Chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1864-1866, April 18, 1866, Image 1

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OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXV.- Cjjrouirlf k leufmel. HENRY MOORE, A. R. WRIGHT, TREBPASS. In another column we lay before our readers the recent enactment of the Legislature de fining trespass, and the punishment imposed for this offence. Wo desire to call attention to H now, in order that our people may see that the plea of necessity, which has been put up of late in justification of those who have attempt ed to take the law in their own hands, no longer exists. We are aware that, previous to the passage of this act, our people suffered great loss of property as well as injury to feel ings, for which no legal remedy had been provided. We confess that many cases have come tinder our own observation, where a resort to individual vindication of private rights and redress of wrongs, if not entirely justifiable, was at least not criminal. We, in common with ail the right thinking people of the State, have deplored this necessity—not only liecause the citizen war deprived of the just protection of Government, but because the tendency of individual ledress of wrongs would inevitably lead to many excesses, and a total disregard of the laws of the land, even when, by those laws, all the rights of persons aud property wure recognized and protected. We have been pained at tho recital of many deeds of violence and bloodshed which have occurred ia oar State since the termination of the war, growing out of the attempt on the part of citizens to protect their persons aud property from acts of trespass, for which no adequate remedy was provided by law. We have seen the effects of such acts In producing upon the public mind a carelessness, not to say recklessness, of legal and moral restiaints, which have gone far to establish in our midst a disregard, if not contempt, for the regulations of society and the administration of justice. The sudden emancipation of the negroes, aud the consequent removal of the restraints under which they have been educated and raised— tho criminally foolish notions which were, by designing and bad men, put into their heads, of their rights and equality with the white people—led these poor Ignorant creatures to tho commission of many offences which, under our former system of slavery, were punishable and regulated by their owers, and consequently our Civil Code was silent In relation to them. No people ever sutfwred as did ours during tho four or five months immediately following emancipation. Deprif|ed of the protection of tho laws, their property seized without process, their houses searched without warrants, their persons committed to prison without bail, tbeir lives taken without legal trial, it Is won deiful that they exhibited so much of moder ation and of pallorco. We reler to these things now in no bitter or vindictive spirit. Perhaps the character of the war, then but recently ceased, and the augry feelings it enlisted on both sides, necessitated, to some extent, those lawloss and cruel proceedings. These acts of officials and ethers, represent ing themselves as government agents, were made the pretext for many high handed out rages committed by the blacks and evil dis posed white people. The law abiding citizen felt no security for person or property, aud iu many instances a feeling of desperation seized upon' him, under the influence of which he was tempted to do the very thing which in his inmost hont he de tested and abhored—take the law in his own hinds. Then came a brood, too, of minor and petty offences, such as stealing wood, fruit, veget ables ; the teavio down and destroying if fences and fruit trees; tho squatting upon land, and the like, which, perhaps, in themselves, though trivial and light as compared to others, were of such a character as to produce and keep up a constaut state of irritation and dis content. Thank God ! this plea of necessity can be no long, r set up. The act under review makes ample provision for protection as against these lesser law-breakers, and other legislation, to which we intend to invite attention in a lew days, provides appropriate remedies for crimes of greater magnitude. Lot us hear no more ot garden robbers being shot; of squatters being burned out, and tho like. Let every man be diligent in detecting these petty sooundrols, while or black, and bring them before the proper tribuuals. The remedy is ample—the law is complete It only remains for our people to see that it is vigor ously enforced. Ths New Governor or Rhode Island. —The telegraph has announced the election of Gen. Ambrose Everett Burnside to tbe Governorship of Rhode Island. T his is the valiant chief who, upon the altar of hid iucompetency, sacrificed thousands of his army in a reckless assault upon our lines at Fredericksburg. The Cin cinnati Euquirer aptly terms him the “butcher of Fredericksburg,’’ and says that it is fitting, perhaps, that a State which sends (he imbecile Sprague to the Senate, aud for years allowed negroes with property to vote, while white men without property were excluded from the polls, should have such a Governor. That paper adds that “ his atrocious order, called “ No. 38,” in which he attempted to stiffs ths liberty of speech, and his proceedings under it iu the kidnapping aud deportation of Mr. Val landiugham. were crimes of so high a grade that, unless retributive justice sleeps, he will be obliged, in the future, to expiate in person and property.” Pntsoi.koi in Italy, —Recent accounts from Leghorn, relate that there is a general rise iu the price of foreign'articles imported theie, and especially iu petroleum, of which the con sumption is said to be so large in Italy that the supply is not equal to the demand. The price is so much increased lately that compa nies have beeu formed at Turin and Genoa for purifying the produce of the petroleum springs which exist ia Parma and Calabria. It is thought Cairo will be free from water hereafter when the river rises above the level. Anew pump, capable of throwing forty thou sand gallons of water per minuts, went into v ation on the 4th. IS THE WHIT OF HABEAS CORPUS RESTORED ! We were not witling to hazard au opinion in this most Important question, upon the very imperfect copy of the President’s procla mation which reached ns through the medium of the telegraph. We have now the official copy, as published by the'National Intelligen cer, and we are prepared to say, from a close examination of this document, in connection with the previous proclamations of President Lincoln suspending tbe writ, that, in our opi nion, the operations of the civil law ia ths States of Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro lina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas is fully restored. By the act of Congress passed 3d March, 1863, it is declared that “ during the present rebeiiiou the President, whouever, in his judg ment. tho public safety may require it, is au thorized to suspend the writ of habeas corpus in any case throughout the United States, or in any part thereof.” It will be observed that the power granted to the President by Con gress, to suspend the writ, was expressly lim ited as to time—‘‘during the (then) present rebeiiiou.’’ In ordinary cases of war between nations, the period of peace is fixed by flrealies between tho contending parties, and the war is said to be legally closed at the date of tho ratification of the treaty. In civil wars, when, by the overthrow of oue party, no Government is left with whom such a treaty could be negotiated, the cessation of the war and the return of peace mi|at be either calculated from the sur render of tho last hostile foioe of tho discom fited party, or from a proclamation ot the conqueror declaring tho war terminated. in tho case under consideration, tho Govern ment of the United States (the conquering power) have seen tit to consider the war as pending long after the surrender of Kirby Smith’s command—the last of tho Confederate forces. Much of the legislation of Con gress has been bas.d upon that idea, and the present Administration, in its treatment es the States lately composing the Government known as tbe “Confederate States,’’ has regu lated its conduct ot affairs hero upon the ground that the rebellion, as they are pleased to terra it, still existed. Whether this assumption oi tho continued existence of the rebellion (so-called) be true or not, the Btates interested hid no ap peal from the deoision of the Federal Govern ment so declaring it. While then, tile “rebel lion’’ existed, the writ of habeas corpus was suspended by force of President Lincoln’s pro clamat on, issued iu accordauce with the act of Congress, before recited on the 15th Septem ber, 1863. By that proclamation, it was de •clured that “this suspension shall continue throughout the duration of such rebellion, or until this proclamation by a subsequent one, to be issued by the President of. the United Btates, be modified or revoked.” Now as we have seen that the Federal Government did net hold the rebellion to be terminated by the surrender of the lost armed ioices of the Con federate Government, it would follow that the suspension of the writ was continued by lores ot the proclamation of President Lincoln, until there should be a formal deciavatiou of peace, or a couuter proclamation, issued by the Presi» dent restoring it. As Boon, therefore, as the authorities of the United States declare the “rebellion” termi nated ; the writ is restored ex vi termini. This is the view, uo doubt, which was taken by President Johnson, in issuing his proclamation. That important and very able paper states in one of its pieambles: “There exists now uo organized armed resistance of misguided citi zens, or others, to the authority of the United Btates, in the States of Georgia, South Caro lina. Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alubama, Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi and Florida, and the laws can be eustaiued and enforced therein by the proper civil authority, State or Federal, and the people of said States are well and ioyally disposed, and have con formed or will conform, in their legislation to the condition of all'firs growing out of the amendment to the Constitution of the United States,” &c. Here, then, is the declaration of the Government of tho United States, the con quering power, declaring the existence of the rebellion terminated, aud we might here rest the case. But, in order that there might be no misun derstanding upon this point, the President goes on to say, in the last clause but one of his pro clamation, “ whereas, standing armies, milita ry occupation, martial law, military tribunals, and tho suspension of tbe writ of habeas cor pus, ure, in times of peace, dangerous to public liberty, and incompatible with tho individual rights of citizens, contrary to tbe genius aud spirit of our free institutions, and exhaustive of the national resources, and ought not, there fore to be sanctioned or allowed except in cases cf actual necessity for repelling invasion or sup pressing insurrection or rebellion : Therefore, 1. Andrew Johnson, President cf the United States, do hereby proclaim and declare that the insurrection which heretofore existed in the States of Georgia, South Carolina, &c , is at an end, and is keuceforth to be so regarded ” Here, then, we have the authority of the President of the United States for saying that the "rebellion" (so called) is ended, and there fore, by the terms of President Lincoln's pro clamation, suspending tbe writ, in the abseuce of any order or proclamation continuing its suspension, the writ is restored. This is the only logical conclusion to bear rived at upou a careful review of the whole action of the Federal Government upon the question. Tho State of Georgia is no<v, in our opinion, in the same condition, as to the exercise» of all its civil rights, as the Btate of Massachusetts, and this condition is not changed or modified by the fact that we are still denied representation in the councils of the nation. The President has shown that it be had the power our representatives wou and have been restored long since to their places in Congress That he is powerless to enforce his policy, does not lesson or weaken our rights in the premises. Let us hope that the -second sober thought" of the people will soon compel our full rehabilitation in all the rights and privileges to which by law we are entitled. Until then, let it be cur constant aim so to conduct ourselves as to prove to the President and to the world, that we are not unworthy of the confidence reposed in us. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 18, 1866. OOTION SEED. We hear very general complaints from the country in regard to the quality of the seed which, in many localities, the planters aie obliged to use. Daring the war so little cotton was raised, lhat a very great scarcity of seed exists tbronghout the cotton States. The very small crops of ’62, '63, and ’64 were very generally stored away in the seed, and were not ginned until the last year. From frequent experiments which have been made witn these seed, wk are assured by many In telligent planters, it has been ascertained that very few will germinate, and that even of those that do come up three-fourths die in the course if eight or ten days. We have taken some pains to get correct information on this point, and the general current of opinion Is that seed which have lain in the liat for two years or more are altogether unreliable. Whether seed that were separated from- the lint shortly, after picking, and have subsequently been kept well sheltered and protected from the weather, are reliable, the opinion ot planters is somewhat contradictory. The weight of opinion seems to b3 that such seed will keep perfectly well for three, four and some say as long as ten years. We suppose that this will depend very much upon the condition tho seed were in when stored away, and the quantity which was piled together. If the seed wore ginned from dry, well matured cotton, and not stored in too large a bulk, we think from the evidence which wo have obtained upon this point that they will keep several years without injury to tho garni. One large planter la Burke county, of considerable experierce, assures us that he has planted seed ten years old, and lhat he preferred them to seed of the last year’s growth. His theory was that by keeping them for several years, the germ of the faulty or defective ones would bo destroyed, so that none would germlnnte except such as would make strong, vigorous plants, whereas if new or fresh seed were planted many defective ones would come up, which would not have suffioient vitality to sustain a vigorous growth and were liable to die out under the effects of the hot June sun. On the other hand, a planter In a neighbor ing county, of great experience, informs us that he planted seed of the growth of 1862, and that they came up beautifully. In a few days he noticed that they began to die cut, and in eight or ten days the stand had become so de fective from dying out, that he ploughed up and replanted the land. This second planting came up well, but in a few days ho noticed the tendency to dia,*and watched it closely. By the tenth day from the time it first began to come up,,tf was nearly, or quite, all dead. He planted the land the third time with like results. We give these cases for what they are worth. Both are gentlemen of veracity, and both ex perienced planters. In the last case, the seed tad in the lint since ’62. We won'd urge upon planters the propriety of at least sowing old seed very thick. Don’t be deterred from this by the high price of seed- Better to buy a few good seed to finish the crop with, even at the present high prices, rather than hazard the insuring of a good stand. Ail cotton planters know the value of a peifect stand. A full crop of cotton cannot ba made without it. THE I’ALMA CHRISTI, OR CASTOR BEAN. The cultivation of this plant is attrac’ing considerable attention. It is claimed to pos sess several advantages over any other crop that can be grown at this time. These ad vantages consist in the yield, which is esti mated at 2,000 4,400 pounds of clean seed to the acre, worth at least three cents per pound, which would realize S6O to $l3O per acre ; la ths limited cultivation required, which enable each hand to tend thirty to forty acres ; in the fact—an important one in the devastated con dition cf many farms—that no inoiosnres are needed, as no stock will eat the plant; and it is further claimed that the cultivation of the plant is not exhaustive, but rather beneficial to the soil. Without endorsing any of these alleged advantages, we present them, as worthy of consideration, and as appearing to warrant the direction of some attention to a staple new to our latitude. To enable planters to give the plant a fair trial, Mr. J. W. Gregory, of Savaunah, will loan them seed without cost, with practical In structions forplauting, and will contract forth* entire crop at three cents par pound, cash on delivery. It eaa be planted until the end of May. Some of the most skilful planters in the country have? no faith in the profits on cotton - growing under our present labor system.— Here is an estimate, in this connection, which is interesting. It is from the New Or leans Timas, and U made by one of tLe most euecesstul planters In Mississippi : Ton hands making 1,600 pounds each—l6,ooo pounds at 40c $6,400 00 Less charges for selling, say— Freight per railroad, $5 per bate on forty bales $200,00 Internal Revenue, 2o per lb.. .320 00 Insurance $2 60 per bale 100 00 Btate Taxes in Miss, and La. . 100 00 U.S. Taxes and brokerage, 1 2 per cent 30 00 Weighing, storage and other charges 40 00 Commission for selling 160 00 Bagging and rope 130 50-1,080 00 Net proceeds of crop $5,320 00 To procure this orop he found bis expenses would be as follows : Wages of ten hands at sl2 per monthsl,44o 00 Rations for same as ordered by Bu reau 900 00 Clothes for same as ordered by Bu reau 600 00 Core, etc., to feed the stock 900 00 i Blacksmith’s bill 100 00 Taxes on land 200 00 Teams and wagons, worth $2,000, J off 500 00 Support of his family 1,000 00 Total expenses of working tho place. $5,510 00 Probable boss upon the adventure.... 220 00 The friends ot tho Palma Christi claim that under the above expenses, the average yield j would realiz) the snug sum, over expenses, of ! $2,416. We neither endorse or dissent from j these estimates, but present them as points worthy of consideration by our planters. The latest reports fro* the Straits of Macki nac state that the winter was the coldest ever known there. I Coer of Nfw;pafsrs —There is no c untry in the world, says an exchange, wh‘-re the newspaper is so universal a necessity as in our own. To everybody it is as indispensable as his daily food ; yet few are aware of the labor and expense involved in the proparatiqp of the constantly recurring mental meal. The Phil adelphia Ledger lately announced that the loss on its circulation alone amounted to SIOO,OOO in twelvemonths, which will seem a startling statement, and may be received with more or less Incredulity by those not engaged in the business, and, therefore, unacquainted with the mysteries of newspaper publishing. The Phila delphia Telegraph has come remarks upon the subject, which the initiated everywhere know to be true. It declares that there is not now a single dally paper printed in this coun try of which the cost to the publisher is not greatly in excess ot the price for which it sells. ‘The question may -be- naturaliy ashred, how newspapers, then are supported? The answer is. that the publisher is only saved from ruin by the advertising source of inoome. Neither the subscriber who tbkes the paper only to read it, cor the advertiser who uses it as apro ti table means of communication with its read era, separately sustains it. Both conjoined are necessary to that end ; and while one com plains that the prico of the paper is too high, and the other that he is charged too much for his advertisements, the publisher is continual ly struggling to adjust the just claims of each. In other words, he is governed by the same principal which governs men iu every other kind of business. He is too wise to impose prices on the public which they won'd not long pay if found to to exorbitant ; and com petition in this, as in every other sort of busi ness, would soon expose and oorrcct any such exorbitance. All things consideted, the public are getting the benefit of the daily newspapor press at a very cheap price, and publishers realize a profit inadequate to the service they render, and the labor and care they incur. CROP FROSPEOIS. % CIuwFORDYiLLB, April 6th, 1866. Editor Chronicle & Sentinel : From Plan ters In Warren, Taliaferro and Wilke3 counties^ I learn that the freedmen generally, are doing about two thirds work. In rare cases there Is some dissatisfaction. Farms generally in good working order. Planters are cultivating their best lands—leaving out many acres of worn out lands, as it will not pay to work free labor on such. The fruit crop is injured ; some say one-third, others oue halt the peaches are kill ed or injured ; if no more, we may expect a crop of good peaches, I spent two hours very pleasantly at the residence of Hon. A. H. Stephens, Georgia’s noblest son, who is now in Washington City pleading for his loved State, and the South generally. May he accomplish much, is the prayer of all true men. I here met Mr. H. Cleveland, a polite gentleman and polished writer ; Mr. John Stephens, nephew of Mr. S.; Mr, Briscoe, both lawyers, and Mr. Hydell, Se cretary to Mr. S. whiio in Richmond. Yours, U. Grantvilie, Ga., ApritSth, 1866. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel : Having been traveling in the counties of Coweta, Merriweth„ er, Troup and Heard, I find the farmers very busily engaged in planting. A good portion of the crop planted and being planted, consists of corn, while wheat is looking very well, with a good stand generally on tbe ground. Tho oats were much injured by the freeze in February, and not more than half crops need be looked for. There is not as much land being planted In cotton as was anticipated sometime ago; the freedmeu are not holding on as faithfully as we were in hopes they would do. Several have left within a few days—we cannot, with much safety, rely on their labor, as we desire. The weather is fine, and the farms are in good order. Much repairing has been done during the past fall and winter. Small pox nearly disappeared. Yours, truly, W. B. S. EUROPEAN EMIGRATION. The tide of foreign emigration to this conn try seems to bo rapidly increasing, under the stimulus of restored peace. From Germany the number arriving at Havre to take ship for America is unprecedented. A Havre journal says that there are no less than 1 000 persons, lodging in one quarter alone, awaiting vessels to take them out. Many are going to England to take passage from Liverpool. The same journal remarks that this Increase of emigration coincides with a great extension of the commercial relations between France and the United States. Not less than twenty five vessels are shortly expected at Havrs from New Orleans, one from Texas, and five from M obile, all laden with cotton. A considerable quantity of tho same material is also being •hipped for Havre at New York, along with osher merchandise. Iu short, the import trade at Havte has not boeu so brisk for five years past. A Berlin correspondent of the London Times says: “The emigration to North America is daily astuming greater proportions. Up to the end of May 10,000 persons have already en gaged to leave, via Hamburg and Bremen.— The emigrants are nearly all Northerners and Protestants, wher-ea?, ten years ago, the vast majority consisted of Southerners, maay of them Roman Catholics.” Labor in Georgia. —lnspector General Strong of the Freedmeu’s Bureau, who Is at present in Savannah, writes to Major General Howard that there is a great scarcity of labor in that vicinity and many other places he has visited iu the State. In the lower counties among the Sea Islands, and on the rice planta tions of the Savannah and Ogeehee river, Gen. Strong says the blacks are all employed, and extra hands cannot be found. He also states that many Northern men, who have purchased oi leased plantations, will lose money the coming season, or fail altogether. Some par ties on the Ogeehee h#/e expressed themselves willing to pay as high as one doriar per day, and furnish the hands with quarters, fuel, and good rations, or would bo glad to contract with the freedmen, gtvi ng them one®half of the rice crop, clear of expenses ; but even at this rate of compensation hands cannot be se cured. D. G. Scofield, a petroleum stock specula tor of New York, has failed. j MEETING OF THE RICHMOND BAR. Augusta, April 9, 1860. The Court haring affjonrned for the day, upon the announcement of the death of George Schley, Esq'., and Gen. John K. Jackson, a meeting of the Bar was organized by calling William T. Gould, Esq., to the Chair, and ap pointing Jos. B. Cummlng, Esq , Secretary. On motiou of E. Starnes, Esq , a committee of eight was appointed by tho Chair, viz : E. Starnes, Herschel V. Johnson, H. W. Hilliard, John T. Shewmake, L. D. Lallerstedt, Joseph Ganahl, Jos. B. Cumming. and Claiborne Snead, Esqs., to prepare appropriate preamble and resolutions, and report to the meeting to be called by the Chairman. The meeting then adjourned. April 10, 1866. The Bar having assembled, as called by the :Gt»aiman.Ake InhUmung and rest>iu~_ tions were submitted by the chairman of the Committee, and, on motion, adopted : It is in the spirit of uo fcrmal compliance with a customary evidence ot respect, that we meet this day for the purpose of offering tribute to tho memory of our deceased brother, John K. Jackson. From tho depths of mourning hearts, we give utterance to the grief which possesses us By the side of his open grave we have all recently stood, aud few of us were there who were not bowed with an anguish which was even as tho sorrow of a strong man. Yet wo mourned, and moured not as one who is without hope. We have reflected that in his life he has leit us an example of duty faithfully discharged, and in his death be has b< queathed to us a lesson of that calm confidence which surrounds the Christian’s hope. Wo are assemblecWo day, not alone to lav cur wreath of tributary emotions upon his tomb ; we feel it our duty, as his brethren of the Bar, to honor his memory by recording our recognition of his talents, his virtues, and his services to his country. B.s it therefore Resolved, by the Bar of Richmond county, That, as a member of the legal profession, our deceased brother was at once industrious, accurate, faithful and learned; and if his life had been spared, he would, without doubt., have shared the highest honors of that profession. Resolved, That as our unsuccessful, but not inglorious, struggle lor independence excited in U3 a melancholy pride, so we recall, with deep satisfaction, tho part our deceased brother took therein, and the evidence he afforded in camp and field that he was a brave, devoted, and self sacrificing soldier. Resolved, That whilst wegileve for the pro fessional brother so untimely cut off, for the gallant toldier whose career has ended, the patriot whose light of life has been so prema turely quenched in the tomb, we unite with those to whom he was more closely connected by the tie3 of love and duty, in mourning for the faithful brother, the devoted husband, the affectionate father, aad we tender to these members of his family the expression of our heartfelt sympathy. And be it further Resolved, That though we thus mourn, we still fled pleasuie in recording that in all his career our deceased brother af forded a striking example of ability, zeal, en» ergy, industry, integrity and perseveranoe in the path of duty, and that as a consequence more or less of success and happiness crowned his efforts in life, and much of calmness and peace brightened his moments in death. Resolved, That we will wear the usual badge of mourning in memory of the deceased, dur ing the present term of this Court. On this occasion we also meet to mourn for the death of another member of our brother hood. Though, for several years, George (Schley may be said to have retired from the Bar, yet he had not been without success whilst actively engaged in the practice, and he great ly endeared himself to the members of the profession. To a vigorous and active intellect, he united industry, perseverance and manly virtue. He prosecuted what he undertook with resolution and integrity of purpose. And then, wilhai, he was inspired with a cheerfulness which difficulties never subdued, and a hopeful ness which uever yielded to despondency in the darkest hour of doubt and gloom. He was public-spirited, enterprising, and charitable. He was a dutiful and patriotic citizen. In 1836 he was elected to represent the county of Richmond in the Legislature of Georgia. He peiformed the duties of that im portant trust with ability and fidelity. But he was not a politician. He uever aspired to public office. The career of politics was not congenial to his nature. Hence, he passed the balance of his days in the quiet pursuits of private life In the social circle he was alfible and intelligent, imparting to those around him the sunshine and joycusness that warmed and animated his own loving heart. Grave and dignified with th ) aged aad thoughtful, but buoyant and gleeful with the young, he suited his intercourse to ail circumstances, and con tributed his share to social enjoyments from the fullness of his own generous nature. He was the idol ot hia lamily. Asa father and husband, he was affectionate and tender, hence his house was the abode of happiness, where nourished in undisturbed harmony, those en dearing relationships and sympathise which sweeten ever the care3 of life and refine and hallow its joys. But he has passed away from the companionship and associations, from the waiks of social life, and from the embraces of the loving on; s who nestled around him as the presiding spirit of his happy fireside. All that remains for us is to plant the Cyprus upon his grave and water it with our tears. He is be yond the reach of censure or praise. Wo record this tribute to his memory, rather as a feeble expression of our regret lor his death and sympathy with his bereaved family, than as an adequate portraiture of his many vir tues. 'therefore, Resolved, That in the death cf George Schley the Bar has lost an ornament and so ciety a useful aad patriotic citizen. 2 'lhat we tender to his bereaved family our condolence and sympathy, and that we will wear the usual badge of mourning during the present term of the Court. The meeting then adjourned. Wm. T Gould, Chairman. Jcs. B Cumming, Secretary. Upon the opening of the Court, Judge Gould moved that the resolutions adopted by the Bar, in memory of its deceased membersj be spread upon the minutes of the Court. His Honor Judge Hook, in ordering the resolutions to the record, paid the following elcqueut and touching tribute to the virtues and attainments of the deceased : Gi.NTLK.VKN OF THE BAP. : The resolutions which you have just read, containing as they do, just tributes to the memory of two departed professional brethren, shall be spread on the minutes of this court in pursuance of your request. Allow me to say however, before ordering them to the record, that they have my hearty endorsement, and th3t I sympathise very thoroughly with the sentiments of sorrow and regret and of admi ration and of eulogy which your eloquent ad dresses on this sad occasion have bo earnestly and pathetically expressed ! Occasions like the present have been of frequent occurrer.c i at this bar cf late. Ever and anon are the som bre shadows of the tomb stretching acroga our professional pathway, aud reminding us that the grim monster wto presides there, Is no re pector of persons, but claims all of every cire'e aad age and condition for his own. Now, he mows down some venerable form ripe for the sickle, like the late lamented incumbent of this bench—now, some young and gallant NEW SERIES, YOL. XXV NO. 17. spirit who has dared the perils of the present, and Is proudly gazing down the vista of tho future with his eye fixed on ambition’s glit tering goal—like Jackson, whose loss we now deplore ; or again he strikes down one who like Mr Schley, had passed the meridian cf life, with a well earned reputation and was calmy and complacently looking upon the mellow twilight of advancing old age,just be ginning to settle about his pathway. Os this latter gentleman it perhaps becomes me npt to speak: a near kinsman, and the best friend (next to my parents) I liavo ever had on this earth, 1 have no utterance suited to my feelings. lam content to pass from him, and leave the grateful hearts of the many whom his generous and unselfish liberality has aided, to enshrine his memory. General Jackson was my junior by some few years! And when i left this city, scarce then twenty years of age, he was a school-boy at tending the Academy just iu tho rear of this building, A few brief years sped by, and I heard of his admission to the bar, and then of his energy and aptness in his profession--and ere long, of his coping successfully with those Wp. -f h jjUg* 111^11? character, have ever illustrated and sustained the huh reputation of the Augusta Bar. Boys growing np in the same community as we had been, and professional brethren as we were, I rejoiced at his success and was proud of his triumphs. Ere long the clarion of war was sounded, and laying aside his books and his briefs he snatched th.: sword and took his stand amid the heroic defenders of tho South in her late unhappy struggle. Let what will or may bo said es the motives which prompted, or the policy which guided that revolution ; one thing is certain, it bronght to view thousands of gailaut, brave and noble spirits, among whom General Jackson deservedly occupied a high position. He acted in the camp and on the field as he had ever done in private life, and the profes sional circle, aud proved himself a true man. But, he has been t\ken from us—cut down iu theprjment young and vigorous manhood, and in the midst of his usefulness, with a bright future 'spreading out before him in viting to its rich rewards. Accounts of his last moments, assure us that he met death as he had met dangers on the battle field, with becoming calmness aud for titude. May we too—ever stand ready to meet tho demands of ,dut,y while we live, as did he, and when death comes be enabled to exclaim : Oh death where is thy sting. Oh grave where is tby victory! MEXICO. Washington, April 3. The followiug official letter, addressed to Geiv Alvarez, is communicated by him from La Providencia, dated March Ist 1866, to Minister Romero : Hualtbmo, February 28, 1826. I have now the pleasure of confirming the news of the defeat of the Imperial General, Mejia, which I gave in’ my last, having last night received the official dispatches. In a word, the enemy lest all of their reserve train, provision, baggage, pork, clothing, and the private correspondence of Mendez; with his military chest, in which was some $12,000, which is now in our hands ; and what is more, the flags of the different corps and atarge num ber of prisoners. Fasterero was re-occupied on the following day. In consequence of these successes, we have obtained other small triumphs in Aprisingua and Irambo, all of which I hasten to commu nicate to you and our companions in arms, [Signed] G. Peurit Jordan. The following extract from a letter from Paris has been received in this city : Paris, March 19, 1866.—Thepiincipal object of these lines is to let you know that 3,200 men left here a week ago for Vera Cruz with the greatest secrecy; among them are 4,000 huz zars of Algiers. , At Brest and Cherbourg the press have not mentioned anything about it nor do they care to speak at dl about the Mexican question, because they have been warned not to do so. A telegraph dispatch from Vienna, publish ed here day beiore yesterday, informs us that an agreement has been concluded with Maxi milian for the purpose of sending him 2,000 Austrians to fill up the losses of the Austrian contingent in Mexico, The necessary expense will, of course, be defrayed by the French Government.’’ A letter to the N. O. Times says: The Republican Gen. Corona is iu possession of the States of Sonora and Sinaloa, with 3,000 men, and has arrived at Mazatlan. The Liber ai forces took Fcoeoltiehe, in Z icateeas, on the 9th February. On the 23d January, the gal lant Pedro Mendez took Tantoyuquitc. captur ing a convoy valued by the enemy at $5,00,000. By private letter, I am informal that on the Ist of March, Gov. Vienna took Parras, and on the sth a column of eight hundred French traitors going to succor Parris, was met by the forces of Sir Vitsca de la Coroneles Trevino and Navaryo and lost a considerable convoy As you will see, the Empire is far from being established—throughout all the States the Re publicans are rising A correspondent of the New York News, writing from the city of Mexico says : “The Emperor has at last decided the money here after coined at the national mints shall bear the Imperial stamp. Specimens of this money have just been issued and are in great demand as curiosities. The dollar bears the profile of the Emperor, with the words Maximiliano Em perador. Oa the reverse the Imperial national arms with the words Imperio Mfxicano. 1 peso— -1866. The engraving and the coin are hand somely executed, and the coin is certainly ere ditable to the Empire. Hitherto the Emperor has hesitated as to changing the com of the country, believing th it his rule had not been sufficiently established throughout the Empire. The present act may, therefore, be taken as an indication that be considers himself a fixed fact.’ Mr. Romero has received offi dal news from El Paso up to the 9th of March, from which it appears that on the 4,h the Ferragas brigade left there for the City of Chihuahua, which it was expected would be reoccupied about the 26thj ult. President Juarez intended to estab lish a government there at once. It is also stated that official news had been received at El I’aso of several important suc cesses obtained by the national troops in Ta maulipas, Coahulia, New Leon, Sonora, and Sinaloa. General Martinez routed the French at Alamos, and captured the place, He after wars effected a junction with General Morales. The Dublin correspondent of the London News, in a recent letter, give an insight, into the State of feeling in the Emerald Isle, arising from the anticipated Fenian revolution, and further declares : “Three baronies of the county of Kildare have been subjected to the operation of the Peace Preservation act. They are East and West Narrah and Kilkoa. The proclamation announcing the fact was published in Atby on Saturday. This will doubtiess be very con solatory to the inhabitants, who, according to the Daily (Dublin) Express, are in a terrible state of panic apprehension. He states : ‘To a person living in a civilized eountry it would seem incredible, but it is nevertheless strictly true, that the loyalists in this town are more like settlers on the edge of hostile Indian tor ritories than tenants on the property of the Duke of Leinster, and under the protection of government Bullets are cast, pistols, blun derbusses and revolvers are.both cleaned and oiled, and hand grenades placed in readiness. The threats and insinuations inces.antly in circulation lead them to*amicipat« |tbe attacks of hordes of yelling savages oa their dwelling* in the night; and to such a pitch are serious apprehensions entertained, especially by fe males, that many persons remained i»p nearly all Friday night, retiiing to rest han dressed. Aud lam told that lew will sleep to-night, though there Is not the least appearance of anything to alarm. ” THE CONTEMPLATED RAILROADS AT THE WEST. The New \ork Journal of Commerce says, the public are so absorbed in the great po litical question of the day, that they may not be generally conveisaot with several vast rail road plans now in course of development at the West. Three notable enterprises of this kind are now, however, being rapidly pushed forward in the State of Michigan, in each of which the city of Detroit is deeply interested. These are tho Gian l Trunk Extension, de signed to commence at Fort Huron, traverse a rich section of Oentiul Michigan, and termi nate in Chicago ; tho Grand River Valley Railroad, to connect the citieß of Jackson and Grand Rapids, and ultimately to be extended Southeast to Toledo and Northwest to Muske gon, and eventually to Grand Traverse, or still further North, so as to control the lake jhore commerce of the Lake Michigan lumber r aiidoh regions, the poster of 1 kran<? 'TfTphls", 1 " the coal of Grand Ledge, the grain and pro duce of a large section- of Southern Michigan, and the commerce of several important towns, in favor of Toledo ; and tho Grand Rapids and Northern Indiana Railroad, leading direct from Grand Rapids, and still further North to Cincinnati. “ By the Grand Trunk Extension, if the pro ject should be successful,” says the Detroit Post, ot tho 2d, “ a largo share of commerce was expected to pass by Detroit and reach the sea over Canadian fines ; but th : termination of the Reciprocity Treaty, and the growing and natural jealousy of a’ foreign and not too friendly power, must tend strongly to preserve to American lines running through Detroit the greater share of trade and travel ; so that, if the line is completed we are convinced that it will only add another feeder to the im portance and growth of this city, even if its eastern terminus is not eventually located here. As the scheme at present is the least ad'-ancod, and in view opiate events, least likely to reach an early completion of the three projects mentioned, we may dismiss it with an assurance that, in our opinion, in stead of creating uneasiness, it ought to he encouraged by Detroit influence, so far as that portion between the crossing of the Detroit and Milwaukee line and tho city of Chicago is concerned, at least. The Grand River Vallov line, with its pro posed extension to Toledo, is tho result of the natural effort of a too long neglected region to reach the linos connecting with tho sea board by the shortest and best route. Fortu nately tor Toledo, that city is on the natural line of such a route, as we cannot help con* ceding after an examination of the map. But the exultation of that city at tho prospect of at last becoming the terminus of a railroad line, is altogether too violent to stand the test of reason. The line from Jackson to Grand Rapids must and will be completed first, thus giving to Detroit the just benefit of the new commerce ; aud, if our business men are at all enterprising, they will always retain a fair sharp of tho business passing over tho road. The line at best can only give to Tole do some new trade, from regions hitherto un developed, without taking away much that reaches this city, but, on the contrary, adding quite largely to commerce. And the devel opment and growth of any portion of the State, accomplished by railway lines running north and south, must tend to aid Detroit in terests, no matter what may be the designs of their projectors or the hopes of our rivals. The Grand Rapids and Indiana line, we can readily believe, will operate to greatly benefit and built up the region about and north of Grand Rapids, giving to the plaster, agricultu ral and lumber interests there anew impetus, and developing and enriching the western part of the State very greatly. But this can de tract nothing from Detroit. This city dees not grow by the depression, but by tbe pros perity of every portion of the Btate; and as Detroit’s growth and wealth add to the growth and development of the State at large, so tfce development of any portion within the reach of our influence must add to the wealth and growth of I'eiioit, We know that unnatural jealousies and mu. tual reproaches have been iudulged in between the several localities interested in those schemes and this city, fomented and intemper ately discussed by the public prints; but wo trust that all parties interested are now in a temper to look at these and kindred topics with a more kindly and mutual teeling, and to consider them more with reference to the prosperity and gloiy of the State cf Michigan than narrow local interests and rival jealou sies. It is far more necessary to the general good that tbe State of Michigan, as a whole, should become rich, powerful, populous, and wisely governed, than that any one locality should obtain an advantage over another, since the genera! good cannot fail to b< uefit each and every city Interested greatly beyond any gain to be expected through local rivalries.” THE TRESPASS ACT. An Act to define certain acts of Trespass, and make the same penal. Section 1. The following acts shall here after be deemed and held to be trespass, and indictable, to-wit : Ist, Tho wilfni cutting or felling of any wood, timber or shade tree, upon the land, enclosed or unenclosed, of another, without the consent of the owner. 2d, The taking and carrying away, or at tempting to take and carry away any timber, wood, rails, fruit, vegetables, corn, cotton, or any other article, thing, produce or property of any value whatever, from the land, en closed or unenclosed, of another, without tho consent of the owner. 3rd, The pulling down or removing any fence, paling or enclosure, of another, without the consent of the owner. 4r.b, The squatting or settling upon the land, endoseu or unenclosed, of another, whether riubiic or private, with no bona fide c'.jjm ore .dor of title, and without tbe con sent ot the owner; Provided, the intruder shall not remove eff the land after ten days notice: and provided further, that this section shall not apply to wayfarers, who shall camp for a night, or in case ot Providential detention, so a longer time, on unenclosed land. Sec. 2. Any person committing any of the above acts of trespass, shall be held and deem ed guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to indictment in any Court having jurisdiction thereof, and upon conviction, shall be fined or imprisoned, or both at the discretion of the Court, the fine not to exceed two hundred dol lars, the imprisonment not to exceed the term of sixty days; Provided, that persons camping for a night and using wood for such purpose, shall not be deemed guilty, under this act. Sec. 3. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved 23rd February, 1866. The section in which lumber is found Colorado has twenty-five saw mills, and tea flour mills -have been set up within the p-»tt few years. Tbequariz miiis in tbe State are connted at over one hundred and fifty, costing $40,600,000. They should average, if all were running on medium ores, not le.-s than $23,- 000 000 per year. Wages rule at $5 per day. Mr. Loveland, a resident of Goluen City, is soon to erect a blast furnace and rolling mill at that point. The mill is to turn out rails for the road that is to b constructed between Denver and the towns of Central and passing through Golden City, and probably furnishing one of tbe many links in the over land railway.