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Editorial Corretpondenee of the Philadelphia Prete.J Norfolk, Va., January 20, 1869. The distance from Baltimore to this, the chief isaboerd city of Virginia, and at least the second in the (Jutted States, is two hundred miles. The trip at all seasons of the year, with the excep tion of the hard winter months, is exceedingly agreeable. We took the steamer at Baltimore at four o’clock yesterday afternoon, reaching here this morning about six. With some expe rience in steamboat traveling in our own coun ty and a little In Europe—on the Rhine, and coastwise from Antwerp to London—I freely confess that I have never enjoyeda short voyage more thoroughly than that on the George Leary, (the namo of the boat upon which we traveled), Monging to the old Bay Line, now owned by Moore, N. Falls & Co. A more commndious, comfortable and better arranged vessel could not be desired. With room for at least three hundred passengers, its appointments are quite equal to those of the famous steamers on the Sound. The table last night would have done credit to the Continental Ho tel—the fish and oysters delicious, good coffee, excellent bread and butter, fine beef, and far better celery than we get in Philadelphia, and equal to that of Washington, with polite and qniet attendants—nothing was needed bnt warm weather to complete our satisfaction. The l>oat was not crowded, bnt rarely have I mingled with a more intelligent and interesting people. Among theso were Northerners, like ourselves, going South for the purpose of ob servation ; but the rest were evidently home ward bound. I made the acquaintance of a pleasing, well-informed ex-Confederate officer, hying in one of the counties of North Carolina, rear Norfolk, and found him kind and commu nicative. The thought uppermost with him, as with all others I have met since my arrival in Norfolk, was that of disabusing the Northern mind in regard to public opinion here. In the very best spirit, and in the "kindest tone, he said that the people of Virginia andN. Carolina were anxious for Northern capital and emigration, and referred to the extraordinary natural advantages ol Norfolk and the vicinity in which he lived, and the thousands of acres of timber and alluvial lands near the wnter-courses which distinguish tins favored region. He showed an honest, if not cordial, submission to the logic of the situa tion, and pointed to the fact that the masses were tired of politics. W® conversed freely about the characters and incidents of the war, ot Lee and Grant, of A S- Johnson and Long- street, about the improving condition of the public mind in both sections, and all this with out the slightest reference to the negro, to suff rage, or to amnesty. I found that, in common with thousands who had taken up arms against the Government, be had set himself to hard vork, and, instead of repeating party cries and mingling with party leaders, was carefully de voting himself to the development of his own property and to the humanitarian task of bring ing alienated sections together. Norfolk has not disappointed my expectations. It is undoubtedly one of the most attractive lo calities for the investment of money and labor. In riding through its streets to-day, I was not only impressed with its extraordinary geograph ical advantages, but with the manifest signs of prosperity. It is one of the oldest cities on the continent. In 1680 an act of Assembly was passed authorizing the purchase of fifty acres of land as the site of the present town. Incorpor- atedin 1703, its name is derived from the fami ly of Norfolk, in Norfolk county, England. The royal charter was granted by King Gnorgo II, in 1736, and witnessed by "William Gooch,'Lieu tenant Governor of Virginia. This royal chart er conferred household suffrage on all the peo ple of Norfolk. Previous to the Revolutionary war it was the great market for sugar, molasses stoves, etc. The original settlers were exclu sively English. The best part of Norfolk was JestroyeJin 1776 by the British. It is situated <* Elizabeth river and nearly surrounded by water, fifteen miles from Old Point Comfort, ipproachable by land and water. Connected with the North and great West, it needs only -■ filiation and the wise and generous assistance ifCongres% to place it in direct communication with the Pacific. presses the same opinion, namely, not only the extraordinary advantages offered to men of in- -dustry and intelligence and reasonable means, so far as the purchase of real estate is concerned, but that these opportunities are increased by the fact that the native population are anxious and even solicitous for their aid and society. One of the first persons I met on my arrival was William Underwood, who moved here from Centre county, Pa., two years ago, and who is will known to Governor Curtin and other leading men in Bellefonte—a strong Republican, an ear nest member of the Society of Friends, and well known in Pennsylvania as a sound and practical speaker in that connection and-universally re spected in Norfolk. His testimony is as good as any I could present. He has purchased largely, and his truck farm near this city is one of the most successful in the neighborhood. So well convinced is he that this is the spot for Northern men and Northern money that on the 17th of December, 1868, he organized a Land and Lum ber Company, under a charter from the Legisla ture. This company own a tract of timber land of thirty thousand acres, which they intend to clear for emigration, first cutting the wood into boards, laths, and shingles. Much of this land is already prepared for cultivation. It is situated between Pasquotank and Little Rivers, elevated about sixteen feqt above the level of the Sound. Entirely clear of sand, composed of a top soil of rich black mold, varying in depth from two to three feet, it is under-laid by a subsoil of shells, clay, and animal deposits, making the earth most durable and productive. While there is a general avoidance of politics among all I have met, it is most gratifying to note mat no Republican abates his devotion to his principles, or hesitates to advocate them with manly frankness. "When the subject arises with the other side I tell them candidly that the best way to secure universal amnesty is to devote themselves to the development of their substan tial interests, and to make their Northern breth ren feel that a Union man in Virginia is as safe as he is in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. Let Congress and the Republican party be con vinced thatsnch is their real purpose, and little time will elapse before all men are voting and acting together in the South in hearty accord. “Politics," said an ex-Confederate tome, this af ternoon, “politics has been the curse of the South for forty years. Politics has kept us back in the great work of progress; has blinded ns to our duty, and, finally, plunged ns into war, and I am sick of it, and don t want to talk about it.” The tone of many of the old rebel papers is very greatly improved, and such organs as the Rich mond Whig and Lynohburg Republican are do ing immense good by their moderation and plain, hard sense. The Norfolk Jouroal daily contains articles inviting Northern people to come to Vir ginia and see for themselves whether the wel come freely extended is genuine or not. We have in our party Mr. John E. Parke, of Chester county Pennsylvania, who married and lived in the South for some twenty years. Knowing the people of both sections thorough ly, and possessed of ample means and great in telligence, ho is heartily co-operating in the noble work of reconciliation and reconstruction. I feel the benefit of his practical experience every moment, and wish he could be followed by many more men of equal substance and sense. J. W. F. As an evidence of the spirit of the people, let at state that the population in 1860 was 16,000, than that in 1864, and yet in 1869, as I Trite, it is at least 31,000! Two hundred and !*enty-five stores and dwellings have been erect 'd within a year, some of them remarkably fine. He Atlantic Iron Works, employing ono hun dred and fifty hands, situated on a tract of land ‘djoining the city, forty-seven acres in extent, tiring a water frontage of 3,000 feet, of suffi- dent depth to admit vessels drawing thirty feet 4 vater, are under the control of a company of rideh onr friend Milton Cartwright, of Erie, is of the directors. Its prospects, and the fa- dhtie* offered for similar enterprises, can be jadetrtood from the fact that locations equally ™ h m»te are to be had. The low rate of wages, c lx»p price of living in Norfolk, the small transportation of material of this and of wher manufacturing enterprises, make this point the most attractive in the world. four national banks and three bank- |?8«x»ej, and yet the general complaint is ~® **nt of currency—a complaint which seems “>eome from every portion of the South, and Uu? 9 the instant consideration of Congress. Bornm manufactory of agricultural imple- ******“ • vast establishment, showing that the beginning to tom their attention to . .—of the articles they have heroto- “** procured in the North. . -"Hi ner . NorfoJ graphical and military point of , with Hampton Roads, at the j"™ 1 of the Chesapeake Bay, ns its lower har- n iV'OH'pries with Saa Francisco, inside the fate of California, and possesses the “p ““portant maritime position within the do- lB d Suited States. Its harbor is broad enough to shelter not only all the . P5 of commerce but the navies of the world, tie m * >!CS with the exception of New York, c;';t ^ commanding position on the Atlantic tetaroV 8 ^Pe*™ 1 to the latter in all the ritniif^ 68 hack country andcom- reason why New York,Philadelphia, fturtn Oro ’ ea °h a position less favored ’ have surpassed Norfolk in their com- •ad o F i !ccesa > *a because they built railroads ritap i '° 0011110ct themselves with the West day. What is needed to make it jjfL *“7 of these great ports, even to New 7 . 48 1 have said. Northern emigration have said, Northern emigration develop its surroundings, and such aid as will place it, by means of a , in more direct •Ssiis «t>*P C - a ‘ Ionwi th San Francisco, by means at Railroad, than any of the North- tie rl 5° not come here to discuss so much ° 4 a? the near future of the South. My E*^., ** Wm ply to inform myself as to the i*-. FPortunities for Northern emigration —whether there is such a thing and security to the out- fftsa Ji f P?P' e ; and, although I was prepared, t&d a [-,..7? • 8een heard in Washington, to unproved condition of publio sen- tihiAj** 8 B °t prepared for such a welcome ’trtijj .jL e *tenddd to me by all classes and evidenoe is the presence of Northern men in this immediate bd.viTS 00 from Pennsylvania, New York >•11 of attracted here since the war hving comfortably, and most of 81 Republicans, and every one ex- TIic Condition of the South. From the Rno York Tribune, 23d inetar.t.] The casnal reader may imbibe very erroneous impressions of the state of the Sonth from what ho secs in the newspapers. If a Ku-Klux out rage is perpetuated in Tennessee or Texas, it is at once flashed over the whole country; and so of a negro riot or resistance to legal process, growing out of a quarrel with a planter or plant ers as to the division of crops grown on shares or the payment of wages. Few stop to consider that the South covers a million of square miles, inhabited by twelve millions of people, and that, since every collision among theso twelve mil lions has a qnasi-partisan character, the widely reported and trumpeted crimes of violence bear an unprecedented proportion to those which attract only local attention. For instance: there are ten or twelve counties in Middle and West Tennessee where the rebel spirit is still rampant, and in some of which Ku-Klux out rages are fitfully committed; these we are cer tain to hear from; but the forty or fifty conn- ties which are as qniet as any part of New England incite no telegrams and rarely attract public attention. From Virginia and the two Carolinas, we have heard of bnt one collision for weeks, and that was an evidently magnified report of a resistance to civil process by a few negroes near Norfolk. From Georgia, we have only the Ogeecheo troubles, which were swollen out of all proportion by mutual misconceptions and a palpable effort to drive the blacks into re bellion and subject them to extermination. From Alabama, we hear of but one recent outrage— the murder of a Union officer by Ku-Klux near Huntsville. Mississippi is very qiript; Louisiana almost uniformly so since she heard of Grant's election. In Florida, only the Kilkenny feud among the State officers vexes the general calm. Arkansas has been seriously convulsed and agitOr ted; and there have been wild doings by implaca ble rebels on the one side and by Gov. Clayton’s Black militia on the other; but, in spite of tho desperate efforts of the rebel journals of Mem phis and Litt-e Rock, it is plain that order, has generally been restored on the basis of submis sion to law. Texas is so vast and so remote from the seat of Government that a great many of the turbulent and implacable have taken re fuge in her vast solitudes and there to do with impunity deeds that would provoke repression elsewhere; but, even there, matters have great ly improved since Gen. Grant’s election, and are still improving. The fair crops and good prices just realized have had a very soothing influence. Twenty- five hundred thousand bales of cotton, selling for an average of $100 per bale, yields two hun dred and fifty millions of dollars to the planters; and, thongh several former crops were much- larger in amount, wo jloubt that any one of them ever sold at the gin houses for more money. Then the sugar and rice crops of 1868 are much larger than those of 1867, and are bringing good prices. Add to this that tho South grew more Indian corn, and we presume more wheat also, in 1868 than in any former year, and we may fairly congratulate her on the turn in the tide of her fortunes. The experiment of free labor at the Sonth was commenced under the least promising auspices ever known. The planters were conquered, sul len, despondent, and intensely prejudiced against “free niggers,” Having all their lives had labor without wages, the requirement pf pay for the work of their blacks seemed to them a glaring extortion, enforced by the bayonets of tiieir Yankee masters. But, had they been ever so willing to pay, the means were utterly want ing. The war had stripped them to their bare acres; and even these were in no condition to produce when, a month too late, they began feebly to plant in 1865. Short of implements, animals, and food, their crops would have been poor even had they not been shortened by dronth; bnt this cut them down nearly half. They did a little better in 1866, but on a con stantly, rapidly falling market; and when their next crop was ready for sale, cotton had fallen so low that half of them could hardly pay tiieir labor. The year just closed was the first since 1860 in which a fair yield has commanded a good price; and, though many are still struggling under a mountain of debt, tens of thousands have been set on their feet by the crop just marketed. , _ , . . The blacks emerged from slavery and the war under circumstances most unfavorable to so briety, and diligence on their part They were sharers in the national triumph; they were its most palpable beneficiaries; their old masters were the vanquished party,- and mistaken if not bad men had led the freedmen to expect a dis tribution of their masters’ forfeited Unds among them as “spoils of victory.’' And, had they been ever so docile and reasonable their late masters were at once disinclined and unable to pay them. Doubtless, too many of them wooded ^ mrtao. hut thev were told to dear out had all been willing to work, the work was no where to be had. Throughout the last three or four years, we have repeatedly ask^d Southern whites this question. “Have you ever known an instance where an employer able and willing to pay for black labor was unable to obtain it?” And no man has answered in the affirmative. And we cannot reme nber that one has told that he had any difficulty in retaining his former slaves if he chose to do so. “0,1 can’t get along with my niggers—they all want to stay with me on my own terms,” is the general response. Very few planters will say that they have been deserted by blacks whom they cared to retain. Still, the position of the two races was one of more or less open antagonism after the close of the war; bnt it ha3 gradually changed for the better, until at present it is common for planters to say, “We have become used to free labor and understand it—wo shall get on very well with our blacks henoeforth.” They have learned that they can make more money by hiring labor than by buying it, thongh those who inherited a gang of slaves may have found them very convenient. We donbt that those who bought their laborers ever did so well those who hired them have done in the year just terminated. On tho whole the South is looking up. There is a fraction of her people who still choose to put on masks and ride about at midnight to as sault Unionists, white or black, and bum negro school-houses; but these are not half so many as they were, and their number is still decreas ing. With Grant in the White House, cotton ruling high, and lands rising in value, we shall be surprised if they are not reduced to a few isolated gangs of ten to thirty within the next two years. Let the friends of peac 3 and union unite upon the basis of universal amnesty with impartial suffrage, and they will soon have van ished altogether. Industrial Development of the Sonth, We find the following editorial letter from Washington to the Richmond Whig in Saturday’s issue of that Journal. The hopeful view taken of affairs in the Sonth by the writer is indicative of a good time coming to that section of onr common country; This has been a busy day with me, and I have been placed in situation, and thrown in associa tion with leading politicians, from which and whom I have derived many ideas, facts, and hints as to the future policy of the country in connection with the South and Southern in terests. It is gratifying to witness the subsi dence of that frenzy and bitterness so recently and alarmingly exhibited toward everybody and everything Southern. The fever seemed to die out with the close of tho Presidential election. The motto of the successful candidate. “Let ns have peace” seems to be accepted as the rale of political action, and to be the animating principle of all the contemplated measures of policy. I find that in all quarters the opinion prevails that the President elect will make it his first aim to restore peace and tranquility, and promote a feeling of unity among the American people. This being understood there is a prevailing desire in Congress to begin with such legislation as shall harmonize with that design, and thus pave the way for the next administration and the new Congress to inaugu rate a more auspiciom era than we have had in the last decade. There is a manifest desire to S it rid of all disturbing questions between the orthem and Southern people, and between the whites and blacks, by settling them in such a manner as shall forever end them. If the rep resentations I hear are correct (and there is no reason to donbt them,) the chief solicitude of the Republican leaders in regard to such a set tlement is to secure protection and safety to the Union men of the South, to the negroes, and to Northern settlers. One further aim appears to be to discourage, and, so far as practicable, prevent the Southern communities from falling at once under the control of those who were most prominent in bringing on secession. There is also a great industrial idea existing in North ern minds in regard to the future of the South. That busy hive is full and wants relief from re pletion. It is looking eagerly to the vast area of uncultivated Southern lands, and to the other and varied resources in which capital and labor may be profitably employed. Thf y want to go Sonth, settle, work, mingle with the people, en joy security, and be as free in all respects as they are at their present homes. As soon as a settlement satisfactory to their minds shall be made, on the principles indicated, it cannot be doubted that numbers of families will go South ward to dwell, and become forever incorporated with our population, and that vast amounts of capital -will be invested in Southern lands and in all those various enterprises for which we offer so desirable a field. "Where will then be the danger from negro suffrage ? In company with a prominent citizen of Vir ginia, I, tiiis morning, had a conversation with CoL Forney, who, for some years past, has been regarded as one of the bitterest enemies of the South. Our reception by him was not only courteous, but kind and cordial, and he exhibit ed in bis conversation, os he has of late fre quently done in his newspapers, a degree of friendly interest in our Southern affairs, doubly welcome because scarcely to have been hoped for. He regards onr James river and Konawah canal as a great enterprise of national impor ts fully alive to its magnitude, to its value as a national trade channel, and to the mighty re sources it is destined to unlock and develop. As he expressed himself to ns, his “heart and soul are in it.” He thinks that while the government will hereafter be administered npon principles of economy, and that while other sections of tho country that have bben greatly benefitted by government money and grants, and are now in a condition to take care of themselves will probably be left to their own resources, the South should and will be aided—and that our great Virginia improvements that have a nation al character are deserving of especial considera tion. I may say without transcending the limits of propriety, that Col. Forney’s political views in regard to the South are marked by the same spirit of liberality. He is warmly in synroathy with the movement now on foot hero among our Virginians to bring about such a settlement as will harmonize our several classes of population, make the condition of the whites tolerable, open np our industries, and re new our prosperity. I learned from him that the land agency he has opened in connection with his newspapers has excited a lively interest throughout the South and North, and placed him in correspondence with a large number of per sons—sellers and buyers. On Thursday next he goes, in company with a large number of gentle men, including all shades of politics and all di versities of occupation, to Caldwell county, North Carolina, to examine a body of three hun dred thousand acres of land. The gentlemen who accompany him are large capitalists, and go prepared to purchase, if the land shall come up to their expectations. It is covered by a vast growth of timber, and their purpose, should they purchase, is first to cut down the trees, strip off the bark, andinstead of shipping the bark North, to put up machinery, grind the bark, extract the principle of tannin it contains, and send that to the market. They will then erect mills for sawing up the timber into the various marketable forms, and send that to market. They will then divide up the lands into farms, introduce settlers, and engage in farming on a large scale. Is not this a grand opening for our sister State of North Carolina. It is to be hoped that Virginia will soon be the theatre of similar operations. The Chronicle land agency is destined, I think, to play a conspicuous part in settling the unoocu- pied lands of the South. GEORGIA. LEGISLATURE. Moxdat, Jan. 20, 1869. From the Atlanta Intellitenct?.] Sxxate—The Senate met, pursuant to adjourn ment. Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Hunt The roll being called and there being a quo rum present; the Secretary read the journal of Friday. . J, .. REPORT. ■ •• Mr. Higbee, as chairman, made a report from the Committee on Enrollment. UNFINISHED BUSINESS. Mr. Hinton’s bill" to establish a new circuit to be known as the Columbus Circuit. Mr. Bruton—Resolved, That this bill be re faired to the Judiciary Committee to report if the Judiciary Circuits ought to be increased, and to what number. Lost. Mr. Wooten moved to amend Mr. Hinton's bill by adding: Provided, before this bill be comes a law, the people of Muscogee shall, by popnlarvote, consent to pay into the State Treas ury an extra tax to pay the salaries of Judge and Solicitor General. Lost, The report of the committee unfavorable. Mr. Hinton’s bill was adopted. Bill lost. Mr- Hinton’s bill was discussed by Messrs. Bums, Hinton, "Winn, Merrell, Wooten, and Smith, of the 36th. BEP0KT8. Mr. Wooten—That the report of the commit tee relative to adding other clerks be adopted. Passed. Mr. Candler—That he should move a recon sideration to-morrow. EESOLUTIOJt FBOM H0U8B. Resolution, submitted by the committee ap pointed last session to investigate the condition of the Pioneer Cotton Card Manufacturing Com pany, was adopted. Referred to Finance Com mittee. MESSAGE FROM HOUSE. Cotton CnltlTaUon. The Negro-EIlglblllty Test CSse-The From the Covington Examiner.] Clerkship or the Chatham Superior One of the results of the new order of things J °*? r _ , * in the South will be, we anticipate, a material Sarannah A etc*.] improvement In the character of our cottons, .} a known to onr readers that at the and especially in respect to length and fineness election held last spring for State and county of staple. The competition of .foreign grown offi cers, Richard W. White, a person of color, cottons, which has been so much fostered by roc eived the highest number of votes for Clerk European governments for soma years past, 011110 Superior Court of Chatham county, and would, if there were no other cauies, have led H** de ^? r ? a elected and commissioned. Mr. to more attention on the part of pur planters Win. William J. Clements, _ the Conservative a* to the quality of their crops; buc the changed 9^. * or that office, believing "White to be system of labor, the necessity of jlanting on a ineligible, determined to proceed against him by less extensive scale than before, opd the great fy Mflff'tywfr. There was au indictment for personal attention now required in the manage- ^®lony penffing against White at the time, and ment of plantations, will naturally lead to such ’ that the issue would be tried at the a result. As an evidence of what Jan be accom- • fterm of the Court, no proceedings were plished by careful attention in the improvement ; taken until the result should be known. The of the staple, and value in other roipests, of our • caso waa postponed, and taking the Legislative cottons, the New Orleans Prices Cu3X A iifc says. » construction of the existing Constitution of the wo need only refer to the success wHcS, has at- 88 * of action, Mr. Clemente pro- tended the efforts of Mr. Peeler in this di- ' ^ case 011 th .® ground that White, rection; but it gives us pleasure to know i a person of color, is ineligible to office, that there are others laboring in the same field, "osual form of proceeding is to file a peti- and with result but little, if any, less gratifying. ; asking that a writ of quo warranto be is- Among these we may reier to the success which j 8Ued - tas done, and the case wfil be has attended the efforts of Mr. W. S. Cook, of j a K ued on Thursday next at eleven o’clock, a, m. Bcdivar Landing, Mississippi, in improving the j proceeding^ may bring np the whole case, quality of what is called the Monterey Silk Cot- i or JJ a y result in the issue of the quo warrant ton. Not only are great efforts being made Y. §P ves Mr- Clements tho power to pro- abroad to increase tho quantity of the cotton ‘ceedmihe ^ State against White.— supply, but much attention is given also in re- j latter, we understand, will assert as his de- spect to improving the quality of the crops, and that he is a white man, and declares that in Egypt, particularly, where the finest cottons j " e 99 11 PJ ove In this case should the Judge furnished bv any country in the world are pro- i adversely to the eligibility of negroes to duced, our Sea Island cottons, they are largely i office, the case would have to go before a jury, increased their supply of the finer grades by . de cide as to which color White belongs. The planting our Sea Island seed, and ibis fact goes pcbtion and ordfcr of the Judge in the caso are to prove the value, not to say the necessity, of 88 : # greater attention on the part of our planters as • Geobgia, Chatham County—To the Honorable well in selectieg their seed, as in careful cultiva- j Judge of the Superior Court of said County : tion and care in picking and ginning. | The petition of William J. Clements, a free The Vicksburg (Miss.) limes, in alluding to j w hite citizen of said county of Chatham, re- this long staple, fine and silky textural cotton, spectfully shows that he is above the age of known as the Peeler cotton, which is now claim- twenty-one years, and in every other respect eli- ing the attention of plantera and factors every- gible to, and qualified to hold the office of Clerk where, says: j of the Superior Court of said county of Chatham, The improved variety of cotton has become according to the laws of Georgia; that at an elec- s*„ well known, and its merits so well established tion held in said county of Chatham on the 21st, as to render it certain of playing an important 22d, 23d and 24th days of April, eighteen hun- part in the commerce of the country. Its pro- dred and sixty-eight, for a Clerk of the Superior ductiveness and length of staple make it valua- Court of said county of Chatham, pursuant to bio to both planters and spinners, and to retain law, one Bichard W. White, a person of color, these characteristics it is necessary that the and your petititioner were the only persons voted greatest care be taken of theiseed, that it shall not for by the electors; that the said Richard W. deteriorate or get mixed with the common cot- White, a person of color, received the highest ton. All persons interested in its growth ought number of votes, and was commissioned as such to guard it sedulously against the frauds which Clerk, and is in the discharge of the duties, and will most likely be attempted by unscrupulous exercising the rights and powers, and receiving dealers in cotton seed, who, if they succeed in the emoluments incident and attached to said palming off other seeds for this, will cerUinly office: degrade it, and bring the genuine Peeler into | And yonr petitioner further shows that the said such disrepute, as to destroy, in a great meas- ■ Richard W. White is a person of color, and has ure, its real value. .... j inhis veins an eighth or more of negro or African _ In this behalf we make the following sugges- * blood, and was consequently ineligible to the tions. Let those who buy the Peeler seed, ' office of Clerk of said Court; and was and still is where there shall be the slightest room for doubt incompetent and unable, /under the laws of Geor- require of the selldr one or more certificates of gi a , to hold said office: genuineness, from neighbors or other well known j And your petitioner farther shows by section responsible persons. And every sack, shipped ; 121 of the Code of Georgia, it is enacted “that should be marked Peeler Cotton Seed, 1 to pre- j if at any popular election to fill any office, if the vent ^ exchanging and mistakes. Owners of the • person elected is ineligible, the person having genuine seed, who desire to sell them, are in- the next highest number of votes, who is eligi- terested in carrying out our suggestions—liot ble, whenever a plurality elects, shall be de- alone because of the apparently increased c<jm* ' clared elected, and be duly qualified and com petition, but because the Peeler they wcfild missioned to 6uch office;” that your petitioner themselves grow would be damaged in repiita- j was, at the time of the said election, eligible to tion by the cotton grown from the franduhnt : office; and that a plurality elects in suqh elec- seed—the latter going upon the market, perhaps j tions. from responsible parties who had purchased the j Wherefore your petitioner prays the leave of seed in good faith. your Honor to file an information, in the name The whole country is deeply interested in of the State, in the nature of a Quo Warranto, keeping the Peeler cotton up to its present re- j calling npon the said Richard W. White to show putation. If it shall be kept up, it will add by virtue of what right or law he holds the above greatly to the profits of cotton planting, and ‘ mentioned office, and why he should not be re* consequently to the wealth and prosperity all of moved therefrom; and your petitioner duly de- who are anywise interested in tie business of J clared elected, and be qualified and commission- the country. By its successful growth, without ' e d as Clerk of the Superior Court of the conn-| „ ..... i " M> “ m,Bi “ '"‘ em * k “* Mr. "Williams, of Haralson—A bill changing The joint committee to take into considera- , tion the continuance of the endorsement by the j State, of the bonds of the Macon and Brunsirfck Company, reported favorable. House adopted report. Fending what disposition should be made of the report, tho question was discussedby Messrs. Wooten, Brock, Hungerford, Burns, Speer, Smith and Holcombe. Senate adjourned. House.—The House met pursuant to adjourn ment at 10 a. ar. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Crumley. The Journal was read and approved. Mr. Carpenter—A resolution appointing a joint committee to examine into the treatment of con victs that have been hired out. Mr. Hall, of Merriwether, made a few re marks, the force of which it was difficult to un derstand. The rules were suspended and the resolution lost • BELLS ON FIRST BEADING. Mr. Bethune—A bill authorizing Sheriffs to assess a special tax to dr fray certain expenses. Mr. Barnnm—A bill incorporating the Alba ny & Columbus Railroad Company. Mr. Carpenter, of Pierce—A bill changing the time of holding Superior Court in Pierce county. Mr. Prudden—A bill changing the time of holdingthe Superior Court in Putnam county. Mr. Williams, of Morgan—A bill restricting the jurisdiction of Superior Courts in criminal cases. Mr. Price—A bill authorizing Ordinaries to appoint commissioners to assess damages for overflowing lands. Mr. Madison—A bill defining the duties of the State Printer.’" Mr. Barnnm—A bill to re-organize the Geor gia Military Institute, and appropriating the capitol in MiUedgeville for that purpose. Mr. Harris—A bill to extend the jurisdiction of constables in Murray county. Mr. Meadows—A bill allowing maimed sol- Mr. Welch—To establish, a fund for educa tional purposes. Mr. Wooten—To alter and amend section 3323 of Irvin’s Code. Mr. Wooten—To authorise agents, and attor neys to make oaths to pleas in oertain cases. Mr. Speer—To define offense for removing partnership fences. Speer—To lay off a new county from Pike, Monroe and Upson, to be county. Mr. McWhorter—To give physicians lien on property of their employers. Mr.. Candler—To amend section 3631 of Irwin's Code. Mr. Candler—A bill of fees for Ordinaries. 7 Mr. Candler—A bill 6f fees for Sheriffs; also bill of fees for Clerk of Superior Court; also the taking of evidenoe in oertain cases. Mr. Smith, of the 8ti—To authorize the Or dinary of Coweta county to retain oertain sums of money for jail purposes. _ Mr. Merrell—An act to amend an act to change lines between Merriwether and Talbot. Mr. Brock—To repeal section 3,525 of Irwin’s Coda. , -'.tt.-vi'i.iiT i^r-A Mr. Fain—To give the Ordinaries power to abate certain nuisances. Senate adjourned. House.—House met pursuant to adjournment at 10 o'clock a. m. Prayer by the Rev. Mr. Crumley. Journal read and confirmed. cottons, and by getting a gin adipted to the pre- j And your petitioner will ever pary, etc, servation of its staple, it will supply the growing Wm. J. Clements. deficiency^ the Sea Island cotton, which has ! Thomas E. Lloyd, Attorney, fallen ofl" in the quantities, since tho war, fully i Personally came before me. William J. Cle- one-bolf. Therefore, we hope all will make I ments, who being duly sworn, deposes and says, it their business to doeverytbing in their power j that the facts set forth in the above petition are to keep the Peeler cotton up to its present; true. Wm. J. Clements. standard. • ' Sworn to before me, this January 22, 1869. We do not feel like closing this article without' Henby S. Wetmobe, a tribute of praise to theorigmator of this splen- j Ordinary, C. O., Ga. • did cotton. He is entitled to the gratitude of \ The following is a copy of the order issued the whole country, for truly he is a public bene-! by Judge Schley: factor, and if we have been correctly informed, ! Georgia, Chath his reputation has not come of an accident, bnt of his care and preservorence. We trust that our country will furnish many' enterprising, thoughtful and judicious men to emulate his no ble example, and to reap his reward of fortune and reputation. Georgia, Chatham county. On reading the above petition and affidavit, it is ordered that the Richard W. White, now acting as Clerk of the Superior Court of Chatham county, do show cause before me, at the Court-house at Savan nah, in said county, at 11 o'clock, a. m., on the 26th day in February, 1869, why an informa- I tion in the nature of a quo quaranto should not Misplaced t'oiillrfence--JIow a Wicked : be filed against him, as prayed for in said peti- Frami’ lias put upon Mark Twain ; tion; and that a copy of said petition, affidavit, iu Newark. ’ end this order, be served on the said R. W. From the Fevark (A*. J.) Pre*,.] ! White, at least three days before said lastmen- It is seldom pleasant to teU on one’s self, but! Honed day. sometimes it is a sort of relief to a man to make I _ ■■ „ a sad confession. I wish to unburden my mind ! T ^Ao^ reme Court East Dis. Ga. now, and yet I almost believe I am moved to do ■ J°unary 18(>J. it more because I long to bring censure upon ' AC0 Py of «**£"• Petition and order was another man than became I desire to pour balm ' ?£ rv r ed U P°° yesterday, by Deputy Sher- upon my wounded heart. (I don’t toow what i “ ^ aac 1 / os l e11 ’ ond service acknowledged, balm is, but I believe it to the correct expression f As a ^° Te stat ed, the matter will come np for tance, and entitled to national assistance. He ! argument on Tuesday morning next. any balm ) You may remember that Hectored | A Iladical OrgaiTon tko Proposed m Newark lately tor the.young gentlemen of the Oulragcsupon Georgia. P Claytonian Society. I did. at apyrate. During _ .. the afternoon of that day I was talking with one ! Som ? of strongest arguments and most said ho had an uncle who, from some cause or . - ... - -.... other, seemed to have grown permanently be- have-to their creditbe it said-appeared in the reft of all emotion. And with tears in his eyes leading Radical papers of the Nortii. The Chi- this young man said: cago Tribune, the chief organ of the party in the Oh, if I could only see him laugh once more ! ?°I thwe ^’ has ■ stT0 ?S article on the sub- Oh, if I could only see him weep!” J ec t- 1 The following extracts will serve as I was touched. I could never withstand dis- sa °JP les: , ... tress i said- Congress reassembles to-day, and one of the ‘Bring him to my lecture. I'll start him for ^ $°. be ' riU . b0 ** Georgia ^ ® question. It is certainly a very important ques- “Oh, if I could but do it: If you could but If Congress can play at battledore and do it, all onr family would bless you for ever- dmttiecock with eleven States, receiving them more-tor he is very dear to us. Oh, my bene- mto the £ mon tc ^V, nd expelling them to- factor, can you make him laugh? can you mowow, it may ultimately play the same game bring soothing tears to those parched orb.v” with thirtv-seven States ; and the place which I was profoundly moved. I said: Illinois holds as a member of the Union will be “My son, bring the old party around. I have Jj* mercy and capnce of an accidental major- got some jokes iS that lecture that will make & “ Congress at any time. We have never him laugh, if there is any laugh in him-and if heard °£ a “ ore , dangerous political project, or they miss fire, I have got some others that'll one embodying less wisdom. " make him cry or kill him, one or the other.” ..... , t , Then the young man blessed me, and wept on are no .. bet ^£ or constitutional my neck, and blew his nose on my coat tail, and ^ otu i? S Georgia from the Umon went after his uncle. He placed him to toll tban <*?«*“>**»expellingMassarimsotteif view, in the second row of benches that night, legislature the Boston and I began on him. I tried him with mild youth (said to be less than twenty-one years of jokes; then withsevere ones; I dosed him with age) who has received a certificate of election to bad jokes and riddled htox with good ones; I be Geaeral Tl fifMjfiS! ff T68 ““J* 8684 fired old stale jokes into him, an<£peppered him when she oughtito reject tom. ^ ^ ^ fore and aft with redhot new ones; Iwarmedup rm.„ i ; ... „ to my work, and assaulted him on the right and T ^ e P omt m . ake 18 ^ f on ' left, in front and behind; I fumed and sweated, §*■£“ to and charged and routed, till I was hoarse ahd 216 ^“ on ". “ 8 !?® d - e8 f J°“ the , Union ’ sick, and frantic and furious—but I never moved ? T - attea'Pt® t° do 8 °i the govermnent may him once—I never started a smile or a tear! bnng her back by force of »nns, and prescribe Never a ghost of a smile, and never a suspicion 016 conations on which she shali hereafter enjoy of moisture! I was astonished. I closed the any political right hatsoever. Having done lecture at last with one desparing shriek-with this, the government cannot turn around and one wild burst of humor—and hurled a joke of ^ck h 0rc rat again, and presenbe new terms to supernatural atrocity toll at him. It never mp^ement a real or suppoeed deficiency in the pleased him. Then Dsat down bewildered and ^t conditions Such a project is simply mon- exhausted. strons. It will not be sanctioned by the people. The President of'the society came up and N° political party can make itself responsible bathed my head with cold water and said: * OT ^ ?? ^t is not a measure "What made you carry on so toward the last?” conceived in the interest of wace,, but in favor said = “ T was trvWto make that rWer,„d_ of renewed stnfe, discord and contention- the line between the counties of Haralson anc. Polk. Mr. Saussey—A bill establishing the fees of the Solicitor General of the Eastern Circuit, and also of Sheriffs. Mr. Lane—A bill extendetog the time allowed tax collectors to April. Mr. Barrett—A resolution, that after Friday, the 29th, the House receive no bills on the first reading. Rules not suspended. Sir. Carson—A bill requiring Sheriffs of Thomas county to execute all writs from the Justices Court. Mr. Ford—A bill amending the act incorpora ting the town of Cartersville. Mr. Gullatt—A bill incorporating the Georgia Life Insurance Company. Sir. Tate—A bill repealing the act incorpora ting tho "White Manufacturing Company. Mr. "Wa-kins—A bill providing for the punish ment of officers who refuse to open the polls, on election days. Sir. Perkins—A bill to return the State taxes of Cherokee county, to build a court house. Also, a bill requiring tax-payers to give in gold and silver at its value in currency. Sir. Tumipseed—A bill making it penal for any porson to sell or transfer personal property under mortgage or liens. Sir. Scott—A resolution requiring N. L. An- gier to report the amount of money drawn for postage, by whom and whether such money was drawn by warrant. Rules suspended and reso lution adopted. Sir. Tonnpseed—A resolution requiring 5000 additional copies of the Comptroller General’s report to be printed for the House. Rules sus pended and resolution adopted. Leave of absence was granted to several mem. bers. House adjourned. into the cities; but they were from their old homes, and they had no <*°roe but to obey. That there are idle, "°rtMeM, rascally blacks, who would rather beg than work, and rather eteal than either, is quite true; but, Hale Trade in Middle Georgia. The Atlanta Constitution of Sunday says: Since January 1st, 1869, and up to Thursday morning, tour thousand one hundred and forty- five mines have been brought to this city. Of this number, about 200 came by dirt road, the balance by railroad. Of the total number re ceived, O. H. Jones fed about 1,995; W. E. Archer, 1,438; and Sir. Wooten about 714. About one-third have been sold at wholesale. Prices ranged from $115 to $220 per head, wholesale. I said : “I was trying to make that confound ed old fool laugh, in the Beoond row.” And he said : “ Well, you were wasting yonr time—because he is deaf and dumb, and as blind as a badger." Now was that any way tor that old man’s “If his colleague in the Senate is disqualified tor other reasons, that is a question td be con sidered by itself. Let Sir. Hill be admitted, and let the project of ejecting Georgia or any other State legally admitted to the Union, be put aside Dennis Heabtt, the Nestor of the Southern press, has sold the Hillsboro’ (N. C.) Recorder, after pub lishing it nearly forty-nine years. Wm. Gilmore Simms has written a new ro mance entitled: “The Cub of the Panther, a Mountain Legend.” Release or Lieutenant Braine.—Mr. Evarte, under direction of the President, on Wednesday directed the release of ex-Confederate naval of ficer Braine, so long in confinement to New York on charges of $raoy. • ’’v '***5 ■. V Thubsdat, January 26, 1869. Senate—Tho Senate met at 10 o’clock, pur suant to adjournment, and was opened with prayer by the Rev. Dr. Brantly. The roll being called, and there being a quo rum present, the Secretary read the Journal of yesterday. Mr. Candler moved a reconsideration of the action of the Senate yesterday, namely: “That the Secretary of the Senate be allowed to em ploy not more than five additional clerks, when such clerks shall have been examined by the Enrollment Committee, and recommended by them as duly qualified tor the position.” To this Mr. Wooten offered an amendment: Provided, That the Secretary be allowed to em ploy from time to time such additional clerks as are necessary, subject to the approval of the Senate, which amendment was adopted, and the report agreed to. Mr. Candler made and able speech, for recon sideration, earnestly opposing additional ex pense by adding clerks, he could see no work tor them to do. He thought the appointment would be in opposition to the Code. He ventil ated some of the expenses of the government. Mr. Speer moved to lay the motion on the table. Slotion to reconsider lost. uniinished business. Mr. Wooten spoke in favor of referring back for further investigation the report of the joint committee on the condition of the endorsement by the State of the bonds of the Maoon and Brunswick Railroad. They report: “That they had examined the books of that road, and were satisfied that tho road had fully complied with the conditions upon which State aid had been granted that road, and recommended the passage of a resolution that, to the opinion of the members of the General Assembly, the Ma-. con and Brunswick Railroad have complied with the conditions npon which the State endorsed its bonds, and that the Governor be requested to continue said endorsement.” Mr. Moan moved that the previous question be called. Passed. Mr. Hinton moved to refer the report and resolution to the Judiciary Committee. Lost Mr. Wooten’s resolution came up—To refer the report back to the committee. Lost After a discussion by Messrs. Welbom, Hin ton, Winn and More, the report of the commit tee was adopted, rules being suspended. BELLS ON FIRST BEADING. Mr. 8mith, of ihe Tth—To prevent the sale of lottery tickets, end for other purposes. BILLS ON THIim BEADING. A bill remitting the tax of Stewart county for 1SC9, for the purpose of building a jail. Lost. A bill preventing obstructions being placed in certain creeks to the counties of Wilcox and Pu laski. Laid on the table. A bill authorizing the Sheriff of White county to receive jury certificates in, payment of ail does. Bill amended so as to include Habersham county. Passed. A bill incorporating the town of Trion, in Chattooga county. Passed. A bill changing the lines between Gilmer and Pickens. Recommitted, and referred to the Committee on County lines. A bill authorizing the Ordinary of Fulton county to sell bonds to the amount of twenty- two thousand dollars. The rules were suspended to read bills tor the first time. Mr. McCombs—A bill to bring out convicts. Also, a bill authorizing the Superintendent of the Penitentiary to appoint subordinate of ficers. Senate bills were here taken up and read. Mr. Bradford—A bill to equalize the business of judicial circuits. Mr. Hill—A resolution looking to retrench ment, and making two sessions a day. Mr. Ellis, of Spalding—A bill levying a tax of one dollar per head on dogs. Mr. Biyant moved to make this resolution the special business for next Thursday. Mr. Scott, of Floyd, moved to refer the reso lution to the Committee on the State of the Re- . public. Mr. Price moved to postpone the whole mat ter indefinitely. Motion carried. Mr. Darnell—A resolution requiring 500 copies more of the Governor’s message to be printed. Rules not suspended. Mr. Sisson, chairman of the committee io as sign committee rooms, made his report, which ' was adopted and ordered to be printed. A message from the Governor, submitting the 17th annual report of the Blind Asylum, was received, taken np and read. 1 • •• A resolution allowing seats on the floor of the House to all duly authorized reporters, was of fered, and. after much debate, adopted. Mr. Lane moved to take up a resolution re lating to the disabilities imposed by the terms of the amendment of the Constitution of the United States, known as the 14th article, and memorial izing Congress to remove the same, tor the pur pose of referring the same to a special commit tee of seven. Rules suspended, and resolution read. Leave of absence granted to several members. Mr. Crawford—A resolution appointing a joint committee to proceed to Washington city at once, to confer with onr Representatives and Congress, in relation to existing difficulties. Mr. Price—A resolution to appoint a commit tee to visit Taliferro and Warren counties, to investigate charges of lawlessness and outrage. Mr. Rice, Representative from Columbia, but of Connecticut, made a short speech declaring that he could reveal facts of a terrible nature, but extreme caution prevented the gentleman. Mr. Price withdrew his resolution. House adjourned. Cotton and Resumption. From the Few York Expreee.'i The cotton crop of last year will yield from. 2,500,000 to 2,700,000 bales, which, at the prices received, will exceed the income from the. 5,000,000 bales produced before the war. Cot-, ton, at 24 and 25 cents a pound in 1869, is a good deal more king than cotton at 10 cents & pound before the war, and especially when as in 1868, the South produced in food about all that the Southern people consumed. . American, cotton also, now, as before the war, as a whole, is the best cotton produced in the world! Its demand is unabated wherever cotton is.manu factured, and will be just as long as it is pro duced. The income from it is as certain as the demand. On a belt of 600 miles of land- there are no such cotton lands to the world. All that is wanted is capital and labor,- and it is a disgrace to the country, and especially ta its mock philanthropy, that twice as much cot ton was produced in a state of slavery-as to a state of freedom, though this, we are- sorry to say, is but a repetition of the practical freedom established in Jamacia and St Domingo, where the cotton and sugar plantations went to ruin just as fast as the negroes obtained their freedom. But we expect different results at the South, and they would be atonoe apparent if the South ern people were left to regulate their own busi ness, labor and political relations, as the peo ple of the North and "West are permitted to re gulate theirs, and this with a much better condi tion of the moral, religious, arid- educational status of the negro than we shall ever behold through Northern interference. Nobody, of course, ever expects to see slavery re-established in the United States, and now that the institution is clean goae, nobody even de sires it; bnt Congressional reconstruction in the form of military governments at the South, the regulation of suffrage, the interference with State and personal rights, and laws, the exclu sion of white men from office and the ballot, is & positive bar to real freedom, independence and irosperity, and whenever Congress consents to oosen its oppressive hold upon, the Sonth, and to leave people there as free as they are here, not only the South, but the whole people, will feel the healthy influence of such freedom. If Congress will but consent to let .all the States regulate their own internal affairs, so far as they do not interfere with the United State3 Constitution, tho beet results will ensue, andym now predict, if this is done, by the time two ad ditional crops of cotton are pat upon the mar ket, the Government will be able, with exen de cent economy in the administration of gublic affairs, to resume specie payments. Governmental Stealing. — Congressman Jenckes says the Government is plundered of one hundred millions of dollars annually. Com menting npon this statement and yainiilg the author of it, the New York Herald says: "Was these ever such stupendueiiS fraud and robberry before ? A hundred miflions or mors a year stolen from the Govern ment and people 1 Is it not time that the tonure-of-ofltoe sot should be repealed and the responsibility ef a faithful execution of the laws be placed in the President? And yet Congressman Jenekea wss one of the famous forty-seven who voted against repeal. Rothschild said, one day, he always knew when people were taiktog about his feUowHe- brews, whether the latter were rich or poor. Upon being asked, to explain bow he came to know that, he replied: ‘‘Why, you *«*. when people are talking about a wealthy man fid my creed they cell him an Isrealite, but if he is pope they cell him ft 4ew- “ >» V.

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Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869, January 29, 1869, Image 1