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TUI WEEKLY SIN. ~~~ T. OILBKRT. rHOH. GILBERT a CO., 1-BOPRIETOBS. terms OF SUBSUMPTION. One Tear(in advance) *2.50 ..is months, 1 I-&0 CLUB RATES FOR ONE YEAE: ■inbsof 3 Qopies to same post office,*2.2s each l , jj .4 <1 14 11 2.00 “ JO “ “ “ “ 1.76 “ ii 15 “ “ “ “ 1.50 “ ADVERTIBINW RATES: \,lvertisemeots Inserted at *1 per square (ten lines or less, in small type,) flrstlnsertion, and nftycentsoach subsequent Insertion. HIES DAY MORNIXO, FEBRI'ART 2. Another Siceles. — Dr. Geo. B. Pe ters, who killed Gen. Van Dorn, has recently been united in the holy bonds of matrimony with his former wife, from whom he was divorced in consequence ot her intimacy, as claimed, with Gen. Van Dorn. Miss Peters, his daugh ter. has, in consequence, renounced her design of becoming a nun. We learn from the Intelligencer, that David A. Walker, a cleik in the Post Oflice at Atlanta, has been detected in piltr-riug money from letters received at the Post Oflice in that city. The evi dence was so clear against him that when charged with the offense, he plead guilty. He was arrested and committed in default of $2,500 bail, for his appear aiice at the next term of the United States District Court. His depredations had been going on for a considerable time, and he was finally detected through the combined efforts of the Post Master, Mr. Simms, and the spe ed agent of the Post Office Depart ment, Mr. P. 11. Woodard. A Keverendßook TniKK—The New Voik World says, Boston has had a sen sation in the discovery and arrest of a hook thief, who has been in the habit of lobbing publishers and booksellers, and whose latest enormity was the theft of “Don Quixote,” in two volumes, and in Spanish. This thief turns out to be a Unitarian clergyman, who had adopted this method of replenishing his library. Os course, there have been some savage comments upon the course of this clergyman, and that too, in Mas sachusetts papers which have never said anything about the volunteer ex-army chaplains in New England whose libra ries are fairly stuffed with volumes sto len from houses and public institutions in the South. A GOOD MOTION. We notice with pleasure that the Hon. Win. A. McDougahl, representa tive from the county of Chattahoochee, has made a motion lookiug to the speedy adjournment of the Legislature. We sincerely trust Mr. McDougnhl’s motion may find sufficient support in both houses to insure its successs. We are not informed as to any new develop ments that may have originated the motion. We support it upon its own merits, and upon the state of affairs so far developed. The Senate of the Uni ted States is not going to admit Joshua Hill to a seat “now.” We use the word of the report. It is presumable that the Legislature of Georgia is not going to reseat the expelled negroes. The Radi cal party fully understands Georgia, and the Radical party is thoroughly in formed as the political situation in this section. The deadlock which has been brought about is not likely to be relieved prior to the incoming of the new ad ministration. A prolonged session of the Legislature cannot accomplish good; it may do a sight of harm, and it will certainly be grievously expensive. So far no indications have been given that would lead the people to expect wise and beneficent legislation from their Representatives. In both bodies there appears to be a difference and wildness of opinion, an apathy as to questions that demand immediate and rigorous handling, and a disposition to manmu vre and harangue that bide no good to any concerned. The Legislature does not appear to have nerve enough to bring Bullock to the bar and to fetter his mischievous hands. It seems afraid to touch upon the removal of the Capi tal, a measure that recent developments has rendered imminently necessary to tho welfare of the State. It seems inca pable of inaugurating any system of re trenchment and economy. Members are clamorous to give money to maimed soldiers, who are not so badly crippled hut that they can carry a ballot to the polls, while they vote in solid phalanx against giving a pittance to bury the uucotilued dead, whoso remains strew the highways and by-ways from Look out to Atlanta. They are eager to pay anadveulurous Yankee for certain rifles, iu violation of the Constitution and law, but stickle at the price of graves for the dead of Georgia. They cannot find ways and means to promote and encourage the agricultural interests of the State, but they are anxious toget up a committee tc go junketing to Wash ington, at a heavy expense, to be laugh ed it by the Radicals who will put pun ishment upon Georgia, if it will pay, and who will find a way to let her up if keeping her down threatens danger to IJadlcalism in any shape or quarter. The committees’ and clerks’ desks of both houses are cumbered with bills of a trifling and useless character, fairly sprinkled with propositions hurtful in character. From want of unity of sen timent, lack of courage, composure or brains, the Legislature appears to be incompetent to discharge its duties. Let it adjourn at once. Let the mem bers come home. By the time it shall be proper for them to return, if the Congress w'ill permit their return, their constituents may so enlighten and in struct them, that they may find no trou Me in discharging, in a wise, speedy and economical way, the duties they have been elected to perform. We hopo Mr. McDougald’s motion may prevail, and that he will, with his accustomed energy and firmness of purpose, stick to it until it does. Claflin Academy. This is the name by which the new building, erec ted by the Government, near the ceme tery, for freedmen’s schools, has been designated. The structure will be formal ly opened next Thursday. Why it is call ed as it is, we do not know. A current report has been in circulation for some days that C. W. Chapman is to bo the Principal. The building is a handsome edifice and admirably adapted to school purposes. *»!>♦»" Week’s Receipts at tub Pouts. — TlieN. Y. Circular telegraphed. Monday gives net recoipts of the week 5,815 against 8680 last week. Gross receipts 18,340 against 24,400 last week. Ex ports to Great Britain 1380 against 4405 last week ; to the continent 635 ; stock in New York by actual count 61,- 185; against 56,000 last week. Bales of the week 18,111; receipts of the week at all United States ports 90,000 against 80,000 last week. Cotton at Montgomery. —Total re eeipts from Sept. Ist to Sunday, 34,665 bales; stock 11,183 bales. In receipts Columbus is about 5,000 bales ahead. Montgomery last week received 599 bales. YOL. X. From the Atlanta Intelligencer. GEORGIA LEGISLATURE, Friday, Jan. 29, 18G9. SENATE. she Senate met this morning pursu ant to adjournment, and was opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Adams. Roll being called, and a quorum pres ent, tho Secretary read the journal of yesterday. A message yesterday lrom the House announced that a bill had passed that body, to appoint a committee to visit sections where disorder is reported to prevail, and investigate the same, and report what proceedings should he in stituted. Senate concurred. Mr. Hungerford was appointed from the Senate. BILLS ON THIRD READING. Mr. Wooten—To authorize agents and attorneys at law to make oath to pleas in certain cases. Passed. Mr. Smith—To designate who are liable to road duly. Passed. Mr. Candler—To amend section 3051 of Irwin’s Code. Lost. Also, to regu* late tees of Cleiks of Superior Courts in certain cases. Lost. Also, to fix fees of Ordinaries iu certain cases. Lost. Also, to fix fees of Sheriffs in certain cases. Lost. Also, in relation to take down evidences in certain cases in pho nography. Passed. Mr. Smith, of the 7th—To create the office of State Geologist and define du ties of the same. Lost. Mr. Anderson—To protect planters in the sale of fertilizers. Passed. Mr. Anderson—To create the office of State Geologist and 'efine duties of the same, how elected, and salary. Laid on the table. Mr. Speer—To punish parties for re moving partnership fences. Laid i>n the table. nOUSE BILLS ON THIRD READING. To authorize the Ordinary of Stewart county to draw his warrant on Treasu ry of said county for fees due officers of courts; amended, provided they do not extend beyond June, 1805. Laid on the table for the present. A bill creating a State Geologist, de fining his duties and salary of the same, Was taken from the table and referred to Judiciary Committee. BILLS ON FIItST READING, Mr. Speer—To amend section 789 of the Code of Georgia. Mr. Welch—To amend section 889 of Irwin’s Code. Mr. Anderson—To create anew conn ty from Troup and Harris, called Win sted. RESOLUTIONS. Mr. Speer—That the Committee on the State of the Republic take into con sideration the extension of the right of suffrage to females iu this State. Mr. Holcombe—That Mrs. Stowe be sent for to instruct the Committee. Mr. Hungerford—Anamendmcnttliat Horace Greeley be requested to come before the Committee on the State of the Republic and address them on the subject of female suffrage. Mr. Brock thought the right of suf frage sufficiently extended now. He spoke very complimentary of the fe males of the State; thought them abun dantly intelligent to vote, and compe tent to act for the best interest of the State; yet he thought the ladies did not desire it, nor had the time come to ex tend the right of suffrage to them. Discussed by Messrs. Hungerford, Speer, Adkins and Brock. The resolu tion was lost. Mr. Bruton—That a committee of three bo appointed to inquire and report what sums of money have been paid by the Georgia National Bank for interest on the daily balances of the public mo ney deposited therein, and if any has been paid, to whom and for whose ac count, and if none has been paid, whether any is to be, and to whom, and for whose account. HOUSE BILLS ON SECOND READING. To build a branch road from Kingston to VanWert, to be the exclusive prop erty of the State. Referred to Commit tee on Internal Improvements. To define the duties of Notaries Pub lic, Justices of the Peace, and for other purposes. Referred to Judiciary Com mittee. To authorize the Governor to make certain contracts with certain railroads, relative to convicts in the penitentiary. Referred to Committee on Internal Im provements. To protect the lives of citizens of this State. Referred to Committee on the State of the Republic. To abolish lien judgments in this State. Referred to Committee on Judi ciary. The Senate adjourned. HOUSE. Tlie House met pursuant to adjourn ment at 10 A. M. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Cloud. Mr. Saussey moved to reconsider tlie bill appropriating money to the State Agricultural Society. Motion to recon sider prevailed. Mr. Flournoy—A resolution discharg ing at once all pages, guards, assistant doorkeepers and assistant messengers of the House. Mr. Bryant opposed the resolution, and thought the proper way to retrench a reduction of the per diem of members. Rules suspended, previous question called lor and sustained and the reso lution adopted. Mr. Hall, of Glynn—A resolution ap pointing a committee of three to exam ine whether it be safe for the Legisla ture to continue their sessions in the Operatic Capitol. Rules suspended and resolution adopted. BILLS ON THIRD READING. A bill changing the time for holding the Superior Court in the Southern Ju dicial Circuit and providing for the drawing of juries for the same. Passed. A bill relieving from jury duty forty members of the Watchful Fire Company of Outhbert. Passed and transmitted to the Senate. Mr. Price —A resolution that the clerks, who were employed last session be first sent before the committee ap pointed to investigate their qualifica tions for clerical duties. A bill authorizing the Governor to draw his warrant on the Treasurer to the amount of $4,450, to pay for artifi cial limbs furnished to maimed soldiers. Passed. A bill changing section 1045 of Ir win’s Code. Referred to the Judiciary Committee. A bill making it penal for ow T ners of j billiard tables and ten pin alleys to al low minors to play. First reading. A bill regulating the practice of den tistry in this State. First reading. A bill appropriating a fund of ten thousand dollars for the burial of Con- . federate dead. Mr. Hudson moved to strike out ten thousand dollars and insert twenty-five hundred. Motion prevailed. The yeas and nays were called upon the motion to indefinitely postpone the bill—yeas 92, nays 19. So the motion to indefinitely postpone the bill prevail cd. The Committee appointed to examine llie Operatic Capitol reported that they regarded the building as perfectly safe. Report taken up and adopted. Mr. Hudson—A resolution requiring the Treasurer to pay to the University of Georgia a sum of money for the edu cation of indigent and maimed soldiers. Rules were not suspended. House adjourned. Inspector of Fertilizers. Bul lock has appointed Dr. C. B. Leitneras Inspector of Fertilizers for the county of Muscogee. The act authorizing the appointment is entitled “An act to pro tect the planters of this State from im position in the sale of fertilizers.” What It Brought. —The steam saw and grist mill, with one and three-quar ter acres of land, wa3 sold at the Ellises auction sale yesterday for $1,550. The property is situated near the Sodthwest ern depot. It has not been used for some time. THE WEEKLY SUN. s “P r cme Court of uarTg"’ SS®. TeMd at Atlanta, Jan i Furnished by N. J. Hammond, Supreme tourt Reporter, Expressly for the Con stitution. John W. Henderson, Plaintiff in error, vs. Win. P. Merrill, Defendant in error. Debt from Henry. Warner, J.—When an application was made to the County Court for the establishment of certain copy-notes in lieu of the alleged lost original notes, and the copies were established by lire judgment of the County Court, although the plea of non estfactum'h&A been filed, and the defendant, being about to sue out a writ of certiorari to the Superior Court, for alleged errors committed on t he trial in the County Court, the plain tiff’s counsel entered into a parol ar gument with the defendant’s counsel, that if he would not sue out a writ of certiorari in that case, he, the defendant, should be allowed to file his plea of non csl factum, and make his defense when suit should be brought upon the estab lished note, in the same manner and to as full an extent as if no issue had ever been had, or trial upon the motion to establish said notes in the County Court. When suit was instituted upon the established notes the defendant filed his plea of non est factum according to the terms of said argument, and the plain tiff moved the court to strike out the defendant’s plea of non est factum on the ground that the same plea had been filed and passed upon in the County Court. The defendent offered to prove the afforsaid argument, which the Court re jected : Held, that the argument not to certiorari the suit from the County Court, and forbearing to do so, was a sufficient consideration to support it, and the plaintiff Laving had the benefit j of the agreement, it was a fraud upon ' the defendent not to execute it in good faith, on his part, and that the court erred in not allowing the defendant to prove the agreement on the trial of the ease, though not in writing, it was not merely a consent between counsel, but an agrement upon sufficient considera tion, executed by one of the parties to it. Good faith and fair dealing require that the plaintiff -should perform his part of the agreement, especially as he lias had the benefit of it. Judgment reversed. M. Arnold, Peeples & Stewart for plaintiff in error. G. N. Nolan by J. J. Floyd and the Reporter for the defendant in error. Julius Kaufman, Plaintiff in error, vs. Myers & Marcus, Defendants in er ror. Distress warrant City Court of Augusta. Warner, J.—When a distress warrant, for rent, due in American gold coin, was taken out and issue made as to the amount due in accordance with the pro visions of the 4012th section of the Code: Held, that it was not error for the Court below to charge the jury in accordance with the law as determined by this Court in that particular case. Judgment affirmed. llook & Carr for Plaintiff m error. Barnes ifc Cunningham, by Linton Stephens, for Defendant iu error. Campbell Wallace, Superintendent Western and Atlantic Railroad, vs. Mary E. Cannon, Defendant in error. [Brown, C. J., having been engaged in this case cause did not preside in the same here.] Warner, J.—When upon tbe trial of an action against a Railroad Company instituted by an employee of the Com pany to recover damages for injury done by tho negligence of another em ployee of the Company, under the 2057 section of the Code. Held, that if the Company and the employees of the Company were voluntarily engaged in tho transportation of Confederate sol diers or munitions of war, for the pur pose of making war against the United States, at the time of the alleged injury complained of, such transportation of soldiers or munitions of war for that purpose, was an illegal act, in violation of the Constitution and laws of the United States, and that the plaintiff is not entitled to recover. Upon the trial of the Court below, the Court charged the Jury in relation to this point in the case: “If you shall be lieve from the evidence in this case, that the deceased was voluntarily en gaged iu the performance of acts in vio lation of the Constitution and laws of the United States, when he was killed, and from that cause solely, from the fault or negligence of the said Sylvester, (Cannon,) at the time he lost liis life, then the plaintiff is not entitled to re cover. If the killing resulted solely from the fault or negligence of the defendant, or of an employer of the defendant, then the plaintiff is entitled to recover: Held, that this charge of tho Court, in view of the evidence contained in the record, so far as the same relates to the illegal acts of the parties, was error. It being the opinion and judgment of this Court, that the Court below should have charged the jury that if they be lieved from the evidence, that at the time Cannon was killed by the collision of the Railroad trains, that the Railroad Company and the employers of that Company, (including Cannon, as well as the other employees whose negligence caused the injury,) were voluntarily en gaged in tho transportation of Confede rate soldiers on the road, for the pur pose of making war upon the Govern ment of the United States, then the plaintiff is not entitled to recover. Judgment reversed. P. S. Mynatt, and L. E. Bleckley, for Plaintiff in error. S. B. Hoyt, and Robert Baugh, for the defendant. A Former Citiissn of Columbus ! Murdered. —From the “Bulletin” we j learn that Mr. J. M. Dillon, who for a long time was a resident of our city,was murdered in Indianola, Texas, on the j 24th of October last. His age was about forty years. He was born in Clan- , well; Ireland. lie was elected Aider- j man of our city several times, from the 2d Ward, and for a long time was “Freight Agent,” and for a little while j acting Treasurer, of the Mobile and Girard Railroad. Ho left Columbus alter the war closed. A private letter states that both parties were in liquor at, the time of the murder. The follow- ; ing is the newspaper account of the ! tragedy : About 11 o’clock on Monday night as Mr. J. M. Dillon, a clerk in the Reve nue Department, was sitting on the porch in front of Cahill’s restaurant, on Main street, a man named Ducan Barr, a Scotchman by birth, and who lately resided at Tres Palacios, in Matagorda county, came iu and used some offen sive language which caused Mr. Dillon to make the remark that no brave man would carry weapons, or, something to that effect; upon which Barr tossed his pistool into the door of the restaurant threatening any who dread to pick it up w Uh a chastisement ; upon which Dil lon picked up the pistol and walked away with it, Barr following, deman ding his weapon, when Dillon threw it into the street; Barr then stabbed Dil lon in the side, back and arm; the gashes made were fearful-causing death almost immediately. The only words uttered by Mr. Dillon were: Tam stabbed!” , . _, , . Barr made his escape; but Captain Bailey, commander of the post, inline diately on learning of the murder, took active steps towards effecting bis cap ture. He probably took a boat from the beach,, as one was missing, but was found next morning at Old Town, three miles above this. Strenuous efforts are being made to capture him. The coroner’s jury found a verdict in accordance with the facts above stated. : George W. Woodman, Esq., officiated as coroner. Danburv, Feb. 2.—The dams at the water works broke away, causing a terrible flood. Five bodies found, and a number missing. Several bridges 1 swept away. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY" 9, 1869. * From the Richmond Dispatch. How to have Disabilities Removed. The owner of the the original of the paper published below (picked up in the street yesterday) can have it on ap plication at this office. We print it to show our citizens the form of an appli cation for relief from political disabili ties, and how to fill it up. This appli cation seems to have been passed upon by all the Republican authorities in Vir ginia, and now to be ready for the Re construction Committee: Bbown County, Virginia, ) January 29, 1869. f To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the United States: Gentlemen—The undetsigned respect fully prays your honorable bodies to re lieve him of the disabilities imposed upon him by the fourteenth article of the Constitution of the the United States and the “reconstruction acts” ; and as in duty bound he will ever pray, &c. Eli Walsh. REMARKS. The following is an accurate statement of the offices held before the war, the acts committed in support of the rebel lion, and the present political status of the above named: Was justice of the peace for the third magisterial district before the war; dur ing the war was a teamster iu Long street’s corps, Army Northern Virginia, and afterwards was fifer iu Benning’s North Carolina brigade. Believe the Southern Confederacy and slavery are both dead; acquiesce in the results of the war ; would have voted for Grant had there been an elec tion in Virginia ; agree to vote with the Republican party hereafter, and would like to have my old office as magistrate. [Endorsed.] Mr. Walsh is all right. Pompey Blue (col’d), Chairman Republican Committee, Brown county, Va. [Second Endorsement.] Rooms Republican State h Central Committee, > Richmond, Va., Jan. 23, 1869, J We recommend Mr. Walsh for a re moval of Tiia disabilities, being satisfied that lie will hereafter heartily support the Republican party and the recon struction acts of Congress. L. Edwin Dudley, Ch’n. Alpeoria Heard From.— The Sa vaunah Ne\is says, Alpeoria Bradley has acted wim iy iu putting the largest possible spaev between himself and Sa vannah, and v, e advise him to maintain the same amount of prudence for and during his natural life. We received yesterday, under cover of an envelope postmarked “Boston, January 23,” the following characteristic communication, which we publish just as written, not from auy respect to tho wretch who wrote it, hut as a judicial aud literary curiosity and part of the history of these disjointed times: State of Georgia ) Tan oqih Chatham County, j Jan23th 1869. To the Superior Court of said county, I pray that your honor will be pleased to take judicial notice , of the law ami the fact:—that sections 4250, 4251, and 4252 and the laws of 1866 p 154 p 152 3 are not enforced in the State of Geor gia: as our new Constitution that gave them legal existence is not as yet the organic law of the State : and because Maj. Gen. G. Mead has by an order, withdrawn all his orders by which they were made the provional law of Geor gia. The Eleventh Article section third of the State Constitution that makes Irwin’s Code the law of Georgia, can not compleat its work until Congress hasadmited our Senators. I submit to your honor, the law aud the facts, that if the Ogechee colored peo pie are Insurrectioni st it is against the United States aud not the State of Geor gia- . _ And again because Sheriff Dooner did not take tlie Test oath as required by the reconstruction acts of all officers acting under provisional laws and there fore he might be legally resisted as Sheriff of Chatham county. If these sections are to be enforced as legal law: uniter Uiem the Republican paity of Georgia they can have put to death, the Editors, owners and news boys of the Savannah Republican—and the News and one-half the Printers of the State: for what they write, print, aud circulate for the purpose of exciting resistance against the laws of the United States. A. Alpeoua Bradley. Elopenent in High Life- A Brook lyn Sensation.— The quiet neighbor hood of Plymouth Church and Brooklyn Heights was thrown into excitement, on Saturday, by a genuine sensation— an elopement in high life. The princi pals are the wife of a cotton broker in Broad street, New York, and a son of a wealthy grain merchant of Chicago.— The woman was a Baltimore belle, but made, as it appears, of bad metal.— About eighteen months ago she w r as wooed and won, and was married at her father’s house. The couple boarded awhile in New Y T ork, but tiring of this kind of living, they hired a house on Hicks street, "Brooklyn, where they re sided very comfortably and happily, visiting and being visited by friends from all quarters. Among the visitors was Mr. Tomlinson, an intimate friend of the husband, who treated him as a brother. After repeated call, Tomlin son found his attachment to his friend’s wife and his love for her society grow ing warmer, and, as the sequel showed, she generously reciprocated. The faith ful husband doubted not his wife’s fidel ity nor his friend’s integrity, until he read the following note left on his table on Saturday afternoon: “Saturday Morning. “Dear Charlie— l must, to day, bid you good-bye forever. To day I leave your house, never again to return. I can not help it. For a long time I have loved Ja in my heart, and I know he loves me. When this reaches you I will be on my way across the sea. Your once loving Terese.” The husband at once made inquiries at several of tbe steamship offices, and ascertained that his wife and her para mour had sailed for Europe on the steamer city of Antwerp. The wife took with her jewelry valued at about SIO,OOO and a number of other valuables, and about $30,000 in money.— N. Y. Sun. Important Legal, Decision. —The case of the State vs. Jane Gresham, charged with the offense of perjury, was taken before his Honor, Judge Pope, in which the State was represented by lion. William Ezzard and Mr. P. By ington, and the defense by B. 11. Thrasher. In this case, the ground taken by the defense was t hat the Court before which said case had been heard, and defend ant committed, was acting without au thority of law. Ist. Because W. M. Butt, Justice ot the Peace sitting at said trial, was elec ted under llui old law. 3d. That the adoption of the 14th ar ticle by the Legislature, vacated all the civil officers in the State who had been elected or appointed under the law. 3d. That the new Constitution recog nizes only one Justice to each district, and as two were acting in a district, their acts are void. His Honor, Judge Pope, held that the acts of a Justice to holding over, are le gal until his successor is elected and qualified. —Atlanta Intelligencer. A certain little damsel, having been aggravated beyond endurance by her big brother, plumped down upon her knees and cried—“Oh, Lord, bless my brother Tom. He lies, be steals, he swears ! All boys do ; us girls don’t. — Amen.” Sheriff’s Sale.— Some real estate estate advertised was sold yesterday at very low prices. None of it was very valuable. The sale of the Flewellen place was postponed. TELEGRAPHIC. From Washington. Washington, Feb. I.—Senate—The bill referring the claim of the Kentucky University for damages during the war, tabled. Supreme Court delivering opinions. None affecting the South yet been pro pounded. House—A petition of the President, Professors and students of the College of Physicians and Surgeons was pre sented, asking a reorganization of the Naval and Medical corps. The following bills were referred: regulating sales of bonds and bullion; preventing States collecting illegal im posts, including taxing railroad passen gers; making Presdent’s salary $10,000; paying Lincoln’s widow and children 75,000; giving Greek Government pos session and title of two monitors, Mi antonomah and Agawam; renewing grant lauds to Alabama railroads; con stitutional amendments affecting Fede ral and Congressional elections; grant ing aid to San Disce railroad; construc tion of Southern Atlantic, Gulf and Pa cific railroad; relieving political disabil ities; granting lands to Arkansas for Mississippi, Washita and Red River railroad; promoting celerity of postal service. The resolution admitting the Domin ican Republic as territory of the Union, was tabled by a vote of 100 to 62. Adjourned. Senate—More female suffrage peti tions. The bill transferring the Indian Bu reau to the War Department, and other Indian bills, adopted. The bill appropriating $50,000 to fill up the store room for depositing models in Patent office was discussed. Conkling moved anew section that the act shall not take effect until the 15th of April, 1809. He was utterly opposed to giving any discretion to the Administration which could, by any possibility, be avoided without detri ment to the public service. The bill was finally passed authorizing tin- 8. ( ivlary of the Interior to rent a bui.ding fur si itr a ire, and authorizing the destrucinn ni ni" ids • > 1.L■ r than 17 years, which have in Urn p Denied. The Consular appropriaiiiui was dis cussed. Adjourned. The Telegraph bill gives the Ameri can and Asiatic Company exclusive right for fourteen years to land cables on the Pacific coast north of fortieth parallel, provided they begin laying it in one year. The Secretary is authorized to detail ore or more steam vessels to assist. Tiie Government has priority in I lie use of l lie telegraph Tlie Reconstruction Committee named Paine, Norris and Beck, a Sub-Com mittee to consider the report on appli cations for removal of political disa bilities. The Supreme Court decided the busi ness of the Assessor to be to reduce coin returns'to currency,and a person or com pany making coin returns is liable to tax on amount thus reduced, iu currency, ami ihat such income tax is not a direct tax, tmt a duty or excise, and as such is obligatory and valid. The Supreme Court of the District felt bound, while obeying maudamus from the Supreme Court,to pass another rule effectually excluding Bradley from bis practice, until he apologises to Judge Fisher. Washington, Feb. 2— The Chronicle has a powerful editorial urging Congress to restore Col. Blanton Duncan’s prop erty. The bill was tabled in the House under its stated misapprehension of facts. Upon a call of the yeas and nays there was a tie; three members changed front, however, and defeated the bill. It is now revived in the Senate and will probably pass both houses without diffi culty. Importance is attached to this case as indictative of the temper of Con gress in the matter of restoring confis cated property. Supreme Court—Evarts arguing ad versely to reclamation of certain import and revenne exactions. Committee on Foreign Rslations ar gue against proposed Cable Company touching American shores without the previous consent of Congress. House—A resolution was offered di recting the Secretary of the Treasury to withhold bonds from beneficiary rail roads sufficient to secure the construc tion of a first-class road. The Secretary of War was interroga ted as to whether any district command er has turned over to civil authorities, for trial or punishment, any persons tried and convicted by military tribu nals. A bill was reported establishing a bridge between New York and Brook lyn. A long discussion ensued, when finally, with an amendment that the bridge should not obstruct navigation, the bill passed. A message was received from the President covering the correspondence regarding the Fenian prisoners held by England. Pensions were considered, with an amendment. No widow, by marriage, shall forfeit her pension. Robinson said he would kick any man into the middle of next week who talked about treating with England, until im prisoned Americans were liberated. The correspondence was refeired to the committee on foreign affairs. The Senate amendment to the bill de claaring offices vacant held by disqual ified persons was passed, and now goes to the President. The bill provides for removal, within thirty days after the passage, of officers ineligible under the 14th amendment, in Virginia, Missis sippi and Texas. Adjourned. Senate—Judiciary Committee is dis charged from further consideration of female suffrage petitions. Wilson will introduce a conslitutionol amendment assuring suffrage and offices to all except rebels Appropriations discussed at great length. Adjourned. Jos. Segar, a well known Virginian, is sick of malignant erysipelas. Bill introduced in the Senate advan cing the pay of army officers under ma jor generals, for two years from July, 1868, one-third. Reconstruction Commiitee considers Mississippi finally Saturday. Argument before committee on posta* telegraph concluded. Report expected early. College buildings at Adrian, Mich., destroyed. Among the visitors at the President’s to night are Messrs. Myers Cohen, Jones and Gibbes Gardner, and W. J. Brenner, of Augusta, Ga. For the Sun and Times. Tbe .Slave of the Dismal Scamp; As reported in -V. Y. World. Under a rattling whirligig, Which a Yankee had taught to spin, A maiden sat, with bosom flat, And fingers long and thin; And she was the slave of a dismal scamp, A man with a soul of tin. And hor’s was a chest like a coffin lid, And cheeks like the church-yard clay, Aud pulses that feel like the click of steel Picking a life away. Daily dying and toiling still, For the dismal scamp in his dinual mill, Under the shadow of Bunker Hill— What does she sing or say I “Oh! why are my eyes so large and bright, And my fingers so long and thin 1” “The better, my dear, for the spindles' flight, The faster, my love, to spin”— Spoke the maiden whose lungs wore lint, And the man with the soul of—tin. Would God that my skin were not so white. And my brain of a lesser size! And would that my hair were kinked so tight That I couldn’t shut my eyes! And oh! for an hour in the sunny fields, Where the snowAs-liitc cotton grows; For the heaviest, hardest task that yields Free breath and sweet repose! For a night that never knew a lamp, And a day that has a close! Sung to the rattle and roar and tramp, In tho heart of a merciless mill, Under the light of a dismal lamp, And tho shadow ol Dunkor Hill. Poets of doodledom! true and sweet, What sensitive plants ye are, Ready to faint at a cry from Crete, Or Borioboola-Gha! Ye have rhymed the slavo from his happy cave And bloodhound in the swamp; Givo us a stave for the maiden slavo With the black woli’s bite and her living grave In the den of the dismal scamp. T. Dirty Shirts. A Loving Epistle from an Indiana Stale Senator to the Wife of his Bosom. Tbe editor of the Indianapolis Mirror snatches from oblivion the following epistolary gem from a potent, grave, &c., Senator to his wife, which was picked up iu the streets of Indianapolis: Senate Chamber, Thursday Night, 14. Dear Lotta— l just received your letter of Sabbath this evening. Owing to mistakes at the P. O. it had been misplaced. Why did you not direct your letter as I told you ? and why in the devil did you not do as I told you in regard to the baggage ? Now you have gone and sent my things down here, how in the bell do I know where to find them? Y'ou just say, “Your shirts will be in a box.” Now ain’t that very diffinite information ? Where did you send them, and how ? If you wanted to depart from my instructions, why did you not write to me at the same time you sent the things, and how? That is all I have to say on that sub ject, and may be I will get tbe shirts, aud may be not. If it will do you any good, I will just tell you that I had no clean shirt, and don’t intend to have until I get one from home. How do you suppose I am to know what to expect it you don’t do as I tell you ? I am very sorry to hear that little Louie is not well, but I hope she is bet ter by this time. I shall feel very unea sy until I hear from you again. I want you to write to me right away again, and tell me everything. Y'ou did not say who had been staying with you. Where did you sleep when yon stayed down home. Give best respects to all the folks and write to me soou. Yours, . £. A. Pollard and Collector Mmytlie. Richmond, Va., Wednesday ) Jan. 27, 1869. f E. A. Pollard, in a published letter to-day, says tho statements made by Collector Bmythe to tbe Committee on Retrenchment, in relation to his con nection with tbe New York Custom house, are utterly false. First, tbe Col lector’s allegation that the name E. M. Pollard missed him as to the character of the individual, Pollard calls a paltry falsehood, Smytlie being intimately ac quainted with him and family, and the mistake in the initial letters of his name in the appointment was corrected by direction of Smytlie. Second, as to the oath taken, Pollard hesitated only at the phrase “Support to the enemies of the United States,” which Smythe’s Sec retary explained did not incapacitate him more than it did Wood or Valand ingham. Third, Pollard states that, in stead of removing him, the Collector induced him to resign, on the distinet agreement that he, Pollard, might con tinue to draw bis salary, assigning as a reason that bis appointment seriously embarrassed Smythe’s confirmation as Minister to Russia. The plan agreed upon, that Pollard should send in his resignation at tho request of Sinythe, was at ouce carried into effect, but Pol lard has not received any salary beyond themonth of December, in the latter part of which he resigned. He concludes his letter by accusing Smythe of decep tion and of commencing his diplomat ic career by diplomatizing him out of his situation, which was procured through tho influence of powerful friends. An Important Bill—Tlae B«jnoval of Disabilities. Mr. Shellabarger, of Ohio, one of the “truly loyal” members ot Congress from that State, introduced a few days ago, in the House of Representatives, a bill to regulate the manner of applying to Congress for the removal of political disabilities imposed by the third section of the fourteenth constitutional amend ment. Its provisions, in brief, are that all applications to Congress for removal of political disabilities shall be by peti tion; containing a statement of the na ture of applicant’s participation in re bellion; what offices requiring constitu tional oath he has held; the grounds upon which he rests his petition, and an oath or affirmation of the applicant that he will at all times support and bear allegiance to the Government of the United States. The bill further provides that the petition shall be sworn to by the petitioner and filed in the of fice of the Attorney General, and by the latter with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, and that the Attorney General shall also file with the Clerk all evidence relating to the merits of the application, and that he shall give no tice by publication of his application; that all United States commissioners shall take and forward to the Attorney General any affidavit which any citizens may desire to make showing cause against granting the petition, and show ing whether the applicant has, since April 9, 1865, committed or couunten anced any violence or threats against any citizen on account of political opin ions or loyalty; that the falsely taking of any oath contemplated by the act shall tie punishable ft« perjury; and I hat. the petitioner shall have access l<> all affidavits, amt be entitled to lite any lie may desire. Should Ibis extraordinary Shellabar ger bill become a law, there will not be many petitions filed praying for the re moval of disabilities from the so-called Southern rebels, upon whom they are now imposed. Nearly all of them will be content to wear the shackles that now bind them, and will not eat the dirt which Mr. Shellabarger, it seem3, invites them to do. They will wear their disabilities rather to the end ot time, for, in so doing, they will preserve their self respect and honor. —Atlanta Intel. Swine not Safe in Ohio. —A Cin cinnati paper says a negro was found dead in Ohio recently on one side of a fence and the stolen carcass of a hog on the other side, hung by a gambrel stick across the negro’s neck. It is supposed the darkey got hung in climbing the fence with the hog slung to him in this fashion So it appears our neighbors in Ohio are realizing the sweets of ne gro liberty. WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEB. 3. A Cobbler Puts a Gentleman in Jail. —We learn from the Montgomery papers that Col. HodgesoD, editor of the Montgomery Mail, also a practicing at torney of the Montgomery bar, has been imprisoned by one J. Q. Smith, a cobbler, whom Radical reconstruction has elevated to the bench of that Cir cuit. Col. Hodgeson refused to serve as a juror, pleading his professional privi lege in bar. The cobbler decided that he had not paid the internal revenue tax on lawyers, and was therefore bound to serve. That Faithful Colored Gemman— We copied a short time ago, an extract from a letter from Gen. Breckinridge to a gentleman in this city, in which the General paid a very high compliment to a faithful servant that accompanied him out of the country, and was returned back, for his patriotism in declining to become a candidate for the Constitu tional Convention in Arkansas. It would appear from tho following, which wo copy from the Memphis Appeal, that a material change has come over Thomas. The Appeal says: Iu our issue of yesterday we published (copied from an exchange) an extract of a letter from Gen. John C. Breckin ridge, in which that distinguished gen tleman mentioned, in very high terms, a former servant, Tom Ferguson— among other things credited him with having refused to join the Radical Con vention of Arkansas. We regret on account of Gen. Breckinridge that. Tom has proven himself anything but enti tied to his confidence. Tom is not only at the head of the Loyal League of La conia, Arkansas, but one of tbe most desperate and unmitigated villains in the State overrun by villains. He has headed every devilment of which the Radical ruffians of that place could bo guilty, and originated special occasions of outrage, robbery and wrong. Tom is a living proof that there is no “trust ing a nigger.” Niggers in the Gallery.— The Washington correspondent of the Cin cinuati Commercial, gives the following account of the reason why negroes con gregate in the galleries of the Legisla tive Halls : I was greatly amused at what one of door keepers of the gallery said to ino not long since. I remarked to him that the colored people were not so fond of attending the debates of Congress as they were formerly. “Tbe weather is toofluo,”ho respond ed, senientiously. “Why, what has the weather to do with it ?” I asked. “Every thing. When it is cold and unconfortable and no warm side of a wail to be had, they flock here, for they have comfortable seats and a warm place -wilitout paying for it. You come here some bitter, cold, inclement day, and see how crowded the galleries will be with our colored friends. They will sit and sleep aud snore here all day,like black snakes in tbe sun of spring.” Poor creatures. lam glad the galle ries can be made so useful—lodgings for improvident negroes. After Horses and Mules.— Slock about this time is not the cheapest thing in the world and thieves have long since discovered it. Farmers had better keep a good watch on their horses and mules. If not they can be easily stolen and dis posed of. Sunday night a horse and mule was taken from a poor man. It was all he owned and he had intended to com mence ploughing the next morning. It was thought the rogues took refuge in Alabama. If they will steal all a poor man has, watch out, ye who have a number of animals. for the sun. Tlie Study ol Physiology iu our Schools. Mr. Editor— -I have been much im pressed of late with the idea that suita ble text books on Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene, should be introduced into all our schools. As health requires an observance of all the laws pertaining to our physical being, not only boys, but girls should be taught a knowledge of the structure of the body, the functions of its differ ent members, and also a knowledge of whatever is best to preserve it in a con dition of most healthful activity. And all these things but especially the con ditions upon which health and disease depend, should be taught to children from an early age almost as soon as they can read and write, and then continual ly as they advance to higher grades. There is no study which they will find as deeply interesting, and certainly none so universally useful and of such practi cal importance. Let us suppose that our youth of both sexes were thus constantly taught—first, the structure of their different organs, each so fearfully and so wonderfully made; then the use of each—its own pe culiar work, and its relation to others ; last, the principles of health, and not such general principles only as all of us hear more or less of, but such particular rules in reference to each part and organ as a true knowledge in regard to it may dictate. Suppose that in addition, the young were taught such things as the appropriate treatment for burns, woundß and hemorrhage—the management of persons asphyxiated from drowning or strangling, and were given directions for nurses and watches as to the case of tho sick aud the avoidance of contagion —and generally as far as possible what should be done and what should not be done until a physician can be called. Suppose, we say, such knowledge regu larly given the young, and who can es timate the benefits that would accrue to them and to succeding generations. Having made some inquiries as to the study of physiology in the schools of our own city, we are sorry to say that it is almost altogether neglected. In public schools, the trustees and super intendent who are doing such a noble work, and one for which our citizens can never be sufficiently grateful, have not as yet directed their attention to this subject, and have not introduced into the grades of instruction any text books on these subjects. Much to their cred it, they have recently erected an excel lent gymnastic apparatus for the schools, but cannot they go farther ? Cannot they have these hundreds of boys and girls taught about their bodies, and how to take such care of them that they shall grow up to nobler specimens of man hood and of womanhood ? And in our private schools, as excellent as they are now, may we not hope the same amend - rnont will he made ? But we trespass on the time and pa tience oli-ur readers. We meant to speak of the particular necessity that young girls should be taught as tax as may be, in what pertains to the peculiar organ ism of their sox, and of the terrible dis ease and suffering that thus might be averted. And also to allude to the as sistance that all physical wellbeing gives to intellectual , moral , and to even spirit ual progress, but we must forbear. Wo only hope that these few thoughts may not be without use. G. W. C. Jan. 30th, 1869. It is said that when last seen Gilles pie, who killed Nancy Johnson, waßon board a vessel, at Savannah, bound for New York.— Col. Sun. Gillespie was in Montgomery, say our detectives. As for Blake, who was charged with having allowed Gillespie to escape, he was kept in jail four days. The Columbus authorities were tele graphed repeatedly, and still he was not demanded from our anthorlties. Who is to blame, or was the man innocent 1 —Ala, State Jaur. NO. 48. Speol&l of the Louisville Courier-Journal. THE BUSTEED CASE. The sub-Commillee on Judiciary in charge of the case against Judge Bus teed are very close mouthed and it Is difficult to obtain information of the progress of the investigation. There are hints, however, that the decision of the committee will be substantially that he is weak and incompetent and unfit for the position, but that the charges of corruption are not established. MENARD. It is now evident that Menard, the colored member elect from New Or leans, will not get a seat iu tho present Congress, beside the doubts being pro bably resolved iu favor of tbe rights of Jones, contestant, of the late sitting member, Mann. It appears that tbe committee does not regard tbe argument of Menard as at all conclusive as to his own right to a seat, so that the advent of a colored member upon the floor of the House must be left to a future Congress, if ever. GEORGIA. Representative Paine’s proposition to inquire into the election of members ot Congress from Georgia, to ascertain what, action is necessary before admit ting Geoegia Representatives, was un der consideration by the Reconstruction Committee to day, aud a pretty sharp debate was said to have taken place upon tho subject. It is understood that tbe committee maintain that inasmuch as tbe Senate Judiciary Committee re ported against admitting the represent atives in that body, they should be ex cluded from representation in the House until the State shall carry in good faith tbe Reconstruction acts of Congress. A Non Reducing Market.— There are now in Columbus over 17,000 bales of cotton. It is nearly 3,000 more than was here at the corresponding date last season. The market is a decidedly not lallable one. Lot cotton advance a farthing in Liverpool, and prices here jump up two cents. Let there be a cor responding decline abroad, and holders are firm as grim death. They intend to see the end of this season as owners of cotton. No one can bo found who is very impatient or exceedingly appre hensive. Everybody who has any thing to do with cotton in this section is running an independent line, but just about this time the connections do not come to time. A Confederate KemiiilHceuce. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times has givefi the public some revelations concerning tbe attempt to remove General Grant from the com mand of the Federal Army during the Mississippi campaign, and of a curious correspondence between Generals Hal leek and Banks pertaining to this point. It appears, according to the Times’ narrative, that Halleck had become die pleased with Grant after the battle of Shiloh, and had sought his removal, offering the position to a Quartermaster by the name of Robert Allen, but had failed. Iu the Fall of 1862, the attempt was renewed by influences brought to bear on Lincoln in favor of General Me demand, who had been bold enough to declare that “he was tired furnishing brains for the Array of Tennessee.” But this intrigue only resulted in as signing McOlernaud to an independent command. After the failure of the sec ond assault on Vicksburg, a positive order was sent to General iiauKs men investing Port Hudson, to displace Grant and assume the command of the army and operations at Vicksburg.— This drew forth an expostulation fiorn Banks against the policy of abandoning his position as tbe key of the Lower Mississippi. This expostulation drew forth a renewal of the command accom panied by a sharp reprimand lor pro vious disobedience of orders. The cor respondenco and intrigues were closed by the fall of Vicksburg. This corres pondence, it is promised, will be pub imbed to tbe world. Grant has come to the knowledge of it, and Stanton, tired of official honors, has announced his determination to retire from public life. The revelations recall an incident re lated to the writer by the late Coufed erate General, W. H. T. Walker.— About the time of the second assault on Vicksburg, a scout, attached, we believe, to Wirt Adams’ command, having duly reported, paid an evening visit to some army acquaintances.— Seated in a small circle of subalterns around a camp fire of course, he was the centre of attraction. Many inci dents of adventures were told, and items concerning tho news from the United States, aud of operations of the “Yanks” wero related. Among other things he stated that a plan had been proposed for creating a negro insurrec tion, with a simultaneous co operative movement of the Federal army, but that Gen. Grant had refused to join in carrying it out, saying that he would march his army back uutil the negro fighting was over ; ttiat that was not his mode of warfare ; that this refusal had occasioned great ill feeling toward the Federal commander ; that his re inoval was looked for; that Gen. Me demand had come from Washington with an order in his pocket from Lin coln to assume command, which he had presented to Grant ; but that Grant had thrown the order into tbe fire, and told tbe General that his Division would move next morning at three o'clock, and advised him to go with it. It would be strange if subsequeno historical developments should prov tbe exactness and faithfulness of a Con ferate scout. — Chronicle and Sentinel. Exit of Messrs. Breckinridge and Benjamin from tiie Oonfederacv.— There are a few facts connected with the escape of General Breckinridge and Mr. Benjamin from the Confederacy which are perhaps not generally known. After the surrender of General Lee’s army, both General Breckinridge and Mr. Benjamin made their wuy to Flori da. General B. struck the State near Monticello, where he found friends who assisted him in getting to Marion coun ty from whence he hoped to find an op portunity to get out of the country. General Breckinridge spent a number of days in hunting and visiting with his friends in Marion, but knowing that he could not remain there long bis friends procured a small metallic boat, in which he and his companions. Colonel Wilson and Captain, Wood, and the General’s faithful servant, soon found themselves ascending the St. John’s river. The party, after much toil, reached New Smyrna, where they found a schooner which carried them safely to Nassau, N P. The General was known as Colonel Cabel. Mr. Benjamin also struck Florida near Monticello, where he met friends who assisted him on to the vicinity of this place. Here Mr. Benjamin hoped to find some way to Cuba, or one of the Bahama Islands; but there was a strict watch kept by the United States troops stationed here, and thero were but a few boats left on the coast. But Mr. Benjamin finally procured a small boat at Manatee, upon which the ex-U. S. Senator and ex-C. 8. Secretary of State embarked as cook, and in a few days found himself under the protecting folds of the British flag. Mr. Benjamin pass ed himself off as a land hunter, named Howard. There is quite an amusing little anecdote connected with Mr. Ben jamin during his stay with a friend of ours, in this vicinity, but we refrain from making it public.— Florida Penin sular. Contracts for the Hire of Laborers, a neat printed form, for sale at SUN OFFICE. ■Sfeol&l to tho Louisville Courier-Journal/ A ®a**s In Arkansas. Little Rock, Jan. 25,1869. Since the first of the year two officials —one an aid of Gen. Grant and the oth er an agent of the Government—have visited the capital of Arkansas. They were both guests of Gov. Clayton. No one else was consulted, no one else was visited ; and their “reports” were made up exclusively from the Radical side of tho question of peace or war, law or order, which now distracts the State. Before I write another line let me say that my object is not partisan. I served with Governor Clayton during tho war, I was born in Massachusetts; I was educated at Harvard; and I am now and have always been a Republican. I voted for Fremont iu 1856, for Lincoln in 1860 aud 1864, and for Grant last November. My purpose is to give a fair notion of the condition of thiDgs in Arkansas. That condition is terrible. Nothing like it exists this sido of the Cretan Islands. Common, every day events remind one of the reign ot War ren Hasting in India, or ol Mustapha Asaph iu Greece. Ever since Aaron Burr failed, and Sam Houston succeeded in erecting a sort of one horse empire on this side of the Mississippi river, tbe idea has pre dominated in the minds of the many en terprising and ambitious leaders who have, from time to time, held an ascend ant in Arkansas and Texan affairs.— You will readily conceive how natural it is (hat such should be the case when you consider the geographical situation of the country aud the character of its inhabitants. A great expanse of land, almost a terre incognita, stretches out from the borders of a water oourse that has the nature of an inland sea, and Is as complete a barrier separating iwo ad jacent countries as the British channel which separates the rival coasts of Franco and Britain. The population of tho region fartherest from the center of civilization aud government is hetero geneous and scattered. The Indian, the pioneer or the pioneer’s descendant, the adventurer, the honest tiller of the soil, the wild hunter of the forest, the vagrant, abound and have not always lived on the best ol terms, perhaps could not. Hence the old combustible char acter of the times, which invited the daring and tho ambition of partisans. The Johnson family was for years an autocracy. Then the star of Tom Hind man rose to set forever iu blood. The war increased the muddle ; and carpet baggery and scalawaggery, negrophobia and aborigiuism have perfected It under the guidance of the present distator, Clayton. He has Hindman’s courage and audacity and genius ; .is a man with out feeling, but aclivo and plausible; and ho contemplates the erection of a trans Mississippi empire in which he shall be, of course, the sovereign spirit. His ideas are simple and direct. He was a Kansas jayhawker; and he has faith in tho John Brown, principles of war and politics. During the rebellion he commanded a brigade of tho best cavalry in tbe Union service, aud com manded with vigor. After the peace ho tried conservatism; found it uusuited to his purpose; plunged into radicalism and now openly declares his intention to depopulate the State and to ropeople it with loyal negroes. This is the foundation of his militia. This is the business as it is the basis of his administration; and he calculates with certainty that, so long as he is able to keep Aakausas iu a disturbed condi tion, bo is safe. Tranquility would be fatal to his plan. The distance between him and Washington ; the friendliness of the Government; the ease with which his acts may be concealed and the acts of the people misrepresented, make him bold and careless. He knows his game, lie has studied the ground. And he will not fail. Indeed, I sue no help for Arkansas. Nothing this side of a dis organization and reorganization of soci ety will suffice, aud this can only be tlie work of years. The quiet people will move away. New comers will fight and finally conquer a peace, not for themselves, but for their children. Ultimately carpet baggers will become respectable. Ultimately the negro will go to the wall. But for tho present tho State is doomed; and Clayton is its exe cutioner. Old party differences have nothing to do with tho matter. The term "rebel” is used only as a pretext. One of Gov. Clayton’s most trusty agents is a rebel bushwhacker whom I captured and tried by drum-head court martial in 1804. He escaped my halter to becomo tho surer prey ot my superior officer, whose confidential friend he is now and has been for twelve months. Tho very meanest cut throat in all the militia was a private in Terry’s body guard and af terward a scout lor Wharton and fLirii son. One of John Brown’s cronies, who went from New Hampshire in 1857 with a Shaape’s rifle, served faithfully through the war as a Union soldier, and has since settled down with a wife on a farm, was recently murdered by a ne gro militia captain, who had been an ostler for Kirby Smith and who killed, as he says, "many and many a Yan kee.” These are facts and 1 give them for what they are worth. Ido not say tho people are unoffending. They resist as desperate men only can resist. But if they did not, it would be all the same. Clayton’s policy is extermination.— Nothing cau divert him. He is not a milk-sop, but a man of genius; and the Held is fruitful. All he has to do is to pass his scythe over the land and reap a full harvest of blood, which is the ce ment of his power. I should also add that he is personally intimate with Gen Grant and all of Gen. Grant's military family, particularly with General Ba deau and Rawlins. Indeed I have heard (though of this I cannot be sure) that he is a kinsman of Mrs. Grant. From these circumstances you can judge how much chance there is for peuce in Arkansas. You can judge how much chanco there is for justice from Washington. You can judge how much there is to fear, how little to hope, until the brushwood incident to the sii nation has been burned away, and the country cleared for honest, useful, so cure, well directed and profitable labor. Now it is the theater for the unrest iict ed play of corrupt passions. With this plain statement, let tue sign ni} s If, what 1 really am, A Fair Minded Cahpet-Baocikii A Colored Sister Goes Back on a WniTE Brother. The New Y.rk Times says: Mr. James W. Coates, residing in 104th street, brought borne a libei. .1 slave girl named Lavina Browns years ago from ft relative’s planu mi near Augusta, Ga., and she haß >iuce continued in bis family ns a dom it A few days ago Mrs. Coates had <. on sion to chastise Lavina, who is l« ve yearßof age, for some trifling off -••, and nothing more was thought t I he matter. Since then the refuse dm', which had been scattered ovei : tic strawberry bed in the garden to pi cl it from the frost, was found 'oh< ■ • fire, though the Barnes were i .dily • niu guished. Incendiary fires in. v- also been discovered and extinguish and under the stoop of Mr. Coate's dwelii in an outhouse, and once in the stab...— Suspicion at length fell on Lavina, and yesterday Mr. Coates concealed him in the stable for the purpose of inv ibt i gating the truth of these suspicions. - He had not long been concealed b fore the girl entered the stable, ligb' I a match and was about to throw it in itiu loose hay in the mow, when Mr. C*mtes caught her band and prevented the crime being committed. Lavina was subsequently "arraigned before Chi. t Clerk Sheldon, in the Fire Marshal’s of flee, who suggested that she betaken lie fore’ Justice Kelly, at the Yorkville Court. This being done, the magis trate committed the girl to the House of Correction, as she evidently ;had not realized the nature of the crime she bad so persistently attempted. How TO Kill a Town. -A late num ber of the Dubuque Herald has the following excellent suggestions. If you wish to kill off a town, put up no more buildings than you are obliged to occupy yourself. If yon should ar cidentally havo an empty building, and any one should want to rent it, ask about three times its actual value. Look at every new comer with a scowl. Turn a cold shoulder to every business man and mechanic who seeks a home among you. Go abroad for wares rather than purchase of your own mer chants and manufacturers at the sanio prices. Refuse to advertise, so tnat persons at a distance will not n w that any business is being done in your city. A prompt and close observance of these roles will ruin any town In two years.
