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VOLUME XXII
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER I t. 1870,
Jnlriligfiar
niULlSB&D DAlLT AND WMILT ®T
JARED IRWIN WHfTAKt*,
Proprietor*
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
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IsFiORUU LKI<MLATURE.
rottl Y-MIXTB DATA PHOCKE DINGS.
Tuesday, H^pUmbtr 6, 1670
ttENATK.
The Senate met pnrenant to adjournment,
ai.«1 was eafiert-to order by (be President.
Prayer i.y R^v. Wesley Pretty man.
The Knli wait called, and the Journal of last
■liv read and approved.
>.Ir. Smith, 3*5!%, rhoved to
hi-tion ot the Senate ot yesterday, adopting the
report of the Committee on the Penitentiary,
Ho thought there sras ranch connected with the
»u njeet which should be more thoroughly
sidod, and desired lime tor the introduction ot
resolutions In regard thereto,
Mr. Harris thought the resolutions might be
introduced without reconsideration.
Mr. Hungerford spoke in favor at reconsider
ation, and was especially desirous ot abolishlog
Mich punishment ot convicts as is now allowed
by law.
Mr. Brock favored reconsideration.
M r. Htnith withdrew the motion to reconsider
Mr. Brock introduced a resolution that the
'■•.ntritct (arming out the Penitentiary couriets
he relerred to the Judiciary Cofluflittee, and
that they be required to report assoon aspracti-
; ..t.le to the Governor on the contract entered
uto with Messrs. Grant, Alexander As Co., and
the manner in which the same has been carried
out.
Mr. Bradley maintained that the contract re
ferred to by the resolution, is vofd, as it was made
under a law which was not signed by the Gov-
vernor until two months after its passage by the
Getters! Assembly. He charged gross abase of
the convicts upon the comracts.
Mr, Dunning believed the whole matter had
been equally discreditable to Governor Bollock,
Messrs. Grant, Alexander «fc Co, and the Legis
lature which gave them power in tbe premises.
He desired the subject thoroughly considered.
The vote waa taken and the resolution passed.
Mr. Campbell, (col’d,) introduced a resolution
in renardto the payment of the back pay
and milexgo nt those members seated by the
military in place ot those declared ineligible,
which was relerred to the Finance Committee.
Mr. Wellborn introduced a hill to incorporate
the Brunswick Harbor and Northern Bee Line
KAilroad Company, and grant Slate akl to the
name. Head the first time.
Mr. Speer ottered a resolution that this Senate
Chamber be tendered to the Germans of this
city lor the purpose of holding a public meeting
on Friday nigbt next.
Mr. Wellborn opposed the resolution, and
moved to lay on the table. Lost.
Alcfe.-rs. Higbee and Harris likewise objected
tu the resolution.
Mr. Bradley began to discuss the political
aspects oi the revolution as denoting sympathy
with the Germans.
Mr. Speer withdrew the resolution, which waa
renewed by Mr. bherman.
Mr. Speer explained that the reaolution was
u.U offered with any political design, but merely
as an act ot courtesy.
Mr. Dunning spoke in favor of the resolution
and iu csnsideralion of the German class ot the
population.
The vote being taken, they stood, yeas, Messrs.
Bruton, Caiman, Dunning, Hungerford, Merrell,
Bherman, Smith of the 7th, Smith o! the36tb,
Speer, Wallace, Wootton—11.
Hays—Messrs. Bradley, Campbell, Candler,
Goti.iii, Griffin of the 21st, Harris, Rigbee,
Jurdau, Mathews, McWhorter, Nesbitt, Rich-
Hidaon, Stringer, Traywick, Wellborn, Welch—
lti.
So the rf solution waa lost.
Tim lollowing bills were read the third time :
A bill to regulate the practice in the Supreme
Court in certain esses, when the plaintifl in
error shall not be able to pay the costa. Passed.
A bill to regulate bills of exceptions in the
Supreme Court and the practice relative thereto.
Fussed and ordered to be transmitted to the
House.
A bill to prescribe the practice In Injunction
cases, and the mode of carrying them up to the
Supreme Court. Passed.
A bill to amend an act incorporating the Fort
Valley Loan and Trust Company. Passed.
A bill to create a board ot commissioners in
each county for county purposes—recommended
by the Judiciary Committee not to pass—whs
lost.
A bill to amend the charter of the city of
Macon Passed.
A bill to incorporate the Georgia Loan and
Bauking Company. Passed by, yeas 20, nays2.
A bill to amend an act to incorporate the
Georgia Mutual Fire and Life Insurance Com
pany. Passed.
A bill to incorporate the Savings- Bank of
Barnesville.
Mr. Speer moved. to recommit, which was
carried.
A bill to amend an act setting apart home
steads. Lost.
A bill to authorize the Governor to appoint a
competent attorney-at-law to attend the business
ot the Western & Atlantic Railroad. Lost.
A bill to declare the liability ot the Western
A- Atlantic Railroad to pay certain claims.
The Judiciary Committee reported adversely
on the bill. The report was agreed to and the
hill lost.
The tune for adjournment having arrived, the
Senate was declared adjourned until to-morrow.
HOUSE.
The TTouse met at the appointed hour and
was called to order by Speaker McWhorter.
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Crumley.
The Journal ot yesterday’s proceedings was
read.
Mr. Bryant gave notice that he would move
t > ir a reconsideration ot the action of this House
in indefinitely postponing the Militia bill.
A minority report jn connection with the bill
was read.
Mr. Bryanl read from the Constitution of the
Stale and argued that the Code is law on this
subject, except when in conflict with the said
Constitution, but that certain magistrates go by
this Code regaidless of the Constitution, and
might arrest colored people lor organizing the
militia—hence the necessity ot passing this bill,
which obliterates the word " white ”
Mr. Harper, of Terrell, said that the people of
the State are at peace, and that he coukl see no
other object in tbe gentleman's remarks Abau to
organize a militia which would stir up
suite that very ttrile or ill feeling which
this very gentleman has done more to bring
about than any 25 men in the State.—
We are coder the guns ot the United States au
thorities, and every man in the State is bound
to assist the civil authoriUea and are willing to
do so, indeed every intelligent man in the State
must oppose the organization ot militia. He
then called the previous question on tbe motion
to reconsider, which call was sustained.
On the main question the yeas and cays were
demanded, with the following result, yeas 39,
nays 57.
Mr. Lane’s resolution to fix the time of ad
journment at the first day ot October next, was
taken up as unfinished business.
The motion to lay on the table, which was
pending yesterday was lost, and the main ques
tion ou tbe adoption of the resolution was put
beloic the House. The yeas aud us>a were
called lor and resulted, yeas 91, nays 10, so the
resolution was adopted.
The special order . t Mie d y. *‘a bill to revive,
extend and continue tbe fiauking privileges of
me Central Railroad aud Banking Company”
was taken up.
.Mr. Duncan called tbe previous question,
which call was sustained.
Tne yeas and nays were demanded, and re-
S.i >, ed in, yeas US, nays 7,
.Mr. Si son moved to suspend the ruies to take
up .i osolution that no new matter be hereafter
introduced without tbe consent of this House
*»pressed iu a two-thirds vote Tbe motion to
sn-iM iul did not prevail.
«>.i uu'IIgu ot Joiner, nt Dougherty, the rules
weit- mini en ed and the “ bill to lorieit the Iran,
tbifcea ot Nelson Titt; to establish a loll bridge
or leriy sc loss Flint rtver.”
* A petition was read, asking lor the privilege
ol erecting s free bridge, &c.
Mr. Biyant read the act granting the charter
lo Mr. Tilt and argued that from evidence
adduced before the committee that tbe franchises
have been forfeited, and that Mr. Tift’s bridge
having been burnt that he can lose nothing by
tbe usance of tbe bilL
Mr. Bryant called tbe previous question on
the adoption ot the bilL The call wae aos-
taiaed and tbe bill was passed.
Smith, of Mnaeogee. moved to suspend the
rales to read a Mil to incorporate a Steeet
Railroad Company. The motion prevailed sad
tbe bill waa read the third time ana passed. '
A bill to incorporate the City Gas Light Com
pany ot Atlanta, waa read & second time.
A message from the Governor was received,
saying that his Excellency had approved and
signed the reaolution requesting the Speaker of
the House and President ol the Senate, to retain
ali bills granting State aid, so that all such bills
may go the Governor at once.
On motion of Mr. Hall, of Merrlwetber, the
rales were suspended and a resolution autho
rizing tbe Treasurer to pay Jackson McHenry
for waiting on committees, was adopted.
Several of the standing committees submitted
reports.
A message from the Governor was read, in
which he recommends leasing the Rome Rail-
mad, Ac. Another message was read, along
With which the Governor transmitted an appli
cation lor relief for D. J. Duncan, of Rabun
county. These messages with accompanying
documents were relerred to appropriate com
mittees.
The bill to incorporate the town of Acworth
was taken up, read tbe third time and passed.
On motion ot Mr. Harrison, of Hancock, the
use of this hall was extended to the German
Aid Society, at 8 P. M, Friday next.
The bill to transfer the county of Lowndes
from the Southern into the Brunswick Circuit
was read the third time and passed.
Tbe hill to alter sod amend section 671 was
passed ; also, tbe bill to amend tbe act to incor
porate the Habersham and Union Town Pike
Company; also, a bill to require the Supreme
Court repoter to publish decisions in pamphlet
form; also, a bill to amend an act to incorpo
rate tbe Cherokee Wesleyan Institute, etc.; also,
a bill to repeal an act for levying a tax for pay
ment ot Sheriffs and clerks in criminal cases; also,
a bill providing that there shall be no appeal
from one jury to another iu the City Court ol
Augusta.
Pbe bill to point out tbe mode of paying
Solicitor Generals was lost.
Tbe bill to incorporate the Empire State
Works was read a third time and passed.
Tbe bill to allow compensation to Ordinaries
for certain services was lost.
Mr. Biyant offered a resolution instructing the
Governor to return convicts to tbe penitentiary,
and to provide for them—which resolution was
referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Messrs. Parks, Madison, and Harrison of
Hancock, were allowed leaves of absence.
Several messages from the Senate were
received.
Tbe hour of adjournment having arrived,
the House waa declared adjourned until 8, P. M.
HOUSE—AFTERNOON SESSION.
House met at 3 P. M.
On motion of Mr. Darnell, the bill to incor
porate the Georgia Banking Company, ot
Savannah, was taken up aud read the third time.
The bill was put upon its passage with the fol
lowing vote as a result—yeas, 74; nays, 14;
so the bill was passed.
The following bill was read the first time,
to-wit i
Mr. Barnum—A bill for the relief of the
Sheriff of Stewart county.
On motion of Mr. Duncan the balance ot the
afternoon was devoted to reading bills the sec
ond time.
At half past four, on motion of Mr. Lee, the
House adjourned until 10 A. M., to-morrow.
FOUTY-SEVKNTH DAY'S PROCEEDINGS.
Wednesday. September 7. 1870.
SENATE.
The Senate met at 10 o’clock, A. M ,pursuant
to adjournment, and waa called to order by
President Conley.
Prayer by the Rev. Wesley Pretty man.
Tbe Roll waa called, and the Journal of
last day read, and approved.
Mr. N unu illv moved to reconsider the action
in regard to the bill declaring the liability ot tbe
Western & Atlantic Railroad, to pay certain
claims .which was lost yesterday.
Mr. Harris objected to reconsideration on the
ground that the subject had been thoroughly
canvassed before tbe Legislature, and the Courts
aud the claims rejected—and that they are war
claims—be moved to lay the motion on the table.
Lost
Mr. Speer called the previous question.
Mr. HuDgerlord stated that tbe object of re
consideration was merely to recommit the bill.
Mr. Candler favored reconsideration.
The question was then put upon reconsidera
tion, which was carried.
On motion of Mr. Nunn ally, the bill was re
ferred to the Judiciaiy Committee.
Mr. Hungerford moved to lay on the table the
House resolution that the General Assembly
shall adjourn sine die on the first day of Octo
ber, 1870, which motion was carried.
Mr. Speer oflered a resolution that wc express to
Congress our decided conviction, taking into
consideration all the circumstances, that Messrs.
Hill and Miller, are clearly entitled to their seats
therein, upon complying with tbe provisions of
Congress—and that the Governor be directed to
transmit a copy of the resolutions to tbe Presi
dent and Vice-President of the Uuited States,
to be submitted to the Senate.
On motion of Mr. Speer, the resolution was
made the special i.nti-r ’or Tuesday next.
Mr. Bruton oti> red a preamble and resolution
asking Congress to remove the disabilities of all
tbe citizens ot this State, at the next session.
On motion ot Mr. Bruton tbe resolution was
referred to the Committee on the State of the
Republic.
Mr. McWhorter moved to suspend the rules
to take up a bill authorizing the Governor to
issue the bonds ot tbe State for the payment of
dc ts now due or failing due, the interest there
on to be paid in gold coupons.
Mr. Wooten moved that fifty copies of the
bill be printed lor the use of the Senate and it
be made the special order for Friday.
Mr. Nunnally opposed the motion.
Mr. Harris objected to laying the bill on the
table for any length of time, and hoped it would
be considered to-day.
Mr. Nncnally moved to make the bill the spe
cial order lor Thursday. Carried.
Mr. McWhorter moved to suspend the regular
order of bossiness to take up a bill to open and
construct a raiiioac from Athens, Georgia, to
Clayton, Georgia.
Mr. Colman moved to amend the motion so
as to suspend the rules in order to take up all
railroad bills—and called the previous question.
The motion, as amended, was carried.
The bill reel ted as above was then taken
up. read the third time and passed.
The following bills were read the third time:
A House bill to incorporate the Atlanta and
Lookout Railroad Company, to extend the aid
of the State, and for other purposes. Passed.
On motion, a Senate bill for tho same purpose
was indefinitely postponed.
A bill to incorporate the Grand Trank Rail
road Company, and to grant State aid to the
HOBBS.
The Hoots met at tns appointed hawf and
was called tc ocder byBpeakv MeWhoctex.
Prayer by Rev. Dr. “
Tbe Journal of
read.
On motion of Mr. Belcher, Prof. J. M. Lang
ston, of Ohio, was invited toe mat o* this fleer.
On motion oi Mr. Erirtn, a flatt en the floor
of tide House waa tendered to Hen. 8. A.
Atkinson.
On motion of Mr. Fitzpatrick, the ass of this
hall wm tendered to Prof, imptn, tor
DUMBER 37
Mr.
opposed taking ap the bill by sec-
ring that it could not be improved,
and such a method would consume time ua-
purpoee of delivering *
Mr. Holcomb moved to amend by striking
banking privileges tr ni the bill.
Mr. Hunger lord ofij cled to the amendment,
and hoped that the Dili would be passed as it
stood.
The amendment was submitted and lost
Mr. Harris called for the yeas and nays.
Ttif ‘-ill whs passed by yeas 22, nays 5.
A H..UM Dili to amend an act incorporating
the Augusts and Hartwell Railroad Company,
and U> grant State aid to the same. Passed.
On motion ot Mr. Smith, a bid to incorporate
the Savannah River aud TbomasviUe Railroad
Company waa indefinitely postponed.
A lull to incorporate tbe Lookout Mountain
Railroad Company, and grant State aid to the
same. Passed.
A bill to amend an act to incorporate the
Brunswick A Albany Railroad, and to grant
State aid to tbe aame. Passed.
The lollowing bills were read the first time
Mr. Wootteif—A bill to legalize and make
valid the organization of the Cdthbert Manufac
turing Company.
Mr. Harris—A bill to regulate tbe sale of bonds
endorsed by the State
Mr. Smith, oi the 36th—To amend, an act to
incorporate tbe town of Luthersville, in Merri-
wether county.
Bills were read the second time.
On motion the Senate then adjourned.
Speaker
at impeachment ante* tbe
made the special order for this day.
The charges and specifications were read by
the Clerk.
Mr. Fitzpatrick submitted two additional
charges.
Mr. Williams, of Morgan, offered a resolution
referring tbe articles, Ac , to a joint committee
With instructions to report, Ac.
Mr. Darnell raised the point of otdor that it
waa the exclusive privilege of tlfll Ho~^~
cldc whether or not these wftffltas of
meat should go to the Hsmte. A&, and that
privilege or authority could not be detaantod to
a committee,
Mr. Biyant moved to indefinitely
the whole ■object. Mr. Bryant gave a data tied
account of all the difficulties botwaea tbe Gov
ernor and Treasurer, and defended the latter
from the charges made against Mm, and said
that Mr. Angierhhs iano respect violated the
lstr, and no amount of money cMU turn him
from a conscientious discharge of Ms duty. He
aaifi that if you want to Impeach, don’t start
with the Treasurer; that he (Mr. Bryant) can
tell ot houses built by bankrupts who are con
nected with the State government
Mr. Williams ot Morgan, ceiled the previous
question on Mr. Bryant’S motion to indefinitely
postpone, which call was sustained.
Mr. Fitzpatrick called for the yets and nays,
which call resulted in yea*, 78 ; nays, 7; so the
motion to indefinitely postpone prevailed.
Mr. Carson offered a reaolution authorising
tbe Clerk to employ ten additional assistants,
which resolution was agreed to.
Mr. Bryant offered a resolution Instructing
the Treasurer to pay to each officer and member
01 the General Assembly, the sum ot one hun
dred dollars. This resolution was adopted.
The Speaker submitted a communication from
the dpalding County Agricultural Society,
which was referred to Committee on Agricul
tural A Internal Improvements.
Mr. Osgood presented a petition from the
German Immigration Aid Society, which was
referred to the Committee on Corporations.
Tbe following bills were introduced and read
the first time to-wit:
Mr. Gray—To incorporate the Tatum Iron A
Coal Minnicg A Manufacturing Company, ot
Dade county.
Mr. Porter—To authorize the Governor to
appoint a Chief Conetable lor this State, to de
fine his duties, Ac.
Mr. Fryer—To confer certain privileges on
E. B. Bush, ot Early county; also, to Incor
porate the town of Colquitt.
Mr. Harrison, of Franklin—To incorporate
the Shoal Creek Manufacturing Company.
Mr. Price—To authorize the Ordinary of
Bumpkin to issue bonds ior the purpose of
building a jail in said county.
Mr. Clower—‘To provide a general election
by tbe people of this State, Ac., on the 38th
day of December next,
Mr. Johnson, of Spalding—To exempt mem
bers of Griffin Fire Company No. 1, from jury
dutv.
Mr. Caldwell—To regulate tbe collection of
Cost on claims existing prior to Jane 1st, 1865.
Mr. Betbune—To amend section 8798, Re
vised Code ; also, to repeal sections 1093,1064,
1065,1066, 1067, 1068, 1069, 1070,1071, 1072,
1073,1074,1075,1076 and 1077, Revised Code ;
also, to compel tax payers to specify what sol
vent debts they give as taxable, and to prevent
the courts from entertaining jurisdiction, Ac.,
upon any debt upon which the owner shall not
have paid tax, Ac.
Mr. Carson—To incorporate the Boston and
Greenfield Railroad Company.
. Mr. Hall, of Merriwether—To require certain
parties dealing in liquor to pay license.
Mr. Turner—To establish a State police.
Mr. Erwin—To amend an act to authorize the
county oi Habersham to aid in the construction
of the Northeastern Railroad Company.
Mr. Page—To amend an act to provide for
the payment of insolvent cost in criminal cases
in certain counties., etc.
M r. Belcher—To exempt practicing physicians
from jury duty.
Mr. Armstrong—To alter and amend the law
in relation to the distribution of Supreme Court
decisions.
Mr. Joiner—To prevent lewdness, Ac., in the
city of Albany.
Mr. Price—To incorporate the Georgia
Immigrants* Homestead Association.
Mr. Bell—A resolution authorizing the Gov
ernor to direct the completion ot the maps of
this Btate.
Mr. Hamilton offered a resolution providing
for the payment for certain work done by E. J.
Williams. The same was, on motion ol Mr.
Price, laid on the table.
The following bills were read the third time
and passed, to-wit:
A bill to amend an act to incorporate the
town of Kingston.
A bill to annex the county of Glasscock to the
Middle Judicial Circuit.
A bill to change the line between the counties
of Henry and Butts, was passed.
The Senate amendments to the bill to con
struct a railroad from Athens to Clayton, were
concurred in and the bill passed.
The Senate amendments to the bill to incor
porate the Atlanta A Lookout Railroad, and to
grant State aid to tbe same was concurred in
aDd passed.
The bill to allow certain persons to dig and
mine for phosphate rocks, was read a third time
and passed.
Several of the standing committees submitted
reports.
The bill to protect the agricultural interest of
Stewart county was amended by adding the
county of Warren, and re-committed to the
Committee on Agriculture and Internal Im
provement
A bill to reinstate certain parties as executors
was read a third time and passed.
Mr. Rainey offered resolutions of respect to
the memory of tbe late Hon. Frank Wilchar, o!
Taylor, which were unanimously adopted and
ordered spread upon the Journal ana a copy
thereof ordered to be transmitted to the family
ot the deceased, in respect to the memory of
Mr. Wilchar.
The House adjourned until 10, A. 1L, to
morrow.
FORTY-EIGHTH DAY’S PROCEEDINGS.
Thursday, September 8, 1870.
SENATE.
The Senate met at 10 o'clock, A. M., pursn-
aut to adjournment, and was called to order by
President Conley.
Prayer by Rev. Wesley Frettyman.
The Roll wsu called, and the Journal of the
last day read and approved.
Mr. Holcomb offered a resolution calling on
the Secretary ot tbe Senate to ask ot the House
the return of the bill amending the act incorpo
rating the Brunswick and Albany Railroad.
Mr. Hungerford made the point that the bill
could not be recalled unless by a vote of two-
thirds.
Mr. Holcomb thought there could be no
doubt cf the right ot either House to recall any
paper transmitted therefrom; that tUa bill had
been bnrried through without proper considera
tion. aud that it proposed to contribute a large
amount oi m >oev tor constructing a railroad
wholly unaided by private subscription.
The President ruled that the resolntion could
not be entertained unless fraud in its passage
could be shown, which not being done the
matter was dropped.
The bill authorizing the Governor to issue
State-Bands to meet all oatstanding bonds and
the interest thereon falling due before January
1st, 1871, which bonds to ran twenty
with interest thereon to be paid mqff-ei
at 7 per cent in gold coupons, being tbe
order lor to-day was that taken u.
The committee to whom the bill was referred
amended by striking out, *1x7018 January 1st,
1871.”
The bill as amended was pencil
The bill to change the public roads of cer
tain counties and to regulate tbe width thereof
waa read tbe third time and pamfiff.
Mr. Merrell moved to take up hy sections the
(nil to organize the District Courts and define
the jurisdiction thereof and for other purpowe.
Holcomb insisted" on tbe motion, which
was carried.
The first section was read.
Mr, Smith at the 7th offered an amendment
excepting the Seventh District from the opera-
tioa at the bill.
Messrs- McArthur and Hoi...mb proposed
amendments excepting the Fiiu. utii and Thir
ty-ninth Districts.
Mr. Merrell opposed all amendments on the
grounds that from the galore ol the bill it must
operate universally.
Mr. Hnjoomh said that lus district (39tb) had
no use for inch a court, and]was unwilling u» be
taxed unnecessarily to rapport the officer* oi it,
and that the sessions ol Superior Court iii-ioare
generally not longer than two days. He saw
nothing unfair or unconstitutional in the amend
ment.
Mr. Candler insisted that the Constitution
provided fur such a court “in each district” and
under that the biji must be uniform.
Mr. Smith believed the Legislature had power
tp allow such exceptions to the bill under the
danse “unless the Legislature shall otherwise
direct."
Mr. Hinton in an able argument maintained
the constitutionality of the amendments pro
posed.
Mr? Qunning opposed the bill as general. He
ived that the districts needing such a court
in the minority, thatits -fbHubment
would increase iitisstfeh.
Mr. Campbell opposeii the -»»'
lb. Wootten spoke & favor of the bilL He
reviewed the history at tbe County Courts, and
explained the necessity of establishing some:
tribunal in their stead. & believed more ex
it now incurred ,by the country for want
of such a court than its existence would cause.
Mr. Bradley argued, that the creation of the
District Court is imperative under the Constitu
tion providing that tbe “District Court shall ex
ist until otherwise directed by the Legislation***
Mr. Brock insisted at langth that the Consti
tution makes special provision for these exeep-
ving power to the Legislature other
wise to direct.
Mean. Higbee and Matthews favored the
passage ot tbe bill as a whole and claimed that
tbe exceptions may be Afterwards made.
Mr. Smith (36tb) called the previous question
on the first section of the lull.
Pending discussion of the call, the hour of
one having arrived, the Chair declared the oou-
aideration of the bill postponed until to-morroW.
On motion the time was extended for the pur
pose of reading bills.
The following bills were read for the first
time:
Mr. Jones—A bill to change the time of hold
ing the Superior Courts in frontier county.
Mr. Speer—A bili. to prescribe the time of
electing county officers in this State; also, a trill
to Improve the navigation of the Coosa river,
and to appoint co&nhiasianen for the same;
also, a bill to incorporate the Planters’ Ware
house Company in tne city of Macon.
Mr. Hintiou.—A bill for tbe relief of the seco-
ritteB of tax collectors of Muscogee county for
1867.
Mr. McArther—A bill to repeal laws relative
to giving in land in counties where the land
lies.
Bills were read the second time.
On motion the Senate then adjourned.
HOUSE.
House met at the-usual hour, Speaker Me-.
Whorter in tii* Chair.
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Crumley.
The Journal of yesterday’s proceedings was
read.
Mr. Bryant moved to reconsider so much of
yesterday’s proceedings as relate to the passage
Of a bill to grant to certain persons, therein
named, the right to dig and mine in the beds of
navigable streams idr phosphate rock, etc. He
advocated the proposition to reconsider and op
posed the measures of the bill at some length,
principally on account of tbe magnitude and ex
clusiveness of the privileges guaranteed.
Mr. Bethune spoke in favor ol reconsideration
and said that, aside from the privileges which
are too vast and exclusive, the rights of
the people are interferred with by granting this
measure which proposes to give away their
rights to other people.
Mr. Harper, of Terrell, advocated the bill and
opposed the motion to reconsider. He said that
it is the duty of the people and their Legislators
to develop the resources of this State, and the
only way to develop these phosphate deposits
is to grant the right to mine for them, to certain
persons and to protect those persons in this
right. For, unless they are protected no
one will be lound who will undertake
the hardships and risks of making the explora
tions, if as soon as these discoveries are made
some other persons can get a charter, come in
and reap the benefit of their labors ; that the
only objection some of the opponents have, is
that somebody will make money, but that he
desires that the parties named in the bill should
make money, for iney are men who live in the
State, and their money will benefit our people.
Mr. Price thought that the bill had been suffi
ciently discussed, and has been twice reported
on with amendments proposed, but that those
amendments have been disregarded and the bill
forced through. The committee recommend that
the right between the fravaunah and Ogeeche
rivers, which is territory enough for these parties,
be granted, and yet they clamor for the whole
State—that a bill similar to this has worked
great wrong to the mass ot the people there—he
hoped that the motion to reconsider would pie-
vaiL •
Mr. Hall, of Glynn, opposed the motion to
reconsider, he said that tbe parties named in the
bill are pioneers In this enterprise and they risk
a great deal and should be protected if they suc
ceed—that the tact ot allowing them to mine in
beds ot navigable streams below low water
mark, does not interlere with the rights ot pri
vate individuals.
Mr. McWhorter remarked that this company
was organized to find out whether there are any
deposits in the rivers ol this State—that the de
posit obtained trom tbe rivers is not guano until
mixed with real guano, and is not worth more
than twenty dollars per ton.
Mr. Lane, of Brooks, spoke in favor of the
bOl, and urged the necessity of encouraging this
enterprise, so as to keep within our limits the
immense Bum suoually expended abroad for
fertilizers.
Mr. Lane called the previous question on the
motion to reconsider, which call was sustained.
Mr. Bryant called for the yeas and nays, with
the following result—Teas 56 ; nays 43.
Mr. Bantam moved to reconsider the action of
the House on yesterday, in recommitting to a
committee a bill to protect the agricultural in
terest ot Stewart county.
Mr. Price favored the motion to reconsider,
and said that scarcity of fences and timber will
compel the experiment proposed to be made^
to-wit: keeping up stock, Ac.
Mr. Turner opposed the motion and argued
that the bill will work a hardship on the poorer
d.
Til' IM I A i ’ .1
The ynia and imy* were demanded.
Pectat, ot Ghathaiq moved to adjourn.—
Which motion the temporary Speaker refused to
entertain. Whereupon about two-thirds of the
Republican members summarily left the Houae.
! The roll m» called and it was found that
than waa not a quorum present.
A Motion to adjourn until 3 o’clock prevailed.
HOUSE—AFTERNOON SESSION.
Thphooae met at the appointed hour.
Speaker McWhorter in the chair.
Mr. Turner moved to adjourn until 10 A. M.
to morrow. On which motion the yeas and
days were demanded with the following result:
yeas 34. nays 57.
Speaker McWhorter stated that he was called
off this morning, and that he called for the
Speaker pro ton., and learned that he was sick ;
that he asked
Mr. Price to preside, and learned from bim
that he tyaptod to participate in the debate ; that
be then called upon Mr. Harper of Terrell who
came to tbe chair, and that he made this state-
use he tl
Mr. Tamlm remarked that he represents an
adjoining county, and hoped that the Houae
would rescind its action on this bilL
Mr. Tomlin called tbe previous question,
which call was sustained and tbe motion to re
consider prevailed.
Mr. Lee, Chairman of a special committee,
reported a bill to cede certain lands as National
Cemeteries, to the United States.
The special order of the day “ the Senate
Savannah bill,” was taken up.
Mr. Shumate made the point of order that a
House hill exactly like the Senate bill having
been indefinitely postponed that it is uu.i»-i the
Constitution, incompetent lor tbe House i.> en
tertain the same subject mauer ugh in, atier final
disposition ot it, uaieas by a vote oi t«u thirds
of ibt iioibc,
Mr. Porter said that the Speaker had ruled
when this question was np before, that the Sen
ate bill could be entertained.
Mr. Harper, of Terrell, temporarily in the
Chair, ruled that Mr. Shumate’s point of order
was well taken. From which ruling
Mr. Bryant appealed*
Vi; Shumate
aad argued forcibly that the
similar, and on having been dispoeed
other could not be entertained, and that it- tins
ruling is not sustained, there would beno 1 dila'-
minauonof measures before the Legislature.
Hr. Darnell asked if this prqgramtbe hkdhteen
The Speaker said that no programme had
arranged, to bis knowledge:
Mr. Shumate called the previous question on
the appeal.
he thought it doe to himself and
_Jy moved to lay the whole, subject
t6 the Savannah bill on the table,
the call of the yeas and nays,
been called, a motion of adj ourn-
made. Pending the call for the yeas
jqn the motion to adjourn
t, of Terrell, rose lor information as
of the question, and in an animated
it speech he detailed the circum-
Conuec'.ed with the business before ,the
House tMs morning, and showed thqt there was
a quorum until the bolt to defeat it, and that he
wanted the country and this House to under
stand His position in the premises.
Mr. Bryant refuted all charges made against
himaelf, Ac.
The call for the yeas and nays wsa resumed,
and the motion to adjourn waa last.
The Speaker decided to go back where the
OUee left off this morning, so the yeas and nays
t the appeal from Mr. Harper’s ruling were
called with the following result; yeas 49, nays
4G.
Bo Mr. Harper’s ruling was sustained.
A motion to adjourn until 10 A. M., to-morrow
prevailed.
Ftom the New York World.
The Surrender of Napoleon.
Mens, Mens, Tekel, UphahsiN. If ever
the awtnl words that flamed in judgment on
Belshazzar's palace wall fitted the solemn story
Of a tailing, throne and a broken sceptre, they
fit the tragic scene which passed at Sedan on
Friday, the second of September. No details
Worthy ot credit have yet reached us ot the
events which led directly to the surrender of
Napoleon 11L in person to William L ot Prus
sia. It is not probable that any such details
reach us for many a day to come. For,
5 the immediate past of those terrific days
of battle which preceded the catastrophe cannot
possibly be chronicled with intelligence and
accuracy till the swords ot the combatants are
sheathed and the archives of the armies become
the harvest of the historian, the immediate future
also lowers with yet unlilted clouds of war.
Mencrypeace! peace! on-the market-places of
London and of Brussels. Under the beautiful
linden trees of Berlin the children go in pro
cession chanting hymns of peace. But there is
no peace yet; nor until all these hopes become
facts can we expect to learn fully and with
truth precisely how, lor the second time, the
star of the Napoleons came thus suddenly to
set Jh blood among the hills and woods of the
Dimes. But we need not wait ior these de-
tails and moving incidents of tbe great drama
to see and seize its one duuuuant and significant
moral.
The Prince whom the proudest aud most fiery
of the European races thrice elected to rule over
them haB practically lost by the sword what he
received from the ballot. -The monarch whom
for nearly twenty years Europe recognized as her
arbltjer of peace is to-day a prisoner of war.
The modem Augustus ot Fi a ice, like his pro
totype of Rome, has wrecked, iu a mighty con-
flirt with the descendants ot Antonins, not tbe
legions of Varus only, but the Empire which
those legions upheld. Unlike his prototype of
Roqm, however, the French Caesar has shared
the disaster of his soldiers; and the cry which
ranft'so desolately tti rough the imperial cham-
of the Palatine he that was yesterday toaster
oi the Tuileries must shut within his own heart
in toe silence of his exile. For in those awful
words of old is his modem story told ; “Mene,
>e, Tekel, Upharuu.” He lias been weighed
in toe balance and lound wanting.
The crash of the Empire is its final and irre
versible criticism. The Emperor has fallen—
clearly, unmistakably, undeniably—because he
deserved to fall. And he deserved to fall, as all
men may now clearly see—and here for us in
America is th£ lesson ot the great event—be
cause he Was an Emperor. It is the system
that has surrendered, not the man. For now,
it ever, is the time for all calm and candid men
to do justice.to the great qualities, alike of mind
and ot character, which nave enabled Louis Na
poleon Bonaparte for nearly the lifetime of a
generation, to fill the most conspicuous position
in toe civilized world with so ranch skill and
force, with so much prudence and forecast, and
with such a varied capacity as will insure to his
name, in toe annals of our times, a place as
marked and as marvellous as that of any sover
eign recorded in history. Tiio^e mistakes of his
reigD, which can be clearly traced to errors of
judgment on his own part, may easily be par
alleled alike as to number and as to magnitude
in the career ol any one of the most illustrious
among the rulers of mankind. His greatest polit
ical blunders have not been greater than those
of the first Napoleon; his military misadven
tures have been much less numerous, and it is
still pretoature to pronounce them more disas
trous to his people, than those of the great
Frederic. The manner ot his advent to power,
however bitterly it may be denounced,, was a
less flagrant outrage upon the principles of
liberty and sound government than toe Steps by
which Cromwell seized toe dictatorship of
Eagland or Cmsar the helm of toe Roman state.
The wars upon which be has entered have been
undertaken in no such flat contempt of the re
cognized modern standards oi international right
as toe armed adventures of his now successful
antagonist, Count Bismarck. Even in that en
terprise ot his reigu which has most drawn
down upon him the hostility ot Americans, it
should be easy tor temperate and considerate
men, viewing him now as a character in history,
notes a power in politics, to admit that there was
so element ot quixotic interest in a decrepit race
and a dying nationality not toe less creditable
to his generous instincts as a man that it was
neither judicious nor practical on his part as a
ruler. The liberation and reconstitution ot
Italy was hit work. To his action in the Cri
mean war, more thau to any one other extrinsic
cause, Germany herself is indebted for her
emancipation from that overshadowing domina
tion ot the Russian Cxarism under, which the
events ot 1815 left her blighted and powerless,
and which was made darker and more chilling
than ever by the failure ot her ill-combined and
ill-conridered efforts at revolution in 1848.
Within the limits of the French Empire an
enormous development of material prosperity,
in the main judiciously fostered and profitably
directed, will be carried by impartial history
very largely to the credit of the imperial intel
ligence which i-ri****, in the favee of toe tra
ditions and the prejudices of the French people,
upon the authority ot great economic laws.
These things, we say, it is becoming to recall
and to recordto-day ot tbe fallen Caesar. And
these thingw bring ns to toe moral of his fall.
For if a man so much more highly endowed,
and in the wHn so much more nobly moved,
not only *h»« most princes born in the purple,
bat than a decided majority of the elected chiefs <
of men, cou'd not make a C®3ari3m a success '
in such a country a Friece, what man in what
country can • »• r it.* SO? T ;*•: rin render ol Ihe
ibird Napunuu. we u p at Hi. n - Hie gi.meiiv.ter
not Of the man btu ol Lne system, ll *s a SOT—
render in which ail tbe world, therefore, may
rejoice, save, perchance, the very monarch who
receives it. The cry which went up in some
parts of Europe yesterday, hailing a new
Emperor at Germany in the stead of tbe
— Emperor of toe French, will be a
evil omen to victorious Germany if It be
-a«n4 answered by her. Not in this cue
wfll it be true, as of the ancient Scythians Itwas
ftifHW to be, that tbe strength ol the vanquished
puses into the victor. The tragedy of Sed^h
only repeats that elder lesson ot Fontamebfcu
which the vanquished oi Sedan would nbf letfn
or heed. Let us hope, tor the sake of Geimhriy,
of Europe, and of the world, that if theyfotor
of Sedan prove no wiser, the great people, at
least, Whose to-day he holds in the hollow oi his
hud, may not be dragged by triumph into
gharing his unwisdom.
letter from Hon. Linton Stephens—Hs
Aeeepte Uee Nomination of Chairman «|
the Stare Democratic Kxecatlve Cei
mltteo.
Sparta, Ga., September 6th, 1870,
Col R. A. Alston. JSecretarit of t/u Democratic
Executive Com miitet of Georgia:
Dear Sir—Your letter was duly received, in
forming me that I was chosen Chairman of the
Democratic Executive Committee of this State
at a meeting held at Atlanta, on the 1st insC, in
pursuance ot a call from the President of the
Democratic Convention, to assembleat the time
and place stated, and comDlete their organiza
tion by electing a Chairman outside of their own
number.
While sending to toe committee, through you;
my acceptance of the position assigned, and my
sincere acknowledgment of the honor confer
red, I take this occasion to express my own
views on a subject which the committee have
brought before the public, by taking action on
it before their selected Chairman had accepted
his appointment, and’ before, therefore, they had
a complete organization, or even the number
required by the resolution ot the convention,
providing for tne formation cf an Executive
Committee.
The subject to which I allude, is the selection
of candidates in the approaching election with
reference to their eligibility under existing, so-
called laws, and the certainty of their being al
lowed to take their seats if elected. The
recommendation whfch some members of
the committee, in its unorganized and
incomplete state, have given to toe peo
ple ' on this subject, is already receiv
ing different interpretations. For my own
part, I am at a total loss to imagine how any
mao elected to Congress, trom this State, could
hage any “certainty” of being allowed to take
his seat without avowing his unconditional ad
hesion to the creed of tho Radical party. It the
recommendation means this, it will be promptly
repudiated by every true Democrat in the Uni
ted States; and I will not do the members of
the committee, who put forth too recommenda
tion, the injustice to believe fpr a single moment
that they intended it' to reach to this extent.
Nor can I believe, as some suppose, that they
intended to advise the people to put up only
such candidates as can take the iron-clad or test
oath. The difficulty of making a recommenda
tion which should present any uniform rule ap
plicable alike to elections for Congress and elec
tions lor tbe State.{jegi8lature, was foreseen by
toe recent Demc-c^tic Convention, and induced
the Business Committee of that body, and that
body itself, to forego the attempt. 1 must also
remark that the gentlemen who have put forth
the recommendation in question have fallen
into a mistake as to there having been any re
commendation on this subject from the Demo
cratic Executive Committee of the United
States. On the contrary, the whole subject of
eligibility of condidates, as affected by so-called
disabilities, has been left by the National Demo
cratic Organization, and by tbe Democratic
State Convention, without any recommendation
at all; leaving the members of the party every
where perfectly free to shape their action ac
cording to their own convictions ot principle
aud polity in the different localities. But since
the subject has been brought before the public in
a quasi official form by members of the com
mittee with which 1 aiqtofficially connected, I
deem it due to myself to make known my own
distinct and strong convictions as to the comse
required by sound policy and sanctioned by
sound principles.
As to members of the Legislature, I think the
people should select only those who are free
trom all the so-called disabilities; and this, sim
ply as a matter of policy. The Legislature will
be subject to the manipulation ol the dominant
party at Washington, and that party will cer
tainly exclude from it all persons who maybe
sobject to any of the disabilities, which they
have prescribed for, and attempted to fix upon,
that class of officers. For toe Legislature we
have abondant sound material which is free
from all disabilities prescribed for that dang ;
and by electing a . Legislature from this material
we shall either get a sound administration of
State officers, or else drive the enemies of Con
stitutional Liberty into the perpetration of some
new outrage, and thus pile up and accelerate
the retribution which awaits them at the hands
ot toe indignant people. It must be borne in
mind that the iron-clad or test oath has not yet
been required for members of the Legislature.
Members of Congress stand on a different foot
ing, and with regard to them, I believe a different
policy is demanded, in their case the iron clad
or test oath is required. Let not our people pur-
suade themselves that the party now dominant
in Congress will dispense with that oath in in
dividual cases dr by general repeal, except for a
condition. A price paid or to be paid;- that price
will be nothing leas than the acceptance of all
their usurpations as “fixed facts,” without even a
pledge against unlimited usurpation in the
future. I firmly believe it would be far better
that our people should remain forever unrepre
sented than that they should be misrepresented
by men who can take either that oath or get a
dispensation from it. It is idle and foolish to
expect the Radical party in the present condi
tion of affairs, to admit into Congress any real
representatives of our people. They will accept
only those who would destroy our moral power
by misrepresenting and debasing us. Let ns
therefore dismiss all idea of getting real repre-
senatives into a Congress where there is a Radi
cal majority; and let us not forget that a tree
Democratic Congress will admit any memheis
who may have the qualifications required, by
the true Constitution, stripped of the destructive
usurpations which are attempted to be foisted
upon it, by nb higher authority than Congres
sional enactments and Presidential proclama
tions. There are and can be no disqua!ideations
or disabilities tor members of Congress bat such as
are 5 prescribed by the Constitution itself; and by
the Constitution, 1 mean that sacred instrument
in its parity as contradistinguished from the so-
called 14th and loth amendments. This doc
trine was solemnly and repeatedly adjudicated
by Congress itself in its better days. It has
never been violated but by Radical revolutiona
ry violence. And never let it bo forgotten that
this violation, now perpetrated in the name,
and under color, of toe 14th and 15th amend
ments, was equally perpetrated t>y the same rev
olutionary party before the passage of either
one ot those so-called amendments.
I remark, just here in passing, that the
thirteenth amendment abolishing slavery,
stands upon un entirely different footing, and in
my judgment, constitutes a valid part ot the
Constitution. This doctrine, that the only pos
sible disqualifications or disabilities ior members
of Congress, are those to be found in the Consti-
tuticn itself, al ways observed in the better days
ofthe government aud violated only by revolu
tionary Radicalism, will certainly be respected
and enforced by every true Democratic Con
gress in the future.
I think, therefore, that we should select mem
bers of Congress without the slightest regard to
so-called disabilities, except that we should not
foil to send at least some who areBUbJect to them
and who have abili'y to sho w their invalidity and
enormity. They must have a hearing on the ques
tion of their rights to seats; and that ques
tion well argued on the theater of Congress,
would shake this country from centre to circum
ference. Our strength lies in attack; in attacking
the usurpations and enormities of toe party who
are seeking to overthrow our whole system oi
government by first crushing oat the States
which stand as the obstacle in the
way of their scheme of centralization,
and consequent unobstructed public plun
der. Our strength is in tbe truth, £and their
weakness is iu their guilt. Our policy is, not to
shrink from the contest, but to wage unremitting
war ou the field of truth anti re<*<-<>a; and we
must bripg f.,i *..r l-,icb L.«u-s a-t will reveal
tiie malignity •<’ iturii jjrp.-Kuj me enormity
.ot their guiit. lrl-a ihi. • -rln-u cowardice is
lolly huh w.:-*U.u€3xi, 4uj courage is wisdom and
strengi b. *v e ate iu vincible ou the issues if they
aic lightly made; and let us reuoouber that
uohocy ever p-uued a Victory by luuaiug away
from the baliic- held,
These outline ideas uiay be enlarged it the
committee shall hereafter submit an address to
the people ol Georgia..
Yours very respectfully,
Linton Stephens.
A Letter from Ooverner Bollock.
We note in the New York Times the follow
ing letter addressed by Gov. Bullock to foa
editor of that paper, and we publish it that our
readers may understand, from the Governor's
own pen, toe position he now occupies upon the
election question, appending to the letter the
qomments of the Times upon it:
7b the Editor of the New York Times: My
attention has been called to an editorial article
in your paper of the 24th Inst, in which you
refer to au allegation by the Atlanta True Geor
gian.
The newspaper to which you refer is so entire
tirely without influence in this commuaity, that
X havenotlouad.it necessary to deny this or any
other ot its malicious- allegations against
myself.
At the time the late act for the admission of
Georgia was passed by Congress, it was under
stood here that the question oi the timofor bold
ing an election lor members of the General As
sembly had not been*decided by Congress, but
had been left for adjudication to the Legis
lature of the courts ot this State. This position
has also, 1 believe, been maintained in the col
umns ot your valuable paper. But since this
question has been decided by the National Ad
ministration, through Attorney-General Arker-
man’s letter, it has been and is toe determination,
so far as I know, of toe party, in this State, to
excerciae their best endeavors to carry out the
wishes of the President iu regard to au election.
Rfepus B. Bullock.
Executive Department, State ot Georgia, Atlan
ta, Ga., August 29,1870.
Governor Bullock aud the True Georgian are
at issue in regard to a matter of fact. We rt«
forred the other day to a remark ot the Atlanta
journal; impeaching the good taith ot toe Gov
ernor’s action upon the question ot an election
in Georgia this tall. We deprecated as little
less than fraudulent any measure calculated to
hinder an expression of electoral optnion, in
defiance of the general expectation which waa
excited by the proceedings in Congress, and of
the sanction which this expectation has received
from Attorney-General Akerman aad the vote
of .the tower branch of toe btate Legislature.
Aud we expressed toe hope that Gov. Bullock
would be able to prove the groundlessuess ot the
allegation. The True Georgian thereupon said:
e defy Gov. Bullock to deny the ‘allega
tion’ of the True Georgian. We have the proof
at hand. He dare not do it.”
Bat Gov. Ballock “dare do it,” as his letter in
another column proves. We receive his closing
sentence as a. declaration ot his purpose to Use
his official influence in furthering toe election
which ought to be held in November. Time
will try his professions. Meanwhile, how does
Dr. Bard propose to justify himself f—New York
limes,
,
Brides and Groom* at Niagara.
June 1s a pleasant month for Cupid’s victims
to take the bonds, And so accustomed have the
hotel proprietors become to the influx of sub
jects for tuture divorces during this month that
they make many changes in their general rules
and bill of fare for that month, which are, of
course, obnoxious to him who has been through
toe mill and arrived at that period of life where
roast beef goes farther towards satisfying one’s
appetite than a dozen kisses on the half shell.
One veteran landlord informs us that the ex
penses of toe hotel business daring the bride’s
month (June) are much less than at any other
time during the season, tor said he, “a little
sponge cake and a few lemon drops serves as a
square meal for a newly married couple, and it
don’t make any difference whether the waiters
are attentive or not, while one chambermaid
can attend to all bell-calls during the month.”
What could be more beautiful than this touch
ing tribute to pure affection from the lips of toe
aged landlord? But a lew come here in
July that bear the tell-tale marks ot a new wed
ded bliss. It is easy to detect them, however,
in spite of the assumed boldness of the bride
I room. I saw a couple eater the vestibule of
i he Cataract House last evening, who hoped to
escape the criticism oi “bride-gazers,” but the
disguise was too thin, and in fire minutes both
stood revealed in all their deceitful imagery.
True, there was an absence of white dimity and
feathers, Of silk hat and too tight gloves and
bools; the usual signsof fresh victims, and when
the lady snappishly exclaimed, “Where’s my
fan, Mr. Glidden ?” the delusion seemed com
plete, for the usual remark would have been,
“George, dear, have you seen my fan?” But I
was not to be deceived by appearanoes, and
stepping to the clerk’s office, awaited toe arrival
of this traveler under false pretenses. He came
•—bold as a sheep—seized the pen and wrote
with a trembling hand, “Mr. George S. Glidden
and wife, Allenmagoozium, Pennsylvania.”—
“Do you wish a suit ot rooms?” said
the urbane clerk, as he turned the Kohinoor
upon his shirt bosom so as to blind tbe unsus
pecting Glidden with its rayL “Not” thun
dered the latter, “I’m married; one room will
do. I’ve got through paying for two rooms.”
“All right, sir,” said the clerk, “show him up to
the bridal chamber, next to the divorce apart
ment.” As he stepped ifito the elevator, pre
vious to going up to the aforesaid chamber, 1
heard him say: “ I told you so, Emeliue; it was
that blasted perfumery you put on my bandker
chief that did it. The minute that hotel clerk
got a sniff at that, ‘Ha l’ says be, ‘patobouly ?
frhow’em up to the chamber;” by which we
were left to iufer that patchouly and bridegrooms
are linked in some mysterious manner known
only to hotel clerks.—Niagara Falls Litter.
Then aud Now.
The New York limes says that “ in the port
of .New York to-day, not a single vessel ot any
magnitude is in course of construction. A
steam-barge, to carry market produce on the
North river, i3 the only craft in the hands of
builders.” Under Democratic rule it was differ
ent Ship-building was an important feature in
the industrial interests of that city.
From the Marietta Journal.
Powder Springs, August 13,1870.
Mb. Goodman—There is a great deal said and
a great many suggestions made iu regard to the
best mode and manner of maintaining aud pre
serving the fertility ot our soiL I will, by yonr
permission, give you one simple, short idea.
Let tbe farmer, instead cf paying out two or
three hundred dollars for “commercial ferti
lizers” expend that amount in the hire of labor
ers, the purchase ofthe moat approved plow im*
plements, &x
Let him ae?p off stock of all kinds from his
stubble lauds, and give back io the soil ai least
the spontaneous crop ot grass and weeds.
Then, in the months of September and Octo
ber, let him turn under all the sec rad growth
while there is strength iu it, turning as deep as
the surface extends. Haul out all tUe manures
about toe farm, such as rotton straw, leaves, the
rakings of the oarn-yard, fence corners, ash
banks, mack and marl from the swamps, etc.,
and scatter broad-cast. Then, in the months ot
February and March, turn the surface soil azain,
following immediately after the turning plow,
(in the same furrow,) with a snosoti plow,
breaking the subsoil as deeo as practic able, say,
ten inches, twenty would be batter, takiag par
ticular care not to tarn ap the subsoil, bat let
ting it remain in its natural place.
The last plowing ol corn ground, cow psi?
turning in like manner.
Let every farmer get up a cheap mill for the
F urpoae ol grinding and mixing bis fertilizers.
would respectfully suggest, that it would not
be labor, nor money spent in vain, U some me
chanical genius would put his brain and muscle
to work, and flx-up a mill that would answer
the above purpose. The builder would have to
look well to the crashing of stones, aud the
grinding ot bones. Very respectfully,
A. c. McIntosh.
The Effect on the Markets,—Our cor
respondent telegraphs from London, at eleven
o’clock this morning:
“The great and pacific -news just received
gives unusual relief. The effect is visible in
nearly every countenance. A new imrralaa is
given to prices and transactions.”
The similar effect in our own markets is noted
elsewhere.
Let us hope that there is nothing to coma to
dash these pleasant felicitations, under circum•
stances of this kind, there is often a disposition
to “discount” results before results are deter
mined, and to rush to conclusions without re-
f ard to drawbacks. The sentiment of the
'reach people, all along, has been not to make
peace while toe Germans are on toe French side,
of the Rhine. “Sentiment,” we know, is not
worth much in time of war—and yet, if the
Russian Bear and the donble-hesded Eagle ot
Austria ahould come to the assistance ol beaten
France, in order that Germany may not grow
too strong, it might amount to a great deal. The
moat prudent course for business men is to wait
aud see.—New York Express.
A Sensible Remark.
Senator Trumbull, of Illinois, recently said of
the European war: “It can. be of no possible
benefit to this country. It is the w^ht ohmspots,
and the people of both Germany and France
will be the losers,”