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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 17, 1869)
OLD SERIES, VOL. LXXVI. elaouiclc & i>cutittcl. ii i:>in Moonjo, A. It- WIiKiHT. |>tTKI( k WAI.MH. AmocUte Editor . ACG IH'I'A . GA ! T Kit .tlx OK »l ; ASCRIPTION. I.IfLV. On * t;:- r.Ui .1 ® , . ■ - iK ii- ...1000 TRi-wtEKL'i’. w •*« WEtKH. 1W , .7.7 i m *. 3 'jo ■ r lINKSHAV MOKNINfa. FKBKI AKY It. Who i* Responsible ?— Wc are in re i ■ ipt of complaint* from Sparta arid Mil ! Igcville, to the effect that our paper reaehe- these points very irregularly, thereby causing inconvenience arid aunoy an to subscribers aud injury to this office. W respectlully call tbe attention of the Postmaster and the Route Agent to the j i r< gularities complained of. A<’Knoui.rimiments. —We are under obligations to lion. David A. \\ ells for a ropy of his valuable report u< Special < 'omniissioner of the Revenue. To fsaac Butts, Kditor Rochester Union ami Aden-tint i, lor a copy of his pamphlet, entitled Uriel IbasonH for Repudiation. To General John A. Logan, for a copy of hi; pamphlet on Dower California. The Chronicle ok 1861. —I). B. I'lurnb, Esq-, will please accept our kind est thanks for a tile of the CHRONICLE k Se.vii.ne for 1801. We would be under obligations to any of our friends who will upply us with tiles for 1802 63 04 ; for jneial reasons our predecessor has de prived us of these tiles. Important to Farmers. —The Febru ary number of the Carolina Former is the best yet issued. 'J'bis is an enterprise that Imuld be generously sustained by the fanners and planters of the South. Though now in its fourth issue, the Former has already taken a high stand in the agricul tural literature of the day, and bids lair to reach the highest standard of excellence. Send two dollars, tor a year’s subscription, to Wm. If. Bernard, Wilmington, N. C. And if possible, secure the back numbers II kh’s Creek Qi arrv. —Yesterday, in company with Major <l. V. 11. Allen, the (’liairniau of the Committee on Streets and Drains, and Mr. John Morrison, Super intendent of Streets and Drains, we paid a vbit to the Bed’s Creek Rock Quarry, about seven miles from the city, on the Augusta Canal. Under the administration of the late military Council some steps were taken toward the mauadamization of out Tracts, but with so little of either ener gy nr judgment was the work conducted, i hat there was made no perceptible pro gress. The rock was brought slowly from ihe Quarry, and tbe convicts employed to break it,under but little discipline, did not accomplish a great deal by their labor. As oon, however, as the municipal election m December last placed the present Coun cil in power, with Major Allen as Chair man of tbe Streets Committee, a marked change took place almost immediately. Assisted by Mr. Morrison, the experienced and energetic Superintendent, the city began to reap some benefit from the fine material furnished from her Quarry and the labor of the convicts. It was determined, as faras possible,to macadamize every street in tlmoily beginning with Campbell and i tie south side of Broad, and thus give us a pavement smooth, hard and durable. The process as applied to Campbell street has been a complete success and its surface is now an uven. hard, roadway, retaining its firmness after tho heaviest ruins and free from rut or mud-hole. The visit yes terday was undertaken in order to seo tho Huuntity of material available for carrying out this scheme and the facilities for trans porting i 1 into the city. The quarry, situ ated m; : tie South batik of tbe canal, at the point win re Red's creek empties into iht i is, as was above stated, between •i>: i 1 ;-i veil miles from Augusta and con vene at ut access The rook forms a lofty rid b -ut thirty feet higher than the sin f the water, rising from the very haul anil mending backward un indefinite diet anc and would yield material enough to uni r every street in Augusta. It is admirably fitted tor this purpose, being what !■■ termed a species of "whinstone” much harder and heavier than granite and well suited to sustain the constant pressure nl the different kinds of vehicles. The hi ist mg, judiciously directed,would tumble thousands of tons of.it within a lew feet of the landing constructed there, from which, with hut little difficulty, the boats destined to briug it to the work-house could be easily laden. We are satisfied that, owing to this circumstance, with but a small force employed and a proportion ate expense incurred, six hundred tons of this rock could be brought every week to the work yard near the canal basin. With this quantity, ap plied in tho proper manner, no great length of time would elapse e’er the prin cipal thurougfares would be completely and economically macadamized. If Con cross will not interfere farther in our municipal affairs we believe that this grand enterprise will be prosecuted vigorously and steadily, and, under the supervision cf those who now have it in charge, will rapidly advance to a successful completion. Hap Showing. —The Federal Union oompih- a report of Legislative expenses lioui 1857 to 1867' inclusive, as follows: \s.i7. SI 14.242 25] 1862 $94;604 66 1 858. . 95,529 40 186,1-4 . 109,945 30 ls"c.i . 115,949 56 1565—6. 177 266 00 1860.. 115,427 52 1868 270,803 95 1861.. 62.849 36) Vtlauta seems to he an unhealthy place for the tleorgia Legislature. Moina Cotton Skbd. —Mr. C. 11. t’hinizv has three hundred bushels of this celebrated seed tor sale. We learn from the Marietta Journal that tho Female College iu that place opened with a complete faculty on Monday last. Georgia Air Link Railroad.— The Inteilif/rHeer says, contracts were let out on Monday last in that city for the grading of the first division of the Georgia Air Line Railroad The fortunate bidders were Messrs. Scott, Bondurant. Adams and Thrasher the work to be completed by thd’lst day of September next. This i.- t he beginning of a work, designed to develop the resources of odc of the most important sections of Georgia. That it will go ou to completion, and prove a -outre ! revenue to the State, will lie doubted by no one who has knowledge of the section of country through which it will run, aud traV el that will pass over it- Richer tuan the North. —The New I ork l press thinks that the South, thanks to 2,500,u0G bales of cotton raised this year —and, we add, plenty of provis ions also—is richer to day than any other section of the country. Two and a half million hales of cotton at *250,000,000. gives the South the power to command its share of the currency, as the cotton crop one which finds its principal market abroad, aud prevents an unnecessary exportation of coin. Such a fact is a most auspicious one tor the South, and will at once have its influence ou capita l and population, which it invites to the liouth. It enables customers in the South, who were last year unable to buy, to purehase freely during the present and coming season, aud this is done just now, very largely in that city. Indeed, the hulk of orders in the city are from the Southern States, and the South being nearly bare of goods, we are happy to say they are very considerable in num ber. The ban Domingo Annexation. The recent action of the House of Rep resentatives in summarily tabling the San Domingo annexion Bill does not meet the approval of some of the more blatant negro worshippers in the Radical party. This dissatisfaction has already caused a j slight reaction in favor of cuffee, and the House Committee on foreign affairs have decided to hear further propositions and arguments in favor of the treaty sub mitted to the Federal Government by President Baez, the Dominican Envoy. lire conditions submitted by Baez are said to be that the United States shall as sume the accrued and current indebtedness oftbe republic, occupy its territory, and establish there a State territorial govern ment republican in form, with ultimate expectation of admission as a State. The indebtedness is believed to be about $15,- 000,000, which could be paid by two or three years of such customs returns as would be sure to follow annexation and. consequent emigration. The population is only one hundred and seventy-five thousand, aud the territory of the re public comprising three-fifths of the Island, would readily support ten millions. Owing to intestine disorders c imtneroe and I business of all kinds have declined to zero, j It is understood that a strenuous endeMHttl will be made to bring the matter before the House again in such a way as to cause discussion. The real difficulty in the way of Kadical i Congressmen, is the fear that their Radi- j cal constituents will not tolerate the form- | ation of a real negro State, whose woolly headed Representatives in both branches • of Congress, will have .the same powers j with those of their own section. There are j no white gentlemen —indeed no white men— on the Island to be punished for being su perior in intellect, in statesmanship, in learning, in morals, manners and social position to the [shoddy lords and codfish aristocracy of Puritan New England, and hence these blatant friends of the “man and brother” fail to perceive any good reasons why the Domingo p.egroes should participate in the benefits of “the best Government on the face of the planet.” The Cincinnati Gazette, a leading and j influential organ of advanced Radicalism (negro worship and all), admits that the action of Radical members in tabling the annexation resolution on Monday last, was influenced by opposition to “a full blood African State, aud declares its own hostil ity to such an organization being included in the present nationality of the United States.” The following extracts from a leading editorial of that journal, foreshadows very clearly the intense opposition which the white men of the West, Radical though they largely are, wilt give to this scheme of Sumner to foist upon the coun try “a full blood African State We suppose that tbe reason which gov erns the House in turning the cold shoul der to this warm annexation, is the objec | tion to taking in a full blood African State. We may as well face the fact squarely, that I such a State would not be a desirable acquisition. Our enfranchisement of the Southern blacks was done upon the mis taken theory that it was necessary to re store the forms of State governments in the rebel States immediately, and there fore that the blacks must be joined to the loyal whites in order to make a loyal popu lar basis for these governments. It was not done with the intention of Africaniz ing any of those S'ates, but in the, full expectation that the whites would always control their governments. We do not suppose that any political arrangements are possible which will prevent the domin ation of the white race,nor that the time will over come when the white race will con sent to transfer this domination to the blacks iu any quarter of* this Republic. These arc facts of human nature which are permanent. If wo acquire the island of Ilayti. we acquire it to give it a government which the inhabitants are incapable of providing for themselves. That is what the applica tion is made to us for. We shall not annex it to give to its incapable elements another object of strife by conferring upon them the privilege of sendiug two negro Sena | tors and (a negro Representative to the I United States Congress. That would not ! benefit either them or us. Nor shall we j annex the island to place a military pro tectorate over the. form of a State govern j ment. We have jobs enough of that sort on hand now. We shall aunex it to govern j it, if we do it at all; and our treaty of an nexation should promise nothing further than that.” The reader will not fail to notice how naiveli/ the Gazette speaks of the intention of tho Northern people—the Radicals —in enfranchising the Southern negroes, and how eooly it declares that this was not done with a view to Africanizing the Southern States. And now having, through the infamous and intolerant pro visions of the reconstruction measures, foisted upon the .people of those States pure and unmitigated negro governments —governments iu the formation of which the whites have been almost entirely ex cluded—this Radical teacher coolly in forms its readers that the intention of the Radical party was not to put the whites under the dominion of the negroes. If this were true, why is it that, at the very moment the Gazette, containing this dis claimer, was being printed, the Radical Congress was discussing, through its star chamber committees, the propriety of driving the State of Georgia out of the Union because her reconstructed State Constitution failed to confer upon the ne gro the power to make and administer the laws for the government of the whites ? If Congress and the Radical party did not intend to Africanize the whole South, why do they exclude Seuators Hill and Miller from their proper seats in the Senate, who are known to have been elected by the votes of the white members of our Legis lature ? Agaiu, if the Radicals have, themselves ) after so long a time, arrived at the con clusion that “no political arrangements are possible which will prevent the domination of the white race in the South,’’ why do they insist that Georgia has failed to com ply with the spirit, if not the letter, of the Reconstruction Acts in excluding the De grees from office, and demand that we shall tall back under a military despotism until we give the negroes power to do that which the Gazette says was never intended to be accomplished by the Radicals through the Reconstruction Acts, viz : Give the right and power to the negroes to “dominate over the white race ?” But we need pursue the argument no ! further. The Radical party is fully com mitted to “negro domination” in the Southern States, and it ought not now to stickle about negro Senators and Rep resentatives from the free State of San Domingo. Grant's Cabinet. The leading Radical Journals continue to be sorely perplexed about the character and persoimtl of Gen. Grants Cabinet. Alter giving a dozen or more lists of his Cabinet, Forney gives it up in despair, but takes much cousolation from the fact that Gen. Taylor's and Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet was knowu at least thirty days before they were inaugurated, and that as Grant has managed to keep his secret, it must be taken as conclusive that the man who can do this "shows by this single trait a rare aptitude for the great work confided to him by a grate!ul people.” Ou the other hand, Greeley having been toiled in all his efforts to wring from the ' reticent President elect the slightest indi cations of his Cabinet, comes to the con clusion that a Cabinet is no great thing after all, and that “in a pinch republican institutions could survive the omission to appoint one.” • This is a terrible squinting at a one man. irresponsible government, but the pure minded Greeley—the saintly Republican— cannot be suspected ot favoring, even for a moment, the possibility of such a con tingency. Oh, no' The Dodge. After all we are to have a grand Nation al Inauguration Ball. The event ought to be celebrated, must be celebrated and will be celebrated, marking the Peace era — with rejoicings of liberty, equality and fra l ternity. Everybody,it is expected, will show loyal colors, but persons without distinc ! tion as to caste and color are not expected to be present. In order to preserve ! loyality and order and political jcicel con sistency, a flank movement is to be made to get over tbe African unpleasantness.— The Ball is to be a National private one. To meet the necessities of public “eka] I rights ” cards of invitation thereto are to be sold bya private National discriminating Executive Committee. The old “Eka! Rights ” cry of “ Y'ou pays your money, you takes your choice,” has been made to 1 conform to the “eternal fitness of things;” and has been reconstructed into You pays : your Money and the National private Dis ! criminating Executive Committee of Wash ington makes the choice. IVhere is Aaron Alpeoria Bradley? Where the ‘ Rush ings Parlia menterry Law. ah?” It would be a joke if'Sumner should purchase, say oue hundred “cards of Invitation' to the , j Grand National Frirate Inauguration : Ball, and at the head of such a <|s*igalton | j Criminal Statistics and Reconstruction. Tie latest artifice of plundering carpet- I baggers is the old one of artful oriuiiuals, j joining virtuously, in the hue and cry of I stop thief, to avoid discovery and capture. They essay to expand the demands of Re i construction to the requirement of modern : moral reform—God save the mark ! and deal in criminal statistics as evidence of loyalty.' These, they suppose, wiil serve the double purpose of extending the dura tion of irresponsible provisional powers, with military discre:ion; and of affording the pretext for Speculating Investigating Committees. The Judiciary Committee of the Congressional Senate so far have play ed the rote assigned them,even to the extent of rejecting Senators recognized as Re publican, who if they do not rep resent the Republican party of Georgia, certainly do not represent anybody else. The State Senate, eager to share in the division of spoils and plunder, have already made the latter pretext available in the appointing of an Investi gating Committee, with the pay of nine dollars per diem, and ali expenses paid. But the pretext is so shallow, and the sub terfuge so glaring, as even to call for re monstrance and gentle hint of the decent party organs of the North. We published a few days since a soothing editorial from the New York Tribune. But the Tribune gave us no comparison of the statistics of crime North and South—betweeu Mas sachusetts, the hub of law and order, and Georgia so illy reconstructed, and so much in need of the carpet-bagger’s moral re form; but contents itself with a gentle inu endo to Republican leaders upon the im policy of such investigations, and the ex aggerations which have heretofore been given to the public. The Chronicle & Sentinel has already challenged a comparison between the statistics of crime of the city of Boston for the past year aud those committed and alleged, for the State of Georgia for the same time. Our State Senate Committee of Investiga tion, headed by that dis'inguished Senator from Burke, whose skill in manufacturing statistics has become renowned by his re port of the “Barnett outrage,” will proba bly not only afford us the opportunity of discussing Northern and Southern statistics of crime, but also some incidents in the lives of our moral reformers. We await their action. In the meauwhile the subject promises to be thoroughly discussed by journals farther North as will appear by the following article from the National Intelligencer, under the caption of, “Shall Georgia be Expelled from the Union Such is the desire of a certain class of politicians, and the real secret of it all is that tho control of the carpet-baggers over that State is pretty well gone. The ne groes no longer look wholly to this Ig'ood of pestilent vermin lor counsel or guidance; large masses of them take their cue from their employers. Even the native Repub licans of Georgia and the negroes are tired of the insolence and rapacity of the j carpet baggers. If the intention was to I keep these creatures in office indefinitely, ; then the scheme of reconstruction has failed, l for when was an empire of scoundrelism ever a lasting one ? These carpet-baggers, with their impudence, their venality, their rapacity, and insolent demand to have the wheels oflegisiation turned backward and ! forward from time to time, just to keep ; them iu offici and save them the necessity ; of working foi .» living like other people, are now the elucfobstacle to a pacification j of the country. The pretences for expelling Georgia are well exp aine in a letter of “Mack,” the 1 Washio. iii respondent of the Cincin j nati En and hardly anything re | mains to oe added : Special L'u/ rcsponUt nc* of the Enguir r . “The Senate Judiciary Committee, through Mr. Stewart, of Nevada, yester day, reported against the admission of Joshua Hill, of Georgia, to a seat in the Senate, and accompanied the report with a long series of pretended facts to sustain it, and designed to show that Georgia had not been properly "reconstructed.” The number of “murders and assaults” com mitted in the State during the past year is set forth to make a startling array, but it is an exhibit only of the number ofbegroes or “loyal whites” murdered or assaulted by “rebels.” Not a word is said of the other class of outrages committed all through the South, in which the fiendish ness aud atrocity of the negroes figure most aonspicuously. “Three hundred and sixty six eases of murders and assaults were re ported by the Freedmen’s Bureau from January 1 to November 15, 1868.” This is the weightiest allegation in Mr. Stewart’s report, and the principal reasou for not admitting Mr. Hill. “Three hundred 1 and sixty sixeases "intenmonthsanda half, throughout the State of Georgia—that is, of “murders and assaults.” An analysis would probably show six murders, and three hundred and sixty “assaults,” and a comparison with the criminal records of other localities would, undoubtedly, show Georgia, according to the Senate commit tee's statistics, to be a most peaceable and law-abiding State. The last census gives Georgia a population of 1,057,286, or about four times that of the city of Cincinnati. According to this ratio, and to the Senate’s standard of morality, about a hundred as sault cases per annum in our city would be sufficient to call for Congressional interpo sition, and a denial of our rights to repre sentation in Congress. II Mr. Stewart take the trouble to look at the docket of the Cincinnati polite court for the past year, he will find not less than a thousand “assaults,” equally as unprovoked as any that the history of Georgia can furnish. Then take the erimina! record of New York city, with a population less than the State of Georgia, and compare it with the three hundred and sixt y -six cases raked up by the Freedmen s Bureau, and now made the pretext for excluding a State from representation in Congress. There is more crime committed in the city of New York in a single week than the Judiciary Committee find to have been committed in the State of Georgia in a year. __ Or, if you will, r-'p Mr. Stewart's own State of Ne vada as a basis of comparison. There are more murders, -more assaults, more vil lainies of all kinds committed every year by the half civilized constituency of less than twenty thousand whom he represents than by the million people who inhabit the State of Georgia. If the insecurity of life and property were made a general cause of 1 the denial of representation in Congress, Nevada would be kicked out at once, for it is well known that among the inhabitants of the State murder is a fine art, and throat cutting a pleasant pastime. But Georgia is excluded from the halls of Congress, first, because she gave a Demo cratic majority at the last election: and. secondly, because Mr. Hill, who has been elected as one of her Senators, is a South ern man, and not a carpet-bagger. The intention is to keep her out until she shall give assurance of a Radical majority, and until she shall select as her Senators and Representatives some of the scoundrels irorn the North who have gone down there to serve in that capacity. Such is the ; feast of “Reconstruction” and its conse- I quent “peace” to which the oountry is in -1 vited by the new regime. Since the world AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 17, 1569 began there has not been such a cruel parody of all the principles of civil govern ment, and til! the world ends iet us hope there will not be another. Two of the States most conspicuous in this exclusion of the Southern States on account of pretended disorders and out rages are Massachusetts, and Maine. We have seen lately some very startling figures showing a reduction of the population in these States by means and agencies which the law, no less than public decency, con demn, and on so large a scale that we should think the physicians would have abundance to do in healing themselves be fore attempting any Southern practice. Nor does this testimony come from malig nant, or degraded, or interested parties, whose function in purveying slander is to be well paid for by national funds. No! that sort of bought testimony may answer to justify a poacy of hate and re pression toward the South, but the testi mony we have in our mind, which touches ; the criminal statistics of Maine and Mas sachussetts, the diminution of the popula tion there, and why it so happen-, comes from men of the highest character, who have no motive but to speak well of the social morals of the communities in which the;; reside; they are eminent physcians’ , statisticians, who are able to demonstrate their conclusions, and prove the facts by which they are reached. If there is to be anymore “Reconstruction," why notbegin with Maine and Massachusetts ? OIK WASHINGTON COKKKsPONDKNCR. I bfrlMlKP of TH7I C«r,;M;K.'L£ ; : :*•!. Washington, February 4. There lias been considerable speculation concerning the meeting and length of the next session of Congress. It must meet by law—a law that was never understood by any one as framed by reason of any overdue of sanity on the part of its origina tors —on the 4th of March, at twelve o’clock meridian. How long they will re main in session depends entirely upon cir cumstances, and cannot now be known. If Grant does not harmonize immediately with the new Congress there will be con siderable temporizing, and, perhaps, it will then be finally decided whether or not the Tcnurc-oi'-Office Bill is to be repealed. Congress remains as jealous of' its power as ever, which (relying upon its experience of the past three years) must be acknowl edged to have overreached that of the Executive Department, and will hardly agree to leave Grant master of the situa tion, with free hands, from March until December next. On the 10th inst.,next Wednesday, the electoral votes will be officially counted, and Grant will be officially declared Presi dent. Then there will be a renewal of the anxiety which has, owing to his reticence or stubbornness as some fretful Radicals will have it, become very calm of late with respect to his Cabinet and his policy. It is argued then, when he shall have been officially declared President, there will be I no reason why he should remain silent re- j specting his future course, and ijuite a number of politicians and others firmly believe’that there will be an end to silence. It remains to be seen, however, and there are yet individuals in Washington who in- ! sist that action and not talk will be the j main feature of the Grant administration, j There was a little breeze in the House j to-day, eaused by Mr. Holbrook, the dele gate from Dacotah, pronouncing an asser tion of Butler’s, made with reference to 1 Indian matters, as unqualifiedly false. ! Every Radical, excepting Butler, was shocked at once, and the Speaker more so | than any one else. Somebody wanted j Holbrook to retract, it was not Butler who ! expressed that desire, but the Dacotah ; man could’nt see the point, and eonse-j quently submitted to censure, which was ! ordered by the House. The Speaker,with I a frown of virtuous indignation at the vio- 1 lation of Parliamentary etiquette, express- j ed the censure, and Holbrook went back to his scat like a wicked schoolboy. The President pro. tern, of the Senate laid before that body, this morning, reso lutions adopted by the National Union Re publican Association of Georgia, approving the action of the National Union Republi- j can party; against the repudiation of j national indebtedness ; approving the I adoption of the fourteenth article of the Constitution; endorsing tho policy of] Governor Bullock iu relation to the ex pulsion of the negro members from the ! Legislature of Georgia; endorsing the platform of the Republican party adopted at Chicago, and urging that Hon. Joshua Hill and Hon. H. V. M. Millar be not ad mitted to seats in the Senate as Senators ] from Georgia. The resolutions are dated: Atlanta, January 20, and signed : Edward E. Howard, Corresponding Sec'y. Attest: T. G. Campbell, Pres’t. Edwin Belcher, Sec’y. They were referred to the Judiciary Committee. The following have been appointed* As sistant Assessors of Internal Revenue for the 4th Georgia District: Cornelius Vanan dale, George W. Stoddard, Norton G. Chandler, Eldorado Knight, and Charles K Blocker. Grant at last consents to attend the in auguration ball. The original Committee of party men altogether wonder why he didn’t respect their attempt to gee up a dance, and wait until a committee “with out regard to party” consummate measures for a ball. Sambo is not to be present. J. C. Meeting of Stoekliolders in the Maeon and Brunswick Railroad. This meeting was held yesterday in Con cert Hall, in this city, and was largely at- I tended, and over $1,000,000 of stock rep- ; resented. The rep rt of the President j was received and read. It was quite com prehensive, and highly satisfactory and | cheering to the stockholders. A few of its I leading features were, that thirty-one miles of new road under the new contract, have already been completed, and are now in j running order. The new contract had about 150 miles of road to build, and the vigorous niauner in which the work has been pushed along, and is still progressing, ! leaves no doubt that the whole road will j be completed and in running order by the , first of November next, at the farthest, j Fifteen hundred hands are at work along : the road, and is being laid at four different \ points—from Brunswick, in both directions j from Doctortown, and from Hawkinsville \ toward the latter point. Iron sufficient to , lay seventy-six miles of road is now landed at Brunswick and Savannah, and the bal ance will soon be in hand. The report was just such a paper as 1 might have been expected from Mr. Hazle hurst —clear, comprehensive and com plete—and we are glad to say of a most encouraging and cheering nature. The following gentlemen were chosen, unanimously, officers of the road for the ensuing year : George H. Hazlehurst, President. Henry C. Day, Treasurer. Directors.—Geo. S. Obear, L. N. Whittle, Chas. Day, Stephen Collins, of Maeon ; Chas. H. Dabney, Jeremiah, Milbank. M. K. Jessup, J. P. G. Foster, of New York.— Macon Telegraph. The Memorial Concerts.—The series of Concerts gotten up by the Ladies of the Georgia Memorial Association were concluded at Amerieus on Wednesday evening last. The noble ladies and fine musicians have given concerts in Savan nah, Augusta, Macon, Columbus, Atlanta, Albany and Amerieus, and have raised a fund for their Society of near Four Thou sand Dollars. They have received urgent invitations to visit Montgomery and Mobile, but have been prevented from doing so for the present by indisposition ot some ot the ladies.— Columbus Enquirer. Destructive Tornado.—The Atlanta Intelligencer, of Friday, learns that there was a terrible tornado in Campbell county on last Saturday night. It extended for about ten miles, 3nd was about four hun dred yards in width. Great damage was done to timber and fencing. The house of Mr. Miller was destroyed, and Mrs. Miller and her children were very f much injured. Mrs. Duke's house was also destroyed ; also, Antioch Church. Mr. Patterson's house was destroyed, Mr. Walker’s house also blown down. On Friday night—the night before—the LaGrange Reporter says a severe wind and hail storm passed through the lower por tion of Troup county. Trees, fences, freed men’s cabins, and timber, were prostrated indiscriminately. The gin house of Mr?. McCaliey and Mr. Joseph Rutledge were blown to atoms, scattering the fragments all round. It has Dot been heard from further west than Mr. M. P. Johnson’s, and east than Mrs. Sledge’s—only a few miles apart. West Point Enterprise. —Two manu facturing companies were organized in West Point, Ga.. in 1866, with a capital stock, one of $100,000; and the other $60,000. The building of one is completed, and the other rapidly approaching completion. ‘ —■ Constitution, Commission *of Emigration. It is known that we have been opposed to the scheme of emigration now before the . Legislature. Welearnthatthatmeasurewill i likely pass and become a law. This being , the case, it becomes of the very first im portance that the chief officer selected to j put in motion the difficult and complex machinery of the project should be not I only a gentleman of intelligence, industry j and experience, but of known and ac- ] ' knowledged probity and honesty. If we can secure the services el such a man the j ! system may be made a real benefit to the ' State. Our correspondent F. suggests the name of a gentleman in this connection who, if lie would consent to accept the po- j sition, would fully meet all the require ; rnents which we have stated. Without disparagement to others, we do j not liesitate-to declare our belief that no ! man can be found in he State or out of it, more fully competent, in every particular, for tbis responsible position. If we are to have an Emigration Bureau let us Lave it honestly and intelligently officered. From the very nature of tin* case, the opportu nities for cheating and peculating on the part of officials will be vtry great. The main—indeed the only—security which the people of the State can h»ve for the faith ! ful performance of the trust, must be ! looked for in the character of the gentle man placed at its head. For this position Lafayette McLaws is the man. The State Agricultural Society. The meeting of the State Agricultural Society at Atlanta augurs well for the future development of Agrisulture in the State. Already we hear tlrat throughout the State, particularly in the Northwest and in the Southwest, county clubs have been thoroughly reorganized, and the agri cultural community are beetiming thorough ly aroused to the necessity and advantage of organized effort. We shall be greatly mistaken if the revival of Farmers’ Clubs in the several counties o? our State, with the effective State Society, which has been so harmoniously reorganized and so ably officered, does not give an impetus to an improved system of agriculture, adapted j to the wauts of our people and State, } that few note anticipate. Agriculture is the j science of locality. Tbe experiments and j experience of the various county elubs will afford a record of statistics and facts which will give us that which we so great ly need, and which we have never here ! tofore had, an opportunity of testing thoroughly many dogmas now received and acted upon as established principles, and of disseminating more widely tbe j knowledge of true principles derived from j applied science. In the proceedings of this Convention we regret that we fail to discern a strong, vigorous movement in this direction. The j Convention seems to have been engaged in | collaterals, although important—looking | rather to questions in political economy ! than to scientific agricultural progress, j First and foremost was the endorsement jof the Immigration Bill. Now, while we heartily endorse every movement ! which induce the introduction of capital ; into tho State, and, above all, ] skilled labor, we regret that our judgment j does not approve this bill. It calls for j Consular Emigrant Agmts abroad, for the Latin races and for the Teutonic races and ! for the Anglo Saxon, with no immoderate i salaries, but with powers which we are afraid will lead such agents to look more to accummulating individual profits than to the character of the immigrants or the wants of the State; anti, in the end, will precipitate upon us a horde of no desirable population from the over-burthened nations I of Europe, to no advantage, either to the condi ion of our society or to agricultural development. More than half of our population is now of the pauper class, but as yet they are comparatively free from these characteristics, which have been in grained by despotism forages by European despotisms. It behooves us to weigh well ! before entering upon any movements which are at all likely to flood us with the. refuse of Europe. The second resolution by Mr. Philips, | which raises, for the first time, from farm ers as an organized body, a protest against ■ the railroad policy of making local freights I to bear the burthen of corporation divi j dends and expenses, as unwise and un just, will not fail to attract the attention of farmers, and we expect to hear further from it. It gives us pleasure to note in this connection, the action of the Superintend ents of the several Railroad Companies at Atlanta, in reducing to very low rates, without discrimination as to distance, the costoftransportingGuanos and Fertilizers. These rates, we believe, are now lower than in any other State in the Union. The re duction of freight on Lime by the State Road is one of the best moves, both for the road and the farmers that could be pos sibly accomplished. We hope that lime will be universally classed as a Fertilizer, ! and so regarded by all roads. It is an ar ] tide of prime necessity in the recupera tion of our old lands. We hope that a similar movement with regard to marl will i soon follow, so that these rich deposits on our seaooast and the Carolinas will be placed within the reach of every farmer at ] small cost. The resolution on sulphuric acid meets j with our hearty approval. We wish that | the action of the Committee hud gone j further and memorialized the State for aid. A small appropriation for the manufacture of this invaluable agent would soon re- j turn to the State four-fold in the beneficial results which would follow upon its cheap- j ness and general use in the manufacture 1 of fertilizers. Mr. Stevens’ resolution, appointing a committee to report upon the principles j involved in the preparation of food for ani mals meets with our hearty concurrence. We hope the Committee will give a thor ough and elaborate examination for gener al distribution. It is something that we need particularly. We congratulate the Society and our agricultural community upon the revival of our State Agricultural Society, and that it is placed on a firm foundation, and we look forward, under its present able man agement, to its becoming the great agent for developing our boundless agricultural resources. General Lafayette McLaws. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel: I see that the Legislature has a bill now pending, establishing a Bureau of Immi gration and that it provides for the election by the Legislature for a commissioner. In the selection of that officer, it is im portant that he should command the con fidence of the people—one upon whom all could rely—that his action would not be controlled by other than the purest motives in representing the State and the emigrant stranger. In casting our eye over the State, we know of no one more eminently qualified than General McLaws. Educated at West Point, he is a fine engineer and peculiarly qualified for the position. By association and education a gentleman, he only knows to be honest and upright. Knowing what is right he has the moral courage to do his duty; a brave, skillful sol dier,. he has the confidence of the people of his State and will deserve and acquire the respect and confidence oi the emigrant Because he was true to his native State in her time of trouble, he lost a position in the army of the United States. Since the war he has been, and is now. engaged as agent for real estate, and familiar with the lands of Georgia, and prepared intelligent ly for the State and the emigrant to repre sent their mutual interests. For these and many other reasons which will suggest themselves to all who know General Mc- Laws, without his knowledge or solicita tion we present his name as a suitable pier son for the position of Chief Commissioner for Georgia. P~ —-* [communicated.] County Funds. Editors Chronicle & Sentinel: —The pres ent mode of investigating the receipts and disbursements of the County are as unsatisfactory as can well be devised. The Grand Jury of the County, pressed by bills of indictments and other court matters, have no time to de vote to a proper investigation of the county agents. Besides there is a conflict of opinion as to how far these duties ex tend; and the fatigue incident to onerous aud prolonged duties as Jurymen, does not permit such an investigation as the im portance of these matters demands. The people want to know exactly each year how much money has been received from the Tax Collector for educational tax and general tax, and how these funds are ap plied, to whom and what for. It should be obligatory upon each county officer to publish, semi-annually, a'condensed state ment of receipts and expenditures, show ing how much money has been received, and when ami from whom received ; how much money has been paid out, lor what paid out, and to whom and when ; paid out. Accounts rendered in this way will inform the people, and afford ! the Grand Jury the opportunity of! easily aud readily verifying the same by j reference to the books of the several offi eers. The publication should be made at ! least one week before each session of the j Superior Court. As matters now stand it is impossible for the public to know how ] money is expended, and equally impossi- I ble for a graud jury committee to give I more than a cursory examination. Let me | give you an example. I have before me : some notes, taken whilst discharging the j duties of a juror, but 1 have never hud the ; time, although they were of such import ancein my judgment as todemand scrutiny, to look into them. On the 17th of August, 1807, .Samuel Levy, Jacob K. Davis, Thomas S. Skin ner, and Wm. H. Stallings, having been appointed Justices of the Inferior Court,] were duly installed iu office, having sworn | that they had not yielded a voluntary sup- j port to any pretended government, power or Constitution within the limits of the United States, hostile or inimical thereto. ! Sept 13, 1867 —The Court pass ed an order to Sam’l Levy for corn for the poor $ 2,000 00 I “ for Public Roads 2,000 00 ) Oct 7, 1867 —Order to Samuel Lev for County purposes 4,000 00. Nov. 29 —Order to Samuel Levy, for county purposes 500 00 Dee. 4,order to Samuel Levy for expenses to Atlanta 22 00 Dec. 15, order to Samuel Levy for services as Superintendent of Roads and Bridges 1,000 00 Dec. 15, order to Samuel Levy lor Roads and Bridges... 1,500 00 Dec. 23, order to Samuel Levy for Poor Fund, Roads and Bridges 2,000 00 j Jan. 28, 1868, order to fcamuel Levy for expenses to Atlanta 24 00 1 $13,046 00 On the 4tli of February, 1808, the Treasurer rendered the following account with Saiuuel Levy, J. I. C. : 1867. Sept. 13, To Cash-Check N. Bk. f 1,000 00 “ 19, “ “ “ “ 1,000 00 “ 28, “ “ “ “ 500 00 Oct. 4, “ “ “ “ 1,000 00 “ 14, “ “ “ “ 1,003 00 “ 23, “ “ “ “ 1,500 00 “ 31, “ “ “ “ 1,000 00 Nov. 9, “ “ “ “ 500 00 “ 13, “ “ “ “ 1,000 00 Dec. 5, “ “ ' “ “ 1,000 00 “ 10. “ “ “ “ 1,500 00 “ 21, “ “ “ “ 1,000 00 Cr. $12,000 00 Cr. . By bills paid for paupers $ 8,102 72 “ “ for Poor House... 167 40 “ “ for lloads 3,088 27 “ “ for Court expenses ‘ 151 53 8a1ance...... 510 06 $12,000 00 On same date, February 4, order to Samuel Levy for lloads and Bridges $ 2,000 00 'March 4, A. Deas, Sweet Pota toes 125 00 March 4, A. Ideas, new cart 45 00 “ 5, A. Deas, mule 125 50 “ 6, Sami. Levy for Foot House 500 00 March 18, S Levy Hoads and Bridges.. 2,000 00 April 16, S. Levy, Roads and Bridges and Paupers 2,000 00 The following bonds appear to have been issued : No. 1, Oct. 7, 1867, Dr. M. J. Jones, 1 year $ 250 00 No. 2, Oct. 7, 1867, Dr. M. J. Jones, 2 years 250 00 No. 3 Oct. 7, 1867, Dr. M. J. Jones, 4 years 250 00 No. 4, Oct. 7, 1867, Dr. M. J. Jones, 3 years 250 00 No, 5, Oct. 7, 1867, E. Palmer, 1 year, tor building bridges and lumber 200 00 No. 6, Oct. 7, George O. Lom bard, for building bridges and lumber 242 00 No. 7- Oct. 7, 1867, Jonathan Miller, 12 months,for work ing Sand Bar Ferry Road.. 100 00 No. 8, Oct. 7, 1867, das. Mullen, for serving at election and bailiff. 225 00 No. 9, to Alfred R. Jordan for medical services at Poor House 100 00 I have given you the foregoing, Messrs. Editors, liom my notes. They are just as I took them from the record. They will afford some opportunity for the public to see how things are done, and afford some evidence of the difficulties experienc ed by Grand Jurors. Now is it not pos sible that our county officers shall be re quired to publish some annual statements and thereby enable the public to learn how the money is expended, to whom and what for, leaving to the Jury to take these reports as a guide to be verified. Juror. FROM 01 R TRAVELLING CORRESPOND ENT. On the Wing, 1 February 5, 1869. j Editors Chronicle & Sentinel : There is no subject that is exciting so much feeling and interest among the peo ple of Middle Georgia as that of agriculture. Who shall make the most and do so with the most practical system of economy, is the absorbing question. The depots in Hancock county are filled up, and some of them are running over -with guano, bone dust, &c. Wagons are coming and going in every direction, laden with these spe cifics. filling the air with a scent not very pleasant to the olfactory nerves of the more delicate. The agent at Culverton informed me that Mr. Dickson’sfreightbill on Fertil izers last year was eighteen thousand dollars. It is thought these investments pay from fifty to one hundred per cent., according to the nature of the seasons. Fertilizers re ceived, anil from fifty to one hundred per cent, additional in the quantity of cotton returned, which,at 25 cents,is the high road to fortune, provided a man has no provis : ions to buy. But I tell you that I have uever seen the man yet. I care not how much cotton ! he makes, who had to buy his corn and meat, that ever made any clear money by farming. Os the hundreds and thousands of bags and barrels that I have seen going to Dickson, I have never yet seen one bag of corn. . , A young man in Hancock county two I years ago, harrowed twenty-two hundred dollars and invested it in an outfit for farming. The first year ha made plenty of corn and cotton sufficient for a very credit able payment on the muney borrowed. Last year he made plenty of corn and meat and made five thousand dollars on 'hk cotton. He says that those who de> pend on baying corn never properly es timate the cost, and the inevitable ruin to them in the event of a failure in cotton, i His views fully harmonize with the judg i ment of the leading men of the country, that the only safeguard is in the pro ; duction of abundant supplies of the in dispensablcs. i Another fact worthy of note is, that these successful larmers attend, closely to their business. Negroes need as much watcheare and oversight in their labors now as they ever did. Pet haps others might profit by the experience of my friend in Columbia on this subject. He furnished the land and a mule with provender to feed it, and the negro was to find himself and go halves. And as the days began to lengthen, the labor increase, and the ne gro’s meager supplies exhaust, the mule rapidly declined in flesh and finally died. On going to the farm and investigating the matter he found the negro had used the corn himself instead of giving it to the mule. He asked the negro why he did so, and he replied: “Well, to tell you the truth. Massa, one or the other had to perish to death, and I rather it would be the mule than me.” . I guess it would be a good idea when negroes talk about finding themselves, to know whether they have got anything to find themselves with or not. j Went on up to Atlanta. Called at the Opera House. Ascended one or two flights of steps, and asked a man “where was the | Representative Hall.” He replied,] “down stairs.” Went down stairs and j. asked another, and he said “upstairs.” Believing they did not know what a Repre sentative Hall was, I left impressed with the truth of the following let oft', from a : fellow in the heat of a social confab, which - I learn occurred not tar distant- The fact j of the citification are thus : “If I owed a mah banking money, and was to make I him a lawless tenement, and he infused to ; : deeept, aud was then to take out an intach ment on my property, I would kill him if ] he was the lust man under the maccanals of : Heaven.” I learn this fellow has been ] i appointed trustee of a school, j There is profound ignorance even where i there is so much of intelligence and thrift i as the Gate City is known to possess. Arrived in Chattanooga at about 5 ! o’clock a. iu., wearied from travel and loss of sleep, lay down in a comfortable room at , the Burns' House, and alter about two • hours awoke refreshed, and ready for the j duties of the.day, which were anything but pleasant, owing to the abundant rains, and ! the mud and water in the. streets. With ! little time for observation of the wonders J of'Nature, or the achievements of Art, I | commenced a day’s tramp through the ! mud and water, long to be remembered. The first object that excited much attention in the street, was a tight between two negroes, without any serious results, j Passing on down in the direction of the river, l heard a terrible noise on the op- i posite side of the street, looked and two ] other negroes were in deadly contact, and i several others around trying to pull them apart. Returning up the street an hour or two afterward I saw two boys, white and black, run together, the former soon whipped the tight and the scene ended. I asked a ’gentleman if such scenes was characteristic of his town, and he replied no, they were quite unusual, but said he thought the negroes were live times worse in Tennessee than in Georgia. A large proportion of the trade in this place is in provisions. Commission merchants were complaining of the scarcity of corn, meat, &e., all attributable to the influences of speculation. They say there is an abun dance of corn all through the couutry, especially in East Tennessee, but specula tors largely control it. Fifty thousand mules alone have passed i down the State road this season for Geor- ] gia, which they say must be fed from the cribs of Tennessee. I hope they have overestimated the demand for corn in our section; if not, what good will it do us to make money if it must take this direction? Traveller. From the Atlanta Constitution. “To the Puhlle.” Atlanta, Ga., February 4. 1869. My attention has been called to a card of the above caption in the press dispatches, signed “H. Morgan, W. R Bell, C. C. Cleghorn, committee,” and I take this oc casion to state that I was surprised to see this publication, as it was unauthorized by me. The Treasurer’s report in reference to moneys drawn by Governor Bullock on hypothecated bonds of the State, was re ferred to Committee on Finance, and by it to a sub-committee of three —named above —for investigation. When the card al luded to was presented for my approval aud signature, I pronounced it improper and premature, and after various modifi cations and erasures a majority of the committee agreed ou the card. On reflection, my conviction of the im- | propriety of such a card was so strong that I called upon General Morgan and, after consultation, we determined to suppress the publication of it, and it was at once withdrawn from the press. The other two members of the commit tee having furnished Governor Bullock with acopy withojit my knowledge, and he, being ignorant of the action of General Morgan and myself, telegraphed it to the country. Besides the impropriety of such a j course by a sub committee, 1 considered it open to the same objection complained of, namely, premature publication. In refer ence to tbelast concluding sentence : “We are induced to make this request of j you because of" the hasty course of the I Treasurer in making public certain com- i munieations.”* It is due to Dr. Angier to state that wbeu he ascertained that Gov ernor Bullock's letter in reply to his report had been sent to the city press for publi cation, lie sent his son to me with the re quest that lie he allowed to publish his re joinder at the same time, which 1 consent ed to without consultation witli General Morgan and Dr. Bell, for the reason that the former was off on leave of absence, and the latter was not in his seat at the time. Papers that have published the card al luded to, are requested to publish this also. Cl C. Cleghorn. A Kallroad In a .Nut-Shell. We have already published in full the reports of the President and Superintendent of the South Carolina Railroaci for the year 1868,and we now present some comparative tables which show Letter than gross amounts can do the results of the business and the character of the management of the company. GROSS EARNINGS I*EH MILE. The mileage in each ease is the total number of miles of road, including all j branches. The gross receipts are, exclu sive of interest, banking revenue, and other amounts not derived from traffic : Central Railroad tGa.), 1867 $7,875 “ “ “ 1868 7,123 Decrease $752 Georgia Railroad, 1867 $4,896 “ “ 1868 4,325 Decrease $571 Western and Atlantic, 1867 $9,226 “ “ “ 1868 6,837 Decrease $2,389 ; Memphis and Charleston, 1867 $5,100 ! “ “ “ 1868 4,370 Decrease $1,063 South Carolina Railroad, 1867 $5,415 “ “ “ 1868 5,329 Decrease $0,086 PERCENTAGE OP DECREASE. The following table shows the percent age of decrease in gross receipts per mile in 1868 : Central Railroad, decrease per mile percent 9.55 Georgia Railroad, decrease per mile per cent 11.65 Western and Atlantic Railroad de crease per mile per cent 25.89 Memphis and Charleston Railroad, decrease per mile per cent ....20.84 South Carolina Railroad, decrease per mile per cent 1.59 WORKING EXPENSES. The following tabic shows the percent age of working expenses to gross receipts in 1868, on the roads named : Central Railroad 63.92 Georgia Railroad 50.99 Western and Atlantic Railroad 69.43 Memphis and Charleston Rai1r0ad....70.65 South Carolina Railroad 53.85 NET INCOME PER MILE. The following table shows the net income per' mile in 1868, applicable to interest, dividends, and extraordinary expenses : Central Railroad $2,534 Georgia Railroad 2,120 Western and Atlantic Railroad 2,089 Memphis and Charleston Railroad... 1,253 South Carolina Railroad 2,459 It is nut necessary to comment upon these figures. Their significance will be understood, and appreciated by every stock holder and bondholder, and by every other person who is interested in the South Carolina Railroad Company, or who ad mires in the abstract a sound, practical, and judicious Railroad administration. — Charleston News- Tiie Indian Famine.—The famine in India still continues its desolating course, and the Times, of India, states, under date of December 19th, that, despite the relief afforded by grain clubs and local funds liberally contributed, the distress is becom ing more and more severe throughout Ilajpootana, and that there is every proba bility that next February the destitution, wherever roads and canals do not exist, will equal that of 1860 and 1861. N. F. Mercantile Journal, Gen. Grant and Gen. Banks.—lt is expected that the correspondence in the Banks-Grant affair will be given to the public within a day or two from General Grant's headquarters. There appears to be no doubt as to Gen. Banks having re ceived positive orders to supersede Gen. Grant, and the correspondence when pub lished, will show this fact. NEW SERIES, VOL. XXVIII. NO. 7. BY TELEGRAPH. FgQM ATLANTA. Proceedings of the Legislature. • SPKCIAL TELEGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE OP THE CHRONICLE A SENTINEL. j Eligibility of Negroes Referred to the Su preme Court—Debate in the Senate — Abolishment of Capital Punishment— ] Rate of Interest, d-c. Atlanta, February 8, p. in.—The Sen ate met this morning at the usual hour aud ; the business of last Saturday, unfinished at the time of adjournment oil that day, was again resumed. ! The celebrated “eligibility" resolution I which was passed by the House of Repre sentatives a few days since, referring tbe ! whole question of the right of the negroes i to hold civil office in the Slate of Georgia ’ to our Supreme Court, to be settled by its , decision, was taken up, together with the amendment, formerly introduced by Mr. Speer, that the Senate pledge itself to ac quiesce in its decision whenever it may be rendered. Mr. Candler at first moved the call of the previous question on the resolution, but several Senators having expressed a desire to be beard iu this important mat ter before it was put to tbe vote, he was induced to withdraw his motion. Mr. Speer then, to the astonishment of every one, asked permission to withdraw his amendment, The President refused the desired per mission, deciding that the request was not in order, and, separating the amend ment from the resolution, put the former to the vote first, which was defeated, the i ayes being only twelve, wbile the nays ] were nineteen. The other portion, which required every j officer and member of tho General Assem- ! bly to swallow tho iron-clad oath, was next put to the vote and also lost, twelve men being found infamous enough to favor while twenty opposed its passage. The original resolution which passed the House being put upon its passage, was declared adopted. Yeas 19, nays 12. So this much agitated matter has been j shifted by our I legislature from t heir own shoulders, and the responsibility attached to a decision of the case transferred to Joseph K. Brown, H. R. McCay and Hiram Warner. The vote on this resolution mani fested a decided division in both the Radi cal and Democratic parties upon it—mem- ; bers of each side being seen to cast tlieir j vote with their political antagonists. Mr. Neuville, a Radical Senator, gave 1 notice that he would move for a reconsid- I eratiou to-morrow. After the passage of the resolut ion Mr. Adkins had his resolution read, which de- i dares that the expulsion of the negro ] members at the last session of the General ! Assembly was illegal and that they im- ! mediately be reinstated iu their seats. This, of course,again brought up the whole question of the eligibility of negroes to hold office. Mr. Winn stated that, as this resolution had already’ been once refused by r the Senate on last Saturday,aud the subject ef fectually disposedof to-day by T the adoption of the House resolution to refer to the Supreme Court, it was now clearly out of order to introduce it again. Mr. Adkins claimed that his motion was in order, aud that it was so decided by the President. Mr. Smith, of the Seventh District, op posed the resolution in a powerful speech. He said that he had conversed with many negroes since their expulsion and that of them all only three contended for their 1 right, in this particular. From what he i had himself seen he had no idea that the great mass of the negro population in Georgia thought themselves competent to | take charge of the State Government.- He did not, for a moment, believe that even Abraham Lincoln, the emancipator of their , race, was ever in favor of their holding office; nor did Congress really at heart favor it, but wished the negroes quietly to bide their time. It would beau act pio ductive of the greatestevii to re-seat them; for it would increase Ihe antagonism bo tween the whites and blacks aud bring on that most terrible conflict, a war of races. Mr. Adkins' resolution was postponed indefinitely by a majority of eight voles, but the mover gave notice that he would 1 ask a reconsideration to-morrow. sh the House of Representatives, Mr. Hall, a follower of Victor Hugo, intro duced a hill lor the abolishment in this State of capital punishment. Mr. Morgan introduced a bill restoring the jurisdiction formerly exercised by County Courts to Justices’ Courts. Messrs. Spark and Fitzgerald each in troduced a bill to bring on a municipal election in Macon. A bill was passed to prevent the sale of ardent liquors on election days. A bill was introduced to allow the col lection of any rate of interest agreed upon. Mr. Hall, of Merri wether, made an earn est appeal in favor of the passage of this bill. We, he said, had muscle and brains in abundance; what we most lacked was capital aud to secure this we must repeal all laws which tend to restrict the rate of interest for money loaned. By this course, and by this course alone, would capital and prosperity revisit the State of Georgia. Besides it was eminently just and proper that the great and inimitable law of sup ply and demand should apply to money as well as to other commodities ; there was no good reason for makingjdistinetion. Mr. O’Neal favored the passage of the bill, as also did Messrs. Anderson, Craw ford and Sparks. Pending action the House adjourned, Ivlr. Hudson having the floor. X. Resolution . to Reconsider the Eligibility Resolution —Debate in the Senate—The Usury-Rate of-lnterest Bill Lost —Ao Reduction of Circus Licenses —The Laud Immigration Bureau —Surmises as to Congressional Action. i Atlanta, February 9, p. m. — ln the S Senate, Mr. Wooten moved to reconsider j the House resolutions concurred in yester | day, submitting the negro eligibility to office to the Supreme Court, his object be ■ ing to kill it. His position, in short was, as the Con stitution gave each house sole power to de i cide this question for itself, no outside parties should interfere, or could do so constitutionally. Mr. Burns agreed with Mr. Wooten, saying that white Democrats had been declared ineligible by the Louisiana Legis lature aud Congress had not interfered. Georgia had complied fully with the Ke j construction Acts. Mr. Candler moved to lay Mr. Wooten’s motion on the table—yeas 13, nays 17. Mr. Candler spoke at length in favor of the House resolution, and was followed by Mr. Hinton, who said that an acquiescence in this resolution was virtually trampling under foot the very Constitution which they had sworn to support. Mr. Brock followed, recognizing the right of Congress to do what it pleased. The indications at present seem to favor j the belief that there will be non-concur rence in the House resolutions which ! come up to-morrow under the unfinished business of to day. In the House bills were lost to allow any rate ofinterest agreed upon by the parlies, and to reduce the tax upon Circuses. ■ t here were passed a State bill to amend the charter of the Cotton States Liie Insur ance Company; to exempt the members of the Savannah Fire Companies from Jury duty; also regulating the issuing of subpoenas to witnesses to attend the Chat ham County and Savannah City Courts. The House took up the bill to organize a land immigration bureau. A flood of amendments were offered. After an excit ed discussion, during which much oppo sition to the bill was manifested, the House adjourned without coming to a vote. Various surmises are afloat as to the i probable action of Congress. Nearly all think something will be done, and a small minority think a pro\isional government will be the final conclusion of the matter X. Negro Eligibility—Debate Continued— The House Resolution—Motion to Re j consider Lost—Adkins and his Rets Usury and Horse- Operas—Land Im migration Bureau —Never mind the Ej> pease—Georgia is Rich—The Strong - Minded Movement - The So-called Con- stitutional Convention—Radical Caucus —C. O. D. Wars on Maimed Soldiers. Atlanta, February 10, p. nu—Mr. Welboru resumed his argument in oppo sition to a reconsideration of the House resolution to refer negro eligibility to of fice to the Supreme Court, closing by call ing the previous question, which was not sustained. Mr. Merrill said he thought it could be amended so as to harmonize all partias, like himself, occupying moderate ground. His amendment proposed to hind both Houses to abide by the decision, request ing their constituents to do the same; to carry out the views of Cougress as to the construction ofthe Fourteenth Article and the Reconstruction Acts, aud to recogniz ing the equal rights of citizens, irrespect ive ot race, color or political opinion. Alter some remarks by Mr. Holcombe, the question was put and the motion to reconsider was lost—ayes 15, nays 18. Mr. Adkins took the floor in favor of reconsidering his resolution to reseat ne gro Senators immediately. Being recon sidered it was laid ou tho table. The Senate passed the General Jury Bill of the House. Iu the House Mr. Crawford moved to reconsider the bill lost yesterday, to allow the collection of any rate of interest. The motion was lost. Ou motion of Mr. Tuniliu the hill lost yesterdav.to reduce dto tax on circuses was reconsidered and amended so as to tax them one hundred dollars in towns having ten thousand inhabitants, and fifty dollars in those having five thousand, and twenty tivedollars elsewhere. The bill asamended was passed. The House spent much time iu discuss ing the Laud Immigration Bureau Bill. Mr. Ellis introduced a bill to provide for building anew State House. Mr. Salter introduced a bill to confer the right of suffrage ou females. It is geueratlv said that Mr. Parrott re fuses or declines to reassemble the Consti tutional Convention. The Radicals held a caucus yesterday and will hold another to-morrow to dis cuss the propriety of a pro tem. President during tho reassembling of it. Bullock vetoed the bill to pay Bird and Kolbe for artificial limbs furnished maim ed Confederate soldiers. x. ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. Congressional. HOUSE. Washington, February 10, p. m.—At 1 o’clock, .Senators arm-in-arm came to the House, and Wado look the chair, Colfax seated near him. Senator Conkliug and Representatives Wilson, of lowa, aud Pruyn, acting as tellers. Pruyn read the Democratic votes, Conkling and Wilson alternated reading the Republican. All went smoothly until Louisiana was reached, when Mullins, of Tennessee, objected—declaring no valid election had been held. ! The joint session separated aud the House voted 126 to 63 to count Louisiana. Tue Senate, after a severe struggle to draw in extraneous matters, voted to | count Louisiana. The Houses again met and proceeded with the count until Georgia was reached, when Buticr objected because the Georgia College had not voted on the proper day and for other reasons. Much confusion ensued, which Wade ended hv ordering the Senate to its own Chamber. The House then voted ’.50 to 41 for Geor gia not to be counted. The Senate, af.er a most perplexing aud langnable druggie, declared that in the face ofthe concurrent resolution concerning Georgia, the objec tion iu joint session was out of order. The Houses again met, and the joint session being iu absolute conflict, Wade ordered Georgia to be read as directed by the con current resolution. Butler objected. Wade would hear no objection. Butler appealed from Wade’s de cision. Wade would allow no appeal and’ ordered the count to proceed. Butler moved that the Senate have per mission to retire. Not in order. Butler insisted they should control their own hall. Amid the most intense excitement Wade ordered the count to proceed. Conkling commenced reading the result but his voice was drowned by cries of onler, aud the noise became deafening, when Speaker Colfax sprang to the desk, proclaiming that the Vice President must bo obeyed iu joint session, and ordered the Sergeant-at-Arms toarreat disorderly per sons. Colfax was ordering and appealing probably two minutes, during which time the Sergeant-at-Arms had distributed his men well through the House before partial order was restored, when the reading of tho result aud proclamation followed and both houses separated. The Senate immediately ad journed. HOUSE. In the House, Butler introduced a reso ld ion that Wade's aud the Senate’s action wns a gross invasion of the rights of tne House; which resolution was pendiug, when the House adjourned. Publishing Notices in Bankruptcy, <fec. For the information of Federal officers, wo publish the annexed report of the Com mittee on the Revision of the Laws, made to the United States House of Representa tives, on the 22d ultimo. It will be seen that the act of March, 1867, authorizing the Clerk of the Douse to select two papers in each State in which Government adver tisements shall be inserted, applies only to “official notices for the benefit, and. pub lished at the expense of the Government,'' and, consequently, that Government offi cers can exercise their discretion in publish ing all other notices : Report. —The Committee on the Revis ion oi the Laws of the United States, to whom was referred House Bill No? 1701, entitled “An act to amend the seventh section of an act entitled.' An act making appropriation for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the year ending, June 30, 1868, and for other purposes, approved March 2, 1867,’” having had the same under consideration, are ofthe opinion that no necessity exists for its passage, and, therefore, recommend that the same be indefinitely postponed. 'The bill has been supposed to be neces sary by reason of the ruling of one or two ofthe United States District Judges, that the notice required to be published in pro ceedings in bankruptcy were governed by section seven of an appropriation act passed March 2, i 867, and must, there fore, be published in two newspapers des ignated by the Clerk of the House of Rep resentatives for the publication ofthe laws ofthe United States, and for such public official notices as itiay be ordered for pub lication by judges or other officers of the United States. Section 11 of the bankruptcy law pro vides that on filing a petition by a bank rupt, the judge or register shall issue a warrant to the marshal, authorizing him to publish notices in such papers as the warrant specifies, &c. Section 29 of the same act provides that on the application of the bankrupt for his final discharge, the court shall order notice to the creditors by mail, “and by publica tion, at least one week, in such newspapers \ ns the court may designate, due regard I being had to the general circulation ofthe same in the district in which the. bankrupt ' shall reside, &e.” It is clear from the language of these 1 sections that it was the intention ofthe act ' to leave the selection ofthe papers to the j discretion of the court, to be governed by ! the necessities and circumstances of each particular case. The bankrupt law aud ap propriation bill (in which the sections above referred to are found) were both passed the same day. The bankrupt law appears latest in the printed volume, and was, in fact, passed after the other; and if there was a conflict between them, the bankrupt law must probably be regarded as Ihe later and, therefore, the prevailing law. But the committee are ofthe opinion that there is no real conflict in the two acts; that the seventh section of the appropriation act only applies to official governmental notices, for the benefit and published at the expense of the government; while those under the bankrupt law are really a part of the proceedings in a private pro ceeding or litigation, to be carried on at private cost wholly. -This distinction is made clear by the provision' in the appro priation act that all accounts for the pub lication therein provided for shall be ad justed by the proper accounting officer, aud paid in the manner now authorized by law in the like cases. It will be seen at once that this could not be intended to apply to proceedings in bankruptcy, where the whole expense is to be paid by the bankrupt or out of his estate. This does not leave any part o! the appropriation act inoperative, as there are many cases oi' publication uoder the order ofthe United States judges which would clearly come within iis terms and intent. . The bankrupt act was intended to be a complete and entire system ot itsell, without aid from other statutes, except as they are referred to specially. The genera! practice under the bank rupt law has been iu accord with these views, and the different rulings of the judges above referred to can be at once corrected by application in that behalf to the Judge of the Circuit, whioh is provid ed for in the bankrupt law itself.
