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TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1.
Personal.— We had the pleasure of
a call on yesterday from Mr. W. 8.
Copley, traveling agent of the Mobile
Register. We were gratified to learn
from him that the circulation of that
Mtcrling journal was being rapidly ex
tended iu portions ut Alabama where it
has tieretolore beeu a stranger. Every
Alabamian should take and read the
Mobile Register, and follow Us political
teaebiugs.
.Nkw PsrKK in Atlanta —The "At
lama Deutsche Zeittmg” is the name of
a new paper that has, unannounced,
sprung to life. It is a handsome, clear
ly printed sheet, and iu the German
language, with the exception of one
column. It is published by Otto Pal
mer aud edited by Dr. Oh. Rauschen
berg. Tue price ot the paper iu the city
is $4 per annum, fly mail #3.
Li quoit Licenses —Thus lui fifty
have been gianleJ— ten first clusa, and
ioity four second class. Thu last can
charge 10c aud u nder per glass; the first
what they please over 15c. The city
is comfortably off for bar rooms, there
being ouu to every three hundred in
habitants.
Fixing for Himself.--A carriage
lull ot ladies was driven before a store
the other day, when it was very mud
ily. A clerk came out to deliver some
packages. He was fixing a plauk over
a muddy place, when a fair maiden oh
served, “Don’t give yourself that trou
ble; we don’t intend to get out.” “I
thought so, Miss,” be replied, "but I’m
fixing to keep my own feet from getting
wet.” His head was level.
Rapid Progress— Not many days
since, in Columbus, a store-house, built
of wood and one story in height, was
commenced on Friday. On Saturday,
thirty six hours after the beginning, it
was completed, painted, rented, stocked
and sales were being effected in it. The
house is situated on the street South of
Cook’s Hotel, just in rear of the old
City Hotel. We have heard of speed,
but this beats anything in the fast line
that has yet been reported.
The Russell County Court House.
—The Montgomery Mail says:
Senator Beau Martin, of Russell, says
that those who want the court house of
that county permanently located at
Silver Run “may get it, after a
but they’ll have a long fight before they
do it either in equity or iniquity.”
Cotton Receipts for January.—
Bast January (1869), Columbus receiv
ed 7,747 bales, shipped 3462, sold 3257.
Prices ranged between 24 and 27$c;
gold in New York averaged 136. The
mouth just passed received 6,170, ship
ped 7,897, sold 7,452; and prices ranged
between 23$ and 23Jc; gold in New
averaged about 121$.
Coi'ton from a Sand Plantation.
—The other day one of our manufac
tories bought a bale of cotton weighing
1050 pounds. When opened it was
found to contain 562$ pounds of sand,
dust »fcc. Adding to this 28 pounds of
bagging and rope, and substracting
from the whole amount, it was found
that of the 1050 pounds only 459$ were
cotton. Jerusalem 1 sand as high as
choice cotton. Os course buyer will go
back on buyer until the packer is found.
A sand plantation, at this lick will pay
immensely, and some owners will yet
get into penitentiaries for such stealing.
Anuier vs. Bullock.— Angier has
scathed and exposed the rascalities
and peculations of Bullock, in a pam
phlet of sixteen pages, for the benefit of
the Radical Congress. Unfortunately
for Angier and Georgia, the Radical
Congress is made up of Bullocks.
Could not Eat Vittlks The nig
ger Minister, from Hayti, was so affect
ed In the stomach by the shooting ol
Sal nave, his chief, that he could not eat
viltles with Grant. Grant knew this
before he invited him.
J. W. Feltz and D. B. Pope, mem
burs of an emigrating party from Geor
g\a, bound for Texas, were fleeced
whilst in New Orleans—tne former of
$2,000, and the latter |750 in green
backs. They were out seeing the sights.
Paid dear for the see.
Novel Conveyance. —A gentleman
tells us he heard an “ ’\morable negro
member of the Alabama Legislature,”
move that “Mars Rylan Randolph be
brought before dis House on de tele
gram wire.” The chimpanzees were
about to pass it.
We learn from the Thomasville En
terprise that the South Georgia Railroad
is uow running to Camilla, a distance
of 33 miles from Thomasville. The gap
yet to finish, between Camilla and Al
bany, is 26 miles, fifteen of which have
been graded.
Forney as Described by a Con
gressman.—ln the House on Wednes
day Mr. Dawes referred to Forney’s as
“a newspaper in this city whose praise
and wffiose censure are alike made to
order and for pay, and that never fails
to lick the hand which feeds it, whether
the pay be in gold or in the currency
of the country.”
The Nigger Senator.. Horace
Greeley goes into eestacy over Revels,
the nigger Senator from Mississippi and
predicts his admission, after tome neces
sary legislation. If it takes long to do
the legislation, the term of Revels will
have expired. Horace says Revels is
intelligent, honest, and loyal, which is
more than can be said for most of the
Senators. It will be in due lime added
that Revels is good looking but he can’t
come in.
Bainbridge, Cuthbert and Colum
bus Railroad.—We learn from the
Bainbridge Argus that Mr. Harris, the
experienced, reliable and energetic con
tractor for the grading of the twenty
miles of road between Bainbridge and
Colquit, has gone to work with one
hundred and twenty.five hands, and
that his force is being increased daily.
Ground was broken about one mile from
Bainbridge on the West side of Flint
river. This looks like business.
Mr. Wm. Curtis, one of the oldest,
and possibly the oldest citizen of Dallas
county, Ala., died at his residence in
Cahawba, on the 26th ult., aged eighty
eight years. Mr. Curtis was a native
of Virginia. He moved to Alabama,
and settled at Cahawba, when Alabama
was a territory, more that fifty years
ago.
VOL. XI.
STATUE OF GENERAL GREENE.
The Washington correspondent of the
Charleston Courier, gives the following
interesting particulars of the presenta
tion to Congress of a statue of General
Greene, of revolutionary memory ;
An agreeable episode in the proceed
ings at the Capitol was furnished by the
presentation and unveiling of the statue
of Major General Nathaniel Greene, of
the Revolution. The statue was order
i ed by the Legislature of the State of
Rhode Island, and executed by H. K.
Browne, an artist whose merit was sig
nalized by the bronze equestrian statue
of Washington, in Union square, New
York. Congress, two years ago, passed
an Act devoting the old and magnificent
Hall ot Representatives to the purpose
of historical statuary, to be furnished
by each Stale, in commemoration of
her distinguished men. Each State was
to furnish two statues. Rhode Island
has taken the lead, and ordered the
statues of her founder, Roger Williams,
and her Revolutionary soldier, General
Nathaniel Greene—the latter being now
placed on its pedestal in tbe Hall.
Senator Anthony presented the statue
in the name of his State, with appro
priate remarks upon the life, character,
and services of Greene, and he was fol
lowed with an eloquent tribute to the
memory ot Greene, by Senator Sawyer
of South Carolina.
Asa work of art, this is the finest
statue in the Capitol, indeed the only
one that all the existing, and all tbe
coming Stales will lollow the example
of Rhode island.
The following were the concluding
remarks of Senator Anthony: "Gener
al Greene died at tbe age of forty-four.
What might the country have reasona
bly expected from the full life of the
man who at so early an age had accom
plished so much V The administrative
qualities that he manifested throughout
his whole military service designated
him for a great civil career, which,
piotmbly, would not have stopped short
ot the highest honors of the Republic. —
ißut a true life is measured by what it
accomplishes, not by the time that it
lingers. He had lived long enough to
secure for his name a place high on the
enduring records of his country, for
ever in the atfectious ot the American
people.
“We think that we shall not be charg
ed with undue State pride if we submit
that the marble which we now present
to you is a worthy commencement of
the collection which it inaugurates, and
which it is to hand down to the future
the glories of the past—the Valhalla of
America. Others will be placed by its
side, worthy ol the august companion
ship. The luture citizen will walk with
patriotic awe among the effigies of his
country’s grandeur, and gather inspira
tion, as he surveys their venerated
forms. States yet to be admitted iuto
the Union will crowd yonder hall with
the statues of their founders, defenders
and benefactors, till the great dome of
the capitol shall be too, small to cover
the silent assembly of our immortal
dead.”
General Greene died and was burled
in Georgia, but his resting place is not
known. Andrew Marshall, a very dis
tinguished colored Baptist preacher,
born and reared in Savannah, was pres
ent at his funeral, and contended that
he was buried in the old cemetery in
Savannah. Search in the spot indica
ted by Andrew, wbo was a mere lad at
tbe time of Gen. Greene’s death, failed
to reveal bis grave, and until this day
it is not certainly known where bis re
mains rest. But Georgia did her whole
duty to Gen Greene. She donated him
a handsome estate in lands. After liio
death,the Georgia Legislature charterd a
lottery,tbe proceeds of which were to be
devoted to the erection of monuments
to General Greene and Count Pulaski.
The monument to Pulaski now adorns
one of the squares in Savannah, and in
another is a not over shapely pile of
granite, without inscription, which
stands as Greene’s monument. Before
the breaking out of the war it was said
that a portion of the funds necessary to
erect the Greene monument were on
hand, but they were lost perhaps by the
results of the war. Gen. Greene was
one of the best and greatest of revolu
tionary heroes, and Rhode Island has
done well to make his image one of her
contributions to the collection of statu
ary.
Tbe letter which we have quoted
from, says that each State is to make
a similar contribution.
We fear that the reconstructed ones
may send a motley assortment. Indeed
we are really alarmed least the thing
now in Atlanta may put Georgia’s con
tribution in the shape of chiselled stone
representing Rufus B. Bullock and Fos
ter Blodgett.
A Most Curious Story. Some
months ago Jacob K. Bear, telegraph
operator and express agent at Browns
ville, Nebraska, absconded one night
with $12,000 left in his hands as agent.
He directed a letter to the paper in that
place stating that there were ninety
three chances of his arrest to one of his
escape with his plunder; but for that
$12,000 he would take one chance in a
hundred. He wrote: “Won’t this affair
of mine make you a nice little local
item?”
When the company learned of their
loss they at once set active measures
afoot to capture Bear, but failed. Late
ly, however, he has sent another letter
to the Brownsville Advertiser. In it
Bear states that losses in gambling led
him to commit the theft. He states
that one of the packages he stole con
tained SB,OOO, and writes:
“But the best matured plans often
fail; and now comes the most incredible
part of my statement. The package of
$8,600 was soldered up in a zinc box the
exact size of the package, and I also had
about SI,OOO besides that. It is natural
to suppose that I was very much excited
when leaving, which was true, for as I
was getting into my skiff my foot
slipped, and I dropped the box contain
ing the $8,600 into the Mississippi river.
“In conclusion I will say this: lam
where I am making the money fast,
and before the expiration of ten years
every dollar of that money will be re
turned to the United States Express
Company. If I die, my life is insured
in favor of that company for an amount
greater than they lost.
“I ask the sympathy of no one, but I
am already fearfully punished, not
knowing what moment I will be arrest
eJ for my crime. And what then? The
Stale prison, or suicide it 1 prefer it. I
will also state why I wrote the note to
Holliday & Calhoun in the braggadocio
style that I did. I wanted to kill all
the love and respect that my wife enter
| tained, and thus lessen the sorrow and
anxiety that she might feel for me after
she became aware of what I had done.
You have up to this time thought or
imagined what a luxurious life I am no
doubt leading. You are for once dis
appointed, as I am one of the moßt mis
erable criminals on the face of the
earth.”
Printice Still Lives.—We find the
following hot shot in the Louisville
Courier Journal:
The Chicago Tribune says Henry
Ward Beecher “was ‘sired’ fora preach
er. It is feared that it may hereafter be
said that he was damned for the same
thing.
Savannah Hospitaltv.—Savannah
is doing the hospitable to the Green
Line Excursionists, in a way that Sa
vannah alone knows.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
R-KK-RAN.
The French people have very expres
sive words. Indeed, they make them
to suit occasions. Running against one
by itself, the common reader would be
staggered to give it a just interpretation.
But when explained, its force and ap
positeness extort admiration.
At the head of these observations will
be found one of these wonderfully
Frencby and wonderfully expressive
words. Alone it is nothing more or less
than “Ran,” with a prolonged prelim
inary roll of the r. It is full ofthe mili
tary. It may sound like the rapid beat
ing of drums or tbe brisk rolling of
musquetry fire. We like it. And we
have found it in reading an account of
the proceedingsj,of Mr. Radical Roche
fort, on the day of the funeral of his
friend who was killed by Prince Pierre
Bonaparte.
Rochefort, the radical, threatened to
bring out forty thousand sympathizers
and to do terrible things. A quotation
will explain how our word was brought
to light and what it means :
The day of the funeral a gentleman
asked Marshal Canrobert (thecomman
der-in chief of Paris):
“Marshal, what will you do in case
of a riot to-day ?”
He replied : ll Mon Dieu ! I shall act
in the simplest possible way. I want
my corpse, too, and until I get it I shall
not budge ; but as soon as one of my
soldiers is killed—rrrran !”
“What do you mean by rrrran ?”
“I mean I shall shoot down 40,000
men it necessary, and I only ask five
minutes to quiet Paris.”
“Forty thousand corpses—that’s
tough !”
“I admit it; but ’tis necessary. What
I fear least are deep and compact mass
es of men. Two regiments with their
chassepots would soon mow them
down.”
Rochefort had out his forty thousand
and Marshal Canrobert was on tbe
ground with his two regiments with
their chassepot rifles. The Marshal
did not have to “rrrran,” but Monsieur
Rochefort and bis forty thousand ran,
after Rochefort had twice fainted.
We have been rolling this thing over
and over and about, until we have fal
len quite in love with it. What a glori
ous thing it would be if some Canrobert
should order out a regiment or two and
“rrrran” the Radical Congress. Spen
cer rifles would do in the place of the
chaSßepots and Tecumeseh Sherman
could play for the nonce Marshal Can
robert. RRRRan say we.
Tbe Romance of Gold Uambliujr.
We have given on the outside of our
issue of this morning a truthful and in
teresting picture of the trio of Gold
Gamblers. Grant, Gould and Fiske.
It is from the pungent pen of Don Piatt,
a Radical. In the same number of the
Cincinnati Commercial from which the
letter is copied appears the following
ditty:
THE COMMODOKE’S LAMENT.
“Gone where the woodbine twineth,”
’Twill never more return,
The pocket of the Ohieftain’a
Laly love to burn.
“Gone where the woodbine twineth,”
Like smoke from the cigar
Os him who is the ship of state,
Is now the guiding star.
“Gone where the woodbine twineth,”
Reforo tlio llaah that came
Across the wires from Washington,
The bulls and bears to tame.
“Gone where the woodbine twineth,”
’Twere useless now to whine,
So ring the wild bells merrily,
And, Jimmy let her twine.
BAR BOY.
Telegraph Case Decided. —From
the Mobile Tribune we learn that the
case of Batre & Masson against the
Western Union Telegraph Company,
which has been on trial before the Uni
ted States Circuit Court, in that city,
for several days, was decided on Tues
day by the jury rendering a verdict for
the plaintiffs, assessing the damages at
$3,920.08. Plaintiffs claimed damages
for failuro to send a dispatch to New
Orleans, which they proved they sent to
the Mobile office, ordering a sale of
gold,which was then quoted at 170; that
the dispatch was lost or mislaid, and
the next day gold fell to 149, by which
they sustained a loss of between $4,000
and $5,000; and that Mr. Batre made
repeated calls at the telegraph office to
know if the dispatch had been sent.
The defence contended that the dispatch
was not written on one of the compa
ny’s printed forms, which states the
conditions upon which dispatches are
received.
The Bureau’s Successor.— the
Washington correspondent of the Bal
timore Gazette, in his letter of the 13th
alt., says: It is barely possible that
the law authorizing the establishment of
the Freedman’s Bureau will be nominal
ly repealed this session. But another,
equally as iniquitious, will be inau
gurated in its place. The new Bu
reau is to be styled the “Depart
ment of Education.” The bill intro
duced for this purpose provides that it
shall exercise the same powers in co
operating with benevolent societies, or
bodies incorporated for educational pur
poses, as those heretofore devolving
upon the Freedmen’s Bureau, and ex
tend to State and municipal authorities
for similar purposes, provided that the
aid includes Indians as well as refugees
freedmen and their descendants.
Terry.— Terry telegraphed to Wash
ington :
After a carful examination of the act
of Dec. 22,1 decided that the fourth sec
tion would not permit me to seat can
didates having the next highest num
ber of votes in the place of persons
found to be ineligible.
Alfred H. Terry,
Brevet Maj. Gen.
Yet Terry endorsed Bullock’s recom
mendation, and used his power and in
fluence to consumate the outrage.
Will our friends of the Savannah Re
publican and Chronicle and Sentinel fa
vor us and the public with their views
of Terry ?
The Truth.—The editor of the
Winnsboro, (S. C.) Times is a man of
brains and knows what he is about. In
a recent article, he demonstrated pithi
ly that it matters but little what party
is in power, the nature of the Govern
ment remains unchanged from its pres
ent plan. If the principle of Govern
ment enunciated by War Democracy is
correct, it does not matter the toss of a
copper whether Radicals or Democrats
rule the roost.
Remorse.—Hiram Powers has prom
ised in a letter to Mr. Stoughton, New
York, never to repeat the Greek slave
again. As over a dozen have been pro
duced in violation of the sale of the
original, hia repentance comes rather
late, if not in his own interest at least
in those ot art.
“Fairy Betsey” is the name of a
Pawnee belle of Omaha. She is an ar
dent admirer of whisky straight.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY", FEBRUARY" S, IS7O.
TELEGRAPHIC.
From Washington.
Washington, January 30.—Senator
Revels has arrived. He is the guest of
Mr. Downing, restauranter to the House
of Representatives.
The Herald’s speciail rout Havana via
Key West, says Jordan, after defeating
Puello, killing forty officers and killing
and wounding four hundred men,
shooting Puello’s horse under him and
hurting Puello’s leg, was placed in
command of the army, superceding
Quesada. The Montromorsa has arriv
ed. She brings 120 wounded, including
two colonels Severe fighting near j
Santiago de Cuba on the 21st. Mail
trains with provisions for Estobas, near
San Luis, were ordered back because
the insurgents were in force between
Santiago and the Spanish troops. An
other account says the late fight with
Puello occurred near Grumalsa. After
the fight, the insurgents left for Najasan.
Washington, Jan. 31—Senate —The
postofflee committee resolved to report
a bill for postal telegraph.. Members of
the committee suggest in finance a num
ber of details. Suggesting that owing to
perplexities and difficulties with Indians
that months would be required to com
plete the initiatory machinery of the
scheme.
The Supreme Court by four and four
affirmed the decision of the lower court
compelling Frank Blair to take tbe test
oath provided by the Missouri constitu
tion, before voting.
The House resolutions ordering the
Banking currency committee to report
within six days the bill increasing the
National Banking currency fifty-four
millions and allowing postal telegraph
committee to semi for persons and pa
pers, was defeated by a large majority.
Two bills for restoring Mississippi
was introduced.
Senate—Tbe postal committee report
ed the postal telegraph bill with amend
ments and recommendations that it
pass
Morton introduced a bill restoring
Mississippi.
The str. America, bound hence for
Fort Smith, with the 19th Infantry,
sunk. Four deck hands lost.
It is staled the President will nomi
date Judge Strong, of Pa., to morrow,
vice Stanton.
The gold investigation continues. Op
dyke testified to-day.
Joint retrenchment committee is con
sidering the transfer of the Freedmen’s
Bureau Education work to Board of Ed
ucation, to which Gen. Eaton was re
cently appointed.
Revenue to-day over one million and
a quarter; month nearly $12,500,000.
The Secretary of the Treasury here
after must swear to actual outlay of
for mileage and expenses.
Government gets the benefit, under
this order, of courtesies extended to of
cials by taverns aud railroads.
General order creates the Department
of Virginia—headquarters at Richmond,
Canby commanding—comprising Mary
land, Virginia, W. Virginia and North
Carolina.
Five hundred discharged from the
Navy Yard to day.
Senate Bill reorganizing Maritima
Hospital laws was introduced.
Sherman presented Ohio’s ratification
of the 15th amendment.
Morton’s bill admitting Mississippi
imposes the Virginia restriction, except
that no oath is exacted from State Legis
lators.
Currency bill resumed. Senate will
vote to-morrow. The bill among other
things provides forty five millions addi
tional currency to the South and West.
Several resolutions of enquiry regard- j
ing Georgia were introduced.
Adjourned.
House—A resolution declaring 5-20’s
payable fcin greenbeks and censuring
administration for buying 5-20’s at pre
mium was tabled by a vote of 122 to 41.
The President asked for all the papers
in the Yerger case.
Ayers, from Virginia, was seated;
McKenzie, after a contest, w T as also
seated.
Washington, February I —The Mex
ican Claims Commission adjourned to
the first Monday in June, The time
required for rebutting evidence requires
this long vacation.
In a case from Missouri, involving
liability for seizure of property by offi
cers, the Supreme Court holds that a
State may enact retroactive laws, when
not inhibited by its established consti
tution and not in violation of the pro
visions of the Federal Constitution in
relation to ex post facto legislation.
The Election Committee finally voted
to oust Green and seat VanWyck.
House discussed Booker vs. Tucker,
from Virginia.
Senate —Saulsbury presented a peti
tion to restore the Government to the
white race.
The Senate discussed the acquisition
of West India Territory, but took no
action.
House — Booker from Virginia was
seated.
After a sharp contest the tariff bill
was reported. Schenck explained that
| the bill was merely amendatory of the
j former bill. It converts advalorem
j into specific duties wherever possible;
also very much enlarges the free list—
mainly on raw material entering into
manufactures. The committee endeav
i ored to keep in mind three things—
revenue, protection and consumption.
; Brooks, opposing the bill, said the re
ductions in the bill had been ingenious
ly made upon mere revenue articles,
snch as sugar, coffee, tea, brandy, spice
1 and liquors, thus reducing the revenue
in order to have an excuse for raising
the duty on steel, jute, carpeting and
i even on old type, and what was far
1 more censurable, duties still stood upon
I coal, salt, lead, lumber, hides, &c., &c.
Finally, alter much squabbling, the bill
| was ordered printed, and made the spe
| cial order for Tuesday the 15th.
The House considered appropriations
to close.
Senate—Ramsey presented and advo
cated a resolution which was adopted
looking to mediation of the United
States for a settlement of the difficulties
between Canada and the people of Win
nepeg territory.
The currency bill was amended by
increasing the proposed additional
volume of circulating notes from forty
five to sixty-five million dollars.
An amendment by Saulsbury to re
peal the 10 per cent, tax upon State
Bank issue, imposed in 1864, was voted
down.
From New Orleans.
New Orleans, Jan. 31.—The Con
solidated Bank of Lousiana, was robbed
of nearly $50,000. It was evidently the
work of experienced cracksmen.
From Tennessee.
Memphis, Jan. 30.—J. J. Ramsey, a
well known citizen of this place, was
murdered by negroes near Cherokee,
Mississippi.
The Ureal Gold Wnmblers, Flab,
Gould, aud Grunt.
Don Piatt gives the following racy
sketch of the great trio of gold gamblers:
FISK GOULD.
We are frequently struck with the
strange fact ol a man possessed of fine
powers, with no one element of success,
from the fact that he lacks other powers
to complete him. Like the half of a
pair of shears, however perfect the met
al may be, or fine the finish, it is entire
ly useless without that other half. If,
to fill the want, we could put men to
gether so as to make one perfect man,
as I once saw in a little drama, where a
blind soldier carried a legless veteran,
we might remedy these blunders of na
ture. But the trouble is, that no man
realizes his own needs. The unfortu
nate possessor of one talent does not
know, nor can he be made to know his
poverty in other talents. The unfortu
nate is slow to learn, and the last to
acknowledge his deficiencies. At long
intervals it happens that the wife comes
in to the aid of the husband, but there
is no instance on record, until now,
where two men have united to make
one man—each supplying a want to the
other. This is the case with Fisk Gould.
Although possessed of two bodies, they
in fact make up one character.
Gould is a slender, dark, quiet man,
with a clear brain, cool, cautious judg
ment, and a mental power to plan that,
I suppose, is unsurpassed. But he car
ries in his face, person, manner, in
every part of him, a warning to human
ity to beware. He is, in spite of him
self, a snake on end, ready to strike. —
He can plan, but he cannot execute. —
Fisk, on the contrary, is a round, fat,
jolly, impulsive creature, who, possess
ing the courage and tenacity of a bull
dog, has the coarse, yet kindly ways of
a horse. Men do not shrink from him,
but, feeling secure in his lack of mental
power, rather lean to his brutal, good
nature. No two men ever were less
alike, yet no two men ever were more
necessary to each other. One can plan,
and the other execute ; and they have
in common two great elements of suc
cess—they have good stomachs and no
conscience.
I saw the two in the lobby of the
House, last Saturday, and thought of
the sweet monster, in the “Tempest.”
There were the four legs, and the two
voices—one the voice of a friend to per
suade and entreat, and the other the
voice ofthe enemy to threaten aud abuse.
I think of Gould as hid away in some
obscure den, plotting against humanity,
and sending out Fisk to execute his in
fernal schemes. The public mind seems
to have settled on the same belief, for
the most popular caricature in circula
tion represents Fisk as a bull dog, and
Gould as his owner.
When Gould appeared before tbe
Committee he walked quietly into the
room, and taking his seat, at once pro
ceeded to give iu his testimony in an
swer to a long series of questions, pre
pared in advance by General Garfield.
He spoke in a low measured tone;
scarcely moved a muscle or changed his
position through the long, searching
examination.
Gen. Garfield had, as is common with
him, thoroughly mastered the subject,
and brought all his legal ability to bear,
for the purpose of extracting tbe truth
from unwilling witnesses. But he met
his match in Gould. The cool, quiet,
clear way in which he traveled on the
very edge of danger, and yet without
committing himself in the slightest,
made a beautiful study to the other
members ofthe committee, who sat lis
tening to question and answer, deliver
ed in a measured conversational tone,
accompanied only by the scratching ol
the reporters’ pens. When the exami
nation terminated, and the -witness
withdrew, there was but one opinion
expressed, and that was a verdict iu
favor of the ability exhibited. Tbe
witness bad managed his case with ex
quisite art and delicacy, leaving only
his general reputation to sustain the be
lie! that they had been dealing with a
dishonest man.
Could the case have rested there, it
would have been better for compound
villain. But the other part of the same
man had to be heard, and that too with
out the advantage of hearing or know
ing what his double had been saying.
Fisk, jr., rolled into the committee with
the life and uproar of a steam tug. His
short, fat person was setoff in the loud
est of clothes.' A diamond gleamed
from his cascade of white linen, like a
head-light from a locomotive, wile a
huge cable gold chain fell in festoons
from his neck, as far down as that part
of his person where the leg ends and
body begins. His plaid pantaloons, of
the most pronounced pattern, and the
black velvet jacket were of the sort, in
the way of costume, one sees in low
comedy upon the stage.
“Well, gentlemen,” he said, “here I
am, in answer to your summons, and I
demand to know upon what authority
the Congress of the United States un
dertakes to pry into my private affairs?”
“You mistake the object of our in
vestigations,” responded Gen. Garfield
blandly; “the Government would not
presume to pry into the business of
Fisk and Gould. We have only availed
ourselves of your financial abilities, to
assist us in unraveling an ugly public
transaction.”
This, on the part of the chairman,
was, of course, sarcasm. But Fisk
seemed to take it seriously, and soften
ing down, put himself in position to be
questioned.
“You had better proceed, Mr. Fisk,”
said General Garfield, “and tell us all
about it in your own way.”
To this Fisk assented, and at once
entered upon the subject. No words
can do justice to what followed. As he
warmed in his subject he threw off all
restraint, and his queer slang phrases,
funny estimate of character, odd oaths,
and extraordinary gesticulation, threw
the committee into roars of laughter
that at times grew hysterical in their
intensity. No select audience was ever
before treated to such a broad farce. The
very reporters, at times, looked up with
distorted faces and begged to be reliev
ed.
“I have seen Burton in his best days,”
said one of the committee to me, “but I
never saw him equal Jim Fisk on this
occasion. Imagine, if you can, that ex
traordinary figure under the most in
tense excitement, snorting, prancing,
gesticulating like a harlequin, while he
poured out a stream of the most singu
lar jumble of sense and nonsense. And
this continued for four hours.”
Wnen at last he ended he turned and
said: •
“Mr. Chairman, permit me to thank
you and the committee for the courtesy
you have shown me. When you come
to New York, any of you, I hope you’ll
come to see us, and let us reciprocate
your kindness.”
“Mr. Fisk,” responded General Gar
field, “we certainly will. We under
stand that you have the grandest opera
house in the United States, and one of
the best companies. But should we
visit it, there will be over us a cloud of
regret that, in your becoming a finan
cier, the world lost a great actor.”
The flattered Fisk bowed and witii
drew.
He flatly contradicted the cautious
Gould, in many important particulars.
The fact is, he slopped over so contin
ually that he probably did not know,
himself, the mischief he was doing. As
he was immediately surrounded by re
porters, as soon as he escaped from the
committee room, and before he could
recover from the excitement, I suppose
his entire statement has been telegraph
ed you.
His admiration for and devotion to
Gould was striking and almost touching.
Describing Gould, when, as he said, he
(Gould) "found himselt loaded down to
the gunnels and likely to go under, the
cussed fellow never said a word—he’s
too proud for that; but I saw him tear
ing up bits of paper. When Gould
snips off corners of newspapers and
tears ’em up in bits, I know that there’s
trouble. Then I come in to help. He
knows I’d go my bottom dollar on him,
and said to him, look here old fellow,
when I was a boy, on a farm in Ver
mont, I’ve seen the old man go out to
yoke up Buck and Brindle; he’d lift the
neavy yoke on to Brindle’s neck, key
the bow, and then, bolding up the other
end, motion to old Buck to come under,
and old Buck would back off and off,
and sometimes, before he could per
suade him under, the yoke would get
too heavy for dad. And, Gould, old
fellow, Wall street won’t be persuaded,
and the yoke is getting damned heavy
—and here I am to give you a lift.”
I said in one of my communications
two months since, that the whole case
pivoted on the letter written by Corbin
to President Grant, and sent by special
messenger. In this investigation, that
letter has come to be the scarlet letter,
and its contents of painful interest. —
Fisk was loud in his assertions of
complicity in the Executive mansion.
But so far there is nothing that connects
the President with the foul conspiracy
but that fatal missive, and the low as
sociation that began in that unhappy
summer, and run through the fool’s
paradise of Long Branch. One Bhrinks
in pain, almost, from the defilement of
that whole business.
Fast men, fast women aud fast horses
make a horrible nightmare one regrets
to see revived. I don’t place much show
by official dignity, but we do want a
little sense of propriety in the agents
we have honored with the highest offices
in the gilt of the people. And in this
respect the Executive Mansion seems
to be fated. It seems to sink lower as
we go on. We breathed easier when
the inebriated Andrew could no longer
cling to the iron railing in front and ad
dress tbe rabble by torch light, while
the American people blushed in shame
at the exhibition. We turned to the
silent, quiet soldier for relief, and now
find the Fisk-Gould-Corbin crowd.—
But I do not care to dwell upon the
sutiject.
There is one good that must come of
this investigation, The people will
have a realizing sense of our financial
situation, when they see how our busi
ness world may be agitated from center
to circumference, by a low set of sharp
ers, who run their operations through
an Opera-house, with bare-faced inso
lence of open profligacy. With an in
flated, irredeemable paper currency,
with all values unsettled, and all busi
ness gambling, our National Govern
ments turned into a vast machine, run
for the benefit of individuals, and class
es, each trying to overreach and destroy
the other. While I write, the hotels
and boarding houses of Washington are
crowded with rings and lobbies, more
respectable in appearance than Gould,
Fisk and Corbin, but equally dishonest;
while the Committee on Ways and
Means works night and day to harmon
ize their interests.
Beecher in another Marrying j
Scrape. —The Cincinnati Commercial I
has the following special telegram from j
New York, under date of the 25th
lust:
On the 9th of May last the Rev. Hen
ry Ward Beecher solemnized a marriage
in the Astor House, between two per
sons whose names are withheld for the
present, by request ot some near rela
tives ot the bride. These relatives are
most anxious to have the marriage re
corded in the Register Clerk’s office of
the Board oi Health. Onjthe 18th of
June, Mr. John Browne, the Register
Clerk, wrote to Mr. Beecher requesting
him to send to the office, to the Board I
of Health, a certificate. To this com- j
munication no official reply has yet been \
returned. A messenger was dispatched
from Dr. Styles’ office, in Brooklyn, to
Mr. Beecher, who said that he had no j
recollection whatever of performing i
such marriage ceremony, while Mrs. i
Beeoher informed the messenger that i
she perfectly remembered such a mar- '
riage. On receiving this answer, Mr.
Browne immediately wroto a private
note to the relative of the bride who i
seemed to be most anxious that the mar- 1
riage should be recorded, informing him ;
of Mr. Beecher’s reply. Then the gen- j
tleman quietly called at the office, and
produced the original marriage certifi
cate, which he had given the bride
when he married the couple. This, of
course, settled the dispute ; but still Mr.
Beecher has sent no certificate to the
Register’s office. The case has a secret
history, which just now we are not per
mitted to disclose.
Turin Nalnave
A French sloop of war arrived at
Charleston, S. C., yesterday, direct
from fort au Prince, bringing intelli
gence of the shooting of ex-President
Salnave, of Ilayti, on the 10th inst., by
the successful revolutionists. If the
news be true, the ill-starred man has
only shared the fate of nearly all Hay
tien leaders, and his dying moments
were probably consoled by the thought
that before many months his execution
ers would be shot by somebody else.
Salnave was born in Hayti, and
was a man in the prime of life. He en
tered the army at an early age, and was
rapidly promoted tor distinguished ser
vices in the field. We believe that he
took part in the invasion of St. Domin
go by Soulouque, and retreated in good
order with that distinguished warrior.
Subsequently he aided Geffrard in over
throwing the empire, whence Soulouque
fled to Jamaica, and in re-establishing
the republic. For a while matters pro
gressed favorably enough; but in an
evil hour Geffrard’s government slight
ed Salnave, whose bosom yearned for
liberty. To strike down tyranny be at
tempted the assassination of one of Gef
frard’s ministers and failed. He then
fled to St. Domingo, and while there
organizing a rebellion was sentenced to
death by court martial assembled in
Port-au-Prince. In May, 1865, he re
entered Hayti with a formidable army
of 250 men, roused the people in the
name of God and liberty and establish
ed a provisional government. Gef
frard advanced against him with the
forces of the republic. Several bloody
struggles took place, in which a num
ber of men were seriously bruised and a
few killed. Finally the insurrection
was suppressed, Salnave retiring again
to St. Domingo. Subsequently,however
he renewed the revolutionary movement
i and succeeded in ousting Geffrard, who
prudently took refuge onboard a foreign
! war vessel. On assuming power Sal
nave issued a proclamation declaring
amnesty to all Haytiens excepting Gef
, frard, whom he condemned to death,
1 but who was never shot, for the very
good reason that he kept out of Hayti.
Os course it was not long before a revo
lution broke out against the new Presi
, dent, who headed the Cacos, while the
! heroic Nissage Saget, Dominique, and
I other world renowned Generals, led the
; piquets. The war lasted from June,
I 1867, until a few days ago. So long as
| Salnave was able to pay for the printing
of his Treasury notes he held out brave
ly ; but when it took $5,000 in Haytien
currency to buy a gold dollar he col
lapsed. Unfortunately for him the pi
quet leaders’ supply of coffee held out
longer than his, and he fell. He was
said to be a very warm friend of the
United Slates, and was in favor of a
closer alliance between the “two repub
lies.” Os his private virtues we know
nothing. He possessed a playful habit
, of shootiog wealthy citizeus and con
fiscating their property for the benefit
of the nation. Take him all in all we
shall not see his like again, except in
the persons of the new rulers of Hayti.
—New York Herald.
Well Put.—The New York Herald
says:
The Military Commission in Georgia
has succeeded in reconstructing the
Legislature.
Dr. Benjamin W. Dudley, an eminent
surgeon of Kentucky, died at his resi
dence in Lexington, last week, at the
advanced age of eighty-five years.
We learn from the Rome Courier
| that young Btewart, who killed another
young man in that place, a short time
ago, has been tried and acquitted.
The Burns House at Chattanooga,
Tennessee, was sold on Friday last, to
Mr. O. Upman, of Chicago, for $16,000.
WEDNESDAY MORNING FEB 2.
Bullock takes the proclamation pap
from sundry newspapers, and pays the
Legislators three hundred dollars each
for meeting and adjourning day by day
in Atlanta.
Death of E. J. Belser. —Tbe death
of Edwin J. Belser is announced iu the
Montgomery papers. He died on Sun
day night last, of pneumonia. Ho was
the son of the late Col. Jus. E. Belser.
Mr. 8., it will be remembered, was un
der bonds to appear at the next term of
the Criminal Court to answer the
charge of killing W. 11. Hogan, which
occurred in Montgomery a lew days
ago. m
Sharp and Quick. —The Macon Tel
egraph says:
“We understand that when Col. E.
Hulbert arrived at Albany the other day
he made an impromptu speech, in which
he promised to connect that city aud
Brunswick by rail in time to transport
the present year’s crop. In doing so he
would not take a single hand from the
plantations —saying he would do the
work with German labor.”
Hulbert told tbe Press excursionists
that the half million of dollars that were
short from the State Road earnings had
been used in ballasting the road and
putting it in first class order, all ot
which the Press excursionists swallow
ed with his champagne and sardines. —
It turns out that only two miles and
one half of the road have been ballasted,
and that the ballance is in a wretched
condition. “Sharp and Quick” will tell
Germans or any other people almost
anything to suit his purposes, but when
he fools sturdy Germans into building
railroads in Georgia, he will bo the
sharpest and quickest fellow known.
Real Estate and Bonds at Auc
tion. —Y"esterday Elllis & Spencer sold
the following property:
130 shares Mobile aud Girard Railroad
stock, old issue, SIOO shares, at sl7 75
per share.
The Phil Pryor farm, containing 30
acres, between the Moise property and
Race Track, improvements passable—
sl27s.
TUe Moise property, two miles from
city, 106 acres land, 10 room house, and
plenty outhouses —$3900.
Executor’s sale of lots 304, 303 and
North half of lots Nos. 305 aud 806,
including the demimonde Savannah
house, with 12 rooms—s4ooo. Proper
ty had claims and mortgages on it
amounting to some SIBOO or $2300.
The Lester place, lot 181 in 9th Dis
trict, Southern part of Muscogee county,
202 j acres, mostly cleared, brought $2
per acre. Lot No. 182, cleared land,
same dimensions and same District, ob
tained no bidder. Lot 172, same di
mensions and District, woodland,
brought $3 per acre.
One sixili interest in the lot and build
ings, known as McKee’s Carriage Re
pository, brought $llOO.
Southern Fair Association —
Meeting of Directors. —At a meet
ing of the Directors of the Southern Fair
Association, held yesterday at the bank
ing house of John King, Dr. Bussey
was called to the chair and Jno. King
requested to act as Secretary.
On motion of Col. W. 11. Chambers,
the Directors proceeded to elect a per
manent President and Vice President,
which resulted in the unanimous elec
tion of W. H. Young President, and
W. L. Salisbury Vice President.
On motion of B. F. Coleman, the
election of Secretary and Treasurer was
postponed until Saturday, Feb. sth.
Cos!. W. H. Chambers offered the fol
lowing resolutions,which were adopted:
Resolved, That a committee of two,
consisting of Dr. N. J. Bussey and Jno.
King, bo appointed and requested to
take all necessary action to have the
name of the Association changed to the
“Columbus Industrial Association,”
also, to have the number of Directors
increased to thirteen instead of seven,
the present number.
Resolved, That the President call a
meeting of the stockholders on Wednes
day evening (to night) to elect six new
Directors.
The meeting then adjourned to meet
on Saturday, February sth, at twelve
o’clock.
Kentucky and the Fifteenth
Amendment. —The Courier-Journal
says the negroes of that State have de
creased from 236,167 in 1860, to 140,445
in 1869, and that the adoption of the
Fifteenth Amendment will not make
the slightest change in the political
status of Kentucky. It estimates the
the negro vote at 38,000’, and says if
they vote the Radical ticket en masse,
it will scarcely alter the result even in a
single Legislative District. The prin
cipal black vote will be in Louisville
city and Jefferson count]! 5,300; Fay
ette, 4,000 ; Bourbon, 000 ; Chris
tian, 1700 ; Logan, 1,000 ; Madison,
1,000; Shelby, 1,500, and Warren, 1000.
The Right Talk. —Coon, the carpet
bagger, having made some animadver
sions on the editorial course of the
Montgomery Mail, that journal gives
him and his kind a pretty plain talk,
after the following fashion :
Now we shall tell this distinguished
Senator—this political racoon—that we
shall speak on all occasions of him and
his party as they deserve. We shall
continue to denounce theta as hypocrits
and imposters,and unprincipled upstarts
and intruders, who came into the State
for the sole purpose of disseminating
discord, and that their only bond of
union is the cohesive power of the pub
lic plunder. We tell them this, and we
say beside, that we shall war against
them until the last miserable carpet
bagger shall be thrown headlong from
the Tarpeian Rock of the State, which
they have desecrated by their presence,
and outraged by their insolence.
Shooting Affair.—There was a
shooting scrape Monday, at Suspension,
No. 6, on the Mobile and Girard Rail
road, between Jack Grady and Hal
Marlin They had nail a previous dif
ficulty. On 'i.e morning named, it was
renewed. Martin threw Grady, and
the latter, while down, fired a pistol ball
into Martin’s side. When train passed
yesterday, he was not dead, but was
better.
Chinese for Railroad Work.—
We learn, by a letter from Texas, that
about the middle of January, four hun
dred Chinese arrived at Colvert, the
present terminus of the Houston and
Texas Centra! Railroad, to work on the
road.
The colored engrossing clerk of the
House ought to stop putting on airs.
The Senate yesterday returned six bills,
all in a jump, the spelling “dar” for
there, being more than the “onorable”
body could get over.— Mont. Adv.
The colored engrossing clerk ought
not to be “dar.”
NO. 48.
Tbe Hukholl Court House Question.
Eds. Sun: I desire to make a sugges
tion through your widely circulated
paper to the people of Russell county.
The division of the county having
placed Craw’ford, the county site of the
original county, nearly on the edge of
the present county, it has been thought
necessary for the convenience of the
citizens, that the county site should be
removed to a more central point in the
county. This I think should be done,
and, I think, can be done, without tax
ing the people for a dollar. It has been
done iu other counties of the State.
Some years ago it was proposed to re
move the county site of Greene county,
then at Erie on the Warrior river, to a
more central point. Some two or three
villages put iu their claims, as did also
the owner of an eligible and beautiful
plot of laud at the crossing of two
public roads near the centre oi the
couuty. The owner donated to the
county twenty acres on which to locate
the county site. The election came off
aud the donated place was chosen —then
a corn field. Four acres was reserved
for the Court House and the public
square, aud the remainder laid out into
lots and sold. It brought a sufficient
amount to build a first class Court
House and Jail, and left a surplus iu the
couuty treasury. It is the town ol
Eutaw, now containing a population of
more than two thousand inhabitants.
Another instance of a like policy, has
just been adopted iu Dale couuty. It
was proposed for some cause, to re
move the county site of that county,
and at the first sitting of the present
session of the Legislature, an act was
passed authorizing an election to test
the question. Newton, the present
couuty site, and a locality known as
Union Church, were put in nomination.
The owner of the laud at the latter
point donated to the county, seventy,
five acres on a beautiiul plot ol ground
for a village, conditioned that the couu
ty site should be located on it. The
election came off about two weeks ago,
and Union Church was selected by a
large majority. There can be little
doubt that the donated land, laid out
into lots, will sell for more than enough
to build a good Court House and Jail
without taxing the people of the county
one cent.
I suggest that a similar donation be
made by some public spirited land owner
or owners, at or near the centre of Rus
sell county, or, of one or more. Then
let the donated point or points be placed
in nomination in competition with Sil
ver Run, Girard, etc. Should a donated
point be selected, the county would be
saved taxation for the erection ol public
buildings.
It does seem to me that if ever there
was a time when strategy should be
used to save the people of Russell from
the onerous taxation that will be neces
sary to put up anew Court House and
Jail, that time is now. She is heavily
in debt with little prospect of seeing the
end of it within a reasonable time.
I am aware that strong efforts have
been, and are still being made, by tbe
respective friends of Silver Run aud Gi
rard, to have the couuty site located at
one of these points. The serious objee
tion is the expense the location at either
of the two places will entail on the
county for public buildings. This is
a serious objection, aud can be obviated
in tbe way suggested. The centre ofthe
county is somewhere in the vicinity of
Siver Run, and numerous beautiful sites
for a Court House town are to be found
at or near the geographical centre of
the county.
Who will donate fifty acres for this
purpose? I should like to hear from
some public-spirited land owner in the
vicinity of the centre, through the col
umns of the Sun.
I have thrown out this suggestion
for the consideration of the tax paying
voters of the county; and Mr. Editor,
in doing so, have trespassed on your
patience too.
Russell Tax Payer.
Death of a Well-Known Georgi
an.—The Montgomery Advertiser says:
Mr. St. Lanier,a gentleman well known
in the South, died at his old home, the
Exchange Hotel, in this city, on yester
day. Mr. Lanier was for many years a
resident of Macon, Georgia, and kept
there the well known “Lanier House.”
In 1850 he moved to New York, and
took charge of the “La Farge House,”
which became well known and popular.
It burned down just as he was begin
ing to make for it a national reputation.
In 1853 he took charge of the “Mont
gomery Hall” and afterwards of the
“Exchange Hotel.” About the begin
ing of the war he retired from active
business, and since the war has been
living at Robinson Springs. He has
been in had health for some time, and
died yesterday at the “Exchange Ho
tel” with many of his family and friends
around him. He was a good man, full
of charity, and will be sincerely regret
ted by all who ever knew him. For
over forty years he was a consistent
member of the M. E. church.
The Fifteenth Amendment A
Novel and Original Proposition.—
An article in the Lexington (Ky.) Ga
zette, in reference to the Fifteenth
Amendment, has attracted some atten.
tion and caused not a little comment on
the part of members of the Legislature.
The article in question proposes a plan
for defeating the Fifteenth Amendment,
and getting rid of the negro vote, that
is at once striking and original. The
amendment declares that “the right of
citizens of the United States to vote
shall not be denied or abridged by the
United States, or by any State, on ac
count of race, color or previous condi
tion of servitude ;” (and the Gazette
proposes that, such being the case, the
Kentucky Legislature shall enact a law
providing that “no person shall be elec
tor in this Commonwealth who has
wool or kinky hair on his scalp,” and
that any person who shave or otherwise
removes the wool or hair from his bead,
so as to deceive the judges of election,
shall be indicted ana punished, as pro
vided by law, for fraudulent voting.
Indiana Divorce and Puritan
Morality.— We copy in to day’s paper
irom the New York Herald a commu
nication from an Indiana lawyer touch
ing one of the great staples of his State
—divorces. He includes in it, a note
of a would be client in Vermont—one
of the States out East, of moral ideas—
who appears to have been deserted by
her liege lord, and desires to have some
thing that looks as much like a divorce
as the circumstances will warrant. She
is not unreasonably anxious that the
thing should be legal, and if it is not sbe
will take no advantage of it; but she
would like to have it look legal. This
exemplifies the easy morality of the
down East world, which at bottom,
cares as little as possible for thorough
honesty, but cares an immense deal for
appearances.
ALABAMA LEGISLATURE.
Saturday.— ln Senate a substitute
to the bill iu regard to weights aud
measures was passed. [Suspends for
the present the furnishing of standard
weights and measures to the different
counties ]
The joint memorial l'or the relief of
disabilities was discussed without action
to adjournment. Senate refused by a
tie vote, the President, Applegate,
voting nay to lay on tbe table iliu sub
stitute offered by Coon, recommending
the representatives in Congress irom
Alabama to use their influence lor the
removal of disutilities and the repeal oi
the test oath when the XVth Amend
rnent shall become a law.
HOUSE.
In the House were passed the joint
resolution which passed the Senate to es
tiblish a system of postal telegraph.
House bill, amended by Senate, fixing
lime for making assessments. [Pro
vides assessors may commence in Jan
uary and conclude iu May. ] Instructing
the superintendent of Education to re
port amount of expenses incurred iu the
School System ; to require County So
licitors to make subpoenas; to amend
City charter of Enfaula. Resolution to
expoll Ryland Randolph (or a letter he
had written to his paper, was angrily
discussed to adjournment. Mr. Ran
dolph was not present.
Monday. —ln the Senate tbe follow
ing bills were referred : to declare offi
cers ofthe Board of Education iueligi
hie to the position of County Superin
tendeut; to repeal sections 0 and 7 ol
an act to regulate elections, approved
Oct. 8, 1808; to establish anew charter
for the city of Opelika; eeferred to se
" lect committee—Penington, Miller and
Mabry; to establish a special stock law
for the counties of Lee and Chamber.',
Mr. Farden, to declare void all Juilg
ments rendered during the existence ol
the stay law.
Bill to protect the public as well as
railroads from loss or damage by live
stock upon the railroads, was passed;
that a special committee to wait on
Superintendent of Public Instruction to
ascertain what is necessary to he done
to further or put into operation the free
schools of this State, that said committee
shall investigate into wlml has been
done, and how the school funds have
been appropriated, was adopted.
Bill to amend an act to repeal an
ordinance to abolish the county ,ol
Baine, was passed.
The removal of disabilities was dis
cussed, aud amendments, offered until
adjournment.
In the House the question of expul
sion of Randolph, was postponed until
Saturday.
Bills were passed to repeal the act
establishing an Institution for the deaf,
dumb and blind; to authorize the Gov
ernor to fill, by appointment, vacancies
in the offices of Supreme Court Judges
and Chancellors.
Tuesday —ln the Senate, the House
bill to amend an act establishing the
institution for the deaf and dumb was
discussed. Several favored admission
without distinction of persons. Pen
nington and McAfee opposed mixing
races. A joint resolution of Mr. Wor
thy, that the House of Representatives
concurring, the General Assembly ad
journ sine die on Saturday next, Febru
ary sth, was adopted.
Memorial and joint resolutions for
removal of disabilities, discussed to ad
journment.
Mr. Sibley moved to amend as fol
lows: (true copy—grammer and spell
ing,) “Accept those parties who were
members ol the Cabinite of the United
States or members of Congress in 1861
and afterwords engaged in rebellion,
and parlies who were educated at the
expense of the nation and afterwards
bor arms against the government.”
House. —The following bills were
passed : Senate bill for the relief of
Louisiana Lester ; to establish a charter
for the town ot Troy ; to rescind rule
22 of House and substitute two-thirds in
place of four-fifths; to re-charter the
town of Tuskegee ; to secure the right
of appeal; to repeal all laws authorizing
lotteries; to authorize appeal on bank
ruptcy after judgment; to declare the
powers, &c., of loan associations ; to
amend section 2800 Revised Code; ex
planatory of the corporation laws of this
State.
The following were referred : to de
fine the dower interest of widows ; to
define the Revenue Laws of Alabama
relating to patent medicines ; to legal
ize the acts of towns, &c., in subscribing
to the capital stock of railrords, also, in
relation to cities and towns subscribing
to railroads.
A dispatch says on Monday a bill
was passed which allows Senators to
retain their seats until 1875.
Improvement!* —Activity*
Brunswick has been characterised as
a dull and laggingly moving place '
This reproach whether just or unjust,
is being removed. Activity is now the
order of the day. Few idlers are here;
and the few that are here have to Keep
themselves in dignified (?) retirement,
in order to avoid being drawn into the
hurrying, busy current.
True, the mercantile business is not
large, but it is increasing, and is now in
excess of what might have been reason
ably anticipated six months since. The
demand for sawed lumber at this port
the present winter and incoming spring,
cannot bo supplied by the mills now in
operation; nor do we believe the de
mand could be fully met by working all
the mills to the utmost capacity.
House building is going on rapidly.
Some forty or fifty houses are now in
process of construction. As to style
and value, they range from the hum
blest board shanty, up to the neat, and
even stately cottage residence.
Contracts have been given out for
brick buildings, and within a few
months they will begin to rise.
This year will witness tho erection of
now wharves, and the establishment of
one of the finest and largest cotton press
es in the South.
We are having quite an influx of
population, and we are glad to say the
major part of them are of the right
stamp. Sober, industrious, thrifty peo
ple—neither too proud nor too lazy to
work. There is room lor all of this
sort who may choose to come.—Bruns
wick Appeal.
What the Tribune Says. Mr.
Greeley is not pleased with the shape in
which the Virginia bill was finally
passed. He says :
The House has adopted the Senate’s
perverse action on the Virginia bill,
without amendment. The terms on
which, at length, Virginia is to be ad
mitted were, yesterday, set forth in our
columns, and may be found again to
day, embodied in the report oi the pro
ceedings. We do not need to repeat
that we deeply regret the result finally
attained at the end of these weary weeks
of debate and recrimination. Congress
prescribed certain terms lor the admis
sion of Virginia. The State complied,
to the full, with those terms. Congiess
now prescribes fresh terms. This is
punishing the treason of Virginia, in
1861, by bad faith on the part of Con
gress, in 1870. We do not believe such
a course to be statemanship or sound
party policy, and aggravating as is the
wrong done Virginia, we believe she
will suffer less from it, in the end, than
will tho party that has wrought it.
Sumner’s Speech.—A leading New
York paper, the Journal of Commerce,
says; “It has leaked out that Mr.
Charleß Sumner has earned some sort
of fame as a financier very cheaply.
It is said that a gentleman long connect
ed with the Treasury Department, and
who knows all about every loan nego
tiated by the United States, drafted the
bill introduced in the Senate by Mr.
Sumner. Before being submitted, the
bill passed the separate revision and
consideration of the Hon. Salmon I*.
Chase, Henry D. Cooke and Jay Cooke,
and the informant goes on to say that
he Baw the argument of Mr. Sumner’s
speech, made up in the handwritnig of
one of the gentlemen above named.”
Sumner is not singular in this respect.
Many men abler and more distinguish
ed than he, have been indebted to the
brains and labor of others for all of their
power and prosperity.
Dead.—The Savannah News an
nounces the death of Robert Habersham,
Esq., one of the most honored and re
spected citizens and merchants ot that
place. Ho wasin hiseighly sixth year.