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’LEGRAPH.
MACON, FRII>
yy, FEBRUARY 12, 1869.
Minor is
Interesting Document.
We have no neod to refer the reader to the
a nnnal Be port of the President of the Macon
and Brunswick Bai Iroad, on the outside of this
issue of the Teleoi uph. All feel an interest in
«hn< work, which j nnkesv every word about its
condition andpro|p*ss detractive. The story
of the President tc -day is i very plain and sat
isfactory one. lit t ells how.fratn the depths of
apparent frustrltio n and dubat, in one year the
road has sprangVn x> a lusty rigor and energy-
an activity of prog :ess and a vealth of pi
•which rank it anw >ng the loading internal im
provement project* | of Georgia. /
Late jVews Items.
C^rfriTU rwxALrrjy or the Amnesty Procla
mation.—Judge T”'mg delivered an oral opinion
on the 2d, in the I* ’ederal Court at Knoxville,
upon the motion to j dismiss the prosecution in
the case of the tTnitf d States vs. John H. Cro-
rier, for treason, affii -ming the cons..rationality
of the amnesty proclr mation.
North western Assc ciated Press.—The North
western Associated Press met in Chicago on
Wednesday last. Ah long the proceedings was
the rejection of applic ations of a number of pa-
pars for membership. The result wns that the
meeting was held at which it was resolved to
form a now association, to be called the Missis
sippi Valley Press 'Association, which will meet
in St. Lonis, on February 24, to perfect an ar
rangement for dispatches over the Mississippi
Valley National Telegraph lines.
Pbovxde Seats.—A bill lias been introduced
in the Now York Legislature compelling railroad
companies to provide every passenger with a
comfortable seat, and will probably pass.
Conylaoration in Pittsburg-.—A disastrous
conflagration occurred; in Pittsburg Wednesday
f night, by which the extensive gaspipe works of
Evans, Clair A DolselJ, and eloTen dwellings
were destroyed, the buildings all frame, and
burned rapidly. Some of the occupants in the
dwellings barely escaped with their lives, and in
most of them their furniture and clothing were
consumed.
New Cattle Disease.-i-Several cattle have re
cently died from some unknown disease on
Haight’s farm, at Fislikill, New York. There is
much excitement among the fanners.
The Danville Fresh.—Full particulars of the
disaster at Danbury, Connecticut, state that tho
•upper reservoir, which was first to give way, is
situated 2,. r >00 feet above the level of the river,
which runs through the town, and is distant
from it about five miles. The loss on property
by the torrents is estimated at $100,000. Of
thirteen lives lost only five bodies have been re
covered under cakes of ice. The timbers were
swept down the stream a great distance. Three
■ duns and five bridges were swept away. Dan
bury would now be helpless in case of fire.
Gen. Grant in New York. — General Grant
arrived in New York late on the 28th ultimo,
•and drovo to the residence of Hamilton Fish.
About midnight he went to the charity ball, at
the Academy of Masic, where he remained about
an hour. He was to remain in the city a few
dajB as the guest of Mr. Fish.
Affairs in Arkansas.—A train from Madison,
Arkansas, brought into Memphis, Monday last,
a large number of refngees from Crittenden
. county, fleeing from a party of negroes who
‘ represented themselves as militia. They hung
a planter named Gibson Sunday morning and
» were committing every species of vandalism.
The Sharpe’s IIifxe Claim.—Legal opinions
from Hons. A. H. Stephens arid Amos T. Ack
erman are printed in the New Era, sustaining
the arms claim and taking the ground that the
Legislature may constitutionally pay it We
claim all donbts for the benefit of defendant.
The Florida Impeachment.—The Florida
Legislature adjonmed sine die on the 1 st instant.
' The House, by a vote of 43 to 5, resolved that
i“too Assembly finds nothing in said report or
testimony justifying an impeachment of Harri
son Beetl, Governor of Florida.” All the con-
* narratives present voted for the resolution.
’Tfce -.appropriations made amount to near
$100,000—a round sum to be raised by taxes
from an impoverished people. One item, $ 15,-
000, is for arming and disciplining the militia.
One bill passed provides for a system of com
mon (mixed) schools and a University.
Among the confirmations by the Senate on
Saturday before adjournment was the following
entry against the originial mover of impeach
ment:
“Wm. Edwards, to be county Jndge for Ala
chua county, in plaoe of-Horatio Jenkins, Jr.
removed for neglect of duty and for false and
libelous charges against the chief Magistrate,
which have brought dishonor upon the State and
greatly embarrassed its finances and retarded its
prosperity.” -- - -
-Mr. S. M.
Gmqt’fl New Family Physician.
Tooke, now in Macon, is agent for the sale of
.-this work, which is a great improvement on the
-old original Domestic Medicine. It is a hand
some work of 1200 pages illustrated with plates,
and furnishing bints upon the character and
• treatment of all human diseases.
Wjnno in Vain.—The Press dispatches re
ported yesterday that tho Be construction Com
mittee were awaiting the arrival of ex-Goveroor
Brown before deciding upon the case of Geor-
• gia. On the same*day the Legislature decided
not to send ex-Govemor Brown to Washington.
SoottVMonthly Magazine.—Phillips & Crew,
'Atlanta, Ga., $4 a year.
Tho February number is before us with a long
'list of articles, original and selected, and highly
interesting. This work is well printed and con
ducted with ability and should be familiar with
Southern readers.
No Special from Atlanta.—We failed to re
ceive our spocial telegrams from Atlanta last
night; but are unable to account for the fail-
nro. Possibly nothing transpired in the Legis
lature worth special mention.
"To Correspondents.—We have several favors
on hand waiting room. “Lawyer's” No. 5
shall, it possible, find place to-morrow.
Six Oaks Cotton.—The Thomasville Enter
prise tays:
Mr. John White, of this connty, has sent ns a
sample of the Six Oaks Cotton which he produced
last year, and thinks it a superior and valuable
cotton. Some who planted this cotton pronounce
it a humbug, and others think it very superior.
When doctors disagree, who shall decide ?
Supreme Court of Georgia.
Thursday, Feb. 4, 1869.
Argument resumed and concluded in Jas. C.
McBumt y vs. Patrick McIntyre, warrant for
possession from Bibb, O. A. Lochrane, for
plaintiff in error, Whittle Sc Gas tin, A. W. Ham
mond A Son, for defendant in error.
Wm. E. Carswell vs. The Maoon Manufactur
ing Go., Equity from Bibb, was then argued,
Nisbets Sc Jackson. Lochrane for plaintiff Si er
ror, J. J. A T. B. Gresham, B. Hill, for defend-
lent in error.
The Court then went back to the continued
cause (which had been put to the heel of this
circuit. Mary Lamar ptaiqtiff in error, vs.
Representation—A Promis-
log Idea.
A seleXct committee of the Senate agreed last
Friday ilo report a bill which gives a chance of
representation to minorities. The idea origin
ated v^fith Mr. Buckalew of Pennsylvania, and is
develf/jped in the unanimous recommendation of
a bill/ whose purport is that in all elections for
elecifors and representatives, each voter shall
as many ballots as there are candidates, all
me or one for each, which will make the
chosen proportionately represent major!
and minorities in the measure of their
strength. This bill will not be hurried, nor
it expected to be pnt through this session,
it it will be passed, it is believed, before the
forty-second Congress and the next President
are chosen. It is regarded as tho most just and
thorough measure ever sought to be grafted on
our system. It is due to say that the leaders of
each party cordially favor its provisions.
Under the provisions of this bill, if we com
prehend it, a voter in Goorgia, for example, in
tho election of Kepresentatives in Congress, (the
State being entitled to seven Bepresentatives,)
would cast seven ballots, which he might ap
portion to suit himself. He might cast one bal
lot for each candidate, or the whole seven for
any one candidate; and in this way a minority,
by concentrating its strength, would be sure of
electing some Bepresentatives, although weaker
than the opposition in every district.
So in the Presidential election: every State
would be divided. Say the minority in Georgia
amounting, iff round numbers, to 50,000, out of
ISO,000 votes, choose to plump for more than
their legitimate influence in tho Electoral Col
lege, the case would stand thus: Nine candi
dates and 1,850,900 votes cast. If the majority
are content to distribute their votes equally
upon a full ticket, each candidate would receivs,
of course, one hundred thousand votes. Butin
this case, the minority, by concentrating their
votes upon four electoral candidates, would be
able to give each of their four candidates about
112,500 votes and elect them. The Electoral
College would then stand five to four between
the parties. But, forewarned of this maneuver,
the majority would, of coarse, concentrate their
votes upon six candidates, and the Electoral
College would stand six to three.
It is obvious that the bill will work a vast and
important change in our electoral system; but
we believe it will be a jnst and beneficent
change. Minorities, secure in their just influ
ence, will not feel themselves proscribed, and
the bill will, therefore, encourage minorities,
which are the great safeguards to purity of ad
ministration. It will abate the violence of our
political contests, wherein, under the present
system, an insignificant number of votes which
make up the majorities, say ten to twenty thou
sand, destroy the minority votes amounting in
the aggregate to three hundred thousand, as in
New York and Pennsylvania.
Vie believe this bill is the grandest and most
munificent suggestion which has been made to
the country for many years. That it is fraught
with the most wholesome influences upon the
whole system of government; and we hope the
people everywhere will unite in urging Congress
to pnt it in operation as soon as possible.
[For the Telegraph.
To Mrs. Ellen B.
Lady, I ween thou art lovelier far,
Than the silvery light of the evening star;
So sweetly and gently thou comeat to cheer,
An angel must breathe o’er tliy pathway here.
I could gaze fore’er in thy deep, dark eye,
Ab soft and as sunny as Italy’s sky;
Gaze in its depths while the shadows of feeling,
Tho light of the spirit are richly revetling.
One soft sweet word from thy rosebud lips,
Twill bound and thrill to the fingertips ;
Then sink to the heart with a tremulous air,
And its magical note ever vibrate these—
Forever—for who could withstand each a tone,
As rich, and as sweet as the nightingale’s own ?
And the heart-breathing ripples that sparkle along,
Are like to the spirit enshrined in its song.
Lady, all hearts must bow at thy shrine—
I say not too much—thou art almost divine,
And the spell which thy witchery round me has
cast
Oh, it never can be as a thing of the past.
But glowing and fresh with the colors all bright,
It will haunt me forever—an image of light
Speak coldly, and trample my heart if you will,
Tho life-breathing perfume will hangroundit stilt
SUMTTEB.
South Carolina, February 1st.
From Sonthwestern Georgia,
Discrimination In Railway Freights.
When the Macon people vent their complaints
against the railways for unjust or unfavorable
discriminations in freight rates against this city,
they should be reminded that there is in exist
ence a complete legal remedy against such dis
crimination, as to two of the roads at least. The
act opprovedDecember 29, 1S47, entitled “An
act to authorize the Central Bailroad and Bank
ing Company, and the Macon and Western
Bailroad Company, to form a junction of the
Central railroad and Macon and Western rail
road, in or near the limits of the city of Macon, ”
makes the following stipulation:
‘Sec. 3. That neither of such connections
shall take place unless said Central Bailroad
Company and Macon and Western Bailroad
Company shall first enter into stipulations with
the proper authorities of Macon to charge no
more freight from Macon on said roads than is
pro rata per mile proportionable to the rates from
the city of Savannah to Atlanta, or from Atlan
ta to Savannah." See Pamphlet Acts of 1847,
pages 105 and 106.
Accordingly, these stipulations were duly en
tered into by the said roads and are now of file
in the archives of the city, so that, by solemn
contract, the rate of freight per mile from Sa
vannah to Macon is never to exceed the rate of
freight per mile from Savannah to Atlanta. The
act in question was drawn up by one of our lead
ing members of the bar, an original friend of
the junction measure, which was fought for ma
ny years and was unpopular in Macon at the
time of its passage. He drew it to protect the
city against unjust discriminations, and, if any
exist, it is the bosiness and privilege of the city
and people to see them corrected under the
stipulations of this act.
Organization of tlie Randolph Agri
cultural Society.
From the Cuthlert Appeal.]
At a meeting of a portion of the citizens of
the connty, held in the Court-house, for the pur
pose of organizing an Agricultural Society, upon
motion of Judge Beal, CoL H. H. Jones was
called to the chair, and J. B. Buchanan requested
to act as Secretary. Upon motion a committee
was appointed to nominate permanent officers
for the government of the society, and also to
select suitable men to represent the society in
the Agricultural Convention to bo held in Atlanta
on the second of the coming month.
While the committee were absent, Col. Jones
made a short but appropriate speech showing the
necessity for the formation of a Connty Agri
cultural Society and the great advantages our
climate and soil possesses for remunerating the
energetic and enterprising fanner.
The committee after a snort absence retained,
reporting the names of the following gentlemen
as officers of the Society for the present year :
For President, Wm. Coleman; for Secretary,
J. B. Buchanan; for Treasurer, A. B. McAfee.
The selection was ratified by the meeting.
The following gentlemen were appointed to
represent the Society in the Atlanta Conven
tion : O. P. Beall, H. H. Jones, J. B. Buchanan,
J. T. Handen, Wm. Coleman, J. T. McLendon,
A. B. McAfee, G. S. Baldwin, C, R. Knowles
and Wm. L. Baldwin.
In consequence of a change from what was
understood to be the arrangement made by the
Secretary of the State Agricultural Society, sev-
of the members appointed declined to attend for
satisfactory reasons. Our Society will, however,
be represented by a sufficient delegation of in
terested and intelligent gentlemen.
The meeting adjourned to meet again on next
Saturday, the Cth of February. All persons, of
whatever occupation, who feel interested in the
agricultural and permanent advancement of the
country are cordially invited to be present at the
coming meeting.
Let ns lay down politics, and take np the real
interests of our country and try to advance them.
EL H. Jones, Chairman.
J. B. Buchanan, Secretary.
Cuthbert, January 31, 18G9.
A thief, in Hartford, broke into a store the
other night, and among his stealings shouldered
a bag of oats, which had a leak in it. The next
morning an officer tracked him, by the sprinkle
of oats that had fallen from the bag, to his
house, where the goods were recovered.
There is a lucky fanner near Dubuque, Iowa.
On Monday night, of last week, two of his sheep
^ ¥o _ j became the mothers of seven lambs, one pro-
Junes Glowson, complaint from Bibb it was • during three, and the other four; one of his
argued by Bacon A Simmons, for plaintiff in er- ! cows had a calf; a sow had a litter of seventeen
ror, and by the Reporter, representing W. Poe * P*# 8 i. ^ his wife presented him with two
for defendant in error. ’ I bouncing boys.
The next cause in order is the continued one No member of the Minnesota legislature was
Jordan A Co. , vs. Digby, Sheriff from Jack- born in the State; but one of its Senators has
—Constitution. resided within its limits for thirty years.
E . . : . .... The Terre Haute Journal says that the women
Bauoy tomw is grown in great quantities &fe ftbont to get x jg 1 t > -.tb s Legislature is
Albany; its Condition and Trade—People of
Southwestern Georgia—Lands, Fertilizers—
Short-handed— What can be done for the We-
gro Race—The late Rain Storm—Clearing
Lands— Cotton Prices—Telegraph—Albany &
Thomasville Road—Effect on Macon Trade,
and so on.
Correspondence of the Macon Daily Telegraph.]
Albany, Ga., February 3, 1869.
The Albanians.are a thrifty people. They
are surrounded and supported by the richest
country in Georgia; for in no other division of
the State is the great staple so profitably grown
as in Dougherty, Lee and other counties round
about.
Their town has met with three or four disas
trous conflagrations since the war. Some of the
bnmed districts have been partially and others
wholly rebuilt. There appears to me to be
plenty of store room in town, notwithstanding—
indeed, too many merchants for the trade.
They complain that their large planters send all
their heavy orders to other markets, but they
generally come in for the entire trade of the
freedmen—now no small item in sneh a densely
populated country as is this.
My impressions of Southwestern Georgia are
very flattering. The people have certainly ob
tained a high standard of enlightenment and
civilization. As a general rule they are abund
antly blessed with this world’s goods. They
have more money now than any time since the
days of Confederate Treasury notes, and per
haps more than ever before. The lands are
rich and very productive, naturally. Added to
this, planters will universally apply fertilizers to
them this year, guaranteeing a larger yield than
ever.
There will be as mnch land planted in South
ern and Southwestern Georgia this, as last year,
and three times the amount of fertilizers used.
So that the conclusion follows that more cotton
will be raised in 18G9 than was in 18G8. There
is a general complaint of a lack of hands on the
plantations. The old ones are constantly dying
out and no new ones coming on to supply their
places. The Brunswick Bailroad has drawn
abont four thousand from the fields, but the
planters count upon getting many of them back
when the hot weather and chills come along the
line of that road. Perhaps so. They are in
many instances preparing ground with this ex
pectation.
With the negro labor constantly and visi
bly melting away, what on earth will this country
do for laborers in ten or fifteen years ? But few
people seem to realize the rapidity with which
the negroes are disappearing. The Legislature
might arrest their decay by passing more strin
gent laws in regard to the marital relation
among them. Since the days of slavery, they
have lost what little virtue they possessed. This,
of coarse, leads to decay, and will finally resnlt
in the extinction of the race. We do not now
exercise that fostering care over them that we
used to. But, unless we do, the race will be lost
before boys now living are gray.
The late rain storm extended from Macon to
the Gulf, arid to the Atlantic Ocean. The creeks
and rivers were everywhere flooded, but not
much damage has been reported.
All along the line of the Southwestern Rail
road, I found the planters clearing and breaking
np their ground for the new crop. They are
working with an energy truly remarkable, and
appear to be full of hope that cotton will, for
years to come, be worth 25 cents per pound. I
cannot see how it will be any less before the
great problem of labor now so seriously engag
ing most thinking minds in the country is solved.
The African will have to be supplanted by other
labor before the quantity raised can make the
price lower than it is now.
The people here say the Telegraph is the
greatest paper in the world. They admire your
conservative course, and frankly admit that the
time has wholly passed for hot-head, rattle
brain counsels to prevail That is what brought
the country well-nigh to destruction a few years
ago, and we had better take things hereafter a
little more moderately.
Four hundred hands are hard at work on tho
Albany and Thomasville railroad. A Director
informed me this morning that they had plenty
of money subscribed to complete the road, and
that there was no earthly donbt of its construc
tion in a year or two. It will be fifty-six miles
long. Bat I fear it will be a hole in the bot
tom of our barrel, as soon as it is finished.
There is no question abont the merchants and
planters all aronnd here going to Savannah, in
stead of Macon, for their supplies. [Bet you
on that, Mr. Grafton.) Wo sell goods in
Macon now as low as we possibly can, and
hence we will be unable to compete with
Savannah. I see bat one hope to offset this
coming disaster: that is when our Brunswick
Road is completed, freights will be lowered upon
New York goods, which will enable us to come
down in prices. Our Western produce trade will
not be affected. We must, also, induce our
Southwestern road to reduce its tariff of char
ges. By this means, I hope we will not be se
riously hurt. Had the Savannah people held
their control over the Gulf road and completed
the Albany branch, they would have hit us a
terrible blow. God be thanked for their blind
ness !—they have given us a chance to retain
the richest trade we have, or ever will have.—
We will hold it until further notice. My opin
ion is, after taking a look at the exact position
of things down here, the selling ont of that stock
was almost the most fortunate thing that ever
happened for Macon.
Will meet you again in a few days.
Grafton.
, tti t * .ft a ,4.. , BIG HUUUV Mi KCb UIC1I I1KUUI tut} AXJIfUUDUIO lo
LhWy^*’ *** “ be * n nUhZ6d na * of a State Prison excluaively for fe-
Thebe is a panther—a real live one—ranging
around the country in the vicinity of White
Greek, Tennessee, killing cows, hogs, sheep,
and creating general consternation. The in
habitants are out hunting for him, with guns
and knives. He is supposed to have escaped
from some traveling menagerie.
The festivities of a Cincinnati wedding on
Sunday night, closed with a free fight, in which
the bridegroom and several of his friends were
badly stabbed.
Charles Dxoucks says he can always jndge
of the character of a hotel pr restaurant by an
nspection of the castor. The mustard-pot and
the oil-cruet ore infallible tests.
The Eligibility Question.
We have in vain examined telegrams and leg
islative reports to ascertain precisely the shape
of the resolution passed by the House, referring
the question of negro eligibility to the Supreme
Court for decision. From the tenor of the At
lanta press dispatch of yesterday, however, we
infer that it was little more than a general de
claration that the right of negroes to hold office
in Georgia is properly a judicial question; and
the resolution does not commit the Legislature
to any action under that decision, be it one way
or the other. The vote upon the motion to re
consider, on Friday, sufficiently indicates that
it was not in the nature of a compromise pro
position, but was held by both parties to express
a determination upon the part of the majority
to adhere to the original action of the General
Assembly, declaring the ineligibility of the ne
groes to membership, and risk the chances of
Congressional intervention.
Before going to press, we may perhaps he
able to determine more definitely whether this
view of the nature of the action of the House
be the correct one.
The whole matter presents to our mind one of
those vexatious coses in which a man is called
upon to choose between evil alternatives. On
the one hand, every intelligent mind is fully con
scious of the mischiefs which must resnlt in this
State from negro office-holding; and, on the
other, we must regard the minatoiy attitude of
Congress, which threatens not only to impose
negro office-holding upon us, but may possibly
rivet it there for a long time by disfranchising
some portions of the whites,.and thus intro
ducing into Georgia tho calamitous disorders
which prevail in Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas,
North Carolina and Louisiana, and which may
very probably befall Virginia and Texas—all of
which have resulted or must resnlt from Con
gressional intervention to pnt the negroes in po
litical mastery over the large majorities of
whites—a mad and reckless impolicy and injust
ice' which must destroy tho peace, order and
prosperity of any State, so long as persisted in,
but which, we see, nevertheless, Congress does
not hesitato to perpetrate.
It is a serious question, then, how far a pru
dent Georgia legislator ought to go to prevent,
if possible, any alleged “Radical necessity” to
take Georgia in hand again. We are sure to
save nothing in that event, and we are in great
danger of losing mnch. It is useless to talk of law,
constitution and the plain reason of the matter.
These amount practically to nothing, and we
may as well save our breath. It is about equal
folly to risk presentwrong in the hope of future
redress. That redress, if it comes, will be too
late, too far off—too uncertain to help U3 much.
Consequently, in the exercise of the best
judgment we can call to our aid in this impor
tant matter, we have been disposed to favor,
as far as possible, conciliatory action by the
Legislature—and, above all, to avoid the resur
rection of the old issue in the sharper form of
revision and reassertion !
A committee to Congress would have done no
harm. A resolution inviting the action of the
Supreme Courts would have done no harm,
Thero are many ways of treating such sub
jects beside the irritating way; and when
we undertake “to beard the lion in his den,
the language of a member upon this point, we
want to be provided with good defences and
some reasonable chance of victory or escape.
We don’t care to be strangled and drowned, just
for a spectacle. The amusement is not com
pensatory.
We devoutly hope for the best results, and
that no harm may come from the action of our
Legislature; but that these apprehensions are
not peculiar to ourselves we will close by showing
first from on editorial and next from the Wash
ington correspondence of the Savannah Repub
lican of the 5th instant. The editor of the Re
publican says:
Coming down to yesterday’s proceedings, com
municated in brief by telegraph, it seems that
the Legislature is determined not to refer tho
question of negro eligibility to office to the Su
preme Court. Perhaps they see no way by
which they can bring the question themselves
before that tribunal, and for that reason have
voted down the proposition. We are clearly of
the opinion that if it can be done it ought to be
done, for even with an unfavorable termination
we shall be in no worse condition than that in
which Congress will assuredly place us in case
wo have no legal way of enjoining it from
further action in the premises. We believe that
Congress has no right to interpret our constitu
tion for the Legislature, but then, are legal
rights available to us in the present condition of
the country ? This must be thought of, and if
we can escape the risk by disposing of the ques
tion for ourselves, would it not be better?
The Washington letter from which we ex
tract, is dated the 1st instant;
Macon and Brunswick Railroad.
ANNUAL BKP0RT oF TOR PRE8IDSST.
Macon, Ga., February, 4,1869.
To the Stockholders of the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad Company.
Gentlemen : The tenth annual report of our af
fairs ia herewith respectfully submitted to your con
sideration.
TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT.
Earnings have been for twelve months ending
December 31st, 18S8:
From freights $59,373 27
Passage, 28,952 68
Mail, etc. 1,752 18—90.078 13
Expenses for same period;
Conducting transportation.... 21,118 05
Motive power 16,972 05
Repairs of road 31,855 70
Maintenance of cars 2,354 93
General expenses 8,066 56—80,367 29
Net earnings 9,710 84
This exhibit ia somewhat better than that made at
our last meeting,.when the earnings and expenses
were shown to be nearly equal. A falling off in re
ceipts of nearly ten per cent, ia more than compen
sated by the great reduction made in the operating
expenses which have been brought down this year to
ENDORSED BONDS. j GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
$600,000 of our let mortgage bonds have beer From the Atlanta Intelligencer.'-
endorsed by the State. .
Of these, there have been exchanged for
Company’s Confederate bonds and cou
pons, paid out for work, new engines,
cars, etc. <259,000
Hypothecated for loans > 183,000
On hand I. 8,000
/
$450,000
Paid out to Hull & Miller, on contract.V.. .$150,000
Total...... 9600,000
A strong effort has recently hsen made by parties
of hostile interests to injureos by vexatious litiga
tion, based on unfounded and frivolous grounds,
alleging that under the contract made for the com
pletion of the road, the <redit of the State has been
or will be injured, and preferring charges of fraud.
A sufficient answer to. euch complaint is found in the
comparison of the present value of our bonds with
those of the S tate, the quotations being respectively
90 and 92, whilst * discount of ten per cent, is the
ubtihI difference between a State bond and one en
dorsed. ... a
Itisbnt toe evident that the rapid ana sure pro
gress of our >oad to completion alone lends credit to
its socuritifle, snd tli&t the St&to’s credit, instead of
being jeovardized, ia enhanced by connection with
solvent rturoad enterprises.
eixtv-eight hundred dollars per'month, by the econ- A conunttee of the General Assembly, to whom
omy which has been exercised in every department. • was refxr ed this question, has, after a patient ana
w a* • Iiaam I maminufinn nr fhA matrpr rftnnrfpa unani-
No new work in the way of buildings etc., has been (lengthy examination of toe_ matter, report edunani-
nndertaken, nor any other expense incurred than jmonslyitt our favor,^anaitis^to behoved that cnar-
what was absolutelv necessary to keep the road in (ges as frivolous as those made, may have no other
- • ~ ■ ’ - -•—of I effect than to recoil on their instigators.
successful operation. Judging from the earnings of. — —-
tho three past months, a heary increase and im-j. In conclusion, gentlemen, yotu: .Directory beg
provement in tho business over the road in opera- i leave to renew to you their conviction that before
tion would undoubtedly occur during the coining I the lapse of the yeaE our work will be finished-
year, but as our condition will be vastly changedbe- j that your hearts will be gladdened at the result of
fore the expiration of that time, it is idle to dwell !ao many weary years of patient waiting and watch-
on these unnecessary speculations. treat, «. am.ll .r.8 nnnmfitahln mart.
It is gratifying again to state that no serious acci
dent has happened, and that the business of the
road has been conducted with the utmost regularity
and dispatch daring the year.
Table A, attached, will give in detail the earnings
for each month of freight, passage and other items.
Table B gives all items of expenditure such as op
erating expenses, disbursements for new work, en
gineering, construction, etc.
ing, ana that from a small and unprofitable road,
our enteiprize will rank as one of the leading lines
in that network of roads which is the pride and glo
ry ftf our State.
F.espectfully submitted,
GEO. H. HAZLEHUBST,
President.
The Georgia question, together with the
avowed pniposo of the Radicals to oust the Con
gressmen from that State, is discussed very free
ly in political circles. The Democratic mem
bers, generally, seem to think the Legislature
of your State should at once authorize their
Supremo Court to take up forthwith and decide
the case of Clements vs. White. Tho construc
tion which the Court would put on this vexed
question of the political status of the negro in
Georgia, it is thought, would go far towards har
monizing and settling the impending troubles,
provided the decision favors the eligibility of
tho negro to hold offico.
Tho destructives are fully determined on forc
ing Georgia, as well as all other Southern States,
to acknowledge the right of the negro to hold
office and assist in making laws. I see very
little prospect of any other solution of the trou
bles pending between Congress and the State of
Georgia, than thnt the latter should at once yield
to the wishes of the majority in power hero, and
accept the proposition of negro eligibility, in
order to secure representation in both branch
es of the national legislature. If this is not
conceded by your State, her members in the
House of Representatives will undoubtedly be
ousted before the fourth of March.
As the case now stands the Radicals need'a
few more State Legislatures, in order to secure
the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment to
the Constitution, and they are prepared to go
any length in order to secure this triumph.—
The question then presented for the considera
tion of tho people of Georgia is, whether it is
better to place themselves in harmonious action
with Congress on this question, or be thrust out
of the Union and forced into a condition mnch
worse than any which they have experienced
since the close of the war. If Georgians think
they see any prospects of bettering their con
dition after toe inauguration of toe new ad
ministration, let them give up the idea at once;
it is a halucination. There is very little time to
decide what course to pursue. What is to be
done must be done quickly; do not stop at half
way measures, bnt what is done let it be done
fully and freely, and with a determination to
stand or fall by toe act. There is not a Demo
cratic member of toe Senate or of toe House
but what advises that toe Legislature of your
State should take this matter in hand immedi
ately and perfect such arrangements as will savd
the State from toe clutches of military despot
ism, assisted by carpet-bag plundering and per
secutions.
REPAIRS OP ROAD.
No new work of any consequence has been done
on the road during the year. The track is k good
repair, good surface ana timber sound. Nine thou
sand threo hundred and thirty-four new ties have
been put in during toe twelve months, and 3,720
stringers; being about seven miles of new ties and
stringers: 1,333 lineal feet Of trestle bridging built
and 1,252 feet of bridging' repaired. The masonry
and abutments of the main bridges across the Oc-
mulgee Biver stand well. No extraordinary expen
ditures in connection with the present roadway will
be necessaiy during toe coining year.
MOTIVE POWER.
Table D gives toe number, class and performance
of each engine owned by toe company. AU the en
gines aro in active service, none being in the shops
undergoing repairs. Tho two now Binkiy Engines,
“Macon” and “Brunswick,’’ are supplying toe place
of the “Corsair” and “Georgia,” sent to toe lower
Division. The company now owns eight engines,
seven goodand one inferior. Tho “Gov. Crawford”
is used as a gravel engine.
The stock of Cara consists of—
Passenger. Mail and Baggage and second-class.. 3
BoxCare 16
Platform Care 34
Section Cara 13
Crank Car 1
67
This outfit is ample for the fifty miles in operation
and for laying toe track onthenewroad.
CONTRACT FOR COMPLETION OF ROAD.
We come now to the most interesting subject in
tliiB report, and your attention is earnestly solicited
to the history, terms and conditions of the contract
made for toe completion of the road, which involves
momentous consequences to us as stockholders, to
theStateandtotho country at large. The humiliating
condition that toe. affaire of this company present
ed at our last annnal convention is no donbt fresh
in your recollections; debts staring us in the face,
notes becoming due with no means of redemption,
overtures of amalgamation or lease to connecting
roads on toe most self-sacrificing terms made ana
refused, a call on you by your directory for relief by
a proposed assessment or 10 per cent, on your stock
met with a deaf car—all seemed to conspire to our
ruin. The resolutions then offered by you author
izing your directory to use any and all means for toe
completion of too road, sufficiently attest toe do-
spondency felt at that time. Oar State Government
was in the hands of a military Governor, CoL Hu
ger, and toe country seemed plunged into irretriev
able ruin, through which no ray of light could be
seen.
State Bonds found dull sale at 65 cents in the
dollar—bonds which, before the war. commanded a
premium in gold. The endorsement of too State
on our bonds, lent, therefore, but little additional
value, and soon after the last convention, they were
quoted at 52 cents in New York. The market value
of our stock at homo, was but 10 cents in the dol-.
lar. Under these discoimigements, it was but rea
sonable to suppose that in enlisting parties to come
to our assistance to save toe road from ruin, gene
rous terms had to bo offored. Such terms were
offered and accepted. Your Directory feel satisfied
that the contract made was eminently favorable, and
that it moreover was an extraordinarily good one for
a road in our condition. Under its working we have
not only secured the completion of our fine through
to Brunswick, but will ultimately save the property
to the Stockholders. It would bo tedious to yon, to
do moro than present here a general synopsis of
this contract. The parties known in toe agreement
are Messrs. Hall & Miller, representatives of strong
capitalists in New York City. These gentlemen
contract to furnish the entire graduation, ma
sonry, bridging, trestlework, buildings, water-
stations, to furnish the iron, chairs and spikes,
cross-tieB, lay toe main track and sidelinga, etc.,
and do everything else needed to pat toe road in suc-
ceasful operation; also, to meet the interest accru
ing on the bonds daring toe construction.
The length of the road contracted to be biftt is,
in round numbers, one hundred and fifty miles.
Decisions of the Supreme Court of
Georgia.
delivered nr Atlanta, February 2, 1869.
From the Constitution.]
Margaret Johnson vs. Macon and Western Rail
road Company, and Macon and Western Rail
road Company vs. Johnson—case from Bibb.
McCay, J.—1st. If a passenger on a railroad
he injured by a collision of toe trains, and toe
evidenc eshows that, though toe company or its
agents was guilty of negligence, yet the party
injured could, by the exercise of ordinary dili
gence, have avoided toe consequences to himself
of that negligence, he is not entitled to recover
any damages from toe company. *
2d. If, in such a case, it appears that both
the defendant and the plaintiff were guilty of
negligence, and it does not further appear, from
the evidence, that the deceased could at toe time
of toe injury, have avoided the consequence to
himself of toe negligence of toe railroad compa
ny, or its agents, he is entitled to recover; bnt
it is the duty of the jury to lessen the amount of
their verdict in proportion to the negligence and
want of ordinary care of the passenger.
3d. Where a suit is brought by a widow for
homicide of her husband, under the 2920 section
of Irwin’s Code, and there is no fault proven on
the part of the deceased, the rule to be adopted
for estimating the damages, is: The pecuniary
damages to the wife from toe homicide, to be
ascertained by inquiring what would be a rea
sonable snpport according to the circumstances
in life of the husband, as they existed at his
death, and as they may be reasonably expected
to exist in view of his character, habits, occupa
tion and prospects in life, and when toe annual
money value of that support has been found, to
give, as damages its present worth according to
the expectation of the life of the deceased, as
ascertained by toe mortuary tables of well es
tablished reputation.
4th. The opinion of one, who for many years
has been a railroad Superintendent, in a matter
within the scope of his employment, stands up
on the footing of the opinion of an expert; but
he cannot give his opinions of the object of a
railroad company, with which he had no con
nection, in putting up a particular notice on the
doors of its cars.
5th. Though opinions are not generally evi
dence, yet when the truth sought to be ascer
tained is matter of opinion, a witness, not an
expert, may give his opinion if he state toe
facts upon which it is based.
6th. A card published by toe passengers im
mediately after a railroad collision is not evi
dence as part of the res gcsUr.
7th. Railroad companies may make reasona
ble rules for toe conduct of their passengers,
and a rule that passengers must not stand upon
toe platform of toe cars, is such a reasonable
regulation.
8th. If such notice be proven to have been
posted in large metal letters upon the doors of
too passenger cars of a railroad company, a pas
senger will be presumed to know toe rules, and
if that knowledge be denied, toe burden of es
tablishing snch want of knowledge is npon the
** 9to. In^his case, this Court feels constrained
to reverse the judgment of the Court below,
overruling the motion for a new trial, made by
the plaintiff in error, on toe ground that toe
Court erred in its charge to toe jury, as to the
rule for estimating damages in such cases, and
on toe further ground that toe verdict of toe
jury was decidedly against toe weight of evi
dence, if not as to the absence of ordinary dili
gence on toe part of the deceased to escape the
consequence to himself from the plaintiff's neg
ligence, certainly as to toe amount of the dam
ages, in view of toe rule that where both parties
Thursday, February 4th.
Senate.—The vote on the Penfield olni m wag
reconsidered and the report laid on toe table.
The veto message of the Governor upon the
Chatham jury bill was sustained by ayes 19
nays 15. ’
The special order being consideration of reso
lution of Mr. Wei bom, to appoint commission
ers to .Washington was taken up.
Mr. Jordan offered toe following as a substi-
tnte:
1 JOINT RESOLUTION.
Resolved, by the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives of the State of Georgia, That in view
of the discrepancy of opinion existing, as to the
right of colored citizens oi this State to hold
office under toe constitution and lawB thereof, it
is the earnest, desire of this Legislature, that an
early and direct decision of the question may be
made by toe Supreme Court of the State.
Resolved further, That this Legislature dis
claims all desire or intention to deny citizens of
this State any political right or franchise to
which he may be entitled under toe Constitu
tion and laws of this State, or of the United
States, and that it will abide by. and acquiesce
in such judicial decision as toe said conrt may
pronounce.
Mr. Coleman offered as an amendment to Mr.
Wellbom’s resolution, that the resolution adopt
ed at last session, expelling members on account
of color, be rescinded, and toe expelled mem
bers reseated, and the members now occupying
their place unseated at once.
Mr. Wellborn, on leave, withdrew his original
resolution appointing a committee to go to
Washington.
The memorial of Jane L. Mitchell, adminis
tratrix on the estate of Samuel Mitchell, praying
the Legislature to retrocede to the heirs of said
Mitchell, the property now occupied by the city
for a park, was read and referred to a special
committee of five from the Senate and nine from
the Hotise, to report by bill, resolution or other
wise. - ■ . ;• • .
The President appointed Messrs. Fain, Nuns
nally, Speer, MoWhorter and Wellborn that com
mittee.
Od motion, transmitted to the House.
On motion, the rnles were suspended and toe
House resolution authorizing the Comptroller
General to collect the balance of the Convention
tax was taken up.
An amendment was offered by Mr. Holcombe,
giving the Comptroller full power to collect said
tax. Adopted, and toe resolution, as amended,
ordered to be transmitted to the House.
Mr. Hinton offered a resolution to appoint a
Joint Committee of two from the Senate and
. , .. are at fault toe damages are to be diminished in
e’" ml of "*■
Company, endorsed by too State; six thousand dol- j ^ty ® are °£ party injured,
lara of too second mortgage bonds; and ten thou- Judgment reversed. _ '
sand dollars in stock rendered preferred in so far I B. Hill, Lyon & Irwin, for Mrs. Johnson,
as being entitled to first earnings up to 8 per cent. | Whittle & Gustin, B. H. Hill, Cobb & Jack-
son, for the railroad company.
after interest on bonds and other expenses are met.
Total payment is tons twenty-six thousand dollars
per mile'in bonds and stock, this being about the av
erage cost m cash of Southern roads, and much be
low tho usual cost of roads farther North. This is
tho valuation of tho Georgia Central, a road running
through a similar country to our own and bnilt in
the days of cheap labor and gold prices. Can wo,
under these circumstances, but feel gratified at the
result ? And, whilst on tbiB subject, let ns say a few
words on the value of the stock, which has been
thought by many to he compromised under this ar
rangement.
Our road when finished, including the branch of
ten miles to Hawkmsville, will bo one hundred and
D. Harris, plaintiff in error, vs. J. B. Breed
& Co., defendants in error—Motion to vacate a
judgment from Muscogee.
McCay—Where tho Court below has ordered a
garnishee, to perfect an answer to which excep
tions has been filed, and toe garnishee neglected
to answer until toe garnishment was called
on toe motion docket at toe next term after
the order had been passed, and even then,
though present in Court, insisted on leave to
answer at an adjourned term, which the Court
Mules.—The Columbus Sun of Friday says
ten mules were sold at Harrison’s auction sales
yesterday: The average price was $125. Some
brought $190. The animals were well broke,
but common ones.
We learned toe other day of a private sale of
thirty eight mules in Macon to one man at an
average of $311 apiece. They were remarkably
fine large stock.
Peterson’s Mao azix* for March is on hand
bright and early.
That Ball.—There has been a merger of a
committee of private citizens into toe general
Republican Committee on the inauguration
ball. Messrs. Mullett, Supervising Architect,
Mayor Bowen, and several other nffioinbi are
added to the original committee, and now all
parties aro satisfied, and the ball goes on. The
preparations indicate one of toe grandest of all
inauguration balls in our history.
ninety-five miles in length. This road is first class had determined to hold, and toe Court permitted
in every particular—with lower grades and better toe plaintiff to enter a judgment against the
line than any other road of similar extent in the garnishee, held that this Conrt will not control
United States—with a heavy rail—with new bridg-1 toe discretion of the Jndge below, in refusing,
ing, new trestlo work, now ties and new appoint- \ a t the adjourned term, to set aside the judg-
“itacapita^wffi represent $3,000,000 stock and S3,- i t0 ^
ZTSSsri*.**, «* mm *
sons named, take toe case of the Central road, just error.
cited, the most powerful corporation in toe South,
—a road whose credit is unbounded, whose stock
stands to-day at 135-but which,like our own, once sold
at 25 and their bonds at 35 to 40. An almost unin-
L. T. Downing, by Geo.
fondants in error.
S. Thomas, for d^-
i . - .. , . ■v £ ,.John Doe, executor, Edmund B. Tait. et. al.,
ouiu vApoiui miniuno ui Oiupiuo wuu- t TS/mfmanf Tfavrno
ings in grand improvements without a corresponding -“jeuimeni irom Harris.
irw rnouo in MTlitnl fifnfflr AW liaKililino HHiniM < McCaV. *L An adver
increase in capital stock or liabilities,
tal to-day, for 191 mileB of road is
Their capi-! McCay, J.—An adverse possession of real es-
represented by , tate under written evidenoe of title from toe 5th
$4,500,000 of stock and_$800,000 bonds—total, $5,- j of November, 1856, until the 24to of September,
300,000—an average of $27,000 per mile. Some as- 11867, gives a good title against all persons not
sets held in too Southwestern and other roads would. 1 under disability to sue.
I , 2 ‘ l8t of Jaunty. f l 8GS . ‘ he a “ e to give these “sons of bitches’-as Fitzpatrick
and we have bnt 7 per cent, to pay on our funded ‘ ”}to operation, toere has nails them—hell; a letter was written in the
debt for a long period of time, the capital of toe two no * b oen any statute of lnrutahon in this State as -
roads may be considered as almost equal. By the * suits for real property. An actual adverse pos-
connection with Savannah through tba Atlantic and j session under written evidence of title for seven
Gulf Road, we have a road from Macon to Savan-1 years gives a good proscriptive right, as against
nah fully equal to the Central—besides ths advan- all persons not under disability to sue.
tapes of our original Imetotoodeep water and com- i 3 . The ordinances of the Convention of
1865,
“toe road romplefXmay w™'under these wS^L^H^of Ja^® toC^Xd
ircumstances, bo assured of the value of our prop- imitation since tbiB 19ni of January, 18CI, and
circumstances, Do assured or the value of our prop- i'* mvv *»
erty? Already under the influence of the rapid pro- o^cting that they should continue suspended
press of the work, has toe stock advanced mmx 10 an til civil government should be fully restored,
cents to 28—and the bonds from 50 cents to 90. inasmuch as it creates no disability to sue, does
THE NEW WORK '< not operate so as to prevent toe ripening of a
- u . , ’prescriptive title under toe Code, so far as that
Operations under this contract commenced by title is dependent on -a possession since 1st of
laying track from Brunswick in August last year. j aTlr ,orv isp.i
!„ \ ■**««-
of the Atlantic and Golf Boad at No. 6, aboutfour j der Code may tack to his possession since
miles at that point being done, and seven miles 1 ,st January, 1863, a possession good before
have been laid from Cochran at this end, south, - that time, as part of a defence nnder toe statute
making thirty-one miles of new track hud. Seventy-! of limitations, if his possession has-been con-
six miles of iron rails have been delivered at toe ! tinuous.
porta of Brunswick and Savannah, and_two vessels j 5. When a new lessor of the plaintiff ia intro-
are now due with additional cargoes. Chairs, spikes *
and material of all kinds have been abundantly sup
plied. The number of hands engaged at this time
on the work amounts to fifteen hundred. It is our
expectation to finish the entire line through to
Brunswick by toe 1st of November next, and unless
something now unforeseen should occur, we may
reasonably look for its accomplishment Old and
reliable contractors are engaged on the work—
Messrs. Brown, Lane, Grant a Alexander, Bears A
Holman, Blue, Denmead, Robertson, Kenriek A
Dooly being of toe number and favorably known to
FINANCIAL CONDITION.
The balance sheet of the Treasurer herewith ap
pended shows the monied condition of the Company
to be sound, with no floating debt, miIm. secured
by good collaterals with ample margin. Interest on
the bonds issued under the contract, as >im been
shown before, is payable by the contracting parties;
hence we may confidently look to being able to pro
vide for all obligations to the completion of tho
road without difficulty.
In ah Indian jail the female convicts out
number the maleS three to one.
ment, toe case, as to that demise, is to be tried
as if the action had not been commenced until
date of the amendment.
Judgment reversed.
Williams A Thornton, M. H. Blanford per
Jndge Clark for plaintiff in error.
Peabody & Brandon for defendant in error.
Supreme Court.
Wednesday, February 3, 1869.
Argument in the case of toe Southern Express
Company, plaintiff in error, vs. John L. Shea,
was resumed and concluded. Messrs. O. A. Ba-
oon, C. Anderson, and O. A. Lochrane, for
plaintiff, and Jndge Nisbet and Mr. Dougherty,
for the defendant
James F. Wills, Esq., of Talbotton, and Dr.
Samuel Bard, of the New Era, were admitted to
toe Supreme Court Bor.
Pending argument of Jndge Lochrane in the
case of James O. McBurney, plaintiff in error,
vs. Patrick McIntyre, the court adjourned till
9 o'clock, to-morrow.—IMsUigenemr.
three from toe House, to examine the penallaws,
and report such amendments as they deem nec
essary, by bill or otherwise, which was adopted,
and Messrs. Hinton and Candler appointed as
toe Committee.
Mr. Fain, from toe Committee on Petitions,
reported on the bill to create a newcoonty from
Troup and Harris, recommending its reference
to Committee on New Counties and County-
Lines.
The House bill to amend act incorporating
Gas Light Companies in Augusta and Savannah,
read first time.
Rules suspended, and the bill to incorporate
toe Georgia Male and Female Life Insurance
Company read. Report of Judiciaiy Committee
recommeudingits passage agreed to. Bill passed
and transmitted to the House.
House.—Mr. Williams, of Morgan, moved to
suspend the rules to take up the message of toe
Governor. Rules suspended and message read,
submitting a communication from toe National
Cemetery Committee, asking an appropriation
to build a monument in every cemetery in the
United States to toe Federal soldiers, similar
communications having been sent to all the
Governors and General Assemblies in the United
States.
Mr. Price's resolution to send Messrs. Brown,
Parrot and Stephens to Washington. Vote taken
on motion to refer to Judiciary Committee.
Motion lost.
Substitute read referring it to toe Supreme
Court for settlement.
Mr. Flournoy said he was opposed to toe sub
stitute.
Mr. Bsrnum called toe previous qnestioa and
was sustained.
The vote was taken on the substitute refer
ring it to the Supreme Conrt.
Mr. O’Neal rose to a point of order but was
overruled by the Chair.
Mr. O’Neal appealed, but the House sustained
the Chair.
Mr. Bryant asked if the question under the
resolution was to refer to the Judiciary Commit
tee to report what legislation was necessary.
The Chair. It was. Mr. Scott, of Floyd,
said that two questions were before the House
in the same resolution, and made a point of
order.
The Chair ruled that the question was divis
ible.
The yeas and nays being required on tho
adoption of toe substitute, toe following is toe
result of toe vote:
Yeas—Anderson, Barclay, Bamum, Bell, Ben
nett, Bethune, Bradford. Brewster, Brinson,
Brown, Bryant, Burton, Caldwell, Carpenter, of
Hancock, Carson, Clarke, Clower, Crawford,
Donaldson, Drake, Duncan, Ellis, of Spalding,
Erwin,Felder, Fincannon, Ford, Fowler, George,
Goff, Gray, Hall, of Glynn. Hall, of Meriwether,
Harden, Harper, of Terrill, Harper, of Sumter,
Higbee, Holden, Hooks, Hudson, Johnson, of
Wilcox, Kellogg, Kytle, Lane, Lastinger, Lee,
McArthur, Maxwell, Morgan, Nesbit, Osgood,
Parke, Perkins, of Cherokee, Phillips, Price,
Reddish, Hamper, Scroggins, Seale, Shackle
ford, Shumate, Smith, of Macon, Smith, of Cof
fee, Smith, of Ware, Smith, of Telfair, Sorrell,
Sparks, Stapleton, Strickland, Surrency, Tarn-
ipseed, Waurins, Welchel, Wilcox, Williams, of
Morgan, Zellars and Zelner—SI.
Nays—Ayer, Ballanger, Barrett, Belcher,
Bnchan, Burtz, Carpenter of Pierce, Chambers,
Cleghom, Darnel1, Davis, Ellis of Gilmer, Ev
ans. Farmer, Fitzpatrick, Flournoy, Franks,
Greiger, Grimes, Gullatt, Hamilton, Harkness,
Hill, Hillyer, Hook, Hundley, Johnson of Towns,
Kimbrough, Kelley, Long, McComb, Madden,
Manll, Meadows, Nash, Nunn, O’Neal, Page.
Paulk, Pearson, PenlanJ, Pepper, Bawles, Read,
Rouse, Saulter, Saussey, Scott of Floyd, Sisson,
Taliaferro, Tate, Tomlin, Tweedy. Ware, Wilch-
er and Wilson—60.
A vote was then.taken on the resolution as
amended, and resulted yeas 85, nays 56, and
toe resolution as amended was adopted.
Mr. Lee—A resolution referring the question
immediately to toe Sapreme Court. The House
refused to suspend toe rnles.
The General Jury bill was taken seriatim ;
and the bill, as amend, passed and was trans
mitted to the Senate.
Mr. Franks, of Bibb, presented the following:
Whereas, Charges of corruption have been
made against members of this body;
Resolved, That a special committee of five
be appointed, with power to send for persons
and papers to investigate snch charges.
This resolution refers to charges made by
Fitzpatrick against Mr. Franks and Mr. Bryant,
in a letter to J. Clarke Swayze, asking Swayze
fn nrivn tVincm c rtf liitohno” as
above style, and
Mr. Shumate moved to lay the whole matter
on'toe table as unbecoming the House.
Pending the discussion, House adjourned till
to-morrow 10 o’clock.
Macon Telegraph.
We invite attention to tho advertisement of
this unrivalled paper. We regard toe Tele
graph as among toe best papers in the United
States. Its editor, Joseph Clisby, Esq., posses
ses a far-seeing, discriminating, and evenly bal
anced mind, rarely found in toe newspaper
world. His editorials are models of oommon
sense and sound discretion, and commend them
selves to all who really understand toe true in
terests of the country.
The Weekly Telegraph is a magnificent sheet,
and enriched with toe sound editorials of Clis
by, toe lucubration of his numerous correspon
dents, and the general news of the day, is worth
fully five times toe price—which is only $3 00 a
year.— West Ga. Gazette.
We have already had occasion more than once
to notice toe good sense and sound principles
that habitually characterize the Macon Tele
graph. While the temper and general course of
toe Telegraph, like that of the Advertiser, are
in the highest degree conservative, it abates no
jot or time in its persistent and steadfast de
mand respecting those principles it believes to
be necessary in oar Governmental organisation,
and those ideas it knows must be oo-eristent
with a true American civilisation
{Mont. Advertiser.
Affairs ek Arkansas.—The Appeal says the
last Wednesday a party of militia numbering
twenty, a portion of whom were colored, wot
to the house of Aleck Baugh, at Carson’s Lahe,
Crittenden county, Arkansas, who was a cripple,
and confined to his bed. They carried him ont
and shot him, on toe charge of harboring Ku-
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