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'WISDOM, JUSTICE AND MODERATION." ■ ifllPME XX1Y- ROME, GA., FRIDAY MORNING. MAY 27. 1870. NEW SERIES-NO 39. ^' nX ,V t 'GR I VDV. 1C A^I»t« Editor. HATES OF WFKKLT. ^ ^ r. ~"Z~~ 1 75 fejSS-r—c:v:z: —* »® ^"^TES FOB TRI-WEEKLY. S 2 50 'iU<, 125 r.^uBLT IN ADVANCE. J^ BToor more one copy will be fur- 1.j rr*«is- M. DWINELL, Proprietor. rcrAll ADVERTISEMENTS. w ,... ijumistrators,Electors or .] eJ of ^ 1 by law to be held on Jdins. are. required ^ 01 **•*— .iirAil bV law w OC AAom ins. are req»n . e . l cQ y mont h } between the irrt Tues ! l ‘ 5: t l t c- ornnoon and threo in the 9 of le “ ‘ court House in the county in moottf» . - s situated. . . ^S'S&smust be given in a PUL S' f f i a -7ai r o r of personal property must l*«° r “* „„«erf through a public gas- * r of personal prupc j °” f .»* manner, through a public gaa- &J* D^Mortaod Cralitors of an estate, ' r ,)1,ihcd n “ UoS will be made to the Jf Ordinafy'ler leave to sdl land meat be k Administration. Guar- ‘ e ‘ l be publishod 30 daya-for ip ic -> m .“?l; n i.tration, three months— ’^rfmm m G-Xnsbip.40 iays. X the forccloseurc of:Mortgagesmust 5 , j for four months—for es- jlishod monthly tor ^ of three ing '» st T a P e , r 1 l’„ titles irom Executors or i - fo : C ° mP „l re^nd has been given by istr A‘°;’: .Te full snae. at three months. OTC SCrt* DATES. Ales per levy Of ten lines or less $3 00 Sortie fif fa. sales, per levy, 5 00 hr iletters°ofAdministration 3 00 plottersol Guardianship.... 3 ™ application for dismission from ^ ^ application for dismission from i'’ p s ’ c ,rianXr:r-.._. »»» btors and Creditors, * J® | pc.rsuuarc * ihable property, 10 days 4 00 iei, SO days, J ?! of Mortgage, per square.....— 4 00 tising his wife, (in advance) 10 00 SATURDAY MORNING, May 13. SCYLIA AND CHAKYBDIS. He disposition to run to extremes is one I tf the unfortunate tendencies of the age. 1 Id do ease is this tendency more forcibly il- I feinted than in the action of the Demo- I critic party on the negro question. It seems I tint the people arc muddled into idiocy by I this issue, and their movements upon it are | citaracterixetl by a woful lack of wisdom. Foriastance. in Alabama and in Dela- I nre especially the Democratic politicians I are forming a “white man’s party,” whose plitfonn is “No rights for the negro as a | china.” That this party is doomed to defeat if it attempts to fight it out on this line, it needs ”0 vise head to predict. The establish ment of the negro’s right to the ballot box is me of the inevitable 1 esults of the rev elation. and the people of the North and West trill sec to its enforcement. The ne gro's right a: a citizen wab perfected at the apple tree of Appomattox. The negro will be a voter for sometime tJ come, and the party that resists this fact rill be whelmed beneath the resistless nrei of frothy, false liberalism that are delaging the country. If the Democrats thaio themselves to this rotting torpse,they most perish. Hardly less lamentable than the mistake aide by our friends in Delaware, is the one nade by oar friends in South Carolina. In the former ease they are unwisely hostile to tbe negro; in the latter they are disgust- hgif friendly. By a late telegram we learn that at a Democratic meeting; negro speak- m particij ated in the exercises on perfect equality with the whites, and were loudly •pplauded by Democratic listeners. Need R express the loathing that filled our breast at the exhibition of such cowardly ijcophaucy.YeGods—in South Carolina— tbe reputed hotbed ot Southern ohivalry vc see white men applauding negroes as their equals—begging them for wisdom and then thanking them for it—bending in the dust, miserable suppliants for the ne gro vote, and then hurrahing with joy when the negro promises it. In trying to avoid Scylla our South Carolina friends are whirling in Charybdis. Oar policy on the negro question is, and been, and shall be to grant him the jus- hoe that oar duty to God demands—to ut- f ignore for the present the question as h> whether «r not he Bhonld vote—to al- w him to vote, but to carefully abstain t0Si toy action that will sanction by our hottsent, this ballot box privilege. To re- sihdl give the negro justice in so- . We shall not make an issue up- ? ® “o^ts as a voter at present, bnt we h ° Ct ^ actlon > acknowledge that 6 > real and permanent right to this w e gs. In after days, when the black j® 11 has worked off, it may be possible to »* off this abomination. At present it to attempt it, and the Delaware , *“Kiat5 will find it so. '“lithe D, SUNDAY SCHOOL CELEBRATION. Yesterday was “the gladdest day of all the glad new year.” All the Sunday Schools of Rome and vicinity (numbering some six or seven), arranged themselves in procession and marched to the depot to take the train to Cave Spring, to enjoy their annual celebra tion. Banners handsomely worked, floated in front of every school, while the notes of the Silver Cornet Band kept the air mellow with music. At the very least calculation over fourteen hundred people left Borne, to take part in the grand festival. Arrived at Cave Spring, a perfect multitude of children, wo men, andmen, and girls arrayed in two lines received, with songs of welcome, the visiting schools. Over a road strewn with flowers, and through a lane of rosy damsels— what better pathway could a man wish for? The bridge was elegantly decorated, and the archivings were set off with appropriate inscriptions, worked in flowers. (Querry— How many men put in a sly little love-stroke as they passed with their sweethearts under that arch, crowned with the suggestive in scription “Love one another”? Answers so licited.) After rcachihg the grove, in which a stand had been erected and seats arranged, exer cises of song and prayer were gone through with, and Mr. Gwaltney delivered a very hap py address. When the speech was conclud ed, the crowd scattered, and commenced hav ing “fun.” The hills all aronnd were dotted with young folks, enjoyed in every conceiva ble amusement—babies crowing and chirp ing; children romping and racing; boys and girls laughing, talking and playing as only boys and girls can; young lovers billing and cooing, and tender-faced matrons gossipping and arranging the tables. Oh I it was a mer ry scene—sneh a scene as can only be seen where thousands of happy young people are gathered together in cool and shady woods, by a clear rnnning stream, for the purpose of having a good time, and nothing but a good time. At about one o’clock five or six hun dred Sunday School folks came from Jack sonville, to join the happy revelry. They were heartily welcomed by a crowd number ing not less than three thousand, and were soon made to feel comfortably at home. The home train came puffing about 4 o’clock, and after bidding oar friends in Jacksonville a hearty goodbye, we returned to Borne im mensely pleased at the success of the excur sion. There was not a single accident to mar the enjoyment of the day. The dinner was unex ceptionable and bountiful in the extreme.— To the efficient committee of arrangements the schools are indebted for much of the pleas ure of the day. To the unbounded hospitality of the good people of Cave Spring, we are forever debt- And.we but speak the sentiment of over three thousand children, when we thank eve ry one who was at all instrumental in bring ing abont and consummating this prime fes- festival. Of Cave Spring—than which there is no more charming village in the Souths—and its well managed Deaf and Dumb Assylum, we ■hall have something to say in onr next issne. Masonic.—In obedience to the time- honored custom among Masons, Cherokee and Oostananla Lodges will celebrate the 24th day of J one next. There, will be a dinner and address as last year. They may and doubtless will have a good dinner, but we feel sure they cannot beat the one they had last year. We shall look forward to that day with more than ordinary interest and pleasure, and we know the ladies who are connected with the fraternity, will also. It will be a re union of the members and their fami lies. Bnt on all sneh occasions there is many who join in the procession, clothed as Masons, and make themselves conspicu ous at the tables, but never work, hut first to eat. Never contribute a cent to the des titute and afflicted, or pay one cent Lodge dues, yet when they can advertise them selves as Masons at the expense of the craft, they never let an opportunity slip.— They are worse than drones in the great beehive of Masonry. The officers should remedy this evil, as far as they can. W e allude to those only who pay no dues and “clothe” themselves but once a year. The annual meeting of the “Cherokee Masonic Aid Association” will be held on that day also. Many brethren from a dis tance is expected to he present. Music—Ambbosia. — On Thurhay night the Silver Cornett Band wended their way to the residence of Mr. Gibbons and gave Mr. Pressley and his bride a beauti ful serenade. After the music had ceased) the hospitable lady of the house invited the band in, and had spread for them a most delightful supper. After about half an hour had been spent in discussing the merits of the delicious “wittles” the band retired feeling convinced no doubt that he doeth a good business who bloweth a horn in the brass band. On the other nomocracy of South Carolina have , t ' le ' r right te ever resist this "o. because in publio platform they sanc- 0 l “ e Yorth and West, by which enf- Hade a voter. Hon 8 *" ld '‘“ped that, actuated by com- kt tf! 8058 ! ° at P art Y friends- would have 1^*“® .? darkey sleep in peace dur- coming campaign. .. r wheat crops but their corn, cotton and a J! PS “ e sufferin S f or raim Old far- ^^ehavea^N „ we are ‘re good crops. If this be so. it C »osuL l i 8PeClal tele?ra, “ to the Atlanta ^ 1 “the Reconstruction Committee *~<£r** to force the bui ^ quest?! a “ e “ dment un der the nre- U tWa <*““01 be accom- The folio win" song was sweetly sung by the schools of Cave Spring, as a wel come to the other schools on their arrival on the Festival Bay. SUNDAY SC HO OIi WELCOME. - BTV.P.B. L O, come children come, on onr festival day We greet you with songs and smiles on the way; Come and welcome, Ac Come and welcome, wc greet yon, with songs on the way. II O come friends and patrons, whoever you be— Onr hearts and onr hands give yon welcome most free. Come and welcome Come and welcome we give you a welome most free IIL Come Sunday school teachers and scholars, come nil! - Tlio birds of our valley re-echo onr call— Come and welcome! We give you a welcon.e, & welcome to a’l. IV. Onr love is as warm as the May day’s bright beams— (Jar pleasures are pure as our springs and onr streams: Come and welcome! Come and welcome to find onr love all it seems. Come if yon love Jesus, and join in oar throng— WUh banners and mottoes and flowers and song Come and welcome! Yes, if you love Jesus, come join in onr song. vr. Oar cause is of Heaven, and the angels above, Are smiling approval of blessings and lov e; Come and welcome! The angels are smiling approval and love. VIL And if we love Jesus, and serve Him our King— And love one another, the angels will sing— Come and welcome! In Hearen, tha angels, oar welcome will'sing. Vabney Gaskill Again —Since some months since we plucked this virtuous in dividual from the common crowd, and twirled him a turn or two upon the point of our pen, he has been living in lamenta ble obscuritp. A day or two ago, however, he poked his smiling head from behind the curtains, and now struts before the public with all the swagger ot a barbacue orator, lie appears to be a sort of coun sel for BuUock against the investigating committee, and has been, as Angiers books show, the happy recipient of $1,000 from Bullock, for selling something or other.— While we smack onr lips at GaskiU’s good fortune, we ask, in an agony of unsatisfied cariosity, why it is that Bollock is so fond of him. Varney is (so ho says) an immac ulate Democrat—Bullock a bloody Radi cal. Why then this fondness of Rnfos for G 7- It can only be on account of the so cial brilliancy of Varney—and the inimita ble knack he has of tellinga tale, and get ting up tales to tell. That is-—Bullock pets him, not because of prostituted political Virtue, but because of the faculty he has of whiling away his Excellencies' d nil hours by a species of “Arabian nights” enter tainments. And posterity, when contem plating Varney’s rigid adherence to Demo cratic tenets, and this apparently incongru ous friendship will thus explain it: Bollock loved him lor the tales he told, And he loved Bollock for his silver and gold. PROCEEDINGS IN CONGKUESS. The Line Drawn between Radical a- d Mod erate Repnbllcams In the Senate. XLST CONGRESS. SENATE. Washington, May 17.—Mr. Cimeron presented a memorial for the general abol ished of taxation on products. He spoke in favor of the snhstitntion of external for internal taxeo, and above all, tbe abolition of the income tax. The fifteenth amendment bill came up at the expiration of the morning hour. Mr. Terry proposes a modification ofhis amendment, which wonld prevent any fur ther political disabilities than now exist.— He then replied to Mr. Morton’s remark yesterday denying the right of that Senator to foist his own opinion upon the South, and assnme to make them the embodiment of the views of the whole Union party North. He denied the existenoe of any rebellious state of affairs South, and assert cd that tbe Republican party of the North were in favor of the removal of political disabilities. Mr. Morton replied at length to Mr. Fer ry, whose views, he said, entitled him to a Democratic side of the chamber, and whose argument should lead him next to move a repeal of all pensions to Union soldiers or else to pension rebels. He also defended the Georgia officials irom the charge of cor ruption, and argued that when admitted to participate iu the Government-, the rebels of the Government, the rebels of the South would turn upon and defy those whom they were now cajoling and flattering. Mr. Sawyer eulogised the speech of Mr. Ferry as sound Republican doctrine. He thought the attempt to read Senators out of tbe Republican party would require more than mere assertion and denunciation, for its acoomplisnment, as it was aimed at one- half at leastof the Republican Senators and four-fifths ot the Republican voters in the United States. For himself he would rec ognize no man’s right to read him of the party until be conld show that the ground on which he stood was not Republican. He went ou to argue that actual reconstruction conld only he achieved by extending to citizens of oce State ail the rights enjoyed by the citizens of any other, and that under the political. disability scheme, innocent men suffered for every one guilty. Mr. Drake believed the only class under disabilities in the South at the present time were those who, after holding office under the Untcd States Government and owing allegiance to it, engaged in the rebellion. Their number, he thonght, did not exceed 40,000. Mr. Sanyer said, not only mcmbeis ol Congress, Governors and Judges were in cluded, but the act took in a consider ibl? number of Sheriff’s deputy Sheriff’s Nota ries Public, Justices of the Peace, and so on ad infinitum. It reached n en who bad had no more to do with raising the flag of secession than had tha Senator from Mis - In looking over the list of the plantations we observe that not a few of them will be cultivated this year which have laid fallow for years past. So that with an ordinari ly fair season, and a steady supply of labor, a considerable increase in the crop ofthe present, over that of last year may reas onably be looked for.—New Orlenns Pica yune, 6 th. True to his First Love.—Sam Bard, Esq., has resigned his position as Governor of Idaho, and will .return to Atlanta and continuo in the journalistic traces. Fight on the right side, old festive, and you’ll lose nothing by-your resignation. A Flood of Babies.—The latest ques tion that is agitating the minds of our law givers is. what will become of all tha Mor mon babies when the followers, of Brigham are scattered. Brigham himself, for in stance, has abont four hundred of these lit tle responsibilities. As long as he can keep hiis wives together, he can support them, bnt scatter them, and what wonld become of the little innocents 7 Their mothers will have to sprinkle them on the doorsteps of those folks who hav’nt any at all. soon. No more blundering or stupid scheme than that ofthe test oath conld have been conceived in the Sooth. They were now re duced to the necessity of selecting public officials from among incompetents or ras cals. He hoped to hear some expression of opinion from the representative in the Senate of that race, which is largely made np ofthe loyal element of the South, upon wisdom of keepingthe intelligence, wealth and virtue of the South in a condition of political slavery for an indefinite period .be cause any man who was not the eqnal of another in his political right was in some sense a slave. He thonght the Senator from Mississippi, Mr. Revels, wonld de claro in favor of amnesty for the past as the best protection of his race. Mr. Cameron expressed his conviction as the result of personal observations daring a recent visit to the South, that the rebellions spirit of the people was still alive, as shown by the contemptnoos reference to Northern men. When they appreciate their gnilt, it wonld be time enough to bestow ele- Wherb did it come From 7—It has been estimated by the Constitution that Bollock spent fourteen thousand five hun-. dred dollars in trying to kiU the Bingham Amendment—that is two hundred and six ty dollars a day while he was in Washing ton. Where did this money come from 7 Bollock is a poor man. Conley, Bio: gett, Harris, Tweedy, McWhorter; and aU the rest of the clique, are poor men. Where did he get the money. Tbe tax payers ought to know. Can’t Scraggy of the Era tell us 7 Crops. In Indiana the wheat crop will be fully up to the average. Corn is up in Kansas. Hundreds of miles of osage orange are being planted.— Immigration is heavy. Wheat in fine fix in Wisconsin. In Iowa winter wheat is fair, and spring wheat abundant. Corn and frait proa- Saved by a Technicality.—The brib ery investigating committee in Washington have convicted Bollock of infamous at tempts to buy opinions on the Bingham Amendment, and of paying Dead Duok Forney for editorials written in his interest and pnblished in the Chnniele. The com mittee drops the matter, saying that there is no law that will reach sneh contemptible play, and that public opinion must give him his damnation. If Messeiurs Senators will give Georgia a chance to speak next fall, we will ask for no further punishment for the beast. En. Cobrier—Please publish the follow ing and oblige a subscriber; - To the Editor of the Daily: In your paper of the 19th I read an article written by yon, against the Isrealite and the Isrealitish nation, and yon seem to' he might ily hurt upon the betraying of Judas, and the murder of Christ, by the Jewish nation, and take your standpoint upon it to fight against them. First and foremost, I wish to under stand you, what you are. H you are a Chris tian, and helieve his death was destined for the saving of the world; I am sure you ought to he satisfied with 'the deed, and have good feeling towards Judas,-who betrayed him, and all his fellow friends, and not bear ha tred against them. So far as grammar and mariners are concerned, I have nothing to say abont them, but I honestly helieve that thero is plenty room for improvement • in everything. An Isrealite FaiEtra- The prospect for winter wheat is fine in Illinois. Frait pretty wel! “gone up.” New England:—New England rales the United States and Boston rules New England. Here is Wendell Phillips’ description of Boston-: “Boston is a city in which every tenth person is a crimnal and eveiy seventh a Three-quarters of our farms are mort gaged for drink, • two thirds of the pnlpito arc filled with drunkards, and the bench of justice is nearly vacant because one-half of the judges have died drunkards.” REsroNsnHBiLiTY of Bank Cashiers. —Some time since the cashier of the State National Bank of Boston certified a check of $125,000 for Pitt Cooke. Afterward the Bank discovered that the drawer did not have sufficient deposits'to balance any such cheek, and contested its liability for the payment. Judge Brady decides that the act of the agent is the act of the prin cipal, that the cashier of the bank is virtu ally the bank, and that consequently the latter is responsible for the ceitification of the former. mency. Mr. Revels having been called upon, pro ceeded to define his position, and that of the Republican party in Mississippi. Upon the operation of general amnesty, he was in favor of removing disabilities in the South jnst as fast as the people gave evi dence of loyalty. Whenever a man gave this evidence, by ceasing to denounce and oppose the laws of Congress, by respecting them and laboring to carry them out, he was in favor of removing his disabilities. If this could be truly said of a whole State, he would be in favor of the removal of dis abilities in that State. In the State of Mis sissippi the Republican party had held itself to universal amnesty, and the Legislature has redeemed that pledge by the passage of a resolution asking Congress to remove tbe disabilities of the citizens of the State, and which he had presented. The condition of things iu Mississip ii was exceptioral. The lawlessness and violence prevailing in oth er reconstructed States did not exist there, but the people were harmonious and pros perous. He was in favor of amnesty in Mississippi,as the party had given its pledge to that effect, and the State was fit for it. Mr. Drake made an argument against the general removal of disabilities. Daring the disouEsion it was proposed to take up the House bill an the subject, which had been received from that body, bnt objection was made, on the groand that the pending bill had been carefully matured by the Judicia ry Committee, while the House bill was de tective. At 5 o’clock, after a short executive ses sion, the Senate adjourned. The Elberton Gazette perpetrates excellent joke when it publishes the foUow- ing notice : “Sheriff W. H. H. Adams is authorized to receive subscriptions and col lect money due this office.” To have a Sheriff in a journalistic corps is equal to having a whole newspaper. The Chattanooga Rolling Min has en larged its capital stock to $600,000. The old stock amounted to $250,000. Of the in creased stock, $215,000 have already been subscribed. The mill will begin work about the middle of June, and will make one hundred tons of rail per day. la connection with the rolling mill, an other blast furnace wiU be buiit as soon ns possible. Sugar And Rice in Louisiana-—We thank Mr. L. Bonchereau for a copy of bis anneal statement of tbe sugar and rice crops of this State in the year 1869 70.— It presents to the reader the names of ev ery sugar or rice planter in the Stated the localities cf their plantations, description of sagar houses, the kind Of power and the processes for making sugar, the amount of the crops for tlte past two seasons in su gar and molasses, by hogsheads and also in pounds and gallons. Then follows a re capitulation, which shows at a glance the .Tops ofthe last soason from which we learn that the brown sugar made ender the old process in 1869-70, amouted to 73.472 hogsheads, weighing 83,633,097 pounds, and that the refined and charified sugar amounted to 13,619 hogsheads, weighing 15 819,849 pounds giving a total crop of 87,090hogsheads, or 99,151,946 ponods. The molasses .from this crop was 5„742,- 356 gallons.. The rice crop was 100,748 barrels, es timated at 200 pounds each. The parish of Assumption produced most sagar, the crop being 40,358 hogsheads. The parish of St. Bernard gives the highest return for rice, 31,337 barrels. The largest su gar planter in the State is Mr. John Burn side, whose plantation yi-lded 3,333 hogs heads of sugar and 80,000 gallons of mo- Statc' Items. The Golumbus Enquirer says $13,000 have been subscribed in that dty for the propos' d Industrial Exhibition, and build ings will soon be commenced. [ *' It is stated that-Gen. Terry does not ap prove the relief measure adopted at a lato session of the Legislature, and consider it a nullity. The Athens Banner says CoL R.- S. Tay lor has been nominated by the President; for confirmation by the Senate as postmas ter at Athens. Chinese lahoreis are on their way to work on the Brunswick and Alabama Railroad. The track on this road has reached Warcs- boro. It is feared the Irish potato crop in the vicinity of Americas will be a complete failnrs. The plant is dying rapidly from the continued drought. The measles are playing an engagement for the entertainment of thi colored popu lation of a suburban village near Amer icas. Corn meal is selling at $2 per bushel in Americus, and the Republican says if the drought continues much longer most ofthe mills will be compelled to stop rnnning for the want of water. Millions In Sait. THE CAMPBELL HEIRS CLAIM OYER HALF THE CITY OF 'LOUISVILLE. Louisville, May 13.—The first step in the suit brought by the Campbell heirs, who claim over onc-half of the city—three thousand acres, valued at seventy million doUars—was taken to-day, the chancellor granting an injunction preventing the city from tearing down seme bnildings on prop erty purchased by the city for wharf pur poses. All back rents lor a term of years will be sued for, so that the suit will be for fully one hundred mil lion dollars. The defendants number two thousand. The suit is creatingmnch excitement. The Louisville Courier Journal says: “Those claiming to be the heirr of John Campbell are not his direct decendants, bnt are mostly the great grandchildren of his sister, Mrs. Beard, to whom he made over all his property. Mrs. Beard sold her life estate to Fortuuatns Coshy, and when she died the rightful heirs were infants, and, consequently, the property went into the hands of trustees appointed by Campbell in his will. It remained in the hands of these trustees till tbe year 1862, when the lost one died, and since that time it has been lqstsight of. The heirs in question declare that they can show clear titles to all the property claimed, which is about as fjl- lous: Beginning at Second street and the riv er, and rnnning southeast to the corner of Preston and Greene streets, thence South to Broadway, and thence down Broadway to the Ohio river. Tills property at the present time, with the improvements, valued at over $75,000,000. Simple Horticulture. A very pretty mantle ornament may bt, obtained bv suspending an acorn, by a piece of thread tied aronnd it, within half an inch of the surface of some water con tained in a vase, tumbler, or saucer, and al lowing it to remain undisturbed for several weeks- It will soon burst open, and small loots will seek the water; a straight and ta pering stem, with beautiful glossy greeo will shoot upward,and present a very pleas ing appearance. Chestnut trees maybe grown in this manner, bat their leaves are not as beautifal as -hose of the oak. The water should be changed once a month, tak ing care to supply water ofthe same warmth bits of charcoal added to it will prevent the water from soaring. Ifthe little leaves turn yellow, add one drop of ammonia into the utensil which holds the water, and it will renew its luxuriance. How True.—Don Piatt writes to the Cincinnati Commercial: “The wonderful energy exhibited by the Southern people in straggligng np from the utter ruin that followed the late civil war is one of the marvels of the day. While ct otending against the blundering, unjust acts of reconstruction, originating in hate and continued through greed, that deprived them of a voice and laws now involving'the business interests of the entire country, the people have straggled manfully and with success to a certain extent to restore the national prosperity of their region, la this no aid whatever has been given by the Gen eral Government. On the contrary, its acts have been aggressive to the hist extent, and it is no exaggeration to say that the Government at Washington has .wrought more injury to the 3onth since the war than it was able to effect daring the con flict of arms. “It is tho strangest folly that ever affect ed a blind people.” * Tub nog-pens attaohed to J. W. Gaff & Co.’s distillery, at Cincinnati, were con sumed by fire on Wednesday morning, and abont 3,000 hogs were destroyed. The squeals and shocking cries of the animals wore heard one mile and a half. The pens belonged to Gaff and Co., and valued at $20,000, on which there was no insurance. The hogs were the property of Sadler & Co., whose loss was abont $55,000, and insured in home companies for $15,000.— The eotire loss was $75,000. Proceedings of the Methodist General Con ference. Memphis, May 17.—In the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, Bishop Doggett presiding, a large number of unimportant reports were made and laid over. The memorials from Louisville and St. Lonis in reference to the removal of the Bouk Concern, were reported, brack for ac tion, and, a ter a lengthy discussion, were withdrawn. The Baltimore delegation in sisted on its removal to that city. This caused a protracted debate, daring which Dr. Bard, of Baltimore, intimated that the Book Concern, like an old ship, if moved wonld fall to pieces, and that its condition wonld not bear investigation, which was re- peled by Drs. Bedford and Greene. The whole question was finally referred to a special committee of nine. After considerable debate on the reports of tho committee on education, the follow ing resolution irom the minority report was adopted : Resohed, That wc indorse the action of the last General Conference in reference to liblical chairs in connection with our existing colleges as the best available means for training young preachers. On the Missouri river this year 815,000- 000 logs have been cut—a falling off of 196,000,000 from last year. Railway Speed.—Jim Fisk, the Prince of Erie, took the Democratic delegates to the Rochester Convention from that place in a special train to New York, rnnning part of the time at a speed of 70 miles an honr. Yanderbiit ran a train from Roch ester to Sryacnse, last Sunday week, 81 miles, in one hour and thirty minutes.— Fisk’s train gained fire hoes on lightning express time. Late Telegraph. Washington, Mav 21.— Revenue to day S720,(-00. Hereafter tbe Uonse meets at 11 and ad journs at 5. Gen. Jordan was at the Capitol to day. Coin in the treasury one hundred and eight millions, including twenty-six a d three-fourth million gold certificates and ten million currency. j Kate Jennings (quadroon) has been ap pointed clerk of the Fourth Auditors, of fice. An official report says a raid was made on the western end of the Kansas Rail road in which five hundred Indians were engaged. Three men were killed and eight captured. Three hundred cattle were mov ed toward the Platte river. The House, after disposal of the routine of business, resumed the Loaisiaoa contest ed case, Newsham against Ryan: One of the points in the case, taming on the al leged disloyally of Mr- Ryan Banks, who, as commander ofthe Red River expedition, and had occupied his house and grounds at Alexandria, bore testimony to tbe repu tation of Ryan as being opposed to seces sion and in favor of the United States gov ernment. The debate being closed, the House, proceeded to vote on the resolution. The resolution offered by Kerr, as the re-, port of the minority declaring Ryaa enti tled to the seat, wa3 rejected without divi- The Danlanega Signal says : Wheat is ^ion. The firft resolution reported by Bar 8£5,Oueof ihe most prominent Demo cratic lawyers in Illinois, whose home is in Galena, gives his views on the negro suffrage question a* follows: In the negro element I see trouble, but it is to the Radicals. They will find that they have au elephant on their hands; and looking fine. Clover is remarkably good on plantations that had a good stand, bnt the oat crop, owing to tbe late dry spell, will fall short. The Blakely News of the 13th says— The weather continues dry, though we have had a light rain since onr last issne. Crop reports from all portions of the oonntry are favorable, though the corn is very small. The Colnmhns Sun says of the M. & G. Railroad : We learn from Superintendent Clarke that the last bridge between here and Troy is up. Trains will ran by Wednes day to within three miles of the latter place. I am disposed we c.,11 keep the the masses of th and wc will the black st: my experience liere. very familiar with every corner Slat . The lahoreis of the country are essentially disgusted, and will not vote with the uegro. Let the pelitieal cauldron, with “its eye of newt and toe of frog,” boil for a while; and if it does not bring “double toil and trouble’’ to the Radical witches, then set me down as a false prophet. The Republicans in this section are sick, partic ularly the German population, as they feel the degradation more even than any other The Colnmhns Enqnirer has seen an In dian relic in the shape of a huge “pipe of pence” ten inches long and eight in circam- ierencc. plowed ap recently on the farm of Mrs. Cobb, in Chattahoochee connty. The tax of $40 per annnm demanded by the Radical Legislature of Alabama from Georgia lawyers practicing in that State is to be resisted in tbe courts. Sev eral cases are np in tbe Russell connty conrt. It is deemed unconstitutional, and will be taken to the Supreme Ccnrt, if nec- essaiy. The Atlanta Constitution reports that a two or three months’ old child of. tbe boy persuasion was left at the residence of Maj. Peter Pelham, in Kirkwood, near Atlanta, on Tuesday night. The proprietor of the premiaes will take care of the waif. In Hart connty, the wheat along the road looks promising, bnt oats and everything else is suffering for rain. The frait pros pect is very good. John W Malloy, charged with the mur der of Allen Beasely, a negro in Macon, a few days ago, has been committed to jail, and will be tried before the Superior Court of Bibb connty this session. The eldest daughter of Rev. A. M. San ford, of Cartersville, was burnt to death on Saturday night. Her dress aanght fire from oil spilled from a lamp she was en gaged in filling. The Sandersville Georgian of tho 18th says that the cold winds and chilling heavy dews have injured the yonng cotton seriously on some farms. Wheat is said to be very fine everywhere. Tbe Newnan Defender, of the 18th, states that early lai>t Sunday morning a ne gro was fonnd in the rear of College Tem ple with a bmlet in his forehead. No cine has been ionnd concerning the mysterious homicide. On the 4th of April last, Mrs. Cofield died, aged upwards of 75 years. On the 12th ofthe same month, her husband, John Ccficld, pissed away in his 86th year.— Mr. Cofield was, for npwarls of fifty years a citizen of Washington oonnty. The MiUedgevilleFederaal Union of the 7th. speaking of the Macon & Augusta railroad says : Messrs. George G. Hull & Co.;, we learn, will commence track-laying on this end of the road this week. They ore laying cross-ties and getting ready to pnt down tho track. A considerable force is already employed on this work, bat the contractors desire to increase it, and offer good wages to hauds. The work is to be poshed forward as rapidly as possible, and it is thonght tbe road will be in rnnning order to Macon by October. nett on behalf of the majority, declaring Ryan not entitled to the scat, was adopted without division. The vete on the resolu tion of the majority declaring Newsham en titled to the seat wai taken by yeas and nays. At tbe close of the roll rail there was a majority of several Republicans then changed their vote. Yeas 78 cays 72. AU the Democrats voted the negative. El- dridge moved to reconsider for the purpose of offering a resolution to decide the seat vacant. Cox said he wonld prefer a vacancy to a usurpation. Morgan moved that the House adjourn, as there was signs of fillibnstering. Butler ol Massachusetts rose and proposed that there should not be any farther legislation of pnblic bnsiress, bnt that by agreement the vote should be taken at 2 p. m. Mon day, when the House wonld be fall, and that the House go on now and finish the consular and diplomatic bills. Mercer objected, and a motion to adjourn was pnt and earned amid much excite ment. Old man Greeley’s brain most be soft ening. Why he actually says now : “The best way to make the South peaceful is to make it prosperous. Let the people feel the power of the government otherwise than is evinced by its bayonets. A people busily at work and making money are not prone to rebellion-” Millionaires.—Wm. B. Astor is de clared by those who ought to know to rep resent $50,000,000; A. T. Stewart $40,000- 000; Cornelins Yanderbiit $30,000,000; Daniel Drew $6,000,000; Geo. Law 6,000- 000; Angnst Belmont 6,000,000; Samuel N. Pike, $7,000,000; JaS Fisk, Jr., $6,000- 00C; Jas. Lenox, $5,000,000; and two or three hundred others are variously estimat ed from two to five millions. There are a thousand persons in New York who are worth at the lowest calculation $5,000,000 a piece. Col. Gaskill gets a Plum.—On May the 11th, Gov. Bollock drew a warrant No. 369 in ftvor of V. A. Gaskill for $1,000 “lor services as agent to apply for, receive and sell lands and scrip donated to Geor gia under the act of Congress-” The departure of emigrants from Havre for America has been at the rate of 5,000 per month since February last. Nine- tenths of the number were bonnd for New York. A man in Rhode Island has been sent to jail tor ten days for sleeping in church. Nothing was done to the Clergyman who pnt him to sleep. The water of the mineral spring in Fair- mount Park, Philadelphia, the Post sayi, tastes “like damaged pork pickle drank oat of an old boot.” Grant and Forney get on finely. Al ready the President has given his organ- grinder “rope” enough to hang himself. She that marries a man because he is a good matoh, most not be surprised if he tornontalneifer. Another Rotten-borough State. The New York World says : “Yet an other totten-borongh State is on the stocks —Washington, to wit—a territory which casts a total vote of 5.338. and rejoices in sneh counties as Wankiaknm, casting 31 votes; Kihcfcitat, casting 77, and Yakima 70. This miserable little desolate scrapnt is seriously proposed to bring in as a State, and already matters have gone so far that on the 6th of next month an election is to be held there for delegates to frame a con stitution It is as well tor tbe people of tbe United States to know that there' ex ists a deliberate purpose on the part of the radical leaders to resist any popular ver dict against them, by bringing in enough rottenborongh States to enable them, in conjunction with those they now have, to defy and ontvote the genuine constituencies of the great States. Mr. J. J. Taon. The many friends of this gentleman in Atlanta and elsewhere will be pleased to learn that he is rapidly recovering from his late severe and protracted spell of sick ness, which has kept him almost constant ly io bed for the past three months. Thongh weak and mnch reduced in flesh, Mr. Toon is now able to sit np, and walk moderate ly.—A. Sun “Guilty or not guilty Y said a judge to a native of tbs Emerald Isle. 'Jnst <ie yer honor plaxes. It’s not the like o’me to dictate to yonr honor’s wor ship,” was the reply. The Philadelphia Age is surprised that at a recent entertainment at the Gnberna- torial mansion in South Carolina, the car pet-bag Governor handed a negro wench np to the head of the table, before all the white women in the room. Bnt the chances arc that if the editor of the Age had been compelled to hand one of that crowd of women to the table, he wonld have chosen the negro wench himself.—Courier Jour nal. The Retired Conductor.—“Gris ” of the CineionatLTimes, relates of an old con ductor promoted to train dispatcher as fol lows: Habit was exeeed.ngly strong with the ex-condnetor. As he sat in the office be wonld start every time he heard a bell riDg and yell: “All aboard.” Then he would go abont the office at intervals and try to collect fore from his assistants. We dropped in casually one afternoon and Bil ly wanted to know if we had a pass. _ He conld’nt get accustomed to his new position at all. He pined to be again on the road. One day he begged the boys pnt him through a collision, which they did to his entire gratification. They tore his clothes nearly off! blacked his eyes, broke a kero sene lamp over his head, and piled a red hot stove on top oi him. Billy was in an ecstacy of delight, and declared he had’nt enjojed himself so mnch since he had a bile. The Greatest Motive Power ih the World- Printer’s Ink. Of late years the attention of mechanics and men of science has been tamed to the discovery of somo power at once more eco nomical and powerful than eteam. Attempts partially successful have been made to use hot air, compressed cold air, ete, and look ing back at the achievements of the past, and the rapid strides which are being made in every branch of science, we are not pre pared to assert that perfection has been at tained. The merchant and man of business have but little time to devote to the examination of the principle involved in the various schemes, and are mainly interested in know ing whit power wiU most rapidly advance their pecuniary interests. We think there can he no donbt on that point—the power of the press, decidedly. The press is the great mother that pashes men to success most economically. Advertisements, not alone in the bnsy season, bnt in the doll times—pers'stent and enlightened adver tisements—have never failed to effect the purpose designed.—Columbus Enquirer. The Picayune says the sugar cane has come ont very slowly, the cool northers checking its growth; bnt it is now promis ing. The acreage has been increased some twcnty.five per cent over lsst year, and with a good season, the yield of sogsr will probably be 125,000 hhds. Celery is pronounced a cure for nerv ousness. him. If where it-is, leave then', ut than with backs. Such is 11 am, as you know, The Bridgeport (Conn.) Farmer sajs it knows of some Radicals in that section who are heartily sick of the programme marked ont for them by their leaders, and which they nre required to follow. The foreign element is particularly dissatisfied with it, as it discriminates in favor of native ignor ance as against foreign intelligence. The Late Bishop Soule.—In the ad dress’of the Bishops, read by Dr. Wight- man, of -Sonth Carolina, before the Metho dist General conference at Memphis, were the following remarks opon the character of the late Bishop Sonle: With profound emotion we annonneed to yon that since yonr last session onr venera ble and beloved colleague, Joshua Soule, has departed this life. His death occur red in Nashville, Tenn-, March 6,1867, in the 87th year of Lis life, and the 70th year of his itineaant ministry. In many respects Bishop Sonle was a remarkable mac. At the time of his death he was probably tbe oldest traveRing preacher in America, if not in the world; and was tbns the connecting link between the Methodism of Wesley and Ashnry and that of the present day. Throagbout his whole minis terial life he was eminently devoted to 6od, and employed exclusively to the service of the Church; often filling positions of the highest responsibility, and always honora bly and useful. His mind was clear and vigorous, his deportment dignified, and his whole coarse was marked by consistency, parity, and nnswerving fidelity to princi ple. Whether viewed as a man, a Chris tian or minister, or as filling the highest office in the Chnrch tor forty-three years, his character deserves to be held in the highest esteem, and his memory to be per petuated in tho history of the Church.— We devoutly thank God for sneh a man, and for the gifts and grace which rendered his eventful life so useful, his declining years and closing days so beautifully serene, so snblimcly triumphant. 1 Ex-Governor Henry a Wise is spoken o as the candidate of the Radical Working' men tor Mayor of Richmond. He indors es their movement, and he also says that he “goes tor” aU tho rights of women ex cept the ballot. Is it allowable for a temperance man to be cordial to his friends. TELEGRAPHIC. Reported for tbe Tri-Weekly Conner. Washington, May £0.—In the Senate the Pacific Railroad bill was placed on the cullen der next to the hill reducing taxation. The Senate was fillibnstering over it until ad journment. The House Committee on Pacific Railroad considered the Trans-CantinentaL 'No result The Clerk of the Committee says they are fighting among themselves, and the result will be they will get no road at aU. Washington, May 23.—Among the bills introduced was one for the improvement of ’Sj tho Cnmbcriand river. Referred; one to ex empt internal and coastwise vessels from ton nage duties. Passed; bill enforcing the Fif teenth Amendment, Non-concurred in. New Youk. May 23.—The Executive offi cers of the Adams Express Company here !« state that the report of tho sale of the L; State Road of Georgia to the Adams R Express Company is wholly without founds] tion. Washington, May 23.—In the Senate an effort to correct the Journal by erasing the sixteenth section failed. Resumed the consideration of appropriation ’ ? - bills, and are in session to-night. An amendment allowing males and females like pay for like work, adopted. In the House the biU providing for the ap pointment of an examiner of claims and three additional clerks for tho State Department, j passed. The House resumed appropriations. At 3 o’clock the vote was taken on tho seating of Newsham from Louisiana. He was sworn in by a vote of 95 to 77. Judd moved to sus pend the rules that he might introduce, and have passed a biU to rednee the duties on mports, as follows: On syrups, molasses and all sugars, and on salt, 33J per cent; on coffee and tea 20 per cent; on pig and scrap tron, 221 P cr cent -— The motioh was rejected—yeas 102; nays 82 less than two-thirds voting in the negative New York, May 23—The Albany Argus, of this morning makes the Democratic ma jor ty in the State of New York on the judg es ticket 88,000. Madrid, May 23.—In the Cortz on Satur day the Deputy questioned the Ministry con cerning the reported concerted action ol Great Britain and the United States for the mitigation of the alledged Cuban horrors.^ Moret replied, while such rumors have beer- extensively published, the Government without official information on the snbjl While the matter was before the Deputies, wished to remind them that DeRodas, Cap 1 Gen. of Cuba had repeatedly invited Amei: can commissioners to visit Cuba and exomin intotheso alleged cruelties, and see for them selves how utterly false the stories were. London, May 23.—Late dispatches Bombay state that nearly half of the < now shipped from India ports, goes by of Suez Canal. Only a small portion howe er, reaches England. But cotton so ship; goes to various ports on the Med i to ran can- Liverpool, May 23.—New Iron clad, Ab inia, on trial trip, made 15 knots an hour. Manchestesteh, May 23.—The Cottoi Supply Association have congratulated Brazilian Minister upon the increased Auction of the Santos cotton.