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Newspaper Page TextV. » "Vetter from David Dickson. Srjurrx, Ga., February 3, 1869. - tvr . Chronidtd Sentinel: I return, my v tb my patrons for the very liberal orders v select cotton seed. My seed is about all Lo*'Send no more money without first writ- *“• jf Eee d can be had this season. If I 1810 ttime I will write for the Southern Culti- 18 e short article how to cultivate cotton and * the seed. I am receiving no many 1st- “Vach mail forty to fifty-and visitors from I */7 tho cotton States each day, that it is im- •Mfl forme to answer any of them. Sea Uubcrs of the Southern Cultivator for till please place this under your editorial ' time £ that eacb P a P cr P nblish - ^ mv seed advertisement will give like notice 3 send hill to Messrs. S. D. Heard & Co., ‘ „,Ga.,for payment. Respectfully, The Greorgia, "Weehly Telegr a/ph. tNi UMl telegraph ^COS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, I860. David Dicrsos. ,proved Receipts trom tlie Wliisky ^receipts from the whisky tax, at fifty „ gjlon, are reported mnch greater than , fD ,1,0 tax was two dollars a g >llon. This is “it we have often predicted and almost ’body anticipated. The fifty cents a gallon !1 not cover the risks of fraud and give mnr- ‘ snffieient for official bribery. Exorbitant c of no Uni can bo honestly collected. Let income, and some other taxes of the Fedo- Govenunent, be reduced, and the same re- I, ^ follow. Cut down tariff duties twenty- fifty per cent, and the revenues from im- Bttfiona wffl sweU largely. But the tariff la laid for reunite, but for the so-called “pro ven" of so-called “Ameripan labor,” that is yv , workshop labor—for tha vastly greater of labor in the field cannot aspire to dignity. The first three days of February, stated, averaged about $2,300,000 receipts B internal rovenue, showing a very large in- Ilyrans to Peace. Imton (says the Montgomery Advertiser) an- uks that some-time in June next she will ,*• a monster musical festival to commemo- the return of peace.” It is to last a whole k, says the Louisville Democrat, and for its jnmodation a building, capable of holding (thousand poople, exclusive of a chorus of thousand, and nn orchestra one thousand eg. is to be erected on Boston Common, rrlody who hath music in his soul, or is tfd by a concord of sweetbnt terrific sounds, »1» invited. This mammoth musical jubilee" he opened with “Hail Columbia” from tho *t throats of twenty thousand Boston school- ten. A day is to be devoted to oratorio ruses, snch as “The Heavens are Telling,” fen: See, the Conquering Hero Comes, idol ; Hallelujah," Handel; ‘•Thanks be to L" Mendelsohn. It is also proposed to pro- > the ninth symphony, popularly known as choral symphony of Beethoven, and it is .-Me, though we have yet no hint of the fact, the great Puritanic national hymn to the ted Ilrown will be sung several times during week. Verdi, Auber, Wagner, and other iwned composers are to be invited to cou nts each a piece for the occasion, he whole thing is to be as grand as Bunker monument and gorgeous as a sunset on t«n Common. It will be well calculated to Peace immortal. Brief Reasons for Repudiation slicable to the war debts of all countries. Ime Butts, late editor of the Rochester It Union and Advertiser. This is a pamphlet it) pages upon what is getting to be a lively i«t We suppose in the course of five years 1 probably be a controlling political topic. « as we ourselves are concerned, we are op- d to all sorts of repudiation, evasion and wy; but, like stay-laws and all other forms ."honesty, a plausible argument will never cling for repudiation, whenever it is called and inasmuch as the Horthem people cdour noses in it to begin with, we shall ret more than a dozen pocket-handkerchiefs it comes to their turn. Let them look to ■dwe and beware of negro suffrage. We not read these “brief reasons” inasmuch ‘r have this moment came to band. IMribntion of the National Cur rency. * Committee on Banking and Currency had «consideration to-day the question of a re- "jtion of the currency of National banks kibe States, the Southern States more es- % requiring a revision of the distribution. Committee found some difficulty in deter- “Sopon a scale for equalizing the currency l ?«ll the States. They agreed to report a 'lairing the Secretary of the Treasury to aise the sale of bonds when there are any ! and award the sales to bidders most tigeous to the Government Also, pro- ;tbat gold be sold at auction. The fore- “ copied from a special to the Richmond B d> of the 3d instant ni the Jail.—The editor of the Mail is in* dates his contributions to that journal county jaiL”. He is in durance * refusing to qualify os a juror, in volun- forfeiture of his privilege of exemption 'i ,r y aenice as a practicing lawyer. In a tafenee. he shows the order of Conrt for 'immitui in contempt to be utterly at war all the facts 0 y flj e cagej and wholly inde- * ’-« on any ground whatsoever. Who is f flnes of th e Montgomery Circuit of tho * of Alabama* He deserves great fame, fair way to get it ; lRti —The western telegrams say that rJ demand for pistols has suddenly arisen H " r t owing to the extraordinary law- the people. Let us send the New * brigade or two of our pistoling ne- ■^-omake night hideous all round Ma- _ ‘'hem hear a pistol crack every half oight long for six months and the de- or pistols would cease. ^Conmsns .—Wa acknowledge Dour ly Rations to sundry College Festivities— Wk,?“^ 011 College, Lexington, Va.; others, which to comply with did time per- '"‘‘f of Geo, llt . Coscnrr.—From the Columbus jn- - s * that the Memorial Concerts net- * n ^ acon -—InteUigeneer. >kii Cofamlw. papers learned the fact "° a Telegiluph. If the Intelligent - Jtopicfe 0 p Macon news in that ^t help i L heavy snow storm Bet in in i ® England States and Canada, i, j. 7®*** was arrested. St. Patrick's ntreal, fell under the weight of the ijv — 1 invenlion irj the way of * «t ripV* 18 a , two-edged dirk, with the J* bjg? ^ bla de, like a tie sh 0n ,; The blow is delivered straight time. r > a ndgoes clean through ft man Tex.,waaawakened '^RaJb^ 8 ^ 6 otbfir night, and going H t» 0 inV 01 ^ three negroes busily fro ta end the third in read- 11167 weT0 • fteraie From the White Oak Fleet. Hxadquabtzbs Boat Tallulah,) February 2, 1869. > Messrs. Editors Telegraph: Having a leisure rime just now in consequence of a heavy fall of rain, and seated in our cabin, I thought it would be agreeable to you to hear from ns, and like wise the prospects we have in view. We left Macon on the 21stof January, at 8 o’clock, with a full crew, all buoyant and happy, with friends and neighbors to greet us on our departure. On the 21st of Jann&ry we eet sail, Kind Neptune did protect ns With a sweet and pleasant gale, Tho wind was in the northwest. To our field of labor we were bound Tho hills and dales were garnished With pretty maids all round. We arrived at the Macon and Brunswick Bridge at 5 o’clock, p. sr., and finding the Bridge so low that our machinery could not pass under, I commenoed to remove it so that I could lower it to pass under the Bridge, and at as an ear ly a rime as possible, which I succeeded in doing by the 22d, and after I had got the Boat and machinery safely replaced to its former position, we proceeded on Sunday morning, after giving thanks to God for His protection. We had a very pleasant trip down the river. At night while we lay at anchorage, our boys enjoyed themselves in fishing and shooting ducks arid other game, which were accessible and convenient to the river. I observe, in going down the river, that there are numbers of beaver and otter, which I no ticed at night about our boat. Having no im plements calculated to capture them, I only looked at their different evolutions characteris tic of those animals. Arriving at HawlrinsviHe on Wednesday, wo met our worthy President, M. R. Butts, who was much pleased to meet us all sqfe, and spent tho night there. We have received visits from all the prominent men of the placo. The Mayor of the city visited ns and extended the courtesy of the city tons, wishing ns much success in our enteipriso. I had not the pleasure of an acquain tance with Mr. Bonify, the editor of the paper, but I hope to be able to see him at some future day. We left Hawkinsvfllo on Wednesday the 27th, accompanied by our President, and arrived at our field of forest timber, that evening at 3 o’clock, p. m. After casting anchor and making aH secure, we took a survey of the different kinds of timber and the advantages to be se cured to promote the interest of the Company. In company with the ship’s carpenter, I trav ersed the forest, but not noticing our locality, our minds being so mnch engrosed in the selec tion of ship timber, we found ourselves like the babes lost in the woods. We came to a bait and made a survey of our direction from the boat. The day being cloudy we had no line to be gov erned by, so we rambled abont the forest until a late hour, and coming across the house of a good Samaritan, Mr. Lampkin, ho took ns in and provided for onr wants, and set us down to a bountiful supper. Next morning we returned to the boat, feeling rather the worse of our tramps in the forest. To give yon an idea of the vast forest of WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE OF TTTR MACON TELEGRAPH. white oak and other timber, that is here in an abundance, would take pages. But, in a word, there is all timber here that is requisite to sup ply any market, with the exception of mahogany and lignum vitae. I have no donbt, before long, if our Company will give the facilities, that I car. be able to bring into the treasury of the Company an amount to far exceed their expec tations. We have just commenced to cut staves and are getting onr hands so arranged that in a few days they will thoroughly understand their different occupations and operate successfully. I feel a great loss in not having the privilege of perusing your valuable paper, but I hope in a few days to be able to get it from Hawkinsville, to which place I wish you to have it sent. Yours very respectfully, J. Lewis Woerall, Superintendent. “ Let ns bear the Conclusion or the Whole Matter.” Philosopher John W. Forney has completed his reconnoisance South, and writing to the Philadelphia Press, on his way home, sums up his conclusions as follows: It is impossible truly to forecast the destiny of the South without remembering that she has always been regarded as a favorite field for sci entific exploration and business operations, bnt that these were rendered comparatively void by the existence of slavery and the ease with which cotton was raised by unrequited toil. For forty yearn, or ever since Mr. Calhoun enunciated his nullification doctrines, the seed which finally bore the bitter fruit and bloody harvest of the rebellion, there could be no snch thing as per sonal security to the fearless inquirer, projector or capitalist who came South with an anti-slavery record, or who, in the course of his examina tions, found that slavery was the only barrier to enlightened progress. But now that the bars are down, everybody is thinking or contriving what is best to be done ; and it is noteworthy how the political remedy is subordinated and really assisted by the busi ness remedy. A lending Democrat told me at Lenoir that Wendell Rhillips could speak from HatteTas to the Virginia line as unharmed ns in Massachusetts. The evidences of improvement are many and startling. Let me enumerate a few from which we may cast the horoscope of this interesting section: • 1. The almost unanimous acquiescence in un iversal suffrage, which is made earnest by the fact that tho negro with the ballot works more faithfully than under the lash, and so does more by his industry to enrich the planter than in the days of slavery. 2. That instead of buying produce from the North and West, the South is beginning to plant and grow its own com, potatoes, wheat, etc., and will, therefore, soon be a self-supporting region. 3. That instead of sending off cotton and iron, to be returned in woaring apparel, rails, tools, farming implements, etc., large manufactories are being constructed in every Southern State. Gov. Sprague, of Bhode Island has just invested heavily in purchasing sites for two great works —one at Columbia, South Carolina, and tho other at Augusta, Georgia. He has also pur chased a large estate at Femandina, Florida.^ 4. That companies of Northern men are being rapidly incorporated by the Legislatures of tho different Sonthem States, with full powers to buy and sell lands, to organize emigration societies, to establish banking-houses, factories, etc. 5. That all the great improvements paralyzed by slavery and postponed by tho war are being vitalized by the infusion of Northern energyand capital, and by the well-founded hope of Con gressional assistance at a period not very re mote. C. That the colored people are eagerly labor ing to elevate themselves by educating them selves and their children, and that such Gover nors as Holden, in North Carolina; Scott, in South Carolina; Smith, in Alabama; Waimouth, in Louisiana; Bullock, in Georgia; Eggleston, in Mississippi, and last, not least, Brownlow, in Tennessee, are establishing common-school sys tems to perpetuate universal intelligence. 7. That many of the former secession or reb el papers have dropped mere politics, and are now devoted to the mission of business and financial reconstruction. 8 That whereas there was not one Republican paper in the cotton States jp 18G0, there are now at least one hundred, some of them dailies of in creasing circulation, and several of them former Whig and Democratic organs of largo influence, like the Standard at Raleigh, North Carolina, and the Whig at Knoxoille, Tennessee. As we study these indications and contrast them with the past—the past of yesterday—it is very easy to anticipats the marvellous future of the South. To poor men the inducements presented by this future are, to say the least, unexampled.— The wide field, crowded as it is with a variety of productions equalled nowhere on God s globe, is thrown open to them almost without money. The chief needs are labor and population. In some districts emigrants can get land for noth ing, if they will come and settle permanently. In others they can get homesteads at fifty ^enta, and in still others at a dollar an acre. The very best farms are in the market at five dollars an acre, and when they go os high 88 *® n Ami** 9 difference consists In superior buildngs and out- houses. Washikoxox, D. O., February 3, 1869. The House Committee on Banks and Currency yesterday agreed to report the following bill: “ Be it enacted, etc., That from and after the passage of this act no per centage, deduction, commission, or compensation of any amount or hand, shall be allowed to any person for the sale, negotiation or exchange of any bonds or securi ties of the United States, or of any coin or bul lion disposed of at the Treasnry'Department or elsewhere, on account of the United States; and all acts and parts of acts authorizing or permit ting, by construction or otherwise, the Secretary of the Treasury to appoint any agent, other than some proper officer of his department, to make such negotiations of bonds and securities, are hereby repealed. “Andfurther,thatafterthe passage of this act all exchange, purchases, or sales of the bonds of the United States shall be made by inviting the competition of the public by advertising for proposals- for any such exchange, purchases, or sales, which shall be awarded publicly to tho best bidder or bidders, the Secretary of the Treasury reserving the right to reject any such bids, should he deem it to the public interest to do so. ‘And that from and after the passage of this act, all sales of gold on account:of the United States shall be mode at publio auction by proper officer of the Treasury Department—af ter giving public notice of the time and place, snch sales shall be made by advertising the same.” The question of redistributing the National Bank circulation was under discussion in the same committee. The course of the debate showed the committee pretty certain to agree to a new classification of banks as follows, viz: those with a capital under two hundred ^thou sand dollars to have eighty per cent, of circula tion ; those with a capital of from two to five hun dred thousand dollars to have seventy per cent, of circulation: thoso with a capital of from five hnndred thousand dollars to a million, to have sixty per cent, of circulation; and those with a capital of over one million dollars to have fifty per cent of circulation: provided, no bank shall have over one million of circulation. This change of classification will give nineteen or twenty millions additional .circulation for new banks and the South and West A heavy blow was struck at the female woman suffrage question, yesterday, in the disoharge of the Senate Judiciary Committee from further consideration of petitions, on that subject— Won’t the “revolution” give the old fellows in the north wing of the capital, “Hail Columbia.” The Senate yesterday afternoon was the scene of a lively and excited debate, on an amendment proposed by Patterson, of New Hampshire, to reduce the salaries of the officers of the three joint courts established under the treaty of 1862 for the suppression of the slave trade.— Under this treaty three courts have been estab lished, with British and American judges and arbitrators. Six of the officers are appointed by the President, whose salaries amount in the ag gregate to $13,500 per annum. Sumner, looking at the treaty from his anti slavery stand-point, maintained that the nation is bound by public faith to make all suitable provisions for carrying it into execution. He regretted to see a New England Senator, of all others, indirectly attack a treaty which had put an end to the slave trade. Senator Patterson repelled with considerable warmth what he re garded as an attempt by Sumner, during the de bate, to question bis political orthodoxy. Sum ner apologized, and the show ended. The books of tho General Land Office show that up to date there have been certified to va rious railroads and canals, under authority of various acts of Congress, the enormons and in credible amonnt of 27,036,475 acres of the pnb- lic domain; not to make mention of the millions of treasure which have been paid in subsidies, etc. Some enterprising and facetious individual has petitioned Congress to prohibit the sale of milk by individuals, on the ground that exhor- bitant prices have been charged, and that un wholesome milk has been sold. It is proposed to have the Government seize all milch cows, re munerating the owners thereof, and have the milk sold at Postoffices. In large cities the letter carriers could deliver it without much ad ditional trouble. Any cream that conld be ob tained from the milk while in the Postoffices wonld be the perquisites of the postmasters. The Reconstruction Committee will meet on Thursday next for the purpose of consultation over the precarious condition of the State of Mississippi. It is generally believed in well-in formed circles that the committee will certainly report in favor of her readmission to the Union under her “ black and tan” Constitution with its State disfranchisements stricken out, or, in other words, disfranchises none but those who fall un der the ban of the fourteenth amendment. General Grant has declared his intention of riding to the capital alone on inauguration day (after to the fashion of Jefferson), and that he will not ride with President Johnson. This de cision on the part of Grant is, no donbt, a great relief to Mr. Johnson. Kestcck. It is needless to add that no snch opportuni ties are offered in the West. With ail her ad vantages she is inferior in dimate and variety of products. I have spoken fully on these two es sential points. What is chieflly required is not speculative aid, but money and mem They should go to gether, and, when vitalized by industry and in telligence, tits reward will be tenfold to what it is in the West I am writing of to-day—of the necessity for immediate action. The low prices for land can not last long, in view of the rapid enrichment of the whole South. Capitalists and land' compa nies are already investing and organizing; and the fanner and mechanic of small means, eager for an independent homestead, should not demy an hour. Let them go ont and see for them selves, and, my word for it, they will not be dis appointed. State or Georgia. Complainant, vs. I'. S. Grant, et. al.—Supreme Court of the United States. We were yesterday shown a communication to the Executive Department, from the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States, by di rection of Judge Chase, bearing date of the 18th nit., stating that the above stated case, institu ted by Gov. Charles J. Jenkins, to test the con stitutionality of the Reconstruction laws, was, by order of the Court, previously granted, finally “ dismissed with costs” on the 15th nit General Grant employed as counsel in this case the distinguished lawyer, Hon. Mat Car penter, of Wisconsin, who requested Governor Bullock, in December last, to have the Attorney General of Georgia associated with him in the case. In compliance with Mr. Carpenter's re quest, Mr. Attorney General Farrow met him at Washington, and upon consultation a motion was made and order obtained that the case be dismissed with costs, unless good cause be shown by the 15th of January why such order should not be granted. Cause not being shown, it was dismissed. Mr. Attorney General Farrow having per formed his whole duty in the work of recon struction before the people, the highest of all tribunals in America, has also had the pleasure of performing an important and honorable duty, as the law officer of Georgia, in represent ing the newly reconstructed State before the highest judicial tribunal known to the American people. Thus the work of reconstruction has not only been perfected before and by the peo ple, but been “pnt at rest,” by the Supreme Court of the United States. Letus hate peace. [Atlanta New Era. New Yeaes Calls m Washington. —Don Piatt describes some of the ridiculous scenes in Wash ington on New Year’s day. He says: “Isaw an omnibus filled with young men, dashing through the mud, and backing up before the doors of publio men. And I heard of a youth who, finding the hacks engaged beyond his con science, hired a hearse, and drove around until the potations proved too much, and he was con siderately shoved inside and carried home. Be ing a wealthy youth from Baltimore, of fine family, this was considered a good joke. The effect sometimes was ludicrous. People driv ing up and arriving on foot at the house of an XfBmai, and seeing a hearse at the door attended by a number of hacks, with solemn asinine hack- men sitting gravely thereon, wonld jump to the r ^»in«ifYn that a funeral was on hand, and hur ry away diaconoerted.” To the Chairman anil Gentlemen or the Finance Committee of the House of Representatives. Macon, Ga., February 2, 1S69. _ Gentlemen : On my return to my home in thia city, after an absence on business of a few days, I find published in the city papers a certain statement in regard to the payment of a certain two thousand dollars to the executor of Dr. Fort’s estate, and that the circumstances in re gard to the payment of tho same was referred by the Legislature to yonr committee. As the ex ecutor of my brother, Dr. Geo. W. Fort, de ceased, I beg leave to submit to your committee the_ followingjjtatement, in full, in regard to said claim: ** Several years before the war, Dr. George W. Fort, then a physician residing in Milledgeville, acted in the capacity of vaccine agent for the State of Georgia, under special act£>f the Legis lature, and by appointment of the Governor, his dnties were to procure vaccine matters, to be distributed in each county of the State, that it might be considered necessary; and he was paid for said service one hundred dollars a year, and was repaid by the State all of the outlay incurred by him in procuring said vaccine mat ter, whieh was procured through an agency in Boston, Massachusetts. His accounts, when presented, were duly paid by the Executives, Gov. Herschell V. Johnson and Joseph E. Brown, as will fully appear by reference to the Comptrollei General’s books. Said accounts were paid np to 1858, from which time up to the time of his death, onMay 2d, 1866,he drew noth ing from the Treasury. Said account is before yon, having been taken from original entries, and is correct, nearly all of which is for money advanced. I am fully conversant with the correctness of this claim and have personal knowledge of m<5st of the items shown, and by frequent conversa tions with my brother during the last days of his life, he always considered that the claim would be paid, and no active steps were taken for the collection of the same by reason of his feeble health, and the supposition that interest was ac cruing on the same, and there had been no funds in the State Treasury since the close of thenar. After the death of Dr. George W. Fort, on May 2d, 1866, and during the fall of the same year, I made out said claim properly certified to, and sent the same to Governor Charles J. Jenkins, he then being in the Executive chair. He re plied to me, that the Legislature bad made no provision for the payment of the indebtedness : ncurred before the war, and he recommended me to present the same to the Legislature.— On the assembling of the Legislature, I pre sented this claim through the joint Finance Committee, Mr. Adams, of Clarke, being chair man. A sub-committee was appointed to exam ine said account. Said committee were compos ed of Messrs. Gresham of Bibb, McWhorter of Greene and Bell of Randolph. On their exam ining carefully the papers presented to them, among which was an official certificate from Comptroller General J. T. Burns, that no warrant had ever been drawn on the Treasury for said money advances for services rendered or any art thereof, and also a certificate from Gov. irown that Dr. Geo. W. Fort had acted in the ca pacity aforesaid during his administration, said sub-committee agreed to recommend the pay ment of most of said claim, but refused to re commend the payment of claim incurred during the war. On their recommendation coming before the Legislature, as a body, they refused to pay any of the same—for what'reason I am ignorant, except a general disposition to repudiate all indebtedness contracted prior to the war. I left the papers in the hands of Briscoe and deGraffenreid, attorneys, at Mil ledgeville, and have not seen them since. So the matter rested, nntil some time during the month of November of last year, Mr. B. B. de Graffenreid, being in my office in this city on business, remarked to me that he still had tho papers in regard to said claim, and that he would attempt to get a bill passed to collect the same if I would pay to him half the amount collected. Having given np the attempt to collect said claim, I verbally agreed to his proposal, and he BY TELBGEAPH FROM ATLANTA. House Eligibility Resolutions in the Senate. Preparations for Adjournment . The Labor Contract B11L Special to the Macon Daily Telegraph.] Atlanta, February 6—Night. Senate—In the Senate to-day considerable dig cuasion occurred, consuming most of the morning, upon a motion to reconsider the bill passed yester day, to provide for the punishment for the violation of contracts for labor. Mr. Holcombe made one of his best efforts in fa vor of the motion. One of the strongest arguments used by its opponents is that the bill will only pro tect the strong, and oppress the weak. Mr. Hinton also made a strong speech in opposi tion to the measure. The vote on reconsideration stood, ayes 15, nays 17. A message was received from the House announc ing the passage of the resolution to refer the negro eligibility question to the Supreme Court. Mr. Speer offered a substitute that each House should be bound by the action of the Court. Mr. Candler called the previous question. Mr. Adkins attempted to introduce a substitute declaring that each House will proceed to reseat the negroes, which was ruled out of order. The vote to sustain the call for the previous que»- tion and the proposition, shall the main question be put, waa yeas, 13; nays, 14. '. i i. By parliamentary usage the Senate cannot act on the question to-day. The galleries were crowded in expectation that the question would be discussed. A hill from the House appropriating money to Kolbe & Co., for artificial limbs, passed. In the House a resolution was adopted inviting Dr. Le»vis to address the Legislature upon the sub ject of agriculture and immigration. The House refused to pass a bill to establish a conventional rate of interest. Sparks favored tho report of the committee, which was adverse to the passage of the bill, believing, as ho said, ‘‘that money should be like all other com modities—allowed to seek tho market at its market value. • Ho would have voted for a bill repealing all restrictions upon the rate of interest. TTT« position waa sustained by some capital facts relative to ad vancea made to planters, believing that were all re strictions removed, foreign capital would more readily seek our market.” He was, as usual, ear nest and impressive, and was listened to with marked attention and respect. A bill was introduced by Mr. Bryant, looking to the establishment of a system of common schools. It contains sixty-four sections. It was laid on the table and ordered to bo printed, without being read. Adjourned till Monday. The bill for the enforcement of labor contracts fixes the punishment of violating written contracts at a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, and imprisonment in the county jail for not over six months. The motion by Mr. Winn to hold two sessions daily has been lost in tho House. Professor Bond gave an exhibition on the wire thfa afternoon. Part of the proceeds go to the poor of Atlanta. at once left my office. I expected nothing to be accomplished until the assembling of the Legis lature. But suddenly, and without premonition of any kind, received on December 3d, 1868, a package, by express, containing one thousand dollars, from B. B. deGraffenried, who in formed mo that the claim had been com promised by him on the payment, by the 'fate, of two thousand dollars, and that he had kept half of the amonnt, as per agreement. I accepted the money without hesitation, know ing that the State of'Georgia was due the estate of George W. Fort for the money advanced, to much larger amount than was paid, r ahd snp- ] losing that Gov. Bullock had recognized the ; ustice of the claim, and that he had authority to pay the just indebtedness of the State, or he would not have done so, as said amounts were drawn by Executive warrants, as will be seen by the ComptrpUer General's books; and whether the amount received was not less than the amonnt advanced, at a par value. Your commit tee is respectfully referred to the papers before you. But should you, on examination, consider that any part of the amount paid waa not due, or that it was paid not in accordance with law, I am prepared, at once, to replace the same in the State Treasury. I have been very complete in my statement of this matter, knowing well the character and correctness of the claim. Having no acquain tance whatever, either personally or otherwise, with His Excellency, the Governor, or the State Treasurer, I was fearful that it might be con sidered that I had acted in this transaction con trary to that correct principle of right which should govern a man and n citizen, and which are as dear to me as my life. Very respectfully, John P. Foet. “He Came from New Jersey.” BT THE PAT CONTBIBCTOE. From Atlanta. Atlanta, February 5.—The House refused a re consideration of tho resolution referring negro eli gibility to tho Supreme Court. Members speaking in opposition to a reconsideration of the action of the House, said tho question of negro eligibility be longs imperatively to the House, and it would de grade itself by referring tho question to another branch of the Government after the House had sol emnly stated the question. The judgment of this House is final and conclusive in all tho world. The House had already decided negroes not eligible to seats on this fioor, and tho derision must stand. Tha House cannot refer this question to courts. The motion to reconsider was lost. Ayes 56; nays 76. From Washington. Washington, February 5—The Senate last night devoted the time to private land bills. Tho House engaged in general debate. In the Supreme Court to-day, Underwood acknowl edged tho servico of the writ of prohibition. Tho case will come on in its turn next Friday. This case involves the right of Judge Underwood, of Vir ginia, to nullify a Virginia judicial decision, because tho officers of the court were illegal under the 14th amendment. There will be an Inauguration ball. There was a full Cabinet with a long session. The debt statement appears to-morrow. It is stated that it will show an increase of $18,000,000. The President made several unimportant consular nominations. A treaty between the United States and North Germany for the better protection of emigrants in comfort, health and morals, is pending. Tho revolving red light on Lucretia Point, on the North coast of Cuba, is temporarily discontinued, Washington, February 6 Tho Tennessee Bep- resentatives, Arnell, Mullins and Nunn, publish cards denying any connection with tho theft of school funds. The Supreme Court has adjourned. In tho District Conrt, Bradly having formally de clined apologising to Judge Fisher, was again ex cluded from practice. The comparative debt statement shows an increase of coinboaring, $14,000; currency bearing, $1,500,000 decrease; matured debt, $500,000 increase; bear ing no interest, $7,000,000 increase; Pacific Railroad bonds, $2,000,000 decrease; Coin in Treasury, $10,- 000,000; increase of currency, $4,500,000; showing the increase of the public debt to bo $15,500,000; the warrants issued during January, aggregate $43,- 868,000, including $30,304,000 interest; coin in Treasury amounts to $88,750,000; currency $17,- 500,000. The joint resolution removing officers in Virginia, Mississippi and Texas, now before the President for approval, provides for tho removal, within thirty days from and after its passage, of all persons now holding office, who cannot take and subscribe to the oath prescribed by the act entitled “An Act to pre scribe an oath of office, and for other purposes,’’— approved July 2d, 1862. Tho commander of the discrict shall fill offices so vacated with persons who can take said oath; provided, that the provisions of this resolution shall not apply to persons relieved of political disabilities. Messrs. Brown and Simrall represented that the There was an amusing scene on board the Louisville maiiboat the other day. There was the usual conglomeration of passengers in the cabin just before the boat landed, and mid the general hub-bub of conversation a man remark ed incidentally, “ Now, in New Jeraey, where I live ”— Instantly an old man. who had sat moodily and silently pondering bv the stove for some P°°P l9 of Mississippi are anxious to adopt the modi- time, sprang to his feet and exclaimed— i fied Constitution, with the privilege of electing offi- “ Stranger, ore you from New Jersey ?" | cers under it; but if the pending Constitution, with “Yes.’ j tho officers claiming placeunder it, were forced upon to acknowledge it ? , yj 0 state, the people would regard the act as an un- “ Htura^ give^us °vour hand,” cried the old ^ co f d f n ’ ^ would not res tuntfi It waa ritered. man, faMy dancing \ritb exultation, “I’m from ’ Cattel, m dracufsmg the suffrage amendment. New Jersey, too, but never felt like declaring it, w ' 8be8 *° eic ‘ uae Chinese who worship Joss afore. Shake! I’m an old man. I’ve traveled' long and far. I’ve been in every city in this here West—steamboated on the Ohio and Mis sissippi—been to Califomy over the plains and General Hews. New Orleans, February 5—The Galveston NewB contains a special dispatch from Austin dated tho around the Horn; took a v'yage once to Liver- * 4tb, which says the Convention to-day engrossed an P 00 ^.’ h. 11 ?.* 11 a .y travels, hang me if this ain’t 1 ordinance to submit the new Constitution to tho to the whole meznblj, mmiilod b, mlboaJ "O-lSMeotBoir, on the OntMood.. runners, hackmen, boot-blacks, newsboys and inJffi)'- apple-giris, for the boat had landed, “let’s all take a drink to New Jersey, the land of Free- linghyson. Old Hyson and Yotrng Hyson, Com modore Stockton and Don Rice. Hip.” Grant's Sly Dig.—“ Good evening, General Grant,” said a pleasant office-seeker the other night to the President elect. “ I have not been to see you, General, since the election.” “ Plenty have,” added Grant “ Ive not been lonesome.” ' A friend of mine overheard this, and he says the droll soberness of Grant saying it was worthy of Garrick.—Gath. The New York World lifts its voice and ex claims: “O! Morality with a big M, Humani ty with a big H, and Loilty with a big Ir kas hell a trinity to be your match.” A man in Greensboro, Vermont, nearly broke his wife’s neck, recently, by playfully shaking her. Her neck cracked, she became partially paralyzed, and was confined to her bed several days. Ah Ohio fanner of wealth assisted a female inmate of a jail to escape, and then ran away and married her. Rm Worn, in Minnesota, has a new journal in the Swedish language called the Sevenska Minnesota Bladet The Roman type is used. Motions to adjourn sine die, for the purpose of defeating the adoption of the ordinance were voted down. Mobile, February 5.—Spring Mill College, situa ted on Spring HOI, six mfles from the city, was en tirely destroyed by fire last night. The students barely escaped with their lives—losing their clothing and valuables. The library furniture and museum were all lost. No one injured. Loss estimated at over one hundred thousand dollars. Insured thirty- five thousand dollars. Chicago, February 6.—The Governor of Illinois has vetoed the bill regulating railroad rates, and imposes uniform rates. San Fbancisco, February 6.—Tha Golden Age Bailed to-day with $739,000 in treasure. The Hong Kong Chinaman sailed for China Thursday, having victimized several San Francisco merchants $18,000. Hollo well, Michigan, February 6.—Ex-Gov ernor Hubbard is dead. He died of heart disease. New Owlbans, February fi.—General Sherman ar rived here this morning accompanied by his daugh ter. • 1 | OoL Dayton anil his wife wifi remain here some Congressional. Washington, Ferbuaiy 5 — Senate.— Petitions were presented for a constitutional amendment re cognizing the Deity. Resolutions for an* extra session to consider tha suffrage amendments are pending. The Public Lands Committee reported adversely ttr the sale of public lands to rid the coajtruetioql of the West Virginia Central railroad. ft A bill authorizing tha President to employ troops to guard extradition prisoners, was passed. An ineffectual effort was made to pay Southern Senators Iheir whole fee for the Fortieth Congress, The suffrage amendment was resumed. Sumner advocated the seeming of the end by an act of Con gress, as a more speedy and certain way than by a constitutional amendment. A long debate ^ensued. Recess was giren to 7 o’clock f. x., when the dis cussion will be resumed. House.—Boutwell, from the Judiciary Committee, reported a bill to secure prize money to Farragnt’a force for the capture of New Orleans. It allows any United State* District Court to take cognizance of suits for recovery of such prize money. The Reconstruction Committee refused to hear any further verbal testimony or speeches regarding Mississippi. A large number of private bills passed. Mr. Brooks moved that the recusant witness, Bcannell, be discharged, as he was unable to pay the expenses of his arrest. Motion was tabled. Bingham and Hubbard, of Iowa; Lawrence, of Ohio, and Pol lard voting with the Demoorats. . - The House went into Committee of the Whole on the Army Appropriation bill. Washington, February 6.—House.—The House is engaged on private bills. Tho Reconstruction Committee heard Gov. Brown and Simerall, regarding the condition of Missis sippi. The stationery contract was further ventilated without action. Mora petitions were presented from New York against secretaries of gold by the Government. A number of private bills were passed. The Committee on Ways and Means reported a hill preventing further increase of the publio debt. Tho bill ordering two terms of the Federal Circuit Court in the Eastern District of Kansas, passed. The Secretary of the Treasury asked whether the proceeds from captured and abandoned property had been paid into tho Treasury. The Reconstruction Committee reported a bill re moving disabilities from large numbers of persons. Ordered printed. A bill was reported by the Committee on Bank ing and Currency requiring National Banks to re port to the Comptroller monthly. The army appropriation bill was resumed without action. House adjourned. Senate—In view of the recent cowhiding, grow ing cut of stationery contracts, the Judiciary Com mittee is instructed to report what legislation ia necessary to protect Federal officers in the discharge of their duty. The tenure-of-ofllco bill came up and provoked a warm discussion. Morton said it was wrong, and it should never have been passed. Edmonds op posed the repeal. No action. The Constitutional amendment waa resumed. There was a long discussion, hut no action. Edmunds introduced a concurrent resolution ex cluding the electoral vote of Georgia from the count because of Georgia's doubtful position in the Union. Several Senators objected, and the resolu tion goes over. The Committee on the Pacific Railroad introduced a bill in rid of the Northern Pacific, the Atlantic & Pacific, the Southern Pacific of California, tho Lit tle Rock, Arkansas Talley A Fort Smith, the East ern Division of tho Union Pacific and tho Oregon Branch railroads, guaranteeing the interest on their bonds for thirty years, at 6 per cent, at the rate of $30,000 per mile, with subsidies of lands. The Southern Pacific Railroad lies between tho 34th and 35th parallel, connecting with the Southern Padfio of California on the Colorado river. The bill was ordered printed. Senate adjourned. Foreign News. London, February 5.—A large meeting was held last night in favor of granting amnesty to Fenian prisoners. Madrid, February 5.—Espartero declines a seat in the Cortez. Havana, Febrnaiy 5.—The Diaro has a lotg edit orial attempting to prove that the revolutionary General Orauga was assassinated by order of Gene- trri Querada. San Domingo advices state that the town of Seybo has prononnee'd against Baez. Venezuela papera report that tho vomito still pre vails at Carracas; Count de Luville, Italian Minis ter had died of it. Madrid, February 6.—Tho Provisional Govern ment will present the Cortez with a draft of a Con stitution embracing a clause prohibiting slavery, and the method of freeing slaves will be left to -the Cortez. Tho authorities have licensed the erection of a Jewish synagogue. Paris, February 6—Moualer, the French Minis ter of \Var, is dead. Athens, February 6.—The now ministry is a fail ure. Bulgari’s former Prime Minister has been re called. The King is firm for adherence to the Pro tocol. London, February 6 The Government has re solved on the abolition of tho university tests. A full text of tho Clarendon-Johneon treaty, as printed by tho American papers, is denounced by tho Times as incomprehensible. President Johnson after his Term. As the publio will be curious to know what is to become of President Johnson after tho ex piration of his presidential term, we extract as follows from the Nashville correspondent of the Louisville Courier-Journal: Nashville, January 29,1869.—I will give you briefly, but accurately, a pen picture of the situ ation in Tennessee at the present moment. Andrew Johnson is expected to arrive here by the middle of March. He has written to his friends to say that he will be a candidate for Governor. No one will oppose his nom ination. It will be made spontaneously by the Conservatives; and his platform will consist of a universal amnesty and impartial suffrage, on which the people of Tennessee have risked their claims from the first. He is expected to do two things : 1st. He will talk to the negroes as no one else has ever talked to them. 2d. He will awaken the East Tennessee “loyalists" to a sense of the perils of the pres ent State Government as no one else can awaken them. Johnson is not a wit like Etheridge. Nor is he an orator like Colyar. Rat he is a prodigy of muscular power before the Tennessee mass es, who consider him a child of destiny, marked by Providence to be their next Governor. Johnson’s purpose is to secure a Conservative Legislature, which will return him to the Senate of the United States in place of Mr. Fowler. Bnt for their faith in him the people ef the State—by whom I mean the disfranchised mass es—would make no contest this summer. They consider the existing system a machine, and they regard its operation as tittle less than cer tain. Johnson does nob He says he has fought a worse fight, and says he can break up the Loyal Leagues as he broke np the Know Nothing lodges. He will denounce the Ku-Klux in unmeasured terms. He will take strong National grounds on all National questions, and he expects to carry all before him. Terrible Death.—An inquest was lately held in a miserable hovel in Sb Sauveur, Canada, oc cupied by Oliver Lafranoe, wood sawyer, who earned the pittance of eleven shillings a week, wherewith to support himself, his wife and four children. The poor fellow, after partaking of a scanty breakfast, was proceeding to a ship-yard, when his wife remonstrated with him, saying he was too ilL He replied, “We have neither wood nor food. and. yon and the children must starve if X don’t work. I must work though it kills me.” He then called for his comrade sawyer to accompany him, and they began sawing logs as usual, but he was too feeble to proceed, and told Bolduc he felt as if he was dying. He then rallied a little, and said it was necessary for hie family’s maintenance that he should work, even though it were a hard thing to do, and work he would, or at least try once more. But he was unequal to the effort, and turned to go home, saying he must not die in the oold. He had gone but a few steps when he fell and expired. One day’s Bales of cotton in Savannah lately amounted to $100,000. GEOBt^A LEGISLATURE. From the At. ian/a Con »ti tut ion.} <' Fhxdat, Feb. 5, 1869. SBnate.—The day's session was characterized by* no event of importance. The motion to r»- j£onsider the vote on the bffl to revise the penal code was adopted, and the bill laid on the table. A bill to punish violations of written labor con tracts passed, ayes 15, nays 13. Hocse.—Mr. Scott, of Floyd, moved to re- eonsider the action of the House yesterday in adopting Mr. Price’s resolution. He said that this resolution meant that the negro should be re-seated if this Court decided them eligible, or it was a farce. He reviewed, in an earnest sM able moaner, all the arguments that had been advanced in favor of the resolution, and urged the reconsideration of ib Mr. Morgan was opposed to reconsideration, and said that some extraordinary positions had bean taken, arid referred to the charges made by Mr. O’Neal in the disenssion of this resolu tion. , He said Congress had no right now to interfere in this matter, the question was re* adjudicata. He did not concede the right of Congress to interfere in this matter under any state of circumstances. . But the resolution was passed simply to show to the world that there is a question that belongs to the Comte and not to the Legislature. We have nothing to do with it but to refer it, and if they decide that the ne gro is eligible, the decision has nothing to do with this body. Mr. O’Neal explained what he meant by what he charged against the Democrats about this question. ■ '• ■ *’ >: Mr. Felder asked Jhim if he did not pretend, to be a great friend of the negro at last session, and when the question come up on unseating them, if he did not dodge ? Mr. O’Neal said he was not then in favor of them holding their seats, and told his people that he was not in public speech, and he did not think that was dodging the question. He said the Supreme Court would not take cognizance of this question if sent to them. Mr. Rawls—Thought this House was Ku Kluxed. Gentlemen spoke as if they had com mitted some great crime. We have done noth ing that we are ashamed of. I have no objec tion to referring this question simply to the Courts, but to say we shall make a case I object. Congress has refused to receive our Senators, this is all they can do. We have a Legislature composed exdusively of white men, anal think we have the best of the trade. Mr. Tnmlin called the previous question. Lost. Mr. Shumate—We have been charged with dishonesty and dupliciiy by the gentleman from Lowndes. He thought that suspicion haunts the guilty mind, and he had shown by his actions by dodging the question, and at this session in season and ont of season he thrusts agitating questions upon this House. We are not bonnd so much for what we did, as for the spirit in which we did. The reference of this question to the Supreme Court will show that we were actuated by an honest desire to comply with the law. We did it under our oaths and are not afraid to let the Court examine tho law. Is there any harm in that, any duplicity, or dishonesty ? I think nob He hoped the res- olution wonld stand as adopted. Mr. Phillips said that a decision by the courts that the negro was eligible would not affect the question as to his eligibility and right to seats OQ this floor. He reviewed the arguments for and against the qneBtion. He did not wish and wonld not not dodge any issue in it. He would beard the lion in Us den, let the consequence be what' it would. Mr. Lane said the only question now that had not been discussed was, is there not aprobability that‘Congress or some power would take action in the premises. If you tUnk they will not, then, we should vote it down; if there is any proba bility that they will, then we should take this action, and there is great necessity for ib This is the gist of the whole subject: If this question goes to the courts, they do not make the law— they construe; they cannot alter or amend the law—they decide what is the law, and that is what is desired. I am satisfied that the best we con do is to refer this matter to the courts where it belongs. Mr. Kelley called the previous question, wMch was sustained and the yeas and nays re quired, and resulted as follows: Yeas — Ayer, Ballenger, Barrett, Belcher, Brown, Buchanan, Burtz, Carpenter of Pierce, Chambers, Clarke, Darnell, Farmer, Fitzpatrick, Flournoy, Franks, Goff, Greiger, Grimes, Gul- latt, Hackness, Haren, Harrison, Hill, Hillyer, Hitchcock, Hundley, Johnson of Towns, Kelley, Lee, McComb, McCormick, Madden, Madison, Maul, Meadows, Nash, Nunn, O’Neal, Parks of Gwinnet, Paulk, Pearson, Pepper, Perkins of Dawson, Bawles, Read, Reddish, Rouse, Saulter, Scott of Floyd, Sisson, Taliaferro, Tate,Tnmlin, Tweedy, Ware and Wilson—56. Nays—Anderson, Adkins, Barclay, Bennett, Bethune, Bradford, Brewster, Brinson, Bryant, Burton, Caldwell, Carpenter, of Hancock, Car- son, Clower, Cloud, Crawford, Donaldson, Drake, Duncan, Ellis, of Spalding, Erwin, Fincannon, Ford, Fowler, George, Gober, Gray, Hall, of Meriwether, Harden, Harper, of Terrell, Har per, of Sumter, Harris. Higdon, Holden, Hooks, Hudson, Johnson, of Wilcox, Kimbrough, Kytle, Lane, Las tinge r, Long, McArthur, McCullough, Morgan, Nesbit, Osgood, Perkins, of Cherokee, Phillips, Price, Prudden, Rice, Rumpb, Scrog gins, Scott, of Columbia, Seale, Sewell, Shack leford, Shumate, Smith, of Charlton, Smith, of Macon, Smith, of Coffee, Smith, of Telfair, Sorrell, Sparks, Stapleton, Strickland, Surrency, Tumipseed, Vinson, Welchel, Wilcox, Wiiliams, of Morgan, Zellars and Zelner—76; and motion to reconsider lost. On motion, the rules were suspended, and Mr. Phillips moved to take up the Agricultural bill and make it the special order of the day for Tuesday next. Adopted. An ineffectual attempt was made to introduce a resolution to adjonm sine die on the 18th. A bill passed to repeal the act to levy a tax to pay> insolvent costs so far as it relates to the county of Mnsoogee. A resolution was adopted for two sessions a day after Monday next. A message was received from the Governor, stating that he had signed the resolutio.n autho rizing the Treasurer to pay three-fourths of the pay dne members and clerks from time to time. Also, a resolution ordering the balance of the Convention tax collected at once. ] m *v.f t; v v. : v Vu 1 - ."rW % A Radical Estimate of a Radical Con gress. A special correspondent of the Springfield Republican,' writing from Washington, says: Things are in a terrible shape here; Forty or fifty Congressmen going out for good next March, and only anxious to go out with full pockets. The lobby is here with a million of dollars, which is being paid out with perfect recklessness. All the subsidy schemes are in combination, and nothing in earth or heaven but Ulysses S. Grant could save the country from robbers to the amount of $200,000,000 be tween now and March. Grant is making a reg ular campaign of it; talks of nothing else ; lobbies as persistently as ‘.‘the other fellows ;” declares that no man need expect anything from his administration who takes any part in the rascally schemes of the lobby, and apparently, will just be able to poll through. Nothing ever save us if he does not. His is startling as to the honesty of the Rad ical Congressmen; but let us see how they stand, as to morals. The correspondent of the Chicago Republican, the leading Badioal jour nal of the West, in criticizing the actions of certain Senators regarding the proposed inaugu ration ball, draws the following darkpicture. After alluding to “ the religious sniffle which some honorable Senators give when they east their votes,” he says: I propose to call their attention to another abuse, to which, in deference to the “religious sentiment” of the oountry they might attend. Immediately outside the left hand entranoe to the Senate, looking from the Vice-President's desk toward the main doorway of the chamber, is an elegant apartment. It is handsomely gilded and fresooed; elegant carpets cover toe floor; luxurious arm chairs and lounges are nu merous, and every thing invites to repose and quiet and abandon. It is the reception roam of the Senate. It is easy of access from the chamber. This room ia notoriously the greatest assignation place in Washington.— At any time daring toe session of the Sen ate toe visitor may see there, in bn- zen effrontery, known women of ill-fame. They are attired in toe meet oostly fabrics, diamonds and lace, and the latest fashions. - Senators da not hesitate to come from their seats and the work of legislation at their bidding. The offi cers of toe Senate know them, or if they do not, they ought to; but instead of being debarred admission, they are allowed to ply their voca tion in the Tory Capitol of the nation. I do not say that all the ladies who go there are of this character; but I do say that in the oourse of a single day more than a score of this class of peo ple are to be found in that room. The New Lisbon ((Brio) Patriot* grieves to learn ‘ ‘ that some of our eehool giris carry toilet glasses to school and paint ami powder whes, they should be engaged in their stodits.” ytbti Mi •. MY*. 9 iw jatA Ceal pica am*! risk fees Iter- hoK Sare fills; Hfor a lots. VPB. fc-oH J icutB i oa«v m. pons 'and ."dev ng; »68. A'H if r i Ja St? j * «