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sok Tint OoNFUcr.—The conff'.ct he
■<"> 'he President and the radicals in Con-
Sa continues to bo the all absorbing topic
attontion. While the President’s
■' r i* undoubtedly gaining strength, the
question is "Thetber he will be able to
his points in the present Congress. Os
HE filing tne country can congratulate itself
Radicals will not succeed in any of their
unconstitutional schemes, at the worst;
foro matters will only bo left in their
■~< nt c,.million. Senator Sherman has made
Hie a sort of half and half speech, which;
contained more than an average
of sense for a Republican Senatorial
; and Governor Cox, of Ohio, comos bo
s' Hie public in a letter detailing the suh
of an interview with Mr. Johnson, the
H' of whicn is that the President is in earn-
m|tn his avocacy of his reconstruction policy.
Bath of these efforts are doubtless intended to
conciliate tho “party’’ towards the President
end what he has already done, and reconcile
them to the inevitable condition of a stand
still policy rather than to hazard further ut
ta.Ka upon him. They want their party to
wait; to do nothing ; to kcon their tongues
stifl, and see if “something will not turn up”
to irelieve them from the necessity of a war
with tho President.
“II ever the time shall come,” says Senator
in his speech, “when 1 can no louger
■■tide in devotion to the principles upon
■Bch he was elected, I will bid farewell to
Hyirew Johnson with unaffected sorrow.’’
is nit a single proposition upon which
Johnson was elected but 'what is to day
|H accomplished fact. The unconditional
of thoso offering armed opposition
(iovernmeut, and a return to their just
nice to the Constitution and laws of the
■i: 1 States was the position of all parties at
election. That has been accomplished.
H' party that nominated Mr. Johnson insist- i
the abolition of slavery aud an ameud-
of the Constitution prohibiting tho lu
existence of that institution in the coun-
H That has b ien done, and ratified by the
B'i’k. ard universally accepted as an acoorn-
lact. lhero were no further priuci
lad down (or the guidance of the Presi-
He in the platform upon which Mr. Johnson
elected The natural sequence which
lowed the surrender was the reuuion of the
gantry, and Mr. Johnson but accepted the
marks laid out by Mr. Lincoln as tho ba
fH of his policy. In this he has been bus -
Biie l by all parties, till the Jacobins in Con
Biss soissid the power of the legislative branch
government to thwart his patriotic ef
■rts.
Kl'ho leaders in this rump Congrees do not
But peace and reunion for the reason lhat
Hey know that, as soon as tho attention of the
Huntiy can he directed to the consideration of
Hir fnanical poiicy, their monopoly and class
Hisiutiou, their oppressive and unjust systems
exemptions and taxation, must go to
H wall as a party, for the people will never
Hhrnit to such odious systems. They think
H keeping up tho sectional animosities upon
Hick they rode into power, they eau keep the
Heutiou of the people away from those is-
and maintain their past supremacy.
Hoy wish to hold the South in vassalage, be
■use to recognize their rights under ibe Cou-
W tution would settle all the difficulties of a
optional nature, and leave the people to con-
Hlor those questions which so largely inter
Ho ibeir own prosperity aud welfare. Piesi-
Hnt Johnson, however, has appealed to the
Hople, and it remains for the Republican par
■ to seitle its own policy. They hayp either.to
H>ld to the demands of the President and
Hra.dete the re-union of the country, or meet
Hui and the endorsers of his policy at the
Hits lu tho latter event their utter defeat and
Hmplete discomfiture is certain.
■k'attain Wacpsu,. —A letter has been receiv-
B from Mrs Waddell, by her friends, stating
■it she hid beeu released from her bond not
■ communicate with her husband. She called
p \ the President and was Introduced to him as
la ’y whose fault it was to be wife of Cap
lin Waddell, la*e of the Shenandoah. She
Besonted her petition to the President, who
Hint for the papers, returned her the bond, and
Banted her permission to join the Captain in
Hi rope.
qfswAßD’s Opinion or ths Situation. —A dls
{•tcii was received at Washington from Mr.
Seward, in New York, under date of the 23rd.
It reads thus :
‘■lt is all right and safe. The Union Is res
tored and the country safe. The President’s
M-ch U triumphant, and the country will be
py. (“S’gnedd W. H. Siward.”
I A a I w i y f / / / / *» 7-
Tkade with cur own Cities.— The gigantic
struggle through which we hive passed, has
taught the people of the South many lesions
which will be useful in the future. Not the
least unfortunate of these, is that we were able
to live for years without thsai 1 of New York or
or New England. Nocessity required that we
should develope manufacturing interests, and
they were developed with rapidity. Talents
which the most sanguine could not have
dreamed were possessed by the Southern peo
ple, sprang into exLteace. Direct trade with
Europe was required, ami in spite of astrin
gent blockade the products of all parts of .the
world found their way to our shorcß.
These Itssons should not be forgotten. While
we have no enmities to remember, we should
remember that if we were able to break for
four years the chain o# dependence which
iiuktd us to the markets of the North, we need
never allow that chain to be relinked. This
can only be effected by Southern merchants
trading with Southern merchants, By build
ing up our own cities, we build up the entire
Southern country, which by letting those cities
languish we may apparently thrive for the
time being, to be ciushed eventually by the
great Leviathan which swallows up all within
its reach.
In urging these views, we do not pretend to
advise that men should buy at any market
other than that at which they can buy cheap
est ;or sell to any market other than that in
which they can sell to the best advantage ;
but we do mean te say that at some point like
Charleston, tho merchants can ao
complisb two results important to himself,
and at least one to the entire people of the
South. The first advantage that he acquires
for himself, is that while ho is able to buy as
eheaply as in New York, he can get his goods
at least five or seven days earlier than can tig
neighbor who purchases in New] York. The
second advantage that ho derives, is, that ho
builds up a money centre near his home, and
when credits ate re-established, ho will bo able
to control his liabilities much more easily than
he would be able to do in New York, which is
much fui ther f:om his home. The advantage
to the entire people of tho South is to be found
in the fact, if great commercial |cenfres are
established at the South, and they can only be
established by Southern enterprise and South
ern good will, they will be followed by the
establishment of manufacturing centres which
will give a large home market tor much of the
raw material which we now send to New York
»nd Liverpool -tho profit on which is made a
those points and not at home.
Trade with Charleston. Her net work of
railroads makes her the most desirable point at
which tho merchants of South Carolina, Geor
gia, Alabama and Tennessee can buy. The
same men who traded directly with Europ j
during the war, are still fn her midst and en ■
gaged in busiaess. The city is being rebuilt.
Trade has already re-opened. A large stock of
goods is on hand and the spring assortment
will be worthy of examination.
Trade with Charleston, for your own advan
tage, for tho advantage of your customers, for
your love of the development of Southern re
souices, and for the memories which cluster
around that grand old city as proved in the
desolation which has visited her as she was
uoble and bravo in defence of those principles
which she believed to be true.
The White Labor Sts’ rm. —Some weeks ago
we referred, at length, to the troubles arising
from the non-solntion of the labor problem,
and, in a subsequent article, endeavored to
show the importance of the introduction into
our midst of white laboiers. Hew we succeed
ed In that undertaking is not for us to say.
Let it suffice, for us to declare that the opinions
then expressed, have found abundant attesta
tion, as to their validity, in the occurrences ol
every day.
Certain ideas, relative to the composition of
freedom, has obtained with the negroes, and
nothing but bitter experience will ever correct
the error in*o which they have fallen. To
work as they were accustomed to, before the
war, is in direct conflict with their conceptions
of the sequences of their new state. To heed
the advice and obey the mandates of their
former masters, now employers, Is, in their
estimation, utterly inconsistent with the cir
cumstances of their new relationship. They
must be paid good, yes, extra wages ; must
be allowed to roam the streets at certain hoars;
must not be expected to do more than half a
task, and their every whim must be acqueisce’
in. For fear of offending their feelings, employ
ers must not object to bis kitchen being crowd
ed, day and night, with vagrants—the major
pajt of whom have no scruples whatever
against appropriating to their own use, any
thing that may please their fancy. You must
not make a single suggestion to them, unless
you would be answered in a most insulting and
uncalled lor stylo. These are a few of the
numberless evils that attend the employment
of the larger class of negroes.
There are exceptions to this rule. We know
many. They are honest, systematic, haid.
working, and always have an abundance of
leisure time—never neglecting their duty, ei
ther. These we commend a* worthy and sen
sible. The others we condemn as pests ofsoci
ty, the influence of whom tends only to the
demoralization of the younger ones, and those
who are disposed to work like employees
should. Aud this evil does not diminish in
time; it is constantly increasing. Self interest
demands that cur people should not longer be
provoked with it. Experiment after experi
ment has been made, and the result is still the
same. Far removed from the city and its
temptations, the negroes, in the corn field or
| cotton patch, may do very well, but even there
they are unreliable—exposed, as they are, to
; the machinations and counsel of wandering
1 vagrants.
We hsstrded all in the experiment of war
and we lost. We are averse to trying our luck
in testing the negro. A surety is what the peo
ple want: such a one as is to bo found in the
employment of white laborers.
The Georgia Immigration Company has es
tablished an agency in this city, so that those
desiring to obtain white laborers, would do
well to apply to Messrs. Jacob R. Davis & Son
Agents.
A revival of religion is in progress in many
of the Presbyterian churches in Philadelphia.
AUGUSTA, GA„ WEDNESDAY MORNING. MARCH 14,186(5.
Stand by thb Constitution !—We seem to be
emerging into light as well as peace. There is
something absolutely life-giving in the repeat
ed exhortations of President Johnson to the
people. ‘’Stand by the Constitution.’ ’ la that
sentiment we are with him now and forever.
If there is any hope for free government on
earth it the Constitution of tne United
States. If there is any hope for this country,
it is in the Constitution as it iB and the Union
as it was. It is not in thß wild brain of radi
calism to perceive the conservative value, the
priceless power of that noble instrument, but
the words of President Jobnton will ring from
one end of the land to fife other,' and awake
once more in American breasts the fire of an
cient patriotism.
There ate some portions of the President’s
speech worthy to be preserved in constant re
membrance. They are over strong and elo
quent truths. Let tis place two extracts pro
minently before our readers, for their study,
Would that they had been uttered before from
the same high position, that the people might
nut have foigotten, as too many have, the
muniment of our liberty. Here are “the words
of gold” refered to:
And now, in order to save the Government,
we must preserve the Constitution. Our only
safety is in a strict adherence to
tion of the Constitution of our fathers. It is
now unfolded. It must now be read—it must
now be digested and understood by the Ameri
can people. I am here to-day, in making
these remark#, to vindicate the Constitution
and to save it, as I believe, for it does seem as
if encroachment after encroachment is propo
sed upon it. As far as I can, I have ever re
sisted encroachments _upon the Constitution,
and I stand prepared to resist them to dar,
>md thereby to preserve Constitution and
Government of the United Slates. It is now
a time of peace, and let us have peace ; let us
enforce the Constitution ; let us live under and
acccording to its provisions Let it ba pub
lished and printed in blazing, characters, as
tnough it were in the heavens and punctuated
by the stars, so that all can read and all can
understand it. Let U3 consult that instru
ment and be guided by its provisions. Let us
understand them, and understanding them,
abide.
0 * A • O'
Tn conclusion, let me ask this vast concourse
here to-day, this sea of upturned faces, to
come with me. or I will go with you, and
stand around the Constitution of our country.
It is again unfolded. Tho people are invited
to read and understand, to sustain and main
tain its provisions. Let us >-tand by the Con
stitution of our fathers, though the heavens
themselves should fall. Though faction should
rage, though taunts and jeers come, though
abuse and vituperation be poured out in the
most virulent form, I mean to be found stand
ing by the Constitution of my country. Stand
by the Constitution as the chief ark of our
safety, as the palladium of our civil and our
religious liberty. Yes, let us cling to it as a
mariner clings to the last plank when the
night and the tempest close around him.
The Complaints Against the Prbbibent.—
Some of the radicals presses of the North do
not like the hot shot poured into their ranks
by the President in his lats speech. If he was
severe its what he said of Steven3, Sumner &
Cos., nothing at best can be said in extenuation
of those who provokfcd this burst of indig
nant feeling, it is worth our while for a
moment to sum up the list of complaints on
the part of these radicals against the Execu
tive. They are, then, briefly these :
Ist. He is, in good faith, the President of
the United States, true to his office, and true
to all its duties.
* 2d. Ho has more faith in the virtue, intel
ligence and purposes of the people than in a
Congress elected during a period of high party
excitement,
3d. He desires to see the Union restored, In
deed as well as in name, and to that end that
the Southern States shall at once bo represent
ed in Congress by loyal men, swearing alle
giance to the Constitution.
4th. He keeps company with those he please 8
including prominent men of the Democratic
and Conservative parties of the country, who
believe just as the President believes.
sth. He believes that the war is over, and
that the spirit of war should no longer govern
the People, and while he would try all leading
offenders against tho Government according to
law, he would not punish Eleven States and
the People of Eleven States for the conduct of
their leaders.
The radical pre33 by Its tone, and the radical
leaders by their deeds and speeches conclusively
show that these are the main reasons why they
take such a strong dislike to the President and
his late acts. The war between the President
and those who are endeavoring to trample the
Constitution under their feet has begun in good
earnest. Consen ative men both NorLh and
South should rally to his support.
The Presidsnt’s Btkenuth —ln the Senate
the President can count, in additibn to the
Democrats, probably some eight or ten
friends from the Republican ranks. It is plain
that Messrs. Cowan, Dixon, Doolittle, Mor
gan, Stewart, Norton and Van Winkle mean
to give him a fair and honest support. This
i3 enough to protect a veto and to block the
revolutionary resort of impeachment threat
ened by the Radicals, in lieu of assassination.
Messrs. Lane, of Kansas, Willey, of West
Virginia, Sherman, of Ohio, occupy a some
what doubtful position just yet in the borders
of tho radical camp, but we think have a
warm side for President Johnson and are al
most ready to quit the sinking, piratical craft of
radicalism. Indeed, if the accounts of the
last'Republican caucus£are to trusted, even
Wilson, of Masachusetts, has found that dis
cretion is the better part of valor, and wants
to be friends again with the President. It is
plain that tho influence of the radical leaders
over the rank and file of their party is begin
ning rapidly to wane, and should not -be very
greatly surprised if, before tMe world was
three months older, the President had a work
ing majority in the Congress. We feel sure,
at all events, that he has trienda enough to
o stop serious mischief, and that the people
w ill sustain him.
Ax Important Order —The annexed impor
tant order has been issued by an assistant spa
cial agent of the Treasury Department :
OFFICE TREASURY DI-PaRTMEST, )
Macon, Ga., March 31, 1866 )
By order of the Secretary ot Treasury,
throdgh H. M. Buckley, Supervising Special
Agent Treasury Department, this office is dis
continued. The embargoes placed upon Cot
ton by me, are raised, and the order regarding
shipments of February 18th, 1866, are hereby
revoked. Clifton T. Wharton,
Ast. Spl. Agent, Treasury Department.
Fesiasism in ths British Pauliament. —A
very important debate on the Iritb question
has taken place in the House of Commons, on
motion of The O’Donoghue to strike frem the
Queen’s speech, the pa|sage relating to Ire
land, and substitute a paragraph declaring “re
“ gret that great disaffection exists in Ireland,
“ and that it is the r esult of grav ecanses which
“ it is the duty of Her Majesty’s ministers to
“ examine and remove.” In lvs speech in
support of the motion. The O’Donoghue was
e’oquent, earnest and plain spoken. He gave
a startling view of the interior condition of
Ireland and 41;.: state qf fouling o* a&enatiqn.
that pervades the entire country against Eng
lish rule. “From one end of Ireland to the
“ other,’’ he said, “ among the masses of the
“ people, both in town and ccuutry—among
“millions there was a feeling of disaffection
“ toward English rule which has only been
“ kept from breaking out into open insurrec
“ tion by the hopelessness of contending with
the greatiy superier power of England.”
Fenianism, he declared, must be ascribed t«
disaffection—not disaffection to Fenianism,
and the masses looked upon it as an insurrec
tionary experiment for which they had been
long prepared. And that mdu would greatly
deceive the House who, from whatever mo"
tives, should assert that the sympathies of the
ast majority of the Irish people were not on
the Fenian side.
These strong statements wero received with
the profoundest attention. Tho U’Donoghue
proceeded to set in array the causes which had
produced this disaffection and stated the reme
dies which would allay it. To learn what .the
“ Irish feel, we must look “across the Atlan
“tic at the attitude of their brethren, from
“ whom they might be said to be only just
parted and for whom their hearts were still
lonely.
More op me President’s Views, —A few
nights since the .President in reply to the
direct questions of several Congressmen, de
clared that he was opposed to all Constitu
tional amendments until tho Southern mem
bers were in their seats, so the South could
have a voice in the matter. He .said the ques
tion of representation was a small matter, and
that the North could well afford to overlook
the two fifths advantage which the South now
have, because emigration and kindred causes
: wou!d soon remedy it without legislation. If
the Constitution must be changed at all, he
was in favor of making a voting population
the basis. He then asked how they ‘proposed
to get such an amendment through in th 9
South, and the reply was, “ in the same way
Mr. President, that you got the Constitutional
amendment abolishing slavery through, by a
little Piesidential pressure.” Mr. Johnston
replied that he saw no reasonable similarity in
the two cases. In regard to the test'oath, he said
he was inclined to think that the old form of
swearing to support the Constitution was a
sufficient test oath of loyalty.
It will be seen that the President has m his
conversation openly announced his position on
the test oath. It will be most gratifying to
the South, if he is able to‘ J maintain it. If
the Conservatives of the North support him in
it, all will soon be well, and our worst troubles
will be over within a short time.
Commissioner Nekton’s Report.— The Jan
uary report of Commissioner Newton, of the
Agricultural Department at Washington, states
that the importation of foreign wool decreased
52,541,674 pounds during the year 1865. This
is considered a gratifying fact, beoause it shows
the progress that is made in supplying the do
mestic wants of the country in a commodity so
essential to its wants and comfort. The im
portation of woolen goods, however, has in
creased in value $4,632,620, showing that there
is still a demand upon the grower andmanu
facturer of wool. We imported, last year,
nearly a million dollars’ worth of cigars, mostly
of the best Havana, Cigar manufacturers say
that the import is occasioned by the internal
tax being greater than the duty on the foroign
article, and the Commissioner thinks such in
equality ought not to be permitted.
Party Tie?.— Tne New York Journal of
Commerce trusts that party ties will prove
Weak when men come to consider the simple
now before them :
“Shall we sustain the Union and the Presi
dent, or sustain the enemies of the Union and
cru *h the President ? The issue ia made up,
and must soon be decided,”
Its advice is also practical, timely, and true,
when it says:
“If the Radicals in Congress conquer Mr.
Johnson, there i3 no chance for peace or pros
perity in America during the present genera
tion; and the Northern Radicals are willing to
sell their principles to-dsy for the sake ot ac
quiring office and spoils, and the ability to
manage Northern States ia the interest of dis
union. For here is the fundamental point,
brought forward by Mr, Johnson with startling
force, that these Northern extremists are
enemies of the country. They put on every
speoies of disguise. They go to the people of
the Northern States, representing themselves
as the friends of the President and his policy,
and having obtained power they set themselves
in-the way of the Government, and if they are
not made to “get out of it” tho Government
wheels must stop.
The conservative Republicans have it now in
their power to save the nation. On them rests
the responsibility.
Mr. Johnson emphatically belongs to them.
They are his party. He is not the man of the
Democratic party, and the Democrats have no
right to cla ; m him. They will support his
reconstruction policy, heart and soul, and there
fore tne conservative Republicans may look to
them as a power to be used for the accomplish
ment of Mr. Johnson's wishes.”
The Texas State Convention. —Annexed >s
a synopsis of the Governor of Texas message
to the State Convention:
He believed that persons unpardoned by the
President cannot be delegates. The people
of the United States expect an explicit denial
of the right of secession. Favors tbe repudia
tion ot the war debt—the General Govern
ment expects it. He recommends that negroes
be allowed to sue; to give testimony under no
restrictions not imposed upon the white man;
to hold property, etc. Does not think them
qualified to vote at this time; is in favor of re
gulating the right of suffrage in future, irre
spective of color. He suggests that the Con
vention submit their actions to the people for
ratification.
4 t __ —
General Joseph Wheeler, formerly of thi«
city, late Confederate army, was married to Miss
Ellen Jones, of Lawrence co, Ala., on Febru
ary Bth.
’ Llßl' OF ACTA A\(> ReSOLUIIOSS SlBSBfl
BY THE GVVBRNOB.
[continued.]
86. An Act to authorize the use of the wa
ter power on the shoals and fa’lsonthe reserve
at Indian Spring, with the privilege of building
saw and grist mills thereon
87. To perfect service against Express Com
panies.
88. To amend sections 1775 and 1776 of the
new Code of Georgia, relative to orphans. .
89. To authorize the Justices of the Inferior
Court of Bartow county to settle or compro
mise the bonds of said county that are now due
and unpaid, and to issue new bonds for the
same. g. *
90. To amend the Act incorponJtT&g the town
of BlackstuLijju Pierce counts*, approved Dec
16. 1859. ■ ■'*- ‘r
91. To repeal an Act to authorize the' trus
tees of the Giynn County Academy to lease or
sell the Academy.
92. To authorize tho Justices of the Inferior
Court cf tho county of E irly. in this State, to
levy and collect an extra tax to pay for provis
iens heretofore purchased by them for the poor
of said county, and for the use of disabled sol
diers and their families.
93. To change the name of the Milledgeville
Railroad Company, and for other purposes.
94. To amend an Act to incorporate in the
State of Georgia an Insurance Company to be
called ihe Gnat Southern Insurance Company,
assented to Dec 17, 1861.
95. To incorporate the town of Wrightsville,
in the couuty of Johnson, to appoint commis
sioners tor tho same, and for other purposes.
96. To repeal an Act entitled an Act the
better to regulate the liquor traffic in the conn
tie3 of Taliaferro, Greene, Washington and
Henry, and tor other purposes, assented to
Dec 12.1860, so far as the said Act relates to
the county of Taliaferro.
97. To amend an Act to incorporate the
Skidaway Shell Read Company, and for other
purposes therein named; assented to December
22, 1857
98. To authorize the Inferior Court of
county of Twiggs to borrow money to pay the
indebtedness, and lor other purposes, of said
county.
99. To amend the charter of the Dalton &
Jacksonville R. E. Company, and aotP passed
in relation to the same.
100. To incorporate the Atlanta Street R.
R. Company, and for other purposes.
101. To alter the road law. of this State,
and to amend the 585, 588, 596, 602, and 604
section of the Code of Georgia.
102. To define certain acts of trespass, and
make the same, penal,
103. To amend an Act entitled an Act to
incorporate the Eutowah Auraria Hydraulic
Hose Mining Company, approved December
7 th; 1859.
104. To amend an Act entitled an Act to
incorporate the Mechanic’s’, Saving Association
of the city of Columbus, assented to April
13th, 1863.
105. An Act to exempt from road and jury
duty professors of co lieges and teachers of
public or c runty schools in this State.
106. To amend Section 4613 of the Code of
this .State.
107; To amend section 349 of the Code of
Georgia.
108. To amend the 43915 t section of the
Code of Georgia.
108. To change the time of holding the
terms of the Superior Court of Muscogee coun
ty.
110. For the relief of RL Haynes, U J Seals,
A H Teasley, Isham Teasiev, Hampton Smith,
J M Childress, A T McPherson,S F Kincamon,
W P Brown, R A C’atnp, and L P Brown, of
Milton county in this State, securities of B T
Hanley, who was indicted under the name of
i'homas Handley at the March term of the
Superior Court, 1865 of said county of Milton,
for the oflidEse of robbery.
111. Allowing the redemption of bonds for
feited or sold for taxes due the State, or any
county or city thereof, by paying the taxes of
each, and the legal late of interest per annum
thereon, together with costs which may have
occurred.
112. To incorporate the Empire State Man
ufacturing Company, in the county of Newton.
113. To alter and amend the first number
section 1954 2d article, part 2, title 3, chapter
2 of the Code of Georgia.
114. To Incorporate the McDasky Gold
Mining Company;
115. To change the name of the Confederate
Fire and IneuiHcce Company, and to make
more definite the liabilities of stockholders.
116. To amend the second section of an Act
entitled an Act to incorporate the Empire State
Iron and Coal Mining Company, and to confer
certain powers aud privileges thereon passed
over Governor’s veto, by Senate and House of
Representatives, December 9,1862.
117 Relative to bonds of trustees.
118 To add an additional seotion to an Act
incorporating the town of Fayetteville, assent
ed to Dee 20, 1823, and to amend section 3 of
said Act.
119 To incorporate the North Georgia Min
ing and Manufacturing Company.
120 To change and define the times of hold
ing the Superior Courts of the several counties
of the Western Judicial Circuit.
121 To incorporate the Cherokee Mining and
Manufacturing Company.
122 To incorporate the Georgia & Alabama
Mining and Manufacturing Company.
123 To revise, alter and amend an Act enti
tled an Act to incorporate an Insurance Com
pany in the city of Columbus, to he called the
Merchants’ Insurance Company, of Columbus,
Georgia, assented to Nov 14, 1864, and to
change the name to the Merchants and Plant
ers Insurance Company of Columbus, Ga.
134 To incoiporate the KennesaW Mining
Com natty of Georgia.
125 To consolidate the offices of receiver of
tax returns and tax collector for the counties of
'Effingham and Gilmer.
126. To change the county line between
the counties of Upson and Crawford, so as to
include the residence afid farm of Leonard
Worthy, of the county of Crawford, in the
county of Upson.
RESOLUTIONS.
27. Appointing a committee to examine
the State Library.
23. Expressing tho cordial endorsement of
the General Assembly of the addraas of the
Hon. A, A. Stephens.
The storehouse of James A. Bass, near Edge
deld, S. C., was burned on the 23rd February
Loss, $15,090; insurance $2,000.
Senator Doolittle has caused the government
advertising to be transferred from the Milwau
kee Sentinel, radical, to the Wisconsin, con
servative.
A tornado at Knoxvilie, Tenn., on tho 24th,
of February blew down over thirty houses and
did much other damage.
Tho Baptists of Massachusetts have 264
churches 348 minioters, and a total member
ship of 57.750.
Mrs. Kaiser a poor widow of Allentown,
Pa , has lallen heir to $25,000 by the death of
a European relative.
The new art building for Yale College at
New Haven has cost $125,000 so far, and will
probably cost $30,000 more to complete it.
Dr. Laiah B. Linn, a prominent physician of
Chicago, died in that city recently, trom the
effect of four grains of morphine, taken to re .
lieve pain.
A negro has sued a city railroad company
in St. Louis for twenty thousand dollars dam
ages, because the conductor put him off, in ac
cordance with the rules.
Recent returns from Marshall county, Ala
bama, for rations for distribution, show that
there are nineteen hundred and fifty whites,
»nd two hundred and twenty blacks In that
county who are entirely destitute.
Mr- T. M. Logan, formerly of Charleston,
and late Brigadier General in C. S. A. has lo
cated in Richmond Va., for the practice of law.
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KE\YS SUMM ARY.
North Carolina shad are being sold in Nor
folk, Va., for S3O per hundred.
Hillger & Son’s drug mills, in Jertey City,
were destroyed by fire on the 11th. Loss
$200,000
Five negro soldiers, belonging to 125th U.S.
TA NARUS., sentenced by Court Martial at Louisville,
tc five years imprisonment at the Dry Tortu
gas, left the iormer place on the 12ih. .
Major Gon. Rosencrans is preparing to leave
for the Pacific coast, where he will .engage in
mining.
A large delegaiion of Connecticut office
holders is in Washington urging “less im
petuosity’’ among the Radicals.
Forty three indictments for desecration of
the were pfasented to a criminal
They have gof' that btrruf*% oil fountain
near Pithole one hundred and fifty feet high
and eight feet square.
A fortunate miner at Idaho £ hassoldouta
newly discovered claim tor SBOO,OOO.
A pretended assistant collector has collected
much money in the coal oil regions of Penn
sylvania by taking bribes for promised low as
sessments. His victims dare not complain.
A large cotton crop will be raised in South
ern Illinois the coming season.
Reports from Central Alabama state that the
negroes are workiDg well.
Great excitement exists in Western Penn
sylvania over Dewly made oil discoveries.
Seward’s last foreign dispatches it-is thought
will create a coolness.
In 1850, a Mr Garnet, living near Auburn,
wa« sent to State Prison for forgery. He serv
ed out his time, and when he came out, his
wife deeming him guilty, refused to receive
him. He went to Pennsylvania and married
a young wife. A lew weeks ago, a man on hia
death bed confessed to the crime for which
Garnet suffered ; the first wife, repenting
her conduct, hunted him up, confessed her
cruelty, a reconciliation was effected, and the
second wife voluntarily gave up her claim.
The first wife now lives with her husband, and
tho second is liberally endowed.
One Store on Broadway 50 feet front, which
last year rented for $15,000 now rents at $55,-
000. Another 25 by 75 off Broadway, $19,-
500 ; another, 75 by 75, at $47,000 per year.
Any number ot leases have been tiansferred
for a bonus of SIO,OOO to $15,000 per year.
Mrs General Sam Cooper has 'opened in a
delightful locality, near the Theological Semi
nary, about three miles from. Alexandria, Va.,
a young ladies’ boarding school.
Fifteen mjllionjdollais lie idle in the Havana
Banks.
Ex-Vice President Hamlin has been confirm
ed by the Senate collector of the port of Bos
ton.
bees in France are dying of an infus
oria.
Georgia Legislature.
SENATE.
Wednesday, February 28.
Bill to repeal all extra oaths required of
persons on entering on the duties of officers,
etc. Lost.
The annexed bills were indefinitely post
poned : to provide for tho taking of the census
of the State ; to relieve stockholdeis’of Banks
from personal liability in the reaemp
tion_ of bills; to give Justices Courts, ju
risdiction in all cases iounding in
damages where the amount [claimed does not
exceed SSO; to relieve the people from burden
some taxation, and to provide for the raising
of money for St To purposes by the issue of
$2,000,000 worth of State bonds; to establish a
court for the trial of minor officers.
The annexed bills were laid on the table for
the present : to fix the compensation for offi
cers and members of the General Assembly ;
to make valid certain private contracts, and
to adjust the equities of the same.
HOUSE.
Wednesday, February 28.
The annexed bills were passed : the Home
stead bill to increase the feis of Clerks of Su
preme Court, and regulate the fees of county
officers ; to incorporate the Gate City Insurance
Company ; to amend 4435 section of the Code.
Bill to prevent negroes, mulattoes and other
persons of color of African descent from other
States and Territories from settling or residing
in this State. Lost.
The annexed bills were introduced ; to au
tborize the Governor to remit the General tax
for the year 1866, in case the Federal tax has
to be paid by the people ; for the relief of Jaß
per J. Owen and Wm. Owen ; bill to incorpo
rate the Yorah Gold Company.
NIGHT SESSION.
Tho annexed bills were passed : to incor
porate the Franklin Minmg aud Manufactur
ing Company ; to authorize Justices of the
Peace of the 1072 district G. M in the county
Ware to bold their court at Glemnore Station
No. 10, on the Atlantic ad Gulf R. B, in said
county ;to incorporate the Eagle and Phcenix
Manufacturing Company of Columbus ; for the
relief of Miliy Howard, former wife of Simon
P Howard, of Pierce county ; to incorporate the
North Georgia Mining and Manufacturing
Company No. 2 ; to incorporate the Carrol
Manufacturing Company ;to amend the Char
ter of the town of Sparta, ia Hancock county,
so as to authorizs the Commissioners thereof
to increase the fee for the retail of spirituous
liquors ; to authorize Justices of Inferior Court
of Thomas and Liberty counties to lew and
collect a tax for certain purposes ; for the re
lief of Moses S Collins ; supplementary to an
act to incorporate the North Georgia Mining
and Minufacturing Ccmpany ; to incorporate
the Hansel! Manu’ac’uring Company, of Camp
bell county ; to incorporate the Rome Gas
Light Company ; to incorporate the Wahatchee
Mining Company ; to consolidate the several
acts to incorporate the town of Bainbridge,
in Decatur county, and to grant certain priv
ileges to the same.
SENATE.
Thursday, March 1.
The bill to prevent the distilla ion of grain
was reconsidered. *.
The House resolution in relation to the dis
tribution. of ceutain books in the State Libra
ry was agreed to.
* The bill to make valid private contracts
during the war, and to authorize the courts to
adjust the equsties, & 3., being the special or
der was taken up aud after considerable dis
cussion passed.
The bill to orgamzs a County Court. The
bill was one offered as a gulstitute by the
Judiciary Committee, in lieu of the same sub
ject matter offered by the Commissioners ap
pointed by the late Convention, to prepare a
“Frecdmen’s Code ; The bill was taken up by
sections and with unimportant fainendments
wa3 passed with almost entire unanimity.
In the counties of Bibb, Chatham, and Musco
gee. the County Judge is required to be a
practicing Attorney.
* HOUSE.
Thursday, March 1.
Bill to regulate contracts with freedmen. —
Postponed for the present.
The motion to consider the homestead bill
was lost.
Bill to amend Interest Laws .of the State.
Laid on the table for the present.
The annexed bills were introduced : regu
lating labor of convicts upon public works.
For the relief of John 8. ElmoDdson, of Wilkes
county. , . .
The annexed bills were passed : to incorpor
ate the town of Hardwick ; to incorporate the
Oostanaula Steamboat Company, with powers
of insurance ; to.amend an act incorporating
the Oglethorpe Insurance Company of Savan
nah ; to incorporate the Savannah Steamboat
Company, with powers of insurance : to add a
section to the Penal Code giving Sheriffs fees
for arresting fugitives from justice : to incor-
porate the Central R R and Canal Company ;
to restrict the charges of Railroads -passed ; it
forbids increased - charges for transporting
freight short distances ; to prescribe the mode
by whfch Courts shall grant charters, to pri
vate Companies. Jurisdiction given to Supe
rior Courts exclusively ; to nol pros all crimi
nal cases where the party committing the of
fense was acting under authority of an officer
who had power to give the order ; to establish
Southern Bank, of Americu# ; to incorporate
the North Georgia Mining and Manufacturing
Company, passed yesterday, was reconsidered,
aud the name of said Company changed to tho
Gordon Mining and Manufacturing Company ;
to incorporate the Southern Savings Bank and
Commercial Association ; to give Magittrates’
Courts jurisdiction of certain criminal casqs,
-The aunexed billg. were lost: to allow the
Inferior Court of Scriven county to retain the
State ‘t&tffor 1866 to build a court house ; to
change the line between Early and Mitchell
counties ; to change the line between Dougher
ty and Worth ; to change the line betwe-.n Bar
tow and Paulding ; to require Ordinaries to
make an account of Confederate money on
hand by Administrators, Executors, and Guar
diaus, in their returns ; to prevent settlement
of lands by freedmen in ce. tain cases ; to pre
vent white persons from purchasing certain
persons of color.
SENATE.
Friday, March 2.
The reoonsidered bill to prescribe an oath
to be takou by retailers of spirituous liqors, and
to require them to keep an orderly house, was
passed. The bill raises the license fee to SIOO,
and requires au oath that retailers wiil not sell
liquors to minors.
The annexed bills were introduced ; to
amend various sections of tho Code in which
the term “Conlederate States’’ occurs ; to ex
tend the corporate limits of the town of
Thomas ville.
Tim annexed bills were passed : to supple
mentary and explanatory ot the 2462 section of
the Code in relation to unrepresentad ei-tate;
to incorporate the Vulcan Mining aDd Manu
facturing Company ; regulating certain con
tracts ; the bill to incorporate anew Gas Com
pany was lost.
HOUSE '
Friday, March 2.
The annexed bills were reconsidered; to ra,
etricting charges of railroads; allowing the
county ot Scriven to retain the tax ot the State
for 1866.
The annexed bills wero passed; for A bill
was introduced to provide for giving a lien on
growing crops.
Joint resolution to appoint a committee of
sixteen to report at next session of tne Legis
lature a system of common school instructions
tor the State. Adopted.
The annexed bills were passed ; to point out
the mode of paying Solicitors of Eastern Cir
cuit; to incorporate the Savings BaDk of Savan
nah; for the relief of married soldiers; author
izing the Governor to issue bonds; to repeal a
law prohibiting marriage of first cousins; for
the relief of administrators, executors and
guaidians who have invested in Confederate
bonds.
The annexed bills were lost to regulate
the printing of oonnty officers; to protect land
owners against certain trespasses; to suspend
the collection laws of this State till time spe
cified.
SENATE.
Friday, March 2.
A bill was introdnoed to establish a Board
of Education in the city of Savannah.
The annexed bills were lost ; to change
the line between the counties of ’
Dooly and Pulaski ; to incorporate
ate the New Era Mining and Manufacturing
Company ; to alter and amend the Charter of
the city of Columbus ; to allow D. B. Sanford,
of Greene county, to bring up the business of
R. E. Martin, late Clerk of the Supreme Court ;
to alter and amend the Charter of the town of
Newnan, and to make a oity of said town ; to
incorporate the Central Georgia Manufactur
ing Company ; to incorporate the Georgia and
Alabama Mining and Petroleum Company ;
to authorize the Inferior Court of Greene
county to levy and collect an extra tax for the
purpese of building a bridge across the Oco
nee river ;to incorporate the Atlanta Canal
and Water Work? ; to incorporate the Buck
Manufacturing Company in the county of
Schley ;to allow the amount for Revenue
Stamps required on writings to be charged in
bills of cost ;to provide for the payment of
teachers of Poor Schools for the year 18G5 ;
to make valid certain acts of the Justices of
the Inferior Court of Polk couuty ; to ratify
certain acts of Executors, Guardians and Min
isterial offices ; to amend Part 2, Title 3,
Chapter 2, Article 4, Section 3 of the Code ;
for the relief of certain practicing physicians
in thia State ; to amend Section 3478 of the
Code ; to incorporate the town of Vernonburg
in the county of Chatham ; to alter and amend
the several Acts incoiporating tho city of At
lanta ; for the benefit of persons building
stock enclosures in Effingham county ; to au
thorize the Inferior Court of Glynn county, to
compel persons subject to do road duty in one
district to perform tne same in othor districts
of the county ; to incorporate the Dalton Pe
troleum Company.
The annexed bills were lose : to alter the
line between Baker and Early counties ; to
make it penal for any Railroad to charge for
freight or passage more than is allowed by the
Charter.
HOUSE.
Friday, March 2.
The annexed bills were passed : to incorpor
ate the Augusta Mutual Insura&ca Company ;
to allow Ordinaries of this State to charge and
receive certain fees, and' to authorize them to
charge and receive certain fees in addition to
fhose specified in the act ; to remit the taxes
of 1864 and 1865, and for other purposes ; to •
provide for the pay of officers and members of
the General Assembly; to repeal all laws mak
ing it penal tor the people of this State to re
ceive and circulate U 8 currency ; to alter the
rules of evidence in certain cases ; to increase
the pay of the Compiler, and provide for the
early distribution of the laws ; to amend -see
tion 1307 of article 3d of Code ; to allow execj
utors to resign their trust ; to repeal an act
amendatory of 2980 section of Code,
The annexed bills were lost ; to authoiizs
the Inferior Courts of this State to purchase a
farm for paupers, and for other purposes ; to
authorize the,waiver of legal process in certain
cases ; to prescribe the term for and
Constables to advertise sale of property ; to
repeal 1634 article, part 2, Title 2, Chapter 1,
Art. 1 of the Code of Georgia.
RRIDAY NLGHT SESSION.
The annexed bills were passed ; to amend
3866 of the Code so far os it relates to the coun
ty of Chatham ; to incorporate the Georgia
Life and Accident Insurance Cos. of Atlanta ;
to incorporate the North American Insurance
Company of Atlanta; to incorporate the Bruns
wick and Altamaha Canal Company.
HOUSE.
Saturday, March 3.
The annexed bills were pasted : to divide
lands in kind; to change the registry of lands;
to define the liabilities of Vendue Masters; to
incorporate LaGrange Savings Bank
The bill raising revenue ior the State for
1866, was reconsidered. The bill was then
amended and passed.
The reconsidered bill to establish in each
county a pauper farm was referred to the Com
mittee on internal improvements.
Bill to authorize Guardians, Administrators
&c., to resign their trusts on certain conditions
therein stated. Lost
SENATE.
Saturday, March 3.
The bill to restrict the charges of Rail Roads
was reconsidered and the same referred to the
Judiciary Committee.
The bill to vest certain lands near the city