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All THREE DOLLARS A YEAR,] FOR, THE DISSEIINATION OF USEFUlL INTELLIGNE. (IsRInunY IN AnVAYCE. YOI 4y; WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 29, 1868. NO.5. TfEIIE RA LD 'E' EINESAY MONING, t Neubery. C. ., aMad, iR AXMMtm; iN CunRFc OR PROYIIONs. It hivittftr dbit Go -en, e . eD epV 6'O.- Tenkin's to Maggg.i which he declines using lis iit4i Treasury to pay tbe eg -fhConvention as di lbe fotd highly .inter eting. 'The letter fall- explaivs e ole afair withou' the ne giving 'ble entire wreoderO: "xetmI DEPA?MtENT,) ILLZDGVIi4J, an. 10, 1868. j .d. -eorg G. Mead, United States Army, Command edir .MilTary District: : Your communict.tion Ov s ..hi%stant,, iTielosing,.- for Smaidwation, an .6rainance of mov - sitlting in 'At aevy and ollect a tax for j4a expwises of the eon ,f nh io ot,er purposes;" having an.indorsement thereon by Major -ilbn Pope, .then ooenpggi4g AXi. Third Distrie, 7and-ins W tructing J ohln .e -T! Casurmr, ' to " tbii-sing officer of the to Pay its ex penses, and the pay and mileage cet ad officers, up t' Tay af eeber,. 18t7. t r,pVp . of Mr.,Jones to Gen mero~~ipa 1voidable inte:rru~ptiens have f entd ne from replvin_ in time'for t.. mail of to-da. reiting tke substance o th pApers, a ad d. (AtP 'ru tantes I den i e1tt-regnest yop to issiw an executive warrant on the.State Treasurer for the payment of the amount, id for the p'urposes s-s4d*in rdInce." After careful conseration,nd w@th-the clearest. convietion of 7,Lbiss,( General, respectfully. ehieto cornplf with your re (96im With-i tuf, apreciation of~ theyavgeous terms in which your 08g ha bepp preferred, I ask your eeideration of the reasons whiefve prompted the answer bere given. Thef apply to three Mtpdeofthe suibject under con-i Bideration. '"Ili aye . consider.ed it as arsinagunder the Constitution of gg'~gte of Georgia, -adop2ted in *U04ad-the-Censtitution of -the Wiaae4Sptes, both.-of wvhi.eb, up. enig~ 'piduction. into olee, I took a8p*eDn oath "to- the best of my tlk'lfties to preserve, protect and de-! fen_d.4 One-of the' provisions of! 14 former is. oxpressed in these -wp"s Yo mioneyi shall be drawen Jips the. .Trasugy of this State, ex .e bappropriatione made by late." imes an att'empt to draw from 'the tresury~ of this State a large Agy ot money. Has an appropri atieFof this money been made by .flir PCertainly not, according to Sykoption.- I venture thas .&eiondhat any -learned, upright' "jfrist *onld hold' that t be term -Eli)r as used in this connection, .igif'h]s a statute emanating from iJhe few-making power established by that constitution, and none %etber. What else can it mean ? 1 iy."In this view" i. c. in view of the neeessities of the con ueuiion) "I regard this ordinance san appropriation made by law! 4n tbe sense used by the constitu Jiuo Georgia." From this con elusion, general, I most enmphati iea1y dissent. Whence does this ordiaance emanate ? From a eon-'] '49ption assembled to make a con-: atition for the State of Georgia Which is intended to supersede that in which the above prohibi-, tion is contained-a convention .o eembli eithir in tik mxar ner pointed out by itseif, nor by the spontaneous action of the con stituency recognized by it. The wontiuding clause of our constitu tin of 1865 reads thus: "This constitution shall be altered or amend ed only by aconvention of the people, called for that ptrpose by act of the General Asseni>ly." Bear in mind, general, that I am now discussing your proposi tion, that the present ordinance is to be regarded -as an appropria tion made by law" in the sense -used by the Constitution of Geor gia, which prescri.bes that no money shall be drawn from the treasury of this State, except by appropriation made by law. As a logician for th cpurpose of the argu ment, you concede that I am bound by the constitution, .and are seek ig to convince me that this ordi nance contes- within the crexeption to the proibition. Now, look at it in the light' of the conchiding elaUSI have quoted, prescrih.ing how,'w.d how Onay, it sh:l be al te.red and amended. That clatis is conservative of the constitution itself. The ,convention which passed this ordigance, and which is aombled expressly to make a contitutiou for Georgia, is not called as provided ,in that last clause, and is, therefore, put under the ban of the ;onstitntion now existing. Yet, you sAy an ordi nance mae by it is, in the sense )f that very constitution, a "lac," appropriating money. If I be -iit in defining the term "'FAi, L sd inte .poiige1atse, I have only to add that the law -'~ ~. rs es shiis ed. be the~. o"s.tz:tution bas. made no such appropriatiion. The convention hich made t .is ol-d ti :1 mee is .:uied into being by cverain acts (f the Congress of the United Stae-, is 11ne oi,the ausotitCnrs yourself beihl anoiher) for the )I-pose of carry ng into effect a ertain purpose. You- construe those acts.as giving authority to the convention to appropriate money ont of the treasury of G ja. Do you hold, general. that the Congress of the United States uould directly, by its ow.;n simrple act, appropriate money from the treasury of Georgia. If you do. you will co'nfer a great faivor by designatin g the article, sec-tioni nd clause of the~ Constitution of the United States (whence only its powers come) d,onferrin g that power. If you (10 not so hold and i sea rcely thi~nk you do). will you insist that the Congress can ?onfer upon its age'nts larger pow rs than arc possessed by itself? hould you say that you are not permitted to consider those Recon truction acts without reference to their constitut.ionality or their justice, or- Their expediency-tha t goa came here to execute them, indrmust do so? Pardon mefo replying thait you and I look at themn from a different stand-point. [ have saidl that I have sworn to uport the constitution of Geor ia and of the United States, and I Sve a serene consciousness that n declining to obey the behest of hei convention, and to comp~ly vith your courteous request, I but ~ay a doubtful homage to both Secondly, I have e.onsidered the ubject with reference to the Re ~onstruction acts themselves. I an find nothing whi:h in the re notest degree authorizes the con ~truction that they intended to addle the treasury of Georgia vith the cost of their novel enter rise. It is very clear that they ntended that cost, up to the as ebling of the convention,'to ~ome out of the Fed"ral treasury. hey have with equal distinction, rovided, that the convention hail provide for their own comp)en. ation and other expenses, by levy ng a tax upon the peop)le for that xpress purpose. But you may le-tion of the tax-there is no body else that can and will ad vance to them. and therefore you must. But the CongreSs have not so Said. It is a very old and a very sate rule of construction "cx prcssio unius exclusio est citerius." The Congress haviog expressly specified how the expense of the whole scheme, from beginning to end, shall be provided for, it can not fiirly be argued that they in tended any, other pw)vision. No thing but a most latitudinary con Struction e. ulId jstify the infer ence that this legislation inposes a burden upon the State Treasury. Think you, general, it w1uld be coic the governor of .one of thec States, required by law, to disburse certain sums for designated ob jects and scantily supplied with means for the purpose, to adopt SUCh a rule oa,t ,d in a fit of generosity, at the expense ofjustice and of duty, to volunteer so lar(rc a cont-ribution to a cause with whieb he had no oficial coll nection ? Will you (o me the fit vor, general, in imagination, to place yourself in the position) of one of these unfortunates and :sk yourself the question, would.I do so? It may be that the Congres has not adquately provided for this convention, which it brouilt into being, but that is a question between the parent and the child. Even if it be so, I incline to think that no blame aftaces to you, or to me. In connection with this point, I will say furt!er, I cannot perceive i ti piled RZec o,Nst Iuction act. that 1 C'gress. ..hs im-psed upon ,TTF any !V acLi~e ' w' .a ever. Tey have gIaeil consented to lI::ve meumKI ure inthpe rm Wnee of tho hic fun, cn trustod to me y, the Constitution and laws of t he State, upon the conidition that I do not --iler. de ay, rrt. or tru t t:e due and properr adinistration of tho acts." But you perceive this in po)ss only a nepCj:tie 4uty.- il lieve me, general. in my fil,ini position, coimpliancCe with your re quest wVould involve a tremendous activity, nay, even the abandon mnent of previously. imposed posi tice dluty. This brings ime :o say: Thirdly, That I have consideredl this refeence to the resources and t he existing liabilities of the Tr'eas ury of Georgia. Into .these (al though tolerably famniliar w itlh them before) I have carefully looked sice I had the pleasure of seeing you, and I now state dis tinctly mIy fiI'm con11victioni that ii I assume and meet the expenses of this eon vention I shall be uin able to pay the civil list, the prin eipal of th e public debt near ma turity, the injterest on the remain der and other neceessary charges. If your thoughts revert to thec poposedl reimfbulrsement, I have only~ to say it will comec too late. IIOp)ing thait theCse reasons1i for m~y course wvill be as satisfhetory to yo;u as they are concluivel\ wit h me, I have the honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient ser ran t, CHIA S.J. JENKINS, Governor of Georgia. IIEADQUARtTIERs THIRD MlILITARY DIsTRICT, GEORGIA, A LABA MA A ND FLORIDA. ATLANTA, GA., .Jan. I.., 1868.-CHIARLF,s .I. JENKINS, Miil ledgville, Ga.-S;r: I have re eived with profound regret your -ommunication of the 10th inst. n which you decline to accede to bhe request made in mine of the ith instant. As I cannot but con sider your action as a filiure to -o-operate with me in executing~ te laws known as the Reconistrue tion laws of Ccngr'ess, andi as I am 'urther advised you have declined o pay the salary of 31. S. Bigby,. solicitor General of the Ta~lapi.osa Dircuit, on the ground that said >fficer having been appointed by :he Military Commander of the Ihird Military Distriet, you enn ietau t Iv to vie y m:r actio as Obstrictions to th0e ex'elu tionl of the Reconsr.ction havs, o*l ha-e no alternative but to re move yon from your ofi.-e, as you will see I have done by the en; closed order. I (10 not deem my Self called upon to answer the f rl - gm1ents of your let ter. Te ii is very plainl betw Iee u. I nmist acquire the acknowledgmnwits of the vaiidiiv of the iecot ricti n laws, and you p:ain- de-ny them as having anyi b;lin1g force on. your attions. Doth of uts are ae ting from a eonscie,ntions csense of duty. but the issue i5 ,f) phin andI direct- thait-all hope of -!armo nious Co-operation must be aban donecd.. With feelinges of lig- person al respect. and with inere re*(; et f"r the course I feel mysl com pelled to take, I e1aia; most respectfi!ly, your obedient s(r vant. GEORIG E G. M PAD'E, Major-General ComManldir. Congrcsslonal. WASHINGTON. J.uar 22.-In the House, the deffeiency bill was resumed. Maynarl. of TW see. proposel that the matter of,-sta stionery bc left to the .honor ol t11MmbeIs. Stevens ohje~ted': thatI was the old rnl, indbf which members made staltionry cover panltaloons and.- skirts. sspo pa' e 1 p)osed anu aendmenT1!3t, sUspenin!g paymeLt of member s, ieN. trav lin;I in Eturono. Th, Uil tI,l passed. .Resolutj( 'io roTm Lissih sippii praying the' ~'rmonl-of po nato(1alI. oi. h:i Comm,Itt e w i d Itek,d to i as to the expediency ci A.O1O I ne0 lian k otg priv\ege. .in m mit-ee on Educaion Am har was dircte,i to ~inqireI a.s to Cb exoec of proti ang. a g: neral syste mi oft ed ucatio :'ur;r Iebel~'itm landts gran ted rex Statues ifor r'ailro a puro' s was es ume. Duing the discus!inn, Chamiler ('ailed J ulian a co)ward. Thec s .eakzer r'uled. the woerds un:ula 'ertainly not, if neO is one. Julian r'etor'ted, that Cha'''l''r 'oulil. test his1 'owVaddce at anyx wellsirI'lltak anearly oppor tuniiiityV." Th ill d went1 over. . In the Senate, the reessti-ae tioni 1ill was 'rad oVer. DEolittle objected to the scpotd re.aing and1( it wvent over under rules. Thle Contf'erence Co'm m:ttee'k report (In trio antij-'ont raction bill was; ad: Th:e'amnintimte1t to thLe ec>t t.n ax free. wvas re-ani;ie i br ihe &n- i te-2~> to 18. The C'omi tee will probbllly agree to) dlisaree and the hill will faiI. The Mir' and' Unlion Leaguec pet1itionls for the extent ionl of t he RconstIrue ion Acts over 31aryland. The Senate admournen~~ , ii i:onor' ns-r LooxO(c'cFR oUvocSrnrs!-In 'omers are on the war'-pat h. Ye >wPers of 'anned fish. flesh and - bwl. look out to you tini. fThe I amp wn r.- sues. Xe dealers m Lot uis rememhlber' that glass is a realeerous alli vwith glu'tet. \ny sneak may walk int' o y;'u acks in some prepiaration wh~os ~moothI sur'thee (;ll'ers a tempta: ion to his eupidlity aind meanneOss. id wvhile your* back is turne'd, rub hie revenue stamp from it wvih lis thum>, theni go to th le Untited states Court andl wear you are a windler of thegencral goverment. t. pays them, and perhaps3 will orul o.(.h fin i :fy dollars L"Ad to b,0 Glven Away. F iUrnaind:na ( ofl>r 'f the 9th1 inlstla'ut. cou11tains thc two fo! Iowvill. items: Somne or ilv vk.rv ne1SL ial)( ill Florida, lying along the railroad, betw.eei) Fernandina and Cedar Kevs. is be:in- sQcted; for twvn sitsc- and ni.! off in l ts ';tw et to eighty , tco e give f to 1, vn1 'le s . r "i acs :f Aus a:-e eene 0i;!!v Suited to g rinn and fri-t. rowiln::-, and" inl t hi.,; a pvrb climate, vitl the advanta-e oi rapid conun in ttion~ bv rvil am. .Steamns.;p- wa rk, anxd the-h)enefits of thiiclyl settled m for the oenpass. b u m:>C prfitie ones. ThereiCk is n ai bter locatio iI the w khole e.Ar ~ v''tam>'. zihan ari'm:.1 xer At this ti-n ('Januarv S) al 8ind s are, h!som :n.d Lit for 'the table. Tomat o -vin: yet nIen il their secnd cr". Th! r is green along. our walks; the swcet miiging birds fill the air vith ti"Cir Iu-Io'd v tie at1i:o nh i . ahn aS in ~ ver:nd ::v and pure as only here is kno':u. The lo)g ini'ged ai'is of til, "sil n11:ro'us banana trees are' w\avinl sloly n he este reee,and montii l y all tG;!-ht of c.re. Nothingean Lit mom-lgtu A Sg n (xoi toe in-x man. n mrarirca oi Vs:.e Cal u iy n a e :d a l m ii O i : i I' l our II I I Io . w)c lan o r t iil t)r IIt 'r Q, ew Cr. i v wt i V in nn ( Int w ii .st sno:81 naures the L I ?. ofmoertelit(' means, shlC .ad secre ome of1 the-e tract as aho -ld :nlt .Ssist 1' Cee Px'hne one ot .the. ai it r ilo , i -a . w o lain td igud. Edvap; di-t; lei(j)mie aL!rlt ente lots of t.'.nly, toiy' at; eihty3 alcres. to immli I 3" n . a nIIO.CJ1Ie 3 I1 n ie Iga ulnee CIVn, anU, ia cairri oult sncess5 Muly , will be of great beneilt to be 'at by0l Iitrol (lin; a tur:y a we ia< whl materal to thei1 anpoue n ih eleeto :hese0 lnds.i !andfl het iform 13s vill be ablie to put atC once theL dec A Most Str-ango Chapter. t A (orresponden.t wrl:es to thie C La ('o.w' .Dc'ocraf, from Vater oo, Iowa. :asking if we know of' meC i,. x r Burnhami, ant of his We (do. An aii~ s it is ai stirge, ru'i: (1ne, knowni to l;Iunded, weQ +eit in theC D)anerafU als it 1#s, h;oe who spe'ak of him have. h! len mnto. trght years si-e .it :r of a 2.ilwaukLie pape:. there ired in this State an edit or named owell. nov connected witn ' hiicagof naper. we think. IIe is. miess he has quit. it lately. In 1802, Powi!! wvas marie~d to 1 .fiss E!i -n Blirnham. Of !b'd ead, Wi. after a courtsh3ip ox on nis 'QLis BarnhamS wa * very att.:t-iVe. 1wAl lived with he:,* hn.thand two ears. she ing0: aA l that tine a .good Wife Inll re e 'am! p1.esenIt 1 h*'i. wi 'i on-e eh*!;i-. Akt theo abu t ,--;e years of a;, y ch(an;:e her six, deveomini In LO a 1411a in all resnects. as if l". ture. anxiou . for a freak. had turn111d a por.tonof her f wron sIo out. Thie ii-1 .i lc d . f1 (epara te I:n the i c h -enm" a mt.., and r.. Eeni Poweldl to_k the n;I n E J*. !:1 Bni rn . d, i ed int8-ymen~it aLs a e2ars1 in nego a," I lived a singk.e yon mni Imfor; f',' i):ir tlnj., ti.~li fle-ie ini love with a nikee of Senator 0 .uorai. of -Nuw York. but did not marry her, f,I (asons not per]tin3enlt to tis article. 1it about the end of the year he did iarry a young lady of Bh) ad, Wisco*isiIT. a Miiss Gri:a E'.entt. who was a iusic p"upi ofl years previons to t m - .i.ge. Ths seoi mArraewa bu m.,arr e, E .r a a. I- nd wife re:novedl to Watertoo, Iowa, where they niow1 reie, or (A riot Ionig sIinee. Tih former firi is iow a m., h Aor:n r m Lo.tir Is nowx a f1tathe, La Voun1" in.- is u') that yonV 1.1 1 nu oU'. dPI'l h :', inu gll tthrangr than fit ion, an ! the above . iple statm!e n% t f 1hets we could Ilot l.)CIcVC it. did we not psonly kniiow nearly all the y ne convinecd, y wnmiI 1 to ul pa'ri".4 in elLiher or Ie n we W*e nenJ, of the M! am e:tv trj** luth of~ this mio:t xieb Sa-t- appear o: xi the te oft ~tie..r i hrm t::h;' tar arub- A eln e: : roil: a:n 'to ma o hr new.'sna-ii4 w r nwn. a n,! m:i m i:!P en:n o f 4 ....-.. IhrA .r Un.-i:tehes er lstra' nus. onarisof in g e Sa n rofv!. t':-ij ed charcter re h i! . i 1iwe t :0I r:I2i.;: 01. iaC ration ithe embng thmth h'ei Stes:-as o thei . !ie in !r - I hen, of:' disa hos. findfr thei mci.: oub talth:eh voir! s tae ,. ,in i o 1 -~**t L t tI~ noT a:-wing bepimon,l n;e8 e tI:.a hillthe '-ame oll' !)ih::iI iIIe .plnts oer conr.hr i s wthi thP011:Ci ie ! - 0et tae asbo ha ll History of tho Yelverton Case. We undersand that we -ar& to hve the pleasure of hearing Mrs. Yeh-e'rton read,fl and as a grdat al of interest htr: ben excited in her Case, both i-n En-glRd and America. -w give a short ecortnt o:' t.h ceiebrated trial in whixfh s ,e boe a part so palifully prom - L. Y I evrt on ha one th rougn trial' t it would have broken dIon most women. Deserote d by her uillsba:nd, she found her mar 1ae di-puted. and her honor uaIignicd. Sie was an. orpban, the m1embers of her. family seat r d in -ist ant lands, she having beenl broutight up by a Ftech aint, the Conitess do 1 oissey. Th shl -was l--ft alouc to contest her vrse through all the in,tric' c wl ith clirzeterize the British aiat''W e lawX. She le~' carried on the c as- f>r scven years. sac-ifi -f cing the best part of her life an4 her for'tine, a4 has. used her great talnts to secure to lierselfv 1na1MI- fre-c foin all accusations df (i.hI)DOn. By Ier pertinacity, she ha; awakened the English mind to theQ iijust'cc of their marriare htvs. 4nd a reorm is now in pro g S-he o!tained in Ireland a recogItion o her marital rights, f -ro a full coart of eight Englisk Jidges. Not satisfied .with this, and althouTh marricd in a church in la,nd, her busband endeav oi-ed, by s->m3 old. unrepe.a!cd Scot hulnw. to ob'tain his objecct, l denving that she was his.%wife, ,U! endeavrdC(l to- effect her it ri ' his q-tiorr;atiid ting 10 Silence,"is almost obsoleter a:nd imposes a fine of' ?1000 ster ling as solatium to the husbande and a penaity of ?50 for every timc the lady shla assert her mria':2e or cal! -herself by her husband's name. The' Scoth Ci-t decided in her favor and prociaitld hr to be the lawfil wil' of the Hon. Major Yelvetor., From tis decision be appealed to the-House of Lords, who, by a m:tjorit y of one, r'everl5ed the de ('ISion! of t he Scotch court, buLt left the Irish untouched. Mr's. Ye!; ':e:tog next g~p!id .ta haveMao , Y'eton' pt- Upon. his oath,. wheni it would have been iunpssi ble fhr himt to 'denly his Scoteb marr. 'iiage. On thIiis quelstioni Mr1s; Ilouse of Pe-ers, -in Westminster Hafl. and delivere.d the first -plea ever' m!adei b:efore that august body ba holy. She spoka for fouf dayvs, iut .the Hiouse of' Lords, on ac(counft of Niajor' Yelverton being an heir tot the Peerage, the son of ;i-coxunt Avan~more, anxd bceante' 'aor Yevrn1adsnemr :-r v wich hCl e wotli be com~ 3y!!'d to anxswer to t-he cbarge of Hamy Er this deci-ion. the 1House~ of LordsJ admixtted the er r1):- of their' p'rviions judgment am!i refusel tor make it right. ThuIIied( oneC of the mo t fa mnoux cases undeIr t he Brtitish di vorce~ law, and by it IM's. YlIver )i u.I w a~ iedhr righlits by the hih :2iA power in Britain. She ha< the r'e-peet and sympathy of The Na tive Virginiian -a vs: "We hap r4en t' kn.ix that tfivempltts are (on roi'~ by~ u bicht thle whIole power of the~ Grmanit Pr'..s ini the A tlanti" States wil ILe~ 4roughit to bear ini favor of' jimanra inn3 to' lhe SoutheInC States and Virginaia i, of Orw lt cali''o in a1 year---etnongh :" give thin:e bareadthis of' a s'kirt for old 'nthlei~ Earith. The1 Ninii stree S 'ar atnnonu nees its sus~. 'n'sk. ve r'egret thel dlisapnearance) f th.: Star. Th'e white F:awn follo.vs the Blac'k ro h;t , lhIn . -4 O F:rartw. nearly smiothered with (ies by the ladlies of'Stockhiolm. Hap y' F. Tvic"nn of Jpan 1 bs abtdia .4ted i, i