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ATLANTA. GEOEG1A, MARCH 22.
CSr The following private dispatch, was
received at thla office yesterday: “ Colonel
John G. Parks, for many years a promi
nent citizen of this Suite, died at Indian
Springs, yesterday.”
Provisions.
There has already been some very heavy
apecnlatlng in provisions In the Western
markets, and almost a panic resulted. In
creased prices are probable.
Georgia.
Tbe Banner of Wednesday, contains tbe
following Washington dispatch:
The friends of Governor Bollock, who
say they have canvassed tbe Senate, ex
press themselves confident that that body
will disagree on Mr. Bingham's amend-
ment to the Georgia bill.
Tbe Sontbcrn Railroad.
The scheme of the Cincinnati and Chat
tanooga Railroad, though scotched, It
teem*, Is not killed. Kentucky hit it a
sockdolager. Bnt its friends have got Mr.
Sherman to Introduce a bill to corporate
and charter It.
“ Loilty.”
In response to a question from Mr.
Haight, in the U. S. Senate, Mr. Dawes
■aid reconstruction bad cost two and a half
millions. Haight asked farther, if that
money had not been spent to make men
loyal to Badtcallsm rather than to the
country. Dawes was stumped, but feebly
chirruped no. Mr. Eldridgo spoke up.
and said he hated tbe word loyal, as It had
been prostituted. It brought up the defi
nition of the army contractor, who felt
loyal when he wanted to steal something.
Eldridgo further saM:
For himself, he was patriotic, not loyal;
the word did not belong to the country; It
only belonged to Massachusetts.
—
Tennessee.
Butler I* driving right ahead to get Ten
nessee reconstructed. The success in tlic
Georgia case has emboldened the Badicals.
Tennessee's rejection of the 15th Amend
ment was an unforgiveablc sin In Badical
eye?, and she Is to be punished if possible.
The Northern Eepubltcan press, gener
ally, are stgalnst it. The Tennessee papers
are discussing the probabilities with In
terest, hut don't seem to fear any bad re
sult. Business, however, Is effected by tbe
agitation of the matter. A vaguo sense of
Insecurity pervades all minds.
Tennessee la in danger, and she had bet
Ur prepare for tbe storm. But the thing
don't end with Tennessee. The chalice will
trot to Northern Ups Moner than they wot
of. It Is simply a question of time.
• What aro yon going to do about it"
is very often a pert expression of tho Trib
une, to show its contempt for public jus
tice and private rights. One Connecticut
Bspnblican becomingly answors the Trib-
nee’s qnety as follows:
“ But in view of the fact that wo are to.
havo negro suffrage upon us, by such means
as we have seen used in Georgia and some
other States, I for one say to the Tribune’s
taunt, I mean to vote this spring, and if I
am not mistaken, my vote shall tell against
those who have done this job.
A Republican.
Hafciroan, March 8,1870.
Chief .Justice Clinso and tho next
Presidency.
In closnig a lecture recently made before
the Democratic Association of Philadelphia,
Mr. John Campbell, the somewhat noted
Bookseller and Labor Reformer in that city,
nttered the following sentences:
How shall the Democracy poll, on next
Presidential election day, a majority of this
vote? How shall we bridge tbe chasm
that separates the negro vote from us?
There is only one architect that can bnild
this bridge—tbero is only one rain who can
poll this vote—ar.d that man is Salmon P.
Chase!
With this the lecture was concluded
amidst great applause.
ATLANTA, GEOEGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 1870.
INUMBER 53
STOBIES OF
Two of Them Never
Print.
1312.
Before In
An Amendment to tbe Georgia
BUI.
Mr. Drake has offered the following ad
ditional amendment to the Georgia Bill in
the Senate:
Mr. Drake offered an amendment, pro
viding that whenever any Legislature of
the late rebel States, or tho Governor
thereof, represent to the President that an
organization exists therein for the prepet-
nation of acta of violence against persons
and property, or to obstruct the lawsofthc
Federal or State Government, and it is
unable to suppress such violence or de
struction, it shall be the daty of tbe
President to famish United States troops
for the subjugation and disposition of
such organizations. Upon the arrival of
snch troops in the district in which these
organizations exist, martial law shall be
declared, a levy made upon the inhabitants
to pay expenses of transportation of each
troops, and they shall be subsisted upon the
inhabitants. _
Women in Washington as Clerks.
_ Tho New York World has a long and in
teresting account of the growth and condi
tion of government female clerks in Wash
ington. It says the employment of women
is of Topsical origin—it just “growed.”
It began, nobody knows exactly how, and
haa increased until nearly every department
has its quota of petticoat workers.
Among them arc many who have ruled
society, and reveled in riches. The writer
mentions some celebrities:
Mrs. Pettigru King is so .well known
that I suppose it is no breach of trust to
mention her name as connected with this
office. She is a woman of Temarkablo tal
ents and ability. Her father was Governor
of South Carolina, and formerly a member
of the United States Senate.
General Spinner speaks of having sever
al historical ladies among hia clerks. Mrs.
Annie Ethridge and Miss Carrie Sheado,
who have received honorable mention in
Woman’s Work in tho War,” are clerks in
this bureau. The Young Quaker, who sent
General Sheridan information which led to
the battle and victory of the Opequan, on
September 19,1864, is also here. I saw a
copy of the very polite letter General Shor-
idan wrote her, acknowledging the value of
her services and asking her to accept from
him a watch, in remembrance of September
19,1861. This watch she now wear3.
Tho Brunswick and Albany Bail-
road Matter.
It Is a very difficult thing to arrive at tho
truth of complicated transactions. Tbe
human mind is so much the slave of Its
prejudices, that even if the truth is percep
tible, It Is seen through smoked glasses.
And the fact that men see from different
stand-points, even where they have op
portunities to see clearly, produces con
flicting accounts of the same thing.
It la our object always to be accurate,
and do justice. And while wo have our
Impulses of righteous Indignation we ever
strive to judge calmly, end to decide im
partially.
The Brunswick and Albany Kallroad af
fair is being used to our injury in Wash
ington. It Is a most untimely occurrence,
■and Bullock Is wielding it with tremen-
ous effect to secure his personal ends.
We have been trying to sift the matter
to the bottom, nnd while our conclusions
may not bo correct, yet wo havo certainly
good grounds for them.
It seems that when Col. Hulhert was ap
pointed Superintendent of the road, he
onsted a man named F. A. Babcock, who
had been enjoying a good thing of it. Hul-
bert was put In through Wra. L. Avery’s
Influence. To securo the completion of
the 50 miles by the 18th, in order to get
further State aid, a man of great energy,
like Hulbert, was needed; and it seems be
has been pushing the affair, without spar
ing hands. Without entering into the mer
its of the matter, which we shall do here
after, it seems that Babcock, who is a Rad
ical, has been intriguing to get Halbert out,
and himself in. And Babcock has worked
on the hands and dissatisfied them:
It Is claimed that the hands have not
been paid off. Bot there is evidence that
they have been paid tbe 15th of every
month.
The thing then simply resolves itself into
a personal squabble for a good fat job
among certain subordinates, without a par
ticle of politics in it. 01 course, Babcock
has put up his squad to yelling “Eadl&il,”
against Avery and Hulbert; but from all
wc can learn the political cry was confined
to these malcontents, and did not include
the citizens of Brunswick.
So it falls to the ground a3 a political
matter. It Is one of those troubles that oc
cur all over the country. Tho Erie Rail
road In New York ba3 had dozens of them.
Undoubtedly Babcock’s champions have
used the slogan of “ damned Republicans,”
but they alone are responsible for it, and
not the people.
Now. the question Is, how far Mr. Conant
and Judge Avery have believed that these
malcontents represented tho people. They
have either Ignorantly and precipitately
taken counsel of their fears, and done ac
tions Injury to the State by misunderstand
ing the matter, and ascribed to popular
Industrial School for Ladies.
Editor Constitution: Deeply impressed
with the necessity or opening more ave
nues of respectable and remunerative la
bor to our sex, we earnestly invite an im
mediate consideration to all thinking
minds, especially we urge It upon the
clergy, and teachers, whose duty it is to
present the importance of the matter in its
proper light. There are those who have It
in their power to aid us, and while doing
so, might help themselves pecuniarily, and
at the same time earn the enviable reputa
tion of being the first to perform the noble
work of using their influence to widen the
sphere of usefulness and honorable labor
to tbe mothers and daughters of the South.
There are ways In which the field of wo*
man’s energies might be greatly enlarged,
places she might fill where she would be
required merely to perform womanly work.
We would not have our sex push forward
to compete with men for those positions
and occupations alone suited for man. but
there are indoor placea which all allow,
may be filled by a lady without departing
ono iota from the true standard of a modest,
dignified woman; the men now occupying
places which worthy women, who are now
asking and mnch needing employment,
could fill, would certainly not murmnr if
forced to seek other and perhaps rougher,
though not less manly employment in the
broad fields of enterprise, always and
everywhere open to them. In giving the
preference to the ladies they will simply
make practical that beautiful, sentimental
Idea of chivalry, with which we always
loved to invest our beau Ideal of the oppo
site sex.
We propose tbe opening of an Industrial
School for the education of girls, where
they will have the opportunity of receiving
a thorough, systematic, practical training
in the domestic, as well as In the depart
ments of Industry and Fine Arts which
mav be taught.
Wo would like to hear the views of those
Interested In the above proposition.
Atlanta, March 15,1870. S- B.
OPB PARIS LETTER.
Tho Paris Poor—An Angelic Prin
cess Given to Bell i gcrence- French
Miserable*—'The Breeches Among
the Petticoats—Hyacinthc.
SUSP!
Hash 1 the murmur or the river.
And tbe breeze through oak and pine
Flutters to the open clement.
Thrills the slender Eglantine;
Lot mu comes; I bear the rustle
Of her garments through the gloom.
And her footsteps wake, the echo.
And her presence fills the room.
Huh! I bear a trembling promise
Ann a fond farewell to team.
And my vision ties behind me
In tbe valley of the seam;
For a moment met together,
Neither snesk. and neither move.
With a sadden sense or sorrow
Born of Memory and of Lore.
Lore mnst whisper full of truth,
And the glory other presence
Brightens all my wasted youth.
Link our hands my heart relenting,
“Ob! beloved,I forgive!”
Know snob moments come from Heaven,
When the dead return and live.
MY WINDOW.
ar HOLLIS X. KOOSZ.
From the News 1
Turn' many a grand Cathedral window streams
By stained panes the softened dsy.
And varied glow gleams
On those who pray.
In many a lady-bower thehreeses Mow
Thro’ fretted work of lute design,
While sweet and red below
The roses shine.
My window frames a narrow bit of sky
Alone: norpaintedpane to glow.
Nor earven work haTO I
To tune the zephyr’s fiow.
But really beam the mornings when they rise?
And one white cloud, with gilt outlines.
Just past my lattice lies
. Each mom that shines!
And one sweet star at evening standetb sliU
Between the narrow strips of wood.
Always—and shines Its fill'
And Cod seems good.
I would not change may window with a Qncen,
Nor barter pictures with a King!
Snch restrnl Ihougliteach soene
To mo doth bring I
Education.
Wo have received a copy of the report of
tho State Teachers’ Association, on a sys
tem of public schools for the State of Geor
gia. We have to thank Mr. B. Mallon, the
Secretary of the Association, for tho pam
phlet. Mr. Orr la said to be the author.
The plan recommended L noticeable for
its simplicity, the predominance of the lo
cal element in the management and con
trol of the schools, the provision made for
thinly populated counties, and to tbe sepa
rate arrangement for whites and blacks.
We will give tho outlines of tbe plan, re
serving comment for another time:
The appointment of a State Commission-
er and Board ot F.ducat!on Is recommend-
el. Tho Commissioner U to auperintend. re
collect statistics, provide blanks, decide I gent 5 ment w j, a t was solely flue ton person-
paints of dlffienlfy connected with the ^ intrigue for the fat rewards of their
school laws, and mako annual reports. ...
Each eonnty Is to havo ft Board and a
Commissioner. They are to lay off the
counties into school districts, locate school
buildings, mako ont estimates, ete.
The county Commissioner Is to perform
the same range of duties aa State Commis
sioner, only In a local way.
railroad; or they they have wantonly and
maliciously perverted the matter to help
Gov. Bullock.
Now, as these individuals are both here,
and as they have had time to see lust how
the thing Is, they can show whether they
have Innocently gone off half-cocked, by
' rectifying the Injury they have done.
The county Commissioners In a Senato-, asgcrt that there Is no disposition on
rial District, are a Board of Examiners, to j the p;vrt o{ our people to Interfere with
examine teachers. | Republicans, or Northern men, or ne-
lo spiTsely populated counties the j K rocs, or anybody else. We assert that the
schools should he migrating. | Charge of onr people dragging politics into
The providing of school booses Is to be j bnglnesg ig fa]se> We assert that the pas-
laft to the people. ! sa <rc of the Bingham amendment by the
Each school district Is to have five trus- j jj QUJe crca ted no bluster and nonsense; as
tecs, who are to manage tho domestic con- Jg improperly ascribed to the Democrats.
Special FoT.Cer.of Tho Constitution.!
Pams, Feb. 26,1870.
Editor Constitution: France prides her
self on having no Poor Laws, but she has
her poor always with her, to whom relief
Is carried by tne usual apostles of charity—
the cicrgy and tha sisters, as well as by vol
unteer relieving officers. There aro in Paris
several nospices where the aged poor are
succored. Tho funds for tbe maintenance
of these establishments are raised by tax
ing, with ten per cent., the receipts of the
theatres, and other places of amusement in
proportion. Managers have for years re
belled against the nightly carrying off of
this tenth part of what they possessed, and
have “ struck "—decline to pay the poors’
rate any longer, and double lock tbeircasb
boxes. It was the First Napoleon who de
creed the tax—formerly, the clergy collect
ed the rates from tbe artistes, while damn
ing them at the same time. The tax after
all, came outof the pockets ofthe public. It
has never prevented any ono from going to
a theatre, nor has it been the cause of man
agers’ bankruptcy—tho most common of
all “ spectacles.”
A Prince and Princess—and Paris is fnll
of them—very wealthy—a trait less com
mon—and both young, were married four
months ago. When tho husband returned
from bis club, after dropping a considera
ble amount of money at baccarat, when
pain and anguish wrung tho brow, his wife
proved a ministering angel by shying
lamps, lustres, and such nick-nacks at his
head. His Highness has applied for a sep
aration, and his ladyo fair warmly supports
it.
The most miserable class of men in
France, and above all, in Paris, are the
apothecaries. Not that sharp misery has
worn them to the bones, or that their shops
contain hut a beggarly account of empty
boxes. There Is a memento mori expression
In their features perpetually, contrasting
sadly and strangely with the gay and hila-
rons nubile. Even dnrlng revolutionary
times, when their shops aro permitted to
remain open all night, they aro as melan
choly as mutes. Yet this grave class is
also about adopting the “order of the
day a strike. It appears that the law
only allows apothecaries of the “first
class ” to have their abiding city in Paris;
tho holders of secend class licenses must
keep outside the walls—what some of them
have not done, but pitched their tents iu-
side—hino illal lacrima.
The misery of Paris Is represented by
101,670 individuals, of whom 40,000 are
heads of families—the population of the
city being under two millions. The aver
age rate of public assistance given to this
number of poor, Is one centime per day—
the tenth part of a farthing, the five bun
dredtb part of a dollar.
Among tbe list of this crowd of wretch
edness figure 4 apothecaries, 10 literateurs,
1 doctor, 1 dancing master, and 10 profess
ors of languages, 227 scavengers, 2 “sprin
klers of Holy water," whom the Church
ought to pension, and 191 persons who have
never had any occupation—a fact that
loafers ought to digest.
So mOch for the male sex. Among tbe
women, 1.77S milliners, etc., 1,137 needle
women, 457 “sugar candy manufacturers,”
10 midwives. 23 governesses, 175 nurses,
108 scavengers—Germany contributes
largely her flaxen-haired daughters to
sweep Paris—and 221 who never had any
porfessions.
Bev. Father Hyacinth’s, or rather, Mrs.
Laybon’s, new journal-, la ConcoTd, wul be
brought out under the most favorable aus
pices. His brother, and several other pro
fessors of theology, will be among the con
tributors, as also the Emperor’s Chaplain.
It will be tbe organ or the new Catholic
party—tbe Church of the future, whose
scat would be lu Gaul, Instead of Rome.
BOUBRIETF.
THE CATAHOULA VENDETTA.
Last Act in tho Tragedy—Fall Par
ticulars.
A contemporary having given some par
ticulars of the Black river vendetta, and tbe
escape of the younger Jones, after the mur
der of bis father and brother, duty to the
public compels us to furnish information,
which has been in the office of the Times
sinco Saturday, and up to this time, forob-
vious reasons, has been suppressed. The
gentleman alluded to, a youth of nineteen,
reached this city at a late hour. Friday
night or early Saturday morning, on board
the steamer Mayflower, after one of tbe
most extraordinrry escapes that perhaps
has even b3en recorded in cither romance
or history.
Immediately upon his arrival he sought
a refuge in the Third District, but shortly
afterwards he was removed to another por
tion of tbe city, where he ha3 since remain
ed under a strong police guard.
From those who havo conversed with
him freely, we learn the following details
of one of the most horrible outrages that-
has ever blackened the criminal record ol
Louisiana.
The story of Sunday evening, February
27tli. has already been partially told. While
in the custody of Sheriff Ballard, and in
>l.n Mnmmnntf Ml? TT1 il-lll R OIlH
ceres of the school
Tuc whites and blacks are to have sepa
rate schools.
Normal schools for educating teachers
are recommended.
The Constitution sets apart for school
purposes the poll tax. commutations of
military service, and tho special tax on
shows, exhibitions, and the sale of spiritu
ous and malt liquors. The poll tax Itself
must amount to $200,000, If collected. The
other taxes would raise tbe revenue to
♦500,000.
Wo assert that the accusations of Judge
Avery are unwarranted by any facts.
We call upon him to do justice to our
people, and to telegraph to his Senator
friends that he has made a great mistake,
and given a wrong construction to the im
proper conduct of the Babcock squad. If
he fills to do this, particularly when seeing
the use that is being made of his telegram,
then there can bo no other conclusion than
that he has wilfnlly slandered onr people
for political purposes.
'The Springfield Republican is re-
School districts every six miles square 0-The Spriugfiddl Repumu*n gre-
«nM triva 1.417. or S15 to each. SSSSfit about Olivo Logan and Anna
would give 1417, or «15 to each.
Let the counties to* for education. Ap
propriate the whole colored tax and an
Jquat amount for the colored people.
These are the bare outlines of the plan,
which, in the main, seem good.
Any one desiring a copy of the report
«an get it by applying to Mr. B. Mallon
Savannah,
Dickinson: . , ,
-They present in their general charac
teristics strong contrasts—representing a3
they do two different types—yet they are
firm friends—and if they ever marry at ail
they will contrive to bring about a special
enactment which will enable them to u}ar-
ry each other. That js wliat they say.
. Memphis, March 15.—Since last October
We hope our people will look Into tbe .-^y.^ree thousand emigrants, black and
matter, and give the benefit of their ‘ w s,Ue, have passed through here, of which
Georgia News.
Pin Boberson and McCoy killed a young
man named Brickctt. Boberson was shot
in the toot.—Milledgecille Union.
Brantley Boswell, IS years old, was kill
ed in Harris county, the 13th, by a negro
named William. Tho murderer caught.
£ Columbus Enquirer.
Wheat.—We loam from planters that
the wheat prospects of this section were
never better. The present indications are
favorable for an abundant harvest.—Sparta
Times.
The Sandcrsville Georgian says that
cables arc destructive to tbeep and pigs in
Washington county. G. M. Brantley has
killed four, one of which measured nine
feet from tip to tip of wing, and the foot
measured eight inches.
The Augusta Constitutionalist reports a
hie freshet of the Savannah river. The
water rose twentv-six feet at the Auguste
bridge. Much damage was dona in the
city, and great danger threatened. Many
plantations submerged. Bridges and
crossings torn up.
W.T.Lichtfoot mortally ill with pneu
monia. ♦S.OOO worth ofthe Macon and Au
gusta B. R. bridge was washed away by
the freshet. In a difficulty between Can
ton Cole, Jr- and James Ralston, the latter
was dangerously shot in the face.—Macon
Telegraph and Messenger.
Our city can now boast ot eleven billiard
tables, about twenty drinking establish
ments, several faro banks, and any number
of places where “short cards” are played,
and a greater number of colored street
walkers than any other place of its size in
Georgia, all of which are permitted by our
authorities to do about as they choose. If
we continue to go on from bad to worse as
we have for some time past, Americus will
become intolerable—Americus Bepullican.
the company of Mr. Elijah B. Cotton and
several ladies, the house the three then oc
cupied, near Harrisonburg, was completely
surrounded by an armed mob. who. knock
ing at the door, first demanded to see the
sheriff
Mr. Ballard, making his appearance, lie
was in a manner far from violent, but at
the same time with the utmost, firmness,
that it was necessary for him and cverj
other inmate, excepting tho three Joneses,
to at once leave the premises. Upon his
making some demurrer, the order was re
lented more peremptorily anil in his clos-
ng remarks' the leader stated the house
would be burned in the course of a few
minutes. There seemed no alternative, and
all the inmates, except tho three victims,
quietly left. The house is a two story
bnildiug, with stairs leading from tho rear
to the second floor. Col. Jone3 and his
sons were on the ground floor, and after
tbe departure ofthe other inmates, tbe
doors were closely fastened.
When the contest commenced, tho three
were in a front room. The father standing
near a bedstead, raised his wounded
left arm on it, and in tbe right band
a revolver pointed at the portal. The
second son stood Immediately in the
rear, with two revolvers pointed in
the same direction. Tho third son
(the one now in the city) was still fur
ther back, armed with one revolver. In the
brief parley the young brother had urged
tbe unhappy little gnrrison to take a station
up-stalrs, but the other two insisted that if
tire was used that course would only lead
to certain destruction, and that as death
was apparently inevitable all had best meet
itboldly.
The youth, however, did not seem dis
posed to give up all hope, and before tbe
assault had fairly commenced, he retreated
through a rear room, in t he direction of tbe
stair case. About the time he had placed
his foot on the first step, there came a ter
rific banging at the door, apparently with
an axe. Hurrying up, he was startled with
a crash; the door had fallen, and the horror
which followed rivalled the terrors of hell
itself. A dozen shots In quick succession,
a fiendish yell, the groan of a dying mane
and tho tramp of heavy footsteps. Men.
liko wild beasts, maddened at the sight of
blood, rushed in all directions. The older
son, desperately wounded, tottered out to
the garden in the rear, only to have the
remnant of life shot out of him by a wretch
(revolver In band) who stood over him as
he lay gasping on tlic ground.
The work of carnage was of short dura
tion; ten minutes completed the butchery
below, and then a rush was made for the
upper story for the one more victim, a
beardless boy! who remained for their hun
gry bullets. To leap to the ground and cer
tain death, or present his breast to the now
ascending assassins, was the thought of an
Instant. While the assailants were yet on
the stairs, lie concluded to do neither, and
sprang through a front window, and grasp
ing a ledge formed under the sill, he swung
out and hung suspended—blood below,
blood-thirsty enemies above. Howlongbe
remained there Is better told by his hands
covered with blisters, nnd so bruised and
strained that even now they are nearly nse-
les3. The room was speedily filled with
OUB WASHINGTON LETTER.
Bullock Won’t Bet on Success—The
House Blows Bubbles of Elo
quence—Wliat Congress lias Doue
—Coburn is Got--Tbe Atlanta
Slander Mill—Personal—Tennes
see—Mere Mention.
Special Corrcs; ontlcncc of The Constitution]
Washington, March 12,1970.
Another lull in tho Badical tempest—
The Senate adjourned over till Monday—
Georgia given a breathing spell—Bullock,
Blodgett to Co. on the anxious seat—They
profess to be :ure of the rejection of Bing
ham’s amendment, hut won’t bet on it—
Tbe House amusing itself by blowing soap
bubbles of eloquence.
Such would be the caption I would pre
fix to a Washington telegram of this date
were I the night editor of The Constitu
tion and some one else the Washington
correspondent. But having placed these
sentences down, I find that I have exhaust
ed myself. The head-lines tell all that
there is to he told, and, like the knife-grind
er, I have no story to tell.
Georgia was to have been disposed of in
the Senate t »-Jay, hut the Senatorial in-
teilecthad bc^me exhausted over the fund
ing bill and Sumner’s financial speeches,
and so a recess was taken until Monday,
when the Radical blood-hourid3, instigated
by Bnllock am’Tutler. will fly at the throat
of defenseless tJi'orgia and strangle h.cr if
possible. Butt though defenseless, she is
not altogether friendless, even in a Radical
Senate, and I .hope and trust her friends
may yet prevail.
WHAT CONGRESS HAS BONE.
Not much, you may be sure. Something
has been done-this week, however. The
Senate has passed the funding bill, without
any of Charles Sumner’s impracticable
amendments, hut it will vex the house for
many a day to come.
General Logan’s bill for reducing the
army in numbers and in pay, some thirty-
three and one-third per cent., went through
the House with-a rush that surprised every
one. It will meet with Btrong opposition
in tho Senate.-;'
The Air Lins Railway bill, which pro
poses to take from the Slates of tho Union
another of their vested rights.has been up
several times in the. House, and laid over.
A vete upon it will be renched next week.
A strong lobby of railroad men will con
test its passage, but they are reserving
their strength for defeating the bill in the
Senate,
It is confidently asserted that tbe rail
road men and the national banks have vir
tually full control of Congress, and can
mould legislation as they will.
But slow progress is making with the tar
iff Bill.
At the request of the President, the defi
ciency appropriation bill was taken up
yesterday, which led to an onslaught upon
the administration by Mr. Beck, of Ken
tucky, who exposed tho extravagance
which existed in every official quarter, and
at the same time, took Mr. Dawes to task
for the opposite statements he had made in
tho House and on the stumpin New Hamp
shire.
Mr. Cox, of Now York, followed in the
same vein.
In replying, Mr. Dawc3 quoted from the
two speeches referred to to show there was
no conflict, and said he was as ready now
as ever to search out every error, and
bring the Government to strict principles
of economy.
So closes’the Congressional record of the
week. r
RETRIBUTIVE JUSTICE.
When the House does meet on Saturday,
there is no business done; there are seldom
more than a couple of dozen members pres
ent, and the session i3 occupied with read
ing prosy and lflng winded speeches on ev
ery imaginable subject, except those of
practical interest. Yesterday, when a mo
tion was made to adjourn over till Monday,
Mr. Coburn objected, and said there were
many members who wanted to speak, and
proposed a session on Saturday as Commit
tee of the Whole, for debate only. His mo
tion was adopted, and the Speaker said Mr.
Coburn would preside as in Committee of
the Whole, lie (Mr. C.) having suggested
the session for debate. This announce
ment caused a general smile. So Mr. Co
burn, who wanted to shoot off some pyro-
technical eloquence of his own, has had to
sit in the Speaker’s chair all the afternoon,
and listen to the prosy speeches of his
brother members. Tills sort of punishment
is likely to cut off buncombe sessions on
Saturdays; for ambitious orators will
henceforth he cautious how they expose
themselves to being pilloried in the Speak
er’s chair, as a target for Congressional
drivel and platitudes.
TUB ATLANTA SLANDER SIILL
Must be in full operation, judging from
the special telegrams which appear in For
ney's Chronicle, under dato of Atlanta-. It
is snrmlsed that the branch concern here
touches up these “specials,” and on some
occasions manufacture them out of whole
cloth. Bullock is even charged with writing
anonymous letters to himself. His defiance
of the Ku-Klux Is regarded as worthy of
Bombas tes Furioso.
TWO BUST B’s.
I have made mention before of Bullock’s
lobbying In the Senate. The World’s eor-
respondent ssys |
“The lobbying In order to cany out
Bullock’s schemes on the George Bill was
renewed on the Senate floor to-day (Thurs
day). Butler was observed conferring with
Stewart, while Bnllock and Spencer, the
prince of carpet-baggers, were poised on a
sofa in loving discourse. Respectable Re
publicans feel that the presence pf Bullock
in the Senate is a great stigma upon their
party. Foster Blodgett was aiding Bul
lock. Physiognomy leaves nothing whatever
to be guessed at in the character of either,
Blodgett has not enquired after “ Argus
lately, who feels very much slighted in
consequence.
TREASURER ANGIER
Has returned home, feeling confident
that all is safe, and that the Senate will
pass the Georgia Bill with Bingham’s
Amendment.
BRYANT AND BOWLES
Remain, and propose to fight it ont to
the end.
THE RECONSTRUCTION OT TENNESSEE.
THE FUNDING BILL.
Text of Sherman’s B ill as Amended
by the Senate and Passed Last
Night.
Washington, March 11.—Tho following
is the Funding Bill a3 passed by the Sen-
ato:
That,' for the purpose of funding the debt
ofthe United States and reducing tho In
terest thereon, the Secretary of the Treas
ury be, and he Is hereby, authorized to
issue on the credit of the United States cou
pons or registered bonds of such denomi
nations not less than 850 as he may think
proper, to an amount not exceeding $400;-
000.000, redeemable in coin at the pleasure
of the Government of the United States at
any time after ten years, and payable in
coin in forty years from date, and bearing
interest at the rate of 5 per centum per an
num, payable semi-annually, in coin; and
tbe bonds thus authorized may be disposed
of at tbe discretion of the Secretary, nndcr
such *regtfiations as he shall prescribe,
cither in the Gnited States or elsewhere, at
not less than their par value, for coin, or
they may be exchanged for any of the out
standing bonds of an equal aggregate par
value heretofore issued and known as the
five-twenty bonds, and for no other pur
pose; and the proceeds of so much thereof
as may be disposed of for coin shall be
placed in tbe Treasury, to be used for the
redemption of such 6 per centum bonds, at
par, as may not be offered in exchange, or
to replace such amount of coin as may
have been used for that purpose.
Sec. 2. And be It further enacted, That
the Secretary of tho Treasury bcaud be Is
hereby authorized to issue, on the credit of
the United .States, coupon or registered
bonds to the amount of four hundred mil
lions of dollars, as he may think proper, re
deemable in coin, at the pleasure of the
Government of the United States, at any
time after fifteen years, and payable in
coin at forty years from date, and bearing
interest not exceeding four and one-half
per centum per annum, payable semi-an
nually, and tbe bonds authorized by this
section may be disposed of under such reg
ulations as the Secretary of tho Treasury
shall prescribe, in the United States or else
where, at not less than par for coin; or
they may be exchanged at par for any of
tho outstanding obligations ofthe United
States bearing a higher rate of interest in
coin, and tbe proceeds of such bonds as
may be sold for coin shall be deposited in
the Treasury, to be used for the redemp
tion of such obligations bearing interest in
coin as by the terms of issue are or may
become redeemable or payable, or to re
place such coin as may have been used for
that purpose.
Sec. 3. And be U further enacted, That
the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he Is
hereby, authorized to issue, on tLe credit
of the United States, from time to time,
coupon or registered bonds of such denom
ination, not less than fifty dollars, as he
may think proper, to the amount of $400.-
000,000. redeemable in coin at the ptcasurc
ofthe Govern ment at any time after twenty
years, and payable In coin at forty years
from date, ami bearing Interest at the rate
of four per centum per annum, payable
semi-annually in coin; and sucb bonds
may be disposed of either in tho United
States or elsewhere, at not less than their
pa<- value for coin, or, at tho discretion of
the Secretary, for United States notes, or
may be exchanged at not less than par for
any of the obligations of the United States
outstanding at the date of the issue of bucIi
bonds, and if in the opinion of the Secre
tary it is thought advisable to issue a larger
amount of four per cent, bonds for any of
the purposes herein, or hereinafter recited,
than would be otherwise authorized by this
section of the act, such further Issues are
hereby authorized, Provided, that there
shall fie no Increase in the aggregate debt
of theUnited States in consequence of any
issues authorized by this act.
Sec.4. And be it further enacted, That
the bonds, and the annual income thereon,
authorized by this net, shall be exempt
from all taxation by or under national,
State, municipal, and local authority.
Sec. 5 And be it further enacted. That
the Secretary of tlic Treasury be, and he is
hereby, authorised to appoint such agents
in the'United States and In Europe as ho
may deem necessary to aid in tire negotia
tion of said bonds, and he may advertise
the loan herein authorized and the condi
tions thereof in such newspapers and jour- jjju
nals in this country and in Europe as he
may select for that purpose, and a sum not
exceeding one-half of one per centum for
the bonds herein authorized is hereby ap-
iropriated to nay the expense of preparing,
ssuing and disposing of the same.
Sec. 6. And be it farther enacted, That
In order to carry info execution tho pro
visions of the 5th section of the act entitled,
“ An act to authorize tbe issue of United
States notes, and for the redemption and
funding thereof,, and for funding the float
ing debt ot the United States,” approved
February 25, 1863, relating to the sinking
fund, there is hereby appropriated out
of tho duties derived from imported
goods the sum of $150,000,000 annually,
which sum during each fiscal year, shall
be applied to the payment of the in
terest and to tho redaction of tho principal
of the public debt; and theUnited States
bonds now held as the sinking fund, and
tho United State bonds now. held in tbe
Treasury.shall be cancelled and destroyed,
a detailed record thereof being first made
in the books of the Treasury Department.
And the bonds hereafter purchased under
this section shall In like manner be cancel
led and destroyed, and a full and detailed
account of the application of the money
herein appropriated shall be made by the
Secretary of the Treasury to Congress with
his annual report; and the aggregate
amount of tbe bonds cancelled and destroy
ed shall be stated in tho monthly statement
ofthe pnbllc debt.
Ssc. 7. And be it further enacted, That
on and after tho firstday of October, 1870,
registered bonds of any denomination not
less than one thousand dollars, Issued under
the provisions of this act, and no others;
shall bo deposited with tho Treasurer of the
United States as security for the notes Is
sued to the National Banking Associa
tions for circulation under an act entitled
“ An act to provide a national currency se
cured by a pledge of tho United States
bonds, and to provide for the circulation
thereof,” approved June 3,1864,and all the
National Banking Associations, organized
under said act, or any amendment thereof,
the bonds of which are then redeemable,
by their terms, and as they shall hereafter
become redeemable, are hereby authorized
to deposit bonds issued under this act as
security for their circulation notes withiD
one year from tho date of the passage of
this act; in default of which, their right to
issue Dotes for circulation shall be forfeit-
provided in the said National Currency
acta, and without respect to tho limitation
of the aggregate circulation of National
Currency prescribed by said acts; provid
ed, however, that as circulating notes are
issued under this section, an equal amount
of United States notes shall be cancelled
and destroyed.
CAPITALS.
Tbe Mania for Moving Them.
The capital moving mania is growing. Not
to speak of its accomplished results in
changing the capital of Georgia from Mil-
ledgeville to Atlanta, and the capital of
Louisiana from Baton Rouge to New Or
leans, its voico is heard crying alond in high
places for a removal of the capita! of Texas
from Austin to Houston; of Wisconsi;
from Madison to Milwaukee; of New Jer
sey from Trenton to Elizabeth; of West
Virginia from Wheeling to Charleston ; and,
above all, of theso United States from Wash
ington to some as yet unascertained point
in the far West, for which the larger vil
lages of that region battle as desperately as
ever did the municipalities of Greece for
the birthplace of Homer. For tho capitals
of States it is no matter, the States them
selves being now airy abstractions, as is
well known, which did cot constitute the
Union out of thoir waste attributes, butare,
as it wore, tho chicks of the Fodcral gov
ernment, that unconditioned hen; but
when, loaving tho States, we come to that
Washington which sits in knavish pomp
on the Potomac, ono is smit with horror at
the prospect of any removal of tho capital
thence. So far, where tlic moving mania
has had results, the transfer has boon from
villages, commended by their accessibility,
to cities, distinguished by their life and
size. Baton Rouge has given way to that
jay New Orleans; Milledgeville, that rustic
camlet, only illumined ont of nothingness
by tho strong boxe3 of shining plate which
appertain to his Excellency, the successor
of Oglethorpo, is now superseded by thriv
ing Atlanta. On this principle, where could
the Fcdoral Capital even be moved to, save
New York? That we have our small vices,
is true; like Jeshurun, have waxed fat and
sometimes kick; but what absolute capers
of sin would we cut with that select con
geries of corbras di capello, known as Con
gress, forever among us, as an unapproach
able rival and altogether dissolute debauch-
er of “tho bloody Sixth.”—N. Y. World.
Foreign.
Henry Rochefort is very ill.
Cholera has disappeared from Santa
Spiritus.
Espartero, Duko of Victoria, fs expected
at Madrid, and intimates that he wilt bo a
candidate for royalty.
The ship Washington, Caps. Richmond.
Newcastle for New York, with a general
cargo, bag arrived at Southampton, leak
ing.
. An international exhibition of fans Is
announced in London. Tho Empress of
Russia and the Baroness Rothschild will
be leading contributors to tbe exhibition.
The Bremen steamer New York, which
arrived at Southampton from New York,
encountered on her voyage large numbers
of Icebergs, some of them of mountainous
also.
In the House of Lords the Naturaliza
tion bill was debated in committee. The
Lord Chancellor advocated an amendment
permitting aliens to acquire and dispose
of lands in British territory, except in
time of war.
At the Liverpool races the Liverpool
spring cup was won by Co!. Forrester's b.
c. Free Trade, Caractaous out of Traffic.
Lord Falmouth’s b. c. Kingcraft, by King
Tam. out of Woodcraft, continues the fa
vorite for the Derby.
The chiel editor of tho Journal <tu Fau
bourg has been sentenced to eight months’
imprisonment and a fine of 2000 francs,
and the publisher to six months’ imprison
ment with a fine of 1,000 francs, for ofiense
against the Emperor.
There were tw6 occurrences in the war
of 1S12. which are characteristic of the
Kentucky soldiers of that time, which I do
not recollect to have seen In print. The
one occurred while the Amcricnn prisoners
were being marched through Canada to
Fort George. On one occasion tlic officer
commanding the guard bought some whis
ky. "nd Invited a Kentucky corporal to
drink. The British Captain gare as a toast
George IU. The corporal drank without
hesitation. Tbe British Captain then call
ed upon the corporal for a sentiment. Tho
corporal rather declined, saving. “Yon
have beeu kind in Inviting in« to drink,
and I may give offense by giving a toast.”
The corporal then saiJ: ’• May tbe eklns of
kings be madedrum-Ucails, and the shanks
of Tories drum-stinks, to beat tha Ameri
cans to arms.” The British Captain re
marked : “ Sir,you must remember where
you arc, and act accordingly.” A British
Lieutenant, who composed one ofthe com
pany, said: “ Stop, Captain, you called for
a sentiment, and must not now take excep
tion.” Suffice to say. tho British officer*
swallowed the toast.
Tho other happened at Camp Jackson,
below New Orleans, on the 8th of January,
1S15. After the British made their last
charge on our breast-works they sent In ft
flag of truce, wbich was met by a'flag from'
the American army, asking the privilco-o
of removing their killed Bad wounded,
which were numerous. A line was desig
nated so far from onr breast-works as to
prevent tbe enemy from discovering tho
nature of our defeuses, and American sol
diers placed on one side of the line and
British soldiers on the other. While their
dead and wounded were being taken to
this line and received by British soldiers, a
soldier belonging to the latter remarked to
a Kentucky soldier: “It Is useless for you
to continue this contest; wc are determi ned
to take the city. Wo have Lord Becken
ham, Lord Gibbs, and I<ord Keene, and a
powerful army, and arc determined to toko
tho city.” To which tho Kentucky soldier
replied: “Wo have on our side tbe Lord
God Almighty, the Lord Jesus Christ and
the the hero. Old Hickory, and i’ll be
damned If wc can’t whip you.” Kentuck
ians may be overpowered, but still they
will crow.—Lexington Ornette.
Political.
The Louisiana Democratic State Com
mittee proclaims that “there is no middle
ground, except lor those who are on the
road to the common enemy.”
The Columbus Citizen is informed that
some loyal citizens of that place are carry
ing out the doctrine of social equality by
calling and dining with their sable breth
ren.
General Sherman is reported to have
said, tho other day. when commenting on
the new military bill, that “ these congress
men were not fit to make laws for tho Ya
hoos.”
The Rhode Island Senate has adopted
resolutions calling a convention to revisa
the State Constitution, the delegates to bo
elected August 8. and the Convention to
meet Sept. 6. The delegates are to bo elect
ed *• by citizens of tho United States who
havo resided two years In tho State.”
The Republicans ot Rhode Island, In con
vention at Providence, yesterday, nomi
nated the present State officers for rc-clec-
(ion, aa follows: Governor. Seth Padelford;
Lieutenant-Governor. P. W. Stevens; Sec
retary of State, John B. Bartlett; Treasurer,
Samuel A. Parker; Attorncy-Geueral, Wil
lard Sayles. Election April 8.
-Personal.
The Empress of Austria baa the pretti
est royal ankle in Europe.
Bishop Davis, of North Carolina, is to
tally blind. He performs the offices of tho
church from memory.
When Yankees go to fasting, humiliation,
ar.d prayer, there is always some deviltry
afoot.—Joe Mitchell. _
G. F. T. recorded himself at a Troy ho
tel, taking up throe lines of tho register,
thus : •" George Francis Train, America; ■
351st successive lecture in a course of 1,-
0O0.
The Attorney General is a line typo of
the orthodox Massachusetts gentleman—
tall, with fresh, red lips, a cheerful eye, and
good teeth, lighting up a rather angular,
oblong . faco, strong-barred darkish gray
WM. L. AVERY.
Branded ns
Statements aro
False.
The wicked, lying dispatch of this Radi
cal crcatare, dated from this city and ad
dressed to Senators at Washington, evident
ly with tho view of influencing the vote on
tho Georgia hill and thus playing into the
hands of Bullotk, affords a sample of the
requital received by tho Southern people
from some of those who have been received
and treated as gentlemen. Every honest
man here knows that, so far as this city and
section of the State is concerned, the state
ments of Avery are the basest fabrications
and falsehoods. Never was our communi
ty more quiet and free from all political
excitement and disorder of every kind.
The government officers here will testify
to tho truth of what we say, and we do not
consider it worth onr while to waste words
on the subject.
And who is this man Avery, who thus
moves among us quietly enjoying the pro
tection of our laws and under tho cover of
the telegraph maligns and slanders them ?
He is a New Yorker, and tho Attorney and
the lobbyist of tho Brunswick and Albany
railroad. We learn he resides in Atlanta,
at least he has opened an office there, wo
suppose, to ho convenient to Bullock’s Leg
islature, from whom ho and others procur
ed last year by arts best known to them
selves, a State endorsement of bonds to the
amount of many millions. Conant, the
party alluded to in the dispatch, is a North
ern contractor on the samo road, and instead
of paying “ millions ” for tho construction of
railroads in Georgia, it is reported that the
hands on the road have struck because they
wero not paid.
Avery arrived in this, city Friday last,
and if he has been treated with the slight
est disrespect, we have yet to hear of it
So far as this community is concerned, we
have no hesitation in characterizing his
statements as wilfully and maliciously false.
[Soo. Eepullican.
John G. Baxter, tho Mayor elect of Louis
ville, is about forty years old, short and
florid, rich, upright and brusque. He roso
from the people. In politics ho has always
been a Democrat, and he lives sumptously
on Third street.
The father of Senator Benton lies ob
scurely buried in a patch of pines, four
miles west of Hillsboro, North Carolina,
where, says tho Recorder of that placo
“ the country people daily pass, and little
regard that tho father ot ono of the great
est statesmen of the country lies buried
near.
Torches were thrust ont almost over his
head, but thanks to tlieir blinding glare,
the victim hung unseen. They evidently
believed he had escaped. Parties were
even sent to the river, but after a stay of
perhaps fifteen minutes, tho ecene of
horror was deserted.
The danger for the moment over, the
youth swung himself back Into the room,
and for a time lay completely overcome by
exhaustion. Then came the sad office of
viewing the bloody corpses of the only two
lie claimed akin within thousands of miles.
Col. Jones lsy where he had stood, pierced
by four bullets. He had evidently died in
stantly, receiving every wound from the
front. The son lay in the garden, also
<jcad.'
Remaining perhaps an hour on the tragic
ground, the boy creeping softly to the
river, procured a pirogue, and slowly float
ing down stream to a lower landing. Blink
in'* on board the steamer Mayflower, he
found himself in the midst of his enemies,
fifteen of them, armed with shot guns.
While standing In bewilderment, one
man, worthy ofthe name, we wish we dared
<*ive it, touched him, and the two walked
toward the engine room. He was aulckly
directed to the hold, a couple of bales of
cotton were carelessly rolled over the hatch
and the escape was accomplished.
Tho party left the boat in sqnadsof three
and four on the way down the river. It is
not certain that all left. It i3 not certain
that some are not here now ; that two of
them did not, on Saturday night, drive to
his refuge in a carriage. He is surrounded,
however, by acirde fiercer than Greek fire.
Should they penetrate it, ’twill be at the
risk of life.—N. O. Times.
May 1.1865. $1 in gold would buy $L200
in Confederate money. We can not for-
Gen. Butler has prepared hia hill for the
reconstruction of Tennessee, and has sub
mitted It to the Congressional delegation
from that State. It is approyed by allsave BOies >or ulrtu ^,„„
Representatives Hankins. The bill de-1 . the treasurer and tbe Comptroller
Clares the election of Senter null and vokl. j CurrenC y shall be authorized and re-
because of alleged frauds In the reglsto u « rc(1 to 6uc h measures as may be
tion, and orders a new “ I ilecessary to call In “nd destroy their out-
new election. R does n® 1 P‘^POto torther circulation, and to return the
interference with the bonds held as security therefor to the asso-
br the turning over of the State to the mil-, JJjjJg'ons by which they were deposited, in
itary. .'mnsof not less than $1,000; Provided,
mkbb mestiox. ; jjjafc any such association now In existence
Mrs. Bowers has only been able to play may, upon eiving thlrty day’s notiM to the
, three nights of her engagement this; Comptroller of the Currency, by resolution
week on account of severe illness. ,! uf the Board of Directors, deposit legal
The “Violets of the Stage,” Blanche anu [ tender notes with the Treasurer of the
Ella Chapman, have drawn crowded house? : United States to the amount of itaout-
at Wells’Opera House, during tbe P« ! j standingcirculation andup the bonds
A Horrible Mistake.
Feminine.
The gossips marry Carlolta Patti to Theo
dore Ritter.
Those pretty Treasury clerks are accused
of fighting tho tigress in Washington.
A young man in the city, who is engagod
to a Miss Kate, alleges, so angelic is she,
that she nearly imfib-Kates him with her
beauty.
A blooming widow of thirty-six called
at the probate office of an Ohio town, and'
asked for a marriage license. Her hus
band that was to be was “ only eighteen,
and so bashful.”
Mrs. Bradweil, of Chicago, is sadly dis
couraged. She states her case thus : I can
not ho a notary public because I am mar
ried, and I can not bo an attorney at law
because I am a woman!
If women aro eventually allowed ail the
privileges of men, we supposo that if they
refuse or neglect to provide for for tho sup
port of their husbands, a divorce can be
granted, awarding alimony to the husband.
This wants to bo understood, you know,
before we let tho darlings have the trowscra
and things.
That dignified and classical old paper,
tho New YoTk Post, over whoso destinies
Mr. ffm. Cullen Bryant, the poet, presides,
says, “The blondes are more empty-headed
than ever—they havo been bailed out.
Since they were driven outof Chicago they
claim that theirs is a chased exhibition.”
“ When I am in a crowded car,” said a
male advocate of woman’s rights, “ and a
lady comes in, I think it is the duty of some
man to get np and give her his seat. I look
around the car to sco if any man in the
crowd looks like making, a move in that
direction, and when I aee them all keep
their seats, I hide my faco behind my
newspaper, and blush for my sex.”
W j’otin E. O—.ns commence, an otksrc- ' ijrtber, That not moro ‘”^■^'*3,.',,'
1 bonds hereby authorized^ on which the
Truly loyal papers are trying to get up # I bonds hereby authorized, ^ ton r
sensation by stating that a lunatic has at- maximum me ot interest is fixed at four
tempted to assassin3to Grant. It’a all and a half or live per centum per annum,
mistake. The fool-killer ha3 not come■ szc. 8. And be it further enacted, That
round yet. {the amount of circulating notes which any
Foster Blodgett don’t like ; h an k may receive from the Comptroller of
AEGU*. i t jj e Currenoy, under the provisions of sec-
I tion 21 of said act, may equal hut not ex-
Once upon a time, an accomplished
young American woman had the honor to
dine with the Czar of all the Busslas. Du
ring the royal entertainment, a plate of de
licious grapes was passed around. It Is
true the young lady saw the golden knife
which rested on the side of the basket, bnt
as the fruit came to her first, sho bad noway
of learning its use; eo she did Just what
she would have done in America—she
reached ont her dainty flogere and lifted
from the dish a whole stem of grapes, what
was her consternation to see the next per
son. as well as all the other guests, take the
golden knife and sever a single grape each,
and transfer it to their plates. Had a young
Russian lady In thi3 country helped her
self to a whole chicken, the error would
have been the same. It is true the young
woman committed no crime, but her feel-
ings and those of her friends would have
been spared had she learned the etiquette
of the royal tables before sho became an
Emperorjs guest.
A Northern Counterblast.—Savannah,
March 15.—The following is one of simi
lar letters and dispatches sent North to-
^Hon. Charles O’Neill, member of Con-
«*ress of Pennsylvania, Washington, D.
C.—Sir: As Philadelphians and ex-Union
officers doing business in Savannah, wo
wish to state that dispatches sent from this
city by W. L. Avery, and telegraphed to
newspapers, regarding the treatment pf
Northern men in this State, are untrue In
eveiy particular. We have recently trav
eled throughout the State and never expe
rienced such treatment as alleged by Avery,
nor did we hear of insults being offered to
Northern men. Signed: Thos. J.Malone,
H. Pennington, of Hecker, Maloney &
centum of the par value of the
honds'deposited, but shall not exceed In
the aggregate the amount tofcwhich such
bank maybe entitled under said section.
Sec. 9. And ho it farther enacted, That
anv hanking association organized, or to
he organized, under the National Currency
act. the acts amendatory thereof, may. upon
depositing with the Treasurer United
States notes to any amount not less than
$50,000, receive an equal amount of regis
tered bonds of theUnited Statesof thekind
and description provided for by section 3
of this act, may deposit tho same as the se
curity for circulation notc3;and thereupon
such hanking association shall be entitled
to and shall receive circulating notes upon
A Sensation Among the Upper Crust,
New York, March 14.—Another great scan
dal is agitating upper-tendora in this city
to-day. A leading lawyer, on entering his
house at a late hour last night, found a
United States Assessor, an cx-General in
the volunteer service, in rather too close
proximity with his wife. The ex-Gencral,
on being caught in flagrante dellclu, drew a
revolver and was about to discharge it at
the disconsolate husband* when tho latter
overpowered him, lelled him to the ground
and succeeded in attracting the attention
of the police. Both were arrested and ta
ken to the np-town station-house, where
the lawyer refused to make a charge, so as
to prevent scandal and avoid publication.
He has been married. 15 years and has two
Avery, tho Calumniator.
This individual left our city for Atlanta,
Monday morning, not stopping to witness
the effect of his vile slander upon the peo
ple. And it was well he did. Tho ex
pressions of indignation among ail classes
of our citizens, Northern and Southern,
were lond and universal. We heard no
apology for the cold blooded inventor of
falsehood. A number or Northern men
now sojourning in the city telegraphed con
tradictions of his statements to Washington,
and by this timo the members-of Congress
are fully advised of his character and the
amount of confidence of which he is wor
thy. The followingis a copyof a dispatch
sent to several members of the House and
Senato by a highly respectable Northern
gentleman who is largely interested in works
of internal improvement in this State:
To Mon. IFm. B. Allison, M. Washing
ton, D.C:
The dispatch signed Wm. L. Avery, da
ted Savannah, March 13. is not correct, and
is a libel on tho peoplo of Georgia. I
writo you. (Signed) M. K. Jesup.
»sy- n. W. Beecher is said to keep lec
tures in stock of different qualities to suit
nurebasers. A quiet article for country
use is about $200; a somewhat more dura
ble fabric, suitable for Boston wcar.is $400;
fancy goods lor the metropolis aro from
SGOOtoSm and soon. Lectures manufac
tured to order from entirely new stuff, of
course, come higher than ready made
goods.
SS stssssrars aximz 5* aw-*.™*
t3TSecretary Fletcher of Tennessee
bera sent n=ked General Lowell for a miltsry e3c->rt
children. The faith e £ doubtful from Nashville to hU home in Bradley
onC farther me»*urc3 will be ta-! county. lie evidently thinks some of the
ken to^pu^ish the'too'galiairtex-GencralJ