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THE CONSTITUTION, BY W. A. HEMPHILL & CO. I. W. AVERT, Editor. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION! WXEELY CONSTITUTION, per annum... $300 ______ six months .... 900 DAH*Y CONSTITUTION, per annum 1000 six months600 one month..,.-.... 100 So name entered on the subscription book c jar ADVB&njEMESTS inserts! at one dol- ygg^^'iag^gsYSasgtt ^j^SS^ wlMsU,0 ' ad ATLANTA, GEORGIA, APRIL 19. The Radical Organ Quotes esty.” •;»>{ ‘Hon- A Candid Answeb.—With sincere re gret we are forced to admit that Georgia has become quite a favorite resort and as- sylnm for knaves of every description [ Constitution. “An honest confession Is good for the soul."—Radical Organ. The Radical organ should practice the “honesty” It professes. The knaves al luded to by Tns Constitution are “ polit ical adventurers " and “ buccaneers ” of the Radical party; bad men in high places of trust; to such as these Georgia has been been forced to grant temporary asylnm. Even the “honest” processor garbling ex tracts to salt the tastes of its readers, will not assist the organ in hiding unpleasant and demonstrable facta. Georgia Bonds Baying Votes Against tko Bingham Amend ment. The Washington correspondent of the Richmond Despatch, telegraph the follow ing to that paper: RAILROAD BONDS ENDORSED BY TIIE STATE OP GEORGIA HAVE BEEN OFFERED TO SECURE VOTES AGAINST TOE BINGHAM AMEND MENT TO THE GEORGIA BILL. IN ONE INSTANCE THIS CAN BE PROVED. The Senator who wns to have been influenced has declared bis intention to vote for the amendment, and the party proposing the trade was promptly exposed to the friends of the Amendment. This is clear and definite. The charge is made in unmlstakcablc words. No one doubts that there are con gressmen who will take bonds or anything else valuable for their votes. The cadet ship matter is fresh; and no one in Georgia doubts for a moment that Georgia State money is being used in Washington to in duce Congress to continue in power the Radical dynasty now ruling the State. Afraid to submit to an election, the Bul lock faction seeks congressional aid to over ride the very Radical constitution they made, and deprive Georgians of the right of election next fall. Tho despatch quoted shows how our own means arc coolly used to our damage. Badical Falsehoods. Hamilton, furtliersays that the “ Repub-' lican party would never outlive the odium Of a total abandonment of the colored race In the South.” The connection of this state ment, with the defeat' of the Bingham Amendment, this sage Senator will have to explain. But under any state of things, if the colored race is to be in constant pupil age to Radicalism, the fact is a stunning condemnation to the elevation of the blacks to political privilege. And if the Southern white people are to be perpetually cruci fied that Radicalism may keep Cuflee above bis true position, the Radicals had better quit their cant about humanity, and openly own that they never expect the negro to be capable, but they mean to use him just as a means to keep themselves in power. But the feature most conspicuous in this fellow’s speech, as in all the tirades of his ilk, is that Tax Repuclican Party seems the grand aim of their talk. The interests of the country are nothing; Right is noth ing; Law Is nothing; hot the party and its preservation are all. When the future historian shall wearily trudge through the interminable sea of Radical utterance that belongs to this era of reconstruction, ho will find that the weal of the country was never the object of these Radical saints; hat that faction and its perpetuity were brazenly sought' at the expense of everything worth having. Hamilton’s concluding blast that the Southern people were the most “blood thirsty set of cut-tbroatsGod ever permitted on this foot-stool,” while it shows him, as a ‘‘John Bice—Party Warfare our astonishment to Coicnunieateil i • with which men of Editor Constitution; Under this Life Insurance. It has often excited see the recklessness good sense in other matters invest in Life Insurance. This basin ess, all over the civilized world, has assumed the most immense propor tions, and the entire country, through all its cities, towns, and interior, is occupied by agents, embracing some of the best and some of the meanest of men; some of the re p rescn tati T o, are asked to ostracise him highest rank, as regards position, talents ml ] house of which he is the head!” and birth, and some of the lowest in all This being news to me, a citizen and busi- respects. The very intermixture referred ness man, I would he_ glad if the Cap- to points at the most urgent necessity for tain’s paper would furnish the proof of its the people to scrutinize, test, examine, dis- charge. I dislike “bare assertion.” Whew R is rumored that the Right Hon. Chichester Fortesaue, Chief Secretary for TUISD DAT. Dr. Love moved that-tho autographs of Ireland, has been elevated to a peerage, ! CTrXrvwi and will soon replace Earl Spencer as t“ c “ b<!rs J°! f ^ A»ociatton bo proser>cd Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Palmer will | ln J^e arelnves. Adopted. replace tho former as Irish Secretary, and Lord Hatberley becomes Lord Selborne. Dr. Wright moved that a committeo of three for this Association be appointed to tion, “ Captain BJodgett’s ” paper of yester day morning, emphatically charges that be cause Mr. Jno. Rice, President of the Geor gia National Bank, of this city, is in Wash ington laboring vigorously for the defeat of the Bingham Amendment, the business „ penuon hj ine licginamrc oi ukil oum-, i „ - . .—.. , , ;tt« ji men of Atlanta, of whom he is an honored declare that the passage of a ten hourlaw ^oChair appo> Btc( l, as said committee, • - - 1 ^-s. Wright, Blackshcar and Hinkle. The following resolutions were also Vessels passing and' repassing ' firom report upon tho resolution passed by tho Liverpool to New York, on the Northern American Medical Association,- at its last track, still keep watch for the City of meeting in Now Orleans, regarding the: . ... . . license of practitioners of . medicine. The manufacturers of Massachusetts, in .... * i petition to the Legislature of that State, 1 " at q?u tC nl Jeclare that the passage of a ten hour law I ^ ,, would greatly embarass the industrial in- Urs. Wright, Blackshcar and Hinkle. terests of the Commonwealth. Efforts are being made in India to pnt a adopted: stop to the ancient custom of destroying The appointment of a board of five mom- female infants, and a bill for this purpose | f or the examination of those proposing is now before the Council of Calcutta. So | to entcr on ^ practice . Alin, that the re- month in 1869, and 13 per cent oTcr 1868.1 Cotton is the same as last yean Haber- 1 , F^thoGalrasUa N^ dashery increased 10 per cent; earthenware, ^-^ ^ iJXt/SUiei 5; hardware. 12; linen yarn, 18; linen «■— —>* *-—■--* • I™” goods, 6; machinery, 21; iron, 26 (largely taken for India); sick manufactures, 7. Woolen manufactures augmented 2 per cent, while yarns fell off 9. In tho imports wheat arrivals, which wero chiefly from tho United Stctes and Russia, increased 11 per cent. Each of those countries sent 1,200,- 000 cwt Barley'and Indian corn arrivals decreased. Cotton receipts wero 794,102 cwt, or more than double tlioso of January, I860, when they were but366,001. THE MESSAGE- Uow tell her that I forgive? T ^d^ 0 ^o‘ir g r hvc ucd that day - I^Vnow how sudden Would I had forjt jvcn j rot after all “l‘k2o h WthM “ d *■“ * rl9CI,> criminate, before insuring. Nor should this vitally important investment be made the strength of personal partiality or friendship for the agent. The company is the guardian we have to select for our fam ilies, or our own old age, not the agent. “Bat I have confidence in my friend, and be tells me that his company is the best.” Perhaps he thinks so; perhaps the com mission dependant npon yonr insurance makes him pretend to think so. Zook at the facts. Demand proof. Ask for tie re cord. Not such proofs as he may present in bis own figures and calculations; hut _ tho evidenced Andin -what manner is it being done? And by whom? And when? It will not do for'so veracious a paper as that of the “ Captain’s ” to have a statement of its own unsupported when the proof is called for. Military men always support their batteries! If Mr. Jno. Rice, President of the Geor gia National Bank,-of .'this-city, has leisure from his legitimate business of Banking for the commercial men of Atlanta, to remain a month or two at Washington, and in com- thousand iaDy with certain negroes of the Georgia years. Dr. Lancaster, legislature, “ the Captain,5 His Excellency- the Governor, et id omnegenus, for the pur pose of using his great personal influence Tho Latest News. Gov. Morton's speech on tho Georgia or too applicant snau do aae-1 ^ in f avor of cmpowcr ; n g too President rtuuejimnoowusniuuu. i - , * . ® proper gene , * I to send troops South to suppress, disorders, Cliief Engineer Meriwether, of the that he is twenty-one years of a o e » ™ without waiting for tho coll of Governors Memphis- and Charl«ston railroad, expects studied medicine three years, one of which or & pre tty well understood to start a corps of engineers, about the lQtM in some regular organized college whoso I. t tho President who of May, on a preliminary survey ol a route curriculum ombrAccs adequate facilities for , ;ih - <• , j i n, e I^atic, demonstrative *?d hospiUcal clin-1d^VhYm.a'ndthatheshould ^m£^ntev e nf C £ ) n me thn 1 u a ^ml quirements of tho applicant shall bo adc- S n o?oScgirU“ ,t fUd. ten ‘“Hquatoproof - -S- such as are official. Find out fhejertend todefeatthe “Bingham Amendment,” Ido of expenses; the per cent.’of dividends; not'sfe what the husmess men of Atlanta the amount of outstanding -obligations; have to do with .t, so long as their momed the assets, In cash or cial list showing how if;anjJ ; jnoffl- company stands ruffianly slanderer of a noble people, yet ers, for, of course, every one wants the best. falls harmless to the ground in the light of the statement that he was born, raised, and had voluntarily lived' all his life among such a people. Decoration of Confederate Sol diers’ Graves. Active preparations are going on In the cities of the South for the decoration of the graves of those who died in the cause of the Confederacy during the war. We notice in our exchanges that the memorial celebration of this year, promises to eclipse any thing of the kind yet. witnessed, and a touching emulation is apparent all over the country among the various associations, to excel each other in making this occa sion one of deep and memorable interest. In this city, the 10th of May has been designated for the anniversary. Although nothing has yet publicly transpired as to the steps taken by our citizens in the coming celebration, yet wc feel assured that the ladies of Atlanta, will not suffer their fair sisters in other cities to excel , „ , _ . , them in their devotion to the memory of havo faiIel1 ' 15 ut y el j wc are convinced, the Southern dead; and that the emblems and our judgment is backed by tho well of immortality and the garlands ot faith matured opinions of some of the ablest and affection will be strewn as thickly men of the age, that a prudently managed overtheturf of tbdso who sleep in the and proper system of Life Insurance, is the Cemetery of Atlanta, as any other spot of safest of ail financial institutions, for ob- Southern soil, rendered sacred by their ashes, and hallowed by the fair hand3 of the women of the South. transactions in the Bank are properly con ducted! And I protcst that they have not been asked to ostracise him, and call for .. (nhor butter in all these respecters compared with oth- evidence to tho contrary! Will “Captain qJ," eral George P. Buell, late In com Blodgett’s ” paper givcRto tho public?^ man(1 at Jefferson, Texas, has been tender ed the position or engineer on tho Mem phis and El Paso Railroad tersville toajwinton the Alabama and I retraction r (rebels had deceived him and that he should * toLp.™ ihsrcSuSrssSwn om starvation in ten senes of ouctics, embracing not less than mutua , rcqucst of tho partics contested, er, tho eminent coroner threo distinct subjects, which shall be pro- . ..-tended the timo for taking testimony of Middlesex, said a few d*ys ago, wheei sented at tho opening of the next meeting, . 0 ~ Connor contested election holding an inquest on a poor old fnmate of and taken up at tho pleasure of tho Asso- ® ‘ h .° contcStcd olecUon St. Pancras work-house, aged seventy-two, L iation - ' case to September 1st. , who died from oxhaustiorg eonsequent on d" ' lnl - n _... ft i so .dooted—That tho A novel question has been submitted to being allowed no food from 5 p. m. to 8 a. EcsoluUon. VHJMSO^ adopted inat too th() HouS() Forcl „ n Affairs Committee, by m, that lie would infinitely nrefer a jaU to committee on credentials be authorized to John w Caldwell, formerly United States awork-house. investisatetho list of members and roport Bl;i Mr. Caldwell has been It is madness to say that one company is as good as another; for,of the ono-hundred and fifty companies in Amerie*,there are no two whose figures are" precisely, the same on any point In their history- jf-iuse, ex amine, compare, before you are led by the voluble agent to make, this all "Important investment, upon whihh may hang the only dependence of the loved ones around you, of your own declining ige: We believe, that to a certain extent, no man can make a better investment in the world. It is an Investment- which every one should make, whether rich or poor. And there are companies in the land whose afiairs aro administered so ably and con scientiously as to yield a first-class busi ness investment, as safe nnd profitable de positories of money,oven if they furnished no insurance. The example of the Royal Albert, the International and the Albion, of England, and of several in America, which have failed, should teach cafe and prudence. Remember that three-fourths of the companies that have been chartered Wilson’s false assertion “ that there have been more assassinations in the South since Lee’s surrender, than there were men lost in any batUe during the four years of the war,” and which the individual named Hamilton, of Texas, reiterated In the Senate, with additional falsehood .at tached, that Wilson’s estimate was far be low the truth, is another fact proving the unscrupulous and vindictive hate with which the people of the Southern States are pursued by a ravenous crew of party wolves, whose only desire is to revel ln the downfall of the nation. Such creatures as Hamilton, whose de- plorablo antecedents arc too well known to need repetition, and.lwhosc character nlone is a sufficient antidote against the venom of his blatant tongue, aim to achieve an unenviable eminence in cor ruption nnd anarchy, by feeding the fires of Badical fanaticism against the South, and by a professed famiarility with the country and Its people, seek to veil their criminal Intentions under the guise of statistical proof. Safe under the shadow of the National Capital, he cries “persecu tion” and “ blood,” and true to the Jesuiti cal motto adopted by the Radical autocra cy, that tho “end hallows the means,”no falsehood, however great, no means, how ever dastardly, no subterfuge, however contemptible it may he, Is allowed to escape from being pressed into tho service of these defenders and abettors of ruin and anarchy. Hamilton said: He knew the people there (tho South.) He was horn and raised amoDg them; had lived all his life among them, and they were the most blood-thirsty set of cut-throats God had ever permitted on his foot-stool. He is not the first renegade who has turned npon and defiled the country that bore him; his are not the only beastly fcngs that have rend the hand that nour ished and protected in former days of peace and prosperity. After this triumphant and patriotic ef fort on the part of the man Hamilton, it is stated that Governor Bullock, of Georgia, and General Clark, of Texas, shook hands with him. “ Wo are a band of brothers,” etc, etc. No doubt the public recognition and hearty shake of the hand by such un blemished patriots and disinterested friends of the people as Bullock & Company have been, must havo been exceedingly flatter ing to the great Texan Annihilator. And the Radical organ of this city calls It an “able speech! ” So is Lucifer’s ad- dress to the fallen spirits an “able speech,” but the spirit It Inculcates Is certainly not commendable. _ t± ■ . ■ - Have the People any Bights? Under this caption, the Charleston Cou rier lias an ably written leader denouncing the destructive and law-defying policy of the Radical party, and, in illustration, cites the case of Louisiana, where, for two years past, the five Representatives to Congress to which that State is entitled have been kept from assuming the posts to which the voice of the people called them, and all of this in tho face of majorities given them, in lawful ballot, of from five to twelve thous and votes. The reason of this ontrageous proceeding is that the gentlemen elected were conservative, their defeated oppo nents Radicals. Baker (Radical) Chairman of the State Board of Registration, stated, in the pres ence of tho entire Board, that it was the intention of the majority to show no faver to the Democratic palty, and, to use his own expression, “to crush them out if pos- , _ , , . .... . _ , affile.” And, again, at the conference of cultural Fair Association mil have a grand the campaign committees or the two par- horticultural exhibition at the Fair Grounds ties to secure, during the canvass, peace in Augusta on the 11th day of May, to con- and harmony, General McMillan, one of sistof plants and flowers, cut flowers, fruits the Radical leaders, openly declared that, and vegetables. Rev. Charles W. Howard Tho Bidiculosity of Radicalism. vious reasons. The examples of the tens of thousands of policy-holders, whose hopes wero disappointed, and the prospects of many of whom were blasted by the fail ures referred to, should teach the people caution and circumspection. A life com pany may operate for years after it becomes insolvent, according to tho standard; and there is nothing more certain, as the re cords of the insurance departments show, than that a large number are now on the road to ruin. No sane man who has access to the records of many of those companies would invest a dollar for any consideration, These facts should always be demanded and proven. The outstanding obligation the amount of assets; how much cash; how much in notes of band; bow It is invested the per cent, of expenses; the per cent, of dividends; the per cent, paid to stockhold ers ; the commission paid to general agents the per cent, of mortality experienced; copy of the charter. Augusta Horticultural Exhibition. Tho Cotton States Mechanics’ and Agri- The Case of Georgia. From the Chicago Trihuno (Radical) 1 Without dissenting from tho wisdom and patriotism which have required that every State heretofore readmitted into the Union should first have elected State offi cers and- Representatives in Congress of the Republican pattern, we trust we may. be permitted, without mortal offense to the little people who make their living out of politics, to doubt whether its interests, or those of the country, require that Geor gia, which has Republican officers, now, should be kept out of the Union for fear she may elect Democratic officers hereafter. This is the exact quality of the milk in the Georgia cocoanut, which is now being tossed from the House to the Senate ant: back. ''■» . ■ Mr. Butler says, ln substance: “ Tie the present State officers into their chairs for three years to come, which Is nearly three years longer than the people elected them to serve, and I am ready to readmit the State. IT not. I go for keeping the State out of the Union until it votes Radical on the negro and reconstruction questions.” And Mr. Sumner echoes the same sentiment in the Senate.' As there is netbing left of these questions now except the question of the readmission of Georgia, everything else having been settled by.the 15th Amend ment, General Butler’s motion is not to let Georgia come in until she hersell is willing to vote that she ought to be kept out. We confess that if this be sound statesmanship, or decent workmanship, or anything else that is “ship-shape,” wo fall to seethe sense of it. It looks as if Butler and Sumner re garded the reconstruction question as the English lawyer did the chancery suit which he beqnathed to his son, as a thing that was never to he settled, decided, or compromised, but which, having made the fortuncxif himself, his father, and his grand father, he desired to see handed down to his grandson, and grand-grandson, as long as any heirs mate remained in the family to attend to it. . ... ; The Tcadmlssion of Georgia will restore the Union, and so far as the mission of the Republican patty was to restore the Union, its mission is ended. Bnt we have invet- The General Conference of the Metho- dlst Episcopal Church, South, meets at] safe in that section. _ | in Americas on tho 2d Wednesday in April, ^ cn> - 1 A movement will he made in the Ways and Means Committeo of tho House fixing the income tax at two and a half per cent. Memphis, May 4. There will be about 400 delegates present. Georgia News. The. Americas Republican says fruit is| Documentary evidonco bcforo.ths House Investigating Committed give basis for sliow- - A new Presbyterian Church is to be built ing that the Howard University had been In Newnan. * made a very profitable speculation through The Macon Firemen are drilling for al«°. unauthorized use of ewvenmwBtr fmids race and tournament. which belonged to the Frecdmcn s Bureau. _ . , , The rebutting testimony in tho McFar- A lodge of Good Templar^ to 1m known land casCj to ^ comme ncod by the prose- Orleans and the Morgan Lino of Steamers, I ^li^nvon FVidav^ast 27 ’ or 8 an,zed in C ution probably on Monday, may place from interfering with them, andhave com- Atoany onrriaay rase. quite a different aspect upon tho case. It menccd {fork, Tho Savanna’ll News states that the Geor- j s Ported that they will prove that Rich- There are one hundred and fifty-seven gia Teachers' Association meets in Savan- ^ , i ctter to Mrs. McFarland, already scholars now^attending schools in Dirt | Sah during the first week in May. Sushed w« writto two mon& after a The Augusta Constitutionalist chronicles virtual separation had taken place between .. Late News. The Chattanooga Railroad Compaby has succeeded in enjoining the city of New Town Valley, Ga. In proportion to the nnnnlatinn wo will wairer that this beats- zne AUgn3UL^unsiuuLiuinuiaui;u.ui.ioi» virtual separation naa ian.cn pmeo any It rip of 'count ry W in°G corg ia. 3 There death of Mr. J. P. Force, an old and Mr .a„d Mrs. McFarland; that a paper con- are five good schools In this Valley. respected citizen of that city. taining articles of separation had ; been The Rome fire department officers have h e Americus Bepnblican states: In the drawn up and signed by both parties in JJn passed a resolution obliging both the fire I Zander case of Jowers & Windsor vs OH- presence of five witnesses, and that thesi companies to try their engines andtoseat Te r, the jury awarded tho plaintiffs four I w ;tnesscs will now bo placed upon the least rfnee a month. thousand dollars damages. stand to nrovo ik win Nellie Patterson, a colored woman 103 In tho Senate, Mr. Wilson asked that tore she wHl ld “ H W |. U b " d years old, was burned to death near Isom- time be agreed upon for a vote on tho Gcor- Hon. R. II. Whitely, Senator elect, ar-| ville,Ga M on Friday. So says the Americas g ; a bill, and said the country was rapidly rived at hornet in Bainbridgej Ga^ on the I Republican. I coming to tho opinion that Congress is too lOtbinst. The Albany News says the Companions 1 slow in the transaction of public business. He is at present confined to his toon I of Albany Chapter, No. 16, R. A. 1L are Tho President is represented by his friends with rheumatism. ' making extensive arrangements for the to he opposed to delaying further the nd- The gardens in and around Bainbridge, reunion and festival next week. mission of Georgia, but is anxious that tho Ga,’ are very fine indeed. 1 1 a ----- le corn prospect in Pi iod. ah the Toledo, Ohio, Cuuk.vmivubi uw-i scare oi vteorxia, vtuv uaoww*. *»>-"* i a——— — , - trlct, Dr. Peck, Radical, is elected to Con- that city for tho past two years, has moved whole State out any longer, gress by a majority of 2,787 over Mr. Hill, to Savannah. Tho Committeo on Military Affairs will the Democratic candidate. This majority , r „ onri nn , nn - has ca ii for a meeting finish Logan’s army hill at tho next mcet- was the result of running an independent : on^hl mbInrtant, to organic ing. They havo decided to make numerous l that Mr Sam hc Young Mcn’s Eopubllcan CentraTciub changes, but will leave tho pay table as Distributing Plow which is said to be the thing? Discussion on the tariff bill will occupy most ingenious machine of the day. It The Newnan Herald says: Mr. Oglesby, all summer. . distributes anything. It will drill wheat, agent for The Constitution, who recently Dr. Bliss, when before Butler’s^ suo cotton seed, oats, or any grain, and it is passed through the counties of Bartow, committeo some time ago, testified that he claimed that it will plant corn. As a gu- pi 0 yd, Polk, Paulding, Carroll and Camp- knew of no attempt at bribing or otherwise ano distributor it is a most excellent ma- bell, informed us that the wheat crop in all influencing members of Congress or other chine. A patent is applied for by Mr. | the counties named, is very promising. officers of tho Government *phe News states that at a meeting of the Mr. Riddle has apologized to the Supreme Tosco eachncw-cla-1 scml as Beaten, Anil to question if there be A tokofl for her amour the rest, Or a word of love from me 1 Lust night X would have sent It to her, But just as I stooped to speak In the dying baby’s car—ho died I The word wero easy to take.. And I know that if still the sea goes over Her upturned faoe by tho wreck. She questions each white, white face that smiles From, the ships above that break I But tho ships at onr wharves—I look them over— They seem so strong and so gay. Hot one will ever go down X know. And the y ears aro slipping away I MOLLIE K. HOOBK. THE BEAUTIFUL LAND. Thera are brighter skies than theso l know; ‘ Land, where no shadows lie— Fields when immortal flowers bloom. And founts that are never dry: Thera are dooms where tho stars aro never dim. When tho moon forever gleams. And the music breath or the radiant hills Swoons over tho crystal streams— For often I have caught in tho time o( sleep, A gorgeous glimpse of tho hidden -'cop. Away to too land of dreams. "When night lets down her pall of mist On slender cords of air. And tho purplo shadows of dying day Aro teeming everywhere; While unseen fslrles chant a lay In tho lllly’s silver cells. And the solemn voleoor the harmless winds Breaks up the dreary fells: I know by the cry of my soul within, TUcro's a place where they shut the gates or sin. And the God of glory dwells. Tho wall of the wind, tho river’s voice, Tho arch of western hill. The beauty spread on the living earth, in slumbrous twilight, stills The yearnings or each human heart. Fora boll A higher HI Hearing tb« wui uivuu i Ah. suroUicrc mnst be a land, W here the whito-robed millions ransomed stand Chanting their songs sublime. GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. SENATE. . Monday, April 18,1870. Pursuant to adjournment the Senate was called to order at 12 si. by President Con- Prayerhy Wesley Prottyman. On motion of Mr. BROCK tbeSenatc ad journed until 12 o’clock m. on Wednesday next. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Monday, April IS, 1870. Pursuant to adjournment, tho House of Representatives, at 12 M., wa» called to or der by Speaket R. L. McWhorter. Prayer by Rev. W. P. Harrison. DARNELL, of Pickens, moved tint tho House take a recess until 12 u, Wednesday next. SCOTT, of Floyd, suggested that there wero some new members present,* who should be sworn first. The Speaker replied that he would rule that they were entitled to pay from the first day of the session. Mr. SCOTT—Pay is not the object of tho members on this side of tho House, though it may be tho consideration on tho other side. The motion to adjonm prevailed; tho Republicans voting almost unanimously for it—the Democrats not voting. Senator Hamilton, of Texas, whose ad mission into Congress was hastened that he might help kill the Bingham Amend snent, has shown this fact by making most bitter speech against it. Some of his statements aro so broadly preposterous as to carry their own antidote. It seems that our patriotic Governor paid him pert the purchase money of the blast with a email installment of thanks on the spot. Hamilton declared that the adoption of the Bingham amendment would be Iks death l-nell of the Bepnblican party in every Southern'State.” If this wild conclusion, Instead of being a simple fusillade of illog ical fustian, to a truth, and the Republican party can be killed where it has so ingeni ously labored foT five years by the mere tact of permitting Georgia to have an elec tion as allowed by onr Radical Constitu tion, then indeed has Radicalism labored to little purpose, and deserves to have Its “death knell” sounded. Verily, Radicalism to folly, and Hamilton is its prophet. Bnt Hamilton don’t believe what he juid. It was necessary to scare the party* andjie yelled “wolf” lustily,but ridicu lously- His statement that since Lee’s surrender the political murders in the Sonth exceed ed the number killed in any one battle of •the war, to another falsehood, so preposter ous as to deceive none, even the most cred ulous. With rigid circumstantiality have -the Southern disorders been detailed, while hundreds that never occurred have been -fabricated. Yet more murders occur ln one large Northern city in one month than any Southern State in twelve months. nnless “the entire policy of the Radical party was accepted, nothing could he dona in the interests of peace and order.” “To crush them out, if possible”—aye, that’s the word l What rights have the people of the South, that Radicalism is bound to respect? If they will not bend, break them. “Unless they accept the en tire policy of the Radical party,” why, let anarchy reign supreme; let loose the dogs of war and rapine; keep the old fires of Smlthflcld trimmed and burning, and for get not tho liberal spirit of the Salem witch-burners., “Who Is afraid!” cries every petty satrap, every cros3-road whip per-in- of the great Radical hierarchy, ho flourishes his knout in tbo face of out raged law, and violated humanity. Sure enough, why should they he. Trifling oc currences, no larger than a gnat, compared to the enormous villainies daily practiced in tho so-called loyal States, arc inflated by hired scribblers to the size of elephants, and thus dispatched and retailed for the edification of horrified readers, North of Mason and Dixon’s line. Cries of fraud and murder; of lawlessness and rebellion, are pealed into the ears of a Congress, ever ready to uphold the wicked strong at the expense of the Innocent weak. The bayonet and the sword aro tho only alternatives given to tho people, as a choice between outrage and submission. Valid elections are set aside by a simple stroke of some autocratic pen. Bad men are hoisted, at the point of the bayonet into posts of honor, profit and power, against tho ex pressed will of a majority of the people; and expressions of ill-will, and demands for justice on the part of tho people, are chronicled as the mutterings of incipient rebellion, and held up as evidences of their incurable insubordination, and the necessity of further Radical legislation, in order to “crush them out.” Richard Everett, a colored man who has taken the stump In Louisiana against the rule and ruin party, and who has evidently fallen very far from Radical grace, uses the following argument In favor of peace, law and order: u jjy argument is In the first view, to protect onr friends at home, cad try to live together as a band of citizens and people has been selected as the orator of the day. Tho editor of The Constitution acknowl edges tho receipt of a special invitation from Mr. E. H.-Gray, the Secretary of tho Association, and will try to bo represented Hon. t?) Richard H. Whitely. Editor Constitution: This loyal individ ual is still in Wasbingtob, trying to get in as United States Senator from Georgia. I propose to give your readers a short ac count of his military career during the erate and profound contempt lor that ob structionist class of mere partisans who, having made something out of the war, would fain keep rebel animosities and dis content alive, under the apprehension that, when they are mustered out from service against the rebels, they will be discharged from political life altogether, as having no capacity for anything else. Such politi cians rightly suspect their incapacity and the people should take them at their word. When the reconstruction question has, like the negro question, been settled, as it will be by the admission of Georgia, the chief duty of the Republican party will bo to restore the prosperity of the country from the low stage to which it was brought by the devastation and destruction of. the war, and, at the same time, to enhance. the national credit, not only by a judicious and Wise revenue system, but by absolute con cord and revived and enlarged commerce, and fraternal feeling between the sections lately at war. The pretence that the rebel States are a smouldering volcano If a dead ly assault upon the national credit, as well as a political untruth. It i3 the first duty of the Republican party to stamp under foot every misguided effort to keep alive the animosities of the war, now that the ballot to fiifaly and irrevocably secured to the emancipated race. Suppose the Democrats carry the next election in Georgia, as they arc very likely to do, under the present provocation, what harm will result to the State, or what rea son will that fact, if it could be predicted, furnish why the State should not now be readmitted? None whatever! We know the silent omnipotence of the ballot to se cure kind treatment by the politicians to wards those who need it. what If, in the » wa - vesterdav commenced in the The News states that at a meeting oi me air. inuaie nas apoiogu^xne ^muuan i»nuer says *. Aiuerman United States^Circuit CoS?™of^New York Fire Department of Savannah, it was re- Court for attempting to foist on it Aaron lias been elected Tax Collector or Brooks by the English shareholders of the Erie solved to issue special *° Alpeoria Bradley. Bail way, against Gould, Fisk and Lane^of | Chiefs ofp^partmente ^Charle.ton^ An- j — -J— Hip Tfrlp direction -1 gusto, Macon, Atlanta, Rome and Colum- T?W. Grimes, Esq., will deliver the ad- bus. to join in their annual May-Day cele- dresson the occasion of the soldiers’ grave | bration. decoration, in Columbus, Ga., on the 26th. Milwaukee received 20,000,000 bushels . grain in 1S69. The Augusta Constitutionalist says: We The wheat crop in upper East Tennessee A S Al_ _ A tl.. ,1nn/ T 1itOK 1 - .... ” * - national military police lor tne &ontn “ on Wednesday night from the injuries no t a direct result of the position of the preserve law andoidcr. He appeared received ^ ^ sun in regard to them; the French bean favor tho new Radical policy, which is|received. I turosfrom riglrt toleftl thehop from left with his own experience... a correspondent of the Rural New Yorker 4. fUllnnrinrr nnnpIllsifinC! “late unpleasantness,” as I had the honor .wards those who need it. wnat ii, in me the same command State at large, the Democrate, former slave of serving four years in the same command with him. Early in 1861, he wps a rabid secession ist, and volunteered in the“ Hardee Rifles,” Capt. Hugh M. King, from Bainbridge, Ga, which was company H,6th regiment Geor gia Volunteers. He soon distinguished himself (?) by seeking the position of Judge Advocate (or recorder) of all the pet- ourts martial in our command, and it ,\as a notorious fact that no matter how black the offense, by greasing his palm with a sufficient quantity of Confederate currency, the criminal could go scot free. He always managed to be detailed on some such duty whenever the regiment was en gaged, and on one occasion, at Kennesaw Mountain, lie was put in command of the outpost pickets and videttes, very near the enemy. The climate was rather too warm for liis loyal heart, and he was too full of the milk of human kindness to want to hurt the hoys in blue. So he quietly went to sleep half a milo to the rear, and left Uto responsible position in charge of the gal lant Capt. Hester; of Augusta. Ga. Our brigade commander (Gen. J. K. Jackson; reprimanded him severely. Afterwards, at the bloody field of Jones boro, Ga, he could not control his coward ly legs, and ran clear out of the fight. Wo found him far in the rear, snugly hid away in a fortified pit, with the infirmary corps. Here he would undoubtedly have been cashiered for cowardice, had he not. by boot-licking General S. R. Gist, obtained leave of absence, ana never rejoined his command, except to he paroled, In North Carolina, and come in for a heavy share oi the wagons and mules given to his com mand, which he afterwards sold to a great advantage to himself. In the above statement of facts, many of my old soldier comrades, in the gallant old 5th Georgia, will readily recognize the character of this Major Whitely, who is tryin” to palm himself off as one of the “trooly loll.” A deeper disgrace could nev- policy. _ _ gradually developing for policing the | Mr T K> Oglesby, the genial and popu- j right; and ^common bryonyEither way. South with an armed force. I lar Agent for The Atlanta Constitution, I sheen that are not more than six years I called on us one,day this week., Mr. O-1 o]d w „{ > cut w closely with thete teeth that pay to r. -. , .. -• I popularity of The constitution.—oew-1 <r ra jn for sheep. lues, and places them under the - Govern- j Ueraid. ^ ia recognized as ranking tnent control, prohibiting at the satne time _ tiirtilv a s a fertilizing crop. Professor any other lines from being worked by pri- The Savannah Republican says that •"-“‘y s . n . of the Royal Agri- vate parties or corporations. It proposes carter Couturier, formerly an employee ’ ccra^^ 1 . . En „i an( ], in 1868, said to connect the lines with all post-offices, ln tho Augusta Post-office, and charged cmturai^oc i.y experiments made and provides for a cheap rate for messages. with breaking open a letter and embezzle- Jf "^’ r croD of c i ove r removed A similar bill is pending in the Senate. SSSt, was sentenced to pay a fine of fifty s f ^ tA Rnil aD^ared tolncreasc iu wheat The Senate Political Disability Uommit- dollars and costs, and he imprisoned f’ 1 caiSwUties From thil as well as from tee. rather than wait for a general amnesty months in the Chatam county jail, by the capabilities^ p ro fessor, together Southerners. A memorial of Cyrus W. Field was pre- un'dertaketh'e^la^teg^o^atelegr^ihfc'cable I [grants passed through our city a few days I 'IouTm Possible SS Nhw York, haspnr ch asc§ r a”large tract ofo f nitrogenous “ a **:J .jasKs^asassawg SSfSS&sS Dr.Thomas, of Savannah, offered tho fol- propose to colonize with 6turdy emigrants gow with wheat, or better still, work lowing resolutions, which were adopted: [ from Germany. • I thoroughly in the autumn, and next spring, Resolved, That we tender to Dr. J. M.j ’ sow with barley and follow with wheat.” Green, President of tho Blind Asylum, Ma- Fact. j n places they have a somewhat con, Ga, and the superintendent and offi- _ .. . 11,1™. w vn ted $140 - novel method of treating tomato plants, cersof the same, our most cordial thanks I Dallas county, Alabam^ has voted ^iw, novm raeroo^ frutt of a ~ excellent qual- for the very interesting exhibition of the 1000 to the Selma and New Orleans Road, j r - ipen3 early. The stems aro cut attainments of the scholars of the institu tion. Proceedings of the Georgia Medi cal Association. From the Macon Journal. 1 SECOND DAY , itv which ripens early L t . a large number of dams have been swept 0 ff down to the first cluster of flowers Resoived, That this Institution is deserv-c^^^y^c^®®^” 1 tho Eastern part °f ™.’ aa j S tjitoto^lone ing' of the most hearty support of our Fond du Lac county. flv “ timcs successively. By this means the State. . _ . I a German committed suicide at Portage plants become stout dwarf bushes, not over Resolved, That vro recommend that the] “ d ” y ‘jagf WC ek, by leaning against lus I eighteen Inches high, and they arc kept ftS525°S l 5f.%SiSaS Sun. And firing it off with tho ramrod. ertet in the rows by s.icks_ or _s rings. A professional men throughout the State take J J .TT7' some interest in hunting up all the blind 6 un i and firing children, and sending them to this Institu tion for education. . _ , very "Simple method and ono that can easl- Tho earnings of the Iron Mountain Rail- hy & accomplished. The tomato is con- — „ , „ road for tbo month of March, amounted to Uuiered a luxury and anything that will Tho Committee on Nomination reported - g8 g26 62 an increaso 0 f $46,327 62 over improve the fruit will doubtless bo inter- B?HP Campbell, President. the corresponding month last year. “fedlSSTgwS ^following receipt Dr J G Thoma 3 , First VieePr^ment. The citizens of Platteville, Wis., expect I fordoing up shirt bosoms: Dr G G Crawford, Second Vico Presl- to be running to that place, on the “Take two ounces of fine white Rum dent. — ' Dubuque and Milwaukee Road, by tho 1st I arable powder, put it into a pitcher and _ _ * I rvnna. <1 nin? rtP tTilirfl rtl W&L of June. Dr J E Biacksbear, Treasurer. Dr R P Myers, Permanent Secretary. Dr W C Musgrove, Corresponding Sec- that had been raised and lived together for e ]l‘be"put on the good people of theEm- wearj—that it wonld be best to support pire state of the South than by admitting those whom wc knew and who had treated this monstrous humbug, as one of her U. us kindly, and would treat us kindly in S. Senators.. Shades of Berrien and Col- thc future; that our former masters would like to have our labor; that we would be useful to them and they would he useful to us; that they have always done what was right; tbatthey held us as slaves because it was the law, and when-the law said that slavery should exist no longer, they agreed to that law as law-abiding citizens, and that it was best to abide with them.” Ah, Richard! we axe afraid love’s labor is lost, as long as the Badical party finds it necessary to keep the flames of fanati cism and persecution alive throughout our fallen country, in order that the power and exchequer of the nation may remain in the itchy palms of its leaders. Wc shall have to ask the question: Have the people any rights? for some time to come, ere it can be answered in thcaffirmative. Tho West Point Shield states that the Cth of May has ho«n decided on for the SuDday School celebration in that town. A fire men's parade takes place on the same day. quitt forbid I One of the 5th Ga. Rio. Lady Jueors Saying theib Puatees.—A little circumstance connected with the late term- of court, comes to onr knowledge, which we are inclined to make public, even at the risk of betraying confidence. Dur ing the long and tedious Howie murder trial the jury (of whom one-half were ladies) were not permitted to separate and go to their homes, but were, under tho charge of bail iffs (one lady and one gentleman), taken to the hotel for their meals, and lodging was provided for them in the adjoining par lors, each under the charge of their bailiff. And here, every morning during the trial, upon arising from their beds, these ladies kneeled together, and, like the child Solo mon, asked wisdom of God to enable them to properly and wisely discharge the’.r new and arduous duties. While their male as sociates'were engaged in boisterous mirth and trifling levity, they, with the full con sciousness of tho responsibility resting upon them, wero seeking aid at tho throne of the Allwise.—Laramie Sentinel. owners and ex-rebels have a majority ? In many of the counties, the two parties are evenly divided, and in not a few, the Re publicans, most of whom are black, are in the majority. To cater to and win the col ored vote in these, politicians of every grade will soon learn to treat tbo black man with decent respect, if not with gen uine kindness, at elections and elsewhere, throughout the entire State. No more is needed. It is not essential to the peace of Georgia that the black minority shall rule the white majority for ever. It is not consistent with manliness and dignity in Republicans to plot for or abet that antt-republlcan outrage. The blacks of Georgia, being confessedly in the minority in numbers, in property, in intelligence and in capacity for govern ment, have not the audacity to ask or ex pect to govern the State. It would be a threefold outrage against the rights of the majority, the interests of the tax-payers, and the rule of intelligence to coerce the State to submit to their rule by Congres sional legislation. Again we urge that the State of Georgia be promptly admit ted without conditions, and the Union rj stored. Fact and Incident. George Sand is very All.. There are 19,000 noisy children in Mont- S °A nmv^bat for ladles is called the “Frou- Frou.” Pongee parasols will be en regie this spring — _ Bordered handkerchiefs are now consld- ^CWax^son is named Schuyler Dent Colfax. Some of the Southern States are be*ining to cultivate China grass, to be used as a state enj substitute for silk. London scientific men are divided on the subject of the safety of the use of laughing gas as an anesthetic. The father of the authoress, Virginia F. Townsend, died at the New Haven, Con., - 0 poor house, last week. Ishow of authority, thereby fieeciDg “*e ^at cheap politicians suppose them to be. ^Divorces are becoming expensive in In- '.publtc, aud casting reproach npon the pro-1 p p rr diana. One in Clay county, recently, cost ifession, and . The system of delivering letters by car- ’ ” Whereas, It is the opinion of this Asso-1 T ; eTS which has now been in practice in our ciation, an act of simple justice to the reg- cities for several years, has failed to ular profession, that they be allowed to say, . ,, , aC0 of tbat of nr i Ya te boxes, as ula d r t memter^'°a r nd who V are °m^ “nter- *<• was expected to do. A report just made lopers claiming to be of our household, but to the House of Representatives by the Post- not of our faith; therefore, be it mastcr-General shows that the rents paid Resolved, That a committee of three be for boxes, since the delivery system was in- appointed by the President to memoralize traduced, have increased rather than dimin- the General Assembly ot the State of Geor- ; s b e d thus proving that a considerable por gia to enact such laws amendatory of the ti on of the public prefer the box system, present existing statutes and laws, 03 will % v . .. ■ . enable the Medical Board of Examiners] Anotuek Longevity. There is.living in for the “ Allopathic School ” of medicine the neighborhood of Dumfries, Prince Wri ter this State, to draw with authority the liam county, Va., the widow of arevolu- line of demarkation between the regular tionary soldieT—Mrs. Chloe Flatford, who graduates and licensed practitioners of our ^ rc ached the unusual age of 115 years, school, and the imposters who impose upon gj, c en ; 0 y S aoo d health, but is very deaf, the masses under false pretences. \.. J : a Knmow hat imnaired. pour a pint or more of water, and then . having covered it, let it stand all night. In A New “Yankee Notion.”—A diseaso t he morning pour it from the dregs into a re n ry weu„i, TwnSi™ Alter I called tho ‘‘clam cholera" has made its ap-1 clean bottle, cork it and keep It for use. A Dr W S Holt, Orator, Dr Cooper, Alter-1 _ carance with fatal c fl- cot ; n Connecticut.J tablespoonful of gum water stored in a The above named gentlemen were unan- The matter is very properly to ho officially j either white or printed^ Imously elected. investigated. , of newn ess, when nothing else can The following gentlemen were appoint- 1 ' ' 1 * * * • ’ ed delegates to the American Medical As sociation. ' _ „ „, ,. . Dr W A Green, Sumter county; DrS G subject ry.'t thereto: • White, Baldwin county; Dr H H Smith, Kansas, to accompany the bill reported, de- x have rea( i a gcorc 0 f articles asking ter Screven coubty; Dr T S Powell, Fulton daring all sales null and void, and provid-1 a £ u n r0 for hard milkinK anl ) s i ow milking county; Dr Ii D Arnold, Chatham county; I j n «p for the return of money paid to any c0 ws. The answer is, “ It is said tho Dr Juriah Harris, Chaurnm county; Dr W 0 jg ccr 0 f the United States, in pursuance of knife can be used safely and successfully.” H Doughty, Richmond county; Dr f A a assumc( i sales, it being asserted that [ assert there is danger in the use of the Mims, Screven county; Dr EJRoartbiui- r utl ■ ^ the United States to said tract knife to open the orifice. This is my an- ton county ;_Dr Ed E Newton, Clark conn- . . t0 lU ” q UC8Uon , - ii ow shall I cure my or to any part or it bard milking cows?” Take a clean, smooth At a meeting of the American Colomza- knitting needle wire, No. 16, heat it red ty; Dr G E Sussdorf, Bibb county, Dr. Lowe offered the following, which was adopted m. J tion Society, held in New York on last Sun-1 hot, (use a candle atyourside. and heat Whereas, There are ^many within this | j al. . nnAn <wiAmanf tpab iIiopa I oitnnhnnA frnm thn p.mh nmT hiim Ant connected with the same, not licensed nished to send them. This does not look as 0 - practitioners of-medicine, yot claim, to be if the mission of the Colonization Society of the regular school, and practice under were ended, or its occupation gone. Nor an Interned Bevenue License, or some such does ; t look as if all negroes were the fools $361. The ordinary price is twenty-five dollars. : It is a late literary discovery that the only prophet literally translated was"El»- jali. Mrs. Caroline Neil is now a Judge of the Court ot Oyer and Terminer In Wyo- mine- Francis Deak, the .eminent Hungarian statesman, has addressed a letter to Louis Kossuth, asking him to return to his native country, and to let bygones be by gones. The King of BelgiOm, although quite a young man. has perfectly gray hair since the death of his little son and heir, and so has the young Queen. , Dabney, Morgan & Co. caution the pub lic against negotiating the Kansas Pacific first mortgage seven per cent, bonds num bered 677. and Nos. 3310 to 3350, inclusive, and Nos. 6001 to 6020, inclusive, the same having been fraudulently obtained. Somebody has dramatized the “ Cata houla VendetUv”. in which the Liddels and Joneses, of Louisiana, were the antagonis tic bouses. The Griffin Star announces the death ol xn« Emms Huff, daughter of Deputy Mar shal Huff, in that city, Whereupon the Sdlnt^inted W. her W«Sri.t «™«^t «»p.ared. A. Love, SlQ. Crawford and J.Ie. Black- Sh .® ha s lost all her teeth, bnt has a thick shear, fl committee to memorialize the suit of gray hair. Her memqjry is good. General Assembly of the State. She says st;e was a grown woman the time Dr. Harris, of Savannah, moved a sus-jcf the surrender of Lord Cornwallis at pension of the rules ter the purpose of Yorktown. She is in the receipt of a pen- reading communications from the Trus- s ; on f rom tho United States government, tees and Faculty of the Atlanta Medical I and j s Ter y comfortably cared for. The old College, Carried. , , lady both chews and smokes tobacco. The Secretary then read several letters J 1 .™. . . , blood runs—no soreness occurs. I have known it to be tried, and never knew it to fail. Don’t wring or twist the needle- straight in and straight out, quickly, are the directions. If you wish to use a larger or smaller needle, do so, but not so large as to make the cow ipse her milk- * A wet April speaks woll ter fru't. Expect a dry summer when rain falls on Good Friday. Should it thunder in April, the hoop has its bounds. , . A wet April brings a dry June, but a dry April brings both a wet June and a wet summer. . „ Moisture and warmth in April are sure signs of a fruitful year and an excellent harvest. . ... . Like the weather is when the cherrtca blossom, wili it be at tiie time when the rye and the grapes bloom. April, tike many men, whose aspect is severe and heart most kind, even when most boisterous is most engaged in doing ^When beautiful weather at Enter is sent. received from the said college. On motion, the Association adjourned. British trade exports increased $1,600,- 000, in January .above the total of toe same A Connecticut woman ate a bushel of roastoj oysters ter a ten-dollar wager. Tho man to whom she was. engaged disappeared mysteriously from his hoarding-house the same night, and a person answering his des cription was noticed baying a through ticket far California. Georgia Nows. The Quitman Banner saysT. Alderman county. The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel says the railroad war in that city Is getting to be decidedly rich. The Macon* Telegraph and Messenger states that Mr. Frnuk Ross shot a little lin ger from one-hand of Mr. Emil Brown, yes terday afternoon, in Binswangcr’s saloon. Tho Savannah News says Mr. Bryan Sneed, who was badly injured two months ago by a switch engine in that city, died from his injuries last Thursday. The Telegraph and Messenger states that Policeman Win. Wryc wasshot and nearly killed by a negro named Lewis Turner, whom lie was attempting to arrest for dis orderly conduct, a few nights since, in Ma con. The Augusta Constitutionalist says, tiie store and contents of Mr. M. Kcmpncr, a merchant of this city, were totally destroy ed at Sawdnst, on the Georgia railroad, be tween 1 and 2 o’clock, Friday morning. Loss $8,000; partially insured. The Savannah Advertiser say a dastard ly outrage was committed on the person of a little mulatto girl nine years old by a ne gro named Nero Williams, one of the Broadbakcr murderers, near that city, re cently. He has been arrested. The Savannah Advertiser, of tho 17th, says: James Wayne Moore, formerly of the firm of Drummond & Moore, was arrested yesterday, by Officers Peyton and Fox, upon warrants issued by Justice Wade, charging him with larceny after trust del egated, and with forgery. The Savannah Republican savs that ad dresses are set down for Hon. H.W. Hil liard, of Augusta, Hon. Solomon Cohen, of Savannah, and B. Sears, D. D.. Agent of tho Peabody Educational Fund, before tho Georgia Teachers’ Association, to bo held in Savannah, on the 3d, lth, and 5th of May. The Columbus Sun states that a yonng man named George Johnson. 18 years old, was bit by a rattlesnake, in Uchce swamp, on Thursday. The snake measured, after being killra, three feet and some inches. Johnson, on Friday morning, was still alive, and hopes of bis recovery was enter tained. Religious. From the Protestant Churchman News.) The following facts in reference to tho comparative growth of tho Protestant Epis copal Church are taken.from tho census of the State of Now York: “Between tho years 1856 an>l 1865, in the item of communi cants, the Baptists, of all sorts, lost 2,393, or two and a half per cent; tho Friends, 2,325, or forty-three per cent; tho Presby terians, of all sorts, 3,401, or threo and three-quarters per cent; tbo Univcraalists, 641, or fourteen por cent; the Unitarians, 626, or thirty-eight per cent. On the othor hand, tho Congrcgationaliste, in communi cants, gained 2,049, or eight per cent; tho Methodists, or all sorts, 68,901, or four and a half per cent; the Roman Cotholics, 11,- 694, or four and a half per cent; tho Pro testant Episcopal Church gained 76 church es, 84,515 sittings, 1G.605 in usual attend ants, and 17,178 in communicants, or fifty- two per cent These aro facts from tho impartial census report There are thirteen different branches of the Presbyterian Church in this country. They are distinguished as tho Reunited Preshy terian Church, the Cumberland Pres byterians, tho Southern Presbyterians, and tho United Presbyterians. Theso arc ail largo bodies. The smaller ones, chiefly of Scotch origin, aro the Old Side Rcformod or Covenantor church, with 80 ministers and 86 chnrchcs; the New Side Reformed or Covenanter, which had until lately 55 min isters and GO churches, but which has been split in two by the expulsion of Mr. Georgo H. Stewart; the Associated Reformed Synod of the South, with 68 ministers; tho Asso ciate Synod of North America, with 13 min • isters, and tho Associate Synod, of New York, with 11 ministers. Also, tho Decla ration and Testimony Presbyterians of Mis souri, and a smalt body of Old School Pres byterians in the same State, who refused to go into the Union, and a recent organization in Charleston, South Carolina, whoso name is not reported. Some progross has been made in Scotland toward a union between the United and the Free Presbyterian Churches, The Union, it is supposed, wiU ho effected in two or three years, on the simple basis of tho standards; as in the caso of the American churches. In Wilmington, 111., a Catholic Church has just raised nearly $3,000 by a fair and lotteries. An elder in tho Presbyterian Church and a Superintendent of a Sunday School presided as judges at tho drawing of tho lotteries, and tho Superintendent of (ho Methodist school drew a prize.