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■' > • OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI. Chronicle & Sentinel. i: i r % w«>< A. It. WHH.IIT. TKH.IIS OF r-l O-rHII'TIO.V. V.I.KKI.V. J- [J 1 ' L ij;’ ;;;;;;;; W.' liu AK.IVIA, «»A: HlOl BSDiI MHWMi HB> lilV Fiendish Malignity. TFk,- ladies of Home, Ga., gave an enter tainment iii that city on the night of the 3d inst., for the purpose of raising funds to repair and renovate the Methodist Church, which had been despoiled and robbed by the Yankee soldiery while the town was occupied by th; Federal forces. Some of the young gentlemen of the city assisted the ladies in the good work, which praise worthy conduct has been the <auso of their incarceration in the Atlanta jail. The reasons given for this most shameful and unmanly am 1 -1 only maud the act tlie more odious. The excuse is, that these young men exhibited disrespect towards “the best government oii the planet,” by the presentation of a tableaux in which the Confederate flagamiuniform Were dk- , •ping’d. This was ttW TftttiSn for which the arrests were 1 made. The Conner, in noticing this unmanly and tyrannical interference of the military, gives the following description of the whole affair, which fully explains the conduct of the ladies and gentlemen who were instru mental in getting up the exhibition, and places the matter in such a light as must cause a blush of shame to mantle the check of every true soldier and right thinking man it>tlie country:' “Tho entertainment consisted* of I’lays, Charades, Tableaux, songs, Ac. Among these His-nen presented on the stage was a Tableaux, entitled the “(JlTleer’s Funeral.” As this scene has been magnified into something wonderfully treasonable, wo will describe it. Wo will premise that it was a <!<>n/edr.rati- Oilicer’s Funeral. No one connected with the entertainment had, probably, ever seen the Funeral of a Federal Ollieer. Tlio manager’s idea seems to have been to represent her idea of the original of such a scone. In the centre ofthc seene a as a eotlin, with a lady dress (d iu deep mourning kneeling beside it, ami a little girl standing near—both in the attitude of grief. Four soldiers, dressed in Confederate 1 grey, with their arms folded over their guns,' tilled the angles of a hol low square, and a fifth held a drooping Confederate Hag over the head of the colfin. The Hag was not exhibited huh ire nor after this particular scene, which lastedonly some 30 or 4.) seconds. 'l'ho spirit of tiro whole scene was hu miliation, and it was a painful re minder of the “lost cause,” its griefs and sufferings. No one connected with I lie exhibition had the least idea that this scene was likely to bo regarded as an exhi tion of disrespect to our Government or its officers. In fact, they had an assurance that no notice would bo taken of the matter, in the fact that the Confederate (lag had been exhibited fora similar pur pose on the stage iu tlds place some weeks previous, and no notice was, until after this exhibition, taken of it liv the military authoritii s, and no order has over been published here prohibiting such exhibit lions. The order for tlio arrest of these gentlemen is said to have- been issued by Gen. Thomas. If that is so we must be lieve that he has been greatly [deceived in regard to the facts of the case. “We arc not going to assort that these arrests wore made lor purposes of revenge, or that it was uu eagerly sought for occa sion to exhibit power. We will, however, lie rely slate the billowing fact : At tho exhibition on tho M inst.", an officer of tlio Freedmoifs Itureau was present. Vs soon as the curtain was raised exhibiting tho Tableaux of tho “Ollicer’s Finland” he Walked out, and was hissed as lie went, by some inconsiderate lads iu the back part of the audience, now much more or less trensui there may have been in this hissing than there was in an exhibition of the Confederate Hug iu tlio manner and for the purpose above described, wo will leave others to conjecture.” whoso Tove of country was so shocked by tho “Officer’s Funeral,” have felt the same I decree of indignation if, instead of the four Confederate grey soldiers and the I Southern Cross, there had been exhibited the same number of “red jackets” with the British lion floating above them? If the ladies of Rome should get up another Tableaux, we recommend to them tho representation of the death of Nelson, on the deck of a British man-of-war, with the Union Jack of Great Britain unfurled above, and guarded by four British tars in their appropriate naval uniforms. Would this he treason ? Or perhaps the death scene of the great- Napoleon upon the bleak and inhospitablo hill-top of St. Helena, with his few faith ful officers and friends standing around bis dying couch, and bathing bis burning tem ples with their gushing tears (all in tlio gay ami captivating French uniform, of course), would make a tableaux at once pretty, sugg stive and entertaining. IV ould that be treason? Avery beautiful Tableaux could be pro duced representing the scene on board the British man-of-war Java, when her gal lant Captain Lambert lies mortally wounded upon his own deck wrapped in the folds of the British flag, with Bain bridge, liis victor, kneeling by his side, severely wounded himself and supported by two of his officers, and tendering back to bis dying, but gallant, prisoner, the sword which, by the fortune of the battle, had fallen into his hands. Would this be treason? Even the Autocrat of Russia has never attempted to prevent tho down trodden and oppressed Poles from showing their love and veneration for those gallant souls who poured out their life-blood iu tlio cause of Polish liberty. This day in Russia-Poland, a Tableaux, representing tho daring feats or mournful death of one of their warriors or statesmen, would roe ive the encouragement of Rus sian officials. Is our Government a worse tyranny than that of Russia? Would not a Tableaux at Mozart Hall in New York, representing the death and burial of the lamented Stonewall Jackson, draw crowds to witness tho touching spectacle? Would that bo treason there? By simply changing the locality—docs that become seditious here which at the North would be inuocuous aud harmless. “O, consistency what a jewel thou art!’’ Southern Temper. The X. O. Times refers to a recent speech of the maimed Con federate General Hood, recently delivered in that city, as indicative of a sentiment of devotion to the Federal Union, which widely prevails among those lately known to be hostile. In a sketch of his address the writer says: After speaking of the deeds of valor per formed by Irish soldiers and officers in our late unhappy war. the General turned upon his eruteh, and, with an earnest elo quence as unexpected as it was sublime, pronounced a glowing apostrophe to peace. No man who heard the utterances of the “broken soldier” on that occasion could fail to be impressed by his sincerity, and the hearty desire he manifested to bury beneath the dark waters of Lethe all the bitter recollections of the past. He had seen enouuh of war ; enough ot its sicken ing and desolating consequences, and he looked forward with prayer and hope to an era of peaceful industry, when the sword and the spear should be forgotten in the use of those more worthy implements, the plowshare and the pruning hook, and the thunder of ordnance be replaced by the hum of trade and the buzz of machinery. Such is the desire and earnest prayer of the ki eat major ..y of the Southern people. —A r . V. Journal of Commerce. President Johnson in 1563. —The fol lowing letter lias been unearthed, and found it.-- way into the public prints recout “ Xashvilik, November -1. 1S«I3. “ Totlu Hon. M. Blair, rostmaxter General: *1 hope that the President will not bo committed to the proposition of States re lapsing into Territories and held as such. 1f he st> ers clear of this extreme, liis elec tion to the next Presidency is without a reasonable doubt. I expected to have been in Washington before this time, when 1 could have conversed fully and freely in reference to the policy* to be adopted by the government; but it lias been impossible lor me to leave Nashville. ! will be there soon. The institution of slavery isgone, and there is no good reason now for destroying the States in raving about the destruction of slavery. “Agtm.isw Johnson,” ,1 Ramble Among the Leading Business Houses of Augusta. In resuming our ramble among the busi ness men of the city our attention was ' called to the busy and stirring appearances !of the store about midway between Jackson and Campbell, on Broad street, south side. Upon'entering we found that the interior of the building was literally • alive with the buz and whir of many voices, all engaged in examining and price j ing the various articles on exhibition and ! for Kale. Although from the piles of j goods which we saw packed up on the side walk, marked and ready for shipment to : different points, we had expected to find the interior thronged and animated, we j confess tSiat we were not prepared to find I such strong evidence of lively trade as was j presented in the different portions of the ; main sales room. ' This thriving and weil-conducted busi | ness is carried on by J. M. CLARK & SONS, . WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN' GROCERIES, FINE LIQUORS, PROVISIONS AND FAMILY SUPPLIES, NO. 278 BROAD STREET. | Ihe senior member of this firm has been ; in business in this State and South Caro :ni: _■ ar . . f tlon bf which has been spent in this city in 1 the Grocery trade. Asa merchant of expc j rience, enterprise and energy, he stands in j the front rank of tho business men of Au ! gusta. Courteous and polite in ids deport ment —always anxious to please his pat rons —he has become a great favorite with country merchants and planters. However pressed with business, he has at all times a pleasant smile and friendly word for those who call to examine his stock or make pur chases. Thoroughly conversant with all the details of tho Grocery business, he is enabled to make his • purchases at such times and in such quantities as to have on hand the class and styles of goods which the wants of the country demand. John W. and Amos K. Clark, the junior members of the house, and the sons of the senior, are both young men of fine charac ter ami good business habits. Both were in the Southern army—the first being a member of the Clinch Rifles, in the fifth Georgia regiment, commanded at the be ginning of the war by the lamented Gener al J. K. Jackson, and the' latter served in Cobb’s legion. He was, up to the time of General Cobh’s death, on duty about his headquarters, and won from that Christian patriot and gallant soldier, the warmest testimonials of his confidence and approval. At the close pf the war, entering into copartnership with theirfather, and taking, as they did, almost the entire control of the business, they have succeeded in estab lishing for the house a large and lucrative business. As an indication of the charac ter they bore in the army, we mention the fact that almost daily someone or more of their old comrades in arms send them or- to fill, relying entirely upon their known purity and probity of character to protect them from the possibility of loss or unfair dealing. This house keeps a large and well se lected stock of leading groceries, which they offer at reasonable prices. In connec tion with their Grocery trade they carry on a large milling business, having purchased and refitted the excellent Merchant Mills in this city formerly known as the Car michael Mills. Here they manufacture the very best family flour, in largo quanti ties, and which they furnish to their cus tomers at the very lowest rates. , : : : ;Vi; ■; one UMMUh StgjbelS of corn and SBSU five hundred bushels of wheat. With this weekly supply of fresh-ground flour and meal they are always ready to furnish their customers with the very best article, sweet nnd fresh from the mills. Merchants and planters visiting the city should give the house of J. M. Clark & Hons a call before making their purchases. We will insure them a pleasant reception and fair dealing. The Herald and the Tribune.— The attitude, says the Richmond Times , of the N. Y. lhrald and Tribune, two leading journals of New \ ork, with reference to tho impeachment of the I’resident, is l among tho curiosities of the age. The j New York lhrald favors the measure, while the Tribune bitterly opposes it. The | antagonism is ominous, however, as Ben- i nett invariably goes with the current, and would advocate a plurality of wives if he ! | lived iu Utah, or would clamor .for canni balism if he edited a paper , where human I flesh were the favorite food .of those who ! “advertised iu the New York Herald .” | Greeley lias a queer, battered and weather i beaten article which he calls a “con ; science,” whereas Bennett sold his to the j \ devil years ago, and has managed to thrive wonderfully without it ever since. But I j when he strikes a public man it is very : certain that he is “down.” When they j J were popular he grovelled at the feet of i l’ieree and Buchanan, but when they lost j 1 ground he sprang at them likttoi mad dog. Negro Emiqbation. —We learn from the Charleston yews that for two months past alar s o number of the colored farm hands of that State'have left the middle | and upper districts, and have gone in j largo numbers to the South and South west, They have gono to all sections of the Southern country—Mississippi, Louisi ana, Arkansas, Texas and Florida. This last State appears to be the favorite, and some live thousand to six thousand at least have passed through Charleston bound in that direction. On Saturday last, the steamship .1 dele left Charleston for Galveston, Texas, having on board .some three hundred to four hundred. The number that have left the upper country in wagons, it is difficult to estimate, but wo have heard tho total number that have left put down at twenty-five thousand. Large numbers have gone and are still going West from various seetions of Geor gia. Labor is in consequence very scarce. St. Michael's Bells.— The vestry of St. Michael's Church, < Tiarleston, have addressed a petition, endorsed by nearly all the United States officials in Charles ton, to Congress, humbly praying that “honorable” body to relieve them from the payment of the import duty of 35 per cent., under the existing tariff law, upon the bells of St Michael’s Church, which were sent to England to be recast. River News. The steamer Hard Times arrived from Savannah on Sunday night. The Tiro Boys was at the wharf yesterday. There were no departures. Tlio height of the river at the Bridge was 5 feet 9 inches. Better Late Than Never.—ln look ing over the Charleston Courier, we notice that the Editor has been presented with a free ticket on the Savannah Railroad. This reminds us that we were the recipient some weeks ago of a similar favor from Col. Cole, the accomplished and efficient Superintendent of the Georgia Railroad, for which we now return our sincere thanks. Young Men's Library.—At the an nual meeting of the Young Men's Library Association of Augusta, held on the 21st instant, the following officers and man agers were elected for the present year: < ieo. T. Barnes, President. R. R. Bullock, Vice-President J. W. Wallace, Sec'ry and Treasurer. managers. Geo. M. Tkew, D. B. Plumb, John Bones, A. C. Ives, Joseph Milligan, f. M. Peck, Charles T. Smith, Librarian. Sentenced to be Hung.— The Louis ville Journal of the 24th contains a dis patch from Franklin, Kentucky, as fol lows: William P. King and Abe Owens, train robbers, who subsequently kiiled Harvey King, one of the band, were sentenced to be hanged on the 22d of March. The remaining ten prisoners charged with robbing the train were granted a con tinuance until J uuo. The Financial Volcano. Sensible men in all parts of the country : are looking forward with great -concern to the conduct of Congress as necessarily in volving, to an alarming extent, the finan i cial welfare of the country. The conduct j of the Congressional majority since the j opening of the present session has been i such as to bring the finances of the country i to the extremist verge of safety, and has j already entailed the loss of millions upon j the industry and commerce of the Ameri j can people. j There never was a time, perhaps, in the ! history of our Government when the old proverb, “capital is timid,” was felt with J greater force than now. The possible ex ■ treme fluctuations in the value of gold, growing out of the revolutionary action of the Rump Congress, and the prostration of many branches of manufactures in the Northern and Eastern States, taken in connection with the failure of the cotton and provision crops of the South, portend a financial storm which, otice begun, will bring ruin and suffering to many thousands of those who are now esteemed wealthy and strong. Prudent men everywhere are taking in canvass and trimming their sails to meet the first shock of the ceudar storm. Where and when it will first break is becoming more and more apparent every day. Wall street is even now trembling under the impulse of the coming gale, and already the “ spot like a man’s hand” can he descerned in the finan cial firmament. Confidence is lessening to an alarming extent, and crafty suspicion has taken the place it formerly held. Distrust of the stability of the present measure of values, and the perilous extremes to which in ail probability the price of gold will be pushed by the breaking up of the Union of the States by the formal action of Congress, tend to keep up the feverish excitement, and will, in the end, bring upon us a crash which will bury beneath tho ruins of the Republic the private credit of her best and strongest citizens. The slightest giving way in commercial circles will cause the volcano over which we arc now slumbering to break forth in all the violence and fury which its pent up fires can throw upon us. Panic after panic will ensue, until the credit of the country, with its Commerce and manufactures, will become buried beneath the lava of its firery blunders. That we are not mistaken in our views, is, we think, clearly shown by the excite ment which prevailed in Wall street last week, growing out of tho failure of the house of A. J. Meyer & Cos. The New Y r ork World, in noticing this failure, says: “Great excitement was eaused'in Wall street yesterday, resulting in a partial panic, by the auqounceuuint that the Bank of North America had suffered the loss of $200,000 through the failure of Mossis. Moyer & Cos., brokers, and that tlio Presi dent of the bank had died yesterday morn ing at his residence, No. 25 West Thirtieth street. Tho news spread rapidly, and gained in extravagance as it flew, till what at first was but a mole hill became aug mented into a mountain. Strange stories were set in circulation about the bank, its president, and the firm alluded to, and soon other firms were said to bo involved. Tin* consequence was that tire stocks tum bled, aud that a general distrust was begat in the market. Business was conducted on all sides with extreme caution. As far as can be learned, it appears that Messrs. A. J. Meyer & Cos., brokers, doing business at the corner of Broad street and Exchange place, overdrew their account yesterday on the Bank of North America to tho amount $219,000, and wore unable to meet their obligations when expected. Tho checks were presented on Wednesday morning by a member of the firm, but, as they had no deposits in tlio bank at that time, tlio paying-teller declined to assume tho "tht-gi* -an tffCTi*ap" r j pealed to "the President of the bank— John P. Yelyerton, who, having full con fidence that security would promptly be furnished, certified the checks. In the afternoon it was reported that Messrs. Meyer had sustained large losses in Penn sylvania stocks, and then that they had been completely ruined by the failure of another company. These reports and the failure of Messrs. Meyer to produce the required security, wrought so much upon the neryous system of Mr. Yelverton that he was seized with an attack of apoplexy that evening, and died yesterday morning about nine o'clock. “The commotion at tho Brokers’ BoaVd and the Stock Exchange was very groat yesterday afternoon. In addition to what lias been stated above, it was said that some stocks that had been “cliqued” for a long time were thrown on the market by the banks that hypothecated them. There were rumors that several prominent firms had failed with heavy liabilities, and the excitement on the street during the after noon was intense. Tho President of the Open Board of Brokers, Mr. E. B. Hart, made a speech to them about 3 o’clock, in which ho said that Messrs. Meyer & Cos., witli their lawyer, were then closeted with tho directors of the bank, and that the pro bability was thai a satisfactory settlement would bo made.” Tinkering on the Constitution. The recent action of Congress in regard to the organization of the Supreme Court shows very clearly that the Radical major ity now in control of the Legislative de partment of the Government will not be controlled or influenced by any of the limitations of power contained in the Con stitution of the United States. It has become painfully apparent that wherever and whenever the spirit or even the strict letter of that instrument stands between them and the objects of their malice, that its plainest provisions will be explained away by legislative resolves or overthrown by legislative enactments. There is uo restriction of power, no limi tation of rights contained in the organic , law of the Government which is strong j enough to hold them iu check. This dis ; regard of the plainest provisions of this | once sacred instrument by the Radical 1 Congress has already brought forth the i bitter fruits which the enemies of free gov ernment have sought to produce. Every man (and woman too, wc might have said), : at the North has become a Constitutional expounder. The teachings of tho fathers ! of the Republic- -Washington, Hamilton, Madison. Marshall and Jefferson—are no longer regarded with even the common re spect accorded now to pot-house politicians, and stay-at-home patriots. The progress which has been made in the last few months in this destructive tendency to ex plain away the wisest and plainest restric tions of power placed upon the legislative department of the Government, is rapid and alarming. On every hand we find the endorsement of this shameful disregard of i legal restraint The National Intelligencer, in comment- : ng upon this new and destructive ten deucy, says : “The amount of loose think ing respecting the Constitution and its obligations is really wonderful. To some men it is a mere agreement of the people, ' to be set aside by any election return or town meeting resolve. Others regard it as a written instrument to be turned and twisted into any meaning by an act of Con gress. To others it is indeed the funda tal law of the nation, to which the assent of every individual in it is formally pledged, and from the obligations of which no man can escape save by expatriation or amend ment. The will of the nation is far more sacredly pledged to its observance than ii it held an election every year to ratify it: provisions—for every election that is held, ever?- vote that is east, every law that is en acted, every decision that is rendered, ever} ' sale that is made or title that is conveyed, L an endorsement of the Constitution, anc proceeds on the assumption that until it L authentically altered it dees ex press the sov j ereign will of the nation. There may be £ I question raised about an act of Congress or: i popular vote representing the public wiil but there is none about the Constitution. True, doubts may be rai- ed as to the mean ing of certain provisions, yet every yea; I these are diminishing, for the tribuna I whose duty it is to interpret them hav< j passed upon most of them of doubtful con i ao man, therefore, has a nghi j to r i S e in Congress or anywhere else, bui . especially in Congress, and proclaim thai 1 the will of this nation contravenes in auj AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 6, 1867. 1 particular the Constitution of the United 1 States. For that is the most solemn and formally authenticated expression of the public will that is possible, an I must stand as the resistless fiat of the nation until,(in constitutional convention assembled, the sovereignty of the nation abrogates and amends its provisions.” The Supreme Court. The Radical attack upon this venerable and conservative branch of the United States Government is as fierce and vindic tive as that made upon the President the United States at the opening of the present session of Congress. Boutwell’s bill—which was, with such disgraceful' rapidity, rushed through tho House- de claring that no one who had at any time given aid and comfort to the Confederate cause shall ever practice in the Courts of the United States, is but an indication of their purpose to nullify all the decisions of the Court which may be antagonistic to their line of policy. Another scheme is now proposed by Mr. Williams, of Pennsylvania, who has intro-, duced a bill which requires a full bench; that is, all the nine Judges to sit and con cur in any opinion involvingConstitutipn 41 questions, or the -atidity of State laws' which may lie brought up on appeal from the District or Circuit Courts. It is known that no question of law growing out of the Constitutional powers of Congress over the lately seceded States can secure the unani mous vote of the Court. The political complexion of the Court, as it now stands,* is a guarantee that the Rump will have, on all questions affecting their rights and powers over the Southern people, the sup port of at least three of the present mem bers of the Court. But in addition to this, there is the possi bility that, from Providential causes, there will often be a failure to have tho nine Judges present necessary to make a decis ion. In* this view of the matter, it be comes painfully manifest that the intention of Congress is to cripple the power of the Court to such an extent as to deprive it of the right to decide Constitutional questions at all, unless their opinion shall agree with the Congressional majority for tho time being. A still more bold and Radical measure has been canvassed, which looks to a re peal of all laws now in force, regulating and prescribing the method of taking up cases on appeal from the District and Cir cuit Courts. The last clause of the 2d Section of the 3d Article of the Constitution, declares that “In all other cases before mentioned the Supreme Court shall have appellate juris diction, both as to law and fact, with such exceptions, and under sueh regulations, as the Congress shall make.” If Congress fails to make “ such regula tions ” aspire contemplated by this clause of the Constitution, for taking up eases on appeal, then, the Radicals claim, that the power of the Court as an appellate tribunal cannot be exercised. This can be effected either by the repeal of all laws now of force which contain “such regulations,” as we have before stated, .or the -.Congress can so amend these “regulations” as to complete ly destroy the functions of the Court in its appellate character. It were perhaps vain to examine whether such legislation, and particularly the bill of Mr. Williams, would not, in itself,,be un constitutional. That it would be so pro nounced by the Court we have no doubt. By the common law of England, from which we borrow our whole judicial sys mn Kfeitl that tfMBjJBIIJjM of the Judges could determine the law of the cases submitted. The power to regu late the vote of the Court upon any class of cases, cannot be claimed by Congress as growing out of tho power granted in the article of the Constitution just quoted, which only gives the right to Congress to regulate the. manner in which cases may be brought before the Court on appeal. It certainly “does not embrace any power to regulate its vote upon questions of law or its modes of proceeding, and is confined to law and fact, in mere appellate matters.” But then if tbe Court should decide such legislation to be contrary to tbe principles and spirit of the Constitution, and of no effect, these can be no doubt but that the Radical Rump would concoct some other plan for the destruction of tho Court, and with it the overthrow of constitutional liberty in America. We shall see. Tiie Destruction of Landmarks. — The Nation, one of the ablest weekly jour nals now in course of publication, is thor oughly Radical on tbe slavery question and the question of “races, ’ ’ but its feet are still planted on tbe earth—it has not been lifted by the swelling stream of party feeling en tirely from the foundation, so as to be swept along at the mercy of the current on which the “majority” party are now riding. In an article upon the suspension of the habeas corpus it makes these remarks, viz : The Supreme Court re asserts solemnly the jurisdiction of Congress over personal liberty, and denies tbe right of the Execu tive to touch it arbitrarily, aud forthwith some of the very men who were most frantic last summer in exalting the Leg islature and denouncing, the President’s usurpation begin to talk of “impeaching" the Judges for doing what they were bound to do, before God and man, come what might. "We have commented else where on the conduct of the Court in embarking in a discussion on points which came in no way before it. But we hope this whole matter, grave and important as it is, will open the eyes of the public to the great danger there is that the Breaches of saw and of propriety into which over-zeal on behalf of the right now carries us may be one day used against us in defence of the wrong. It is not very long since there was a majority in the United States on tiie side of wickedness, and we may all. live to see it again ; if we should, we may have sore need for our own protection of all the forms and traditions of the law and the Constitution. Virginia papers are alarmed by tbe rapid disappearance of the negro population from that State, and advise that no effort should be spared—such as kind treatment and good pay —to retain them within the State limits. Estimates from V ashington put the reduction of this class since the close of the war at 190,000. The Rich mond Whig says: Their efflux from the State, as the figures referred to manifest, has commenced on a scale absolutely astonishing. The fear is that it wiil continue. \ ear after year the Gulf States will be enabled to pay higher and still higher wages. They will outbid us, who raise only wheat, corn, to bacco. oats. &c. This, coupled with the more congenial climate they offer, will tempt many negroes from \ irginia to those States to engage in the cultivation of cot ton. rice and sugar. Our contiguity to that African paradise, the District of Columbia, and the facilities forgetting into Northern States, will also cause a steady drain upon this class of population. We will thus lose on both our Southern and Northern borders, while we are losing at the same time by an unparalleled and mys terious mortality. The Receipts at Columbus.— The re ceipts of cotton at this place to date, says the Sun, are over 35,000 bales. The most sanguine now think that, for the entire season, ending September 1, between 45.000 and 50,000 bales will be brought here. Very few believe the latter figure will be reached. The majority of cotton men, however, express the opinion that over I 40,000 bales will be the total receipts. For the last three months ours has been tbe highest market of any neighboring inland city. To compare the prices here with those ol coast cities, three cents must be added; for in those places the cotton is quoted with taxes paid. Here the buyer pays the tax. The celebrated trotter Ethan Allen has been sold in Boston to Z. E. Simmons, of New York, for f 10,000. 1 OUR WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE. The tear against the . Supreme Court — Conservative Radicalism a failure— Mongrel Conventions in the Metropolis — The Citizens at 6fle Mercy of Congress —Mational Democratic Reorganization The President in favor of the Move ment —Impeachmen t played out —Stevens j Eulogizing Raytiiond—Clerical Com pensation, eie. asKUSGTON, January 24. The war against the Supreme Court has | already been commenced in Congress, in - tbo passage by the House of the resolution reported by Boutwell, from the Judiciary j Committee, abridging the rights and privileges of the Supreme. Court. It lias also been referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the impression is that it ' will be very shortly taken up and passedby that body. It was not thought that any attempt would have been made to destroy the decisions of the Supreme Court before the next session, when it is very generally understood that numerous insane dogmas are to be brought to kght; but of late the Republican leaders have determined to pave the way now for what the}- intend to inaugurate more fully next session. The Democratic members made quite a lengthy fight over Boutwcii s resolution, when it was first introduced and made the Radi cals very angry by their persistence in refusing to give wav |o them. .They (the latter) were partieryjdy opposed to debate night long by a lively minority of Demo cratic members, and several of the latter took occasion to express brief but emphatic arguments against the revolutionary scheme before the vote was taken. Bout well, the author of it, has announced him self an enemy to the Supremo Court, and will take that ground in his race for the leadership of the blouse of Representa tives in tho next Congress, where he has Butler and Stevens to contend against. Upon the two topics of impeaching the President and reorganizing the Supreme Court, lie is among the most intense advo cates ; but how he wiil succeed in accom plishing his purposes in both respects is questionable. One thing is certain, tlie new theory of Conservative-Radicalism which sprung into existence upon the dis cussion of Stevens’ Enabling Act is at a standstill. It does not. seem to make much progress, as the majority of the Radicals who opposed it now begin to declare that their opposition to it is on technical grounds. . Others, however, op pose it from principle, as in the case of Representative Dodge, of New l r ork (tho Republican member who succeeded last session in illegally ousting Mr. Brooks), who wishes it understood, that in voting against it, he does not abandon the party which elected him; but Messrs. . Stevens, Boutwell and others, think very differently. There is much interest to know how these recalcitrant Radicals will vote after Stevens has made his closing speech on the hill, upon his call for the previous question, and poured iiis anathemas down upon the deserters, as he undoubtedly will. lie is not used to being opposed by the members of his own party, and daily becomes more bitter against those who have dared to object to his decrees. Mixed conventions of white and black men are now being heldalmost nightly in Wash ington to make preparations for the next elections, when tho blacks assert that their chance will be at hand. It is the intention of the unrestrained suffrage men to wage unrelentless war against all who did not in the beginning advocate their policy, so that the latter-day saints who would now truckle to negro suffrage are not likely to gain any thing by the appstacy. The citizens here feel, or rather express, very little interest in the fate of the Metropolis, as they are aware that Congress, which is all- powerful with regard to jurisdiction over this Dis trict, means to give no hoed whatever to their desires. The place is filled with fanatics, who rejoice over the downfall of the old landmarks, and not having any in terest themselves of any kind in the wel fare of the old residents, are working, beaver-like, to accomplish the degradation which is sought to bo brought .upon them. The day when the President’s veto beanie powerless in the Senate was an unhappy one for Washington -It is no wonder that fill i illiiiipr-'" “t magnificent distances’™Na; well be ac counted among the things that were. Various' indications point now to tlio reorganization, without any entangling alliances, of the old Democratic party, and the sentiments of several of the most prominent members is for a national con vention in the city of New York at a period not far distant. This, it is thought, will bo productive of much good, . as the extremists are carrying things with too high a hand to resist successfully well or ganized opposition. Friends of the Presi dent —gentlemen known to be in confi dential relationship with him—assert that he favors such a mode, and will aid it as far as lies in his power.\ New York is mentioned as the place for holding the convention, in order that there may be no possibility of its plans and organization being disturbed, as might be in other cities of the North, where radicalism is rampant. The immense Democratic majorities yearly rolled up in New York city is a guarantee that a convenntion there would be success ful in its meeting. The various national committees are now in correspondence with the executive committees on tho subject.. There will be a sound organization before the next Presidential campaign. Impeachment is about quieted for this session. It- was found to be a card that would not take, and the original advocates of the dogma are going back on their re cord as fast as it is possible for them to write and speak detractions of that policy. They assert that there lias never been any attempt to proceed to immediate impeach ment, which every one knows is untrue, as when Ashley first drew up his bill it was his indention and desire to have it consider ed and passed upon by the House right away. All the reports, therefore, which have been made to the effect that the Ju diciary Committee had issued subpoenas, Ac., to distinguished parties are incorrect. They have done nothing in the matter, not knowing where to begin. Some of the Radicals base their hopes upon testimony to be elicited when Surratt is brought to Washington, when, if possible, they would make it appear that the President was im plicated in the assassination of Mr. Lincoln. They will also endeavor then to trump up again that charge against Ex-President Davis, and meet thereby additional failure and contempt of honorable men. Raymond has at last reached a position where lie can bo found when necessary, and Stevens of late lias recanted his opin ion of that member, and actually eulogizes him in complimentary terms, which is very pleasing to the subject of his enconiums. It is asserted that he will either to-day or to-morrow make a speech on the Ena bling Bill of the Pennsylvania Radical, in which he will take the strongest grounds in its favor. Its passage is looked for by the extremists without the reference to the Reconstruction Committee proposed by some of the members of that party. The clerk-- are likely to get their twenty per cent, additional compensation in a few days. Poor fellows ! they have been long enough looking for it, and it has seemed that Congres:. after having put an addi tional two thousand dollars to the salaries of its members and liberally rewarded the officials of die Senate and House for doing nothing half the year round, were disposed to over! k the claims of clerks in the j different departments, many of whom have families actually suffering for the neces saries of life in consequence eftheinade j quate salaries. ! -The Senate is now daily engaged on the j Tariff Bill, and among those interested in ; lobbying there is 'much excitement as it progresses. The representatives of the different interests affected by its provisions - are here in great numbers and leave no stone unturned in advocating their claims to protection by legislative enactments. Jt is the intention of Senators to proceed in | the discussion of the Tariff Bill to the ex | elusion of all other business until its pas | sage. That is wi- r than debating im : peacliment problems. .If this Congress should remain in session much longer the Radicals, the pious members of that party, would succeed in making the Hall of i Representatives a place of ribaldry and j vulgarity of the lowest kind. It is not very long since Stevens, who is not noted j for morality at any time, and Spalding in dulged in a series of puns and repartees which would hardly have graced a bar : room, and of late these lutle interludes ! have become quite common. The last bon mot i'll was given by tne ex-Reverend : Grinnel, of lowa, who, evidently recalling ; his experience as a preacher, and possibly j being somewhat ashamedot them, suggest ' ed a rhyme to while away the tedious : hours of night session during the filhouter ! ing siege the Radicals were subjected to on ; the twenty-second, which went as follows : “ And are we rebels yet alive, Aud do we yet rebel. And is it not amazmg grace That we are not m neli. Who is there that will not admit, after this, that Radical influences have not com nletelv demoralized tne little preacher ? Betides brine particularly ardent in the i blood letting ‘'school of politicians that I member goes to parodying his own hymns : to bolster up the religious influences of the | party that owns him. It is probably a fortune tor his soul that be was not re elected after the caning he received last winter. The time between his castigation and the Domination in his district was too short to admit of his martyrdom becom ing widely known. Arlington. [communicated. J Editors Chronicle & Sentinel: Your ! suggestions do not meet. the points. The j proceedings of the Radical Congress have ! not so sadly affected any other Railroad in ; Georgia. The general influence thereof, for evil upon the country, is too plain to ■ be overlooked. You refer to pue surplus and I to anoth ! or. The allusion was to that one which ! , Mr. Barnett, in a meeting of the Stock- , ! holders some years ago, proposed to divide, ! i and for making the suggestion lost his j } official head. Ho recovered his head but j we lost the bonds. The stocks and bonds of which you spoke j are good; so much the better. But do i the Stockholders receive any income front . them ? Instead of $4,000,000 you show j that tho Georgia Railroad is worth $5,000,- i 000. As you say upon that, the depreciation j approaches 50 instead of 70. Neither docs your correspondent “L.” answer the question’s. He understands im position, and not my motives. The “pub war, upon ‘dividends from its $50,000 worth of Georgia Railroad stock. Mr. “L.” says we are “wholly” dependent on tho •income received from the Georgia Railroad Bonds, &c. Not exactly so, but very large ly. And if it be as be says, there is the more reason why the Trustees of that insti tution should learn from its Treasurer the causes rtiat have contributed to so heavy a decline in the value of its endorsement. He is right, too, when he.insinuates that this is one reason why I take so much in terest in this matter. But I have no thought of doing any one or anything injustice, much less “great injustice. ” I want the Georgia Railroad stock to sell for K)0 in the Augusta market. That is commendable. I want tbe Stockholders to receive yearly good dividends—no one will object to that. That those results may bo brought about, is what I amafter. How is that to be done ? , It is true, as Mr. L. says, tbe circula tion of the Bank has been paid, $500,000 ol it. That fact ought to appreciate the stock. The repairs on the road, the neeos sary rebuilding and other large, extraordi nary expenditures, might reduce the net income, but not depreciate the market value of the stock. The price of freights on the road has pretty well kept pace with everything else. And, withal, the difficul ties of the country, short crops, a’nd every thing else, the read has done a good busi ness; and, before the completion of the Central Road, did a heavy carriage of freight and passengers. The past month or so, I am informed, yielded about SIOO,- 005 per month, net income. It does not appear that there arc any indications of a falling off in the business. And still the Georgia Railroad stock is down to 70 —it may be less to-day, in Augusta. Respectfully, D. E. B. [communicated.] Commercial Manures. Editors of the. Chronicle & Sentinel ; Gentlemen:— Your well-timed and forcible article in your issue of the 22d inst., on commercial manures, inviting those who have tried any of them to pub lish the result of their experiments, has induced me to avail myself of your invita tion and give my experience. Believing, as you do, that if we want to farm successfully under the present labor system, wo must cultivate less land, and cultivate it better; that is, prepare tbe soil carefully aud manure abundantly. I determined last year to try what deep plowing, assiduous attention at the proper time, and artificial fertilizing could do, as compared with the old system of scratching the land with an instrument called a “Scooter,,” and leaving the atmosphere to supply the elements of fertility. 1 cultivated a few acres of thin red clay M>iiiiipiiniii(i»i! mm the usual garden vegetables. I had the land well broken with two-horse turn plows, then cross plowed, and then bedded. All this was done in season and at the proper intervals of time. I used tbe fertilizer known as Reid’s Phosphate, manufactured by Messrs. Brightwell & Barrow at Matey’s Depot, Oglethorpe county, Ga. I selected this because I knew the manufacturers, and was confident that the article was un adulterated, because I believed that the Super-Phosphates of lime are the most valuable of all the manufactured manures, from the fact that they stimulate the crop and permanently improve the soil, and be cause this fertilizer was the only one of Southern manufacture. I sowed it in the rows for cotton, and in the hills for corn at the rate of 250 lbs. to tbo acre, and planted the seed on the manure, and I cannot bet ter give you the result than by referring you to the following certificate which 1 gave the manufacturers at the end of the year: Athens, November 6th, 1866. Messrs. Brightwell cf Barrow—Gentle men : f have used Reid’s Phosphate this year on cotton, corn, Irish potatoes, gar den vegetables, and grass, and have found it to bo the most valuable fertilizer I know. On fourteen acres of poor red land, near Athens, I have picked over five bales ofcot ton. X have gathered twenty-three and a half bushels of Corn to the acre, and the grass seeds sown in my front yard late in April withstood tho protracted drought of this year, and are now as thick and strong as if I had sodded the space which they cover. Os Irish potatoes and garden vegetables, I have had an unusually large crop. My onions from seed were finer than any I ever raised before from buttons. So cer tain am I that your fertilizer is the best j thing to renew our lands and give us healthy and early crops, I mean to use it next year on my plantation, in Oglethorpe county, to as great an extent as my means will allow. ‘ Respectfully, Wm. M. Browne. Without manure, with so unpropitious au agricultural season as that of last year, I should not have made more than from 200 to 250 pounds of seed cotton, and from 300 to 500 bushels of corn. I remarked that this phosphate gave the crop such a start as to enable it to bear the drought— that it matured the cotton earlier thau any other artificial manure (except genuine ; Peruvian guano) I ever saw tried, and that j its fertilizing properties are not exhausted j by jtlie crop to which it is applied. 11 tested the last named property by planting | turnips where I had previously planted j and gathered an unusually abundant yield [ of Irish potatoes, and without any addi- j tional manure I had as large a crop, both j in quantity and quality, as I ever saw. The character of the manufacturers is a : guarantee against fraud or deception as to | this manure, and this renders it es- j pecialiy valuable to planters now, none of j whom can afford to pay SIOO per ton of i 2,000 lbs. for red dirt with a guanoish ! odor. I can only say in conclusion, and without j attempting to judge of other fertilizers, I that I mean to use Reid’s phosphate on j my plantation on every acre I plant; I intend to plant no more than I can manure abundantly. Y'ery respectfully yours, William M. "Browne. Stability in Legislation and in ; Trade. —A recent publication of tbe revenue receipts of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland for the year I ending December 31st, 1866, contains the j following abstract of the sources from ; whence the revenue is derived, and a com- ] parison of the same with the receipts from i the same sources in 1865 : Year ended » Year ended Dec. 81,1866. Dec. 31, 1866. Customs £21,915,000 £21,707,000 Excise 20,610,000 19,649,000 Stamps 9,291,000 9,639,000 Taxes 3,403,000 3,364,000 Propertv-tax 5,458,000 7,603,000 Post-Office 4,375,000 4,250,000 ! Crown lands 327,000 314,000 j Miscellaneous... 3,340,662 2,673,478 Total £58,783,662 _ £69,196,478 i A large number of interesting deductions | can be made from the foregoing exhibit. It will bo seen, in the first place, that | somewhat more than two-sevenths of the j entire revenue for the year 1866 was j derived from cu-toms alone. In the next place, it may be observed that the total revenue for each of the two years is very nearly the same, which is quite remarkable when contrasted with the extraordinary fluctuations in the gross annual returns of our revenue. European .Steamer. —One of our lead ing commercial firms expect, at an early day this week, from New York, th 2 steam ship Pioneer, said to be in all respects a first cla.-s freight}’ sc-rew steamer. Messrs. W. B. Smith <2 Cos., of our city, | are now engaging freight for this vessel, and they expect to fill her with dispatch, j The time is at hand when the commercial necessities of our city will require steam communication with Europe, and we hope our merchants will lend a helping hand and assist in making the voyage profitable, and thereby secure a good start for the future j 1 line.—' Charleston Courier, January 28. I Special t'orrcxpc ndcncc 0/ the Baltimore Gazette FROM WASHINGTON. | The Reconstruction Bill in the House- Speech of Mr. Raymond—A “Th rilling Incident ’—A Congressional Interchange ) of Compliments—A Sign of the Times Governor On- in Washington—Re ■ ' e L‘ of the Radicals—Propositions of t hies Justice Chase , &c., dr. Washington, January 24, iS67. The floor and galleries of the House of Representatives were densely crowded this morning, and hundreds of ladies and gentlemen remained in tiie lobbies, unable to gain admittance. -This was partly oc casioned by the dry discussions in tho Senate upon the Tariff Bill, but chiefly lie cause it was understood that definite action would lie taken to-day upon tiie “Reconstruction Bill” of Mr. Stevens. Contrary to expectation, however, the latter graciously yielded the floor for a more general debate, and Mr. Raymond made a remarkably neat speech. He op posed the destructive project of Stevens, and expressed himself in favor of the “Constitutional amendment” as a finality, if coupled with another providing penalties for future secession, lie also'favored a slight modification of the third section of the “amendment.” At 4 o’clock it be came evident, from the number of members who got permission from Stevens to be heard upon the bill, that the question could nqt so ngtrijy£±g.flayw » wq’YTC'--'xy-tor-iiio::. A fl.is member is put in charge of a special mat ter by a caucus. He introduces the mea sure, makes his speech, and demands the “previous question.” It is sustained by the House, and it then rests with him solely whether it shall be debated at all, or if so, who shall be the speaker , and to what ex tent they shallbc heard ? For the time bring the favored member is the autocrat of the House, and it frequently happens that Mr. Stevens is elevated to that despotic dignity. The permission of debate conceded by him to-day upon his bill, is relied upon by those Republicans who are yet reluctant to take the final leap to a practical conflict with the other branches of the Govern ment, is evidence of a pause in the mad * career of revolution. What modern novel writers of the pres ent day would call a “thrilling incident” occurred in the House during the “morn ing Aour.” A bill authorizing the State of Tennessee to accept the land grant pro vided by tho act of 1862 for educational purposes being under consideration, Kel ley went out of tlio way to charge the President, in a swaggering mannef, with being an “usurper.” Mr. Cooper (whose rolatjon to t Ire family of tho President is known to tbe public), in reply, applied an epithet to the “member from Pennsylva nia” of a character which, in the “old barbarous age of tbe Republic,” was held to cut off further debate. But Kelley seemed ambitious of a repetition of the compliment,'and he received it with com pound interest, upon demanding to know if his veracity was called in question. He sought to lessen his disgrace, but immea surably increased _ it, by charging Mr. Cooper with complicity with the President in his usurpation, laying emphasis upon his position and pay as his private secretary. The whole conduct of the Pennsylvania member was evidently mortifying to the vast assemblage present, a feeling I in stinctively participated in; but upon learn ing that he wasnot a native of this country, and affords but an exceptional sample of the known characteristics of bis own', my sensitiveness became less acute. Upon the close of this little episode members flocked around Mr. Cooper, cordially shaking his hand; but, to the immortal honor of the other side of the House, not a member approached the desk of Kelley. Asa significant sign of the tjmes it may bo mentioned that the bill . introduced by Mr. Wade in the Senate to-day, in regard to tbe allotment of circuits for the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, provides for tbe appointment, by the Supreme Court of the United States, of a Marshal, with a salary of $3,500, and for the appointment, by the Supreme Court of this District, of its Marshal. Mr. Fessenden to-day reported in the Senate, with amendments, the Hom e bill making appropriations for tbe legislative, ? s '’7 r, *^M^ncSmcMsapp?qimretor temporary clerks in tbo Treasury Depart ment $50,000, provided that the Secretary of tho Treasury be authorized, in his dis cretion, to classify the clerks authorized ac cording to the character of their services; for contingent expenses of Interior De partment, - for laborers, office furniture, &e., $4,000; for the purchase of the Glover Museum, SIO,OOO ; for facilitating communication between tho Atlantic and Pacific States by electrical telegraph, $40.- 000; lor compensation of two watchmen at the President’s House, $1,440; do. three iu the dome of Capitol,' $2,750; for person to take charge of heating apparatus of library of Congress, SI,OOO. Each night watchman at the Treasury Department shall, from the Ist day of July, 1867, re ceive a compensation of S9OO per annum. The visit of Governor Orr, of South Carolina, and several other prominent Southern gentlemen to the Metropolis has revived speculation as to compromises. I am far from thinking that the Radical leaders could he induced to favor any practicable plan of settling the difficulties which now distract the country. Their purposes are widely different. Every act and word of theirs pointedly exhibit rather a firm determination to interpose every obstacle in the way of a peaceful solution of the existing embarrassed sectional rela tions. There can be no doubt, however, of the great anxiety of the South that per fect union and harmony should be restored to the whole country, nor that they would be willing to sacrifice much to bring about so desirable a result. It will be recollected that Judge Chase, in a Speech he made in Philadelphia some months ago, favoring the adoption of the famous “Constitution al amendment,” suggested the propriety of some offer bv the South, and,that about the same time ho proposed to the Presi dent a plan of adjustment based upon tbe prepositions contained in that amendment, with tho substitution of impartial suffrage for the second and third sections. I understand that gentlemen now here, who arc known to have the confidence of the great body of the Southern people, repre sent that this proposition of the Chief Justice would be cheerfully accepted inqny form which Congress should prescribe ; or rather (which embraced an additional con cession) that the South would accept as the condition of universal amnesty and un restricted representation, impartial suf frage and representation according to the i voting population. 1 mention these facts, ; not in the belief that any practical result j is in the slightest degree probable, but merely to show tlio people of the North the true attitude of tho South, so that they may contrast it with the revolution ary programme of the Destructives. Manufacturing in the South. —The Baltimore Sun. remarks that among the changes which are likely to result from the late conflict between the North and the South, those of a commercial arid manu facturing character promise to be the most conspicuous. Before the war, the natural course of business was to semi cotton from the South to the Northern Atlantic cities for the purpose of being manufactured or re-shipped to Europe, receiving in return -ueh goods as the planting Satesconsumed. Now, the tendency is to localize the busi ness of the South —to produce there, as far as possible, the manufactured goods required for home consumption. With the growth of manufactures in the South, the advantages of cheapness on the spot, will be realized, and eventually she may undersell others, and send her surplus direct to such foreign markets as are in need of them. Asa symptom of this in troversion of trade, it may be noted that between seventy and eighty cotton mills are now said to be in process of erection in tbe Southern States, besides sundry woolen ones, all tending to the change in trade and business to which we have ad verted. Nor is this tendency confined to the South solely, but seems to be actuating the people of the Western States also. There, too ; increased attention to the manufacturing enterprises is manifested, promising changes in commercial affairs not anticipated ten years since. Those have been expedited in the South by the late conflict of views antagonistic to those entertained by tbe manufacturers of the Atlantic States. All manner of Mexican jobs and pro jects are haqging about tbe Committee rooms and looking in at the lobbies of the two Houses —one of them proposing a modest loan of $50,000,00" to Juarez (whereof so much as S2O 000,000 might— and might not —get out of M as.ungton); aud there is an Ortega loan of nxe amount lying around loose; but it is quite unlikely that either of them will ever get launched in the shape of a bilL If soo,ooo,ouu were lent in Mexico by our Government, her military banditti would doubtless Lave a good time while it lasted; but, except those bonds,” there would be no trace of it in existence next year. A. j. Jnoune. Rothschild’s Paris abode is an immense building seven stories high. NEW SERIES, VOL. XXYI. NO. 6. Georgia Items. ! As we predicted in our last issue, the bark Eventide. Park master, loaded with ! lumber, from the mills of Gen. Birge., on the Satilla. was wrecked on the Pelican | Shoals, at the mouth of that river. The bark aud cargo were sold at public outcry, in this city, on Monday, and brought SI,BOO. —Brunswick Courier. Jan. 25! The Admiral was gotten off, and is now ; at anchor near the city, making about 12 ’ | inches of water an hour. It is presumed j she will be condemned and sold. — Ibid. The LaGrange Reporter notices the death cf Mr. Wiley Alford, one of the oldest citizens of that place, which oc curred a few weeks since, lie was seventy five years of age. The Macon Journal <6 .Messenger of the 25th says : The novel case alluded to in our paper of yesterday as before the Supe rior Court, in which re-payment of a debt which had been cancelled in Confederate scrip, was demanded, came to a conclusion on the same day. The jury dismissed the case, directing each party to pay an equal proportion of*the costs. I\ e are gratified to learn that matters have been arranged to secure the comple tion of the Atlantic & Gulf Railroad to Bainbridge,. in Decatur county, at an early day. .V friend in that place, writing.us on the 23d. instant, says: “The railroad meeting yesterday, yvas a Eptfr; “iffra ‘ yToJWfi more promised. The grand jury recommended $50,000 by the county, anil the City Council of Bainbridge wjil take $50,000 more. This will secure the road at once.” — Macon 'Telegraph. Death of Hon. T. 11. Trippe.—We learn with regret from tho Cartersviile Ex press, of the 25th inst., of the sudden death by apolexy of lion. Turner K. Trippe, which took place at CassviUe, his , residence. the 20th inst. Judge Trippe has borne no inconsidera ble part in public life in Georgia for nearly a half century. A lawyer by profession, be has occupied the positions of Solicitor- General, Judge of the Superior Court during a term of eight years, and latterly ’ Judge of the County Court, all of which positions .be adorned, adding thereto the dignity of tho gentleman and the faith of the consistent Christian. His integrity was incorruptible—his manners genial. He was conservative in liis political sentiments, and represented the Conservative party in tiie Convention in 1860. The Judge was 66 years of age at the time of his death, and our State will keenly feel the loss 6f. another, of her distinguished sons at this" critical period, when she so sorely-requires •, the aid of every philosopher and states]....; man.— Savannah Republican. ■ • ’' The following is from the Rome Courier i of Saturday: : On yesterday, the 25th instant, parts of Company D and G, some fifty-nine men, of the 16th Regulars, under the command of Captain Mills, escorted by Captain De la Mesa, of tbe Freedmen’s Bureau, ar rived on the 2 o’clcock train, and immedi ately arrested four young men of this place, Capt. L. T. Mitchell, Lieut. R. F. Hutch ings, Matt. Pate and Henry Wells. A squad was also detailed to arrest Henry A. Smith and Dave Powers, but this has not been done up to this writing—they not being found. What is the occasion of these arrests is a matter of conjecture. It is supposed to be because they took part in a charitable en tertainment, in wliic-h “The Officer’s Funeral” was a tableaux, wherein tbe Con federate flag, was exhibited. The prison ers wore*carried to ihe court house under heavy guard. Since the above was in type, we learn that Powers has been arrested, and that the above conjecture as to the cause of arrest is correct. . Wo are told that Capt. De ia Mesa says ho has orders to arrest all who took part in the exhibition, both ladies and gentlemen, but that he will only execute it on the gentlemen. Bail was refused, but a writ of habeas corpus lias been sued out for their release, before Judge D. M. iiood, of tbe County Court. The result is not yet known. The Dawson Journal says of the late Judicial Election in the. Pataula Cireut: of ifie late election Wpftcd-ytihatfhe farmer'Juigc and Solicitor were both re-elcrttid, was erroneous in regard to the latter officer—Cob S. W. Parker having a majority of eighty-eight over both bis competitors. The Cutlibert .Appeal says : Our com munity participated iu rather a remarablc ceremony on Wednesday evening—the burial of a man and his wife in the same grave. Our fellow citizen Mr. John Lan drum and. his wife died on the day previ ously within five hours of each other. Such things may and do take place in case of epidemics, but are very rare in their ab sence, as in this instance. At one fell swoop the angel of death harvested the united heads of a family, leaving one son, “tiie lone scion of his father’s house.” A Y’alu able CAfteo.—Messrs. Crane & Graybill .cleared the bark MaUeville, Captain Waite, on Saturday morning last for Liver; 001, with a cargo consisting of 2,499 hales of upland cotton, weighing 1,146,667 pounds, valued at $372,298 25 ; and 198 bales of sea island cotton weighing 69,213 pounds, valued at $41,656 ; total weight 1,215,890 pounds; total value $413,955 25. The MaUeville is one of the largest vessels of her class that ever entered this port (924 tons) ; was launched in Novem ber last, making her first voyage to this port. —Savannah Republican. —.~n**yv 40BHIM. The Lesson Taugfit ny Georgia. If South Carolina had taken the advice of John C. Calhoun, and built a conli nental railroad westward to Knoxville, Charleston would have become the great seaport of ]die Atlantic for the Southern States. What South Carolina lost by fail ing to take the advice of the old man Cal houn, Georgia gained, by taking tbe ad vice of die young man Alex. 11. Stephens. Georgia became tbe empire State of the South, and South Carolina became the cauldron of politicians. It is a notable fact that when a preacher, a lawyer, or a doctor fails in liis profession, he turns politician., and'keeps his friends in a stew until he dies. So when a State drops in ternal improvements and turns old fogy, we may. expect to find a political conservatism which holds on to old things without learning new tilings. So it . was with South Carolina.— Neglecting the advice of Calhoun she hung on to a dead theory instead of reaching for ward to. a live fact. She argued that in ternal improvements by a State would, under any circumstances, ruin tho people, and persistently shut her eyes to the fact that Boston, with her Western Railroad to Albany, New Y ork, with her Central Rail road and Canal, Baltimore, with her Ohio Road, Pennsylvania, with her Pittsburg Road, and Georgia, with her State Road, all proved that State aid to Jlaiiroads, un der some circumstances, would not only ruin the people, but build up metropolises and empire-. And so South Carolina, and perhaps Alabama, talked politics, whilst Georgia dug dirt. . The result has been, j what ? Atlanta, which was a wood sta tion, when Montgomery was a town, ! is now a ck- whilst Montgomery is! still a town. By arc-r vnt census, Atlanta j is found to have a p , Ration of 20,228, being about 4,004 more than Montgomery. How do we account for the growth of At i lanta and the towns upon the State Road, j w.lnoh can boast no natural advantages? ; The solution of the enigma stares us in the [face. .Boston..AewYork, Baltimore and every large Western city, has solved it. I D is, the completion, by. State assistance, ! of a great continental railroad, connecting ; the seaport of the State with the great | living, laboring, throbbing heart of the I Northwest. i . Let the Legislature of Alabama see to it, that what Calhoun saw in his old age, and what Alex. Stephens saw in his youth j —that wealth, enterprise, State stability j and State independence, must draw • their. : sinews from the great West—may be iuade the purpose of Alabama.— Montgomery j Mail. > ’'' ■* \ The total taxable property in California, 1 as shown by the report of the Surveyor ! General for the current year, is about ’ $190,000,000, which is a gain of $7,000- j 000 over the previous year. The largest i increase in any one county wa3 in Butte— j amounting to $2,500,000 —because of tbe i construction of the Marysville railroad. : Nevada county came next, with a gain of $1,000,000, because of the development of ! the quartz interest at Grass Y'alley. San ; Joaquin added $850,000 to her wealth by j the development of agriculture and the [ copper trade. Santa Barbara, which had i ial.leu very low during tho great drought, ; gained $630,000 by the return of good : pastures, and the rise in beef and mutton. | The State is flourishing. i Anew settlement has been formed in ! Lower California, about 70 miles from I Guayamas, under a grant of lands from the Mexican Government, The place is called Mulege, and being well located with refer ence to the. future development of that ; country, it is expected to acquire import ance. The colonists have associated with ’ them several citizens of San Francisco and j formed the Peninsula Plantation and j Homestead Association.” Sews and Other Items. The Radicals have dropped General Grant for the Presidency. The aggregate capital of the Poston banks is £41,000,000. The English language is the vernacular of seventy-five million of people. What is the surest way to make a hen lay ? Cut her head off. Who was the oldest lunatic on record ? Time out of mind. A man in Norwich, Conn., bitten by a dog, obtained £BOO damages. There were no beggars in Boston in 1073. The Detroit Post is edited by Carl Schurz. The preserve dealer’s motto —“lean.” The hypoerit’s motto —“ I can't.” M hat notes interest you most ? Those where early falls the due. “Bill Arp " is Mayor of Borne, Georgia. Lawyers’ mouths, like turnpike gates, open for pay. The young lady wlip was driven to dis traction, had to walk back. The “Forty Thieves” are having an ex cellent run in New York. Paris is taxed ten francs for every head of its population. i jhljclelpina supports a society lor indi "** ino nmgnwrtiood of Ottawa," Cn., is nightly serenaded by wolves. M hat dust is most blinding to the eyes? gold <kfet, San Francisco is trying to get rid of its lager beer saloons. What is the riddle of riddles ? Life, for we have to give it up. . only man not spoiled by being lion ized was Daniel the Jew. iwo years ago, luesday last Fort Fisher was taken. Chicago has 150,000,000 feet of lumber pned in its lumber yard. Philadelphia has more Methodism than any other city in the world, There is a man in the moon, and a man and woman in the honeymoon. . A church steeple in Hartford, Conn., is proped up to keep from falling. A New York merchant says the remedy tor dull times is to advertise. Oriential colored laces which will bear washing ■ are. anion* the novelties of the season;*-* . ' ■ Wiwas'tjie'lazk'st man? The furniture dealer ; find', foung.es about ; afi-tiitffimio.' “7 ~ ; - The-boy' who was caught looking into the future, lias been arrested for trying to see the show without payment. John Halpine has been fined £l5O in Rochester, for falsely.accusing a negro of chichen-stealing. A New York judge has just decided that a husband haying two wives is liable for 1 goods sold to Lot]i of them. .A great brute of a husband” advertised m the morning papers for a u stout 3 able bodied man to hold his wilifs tongue ! r * Why is h newspaper like an army ? Be cause it has leaders, columns and reviews. Which is the most intelligent, the man Vihojaiows most, or the one who has the most nose ? Sixteen hundred divorces have been decreed in Massachusetts in the last six years. two thousand men-have, during the past ten years, been killed in English coal mines. What a striking countenance, said the lankce to the elephant when 1m hit him a clip with his trunk. An Italian boy, seventeen years of age, walked from Chatham, C. W., to Detroit to hear Ristori. It often happens, when the husband . tails to no home to dinner, that it is one of his fast days. Go to strangers for charity, acquaint ances for advice, and relatives for nothing and you will always have a supply. The only poetry a handsome, girl ap- A woman in Philadelphia, ninety years ol age, jumped out of a third story win dow and killed herself. New 1 car’s was the coldest day in Galveston, Texas, since 1859.* The mer cury stood at 28 degrees above zero. The gamblers of Cincinnati are in a state of high dudgeon at being interfered with. Greenbacks'“arc said to have been cir culated on both sides in the New York Senatorial caucus. Can a man who has been fined by the magistrates, again and again, bo said to be a refined man ? ’ A newly-born Ottawa child has but one eye, and that is in the middle of' the fore head, an inch and a half above the nose, Ira Van Y erburgh, a Pennsylvanian, recently deceased, has left his property, valued at $45,000, to his betrothed, who is to take possession when she is twenty one years of age. A Mauch Chunk gentleman, the other daj’, soid a lot ol oil stocks ibr twenty-five cents. A year ago he paid Ibr them SI,OOO. .If you are going up for the Civil Ser vice examination, which ought you to mind most, your p’s or your q’s '! Your p’s, be cause p will make any ass p-ass. A French newspaper offers to give an nually $l2O as a wedding portion to the noorest and most virtuous girl indicated by its subscribers. A citizen of Galveston was arrested by the military for wishing the Freedmen’s Bureau in warmer quarters than any on the Gulf coa-t. Fashion affects even the price of coffins. A dealer says that since the introduction oi caskets lie can hardly give away his stock of old fashioned coffins. The local of the Vicksburg Herald lias seen a puppy with eight legs, four tails, and only one head. It was too dead to be of any use. A large dog entered a Portlander’s kitchen on New Year’s morning and grab bed the turkey; the bold raider got away with his plunder. The trouble in the New York Board of Couneiimen has been settled, and the next meeting will probably be a peaceable one, ana the inkstands put to their proper use. The pork-packing season at Chicago is drawing to a close. Mrs. Colt, of Hartford, Ct., is about to erect a handsome church edifice in that city—cost $50,000. It is said that more snow has fallen in Cleveland this winter than during any pre vious winter for thirty live years. A neatly dressed old lady, with a white cap on, in Paris, will black your boots i'oa, a penny. The game in Virginia is said to be per ishing from hunger, being unable to obtain food on account of the deep snow. . The New York Post says it requires an income of nearly ten thousand dollars to i live comfortably in New York. j Large quantities of herring are going to ; New York frozen together in solid masses, i from the banks of Newfoundland. By the returns of the city passenger railways of Philadelphia, it appears that their receipts during 1800 amounted to $2,890,208. An effort is being made in the Illinois Legislature to ensure the extension of the Canal from Chicago to the Mississippi, at or near Rock Island. The estimated cost of the enlargement and extension is $4,- 000,000. Reports from the West are to the effect j that the Indians are better organized than | ever before on a basis, and calcu- Llatecftoabj-jiittph mischief.'’ to emigration, -tmiess dip /na-t’Stttv.frtii leisures arc adopt [. ed to brus-StaiA in subjdgtadik ;' •• Tos^h)iaiadiJrt^^Uuficc' f^> ; Fraocei:he ’■ Ktftpcrdr - that*.«S??im}!wt possess an army on" foot*' of- 800,000 men. ’ When Prussia boasts of an army of 1,2<Kt,000, the Imperial estimate cannot he deemed ex cessive. The latest statistics ofthe new Metropoli tan Main-Drainage Works, of London, show that the .total length of sewers at present completed is eighty-two miles. f i he work when finished will have cost £4,200,000. The profits of a San Francisco merchant, who sent a cargo of grain to Philadelphia in the ship David Crocket, are estimated at $75,000. General A. C. Meyers, late Quarter master-General of the Confederate States and a native of South Carolina, is at Fontainbleau. The New Orleans Picayune says that no constitution of Louisiana has ever con tained a single provision on the subject of slaves, or mentioned the topic of slavery. The Osage Chronicle urges the develop ment of the rich coal fields in Kansas, which underlie, as is claimed, one-third of the country at a depth of btA a few feet from the surface. Tt considers that if a railroad ever goes through there, the chief source of wealth will be t heir coal.