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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. %onidf # AUGUSTA, GA. WEDXESOAY Jloß\l.\«. FEBRUARY 2*. Change of Rates. The Cheapest Weekly Is sued in th.*; Country, THE WEEKLY Chronicle & Sentinel Is Usued every Wednesday. It will contain all the latest markets, both foreign and domes tic, as well as all the current newß oi the day Subscriptions will be received at the annexed rates : One copy one year, fj Three copies one year, ’ * 5 Five copies one year, 8 Ten copies one year, 15 Any larger number addressed to names of subscribers $1 50 each. An EXTRA COPY will be sent to any person who will get up a club of ten names and forward the same. These ra es makethe AUGUSTA CHRONICLE & SENTINEL the cheapest publication in the country. HE raSSIDEXT AND THtt lOLUREB IJELK 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. __ 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, ——- 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.