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The Greoi-gia, W eekly Telegraph.
SfTE TELEGRAPH.! western anil Cental ft*
the Sonth
Central Xtailroad Com'
pan les.
! The case of Stephen Collins and others against
j the Southwestern and Central Railroad Compa
nies, arising out of the stock sale of the city of
"^[CON, FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1869.
— Xbe Last Veto Message. JMjjPBW
president on the 22d, in a document half j Savannah, in which an injunction was granted
vetoed the bill “regulating [that is, i by Judge Cole several weeks ago, was called
the daties on copper and copper ores,’ j yesterday morning by Judge Cole. Wm. Dough
*^^ J for the benefit of the Lake -Superior! el h> Gen. Lawton, and Lyon, deGraffenreid
*** w ]j 0 M y they cannot live except by and Irwin were present as counsel for the
Railroads; Messrs. Nisbet & Jackson, "Whittle
& Gustin, W. H. Hull, of Augusta, and General
linCrSj - - - 4 ■ n.'
^jng their hands into the pockets of other
" 3 xhe veto, however, was promptly over-
jVj jjy a party vote, and thus an additional tax
. . c ,l on the people for the purpose of dimin-
^■Tthe w venue and “encouraging” the Lake
' nor miners- The vetoes of President John-
? will read well for him in history. There is
onQ 0 f them which leaves its adversaries
tL standing ground, and posterity will stand
^fazed at a Congress over whom reason exer-
d no influence, and by whom common sense
d statemanship were systematically ignored.
Pat we are coming to the end of this thing
oiDed “protection.” The selfishness and per-
■stent folly of the North "demand that it shall
^ M ronclusively exposed that no man can ever
jjain raise his voice for it. So far from en-
coaraging American manufactures, it has driven
ont of every ioreign market, and will wind
tpby crippling the home market so completely
•jut the clamor for protection will hereafter raise
guffaw.
(; r c;,t Central Inland Ronte North,
We call attention of the traveling public to
jie idvertisement of Mr. C. P. Hyde, General
»«nt of the above ronte. The completion of
Jj? Augusta and Colombia road shortens the
(ilit4nC o to Richmond, Washington, and New
fork, by this route seventy-five miles and four
ad a half hours. When the Macon and Augus-
roail shall be completed it will make another
4Tiog of abont fifty miles, and when the Mobile
isdGeorgia Road reaches Pollard the whole line
vill form as straight a shnto to Washington from
Joliile ns conld be desired. We are glad to see
gas straightening of our great lines of travel,
jud hope in no great while the time to New York
from Macon will not exceed forty-eight hours.
A Great Abtesian Bore.—An Artesian well
itucbeil to the Insane Asylum, near St. Lords,
bi$ Attained the extraordinary depth of 3,GOO
«t. without finding water. This is undonbted-
lv the deepest well in the world. There is
one at Grenelle, France, J,800 feet
iep, which throws up 500,000 gallons of water
tniy twenty-four hours. There is oue at Leip-
jf 3,200 feet deep, which up to this time has
tMB considered the deepest in the world. The
0i Attached to Dupont’s paper mill, Louisville,
bid AtUinod 3,100 feet the last we heard of it.
iaesian wells (so-called from Ariesinm, a
French Province,) are iron pipes sunk into the
firth perpendicularly to great depths, through
Thieh water is pressed to the surface. Bat the
stream must have a source higher than the
nioath of the well.
Yea, Verily.—The recent marriage of Peter
Super, a white Radical member of the Louisi
ana Legislature, was a grand affair. The bride
*as Eliza Jane Brooks, a negro woman, bom on
a Baton Rouge plantation, and lately deserted
by a hnsband of her own color. The ceremony
was performed by the Rev. Mr. Turner, a col
ored preacher, who has been acting os chaplain
of the Senate. The Hon. Isabelle, a dan ly-look-
ingcolored man, was one of the groomsmen,
and one of the quadroon daughters of the land
lady of the Rev. Carpet-bag Conway was brides
maid, Hon. P. B. S. Pinchbeck gave the bride
my. "
A cFBiocs lawsuit is on the tapis in England.
A Liverpool merchant, suddenly called to New
Tork on urgent bnsiness, took a cab to the
steamer, and in his haste forgot to pay the
driver. On his return, three months afterward,
be found the cabman and cab jnst where he had
left them, sheltered by a little wooden shed,
ud was met by a bill for coach fare for 1,080
boors by day and 1,080 hours by night. The
cue is still on.
A Great Bridge.—A bridge is to be built
across the Mississippi river at St. Louis. A
company has been formed for this purpose,
with a capital of #3,000,000. It will have three
divisions: one for railroad trains, one for ve
hicles, and a third for foot All the prelimina
ry Arrangements were completed on the 20th,
nothing remaining bnt to go forward with the
work.
Host. Nelson Tift and the Reconstruction
CotonTTEE.—Our first page contains a letter ad
dressed by Hon. Nelson Tift Representative
fan the Second Congressional District of Geor-
to the Reconstruction Committee. This
mer, in few words, embodies the whole argu
ment and is on overwhelming answer to the
ajority report of that committee.
Tub French Atlantic Cable.—The great
Eastern has received nine hundred miles of the
French Atlantic cable on board. The wire is
being manufactured at the rate of thirty miles <
per day. If nothing happens it will be laid in
Jtme or July.
Reception of President Johnson.—The citi-
cwsof Nashville and Greenville, Tennessee,
ttdof Lynchburg, Virginia, propose to give
Resident Johnson an appropriate reception on
bis return home after the 4 th of March.
Tb* fall of snow this winter, in Canada, shows
>a increase of 38.77 inches over the mean twen-
y fru*. The entire amount, if it had Iain as
11 fell, would have been about ten feet. At
PWsentthe snow is four feet deep in the fields.
A Washington letter says of Senator Sher-
®* a -" “The misfortune in his case is, that
human hearts waro being passed around,
Pot his hand into the basket and drew a
Brill i
iceberg.’’
Fa Fire in Gallatin, Tenn., last Wednes-
. h Ifc snlted in the destruction of eleven build
^ other property to the amount of a hun-
^ thousand dnllgra
Fbcsderbolt Races.—At the Thunderbolt
**s on Thursday, the best time made was 3:30
dashes and fifty-seven seconds in a half
that
the Times.—The Augusta papers are
of the first velocipede in
%
Blodgett calls a convention of the
Bfca Republican party of Georgia.” at At-
loathe 10thof March.
Jawing is a brief editorial in the New
“0 Herald of the 22d:
bccthqn Hvdbophobu.—Cotton madness.
that the Senate will cut down the
a,.-. 8 k flre of the Northern Excess Banking
* hl to $20,000,000.
bj » Anna Schmidt, which was destroyed
hi 6 ^ a ^ )ama off the coast of South America,
imr( * a quantity of Ayer's Cherry Pec-
* f j - td^ Ca ^ omia * Ayer A Co. now appeal
tbj ress ^Eoot to the British Government, aa
lij in ti»is wicked business,
• ** * 6 ' r c ^ a * m for payment and protection
Pound or humanity, as their commodi
ty # J|}% for wot Their point is well
pljcv . wUJ doubtless bo pressed with the
button f r8istono y ’•biob characterise the
(ft °' ibose celebrated chemists.—Balti-
Robert Toombs were present for the complain
ants. Hon. O. A. Lochrane appeared for the
State of Georgia, having been duly commission
ed by Governor Bullock to look after the inter
ests of the Commonwealth in this great suit.
The interest attached to the case may be in
ferred from the great array of legal talent dis
played by both sides, as detailed above.
At the opening of the case, Judge Lochrane.
on behalf of the State, moved to make the State
a party which, after considerable discussion, in
which the Counsel generally participated, was
granted by the Court. Judge L. put the right
of the State to be beard, not so much on the
fact that she was large a stock-holder in the At
lantic and Gulf railroad, as upon the general
policy of the State to see that all the railroad
enterprises of the State should be protected
and that existing corporations should not by
their weight of wealth and influence go outside
their charter to divert trade from its legitimate
channels by purchasing stock to control young
and straggling companies.
After an amendment to the bill, the case was
continued to some future time to be agreed
upon, and the court adjourned.
The motion to dissolve the injunction granted
by Judge Cole against the. Macon and Bruns
wick railroad, will be heard this morning.
East India Cotton Crop.
The official retumsof the cotton culture in the
Bombay Presidency, show a small increase last
season from the preceding in the amount of
land nnder cultivation, but a slight decrease in
the crops taken from it. The land under culti
vation during the year 18G7 for raising cotton
was 1,879,4G5 acres 33 J gnntas (one-fortieth of
an acre). Last year the breadth of land used
for this crop was 1,900,029 acres 3GJ guntas. A
little upwards of three-quarters of a million
acres were devoted each year to exotic cotton.
The total crop a year ago was 126,341 candies
75G pounds, or in pounds. 93,032,103. The past
season the crop was only 109,1G7 candies G5G
pounds, or 85,557,G87 pounds. The decrease is
largest in exotic cotton, amounting to 66,749
candies in 18G7, and only 58,337 candies in 1868.
The crop of native cotton has likewise dimin
ished from 59,592 candies in 1867 to 55,830 can
dies in 1868. The report of the Commissioner
adds that there is a prospect of a good crop the
coming year.
If the reader will tako his pencil and figure
little, he will see that, according to these data
the average yield of cotton in the Bombay Presi
dency was, in 1867, forty-nine and half pounds
to the acre, and in 1868 forty-three and two-
thirds ponnds; that is to say, a crop not worth
on the average ten dollars to the acre in Liver
pool ; and what it was worth in. India, we have
not the data at hand to determine.
It really does not appear that a product like
that offers any promising competition with the
American crop, conceding all the advantages of
cheap labor claimed for the India cotton. In
the Southern States we should set down the
smallest product at about 125 pounds, and we
believe the average in ordinary seasons now will
not be less than a hundred and fifty pounds.
"With equal land and labor to that which is ap
plied to the Bombay cotton we should no doubt
produce five hundred pounds of lint to the acre.
The truth is too apparent for dispute that cot
ton production in India is a fight against nature.
The seasons are not adapted to it, and the pro
duct is as scant in quantity as it is poor in qual
ity. The culture has been forced by British
manufacturing influences, not only against plain
natural conditions of success, but against the
material interests of the Indian provinces; and
the terrible famine which has latterly swept
over those countries, in which many thousands
have perished from destitution, are no doubt in
great part due to the forced abandonment of the
great natural product of the soil—rice—in favor
of this abortive attempt to supplant American
cotton.
Will the Legislature ever Adjourn
Messrs. Editor* :—The people of Georgia are
weary and tired out with the present prolonged
session of the Legislature. It is costing them,
at the lowest calculation, $5,000 per day. Count
ing the clerks attached to each Honse, there are
300 men drawing $9 per day, or, in this one
item, $2,700. The stationery, printing, fuel,
lights, and who knows how many other items,
ran the bill which we have to pay each day to
$5,000 at the lowest calculation. The session
has lasted nearly sixty days, for which the State
will have to pay at least $300,000.
And still it drags its weary length along. To
day we read that a bill has passed changing the
line of some counties. To-morrow a motion to
reconsider is carried almost unanimously, when a
lengthy debato ensues lasting to the hour of ad
journment. After these exhausting labors last
ing until the late hour of 3 p. m. all hands
draw their $9 and rest their weary frames.
It seems to me they have legislated upon every
subject which can bo thought of, and nothing of
the slightest importance to the State or any
section remains needing their attention.
The truth is, many members drawing this $9
per day never made half that much, or one
quarter, or one-third that amount before. And
hence they are loth to voluntarily surrender
such a good thing.
I appeal to all good men in that body tvho re
spect their constituents to use their utmost in-
flnence to stop this costly machine. The peo
ple of the State are too poor to pay the enor
mous burthens it is throwing upon them. They
must readily understand the motives of their
colleagues in refusing to sanction motions for
final adjournment, as the people at large per
fectly well do. There was little, or next to no
reason, for this session at all. No one appre
hended that it would last longer than two or
three weeks.
Finally I would request the people all over
the State to hold public meetings and demand
an adjournment. A few hours spent in this
way will save them thousands of dollars now
being paid out for no good whatever.
Reconstruction and the readjustment of State
machinery, have already cost the people of
Georgia about $1,200,000. The whole thing
was not worth in reality $10 to them. We have
now about the poorest set of laws since the or
ganization of the Slate one hundred years ago.
The country is never in any danger save when
Congress or the Legislature is in session.
I therefore, upon the unanimous consent of
every tax payer in Georgia, except these nine
dollar fellows mentioned, move that this Legis
lature do now adjourn for two years, or until
the first Mosdayin January, 1871. Grafton.
The Senate anil the Tennre-of-OllIce.
The New York Times of the 22d has the fol
lowing r
It is evident the Senate does not intend to re
peal the tennre-of-offlee act, or to permit Gen.
Grant to make removals from office without
their consent. Under all professions of confi
dence in Gen. Grant, and desire to aid and sup
port his administration in all possible ways,
Senators clearly mean to keep these fetters on
his hands. They know perfectly well that cor
ruption and imbecility in office is the greatest
of the many evils from which the country suf
fers, and that a thorough, vigorous reform in
this respect would do more than anything else
towards reducing the heavy taxation which
weighs upon the people, and paying the public
debt. But for all that, they do not intend that
General Grant shall have the power to accom
plish that reform.' He shall not remove a single
General Assembly of Georgia.
REPORTED SPECIALLY FOR THE MACON
DAILY TELEGRAPH.
Atlanta, Wednesday night, February 24.
In tbe Senate to-day, the School bill was
passed, with some slight amendments ; bnt sev
eral sections of the bul will be Reconsidered to
morrow.
Several other bills were read, bnt nothing of
interest transpired.
HOUSE.
The Honse met.
On motion, a seat on the floor was tendered
to Gen. Robert Toombs.
The Governor’s veto message of the bill regu
lating the qualifications of voters in the city of
Columbus, being the unfinished business from
yesterday, was the first business in order to-day,
and
Mr. Lane took the floor. He spoke briefly in
opposition to the bill, and hoped the Honse
would not pass it over the veto of the Governor.
Mr. Phillips said, I do not rise for the pur
pose of defending the political course of Gov
ernor Bullock, nor to apologize for his veto mes
sage, bnt to discuss the constitutionality of this
bilL If it is constitutional we should pass it, if
not we should not pass it. The Lw makes a
clear distinction between public and private cor
porations, the governments of public corpora
tions are called municipal governments and
Blackstone says municipal law is properly de
fined to bo a rale of civil conduct prescribed by
tbe supremo power in a State, and municipal as
used by the Romans originally designated that
which pertained to a municipium, a free city or
town and it still retains this limited sense. The
power given to municipal governments must be
derived from the Legislature, and can be taken
from them at any time. The Code defines very
closely the difference between public and pri
vate corporations are the powers given to each,
sections 1670, 1671, 1672, and 1673 reads as
follows:
Corporations are either public or private. A
public corporation is one having for its object
the administration of a portion of the powers
of government delegated to it for that purpose;
such are municipal corporations; all others ore
private whether the object of incorporation be
for public convenience or individual profit, and
section 1680 declares that public corporations
being established for public purposes are always
subject to dissolution by the act of tbe General
Assembly, while private corporations heretofore
created without the reservations of the right of
dissolution and where individual rigbts have be
come vested are not subject to dissolution at the
will of the State, consequently public corpora
tions can be deprived of their charters by the
Legislature at any time, bnt such is not the case
with private corporations that have vested rights;
the, city of Columbus has no rights, only such
as may be taken from her by the Assemby—that
question is clearly sustained by the laws now in
force.
In regard to the constitutionality of that clause
of the bill which requires a residence of six
months in the city before electors will be allow
ed to vote, I will say that there can be no doubt
of its nnconstitutionality, in my humble opin
ion. Tbe Constitution requires a residence of
six months in the State and three months in the
county before electors can receive the privileges
of the elective franchise, and they cannot be de
barred from that right by requiring a residence
of six months in tbe city if they reside within
the incorporate limits or the county thre e months.
Another objection presents itself to my mind in
requiring a registration tax of one dollar, in lieu
of the poll tax, of the citizens of that city. I
do not think it would be treating the citizens of
the other portions of the State with justice to
confer upon the authorities that power. It
would prohibit the collection of the State poll
tax as contemplated by the Constitution, and de
feat the organization of the general school sys
tem. Let the poll tax required by the Constitu
tion be collected from every section, that all may
be benefited by it For these resons I cannot
support the bill, and must under a conscientious
conviction of duty, vote against its passage.
Mr. O’Neil spoke against the passage of the
bilL
Mr. Bryant opposed the bill and cited the case
of the town of Lumpkin, Stewart county, npon
which a similar veto was received from toe Gov
ernor last session. "We regretted that toe pres
ent bill had not been so formed as to render it
unnecessary to object to it, as he would like
very much to see an election brought on in toe
city of Columbus, but they could not or they
onght not to pass a bill which was clearly un
constitutional.
Mr. Crawford held that it was constitutional
and right, and that- corporations should have
special rights vested in them, which should be
long to them and which they alone should con
trol.
Mr. Duncan spoke in favor of toe bill.
Mr. Saussey thought it very strange that a bill
of thin kind should have been investigated by
two committees and been acted upon by toe
House, and that it remained after all for the
Governor to find ont that it was unconstitutional
The poll tax seemed to be the barrier which
gentlemen conld not surmount, though it ap-
)eared to him to be toe least obstacle of alL
Ie read from toe Constitution, which authorized
toe levying of a poll tax, and proceeded: It was
said you could not vote unless you had paid
yonr poll tax; and how often did it happen, at
elections, that men went by unchallenged ? He
thought the oiganic law must override any
specific law, and consequently he was of toe
opinion that toe constitutional provision, which
said that a State tax should be levied in lien of
a poll tax, was toe highest authority on toe sub
ject.
Mr. Grimes said—Mr. Speaker, as debate is
abont exhausted, according to parliamentary
usage, I rise to close it, and, at toe same time,
to advocate my motion made on yesterday—to
carry the bill over the veto of toe Governor—
and I will endeavor to make my remarks as
brief as possible and reviow toe whole nature of
the subject matter now before toe House, in
order that toe members may be enabled to vote
on it intelligibly.
According to onr old charter, toe election for
municipal officers in toe city of Columbus takes
place on the second Saturday in December of
every year. Last year that time passed without
an election having been held, and when the
General Assembly met last month, I introduced
this bill for toe purpose of bringing on a special
election in toe city, and changing toe qualifica
tions of voters in that city. That bill was read
and referred to a Judiciary Committee of both
branches of toe Legislature, which committee
reported favorably to its passage. It passed in
both Houses and was sent to toe Governor for
approval. It appears from toe message sent to
this House yesterday, that he has seen fit to
veto toe bilL I can only say, that in introducing
that bill, I was bnt reflecting toe views and toe
sentiments of toe citizens of Columbus, who I
know feel that there is a great necessity existing
for such an election.
The present Mayor and Board of Aldermen
have been appointed by toe military, and they
still occupy the offices which should bo occupied
by men who were duly elected by toe votes as
well as by the will of the people; and, hence,
toe necessity for toe present bill. The present
officials, by some technical objection in toe
present laws of toe city, discovered so late, just
preceding toe time for holding our last election,
prevented the people from holding the election
and exercising toe rights of citizens as guaran
teed in the charter.
I will now devote my attention to the veto
message of toe Governor. In the first portion
of that message he says that toe first section
modifies toe section of toe act requiring a res
idence of twelve months in tho State. [Mr.
Grimes here read from the message.] This
;e, coming from tbe Governor, speaks
for itself. He says toe bill is silent with re
gard to residence in toe county, which fact I
do not deny; but I challenge toe Governor or
any of his friends here to show me any uncon-
stitntionalily in that portion of my bill.
They have debated it this morning, bnt no-
one of them has convinced me of the Constitut
tional objection urged by toe Governor. Some
of toeir arguments nave been very ingeniously
wrought, bnt I must say that I don't think them
at all convincing. So much for that portion of
the message. And now permit me to say that,
instead cf looking to the nature and provisions
of my bill, as it stood, he had to go behind that,
and review the whole nature of the charter, and
he did this, I regret to say, at the instigation of
some persons from my own portion of toe coun
ty. The message states that, according to the
old charter, it required a residence of six
months in the city. This is Constitutional, and
yon so declared, when you at your last session
passed what is known as toe Augusta Munici
pal Bill, over the veto of toe Governor.
If the Governor would only manifest the same
zeal in looking into toe charters of other cities
he has in this case, and correct everything
that he might find in them which was unconsti
tutional, and if he would take the same interest
guarding the State Treasury, he would , not
defaulter to the amount of $31,000. I
of a dollar for a ticket of registration which, ac
cording to my bill, was to be collected in lieu of
the ^rioll-tax. This dollar for registration is
nothing more nor less than a mode of collecting
toe poll-tax in one portion of my county, and if
this mode of collecting the poll-tax was adopted,
it would save to toe State much money which
does not now get.
Besides the advantage derived in this way,
there is no lass at all to the State, since, instead
of taking money out of the Treasury, it puts it
in. I contend that our old charter is a vested
right received from a former Legislature and
that toe present one cannot take it away. The
sole object of toe bill is to bring on an election,
and if there is anything wrong in the charter, it
is not toe Legislature but toe courts that can
correct it I trust that when members vote on
this bill they .will not vote upon it as a party
measure, bnt simply do justice, and let toe bin
pass on its merits.
Now, one other point, and I have done. Gov
ernor Bullock refers to an illegal registration
last fall, and complains of tho short term of five
days only to be allowed to complete toe registra
tion list In answer to that I will say, the citi
zens of Columbus, thinking there would be an
election at the time prescribed in onr charter
(second Saturday in December), went forward
and registered to toe number of eleven hundred
or more, and toe object contained in this bill
was to let that registsation stand and open toe
list for five days, thinking that five days would
afford sufficient time to thoso who did not regis
ter in too fall. So'toere is nothing, to my mind,
unconstitutional in the provisions of toe bill. I
move toe previous question on my motion to
override toe veto.
Mr. Kellogg offered a resolution to toe effect
that the Committee on printing be requested to
report as speedily as possible as to toe cause of
toe delay in toe printing of the State Journal of
last session. Adopted.
Mr. Holder from the Committee appointed
to investigate qualifications of clerks 1b added
to toe standing Committee of Enrollment.
The rales were not suspended. I
Mr. O’Neal offered toe following resolution.
Resolved, That W. L. Hulbardof toe city
of Atlanta, be and he is hereby authorized to
demand, receive in his own name for the use of
the State, all the old State House Furniture
brought to the city from Milledgeville, and after
ten days advertisement in Atlanta, shall sell toe
same to the highest bidder at toe door of the
CityHall,.and after deducting 5 per cent com
missions for his services, and whatever drayage
he may pay, shall immediately pay over the
balance to toe State Treasurer, as a portion of
the common school fund.
The rales were not suspended.
The Tax Bill being too regular order of toe
day was on motion taken np.
Mr. Harper hoped the bill would pass. He
could not see any well grounded opposition that
conld be brought against it. He thought if
property was allowed to come in without taxa
tion toe State would gain by it. It would en
hance toe value of land, and instead of emi
grants they needed this capital from toe North.
If they had toe right sort of manufactures in
this State we would be toe most independent
people on earth. Our taxes are heavy, yet it
was an experiment with those people who might
come here and they conld not tell whether it
would pay or not. Therefore he thought toe
taxes should bo removed from them, because in
a very few years it would yield ten-fold to toe
State. If they don’t come we get no taxes, but
if they do we get it in five years, so that we can
not lose in any event. He wanted, therefore, to
see the capitalists invited here and by removing
taxation was toe best way it could be done.
Taxes on largo manufacturing establishments
was an item and would eat away toe profits from
those that were just straggling for existence.
He thought the bill one of great importance to
the State, and he thought those who were op
posed to it should read it and understand it well
for then he was satisfied they would vote for it.
Mr. Bryant spoke in favor of toe bilL
Mr. Shnmate moved toe previous question and
the yaes and nays were called for when they
stood, yaes 97, nays 28.
Sir. Paulk offered toe following resolution
Resolved, That toe House consider local bills
such as the speaker may select on a third read
ing during the evening session.
The rales were not suspended.
Mr. Carpenter offered toe following:
Resolved, That the Governor be, and he is
hereby requested to inform this Honse what
sums have been paid by toe Executive Depart
ment, toe Secretary of State, Treasurer and
Comptroller General, for printing and for sta
tionery, to whom and for what paid. Rules not
suspended.
Mr. Darnell offered a resolution tendering a
seat on toe floor to Hon. Foster Blodgett.
Mr. Tumlin hoped the resolution would not
pass.
Mr. Lee hoped that toe resolution would be
passed, if for- nothing else but as a matter of
courtesy.
Mr. Tumlin moved toe previous question.
Mr. Darnell called for a division.
Mr. Tumlin called for toe yeas and nays.
Great confusion here ensued, some calling for
adjournment and others trying to catch the at
tention of toe Speaker.
Mr. Harper said there had been many names
S resented to that House for seats on toe floor,
nt never before had toe name been presented
of any man with charges of infamy and perjury
over him to equal toe man whoso name was
now before them. There was no man who had,
both in toe State and at Washington, done more
to wipe ont toe existence of toe State, and he
would oppose any motion of toe kind.
Mr. Tweedy spoke amidst considerable ex
citement. He said it surprised him very much
to hear his friend reprobated by any man on
that floor. He was not infamous, and it was
wrong to say so, and no man knew thin better
than toe gentleman who had jnst spoken. He,
as a lawyer, should know that Mr. Blodgett was
not open to this charge, and that he had never
been charged of any infamy.
Here toe confusion became so intense that it
was impossible to proceed, and as toe hour of
adjournment was arriving, toe matter stands
over until to-morrow morning.
office holder, unless for reasons first submitted __ w
to them, and by them first pronounced sufficient, i now be
This was the clear result of the debate of Sat- '■ say here now, that it is not commendable in
arday, which is to be renewed to-day, and which him to exhibit So much zeal in opposition to my
will end in leaving the matter just where it is. bilL The Governor also objects to the payment
Atlanta, Thursday night, February 25.
Senate.—Mr. Bruton moved a reconsideration
of toe action of toe Senate yesterday in relation
to toe petition of John Screven, President of toe
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad. The petition re
quested that toe sale of certain stock by the city
of Savannah be confirmed by toe State.
A motion to lay the motion to reconsider on
the table, by Mr. Smith, of too 7th, prevailed.
Mr. Smith, of toe 36to District, reported from
Committee on tho Western and Auantio Rail
road, and after a slight discussion toe report was
ordered to be printed.
The special order for the day being toe Mjtoh- r
ell claims it was taken up and discussed at con
siderable length by Messrs. Brock, Adkins and
Hnngerford, and will be taken up to-morrow as
unfinished business.
Mr. Harris moved that when toe Senate ad
journ it adjourn to meet again at 2£ p. m., to
tako np Honse and Senate bills.
The resolution was adopted and toe Senate
adjourned.
House.—The House met.
Mr. Hudson moved to reconsider the action
of toe Honse yesterday, in relation to the report
of toe Committee on the Lunatio Assylum, which
appropriated the snm of $82,500. He thought
that snm to much, and would not say any more
abont it. He thought that the appropriation
had been made prematurely.
Mr. Williams of Morgan, said the sum cor
responded with toe sum appropriated last year
excepting $500 for repairs..
Wr. Fowler, of toe Committee stated that they
had investigated the matter and fonnd that no
less would do. He hoped that the motion to re
consider would not prevaiL
The motion did not prevaiL
Mr. Kelley moved to refer to the Hnanco
Committee.
Mr. Williams moved to reconsider tho action
of toe Honse yesterday in relation to the Tax
bilL He thought toe bill an unconstitutional
one, and read from toe new Constitution in sup
port of his motion. He thought it class legis
lation.
Mr. Williams, of Morgan, would it not be
considered class legislation to give aid to one
Railroad and not to another.
Mr. Williams, of Dooly—That is not taxa
tion.
Mr. Greer, of Cobb, moved to lay the motion
on the table.
Mr. Anderson—Would like to know how a
motion to reconsider could be laid on the table.
Such a thing was never heard of before.
Mr. Bryant said it was quite common to do so
in Congress.
Mr. Anderson said we were not governed by
toe action of Congress.
The Chair decided that the motion was in
order. ■ esffio Ul'-'.i 'fa c • ,j< - V ■><
Mr. Hudson thought the Chair was right, but
hoped the motion would not prevaiL
The yeas and nays were called, when they
stood, yeas 99 ; nays 42,
The motion to reconsider was laid on the
table. :_ai: q .i visit c • .ektrSn ,»."j n
Mr. Shumate moved to reconsider the action
of the House yesterday on the resolution adding
toe committee of three, appointed to examine
toe qualifications of clerks, to the Enrollment
Committee. The motion prevailed and the
resolution taken up and adopted.
Mr. Crawford said toe report of the com
mittee was very voluminous, and he moved that
it be printed for the use of the House,, and that
the clerk be directed to superintend the same.
The motion prevailed.
Mr. W. Butt, newly elected member from
Marion, was sworn in, vice Wm. W. Butt, de
ceased. .
Mr. Anderson, of Cobb, moved to take up the
Laud and Immigration bilL and let it pass or
fail upon its merits. He thought it of great im
portance to toe State of Georgia and trusted it
would receive toe consideration which it de
served at their hands.
The bill was read, when Mr. Anderson pro
ceeded to analyze its merits. He had nothing
to do with its drafting, bnt he liked its object.
The bill was simply an experiment which conld
be tested in two years. If it succeeded it could
be continued, but if they found it to fail it could
be discontinued, and in no event could toe cost
exceed more than $10,000. He asked when
toey came to address themselves to the prosper
ity of toe country, that they should do so delib-'
erately. It met toe endorsement of toe great
majority of the people of toe State. From the
mountains to the seaboard came up toe desire
that toey would pass, not toe bill, but toe meas
ure. He asked that they yield something to
to the will of the people and respect to popular
opinion. The people cried out from every part
of toe State to them to spend toeir money in
such an enterprise.
Mr. Felder said he wanted to see them vote
against toe will of the people of the State, after
having voted to protect Northern capital in the
State and free it from taxation. He hoped the
bill would not pass. ., ,
Me, Ellis, of Spaulding, said there were _
great portion of toe people who were in favor
of immigration, and too ugh he was opposed to
toe bill when it first came up, still he was not so
selfish as to deprive his neighbors of assistance
of this kind, even though it was not needed by
toe people of his own county. He was in favor
of toe bill. ■ i .
Mr. Lee, of Newton, called the previous ques
tion.'
Divison was called, when the call for the
previous question prevailed. . ’
The yeas and nays were called on the passage
of the bill, when they stood—yeas 76, nays 58.
Mr. Bryant moved that too Educational bill
be made toe special order for Monday next,
which motion prevailed.
Mr. Maul reported from toe Committee on
toe Blind Asylum. The report was referred to
toe Committee on Finance.
The House then took up bills on third read
ing.
The bill regulating toe manner of hiring out
convicts created considerable discussion.
Mr. McCombs offered a substitute allowing
toe hiring of fifty convicts to one contracting
party.
Mr. "Williams, of Morgan, offered an amend
ment to toe effect “H there is not demand at
any time for all toe contractors, it shall be law
ful for contractors to employ toe surplns force,
subject to toe order of contractors who have not
toe number embraced in toe bilL”
A motion by Mr. Tweedy to then lay the bill
and substitute on the table was lost.
Mr. Anderson was in favor of toe original bilL
Ho wanted toe matter thoroughly and substan
tially changed. He regretted to say that there
were things done in toe asylum, and he had it
from good authority, which were a disgrace to
humanity. It was more in sorrow than in an
ger he asserted that the hiring out of those con
victs by Governor Bullock, and toe nature of toe
contract was simply a disgrace to toe State.
He moved that toe whole matter be referred to
a special committee of three, for the purpose
of perfecting a bill, and reporting as soon as
practicable. The motion was adopted.
Mr. Bamum offered a resolution appointing a
Committee of three to investigate and report at
an early day with a view to a speedy adjourn
ment.
The rales were suspended and the resolution
adopted by a vote of yens 99—nays 26.
A resolution by Mr. Holden, inviting Colonel
Hulbert, Superintendent of toe W. & A. R. R.
to a seat on toe floor, was adopted.
A motion by Mr. Hudson that the Honse take
up local bills at its evening session prevailed.
A resolution that section 1G, on Decorum and
Debate, be so amended as to prevent members
voting in toe minorty from moving a reconsid
eration of toe action of the House.
His reasons for toe introduction of tod resolu
tion, was to save toe people’s money in toe un
necessary comsumption or three-fourths of the
time of the House in reconsidering toe matter
deliberately acted upon by that body, as rales
were yet suspended he hoped toe resolution
would be taken up in regular order and imme
diately adopted. The House then adjourned.
Senate.—Senate met as usual.
Mr. Merrell moved a reconsideration of toe
action of toe House yesterday in relation to the
action of toe Senate yesterday on a bill allowing
tax collectors two and a half per cent, on all
taxes collected.
Mr. Hnngerford rose to a point of order. The
evening session yesterday, as he understood it,
was simply held for toe reading of bills, and he
did not think it would interfere at all with toe
unfinished business of the main session.
The Chair decided that a resolution was al
ways in order, and he did not understand that
toe business of toe extra evening session which
had been called yesterday should lay over until
toe next evening session.
Mr. Harris moved to lay the motion on the
table, which motion was lost, and toe bill taken
up for reconsideration.
Sir. Merrell moved toe adoption of toe fol
lowing amendment:
The commissions of county Treasurers shall
be as follows: .
On all amounts received and paid out by them
when the amount shall not exoeed $3,000, five
per cent; when toe amount shall be over $3,000
and not exceeding $5,000, four per . cent;
when toe amount shall be over $5,000 and less
than $10,000, three percent; and when toe
amount shall be over $10,000, two per cent.
Amend toe title by adding, after toe word
“Act,” the following: “To change section 8,652
of toe Code.”
The amendment was adopted and the bill
taken up and adopted as amended.
On motion of Mr. Merrell toe bill was ordered
to be transmitted to the House.
The unfinished business of . yesterday being
toe consideration of a bill to be entitled, an Act
to recommit property to the heirs of Samuel
Mitchell and to repeal an act passed in 1859, in
•d to said property.
i Higbee spoke briefly against the bilL after
which . ...
Mr, Wellborn addressed the Senate as fol
lows:
I had not expected to engage in this discussion
to-day, and shall not be enabled to convey my
views npon the grave legal questions made by
this bill, in that systematic order which I had
hoped to be able to do. The first proposition
which I propose to consider, is the consideration
which induced the making of toe deed. It is
asserted, by the opponents of toe bill, that Mr.
Mitchell conveyed this. plat of ground to toe
State to induce the terminus of toe road to be
fixed upon his land so os'to enhance its .value;
this view is not void of force if it was true.
But I find,,upon examination, that toe terminus
of toe road was located, as early as 1837, where
as the deed was not executed until 1S42.—
The deed itself recites in toe form of a where
as “that toe road had been located upon a port
of toe land of Samuel Mitchell,” etc., showing
that toe deed could not have been made as a
consideration for the location of the terminus
upon Mitchell land, the location having long pre
ceded the grant, hence I infer that toe real
consideration was that patriotic one recited ini
toe deed itself. The next enquiry ia what is
the character of this deed, and what estate is
conveyed by it ? If a fee simple deed, then the
State may lease, sell or dispose .of the property
in any way she pleases andfor any purpose. H
the State can’t do this then that want of* power
must result from some condition or limitation
in toe deed. No one contends that the State
has authority to build a hotel upon this property
and rent or lease it, or a store house to be oc
cupied by merchants, and if .she cannot the deed
must be conditional. If conditional. then the
inquiry must be, has toe State observed this con
dition ? If she has this bill should not pass, if
she baa not it should. The last gentleman who
argued against the bill admits that the deed is a
conditional one, but insists that toe State has
observed the condition. The issue then narrows
itself down to the last proposition. I assert that
toe condition.has been violated, and I maintain
that toe State has, by its own act, plaoed inef-
faoeablyupon its records the evidences of that
violation. In 1858 toe Legislature passed an
act authorizing the citv council to take possession
of the property now in dispute and to ornament
and use toe same as a public or railroad park un
til the State shall need it for railroad purposes.
Now, this purpose for which the State may
finally need it, is the purpose contemplated in
Mitchell's deed Who will deny that tins is not
an acknowledgment at least of a non-user by
the State tot the purpose originally contemplat
ed ? The term railroad park is something new
under the sun. It is clear that the term railroad
was inserted as a mere evasion. You had as
well say a railroad hotel, a railroad store-house,
or a railroad fish-pond. The city of Atlanta
seems to be the party most interested in pre
serving what toey call the State’s interest in the
property, and yet my little town and yours are
as much interested in seeing that the State is
not wronged as Atlanta. Bnt toe explanation of
this is furnished by the memorial of the Coun
cil, in which they not only deny the right of the
Mitchell heirs to enter, but even the State, ex
cept Upon the happening of a condition men
tioned in toe act of 1859. A condition in a deed
don’t mean anything, but in an cot of the Legis
lature it does. This property will never be
worth anything to the State, can never be used
to any profit If permitted to go back to toe
heirs, it will soon be covered with buildings of
millions in value and will become a source of
revenue to the State by becoming subject to tax
ation. Shall the State, because she has toe
power, evade toe just operation of rales of law
which have prevailed for ages and centuries,
and thereby do injustice to toe offspring of a
noble, public-spirited citizen whose dust slum
bers beneath the soil which his charity and mu
nificence aided in signalizing? "When Mitchell,
with native Irish liberality, gave this property,
Georgia was comparatively poor. A native for
est then stood where toe palaces of the great
and toe wealthy now tower. The State and toe
city of Atlanta have grown rich and powerful,
while toe heirs of Mitchell have lapsed from
wealth to poverty. They ask no charity, but
toey should have toeir rights and none so readi
ly grant it as the State.
With all her power, her greatness of resour
ces, and pride of honor, no one speaks in her
behalf. Before, too, in this case, was Georgia
with no advocate. It is a fact, that the lot of
land of which that in controversy is a part, orig
inally belonged to toe State of Georgia, and m
a distribution of lands of toe State of Georgia
was drawn by another, who died before toe
grant wasissued, and without heirs. Afterwards
an administration was had upon toe estate of
this deceased grantee, and toe lot of land sold
when under an arrangement made by which
none bnt those interested in perfecting a title in
Mitchell were to be bidders. The title was con
veyed to Mitchell. If the State of Georgia in
truth had had an advocate, toe original drawer
having no heirs, this land would have inherited
to toe State of Georgia, and toe claim now
made in behalf of Mitchell’s heirs, that he had
been liberal and generous to Georgia when he
was able and Georgia needed it, should now be
gratefully and substantially remembered.
Mr. Candler next rose and addressed the Se
nate; His remarks-were substantially as fol-
ows:
I regret that toe Senator for toe 40th district
can truly say it is difficult to know who are the
friends of Georgia in this controversy. There
is no difficulty in knowing who are here to speak
for these claimants, and here in Georgia, our
home, to despoil her. The humblest citizen goes
into toe judicial tribunals of the country and,
without regard to his poverty or influence, has
equal and impartial justice donq him.
Georgia’s rights must be passed, it is true, by
those who ought to be her friends; yet toey are be
labored by day and by night, by lawyers of every
grade, from the high places in the judiciary to
toe advocate before a notary’s court, and lobby
ists of every condition of life are persuaded to
be silent where so much is involved.
To so much for any claim except that predi
cated upon legal right. There are in the orig
inal bill and substitutes three propositions be
fore the Senate. The argument of toe first is,
Georgia is not using the greater part part of the
five acres conveyed; that therefore toe title re
verts to toe heirs of Mitchell; and then enacts
that a portion (tho city park) be retroceded, not
to the heirs, but the legal representatives of
Mitchell shall have power to sell and dispose of
toe same.
Secondly. This bill should not be the judg*
ment of this General Assembly. If the title be
in toe heirs, why cede it to toe legal repre
sentatives ? If to them, where is your constitu
tional power to authorize, by this act, a sale ?
The general law regulates sales by administra
tors. The Constitution says yon cannot vary a
general law, by which private rights are affect
ed, without toe consent, in writing, of those in
terested. The necessities of others than toe or
phan children of^Mitchell are to be helped! This
land is to he disposed of, not for toeir benefit!
And it was useless to oonvey it to any other than
them.
The second proposition differs from the first
only in argument, which is that Georgia, hav
ing removed buildings once placed by them on
this park, piece of toe five acres, has thereby
forfeited to too heirs of Mitchell not the whole
five acres, bnt toe two acres of toe park.
In the midst of this contest, this second prop
osition comes as a change of. front, to meet
what the friends of toe claim believe more law
can be fonnd to sustain.
Bnt, in this argument, I venture to say no
case in English or American judicial history
can be fonnd to cover. That is, when title to
a particular quantity of land has vested a failure
to one portion, it only works a forfeiture of the
portion not in accordance with the conditions
complied with.
The very idea of forfeiture goes upon toe
idea that all the right conferred is forfeited,
upon failure to comply on the part of toe other
contracting party.
No case has yet been cited where snch a par
tial forfeiture has been declared.
There may be cases where a failure to com
ply with a condition precedent to the vesting has
prevented toe creation of an estate in part of
the land contemplated in the deed, bnt no fail-
nre of subsequent condition making a forfeiture
bnt what went to toe whole estate conveyed.
The law does not favor conditions subse
quent, which only may—not shall—destroy the
estate conveyed, and for the very reason it di
vests title created.
Such conditions not being favored—and a for
feiture nnder a motion—condition still not
found—where then is the title under this deed
to the piece of land in question.
Argument is made here npon assumed and in
correct premises, founded upon toe statement
that Mitchell deeded to Georgia five acres of
land, to be and for the purpose of erecting
thereon the necessary buildings of the West
ern and Atlantic Railroad. .No such condition
is in this .deed; the only condition is, provided,
the five acres shall • be laid ont in a particular
way, having in view toe preserving of a proper
shape to the remaining portion of the lot from
which it was taken, and enhancing its value.
The language claimed to make a condition in
this deed is connected with words which make a
part of toe description of the five acres, and
not of the estate in said five acres conveyed.
During the remarks of Mr. Candler, he gave
way for the following:^ . •
Mr. Normally offered a substitute for toe bill
repealing the act granting toe use of that por
tion of toe property given to the City Council
of Atlanta for a park, and Tetroceding the same
to the representative of the late Samuel Mit
chell.
Mr. Hinton offered a substitute, for both die
substitute and toe bill which gave to the heirs
toe right to sue the State for toe recovery of the
land under dispute. There was no action taken
on the latter substitute.
A resolution was offered tending "seats on the
floor to Hon. C. H. Smith, (Bill Arp so-called,)
Hon. J. W. H. Underwood, and Mayor Har
grove, of Rome, also Hon. C. L. Schlatter, of
Brunswick.
The Senate adjourned.
. Mr. Candler still occupying the floor.
House—The House met.
A motion to reconsider the bill extending the
charter of Tallulah Fire Company, No. 3, of At
lanta, prevailed when the bill was referred to the
Committee on corporations.
Mr. Crawford moved to take up a bill prohi.
biting a special tax in Bartow county, which mo
tion prevailed.
Mr. McCormick moved to bake up the Senate
bill incorporationg toe Georgia Mutual Aid So
ciety, and that toe same be referred to the judi
ciary. The motion prevailed.
Mr. Morgan asked to take up a bill making a
new Judcial Circuit out of the Southwestern Cir
cuit.
.The bill was read a second time and referred
to the Judiciary Committee.
The county of Twiggs, was stricken ont of toe
bill known as the Oconee Circuit, after which,
the yeas and nays having been called the bill was
issed by a vote, of yeas 67—nays 55.
A resolution, by Mr. Betoune, requiring toe
appointment of a Joint Committee, to take into
consideration the propriety of making any more
Judicial Districts, was, after some discussion,
laid "on the table, bya vote of 59 yeas to 51.nays.
On motion of Mr. Franks, a message from the
Governor was taken up, in which he refused to
sign a bill to bring on an election for Mayor and
City Council in the city of Macon.
Mr. Sparks moved that the veto be made the
special order for Monday next
The remainder of the day.was spent in read
ing bills. — atmuCTi»t»
A bill appropriating money to Hillary M.
Matthews, in lieu of an artificial limb, was, on
motion of Hr. Tumlin, laid on the table.
A bill to amend toe charter of the Georgia
Home Insurance Company, passed.
A bill authorizing toe levy of a toxin Thomas
county for toe purpose of paying insolvent cost
was passed.
A bill regulating the appointment of overseers
of the Georgia Penitentiary was passed.
The following bills were also passed: ' {ODA?#
A bill authorizing deputy surveyors to lay off
homesteads, was amended by adding—“city
surveyors.” . f ■
A bill allowing Ordinaries to pass orders.
A bill amending the charter of the town of
Cave Springs.
A bill to carry into effect toe fourteenth sec
tion of the fifth article of the Constitution.
A bill regulating the manner of hiring out
convicts and protecting them from inbruwan
treatment while out
Several bills were lost and others Referred,
after which toe House adjourned.
A Cariosity tor the Ladles.
There is on exhibition, at the salesroom of
Messrs. Wheeler & Wilson, No. 625 Broadway,
toe first sewing machine (No. i) made by that
company, the present number being 350,000.
Let the interested compare the machine sold in
1851 for $125, with these now offered for $55.
The former owner of this machine gives its his- 0
tory as follows:
The machine was finished early in 1851, end
I learned its use from Mr. Wilson himself. I
was thus, you see, the first to work the Wheeler
& Wilson Machine, and learned on toe first ma
chine toey ever manufactured.
In 1854 I earned, with the machine, $295, be
side doing my own housework and taking care of
my baby. In 1856 we came to Davenport, and '
brought toe machine with ns. I believe it is the
first machine ever brought to Iowa.
I run that machine almost constantly for more
than fourteen years, on all sorts of work; from
toe finest dress-making to the heaviest tail
oring. I quilted a full-size white bed-spread
with it, which has been exhibited three times at
tbe fair. It took me three weeks to do it with
my other work; but it could not have been done
by hand in as many years. I have even" stitched i
leather with it, and at the time I exchanged' it
(in 1865) for No. 193,320, it worked just as well
as when made.
It is, perhaps, unnecessary for me to add that
I believe toe Wheeler & Wilaon to be vastly su
perior to any other machine made.
Yours respectfully, P. E. B.
Anns. Starcv is a Michigan woman, fifty years
old, and lame of one leg. Eighteen months
ago she bought forty acres of land in the West
ern part of toat State, and in two months bnilt
a comfortable house with her own hands. Now
she has cleared 14 acres of heavy oak, enclosed "'
it with a fence made by herself, dug a ditch,
sowed eight acres of wheat, built a pair of “bob
sleds,” and in short famished her farm, besides
making axe-helves for her neighbors and doing
extra work for them as payment for toe use of
toeir teams. Let her vote.
The Civil Rights Bill in Richmond.
The case of Robert Stephens vs. the Rich
mond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad
came up in the United States Circuit Coart of
Richmond last week, toe notorious Underwood
presiding. In this case, suit was brought by
Stephens for damages under toe civil rights bill,
in that his wife, a negress, had been compelled
to ride in the car assigned to persons of color.
The jury was composed of seven whites and
five negroes, and brought in a verdict for plain
tiff for sixteen hundred dollars. The following
synopsis of Underwood’s charge is given in the
Dispatch:
He commenced by saying that distinction of color
was a relic of barbarism, which had disgraced toe
world too long. Happily, throughout tho North it
had been done away with, even in that Bink of ini
quity New York, where it had been retained longor
than anywhere else, in order that the trade of too
South might be kept by tho merchants of the me
tropolis. It was this dis tinction of color that brought
toe United States in contempt all oyer Europe. No
where was the outrage of moro frequent occurence
than in Virginia—a State which it mid involved in
ruin, preventing immigration, etc.
The judge then paid some attention to the alleged
facts of toe case, and called toe attention of the
jury particularly to toe fact toat the “colored lady”
was pnt in a car one part of which was used entirely
by smokers and drunken men. That this was tbe
case, he said, there could be no donbt, as Virginia
was noted for toe drunkenness of her citizens. Rich
mond is specially intemperate—one of toe most
drunken cities on the face of the globe. Intemper
ance prevaded all classes; and not even were toe
clergy excepted in this sweeping and libelous charge.
- Returning to toe case in hand, the judge repeated
toat all distinction of color must be abolished; and
in support of his proposition read from a Bible open
before him toe following verses, (James, 2d chapter,
1-9 verses:)
- “ My brethren, have not the faith of onr Lord
Jesus Christ, toe Lord of glory, with respect of per
sons. For if there coma unto your assemblv a man
with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come
in also a poor man in vile raiment; and ye have re
spect to him toat weareth the gay clothing, and say
unto him, Sit thou here in a good place; and say
unto toe poor, Stand toon there, or sit here under
my footstool: are ye not then partial in roursolvee,
and are become judges of evil thoughts ? Hearken
my beloved brethren. Hath not God chosen the poor
of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom
which he hath promised to them that love him ?
But ye have despised the poor. * * * * If ye
have respect of persons, ye commit sin, and are
convinced of the law as transgressors.”
It only remained for him to say that upon this
jury devolved too duty of making the railroad com
panies feeljthat they must treat all men alike. They
had no right to make such rales as had been read in
court. In rendering' their verdict, the jury must
not only consider the physical inconvenience sus
tained by too plaintiff but must also consider tho
expense of bringing suit in a United States court,
toe employment of counsel,' and render a verdict ac
cordingly, although in this case toey could not give
the plaintiff more than $1,800 as no more was
claimed. ■.»
General Grant and Georgia.
The. editor of the Montgomery Mail, on his
travels, fell in with General John B. Gordon,
and, in a letter from Louisville, says: 0 :0 V I
, General Gordon has a high opinion of Gener
al Grant. He gives him credit for a higher or
der of ability than is generally given, and be
lieves that he is friendly to the Southern peo
ple. Mr. Tift, one of toe Congressmen elect
from Georgia, carried a letter of introduction
from Gordon to Grant. He found Grant com
municative, and very firm in his opinion that -
since the reconstruction of Georgia, she has a
right to regulate her domestic affairs to suit
herself, subject only to the Constitution. In
other words, his opinion is that so long as there
is no Constitutional amendment to prohibit it, >
Georgia, or any other State, may deoidefor her
self as to who shall vote and who shall hold of
fice. No wonder toat "Wendell Phillips is be
ginning to howl! If there is to be a Grant par
ty, we shoold not wonder if in two years, it
would be the Democratic party. But; as Gen..
Clanton says, let us at least wait for “toe in
augural.” Of course toe inaugural will indicate
nothing, but toe complexion of the Cabinet may
be suggestive. Everybody is on the qui ties
for the 4th of March-
Split in the BepnMican Party South.
Alluding to an article which appeared in this
paper several days ago, the New York Herald of
the 23d, says:
A Georgia Democratic paper declares that toe
Republican party of toat State is now “hope-
lesslysplit in twain.” One faction is headed
by Gov. Bullock, who wants the State again
kicked out of the Union, and the other is head
ed by the Atlanta Era.
The Bullock wing had a meeting at Atlanta on
toe night of the 13th and resolved “ that recon
struction was not complete in Georgia,” where
upon toe Era avers toat “ the meeting did not
represent the. sentiments of the Republican
party in Georgia,” and protests against the pro
ceedings of all such meetings. Now, what ia
the policy, under such circumstances, of the
Conservatives and all others who desire to see
toe South relieved of all disabilities and restored
at once to her proper position in the Union ?
It is to let these turbulent radical factions
fight it ont among themselves and toe true men
of the South keep on raising good crops, making
money, becoming economical and developing
toe resources of the country. Use radicals hi
toe South—in fact, all over toe country—ore in
a state of ferment about who shall retain and
who nball obtain offioe under the utooming ad
ministration. Thu will keep than busy for
some time to come* and in toe midst of their
quarrels the South will do well to remember that
when “rogues fall out honest msn oome by their
own.’’ '■ . ;u J
Wozoxs.—Statistics have been published
showing that during the past eleven years 4883
American vessels have been wrecked, involving
loss of $19$,000,000.
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