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I THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN- TIDE DAILY S T'>'| » Wednesday, December 20, 1871. : Tlic Suspended Taxon l»e Press, j On the 16th inst., W. A. Hemplii'l & Co. of the ConsUkitiov, S. W. Gml>b of the New Era, Jno. H. Christy of tin* Watchman, and President of the Pivs* Association, and J. J. Toon of the Chris tian Index, united in asking the Comp- j troller Geueial to stay the collection of J taxes on newspaoers till the meeting of the Legislature in Jannary, in which tiiey say: “ The immediate collection of tax*t* for several years past will work great hardship;” that it has come “nnexpeeted- ly;” that “to collect the accumulated taxes of years is to suddenly cripple if not entirely breuk down the bnsiuess of many good citizens; time, at least, should be given for payment;” that “from time immemorial, the types and presses of tue printer have been held in Georgia us me- i chanical tools, and exempted, like the tools of other mechanics, from taxation,” Ac., Ac. The Comptroller replied, that the Code vested the power to suspend taxes in the Governor alone, and that the communi cation was, therefore referred to him, and added: , As tlie legislature -will BRain convene at a very- early day, I see no material injury that can result to the Stato by prantin* your request, and I have, therefore, asked the favorable consideration of the same by the Governor. Upon this recommendation, the follow ing authority was given by the acting Governor: The Comptroller General will suspend the collec tion ot taxes on printers' presses, material, etc., un til the next meeting of the Legislature. Whereupon the Comptroller issued this order: In accordance with the above order. Tax Collect ors will suspend the collection of tax on printing presses, materiat, etc., until the next meeting of the General Assembly of this State. Madison Beld, Comptroller General. CATCHING WILD HOGS. The Desperate Courage of the Last Radical. The Cuthbert Appeal of the 15tli inst. contains an ably written article signed “Randolph,” in which the course of the Radicals in Georgia, in their systematic design of robbery and outrage, and the reckless conduct of Benjamiu Conley in the Gubernatorial Cchair, are scathingly reviewed. His courage is compared to that of the last one of a pen of captured •wild hogs: Tnose who ever caught wild hogs in pens, where-several were grouped togeth er, will remember this peculiarity in that animal which well illustrates Conley’s ex hibited courage. As long ns all the hogs are on foot their resolution to lvsist as saults, and to assail their captors knows no bounds, and he who enters the pen does so at his peril. But whenever one hog falls in the fray you may enter with safety, and slay or tie with impunity un til you come to the last. xYud then you are again put on the defensive. For the last one will fight alone with all, the cour age of his spepies, as if surrounded and aided by a thousand of his comrades. _ Such has been the edreer of the Geor gia Radical Ring of thieves in high places. While they stood and locked shields, and flourished the ensigns of their power, and flared in the faces of the people the keen weapons of their defence and as sault, many unsuspecting were misled, and even some virtuous may have been tempted to make common cause with them, and to profit by their peculations. There was a strength about them that made them invincible even to those who believed their purposes bad,and that they would ultimately come to grief. But at last one of the leaders fell, and thence forward all the pack were harrassed, and in turn submitted tamely to the authority of an enraged people, until it came to Conley, the last hog iu the pen. Forth with his bristles began to rise, and bis rugged teeth to show themselves whetted keen and covered with the froth and foam of his ragp, for the fray with the honest people of the State. He is hopeless in his own strength. For he is not only not fortified by the Constitution, and statutes, but every one of their provisions is a barbed arrow that flies with lightning speed from the art blves of our history and the volumes of our law, into the vitals of the usur per. He has no moral strength, for he defies public morals. He has no plea of patriotism that justifies the overruling popular will for the pub lic weal, for his mission is against the State, her peace, dignity, her honor, and her purse. He has no pretext that party drill demands it at his bauds, for the good men of his own 'party, here and abroad, condemn his judgment, and de spise the mean pretensions to greatness, as well as his claim to official power snatched from a flying thief. His hope, his only hope, is, that the Government cf the United States, by reason of falsely excited ire and mis guided malice, will become meaner than he would have the Government of Geor gia in his hands to be. For, in order to come to his relief, that Government must imbue its hands in the hiding of crime and guilt in a matter where it has contracted none, and has no interest in the concealment, and where there is no reward, for the villains who ask its aid have eloped with the spoils.— It is the courage of the last wild hog in sublime illustration, which sustains Con ley in his dying struggle against the pub lic virtue of the State. But it will igno- miniously fail, and great will be his fall. The Governor chosen by the people will be regularly installed, and in concert with their chosen Legislators will not only uncover the crimes of their prede cessors, but guide the ship of State by the Constitution and the laws. The reign of honesty is to be restored, and the sound of its coming is like the mellifluous notes of sweet music as they float on the zephyrs at twilight. Cheer np, country men, there is a good day coming. hi-* assot-i ites iu guilt', when it is apparent to all good 'people that everything should l»e uncovered. He has been intimately H.-*soci'Oe.l with Lim in politics, was with him in the miduight.ieagues, when both were obscure but ambitious aspirants for place—went with him through the plot- tiiitfN and machinations which sent both to represent the Augusta District in tBc State Convention, and where both su-sisted iu malting the Con- stituMon which Bullock has fled from, and Couley tramples nnder foot. They came into the State administration to- gethtr, and were on confidential terms during the whole time Bullock and his coadjutors were concocting and per- petratiuu the gross derelictions that rendered precipitous flight the only measure of personal safety. He re ceived at the bauds of Bullock, by secret consent and clandestinely, the Executive books and records, when lie and Bullock, and all their legal advisers, knew his Presidency of the Senate would expire within three days. Again: That he should attempt to usurp Ex ecutive power—the highest agency of the sovereignty of the State—and hold it by force, iu order to carry out his foul con spiracy with Bullock—in order to conceal crime and obstruct legal penalties, when he knows the entire people over whom he lords it, demand investigation and retrib utive justice—when ho knows the Execu tive office thus surreptitiously turned over to him, has for three years and more been grossly prostituted to private gain, and made not only the guilty aider and abettor, but the actual perpetrator of wholesale theft and embezzlement, to the irreparable damage of the people over whom he usurps power, is evidence most conclusive of au abandoned heart and malignant purpose, either to shield Bul lock, the felon, and others—perhaps him self—to embroil the State in the falsely excited and misguided ire and resent ment of the Federal Government, or to vex and annoy a people by the exercise of unwarranted power in an insulting manner, to whom his presence, to say- nothing of his official pretensions, are loathsome in the extreme, which at once sinks him below public contempt. For if it is bis purpose to make himself a tool for Bullock, and covering to bide the guilt of him and his accomplices, he is a meaner pimp than Bullock is a rogue. Benjamin Conley. “Randolph,” writing in the last issue of the Cuthbert Appeal, iu noticing the briefless career of our acting Governor, Says: lb adheres to the cause of the fugitive Governor, pursues the -nurse marked out i 3 screen him and suppress knowledge of PUBLIC ACTS. Passed liy tlae Georgia Legisla- tssre, 1S71. 49. To provide for the payment of the debt of Clarke county. Dec. 11. 50. To impose certain duties and con fer certain powers upon tlie.Ordinary of Union county with -reference to a new roed in said county. Dee. fl. 51. To extend the provisions of the 11th section of an act approved 22d of February, 1850, in relation to Tax Col lectors and Receivers of Chatham county to the county of Fulton. 52. To incorporate the Merchants’ Mu tual Life ^Insurance Company of Geor gia. Dec. 11. 53. To amend the law establishing tlie Police Court of the city of Savannah. Dec. 11. 54. To incorporate the Waynmon and Franklin Manufacturing Company of Upson county. Dec. 11. 55. To change the time of holding the Superior Courts of the Brunswick Judi cial Circuit and the county of Towns, in the Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit, and to attach the county of McIntosh to the Eastern Judicial Circuit. 56. To amend an act entitled an act to alter and amend par’graph in section No. 2741, article 2, part 2, title 7, chapter 7, of Code. Dec. 9. 57. To incorporate the Savannah and Thunderbolt Railroad Company, and for the purpose of opening a railway from the icit.y of Savannah to Thunderbolt, etc. Dec. 11. 58. To confer additional powers upon the corporate authorities of the town of Barnesville in the county of Pike. Dec. 11. 59. To incorporate the Hawkinsville and Eufaula Railroad Company. Dec. 11. 60. To provide for the payment of in solvent costs to the county officers of Upson county, and for other purposes. Dec. 11. 61. To change the time of holding the Superior Courts of Talbot county, to ex tend the time of the same, to provide for drawing jurors, etc. Dec. 9. 62. To authorize the Ordinary of Ran dolph to issue county bonds, iu the sum of not more tliaa 820,000, for building a new court bouse. Dec. 11. 63. To amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Lookout Mountain Rail road Company, and to extend the aid of the State to the same, etc. Dec. 11. 64. To consolidate the Railroad Com panies known as the Chattooga Coal and Iron Railroad, and the Trion Railway Company, and for other purposes. Dec. 11. 65. To amend an act entitled an act to alter and amend the several acts incorpo rating the city of Macon, approved, Dec. 27, 1847, and the several acts amendato ry thereto, to grant additional powers to the Mayor and Council, and for other purposes. 66. To amend the Usury Laws of this State. Dec. 11. 67. To alter and amend section 3S95 of Irwin’s Revised Code. Dec. 9. 68. To alter and amend an act enti tled an act to amend and alter the charter of the city of Columbus. Ap proved Sth March, 1866. Dec. 9. 69. To incorporate the LaGrange Banking and Trust Company. Dec. 11. 70. To amend the acts relative to fees of the clerk of the Superior Court of Chatham county and the Clerk of the City Court of Savannah, and for fees of the Sheriff of the City Court of Savannah, unprovided for, and to point out the manner of collecting the same. 71. To carry into effect article 3, sec tion 6, paragraph 5, of the Constitution of the State of Georgia, to protect the in terest of the State in extending aid to railroads, and for other purposes. 72. To establish a board of commis sioners of road3 and revenues for the county of Habersham*to define their du ties, and for other purposes. Dec. 11. 73. To incorporate the Commercial Bank of Albany. Dec. 11. 74. To incorporate the Macon and Knoxville Railroad Company, and for other purposes, Ac. Dec. 11.' 75. To amend the charter of the town of Acworth in the county of Cobb. Dec. 12. 76. To amend section 4251 of Irwin’s Revised Code. Dec. 12. 77. To amend section 1052 of the Re vised Code. Dec. 12. 78. To authorize the ordinary of Rock dale county to levy an extra tax and to issue bonds’for the purpose of building a court house. Dec. 12. 79. To amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Atlanta and Blue Ridge Railroad Company granting State aid to the same, aud for other purposes therein named, approved Oct. 17, 1870, and to authorize the corporators to recognize, Ac. Dec. 12. 80. To incorporate the Flint River Manufacturing Company of Upson coun ty, and for other purposes. Dec. 12. 81. To more effectually protect reli gious worship in the State of Georgia. Dec. 9. 81. To amend the laws of this State in reference to the revision of Jury Boxes of this State, and the drawing of Juries, and to provide for the compensation, etc. Dec. 11. ’ 83. To provide for the taking of testi mony l>y written deposition in certain cases not now allowed by law. Dee 12. 84. To amend and alter the amend ments to the several acts incorporating Calhoun. Dec. 12. 85. To amend an act approved October 27,1870, to open and construct a Railroad from Athens, Ga., via Clarksville, in Habersham county, or some other point on the Blue Ridge Railroad, near Clayton, by the most practicable route. Dec. 1. 87. To amend an act to incorporate the proprietors of the Augusta Canal, Ac. Dec. 12. , 88. To inc rporate the Mutual Pro tection Insurance Company of Ga. Dec. 12. 86. To change the time of hold Supe rior Court of holding Superior Court of Gordon county. Dec. 12. 89. To carry into effect paragraph 3, section 5, article 3, of the Constitution of Georgia. Dec. 12. 90. To change the time of holding tlia Superior Conrt ot Richmond county. Dec. 12. 91. To change the time of holding the Superior Court of Richmond county. Dec. 12. 92. To authorise the Mayor and City Council of LaGrange to issue bonds to aid in building Railroads and for other purposes. Dec. 12. 93. To amend the attachment laws of the State of Georgia, and for other pur. poses. Doc. 12. 94. To allow maimed, indigent and blind persons to peddle without license. Dec. 12. 95. To exempt from Jury duty all reg ularly licensed Physicians who are actu ally engaged in their profession. Dec, 96. To require Justices of the Peace aud Notaries Public, who are ex-officio Jastices of the Peace, to keep dockets, aud to exhibit them to the G. J. of their respective counties. Dec. 12. 98. To alter and amend an act to fix the compensation for taking down in writing the evidence on charge of Felony, approved October 10, 1S68. Dec. 12. 99. To change tlie time of holding the Superior Court of the Macon Circuit. Dec. 12. 100. To incorporate the Exchange Bank of Macon. Dec. 12. 101. To alter and amend the road.laws of this State, so far as relates to the county of Bibb and Houston, aud to au thorize and require the Ordinaries of said counties to levy and collect road tax. Dec. 12. 102. To authorize the sheriff, and oth er levying ..oJicers of Milton county, to collect advertising fees and cost of keep ing property in their p ssession as no v provided for before accepting affidavits of illegality and claims. Dec. 12. 103 To alter and amend section 649 of Irwin’s Revised Code. Dec. 12. 104. To repeal section 121 Revised Code. Dec. 12. 105 To provide for sales of property in the State .o secure loans, Ac. Dec. 12. 106. To alter and change the time of holding the Superior Courts of the coun ties of the Middle Circuit of this State. Dec. 12. 107. To create a Board of Commission ers of Roads and Revenues in the coun ties of Floyd, Berrien, Effingham, Schley, Sumter and Green. Dec. 13. 108. To create a Board of Commis sioners of Boads and Revenue in the county of Paulding. Dec. 13. 109. To require the Coroner of Chat ham county, to hold inquest in certain cases; and, also, to allow certain fees un provided for by law, and for other pur poses. Dec. 13. 110. To compensate the Clerk and Sheriff of the Superior Court and other officers for services rendered in the Dis trict Court for Richmond county, and for other purposes. Dec. 13. 111. To regulate the pay of jurors in the county of Newton. Dee. 13. 112. To change the time of holding the Superior Courts of Worth county. Dec. 13. 113. To construct a Railroad, from El- berton, Ga., to intersect with the New York and New Orleans Railroad, by the most practicable route. Dec. 13. 114. To fix tbe time of holding the Superior Courts of Chatham county. Dec. 13. 115. To repeal part of section of an act to incorporate the town o f Preston in the county of Webster, and for other purposes. Dec, 13. 116. To correct and amend an act en titled an act to incorporate the Atlanta and Lookout Railroad Company. Ap proved Oct. 24, 1870. Dec. 13. 117. To reduce the bond of the Sheriff of Banks county. Dec. 13. 118. To amend an act entitled an act to confer additional powers upon the Mayor and Council of the city of La- Grange, to regulate taxation in said city, Ac. Dec. 13. 119. To extend the jurisdiction of the City Court of Augusta, Ac. Dec. 13. 120. To amend the charter of the Amer- icus and Isabella Railroad Company, and for other purposes therein mentioned. Dec. 13. 121. To fix the compensation of Grand Jurors and Petit Jurors in the counties of Rabun and Towns, and to provide for the payment of the same, and to repeal all laws heretofore in existence for the payment of jurors in said counties, and to repeal all conflicting laws, Ac. Dec. 13. 122. To incorporate the town of Sharps- burg, in tbe county of Coweta, and for for other "purposes therein mentioned. | Dec. 13. 123. To amend an act incorporating the town of Morgan, in the county of Calhoun, approved March 8,1858. Dec. 13. 124. To legalize the adjournment of the Snnerior Court of Elbert countv. Dec 13. 125. To change the time of holding the Superior Court of Camden county. Dec 13. 126. To increase the pay of Jurors of Bartow county. Dec. 13. 127. To change the time of holding Superior Court of Catoosa county. Dec. 13. 128. To increase the pay of Jurors of the county of Randolph. Dec. 13. JL.GUA-L NOTES. \ Rev. Wh. M. Crumley.—This beloved divine is in our city. He is again sta tioned at LaGrange, and returns there to-day. Two and One make Two.—An original character Irom the country was on the streets yesterday parading a novel com bination or yoke of steers. He bad a long extension yoke embracing three steers, two small ones (on one side of the tongue) and one large one (on the other side,) presenting a comical s' au of match steers. The election for Governor passed off quietly yesterday. The vote polled was very light. The card which Mr. Atkins published in The Sun of the 17th inst. caused the Radicals not to vote for him; hence, there was no contest—nothing to make it exciting. The following is the result of the polling at the City Hall: For James M. Smith, 1,105; for James Atkins, 1. A City Court.—The Legislature, at its late session, established a City Court for Atlanta, whose jurisdiction is to extend to all civil causes, (except in equity;) divorce, and title to real estate, where the sum involved does not exceed $3,000, be sides interest, and shall be above the jurisdiction of a Justices’Court; all cases of tort, where tbe damage claimed is not above $3,000; and shall have criminal jurisdiction of all minor offences com mitted within the city limits, which do not subject tli-> offenders to confinement in the Penitentiary or to death. The Mayor and Council are to elect the Judge of this Court at their fiist regular meeting in January next, who is to hold his office four years. He is to be com missioned by tbe Governor, and maybe removed by the Governor on ad dress of two-thirds of the General Assembly. The City Council has power to fill vacancies for unexpired terms. This Judge is required to be a lawyer, not less than twenty-five years of age. His salary is to be $2,500 per annum. The Solicitor General of the Atlanta Circuit is required to prosecute all offen ses before this Court; and the Clerk of the Superior Court and Sheriff of Fulton county, and their deputies, are made ex- officio officers of this Court. The Judge has authority to issue writs of habeas corpus, and hear and determine the same; shall have jurisdiction of all claim cases where personal property is lei ie 1 on, and all mortgages on personal pj op rty, where the amount involved is nc t baeond the jurisdiction of the Court. Til Court is to hold quarterly sessions, neetng on the first Mondays of June aud December for civil and criminal bus iness; and on the first Mondays of March and September for criminal business ex clusively. Judgments obtained in this Court shall be a lien upon all property within the State not exempt by law. Either party to any suit may demand a trial by jury. All laws relating to at tachment or garnishment in tbe Superior Court shall be applicable to this Court; all judicial officers, or any Councilman of the city, may issue attachments return able to this Conrt, and the sheriff or his deputy may levy the same, returnable to said Court. Policemen of tbe city are authorized to serve as constables at the sittings of the Court and serve its processes and or ders; and the Judge of the Court and Mayor of the city are authorized to select five members of tbe city police, who shall serve the Court as bailiffs for one year, who are authorized to serve any criminal warrant where the offense is not above the grade of misdemeanor. A Recorder’s Court for Atlanta— The incoming Mayor of Atlanti will be relieved of tbe duty of holding a conrt every day for the trial of offenses against the city. The Legislature at its late session passed an act to amend the charter of the city, so as to provide for the election of an Auditor and Recorder. It provides that the Mayor and Council, at their an nual elections of city officers, may elect a Recorder, whose duty it shall be to pre side at the city courts, known as the Mayor’s Courts, with full and ample au thority to try and dispose of all causes within the jurisdiction of the Mayor’s Courts, whose salary shall be fixed by the Mayor and Council prior to bis elec tion, which shall not be increased or di minished while in office; that he may be removed at any time by tbe Mayor and Council for malpractice or incompetency; and a vacancy from any cause may be filled by the Mayor and Council. This will not only relieve the Mayor of this duty, and give him better opportu nity to consider and properly provide for its general wants and financial interests, but by assigning the enforcement of our police, regulations to one man, who . will have that duty only to attend to, the laws will be more rigidly enforced, and crime will bo lessened—provided a competent man is chosen to fill tbe important office. This we hope will be done. City Auditor.—We have long needed in our city administration, an Auditor of public accounts. Our Council has hith erto had a Finance Committee, who have given a very hasty examination to such claims against the city, audit may be that thousands upon thousands of dol lars are paid out annually, which might be saved, if a competent person, whose sole duty it would be, should carefully scrutinize every account, at his leisure, before they come before the Council for the final action of that body. Tho late Legislature passed an act ”s- tablisbing the office of Auditor for the city, who shall be elected by - the Mayor and Council, aud his compensation fixed the same as the Recorder. “It shall be tbe duty of the Au ditor,” “to audit all accounts against the city, and certify that they are correct, or incorrect,'as the case may be, before they are passed up. He shall examine, quarterly, the books, papers aud accounts of all the city officers through whose hands money may pass, and make a report to the Mayor and Council ns to the correctness of the same. ” Tho offices of Auditor and Recorder will be most important adjuncts in the administration of our city Government, and will, no doubt, be of great moral and financial benefit to us. We have been told that Mr. James suggested the amend ment to the city charter, so as to author ize the creation of these offices. This is evidence at once of the business judg ment and fitness of our Mayor elect, Gone to Work in Earnest.—Mr. James is preparing for the duties of tbe important office he is about to assume, like a man who fully understands the re sponsible duties which will devolve upon him. Last evenin'? there was a meeting held at his banking honse of all the members elect of the new Council, at which he ap pointed his committees for the next year, whose names we announce elsewhere. This step was taken by him to prevent any person from further soliciting him for positions on committees. He is de termined to go into office untrammeled, and resolved upon an economical and efficient administration of the city gov ernment. He has the capacity, energy, industry and patriotism to do the work. Col. L. P. Grant.—We invite atten tion to the schedule of the Atlanta and New Orleans Short Line, advertised in our columns this morning. Col. Grant is one of he ablest railroad men and civil engineers in this country. He is a mem ber of our next Council, where his expe rience and practical knowledge will be worth much to the city. The committee to examine into the affairs of the Western aud Atlantic Railroad ought to have the services of just such a man. Mayor’s Court.—The distinguished success of His Honor’s entertainment on Monday morning, attracted a large and enthusiastic audience yesterday. No programme had been announced, but we saw some of the artists engaged for tl-e occasion, and we were convinced th.it His Honor was prepared to act in st,> ie par excellence, any drama from IlamJet down to a roaring farce. The curtain arose, and Johnson, with the most royal suavity announced, amid tremendous applause, the bran new serio-comedy of MAT. DEWBERRY, or the “Woman in Scarlet.” Tkisistlie chef d’oeuvre of His Honor, and will go down to posterity as a monument of his dramatic talent. The scene of this new sensational drama was laid chiefly in Beelzebub Park, that princely region of the city surrounding the United States Barracks. Here, Mat Dewberry, sur rounded and courted by ambassadors and princes from every clime, lived in a regal palace of Oriental splendor. “ Banners yellow, glorious, golden, On its roof did float and flow. (This—all this—was in the olden Time long ago;) And every gentle air that dallied In that sweet day, Along the ramparts plnmed and pallid, A winged odor went away." And in the palace the stars nightly mingled their heavenly light with the most gorgeous revelry, dancing and ban- quetting. But one night (now comes the tragical denouement) a haughty and mysterious stranger came. He wore a magic silver star on his coat of purple, and bore in his hand a heavy baton, and instead of fall ing at the feet of the siren queen, lie lead her (in her scarlet robe) along a wide pas-, sage thronged with people, to a dread tribunal, whereon sat a Judge, whose brow was dark and lowering, and will in flexible as a Spanish inquisition. This terrestial arl iter commanded the scarlet queen to desist from her sinful revelings, lay aside her scarlet robe, and to deliver unto him fifty pieces of silver, and then to complete his cruelty, cast her into prison. The affecting scene excited the sympa thy of the audience, until the whole house was convulsed with tears; and they refused to be comforted until , PONEE GETER, an African princess and femme du chambre of the unfortunate-sorceress queen came forward with 100 pieces of silver to buy her freedom and ransom her royal mis tress. She was accompanied by a wizzard soothsayer and fortune-teller, who intimi dated His Honor, and threatened to scourge his domain with “scarlet coats to Kingdom come,” and His Honor relented in consideration of $100. And now that palace, with its revels, Sit3 there sullen in the gloom, Save the spectres and the devils That through its gardens roam. After this came SOME FARCES, in which bar-room keepers figured con spicuously. One wayward youth, broken hearted at the memory of his fond moth- er’rf injunction, testified— “I left my mother in the door, My sister by-her side! Their clasped hands and loving looks Forbade their doubts to hide. 1 11 and met with comrades gav, When the moon brought out lier light And my loving mother whispered me ’ •Don’t drink, my boy, to-night.* ” His Honor told him to go away and do so no more; when HANDY ALEXANDER, another aspiring pugilist, came forward to sing her praises and recount her achievements, but His Honor said §3 would do as well. THE “BOY” OF THE PERIOD. Fve met the young creature yon mean, Tom She s truly quite pretty; but then We men of flfteen should look higher Than girls that have scarcely turned ten.' By Jove, it’s surprising how docile To female attractions you ore, No. somehow life hasn’t yet made vou Blase—wiU you try a cigar? For my part, I seem to haro grown, Tom Quito callous to Cupid’s worst stings- ’ It may bo my liver is ruined With parties and suppers and things. Or yet it may be that I’m reaching The sober, grave epoch in life, When wearied with folly and pleasure Men long for the joys of a wife. And apropos, Tom—that reminds me— Kate Jones is a sweet little dear, With charmingly kittenish manners And—twenty-five thousand a year. We’ve danced lots of Germans together, And set people gossiping, too. My chances look strong in that quarter. I’ll make the attempt—wouldn’t you? Yes, marriage is certainly better Than what is caUed bachelor-ease. Is that brandy on the table ? Just pour me a glass, if you please. TELE G_R AMS HOUSE. A bill was introduced making addition al appropriations for tbe Ku-Klux Com mittee. It makes the total appropria tions, exclusive of printing, $69,000. SENATE. Sumner gave notice that he would at an early day introduce a joint resolution restricting the Presidency to one term. Hon. Thomas M. Norwood was seated as Senator from Georgia. Washington, December 19.—The fol lowing were confirmed to-day: Torbert, Consul General to Havana, and Wood Assessor of the First Texas District. There was a full Cabinet to-day, except Delano. The following nominations have been made: Wm. H. Goddard, Judge of the Eastern District of Texas; Jas. F. Dever, Collector of the Fourth Georgia District, and Benj. F. Bell, Collector of the Second Georgia District. The Chief Justice announced to the bar that the opinions iu the legal tender eases will be read at an early day after the recess, and that the opinions had been postponed at the request of the minority. The President’s message asks for addi tional legislation upon the civil service. Under the law constituting the commis sion, the authority is vested iu the Pres ident to enforce their regulations; but they are not binding upon him, and may be disregarded by his successors. He recon.mends a permanent board of pri mary examination, and asks for all the strength Congress can give him to carry out the reforms recommended by the Committee. Paris,-December 19.—Iu the Assembly to-day there was a heated discussion ou the question of seating the Orleans Princes, Desjardins moved that the Orleans Princes be restored to all their rights. This motion was violently opposed by the deputies of the left, but finally a mo tion which avoids all advice of responsi bility passed with but two dissenting votes. Duke D’Aumale and Prince D’Joinville took their seats in the National Assembly to-day. They sat in the centre of the members of the Right. Their appear ance created no sensation in the body. A bill has been introduced providing for the release of the Communist prison ers who held no rank. London, December 19.—The Prince of Wales is convalescing rapidly. He will probably be out in three or four days. New York, December 19.—The small pox is spreading in Jersey City, Hobo ken. Newark and Trenton. At a meeting of the Federal Command of Internationals last night the Crispin, Typographical and Jewelers’ Unions affil iated with them and became part of the International. Win. Beust, having saved his wife and s_>ven children rom his burning house, perished with the eighth child. Wm. M. Tweed has sold the Metropol itan Hotel to a couple of railroad ticket agents. An order has been sent to England for the arrest of John C. Heenan, charged with being connected with the voucher robbery. Small pox reports from Brooklyn arc unfavorable. The disease is spreading in all directions. The Grand Jury has indicted Hank Smith, Republican, and James M. Swee ney, for “ring” frauds. Wirt Sykes has been married to Olive Logan. Auburn, December 19.—The report of Seward’s illness is untrue. Omaha, December 19.—Pacific trains move slowly. They are from 48 to 90 hours behind time. The storms on the plains stopped tele graphing thirty-six hours. Chicago, December 19.—The small pox is increasing mostly among emi grants. Philadelphia, December 19.—The Fourth National Bank has been placed in the hands of a receiver. It is thought that the deposits—125,000—will be paid, but the stock and surplus has vanished. Concord, December 19.—Bev. Oswan C. Baker, Bishop iu the Methodist Epis copal Church, is dying. Frankfort, December 19.—McCreery, j whom Stephenson succeeded, has been nominated by the Democratic cauo us, to succeed Davis in the United States Senate. Augusta, December 19.—The election for Governor to fill the unexpired term of Rufus B. Bullock was the quietest ever held in Georgia. Only about 1,000 votes were polled in Bichmond county, all e which were for James M. Smith. Tm Republicans took no part in the electio-' The vote in the State is about 200,0W- There being no opposition to the Deffi- cratic candidate, it is believed that no more than 6,000 votes have been pah** in the State.