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<^<ckl2 §OTlStxttttX0tt. * ATLANTA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 20. The Staeral Aniakijr <»»T. 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