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WEDNESDAY MIIKMM., FEBRUARY Vi.
Opera House In Augusta.
Y\ c are rejoiced to learn that some of our
public-spirited cit izens are diacussing the
propriety of building a first-class opera
house in this city. To those familiar with
the present places of amusement in Au
usta we need not say tliat such a building
is one of the great wants of our city. Mo
one will deny that the present theatre is
entirely insufficient for the purpose for
which it was erected. Its location is bad,
and it is in such a dilapidated condition as
to lx,- positively indecent and repulsive in
its appearance.
The influence of the legitimate drama
has b. :n, since the days of cK -ehylus—who
is the author and founder of the histrionic
art—when properly conducted elevating in
its tendencies, and ennobling in its results.
Many of the best lessons of life have
had their inspiration from the teachings
of the drama. We know that there is
ada -of persons in our midst who. enter
tain strong prejudices against the drama.
Wo have no doubt but that their feelings
of h utility to it are the convictions of
lione t hearts. Vet we must say that,
when they arc thoroughly investiga
ted, in nine out of ten cases they are
found to extend only to the abuses of the
art. These abuses are known to exist, and
sued) ply r< r '••! by the best friends o!
the drama. Th y insist, however, that
the best way to correct them is not to con
#;.;mn |he art, but to apply the lash to its
abuses. *
If the good people of a community—the
re ■ i ,e':table portion of society—abandon
tie: drama and refuse to patronize it, they
niu-t expect that those who control it will
pander to the vicious taste# of those upon 1
whom they rely for patronage and sup
port.
We venture the assertion that every
thin r which is wrong, hurtful or venal in
the conduct, of the drama has been brought
about by the desire to pander to the low
m-t,; and corrupt morals of those who, in
many localities, are left as the exclusive
patrons of the stage. If the religious and
respectable portions of society support the
legitimate drama, it at once secures, in its
management and details, a strict regard to
all the proprieties of life, not only in cos
tumes, drapery and scenery, hut also, and
which is of much more importance, in the
sentiment and month of the plays pro
duced.
Docs not every one know that such a
spectacle as the f’luck Crook would never
have been brought upon the stage if the
cl.i: (if persons who wo have just named
were it# principal supporters? Does not
the history of the stage in England, in the
dav-ipniarriek, of ICcan, and of Booth,
urovo that this is true ?
But we did not intend to write an essay
on play-going but simply to urge our peo
ple to take some steps to secure the erec
tion of a suitable edifice for the accommo"
ilation of the lovers of the drama in our
midst. Wo believe that, with the outlay
of jiJLy thousand dollar.', a Theatre equal
to any in the South, and amply sufficient
to moot the wants of our community, can
be erected. The first indispensable re
quisite .should be iUs_ location or entrance
•cm Broad street, between Washington and
Campbell.
Wo have heard a plan suggested which
Rooms to us certainly feasible. It is that
the Trustees of the Masonic Hall erect, in
the rear of the Hall, the necessary build
ing the main entrance to bo on Broad
street, with the entrance to the pit and
•cillery from Ellis street. We believe that,
with proper exertion, the necessary amount
could be raised in a few weeks to insure
the completion of the work. It is sug
rested that the Trustees is-ue bonds in the
sum of five hundred dollars or some small
er amount, with a lien on their present
property and the new building, and put
them tin the market. Wc believe that
del. bomb ’ll read'll, Hah 1 ;
ii- • a am amt he it terest act ruing tm re
...;uid '. am ly scoured by the rental of
• It. . -re.a iit j. von® 0 (Up! the rents ot he
now rtieatn liiYgtu In .>pp!ifi* "* . ffio area
lieu ' - g fund to pay up the bond ■
■ill .If foil UUe.
This Is the • utline of the p an which we
have' heard suggested, and we would urge
upon our people the importance of taking
some action upon it. Who will be the first
to move iu the matter?
Plant tom.
The weather for the last few days has
been delightfully warm and pleasant. We
not ice vegetation is spriugi ng forward rapid
ly. and many of our early flowers are in full
bloom. This is really tine planting weather,
and, in view of the very short supply of
provisions now on hand among our plant
ers, we suggest the propriety of the plant
ing a t once of a small field of corn. A few
acres planted now with seed of the Balti
more or Northern varieties, will bo hard
ciflmgh for feeding purposes by the 10th or
15th of July. This variety of corn does not
grow as large as our Southern corn, neither
is the ear so heavy, but it will stand crowd
ing better, and by planting close and earlya
good yield can be obtained.
Those who have had no experience in
the cultivation of this corn will be greatly
disappointed with their venture when they
sec it tasselling at not more than two or two
and a half feet high. We know some
planters who cut up their crop last year
because they thought it would make
nothing on account of its tasselling so low.
(blurs who let their crop stand, got a good
Now is the time to plant this corn. Ma
nure well, plant close, and you will have
roasting corn by the Ist to the 10th of June,
and corn for tie mill in July.
Another matter we desire to call the at
tention of our planting friends to. It is
tins : be sure and plant corn enough to
answer your wants, calculating only that a
half crop will be made. In other words,
plant double as much land in corn as you
think, with good seasons, would make you
a sufficient supply.
We know that there is a very general
conviction among planters that it is cheaper
to buy corn with cotton at thirty cents a
pound than it is to raise it. This is a grand
mistake. The trouble is, it is never cheap
or proper for a planter to buy anything he
can raise himself. Produce on your own
land everything neee.-savy to carry on your i
planting interests and then raise as much j
cotton as you can. The money received
from the cotton crop, is then the profits of
the farm. But if you have to spend a
third or hall'of the proceeds of the cotton
crop to purchase such supplies as could bo j
raised at home, you diminish to that
extent the profits of planting.
Another reason, and a very conclusive
one to us. why our planters should be i
certain to plant largely of corn is that, if
the cotton crop tails, it involves a total
failure of the entire planting interests, ;
unless you have raised your own supplies, j
The pres* nt condition of the country is a
terrible warning to us of the folly and i
ruinous results of the system which we
;;r - Last year a very short
i rn ci i was planted; the season was
lad and the crop failed entirely. The
eoiU n crop planted was a very large one; !
it lai. and. and now we have neither corn
nor money to purchase it with.
\u hope and trust our planters will not ■
be caught in thw condition again. We
know that they wul not, if t hev will onlv
1... certain v. riant largely of corn and
other provision crops.
lien. V« in. 11. Taliaferro.
We find the name of this distinguished
officer and intelligent gentleman suggested
in one of the Richmond papers as a suita
ble candidate for Governor.
General T. bore a conspicuous part iu
the Valley campaigns of General Jackson,
and rendered valuable services iti securing
the success of those masterly movements
by which Banks, Fremont and Shields
were successively thwarted in their plans,
and the glorious achievements of our arms
accompli shed.
Later in the. war, General T. was in
command on the islands around Charleston,
and was conspicuous for his energy, skill
and industry in foiling all the plans of the
Federal - for an advance on the city. The
people of Virginia will do honor to them
selves in honoring General Taliaferro.
The Kadlcai Mare's Xest.
The House of' Representatives exhibited
hist week a sad instance of ignoble fear
combined with a high degree of malignant
despotism. A member of that body,
(long John Wentworth) moved for the up
pointment of a select .committee to enquire
into the alleged tampering by the Presi- j
dent with members of that body, in rela
tion to an adjustment or compromise of
the matters in controversy between the
Executive and the majority in Congress in
relation to the political condition cf the
country, and the means of restoring peace ;
and harmony to the country.
It was charged that improper conduct j
had been exhibited on the part of some of '
the members, thereby bringing discredit ,
upon tin House The virtuous indignation j
of the pure patriots composing a large
majority of the House was aroused, and j
honest John became the champion of their
outraged honor. We must admit that the 1
instrument chosen for the ventilation of
their pent up grief was, perhaps, the most
proper that could have been selected from j
the great number of graceless demagogues j
which swell their ranks.
Asa matter of course the committee
was raised after the usual amount of low
Billingsgate had been discharged upon the
head of the President and the unoffending i
people of the South. The committee, after
a few days, time for thought and reflection,
came to the wise conclusion that ‘'nothing
had transpired which demanded the fur
ther consideration of the House,” and thus
the matter was dropped.
‘ This miserable attempt to stifle the
private convictions of members’ mirxls,
and prevent honest,- independent ac
tion by those who differ with the Kadi
cab. grew out of the rumor prevalent in
Washington for several days, that some of
the more moderate and conservative of the
Republicans were anxious to come to some
understanding with the President in rela
tion to the various plans which had been
suggested for the restoration of the Union
and the pacification of the whole country. I
Tins was the very tiling which the extreme
Radicals most bitterly opposed. They
neither desired to see harmony restored
between the Executive and Legislative
Departments of the Government, nor the
re.-torati*!i of the Southern States upon j
any terms whatever. Their object is and j
for months past lias been, to widen the
•breach between the two sections, and in
crease, if possible,-the bitterness of fueling
now existing among a portion of the
Northern people against the South, there
by hoping to take these differences and
.iii<l prejudices into the next Presidential
election, and make them the leading issues
in that canvass. Any settlement of ending
difficulties would he a death blow to their
organization. This they are shrewd
enough to know, and hence their opposi
tion to every plan upon which the Conser
vatives of both sections might be brought
to sustain.
We believe that a few of those who, at
the North, are styled Conservative Repub
licans, did have one or more interviews
with the President, with the hope that
some measure might bo suggested upon
which the President and Congress might
be brought in accord. It is said that
Messrs Banks, Raymond, Bingham, Blow,
Davis, Ketcham, and others had several
conferences with Mr. Johnson, and with
leading Southern gentlemen then in
Washington, upon the present unsettled
and distressing condition of affairs, but we
believe that they all ended without the
accomplishment of any important results.
It was this proper, legitimate, and hu
mane attempt to settle forever the irritating
and perplexing questions now in
issue in relation to the restoration of
the Union, which caused the great scare
in the House. Since the attempt to
harmonize the two branchesof the Govern
ment has failed, the Congress has passed
the Sherman Bill, as it is called, with the
Shellaberger amendment, which seems to
us to shut out for the present, at least, any
hope for the future.
; Education of Mnlmed ifotorj
College.
W( . ' a., : '
! loti t>j PresidentTb >mas that the lu-ui
I tuiion ov . which he presides has deter
: mined to carry out, Jo the extent of its
ability, the plan of the lust Legislature
for the education of our maimed soldiers.
We find the letter published in the last
issue of the Cartersville Express.
Wo hope to bo able soon to state that
all our Colleges have followed the example
so nobly set forth liy our State University
and Emory College. We have .strong
hopes that all of them will do so :
“Oxford, January 28tli, 1537.
Please call the attention of indigent niaim
od soldiers to the recent Am of the Geor
gia Legislature, in behalf of this unfor
tunate class of young men, and to direct
their attention to Emory College..
The amount of appropriation can, by
strict economy, bo stretched over all the s
items except clothing.
If the beneficiaries will bring with
them a mattress and bed clothing, with
such other portable articles as most may
furnish, we will lix up our domitories
and thus cheapen the board seves;;l dol
lars, so art to leave a small balance for
their benefit after the necessary expenses ,
shall have been paid.”
Most affectionately,
your tun.,
J. It. Thomas.” I
The Sherman Bill.
The N’eW T urk Express is strong in its
denunciations hi iSie infamous provisions
of this Bill, and savg that it should be
called
A Bill of the parti/ in power to h:oji
ten States out of the Enion, till after the
next 1 residential Elections, unless—
lhe Whites of the South consent to he
governed by the negro.
El ment \st. The destruction of State
Governments, the State Judiciary, and
State Laws ofall kinds.
2d. The substitution in lieu thereof, of
five Brigadier-Generals, men of epaulettes,
‘men on horseback.’
."■d. The abrogation of every principle of
British Liberty, as laid down in Blaekstonc,
or won at llutinymeJe, as extorted by the
Bar.ms from lvng John—as fought lor by
j the Puritans even, under Cromwell —as
I died for by Hampden, and'other British
patriots—as guaranteed in the Revolution
of our British Fathers, that took a Prince
from Holland, and put him on the British
Throne, and as solemnly set forth iu our
: Declaration of Independence, and in the
Cbuisiitnti.'ii of the United States, viz. :
1 the principles of mama charta, of the
Right of Petition, the Bill of Rights, Ac.
Ith. The President of the United States
! • see. .">) is clothed with absolute power
i over the lives of 12,000,000 of human
beings, without Judge or Jury— lor lie
j creates the five governing Brigadier-Gener
ak and .heir Military Commissions !
These horrible provisions of law, known
in British Jurisprudence only in the Tudor
days ol Henry the Eighth, and unknown
even in the reign of the Stuarts—that
species of laws which Cromwell imposed
upon Ireland, and which the British poo- ;
pie are realizing the fruits of to this day—
iu eternal insurrections, and universal
hatred —provisions adopted from Austria,
Turkey, Egypt, and unknown, now, even
in France, or Italy—powers more potent
than even the high Hiearehy of the Papal
Church ever grant even to the Pope of
Home, are to be grasped, and to be held
on to, until the South coneurs to the fol
lowing condition*:
Ist. That universal suffrage be given to I
male negroes all the while exeluuihg
women,even white women,' negroes just i
emerged from slavery, ami semi-bar
barism, not so much qualified forsuifrage, i
three-l'ourths of them, as are our small
children.
-'■ That the late rebel whites be dis
franchised.
Until these important conditions are
complied with, it will not he possible for 1
.lie , .pie of ten States to have any voice
m the Government of the Union, or in the
Government of their own States, agaiast j
if afi’lm 11 horseback ” there. And even
onelmrm 1 ” d °ne—there is not one man in j
wL.i”- 1 thousand from the South, |
vo vV, take the Test Oath now :
G-quired by law of a Member of Congress. ;
I."N. B. 11. Hill.—\\e learn, through
trio S'diithern that this dis
tingoished statesman aud able jurist has
removed with his family from Lagrange to
Athens. We congratulate the people of
j the latter place upon this valuable acquisi
-1 no tito their society.
Territorial Government for South i
Carolina.
It will be seen by reference to our tele
graphic column, that “Senator Yates pre-.
sented to the Senate cn the 2“d inst., a
petition from four thousand citizens of
Charleston, asking for a Territorial Gov
ernment for that State.’’
The following article which we clip from •
the Charleston JV acs of a recent date, ;
shows who these jour thousand citizens arc. .
Without the explanation furnished by
the Ncucs, the Southern people would have
been at no loss to determine the character
of the four thousand. Perhaps not one
twentieth of the signers could tell to-day
what the character of the paper was which
they signed. This wilt: doubtless, be herald
ed at the North as a fair indication of the
Union sentiment in the South. AY ell, let
them make the most of it. Decent negroes
in our midst do not sympathize with this
movement. The Xncs says: “We under
stand that anew reconstruction petition
has been recently sent to Washington from
this city. It has emanated from the freed
mcn and colored citizens, and claims to be
the voice of the community. New rulers
are demanded, and a general change in the
present programme made out. This will,
no doubt, tickle the palate of the Radical
leaders North, and will be greeted as the
index of Southern loyalists’ opinions. It
is useless to comment upon the-e petitions,
or endeavor to prove that they do-not rep
resent the sentiments of the public. They
are gilded pills to Messrs. Sumner & G'o.,
and their truthfulness is never doubted by
that immaculate coterie. The signers of
this petition have been very reticent, and
little is known beyond the fact that such a
paper has been circulated among us, and
has been sent to the grand high priests at
Washington. Their action and the names
of the prime movers are at present un
known, and we await further developments
from the seat of government, before wfi
can post the community in the matter.”
The State University.
The University of Georgia, says the
Watchman , opened on Friday, the loth,
with 150 students. Seventy new students
were examined and admitted. There are also
thirty maimed Confederate soldiers, who
will be entered at the University High
School, and taught by members of the
Faculty. Boarding and lodging is furnish
ed in the school, under the superinten
i denco of Mr. Wesley Nance, who will do
his whole duty to give them all the com
forts of a home. _ ;
The sight of so many of these mutilated j
heroes, has called up many sad and bitter
• memories, not uiimingled, though, thanks
to God and their valor! with proud re
membrances of a Lost, but not Dishonored,
i Cause. YVe recall the march and the bi
vouac —the scanty rations, the shivering
: limbs, the half-shod feet—wasting sickness
| and grievous wounds and death—and final
ly, the eclipso of that resplendent Sun that
for four long years had lit a Continent
with glory. But we also remember Lee
and Jackson, the Johnstons and Beaure
gard—again the Starry Cross waves in
triumph over an hundred battle-fields
watered with the blood, and illustrated by
the prowess of Southern chivalry—again
1 we listen to the world’s applause, and the
extorted admiration even of'our enemies—
again we remember how War’s stern cru
cible only brought out, purer and finer,
the gold of noble natures; and how the
| Women of the South wept, and prayed,
and toiled, and suffered, and sacrificed,
until it seemed that the Matrons of Greece
and Rome had come back to earth.
Alas! that such glorious dreams should
have so cruel an awakening. Be it ours in
J future, whatever betide, to care for, to
cherish, to soothe and sustain these links
that bind us to the “Loved and Lost. ”
Sherman’s Bill.
YVe published yesterday Senator Sher
man’s substitute for the Military Bill,
| which is characterized as a mere rehash of
I the latter.
This infamous Bill passed the Senate ;
' W;. umcndi i in the House, and the tele
graph informs us that the Senate has
agreed! g. House amendment, which
: all persons excluded from
fire • ' :ie proposed Constitutional
ion* 'kill be excluded from voting
fin i nice Lei or being members of a eon
| volition reform a State Constitution; that
] until the rebellious States arc admitted to
! representation any civil government shall
be denied. The provisions of the bill are
subject to the authority of the United
States—to be abolished, modified, or su
perseded at any time ; and that all elec
tions under civil government are to be
' conducted by persons described in the sth
section ; and no person qualified to hold
office under the Provisional Government
are ineligible under the provisions of the
3d section of the Constitutional Amend
ment of the last session.”
Lord Brougham. —A late Paris letter
1 wo; —“The venerable Lord Brougham,
now verging on his nintieth year, passed
through Paris scwtP weeks ago, on his
’ way to his pleasant villa in ti»» vicinity of
•Cannes, in the South of France, lie in
still a sprightly, vigorous, clear-headed
. pld man, still retaining much of that fire
which used to wake his antagonists in the
| House of Coiaffl.ons more than fifty years
I ago. But, admonished that his time of
public service is passed, he has just taken
i-.Li leave of the literary and forensic world
1 in a letter addressed to a member of the
French Institute, conveying to him a copy
j of his address at tb* last English social
Congress. The parting idyice to the
world from the veteran stateensag and
scholar is, to live in peace—to beware of
coygl murderero —‘like Napoleon the First;’
1 meanwhile he accords high praise to the
! present ruler of France for his pacific and
enlightened policy, }jp insists that wars
are wicked and fruitless, and always retard
civilization. And so the grew, Henry
■ Broughsni, who has been almost constantly ,
in men’s n-ouths for considerably more
than half a cer.u,:y passes from the stage.
Few men have left numerous or
more substantial memorial* fame.
When we look back upon that long
I so lull and so y.uried. we cannot but mar
vel at the extiiicrdhigry genius of the man
i —excelling, as he diu. i« Lyal lore, in ora
tory. iu science, in political pbiL;ophy, in
moral theses, and in various depart
of phjiiAil knowledge. lie has now gone, -
of bis own ienA-rd, into history."
Secretary Welles, —A New York cor
respondent says that Secretary Welle...
whose statue has been used ai a synonym of i
everything slow, and many things that
were stupid, is likely, in a very short time,
to make a spread among the corruptionists
that will siiaSus things. He will a tale un
told as to how the n&iiajwt.l debt grew, and j
how certain men got richer. nd richer,
and richer, until they got stopped, IJe
will show how navy yards were turned
into engine shops to manufacture machin
ery for outsiders, the Government paying
for labor a-l the time; how 600 tons of
iron, in stocks, eudii nly grew into 60,000
tons when examined by a.. Lowest man.
and how a great many other big tt.i.c-,
were "put through" when everybody was
busy fighting to suppress the rebellion. The
slow old man. with the snow-white beard,
will yet make some folks shake in their
shoes. Sous verons.
The Bonner, published at Ocala,
says : W e learn from an intelligent freed
nian who came with his family to Smyrna,
on the Atlantwside of the peninsula, in
the colony recently brought out by General
Ely from South Carolina, that large num
bers of them are anxious to get into the
interior where they may get ample reward
for their labor, and would come had they
any way of getting away. They are rep
resented as being sadly disappointed and
discouraged, as they see no means of pro
viding themselves and families with suffi
cient food to prevent starvation. Several
of oureitizens. says the Banner, havegone
down, aud will doubtless secure a sufficiency
of laborers.”
“Big Injuns' —Unpleasant Pros
pects in the Far West. —The editor of
the Salt Lake Yidette, who has just ar
rived at Topeka via the Smoky Hill route,
states that at Downer’s Station there were
seven thousand Indians who had met other
tribes to decide upon war or peace. One
old Chief, who appears friendly, told the
coach-driver if he wanted to save his life he
had better leave the line before grass
grew. A lady was told at one of the sta
tions by the principal chief that he would
■ have her for his squaw before long.
Grand r.iver Improvement Convention j
in St. 1 ouis.
Avery large and respectable Convention j
was held in St. Louis last week, composed \
of delegates from thirteen different State
lying in the Mississippi Valley. The !
object of the Convention was to inaugurate
measures for the improvement of the j
navigation of the Mississippi River and its
tributaries. Several hundred delegates i
were in attendance and their proceedings j
were marked with great harmony and
concert of feeling.
Several speeches were made in the Con- j
veution, and at night a magnificent ban- j
quet was gotten up for the entertainment :
of the delegates.
The following is the action of the Con
vention :
RESOLUTIONS.
lie-solved. That the interests of the j
whole Mississippi Valley require the im
mediate improvement by the National
Government ol the Mississippi river, from
Belize to the Falls of St. Anthony, includ
ing especially the bars at .the Belize, the
upper and lower rapids, and the removal
of obstructions above those rapids ; and j
also of the Ohio river from* Cairo to Pitts
burg, and especially the work at the Falls ]
of the Ohio; said’improvements to secure
the navigation of said rivers free from all
tolls and tribute.
Resolved, That the vast importance of
such action as will se ire the needed im
provements at an early day of the follow
ing rivers, is commended to the favorable
aud earnest consideration of Congress, viz;
The Missouri river from its mouth to
Fort Benton ; the Illinois river; the Bed
river ; the Tennessee river to Chatttanoo
ga ; the Wisconsin and Fox rivers ; the
Arkansas river to Fort Smith ; the Cum
berland to Nashville.
Resolved, That when the financial con- j
dition of the country may justify, Con
gress bo requested to cause proper invest!- j
gallons to be made as to the necessity of
improving hereafter all the other naviga
ble rivers of the Mississippi Valley.
Resolved, That Congress should legislate |
on the subject of bridging the Mississippi I
and other navigable rivers of the United
States as will, while recognizing the eqi:
importance of railroad and river trausp .r
--talion, harmonize those interests by
curing proper facilities for both.
Your commitfee recommend, in further
ance of the following objects, the appoint
ment of a committee consisting of in
member from each State represented in
this Convention, with a sub-committee of
five, to prepare a memorial to Congress
demonstrating the national importance of
said objects, and that each member of said
General Committee report to said sub
committee such statistics as will facilitate
its work. It is further recommended that
the resolutions adopted and the memorial
be forwarded to Congress, in the name of
this Convention by its President, and that
copies thereof be furnished to each Senator
and Representative from the States of the
Mississippi Valley.
Tlie Episcopal Meeting—University of
the South.
At a meeting of the Board of Trustees
of the University of the South held recent
ly, Bishop Quintard introduced the follow
ing preamble and resolutions ;
Whereas, Since the last regular meeting
of the Board of Trustees of the University
of the South, hold in November, ISGI, it
has pleased Almighty God to remove from
the Church on earth the Rt. Rev. James
11. Otey, J). I)., LL D., Rt. Rev. Leonidas
i Folk, I). D., Rt. Rev. F. K. Rutledge, D.
D., Rt. Rev. Stephen 'Elliott, D. I)., all of
whom were members of this Board, and
three of whom were Chancellors of the
University of the South ; therefore,
Resolved, That a committee of three be
appointed to prepare resolutions, ex
pressive of tiie sense of this meeting,oTthe
great loss sustained by the Church in their
death.
The Committee reported as follows :
Desirous of placing on record some ex
pression of our deep sense of the great loss
which we, in common with tiio whole
church, have sustained in the death of our
late colleagues, Bishops Otey, Folk, El
liott and Rutledge, and of the feelings
with which we will ever cherish their be
loved and blessed memory; it is
Resolved, That the difficulties which
j press upon us in the great work in which
| we are engaged, are light in comparison
with the inscrutable visitations that has
: deprived us of the companionship, counsel
I and co-operation of the Bishops, who suc-
I eessively filled tiie office of Chancellor of
| the University of the South, and of their
j brother trustee, the Bishop of Florida.
Resolved, That in the zeal which knew
no bounds in the service of his master, that
! marked the whole life of the venerated
I Bishop Otey, we find as good a .model for
j our own imitation as the Church in
j modern times affords; and that we,
j especially as the appointed guardians of
j this institution, are called upon to imi
tate the patient, persevering energy with
which ho so ably devoted himself to the
| cause of Christian education.
; Resolved, That if the great beneficial re
j suits which our University was founded to
j secure, shall ever be accomplished, the
I praise under God will be mainly due to the
| wisdom and forethought, the hopeful con
j tideneo, and indefatigable labors of its
| founder—the magnanimous and self-sacri
; ftcing liisliop Folk. .
■Resolved, That we have lost in Bishop
Elliott a colleague possessed of the most
extraordinary endowments, and of the
rarest attainments; joined to all those
qualities of head and heart which fitted
j him for usefulness, above almost all other
1 men whom wo have ever known.
I Resolved, That we record our affectionate
i appreciation of tiie meekness and gentle
ness, combined with unswerving attach
| merit to principle, and devotion to duty—
which marked the unostentatious, yet holy
land useful, life of the lamented Bishop
| Rutledge.
[ Resolved, That in the removal from the
I scenes of those earthly labors of those
j eminent Saints, we recognize the call
which is made upon us, their surviving
| brethren, to carry on, with redoubled
| diligence, tha work* which they so well
began, and with the help of God we pledge
| ourselves to rear upon tho foundation
which they laid an institution oflearning,
which will not only perpetuate their names
j and deeds, but which will also bless the
Church and the country with constantly
increasing efficiency to generations yet un
born.
Resolved, That those resolutions be
published in tho paper's iu Montgomery,
Memphis, New Orleans, Tallahassee and !
Savannah, and that copies be furnished j
tue respective families of tlio deceased
Bishops. W. M. Green,
W. C. Crane,
Geo. R. Fairbanks.
Important to Railroad amt express
Companies.
Tire Supreme Court in New York city
recently rendered a decision which is of
importance to Railroad and Express
Companies. TJpe important point is that
these companies are under certain legal
liabilities which they cannot limit except
by express agreements with parties. It is
list enough that notice is placed on a
ticket or iiisss of paper that the company
will not be liable Under certain circum
stances. The attention of the party
must be specially called to the notice, and
not only that, but ho must voluntarily
wai-vu bis rights by express contract be
fore the company,2fln be held to be exempt
from liability. The decision arose in a
railroad case. Bat the principle laid down
*0 to notices limiting liability, applies to j
Express Telegraph Companies, j
and all common e...rLr, We give the I
i following outline of the ease:
, Dorothea Rawson vs. the Pennsylvania
Ka.U*g£,d Company. The plaintiff' brought
! an action to recover the value of trunks
| containing clothing and jewelry, lost on
the railroad of defendants, through their
alleged carelessness. The plaintiff, at
! Massillon, Ohio, paid her fare from there
i to New Vork, aud received several tickets
o.v6r different linjM of railway : including
the defendant..'' as evidence that sin- had
paid her litre. Upon one of the tickets was
the following notice:
“This ticket entitles the holder to not
over eighty pounds of baggage free, and
i not at a rate exceeding in value §IOO, un*
I less notice is given, and an extra amount
paid a t double first-class freight rates. No
road represented by either of these tickets
is responsible for the passenger or baggage
while upon etf' other road.”
The trunks werpTuriit in consequence of
l an accident near Thoh;asio;i The de- j
fendant set up that the pFOjiei ylosj hay-1
insr in good part been received from her |
husband, it remained his under the coin- :
j mou law, aud he should have been plain- |
I till', and the wife could not recover on her j
1 own suit. They also claim that the [
amo.gpt and character of the baggage was !
such as to ream the imposition of its safe
carriage upon the company as common ;
carriers unreasonable. And. ifnaUy, they
claim that the company could restrict its ■
liability by agreement, in the shape of ;
regulations printed on tickets and special- j
]v accepted.
’ The court decided that the plaintiff could
maintain her action even though the pro
perty in question was the gift of her hus
band; and, secondly, that a rofilroad com
pany my limit its liability us a common i
carrier “by positive contract, the owner
of the goods or the passenger voluntarily,
for a valuable consideration, waiving his
right to indemnity; but they cannot do so
bv anv notice placed on a ticket, or else
where. oven where such notice is brought
to the knowledge of those whose persons
or property they undertake to carryand,
finally, that ‘‘the kind and quantity,of the
materials constituting toe baggage of the
traveller must depend upon his tastes and
habits and bis pecuniary circumstances,
his position in society, and, it might be
added, the conveniences and, necessities of
the particular journey,” and is a proper
question fora jury.
The result of the decision was the confir
mation of the verdict of the court below,
giving Mrs, Rawson §3,9U510 as damages for
the loss of her trunks.
Arrest of N. S. Cohen. — The Grand
Jury at its recent session found a true bill
against Nathan S. Cohen, who was charged
with murdering an old woman a few miles
out of town. At the examination, before
the examining Justiee, the defendant was
discharged, but there having been some
stronger evidence found, an indictment
was framed by the Solicitor General and a
true bill found. He was re- nested
vesterday at No. 2 on the C entral Railroad, ,
and lodged in jail to await his trial.— Sac.
Re pub.
Connecticut.
Lieutenant Governor 0. F. Winchester,
of Connecticut, who was elected to his
present position by the Republicans of that
State, has repudiated the policy of his
party, and in a letter to the Connecticut
State Committee of the Conservative
party, in which he declines to run for a
second term, takes strong ground against
the Radicals.
The present Secretary of State. Hon.
L. E. Pease, lias also addressed a
letter to the same Committee, in which he
consents to became a candidate for re
election, against the Radical party.
'These are valuable acquisition to the
Conservative party, and will doubtless give
much strength to the party in the ap
‘ preaching election in that State.
“ What's the News ?”—This question
is asked daily and'hourly when friends
meet, but often with bo expectation of re
ceiving any satisfactory answer. The
Norfolk Journal hits off this propensity as
follows:
“It comes as natural for a nym to ask
cn passant, ‘ What's the news,’ as it does
for the party thus addressed to reply,
■ Nothing.’ This constant question does
i not arise out of any real desire on the
part of the one to learn anything, nor does
the invariable reply mcau that there is no
nows. It simply means on the first part,
‘I must say something,’ and on the se
cond, ‘ I must make some r«?ply: there is,
of course, some news, but as I haven’t
time for details, it’s best I should simply
say nothing—for, iu fact, all I know
: amounts to nothing much.’ Wc heard a
1 very sensible, as well as amusing anecdote
i yesterday, of a much respected Irish gentle
man. who in former years edited the
Herald in this city, and who possessed
j the proverbial readiness of his race for
| wit and repartee. Standing on the corner
of Main and lloanoke streets, a geatle
'• man, in pas.-' g. halted and asked, ' Well,
Mae, what he da. 1 ’ Buy my paper
old vou’ii fhd out, was the ready and
■ ■-"senabl<- - Ay.
Tbs L.crfo. >f r, .a> w,
i he London alludes to tla general
rise of i..rie ;s as one of the characteristics
of the pi sent generation, and adds that
nothing has risen in value so much as man.
It declares that at this epoch there are no
glutted labor markets and overstocked
professions. There is a dearth of appli
cants for employment, and the same dearth
of applicants for admission to the old
liberal professions—indeed in all the in
ferior callings down to that of domestic
service. This result is attributed to an
extraordinary multiplication of demand,
and an equally remarkable modification
of social opinion. The '1 imes says: “The
time was When there were only three
recognized liberal professions. YVe
might now reckon thirty, and what is
of still more importance, any one of
these is thought just as liberal—that
is, just as becoming to a gentle
man as any other. Now-a-days young
gentlemen go into counting-houses as
readily as they would into the guards,
and are thought none the worse of. There
is an immense field of employment, and
no prejudice to interfere with anybody’s
choice. The necessary consequence is that
all old callings suffer a little, and those
most in which there was least natural
attraction.’’
Such, adds the Richmond Whig , are the
results of the multiplication of industries
and a high industrial development The
world over, there is a demand for intelli
gent labor, and when it can employ itself
to most advantage without incurring social
ostracism in the physical calling, as dis
tinguished from those purely mental, we
must expect these latter to be shunned.
It is gratifying to witness the triumph of
educated labor over hoary prejudices, and
to sec that intellect and energy, untram
meled by social restraints, are allowed free,
scope and a field for selection limited only
by the almost innumerable present avoca
tions.of life. It is to education, to science,
that wc are indebted for these almost
countless inventions that have made ma
chinery supply the place of human muscle,
and have left man to supervise and direct
it. The re-productive power thus created
is wonderful to contemplate. Machinery
makes machinery, and the more there is
created, and the greater its capacity, the
more extended will be the sphere for hu
man labor, the greater the demand for it,
the richer its rewards, and the more re
spectable and influential it becomes.
Physical science is making the world, as
it were, a pew. one, and is breaking down
class _ distinctions and social prejudices,
and elevating man above mere callings and
professions. The time is. at hand when man
makes the occupation honorable, and not
the occupation the man.
The Doctor. —Everybody knows the
doctor ; a very important person he is to
us all. YYJiat could we do without him ?
He brings us into this world, and tries to
keep us as long in it as he can, and as
long as our bod;e§ can hold together; and
ho is with us at that strange and last hour,
which will come to us all, when wc must
leave this world and go into the rext.
YVhen we are well we perhaps think little
about the doctor, or we have our small
joke at him and his drugs ; but iet every
thing go wrong with our bodies, that
wonderful tabernacle in which our soul
dwells —lot any of its wheels go wrong—
then off wc fly to him. If the mother thinks I
her husband or child dying, how she runs I
to him and urges him with her tears! j
how she watches his fiicc, and follows his j
searching eye as lie examines the dear suf
ferer ; how she wonders what he thinks! :
what would she give to know what he \
knows? how she wearies for his visit! how
a cheerful word from him makes her
heart leap with joy, and gives her spirit
and strength to watch over the bed of dis
tress ! He: whole soul goes out to him in
unspeakable c attitude when lie brings back
to her from the ower of the grave her
husband or darling child. The doctor
knows many of our secrets, of our sorrows,
which no one else knows; some of our
sins, perhaps, which (ho great God alone
else knows. How many lives and hearts
he carries in his heart and in his hands!
So you See he is a very important person,
the doctor, and we should do our best to j
make the most of him, and to do our duty ;
to him and to ourselves.
Spiritualism in the Patent Office
—A curious application for a patent has
been made by a New Yorker fora process
to determine the falsity or the truth of
spiritualism. It consists of a room closed
perfectly, so that all air and light is effect
ually excluded, except air for breathing,
which is admitted from aston-cock, opened
from time to time. Light is only
admitted by being passed through a dark
blue violet or black liquid, so that the room
is perfectly dark to the unaccustomed eye,
but becomes slightly illuminated when re
maining long in it, the inventor asserting
that the particles of common light are
much too heavy and solid compared with
the much finer constituents of the bodies
or spirits : therefore common light passes I
through them, aud is not reflected from
their surface : to see spirits at ail the light
must be first filtered. The room is to be ■
painted with spirits of turpentine, or any I
ether spirits, mixed with substances akin
to carbon. The inventor asserts that with }
these precautions it may become possible
for the inmates of the room to see spirits,
forms of ghosts. He claims the use of
filtered light in a closed room for the pur- >
poses of divination. The patent was re
fused, on the ground that when a company
of persons were fop some time enclosed in j
such a room, without sufficient air to
breathe, they will not only see ghosts, but
also give up their own-
Wjiat Industry Will Do,—The Wa
co (Texas) Register says last year a young
man living near that place—let his name
be known —Albert Sears, rented a piece of
good land, hired one good old freedman,
and with his own hands went to work to !
cultivate the soil. He worked manfully I
and well, and now for the fruits of his '
industry : lie has gathered twenty-four j
bales of cotton, two thoßsaqd bushels of
corn, and made four hundred gallons of |
molasses froiu sorghum. He hasalso some ]
pork to spare. lie has sold sixteen linn- >
dred bushels of corn for twelve hundred ;
dollars in gold, obtained three hundred for |
hjs molasses, and his cotton is good for l
eighteen hundred more—making in all :
three thousand and three hundred dollars. ;
He was at some trifling extra expense du- j
ring cotton-picking time.
—W.n'
Another Heavy Week’s Business, I
—Although we thought the business of
week before last, done by the Western and.
Atlantic Railroad, was very heavy, that j
done last week very much exceeded it.
The number of cars brought to Atlanta
over this road last week amounted to eight 1
hundred and forty-seven, with about six
thousand eight hundred tons of freight. j
This is heavy work, and the energy and •
devotedness of the Superintendent and j
Master of Transportation to the interests )
of the State work, (entitle them to the I
lasting gratitude of our people. This road j
now brings to Atlanta more freight than
the other three can take away, after de
ducting the large consumption of this city.
A note-worthy fact. — Atlanta Era.
Bleeding Kansas Denies Suffrage
TO THE Negro.—The Democrat s Topeka ;
special says the House to-day refused to
concur in'the Senate amendment to the
joint resolution to change the Constitution
lo ‘as to allow the negroes to vote. The
Senate voted to strike out the word
“male,” as well as and to make:
an educational test. The resolution goes j
back to tbe Senate, and they will probably (
recede.
Time is the' ■!' ringer o*f the Universe. .
He strikes the boat even now; presently:
he will peal the chime.:.
Cen. Henry L. Benning.
A writer in the Columbus istia suggests ;
the name of this sterling patriot as a
suitable candidate for our next Governor. ,
We regard General Benning as one of
the very first men et our State. Asa j
jurist he stands unchallenged at the very j
head of the Bench and Bar of the State, j
A gentleman of thorough and extensile
literary acquirements and a soldier not ;
unknown to fame, we doubt not but that j
he would receive the warm and cordial j
support of a large number of our people. '
We think, however, that all movements
1 looking to an early opening of the guber- ;
natorial canvass unwise and impolitic. !
There will be time enough after three or |
four months hence to commence prepara- j
tions for the race. In the meantime the \
developments at Washington can be
watched, and our people become better
• prepared tor action.
The Georgia State Lottery asp the
i Masonic Orphans’ Home— The Atlanta
| Intelligencer says : lu .answer to many'
I queries addressed to us since the adver
| tisement of the first drawing of the “Geor-
I gia'state Lottery” appeared in this paper,
we have concluded to make the following
statements in regard to it, in order that
the public, at home and abroad, may be
satisfied that it is a legally established
institution of the State, and should be en
tirely free from any suspicion of fraud, or
of “bogus," being attached to it: This
“Lottery,” then, is authorized to be drawn
by' virtue of a grant in the form of an
enactment by the Legislature of our State
“to so far modify the laws against lotteries
as to enable” certain parties “to adopt a
scheme to raise money for the purpose of
building a home for, and supporting in
digent widows and orphans, the home to be
called the “Masonic Orphans’ Homo”—a
purely benevolent object, which must
H ■ I patbizinj
j heart with that large • clu. * of sufferers
| in our State by' reason of the sad cad am
: dica and results of war. In this grant,
1 or" of orir State Legislature— it
j having received Executive approval—the
| following parties have been consti
| tuted the corporators, to-wit : Colonel
1 William W. Boyd, ot Atlanta; Mrs. Wil
j liatn T. Wilson, widow of Colonel W. T.
j Wilson, “Seventh Georgia;” Mrs. Charles
iD. Pearson; Mrs. Rosa Delony; Mrs.
j Sarah Doles; and so many' of them as may
! accept the said grant, which all have done.
I Os Colonel Boyd, it is proper to remark,
! that he is a gentleman high in position in
I the Masonic Fraternity of this State, being
its Deputy Grand Master at this point, and
is otherwise a most excellent citizen, deep
j ly imbued with the spirit of brotherly love
I and charity animating all good Masons.
' To him, iu fact, does this “Georgia State
! Lottery'” owe its conception, and it is to
: his personal efforts before, and appeals to
1 the Georgia Stato Legislature, that we
' must attribute the enactment which au
thorizes Iho drawing of the lottery. The
ladies associated with Colonel B. are well
! known in Georgia—they are the. widows of
| gallant men, all of whose lives were sacri
| flood to a cause to which they were devoted
i in life. Such is the character of the corpo
j rator.s, who, having strictly complied with
\ all ilie provisions of the act, have pro
i cecded to advertise their first drawing of
the “Georgia State Lottery'.”
One of the provisions of the act or grant,
and or,e which should also commend the
Lotteiy to public confidence, is the penalty
fixed to.a violation of the requisition in
it, that “the money received by' said Lot
tery, after defraying all necessary ex
penses, shail bo applied” to the benevolent
purposes contemplated in the act, of which
an annual report on oath shall bo made to
thfc Governor, 10-wit: The grant to be
withdrawn, and the property' and assets of
the corporation to be turned over to the
“Georgia State Orphan Home,” to be used
for the benefit of the Institution.
So much for the corporation and the
grant under which is established this
“Georgia State Lottery.”
Associated with Col. Boyd, tllte principal
manager, is a gentleman of largo expe-
I rienco in the management and conduct Os
lotteries. We allude to Mr. L, R. Broad
bent, of Baltimore, ‘who is advertised as
“Agent” for the Lottery'. This gentleman
stands high in the estimation of the people
,of Maryland, and as we are assured by an
eminent citizen of Georgia, who has had
business transactions with him lor many
years, deservedly so. By' the Legislature
’of his own State, he was constituted the
Chief Manager or Inspector of the draw
ings of tiio lotteries -there in order to pre
vent frauds, a trust of which ho acquitted
himself to the entire satisfaction of the
people of that State. In securing the
services of so honorable and so expe
rienced an individual, the corporators of
the “Georgia State Lottery” have dis
i played much wisdom.
We have been thus prolix on the subject
| of this “Lottery,” for reasons before stated,
j Considering the benevolent nature and ob
jects of its creation, we could do no less.—
| We are at the standpoint of its principal
j office and whore the drawings will take
I place. We shall have personal knowledge
| of each one of the “Board of Managers,”
; who, the public are assured by the Princi
pal Manager, will be “some of the best
citizens of the State,” •and while we have
now every confidence in the integrity of
every one of the parties connected with its
present management, our readers may be
assured that we shall laithfuliy report any
violation of the provisions of the grant,
should any such occur.
Ex-Governor Brown on the Mili
tary Bills.— A special dispatch from
Washington to the New York Herald of
the liitb, says : Ex-Governor Joseph E.
Brown, of Georgia, and Judge Dawson A.
Walker, of the Supreme bench of that
State, were recently admitted to practice
at the bar of the United States Supreme
Court, Governor Brown states that the
effect of the Louisiana Bill and the Stevens’
Bill, which recently passed the House, will
bo to make the slaves of the South the po
litical masters of their former owners.
The master is deprived of the right to vote
and serve on juries, while his former
slaves will be enfranchised and placed in
the jury box to sit in judgment upon those
whoso property he once was ; that it is not
expected by Southerners that -their slaves
will dispense righteous judgment, and the 1
result will be that a large majority of the '
Southern people will have to come North
and seek a place of retirement, if they are
able to do so, and if not, some means of
livelihood. The Constitutional Amend
ment, ho says, would render it impossible
for the South to conduct her State govern
ments, because not men enough qualified
under the amendment could bo found to
fill tho offices. The result of the amend-
j nicnt would bo that the offices would be
j lilted either by irresponsible parties who
i had never had mind enough to act accord
ing to their own wills, or by partizans im
; ported for the purpose. Else they must
j remain empty and unexecuted.
The Races.—There was quite a large
. crowd at the Race Course Friday to
witness the race between the black horse
Bully Dukes and Wilden Grey.
The odds were largely in favor of the
Grey at the start, but the Black took the
first heat with comparative ease, which
seemed to upset the calculations of the
knowing ones.
On the second heat, the friends of Dukes
seemed to have more confidence, and bets
were taken freely, and to considerable
amounts. The backers of the Grey showed
some want of confidence in their favorite —
and hence the bets were easier than on the
first heat. Tho start was a good one, but
the Black broke badly from the com
mencement of the heat and lost the heat
without putting the Grey to any very
| great trial of his speed. Time:
First heat 2:42J
Second heat 2:47
| We learn that after the regular race, our
j friend Go!. M. proposed a race between a
j celebrated trotter and a pacing nag, notun
| known to fame , but our reporter left the
Course before tho affair was arranged, and
hence we caimot give the result of the con
| test.
Augusta Chronicle & Sentinel. —
We received a visit yesterday from Mr.
K. L. Gentry the agent of the above res
! pectable and able Georgia journal, who
will remain in this city for a few days
aud call upon our merchants to secure
I advertisements for his widely circulated
. and prosperous paper.— Charleston Mer
i cury,-lst.
i In behalf of our agent, who has arrived
home, we return our sincere thanks to our
worthy cotemporary for his flattering
notice.
i In this connection, we take pleasure
in recommending that superb institution
known as the Mills House to the traveling
public. It is one of the best furnished,
as it is certainly one of the best provided
houses in the country, and our friends
who put up there will not regret it.
Messrs. Dean A Baker, proprietors of the
Mills House Stables, are supplied with
line carriages and splendid stock.
The Louisianians, says the Norfolk j
Journal, who caine hither in search of
laborers for‘their plantations, reiurned j
home a few days since without having ob- !
tained a single man.
Tiiy. S uerman Substitute.— The Na- 1
tying], Republic-m says that the Sherman
substitute for Stevens’ Bill, which was ;
adopted in the United Statds Senate, came [
from a committee appointed in Senatorial
Republican caucus on Saturday.
It contends that the preamble is “bun- j
combe,” and that its only tendency is to |
irritate. “It is not important to the body
of the measure, and is language that j
Andrew Johnson can never sign with
honor and dignity to himself. Impeach
ment would he preferable, and in the end
far more profitable to him. Besides, the
substitute gives to a single military officer
j the authority to destroy civil courts and
i substitute military rule over his entire
district. We did hope that the Senate
i would inaugurate a measure that the
j President would be willing to acquiesce in
j even if he did not sign it. and which, after
j it did become a law, he could execute.
| Mr. Snerman’s does not seem to us to be
j such a measure.”
Richmond County Agiucui.tcral So
ciety.—A very interesting meeting of this
Society was held on Friday at Rosney
Chapel. The Committee who was charged
at a previous meeting with the duty' of
making arrangements which would secure
i the services' of an agricultural chemist for
the benefit of the Society, made their re
port, which was adopted.
Upon motion Col. G. W. Rains was
elected chemist for the Society, and a Com
mittee consisting of Judge Starnes, Gen.
Wright, and Dr. D. B. Plumb appointed to
have such analysis made of commercial
manures now in the market as they may
deem best, and report their action through
the press.
Samples of fertilizers made iu this city
by' Messrs. Wilcox, Gibbes ,v Cos., were
exhibited, which seemed to meet the views
of the members present. A Committe
was appointed to make such arrangements
with these gentlemen as may secure tiie
rtilizers.
- ct of ma
ious niem
. iii' ,■ Si.-iety ga-> .* sheir views to the
| meeting. ■ " ... c” question was
I again ventilated, uul it was ascertained
; that quite a di\ i uy ofopiuiod existed as
to the value of this product as a manure.
Several experienced planters, members of
the Society', were designated to make care
ful and thorough experiments with this
article the present year and report the re
sults iu the fall.
A guano distributer was exhibited by
Mr. Marshall, and a Committee appointed
to make a practical test of the instrument,
and report to the next meeting. Tiie
“distributer” was tried in the presence
of the Society and was found to work very
well. It. seemed to be the opinion of the
practical planters present, that with slight
alterations and modifications, it would he
a most valuable implement.
After partaking of a most sumptuous
repast, furnished by some of tiie members
of the organization, the Soc-ieiy .adjourned
lo meet again on the second Saturday' in
March n6xt, at the Race Track in this city.
There was much said and done at this
meeting which would greatly interest our
country friends, and we hope in a few
days to recur to the subject, when we shall
have more space and time to enlarge upon
the topics which wore discussed.
Venezuela Emigration Company.—
Our fellow-citizen, Cos!. A. F. Rudier, lias
been appointed Agent of this company for
tiie State of Georgia. Letters have been
submitted to us giving a most glowing ac
count of the climate, soil, and productions
of Venezuela. The territory embraced in
the grant and charter is about four times
greater than Xew England ; of inexhaus
tible fertility', abounding in vegetable and
mineral products of every variety. The
climate is represented of unsurpassed salu
brity, delightful in all seasons of the year,
and free from epidemics. The Venezuelan
Government exemps the territory of the
Company from taxes and duties of all
kinds for five years,, which will be extend
for another term if necessary.
The par value of the stock is §IOO per
share with a coupon for one hundred and
j sixty acres of land. The Company grants
i to poor ex-Coniederate soldiers upon the
I payment of §B3 in specie a grant of 1280
acres of land and passage.
Eight hundred Southern families have
already left, and others are on the eve of
departure. A vessel will leave Wilming
ton, N, C., on the 6th of March with emi
grants in company with Henry M. Price,
M. D., of Virginia President of the Com
pany'. Another vessel purchased by the
Company, sails from Now Orleans on the
10th of March forCoroni, where a growing
oily is springing up by' the industry of
Southern emigrants.
Col. A. F. Rudier will furnish further
particulars to persons desiring to be more
lully informed in reference to the Vene
zuela Emigration Company.
Our readers arc fully aware of our views
in reference.to emigration.’ Wo are opposed
in toto to our people surrendering the
lands of the South into the hands of our
oppressors.- Blessed with a soil and
climate as jfroductiVe and salubrious as
the sun shines on, why should we in the
hour of calamity' desert the land of our birth,
the graves of our sires, and all the sacred
associations which make life worth living
for. To use ati inelegant, but expressive
phrase “every dog has his day” and so
will fanaticism. What the South is most
in need of just now is immigration and
not emigration, but as the saying is every
man to his choice.
Alabama axi) Florida Railroad.—
At a meeting of the citizens of Pensacola,
held on tho 11th instant, presided over by
the Mayor, and attended by Hon. S. R.
Mallory, Hon. A. E. Maxwell, General
Miller aijd other citizens, it was resolved
to give as a bonus and transfer the capital
stock owned by tho city in the Road,
amounting to §2,500 shares to such party
or parties as may hereafter contract for the
rebuilding, and shall build said Railroad,
provided such party or parties shall receive
the sanction and assent of the first bond
holders of said KoacPto tho contract enter
ed into by thorn.
Hon. A. E. Maxwell is authorized as tho
agent or attorney to represent the action of
the citizens of Pensacola at a meeting
which was to he held in New York on the
20tli instant.
Malicious Falsehoods.— The Com
mittee appointed by Congress, to inquire
into the murder of certain United States
soldiers in South Carolina, report that
there is no safety for Union men in the
Southern States, and that military rule is
the only cure for tho evil. Never was a
baser or blacker falsehood uttered. The
President having been called on for viola
tions against the Civil Rights Bill a few
days since, reported only three cases.
Reports were sent from all the Depart
ments,and three cases were only produced.
This, of course, is sufficient to prove the
URer ,Jal.sity of the foul-mouthed asser
tions of the Committee referred to.
New Books.-—Quinn & Bro have all
the latest fashion magazines for March—
Demorest’s, Leslie’s, Godey’s, and all
the others that are published. Among
the late works received are “Frederick the
First and his Court,” “St. Elmo” “Elsie
Venner arid many other interesting
works.”
Give them a call and examine their
stock.
Generosity of New York Ladies. —
The Macon Telegraph learns that tho Rev.
VI. T. Brantly, of Atlanta, has received j
i from the “New York Ladies’ Southern 1
I Relief Association,” three hundred and j
| seventy-six barrels of corn meal, for dis- j
l-tribution among the needy. This is a !
i noble munificence. The consignment will
! be distributed in various counties of the j
! State under tho superintendence of Rev. i
Mr. Ilornady.
j St. Elmo, dramatized by Miss Fannie
1 Price, was produced at Temperance Hall,
I Columbus, Tuesday night. Tho says
the play was well received and frequently
! applauded. Miss Price represented “Ed
j na,” Mr. Ilanehett “St. Elmo.” At the
conclusion the gifted actress was called
; out aud welcomed enthusiastically.
A Favorable Notoriety.— The good
| reputation and extended use of “ Brown’s
Bronchial Troches” for coughs, colds and
throat diseases, has caused the troches to
be extensively imitated. Obtain only the
genuine “ Brown’s'Bronchial Troches,”
and do not be influenced by those who
1 make more profit by selling worthless
j imitations.
Tested by Time.— For throat diseases,
colds and coughs, “ Brown's Bronchial
Troches' ’ have proved their efficacy by a i
test of many years. The good effects re- I
suiting trorn the use of the troches have
brought out many worthless imitations.
Obtain only “Brown’s Bronchial Troches.”
The Charleston News estimates the num
ber of negroes—farm hands—that have
]eft South Carolina ibr Mississippi, Louis
iana, Arkansas, Texas and Florida, at j
t wenty-five thousand.
OIK WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE, j
( ,i.s- !«-•.'•:/(,/ Attempt at ConcSittliou—
Rumors of Cabinet changes—Greeley
spoken of as anew Member —Congress
Determined upon making its men Recon
struction Programme—Sherman in the
Senate is. Stevens in the House—Dis
cord again, etc., etc.
Washington. February ITth, ISG.7.
A arious individuals oi the Conservative
; Radical persuasion—such as Banks, Bing
ham and Wilson, who are supposed to,be not
I -so highly advanced as Stevens, Boutwell,
1 or V endell Phillips, have been busily en
gaged of late in holding private and in
formal caucuses, with the object of har
monizing the differences between Andrew
' Johnson and this hardened rump of a
Congress. These wise men, in privy coun
' oil, have not as yet been able to agree upon
| any plan of conciliation, and, lest they
| should fail altogether, have been assiduous
; in keeping from the public ail the facts in
I connection with their meetings. Strange
I stories have been in circulation, yesterday
i and to-day, bearing upon this topiG of
| settling the dispute between the President
and the crew under Thad. Stevens’ rod
| and jurisdiction. One version of the af
| fair is that there will be a change during
this or the coming week of the c-ntire
1 Cabinet, and all Republicans appointed—
i one of the most prominent positions to be
j filled by the white-hatted philosopher of
| York Tribune, Horace Greeley.
Your correspondent does not pretend to
j know anything definite about all this
mauccuvreing. As I have written above,
; the Conservative Rads—Heaven save the
; mark—have been in great labor, and it is
: not impossible that something startling
| may be brought forth. Some grand coup
! d’etat is needed ; but whether or not it
will manifest itself in an entire remodelling
j of the Cabinet, I leave for the future to
demonstrate. It may here be mentioned
| en passant, that Thad Stevens has so far.;
| recovered from the shock of astonishment j
i he received when his Military Bill passed
j the House, as to be able to bestow some i
| very hearty curses upon the Republicans,
who are holding these meetings with a j
view of fraternizing with the President.
I He describes their manipulations as milk j
j and water schemes, and is particularly -
j severe on Banks, who is held to be the
i leading spirit among those disposed to- !
winb peace.
1 I nave no Faith whatever in any dis* !
. position on the part of Congress tr> adopt j
j anything suggested by Southern men as a !
| basis of reconstruction. Their assertions, j
1 made publicly and empatieally within the
| past week, are proof abundant oi' this,
j Governor Orr, Judge Sharkey and the
! other prominent Southern gentlemen,
who have been nobly endeavoring to pre
pare tenhs by which the South might be
restored to her proper place, can hardly
have any idea of the spirit in which their
efforts are received by the Radical Ramp.
Jack Hamilton, of Texas, and Heaven
j knows he is vile enough in the estimation
of every honest man South of the Potomac
river, could not concoct a plan which
would bo considered by Stevens and his
satellites, and how then could it be expect
ed that decent men, such as I have men
tioned above, would succeed in this under
taking. No, Congress so-cailed, is anxious
to settle things in its own way, and neither
your correspondent nor any one else can
predict the result.
The session of.tho Senate which com- j
menced yesterday at noon lasted all night, |
during which time the Conservative cle
! rnent in that body fought a good, though
I unsuccessful, fight against the Radical war
on the South. Senator Doolittle opened
| the debate on the Stevens’ Military Bill
j in a speech of great ability, and was fol
. lowed by the other Conservative Senators,
j who kept. the discussion alive until six
| o’clock this morning. The policy of the
enemy seemed to be to make no reply to
the strong constitutional arguments pre
sented against tljeir injustice, being con
scious of their own strength to carry their
dogma in the end. As it was, however,
instead of the Stevens' measure as it
passed the House being adopted, an
amendment offered by Senator Sherman*
(the main points of which will certainly
reach the Chronicle & Sentinel by tele
graph) was adopted, which, obnoxious as
it is, is at least some modification of the
original bill, and I bear that it will bo op
j posed by some of tlio advocates of the
latter. Stevens was beside himself with
joy when Ms production went through
the House, and does not relish the amend
ment which is in the nature of a substitute
for liis proposition. If the House adopts
it, it will be a defbat for the Pennsylvania
i member. Such a substitute was en
tirely unexpected, andas but very little
time now remains in which the Radicals
are to complete their programme, a new
subject for discussion is not very welcome.
| The House will, in all probability, com-
J menee on it to-morrow, and the under
| standing is that it will arouse the ire of
j two prominent Radicals. The prayer of
every man, anxious for the welfare of the
Republic, should be—let the war go on.
'the “Rads” arc fast hanging themselves.
It is stated in well informed circles that
Mr. . Seward has, in consequence of the
continual Radical outcry of the President
being subject' to his will and directions
entirely, tendered his resignation as Sec
retary of State, and I have no doubt that
such is the fact; but it docs not appear
probable that the resignation will be ac
cepted. lie tendered it once during Mr.
Lincoln’s occupancy, of the Executive
Chair ; but that gentleman was averse to
parting with him, and perhaps Mr. John
son may have the same regard for the
Secretary of State, both personally and
officially as Mr. Lincoln had, and in that
instance no ono has any right to object if
lie refuses to dispense with his advice and
experience. But what was patriotic when
Lincoln lived is worse than treason now.
The Postmaster General has also tendered
his resignation. Arlington.
The Death of I‘rolesso*Bathe.
Tueasuy Department, Feb. PJ, 1867.
—ln the death-of the Superintendent of the
Coast Survey, Professor Baehe, the De
partment mourns the loss of one of its
most yaluablo and most highly cherished
officers. His decease occurred at Newport,
Rhode Island, on tlio 17th inst., in his
sixty-first year.
No man within _ the present generation
was more widely known in the walks of
practical science ; none has been sc closely
identified with collateral service in the
various public departments.
Alexander Dallas Baehe was born at
Philadelphia, in April, 1806. He gradua
ted at the Military Academy in 1825, and
there remained a year as assistant pro
fessor. Subsequently, having resigned
from the Corps of Engineers, lie filled, at
intervals, until the year of 1843, an impor
tant chair in the University of Pennsyl
vania.
Within the same period he was, during
five years, president'- of Girard College,
and matured the sy-tem of education
adopted ibr t Lc I/luladelphia High School,
yielding to that object time for examining
the principles of systematic education in
Europe.
His devotion to practical science, and
His abilities as an administrative officer,
being well known, Professor Bache was
appointed, in December, 1843, to the
vacant post of Superintendent of the Coast
Survey. Under his direction, that great
national work has been eminent no le; s
ibr its abundant results ’than for its high
scentificic character, which lias won the
approbation of the leading learned bodies
of the world, among whom his name ha
long been held an honor. He possessed
by nature the qualities most conducive to
success in the management of widely-ex
tended public interests. Invariably mild
and forbearing towards those serving under
his direction, his unremitting energies and
his untiring patience were as invariably
given to the accompli.-hincnt of the ser
vice in view.
His sympathy with the efforts of others,
and readiness to give credit lor their exer
tions. secured a cordial spirit of co-opera
tion. Sagacity, perfect freedom from bias,
and constant activity within the sphere of
his public duties, strongly marked his re
lations with this department.
Ho was a member of the Lighthouse
Board, and paticipated in its organization;
a Regent of the {juiiihseiuaii Institution ;
and over the valued associate of leading
men to whom are committed questions in
regard to matters of public utility. His
advice was eagerly sought in the determi
nation of many local and general facilities
to further the interests of commerce and
navigation.
4 iiat the deceased Superintendent had
I become _ illustrious in America and in
i Europe is due to the steady devotion of his
i great talents to the service of the people.
! His genial disposition attracted the love
; of associates and of subordinates : his wis
dom commanded their respect. He leaves
us a name of unsullied purity, and a mem
ory that adds lustre to the many public
records upon which it is borne.
Asa tribute to his memory, the Coast
Survey Office will be draped in black, and
will be closed ou the day of the funeral.
Hugh McCulloch,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Bishopric of Georgia.— As the time
approaches for the meeting of the Episcopal
Convention, the papers are beginning to
make nominations to fill the vacancy in the
diocese of Georgia, occasioned by the death
of the lamented Bishop EUiott. A writer
in the Macon Telegraph suggests the Rev.
John Beckwith, Rector of Trinity Church,
New Orleans. Having a personal ac
quaintance with Mr. Beckwith, wo are
! prepared to endorse all that lias been said
j in regard to bis eminent talents as a :
minister and his devotion to the Church.
Rev. Dr. Haii, of Washington, D. C., j
and Rev. Mr. Ewer, of Christ Church, .
New York, have also been spoken ol in the j
same connection. Both are gentlemen ol
rigid piety and excellent ability, and any j
one of them would fill the office with profit
to the Church anti satisfaction to the peo- i
pie. The Convention, we believe, meets j
in May.— Atlanta New Era,
Daniel O’Connyu.
• ’ ' *‘l- d* U.I'J: t , p vj"lu "I
tiontlial Daniel (i'F-i ~ u ,i iI ‘ ,
hi-h or-,* •>, 1 M vUl '-! rim celebrated
UL'II vldi .j Hlit frjf - i i n** t »•, ». C. i •
Si
ter he had been called" toMe’b’ar!'wTiere"
and at the Lodge, his character and pecu
lwi talents received rapid recognition from
a.iwno knew him. His talent for vitu
perative language was early perceived, and
by some he was, even in those days, con
sidered matchless as a scold. However
there was at that time m Dublin a certain
woman, Biddy Monarity, who had a
[Hucksters stall on one end of the quay
j nearly opposite the Four Courts. She was
a virago of the first order, very able with
her tongue from one end of Dublin to
j the othoi bhc was notorious lor her powers
[ M tibusti, and even iu the provinces Mrs
! Monarity s language had passed into
| cunencj. The dictionary of Dublin si an*'
lias been considerably enlarged by her,
and her had almost become
proverbial, Soiito o’ O Connell’s friends
who had heard O’Connell at the lodge
and iu tlieir circles speak of the
comprehensiveness of Freemasonry and
the applicability of its geometrical allu
sions to.every department of life, thought
that it must fail on this occasion, as well
as iiis power of vituperation, however,
thought that ho could beat her at the use
of her own weapons. Os this, however,
he had some doubt himself, wlic; hail
listened once or twice to some ml -peei
mens of her billingsgate. It w noted
ouce or twice whether the young Kerry
barrister could encounter her, and M me of
the company (in O'Connell’s, presence)
rather ridiculed the idfea of liis being able
to meet the famous Madame Moriartv.
O’Connell never liked the idea of being
put down, and confessed his readiness to
encounter her, and even backed himself
for the match. Bets were oifered and
taken, and it was decided that the matter
should come off at oiie'o.
The party adjourned to the huckster’s
stand, and there was the owner herself su
perintending the sale of her small wares.
O’Connell wm very confident of success.
He had laid a very ingenious plan for'
overcoming her, and with all the anxiety
of an ardent experimentalist, waited to
put it into practice. At this time O’Con
nell’s own party and the loungers about
the place formed an audience quite suf
ficient u> rouse Mrs. Moriarty on public
provocation to a due sense of her powers.
O Connell commenced the attack by saving:
“What’s the .price of this walking
stick, Nlrs. WhatVyoiir-iianic ?”
“Moriarty, sir, is my name, and a good
one it is, too, and what have ye to say
agin it.' And one and a sixpence is the
l’fice of the stick. Troth, it’s cheap as
dirt, so it is,
.“Ono and a sixpence for such a walking
stick ! W hew ! Why, you arc no better
than an imposter, to ask one and a six
pence for what only cost twopence.”
“Twopence,. your grandmother,” re
plied Mrs. Biddy. “Do you mean to say
that its abating the people lam ! Im
poster, indeed !”
“Aye, impostor ; and it’s that I call
you to your teeth,” replied O'Connell.
“Come cut you stick, you cantankerous
jackanapes.”
“Keep a civil tongue in your head, you
old diagonal,” replied O’Connell, calmly.
“Stop your jaw you pug-nosed badger,
or, by this and that,” cried Mrs. Moriarty,
“I’ll make you go quicker than you
came.”
“Don t be in a passion, my old radius ;
anger will only wrinkle your beauty.”
“By hokcv, if you say -another word of
impudence I’ll tan your dirty hide, you
beastly common scrub ; and sorry I’ll be
to spoil my list with your carcass.”
“W hey, boys ! what a passion old Bid
dy s in ; I protest as I am a gentleman.”
“Jintleunin ! jintleinau ! Tiie like of you
a jintloman ! Misha, bo gora, that bangs
Banaghar. Why, you potato-faced pip
pin-sneezer, where did a Madagascar mon
key like you pick up enough of common
Christian decency to hide your Kerry
brogue ?”
“Easy now,” cried O’Connell, with im
perturbable good humor, “don’t choke
yourself with fine language, you old
whiskey-drinking parallelogram.”
“What’s that you call me, you dirty,
murthering villain?” roared Mrs. Moriar
ty, stung into a fury.
“I call you,” answered O’Connell, “a
parallelogram, and a Dublin judge or jury
would say it was no libel to call you soi”
“Oh, tare and ouns ! Oh, holy Biddy !
that at: honest woman like me should be
called a parry belly grams ! you rascally
gallows-bird; you cowardly, sneaking,
plate-licking blaggard!”
“Oh, not you, indeed !” retorted O’Con
nell. “Why, I suppose you’ll deny that
you keep a liypothenuse in your house?”
“It’s a lie for you, you bloody robber!
I never had such a thing in my house,
you bloody old thief!”
“Why, all your neighbors know very
well that you not only keep a liypothenuse,
but that you liaye two diameters locked up
In your garret, and that you go to walk
with them every Sunday, you heartless
old heptagon.”
“Oh, near that, ye saints in glory!
Oh, that’s bad language for a fellow who
wants to pass himself off for a jintleman.
May tlio * divil fly away with you, you
mieher from Munster, and bake celery
sauce From your rotten limbs.”
“All, you ctyi’t deny tbc ch , you
miserable submultiple of a dupi... frac
tion.”
“Go rinse your mouth in the Liffey,
you nasty tickle pitcher. After all the
bad words you speak it ought to be
filthier than your face, you dirty chicken
of Belzebub.”
“ Rinse your mouth, you wicked old
polygon. To the dcuco I pitch you, you
blustering intersection of stinking super
fluities.”
“ You saucy tinker’s apprentice, if you
don’t cease your jaw, I’ll—”
But here she gasped for breath, unable
to hawk up any more words, for the last
volley of O’Connell had nearly knocked
the wind out ol her.
Masonic Emblems.
The handsome and costly jewels, regalia
and Bible, presented to the Masonic fra
ternity in this city, on Thursday evening
last, were a donation from brothers of the
craft in Washington City and Philadelphia,
Penn., who were prompted by the teach
ings of a generous sympathy in behalf of
their unfortunate brethren in Columbia.—
'The set of jewels and regalia were from
the brethren in Washington; tlio com
pass and square accompanying them were
contributions from the pockets of the in
dividual members. While the brothers
were engaged in this praiseworthy act, the
following letter, with a Bible, from three
members of the fraternity in Philadelphia,
was received by them and duly presented
through the committee to the craft in this
city. The gifts will bo on exhibition at
the jewelry e.-tal»lishm lit of brother T.
W. Radcljffc on Main street.
Pnii.AiiEi.i'niA, February sth, ’67.
To the Masonic I'raimiitg of < 'olumbia, 8.
C.:
i Sms am> Broth i:i: ,: In a fraternal
| spirit, and in the hope that brotherly love
may continue, the undersigned. Free and
j Accepted Ancient York Masons, desire to
: present to you this Sacred Volume—a
J guide to our faith and a lamp to our feet,
to lead us safely through the rugged ways
of life. Fraternally*
ENOCH W. C. GREENE,
W. M. No. 240, Fhiladeipiiia, I’a.
SIDNEY BURNING,
P. M. No. 292, Philad.'lphis, Pa.
( HAS. E. WARBURTON,
Lodge No. 01 Philadelphia, l’a.
[Columbia l'henix.
Most Ei endi.su Murder.— Louisburg,
N. 0., Feb. 8. —Messrs. Editors: Asa
j sign of tiie times 1 send you an account of
: a murder committed in this county on the
j night of the 21st (Sunday) uit. M ;-y and
Becky Jaii£ Collins, freedwoincn, mother
and daughter, the former about fifty years
and the latter thirty years of :tg •, were
living in tiie yard of a widow lady, though
not employed by her. Becky’’had two
small children, and a boy lour years old
named Jerry, the son of }: ■.,■ ed
: sister, and grandson of Mary, u., the
night of the murder, aW; 'ghty -airs old,
son - r Bi ; ky. -i v.ho : Mr.
Joseph .Murray, alayo. v-;-, .. -.her.
lie states that in tiie night ids moiiicr and
grandmother shut Jerry out of doors, that
they then tore to pieces an ohl bedstead
which had belonged to Jerry’s mother,
j and carried it out of doors, withal! of
j Jerry’s mother’s clothes and bed-clothes,
! and made of them a lire at the corner of
j the chimney. They then caught Jerry,
and after cutting-him with an axe, making
j a frightful wound on his neck, pushed him
| into the large fire. He screamed aud
■ jumped out several times, and they as
[ often pushed him back, until he was dead.
They continued burning him until all was
consumed except two small plates of tae
skull, a few remains of bones, and some
of the intestines. Mr. Joseph Murray
was there on Monday morning, when
Becky told him that she had killed the
devil—that Margaret (Jerry’s mother) had
come back and stuck her claws in Jerry
| and made him a devil, and she and her
j mother had killed him. &hc evi -fitly
! was feigning insanity and made rcat
' many simple and foolish remarks .ary
1 made no such attempt, but conic- that
I .;hc made the fire and that Becky burnt
the child The widow lady did not remain
: at home that night, but she says these two
i women had for the last twelve months
treated Jerry very cruelly. , Both tli f
women are now in jaii awaiting trial.
Raleiyh) N. C.) Sentinel
Washington College is unable, in its nn
i poverished condition, to pay Gen. Lee a
j decent salary. The noble old Roman re
| f US es all aid in the form of donations, and
i the trustees are making an effort to raise
by subscription a sufficient endowment to
put his professorship on an independent
footing.
It is more from carelessness about the
truth, than from internal lying, that there
s so much falsehood in the world.