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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1869)
- ■ -i OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI. (Chronicle & Sentinel. 11 ENRY MOORE, A. n. WRIGHT. I* \TRICK WAI.SH, Associate Editor AUOI'HTA. GA : WIBNISBAT HIIKMM.. JANUARY St. Agent at Wabbe.nton. —Mr. Walter Scott, Postmaster at Warreoton, is author ized to receive subscriptions and adver tisements for tbe Chronicle & Sentinel. The Banner of the South.— We in vite special attention to two articles in this number from the above named paper the one a poem by Paul H. Hayne, Esq., entitled tbe “Prostrate South to the Radi cal North,” the other an editorial “We Still Live.’’ Roth are gems in their way, ar.d breathe the true Southern spirit, and their perusal cannot fail to give satisfac tion and pleasure to every reader of the Chronicle * Sentinel. Ah a Southern literary journal, ardently devoted to the past, present and future of the South, the Banner of the South is a success. We are pleased to learn that the paper is rapidly growing in public favor. Although .not yet a year in existence its circulation is numbered by thousands, and daily a<sces sio is are being made to its already hand- Bome list from all sections ol the country. The Tribune Almanac for 1869, by the Tribune Association, is received lxotn the Publishers. Mr. Greeley, we believe, was the pioneer in this business, and tbe present, number compares favorably with Lis former publications. Pi ice 20 cents. The Democratic Almanac eor 1860. —Wc are indebted to the Publishers, Van Evrie, Horton & Cos., 102 Nassau street, New York, for a copy of this really valua ble little work. It contains much interest ing arid valuable matter, aud as a book of reference for the exciting and important history of the past year is absolutely indis pensable to every gentleman’s library. Price 20 cents per copy—six copies for one dollar. University oe Georgia.—The Athens /Ininur of Friday says: “The second term of the sixty ninth annual session of' this institution opens to-day. The new professors, Dr. Smead, Professor Morris and Mr. Stephens, will, we learn, enter at once upon the duties of their respective chairs. Wo learn that the session will open with an increased number of students, and under the brightest auspices.'' Fire in Savannah —From the Savan nah Hipublican we learn that a destructive lire occurred in that city on last Saturday. The fire originated in tho back part of Mr. W. D. R Millar’s oil store, 157 Ray street, a few doors west of that office. The policeman on the beat said that he had been smelling something burning for a con siderable time, when he concluded to make an examination of the premises, and soon discovered its whereabouts, when ho im mediately gave tho alarm. The flames spread with great rapidity, owing to the combustible nature of the stock in the store, and soon extended to the carpenter shop of Mr. Killoren, in Ray lane, which was tilled with lumber, completely destroy ing the contents of that establishment in a very short time. Mr. Millar's stock was entirely destroyed or damaged by wator. At QUO tiuio the flames caught the rear portion of the Pulaski House outbuildings, io fact several of the window frames were seriously damaged. The fire also extended to the rear of the grain atid feed store of Mr. C- V. HutchiLs, next east of Mr. Mil lar’s establishment, destroying his entire stock. Mossrs. Mills & West, lawyers, who oc cupied the rooms above, lost all t heir office furniture, books, &o. Messrs. Jackson, Lawton & Basinger, who occupied rooms over Hutchins store, also lost all their office furniture, library, ite,, saving only their account books. The building is owned by Hou.Solomon Cohen, and we understand is fully insured. Mr. Killoren’s family also occupied rooms on the third floor ot Mr. Millars store, and lost almost everything. Mr WD.R Millar estimates the value of his stock at $10,(XX); insured for $5,000. Messrs. [Jackson & Lawton’s library was not insured, but Mr. Basinger’s private library is fully covered in some company of which 11, 11. Footman & Uo. are the agents. Mr. Killorcn, we understand, is not in sured. The rooms in the third story were oc cupied by several gentlemen as sleeping rooms, the entire contents of which were destroyed. The firemen were promptly on the ground, and used every exertion to stay the prog ress of the devouring element, but did not make much headway, owing to the com bustible nature of the stock in the various establishments, until nearly everything was destroyed. As we go to press the tire is still burn ing, but by the gallant efforts of our fire- | men, the flames have been checked, and | we think Mr. Hone’s liquor stose, as well as the rest of the block, may be considered j safe. There was quite a breeze blowing, and j at one time it seemed as if the entire | range fronting the Hay would be destroyed. Mean and Contemptible.—The re porter of the Charleston Courier was ex pelled from the ring-streaked and striped House of Representatives of the bogus South Carolina Legislature for doing jus tice in exposing the rascality of a carpet bagger named Wlupjxr, who was thwarted in his do • gn of quartering himself and family in the S. C. University Building at Columbia. Arkansas—A kine Specimen of Free Government. —The Little Rock Gazette says that there are in the lower House of the Arkansas Legislature 83 members, of whom 82 are Radicals, ar.d 1 a Democrat There are 94,500 voters in the State, of whom 70,000 are whites, 23,000 negroes, and 1,500 carpet-baggers, being a white majority of 45,500. \ot such has been the rascality of the Radicals, and such have been the frauds and impositions practioed upon the people, that the Legislature is almost wholly Radical. Automatic Washing Machine —Our old confrere John L. Ells has dropped the scissors and pen and turned wash woman, or, rather, has iutioduced a washing ma chine which excels anything in that line we have yet seen. The clothes do not require to : rubbed on a board as former ly — steam taking the place of the board — and any lady can do her own washing with her si k or Iter satin on without the slight est fear of soiling her dress. Call at Jones, Smyth & Cos and see it in operation, and your verdict will be excellent. A Mason a Miniature Scale. —A large sized sensation wa- created at the City Hal. j i sterday, by the appearance, in charge of a poiie.-man, of a young man twenty years old, thirty one inches high and weighing forty five pounds. It was at first supposed that he had been arrested by Lieut. \V. YV. King, for a violation of the twenty-first section —resisting an officer— and had been brought down for trial before the Recorder. It proved,however, that he : was only seeking the Mayor in order to get a la rmit to peddle ou the streets the “Life of Charles A.Decker.of Mississippi, the smallest man in the world." Columbia «t Augusta Railroad Stock. —We learn that there was a large sale of the stock of this road, at auction, in Charleston yesterday, for the sum of eight dollars per share. Pomeroy’s Democrat.— M. M. or “Brick" Pomeroy’s new paper already exceeds in circulation every other political paper in the world. It is “red hot,’ and of unusual interest. Send lor sample copies. Printing Bouse Square, A etc York City. J&wl The Legislature and Gen- Grant. By reference to an article copied from the Atlanta Intelligencer , and which will be found in another column of our paper, it will be seen that the rumor from Atlanta that Gen. Grant had advised the Legisla j ture to adjourn until the inauguration of his administration, was not correct. It seems that Mr. Tift gives it as his opinioa that Gen. Grant thinks it best that the Legislature pass a joint resolution referring the right of colored men to hold office in the State to the Courts, and ad journ. We have no doubt but that this is the course suggested and advised by Mr Tift himself, and that if Gen. Grant hag given any opinion upon the subject it is simply that it might be well to teat Tift’s pian. Neither Mr. Tift or Gen. Grant at tempt to show us how this question is to be referred by the Legislature to tbe courts. We confess that we do not understand the way it is to be done. If Mr. Tift merely desires to have the judgment of the Supreme Cuurt of the State upon the question of negro eligibility, that can be obtained without further ac tion L,y the Legislature. We believe that all the true men of the State will acquiesce in and submit to that decision when prop erly and fairly maue. Rut we object to any interference on the part of the Legisla ture with the question. It is oae for the Courts to decide under the Constitution and the law. But, before mooting thisquestiobv woii]d» it not have been well for Mr. Tift to ascer tain whether the colored men have bten denied the right to hold office ia the State, and if they have, whether any proper legal steps have been taken to procure a judicial opinion upon the subject. We learn that there are several colored men now holding office in this State. If this be true, how can it he said that tbe negroes have been denied this right ? We apprehend that the difficulty does not grow out of a general denial of the right of the negroes to hold office; but, from the action of the Legisla ture in deciding that negroes are not eligi ble to seats in that body. It was the privilege of the Legislature, secured to it by the terms of the Constitution, and founded upon the old English Parlicraent aryright to judge of the qualifications of its own members. This high constitution al right the Legislature cannot surrender to the courts. If, however, the legal question be properly raised outside of the Legislature, and decided by the Supreme Court in favor of the negroes, we doubt not but that in future such decision will bo re gardeu as tbe law of the ease, and as such recoguized and enforced by the Legislature by the admission of colored members. We fully endorse the views of the Intelligencer upon the right of the Legislature to act free from the interference of the judiciary in all matters pertaining to the election and qualifications,’of its own members; but we go further and repeat, that when the courts shall have decided the question upon a proper case brought, such decision becomes the law of the State, and must bo'so re garded even by tho Legislature itself. Until, however, such a decision is made, we b.lieve that the honor, the dignity and best interests of the State require that members shall proceed with the necessary legislation before them, without regard to tho clamor of Washington Radicals. Let them keep within the limits of the State and Federal Constitutions in all their ac tions, and within those limits so shape their laws as to secure the greatest good to the largest number of our people. A long session is neither needed or desired. The people are too poor to be made to foot the bills for long and tedious sessions. We believe that all necessary legislation can be accomplished in fifteen or twenty days, if members will go resolutely to work on the legitimate business of the session. But, above all things, wc hope that they will lot national questions aud national politics severely alone. The (ieurgla Muddle In Congress. The following extract from the Herald's \ Washington telegram, in relation to the schemes for reconstructing reconstruction in this State agrees, in the main, with the views which we have heretofore expressed ; on this subject. We cannot believe that 1 the Radicals will, to use one of their own expressive phrases, “go back” on their own schemes of reconstruction, merely to gratify the ambition or spleen of a few worthless scalawags in this State who have been left, by the popular verdict, without power or position. Bullock, it is true, occupies the Exec utive Uliair, but he fails to secure either the respect or esteem of the honest men of the State, while his groom, the pitiful “little perjurer,” is high and dry upon the shoals and rocks of disappointed ambition. Congress will do well to let these creatures alone. No sort of Congressional legislation can elevate or diguify such cattle. They have found their level, and there let them lie : “The 'Reconstruction Committee wil probably make a report to the House in a week or ten days on the result of this in vestigation into the. condition of Georgia and Mississippi. The Committee is by no tueaus agreed among themselves as to what should be done. Some of them, and among the number Mr. Bingham, the Chairman, are opposed to anew recon | struetion of Georgia, believing that the testimony does not warrant such a course and ihat her State Constitution is thor oughly Republican in form and spirit. Those who listen to the stories of the Bul lock factiou go for a reconstruction. The number of these is believed to be small, because since the investigation was com menced, it has become apparent that the object of these men is to have anew deal es offices, so as to secure good ones for them selves and their friends, and to get a chance to have revenge upon political ene mies." Carpet-Baggers and Scalawags at Wasli lngton. The editor of the Richmond Whig, now on a visit to Washington, writes to his paper the following in relation to the status and standing of carpet-baggers in that city. It wiil be seen that even the Radical jacobins themselves entertain com plete loathing and contempt for these noisy Union shriekers from the recon structed States. In the South—where these fellows are well known and their motives properly understood—no surprise will be felt that even Wasbingtoa Radicals shun and taboo them. But how low. and mean, and contemptible must they he, when the Scheneks, and Wilsons, and Sumners and Kellys, refuse to recognize and asso ciate with them : The men in Congress from the Southern States, and those in the same interest and of the same stamp who are not in Con gress, but who hope to get offices in their several States by means of a system es stringent disfranchisement, are entirely understood here even in Republican cir cles. Their full measure has been taken and all their selfish aims and sordid motives are perfectly known. They are generally despised, and, as far as possible, shunned and tabooed by their own party. Almost every one has an axe to grind. If they appear before committees of Congress i to give information and bear testimony, their own political brethren cannot credit their statements. I heard to day of the ease of one of these men from \ irginia, who appeared before a committee to give his testimony in regard to the condition of affairs and to state reasons why the Y ir ginia offices should all be vacated, that strongly illustrates their low standing here. One of the Republican members of the ! committee asked him contetnptuoualy what offioe he was a candidate for?’ ‘None,’’ • was the meek reply. It was then sug gested by someone present that he was recommended for a Jnoge of our Supreme Court. This let tbe cat out of the bag, and excited not so much derision as iodig nation among Republican members, one of whom, with great earnestness, asked an associate member if he could reconcile it to hie oonscieuee to make a Supreme Court Judge in his own State out of such a man. ' i The reply was that he under no eireurn 'stances could bring himself to do so. I ' state it much more midly than it was stat ed to me. I mention this instance to I show that the selfish aims and sordid | characters of these men are fully under stood, and as fully contemned by their own party. Those who have received seats in Congress are barely tolerated. The larpet-Bag Governor of Florida. One ilarrison Reed, the bogus carpet bag Governor of Florida, has been indulg ing his Yaskee spread-eagleism in his mes sage to the bogus ring-streaked and striped hyena Legislature of Florida. The fellow speaks of “our beloved State” as if he were to the manor-born, when he has not been over a year in the State, having squatted there under the protecting aegis of the Freedmen’s Bureau. Hear this fel low how glibiy he speaks of “peace, welfare, prosperity, loyalty, equality, free aud en lightened progress,” over the prostrate form of our gallant little sister State : Gentlemen of the Senate and of the As sembly : With the election of America’s great military chieftain to the highest office in the nation, the peace, welfare and pros perity of the Union is secured upon the ba-is of freedom and equal rights. Throughout our beloved Sta'e violent opposition to Federal authority and Repub lican government has ceased, and all classes of the people yield obedience to the laws. The last embers of the late rebellion are rapidly dying out, and our citizens, “with out distinction of race, color, or previous condition,” are gradually uniting in behalf of common interests and mutual prosperity. The newly enfranchised citizen of color sits side by side with his white fellow,with out antagonism, in the Cabinet, the halls of legislation, the jury box, and on the Boards of Commissioners—occupies the magistrate’s chair, and executes the de crees of courts, without exciting violence or occasioning asperity. The change since your last session is marvellous, and calls for grateful recognition. Political antago nisms still exist and must ever exist among a free and enlightened people; but tolera tion and concession have taken the place of intolerance and proscription. Florida stands redeemed and disenthralled, and with wise legislation and judicious admin istration, her citizens will soon redeem the wastes of war and retrieve the misfortunes ot the past. Cotton Manufacture in the South. We are glad to see public opinion, North and South, directed to the im portance of the manufacture of cotton in those States where the staple is produced. The recent publication in the Chronicle & Sentinel of the highly flattering and remunerative returns made upon invest ments in manufactures in this State, and more especially the astonishing success of the Augusta Factory, has awakened an interest in the subject which must lead to a large increase of manufacturing capital here. Shrewd men of the North—the large manufacturers of New England and of Pennsylvania—have been led to examine into the claims advanced in favor of profit able operations here, and already large in vestments have been made and extensive preparations began to establish mills in different portions of the cotton growing region. The fact that capital comes from manufacturing New England, seeking investment in what has hitherto been re garded as an unprofitable branch of in dustry, shows very clearly that those who have heretofore believed that cotton could not be cheaply and successfully manufac tured here, have not properly appreciated tho special advantages which we enjoy in our climate, nearness to the production of the raw material, immense water power and abundant and cheap fuel. While we gladly welcome Northern capitalists in the development of this new and valuable branch of industry, we are anxious that our own people should, to some extent, share the profits which must certainly flow from well directed invest ments in manufacturing enterprises. The cotton crop of last year, produced in this State, has brought within our borders a large amount of money over and above the cost of production, and if our people are wise they will invest one-half at least of this surplus in cotton and wool manufactories. We can manufacture cotton fabrics cheaper than they can be produced by New Eng land mills. That this is recognized now as a fact, is clearly inferrable from the recent heavy purchases and investments in South ern water powers and mill sites by leading New England manufacturers. We know that the Southern planter has heretofore proved rather incredulous upon the subject of profitable manufacturing. Now. however, with our changed labor system, we find that planters are becoming more interested in diversifying their labor and productions. The splendid results ob tained by the Augusta Factory in this city, and the hardly less gratifying success of the Richmond Factory and the Gran iteville Factory, both but a few miles from the city, have evoked a lively interest in the subject among planters, and we hope soon to be able to chronicle the organiza tion and establishment of several new mill ing companies. The South must devote more attention and employ more capital in these enter prises. By a proper and judicious system she can speedily regain her influence and prestige in the Government, and re store her people to their former and even greater prosperity. All that is needed, is for her men of capital and influence to put their shoulders to the wheel, and the cause of improvement and progress will move forward with ease and rapidity. The Richmond Whig, in a recent edito | rial, gave some good advice upon this sub- j ject, and collected valuable statistics show ing the value and importance of manufac- j tures in the South. The following specu- t lations are appropriate and well-timed : “We believe that the spirit which is to \ work out grand results has been aroused, j The South has accomplished wonders is j rebuilding her lines of communication aud ; restoring the ravages of the war. Her great staples are again taking their com manding place in the commerce of the country. Her mines are being developed, her water power utilized, and her forests of timber turned to account. In addition to these and other elements of wealth, the manufacture of her raw material, and l especially of cotton, is destined to become a leading industry and a source of enor mous profit. From a carefully prepared report submitted to the Cotton Manufac turers’ Association at a meeting held last fall, we learn that the number of mills in j the Northern States is 479 ; number of spindles, 5,768,228 ; average number of yarn, 27 j ; consumption, 343.645,950 pounds; consumption per spindle, 59.57 pounds. In the Southern States, num ber of mills 69 ; spindles, 199,772 ; average number of 042.766 pounds ; consumption per spindle, 140 37 pounds. The greater consumption per spindle in the South is due to the fact that work may be done more uninterrupt edly in a Southern than a Northern cli mate. The fact is significant and import ! ant. We are confident that before another decade there will be a very different show inf in cotton manufacturing statistics. At a recent sale of manufacturing stocks in Boston, Massachusetts Cotton Mill stocks sold at 1007 J, Amoskeag Manufacturing Company at 169S4,Merrimack Manufactur ing Company at 1625, and there is no reason why similar stocks should not be equally valuable in Richmond and throughout the South. On the contrary, there are many and cogent reasons why, in the South, manufacturing stock should be even more valuable than in any portion of New Eng land.” That the establishment of manufacturing enterprises on a large scale would be of immense benefit to the State, no one will deny. It becomes in this view of the ease a serious question whether a sound policy would not dietate a generous fostering of AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 27, *869 manufactories to the extent, at least, of exempting capital employed in them from State, county and municipal taxation for a certain number of years. It is a fact little knowD to the public, that manufacturing capital is now, by law, as a general thing, more severely taxed than any other kind of property. Not only are the taxes levied by the B'ederal Government in many instances severe and unjnst, but in almost all the States, tbe municipal and State taxes are exorbitantly large and ex cessive. The Detroit Free Press, in notic ing this inequality of taxation, says : “Mr. Wells, the Commissioner of Inter nal Revenue, iu bis able and exhaustive report to Congress, discusses this question under the head of the ‘influence of State and loeal taxation on the cost of produc tion.’ He gives several marked instances in some of the States where the rate of taxation upon all capital engaged in man ufactories is so large as to materially, affect the cost of the articles produced. For in stance, when the business is carried on by a corporate company, the capital is taxed for State, municipal and loeal purposes at very high rates ; and then the shares held by individuals are taxed as personal prop erty, and then the United States tax upon all sales, and upon all dividends. He closes this part of his report with‘one sugges tion in view of these facts and circum stances, and that is, that if any State should determine to adopt a system-of local taxation analogous to that recognized in Great Britain*or Frahce, it might confi dently anticipate a very large influx- of capital and manufactures from beyond its borders, thereby rapidly increasing its wealth and developments, aud possibly, as an ultimate result, compelling other States to adopt the same liberal and enlightened policy as a measure of defence and protec tion.’ “If the Legislature, while on this sub ject, could find some mode to limit and control local and municipal taxation with in reasonable bounds, it would also be of immense service. In all our cities, the municipal taxes of almtfst every kind are extravagantly high, and in many instances outrageously so. The consequence of this is seen in its effect upon the value of real estate, the rents, and its depressing effects upon manufactories. “Again, our own municipal authorities are not without power in influencing capi tal to be invested here in manufactories. Let our city government refer this whole subject to commissioners to examine into the whole subject* of taxation, and see whether it cannot be materially reduced, and so readjusted as to favor the introduc tion of capital rather than to repel it. There is no city in our country situated on a more magnificent body of water and bet ter located for manufactories of every kind, and there must be some reason why they have not been introduced here. Let them ascertain, if possible, the cause of this, and so far as it is within the power of our city authorities, let it he promptly reme died.” These views are entitled to careful con sideration both from our State and local authorities. The whole subject is fraught with interest to our entire people, and we invite the careful and serious attention of the Legislature, in order that whatever is necessary to pomote and foster manu facturing in the State may be done at once. A Nice Job. Strenuous efforts continue to be made by tho Radicals in the State Legislature to procure the appointment of a committee to proceed to Washington to lay before Con gress the legislative status of the State, and invoke from the former body some ac tion which will put a quietus upon further legislation here, except such as may be in full accord with advanced Radical ideas. Independent of the overwhelming ob jections to such action which an honorable and dignified statesmanship would suggest we believe the people of the State and of the entire country look upon the scheme as an ef fort togive prominence to certain fery small men, and invest with official importance a brace or two of obscure and wholly charac terless membersofthe Legislature. Bryant and O’Neal wish to strut in borrowed plumage before the assembled wisdom of the country at Washington, but they wish to do so at the expense of the people of the State. We have no objection our selves to these parties going to Washing ton as soon as they please, provided they go on their own expenses, and when there we are inclined to think it will be much better for the State if they will remain fixed and permanent. Let them go at once, if they wish, with carpet-bag in hand, aud let them nestle as close and as loDg in the bosom of Sumner as they please, provided the honest people of the State are not made to pay their ex penses. Florida Internal Improvement Fund. We publish the following paragraph, from the recent message of Governor Reed, of Florida, as a matter of interest to some, in our community: The reports of the Surveyor General and j the Board of Trustees of the Internal j Improvement Fund show the affairs of j that department in rather a confused and | unsatisfactory condition, but exhibit vast [ resources which invite immigration and | afford ample means for internal de velopment. i During the last two years, and since the ! last report, four hundred aud sixty-three j thousand two hundred and fifcy-five.9s-100 j acres of our State domain have l eendis-, posed of as follows ; To 11. L. Hart, for im proving navigation of the Ocklawaha 33,006 03 acres. To E. N. Dickenson, for interest on bonds of the Florida Railroad.. 246,507 44 “ To Win. E. Jackson, for interest on bonds Florida, Atlantic & Gulf Central Railroad. 113,064 80 “ To purchasers 70.677 68 “ Total 463,255 95 “ The amount of the State domain un disposed of, is estimated at ten million i seven hundred and eighteen thousand four i hundred and thirty-seven acres. To this ! may be added seven millions of acres yet unsurveyed, which will inure to the State j under the acts of Congress. | This is due to the Sinking Fund, for i the redemption of the bonds of the Pen sacola and Georgia Railroad Company, one I hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for the non-payment of which the road is forfeited, and the bondholders have been informed ! that the road will be sold by the trustees. When this is done, and the bonds of the Company are surrendered, the Internal improvement Fund will be released from further liability in that connection. Condition of Tennessee Railroads. —Mr. G. W. Blackburn, the Comptroller, in his report to the Legislature of Tennes see, says that the following railroad com panies have paid their interest due the Ist of January, 1869 : East Tennessee and Y'irginia Railroad Company .....$ 52,793 93 East Tennessee and Georgia... 40,177 72 Memphis aod Charleston 33,899 22 Memphis and Ohio 71,833 30 Mississippi and Tennessee 12,534 00 Mobile and Ohio 50,170 10 Mississippi Central aDdTenD... 33,005 80 Nashville and Cha'tanooga 11,850 00 East Tenn. and Western N.... 7,500 00 Southwestern 9,000 00 $322,814 07 The following railroads have paid on account of January Ist, 1569, interest, these amounts: Rogersville and Jeffersonville.. .$ 750 07 Nashville and Decatur 40,365 00 $363,029 00 The following roads have not paid the interest due by them on the Ist of Jamiary, i860: Edgefield and Kentucky R.R..$ 35,112 53 Cincinnati and Cumberland Gap 42,140 40 Knoxville and Kentucky 67,896 o*o 1 McMinnville and Manchester.. 25,540 80 Memphis aud Clarksville 56,83# 00 Nashville and Northwestern... 105.551 25 Rogersville (balance) 11,944 80 NashvilleandDecatur(balanee) 33.5J0 28 Winchester and Alabama 42,967 77 Memphis and Little Rock.. 13,<50 00 Knoxville and . Evansville, Henderson & Nash ville £,OOO 00 —l ; $-565,534 83 FROM OUR TRAVELLING CORIESPOND BNT. On the Whig, ) January 9th, 1869. j Editors Chronicle & Sentinel; An object earnestly desiret’ by the pub lic is the early completion *f the Macon and Augusta road, which become one of the great thoroughfare* for Northern i and Southern travel. We hear many anxious inquiries along th(S line upon this subject, and have been informed that the work will commence at £o distant day. The road from Milledgedfle to Camack is in good order and the cats run with a de gree of ease and rapidife not excelled by any others in the Statah'The largest pro portion of freight and to and from Milledgevilie, is over t@T road, which is quite a compliment toit»uperior manage ment. Our young frieSd Burnett, the conductor, in a sober, steady and courteous gentleman, and has the confidence and i esteem of the travelling. puTffie. A gentleman in Hancock informed me i that everything was wofjring well in that , county. Planters generally had raised a 1 supply of meat and corn, . and a better state of feeling existed among all classes than at any time since lie war. Arrived at Warrenton, asked a colored | gentleman the population of the town. He replied. “Warren ciuaty, sir.” Told him I did uot ask the name of the county, but “the population of tbe town.” “0, yass, I no now; Wal, sir, jus go up dis j street till you come to de corner dat, and you’l fine it all round de Court House.” Called in at the store of Messrs. Heath | & Allen, and, as usual, found them busy ; waiting on customers.. This house eotn - mands a large portion of the trade of \ Warren and surrounding counties, and perhaps none in Middle Georgia are doing a more extensive and better business. Goods are sold here remarkably cheap, and the kind and accommodating proprie tors deserve the liberal share of confidence and patronage they enjoy. Warrenton merits the reputation it has long had, of being a good place for trade. Quick sales I and small profits is the motto. Travelled from Camack to Augusta on a I freight train. A passenger remarked that he was always struck with wonder and ad miration on beholding a steam engine, and truly, we were never more impressed with its tremendous power than on that occa sion. Twenty-six boxes hung on to one engine, about four hundred thousand pounds of freight flying over the earth at the rate of twenty miles an hour. Could the sages of antiquity, the philosophers of old Greece and Rome, or the wise and great of more modern history, rise up aid behold the ! achievements of the nineteenth century, j they would more than wonder at the steady j march of improvement, j Science is said to be iu its infanev; but | it will take many of its mature years of hard struggle before ever it iccomplishes a greater triumph than the one illustrated on the Georgia Railroad. I cannot close without icknowledging my thanks tD the conductors on the day j Passenger trains, Messrs. Hicks, Read and i Percel, for their uniform gentlemanly courtesy and kindness, and in saying this much, I only express universal feeling and sentiment of the traveling public. No Lady need fear to risk hetselfor daugh ter in their care and protection. Traveller. [communicated. 1 Tlie Casey Farmer toad. Hart County, January 8, 1869. Messrs. Editors : I am glad to see, by your paper, that Dr. Casey is moving in the right way for a Farmers’ Railroad from Augusta to Elberton. Just let him follow it up energetically. Tht farmers of these counties need this ro»d and are bound to have such facilities. There can be no difficulty about it if the citizens will do their share, and authorize the credit of the counties to te used upon specific taxes to raise the amount of money required. The Legislature must give us some aid, but this road must not stop at Elberton. It must and will be continued to Carnesyille aud Clarkesville. I have been trying, for over twenty years, to get the people of Elbert county (I was then a citzen of El bert) to continue the Washington Branch of the Georgia Railroad. Tho citizens of Wilkes county offered to build as far as Broad river, if the people of Elbert would finish it from the river to Elberton. The Air Line Road will be built’, our people see no other chance for railroad facilities and will support it throughout all this section of country, unless there is an assurance that either a road from some point on the Georgia road through Elbert and Hart, or the Casey road will be built. These coun ties are situated between two rivers, Broad and the Savannah, and the natural outlet for their produce is Aflgus*a, and Charleston and Savannah. But when the Air Line Road is built, it will also go Northward, because of greater facilities, unless one or the other of these roads is built. Even if the Air Line is built, either of these roads would tap it in Hart county and draw the pro duce to the cheapest point on the sea coast. I say,then,let Dr. Casey go on; and let the Chronicle & Sentinel take hold of this matter, ventilate it thoroughly, and encourage it by its influence. The Georgia Road is looking away out West for trade and doubtless the benefits of local developement, but the peoph of this sec tion see and feel and are determined to have Railroad facilities and do away with the present bell-team, mud wading, mule killing and negro stealing oxide of getting produce to market. Let Dr. Casey start tbe ball fairly in Columbia and Lincoln and we will all lend him a helping hand, and there will be no such thing as failure. We have all been doing pretty well this last year, although we have suffered late ly very much from the disease wbioh has prevailed amongst our hogs, which has cutoff our supply of meat in this county and in Franklin. This disease, a sort of hog cholera, has been very fatal; one hun dred and fifty to two hundred lave died just around me. Some, I hear, have lost all their hogs exeept one or two small shoats. W* S. <J. C. (communicated ) Richmond County ffatur Power. Messrs. Editors : In an editorial pub lished a few days since in the Chronicle & Sentinel, reference was made to several fine Mill sites and water powers in j this (Richmond) county. The mill owned j by Mr. H. Rowley and tbe truly magmfi- j cent water power just below it were .iot J mentioned —at the mill there is a fall of j twenty feet and just below with a small j embankment thirty feet fall could very j readily be obtained. The mill is located upon a creek that rists upon Rowley’s own land, the springs which form, it being about two miles above. There is an un f ailing supply of water and, from its clear ness (not being affe<*ed by the rains), | would no doubt be a desirable location for ' a paper mill. The creek upon which the : mill is located I do not think has a name; at least I have never heard the name of it, it is but a few miles long, rising, as stated above, two mile’ above the mill and losing , its identity about the same distance below, in Butler’s Creek. The mill is situated pbout one and a half miles from Bel Air, on the Georgia Railroad, aDd about two and a half miles from the Southwestern Plank Bead. Piney Woods. [COMMUNICAIED.j Richmond County, Georgia, 1 Januaiy 18, 1868. ) Messrs. Editors: —Yonr editorial of the 14th inst., relating to tke water power of this county was exceedingly well-timed. Permit me to add to it by stating that practical men estimate that Butler s Creek affords power to run about 25,000 6pindles, and Big Spirit Creek 75,0001 to 100,000 spindles. If the views ,of “Mcßean in yonr issue of the 11th inst., could be car ried out and a Wooden Railroad to run from Augusta to Sandersville via Louis ville, how much more v&ter power ooold be utilized, and all mace tributary to Au gusta, besides what increase of trade would be added to your city in the shape of cot ton, lumber, wood, Ac. 1 YY ill those in terested begin to figure the matter up . I think it worthy, of prompt consideration. Countryman. COMMUNICATED. Augusta, January 18,1869. Chronicle & Sentinel : In pursuance of the suggestion, by a late correspondent, or a YVooden Railroad on the bed of the old Southwestern Plank Roa4, I desire to say that, being a freeholder dong that line, 1 will subscribe five hundred dollars in (ash for stock therein, and especially if Mr. Adam Johnston will be President thereof. Countryman. I OUR NIW YORK CORRESPONDENCE. SPECIAL qpRRBE PONDXNCX CHRONIC LX A 8 RATIN'XL. New York, January 15th, 1869. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel: —Though the drain of money to invest in the South is much less now iu volume than it was some weeks back, this is only to be under derstood of actual aud tangible investment on the spot. The confidence in Southern recuperation is, from all the sources ex information open to me, and some of them are exceedingly correct, undiminished, if not actually on the inereasa, though the manifestations of this confidence have of late been chiefly seen iu the increased ac tivity in Southern securities. Some little time back it was the exception that South ern State bonds were quoted, but the con trary is so much the ease new that I no tice this very morning that Alabama, Ten nessee, Virginia, North Carolina and Louisiana are on the call, the quotations being Virginia 6’s 57 ; Tennessee 6’s 69 ; North Carolina 6’s 65 ; Alabama s’s 93 ; and Louisiana 6’s 73. Alabama stands so well, partly from the fact her foreign creditors were duly paid their interest in gold clear through the war, aud partly from the careful nursing her finances re ceived from Governor Patton. Lousiana also stands well, leading the six per cents, as you will see, the wonderful tales reach ing here of the immense profits of sugar-planting sending her credit up. Beside the financial feature of this exhibit, there [s an important political deduction to be drawn therefrom. The wretched character of the creatures who now call themselves Governors, State Treasurers, Legislators and so on in the South, is quite well known here, and if it were believed such a malignant and rapacious spawn were to hold power for any length of time, Southern securities would uot reach the figures quoted or be in the demand mentioned. That the thing is too bad to last is the current monetary impression, and as the present bonded in debtedness of the South is not great and the States are naturally rich and now re cuperating,) it can be seen how, in an ticipation of a speedy return to honest, local government, these bonds advance. Considering the confidence thus exhibited by so proverbially timid a thing as capital in the not far distant righting of the South, and considering, further, the very respect able and even influential attitude into which the natural wealth of that region is taising it, even as the buoyancy of cork prevails, when uninterrupted, over the rspressive force of the water iu which it may be submerged, it does certainly seem strange that one should have tc record some unprecedented indi cations of an absolute surrender of Southern political interests to Radical bribery. It is time to sound the alarm at onoe and let it be known that there are secret machinations now in progress, in almost every single State of tho South to procure a formal acquiescence on the pgrt of the people thereof in the horrid and detestable dogma of negro suffrage. Hav ing failed in its effort to force the South to this step, the Radical leaders are now re sorting to the infinitely more dangerous expedient of seduction. Money, place, and the removal of disabilities are the agencies to be freely used in this iniquitous effort, and I distinctly warn you that if the effort be not already making in Georgia you will soon see the damnable conspiracy rear its head in your midst. The so called “new movement” —though it is indeed no new movement but as old as the days of Judas—in Virginia is the development in that State of this new crusade against the just and natural political supremacy and monopoly of the white race. In Missis sippi efforts are making to the same end and a portion ofthe press there is agitating the subject of a convention to commit the citizens of the State to negro equality. Even in Texas there are some outcroppings to the same general effect, and in North Carolina and Tennessee the wires are duly laid. In South Carolina the unfortunate expressed willingness of some worthy gentlemen, who know uot what they do, to take negro suf frage on qualified terms, is made to give strength to the move, and only in Florida, Arkansas, Louisiana, Alabama and Geor gia, is the rascality iu abeyance. A deter mined and persistent effort is on foot to procure tho absent ot the South to tho equality of its late negro slaves. That there is some such thing, now is known, but it is felt by these Radical leaders that it only exists by brute force, and under the solemn protest of tho helpless people on whom it is imposed. When the force goes, as it must, ere long go, it is seen that the whole fab ric of niggerism must fall, and to prevent this, it is sought to obtain such an acquies cence in its legality from the South as may oontiuue it in being exvi consent. In one word, these infernal scroundrels want the South to sell itself into political impotence by assenting to that which can never have any real vitality without such ac quiescence. The great argumeut is that it is inevitable, it is a “fixed fact,” and since it must be admitted, something might as well be made out ofthe admission. All this is false. If it were fixed beyond the possi bility of a change; if it were inevitable then why bother further about the matter ? The very effort is prime evidence that it is not fixed, for if it were fixed why the effort ? I would that I could sit dowu by every man who will be so soon called on to meet this new emergency and oould tell him of what I have seen and heard of the scoun drel intents and purposes of these Radical Congressmen; how carefully I have studied this Reconstruction scheme of theirs from its very inception to the present day ; how I have personally witnessed its operation in every stage from the debates in the pros tituted Capitol at Washington to those felon assemblages of base white men and poor, misguided freedmen that meet in the South under the forged title of Conven tion, from Atlanta to New Orleans. Not a step in all this process but is marked with the greatest villainy, fraud, violence, and falsehood, and for one, in the name of all that i» good and dear, I do adjure and entreat tbe utter spurning of any acqui escence aud the constant and unflinching declaration that this is a white man’s 1 country, made by white men and for white men, and by white men to be administered only. The negro, poor fellow, is not at fault; he is entitled to liberty and logal j protection, but not to rule with or over ! that noble white race that is the glory of the world. Reconstruction is the bastard, misformed child of the bayonet; let it live so long as the bayonet continues ; but for ! Heaven’s sake, no putting the breath of life into its body by consent. I I have written thus warmly because I feel deeply and because 1 know the terrific I magnitude of that effort which is now i making. It is the last assault of the ene- | my. If it can be beaten this year and God j sends a good crop in the fall, we can laugh ■ any further effort of these beasts to soorn. Jubal A. Early is to put on his harness in Virginia against the move, having writ ten to a Richmond friend on the sth inst., that he was coming back from Canada to take part in the good fight, and I trust that his words will strike a key-note that will be the prelude to a chime of triumph. '•lam sorry," says the old Trojan, “to see that a proposition is mooted by some of our people for a compromise on the basis of universal (including negro) suffrage and universal amnesty. I shall come back prepared to resist it to the bitter end. I cannot consent to be bribed by any such expedient into a sacrifice of principle. Ret us maintain our honor if we lose all else.’ As to matters in this city, Mammon is in a bad way. Trade is exceedingly dull, even down to the local traffic, and no end of explanations are given of the cause. The truth, however, would appear to be ! that the revulsV. of t.ie war is beginning to make it-eb left. The high prices paid the West, spoiled that section; it cannot bear to come down :o lower figures for its pork, beef and < • , and to a con siderable extent is holdir : tor a rise. This deranges matters here, which in turn acts unfavorably Westward, and 90 u the ac tion and reaction a depressing level is reached. Mammon being thus in a leth argy, religion, or, rather, theology, is in quite a lively state. So generalan interest in polemics does not seem to have been felt for years. Chief in importance of these current issues is the great ritualism ques tion, and just now quite a hub-bub is mak ing over it. The highest law court’ in England has just decided that no lights, ! rites, robes, incense, genuflections, &c., are admissible, unless expressly mentioned in ; the Book of Prayer, and as the ritualists have been carrying all before them, on the i ground that things not prohibited by the ! rubric werejpermissive, you can see the moral weight of the decision hits them be tween wind and water. Great is the rejoicing of the low-Churchites, but nothing daunted, the high-Church brethren light their tapers and em broider their robes and sling about their incense with refreshing indifference to all the judges of England and America, and Israel to boot. In the Catholic faith the most noteworthy incidents are the amaz ing spread of that doctrine, and the favor with which the discourses of Rev. Dr. Anderaon, a converted spirtualiat, are re ceived The Baptist and Presbyterian 1 churches present no prominent points of in- I terest, and it would be well if the same ! could be written of so respectable an or ganization as the Methodist, though un appily it is the ease that this church is, ! by indiscreet persons of its communion, | made odious by a persistent tinkering with I politics. It is deeply tinctured with the worst isms of the day, and is taken into account by Radical politicians as a cam paign instrumentality of no mean power. The telegraphic art is the recipient of much study at present, and no little in terest is felt in some investigations and experiments whieh work to increased celerity in the terminal service of the wires. The actual transmission of a message is practically iostanianious, but there are many necessary delays in receiving in formation at ODe end and sending it forth at the other, and to obviate these binder ances is the object sought. How far pres ent efforts will succeed does not appear, but a great deal of professional knowledge is engaged, and it is but fair to expect some substantial results. Tbe acme of the art is tc put into type at New Y'ork a speech delivered at New Orleans, with uo per ceptible delay, and chimerical as this may appear, it will doubtless yet be done. Vll that is needed is for the reporter at New Ofleans to telegraph iu short hand to the “composing” stand in New York of a printer who can put into type as the char- I acters appear before him, and the thing is i done, so that before the speaker’s voice has ! died upon the air in Louisiana, the reader’s j eye may light upon his language in New York. Tyrone Powers. j FROM WASHINGTON. Correspondence of the Baltimore Ifazettc. Washington, Jammy 15. 1869.—The country need not be told that the dominant party in Congress are wholly unable to overcome the difficulties which lie in the path of general quiet and prosperity. The currency question, it will be perceived, has been given up iu utter despair. The ad justment of the tax laws, internal and ex ternal, consistently with the imperative demands of business men, is a matter con fessedly beyond the power of Radical lead ers. All this is made plain enough by the daily proceedings of Congress. But I have specific information that differences of opinion upon these important subjects, together with that of “reconstruction” itself, is the least of the troubles in the ene my's camp. The members in both Houses of Congress are cut up into a dozen irrec oncilable) cliques; among whom .personal bitterness exists such as was never before witnessed between leaders of opposite political parties. These feuds have even led to the interruption of social relations between prominent men popularly supposed to be sworn bosom friends politically and personally ! It was with regret that the public saw General Grant descend in propria persona to contradict the ridicu lous "revelations” of the New York World. But when it is understood that these pretended disclosures were instigated by parties having Cabinet aspirations and who had not sufficiently concealed their tracks, the wonder will cease—the obliga tion of the “ coming man” to interpose a denial became imperative. Under the pe •oliar circumstances, and considering the prominence of the parties at the bottom of the affair, tbe individuals so unmerci fully handled could do no less than demand an official contradiction. It has come to my knowledge that Gen. Grant has not yet consulted any of the Radical leaders as to the general formation of his Cabinet. A gentleman very prom inent for such a position publicly said so last night. In this connection lam re minded that although the list of names I furnished on Wednesday will be found ul timately correct in the main, yet I had mis conceived my informant in some particu lars. Mr. Wells will undoubtedly be made Secretary of the Treasury, if Morgan shall be re-elected to the Senate. If not, Morgan will go into the Cabinet. In either case room will be given for a New Eng land man. Mr. Sumner demanded the disposition of the State Department. It was therefore necessary to confront him with a man of the calibre, antecedents and status with the party of Stanton. From the Atlanta Intelligencer. A Land and Immigration Bureau. We lay before our readers the bill which has been introduced into the Legislature entitled, “An Act to create a Land and Immigration Bureau for the State of Geor gia.” That such a bureau under the charge of a competent commissioner, would promote the best interests of the State, no intelligent individual, we presume, will deny. The bill itself which has been in troduced, in its details, sufficiently explains the objeots to be attained in the creation of the bureau: Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and Home of Representatives in Seneral Assembly met, That there shall be oreated a Land and Immigration Bureau in and for the State of Georgia. Sec, 2. There shall be eleoted by the Legislature a Chief Commissioner, with a salary of two thousand dollars per annum, whose office shall be at the capital, with power to use an official seal. Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of said Chief Commissioner to supervise and direct all officials connected with the Bureau of Immigration ; to prepare such publica tions as he may consider necessary for a full understanding, at home and abroad, of the aims of the Bureau ; and the induce ments which Georgia offers to settlers and capitalists from the United States and from Europe ; to cause them to be printed in such languages as he shall deem neces sary ; to cause the preparation of a map of the State showing the usual features of a complete geographical map, geological formation, isothermal lines, and zones of the leading staples and most important agricultural products ; to prepare a digest of the laws of the State touching the holding and transfer of real estate, and to prepare a schedule of the State taxation, comparing the same with such other States as he shall deem to offer suitable comparison. To have sole charge of the emigration from the other States of the Union, and to facilitate and arrange the settlement of all such as shall apply to his office ; to locate and settle all the emigrants from Europe. To see that suitable lands are at all times entered on the books of his office for the settlement of foreign and domestic emigrants, by the landholders of the State, with terms of sale or rent distinctly stated, which terms cannot be altered whilo the lands remain for settlement on his books ; that no lands shall be received by him for settlement, except as are of his own knowledge, or by proper vouchers, suita ble for the settlement of emigrants ; that all lands entered shall bo accompanied by proper descriptions (schedules for which descriptions he shall prepare and furnish upon application to laud-owners), and by a survey of such lauds ; that he shall solicit, receive and hold in trust free donations of lands for emigrant settlers, said lands to have the priority of settlement over all others entered an the bocks of his office; to transmit from time to time oopies of the land-descriptions to each of the European commissioners ; to see that the titles of such lands are clear, and that such lands are unencumbered—the expenses of all such descriptions, su-veys, and examinations of titles and of freedom from encumbrances, to be borne by the landholder. To collect and receive all commission fees for the settlement of lands, immediate ly upon the conclusion of the bargain be tween immigrant and landholder for the purchase or lease of lands; also, the com mission fees that may be due for tbe pro curement of agricultural laborers, artizans, and mechanics, etc., to make regular pay ments to the foreign agents appointed, and domestic agents he may employ, of their shares ofthe commission fees to which they may be entitled. To establish a suitable Emigrant Land ing Depot in the city of Savannah, in which emigrants, upon their landing, may receive shelter; to license suitable board ing, bouse keepers in that oity, who shall agree to board and entertain emigrants at a rate of compensation to be fixed by him; to appoint a bank, merchant, or broker, at whose offioe the emigrants from abroad may I exchange, at current rates, foreign for ! United States moneys. : To sec that no infectious diseases be | brought by emigrants : that such as may ■ land in a state of sickness be placed in a | hospital; to appoint one or more emigrant physicians who shall agree to attend emi | grants at fixed rates; to permit no crim ! inal, poor-house and work-house pepuia j tion to land. To establish such regulation as may pro tect the emigrant from imposition by de- I signing persons; to permit none but au i thorized persons to enter the Emigrant Landing Depot; that he shall receive, in -1 vestigate and cause to be redressed, all i claims for damages by foreign emigrant ; passengers, on account of insufficient ac- S oommoaations, bad or insufficient food and harsh treatment on ship-board, and that he have power to seize any vessel against which such claims shall be brought, and hold it until such claims for damages may be decided by the proper Court. To keep a book in which tbe datos of ; arrival, ship names, ages, sexes, nativity, occupation and the money means brought of all emigrants are recorded, also inhere they settle, or the occupations thev elect, I how much land purchased or leased and on NEW SERIES, VOL. XXVIII. NO. 4. I what terms, that he shall make th; requi site Contracts at stipulated rates to for ward emigrants by Railroad or Steamboat to the interior of the State. That he finally submit a yearly report of his operations, and those of the officials of 1 the Bureau, to the Governor. Sec. 4. There snail be one or more Eu ; ropean Commissioners appointed by the Governor, upon the nominations of the j Chief Commissioner of Bureau. Said Eu ropean Commissioners shall have power to appoint local agents in Europe. The salary of European Commissioners and the per centage upon sales of lands allowed to local agents shall be prescribed by the Chief Commissioner. Sec. 5. There shall be elected by the Legislature three persons who shall consti tute the State Board of .Immigration, whose duty it shall be to meet quarterly at the office of Chief Commissioner and to examine into the eonduet of the Bureau, and shall report quarterly the result of suoh examination. They shall also be an advisory body to the Chief Commissioner. Said Board shall be paid their travelling expenses and five dollars per day each, whilst in actual discharge of duty, but for not longer than five days at any one ses sion. Sec. 6. The Chief and European Com missioners shall receive, in addition to their salaries, 2-j per cent, each, arising | from sales of lauds made to emigrants, and , charges upon hires of labor of emigrants '' furnished by each respectively, provided i all liabilities of the Bureau have been paid. ; Said per centage, to beappropriated by reso- i lution ofthe State Board of Immigration at j their fourth quarterly meeting. Sec. 7. In order to make the Bureau a 1 self-sustaining institution the Chief Com missioner is hereby authorized to oolleot from the landholder 5 per cent, of the value of all lands sold to emigrants ; to col lect from the employer $5 per capita on all laborers and domestics furnished, at the rate of $5 per annum on leases to tenants, and $lO for every skilled laborer, mechan ic, artizan and miner. Sec. 8. The Chief and European Com missioners shall be removeable from office by the Governor, upon the advice of the Board of Immigration, showing satisfac tory cause. Sec. 9. The persons elected to constitute the State Board ot Immigration shall hold office for the term of two years; and, in the event of the resignation of any person, the Governor shall fill such vacancy. Sec. 10. In order to carry out the pro- j visions of this till, the sum often thousand dollars is hereby appropriated for the year j 1869, and the Governor shall draw his j warrant upon the Treasury for this amount in such sums as shall be called for by the State Board of Immigration. Great Cry and Little Wool. A telegram from a gentleman in Wash ington city to three citizens in Georgia (the proprietor of this Journal beiDg ofthe three) has been widely circulated and with the transformation which always attends tales ot wonder, has been alluded to by an Augusta cotemporary as containing the ad vice of Gen. Grant to the Legislature of Georgia. The dispatch recommends the General Assembly to refer the question of the eligibility of negroes to office to the Supreme Court; not to allow any excite ment in passing the legislation necessary for the State; and having done all that is needed to adjourn, adding that in conversa tion with Gen. Grant, the author learned that Gen. Grant thought that such a course would be the best under thecircum stances. The following is the dispatch: WASHtNOTON, January 12, 1869. To Hon. E C. Cabiness, Gen. J. B. Gor don and J■ I. Whitaker : In conversation with Gen. Grant I learn that he thinks it will be best to pass the joint resolution referring the right of the colored citizen to hold office to the courts and adjourn. I have written to you at Atlanta. What ever legislation is necessary for tbe State should be done wiihout excitement. An swer. Nelson Tift. We do not believe that Mr. Tift intend ed to convey the idea that Gen. Grant de sired to advise the Georgia Legislature as to what they should do or leave undone; and still we do not believe that General Grant had the least idea in any conversa tion he may have had of dictating to the Legislature, or that his conversation would have been published and circulated for the purpose for which it has been used. We have already expressed our opinions on the question involved.— We cannot see how the General Assembly can submit the question of its own consti tutional privileges over whieh it has ex clusive jurisdiction to a co-ordinate and co-equal branch of the government, nor do we see, if' it did attempt to adopt so extra ordinary a course, how the judiciary could take jurisdiction of the subjeot. The General Assembly, as the sole judge of the qualifications, eleotions, and returns of its own members, determined to exclude certain negroes who claim to be elected to the Senate and House of Representatives. Neither the Executive nor the Judiciary had any power or authority to waive that determination. The bare question of the eligibility of ne groes to office may easily be brougnt be fore the court. We believe that a negro now holds the office of Ordinary in Mc- Intosh county. The white man who re ceived the next highest number of votes may bring up the matter by a simple writ of quo warranto, and thus obtain the judg ment of the courts, if that is all that is needed. In no case oan tho Supreme Court re view the action of the Legislative branch of the government touching the eligibility of its own members. —Atlanta Intelli gencer. . Georgia Items. Columbus has a population of 10,P00, and its suburbs an additional 4,000. A movement is on foot to establish an ice manufacturing business in Columbus. A oolored girl ten years old was acci dentally burned to death at Hawkinsville on the 9th. Anew Lodge of Odd Fellows was insti tuted at Savannah on Thursday night. It is called Ilaupt Lodge No. 58. The Cuthbert Ajtpeal says the late war between the Southwestern & Atlantic and Gulf Roads has cost the former $700,000. B. W. Keaton, before the war one of the heaviest planters in Early county, shot himself through the head last week. E. S. Candler, ex-Comptroiler General of Georgia, was buried in Atlanta on Thursday. At a meeting of the Radical members o the Columbus City Council a resolution was prepared requesting the Mayor to have a bill drawn up, to be passed by the Leg islature, authorizing an election for muni cipal officers at an early day. Columbus rejoioes over the dispersion, to the country, of most ot her loafing freed men. Total receipts of cotton at Columbus since Sept. Ist, 1868 (including 280 bales stock at that date), 33,694 bales ; total shipments 20,618 ; stock 13,076. The net receipts of the Memorial Con certs in Savannah and Macon amounted to one thousand nine hundred dollars. The Atlanta Constitution learns that the Trustees of the Georgia State Lottery have purchased the "Pope Place,” con taining about twenty acres, situated with in the corporate limits of that oity, for the purpose of erecting thereon an asylum for the worthy indigent widows and orphans of our State. Mr. Stephens is at Athens, and is stop ping with Dr. Lipscomb. Mrs. Cox, of MacoD, has, for the last two years, educated seventy-five orphan children, providing them with books and stationery at her own expense. A party of hands from the up country were going to their work on the Brunswick I road the other day, when a gun, in the ■ hands of afreedman, discharged, killing a white man, and seriously wounding a negro in the face. Petitions for final discharge from bank- I ruptcy were filed Monday at Savannah by William 8. Royal, of Augusta, and George B. Hack, Lawtonville, Burke county. We learn from the News that Judge Schley held a short session of the Su perior Court Monday, at Savannah.— Nothing was done of any public interest. The case of Dr. J. J. Waring vs. the Geor gia Medical Society, was continued until Monday next, at 11 o’clock. A boy Darned O’Keif, in Atlanta, had bis arm and leg horribly mangled by two ferocious dogs on Saturday. * Reuben Buchanan, negro, was instantly killed at Atlanta, on Saturday, by being run over by the cars. Judge S. A. McLendon and family have just returned from Brazil to Fort Gaines. Brooks County Election.— The fol lowing is the official returns of the late election held in Brooks county for Clerk of Superior Court and Sheriff, as given in the Quitman Banner. For Clerk of Court —William Hudson, 330; S. W, Brooks, 239; J. M. Bushin, 97. For Sheriff—J. H- BrowD, 475: J. A. Magruder, 79; R. M. Jones, 82. BY TELEGRAPH. PROM ATLANTA. m j SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CHRONICLE <fc SENTINEL. Proceedings of the Legislature—Bids In ti oduced Motion to Adjourn defeated. Atlanta, January IS, p. m.—The fol lowing business was transacted by the Legislature to-day: A resolution to give the Tax Collectors I until next March was introduced. Re ! lerred to the Committee. Wooten’s resolution calling on the Gov j eruor for evidence that law and order are i unknown in Georgia, was rescinded, but Wooten’s preamble with Nunnally's reso lution, referring the whole matter to a special committee of live, was adopted. A bill was introduced in the Senate en couraging immigration into the State. Also a bill providing that in the event of the inegibility of persons elected to office be- I mg declared, that the candidate receiving the next highest number of votes shall not receive the office, but that anew election shall be ordered. In the House, Duncan introduced a res olution that the Legislature should take a rooess from the 26th of January until the third Mouday iu June next On u minion to suspend the rules for its crmwderstiep, tho rules were not suspended, nor the res olution taken up. O’Neal introduced 9 resolution repudiat ing all debts duo June, 1865, up to the pres ent date, except those contracted for lands aud effects in the hands of the vendee at that date. Bryant introduced a resolution, declar ing that difficulties existed in the Legisla ture of the State aud nation iu the way of a full restoration of Georgia to the Union, and providing for the appointment of a Joint Committee of six, three of which are to bo chosen from each party, with power to proceed to Washington for tho purpose of arranging matters. On a motion to take up this resolution, the vote stood as follows: in favor of tak ing it up forty-six (46); against taking it up fifty (50). Bethuue introduced a bill to provide for a.jury system: also, directing that Sheriffs have only three sale days—in November, ’December and January of each year. Extension of Tax Collections—The Sharpes Rifle Claims—Railroad Consolidation — The Message Committee—A Deputation to go to Washington Probable, &c., tfc. Atlanta, January 19, p. m.—Both Houses to-day aejopted a resolution to ex tend the time for the collection of Statu taxes until the Ist of March next. The Senate adopted a resolution to in vestigate the claims for Sharpe’s Kille.s purchased by Joe Brown. After considerable discussion a bill was introduced to consolidate tho Savannah, Albany and Gulf Railroad and the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad. No stockholders to vote u n 'oss they own stock ninety days previous to the meeting of the stockhold ers in February next. Notice was given ta reconsider. O’Neal and Darnell, from the Canuniv tee on the Governor’s Message, reported that they could not get a quorum; that some men are here who turned out the negroes ; they can put them back if they wisb, as it is clear by the Constitution aud tho Code that negroes are eligible to seats, while many white members are ineligible under the Third article of tho 14th Amend ment. The committeemen seem ineliued to procrastinate. O’Neal offered a resolution to appoint a Joint Committee of eight to proceed to Washington, have au earnest consultation with Congressmen and report at ail early day. The report and resolution were takfn up and Scott moved to discharge the Com mittee ot ten and refer the message on Reconstruction to the Committee on the State ofthe Republic. He called tho previous question, sus taining which the yeas aud nays refused, tho motion prevailed and, on the adoption of Scott’s substitute, the vote stood, ayes 102, nays 43. The disposition to send a Committee to Washington is increasing here every dav. Builroad Consolidation — Printing —Hate of Interest-Burial of the Confederate Dead—The Washington Delegation—AV gro Office-Holders, etc., Ac. Atlanta, January 20, p. m.—The Sen ate met this morning as usual aud spent most of the session in discussing tbe motion made to reconsider a resolution, passed a few days since, which consoli dates the stock of the Albany and Gulf and the Atlantic and Gulf Railroads, and allows no stockholder to vote at the meeting to bo held in February next who has not purchased his stock ninety days before the assembling of the conven tion of stockholders; the latter clause looking as if it was intended to checkmate Mr. Wadley’sreceutcelebrated manoeuvre. After long arguments from both sides tho motion to reconsider was put and lost; the following being the way iu which the vete upon it stood : In it.J favor, fourteen ; against it, twenty-four. The Committee on Printing made a re port recommending that two hundred oopies of the Journal be printed fer the use of the House, was read and disagreed to. Mr. Ellis, of Spaulding, introduced a bill allowing persons to charge as high as let; per eent. interest lor money loaned ; but if they should charge more than this they should forfeit both principal aud in terest on the amount. Mr. Hall, of Meriwether, introduced a bill to allow Sheriffs in the different coun ties to solemnize marriages. A bill to allow the collection of any in terest agreed upon. A bill to compel persons buying agricul tural products Irom servants to keep a record of the transaction. Mr. Grimes introduced a bill appropriat ing ten thousand dollars to bury the Con federate dead. Mr. Gober offered a bill allowing one party to hire no more than twenty-five penitentiary convicts at a time. Mr. Higdon introduced a bill to make a new county out of Decatur, to be called Jenkins. Mr. O’Neal moved to reconsider the resolution lost yesterday to appoint a Com mittee to go to Washington. The motion to reconsider was lost. Mr. Bethune offered a resolution re quiring the Attorney General and Solici torof the Southern Circuit to institute pro ceedings, against White, the colored Clerk of the Superior Court of Chatham county, and carry tbe same, if necessary, to the Supreme Court of the State; that the claims ofthe negroes to seats in this House be sus pended till the case is decided. Mr. Saussy said that as White’s case was being contested by his opponent, by “ quo warranto, lie thought it unnecessary to trouble the House with it. Bethune thought Georgia fully Recon structed; that Congress had nothing to do in this particular with our Courts; the Legislature was role judge ofthe qualifi cations of its officers. The bill was referred to the Judiciary Committee. Mr. Cloud introduced a Bill to prevent tenants disposing of undivided crops, and giving landlords liens on crops. TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. From Atlanta. : Atlanta, January 20, p. m. -A resolu tion was introduced in tbe House, author : izing the Solicitor General to inquire into the reasons lor a colored person perform ing tbe duties of Clerk of the Superior Court of Chatham eounty, aud institute proceedings against the same, or carry it to the .Supreme Court, if necessary. After much debate, the Resolution was referred to the Judiciary Committee for its decis ion. Tbe member offering tbe resolution claims tnat the State is fully Reconstruct ed, and the Legislature judges of tlie qualifications of State officers, ami Con gress has no right to intei sere. From Columbia. Columbia, January 20, p- m.—A motion will be made in the Supreme Court to morrow against the acting Board of Aider men of the city of Charleston for rule up on them to show cause why they should not be attached for contempt for failure to obey the writ of mandamus issued by the Supreme Court ana orderdiug them to declare tbe recent election for Mayor and of that city.
