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tfhrouicle k fmttnel ! WEDNESDAY MORXIA'G, NOVEMBER 11. j Rambling Thoughts about Rambling People. The American Union is informed that in j several of the counties in Middle Tennessee, the frecdiucu are refusing to enter into j contracts for labor for the ensuing year. There is an impression among some em ployers who have sounded the negroes upon the subject, that they are induced to to this course by the advice of bureau agents, and that some of them are flattered with the belief, that, after Christmas, they are to be invested with an interest in the lands. The editor calLs upon the chief of the Bureau to take immediate steps to re move any agents who arc thus misleading the negroes, and to give them correct in formation. This impression existed very generally in this section last year, and re sulted in part from the policy of the gov ernment in giving the negroes tcmjiorary possession of the sea islands, i t was creat ed also in many instances by designing mischief-makers, who sought to win popu- j larity with the negroes by creating such an impression. It still prevails to some extent, even in this community, notwithstanding the continued efforts of Gen. Tilison and his subordinates to remove it. Only adayor ago an instance came within our knowledge of an intelligent negro who told his employ er that it was no harm for negroes to steal from the white people—that all the whites had, the nogroes had made for them, arid that there was to be a division after awhile anyhow. We do not know that there are any .parties at present in our midst teach ing the freed people such loose and mis chievous sentiments, but it is evident that they are under influences which tend to alienate them from the whites, and to in spire expectations of ease and independence to come without labor. It is the high duty of all who are capa ble of influencing these people, to disabuse them of such delusive hopes. Even if the owners of th 2 soil were dispossessed, or a portion of them—of which there is hardly a remote possibility—new titles to their lands would only lie secured by purchase. And lands are so cheap already that every freedntan can with ordinary industry and economy, in a few years save enough to buy a comfortable home. 1 here is no roj al road to wealth, or to ownership of the soil, and the colored people cannot too Homi learn that the boon of' freedom is not a horn of plenty to scatter food and rai ment, and land on all who are released from the ban of servitude. There are other influences at work calcu lated to make thefreedraen restless and dis contented, and to deter them from making contracts with present employers \\ e re fer especially to agents for Western plant ers, who are paid a bonus for every able bodied man landed at certain points. They usually offer higher wages than are custom ary here, and have taken away thousands of our best laborers to unknown lands of promi o— it has been darkly hinted that these lands lay in some instances, amid the slave marts of the tropics. But however that may be, their promises of high wages have turned the heads of a large number ot freedmen, who have re solved not to make contracts for another year, so that they may be free to accept the offers of these Western agents. Ad mitting that contracts made with them arc carried out in good faith, it is very ques tionable whether, with increased wages, they can in the end do better in the A\ est than they can do here amid the homes of their days of servitude. Here they know who they are dealing with, and are familiar with the labor required of them; there they go among strangers—often among un principled adventurers, who may cheat them out of their dues. They go often to sickly districts, where doctors’ bills will consume a great portion of their wages. They go usually to largo plantations owned often by non-residents, where the discipline partakes 0 ,1. t whips of slav' 1 feel that w osU of til ■re .bi we feel the vise them t e . 'H , . inducements ollercd them by those h-u.-c ing drummers for plantations in the " e ;' ( - We do not deny that both black and white people map, in Winces, improve ,heir ewidifii- *'>’ emigration. But it must .vhere they have the means to go and 110 k for themselves, and select a favorable location ; or where they go with persons of known reliability, who have already se cured such locations. The results of the present year —though attended by unusual discouragements—have strengthened our conviction that it is the true policy of Geor giaipt, white and black, to cling to the old goaf cultivate a spirit of kindness and jus tice between the races, and rely on Provi dence for the results. Arrest of a Southern Clergyman for Stealing. The New York iLrW reports the arrest of Rev. Geo. T. Williams, Rector of the Episcopal Church in Suffolk, Virginia, under very mortifying circumstances. He was riding in a Fifth Avenue stage, seated beside a lady named Mrs. Moore, when he suddenly arose, pulled the strap and was going hurriedly out, when a lady sitting opposite to Mrs. Moore told that lady that she saw the gentleman take her pocket book. On looking for it, she discovered her loss, and a gentleman in the omnibus jumped out and following the light-fingered divine, soon seized him by the collar. He broke away and ran oil’ but was re-cap tured, after quite a scuffle; and on Mrs. Moore approaching him, he handed her the pocket-book intact, and begged her not to have him arrested. She was about to let him off, when a policeman came up and took charge of him. lie stated that lie was a minister, and had visited New York for the purpose of raising funds to build a Church and establish a school, lie further said that lie did not steal the pock et-book. but found it lying on the seat, and took it intending to advertise tor its-owner. He had the highest credentials from emi nent clergymen in Richmond, endorsed by a number id New York divines. It is alto gether a sad affair. He was looked up at the police headquarters, and was to be tried the uext morning. Fire in .Nashville. The / n ion , of the 6th, says that the buildii g known as the Broadway \ arieties. and the two buildings adjoining, were de stroyed by tire on Sunday night. The tire caught in the upper part of the buildiug in which the owner. Mr. Davis, resided. He was awakened by his trained dogs, who jumped upon the bed and pulled the clothes off to attract his attention, fin getting up the fire had made such progress that his family escaped with difficulty over the roof of «n adjoining building. Ho lost everything—including $7,800 in cash, 000 in clothing, ,kc. His total los> s 14,- 000. The members of the Dramatic Com pany lost their wardrobe. Badler, who occupied a store adjoining, lost about $ .- 000 worth *of goods—insured $20,000. James Walker, *3s,ooo—iusured $26,1-"0. Blood, Gregory A Cos. lost slo,ooo—par daily insured. Moulton A Reed, owners ofthe corner building, lost £' ">.ooo—in sured. Robert B. Castleman, owner of tlie store occupied by Blood. Gregory' \ Cos., lost $5,000. Two clothing stores adjoin ing lost heavily in damage to goods from water. Not Enough to Do any Harm. The New York Tribune , whose pet slo gan is universal amnesty and universal suffrage—in referring to the election in Massachusetts says: “A few copperheads and a few negroes arc elected to the Legislature, but not enough of either Jo do any harm.' ’ Does the Tribune mean to admit that possible harm eats come of its doctrine of negro equality '! If so. it should change its tune on the suffrage question. | 'Haiip.—The Tribune is mueh exercised at the lies written to the European press in reference to American polities, and at tributes to them the strong sympathy mani fested abroad for the cause of the South. If hard lying could secure foreign sympa thy the North ought to have had it all her own way. All flielr own May. The result of the late elections leaves the States of the South and the Conservatives of the North and West, powerless before the intolerant crest of proud and exultant radicalism. The destinies of the country are in the hands of such men as Butler, Stevens & Cos., in the North, and Bing ham, Logan k Cos. in the West. It cannot be doubted that the effect of this endorse ment of a violent and destructive policy, by the people of the North and West, must exert a very disastrous influence upon the public confidence in pur suits of peace. The effect upon the South, will be to cripple and discourage enter prise, drive off capital and population, and force the people to depend upon their own resources. These —under a propitious I iOV idence —are such as to insure us, in spite of despotic exactions by the central govern ment. a degree of prosperity which may yet excite the envy of the world. As soon as we can repair the havoc of vandalism inflicted on us during the war, we may go forward rejoicing in the pursuits of industry— tilling the soil, working mines and running mills, almost unconscious the existence of any government or au thority, save that of our States—paying with an ease amounting to disdain the wrongful revenues exacted from U3, and still growing richer than the demagogues at Washington, or the cotton lords of' Lowell, and live easier than the subser vient herds who do their bidding.— Whipped, crushed, dismantled-and no little demoralized, as we were, by the war —we have still too much pride and man hood left to crouch like spanniels at the feet of power, or purchase pardon and nominal equality at the price of dishonor. It is cheering amid the .defiant yells of Radicalism, to know that there are those at the North who fully appreciate the po sition of the Southern people. The New York Express, in a late issue, referring to a letter from ex-Governor Perry of South Carolina, and to the message of Governor .Jenkins, in which their views on the con stitutional amendment are given, says : “such is the general feeling South, and it is natural, defensible, and the precise ground Northern men would take if the tables were turned and places changed be tween the respective parties. “The Southern States, continues the editor, have receded from all their unten able positions, and now ask admittance as equals, according to the declaration of Congress in i SGI, as to the purposes of the war; according to the laws of Congress in 1802, setting forth the number of repre sentatives to which all the States were en titled ; according to the repeated procla mations of Mr. Lincoln in 1862 and 1863, as to the purposes of the war ; according to the promises exacted from the Soutli by President. Johnson, before they could be received, and according to the supremo law of the land—the Constitution of the United States—giving each and ad the States, Senators and Representatives in Congress. So far from dictating terms, these people ask only for the performance of duties, and so far from there being any danger in this, we know that the North and West have immense majorities in the U. S. Senate and House of Representa tives. The “ new guarantees ” called for, show, first, a spirit of bad faith; and secondly, they are a miserable pretence, in tended to keep nearly one-third of the Sen ators ami Representatives out of their seats and the States unrepresented in Congress. It is brute force npoq the one side, against Law and Justice upon the other." The arbitrament of our cause is in tlie hands of the Northern people. So long as the conservatives —though defeated—can present their present formidable front to the progress of Radicalism, we need not feel that we are altogether powerless. We have no voice, and can exert little influ ence in the contest, and can only in pa tience possess our souls. The bands or the Soutli. j 'flie Richmond Tine, is urging upon the wnere if Virginia the itnpor .HI ot if- ring their 1 «nl« upon s-. oh j ..eriu d< will attract a , piilatjon of small ! -ii-iii'—s. idmitited wuh ihe soil to hko ■ he pi.id tis the Y'v-u drainage upon our While wo arc satisfied that for some time to come we must depend mainly upon the class qf labor—so faithful and valuable in the past—that is native to the soil and inured to the climate —it is essential to the development of our splendid resources that we largely increase our agricultural forces. Renting front year to year subjects all par ties to great inconvenience and loss, and defeats the feature of staliliti/ in the popula tion, which is so important to all the inter ests of the country. The Editor arrives at the conclusion that the long leasehold sys tem of Europe, and, especially, of Eng land, is the only alternative left our land holders, by which they can avoid actual loss upon their estates, aud render them ultimately of great value. As soon as it should be published in Europe that the Southern people were giving long leases uiHin their property—say for the life of the tenant, or for twenty, thirty, forty, or even one hundred years, as is often the case in England, the better class of European laborers, * poor, but industrious, would crowd to our shores. The long and ccr tain tenure which would be granted to them would be an incentive which would bring thousands who have resisted the attractions of the cheap land of tlie great West; for they would require less money to lease than to buy, no matter how low the lands, because the tenant, starting withomt a dollar, would have the assurance that he would make and pay his lent an nually out of the leased property by the results of his daily labor. It is well known that multitudes of emigrants arc deterred from coming to America because of their inability to buy lands, even at the low figure at which they are sold by corpora tions and the General Government. Long leases would bring this class, coupled with the hope, however distant, that the tenant, or his children, would be permitted, when able, to buy the tenancy and make it an estate in fee simple. Under Such a stimulus as we have just mentioned, the tenants would at once commence improving and adorning prop erty which they had every hope of one day making their own, and the balance of the farmer's estate would be enhanced in value by the presence and proximity of such tenants. Should the landholders necessi ties or interest dictate a sale of his prop erty. including the leased estates, would it not bring more, dotted with tenants, than in its present unoccupied condition '? II hat better investment would capitalists desire than a farm covered with forty or fifty years, leases, yielding a sure annual income, 1 and constantly appreciating under tlie cul tivation of industrious small farmers ? The change of ownership in the freehold need : not operate to the prejudice ofthe tenants, I because the deeds of lease and bargain and i sale would fully protect them and secure to ■ them the privilege of ultimate purchase of : the leased property, should they desire it, 1 when iu a condition to become owners. When we consider that from the time of the great feudal proprietors in Europe, the .reat bulk of the lands there have been held by landlords who let them to tenants; that both have prospered, and that the land? have steadily improved and advaueed in value under the system: that as popu lation became denser the farms became smaller and even more profitablethat the ’ mmerei-ol and uignufaeturing prosperity of England and other euttntries has been built upon agriculture carried on in the main by tenants who leased estates from the large landholders; when we consider all this, we cannot escape the conclusion that the system under which other nations have Hiriven ill benefit us. especially at this time when our ••pe«*kar institution" has been overthrown, and we are now iu a condition where we can scarcely be worsted by experiments. Col. H. 1). Capers, commander of Capers Battalion, winch was organized in this city, has purchased the Centra! Georl plan, at Sandersville, where, in connection with his editorial duties, he will practice law. Admiral Farragut receive* $19,000 as his share of the Mobile prize money. Cotton Manufactures. Under the operations of the existing tar iff, the manufacturing interests of the country are enjoying s rich harvest. New enterprize- are springing up, all over New England, and more capital is being direct ed into manufacturing channels than ever before. The National Intelligencer say that the Messrs. Sprague, of Rhode Is land, have made arrangements to erect five cotton mills, with a hundred thousand spindles each, at Augusta, Maine, which will give employment, directly and indi rectly, to fifty thousand people. The city of Augusta with a spirit of enterprise and foresight worthy of imitation elsewhere, offered facilities to the enterprise. At Fall River. Massachusetts, which is crowd ed with factories and workshops ot ab kinds, new companies, with large capi tals, have been organized for the manu facture of printing cloths and other cotton goods. New and extensive establishments for the manufacture of steam engines have been started in New England. In all these instances, enterprise is unaided by a single article of raw material that is of fered by New England. Iron, coal, cotton, Ac., all are brought from other States. In audition to this disadvantage, it is now found that they have to import all new machinery from England instead of making it at home, because, 011 account of the high price of labor and material there, it can be produced in England at two-thirds of the home cost. The manufacture of cotton, as Governor Patton, of Alabama, correctly stated in his addre.-s to manufacturing companies in the South, is much more profitable than its cultivation. It is quite independent, too, of bad seasons. Every consideration leads to the conclu sion that the majority©!' Eastern manufac turers will be rewarded by an extension of their business, and with enhanced profits. How much more reason is there to believe that manufactures will be a vast source of wealth to the Southern States ! l“( nrses Comellomc to Roost.” The general stagnation of business throughout the country, especially through out the North, is attested by all the com mercial organs. Some attribute it to over trading and to the rage of speculation, complicated with political uncertainties. So far as the last named and chief cause is concerned, the National Intelligencer per tinently remarks that the elections of Oc tober and November have done nothing towards its removal. The plethora in the money market in New York is a sufficient evidence of the fact that money is scarce in other parts of the country, and that it seeks no employment in the South. The distributing points in the South are not supplied with money, even for the neces sary purposes of exchange. Exchange on New York, offered in Charleston and New Orleans, is hardly salable, though wanted, because there is no money to buy it. The banks have curtailed their discounts, and are deficient in capital. Much more bank ing capital and currency are needed in the South, while the Northern cities are glut ted with both. The New York Tones says it does not admit of a doubt that Northern capital is being withdrawn from New Orleans and every business point in the South, and that it is equally certain that no fur ther investments of Northern capital, in that direction, will be made pending the continuance of the sectional differences. But the stagnation in business, that has reached the centres, began in the interior. Mercantile houses cannot collect from their customers. The people will not take up the large stocks of imported and domestic goods that are offered, either because they have not tlie means, or for the reason that they have become more economical, or that they await lower prices. This is soon to be the case also in the Nor ■hern States. A number of important failures of manufacturing houses have oc curred last week in the East. Those fail ures or suspensions are a- bined to the fact that • people in the interior do not promptly pay for their goods; that the roditsystem hu<lbjenimpro'ientl.v re\ i e t. ; and that dealers io do mi .•tie am! other , goods are left with large stocks on bard. it is believed oxten-ivc embarrass ments and heavy losses will, ere long, fall upon the leading importers and manu facturers. The high prices at which they have held their goods cannot be sustained unless productive industry shall be restored in every part of the country, and especially in the Southern States. Constitutional Amendment Postponed. The National Intelligencer says “there cent elections settled one point conclusively, at least for some time to come —the Con stitutional Amendment will not be adopted. Neither the Legislature of Maryland nor Delaware will sanction it. These, with Kentucky and the ten excluded States, make thirteen opposed to it. As it re quires three-fourths of the States, the adoption or rejection of the amendment is now likely to be the rallying ground of political parties for the next campaign, and a-s.it is hardly possible that the Radi cals will be able to create another wave of popular feeling which will blind the judg ment of the people, by introducing ex traneous issues, we are likely to have a thorough discussion and a perfect under standing on all sides of the nature of that amendment and of the i rinciples involved in its adoption. The amendment makes so sweeping a change as to justly entitle it to be called revolutionary. Yet if the ! people arc really bent on its adoption, after a thorough understanding of its cliar | acter, we can acquiesce, while demurring 'to the wisdom of their course. But what we have always strongly protested against, and shall to the hitter end, is the effort to ' make its adoption the condition for the , exercise of their undoubted rights on the part of any section of the country. That is to make the rejection of changes of the organic law punitive, is tointroducea stylo j of punishment unknown to the law and the Constitution, and to set a precedent fraught with mischief. “Webelieve soberly that the result ofthe late elections is not a verdict iu favor of j the Constitutional amendment. <Ye be : iieve that the thinking men of the coun try are not prepared to make such an in road as it proposes on the independence of the States. We believe that the feeling of the people against the leaders of the re ; hellion has been adroitly played upon to secure a triumph that cannot possibly be maintained. So believing, we shall spare no pains to make clear the consequences of the adoption such a revolutionary change, and shall calmly await the revi sion of this award, which is bound in our judgment, to loud to the reversal of the majorities over which our Radical friends now so loudly exult. Pacific Railroad. “Leo,” the Washington correspondent of the Charleston Courier, says the pro ject of a Pacific railroad will be energetical ly pressed before Congress this winter. The condition of Mexico seems to favor the revival of the project of ISSS, for the Southern Rail Road route to the Pacific, which was somewhat favored though not adopted by Congress. The plan is altered however. The route is not to be through the Gadsden purchase. The plan is after passing through Texas, with a line connecting with St. Louis, to strike through territory, “now Mexican,” to £uaymas, on the California Culf. The leading Company in this project is presid ed over by Genera! Fremont. It is stated that the projectors of this great enter prise expect aid from Congress, through the influence of General Fremont. It will commend itself to the judgment -A capital ist* and business men as the shortest, the most economical and most practicable route to the Pacific. Much may be said in favor of a railroad through Mexico, whether that territory is to be absorbed by the United States or not. But it is not probab'e that tic road could be made safe without the guarantee of the United States .and of all other leading powers. It would be itse’f some basis for future improve ment in the political condition of Mexico. Fifty thousand hogsheads is the genera estimate of the sugar crop of Louisiana which is one-eighth of the old exop. Sad Affair. —The Macon Telegraph gives an account of the shooting of a young man named Lewis Bronson, under sad and singular circumstances. Bronson, with two other young men, were seated together, when one of them offered to sell the other his pistol. The weapon was produced and examined, but there being a disagreement as to price, Bronson asked to see the wea pon, aud it was handed to him. In examining it, he held the muzzle to wards the owner of the weapon, who re marked to him if he wanted to point it at any one the had better direct it against himself. No sooner had this remark been made than Bronson placed the muzzle against his right temple, arid asked, in a jocular manner, as the young men thought, “Shall I pull the trigger? - ’ He was answered that if he did, he was a dead man, when, just at that moment, the pistol fired, the ball entering bis skull, causing his death in a few moments. It is said that he had previously made two attempts to kill him self, and therefore the act was believed to have been voluntary. The Negro Exodus.—The Xewnan Herald , referring to the efforts of the agents of Western planters to induce negroes to emigrate to Mississippi and other States, expresses the fear that our farmers are not properly exerting them selves to retain the negroes as laborers. There can bo no doubt that every one who induces a laborer to emigrate, strikes a blow at the prosperity of our country. We urge our fiyming friends to look to this question in time, and by all fair and legal means, they should seek to render the blacks contented, and encourage them to make another effort, and perhaps propi tious seasons and hard licks may bless them and their employers with a plentiful harvest in 1867. No More National Banks to be Es tablished. —The Comptroller of the Cur rency announced yesterday that bonds have been received for deposit with the Treas urer of the United States, to an amount sufficient to secure the entire three hun dred millions of national circulation author ized by law, and no more can be received after this date. The limit has been reach ed, and, hereafter, it will be useless to forward bonds or to apply for increase of capital, or for the organization of new banks, or to do anything with the expecta tion of obtaining circulating notes. Public Land Operations.—Returns received at the General Land Office show that an aggregate of 51,714 acres of the public lands were disposed of in Septem ber last at the following local offices, viz ; San Francisco, California, 3,606 acres; Marysville, California, 11,006 acres; Tra verse City, Michigan, 3,639 acres; and East'Sanginaw, Michigan, 33,403 acres' The greater portion of the lands were taken up for actual settlement and cultivation. The cash sales during the month amounted to $27,682. Suppression of Cholera News Mr. T. Hicks, a prominent merchant of New Haven, Illinois, reached Vincennes, Indiana, on Friday night last, from Cin cinnati, where he had been purchasing goods, and died in a few hours from cholera. The Indianapolis Herald says that fully thirty merchants of Southern Indiana, who have visited Cincinnati since the first of August, have died of’ cholera. So much for suppressing cholera in the newspapers while it existed in the city. Views of a Reconstructed Irishman. —Hon. D’Arcy McGee made a speech lately before the Canadian Society, and said that if Jie had the ear of the Irish people he would say: “Consider the pros perous condition of Scotland. Cease to pursue the impossible and impracticable. Try, by way of novelty, something that contains the elements of sueces-.” To the imperial statesmen he would recommend the familiar A merican word tiori. and a generous policy towards Ire land. Sarah Donelsoo. of Red Bluff, Cab, is a P ’ *;: 4: y f. *i', .' 4 Ni ' * 1 il' hr»H t with five am-.-d In-lino-' Knocked two down punch ! third in tin., head end then retreating to her log hut, used her rifle against the whole until they beat a retreat, carrying off their wounded. She had her thumb shot off, but otherwise is as good as new, and now proposes to travel on her muscle. Favorable Comparison.—Comparing John Alorrissey with other members of Congress, the Chicago Times says of him: “He is uot a drunken bully like Chandler, nor a drunken fanatic like Yates, nor a drunken idiot like Sprague. He is not a blackguard like Ingersoll, a poor craven like •Grinnell, an impracticable ass like Galena AVashburn, nor a beast nor a thief like the probable Congressman Butler. ’ ’ “Brick” Coming.—Al. Al. Pomeroy, editor of the La Crosse Democrat, will this winter visit all of the Southern States, traveling by public and private conveyance, from city to plantation, extending his knowledge of the country, and writing fully, impartially and truthfully, of the wants, capacities, resources and business of the South ; the sentiment and suffer ings of her people ; the ravages and mar rings of war ; the bravery and the van dalism of troops, the condition of negroes before the war and since ; the true work ings of the Freedmen’s Bureau; and all sucli information which will be of untold value to the country. War Relic.—Among the junk brought to a dealer in Fredericksburg last week, and shown to a gentleman from this city, was a leaden star, formed by two bullets, mov ng with the same velocity and mo mentum, but from directly opposite points, impinging against each other. This relic was found on the battle field of Chancel lorsviile, and that it was formed in the manner above stated is proved by the un defaced appearance of the bases of the two bullets. Supeme Court.—C. W. Dußose, Esq., Clerk of the Supreme Court of Georgia, gives notice, in accordance with law, that a term of the Court will be held at Mil ledgeville, commencing on the first Monday in December next, and that the docket will be called in the following order: 1. Southwestern Circuit. 2. Pataula “ 3. Chattahoochee “ 4. Southern 5. Brunswick 6. Eastern 7. Western 8. Northern “ 9. Coweta _ “ 10. Cherokee 11. Biue Ridge 12. Tallapoosa 13. Flint 14. Macon 15. Middle 16. Ocmulgee. Gen- McClellan s Movements.—The Journal of Commerce says: “Gen. McClellan has for two years past been withdrawn from immediate commu nication with the American public, and wholly removed from all our political com plications. The health of his family has claimed his entire attention. He has passed the last summer at St. Mauritz. a remote and quiet bathing place in Swit zerland. seldom visited by travelers, whith er he was sent by the orders of physicians. At the latest dates he remained in this vil lage. the highest inhabited village in the world, detained by the same causes which have guided all his movements. The ho tels were closed, and all summer travel had ceased; but, we are happy to say, he writes with more cheerful and hopeful prospects. A bill has just been passed by the Legis lature of Natal, which will one day be re garded with the same sort of amused in terest with which Englishmen now read the woh’edict of King Edward The bill authorizes the government of -Natal to offer a reward of El for cverr tiger or panther killed : 10s. for every hyena, wolf, wild dotr. or alligator four feet in length ; and Ss.Y'.d. for every jackail or wnd cat. Where sklu U pot produced, the skull and the iarjip» Jmjst be pr«cntab.le. -lr. Barton, the member who inppjtiuced tae bill —the St. George of South Africa stated to the house that he had personally killed no less than twentr-four tigers in his own neighborhood, and mat his stock had teen decimated by ravenous beasts. The 29th inst., has been appointed a day of Thanksgiving in Ohio. GEORGIA LEGISLATIRE. xef?«tid for the chronicle and six tin: l SENATE. Wednesday, November 7. The Senate met ac 10 o’clock A. M. Braver by Rev. S. Brown. The Secretary read a telegram from Augusta, giving election returns from New 1 York. Mr. Thornton moved to reconsider the action of the Senate on yesterday on the bill to allow the collection of any rate of in terest that may be agreed upon. The mo tion was lost—Yeas 18. Nays 19. The bill to amend the charter of the city of Bainbridge passed. Bills to repeal portions of sections 3499 and 3500 of the code. Lost. Bill to repeal section 940 and amend sec tion 941 of the code. (This makes the election of Public Printer biennial.) Passed. The hour of 12 o'clock A. M., having arrived the Senate repaired to the Hall of the House of Representatives for the pur pose of electing a State Printer, After the Senate had returned to their chamber the House resolution of Mr. Hill, of Fulton, requesting his Excellency to ap point the 22d inst.. as a day 0. Fasting and Prayer was .passed. House resolution providing for the exam ination of the digest of the decisions of the Supreme Court of Geogia, prepared by J. V • Avery, Esq., was agreed to. House resolution appointing Mrs. Helena Dawson, of Atlanta, an agent for the collec tion of funds for the Orphan’s Home was agreed to. The Senate adjourned. HOUSE. Wednesday, November 7. NEW MATTER. Mr. Wonible : Bill to remit $4,000 of the State tax of Upson county. Air. Ridley,: To alter 4,283 section of the Code. Air. Willis: To amend tlie act estab lishing the County Courts. Also, to amend 630-section of Code. Mr. Bulloch: To define the. duty of arresting officers. Air. AlcV’horter, Os Oglethorpe: To declare all debts contracted prior to Ist June, 1865, where slave property was the basis of the credit, null and void, and to compel creditors to compromise their claims, taking in payment therefor such a pro rata amount proportioned to the value of all other property as compared with the debtor’s slave property. Air. Bush To prevent obstructions in Spring Creek. Air. Dixoi.: To incorporate the town of Alarshalv’lle. Air. Mores: To amend the act incor porating tlie Georgia Home Insurance Company. Air. Baker: To provide foi the pay ment of the salary of officers for the j ears 1861, ’62 ’63 ’64 and ’65. Air. Alexander: To amend 4,451 sec tion of Code- (This bill makes it a misde meanor to hunt with guns or dogs on the Sabbath.) Mr. Peeples, of Henry : To amend the act for the relief of maimed soldiers. Air:. Johnson of Henry: To license G. AY. Ray and Jossce Goodman as ped dlars. Also, to consolidate offices of Cleric Superior and Inferior Courts of Henry County. Air. Phillips: To encourage sheep rais ing—(makes it a misdemeanor to hunt with dogs in fields where there are sheep.) Also, for the relief of J. It. Anderson. Air. Johnson, of Forsyth: To amend the act exempting certain property from levy and sale. Air. Woods, of Floyd: To amend the act establishing County Courts. Air. Humphreys, of Fannin: To amend the late stay law. Air. Stallings, of Cowetta : To increase amount of property exempted from levy and sale. Air. AVilkcrson: For the relief of 11. R. Air. S'., 1 ariugen To regulate the 1: ode of retaining Unds tor taxation. Mr. Ur- -i : An net- explanatory of the .Ux .ftet.ot .-‘q.;, tf'v iU J J„ v, ifthc:U A Sroi'-fttn? others. Ah. Rtiss 11, of ' hatham: To rear jjauiie the file voiupau.es, vi Savannah. Air. Hodges: To authorize J. Jolly to peddle without license. house. Mr. J. B. Jones: To authorize the various counties to work chain gangs on police roads and bridges. Mr. Peeples, of Barrien : To amend the road laws. Mr. Simms, of Bartow : For relief of J. R. Winkle. Mr. Howard, of Bartow : To amend charter of Adairsville. Mr. Starr : For the relief of executors, administrators, guardians ai.d trustees, who hold claims rendered worthless by the emancipation of slavery. Mr. Glenn : To enlarge the- rules of evidence. Mr. Rhodes, of Walker : Relative to ad vertisements of executors and administra tors in Walker county. Mr. Lawson : To amend Act organizing the County Court. Mr. French: To amend charter of Ellaville. Mr. Mitchell, of Thomas: To authorize City Council o£Thomasville to issue bonds for the purpose, of taking stock in Georgia and Florida Railroad. Mr. Phillips: A resolution appointing Mrs. Helen Dorsey an agent for the Orphan’s Home. The General Assembly went into election of State Printer, which resulted—Burke 108 votes, Orme 68. House adjourned. Thursday, November 8. SENATE. The Senate met at 10 o’clock A. M. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Yarborough. On motion of Mr. 0. P. Beall, the ac tion of thc.Senate yesterday on the bill to repeal sections 4499 and 3500 of the Code, was reconsidered. Mr. Barwick introduced a bill to prevent destruction of fish in Emanuel county, in time of low water. Mr. Carter: A bill to amend the Act for the relief' ofthe people of Georgia. Also: A bill to alter section 4248 of the Code. Mr. Daley: A bill to punish colored men and white women for living in a state of fornication, and to make it a misdemeanor for a white women to be delivered of a colored child. Also: A bill to allow the citizens of Mclntosh county to settle the question of their county site. Also : A resolution in relation to a mail route to lleidsville, Tattnal county. Mr. J. F. Johnson : A resolution au thorizing the redemption by the State of the change bills on the Western & Atlantic R. R. Mr. Ogden : A biil to repeal an act ex tending the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace in Savannah. Mr. Paris : A bill to encourage emigra tion to Georgia. Mr. Quilliau: A bill to amend the char ter of the Kennesaw Mining & Manufac turing Cos. Mr. 0. L. Smith : A bill to approve the consolidation of certain R. 11. Companies. Mr, Strickland : A bill to amend Sec tion 3764 of the Code. Also : A resolution to furnish certain books that have been destroyed. Mr. Casey: A bill to repeal the tax on cotton held as merchandize, Mr. Bedding : A resolution asking of | the Governor information in regard to the Penitentiary. Adopted. The bill to reduce the salaries of civil ; officers, was lost. Bill to reduce the pay of members of the General Assembly. Lost. Bill to compel Judges of the Superior Courts to read their decisions in open court. Passed. Bill to prevent the distillation of cereals till the next session of the General As sembly. Biil for the relief of Albert Fields. Pass ed. Bill to extend the time for settlements of'Tax Collectors, with the Comptroller General, until Ist of February. Passed. HOUSE bills. Bui to authorize the citizens of Bartow county eq settle the question of their coun ty Jte by an election. paiSi- J. Biii to change the time of holding the Superior Courts. Passed. Bill to amend the Charter of the town of Sandersville, Passe], The Senate adjourned. HOUSE. BILLS INTRODUCED. Mr. Woods: To consolidate certain R. R. Companies. • To tax, in Camden county, all dogs over three, $2 each, and all guns, pistols, and rifles, over three. §1 each. Mr Hardiman: To incorporate Rac coon Gold Mining Company. Mr. Russell: To authorize the sale of certaiu commons lands in Columbus. Mr. Johnson, of Wilcox: To change the line between Wileox & Pulaski county. Mr. Snead : To amend charter of Col umbia R. R. Mr. Stallings: To point out mode of perfecting titles to lands by Adminis trators. Mr. Morris: To amend sections 15, 78, and 79.0f the code. Mr. J. B. Jones: To incorporate Han cock Iron Company. Mr. Ridley : To declare it a tresspass or misdemeanor for persons to fish or hunt on lands of others without permission. Mr. Swann : To make defendants com petent witnesses in certain cases. Mr. Snead : To repeal 12th section of the tax act of March 1860. TIHRD READINGS. To make valid the contracts of appren ticeship entered into by freedmen under instructions of the Freedmen’s Bureau. Passed. To change time of holding Superior Courts in Clay and Mclntosh counties. Passed. To allow tax collectors till Ist of March next to make their final settlements with the Comptroller General. Passed. To reduce city taxes of Cartersville. Passed. To amend the charter of the Georgia Western Railroad. Passed To regulate pay of Grand and Petit Jurors in Merriwether county. Passed. To amend the charter of the Water Lot Company in Columbus. Passed. -To amend 3499th Section of the Code. Lost. To make valid certain acts of Notaries Public. Passed. To regulate and prescribe the relation of husband and wife between persons of color. Lest. To call a State Convention to reduce number of House of Representatives. Lost. To prescribe days for all elections by the General Assembly. Passed. To define the residence of corporations. Passed. To repeal 13915 t Section of tbe Code. To reduce jurisdiction of Justices Courts to S3O. Lost. Mi make J. P's. in Marion county ex officio Road Commissioners. Passed. To authorize the redemption of the change bills issued by the W & A R It. Lost. BILLS INTRODUCED. Mr. Pottle : To provide for an Agricul tural College of this State. The following joint resolutions appoint ing a fast day have been adopted by both Houses. Whereas, It behooves all men to ac knowledge their dependence upon the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, to be mindful of His providences, to return thanks for His mercies and blessings ; to confess their sins, and to importune Ilis favor ; therefore, Resolved, By the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, that his Excellency, tho Governor issue his proclamation set ting apart Thursday, the 22d instant as a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer, requesting the same to be so observed by the people of this State. Adjourned. L. C. SENATE. Friday, November 9. The Senate met at 10 o’clock A. M., pursuant to adjournment, and was opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Yarborough. Mr. Ezzard moved to reconsider the action of the Senate yesterday on the hill (lost) to reduce the pay of members and of ficers of the General Assembly. Lost. Mr. Barwick introduced a bill to amend the act for the relief of Administrators, Guardians and Executors. Mr C u't sr: \ bill ft rth 1)n of B E. Wise, of Butts county, a convict m th Penitentiary for the crime of murder. Mr. Fr. email: A bill to extend tin ni of the, State io the Air Lino Railroa*: Mr. Gresham. A irll to r iiiiqaisc L ►'♦v* Hih-: yj'i r, :• . • meat of $ !0,(d v to ■fie • J-eorgm Orphan-’ Home, their cent: iiguit interest in flu- land known the Macon Ih serve. Mr. McDaniel: A bill to extend State aid to the Savannah, Griffin & North Ala bama Railroad. Mr. Parris : A bill to allow the redemp'- tion of real estate sold under execution, within a specified time. Mr. Thurston submitted the report of the Joint Committee on the Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which was read. The report closed with a resolution that the Senate decline to ratify the amendment. On motion of Mr. Moore, the resolution was agreed to. Yeas, 36 ; nays, 0. Mr. Dickey introduced a resolution tend ering to Hon. 11. Warren a seat on the floor of the Senate during his stay at the capitol, which was adopted. The bill to incorporate the Lumpkin Porcelain Manufacturing Company was ■passed. Bill to amend the charter of the Central Railroad and Canal Company, and change the name of the same. Passed. The House bill to incorporate the Coweta Falls Manufacturing Company of Colum bus, Ga., was passed. The Senate adjourned, HOUSE. MOTIONS TO RECONSIDER. Mr. Brock moved to reconsider a bill (lost yesterday) to repeal all law* creating liens upon personal property after said property has passed into the hands of a third party. Motion lost. Mr. Bulloch moved to reconsider bill (rejected yesterday) to amend 1.3915 t Sec tion of the Code. Motion prevailed. Mr. Byinton’s motion to reconsider bill (rejected yesterday) proposing to re deem in U. S. currency at 80 cents in tie dollar, the change bills issued by the State Railroad, was lost. j Senate amendments to House bill to al- j low citizens of Bartow county,to vote on location of their Court House, were con- j curred in. Hon. Hiram WarnoT was invited to a seat on the floor. BILLS INTRODUCED. Mr. Hand: To let out the Public Print- j ing hereafter by contract. Mr. Hardeman : To incorporate the 1 "‘Banking, Building and Loan Associa tion.” J B J ones introduced a resolution to j print 500 copies of Col. Frank Schauller s i essay on the labor question of the South. | Agreed to. \ j Mr. Sharpe: Resolution asking )f Con- j gress to repeal Federal tax on tobacco —(he [ might have added on cotton too.) .Mr. Wall : To change line between Ap- , pling and Coffee. Mr. Green introduced a paper recom mending the ap; ointment of Joseph Lllsier as commissioner of emigration. Mr. Stallings : To extend the aid of the State to the Savannah, Griffin and A. j Alabama Railroad. Mr. Finch : To amend penal Code. Mr. Rogers : To compel persons to pay tax on land in the county where land lies, j Mr. Hockeland : To provide for right of j way to persons who wish to carry 7 water | through another person s lands, for milling ; and mining purposes. _ j House took up resolution adopted by the j Senate, relative to adopting the Constitu- j tionai Amendment. The House concurred with two dissenting voices, viz: Mr. j Ellington, of Gilmer, and Mr. Humphrey, ! of Fannin. Both Houses will thus be seen to have rejected the Constitutional Amend- ; ment. i NEW MATTER. Mr. Swearingen: To compensate man j agers and clerks of elections in Decatur i county. r „ Mr. McWhorter, of Greene : To give 1 factors and other merchants, who furnish . planters with provisions, a lien upon tne glowing crop. _ , Mr. Humphries, of Lincoln: To amend j sections 636 and 4,632 of the Code. Mr. Howard, of Lumpkin: To give i Stare aid to the Air-Line Railroad. Mr. Moses: To allow Pierce Lewis, a , minor, to settle with his guardian. Also, to regulate the sessions ot the su preme Court—(must meet first Monday m , May and November). , Mr. Barnes : To authorize an advance ; of payment to the officers and members of the General Assembly. (This is one ot-lr. B’s petbilis. He introduces it- every sea sion. He either gets out of money ierv j soon himself, or pitying the condition of those who are, he always comes to their relief. He is a good natured, clever fellow —always ready to help the needy and un- : fortunate. ,• Mr. Shaw : To amend loot-d section of the code. T ANARUS, f Mr. Spear: To remove Beat and dumb Asylum to Macon. Mr. Hughes : To punish employees of 1 farmers, who sell, without a written per- I mit from employer, any farm products. Mr. Robson : To amend charter of ' Mount 1 ernon Academy : . i Also to amenJ3sssth section of code. Mr. Glenn : For relief of Bridges and j Sanson ; Also a resolution to allow Superinten dent of State Railroad to redeem change bills issued by said Road. Mr. Ford: J o change linos between Dougherty and Worth counties ; Also, to declare that a'l notes and other obligations for purchase ‘money of slaves, who have been emancipated, shall not be collectable in any Courts of law and equity in this State. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. The report of the Joint Committee on the state of the Republic was read inform ally. It is a lengthy document. The fol lowing is a synopsis. The report establish j es conclusively the following positions: Ist. That Statcsofthe United States are alone authorized to consider constitutional amendments. 2d. That such amendments must be pro posed by two-thirds of the Congress, or s Leaislatufes of two-thirds of the States. That Georgia was one of the original thirteen States by which the Government was created, and must always have con tinued to bear that relation to the General Government, unless she reserved to herself the right to secede or delegated to some department of the General Government the right to eject her. . The report proves, by the legislation of Congress—by the Proclamation of the Presi dent and tho issues made and maintained by the General 'Government during the war, that a State could not secede; that her practical relations to the Gen l Govern ment were interrupted by the rebellion, and that with its suppression, the States were restored to their practical relations; and the constitution, which had never been overthrown, became the supreme law of the States recently in rebellion, and that this constitution can only be changed in the manner prescribed by the States them selves. The argument continues with consider able force, to show that Georgia and the other Southern States formed integral parts of the Congress, and that no Consti tutional Congress could be convened while integral parts of the whole are forcibly ex cluded. And i:t conclusion, for these rea sons, the amendment not having been pro posed by two-thirds of the Congress, re commend the adoption of the following re solution : Resolved, That the Legislature of Geor gia declines to ratify the amendment pro posed as a 14th Article to the Constitution of tho United States. House adjourned. L. C. TIIE GERMAN QUESTION. The Prusso-Saxon Treaty. The following are the principle points of the Saxon peace treaty: Saxony will enter the North German Confederation. The Saxon army will be re-organized as soon as conditions have been arranged by the North German .Confedera tion. Konigstein and Dresden will have mixed garrisons. Prussia will furnish garrisons for other Saxon towns until the organization of the Saxon army takes place. The Saxon troops, about to return home, will be placed under the command of the chief Prussian general in Saxony. Tho war indemnity to be paid by Saxony is fixed at 10,000,000 thalers, from which 1,000,000 will be deducted on account of cession to Prussia of the railways of Lobau and Gorlitz. The Prussian military gov ernors and civil commissioners will cease to exercise their functions. The former Zoll veroin treaty 'vili continue in force, subject to a notice of six months, should either con tracting party desire to withdraw there from. Prussia obtains exclusive possession of the Saxon telegraph wires. Persons politi cally compromised during the war will not bo molested on that account. Saxony will regulate her diplomatic representation in conformity with the general basis to be laid down for the whole of the North German Confederation. Indian Ability and Indian Skill. Tho name of each tribe of Indians has a signification, which is represented by a sign that is well understood by them all. The Comanche, or “Snake,” is indicated by making with the hand a waving motion, in imitation of the crawling of the reptile. The Cheyenne, or “Cut Arm,” by draw ing the hand across the arm to imitate it with a knife. The or “Smeller,” by seiz ing the nose with the thumb ami forefinger. The Sioux, or “Cut throats,” by draw-* ing the hand across the throat. The Pawnees, or “Wolves,” by placing a hand on each side of the forehead, with two fingers pointing to the front, to repre sent the narrow, sharp ears of the wolf. The Crows, by imitating tho flapping of the bird’s wings with the palms of the hands. On approaching strangers, He prairie Indians put then horses at full speed, and persons not ' niliar with their peculiarities and habits i gilt interpret this as an act of hostility : but it is their custom with friends a*, .vel! as e’aies, and should net occasion -"iWau-■ When a party is discovered app v- ing thus, and are near uoitgli to di> iauslsh signals, 41 L■! - ,;."v in order tu as certain their . disposition is to raise their right hand with the palm in front, and gradually push it forward and back sever a’ times. They all understand this to be a command to halt, and if they arc not hos tile. it will at once be obeyed. The astonishing aptness of the Indians in “tracking” is shown in this interesting passage: Almost all the Indians whom I have met with are proficient in this species of knowl edge, the faculty for acquiring which ap pears to be innate with them. Exigencies of woodland and prairie life stimulate the savage from childhood to develop faculties so important in the arts of war and of the chase. I have seen very few white men who were good trailers, and practice did not seem very materially to improve the facul ties in this regard. They have not the same acute perceptions of these things as the Indian or Mexican. It is not appre hended that this difficult branch of wood craft can be taught from books, as it per tains almost exclusively to the school of practice; vet I will give some facts relating to tbe habits of the Indians that will facil itate its acquirement. A party of Indians, for example, starting out on a war excursion, leave their fami lies behind, and never transport their lodges; whereas, when they move with their families, they carry their lodges and other effects. If, therefore, an Indian trail is discovered witli the marks of the lodge poles upon it, it has certainly not been made by a war party; but if the track do not show the trace of lodge poles, it will be equally certain that a war or bunting party has passed that way, and if it is not desired to come in conflict with them, their direction may be avoided. Mustangs, or wild horses, when moving from place to place, leave a trail which is difficult to distinguish from that made by a mounted party of Indians, especially if the mustangs do not stop to graze. This may be determined by following upon the trail until some dung is found, and if this should lie in a single pile it is a sure indi cation that a herd of mustangs has passed, as they always stop to relieve themselves, j while a party of Indians would keep their ; horses in motion, arid the ordure would be ; scattered along the road. If the trail pass I through woodland, the fciustang will occa sionally go under the limbs of trees too low 1 to admit the passage of a man on horse- j back. An Indian, on coming to a trail, will generally tell at a glance its age, by what particular tribe it was made, the number of the party, and many other things con nected with it astounding to the uninitiated. I remember upon one occasion, as 1 was riding with a Delaware upon the prairies, we crossed the trail of a large par :y of In dians traveling with lodges. The track appeared to me to be quite fresh, and I re marked to the Indian that we must be near the party. ‘‘Oh, no” said he, “the trail was made two days before, in the_ morn ing,” at the same time pointing with his finger to where the sun would be at about eight o’clock. Then, seeing my curiosity was excited to know by what means lie ar rived at this conclusion, he called my atten tion to the fact that there bad been no dew fyr the last two nights, but. that on the previous morning it had been heavy. He then pointed out to me some spears of grass that had been pressed down into the earth by the horse’s hoofs, upon which the sand still adhered, having dried on. thus clearly showing that the grass was wet when the tracks were made. The New German Empire. —The London Timex, of the 15th, has the follow ing from a leading article on Prussia and the .present state of the German nation : The work ofßismark, as we now *ee it. might have been neater; but the end is not yet. and already we hear that the Northern Parliament will signalize its first sitting by proclaiming William I, Emperor of Germany. Should ,-uch a claim be carried into effect, it would be for the same As semb’y to determine the relations between the central Power and the dependent States: to limit the power of the Princes reduced to the condition of vassals; and, perhaps, to deliberate on the restitution, on the same condition, of the fallen dynas ties to their thrones. Steps are taken, in the meanwhile, for the reconstitution of the Zollvc-rein, now to be extended to ail Germany, including even, as members of the Northern Confederacy, the Hanseatic cities, Hamburg Bremen, and Lubeck. Should the new arrangements, as it ap pears probable, deprive those places of their privileges as free ports, the com merce of England and the world would by that measure be far more seriously affected than by any real injury that the loss of in dependence may inflict on land-locked Frankfort. General John S. Williams, known iu the old army ais Cerro Gordo Williams, and since as one of the moat daring and suc cessful of the Confederate cavalry, is in I New Orleans. Got. Swann’s Decision. Governor Swann’s decision is a lengthy document, covering some thirty pages of manuscript. The following are tlie main points in tho document. Tho Governor says: I have duly considered the charges which have been preferred by certain citizens of Baltimore, against who were denied the right to vote at the late munieapal election for Mayor and Members of the City Coun cil, against the Police Commissioners in connection with the testimony submit tea for my guidance in the case, and have ar rived at conclusions which I shall proceed briefly to state. The refusal of the Police Commissioners at the,opening of this investigation to ap pear before the Governor upon his sum mons to answer the charges of misconduct in office, I look upon as an offence for which they might have been held responsi ble without any further inquiry into the evidence of official misconduct in the late election. It is true that the Commissioners, through their counsel, have to some extent retraced their steps, and announced their willingness to appear and answer any questi ins the Governor might have to pro pound. But I do not understand that they have yielded the point of jurisdiction to which they still adhere. Their action in declining to respond to the summons of the Governor places them in the attitude ox the State officers, made by the law sub ject to his direct supervision, treating with contempt the power specifically delegated to him by the Legislature, and the still higher power conferred by the 15th section of the 25th article of the Constitution, to take care that the laws be faithfully executed. How is the Governor, it may be asked, representing the sovereignty of the State, to discharge an impera tive duty imposed upon hitn by the organic law, in conflict with rebellious officers set ting his authority at defiance, and denying his right to hold them accountable for offi cial misconduct or a palpable violation or neglect of their duties? The police law invests these Commissioners with almost absolute power, fearful in its scope in the hands of the designing men, without a cheek somewhere to protect the public in terest. The Legislature never intended any such thing. The State of Maryland is at this very moment threatened with in vasion by armed bodies from other States. Military organizations have been formed in the city of Baltimore for the open and avowed purpose of resisting the authority of tho laws. No single steps, so far as I am informed up to tins time, have been taken by the police board to suppress this tendency to anarchy and rebellion now so threatening, and to excite riot and blood shed among our people. It is well known that so far as the action of the Governor is concerned, no pretext has been furnished tor these revolutionary proceedings. Is the Governor, to whom these officers are made directly responsible by the law, to rest quiet, and see the laws of the State violated, the public peace disturbed, the State invaded by armed revolutionists in complicity with those wliotu tho Bolioe Board are encouraging by their apathy, arid made no effort to protect the dignity of the State against insult and outrage? But the Legislature did not leave to im plication this power of the Police Conmiis sion in the discharge of their official duties as State officers. The Governor then proceeds to review the law governing his action, and proceeds to argue that the exclusion of the newly registered voters at the last municipal elec tion by the judges, was a flagrant violation oftlieir duties, and says the examination of the judges of the election, all radical in their proclivities with one or two excep tions, produced a most unfavorable impres sion upon my mind as to their conduct in tho future, if continued in office. Enter taining the intolerant view that loyalty re sided only with those who support their policy, is it not a reasonable inference that they would claim in the absence of any instructions from the Police Commis sioners who refuse to interfere, to challenge the votes of all who do not come up to their standard ? If they ignored the obli gation of a second ballot-box for rejected votes, so plainly pointed out by the law, surely it would be no greater stretch of au thority to go behind the registry and recog nize whom they please as legal voters. The Governor next reviews the registra tion law, and the various decisions under it, and the election laws, and sums up as fol lows : The evidence in the case Droves beyond a doubt that the Police Commissioners have violated the law and rendered them selves liable to the charge of misconduct in office ; by creating or permitting to grow up under their eyes, and with their com plicity, a violent partizan organization, treating all as disloyal who do not adopt the view- of the radical party: by denying the righto: The Governor i entertain juris diction of lie charges of official miscon duct preferred against the < mmissioners: by appointing.to office jud. > if (flection, speci-l .oUiicmen. and clerks, ex- lu.-.o el> fr-ar-betr'' gvl parry: and in -nar-ey i«- staae - incompetent, and in i.ute F th - pro,- icg the most disreputes ’-ar .eun->, and c-nying appointment- . J r class of our citizens; by delegating to the marshal and officers under him the power to appoint special policemen, without themselves inquiring into the qualifications or moral standing of said office - s, thus at tempting to throw the lesponsibility of the bad appointments, which they were ready to accept, upon their subordinates; by suffering the judges ol election to throw aside the boxes for rejected ballots, and giv ing them no advice as to their obligation under the law to use them, and refusing to remove them from office lor so manifest a violation of duty. The Governor concludes as follows: The Governor of the State cannot shrink from bis duty to the people. The threats ot armed combinations at home, of inva sions from other States to overturn our laws, could hardly be expected to deter him for a single moment from the unflinch ing exercise of all the functions with which he has been clothed. The people of the State of Maryland have been registered by Union men, not the less so because conservative in their sentiment, and these voters, duly pa sell upon by the proper officers, after full ex amination into their qualifications, the constitutional oath administered to one and all, and their names entered upon the offi cial registry as legal voters. They are ad judged to he so by our highest tribunal. They ask at the hands of the Executive that they may not he excluded by a power ful partizan combination under the control of the Police Commissioners—not powerful j in numbers, but because of the authority 1 which they have heretofore exercised un der their commissioners from the State, i claiming that there is no loyalty but in the j extreme party, and turning a deaf ear to : the demands of any other class of our citi zens. In the discharge of my official duties in this case, I cau know no party 7 . I must see that the authority of the State ! is maintained in the interest of the people. i If the laws are objectionable, the Legisla- I ture which made them, and not the Gov ! ernor, is responsible. Ho is the Executive ! and not the law-making power. He would bring disgrace upon the State if he should do injustice to the humblest citizen. The : appeals to the returned veterans, by weak and thoughtless men, t.o raise the standard of rebellion against the constituted authori ties of the Stale, cannot fail to meet the condemnation which it deserves among all j order-loving citizens of whatever political party. They would he doing litre, if they j heeded such advice, (which 1 am sure they 'l will not,) just what (hey 1 ave been fight ing to rebuke in the rebellious States. The ! first shot fired upon the American flag in the hands of the recognized authorities of j this State, besides subjecting them to the j severest penalties of the law, would cause, the laurels which they have won in the j struggles of the past, to fade and wither in I their hands. They will not, I am : sure, permit themselves to he lured from their path of duty, as law abid ing citizens, by impulsive and reckless lead ers when they have the courts alwaysopen to their grievances. While to them I speak in the language of friendly ad- ! monition and siucerest regard, I cannot j characterize with too much indignation the intrusion into Maryland to intervene in her : domestic affairs of a well-known revolution ist and agitator from an adjoining State, i who, repudiated already by the leading jour nals of the party with whom he is co-opera- ting for this wicked attempt to excite blood shed and provoke another civil war, has already retired from the field of his treason able machinations to secure himself from the contempt which his conduct has every where provoked. Ho mu*-t not forget that the strong arm of the law is impending over him and that the State of Maryland will know how to protect herself at the pro per time against all such' disturbers of the peace and safety of her people. Impressed as 1 am with the utter demoralization of the police organization as it now stands, I shall do what 1 ean do to restore it to its proper relations with the State and the law upon which it is founded. I have no desire to appeai to the General Govern ment for aid to enable me to execute the laws, and to protect our citizens against threatened riot and bloodshed, unless im pelled to take this step by the further re- j distance of the Police Commissioners and their followers, to the laws of the State. : If that contingency should arise, the re- j sponsibility will be upon those who provoke it. I stand upoD the Constitution and the laws of the State, and there I will continue I to stand until the trust imposed upon me : by the people of the State of Maryland j shall be delivered back into their hands, in spite of all threats of personal violence j and the blustering efforts of intimidation which have already disgusted discreet and thinking men throughout the country. I can only say for myself, that the remnant j of my life, now half spent, would he pur- ; chased at too dear a cost in the high po sit ion which I occupy as Governor ot the State of Maryland, ny the dishonor of my j State and the degradation of her people, 1 Thomas Swann, Governor of Maryland. I ■■ ■» '■ «s. inns THE STATE REVENUE LAWS. Tb i”’ " • 7 ;■ a summa-vofthc (y.n-n --troiicr General s Report, a'few days ago, yu. promised to give his suggestions in rc- , 1 ‘ i-tnond l cent of the Revenue laws of the State. They are as follows: TAX ON LIQUORS. The returns of sales of liquors, in ac cordance with die tax act of 1806, for the first quarter, amounted to J 31.150 gallons, upon which no tax has been collected ; for the second and third quarters, to 100,586 ganons Jhe tax on the same has teen paid into the .treasury, with the exception 01 the amount due from a few counties. Ao provisions having been made by the act for the compensation if collectors, I have adopted the scale laid down in the code of Georgia, and paid the commissions at the end of each quarter, except the first hoping by such a course to ensure prompt collections and payments of the tax, in which I have not been disappointed.’ It cannot be denied but that the returns fall far short of what was anticipated, and have not been made in good faith by dealers. As the law now stands, liquors are taxed every time they are sold, and a number of expe dients have been adopted to avoid the pay ment of the tax, which can lie easily doiie by the dealer without violating the strict letter of the law, viz: A sends to R, a wholesale merchant, an order, which B (-ends to some point out of the State to be filled, making no return to the Collector, claiming that he only acted as agent for A, and so on, until no one pays any tax but the retail dealer. Sales of domestic liquors by tho distiller or manufacturer being also exempt, most of them have es tablished retail shops, wliicii being protect cd by a bonus of twenty cents on the gal lon, has enabled them to do a thriving business, and thereby greatly encouraged the manufacture of liquors throughout the State. The law is very defective, and I re spectfully recommend that it be amended by taxing all sales of liquors, whether of domestic or foreign manufacture, and all wholesales in quantities of forty gallons or less. In this form neither the manufac turer, distiller, or wholesale merchant can object to the law, and I do not doubt that more revenue will be realized than can be under the law as it now stands. TAX ON INCOME. Section 9th. tax of 1866.— 1 “Be it fur ther enacted, That all laws heretofore pas sed levy ing and collecting a tax on income be, and the same are hereby, repealed.” I suppose the intention of the Legislature was to repeal tho various laws passed du * ing the late war taxing personal income, and not to repeal the laws in relation tu tax on railroads, express companies, and foreign insurance agencies, which in this State for several prior years have paid an income tax. 1 would respectfully suggest that it be amended, which can be done by simply declaring the laws regulating the tax on said companies, prior to 1863, as still in force. PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXATION. Paragraph 11th, section 729, (lode of Georgia, reads as follows: “All planta tion and mechanical tools, and a ! l house hold and kitchen furniture, not above the value of three hundred dollars, and not held for sale or as merchandize.” There is a diversity of opitron among our people as to the proper construction of the above cited paragraph, and in many instances great errors are committed. As to whip, are mcchauicle tools, is a question that every man wishes to decide for him self". Many men claim that work stock used either directly or remotely on a farm, are plantation tools, and, therefore, exempt; vvliiiu mechanics and publishing or printing houses claim the same for everything, even to steam engines connected with their legitimate trade. Some parties to my cer tain knowledge claim, and are really ex empt from any tax, on investments to the amount of thirty thousaud dollars. I would repcetfully suggest that all planta tion and mcchauicle tools, over three hun dred dollars in value, be declared as sub ject to taxation. TAX ON BANKS. i ßy an act, assented to March 7th, 1566, ail the banks in this State are required to make returns, under oath, of their assets, and the same rate percent, to be assessed upon the amount returned by the Comp troller General as upon other property. A copy of the above cited act was sent to each of the old, and to the National Banks throughout the State. Three of the latter ha ,r e made returns and paid their tax, while communications have been received from most of the former, reporting no as | sests. 1 have no doubt but it will be j readily conceded that none of the old banks j have done any business since the close of ! the war, and the capital stock being ex empt from taxation by the act 0f1865, no i: xis due from them. I can sop no rea son however, why the ical value of die Dank stock should not be returned and lie subject to the same ad -aloran tax as other property, and would therefore r oomtaend that iljelaw be so amended. Ifo: j» FA sonic dtffhbts its’iow. oi <i the Miot ic Banks were subject to Stu ax, I addressed a ieitei inquiry to th 1 VjnptiuHer of the Uni tod Suites otjnCßCj and received a reply in substance, as follows : “Section 4, of the National Currency act'provides, That nothing in this act shall be construed to prevent ail the share s in any ot the said associations, held by any person, or body corporate, from being in cluded in the valuation of the personal property of such person or corporation in the assessment of taxes imposed by, or un der, State authority at the place where such bank i.-> located, and not elsewhere, but not at a greater rate, than is asses sed upon other moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens of such State.” There can lie no doubt as to the liability of the National Banks to State taxation, but I deem some action necessary in re gard to this matter to enable tho Comp troller General promptly to enforce the law against said banks. TAX ON COTTON AND PRODUCE. No. 54, Section Ist, assented to Decem ber 15th, 1862. '‘/d> it enacted hy the. General Assemhiy, That all cotton and grain, or other produce in this State held tor barter or sale, on she first day of April in each and every year, and not belong ing to the original producer, are hereby de clared to be merchandise, and therefore taxable as other property.” I can roe no means of effectually enforc ing this law. and owing to the present heavy tax of three cents per pound impos ed upon cotton, I deem it unnecessary to say more than to recommend that the law be repealed. TAX ON NEGROES. From all the information in my posses sion, the taxon negroes is likely to prove a troublesome question, and will swell the insolvent lists of the Tax Collectors to an alarming extent. 1 The aw, as it now stands, is very defec tive, and will have to lie radically changed * before much revenue can be realized from this source Numerous letters have been received from the 'Tax Collectors stating that most of the negroes refuse to pay the tax, or even give their names; and also, that many whose names appear on the Digest have changed their homes and can not now he found. Every effort has been made to enforce the law, and this ean only he done where the negro is actuaily in the employment of some solvent tax-payer, while all others, when so disposed, easily avoid the tax —generally owning no proper ty (even when known to the Collector) upon which a fi. fa. can be levied and the tax collected. By the laws oi this State, the only pen i alty against an insolvent tax-payer is to deprive him of the right to vote, which, of course, does not apply to negroes. This law should be amended by adopting some mode to compel every man to pay the spe cific or poll tax, since it will not do to dis criminate between the races. Unless some mode be adopted by which the tax can be collected, unknown to the laws of Georgia, the tax on negroes had better be abolished. It is true that some revenue may, and doubtless will, be rcceivecUrom this source; hut very few over half the negroes will pay any tax, and even what is collected will he the cause of much feeling between the em ployer and the negro, who is jealous enough of his pecuniary interest to' know that, ii the employer doe:-: not pay the tax, he can easily avoid it altogether, having no property upon which the Collector can levy a/«. fa, and collect the tax. I respectfully recommend that the law be so amended as to give the Collector power to enforce the payment by fixing some penalty against ail who fail to pay their taxes where no property can be found upon which to levy a fi. fa. I do not doubt that this law would be very distasteful to many of our people, arid that it has some repugnant features ; but no la w less stringent will effect the purpose sought, and unless such an amendment be added to the existing law (which does very well so far as it goes, hut fails to attach any penally again ,t those who fail to pay their taxes,) very little can ever be realized from a specific tax on negroes, and the law taxing them had better be repealed, al t'nourii the Stats will lose all of seventy five thousand ($75,00 *) dollars revenue, which should he paid by the negroes, who claim and receive the full protection of the laws, and therefore should help to sustain them by paying a pro rata tax. The Health or Empress Carlotta. —A Venice letter says that there is little } hope of restoring Empress Carolotta to i perfect health. She is still suffering under : an incessant apprehenson that those around her are seeking her life. She refuses to eat any food that is prepared for her, and subsists on raw chestnuts and cold water —nor will she ever take these in the presence of any of her attendants. Newspaper Convention.— The pro prietors of the daily papers of Worcester, Springfield, Providence, Norwich, New Haven, Bridgeport, Wgterbury, New Lon don. end llaitford held a meeting in Hart ford a few days ago, aud organized anew telegraphic association, called th« “New England Way Panel- Ammmmm. ’