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November in each year ; to enable the Infe
rior Courts to raise money to discharge exit
ing debts.
A resolution was offered to authorize the
Governor to appoint a c<>mm : tt“e to inquire
Into the condition of the t) nks of this State.
A bill to repe ?! all laws prescribing penal
ties for carrying concealed weapons, was lost
on its third reading.
A message was received from his Excellen
cy Gov. Jenkins. It was taken up and read.
It recommended the passage of a bill to open
the courts of the State to tbo freedmen, and
to provide for their trial in criminal cases.
The Senate bill referring to this subject
was taken up and substituted by one from the
judiciary committee. Home discussion ensued
when a division was called, and the bill pass
ed by a vote of 79 to 49.
. k" ur If A. M. both houses arteni
b ed in the Hall of the Holism
and proceeded to the election ol State Home
omeen§.
Ihe annexed resolution was passed :
Resolved, 1 hat the Committee on Internal
Improvements, be instructed to irq'fire into
the rates of freight and fare charged and dow
being taken by the railroads ot this State, and
see whether the --*» vj.,| a tiug their charters
iu the enormnu and charges
Dltde ; and wh i . ought to
be had to prot '• / the State
therefrom, and t , t» ase by bill
or otherwise.
’ try inform
ed the Horn-cot the ~, —o , resolution
referring |to the suspension ot sjits against
Hanks, and also announcing the concurrence
of the Senate in the House bill in reference to
opening the courts to freedmen.
The resolntion in reference to Bank suits
was taken up and passed.
The Senate announced the passage of Mr.
Kenan s retolution in reference to President
Johnson. The House took up this resolution
and concurred therin.
Mr. Barnes moved to appoints committee of
three to act with a similar committee from the
Senate, to wait upon Gov. Jenkins This
committee consisted ol Messrs. Barnes, Peeples
and Frazier
lb« Governor having nothing farther to
communicate, the House on motion adjourned,
to meet on (he 15th of January next at 12
o’clock, M.
Moke about Cott..n. —As every thing which
relates to cotton interests our readers, we giv
below some extracts from Wright <fc Go’s circue
lar, of New York ;
f I he sales of cotton in England during the
week ending November 23, 51.000 bales, 18.-
000 of which to 6iM - culatoifl and. exporters, at
20d per lb for Middling Orleans Stock of
American, 98 000 hales. Total stock, 370,000.
The sales of cotton at New York, for week
ending December 13, were 8 000 bales. The
exports for the week has been—to Liverpool,
5,500 bales; Glasgow, 2; Havre. 2,114; Ham
burg, 580; Bremen, 63. Total, 8,309.
Facts have not justified the coutident tone
assumed fry receivers of cotton at the porfs and
tbeir agents in the interior as to the quantity
of the staple for thcoming People are becoming
familiarized with estimates at 1,700,000 to 2,
000,000 lor 47 months ending Ist of September,
1865, who in September and October confi
dently predicted that all the available cotton
would be in the ports by the end of the year,
and every week we have information 6f quan
tities of cotton in out of the way districts, such
as Florida, Noith Western Louisiana and
Northern Texan In the latter State alone the
weekly receipts hav* lately averag-d about
10,000 bales. The facilities for transportation
must Dot be lost sight of. The rivers, particu
larly the smaller ones, are all low, and even
now the network ot railioads is far from per
fect. The rates of freight chaiged by railroads,
apart from actual inlormation as to their con
dition in North Carolina and Georgia, would
indicate that the receipts at the Atlantic porta
do not represent the stocks that better com
munication and cheaper freights would move to
the Seaboard. Naturally euough the reaction
has given rise to extreme estimates in the
other directions and !igur< s are put forth which
certuinly are not jus'ified either by the receipts
at the ports or by what we learn of stocks in
the interior.
From the Southern ports, particularly on
the A Man tic, are ih efly by steamer to New
York, which add rapidly to the stock there,
without diminishing the amount held ia the
Southern ports. Recent Euiopean advices do
not encourage the id a that much can bo ship
ped thitbm on limited ouDrs at present prices.
The smat’ foreign export for the past four
weeks n ay however induce oiders from abroad
at more practicable limits
'1 he toilowiog is a statement of the move
m*'nt in cotton since the Ist September last :
Receipts at the ports in the U States 687,000
Expoit to Great Britain 294,000
“ France • 22 000
“ other Foreign Forts 10 000
Totaljexports 323,900
Stock on hand 452,000
Os which during th 9 past woek included in
the above :•
Receipts at the ports 68 000
Exporis to Great Britain 13 000
“ France 2,000
“ other Foreign Ports. 1 000
Total exports 16,000
IJA Message fr. u thn President. — l he Presi
dent ban seut a message to Congress ia reh
tlon to the condition of affairs iu the South, in
which he says :
From all Information In my possession, and
from that which 1 have recently derived from
the most reliable authority, 1 am induced to
cherish the belief that sectional aniraositv is
surely amt rapidly merging itself into a spirt
of nationality, and that representation, con
nected with a propeily adjusted system of tax
ation, will result in a baimonious restoration
cf 'he relations of the Stateß to the National
Uuloa.
.The President also furnishes a communica
tion from General Grant, in which that officer
■ays :
In free conversation with the people of the
South during my recent tour, I am satisfhd
that the people have accepted the present situ
ation ot affairs iu good faith.
Gen. Grautalso says there is such universal
acquiescence in she" authority of the general
government throughout the country visited by
him, that the mere presence of a military force,
without regard to numbers, is sufficient to
maintain order ; and he further says that the
good ol the country and economy reouire that
this force should be white tro< ps.
1 his is all the telegraph dispatches furnish.
We shall publish document in full when re
ceived.
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Gen. Butler and tub Virginia Legislature.
—When it was rumored that General Butler
was to take command of the department of
Virginia, the annexed resolution was intro
duced into the Legislature of that State :
Whereas, It is currently reported and gen
erelly believed that the celebrated Handibras
tic General B. F. Butler is about to take
charge of this military departmout with powers
extraordinary ; therefore.
Resolved, That whatever money may re
main in the State Treasury be immediately di
vided among the widows and orphans of de
ceased soldiers, and couriers he dispatched to
the various counties requesting the people to
secrete or bury their plate.
F Daniel S Dickinson and the President.—
Hon. Daniel S. Dickinson, in a recent speech
said Andrew Johnson is not a house plant, hui
a mountain oak, which defies the iurv of the
thunder gust. Intrepid, yet patient, firm but
forgiving, with the Uuiou and the Constitution
as bis pillar and his cloud, he seeks to recon
cile and bring together again the estranged
children of a common father. Let us all aid
him in the good woik and secure its accom
plishment.
A New Bureau. — rte notice one of the mem
berg of Congress dt-eiies to have a grand Na
tional Educational Bureau established — Li
enlorce education up to a certain standaid up
on the residents of eveiy section. Such plan*
sound well to talk about : read well upon
paper ; but will be very difficult plans to carry
out. Every State should be left free and un
tramelled to arrange her own affairs in such
■utters
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THE i,\OOtt Ut KHIIOV.
Tfco labor question is cno of the greatest !
problems to be solved by the South. There j
are good grouuds for the apprehension now j
felt, that freedmen may prove intractible and j
exhorbitant in their demands. It therefore
becomes us as a people to look about, and 6ee
in what way the great labor problem can
be successfully worked out.
In the French Colonies, owing to the deser
tion of the plantations by their farmer negro
cultivators, the Coolie system has gradually
attained a wide development. Guadeioupe,
which in 1860 had received only 3 724 of these
orioritial irn nigrants, counted iu 1861 no few
er than 38,000, made up of 30.000 Hindoos
6 000 Senegal Africans, and 2.000 Chinese.
Among these it has been fouod by experience,
both in English and French colonies, that the
Hindoos are most available. The Africans are
the more robust, but the mortality among
them is thirty five percent., while it is only ten
per cent, among the Hindoos. The Chineese
from the cities of the Celestial Empire, are in
subordinate, vicious, and only medium labor
ers. Those from the country districts, particu
larly when converted to Christianity, are more
docile and better workers ; but the most de
sirable class are nearty all incapaciated by
their crippled feet, or the Chinese authoritiss
oppose their departure. Their women can on
ly woik in a sitting posture, owing to the
cot deformity, and the wages of all are five
dollars per month, payable monthly, while
their contracts are made for the long term of
eight years.
On the other hand, the Hindoo coolies are
more submissive, contented, agreeable in as
pect and disposition, better workers, and less
subject to disease. They handle the sugar
cane with more success than the Chinese,
softer skin it and lacerates.
Moreover, they are usually accompanied by
wives and families of children, thus offering
visible guarantees of stability and morality.
Their contracts run for five years only, and
their wagts are from twelve francs to $2,25 in
specie for the men, teu francs for the women,
and eight fiaDcs for boys from fourteen to
sixteen years of age, payable one half at the
end of each month, and the other half at the
end ol the year. These advantages have won
for the Hindoo a decided preferenoa every
where, and the same Freach companies which
have supplied the colonies under their own
dig with thiso valuable laborers are, it seems,
prepared to supply the Avneiican Gulf States,
if ueeds be, at the same rates and in any quan-
The New Orleans Bee announces that an
Agency is about to open in a . Louisiana sea -
port, and that if contracts are entered into
during the present month or in January, la
borers "will be engaged by the end of April
next, and trom that time forth, imported at
the rate of 2,000 per month, 60 long as wanted.
The Company importing guarantees the sign
ing ol contracts, and tho planter has nothing
to do but specify hts order and give his secu
rities. The difficulty suggested by the fact
that Congress during the war, pissed a law
declaring all contracts subscribed abroad by
immigrants invalid, is to be met by the signa
ture within American jurisdiction and under
local regulations; but the planters, of course,
havetoruu the risk of luture adverse enact
ments. As the Hindoo Coolies are all British
subjects, they aro, in a measure, under the pro
tection of ihe British Consul, like any other im
migrants to a foreign country, and it is usually
in his presence that,all contracts are signet!
and by his intervention that all disputes arising
about them are settled He, too, sees that
their comfort and safety on the passage as well
as after reaching their destin ition are secured,
and that the agreements entered into are car
ried out iu good faith by both parties.
There is one thing a fixed fact. Our planters
to develop the great resources of this country ,
must have labor, they can rely upon If the
freedmen will make contracts and stick to
them, well and good. If they will not, then,
as we have said, we must look about and see
where reliable labor can bo had, an on what
terms. In a few weeks we shall see what the
freedmen will do. If they will not work, it is
of no use to temporise with them, but at once
adopt means to procure labor elsewhere.
“I did all l cou'd ior the revolution, and
now I'm going to do all I can ior the Union,
}ou musn’t ask me to give up my idea ot
State rights; that’s in my bones,andean uever
be got out. But 1 as<ure you it shall never
give any ruoro trouble so far as I am concern
ed.”
The above we find in a letter from the South,
published in the Boston Advertiser. We are
triad to perceive that some of the correspond
ents of the Northern papers are willing to aid
aud do justice to the South. The above sen
timents, the letter writer says, were expressed
o him by a gentleman from Madison, Ga. If
lie had been selected to give a description of
the universal feeling throughout this section of
the Uuiou, lie could not have performed his task
better. He “did all he could for the revolu
tion that is what nearly every man in the
South did. Ami now that the war is ever, our
people are willing to accept things as they
exist, and are ready to do all they can for the
Union. Nothing more cou’d be reasonably
demanded. Nothing more ought to be asked
of them.
Since the close of the war, a great majority
have on all occasions cheerfully acquiesced in
whatever has been asked of them by the Gen
eral Government. They have done all in their
power to show that they had become loyal cit
izens again. If the radicals at the North hereaf
ter prove as loyal to the “Union and the Con
stitution’' as the South, there will be but lit tie
or no political wrangling in our National Halls
of Legislation.
We fear, however, that such will not be the
case. Already have their leaders introduced
firebrands of discord. Already have they en
deavored to defeat the conservative policy of
President Johnson, if tne South, as a unit,
and the conseivatives of the North stand by
the President, we believe he will yet cariy
every point he has undertaken to, and bring
defeat and discomfiture upon his opponents.
Extensive Immigration Scheme.— Hon. G.
P. Maisb, our Miuister at Turin, has for warded
to Washington the proposition of a Company
of Italian silk and grape growers, aud wine
manufacturers, to immigrate to this country in
such force as would suffice for the cultivation
of a million of grape vines, and ten thousand
mulberry trees.
If the emigrants spoken of are steady and
hard wotke'S, we sty encourage them to come
to this country by all means. We have im
mense tracts of land, now unoccopied, well
adapted for the cultivation of the vine and the
mulberry tree. The climate is al6o favorable.
“TKFAFOX STILL IS EXieTE.VCE •»
The above caption contains the essence of
be Na°hville Press and Times' lucubrations
n President Johnson’s advisory dispatches to
the North Carolina and Georgia Conventions,
and it is of opinion that it
“Would have been better to let the
rebels—for they were rebels—have full
swing and as'ume tho payment of the
Confederate war debt, d-feat the Consti
tutional amendment, and refuse to repeal or
annul thesreession ordinance.’’
“ The spirit of treason, is still rife in
the cotton States, and we wish the coun
try to see it manifested in its real char
acter.”
Such articles are calculated to do no good,
but an immense deal of harm. To say the
least of it, it is as incorrect as uncalled for;
and, as a journalist, we should regard ourself
recreant to a sacred duty, did we not brand it
as such.
The people of the South fought the North,
upon what they thought was a hue issue
Their gallantry in battle won the admiration
of the great military chieftains, who sustained
the banner of the Union. They failed i» the
accomplishment of their de-igns; and that man,
North or South, who does not admire tho
promptness with which they accepted the re
sult, is certainly no man at all.
The general Government has had only to
make its demands, and they have been con
ceded. As soon as the Convention of Georgia
was informed that the repudiation of the war
debt, was necessary to secure the restoration
of the State to the Union, did it not repudiate ?
Has not South Carolina done everything that
was demanded at her hands ?
It is ol jested that the States have exhibited
an improper spirit, by el. cling as represenla
tives, men who were in the Confederate army..
We deny that there is anything improp
er in such an act. The men, whom we
have elected were, it is true, in the army I
but, at the 6ame time, it should not be for
gotten that almost every one of th'm opposed
secession. They acted like men in tho lute
conflict, and thought they were right.
They have thrown down their arms, and ro
newed their allegiance to the Government of
their Fathers ; and aho -v by their acts that they
have resolved, by tho blessing of heaven, re
ligiously to observe their oaths.
The people of the South are loyal, and are
worthy of tho confidence of the Government.
An Important Case. —The application of A.
H. Garland, Esq., of Arkansas, formerly aa at
torney ol the court and late a member of the
Confederate Congress, to be permitted to prac
tice in tho Fe I eral cjurts without taking the
oath of office as prescribed by the act of 1862,
and as extended to attorneys by the act, of
1865, was partially argued before the Supreme
Court of the United States. The questions in
volved are of groat magnitude and of es-.
pecial importance to the lawyers of tho South.
Upon the decision hangs their right to do busi
ness in the United States courts ; or, in other
words, to eDjoy the full rights, privileges, and
profits of the practice of the profession.
On behalf of the petitioner Matt. H. Car
penter, E?q , of Milwaukie, opened the case
in a speech of great power, and concluding
with a peroration that held the entire assem
blage spell-bound. The Attorney-General re
plied; »Dd Hon. Raverdy Johnson is to con
clude the argument in support of the petition
er this week. Mr. Johnson’s argument is ex
pected to be one of the greatest of his forensic
effort.
Let us Not Borrow Irouble —We notice
that many of the Southern Journals copy the
Washington dispatches of Northern radical
papers, and borrow much trouble therefrom.
Wo do not believe in such a coutse. Trouble
and difficulties will cmie without being
sought. The true policy is to wait until they
m ike their appearance “upon the stage,” and
then to meet th«m manfully. There never yet
tfas a difficulty in the pathway ot life, but
what some means was provided to overcome
it.
It is no use to borrow trouble over matters
at Washington. We feel confident that every
thing there will terminate favorably to Ihe
S"u h. The dispatches to the Northern radical
press are mere buncomb, circulated for mere
political effect. They amount to just nothing,
and should be taken for just what they are
worth—notbiug.
If we conduct ourselves in accordance with
the plans marked out by President Johnson,
we may feel assured that all will be well in
the end.
Negro Suffrage in hie South —We see that
numbers of the radicals in Congress are deter
mined, if possible, to have negro stiff rage in
the South. We have loaf all patience with
this class of agitators. They are continually
endeavoring to force another section of tie
Union to do what their own has,positively re
fused.
If the Northern negro who has always been
free, and had opportunities for mental ira
• provement, is deemed unfit to vote by the
Northern States, they are in*no position to insist
that the Southern negro, whose faculties have
but little, if any improvement, shall be allowed
the voting privilege. Until the North has per
mitted the negroes to vote, it has no right to
ask, much less demand that the South shall.
No action of Congress can in any event com
pel a State to allow any person to vote whom
the States itself says shall not. There is but
one and only one way for Congress to do in
this matter—and that is to leave the suffrage
question where the Constitution has left it—
wi h the States themselves.
The Fenian Movement.— The criminations
and recriminations.between the Fenian Senate
and the rest of the Fenian Brotherhood, still
continue. In the meantime the Fenians ex
pect the arrival at New York of Head Centre
Stephens, who recently escaped from prison in
England, and are preparing to give him a
grand reception. A large meeting held at
Chicago, endorsed the action of the Senate,
and recognizing Colonel Roberts as President
of the Fenian Brotherhood. O’MahoneyJ the
deposed President, has issued a general order,
stating that orders on military affairs will net
be regaided until approved by himself.
In Columbus, Ga ,every man who hitches
an animal to a tree, is heavily fined. In Au
gusta, they are not, but they ought to be. For
one, we cannot see the m=e of planting a tree,
protecting it for years, and then—having it
killed by using it for a tying up place. B >tter
plant posts at once If there is any ordinance
on onr city law books that should be strictly
enforced, it is the one which fines thoughtless
individuals for making an improper use cf
shade trees. The law in this matter should be
rigidly enforced.
The Meanest Theft Yet -One of the tables
of an otphan’s Fair in Savannah, was robbed of
several articles a few days ago. This is tne
meanest theft yet. A person who would rob
an orphan, has got very low down in,the scale
of crime.
What is Ocn Position.— ln a recent debate
in the Senate, Mr. Sherman, of Ohio, said
“infcs judgment Congress ougat to impose the
“conditions upon which the Southern States
“should be received back into tho Union.
When the war was going on, these same
radical g< nt’-mon. in order the better to ac
complish their designs, claimed that the South
was never out of the Union; that there was
no such thing as secession. Now, that tho war
is over, and the South has couaented to accept
that doctrine, the same men. in order to
out their further nefarious schemes upon South
era rights, turn a complete Bomer-6au’>, and
cooly talk about imposing conditions upon the
Sou.the.iu States b.fore receiving them back
into the Union.
The course of those double faced politicians
reminds one very much of the little joker.
“Now gentlemenyon see it, afcd now you don’t.”
'they retain a position taken just long enough
to carry out some favorite schtmeor Utopian
idea—and no longer. It is to be hoped that
tbeir power to do evil in the Hails of the Na
tional councils has ceased forever. We trust
there is conservatism enough in Congress to
carry out-the Prrsident's plans of reconstruc
tion. If so, the men who are hankering tor
more bleed and ruin, will be compelled to re
tire ingloriously, and hereafter be content to
occupy the back seats—shorn completely of
their influence and power.
Our Policy Towards Mexicl— The policy
towards Mexico, may be considered settled
for the present. Gen. Logan recently bad an
interview with the President and Secretary of
State. The newly, appointed Minister ex
pressed his desire to go to Mexico, if be could
be assured that the policy of the Administra
tion toward Mexico would be changed, but de
clared his unwillingness to go unless the Gov
ernment iutended to extend somo substantial
aid to the Liberals.
The President informed him that he could
not give him such assurance. Mr. Seward ad
ded that our policy of neutrality toward Mex
ico would, for th« present, remain unchanged.
Whereupon, Gen Logan positively refused
the Mexican mission.
Washington dispatches further announce that
Mexican affairs have been fully and scusse.d at a
Cabinet meeting, and it has been determined
to appoint no one in place of Gen. Logan.
The policy of the Administration just m>w,
therefore, may be considered of the non inter
ference order. What it may bo, the future
will reveal.
Decidedly a Nice Place to Live in. —Since
the close of the war we have heard many say
that “New York was the place to live ia.”
People live there—no two ways about that ;
and live rather fast too. Residents and Strang
erg are not only assailed and robbed in remote
quarters of the city, but in the most public
places. A man in bro id daylight, while at
tempting to pocket change given him by the
conductor of a horse car, was ■ set upon by
ruffians, hustled from the platform, and rob
bed of his money. At night such cases are
said to be too common to be worth specia
mention. One paper speaks of the robbeiy
of a whole car full of passengers a few nights
since, because it was “an exploit of peculiar
picturerqueneßs and dramatic effect, conceived
and executed with the boldest genius.” A
troop of fiye or six brigands, well armed and
daring, took possession of a car, and while one
saw that the conductor gave"* no trouble and
another stood over the driver, the rest robbed
the passengers of their money, watches, and
other valuables, without any of that Indecent
haste which too often attend similar opera
tions.
Surely New York is a “great place to live
in ”
Another Plan.- Mr. Stephens of the U. S
II use, desires to have the pensions of those
of tho Federal army entitled to them increased,
and to have the same paid “rut of Southern
estates.” The true policy for Congress to pur
sue, ia to adopt nothing but conciliatory
ures. No patriotic member thereof should in
troduee any thing else, Propositions like those
of Mr S. may not amount to any thing. Will
undoubtedly be promptly voted down, as they
ought to be. But at the same time, they vex
and annoy conservative men in all sections,
and serve to keep up unnecessary excitement
and agitation. Every thmg which does not
teid to advance the interests of the whole na
tion should be carefully excluded at the pres
ent tnno from our National Halls of Legisla
ti m
The Cattle Plague in England.— The cattle
plague has been increasing in Eogland dtuiDg
the past month to an alatming extent. During
that period the attacks have risen, from a pre
vious monthly average, from 14,000 to up
ward of 27,000, and the deaths, destruction in
cluded, to upward of 21.000. Between the
4th and 11th of November the number of case 8
increased by fifty per cent. In the ensuing
week things were not quite so bad, but there
was a further increase still. The London
Times assumes that the deaths, instead of 700 a
week, are at least four times that number, and
if winter does not bring a change for the bet
ter, the losses may be 5,000 or 0,000 a week
before Chris'mas.
White Labor in Louisiana.—A New Orleans
paper learnsdbat a conference has been held
between a number of prominent planters of
the Stater and a leading agency of that city,
which resulted in an arrangement by which a
large number of Germans are to be invited to
come to Louisiana as laborers upon some of
the cotton plantations. These gentlemen, by
way of experiment, propose to cultivate one
plantation with white labor exclusively, go
that a practical comparison may be made of
the results of negro and white labor ia the
culture of ocr great staple.
Couxrr Indebtedness.- The bill passed by
the Legislature at its recent session, to enable
the treasurers of the several counties of the
State to raise funds for the payment of the
indebtedu'ss of their counties, authorizes the
issuing of county bonis maturing within three
years, at seven per cent, interest.
Bracing News.—A Washington correspon
dent says that the Southern delegates to Con
gress are being treated with courtesy and con
sideration by many of those who bold seats on
the fl or of the House, and, it is said in Re
publican quarters that they wfll certainly be
admitted at an early day.
Letters to Provisional Governors. —The
Secretary of State has addressed a letter to
♦he Governor and late Provisional Governor
of South Carolina, similar to those recently
so-warded to the Governors of Alabama and
Mississippi.
Cotton Advancing. —The latest advices from
New York show that cotton is again on the
advance in that section. The quotations are
51a520. This will be welcome news to these
with docks on hand.
Dialer i'rom England. —A large cargo of
assorted goods has arrived in Savannah direct
Tri m England. There is no good reason wby
the sea port of our State, may not become an
importing and cxpoitmg place of great imp >r
taece. There is no use for citizens of Georgia
P’-jing iv tribute to the large cities of ihe
North, if she can save the same by keeping
her trade at homo Our leading business men
should take an interest in the matter. Sivan
uah can be nyjde one of the great cotton mar
kets of the land. By so doing our cotton deal
eis will save heights to New York, save them
t-elves a great many other expenses ; and what
is be.-t ot ail, have their own proper y under
their immediate control.
Lst the importing merchants of Savannah bo
retained. They aro public benefactors.—
I uty have started a business which will result in
millions cf benefit to tho State annually. All
home enterprises of every description should
bo built up and encouraged. What helps one
portion of our commonwealth helps the bal
ance.
We trust all our merchants before sending
North for goods, will first see what desired ar
ticles they can obtain from the warehouses of
the direct importers in Savannah.
Keep Nigrges from tub City. —ls there is
one thing which ought to be done, it is to keep
; dle negroes cut of Augusta during Christmas
week. They wiil flock here in crowds. They
will have no money and but little if any pre-
T .firms. Many have been doing nothing for
sometime, ektingout a precarious existence.
Such people will throng our sheets ; they will
find nothing to do if they had the inclination,
and petty thieving and robbery will continue
to be the order of the day.
It would be h kind act towards the negro to
keep him away from tho cities at any time,
and especially when they come in the masses
they will be likely to during the holiday. If
they are given to understand that they will
not be allowed to go to large places, they will
stay away. If you permit the negroes to con
gregate in towns, it will be difficult to main
tain order..
We hope the authorities will act iu that
decided manner which a prudent policy de
mands.
Fenian Matters. —The Fenians having de
posed their first President, Col John O’Mahony
for malleasance of office, have called to office
ana inaugurated the Vice President W. II-
Roberts, as President of the Fenian Brother
hood, The new President has issued an ad
dress which is attracting considerable atten
tion, lie states that Erin is not to be freed
“from the vampire which remains on Irish
soil consuming the substance and crushing the
liberties of the Irish people,” by newspaper
discussions and high-sounding mysterious
proclamations. President Roberts announces
that tho time haß come for action. He says :
•‘Our means, our eneigies, our whole
thoughts must oo directed towards the mil
itary arm of the Fenian B-otherhood, through
which at once, we can accomplish the free
dom of Ireland.
Our common and implacable foe imagines
that we may be destroyed by iuternal dissen
sion.”
' But the Fenian Brotherhood will show the
world that.it can reform the abuse in its midst
without destroying power or retarding the
movement. The late difficulties wijl strengthen
the organ : zition and be the means of putify
ing it from much tha f was erroneous in its
tendency, and highly detrimental to the cause.”
The determination with which the new P eei
dent is bent on doing bloody vork, is evinced
in the following paragraph from his inaugural:
TAcfion, action, must, therefore, be the or
der oi tee aay. rne iuuaß coninuuicu vy uie
patriotic, toiling masses of the Irishmen of
America must not be squandered or turned
into other channels than those for which lUay
wire intended. The Irish people in America
are ready to give millions for war, but not one
dollar as a tribute to drones or adventurers.
We must have some other trophies to show or
our hlgn wounding professions than a few old
rusty muskets, lodged in a garret, as the volun
tary cffeiings of patriotic muu. Time, circum
stances and the Almighty seem to favor the
present movement tor the overthrow of that
despotic and brutal power who has left deso
lation on the track of her friendship and
misery as the legacy of her slaves.”
Arrestor Comm >d>ke Bemmb3—.The arrest cf
Commodore Raphael J Semmea, better kuewn
as commander of ths Alabama, has struck the
people with- astonishment and regret. It is
impossible to form an opinion as to the rca
soii3 which icfl'ienced the arrest It is true
that Sc mm os inflicted material damage on
Now England shipping, but certainly not any
greater damage than our Generals inflicted up
on land. He fought under a regular com nis
sigu, with all tho rights which properly at
tach !o a beligerent, and did net avoid a fair
battle in an open sea. Like a brave soldier,,
be fougtht his ship until she went down under
him; and then, us a true soldier, returned to
his country to share her trials and misfortunes-
Throughout his whole career he has exhibit
ed none but the noblest qualities which belong
to mankind; and if any man deserves the
mercy of a generous and powerful Govermeat;
t h at man is Raphael J. Semmes.
We trust that this arrest is only for the pur
pose of securing the testimony of General
Semmes with reference to the questions which
have arisen between the United States and
Great Britain.
English Papers on Prbfidbnt Johnson’s
Policy. -The English papers are beginning to
praise President Johnson and bis policy. The
London Times thinks that his confidence in the
South and the bold liberality of his policy, are
n>t likely to be in vain. The London News
characterizes his Administration as sagacious
and prudent. The London Telegraph says it
affords both a crushing rebuke to the believers
in an outworn diplomacy,and a splendid en
couragement to those who believe in the ca
pacity of a free people to select fit rulers, when
one sees that this self-taught tailor of Tennes
see, by virtue of his direct sincerity of purpose
and homely mother-wit bids fair to suc
ceed in a task which might have sorely tried
the statecraft of a Richtleu. The London
Herald says that the President has agreeably
disappointed at least one-half of the world by
a wise and statesmanlike policy, that will give
him a h ; gh place in the patheon of American
worthies.
Greeley and Brownlow.— Greely and
Brownlow appear to have agreed to disagree.
The foim-r aiiude3 to the latter as a “Reverend
Blackguard Governor. It is an old saying
that when parties of a certain character fall
out, honest m»n get their deserts. We hope
the suffering State of Tennessee, will be the
gainer by the quarrel between the knights of
radicalism now on the carpet.
Disarming is South Carolina.— We are
informed that both the military and civil au
thorities in South Carolina are busily engaged
in disarming the negroes.
Instead of buyiDg arms the colored portion
of the community dad far better save their
money to purchase bread.
Tub and Civil in Mobil*.— lt will
be recollected that sometime since, Mr. Thomas
C. A. Dexter, special Treasury Agent, was ar
rested by the military out the charge of fraud;
and that General Weed, commanding tho De
partment of Alabama, refused to obey a writ
of habeas corpus, issued by Judge Basted, for
the liberation of Dexter, ou the ground that
the said writ was suspended in tho State by
the proclamation ot tie President and that
the action o; General Wood iu this matter was
sustaine-by the‘President. A few days ago
Judge Busted delivered -a iioaL opinion ia th's
case, saying—
Teat a warrant for a Path meat against Gen.
Wood will cot be vacated without the court’s
consent, but while a quiting Gen Wood, I
cannot, even by implication, consent to yield
to what I consider an encroachment off the
Executive D ipartm tit of the Government upon
one of its co ordinate branches. Ihe exercise
of these functions by the Pres’dent not only
allows, but directs disobedience to these au
thorities I c aim exemption t>o a any tespoa
sthilUy of gu'lt as alleged. 1 respectfni'y pro
test against the act of the Ihosidcnt, and as
sert that the trial ot the petitioner, Dexter,
cannot lawfully proceed in any other way,
than that established according to forms now
prescribed by the utioti.
National Bank a.—A tew days e.ince we no*
tmed the winding up of some National Backs
Ftom an official sotttce we gather the annexed
information in regard to these institutions :
A National Bink .-v.nnot ‘ail to pay i S 'SSUO
bee use it is based upon a deposit of Gote.-n
ment Bends in tho Treasury of the Uii'ed
States For every one hundred dot ars de
posits and with the Treasuty in tho Five Twenty
Bonds,. bearing s ; x per cent interests p: r an
num in gold, payable seratui annually—the
Government issu ■* to the banking association
ninety dollars iu National B ank bills, hoidmg
in reserve ten per cent to secure the note or
bill holder—in case of -the bank failing to to
deem. And when a deposit of tea forty bonds
is made, the Government only .gem s eighty
seven and a half per cent, to the Bar king as
sociation—holding ia reserve twelve and a. half
per cent, over the issue. The Government
holds the plate from which the bilisfara print
ed, and in do case can there be an over issue.
Each Stockholder is liable far double the
amount of his stock.
Our readers will perceive that the bills of the
National Banks are good under all circum
stances —whether the bank ia in full operation
or is in process of being wound up.
\VASlii.\a lOV SEtVf.
The Senate reconstruction Committee is Fes
sendeu, Grimes, Harris, Howard, Johnson and
Williams.
Sumner docs not want Tennessee admitted
unless negroes can vote.
Strong resolutions inimical to Maximilian
have been introduced into the S mate.
An eifort is to be made iu Congress to re
sume jurisdietiioa over that portion of the
District of Columbia ceded to Virginia
The following is flie House committee to
inquire into the condition ot the lute Confed
erate Slates : Stevens, of Pennsylvania;
Washbnrne, of Illinois ; Morrill, of Vermont;
Grider, of Kentucky; Bingham, of Ohio; Conk
ling. of* New York;Boutwell, of Mass.; B ow,
of lMbsouri; and Rogers of New Jersey.
Fifty thousand copies ot Grant’s report are
to be prinft and for gratuitous distribution.
Some of the members of the Senate desire to
have Mr Davis tried at once.
Gen. Grant has issued stringent orders to
commanders of posts where the Government
has powder stored, to take precautions for
its preservation.
Mr. Eglesfon, of Ohio, has introduced into
the United States House of Representatives a
bill to repeal the charter of (he City of Wash
ington, and place the municipal government in
the hands of the Commissioners, as was the
case many years ago. This will deprive the
people ot all ehetion for local officers, and set
t e the vticeasing agitation of the suffrage
question.
The Congressional Directory is out—a me nth
ahead of usual time.
Stevens is bard at work to carry out, if pos
olLlo, L!c plant?
Gen Butitr has received formal acceptance
of his resignation.
'ihe Navy Depn'vt'perV ben received advices
that Peru will as ;. C‘ i\ : Spain.
Gea. Grant atteo 1.-; tilt meetings.
Retrenchments cod in ihe
Treasury Departu t*/;. a j j orcs j B
being cut down.
Col. Brown of Fr.' . m v i in Virgint
nia proposes feto remove a!! •.>es iuj tha-
State to Gov«rnm< of Dads n Florida.
FROM BuUi'H AM Hi 104.
There is no chaagein nutters in Chili. The
blockade still continues, and the Spanish fleet
was supplied with provisions by a transport
In Bolivia the fighting continued with more
favorable prospect for the revolutionists. Gec
eial Lamar had taken Bobiji, killing the com
mander. The President was occupying Potosi
with 1,500 men
Peru is at peace, and the Government is be
ing rapidly organ'zsd. AM the Ministers and
Consuls in Europe and the United States have
been superseded, and all the officials at home
wdl bo euspen led and tried for political
crimes, unless »hey have by acts prove I them
selves in favor of the revolutionary party. A
demand has been made on the Briti-h Minister
for President Pezoi and some of the memtx rs
o f his cabinet who have taken refuge in British
ships, on the ground that they are guilty of
treason and criminals, lbe British Minister’s
reply was only that the vessels had sailed. The
Spanish Minister is living aboard a Spanish
frigate, owing to a conspiracy discovered
among some Chilians o ass rssinato him
Rio Janerio dates 'if Nov 3 report no further
fighting between the Paraguayans and the At
lies, b t the latter were carrying on the cam
paign vigorously, pushing in pursuit of the
former, who were retreating. One division of
the Brazilian army had reached the river
Paraguay, aud had commenced crossing over
into the Province of Carriontes. The Empernt
of BrJTzil was expected to return to his capital
from the scene of war on the 12th of Novem
ber.
state IT?.M3
At Thomasvil’p, Mr. James A Seward and
City Marshal Atkinson, prominent citizens,
have been arrested on very serious charges
Seward is charged wi’ti an attempt to assassi
nate an armed colored ordeilv from headquar
ters, by stabbing him iu the back, while he
was carrying dispatches, and A'kinson is ar
rested for threatening a colored man named
York, a witn-ss against Seward in tho otter
case, and exciting an assault on him.
Chaplain Frrnch, has received an appointment
as Agent of :he Freedman's Bureau, and order
ed to report to Brig. Gen. Tiiison for duty- iu
this Stare.
R v N M Crawford, D D. cf Georgia, has ac
cepted tho Presidency of Georgetown, Ky .
College, and will soon enter on the duties of
his office.
Tne interminable divorce case of Edwin
Foirest, the actor, has taken a novel rh me.—
He appeals to the Supreme Court of the United
states to set aside the action of the'New
York Supreme Court, which granted his wife &
and vorce—his ground being that the marriage
02 urred in England, and the Courts of this
country have no business to meddle with it
The Pope aud V eter Emanuel have, at !• ngth,
come to an amicable agreement, facilitated, no
doubt, by the withdrawal of the French troops
and the nerv decided language in which the
Emperor Napoion Ilf, n.cent’q intimated to the
Papal Nuncio that he could not aay longer
sustain a rea.ctioary policy at Rome
Anew is on her way from New
York to run between Savannah and Micon.
Garroters are busy in Savannah. Robberies
are frequent,
Passeagers can now go front SavanDah to
Tfcomasville in thirty-six hours.
The Savannah t;mber trade is increasing
rapidiv.
The Chattahoochee is in good boating order,
and business is brisk in Columbus.
The returns forwarded to Milledgevide show j
Mr. Buchanan to be forty odd votes ahead of
judge Bigham for Congress ; but we are in
formed there is some difficulty or misunder
standing relative to the vote of Talbot coun
ty—; he ref urns sent to Miiledgevil e sbo - ing
only two mojonty for Judge Bigham—which
should have been sixty-six votes.
ISEWB tIMMtKY.
I Few pardons are granted, number of an- 1
j prlicau.s per day. five hundred.
Parties in North Canfliiia claim that th#’
j c ,’ >n Tl nl!0D that State had no power to pas®
li • Revenue Law as it did. as all of the busil
ness on the sea coast, inside the Union ’-mes
a , ;a K n fr aceacted under Treasury permits:,
| mi l under the regulations of the Treasury De
pa; iment tot trade in insurrectionary States
he exeention of the inw has been immediate
ly threatened, and there being no courts tn the
State to act,.in the premises, the parties havt
appealed to the President, and he has promised
to give the matter early attention. *
On the morning of December 14, the thcr- v
mometcr stood at eight above zno at Cinciu-"
nati.
Ic is announced that the Secretary of the
Pea-ury has now good reason for beiag satis
fied that, the warts of tho war department ’will*
not amount to anything like what he was led to
•utppo.-e they would. Many ciicumstsnc’es.
have occurred since the estimates «vr« made to
wairant the conclusion now reach) and and be- :
lieved by the Secretrry to he correct, and t e
is confident that he can get along during
thejpresent year without hut her loans, and
without increasing >ho public del t ; snd is of
t he opinion that next year he wdi certainly bo
able to diminish it very much.
I ne Secretary of Mate has been officially ro
tiued that the Constitutional amendment has
been ratitbd in Indiana,
Judge Reagan, cf Texas, has returned to his
o and home, lie is in good health.
Juarez states as the reason for his ordering
Geu Ortega to b i tried was because by
leaving Mexico he virtually abandoned tho
Republican cause. Juarez wants a now Pr.si
<i@atelected so he cau return to private life.
Only 2,000 French troops have been landed
at Vera Cruz during the last month The
conversation ot French effiyers in that city
was contemptous towards tho United States.
Large quantities of munitions of war for the
French troops had also been landed at Vera
Gttz Three thousand French troop3 are on
ttu ir way to Mexico. Cholera has appeared
tn Vera Cruz.
At Mobile, Judge Busted, of the United
States District Court, decided that the test
oath is unconstitutional.
R J.Seinni'B has been arrested in Mobile,
and is on bis way to Washington.
. Ihe Florida papers are clamorous for tho
liberation ot Mr. \ulee from Fort Pulaski, as
his presence in the State is very essential to
the rapid development of internal improve
ments and other important interesls.
Twelve workmen were killed and nineteen
others scalded by the explosion of si steam
bailer at the blast furnanoe near’Charleroi,
Belgium.
The Heusfcn Telegiaph reports the arrest, |
by General Giegory, of Mr FPrnere, on the
charge of unit g dags io catch a freedman and
faleety imprisoning him. Colonel Elmore’s
p’eu Is, the dogs were used to track an un
known thief, and who proved to be a negro.
A writ of habeas corpus was served on Gener
al Crcgftry, who respected it, though and nymg
its jurisdiction, and asked an extrusion to Jau
uirv 15 to receive instructions fioro Wiuhing
ton. Elmore was releas< and on heavy bail.
A Richmond paper says that some of the
leading capitalists North aro vishing Rich
mond. and seting the condition of airaus in
Virginia, have begun the formation of “Loan
Ass ci tiouß” with sufficient capital to make
libera! loans.
There is a German National Bank at Mem
phis wbh SSOO 000 capilal.
The grants of public lands to the Northern
and Certral Pacific Railroads will exceed, by
careful estimates, 125,000,000 acres
A few days ago a negro in Nashvi’le pur
sued aud struck a white boy twelve years of
age, when the latter turned and shot him
dead with a pistol. The jury of inquest ren
dered a verdict of justficab e negroc'de.
A company with S3O 000.000 capital has
been formed in San Frauebco, Cab, to hiiild a
road seven hundred aud twenty miles long
from San Francisco to San Diego, thence
eastward to the State line, connecting with
the contemplated j-oad to the Mississippi
river.
The Senate of Alabama has declined to re
peal tho laws making a distinction between
tho white and black races, as required by the
President
A man in Richmond, a few days Ago, re
caii-oH u totter with one thousand dollars en-V
closed. The writer said it was the return of*
property stolen in one of Stonoman's raids. fl
An investigation just, made discloses the fact*
that J. M. (’latk of tho Currency Bureau, andl
Solicitor Jordon, of the Treasury, wero both!
in possession more than a year ago of all tliefl
information in regard to tho abstraction otfl
tho plat.c upon which one hundren dollar coua-B
terfoit Treasury notes were printed. ■
Hon. Thomas Corwin, bad a paralysis attack*
in Washington December 15 fl
The Fenians of Chicag 5 offer so fit out a'
fleet of privateers on the lakes when necessary.
Ihe number of negroes executed at Jamacia,
is about 4,000 for insurrection.
Tho indictment against Geu Palmer for en
ticing slaves from Kentucky has been quashed.
'i he nld«-st voter in the country ia Mr Jere
miah Aracs, who lesldes near South Ambov,
New Jersey His age Is said to bo one hundred
aud five y-ars
One paper b.’x establishment ha3 contracted
wi h paper collar manufactories to furnish
11,000 boxes daily for a year This gives
Borne idea of the paper collar business.
A military history of the Ohio troops is to ba
published. M
The Miami University, Oxrord, Ohio, i.J
be taken for an Agricultural College,
Measures have been taken in B riPnruSKS
the establishment of an asylum h r Hied
and orphan children of the disabled r
and’sailors of Maryland. * c .
The work of repairirg the levees '- 'c.etM
MiVsid-ippi at New Orleans is raiddiy goinl
forward * J t a
The voters of tho District of Columbia havl
an election to show Congress the majoritj
sgajnst negro suffrage. 1
The interest ou the January bonds 1
000 000 in gold. » 1
A mdl lino is to be established betwoej
New York and Columbia, S A |
General Kilpatrick leaves for China in Janl
uavy. I
Secretary Stanton has gone North on a trip
Hon Fi!z Henry Warren has accepted the
position of Minister to Guatemala
Thurlow Weed is n.>w assistant editor o
New York Times.
Henry Winter Davie, of Maryland, has coro<
out opposed ro Pr<> dent Johnson.
It. is now thought G'eat. Britain will bac
out in hei position on the Alabama question.
The wool trade has emwn immensely »hhi
the la:-t five years. In 1860 33,000 000 pouni
of wool were imported fI. rn foreign count.ri t
1864 76,000,000 In 1860 the United Stat'
produced 60 GOO OCO pounds o' wool ; in 181
90 000,000. lu 1860 we imported about sl7
000 000 worth of manufactured woolens: i
1 SG4 over $1,000,000. Valnaof woo'en gc o<
manufactured in the United States in 186
*121,868 ldO 33 One third was the produ
of the single srate, Massachusetts, v
The Virginia Legislature ad >pted a res<,h
lion recommending the pardon of Jefler.-r
Davis, and other political prisoners, and tl
restoration of the privilege of the writ of ha
beas corpus
The Maryland registry law has been sue
taiued bv the Supreme Court, which
from voting tli those who cannot take
oa a presented in the new Ccs i'ut on.
Enci! O'.Vlaho ey, head director cfjtbe
an S'sterhood, puh'i-h* s a card saying
Ireland will soon be a battle field, and
for prompt contributions to the fund,
urges the purchase ol Fenian bonds
'i be Fenian agents sent from this
to Ireland have returned saddened by the
prospects of their cauFe.
Navigation is closed by a gorge in the
sifeippi twenty utiles below St, Louis, and
river i3 about closing opposite the city.
Humphrev Marshall is negotiating
purchase of the old National lotelligenc RBI
Gen Roger A. Pryor has recently
mitted to the bar in New Yotk ci y, and
practicing law there. Hfl
The General Assembly of Virginia
passed resolutions app -aliog tj the Pr.~
and Congress to postpone the coiiectu n « f
Federal taxes of 1861. and to permit th ;
to assume payment of the same ; and th*t
Collection of internal revenue accrued previ> HB
to the at poiutment of collectors be
17 postponed.
The small pox is carrying off large
of freedmen at Alexandria. Va. -i'V\