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‘ ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHEN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT-” Jefferson. VOLUME XVIII. ATLANTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14,1866. NUMBER IPtrklQ JntrUlgrnrrr. PUBLISHED DAILY AND WEEKLY BY JA&ED I. WHITAKER, Proprietor. JOHN H. STEELE, Editor. ATLANTA. GEORGIA, Wednesday, February 14, I860. A Week In iflllledsevllle. We spent the last week in Milledgeville quietly looking on, a patient observer of the “actings and doings” of tliosc in whom the power of leg islating for the State is invested by the people thereof. We reached the good old capital just after the excitement attendant upon the election of JUDOKA OK THE SUURK.UE COURT had sill (sided. In reference to these elections there appeared to lie a general und profound re gret, as well within the legislative circle as beyond it, at the defeat of Genebal Burning. We, without designing to reflect o|h>u any other, of the candidates in that election, participated in this feeling. The time hod come, we thought, when that able jurist, and gallant gentleman, should have had restored to liim the judicial sta tion which he had theretofore filled, but which ha<l been wrested from him to gratify the preju dices and to promote the interests of others— whom we need not designate. Long years of patriotic service, wc regret to say, had not extin guished that opposition. While it conceded to General Benning purity of purpose and the high est legal ability, it still pursued him and he was again defeated by it. Another illustration of the ungratefulness of republics! We reached the capital, however, in time to witness, and to some extent, participate in the excitement attending the election of UNITED STATES SENATOn.S. Our readers have already been advised of the result of these elections. The two gentlemen elected are too well known and too highly es teemed in Georgia—too long considered as being among her ablest representative men ; statesmen of the highest order, enjoying the confidence of the people; for uuy doubt to rest upon the mind of any one that their election will be acceptable to tbe people ot the State. When it became known that Mu. Stephens would not refuse to serve the State in the Senate, if elected in spite of his declared determination not to be a candi date and his expressed wish that his friends would not vote for him, the contest was settled between him and Mk. IIill, as it would have been between him and any other individual in the State. He was therefore elected for the long term upon the first ballot. For the short, term, the contest for several hallotings was between our fellow-townsman, long the representative of what was formerly this congressional dis trict, both in the old United States and the (’onfederate. Congress, Gen. Gartkell and Mr. Peoples. During tfie several hallotings we felt sanguine of the success of Gen. O. He was evi dently the favorite in the race between the can didates lirst announced and balloted for, and was ahead in it, until he caused his name to be with drawn. While the election of the gentleman— Hon. II. V. Johnson, to whom the two candi dates gracefully yielded the senatorship—will doubtless be acceptable to tbe people, for he pos sesses in a high degree their confidence, and will stamI the peer of any in the Senate, still the lricuds of Gen. Gautrkll in the General Assem bly felt deeply mortified at tlie circumstances which resulted in his non-election. As our fel low townsman, who “bus done the State some service" in the field as well as in the halls ot leg islation, we feci it due to him to state that he bore himself honorably and gallantly in the contest, yielding cheerfully to the circumstances by which he was surrounded. These elections over, we were pleased to see that both branches of the General Assembly went resolutely to work. The HOMESTEAD BILL in the Senate was passed after much animated discussion. What its fate will he in the House, wc think we can predict. It will he favorably re ceived and acted upon in that body also. This bill reserves a homestead valuation of $2500.00 to t lie head of every family in Georgia. A large# sum was reported by the Committee, but it was reduced to that amount. TITE RAILROADS. Much excitement prevailed in Alilledgcville, at the passage by the House of a bill materially in terfering with the present rates of fare and freight transportation by the Railroads of our Slate. The passage of this bill brought to the capital several Railroad gentlemen of experi ence, who, we learned, were prepared to demon strate that the hill-ns it passed the House would prove ruinous to the lloadf or to producers, at the option of the former though, if it became a law. It is.now before a Senate Committee to whom it has been referred for revision. RANKS AnD THEIR BILL-UOLDKUS. Between the Banks w1k> are weU represented in Milledgcville, and their Bill-Holders, a warm contest is prevailing. Tbe Banks apply for re lief, and their stockholders lor relief from person al liability. The Bill-Holders demand the pen alty in the bond, or charter. The question is a grave one—one perhaps that wc may refer to soon in a more elaborate manner than this hasty sketch will warrant. STAY LAWS Are the “order of the day” in both branches of the General Assembly. Numerous bills are before both branches providing for this measure ot relief to debtors. In the adoption of the Homestead bill, it strikes us, that relief will la? extended to the debtor class of the community, as to make a “stay law” not so absolutely neces sary as it otherwise might be. We wait, how- over, the progress of these measures before the General Assembly ere we “have our say” in re gard to them, or in regard to the policy which should regulate the relations of debtor and cred itor in these trying times. TBE STATE ROAD. In the Senate, a bill has been passed providing for the salary of the 8nperindent of the State Road. This is fixed at $5,000 per annum. The committee rejiorted $6,000. The House, we think, will concur with the Senate. Who the Su perintendent will be, is a matter of as anxious solicitude at the capital as it Is here in Atlanta. The Governor is mum, and we believe no one knows who that fortunate individual will be— perhaps wc should write unfortunate individual, for whatever the salary may bo, he will richly earn it if he does his duty to the road and the State. THE srEAKER AND THE PRESIDENT. The General Assembly is fortunate in having excellent presiding officers. Both the gentlemen —the President of the Senate, the lion. Wm Gibson, and the Speaker of the House, tbe Hon. Thomas Hardeman—display tact and ability iu disposing of the business before their resjiec- tive branches Courteous in their demeanor to all, they have beeomo popular, while prompt in their decisions; and pressing on to completion the business of legislation, time is not wasted, nor work neglected. Thus far the committees have labored hard, and as they report, the Presi dent and Speaker allow no time to be wasted in the final disposition of the bills reported. The session will, we think, be a protracted one. There is a vast amount of business before it. THE MILLEDOEVILLE HOTEL. This hotel is one of the l>est in the Southern States, and it is here that most of the membera of the General Assembly, and persons visiting Milledgcville on business or pleasure, hike up their abode for the nonce. The brothers McComb know how to keep a hotel, and, unlike some oth ers in other localities, “can afford to do it.” Suc cess attend them! On our way to and from Milledgcville, we were most generously entertained by “mine host” of the BROWN HOUSE IN MACON. We cannot too highly recommend this fine hotel to the traveling public. Its location as well as its accommodations commend it Excellent rooms, good and clean beds, polite clerks, atten tive servants, a generous host, and the best lare the country can afford, the traveler will be sure to meet with at the “Brown House” in Macon.— The gentleman who now presides over it as landlord, is the owner of the house. An old citizen of Macon, he conceived the enterprise, erected the handsome edifice, and designs that it shall lie a first rate hotel. It is so now, and as such we commend it to our friends. Incendiary Publications. The New York Bound Table, referring to this class of Northern publications, says there “is a gloomy prospect before us, and we may well de spair if the moral sentiment of our people will tolerate the publication in our periodicals of such articles as that entitled “A Freedman’s Story,” commenced in the February number of the At lantic Monthly. The authentic history of the lives of incendiaries, highwaymen, jjnd pirates, or the autobiographies and dying confessions of murderers, have not heretofore figured in the class of literature which the moral and more in telligent portion of our reading people have de lighted to patronize. This story is introduced by a regular contributor of the magazine, and pub lished professedly to show the fitness of the ne gro to exercise the elective franchise; and if the story of this negro he true, there are few white meAi the couutry that excel him in hardened vilhum'. Yet this contributor bolds him up as a model man, and by his intimations we are to conclude that should the merited halter be meted out to this instrument of the devil the writer will place him on his saint’s calendar second only to John Brown.” The hero of t he story now being published in the incendiary monthly referred to, is thus described in the Round Table : This negro, in his youth pining for freedom, feartul of being sold away, could not pack his bundle and leave, but wantonly provoked a quar- rel with his master and hurt him badly that lie might have tin excuse to run away. He went to Pennsylvania, lived a lawless life, in which he gloried in crimes no less than murder; converted a publican to abolitionism by setting fire to his barn in the night and watching Tt "burn ; he also set fire to the house of another Pennsylvanian in tin! night and saw it burn “beautifully” while he with his companions waited aud watched to shoot the owner by tlie light of the flames when they should drive him out. So far lias this “Freed man’s Story” progressed. For the sake of our country, lor the sake of the poor and sutlering negro, and for Christianity’s sake, let us have no more of it. These incidents, which theeontribu- tor to the Atlantic Monthly encourages this man to relate so boastfully, happened before the war ; let us hope that the acts of such a fiend under the barbarous license of war may never be made public. The consequences to the negro, of such publi cations, the same excellent journal thus sums up: It is a terrible wrong to the negro to hold up so depraved a being as a worthy and well-de serving model representative of the African rnce, and to publish such a story approvingly ip a magazine that holds the position that the Atlan tic does. Its tendency to encourage the lawless in their lawlessness, and, as in this ease, to imbue them with the notion that they are instruments in the hands of Providence for the working-out of their own desires and passions. It also tends to increase the prejudice which exists against the negro race, encourages the shiftless and evil- minded to engage in riotous proceedings, and thus subjects them to the risk of becoming the victims of popular vengeance, that is not apt to discriminate between good and the bad. The Atlantic Monthly has been the professed cham pion of the negro’s cause, and it is certainly its duty to aid the great numbers ot negroes that are striving to improve their condition, arid not pub lish and praise one who, if his talc be true, would have been hung tor his crimes in an*portion of the State of Massachusetts,,had they been com mit ted within t lie jurisdietion of any ot its courts The Georgia Senators.—Referring to the recent election by the Legislature til - Georgia, of the Hon. A. II. Stephens and the Hon. II. V. Johnson as United States Senators, the Wash ington City National Intelligencer says: “It were better for the Republic if men of their stamp of polities in other days, and of their great arid ex perienced ability, were on the floor of Congress, in the place of so many who hold their positions by the concert of small politicians, and by cau cus intrigue, bargaining and corruption.” The Intelligencer expresses iti the foregoing what is the common sentiment of the conserva tive papers and men at the North, while the radi cal press and men, denounce the election of the distinguished Georgians as only another evidence of persistent disloyalty in our State. For our own part, we do not hesitate to affirm that there are no two men iu the whole United States that are more loyal to the Government than our two recently elected Senators; and no two men better qualified to promote its prosperity and restore a harmonious Union of the States North and South, if permittted to take their seats in the Senate of the United States, than they are, let radical abolitionists say what they may ! Says the Sail Antonio (Texas) Herald: “Our city wore a warlike appearance last Sunday eve ning, occasioned by the mutiny of the 3d Mich igan cavalry, and the galloping to the scene of action hv other commands to arrest them. The merits of the case so far as we can learn are that the regiment refused to allow a certain number of their men to be arrested, and when the arrest, was attempted to be made by force they all rushed to arms, when the arresting party desist ed. The whole regiment was thus placed in a rebellious attitude, and other regiments were called in to crush them; bat it was apparent that blood would be shed if force was resorted to, so about dark the coercing party withdrew. We understand that General Thompson made a speech to the regiment, closing by giving an or der to have them disarmed, which was carried into effect, and the arms of the regiment are now deposited in the arsenal. Reports from Georgia give a nroiul picture of affairs iu the interior of that State. The coun try is traversed by bands of outlaws, who hang and shoot negroes, and commit .other like out rages. All Northern men are driven out. We clip the above from the San Francisco Weekly Union. It was sent to that paper from New York, and is a fair sample of the wholesale lies our radical friends in the North are sending to California and to Europe. And from just such statements as the above do they form erroneous impressions of the people in this Southern coun try. Debt* or tbe States and tbe Cities Thereof. The loyal States, the Nashville Gazette says, with the exception of Kansas, Iowa, and Alichi gun, and the Pacific States, have furnished to Mr. Blaine, of Maine, chairman of the Select Com mittee on the War Debt of the Loyal States, the amounts expended by them severally in sup porting the late war. The footing in most cases include the amounts expended by counties, cities and towns, and the aggregate in round numbers as follows: Maine, $12,000,000; New Hampshire, $13, 000,000; Vermont, $8,700,000; Massachusetts, $24,100,000 (State alone, without including town debt;) Rhode Island $5,500,000; Connecticut, $17,G00,000; New York, $111,000,000; New Jersey, $26,700,000; Pennsylvania, $54,000,000 Delaware, $1,100,000; Maryland, $8,000,000: West Virginia $2,000,000; Ohio, $95,000,000 Indiana, 22,500,000; Illinois, (estimated) $30, 000,000; Wisconsin, $12,200,000; Minnesota, $2,500,000; Missouri, $9,500,000; Kentucky, $1,600,000; (by the Stnte alone, not includin, counties or towns.) The decree that caused the repudiation of the Confederate debt by the Southern States, has left them to provide only for the payment of their debt contracted before the war. This is insignif icant when compared with that of the loyal States Georgia, for instance, owes scarcely three mil lions of dollars, while her avaij^hla assets will command any day in Wall street, thrice that amount. Pennsylvania owes we believe even more to-day than all the Southern States com biued, while New York owes double the amount they do. In the future this will tell for the South, Labor alone, well directed, will soon relieve the Southern States from debt. Their agricultural re sources are sufficient for this, and when we add to these their mineral and manufacturing resources —the coal, iron, marble, that abound in the moun tainous regions ot the South; the water power that Ciin be excelled no where for manufacturing pur poses—the Southern States will require but few years to extinguish their indebtedness, while tins cannot be claimed but for very few, if any, of the “loyal” ones. The same may be claimed for tbe Southern over the Northern cities. But few of the former are encumbered by heavy debt. Perhaps New Orleans, Charleston, and Richmond, may be. Savannah and Augusta next. The latter city, we have seen it stated, owes about a million of dollars. Our own “Gate City” only a few thousands. But, as in the case of the States, the Southern, owe comparatively trifling sums, when compared with the indebtedness of the Northern cities. Reconstruction affirmed, labor regulated, the freedmen’s bureau abolished, the energy and enterprise of our people directed to the develop ment of the resources of the South, and the year will not be a far distant one when it will be claimed for the Southern States and the Southern cities that they are not oppressed by debt. But when may this be claimed for the so-called loyal States and cities of the North and West? Who will answer? The Constitutional Amendment. The Constitutional amendment passed by both Houses of Congress, allows each State to regulate the suffrage question for itself, but those who may be excluded from exercising suffrage—persons of color or others—are not permitted to be counted in the apportionment of representatives. The amendment, of course, will be : submitted to the people of the States for ratification; but, says the Louisville Journal, “it is said that it is the inten tion of the Radicals to submit it, if it passes the Senate, to only twenty-seven States, of which nineteen will be two-thirds, and if it is adopted by that number it will be considered as adopted. Then, in that event, it will be the doty of the President to issue another proclamation, setting forth that the Union is composed of twenty-seven States, and that nineteen of them, constituting two-thirds, having voted for it, it has become a part of the Constitution; aud then two proclam ations—one declaring that there are thirty-six States iu the Union, and the other, by the same authority, declaring that there are but twenty- seven, will be laid carefully away in the same pigeon-hole in the State Department, to present something for the future historian to write about, and to excite the ridicule and contempt of the world.” This is yielding a Constitutional right to the States in one breath, and denying them another in another aspiration. Nineteen States are to have no voice in the matter—the States alone who have anything to gain or to lose in the final settlement of the question. If this be not Con gressional usurpation we do not know what is > or can be. The Journal is right when it says it will “present something for the future historian to, write about and to excite the ridicule and cori- tempt of the world.” -* An Associated Press dispatch says: New Orleans, Feb. 6.—Civil proceedings have been commenced in Brownsville, Texas, against the parties implicated in the Bagdad af fair. Labor prospects on the Red river planta tions are more cheering. The freedmen are dis posed to give better satisfaction. New Orleans, Feb. 6.—A dispatch from Vicksburg, on the 2d, says: The steamer W. R. Carter exploded her boilers at 3 o’clock this morning, at Island 98. A large number of lives were lost, and the boat aud cargo are a total loss. The following are known to be lost: Airs. Dr. Richardson and three children, of New Orleans; Airs. Gibbons, Airs. Wolfe, Airs. Rice, Cincinnati; Airs. Oateman, Texas; Airs. Noose, Airs. Alorris, Columbus; and Airs. Howland. Many others were scalded and otherwise injured. General Sherman’s explanation of the order turning over all the sea island lands to the ne groes, is as follows: Washington, Feb. 2.—The question having been submitted to Gen. Sherman, who is now here, as to what he meant by his military order turning over all the island lands in South Caro lina to the negroes, he has stated to a committee of gentlemen from that State, and also written a letter io the President, that it was only for tem-: porary purposes, and was not intended to last. longer than when peace was declared, and the rebels laid down their arms and submitted to the laws. This fact is of great importance, as it lias been maintained by legislators that the reverse of. this was Gen. Sherman’s idea. He also says that he only intended the lands to be used for the aged and helpless freedmen, and he distinctly says that the title of the freedmen could last only so long as the war lasted. , — An aged clergyman, speaking of the solemnity attached to the ministerial office, said that during the whole term of forty years that he had offi ciated, his gravity had never been but once dis turbed in the pulpit. On that occasion he noticed a man directly in trout of him, leaning over the railing of the gal lery, with something in his hand which he after wards discovered to be a huge chew of tobacco just taken from his mouth. Directly below sat a man fast asleep, with his head back" and his mouth wide open. : • — The man in the gallery was intently engaged in raising and lowering his hand, taking an ex- I act observation, till at last, having got it right, Later news from the Rio Grande states that careful inquiry is being made by officials on either side in regard to the Bagdad affair. The sending of United States soldiers on Alexican soil is likely to result in serious complications. As will be seen from the following correspondence between Generals Wcitzeland Mejia, the latter apparently looks at the matter in its worst light: Headq’rs District of the Rio Grande, ) Brownsville, Texasi Jan. 18,1865. f Major General Thomas Mejia, commanding line of the Rio Grande: General—I am directed by the Alajor General commanding tlic department of Texas, to explain to you the reasons for sending a guard of my soldiers to Bagdad, and the orders which I gave them. I sent three bundled of my command to Bag dad at the request of t.'-nerul Escobedo. They are still there. The act was one of humanity in the interests of the peaceful citizens of Bagdad, and had no relation to the cause for which the opposing forces are contending. My orders to the commanding officer are that he should pre serve peace and protect property and life in Bag dad. That he should obey no orders but those emanating from his superiors on this side. That under no circumstances shonld heperform any militaiy service for either party. That if an at tack be made on the town; he should remain, it not too much exposed; ami that if the French were successful, he should meet the commanding officer under a flag of truce, and explain the rea sons for his being there, aud then withdraw ; but that in case his men were too much exposed, to withdraw at any time when in his judgment it ou"ht to be done. I am, sir, very respectfully your obedient ser vant, G. Weitzei., Alajor General Commanding. GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. OUR SPECIAL CORRESPOXDKXCE. 1866. Imperial Army, AIexico, 1 Alejia Division General in Chief, f- Alatamoras, Jan. 19th, 1866. J To Major General Weitzei, Commanding Department of Texdfi: General—I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your note of yesterday. I have given my Government notice of all the occur rences that.have taken place in Bagdad. Accept, General, the assurance of my most particular respect. TnoMAS AIejia, Commanding. The above would seem to disclose the fact that the American General Weitzei had no object in view but to do good to both parties by sending his troops on Alexican soil. His intention was humane. The horrors of war were assuaged or modified as much as possible by the act,' inas much as private persons were saved from insult, and their property from pillage and fire. Gene ral Alejia, however, does not desire to look upon this side of the question. This short, quick and really startling answer to General Weitzei, fully explains his feelings in the matter. That he has taken the very worst view of the case, and re ported so officially to his “ Government,” there can be no doubt. The Frencli naval command er at the Rio Grande also, previous to his de parture for Yera Cruz to report the fact officially there, protested to General Weitzei, in a short note, against the invasion of Mexico by Ameri can soldiers. Another splendid business block lias just ■ he let fall his’ quid, and it went plump into the beeu completed a( Chicago Its facade is on mouth of the sleeper below ! Randolph street, and is built of Athens marble in the modern Italian style. It is five stories in height, and presents *a strong and elegant ap pearance. The whole scene was so indescribably ludi crous, that foT the first and last time in the pulpit an involuntary smile forced itself upon the coun tenance of the preacher A Washington correspondent of the Cincin nati Commercial, having probably traveled in the South and discovered that Southern gentlemen never recognize‘gentry of his “cloth” when they are known, makes the following contemptible suggestions. We publish it as one sample of a host of similar statements furnished to the North ern press: ■ - J We hear a great many complaints every day of the bad treatment of Northern men traveling in the Southern States—of indignities offered to them, insults, want of respect, &c. This is all because these migratory Yankees do not under stand how to touch the sympathies of the South ern people, how to appeal to their sense of honor and manhood, and cause them to thrust forth the right hand of fellowship and fraternal feeling.— ~ am surprised at this ignorance on the part of tv proverbially shrewd nation, of a remedy so sim ple as to be within, the reach of all. There is no necessity whatever for a Northern man being subject to insult or despiteful using in the South if there is a nigger within hailing distance of him. A few words like “look at that d—d nig ger. I wish all the niggers were in hell,” uttered in the hearing of a chivalrous Carolinian will be as oil upon the troubled social waters, and will heal all animosities that may previously have been harbored in the Southern mind. The con ciliatory effect will be still more striking if the d—d nigger thus alluded to happens to be dressed in blue, while the bystanders are for the most, part attired in gray, ami happiest of all will be its results if to the ineffable degradation of a black skin is added the. exasperating circumstances of having lost a leg or arm under the Federal ilag. Then tt will require several damns to effect the reconciliation, and possibly a wish that it had been his head instead ot his arm that was knocked off; but if-the Yankees will only pile on the curses, he will certainly reach the tender part of the Mississippi or Alabama, or Virginia heart af ter awhile. I commend these few words, “d—n the niggers,” ns a first rate countersign for safe conduct through the South—pass-words ot ad mission to the masonic fraternity ot subjugated society. “D—n the niggers”—that’s all. Next moment'you are grasped cordially by the South ern hand, and perchance asked to take a drink. Singular rumors concerning Air. Davis are thus alluded to by some one writing from Wash ington: , ... The rumors of the rescue of Jefferson Davis from prison' are assuming a new and strange char acter. It is now hinted that the authorities desire his escape, and that.facilities, have been offered him. but that he won’t go- There is little room to doubt the awkward embarrassment attendant upon his confinement and rejected trial. Chief Justice Chase does not hesitate to say that he cannot be convicted of treason, and Thaddeus Stevens declares that he is nothing more than a foreign leader, about as much amenable to the laws of the United States as Maximilian! I have it from the best authority—from authority which you Cannot question—that Mr. Davis feels the most ample security. He said less than a week ago, “My defense is complete now, and rests sole ly upon the law which will be administered fair ly, I know, and in perfect accordance with civil justice.” ' The shameful pettiooat story will be ’ rut to the blush when that time arrives. Mr. : Davis is at present in good health, .eats heartily, reads a good deal, and possesses, as lie said the other day, “a good digestion and a good con science.” He receives tetters from his wife three times a week, and keeps a journal every day. The Vaults of the Bank of France.—The walls of these vaults are of stupendous thickness. On H winding the stepslea ding to their entrance, the first obstacle we find is an iron doer, locked with three keys, one of which is in the hands of the governor of the Bank; the second is kept by the cashier, and the third by the censor; so that this door cannot be opened without the simul taneous consent of these three functionaries.— We thus gain access to a first compartment, con taining the funds for current use. The safe kept here is so curiously constructed, that if you do not know the secret of its construction, the slight est touch anywhere will set a noisy alarm agoing, loud enough to startle all the inmates ot the establishment The next compartment is circu lar, and called the serre; it cannot be entered without the same ceremonial, and is fitted up with fire-proof shelves. It contains all the im portant deeds, notes and papers belonging to the Rant- also deposits of private persons. Here the Duke of Brunswick used t<* leave his jewels, previous to going on a journey. Alademoiselle Mars used to send her diamonds there; the lingof d’or was deposited in the same place, &c. Alter the serre come the vaults properly so called, the entrance to which is closed by an iron door, se cured by several combination locks; it turns on central pivots, like Italian doors. It gives access to a well hole, containing a winding staircase, admitting but (me person at a time, and leading to subterranean galleries four hundred and twen ty metres in length. These are filled with iron cask containing lingot3 and coin, and labeled according to their contents. By way of addi- tional security, the.well hole might be filled up with clay, and the vaults with water, at a min ute’s notice, if the safety of the . treasure were menaced in the slightest degree. ;( . -7 ♦♦ — Over $80,000 belonging to a Williamsburg hank, was stolen from a boy in William street, New York. AIn.LEDGEtni.LE, Feb. 5 SENATE. The Senate met at the usual hour. Prayer by Dr. Manson. Air. J. A. W. Johnson from the committee ap pointed to look into the interest of the State in the Card Factory submitted his report. The report concluded with a resolution, which was adopted, that the Governor be requested to appoint a commissioner to make a full, fair, equitable and final settlement of the State with Alessrs. Devine, Jones & Lee, in regard to the State’s interest in the Card Factoiy. Air. Strozier introduced a bill to repeal all laws in relation to slaves; also, a bill to establish and define the relations of husband and wife, parent and child, and master and servant, so far as re lates to negroes, and to define the term “negro.” Fifty copies of the bill were ordered to be print ed. , Air. Freeman introduced a bill to change the time of holding the courts in the several counties of the Western Judicial Circuit. The special order of the day being a bill to re peal section 3778 of the Code, and to substitute another therefor. The object of the bill is to al low parties to testify in cases where they them selves are interested, leaving the degree of credit to be given such testimony to be judged by the jury. The bill was amended so as to apply to criminal cases only and passed. Bill to incorporate the North Georgia Alining and Alanufactnring Company. Passed. Bill to incorporate the Cherokee Alining and Alanufacturing Company. Passed. Bill to incorporate the Kennesaw Alining and Alanufacturing Company. Capital $5,000,000. Passed. Air. Aloore of the Judiciary Committee report ed a bill to regulate the relations between mas ter and servant. Bill to incorporate the Home Insurance Com pany of Atlanta. Passed. A message was received from his Excellency returning, without his signature, the resolution making valid contracts between black and white persons. The Governor thought the resolution should not be retro active. Bill to repeal an act in reference to the pay ment of jurors in the county of Talliaferro.— Passed. Bill to repeal section 2635 of the Code and to substitute another therefor. The bill allows aliens to hold land in the State, on their filing an affi davit that it is their intention within one year to improve the same. Passed. Bill to incorporate the town of Smithville, in Lee county. Passed Mr. Owens introduced a resolution which was adopted, requesting the Governor to ascertain whether bonds of the State will be received in payment of State tax due the United States, and in case they will answer, to issue and pay over the same. BILLS ®N THIRD READING. Bill for the relief of the Savannah Alutual As sociation. Passed. Bill to change the time of holding Ordinaries’ courts from the 2d to the 1st Monday in January of each year. Passed. Bill to allow the Phoenix Building Association aud the Union Building and Loan Association to resume business. Passed. Bill to change the line between Early and Alil- ler counties. Passed. Bill to amend section 4564 of the Code.— Passed. Bill to amend the act incorporating the town of Quitman. Passed. Bill to amend section 432 ot the Code. Passed. Bill to allow all persons unable to work to re tail spirituous liquors and peddle without li cense. Lost. Bill to repeal all anti-distillation laws. Lost Bill to prescribe (lie mode of carrying cases from city courts of Augusta, Savannah anil other cities ot the State to bther courts. Passed. Bill to give keepers of livery stables lien on animals. ; • J. * t s HOUSE. The House mot at 9 o’clock, A. AI. Prayer by the. chaplain. The journal was read and approved. Leave of absence was granted Air. Dodds, of Polk. . NEW MATTEIt. A bill to allow AI. B. Quillian free transporta tion on the Western and Atlantic-,Railroad. A bill to change the county lines of Irwin and Wilcox counties. A bill to incorporate the Georgia Paper Mill Company. A bill to protect the passengers on the several railroads of this State. A bill to authorize the City Council of Newnan to issue change bills. A bill to discharge the clerk on Freedmen’s Affairs, and disband the committee. A bill to increase the jurisdiction of courts ot justice. A bill to pay Daniel B. Sandford for bringing up the unfinished business of Robert E. Alartin, clerk of the Supreme Court. A bill for the relief of maimed soldiers of this State. A bill to incorporate the Columbus Insurance Company. A bill to change the time of holding the Supe rior Court of Aluscogee county. A bill to incorporate the Southern Alining Company. Resolution instructing the Finance*Committee to remit certain taxes. Adopted. The House adjourned till 3 p. m. AIelledgville, Feb. 6,1866. . The Senate met pursuant to adjournment. Prayer by Rev. S. Brooks. Ou motion of Mr. Bedford, the action of the Senate on yesterday, rejecting the bill to repeal all laws against distillation was reconsidered. NEW MATTER. Air. Brown. A bill to prevent the consump tion of grain by distillers, and to provide for the seizure and confiscation of the distilleries. Air. Butter. A resolution instructing the Com mittee on Public Education to report on the best method of providing for public education, and the endowment of the State University. Air. Ezzard. A bill to allow the Inferior Court of Milton county to retain the State tax of 1866 and 1867 for the purpose of building a jail, aud for other purposes. Air. Freeman. A memorial from a citizen of Franklin county in relation to a bridge over Hud son river, the boundary between Franklin and Madison counties. Air. Owens. A bill to define the rights of per son owning landings on rivers; aiso, bill3 to amend sections 3320, 4792, 4793, and a bill to amend section 3866 of the Code, so far as relates to the city of Savannah. Air. C. H. Smith. A bill to authorize the Alay- or and City Council of Rome to is3ue change bills. Air. Strozier. A bill to regulate the annual re turns of incorporated companies; also, a bill to increase the fees* of county officers 75 per cent. Air. Butler. A resolution to simplify the en acting and repealing clauses of bills. BILLS ON TniKD READING. House bill to sell Hie exile camp. Passed. Resolution of J. A. W. Johnson to require change bills of the Western & Atlantic Railroad to be received for freight and passage on said road. Passed. Bill to regulate the administration of estates. Passed. Bill to incorporate the Planters’ Loan Associa tion. The association is to have its office at All gusta. The object is to lend money to planters —any rate of interest being allowed that the plan ter agrees to pay. The bill was amended by re stricting the association to the legal rate of inter est by a vote of 21 to 12, and then on motion of Air. Gibson the bill was indefinitely postponed. A message was received from his Excellency informing the Senate that the several banks ot Au gusta had surrendered their charters. The Gov ernor appeals to the Legislature for clemency to wards the officers of these banks. The commu nication also included a final report of the Geor gia Relief and Hospital Association. It also re commended loans by the State to pay the Federal tax, or to tax the people for that tax, and exempt them the present year from State tax. The me morial of the banks included in the message were ordered to be printed. Adjourned. HOUSE. February 5,1866. The House met at 3 o’clock. Air. J. J. Jones of Burke introduced a resolu tion, which was agreed to, that the action of the House in the afternoon session be conliued to reading bills the second time. After reading a number of bills the second time, the House adjourned till 9 o’clock to-mor row morning. HOUSE. The House met pursuant to adjournment.— Prayer by the chaplain. The special order of the day—the abolition of the Penitentiary system of punishment was taken up. Mr. Byrd, of Alitchell, • moved the indefinite postponement of the bill. Lost. Air. Starr, of White, introduced a resolution as a substitute which was adopted, that it is the sense of the House that the Penitentiary system and the present system of criminal law should be so modified as to allow the continuation of the execution of the latter in such a manner as will, in the course of a few years, test the supe riority of the different inodes of punishment. The Governor sent in a message, which was read and 500 copies ordered to be printed. Bill to amend 1st clause of section 954 of the Code. Passed. Bill to make it penal to fell trees on another’s land, and carrying off timber. Passed. Adjourned. A Broken Heart.—The following interestin, case of a literally broken heart was related by a late distinguished medical professor of Pliiladel phia, to his class, while lecturing on diseases of the heart. It will be seen, on perusing it, that the expression “broken hearted,” is not merely figurative: In the early part of lus career Dr. Alitchell ac companied, as surgeon, a packet that sailed be tween Liverpool and one of our Southern ports. On the return voyage, soon after leaving Liver pool, while the doctor and the captain of the ves sel, a weather beaten son of Neptune, but pos sessed of uncommonly fine feelings and strong impulses, were conversing in the latter’s state room, the captain opened a large chest, and care fully took out a number of articles of various de scriptions, which lie arranged upon a table. Dr. Mitchell, surprised at the display of costly jewels, ornaments, dresses, and all the varied pharaplier- nalia of which ladies are naturally fond, inquired of the captain his object in having made so many valuable purchases. The sailor, in reply, said that tor seven or eight years he had beeu devotedly attached to a lady, to whom lie had several times made proposals of marriage, but was*as often rejected; that her re fusal to wed him, however, had only stimulated his love to greater exertion; and that finally upon renewing his offer, declaring, in the ardency of his passion, that without her society, life was not worth living for, she consented to become his bride upon his return from his next voyage. He was so oveijoyed at the prospect of a mar riage irom which, in the warmth of his feelings, hCprobably anticipated more happiness than is usually allotted to mortals, that lie spent all his ready money while in London for bridal gifts.— Alter gazing at them fondly for some time, and remarking on them in turn, “I think this will please Annie,” and “I am sure she will like that,” lie replored them with the utmost care. This ceremony lie repeated every day during the voyage; and the doctor observed a tear glis ten in liis eye as lie spoke of the pleasure he would have iu presenting them to his affianced bride. On reaching liis destination, the captain arrayed himself with more than usual precision, and disembarked as soon as possible to hasten to his love. As lie was about to step into the carriage awaiting him lie was called aside by two gentle men who desired to make a communication, the purport of which was that the lady had proved un faithful to the trust reposed in her and had married another, with whom she had decamped shortly before. Instantly tlic captain was observed to put liis hand to liis breast and fall heavily to the ground. He was taken up and conveyed to his room on the vessel. Dr. AI. was immediately summoned, but before be reaclien the poor cap tain he was dead. A post mortem examination revealed the cause of liis unfortunate disease.— His heart was found literally twain! The tre mendous propulsion of blood consequent upon such a violent nervous thock forced the powerful muscular tissue assunder, and life was at an end. The heart was broken. A San Francisco paper thus refers to a rare and beautitul spectacle in that city: Alter nearly twenty-four hours of storm, the elouds lifted from the horizon just before sunset on yesterday evening, and revealed to the eyes of the'San Franciscans a strange and wondrously beautiful spectacle. As the mist rolled up from tlie valley of the Alemeda and passed over the mountain range which bounds our horizon on its eastern rim, the hills from the green gardens and orchard lands along their base, up Vo the craggy summits, were seen clad in thick robes of snow, which glistened as coldly white in the rays of the setting snn as that which the wondering traveler beholds on the peaks of Alont Blanc or the Jung- fra. Every eye turned to gaze upon the strange spectacle of mountains of pearl set in borders of emerald, the white snow above and the bright, green grass below standing out before the eye in startling contrast, and each beholder saw some thing unseen by others. The Switzer saw his native mountains clad in their robes of majesty ; tbe son of New England saw the White Moun tains, or the Green Mountains, once more, and shivered as ot old, in imagination, under the touch of the wintry blast; the miner of ’49 saw the snow-capped Sierra Nevadas, and 3tood once more young, ambitious and hopefully beside his rocker on the banks of tbe Yuba—and so on to tlie end of the chapter. A thousand gazed upon the spectacle, but no two alike. And now, even as they gazed, the heavy, dark curtain ot the cloud trailed its broad fringe ot luminous vapor over the summits of the range, and disappeared, while another and more l>eautiful scene unfolded itself to the vision. Alount Diablo came out of the mist white as if cut from the purest marble from foot-hills to topmost peak, and then iu an instant caught tbe full light of the setting sun and a flood of soft pink-rose color and carmine hues flickered and played alternately on every part of it, crowning the wondrous scene with a glorv inexpressible, then grew dim and disap- appeared in the shadows of the night. The child who witnessed that wondrous spectacle may live to traverse the whole earth in search of the sub lime and beautiful without beholding its equal, and its like may not be seen again in a lifetime by the dwellers in dust and mud-cursed San Fran cisco. Gen. Spinner, of the Treasury Department, has mailed to Europe for collection three cap tured drafts, of £50 each, drawn by Col. Harrison, of Air. Jefferson Davis’ militaiy' family, and in dorsed by Brown, Shipley & Co., the Confederate bankers in Liverpool The District of Cordova, Mexico. The following document will possess interest | for suchtti contemplate emigrating to AIexico: lion, M. F. Maury, Imperial Commissioner of Colonization: Sir: The undersigned have the honor to submit the following report: Immediately tiller our appointment wc pro ceeded to the District of Cordova, in tlie State of Yera Cruz, for the purpose of examining the lands owned by tlie Government in tlnifDis trict, We have visited and examined tlie haciendas and lands,jn said district, mentioned in tlic de cree of 5tli September, 1865. They are situated upon the nineteenth parallel ot north latitude, upon a plain which descends from tlie region of perpetual snows, auil within twenty or thirty miles of the snow-eapped peak of Orizava. The altitude of this plain is about twenty-eight hun dred and fitly feet above tlie level ot the sea; giving a climate which is positively delightful, where it is qcvcr tod warm to wear cloth clothes and sleep under a blanket with comfort, and rarely fold enough to require an overcoat. We are hi- formed by intelligent men, who have lived in the country for many years, that tlie extreme varia tions of tlie thermometer will not exceed twenty degrees. The soil is extremely fertile and highly pro ductive, abounding in every variety of tropical fruit, and of the finest quality, yielding under tbe present very imperfect system ot’ c ultivation large crops of corn, barley, rice, tobacco, sugar-cane and coffee of an excellent quality. Under a proper system of cultivation we are satisfied that these lands may be made to produce equal to any that we have ever seen. We find mahogany, cedar, oak, anil other valuable timber, in the forest, while the orange, lemon, lime, fig, guava and vanilla grow luxuri antly in the woods. These lands tire, in our own opinion, admira bly adapted to the purposes of colonization. Con sidering soil, climate, location and variety of crops, we know of no better, if indeed we have ever seen so desirable a country tor agricultural pursuits; some of them lie upon, and all in reach of the railroad from Vera Cruz to the city , of AIexico, the most distant being within twelve (12) miles of the road, and about seventy (TO) miles from the city of Vera Cruz, and from fifteen (15) to twenty (20) miles from Pasaclel Alacho, to which point the road is now in operation. We are assured by the people of the country that two crops of corn can be grown ou the same land each year, and from what we have seen we are satisfied that the custom of the country is to raise a crop of com and a crop of tobacco on tlie same land, the corn ripening before the usual time for tobacco planting. Coffee'is extensively and profitably.cultivated in the immediate vicinity of these lauds. The excellent quality of the coffee grown here in times past, gave it high rank in the coffee market • of the world. The cultivation of tlie coffee crop is simple, ' easy and cheap, producing ordinarily from one thousand, (1,000) to fifteen hundred (1,500) pounds per acre. The absence of any local cause for disease, and tlie report and robust appearance of tlie people living upon this plain, give ample assurance as to tlie health of tlic country. The engineers are at this time engaged in sur veying the lands referred to. It is believed they will complete the survey within a week or ten days, when their settlement will commence by about thirty (30) American immigrants. Who are now here, waiting tlie completion of tlie survey. Immediately upon seeing these immi grants furnished with lands, we will proceed to the examination of the Zonyalica and Jalapa lands, upon which, we hope to be able to report Very soon.. Respectfully submitted Sterling Price, John Perkins, I. G. Harris, Cordova, November 13,1865. The thrilling adventure of a Cincinnati traveling agent at a eountry hotel is thus told by the Cincinnati Commercial : A short time since the traveling agent for a ' large publishing house in this city had occasion tp “put up” at a country hotel, aud, as usual with him, examined the lock of his room door before retiring. Finding it satisfactory, lie drew out bis revolver and his wallet, and proceeded to count the money, of which lie lmd a large sum, collect ed from agents of the house for which lie travel ed, throughout the country. This interesting process was undergone by tlie light of a “tallow dip,” and occupied nearly half an hour, at the expiration of which time the traveler prepared to go to bed, first by looking under that article of furniture—a habit usually indulged iu by sojourn ers at couutry taverns, especially when carrying fat purses—and secondly, by untying the strings of liis buffalo overshoes. Now, it happened that our traveler was one of those practical fellows who try to “kill two birds with one stone,” and he tried to untie bis over shoes and look under the bed at the same time. As lie did so his eyes encountered the huge pro portions of a massive human head anil shoulders protruding from a heterogeneous collection of , bandboxes and nameless lumber stowed away there, and a cold sweat broke out simultaneous]}' and instantaneously over his body, at tlie bare thought of being murdered and robbed by such a giant. Not a moment was to he lost, for he felt that the would-be robber aucl assassin saw that lie was seen. The traveler seized his money and liis revolver at the same instant, and in a voice, trem ulous, we were going to say, with fear, lie de manded the vilain to come forth. No reply. Ah ! thought the traveler, the rascal is going to shoot me, and quick as lightning lie cocked his weapon and banged away at the gigantic head under the bed, and then rushed for tlie door, and called tor help. The report of the pistol already alarmed the house, and the landlord, tlie occupants of adjoin ing rooms, and several loungers from the bar room, rushed toward the scene of excitement. The traveler was thought to tie crazy, for there lie stood, liis eyes starting from tlieir spheres, Ids, liair on end, and liis trembling band grasping the revolver,- while liis- bloodless lips murmured, “I’ve plugged him, sure! I’ve plugged him, sure!” He pointed under the bed with liis revolver, and the landlord, catching a glimpse of the situation' stooped down, with the candle, and drew forth a bronze bust of Daniel Webster, with a bullet- hole through the forehead. The murder was out, and no amount ot ex planation could save the cruel crowd from laugh ing at the traveler, nor keep them from calling for numberless drinks at bis expense that night. How AIen “Bust Up.”—Men with unassuming wives never fail. It is the husband ot such women as Airs. Dash and Lady Brilliant who find themselves face to face with the Sheriff and certain mysterious documents adorned with red tape and a wafer big enough for target exercise. The desire of a New York feminine is to out shine her neighbors—not in mental acquirements, but in gingerbread ornaments and gold-edged scuttles. If Airs. Dash gets up a game supper— ■woodcocks stuffed with gold dust—Lady Brilli ant takes the wind out of her sails by getting.up another, in which the prevailing dish will be birds of paradise swimming in gravy made of melted pearls. It is this rivalry, and not “dab bling in railroad stock,” that brings ruination to the last men of Wall street. The “illfortuuq” qf which they so much complain, is no more nor leas than a brainless wife. If they would come back to happiness, they must direct their atten tion, not to the fluctuations of the stock market, but the ruinous absurdities of their own firesides. Thousand dollar repasts don’t pay, while tlie merchant who purchases one hundred dollar handkerchiefs for a “duck of a wife,” should not wonder if the time eventually comes when a “goose ot a husband,” will lack shirts, or be but illy supplied with them. Labor in Texas.—A Southerner who has traveled extensively in Texas, writes to the Mem phis Post: I was very much pleased with the progress .of the labor system in Texas. It is, in my opinion in a more settled state than any other portion of the country. Laborers get from ten to twenty- five dollars per month, in specie, with plenty to eat anil good clothes. The sclioojs areselt-sup- porting, and are making rapid progress. On the whole I see a great ileal to be thankful for in Texas. God grant that the other States may soon have their eyes opened, so that the suicidal policy ot attempting to force upon tlie negro a system of peonage, which, if.carried into effeet, would eventually work tlie ruin of both the whites and blacks of the South, may be uban- , tloned. : Notwithstanding the announcement that the French troops are to be withdrawn front Mexico, we hear of the embarkation at Toulon of two or three thousand more troops for that country. t