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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 10, 1869)
OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI. Chronicle & £ entitle!. IIKMIV MOOKK, A. It. WIUGIIT. PATRICK WALNH, Associate Editor AUGCBTA. GA : v. t.nXKSDAV IMHIII. FEBBI AKVIO. Not the Man. —David Johnson (color ed), bricklayer, asks us to say that be is not the Dan Johnson whose name appears in the list of signatures to the Radical pe tition to Congress, published in the Chronicle k Sentinel on Sunday last. Correction.— J. M. Rhodes, colored, , requests us to state that, though bis name j a]-pears on the list of signatures appended to the Scalawag petition, which appeared in Sunday's issue of the Chronicle k Sentinel, it was put there without his knowledge, and without his consent. That le is a friend of the Southern white people —who arc the true Irieuds of his race —and wouid not have his name appear with the names of the white and black scum who ad ;n the precious document. ‘'Hope Springs Eternal in the He- j MAN Rrkaht."— We learn that the jailor of the late military Council 3. S. I'ardue —announced to his friends yesterday that ! lie had just received a letter from the “Little J'eriarer,” dated at Washington j city, in which the latter writes him to tell i his party here to keep in good spirits; to ; be of good cheer; that in a short time the I case of Georgia would come up before Con- , gr<-.- and that he (the Little Perjurer)' ha i every reason to believe that within thirty days ‘the State would again be re- \ constructed and the municipal government ; ol Augusta be placed once more in the hands of the true friends of the govern ment. Vicksiii rtu a.nii Charleston.—Just think of it (says the Vicksburg, Miss., Time* of the 28th ultimo), throne mighty city situated away cast, washed by the salt waters of the great Atlantic, and the other historic, brave little Vicksburg—resting on the banks of, as Mr. Calhoun called it, “that great inland sea," connected with one another, linked together by one long line of railroad, over wliic-h the iron horse speeds his way on an unbroken road, and in almost as mauy hours as it formerly would have taken weeks. Yesterday wu had the pleasure of ineet ing.iu the most completely arranged, ele gant and sumptuous car that we ever saw, 11. T. Peak.:, lv-q,, Central ■Superintendent of the South Carolina Railroad, the eastern terminus of the Palmetto line, Captain "Jim" Meredith (and a merry “Jim” ho is), train dispatcher at Augusta, Thomas Rigby, Vice-President, and Colonel E. F. Haworth, General Superintendent, and Captain Geo. D. Lawrence, Master of Transportation Vicksburg and Meridian Railroad, who met, together with our friends of the Herald, to break a bottle over the sueocss of this important and lengthy line The completion of this line of railroads is well deserving of rejoicing. It puts us within less than seven duys freight connec tion with Now York, and places us at hand shaking distance with all the large markets of the East. It gives us trans portation for our cotton direct with all eastern and foreign markets. Vicksburg aspires to a rival-hip with the Crescent City, uud to her railroad com munications sho must look for the meats to build her up, and we view the completion of the gr at Palmetto line as a long stride in the work. The Augusta and Columbia Kail ROAD. —There was a meeting of tho Presi dent and Directors of the Augusta k Co lumbia Railroad held in this city on last Saturday. At this meeting it was an nounced, we arc gratified to say, that if no further interruption bo experienced, by tho 10th day of next April its track would be laid to the South Carolina bank of the Savannah river,and trains run over theen tire route from Augusta to Columbia. This will be welcome intelligence, we are con vinced, to tho people of this city, who have so long and impatiently awaited the completion of this great, enterprise. It is a well established and indisputable fact that railways always enhance greatly the prospeiity of their termini; but especially do we believe this will ho the case with this road, destined, as it. is, to become the most importaut link in the railroad chain which will term the shorto.-t and, conso qucntly, speediest through route between the cities of New York and New Orleans. Iu the meantime, while the road is being rapidly constructed from Graniteville to the Savannah,preparations are being made to build a handsome ami substantial bridge over that stream to connect it with Au gusta. An experienced corps of engineers ha”o been here for sometime, engaged in selecting the best locality for the structure, which will be erected at the foot of cither Mclntosh, Jackson or Campbell street, and the mills are sawing thousands of feet of lumber to be used in building the same. The prospect certainly is encouraging, aud we earnestly hope the anticipations of (ho President and Directors may be realized. Cotton in England.—The London Shipping Gazette, of Saturday, January 9—the latest date received by mail—has the following interesting article : “The course of the eotten trade during IS6S was simply one of progression. In all departments considerable activity was apparent. The quantities taken for borne consumption were large, and the rnanu lecture of cotton goods was on a most cx ! n-ivf sc vie. Prices, therefore, advanced, a el till quite the close of the year -til de scriptions were held with great firmness. Those who calculated upon a oon-iderable decline in the quotations as the result of Dearly au average crop in the United States in 1867 hare been greatly disap pointed. But what has really occurred in the market to depreciate the value of cot ton ? The lucrea-e in the consumption, as far as regards the Liverpool market only, has been equal to $282 750 bales; spinners generally, from the immense uumber of orders coming lorward, have operated with great freedom; and the price of cot ton has steadily advanced. In order to show more fully the position of the trade as regards price, wr may ob serve that the weekly average value of Middling New Orleans cotton, for ten years prior to the American war, was 6}d per lb. The average last year was lOjd per lb. \\ t liave long contended that nothing short >! two heavy crops in Ameri ca could j -My reduce the quotations more than 2 , per lb. \Ye are still of the same opinion. Ucause the wants of the wortd arc me:ea-iug, and because,in a gene ral wa\, they can only be met on safe prin ciples at low prices. Ihe last crop of cot ton in Amen i will, no doubt, be found fully equal ,o 2.700,000 bales, and the pro duce in India will be fully equal to most former seasons. Sufi, » large growth will not, at our present rate of eousuuiption, have any’ mastriai influence upon the quo tations. Ihe accounts for Liverpool, made up to the 31st ultimo, shows the following results: 8 DC. Coe- ActttG ToUI ; m v ~'WB. sun.|*»> u. kx-o'*, combined - v; w.vo 4 vs-• ! livT***' 1544.3 104^ Itec.oo. M • Fair Fiur l#t :*• $ Sj* lb. j; Ek r>*- Dboi. Winter T« - .* !,«: 7s > as i*\ 10 © U*v...1l L>s 10 « >•, < | a i-i I’, o * The actual stocks, as will be seen, arc very moderate for the time of year. For tuuately for the spinners aud manufactur ers of cloth, the exports of cotton last year were 129,298 bales less than in 1867. Had they been on the increase, the price of middling New Orleans cotton at the close of 1868 would have been fully la. per lb. In 1848 middling New Orleans cotton was selling as low as4d. per lb., owing to its abundance. Now it is worth lid. per lb. Upon the strength of the latter figure, the growers in America will make great efforts to increase their cultivation. They may do so with perfect safety, since it is evident that wo shall not be likely to see tbeir pro duce down to6d. per lb. SOUTHERN PRESS COSVBNTIOX. In consequence of the meeting of the Direct Trade Convention at Knoxville, Toon., the Convention of the Southern Press Association, called to meet at Mobile on the 10th of February, is postponed until Wednesday, February 17th. Every South ern Prerf is earnestly exhorted to be repre sented at the time and place specified. A. R. Lamar, President Southern Press Association. Emigration. Messrs. Lorring k Atkinson, cotton brokers of Boston, send us the following circular letter : Editors Chronicle k Sentinel . Dear Sirs —Being desirous of collect ing information relative to cotton-culturc and of showing to how small an extent the great capacities of the Sou h for the pro duction of the staple has as yet been de veloped, we respecfully request answers to the questions proposed in the accompany ing blank. We think it can be made evident to the Cotton Supply Association of England, and the manufacturers of Germany aad Franco that they will be far more sure of a regular supply if they would turn their attention to the development of the staple in America, by promoting emigration, aud in other ways,rather than waste more time in the effort to increase the production of an inferior staple iti India, the only other country from which any material inctease can be expected. We desire to collate all such information as may have a bearing upon the subject, to prepare a digest therefrom, and issue the same in a circular, to be sent to cotton spinners in this country and in Europe and to'each correspondent, who favors us with an answer to our inquiries. Your co-operation is respectfully re quested. Please give at length any practical inform ation with which you can favor us relative to cotton culture, and with regard to the present and prospective conditions of labor, and the comparative production to be ex pected therefrom, or any general facts or views concerning the staple which may be of value to those interested in the subject: Where is your plantation situated ? Is your land upland or bottom land, and what is its nature ? How many acres in all ? How many acres under cultivation ? How many acres in cotton in 1868 ? How many acres in corn ? How many hands did you employ— white? black? How many mules did you employ ? How many horses or cattle ? What wages have you paid ? What share of crop ? Which system works best? Was there any difficulty in obtaining hands for wop of 1868 ? If so, why ? Did you lose any cotton for want of pick ers ? What did your cotton cost you to raise per lb. in 1868? Please include in the above estimate the following items: a. Rent of land or interest, (a) per cent, on value. h. Uso, wear and repair of tools, gin, cattle, &c., @ per cent, on value. c. Wages, etc., etc. and. If your hands did not their own food, please add the cost of food. What were the items of cost to get your cotton to markot? What arc the charges of factors? What other products than cotton (such as grain or fruit) did you raise in 1868? Please Btate kind and quantity. Did you raise any stock? Please state how many hogs, cattle, sheep. What is the usual rate ol interest on money loaned ? (yearly rate) (monthly rate). What tools do you use, the same as in 1860, or improved tools? What gin works best? Why ? Are you attempting any special im prove* ments in staple ? If'so, please give details. What proportion of seed do you think wasted or lost in cotton culture? What are your means of irrigation ? Do you use any fertilizers? Please state kind and quantity. What is the best way of preparing cot ton seed mauure ? Please give details in full. Do you apply cotton seed to any other uses than planting and manure? What do you expect your cotton to cost you this year (1869) to raise, per lb. ? What was a fair estimate of the cost in 1860? What was the average yield per acre in your quarter in 1868 ? What was it in 1860? If the yield is less this year than in 1860, why is it? What do you expect it to be in 1869, with a fair season? What did the crops bring in your neigh borhood, on the plantations, per lb., in 1868? Will there be more land put into cotton ; this year than last ? llow much do you think? Will it be easier or harder to obtain la borers ? What are the chief needs of your neigh borhood ? Arc the methods of cultivation being changed near you ? Please state particu lars. Are any improved breeds of cattle being introduced ? What is the average size of cotton farms near you ? What was the proportion of land culti vated by black to that cultivated by white in vour county last season ? What is now the average value of land per acre? (Improved). (Unimproved). What was the cost of land in 1S60? (Improved). (Unimproved). Are any new Railroads being built near you ? What is your nearest market? Are the large plantations being divided into cotton farms to any extent in your quarter? Are immigrants wanted ? What inducements can be afforded them? Could they buy land easily near you ? This is au effort for the development of the South which strikes us very favora bly. The object, as we understand it, is to disseminate information among Northern and European capitalists respecting cotton lands and cotton culture, to iuduce a com bination of spinners and cotton growers for mutual advantage, with the view to pro mote emigration when it is needed, the sale of idle aud wild lands to such North ern and European emigrants as are willing and have the capital to embark in cotton culture, and to furnish the farmer with the information as to the best method of obtaining additional labor according to bis wants. We direct the attention of our farmers to this circular, solely with the motive of promoting a proper understanding be tween spinners aud cotton growers, believ ing it will result in aiutal advantage. We would be glad to see each agricultural county collect such information, and will open our columns to their use. Le Dlable a tfuatre —aud Why it was Suppressed. A Northern letter writer gives the fol lowing as the origin of Louis Napoleon's legal action against the French journal Le Diablea Quatre, and the fine of the Edi tors an! the suppression of that Journal: A little sketch of the Dutch Admiral. Verhuel, the reputed father of Napoleon 111., is, perhaps, the true cause of the sup pression of this number of Le Lhable a Quatre (free translation—“ The Devil upon two sticks "). The wood portrait of the Admiral is precisely that of this present reigning majesty of France. “A small mao, with a dull eye, a large nose, narrow brow and smooth hair, large shoulders, muscular arms, heavily made body, and well-shaped leg. No one could fail to rec °? n .’ le . 'be resemblance; and if the Queen of Bpain should reas the article, she would ieei wondertuily encouraged as to the fu t?re®* boy son and heir—the Prince of the Asturias—whose paternal relation, by the *a), is not sowellkoown as were those of the sons ot Queen Hortense. Personal —Colonel Magill, formerly of the First Georgia Regular C. S. A., was in town Tuesday. The gallant Colonel L now of the firm of Godfrey & Magill general agents for Geor gia, South Carolina and Florida, of the St. Louis Mutual Life Insurance Company. We are pleased to know that Colonel Magill is in good health aud that the Com pany which he so ably represents in part, ' is flourishing. A Change In the Northern View of the Condition of the South. It has been to us one of the marvels of Northern journalism that, whilst daily recording an enormous catalogue of crimes in their midst, hitherto it has persistently exhibited the condition of Southern society as little better than that of the barbarous tribes of Africa or, at best, semi-civilized. Day after day Northern journals come to us heavily laden with murders, robberies, rape and arson, and every other crime embraced in the criminal record : murders most atrocious and remorseless as deeds of Thugs; robberies of the greatest magnitude and exhibiting the boldest daring, and all other crimes displaying the greatest de pravity and degradation. Take the daily record of any of our Northern con temporaries and the reader can hardly credit that they furnish a true exponent of the condition of an enlightened and Christian community, or trustworthy evidences as to the criminal occurrences, either as to the number or depravity of a section of the world marked upon the Christian’s map, as with Christian light, and boasting itself as the model for the observance of law and order. It is true that Northern Journalism is always faithful in making up its records. Nothing is omitted ; nothing seetm to es cape the vigilance of their reporters. Police reports and the proceedings of the criminal courts are given with minuteness and detail ■ great energy and activity is displayed in ferreting out all the missing details and supplementing official ignor anee. But these things seem to be only designed to exhibit the enterprise of Jour nalism in catering for and ministering to public taste, and to reap rich harvests by the profitable extension of circulation. They are displayed in sensational headings, in glaring capitals, depicting the enormity of the crime or the cunning of the perpe trators or the vigilance and ingenuity of the.eaptors of the culprit. The short hand writer gives the minutiaj of the trial and the testimony of witnesses. The local, per chance, afterward “does” the descrip tive scenes, which follow upon judicial sentence, and that ends the sensation. The condition of society which gives birth to such enormous catalogues of such enormous crimes, rarely excites comment or animadversion. Now and again we read that a gang of plug-uglies now rule Boston, or a jest about Chicago morals, or an elaborate dissertation on National faith, when three or four foreign prisoners are wrested from the hands of the officers of the law and from the place of their incarceration, and the iron railings of a jail are extemporized as a gallows; or a Round table reveals how gracefully the elite can reel from a Metropolitan Restaur ant ta asilver-mounted Brett; and occasion ally a gazette rudely sundering the ties of party, exposes and condemns Senatorial complicity with frauds upon the poor Indians and frontiersmen covering tens of millions; or a Rogers’ murder and robbery in broad daylight upon a metropolitan thoroughfare, shocks the public sense and provokes public discussion by Metropolitan journals. But in the main the Northern public seem well content with its morality, and tho Northern press champions its society as the judge of all that is pure and all that is excellent, and all that is of good report. In the meanwhile, cither interest or in clination, or desire,excludes, as far as pos sible, from public discussion surrounding eviL, which promises, at no distant day, to overwhelm, by holding up to view pictures of the terrible condition of “society down South” to beguile the public mind. The temper of Southern society is made to appear as barbarously cruel and ma lignant, and governed by all the impulses and all the sentiments of the savages. It is represented as a very Pandemonium ; where ail that is mean, and all that is miser able, and all that is diabolical reigns su preme. The telegraph is brought to bear to justify the pictures and flashes trivial occurrences on the wildest rumors to meet the demand. Penny liners write fictions, and multiply and exaggerate ac tual occurrences, as bread wit; and even high officials either report or publish all that can be gathered suitable in kind, which will minister to their importance or aggrandize ment. Such has been the current of rep resentations as to the condition of South ern society. But we are glad to note the 1 beginning of anew epoch ; and we are glad to no e that hereafter we may expect fairer, more correct representations of our feelings and conditions from that class of journals which hitherto has contributed most of detraction and disparagement of the South as a section, and pandered most to the false views and false estimates of the Northern public. As an evidence of reparation for past mis representation, and as an evidence of a desire to do our section some little justice in the future, we publish elsewhere an ar ticle from the Tribune which admits that wc are uot half as wicked as wc are repre sented, and that we are'becoming more civilized and orderly, hope the lribune will keep on this line and abandon its vi lification and wholesale abuse and misrepre sentation of the South, and Southern socie ty in general. The Fallacy of Protection. The depression felt in every branch of industry in the North and East, and the fearfully collapsed condition of the naviga tion and commercial interests of New Eng land, and the great Middle States, has brought the public mind to a calm and im partial consideration of the causes which has led tothese astonishing aud disastrous results. The more moderate and intelli gent Radicals have already become con vinced that the chief cause for the present stagnation of trade and commerce is found in the high and, iu tnanycases, prohibitory rates of the existing tariff laws. For more than eight years—ever since the control of the Federal Government passed into the hands of the Radical party —the real producing classes of the coun try—those engaged in agriculture, stock breeding and horticulture have been subjected to enormous burthens, in the way of internal and customs taxes, levied with the ostensible purpose to support Government, but in reality fixed and regu lated with the sole view of promoting and advancing the mechanical and manufactur ing interests of a portion of the people of one section of the country. This truth is being daily more fully de veloped, arid just in proportion as the people learn the true cause of their pres ent warn of prosperity, do the mutterings of diseonteut and complaint become more frequent and audible. The New York Nation, a thorough Radical sheet, sounds the alarm for the benefit of its party and labors vigorously to show their leaders that a continuation of the present system will not only break down the party but, in its results, ruin the agricultural classes, while the favored few, for whose benefit high duties are imposed, will, likewise, in the *nd, share in the fate of the produc ing classes. It attempts to show that protection does not benefit the class in whose favor prohibitory laws are passed, but that all interests are involved in a common ruin by the enforcement of such a system. Upon this point it says : “Indiscriminate protection is an absurd ity on its face, because it gives no advan tage to anybody. If the government gives an iron manufacturer the power of raising his prices sixty per cent, on the consumer, he profits by it so long as the farmer, butcher, haker, tailor, shoemaker, land lord and weaver do not raise their prices too; but if, by protecting them also, the Government enables them to raise their AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1“ 1869 prices, its protection to the ironmaster be comes a farce. Nor is it necessary to pro tect all branches of industry to produce the farce; the leading ones are sufficient; be cause a rise there in a few leading products diffuses themselves through all. Yet this is what Congress, for the last seven years, has been trying to do. Having no policy, and apparently no principles of its own, its plan has been to sit and wait for the manu facturers to come and ask for what they want. First comes the ironmaster and gets his sixty per cent; as long as nobody else gets a smaller favor, it is clear gain to him. But he has hardly got home when the wool-grower and cotton spinner and lumber dealer and coal miner arrive and claim the same thing and get it. The result is that all prices are raised sixty per cent, and the iron master finds at the end of a year he is just where he uxis before. He accordingly goes back the next year and claims more pro tection and gets it; the others, hearing of this, do the same. Members ot Congress take each interest’s own story as to what it wants as conclusive, and the result is the monstrosity called the tariff'. The whole process has been somewhat like an attempt to fill a bucket with a hole in it.” There is a most importaut fact behind all this which the Nation fails to mention. We allude to the injustice which this pol icy works to that large class of our people who depend upon their daily labor for their daily bread. They have nothing to protect. With them, pay advances but fifty per cent.; all the articles which they consume advances from seventy-five to one hundred per cent. They are robbed for the benefit of the “protected” classes, just so far as the price of the article con sumed has advanced beyond the increase of the wages of labor. The Coining uaj. Tho Cincinnati Gazette thus foreshad ows the coming lay : “When all distinctions of color shall have been abolished in the suffrage, and when black men shall have become legislators and administrative officers, then, if we shall have such a thing as state balls taking possession of the Gov ernment buildings to do honor to great state occasions, such, for example, as an inauguration ball so the capitol building, it would be improper to have any different rules for the admission of colored persons. If we forbid any distinctions of color in suffrage and in holding office, we cannot make distincaons of color in the admission of persona to anything that assumes a state character by taking possession of the public buildings. This is a fact we may as well get accustomed to. Private persons have the right to be as exclusive as they choose in their society relations, but no exclusive rules can be set up in the assem blies which take possession of premises be longing to the whole people.” True beyond the shadow of a doubt ! This is the manifest destiny of Radical ism, so surely to be reached that the Ga zette already tells it “as a fact,” that “we might as well become accustomed to,” “if we are to have such a thing as state balls,” or state occasions, or indeed any such a thing as State at all. All will join iu the dance, blacks and whites, and liedlegged Indians, and copper-colored Chine.-e. Shin-digs and break-downs, polkas and, quadrilles, waltzes, and mazourkas ; can cans, and green-corn dances, and Josh dances will make up the National medley at inauguration balls. Stalwart and gal lant ebonies will encircle in the voluptu ous waltz bewitching blondes, and •well sleeked pig-tails will “sport in dalliance soft,” with brilliant brunettes. Black and white, and red and copper-colored will commingle freely and fragrantly at Presi dential levees. The Capitol, and the White House, and Cabinet receptions, and com memoration balls, will all yield welcome to the dear, gloriously amalgamated, sov ereign people. West Point will become parti-colored ; and naval cadets as mottled as Jacob’s cattle. Golden epaulettes, with a white face and yellow sash, will exchange salutes with golden epaulettes with a yellow face aud red sash. Proud old Admirals, of the True Blue, will hobnob and stride the quarter deck with proud old admirals of True Black. The mongrel Nation will be represented by an Ambassador, of ap propriate color, for each of the distinctive races of earth, —Red for the Red (if Sheridan does not kill them ail up), black for the blacks, mulattoes for copper color and browns; and for the whites, just what the greatest amalgamating .Republic on earth chooses to send them. Any one may forecast that the coming statue of liberty will be black, as the truest emblem of equality and fraternity ; as comprehending all that the politician’s head could comprehend, and symbolizing all that the heart of tho wildest fanatic could desire. But who can fore cast the figure justice or the sign by which we shall know it ? Is it not befitting that the present Judi ciary Committee of the Senate of the Unit ed States should inaugurate this glorious era —and shall not the Empire State of the South respond ? Build Factories. We agree with the Columbus Sun and Times, that factories will pay, and that they do pay largely is beyond question, and that they can be operated in the South cheaper, and be enabled to render larger returns to stockholders than those of the North, has been proved to the satisfaction of the most doubtlul. The South has the advantages of climate and producing the raw staple, and hence of procuring cotton at a less price. The city of Augusta offers superior inducements to capitalists. She is situated in the heart of the cotton region, and has as fine water power as can be found on the continent. Investments in manufactories are the best that can be made. From the Sun c£- Times we learn books of subscription have been opened at their office by the directors of the Eagle & Phoenix Manufacturing Company for additional stock. The purpose is to erect another mill equal in capacity to the present one, and procure machinery for the same. The additional stock is not to exceed $450,000 — shares SIOO each—books to be open for thiyy days—subscriptions payable 50 per cent, promptly and 50 per eem. in 99 days. J he company has already a mammoth mill running 9,000 spindles and manufacturing goods not fast enough to fill orders. On their grounds arc gas works and splendid machine shops. The water power is suf ficient to run twenty mills. The opportu nity for investment is superior. We agree with our cotemporary in urg ing manufacturing interests upon our peo ple because of their importance to the South. Sale of the Planters’ Hotel—This well-known and valuable piece of property, situated on the corner of Broad and Mc- Cartain streets, was sold Tuesday morn ing at public outcry in the City Hall, by the United States Marshal. The property which belonged to and was occupied as a hotel by Mr. T. S. Nickerson, was levied upon by the Marshal by virtue of a writ of fieri,facias from the United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of Georgia in favor of Messrs. Haughtwart & Cos., of New York city. The terms of the sale were announced cash, the purchaser to pay for papers, and the property to be pointed out by the plaintiff s attorney. There were but two bids made, one by Barnes and Cumming of $38,500. This was followed by a bid of one hundred dol lars more, and the building (without furniture, fixtures, or supplies), was knocked down to Jacob R Davis, agent, tor the sum of thirty-eight thousand six 1 hundred dollars. Tax on Capital Used by Brokers—Great Excitement in Wall Street. From the N. Y. Sun, Jan. 29. The operators in stocks and securities in Wall street are in a fever of excitement in relation to a movement that has been be gun by Mr. E. D. Webster, Assessor of the Thirty second district, with a view to en forcing the law providing for a tax of one twenty-fourth of one per cent, on all capital in active use. The brokers assert that they are mere agents of the capital ists. from whom they borrow money for investment in stocks and other securities, and that consequently they are not liable to pay the tax. The Assessor relies on the 79th and 110th sections of the Revenue act for authority to collect this impost on capital. In the former section brokers and other persons who deal in stocks, securi ties, kc., are defined as “Hankers,” and the latter provides that all "bankers” shall pay “a tax of one-twenty-fourth of one per centum each month upon the capi tal of any bank. association, company, or corporation, and on the capital employed by any person engaged in the business of banking.” The effort now being made to collect the tax has called forth considerable denunciation in “the street,” and in their excitement some of the principal brokers threaten to raise two millions of dollars either to have their construction of the law approved by the Washington authori ties or to have the law repealed. It the tax on the capital in active use in Wall street should be paid, there would lie an increase of the revenue of about $4,000,000 per annum. The revenue officers of the Thirty-second district who have charge of the collection of this tax assert that the whole amount of capital returned by the brokers and other speculators in Wall street, for the past year, as taxable, is fifteen millions of dollars. This allegation must astonish the public, for, if it is true, the army of speculators who deal in stocks and securities, represent ing hundreds of millions of dollats, perform financial miracles daily. One film, which it is charged has locked up ten millions to derange the money market, and sent sixty millions of Erie ‘ ‘flying, ’ ’ have made returns showing that their capital is on.y seventy thousand dollars, and yet they confess that they use annually a capital of three hun dred millions of dollars. It is proposed to draw out this capital from its lurking place, and to make it pay the tax. This, how ever, would tend to exhibit the financial status of the brokers, and hence the law is resisted. The revenue officers assert, after patient investigation and inquiry, that the amount of capital in active use in Wall street during a year is not le-s than a thousand millions: that is, that large amount changes hands, and make-fortunes for the owners or specu lators on its way. A delegation of brokers went to Washington a few days ago, and it is said had an interview with Secretary McCulloch in relation to their liability to pay the tax. The result of the interview has not leaked out, and as Mr. Webster is immovable in his determination to enforce the law, it is believed in the absence of any communication from Mr. McCulloch, that the delegation were unable to accomplish their object. Yesterday afternoon some of the princi pal brokers in Wall street had an interview with Mr. Webster, who informed them that the law providing for the tax is very clear and positive, and that the tax must be paid. Mr. Webster added that the decis ion of the Deputy Commissioner of Inter nal Revenue, Mr. Thomas Harland, cover ed the question involved. The Commis sioner, he said, decided, when the whole subject was referred to him, that “if a banker (which the 79th section declares may be a broker) borrows money and uses it in his banking business, it would be treated as a part of bis capital, and be subject to the monthly taxes of one-twen ty-fourth of one per cent.” It is cited as a proof that an immense amount of capital does not pay this tax, that one of the largest banking houses in Wall street has authority to draw on a European firm for £500,000, and that the latter amount is not included in the re turns of the house, although it may be in active use. GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. SENATE. Saturday, January 30, 1869. Mr. Burns moved a reconsideration of action of Senate appointing a committee of one, on part of Senate, to visit the counties of Warren and Taliaferro, where disorders are reported. Reconsidered. Mr. Gignilliatt moved to amend by in serting the counties of Chatham and Mc- Intosh. and increasing committee to three from Senate, and five from House. Mr. Gignilliatt sustained his motion in an able, calm and dignified speech. Mr. Adkins moved to insert the county of Puia-ki. Mr. Col man moved that the resolution and amendments be laid on the table. The yeas and nays were demanded. The following is the vote: ayeas Adams. A dkins, Bowers, Brock, Colman, Corbitt, Dickery, Griffin (6th), Higbee, Kichard-on, Sherman, Speer, Welch—l3. Nays—Anderson, Bruton, Burns, Cand ler, Fain, Gignilliatt, Graham, Holcombe, Hungerl'ord, Lester. McArthur, McCutch en, McWhorter, Nunnally, Smith (7th), Smith (36th), Winn—l 7. So tho motion to table did not prevail. Mr Burns moved the adoption of the reso lution as amended, sustaining his motion in a forcible speech. Outrages are report ed here by certain members, but when you propose to investigate outrages committed by negroes, they vote against investigation. He didn’t believe in the charge made of lawlessness in the white holt, and, there fore, favored an investigation. If there was any truth in the charge, why refuse to include counties in the black belt ? Did they fear investigation? The resolution, as amended, was adopt ed. President appointed Messrs. McArthur, and Welch, additional members of Senate Committee. On motion, resolution, ordered trans mitted to House. The rules were suspended, and Mr. Wel born, offered the following resolution : Whereas, dissatisfaction has been mani fest by the Congress of the United States with the action of the Legisla ture of this State at its first session in reference to the expulsion of colored members and probably with reference to other questions, of which wo are not fully apprised; and whereas, said Legislature acted in good faith, believing that it was moving within the scope of the Constitution of the United States and of this State; and Whereas, said Legislature is exceedingly desirous that the State of Georgia, whose representatives they are, should be fully restored to the great Commonwealth of States, under the Constitution of a com mon country, and above all else to cordial and fraternal relations with the General Government, in all of its departments ; and, whereas, they feel assured that the great mass of the people of Georgia share in this patriotic desire; and, whereas, they feel and believe that motives have been attributed to them by whieh they have never been actuated; therefore, in order that the Congress of the United States may be more fully informed as to the purity of purpose and good faith of this General As sembly, in all that it has heretofore done in reference to the vexed and complicated questions with whieh it has had to deal, Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly met, that a Committee of Three, to be composed of the Hons. Joseph E. Brown, J. R Parrott and A. H. Stephens, be au thorized and empowered to proceed to Washington city, and to represent to the Congress of the United States the true state ofaffairsin Georgia, and to ascertain what solution of our present unfortunate difficulties can be had, which will be satis factory to that body, and compatible with our duty as sworn Senators and Repre sentatives. Mr. Burns offered an amendment, that the General Assembly take a recess after Tuesday Dext, until the first of April De clared out of order. Mr. Burns made the speech of the ses sion, in opposition to passage of resolu tion. He saw no good to result from send ing commissioners to Washington. It would be a useless waste of the public funds. It would stultify the Legislature, and accomplish nothing. hoped that no political questions would be intro duced, but that the Senate would proceed with legitimate work and adjourn. Mr. Nunnally moved to lay the resolu tion on table, print one hundred copies, and make it special order for Wednesday next, immediately after reading Journal. Discussed by Messrs. Welborn, Adkins, Smith (7th), and Winn. Mr. Adkins moved to refer to Commit tee State of Republic. Motion to lay on table, print, and make special order for Wednesday prevailed. The following bills were read the first time : Mr. Nunnally—To authorize the cod' solidation of the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad and Columbia and Augusta Railroads, and amend charters. Mr. Anderson —To amend act giving landlords liens on crops of tenants. The following House bills were read the rst time : To authorize warrant drawn in favor of Carver, Byrd & Carver, for artificial limbs furnished disabled soldiers. To authorize Clerks of Superior Courts to issue executions on judgments obtained in Inferior or County Courts where cierks failed to do so. , To amend garnishment laws. To incorporate the American Manufac turing Company. To amend section 3761 of the Code. To provide for election of Justices of the Peace and Constables. To amend charter Macon and Western Railroad. A message was received from the Gov ernor, announcing that he had approved the joint resolution appointing a committee to examine the claims of G. H Penfield. A messenger was received from the House, announcing that that body had passed a number of bills. The following bills were read the second time and referred to Judiciary Committee: To incorporate Georgia Male and Female Life Insurance Company. To authorize Ordinaries in counties of Spalding, Jasper, Morgan, and Putnam, to assess a tax of 50 per cent, to pay i officers' costs. The following resolution, offered by Mr. : Speer, was unanimously adopted : Jiesolved, That a seat on the floor of the ■ Senate be tendered to Hon. A. H. Stephens j and the President inform him of the action ' of the Senate. Senate then adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. ' The House met pursuant to adjourn- j ment. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Crumley. Journal read and approved. Mr. Scott, of Floyd, moved to reconsider so much of yesterday’s proceedings as re lates to the loss of a bill appropriating money for the burial of the Confederate dead. Mr. Scott made an able speech in favor of reconsideration, stating that the present Trustees of the Georgia Memorial Associ ation had removed and re-interred 1,180 dead soldiers with only thirty five hundred dollars; that these ladies personally at tended this work, and that no one could have been more economical than these la dies. The $2,500 appropri ited at last ses sion was not turned over to them till a few days since, they now have it. They ask this appropriation because $2,500 won’t remove half the dead, they want this ad ditional sum to complete the work. A vote was taken on motion to reconsider, and yeas and nays required, and were : yeas 29. nays 71. Mr. Hudson, of Harris—A bill to author ize securities of tax collectors to pay their liabilities with couutv orders. A bill for relief of Sheriff’s where con tempt was occasioned by conflict of law. Message from the Senate was taken up —appointing a committee to investigate lawlessness in certain localities. Concur red in by the Senate and amended amend ment agreed to by the House. It makes it the duty of the committee to visit other counties besides Warren and Taliaferro. The committee on Judiciary report gen eral jury bill with amendments. Previous question called and sustained, and amendments adopted. Mr Ayer moved to amend by adding after “upright and intelligent persons,” without regard to race or color, and to re quire panuels, in certain cases, to be half and half. Mr. Bryant said he would object to the passage of the bill as amended—as it was reported it would evidently prevent any one but whites from being put on thejury, and it was not right. Mr. Shumate asked if colored men were eligible to sit on juries. Mr. Bryant—They were under the Con stitution but not under Irwin’s Code. Ho said that Georgia was in a peculiar condition--pass this bill now and the hand ofCongress will be upon you. He was op posed to this question on principle. He had come into this house to do his duty— had tried to settle the difficulty amicably. Now here is a question of principle involved —he was compelled to object. He moved to recommit the bill. Mr. Anderson said the bill had been unanimously agreed to by the committee. He said this bill had been misunderstood. The question of the eligibility of negroes to sit on juries under the Constitution was a .question for the judiciary to settle. Motion to recommit prevailed. Mr. Price, of Lumpkin—A resolution in regard to the present state of affairs, same as introduced by Mr. Welborn iu the Senate. See Senate uroceedings. It was taken up and made special order of Wednesday next, 11 o’clock. SENATE. Monday, February 1. REPORT OF JOINT COMMITTEE. That the claim of G. H. Peufield, agent of Sharpe’s Manufacturing Company, of Hartford, Connecticut, (being $2 500) is just, and that his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized and direct ed to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer of the State for the amount of principal and interest of said claim. But if, in his judgment, the amount cannot be spared from the Treasury at this time, then he is directed to deliver to said Penfield agent, bonds of the State sufficient in amount to cover the amount of principal and interest of said claim, from the 30th day of Novem ber, 1860. HOUSE. BILLS ON FIRST READING. Mr. Turnipseed—A bill to allow the Comptroller General to compromise with insolvent defaulting tax collectors. Mr. Wilson —\ bill to amend the charter of the town of Athens. Mr. Nisbet—A bill for the relief of the Union Branch Itailroad Company. Mr. Stapleton -A bill providing for the collection of a tax in Jefferson cuuuty, to pay for insolvent costa. Mr. Hall, of Meriwether—A bill to pay Dr. Samuel Glenn, of Oglethorpe county, for the treatment of small pox. Also, a bill providing for the manner of carrying fire-arms. Also, a bill requiring Justices of the Peace to pay over to the county Treasurer all money collected, Mr. Darnell —A bill to open and con struct a Railroad irom Mariet a to Jasper, to be known as the North Georgia Rail road. Mr. Darnell—A bill to loan the credit of the State to the North Georgia Railroad Company. M. Sparks-A bill incorporating the Central Georgia Banking Company. Mr. Williams, of Morgan—A resolution requiring the Comptroller General to order a collection of balance due on Convention tax at once. Mr. Sparks—A bill amending section 2641 of the Code of Georgia. Mr. Maull —A bill to amend sections 2519 and 2518 of Irwin’s Code; also, a bill amending section 2565 of Irwin's Code. Mr. Price —A bill to amend the relief law. passed 1868. Mr. Flournoy—A bill changing the time for holding the Superior Court in Colum bia, Washington, Johnson, Emmanuel, and other counties. A bill amending the act .incorporating the town ofSandersville. A bill authorizing the Ordinaries of the State to foreclose mortgages. Mr. Johnson—A bill regulating the at testation of Court contracts. Mr. Mell—A resolution requiring the State Treasurer to pay all members desiring it, three-fourths of the money due them. Rules suspended, resolution adopted, and transmitted to the Senate. Mr. Bethune —A bid providing for the payment of those administering the am nesty oath. BILLS ON THIRD READING. A bill to alter and amend section 3847 of Irwin’s Code. After much discussion, the yeas and nays being called fr r. and the call sustained, the bill was lost. Yeas 77, nays 31. Also the charter of the Augusta Gas light Company. Passed. [communicated. [ Monroe, Walton Cos., Feb. 2, 1869. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel : What is the matter with our Recon structed P. 0. Department? Our Au gusta mail arrives at Social Circle (40 miles distant) say at 3 p. m. on Thursday, and we get it here on the Saturday follow ing at 11 a. m. —ten miles in fifty-six hours. Please, Messrs. Editors, see if this is ac cording to contract, and if it is, if the con tract cannot be made to expedite the de livery of our mails. We cannot stand this time and had a great deal better rely on our own oars. Stir this up and let us know where the defect is ? Intolerable. In Bankruptcy.—Petitions for final discharge of Bankruptcy were filed during the past week in the office of the Clerk of the United States District Court, in the following cases : George H. Hack, of Law tonville ; William S. Royal, of Augusta ; Thomas S. Hardee, of Brooks county ; Lawrence Higgins, George M. Logan, Benjamin M. Pollhill and William E, Davis, of Macon; Robert L Miller, of Scarborough; Henry M. Chapman, of Columbus; John G. Smith, of Vienna ; Elisha J. Humphries, of Milledgeville: and Hugh Farrier, of Fort Gaines. —Sav. Republican• From the New York Tribune. The Condition of the South. The casual reader may imbibe very er roneous impressions of the state of the South from what he sees in the newspa pers. If a Ivu-klux outrage is perpetrated in Tennessee or Texas, it is at once flashed over the whole country : and so of a negro riot or resistance to legal process, growing out of a quarrel with a planter or planters as to the division of crops grown on shares or the payment of wages. Few stop to consider that the South covers a million ot square miles, inhabited by twelve millions of people, and that since every collision among these twelve millions has a quasi partisan character, the widely repeated and trumpeted crimes of violence bear an. unprecedented proportion to those which attract only local attention. For instance: there are ten or twelve counties in Middle and West Tennessee where the rebel spirit is still rampant, and in some of which Ku klux outrages are fitfully committed; these we are certain to hear from ; hut the forty or fifty counties which are as quiet as any part of New England incite no tele grams and rarely attract public attention. From Virginia and the two Carolinas, we have heard of but one collision for weeks, and that was an evidently magnified report of a resistance to civil process by a few negroes near Norfolk. From Georgia, we have only the Ogeeehee troubles, which were swollen out of ail proportion by mutual misconceptions and a palpable effort to drive the biacks into rebellion and subject them to extermination. From Alabama, we hear of but one recent outrage—the mur der of a Union officer by Ku-klux near Huntsville. Mississippi is very quiet; Louisiana almost uniformly so since she heard ot Grant’s election. In Florida, on ly the Kilkenny feud among the State officers vexes the general calm Arkansas has been seriously convulsed and agitated; and there Lave been wild doings by im placable rebels on the one side and by Gov. Clayton’s black militia on the other ; but, in spite of the desperate efforts of the rebel journals of Memphis and Little Rock, it is plain that order, has generally been restored on the basis of submission to law. Texas is so vast and remote from the seat of Government that a great many of the turbulent and implacable have taken refuge in her vast solitudes and there do with impunity deeds that would provoke re pression elsewhere ; but, even there, mat ters have greatly improved since General Grant’s election, and are still improving, The fair crops and good prices just realized have had a very soothing influence. Twenty-five hundred thousand bales of cotton, selling for an average of SIOO per bale, yields two hundred and fifty millions of dollars to the planters; and, though several former crops were much larger in amount, we doubt that any one of them ever sold at the gin-houses for more money. Then the sugar aud rice crops of 1868 are much larger than those of 1867, and are bringing good prices. Add to this that the South grew more Indian corn, and we presume more wheat also, in 1868 than in any former year, and we may fairly congratulate her on the turn in the tide of her fortunes. The experiment of Free Labor at the South was commenced under the least promising auspices ever known. The planters were conquered, sullen, despond ent, and intensely prejudiced against “free niggers.” Having all their lives had labor without wages, the require ment of pay for the work of the blacks seemed to them a glaring extortion, enforced by the bayonets of their Yankee masters. But, had they been ever so wil ling to pay, the means were utterly want ing. The war had stripped them to their bare acres; and even these were in no con dition to produce when, a month too late, they began to plant in 1865. Short of im plements, animals and food, their crops would have been poor even had they not been shortened by drouth; but this cut them down nearly half. They did a little better in 1866, but on a constantly, rapidly falling market; and when their next crop was ready for sale, cotton had fallen so low that half of them could hardly pay their labor. The year just closed was the first since 1860 in which a fair yield has com manded a good price ; aud, though many are still struggling undera mountain of debt, tens of thousands have been set on their feet by the crop just marketed. The Blacks emerged from Slavery and the YYar under circumstances most un favorable to sobriety and diligence on their part. They were sharers in the National triumph; they were its most palpable bene ficiaries ; their old masters were the van quished party; and mistaken if not bad men had led the Freedmen to expect a dis tribution of their master’s forfeited lands among them as “opoils of victory.” And, had they been ever so docile and reasona ble, their late masters were at once disin dined and unable to pay them. Doubt less, too many of them crowded into the cities; but they were told to clear out from their old homes, and they had no choice but to obey. That there are idle, wtrrth less, rascally Blacks, who would rather beg than work, and rather steal than cither, is quite true ; but, had all been willing to work, the work was nowhere to be had. Throughout the last three or four years, we have repeatedly asked Southern Whites this question, “Have you ever known an “instance where an employer able and “willing to pay for Black labor was un~ “able to obtain it?” and no man has answered in the affirmative. And wc cannot remember that one has told us that. he had any difficulty in retaining hisform er slaves if he chose to do so. "O, I can “get along with my niggers—they all want “to stay with tneon my own terms,” is the general response. Very few planters will say that they have been deserted by Blacks whom they cared to retain. Still, the position of the two races was one of more or less open antagonism after the close of the war ; but it has gradually changed for the better, until at t .reseu it is common for planters to say, “We have “become uied to Free Labor and under stand it—we shall get on very well with “our Blacks henceforth.” They have learned that they can make more money by hiring labor than by buying it, though those who inherited a gang of slaves may have found them very convenient. We doubt that those who bought the laborers ever did so well as those who hired them have done in the year just terminated. On the whole, the South is looking up. I There is a f'racli nos the people who still choose to put on masks and ride about at midnight to assault Unionists, white or black, and burn negro school houses ; but these are not half so many as they were, and their number is still decreasing. With Gran in the White House, cotton ruling high, and lands rising in value, we shall be disappointed if they are not reduced to a few isolated gangs of ten to thirty within the next two years. Let the friends of peace and Union unite upon the basis of universal amnesty with impartial suffrage, and they will soon have vanished alto gether. Georgia Items. Grading has commenced on the road from Rome to Dalton. Mrs. Abbot, residing about ten miles from Barnesville, died very suddenly, of apoplexy, last Tuesday morning. Georgia Railroad stock has advanced about ten dollars a share, within the past ten days. The Rome Commercial reports brisk sales of cotton at figures approximating to former prices in that city during the past two days. John Trice, of Upson county, shot a negro man while stealing corn from his barn last week. ’ A gentleman, with only eleven children, registered at a Columbus hotel last week. The Masons of Albany are to have a festival this week. The Memorial Concert in Atlanta was a success. W. A. Huff, of Macon, advertises more extensively than any Georgia merchant, and it pays him accordingly. The present rate of cotton from this point to NewOrleansisunprecedentedly low per Central line of steamboats and steam ships via Apalachicola. It is onlysl 50 per bale through. The river charge is only twen ty five cents. The same boats have proposed to bring freight via Apalachicola from New York at twenty-five cents per barrel. — Columbus Sun. Lands in Southwestern Georgia, ka. —A gentleman from Southwestern Geor gia, says the Telegraph, reports that lands in that section have greatly advanced. A year ago he was offered a six hundred acre place for $600; but now theowcer demands three thousand dollars for it, and can prob ably get his price. There is great scarcity of hands, and every sort of a worker is in demand. The work of fencing and clear ing up is pushed on energetically, and our informant said he heard scarcely any other word than “oottou” during his trip. King Cot ten is dethroned, and it is devoutly to be hoped that the old monarch may not make these rebellious subjects turn yellow as himself before he is done with them. The Sun of Wednesday mentions the arrival in Columbns of Mrs. Henrietta La mar, widow of General Mirabeau B. La mar. Mrs. Lamar is a resident of Rich mond, Texas, and is travelling for the health of an invalid daughter. NEW SERIES, VOL. XXVIII. NO. 6. BY TELEGRAPH. FROM ATLANTA. Proceedings of the Legislature. SPECIAL TELEGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE OF THE CHRONICLE A SENTINEL. Ihe Sharpe Ride Claim—Eloquent Speech of Senator Chandler—Convention Scrip —Tax Collectors' Settlement Postponed — Another Report From the Treasurer — More Corruption in the Executive De' partment Charged—Does C. 0. D. and his Secretaries Divide ? Atlanta, February 1, p. m.—ln the Senate the motion of Lester to reconsider the bill with reference to preventing hunt ing on premises with lirearms elicited con siderable discussion, but finally prevailed, and the whole matter was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. The resolution of the Special Committee ou the Hartford Company claims for $25,000 dollars’ worth of arms furnished Georgia before the war, was read and, being favorable to the pay ment of both the principal and Interest, the same was taken up. Mr. Burns stated that the appropriation originated in the House and moved to .lay on the table. This proposition was lost— yeas 13, nays 14. Mr. Nunnally previously stating that this was only a debt contracted solemnly before the war. Mr. Candler delivered a lengthy speech opposing the resolution and taking the ground that Georgia had made the contract after Lincoln was elected and the State was urging secession, and at the same time it was the intention of the State to wage war with other States against the United States; and that therepudiation ordinance includ ed all contracts made for tho purpose. He paid au eloquent tribute to the faith of the country in A. H. Stephens and others. He said that the argument that this is an in nocent party is not true. He said South Carolina seceded and nil the States com menced buying guns to carry out with them in their secession. This is said to be the most eloquent speech of the session, and mauy persons were in the galleries to hear it. Several members of the House were present taking notes besides one stenographer taking down the debate. Messis. Burns and Itroek opposed it in lengthy speeches. The Senate adjourned at 1 o'clock. Brock and Hill on the floor. In the House the motion of Harper, of Terrell, to reconsider the resolutions rela tive to the receipt of Convention receipts lost on Satiyday, prevailed. Tt was referred to the Finance Committee. A bill was passed postponing the final settlement of tax collectors until the first Monday in April. Two bills were introduced to amend the relief law passed at ti.e last session. The report oflhe Retrenchment Commit tee was taken up, it being the special or der for to-day. It was rend, and referred to the Finance Committee. The Treasurer’s report,ln response to the resolution asking what money had been paid for vaccine matter, was read. He says a warrant was drawn and paid for two thousand dollars, in favor of the ex ecutors of Dr. Ford’s estate, and that one of the Secretaries of the Executive got half for collecting it. The other warrants were refused by the Treasurer. The Secretaries say they are ready to respond to the Treasurer’s charges. X. The Penfield Claim —Speeches of Nun nail)/and Others—Hunting on Lauds Without Permission--State Agricultural Society—Congress Wishes the Stale Supreme Court to Decide on the Fligi bilily of Negroes to Office. Atlanta, February 2, p. in.—The Sen ate spent the whole of to-day’s session iu discussing the resolution offered to pay Mr. Penfield for the Sharpe’s rifles pur chased from him in eighteen hundred and sixty by Joe Brown, the twenty-five thousand dollars, with interest from that time, whieh he claimed. Mr. Brook made a lengthy speech outhe resolution. Mr. Nunnally gave notice, as the author of the resolution, he should claim the right to the conclusion of the argument. He was granted unlimited time. After several speeches had been made, Mr. Nunnally got the floor and spoke at length. lie quoted from the acts appropriating one million of dollars for the common defence; also, from the Ordinances of the Secession Convention, aud said the South, though down-trodden and imposed upon in a thousand different ways, had not yet lost her honor. For his part he wished Mr. Penfield to go home and inform his people that Georgia had, through every vicissitude of fortune, pre served her honor nntarnished. At this point the speaker was vociferously cheered both by the parties in the lobby and in the gallery. His speech being unfinished to day he has the floor for to-morrow. The House of Representatives passed a bill to punish persons in certain counties, numbering about twenty, including Rich mond, for hunting on the lands of others without permission from the owners. Also, a bilito appoint Boards of Revenue and Roads for each county, with a Clerk, who shall receive no greater salary than S3OO per annum. This Board will be the superintendent of all county matt rs as formerly was the Inferior Courts. A notice to reconsider it was given—B2 counties voted for it, 11 against and 40 had no Representatives present to vote either way. The State Agricultural Society met here to-day. Beuj. Yancy, of Athens, was elect ed President. But little business was done. The Dele gates were much disappointed at the rail roads not giving them free transportation as they were induced to expect. A rumor is going the rounds here, which says that Congress will be satisfied if the Legislature will pass a bill authorizing the Supreme Court of Georgia to decide at once ou the w:it of quo warranto in tho case from Chatham relative to the clerk of the Superior Court, and settle the illegali ty of negroes to office. X. Atlanta, February 3, p. m.—ln the Senate the discussion was resumed ou the payment of Sharpe’s rifle claim. Nunal ly concluded his speech. Lester followed in one of his masterly efforts, and was fol lowed by Nunnally in conclusion, who called the previous question, whieh was sustained. The vote on the adoption of the resolution stood yeas 11, nays 21. Nunnally gave notice of a motion to re consider to-morrow. The Governor vetoed the bill providing for tho drawing of jurors for Grand Jury courts of Chatham and other counties ; also city courts, on the ground of being uuconstitutional. Pending the motion to pass the same over the veto, the Senate adjourned. A motion to reconsider the bills passed yesterday to appoint county Commission ers was lost. The Judiciary Committee report against the hill allowing Conventional rate of in terest. Scott moved to lay ou the table. Resolutions making it the special order of the day to appoint Commissioners to go to Washington was lost. Prioe ofltered a substitute to call on the Supreme Court of Georgia to decide at its present session the eligibility of colored men to hold office. Scott raised a point of order, saying the substitute was not germain. It was not sustained by the Chair. Evans introduced a substitute similar to Price’s. Price spoke in favor of his resolutions. Scott moved to refer all to the Commit tee on the Judiciary. Bryant spoke at length, opposing Scott's motion. He was several times interrupt ed by Fitzpatrick who raised a point of order. He wanted to know how long the House would listen to such harangues. He was tired of his rigmarole. A motion to adjourn was lost. O’Neal proceeded at some length, charg ing the Democrats with inconsistency. They say they wish to act, but do not act. A minority report on the payment for Sharpe’s rifles was read, unfavorable to paying, t£c. Morgan was about to resume the debate on the resolutions and substi- tutes as above, but yield the floor for a motion to adjourn, which the house did, Morgan having the floor. I’rioe’s substitute will be adopted. The representative of Fort’s estate, who is said to have received two thousand dol lars for vaccine matter furnished years ago, is here and says he received but one thou sand dollars, which, if illegally drawn from the Treasury, he is williug to refund. He is now preparing his statement to lay it before the Finance Committee. I learn these facts from one of the Finance Com mittee. X. GEORGIA AGRICULTURAL CONVENTION. SPECIAL TELEGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE OP THE CHRONICLE A- SENTINEL. The First Day’s Proceedings—Election of Officers —Discussions on Immigration — Guano —State Aid , &c. Atlanta, February 2, p. m. —The State Agricultural Convention assembled here to-day. About three hundred i.elegates from the different counties were present. 'lhe former President, Mr. Dickson, having resigned, the Vice-President, Ben. Yancy, of Clarke, called the Convention to order. An election for a President was next in order. Mr. Harris, of Hancock, presided during the election. Mr. Yancv received almost an unanimous vote for President, and Mr. Barrow, of Athens, was elected to till Mr. Yancy’s place. The standing committees were not gen erally ready to make their reports, and ask for longer time. Mr. Howard spoke at length on the policy of inviting foreign immigration to Georgia. Mr. Reese, of Bibb, also spoke. He said that he came 10 this country from Norway when he was eight years of age. He had bee-i here thirty-seven years. He lavored immigration and wished an agent station ed at every Southern seapv rt to look after it properly. In the afternoon Mr. Howard ottered a resolution, looking to saving the offal, &c., in all towns and pities, out of which to manufacture mat ures; to appoint com mittees to confer with the Peruvian au thorities in relation to cheapening the present price of Guano, A discussion developed the fact that it can be cheapened, at least, S3O per ton. A proposition was made to appoint a committi.ee to ask State aid to assist in establishing a manufactory of Sulphuric acid, with Mr. Howard as its ohairman. Grape culture was also discussed, and a committee appointed to report at the next meeting of the Society, on the best grape for growing in this climate. The Convention is composed of the best mon in the whole State, and is a remark ably fine looking body, which seemed in earnost, and determined to do all they can to advance the interests of agriculture. Hundreds of tons of guanos are being ordered. Dealers here are reaping a rich harvest in consequence. There was a heavy rain here all day, and it is still raining. The Convention is' still in session. Atlanta, February 3, p. m.—The Agri cultural Convention spent most of the day in appointing committees to investi gate reports upon various subjects pertain ing to agricu.ture, A resolution was adopted, inviting Northern capitalists, farmers, merchants, and manufacturers to come South among us, and denying rumors of Northern men being unsafe here. It was warmly advo cated by True, of Morgan, a gentleman raised in Genessee Valley, New York, who left land worth S3OO per acre, and much prefers our soil and climate. He thinks a bright future awaits Georgia. Samples of sugar and syrup made in Kentucky, from sorghum was exhibited. A committee was appointed to visit Lex ington, and examine the machinery, so as to inform the Convention of the cost of producing these articles from sorghum. A Committee was appointed to examine and report the cost of producing cotton seed oil and the value of oil cake as stock feed. Owing to bad weather the trial of plows and other machinery was dispensed with. Much discussion took place as to the mode of reducing local rates of freights on railroads. After a lengthy discussion standing wages were decided to be the best way of hiring labor. Convention discussed the propriety of memorabzing the Legislature to enact laws for summary enforcement of labor contracts for the better protection of em ployer and employees. * Convention adjourned subject to the cal) of the President. Great enihusium pre vails among the delegates. TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Congressional. HOUSE. Washington, February 1, p. m.— Petition of President, Professors and Students of Colleg of Physic aus and Sur geons waspresenled asking reorganization of the Naval Medical Corps. Tne following was introduced and re ferred: regulating sales of bonds aud bul lion; preventing states collecting illegal imposts, including taxing railroad pas sengers; making tne President’s salary one nundred thousand; paying Lincoln’s widow and children sevemy-flve thousand; giving the Greek government possession and titie of the two monitors Miantaisomah and Agawan-, renewing grant of land to Alabama railroads; constitutional amend ments affecting federal and congressional elec ions; granting aid to San Diego rail roads; construction of Southern Atlantic and Pacific Railway. Several relieving political disabilities, granting lauds to Ar kansas for Mississippi, Washita and Red River Railroad, promoting cel- rity of postal service. A biii all- wing clerks ten percent, ad ditional pay was tabled by a vote of 79 to 74. A resolution admitting the Dominican Republic as a Territory of the Union was tabled by a vote of 110 to 02. A resolution was adopte > ordering the arrest of Scannell lor refusing to testify before the Eloetion Fraud Committee. A resolution suspending payment from alleged irregularity of employed Revenue officers in Philadelphia passed. A motion for evening sessions to con sider the Tariff was carried. A bill paying Walter D. Plowden (a colored scout aud spy iu fsouth Carolina; SI,OOO passed. The House adjourned. senate. More female suffrage petitions were presented. Numerous business men of New York protest against foreign vessels carrying the United States mails. The Committee on Indian Affairs report ed in favor of indefinite postponement of the trill transferring the Indian Bureau to the War Department and other Indian bills were adopted. A bill appropriating $50,000 to lit up a store room for preserving models iu the Patent Office was discussed. Conkling moved anew section, that the act shall not take effect until the 15th of April, IHO9. He was utterly opposed to giving any dis cretion to thepresentadrninistration which could, by any possibility, be avoided without detriment to the public service. The bill finally passed, authorizing the Secre tary of the Interior to rent a building tor the storage, and authorizingnhe destruc tion of models older than seventeen years which have not been patented. I he Consular Appropriation Bill was dis cussed. The Senate adjourned. HOUSE; Washington, February 2, p. m.— A resolution was ottered directing the Secre tary of the Treasury to withhold all bonds from beneficiary railroads until suf ficient is secure for the construction of a first-class road. The Secretary of War was interrogated whether any District Commander has turned over to the civil authority for trial or punishment any person tried and con victed by military tribunals. Pensions were considered, with an amendment that no widow, by marriage, shall forfeit tier pension. A bill was reported establishing a bridge between New York and Brooklyn. A long discussion ensued. Finally, with an amendment that the bridge should not ob struct navigation, the bill passed. A message from the President, covering the correspondence regarding Fenians im prisoned by England, liobiuson said iie would kick any man into the middle ot next week who talked about a treaty with England until imprisoned Americans were liberated. The correspondence was re fe>redtotbe Committee on Foreign Af fairs. Senate amendment to the billdeolanng offices vacantheld by disqualified persons was passed, and now goes to the Presi dent. The bill provides for the removal, within thirty days after its passage, of officers ineligible under fourteenth amend ment in Virginia, Mississippi and Texas. The House Adjourned. SENATE. The Judiciary Committee was discharged from the turther consideration of femule suffrage petitions. Wilson introduced a Constitutional Amendment assuiing suffrage and offices to all except rebels. Appropriations were considered at greHt length. Adjourned.
