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[from Macon J 1 urns] 1 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. ufrcntcl? si AUGUSTA, GA. \VEn\SSCAV MOHSISG JAXIIAi: Y 10. Char ge of Hates. The Cheapest Weekly Is sued m tin Country, THE WEEKLY Chronicle & Sentinel Is issued every Wednesday. It will contain all the latest markets, both foreign and domes tic, as well as all the current news of the day Subscriptions will be received at tho annexed rates : One copy one year, $ 2 Three copies one year, 5 F've copies one year, t 8 Ten copies one year, 15 Any larger number addressed to names of subscribers $1 50 each. An EXTRA COPY will be sent to any person who will get up a club of ten names and forward the same. These rates make the AUGUSTA CHRONICLE &. SENTINEL the cheapest publication in the country. 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.