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borF of the General Assembly on Monday
uight.
Toe annexed bill* were paa°e<] : To incor
porate the Empire Manufacturing Company of
Newton county; to inc'jrpors-t Jibe N< r h
G> -rgla Petroleum and Mining Company; to
incorporate the Gate City Gae Company; to
carry out an ordinance of the State in refer
ence to Executors, &c; to carry into effect the
6 h article, section 7 and 8, of tne Constitution
of the State in reference to judgements of
Courts; to regulate jail chargee for diet of
prisoners
The annexed bills were lost : To increase
the fees of county officers; to require defend
ants to give bond for the forthcoming of prop
erty In certain oaees.
SENATE.
Monday, February 12.
The annexed bills were introduced : to reg
ulate the sale of spiritoua liquors in small
quantities—it proposes that before license
are Issued, a person desiring to retail, shall
give bond not to keep a disorderly house ; to
authorize the levy of a specific tax on all spirit
ouh liquors distilled in this State, it proposes a
tax of f>o cents per gallon ; to repeal an act re
quiring incorporated Cotton and Woolen Com
panies to publish lists of their stockholders.
r ll)e annexed bills were passed ;to amend
the Charter of the town of Elberton ; to pre
vent persons from inducing laborers to forfeit
their contractu and to abandon the interests of
their employers ;to alter and amend Section
4596 and 4597 oi the Code ; for the relief of
the Muscogee Building and Loan Association
and the Columbus Building and Loan Associa
tion ; to exhonerate Sheriffs and their deputies
from liabilities in certain cases—it refers to
cases where bonds were given on a Confede
rate basis of value ; to incorporate the Hansell
Manufacturing Company of Campbell county ;
to puniuh with death house burning and bur
glary at night ; to require persons exempt by
luw from jury duty to serve as tales jurors;
to change the time for holding the Superior
Courts of Paulding, Floyd, Polk and Comobell
counties ; for the relief of persons under ar
rest lor offeoies committed against the Confe
dt rate States.
Bill to Ax the time of holding the Supreme
Com tof this State It fixes the time at the
first Mondays in June aud December of each
year Postponed.
Bill *o allow Atttornoy and Solicitors to
argue their cases In the Supreme Court of this
State In writing. Recommitted to the Judi
ciary Committee.
Ihe annexed bills were lost : to prohibit
itenerant trading ip certain articles without a
license—it refers to ground peas, butter, eggs,
poultry, water melons, etc.; to provide a more
summary mode for the enforcement of Me
chauics’ liens ; to exempt from jury duty all
persons active members of incorporate Fire
Companies of this Stale.
HOUSE.
Monday, February 16.
The action of the Uoune on tho bill to fix
tbo fees of county officers, was reconsidered.
The annexed bills were introduced ; to re
peal act allowing Ordinaries certain
fo< s; to chatigo the time of holding tho Supe
rior Courts of Lee county; to remit the tax
duo tho State from tax payers for 1864 and
1865; to change tho line between Henry and
Butts counties; to exempt from street duty all
members of the Hook and Ladder company;
to incorporate the Gate City Foundry, Car
and Machine Works; to incorporate the Union
KxprtßH Company; to extend the time of the
completion of the Coosa and Chattanooga rail
road; to incorporate the Buck Manufacturing
Company of Schley county; to incorporate
the Commercial Insurance Company of Augus
ta; to incorporate the Augusta Mutual Insu
rance Company.
The auuexed bills were passed ; To amend
seotion 4391 of the Code; to incorporate Plan
ters’ Insurance Company, ot Columbus, ia
place of Merchants’ Insurance Company of
of Columbus; relative to the Bonds of Justice;
to repeal sections 1776 and 1766 of the Code;
to legalize acts of Deputy Clerks; to increase
the diem pay of Poor School Teachers; to
amend the charter ot Milledgeville; for the
relief of Administrators, Guardians and Exe
cutors, to compensate commissioners for pre
paring the Kreedmen’s Code; to authorize the
oouuty of hlarly to levy an extra tax; for the
relief of Martha Lester of Fultc county.
The annexed resolution were introduced;
asking (he ,Secretary of lreasuary of tb- Uni
ted States, to suspend the col.ection of the
internal revenue tax, and to allow the State to
assume the same; to ask the Governor to par
don from the peniten iary Epsey Woods, of
Franklin county; requesting the Governor to
ask of lire President a withdrawal of colored i
troops from the State.
A resolution that no new matter be intro- I
duced alter the Kith instant and that the Legis
tore adjourn sine die on the 28th instant.—
Lost.
The resolution of the Senate in relation to
the seizure of cotton was referred to the Judi
ciary Committee.
A resolution, asking the suspension of the
eollection of internal revenue tax, was passed.
Tne annexed bills were lost ; to change the
mode ol empannelliug Jurors tor the trial ol
criminal cases ; to authorize Sheriffs‘‘and Con
stables to administer oaths ; to alter section
3320 of the Code.
To punish fieedmen for living in adultery.
Bill to create anew judicial circuit to be
called the North Eastern Circuit. Withdrawn.
SENATE.
Tuesday, February 13.
The motion to reconsider tho action of the
Senate in passing a bill to discharge from ar
rest persons charged with offenoes against the
Confederate States, was lost.
The annexed bills were introduced : to re
peal section 134 of the Code ; amendatory of
lost papers ; to change the line between Bar
tow and Paulding counties.
The annexed bills were passed : to pnnish
with death thestealmg of horses and mules :
to authorize the Interior Court of Hall county
to levy an extra tax; to allow Attorneys and
Solicitors to argue their cases in the Supreme
Court in writing ; to incorporate the American
Industrial Agency. The bill was amended so
as to require the principle officers of said
oouuty to be in Atlanta, Augusta, Savannah
or Macon, and that one fourth of the Directors
shall be citizens of Georgia.
The annexed bills were lost : to amend sec
tiou 3866 of the Code so far as relates to the
county ot Chatham; iu reference tojpersons join
ing feuces and keeping up common fences; to
make owners and possessors of mischievous
dogs liable for the damage such dogs may do.
HOUSE.
Tuesday, February 23
The annexed bills were passed ; to increase
the salary ol the Superintendent of the Wes
tern & Atlantic Railroad; to incorporate the
Lookout Valley Miuing Company ; to incorpo
rate the McLeskie Gold Mining Company ; to
incorporate the Okefeuokee Land and Canal
Company it requires the Company to begin op -
orations within two years ; to amend section
4613 of the Code ; to'change the time of holding
the Superior Courts of Clay couuty ; to author
ir>the payment of certain claims against the
Western and Atlantic Railroad ; to change the
name of the Milledgeville Railroad Company to
the Macon and Augusta Railroad Company : to
amend section 1385 of the Code.
The auuexed bills were lost . to appropriate
money for the payment of certain claims for
the suppression of small pox ; to authorize
persons regularly engaged in the practice ot
medicine five years prior to the Ist of January,
1866. to practice medicine and charge for the
same.
Wednesday, February 14.
The Senate reconsidered the rejection of a
bill to alter the law in regard to the publica
tion of Rules Nisi, so far as relates to the coun
ty of Chatham, aud passed the same.
A motion to reconsider the bill punishing
horse stealing with death was lost.
A bill was introduced to allow the legal
voters of Bartow county to determine on the
sth of June next by ballot the question of re
moval of the county Site of said county.
Bill to rt-peal paragraph ly&S. 3rd article.
2nd section ot the Code. It refers to the Vea- j
dor's lien. Lost.
The annexed bills and resolutions were re
ferred : to rer.der certain acts trespasses and
penal—it refers to cutting timber on enclosed
land, takiug away rails, &c— it excepts per
eons at night; reeolution in reference to per
sons inducing freedmea to abandon the inter
ests of their employers ; resolution requesting
the Governor to memorialize the Secretary of
■ the United States in reference to seizures of ly
i Federal authorities.
The annexed bills were passed ; to amend
the Charter of the town of Wilson, in Webster
county ; to legalist marriages between first
cousins :to reduce the Sheriff’s bond of For
syth county ; to provile for the election of
town council in R'ngg 1, Catoosa county ;to
• ithorize an extra tax in the county of Heard,
ior the suppression of small pox : to authorize
Alexander A. E. Jones iff Bibb county, to re
ceive and receipt for certain property ; to
allow persons to redeitn lands sold for taxes
on paying the taxes of the same ; to legalize
the acts of officers appointed by the Provis
ional Governor ; to change the time of holding
Courts of Ordinary ; to amend paragraph 1232,
chapter 2, of the Code, it pequ res election
precincts to be clos and at 3 o’clock F. M.
The rules were suspended and Mr. Ezzard
offered the following :
Whereas, the establishment of peaceful and
permanent good order and fellowship be
tween the people of ali sections of the Union
upon honorable and equitable term*, is an
object greatly commendaole and ardently de
sired universally by our citizens : Whereas,
the policy of inviting foreign immigration to
this section is questionable as to its benefits
or pernicious effects npon the present and fu
ture welfare of our inhabtante and of native
citizens.
Be it therefore resolved by the General As
semqlv of the State of Georgia, that the in
troduction of foreign emigration into this
State, in the present perilous crisis of our po
litical and domestic relations, and more espe
cially from a quarter where its citizens either
d'rectly or indirectly, or by taking up arms in
the recent conflict between the people North
and South, aided in increasing its violence
and devastating efhets upon humanity, the
peace and prosperity of our national existence,
should ue reluctantly encouraged or sanction
ed.
Relying therefore upon the patriotic efforts
and active energy ol our citizens, wg feel as
sured that no foreign element is needed in aid
of our system ot government, or in addition
to the class of laboring population already
amougst us.
Those names who as by Satan sent,
Were legions blighting as they went,
They should again if on they pass,
Be stop’d like Balaam on his ass.
The resolution wes referred to the Commit
tee on the slate of the Republic.
Resolution allowing Treasurer and Comptrol
ler of the State to purchase and open anew
set of books. Adopted.
HOUSE.
Wednesday, February 14.
The annexed bills were introduced : to make
Wills valid when made out ot the State, in cer
tain cases ; in reference to change bills ; to es
tablish a Military School at Fort Valley ; to
change the line between Laurens and Wilkin
son couuties ; to incorporate the Ghestatee and
Long Branch River ami Hydraulic Hose Mining
Company ; to amend section 1339 of the Code ;
to change tha charter of the town of Madison ;
to incorporate the Columbus Manufacturing
Oompauy ; ot State tax for 1866 to build a
Court house ; to change the line between Pike
and Spaulding counties ; to authorize and re
quire the Auditor of the Western & Atlantic
Railroad to audit all accounts not paid for ma
terial used in the construction of houses, or
curs, or cross ties for the use of said road.
The annexed bills were passed ; to amend
the charter ol the Macon & Western Rai road
and Macon & Westeju R. R. Cos; to appropriate
money for repaiis and keeping in ordor lor
iB6O, the State House clock ; to exempt from
rord duty Professors of Schools and Colleges ;
to relieve from penalty physicians practicing
without license ; to add to Section 1540 of the
Code ; compelling R. It., Express aud Steam
boat Companies to furnish receipts for freight
to bo transferred by s aid companies ; to amend
2462. Section ot tha Codo ; to authorize rendi
tion of certain decrees in acqutiy and to legal
certain decreess already recorded ; to
amend the charter of the town ot Athens ; to
add to and amend Section 4685 of the Code.
The annexed bills were lost : Bill to prevent
the distillation of corn ; to allow the Inferior
Court to raise mouey to build a Court House
in Bartow county; to amend Section 349 of the
Code; to define the ages of persons liable to
road duty.
BUI to prevent free persons of color from
other States coming iuto this State, postponed
indefinitely
Bill to cooler the management of W & A. R.
R. oTI a Board of Managers. Laid ou the
table for ihe present
STATIC ITEMS.
Col Bogart has b«en appointed commander
of the District of Columbus.
Horse stealing is getting to be an every day
affair in Macon and vicinity.
Silver and copper ore have been recently
discovered in abuudanco on the lands oi Jas S
Huff, of Red Clay, Whitfield co. Specimens
of tho ore have been sent to New York by an
Agent of a Company fWm that place.
Col Win H Putchett, of Cartersville, has
been appointed Agent of the Freedmen’s Bu
reau for Bartow county.
Robberies in and around Dalton are becom
ing of a frequent occurrence
Savaunah is becoming quite Metropolitan.
Robbery and attempts at murder are becoming
the order of the day.
Cotton stealing “by the bale” is being suc
cessfully carried on iu Savannah.
The Atlantic & Gulf Railroad have received
a large lot of machinery from New York.
A detachment of U. S. troops have been sent
te Purysburg to prevent marauding.
A circle of the Feuian brotherhood has been
formed in Savannah.
In a late affray on a schooner at Darien, one
of the men was shot by the mate. The latter
has been arrested
The Columbus papers deny that any colored
troops are to be sent, to that place.
The steamer Jeff Davis, was sold at auction,
by the Governin-nt in Savannah, February 3.
Price obtained $9,000. She was bought by
Captaia Dickerson.
Strenuous efforts are being made for the
speedy completion of the necessary repairs on
the Charleston & Savannah Railroad.
The fare from Macon to Atlanta by rail is
$5 15; children under twelve and over three
half rates.
It is reported that Hon, Augustus Reese has
been appointed by the Governor, Judge of
OctmOgee district.
The wheat crops in Northern Georgia
promises well.
Mr. James Lachlison an esteemed citisen
of Savannah. Ga., died in that city on the 4th.
Rev. W II Hawks died recently at Colum
bus, Ga. He was a rector of the Episcopal
Church at that place, and was a brother of
the Right Reverend Bishop Hawks, of Missouri,
and of Dr. Francis L Hawks, of Grace Church,
New York.
NEWS FROM THE KIO OB VNIIK.
General Wright arrived from Galveston on
the Ist inst.
Colonel Brown succeeds General Weitzel in
command of the Rio Grande district.
Colonel J G Perkins succeeds General Smith
in the command of a division of the Twenty
fifth coips.
The United States Provost Marshal is busy
iu arresting and disarming parties in Browns
▼ille and Us neighborhood.
Colonel Reed, General Crawford’s Adjutant,
has been arrested for complicity in tho Bagdad
affair.
Captain Sinclair of the Liberal army, has
also been arrested on the charge of violating
the neutrality laws.
General Cortina and the Liberal forces have
left for parts unknown.
Four pieces of artilleryjtaken from Bagdad
by the liberals and brought to Clarksville
were seized, and held by the United States
Collector of Customs.
A French maa-of war has arrived off the
mouth of the Rio Grande.
Two thousand French troops are expected
on the Rio Grande.
An aid de-camp of the Emperor Maximilian
was at Matamoras on the Ist inst.
Gen. Thomas, is reported to have rt marked
in conversation 'at Indianapolis, on the Sth,
that the state of feeling in the South was as
good, as could as be expected, and that the
work of restoration was progressing favorably,
although it would take many years to efface
the animosities of the past four years.
General Burnside will be the Republican
candidate for Governor of Rhode Island.
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UATIO.Y.
The speech o f President Johnson to the col
ored delegation that waited upon him demand
ing the right of suffrage, is a most important
one. It settles at onoe and definitely his po
rtion upon the great, t agitated question of the
day. All doubts in regard to his future course,
have been removed. His policy has been an
nounced fully and without equivocation by
himself. Aud we have every reason to be
lieve, that he will neither depart from the
constitutional position be has taken, nor allow
the radioala to force him from it.
The tone of the speech is eminently that of
the wise statesman, who has discarded preju
dice, and eschewed fanatioism ; ot one who,
looking facts in the face, and resolute in his
support of principle, is governed by that
principle and moves cautiously as a statesman
should—yet firmly, steadily, as a statesman
must—toward the demonstration of the prob
lem which engrosses his attention. That
problem, with President Johnson, is the adjust
ing harmoniously the present disordered con
dition of the country, and the satisfactory
settlement of the relations that must exist be
tween the whites and the blacks of the nation.
The remarks of the President are utterly
devoid of passion. They qfcow that he fully
realises the true position of affairs, aud is alive
only to the great interests of the country. It
Is another indication of his determination to
•land firm by what he believes to be the only
means of restoring our land to its normal con
dition of prosperify and happiness. He is
battling for the triumph of- his policyi
not as partisan, but as a patriot.
The most prominent feature of the speech is
the President’s emphatic reiteration of the
great principle which underlies all true re
publican government—“the people must be
obeyed.” He clearly and unmistakable an
nounces his determination to oppose all legisla
tion that is unconstitutional; that is contrary
to the will of the people, legally expressed.
The doctrine that Congress has the power to
legislate for the States upon matters of purely
State interest, he rightfully considers and de
nominates a false and flagrant heresy, an ’ will
find in him a sincere and earnest opponent
This is the grand point to be settled in our po
litical economy—we hope it will be settled
now finally and forever. Congress has de
clared it does possess the right to interfere
with State legislation on matters of which the
Constitution has given it no jurisdiction, and it
throws its gauntlet of defiance to the President.
The President denies its right to such legisla
tive power, and accepts its challenge. The
lines are thus drawn, and every man must
take his place in the contending ranks. There
can be no neutral position on this great and
vital question. “Who is not for, is against. ”
The hydra-headed dogma of centralization has
once more raised its crested, in our land. Untold
evil will arise hereafter unless this great enemy
of civil liberty is again crushed.
• The colored delegation, infected with ladi
cal ideas, could not conceal their disapproba -
tion, and left the President with the audible
threat of going before the people to condem
him. And the President replied, “he hid
great faith in the people ; he believed they
would do what is right.” He trusts them.
And in the contest between his wise statesman
ship on one hand, and the bloody fanaticism of
he radicals on the other, the people should
rally to his support as one man.
The President and the Montana Del«ja
tion —The views expressed and the announce
ments made by the President iu the interview
with the delegation from Montana are highly
important and interesting. He declared his
purpose to adhere to the doctrines and princ
iples contained in his message, and to act
strictly unier the constitution. He said it was
impossible lor him to turn or take a different
direction from that he has been steadily pur
suing—that his object is to restore the Union
in its integrity, and to reinstate the Southern
States in their former relations. This, he said,
was his mission, and by the help of the Al
mighty he was determined to; execute it. To
aspirants to the Presidential successorship, he
administered a fitting rebuke, showing plainly
that he has a correct understanding of the
motives that influence their opposition to hie
restoration policy. His declaration that he
will lend his countenance to no combinations
with reference to any future Presidential can
didacy, is one that will please the people as
much as it will displease the factions bow
struggling for supremacy; and the aspirants
who are scheming and agitating for the attain,
ment of Presidential honors.
The President evidently means that he in
tends to be President, and will not bo dictated
to either by individuals, or combinations, of
Individuals, and that he will not allow the
Presidential functions to be controlled or
modified by any considerations or airange- :
meats having reference to the succession. Oc- j
cupying this elevated position, he is placed !
above the reach of those selfish influences that |
usually attach to those occupying his great
office, as also above the envy and jealonsy of I
those, and their name is legion, who courts his
place. Freed from these clogs and embarrass
ments, he ia in a situation to act with perfect j
rectitude and independence. Such a course
will endear him to the people, and make him
immortal in history.
Will Not bb Satisfied. —The radical leaders
and presses of the North are determined not
to be satisfied with anything the South does.
Having made up their minds to oppose and
and deprive her of her rights if possible,
they find fault and censure, let what will hap
pen. On the floor of Congress, in State con
ventions—in the pulpit and on the stump—
theie is nothing but denunciitions breathed
forth by Sumner, Colfax, Stevens, and a
horde of followers whoso greatest ambition
seems to be more violent than their leaders, of
they can, vituperation and abuse, if the
Southern States are silent and undemonstra
tive, they are accused of sullenness and eontu
macy, and it is at once concluded that they
still adhere to secession, and may not safely
be recognized as in the Union. If, on the
other hand, to avoid this dilemma, they evince
a cheerful temper, and ehow a commendable
desire to comply with all the requirements of
the Government, in order to be allowed to
resume their former relations, it is at once al
leged that they are influenced by some occuU
and sinister design, such as that referred to
the above.
We cannot please the radica’s, de what we
will, because they are resolved not to be
pleased. The best way for us to do is
to act naturally, pursue the even tenor
of our way, and leave them to “work their
spite ” As certainly as retributive justice is an
element in the moral Government of tho world,
so certainly will their malice recoil upon
themselves.
The Fref.dmen’s Bureau,— While the bill
on this subject was pending in the United
States Senate, Mr. Hendricks, of Indiana
subjected it to a very thorough and searching
analysis, and exposed, with great force, it
pernicious effects, but all in vain. Tr ue, Mr
Fessenden, who seems to have more candor
than any of his New England colleagues, ad
mitted that the argument of Mr. H., based
upon the lack of constitutional power in the
government to transform itself into an eleem
osynary establishment, had made an impres
sion on his mind. Mr. Hendricks contended
that private and personal beneficence lay al
together without the authority of the Govern
ment, and that the practice would amount to
a revolution in its character and principles. If
Government may purchase and present lands
or other property to one individual, or to one
class, on account of sympathy with hie desti
tution and a desire to help him on, what is to
hinder it from setting up the profession of a
charitable corporation, and devoting its time
and revenues to the distribution of alms and
bounties were the party which happens for
the time to administer it think fit ?
Another Radical Dodge. —lt is evedent
the radicals are determined to do all in their
power to harrass the President, and to leave
nothing undone, that they can do, to embar
rass him.
The colored delegations, which have lately
waited upon the President, are s ni by tho
radicals, with the object of entrapping him
if possible. They are the only delegations
which have thus far had the impudence to in
terrupt the President in his remarks, and to
contest his positions and to endeavor to trans
form the Executive Mansion into an arena for
disputation and discussion. The insolent man
user in which tho Fred Douglas’ delegation
questioned his views, pressed tlioir demands
for universal suffrage, and ended by saying
that they would appeal to the people, affords
some indication of what would be the measure
of their offensive effrontry if invested with
suffrage.
The conservative portion of the community
see through these flimsey dodges of the radi
cals, and will rebake their originators at the
ballot box when opportunity offers.
The Portion in Washington. —lt is evident
from Washington advices, that the rupture be
tween the Administration and the Radicals is
now openly declared by “that man at the
other end of the avenue,” as Mr. Stevens con
temptuously styles Mr Johnson.
The President has told a Democratic Sena
tor that he will “show these men in a few
days,” whether they can beat him or not.
Steven’s conduct in driving through the
amendment matter, over the President’s well
known wishes, has aroused some of the “old
Jackson” in the latter ; and having in vain
appealed to their feelings, letter writers now
say he will soon touch these Radicals “on
the raw” by a summary decapitation of some
of the head Radical pets.
Negro Suffrage in the West. —The feeling
is so strong in Indiana against negro suffrage
that all Republican leaders and members of
Congress are obliged to oppose it. It is ad
mitted by Republican members of the Ohio
Legislature, on the floor of the House and in
public liscussion, that negro suffrage will be
beaten by 75,000 votes in that State.
If the Northern radicals desire the negro to
vote, let them “show their faith by their
works,” and extend the privilege to him at
home first before they ask other sections to
do so. As matters now stand, they occupy
the posision of despicable hypocrites.
What the Radicals Want.— When the
Freedmen’s Bureau bill was before the U. S
House of Representatives, Stevens moved an
amendment which declared the Southern States
to be conquered provinces, and all the prop
erty South confiscated. Or in plain Eng
lish, it was simply a bill to consumate one
of the greatest stealing and plundering schemes
ever devised. Only thirty-seven members
supported Stevens. All of them, undoubtedly,
belong to that class of individuals whom it will
not do to trust out of sight with any valuable
article you do not desire to part with.
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An Important Decision —ln the Supreme
Court of West Virginia, it has been decided 1
that Attorneys at Law are not civil officers
within the meaning of the act, and are conse
quently not required to take the test oath.
The decision was rendered on the application
of Hon. Charles James Faulkner to be admitted
to practice.
The radicals in that section are much cha
grined at the just and constitutional position
rnken by Judge Berkshire, and it is said will
endeavor to have a law passed by the Legis
lature rendering it null and void, and to com
pel Attorneys to take the oath. The members
of the great unwashed party are determined to
leave nothing undone that will vex and annoy
the South.
Dicidbdlt Cool— The Ohio Legislature has
decided to give solders confiscated lands in the
South, instead of bounties.
Ferhaps it will be well for the sapient mem
bers of the Ohio Legislature to wait until the
lands are confiscated before they give them
away.
A man named Salisbury living near Peoria
has had a negro woman in his employ, who
was taken ill. Her master whipped her and
finding that she was totally unable to work
took her in his sleigh, last Friday, and started
for town, where he put her out ad went back
home. The poor woman, suffering with the
typhoid fever, was unable to wrik and sank to
the ground from exhaustion. Her person was
marked up in a shocking manner and her head
was greatly bruised. She complained of it
Incessantly, until she expiied, on Sunday
morning. —Springfield 111, Journal.
As this event transpired in a free State, we
do not suppose it will be taken into considera
tion by the Reconstruction Committee. We»
however, respectfully commend it to the atten
tion of Stevens, Sumner and other radical
demagogues The next time they talk about
the poor negro at the South, they might quote
the above paragraph to show how well that
class are treated at the North.
A New Colonization operation.— A North
ern paper states that a lot of negroes, eighty
five in number, six or eight of whom were
over eighty years of age, and some ten of them
from ten to twelve years old, sold at an aver
age of one thousand dollars each in Havana.
This, oerteinly, is anew colonizing scheme.
Probably some of of the very men who are
engaged in it, are the ones who have been loud
est in their denunciations of Sontfiern slavery
New England was first and foremost in run
nig negroes from Africa to the Southern States
in days gone by. And if facts could be ascer
talneti, it would be found that the running of
negroes from the South to Cuba in these days,
was inaugurated by some of her negro-loving
sons.
Thad Stevens. —The Albany Journal, New
York,"pronounces the address of Thad Stevens
infamous, and declares his “assumed leader
ship of the House is an unmitigated misfor
tune.’’ It further says :
“ If it had been determined to produce a
division between the two branches of the ad
ministration, this Pennsylvania Danton would
be precisely the man to inaugurate it. His
theatre is anarchy ; his weapon, denunciation;
his work, disorder. Witljput parallel in
ferocity and coarseness, he nevertheh ss pos
sesses a measure of political ability which
magnifies his capacity for evil and prompts
him to most shameful acts.’’
Pretty plaiu talk—but nevertheless, very
true. The more the public learn of Stevens,
the more the conservative portion thereof will
despise him.
Connecticut.— The Connecticut Democratic
State Convention was held Hartford last week,
fall delegations from all the countieß being
present, and the general attendance of citi
zens being large. James E. English and
Ephraim H. Hyde were nominated for Govern
or and Lieutenant Governor by acclamation ;
and resolutions were adopted strongly endors
ing President Johnson's reconstruction policy,
opposing negro suffrage, denouncing the
course of the Republicans in Congress, and de
claring that States lately in arms against the
General Government should immediately be
accorded all the privileg's enjoyed by the
other States. Speeches in advocacy of these
sentiments wer- hi by different gentlemen,
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Remark . act;;, .ha New York Times
-rates th Uris country did more to feed
Europe during the years 1862, ’63 and ’64,
than in tho three years which immediately pre
ceded the late war. The quantity of wheat
shipped in the midst of the war was two and
three-fourths times greater than before, while
the amount of ham and bacon was increased
eight times. This is certainly a remarkable
exhibit, when it is remembered that during
these three years of war we had an average of
a million of men in the army, whose pro
ducing capacity was for the time lost to the
country.
It is Gratifying to the upholders of tb e
Union and the supporters of the rational and
loyal policy of the Administration, to see with
what unanimty, and especially with what
indignation and energy, ihe ablest and most
influential journals of the country, of all par
ties, condemn and denounce tbe atrocities and
malevolent speech ot lhaddeus Stevens, in
the House. Nearly ail of the leading Republi
can preSses ol the North are open in their con
demnation of it. This is a good sign.
The Condition of the Treasury. —The
amount of the national debt has undergone
but a small increase during the last month.
The amount of coin in the Treasury is larger
than ever—fifty one and a half millions, in
cluding the eight millions of gold deposits.
The Treasury, therefore, controls more gold
than any, or all, otner financial Institutions in
the country. Indeed, some .financiers reckon
the whole amount of gold coin in the country
to amount to only seventy millions ; so the
Treasury holds five sevenths of it.
Military Districts in Misaissirpi Abolish
ed —O rs have been issued directing the
discontinuance of the military districts of the
Department of Mississippi. The cities of Vicks
burg, Jackson, Natchez, and Meridian are an
nounced as ihe principle posts of that Depart
ment, Grenada and Colnmbus are to be con
sidered as stations, the former as an '■ ffshoot
from the post of Jackson and the later from
.the post of Meridian.
The Way to Judge. —The way to judge
.whether a Hotel is well kept or not, is to note
its list of arrivals. The traveling public soon
find out where the best tables are spread and
the beat accommodations are to be had.
By the way,.the old Globe, since she has been
rejuvenated by that Prince of Hotel keepers,
Col. Hewitt, is numbering among its patrons
the greater portion of the travelling community.
And well worthy is the enterprising proprietor
of the patronage given him.
Mr. Davis not to be Tried by a Military
Court. —The Louisville Journal gives the fol
lowing assurance: No matter, dear reader,
what you see in the papers; Jeff Davis won’t
have a military trial, and he won’t be convic
ted. And if he were oonvicted, he would be
pardoned. Thoagh no card player, "we speak
y the sard.”
New Hampshire —The Democratic state
Convention of New Hampshire assembled in
Concord last week and nominated John G
Sinclair as candidate for Governor. The plat
form adopted approves President Johnson’s
couree, urges the immediate adm'esion to Con
gress of the Southern representatives, and op
poses all further constitutional amendments.
National Express Company. —A short time
since the Board U< ctora of the National
Expose Ccu... i-su. A an order assessing
the tockl ;-r-fi ,e debars per share, payable
or. or before c hmary 1.
We notice in a cotempory an official order,
calling for a ‘’further assessment of five tjollars
per share,” payable by the 20th of February.
There is seventy thousand Fenians in Illinois,
armed and equipped for any emergency.
The Advantages of Trade,— lndividual in
terest governs, to a greater or less extent in all
the departments life. As opposed to selfish
ness, it is obedience to one cf nature’s first
laws, and without It, there would be but slow
progress made, and but little happiness in the
world. Unity of affection enlarges the sphere
ot its usefulness, aud consanguinity hails it as
the ligament of concord. It is seen in every
day life. It controls every day's transactions.
Industry begets competition, and competi
tion is the helpmate of the larver class of men ;
inisuiuch, for instance, as in the grocery line,
choice of the best articles is given at reduced
rates.
It is to the interest of the buyer to ascertain
where he can purchase tho best goods, ou the
most liberal lei ms. The idea of large profits
should not induce the purchase of an inferior
article, with the resort left ol selling upon an
exaggerated and false representation as to its
quality. The reason why this should not
be done is self evident.
The rules of political economy are, as a
general thing, invariable, notwithstanding the
fact of exceptions.
Where the supply exceeds the demand, at fall
jn price is the necessary consequent, and It is
equally true, that as increasing and additional
facilities of transportation cause a redaction of
freight, sales and purchases can be made with
greater liberality—fair profits accruing to
ail.
In open communication with Savannah by
river and rail, the merchants of Augusta off r
superior inducements to country merchants
who desire to replenish their winter stock of
groceries and goods, or to lay in anew supply
for the Spring trade. We venture the assertion
that there are no clasß of inland merchants in
Georgia, who are better circumstancedjn every
way, or who are more ready to make trades
which will pleasejand profit the purchaser, than
those of Augusta.
The stock of goods ou hand now, is by far
the largest than was ever in this city, and the
quality is A No. 1.
Our tap Les-men engage to buy all kinds Os
produce/bt to sell it for thorn bringing it to
this market. The demand at present, is very
good, at fair figures.
In exchange, the best ready-made clothing,
dry goods, hats, boots, shoes and blankets are
offered, while the groceries, liquors, wines,
stoves, confections, stationery, lamps, oil, per
fumeries, and drugs are such as will suit the
most fastidious.
We invite the espeeial attention of country
dealers to these facts. Let them remember
that they can obtain the best possible trades
in Augusta, We writ 9 this, as a puff for no
man or set of men. We only make a state
ment of facts, interesting to our country
friends.
Avoid the Pennsylvania and Ohio Roads.—
Facts recently developed, says the Memphis
Bulletin, with reference to modes ot introduc
ing white laborers in the South, possess prac
tical importance.
There is no security for the employer of
foreigners on railway line3 connecting New
York and Cincinnati.
Gentlemen from this city and from Missis
sippi, who have visited New York to employ
laborers, tell us that telegraphic messages
preceded them—advising persons hostile to
the South, of the time of arrival of emigrant
trains.
At Pittsburg, Cincinnati and other points,
German emigrants are told that in the South
they must herd with the blacks, that they
would be punished with stripes, and even that
negroes would fatten on their flesh.
It is almost impossible to transfer a German
or an Irish family from Castle Garden to
Memphis, if the route through Pennsylvania
and Ohio be adopted.
Roads through Virginia and Eastern Ten
nessee are open, and we advise the thousands
now interested in this matter to avoid the
knavery of those who levy black mail upon
employers, by misleading ignorant and
credulous employees.
War Debts of the Northern Statbs.—The
Northern States, with the exception of lowa,
Kansas and Michigan, and the three Pacific
States, have furnished to Mr. Blaine, chair
man of the select committee on the war debtß
of the loyal States, the amounts expended by
them severally in supporting the late war.
The remaining States will soon be heard from,
and tho total amount of expenditure will
reach about $500,00<M)00; and this in addi
tion to all that class of war expenses by States
which can be andited and paid under existing
law. Except in the cases of Massachusetts
and Kentucky, the follow ing figures include
the amounts expended by counties, cities and
towns, as well as Sjmte governments:
Maine $12,600 00
New Hampshire 13,000 000
Vermont 8.000.000
Massachusetts 24,100 000
Rhode Island 6 000,000
Connecticut 17 000,000
New York 111.000000
New Jersey 26,000,000
Pennsylvania 64 000 000
Deleware 1,100 000
Maryland $8,600 000
West Virginia 2,000 000
Ohio 65,000 000
Indiana 23.500 000
Illinois (estimate) 30;000.000
Wisconsin 2,500 000
Mi nnessota 9,500 000
Kentucky 1,600.000
The Central Railroad. —The work upon
•the Central Railroad is being pushed forward
with great energy, by Mr. Wadley, the enter
prising President.
The workman have commenced laying the
track at the Macon end of the break—begin
nieg at Gordon. They will, it is said, put
down about a half a mile per day. Another
force is at work between Macon and Millen,
laying iron at the rate of three quarters of a
mile per day. All the bridges and trestlework
is already framed and ready to put up, and it is
expected that in ninety days, the road will be
in running order the entire length of the line.
A Telegraphic Curiosity.— Joseph B.
Stearns, Superintendent of the Fire Alarm
Telegraph, of BcstoD, has in his possession a
complete telegraph office, which can easily be
carried in the pocket. The outside casings
are made of rubber, and the magnets are cov
ered with the same, Tae instruments was re
cently attached to a line in Boston and worked
with great power for a distance of three hun
dred and fifty miles, and it is thought could be
operated with the same results for five hun
dred miles.
Covington and Vicinity. —The attention of
all purchasers of goods in Covington is called
to the announcement of E. Steadman in anoth
er column. The stock of dry goods'and gro
ceries just opened by him is very large—all
of which are offered at very small profits ; and
for which country produce will be taken in
exchange.
The Trial of Mr. Davis and Others.— The
President has transmitted to the House of
Representatives communications from the Sec
retary of War and the Attorney General, in
reply to a resolution requesting him if not in
compatible with the public interests, to furnish
any report or reports made by the Judge Ad
vocate General, or any other < fticer of tho gov
ernment, as to the grounds, facts or accusa
tions upon which Jefferson Davis, Clement Oi
Clay, Jr , Stephen R. Mallory and David L.
Yulee, or either of them, aro held in confine
ment.
The Attorney General says to the President :
“Punary reports of the facts which go to
ehow that Jefferson Davis and others havo
been guilty of high crime, made to you. is the
oh es executive officer of the Government.
Most of the evidence on which they are based
was obtained 9X parte, without notice to the
accused; aud white they were in custody in
military prisons, their publication might wrong
the Government, or the accused, or both.
While Is ;e that much wrong may flow from the
publication, I cannot see that any' good would
come from it. In my opinion public and pri
vate justice alike demand that they should
not be made public.”
The Secretary of War says to the President :
“These reports were made for your own in
formation, and contain abstracts of evidence
and tx purls proof in possession of the Bureau
of Military Justico. Pending any action in
respect to the parties aecuoed, the publication
ol the report is, in my opinion, incompatible
with tho public interest.”
The President concurs in these opinions.
A Dcg Law. —We are glad to perceive tha
many of the leading papers are advocating the
pa-sage of such a dog law as will rid the State
of thousands of the worthless enrs which
now infest every section of it. A law of this
kind would benefit Georgia miliionsof dollars
annually, in* the single item of sheep raising,
to say nothing of other incalculable benefits
which would be derived therefrom. The Macon
Journal comments thus on the matter :
A “dog law” has been a standing joke of the
session in the Georgia Legislature lor many
years—to the great detriment of sheep the
scarcity of wool and the superabundance of
“useless curs of low degree’’ After many
days we shall get wiser aud begin to under
stand the great uses of a mild climate and our
immense pine barrens where millions of pounds
of fine wool and fat mutton could be grown
yearly at the smallest cost of time and trouble,
if mongrel curs were exterminated by a good
rouiddogtax. In the rigorous climates of
Ohio and Vermont, where land is worth a
hundred dollars per acre, and sheep must be
housed and fed all winter, at great expense,
the wool growers get rich—have swollen to the
dimensions of a national ‘■interest,” and idd
their conventions to dictate the policy of the
country. But in Georgia, where land is of
little value and range free —where winter shel
ter is needless—where sheep are little liable to
disease where any enterprising ram can mako
a fortune with certainly in a few years by sheep
raising a supply of a million or two of negro
curs, is in the practical judgment of our suc
cessive General Assemblies, far more impor
tant than wool and sheep
The War Between Brazil and Paraguay.—
The Rio Janeiro correspondent of the New
York Herald furnishes late and important in
formation regarding tha war on the River
Plate, from which it appears that the letter of
President Lopez, of Paraguay, to General
Mitre, tne Argentine President, instead of con
taining propositions of peace, as at first surmis
ed, proved to be of very diffeient character.
Lopez charges the allies with conducting the
war in a most barbarous and outrageous man
ner, and avows his determination, if satisfac
tion is not accorded, to retaliate in the severest
manner, and to prosecute hostilities with fero
city aud renewed vigor. To this Gen. Mitre
replies at length, denying the principal alle
gations of his antagonist, avowing that he has
nothing to regret or take back, and warning
Lopez against pushing matters to the threaten
ed extremity. There are no indications of an
early peace, There was no cessation of hostile
operations, the allied armies still keeping up
their march in pursuit of the retreating Para
guayans, while the latter, though falling back,
were far from vanquished. Disease and star
vation, however, had committed terrible havoc
anmng the troops on both sides.
Silkworm Cocoons.— The Department of
Agriculture at Washington has lately received
a number of very magnificent specimens of
silk cocoons from Mr. Laverriere, of Paris, to
whom they were sent .from Zieatlan de las
Manzrnas, a northern district of the State of
Puebla. Mexico. No malady appeared among
the silkworms in Mexico during the whole of
the season. The cultivator from
one ounce of ini 1 one
hundred pounds Is of
very fine silk. and
Italy the malady an so
great as tacompi. —o aimost entire abandon
ment of their culture.
AFb'lAn Outbreak, if we may credit the
newspapers and the vaticination of the Fen
ian orators.is momentarily impending in the
direction of Canada. Arms have been seized
in New York confessedly destined for a Fen
ian military organization, but were released
upon the declaration of O’Mabony that they
were his private property. Canada is in a
state of great perturbation, and Ireland is con
vulsed to its centre. The district around
Dublin ha< been “proclaimed” and all milita
ry arms and accoutrements in the hands of
the people have been seized by the govern
ment. Everything portends a civil convul
sion, which will no dpubt be formidablo
enough to create a good deal .of disorder and
bloodshed 1
Drummed out of the Sep.vice. —Eight United
States soldiers, convicted by Court Marshal,
lately held in Nashville, were drummed out of
the service to serve their various terms of im
prisonment, which range from five to seven
years. They were marched through the streets
with drums beating. Four of them had their
heads shaved. Their names are John McGee.
Henry Kirk, C. C. Tuttle, Wm. Kehoe, Dallas
Smith, Thos. Welsh, Hiram Morton, and C H.
Newell, all of the sixteenth regular infantry.
The charges against them are robbing and
assault.
No Appeal to the Supreme Court in Cp.iwt
nal Cases. —The Savannah Herald is informed
by an eminent jurist that the Supreme Court
of the U. S. cannot entertain a writ of error to
revise the judgement of the Circuit Court in
any case where a party has been convicted of a
public offense. The Supieme Court announced
that to be the law in 1821, m the case ofe*
pnrte Kearney. There has been no legislation
sinee that time to vest the Supreme Court
with the power of review in sneh cases.
The Charleston & Savannah Railroad.—
The work upon the Charleston & Savannah
Railroad is being rapidly puched forward.
The annual meeting of the company will be
held in Charleston February 21.
A proposition to lease Faneuil Hail for a
lager beer saloon, and add the proceeds to the
city finds favor among some members
of the Boston Common Council.