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IU POIIT OH I «*F < II'!>IIv10\KH8 #
Appointed to prepare a System of Laws to Cany
into Effect the sth Clause r.f !h' 'id Article, and
the. Latter J’art cf the ‘Ad Clause of (he 2d
Lection oj the 1-h Article of the Constitution
Through the courtesy of a friend we have a
printed copy of this report in advance of its
submission to the General Assembly. 'I be
commissioners originally appointed by tbe Con
vention were Hon E Starnes, LE Bleckly, Win
Hope Hull, and Linton Stephens, but the lat
ter declining to serve was substituted by Hon
Samuel Barnett.
The result of their labors is a pamphlet of
thirty-nine pag-s, the title of which is placed
at the head of ibis paragraph. The • system
of laws” it devolopes is divided into fourteen
articles, as "follows : 1, Preliminary provi
sions. 2, Organization o: the County Courts
3, Husband and wife. 4. Parents and child.
5, Guardian and Ward C, Master and servant.
7, Master and apprentice. 8, Contracts. 9,
Wills, administration and distribution of es
tates. 10, Penal labor on public works. 11,
Offences relative to persona of color and other
offences by white persons. 12, Offences by
persons of color. 18, Practice in the county
court in criminal cases.* 14, Licenses requir
ed in certain cases.
This enumeration of captions gives an idea
of the general features of the system The
first a! tide Refines who are “persons of color”
and establishes their civil status —gives them
the right of property—to make contracts —to
bub and be sued and to give testimoney, and
applies to them all the laws regulating tire
domestic relations of whites-
The,second article establishes a tribunal in
each county for tbe adjudication, under cer
tain limitations, of ail questions of right and
remedy arising under the system. It provides
for the election of a County Judge, sworn to
“administer justice impartially without regard
to race or color, wealth or influence,” and that
the court shall be open daily throughout the
your, Kuudays excepted ; and establishes, in
twelve pages, the course of proceedings, limi
tations, coasts, fees, etc.
The six following articles establishes tb« re
lations, duties, right, etc , of the parties named.
The 10th article authorizes a system of penal
labor on the State Railroad and the public
roads and bridges in all cases where by law
confinement in the Penitentiary is prescribed.
The 11th article provides against crimes aud
malpractices by whites upon colored persons,
and tbe next against offences by persons cf
color. Article 13th establishes the form of
practice before the county court in criminal
cases, and the 14th and lastarticle is intended,
by a system of licenses, to protect the public
against the enormous evils of trading in stolen
goods or prodnee with the colored population,
by securing to corperate and county author
ities tbo priviltgo of paying who shall be
licensed traders.
It is impossible to give a complete synopsis
of this voluminous code in much less space
than the code Itself. It is drawn up very con
cisely, »nd is minute in every detail of the
whole subject matter, covering every point we
can think of in the various rights and relations
established, duties enjoined or punishments
inflicted. Everything in the duties and obli
gations of employer and the rights, remedies
duties of the employed seems to have been
thought of. It is perhaps as complete as a
mere experimental code could well bo.
liYt'KltKH II.MI DESPATCHES FROM «ROH
UIA.
We are enabled to lay before our readers
tliifl morning, some interesting correspondence
addressed, during the late session of the Geor
gia Legislature, by the Provisional Governor
of that State, to his Excellency the President.
It wilt be remembered that lion. James John
son was intructed, early this present month,
to continue in the exercise of his official
functions, as Provisional Governor of the
State of Georgia, until such time as his suc
cessor might be recognized by the govern
ment. This direction, preventing of course,
the induction into office of the Hon. Charles
J. Jenkins, Governor elect, and consequent
ly leading to considerable embarrassment in
the mind of tho Georgia Legislature, the
Provisional Governor sent to the President
tho tlrst of the subjoined telegrams, in answer
whereto the Executive dispatch of the 11th
December, in accordance with which Mr. Jen
kins was inaugrated, was transmitted. After
the inauguration the second telegram annex
ed was sent :
Milledoviiae, Ga., December 10, 1865.
His Excellency Andrew Johnson, President
United States, Washington, D. 0. :
Your message has been generally well re
ceived, and 1 think’l oau safely assure you
that you may rely upon the Legislatuie and
the Governor elect to co operate with you in
the policy you have adopted and recommend.
I am of opinion that tho situation will be still
further improved by allowing tho inaugura
tion of the Governor, if it is agreeble to your
views and policy. So believing, I respectfully
ask that I may bo relieved. This I think can
be safely done, and such are the assurances
given mo by friends of the administration,
J. Johnson, Governor.
Mn.LKDOiivn.LK, Ga., December 15, 1865.
Ilis Excellency Andrew Johnson, President
Culled States, Washington, D. C.:
The Legislature takes a recess until the 15th
of January, without electing Senators. Gov
ernor Jenkins was inaugurated yesterday.—
You will be well pleased with his address. I
feel confident that there will be entire harmo
lry betweeu him and yourself.
J. Johnson,
Provisional Governor.
The dispatches from the State Department
u«d the Governor which intervened between
the above, we have already published.
[National Intelligencer.
STATE ITEMS.
Lagrange was visited by a disastrous tiro on
Friday morning, January 5. All the east side
o[ tho public square was burned, excepting
Kimbrough's store, on tho north corner, and
the brick building on tho south corner, owned
by W C Jarboe, the upper rooms cf which were
occupied by tho Masonic fraternity. The fol
lowing are the sufferers : E C Ramsey, hard
ware store ;J S McKee, harness shop ; Jesse
McLendon, dry goods ; Albert Lehmann,
iawe'er, in whose stove was the office of the
Assessor »nd Collector of Internal Revenue
and Bird, A Cos., confectioners. The
tire was supposed 4° have been the work of
an iucendiary.
Messrs. Jaques A Lightfoot of Macon, was
robbed by,a young negro of eight years in bis
employ, of over two thousand dollars a few
days since. , , _ .
Dalton, ws are inlormed, is being rapidly re
built* 11. TT O
A et»utleman Irom Dalton saya thou. 8.
troops at that place amused themselves greatly,
on Chrismas, by running all the negroes from
t 0 Silver and copper ore have been recently
d'seovi red in abundance on the lands of James
U llurf of Red Clay. \\ bitfield county, Geor
ffja. The mine is within two a halt miles of
of tire E rst Tennessee and Georgia Kail Rond, in
Whitfield county. Specimens of the ore have
been sent to New York by ftgeut of a company
At the*annual meeting of the stockholders
of tho Macon and Western Railroad Company,
last the following' named gentlemen were
e i„-ted to servo for the ensuing year : presi
dent A J White. Directors-W A White
* Yu vie W P Thompson. New York, L id
Charleston *, E Paddleford. A Low
J 0 1. iov. Savannah : llondiey \ aruer, Henry
county W C Redding, Monroe county :G A
Nutting, j B Ross. W C Munroe, Mown.
UxsisK-UiLK Suits —The British are building
vesse'e with air-tight compartments between
Gut deck beams, and iu the broken stowage
between the knees and in the ends, so that in
ti, > event oi their springing a leak, they will
not sink lower than the deck. The buoyancy
fe known of each vessel; hence tho weight of
the carao will be regulated accordingly f
This plait is designed move tor the pwpose of
saving the lives of those on board than tLe
although it may be equally available
tor both when near a port. Along the coasts
of Great Britain, where collisions aro of .r«-
queut occurrence, it mnsMre of great \ aloe.
A lot oTcoppor nom the new mince in
c-ieoua has been received at N-w lorE. i*
sent six miles from newly opened mines to
Z Colorado River, and thence by steamer to
& SSco* The ore
metal, and the cargo is worth in thi s market
about f6o,©of),
[From the New York News.]
HTOSEWALL JACk33.Vg WIDOW.
We gladly give place to the following letter,
addressed to us by a g nt'.eraaa of th s city,
and shall be pleased to further hi3 praiseworthy
proposition in any way that we can. The
future historian of the great war of secession
will dwelt with pleasure on the splendid
achievements aad the exalted character of
Stonewall Jackson; and all America will, one
of these days, claim the honor of being the
country of this great captain and simple
bcartpd Christain hero. Little will the people
of after times reckon whetner he flashed his
stainless sword in defence of his native State
and her endangered homes and temples—in
defence of the weak against the strong—or
whether he fought fsr the Stars and Stripes of
imperial'Union. They will only remember
that in his career he comforted himself as be
came the heroic leader of a Christain army;
that his death overwhelmed his countrymen
with anxious sorrow, and that Virginia and ail
the States of the South mourn and've; erate him,
as the worthiest and the dearest, and the most
glorious ot those who fell in defence of their
eoil against the resistless armies of the Union.
Little does the Englishmen ot to day care
on which side Cromwell fought, and which
Rupert. They are proud alike of the stern
and grim old warrior who fought against his
king, and gilded his rebellion with the bright
tints of success, and of the gallant and gay
cavalier who was ever loyal to the crown, and
ready to die for his king. And so all Ameri
cans will, one of these days, be proud of the
fame of Stonewall Jackson, and will enroll
his name on the proud list of American heroes
and soldiers.
“New York, December 26, 1865.
Hon. Benjamin Wood :
“Will you not start a movement for the re
lief of the widow of the brave Jackson.—
Think of his widow and child living on an in
come of $l5O per year ! She has been com
pelled to sell everything but a small house in
Lexington, and this brings in the above rently.
Gladly would she return and occupy her little
house herself, but she has not tbe means to
live there, and there is a fear that oven this
will have to be sold to meet demands that
she cannot avert.
“Surely there are friends enough of the
illustrious ‘Stonewall' in the North to rally to
the aid of his widow and child once they arc
apprised of their extreme destitution.
“What names will be honored in tbe columns
of the Nows by contributing to this most
worthy object ? Contributions may now be sent
to the care of the Reverend Doctor Hoge, at
Richmond. I inclose my card, and remain
truly youra.
JOSH HILI.IMOs O# WATERFALLS,
I rather like waterfalls.
I kant tell why, enny more than I kau tell
why I love kastor ile—but ila is good for la
zyness in tho system.
I dont like iazyaess ov enny sort —not even
in musketceis.
I want my musketeers lively.
But aul this is foreign to mi purpose.
I like 4 waterfalls—they are so eazy and
nateral.
They attack all the sex.
Some they attack with grate fury, while
others they approach more like a Beige, while
working up slowly.
I saw one yesterday.
It was no bigger than a small French tur
nip.
It had attacked a small woman of only nine
summers duration.
She was full by recreation, and when she
bounded along the sidewalk—it was on the
west side of St. Clair street, in the streets ov
Cincinnatty, foremost Baker & Davis’ jailor
sope store—the waterfall hightested up aud
down in a oscillating manner, resembling the
sporting terminus ova bob tailed lamb in a
great hurry. *
The effect wus electrick.
I also saw another one pretty soon which
belonged to a mature matron.
She might have seen seventy-five summors
her hair wus white as flour—Perkins’ “A,”
worth fifteen dollars a barrel, delivered—but
ihe waterfall wus black.
I asked a bystander hew he could recount
for that.
He sed “it wuz younger.”
.1 also saw another one pretty soon, which
wuz the property of a gusher.
She was 19 years old and as ripe as a two
year peach.
She swept the streets like a thing ov life.
Men stopped to gasp as she passed and put
in anew chaw ov tobacker.
Little boys pocked their marbles in silonce.
Her waterfall wuz about the size ova corn
basket turned inside out.
It was enclosed in a kind ov skalp net, and
kivered with blazing diamonds ov glass.
It shone in the sun like the tin dome of the
court house where the supervizors meet.
But I rather like waterfalls.
It haz bin sed that they would run out, but
this I reckon is a error, for I dont see any sign
of a leak yet.
In the language of tho expiring Canadian
on our Northern fronteer, I say—“ Viva la
Bag-at-1.”
A. WAIID A8 A BHUEPIST.
I have been an honest old farmer for some
four years.
My farm is in the interior of Maine. Unfor
tunately my lands are eleven miles from the
railroad. Eleven miles is quite a distance to
haul immense quantities of wheat, corn, rye,
oats ; but as I havn’t any to haul, I do not,
after all, suffer much on that account.
My farm is more especially a grass farm.
My neighbors told me so first, and as'an evi
dence that they were sincere in that opinion,
they turned their cows on to it tbe moment I
went off “lecturing."
The cows are now quite fat. I take pride in
these cows, in fact, and am glad I own a grass
farm
Two years ego I tried sheep raising.
I bought fifty lambs, and turned them loose
on my broad and beautiful acres. a
It was pleasant on bright mornings to sffrill
leisurely out on to the farm in my dressing
gown, with a cigar in my mouth, and watch
those little innocent lambs as the danced gaily
o’er the hillside. Watching their saucy capers
reminded me of caper sauce, and it occurred to
me that I should have some very fine eating
when they grew up to be “muttons. 1
My gentle shepherd, Mr. Eli Perkins, said,
“We must have some shepherd dogs."
I bad no very precise idea as to what shep
herd dogs were, but „lassumed a rather pro
found look, and said :
“We must. Eli. I spoke to you about this
some time ago !”
1 wrote to my old friend, Mr. Dexter H. Fol
let, of Boston, for two ehepfcrd dogs. Mr, F.
Is not aa honest old farmer himself, but I
thought he knew about shepherd dogs. He
kindly forsook far more important business to
accommodate, and tbe dogs came forthwith.
They were splendid caeatures-snuff-colored,
bazel-eyed, long-tailed and 'shapely-jawed.
We led them proudly to the fields.
“Turn them in, Eli,’’ I said.
Eli turned them in.
They went in at once, and killed twenty of
my best lambs in about four minutes and a
half.
My friend had made a trifling mistake in
the breed of these dogs.
These dogs were not partial to sheep. «
Eli Perkins was astonished, and arid.
“Waal I did you ever?"
I certainly never had.
There were pools of blood on the green
sward, and fragments of wool and raw iamb
chops lay round in confused heaps.
The dogs would have been sent to Boston
that night, had they not suddenly died that
afternoon of a throat distemper. It wasn't a
.-welling of the throat. It wasn't diptheria.
It was a violent opening of the throat, extend
ir.g from ear to ear.
Thus closed their life histories. Thus ended
their interesting toils. ...
I failed as a raiser of “ambs. Asa sheeptst,
I was not a success
Jvetcbam, the defaulter ana torger bas been
sent to State prison for four years and six
months. _ j
There are in France 15.:41,00< women, and
18.645.279 men. Os these 8,579,016 are un
married, 4.479,850 of whom arc women.—
The cumber of married men who live with
their wives is 7,508,700. 'lhe p.oportion of
widows ot twenty to widowers of the same age
is as 820 to 81.
IMPOBTAST D££CI£IOSf.
The Commission of Internal Revenue has re
cently made an important decision in relation
to matters named above. It sppears that the
firm cf A. T. S.ewait & Cos, had been required
to take cut a license as Commercial Brokers,
in addition to the license h-dd by them as
wholesale dealers, and that this extra license
was required of them in consequence of their
employing certain clerks oremplojess insolic
iting orders at places other than the place cov
ered by their license as wholesale dealers. Mr.
Stewart objected to this requirement of the
local Assessor, and bad the question as -do his
liability for an extia license referred to Wash
ington for decision. Tae Deputy Commissioner
of Internal Revenne (Hon. D. C. Whitman)
addressed the following re*»y to P. C.
Van Wick, Assessor Fourth District ot New
York :
Office of Internal Re venue, )
Washington, Doc. x, ISGS. j
Sir:—ln answer to your letter, I ieply, that,
under section seventy-four of the amended act
of June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and six!y
four, dealers are restricted in their business
to the place named in their license, and under
paragraph two, section sevonty nine of the act,
wholesale dealers are not permitted to act as
commercial brokers under their license as such,
much less can salesmen, employees of such
dealers, do the business expressly forbidden to
their principals, under the license of their em
ployers.
Under the Internal Revenue Law a man is
recognized as a broker, while doing business for
himself. Paragraph nine,section seventy-nice
In determining what constitutes a commercial 1
brokers, under the Internal Revenue Act, this
office is governed by the act rather than by the
definition of such broker as given or understood
in ordinary phraseology.
A dealer has his goods, ect., which he offers
for sale in actual possession, at a fixed place of
business. A broker negotiates sales by sample
or by representation.
It is the business bond that determines lia
bility under act;
For the purpose of the law in determining*
liability to license it is wholly immaterial what
or whether any compensation for the services
is received by the parties making sale ; at other
than the place of business of their principle.
If, therefore, the parties, in relation to whose
liability you make inquiry, do the businesa de
fined in the act as that of Conimeicial Broker,
they thereby subject themselves tc liability;
accordingly it is held, however, that un
less they receive a commission for their sales or
purchasers, they are not liable to the tax of
one-eighth of one per cent, on such sales or
purchases.
In regard, therefore, to commercial Brokers,
you will be governed in assessments by the
preceding ruling.
Very respectfully,
D. 0. WHITMAN,
Deputy Commissioner.
To P. C, Van Wick, U. S.Aes’r Fourth District,
New York.
NEWS SUMMARY.
Cotton is shipped from Nashville to Cincin
nati at one dollar per bale. From Nashville
to New Orleans at four dollars per bale.
A tornado visited Pulaski, Ala, recently.
Several buildings were blown down, and a
number of persons killed.
A U. S. District Judge in Philadelphia has
decided that tho military need not respect a
writ of habeas corpus iu favor of a man held
by them who formerly belonged to the service
before the war.
A row between some colored marines and
the police at Wilmiugton occurred December
28. • The former escaped arrest by taking to
their boats.
The Liberals are succesful in Western Mexi
co.
Mis. C. C. Clay is on a visit to her husband
at Fortress Monroe.
About 32,000,000 gallons of petroleum were
exported in 1865.
The Collector of Internal Revenue for Mon
tana Territory, in a letter received by the
Secretary of the Treasury, says that the pro
duce of the gold and silver mines of that Ter
rltory for the year eighteen hundred
five will be upward of sixteen million, la
eighteen hundred and sixty-two the Terri
tory was a wilderness, uninhabited except by
savages.
A magnetic bank lock without key or key
hole, and i u possible to pick is among the
recent inventions.
Com. Shubrick will preside at Capt. fem
mes’ Court Martial.
A maD in New York has brought an action
in one of the Courts to recover $5,000 dama
ges of the compiler of the city directory, for
putting him down as “colored,” when in fact
he is white.
The best sugar factory at [Chatsworth, 111., is
in fall blast, and promises to be successful
The company called “The Germania Beet Com
pany.” They own five or six of land,
and intend going into tbe manufacture of sugar
next season on a gigantic scale. They have
sent to Germany for three hundred mechanics
and laborers.
Mr. Murphy, President of the Canadian
on visiting Ottawa the other day
was waited upon by a committee, who recom
mended him to quit the city at once.
Parepa was paid SI,OOO for singing in the
“Messiah," at Hartford, Ct,. recently, She
was offered $1,208 to sing iu Providence in the
same oratcrio, but v.as already under engage
ment.
Capt. D. Goldthwait of Saco, Me., brought
down twenty ducks at a single shot, while
gunning on Ram Island, fourteen of which he
baggtd. Pretty good shooting that.
A fearful tragedy was enacted some days
since, near Buchanan, Greenville county, North
Carolina. Mrs Parthenia Harris was cruelly
murdered by a negro woman, who formerly
belonged to the family, and still resided with
them . Mrs. Harris was found dead ia her yard,
her head having been crushed with a reck so
as to beat out her brains The woman was ar
rested on suspicion, confessed the deed, and
the neighbors executed summary punishment
upon her by hanging her to a tree.
A man in Providence, Rhode Island, asked
the city authorties to give him S3OO for inju
ries received through the city’s neglect. P.
was refused. The man went to law, and the
jury has just awarded him ,$5,500.
The Colorado Legislature ha3 ratified the
Constitutional amendment.
Secretary Seward has gone on a voyage to
the West Indies for the benefit of his health.—
He will be absent a few weeks.
Much gratification is expressed by the peo
ple everywhere in the South at the removal of
negro troops.
Advices from Mexico are more and more
contradictory.
The New Yorkers expect to raise $75,000 at
one charity ball at the Academy of Music.
Chinese operatives are now employed ia
California manufactories.
The California papers express much indig
nation at the scheme of sending ship leads of
unmarried women to that country.
The Germans in Texas, it is said, will raise
at least one hundred thousand bales of cotton
themselves the coming year.
John White, a negro pauper, one hundred
years old, died recently at Colebrook. He was
born in Africa.
Horace H. Dav, Esq , of New York, laid
before the transportation committee of ihe
board of trade, recently, his plan for
a ship canal with double inclined planes,
the vessel always floating in water, around the
Falls of Niagara, whereby it is possible to take
a ship of the largest tonnage adapted to the
lake trade, and in half an hour pass it on the
other side of the Falls with her cargo undis
turbed.
An English jury delivered themselves of a
singular verdict a few weeks ago. They found
one prisoner “guilty" and another “not guilty”
of a charge of stealing, bat they wished the
picsidlng judge to' “caution" the man they
had acquitted. The foreman subsequently ex
plained that they had such serious misgivings
about the innoceeaoe of the second prisoner,
that although they had given him the benefit
of a doubt they wished him to be strongly re
primanded. This the magistiate proceeded
with all gravity to do; while, after listening to
the admonitory lecture, the acquittel party po
litely expressed his obligations to tie worthy
judge.
A high wind which prevailed in Queen’s
county. Ireland a short time since, blew the
thatch from the cottage of one Patrick Murphy,
and revea’ed to him a horn filled with 4,009
guineas and several Ppaniyh dollars.
FCH£Ti,\ ITEMS.
The cattle dicoase is creating much ala:m in
Holland.
A portion of the garden of Luxembourg,
Par's, is to be sold. It will biing the Govern
meet 50,000,000.
A mild form of cholera still prevails in Paris.
Among Madrid amusements is announced a
flgh. between an elephant and two bulls.
Lord Byron’s “Iwo Foscari” has for the first
time just been produced on the English stage
Too Prussian Prince who killed his cock has
been s nt to prison for nine months.
The imports into France from January Ist to
October 31st. 1805, amounted to 2,280,670 OOOf,
being an increase of 211,035.000f, as compared
with the corresponding period of last year. The
t xports for the same time amount to 2,550,-
637,000f. being an increase of 67,238, 000f, as
compared with the first ten months of the
year 1864.
In 1651 there were in London 1 097 churches,
with sittings f0r.698,549 persons. In 1865
there were 1,316 churches with sittings for
917,895 persons, an increase of 219 churches
and 219,316 sittings. In 1861 tbe population
of London W-iS 2,362,236. In 1865 it is esti
mated by the Registrar General to be 3,015,494,
an Increase of 653,258 persons.
A Bey was among the guests at Comptigce
and while iu conversation with the Empress,
mentioned as among the interesting romances
he had of late been reading, the letter writ
tea by the Emperor on the affairs of Algeria
Napoleon, who stood by laughed heartily at
the frankness cf his guest.
At the Thanksgiving dinner of the Ameri
cans in Paris, the toast—“ His Majssty tho
Emperor of the French” was given ; an excited
American leaped from his sear, and jumping
. into the middle of tbe isle, cried out. “No.
American can drink that toast while a single
French soldier remains in Mexico.” The
guests generally, however, seemed to consid
er that any demonstration of iil feeling was
cut of placei and so drink and cheered His
Majesty, although neither very deeply nor
heartily.
The Gazette des Hcpltaux points out a
method of curing coryza cold in the head--
with rapidity. It consists in inhaling the
tincture of iedine, a phial of which is to bo
held in the hand aad placed under the nose.
The warmth of the hand causes the vaporia
licn o! the tincture. The inalations are to be
made every three minutes, and soon ail sys
tem-; of the malady wiil disappear.
Smuggling between Switzerland and Franco
i3 reduced to a science. You buy a watch of
a Genova watchmaker. He auks yon: “Will
you take it with you, or shall we deliver it at
Baris ?■” If you answer that you prefer it de
livered at Paiis, he gives you a note, with
which, when you arrive at Paris, you go to an
appointed place and receive your watch, as in
ncconfc of the payment of duty as when it letfc
the goldsmith’s hands in Geneva.
Two French engineers, pupils of the Ecole
Cent rale, have just started for Judea in order
to survey ths line of railroad in course of con
struction, and of which will soon be thrown
open to the public.
Returns received from India relative to the
losses sustain by mildew damage in British
goods imported into that country 3how a very
serious condition oi affairs. The lueses sui
te red from this cause iu India, and the full
returns have not yet been obtained, amount at
the present estimate to £236,424. The Ben
gal Chamber of Commerce are making ex
ertions to check the mischief.
The number of tigers killed in the provin
ces of Central India, during the first six
months of the present year was, 356.
A gunner, belonging to the Royal Artillery
serving in India, was recently sentenced by a
Court Martial to five years’ penal servitude,
“for ineubordiuatoly refusing to scrub tho
floor of his cell.
A company has been onganized in Spain for
the purposo of laying a submarine telegraph
cable between Cuba and the United States.
A child was recently born near Birmingham
with two heads, three arms, thiee legs. The
two beads which are face to face, are united
at the lower part of the breast.
Over three hundred thousand Frenchmen
have committed suicide since the beginning of
the present century. In France at large the
majority of suicides fall between tbe fortieth and
fiftieth year; in Paris, however, the majority
occur between the twentieth and thirtieth.
Two children urder nine, and one under five
killed themselves.
The Warsaw Journal stales that a manu
script of Copernicus, entitled “Decorporum
Ceslektium Revolutionibus,” has just been
found in tho library of Count de Nostltz.
John Naylor, of Hilgay, England, died
October 30, supposed to be 110 by his eldest
son, who is sixty-nine, but would seem to
have been 117 from a baptismal register at
Woiney, England. Naylor retained his facul
ties riatii about six weeks before his death.
“The contract of marriage between the
Duke da Mouchy and the Princess Anna
Murat,” says the Paris Union, “has been
signed by M. Mocqnard, the Emperor’s notary,
and sen ot bis lata private secretary. The
Duke has a fortune of 8.000,000f. The Em
peror gives the bride 2,000,000f) as a wedding
portion, and also presents to her a necklace
worth 500,000f., with other valuable jewelry
M. Potitot a’one has received orders to tho
amount of 180,OOOf. The Empress presents
the wedding dress, of Alencon lace, valued at
80,OOOf, and a prayer book worth 35,000f.
France has now seventeen large commercial
steamers running between Europe and the
American continent and her colonies.
WASHINGTON ITE3IB.
Secretary Seward, with his daughter, Miss
Fanny Seward, and hi3 son Frederick and his
wife, left Washington, Dscemhei 29th, in a
steamer for tho West Indies. He goes first to
Santa Cruz, and will be absent three or four
weeks. His object is mainly relaxation and
the more complete restoration of his health.
Mr. Hunter will be acting Secretary during his
absence.
Commander Winslow has been ordered to
the command of the Gulf Squadron.
Old military officers are said to bo in Wash
ington urging a fight with the Mormons.
The Secretary of the Treasury is preparing
bilk in conformity with his recommendation
to Congress, which he will soon send to* the
Hays and Moms Committee for their consid
eration.
It is thought that Senator Wilson, of .Mass.,
will oppose Sumner’s radical views.
Lx Governor Sharkey, of Mississippi, ig in
Washington. He reports the progress of Miss
issippi aa quite favorable.
Ifae Postmaster General is rapidly opening
post offices at the South. He re-establishes
two hundred a week.
The government, it is said, has strong hopes
of establishing peace with the Western Indians,
by treaty. Hostilities still continue in Arizona,
aowever.
Ihe erection of the original model of Craw
ford's colossal statute of the Goddess of Lib
erty in the old ball of the House is nearly
completed.
The prise money paid out to those ?connect
ed with the navy amounts to $9,512,000,
Col. Mcseby, of the Southern army is at pre
Bent in Washington.
Tho military force in Yirginia ia not to be
reduced at present.
The freedman’s farms in Maryland and Vir
ginia have been ordered to he discontinued.
The President has received the new minister
of the Mexican Liberals cordially.
The rnmor that the Government and France
have come to an understanding about Mexi
c&b matters is incorrect.
Avery few applications for pardons have
been made lately.
It is rumorsd that the President will soon
issue a proclamation declaring the restoration
of the Union complete.
The clerical force at Washington is being
reduced.
Washington advices from Brazil speak of
the early abolition of slavery in that country.
Only seventeen volunteer surgeons] and
thirfy-three assistants are now ia service.
These are mostly connected with freeduien’s
bureau.
It is said that the fl rating debt of the War
Department amounts to $209,000,000.
The Pacific Railroad is monopolizing atten
tion at Washington.
Internal Revenue for six months ending
Decernt.-.-r 20, were $185,658,558.
As-istant Secretary of Treasury Chandler j
bas been seat South to look into cotton j
iTAg -h'~•
The receipts for internal revenue January 1
and 2, were $3 800,000.
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Thb Thus, Heroic Spirit.— A letter from
Pendleton, S. 0., speaks thus of the manner in
which the people of that section have met the
results of the war :
Our young men have gone to work in earn
est. We are proud to see them engaged iu
teaching, plowing, wagoning, keeping grocery
stores, in short, doing anything, and doing it
cheerfully. A general, who "bore no mean
part in the war, ha3 been living in a hut on
the coast, supporting his family by fishing.—
Another general has been cutting wood on
shares. Our’s is a poverty of which no one
is ashamed, and of which very few complain.
We ace willing to bear it, aad its universality
makes it more tolerable. We know that
tho most refined and intelligent women in the
State, deserted by their deluded servants, arc
doing all kinds of housework—sweeping, dust
ing? making beds, and even in some cases
cooking and washing. Innumerable widows,
orphans and single women, whose property
wag in Confederate bonds, are penniless, and
are eeekirg employment of tome kind foi*
bread. Ou the whole, our people are bearing
their trials bravely and cheerfully.
Th'l3 certainly is exhibiting a true, heroic
spirit. This is the way in which all brave
people in by-gone days, who have set thoir
hearts upon gaining a cause, and lost their all
in the attempt, have conducted themselves.—
Instead of sitting down and repining at that
which has been lost, our people manfully face
the stern realities which confront them on
every side, and cheerfully work on for the fu
ture.
A people who conduct themselves in such a
commendable manner are always worthy of,
and should mvariably receive the confidence
and encouragemeut of tho successful party.—
Victors can ever afford to be generous. They
lose nothing by pursuing u liberal policy to
wards those they have overpowered. Tho
history of the past proves this. The experiences
of the present day, as far as tried, corroborate
the lessons of by-gone days.
The conservative men of the North appear to
be fully impressed with these truths. They
are doing all in their power to support the
President. May they succeed in bringing
shame and confusion upon the radicals and
their leaders. May they put to complete
discomfiture and route the hordes of political
vampires and demagogues who care nothing for
their common country; but who show by thoir
acts that their great desire is to grow rich off
the South by inaugurating a policy that would
be as crushing in its effects as that of Russia has
been in unfortunate Poland.
Let us of the South so conduct ourselves
that every thing that we do will tend
to support the President in the position he has
taken.
An It km for Freedmen. —Mr. S. G. Burton,
of the Indiana Legislature in a speech before
that body, a few days since, said emphati
cally:
“If left to me, Mr. Speaker, I would, by a
system of‘unfriendly legislation,’ render the
political atmosphere of Indiaua so extremely
uncomfortable for negroes, that it would be
unhealthy for them to remain in our midst,
and much to their interest and advantage to
emigrate -especially would I make it so for the
“unconstitutional niggers,” or 6uch as are here,
in violation of our Slate Constitution; ana
without authority of law. If they should re
fuse to emigrate in spite of this legislation,
they should be known and recognized in socie
ty, only as ‘hewers of wood and drawers of
water.’
The freedmen who have been expecting
great things from tho North, can see by this
paragraph just what they wiil get—abuse and
stringenUaws. Now we ask all those who have
thus far refused to make contracts for the com
ing year if it is not better for them to agree to
work on the old places where they will be well
provided and cared for, than to wander around
half siaived and half clothed, and finally to
die from exposure and starvation.
These things we would say to all freedmen,
are not imaginary, but are things which will
happen unless, those of you who are idle, at
once commence work:
The Labor Question Solved in Arkansas.—
The large Arkansas planters along the Missis
sippi river, have at length solved the labor
problem ss far as they are concerned. Here
is the way it was done, as narrated in a letter
from that section :
Labor is good natured but V6Ty trifling.—
The freedman is for frolic and fun; be quits
work on Friday afternoon, goes to Memphis,
spends his money, gets demoraiiz and and gets
back about Monday night. Two or three days
are lost to the work every week. What is the
use of this warse than idle frolic ? The ne
cessity of this bas be-n felt in many cases that
many remedies have been proposed and at last,
Col. Dixon a large planter, has solved the
problem—cut the gordion knot. He went
to New York and returned with one hundred
and fifty sturdy Germans, with their frows and
families. Tho experiment pleased so well that
Malone, another large planter, went to New
York last week for a fresh supply of the Eame
sort for his plantation. With such competition
•"ambo mu-t complete or leave the labor mar
ket to the frugal and industrious saxon These
Germans bring their families, which are the
best pledges of their good behavior.
.This is the only course left for our planters
to pursue. If the negro will not keep his con
tract, but trifles away his time to the detriment
of his employer, turn him off and introduce
white labor at once. The day of temporising
has passed. The great ideas at present, that
ought to be inculcated into every negroes head
is that he must either work or stat ve.
Bravery Versus Defiance —The world e '
made up of a diversity of people. Conversa
tioa derives its interest ana beneficial influen
ces from the eommiugiicg cf poisons, whose
tasto and talents present aroat variety ; and
■he babbling of fools is for tho edification of
their hearers, in that folly disgusts and wisdom
wooes.
That solecism should constritufe tho prepria,
persona of the lucubrations of persons who
affect naught above stupid Ignorance, is not to
be wondered at. It is perfectly natural
When, however, men who profess the posses
sion cf mors thau ordinary intelligence, fol
lows in the wake of the class to y hick refer
ence was just made, we are astonished. The
nation never had an existerce, that*did not.
at seme time in its history, suffer disgrace at
the hands of tho canaille, whom fortune or
chicanery had raised to the eminence of
statesmen. That their cheeks should tingle
with very and provoking shame, have the
fates decreed to Americans.
We contend ihat the declaration is incontro
vertible. Prove it, say some. We will.—
Turn to Congress—ls it net rather n mockery,
nay more—a huge burlesque? For what dees
Sumner cry ? “Revenge! revenge.! ! re
venge!!!” He would humiliate a people,
whose quiet acquiescence in iho new order of
things eclipses, with a moral heroism, really
sublime, the deathless glory they won In bat
tlo. Such men arc whited sepulchres. Their
breathings are fetid. The moral aad political
health of tho nation demauds for its safety,
that the pestilential cause should be removed.
Craven hearted, they strike us while wo are
down. Treacherous aud lost to the instincts
which govern men, they insult us in their own
heuse.
But why is it, they howl so dismally ? At_
our action ? Yes. Bo sunk in immorality are
they, that it is impossible for them to con
ceivo-honesty in us. Because we did not
choose to send, as our representatives to the
National Legislature men of their own stamp,
they say we are defiant. We have insulted the
Government. We have arrogated to ourselves
rights, which do not belong to ;. We defy
the President and the Congress, by electing
men who were in the Confederate aimy.
The assertions are utterly groundless. We
defy not the authority of the Government. We
respect it. We suppoit it.
To defy is to accomplish ends by indirect
moans. We arc guilty of no circuituous mode
of procedure. It was open, plain, honorable.
A thousand difficulties stared U3 in the face.
Wo determined to brave them. Anticipating
efforts to do us Injustice—we elected men, who,
braving the storm of fanaticism, would bear it
down with the superior force of truth.
Valiant in battle, they wiil prove honorable
in council. Devoid of sectional feelings, and
free from sectional asperities, they will study
the interest and the welfare of the whole coun
try.
Time will belio the statements of Stevens,
et id omne genus. Time wiil expose the mis
erable fallacies, which theso men have heaped
up. Time will prove Southerners to be the
stcunchiest friends of the CoissTrrurioN and
the Laws.
Lot not fanatics rail—their days are number
ed. Even now their knell is ready to be rung.
Rather let them cease to chide. Let than ex
amine their own hearts, and
“ Bo not too ready to condemn
The wrongs their brothers may have done,
. Ere they too harshly censure them
For human faults, ask, “Have I none ? ’
Ode Cotton Manufacturers. —The teta
valus of domestic cotton manufactures expor
ted from tho United Status in seventeen years,
from 1826 to 1842, was $37,187,129, an "aver
age of $1,187,478 per annum. From 1849 to
1856 the average yearly exportation of do
mestic cottons was $5,008,772. The average
annual home consumption of foreign cotton
manufactures exceeded tho average yearly
value of domcsiic cotton goods exported bv
$10,877,532, and only fell short in one year,
(1843) when our export of domestic cottons
was greater than our consumption of foreign
cotton by $578,794. The average ansiual ex
portations of American cotton manufactures'
and yarns in the five years from 1851 to 1855
was $7,014,989. During the four years ending
June 30, 1861, these exports were as follows :
In 1858, $6,333,833 ;in 1859, $5,467,525 ; in
1860, $7,539,532 ; and in 1861, $6,816,453.
In these last values cotton duck was includ
ed to the average annual amount of $2,490,-
391, and printed goods to the yearly averag
value of $935,543. The exports of cotton
manufactures in 1802 amounted to $2,946,-
464. When it is remembered that tho home
consumption of cotton has never exceeded one
seventh of the entire crop of that material
grown in the United States, and bas generally
been considerably less than that, and that its
cheapness and excellent quality in times of
peace give superior advantage to our manu
facturers, we may hopo that a branch of in
dustry which employs so large a number of
hands and so much raw material, fuel, and
machinery of American growlh and produc
tion, which supplies annually rnaDy millions
worth of cheap and comfortable tlothing and
furniture, and contributes so largely to the
iuternal and foreign trade of the country, will
show a largo augmentation at the next na
tional census, notwithstanding the shock i
has received during the war.
The Chilian Government. —As the Chilian
nation is now occupying a prominent position
before the world, a description of its govern
ment at this time, would not, we think, be
amiss.
Chili is now governed under the Constitu
tion of 1833. The government is demoractic
and representative. The judges are irremova
ble. They are appointed by the President of
the Republic and the Council of State. The
Legislative Corps is compose!, 1 a Senate of
twenty members, elected lor nine years, one
third renewed every three years ; and a Cham
ber of Deputies, elected for three years, and at
present composed of seventy-three members—
cue deputy for 20,000 InhabitanS. This num
ber will doubtless be increased as the conse
quence of the last census. The laws voted by
Congress are submitted to the sanction of the
President cf the Rep üblic, who has the right of
veto and amendment. The executive power
is vested in the President, who is elected for
five years. He governs by Ministers and a
Council of State, composed of the Ministers,
two members of the Courts of Justice, a gen
eral officer, the lead of the Finance office, and
two ex-ministers of State, or diplomatists-
Catholicism is the official religion, but law and
practice have sanctioned the free exeicise of
other religions.
gTIIE Savannah National Bank. —'lbis iesri- j
tution has a capital stock of one hundred thou
sand dollars. Its quarterly report read3 thus:
Circulation none : Depeet3 $156,000: Resources
to meet eame, $580,000; net profits for six
months, $27,000." Avery fair pr <S*-> v*itH no
bills in circulation.
Singular but True.— lt is singular, b t nev
ertheless true, thst tie party at the North
which now claims to be Fpre-emi ently ths
Union party, is the only one which dsnio; the
existence of the Union. When the past dou
ble-faced course of the leaders of this faction,
however, are taken into consideration, the
policy now adopted by them excites no aston
ishment, Ever since they have been on the
public stage, their consistency consists in their
inconsistency. As the chameleon changes his
colors, so change their they principles—never
standing up to one position any longer than
it suits their convenience. The country has
been deluged with blood by reason of thoir
fanatical deeds ; and now they sock to bring
further ruin and distress upon oiu distressed
people, simply because they desire to gratify
their infernal desires.
It should be the grand aim aud object of
every true patriot to defeat tho schemes of tho
radicals. No one who has the good of his
country at heart, should fail io assist the
President in his plans of reconstruction. He
has steed by the South. The ' South should
now’ stand by him. Without his aid we would
be poor indeed. A hearty and undivided sup-,
port should he have f m the Southern States,
at least.
The Arrest of 0 jmmjuore Semmes. —Special
dispatches from Wash'ngton announce that tho
arrest of Com. Semmes ic condemned in certain
official quarters. There seems to boa disposi
tion to-avoid all responsibility in the premises,
and to refer the matter to tho Naval Court, for
his trial has not yet been indicated. It is ox
pseted that it will be discovered that Semmes
was included lu the surrender of the Southern
forces. Hi3 trial and conviction are urged in
Washington, upon the grounds of sustaining
our policy against England, rather than upon
any other. It is regarded necessary for the
position taken in diplomatic correspondence,
that Semmes aad others should be treated not
as Confederate prisoners of war, but as pirates.
If Commodore Semmes had been captured dur
ing the war his case might have been considered
in a different light than it now can be. As it
i3, he ought, aud wc have.no doubt, he will be
acquitted. He is a paroled, prisoner and we
do not see how lie can be treated us any thing
else; or tried for any-, thing done during the
late struggle b ‘ween the South ard the North,
as long as he keeps his parole.
Some of the Scukmes of Northern Lobby
Members.— The Washington correspondent of
tho New York Commercial thus notices some
of tho favorite schemes now pending- before
Congress, which Northern lobby mombers aro
doavoring to bave passed :
“The retention of the present tariff duties,
with higher duties on iron and coal, and per
haps the striking off of wood from the free
list; Niagara ship canal; grants of land to rail
roads in Maine, on Cape Cod, between here
and New York, and at the West; payment of
a portion of the Pennsylvania war debt; river
and harbor appropriations ut the West and on
the Pacific slope ; reimbursements of bounties;
and numerous other schemes which are for,
and which will only benefit the North.
Perhaps it is for the purpose of " rushing
things through Congress,” that the Southern
members are to be kept out of their places
for awhil9. In the former days of the Repub
lic, thousands of the corrupt plans of Northern
lobby members were exposed and defeated by
the Southern members, and will be again as
soon as they are allowed to take their seals.
Jmigration Southward. —By the Northern
journals we notice that imigration to tho
Southern States has already set in, with a fair
prospect that within a period not very lemote,
the number will equal, that which annually
goes toward tho fertile prairies of the Great
West. It is very rarely that we formerly
found in tho statistics of foreign immigration
any considerable body of persons whose desti
nation has been turned toward the sunny
South. But now the attention of foreign agri
culturists is now directed this way. No other
part of the world furnishes more attractions for
the hardy, immigrant than thi luxuriant soil
and balmy oiimate of our Southern latitudes.
Here is field in our cotton, tobacco, rice and
sugar producing regions for the employment cf
whole armies of hardy pioneers, and it is grati
fying to observe that the resources of tbe
Souih stand in so flattering an attitude for
speedy development.
A Class that should be Encouraged.— lt
affords us pleasure to record the fact that
there are many freedmen Jn our midst who
conduct themselves properly, and are dsiag
all in Heir power to obtain an honest living for
themselves and those who are dependent upon
(hem. This class should be encouraged to pursu e
the course they have marked cut. They should
receive at the hands of all an entirely different
treatment than that showed to the idle and
vicious negroes. Whenever a freedman keeps
in his proper place and is disposed to work, and
obey the laws, he should be so treated that he
will cotinue his good conduct.
We would here say to all such, you will
find your former owners your firmest friends.
Moke the best contracts you can and still
continue to li7e with them, il they desire to
retain your services.
A Difficulty in Clarksville, Tenn.—Dur
ing Christmas weak Clarksville, Tennessee,
was the scene of what barely escaped proving
a very sad difficulty.
A party of negro troops went to that place
from Providence ; and having got drunk be
gan to Insult whomsoever they met on the
streets. The police ordered them to desist,
and.attempting to arrest one of the most dis
orderly ones, was fired upon by the latter’s
comrades. Fortunatefy the policeman who
received the ball fired was not seriously in
jured. The fire of the negroes was returned
effectively by the officers of tbe law. The re
groes becoming enraged, and the police being
dauntless, there would have been a regular
fight, had it not been for the timely arrival of
some United States officers, who peremptori
ly ordered the negro soldiers back to their
quarters.
The President’s Policy Gaining Ground in
Washington. —The special dispatch to tho
Louisville Courier, dated Washington, De
cember 30, states that the President’s recon
struction policy i3 gainmg ground. This [news
is of the most cheering nature. The dispatch
says;
Evidence of the growing strength of the
President’s party is stronger to-day than ever
before. Assurances of support of the Ad
ministration policy have been received from
unexpected sources.
As WB3 expected, the opportunity afforded
to Ihe Senators and Representatives to feel the
pulse of their constituents, has resulted in (ha
conversion of several of tbe most observant of
the Radicals to the views of the Administration.
There is no doubt now entertained that the
reconstruction measures President Johnson
will be sustained at arw.arly day by both
Uotipes of Congress.