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tlilp institution. ATLANTA, GA., APRIL 4, 1871 Rt41«al Brtberj. Steven Meson, a member of the Virginia Legislature from Richmond, was arrested on the 28th, charged with corruptly approacli- —Ing the officers of the City Court to influence them to summon jurors favorable to the ac quittal of ex-Mayor Cahoon. He was held to tuft in $10,000 to answer the charge. Horrible Dlaloyslltj, "When the Santo Domingo party were about to sit down to dinner on the 27th, in the steamer Gcnrgiana, on the way from Acquia Creek to Washington, the officers of the boa* refused to allow Fred Douglass to take a seat at the table, on account of liis color. Tiie Commissioners were highly in- <lL'n.-tnt at thia outrage, and immediately left the table. flan Domingo Sacrificed for Radical Harmony. The Tribune's Washington special of the 23.li rays, rumor is current that the adminis- t rati ui lias decided to drop the San Domingo bu in -s for liic sake of harmonizing the Re publican party. To u.Tord a reason for this change of policy, the report of the commis- sioner* will conclude with a recom mendation liiat nothing further be <b>uc to ward annexation at present, on ac count of eivii war existing in a iarge portion of the Maud. This report can lx; traced to no trustworthy ‘'O ir i, a:i 1 hoapiohiibly been occasioned by the sJ..tc;nent of Senatoj Morton in his sp. cell, that if the report is adverse to annex ation, he would be in favor of abandoning tk • pro; t-!. This declaration was sought to have some important significance, in view of the fact tn.it correspondents with the r h'.i • l i . \ announced that the commia- • i '» • unanimously in favor of an- * 51 urfler of Fish. ’ vies learn a good many : park, bars of the assassina . 1 i h, in Southwestern Geor rticulars have just been dis- • have b*on working up tlie -/toy and shrewdness. j) ~rsr THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION; m >jj■ VOLUME Ill.i ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1871. n 0 r J* INUM^PE 53 Georgia .Hatton. Farm work is rather backward in the coun ty, but so far as fanners have progressed in their labors, they are hopeful. The wheat is improving wonderfully, while the grasses are doing finally.—Home Courier. The 8j>arta Times says Hancock has an old planter that has never seen a railroad train. The Constitution.—The Constitution of yesterday morning announces that Mr. J. IL An dor-on has withdrawn therefrom. Mr. Anderson was one of the founders of the paper, and to his fine business capacity is due, to a very large extent, the success of that paper. He is a hard-working, sensible, prac ticable business man, and we have no doubt that his loss will be felt in the management of that paper, though we have no doubt of the entire ability of the present management to sustain its former business life and energy. It is understood that 0*1. E. V. Clarke is the purchaser of Mr. Anderson’s interest. Col. C. is one of the must estimable and assortment of stolen plate is suffered to be in tact, and he has lost none of that superabun dance of low cunning which is characteristic of the police court shyster. But he has been terribly abused and spat upon of late, even by his former associates; and his once ready brain no longer gives the quick and crushing retort He sits dazed and paralyzed under the daily attacks upon him, simply distend ing his cheeks with impotent rage, and roll ing his straight eye up to the gilded ceiling of the House. Here is a little passage at arms between Dawes and Butler, taken from the official reports: Mr. Butler—I wish to ask a question. Is this the same resolution which the Democrat ic caucus agreed to report here on Friday, and which was to be handed to Mr. Dawes to submit? I so saw it stated in the Demo cratic papers. Mr. Dawes—My colleague seems to know more about me than I know myself. Mr. Butler—I saw it in the papers. Mr. Dawes—I am utterly unable to answer my colleague about the Democratic caucus. g3rued as a rising mcmiier of the legal pro fession, was a gaiiaut Confederate during the w ar, anu bears a personal character of which any young man might be proud. It is not thing Mr. Bntler—I only know what I see in the newspapers. I Mr. Dawes—So far as I am concerned, I 1 ■ • i ( . .’ll. 1. *• W *.• OU i>.i X u.il v’llivCI livli, 1 i,.a to abWon lo, profession to know notliinff <,r what has been done by the connect hnnielf will, the press; but, we .re Dcmo ,. ralic * in . lny caucus . n „ r , ,j/ ha9 advise. 1, thatlos purchase ot »n interest in b ^ u J gubmi tte d to me from that t n the two -isoners dis in jail at iosed the I -divorced man, whose wife • ;n him on account of his nud ^*1.; riI worthlessness. Th< y pr tty and giy, and the di ;■• ! Van still enamored of her, her. Lloyd, who, it sccin • District Judge, fin d Ilolsom- i-.V, and in ig.itcd him to kill • • l.: it gentleman w.xa supposed tlu; Madam. ucec.bd in getting IIol- ' -.1 »ip to the prop: r point, and cvl him. p : ii of the statements of tlu.se i a’xuit the transaction. They • J*. Tlu-re was, therefore, no e tr nMCtion. It was a case of y on Hol-ombake’s part, and on Lloyd’s past. Lloyd is the l; Solicitor-General of that Cir- ki!l have.a preliminary trial next Jjiii(!« rlng Tariff*. W IV ropy c which gives u. a .grinding bunl a Tari'f. Tin- illii*sir.ilion Rolls die Farmer X our < .manges a torial Tax Payer, nits illustrating the present Radical IIowtlM g Man tc Tarill Bene- W. >f ri p. ilc- .seas, cent.; ci cais but knife v.i taxed K ■d JI5 |"T cuts, hut we give g explanation of kfnetion, and as thought of good morning end puts 1 C5 j er rent; bis nt.; his vest,* taxed »:it, taxed—cloth 60 rent., braid 60 jx-r ., and padding 150 is boots, taxed 35 taxed 0 ) per cent, r c- :i», with a pipe c«*»h* his breakfast salt, taxed 108 pel 120 per rent; am ent., with jxr •cut. II'JCM ■ loved : vhosc paper cant., and MT. Butler—I am glad to hear it. I saw it in the newspapers. 31 r. Dawes—/ see a great many thing* in the neic*p iper* which ainnot be more accepta ble to my collectgue. [Laughter ] This is not equal, however, to the retort of Mr. Cox, of New York, a day or two ago. The President's nnsssge recommending the passage of a Ku-Klux bill was under con sideration ; 31r. Butler, of 3Iassacliusetts, asked if the gentleman [Mr. Cox] would desimate whom he meant by tin; honorable g^mieman from Massachusetts,” whose measure he had sup- purchase The Constitution was merely a buain^s . source speculation. We wish both 3lr. Anderson and the new firm, ail the success they desire. [Atlanta Sun. The Columbus Sun mentions the death, in Charleston, of Hal Johnson, an old resident of Columbus. Dr. Ware has two Brahma hens that laid 61 eggs in one month. The Forsyth Advertiser says a tornado passed over Forsyth on Sunday evening, into Pike county. It blew down the gin-house an l out buildings of Stephen II. Swan, and the residenc e of 3D. Willoughby, killing one of his children, and wounding the ten other ! ported. mctnWa rf Ills family. Monroe is to have I 1Ir ; <*■=! al,u , cM *? gentle- . fI „ _ ,/ , , . . i man from 3Iassachusetts, M. Dawes. fLaug- a new jail. The Ordinary has awarded the j ler j ** ° contract without calling for bill*. The i The retort was clever, b»it the scene was fa not in- everything. Butler’s face blazed crimson in lu Monroe ' a s<;con d’** tima. He made several irresolute j motions, like a man partially stunned, and wlieat ami .oats look finely. A smaller area i turning bis back on the Democrats, he sown. Not much fertilizers used. Corn shambled off to his seat, and sank into it planting going on actively. I without uttering a word. . T , , , | Later, Butler p ferred, in the course of some -Moi.rou county so., arc sharp rhapt. One reU):irks on hi , Ku-KIui bill, to Lis “ friends toukattvo gallon jit", put a gallon of water on ! on tli* other side,” only to lie reminded by it, an 1 lia«l the liquor man poor n gallon of j Mr. Niblack. that (lie Democrats did not rood whisky on top. As Lc couldn't pay, the '• | *‘'ii or desire the friendship of th# gentle- *. . .* , • , . . „ inaa from dlaasachusetts l.quor man lookback lm wmsKy, and the’ sol triumpli.iiuJj disappeared with his re farmers vested r>f Butts county 1, i in fertilizers. inaining gallon of half grog and water as a clear make. The America . Republican announces that it will suspend its tri-weekly about the first of April, unless business gMa belter. The McDnffie Journal says McDufiV coun ty hug had a storm, blowing down fences. The Albany News says the tornado on Sunday was terrible, uprooting giant trees, unroof in has gin bell worth weighing 7o0 pound J. C. 31 cBurney, charged with 1 rcveuue defaulter for $00,000, writes to the 3Iaron Telegraph that the government owes him about $5,000. The-Savannali Repuldican says 3fr. A. S. Alden is temporary Collector. The Albany News estimates that twenty per cent, more corn is being planted this Spring than in any season since the The Early County News says the planters are beseeching the merchants for advance make their crops. 3Iany are in debt. That pa{x;r pieads with the planters to raise pro visions. GBOHU IA MATTEKS j have not >*een prominent at the Capitol of j late. On Thursday, the Goldthwuite-Blodg- ett resolution was talked over, literally, and I again yc-terday—on both days, the expira- i tioa of the morning hour cutting olT its fur- tu Ml n Ids hat taxed 70 per cent, i- i-. .id 150 per cent, hitches l with nails taxed ?»7 per cent, •d 15 per cent., with chains cent., ail 1 harness tax d i»5 per dUcr hi. ‘ 1 P r ent.; a ! the v ilage .-tore and buys for . f, taxc 1 25 per cent; •:it.; a woolen dress, l im 1 ltx> per cent.; a hat, taxed 4:) percent; a pair of storking*, taxed 75 per cent; an lmtaxed b0 per coat.; a package of needles, ta « d 25 pt r cent.; a spool of Coats’ thread, taxed 72 p- r cent., a paper of pins, taxed 25 per nil; a writing pen, taxed 10 per cent. I hate to link the name of so honorable arr’ } able a man as Judge Goldthwaile with that of the infamous Blodgett; but as Senator J Stewart has cunningly and maliciously linked I them together, th^re is no help for it. 3lr. ! Thurman proved yesterday, very dearly, that ' houses, etc. The Rev. Dr. Hicks I Blodgett had not a prima fttcie right to' a seat. ; the Albany Mciln Ibl Church a j while Judge Goldthwaitc lias, an l should at j once be admitted. I enclose the GloJ>e r«> ! port. | Stewart seems to bare changed his Uctics lie endeavors to avoid Cue appearance of pressing the pressing tiie resolutions, and would fain have people believe that it is a matter of supreme indifference to him wheth er Blodgett is admitted or not. This won't go down, however. Blodgett, on the other hand, is pledging bis vote (when he gets it) to all the jobbing schemes fathered by certain, truly loyal Sen ators. This is worthy of the fellow. 31 r. Hill ia making a rather lame and im potent light, and has not impressed any one here as being much above mediocrity, lie represents Alaska quite as ably as ha does Georgia, ilc seems to have no ideas beyond getting offices for Ids friends and relatives; and the White House ring are beginning to think him anything but a valuable acquisi tion. Tiie House lias not been In session for the past two days, and there. Is nothing new to report from that quarter Volt. C. A. I*. DOUGLAS AND Sl.Tl.MiU. AN USTKKESTING ANECDOTE OV TIIE LITTLE GIANT. Stephen A. Douglas was a member of the Senate Committee of Foreign Affairs when Mr. Sumner was made its Chairman. 31 r. Sumner expressed to ** lVrley” (Ben Pcrley Poor) a wish to secure his services as clerk, but desired the assent of tiie Democratic members of the Committee to his appoint ment. Pei ley ” had criticised Ih uglasvery severely, and thought he would probably op pose tiie apiH.intmcnt. “T> ascertain his views,” say» “ Pcrley ” “ I went to liis house, and was ushered into the library. The. i/itiia Ci^ut’ w.is s!laying, I was in formed, but would scon ut dr.S’n, and in a few* moments he made his appearai-.ee, iu Ids shirt sleeves. I at once stated my errand, frankly alluding to my newspaper criticisms, and concluding by asking if my appointment as Clerk of the Committee on Foreign Rela tions would be acceptable to him. * Accepta ble,’ said be, ‘ why of course it will be. My only objecti >u L) serving on the Committee; bos been that I feared iii’uner would send to Boston for a d—d free nigger f**r clerk, juhI I all lie delighted to h i\c you in the com- raittee-room.’ ” » ue Savannah Advertiser says Jos. K. Spear, an old resident of Savannah, has died in Charleston. The Savannah papers are trying to fathom lue Davenport tricks. Among the damages of the storm in Sa vannah was the following: Tiie tin on the roof of the freight ware house was torn off for about twenty feet. l'xrl of the roof of Captain A. P. Welter’s cotton pres was blown off and lodged on the deck of the ship Richard III. OUR »V AS AI NG ION LETTKK. TIIE EXECUTION OK GRADY—TIIE HUMAN TUI ns r J\»R WITNESSING TIIE 1IOIUMHLK BEAST IHITl.ER BATTi.REp INTO SILENCE— GEORGIA Al t AIKS—HI.UlXlETV GOING II HEAVY ON* PLEDGES—MK. liILL EOT DOING cks Lis r 43 |vt < lie 1 j.nyvrs try with ri-'O, SS | .1 TO jkt cent.; canulct, J l; starch, ta\ej 50 percent ! >L of tools; An av -knife, toxej 50 per cent.; a • 1 CO |HT cent.; a apndc, taxed uv. taxed 75 per cent. ;a, t .x. 1 57 ]K-r cent. He ivi'li ptisr, taxed 55 per : :vv i, iaw! .771.< r cent, hands in a crockery bowl, S: m.i t' rr '.poi.. oe of Tli. Coni UUUa. Wauuxutox, D. C., March *TC, 1871. The strange taste of mankind for the mis eries of others is one of tiie mysteries of hu man nature, it is manifested nnder all circum stances, in all scenes of suficrings, whether soietmi or grotesque, among mull and women of high and low degree. The peerless Lord Bacon went to the Tower to sec Pcaeliam put to the rack, an.l listened to the groans and shrieks of the wretched olil man. Even William Penn was an interested spectator at the execution of a woman under circumstan ces of peculiar savagery, and “learned and painful pious” men are slid to. have wit nessed the tinal agony of luaay a doomed wretch. It is undoubtedly true that thp world grows steadily toward a niuli perfection, and “llie thoughts of men are w id "lied with the process of the scene.,.'' But, in some particulars, the nature of man suffer* no change, and among their peculiarities stands prea.ninently the morhid desire of men ami women to look 1 ptni the sufferings of a hapless fellow dicing, pulsiv ent; drawn In i anil sends it to market a mile; in cars, taxed 50 engines, taxed 45 per the s all a'.ssir!*- his funds. Ilc pays all taxes ms he buys these articles. lie is ■onsumcr, and the consumer foots ail these heavy taxes—taxes paid every day of the farmer's life, on every tool used, and on every thing eat, drank anil worn, When he understands it, he gets sick, think ing of how Iladioal taxation robs him for the benefit of a few rich monopolists. He takes to his bed, made of wood, taxed 20 per cent., draws over him a sheet taxed 55 per cent., and a blanket taxed 240 per cent. He takes quinine taxed 4.7 per cent. But it docs no good. The tariff kills him. and is buried In all sorts of taxed Ylir fate is recorded on a marble -] 70 jrer cent, and he goes where Tariffs. xd« thus: “Here lies the ■"ward to Death by monop- llie sigl. . flection must have lx eu forced on any curious person who ventured, on Friday last, to reconnoitre the vicinity of thcjail- d 43 j yard the day and place for lie execution of James Grady, the murderer of a poor okl woman. The v:ist crowd of men, w omen and children of all nationalities, which surged around tiie walls, stretching their m-eks, standing on tip-toe, and vainly striv ing, by means of bricks, stones, door step and house-tops, to add the neccssary calTbre to their statue, in order that tlu-y niiglit get even so brief a glimpse of the con demned wretch as lie dropped into the trip of death, was but a repetition of that which hath been from old. Sweep away the illusions of lime, and one might easily fancy he was at the old Bailey, where the crowd hooted unit cheered “ Thief >'n. u, London Bridge,” os he was swung off, or at the Tolhorth, where the gaping, jost ling mob bantered the brave souls that leaped to Heaven from the gory scaffold. The clamorous, persistent endeavors to see the taking of the doomed man’s life on this last hangman's day was a study for the curious. The trees, the attic windows, the house-top 11 , and even the chimneys, as far dis tant as the Patent Office, were studded and bristling with humanity, all peering hreath- n? " thing stone there are Xo His cpit .pl American Farmer . .. , , -ole down to death So let him retnhxte and . s%t thus crushes the infamous Kadica! party L- bim. ’ SkcTIOn.\i.izkd.—The St. Louis Den?°^^ of Thursday, says: The corn trade is a , permanently sectionalized and divided upon the question of color. White and mixed white goes " South,” and yellow and mixed yellow goes “East.” Yesterday the Eastern demand was active and the Southern demand dull. Corn for the South at present is shipped I a sack: hut. in time, as tiie South becomes more and more extensively penetrated by railroads, “ hulk corn” will be wanted. The same paper says; Mr. B. J. Drecson, a practical cotton growerof Jefferson, Texas, lias invented a hand cotton picking machine whirli was exhibited on 'Change yesterday, attracting many lookers-on taf- Grant’s hifaintin proclamation corn ’s Hiding “ unlawful combinations” in South Carolluii to “ disperse,” came aliout ten days t»<. t, lle They all dispersed the very mo- nw-nt Governor Scott took his Winchester rule* out ot tue hands of the negro militia. lessly into the inelosuie which hid the gal lows tree. In the streets the crowd stood anxiously, intently looking upon the impene trable walls, as if in the vague hope that it would topple down, or gape apart when the drop fell, or that the body would rebound high enough to clear the wall, and give them aifinstantaneoua view of the dying man. About 12 o'clock one or two boys got down from their perch on G street au4 started for a tree at the corner of Fourth street. Others followed, and then the whole mass started, .'ell niell, sweeping hoys, men, women und policemen, and all, arounl into Fourth street. To the disgust of the frenzied rabble, noth ing was to be seen ; auu no one could tell why the futile charge had been made. After a time it became known that al! was over. Poor Grady, after taking leave of his I«;jow prisoners, blessing his friends, forgiv- ing everybody, and leaving an incoherent tirade againat the Attorney-General and jury for publications, fiad expiated his master- deee of crime. h ,,'be outsiders had never *eon, or heard of the hanging, after all. Slowly 1y they departed—clerks, appreh. women and children—looking if' thefSd r-niswd one of the sweet and tender experiences °* ... on As in the case c'f the wedding feU<m Sixth street on the proceeding day after a member of the worthy Chief Justices family had completed the conquest and absorption of the balance of Bhode Island—a fadhful few lingered around when the glory had de parted, and did not retire until the aun shone with level rays upon the fatal enclosure. POOR OLD BEAST BUTLER. Poor I mean in a sympathetic sense— noth ink, land sullen [ ticcs, longers, |/UAM£ BLAIR. he rirrs in a word about the ku-klux HL’blNEbS, ON THE Sis*, resolution specifying certain legisla tion as the exclusive business »>f the present session was taken up, the question being on the amendment to provide for legislation on the South. 31 r. Blair, in the course of his remarks, nt- Liited the apparent great anxiety mani fested on llR* fiNmt the tnmqiiility <»f the South to the fa« t that ut last election tin: Radicals had been turm d obi of pqwer in North Carolina and Alabama, and they wanted some legislation to put them back again Mr. Pool said because he had asked for legislation to repress assassination and mur der, the Senator trom Missouri (Blair) had in timated that tiie purpose was to put down the Democratic party. If the Democrat iu party could not exist except by such meas ures it ought to be put down. He would see the Democratic party and eyery other hum bled, before he would see them maintain themselves by plunder and assassination. 3Ir. Blair retorted, that the murderers and assassins convicted in North Carolina, by proofs before the Senate, were Republicans. 3Ir. Pt>ol— Because Republicans punish such men and Democrats do not. Mr. Blair—The only persons in office in North Carolina, Judges, District Attorneys and all the rest, are l&publicans, and if there were any Democrats to pnnish for commit ting crime it would be done. [Excitement and calls of order from the Republican side.] Pool—But the jurors are Democrats. They are the men who punish. [Renewed calls to order from all parts of the chamlier. Blair—Vociferating—The Republicans hare the selection of jurors. They have it by the laws which they have made. [Calls of order; question.] Mr. Blair continuing: That is the fact, and no man shall charge it home upon me that these men are not punished becauj»6 they arc Democrats, when it is shown that the only men who break laws, so far as discovery has been made, are Republicans. Ihs Sfe'fT Hampshire Election. Weston’s plurality over Pike foj* Governor is 821, while he lacks of a majority and ap election 295. Pike is in a minority of 1,987, where Governor Steames last year had a ma jority of 1,252. Net Republican loss, 3,189. The total vote of the State is 69,701, against 69 ; 442 last year; an increase of 1,259. It is the largest gubernatorial vote ever cast, ex cept in the years 1860 and 1868. The Dem ocratic vote is the largest ever cast, with the single exception of that of 7868. and exceeds that of 1860 (the largest excepting 1868) by nearly 1,200. CfT DIsr&fcii is reported to be in better 1 spirits than for the few years, because he sees an excellent cha*c4 to worry the Ministry on the Black Sea question, and to make him self generally disagreeable to his political opponents. _ _ The Franco-German war is said to be the cause of frequent duels between the French and German officers in the army of the Khedive of Egypt. * ‘ He&dqoarten-la-the-9ad41« w Fvp*. The Senate, Saturday, hod under consider ation the deficiency appropriation bill, which finally passed. One amendment (tabled after long discussion) called for an appropriation of $800,000 for building stables for the use of the military service at Fort Leavenworth. Mr. Davis, of Kentucky, referred to the fact that John Pope had recommended the erec tion of such buildings. • The venerable Sen ator from Kentucky then proceeded to say: 44 This recommendation reminds me of an anecdote 1 heard in relation to General John Pope during the late rebellion. It will be recollected that after the battle of Shiloh, General John Pope advanced to Grenada and achieved some remarkable feats about that locality. He published a proclamation that he haa taken, I think, ten thousand arms and thirty thousand prisoners. When the thing came to be explained, his army had occupied a certain portion of country, and he conjec tured the amount of population within that area of country, men, women, and children, and he claimed that the whole of them were his prisoners. About that time one of his soldiers, a most gallant young fellow, who had been wounded or had camp fever, from disease or the casualties of battle, was in ex tremis. i Io called for one of his camp-fellows to read him some Scripture. lie said he felt he would not be here long, and he wanted to be making liis peace with Heaven. His friend took the Bible and opened it casually, and he happened to open it where there was an ac count of Samson having slain a thousand Philistines with the jaw-!*>ne of an ass. Said he, “Stop, John ; isn’t that signed John Pope, Major General of the United States Army?” [Laughter.] 31r. Blair—Will the Senator from Ken tucky allow me to interrupt him for a mo ment? Mr. Davis, of Kentucky—Certaiuly. Mr. Blair—I desire to say that the recom mendation for the construction of these buildings at Fort Leavenworth was made by General Sheridan and General Sherman long anterior to the assignment of General Pope to that department; and although I dislike very much to spoil a good story, I think it is due to General Pope to give my knowledge of the transaction which has been referred to by the Senator from Kentucky. 3Ir. Thurman — About the Philistines? [Laughter.] Mr. Blair—Oh, no; not that. Mr. Davis, of Kentucky—I l>cg pardon ; I thought that was the very point my honor able friend was rfring to. [Laughter.] Washington Crime. While Washington is not more immoral than many other places, one is occasionally startled by the apparitions of crime which, in the usual sunshiny flow of life there, is as though you had encountered a ghastly corpse in some limpid and placid lake or stream. The d* dh of Henrietta Paddon, a di vorced and incontinent young woman at the hands of one ri. T. rihuman, a professional aViorlim ; -t, aided by an ignorant woman named “ Madam” Turner, and the commit ment of Shuman and Turner to jail, are amongst Washington events of the past week. The deceased person, it jippcars, was a Sun day- school teacher, and she had more than one lover. Commenting on this s;ul and sickening case, one of the Washington Sunday jour* luds says: 44 While no terms arc severe enough to ar raign the disgusting business of Shuman and the old woman, some reflection should also b“ od*led upon the causes which appear to give Washington more than its proportion of loose girls and widows. The late raids upon houses of ill-flame touched only the last stage of libidinous practice here. An excess of unraarri* d females, the decay of a ce rtain crust of social life, promiscuous mingling at receptions, easy adventuring at a capital city, the irregularity of employment here, the loitering, listless sort of sight-s'. eing life cur rent, and the freedom of lodging-house civil ization are some of the cause* which lead v, mien astray. It appears probable, besides, that the high prices o? living, Hi® ptentiful- utiss of poor money, and the ourfeit of news papers and plays full of leg?, hare harmed all American society' more or less. Every stationery shop is a library of lewdncsK.” froMen Words. We have repeatedly denied that the South ern Democrats were guilty or llu-Klux out rages; and Inve charged that the Radicals were the true Kn-Ivlux. They li.ivg dabbled in a business planned for Democratic injury and Radical benefit, and carried out by ltad- i .d agency i.i scent. Senator Thurman made a masterly expo- ire of this matter on the 21m, in reply to Alorton. We copy a few paragraphs. We call attention to two points made: that the Southern Democrats stand in their own light in committing these outrages, apd therefore have the strongest self-interest not to do them; and t'aai iho*o vhu dw then; are not representative Southern men. 1 know very well that every outrage that is committed there is magnified a hundred fold for party purpo-es, and that every such outrage that'w committed there serves as a pretext to put the lieel of military power upon that pro.-trale people, and to crush out anything like freedom ef election. I know it, and [ hgow that those people stand in their own light i know that tiicy aro doing what tla ir adversaries cannot do: they are cndnng ring themselves and endangering their people and endangering their country by these outrages that are committed. But I deny that the persons that commit those outrages are representative people of the Southern t'.-'-Ci,. I challenge any man on this floor from ti.u khiyilvtji States to ear whether the truth Is, or 1 * rwt, that (his grunt s of the people, the education, the wealth, the social standing of the South Is just as much opposed to these Ku-Klux outrages as any man tlia* treads this earth! Why, sir, it is not a year ago since we had a speech from the Senator from North Caro- “na, (Mr. Pool.) Ami what did lie tell us? Did bv, toil us that the education, the wealth, the social standing of !;;; State gave counte- ance to these outrages r If my recollection K right he told us precisely the reverse. Why, sir, it is human nature that that class of peo ple shouM be opposed to them. Those who have an interest in the prosperity of their riuile, tiiosv a ho have property to be pre served by law and o h .iu fc , those who have liberties to be protected, those who have rights that they cherish, arc the last men In ^ive sane- placid and as gentle as 90 many turtle doves! Oh, no, Mr. President, it will not Mo. Mr. Thurman thus wound upJhis strong speech But if we are to hare an investigation, let us have it. And when we do go Into this in vestigation, and when it comes to be consid ered by the Senate, I beg Senators to look once more at history, and to find 'that by no armed tyranny, by no treading of people un der the heel, has order ever been restored, unless it was the order of despotism, the si lence of its reign. No, sir; if you want the peopto of the South to be orderly, give them guild govern ment; let them govern themselves according to the nature and spirit of our free institu tions; let the intelligence of the country have fair play; let the honesty and that economy that everybody will admit existed in those States before the civil war, whatever faults they may have had, once more take place. Let mere adventurers retire to the back-ground or hide themselves in Ijie holes from which they came; let once weft the people feel that they have a Conotiuiriui that will be enforced, laws that they respect, and once mote you will have peace and order there, as well as you have anywhere^ ? PERSONAL. Ex-Sccretary Seward, has been from paralysis, to lift a glass of watej lips for two years. Bismarck now enjoys the highest' rank which *♦ »• possible for a Prussian subject to obtain—a prince of the realm. Colonel Marnuel Feyre is the plenipoten tiary from Bolivia, to the peace congress to be held in Washington. Mr. Carlyle, Mr. Buskin and Mr. Tenny son have cordially united in the movement in England for the relief of the French suffer ers by the war. If the Connecticut murderer, Wilson, per sists in his refusal to take food, he will be handed over to the physicians, who will ad minister nourishment by compulsory process. MinisterTorbott, of Salvador, has addressed a note to San Salvador, in behalf of America and England, asking the country to except the Honduras Railroad from the hostile ope rations during the war. A Female Printer —In our daily visits to the printing office of Mr. Toon, at which offic*: the Plantation is printed, we have been struck with, to us, an unusual sight It is that of a young lady, standing at a printer's desk, and diligently engaged in setting type. Modest, retiring ami industrious, she com mands the respect of all in the esi iblishrn^at, from the proprietor downwards. This is a Georgia girl, who learned hex trade in Rome, and who ha* been attracted by higher wages to Atlanta. Mr. Toon, in forms us that her work quite equals that of a man, and that her wages are the same ax that which is paid to a man. In this wnr, this de serving young lady is enabled to support in digent relatives who are dependent upon her. This is nn example fit to be imitated. It is a cop firm alio u of views expressed by us some time since, in an article in The Planta tion, entitled, “ What shall our young women do?” Why shall this example not bo fob lowed in other cities in the booth ? There are many bright girls, whose parents arc struggling with hopeless poverty, who might in this war obtain n competency. But they will not think of this resource. It must be suggested by the informed and the thought ful. If the establishment be judiciously selected, an apprenticeship mny bo passed through without hazzard to purity or character, and a steady and creditable source of support be attained. Wc none of us live for ourselves. It is a noble charity which suggests,if it can not give remunerative occupation to the need y.—Point ilion VST*The lion. Frank Blair did a good thing the other day iu the Senate Commit tee, before whom testimony was being taken upon the condition of the South. One of these generic thieves and raac ds, a hybrid ized Republican polit ician, wasgiring his tes timony. He was unfolding a fearful talc A rapine, slaughter and ^atrag*?. “I you to say, - ’ said Mr. Blair, that no Repi lican can live in safety in your •^♦-otion of til country“Thclifoof a liemittficiin is n« worth a straw there, sir,” vastLe humble re\ use. “Well,” continued Mr. Biair, ‘‘I observe that you are fat and happy. You ion’t seem to have suffered a great deal of anguish. It strikes me that about the be^t evidence that wc can have that the South is docjle and tractable is that such felloes as you can go do^n there gr.d get t?£ck in safety.” tW~ In a Western village a charming, well preserved widow had keu courted anu won bv a physician. She had children; among them, a crippled boy, who had )*een petted, and, if not spoiled, certainly allowed great “ freedom in debate.** The wedding day waa approaching, and it was time the children should know they were to have a new father. Calling the crippled boy the widow said : ** George, I am going to do something be fore long that I would like to talk about with yoq. I am intending to ninny Dr Jones ip TELEGRAPHIC. rBAAK BLAIR, this world, in any community, to tion to acts of violence of this kind. And when you undertake to attribute to the whole Southern people the acts of a few bad men, ti .»re simply seizing hold of ihese casual or ideutul outrages to blacken whole commu nities and to misrepresent whole States. That is the truth of it Mr. Thurman then defended th© Demo cratic party from the charge cf lawlessness. He struck a strong blow in th> followini paragraph: But these outrages thus committed are but drops in the bucket compared to organized outrage in the name of law, compared to or ganized outrage where the military force of the Government puts its heel, or attempts to put its heel, upon the free elections of what is called, by courtesy I suppose, a free coun try. 3Ir. Thurman called attention to the fact that all of the Southern States had ample stringent laws against these yery outrages. He ridiculed the idea that history showed no parallel to Southern disorders, an£ illus trated the point, complimenting the South on its remarkable quiet. He showed that after waging a war to pre serve me Union, the party in power had thus acted Instead of fulfilling it, you put them down under martial law ; you abolished their State constitutions; you compelled them at the point of the bayonet to adopt their constitu tions ; you set their lately freed slaves above them, and gave tiie control of State after State to the most ignorant, the least informed, and the least interested portion of the com munity. He made a happy point on the case of North Carolina, that always voted the Whig ticket. It has 80,000 negro voters, and voted mi! Does Dr. Jones a few days, and— Bully for you, know it ?” 31a caught her breath, but failed to articu late a reapo—e. dir. Spriggin* is a little forgetful some times. lie counted his children the other night, but could only make fourteen. 44 llow U thig?” he asked his wife, 44 1 thought there were fifteen of them.” *« So there are/’ ans wered his wife; “but little Sammy was drowned since then.” 44 Indeed/’ said Sprig- gins, meditatively ; 44 why, it seems to me I heard of that at the time.” The above recalls a joke on an Atlanta gentleman, who forgot the name of one rf his children, when visited by his pastor. ttB <&■ Wnr tiie Dutchman “Jinhd mit db Drmperancr.”—“ I sail tell you how it vas. I drink mine lager; den I put mine hand on mine head, and dere vas von pain. Den 1 put mine hand on mine body, and dere vas anoder pain. Den I put my hand in mine pocket, and dere vas notting. Bo I jine mit dedcmperarce. Now dere is no pain more in mine head, and de pain in mine body vas all gone avay. I put mine hand in min© pockets, and dere vas dwenty dollar. So I sbtay mit de demperance.” DT Andrew Jackson, of St. Louis, applied to a justice the other day for the arrest of Brownlow Johnson. He said he 44 done went on the ;u£f Johpeon’s house jis to frow some bricks down de chimufiv to scare a young cullud gal dat slept in de house, and Johnson done lock de scuttle, and made him stay up dar till 8 o’clock de next morning.” lie didn’t get the warrant. ££T The New Orleans Times of the 24th, says: “ We learned, yesterday, that several very destructive crevasses have occurred, du ring the last few days, in the upper parishes of the Btate, and that, fears are entertained that they are premonitory of other similar calamities elsewhere, which must inflict great damage upon some of the most productive portions of our low land delta.” Violent Scene in tiie Insurgent Absrm blt—Pari*, March 24—A violent scene oc curred at the meeting of the Comite Central?. A member of the Committee differed from General Lullicr, Commander of the National Guards. Lullier became violent and threw chair at the head of his colleague, for which conduct he was dragged out of the meeting and immediately deposed. ty The Providence Herald thus parodies the 44 Heathen Chinee ” by way of illustrating the reception of the news from the New Hampshire election at the White House; And Grant looked np at N,e. And Nye gazed upon G., And then rope with a eigh. And tfeej paid, “Can thia ba 1" ty Pierce Burton, the recently defeated Radical candidate for Lieutenant-Governor of Alabama, having become satisfied that the reign of carpet-buggers in that State is about closed, lias folded bis tent and taken his flight Northward, to the gratification of the white people of West Alabama. 19* An acquaintance called on the Presi dent the other day, and, the conversation turning on Sumner, Grant said: “ He says I _ _ don't know anything, I know we have been W ££«»' against aaiQOO Demo-i ‘S 6 crats, thus showing that only 3,000 white men were Radical, the negroes all voting Radical. He thus clinches the point. i-ss a syaa:*. president. And the domination of that party for yeayi and years, the plunder of the State, the ruin of her prosperity has been the result of a fW jj r# Blaine says he believes now that 1 combination of three thousand adventurers— Mr. Lo"-an will be the next nominee of the with eighty thousand negroes; and yet the his conduct.” Of course, Grant had nothing to do with bringing about the disaster, £|f A little girl, when her father's table was honored by an esteemed guest, began talking very earnestly at the first pause in the conversation. Her father cltcoked her very sharply, saying: “ Why is it that yon always talkso much?" “Tause I’ve dot somesin to people are expected to be as mild and aa say,” was the innocent reply. Wasiiln-qtov, Starch 88.—In the House, the special committee reported a bill which de fines a new class of crime, known as Ku- Klux, which shall be amenable to the Fed eral courts—the jurors to take the iron-clad oath. In the 6 ates where insurrection, in tiie judgment of the President, exists, and where the Governor or Legislature decline to apply for Federal aid, the President may intervene under the plea of enforcing the 14th Amend ment The Senate.hae been discussing the order of business. The Dominican report was not made, as there is a difference of opinion ex isting. The majority^ of the Commissioners t|vaf^^portin^categ*iteil answers to ques irons without recommendation for or against annexation. Waskctotoh, March 28.—There has been no Cabinet meelingto-day, the members visit ing Mt Vernon with the High Commission. No important nominations. No Southern confirmations. In the Senate, resolutions were discussed to adjournment. In the House, A. T. Smith presented a me morial, claiming a seat from the Fourth Mis sissippi District, and protesting against the entire Mississippi delegation. Ref«rr*<i to Committee on Elections. * Uabmrerr, from the special committee j* on the President’s menage, reported a bill for the enforcement of the 14tli Amendment. Argument conUnucs.tf.1 Motfffay. It pro vides that any person who, under color of law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom or usage of any State, shall subject, or cause to be subjected, any person within the juris diction of the United States to the depriva tion of any rights, privileges, or immunities secured by the 1st section of the 14th article of amendments to the Constitution of.the United States, shall any such law, statute, ordinance, regulation, custom or usage of the State to the contrary notwithstanding, b« liable to the party injured in an action at lawMiit in equity or other proceedings for re dress, such proceedings to tie prosecuted in tbs several District or Circuit Courts of the Lnited States, with sad cuuject to the same rights of appeal and review upon error and other remedies provided in like cases in such courts under the provisions of the act ot April it, 130:4, and other remedial laws of the United Stales, which are in their nature ap plicable in such cases. Tiie second section provides that if two or more [tersons shall band, conspire, or combine together to do any act in violation of the rights, privileges, or immunities of any per son to which he is entitled under the Consti tution and laws of the United States, which, if committed within a place under the sole and exclu.ive jurisdiction of the United States woid.t, under a:;v law there iu force, constitute the crims of either murder, man slaughter. msyh-m. robbery, assault ttad bat- tery, ]*erjory, subordination of perjury, crim inal obstruction of legal process, or resistance of officers in discharge of duly, arson or larceny; t.nd if one or more of the parties to atid conspiracy or combination snail do any act to effect the object thereof, all the parties to or engaged in said conspiracy or combination, whether principal or accesso ries, shall be deemed guilt}' at a felony, and upon conviction thereqf, shall be liable to s penalty of not exceeding $10,000, or to im prisonment not exceeding ten years, or Istth, at the discretion of the court: Provided, That if any party or parties to such a con spiracy shall, in furtherance of such common design, commit a crime of wilful murder, such party or parties so guilty shall, upon conviction thereof, suffer death: and pro vided, siso, that any offense punishable under this act, begun in one judicial district of the United States, and conn-1' ;ci! i-t another, n)ay he dealt wild, inquired of, tried, deter mined and punished in cither district. The third section anthorixes the President to employ militia, land or naval forces of tiie United States to suppress insurrection, do mestic violence or unlawful combinations or conspiracies in any State, if tiie constitutional authorities of such State shall be unable to or shall from any cause fali or refuse lo give protaction to the people in the exercise of their rights or privileges. ^fourth section authorizes the President pend the writ of AiCMiU corpus Ana to declare martial lsw in any State where un lawful combinations exist, and be so power ful as to overthrow or act at defiance tiie constitutional authorities of Hie State or in any State where .the authorities ahull canniva at or ba in complicity with'such un lawful combinations : Provided, that the President shall first have made proclamation ns now provided by law, CU.tcnait liug such insurgents to disperse; and provid'd also, that the provijioqs of tilts section rhs!', not he ia fores after the 1st day of June, 1B72. Synopsis sf ths Weather Imports for ihs past Twenty-four fwurr.—The low barometer over Massachusetts on Monday evening has passed to the Northeast hevoud our coast. The area of high pressure on Monday night, in . Ten nessee, now covers Ohio and Lake Michigan. Tiie pressure appears to iiave decidedly fallen wilh a large increase of temperature. In the extreme Northwest the barometer is station ary and iu I lie Rocky Mountains and on the Pacific coast dear weather with occasiatial cloudmcga lias prevailed lo ony. of ths Rooky Mountains, and North of tiie Gulf States, on the immediate Gulf coast, the barometer has fallen slightly, itli threatening weather. Fresh Southeast and Northeast winds, with falling barometer, is probable for Wednesday >n tiie upper lakes, and tiie same, with cloudy or rainy weather on the Gulf States; pnrtialiy cloudy and clear weather wdl probably pre vail on the Atlantic coast and lower lakes. Richmond, March Jy. The jury in the ex-Maydr Cuhqnn case, has been discharged. Tiie Jury stood nine for acquittal and three for conviction. A member of the Legislature and a lawyer have been arrested for corrupt practices in the case. Moiin.n, March 28.—Colonel Ndligan's sorrel colt won the two-year old stake, beat ing the celebrated Saucebox. Williamson, tlmuiri of My Heart and Captain Jinks. Time, l:4tf. The track was very heavy, and the rain falling in torrents. Raleioh, March 28.—The House im peached Edmund \V. Jones, Judge of the Second Judicial District. The charges arc drunkenness and disgraceful conduct in Raleigh, similar conduct in Goldsboro, ditto inTnrboro, ditto in Williamston, where he went to hold court. The Senate received (he charges, and the trial edmmenee* next Fri- dav. New Oki.raks, Msreii 23.—The steamboat Belle of Alton was burned to the waters edge. Tiie hull and machinery was sate-1. Pants, M uch JJ.—Layoite sqya a new Ministry will soon be formed which will iti elude Broglie as Minister of Foreigu Affairs and McMahon Minister of War. The riel: generally abstained from visitin' the polls, and the merchants voted the Con servative ticket, The individuals elected are obscure, with the exception of Flourens, Blanque, l'igatt, and Gambon. Barricading contiues, and the utmost vigi lance is manifested by the insurgent National Guards. Place Yendome has tiie aspect of a camp. It is said the Versailles government ia ne ; gotiatiqg with the Prussians to allow an in crease of the number of French troops on this side of tiie Loire. A rumor says that General Cromer was suspected by the Committtoe, and is gone to Versailles. Versailles, March 28.—Thiers made a brief address in the National Assembly. He defended the wisdom of his policy, and took a solemn oath that he would not betray the Republic. Wasiiinqtok, March *8.—The Dominican Commissioners have agreed upon the report, except upon the matter of health and the debts of the island. They will be ready to report on Thursday—possibly to-morrow. The Commissioners will present no opinions or arguments, but confine thcmsejvea to direct answers to the questions contained in the resolutions under which they were organized. bharp passages were made in the Senate to-day. IIowc, speaking against the Sumner resolutions, said, alluding to Sumner: The mission of the Republican party is not end ed, and he would beseech the man who would engage in its destruction to taks his position with the common enemy, and not, Judas-like, stab in the back the party to which he pro feased to belong. Mr. Scliura said: If It was proven that orders bad been issued to our naval commissioners in gross violation of the Constitution, then something more than mere rhetorical flourishes about General Grant’: eervtcos, or about the Secretaries of State and Navy, would be required to answer the proof. Schurz proceeded to argue that, under the constitutional clause, vesting in Congress the war-making power, the Executive could not commit an act of war unless of setusi inva sion of the territory of the United State* or ire express'congressional authority. The instructions of the President to our naval force, directing them in certain con- power with which we are at peace, was most - clearly a usurpation of the war-making power. I _ In reply to queries by Howe ana Stew-1 n * a sound-^sttkk * • I 1 r. . - ' rosn-fl ” ■tt a t t wv hat V>K B - 4 DEAD art as to \fliether discretionary power I was rot y?st(*d in the President, Shura added that if these Senators I would turn to the debates of the Senate! in February, 1859, they would find that President Buchanan had asked for discre- ISSUES”—SHALL WK HAVE A CONSTITU TIONAL UNION OR AN AB«9Li ME NT—THE ABOLITION OF FBAGE NOT THE ISSUE. Washington, 3Iyh 18,T^1.^ To M. M. Cooke, Editor ojjTu Monigormcy, City and Suburban A Anew locomotive, the “ Chambers.” tat th. &>M Ai,b*nra and Clnolmratl luUrSi Sung through her* roitrday. 1 " l * Tra annual S^kh‘„ Ucffi . Convention of th.CArt~.riUe a* Vs, w « RAilrozd. ^ SG^ «t OsrtMTlll., on the 13th of April. ' ScBBCRiprionaj—From .1! direction* nob- rertjilpnrt.ro strtdlly pouring in . They reach .1 from California sad many of the far WeeteenSutre! Tun Atlanta Presbytery" meets in West Point, of April. Erom the well-taiown hospiralUfcof the citizens of West Point, w. fe«iro7 fldent thet^hr oeembera of the Presbytery will ... their sojourn three, both pleasant and sgreeshiw lyMAXhtRjpnx H. Dkst, l\ mounted'V* . dkthe If|nte Commeratsrt. nt is^ dneut an.J forcible wtflhr, a p‘sctt3f% V “d » f P<8j£i«t udtf^euuin. We extend the tionnry power to protect our citizens in Ala., Mail—Dear Sir: Yours of the 11th transit over the Isthmus of Panama, and the instant has just been received^ I am flattered Senate had indignantly refused it. It was: by your request that I stjpnld endeavor to np to him npon his secession to most audacious to contend, for that was the logic of it, that the President had tlia power to steal the war nuking power from Congress. Tim fact was tlteV President Grant had falletfhjfto^fte mistake of supposing he was the United States of America, fi sntackcj strongly of what was called in Fraaoe personal government. Washington, March 30.—In ihe House the Ku-Klux bill was discussed. Wood read from the messages of Souther* Governors to show that peace prevails in all those States, with but a few exceptions in several of them. He denounced as infamous, the incendiary re marks of Kelly, delivered t c..terday, and ex- pre-.sed the hope that if ever there should be war of races the negr >»s would select a man more valiant than K- i! r, who, during the disturbance in Mobile, Mil under a tabled pretending that he was dead. The Senate adopted AathooyT resolution allowing the* ontidcratioa of any bill on the South, passed by the House. D.tvis made a speech refuting Sherman’s charges against the South. Previous to its M. conclusion, an incident of unusual character j or not, and it does occurred, which excited considerable com j put the Government in t ment in the galierias and upon the floor. 1 *' —* ' Butler, of Massachusetts, who was OCCU*: valid or invalid. compose the “ dead issue ” ccntrovepty among Our friends in the South, $nd PyiiigUt be tempted to proffer^fltv djvTbe toTh^ni if 4 thought It would be effective. But our peo ple don’t like to be advised. They prefer discussion, and to perform their opinions on public questions by that process, i have con tributed in that way, and shall continue to «o so to the utmost of my abilitv. In my judgment the actual 'issue of the campaign is the broad one, whether we have » Federal Union on a constitutional basis, or »n absolute Government with [toner in the hands of those who possess it to prolong its own existence indefinitely. This draws in review the past, and continuing process by which the arbitrary Government of to-ikiv has been established and is to be maintained, and the reconstruction sets and the amend-' menu must necessarily figure in this review;, hut the question of whether they went through tlto forms that entitle them to be put <11 the statue book is really an immaterial an?. It does not change the argument a par ticle whether the forms w-re ...i.-,', with eet our ability to . . ■bauds of the peo ple if we carry the electijj, whether tli-v are pying the scat of Senator Thurman, immedi ately adjoining that of Davis, had been fori were adopted, and tli some time intently observing Davis as he ! measures passed und prococ-ded. Davis growing restive, and 1 ' —^ ’ - with his usual warmth and earnestness, sud denly faced Butler, and continuing his argu ment against the credibility of aggravated Ku-Klux stories, said: “ These fictitious charges are originated by tarries to affect the coming elections. The Legislatures to be elected are to gfiooge one- third of the members of this Senate, and it The manner in which these amendments till more significant , . . 'posed for their <n- roreemeut, ought to satisfy men u f „][ Sl . c . lions and parties that liberty itself p. s ; „; r- | ;e in the coming conflict. No thoughtful oh- server of the present cptet of public aff M tr S who does not, from timidity, willfully shut ins eyes to the conclusion': bis reason can doubt, that those w-. fo power hrve subverted the orgatii, law. In dwi nice of thi known Will of the people v, ,11: fail toad,.pi iuu-u ima ocnuic, auu ii Known Witt OI tile pel iV; v, ii::,. fail toad, ■ -l is with a viewof using this political capital any other measures of L . : ! o- ,i,. for these diabolical and devilish ends that which may be fomuj r.: t:> w'uVi’ii' the.e vile and slanderous stories of outrages 'dipin in posession of it, and'tint our oillv emanate from tlte brains of political scouu- Nceuritv against new and gr.-ater vioh-i,- emanate from the brain* of political scouu- .ceuritv against new drels and ruffians." than has heretofore be After taking his seat, observing Butler still timely awakening of t,, staring at him, Davis rose and, addressing j dangers which surround the latter, w :s heard to say : " What do you ‘ spirit may mean by attempting to browbeat me in that tiseuibark I way ? you are a d d scoundrel, sir!" add- j or lo effect not to see this d ;n „ , ing, after a pause, “Yes, sir, I repeat it, you j gage the public mind in ;L.~u ore a d——d scoundrel, sir." j economic and civil service mo::- At this juncture, Wilson came from his belittle the Iron man who so i be arovt ;ed will- ark those d.-.i,-. 1 ter vioiem n practiced, is bv the 'pie to the' real em—so that a 1 i that Senate to his feet which h , at their bar, U to seat on tiie qjlier side of the chamber, an endeavored to prevent a ccittinuaqce of tho I cesser plead in scene. Duller soon after left the chamber. I a lien there is It is reported that he replied to Davis, “1 j betray ihe country, don’t know you, sir; I don't care for you, If our friends won and I don't want to speak to you.” The Senate adopted a resolution instruct- iug tiie Secretary of War to cause the Engi neer of the Department to extend the survey of the Etowah rp-er, already ordered, to the | \lrcadv see it, tn spi Octnuigee river, so as to embrace the eat' ‘ mates for •verawe and Not to sec and to ca- icussiou of ires, and to -ly brought liis prede- erv “ peace tribute io ijght hen* of fijilo ths frjtm-nity.L Tiie Mayori^c'Vu t was largely attended yesterday. ItrAVjJuqg mca accidentally happenep *p there to tea Two of ths dmi mends plead galltj- and?aU|hfiyr'.Jiiea, While other* plead to the jqriadloiiori <if the Mayor, aud tlieir rues go up to ths Senatorial l^st^'Court. YkstkriSat, while Cliiefi Justice Brown was at diancr, a negro fa^c-thief entered the halt and carried off the overcoat of ou*'young friend Jn- Hus L. Biown. valued iff fortviollare. Some sneak-thief also stole the harness belonging to Dr. IV. F. Westmoreland, jfom hia soflile. Verily, aneak-thieting la the order of the day. Tub April number of the Southern Farm and Homs ie on our table, filled witlj excellent matter and haudsomely illustrated. Gen. Browne, iu aoeom" piiahed editor, wields a trenchant pen. and is iui‘ tain si by an able corps of contributors. The May number a ill ceutaiu th* commencement of an Inter esting serial, “The Netted," from the pen of Mery Faith I-’loyd, the gifted and popular author. An In teresting letter from Miss Elizabeth Dusthrueh will Iso appear in May. J. W. Burke Sz Co., Maeon, pub lishers. Tonus, $2 per annum. w hen there D no peace,” an l . tiff unite In an earnest effort to arouse tiie cduutiy, -.11 v. ill he well. And to this end it is only ne- - -ary to let the people see what tiie real is.-ne j... S„, have'l fears that they vyill {ail to see it. The-. spite of the mistaken efforts f some of dhr friends tv hi counsel w:,;.i Last night, tome imjiecunious wretch, •om* villain doubly dyed, entered the hall of th« retidcnco of L. B. Daria, Eaq , while the hoarder* were- at supper, aad abstracted from ibe rock the hot of the l<>coi editor of Th* Cojcstititior. and that of another gentleman. Aa tho hot cf this local waa a* old one, he cares but little for ft; though the hat waa fell, it* lost will not bo. Though tho name of tho other unfortunate is Heard, hia hat haa not boon heard from. Look out for aut-ak thieve?. ]lat* will be re ceived up to 8 o'clock for tho relief of the hatleaa. Ticket Agents' Convention.—'Three mtfwftuant sleeping car?, the “ State of Georgia,” “Cityof Memphis,** and “Qity of Galveston," were attached to the regular passenger train of the hlaeoa and Western Railroad yesterday, for the accommoda tion of the delegates and guests to the Ticket Agents’ Convention at Savannah. There were a large nurnbar of railroad officials from ether States, many of them accompanied by ladies We noticed frarn Atlanta, B. W. Wiana, of the Western and Atlautic Railroad; W. J. Houston, Atlanta aud West Point Railroad ; J. R. Peck, H. T. Phillips. Dr. J. N. Simmons, E. N. Kimball and family, Sidney D«ll and others. The ar rangements for tiie comfort of the delegates and guc&ts were ample and luxurious. ;ip»i OKWretiog these two rivers j they thins is policy, as if it was a matter of ipetiiag unobstructed water| .-onvciHion among public mon what the issue-, sippi river j riiouM be, aqt} not a matter <»f fart, which they cannot control any more than they can plllk £ cosnnumiottiou l c*tween tho Misi and tlte Atlautic. tij/aoj** of Hit Weather Report for the part the'ail vent of the seasons. They muv not sec f.o, r It SO plainly, either because th.-v d,,' u „ t Twenty four Hours.—It is probable that the it clouds and rain will, on Friday, be broken . sc >re or less, from the Middle 8tat e with sufficient r shrink from 1 he diffeKnccs among our friend' you refer are not serious, Tn- y ai pandit urea of the Stale g< A preamble and nsoluticnj were adopted, declaring that the bonds h< rdoforc issued without legal sanction, and thc&o-cVilcd lin*4 loan, or any other liQipju lu fwKd'ore is sued wi/hjviU function, and the (>4*-ealled sterling loan or any other bonds or obligations hereafter issued, purporting to be under and by virtue of the authority of the present State Government, will not be held binding on us; and that we ahull in every manner, and at all times resits: the payment (hereof or'-tho enforcement of | 1,. ^ . , , , w r . PP any tax, to pay the same by al! iegitimate ! tr ici of Columbia. w)‘» , J ii wa* first stortcii. I iu e>‘P. At tl» neve, el)hfly froui ihe niiKtaken idea that tboM who continue to as u.l rcuruction and the amendinente intend t»> abolish negro I v rtia s f*>r tlhs prize. We suffrage. This is not the object, and it is a | we cou-rafUstc the eomp: ry inadequate view of tiie subject. suhra^e really depends very little on the ] amendments, because, among other things, it lias not accomplished Urn object of those who imposed it, (which was to j;ive them control l The Knights of Jericho liavo lieen re- •rganizwl n Atlanka. At a meeting held at the room of Capitol Louge, Odd Fcliows', corner of Mitchaii and Broad strcuU, last cvaelng, the foUowing officer* were cWted: Elder P. Perdue, Chief. C. A. Bowen, Chaplain. W. G. Fo;-syth, Scaratary. J, J. Font, Treasurer. K. T. l'dui.iaiar, ileraid. J. y. Recv. a. Marshal, G. S. ClanSy, On*rd. W. Kelt par, imtim Ja»u<« P. Perd'uA, Preceptor. Tli^ next meeting will be held on Saturday night, f Cajdtol Lodge. The Wilcoxes Manupacturino Comta- —The Newnan Herald eava: “ W’e are pleased f hat on last Tuesday, Capt. H. J. Sargent diploma from the Cincinnati Industrial on, certifying that at the Exhibition held at unall, October 23, 1870. the first premium on ifliting and Cotton Yarns, had boon awarded to the WUcoxen Manufacturing Company, of thia county. This fact will be recogniaed a* very compli mentary to the Company, when it is recollected that y every factory in the United States was com- bsUvre the award just, and inny upon this high reoog- This j ait i° n of the merit of the lr good*.” at the r means within our power. A resolution nlso provides fora State Con- I ention of tbx-payers to meet in <’ohunl)ia,; fldent, unless, after .4 fair iri lay 9th, which Will confer with the CJov-1 he necessary for eminent on the dangerous fiscal condition of I5lh amendment will, in this event, bc casi; negre the Stale. Paris, March 30.—'Th© manufacturers of \ ready cs;* Paris have received permission from the au thorities nt Hotel de Ville to resume work. The men must keep their arms stacked ready L>r use, as a conflict is very probable. The communists stiil disagree among them selves as to future movements. No courts are open in Paris, all the Judges having flcxl from the city. In the National Assembly, Thiers has de- i tion of t ! , dared the withdrawal of the Germans from France for the moment suspended. More German troops will enter Paris, and the French, forces will be increased proportion ately. London, March 85.—In the House of Com mons, to-night, a petition was presented, bearing the signatures of a quarter of million of persons, asking for the repeal of the Con tagious Disease Act City I\JFiu>VKintNTS.—In a lengthy stroll through the Fourth, Third and Second Wards, a few t ^ fV4-n'v\i; » ago, vcc ml* a\uU«a targe numbot of houaca of the Southland they have begun" ihcm^J J' ae * shwted, and in proccas «>f construction. Not a ©t7v0f», ■J.c.np,' ff> *V *, **'- *- ; .n i>*- > atrectvUiat we r*a??ed through but had new honse? go* ^.-nrr of IVjor and Fair atrecta. a nence near Raw?onv..Ie, W. A. as comn'.enct'd Luilding a r.eat and ce. A'line view of the city i? had d we have not m*en a inure eligible Th • bulidlrg v ill combine both But the States which Imre • ; propose to revoke it, od Gove cd it do i t, I am con is shown t< •nt. Tin disjKx^e.i of, for the Hudica s, who have al- •ady caused to have a motive to maintain it. ill have ceased to cant on Ihe subject. It is not, therefore, to get rid of negro suf- J j Hemphill. Erq., hubrlantia! reald I from thi? point, t-lta In the city, beau utility, comfortable t The grading around the City Ilall i prorrmeut of many street?, ?hov wtivtJy rt work. V< ae ornamental, ire. and the fm- l:at the Street , u _ , he condition of frage that we continue tt» assail and refuse to I Hccatnr street, a great thoroughfare, and the corner acquiesce in. usurpaliou ', by which the Gov- j of Calhoun and Railroad ttreeta should ba &t:cndod err.menta of the peopic have been-, and will f to at once by the Contmiticu. continue to lie, wrested from them. The l ~ contest is not to take away suffrage from the Contagious Disease of Plants.—In i, blit to preserve that wise distrihw- | late iasue of the Plantation, lir. E. Vo i the renowned florist, contribute? i t() prove.:: fionariek v, and wilt in and ensi.-m Youib wers oi in uovuMuncHt with- . : suflrage is but a mockery, and l control Ia/ ‘‘he national’ func- j. h is sure to civaie imperialism, v iably degrade, impoverish and the toiling masios. r tly, Frank P. Blair. Georgia Affairs, vali; ii Goit?no\an T ihi- a: tide on its,in hieopiik- us. a» varied, contend* that of caloric are the contagloH? diseases of plants, l’la ion, are subject to diseases as ntunor and as fatal as those or animate. He the law? which govern the distribution more frequently thau it is supposed, disturbed by aa extraordinary concourse of astronomical circanjstan- cc* whose apjmcciation may escape even the observa* tion of the naturalist, and thero undergo, then, in meteorology, revolutions which startle agriculture V,. . ... IL Bewitching Bullock has issued a writ j aad compromise, with startling effect, the health of •I atiihorUing the Oidinary of Floyd county to . vegetable as well as that of animated beings. ~ A ~ ” “der an election to fill the vacancy occa- the right of the House of Lords <o. r..gHiiv’c a bill which had bee»; passed by the House of Commons, ami expressing the opinion that such action on the part of the House of Lords is inconsistent w ith the system of a represen tation of the bill. Sir Charles Dilke denounced the action cf Ilu*da in repudiating the treaty of Paris of 1856; and also the tone of the dispatch of Prince Gortsclmkoff, announcing the aban donment of the treaty. He blamed Earl Granville for consenting to re-open the Euxine questior^n the London Conference; and asserted that, owing to collusion between iiussia aud Prussia, the result of tU? ConfeF- ence wi;-. ineviubl.'?. Paris, March 80 —The copies of the Fi garo, which were on sale at all news stands, were aeized by th© Nationals to-dav. The fllce of the paper has been occupied and its *occa-j .^A.. GartrelL sioned bv the death of Capt. II [ Home Commercial. Another Villa ny.—It. Bad Bullock has com- mitted another conspicuous villainy! Some time ago, (when Ku-Kluxes were worth $1,000 in domestic markets.) it will be remem bered that It. Iiad B. offered one thousand dollars for the arrest of Aaron Lamb. Lamb was arrested ; the thousand dollars paid; and now, in less than two months, the infamous Governor pardons the said Lamb out of jail. [Home Commerce id. A party calling himself “ Ali writes to the Constitutionalist, without, however, giv ing Ills name, stating tli u some years ago. while he was in the f \r West, a Frenchman who was dying loft him the diagram, on piece of ivory, of a house and premises in Augusta, where a box of treasure had ori" > - publication forbidden. . ,r. , „ , ,- *7 Tin: Crl du lVupl* and Francai. both make j n ‘ ll ,' y Juried hr tho I renchman and l,ii tl.o announcement tlmt General Lalemand ; ^ . m ~ ;in ' ! »*'« '>«- ha* comj'lelely suppressed llie rkia^ in Al-! J} , , . patten n> .he d.niee, until one --'-ia Lday the sight of his little boy playing with Iii. expected that the Peace Conference! * l , ,e lTor >' theeircumrianees “AU is" 1 — - - - at onee adopted a peculiar course to deter mine the location of the lucre, and finally, on thS night of the 22d, excavated the yard - Ilere a tin Ikix contsminj $'J,:t7.7 and some diamonds was found. “Alias” al onee hanged KUilty alleaipt against the existence of the ° ff wi,h committee. General Du.al was at tho same Ito^^er o sen, a lonj expose to the Angus- K rtii U Constitutionalist At the laying of the corner stone of the Germania Fire Company’s Hall, in Sav.in- n di, Mr. Fallignnt drew a parallel between the peace of Emperor WlllUiu and Emperor at Brussels will continue its sessions for a long time. At 1 this evening, the sub-Contral Commit tee passed sentence of death on Wilfred Fou- i<*Ue for itelng engaged in an obstinate and lime authorized to search out and arrest all the enemies of the Commune. The Cri du People, Vengeur^and Nouvelle ItepnWique attack the Assembly in violent terms. There are, however, no sign* of au attack on Versailles. The Executive Committee appointed by Grant. Her»j is a paragraph the Sub-CVn'ral Committee, ia compiled of Tridon, Eudes, Vaillalt, Le Francaise, Duval, Pyat and Bcrgeret, and wiU have charge of aflair* for one mnntlv s in the category of thoee impohiug phenomena Unfit we must trace back the cause? of those counties* and unaccouutable disease# which have stricken firs^ p_>ut>cs ami many herbaceous plant-, aud lately tho grape vino. BCTLEtt. AN ANECDOTE AIIOUT HIM AND HI6 INFAMOUS NEW ORLEANS WOMEN ORDER. A correspondent who professes to know a great deal about the history of General B. F. Butler, writes to say that the chief reason for Butler’s animosity against England was the comments of the English journals, und more especially of Lord Palmerston, then Prime Minister of England, upon Butler’s cele brated woman order, issued while he was in command of New Orleans. Our correHpond- ent says that when the New York journals containing Palmerston’s speech arrived in New Orleans, where Gen. Butler was then in command, the General happened to be at din ner in the house formerly occupied by Gen. Twiggs, of the Confederate army, 44 and very prominent en the table was the silverware of that exiled Confederate.” In the midst of the dinner the New York nerald was brought in containing Palmerston’s speech. Having read it, Butler cursed Palmerston violently,ad ding that “ he would be d to li ir the time would not yet come when he would iasue the same general order in the streets of Liverpool.” Our correspondent requests us to communicate his name to General Butler if the General desires.—if. Y. Sun. ttT*The Washington Patriot says: 44 There are fresh intimations llmt Senator Morton will soon rotire from his present position, and the question arises, where is he goin^ ? The l>elief that he will retire, results from m- formation entitled to credjt,” tSy* The eternal mares’ nests the Republi cans discover South, make one think of Bill Arp’s lamentation in 1865— 44 This is the most hardest war to wind up that history records.” [Hew York WorUi. tSF” A Sedalia editor says that a girl who is now called 44 a beautiful blonde” would a When the Pros id cut of our Rc-public says. Let us have peace,” he does not mean i peace—but, rather, discord and *»nar» liy and sectional hate. lie lifts the banner of cal tunny and falsehood, and marshals thi fiercest passions of men to the perpetration of a crime against the civilization of the age. liis peace means a vanished constitution, the tramp of armed men in the Temple of Liber ty. the forced elevation of the inferior race, the forced degradation of the superior. Lieutenant J. II. Bradley of the Federal toops, in Atlanta, forwarded to Colonel F. G. Wilkins, of Columbus, taken in 1861, on the Laurel 11111 retreat, in West Virginia. Thus says the Columbus Enquirer. The Newnan Defender is proud of the new jail in Coweta county. The little blind daughter of Mr. Tliomasson, of Carroll county, through an operation of Dr. Abner Calhoun, sees for the first time. She was so delighted at light, that she called for every body to help her feet grateful for the boon. Columbus Busineu for 1869 and 1870.—In 1869 our merchants paidTaxes on sales to the amount of $4/560,000. T)ollections for 1870 arc not yet completed, but the books show $4,440,000 worth of goods sold. The tax on sales is one-half of one per cent. The amount that remains to be collected will probably make the total amount about equal to 1869. This shows that the business last year was much larger than that of 1869. because the prices were much reduced. Columbus, wilh difficulty, holds her own in general trade; though she is advancing slowly and steadily in sending out the products of tier own man ufacturers. What she needs is railroad en terprise.—Columbus tSun. Three companies will soon begin to wash for diamonds in Ilall count}*. The Athens Watchman savs a negro has Colonel Albert Smith, brother of Lar kin Smith, of Hi!? city, died in Nar/av!lle. on Tuaaday, uf tvphold fev«r, uftor r.o illnofts of two wceka. He was horn in Norfolk. Virginia, in 1821. « He an t**red the United State? army In the Paymaster*? De partin^nt at cweutj yearn of age, and •-pent twelv* year? on the plains of New Mexico and California in tteo service of the United StatM Government. On the breaking out of the late civil war. he wan on duty at Key Weft, Florida, when, in obedience to what he, in common with tnaay of the officer? of the old army who were of Southern birth anil kindred, con ceived to be hi? duty, rroigticd bi* commis sion and took service in the Confederate States army, repotted at Richmond for duty and was as- rigned to the lat« Geneial Albert Sidney Johueton, who appointed ..ini Chief quartermaster on his Staff. He was ou the field with General Johnston when tho latter was slain, received Lis fal’. n cl.iuftaiu in hi* arms, and waa delegated to eacortthal herou't remain* to New Orleans. During the wsr he was married itx Atlanta, Georgia, to the second daughter of Mm. HI lex* I). Hough, cf Nashville. He wi? a brutterof General Larkin Smith, Assistant <^uartennns:er-Gen- e:al of the Confcderatv State? during the war, and also of Dr. C'harie? H. Smith, formerly surgeon in the United Slates Army. Hi? father waa ateo an officer of ths old army of the United State** and divd in Its terrice At the close of the war. Col. S.uith made hi? residence in Nashville, and t-ince the •esaatlon of hostilities, had received final papers of setllemrnt from the United States War Department, in full discharge of his obi ration* as a dteburring of ficer before the war. Br*d to the profession of a roL dicr. the close of the war found him with his occupa tion gone, and the tats of a little lAwily de pendent upon his individual efforts. lie was not a nian, even under such ci ruinstance# to fold his arms iu lia!less despondency. Ho applied at the office of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Company for employment, aud signified his willingness to take the humblest clerical position rsthsr than be unemployed. He proved a most efficient and valuable officer, and at the time of his death wae agent of the “Virginia and Tennessee Air-LJin,” and by untiring industry and energy built np for thi? line a large and prosperous business, tho number of articles i fruits of which he wa? about to share, wh«*n death's i untimely baud retnovsd him from that sphere of uee- ; fulness, at s time when his hopes wore highest and prospect# brightest. Rumored Cabinet Changes.—I learned, from a «*onrce entitled to credit, last night, that immediately after the Connecticut elec tion Mr. Bout well will vacate his place in tl • Treasury, and O. P. Morton be appointed Secretary. I told you this some time since, and I am persuaded that it is entirely true When the Joint High Commission terminate its arduous diplomatic labors, the Hon. Ham ilton Fish will be returned to his family vault io his cemetery on the Hudson, and ex-Sena- tor 31organ, of New York, will take his place. It is said that 31r. Akerman may go out at any time, and has been anxious to U' relieved for months past. In this general breaking up of the Cabinet I should not be surprised if the Postmaster-General receives i>ermis- Aon to retire also. He is regarded wilh well- founded suspicion since the Chorpenning and oilier exposures have been made, by the party at large, while a steady pressure is* felt from Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania always looks upon cither the Interior or Post-office Depart ment as belonging to herself, and she is irri tated, jealous and unhappy if these positions are assigned to other States.— Washington Cor. Cincinnati (tymmercial. tingencic* to fire upon the vessels of Hayti, a hsad. Ls? Lc Soir says the terms of peace were m 4 j- . l | strongly opposed by the Crown Prince, who been arrested for burning Richardson s house, thought they compromised the future inter- few yean ago have been termed a 41 tow- This negro had.been wronged by Richard- cstsof Germany, The Prince is now on the ” — I worst terms with Count Bismarck.