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ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT-” Jefferson.
VOLUME XVIII.
ATLANTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31,1866.
NUMBER 5.
IDttklt) Intrlligcnrer.
PUBLISHED DAILY AND WEEKLY BY
JABED I. WHITAKER,
Proprietor.
JOHN H. NTERLE, - - -
Editor.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, January 31, 1806.
Observation! on tlie Small-Pox.
Tlic Columbus Sun notices a communication
from Dr. E. P. Guinea in tljc Mobile Tribune on
the Small j»ox which gives some interesting re
sults of observations made chiefly in Europe.—
These, it says, “go to show that though there are
some jtersons with whom the preventive effects of
vaccination lasts a long lifetime, it is safest for
all persons to l»e re-vaccinated whenever the
disease prevails in their neighborhoods. I ft lie sys
tern retains the effects of a prior vaccination,
new one will not “take,” and if it does take
second or third time, this is proof that the sys
tem was liable to small pox in some form. Re
cords of the Prussian army show that out of
hIhuiI folly thousand soldiers re-vaccinated, it
“look” in about one-third of the cases; amongst
Russian Holdiers re-vaccinated, the number on
which it had effect a second time was abouteigli
tccu per cent.; and of Danish soldiers more than
one half took a second time. Individual cases
have been known in which re-vaccination at pe
riods as early as eighteen months and three years
after the first operation took perfectly. Some
persons, however, can never be re-vaccinated.
It is believed that vaccination once perfectly per
formed lias the effect of modifying an uttack of
small (Sox at any stage of life. And it is contend
ed that even after small pox has commenced vac
cination will modify the disease. Second attacks
of small pox are referred to, but the mortally in
such cases does not appear to have been as great
as in original attacks.”
In the present condition of our city, enveloped
as it were, by this loathsome discuse, any infor
mation connected with its treatment, or as a pre
ventative, is worth considering. To one fact,
our attention has recently been called. In a
family of three negro children, vaccination did
not “take," although the operation was jicrform-
cd by a skillful physician who felt assured that
lie was using genuine vaccine matter. These
children had never before been vaccinated. Wo
know not, but there may he many more similar
cases in our city, and as the city authorities
authorized this vaccination, would it not he well
lo institute inquiry, and see how far this failure
has extended. Every quarter of our city is in
fected bv this disease. The preventative should
he applied, “forcibly if iUimst."
Beecher on Reconstruction.
“Wonders will never cease! ” The Reverend
Ilonry Ward Beecher recently delivered a lec
ture in Music Hull, Boston, in which he urged
moderation and forgiveness to, not blood and re
venge upon, the South. Is not this wonderful ?
But hear him on “reconstruction” and negro
suffrage!
“For the North to demand of the South that
she should give the right hand of suffrage to the
black man would he the most ungracious thing
lie had heard done. He spoke of Massachusetts
and other States where the negro is allowed to
vote, anil of Connecticut and other States where
lie is not, and then said that if we should say to
the South that they should not come back into
the Union until tlie black man is allowed to vote,
then the gravitation of the national heart would
not be able to withstand this, and the construct
ive part for the next twenty-five years might be
t he Copperheads. They are not the men into
w hose hands should he thrown the fabrics whicli
arOto lie woven into the new garments which the
nation is to wear in future years. They" must not
expect that the men who have submitted to an
overpowering military force will rejoice at their
own downfall and spring up and kiss the hand
which whipped them, lie did not think it
strange that some of the Southern men grumbled
after defeat, unii he thought they should be al
lowed lo grumble the same as a boy to cry after
lie has been whipped. They must not expect
that men educated under different institutions
and to political principles totally at defiance with
our own, to readily adopt new ones from the
Northern men. They must not expect that men
who have always regarded negroes as scmi-liu-
tnan, to go for the whole doctrine of suffrage and
citizenship.”
No, indeed, the North must not expect
the men of the South to go for the whole doc
trine of negro suffrage and citizenship. Mr.
Beecher is right. Such an expectation will meet
with disappointment. As well might the radicals
at the North have expected to see the South
emancipate their former slaves voluntarily, as to
expect it now to go for uegro suffrage. The par
son is right for once in his life.
Dispatches from New Orleans give tlie partic
ulars of a dash, on the 4th instant, by 400 fili
busters from the American side of the Rio
Grande, on the Mexican town of Bagdad. The
Imperial garrison, variously stated at from 150 to
-275, was surprised and captured without an en
gagement. At day-light, the French inen-of-war
opened fire, hut, up to last advices, had not dis
lodged the filibusters. The latter were com
manded by a Colonel Reed. 1,200 Imperialists
are reported on their wayvto attack them. A full
statement of the affair will be found in another
column.
Mr. A. Roberts, of the Nashville Banner, has
fallen a victim to small-pox. The Union & Amer
ican says: “We are equally gratified at the an
nouncement that he retains his wonted good hu
mor and does not consider himself dangerous.—
We trust, howsoever much our sympathies may
be enlisted, he will not expect that we should ex
press any desire that he should be pitted. We
ask pardon for using his own pun, but, under all
the circumstances, it could not he avoided. Get
up, Happy, and come in."
The numerous friends of Stephen IX Lee,
late a prominent General in the Confederate ar
my, will be gratified to learn that he is in excel
lent health and spirits. He now resides near
Columbus, Miss., where he married last year.
The Geueral is engaged in planting, and writes
cheeringly and hopefully as to the future.
Trial of Gen. II. W. Mercer.—The trial of
this gentleman at Savannah, by a military' court,
has closed. We have no doubt that he will lie
acquitted, as the evidence was clear that he knew
nothing of the proceedings of the court martial
that condemned the seven men to death, conse
quently did not order their execution.
Col. E. M. Galt.—We are pained to learn
that this gentleman, who commanded at the close
of the war the “First Regiment Georgia State
Line,” died recently in Acworth. He was a gal
lant gentleman and leaves many friends to
mourn his loss.
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Tiie largest crop of corn ever raised in the
West was produced during 1S65. It is used ex
tremely as a substitute for coal, and makes a hot
ter fire. Com is now selling in Chicago for 37
cents per bushel, which is cheaper as fuel than
coal at ten dollars per ton.
Gens. Heath, Pillow, Hood, Longstreet, and
other Southern leaders, are said to have visited
Cincinnati and engaged there sixteen hundred
white laborers and purchased eight hundred cot
ton ploughs.
Gen. Hooker has beeu struck with paralysis.
Caury Etna,
As Governor Jenkins has called the atten
tion of tlie Legislature to this subject, and as it
is now attracting the attention of the people to a
considerable extent, we have tliouglil of making
some suggestions in reference to it, and would
have done so to-day, hut seeing the following in
the Richmond Sentinel wc present it to our read
ers as embracing views so similar to our own
that we adopt, and commend it to their consid
eration :
“It is hard for the wheel to leave a deep worn
rut. It is hard for men, and especially for legis
lators, to abandon old ideas and old prescriptions
The traveled track may no longer be safe. It
may have worn through, or it may have become
ol»structed, or some temporary necessity may de
mand a temporary divergence; but many will
encounter all these difficulties sooner than forsake
the lieaten way.
“We cannot account, except upon supposition
of tlie sway of this liabit, lor the extreme reluc
tance, nay, the stubborn opposition, manifested
to such modification of our usury laws as tlie
circumstances of the times demand. Capital was
never so much needed among us, and yet was
never liefore so scarce. The times are exception
al in an extraordinary degree; and yet, for want
of the wisdom or the courage to adapt our laws
to the occasion, we are doing nothing to accom
modate ourselves to the altered circumstances.—
Other States which need capital far less than we
are doing far more to attract it. Nay, the very
capital that is in our midst, is tempted abroad, by
the greater returns offered for the use of it.
citizen of Virginia with five thousand dollars to
lend—if we may suppose such a case without of
fense to probability—would find it to liis advati
tage to send it to New York to be loaned, rather
Ilian to Richmond, because New York is paying
a higher interest
“In such a state of things it is evident that al
though Virginia is a monetary vacuum, it is not
such a vacuum as “nature abhors.” There is no
wish to fill it. There is no flow of capital hither.
On the contrary, the drain is in the other diree
lion. New York, which is the great centre of
capital in this country, is likewise the sea to
wards whicli all streams flow. We do our part
here in Virginia to swell the tide of wealth that
pours into Gotham. We are requiring our mon
ey-lenders to send their means to New York for
investment under penalty of two per cent, per
annum if they retain them here. The effect
upon our monetary affairs is necessarily disas
trous. We need money far more here than it is
needed in New York, but it will not come here.
It will not stay here. For many of the purposes
that press upon us we could afford to pay more
for money than can be afforded in New York.
Tlie horse that is to plough the ground, the seed
that is to sprout the harvest, the fence that is to
protect the crop, arc better procured at double
price than not obtained at all. The property
that is unproductive for want of repairs, not a
fifth or tenth of its value, may well pay a high
interest for the needed sum, rather than lie
waste. There are numberless cases in our pres
ent prostrate condition, in whicli it would be far
better t<5 have a little money at a high price than
not to have it at all.
“We know it is argued that there are many'
branches of business that cannot afford a higher
rate of interest than six per cent.; and tlie farm
ing community are often specially named in this
connection. But there are several answers to
this. All articles of produce are higher than
ever'hefore, and an advance of interest would
only correspond to the advance in everything
else. Nobody would he compelled to borrow if
his interests on the whole did not justify it. It
is better to pay a higher interest for a time, than
to pay enormous advances in credit prices, or he
compelled to leave one’s farm wholly untilled
and desolate.
“But it is to lie remembered that restricting
the rate of interest does not guarantee loans at
tlie specified rate; it onfy tends to make loans
impossible. It forces no man to lend money, it
only tends to drive money away. It aims to
protect citizens from high rates, but it tends to
put all rates out of their option.
“Wliat is the practical operation of this at
tempted restriction of the rate of interest, below
what it brings elsewhere, and what it would
bring in open market ? It greatly diminishes
the capital for loan, and thus greatly increases the
quest and demand for it This enables tlie lend
er to demand and to obtain the most enormous
rates; five per cent a month, or a hundred per
cent, per annum, or whatever sum avarice and
monopoly may suggest, and while thus fleecing
the unhappy borrower, he lays the blame upon
the law, which makes his leans hazardous, and
obliges him to charge ‘something lor the risk.’ It
is thus that the law against- usury protects those
whose business requires the use of money', at
whatever price! It is thus, that in attempting
to make a cheaper market for money hire, than
obtains where money is in greater supply, it
hands over citizens, hound hand and foot to the
mercies of the extortioner.”
“Well may the borrower say, save me from my
friends if such be their friendly service! That
such is the operation of the six per cent, pre
scription at this time, there can be no doubt. It
keeps money away and forces it to he sought
through tortuous and demoralizing devices and
on ruinous terms. Why not, under our circum
stances of peculiar distress, try here the experi
ment which has worked so happily as a perma
nent system elsewhere ? Why not give Richmond,
if but for the season, something of the same fa
cilities for building its waste places which have
covered Manhattan Island with palaces ? If the
Legislature cannot give positive help to a suffer
ing people, it may at least remove fatal impedi
ments. It may take away the shackles which
our wasted limbs can no longer support.
“The proposition to allow a rate of interest not
exceeding ten per cent, if agreed upon by con
tract—in all other cases, six per cent, to be
charged as at present—is one to which there can
be no Talid objection—none which has not been
exploded by the actual experience of other
States. Its adoption, while it would allow an
increase in the nominal rate of interest, would
diminish incalculably the sums now actually paid
for interest in the various circuitous forms, and
would secure to our people those monetary ac
commodations of which we are now in most ur
gent need. Who can deny the coveted relief,
and condemn a deeply suffering people to tmne-
cessary inflictionsV”
Falvenltf of Georgia.
This article which appears in our paper to
day, over the signature of “Georgia,” is from the
pen of one oi the alumnte of “Franklin College,”
and will doubtless attract much attention, if not
controversy. ’ The author is a citizen of Georgia
and stands high in the estimation of those who
know him. We do not design—at least in pub
lishing the article, it is not cur intention to en
dorse, or to controvert any of the positions he as
sumes in reference to our “State University.”—
We leave this, at least few the present, to those
whose knowledge of the subject exceeds ours.—
We publish the communication, as we shall
cheerfully publish any reply to it, simply because
whatever concerns our State University, or the
subject of education, is a matter of too touch pub
lic interest to refuse to it a place in oar columns.
[communicated.]
The Legislature and the State University,
The recent Convention of the people of Geor
gia enjoined upon the next Legislature to revive
the University of Georgia, and to endow the same.
The injunction of a body so august is to be re
ceived with profound respect, and in its letter, as
well as its spirit, is to he obeyed, unless that body
was laboring under obvious error.
The injunction to revive the State University
admits of no hesitation on tlie part of the Legis
lature. If, however, it should be found that this
Institution is already sufficiently endowed, in
view of the wants and pecuniary ability of the
State, then further endowment would be unne
cessary.
We, as a people, are now in a transition state.
We have passed through a -violent revolution
as after a heavy storm at sea, damages are to be
repaired, and careful examination is made to see
whether that which is to he made new cannot he
made better than that which is old, it is our
duty, as a people, to ascertain in all things
whether we cannot improve upon the former pat
tern. If a man’s fence has been burned, or his
buildings destroyed, it will he his effort to re
build of better materials, in a more convenient
form, and in a better place. All history teaches
that tlie most scourging revolutions have in the
end resulted in the advantage of those who have
suffered or their posterity. We may bum out
dross, but cannot consume the pure metal.
These trite thoughts are of force in their appli
cation to the State University. Tlie exercises of
that Institution have been interrupted. A portion
of its property lias been destroyed ; its buildings,
library and apparatus have been preserved. It
becomes the Legislature to make an examination
at this juncture into the past liistoiy of that
school of learning; to inquire into the appropria
tion ol its funds; the competency of its faculty;
the character of its trustees, including their fit
ness for their position ; its moral and intellectual
influence upon the youth of the State, and, above
all, whether a university in the broad sense of
the word, and without a burlesque upon it, is
practicable in a population of less than 700,000
whites.
It is proposed to consider these points; and if
the discussion of these topics should involve any
censure upon the organization or conduct of the
University, it must not be set down either in hos
tility to the University or to the cause of educa
tion in Georgia. The writer is a graduate of
Franklin College. The recollections of his col
lege life are among the pleasantest memories of
his early years. It is far from his purpose to do
or say anything to the injury of his alma mater.
Can we have a university in Georgia in the
usual sense of the word ? That is to say, a
school of learning in which the whole circle of
the sciences shall be taught by competent men.
It is in the nature of things impossible. A Uni
versity requires the following pre-requilites: A
numerous population,among whom there is much
wealth, great competition in intellectual pursuits,
and a willingness on the part of young men to
delay their entrance upon active life until a com
paratively late period ot life. We have not one
of these pre-requisites. We have a small popu
lation, we have little wealth, we have little com
petition in intellectual labors, and onr young men
enter upon their professions almost immediately
after graduation. Who among them is disposed
to incur the expense and delay of a University
course ? The few who desire such a course go
to Europe.
We can have and have had a most valuable
State College. We cannot make a small thing
large by giving it a big name, but we can make
it ridiculous. A Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor,
Board of Trustees, Faculty, &c., to preside over
about one hundred hoys—not a larger number—
and of not more advanced years than Dr. Wad-
del and Dr. Bemans were accustomed to teach in
tlieir respective schools.
Before the war the property of Franklin Col
lege was estimated at $300,000, besides the an
nual appropriation. The interest on this sum is
$21,000. For many years there has probably
not been an average graduating class of more
than twenty-one young men. Each student,
when graduated, costs the State $1,000, besides
tlie expenditure of his parents, which would be
fulfy as much more, for liis food and clothing.—
Let our Legislators consider this fact. The State
paying a thousand dollars to educate the son of a
rich man ! Is this just to the thousands of poor
young men who cannot get tlie rudiments of an
English education ? I do not desire to diminish
the number of graduates, or to injure our College,
but by calling attention to this glaring fact, awa
ken such inquiry as will correct tlie evil.
Three points deserve the special attention of
the Legislature in connection with Franklin Col
lege. 1st. The present organization of the Board
of Trustees. That Board consists of twenty-four
members; of these, ten are residents of Athens.
Old Athens could scarcely furnish ten competent
members of a Board of Trustees of a University.
Can we expect to find that number in a little
town of some 3,000 whites ? Let the friends of
tlie College take the list and read it. They will
find some names which would do honor to any
literary board, but of others it is not necessary
to speak. It is rare that more than eighteen
members of the Boaid assemble. These ten res
idents constitute a majority. The affairs of the
Board may thus be settled in advance. Many of
our most prominent and best qualified men have
left that board in disgust.
The funds of the College have been misman
aged by putting up unnecessary buildings, iron
railings, &c., while they have not increased the
apparatus, museum or library. They erected an
expensive stone building for an Academy, which,
however useful or ornamental to the town of
Athens, was of no use to the State, whose money
built it_ At that time the College was too poor
to subscribe for Silliman’s Journal.
That Board should be re-organized, to be com
posed of an equal number from each Congres
sional District. No resident Executive Commit
tee should be allowed, but the expenses of the
Board shoDid be paid when the College needed
the presence of the members.
2d. A change should be made in the organiza
tion of the Faculty. The pay of the members
should depend entirely, or to a considerable ex
tent, upon the number of students. They have
buildings, library, apparatus. If with these ad
vantages they cannot draw students enough to
pay their salaries, they should be removed and
others put in their places who can. At the head
of Franklin College is a gentleman of rare qual
ities, pious, learned, eloquent, and of a singular
aptness to teach. Give him the use of the fix
tures of the College, require certain branches of
education to be taught under the supervision of
the Board of Trustees, let him appoint his pro
fessors and pay himself and them from the tui
tion money, and he will get rich, and there will
soon be double the number o young men in
Franklin College above any former period If
this be not done, let the pay of the professors de
pend on the tuition money. Parents will send
their sons where they are best taught. The sala
ried professor’s chair is very apt to beeome a
“sleepy hollow.” What other salaried officers
are required to do but three hour’s work daily ?
We should learn a lesson from European man
agement in this particular. At all events, let such
a system be adopted as will prevail a cost to the
State of $1,000 for every young man whogradu- 11 j GEORGIA LEGISLATURE
ates at the State College.
OCR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
3d, A great changer is needed in the presen
course of study in Franklin College. At present
I cannot be wrong (though the list of studies is
not before me,) in saying that two-thirds of the
students’ time is occupied with Latin and Greek.
To the Minister of the Gospel, to the physician
so far as to enable him to understand the nomen
clature of his profession, to the accomplished and
elegant scholar, with or without a profession, the
classics are of much importance. Bnt a small
portion of our graduates belong to either of the
above classes. They beeome planters, merchants,
or engage in other active pursuits, and are defi
cient in the knowledge which they might have
obtained in college, and for which tlieir Latin
and Greek are very poor substitutes. It is hoped
that a Board of Trustees will be secured compe
tent to arrange a scheme of education, which
shall fit young men for the age in which we
live.
It has been said that we cannot have a Univer
sity in Georgia, in the usual sense of the word
We can have one according to the plan originally
adopted, and which was not only magnificent in
conception, but of admirable adaptation to our
wants. It was suggested by General Jackson, a
man as wise as he waafbrave and great. Of this
University, Franklin dollege was a part. The
University embraced the education of the entire
youth of the State. It began at the beginning,
and not at the end. With the child, and after
wards the young man; with the poor as well as
the rich. It is to be regretted that that grand
scheme has been abandoned. Will not the pres
ent Legislature bestow upon it its attention?
The length of this communication prevents my
developing it.
To return, in conclusion, to Franklin College
While averse to any appropriation to pay salar
ies of professors, or for the use of additional
brick and mortar, it is the belief of the writer
that appropriations should be made for the in
crease of the library apparatus and cabinet of
natural science. As it now stands, there is not a
library or cabinet in Georgia to which a scholar,
or man of science can resort with any certainty
of obtaining the information he requires.
Another appropriation would be eminently wise,
but the greatest educational necessity is that of
teachers for our primaiy schools. There are hun
dreds of maimed young soldiers, who cannot
work with their hands. Let us send them to
Athens or elsewhere, pay their expenses, and
make common school teachers oi them! For
such an appropriation to Franklin College, I
think every true-hearted Georgian would be wil
ling to be taxed. Georgian.
Special, Correspondence from Ulllledge
vllle.
Milledgeville, Jan. 22,1866.
Editor Intelligencer:—Yesterday (Sunday) was
a bright, cold day, and the several churches of
the city were well attended. It is gratifying to
see the respect that the members of the General
Assembly pay the Sabbath, by their attendance
on religious worship. At the Presbyterian Church
Rev. D. Flynn, Chaplain of the House, officiates.
At the Baptist Church Rev. Mr. Brooks, and at
the Methodist Rev. Mr. Yarborough.
The past week has been a busy one with both
branches of the Legislature. Representatives
seem to be impressed with a sense of their duty
to their constituency, and I doubt not the whole
business devolving on the Legislature will be
gone through with as soon as possible.
The election for United States Senators, it is
believed by a majority, will be postponed for some
time yet, though some think it will come off
within the next ten days. For the long term of
Senator the candidates are Hon. Joshua Hill and
Ex-Provisional Governor Johnson. I hear it
predicted that Mr. Hill will be elected. The
Hon. A. H. Stephens, however, is here, and all
that is necessary to insure his election is for him
to say that he is a candidate.
For the short term ot Senator Gen. L. J. Gar-
trell, is, I believe, the only announced candidate
as I leurn. Mr. Parrott, of Cass, has declined liis
candidacy. It is rumored also that Ex-Governor
H. V. Johnson will not be a candidate. The
election of Judges of the Supreme Bench per
haps will be brought on soon. The declared
candidates for the long term are, Gen. H. L. Ben-
ning, Judges R. F. Lyon and Dawson A. Walker.
Those for the short term are Judge Harris, of the
Ocmulgee Circuit; Judge R. H. Clark, and
Judge Warner. All acknowledge Judge War
ner’s eminent capacity.
The appointment of a Superintendent for the
Western & Atlantic Railroad has not yet been
made. I should not be surpised if a citizen of
Atlanta is chosen to that position. That citizen,,
know, has been recommended to his Excellen
cy by some of the most distinguished gentlemen
of Georgia, and this added to what I have from
reliable sources, of the capacity of the applicant,
gives assurance of liis appointment. Knowing
that Governor Jenkins w’ishes to have in that po
sition, a man of energy and capacity, so that it
may be made in the future as it was made in
Governor Brown’s administration, a source of
revenue to the State.
The Legislature seems to be in favor of con
tinuing the penitentiary, and its removal from
Milledgeville—probably to Stone Mountain.
With the exception of a dance and a concert the
latter of which was well attended, there has been
no evening amusements at the capital.
Representatives from all portions of the State
report the freedmen to have made contracts and
going to work in earnest. This being true, may
we not hope for better times in the future ?
Milledgeville, Jan. 23,1866.
The Legislature continues to do daily a large
amount of business. Members seem to be at
work in earnest trying to get through with the-
business to be done time enough to get home to
plant their crops. It is evident, however, from
the vast amount of matter introduced and being
introduced, if they do the business necessary,
that the Legislature will be protracted.
The election of United States Senators and
Supreme Judges is the theme of discussion.—
There seems to be considerable opposition to
Gen. Benning, though his friends are very de
voted to him.
In the person of Cincinnatus Peeples, of Grif
fin, we have a new candidate for Senator. Mr.
Peeples has some warm friends, who are san
guine of his election.
Jesse W. Jackson, of Bnckhead, made a speech
in the Representative Hall last night on the sub
ject of relief to the people as regards the debts.
Mr. Ja&son advises repudiation, which does not
seem to take with the Legislature. A stay law
they think right under the' circumstances. Mr.
Jackson, however, handled the subject well, and
was frequently applauded during the speech.
Hon. A. H. Stephens is still here, and mingles
freely with the members. Hon. Linton Stephens
is also here.
There is a great disposition to elect Hon. A. H.
Stephens to the Senate, though it is believed im
politic to do so for the reason that he would not
be allowed to take his seat.
With the exception of a hop at Sewell’s Hall
last night by the young folks, there has nothing
occurred at the Capital in the w;ay of amuse
ments since the concert and supper of last week.
N.
Milledgeville, Jan. 22, 1866.
SENATE.
The Senate met at 10 o’clock A. AC. Prayer
by the Chaplain.
The journal of Saturday was read and ap
proved.
The order of the da} was for the. reading of
bills the third time.
Bill to authorize Silas Ball, an infirm and disa
bled citizen of Emannel county, to peddle with
out a license. Lost. ,
Bill to authorize the sale of all the lands of the
State, whether surveyed or unsorveyed, lying in
the Okefenokee swamp. Opposition being man
ifested to the bill, on motion it was postponed
for the present.
Bill to authorize any person maimed in tlie late
war to peddle without a license. Postponed.
Bill to authorize H. L. W. Craig to practice
medicine. Postponed.
Bill to require certain crimiual prosecutions to
be nolle prosequi. Passed.
Bill to repeal the acts amendatoiy of the char
ter of the Macon & Western Railroad. Passed.
Bill to amend the charter of the Dalton & Jack
sonville (Ala.) Railroad. Passed.
Bill to allow 10 per cent, interest to be collected
if agreed upon. If more than 10 per cent, is
contracted, only the principal may be collected.
Where no rate is specified, the rate of 7 percent,
is to be understood. The bill was passed, yeas
25, nays 16. This bill was introduced by Mr.
Gresham.
Bill to incorporate the Georgia Express Com
pany. Passed.
The next order was for the reading of bills the
second lime, after the completion which, a House
resolution requesting the opening of mail routes
in this State was passed.
The Senate then adjourned.
HOUSE.
House met. Prayer by the Chaplain.
Tlie Journal was read.
Upon the call of the counties for new matter,
the following bills were introduced :
Mr. Pottle. A bill to change the name ot the
Milledgeville Railroad, and for other purposes;
also, a bill to amend 4391 Section of the new
Code; also, a bill to amend Section 1776 of new
Code; also, a bill to alter and repeal certain
sections of the revised Code relative to the pay
ment of claims on the estates of deceased per
sons ; also a bill to repeal 742 Section of the new
Code 6f Georgia.
Mr. Stanfield. A bill to extend the civil ju
risdiction of courts in various counties of this
State ; a bill to fix the fees of the Justices of the
Peace in the several counties of the State.
Mr. Shaw. A bill to change the mode of em-
pannclling jurors for trial in criminal cases.
Mr. McDowell, of Pike. A bill for the relief
of persons therein named, and to pay expenses
incurred in the suppression of small pox in Pike
county. Appropriates $1,500.
Mr. Frazier. A resolution requesting the
President to omit a portion of the oath to be ta
ken by post masters, declaring that they gave no
aid to the Confederate States in the late war.
Mr. Hinton, of Jackson. A bill to amend sec
tion 1385 of Code.
Mr. McDowell, of Heard. A bill to allow In
ferior Court to levy and collect a tax to compen
sate P. G. Morrow and others for expenses incur
red in small pox cases in Heard county.
Mr. Brock. A bill to authorize sheriffs and
constables to pursue into any county, persons
charged with crime without warrant being signed
by judicial officer.
Mr. Hill, of Fulton. A bill to amend section
4613 of Code; also, a bill to incorporate Atlanta
Canal and Water Works.
Mr. Maddox, of Fulton. A bill to incorporate
Atlanta Street Railroad Company, and for other
purposes. '
Mr. Morris, of Franklin. A bill to authorize
all persons who were ‘practitioners of medicine
five years before lst-January, 1^66, to practice
medicine, charge and collect for the same.
Mr. Weaver,, of Clay. A bill to change the
time of holding the court of Clay county ; also,
bill relative to the collection of debts in cer
tain cases.
Mr. Wilkerson, of Columbia. A bill for the
relief of administrators, executors, guardians
and trustees, and for other purposes.
Air. Harrison, of Chatham. A bill to incorpor
ate the town of Vemonburgh; also, a bill to in
corporate the Hydraulic Compressing Cotton
Press Company of Savannah.
Air. Hodges. A bill to- authorize the Inferior
Court to pay over the State taxes of 1866—one
half for the use of widows and orphans, and the
oilier half to lie appropriated to build a court
liouse and jail for Butts county.
By L. L. Jones. A bill to amend section 1670
of the Code of Georgia; also, a bill to compel
railroads, steamboats and express companies to
give receipts for freight when offered for trans
portation ; a bill to authorize the county' of Cher
okee, and other counties similarly situated, to
appropriate the State tax of 1866 for the erection
of court houses and jails.
Air. Williams. A bill to fix the fees of Coro
ners in the several counties of this State.
Air. Red wine, of Fayette. A bill to add an
additional section to the charter of the town.
Air. Aloses. A bill to amend 2462 Section of
Code!
Air. Hughes, of Twiggs. A resolution in re
lation to the Confederate cotton loan.
Air. Woods, of Floyd. A resolution in refer
ence to contracts made during the war, and re
questing the Judiciary Committee to bring in a
bill to adjust all such contracts.
Air. Shepherd. A bill to define and establish
the surnames of freedmen, and for other pur-
vote now stands in favor of the bill. His objec
tion was that 10 per cent, was too low a rate.
Air! Bedford introduced a bill to provide for
the stay of executions.
Afr. Crawford. A bill to amend tlie charter of
the town of Athens.
Mr. Daley. A bill to amend tlie 2466th para
graph, part 2d, title 6th, chapter 3d of the Code.
This bill provides that when all the parties in
interest reside in the county where intestate dies,
or when application is made for letters of ad-
ministratidn, or letters testamentary, to allow ci
tation to be perfected'by giving written notice of
said application by posting notice at the court
house door and at two or three public places in
the county.
Air. Gliolston'. A bill for tlie relief of maimed
soldiers. It provides that the State shall furnish
artificial limbs to such soldiers.
Air. J. A. W. Jolinson. A bill to incorporate
the Atlanta Street Railroad Company. Capital
$150,000.
Air. AIcDaniel. A bill to compensate Ordina
ries for administering the amnesty oath.
rule ni. si. for foreclosure of mortgages ol real
estate in vacation.
Air. Stallings. A tyll relative to the corpora
tion of Newnan, (makes Newnan a city.)
Mr. Alorris, of Franklin. A bill to add a sec
tion to the Cotie; also, a bill to authorize any
Sheriff or Constable to arrest any person charged
with crime under warrant from a Judicial offi
cer wherever found, in any county.
Mr. Hill, of Fulton. A bill to amend act of
incorporation of tlie "City of Atlanta.
Mr, Maddox, of Fulton. A bill to incorpo
rate the Georgia & Alabama Alining and Petro
leum Company; also, a bill to change the name
of the Confederate Marine & Fire Insurance
Company of Atlanta to that ol the Empire State
Alarine & Fire Company, and to define the lia
bilities of stockholders.
Mr. McWhorter, of Greene. A resolution that
all bills proposing to change county lines shall
be accompanied by a diagram showing the
change to be made; a bill to change the line of
Gordon and Alurray counties.
Air. Phillips, of Habersham. A bill to add a
Air. Gwens. A bill to repeal section 3778 of clause to the Code, “relates to drainage of ad-
the Code. It allows parties at suit to be wit- joining lands.”
nesses—the feet of tlieir being interested to lie
considered in giving credit to their testimony;
also, a bill to incorporate the Savannah Steam
boat Company with insurance powers.
Air. C. H. Smith. A bill to incorporate the
Atlanta Loan Association.
Air. Butler. A bill to incorporate the Savings
Bank ot Augusta.
The homestead bill, which was the special
order of the day, was taken up and after some
discussion, referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Air. Redding introduced a bill to make valid
private contracts made during the war.
The Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
House met. Prayer by the Chaplain, and the
journal read.
Leave of absence was granted Alessrs. Vason
and Winningham for a few days on important
business.
The resolution of Air. Frazier of Liberty, in re
lation to the modification of the test oath to be ta
ken by postmasters was refereed to the Committee
on the State of the Republic.
A resolution to bring on the election of United
States Senators was offered, but was unsuccessful
for want of a three-fourth vote.
Likewise an effort to bring on an election of
Supreme Judges was unsuccessful.
Bills on second reading being the order of the
day, quite a number were read and referred to
appropriate committees.
Tlie rules were suspended to take up a resolu
tion relating to certain claimants upon the State
Mr. Baker, of Lowdes. A bill "for the relief
of certain civil officers of the State.
Mr. Render, of Meriwether. A bill to compel
freedmen to labor in this State; also, a bill, to
prevent.the settling of freedmen in this State
from other States or territories.
Air, Wood, of Morgan. A bill to declare Oli
ver H. Wallace, the adopted child of Stephen S.
Jones.
Mr. Cabaniss, of Monroe. A bill to require
railroads in this State to receive and forward all
freights offered, on certain condition prescribed.
Mr. Lawson, of Putnam. A bill to allow exe
cutors and administrators to employ hired labor
and to ratify contracts; also, a bill to provide for
a division in kind of lands of estates in different
counties.
Air. Stewart, of Spalding. A bill to regulate
court cqsts in certain cases.
Mr. Webur, of Terrell. A bill to authorize the
Justices of the Inferior Court to levy and collect
a tax to compensate certain persons for attention
to small pox cases in the county of Terrell.
Air. Ridley, ol Troup. A bill to regulate con
tracts of Freedmen.
Mr. Morris, of Franklin, was granted leave qf
absence for a few days.
Air. Rhodes, of Walker. A bill to amend the
election laws of the State.
Air. Woods, of Floyd. A bill to prevent fire
hunting, and punish offenders.
Mr. , of White. A resolution relating
to tlie establishment of an Agricultural Bureau.
Air. Harrison, of Chatham. A bill to grant
Road for services rendered under the conduct of I relief to the Alarine Bank of Georgia.
poses.
Bills on third reading were taken up and the
following were passed: A bill to authorize the
Inferior Court of Elbert county to lay a special
tax for county purposes; a bill to incorporate the
town of Elberton, and to repeal certain acts re
lating thereto; a bill to repeal all laws against
the distillation of grain into spirituous liquors; a
bill granting certain privileges to persons living
on the line of the Western & Atlantic Railroad.
Several bills on third reading were referred to
appropriate committees.
A resolution was offered and passed tendering
the use of the Representative Hall to Jesse W.
Jackson, of Buckhead, to deliver an address on
the subject of relief for the people.
The House adjourned to meet at the usual
hour to-morrow. N. .
AIilledgeville, Jan. 23,1866.
SENATE.
The Senate met at 10 o’clock A. 31.
Air. Owens moved to re-consider the action of
the Senate in the passage of a bill to establish a
conventional rate of interest not to exceed 10 per
cent.
Air. Owens, on making the motion, addressed
the Senate in favor ot abolishing all rates of in
terest and of allowing such interest to be collect
ed as might have been agreed upon by the
parties.
He was replied to by Mr. O. L. Smith.
The motion to re-consider was lost.
Mr Kenan asked and obtained leave to change
his vote of yesterday upon the interest bill. His
Glenn, that they make out their claims and pre
sent them at once.
The House then adjourned till 9 o’clock to
morrow- N.
Milledgeville, Jan. 24,1866.
SENATE.
The Senate met at 10 o’clock, A. AI.
The House resolution authorizing the Govern
or to prosecute the claims of the State to cotton
captured in Savannah, by the Federal army, was
taken up and adopted.
Seats on tlie floor of the Senate were tendered
to Samuel Barnett and L. E. Bleckley, Esqs.,
commissioners appointed to prepare a code for
the government of freedmen.
The special order of tlie day—tlie abolition of
tlie penitentiary system of punishment—was
taken up.
Air. Redding opposed the bill. He said in op
posing the bill lie might be acting in opposition
to the will of liis constituents, and while lie be
lieved it the solemn duty of the Representative
to carry out the wishes of his constituents as far
as they could be conscientiously done, in this
case he felt bound even to oppose tlieir wishes
hastily and perhaps inconsiderately formed. He
then went on to oppose the bill.
Air. Turner favored the bill in a somewhat
lengthy speech.
Mi\ J. A. W. Johnson sustained Air. Redding’s
position.
Tlie question was further discussed by Air.
Gresham, Mr. Strozier, Mr. Butler, Air. Carter,
who opposed the abolition of tlie penitentiary
and by Mr. Simmons who took tlie opposite
side.
House resolution bringing on election of ’Uni
ted States Senators and Jndges of Supreme Court
was tik6n up w w
A motion was made and to ,,o M. ou. of £ ISS&ZSg
the resolution “United States Senator. Lost, 0 f the greatest excitement on coming up with
ayes 18; noes 20. him, pulled out their knives, and in a few mo-
Alr Thornton moved to amend the resolution I ments the head .§£ the negro was severed from
. , . . , .. a . .. Ins body. Onefof the shots winch the negro
by bringing on the election of Senators on the fired tQ( / k effect in the abdomen of Mr . C oben,
15th ol February. The amendment was adopted w itli, it is thought, fatal results. Air. Cohen has
by the casting vote of the President, there having been a resident of Collierville for some time past,
been 20 votes on each side. and \ as in the °£P urc *Lasmg a newspaper
„ ,. , wnen he was shot. The affair greatly excited
The Senate adjourned^ the people of the neighborhood, and it was feared,
HOUSE. I at one time, that a general riot would ensue.
House met at 9 o’clock; prayer by the Chap- J he d ° ors ' sought refuge
1 from fright, under the seats and in the corners of
Mr. Gartrell, of Cobb. A bill to authorize and
require executors, administrators, ordinaries,
&c., to make in their reruns an account of Con
federate and State securities, belonging to the es
tates of deceased persons.
Air. Kibbee, of Pulaski. A bill to add a para
graph to the 362d section of tlie Penal Code.
Bills were taken up on tlieir third reading and
the following passed : ♦
A bill to change the county line between Early
and Miller. A bill to alter 2d and 3d Congres
sional Districts so iar as relates to the county of
Schley.
Leave of absence was granted tlie member
from Wilcox.
House then adjourned till 9 o’clock to-morrow.
Horrible Affair at Colliersville.—As
the eastward-hound train on the Memphis Rail
road reached Germantown, on Saturday evening
last, Air! Tillman stepped into the car" filled by
negroes, for tlie purpose of talking to one of liis
employers. During the conversation something
occurred, or was said, to arouse tlie ire of a negro
(a discharged soldier) sitting close by, and lie im
mediately began to address Air. Tillman in lan
guage both impertinent and insulting. By this
time the train began to move off, and Air. Till
man was compelled to seek liis own car. When
the train arrived at Collierville, Mr. Tillman
again entered tlie negro car and shot at the negro,
without,.however any effect. He then jumped
to the ground, and the negro, raising the window
of the ear, pulled a pistol and fired at Air. T.
three times, the last shot entering his shoulder
and lodging in the vicinity of liis heart. As soon
as tlie negro had accomplished hjs hellish design,
he jumped from the cars, and made with all pos
sible speed for tlie woods. During this time a
horse was released from a buggy standing close
by, and being mounted by one of the spectators,
he, in company with four or five others, started
in pursuit of the murderer, who was shot down
as he was entering 4Be woods, the ball taking
effect in the hack, and bringiug him to the earth
lain.
The roll was called, absentees noted and the
journal read.
A petition was read from Stephen D. Bennett,
of the county oi Newton, and referred to the
Committee on Petitions.
Mr. Stewart of Spalding -was added to the
Committee on the Judiciary.
Mr. Aloses of Muscogee, Chairman of the Com
mittee on the Judiciary, made a report on certain
bills.
Air. Stewart of Spalding, Chair/nan Commit
tee on Alanufactures, reported certain bills, the
most important of which were amendments in
regard to the liability of stockholders' in mining
companies.
Air. Glenn of Whitfield moved to take up th«
Senate resolution bringing on the election of
Judges of tlie Supreme Court and two United
States Senators, which was agreed to. The res
olution was so amended as to bring on tlie elec
tion on Friday next, which was adopted and or
dered to be transmitted forthwith to the Senate
for concurrence.
On a call for the introduction of new matter,
the following bills were offered :
Air. Howard of Bartow. A hill authorizing
Justices of tlie Inferior Court of Bartow county
to compromise for payment of holders ol county
bonds; also, a bill authorizing the Inferior Court
to build a court house and jail of Bartow, and to
issue bonds and retain State tax for that pur
pose.
Mr. Edge of Campbell. A bill to authorize the
Superior and Inferior Courts to fill vacancies in
trustees of churches and camp grounds.
Mr. Harrison, of Chatham. A resolution fix
ing tlie hours of meeting of the House as fol
lows : 9 a. ii. and 3p. m., after the present week.
J. J. Jones, of Burke. A bill to define liabili
ty ot executors, guardians and trustees for inter
est on balances in hand for each year; also, a
bill to organize a new Judicial Circuit, to be call
ed the Augusta Circuit; a bill to promote the
agricultural interest of Georgia; provides for the
transportation of lime for agricultural purposes
free of charge over the Western & Atlantic Rail
road.
Mr - Dodson. A bill lor the relief of persons
practicing medicine without license; also, a bill
to authorize Judges ot Inferior Courts to grant
the car.—Memphis Appeal.
Negro Grievance.—The people of Alassa-
ehusetts are happy in another grievance. The
landlord Of the American House, at PittsfleW,
declined to receive Fred. Douglass as a guest,
whereupon that black Demosthenes thunders at
him from the lecture-room, and the newspapers
declare a crusade against the hotel.
Why don’t these philanthropists open their
own houses to the black orator ? Why is it that
Abolitionists always want other people to recog
nize the equality of the negro? Those who
send their daughters to academies want the ne
gro to be admitted to the common schools.—
Those who ride in carriages demand a place for
him in the street cars. The fashionable church
es shut him out of their pews, and demand an
opening for him at the polls. Alassachusetts,
which has no negroes, wants to reconstruct the
South on a political negro basis; and the remote
counties of this State, which have not a dozen
of genuine blacks in their population, want to
make him juror and supervisor, Ac., on Long Is
land and in New York.
In all these cases the design is not to better the
black, but to annoy and disgust the common
class of whites. The Puritans abolished hull-
baiting, not because it hurt the bull, hut because
it amused the crowd.
Full Appreciation of AIatbimony.—A Mor
mon who has areived in Chicago to take to him
self a fifth wife, writes the following note to the
Tribune of that city:
“On my visit to (Chicago I noticed an. article
in the Tribune in regard to Utah. That Speaker
Colfax expressed a wish that President Young
might have ‘a revelation prohibiting polygamy’
is to me a matter of some doubt. On the con
trary, I have reason to know that Speaker Colfax
eloquently expressed his gratitude at the domes
tic happiness of our community. I am a Mor
mon bom and bred, and the husband of tour
wives, and what may seem strange, my mission
here is one of love, to transport a flower from
this sterile (morally) latitude, to bloom and flour
ish in our happy home. We have no wish to be
admitted into your “Union”—nor do we wish at
one fell swoop to be divorced from our wives and
families. It seems to me it would be wise to let
us .Mormons alone, and devote your moral lec
tures to a community where a man or woman
can marry and be divorced three times within as
many years". Respectfully,
“Abraham Wells.”
By direction of the War Department, Major
General Miles, commanding at Fortress Monroe,
lias relieved a prominent officer at that post on
the charge of having clandestinely employed
quite a number of ex-C6nfederates in the work
shops under bis superintendence.