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SOUTHERN ENTERPRISE LUCIUS C. BRYAN, Editor and Proprietor.! Terms, $4.00 a year in Advance. j Law and Medical Cards. BRYAN & HARRIS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, TIIOUiIVILLti, A. f I*OFFICR 1 *OFFICR first door in second story of Stark's Confectionary. L. C BRYAN. U H. HARRIS. Mar 14 11 ts MITCHELL & MITCHELL. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, THOMASYILLE, : : : GEORGIA, Office over McLean’s store —opposite Mclntyre Sc Young's. W. D. Mitchell. R. G. Mitchell. •lime 6 lv S. B. Spescer. C P- Hassell. Spencer & Hansell, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, THOMASVILLiE 6 Will jfive prompt atntntion to all le*ral bnsi- Yiess Entrusted “to their care in the counties of the Southern Circuit —l*ee;ttnr of the Smith Western —and Clinch, Ware ami Appling, of the Brunswick Circuit. Hears. WoUT & Brother'■ S.ore. jsly 4-lj • _ , __ $ WM. HAYES. J. A. SEWARD HAYES & SEWARD, ATTORNEYS AT I,AW, THOMASYILLE, : : GEORGIA, augß 6m J. It. Reid, tl. 1). W. F. DctVilL.TI. . |)n. HUB A We WITT, OFFER their services to the citizens of Thomasvilie and vicinity, f t) I'i'lC Cat Dr. DeWitt’ $ Drug Store Feb a 8 ts l>r. T. S. lIOIBiI\S, OFFICE ■ > StbK LOT with RESIDEItI'E. h. O. AR.VOLB, RESIDENT DENTIST THCMASVILLE, GA. A be fonnd at the old ‘ t f stand occupied by him for the lust ten years j Aug 23-12 tu Dr. WTP. CLOWES -1 HAYING •pernnineiitly located in Thoinas . V’lle, Offers his l’rafcwioual ?*-rVi *-e to the public. 1 at the Drug Store of W.P. Flower Sc ('o. (■^RESIDENCE — the house formerlv oe- , copied by l>r. Brandon. mar 1 1 Iy fllilE greatest Purifier and Disinfectant f known—DARBY’S PROPHYLACTIC ( FLUID. For sale by W. P. CLOWER, j hag 23 Druggists. | C. S Rockwell, I Civil Engineer and Surveyor. 1.i,ml- Hnrreyril and IMat drawn in ihe le-l style of i!ie Art. Obdiuleft with A. P. W right, 1 honinsville, tia . will meet with prompt attention. June 20 2>-ti Commission Merchants. A, $!. SLOAN.‘ C. H. STUBBS. C, W. ST-EGA.LL. Sloan, Stubbs & Stegall, . Cotton Factors FORWARDING AND fJohjftjissio]} | g*. 4, Htddrd*n Lwr Range, Bay Street....... Savannah, (a. Sept 6 a "i j AUSTIN & ELLIS, COMM AID MIMS Mercliants, K•. SO BAY STREET, SAVANNAH, Thomas H. Austin, tSeorgia. ( Charles Ellis. Oct 4 3,n -—, —. ~ j E. Weitzfelder & Cos., i COMMISSION MERCHANTS AND Cotton Factors, 50 Leonard St.. XEYV YORK. usville. G;t.. arc acting oiir agents, and are prepared to make libernl advances on all con Jighments made to us through them, or directed lo*. . • ° Ct4tl .in s. davis & co., AUCTION COMMISSION AND | J’oVhMp'Jloc) THOMASVILLE, GA. 3 R.S. Davis. ‘ G. A. Jeffers. July 11 28 ts TISON & GORDON, COTTON FACTORS. tiun 410 FOSfARDIBB Mercliants, btbket. j SAVANNAH. GA. WM. H. TISON. . WM. W. GORDON. May 16 EMPIRE HAIR RESIORER. AN elegant Dressing, An infallible restorer of ( 'olor, And .a wonderful lurigorator of the H AIR. Prepared 1> v W. P. CLOWER Sc CO., Jun 31 5-ts . ‘ Apothecaries Hall. . ! I. KUBITSHEK.It BRO., Have Just Received ?.®® ,e< es Luest stvle Prints: a large lot of Bagging and Rope Spun Yarns. Osnaburgs, <>iiu->puas, Mnpets, &-C. \\ e will keep constantly on haml a larire stock of this class of •n( XK ] d which we now oiler at reduced rates at Wholesale'and Retail. W e get these goods direct from the Manufactories. ahd will sell at Factory P.ices, includ ing Freight. ■ FAMILY GROCERIES AT WHOLESALE. We are prepared to furnish Merchants and Planters with all descriptions of Faniilv Groce ries. at New l'ork prices, with Freights added. Nov J 5 E.D.SMYTHEiCo IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN GLASSWARE HAVE on hand (and are constantly receiving additions thereto) the largest stock of the above goods that has ever been offered in the Southern mar ket. Being Direct Importers and Manufacturers’ Agents, we are enabled to offer these goods at prices IS Li AS THEY CIS BE lOUHITII THE CITY IF Si 111! Or any other Northern city, thereby saving the purchaser the extra expense of Freight, Insurance and Breakage, and also the double profits of the Importer aud Jobber. Lists of Assorted Crates, containing only saleable goods, will be sent on ap plication. • . , • • Qaeensware House, 109 Broughton Street, SECOND DOOR WEST OF BULL, SAYANHAH, - - V6EOIMMA. Nov 15 3m S. B HARRINGTON, DEALER IN EVERY VARIETY Or!!H ‘Household and Office FURNITURE! MATTRESSES, Spring Sods, cfcc 1 ■* RECEIVING 41 MM mil hi A FULL ASSORTMENT OF CHOICE GOODS! SELECTED WITH CARE EXPRESSLY • FOR A SOUTHERN MARKET! PRICES AS LOW . ‘ ■ ‘• AS . any HOUSE IN THE TRADE! WAHEROOMS, 178 Broughton Street. NEARLY OPPOSITE ST. ANDREW’S HALL, SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. i * **’■■• Nov 15 ‘ 6tP i(REFN TEA of delicate flavor. For r sale by W. P. GLOWER & CO., aug 23 “ ‘ Druggists. FOR BAIiE.-Ob Portable Ingirii n„<l Grwt .mill, 6 horse power. En •joire at thisoffice. fK- IIANDELL & CO., WHOLESALE GUO CER E, .‘IOI A- ‘JO.'I BAY STREET, Savannah, : : : : Georgia. A large and complete assortment of Groce ries constantly oil baud; which are offered at lowest market prices. Special attention to Oiders accompanied by Remittances. . . Nov 10-diy ‘ I’tvo HI on l Its Police. GFAKGIA—TIioniaH fonnly. ON ihe first Monday in December next, I will apply to the honorable Court of Ordinary of said County, for an order granting leave to sell the Lands of William Collins, deceased— wiejw’s dower excepted. ELIZABETH COLLINS, Oct 18-2 m Adm’x. Forty Days Volice. GKORGIV—ThonniH Couatf. A * rr cable to an order and bv authority from the honorable Court of Ordinary of sai'd Comity, will be sold before the Courthouse door, in Tbomusville, said County, within the legal hours of sale, ou the first Tuesday in De cember next. the Ileal Estate and Heine Place of \\ illiain (. ollins, deceased—widow's dower excepted, Terms on day of stile. ELIZABETH COLLINS, Get-18-41‘d Adrn'x. G I*. O RGl.i—Cl inch Con ti ly. stIXTV Days after date, and from the loth day of November inet., application will be made to riie honorable Court of Ordinary, of said County, for an order granting leave to sell the lands belonging to the minor heirs of Rich ard Bure halt er, late of said County, dec'd RACHEL BUUCHALTEII, Nov l 6od Guardian. Notice to Planters. FJ AH E undersigned being in connection with Fa Baltimore house, are prepared to fur nish planters with all kinds of Fertilizers, at Baltimore prices, freight added. Orders for Peruvi -n Guano, Turner's Excel sior, or anv of ihe Super l*f ospliates shouid tie sent in early. IN c oiler anew Fertilizer at a cheap rate. .JAS. li. SMITH & CO. Ousley's Station, Ga., Nov 8 45 ts NOTICE TO BUILDERS riIHE undersigned are prepared to fill all or- A ders for Sasll, Blinds, Doors, &.C., At a slight advance on Baltimore prices. Thev will furnish a list ot raies ou application. All orders for Glass, Putty and Paiut* filled with dispatch at Baltimore rates. JAS. 11. SMITH Sc CO. Ousley’s Staiion. Ga., Nov 8 45-ts GliOUGlA—Thomns l oamy. Court of Ordinary, Oct. 26,1866. Whereas, G. G. Gibbs makes application to this Cou.lt for Letters of Guardianship for persons, 1 roperty and effects of the minor neire, children of John Futeh deceased .—All per sons interested are therefore notified to tile their objections in court, otherwise said letters will be granted the applicant in terms of the law, ou tlie first Monday in December next. i , . ‘ H. 1L TOOKE, Noy 8-30d ‘ ~ - rtefffffdY--.- <• EORt’lA—l.mimic- County. Wbrivas. Jesse Hardee applies to motor letters of administration on. the estate of C. J. Limeberger, deceased All persons are here by notified to file their objections, otherwise said letters will be granted in terms of the law. Given under mv hand. October 29,18i ; 6. VYM. G. SMITH, Nov 8 30d ‘ Ordinary. 4<lin in is! ralor's Sale.. IVT ILL be sold before the Court House door ft in Louudes, on the first’ Tuesday in De .cenib'er next, the fallowing property, to wit: Number 7. Block 14. being 4 by <K) feet, as the property of Solomon Newsom, late of said, couutv, deceased, ’ ‘ . T. B. GRIFFIN, Nov Btd ‘ ■ i Adto’r. SWEET OPOPON AX ! New Perfume irom Mexico.- The only fashionable Perfume and ladies’ delight. oct 18-3 m Tkomasville, Georgia, Thursday, December 6, 1860, A Alight Proprrt f Civil War in Wa-hiugtOH [From the Washington Union, Nov. 10.] We perceive from the Chronicle that Forney, true to his .instinct,*, is attempting to inflame the public mint] by calling upon the Loyal Leaguers as they are termed, to organize them selves and come to Washington lor the purpose of protecting and vindica ting the power of Congress orcr the constitutional rights of the President which Is nothing more nor less tl.au a revolution, which must be met with decision and firmness. If Forney & Cos are determined to persist in the course they have marked out, it is the bounden duty of the friends of the President to accept the issue thus presented, and prepare themselves for the struggle. If the time has arrived when the legislative department of the Govern.- ment is to absorb the coordinate branches, the time has als arrived when it should be resisted at the point ot the bayonet. We are in favor of the constitutional rights of every de< partment of the Government, which can only be maintained by each acting within the prescribed limits of the Constitution. When Congress shall transcend these limits for the purpose of absorbing the powers of the Presi dent, it is revolutionary, and lie is jus tilied in calling to his aid the whole military power of the country, which would be responded to from North to South, East, to West ; and, when this formidable array of fighting material shall present themselves in vindication of the Constitution, this grand army ot “ Loyal Leaguers,” as they style themselves, whose loyalty consist in plundering the public treasury, skulk ing from the army when their services were needed, and now exciting the country to revolution, will never pres ent themselves in battle array. The war will be for the Constitution—not plunder ; for the independence of the three co-ordinate branches of the Go vernment, and against either one ab sorbing the functions of the other. If the programme presented by For ney & Cos. is the true and legitimate ground upon which the Radical Con gress intends to plant itself, we say to the friends of the President let ua ac cept the issue, and at once organize for the struggle. Let our friends in every hamlet and village organize themselves at once, and be ready for the conflict. Let. tbeir watch words be the Constitu tion—the independence of the Presi dent in the execution of his constitu tional rights—and a united country upon terms of equality and justice, and present themselves also in Washington, where these Loyal Leagures uray have a fair opportunity oflooking upon the material with whom they will have to lock horns, if they attempt to absorb the constitutional powers of this Go vernment. The impeachn ent of the Picsident is a sine qua non fur war, and the friends of the President accept the’ issue. - ► ■ THE METEORIC SHOWER. LETER FROM PROFESSOR I.OOMIS —1,- 500 SHOOTING STARS AT YALE COL LEGE — WHAT THEY ARE. Yale College, Thursday, Nov. ’ 15th, 1860. To the Editors of the Evening Past.: On Monday night, November 12, a company of observers at this place counted 096 shooting stars in five hours ani twenty minutes, which is about four times the average number visible lor the same period throughout the year. On Tuesday night, Nov. Id, another company counted 881 shooting stars in five hours, which is five times the average number. On Wednesday night the sky was overcast, so that no observations c nuld be mu le. W c conclude, tl en, that the number of shooting stars visible about the 18th, was very rerno k ;bk ; nevertheless this (lisp ay is not to be compared with that of Nov. 8, 1833, in which the number of meteors was variously e ti uiated at irom ten thousand, to thirty thousand per hour. The grand display therefore, wt.ich it was supposed might po-sibly occur this year, has not been witnessed in the United States, and probably not in tturope, or it would have been announced to us by tele graph. It may have been witnessed iu Asia or the Pacific ocean, but if such had been the case it seems pro-- bable that the number visible in the United States would have been greater than it was. The telegram in this mori.ing’s Herald, purporting to have come from . Gre-nwicli, is evidently spurious It is therefore probable that there has not been witnessed this year in any part of the world a display ol r- a. all to be comp red with the grand di^tav'U:^^ As an unusal interest in subject appears to have heen excited, some of your roadi rs niay wish an answer to the questions; What -are shooting stars? and, How do we account for their periodical display in unusual numbers ? Shooting stars mav, with out much i-ni] ropriety, be called little comets. Each me cor is a small body generally of very Jitile density, revolv ing about the sun in an elliptic orbit,, and governed by thY.‘•ante laws as the larger planets, Jupiter rnd Saturn. - The average number of those bodies which encounter the earth every day i is several millions, and still there is no perceptible decrease from year to year. The total fluuibet’ of these bodies, therefore, belonging, to our solar sys tem, must be reckoned by millions of million * The earth in its motion about the sun, witli a velocity of nine teen mil s per second, is continually cuc< unlering. more or less of these bodies, and- they plunge into - our -at mosphere with velocities varying from ten to forty miles per second, by which ( means heat is developed sufficient to I ignite them, and they are entirely consumed, generally in a . siugle second, and at an elevation of about fifty miles above the earth’s surface Occasionally we encounter bodies of greater density,, which cannot be . so readily consumed, and they reach the earth's surface, sometimes entire, at other times in a fragmentary condition. Samples of such meteors are to be found in all mineralogical collections in this country and Europe. The periodical display of shooting stars iu unusal numbers indicates that they are not distributed uniformly thriughout the solar system, but are collected in vast numbers in certain regions, while in other regions they are comparatively few. Shooting scars are annually seen in great numbers on the 10th of August; and since each meteor is moving iu its orbit with great velocity, wh le every year we find large numbers ol them near the same point of the earth’s orbit, we conclude that they are arranged in a ring or zone, intersecting the earth’s orbit at a point which the earth passes on the 10th of August. . Li older to explain the. recurrence ol aw unusal number of shooting stars year after year, about the loth of No vember, we -suppose-there is another ring of these minute bodies, somewhat inclined to the ecliptic. Throughout the different portions of this ring, the meteors are distributed in unequal numbers, but there is one portion where the number is immensely great and it is this portion which the eatth encounters at intervals of about thirty three years.’ According to Professor 11. A. Newton, the reaso-n. that * bis display returns only once in thirty three ycats is the following; Each meteor of the November group moves in an orbit which is n arly circular, with a mean distance from the sun either a little lesss or a little greater than that of the earth, and a period about eleven days less or greater than one year. The earth encountered the densest'portion of this group in No vembur, 1532, but the next year this portion passed eleven days before or after the earth returned to that point cf its orbit; the following year the difference . amounted .to twenty-two days , so that, at the end of about thirty-three years it must, gain or lose one entire revolution, and return near ly to the position where it must en counter the earth. If we receive no accounts of an unusual display of. me teors this week in any part of the world, \vc shall look with considerable confidence for such a display on No vember 14,1867. E. L. ■ * ♦ —* Greelcpi Secession Pledge*. From the N. Y. Tribune, of Nov. 9,1860. If the cotton States shall , become satisfied that they can do better out of the Union than in it, we insist on let ting them go in peace. The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless.. * * We must ever resist the right of any State to remain in the Union and nulli fy or deny the laws thereof. To with draw from the Union is quite another matter. Whenever a considerable section of the Union shall deliberately resolve to go out we shall resist all coercive measures designed to keep it in. We hope never to live in a Re public whereof one section is pinned to another by bayonets. From the Tribune Nov-. 26, 18G0. If the cotton States unitedly aid earnestly wish to withdraw peacefully from the Union, we think they should and would be allowed to do so.- Any attempt to compel them by force to remain would be contrary to the prin ciples enunciated in the immortal De claration of Independence, contrary to the fundamental ideas on which hu, man liberty is based, From the Tribune , Dec. 17, 1860. If it (the Declaration of Indepen dence) justified the secession from the British Empire of three millions of Colonists in 1776, we do ru t see why it would not justify the secession of five millions of Southrons from the Union . in IS6I. From the Tribune , Feb . 22, 1862, Whenever it shall be clear that the great body ,jsL~ + t ’fc...i;iMDhprr> ncgnlc have become conclusively alienated ; from the Union, arid anxious to escape from it, we will do our best to forward their views. Wwle Up, Bloinn !. r “Sol. wake up-, it’s time to get up,” shouted youhg Harry to his sluggish, brother one fine July morninef, as be began dre-sing himself. . u What time is it?” yawned Solo 1 roerr. . Nearly, six/’ replied his brother ! ‘and mind Sol, we start at seven,’ ‘lt’s too early to go up yet,’ said Sol ! om-on, DJI snooze till quarter to seven,’ So tbe lazy fellow ItirnPd found and was soon fast asleep again. When he awoke his room looked very full of sunshine. The house was very quiet, too, and rubbing his eyes, he mutter ed ‘I wonder if it is seven o’clock yet V Crawling out of his bed he dressed himself and wept down stairs. .There was nobody in the parlor, nobody in the sitting room. What can be the matter thought Solomon. . ‘Where are they all ?’ lie asked. . ‘Gone to the city,’ replied the maid, ‘they.started two hours ago.’ ‘ Why, what time is. it ?’ • ‘Nine O’clock ! But why didp’t they call me • . . ‘iou were called at six o’clock and • wouldn’t’ get up. . Vour father wouldn’t have you called again. He said be would teach yo.u a lesson.’ * ‘lt’s too bad !’ cried Solomon, drop ping his head upon the- table and bursting into tears. . ’. . ‘ It was too bad that the lazy boy did not learn the lesson of that morn ing so as turn over anew leaf in the book of life. lam sorry to say lie did not.. He loved sleep. He hated work. He was the slave of lazy habits and is . so to this day. . W hat sort of a man will Solomon slow coach be ? Well if he don’t die of idleness before he becomes a man lie will be a shiftless,good-for-nothing fellow, He won’t havFknowledge, be cause he is 100 lazy to study j nor any inoney,. because ho is too lazy to work ; nor any good character, because he is too lazy to conquer himself \\ ako up, Solomon ! Wake up my dear boy. . Shake off the chains that are upon you! Be manly, be wide awake,, be something ! If you don’t wake up,you will soon be a lost boy. Wake up, Solomon, wake up! If you don’t you will make a shipwreck of your life. . • P. Butler Appleton’s Cy clopedia of Biography gives the follow ing account of one Spoony Butler’s ancestral relatives : Butler, John. —Thp atrocities com mitted by this miscreant during the revolutionary war, almost exceed be lief. He was a native of but removed to the Valley of Wyom ing, where, in 1778, at the head of 1,600 men, of which 300 wefe Indians,’ and the rest tories painted like- In diana, he attacked the towns and villa ges of that romantic region, and indis- I ctiminately massacred those who sub. initt-ed as well as those who fought, women aud children-as well as men.; To the question, what terms would be granted, he replied— ■** the hatchet !” People, of both sexes and every age were indiscriminately shut up in houses, which were then set on fire; some were held down in the flames by pitch-forks, and, in one insttnee, at least, a pour wretch had his body stuck lull of pine knot splinters and then burned etc. Our only comment is, that “ blood will tell.” . ‘ . What an Editor Saw at a Cir cus. —Dan Castello’s circus exhibited at Charlottesville the other day, and the editor of the Chronicle went .tO see it. He thus speaks of the animals he saw: ■ I saw a tiger in Dan Castello’s show exactly like Thad Stevens ; a hyena that might have been begotten by old Butler ; a buzzard the very image of Judge Underwood ; a beautiful set pent which I named “Greeley;’’ a lion what looked like General Lee; an ea gle that looked like General Jackson ; a bear that looked like General Grant;, a jackal that looked like Forney, a peacock that looked like a woman of fashion ; a jackass that reminded me of the Northern Democracy, and an owl that reminded me of my own pro- ■ session. • -4 -• • 1 ‘ . George Peabody given 8159,000 to found and maintain a Museum and Professorship of Ameri can Archaeology in connection with Harvard University. Gorcrnor Jenkins’ Melange To the Legislature, on the Georgia anil Florida Boundary Line. ■ . Executive Department, ) Milledgeville, 13th To the General Assembly X I came into office -under the impres* ’ sion that the vexed question at the boundary between Florida aod Geor gia bad been amicably and finally set tled, I was, therefore,, greatly sun prised.to find, during the late spring, that the inhabitants of a narrow strip of territory, which I suppose may be called the “debatable grounds, * were being called upon by tbe receivers of to make re turns of their taxable property Thts~ produced no little anexiety and ex citement among those good citizens who would be highly appreciated by either State. There was in this a conflict of authority, which, if not ehecked, might in time have imperil ed the peace of the border. Under this impression, I proposed to Governor Walker, of. Florida, that all aouon in reference to taxation be suspended until I could.carefully investigate the subject With the history of which I was not very famil af. Gov. Walker in the /spirit of amity and. courtesy which it is to be hoped will always ob VOL, VI.- No. 48. tain between the State?, promptly ac ceeded to the propo> tion, My inves tigations have satisfied me that this is no longer to be regarded as an open question. It is Unnecessary to review the Whole history of the controversy. Your attention is, invited to a point in it when a renewed attempt at arnica, ble adjustment between the parties, af. ter repeted failures, was agreed upon; and to what ensued-. You are aware that having been unable to agree, yet Unwilling to protract the controversy; the parties resorted to a suit in the Supreme Court of the United States, in the progress of which that Govern* ment was made a party. At this stage) of the case the. Governor of. Florida proposed that the terminal points of the then existing line be agreed upon, that a line bo run from one to the oth< er by two canmiissioners, one to be ap. pointed by each State, and that the line so run be established as the boun dary. By resulution of the 27th De. cember, 1857, the General Assembly accepted the proposition in regard to the terminal points, arid in a commen dable spirit declared that Georgia, would adopt either of the then existing lines between these points or any other that might be !surveyed,- and . marked, by virtue of law and the joint, action) of the two States. Authority was’ given by the same Act to'the Gover nor,'to appoint a competent Surveyor to run out and mark distinctly such a line between the designated points in conjunction with a Surveyor to be ap pointed by the State of Florida. In pursuance of this agreement, Gustavus J. Orr was appointed by the Governor • of Georgia, and B. F. Whitner, by the • Governor of Florida, to run and mark said line. Whilst these Surveyors “ were engaged in the work assigned them, the General Assembly of Geor gia, by an act assented to 17th Decem ber, 1859, enacted, ‘‘that if the Statd of Florida shall duly recognize, and, by law, declare the line now being run by the joint Surveyors of Florida and Georgia, that is to say, the first line-. run by them from the Western to the Eastern designated terminus, as the ’ permanent boundary line between the two States, that the said line is here by recognized, adopted and declared on the part of Georgia, as the true and permanent line of boundary, provided, . nevertheless, on the Eastern termi nus it does not depart exceeding one- . ■ fourth of a mile from Ellicott’s mound/ The line was run out and marked, and its eastern terminus did not “de* part one-fourth of a mile from Elli oott’s mound.” Indeed the variance being reported as only twenty-four feet, is inappeaciable, and for all prac ticable purposes, the line may be taken to have terminated at that mound. . It would seem then, that nothing • more was wanted to bind Georgia to this line, than Florida’s recognition of it by Legislative cnactmeut.. Whilst this survey was in progress, the leg islature of Florida enacted a law, ap • proved 22nd of December, 1859, of’ the same tenor aiid effect with the a bove recited Act of the state of Oeor gia. •. After the completion of the line, the Legislature of Florida passed reso lutions, approved February Bth 1861, referring to the above Act declaring the line run by Surveyors Orr and Whitnef as the permanent boundary between the States, and authorising the Governor of the State to- issue a” prod rmation. to that- effect", provided that by authority of rbe Legislature of Georgia the same thing be done by th* Governor here. I transmit’ herewith a copy (>f these resolutions now on file in this department,’ authenticated by the great seal of the State., By the 17th and 21st sections, of the-Code, which was made'the law of Georgia, first by adoptiom Act approved Decern her 19th, 1860, and- secondly by the fifth clause, Ist section,-and, sth arti’ cle of the Constitution ordained and established by the Convention of 1865, this identical line is declared to •be the boundary between Florida and ; Georgia. Surely, this should have ded the controversy. The State of Florida so holds. 1 respectfully sub mit that, the. State of Georgia must so hold, unless she determines to ignore a law enacted by her Legislature and solemnly recognized as law by her . people in Convention nearly five year* after.’ I regret to add, however, that the Geueral Assembly, by resolution, as sented to Dec 11th, .1861, re-opened, the controversy by providing for the appointment of Commissioners on the part of Georgia, and requesting the . appointment of Commissioners’ On the) part of Florida to hold further confer ence’ on this vexed question. The Legislature of Florida, with coimnen •uulali f rio^ >y considerar tion,” acceded to the request/C-oMhil*/ stoners were appointed on both sldea and entered into conference in month of December 1862, Messrs, Wright and Erkgiqe on tho part of Georgia proposed that a line known as the Western line be adopted as tho boundary. Messrs Banks and Papy, on the part of Florida, declined the proposition, and insisted that the .pre vious action of the Legislature of the two States had established the Orr and Whitner line, and so this effort ended without changing the status of question.