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What Our Exchanges Say. Tbe Constitution has these items: It was interesting to see the members of the general assembly crowding the treasurer’s office to get their per diem. Mr. lienfroe lingered the flimsy currency deftly, and ai man after man shoved his roll of greenbacks down into his flank, another took his plaee, and last night. There was p onty of loose change around town. Whan it is remembered that each day’s sitting of the assembly e ists up wards of 82,5C0, we may magi tie the hole there is in the treasury funds in consequence. We are gratifie 1 to be able to state that this famous Am. rican huigerist, Josh Billings, has been engaged to give one of his jolly entertainments, under the aus pices of the Young Men’s Library. De- Give’s will be crowded, for it. is said by those who have heard him, that he i3 equal to a first-class minstrel troupe for genuine rollicking fun. The public will be notified of arrangements in due time. The Governor yesterday issued an or der requiring W. R. Bankston, Clerk of tile Superior Court of Butts county, to give u now bond. Tbe Governor and his clerks are now kept to their mettle in the rape, with the General Assembly'. Delegates to the Southern States Im migration convention at New Orleans, on the Ist pros., are now being commis sioned. . Those desiring to attend should apply at once. Gov. Smith very seldom gets in a hur ry, but he is dispatching the considera tion of bills passed by the Assembly with great precision, care and expedition. The twenty-one prisoners from Ogle thorpe county, whose arrival , has been notici and, ware brought, up yesterday be fore Commissioners Buck and Smith for trial. Commissioner Buck disposed of fifteen cases, and was busily engaged from an early hour in the morning to , late in the afternoon. In several of the • cases the defense fought stubbornly, and not altogether without success, * The prisoners certainly could hot have been moic ably represented than they were by Judge McCay, Mr. Samtiel Lumpkin and Col. J. D. Mathews. HIS FAREWELL. REMARKS. HO:;. POTJPHAK PEAGRKEn’s ADDRESS BE* FORE ADJOURNMENT, AND AFTER DRINKS. Mr. Speaker—l rise to remark That tilings has got to the turn Wl: ar this Legislature must pause— Ami wait for a motion to adjourn! But a-fore we let go of the rudder And git our per diem in hand I want to explain my posishnn, The wharfore and wharon I stand ! (Loud applause in the gaUery.) I’m goiu’ back home to my peop.e To give a fair, square account, And tell ’em we'ye ansurred their pray’rs To a sartin, specific amount! I don’t know what Others may do, sir, To balance both sides o’ their books— I’m runniu’ a dead level skedyule— And you must run on your own hooks. (Cheers from the members.) We ’ve fixed up a thing about homesteads We’ve perfected the laborer’s bread— Crooked the lines of fifty-odd counties And knocked the con. con. on the head We’vo spent enough money on dog bills To buy all the sheep in the State— And made a dead-set at the bureaux That it took long years to create. (Groans from the gentleman from Ranks.) We’ve sat forty days and some over. And fit here and wasted onr breath, While the people at home are sweating Under taxes that grind ’em to death ! We’ve tinkered and patched at the Code ’Till its worse than no Code at all— And piled up more acts on the desk thar Than were writ by the good ’PostlePaul (Loud applause in the lobbies.) And now, sir, I want it recorded, That I’m sick o’ this here sort o’ thing, And I want the good people o’ Georgia To speak out with the old time ring! We must reduce ourselves down to hard pan, . And rum to be wise and go slow We must work for the State as we used to Some years—forty-odd, say ago !” (Tremendous cheers for the legislator of “forty years ago.” The Sandersville Herald has the fol lowing: Last week a y ouug couple in this city, of the colored persuasion, de*ermmed to unite their fortunes as husband and wife The father of the girl opposed their mar riage. The Ordinary refused to grant a license. The would-be groom went to Jefferson county and obtained the li cense. A colored ordained minister of this county performed the ceremony.— The father of the young bride claimed that the marriage was illegal, first be cause his daughter was under age, and secondly because the license was obtain- |ed in another county. The case was ! tried before C. C. Brown, Ordinary of j Washington. After two days of preliru | inaries and trial, the court decided that the young groom was entitled to his sa ble bride. He says, “Dem two days mighty long uns. ” The Columbus JSnquher gives the fol lowing emigration statistics: Since last Saturday morning 171 emi grant tickets have been sold for the West. They are going more rapidly this week than they were last. Six of the negroes, who left Mr Henry McKee’s place, after seeing the “West” for them selves,', have returned and hired to him again. Fortunately they had means to go and return upon. They are very much dissatisfied with that country. The col ored people who have the emigration fe ver should go to their prodigal friends that their heads may be cooled of this burning delusion. This makes about 3,800 which have left this section since December 1. The cases of tbe citizens of Oglethorpe county, says the Constitution, which has been pending before the commissioners here for several days* have been finally disposed of. These cases have excited no little interest. The following is a correct report of the action taken in each case: Jacob Davenport, colored; charge, re tailing whisky; discharged. W T Dos ter, white; charge, distilling, etc.; dis charged. W S Pass, white; charge, re tailing whisky gave bond’sloo. Jesse Davenport, colored; charge, retailing whisky; discharged. J J Moore, white; charge, distilling, etc; gave bond SSOO. Step. Faver, colored; charge, retailing whisky and tobacco; gave bond S2OO. li T Eads, white; charge, retailing whisky, discharged; Rainy Eads, white; charge, distilling, etc; gave bond SSOO. John Goolsby, colored; charge, retailing whis ky; discharged on his own recognizance. Step Hubbard, colored; charge, distill ing, e tc; gave bond SIOO. Wiley B Hop per, white; diarge, distilling, etc; gave bond SSOO. Manson Echols, colored; charge, retailing whisky; discharged. Gaines Leadwyler, colored; charge work ing in a still; gave bond S2OO. Nathan Muckles, colored; charge, retailing whis ky; gave bond SIOO. Dab Arnold, col ored; charge, retailing whisky; gave bond SIOO. Henry Thornton, colored; charge, retailing whisky; gave bondsloo. Nep Brittain, colored; charge, retailing whisky; gave bond SIOO. Scott Parks, colored; charge, retailing whisky; com mitted to jail. J F Cunningham, white; charge, distilling, etc; gave bond of sl,- 000. John Esco, white; charge, distill ing, etc; gave bond of SSOO. T C Jen nings, white; charge, distiliings, etc; discharged. Many of the cases were held by the commissioners to be mere technical violations of the law, and hence after hearing the evidence, small bonds were required. Several of the prisoners waived a hearing and tendered bonds. We learn from the defendants’ friends that they feel confident of acqnital, and we hope their innocence may* be estab lished. graphs which follow, seem to indicate as much, as they all appeared in papers da ted the 23rd • Capt. Wm. J. Garrett, a wealthy mer chant of Atlanta, accompanied by Hon. John H. James Col. Tom Alexander and Rev. Dr. Spalding, passed througlr Mon tezuma yesterday (Tuesday) on a matri monial excursion to Albany. The bride expectant is one of the fairest of all the fair dames of our southwestern cbme.— Montezuma Weekly. Capt. Wm. J. Garrett, a wealthy mer chant of Atlanta, accompanied by Hon. John H. James* Col. Tom Alexander and Rev. Dr. Spalding, passed through Arner cus Tuesday noon, on a matrimonial ex cursion to Albany. The Captain is wor thy of some fair hand and he wins one of the worthiest. —Americus Bepublican. Capt. W J. Garrett, a wealthy mer chant of Atlanta, accompanied by Hon. John H. James, Col. Tom Alexander and Rev, Dr. Spalding, passed through yes terday on a matrimonial excursion to Al bany. We do uot know the name of the lady who Capt. G. will marry to-day.— Fort Valley > Mirror. Fifty-four Clerks in the Georgia Leg islature, and still economy is the motto of patriots. On last Friday, a’Nt’ashville, says the Berrien county News, a little daughter of Rev. J. J. Peeples,' aged five years, was burned to death. Some of the old er children had been cleaning the yard, and fired the piles of trash, which they left burning and retired to some other portion of the yard, and left the little girl playing around in the vicinity of the burning heaps. Passing too near, her dress caught oil- fire. She was heard to cry but no attention was paid to her at the time, but her continued cries brought at length someone to her assistance, but too late, her elothing being entirely burned off and her body one charred mass. The Elbertou Gazette says: “Times are hard and have been so for many years, indeed ever since the late unpleas antness, but industry and economy will command the times as well as circum stances. An instance of what can be done by dint of hard labor and prudent management, is found in Lloyd Thomp son, a negro in the Flatwoods. Three years ago, Lloyd bought one hundred acres-of poor hmd, promising to pay SBOO stock, a good house, and don’t owe a cent. How did he do it ? He raised com, peas, oats, wheat and other grain for sale, over and above enough to run his farm, and with this fund paid the current expenses of the year. His cot ton—five or six bales—was all surplus and was applied to his debts. Many wi ser men could Jollow his example. Eatonton Messenger: Mr. W. W. Tur ner, of this county, lias ip his possession several heirlooms over a century old.— Among them—parhaps the most curious -—is a large, iron-bound chest, contain ing one dozen Square bottles, each capa ble of holding about a gallon and a half. It has a spring lock, and the lock and key are both queer looking concerns. The history of this relic is a little singular. Before the revolutionary war, the great grand father of Wm. Turner, Joseph Tur ner, then residing in Virginia, had a neighbor who was a Royalist or Tory. See ing trouble at hand, this neighbor came to Mr. Turner add said: “Joe, lam go ing home till this fuss is over, and I want, you to take care of my liquor case till I come back.” Accordingly, he sailed for England, but the little fuss not turning exactly as he expected, he never return ed. After the wai was over, Mr Turner emigrated to Georgia with his son, who was also named Joseph. The chest of bottles has hgen handed down from fa ther to son till it* reached the hands of its present owner. Rev. E. W r . Warren, of Atlanta, has re ceived a call from a church at Rich mond, Ya. It is not stated that he will accept. Howard Van Epps, a young lawyer of talent, has been appointed Solicitor of the City Court of Atlanta. The selection is a good one. The Yduug Men’s Library, of Macon, received $132 as a result of Gen. Toombs lecture. There are now confined in Fulton countyfjail seventy-five prisoners, five of of whom are women. Columbus has commenced gardening iu earnest, and expects soon to be luxu rating on English p as and Irish pota’ toes. Columbus always had a “foreign” taste for her vegetation. An old Covington darkie sprinkled red pepper on the floor of a ball room last week, and the affair adjourned sine die. Augusta Chronicle: The locomotive “Clinton,” one of the finest engines be' loDging to the Georgia railroad, has been changed to a coal burner, and will make her first trip on Saturday. The Thomasville Enterprise wants Gen. A. R. Lawton to be Governor. The Directors of the Macon & Bruns' wick road'have rejected all bids made for its purchase or lease under th® late ad vertisement. Gen. Lawton voted in holding the national convention in Cincinnati, and 30 did most of the Southern mem' bers of the committee. The Atlanta Courier is in favor of economy. This is an improvement on the Herald fast mail. The Monticello Banner in pleased to learn that an extensive vein of amethist has been found on the plantation of Mr. J. B. Goolsby, of Jasper county, eight miles from Monticello. Capt. W. L. Clay, of Atlanta, who is now in that county, has just got through testing this vein and reports it a very superior one and of great value. It is said to be the only amethyst that lias eve ?*been discov’ ered in Georgia. Our Nevrnan Letter. Newnan, Feb. 24,. 1876. Your correspondent left your pleasant and prosperous little city on Wednesday for this town on business bent, and be lieving a letter from this point might in terest your many readers, I drop you an item or two. The farming interest of the country being of vast more- importance than all others combined, it may be well to speak of the preparation and prospects of the coming crop, for a distance of forty miles or more, so far as a passenger can discern on a passage through. The wheat crop (though a small area seems to be sown) looks remarkably well, while win ter oats present the same appearance,— The writer has never noticed so much clearing up of low grounds, ditching and rebuilding of new fences, since ante bel um days, and actually saw a freedman splitting rails ! The plows aro running in all directions, and energy and deter mination, so far as I could judge, was evinced in every direction. All busy ; all at work. But they should plant corn! sow more cereals ! At 12 o’clock to.day Gen. A. H. Col. quit! delivered at the court-house one of the most masterly, common sense speech, es of his life, to the members of the Grange here, and the large court room was literally crammed, both with ladies and’gentlemen. Thirty.two years ago, July next, your correspondent first heard the father of this distinguished Georgi an make a speech from the same rostrum in opposition to Hon. A. H. Stephens.— These were the halcyon days of Mr. Ste. phens, and right well did he vindicate his political theory against the attacks of his senior competitor, and perhaps the greatest criminal lawyer Georgia ever produced. Marked attention was paid to the address by all His advice to.the farmer was good. He told them if they would bo independent and happy, they mast raise their breadstuff's, their meats, their necessary supplies at home ; they must stop figuring as ’to the profits to bo in raising cotton ; in the calculation as to the cost and] profits made on cot., ton in subtraction the higher figure was always below ; you couldn’t subtract 9 from 8, if yon did, nothing was left; they must fill from the farm the corn crib, the smoke house ; to raise cotton to buy meat and bread was ruinous to the peo ple ; we must fall back on the old plan of farming a generation ago ; and then pictured with telling effect the system of independent farming in his boyhood days. Gen. C. is a farmer himself. His speech was well received, and may do much gooil ; and at the conclusion, the lanies received quite an encomium from the orator’s lips. Whether Gen. Col. quilt would make a good Governor may be tried, but the writer is willing to vote for him as be : ng one of the most seusi ble men lie ever heard speak on the pro. blena of farming. At the conclusion of Gen. C’3 speech, Mr. Hatch, an emigrant agent, and edit, or in* Nashville, delivered a short ad. dress that would have caused every rad. ical in Spalding (if any there be) to hide in shame before an enlightened commu' nity. He is a live Yankee. He opened his iriouth, and like the'limpid water, truth flowed in transparent torrents, and all could see how it was that the so called Southern outrages were magnified and tiie ignorant voters of the North at elections, had been carried to the polls and voted almost en masse to continue the oppression of the South. He was well spoken of, and the writer believes him to be an honest mam At night the court houso was again filled to heal' a phrenological lecture— and as usual ou such occasions, a good deal of fun ensued Altogether Nevvnan is a pleasant little own, and is improving considerably. While here I called on Messrs - Barron & Cabaniss, editors of the Blade'ud r* ceived an old time greeting They have as neat a country office as I ever saw— everything in place, no “pi,” as you printers call it, and are making their paper the compeer of their neighbor— the Herald. They will doubtless suc ceed,, as they are both practical men, practical printers and practical editors— so to speak. B. Speaker Hardeman's, farewell Ad dress to (lie lloustt of Itepresenta titter*. Gentlemen of the House of Representa tives : lam now called upon to perform my last official duty. Before doing so, per mit me to express my grateful acknowl edgements for the uniform kindness and courtesy, -which have- ever characterized your conduct toward me. They have deeply impressed me, and will sweeten, iu the years to come, the recollection of my association with you. As the ocean 3liell cast upon the beach, sings ever of its home in the sea, so will memory in her “coral depths” ever proclaim in my journey through life, the tender attach ments which have been formed during the months in which we have labored to gether. If in those labors, I have ruffled a sentiment or wounded a feeling, let me in this parting hour assure you they were foreign to my intentions and will inflict upon me a deeper wound than yon were made to feel—for I can say in purest sincerity, J have endeavored to discharge the arduor s duties of this position with as much kindness and impartiality as human nature can manifest, and now, before we separate, perhaps forever, per mit me in all candor to say, that as the flower of the poet turns to her God as he revolves to his setting the same look that she gave when he rose, so will this heart in anxious solicitude follow you and your destines in the revolutions of life, until the sun of your existence shall set to rise no more forever. Home asso ciations now welcome you, home duties will soon command your time and your labors; while enjoying the heart cheer ing realities of domestic intercourse, forget not your duty to yourselves, to your neighbor and God. To yourselves by a faithful discharge of the require ments of domestic and social life—to your neighbor by rendering “nuto Ctesar things that are Ciesar’s,” to your God by an exemplary life and a Godly conversa tion. As representative meu, society looks to you for elevation and advance ment, while upon you and those like you rest in an eminent degree, the honor and glory of your state. Go then, from these Legislative halls, fixed in your purposes, that come weal or woe, come prosperity or adversity—come sunny skies or wa vering elements, you will never swerve from duty’s paths and will ever bo found battling for the good, the noble and the true. The year we have just entered is pregnant with eventful issues. The bat tle for self-government and constitution al liberty will be fought before willfi have completed its cyclo; in that strug gle, let no minor differences, no selfish aims, no ambitious hopes divide you, but with shields unlinked—as heart beats responsive to heart. . , J “Firm, paced,” and true a solid' front then form “Still as the breeze, but dreadful as the storm.” This, Georgia expects of her sons, and never has she been disappointed in her estimate of her people, and so long as you have duty for your watchword and fidelity the reply, the old mother will never lower her crest, as history pro nounces judgmeut upon the character of her sons. Go forth, theD, to your re spective duties, with a sense of your re sponsibilities, rememboriug that as iu the same heavens where grows the sun shine and twinkles the stars—there gath ers the tempest and the thunderbolt sleeps, so in those duties, there will brighten the cheering hone and gloom, the despondent reality. Yet these duties await you, and before yon enter upon them, let me, from this heart, impressed with you generous confidence and kind ness invoke upon you and your loved ones, the choicest blessings of heaven coupled with tbe assurance, that where ever your lot in life may be cast, you will ever have my prayers, for your health, happiness and prosperity. And • now gentlemen, with “a God bless you all,” I bid you farewell and adjourn this house without a day. A HVGE*TIiE. SHOOTING AFTER A FUGITIVE Some months since we- made notice that Kelley, o£ Newton county, the mur derer of Dr. Hardeman, had escaped from the coal mines and was at large de fying the authorities. A Sew days since it was reported that he was in Batts, county with some other parties, who. swore they would not ba arrested, Cer tain gentlemen from this city went down to see if they could not “bring him hr taw,” and men never worked more vigor ously. They laid out in the cold, stohil in the rain and mud, and at last go* on the trail of the party looked for. They thought they had him, but being mount ■ ed on a fleet horse he managed to escape, but not until seven shots had been feed at him. Some of the party are still on his trail, and a dispatch just received shows that they have been shooting at each other and that Kelly is wounded, Messrs. Bob Connell, John Hightower, Taylor Morris and Branch Bowdoin are on his trail. Escape witli such men after him is impossible. Newspaper Business. . The newspaper business in this city has again worked down to a proper level. There are but two papers published in the city, the Daily ajjd Weekly News and the Press <£• Gidtivaior. Both are good papers, worthy of patronage and a credit to the city and county in which they are published, and the people are plenty able to give Them both a liberal support, which will enable them to make better papers than they now are, and nothing contributes more towards the building up of a City or county than live, wide-awake, reliable newspapers. Let the people help the Press and the Press will help them. The News alone brings thousands of dollars to Griffin every year, from the North and West for sub scription and advertising, which is spent right in Griffin by the proprietors and employees of the office, and the more patronage we get at home, the better in ducement we can give and the more mon ey-we will bring here to help build up and sustain our city.