating that the disposition to relieve the Southern people of disabilities is becoming stronger every day in Congress. We give this morning Forney’s as sertion to the same purport. Finally, wo have the declaration of the Washington correspond ent of the Baltimore Gazette, that as to “viru lent legislation against the poor Southern peo ple, I have good authority for saying to-day that they have reached the end of their tether in this respect Some of the most radical of the Radicals, (and at last we shall find that they will be the first to break loose from the domi nant tyranny,) profess to be disgusted; and real •peace’may yet grow out of this disgust Wait until Grant shows his hand. I know more than than it would-be prudent yet to disclose.” Perhaps this long Russian winter is about to break up all at once. Who knows? First Steamship of the McGregor Line. The Savannah Nows announces the arrival of the pioneer steamship of the MacGregor Line, to run between that city and Liverpool. The Leith, Captain Barnes ton, arrived and anchored at Tybee Monday evening, and would come up to the city next morning, and be placed in read iness to receive freights. The people have looked forward with great hopes to the establish ment of the MacGregor Line, and we hope that the most sanguine anticipations may be real ized. State Agricultural Society nnd Fair. We understand there will be a gathering of the directors of the State Agricultural Society in Atlanta to-day. We hope they will move with as little delay as possible to make up premium lists and set on foot arrangements for the State Fair next November. Let that enterprise be inaugurated on a scale of completeness which shall impress Georgians as well os outsiders. Christy and Wimpy. We see the House Committee on Elections have reported that Wimpy is not entitled to the seat from the Athens District, and that although Christy was legally elected, he is excluded by the iron-clad. The Albany News. • The prospectus of this paper may bo found among our advertisements to-day. The News, as all our readers know, has again been taken in hand by CoL Styles, who is well qualified to make it one of the most influential and usefnl papers in the State. The Profits of Fertilizers. We see the Southern Agriculturist estimates, upon the average report of experiments made last year, that every one hundred pounds of Pe ruvian guano used, added one hundred pounds of cotton lint to the crop. That would make a profit of about 300 per cent. Sumner and the Georgia. Neoboes.—A Wash ington special says: “How the Senate is Sum- nerized may be known from the fact that one day this week he submitted thirteen resolutions and petitions, and seven hills, all but one of which were of a criminal character. One of his petitkgis, concerning the proper meaning of the fourteenth amendment to the Federal constitu tion, was from two hundred and fifty-two ne groes of Georgia, all of whom but two signed with a cross-mark, the column intended for names of witnesses being entirely blank. And these are the class of people whom the Massa chusetts Senator desires to rule tho people of a State.” The Oldest Inhabitant.—The Monroe Ad vertiser has identified this celebrated individual as follows: “Mr. Zachariah Chambless, aged ninety-six years, is the oldest inhabitant of this county. He lives on Deer Creek, about seven miles east of Forsyth, where he settled about fifty years ago, when this thrifty and populous section was covered with the primitive forest, and the wild deer and Indian roamed free over their own native hills. Mr. Chambless is yet hale and hearty, and often walks several miles at a time.” Cold Wzatheb in South and East Florida. We we sorry to see that the fruit and vegetable interests in East and South Florida got a fatal set back last Christmas. The mercury sank to twenty-two—ten degrees below the freezing point—at Tampa. It was the coldest snap since the fatal freeze of 1835. President Johnson. In about six weeks, Mr. Johnson retires from the Presidency, no doubt with the unanimous old cordial execrations of the Republican party. But let ns not forget that this party, which, with the aid of the personal claims and popularity of General Grant, has recently made its highest display of strength at the polls, is still but a minority of the American people proper. It has controlled the Federal Executive simply by the arts of wholesale white disfranchisement, and of pegro votes. It is a manufactured and a bogus majority, although by a breach of or ganic law and by force and violence, it is made to fulfil the purposes of an honest franchise. President Johnson may therefore console Marif with the reflection that these wholesale maledictions are not tho verdict of the American people. We believe a majority of the intelli gent voters of the United States, while they may be disposed to question the practical judgment displayed by Mr. Johnson in many cases, never theless admire the courage and integrity he has shown in his efforts to uphold the Constitution and laws. He has been unsuccessful in every case, but defeat in such a cause is honorable. President Johnson's administration will bo far more popular, by and by, than it is to-day. Meantime we like the spirit which dictates the following: Mrs. Partington (P. B. Shilaber) has written a friendly and beautifully-clothed sympathetic letter to the President, in which, after express ing admiration at tho course pursued by Mr. Johnson, his fidelity to the old landmarks of the Constitution, etc., etc., he says: “Yourfor bearance under abuse should assure you a niche as high as that of Job for patience. I thank yon heartily for myself, and thousands would do the same for themselves were they as impulsive as I am. It is not often that men address a wan ing power thus, but the one who takes off the armor in tried service is more to be praised than he who at the first assumes it.” A Letter from Mr. Clay. The original of the following letter from the great Kentucky commoner, is the property of Mr. F. S. Johnson, Jr., of Jones comity. It was addressed to M. Lakanal, member of the Institute of Ijrance and the Legion of Honor, Gallatin county, Kentucky; and it is impressed with that bland, courteous and generous spirit, which was no doubt one grand secret of the al most unrivalled popularity of Mr. Clay: Lexington, 14th June, 1823. Sir : I received the letter which you did me the favor to write me on the first inst inst, cov ering two letters from the Marquis La Fayette and Mr. Warden. I have great pleasure in assu ring you that it will give me infinite satisfaction in being able to render you any service whatever in my power; and that in this respect you will find me possessed of all the dispositions which Mess. Fayette and Warden anticipated. I regret that I was not so fortunate as to have met you in Washington City, where I could have made you known to many persons whose acquaintance you would have been glad, no doubt, to culti vate. I am afraid that you have located your self in a spot somewhat dreary and destitute of society. I must solicit that you will come immediately and see me. Should your convenience admit of it, I pray you to come straight to my house, where, Sana eeremonie, you will find a welcome here as long as you please. It will add to the pleasure of seeing you, if you will bring Mad ame, or any part of your family. We have some French here. My recent neighbour is a Parisian family, all of whom will be delighted to see yon. I shall not be absent from home except from the 5th of the month of July to the last of it, until October. Expecting anxiously the happiness of meeting you at my house, I will take that occasion to converse with you about your project of writing the history of America, and in the meantime I have the honor to subscribe myself, Very respectfully, Your obedient serv't, H. Clay. Striking for tlie Crops. In South Carolina, the rice-field hands are said to have struck for half the crop. On the Ogeechee, they struck for the whole of it after it was gathered. The negroes, in their recent harmless piece of sport, are said to havo carried off over forty thousand bushels of rice which had been housed ou the Ogeechee planta tions. It was, as Greeley says, the prompting of “a rude sense of justice.” Kimball’s Opera House.—This structure de signed as the temporary locum tenens of the Georgia Legislature, was so far complete as to be thrown open for public inspection Tuesday night. The Atlanta papers are profuse in their admiration of its splendor, and we hope the har monious associations of the place will inspire a corresponding spirit in the Legislature. We ore glad the Atlantians have adopted this arrange ment for a temporary accommodation of the Legislature. The people desire to send that body back to Milledgeville again, so soon as their will can be legally and effectually expressed. A New Description op Cotton.—The Charles ton Courier has the following: The activity of the Southern mind, particularly since the war, in the superhuman efforts made to overcome the trying obstacles which have stood in the way of the prosperity of the people, is set forth in great strength, by the numerous specimens of new va rieties of cotton, which are constantly making their appearance on the market, many of them being truly remarkable for their superiority, both in staple and preparation. W. M. Lawton, Esq., factor, Boyce & Co’s wharf, yesterday placed in our possession a sample which can be seen at our offioe, of three bales of cotton, grown by B. V. Iverson, Esq., near Macon, Georgia, from Brazilian silk seed cotton. The fibre is very soft and of a light creamy cast and is used in Franco in the manufacture of silk goods. We shall be pleased to show to gentlemen engaged in this trade fth elegant specimen of the fibre, Washington. Washington, January 11.—The opinion du ring the past few days has been forced upon tho minds of the prominent officers of the Govern ment, and others in the city, that the present session of Congress will be barren of results. Tho slowness with which business is considered, the long and purposeless adjournment over the holidays, the delay which seems perpetualin the committees of the two Houses, on unimportant business, the latitude allowed in debate, the de layed condition of business in the various com mittees, are sure indications that nothing will be done in the way of essential legislation. Tho appropriation bills will be passed, and perhaps sonic amendatory action taken for the more ef fectual reconstruction of some of the Southern States; but from indications, nothing will bo done with the financial question, the tariff, the suffrage, amendments to the Constitution and many of the important measures which have been introduced. Mr. Butler’s bill to repeal tho Tenure-of-office act was introduced by Mr. Washbumc, of Indi ana, and put through under the previous ques tion by a large majority. THE MANUFACTORIES OF MACON. THE FURNITURE FACTORY OP GRENVILLE WOOD. Labor Swine. - -A Screven county correspond ent of the News says that he saw a hog in a pen on the plantation of Simeon Burke, which meas ured seven and a half feet in length, three feet and one inch in height and weighed 800 pounds. SotOHlUN Agriculturist. — The January number of this excellent monthly was received yesterday. > • United States Mails.—Proposals for convey ing the mails of the United States from July 1, 1869, to June 30.1871 { on certain routes in Geor gia, have been advertised by Alex. W. Randall, Postmaster General. Proposals will be received at the contract office until March 31st. The “test oath” will be required. Sealed bids in sealed envelopes should be addressed to the . Second Assistant Postmaster General. The fol- j lowing are the routes: ' *' . . ■ «. From Forsyth to Russellville, 11 miles and ' back, once a week. Leave Forsyth for Russell- i ville Saturday at 12, m. ; Arrive at Russellville I by 3, p. m. Leave Russellville Saturday at 8, 1 a. m. ; Arrive at Forsyth by 11, a. m. 1 From Gillsville, by Allendale and Hollings worth, to Middle River, 20 miles and back, once I a week ; Leave Gillsville Thursday at 5, a. h. : Arrive at Middle River by 1, r. si. Leave Mid- | die River Thursday at 1:20, p. ar.; Arrive at ' Gillsville by 8, ?. it.—Atlanta Intelligencer. •» We have already given in these columns an article upon the Macon Qptton Factory, and a description of our Railway Machine Shops. Our Manufactories are, in number, perhaps in their infancy. The object of these articles is to illus trate that we have made a solid beginning, and to direct the attention of at least our own peo ple to them. As they are in their infancy they need the fostering care of our countrymen, and, in onr judgment, they are altogether worthy of their patronage and consideration. But few people have the slightest realization of the vast mine of wealth in the forests of Georgia. The best black walnut that grows in the world is found in our Cherokee country. It is more solid, durable, and makes the finest spe cies of furniture of that description. Northern factories rank it next in value to mahogany. They pay $100 per thousand feet for it, and clamorously demand for more than they can get. Georgia black walnut readily commands $50 per thousand in our own market, oak and gum $35 to $40. It is difficult to obtain a sufficient sup ply of the former. People living in the midst of walnut forests do not seem to have any con ception of the value of these trees, and are the last to make any effort to either foster their growth, or to send them to market. Were they told that almost every one of them was worth from $10 to $50, they would not believe it, and would still go on raising nubbin corn, goober peas, and “tow-headed” children. But they are at least the most consistent people in the world, being to-day what they were one hundred years ago, directly the opposite of Dryden’s man, who— Arkansas Horrors. Shocking Outrages by Clayton's Banditti—A Story of Murder, Arson and Robbery. BY TELEGRAPH. Was everything by turns and nothing long. But in tho course of one revolving moon. Was fiddler, chemist, statesman and buffoon. Onr mahogany comes irom Central America, the West Indies, from Africa and from Florida. The best is from San Domingo, being about all that good-for-nothing people now export. All the money they make is in this way. The meanest grows in Africa. Florida produces a species of mahogany called by botanists Sweet Onery. It is not valued very highly. In Brit ish Honduras it grow3 like the pine in Georgia, and has been an article of export and vast reve nue for two hundred years. But mahogany fur niture is falling into disuse. It is very fine and very common. Tho demand for walnnt is now far greater, and that kind of furniture is being rapidly introduced into tho houses of all our great families. wood’s furniture factoey. The revolution in manufacturing furniture has been quite complete within the last twenty years. Work which, in 1850, required fifteen persons to do by hand is now accomplished in one hour by steam and machinery. The plane, except for putting the finishing touches to the finest grades of work, has fallen into disuse. With one of these machines one hand can do as much work as fifteen men did then. In Grenville Wood’s Furniture Manufactory, there are twenty of them at work. In an in spection of it yesterday morning, we saw a Turning Lathe, Henry Allen’s Patent Mortising Machine, a Machine for Molding, Planing, Boring, Tenonting, Ripping, Sawing, and we do not recollect what else, but there were twenty of them in all, and in full operation. A plank would be taken as it came from the Saw Mill first to the Turning Lathe where it would be run through and dressed as fast as a man travels in a slow walk. It would then be taken to such of the other Machines as were necessary to make the article of Furniture demanded. The Mor. tising Machine would moke the necessary hole in a Bedstead in about half a minute. Every oth er species of work was done in tho same econo my of time. There are about thirty men and boys employed in this Factory. Tho fifteen- horse power Engine in an angle of the building, ^enables them to do as much work in one day as three hundred Cabinet-makers used to do in the olden time. Sash, doors and blinds are turned out by the wholesale, and ore shipped in every direction to building contractors, or consumed here in Ma con. We saw in the Varnishing and Painting Rooms splendid room-setts, and almost every article in modern service. THE SUPPLY OF LUMBER. The occupation of tho House Carpenter has been so much lessened and simplified that he has little else to do than to lopp off, joint and fit the “dressed lumber,” the sash, blinds and doors which modem machinery turns out for him. And this accounts for the rapidity with which houses are put up now. In some American cities, whole blocks are commence cfandfinished within the course of a single month, which used to take one and two years to build when men now grown were boys. We progress. But the practical man will naturally ask, in view of all these things why is it we have to pay as much for Furniture and the building of bouses as we did when all this work was done by hand? The reason is the advance in the price of lumber. Europe has about used up its forests, and is now in our market for at least one half of its demands. Africa and Asia supply next to none at all. So that the whole world is now wholly or in part dependent upon ns for its timber. God foresaw this in the creation of the world and planted the boundless pine forests of the Carolinas, of Florida, Georgia, Alabama, and of Mississippi. In much of this country Ho made the soil too poor for man to livo upon it in or der that nothing else should ever be planted there, and as fast 03 one growth of timber should be cut away another would be left free to spring np in its place. The writer vivialy remembers a hundred mile journey through the Pensacola ten years ago. A beautiful green sward covered the earth. All else was pine forest, whose overlapping branches high aloft formed al most a perfect canopy. The eye was left free to roam far away until tho trees by their multi, plicity shut off the view. In that ride we came upon but one bouse which furnished a misera ble meaL In conversation the man told ns that the ground around him would produce nothing whatever but a few potatoes. We tried to eat some of those potatoes, but they were bitter and very unpalatable. From the Memphis Avalanche.] Clayton’s loyal bloodhounds are still murder ing, plundering and outraging tho unfortunate people of Arkansas.. Only a day or two since they fell npon a most peaceable and unoffending citizen by the name of Dillard, as he was returning from his place of business, and for attempting to escape, murder ed him in cold blood. Yesterday a Mr. John Organ was shot dead at Fifteen Mile Bayou, near Madison, where they now have eight or nine hundred head of horses and other property, stolen from citizens of the surrounding country. At Madison they broke open every house and building in the place, regardless of locks and keys, and the citizens axe fleeing in every direc tion, leaving everything behind. One hundred and thirty were expected yester day evening at Hopefield, where they also havo a large number of stolen horses. We heard of two other men who*were shot down a day or two ago, near Madison, but failed to learn their names. Yesterday the steamer Linton was boarded near Madison, by a number of officers and pri vates, who robbed the bar, cursed the officers of the boat, telling them that they were all damned Kuklux, and ordering them to leave. As the boat moved off, it was fired into, and the bar-keeper barely escapee with his life. The citizens are reported as hiding in the woods, and business is entirely suspended. A number of refugees arrived yesterday eve ning, who were being hunted down like dogs, and who had to flee for their lives. Among the outrages committed by these thiev ing vagabonds yesterday, was the following, upon three well-known and respectable citizens of Hardeman county, Tennessee—Messrs. L. M. Bray, John Thomson and Archibald Mayfield— who have been back of Crowley’s Ridge to pur chase land: They reached Mound City,’from Marion, in the afternoon, and stepped aboard the ferry boat to come to Memphis. Before the little steamer left, a company of militia, commanded by a roan supposed to do white, came aboard and arrested the threo gentlemen. In reply to questions, they were informed that they must go back to Marion at once. They were placed under guard and sent back. For nearly half the distance, and especially on reaching muddy places, the prisoners were compelled, at tho point of the bayonent, to “double-quick,” and their ears were regaled with such choice epi thets from their negro custodians as “d—d rebel," and “d—-d Ku-klux.” Once in Marion they were taken before CoL McWray for examination. The white officers who effected the arrest finally arrived and testi fied. He pronounced Messrs. Bray, Thompson and Maynard, three men whom he had for some time particularly desired to capture; said they were Ku-Klux, and had been inciting resistance. Two or three negro militia, whom the prisoners never saw before, swore to personal knowledge of them for two or three years, and pretended to identify their horses as the property of cer tain “loyal” colored people in the country. Unfortunately for the rascals, they proved en. tirely too much. The prisoners found no diffi culty in establishing that they had been in the State only three weeks, and in that immediate section simply while making the visit to and from tho river. Everything sworn to by the white officer and blacks was so clearly shown to belies thatthe Colonel,though steepedin infamy, was compelled to order-the release of the pris oners, who regained tho river late in the eve ning, fortunately in time to bo ferried to Mem phis. Late reports from parties just from Camden, on the Ouachita, give the following particulars of outrages committed, very recently, by the negro militia appointed by Governor Clayton, the Radical Governor of Arkansas: “In Asley county they robbed Mr. Wimberly, a merchant of Petersburg, of all his money, clothing, bed-clothing, goods and everything that was of any service to him whatever; rob bed Mr. Pugh, a merchant of Orion, of all his goods and money; robbed Mr. A. W. Files, a merchant of Hamburg, of all his goods, caught him, and by threats induced him to pay $1,000 in greenbacks, and $1,000 in gold, in order to have his life spared and to be tumed loose; met some ladies going to a little social dance in the country, robbed them of their bonnets and shawls and made them dance in the road; in jured Messrs. Files & Norris, at Marie Saline, to a considerable extent by plundering their warehouses. They are robbing the people of all their com and provisions, mules and horses, guns and pistols, whidh they either destroy or appropriate to their own use.” “They do not spare a man’s purse, and by presenting a loaded gun, or a navy six, making him shell out the cash The citizens are in a state of great consternation, and many are leav ing their homes. They are now going around among the people in tho county with a docu ment which they male the citizens sign, bind ing them to protect the negro militia, which they intend organizing in said county; those who refuse to sign, they say they intend to bum out They are compcsed of Kansas jay-hawk ers and men from North Arkansas. They com mit these depredations only in tho counties de clared under martial la.w. Neither the lives nor the property of citizens are safe where they are.” At Hamburg, the militia took possession and sacked all the stores in the town. At Marie Saline the militia took possession of the store and warehouse-landing of Files & Nor ris, the Major commanding standing at the principal door with drawn sword, and with re volvers in his belt, whilst his minions plundered the premises. They also took possession of goods lying on the landing at the place, belong ing to many different persons in the county, and carried whatever they wanted away. A Colony of Emigbants Become Paupers.— The Raleigh (N. 0.) Standard says: - % Wo have learned from trustworthy sources that the Swiss inunigrants, settled on the Atkin son plantation, near Goldsboro, are in a wretch ed and deplorable condition, suffering for rai ment and necessaries of life. These worthy people, accustomed to their native mountains, to pure air and to an abnndance of food, are at this time without friends, almost shelterless, and compelled to subsist on a miserly ration of com meal and pork. One of their number took bis last $40, and cheerfully spent it to promote the comfort of his countrymen and women. ‘ • It does seem to us that the benevolent people of Wayne county, who raised money to defray the expen ses of Messrs Atkinson and Trueb to Europe^ might have displayed more judgment—at least more humanity—in applying it to the absolute poverty and suffering or the sixty Swiss immi grants already in- the country. If these poor people have been swindled and deceived by false promises, it is time the Legislature should rem edy it An Otteb.—A negro says the - Monroe Adver tiser, caught an otter about a mile from town, last Wednesday. He measured forty-four inches from tip to tip, and weighed seventeen peunda. There were many suggestions as to the kind of animal he was. Some said he was a beaver, mink, black fox, etc. He whipped a pack of dogs and a negro before he was captured. From Washington. Washington, January 12.—Sherman, while dis cussing the Sue Bobinson bill, said if the claim is ignored reconstruction would be a failure. South ern loyalists, if treated as enemies of the country, will abandon the party. A close canvass of the Senate indicates that the claim, though it will % be recommitted, it will finally pass. Several Atlantic steamers over are due. Those •in, report heavy weather on the coast. Steamers late as due have arrived. Gov. Wyndham Robertson has arrived and joined the Richmond Committee. The President has nominated Calvin J. Cooles asaayer of the mint at Charlotte, N. C., A. S. Rob ertson, Collector of Revenue of the Second District of Louisiana, and David Speeks,- Attorney of West ern Texas. Butler’s bill authorizes the Secretary of the Treas ury to issue throe hundred and fifty million dollars, and further sums that may be required, and after thirtieth of June, the National Banks to cease to be Banks of issue. The bill is quite long. Fowler, in arguing in favor of the Sue Murphy claim, said that claims of a Lincoln character did not exceed thirty million dollars. The discussion excites much attention. Southern Senators all fa vor the bilL The Reconstruction Committee are engaged on Georgia. To-morrow it hears Gillem on MissiasippL Washington, January 13.—The Senate is engaged on amendments to the habeas corpus bilL In tbe House various resolutions are offered, but of no general importance. The Supreme Court is arguing questions involving tho legality of the sale at Liverpool of the Confed erate cruiser Georgia. The House Election Committee voted on tho Georgia election case. First: Wimpy, who holds Bullock’s certificate, is not elected. Christy, who holds Meade’s certificate, is elected but disqualified, and his case is referred to the reconstruction com- mitteo for removal of political disabilities. Under the following letter, indictments against Mr.Davis and Gen. Breckinridge, were both quashed IN Criminal Court of 1 District Attorney General’s Office, Washington, D. C. f Dec. 26,1868. ) Sir : I enclose for your consideration a copy of tho Proclamation of General Amnesty by the Presi dent of the United States, under date of the 25th December instant. You will observe that by the terms of this pro clamation there is extended, and without reserve, to all and every person who directly or indirectly participated in the late insurrection or rebellion, a full pardon and amnesty for tbe offense of treason against the United States for adhering to their ene mies during the lato civil war. The object of my present communication is to au thorize and instruct you, in furtherance of the pur pose and effect of this general amnesty and pardon, to make an examination of the indictments pending in your District—against any person or persons whomsoever—for the offense of treason against tho United States, or adhering to their enemies during tho late civil war, in order that as early as you shall have proper opportunity, yon may enter a nolle prosequi for the Government upon such indictment; and if, upon such examination, you should find any caso where, from the tenor of the indictment and nature of the case as known to you, it should bo donbtful whether it falls within the embrace of gen eral amnesty and pardon, you will bo so good as to report tho same without delay to me, with such a statement of the indictment and of these as may enable mo to give you further instructions concern ing the same. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, War. M. Evarts, Attorney General. To E. C. Carrington, Esq., U. S. District Attorney, Washington. Tho Virginia Committee had a long interview with the Senate Judiciary Committee. Free discus sion ensued. Tbe Senate Committee desired the Virginia Committee to reduce their views to writing, fqr tho Judiciary Committee’s action thereon. The Reconstruction Committee are engaged on Mississippi affairs. The majority seems in favor of resnbmission of tho Constitution, with an addi tional ticket for or against the nulification of the restrictions of tho Constitution beyond the require ments of the reconstruction act. Gen. Gillem testifies to-morrow. Sherman telegraphs the capture of an Indian village of sixty lodges. A deputation of citizens of Maryland visited the President with a petition for the pardon of Mr. Mudd, confined at the Dry Tortugas. Tho President referred them to the Evarts. General orders, No. 2, issued by Gen. Grant, is an obituary of Gen. Rousseau. 'Tlie Amenities of the Press. The admirable article of the Macon Tele graph on this subject, has gone the rounds of the State, and excited various comments. In the main, we fully concur with the senti ment of our contemporary, and believe that un sparing rebuke, and the severest criticism, when merited, can yet be clothed in courtly phrase, and without any draft upon the vocabulary of wapping stairs, and the London fish market. Men of Belial are to be found in and out of the craft everywhere. Against the personal at tacks of such, a dignified silence is the most ef fectual remedy. Leave it to them to stir the filthy cess-pool of detraction and abuse. A windy newspaper warfare is not the resort of the brave. The press has its Bobadils as well as the army. We commend to our readers the following paragraph from a subsequent editorial of the Telegraph : We tell our conferes, with all their exceptions, each adapted to his own particular case, the rule of courtesy is the best one. Violence and abuse are always a positive loss of influence and dig nity whether displayed in propria persona or through the columns of a newspaper. Even if it be their unplesant task, as some say, “to re buke and expose rascality and falsehood,” they can do that at no sacrifice of composure or dig nity, and without violence of language. Ex amine, if you please, tho severest rebukes, re primands, invectives and exposures known to English literature—those whose pungency and power have given an immortality surviving any other recollection of the offence, and you will find a surprising absence of temper, excitement and epithet. He who stabs deepest uses a keen and polished blade. It is a dull axe which makes much noise.—Cuthberl Appeal. \ n J. E. Bryant Thus defines his position in the last number of his paper, the Loyal Georgian: OUR POSITION. Our readers are aware that Georgia affairs now excite much attention in this State, in Con gress, and throughout the country. All Repub licans in Georgia agree that something should be done. We believe that a large majority of tbe party want the colored members of tho Gen eral Assembly reseated; those who are disquali fied under the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution expelled: and some way devised to protect our citizens who are now unable to get protection. This is the result we all wish to have accomplished, but there are dif ferent plans proposed for accomplishing it. This is our plan: Let Congress reseat the colored members of the General Assembly; provide some way to ascertain what members are disqualified by the Fourteenth Amendment from holding seats in that body, and expel them therefrom, and allow our citizens to bring their cases in tho United States Courts, when they are unable to get jus tice in the State courts, but allow the State Government to stand. Some Republicans think it necessary to tear down the State Government, in order to remedy the evils of which we complain. We think onr condition would be infinitely worse than it now is if that policy should prevail. We have as sisted in reconstructing Georgia, and we do not wish to tear down what we have done. Antilles to such an extent as he may deem expedi ent, and not inconsistent with the laws of nations, Gett. Sibley 's Official HtMtemZTT' eat, and not inconsistent with the iaw B of nations, I We give below the official state™ whenever the Government is established, or either era i q;w|av ,, , . nt of Geo- people protection of the United States: provided, that any action in this behalf on the part of the President shall be forthwith reported to Congress; and pro vided farther that no payment of money shall be made for carrying such protection into effect with out the authority of Congress.” Loud debate ensued, when the lull and amend ments were tabled, 126 to 36. Alaska territorial bill tabled. Adjourned. . Congressional. Washington, January 12.—Senate—Rice and Ab bot added to the Pacific Railroad Company. The bill extending the time for indictments in the United States Courts, except for treason and political of fenses, to two years after the State’s restoration, passed. Rice introduced a bill aiding the Arkansas and Pacific Railroad. House.—Butler is speaking on the finance. The Supreme court is arguing tho boundaries of St. Louis. Afternoon Session.—House—After Butler spoke, Banks reported a resolution for the establishment of a protectorate over San Domingo and Hayti, sta ting tho object being that in caso of revolutionary movements our Government should send out a ship to adviso the revolutionists to await the usual elec tions, so as to havo a peaceable revolution. In an swering as to whether the Executive had made overtures, he replied that he could not an swer without involving negotiations. Without con clusion, thoHouso adjourned. - Senate.—Sumner presented the petition of a mass meeting at Macon, Ga., asserting the deplora ble condition of the State and asking the passage of Sumner’s bilL A bill was introduced forbidding the transfer to foreigners of grants or privileges from the United States. Tho Sue Murphy bill was resumed, and discussed to adjournment. Washington, December 13—Senate.—Neablon Loomis askB Congress to appropriate fifty thousand dollars to complete his experiments for telegraph without wires or battery—using clouds instead of wires. Referred to Patent Committee. Buckalew presented a bill amending representa tion in Congress. It provides for representation of minorities. Referred to a select committee. Abbott introduced a bill aiding tho railroad from the Rio Grande to the Pacific. Sawyer introduced a bill paying Government em ployees, South, who not having taken the iron dad oath, would have tor take an ordinary oath, look ing to tho support of tho Constitution. Referred to tho Finance Committee. A bill amending an act relating !o habeas corpus and to regulato judiciary proceedings, passed by 32 to 10. Conkling. explaining the bill, said “there were cases arising in the Southern States, particu larly in Georgia,’where the Nonhem stockholders in express and steamboat companies were sued for property taken by the public enemy, and the object of the bill was to enable the defendants to transfer those cases to the United States Courts, to the end that they might go to tho Supreme Court and have a decision upon tlio principle, tlie same as in tho prize cases;'and this principle, as a case of law, they are not able to get a ruling, upon in the State Courts. A common carrier, to defend himself tech nically, must prove that the loss of the goods was either occasioned by the act of the Government or of the public enemy; and in the eases which had arisen, tho defendants were met by instructions from the Judges of the State Courts which deprived the jury from giving any decision on this point. The caso of Sue Murphy was resumed, but with no conclusion. [Note.—In last night’s report, it shonld have been “Sue Murphy” instead of “Robertson.”] Without action the Senate refused tbe rotunda for the Inauguration Ball, and adjourned. House—The protection of Hayti and San Domingo wsb resumed. Elliot seated from Arkansas. A memorial from Texas was presented, asking leave to raise a regiment for defense against Indians. Butler offered a substitute for Ranks’ Hayti pro tectorate as follows: “That the President of tbe United States be, and be is hereby authorized to extend the protection of tbe United States over either of the Islands of the Florida Legislature. Tallahassee, January 12.—In the Senate, Gam bia, a Northern negro, was elected Reading Clerk to day. A resolution by Walls, colored Republican, re questing the Senate to call on Senator Osborne to repair to Washington and attend to Senatorial du ties, or resign, was tabled by one majority. - A similar resolution, offered in tbe House by Soott, a colored member, was withdrawn. Senator Osborne and Representative Hamilton left for Washington this afternoon. The impeachers seem to be losing ground. Tallahassee, Fla., January 18—The Senate to day confirmed Gibbs as Secretary of State; Meek, Attorney General, and J. S. Adams Commissioner on Emigration, vice'Austin resigned. All appoint ed by Gov. Beed since impeachment of last No vember. From Alabama. Montgomery, January 12.—The Columbian.Guide, a nowgpaper published at the county site of Shelby county, in this State, says that Judge Pelham, of the Circuit Court, in a case coming before him from the Probate Court of this county, decided that the present Legislature is an illegal body and Governor Smith an unlawful officer. Judge Pelham is a promi nent member of the Republican party and was elected to his office at the same time the Legislature and Governor were chosen. From Savannah. Savannah, January 13—The Morning News pub lishes a report of the conversation held by one of its editors with the negroes concerned in the insur rection on the Ogeechee. The negroes say Colonej Williams, whose report was forwarded to Gen. Sib ley, only visited one plantation, threo miles from the ecene of the disturbance. Hedid not visit other places to ascertain the correctness of reports con cerning the outrages, and asked no questions, except whether they had any complaint to make against the planters—whether they were in arms against the United States—what injury was done by the Sheriff’s posse—asked no questions about resistance to and robbery of the Sheriff—he went down late at night, returned before daylight next morning and was accompanied on the trip by one of the leadin' disturbers ef the peace of Savannah. It is reliably reported that the party were arrested there by ne groes, and released from guard when CoL Williams explained who he was. Sheriff Dooner published a card in the morning papers, denying Col. Williams’ statements. From Atlanta. Atlanta, Jannary 13.—The General Assembly re assembled to-day in the new capitol building (Kim ball's Opera House), with a quorum in both houses.- After the appointment of a committee to notify the Governor they were ready for business, tho Legisla ture adjourned till Friday, when tho Governor’s message will be read. Several negroes, recently expelled from tho Leg islature, are now here, expecting to be reseated. The Grand Lodge of the Union League of Georgia held a meeting to-day, electing new officers, and adopting resolutions emphatically endorsing Gov. Bullock’s memorial to Congress. Steamboat Disaster. New Orleans, Jannary 13.—Tho stemwheel steamer Glide, hence for Red River, ran aground and exploded at midnight last night, about 50 miles above tho city, and the wreck burned. The boat and cargo are a total loss. Five or six persons were killed or died of scalds, and about twenty-five in jured, several of them fatally. The steamers J. G. Blackford and Thomas Powell reached the scene in about twenty minutes and rescued the survivors, who were brought to this city by the Governor Allen. The Governor Allen also brought tne officers and crew of tho stemwheel steamboat Idaho, which was sunk in the Ouacl dta River on Sunday. The boat and cargo are a total lees, bet no lives lost. Loss by the Idaho $29,000; by the Glide $25,000 on (he boat alone. General Hews. Augusta, January 12.—The Legislature meets to-morrow. It is thought the question of negro eligibility m?y be submitted to the Supreme Court for decision. Two Democratic papers suggest that this course bo adopted by tho Legislature. New Orleans January 12.—The Peruvian Minis ters with their consorts, Havana and Monterey, left tho mouth of the river this morning for the Pacific. They touch at Pensacola. Richmond, January 13—The Virginia State Agri cultural Society, inactive since the war, re-organized to-day. All parts of the State were represented in the meeting. Wm. M. Sutherlin, of Danville, was elected Pres ident. He made a speech advocating the wiping out of all old prejudices, and starting with new ideas in accordance with the progressive spirit of the country. Savannah, January 13 The passenger train on the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad ran off eighteen miles from the city. Five cars badly damaged, but no lives lost. New York, Jannary 13—In the Swinson cotton case, involving one mili'on dollars, a verdict was rendered against the Government. St. Louis, January 13 Tom Allen whipped Bill Davis in forty-two rounds. —, . „ Washington, Januarv e To General U^Grr^WaMt^urn': 1SG9, ,i Iltranmut the latestdispatches received W 1 General Sibley, commanding in Georgia. gT? !l lation to the reported difficulties on the CW chee. General Sibley has been instructed ™ to permit the organization of any armed bod;. J whatever, whether white or black, in contra^ f j tion of law; to preserve the peace at all hazardf to co-operate with the civil authorities in case h ’ I finds the same are acting in good faith, andtlui ; their action is necessary for the preservations 11 the peace, and not as at Camilla made a preW for committing outrages on the negroes. At thl some time he is instructed to disarm and dis perse all assemblages of negroes, andreqZ them to submit to the legal action of the authorities. fU (Signed) From Cuba. Havana, January 13.—Four hundred people, most ly cigar makers, attempted’to leave the city Sunday, it is supposed for the purpose of raising a revolt in Cardelana. They were compelled to return home. Dulee’s proclamation relieves all political prisoners, terminates all trials for political offenses now in progress, and holds out unconditional pardon to all insurgents who lay down their arms within forty days. _ Foreign News. Havana. January 11—A commission of influen tial citizens of honor, and native Cubans and promi nent members of the Liberal party left the city yes terday to meet tho revolutionary leaders and at tempt a compromise for a restoration of peace, Paris, January 12—The French floating debthas been reduced two million francs. Estimates for 1868 show an excess of eighty-Bix'millions of re ceipts over expenditures. The Budget congratulates the country on the return of confidence, and a gen eral resumption of industrial pursuits. Madrid, January 12 Five thousand soldiers have volunteered to suppress the Cuban rebellion. Paris, January 12.—For unexplained reasons the Greek representative has been excluded from the Conference, who protests and applies to his Gov ernment for instructions. The Conference will wait the action of Greece. * New York, January 13—The Henry Cliauncy brings $250,000. Affairs in Bogota are gloomy; the city'is crowded with soldiers. It is reported that extensive gold mines have been discovered in Santa Rosa, Chili. Earthquakes con tinue along the Peruvian coast. . The PoBt, official organ, says Bismarck told the Aus trian Minister at Berlin that the retention of Baron Yon Buist in office would provoke serious action on thepartof Prussia. V,. t ’’ - , . San Francisco, January 13—Later advices from Japan state that the civil war is considered over. Paris, January 13.—It is stated thatRaugabe, the present ambassador at Paris from Greece, has been recalled to preside over the ministry. Geo. G. Meade Major-General U. 8. A. GENERAL SIBLEY TO GENERAL MEADE. Telegram received at Washington, January 4, Headquarters District of Georgia,! Savannah, Ga;, Jan. 4, 1869. j Major General Geo. G. Meade, PhUadelpnia; I have the honor to report my arrival at this place, and to report the following statemw made by Colonel Williams: nl The troubles on the Ogeechee are confined to Middleton’s and Tucker’s plantations. Middle ton accuses the negroes of stealing rice, an] got oat warrants to arrest them. The Sheriff applied for the military to execute the warrants, but was refused and furnished with a copy a the circular of September 25, 1868, for Ins formation. He went with two deputies and made the arrests, but got frightened at the ne- groea’assembling, and ran off. He called for a posse and went out with 120 men. When they got near the station they saw a boy about U years old and shot him through the leg. They saw some other negroes at the station and or. dered them to give np their arms. The negroes ran and they fired on them, wounding two or three. All this time the Sheriff was in the can away from his posse. They then were advised to return to the city which they did. The citi zens then called a meeting and organized three battalions, commanded by Generals and Colo nels, etc. They have enlisted from five to eight hundred men, and are still organizing.— I ordered Major Perkins, to go out to see the negroes, and went with him myself. We arrived at night, and found the negroes very much frightened, hut we made known our inten tions not to trouble them, when they became pacified and gave us their side of the question. We found the newspaper accounts totally incor. rect. There were about fifty men. Three guns and one bayonet on a stick were all the anus I saw. If they had had armn we would have seen them. There are no fortification and no hostile demonstrations further than to watch their own safety. The negroes against whom warrants were issued were anxious to come in and surren der themselves, and wanted to come with us, but were afraid to come along for fear of being fired upon. They deny having resisted the posse, and I think they tell tho truth. I remained with them all night, and made arrangements for them to come in to-night and surrender themselves to the Sheriff under military protection. They are to come in to-night, as they are afraid to come in by daylight To-day the Sheriff reported of ficially that he could not enforce the laws, and called upon the military to do it I think no more troops will be required here at present. An official report will be sent to Department headquarters by maiL [Signed] O. O. Sibley, BrevtBrig. Gen. U. S. A., Commanding, etc. GEN. SIBLEY TO GEN. MEADE. Telegram Received at Washington Jar.A, 1869.] Savannah, Ga., January 4, 1869. Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, care Geneul Emory: Fourteen of the men against whom warrants have been issued, and who live on the. Ogeechee plantations, have voluntarily surrendered to the military authorities. Four "more will be in dur ing the day or night This is all of the original number of warrants that the Sheriff had to exe cute. I understand that one hundred and fifty or two hundred additional warrants have been taken out hut as the Sheriff has made no effort to execute them, I do not feel justified, unde: present instructions, to aid him until he has made an effort to execute them. These war rants are for insurrection and inciting to insur rection. I would advise tho use of the military, as I think it would be almost sure to result in a conflict if the Sheriff were to go out witlj a posse of the people. There is much excitement here, and many of the people would not be averse to a fight. * [Signed] C. C. Siblet, Brevet Brig. Gen. U. S. A., Commanding, ete. Forwarded from Philadelphia, Jan. 4, 1869. The London Examiner says that 117 barris ters were candidates for counties and boroughs in England and Wales. Fifty-nine were Liber als and fifty-eight Conservatives. There were more than on6 hundred attorneys candidates. A bill has passed the Tennessee Legislature, providing that lawyers who do not gAm their cases shall not receive any fee. - Such a law would operate somewhat harshly on the law yers- , ■_ i_ Supreme Court of Georgia. Front the Atlanta Intelligencer, 12/A.] CASES CONTINUED FROM JUNE, 1868. Fataula Circuit. ] Southwestern Circuit 3 Middle Circuit 1 Eastern Circuit j Brunswick Circuit 1 Southern Circuit Cherokee Circuit ; 1 Blue Kidge Circuit.... Tallapoosa Circuit. , Coweta Circuit 4 Flint Circutt 2 Northern Circuit.. 1 Western Circuit ; 3 Chatahoochee Circuit 1 Macon Circuit 4 Ocmulgee Circuit •. 2 CASES DOCKETED FOB DECEMBER TERM, 1868. Pataula Circuit 1 Southwestern Circuit 7 Middle Circuit. II Eastern Circuit. i.. 7 Brunswick Circuit. Southern Circuit 1 Cherokee Circuit 6 Blue Ridge Circuit... 3 Tallapoosa Circuit. Ccwetta Circuit. 9 Flint Circuit 2 Northern Circuit. , J Western Circuit. i '... 1 Chattahoochee Circuit 7 Macon Circuit < Ocmulgee Circuit < All cases from the first six circuits above enu merated, have been disposed of, except four, of which one from the Fataula Circuit and two from the Middle Circnit were transferred to the heel of the docket, the other, also from ths Middle Circuit, was transferred to the beginning of the Northern Circuit. Argument - was yesterday heard in the third case from the Cherokee Circuit, to-wit: Jams* Dunn, plaintiff in error, vs. Wm. MoNaught. and others. W. T. Wofford for plaintiff, nT| d * Warren Akin for defendant. Fending argument in the next case, namely: D. B. Barrett, administrator, plaintiff in error, vs. J. W. Jackson and Nathaniel Nickleson. The court adjourned.—Atlanta Intelligencer. Sufferings oi Xew England Manufac turers. 4 The followii% shows the par value and the market value of the stock of a few of the New England manufacturing companies: Androscoggin Mills (par value $100) 185 Fepperell Manufacturing Company (par val ue $100) 14®? Pacific Mills (par value $100). 2,015 Nashua Mills (par value $100). 2,015 Stark Mills (par value $ip°) • 1,275 Chicopee Manufacturing Company (par value $100) 275 Salisbury Manufacturing Company (par val- ue $100) •• ••- Boott Cotton Mills (par value $100) 1,080 Laconia Manufacturing Company (par value $100)...: r .. 1,200 Amoskeag Manufacturing Company (par val- ue $100) 1,312’, Great Falls Manufacturing Company (par value $100) 2 215 '‘These are the people,” says the New xorK luuoc tuc tuu ~ " World, who are persistently howling for ‘-pro tection ;” and it is “protection,” which is only a refinement for downright robbery, which has raised the stock of these companies to ten and twenty times their par value. The South can learn from these facts what to do with her ovm surplns capital—when she gets it. If the Yankees will have protection, let us reap some of .its benefits by going into the man ufacturing business. We have every advantage over tham, . mid can soon make our country wealthy and populous. The Augusta mortuary report for 1868, shows 680 deaths. Whites, 277—blacks 406.
