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liicckli) JatrUigenrer.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, February 21, 1806.
Southern Preu Convention.
This Convention was called to meet at Mont
gomery. on Wednesday last. Its object was two
fold—first to protect the Southern press from ex
orbitant exactions mafle upon it for telegraphic
intelligence; and second, to devise a plan, and
raise the means, by and through which the latest
and most reliable news from all sections of the
Union, political and commercial, may be laid l>e
fore ilie South^p people; the former divested
entirely of insulting references and false state
ments in regard to them, which, since the war
closed, have appeared in almost every press tele
graphic dispatch transmitted by the agents North,
over the w ires throughout the land. At the Con
vention held in Montgomery it was resolved to
continue the organization established during the
war, and to act in concert with the “South Wes
tern Press Association” in efforts to accomplish
the two ends in view. The President and Direct
ors of the two associations will proceed at once
to make all arrangements, by which we trust
soon to announce, that the Southern Press will
have its own a go it* at work, North and South,
transmitting intelligence to them, thus freeing it
from all that 'mdiealsentiment, and foul aspersion
directed at our people, to which it has been sub
jected since the work of reconstruction began.
To our readers, in this connection, wc would
remark, that the matter of expense has never in
terfered with us to the extent of depriving them
of telegraphic news. Wc have made more than
one effort since the publication of the Intei.li-
oenckr was resumed in Atlanta, to receive and
publish the same as in the past. Each trial was
attended by signal failure; failure to receive that
which was contracted for, and failure in regard
to time when we received anytliiug at all. Tlte
only resort left, us was the promotion of the ob
ject had in view by our brethren of the Southern
Press who convened at Montgomery last week.
All that could be done there, has been done. Wc
now await the action of those to whom has been
entrusted the working out that “measure of de
liverance and liberty” for which we, in common
with our brethren of the Southern and South
western Press, have so many months pined; we
mean deliverance from foul slanders continually
heaped upon our people and its press, by agents
of the Associated Press, North, to whom has been
entrusted the work of telegraphing the news of
the day.
Ve exhort our readers to Lave patience until
the good work begins.
Tun following additional post offices have
been re-opened in Georgia, which is in full keep
ing with the promises of the P. O. Department
to supply the South with mail facilities at the
earliest practicable day. The Savannah Herald
says that during the reCeut session of the Geor
gia State Convention at Milledgevillc, Col. A. L.
Harris, Special Agent of the P. O. Department,
was m attendance for nearly a week, acting on
authority from Washington, consulting with the
delegates in regard to the re-establishment of
mail facilities in Georgia. With large dis
cretionary powers, lie not only performed his
duties with great faithfulness and thoroughness,
hut in a manner which we have reason to believe
secured for him the confidence and esteem of
every delegate. The members were consulted,
not as to the politics of candidates suggested for
post masters, but with a view to securing such
officers as would best promote the public inter
ests ; and, so far as wc know, every candidate
named by the delegations was recommended lor
appointment. In this way a most efficient class
of post masters were nominated, and wc have al
ready published several lists of appointments
based on those nominations. Wc give the names
of another hofeli to-day, gratifying in its length,
mul belonging to the class of intelligence which
wo are most happy to publish, as illustrating the
progress ol successful reconstruction, and the
-establishment of the South on its old footing:
J\Kit Office. County.
Pine Log, 1'iiHs,
Cavt* Sprinir, Klnvtl,
Richmond Factory, Richmond,
Hartwell, Hart,
Tooiiisborouidi, Wilkinson,
Taliaferro,
I.umpkln,
< 'ohb,
i 'raw font,
Cherokee,
Postmaster.
Win. Allen.
S. C. Trout.
D. B. Hack.
F. V. Stephenson.
C. M. Lindsay.
Orawfordville, Taliaferro, George F. Bristow.
Dalilonega, I.umpkln, John T. Paxon.
Big Shanty, Cobh, George T. Carrie.
Knoxville. Crawford, Mias K. W. Torrence.
Canton, Cherokee, Win. Dowdy,
Cuseeta, CliattahooehceMrs. S. It. C'ohb.
Monroe, Walton, Jas. W. Baker.
Woodsloek, Cherokee, Laura J. Hardin.
Danleleville. Madison, K. S. Cobh.
Luwreueeville, Gwinnett, .Tosse Murphy.
Danhuri;, Wilkes, Mrs. P. Dtmforth.
Doctortown, Wayne, D. J. Dillon.
Nashville, Berrien, Mrs. S. K. Sheppard.
Irwinville. Irwin, David J. Ferns.
Camilla. Mitchell. Lewis Stanley.
Abbeville, Wilcox, H, L. Davis.
House Creek, Irwin, Simon Stanley.
Grittln's Mills, laovndes, Miss Harriet llird.
McDonough, Henry, Samuel K. Dailey.,
Tliittldciin Stevens and Col. Forney.
The Lancaster (Pa.) Intelligencer in noticing
the recent election in that city, says: “It is, in
all respects, the greatest victory ever achieved by
the Democracy of Lancaster, and will have a
most salutary and beneficial effect upon the rest
of the (State. The arch demagogue, disunionist
and traitor, Thaddetis Stevens, has been signally
and terribly rebuked at his own home, and white
men everywhere have good reason to rejoice
over the result
The editor gives the following significant, no
tice : “We have been requested by the treasurer
of the fund to announce to John W. Forney that
lie is ready with a detailed statement to account
for the expenditure of the $4,000, left by him on
his recent visit, to lie used in securing an en
dorsement of Thaddeus Stevens and negro suf
frage at the municipal election of yesterday.”
We clip the foregoing from a National Intelli
gencer of recent dale. How the “arch dema
gogue," who is so denounced; how his compeer
outside of Congress, who is so publicly exposed
for the “dirty work" he performed in endeavoring
to procure an endorsement of Thad. Stevens and
negro suffrage at the municipal electionweferred
to—will stand such a fire directed at them both
in their own State, will doubtless excite the curi
osity of many of our readers. To some extent,
it does our own ; but we have known the “ old
stager" so long, and the Chronicle man ever since
he entered public life, that we arc inclined to the
belief that it will produce ^either a political nor
moral reform in either. The loss of the money
expended will cause them more grief than the
severe exposure following that expenditure. No
two men wc know’ of possess the audacity they
do. Success with them is reputation, though the
foulest corruption may have promoted that suc
cess. Stevens and Fomev! Fornev and Stevens!
A F ‘
"God save the State” from the influences of such
men!
The President and Fred. Douglass.
The rc|Kirt of the interview between the Pres
ident and Fred Douglass—the latter attended by
a delegation of liis own race, save one—and what
was said on that occasion, has “gone the rounds
of the press,” North and South, and will, doubt
less, soon be read in “Exeter Hall ” where it will
be produced, as it is in the radical press. North,
as evidence of the intellect and high cultivation
of the negro race, especially in New r England.—
When, however, it is known, as the Washington
city correspondent of the Augusta Constitution
alist says, “that the speeches that were delivered
on the occasion” by Douglass and his compeer
Downing, “were ‘cocked and primed’ by Sena
tors and others high in official position, before the
sable orators ever thought of a meeting,” there
will be “a fall in the market,” and other evidence
required to sustain what is claimed for the ne
gro’s intellect and his cultivation even in New
England. The manner in which the President
bore himself on the occasion of that interview is
beyond all praise. He was not deceived nor im
posed upon by the trick ot the radical Senators
and Representatives, who got it up and sent the
negro delegation iuto his presence. How he dis
missed them is sufficient. Tliat the “ biters got
bit" in getting tip their trick, is evident to all who
read their organ, Forney’s Chronicle.
Du. Wxr. H. Turpin, a wall known druggist
of Augusta, and an excellent citizen, died at his
residence near that city on Thursday last; aged
•bout seventy-six years.
Correspondence.
Hon. Joseph E. Bbown:
Dear Sir—The undersigned members of the
Legislature of Georgia, respectfully ask your,
opinion in writing, as to the legislation which jH
proper, under existing circumstances, relatives}
the frcednica. of this State. An early replv, wfli
privilege ol publication, is respectfully sohcitqjfi
’ v e arc very truly, «fcc..
It. A. T. Ridley,
F. A. Frost,
D. E. Bctlkb,
John D. Stewap.t,
Jesse A. Glenn.
Milledueville, Feb. 14,1866.
Gentlemen—Your note asking my opinion
as to the “legislation which is proper under ex
isting circumstances relative to the freedmen of
this Shite,” is now before me, and as I entertain
no opinions which I wish to withhold from my
fellow citizens, who may feel an interest in know
ing my'views on this or any other subject of pub
lic interest, I reply without hesitation.
The actions of wise men are always more or
less influenced by the circumstances by which
they are surrounded. The late war has caused a
complete revolution in our labor system in the
Southern States; and an entire change in the re
lations which the white and black races occupy
towards eacli other. Action which would have
lieen w ise under our late system would be very
unwise now, and much which would have been
unwise then would be wise now.
The fact is undeniable that those who were our
slaves prior to the war, are now free and, so far
as legal rights are concerned, are placed upon
terms of equality with us. This is a fact which
is mortifying to our people, but it is none the
less true on that account. The sooner it is real
ized to its fullest extent, the better for us. I do not
say the negroes are the equals of the white race.
God did not make them so, and maa can never
change the status which flic Creator assigned to
them. They are not our equals intellectually or
socially, and unless madness rules the hour, they
will never be placed upon.a basis of political
equality with us. All intelligent men, who are
acquainted with the race, know that they are not
competent to the task oflfcelf-government, much
less, to aid in governing a great nation of white
people. But they are now placed upon terms of
legal equality with us. If we desired to do so, we
would not be permitted by the government of the
United States to enact and enforce one code of
penal laws for the white race, and another for
the negro race, or to establish one law of con
tracts to govern them, and another for our own
government. So far as the laws of rights and
remedies in our courts are concerned, the two
races will have to be placed upon terms of per
fect equality. While the negro should not be al
lowed to occupy the jury box, or to exercise the
elective franchise at the ballot box, lie must have
the same right to sue and be sued, and to testify
in all the courts of the State, which the white
man has. The crMlriijfy of the testimony in
cither case, to be determined by the jury, under
the rules of evidence which govern courts and
juries on that subject. He must "be made sub
ject to the same penal enactments, and suffer the
same punishment for crime, which is inflicted
upon the white man. In a word, his rights of
life, liberty, and property, including the full and
free enjoyment of the proceeds of liis labor,
must be amply secured to him, by law, with
all the guarantees necessary to their protection
And iu the administration of the law, courts and
juries must see to it, that equal and impartial
justice is meted out to him. When this is done,
I have no doubt we will be relieved from the ju
risdiction of the Freedman’s Bureau, and our
own courts allowed to take cognizance of all
cases in which the negro as well as the white
race is concerned. Until it is done no one can
reasonably expect any such result.
I think it uuwise and injudicious for the Leg
islature to pass any Freedman's Coc(e, or any
other law that discriminates between the races
so far as rights and remedies in our courts are
concerned. A short statute extending the pro
visions of the penal code of this State so as to
embrace all persons of African descent, and ex
tending to them all the civil rights in our courts
enjoyed by white persons, except the right to sit
in the jury box, together with the same rights of
marriage as between persons of their own color,
and the same rights of inheritance, with the
same laws of guardianship, apprenticeship, &c.,
is all the legislation relative to them which is ex
pedient or proper.
Hoping that the Legislature may he guided by
Divine wisdom in arriving at a wise conclusion,
and that such action may he had as will aid in
restoring us to our proper position as one of the
States of the Union, and in promoting the future
peace, prosperity and happiness of both races, I
am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Joseph E. Brown.
Messrs, li. A. T. Itidley, F. A. ’vRrost, II. R.
Casey, D. E. Butler, John D. Stewart, Jesse A.
Glenn.
Wk clip the following graphic sketch of one
of the ablest members ot the present General
Assembly of our State, from the Milledgeyille
correspondence of the Augusta Constitutionalist:
Hon. R. J. Moses, member from Muscogee, and
the generally acknowledged leader of the House,
is a short, heavy-built Israelite—proud of his
tribe—with raven hair, which the snows of fifty
winters Lave had no power to bleach, and dark
eves, lt< ugfc id in repose, but which, when aroused,
kindle witn Promethean lire, liis face is truly
leonine in type, and, in so far, not unfitly mirrors
his heart, which is the residence of Will and
Courage and Generosity, and till the manly vir-
tures. Being chairman of the Committee on the
Judiciary, he is often called to address tin House,
and never fails to command attention. He is the
best speaker 1 have heard in either branch of the
Assembly. Some of the qualities which make
him more of the orator than the debater—a Pitt
rather than a Fox—are, an emotional nature, full
of eloquent feeling, a copious and nervous dic
tion, an ear for the music of words, an impassion
ed declamation, appealing more to the heart than
the head, and power of amplification, wherein
few men excel him. The cogency of liis logic
is in some measure eclipsed by the splendor of
liis rhetoric ; and he seems to love the flower as
much as the fruit. Said Mr. Jefferson: “Patrick
Henry, on his feet persuaded us all, but when he
had taken liis seat, I could recall none ot liis ar
guments.” 1 take Major Moses to t>e an accom
plished belle lettres scholar, and was surprised to
learn that he devotes his professional life mainly
to the practice of commercial law. Such a mas
ter of the passions, it would seem, ought to
give his attention almost exclusively to criminal
advocacy; there he would la: in his element
and in liis glory. As illustrative of his magnetic
power over the emotional elements of our com
mon humanity, I will relate an incident: After
making an eloquent appeal to the House for the
pardon of an aged convict, sentenced to ninety-
nine years imprisonment in the penitentiary, af
ter conviction for murder, purely on circumstan
tial testimony, an old member met the Major as
the House adjourned, and seizing him by the
hand said : “Mr. Moses, I don’t know, hut your
speech touched me, sir. It made tears run down
my cheek. You saved a few days of liberty to
that poor old man, and 1 thank you for it; for I
am old myself. Mr. Pottle opposed you. I was
sorry for it. I was. sorrv for it. I thought he
was*a Christian man.” The old gentleman was
not posted as to the Major's national lineage; and
no one enjoyed the faux pas more exquisitely
than did the Jeic. As 1 have said, he is proud of
liis race. He perfectly anderstands the insensate
prejudice existing against it—and which, to his
honor be it said, lie manfully confronts by so
conforming his conduct as to challenge criticism
upan liis public or private life. His love for that
people is intense and very beautiful—allowing j
nothing to divide his affections with them, but.
his country—Georgia—and those that love Geor- i
gia ; tor a truer, more patriotic heart than his j
never quickened its pulsations at the mention of i
liberty, lie wields a large influence in the House, j
and—his supremacy being intellectual—it re-!
quires no prophetic ken to predict that the meas- i
ure of his fame is not yet full. In social life, his j
genial qualities shine in most attractive perfec
tion. After making the best speech of the day at
the capital, in the abandon ot social hilarity at
night in his room, lie can tell the liest stoiy of
the session. If liis liero chance to lie a French
man, his imitations of the accent are indeed inim
itable. In short, he is the man of all circles, and
emphatically the pride of his own.
A Sergeant in Richmond has had two noses
shot Oft—his own and an India-robber one—in
his campaigns.
It is a source of constant irritation to th e
people ot the Sooth to be misrepresented as they
are by correspondents to the Northern press, not
a d*y passes that we do not see some outrage
ous statement concocted for the sole purpose of
fanning that radical flame that now seeks to
consume us. Our loyalty is questioned, and
wrong motives imputed to our every action.—
These itinerant letter writers travel among us—
see only the surface of things—form their opin
ions hastily, or refuse to view us through un
prejudiced spectacles—and then forward to the
Northern press their erroneous impressions of
the South. This is all to be deplored, for it does
an incalculable deal of barm to a gallant peo
ple. The Richmond Times frilly expresses our
views in saying that when Northern men fiud
the gates of Southern society closed against
them, let them not impute it too hastily to bate
or malice, but let them learn to respect the dig
nity of sorrow and the seclusion of grief, which
admit none but the inmates of the house, while
crape is on the door and anguish at the heart.—
Let them recollect that our love is to be won by
sympathy and kindness, and not by farce and
violence. Conciliation and forbearance on their
part have, and will remove much hard feeling
from a people, whose sensitiveness under suffer
ing and insult have rendered the task of concilia
tion all the more difficult. Misfortune has bowed
our heads, but it has not broken our spirit; and
the situation in which we find ourselves discov
ers nothing left but our pride and self-respect to
sustain us. We should ignobly sacrifice both of
these, in our estimation and that of mankind, if,
forgetful of the past, and its sad memories, we
should pipe, dance, and sing with the victors,
over the graves of our sons and brothers. No;
it cannot be. We know not what changes all
healing time, expansive charity and pure Chris
tianity may bring with the flight of years, but for
the presenL while we are, and intend to be, as
true aud loyal to our government, as the
people ot the North can be, yet we have
griefs, thoughts and sorrows which they
neither kpow nor can participate in. These
we can keep and cherish, and still perform
every civil and political duty, which the Consti
tution and laws of our country shall require at
our hands. Nor need we be branded as “disloyal,”
“disaffected,” “seditious,” because we do not in
vite Federal officers to balls and dinner-parties,
oyster-suppers and egg-nog frolics. Some of them
we respect very highly; they are persons who
would adorn any circle, and we would render
them any reasonable kindness or courtesy, but
both they and we, (when we think about it,) must
know and feel, that the'time has not yet arrived
when we can bring them into the sacred presence
of our household gods, like tho^ “to the manor
born.” *
They are, many of them, at bottom, kind, sen
sible, charitable men, and they will at once per
ceive and appreciate the force and justice of what
we have said, and will acknowledge that while
they hold the sword and bayonet over us, we
cannot, with propriety, meet them in warm and
social intercourse; and we are not “disloyal” be
cause we do^ot do so.
A refreshing case wherein justice is done us
now aud then is brought to our notice. As ,a
sample we give an extract from a letter to the
Boston Post, which says “I feel safe in saying
that if the truth in regard to the condition of the
Southern States, socially and financially, was
fully comprehended by Northern capitalists, the
South would be amply supplied with all needed
capital to develope her wonderful resources—re
sources beyond anything the North, or eveu the
South dreamed of before the war.” He says
that when about to start on his tour, man}’ friends
attempted to dissuade him from his purpose,
urging that it was personally dangerous for a
Northern man, at the present time, to travel in
the South. “Yet,” says lie, “I have traveled
quite extensively in the South, conversed freely
with all classes of Southern people, with quite as
great a sense of personal safety and comfort as
you can possible feel in walking from your sanc
tum to your house in Boston. Indeed, I feel
called upon to bear my testimony to the hearty
cordiality and uniform kindness with which 1
w as everywhere received and treated.”
Such is no doubt the experience, if not the
confession, of all Northern men who come South
and behave themselves.
The Bagdad affair was investigated by a
military commission assembled by General
Weitzel on the 25th of last month. The com
mission was in session seven days. They find
tliat the attack on Bagdad, Mexico, was inaugu
rated and carried out by one R. Clay Crawford,
representing himself to be a Major General in
the Liberal service; and his party, by and with
his consent, and under his direction, consisting of
one Reed, styling himself Colonel Reed, of the
Liberal army of Mexico, and also represent
ing himself to be Lieutenant Colonel of the 40tli
U. S. C. T.; one Sears, alias Major Sears^ one
Lambertson; one Shaw; one McDonald, and
other adventurers who were induced, by hope
of reward, to follow these men in this enter
prise.
Tliat several soldiers of United States troi
whose names the commission have been una
to learn, induced by the parties above named,
did, in violation of orders, proceed to Bagdad,
and participated in the capture of the place, that
these, men were at the time in the pay and under
the control of Reed, Sears and parties above
mentioned, that these soldiers were absent with
out the knowledge or consent of any officer of
the United States, and that every means in the
power of those in authority was used to prevent
the soldiers from engaging in the affair.
Every precaution was used to prevent the con
veying away or destruction of property at Bag
dad by the Government. No United States of
ficer lias been implicated in the affair. Upon the
urgent request of the proper authorities of the
Republic of Mexico, United States troops were
sent to Bagdad to restore tranquility, preserve
order, and prevent outrage; and that the United
States Government was in no other manner con
cerned in affairs at that place.
By the arrival at New York of the steamship
City of Washington we have advices from Eu
rope to the 25tk ultimo. There was some ex
citement in London among the holders of Mexi
can securities, growing out of the demands which
it was alleged that the United States had made
upon France in regard to the military occupation
ot Mexico by French troops. The London Times
had expressed the opinion that the American
Government would be ready to accept a pacific
solution. A dispatch front Madrid says it is offi
cially confirmed that Gen. Prim entered Portu
gal on the 20th, delivering over his horses and
the equipments of his followers to the Alcalde of
Cinasola. Disturbances had, however, occurred
at Valencia, and, as a consequence, the whole
province tiad^ been placed in a state of siege.—
The mission of the foreign Ministers to Gsaca, in
Japan, had terminated successfully. The treaties
were ratified ami the ports therein specified were
to have been opened on the 1st of January.
An important circular concerning the sale of
empty spirit casks, with inspection marks of the
customs officer branded thereon, has recently
been issued by Commissioner Rollins. The law
requires that before a branded cask can be sold
the marks, which are burned in the wood, must
be cut out, and neglect to comply with this reg
ulation subjects the offender to punishment for
attempting fo defraud purchasers ot liquor by
selling as imported an article which is of domes
tic manufacture.
South American news show that the Brazili
ans and their allies were pressing the Paraguay
ans hard, and hoped to overwhelm them in the
montli of January. The Paraguayan army is re
duced to 25,000 men, and is suffering from disease,
which may render it an easy prey to its enemies.
But there is nothing certain in war—except tliat
It is verv troublesome and verv costly.
lOXlS,
aule
A shrew’s home is always a hot house.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
OCR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Milledgeytlur, Feb. 14, 1866.
HOUSE. #
AFTERNOON SESSION. •
The House re-assembled at 3 o’clock.
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
Bill triage the time of holding Superior
Courts vi Muscogee county. Passed.
Bill to extend and define the corporate limits
of the town of Newnan. .Passed.
Bill to alter and amend the charter of the city
of Atlanta. Passed.
BUI to incorporate the Atlanta Canal and Wa
ter W orks. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the North Western Mining
Company. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Georgia Manufacturing
ant] Paper Company. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Dawson Manufacturing
Company. Passed. ^
Bill to incorporate the Georgia Petroleum and
Mining Company, Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Vulcan and Coal Man
ufacturing Company. Passed.
House adjourned till 9 o’clock to-morrow.
Milledgeville, Feb. 15,1866.
SENATE.
The Senate met at 10 o’clock A. M.
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Yarborough.
The bill to legalize marriages of first cousins
was reconsidered.
M*Tliomton introduced the following :
Whereas, The people of Georgia have quietly
and peacefully acquiesced in the results of the
late revolution, and have with entire unanimity
by their conventional acts, and by their Legisla
tive proceedings demonstrated their willingness
to adopt any and all measures demanded or in
timated by the National authority that were ne
cessary' or proper to establish justice, to form a
more perfect union, and to insure domestic tran
quility; and whereas, notwithstanding all these
acts of amity, obedience and fraternity, our towns,
cities and villages are now being garrisoned by
U. S. colored troops, thus placing our former
slaves with arms in their hands, to arrest, fine
and imprison and lord it over their former own
ers, and as a necessary result ol recent emancipa
tion and self-aggrandisement, to maltreat our
citizens, and insult their wives and daughters;
and whereas, such conduct will inevitably tend
to irritate and influence the public mind, and pro
duce scenes of disorder, violence and bloodshed;
aud whereas, if garrisons are deemed necessary
no such results woilld ensue by placing white
t roops under competent officers. Therefore, be it
Ilesolved by the General Assembly, That his Ex
cellency the Governor be instructed to imme
diately send a commissioner to V^ashington City
to properly represent the above facts, and to urge
with all his power upon the President, the Secre
tary of War, and Gen. Grant the justice, wis
dom and propriety of removing the colored
troops.
Be it further resolved, That this General As
sembly will provide the means to defray the ex
penses and pay the services of such commission
er.
The resolutions were taken up and agreed to,
and transmitted to the House.
new matter.
Mr. J. A. W. Johnson from the joint commit
tee appointed to report a bill to provide for the
establishment of an Orphan’s Home reported a
bill for that purpose. The bill proposes to es
tablish at or near Atlanta such a home—the or
phans of deceased soldiers to have the prefer
ence.
Mr. Black. A resolution that the judicial com
mittee be instructed to inquire into the expedi
ency of establishing the value ot notes, bills, &c.,
during the late war, and report by bill or other-
wuse.
Mr. Owens. A bill t£f?
the city judges of Savannah.
Dir. C. H. Smith. A bill to incorporate the
Rome Gas Company. Also a resolution to pro
vide for raising a commission to fix a site for the
State Penitentiary. Also a bill to provido for
the admission of oral testimony.
Mr. Wilcox. A bill to repeal section 4435 of
the Code.
bills on third reading.
Bill to reduce thU sheriffs’ bonds of Baldwin
Hancock, and other counties. Passed.
Bill to extend the corporate limits of the city
of Rome. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Oostanaula Steamboat
Company. Passed.
Bill in relation to the city Council of Augusta.
Passed.
Bill to require licenses for the distillation of
spirituous liquors. Lost.
Bill to incorporate the Mining, Manufacturing
and Improvement Company. Passed.
Mr. Owens submitted report adverse to bill to
change the charter of railroads with reference to
charges.
Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
The House met at 9 o’clock, A. M.
Prayer by the chaplain.
On motion of Mr. Brown of Houston, so much
’of the journal of yesterday as relates to the re
quiring solicitors to have lived twelve months in
their judicial circuit before being eligible to office
was re-considered and passed.
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
Bill to authorize Inferior Courts to fill vacan
cies in boards of trustees and in all private cor
porations. Passed.
Bill to declare Olivia K. Wallace adopted child
of Stephen B. Jones. Passed.
Bill making it penal for railroads to charge
more for freights than allowed by charter.—
Passed.
Bill to reduce the bonds of sheriffa of Clay and
other counties. Lost.
Bill for the relief of Asa C. Jackson of Mnsco-
gee county. Lost
Bill to authorize ordinaries of the State to ad
minister oaths. Lost.
Bill to legalize certain unlawful marriages in
this State. Passed.
Bill for the relief of Lester Masham, Thomas
Hollis and David Dyer, of Morgan county. Re
ferred.
Bill to authorize the issue of State bonds.—
Made the order for Tuesday next
Bill to incorporate the Muscogee Insurance and
Industrial Association. Passed.
Leave ot absence granted Messrs. Pottle of
Warren, Holliday of Stewart, Weaver ot Clay
House adjourned till 3 o’clock p. m.
Milledgeville, Feb. 16,1866.
On yesterday the following letter was read to
the House of Representatives:
Augusta, Ga_, Feb. 5,1866.
Gentlemen: I have the honor to acknowl
edge the receipt of yours of the 1st instant, re
questing me, in accordance with a resolution
adopted at an informed meeting of the Senate
and House of Representatives, to address the
General Assembly on the present condition of
the country.
My engagements render it impossible for me
to comply with the request for the present. Per
haps it may be practicable before the season
cioses.
in this connection I must express my grateful
acknowledgements to the General Assembly, for
the honor of my election to the United States
Senate. I did not expect, nor desire, the posi
tion ; and I sincerely wish the choice had fallen
on some other more worthy and capable. But
the fact that it was unsought enhances my ap
preciation of the -compliment. For more than
twenty'years, I hare been an active participant
in the politics of the country; daring that time
I have frequently been trusted with distinguished
official positions. The people have honored me
beyond my desert; but though conscious of hav
ing served them feebly, yet I have served them
faithfully and honestly. After a career so pro
tracted and so full of vicissitude, embracing as it
does the years of the war through which we.
have passed, it is deeply gratifying to know that
I still enjoy the confidence of the people of Geor
gia. If this paragraph seem to be egotistical,
forgive me. .-..The occasion justifies me in giving
expression to the emotion of my heart, not to
gloqfy myself, but to make a suitable acknowl-
eOgment of the generosity of my fellow citizens.
I have the honor to be very respectfully your
obedient servant, Hebschel V. Johnson.
Hon. Vise. Gibson, President of Senate.
Hon. Thomas Hardeman, Jr.,
Speaker of House of Representatives.
SENATE.
The Senate met at 10 o’clock, A. M.
The resolution instructing the Judiciary’ Com
mittee to report by bill or otherwise, some mea
sure to establish rules for estimating the value of
notes, drafts, bills, &c., made during Confederate
times, was passed. *
Mr. O. P. Bell introduced a resolution provi
ding lor a recess after the 20th instant.
Mr. Thornton. A resolution authorizing the
Governor to appoint one or more competent per
sons to aid the Hon. David Irwin in revising the
Code. 1
Bill to amend section 1350 of the Code. Passed.
House bill to amend the charter of the Ogle
thorpe Insurance Company of Savannah. Passed.
House bill to regulate the charges of the sev
eral railroads of this State. Made the special
order for Monday next.
House bill to authorize the payment of certain
claims against the Western & Atlantic Railroad.
L09L
HOUSE BILLS ON THIRD READING.
Bill to relieve from jury duty persons aliove
sixty years of age. Passed.
Bill for the relief of Isaac Hardeman, of Jones
county’. Passed.
Bill to perfect service against express compa-
nis. Passed.
Bill to allow the redemption of lands sold
within the last six years for taxes. Passed. It
allows nou-residents whose lands have been sold
during the war for taxes, to redeem such lauds
by paying taxes at the rate such lauds were taxed
in 1S60, and ten per cent, additional, if redeemed
within eighteen months.
Senate resolution authorizing the Governor to
appoint a commission to select a site for the Pen
itentiary. Laid on the table for the present.
Mr. Thornton introduced a bill to add an addi
tional clause to section 2531 of the Code.
The bill for the pardon of Terry L. Cox was
unanimously passed.
After reading bills the second time, and House
bills the first time, the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
The House met at 9 o’clock a. m.
Prayer by the chaplain.
NEW MATTER.
Mr. Womble of Upson. A resolution that on
and after the 17th instant, no member shall be
allowed to speak oftener than twice on the same
subject, nor longer than ten minutes, except on
the tax bill.
Mr. Kibbee of Pulaski. A resolution to ap
point a committee to examine the State library;
also, a bill to alter and amend section 648 of the
Code.
Mr. Russell of Muscogee. A bill to incorporate
the Columbus Manufacturing Company.
Mr. French of Schley. A resolution that on
and after 21gt instant no new matter shall be in
troduced.
Mr. Baynes of Jasper. A bill to change the
line between Putnam and Jasper.
Mr. Dart of Glynn. A bill to incorporate the
Brunswick anti Altamaha Company.
Mr. Morris of Franklin. A resolution request
ing the Comptroller General to furnish the Leg
islature all the information in liis possession as
to the amounts of money loaned by the banks to
the State, when and for what purpose.
Mr. Peeples-of Berrien. A resolution that the
adjourn on the 2d proximo.
BILLS ON PASSAGE.
Mr. Brown of Early. A bill to allow Joseph J.
Kirkland to peddle without license in certain
counties.
Mr. Kibbee’sresolution relative to the appoint
ment of a committee to examine the State libra
ry was passed.
Mr. Adams of Clarke introduced a resolution
to require banks to make a return of their busi
ness operations. Adopted.
Mr. Morris’ resolution in reference to money
loaned by the banks passed.
SR^solution in reference to the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum was adopted.
Bill to abolish the office of Adjutant and In
spector General. Passed.
Bill to alter the line between Newton and Jas
per counties. Lost.
Bill to relieve certain counties overrun by the
enemy. Lost.
Bill to authorize an extra tax in the county of
Clarke. Passed.
Bill to change the line between Pulaski and
Wilcox. Passed.
Bill to place the county of Scriven in the fifth
Congressional District. Passed.
Bill to change the line between Pulaski and
Dooly. Passed.
Bill to revive the military code of Georgia.—
Passed.
Bill declaratory of the law touching debts, con
tracts, liens and obligations, made and entered
into prior to 1st June, 1805, when the credit given
was based in whole or in part upon slave proper
ty, and to prevent the collection of the same, ex
cept i« the ratio which the value of all property
other than slave, bore to the value of slave pro
perty. Referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Bill to reduce the number of members of the
Legislature. Lost.
Bill to repeal paragraph 183 of title 4, chapter
1 of the Code. Passed.
Bill to submit the question of tiie abolition of
the penitentiary to the voters of the State.—
Passed. «
Bill to abolish the penitentiary. Lost.
Bill to alter and amend section 1307. It refers
to inebriates. Referred to Committee on Luna
tic Asylum.
Bill to change the time of holding Superior
Courts of Lee county. Passed.
Adjourned till 3 o’clock p. m.
Milledgeville, Feb. 16,1866.
HOUSE.
Afternoon Session, Feb. 16.
The House met at D o’clock.
SENATE BILLS ON THIKD READING.
Bill to incorporate the Georgia and Alabama
Mining and Manufacturing Company. Passed.
Bill to change the line between Lee and Terrell
counties. Passed.
Bill to change the line between Terrell and
Wilcox counties. Passed.
Bill incorporating the Chattahoochee Mining
Company. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the North Georgia Mining
and Manufacturing Company. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Kennesaw Mining Com
pany of Georgia. Passed.
Bill to amend the charter of Smithville, Lee
county. Passed.
Bill to incorporate New Era Manufacturing
and Mining Company. Passed.
Bill to incorporate Elijay Mining Company.—
Passed.
Bill to incorporate Atlanta Mining and Rolling
Mill Company. Passed.
Bill to amend the act incoiporating the Bruns
wick Improvement Company. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Buck’s Manufacturing
Company of Schley county. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Southern Mining Com
pany. Passed.
Bill to incorporate Grand Bay Manufacturing
Company of Berrien county. Passed.
Adjourned till to-morrow morning at 9 o’clock.
Milledgeville, Feb. 17,1866.
SENATE.
The Senate met at 9 o’clock A. M.
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Yarborough of the. Metho
dist Church.
Mr. Thornton moved the re-consideration of
the action.oC the Senate on yesterday in the re
jection of a hill to allow certain claims against
the Western & Atlantic Railroad to be audited.
The motion prevailed.
On the call of the roll no new matter was in
troduced.
The special order of the day—a bill to relieve
from personal liability the stockholders ot the
several banks of this State.
Mr. Bowers opposed the bill in a speech of
considerable length.
He was followed by Mr. Gibson on the oppo
site side.
The Senate then adjourned.
HOUSE.
The House met at 9 o’clock A. M.
The action of the House yesterday on the bill
to incorporate the Kennesaw Mining Company.
Mr. Ridley, of Troup, introduced a resolution
that no new matter, after the 19th inst., be enter
tained by the House.
The special order of the day-*-tlie bill from tlic
Finance Committee to provide by taxes for the
support of the government of the State for the
year 1866—was taken up by sections. The
whole morning was occupied on the bill with
out arriving at a vote.
The House adjourned.
LIST OF ACTS SIGNED BY TIIE GOVERNOR—CON
TINUED.
28. An act to authorize the Phoenix Loan and
Building Association, and tiie Union Loan and
Building Association, of Atlanta, Georgia, to re
sume business and carry on or close said associa
tions.
29. To change the line between the counties of
.Early and Miller.
30. To carry into effect a portion of the 8d
paragraph of the first section of the 4th article
of the Constitution of the State of Georgia, and
to provide the mode of carrying cases from the
city courts of the cities Savannah and Augusta
and such other like courts as may hereafter be
established and for other purposes.
31. To amend section 4554 of the Code of
Georgia.
32. To change and fix the tune of holding the
January term of the Court of Ordinary in this
State from the second Monday in said month, as
now fixed by law’ to the first Monday in January
in each and every year.
33. To amend and alter section 4321 of the
Cotie ot Georgia.
34. To amend the act incorporating the town
of Quitman, Brooks county, and to confer addi
tional powers on the commissioners of said town
and to prescribe the qualifications of officers and
voters of said town.
35. To prescribe the oath to be administered
to voters for members of the General Assembly,
Governor of this State, Members of Congress,
Judges of Superior Courts, States’ Attorneys, So
licitor General, and county officers.
36. To alter and amend an act entitled an act
to incorporate the town of Dawson in the county
of Terrell, and State of Georgia.
37. For the relief of the Savannah Mutual
Loan Association.
88. To authorize the Justices’ of the Inferior
Court of Elbert county to levy and collect a- tax
for county purposes.
39. .To authorize the sale of the Exiles’ camp,
in Dawson, Terrell county, Georgia.
40. To increase the salary of the Superintend
ent of the Western & Atlantic Railroad.
41. To incorporate the Georgia & Alabama
Railroad company, and to grant certain powers
and privileges to the same, and for other pur
poses. Approved February 18,1864.
42. To fix the salaries of Judges and certain
other officer of the State.
43. To amend the charter of the town of
Athens.
44. To amend and add to 3985 section of the
Code.
45. To alter and amend sections 4596 and
4597 of the Code.
46. To make owners and possessors of mis
chievous dogs or persons having charge of the
same liable for damages, and other purposes.
47. For the relief of the Muscogee Building
and Loan Association, aud the Columbus Build
ing and Loan Association. «
48. To alter second and thud Congressional
districts so far as relates to the county of Schley.
49. For the relief of all bona fide soldiers of
the late Confederate States for acts done or com
mitted under an order or orders from any offi
cers of the same; also, to relieve officers for any
acts done by order of a superior officer.
50. To authorize the Inferior Court of the
county of Lumpkin to levy an extra tax, for the
purpose of building a jail upon the recommenda
tion of the grand juiy of said county.
RESOLUTIONS.
19. To appoint a joint committee to draft a bill
authorizing aud establishing an orphan home or
homes.
20. Respecting the penalty of the bond given
by Aaron Tliemby principal, and Edwin R. Har
din security.
21. Requiring the Comptroller General to fur
nish certain information.
22. Relating to the commissioners appointed
by the late Convention to investigate the finan
cial condition of this State from 1861.
23. Providing for the appointment ot a joint
committee, to examine into tiie proceedings of
the Board of Directors appointed for the Western
& Atlantic Railroad by the Provisional Governor.
24 Requesting Secretary of Treasury of the
United States to suspend the collection of the in
ternal revenue tax in Georgia, or requesting
Congress to allow the State to assume. and col
lect the same.
BY TELEGRAPH
The Charleston Daily South Corolinian
of the 2d instant, says:
Our contemporary, the Courier, devotes a col
umn yesterday to a report of tiie pleasant adven
tures of a party of Northern men, from Pennsyl
vania, seeking to invest capital in land, and who
proceeded to John’s Island for this purpose.—
Here they were captured by the negroes and
narrowly escaped with their lives. The males
assailed them with gun, bayonet, blunderbuss and
sword, and revolver. The women poked and
punched them in ribs and abdomen, with hoes
and pitchforks and bludgeons; and so the poor
land seekers were hustled and punched from one
end of the island to the other, threatened with
massacre at every step, and covered w’ith curses
as with a garment. It w r as in vain tliat they
pleaded the orders of General Sickles and other
eminent authorities—in vain they sho wed official
papers—in vain they alleged that they were gen
uine blue bellies, whose grandsircs came out in
the Mayflower. To all these shows, pleas and
pleadings, Hercules and Hector, Antonius and
Somerset, Jacob and Peter, Hector the Old, and
Green and Julius the Young, and Mcllhenny
and Armstrong—antique, heroic and patriarchal
names—turned a most obdurate ear; and, but for
t^ more moderate politics of Sam Johnson and
Sam Flood. George Roberts, and Primius, Ma
jor and Henry, and Cook and Mack, they would
have been verily done to death; chopped into
mince-meat, under the weapons of these infu
riate savages of both genders. Our neighbor
speaks of the preceding in very gingerly phrase
when it calls it a riot simply. Briefly, the whole
island is In a state of insurrection, defying law
and authority, and offering armed resistance to
the military as to the civil powers, and this is not
the first, as it will not he the last, of these so-
called riots. We have heard before of the riot
ous freedmen of this region especially, and see
nothing marvellous in this exhibition, nothing to
surprise any parties not sworn to prefer the lie,
which answers a selfish purpose, to the truth
which condemns it, as with tiie voice of God.
The voice of experience has long since spoken in
the words of absolute prophecy to these deaf ad
ders of destructism who hare brought us to the
present pass. It is, and will be, in vain that any
thing of argument and expostulation should be
said till the terrible end shall be reached Proph
ecy is never believed until it is realized in that
dread experience which says in its bitterness, it
is too late. Cassandra’s destiny was only ty
pical of the fate attending all the prophet-minds
which the world has ever known, to speak to the
deaf in vain those truths and counsels which
would have plucked the flowers of Safety out ot
the nettle Danger 1
Associated Press Dlipatche*.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, Feb. 16.—Treasurer Spinner
yesterday commenced paying iu cash all ar
and Navy warrants, amounting to $1,000 and un
der, and Quartermasters and other disbursing oi-
ficers’ checks under $1,000. All claims amount-
ino^o more will be paid half in cash and halt in
certificates of indebtedness, in accordance with a
recent regulation of the Treasury. Only about
one-third as many certificates are. being issued as
formerly, and the Treasurer is induced to believe
those now in the market will soon come up to
par value. - „ .
Judge Jarnett, Commissioner of the I ension
Bureau, yesterday decided relative to the claim
of an ex-rebel soldier for the land bounty, on the
ground that he had rendered military service to
the Goverment in the war of 1812. It was de
cided that in his participation in the war against
the Union, he had forfeited hi* title to any awards
for services prior to the rebellion.
A private dispatch in Washington, from a
prominent member of the Connecticut l niou
State Convention, states a resolution recommend
ing the early admission of the Tennessee delega
tion was voted down in the Committe on Reso
lutions.
Hon. L. D. Campbell, recently appointed Min
ister to Mexico, arrived in Washington yesterday
and held and interview with the President, lie
visits Washington upon private business, and
will return to Ohio in a few days, there to remain
until the Senate shall have acted on his nomina
tion as Minister to the Mexican Republic.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, Feb. 16.—House.—Mr. Blair
from the Select Committee on the subject, re
ported a bill re-imbursing the loyal States for dis
bursements made for raising troops to put down
the rebellion.
The House Committee ou Banking will report
in favor of adopting some policy whereby the
National Banks will be compelled to Change the
present system of holding interest bearing legal
tender notes for the redemption of their liabilities.
This course will compel the National Banks to
surrender their interest bearing legal tender notes
and substitute legal tenders. This will he the
first move towards a contraction of the currency.
John Ross’ claims of the Chieftainship of the
Cherokees was signed by the Commission recently
sent out to form treaties with the hostile Indian
tribes. He yesterday held a long interview with
President Johnson. Ross is represented by mem
bers of the Commission, as possessing great
wealth and living in a style of elegance unsur-
S issed by his more enlightened Eastern brethren.
is visit to Washington, is believed to be for the
purpose of securing liis recognition by 1 Ur > fi.\ -
erament as Chief of the Clierokces.
The Ways and Means Committee have divided
up the various matters connected with the Tax
Commissioner’s report to sul>-conimittees who are
holding daily sessions examining into matters re
ferred to them. It will be some time before the
sub-coinnjittees will be ready to report to the
committee.
Prom the Montgomery Nail.
Southern Preu Convention.
SECOND DAY’S PROCEEDINGS.
Queen Victoria always sends a gift of £3 to
any poor woman in her dominions who may give
birth to triplets. The latest successful candidate
for the money is the wife of James Gibson, a
weaver of Kalbarchin, Scotland.
Montgomery, Feb. 16th. 18f.il.
The Convention met pursuant to adjournment;
the President in the chair.
The.roll W’as called, and a sufficient number ot
members answered to their names to constitute
a quorum.
The proceedings of the session of yesterday
were read and approved.
The President, Mr. Clark, (Mr. Whitfield, of
the Montgomery Mail, in the chair,) ofleretl the
following resolutions, which were received, and
the consideration of the same postponed until
after the election of officers:
Ilesolved, That it is the earnest desire of this
Association to establish friendly relations with
the New’ York Associated Press by which an
agent of said Association may be placed in the
office of the said Associated Press in tlic City of
Washington, to select from the mass of news re
ceived at said office, for the purpose of transmis
sion to the Southern Press, such portions as he
may, under instructions from the proper officers
of this Association, deem desirable lor and within
the means aud necessities of the said Southern
Press. And the President and Directors of this
Association arc hereby fully authorized to adopt
such measures and make suclfarrangements with
the representative of the New York Associated
Press, as they may deem advantageous to the
members of this Association.
Resolved, That it is the desire of this Associa
tion to renew, if possible, a fair commutation ar
rangement with the managers of the telegraph
lines passing through its territory, so as to make
the tolls bear equally upon all and at a fixed sum
per week. And the President and Directors are
hereby instructed to open communication with
the managers of said telegraph lines at the cat li
est practicable period and to take such measures
as may he necessary to secure this desirable
result.
Ilesolved, That this Association welcomes with
sincere pleasure J. M. Keating, Esq., of Memphis,
President of the Southwestern Press Association,
and tenders to him and the Association he repre
sents its fraternal sympathies and cordial co-opera
tion, in any movement which may be inaugurated
for the common benefit. And the President and
Directors of this Association are authorized to
act conjointly with the President and Directors
of the Southwestern Press Association, in such
measures as may be rendered necessat ry to carry
into practical effect the general purposes of our
organizations.
Ilesolved, That the President, ot this Associa
tion, conjointly with the President ot the South
western Press Association, if he shall so agree,
is hereby instructed to memorialize the Post
Master General upon the subject of the irregular
ity and inefficiency of the system of mail distri
bution as now managed in the Southern States,
causing embarrassment and entailing heavy loss
upon the newspapers of the South and causing
much inconvenience and dissatisfaction among
the people—and to petition for such early action
in the premises as may be necessary to remedy
these prevalent and serious evils.
On motion of Mr. W. L. Scruggs, the Conven
tion proceeded to elect officers:
The first in order was the election of a Presi
dent.
A ballot was taken, and on casting up the
same, it appeared that W. G. Clark had received
a majority of all the votes cast; he was therefore
declared duly elected President.
Mr. Clark was conducted to the chair, and ha
immediately entered upon the discharge of the
duties appertaining to his position. lie made a
speech, short, chaste and appropriate, thanking
the Convention for this evidence, of renewed
confidence and esteem, and promising to exert
his best efforts in behalf of the Press.
The next business in order was the election of
a Secretary and Treasurer.
On casting up the ballot, it appeared that M.
J. Williams was unanimously elected to this po
sition for the present year.
Messrs. F. G. DeFontaine, of South Carolina,
A. F. Crutchfield, of Virginia, Thos. DeWolf, of
Georgia, Seaton Gales, of North Carolina, and
Samuel G. Reid, of Alabama, were elected Direc
tors.
Previous to the casting of the vote a motion
was made, and carrid, to elect only live of the
Directors—the sixth to be elected by the hoard
of five, or a majority of the same, when deemed
necessary and proper by them.
The resolutions offered by Mr. Clark Mem
taken up, considered separately, and finally adopt
ed unanimously.
The following resolution was unanimously ’
adopted :
Resolved, That the next Annual Convention of
this Association be held in the city of Atlanta,
Ga., on the third Wednesday in April 1867, (the
time designated in the Constitution,) unless the
Directory, for special reasons, designate some
other point previous to that time.
The following w r as offered and unanimouslv
adopted:
Ilesolved, That the thanks of the Convention
are hereby cordially returned to its officers, W.
G. Clark, President, and M. J, Williams, Secre
tary, for the official services rendered this both ,
and that the thanks of this body be tendered Col.
J. S. Thrasher, for his efforts in behalf the Asso
ciation.
The following, offered by Mr. E. O. Haile was
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That the thanks of this Convention
are hereby tendered to the officers of the .Mont
gomery & West Point, Atlanta & West Point,
Alabama & Florida, Mobile & Great Northern,
and Mobile & Ohio Railroads, for their courtesy
and liberality to the members of this Conven
tion; also to Messrs. Reid, of the Montgomery
Advertiser, Whitfield, of the Mail, and Kii scr,
of the Ledger, for their courtesy and kindness to
the members of the Convention during its ses
sion ; and that we hereby extend to them our
cordial regards and beat wishes for future pros
perity and success. We also tender to Messrs. L .
P. Gage, Senator, and Messrs. Clark, Tompkins
and Grant, members of the Legislature from
Mobile, our thanks for numerous courtesies ex
tended ns.
Resolved, That a copy of the above resolution
be printed in the several journals represented in
this Convention.
The Convention then adjourned until 5 o’clock
P. M. '
A party of grave digging students was sur
prised by a squad ol’ tbe Chicago police on .Mon- •
day night, in tliAct of “resurrecting” a subject.
They opened fire with their revolvers on .the
squad, and then took to their heels. One of their
number, however, was captured, but subsequent
ly let oft by the justice with a fine of $10.