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The Georgia "V\ r eekly Telegraph.
THE TELEGRAPH
MACON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, ]*G9-
A Fact which cannot l>e long Ignored.
*-< Senator Trumbull, in Ms minority report
the oase of Joshua Hill, concludes with an ap-
peal to wholesome fears of future retribution.
He says it “will not do ignore the existence of
the powerful political party that lost the last
great electionsad adds:
“ A few years hence they may, by a revolution
power, be m the ascendancy, and, following the <
ample sought to be established in the case of this
Georgia Senator, there would be no inconsistency in
their rejecting the Senators from Illinois or any
other State whose political affiliations were not'
harmony with their own.”
The Radicals owe their new lease of life to the
personal strength of Gen. Grant—the impracti
cability of the Democrats who threw away suc
cess—negro enfranchisement and tho wholesale
disfrancMsement of the wMtes. Failing either
of these, they would have gone under, and unless
Geo. Grant’s administration shall secure & reor
ganization of parties, the Radicals, fonr years
hence, will go under and never more control the
Government. Can Radicals, therefore, trample
upon law, equity and the Constitution to perpet
uate flagrant wrong, and expect to sMeld them
selves under law and Constitution from the ac
tion of summary remedies? Nay, verily. "What
soever measure ye meet it shall be measured out
to you again. The fight against reason, common
sense, the dictates of law, is, after all, an une
qual one. It cannot long bo victorious, and the
measure and character of redress wMch follow
tho final defeat will be determined by the vio
lence of the wrongs perpetrated.
Augusta Cotton market.
The Constitutionalist of Sunday gives the fol
lowing figures: receipts of Saturday 782 bales
sales G12. Stock on hand September 1, 18C8,
1606; received since 38,637; making total re
ceipts 40,243. Exports and taken for home con
sumption 20,219. Stock on hand, by actual
count, January 30, 1860, 20,024. Sales from
December I, 1868, to January 31, I860, 26,796.
The Fourth ofMarch Meeting of Con
gress.
The Boston Journal (ultra Radical) says a vig
orous attempt will soon be made in the House
to carry tho repeal of the act providing for the
meeting of tho next Congress on the 4th of
March next. The Judiciary Committee agree
to report the resolution and the feeling in favor
of it has strengthened durmg the past week.
There is but little chance, however, of its adop
tion.
The Governor and State Treasurer.
An Atlanta correspondent takes up our edito
rial of Saturday and explains how it became the
duty of the Governor to advance monies to fur
nish tho capitoL We refer the reader to that
communication, with the single remark that we
shall be gratified to see these imputations against
tho Governor turn out to be groundless and the
whole matter oxplained to the satisfaction of all
parties.
Cabinet Making.
The Herald chronicles a great commotion
among the Cabinet-makers in Washington.—
Delegates from the East, West, North and South
are advising, pumping and interviewing Gen.
Grant, and making slates every day. Every politi
cal and peculating clique and combination is
represented, but none can get anytMng out of
Grant, except that he is opposed to all rings and
stealing combinations.
Advice from Boston.
The following sound advice comes to us, with
out date, all tho way from Boston. Let the
writer come on and bring others along with him,
to help fill the Sonth with a white population in a
hurry:
Boston-, Mass.
Till your Southern States with a white popu
lation os soon as possible and the nigger party
are dead in this country. Let the Sonth have
the same proportion of wMtes to blacks, .that
Massachusetts has, and the Nigger will fare the
fate of the Indian on this continent. Again let me
soy to you flood the Sonth with wMte population
and yon are all right.
The Finances.—A Washington dispatch says
that the Customs receipts for this month will
Teach nearly, or qnite @15,000,000, and the In
ternal Revenue about @13,000,000. The mis
cellaneous receipts will foot about @3,000,000,
making the total receipts about @31,000,000.—
Tho statement for the month, however, places
payments mode by the treasury at about @47,-
000,000, an excess over receipts of about @16,-
000,000. Included in this large sum of expen
ditures is $29,000,000 interest paid on bonds,
the ordinary expenses of running the govern
ment about @14,000,000, and miscellaneous pay
ments about @4,000,000.
Spain.—The cities of Seville and Cadiz are re
ported to have proclaimed in favor of the Duke
of Montspcnsier os King of Spain. Both these
cities are strongly Republican, and in neither
could the Duke of Montspensier receive any
thing like a majority of votes. The leaders of
the Liberal Union, with Marshal Serrano at their
head, are making the utmost efforts to secure
tho election of the Duke, who, it is thought at
present, has os good chances of being elected as
any other prince who has yet been nominated.
Pursuit op Stock-raising under Difficul
ties.—The Augusta Press says rearing swine in
that region is a difficult business. They are
gone as soon as the owner loses sight of them.
Tho last one seen was tied to a stump with a
long rope, so as to give it the benefit of range,
but the unruly critter, or some other force,
broke the rope, and hoggy closed up the stock-
raising account. There appears to be a misnn-
derstanding^between the freedmen and tho same
—they can’t co-exist.
Cleaning out the Savannah River.—Repre
sentative Clift, of the 1st District, has a bill be
fore the House of Representatives appropriating
one hundred and forty thousand dollars to re
move obstructions from the Savannah river.
We suppose tho chance for that bill is small;
but it is certainly one which, in view of the im
portance of the trade of Savannah to the com
merce of the country, should take precedence of
many a similar appropriation wMch will pass.
A Washington correspondent says the Radical
party have become so demoralized that caucuses
have become obsolete institutions. You were in
formed some time ago that they were in such a
condition, that agreement upon any proposition
other than devising additional screws for the
Southern people was among the impossibilities.
“Was General Banks twice ordered to super
sede General Grant?” is a question still agita
ting the press. We now see that the Lawrence
(Massachusetts) American—published in Gen.
Banks’, district—says:
“It is quite useless for the New York Sun or
tho Boston Advertiser to sneer at the matter as
fiction, for, as we happen personally to know,
the official antographio orders are now in the
hands of General Grant, and pot the whole mat
ter beyond question or controversy."
Valuaklx Farm near Forsyte job Sale.—
One of our advertisers offers a valuable form of
450 acres, on the Macon and Western Railroad, a
mile and a half from Forsyth for sale. This is
a fine chance for investment
It is pnblidy announced that the citizens of
Washington, of Mgh social position, without re
spect to are determined to have an in
auguration hall.
Georgia in Washington.
In the House Reconstruction Committee, last
Thursday, the case of Virginia was concluded
and farther testimony was declined. The im
pression existed that the committee would re
port a bill in harmony with the suggestions of
the Committee of Nine, bnt in view of the
amount of business pressing upon the House,
was feared that whatever bill may be reported
will fail of enactment for want of time. During
the sessionjit was decided that all applications
hereafter made for the removal of political dis
abilities shall be in writing, with a statement of
the reasons for the application.
Mr. Boutwell, of the Committee, expressed
himself very anxious to take np the Georgia
In the House, on tho same day, the following
action was had on the case of Georgia:
Mr. Paine, of Wisconsin, from the committee
on reconstruction reported the following, and
upon it demanded the previous question:
"Whereas, it is provided by the reconstruction
acts passed March 2, 1867, that until the peo-
>!e of the lately rebellions States shall be by
.aw admitted to representation in Congress, any
civil governments wMch may exist therein shall
be deemed provisional only, and that no persons
shall be eligible to office in such provisional gov
ernments who are disqualified for office by the
14th amendment of the constitution of United
States, and
Whereas it is reported that the Legislature
of Georgia has expelled the colored members
thereof, and admitted to their seats wMte men
who received minorities of votes at the polls,
and that members of said Legislature who had
been elected thereto by the votes of colored
men joined in such action, and that twenty-
seven disqualified wMte men hold seats in said
Legislature in violation of tho 14th amendment
of the Constitution, aud of the reconstruction
acts of Congress; and whereas Senators from
Georgia have not yet been admitted to the Sen
ate of the United States; therefore
Resolved, That the Committee on Recon
struction be ordered to inquire and report wheth
er any, and if any, what further action ought to
be taken during the Fortieth Congress respect-
“ ~ - ’ie representation of Georgia in the House.
Chanler, of New York, demanded a divi
sion of the question, and the yeas and nays were
first ordered on the resolution, resulting yeas
127, nays S3, so the resolution was agreed to.
Mr. Paine, of Wisconsin, demanded the pre
vious question on the preamble.
Mr. Chanler, of New Pork, moved to lay the
preamble on the table. Not agreed to.
The previous question was seconded, and the
yeas and nays ordered. The vote resulted—yeas
135, nays 33.
Affairs in Colnmbns.
The Eagle and Phcenix Manufacturing Com
pany are offering new stock to the amount of
@450,000—books to remain open tMrty days
and subscriptions payable half down and bal
ance in three months. Tho mill is now running
9000 spindles and unable to fill orders. The
new subscription is designed to double the pro
ductive power.
The Columbus Chain Gang tied their over
seer and left incontinently on Friday last. There
were five negroes in the gang.
Colored Population.—The Sun says there
are fewer negroes unoccupied in the city than
we have noticed since the war. The complaint
of countrymen generally is a difficulty to pro
cure as many freedmen as they employed last
. Not many negroes are farming on
their own hook. The scholars at the colored
schools are also lessened.
Mobile and Girard Railroad.—The Sun
says the connection of this road with the Musco
gee is only slightly affecting cotton receipts and
the Mobile and Girard road is bringing a vast
amount of business to Columbus.
The Demand fob Fertilizers. —The Sun says
there was never snch a demand for fertilizers in
Western Georgia as now exists. General atten
tion is being directed to the manuring of lands,
and their improvement. The different agents in
this city have sold and are still selling immense
quantities of fertilizers.
Cotton Operations.—The receipts of Satur
day were 181 bales. Sales 54, sMpments 209.
Same day last season, receipts 298; sMpments
1163. Total receipts since September last, in
cluding 280 bales then on hand, 39,590; sMp
ments 33,059 ; stockonband 16,531. Lastyear,
total receipts to same date 67,636.
The Connecticut Aems Bill.—The Sun of Sun
day, says Gwinn, member from that county, re
ports that the Connecticut arms bill will come
to grief.
Stocks.— The Enquirer gives the following
quotations, actual sales on Friday: Georgia
Home Insurance (@70 par—30 paid in) @25.50
to §27.25; Mobile and Girard Railroad bonds,
@87.00; Mobile and Girard Railroad stock, $20;
Southwestern Railroad stock—old issue—@123 ;
Eagle and Phoenix Manufacturing Company
stock, @109; Colnmbns Gas Light stock—(@25
par)—@25.5(1.
These figures show a slight decline in most of
the stocks since the previous sale—stringency
the money market doubtless affecting them
unfavorably.
City Government of Columbus.—The En
quirer publishes bills to amend the city charter
of Colnmbns now before both Houses of the
Legislature. They bring on tho municipal elec
tion twenty days after the passage of the acts,
and allow five days beforo the election to amend
the registry taken last falL Six months resi
dence in the city and State are demanded as a
qualification, and the poll tax qualification is re
pealed.
River Trade.—The Enquirer says the river
trade is very lively. Steamers were taking
freight to Bainbridge as low as ten cents per
barrel and passengers to any point on the Chat
tahoochee as low as @2 50. A new route for
freight had been opened to New York, Philadel-
pMa, Liverpool, etc., via the Barnett steamsMp
line from Femandina, by way of the river to
Bainbridge. This arrangement knocked all the
attempts to put np freights by means of railway
combinations at Savannah spang in the head.
City Trade was lively and heavy. The heavy
stock in warehouse and light sales indicated an
easy financial condition of tho people.
Repudiation in the Senate. ,
The Richmond Dispatch, of Friday, has the
following editorial chapter on Repudiation;
Repudiation.—This must be an amusing
topic to Congressmen. In the Senate on
Wednesday, Mr. Cherry, the long-headed Sen
ator from Kentucky, made a speech, in wMch,
according to the report before ns, he discussed
“very humorously, and to the great amusement
of the Senate," the speech of Senator Morton on
the finances, the President’s recommendations
on that subject, and the reports of the Secreta
ry of tho Treasury and of the Treasurer of the
United States. The latter gentlemen, differing
in many things, agreed, said Mr. McCreey, in
the virtuous and chaste indignation with wMch
they regarded everybody who nroposed to vio
late the national honor by repudiation; yet their
own reports, particularly that of the Secretary
of the Treasury, furnished evidence sufficient
to satisfy him that our public debt could never
be paid. Such language must have been found
excessively funny by Senators. It is just snch as
we have many a time used in speaking of the
national debt, wMch, as we two years ago said,
will never be paid. We do not (ha the gift of
prophecy, nor to have said more than thousands
of others have thought. No people who have
the privilege of deciding at the ballot-box wheth
er they vyill or will not pay a debt of such mag
nitude as that of our Government will ever de
cide to pay it. As corporations have no souls,
so masses of men have no consciences. What is
everybody's business is nobody’s business. As
no one voter would feel that Ms ballot had deci
ded in favor of repudiation, there would be no
sacred consciences. Senator McCreery is un
doubtedly right
A female slave in Travancore, at a pnblic ex
amination of candidates for baptism, in reply to
the question what is meant by the words “Thy
kingdom come” (when the silence of others
made it her torn to speak,) modestly said, “We
therein pray that grace insy reign in every
heart”
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE
OF THE MACON DAILY TELEGRAPH.
Washington, January 28, 1869.
TRIUMPH OF THE GEORGIA RE-RECONSTRUCTIONISTS,
The enemies of your State consider that they
acMeved a great victory yesterday morning in
the House of Representatives by the success of
the resolution, authorizing the Reconstruction
Committee to inquire into the status of mem
bers of the House from Georgia. The pream
ble to the resolution declares that the negro law
makers of your Legislature were illegally ex
pelled and that the State is not folly restored
until folly represented, and that the rejection of
the Senators from Georgia, at the other end of
the Capitol makes the tenure of the Representa
tives in the House very doubtful.
The preamble and resolutions were voted
upon separately, but both prevailed by very
large majorities.
CONTESTED SEAT FROM THE SIXTH DISTRICT.
Immediately after this action of the House
Mr. Dawes, chairman of the election Committee
called up Ms report on the contested case from
the Sixth Congressional District of Georgia.
He reported, in the present condition of the
Georgia question, that it would be proper to
refer this matter also to the committee on re
construction. Other members of the election
Committee—claiming that the Reconstruction
Committee had no business whatever with con
tests of this kind, and that it was disrespectful
to them, proposed to postpone tho matter until
the Reconstruction Committee had reported on
the status of tho Georgia members. The more
ultra Republicans were in favor of forcing a
vote at once—their object being to table the re
port of the election Committee and to seat Mr.
Wimpy.
BUTLER ON THE ATHENS WATCHMAN.
In this connection Mr. Butler said that CoL
Christy did not represent anybody and should,
on no account, be allowed a seat in the House.
Mr. Butler was in possession of complete fihs
of CoL Christy’s paper, in wMch all kinds of
violence (he said) against freedmen and Union
men was counselled. “The Watchman,” Mr.
Butler continued, “was very severe on the late
leader of the House, (Mr. Stevens) and though
he now desires a seat among ns, he had fre
quently denounced ns as traitors and usurpers.”
Mr. Brooks, in behalf of CoL Christy, replied
that if Butler, could show that he (Christy) was
nowhere, he (Brooks) could show that Mr.
Wimpy, at one time an officer in the Confede
rate army, was everywhere.
The report was finally postponed to the third
Tuesday in February, to be called up immediate*
ly after the morning hour.
THE RED NOSED MAN TAKES A DEINK.
After the disposal of tMs matter by the House,
a little red faced individual was seen to leave the
galleries in great haste, and apparently in great
delight; upon reaching the corridors he hap
pened to meet a fellow-sympathizer, when they
both, arm-in-arm, proceeded to the nearest gro
cery and celebrated their so-called victory in fre
quent draughts of benzine. Upon inquiry, I
learned that the little red faced specimen of hu
manity was an insane politician from Augusta,
who at one time held an important municipal of
fice in that city, but owing to the corrupt man
ner in wMch he had administered the duties of
his office, he was deposed by the people at a
late election held for that purpose. This, to
gether with the unsuccessful effort of Ms friend
(a man of Mgh position) to have Ms (the little
fellow’s) native State reconstructed according to
their programme, completely upset Ms mind,
and my informant, a colored gentleman of great
age and experience, told mo, with tears coursing
down his rugged cheeks, that the poor little fel
low was hopelessly insane.
WHAT WILL BE DONE WITH GEORGIA.
Apropos of Georgia. The Radicals declare
in and out of Congress that they will require
proper guarantees for thr strict observance of
the Reconstruction laws, and also, of the Four
teenth Amendment to the Constitution, and
that they will find a way to compel the Legisla
ture of your State to undo all they have done
repugnant to those laws and that amendment,
including, of course, the restoration of the col
ored members, and the expulsion of such other
members of the Legislature as are not (accord
ing to Radical interpretation) entitled to be in it.
SOUTHERN MIDDIES.
The bill granting permission to present Rep
resentatives from the Sonth to make the appoint
ment of midshipmen from their respective States
to the naval academy, instead going over into
the next Congress, passed the Senate yesterday.
The bill had previously passed the House. It will
be sent to tho President to-day.
females suffering for suffrage.
Prayers from female sufferers, asking for fe
male suffrages—traced in every known, and in
many instances unknown, style of chirography
—flood the Senate Chamber daily. In many
cases this class of petitions affords considerable
amusement to Senators as well as spectators in
the galleries; and, for all the good they will ever
do those who forward them, they might as well
be presented as burnt offerings to the man in the
oon.
RAILROAD FROM SELMA TO GADSDEN.
In the Senate, on Wednesday last. Mr. Pome
roy, by unanimous consent, obtained leave to
bring in a bill to revive the grant of lands to aid
in the construction of a railroad from Selma to
Gadsden, in Alabama, and to confirm the same
to the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad Com
pany. The bill provides, that so much of the
grant of public landa made to the State of Ala
bama by act of Congress approved Juno 3d,
185G, as was applicable to the construction of
the Coosa and Alabama Railroad from Selma to
Gadsden, be revived for the benefit of the Sel
ma, Romo and Dal ion Railroad Company, wMch
has become, by authority of the Legislatures of
Alabama and Georgia, successors to tho Ala
bama and Tennessee River Railroad, to whom
was granted by the State of Alabama the lands
in question.
The bill approves tho change in the location
of the road authorized by the Alabama Legisla
ture, whereby its direction is changed at Jack
sonville, from a north-westerly direction to a
general north-easterly course, to the Georgia
line in the direction of Rome and Dalton.
The bill furtherprovides that the Selma, Rome
and Dalton Railroad Company shall file in the
General Land Office a map showing the line of
said Railroad, as the same has been located and
constructed within the State of Alabama; after
wMcb, the Commissioner shall reserve from sale
or entry the odd sections and parts of sections of
the pnblio lands to wMch the Company, are en
titled under the provisions of this bill, etc., etc.
,e bill was referred to the Committee on Pub
lic Lands and ordered to be printed. Kxmtuok.
The St. John’s Country.—The Jacksonville
Union says:
Up the River.—Having had occasion to make
trip np the river as far as Welaka, we were
both surprised and pleased at the change on
either shore. The lands are being settled np,
and the many neat cottages erected are occular
proofs that the new settlers have taste as well
as enterprise. Orange trees are extensively
planted, while the old groves at Mandarin, Pic-
olata, Palatka, and beyond are healthy, flour
ishing in productiveness. Palatka has increased
rapidly, and there is a solid neatness about the
Mace which betokens thrift and prosperity.
The hotels all along the river are crowded, and
there is scarcely a private house wMch is not
full of boarders. The new settlers are more
than pleased with their new locations, and farth
er immigration is sure to follow. Lands are
appreciating, and are selling rapidly. There is
scarcely a State bnt that has got its representa
tive on the St John’s river.
From Atlanta.
THE GOVERNOR AND TREASURER—THE GOVERNOR
EXPENDITURES UPON THE CAPITOL EXPLAINED
ETC.
Editors Telegraph:—! have read your re
marks headed, “[Die Governor and his State
Treasurer,” and knowing your de8ire to do equal
justice regardless of party, I take the liberty of
addressing you this communication, that justice
may be done the Governor.
It is only necessary to refer briefly to two
points made in your article:
1st You say, “admitting the explanations of
Got. Bullock, that proves him at fault, in not
complying with the law and usage, in the ap
plication of the missing funds."
How the facts are that the contract offered by
the city, with specifications attached, and accept
ed by the Legislature at the last session, only
provides for the building to be completed with
certain rooms and in a certain manner, and upon
that contract alone, there would have been only
empty rooms, without furniture, or beating, or
lighting arrangements—in fact, the building
would have been in nowise prepared for the
reception and use of the General Assembly, the
Supreme Court, or other pnblic officers.
It therefore became the duty of the Governor
to see to it that these necessary arrangements
were secured and perfected before the 13th in
stant.
TMs he did, and no more. The money was
not drawn from the Treasury. No money has
been drawn from the Treasury except upon war
rant duly authorized by law.
Neither the Treasurer or his securities are in
any manner, direct or indirect, responsible or
liable for the money, used by Gov. Bullock to
secure the furnishing, heating and lighting of
the public buildings.
"Whether the State or the city should pay the
amount, is still an open question.
Under the proposition made by the city to
the Convention, it is generally conceded that the
city should pay the whole amount.
As stated by Gov. Bullock, “if the Treasurer
bad been at bis post of dnty when the session
opened, the whole matter would then have been
reported to the Legislature for its action.
When the Committee conclude their inves
tigation, I presume the subject will be acted
upon.
As to usage, it is generally known with those
who are familiar with the practice of the Gov
ernment, that it has been customary (the usage)
for the Governor to make all needful arrange
moots for tho pnblic service between sessions,
for securing money outside of the Treasury,
when it became necessary, in advance of Legis
lature action, relying upon that body for approv
al when reported.
TMs was frequently done by Governor Brown
and Governor Jenkins. It was not then con
sidered unusual, extraordinary or improper—
nor is it so.
2d. Yon say, referring to the Governor’s
mansion, “and we see that the Governor, the
other day, proposed to commute Ms claim
upon the city for a residence, in pursuance of
this agreement for a certain sum of money.
TMs is also unjust to the Governor.
I happened to be in the Governor’s office at
the time the committee of Council called to
ask Ms wishes on this subject, and the Governor
said to the committee, “that he knew of no
house near the Capitol wMch could now be had,
that would be suitable for the purpose. That he
had understood that parties proposed buying the
property opposite the Capitol and building a
house; if so, thnt location would be acceptable.
That it had be en suggeste d by the Chairman of the
Finance Committee of the former Council, that
so long as the Governor remained at tho hotel,
the city would pay whatever amount was equiv
alent to the rent of a house. That if this was
acceptable to present Council, it would be satis
factory to Mm.” Tho committee then required
what amount would be satisfactory, and the
Governor replied, “ that that was a matter en
tirely for Council to fix, and that their action in
any event would be approved." The idea con
veyed by your editorial remarks is, that the Gov
ernor, with a mercenary spirit, was disposed to
barter away Ms right to on Executive Mansion.
TMs, yon will see by the above, is not correct.
I will not remark upon the peculiar course of
the Treasurer, as that matter is being fully in
vestigated by a Democratic committee.
Capitol.
Agricultural Progress—No. 1.
Editors Telegraph : If not presumptuous in
one not employed in agriculture, please insert
this note of my observations for the considera
tion of agricultural associations and your deeply
interested and excited readers upon the subject.
I spent a day last week about the streets of
Macon, and had occasion to notice the indexes
of decline and waste of animal life, as exMbited
in the condition of stock employed in the trans
porting of crops to market and in the local car
rying business of the city. And what is true of
Macon may be said, with justice, of other cities
and towns of the Southern and Southwestern
part of this State. The mules and horses are
rubbed and skinned by old, stringy, and hard
harness that neither fit the animal or are fitted
for use. Many of them show unmistakable signs
of neglect in feeding, currying, and all the com
mon rules of health, vigor and long life. They
seem to be left to the care of the freedmen, who
hav’e no interest in them, and to be used as if
the present were the only occasion when they
would be needed.
Farmers seem to forget or disregard the truth
that, as a matter of economy in forage alone, it
cheaper, with care and attention, to keep a
fat horse fat, than without it to keep a lean
horse alive; and that the fat horse, aside from
Ms appearance, not only has more life and ani
mation, but is capable of performing almost
double the labor for the time being, and of keep
ing it up for a much longer period of life.
They seem to overlook the fact that moles are
coming in by the thousand from the west to fill
the places of those lost by this inexcusable sys
tem of negligence, not to say cruelty, and that
tho profits of the cotton culture are thus annual
ly transferred to the grass and grain growing
west. They seem to think a mule or horse can
stand in the rain or mud after hard labor, and,
contrary to all laws #f health, continne to do
this upon scanty or irregular feeding, watering
and salting, without currying or cleansing, and
with no attention whatever to the signs of ill
health and decline. That Ms angular body can
stand the robbing and chafing of unfitting har
ness that have never been washed, oiled or
mended. It is not necessary to inspect the
farms, lots, stables, cribs, etc., to know the con
dition of agricultural progress. We can see an in
dex to it all in the condition of the stock.
As this is only intended to be suggestive, your
intelligent readers will excuse me from elabora
ting this article. Lawyer.
Agricultural Progress—No. 2.
Not designing to undervalue the various brands
and manufactures of commercial manures, I
have to suggest, that the farmers may, on the
credit of last year’s operations, buy of tile same
brands, articles not composed of the same ma
terials, and find, when too late, that they have
invested in spurious articles. In that case, my
profession will reap the profits of the business
by being employed to defend tike notes given
for those articles. I hope it will not be so. It
seems to be the practice,, when farmers bay Jhe
manures shipped from abroad, they go forward
in the winter and prepare the land by deep
ploughing, and follow it np by proper planting
and culture. TMs helps the manures very much;
and how much it would help the land without
them, is a question for planters to solve. It I GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
might be easily solved in this way. Take
given field and'divide it into three parcels. Pre
pare one and deposit the guano according to in
struetions; prepare the next in the same way
and plant without the manures, and the tiiiid
parcel in the usual mode of planting and culti
rating. -
The practical suggestion I wish to make upon
this point is, that if the same money that is ex
pended for commercial manures, was expended
in making manures on the farm, it is probable
that a greater benefit would result to the coun
try at large, both as to the yieldin crops and the
health of man and beast, by the removal of litter
and filth and the various deposits, that are so
fruitful of diseases in tMs climate.
Lawyer.
The Last Product of the Outrage Mill.
The Chronicle & Sentinel of Sunday has a
copy of a petition to Congress asking that body
to put the State of Georgiain to the hands of “the
friends of tho Government.” There are twenty-
eight hundred signatures to this petition, of
wMch less than two hundred are eriginal signa
tures, the rest being nameswith anX to themnnd
all entered in the same handwriting. The
Chronicle says:
The list will, we are sure, astonish our citi
zens from the absence from it of the names of
all the prominentRadicals who reside in Augusta,
from tho President of the Senate down. The
names of the wMte men are few, and consist
wholly of the lowest scum of their party (if there
can be any degrees of infamy,) men who dis
grace the negro signers bjr putting their signa
tures on the same paper with them. Of the two
thousand and odd negro names we are confident
that an examination will reveal the fact that not
exceeding two hundred of tMs number are res
idents of the city; many of the petitioners, we
believe, are natives of the different counties in
tiie District, non-residents, whilst by far the
greater portion have no existence at all, phan
toms whom the scalawags and mongrels have
conjured up and endowed with life that they
might petition Congress for military govern
ment.
Numbers of tho signers are now convicts on
the chain-gang and in the city prison and must
have been enrolled by the virtuous Pardue when
he was jailor, while others have been but re
cently liberated at the expiration of their servi
tude. It is not too broad an assertion to state
that on the bona fide negro list can be discovered
the name of every burglar and sneak-tMef who
operates within the city limits, and graces the
rogue’s calendar in the office of the CMef of
Police. The wMtes, or rather those able to
write their own names, for we are aware that
there are many respectable scalawags who are
ignorant of the accomplishment, are decidedly
a bad lot; Pardue, Rhodes, Ramsey, et it genus
omne, discharged policemen, and city officials,
sMppedfor gross violations of duty. Among
the latter list we are surprised to find the name
of one, whom common decency should have re
strained from signing a document wMch stated
that Radicals cannot get justice from juries in
this eity, but that the persecution of tho rebels
follows them even into the Court-house, when
but a few days since he escaped unhurt from a
charge involving his life.
Chatham Court of Inquiry—Examina
tion of the Ogecchce Prisoners—
Ninth Day.
Satceday, Jan. 30, 1869.
The Court was opened at 10 o’clock a. m.
Present, Justice P. M. Russell, Jr., andP. M.
Russell, Sr., on the Bench.
The Solicitor General and Hon. H. E. Jack-
son, counsel for the State, and CoL A. W. Stone,
for the prisoners.
The following named persons were identified
as being participators in armed insurrection
against the lawful authorities of tho State of
Georgia: Peter Smith, Dandy McNeil, January
Hamilton, Ned Edwards, Jim Bolton alias Bold
ing, Belman Camel, Tom Benedict, (committed
for robbery) Galishaw Brown, Tom Jefferson,
London "Williams, Cnffy "Williams, Francis
Singleton, Jackson Joseph, Jason Brown, Jack
Cuthbert, Boney Forest, Tom Glover, Dick
Reed, Sam Howard, Hector Brown, Abram
Stevens, Shadrack Grant, Hardtimes Maxwell,
Sawney Gordon, London Houston, Scipio Brown,
Daniel Roberts, May Bird, Ben Murry, Abram
Minis, Alec Heery, Harry Bloke, Paul Banks,
Wm. Seabrook. Morris Jones, Limns Green,
Amos Blake, Elias Tilmon, Patterson Brown,
Tully Brown, Bill Williams, Richard Jones, Bas-
tino Merchison, Sneeze Dunham, "Woolly Large,
Hamilton Green, Ben Moore.
■ The following named prisonors, not being
identified as participants in the insurrection,
were discharged: Jacob Small, Alec Grant, 2d,
Cyrus Green, Tony Butler, David Stevens, An
drew Lawton, Abram Quarterman, Scipio Right,
Alec Stevens, Sam Norman, Peter Singleton,
Tom Rawls, Robert Spencer, Dick Jones, Law
rence Regular, Tias Green, David Green, Ned
Williams, Bantum Pinckney, Mark Swinton,
Moses Mitchell, Jerry Jones, Hector Broughton,
Caesar Malone, Dick Goodwin, Joshua Large,
Myers Hills, Judge Hopkins, “York,” Maria
Forest
After Jacob Small was discharged, it was
claimed by the State that he could not be iden
tified, and he was rearrested and held until an
other warrant could be issued for Ms arrest.
"When Cyrus Green was discharged, Colonel
Stone announced to the Court that the last case
in which he had been employed as counsel bad
now been disposed oft and, with the leave of
the Court, he would retire. Leave was granted.
After calling upon the prisoners to give the
names of the witnesses they desired to have
summoned to appear and testify on their trial
in tho Superior Court, the Court adjourned sine
die.—Savannah Republican.
Examination of the Ogeechee Pri
soners.
The testimony in the case of the State vs. Cap
tain Green, colored, charged with insurrection,
was closed yesterday, and we think establishes
the existence of the following facts:
1. Messrs. Richardson, of Boston, and Lap-
ham, Tucker and Middleton, of Savannah, form
ed a copartneraMp for the purpose of planting
and cultivating rice, and February last leased
several plantations on the Ogeechee river, upon
wMch a large number of negroes were located.
2. These negroes refused either to contract
for the lessees, or to leave the premises, and it
became necessary to call upon the military au
thorities toeject them, which they did.
3. After their removal they settled on several
plantations in the neighborhood of those from
wMch they had been ejected.
4. They then formed a settled purpose to make
it impossible for Messrs. Richardson, Lapham
& Co. to cultivate the lands and drive them away-
6. For tho accomplishment of their object they
were armed with muskets, rifles and shot-guns,
and as thorougMy drilled and organized as their
limited capacity wonld admit
6. That as soon as the rice crop was ripe they
commenced their depredations upon the fields
and after it was stacks d and a portion of threshed
they came in armed bodies of twenty or thirty,
fired upon and wounded the watchman, and
carried the rice away in large quantities, in
carta, wagons, and flat boats.
7. "When warrants were issued for the arrest
of some of the robbers, and their leader was
arrested by the sheriff, they appeared in lame
numbers with arms in their hands, rescued the
prisoner, robbed the sheriff and his deputies of
their arms and money, and took "from the sheriff
his writs and official papers. From the facts
proved, the conclusion inevitably follows that a
large number of negroes were armed and or
ganized for the purpose of taking by force from
plantations in question all the rice produced,
and to protect each other from punishment by
resisting, with force and aims, any attempt of
the civil authorities to arrest and bring them to
trial for their depredations.—Savannah Repub-
lican, 28th.
An
To Be Reconstructed Over Again.
The Richmond Dispatch says:
The carpet-bag members of Congress from
Georgia will probably lose their seats before
long. The Reconstruction Committee will
doubtless report that they have no business in
the House. But how is the Government to
recover the money wMch has been paid to these
vagabond Congressmen? Georgia has com
mitted the offence, unpardonable in Radical
eyes, of cxolnding negroes from the halls of her
Legislature, and the carpet-baggers must take
up their carpet-bags and walk. We shall be
pleased to learn that they haven’t money
enough to pay their way bade to Georgia. No
doubt some of them will go home instead of to
that State.
And now Georgia is to be reconstructed over
again. Was there ever such a farce as Congress
makes of this matter of reconstruction ?
From the Atlanta Inteliia'vncerd
Saturday, January 30th.
Senate.—The Senate met at 10 o’clock.
The Secretory read the journal of yester
day.
Mr. Bums moved to reconsider the resolution
of yesterday relative to investigating disorders
in certain counties. Passed.
Mr. Gignilliat—To appoint a joint committee
of three from the Senate andfive from the House,
to visit counties where disorders, prevail, and re
peat on the same and what proceedings had beet 1
be instituted
The previous question being called, wMch
was Mr. Gignilliat s amended resolution, it was
passed.
Messrs. Hungerford, McArthur and Wellborn
were appointed on the committee from the
Senate.
rules suspended.
Mr. Sp eer—That the thanks of the Senate be
tendered to the Superintendents of various rail
roads for favors extended members, and seats
be provided for them on tMs floor..
Mr. Wellborn—-Whereas, dissatisfaction has
been manifested by the Congress of the United
States with the action of the Legislature of this
State, at its first session in reference to the ex
pulsion of colored members, and probably with
reference to other questions, of wMch we are
not fully apprised; and whereas, said Legisla
ture acted in good faith, believing that it was
moving within the scope of the Constitution of
the United States and of this State; and where
as, said Legislature is exceedingly desirous that
the State of Georgia, whose representatives they
are, should be fully restored to the great com
monwealth of States under the Constitution of
a common country, and, above all else, to cordial
and practical relations with the General Gov
ernment in all of its departments; and whereas,
they feel assured that the great mass of the peo
ple of Georgia share in this patriotic desire; and
whereas, they feel and believe that motives have
been attributed to them by wMch they have nev
er been actuated; therefore, in order that the
Congress of the United States may be more ful
ly informed as to the purity of purpose and good
faith of this General Assembly in all that it has
heretofore done in reference to the vexed and
complicated questions with wMch it has had to
deal, be it
Resolved by the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives in General Assembly met, That a
committee of three be appointed, viz: Hon. J.
E. Brown, J. R. Parrott and A. H. Stephens,
authorized and empowered to proceed to Wash
ington City, and to represent to the Congress of
the United States the true State of affairs in
Georgia, and to ascertain what solution of our
unfortunate difficulties can be had which will be
satisfactory to that body and compatible with
our duty as sworn Senators and Representatives.
Made special order of business for Wednes
day, and 100 copies ordered to be printed.
Bill to incorporate, the Commercial Banking
Company of Griffin. Passed.
HOUSE BILL.
To amend the charter of the Macon and Wes
tern Railroad Company, allowing an increase of
capitaL
BILLS ON SECOND READING.
To incorporate the Georgia Male and Female
Life Insurance Company. Referred to Judiciary
Committee.
To add an additional paragraph to section 889
Revised Code. Referred to Judiciary Commit
tee.
To amend section 789 of the Code. Referred
to Committee on Finance.
To change certain streets and alleys in the
town of Dawsonville. Committed.
To amend the act to enable parties having
claims against the Nashville and Chattonooga
Railroad to perfect service. Referred to Judi
ciary Committee.
To amend an act incorporating the city of
Griffin. Referred to the Judiciary Committee.
To authorize Ordinaries of Spaulding. Jasper,
Morgan and Butts counties to levy a tax and to
pay fifty per cent, of insolvent costs due officers
of Court. Referred to Judiciary Committee.
■1
The Czar of Russia is 'said to have become a
confirmed hypochondriac and a great drunkard.
BILLS ON FIRST READING.
To define the meaning- of section 3,656 of the
Code.
To incorporate the town of Lumpkin.
To change the line between Irwin and Wilcox
counties. ■ — .
To define boundary lines between Quitman
and Clay counties.
To incorporate the town of Jonesboro.
To authorize Clerks of Superior Court to issue
executions in Inferior County Courts when the
clerks have failed to do so.
To change the lines between. Marion and Ir
win counties. .**•.. >, ■;H Ji
Misdemeanor to obstruct certain creeks in
Pulaski.
To incorporate Amerioas Manufacturing Com
pany. '
To amend section 2761 Revised Code.
To provide for constables and justices of the
peace throughout the State.
HOUSE DILLS ON THIRD READING.
To make it penal to hunt with fire by night in
the counties of Brooks, Floyd, Randolph and
Thomas. Lost.
To provide for holding the Superior Courts of
Clarke and Baldwin counties and for providing
jures for the same. Passed.
RULES SUSPENDED.
Mr. Speer—Resolved, that a seat be tendered
Hon. A. H. Stephens on this floor while in this
city, and that the President inform Mm of the
same. Passed.
The Senate adjourned.
House.—Mr. Scott, of Floyd, moved to recon
sider so much of the journal of yesterday as re
lates to the indefimte postponement of the bill
appropriating funds for the burial of the Con
federate dead. Motion to reconsider was lost.
The call for the yeas and nays was sustained—
yeas 29. nay3 71.
Mr. Harper, of Terrell—A resolution authori
zing the State Treasurer to receive all outstand
ing Convention scrip as money due. Rules sus
pended, and after considerable discussion the
resolution was lost.
Mr. O’Neal—A resolution requiring the Mes
senger to employ some orphan boy as Page, at
a salary of one dollar per day Rides suspended
and resolution adopted.
Rules being suspended the following bills
were read the first time :
A bill amending an act to organize a criminal
court for each county in the State.
A bill authorizing certain persons in Mont
gomery county to remove obstructions from
Gum Swamp, in said county. " V..-..
A bill increasing the- salaries of the Treasurer
and Auditor of the W. & A. Railroad.
A bill to remit the tax of Bartow county
to build a jail.
A bill to authorize Ordinaries to collect taxes
from bondsmen.
A bill amending section 8G of Irwin’s Code.
The rules were snspsnded to take up a Senate
bill on the third reading, providing for the draw
ing of grand and petit juries in the Chatham
Superior Court. Passed.
A bill defining the liabilities of Sheriffs, and
other ministerial cfficors.
On motion of Mr. Price, the House took up
the amendment of the Senate to the House res
olution, appointing a committee to visit Talia
ferro and Warren counties and report the condi
tion thereof, and concurred in the same.
A bill providing for the drawing of grand and
petit jurors. The bill was amended by the Ju
diciary Committee so as to exclude negroes from
sitting on juries, wMch amendment was agreed
to.
Mr. Bryant opposed the passage of the bill,
because it excludes negroes (colored white folks)
and moved that it be recommitted to the Judi
ciary Committee. Recommitted.’
Mr. Priced—A resolution appointing a commit
tee of three, composed of A. H. Stephens, J. E.
Parrott- and J. E. Brown, to proceed to Wash,
ington City to confer with Congress concerning
existing political difficalties, with a view to the
settlement of the same. Resolution made the
special business for Wednesday next House
adjourned. _ _
Some time since,- while a party of sailors were
on their way to Boston (via the Stonington line)
from New York, one had the misfortune to lose
Ms cap. A comrade said he wonld make that
all right and upon entering a car opened one of
the windows, and, as the train moved off, reach
ed out and soized a cap from the head of a man
who was standing at the side of the train, and
passed it to his friend with the remark, “There,
I guess that will fit you!” The man from whom
it was taken gave an alarm and pursued the train
through the depot, shaking his fist at the sailor,
who coolly retorted, “All’s fair in war my
friend!”
Liability or Building Aaeocuxxom to fay
Internal Tax.—The Commissioner of Internal
Revenue has revoked his decision, published a
few weeks since, that at nil building associations
are liable to pay special and income tax as
brokers. The question was argued before the
commissioner by H. B. Philbrook, Esq,, attor
ney, and Henry 8. Davis, Esq., President of
the Potomac Real Estate and Building Company
who succeeded in establishing the fact that
building associations are in no sense bankers.
BaMMkinetls and Raise,
From the CoTutitutionaJiet.
Puzzled at the-increase of children, amman,
foreign population of Massachusetts, tasd
responding decrease of the natives, Dr. 8tov *
and other curious investigators made diliol*!
efforts to unravel tho mystery. A report S
the subject revealed the presence of social crimT
such as abases Puritan mortality below ths*
the worst parts of. Europe. But Masaachoseh!
is not alone in this bad eminence. Mtin*;
alongside of her. Mr. Warren Johnson, SodsT
iatendent of the Maine Common Schooh/rT
ports a decrease of 16,683 scholars between fi*
ages of fonr and twenty-one years from theceV
sns of 1865. The decrease in the past year
been 8,182; in 1864, it was 4,141, and the tow
deorease from the maximum of 1660 is ne&rt*
20,000. Mr. Johnson is shocked at the statistic
and exclaims:
“Have we ceased to be a producing people}"
“Are the vital forces expended in brain labor
and lost to physical reproduction?” and,
the modem fashionable criminalties of infa^;
cide and- feticide creeping into our State com
inanity?” u "
We should think that Mr. Johnson’s figntM
are sufficient answers to Ms last interrogator*
It will be seen from the following conversation
between Donn Piatt, the Washington correspon
dent of the. Cincinnati Commercial, (RaclUjvj
an intelligent delegate to the late negro conTen
tion, that the New England women have im"
pressed Dinah quite as disastrously as tho New
England men have influenced Sambo. jw
Piatt having asked Ms negro friend if he “had
not bright anticipations of the future of H,
race,” this colloquy ensued:
“.No, sir ;.I have no bright anticipations. i»
a few generations the colored races of America
will have disappeared. We have taken the vices
with the virtues of tfie stronger race, and the-
are fatal to us.” s
“I don’t clearly understand you.”
“Well, sir, it is generally believed that the
blade race is a hardy race. TMs is not so. Th e
average duration of life, under the wMp, on the
plantations, was only ten years. The supply
was kept np by the master’s care in breeding—
it being Ms interest. Now, this is not the case,
and while the mortality continues through dissil
pation, the increase through population has fall.
On off piainfully. On plantations and in neigh,
borhoods whefe, before the war, children swann
ed almost, you scarcely find one now.”
“Why,how do you account for that? "What
becomes of the children?”
“The mothers have learnt from New Err.
land how to kill them. Yon know, sir, that
New England is dying out from a lack of Yan
kees, and the poor colored people have not
been slow to learn. Bnt, while they receive a
fresh supply from emigration, the colored race
has none.”
From the Southern Cultioator.] . ,
Improving Land with Peas.
Sfabta, Ga., April 4th, 1868.
Yon wish my experience in growing peas, and
turning them under whilst green. The benefits
of growing green crops, and burying them in
the soil for the benefit of future crops, are too
well understood to be questioned by any ohe;
but it has opened a question in agricultural econ.
omy that has not been settled so satisfactorily
The English farmers formerly used a half ton of
ground bones per acre, to grow a single crop,
but they have found by dissolving two hundred
pounds of bones in acid, at a cost of fifty per
cent, on the price of the bones, (making the
whole cost equal to that of three hundred lbs. of
bones,) that it will produce the same effect htan
outlay of only tMrty per cent, on th?.t of the
former mode—the latter- method giving them
the means of returning the same amount of ma
nure to the land next year, as the former did,
by producing the same amount of hay, turnips
aud other forage to feed stock.
Now, admitting that it will pay to grow peas
and clover,, to be turned under as fertilizers, the
following questions arise: At what time slionld
they be turned under, to insnre the greatest
benefit ? Would it pay better to feed them off
the land than to cover them with a plow, and
what do they lose by drying before being tamed
under ? Here again the question of soluble and
insoluble manures is involved. I have always
taken the side of soluble manures as being the
most economical. Dry peavines and doTer Kill
soon become soluble.
I I will give you my practice. It is one that
will pay, although I will hot say that it is the
best. First keep your land in good heart; let
the field that you intend to sow peas on remain
fallow, until yon lay by your com—say from
the 1st to the 20th of July. You will then have
a large growth of green weeds to turn under.
Start your teams with good turn ploughs, iro
ning off the land as nearly level as you can, and
go round and round until the land 6r ; cnt is fin
ished. Start the pea dropper after every third
plough, and the hand with the manure after the
sea dropper. Drop the manure within fonr
: inches of the peas. If you find the peas will
make from seven to fifteen bushels per acre,
turn stock in upon them, placing salt in places
over the field, to cause the most of the manure
to be dropped on the field. Then invest all the
profit arising from feeding stock on the field
:in bones and Peruvian guano for the next crop,
and you will find this system will pay. I hare
adopted it with both wheat and cotton, with
good success. If the peas fail to fruit, tars
them under whilst green.
Second Plan—Plant peas the first of April
same as above: turn under before the steins be-
come very woody, and plant and manure a sec-
ond crop at the same time that you are tuning
under the first crop of vines, and treat the sec-
ond crop as you did the first. The true policy
is to secure the greatest amount of soluble veg
etable mold you can accumulate with the less!
cost. * Very truly yours,
David Dicksos.
N. B.—I prefer peas plantedand cultivated®
a level, both for the land and crop, and for a
sowing of small grain after the pea crop.
How Long will Cotton Keep.—Loitering by
chance in the office of a well known firm lough
the cotton trade", we were perfectly astonished
both as to the length of time for wMch our sta
ple may be preserved and by the’ original finan
cial policy pursued by our farmers. A grandson
of a lifelong farmer was advised orally of the
consignment of a certain number of bales on ac
count of Ms grandpere. The question was asked
“ Is it this year’s crop, or when was it grown T
No! it is in good OTder and beautiful cotton, that
has been on hand since 1889. The ancient daw
refered to startled ns and led to the inquiry why
it had been held so long? The reply was, “Well.
I don’t know; but cotton will keep if sheltered
and is always cash when yon want it” An ap
pealing look to the venerable senior of the fir®
called forth, That is so. That is Ms policy.
Fve known him longer than the period mo
tioned, and have sold his cotton every year. I
know that he keeps cotton as cash, and I sold a
only a year since grown in the year mentioned 5
This was not only novel as a financial policy*•
provokes the inquiry, how long may cotton he
preserved?—Augusta Chronicle and Scntinc-
Decrease of Labor.
The Macon Telegraph thinks that the tne
cause of the reported scarcity, at almost ad
points South, of laborers, is due to the decrease
of the negro population—the diversion of th®’
labor to other industrial pursuits—to fannipS
on their own account—bnt mainly to the m-
creased demand for labor, resulting from
Mgh price of cotton.
In the absence of reliable- statistics, it is im
possible to form an accurate opinion, as to the
amount of decrease of this population.
can find no one whose opinion is worth anyt’aji¥-
but who tMnks that it it is so. Their unhealthy
habits—indifference to their young—unwilling
ness, or incapacity to obtain medical advice--
excess, for lack of wholesome restraint—with
other causes,combine to decrease their number 5
"We believe with the Teleobafh, that the
prime cause is the demand for labor, stimnlawp
so largely by the demand for cotton. "We oooM
hope that ail our planters should be well
for their labor, but" we are not blind to the etin
to result, if the price of cotton should contmp*
long to rule so high. Provision crops would t*
neglected, and if the supply from the w®
should partially fail, wMon might be the
from ihe many probabilities in the way of die**!
ter, its transportation and high oost, we shos®
be perhaps nearer famine than we have ert
been. The hog crop of the west is report*®
abort already. Have planters counted the e»
of supplies ? He is an unwise planter whow»
not see first the food supply, even though
should be worth @1 per pound.—South George
Tines.
The Chinaman's idee of credit differs ***
what from that of the American. Mr. —
a tradesman of conceded wealth and unboun^r
credit in San Francisoo, applied through
agent to purchase of a Chinese a cargo of rt
on time. The agent, of coarse, duly
the opulence, standing, etc., of. hi» pruRuP^ ’
to which Chinaman replied: .
“Yes, Br6wn-ee wttoy good man. Metro*
ee Brown-eo. Brown-ee pay-ee me one
cash-ee, other halp. when me dalfber ho*
Yousabe? Good-by, John!”
There’s a Kttie fog about the “good-by- w
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