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About Tri-weekly constitutionalist. (Augusta, Ga.) 18??-1877 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1870)
CONSTITUTIONALIST. AUGHT ST A. GhA. THURSDAY MORNING, JAN, 27,1870 A CALCIUM LIGHT ON THE SITUATION. During all the troubles which have over taken Georgia since the passage of tbe Morton Bili, we have endeavored to avoid deceiving ourselves and,, innocently or otherwise, deceiving others. Prompted by this unpleasant but imperative duty, we have been obliged to throw cold water be times upon illusory expectations, and, as a matter of course, received therefor the abuse of some of our more sanguine patrons and the unfavorable criticism or a portion of the Press. When we were convinced that General Terry was either a tool of bad men or a natural tyrant, we boldly stated our belief and the reasons for it. When it was proposed to go into the “soft soap” business with our satrap, we ridi culed the idea as both fruitless and humili ating. When a coalition of Democrats with hybrid Radicals was proposed, we gave it but little countenance, because we mistrusted the individuals who had seem ingly sloughed ofT from the extreme body of their party, and deemed that the true meuiu the Georgia Legislature could ac complish a great deal more by preserving their unity and balance of power, divested of entangling alliances. When we saw that the “ Governor ”of this State was backed by an absolute military dictator, who, in • turn, was warmly and fhlly supported by the Radical President and the Radical Con gress, we reluctantly but firmly pointed out that the contest, however gallant, was almost of necessity to be made nuga tory. These were bitter things to enun ciate ; but they were truths. The sooner we become convinced of them, the better prepared shall we be to settle udoo some feasible scheme for counteracting them or drawing their sting. Unless we are very much mistaken, we are dealing with a mil itary commander who is strongly imbued with imperialistic tendencies, and one, too, whose determination to bring Georgia un der the yoke is only equalled by the power vouchsafed him by the President and Con gress to accomplish his purpose. Under such circumstances, there is hat little nope from a Legislature doctored by such a medicine man, and we can but turn for re lief to avenging Time and to the indomi table and unterrifled. People of Georgia. In the coming time, we shall scatter Ter ry’s work to the four winds of heaven, and, in the coming time, the grand men and women of Georgia shall control their own inheritance. Meanwhile, the Lord, for some inscrutable purpose, has permit ted the tyrant aucl the knave to have domi nation for a brief season. But while these murderers of our rights have but their hour, our children shall have all time and all eternity for redress and vindication. These remarks are but preliminary to the introduction of the following correspond ence from Washington, which we clip from the columns of the New York Herald. As stated in our caption, it throws a calcium light on the situation and justifies the horo scope we drew early in this affair: “ Washington, January 22,1870. “The communication from Gen. Terry to President Grant, about certain Georgia matters, covers twenty-five pages of manu script, and is said to be a very able argu ment. Gen. Terry, who is a lawyer, reviews in his communication the whole subject of reconstruction, analyzing the powers and duties of military commanders under the various laws, and arriving, by a long train of argumeut, to two very important con clusions, as follows: First, that as military commander he is vested with full power to unseat all members of the Legislature who are disqualified from holding office by rea son of the restrictive provisions of the Four teentn Amendment of the Constitution ; second, that as a necessary sequence of the above he has the right to award seats as members of the Legislature to such parties as may have received the highest number of votes next to those unseated by reason of disqualification. Gen. Terry sustains the first point by the argument that the intent of the law should always be taken into con sideration, and that there can be uo ques tion that the object of the framers of recon struction legislation and of the Fourteenth Amendment was to exclude from holding office all persons who, having sworn to sup port the United States Constitution and having held office under that Constitution, subsequently took arms agaiust our Gov ernment or gave aid and comfort to the enemy. If the military commander entrusted with the duty of reconstruction is denied the power of excluding rebels from, participating in reorganizing the States when such rebels are by the Con stitution forbidden, uuless relieved of their disabilities, then, in the opinion of Gen eral Terry, the Fourteenth Amendment must be iuoperative aud the reconstruction legislation become a dead letter. General Terry goes still further aud holds that, as to the exercise of his power of excluding disqualified members, it makes uo difference whether such members have takeu the re quired oath or not. If they took the oath j falsely, then, surelj, that could not make ! them any better entitled to hold office tliau j before the act of perjury. As to the second point, to wit, that he has fall power to award seats to such persous as received the next highest number of : votes, General Terry contends that it is an absurd inter pretation of the law to deny it. All per sons who were in fact disqualified under the Fourteenth Amendment, and received votes fbr office could not be sworn in legally; the votes cast for them were entirely void ; no amount of swearing could make them ■ valid afterwards. A disqualified candidate : under the Fourteenth Amendment, he con sidered, could not be elected legally auy more than an idiot, a non-resident, a duellist or auy rpeinber of any other class In the list of disqualified. Yotes for any such persons might be counted, but they should afterwards be thrown out as blanks and only the legal votes considered. For these and other reasotis the General conteuds that he has full powers, but, nevertheless, he writes to the President to ask whether in case these views are put in force he will lie sustained <by the Administration. Senators Thayer aud Morton, together wit h Ben But ler, being apprised of the nature of General Terry s communication, waited upon the President this morning to ascertain his de cision. Tbe President received them warm ly, and very frankly stated that he bad very recently said to both Secretary Belknap and General Sherman that his own opinion was that General Terry should be allowed to manage the reconstruction of Georgia in whatever waj? his judgment and discre tion might suggest. He believed General Terry to be a. sound lawyer, and that he was better calculated to understand the real position of affkfrs In ; Georgia and to know what course ought to be pursued, than any body else. Unless flea. Terry should do something flagrantly Ifi violation of law, he ought not to be interfered with. He (the President) would have been better pleased had General Terry not asked at all for instructions, as he (Terry) was invested to a great extent with absolute power as military commander, and should act on his own judgment, but as he had asked for in . attractions he, the President, sett that he was bound to send an answer tothe com munication. In reply to a question from one of the trio as to what would be his answer to Terry’s communication, the Pre sident was understood to say that .he would telegraph Terry that the Administration Would sustain him in the views contained in the communication. _ x The President further said that he would see Belknap aud Sherman and have the answer sent to-day. It is understood that Secretary Belknap to night telegraphed Terry that he might go ahead, with tin- assurance that the Admin istration would sustain him.” ; j i The force of despotism and sophistry pan no farther go. First , our satrap pro- claims himself omnipotent. Second, being omnipotent, he can purge the Georgia Le gislature to suit his owa purposes and the purposes of the party whose emissary he is. Third, as the ordering of new elections in cases oj; disqualification; would eventuate in the return of Democrats, he, being om nipotent, will rather give seats to Radical ' contest*!# whc&todJWt Sliest bn the list. Fourth, the swearing process of the Morton Bill i9 a mere trap and does not effect the right of a Democrat to hold his seat, Ufider any circumstances. General Terry having sketched his plan of recon structing Georgia, President' Grant ap plauds it as the scheme of a sound lawyer and man of discretion. Whereupon, in stead of instructing Terry to “ ease up,” the President tells him to drive ahead , with assurances of being the Adminis tration and all ita pow& and influence! Such is the situation. Shall we fear it? No! Shall we humble ourselves abjectly before it and its concocters ? No! We should re gard it with steady eyes and undaunted souls. We should resolve that though powerless to prevent present aggression we shall yet keep invincible in the faith. We should prepare to make sacrifices, if need be, rather than yield to corrupt and coward ly influences, for the sake of present ease. We should be true to ourselves and rest Gibraltar-like on the reliance that the Future will be kind and true and glorious for us aud our prosperity, the machinations of tyrants to the contrary notwithstanding. If we are desperate, if we are faithless, if we are cowardly, if we are corrupt, much that the Future has in store for us of re nown aud blessing will be takeu away. But, as the Lord livetb, being patient, true, ; intrepid and honest, we shall not perish by the lAspot’e power, blit rather rise in fhajesty ofl the day when he lies howling. Chief Justice Chase and the Fif teenth Amendment —While the resolu tion to ratify the proposed Fifteenth Amendment was under discussion in the Ohio House of Representatives, on Wed nesday evening, the following letter from Chief Justice Chase was read: Washington, November, 1869. Hon. Thomas Yealman: My Dear Bir: The eyes of the whole country are upon the Stat£ of Ohio. On your vote depends the passage of the Fif teenth Amendment. I am for universal suffrage and universal amnesty. The amendment must be put through the Legis lature at all hazards. 9- P. Chase. [From tbe Missouri Republican. Prentice. “ George D. Prentice,” says the telegraph, “ died this morning at ten minutes before four o’clock.” It is not true. Such men as George D. Prentice never die. “ Celebrated for forty; years as an editor and poet.” O wise young man 1 did you never guess that he was “ celebrated for forty years as an editor ” because he was a poet ? And such a poet! Every paragraph that he wrote was inwrought with the gleam ing fancies of transcendent genius. His wit was not so far superior to that of a thousand others; but always there flashed across it the tender lights that sparkle in the eyes of no men but lunatics, lovers and poets. His wisdom was uot so much greater than that of his fellows; bnt it was wrapped in such garb as for three thou sand years had hidden the nakedness of Solomon, a garb which both reveals and conceals, aud, like the watch crystal, most conceals itself, most reveals what is set next it. For the rhythm of meaning is poetry; the rhythm of metre is its meretri cious incident. So far as regards expression, the pen of Prentice is probably the most facile of which America may boast. So little did mere phraseology cost, that hundreds of private letters ran out from him in a strangely sweet musical jingle, like tink ling of waters from some perennial spring. And so little did he value the,airy trifles that bubbled from his prolific brain, that so recently as his 66th year he had never even attained a collection of them. It was only when chance occasion roused him to partial consciousness of his power that he loomed in majesty massive as Milton’s, showing the wondering world what a mar vellous poet the hard necessities of cruel fortune had cramped into the narrow mold of journalistic routine. As, when in 1867 the unveiling of the statue of Clay lifted also for a brief moment the veil from half a century of public turmoil, the thousand memories of his mighty mind, like riderless war horses charging unconsciously in dis ciplined compactness, surged upon the as sembled multitudes in that unparalleled ode which no man who heard will ever live to forget, one of the most magnificent crowns that rests upon mortal brow. Those who knew him loved him. It is doubtful whether he leaves in the whole world an enemy; he certainly had not in the whole world an enmity. He loved everything that God had made; and what he lovrd he trusted. So utterly guileless was he that the most worthless scoundrel, stamped with broadest stamp of Satan upon his face, could go to him at all times confi dently, sure never to be suspected of wilful falsehoods Evil glanced from his moral nature like hail from the granite hills, leav ing behind it neither trace nor taint. To look in his eye Ju the presence of profanity was to see his soul shrink as®child shrinks from a blow or a brute from a thunderbolt. Even when lie was most oppressed by uu happiest circumstances, even after he had furthest yielded to the bias of au ill-regu lated life (for your true-born genius rarely concerns himself with the culture of his passions, neque se nimium trigere, nec subja rere servMer), one would as -soon dream of censuring a. strayed Jamb, or of imputing vice to assure virgin. Only his poor body paid the penalty. What shall be his place in the temple of fame, it is scarcely for us, who live yet in the magic of his presence, to determine. Asa political polemic, instinct wit a biting bitterness that had no place in his heart, he is of yesterday—nay, of a buried genera tion. He was never an editor in the later signification; aud though he were, the storms of a single year would almost suffice to level his gf;t*« “ The struggle for life ” (how few it sparest) has spoiled us of his Iliad. Blithe will float away to our chil dren’s grandchildren enthroned upon a score of beautiful fragments, girt with the mystic halo that ever lingers about God’s most gifted creations. So bid we onr lost friend good night. Wise and good, untroubled be The green turf that covers thee! Thence in gay profusion grow All the sweetest flowers that blow! Pluto’s consort bid tbee rest! M tcus pronounce the blest! To ber home tby shade consign ! >[ake Elysium ever thine! J . 1 "■ 1 mm A in New York.—We learn from the New Y.qrk flerald of the 21st instant that Dr. John Murry Cttniochan, the eraingßt surgeon, has been nominated by the Governor of the State of New York for the position of Health Officer of the port of New York. Dr. Carnochan is a lineal descendant of General Israel Putnam, and was born in Savannah in July, 1817. When quite young he entered the High School at Edinburgh, Scotland, where studied for several years, and graduated with thje highest hon ors. He then entered the University, where he completed his humanities and returned to ths United States, in the seventeenth year of his age. He determined to be a surgeon, and en tered the office o£ Valentine Mott. He soon took his degree as Doctor of Medicine, and devoted himself ardently to the study of remained six years in attendance upon the clinical lectures of the principal hospitals in Paris, London and Edinburgh, and familiarized himself with the practice and modes of treatment of the most distinguish ed surgeons in Europe. Upon his return to the United States he fixed upon the city of New York as his home, where he soon acquired great distinction as a surgeon, and secured an extensive practice. [Savqtmafy JleptMica%. The Woman Suffrage Movement. Tea® MitN*Kv m & rams CROWING AND THR RpOSTERS CACKLING. The Natioual Woman Suffrage Conven tion held a convocation in Washington on Tuesday, and crowed lustily for the ballot. The following strong minded luminaries and their male adherents expatiated on the universal suffrage sensation, which has bound them in vigorous, if futile, war upon the doctriqe of male supremacy and exclu sive pantaloons privileges: Mrs. Stanton, Miss Susan B. Anthony, Miss Phoebe Coz zens, Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Paulina Davis, Senator Pomeroy, Hons. J. M. Scovel and A. G. Riddle, Profs. Willcox, Wolf, and others. FEMALE SUFFRAGE STRONG AS GRANT. Mrs. Stanton-, as President of the Con vention, said it had assembled to discuss the project of giving the right to the women of the A,u attempt had once been made in Congress.by Mr. Julian, butt'd not succeed ; now they had hopes o f effecting the passage of a Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution. Unless the Republican party would speed this amendment the Democrats would have the glory of doing it, as they bad done in" the West. The woman suffrage question in Wyoming was no joke, as many were in clined to believe. It was a reality. She could not imagine how any thing ennobling to man would be disgracing to women.— She had no doubt but that in 1872 the ticket bearing woman’s suffrage would be as good as the one that elected President Grant. A WESTERN FEMALE LAWYER SPEAKS. Miss Phoebe Cozzens, who had studied law in St. Louis, was proud to be a Western woman, and was well aware of the fact that “ Westward the star Os the empire takes its way.” Like a Western woman, she would say to all, “ Dare to do right, dare to be true.” The West was in favor of the movement. “ All hail Wyoming !” didn’t have time before death. A letter was read from J. Stuart Mill, the great apostle of the female movement, who was broken fully into harness by his wife, regretting that he had so many things to do before he died, that he could not at tend the convention. SENATOR POMEROY WANTS ANOTHER AMEND MENT. He felt highly gratified to see the conven tion assembled, and to hear its object dis cussed. He would cast his vote to give the franchise to woman, not because she was a woman, but because she was an American citizen. He would not make her vote, but let her do so if she chose. Another amend ment was certainly needed. A Chinaman or an African could not be naturalized in this country. The naturalization laws ought to be changed. CL\RA BARTON APPEALS TO THE SOLDIERS. A communication was read from Miss Clara Barton, written in Geneva, Eu rope, and addressed to her soldier friends. She says : ‘ When you were weak and I was strong 1 toiled for you. Now you are strong and I am weak, because of my work for you, 1 ask your aid. I ask the ballot for myself and my sex. As I stood by you, I pray you stand by me and mine.” FEMALE BALLOTS TO SAVE THE COUNTRY. Mrs. Stanton felt the insult of the Fif teenth Amencment, and must have a Six teenth Amendment. Now send back to Clara Barton the answer that she was about to be invested with the rights of American citizenship. This would be the best answer to her. Thev tell us wait until the negro had citizenship given him. Was this not humiliating to us V Were the claims of the negro of more force than those of the mothers and daughters of this country.— She felt that nothing could save this nation but the force of tiie moral power that woman would bring into the political arena. Freedom in the church and State was the great ultimatum to be attained. NO BOUNTY ALLOWED ON CELIBACY. A motion was made to adjourn, but not put, owing to a gentleman in the audience desiring to advise the convention to adopt resolutions allowing unmarried women to have the exclusive control of their prop erty. Mrs. E. C. Stanton, however, thought this was giving a bounty on celibacy, and declared the convention adjourned till 2 o’clock, p. m. SUSAN ANTHONY PRESSES BUSINESS. By this hard-worked disciple, the follow ing resolutions were introduced and laid on the table for debate, in the afternoon : Resolved, That the National Woman’s Suffrage Convention respectfully ask the Forty-First Congress of the United States— First. To submit to the Legislatures of the several States a Sixteenth Amendment to the Federal Constitution prohibiting the disfranchisement of any of their citizens oil account of sex. Second. To strike the word “ male” from the laws governing the District of Co lumbia. Third. To enfranchise the women of Utah as the one safe, sure, and swift means to abolish the polygamy of that Territory. Fourth. To amend the laws of the United States so that women shall receive the same pav as meu for services reudered the Gov ernment. THE OI.D SPEECH MAKER AFTER CONGRESS. Miss Anthouy then expressed her views as to the Constitution of the United States and of the several States. She was greatly iu favor of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. Any word she might utter in regard to these amendments she spoke under the impression that the Fifteenth Amendment was a fixed fact. But the Sixteenth was needed. The question arose why she did not bring her Sixteenth Amendment t,o the different Legislatures of the States. She remarked that she came to Washington and to Congress be cause Congress bad been the first to throw : obstacles in the way of women by insert | ing the word “ male ” in the Constitution.. j She was tired of this continual talk about i female suffrage. She had been speech mak ing now twenty years, and was tired of it. She wanted action now, and would not be satisfied until Congress had acted iD their behalf. SCOVELL ORATES HEROICALLY FOR THE HENS. At the evening session, Scovell believed in heroism. Grant won with the sword at Appomattox what Charles Sumner con tended for half a century—an idea That idea is the liberty of all, limited by the like liberty of each. The civil rights bill did little good till you armed the African with a ballot. Then the old master touched his ha l to the new citizen—his old slave.— And why? Because lie was a power in the land ? it is only God-like to use power for humanity; and that is how we propose to use it. Congress must hear us—shall hear qs—because we speak in the voice of the people for the people. And I speak to you as a man, as a gentleman; yes, and as a lawyer, when I tell you your boasted amendments are as the small dnst of the balanee till the Sixteenth Amendment is written—graven—in the text of your Con stitution—the guarantee for posterity, the liberty for all , limited only by the like liber ty of each. Then we will have a country, never again clasping the Bible with the handcuffs of slavery,b*i', a land where we, men and women alike, can worship a cora njou God, before whom there is neither Jew nor (Gh'eek, ‘S white isale” or female, bar barian, Scythian, bend of free. [Applause.] A GIANT NO xom HW3T3 TJgAN f. Tffmfß. Mrs. Wilbur advocated human rights. The largest giant had no more tights than Tom Thumb. It was brain, not force, that governed the world. A small hand was able so discharge a musket, guide an en gine, or edit a paper as well as a large one. The womanly in nature should be express ed by woman, the manly by man ; the two were distinct, and could not he blended to gether without spoiling the harmony of the whole. Although she was unable to tell how soon or how late it would be be fore women attained the desired object, the ballot, how long the war between the sexes would last, the women would certainly fight it out. RIDDLEICUOUS LOGIC OF A LAWYER. Biddle, A. G., complimented by the gen tle aW fascinating Susan as being an ex cellent aufl honest lawyer, was an earnest advocate of woman’s rights, because he Claimed the same rights for his daughters imttoii* /VJliiK.O htiOßUhiH 1 » ‘ ':■«?< as for his sons; he wanted for them the same atmosphere, the same public opinion, the same prestige. He was not prepared to say that man should be subjected to wo man. Still they should be on an equal footing, and if so, the peace was in no dan ger. Women were dffeiu heard to exclaim, “ I wish I was a mau.” This elucidates how keenly they feel their position. The following letter was read by Prof. Willcoi, and received with applause: LETTER FROM MRS. O’DONOVAs|(ROSSA). 11 University Pmce, > New York, January if; 1870.) J. K. H. WiUcox, Esq.: Dear Sir : I deeply regret that my ap proaching voyage to Ireland will debar me from the pleasure 1 should otherwise ex perience in accepting the invitatfcn extend ed to me by the Universal Franchise Asso ciation, and conveyed to me iniffour letter of the 13th instant, yet, in dweunavoid able absence from the approaebinff Woman Suffrage Convention, be pleased to express for me, to its distinguished supporters, the assurance of my profound sympathy with the cause they so bravely advocate, and my earnest desire for its speedy triumph. 1 wish I could in person .tender my thanks to the noble women whh first have dared “ To leap the rotten pales of prejudice, l)i»yoke their necks from custom and assert None lor.dlier than themselves but That which made Woman and man !” But as 1 am unable to gratify my desire on this point, I shall leave toyou the re newed expression of my interest and warm wishes for success, and shall satisfy myself with attentively watching and hoping foi the grand result of the present movement in America. 1 remain, dear sir, very siiicerely, Mary J. O’Donovan (Rossa.) THE BIBLE NOT A REPUBLICAN BOOK. Miss Cozzens saW men etw* took the Bible to attempt to prove their rights over the women. But they fail to notice that the Bible is not at all Republican ; it de mands obedience to the Kings ; and these Republicans will see that they, do uot fol low the Bible injunctions in carrying on the Government. If a majority had the right to ask for a right, the minority had the same. Another story advanced by the meu was, that if suffrage was given to the women they would dance around the ballot box for three hundred aud sixty-five days before aud after the election, and the poor men would have to attend to tlfc baby aud the kitchen. Lo! THE POOR NEGRO WOMEN ! The same Western female revolutionist desired that the colored women of the South should have the ballot, because, for sooth, they had suffered so much. The convention adjourned to meet on Wednesday. State Items. Mr. Jolm Gilliland, for many years a well known merchant of Savannah, died on Monday morning. He was a native of Bel fast, Ireland. The steamship Herman Livingston, which arrived at Savaunah Saturday, brought 39 white immigrants, who are to be em ployed as laborers on the Macon and Bruns wick Railroad, in place of the -negroes who have not yet recovered from holiday de moralization. Judge Schley, in Savannah, on Monday, adjourned the Superior Court to Monday next, remarking that he did not feel dis posed to try any cause during the present political status of the State. The Atlanta Constitution says that Major Win. J. Svkes has organized a company to build a railroad from Ely ton. Ala., to Aber deen. Miss., a distauce of 120 miles. The road will some day be a feeder to Atlanta. It is a link in a great Western line, project ed by Major Sykes, to connect our sea coast, by way of Atlanta, with the great West by a direct air-line. A few days ago, a negro witness was summoned from Americus to attend Bibb Superior Court lu Macon. While in at tendance on the court, he stole all the door keys of the court house, with a view to use them in Americas, but was followed, aud the keys recovered. A little boy inquired at the Augusta post office recently if there <w a%&- letter for Chester Pillsbury, and while tie clerk was looking for the letter, the little fellow, thinking to help him in his search, said: “ He is married now, and I s’p«)se they put Mister onto his name.” A young lad recently ran away from home and went to a t ivern, where he was found by a friend, with a cigar in his month. “What made you leave home?” said the friend. “ Oh, confound it,” said he, “father and mother were sosaucy that I couldn’t stand it auy longer—so I quit ’em.” The Rome Southerner says that Prof. E. F. King has accepted the Professorship of Mathematics and Ancient Languages in the Rome Female College. The Gainesville Eagle says- the grading ou the second section of the Air-Line Rail road has begun. There will be a thousand hands at work in two weeks. > Wash McDaniel, convicted of murder at the last term of Wilkinson Superior Court, and imprisoned in Mi lledgevi lie jail, escaped on the night of the 19th, by picking a hole in the wall. Plan of the New Orphah Asylum.— The Macon Journal and Messerq/or has been shoivn a beautiful design, prepared by Mr. D. B. Woodruff - , architect, of that city, for the new Orphan Asylum to be erected in Augusta under his superintendence, of which it gives the following description : The building presents a front of one hun dred and seventy-eight feet, by a depth of one hundred feet, and is three stories high, covered with a Mansard roof. 4 The centre or main building of the pi au Is longitudi nally divided by a hall ten fifet in width aud transversely by a hall twenty-four feet wide. This contains the stairway, which is very spacious, aud eapy of ascent, aud directly opposite the miin entrance! Connecting this centre buildfcg with the wings, arc halls eight feet wide," in which are located the private stairs. iOn the sides of main entrance are the offices aud public reception rooms. The upper stories of the centre part are divided iuto a large nursery for each of the sexes, dormitories, aud a chapel which is finished through two stories, having a gallery on thiee shies, and a ceiling tweuty-eight feet in tie clear. Ad joining the chapel are two sifckool rooms, each nineteen by forty-one sept, and com municating with tlje chapel* by sliding doors, making a suit of rooms of grand dimensions, being tliirty-siaffpy one hun dred and twenty-eight feet. The principal story of the idft wiujr will form the residence of tbe Superintendent, having a parlor, sitting rooma library aud two bed rooms, with bath, cjjfothes, wash rooms, etc., and a complete liundry in au extreme wing on the rear. Tlfe right wing has a spacious dining room forty-five by sixty feet, having light andkir on three sides, and the kitchen and panfries adjoin ing. The upper stories of the* wiDgs are divided into teachers’ rooms, class rooms, dormitories, etc., and adjoining all the dormitories are bath, wash and clothes rooms. In the extreme wings bn each floor are the infirmaries, being spacipus and airy and remote from the centre portion of the building. The kitchen and laundry will be fitted up in the most approved manner, and with everything required in a first-class hotel; On the rear, and coifpecting the extreme wings with the centfe building are jyide verandas, on each stiry, and ad joining the cjgss rooips and dormitories, and to which the children can tosort during short intermissions for an airing, affording a fine space for walking and for the airing of bedding- The building is to be put up with brick with stone trimmings, and with its artistic projections and outlines will present a fine appehraqee. The front of the centre blind ing has a two story Rortieo oflrich and ele gant details, while springing from the roof above is an unique and graceful tower, hav ing upon each of its sides a handsome rose window, to be used as a clock face, at an elevation of 85 feet from the ground- The whole mass presents an example of perfect harmony in its proportions, while the picture exhibits a degree of artistic skill rarely met with, aud w e congratulate our citizens upon having a resident archi tect of such skill and ability as to render ft Entirely unnecessary to go North for the pl»ns for our public or private buildings. Woman’s Work. ' Darning little stockings For restless little feet; Washing little faces To keep them cleau and sweet; Heariug Bible lessons; Teaching catechism ; Fraying lor salvation From heresy and schism— Woman’s work. Bewing on the buttons ; Overseeing rations; Bootbiug with a kind word Others’ lamentations; Guiding clumsy Bridgets, And coaxing sullen cooks; Entertaining company, And reading recent books— Woman’s work. Burying out of sight He own unhealing smarts ; Letting in the sunshine On other clouded hearts; Binding up the wounded, And healing up the sick, Bravely marching onward. Through dangers dark and thick— WOman’s work. Leading little children, And blessing manhood’s years ; Showing to the sinlnl How God’s forgiveness cheers ; Scattering sweet roses Aloug another’s path; Smiling by the way side. Content with wh it she hath Woman’s work. Letting fall her own tears, Where only God can see ; Wiping off another’s With tender sympathy ; Learning by experience ; Teaching by example; Yearning for the gateway, Golden, pearly, ample— Woman's work. Lastly cometh silence, A day of deep repose— Her locks smoothly braided. Upon her breast a rose; Lashes resting gently Upon the marble cheek ; ' A look of blessed peace 0 Upon the iorehead meek ! Pale hands softly folded, The kindly pulses still; The. lips know no smiling, The noble heart no thrill;. Her couch needs no smoothing, Site craveth for no care ; Love’s ten derest entreaty Wakes no responses there. Fresh grave in the valley— Tears, bitter sobs, regiet One more solemn lesson That life may not forget. Face forever bidden, Race forever run “ Dust to dust,” a voice saiih, And woman’s work is done. A Negro Strung Up for Brutal Treatment of Two Young Ladies. —On Tuesday last, a negro boy iu the employ of Mr. Wilson, living near Blue Pond, in Cherokee county, assaulted and knocked down with a piece of iron two young la dies, the daughters of Mr. Wilson. It ap pears that one of the young ladies told the boy to bring some wood in the house. The boy went out as if for the purpose of get ting the wood. He returned, however, with the iron in his hand, and, without saying a word, knocked the young lady down, inflicting severe wounds upon her head. Her sister, hearing her screams, rushed into the room, when the brute struck her over the head and arms, inflict ing severe and dangerons wounds. It was evidently the intention of the negro to kill the first lady attacked, a3 h| continued his blows after she was knocked to the floor senseless. When he had fully vented his wrath, he left the premises. A large party of the friends of the young ladies assem bled, and went iu pursuit immediately, aud tracked him through the snow to the mountains, where they found him with a rope, evidently lor the purpose of stealing a horse, upon which to make his escape. It was used, however, for another purpose, and the infuriated crowd could not be re strained from hanging him at once. This brute has always been considered a mean and dangerous negro, and it is a matter of rejoicing iu his neighborhood that he has met his deserts. The young ladies are now iu a critical condition. The skull of one is fractured, the head of the other has several severe wounds. We would not counsel mob law, but,, In all such eaSes as this.Ve have nothing to deplore when such summa ry punishment is administered. We learn further that Mr. Wilson, the father of the young ladies, who has been heretofore a strong Radical, says he has learned the folly of his way, and endorses fully the hanging of the negro. f Gadsden (Ala.) Times. Facts for Home and Abroad. —lt will be surprising to some of our readers to read that the tonnage in the shipping at our port is second ortbirdMn the United States. Such, however, is the fact as received from official sources. The exports from this ■point during the last thirty days wereover eight millions of dollars. Considering these facts, and especially at this time, when some of theflhrgest business houses in the West aud South will visit us, does it not behoove every citizen of Savan nah to do their utmost, in rendering the fa cilities of trade even more prominent and lucrative? One way in which this £an be done is to press Congress to appropriate a sufficient sum to remove the obstructions in the river. We feel convinced that, should the Committee ou Commerce and Appro priations understand the importance of this matter thoroughly, they would cheerfully give that aid which is necessary. We are happy that the subject is once more brought before the notice of the public, and we trust that the action which has already been taken by the City Council will not wane, but its proposals be fully carried out.— Savannah News. Menegetis. —As.this terrible scourge is now ravaging the country in and around Quincy, Florida, we propose to give our readers a short article on the subject. We had occasion to v'sit Quiucv ou last Tuesday, ou which day three deaths oc curred—one white mau and two negroes. A number of the citizens have died and gen eral gloom prevails. Quincy is iudeed a stricken community. Daily the mournful notes of the death-beil inform the inhabi tants that another soul has gone to its final account. All of the gayety that used to characterize the place seems to have fled, and the lovely fair are now called upqn to atteud the sufferers cf the dreadful monster menegetis. We wefe informed that the disease was very fatal to the negroes of the plantations near the village. Two cases have occurred in Bainbridge, one of which has proved fatal; the other still lingers between the skill of the physi cian and the grave. The menegetis is not considered as con tagious, but all are liable to it at the pres ent depressed state of the atmosphere. \Bainbridge Sun, 2Q th. The Pillow Assassination Explained. We learn from the Tuscumbia Alabamian that two young men named Phillips, and another whose name it had not been able to obtain, had confessed to the killing of the two Pillows. The three, it says, left the county before they could be arrested. Their statement as to thp cause of their action is thus related ; A few weeks before the occurrence, at a party in the neighbor hood, one of the young men, Phillips, and Wm. Pillow had a difficulty, during which Pillow drew his pistol on Phillips, but was prevented from using it by persons present. Shortly after this Phillips went out into the yard, and 'while out there was fired at by some person. Phillips then said he lp T tended so kill tl]e person who shot at him as soon as be found out who'did it. A few days before the killing he stated to parties that he had learned who shot at him. It is said several parties are qn the look out for them. The young Pillows were nephews, and not sons of (jenergi pillqw, as stated. —-y- . ■ l . Forty Acres and a Mule.— The negroes in Atlanta, buoyed up by recent political developments, are exultant over the idea that the Iqng talked of forty acres and mule are about to come in dead earnest. We have heard of several boasts'of the kind having been made by them within the last fevy days, to highly respectable white men. [Atlanta Intelligencer. Two companies of United States soldiers passed through Rome on Monday, en route to Chattooga county, the scene of the late Bdrty Ku Rlux sensation. BY TELEGRAPH. FROM ATLANTA. THE SENATE MEET AND ADJOURN. DICTATOR TERRY ISSUES GENERAL ORDERS 9 AND 10, DECIDING WHAT MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE ARE ELIGIBLE AND WHAT SEATS ARE VACATED. THE HOUSE THEN ELECT McWHOR TER SPEAKER. MORMON EXCURSIONISTS IN AT LANTA. (Special to the Constitutionalist. Atlanta, January 26, 1870. The suspense is over. Terry decides, by General Orders, Nos. 9 and 10, oj the eligi bility of members. The Senate met and adjourned until to morrow without transacting any business. The House met and was called to order by Harris, when General Orders,- Nos. 9 and 10, from Dictator Terry were read. Order 9 declares Donaldson, of Gordon; Taliaferro, of Fulton, and Nunn, of Glass cock, ineligible, and prohibits them from taking their seats. Wilcher being at his home sick, did not appear before the mili tary inquisition, and his case is held in abeyance. All the other cases before the commission are eligible. The order also declares sixteen seats va cant, namely, those of Burtz, Brinson, Ben nett, George, Goff, Hudson, Johnson, Kel logg, Meadows, Perlaud, Surrency, Smith, H. Williams, Drake, Ellis aud Rouse, who, failing to come forward aud qualify, are declared ineligible; and, the order goes ou to say, they have admitted their ineligi bility bv filing with Bullock applications to Congress for the removal of their dis abilities. Orders No. 10 coinmauds Harris, Speaker 'pro lem., to allow members elect, not in cluded iu Orders No. 9 time to qualify if they desire to do so, when the House should elect a Speaker, omitting, in calling the roll, the names of the excluded mem bers. The revised roll was then called, and the House proceeded to the election of Speaker,' voting, by order of Bullock, viva vote. 133 votes were cast. Necessary to a choice, 67. McWhorter, 76; Bryant, 52 ; Price, 4 ; John Smith, 1. McWhorter was elected by the Demo crats nbt being united in their votes. Harris appointed Scott and Bryant to conduct McWhorter to the chair. Scott made a short speech, not commit ting himself to any special line of policy. The Republicans will have, probably, a majority of 8 iu the House. Nothing Is known as to the decision of the military inquisition In regard to the Senators accused of ineligibility. A Mormon excursion party arrived here this afternoon, and wore met by a tremen dous crowd. They remain here to-night. NEW YORK DISPATCHES. (Special to the Constitutionalist. New York, January 26. Cotton quiet. Private accounts prove less buoyant than published reports. General Lee will not attend the Peabody funeral. Cause, ill health. WILI-OUGITBY. (Associated Press Dispatches. WASHINGTON. Washington, January 26—Noon.—Sen ate business is unimportant. Iu the House, League Island was up. Iu the Elections Committee, from secrecy observed, there is said to be regarding the committee’s proceedings; no objections to Porter in the committee, though they may be made in the House. The President has certainly approved the Virginia bill, though it has not yet been officially announced. The President signed the Virginia bill this morning. Washington, January 26—P. M.—Re venue, $375,000. The Virginia bill was signed by the President and sent to the State Department. The omission to send it to the House to day was a blunder. Col. Penny backer hgs been assigned to the command of Mississippi vice Gen. Ames, who has leave of absence. The Committee on Military Affairs agreed to report a bill appointing a com mittee of five to examine all officers below Brigadier General with the view of dismiss ing the incompetent. In the Senate, Rowell, elected from lowa was sworn in. A resolution of the Kansas Legislature were presented, asking the removal of the Capital to Leavenworth reservation. A bill was introduced-providing for an appraiser of merchandizeat Mobile. The currency bill was resumed and dis cussed to adjournment. Iu the House, the Committee on* Mines was directed to investigate the Avondale disaster, and report whether Congress has the power to regulate raining. The General of the Army was asked whether any officers of the army were re ceiving pay as army and civil officers. The League Island Navy Yard Bill was tabled—94 to 97. The bill extending the port of New Or leans passed, and goes to the President. The House went into committee of the whole on civilgpproprialiong.. Butler read a long speech, dealing most ly iu figures, bat attacking Mr. Dawes very sharply. Dawes closed his reply as fallows : “ I am ready, arid I contemplate voluntarily myself to submit to the judgment of my constituents whether I have "been faithful- I do not, however, in view of the duty of the hour—which is to call attention to the expenditures—propose to be diverted from that grave duty by any petty debate here, with any live man on the miserable and unimportant question of my own wisdom or folly. I trouble not myself about my refeord. If posterity cilst a look afrit,lt will vindicate it; if it does not, it wjll got make any difference, 4nd J now move that the committee ris§.u ALABAMA, Montgomery, January 26.— The Legisla ture for the past week has been engaged on local bills. To-day the time of the Senate was entirely consumed in discussing a me morial to Congress for the removal of dis abilities. Nq action- The Senate bill, loaning State bonds to the amount qf three millions to the Alaba ma and Chattanooga Road, Is to come np in the Honse to-morrow. Meetings for the past two nights, in op position to the bill, have been held at the Capitol’, and to-night the friends of the bill are having speeches, &e. The cars still come crowded with emi grants for Louisiana and Texas. Mobile, January 26— Rev. D.r. Henry Niles Pierce was consecrated Bishop of Arkansas yesterday. Bishop pierce was formerly Pastor of St. John’s Church of this city. Bishops Young, ofFlorida ,Wil mer, of Louisiana, Quintard, of Tennessee, Whitehouse, of Illinois and Green, of Mis sissippi were present. The ceremony was very imposing. qeorqia. Atlanta, January 26.—The House of Representatives was organized to-day, and elected R. L. McWhorter, Republican, Speaker, over J. E. Bryant, Conservative, by 24 majority. Three members—Donald son, Nupn and Talialerro—were declared to be Ineligible by the military commission. Adjourned. The seats of sixteen members were de clared vacant, on account of refusal or failure to take the oaths required by the law* of the United States, VIRGINIA. Richmond, January 26.—Governor Walk er, upon receipt of the information of the President signing the Virginia Bill, will issue a proclamation calling the Legislature together February Bth. General Canby will give up all control of State officers when the Legislature meets and Alls civil offices now filled by military appointment. There was considerable excitement along the streets this afternoon by the attempt of colored rowdies to ride In the White Ball street cars instead of the colored cars. Four were arrested and the Station House was surrounded by an excited crowd Os negroes, until a heavy police force was brought on the spot. This disturbance Was made in accordance with the programme announced in speeches by the negroes at the celebration yesterday. CALIFORNIA. San FrancißCo, January 26.—The Brit ish ship Baringer, from Australia, brings the following political prisoners, sent from Ireland to British Penal Colonies in 1865 and 1867. Their terms of transportation vary from five years to life: John Kenny, Dennis B. Eastman, Dennis Hennessey, Maurice Figenboheh, Patrick Leper, Thos. Eggarty, David Joyce, John Shehau, Pat rick Wall, Michael Mbbfre, David Cummins, Eugene Gary, John WrtfHh,* Patrick Davan and Patrick 1 Detinifo Tfmy M r ere entertain ed and provided for* by Fenians here. Captain Smith', vbmtnanded at Gal veston whea the Harriet Lane was captured, was killed in Alaska by a drunken Indian. The Indian was hanged. NEW YORK. New York, January 36. — The Eric strikers in Jersey City attacked the work men to-day. Bricks and pistols were used. The police arrested the strikers’ leaders. The Arizona arrived from Aspinwall on the 17th with $30,872 iu treasure. No news. ' MAINE. Portland, January 26.—The Peabody funeral fleet has arrived. FOREIGN. Madrid, January 26.—The election in Oneida is progressing, The defeat of Duke Moutpensier is considered certain. Marquis Percies is running in Madrid as successor of Serano. The vote, last night, stood: Peroles, 19,000; Gucsales (Republi can), 15,000, and the Carlist candidate, 5,000. The elections continue three days longer. Elections for vacancies, as far as heard, show 44 Orleanists, 5 Progressionists, 6 Republicans and 1 Carlist. London, January 26.—A great meeting is to be held to promote immigration to the provinces. The Lord Mayor will preside. A writer in the Times is astounded at the annexation of Dominica, which is only adding other negro communities to those so difficult to manage now. Havana, January 26.—Capt. Boit, com manding the loyal guerillas, captured the insurgent Generals Murciaus, Lena and Feguiards, with the family of Feguiards, near the Bay of Gueda. Boit, with his prisoners, arrived in the Santiago. The insurgent leader luus Santoa has surrendered. Frederica Gras, chief of staff, General Covada and his brother Romon were exe cuted at Cienfuegos. SOUTH CAROLINA. Charleston, January 26.—The French sioop-of-war Limier, six days from Port an Prince, arrived to-day, and reports that Sal nave was sentenced to death and shot on the 10th. MARINE NEWS. Savannah, January 26. —A rriv e and : Steamers Wyoming, Philadelphia; San Salvador and Huntsville, New York; Amer ica, Baltimore ; bark H. Olaf, London; .ship John Harvey, Boston ; schooners E. S. Gildersleeve, New York; Watauga, Philadelphia. Charleston, January 26. — Arrived : Schooners George Washington, Baraeoa; Benj. Reed, Savannah. MARKETS. London, January 26—Noon—Consols, 92%. Bonds, 86%. Tallow dull. Liverpool, January 26 — Noon — Cotton buoyant; uplands, 11%; Orleans, 11%@ 12% ; sales, 12,000 bales. Later. —Cotton firm; sales, 15,000 bales. Pork quiet. Lard buoyant at 74. Liverpool, January 26—Evening.—Cot ton buoyant; uplands, 11%; Orleans, 12; sales, 16,000 bales ; export and speculation, 4,000 bales. Common Rosiu, ss. 3d. Paris, January 26.—Bourse opened firm. Rentes, 73f. 82c. Havre, January 26.—d011,0n opened ac tive and Arm at 138%, both on spot and afloat. New York, January 26—Noon.—Stocks steady and firm. Money easy at B@7. Ex change-long, 9% ; short, 9%. Gold, 121 %. ’62’s, coupon, 15%; Tennessee, ex coupon, 54%; new, 46% ; Virginias, ex coupon, 55; new, 61; Louisiana, old, 68; new, 64 ; Le vee 6’s, 63; B’s, 74 ; Alabama B’s, 94; s’s, 03; Georgia 6’s, 80; 7’s, 92; North Caro lina 7’s, old, 40%; new, 24% ; South Caro lina 7’g, old, 81; new, 77. New York, January 20—P. M.—Money very easy at 4@G. Sterling, 9%. Gold strong at 121%. Governments strong; ’62’s, 15%; Southern Securities generally steady. New York, January 26—Noon.—Flour dull and declining. Wheat dull, le. lower. Corn quiet and unchanged. Pork heavy; Mess, $27 50. Lard quiet at 16%<g17. Cotton firm and quiet at 25%. Turpentine steady at 46%. Rosin Arm at $2 07%@ 2 10 for strained. Freights dull. New York, January 30—IV M.—Cotton quiet and Him; sales, 2,800 bales at 36%. Flour favors buyers;, superfine, $4 79 a 4 85; com itoon t(Ffair eittra Southern, $5 50 @6. Wheat heaVy and l@2c. lower; Win ter red and %iyiier Western. $1 3Q<®l 32. Corn steady; new mixed, 85S88. Pork heavy; new, $27 50. Lard heavy ; kettle, , 17%@17%. Whisky heavy at 99%@51. — | Rice quiet. Sugar dull. Coffee firm. Mo-| lasses dull. Turpentine, 4f1%@47. Rosin, $3 07 y a m. Cincinnati, January 26.—Corn steady at 75@76. Whisky, 95. Mess Pork, $27. Bacon dull; shoulders 12%@12% ; sides, 15%@1G. Lard quiet; kettle, 16,%. Louisville, January 26,—Corn un changed. Mess Porfc, S2B. Bacon—shoul ders, 13% ; clear' sides, 16%. Lard. 17ji. Whisky, 95®9G, " 4 Wilmington, January 26.—Spirits Tur pentine %(fiflo.better—42®43. Rosin quiet; NQ- L sß®3 50. Crude Turpentine steady at $1 65:82 85. Tar buoyant at $2 40. Cotton steady at 23%, Mobile, January 20.—Cotton in good and general demand with light *stock offer ing aud closing firm ; sales, 1,500 bales ; middling, 24% ; receipts, 1,717 ; exports, 445, New Orleans, January 20.—Cotton ac tive and firmer at 24%@25; sales, 7,550 bales; receipts, 2,530; exports, to Havre, 2,995; to Bremen, 3,715; to Boston, 1,067. Flour lirm, $5 35, 5 75@6 12%. Corn, $1 05 @1 07%. Oats, 70. Bran, $1 35® 1 40. Hay easier; prime, s3l. Mess Pork, $.30. Ba con scarce; shoulders, 14%, rib, 17%; no clear in market. Lard—tterces, 16%@17; keg, lasses— prime, Whisky, 95c. @sl 05. Coffee quiet; @17%. Gold, 121%. Sterling, 32 ; Bight, % discount. Charleston, January 26.—Cotton in good demand and firmer; sales, 500 bales; middling, 24%@24%; receipts, 1,271 bales; exports—Continent, bales. Savannah, January 26.—Cotton—re ceipts, i,024 bales; exports, 51 bales; sales, 500 bales; middling, 25; market firm. Augusta Daily Market. Office Daily Constitutionalist, ) Wednesday, January 26 —P. M. j FINANCIAL GOLD—Buying at 120 and spiling at 122. J BILVER— BuyiDg at 116 and selling at 120. BONDS— City Bonds, 83@8 r ). STOCKS—Georgia Railroad, 104; Augusta Factory, 152. COTTON— The market opened with an ac tive demand at 24% for middling; closing steady at same figure. Sales, 748 bales. Receipts 904 bales. BACON—Fair demand. We quote C. Bides, 18@19; C. R. Sides, 18018%; B. B. Bides, 15 @15%; Shoulders, 18; Hams, 21023; Dry Sp.lt Shoulders, 13@13% ; Dry Balt C. R. Bides, 17@17%. CORN—New is beginning to come iu freely, and is selling at $1 3501 40 from depot. WHEAT—We quote choice white, $1 55; amber, $1 50 ; red, $1 45. FLOUR— fcity Mills, new, *0 5009 00; at retail, |1 barrel higher. Country, SOO9, according to quality. CORN MEAL—SI 45 at wholesale; $1 00 at retail. OATS—Bs@fl 25. BEAS—Scarce at *1 69. CITY ITEMS. A Monster Opera House and Hotel - in Columbia. —The Columbia (3. C.) corre spondent of the Charleston Courier says : “ The plan for this purpose has been well matured, and the place has been selected. The locality embraces 362 feet, fronting on one street, and 145 fronting on another.— Nearly every Northern man in Columbia, including several members of the Legisla ture, have agreed to subscribe $5,000 each. Even Tim Hurley has put down his name for that amount, while such men ns J. J. Paterson, the railroadist. Governor Scott, Leslie, Chamberlain, Parker, Pierce, Den nis, Denny and others, are pledged to see. the thing through. Mr. John T. Ford, the famous theatrical manager, will give $lO,- 000 and fittings, and lease the opera house for five years, at $5,000 a year. As It Is proposed, In connection with the hotel and opera house, to build a number of stories ala Niblo’s, in New York, a number of the merchants of Columbia have expressed a desire to come into the arrangement as subscribers. There Is every probability, therefore, that within a year a monster building will be erected on Main street in Columbia, which will pay citizens and stockholders a handsome per centage for their enterprise, besides constituting a source of attraction to the people of the State. The cost, according to present estimates, will be about SIOO,OOO. Tim Hurley, in his curious way, says he thinks it no more than fair that since the town was captured by Sherman and his bum mers, it should be recaptured by carpet baggers. It certainly bids fair to be so, for they own to-day, according to official exhibits, $102,000 of real estate within the city limits, and nearly $300,000 worth of bank stock and other capital.’’ What it Cost to Marry a Colored Damsel.— The case of John Willoughby, a white man, who married a negro woman, Delilah Turner, ita Macon last Summer, and was arrested at the time and held to bail on the charge of adultery and fornica tion, was tried in the Superior Court of Bibb county on Wednesday. lie was con victed anil sentenced to six months im prisonment aud a fine of five hundred dol lars. It appears from the evideuce, that in June or July last, Willoughby deserted his white wife and was married by Rev. T. G. Stewart, pastor of the Colored Methodist Church in Macon, to the aforesaid black Delilah. Delilah, who was before the court upon the same charge, was discharged and told to confine herself in the marriage relation in future to her own color. Excellent Cars.— We noticed, yester day morning, in the Georgia Railroad yard, it couple of excellent frieght cars, from the Richmond and Danville Railroad, shipped via the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, en route to Atlanta. These cars are of 18,000 pounds capacity, and are mounted upon trucks to which have been applied “Tisdale’s Patent Adjustable Axles,” susceptible of change to suit the various gauges of the roads from Richmond to their destination and beyond—indeed, to any gauge of road over which they may be run ning. They are marked for the Piedmont Air Line, which connects with Richmond, Charlotte, Columbia, Augusta. Atlanta. Savannah, Macon, Columbia, Montgomery and Mobile. The application of this axle will go far to promote the advantage of shipment in bulk over roads of different gunge,and commends itself lorailroad men. Crowded— At the freight depot, of the (’hariotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, in the east end of the old Georgia Railroad freight depot, we found yesterday Mr. W. T. Williams, the very courteous and effi cient agent at. this end,up to his eyes in the piles of local and through freights seeking an outlet on that, line. The warehouse room of the company 1s entirely too circum scribed lor their increased and increasing business, and we trust that they will soon recognize the necessity of erecting a depot adequate to receive and dispatch freights. Jn the meantime Mr. Williams is accom plishing the very greatest public accommo dation possible under the circumstances which surround him. The Georgia State Agricultural So ciety Not a Bankrupt.— Hon. David IV. Lewis, Secretary of the Georgia State Agri cultural Society, publishes a card in the Macon Telegraph, in which he says : “Per sons having demands for premiums will leave applications for the same with Mr. Wing. Those having moneyed demands will file them with Mr. Win. Hazlehurst, Treasurer of the Society. 1 will, on my re turn to t>,iscity, early in February, exam ine and settle all that are regular.” This rather sets a: ide the statement made in the Constitution that the Society was not able to pay out, und 1 that the premiums had been attached by its creditors. The “ Plantation.”— We have received the first number of this paper, which is an agricultural weekly of sixteen pages, issued from the Franklin Steam Printing House, Atlanta, and edited by Colonels T. C. How ard and A. R. Alston, aided by a brilliant corps of contributors. This new candidate for popular favor, both in point of appear ance and the merit of its articles, Indicates that It. will win a cheerful welcome and achieve perfect success. It commences its first issue with five thousand subscribers, with ample capital, a guarantee of an im mediate success. Emigrants.— The tide of emigration still swells. About seventy-five negroes, from Virginia, passed up the Georgia Railroad last night, en route to Alabama' Us laborers on Gen. Forrest’s Alabama Railroad. They arrived here on Tuesday night, but could not secure transportation uulil last night. “ Aiken."—We are indebted to the pub lisher, Mr. J. C. Derby, for a copy of a pamphlet detailing the advantages of Aiken as a health-giving and money-producing region. Aiken is a nice place and we wish, it well; but we think and believe that Au gusta is ten times preferable for the cure of pulmonic coinplaiuts and a thousand times better situated for the gaining of tho “ demnition cash.”
