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The Garret
FROM THS FRENCH OF BKRAXGSR.
The asylum once m< re I behold where my youth
Learned the le< ons to Poverty’s self that"belong.
I was twenty; I had a fond mistress, forsooth,
A few trusty frien Is and a liking for song.
The wond then I braved, both its wi'sand its wights;
With no thought of the future, but rich in my May,
Light joyous, I c imbed up the stairway six nights ;
O, life in a garret at twenty is g»j 1
Tis a gam t, that fact I wish none to forget.
There onee stood my bed, bard and shabby withal
My table stood there, and I find there are yet
In chare >al some fragments of verse on the wall.
Come back ! O ye joys of life’s beautiful iliwn,
Whom Time with a fl ip of his wing beat away;
How often for you has my watch been iu pawn !
O life in a garret at twenty is gay I
Lisette a K ove all shou’d appear to our view,
Blithe. lovely, in freshly trimm d hat as of yore,
At the window her hand has a'ready in lieu
Os a curtain/r uspend. d the shawl that she wore;
My bed, too is prettily decked with her diess,
Its folds loose and flowing. Love I spare them, I
pray 1
Who paid for it all I have heard, I confess;
O, life in a garret at twenty is gny I
At table one day, when abundant the cheer,
And the voice of my comrades in chorus rang high,
A shout of rejoicing mounts up even here,
“ At Maremo Napo'eon is victor,” they cry—
Hark! the thunder of guns; a new stave loudly
rings.
As to deeds so resplencant our homage we pay ;
Never, never shall Fra ice be invaded by kings !
O, life in a garret al twenty is gay !
Let us go, for my reason is drunk as with wine.
How distant those days so regretted appear!
What is left me to live 1 would gladly resign
For one month such as Heaven has allotted me
here.
Os glory, love, pleasure, and folly to dream,
The whole of existence to spend in a day,
And Hope to illumine that day with her beam ;
O, life in a garret at twen y is gay !
A Dead Baby.
Little sou l , fir such brief space that entered
In this little body, straight and chilly;
Little life that fluttered and departed
Like a moth from an unopened lily;
In tie being, without name or nation—
Where is now thy place among creation ?
Little dark-lashed eyes, unclosed never;
Little mouth by earthly food ne’ertainted;
Little breast, that just once heaved, and settled
In eternal slumber, white and sainted;
Child, shall I in future childrens’ faces,
Eee some pretty look that thine retraces ?
Is this thrill that strikes across my heart strings,
And in dew beneath my eyelids gathers,
Token of the bliss thou might’st have brought me,
Dawning of the bliss they all call a father’s ?
Do I hear through this dim room a sighing,
Like thy spirit to me, its au hor, crying?
Wb eice didst come, and whither take thy journey’.
Little soul, of me and mine created ?
Must thou lose vs, and we thee forever ?
O, strange life, by minutes only dated 1
Or new flesh assuming just to prove us,
In some other babe return and love us ?
_ Id e queaiions all 1 —yet our beginning,
Lise our ending, rests with the Life-sender,
With whom naught is lost and naught spent
vainly—
Unto him this li; tie one we render.
Hide the face, the tiny coffin cover,
So our first dream, cur first hope is over.
Mjss Mcloch.
[From the Lady’s Friend, February.
Little Feet.
BY FLORENCE FKRCY.
Two little feet, so small that both may nestle
In ore caressing hand—
Two tender feet upon the untried border
Os Life’s mysterious land;
Dimpled and soft, and pink as peach-tree blossoms
In April’s fragrant days—
How can th< y walk amone the b, iery tangles
Edging the world’s rough ways ?
These white-rose feet along the donbt'ul future
Must bear a wo-nan’s load ;
Alas I since woman has the heaviest burden,
And walks the hardest road.
Love, for a while, will make the path before them
All dainty, smooth and fair —
Will cull away the brambles, let ting only
The roses blossom there.
But when the moiher’s watchful eyes ate shrouded
Away from watchful men,
And these dear feet are left without her guiding,
Who shall direct them then ?
How will they be allured, be rayed, deluded,
Poor little ut taught feet I
Into what dreary mazes will they wander,
Wh-it dar gers will they meet ?
Will they go stumbling in the darkness
Os Borrow’s tearful shades ?
Or find the un and slopes of Peace and Beauty,
Whose snnlight never fades ?
Will they go toiling up Ambition’s summit,
The common world above ?
Or in some nameless vale securely sheltered,
Walk side by side with Love?
Some feet there be which walk Life’s track un
wounded,
Which find but pleasant ways;
Seme hearts there be to which this life is only
A round of happy days.
But they are few Far more there are who wander
Without a hope or friend—
Who find their journey full of pains and losses,
And lot g to reach the end.
How shall it be with her, the tender stranger,
F; ir-faced and gentle-eyed,
Before whose unstained feet i he wot Id’s rude highway
Stretches so' strang. and wide ?
Ah! Who may read the future ? For our darling
We crave all blessii gs sweet —
And pray that ■< e who feeds the crying ravens
W ill guide the baby’s feet.
[From the Irish People.
Kathleen with the Golden Hair.
BY JAMES KEENAN.
Beside the limpid brook we played,
In childhood’s happy, happy hours,
Or through the dells and valleys straved,
And gathered bright aad be-iutlful 'flowers;
But ne’er grew flower in the dell,
That to ray fancy seemed so fair,
As she my young heart loved so well, '
Sweet Kathleen with the golden hair.
Bt neatli the green and spreading oak,
That by the little s’reamlet grew,
One eve our vows of love we spoke,
And, parting, promised to l.e true';
For i must ail o’er ocean wide,
A sailor’s stormy life to dare,
To win a guerdon for my bride,
Sweet Kathleen with the golden hair,
I sailed afar o’er many f eas,
In quiet calm and furious ktorm,
But still her voice spoke in the breeze,
My dr< aming ev es beheld her form ;
At length returned to meet my love,
My gathered wealth with her to share,
But tr.e willows droop and grieve above,
Lost Kathleen with the golden Ipiir.
I tit again ’neath the old oak’s shade,
And the moonlight falls on the limpid brook,
As it shone on the eve when our vows we made,
And a parting kiss from h< r lips I took,
For her light footstep I list once more,
... But she ne’er again will meet me there;
She waits. I hope, by the heavenly shore,
hfc- • Loved Kathleen with the golden hair.
Report of the Secretary of the Treasury.
The Near York Sun gives the tollowing brief
extract of this important document:
Secretary McCulloch’s report congratulates
the country on the good condition of its
finances, and that no ill eSect has been expe
rienced on account ol a redundant currency.
He believes that a revised tariff and modified
revenue laws would tend to a resumption of
specie payments; but he is opposed to any
legislation as to the time of the resumption.
The report shows that up to date 1827,620,850
seven-thirty bonds have been funded into five
twenty bonds, leaving on December 1 only
12,368,150 seven-thirty notes outstanding.—
All the compound interest notes which be
came due between June 10, 1867, and October
16, 1868, have not been redeemed, hut many
have been exchanged for three per cent, certifi
cates. This policy of funding was regarded as
tending strongly toward resumption of specie
payments. Mr. McCulloch’s views as to the
contraction of the paper circulation are un
changed. The Secretary estimates the ex
penses of the fiscal year ending June 30,
1870, at $250,000,000, which would be in
creased in event of an Indian war. The War
Department this year will not require as much
for bounties as last. The annual interest on
the public debt was about $140,000,000. The
estimates of the Navy Department are $15,-
000,000 less than last year. The internal reve
nue this fiscal year will amount to $120,000,000.
The debt from November 1, 1867, to Decem
ber 1, 1868, has been reduced about $27,000,-
000. The Secretary again recommends the re
organization of the department bureaus.
A dispatch from Washington to the New York
World gives the following lengthy synopsis of
the Secretary’s report:
In opening his present report Mr. McCulloch
reviews and states the opinions and views in
his previous reports, and proceeds to argue at
length against the wisdom of the legal tender
acts. He says, to use his own language, that
“ these acts have tended to blunt and deaden
the public confidence, and are chargeable in no
small degree with the demoralization which so
generally prevails.” The United States notes,
though declared by law to be lawful money,
are nevertheless, the Secretary declares, “ dis
honored anffdisreputable currency.” He main
tains that the legal tender acts were war mea
sures, that they were a forced loan, that no
member of Congress or public journal advo
cated their issue on any other ground than
public necessity. The Secretary thinks, then,
that they should be divested of the character
which was conferred on them in a condition of
the country so different from tbe present. He,
therefore, makes the following highly import
ant recommendation, and emphasizes it in
capital letters. He says :
“The Secretary believes that they should, and i
he therefore recommends, in addition to enact
ments by whieh contracts for the payment of
coin can be enforced, that it be declared that
after the Ist of January, 1870, United States
notes shall cease to be a legal tender in pay
ment of all private debts subsequently con
tracted, and that after the Ist of January, 1871, >
they sbail cease to be a legal tender on any con
tract or for any pnipose whatever, except the i
Government dues for which they are now re
ceivable. The law should also authorize.lhe i
cohtuclju or LUCSC uuies, ui lue pttifou.
the holders, into bonds bearing such interest i
as may be authorized by Congress on the fund- <
ed debt. The period for which they would ■
continue to be a legal tender would be suffl- i
cient to enable the people and the banks to
prepare for the contemplated change, and the
privilege of their conversion to save deprecia- J
tion.” The Secretary then speaks of the large
reduction of internal revenue, and says that is 1
attributable to inefficient collection, and to a ;
reduction of taxes. He estimates the internal 1
revenue receipts for the present fiscal year at
$146,209,044. If the receipts from customs
should be diminished, even with large redue- 1
tions in expenses, “ our internal revenue,” the
Secretary says, “ must be increased.”
The first thing to be done is to introduce
economy in eveir branch, and not reduce ap
propriations, and then bring in deficiency bills.
Tbe average expenses for the next ten years of
the civil service ought not, he adds, to exceed
forty millions. The War Department should
be brought down to thirty-five m llions, and the
navy to twenty millions per annum. The in
terest on the public debt, when all funded at 5
per cent., will be $125,000,000. The Secretary
then says : " When the Internal revenue and
tariff laws shall be revised-’BO as to be made
harmonious with each other; it is supposed that
$300,000,000 can annually be realized from these
sources without burdensome taxation.” The
Secretary docs uu> doubt that the best interests
of the country will be subserved by a reduction
of the tariff and an increase of excise duties.
The Secretary also recommends a tax on sales,
and regards this as a good time to thoroughly
revise the tariff. The report shows that the
public debt was increased from November 1,
1867, to November 1, 1868, $35,625,102 82. Os
this increase $24,152,000 is chargeable to the
Pacific railways, and $7,200,000 to the purchase
of Alaska. Within the same period there was
paid for bounties $43,787,412 18. The Secre
tary does not consider this a bad exhibit in
view of tbe reduced taxation by Congress and
the donations to railroads. He then proceeds
to censure the New York national banks which
have certified checks of depositors in advance
of their deposits, and says : “It is unauthor
ized, reckless, and injurious in the end to the
country.” He Suggests legislation to remedy
this. The report then concludes as follows :
“Complaint has been made that in theadminis
tjation of the Treasury Department since the
war there has been too much of interference
with the stock and money market. This com
plaint, when honestly made, has been the re
sult of a want of reflection or of imperfect
knowledge of tbe financial condition of tbe
Government. Tbe transactions of the Treas
ury have from necessity been connected with
the stock and money market of New York. If
the debt after the close of the war had been a
funded debt, with nothing to be done in rela
tion to it but to pay the accruing interest, or
if business bad been conducted on a specie
basis, and consequently been free from the
constant changes to which it has been and must
be subject as long as there is considerable dif
ference between the legal and commercial
standard of value, the Treasury could have
been managed with entire independence of tbe
stock exchange or tbe gold room. More than
one-half of the national debt, according to the
foregoing exhibits, consisted of temporary
obligations, which were to be paid in lawful
money or converted into bonds, and there was
in circulation a large amount of irredeemable
promises, constantly changing iu their convert
ible value.
“ The Secretary, therefore, could not be in
different to tbe condition of the market, nor
avoid connection with it, for it was, in fact,
with tbe market he had to deal. He would
have beep happy had it been otherwise. If
bonds were to be sold to provide the means
for paying the debts that were payable in law
ful money, it was a matter of great importance
to the Treasury that tbe price of bonds should
not be depressed by artificial processes. If the
seven-thirty notes were to be converted into
five-twenty bonds, it was equally important
that they should sustain such relations to each
other in regard to prices that conversions
would be effected. If bonds were at a discount
the notes would be presented for payment in
legal tenders, and these could only be obtained
by further issue, or the sale of some kind of
securities. For three years, therefore, the state
of the market has been a matter of deep solici
tude to the Secretary. If he had been indiffer
■ ent to it, or waited carefully to study the influ-
AtJKhCA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECfMBER 23, 1868.
ence that controlled it, or had hesitated to ex
ercise the power with which Congress bad
clothed him for successfully funding the tem
porary debt by conversions or sales, he would
have been false to his trust.
“The tasx of converting a thousand millions
of temporary obligations into a funded debt
on a market constantly subject to natural and
artificial fluctuations, without depressing the
prices of bonds, and without disturbing the
business of the country, however it may be re
garded now, when the work has been accom
plished, was, while it was being performed, un
exceedingly delicate one. It is but simple jus
tice to say that its successful accomplishment
is in a great measure attributable to the judi
cious action of the assistant treasurer at New
York, Mr. Van Dyck. Similar complaint has
also been made of tbe manner in which gold
and bonds have been disposed of by what has
been styled ‘secret sales,’ and yet precisely the
same course has been pursued in these sales
that careful and prudent men pursue who sell
on their own account. The sales have been
made when currency was needed and prices
were satisfactory. It was not considered wise
or prudent to advise the dealers precisely when
and to what amount sales were to be made. No
sane man operating on his own account would
have done this. But all sales of gold have
been made in the open market, and of bonds
by agents or the Assistant Treasurer in New
York in the ordinary way, with a view of ob
taining the verj - best prices, and with the least
possible disturbance of business.
“In the large transactions of the Treasury
agents have been indispensable, but none have
been employed when the work could be done
equally well by the officers of the department.
Whether done by agents or officers, the Secre
tary has no reason to suppose that it has not
been done skillfully and honestly as well as
economically. He is now gratified in being
able to say that unless a very stringent market,
such as was produced a f w weeks ago by pow
erful combinations in New York, should send
to the Treasury large amounts of the three
per cent, certificates for redemption, no fur
ther sales of bonds are likely to be necessary.
Until, however, the receipts from internal rev
enues are increased, the necessities of the Gov
ernment will require that the sales of gold
shall be continued. Tnese sales are now being
made by advertisements for sealed bids in
stead of the agencies heretofore employed.—
The result so far has not been entirely satisfac
tory, but a proper respect for what, according
to the tone of the press, appeared to be tbe
public sentiment, seemed to require it. The
new mode will be fairly tested and continued
if it can be without a sacrifice of the public in
terest.
“The Secretary has thus referred to a few
points in his administration of the Treasury,
for the purpose of explaining some things
which may have been imperfectly understood,
and not for the purpose of defending his own
action. Deeply sensible of the responsibilities
resting upon him, but neither appalled nor dis
heartened by them, he hasperformed the duties
of his office according to the best of his judg
ment and the lights that were before him, with
out deprecating criticism, and plainly and
earnestly presented his own views without
seeking popular favor. It has been bis good
fortune to have had for bis immediate predeces
sors two of the ablest men in tbe country, to
whose judicious labors be has been greatly in
debted ,for any success that mav hive attended
” , vOC t reasury. Nor is he
under less obligation to his associates, Hie
officers and leading clerks of tbe department,
whose ability and whose devotion to the public
service have commanded his respect and ad
miration.”
REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF CUSTOMS.
The Commissioner of Customs, in bis annua]
report, uses the following Language: “The
great decadence of our shipping interest,
especially of our vessels engaged in foreign
trade, within four or five years, is a subject
which, it appears to me, deserves the imme
diate attention of Congress. The time was
when much the largest portion of the carrying
trade of the world was confined to American
bottoms, and tbe proportion of foreign vessels
seen in our ports was small. Now much the
Largest portion of merchandise imported into
the United States, at least from Englunid and
France, comes in foreign botioms. W th the
proverbial energy and enterprise of American
merchants, this ought not to be, and would not
be unless there was some cause for it. This
cause should be removed by Congress.”
Sumner’s Bill.
The following is the text of the bill recentlj’
introduced by Sumner in Congress for the pur
pose of “ reconstructing Georgia:”
A BILL TO CARRY OUT THE RECONSTRUCTION
ACTS IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
Whereas, in the act. of Congress entitled “ An
act for the more efficient government of the
rebel States,” among which is enumerated
Georgia, it is provided that until the people of
said rebel States shall by law be admitted to
representation in Congress, any civil govern
ment which may exist therein shall be provis
ional only, and such States are divided into
military districts ; and whereas, in tbe supple
mentary reconstruction act, bearing date July
19, 1867, it is further .provided that ‘.‘all per
sons hereafter elected or appointed to office in
said military districts under any so-called State
or municipal authority, shall tie required td
take and subscribe the oath of office prescribed
by law for officers of the United States and
whereas, it was the true intent and meaning of
the act above mentioned that persons allowed
to participate in the provisional legislation of
any of the rebel States prior to their admission
to representaiiou by Congress, should take and
subscribe the oath above mentioned ; and
whereas, the Legislature of Georgia, elected un
der and by virtue of an act of Congress known
as the reconstruction acts, on the 20th, 21st,
22d and 23d of April, 1868, and whieh assem
bled on the 4th ot July, 1868, failed to comply
with the foregoing requirement, so that such
Legislature was never organized according to
law; and whereas, further, this Legislature,
thus defective in organization, has pretended to
act as if it were a legislative body duly consti
tuted, and has done certain things ntterly un
justifiable, and requiring the intervention ol
Congress; therefore,
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That the civil government
actually existing in Georgia is provisional
only, and in all respects subject to the par
amount authority of the United States at any
time to abolish, modify, control, or supersede
the same, until a Legislature organized in ac
cordance with the requirements of the act of
July nineteenth, eighteen hundred aad sixty
seven, shall have duly ratified the amendment
to the Constitution of the United States, pro
posed by the Thirty-ninth Congress, and
known as article fourteen, when the State, ac
cording to the act aforesaid, will be subject to
lhe fundamental condition that the constitution
of the State shall not be so amended or changed
as to deprive any citizen of tbe United States,
or State, who are entitled to vote by the consti
tution thereof herein recognized, except as a
punishment for such crimes as are now felonies
at common law, whereof they have been duly
convicted, under laws equally applicable to all
the inhabitants ot the State: And provided,
That any alteration of the constitution may be
made to the time and place of residence of
voters.
Seu. 2. And be it further enacted, That the
Provisional Governor elect of the State of
Georgia be, and he is hereby, authorized and
directed to assemble, by proclamation, at the
city of Atlanta, on or before the first Wednes-
day In April next, the persons elected as mem
bers of the Genera] Assembly of that State, at
an election held under and by virtue of the re
construction acts on tbe twentieth, twenty-first
twenty-second, and twenty-third days of April,
eighteen hundred and sixty-eight.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That no
person so elected shall be permitted to partici
pate in the organization or legislation ot such
provisional assembly who shall not have fir#t
taken and subscribed tbe oath of office pre
scribed by law for officers of the United States,
unless be shall have beeu relieved of his disa
bilities by act of Congress.
Sec 4. And be it further enacted, That the
Provisional Governor elect of Georgia shall
have power, whenever in his opinion it be
comes necessary to carry out the purposes of
this act, or to the proper execution of the act
of the 2d of March, 1867, entitled “An act to
provide for tbe more efficient government of
the rebel States,” or of any and all acts supple
mentary thereto, to suspend or remove from
office, or from the performance of official du
ties and the exercise of official power, any offi
cer or person holding or exercising, or pro
fessing to bold or exercise, any civil office or
duty in such State under any power, election,
appointment, or authority derived from, or
granted by, or claimed under the so-called
State of Georgia, or the government thereof,
or any municipal, or other division thereof;
and upan such suspension or removal, such
Provisional Governor elect sha 1 have power to
provide from time to time for the performance
ot the duties of such officer or person so sus
pended or removed by the appointment of
some competent person to perform tbe same,
and to fill vacancies occasioned by death, re
signation, or otherwise.
Sec. 5 And be it further enacted, That the
President be, and he is hereby, directed to
place at the disposal of the Provisional Gov
ernor elect of Georgia such portion of the army
and navy of the United States as may be re
quired by him for the preservation of the lives
and property of persons, the peace and good
order of the community, and tbe protection of
citizens in the free expression of their political
opinions.
—l
Agricultural and Manufacturing Associa
tion of Georgia.
The Macon Telegraph ot Friday contains full
reports of the proceedings of tbe Farmers’
State Convention that assembled in that city
last week, and which resulted iu the organiza
tion of the “Agricultural and Manufacturing
Association of Georgia.”
As all our readers, in town and country,
must feel a deep interest in this formidable
movement,,-avhich has enlisted the co-opera
tion and zealous snpport of our most influ
ential citizens, and which has for its object
tbe development of the agricultural, manufac
turing ana other industrial resources of the
State, we make the following synopsis of the
action at Macon.
In our issue of Saturday, we gave the pro
ceedings of the first day’s session, on Wednes
day. Ou Thursday, the Farmer’s State Con
vention met pursuant to adjournment, when it
was announced by Mr. Howard, of Bartow,
that the three other bodies, then assembled iu
Macon, ostensibly for the same purposes, de
sired to unite with the Farmers’ Convention in
one organization, and a committee was ap
ijCTintori to coirier with committees from the
societies, with a view to* coiis’timmatb
that object, after which the convention adjourn
ed to 3 o’clock in the afternoon.
Immediately after, the Agricultural and
Manufacturing Association met in the same
Hall, and after some preliminary business,
adopted the following resolution :
Resolved, That the different associations here
represented, viz: The Farmer’s Convention,
the State Agricultural Society, the Agricultural
and Mechanical Association of Macon, and tbe
Agricultural and Manufacturing Association ol
the State of Georgia, merge themselves into
,the State Agricultural Society; that they pro
ceed to organize by the election of officers,
and that the Executive Committee, appointed
by the President, shall obtain from the Legisla
ture such changes in the charter as may be
deemed necessary by them to accomplish the
ends of the various associations.
The Society then proceed to the election of
officers, which resulted in the election of Mr.
David Dickson, of Hancock, as President, and
the appointment of the following gentlemen
as Vice-Presidents:
First District—Hon. Wm. Schley, of Chat
ham.
Second District—General Goode Bryan, of
Lee.
Third District—J. A. Miller, of Houston.
Fourth District—Joseph Clisby, of Bibb.
Filth Distiict—B. T. Harris, of Hancock.
Sixth Distiict —B. C. Yahcey, of Clark.
Seventh Distiict—C. W. Howard, of Bartow.
Motion by Mr. Nisbet, of Bibb, that Hon. B.
C. Yancey be known as first Vice-President.—
Motion by Col. Joel A. Billups, of Morgan,
that Hon. B. T. Harris, of Hancock, be known
of second Vice-President.
Hou. D. W. Lewis, of Hancock, was ap
pointed Secretary, and Dr. James Camak, of
Clark, Treasurer.
The Society, after appointing a committee to
prepare business for the afternoon session, ad
journed to 3 o’clock.
afternoon session.
After the announcement of the Executive
Committee (which will be found in the second
day’s proceedings below,)
A memorial was laid before the Society pray
ing the importance of a committee being ap
pointed to memoralize the Legislature, and
pray the aid of the Slate byway of appropria
tion, in the purchase of machinery, models,
apparatus, etc., for the use of industrial and
scientific schools that this society may institute
for the young men of the State.
The memorial was referred to a committee of
three: Prof. W. Leroy Brown, of Clarke,
Samuel Barrett, D. E. Butler.
Mr. Jones, of Paulding, addressed thesociety
on the importance of a direct effort at inducing
immigrition, and offered to be one of five
hundred men in Georgia to pay to the Secretary
of tbe Society one hundred dollars each for ten
years annually, for the purpose of organizing
au independent immigration association.
Mr. Hutton, of Bibb, read a letter from an
agent of a Liverpool and Savannah line of
steamships, which was referred to the Commit
tee on Immigration.
By Mr. Howard, of Bartow—
Resolved, That a committee be appointed by
the President to address the Legislature of
Georgia upon the subject of immigratiou, and
pray that body to appoint a Commissioner of
Immigration, and to take such other steps as
may be necessary in order to secure a steady
influx of useful laborers into the State, through
our own seaports.
Mr. Rees, now of Bibb, formerly of Norway,
addressed the Society, suggesting that more
liberal inducements be held out to foreigners
than Georgians were wont to allow.
Mr. True, of Morgan, in a few pointed re
marks, made plain that Georgia held out
stronger inducements than any State, North or
West, to which Air. Rees had alluded.
•The Society adjourned until to-morrow at
nine o’clock. B. C. Yancey,
Vice-President, presiding.
Samuel A. Euhols, Secretary.
NIGHT MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Rev. C. W. Howard, of Birtow, Chairman.
At a meeting of the Executive Committee,
held in the private parlor of Brown’s Hotel,
the following business was transacted :
Mr. Nisbet, of Bibb, offered the following
resolution :
Resolved, That a sub-committee of five be
appointed who, with the Secretary and Viee
' President, shall go to Atlanta, at the approach
ing session of the General Assembly of Geor
gia, to solicit an appropriation of money and
such legislation as may be necessary to carry
out tbe purposes of the Societv. Agreed to.
James A. Nisbet, T. R. Bloom, George 8.
Obear, J. 8. Hamilton, C. M. Irwin, B. C.
Yancey, and D. W. Lewis, were appointed.
Mr. B. T. Harris, of Hancock, offered the
following resolution :
Resolved, That Mr. Harris, Mr. Nisbet, Mr.
Obear, Mr. Bloom and Mr. True, be a com
mittee to arrange the Premium List for the
Annual Fair of 1869, and that they convene in
the city of Macon for that purpose, at the call
of the Cha rrnan.
J. A. Nisbet, of Dade, offered tbe following:
Resolved, That the Vice-President ©f the
Society, Mr. B. C. Yancey, Mr. Bloom, Mr.
Obear, Mr. True and Mr. Lewis be appointed a
committee to procure from tbe United Smtes
Government the Laboratory buildings, formerly
occupied by the Confederate Government, near
Macon. Adopted
G. 8. Obear, of Bibb, offered the following:
Resolved, That the Secretary be directed to
appoint one person in each county, and request
them io solicit names of persons as members
of the Society, with the annual membership fee
ot two dollars each ; that these agents so ap
pointed be requested to appoint sub-agents to
solicit memberships, with ten per cent, upon
the amount collected for their services.
C. W. Howard, of Bartow, offered the follow
ing :
Resolved, That the Secretary is hereby au
thorized to publish a short address to the
people, and appeal to them to become mem
bers of the society by subscribing the sum ol
two dollars and sending their names to the
Secretary.
On motion the Executive Committee ad
journed. C. VV. Howard, Chairman.
D. W. Lewis, Secretary.
SECOND DAY.
City Hall, Macon. Ga., )
December 11,1863. $
The President called the convention to order
at 9X o’clock and announced the order of
business to be the consideration of Col. Schal
ler’s report on Immigration.
The order of business was read and Immi
gration was taken up. •
Whereupon Col. 8. came forward- to the
Secretary’s desk and read an ab|e paper on that
subject.
Mr. True moved a vote of thanks be tender
ed to Col. Schaller for his able paper. Carried.
It was ordered also to be published in the
pamphlet of the proceedings of this convention.
(It is understood that it will be made the foun
dation of a bill which will be presented to the
Legislature.)
Mr. Rees, of Bibb, offered a resolution for
the formation of sub-societies in each county,
to act in conjunction with the State Society,
whose duties shall be to offer the peculiar ad
vantages of each section for immigration.
Adopted.
A motion was made to adopt Mr. Howard’s
resolution to appoint a committee to memo
ralize the Legislature upon the subject of im
migration.
By Mr. Butler : A resolution instructing the
committee, raised under Mr. Howard’s resolu
tion, to publish from time to time short ad
dresses to the people of Georgte, containing
• such facts as, may be imptmarnftWor 4 them to
know.
By Mr. Fulton : A resolution advising our
young men to abandon towns and cities and
go to work cultivating the soil. Also, declar
ing that while we favor foreign immigration,
we object to any system which Will till our
State with an indiscriminate lot of worthless
people, and that the convention disclaims all
intention of displacing the negro who faithfully
discharges his work.
These resolutions were supported by various
members. They were read several times, and
finally adopted. In the discussion it was dis
claimed that we had any objection to honest
industry coming among us, but we did object
to abandoned population from the jails and
workhouses of Europe.
The Chair appointed the following standing
committees:
Committee on Colored Laborers.— D. E. But
ler, Morgan ; J. A. Cobb, Sumter; T. J. Smith,
Washington; M. C. Fulton, W. M. Brown,
Clarke; O. C. Horne, Samuel Barnett.
Immigration and Land Companies.— F. Schal
ler, of Clarke ; W. Schley, of Chatham ; H. F.
Rees, J. S. Hutton, of Bibb; James Gardner, of
New York; Wm. M. Brown, of Clarke.
Committe: on Manufacturing and the Best
Method of Raising Capital.—J. J. Gresham, of
Bibb ; R. L. Bloomfield, of Clarke ; A. J. Han
sell, of Cobb ; W. G. Jackson, of Richmond ;
H. H. V. Meigs, of Muscogee; F. T. Cooper,
of Houston ; Enoch Steadman, of Newton.
Committee on Mining.— Jobu Jones, of Polk ;
J. A. Nisbet, of Dade ; G. H. Hazelburst, T. R.
Bloom, Os Bibb ; J. L. Rogers, of Dade.
Mr. True—A resolution to print Mr. How
ard’s report as a portion of the proceedings of
this Convention. Adopted.
Mr. Butler—A resolution favoring the circu
lation of agricultural papers in our respective
counties. Adopted.
Mr. Bloom reported 101 members of the
Association which he had obtained this morn
ing.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
Mr. Howard- A resolution recommending,
as far as practicable, that freedmen Le required
to obtain certificates of good behavior from
their last employer. Adopted.
A resolution was adopted to print one thou
sand pamphlets of the proceedings of this Con
vention, together with acts of the Legislature
relating thereto.
Mr. Bloom—A motion to increase the Execu
tive Committee to thirty-one. Amended so
that seven constitute a quorum. Adopted.
The following is the Executive Committee
complete:
C. W. Howarq, if Bartow; J. H. Nisbet, of
Dade; J. 8. Ham-ffon, of Clarke. W. J. Rus
sell, of Clarke ; P. W. J. Echols, of Fulton ;
B. H. True, of Morgan ; George 8. Obear, of
Bibb ; B. T. Harris, of Hancock; J. A. Bil
lups, of Morgan ; J. B. Jones, of Burke; John
8. Thomas, of Baldwin ; C. M. Irwin, of Lee;
A. 8. Reid, Sr., of Putnam; J. T. Smith, of
Washington ;T. R. Bloom, of Bibb; P. M.
Nightengale, of Glynn; D. W. Vischer, of
Houston; Jonathan Miller, of Richmond; Jo
siah Hillsman, of Crawford; J. A. Miller, of
Houston; Wm. Schley, of Chatham; B. G»
Lockett, of Dougherty; Dr. J. Dickson Smith,
of Houston; R. Casey, of Columbia; K. G.
Harris, of Richmond ; R. Peters, of Fulton ;
R. H Tilten, of Bartow; H. L. Benning, of
Muscogee; T. M. Furlow, of Sumter; Wm.
Dunean, of Chatham ; Dunlap Scott, of Floyd,
and R. H. Hadaway, of Thomas.
Mr. Butler moved a vote of thanks to the
citizens of Macon for their generous hospi
tality. Unanimously adopted.
Mr. Howard —A motion to request Mr.’Rees
to furnish the Secretary with an abstract of bis
remarks made to the convention yesterday.
Adopted.
Mr. Fulton—A resolution on the subject of
fencing. Referred to the Executive Com
mittee.
Mr. Howard moved to adjourn, which was
carried; whereupon the chair declared the
convention adjourned, to meet in Atlanta on
the first Tuesday in February.
Speaking of the convention, the Telegraph
says: Seldom have we seen a more grave or a
more dignified body of men met together. It
was composed of plain, practical planters.—
Their speeches were all terse, sensible, to the
point, and characteristic of the calliug’of the
men who made them. Such eloquence was in-
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deed refreshing to every one used to listening
to the forensic displays of political speakers.—
They came here to talk of the agriculture, the
mining and the mechanic arts of Georgia, and
not a single allusion was made of a partizan
nature.
The Cotton Worm.—lt was only a short
time since that we published a part of the fol
lowing and recommended the trial of it. We
have now additional proof and give it to our
readers, hoping that at last a means has been
found by whieh one of the evils attending the
cotton crop may be avoided. We shall be glad
to learn the result from any of our planting
friends who try the suggestion :
This scourge seems to increase in virulence
from year to year. It is expected With the reg
ularity of the season. Its early appearance in
considerable numbers is fatal to the crop. Its
appearance at any time cuts short to a greater
or less extent the crop. A thousand methods
have been devised for protection against it. 80,
far, everything done to prevent its appearance
or to check its ravages, has been in vain. There
is danger that in a few years it will destroy the
cultivation of cotton altogether.
A few weeks ago, we published a statement
from a Texas paper that the egg was deposited
in the stalk of the plant, where it remained
until the proper season, protected against its
enemies, then to appear upon its mission of
destruction, and that to gather up closely and
burn the dry stalks in the Fall and Winter would
necessarily destroy them.
Yesterday we saw, in the counting room of
Messrs. Hardee & Robinson, proof of the cor
rectness of this theory. There were the dry
stalks. On the surface was tbe scar left when
the eggs were deposited. Inside, in the pith of
the stalks, were the eggs in some places, and in
others worms already emerged from tbe egg,
and feeding upon the soft part of the stalk sur
rounding them.
We presume any planter can have abundant
proof of the theory in question. He has only
to look for it iu lhe stalks iu ids cottoa field.
This matter appears to us worthy of atten
tion. If the ega: is deposited in the stalk and
thus preserved and warmed into life and sus
tained through the Winter, fire is the remedy
beyond question.
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Fuel in Illinois.—Professor Worthen,
State Geologist, states that the coal measures
in Illinois over 40,000 square miles. Twenty
two counties have no coal of any consequence;
in the others the coal lies at a depth of from
one hundred to 0x hundred leet, so that it can
be mined. There are six thick and four thin
layers. The strata of the coal measures are
undisturbed, so that there are outcrops of the
coal in but few places. Some of the upper
layers are worked to advantage. Considerable •
beds of limestone are found in the upper mea
sures. Shafts may be sunk for 300 leet and
made profitable. The beds thicken toward the
south, and there are seven seams that can be
worked. These seams contain about three
hundred and sixty billion tons of coal, and
these resources will be abundant for a thousand
years yet.
Land Advancing.— Several land sales have
occurred iu this and neighboring counties dur
ing the past week. Tbe large estate of the late
Jesse Jackson brought a little over $lO per
acre. A. A. Willett sold his place at sl9 per
acre. Other sales have been made, some as high
ns $22 per acre. This movement in lands indi
cates belter times ahead. Even at these prices,
land is the best investment that can be made.
[Sumpter Republican, 4th.
An account of imprisonment in Siberia re
cently published in a Paris paper says the most
exquisite torture inflicted upon prisoners is
that of herring. Tbe unhappy man from whom
a confession is to be extorted is confined in a
well warmed room, with bread and water and
salted herrings for his only food. After several
days the bread is withdrawn, and then the
water, and the intense thirst which ensues
breaks down the prisoner’s resolution very
speedily, if it does not destroy his reason.
Tbe longest artillery range on record in Eng
land, viz : 10,300 j ards, wa* attained at Shoe
buryness last month, by Whitworth’s 9-iuch
muzzle-loader gun of fourteen tone, firing a
shot of two hundred aud fiftj pounds with a
charge of fifty pounds. It was claimed by
Northern artillery officers in Charleston that
the “Swamp Angel” threw shots from below
Fort Sumter into the upper part of the city, a
distance of seven miles.
Cincinnati on the Wane.—Tbe New Or
leans Times says the Western cities, though
growing in population and elegance with the
rapidity of Aladdin’s palace, do not wear well,
but soon reach the turning point in their
career. The last notable instance on record is
that of Cincinnati. Not only has the popula
tion decreased, but property has greatly de
preciated for want of occupants. Manufac
tures are almost at a stand-still; not a locomo
tive, steamboat, engine, hull, cabin, or sugar
mill being under way.
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Fears are entertained for the safety of the ar
tificial island built in the lower bay of New
York harbor for quarantine purposes.
The New York Democrat states the emolu
ments of the minor officers of that city at the
following sums per annum : Register, $50,000 ;
Sheriff, $56,000; Prosecuting Attorney, $50,000.
A man was shot and severely injured in
Asheville, N. C., a few days since, jn a black
smith shop, by placing an old gun barrel in the
fire, from which a minnie ball was discharged
into his body.
From the first of October, 1868, to the first of
December, 1,342 hogsheads of tobacco were
inspected in the various warehouses at Rich
mond. The stock on hand on the Ist of De
cember was 1,513 hogsheads.
The formal opening of the Manassas Railroad
to Harrisonburg will take place On tbe 15th of
December. A grand old Virginia feast will be
given by the citizens of that place on the oc
casion.
Travelers say that railway traveling is slower
and less comfortable in Italy than anywhere
else in the world.
The New York Times says the plots of the
thanksgiving theatrical plays in that city “con
sisted of all tbe indelicacies of the season.’’
The Cincinnati Enquirer has adapted the
penny system to advertising, which it does for
ten cents.
Double- breasted white velvet vests, cut low,
will be worn this Winter by gentlemen on full
dress occasions.
There is a rumor that there is a lake visible
from the Adirondacs, which, according to tra
dition, no has ever been able to reach.
A school under the Peabody dispensation is
in successful operation in Arcadia, La.
The Union Pacific Railroad placards posted
up in Chicago, announce “only ten days to
California.”
The Cincinnati Commercial regards Paraguay
as our Abyssinia.
The bar-rooms of Montgomery, Ala., pay
into the city treasury $15,000 a year.
The Boston Poss thinks we might soon re
sume specie payments from the number of
I “silver weddings” announced.