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    elusion. The account, then, stands thus/.
Fpr mileage $2,316
Board thirty days, at $6 180
Total... 12,496
"This charge bears upon its face the
evidence of fraud most base; but as it is,
perhaps, the most decent and respectable
of any of his charges, I will refrain from
making further comment until this whole
record i« placed before us, except such as
may incidentally arise during the presenta
tion of t*»e fact. When that is done, how
ever, I will endeavor to show thcjrile dis
honesty and the outrageous swindling that
runs through his whole batch of charges,
aud give my opinion as to where the re
sponsibility roots."
But this .Mr. < trdway, Sergeant at-Atgus,
is one of the “ Simon Pure Republicans,
and it would be passing strange, indeed, if
he shoufd not be permitted to feather bis
nest out of the pickings of the people's
geese that are “running around loose.”
He has done good service for the party,
ami shfkiM be raid for it, and is still ex
pected to spend his ill-gotten gains liberally
and urrtintingly in the Presidential cam
paign in bolstering up the sinking for
tunes of </rant and Colfax. The fact that
so vast an amount of money is needed by
the Radical party in order to corrupt the
pure and purchase voters, we may readily
concede why it is that all these corruptions
and frauds are practiced upon the Treas
ury under the semblance of law, with the
understanding that these vast sums filched
i'tiiw the public coffers shall be appropri
ated to the venal purposes of a party who
seeks to retain power and place at the ox
pence of bankrupting the Treasury, and
the overthrow of Constitutional liberty.
Are the people prepared for all this and
even more? But lam not done, yet,
with this Mr. Ordway, Sergeant-at-Arms.
f will ventilate farther his accounts in my
next. Metropolitan.
no. 4.
W ashington, D. C., August 11, 1868. '
Dear Chronicle & Hen tend:
It will be remembered that in my last
communication T was pursuing the account j
of Mr. N. S. Ordway, Bergeant-at-Arms I
of the House of Representatives of the !
Congress of the United State*, which I
will here oontinue, lor without giving the
facts somewhat in detail, the reader will
not properly understand how it is that so
many avenues are open to the vast and
enormous robberies which are committed
upon the Treasury of the United States by
these Congressional officials. Then to the
tables. First, as to the New Orleans Riot
Committee:
Thomas I* Cheney —Expenses on trip with
Select Committee qu Affairs in Louis
i.tna and New Orleans Kioto :
Kxponses from VVashing.on to
New Orleans and return $ SbfS 16
Hark, hire, carriages, <£c 200 00
Telegrams VM 79
Stationery »»
Parlors aud other expenses at St.
I .on is Hotel, used by commit
p. H lor examining witnesses. .. 434 40
I p Mollere, services as detoct
ivo 00
:t iso miles’ travel from Washlng
’ ton to New Orleans and return. 315 90
Hoard and ex ponses, 16 days, atsh 128 90
$1,987 12
I n addition to the foregoing account of
Mr. Cheney, acting Deputy Scrgeant-at-
Arms, Mr. Ordway, who remained in
Washington during the investigation of
these riots, brings in the following snug
little hill:
Summoning witnesses $2,392 40
•Sixteen day*’ board at $8 128 00
Mileage going and returning 315 90
One-fifth of $555 15..... 11l 03
Total .. $2,947 33
There is a feature in this case that does
not appear in the first, which is this:
“Kxpcnsos from Washington to New Or
leans ami return; $555 15." This oharge
is most remarkable, when we examine all
ihe charges connected with this committee.
For what was this $555 15 paid? The
members of the committee charge mileage,
and board at $3 per day; so do the clerks
and every other person connected with
the trip, except, perhaps, one messenger,
whose name does not appear in the case.
But 1 must condense without comment,
leaving the reader to draw his own con
clusions.
The next account I will investigate is
that connected with the frauds in the In
ternal Revenue Department, in which Mr.
Ordway again figures conspicuously :
N. <l. Ordway—Expenses on account of
Committee on Frauds in Internal Kev
onue, December, 1806, and January, 1867:
Parlors and rooms used for ex
amining witnesses at Astor
House, New York $342 75
Parlors, rooms, Ac., at Continental
Hotel, Philadelphia 104 75
stationery > -. 62 85
A. McCloud, lor copy of record. .. 20 00
Damage hire, ear faro, Ac 219 91
Telegrams, Ao 27 14
Two trips, Washington to New
and return, 940 miles’travel 91 00
One trip, Washington to Philadel
phia and return, 280 miles’
travel 28 (HI
Hevon' n irpr 'rdiara’ i bf “ n'ofh {ffe'n r
Philadelphia 31 50
. One trip to New York and return,
470 miles'travel 47 00
$1,151 93
It will be scon that the item of board is
still prominent in this case, reduced in
price, however, $2 per day.
file next ease is the charges of Mr. Ord
way, iu connection with the Judiciary Com
mittee :
I'AOKS.
48, 49 Summoning witness
es $1,620 00
111, 142 Summoning witness
es 3,773 80
143. Travelling for com
mittee... 206 (X)
143. 28 days' board, at $6 . 168 00
ls!l, 190, 191, Summoning witness- 1,236 <lO
on „ 1,286 DO
IDs. Jsy Department trav
el 94 40 I
25 days’ board, at $6. 150 00 t
$7,249 10
In this ease there were 220 witnesses
summoned, which would he, for service,
$ 110. The account stands as follows :
Mileage, 64,911 miles §0,401 10
Serving process 440 00
«*'. days board 318 00
§7,240 10
This case requires no comment. It
stands out in suoh bold relief that he who
runs can but read.
Whereis thy shame, Oman! Thinkest
thou uot that a day of reckoning will conic ?
Will the people, the toiling millions of this
country, still sleep and permit such out
rages as this to continue ? Although a
profligate Congress may give to such
charges the semblance of legality, in order
to prevent a conviction for robbery or
thieft before the courts of justice, the peo
ple will arraign the perpetrators of all such
acts, and the Congress that allows them,
l»etore the bar of public justice, from which
there is no appeal, and the terrible sentence
of an outraged and incensed people will
-weep from place and power all who liavo
thus proved themselves unworthy of the
sacred trust confided to them by an honest
and industrious constituency.
The mileage in this case is most astound
ing. Think of it, reader ; 64,911 miles—a
distance almost equal to three times around
the globe 1 We shall therefore call this
stupendous travel "Trips No. 3,4, and 5
around the globe. Does anybody believe
the distance eharged tor in this ease was
actually travelled 1
We will recapitulate die mileage, in or
der that the reader may see, at a glance,
the enormity of that branch of the gentle
man's service :
MILES.
Committee on Public Expendi
tures 23,100
Committee on N. Orlenus Riot 21, os;;
Committee ou Revenue Fminls... l,ii!K»
Funeral of Uou P Johnson 4,850
Committee on Southern Railroads 17,170
Committee ou Indian Altaits 6,208
On Calf of House 222
Case of Painter Culver 2,550
Hcveral cases 1,560
Committee ou Judiciary 64,011
Committee on Prisoners of War... 10,000
Committee ou Pay Deimrtment. 12,000
Kst minted Travel ling, not included
above, by assistants 17,000
Total miles travelled 208,403
In addition to this unmitigated swindle
iii regard to this mileage charge, tins same
mau has the audacity, impudeuee, and
hardihood to present board bill? in amount
to over $2,000, aud by reference to the
bills it will be seen that $j per day is
eharged in every ease bur one. the New
Orleans lliot. in which er.se he charges #B.
It is frequently the ease that the House
is called to order, when it is found there
is not a quorum present. The Sergeant
at-Arms is then ordered to go out end ar
rest aud bring in all absentees. 1 will give
here but one item of this character in the
aooount roudored by the Sergeaut-at-Arms.
It is in the instance of arresting ill mem
bers, for which he is entitled by law to #5
each, making $555, and 10 cents per mile
travel. In this instance, in which he did
not travel to exceed three miles—for all
the member- were in the city— yet he
charges lor 222 miles travel, or $22 2u,
making in all $577 20 for not exceeding
two hours' labor done by the Assistant
iXx>rkeepers, who received no additional
pay for this service.
Aa it is occasionally the case that a
member of Congress sickens and dies
while here in the Capital, and out of re
s(*etH for one of tLeir members. Congress
assumes the expenses of the funeral.
That the people may see and know the
enormous charges made by the Sergoant
at-Aruas lor goods furnished on these oc
casions, I append the following, which will
specify’ the articles furnished and their
cost:
N (• Qrtlway— Expenses incurred oil ae
connt of the death and burial .of Hon
Philip Johnson, late a member of the
House of Representatives, thirty-ninth
Congress^
Hack hire, assistance in
cars of remains, and ar
ranging for the funeral
in the House of Repre
sentatives.. 50 00
18 white silk sashes forolli
cers of House and Senate 254 00
8 black silk sashes for
Committee of Arrange
ments 96 00
20} do/, kid glove* 616 <K>
2 do/, kill gloves 64 00
2 do/ kid gloves 00 00
1 do* kid gloves 33 <4)
200 black crape scarfs SOO 00
Travel of messenger to
New York and return... 47 00
Hacks to carry escort and
friends to depot 16 U 0
Fate and expenses of es
cort and remains from
Washington, 1) C, to
Easton, Pa 245 00
Hotel bills and hacks at
Easton 42 65
Fare and expenses on re
to Washington.., I<*4 00
Travel of Assistant Ser
goant-at-Arms and two
messengers, Washington
to Easton and return, 460
miles each 1.38 00
L. Williams—Services and
expenses as undertaker in
Caro of remains of Phillip
Johnson:
] colli I*o Oft
Case.-plate.and engraving— 1C 00
laying out, Ac 15 00
Crape and gloves 20 00
Opening vault and attend
ance on funeral day 1150
Hearse - 10 00
4 backs..... 32 00
6 hacks 42 00
2 harks hi {lO
2 hacks 14 00
Shacks 15 00
2 hacks 14 00
Removing remains from
vault to depot 20 00
Attendance with remains to
Easton, Pena., and return. 30 00
William Keys, furnishing 70
hacks 429 00
Total $2,970 15
We can see in this, as in all other eases
where Ordway has any hand in it, that
everlasting mania for mileage. It would
seem that a case with all the solemn sur
roundings of this, and an extravagance
unheard of before, should have softened
| his feelings somewhat upon the question
! of filching money from the Treasury ; but
; not so upon this occasion, for we sec about
1 s.'/X) charged as expenses going to Easton
and returning to Washington.
In addition toall these villainous charges.
1 Mr. Ordway receives an annual Salary.of
j $2,592, and all of his assistants are receiv
ing salaries from $1,440 to $2,100. This
fact should be borne in mind in connection
! with the record in his case.
Let us now look for a moment to the
item of horse-hire, carriage and cartage.
In doing this we will draw comparisons
between 1864 and 1868 :
Horae and carriage-hire and cart
age, 1868 $14,213 00
11orso and earriage-lii re and cart
age, 1864 6,594 00
Excuse of 1868 over 1864 $7,619 00
1868 there were... 12,389 loads at 50c...56,194 50
JB6l there wore... 3,Reloads,atsoc... 1,55300
Excess of 1868....59,283 £1,6-11 50
The following will show the whole bill
for 1868 in a condensed form. It slffmld
be borne in mind that these horses and
carriages are the property of Ordway:
Horse and carriage-hire,cartage,
Ac $15,123 50
Due watchman at stable 1,000 00
< >ne superintendent at stable 1,440 00
Four laborers 3,100 00
Total ~...520,563 50
Metropolitan.
No. 5.
Washington, D. 0., Aug. 12th, 1858.
Hear Chronicle <t Sentinel:
It is a notorious fact that the contingent
expenses of Congress have more than quad
rupled during Radical rule, forming a
source of the most gigantic frauds and dis
graccful corruptions ever practiced upon
the Government, because they are sanc
tioned by what the Clerk of the House of
Ropiest nUtivos is pleased to call, iu his
card, in his reply to those charges "law,"
in which card he admits all the allegations,
and therein begs the question.
As I have shown, the bills brought in by
the Bergeants-at-Arms of the two wings of
Congress are frightful. They are salaried
officers, and yet are allowed to charge per
ijuuUes in the form of mileage, fees for ar
rests and board, all of which arc shameful
extortions. The idea that this officer,
Ordway, and his deputies, should have
travelled over two hundred thousand miles
dating the year ending Juno 30. 1868, is
preposterous, and for which be received
$20,600 over and above his usual salary,
and to which must be superadded the fees
and profits on the thousand aud one
items of his account. The Sergeant at
firuis of the Senate has been greatly benefit
ed. lie summoned witnesses from the
u 1.-4 ant regions of Alaska by telegraph and
jjujt was jiaid ten ceilts per milo, the same
But l must pasjs on. I will next notico
in brief the Postoffioe Department of the
House of Representatives.
Tho cost of,the mail service, including
the document hauling, stands as follows :
4 horses and carryalls, at $lO per
(lay $3,050 00
Document hauling.. 5,284 50
F&fed of horses 5,000 0
5 carryall and wagon drivers, at
$1,050 each per annum 5,400 00
Proportion of cost of tends at
stable ; 1,500 00
Salary of post master 2,292 00
Assistant “ 2,088 00
4 messengers, at $1,728 OOeach 6,912 00
Total $32,338 50
This needs n<3 comment. It speaks for
itself.
I pass next to the Ilonso Committees,
and as our space is limitod, wo will give in
extenso the account of but one Committee,
which constitutes a fair sample of all the
Committees, yet, we will append to this
the aggregate expenses of the whole.
• The foregoing statement shows an ex
travagant use of public money, that is cer
tainly unequalled in the annals of public
expenditures, and especially so when we
reflect that almost the entire sum thus ex
pended was for political purposes only. It
wilt be remembered that none of those com
mittees, except that on the Judiciary and
Elections, have as yet made a report of
their doings; they are, therefore, still con
tinued for the purpose of giving to a set of
hungry officers, whose especial vocation is
to feed upon the industry of the people,
continued employment in perambulating
over the country at ten cents per mile and
six to eight dollars per day for board, in
addition to their already enormously high
salaries.
S/atement showing the amount of money
expended by the Committees as per
House Mis. Doe. No. 31, 2d Session,
40IA Congress.
Committee on Judiciary $21,870 00
l)o Elections 0,500 00
1)0 Prisoners of war 0,214 00
Do New Orleans Riot.... 11,250 00
Do Pay Department 7,989 00
Do Public Expend’res.. 7,300 00
Do Revenue Frauds.... 3,700 00
Do Southern Railroads 4,636 00
Total 5b.‘>,465 00
•TUUKIAKY COMMITTEE.
Samuel S Mrshull, M C,
58 days' hoard §34S 00
6,900 miles' travel.. 600 00 •
—- S!H6 CO
Jas F Wilson,M C,47 days’
board '....5282 00 f
2,966 miles’ travel. 295 60
O E Eldrige, M C, 38 duys’
board $228 00
2,784 miles' travel.. 278 40
— : 506 40
J O Churchill,M C, 67 days’
board $402 00
2,264 miles’ travel.. 226 40
— 628 40
F E Woopbridge, M C, 36
days’ board $216 09
1,100 miles' travel.. 110 00
*— 326 00
14 S Boutwell, M C,41 da vs’
board .'....5246 00
'.'oß miles' travel 90 80
TUosM Uliams.M C,63 days'
board $378 00
760 milts’ travel 76 00
Frauds Thomas, M C, 30
days’ board SIBO 00
954 mlies travel 94 49
. 274 40
5\ illiam Lawrence, M C, 41
days’ board $246 00
1,194 miles’ travel. 119 40
Cash to v_hS BoutwaU } 556 00
Cash to J F Wilsou jTo procure 610 00
Cash u> Win Lawrence , evidence 300 00
Cash toolbar parties J 2,350 00
Witnesses 6,500 CK I
Hergeaut-stt-Arms and deputies 7,14010
$21,87610
Add to this the item of board, as follows:
(lays.
Metnbejs of Coil- _•
gross, 1,172. $7,171 30
N O Ord way and
deputies 268 #1 851 00
Estimated addi
tionnl, not
specifically
charged 250 00
F H Smith, sten
ographer, 136 869 00
H C 4 Hays, 63 37S 00
lien l’iunau, 12 9H 00
D L Baton, clerk 21 108 00
L Harvey, mes
senger' 29 174 00
1,701 $10,957 00
Estimated, to whieii add board
and expenses included in other
items „ 1,000 00
Total $11,957 00
AH persons tn the above table, except
Harvey and Pitman, are receiving large
salaries from the Government, ana in ad
dition to the board-bills, each of them were
paid mileage, as follows :
Mihs.
Members of Congress 63,248 $ 6,324 80
F. 11. Smith 9,528 952 80
14. F. Hayes S,«uO 360 00
Hen Pitman 1,788 178 80
D. L. Eaton 3,159 315 90 I
N. <i. Ordway aud deputs. 190,00 Q 19,000 00 I
271,691 $27,169 10 !
The salaries are as follows :
Members of Congress (2004 n
number - $-5,00} OOeach.
F. H. Smith 4.380 00 “
15. F. Hayes 45480 00 “
D. E. Kalfin... —A 2.160 00 “
N. <i. Ordway 2,592 09 “
We have devoted more space to the
examination ofthis subject than I at first
intended, but there are so many fruitful
semes of extravagance that deserve to be
brought to the attention of the tax payers
al this time, for there is but one way of
breaking up this den of robbers, and that
is, through the ballot-box, that I find it
exceedingly difficult to confine the subject
.to a reasonable space. It I shall have been
| successful in directing the attention of any
| considerable number of the tax-payers of
I Georgia to the-e enormous frauds, and the
i manner in which the taxes wrung from
, illc people are expended here. I will have
j accomplished, in part, one object.
It will be borne in mind that in ail these
vast expenditures of Congress, I have
not included the expenses ot the Im
peachment trial, which, judging from the
amount expended in other investigations,
wiil foot up several hundred thousands
dollars. This iaet mayaccount lor the
apparent necessity of getting up this trial.
The Presidential election was coining on,
and k was expected that each of these
Radical members would not only spend
their time and talents in an effort to elect
the Radical nominees, but spend largely
of their money, and in order to swelf their
coffers this trial was inaugurated and
Uncle Sam’s pockets made to bleed to the
tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars,
that the Radical party might retain pow-
er, that the people might be borne down
with enormous taxatiou, that the Constitu
tion might be trampled under foot, the
Union destroyed, and a military despotism
erected upon its ruins. Men of the South
arc you proi>ared for ail this ? If not,
your duty is plain. The election of Sey
mour and Blair offers you the only mode
of' escape from all these wroDgs. Kentucky,
Oregon and Mo Aana have done nobly.
Let every Southern State, in their fall
elections, go and do likewise. The day of
our redemption is not distant. The hour
of our deliverance is drawing nigh. Be
firm, be united; God, in His providence, is
scattering the chaff to the winds. Old
Thad Stevens is gone ! Left his country
for his country’s good! and may God
speedily transfer the balance of these
political agitators to that bourne from
whence no travellers returns. Amen !
and Amen ! ! Metropolitan.
FO3 TILL CHCONICLK A SENTINEL.
New Professor in the Georgia University.
Messrs Edit on Yourcorrespondent, in
his recent elegant letters from the Univer
sity, omitted to mention some very import
ant steps taken by the Board to enlarge
its usefulness. They have established
three new Chairs in the l'aoulty, viz :
a Professorship of Modern Languages ; a
Professorship of BellesLettres and Oratory,
and an Assistant Professorship of Ancient
Languages. The two former have each
attached to them a salary of $2,000 per
annum; the latter, a salary of $1,500.
The Board will meet in Macon on the
Wednesday after the first Monday in
December to fill those Chairs. When fill
ed, aud filled as they will be with the best
ability iu the country, the Faculty of the
University wiil be more complete than it
has ever been before, and, whatever may
be thought of the incumbents, the depart
ments wiil be as thorough as in any insti
tution in the South. The field will be
open for the prosecution of any line of
study whatever, whether general or
special, which may be desired. The
friends of the college claim only to have
these facts generally made known to the
public, and then they are perfectly will
ing that the institution shall be tested upon
its own merits, by them to stand or with
them to fall. Alumnus.
From the Savannah News <fc Herald.
Important Decision Respecting
Emancipation.— Below we publish a de
cision by Ilis Honor Judge Fleming,
founded on the following facts: Isaac
Perry, a citizen of Bryan county, made
his will June 1, 1865, and died June 17,
1865, and by said will left to Jane Perry,
a person of color, and a former faithful
servant, the bulk ot his property. The
complainants, Littleborry Daniels and his
wife, tiled a bill in equity to compel the
executor to account to them as distribu
tees at law of the said Isaac Perry, for the
property so devised and bequeathed to
Jane Perry, alleging that the devisee Jane
l’wrry, could not take the property inas
much as she was a slave at the time of the
making of the will and the death of the
testator, and that the devise was therefore
null and void. To this bill a demurrer
was filed, and the decision below sustains
the demurrer.
Littleberry Daniels and Isabella Danels,
his wife, complainants,~vs. Thos. A. Hines,
Executor fur Isa ac Perry defendant. In
Bryan Superior Court in Equity.
a uinrrln ,< »i <-»<.4, *- «-».».t ‘cliv X\f - uAno.
Devisee, Jane Ferry, legal capacity to take
under the will? It is contended that she
has not,’ because at the time the will was
executed, and at the time of Testators’s
•death the said Jane Perry was a slave.
The will was executed Juno 1, 1865, and
Testator died June 17, 1865.
It is not. in my judgment, necessary to
decide if' Jane Perry had been legally and
constitutionally made free. In regard to
that there may he a difference of opinion,
but no one can doub' that in point of fact
she Wat; free. The Federal Government
had so decided, and made good the deolarj
at,ion by the power of the bayonet. The
Convention of the State of Georgia after
ward recognized emancipation as an exist
ing fact. It did not undertake itself to
emancipate, so that emancipation takes its
date not from the ordinance of the' Con
vention, but from 4he day that Federal
power prevailed over the length and
breadth of the Confederacy. Jane Perry
was then a free person, both when the will
was executed aud when the Testator died,
ami as such had capacity to take under the
will. The Demurrer is sustained.
W. B. FtEMjsa, Judge E. D. Ga.
Butler and a "Spoon" Scene on
Broadway. —There was a scene in Broad
way this afternoon such as a flaneur but
seldom meets with, even in that thorough
fare. An ugly-looking man came turning
out of Grand street into Broadway, when
all at once a brigade of boys, boot blacks,
errand boys, gamins and alt, set up a
chorus of “spoons,” “stop thief,” “how
are you spoons,” &c., Ac On turning
around one readily toiheld the ugly face of
Benjamin F. Butler. He apparently was
ill at ease at the epithets continually ban
died about his ears, and his face became
pale with anger as he went along the side
walk with a horde of hoys behind him,
pointing their fingers at him, a* only boys
can point fingers, and calling out “spoons,
spoons.” Well, must that man have felt
miserable when, at every step he progress
ed, he was thus made aware how his
countrymen despise him. For not the
least effort was made to stop the "spoon”
chorus oi the boys, ar.d every passer-by at
once noticing Butler, secined to approve of
the boys' doings and enjoy the fun amazing
ly. Butler himself, however, soon got sick
of it, could stand it no longer, and jumped
into an omnibus to escape the continuance
of the spontaneous demonstration, —Niw
York L'tter.
iSltvamdc & J'tutiarl.
WEDXtCSBAf KORNIJfG. AFGFST 26*
7he Augusta Factory.
We have been favored with a copy of the
twentieth semi-annual report of the Presi
dent of the Augusta Factory, Wm E. Jack
son, Esq., to the stockholders of the Com
pany. The success of this manufacturing
compauy of Augusta is extraordinary.
Much of that success, it is true, is due to
fortuitous circumstances—an extraordinary
demand for goods, caused by the consump
tionin war times under a state of blockade.
and the price of cotton consequent. But,
making all due allowanee for these adveotD
tious sources of profit, the report before us
exhibits clearly what may be accomplished
in manuideturiDg at the South by skill and
good management, and invites the energies
of our people to the development of this
branch of industry.
The factory property was originally pur
chased from thecity for $140,000, payable
in ten annual installments, with interest
from date of purchase. The cash capital
contributed by the stockholders, amounted
to $60,000, “which was almost entirely ex
pended in the first two years in repairs,
rendered necessary by the condition of the
property. “We have.” says President
Jackson's report, “since the purchase paid
for the entire property without calling on
the stockholders for another dollar : add
ed largely to the property by purchase and
building; bought about SIOO,OOO of new
machinery:incrcasedjthe capital to $600,000
by the addition of a portion of the sur
plus; paid dividends regularly; and have
now a property worth the par value(s6oo,-
000) in gold "anda surplus of $224,798 22
after carrying to Profit and Loss account
the sum of $497,612 76 last by the de
preciation of property since the war. The
operations for the last three years, from
the 17 th of June, 1865, to the 13th June,
186?, have been as follows : The gross
earnings were $932,906 57 :
Expenses - $ 78,300 61
Repair? 33,386 72
Taxes 244,479 M 1
New machinery .* 92,686 76:
Dividends to stockholders 360,000 00’
Surplus profits 124,052 67
The production for three years has
been :
4-4 11,337,660 yards.
7-8... 7,711,351 “ ,
1 250,049 *
Drills 1,065,759 i
The sales for three years aggregate
$3,765,301 80; wages paid $622,280 15. 1
The Dumber ot hands employed average
578. The average product per loom per
day has been 45.90-100 yards.
But we present the operations for the
last six months as a fair standard for com
parison with like operations at the centres
of manufacturing North and East of us.
V> e have the authority of large and skill
ful manufacturer in the Eastern States for
stating that the operations of one of the
largest mills for the last six months show a
loss of 24 eents per pound on every pound
ot cotton manufactured; and that tho.-e mills
arc kept running under the hope that the
ensuing year will show a greater demand
for goods and a lower price for cotton.
Vs e believe that a large number of East
ern mills are now running on short time,
and some have stopped altogether, for the
reasons above given.
The Augusta Faetory during the last
six months has paid its stockholders two
dividends, amounting to $60,000, or ten
per cent, on its capital, and carried “to the
credit of profit and loss account” a surplus
of $47,534 14.
During this period they have manufac
tured 3,888,301 yards of shirtings, sheet
lings and drills, consuming 1,362,571 lbs.,.
lor about 340 bales of cotton, with an
j average number of 505 looms running per
i day. The cost of the cotton consumed was
! within a fraction ot twenty cents,per pound,
| or about $272,514 20, ;inJ the sales for the
i same period aggregate $519,965 01, ’leav
i ing goods valued at $108,630 91 in the
) hands of agents.
“Good Wine needs no bush.” No one
expects an exhibition of beautiful clusters
of rich luscious grapes te determine its
character. The skill and management
of the manufacturer shapes success- and
forces the decision of the public. In con
cluding our notice of this report we submit,
therefore, this simple testimony to the
skill and efficiency of its management—
a recapitulation •of the leading facts
in the history of the Augusta Fac
tory. The Company started with $60,-
00) in cash and a credit of $120,000.
It is free from debt with a surplus of near
ly a quarter of a million and possesses a
property worth more than nine hundred
thousand dollars in greenbacks, acquired
and paid for by its earnings in a period of
ten years over and above the handsome
sum—amounting to more than half a
million of dollars returned to its stockhold
ers in dividends.
It is hardly necessary to say that this
stock is at a premium of fifty per cent.
Hon. W. M. Keese.
The card of this distinguished victim of
fetisch malignity will be found in another
column. Judge Ilecse is not only a sound
lawyer, but, what is of quite as much im
portance, he is an efficient, industrious
and most successful practitioner at the
Bar.
Those of our readers who may require
the services of an attorney in the Northern
Circuit will do well to secure the services
of' Judge Reese.
Arbitration—Letter from Major Moses.
R. J. Moses, Esq., of-.the Columbus
Bar, has written a letter addressed to the
Bar of Georgia, which is published in the
Co!,umbus Sun, in which he recommends
that all cases, which they may hereafter have
be referred to aibitration rather than sub
mit the rights of their clients to the decis
ion of such a Court as that over whieh
Joseph E. Brown presides as Chief Justice.
lie thinks that Brown and MeCay did
not desire their positions on the Bench for
the salaries attached to them, or for the
honor they confer, but simply by their
forced association with the Bar of the
State to resist the social ostracism which
they felt was being enforced against them.
This, he urges, the Bar should defeat by
Court. We give * the plan proposed in
Major Moses’ own words:
, “Lot the members of the Bar refuse to
submit the righto, of their clients to this
tribunal. Let them organize in every
county of the State and agree upon three
eminent and incorruptible lawyers who
shall act as arbitrators or referees" to whom
all eases shall be referred on Bills of Ex
ception from the Superior Courts and agree
for their clients that such reference snail
be final aud have the force aud effect of
decision by the Supreme Court.
“The same tiling can be done in Judicial
Districts where the Bar may not iiave con
fidence in the integrity and wisdom of the
appointees, an arbitrator or referee could
be agreed oil in each District and by taxing
to each case an Arbitrator’s fee to*be paid
by the party '••ast iu the suit. Compensa
tion for the referee could be provided in a
manner that would not be burdensome to
litigants.
“By some such system as this the civil
rights of the people could be protected from
iguorance and corruption of the Judiciary
and the evils of the new Jury system
avoided.
“J am ready to eo-oporate with the Bar
of Georgia upon this or any other sys
tem by which the rights of litigants can
be protected and the seal of condemnation
fixed upon a Judiciary which in every
hour T>f its sittings will desecrate the
throne of J ustice.
“It may cost the Bar some pecuniary
sacrifice but that should not weigh , a
feather in an honest endeavor to preserve
the purity of the Judicial department.
“I throw out this suggestion hoping that
it may result in the perfection of a system
by which the object iu view may be ac
complished.
‘■The inconvenience will be temporary.
Let Democracy triumph in November !
the decisions of the Supremo Court of the
ATnited States be published and maintain
ed. aud the present inemn bouts of Judicial
ofhee will sink to the depths to whicli they
would have dragged the Judicial ermine.
“1 shall commence my canvass to-mor
row as Elector and will urge these views
upon the people. R. J. Moses.”
Special Telegraph to the Philadelphia Press.
heptejnber Session cf Congress.
Washington., August 17, IS6B.—The
movement to obtain a session of Congress
in September, mentioned jn these dis
patches last night, is assuming formidable
proportions. It is, however, sustained sole
ly by Southern Radicals, prominent
among whom are the committee of five
appointed bv the Constitutional Conven
tion of Mississippi to receive and count
the votes at the late election in that State,
to announce the result, aud, if necessary,
reconvene the Conyeqtiom They do not
contemplate calling the Convention to
gether, but are about to issue a proclama
tion declaring the election in six counties
illegal and void, on account,of the frauds
and violence used. As Gen. Gilletn re
fused to recognize this committee, they in
tend Upon Congress to sustain their action
and to complete the yyork of reconstruction
in Mississippi by appropriate legislation;
In addition to this, several qf the new
Governors and Goveruors-eiect of the
fcloulhern States have recently made requi
sitions on the Secretary of War for arms
under a law passed in 1796, but the Secre
tary has decliued to furnish them until
further legislation is had on the subject.
The Governors, in consequence, have
united in an appeal to Congress to meet
on the day to which they had adjourned
to take action in the matter.
The alarm of the carpet big conspirators
against the rights and liberties of the
Southern peoplp is but another indication
I of the great reaction in favor ot constitu
i tional Government. They have the sagaei
| ty to foresee the uttei rout and destruction
i of their party iu November next, and the
I consequent toppling of their pretended
| State governments, and hence they piteous
|ly appeal to Congress for succor. They
wish an early session of the Jacobin
I Rump in order that heavier shackles may
be placed upon the Southern whites, which
will prevent their voices being heard in the
approaching election. The success of Rad
icalism—the very existence of that party
m the South—depends upon the prompt
and decisive manacling of the Southern
whites and the complete stifling of the
popular will This they can only effect
through the action of Congress. They in
sist that farther reconstruction legislation
shall be enacted which will not only deprive
the people of the South from voting in the |
next election, but they demand that amis
shall be placed in the hands of the negroes
for the purpose of overawing the white I
people, and forcing them, at the point of
the bayonet, to submit! to all the wrongs I
and outrages which this Jacobin Rumt.
may choose to inflict upon them.
The great leader of this party, General
Grant, crie* "peace ’—let us have peace,”
and the carpet-bag and scalawag followers
of his from the Southern States respond
“let us have peace”—the peace- which the
wolf accords to the lamb whea it clutches
kin its paws—the peace secured by the
bayonet, held upon the breasts -of the vir
tuous and intelligent whites by the igno
rant and infuriated negroes. %
They all clamor for “peace,” but such a
peace as they desire would involve the ten
seceded States in a terrible war which, in
its fury, would crimson our rich valleys with
the blood of innocent millions. The Radi
cals would hold their tyrannous power
over these States at all hazards. They
would prefer to see the black race extermi
nated or driven from our borders—to wit
ness thesuiokiog ruins ofdesolated homes —
to hear the cries of widows and the wails
of orphans over the stiffened corpse of
the assasinated husband and father—
to see this fair land drenched m blood from
the Potomac to the llio Grande —rather
than lose their power or slacken their hold
upon the prostrate form of liberty.
They cry “Peace" ,aad demand Spring
field Rifles that Peace may come through
the virtue of Minnie balls lodged in the
hearts of the Southern whites. All the
arms to be placed in the hands of the
recently enslaved race, and their passions
aroused and excited by the infamous and
diabolical slanders and falsehoods of carpet
baggers and scalawags, while the whites
are left without arms, without the protec
tion at the State Government, without the
protection of the General Government —
without the means to protect themselves.
This is the “Peace" which Grant and his
carpet-baggers and scalawags would give
the maligned,, insulted and oppressed
South 1
The’organs of the Radical party in this
State have already begun their incendiary
teachings, in anticipation, doubtless, of the
prospective action of the Rump. They
are artfully and adroitly leading the minds
of the poor deluded negroes to the con
clusion that the white people of the South
contemplate their re-cnslavemout. They
are attempting to instill into their breasts
the idea that they must prepare to meet
the efforts which they say the whites
are making .to injure them, by thorough
and armed organization. They daily warn
them of a pretended danger and exhort
them to combine secretly for the purpose
of inaugurating strife and bloodshed.
These Southern Radical Presses and speak
ers know that there is not the slightest
foundation for their seditious and revolt
tionary harangues and advice. They know
that everywhere throughout the State the
white people are making earnest efforts to
concilitate. the negrpes aud win their sup
port and confidence. They know that, in
thousands of instances, we have succeeded
in dragging from the hideous orgies of
their secret leagues, the poor, deceived
and injured black man, and caused him to
feel, what all know is true, thtt the white
men of the South arc his truest friends. It
is because of our great success in winning,
By quiet, peaceful and legitimate means,
the deceived and betrayed black man from
the wicked and traitorous association with
the loyal leagues that they raise this pre
tended note of alarm.
They have received instructions upon
this subject from their masters in Wash
ington. The Radical Congressional Execu
tive Committee have advised their South
ern co-laborers that a series of riots in the
Southern Stales are essential to the success
of their party. They are urging their
Radical speakers and press in the South to
excite collisions between the races. They
insist that negroes must be killed in all the
Southern States by tfie whites or Grant
will be defeated. They insist upon pre
cipitating, at all hazards, a sanguinary
conflict between the races as the best and
only hope of their party. These are need
ed, not so much for their effectiveness here,
but to be used in the North and West just
as the New Orleans and Mem.pliisriots were
used in 1806.
Already we find unmistakable evidence
of tbe effects of these revolutionary and
seditious teachings. Within the last ton
days, there have been serious disturbances
in different sections of the State, and in
every instance they have been brought
about by the intolerant, seditious and
illegal conduct of thoroughly organized
bands of oath bound negroes. In Dooly
county, an organized body of armed ne
groes marched, a few days since, to- the
Court House, for the avowed purpose _ of
had been legally committed to jail upon
lawful affidavit and warrant.
In Twiggs county,last week, an infuriat
ed mob of armed negroes besieged and
attacked the dwelling of a planter because
he v/Assuspected of giving shelter to a Dem •
ocratic negro who was accused of homi
cide.
InFort Valley, Houston county, about
the same time a negro man grossly insult
ed a white lady in the street and was
promptly and properly punished for his
insolence, just as a white man would have
been treated for the same offence, by a
male friend who witnessed the outrage,
and immediately, upon a signal given, a
large Land of armed negroes rushed upon
the scene and furiously attacked the aveng
er of the insulted lady.
About the same time a band of several
hundred armed negroes, fully officered and
thoroughly organized, made demonstra
tions in Macon county for some pretended
grievance, which came very near involving
that county in a terrible conflict.
In Atlanta on 2’uesday last, a drunken
negro, who was creating disorder and
pro vokiDg a disturbance, was arrested by the
police of that city upon information
given by and at the request of some ne
groes, and immediately the police were set
upon by a band of yelling, infuriate negroes
with sticks, guns, pistols, elubs and old
cutlasses, tho prisoner rescued and one of
the police seriously wounded, while one of
their own number was accidentally killed.
In Hancock county, very recently, a
negro was found openly enrolling all the
males of his color between 16 and 60 years
of age, and ordering them to a place of
rendezvous in die county, where he stated
a large number of arms, provided by Gov.
Bullock, had been deposited. The object
of this organization, he openly proclaimed,
to be the killing of the Democrats.
These are but a few of the more reeent
indications of impending and threatened
disorder and bloodshed which has come to
our knowledge. Wo- sec, in every paper
which we read, accounts of disturbances
between the raoes which should make every
prudent man pause find ponder well the
situation. All of these outbreaks have
been fomented and encouraged, if net
actually advised, by the Radical leaders in
the State. They are considered essential
to theijfe of their party and must be pro
cured iq some way.
We-beg our friends to bear in mind that
while it is true that the success of Radi
calism demands these outbreaks.it is equal
ly true that our individual interests—the
interests of the community and of the
State,no less than the success of our party,
requires that we should do in our power
to discountenance violence, repress conflicts
and oppose bloodshed. Ours is most em
phatically a “peace party.” We not only
want peace for the sake of peace but all
our interests— political, material,and indus
trial-demands that we enforce peace. We
implore our friends to be patient, forbear
ing and kind to the poor ignorant and de
luded negroes. Be not hasty to answer
insult or over-zealous in defending rights, j
Talk kindly to the negroes—advise and j
consult witn them tor the ootnmon good
and teach them that acts of ‘disorder and
violence must inevitably .tend to their own
injury.
Let us ail resolve to disappoint the Rad
icals in their hopes of provoking feuds and
bloodshed between the raoes. Peace se
eures a Democratic victory—peace insures
material prosperity—peace insures bless
ings now and blessings hereafter for all
Classes of our people.
Great Changes In Wisconsin.
The great wave of popular reaction
which, beginning in Maine on our extreme
eastern boundary, has swept across the
great central and western States bearing
upon its crests the glorious banner of the
pure Democracy, has at last burst upon
the great Northwestern prairies, and bids
fair to swallow up the last vestige of Radi
calism in the Northwest
In Wisconsin Judge Ira Mead, the
ablest and most influential Republican in
the Chippewa valley, has opeoly renor and
Radicalism and espoused the Democrat
cause. The Hon. H. G. Webb, Republi
can State Senator from the 39th District,
has also cast his lot with the Democrats.
All over,the State the changes iu favor
of Seymour and Blair are numerous and
important. Our friends Lope to carry the
Slate by a handsome majority. #
Book Jiotices.
Life and Campaigns ofGenkkal Kobt. |
E.-L.ee, bv James D. McCabe, Jr. il
lustrated.' National I’ublishintf Com
pany, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Cinoin- i
nati' and St. LoUis.
We are in receipt Os a cony of this work, ;
and propose giving our readers this uiorn- 1
ing a brief review of it. Since the close of i
the war numerous works have been is- i
sued—histories, sketches, biographic, Ac.
—ail bearing upon the same great subject.
And the impartial chrouiclorof whose nar
rative these works wiil be the foundation,
will find It no easy task to dissimulate
between the valuable and the worthless,
and to sift irutli from so great a mass of
conflicting testimony. Before the days of
Faust, when books were few and readers
few, the task of a historian was compara
tively east’. He had a few well authenti
cated narratives to guide him, aud the
contradictions were unimportant or easily
reconciled. Now, however, the reverse is
the case. Thanks to printing, books
which were then read only by scholars are
now to.be found in nearly every cottagers’
possession. Tho information which was
then acquired only by the favored few, is
tiow common property with the mid
dling anil lower classes. Knowledge on
every subject is eagerly sought after,
and the age is proiitio both iu writers
aud readers. As an instance of this
it is only necessary to state that writh
iu the past thirty-six montlis not few
er than 300 works have been published, all j
of which relate more or less remotely to
the events of the recent couflict; a greater
number than was issued from the battle
of Hastings to the dethronement of Richard 1
111. However beneficial to the human
lace this wide diffusion of knowledge may
be. there is one great drawback; which con
sists in the fact that among so many writ
ers on the same subject, a large majority of
whom are imbued with prejudices atteud
■ ant upon different political opinions, and
who, consequently, look upon the same
subject iu a totally'differeut light, it is al
most impossible to write a correct and im
partial narrative, until, after the lapse of
many years, truth from these various con
flicting statements is at last obtained. The
author of this work has labored under the
many disadvantages which every writer
must experience in compiling a history at
so short a time after its events have taken
place. He has not had access to much in
formation, aud his book is tinctured with
the prejudices inseparable from an actor
in the struggle; but, at. the same time, iu
this connection, we will state that, in this
respect, it is tho most ca m and dispas
sionate narrative we have yet seen. He
tries to mete out a just measure of
praise or blame to both parties just
as they may deserve it. If he has
not written au impartial history, it is on
ly because from liis position it was impos
sible that he should write one. The “truth
of history,” though eagerly sought after, is
novel- found until long alter the smoke of
battle has lifted and the passions and
prejudices aroused by the struggle have
subsided.
We would not be thought by these
preparatory remarks to condemu either
the publication or reading of such works.
On the contrary, we gladly welcome any
addition which maybe made to our stock of
information, whether they be histories,
biographies, sketches, novels or poems,
as poesy has ever been the twin sister of
history, for however garbled and incorrect
they may be. they each contain some
small portion of tlie true, which the future
historian must separate from the fictitious,
and they must serve as tlio foundation for
his work.
The book in question purports to be a
history of General R. E. Lee aud his cam
paigns, subjects which must ever be
fraught with deep interest to the people of
this country and indeed to the whole
world. Iu the struggle of the South for
independence, it was the Army of North
ern Virginia alone which, for many long
months, beat back the hosts of the
North and kept hope alive in
tho breasts of otir people. Early in the
struggle, Lee and his soldiers acquired by
their victories the love and coniidenco of
the Southern people, and they retained
them until the dawn of that last fatal day
when an overpowered and helpless people
were handed over to the mercy of a cruel
and vindictive enemy., 'Tvvas the victory
of Bull Run, gained by tlio army of North
ern Virginia, which oast the first glow of
triumph over the arms of the young Na
tion; and ’twas the same army which, in
tho mournful campaign that terminated
under the apple tree at Appomatox Court
House, performed such prodigies of valor
as to win the admiration oven of a pitiless
foe. During the whole of this time, Lee
and his army sustained the faith of the
people. There alone came not defeat and
disgrace. Dark clouds might gather over
the West and South, but there was always
a ray of light in Virginia. The fall of New
Orleans, the evacuation of Kentucky, were
redeemed by the battles around Rich
mond, and the victory of the second Ma
nassas. Corinth was balanced by Fred
ericksburg, aud Vicksburg by Chancel
lorsville. And in the winter of 64-5,
when the gallant but ill-fated army of the
West, after being slaughtered under the
intrcnchinents at Nashviile, were driven
back by their foes like chaff before the
wind, Lee and his little band, surrounded
by a force almost six times their number,
by the victories of the Wilderness and
Spotsylvania, added fresh laurels to the
many which they had already gained.
And though yielding to ovei powering
numbers, they at lasi sank down at Appo
mattox and the sun of tlio Nation sank with
them, yet did it not go down in shame and
dishonor, but set in a bjqze of unfading
glory. Wo do Tj*>l
ft'.“"i mjr.W.°fl!td many uervantages over
them cannot be denied, and tho future
historian will so record it.
The author of this work, after an exceed
ingly interesting sketch of Gen. Lee’s an
cestry and an account of his valuable ser
vices to the Nation in the Mexican war,
commences his narrative of his share in
our conflict, from the time when he
assumed tho command of the Confederate
forces down to the present month. The
descriptions of the different marches, bat
tles and strategic movements are given in
aeonciseand lucid manner; and those re
lating to the operations around Richmond
in 1862, and in the vicinity of Petersburg
in ’64-5, are illustrated by large and accu
rate maps of the country around those two
cities, which greatly £ toil itate therm nression
of the same upon (lie mind of the reader.
Thu importance of these maps to the histor
ical student cannot he too highly esti
mated; and these certainly leave nothing
to be desired. There is not a ravine, a
clump of trees, a hill or a stream, a farm
house ora meadow, a turnpike or church
in the immediate viemity of Kiehmond or
Petersburg which cannot be found in these
diagrams.
The strictures on Mr. Davis, . his
friends, and the Confederate Con
gress, with which this work abounds,
while we are forced to believe that there
is too much of truth in them, are un
necessarily, and often absurdly severe. It
is generally conceded, we believe, that Mr.
Davis was a man of violent prejudices
and great obstinacy of disposition. That
he was surrounded by incompetent and
dishonest friends, ddio, through him, had
obtained high official stations and whom
no remonstrance, either from Congress or
the Commanding General could induce
him to dismiss, is a widely known fact.
Dtlt we believe that no one, with flie ex
ception of Mr. JE. A. Pollard, save this au
thor, has ever asserted ttiat Mr. Davis was
either a traitor or a madman. And this
author’s ridiculous accusations and garbled
statements would prove him to be either
the one or the other. According to hun it
was Mr. Davis’ sole occupation as Com
mander-in Cliiot of tiie Confederate lorces
to plan the best meaus of defeating our
armies, and that a chance to starve the
troops was welcomed as a God-send by
him and his Commissary General. Now,
though it is a well-known truth that
there was gross incompetency displayed by
the administration, it isequallya matterof
notoriety that that administration had to
struggle with difficulties such as have
never before beset a government. And it
is generally conceded that a majority of
our public officials did the best that was
possible under the circumstances.
Mr. McCabe, while evidently a warm
admirer of General Lee, maxes, In his
work, either directly or by implication,
lour assertions relative to his character as
a military man which, if true, detract a
great deal from his reputation as such.
We are not in possession of sufficient in
formation on the subject either to prove or
confute the truth of these charges and
.merely lay them before the reader with
out comment.
The first assertion is that, in the month
of August, 1861, after the defeat at Rich
Mountain and the disastrous
movement from Laurel Hill by General
Garuott, that General Lee was appointed
to the command, and, after receiving re
inforcements sufficient to make his
Strength fully equal, if not superior, to the
enemy’s, that he confronted the latter,
for some time, at “Eik Water,” where
he had him surrounded, but yet finally
drew off his forces without an action. The
second charge is that, during the battles
round Richmond he, by his tardiness,
lost the chance of entirely destroying the
whole Federal army. “That from evidence
taken by the committee on the conduct of
tjfo war in the Federal Congress, thpre
can lie no doubt that after the victories
gained by us on the seven preceding days,
it' McClellan’s forces had been pressed
after they fell back to Harrison's .Landing,
that the Northern army would have been
ruined.” His third charge is the same
diiatoriness in taking advantage of a victo
ry, which he displayed after the battle of
Fredericksbuig, whep, by his not making
an attack on the Federals on the night of
December 13th as advised by Stonewall
Jackson, when their army was completely
demoralized, he allowed them to cross the
river in safety, and lost another opportu
nity of destroying the army of the
Potomac. The fourth charges" him with
bad generalship at the battle of Gettys
burg, and there we believe that even Gen.
Lee himself confessed that he made a great
mistake.
We simply state these assertions without
eommeut, believing ttat their truth or
falsity will be soon made apparent, as
every day throws some additional light
on the character and conduct of the late
unhappy war. Till this is done we shall
have nothing to say on the subject. Ad
mitting, however, reluctance to believe
anything which detracts so greatly from
the lame of our fayorite and most success
ful chieftain.
And now before we finish this notice of
the work, there is one sentiment which
pervades it that we design to call" attention
to, because it not only pervades this book,
but every other one which has been writ
ten on the subject by a Virginian since the
termination of the war. It is this: That
{lie greatness and glory of Virginia and
Virginians is constantly magnified and
exalted to the almost utter exclusion of
the other States aud their forces. Now we
have had quite enough of thts sort of
thing. The Virginia newspapers gave ns
a surfed.of it while hostilities were going
on. While we are disposed to give Vir
ginia and Virginians all the credit to
which they are justly entitled—and that
is a great deal—for their devotion to and
valor !n defence of the Dost Cause, at the j
same uute we cannot forget that there were
also nine or ten other Southern States j
equally zealous and valiant; and that
though Virginia furnished many gallant
aud skillful oftioers, still every Virginian
was neither a Lee or a Jackson, and she
furnished fully as many, if not more, in
competent ones as any other State. The
other States, too,occasionally gave gallant
and skillful commanders to our armies.
Beauregard we believe has generally been
thought, outside of the “ Old. Dominion”,
to have been a talented and eiliciont offi
cer, yet he was not a Virginian. Polk,
and Price, and Hamptou, and Gordon,
and Hood, and Morgan, these and many
others too numerous to mention, all
achieved an honorabe distinction, and
vet strange to say none of them were
Virginians. Iu the many bloody battles
which were fought during the late win,
from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, other
soldiers occasionally participated in the
same save Virginians—North aftd South
Carolinians, Georgians, Alabamians, Flor
idians. Tennesseeans, Mississippiaus, Dou
isianians, Texans; and we think that they
marched, aud endured, aud fought as
much and as well even as they did, al
though tbev had uot been reared under
the shadow of the Blue liklge or in the
valley of the James. Aud when the day
of surrender came we believe that as
many or more soldiers from the other
Southern States, iu proportion to their
population, were found in the Southern
army as from Virginia. Then let us have
uo more of this silly stuff. To usoa home
ly -expression of the camps, it is “played
out.”
Space forbids a more exteuded notice of
this work, although we leel that our re
view has been a very imperfect one. We
have tried, however, to touch upon each of
its prominent features as fully as the lim
its of a newspaper article will allow. In
conclusion we would state that it is a book
which should be found in every Southern
home—wherever there is a representative
of the Army of Northern Virginia, or one
who feels a patriot's pride in its gallant
deeds and imperishable renown.
The book can be had by addressing the
“National Publishing Company” at At
lanta, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, or S.t.
Louis.
From the Atlunla Inieliigiutccr.
Georgia Legislature.
SENATE.
Wednesday, August IS, ISOS.—The Sen
ate met pursuant to adjournment, and
was opened with prayer by Rev Mr Note
The journal of Monday was read and
approved.
Mr Burns moved to reconsider so much
of the journal of Monday, as relates to the
action of the Senate on Mr Winn’s' resolu
tion.
The motion to reconsider was lost.
A sealed document was received from
tho Governor through Mr DeGraflenried,
his Secretary, requesting the Senate to
Consider the same in Executive Session.
Mr Harris moved that the Senate go into
Executive Session.
J jMr Candler hoped the motion would not
prevail. There was bnsiuess before the
Senate that should be attended to at once.
Mr Harris hoped the motion would pre
vail. He did not think he had as much
Bradley on the brain as some Senators
had.
Mr Winn said,Bradley on the brain was
not the question before" the Senate, but
justice on the brain should rule this body.
Mr Lester was unjustly kept from tak
ing his seat.
Mr Hinton was opposod .to going into
Executive Session ; and stated that a gen
tleman was on tho floor, who held his cer
tificate of election, and was entitled to his
seat as Senator from the Ist District.
This gentleman was as much entitled to
vote on nominations as any memberof tho
Senate.
Mr Candler—There is a Senator knock
ing at your door who desires to be sworn
in and you now move to go into Executive
Session, as much as to say we have uot
time to receive him, because there is more
important business to be attended to. Do
you call this justice ? And if I may use
the expression, do you call this dignified ?
I hope we will not go into Executive Ses
sion until we have disposed of this ques
tion.
The previousquestion was callod for and
sustained. Tho motion to go into Ex
ecutive Session was then put aud was yeas
19 ; nays 18. So the motion to go into
Executive Session prevailed.
The Senate then adjourned until 10
o’clock to-morrow morning.
HOUSE.
House met pursuant to adjournment
prayer by Rev VV M Crumley.
Mr O’Neal, of Lowndes, offered tho fol
lowing resolution:
Resolved, Tnat the State Treasurer be
requested to pay to the President of the
Board of Trustees of Bowden College the
amount that may be due from May Ist,
1868, to July Ist, 1868, after tho sau.e "shall
be properly audited.
Mr Hudson moved to amend hv insert
ing “pay to all colleges which are allowed
to have appropriations for educating
maimed soldiers.” The amendment was
withdrawn and tlio resolution adopted.
Mr Bethune introduced the following
bill :
“An act to alter and amend section
4,322 of Irwin's Code of Georgia declaring
iu what cases punishment prov ided in sail
section, shall be impleaded and reducing
the punishment,” &e. ; also an act to attest
and amend section 1,442 and 1,444, <fcc.
Mr McCormick—A bill to define the ju
risdiction of the courts of this State iu suit
against railroad companies; also a bill to
amend soclion 3,178 of the Code of Geor
gia; also a bill to prevent delays by con
tinuances in the courts of this State, by
parties claiming surprise on account of
amendments of the pleadings.
Mr Paulk—A resolution to have two
-““sions of the House daily. Lost,
tion to the effect that no new matter shall
be introduced after Friday next, unless by
a'votevof three-fourths of the members.
Rifled out of order.
Mr Rawls moved to strike out of Mr.
Paulk’s resolution the words ‘beading
bills the second time.”
Mr Shumate ottered a substitute that
hereafter this House do meet at 9 o’clock,
and do continue its session till 1J o’clock
p m.
Harper, of Terrell—An act to bo entitled
an act to authorize the ordinaries of this
State to issue writs of habeas corpus, and
do hear and determine the same.
The special order of the day w'as taken
np, which was a hill to organize the muni
cipal government of tho city of Augusta.
Mr Shumate rose and said the friends of
the bill were willing to remove from the
hill all its objectionable features. He
therefore offered a substitute. Whereup
on Mr Ilali, of Meriwether, offered a sub
stitute, which was laid on the table by
ayes 85, nays 67.
Mr Shumate then moved the adoption
of his substitute, and Mr Anueraou called
the previous question, which was sus
tained.
The substitute was then adopted in lieu
of the original bill.
Mr Shumate called theprevious question
on the passage of the hill, which was put,
and resulted in—ayes 80, nays 67.
Bryant, of Richmond—Ah act to organ
ize tho militia of the State of Goorgia.
Mr Barnum, of Stewart—A bill to legal
ize the official acts of decisions of Judge
J T Clarke; also, a bill to allow officers to
collect their cost in all orimiual prosecu
tions at the conclusion of committing
trial; also, a bill to be entitled an act to
prevent plaintiffs from dismissing their
cases, Ac.
Mr Beard, of Richmond—An act to pre
vent hunting on the Sabbath, in this State.
Mr Maul, of Musoogee-A bill author
izing the Governor to appoint Commis
sioners to look after tiie improvement of
rivers.
By Mr Price—A bill to incorporate the
Narcoochee Valley Mining Company, of
White county.
. The House adjourned to 9<b’clock am,
to morrow.
SENATE.
Thursday, August 20. —The Senate
met.
A resolufion tendering the use of the
Senate Chamber to lion Mrs Yelverton, on
Friday, was adopted.
READ FOR THE THIRD TIME.
A bill to authorize the holding of Supe
rior Courts for the fall term, and to pro
vide Juries therefor. Passed and trans
mitted.
Mr Smith (36th) asked the suspension of
the rules for the introduction of a resolu
tion authorizing the President to appoint
a standing Committee, to be styled “ The
Committee on. new Counties and County
lines.” ' J
'I lie rules were suspended and the res
olution was adopted.
Mr Candler presented a memorial from
citizens of Savapnah, asking a postpone
ment of the municipal elections, in order
to give voters time to comply with the
provisions of tho Jaw.
Referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Mr Smith (7th), asked a suspension of
the rules in order to take up a joint reso
lution of the House, authorizing the
Treasurer to pay Bowden College for the
education of certain indigent persons.
Tho rules were suspended and the Sen
ate concurred.
Mr Joues moved to go into Executive
session,
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Thursday, August 20,1868.—The House
met pursuant to adjournment.
Mr Rice gavenotice thathe would move
a reconsideration of so much of the Jour
nal of yesterday as relates to the resolu
tion in reference to the hour of meeting.
Mr Bryant also gave notice that he
would move a reconsideration of so much
of the Journal of yesterday as relates to
the bill in reference to the re-organization
of the municipal government of the city of
Augusta.
Mr Rice moved that the resolution be
reconsidered in reference to the hour of
meeting, which motion prevailed.
Mr Bryant made a motion to reconsider
the bill in reference to the re-organization
of the municipal government of Augusta.
Mr Shumate arose and said that at one
time he thought he would reply to the
harangue just concluded, but upon reflec
tion he concluded that it was useless.
Mr Tweedy, of Richmond, arose and
said he hoped the geutleman would witfc
i draw his motion, as he wished to make a
j few' remarks. Mr Shumate consented,
; with the understanding that the gentle
j man from Richmond, on concluding would
i move the previous question. After a few
| remarks by the gentleman from Rich
mond, in reference to reconsideration, he
moved the previous question, which was
! sustained.
The main question was then pat when
the yeas and nays were ordered, which
resulted as follows: yeas 65, nays 79.
The motion to reconsider was lost.
Mr Williams, of Dooly—A resolution
that no member of this House be allowed
to speak longer than fifteen minutes on
any one subject, except by the consent of
the House.
Mr Phillips disapproved the resolution.
He thought ample tuuo should be allowed
for ihe discussion of questions; that ques
tions of great importance demanded free
discussion on matters coming before the
House. He hoped the resolution would
not pass.
Mr Williams, of Dooly, favored the res
olution, Fifteen miuutes was ample tirno
for any gentleman to express his views.
Long speeches were eating up the money
ot the State. He was in favor of faciliting
legislation by short speeches, aud to tlto
point.
Several members spoke pro el con.
■he previous question was called and
sustain*^.
1 fie main question being ’put (the rules
was'adopted. SlU P ended )‘ the reaoh,tlon
• of tbe counties being in order,
m, nevv matter was presented:
Mr Price, a bill to elect town com
ot Dahlonega.
£*s ÜBb ’ ofJulies ' a bin to r,J P eal
town oVperry.’ * WH to Corporate the
nr^itfuc"- 6 ’ ?1 biH to P rov iile four election
P Mr r!,i!'o t J Vi' l - v 01Jel ' t ‘ lson •
Mr Gullatt, oft-ulton, a bill to incor
porate the town ot "West End,” and to
provide a municipal government for the
same.
Mr Carson, of Thomas, a bill to prohibit
tiie removal ot paupers from one county
to another.
Mr Bennett, of Jackson, a bill to incor
porate the town of Jetterson, aud for other
purposes.
Mr Aaron, of Fannin, a bill to extend
the time of redemption of lauds sold for
taxes.
Mr Williams, of Dooly, a bill to regulate
the Sheriffs bonds of Dooly county.
Mr Perkins, ot Dawson, a bill to change
the time of the fall term of the Superior
Court of Dawson eOunty.
Mr Anderson, of Cobb, a memorial,
which was referred
Mr Osgood, of Clintham, a bill to incor
porate the Pulaski Fire and Marine Insur
ance Company.
Mr Osgood jof Chatham, a bill requiring
the Governor to appoint County Com
missioners of Chatham county.
Mr Harper, of Terrell, a bill to relieve
the Comptroller and Treasurer of certain
liabilities.
Mr Crawford, of Raptow, a bill to allow
practicing attorneys to administer oaths in
certain cases.
Also, a bill to relieve certain persons of
Bartow county from indictments.
Mr Ford, of Bartow, a bill to incorporate
the Etowah River and Gold Mine Manu
facturing Company.
Also, a bill to amend an act incorporat
ing tlio town ot Cartersville.
Also, a bill to repeal sections 4664, 4665,
4666, and 4667 of the Code.
Also, a hill to extend aid to the Macon A
Brunswick Railroad Company.
Also, a bill to give landlords and mer
chants liens cm crops of tenants and credit
ors.
Mr Seales, of Pike, a bill te authorize the
levy and sale of property in certain cases.
Mr Perkins, a resolution to hold two ses
sions per day, the morning session to com
mence at 9 o’clock and adjourn at 1/, the
afternoon session to commence at 3 o’clock
and adjourn at a p. in., the latter session to
be devoted exclusively to leading hills the
second time.
A motion was made to suspend the rules
to take up the above resolution, which was
lost.
The House adjourned
SENATE.
Friday, August 21.—Tho Sonata met
aud was opened with prayer by Kcv.
Senator Smith, 7tli.
The Journal of yesterday was read and
approved.
Mr Higbee gave notice that he would
make a motion to reconsider so much of
the Journal as relates to the action of the
Senate on the joint resolution appropriat
ing money to the Bowden College.
After the reading of tho Journal Mr.
Higbee moved tho reconsideration, ami
proceeded to support his motion by a lew
remarks.
The previous question was called for
and sustained. ’4 ho motion to reconsider
was lost.
Mr. Smith moved to transmit to the
House. Agreed to.
Mr Higbee moved a suspension of the
rules for the purpose of introducing a reso
lution advancing nay to members.
A sealed document was received from
the Governor, with the request that it be
considered in Executive session.
The vote on the adoption of Mr Higbee’s
resolution stood —yeas 25; nays 12. So
the resolution was adopted.
A petition for the relief of Wm F Atto
way was read. Referred to Committee on
Petitions.
Mr Nunually presented a petition of
Rufus E Lester, requesting to be seated as
Senator from the Ist District.
It was moved to refer it to the Commit
tee on Privileges and Elections.
Mr Nminally saw no necessity' for post
poning the matter any longer. If it re
quired any investigation at all, he would
be willing for it to bo referred, but there
was nothing of the kind. The action of
the Senate declaring Bradley ineligible,
was enough to seat Lester as the candidate
who received the next highest number of
votes.
Mr Adkins called the Senator to order,
the question being whether the Senate will
refer a petition.
The President hoped the Senator would
confine himself to the question.
Mr Nunually contended that he was in
order, as he was only endeavoring to show
why the petition should not be referred.
He'thon read the law in the ease. If we
intend to sustain the law of Georgia, there
was but one court e to pursue, aud that
was to seat Mr Lester. Senators were as
prepared to vote now as they ever could
be. General Meade had made a return
stating that Lester was the next highest
man.
Mr Merrill did not see why Senators
desired to make this case an exception to
the general rule of referring such mailers
to the Committee on Privileges and Flec
tions.
Mr Harris withdrew his objection. The
ablest legal ability had differed from tho
views of Mr Nunually and others.
’“"uual/v reuueateii. sumutor m
mention one great legal utind that had so
differed•
Mr Harris did not respond.
A motion was made to make it (he
special order lor 10 o’clock to-morrow
which motion prevailed.'
The Committee on Public Buildings re
ported lavorably on tho acceptance bv the
Legislature on the Opera House, as offered
by the City Council of Atlanta lor the use
ot the General Assembly.
. Mr Hungerford ■ - bod the Somite tp act
immediately. Tho City Council was anx -
ious to do what was right. They had agreed
to have the Opera House completed by
January Ist, and il we cl ill v dally over the
offer they might not he able to" fulfill the
contract.
The main questi n was taken, and the
Committee’s report adopted.
Ine Senate theu went into Executive
session.
The doors were opened when the follow
ing bills wore introduced :
i’be amendment was supported bv
Messrs Scott, Duncan, Harper and others
1 he Hou-g refusing to suspend the rules
for the purpose of taking up tho amend,
ment, tho original resolution being re
considered, the members are allowedun
limited time for debate as heretofore.
•The rules were suspended to take up the
following bill to be read the second time:
A bill to roll ve the present Comptroller
anu Treasurer of certain liabilities. En
grossed.
. RILLS ON THIRD READING,
A bill to exempt from taxation foreign
capital invested in the manufacture of
woolen goods, etc., for the term of five
years. .
A bill empowering the Mayor and
Aldermen ot Albany to remove certain
officers.
,M r Hungerferd, a bill to incorporate
the Schofield Rolling Mill Company!
Mr Welch, a bill to organize a system
oi common schools.
On motion the Senate adjourned till to
morrow morning.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Friday, August 21, 1868.—Tho House
met pursuant to adjournment, and was
called to order by the Hon W I’ Price
Speaker pro tempore. ’
Prayer by the Rev Mr Cloud.
The Journal wag read and approved
Mr. Dueau gave gave notice thathe
would move a reconsideration of so much
0.l the Jf ’ u,na| el' yesterday as relates to
the resolution offered by Mr Williams of
Dooley, in reference to limiting the time
of members in debate.
The motiou to reconsider prevailed.
Mr Duncan offered an amendiwint that
the resolution do not apply to certain gen
eial bills aud resolutions of importance,
such as questions of eligibility, relief,
homestead, education, etc.
Mr Scott arose and said ho had not ex
pected to make a speech upon this subject,
but on reflection be felt it a duty, as he
loved his rative State, to say something
in behalf of her interests. The year 1861
found her teeming with wealth and pros-
Eerity and all that goto make a people
appyand contented. The ruthless hand
of war had been laid upon her, and had
devastated her fields and workshops; that
her people were poor, and that they need
ed Some encouragement and assistance in
the manner in which this bill proposed to
offer them. There was an impression
among the people of the North that their
lives and property would be endangered
were they to oome among us; that the
passage of this bill would, in a measure
dispel and dissifWLe tho impre si ms, and’
would settle it in their minds Unit tiie
people of the .South were disposed to
welcome them in their enterprises - that
artisans, educated to all thefine ai ts would
cast their lots with us, and thereby ad
vance the manufacturing interest* of the
State; that Maine, once poor as Georgia
now is had passed a similar bill, exempt
ing capital not only for five, but for fifteen
years, and that now, in consequence of it
she stood one among the foremoet manu
facturing States of the Union; that in the
three great departmeuts of enterprise
Georgia was deficient in but one, and that
the manufacturing inteiests. He
would call the attention of the mem
bers to a case in his own section;
the rich amt fertile lands of Vann’s Val
ley are now being enhanced by an
enterprise aiready ou foot to develop ihe
r2a? Urcfes tliat K r - at section of the Slate.
Others would spring up in different por
tions ot the State, if tax ou foreign capital
wouid he removed, arid the people show a
proper disposition to foster enterprises set
upon foot by Northern capitalists He
could see no way by which politics could
lie wrung in opposition to stu b measures.
Tiie people of whatever race or color were
alike interested in the development of the
material resources of the glorious State of
Georgia. Tell the people of the North that
we harbor no ilNfeeiing against them, and
the day is not tar distant when Georgia
will again be, as she ever has bee D , tiie
leading Southern State in all that pertains
to the greatness of Common wealths. He
hoped the bill would meet with the serious
consideration of etch member of the
House, and that it would is t'Ulu a law.
J’hc previous question was called and
sustained.
lac main question was then put, when
tne yeas and nays were called, which re
sulted as follows: yeas, 68; nays, 79.
The I fill was lost.
Mr .Sisson, a resolution that the- House
tender tho Hall for the purpose of hoidiug
Divine ,; crviees on Sunday next.
he rules were suspended and the res
olutiou adopted.
The Committee on Public Buildings
made a report in effect, that the City Coun
cil of Atlanta had tendered thy Opera
House for the Use of Legislature, aud
in a resolution, rcammended that the
same be acoepual [The report is accom
panied witli a diagram of tho hull/indi
cating the plan by, which the building is
Assembljoj lbß uso '“^Tra!
Mr itfiWls offered as ail auiembn,,,,,
that nothing in the resolution shaU " e
construed as to commit tho State to an
ceptance ot this Opera House as ti„
Capitol building of the State, only (Or
temporary use. "D lor
The amendment was accented Q ,.,i ».
resolution passed. pleu ' and tb «
The House adjourned.
FROM ATLANTA.
~ . 7 . Atlanta, August 21,1SGS.
Messrs luhlort Since the failure of
the Grant and Colfax demonstration, this
city has sunk down into its usual quiet if
that may be called quiet which is ever
noisy. But few strangers are ever seen
except those who are cn passant— the
hotels are unconscious of any gfeat addi
tion to their usual arrivals-in fact, they
vote the season unanimously dull, the Leg
islature after ail, net being such a big thing
for them as they had imagined. Georgia
Legislators sustain the reputation of their
predecessor’s penchant for cheap boarding
houses.
Indisposition has forced me to forego my
intention of giviim your readers a more
extended notice of the proceedings of the
18th. The Bard of tho "New Ery ,” as
Senator Adkins calls it, has sung its praises
till little is left to be said. Notwith
standing all that has bcea said by the
Radical press, it was a "ridiculous mus,"
disgusting to the whites, and by go means
what the negroes had bargained for.
The incendiary harangues 0/ Prov. Gov.
Johnson and Chief Justice Brown received
a well merited rebuke, iu the more moder
ate remarks of Hon. Joshua Hill and
Judge Parrott. The influence of such
gatherings upon the easily excited and ex
citable disposition of the negro cannot ho
over-estimated. His weak intellect,
added to his impulsive passions, render
him the /node dupe of the demagogue aud
the ready tool ot the political trickster.
Occasionally, as in the case of the riot, for
it was nothing else, of the night of the
18_th, some black man. seeing the impro
prieties of certain Unbecoming behavior in
one of his peers, calls on the civil authori-
ties to preserve order. Giving the largest
latitude, and the broadest construction to
the definition of freedom, us iu the case
mentioned, they openly defied and vainly
attempted to stay the course of public
justice. And when the conflict dots come,
and bludgeous, cold steel aad lead are
brought into requisition, the miserable
agitators, nine limes out of ten a mean
white man, skulk*s out of the difficulty and
leaves poor Sambo to be the victiih. The
unfortunate negro over whose carcass the
CoroneT has been holding an inquest for
the last two days, was an iuuocOnt looker
ou. The drunken “bully who stirred irp
the fuss” goes unwhipt of justice, while
the rest of his deluded followers who were
so unfortunate as to be arrested, must
bring up the rear, and atone the groviou -
wrong.
Legislation drags its slow length along.
Little or nothing is done of any public in
terest. Private interests and private
measures must be attended to, while the
great and overshadowing interests of the
general public must be left undone.
Most of the Judges ami Solicitors have
been appointed, and the anxious seats i.i
hotel and bar room have been vacated.
Carpet bags are getting at a discount, and
legislators, at last, are beginning to trans
act the public business. You have been
informed by telegraph of the appointment
of Judges and Solicitors, and it is unneces-
sary to reiterate them here. The Senate,
yesterday, spfeirt a large portion of its ses
sion in trying to confirm a Mr. Crane
Judge Blue Ridge Circuit, which
being found to he such an up-hill business,
His Excellency has withdrawn his name,
and it is now thought that Judge Irwin
will receive the nomination. To day, after
a labored session, Judge Gibson, too well
known in your city to need any comment at
my hands, was confirmed .Judge of the
Middle, and John Pjpe ot this city, Judge
of the Coweta Circuit, This latter ap
pointment “hung fire” a long time and
came very near being a failure. This
closes up the law firm of Brown and Pope,
and leaves a tine opening for some enter
prising carpet-bagger to stop in and heir
their business.
I am told there are numerous applicants
for Dr. Green’s situation, as Superintend
ent of the State Luoatio Asylum. Among
them, Dr Gibson, pf Twiggs, and Dr.
Blount, of the low country. It remains
t<s he seen, if the Interests of humanity
and the kind care and supervision of the
insane arc to be sacrificed to the Moloch of
party. I am warranted iu saying this
much, when Radical leaders boldly say,
“Let the Augean stables he cleansed.’’
A most interesting piece of bu. incss to
the inhabitants of Augusta, has been en
acting iu the Hom»e for the two past days
—I allude to the passage of the bill to re
organize the municipal government of
Augusta. It was passed yesterday by a
handsome majority, and to-day, Mr. Bry
ant moved to reconsider it, and indulged
in such a speech as it has seldom boon my
foj. to hear. After hasting most unmer
cifully tire Republicans, who had the au
dacity to defy boldly his ipse dixit and vote
for the biU, he gave the good, respectable
people of Augusta a regular set to, of
abuse. To listen to him, one would think
such a thing as an hooebt Democrat can
not be found in your city. He dialed, he
bolstered, he did all in his power to bring
his party, as a party, to the support of
his motion to reconsider. His failure was
most signal, and he threatens it shall
never become a law—alluding, no doubi, to
the fact enunciated by well-informed Rad
icals, that Gov. Builock will veto it. It is
known, that if he does so, it will be on tho
ground of the uncoastitutfonality of the
one dollar registration tax. If the Sen
ate will strikeout this clause it will not be
vetoed.
The eligibility of negroes to scats in the
Legislature will certainly come up soon.
The impression gains giomnl daily, that
they will be declared ineligible. The ne
groes boldly say, il such is the decision,
that they will vacate tfriir Seats oily at the
point of the bayonet. 'i hey are unruly,
and will brook no opposition that interferes
with their real, or pretended rights. IVe
have negroes here, representing counties,
in which they never spent a half dozen
days. They, like many of the wandering
white adventurers, who have crept by fraud
and the force of circumstances into places
of trust, are bent upon carrying out a pro
gramme, which augurs no good' Tor us.
Supercilious and arrogant, they acknowl
edge no superior, wiH yield to no control,
but the behests of Radical caucuses.
Many of the Radicals favor their expul
sion.
An interesting discussion sprang up to
day on the bill to exempt from taxation
foreign capital invested in thg manufacture
of cotton and woeleo fabrics. After a
long debate, during which the state of
feeling existing betwut u Southern and
Northern men was freely commented on,
Mr. Rice, of Columbia, indulged in the
usual slang of bis party relative to tho
insecurity of lifeand property in the South,
and the danger of a negro or Yankee in
dwelling in or passing through our terri
tory. His remarks suggested the idea that
Reconstruction is not fully accomplished
till social as well as political equality has
become an established fact. In other
words, the respectable people of the South
must admit into their society, on perfect
terms of equality, the negro and the North
ern adventurer regartif<«« of bis claims.
This favorite idea of the Puritan, that men
can be legislated into resj act ability and
position in society, will never, I trust,
become a Georgia idea.
The Commissioner of I’ublic Schools
promises to be a good thing.
Mr. Caldwell, of Troup, it is said, has
given up his pretentions in this direction,
and visions of Congressional honors beckon
him on; he is to be a candidate for Congress
from the 3d District. It is generally con
ceded that Hopkins is to take the candi
dacy for Congress from the Ist District, and
that Bradley is to run for Mayor of Savan
nah.
The Senate having gotten ’ through on
the Executive nominations, with the ex
ception, if I mistake not, of two Judges of
the Superior Court, will now settle the
question as to wTiother Colonel Lester shall
take the seat vaca'cd by Bradley.
Constitution.
Food for the Curious—A Political Omen.
A gentleman in one of the departments
has made a very curious discovery, which
we publish below. He numbers each let
ter of the alphabet, and then adds the
numbers corresponding to tne letters com
posing the two ticketß Seymour and
Blair, and Grant :>.n-l Colfax. The result
shows one in -p. I .in-’ - v.n’y for Sey
mour atiu li.ai,, „• j. . i .(tidie i apd
forty for Grant and Co.Tax, th ; total being
three hundred and seventeen, which is the
number of votes in the electoral college.
Thus: •
A 1 S 19 G 7
B 2 E ■) It 18
C 3 V 25 A J
D 4 M 13 N 14
E 5 u IS T 20
F 6 U 8.21
G 7 K 18 A 1
II 8 N 14
1 9 A I D 4
.1 10 N 14
K -II D..1 A c :. 3
L 12 0 15
M 13 B 2 L 12
N 14 L 12 F ..6
G 15 A 1 A I
I* 16 1 9 X 21
q 17 R 18
H 18 140
S 19 177
T 20 140
U 21
V 22 317 Th© number
W It3 aol votes ia
X......... 24 electoral col-
Y --2 o lege.
i. 26
The Railroad Imbroglio.
Alexandria, Va., August 22, p. m.—
Judge Underwood directs the Alexandria
and Washington Railroad no restored to
the lessees under requisite bonds. Trains
will resume Mouday,