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TX'ESDA V MORNING, IIARCH 1.
A proposition was introduced into
the Tennessee Constitutional Conven
tion the last week of its session, provid
ing that “no negro, mulatto or mustee,
shall be allowed to sit on juries or hold
office in this State.” It was rejected by
a vote of 39 to 28. So it would seem
that negroes will be eligible to office
and to sit on juries in Tennessee under
the new Constitution. After this man
ifestation of loyalty, we hardly think
Tennessee will he reconstructed.
It Is related of the hopeless consumpt
ed young lady in the West, who it was
stated had the delicate operation per
formed of the transfusion of thirty six
ounces of blood from other healthy
members of the family, into her veins,
as a remedy for her disease, is fast re
covering. It will be recollected that
an account of the operation was pub
lislied in this paper a bhort time ago. |
thd blood was laken from a sister and
two brothers.
Death ok an Aged Lady. —Readers
will see a notice in this paper of the
funeral of Mrs. Bennett, who died yes
terday. She, we are told, was proba
bly eighty years of age, and most of her
life was spent in Columbus. Her bus
band, Micajah Bennett, was a mechanic,
and built, perhaps, the first frame house
in Columbus. She was the mother of
Mrs. R R. Goetchius, of Columbus, and
of Capt Billy Bennett, formerly commis
sary of the 17th Georgia Regiment, who
died in this city last year. How few
ever reach the advanced age of eighty
years, when in this rapid age thirty
summers make a Methuselah in expe
rience; and fewer still can look upon a
city where in middle life they found a
forest and Indians. The history of
this Christian lady must be of highest
interest and instruction by reason
of its beauty and various experiences.
Corcoran’s Cotton Chopper.— lt
was tried Saturday in afield beyond the
Colored Cemetery, in the presence of a
number of practical farmers. They
were warm in its praises. The recent
improvements have added to its effici
ency. It will accomplish the work of
eight hands. This is an immense sav
ing of labor, and labor is money.
The re-election of Senator Anthony
is one of issues in the coming April
election in Reode Island. It is asserted
that Senator Sprague will throw his in
lluence in favor of any one to beat his
present colleague.
A Si.ap at a Scalawaq.— The Louis
ville Courier Journal, referring to Mc-
Kinstry, Scalawag member of the Ala
barna Legislature for Mobile, makes this
hard hit.
We used to think that Geu. Bragg
shot too many ; wo now think he shot
one too tew.
A Liberal Miser.— Georg Fox, a
New York miser, reeeutly decease.!,
left a will bequeathing all his property,
valued at between three and tour thous
and dollars, to the U. S. Government,
to assist in paying the national debt.
The Philadelphia Age insists that
the sale of cadetships is but a ltttle, re
tail two penny business, compared with
the sale of pardons which the “Ring”
at Washington are striving hard to per
petuate. The profits of this infamous
traffic prompt the opposition to a gener
al amnesty.
Alabama Legislature, Saturday.
—Senate passed bills, reported from In
ternal Improvement Committee, to
amend and repeal section 8 of bill ap
proved Feb. 8, 1860. The remainder of
the session was secret, or occupied with
unimportant local matters, or bills that
wero passod over or referred. Uouso
passed a bill for protection of purchas
ers at administrators sales.
file Houston Telegraph says: “The
liate of Texas has entered suit
against George Peabody for the recov
ery of certain United States bonds
irregularly transferred to Mr. reabody’s
possession. Judge Paschal brings the
suit. December 5,1870, is fixed for
eturu day.”
Bullock’s Extravgance. A cor
respondent of the New York World,
writing from Atlanta, speaking of the
notorious prodigality of Bullock, says :
“His personal expenses, I was told by
a grossipping female of the Hadical sac
tion, exceed ?100 per day Os course
the excess over hiß salary comes out cf
the pockest of people.
The Atheus (Ala.) Post is informed
by the farmers of that county (Lime
stone) that at least one third less cot
ton will be planted in that section this
year than last. It says the farmers are
extensively using fertilizers, and econ
omizing labor in every way possible.
A hill has passed the Tennessee Legis
lature taking the clogs off of the money
lenders. It goes into effect on the Ist of
June. It leaves the legal rate of inter
est, in the absence of a special contract,
at 0 per cent as heretofore, but makes
any rate agreed upon between parties,
up to ten per cent, legal. This is a
step of progress in the right direction.
It is stated that Brigham Young, with
several of the high dignitaries of the
Mormon Church, is soon to make a pil
grimage to the southern border of Arizo
na, with a view to selecting a future
site for a mormon, settlement, in order
to escape from the interference of Cul
lom’s bill with the institution of poly
gamy. _
Francis P. Blair, Sr., and wife, now
in their sixty first year of marriage life,
are reported to be in fine health. One
day last week, it is said, they rode thirty
two miles on horseback.
Bow a Colored Man Succeeds.—
On the C. D. Fry came eleven bales of
cotton, belonging to a “colored passen
ger." He never made a political speech,
never went to public meetings, but by
labor and attending to his own business
has made this cotton clear of all ex
penses in a year. That is an example
to follow.
The barnes of Mr. William Howard,
in Thomas county, Ga., together with a
large amount of corn, fodder and other
articles, were destroyed by fire last
■w«ek. Believed to be the work of a
negn incendiary.
The Locomotive says the Opelika
Mannfactuiing Company have comple
ted their buildings and gone to work.
It sayß the first lot of castings were
turned out last week, and that the Com
pany are engaged in manufaetnring a
superior plow.
VOL. XI.
Burlingame the Bully.
Yaokeedom, just now, blows its nose
over the death of Burlingame, a speci.
men Yankee. He was the pink “par
| excellence” of Yankee cunning and
j Yankee chivalry.
That his own people should make
much of him is not surprising. But we
find in a Southern journal, the Louis
ville Courier-Journal, the following no
: tice of him, and fling at Southern rep
resentatives, with a feeling of mingled
regret and astonishment:
At Washington he was a famous
swell. He did a geod deal of the speak
ing and bullying for the Republicans at
a time when speaking and bullying
meant something and cost something.
He was going to fight Keitt, of South
Carolina, and he held his own against
Toombs and Wigfall and Pryor and all
that set.
The fellow did swagger in the days
just preceding secession, something af
ter the style that Pope and Sheridan
have imitated since. He did insult
Southern representatives and then have
himself arrested by the Washington
police to prevent the consequences. Mr
Toombs had nothing to do with him.
After insulting Preston Brooks in a
prepared speech, he crept by night to
the lodging of that gentleman and sent
a friend to the room of the South Caro
lina representative humbly begging
permission to apologize for his language.
Let the North glory in his cheap repu
tation for courage. The South will have
none of it.
The character of the man was aptly
set fourth by his own words in the
Lincoln campaign when he proclaimed
on the hustings :
“We are in favor of an anti slavery
Bible, an anti-slavery Constitution, and
an anti-slavery God.”
His party have gotten the Constitu
tion. The Bible is not known or res
pected by Burlingame’s people. Burl
ingame himself has gone where he will
not be apt to know or see much of God.
Almost to the Bottom.
The admission of Revels, a mulatto
carpet-bagger of infamous character and
antecedento, to a seat in the United
States Senate, has brought mat do ay
down almost to a point where public
comtempt cannot follow it. But one
more step remains to be taken to com
plete its final and eternal degradation—
the admission of Foster Blodgett and
Potash Farrow—and this step will be
taken in due time. It was a hard party
necessity that secured Revels his seat.
His credentials were signed by Ames, a
military satrap, an objection equally as
strong if not stronger ;than the one
urged by Drake against the documents
furnished Farrow and Whitely by Bul
lock. But party ends had to he encom
passed. Besides, the practical swallow
ing of the nigger was a nauseating dose
given to his lovers. But the cup could
not be passed, and Radicalism had to
make the best face possible under the
circumstances. So Senator Sherman,
personally one of the most decent of the
Senators, made an effort to soften the
thing. In the debate upon the subject
he is reported as follows :
Mr flhprmnn qnfrf hfi would inform
Senator Davis that twenty years ago
the Supreme Court of Ohio, then com
posed mainly of Democrats, decided
Mr. Revels to be a citizen, the court
holding that the words “a white citi
zen” meant one nearer white than
black. Revels was included In this de
cision and voted in Ohio. Having once
enjoyed citizenship, it could not now be
denied him.
So Revels is a carpet-bagger, a reve
rend rascal, but not a nigger. Oh no;
not a nigger. Not more of a nigger
than Hamlin, from Maine.
Shall We Acquiesce in tiie Trea
son.—The Hartford (Conn.) Times,
one of the ablest Democratic journals of
New England, says of the last outrage
of the Republican party :
“If that amendment is to stand, the
Government itself is no longer the sim
ple and wise republican government
tounded by the Fathers, a government
of State rights, but its foundation prin
cipal is reversed. The Government is
changed to a centralized Government.
No longer has Connecticut, under that
amendment, the possession of her an
cient and clierished right to make her
oven laws! Her boast, that hers was
the first written Constitution, and her
people the freest people, living under
the tegis of their embodied form and
declaration of rights, and animated to
day by the spirit which snatched their
ancient charter from King Charles’
minions, can no longer be uttered with
truth, after the proclamation of this
change. Congress, the creature of the
States, has under Radical rule more
than once lifted the usurper’s hand to
throttle the States who created it. Nor
is this so-called 15th amendment essen
tially any less an act of usurpation be
cause it is clothed with the forms of a
Constitutional amendment.”
The Disappointed Emigrants.—A
statement has been going the rounds
that theemigrants who returned to New
York from Brazil a few days since, dis
appointed and destitute, were ex-Con
federates, and a prominent journal went
so far as to induldge a little sarcasm
about unreconstructed “rebels.” It
turns out that the unfortunate emigrants
consist chiefly of families who went out
from New York and Pennsylvania, and
a few from the Southern States. They
emigrated on a representation that the
Brazilian government would furnish
them with land and houses, but on
reaching their destination found them
selves far in the interior of Brazil, a
hundred and fifty miles from any mark
et, with no houses prepared for them,
and nothing but a wilderness about
them. They went to work, however,
and struggled against all unfavorable
circumstances for two years, when,
threatened with absolute starvation,
they were compelled to call upon the
Brazilian government to send them
home.— Baltimore Sun.
A Curious Item.—The New York
World says.
Among the items in the contingent
account of the Senate for last year are
“one dozen rubber nipples.” Consid
ering the way in which this honorable
body drains the Treasury, we are sur
prised it should only have made pro
vision for twelve teats.
Did Susan Anthony, and Anna Dick- i
inson have to use them in nursing Sen
ators up to Female Suffrage ?
How It Is Done.—The Hartford
(Conn.) Times tells us that the 15th
amendment ratification has been carried
by the following vote :
“ By 19 States ;
“By 6 Military Districts ;
“By 8 Major Generals ;
28—the necessary number.”
And there are people who ask the
country to accept this style of amend
ment to the Federal Constitution as a
fixed fact for all time to come—as a
Median and Persian law that it is trea
son even to think of disturbing. When
the Democracy of the country can get
at it, we shall see how long it will stay
‘‘fixed."-- Mobil* Beguter,
THE WEEKLY SUN.
Cotton in India.
The editors of the Selma (Ala.) Times
says Messrs. J. C. Graham & Cos., of
that city, have kindly placed at their
disposal a letter from their correspond
ent in Bombey, Messrs. Stearns, Ho
bart & Cos., dated January 15,1870, from
which the following extracts are taken.
The information from this far off cotton
producing region will interest many of
our readers :
“In continuation of the cotton advices
contained in our letter above quoted,
we wou.d now beg to hand you a few
particulars of the growing crop, which
we think will Interest you..
“Hingunghaut.—Very little of the
new crop has been received here up to
the present time, and such as has arriv
ed is of inferior quality. Quotations to
day are 328 rs—ll 3-16d c t and i over
land, and 10 15-16d c sand cape. The
crop will only be two thirds of last year.
“Oomrawuttee.—We learn from a
friend of ours, who has just returned
from a short visit to these districts, that
the rain has seriously damaged the sta
ple, as well as the looks of the cotton ;
in some parts a worm has made its ap
pearance,strongly resembling the “army
worm” of the State, and is seriously in
juring the cotton in one or two districts.
We quote to-day 305 rs—lo 7 16d c f
and l overland, and 10 3 16d via the
cape.
“Broach—reports from these districts
also complain of the crop being attacked
by worms. We quote 315 rs for machine
ginned—lOjf and 10$ for overland and
cape respectively.
“Dhollera.—New is at 280 rs; old at
274 rs—9s and 9sd; and new cotton at 9
11-19 and 9 7-16d c sand i overland and
cape.
“Owing to the non receipt of tele
grams from Liverpool, and also to the
poor quality and small arrivals of new
cotton, our market has been very quiet.
We doubt if business was ever so dull
at this season of the year.”
Wheat Prospect in North East
Georgia..— The Rome Courier of the
27th ult, says: “We will venture the
assertion that there never was a better
“stand’, of wheat in North Georgia and
Alabama at this season of the year than
there is now. There was fully the usual
amount put in last fall, the ground was,
a3 a general thing, better prepared than
has been customary in former years,
and there la every reason to hope for a
good crop at me next harvest.
“The winter has been rather unfavor
able for farm work, and it is not as far
advanced as it is sometimes, but a bet
ter system hasTgenerally been adopted,
and the agriculturalists are energetic
and thritty.”
General Forrest is progressing finely
with the work on the Selma and Mem
phis Railroad. From a letter addressed
by him to a gentleman in Memphis, we
learn the entire line from Selma to Co
lumbus, Miss., has been located and let
to contract, and that the work of grading
and laying track is progressing rapidly.
This looks like business. The General’s
success :.n this enterprise is fully up to
his cavalry record.
Expel Him. —Logan is foremost in
moving the expulsion of Whittemore
for selling cadetships. This is right.—
Now, let somebody move to expel Lo
gan for having sold himself to Lincoln
alter Having mace a contract witn Jeff
Davis. It is very wrong to sell a cadet
ship, and it is a good deal worse for a
man to sell himself.— Chicago Times.
Another Shooting—Attempt of a
Son of Gen. Liddell to Kill Col.
Jones.— The New Orleans Picayune of
the 19th ult., says :
Tnursday afternoon last, just as the
Allen was backing out from Harrison
burg, Colonel Charles E. Jones, who
had been placed in the custody of a
deputy sheriff for the killing of General
Liddell on board the steamer St. Mary,
appeared suddenly on the bank of the
river, when Judge Liddell, a son of the
late General Liddell, who was a passen
ger on the Allen, seizing a double-bar
reled shotgun, fired both barrels from
the boiler deck at him. Colonel Jones
at once took reluge in a heuse near the
river, and as the Allen left immediately
—having no communication with the
shore—it is not known whether Colonel
Jones received an y injuries or not.
Judge Liddell had taken passage on
the Allen at Monroe, for the purpose of
visiting the plantation of his father, on
Black river, where he left the steamer.
Immediately on hearing the reports
of the gun, Captain Sinnott, of the Al
len, rushed to where Liddell stood, took
charge of the gun, and remonstrated
with Liddell for violating the rules of
the boat, and for committing a breach of
the peace. Judge Liddell stated that
the extraordinary circumstances con
nected with the killing of his father
must be his excuse for his action. He
was utterly unable to control himself on
seeing Colonel Jones so near him.
How ro Fish for Souls. —Somebody
gives the following account of a recent
sermon by the Rev. DeWitt Talmage,
Brooklyn, New York:
The Reverend gentleman, having
given out his text preceeded with the
business of the evening which was to
play upon the feelings of his auditory.
In order to get them in a proper hu
mor it was first necessary to make them
laugh and he did so by relating the fol
lowing anecdote: A young minister
went to an old one and said, “Dear
Father in Christ,how is it that in all my
toil and labor in endeavoring to bring
souls to salvation I have such poor suc
cess ? 1 find it impossible to get up a
revival. Can you tell me the reason ?”
“Yes, my dear son in the ministry, I
can,” replied the good old man, “you
don’t know how to fish. Now, in order
to be a good fisherman, you must take
a delicate, supple pole, put upon it a
strong, delicate line, and fasten a deli
cate hook, and place thereon a delicate
fly, and drop it gently into the water,
and pull out your fish. But you fish
differently. You take a weaver’s beam
and tie to it a cart line, on which is a
pot hock, baited with a scorpion, and
you throw it into the water with a great
splash and say, Bite or you’ll be
damned!” Y r ou will never catch fish
at that rate.
Two Beavers Killed.— Two bea
vers were killed Sunday morning last in
Shepherd’s branch, a mile from Colum
bus. They weighed respectively four
teen and fifteen pounds. A gentleman
tells us that beavers are very frequently
found in tbs creeks in this section, and
effect considerable damage to crops.
They cut down corn, eat the grain, and
take the stalks to help aid in building
their dams.
Sudden Death.—Col. W. D. Young,
of this place while on his way to his
boarding house, on last Tuesday eve
ning, fell from the embankment near
the 3d street and was so stunned by the
fall as to be unable to proceed further
on his way. He groped about in the
darknesß and as is supposed, at last fell
completely exhausted. When found in
the morning he was in a dying condi
tion, having been exposed to the cold
and rain the entire night. Medical aid
was called as soon as he was found and
every means used to resuscitate him;
but to no purpose. He died about ten
o’clock Wednesday morning. During
the night, some negroes, living within
fifty yards of where he was found,
heard two calls for help; bat as they
heard only two calls they supposed the
person who called had passed.
Col. Young was one of our oldest
and most esteemed citizens .—Gadsden
Timet.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 1870.
Wanted a Baby.
A Peculiar Cate in a Justice's Court in
Memphis—Value of a “ TF/itte Com
pleted Baby."
We find the following case reported
in the Memphis Avalanche of Thursday
last:
An amusing case came up for adjudi
cation, yesterday, before Justice Grif
fith, which created quite a little sensation
among the numerous spectators in the
court. A colored girl named Clark
sued a Mrs. Clara Patterson, who lives
on McCall street, to recover the sum
of two hundred and fifty dollars “for
services rendered in procuring a baby.”
The evidence showed that at the pres
ent time Mrs. Patterson has a husband
who is at present a resident who Da
venport, lowa. A short time ago she
told the girl Clark that she was to pro
cure a baby, and offered her three hun
dred dollars if she would get her a
“nice, white-completed one.” The
girl went to work, and after diligent
search for three weeks among her
friends and acquiantances, she man
aged to get a colored woman who had a
quadroonish infant of about three
months old, to surrender it into her
keeping, promising that the juvenile
would be carefully attended to and
properly brought up. With her little
charge in her arms she went di
rectly to the house of Mrs. Pat
terson, although it was about eleven
o’clock at night, and handed the
infant to her. No sooner, however, had
she inspected the little one’s face than
she exclaimed: “Good gracious! I
don’t want a nigger baby,” and plaint
iff refused to have anything to do with
the child, or to pay the girl the amount
she had promised. The girl was in a
dilemma. The mother refused to take
it back. Mrs. Patterson would have
nothing to do with the youngster, and
as the girl was unable to support the
child, her friends advised her to enter
suit for the amount mentioned in the
verbal contract. In order to bring this
case under the jurisdiction of a Justice
she threw off fifty dollars and entered
suit for $250, which, as previously stat
ed, came up for a hearing before Justice
Griffith yesterday. Several witnesses
corroborated the testimony of the girl
as to the main facts, and she received
judgment for the amount claimed. The
case was appealed.
The Connecticut Democracy.—
The declarations of the Connecticut
Democracy havo the true ring, and
sound refreshingly in this degenerate
and degenerating day of central despo
tism.
t. Constitutional freedom, based on
the equality or tho Btaio ß . the intelli
gence of the people, and the pure idea
of our original Republic.
2. Connecticut is sovereign over the
elective franchise, and to subject the
ballot box to the hirelings of the Gen
eral Government is the badge of slave
ry-
3. The 15th Amendment strikes at the
very vitality of the Constitution, and its
passage, by force of the bayonet is a
deadly blow to liberty.
4. The legal tender act was wrong,
and there should be but one currency,
and that currency is called for.
5. The cause of economy demands the
overthrow of an extravagant Adminis
tration.
6. The proposed Radical change of
the naturalization law degrades the
white emigrant below the negro.
7. Sympathy with struggling patriots
everywhere.
The Yew Tariir on the State Road.
The Chattanooga Times gives the fol
lowing compoiioou of tho freight tariff
on the State Road with the old, and the
increase. The tariff was arranged by
A. Pope, General Freight Agent. We
append to it, also, the comments of that
paper, showing the effects of the new
tariff:
Old Kates. New Bates. Increase.
Corn (bushel).. 10 11 01
Wheat “ 12 11
Oats “ .. 07 03 01
Flour (barrel).. 22 08 46
Potatoes “ 35 43 13
Hay (carload)..2s 00 48 00 23 00
Pig Iron “ ..15 00 16 56 166
Bar Iron “ ..20 00 35 -30 15 00
Goal “ ..15 00 18 00 300
Stock “ ..40 00 60 00 20 00
Bacon (100 lbs.. 42' 5 1% 10)4
The rates, when compared with the
present through rates from other cities,
show a very marked discrimination
against East Tennessee, in favor of the
West. For instance, the tariff on hay
is prohibitory, and all shipments have
ceased. The increase on bar iron, cuts
off the Vulcan Works from, the Southern
markets, and gives Louisville and Cin
cinnati the control. The tariff on stock
is prohibitory, because it is snipped
from Nashville, or any point on the
Nashville and Chattanooga road, at
37 00, which is 23 $0 less per car load
than from Chattanooga.
The income on coal does not affect
business so much, because people must
have coal at any price, and their only
source of supply is East Tennessee.
In corn the advanced rates of freight
compel the reduction here of the market
price to 1 08@1 09, at which price our
merchants can barely compete with the
West. We can not complain at this,
for we do not ask discrimination in our
behalf, but only a fair field and no favor.
In flour, the advance injures our mills,
and also those at Ringgold, for it shuts
them out of the Southern market.
The evil effects of the advance on ba
con have not yet begun to be felt, but
the packers and farmers will begin to
realize them when they begin to bring
their bacon in.
The great cause of complaint, how
ever, is the refusal of the Western and
Atlantic Railroad to make a through
tariff from this point to Augusta, Macon
and others cities. The only through
rates they are now giving are to New
York, via Charleston and Savannah.—
The merchants here are as much enti
tled to through rates to Macon or Augus
ta, as those of Nashville are to a through
tariff to Atlanta. We are certain that
our Georgia friends prefer to have East
Tennessee flour, corn and bacon, whose
quality they know and prize, and we
hope they will join in protesting against
the unjust discrimination by which they
are compelled to purchase elsewhere.—
We do not expect to pro rate with St.
Louis freights, but we do expect some
concessions over local rates on ship
ments beyond Atlanta, and we think
we are entitled to them. Furthermore,
we believe that Georgia is as much in
terested in obtaining these concessions
as we are.
Government Bonds Above Par.—
The feature in financial circles the past
few days is a continued decline in the
price of gold, so that the United States
6 per cent, bonds of 1881 are now par,
selling even a fraction better than gold.
The lowest point for the latter since the
summer of 1862 was touched in New
York on Tcursday, that is, 116£. Yes
terday, at the close, the quotation was
116 J, while for bonds of 1881 the rate
was 110|@f. The reduced rates ior
gold and the appreciation of our secu
rities abroad is the best evidence of the
improvement that is going on in the na
tional credit. There is, of course, the
danger of sudden reaction from a fall in
the gold premium so rapid.
If Congress, however, shall refrain
from any further currency inflation it
would seem that the improvement must
go on pretty steadily, even though there
may be some temporary reaction. It is
not improbable that the five per cent,
bonds may ere long be floated at par,
which would demonstrate that those at
higher rates, as they become subject to
the call of the government, may be re
placed to any necessary extent by secu
rities at lower rates of interest. While
the House of Representatives has pro
posed an increase of currency to the
amount of $50,000,000, it is satisfactory
to see that the Senate has just adopted
a resolution, without a division, which
deprecates any addition to the present
volume of irredeemable paper as a fresh
obstacle to resumption, and an evil that
would operate disastrously upon all le
gitimate business and all forms of in
dustry. This is the right ground to
take upon the subject.— Baltimore Sun
CORN—COTTON—PROVISIONS.
We copy the following review of the
late circular of Blackmar, Roberts &
Chandler to the Planters of the South,
from the Cincinnati Enquirer. We
commend the article to our “all cotton
planters.” It is not yet too late to pre
pare to profit by the Enquirer’s advice :
The circular of Blackmar, Roberts,
Chandler & Cos., Commission Merchants
of St. Lonis, dated the 10th inst., con
tains some interesting statements and
speculations concerning the supply and
future prices of corn and provisions.
As regards the corn crop of the country,
they say:
“The crop, in the first place, is more
than two million bushels short. In the
second place, a very large per centage
of this crop was spoiled ; and, in the
third place, the high price of pork has
induced a very liberal consumption of
corn upon the farm, leaving the amount
of sound merchantable corn available for
market unusually small. This is shown
to be true, by the fact that the stock
stated to be in store at all important
points is very much under the average.
When the demands of the cotton States
are considered, with the probability of
a large increase in the demand for con
sumption on the ‘Plains’ this season,
by reason of great emigration, every
candid mind will conclude that the prob
abilities for a considerable rise in the
price amount to almost an absolute cer
tainty.”
They estimate the pork packing at
very nearly the same aggregate as that
of last winter—perhaps one hundred or
one hundred and fifty thousand hogs
more. They allude to the smallness of
the stock on hand at the commencement
of operations this winter, and to the
fact that the packing commenced earlier
than usual and adds :
“When these facts before us, and the
further facts that a much larger area
will be planted to cotton this year, and
that emigration—ever consumptive of
bacon and corn bread—is pouring in a
great tide into the South at this moment,
we cannot believe that a much larger
reduction in prices can possibly be
forced, and we firmly believe that it
would be the part of wisdon for plan
to purchase their Bacon now. The
amount of side meat out of smoke, and
available, is very light, and any sudden
increase of orders will be sure to push
prices up a cent. Mess pork may pos
sibly touch $25, but we are inclined to
believe that an advance is very shortly
to take place in this article, unless the
Huiuuut of hogs, yet to arrive, very
largely overgoes 100,000 head. We feel
pretty sure that the bulk of the mess
pork stock will sell at from S2B to S3O,
take the year through.”
We believe that these are very valua
ble calculations by our St. Louis friends.
Indeed our readers may remember that
we made predictions of the continued
high price of corn and bacon several
weeks ago. We could not then see,
neither can we now see—any good rea
son to hope for a material decline at
any time throughout the year.
In view of the facts and opinions of
this circular, above noted, we are rather
surprised at advice which it gives to the
cotton planters concerning the pinching
of their crops for this year, viz:
“The North will plant an immense
corn crop this year, and we predict that
when it comes upon the market fully it
will not range much over 40@50 cents
per nusnei, lr as nign. in view of mis
fact it would seem most excellent poli
cy for the South to plant all the cotton
and sugar they can take care of, and
rely upon the North for their corn and
pork.”
There is no proposition plainer to our
comprehension than a neglect to raise
corn and pork at the South will help to
bring about or keep up the high price
of those commodities in their great pro
ducing regions. It may help the West
ern farmers and pork raisers, but how
will it affect the cotton planters ? It is
at least doubtful whether a large cotton
crop will bring more money to the
pockets of the planter than a small one;
and if they pursue a policy that forces
them to buy corn aad bacon from the
West, and at the same time to help run
up the price of those necessaries of life,
what profit can they derive from an in
crease of the cotton crop ? If three mil
lions of bales will sell for as much mon
ey (or nearly as much) as four millions,
would not the better policy be to keep
the crop down to three millions and de
vote the surplus labor to the raising of
corn ? Let planters remember that
they “relied upon the North for their
corn and pork" last year, or for a great
portion of it, and that the corn crop of
that region was cut short, while its pork
crop is not so great as to afford any rea
sonable prospect of cheap bacon. What
has happened once may happen again.
The Power of the Press. —We have
not seen a finer illustration of the power
of the Press than in the case of Beast
Buttler, who is so much indebted to
newspapers, as to his depraved disposi
tion, for the infamous notoriety which
he courts aud enjoys. In his defence
of Whittemore, the cadet-selling carpet
bagger, he defied the the Press, and
with up lifted hands and rolling eye,
declared he was superior to a newspa
per. We give a passage from the de
bate :
A member asked what a newspaper
man meant ?
Mr. Butler—lt means a man who
hangs about this city and writes home
to his newspaper. [Daughter.] Al
most every man involved in that illicit
and abominable traffic is a newspaper
man; and we are to be frightened out
of our propriety by telegrams which
they send home, stating that we will
expel Mr. Whittemore, in order to de
fend our own dignity from these selling
and buying rascals- [Laughter.] A
telegram has been sent to my own State,
and published in the journals, since j
had the hardihood of moving that time
be given to the accused, saying that no
body would vote for the Whittemore,
except those who had been selling ca
detships, or had schemes which they
dare not have ventilated in the House.
Yet the Press whipped Butler and
every rascal of them in. Upon the final
vote, not one of them had face enough
to vote against the expulsion of Whitte
more. Great is the power of the Press.
Another Embrvo Senator. A
New York dispatch says :
Oscar Ritter, a colored minister, was
arraigned in Flushing to-day on a charge
of attempted rape. The complainant
testified that the minister came into her
bedroom, after midnight, in his stock
ing feet, took off his clothes and got into
bed, and was there an hour attempting
to commit a crime. It was the testi
mony of witnesses and others that the
pastor had a failing toward women;
that it was customary for him to take
liberties with the lady members of his
congregation, and that he had a reputa
tion of being a ladies’ man. Neverthe
less he ia courted by the women and re
ceived by fathers and husbands into
their houses with great pleasure. He
was held to wait the action of the grand
jury, and gave bond for his appearance.
As this fellow possesses the qualifica
tions which rendered Revels so success
ful, if reconstruction is to continue ac-
I cording to the Radical programme, we
i may look for him in the Senate, in due
; season,
TELEGRAPHIC.
By Telegraph from Europe.
Naples, Feb. 28.—The failure of a
bank at Scilla causes great distress
throughout Southern Italy.
London, Feb. 28.—The Great East
ern has successfully laid the cable be
tween Bombay and Aden, completing
communication between England and
the colonies. Messages received from
Bombay dated to day.
London, March I.—Dispatches ju3t
received announce that fifty-six lives
were saved at the sinking of the Oneida.
London, March I.— Later and more
favorable received from the
British authorities at Yokohoma, in re
lation to the collision between the
steamers Bombay and Oneida have
been received. The details, however,
are still meagre. 56 officers and crew
of the Oneida were subsequently pick
ed up by small boats of the Bombay.
It is thought that others, missing at last
accounts, would ultimately prove to
have escaped. The names of the saved
or lost have not yet been received, nor
is it known precisely how many per
sons were on board the ill-fated vessel
at the time of the calamity.
Paris, March I. Notwithstanding
the announcement that the Madre Gras
festivities would be suppressed by the
police, at this hour (one o’clock) the
procession has just entered the Court
yard of the Tuilleries. Great crowds
of people are gathered on the line of
march, but no disturbances of any kind
have occurred.
St. Petersburg, March 1, —It is re
ported that ,T. McLearly Brown, Secre’
tary of Chinese Legation, succeeds Bur
lingame.
Amsterdam, March I. The Bank of
Holland has reduced interest to 4 per
cent.
From WasbtiiKton.
Washington, February 28. —Senate
—Railroad matters.
House—Struggle over exemption of
pork packers from manufacturer’s tax.
Mississippi has been attached to the
Department of the Cumberland, under
command of Gen. Cooke.
It is rumored that Congressmen Gol
loday and Dewes have resigned.
The Supremo Court to day, in the
cotton cases appealed from the Court of
Claims, took the President’s proclama
tion of Aug. 20ih, 1866, as the date of
the termination of the war. This affects
many cotton cases and other litigations.
Revenue to day a trifle over one mil
lion. Revenue this February nearly
$2,000,000 over last February.
Work at the various Navy Yards has
been resumed.
Revels has been appointed on the
Committee on Labor and Education.
No confirmations to day affecting the
South.
The confirmation of Strong to Su
preme Court was discussed seven hours
without action.
The State Department has advices
lrom Yokohoma that the steamer Onei
da, on her way home, collided with the
British steamer Oneida, and sunk; one
Hundred and twenty lives lost.
House—Bills introduced exempting
farmers from taxes as produce brokers.
Butler, of Massachusetts, introduced
a joint resolution lo collect wrecked and
abandoned property, and to reclaim
dues belonging to the United States;
also, a bill repealing tax on pork pack
ers. After a fierce struggle was refer
red to Committee on Ways and Means,
after striking out the amendment re
funding money already paid.
The following was adopted by 103 to
61: “Resolved, That the best interests
of the country require sufficient revenue
from imports and such tariff ;as will af
ford sufficient protection to our manu
facturers and best promote the indus
tries of the country.
The resignation of Dawes and Golla
day was announced.
Indian appropriations resumed.
Beck a bin extending the
ume for bonding whisky three years.
No action.
Adjourned.
The Judiciary gives Bullock further
hearing Wednesday.
Washington, March I.—Grant and
Boutwell rebuked Butler for his attack
on the newspaper men of Washington,
by their presence at the wedding of W.
Scott Smith this morning.
House.— Whisky question up. It
will be allowed to remain in bond at an
addition of one cent per gallon to the
tax per month.
Revenue to-day over $500,000.
The Foreign Relations Committee of
the Senate considered Cuba without ac
tion.
Debt statement shows a decrease of
$6,500,000.
The Senate in Executive session
finally confirmed Strong and discussed
Bradly, but finally adjourned with the
understanding that the vote would be
taken to-morrow.
Senate—Wilson introduced a bill for
the better observance of Sunday in the
Military and Naval institutsons.
Lands to railroads and funding bill
discussed to adjournment.
House —The Senate’s amendments
to the postal route bill were accepted.
The resolution introduced yesterday
by Berk, extending to three years the
time for keeping distilled spirits in bond
came up, the question being on Mar
shall’s amendment to Hooper’s substi
tute, regarding the amount to be paid
after the first year from one cent a gal
lon per month to half a cent. Mar
shall’s amendment was rejected—yeas
84, nays 86. Hooper’s substitute was
agreed to without division, requiring
payment of one per cent per gallon for
each month after the first year.
Washburne, of Wis., proposed to lay
the bill on the table, it being a bill to
suspend the collection of revenue on
whisky, for the remainder of the ad
ministration. The bill was not laid on
the table —yeas 62, nays 104. The bill
as amended was then passed without
division.
J. W. Davis having resigned was
disposed ot like Whitteinore. A pro
longed discussion in regard to corrup
tion investigation in relation to post
congresses ensued without action.
Banking and Currency Committee
made majority and minority reports.
Not read. Adjourned.
From South Caroina.
Columbia, Feb. 28—A bill to provide
a sinking fund for the State passed the
South Carolina Legislature. Under its
provisions one sixth of the bonded debt
of the State will be purchased and
canceled during the year.
From Wyoming Territory,.
Laramie City, March I.—Among
the jurors drawn for the March term of
the Albany county, Wyoming, Court
were eleven ladies, some of them the
wives of most prominent citizens. The
excitement caused by this proceeding
is intense.
From Ohio.
Cincinnati, March I.—The South
ern Railroad bill was defeated in the
Kentucky Senate to-day by a vote of
23 to 18.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 2.
Garden Seed. —Those well posted
say $25,000 worth are annually sold in
Columbus. Quite an item.
The Gross Proceeds of the Pat
ti Concert. —Max Strakosch paid the
U. S. Collector R. W. Jaques tax on
SIBBO, being the gross proceeds of the
concert on Monday night.
Salk of Real Estate. —Yesterday
at Ellis & Spencer’s auction sale a three
fourths undivided interest in the lot
now occupied by Mr. Creighton, on
Broad street, being part of lot No. 102,
was sold for S4BOO. It is bounded on
the North by Kivliu’s lot, “Sanß Sou
ci,” and on the South by Webster’s. It
runs back East 147 feet and ten inches,
and fronts 26 feet on the East side of
Broad street. P. A. Gittenger was the
purchaser. Lot has a one-story brick
building on it.
Further of the Jones-Liddell
Tragedy. —We yesterday published an
account of the attempt of Judge Liddell
to kill Col. Jones, who lately killed the
Judge’s father. We learn from the
Picayune that the wounds inflicted on
Jones by the shots from the deck of the
steamer—four in number —though pain
ful, are not considered dangerous. They
are located as follows: A painful flesh
wound in the left thigh, the ball having
passed through; a wound in the left
wrist; a very painful wound in the left
shoulder, and a scalp wound in the
head. At the time of the shooting of
Col. Jones by Judge Liddell, the former
was standing on the bank, in the custo
dy of tho sheriff.
The Chattanooga Rail Road Compa
ny have obtained from the Louisiana
Legislature, a subsidy of $3,000,000, in
aid of the extension of the road West
ward from New Orleans. It is payable
in installments as follows: $750,000
when the road shall have reached Bayou
Lafouche, at or near Donaldsonville ;
$750,000 when It shall have reached a
point at or near Vermillionville; $750,-
000 when it shall have reached the
Sabine liver; $750,000 when it shall
have reached Houston, Texas. The
road to be open for traffic within uiree
years.
Another Terrible Accident from
Kerosene. —The Meridian (Miss.) Ga
zette publishes the particulars of a ter
rible accident which occurred iu that
place a few days ago, from the careless
use of kerosene. A lady—the wife of
Mr. A. McMillan—while attempting to
kindle a fire with kerosene, had the can
to explode in her hands, by which she
was so seriously injured that she died
in a few hours. Strange, indeed, that
any sane person should use kerosene In
kindling a fire.
Struck by Lightning.— The Greens
boro (Ala.) Beacon says during the
thunder storm there last Tuesday night,
the wires in the telegraph office in that
place were struck by lightning, and
melted in several places. Some damage
was also done to the appara us. A
charred place of near a foot square, was
made on the wall, near the wires.
Several of the telegraph posts in the
easterli portion of the town were also
struck. _
Excitement in Tallapoosa. — A
telegram in the Montgomery Adverti
ser, from West Point, Ga., on the 28th,
says: “The United States Deputy Mar
shal Davenport, Assistant Collector
Heymau, and Deputy Assessors Holly
and Cherry, are reported making a raid
on the distilleries throughout the county
of Tallapoosa, Alabama. Parties ar
riving from that county report a num
ber of distilleries destroyed and several
arrests made. They are said to be now
moving on the county of Clay.”
Glad to Hear It.— Tho Greensboro
(Ala.) Beacon says, “A. planter with
whom we were conversing a few days
ago on the scarcity of corn in this re
gion, and the bad policy of making the
corn crop secondary to cotton, inform
ed us that planters generally intend
making liberal provision this year for
corn.” The same determination is ex
pressed by many in this section.
Senator Wilson has received nu
merous letters asking for the form
of the temperance pledge which the
Congressional Temperance Society pro
pose shall be administered throughout
the country on 22d February. It is as
follows:
“We, the undersigned, do pledge our
truth, faith and honor, that we will not
use intoxicating liquors as beverages,
nor traffic in them, and that we will not
furnish it as an article of entertainment,
or for persons in our employment, and
that in all suit able ways we will discon
tinue its us a."—Exchange.
No wonder there is so much drunken
ness In Congress, when the alternative
lies between taking whisky straight
and taking such an atrocious piece of
grammar as that by way of a pledge.
The railroad subscription law, passed
by the Legislature of Illinois over the
veto of the Governor, and which has
given a great impetus to railroad build
ing in the State, has just been declared
valid by the Peoria County Court. The
Governor and some prominent lawyers
of the State have heretofore held the law
to be unconstitutional.
The Knoxville, Tenn., and Atlanta,
Ga., papers speak of one Brittin, in no
very complimentary style. They say
he is traveling around soliciting cards
for City Directories. In both places he
is charged with absent mindedness re
specting the payment of his printer's
bills. Naughty fellow.
Keeping Learnino In.—A little ne
gro girl yesterday, in answer to why
she kept a spelling book so tightly
wiapped up, said ’twas to keep the
learning from getting out.
The fare from Chicago to Sacramento
and San Francisco, by either of the
routes to Omaha, and thence by the
Union and Central Pacific Railroad, has
been reduced from $133 to sllß.
Kimball, of Opera House notoriety,
has a proposal before the Atlanta City
Council for the entire contract of fitting
up the Georgia State Agricultural So
ciety’s Fair Grounds near Atlanta.
The kitchen and a portion of the resi
dence of Mr. L. D. L. Mobley, in At
lanta, was burned on Sunday night.
A spouting mineral spring has recent
ly been’discovered near Saratoga, New
York, which is said to throw the water
to the height oi several feet.
Mr. B. A. Gist, an Atlanta printer,
died in Cobb county, Ga., last week.
NO. 52.
For tlie Sun and Times.
Stealing “Openly Proclaimed” by
the Atlanta New Kra.
Editor Sun and Times :
As an old Printer,l don’t know when,
as an honest man, and as a lover of good
old Georgia, my sense of propriety and
justice has been so much outraged, as
in taking up the Atlanta New Era of
the 24th ult. In picking up that paper,
I saw about two and a half columns,
half oi which were blank, with a line
containing “A Proclamation” at the
head of each advertisement, which I
found were nothing more than the
ordinary Governor’s Proclamations, for
arrest of fugitives from justice, which
in tho times of Towns, Johnson, Brown
and Jenkins, measured about three or
three and a half squares, and which, by
the “quads” or “blocks of zinc” used
by the “Era,” makes these advertise
ment measure ten or eleven squares.
Those advertisements, written with no
more words in them than these adver
tisements in the “Era,” were usually
inserted once and cost the Stato about
$3 or $3 60 each. These advertise
ments, (one of then), I see are ordered
in the Daily 3 times and in the Weekly
ono time, costing the State from $lB to
$25 each, six, seven, or eight times
more than formerly. Men who would
thus attempt to swindle the State ought
to be put in the penitentiary, and the
Comptroller General who would sanc
tion the payment of such accounts
ought to be kicked out of office as soon
as possible as either a knave or a fool.
I baud you the paper containing these
advertisements, that you may judge for
yourself.
Not long siuee I saw similar “dis
plays” of these advertisements in Gov.
Bullock’s other organ, the Atlanta In
telligencer, but these “displays" were
not quite so glaring and extensivu as
those of the “New Era.”
An Old Printer.
Query.— ls these things are “done
openly and publicly” in a“small way,”
what may we not calculate upon “on a
large scale” behind the curtain?
An Old Printer.
Ttae Kaaolntlon of tho legislature
About «*>*• »«>*»*«••
Mr. Editor— l see from the papers,
that in consequence of the passage, by
the Legislature, a few dayß ago, of a
resolution requesting Gen. Terry to
suspend the action of the Courts upon
debts contracted prior to Juue 1865,
Judge Johnson has postponed action,
for the present, on those debts. The
Legislature passed this resolution on
the 18th ult. Gen. Terry has issued no
order upon the subject. No official
communication from any source, has
been issued upon the subject. There is
no evidence whatever, that this resolu
tion haß ever been signed by the Gov
ernor. Under these circumstance, as a
“Law and Order” man, this action of
Judge Johnson looks rather strango, to
“A Man up a Tree.”
The Disruption of the Ratllcnl l»arty
—An Administration Without a
Party to Support It.
The following significant extract is
taken from a recent Washington letter
to the New York Times, a thoroughly
Radical paper. It bears external evi
dence of having been written by author
ity, and to stir up the people against
Congress for their lukewarmness to
wards Grant’s Administration. We
augur the best results to the country
from the condition of affairs described
by this correspondent:
Washington, Feb. 19, 1870.
There is an element in the political
atmosphere in Washington which bodes
no good to the future unity and success
of the Republican party. It is difficult
to define its character precisely, but it
is ao palpable that one can feel it and
breathe it, and it is far moro permeat
ing than we like to admit. The cause
of the existence of such an element is
oven more difficult to define than its
character. But its existence is certain.
The shape which this feeling takes may
be illustrated, perhaps, by the remarks
of a distinguished poet and satirist, who
spent a few days Uero last week. He
had been dining aud wining in high
official circles, had kopt his eyes and
ears open, and his conclusions were not
hasty. On preparing to leave, a t'riond
asked him, “Well, what do you find V”
“I find,” said he, “an administration
without a parly to support it.” The
poet found the truth, and this remark
may illustrate the element which I refer
to as existing in this political atmos
phere.
The Administration and the Repub
lican party in Congress are not en rap
port in feeling or dosire. There is no
enthsiasm on the floor of cither House
either in the support of the measures of
the Administration or in its defence
from outside altackß. This coldness and
indifference extends so far that it is even
possible for Fernando Wood to obtain
unanimous consent to offer and to pass
impertinent resolutions reflecting more
or less directly on the action of Depart
ments, and that, too, upon mere news
paper assertions as a basis. A distin
guished Senator, who, in all the vast
volume of debate in that body, has held
a bridle on his tongue, said to me the
other day on this subject: “There is
not a member of that body who does
not wish well to President Grant and
his Administration ; yet there is not a
particle of of enthusiasm, and very lit
tie cordial feeling in its behalf in all the
Senate." He is undoubtedly correct.
This condition of affairs, is, of course,
the undercurrent there, and not the
surface aspect- But it is cropping out
in so many directions that the matter
may as well be seriously considered
It is a fact, then, that many men, who
have heretofore acted with tne Repub
lican party, are now talking about new
political affiliations. The Republican
party, in their estimation, has substan
tially fulfilled its mission in the sup
pression of the rebellion, the comple
tion of reconstruction, and the estab
lishment of impartial suffrage. Other
issues are coming up in the near future,
and new combinations must be made to
meet them. They would prefer to re
main with the Republican party, but
there is no inducement in the course of
the Administration to do so, and they
desire to be in the foreground of a now
movement, provided there is to be one.
Special to the Atlanta Constitution.
Washington, Fob. 28 —lt is under
stood that a majority of the Judiciary
Committee will report that several ir
regularities occurred in organizing tho
present Legislature, and that the organi
zation will be necessary, before the ad
mission of the State.
The action of Terry in unseating
members is not fully sustained.
The election of Blodgett will be de
clared illegal, as the present Legislature
expires the present year and anew
Legislature has the authority to elect a
Senator for the term to which tliis Leg
islature elected Blodgett.
There has been no decision on the
claims of Hill and Miller yet, or those
of the bayonet Senators. If the Com
mittee declares the former entitled to a
seat, there will be a big fight in the Sen
ate over their credentials. The Com
mittee meets to-morrow, and may como
to a final conclusion. It looks now as
though weeks would be consumed over
Georgia and Texas will come in before
her. Bullock ia at his old tricks, but
don’t seem to hold as many trumpi as
formerly. Argus.
The Masquerade Ball Monday
Night. —We had but time briefly to al
lude to it in yesterday’s paper. It was
given at the Perry House. Being strict
ly a private party, wo feel diffidence
in describing dresses, as friends will
agree that “particulars” ala Jenkinism
have never been in vogue in the South,
and may we not hope that they will
never become the characteristics of the
Southern press. As was expected, from
the reputation of the managers, tho ball
was a complete success. Jeff’s Macon
band with its sweet music, was present.
About eighty of the most charming
ladies of the city were masked. The
number of gentlemen was about twenty
greater. As each masker entered the
room the character assumed was an
nounced. After the close of the Patti
Concert the numbers were further aug
mented. Among them was Carlotta Pat
ti, leaning on tho arm of Dr. Colzey,
and the leading members of her troupe.
She remained only a few moments.
Concerning the costumes, wc can say
but little. All now floats before us in
inextracable contusion like the shadows
of a dream There was no strong at
tempt at striking characters, as to cre
ate pleasure by disguises aud the subse
quent surprises of uninasking. We
cannot pretend to name the disguises ot
the ladies. The leader of the ton sim
ply wore a blue domino. There were
highland lasses, two lovely mornings,
costumes of the past and present, Turk
ish and Indian maidens, Swiss beauties,
Flora McFlimscys, operatic assump
tions, Queen of the Night, charming
belles from Macon,nuns, and many that
we kucw not what they were. Among
the gentlemen wore “Slippery Elms,"
Italian Princes, Faust, Confederate otli
ccrs, Foster Blodgett with earnings of
the State Road and Senatorial applica
tions, Champagne Charlie, Captain
Jenks, Count Egmout (who is he?),
highlanders, Continentals with high
boots aud powdered hair, Chinamen
with pig tails, lat Dutchmen, City Light
Guard ala private and knapsack, and
others, all mixed iu heterogencou-i
confusion; we can’t begin to enumerate.
Tho unmasking, about eleven o’clock,
caused intense merriment and surprise,
as mauy of the disguises were very
complete. The dancing in costume
was striking, and the entire scene bril
liant —surpassing everything Columbus
has ever seen, and furnishing the ut
most pleasure. An excellent supper
was served about one.
Tho masquerade has proved a most
pleasing success, and is now among the
things that were.
I.ast Momenta or w Csrpsl-Uul|[«r
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribuno gives tho following
sketch of the expulsion of Whittemore
The case of B. F. Whittemore, the
member lrom the First South Carolina
District, charged with having made ap
poiutmeuts of cadetß to the Military
and Naval Academies for a pecuniary
consideration was finally' disposed of in
the House to-day. The floor and galle
ries were by persons of both sexes, in
anticipations of a scene, but no particn
iar scene occurred. Mr. Whittemore
was in his seat when the house was
called to order, und immediately after
the reading of the journal of yesterday’s
proceedings, Mr. Logan rose, and being
entitled to the floor for an hour, yielded
his time to Mr. Whittemore, who lm
mediately rose and sent to the Speaker’s
desk a letter of resignation. He them
began the reading of a written defense
of himself, which lie had prepared, but
before he had consumed more than three
minutes time the Speaker called him to
order, saying that he was no longer a
member of the House, and no right to
address the House unless by unanimous
consent. At the same time he directed
the Clerk to road the letter of resigna
tion. After the rfeading of this docu
ment was finished, nearly half an hour
was consumed in points of order and
suggestions from numerous members
about the right of a member to resign
without the consent of the House. The
Speaker decided that all that was requir
ed of a member who desired to resign his
seat was to place his resignation in the
hands of lhe Speaker, and after it had
been read to the House he ceased to be
a member, anp that body had no further
control over him. An appeal was ma de
from this decision, in order to secure
the sense of the House on the subject,
and the Chair was sustained by an
almost unanimous vote. An effort was
then made to secure unanimous consent
for Whittemore to read his defense to
the House, but Morgan, a Democratic
member from Ohio, aud a member of
the Military Committee, objected, and
Mr. Whittemore was compelled to go
unheard. Proceedings similar to those
in the case of O. B. Matteson then fol
lowed. Mr. Logan ottered a resolution
declaring that as Mr. Whiuemoro had
been iound guilty ot a corrupt practice
in his official capacity, he was unwor
thy to be a member of the House.—
The resolution was adopted with
out a dissenting voice. Immediately
after the vote was announced Mr.
Whittemore left his seat and retired to
the cloak room, where ho spent nearly
an hour in conversation with numerous
members, who went to him to express
their sympathy at his misfortune. A
painful aud disgusting scene occurred
on the floor during the calling of tho
yeas and nays on the resolution of ceu
sure. While, with few exceptions,
members sat quietly in their seats, evi
doutly deeply impressed witn the
solemnity ot me pioccdings, and filled
with a feeling of regret that eireuai
stances had placed them in such a
position, Mr. Whittemore was sin
rounded by a number of tho Jmpu
dent boys who act as pages on the floor,
clamoring for his autograph, from the
sale of which they hoped to derive a
good profit. But this was not all; at
the same lime, Messrs. Benton aud
Farnsworth stood in the midst of these
boys, each begging of Mr. Whittemore
the right to occupy his seat as soon as
he was compelled to vacate it. The
seat being an available one there was a
demand for it. Mr Benton being tho
first to ask, Mr, Whittemore, of course,
gave him the privilege, but Farnsworth
claimed that before the day’s session
began he had asked the Doorkeeper that
the seat be assigned him, and this quaT
rel, about a dead man’s boots, the two
honorable gentlemen kept up until Mr
Whittemore left the hall.
Alabama Lf.gist,ature—Monday.
—Senate passed a bill to protect labor
ers. [ Provides, that it shall be unlaw
ful to charge or deduct from the wages
of laborers a greater sum than they re
ceives per day, or in ratio per month,
for lost time iu working roads or attend
ing elections. ] The Governor informed
the Senate that he had vetoed the bill
repealing the act to establish mutual
associations —that is lotteries—on the
ground that the law under which lotter
ies were acting, was in the nature of a
contract, from which the State could
not recedo. Pending discussion, Senate
| took recess to 7 p. m., aud consumed
the time in discussing it.
| House passed bills to authorize Cir
cuit Court Judges to exercise equity
; jurisdiction in certain cases; for tho
improvement of the bay and harbor at
Mobile by citizens of Mobile ; an act
supplementary to the act to furnish the
aid and credit of the State of Alabama
to expedite railroad construction, was
tabled. An angry discussion aroso on
the bill to amend Article 11 of the State
Constitution, which proposes to abolish
the Board of Education. Pendind con
sideration, House adjourned.
Remarkablf. for Horace.—ln the
Tribune of the 23d, we find that Horace
Greeley is guilty of some remarkable
Radical heresy about Farrow and White
ly:
Georgia Senators havo appeared in
duplicate at Washington in the persons
of Messrs Farrow and Whitely, bearing
doubtful and informal credentials. Into
the validity of their qualifications the
Senate proposes unusualiy strict inqui
ry. We despair of soon reaching the
end of the many complications in the
vexatiously-delayed Georgia case.