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* ATLANTA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20.
The Staeral Aniakijr
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Brevities.
The 6m Fructoeo pipen cell Oklseee faro “oeU«-
attlfer.'
The «*■> of fll.OSJ.S 0 m> exceeded la building
«* Hiywii Uat jeer la Bicbnwd. V».
They here bad a Jealoiu woman la Ornate, and the
* Tee eare that »Us u a itoeth la speech and a Balnnl
: nsad to claim that it was Jut at proper to
«i ear**plater atftoV* astern? **a milob cow,**and
• baste man Lao a level head.
•sne ooe tea alecorered that to acquire ao InUinate
* haew elite of the ‘‘Raj* of Three” one should live
* trtth hla wife, mother sad mother•ia-law.
nuroews a room with eight e oners. In each eor.
* rwer there-eat a ca<; bofote each cat sat seven other
* cate, and* u eacti a'. - tail tat a cat. How man; .cats
la ah:
Istooru boatt him that he Is safe now-adaja-
■'. .Sedeeeta salt for breach of promise was last
served on a convict la tbs Indiana penltea-
At dhe Ciaui State Agricnltaral College, Han.
• hattan, tb« jounglal; s'aleoteare taught to manip
ulate toe ii«atnins’a of Pacic'a fcrdle and curb the
Tampan leewing machine.
Itootts on!; handred and one thousand dollars
for a year’s sweeping out and watching the Treasury
• 'halMing at Washington. Was ever such an astound*
v .tag exhibit heard of in any country before?
A'negro woman mads a Chrletmis pie for her lord,
rwho is in jilt at At tea*. The vigilant jailor exam-
• nod it, and foand thru flies, a box of matches, ate.
■ “here Qod, maae'r,” she said, *'I dinno how dat ole
tereber did • waller dem files.”
- Ooe of the largest rewards ever offered in th:
'-United States la contemplated In a bill which has
irpaased the California - Legislature authorizing the
' vrOovernor to pay fifteen thoosand dollars for the esp-
etnre of a brigand named Vasques and his band.
TheBoaton Pott lays Itself liable for asultby the
rujeeMe arm; of honeat men who are sacrificing every
>-• -Ate* In tlielr efforts to serve us In Washington,
whdn it aaye th it all Colorado need to do to “get In”
• te take her gold to Ooagrees anl be Jndielou
IBB LEGISLATURE.
Rents Tn»
We bare nothing special to say. We
shall look for an active session. Let a Com*
mittee be appointed to whom all proposed
amendments to the Constitution shall be sub
mitted, so that any changes needed in our
organic law can be pat in proper shape and
attended to right away.
We be glad to welcome members to
our sanctum.
Okiwy■ Re*
■master
Tharsaa* sf
Elected.
- Ad the oork used In honion camel fro m that por-
ot Spain held by the Guttata. Haas the war
«* the nark aaaaafactaren of the United Kingdom hsva
heanrtterlj rained in their baelnees, and the Lon-
- •- flaaara have to keep their months over their bottles to
' .’ r art want the oontenta from escaping.
A marriage of ratha: a singular deeorlptlon took
-r place tn Greenbrier, Vs., a short time since. A young
'*na about eighteen years of age, by the name ot
married hla grandmother, a lady nearly forty.
/Hrthis coup de mtin he beeimea his father’s pa and
' f- ilk-own grand! a her, and thereby oc.nples a sopreme-
. yvndrpeLdeut and inevitable po ldoa.
fChe people of'Wilmington. N 0., weleirn, are
^te-viy enraged i bat the placa selected tor sir k'ng the
Vhc-iniui ehould have been right at the month of
v-5h*»r harbor, and In the channel atd track of ihtlr
coanntrce. Lying where tne wieoS does, it endangers
•-•eanry ship that pisrea In or out of that port. The
-- opinion Is ttamnimjoe there that the vessel was de-
- atgaealy eonk.
The ladles d'cUre the new eonetitutlon of Penn*
r syteamade lgb.ful. and pr >po<>e to have things their
- •-W.m way—as if th-;' hidu’c aiwjya! — because it pro-
- ■WvZbu that'’women <jf tweoij-one rente and upward*
-a hail bo eligible’o any oil :e of contra or macage-
• * neat under the school lawiof thla State.” No more
- A vSO a ram th to men and (49 a month to women who
* .To the tame work.
Daughter of the house ito a privileged old riendof
■ A.he family)—’’./ear Hr. La.iaa, you don't seem to be
-’•-“J 'jing yoora If I *h mid *o like to have y< a waltz
. *BAat« otioo with me •• Privileged old friend—"Hy
- >-A ter child, I dno’c, d.tuoe; bat if if suits yon,
temuloatmtod si.IBs here .with ear arm* aroand
s 'JlpWir waist Wlitjj*,, iflj otbera an making ibwmielviii
kRri Qeaat Da.le, of Text*-: ’The thing
*es*a't be did, ollrwl. You se t you’ve done rone and
i.-W ityo c foot In it by a going the act providing for
•*' demon; you iuu y .ur men against thelra under
’41« provisions of the same-law, and got beaten out'of
!-J«r i>o*w; and now all that la left to yon la to grin
•« ’d hear It the beet you can. Yon can’t expect me to
»ahe charge or your fuaeral.”
| AlezMrtre Dumas ua’d to tell the following anec-
04 ate: Being one evening at the San Carlo, Naples,
the entered into convert itlon wlih a stranger Bitting
wi the stall neqt to him. • I hope,” the latter, at
<4 edcse of the performance, “that we may have the
.T-«««re«' meetingagilu-Iam AUiandre Dumas.”
-AOh, Indeed I” replied the celebrated novellrt, with
>*'8 gay laugh, "ararn !'■ The aurangei- colUpsed.
. Two darkles in th j West wentout to bunt 'poseumg,
awr.dby accident lound a large cave with asmall en
hance. Peepin in they dlecovered three, yonng
offer- whelp* In the luttrior. “Look lieth. Sim while
.’iro luoar," said one, "and gets de young bars, you
-oat watch hose for de ole bar.” 8am got asleep m
’ Ac dun, and when opening hla e;ee he saw lh'old
hear aoouring her wiy Into the cave. Quick as wink
■ he caught her by Li tail and held on like bl zes
"‘Hullo, dar, 8irn, what dark de hole dar?” “Lor
* hloaeyou, Jumbo, save yourself, honey; if dis tai*
- ooraeout you'll find what dark de hole.”
Yon should eee, rays a letter in the Arcadian, Had-
ame Nilaaeo In the domes tie circle. She hag the
. jBMt wonderfol'iacnUy of Ingratiating herself with
- children. She will gat down on the floor among them,
into all their fun and Infantile architecture, and
t precipitate thMuin o eoatides by whittling for
. and she whlltlee like a flats era nightingale, or
' ylayiag the violin,-- It is really wondarfol to hear her
* wteiUe; no one could ever do It better. There is
aofelag aha Is fonder of than a good romp with a lot
- at lively children; aha makes them all infatuated
-wMwWt-her In leea than a minute, and ehskiokaup
u-waoreaelse thin an eight ham power school girl.
The telegraph tells us that the great State
of Ohio has honored itsqjf by re-electing Sen
ator Allen G. Thurman, that able Democratic
statesman as United States Senator.
Hr. Thurman is one ot the ablest statesmen
of the nation, and his re-election is one of the
fruits of the recent Democratic victories,
which are simply precursors of more sweep
ing triumphs.
Good for Ohio.
Gaffes on Civil Blgbts.
The speech of Congressman Elliott, from
South Carolina, a coal black negro, on the
Civil Bights bill appears to have attracted
much attention. He is said to haye been ed
ucated in England and went from Massachu
setts to Charleston in 1866. He appears to
have a good bearing and reads his speech so
as to draw applause. The reports do not say
who wrote his speech. This is the descrip
tion of his speech:
His speech was a warm eulogy of the
patriotism of his race; a critical discussion
of a decision of tbe Supreme Court on the
Constitutional amendments in the so-called
“Slaughter-house cases;” an appeal to the
'memories and feelings of the war to weaken
the effect of Mr. Stephens’ argument, and a
demand for the passage of the bill as a
measure of justice to his race. In
his replies to some of the expres
sions which the Southern Democrats had
been so unfortunate as to use in the discus
sion, Mr. Elliott displayed great ingenuity,
especially, when referring to Mr. Harris’ re-
marks, yesterday, when interrupted by Mr.
Ransier, that he “was speaking to white
men.” He said: “I will show, the gen-
tlemin from Virginia that the negro* is
too magnanimous to smite him in his
weakness, and charitable enough to grant him
the mercy of his silence.” Mr. Elliott did
not fully act out his professions of magna
nimity, however, for soon after he dealt Mr.
H arris an ugly blow when he said, “The negro
aims at a higher standard of intellectual at-
tainmentthan’w as exhibited in the speech of
the gentleman from Virginia.” Among the
listeners to Mr. Elliott’s speech was Uen.
Sherman.
erate letter came to light, and swiftly Grant
withdraws him from the coveted ermine.
Caleb must quit writing letters. Their
horrid ghosts haunt a poor devil like incar
nate doom. Grant aghast with horror at
the Confederate epistolary proclivities
of his appointee, is no undramatic picture.
Bat Cushing floored with a forgotten miaabre
is a spectacle too full of tender comicality le
be dwelt npon. Grant aghast, Hsdicalism hor
rified, and Cashing dumbfounded, constitute
an historic pi:ture that will go sounding
down the ages.
Verily no prettier farce hath the world to
look at Radicalism is versatile. It fur
nishes comedy as well as tragedy.
Where shall Grant go to find a suitable
Chief Justice? It seems as if fate were hav
ing a specialty of fan in sporting with the
giave subject. Grant put np Williams and
a thief unmasked. He substituted Cashing
and—presto! a horrid Rebel popped'out.
Next!
General Gordon on tne Salary Hill.
Oar morning dispatches .tell ns that Gen
eral Gordon made a speech on the salary bill
in the United States Senate yesterday'that
attracted a good deal of attenti m on account
of its kindly reference to the conduct of the
Federals at Lee’s surrender and the disclaimer
of - any nnkind feeling against General Grant
personally.
The following is the substance of General
Gordon's remarks on the salary, bill on the
8th, which shows his position:
Mr. Gordon, (dem.) of Georgia, favored the
redaction of salaries of Congressmen, as
well as those of high military and naval
officers. He believed the General of tbe
army received in pay and allowances $20,000
per annum, and he intended to introduce an
amendment at the proper time curtailing all
salaries. He thonght $6,000 per annnm fair
pay for a Congressman, and, therefor, fa-
vored the House bill, as it made the pay of
all equal. . High naval and military officers
receive more compensation than Congress
men, and had nothing like their responsibility
The recent report of the Secretary of the
Senate showed that the average amount re
ceived by Senators in 1872 was $5,989 eaflA,
bat a few dollars less than the amount pro-
posed by the House bilL Be was willing to
vole for $6,000, $5,000 or $4,000 'salary for
Congressmen, but there must be a similar re-
ductlon in the salaries of other officers of
the government. He favored the passage of
a law tor retrenching by millions of dollars
nstead of by hundreds.
A Seuikie Beielatien.
According to oar morning telegrams, the
National Home of Representatives has
passed, by an overwhelming majority, a meat
sensible resolution. It has determined that
it will vote no more taxes, bat that the ex
penses of the Government shall be brought
down within the limits of present taxation.
This is emphatically the right thing. Let
expedaea be reduced and not taxation in
creased. Let the immense army of govern
ment supernumeraries and need less and
costly hangers-on be dismissed. Iflt econo
my be practiced in every department of the
government. Let Credit—Mohilier jobs
cease. Let the administration cease to
prostitute the Treasury to partisan
schemes. Let these and other good
things be done and the necessity for in
creased taxation will cease, the government
expenses will drop far below the receipts,
and there will be a large surplus to pay off
the public debt. . , .
Let Congress stick to its good resolution,
and an approving country will respond in a
universal pec in of soul-lelt laudation at
good act
Hea'a (Bauer pxr'ies were flret Introduced In
^~Waeklnxtoa durifet the concoction of .the Alabama
it had not been oousldered civil previourijr
< to tebltea au without asking his wife. They hive
* keep growing in favor, aad It la now oonridered "the
* to tog” to iavlte tenor a dozen of 'the sterner sex
ad the festive board, taking care to have oae or
- two good, (oasipiog talkers, whose’ piquant remarks
* flavor the feed. Some of theee agreeable companions
< literal? talk their way through life, and are temper
-ptrtUut whenever ashed. Their clover chat ie wet
catoalated to soften the moat obdurate Congressman,
. sad to Mason hla enjoyment of the luxuries of life eo
-•bfe at the proper time he will vote for the little bin
mnemmended by big host. The legislation of the
toariag session is to be Shaped at dinner table?, and
pkad cooks are juat now in demand.
A elisctu has been sen*, out from New York to the
gwcchanU of different cotton porta, containing tlie
tstimates of about one hundred and twenty-five cot
ton merchants oi that city of the probable amount of
tee crop of 1873-4. The dst consists of 41 recelvere.
to brokers, 21 exporters and to local operators. Their
Hews, of course, widely differ, but, as was to be ex
jectad, generally estimate for a large cron, the
.•mount- extending from 3.700,000 to 4,600,000 bales.
-Ow the He’, Lehman Ero.b.ra place it at 5,933 000;
-*<leorge W. Bee, 4,000,003; Norton, Slaughter i Co.,
*.000,080; March Ison, 4,XC0,050; H. M. L6Count,4.-
" US,0*. 0; Williua Black & Co., 4,113,000; WiUun Ber-
Sffe, of Wllliamf, ilernla & .Co., 4,20l',010; W. l*.
Wright A Co.. 3.SK..03.; KJ.Doi.ncil, 3 99.\00~; L
Oi l. Zercga, 4 470,00.'. and J H Baggett. 4,300,000 bales
The avenge es l.naio of tbe 41 recovers is 4,(31,463
S, of 51 brokers, 4,1:9,480; cf 21 exporters, 4,155,-
asd of li local oj-eraior*, 4,144,633 bales.
Report of (be Comptroller General*
col. uomsmun.
Tax collections have been good in spite of
the pabic. The increase of the State’s wealth
for 1873 was $15,164,207, or from $244,219,-
416 to $259.3*3*623. This does not includ
public buildings, school houses, collegts and
railroads.
The taxable property in 1872 was $138,-
663,934, and ia 1873 $242,587,332, or an in
crease of $15,823,448.
The revenue from insurance has grown to
$20,000. d(|
The return of farm products has been only
partial,
The Comptroller suggest (that the re
demption price of lands sold fer taxes be in
creased from ten to twenty per cent./that
all stock companies ^Ive in for taxation their
S aid up capital stock, that children be not
Uowed school privileges where parents have
not paid thtir taxes, and that Tax R ceivers
and Collectors have additional compensation
for taking agricultural statistics.
.The old Treasurer, Dr. Angier, turned over
to Colonel Jones, the new Treasurer,!
319 15. In 1873 of the general tax was col
lected $671,991 26. Of the poll tax $83,-
538 96 was collected. The Treasurer re
ports as coming into tbe Treasnry last year
$3,172,788. Of this amount $1,200,000 was
collected on the sale of bonds. Among the
amounts paid out were $68,134 State Road
indebtedness, $37,306 ontbeproclamaiionsof
Bullock, $113,084 on the Lunatic Asylum
$23,965 on State Road change bills; $123,905
to teachers of 1871; $220,577 to school fund
of 1873; $97,520 on the Legislature of 1873;
$1,385,467 on the public debt; and there is a
comfortable balance in the Treasury of $922,-
mmm
The public debt amounts to $8,343,000, of
which $237,500 are due this year.
We shall give hereafter statistics from this
valuable report.
CushlBg’a case.
The prettiest kettle of fish that we have
heard of recently is the Caleb Cush ing mild
die. It ia a broad farce fall of thrilling grins
It is a comedy of the most modern school of
political harlequiotem. It is rich, rare and
racy, and is well told in our telegraphic
columns.
The way the unsuspecting Ulysses hath
been scattering Chief Justiceships is highly
edifying. That he should have fillipped
the pretty pellet at the head of the disloyal
Cushing in sweet innocence of his record is
one of those morsels of fun over which the
nation will cachin&te loudly for ages to come.
The bound from the servile Williams to the
complaisant Cushing was a vast one. Wil
liams was Radical all over, brimf ul of central
ism, a very tool of the meanest partisan
•brood—vomiting law to suit all party emer
gencies, ready to back up any species of usur
pation or wrong. Cushing was an
orig nsl States Rights Democrat, a friend to
peaceable secession, a Dred Scott decision
man, a horrible old pestiferousJTefFersonian
of the strictest school. To lay down Wil
liams and take np Cushing were to vibrate
fr.^tn antipodes to antipodes.
The sapient Ulysses did it. And what a
result! Ye Gods! What.a result! The
hungry spy that ever follows the track of the
successful ss' irant w as after the lucky Caleb.
Honors thick poured on his truly fortunate
head. Minister to Spain, then ere the laurel
was plucked, Chief Justice by grace of Grant,
the depository of distinction! But the de
tective was on his guilty path. In the very
karrest cf his honors that untimely Confed-
10 and 11 o’clock, our jail was discov
ered to be, on fire. There were
five prisoners—two in the dungeon
aad three ; (one woman) up stairs.
The two negro men up stairs, by super
human efforts, were rescued but the colored
woman, being an invalid, Susan Eppes by
naan, wire Dun son aad Boddie were
burned alive. I have just returned
from the j*fi, where I baw their frag
ments of bones at different points.
The jailor lived some half a mile off^ and it
was some time before the key could be ob
tained. The market house, whioh stood near
the jail, aad oae or two rooms of Horton &
Hawkins, Long Row, were torn down and
thus the fire waa stopped. It was an awful
scene, and the cries of the unfortunate pris
oners for help were truly heart-rending. The
jail is a perfect wreck, nothing but tbe crumb
ling walls remaining.
BY TELEGRAPH
10 TEB ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
CUSHING’S
Ramie an* Jute.
. We acknowledge the receipt of an inter
esting pamphlet on the culture of these
plants, from tbe pen of Emile Lefranc, of
New Orleans, published and distributed by
the Department of Agriculture. '
Ramie, says the author, has passed the
phase of experimental struggle m this
country. The difficulty from “the first has
consisted, not .in its successful cultivation,
bat in the separation of the remarkable
textile from its coat in the green
A machine had to be invented and perfected
that would extract the fibre, and extract it
so economically as to enable us to compete
with the cheap manual labor of the Chinese,
who for centuries have nearly monopolized
the ramie-fiber trade. John produces, with
the tffi of a knife, from one to two poi
day of tire market&bU iffw^produc'
Louisianian ingenuity has now invei
machine that daily supplies one thdtfsf
pounds of a similar product. Thus ia ■‘every
obstacle removed. Its vitality and luxuriance
in our soil and climate has been thoroughly
tested and settled. ' , '
The crude, ramie-staple is worth from $320
to $310 a ton in Europe, but American manu
facturers offer from 20 to 25 cents per pound
for it if furnished in considerable quanti ties.
Ungummed and properly bleached it ac
quires a double and triple •market value.
The tissues called “Japan illi," “Canton
goods,” “grass-cloth,” “Nankin liny ,” and
many other varieties of dry gooi^ atWen-
erally made of ramie material, jmoJ^BlesB.
mixed with other fiber. Almostl^B^p-ess
goods are made in part of ramie. RBffsub-
btitute for silk; but never for cotton. English
manufactures have long controlled the.ramie
or China-grass trade; ;and in the immense
factories of Leeds and. Bradford the staple
is extensively used in the economy of silk.
The cocoons of the whole world cannot sup
ply the demand for silk, and the contraband
material imported from Shanghai alone to
the mills of Lyons and Lancashire amounted
to seven millions of pounds in 1865. India
and Japan also furnish large quantities.
The wormB do not spin the material of
modern gowns, for they are chiefly grass.
Ramie is no noveltv. Japan, China, India
and almost all tbe islands of tbe East have,
for centuries, made it the basis of their kome
fabrics, and an object of foreign trade. The
Greeks and Romans used ramie goods as silk
clothing. Yirgil mentions the fact, and ad
mires the rich tissues in his Georgies. The
generic name of the plant is “Unica” of the
Bobemaria tribe. The two principal varie
ties are China grass and ramie. The latter is
the better of tbe two. Both are perennial
growths that will last for years and years in
an appropriate soil and climate. ,
The Gulf States and California have been
thoroughly tested, and found admirably
adapted to the successful cultivation of the
plant It can be grown with profit in Mary
land and Virginia, but in those States it has
to be protected in winter. The American
mowing machine quickly lays it low; and an
acre should produce from 400 to 5C0 pounds
at each cutting.
, Jute te a substitute for cotton as ramie is
for silk. It enters into carpets, oil-carpeting,
twines, cordage, sacks, bagging, etc. Nearly
one hundred mills in Dundee, Scotland, are
engaged in turning the famous product of
India into various fabrics. We pay millions
of dollars in gold every year for the manu
factured and uymanufactured jute that comes
from Calcutta and Bombay. There is no
jute produced in America, altnongh the
market reports designate some sorts of can
vas as Americtn j ute-banging.
The Southern States Jhave, by actual ex
periments, proven their adaptability for the
growth of the great article of commerce.
The decorticating-machine works as well on
jnte as on ramie. In fact, it is this machine
that makes both crops profitable in this
country. Without it the two crops would
be in the situation of cotton before. Whitney
invented the gin. The cost of producing
jnte-fiber in Louisiana is not over three cents
■i pound—its market value being in the neigh
borhood of fourteen cents.
For both these products there is an active
and steady market; they are both staples.
Shall we grow them in the land whose soil
and climate are alike congenial ? In these
days of caterpillars, boll-worms, and over
production of the fleecy staple, the matter is
certainly worthy the careful attention of
Southern planters. The cultivation of these
plants promises to open a new source of
prosperity in the South. Mr. Lefraoc’s
pamphlet contains much practical informa
tion relative to the manner of proauction.
It is an excellent document to read at a
Grange meeting—clear, compact and com
prehensive. Limited in space, we have en
deavored to state only enough to incite far
ther inquiry. ^$BM®***
Ike Salary.
Our early telegraph last night informs us
that the Salary bill, as it was amended by
the Senate, has passed the House, and, there
fore, only awaits the President’s signature to
become law. , .
The bill thus passed reduces the salaries of
all officers except of the President and Jus
tices of the Supreme Court to the old figure.
And it further authorizes all back pay not
drawn or that has been returned to be
covered into tbe Treasury.
As the President’s increased pay is not
touched it is to be presumed that he will
sanction the bilL
The thing is a signal instance of the power
of pnblic opinion in this country, and also
of the inflaence of the press. While the
repeal te an act of self-condemation ?
The condemnation of tbe back pay men
has been severe. Bat the matter is not yet
over. There are a good many men who have
pocketed that back-pay whose settlement
with an outraged public sentiment te yet to
come.
The first act was the sweeping popular re
buke of the back pay grab. The second act
was the recognition of that rebuke in the re
peal. The third net is to come in the punish
ment of the.back pay grabbers.
There is still virtue left in the Republic
Alabama News.
Katie Putnam lost $300 during her Mont
gomery engagement.
The funding act of Alabama is to be tested
in the courts.
Montgomery buried, last year, 357 whites
and 488 blacks.
Montgomery to Friday night had received
27,278 bales of cotton, against 52,411 last
yekr. ; *
The Coosa prisoners have all been dis
charged by the United States Commissioner
at Montgomery. The prosecutor is in jail.
Reports just published show that the
amount of internal revenue collected in Ala-
-bama last year was $303,424 at a cost of
about $60,000. Pretty high rates for col
lecting. This does not include defalcations.
Montgomery last year had eighteen alarms
and twelve fires, involving a loss of $69,-
614 17, of which $36,614 90 were covered
by jnsurance. The fire department numbers
tnjpRRm and two hand engines, one hook
and nBdo(t|rt>ek an<k227 active members.,
f Says ihoLJacksonville Republican: We
started Out Vrprint all thelparagraphs from'
oar South Alabama exchanges concerning
tbe negro exodu9, bat cannot weep up. Every
paper received from that quarter tells of
droves of them going to Mississippi, Florida,
and Texas, where wages are much better
than in Alabama. Radical newspapers are in
much distress about it, and the carpet-.tag-
gers are in a state bordering on despair.
Montgomery Advertiser: The Supreme
Court, on yesterday,decided a case involving
the right of a guardian, during the war, to
convert the effects of his ward into Confed
erate currency. The Court held that he had
no such right, and mat, if he did it, he could
not have credit on his acconat for the effects
so converted. See case of Newmau vs,
Reed.
Judge Dick Busteed, of Alabama, whom
the Jndiciary Committee are about to inves
tigate ! or his alleged misconduct and abuse
of judicial authority, is growing saucy. He
has sent to the committee a long printed doc
ument, in which he jauntily refers to Mr.
G. F. Hoar’s resolution to investigate him
as a Trojan horse, and says he is ready
to meet any accusation it contains
when it comes forth from its conceal
ment. He wants the privilege to cross-ex
amine the witnesses when they, are called.
He puts a very bold face on the matter and
talks like a man positively sure of a vindica
tion. The committee has taken no action in
his case as yet, but will .probably give him a
chance to confront some witnesses soon. Un
less it should turn out that the evidence is so
overwhelming that an investigation is unne
cessary Busteed will probably resign as soon
as be finds that his head te jeally in danger.
Mobile Register: “We have to record
another distressing accident, resulting in the
death of Mr. Henry Thomas, an estimable
young man of 17 years, from shooting with
a simple tow wad. With a friend, Mr,
Thomas atarted-out on Christmas morning
with their shot-guns to fire a morning salute.
The friend, carrying his gun on his shoulder,
loaded simply with a tow wad, turned around,
which brought t‘be muzzle towards Thomas,
when the gun was accidentally discharged.
The wad making an apparently slight
wound in Mr. T.’s right arm, a short
distance below thee shoulder. On
examination this appeared to
be a simple abrasion of the skin, and little
attention was paid to it until the 27th, wheD,
the wound becoming worse, Dr. France was
called in, who, discovering a hard substance
on the under side of the arm, made an in
cision, and out jumped the wad, and a
quantity of disorganized blood flowed from
tne wound. Tbe wad had passed entirely
through the arm, lodging just under the skin,
and in passing through had fearfully lace
rated the muscles and integuments; erysipe
las had commenced, lock-jaw ensued, and
after lingering in that condition about
twenty hoars, death ended his sufferings.
Mortb Carolina News.
WASECINO- TON.
NOMINATIONS—CUSHING’S LETTER
WITHHELD-THE DURELL
COMMITTEE.
LETTER REPORTED TO HAVE
BEEN WRITTEN BY CUSHING
TO JEFF DAVIS.
LETTER OF
DRAWAL.
WITH-
Itis thonght there will certainly be a new
Episcopal Church built in Raleigh, with free
seats. . .
The arrest of Captain Biggs in Rocky
Mount prevented the duel arranged between
that pentleman and Dr. L L. Staton. So we
learn from the Enquirer-Sontherner.
The T&rboro Enquirer and Southernor
says: Mr. G..G. Gilt, of Franklin county
has fed twenty-one persona every year since
the war and has not bought a pound of
bacon or a bushel of corn, during the whole
time. He has not sold a bale of cotton in
four years aad has his entire four years crop
on hand. He says farmers who wish to be
independent, should raise their own supplies
The Louisborg correspondent of the Ral-
eigh News says: Amid the greatest excite
ment possible, I drop yon a few lines to in
form you and the public that last night, be-
Washington, January 14.—Nominations
Robert Ilughes United States Judge Eastern
District of Virginia; Myera. Attorney South
ern District of Florida; Parnell, Marshal
Western Texas; George Crook, Brigadier
General; Bonzano, Surveyor General of
Louisiana; McClure, Collector Second Mis-*
tisaippi District; McKenna, postmaster at
8hreveport
The text of Mr. Cushing’s letter to Mr. Da
vis is withheld.
The Darrell Committee have arrived.
They were engaged ten days in taking the
evidence, which is coming by express. The
Committee expect that on Friday they will
be ordered to have their notes extended and
the evidence printed, in which case the Ju
diciary Committee will not be ready to re
port within tnree weeks. The mission of
the Sub Committee waa (imply to take the
evidence. They will make no report. It is
intimated the charges are not sustained.
There seems to have been excessive charges
in bankruptcy in some cases, but this, it is
claimed, was within the Judge’s discretion
and not ordered in his own interest. '
Yesterday afternoon before the Re
publican Senators resumed their caucus
seslion, Senator Sargent called upon
the President and mentioned to him
the feet that he had received an anony
mous not«| in which it was stated that ou the
21st of March, 1861, Caleb Cushing wrote
letter to Jefferson Davis strongly recommend
ing Archibald Boone, a clerk tin the Attorney
General’s office, to Davis’ favorable conilder-
tion, he haviDg strong Southern sympathy,
and being an able scholar, was a contributor
to DeBow’s Review, and while briefly al
luding to the subjects which then divided
the North an*d South, Cashing spoke of them
as tbe cause of tbe final separation of tbe
Union. Regarding this as an accomplished
fact the President a short time thereafter,
applied to the Secretary of War for the
original of this letter, which was produced,
it being found among the captured Confed
erate archieves. The President on reading
the letter, at once concluded to
withdraw the nomination, and caused
a communication to be wiitten to the Senate
for this purpose. The President, before he
nominated 'Cashing', knew thfff this gentle
man had taken the State rights view of tbe
question, which agitated the Conntrv lust
previous to the breaking out of tbe late civil
war, but when Fort Sumter was fired upon
Cushing made a patriotic speech and offered
his services, in a military capacity, to assist
in putting down the rebellion. Other gen
tlemen had,, like Cushing, declared their
opinion that the government had no right to
coerce a State, yet when hostilities resulted
they were actively found on the side of the
Union, but now that this letter
to Jefferson Davis had come to light
stating so broadly • dis-union views’,
the President, notwithstanding his high ap
preciation of Mr,Cushing’s legal attainments,
resolved to withdraw his name, apprehensive
that his opinions, as expressed in the past;
might injuriously affect the decisions of the
Supreme Court in the event of 'his confirma
tion asChief Justice. The President called
an extra Cabinet meeting to-day, which con
tinued for nearly two hours, during which
the subject of.the Chief Justiceship was con
sidered. A short time before the President’s
Private Secretary started for the Capitol, a
long letter from Mr. Cushing, through
General Butler, was received by the Presi
dent in which the writer thanks the Presi
dent for his kindness and partiality in nom
mating him for the great office of Chi- f Jus
tice; and, as if in contradiction of the numer
ous charges against him from newspaper and
other sources, he expresses his conviction in
the propriety of the several amendments to
the Constitution added since the war, buil, in
conclusion, asks that hia nomination be
withdrawn from the Senate.
The President detained the private secre
taiy, and added to the message of
withdrawal a postcript, stating that
since the message was yesterday
written, he had, received a tetter from Mr.
Cushing, a copy of which he encloses, deem
ing it an act cf justice to that gentleman to
lay the same before the Senate. Aa soon as
the postscript was written, the private secre
tary left the Executive mansion for the pur
pose of delivering the message to the Senate.
The message is accompanied by Cushing’s
letter to Jefferson Davis as the ground on
which the nomination te withdrawn, and also
the letter of Cushing to President Grant to
which reference is above made. The origi
nal letter of Cushing to Davis te in posses
sion of the War Department.
Senator Sargent has a copy of it which he
procured yesterday, by virtue of his Senato
rial privilege, and which was exhibited by
him to the caucus. Efforts to obtain a copy
for publication have thus far proved unsuc-
oessful as the paper is considered in the
light of confidential. Nothing has yet been
concluded aa to a new nominee for Chief
JuaUce. It is supposed in official quarter a that
Madrid? 80011 * tave Washington for
GOOD FOE GRANT.
HE REFUSES TO INTERFERE IN THE
TEXAS MATTER.
Executive Mansion, )
Washington, January 12,1874. f
To Gov. Navis, Austin, Texas.
Your dispatches and letter, reciting the ac-
tion of the Supreme Court of Texas, in de
claring the late election unconstitutional and
asking the use of troops to present appre
hended violence, are received. Tbe call is
not made in accordance with the constitution
of the United States, and acts of Congress
under it, and cannot, therefore, be granted.
The act of the Legislature of Texas, provid
ing for the recent election, having received
your approval, and both political parties hav
ing made nominations, and having conducted
a political campaign under its provisions,
would it not be prudent aa well as right to
yield to the verdict of the people as expressed
by their ballots ? U. 8. Gkant.
VERY SOLEMN PRONUNCIA-
MENTO FROM THE LUCKY
OLD CUBS.
Wash hston, January 14—The following
is the letter of General Cushing requesting
the withdrawal of hia nomination i
To the President;
Bib—Animated by the sense of profound
gratituoe for the honor you have done in
nominating me to the high office of Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
Butee, and perceiving that the continuance
of my name before the Senate may be the
cause or occasion of inconvenience to your
self, or your political friends, therefore I re
spectfully request you to withdraw the
nomination.
Permit me to add that the 1 charges of dis
loyalty to the Union and the Constitution
which have been brought against me in this
connection are utterly dtstttute of founda
tion, in truth or in fact. I indignantly repel
the imputation. In all the time anterior to
the commencement of. hostilities in tho
Northern States, every act of my political
life, In whatever relation of parties, was gov
erned by the single dominant purpose of
aiming to presetve the threatened integrity
of thejUnion, and to avert from my country
the calamity of its disruption and of conse
quent fratricidal carnage. How could such
purpose be promoted otherwise than by po
litical association or personal intercourse
with citizens of different State?, including
those of the States professedly disaffected
to the Union? Should the only possible
means of laboring to prevent civil war be
stigmatized as disloyalty te the constitution ?
But immediately on the occurrence of the
first act of hostility to the Union being struck
in the State of South Carolina, I took my
stand with the Union and its government. I
publicly announced my adhesion to them in
the most unequivocal terms. | I tendered my
services to the government in the field or any
other way which might testity my fidelity to
it, and I have continued from that day to this,
as well in official as unofficial actions, to tread
in the path of unswerving devotion
to the UnioD, whether during the
actual progress of hostilities against
it or in the subsequent events of
its reconstructions, and of the successive
amendments of the Constitution rendered
necessary by the changed conditions and re
lations of the several States of the United
States,‘and as their respective inhabitants.
The recent amendments of tbe Constitu
tion, each and all of them, as they were in
turn adopted, and the legislative acts for
their enforcement, and for accomplishing
reconstruction, had my] co-operation
and adhesion, and I have supported them
constantly, if not in political debate,
for which my comparatively reserved habits
of life afforded neither, occasion nor oppor
tunity ; yet in legal opinion, or in the Courts,
and in counsel or discussion with officers of
the government, members of Congress and
private persons, I, entertaining the same
general respect for the amendments as for
the other provisions of the Constitution, and
also rendering the special observance due to
them as the just and necefsiry incidents of
the reconstruction of the Union.
While my nomination was undergoing
consideration in the Senate it would have
been unbeseeming for me to speak in ex
planation of my acta or^my opinions, but
now with relative indifference to whatever
else may have been said either honestly or
ma'iciously to my prejudice. It belongs to my
sense of public duty and it is my right to re
affirm and declare thas I have never in the
long course of a not inactive life, done an
act, uttered a word or conceivtd a thought
of disloyalty to the Constitution or the
Union. T f
I have the honor to be
* Very respectfully,
Calkb CoBnracK
Washington, January 14,1874
GENERAL GORDON.
HE MAKES A SPEECH ON THE SAL
ARY BILL AND DISCLAIMS
UNKINDLY FEELING TO
GRANT.
Washington, January 12.—The speech of
General Gordon, of Georgia!, in the Senate
to-day on the salary question was listened to
with great attention, especially that portion
of it which partook of the ndtufe of a per
sonal explanation and which referred to
the surrender _ of Lee|at Appomatox. Mr.*
Gordon made it because he skid he had been
charged with being influenced by personal
prejudices against the admiaht.ation. He
said that he was one of those who held a
command in the Confederate Tarmy when it
aurrendered to General Grant]at Appomattox
Until then he had never known what grief
was. The negotiation occupied four days
and four nights, and during all that
time not ono word | of exultation
escaped the lips of the Federal commanders.
In fact, they avoided all conversation relative
to the battles in which the Union armies bad
been successful, and spoke only of those en
gagements in which,they had been defeated.
He, for one, appreciated such magnanimity.
It sank deep into his heart, and he mentioned
the fact to prove that he waa not personally
hostile to President Grant.
POOB CAROLINA.
THE TAX—BURDENED PEOPLE
STRIVING FOR RELIEF.
Ghaxcbston, January 14-j-The exactions
of the Legislature for taxes are much heavier
than in any preceding year, and have
aroused intense feeling among property
holders throughout the StateJ
A large and earnest meeting of the tax
payers was held yesterday in Columbia to
start a concerted movement for the relief of
the people. The resoiution8 urge tbe reas
sembling of the Tax-Payers’ Convention,
and that the convention present the condi
tion of the State to Congress, and ask that
it be remanded to a territorial condition, or
be placed again under military rale. A.
number of speeches were made—
one of them by. a colored man-
all declaring that the assessments have been
outrageously high, and that the people will
not Bland the abuse any longer.
The Executive Committee of the Tax
payers Convention met here to-day, and
unanimously resolved, in view of the neces
sity of the times and a due regard for the
common welfare of. all j classes, that
the tax payer/ convention shall re-assemble
in Colombia on the 17th of February. The
resolutions further declare thejmovement to
be in opposition to the frauds and corrup
tion which prevail, and in favor of an honeat
government with equal and enact justice to
alL
ANDY.
HE TAKES GROUND AS A GRANGER.
Kkoxvxllu, January 12.—An important
letter from Colonel C. W. Charlton, General
Deputy of the Patrons of Hustiandry. eivimr
the result of an interview with] ex-President
Johnson, will appearin’ to-mbrrow’s Press
and Herald* Mr. Johnson declares himself
in full accord with the grange movement
and says the time has arrived for good men
of all parties to associate and brine about
SUC ffire. f0im “ the exi S encies of the country
INDISTINCT PRINTf