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Steam iioitta Explosions.— For the last few
W! 't Is a tail fate seems to have brooded over
th > steammi plying the Great Father of
IValets. In qui k succession three elegant
fib-staters have been bloan to atoms, and
riur.’;b»is of their passengers consigned to a
watery grave, or the riv.-r banks strewn with
thi* ir tnaneied and scalded bodies.
'Die Mmoph'a papjrs publish a letter from
Mr. James Cook, an accomplished architect
nr.d c.vil engineer, who theorises upon the
Causes of the disasters After stating the
Warner in which Franklin’s theory of tho ex
ietinco, in the atmosphere of an agency the
most powcrlul, was received by the people of
that time, Mr. Cork goes on to explain his
opu i *n as to the action of the same element
t<> wh ch Franklin referred : In a steamboat,
wr find the very elements necessary for gen
erating u po-verful electrical current, the re
tenii u t f the same and its discharges the
battery of bojlors are the generators ; the boat,
t*re conservator for the element generated
and the water beneath the boat, .tLe Insula
tor, to prevent the eamo from escaping
When Is this element, electricity generated !
Whenever the steam in the boilers is raised
but ordinarily, so slightly, that it becomes
dissipated belore it can be concentrated elec,
tricity Dom steam is termed Hydro-electricity.
When watei is r-.lsed to a height of tempera*
sure, and steam it generated at a high pres
sure, under certain arrangements, electricity
b< conn i latent in its meat powerful form
capable of instantaneously decomposing water
T s reduced to its elements, Bygen of Hydro
g- n, in c-rtuin proportions, is tho most explo
sive compound known, and is more resistless
than anything yet discovered. |
lhe theory of those recurring disasters is
that they are generally fixed laws. Wherever
wo find the H‘tno conditions of the elements,
wo alia'. 1 have the same results. The boilers
are |io,vt'iiul hydro electric machines, generat
ing nt a curtain pressure of steam, positive
electricity. The boat is the receptacle for the
same, and is, when it becomes an insulated
receiver, like a Leydou jar.
Wh< n do explosions occur under this theory,
is an important inquiry, since all boilers may
be in tUi condition, and electricity generated
in all. When the atmosphere is atagonistic or
in a negative condition, and whenever the
steam generates electricity, and the atmos
phere is in a nigative condition, the explosion
Occurs.
Ai at every moment fresh steam is gener
i;t- I f‘( i electricity is generated, the boat
be< i ui ;>d uucharged, the negative atmosphere
meets it, adlschaige takes plaoe, the boilers
being the most conductible material on board,
receives ihutdischarge, the steam and water
are decomposed, and at the same time re
united, shattering everything that confines
them, with all the harrowing results with
which we have become lately too familiar.
L steam does not generate elec
tricity, and her ce, low-pressuie boats are ex
empt from such accid«nts.
Arrival < i Eriouams—The Charleston
Courier of the B.h inst. chronicles the arrival,
per the steamer Q inker City, on her last trip,
of ono hundred aud sixty live German emi
grants— including men, women, and children.
They will proceed at once to form a settle--
merit uu the plantations of Messrs. Weldon and
Dayton, in Oluist Church Parish. It was
through the itilluence of these gentlemen that
the emigrants were persuaded to select South
Carotin i, for a permanent residence. They all
are steady, industrious people; and the adults
have had more or loss experience in agricul
tural matters. At Christ Church Parish they
w II g va their attention to the raising ot vege
tables and cotton. This is the first really
large i.-M iilment of emigrants that has arrived
at Chai lepton since ths discussion of the new
6ystetu of labor has commonced.
Iu several articles which wo have written,
we have cndoivortd to point out the innu
merable beueSts to by having this
eh meet in our midst.* general rule the
paop’e of the '■-tato are iu favor of the encour
agement of immigration. Planters have ex
pressed their willingness to make terms with
this elms of people whatever they present
them wives for employment, aud it only re
main* for a few enterprising agents at the
North to make there such arrangements with
the emigrants as will he an inducement for
them to Cv me to the South.
Now is the proper time for Georgia to givo
attention to this matter. Agents oppointed
by other Southern States are in the field, and
it will not be tong be'ore tho competition in
engaging white laborers will become so great
that a premium will be offered to tho emi
grants a* an extra inducement for them to
sett'ie in certain localities.
We hope the day is not far distant when we
fhrll be called upon to notice the exhibition of
the same enterprising spirit by our people, as
that shown by South Carolinians.
El qusnck Extraobdinakt. — Lhe Montgom
ery Mui sys that one of the poetical members
ot the Alabama L gislature. In a debate on the
rtac 1 iw, n tew days since, was happily deliv
er* 1 of the annexed eloquent peroration :
•‘Mr. Speaker! Is there a man, woman, or
cbi'd witt.i •. the sound of my voice, v ho is un>>
willing to save to our people tbe pittance ot
property left them? It such there be. sir, he
shi.uM go down to posterity. un »ept, unhonor
ed jTui unsung lie is unfit to tread the soil
ot the t:ee and .the brave. A man, sir, who
would m iMcoudy. and in cold blood, thus op
pr*s< the people is not fit to live. He should
be Kick and to death by a jickass, and I'd lihe
to do it"
I bis member, whoever he may be, must be
“some on the stump ”
Soxs ( T iKMfERASCK.—We learn that on Sat
nrday night last, Spring Hill Division, Sons of
of Temperance, was re-organized in this Coun
ty, with euccuraging prospects. The follcw
areiffi.’ers: g
Alfr<d W Shaw. \V P; W D Shaw, W A;
Louts 1) Duvall. RS: Alfred E Burch, A RS;
W t) P S; Geo IV Duwall, Treas ; J
JEn girt, Con; Jessie Burch, A C: Fielding
Brandon, I S; Robt Wiggins jr., O S.
N j w and rt h dnerveriw of lead bars been
ta&dc, seer Galena, 111.
rONhBESS
It is to be lamented, not only fob the good
of the South, but the whole country, that there
is not in the Council Halls of the nation, one
’single man who can with proper respect to
truth be called a Statesman.
Sumner is classical, smart, vindictive, and
pusillanimous. There is not a spark of heroism
or nobility in his nature; and bis colleague
Wilson has but few, if any, more admirable
traits. He possesses more manliness, but is a
coarse, Hi-bred demagogue, unworthy the high
position he holds of United States Senator. —
Wade is possibly more of a man than either
the above mentioned individuals, but unfor
tunately like his Massacbusett associates, is
incurably effl cted with ‘‘nigger on the brain.
Several Democratic Senators —Doolittle and
(jfuthriefor instance—are men of very respect
able abilities, but are wholly unequal to the
crisis. Ob ! for an hour of Daniel Wt bstor or
Henry Clay, whose giant minds illustrated tin
history of their country ; biuzcl the path .or
national glory, and shed an imperishable lu3tre
on the American name.
Os Thad Stevens, the acknowledged leader
of tho Republicans in tho Lower House, it is
unnecessary to speak—for the country knows
his history by heart; and such a history . ‘‘Ye
Gods, it doth ami z 3 ns. That a man of such
feeble] temper, should so get tho start of tho
maje-tic world and bear the palra alone.”
And yet we need not wod ler. He is but the
representative of that low, corrupt and fanati
cal class of Northern radicals, who would
rather “ tule in hell than serve in Heaven.”
If his Satanic majesty had desired to Bend
representative to Congress from the Plutorian
realms, he could not possibly have
* more suitable delegate—and as to encourage
the idea that Stevens is allied to that illus
trious personage, he is said to have a club
foot, which according to popular tradition is a
peculiar phvisical characteristic of Sa tan. It
is obvious to all that the Southern Represen
tatives—although they have complied with
every constitutional requirement, will not be
adm tted during the preaent session—the reason
is apparent. The radicals fearing any addition
so the conservative element in Corgress, are
striving to perpetuate their parly and are
resolved to avail themselves of their present
advantage to make the most of their power
over tho affixted and helpless South. While
this is their manifest purpose it is beneath the
diguity and self-respect of Southern gentle
men to be knocking for admission into the
Federal Capitol. Conscious of the purity and
nobility of their political aims—our represen
tatives olect, should observe a dignified silence.
Ltft the South rely upon the all-conquering
force of truth to vindicate her claim to recog
nition us a part of this great family of States,
and entitled to all the rights and privileges
guaranteed 11 r onstitution of cur fathers.
Fortunately the President is with us. He has
taken a noble and decided stand iu defence of
Constitutional law against tho wild and turbu
lant tide of fanaticism, that sweeps from the
New England States. Let the press of the
South continue to strengthen his hands and
cheer his heart, by giving to his wise policy of
of restoration a united, vigorous and cordial
support. *"
Support tour Mechanics.—Tuere is no
truth more undeniable, than that it is the
bounden duty of every community to support
its mechanics. They are a worthy and indis
pensable class of meu, and wc find no town or
village flourishing without their aid. Indeed,
their presence or absence is always a true in
dex of the condition of the place—whether it
Is advancing in wealth and importance or sink
ing into decay. Whenever we pass through a
town or village, and hear the frequent souud of
the carpenter's hammer, tho click of tho
blacksmith's anvil—thrt village, we find is
prosperous It cannot be otherwise, for the
producers are actively employed; and outnum
ber the consumers. Whenever this is the case,
the people are growing wealthy, and at the
same time training the rising generation to
habits of industry and morality. When if a
city or village pursues the opposite of this
course—neglects its mechanics amt supports
those of some other place—it is certain
that such places will not prosper and gtow
so long as such a course is pursued.
If there is any truth in the assertion that we
ought, ns a nation, to givo the preference to
domestic manufactures, ' tho fact equally
true with regard to the community; both are
sustained by the same argument. If a mer
chant would have around him substantia! cus
tomers, let him by eve-y means in bis power
support the mechanics in the place and as
they become more wealthy, their customs will
increase—especially iu th iso articles on which
they make the greatest profits; for it is undeni
able, that as men become more wealthy they
also become more luxurious, aud no merchant
will deny that articles of luxury always afford
the greatest profits. The habit of importing
large quantities of cheap foreign articles in
competition with home m chani;?, is short
sighted and wrong, both as regards the me
chanic and consumer; :f the merchant will look
further into the operation of things, he would
fiud that he crossed the path of his own in
terest by doing so.
Let the merchant bring the case to.his own
door and he, perhaps, may better understand
it; suppose that every individual who posses
es the means, and who uses in his family four
or five hundred dollars worth of goods per an
num, should, instead of buying them all at re
tail, go to some wholesale establishment in
another place and purchase h:s year's supply
-would fie not, in bitterness, condemn such
an illiberal course, and would not he say to
him, with truth, that he was warring against
his own interest, by destroying the business
of his own towu and giving it to another ;
and that his littleness wou’d react upon him
in double fold, by decrease of his property
and business ? So in this case, above instanced,
could the mechanic say tue same to the mer
chant. We say, then, let all classes support
each other, and by mutual exchanges keep
that wealth at home, which, if unnecessarily
expended abroad, tends to destroy the busi
ness of your neighbor, and which in turn de
stroys your own.
A large amount ot tmuj.gied property has
been condemned at Detroit. Two invoices
were the property of Chicago parties.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 21, 1866.
Governor Jenkins calls the attention of the
Legislature to the fact that these banks have
made provision for the assignment of their
assets, real and personal, for the benefit of
their creditors, and, advising the Assembly of
its knowledge of the legislation of their pre
decessors, to which the resolutions of the
stockholders make allusion, rdrelares it to be
his belief *• !hat these banks, and those of the
“ State generally, were at tins cp,„ u*-ncem»nt
“ cf the late war in t sound condo ou, carry
ing on, within the limits es tb-u e H, a l char
ters a legitimate banking busin t-s and
further remarks that
Thoro Is abundant reason to believe that
but for the large accumulation in their hands
ot Slate securities of different kinds, which
were repudiated by the late Slate Convention
under pressure of Federal authority, and of
irredeemable Confederate Treasury notes, to
which accumulation they wore constrained to
submit, by an unusual and rigorous State
policy, they would be in a condition to meet
all their liabilities.
If the existence of the facts be denied the
truth of the case may be elicited by scrutiny
into their management. If the jecitals in
their proceedings, herewith transmitted, be
true, they present a strong claim upon the
justice ot the State for such lelief as it may be
competent lor the General Assembly to extend.
.Certainly it would seem neasonable and bene
riVuat.as >well to them as to their creditors,
that they be allowed to go into liquidation,
undei such restriction as may avoid protracted
and hairasdng, litigation, without impairing
any security, provided by their several char
ters, for bill holders and other creditors. I
cannot dismiss the subject without remarking
that if, by conforming their conduct to statu
tory requirements, the Directors and other
i ffieers have been placed in a situation which
it voluntarily.aesumed would have subjected
them to penalties imposed by prior legislation,
justice (not charity) would suggest entire and
piompt relief from these penalties. This just
measure of exemption from punishment where
there is ao guilt, could work no possible in
jury to creditors.
These remarks are predicated upon the state
ments rnaco iu the accompanying papers, and
11 re intended to apply not only to the bauks
above mentioned, their Directors and officers,
but to ait others similarly situated. I com
mend the whole subject to your just and wise
consideration
The proceedings of the Stockholders cf tho
Bank of Augusta,', may be gummed up, thus:
In ’6l and ’62, they, by constraint, loaned t.
the State the sum of two hundred and thirty
five thousand dollars ($235,000,) and were in
’62 compelled to receive in payment for all
‘dues, and to take on deposit the Treasury
notes of th 9 State, and of the Confederate
Government at par value.
By this means they were placed in a condi
tion worse than that of individual creditors, or
corporations not engaged in banking—and
several hundred thousand dollars in these se
curities were received by these banks under
the influence of these requirements, aud rely
iug upon tho faith of the State.
The total circulation of tho bank is repre
sented to be “ no more than bix hundred and
sixty one thousand six hundred and sixty-six
dollars, ($061,666.) and the assets of the
Bank are one million three hundred and fitly
thousand five hundred and seventy-thieo 12-
100 doliars, ($1,350,573 12,) and it further ap
pears that of this latter sum six hundred and
sixty-five thousand four hundred and sixty
tour 87-100 dollars, are of such a character
that they cannot bo made available for the
payment of debts; that four hundred and
sixty-six thousand five hundred aud eighty
tivo dollars consists of notes and securities of
rhis State, which ihe bunk was compelled to
receive at par value, as aforesaid, and which
have been repudiated and rendered valueless
by the action of the State itself; that sixty six
thousand ($66,000) of these unavailable secu
rities have been iu like manner by
the State of Alabama, and the balance of the
sum of bad debts consists of notes and securi
ties, which were received under the circum
stances aud by reason of the pressure afore
said, for which the bank was in no wise re
sponsible.”
The assets, denominated good, and which
at par value are rated at the sum of six hun
dred and eighty-five thousand, one hundred
and eight dollars and twenty-five cents.
These, it is asserted cannot be disposed of at
anything like such value.
Consisting as they do chiefly of the bonds
and stocks of incorporated companies, which
have been greatly depreciated by those dis
tuibances to which the country he? been so
recently subjected, and cannot bo i lea .upon
to redeem the circulation of the hauL.
The corporation is thus reduced o> * condi
tion of insolvency by cause.' we, an .uldnot
control or avoid, and to which, ». .oast the
wishes and judgment of the Directors, it has
been to a gieat extent subjected by the author
ities of the State, as a matter of alleged State
policy or necessity, and is now liable, if con
tinuing to exercise the corporate franchise, to
many expensive ami vexatious suits at law, to
the prtjudice of the Stockholders, and other
p irties in interest.
The Insurance Banking Company decla-eg
that at the commencemsnt of the late war be
tween the United States and the Confederate
States, the company was in a condition not
only solvent, but prosperous; but by the action
ot the government of this State, and not by
their owe volition, the company was constrain
ed, during the war, to make large loans to the
State of Georgia and to take, as the only
security therefor, the obligations of the
State.which the State has in Convention
repudiated; and by like action of the
State government, the company was con
strained to receive in payment and on de
posit the notes of the Confederate government
which are now utterly valueless; anu inasmuch
j the securities above mentioned have, in the
l manner above stated, accumulated in the
hands of the company, till they have absorbed
the bulk of its means, and thus rendered it
wholly insolvent, ami no longer able to con
-1 tinua its bn3ines3, the charter is surrendered,
! and abandoned to the State.
Under one of the resolutions, Robert and
William Wtvilon vere appointed assignees, to
whom were turned over all, and singular the
estate, goods, money, evidences of debt and
property of c y description, belongmg to
this company, real and personal, in posse-gion
and in action, reserving what may be sec -.-a
ry to pay ler officers’ salaries, incidental ex
penses, and professional fees, up to the execn
tion of and assignment.
[ The proceedings of the City Bank is couohed
GOV. JE.YKIVS MESSAGE!
Governor Jenkins has transmitted
to the General Assembly a message
relative to the action of certain banks In this
city; two of which, the Bank of Au
gusta and the Augusta Insurance and Banking
Company, make positive surrender of their
charters, and initiatory steps to the same end
have been taken by two others—the City and
the Mechanic’s Bank.
:1 1 that of the Insurance and Banking Company,
| exoept that positive action was deferred until
! the 12th inst, when the Board were to take into
i consideration the propriety and necessity of
surrendering the Charter. , L
Both these latter Banks make provisions,
hat should the Legislature of this State provide
by law for the liquidation of insolvent banks
and the appointment of receivers ior that pur
pose, it is hereby consented and agreed that the
assignee or assignees hereinbefore provided
for, may become receiver or receivers under
any such law, and may dispose of all property
or assets assigned to him or them, as aforesaid,
as by law may be provided. The action of the
Mechanics Bank is identical with that of the
City Bank.
Ex-President Pierce’s Yisws os Recok
btkttCtion.—Ex-President Pierce was Invited
to a seat in the Democratic Convention ot the
State ol Now Hampshire, recently held for the
purpose of nominating candidates for the State
offices.
Being called on for a spoeeb, the old gentle
man responded briefly as follows :
Our country Las passed through serious
perils, but L hope that we are now emerging
from the thick darkness which at one time
brooded over if.
The present time calls for the calm, dispas
sionate and patriotic exertions of all good men,
in thv work of restoration, not merely in form,
but a restoration of a community of interests,
fraternal feeling, and an equality of rights,
among all the States.
I think I cau discern gleams of I'ght. The
annual message of President Johnson was ad
mirable; and in my judgment his subsequent
steps, looking to restoration, have been guided
by wisdom, patriotism, and statesmanlike
forecast.
lam pleased to greet, a3 co-workers in a
noble cause, all men who desire the immtyliate
restoration of the Southern States to their
civil rights, and who join their efforts in sav
ing whatever may be saved for the prosperity
of our common country. Under any circum
stances, it would be abject to despair of the
Republic.
Tnese are the views of a statesman. Frank
lin Pierce is made of the right kind of meta'.
His sentiments evince soundness of judg
ment. How much better would it be for the
whole country, if every man holding position
in the Government, viewed tho situation aa
does Mr. Pierce. How much happier for all,
would it be, if the same conceptions of honor
and justice distinguished the members of the
National Congress.
There is a faint streak of light visible on
the horizon. Let us hope that it heralds the
coming of the great Sun of Peace, with all its
rich and choicest blessings.
. A Terrific £oskb.— We find in the Titur
ville, Pa., Herald, the annexed description of
the terrific scene which occurred at Bennehoff
Run, in that State. Twelve thousand barrels
of coal oil, besides numerous dwellings, barns,
and outbuildings, all on fire, at one time,
must in eed have been a-terrific spectacle.—
Here is the account ;
About five o’clock in the afternoon,’ while
some carpenters were engaged in covering a
tank full of oil at the Getty well on Bennehoff
Run, sparks from tho smoke-stack were being
driven by the wind directly over where they
were working, and one of the men, apprehen
sive of Ganger, went to notify the superinten
dent of the fact, but he had not proceeded far
before the. oil ignited. The men on top of the
tank beat a hasty retreat and escaped without
it jury, and ip a few minutes the tank burst,
aud an immense sheet of flame and smoke shot
up into the heavens.
As the firery stream roiled past, it attacked
everything in its course, tank after tank burst,
and ail tne inhabitants of the valley rushed to
the hillside to prevent being swallowed up in
a river of liquid fire. T’Uo stream
to roll on until it reached within half a mile of
Petroleum Creek ; here it camo in contact with
a large accumulation of ice and snow, which
stayed its progress. This, however, did n. t
last long, a* the oil forced its way through
the ice, but came out at the other side extin
guished, and flowed on its course until it
emptied into oil Creek. The scone was now
grand beyond description ; lor nearly a mile
one vast sheet of fl itna shot heavenward, and
the dense black smoke covered the whole
country with a black cloud. The sun wa3 now
setting and the reflection upon that cloud ren
dered it first of a dark purple, then of a red
color, ar.d the peculiar rolling motion produced
an endless variety of shade till at last it he
came dark and black as before. The bright
blaze of the fire made every object distinctly
viß'bie after, and the hillsides were at one
time so hot that an indilual was heard to re
murk that if the internal regions were anything
respmoling it he never wished to visit them.
Groups of houseless and panic-stricken wo
men and children were wending fheir way to
Petroleum Center, while gangs of men were at
work-with pick and shovel, damming the creek
qt various points. The noise of the splitting
rocks was nke the constant roll of ’musketry,
an ! a* the burning fluid fell over the dam it
produced a sharp, cracking sound, like the
discharge of innumerable pistols The flames
at one time completely surrounded and played
upon the large iron tank containing 2,800 bar
rels cf oil belonging to the Ocean Company.
Had th's burst, the town of Petroleum Center
would that night have been laid iu ashes
Good fortune, however, saved it. About 9
o'clock the fire had spent itself, and the oil not
consumed was on its way to the Gulf of
Mexico.
The G. B. Lamar Cottos Cas^. —The sen
tence of the Military Commission who tried
Mr. G. B. Lamar for cotton frauds, bribery,
etc., in Savannah, a few weeks ago, has not
yet been made public. The Maoon Telegraph,
however, learns privately that the judgement
af the Commission was three years' imprison
ment and $25,000 fine. The President has or
dered Mr. Lamar to be released on bail until
he can get time to examine fully into the evi
dence on which this severe sentence was pro
nounced.
F entasis hiv Georgia. —Col. John O’Maho
nv, Head Centre cf the Fenian Brotherhood of
\ America, has appointed Mr. James Skehan, of
Savannah, Slate Centre for the city of Savan
| nah and State of Georgia.
An organization in Savannah and other cities
| in Georgia is to be affected at once. -
A Rich Cargo. —The British Bark Mess’a
h 3 s left Savannah for Liverpool with a cargo
consisting of 1.241 bales of upland cotton
value, $283 313,29 - 19 bales sea Island cotton
—value, 5 880 69, and 30,000 feet of timber
! —value, SI,OOO.
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Mr. Beverly Tucker is about to leave Lon
! don for Mexico as “Commissioner’’ of a Lon
j don newspaper.
The Independence Beige, which had been
prohibited by the Minister of the Interior from
S entering France was to be re-admitted into
Fnmee on February 1.
ACtB. A\!> B «SObUT!OX< 8 «J\E9 UY THE
GOVERXtm iOFLBIABI 8.
No. 1. An act to consolidate the offices cf
Secretaiy of State and Surveyor General, and
to provide salaries for the Comptroller Gen
eral, State Treasurer, and Secretary of State,
and State Librarian
No. 2. An act s o make free persons of color
competent witnesses in the courts of this
State in cerium cases therein mentioned, and
to author a 9 the making and Tieclarirg the
force of affidavits by them in certain cases.
No. 3. An act to change the place of bold
itg the Superior and luferior Courts, and
Courts of Ordinary of Bartow county,] until a
court house is built.
No 4. An Act to authorize an advance of
payment to be made to the Public Printer of
the present session of the Legislature.
No. 5. An act to amend the several acts in
relation to the city of West Point, in Troup
county, and to grant to the Mayor and Aider
men, of said city, additional powers, and to
define the pstne.^
No. H An At*, for the encouragement of
Richmoud Fire Ccgppany number seven, and
lor other purposes.
No. 7. Au Act to extend the corporate
limits of the town of Forsyth, Monroe county,
Georgia ; to increase the powers of the Com
missioners thereof, as to taxes, and the enforce
ment ot fiats and penalties
No. 8. An act to appoint eertaiu persons
herein named Trustees of the Knoxville Camp
Ground, Grawiord county, Georgia, and to
vest certain powers in them.
No. 8. An Act to chango the place of hold
ing the Justices’ Court ia the 97th. District
Georgia Militia, ol Washington county.
No. 10. An act to suspend the operation
ot Section fifteen hundred and twenty-eight
of the Code of Georgia, in certain counties.
No. 11 An Act to utter and amend the
tenth paragraph of the second article, p t first,
title sixteenth, chapter fifth of the ode of
Georgia.
No 12. An Act to change the me between
Worth and Irwin counties so as to include
number 30, second district of Irwin in Worth
countv.
No. 13. Au Act to repeal au Act assented
to, on the 21st day of December, 1857, requir
ing the Court of Ordinary of i'atnali county,
to be held on the second Monday in October,
instead of Ist Monday, as provided for by
law.
No. 14. An Act to authorize and require
the Treasurer of this State to make certain ad
vances and for oiher purposes.
No. 15. An act to establish the seal to be
used in the office of the Secretary of State.
No. 16. Au Act to change the time when
the Justices of the Inferior-Corn t must draw
Juries tor the Superior Courts and to legal,zj
the bolding of certain Superior Courts.
No. 17. An Act to amend the charter of the
city ot Home, by authorizing the Mayor aud
Council to raise the fee for retail license aud
to prohibit tho erectiou of wooden buildings.
No. 18. Au Act to authorize aud empower
the Judges of the Superior Courts of this State,
to hold special terms for the trials of criminals
and for other purposes.
No 19. Au Act for the relief of securities
on recognizances in certain cases.
No. 20. An Act to confer certain powers on
the commissioners of Louisville, and lor other
purposes, etc. %•
No. 21. Au Act to permit certain persons
to build stock gaps on tho Western aud Atlan
tic Railroad.
No. 22. An Act to amend an act. assented
to, March 9ih, 1865. entitled An Act to ex
tend the civil jurisdiction ol the city Courts of
Augusta, to abolish the tax or Court fee, and
to make the fee3 of the officers of that Court
the same as the Superior Courts of this
State.
No. 23. An Act to make all suits, writs
and proces es which were returnable to Hous
ton Superior Coutt, as of October term,
1865, returnable to lli9 February term of
said Superior Court, to be held in the year of
1866
No. 24 An Act to repeal An Act, entitled ;
An Act, to alter, and amend, An Act to incor
porate the city of Americus, and to alter and
amend An Act, to incorporate tne town of
Americus, in the county of Sumpter, and for
other purposes, assented to December 17tb,
1861.
No 25 An Act to prevent the spread of
small p >x in this Sta e.
No. 26 An Act to enable the Inferior
Courts of the several counties in this State to
rail e a fund to pay off the indebtedness of
their several counties, and for other purposes.
No. 27. An Act to legalize the issue of
bills and bonds by the Mayor and Council of
the City of Atlauta.
RESOLUTIONS.
N. 1. Resolution relative to adjournment.
No. 2. Resolution in reference'to continu
ance of cases against the bauks of this State.
No. 3. R -solution authorizing the Treasur
er *o make certain advances, &c
No. 4.—Resolutions in reference to selling
the debris of the Georgia Military Institute.
No. s.—Resolutions requesting the revoca
tion of the order of the Secretary of War rela
tive to branded stock in this State.
No. 6, Resolution to instruct the Inferior
Courts to report destitute widows, orpahus and
disabled soldiers.
No. 7. Resolution in relation to improve
ments of the public grounds and buildings.
No. 8. Resolution in reference to the Presi
dent of the Uoited States.
No. 9. Resolution relative to a revision of
the Code of Georgia by Hon. David Irwin, of
this State.
No. 10. Resolution authorizing his Excel
lency, the Governor, to borrow, upon the faith
and credit of the State, the sum of one hun
dred thousand dollars.
No. 11. Resolution requesting the Presi
dent of the United States, if not a withdrawal
of the troops, a surrender of private property,
and the restoration of the writ of ‘‘Habeas
Corpus.”
No. 12. Restitution to appqint a Committee
of three from the House, and two fro a the
Senato to take into consideration that por
tion of the Governor’s Message which relates
to tho State’s interest in the Card Factory.
No. 13. Resolution authorizing the appoint
ment of a Joint Committee to inquire into the
present condition of the Executive Mansion.
No. 14. Resolution requesting the Governor
to intercede with the President for the restora
tion of property on Wilmington, Whitmarsh,
Skidaway, Sapelo and all other Islands, to its
lawful owner, &c
No. 15. Resolution request the Governor
to call several Banks of this State to
make a retufu of their condition conlormable
to law now existing within ten days.
No. 16. Resolution to authorize the Gov
ernor to prosecute the claim of this State for
cotton lately se zed by the Federal Army.
No. 17. R-.solution in relation to the Card
Factory recently in operation in the Peniten
tiary of this State.
No. 18. Resolution in response to a final
settlement of tne State’s interest in Cotton
Card Factory.
Photographic albums, with musical ’ boxer,
concealed in the cover, are at the present a
novelty in London.
The Secretary of the Treasuary contemplates
having the watte notes and securities that are
now destroyed by burning, converted into
pulp for paper stock.
Bisbop Simp : oa, of the Methodist Episcopal
Church is in Washington, and it is stated he
wiil give the President his views on reconstruc
tion.
The New Hampshire .State Democratic Con
vention. which met a: Concord, and made its
nominations, passed resolutions indorsing the
President’s desire to admit the Southern mem
bers of Congress, and discountenancing any
amendments to the Constitution.
VOL. LXXV. —NEW SERIES VOL. XXV NO. 9.
IV'EIYS 81 MMARY.
Three boys, the oldest only fourteen or fif
teen years of use, have been arrested at New
Haven, 0 iun.. for robbing 'h * mails.
There are 7,500 public street lamps in Phila
delphia. Eich lamp .consumes during the
year 26,00 t feet of gas. It is estimated that
195 000 out) teet are consumed aunualiy at the
cost of $2 per thousand.
No less tb.iu seven steamboats, bearing the
Dame of Missouri, have been destroyed by fi.-e
and other accidents.
It has been ascertained that large quantities
of corn whiskey are being manufactured in
North Carolina and Tennessee, which pay no
revenue taxes.
A delegation of New Yorkers has arrived in
Washington to urge the name of John Coch
rane for the vacant. CoUectorship.
General Henry E Read, formerly a member
of toe Confederate Congress and latterly resid
ing in Louisville, has been arrested, on an in.
dictment framed about the beginning of the
war.
The Waterloo City, Ind., Union flour mills,
wero destroyed by fire od tho 4:h inst.
Two cargoes ol fire arms have arrived in Cu
ba.
Mrs Stonewall Jackson, in a letter to the
Editor of the Charleston News, expresses deter
mination not ao receive the contribution made
for her. She requests that all efforts in that
direction shall cease at once, liar father is
able to support and care for her.
A bill has been introduced into the Senate
looking to the scmoval of the capitol of Ken
tucky,
Gen Sheridan has closed the gambling es
tablishments in Nov,- Oilcans. The Mayor re
monstrates and threatens an appeal to the
President.
Beuno Fpier, the Belgian Consul at Cincin
nati, lias absi cadet, leaving liabilities to tho
amouut of S4O 009,
It is rumored iu Washington that the re
strictions on hub its corpus, „in Kentucky, will
be removed so soon as the Freecimeu’s Bureau
bill becomes a law.
A Chicagoan applies for a divorce because
his wife proves to have a corke leg. Bbo re-,,
sisis, because, as she alleges, he knew ojl
about that before marriage, hhe says the reul
trouble is, that she does not possess a ccupio ot
houses that he supposed sh“ did.
The fi m of Jay Cooke &L’o.,of Philadelphia
the heaviest banking house iu America, now
consists of Jay Cooke, William G. Morehead,
Henry D. Cooke, H. if Fahnestock, Pitt Cooke
John W. Sexton aid George C. Thomas. The
last four entered the firm January Ist. 1866.
7he longest railroad in the world is the
Grand Trunk of Canada—from Dstioit to
Portland—eight hundred and thirty-seven
miles.
The population of Braton is 182,324, of
vyljnin 06,000 are of foreign birth, and 2,627
are colored.
General J G, Pemlierton, who commanded
Confederates at the surrender of Vicksburg, is
I raiding at Newton N C.
There are 2.000 Cathode churches and chap
els in the Untied States
Judge Goodloe, of Kentucky, has been ar
raigned before the State Legislature, for dis
mission of the indictment against Gen. Pal mer,
Gov. Bramlette, Capt. Johnson and others,
for interfering in the elections.
An old gentleman has been admitted to tho
Alms House in Washington, who, five years
ago, was a citizen of Fredericksburg—worth
SIOO,OOO.
It is rumored that the O’Mahoney Fenians
intend petitioning Secretary Seward to inter
pose in behalf of the Americans under arrest in
Ireland as Fenian, conspirators
Ex Gov. Morehead, of N. C., has been ar*
rested by the military authorities for interfer
ing with the sale of property previously ad
vertised to be sold.
Tho dentists of Ohio are urging the Legisla
ture to pass a law, forbidding any one to prac
tice the pro3e siou, unless duly license-.! by the
Dental Association.
There were three hundred and forty deaths
in Cincinnati during the month of January.
The Cincinnati Cricket Club has introduced
in that city a skating tdad.
The Cincinnati Relit f Union has petitioned
the Legislature for the p iss tge ot a law, that
will enable the rescue of children from the
evil influences and by the
disipatton ot their ptueuta.
Mussjs Daks and Woodman, Proprietors of
tho Chicago steam bakery, recently presented
their workmen with a policy of $2001) each, as
insurance against loss of lif -, or personal in
jury tov ths period of one year.
Avery large Gnveruineut b in pro
gress iu New «Irtoans ft,
Stephen Rodgers, Chilian Consul, was ar
rested in New York, on the7ib, on an indict
ment for violation of neutrality laws.
The guerrillas whoetptured the Belfast on
Tombigbee river ate to to hied by court mar
tial.
The Government is removing all ordnance
stores from the depot at Huntsville to Nash
ville.
There is one instance o' a person holding a
college presidency even longer than th 6 late
Dr. No't, of Union College. Tho Rev Martin
Joseph Routti, D D., was e’ected President ot
Magdalen College, Ox ord, in 1791, aud so
continued uutildeath iu 1854, aged ninety nine.
The senior coliege President iu this countiy
now is the Rev. Mark Hopkins, D. D-, LL. D.,
President of Williams Coitege, who was elected
in 1836.
The steamer Mary W Brune., with 840 bales
of cotton on board was burned at the mouth
of red river, Febu«ry 3d.
The old jail in Harts jrd, Conn., is to be
demolished It was built in 1793.
It is reported that General Fisk will soon
publish his reply to the charges made against
him by the Kentucky Legislature, in reference
to his Cincinnati speech.
Great destitution is reported as prevailing
throughout Alabama, it is estimated that
almost two million doliars will be reqired to
suppl/i toe wants of the needy.
Students are pouring into the University at
Oxford, Miss, luere werel2oat la;t accounts.
John W Forney, edi'or of the Washington
Chronicle, is an aspirant for a seat in the Uni
ted States Senate, liotn' Pennsylvania, in the
place of Senator Cowan.
Ten murderers are in jail at IndiSnapoils,
lad , three of them women.
Over 90,000 hogs have been slaughtered in
Indianapolis Ind., this season.
A Xenia Ohio, man had his pocket rifled of
$13,000 in 7-30s, in Cincinnati, Saturday.
Seventy horsea were burned to death in a
street railway stable in New York, recently.
The State Normal School of Minnesota has
been located at Winona, and SIO,OOO appro
priated for itii aid.
Eight Illinois regiments are still in the field
seven intantry and one cavalry. AU are ex
pected to be mustered out by March 1.
The County Clerk, Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff
of Pope county, Axk«nf-as, were ail recently
assassinated. The Uerk, Rev. Mr. Stout, was
a member of the idee Couveniion two years
ago.
A few years ago a druggist of Portland pur
chased a lot of rhu'oard at 50 cents per pound.
La=; week he sold a targe quantity of the same
to a Boston firm for $5 30 per pound.
T:.o prospect of peace *iih the Sioux and
Cheyenne Indians is very favorable.
A Kaleigb, North Carolina, lady died, to all
appearance, and was in her coffin, two days,
when she arose and proceeded to recover,
The ladies of Selma, Alabama are raising a
very handsome sud for t\o erecriun of a mon
ument to the late A. M. Smaii, who fell in the
defence of that city.
The highest inhabited place on the globe is
the Pcsthouse at Ancomareo, in Peru, which is
nearly sixteen thousand feet above the sea.
An excursion party has left New York for
Leima, South America, to be abscent two
months. The cost is SI,OOO fc»r each person.
Georgia Legislature
SENATE.
Thuksdat, Friday 8.
The annexed biils weio introduced : to limit
the number of Judges ot the Inferior Court of
each county to one —term of office lour years;
to amend the < harter of the Dgletho pe In
surance Comp ny < f Savannah; to incorporate
the Hansell Ma uTacluring Company o Camp
bell county; to xonerate Sheriffs aud the'r
deputies from iiaoilities in certain cases—it
applies to cases where those officers have re
ceived and hold bank bills &c ; to change the
time of holding the Superior Court ot Floyd
Pojk, Paulding and Campbell counties; to fix
the liabilities of persons of African descent—it
places them on precisely the same footing, so
far as liabillies are concerned, with white per
sons; to authorize persons exempted from jury
duty to be made Idles jurors.
A resolution to authorize tho Governor to
publish “By Authority’’ acts of a general na
ture potted at the present session of the Gen
eral Assembly in such papers as he might se
lect. was lost.
The annexed resolutions wsre introduced ;
for the appointment of Joint Committee to ex
amine into the condition of the State’s Arse
nal and Mug zina; authorizing »he 4 Governor to
appoint a Commissioner to go to Washington
for the benefit of persons who subscribed to
the Confederate Cotton Loan, without ever re
ceiving Coniederate bonds lor the same; to al
low tne Treasurer of the State to purchase
and open anew set of books.
The stay law was then taken up and dis
cussed. *
HOUSE.
Thcekdit, February 8.
Resolution in relation to the_.se zute of cot*
ton by the U. S. military authorities. Adop
ted.
Bill to incorporate the Emp ; re State Manu
facturing Company; of the county of Newton.
Referred to a Special Committee of seven.
Dill to allow a legal partner of an .Ordinary
to practice law. Withdrawn.
The annexed bills were lost : to allow Daw
son county to levy au extra tux; to hire out
colored persons for debt; to appropriate a sum
of money lor the use of State University ; to
allow Administrate, Evecutors, etc, to re
s‘gn busts; to amend section 4597 of the Cod*-;
to preveut the lurther relief ot s -curities on
ciimiual bonds; to amend section 4512 of the
Code.
The annexed bills were passed : to amend
section 3320 of the Code ; to compensate
Commissioners foj preparing the Freedmen's
Code -it gives each $750; to change the
line between Baker and Eirly ; for the relief
<■ Administrators in certain cases; to allow
„orpo rations to tax auctioneers, and require
bonds of the same ; to change the line between
Fuyet e and Claytoa counties ; in reference to
retail Bcenses in Quitman ; to allow an extra
taxot 25 percent, on the State tax in Scrvien
county ; tor the relief of . Isaac Hardeman of
the county of Jones ; to extend the time of
granting lands surveyed on head rights tiil
25th December, 1808 ; to amend the charter
ot Etowah Aurora Hose Mining Company I
to amend Section 3794 of the Code.
SENATE. •
Friday, February 9.
The Stay Law, after considerable discussion
was passed. It provides that one forth of the
debt shall be paid on the first day of January,
1867, and one fourth every year thereafter,
until paid ; and refers to all contracts made
prior to the passage of the bill.
The annexed bills were introduced : to pun
ish the burnieg of any dwelling bouse and
burglary in the day or night with death ; to
incorporate the Columbus Railroad Company.
A resolution was introdoced in reference to
the representation of the State in the Atlantic
& Gulf Railroad Company.
The annexed bills were passed : to incorpo
rate Atlanta S.reet Railroad Company ; for the
pardon of John W. Martin ; to authorize mar
ried*'women to deposit money in Savings
Banks ; to change the time of bolding Superior
Courts in the Western Ju iicial Circuit; to de
fine the rights of persons owuing Landtags on
water courses. A bill to regulate annual re
turns of incorporated Companies, was lost.
' A motion to reconsider so muen of the action
of the House on yesterday as relates to Ad
ministrators in certain cases, was carried.
A motion to recous and rso mucu ot the ac
tion of the House as reiates to the compensa
tion of the ConunitsioDers appointed to prepare
a Code for Freedmen, was cairied.
Leave of absence granted to tho Committee
on the B ind Asylum to visit said institution.
The aunexed bills were passed ; to compen
sate Ordinaries and Clerks for administering
the amnesty oath ; for the pardon ot Terry u.
Cox.
One resolution was introduced that no new
matter be introduced alter February 12 ;
another that no new matter be introduced alter
February 16 ; ano Lsr that the call of the
Countiesafterthel.thinst.be dispensed with
and that no new matter after that time be re
ceived without a two thirds vote.
The annexed bills were introduced; to extend
the corporate limits of the town ot Rom«; to
repeal an act amendatory of 2480. h section of
the Code; to incorporate the Gate Cty In
surance and Banking Company; restricting the
frequent changing of the Code; a resolution to
pub tsh the laws in such newspapers as the
Gevernor may desire; to allow Excutors to
resign their trusts iu certain cases; to authorize
the Inferior Court of Pickens county to appro
priate any money arising from the sale of cot
ton after the surrender of the Confederate
arm/, to the building of a jtil in said county;
to authorize the Inferior Court of Richmond
to levy an extra tax; to incorporate the Grand
Bay Insurance Cos., in the county of Berrien;
toauthoiize a waiver of legal processes in
certain cases; to make the salary of the R-> i
dent Physician of the Lunatic Asylum $3,500;
for the payment of the officers and members of
the General Assembly; to amend the laws of
this State in reference to the Inferior Courts;
to prescribe the time for advertising property
to bs sold by Sheriffs and Constables; to incor
porate the Vulcan Iron and Coal Companies.
SENATE.
Saturday, February 10.
The annexed new bills were introduced: To
relieve tbo people cf Georgia, the present
year, from the payment of taxes, and to pro
vide for the raising of $2,000,000 by the sale
of the bonds of the State; to change the lina
between Greene and Morgan counties; to
amend section 4420 of«tbe Code; to provide for
the taking of the Census of the Stite, and a
bill to enlarge the powers of the City Council
of Macon; to change the time of holding tbe
Superior Courts of Worth county; to reduce
the bonds ot the Sheriffs of Washington,
Hancock and Baldwin; to enlarge the power*
of the City Council of Auaueta.
A memorial was presented from certain citi
zens of Richmond county in reference to aid to
Mrs. Brown.
The annexed bills were passed: To alter the
second and third Congressional districts; to
amend sections 4792 and 4793 of the Code; to
fix thosalariei of State Librarian and Clerks in
’ eStatc House. The salaries are fixed at
200 each; to incorporate the Blaireville
Mining and Manufacturing Company.
Kesolutioa in reference to persons who sub
scribed to the Confederate Cotton Loan. Pass
ed.
HOUSE.
Saturday, Febuary 10.
Mr. Byrd, of Mitchell, moved to recoDsider
so much of the action of the House on yester
day in the passage of a bill to compensate
Ordinaries an 1 Clerks for administering the
amnesty oath. The motion prevailed. Tno
I b 1 TTmuM of" The had was granted to an agent
I of an emigration society, to addreas the mem-