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The Greorsia 'Weekly Telegraph Telegraph and Messenger MACON, DECEMBER 28, 1869. The Advertiser calculates that Montgomery will receive 12,000 more bales of cotton Jthis .season. Receipts np to date, 55,000 bales. Mary Murphy, stewardess of the Boston *nd Savannah steamship Oriental, died wery suddenly on Wednesday, at the Marine Hospital in Savannah. The historic estate of. Chancellorsville, eon* taming one thousand acres, ten miles from Fredericksburg, has been sold by Mr. George Guest, of Baltimore, to J. H. Wald, Esq., also wf Baltimore, for $^200. Excelsior.—The local of the Era, of yester day, mentions among the street gossip of that place, the name of Superintendent fiulbert as being spoken pf for United States Senator for the long term. What is to become of Blod gett? Stock and Bond Sale.—In Charleston, on Tuesday, 011,000 City of Charleston six per .cent, bonds, sold at $55; $5,000, at $54; and $4,000 at $53J. South Carolina Railroad and Bank stock, brought $584 to $58$; and Bank of Charleston, $24$. Classic.—The citizens of Montgomery pro pose to make Christmas merry with a tourna ment and an old fashioned gander-pulling. If name of their loyal oppressors—spoliators in State and municipal affairs—could be made to eland for the gander, what sport there would be; eh, Hodgson? Another.—The Valdosta Times says* the gin-house of Captain B. B. Johnson, near Station No. 12 Atlantic and Gnlf Railroad, was burned on tbe 10th inst., contain ing five bales of cotton, two gins, a McArthy and asaw-gin, with other valuables. The fire caught in the breast of the saw-gin while run ning, and was supposed to be from a match, Loss all on the owner of the gin. Death of Stanton I Stanton the Cruel is dead! Stanton with Woodless lips and cold eyes. Far be it from ns (• rejoice in the misfortunes of any human be ing. In the sight of God we are all guilty and ill-deserving; but if somebody bad to die, wo am glad it was Stanton. Stanton devised the cold-blooded war of starvation and hooseboming against the women and children of the South. The cold wintry skies of Virginia looked a thousand times upon the Inrid glare of burning homes and the almost naked bodies of little children, snatched from their burning beds to wander houseless, without clothing, in the piti less tempest, all by the orders of Stanton. Sheridan made his campaign of matches, brimstone and camphene by order of Stanton- am rendered in the words of Grant, that the land should be so devastated that a crow flying over it should starve. Sherman made his “great march” by the or ders of Stanton, on the dead bodies of the slaughtered domestic animals and by the light of burning habitations. JSo man can sufficiently appreciate these •achievements in warfare until he reads hiato- Ty. Tbe ofcer night we took up Lighthorse Harry Xee’e History of the Revolutionary War in the Southern States. Now, our forefathers were eloquent about British cruelty in the Revo lutionary War; but Lord Cornwallis in his •march through Virginia, which ended in his •capture at Yorktown, issued orders, that no house riboald be-entered or family molested on pain of death. That nothing shonld be taken jtrom tbe people, unless such an accumulation -of stores should be discovered as made it clear that they were supplies for the rebel army. And whm, in one case, violence was done to a family, &e had his army paraded, the perpetrators iden tified and bung. This was King George’s cru elty to jrehfik. <Bo£ Stanton deliberately devised and elabo- raVcd s war against women and children rivaling the worst achievements of savages or Turks or the Goth. Ho made the war upon the South such a war as shonld put Hell to the blush and make its demons hang their heads. The record of his inventions mil make American history stink to the end of time. This is the only obituary we can give of Stanton. Tennessee Next. This erstwhile fully reconstructed and most ioyal State, who avouched her fidelity to radi calism by sending a Brownlow to tbe Senate, and a Stokes and a Mullins to the House of Representatives, is threatened with the Con gressional boot-toe as soon as Virginia and Georgia are disposed of. She has repudiated those “high blossoms” of loyalty aforemention ed, and taken her place where she belongs—in the Democratic ranks. Her property owners and tax-payers, wealth and intelligence and virtue are soon to come to their own again. The hated and poisonous yoke of the meanest most malignant despotism that ever enrsed the earth, has been substantially shaken off, «nS go she is doomed at Washington. It is boasted there that her return to provisional and provincial horrors is bnt a question of time. Already a memorial signed by Brownlow and all her present representatives in the House has been presented in that body, setting forth that the recent election in that State was carried by fraud and violence; that the registrars appointed •fey Gov. Senter issued certificates to every dis franchised rebel, and to thousands of boys who are not twenty-one years of age; there is no re publican 'government within her borders, and that tho present Legislature is illegal, and con sequently the election of Cooper, Conservative, to the Senate null and void. So rages and roars the tide of tyranny. Where ft will stop, God only knows. This much is olear, however: Either thatit must abate before very long, or a deluge whoso waters shall never recede settle for good and all over this fair land. The People, moro powerful than Canute, can, at will, drive it back forever. When they rise in their wrath, there will be a reckoning of which even the bloodiest and most terrible reac tions in Old World history furnish no example. We shall not lose faith in thatseqnel till the last chain is riveted, the last gyve fastened. We rfndl continue, as heretofore, to counsel a calm dignity and patient manhood—a strict fulfilment of every duty and obligation of good citizen ship; but we shall, at the same time, tell those whose ears and hearts wo can reach to write upon, their memories as with a pen of fire the story of their wrongs. “ 1*6 A Low, Mass a.”—A reconstructed Afri can at Washington, arrested for stealing, was upbraided by the magistrate: “I thought, Sam, you belonged to the loyal party; that’s on its good behavior, you know." “Dat’s just so, massa; we’s two classes—de high and de low. Be high takes what's guv to 'em, like massa Grant; de low takes what’s not ijuv to'em, like massa Butler. Ta a low, massa, dat’s all. And he has the majority of his party with him, too. • * _ Ihfk and Fire Insurance.—Sec card of Joseph E. Johnston & Co., agents for the New York Life, and the Liverpool, London and Globe Fire Insurance Companies, elsewhere found. Both oimpanies are among the staunchest and most liberal in this country, end offer guarantees as to capital and management not surpassed any where. The name of Johnston, itself, should .he endorsement enough for any corporation at he South. • A Compromise Proposition. Tho following appeared among the press tele grams yesterday: Many members of Congress, who voted for the bill to promote reconstruction in Georgia, have given assurances that a Convention of tho people of Georgia, pledging the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment and reseating of the ne groes, will secure the immediate repeal of the act. Senator Morton says the whole object of this legislation is to secure the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment A special of the same date to the Atlanta' Constitution puts it in this shape: If the Democratic parly in Georgia will hold a State Convention not later than the tenth of January, and the Democratic members of the Legislature will freely unite in that Convention and will pledge the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment and the reseating of the negroes, and will memorialize the President and Con gress to that effect, I am assured by those high' in authority that the act just passed in tho case of Georgia will be repealed immediately. If the act to promote reconstruction in Geor gia is carried into effect, it will bankrupt the State, as well as seriously injure every other interest. Georgia is in a state of duress and must yield to the demands of the Radical party, or be sacrificed. I believe a prompt Convention of the people will avert the calamity. Of this I am assured by influential Republicans. J. P. EL Various ideas occur to us in explanation of these telegrams. One is that the Radicals in Congress, since the Georgia bill bas passed, may be afflicted with some doubts whether any good is like to come of it to themselves either in or out of Georgia, and are willing to take shelter under a specious and delusive and impractica ble proposition for compromise. Another is that, in the Georgia bill, tho atro cious policy of amending the Constitution of the United States by coorcion, bribery and in timidation, is disclosed in perhaps a moro unde niable and offensive form than in any other of the acts of Congress. It is plain enough in the amended reconstruction acts; bnt in this case we may say a State is first kicked ont of the Union in order to compel Jjer to vote for the Fifteenth Amendment, as a condition of re-ad mission. The press telegram represents Sena tor Morton as saying: •‘The whole of this (Georgia) legislation is to secure the adoption of the Fifteenth Amendment,” which is a direct verbal admission of tbe fraud upon the State and nation. The same admission in substance was repeat edly made in tbe Senate during the discussion of the bill, until Senator Carpenter remonstrated against it as likely to be dangerous to the valid ity of the amendment before the courts. Upon that, Senator Williams, responded, in sub stance, that they would tie np tho courts, and it wonld be an intolerable piece of impndence in the courts to decide any amendment of ^the constitution invalid which Congress upon their oaths had declared constitutionally incorpo rated into the fundamental law. But in spite of all bold talk, we may well im agine that even the most radical of the mem bers are willing to avoid tbe scandalous specta cle of an amendment incorporated into the Con stitution of the United States by force of the assent of the so-called Legislature of a State which has been turned ont of the Union, and its Legislature packed by Congress and declared provisional only, in order to compel its assent to this amendment as a fundamental condition of release and freedom. Such an assent they are aware is no better than a forged certificate. It is bogus in every aspect. The opposition will never rest under it; and as it is probable that, under the grant of power to Congress to enforce the amendment by appropriate legislation, which Senator Wilson calls tbe “cracker at tbe end of the lash," the Radicals mean to inaugurate some of the boldest interference with the freedom of elections in all the States, it is manifestly unde sirable that the amendment itself shonld be the bald and ntterly indefensible fraud which such proceedings wonld make it. It is not surprising, therefore, if, after all, Congress shonld be will ing to substitute for the assent to the amend ment coerced by this bill, something which at least more nearly resembles the voluntary action of Georgia. But so far as we are concerned, we should be compelled to remain out of the Union forever, if the price of our admission were the support of constitutional amendment which destroys the whole federative system, and puts popular elec tions in the hands of a supreme Congress. The proposition, if it were admissible, comes too late; nor is there the smallest assurance that Con gress would accept the tender if made. Let Congress work its will upon Georgia, and upon the government and people of the United States through her, if }t can. Using all lawful means for self protection-doing our best to thwart these infamous schemes to destroy the State and defraud the people of the United States, Georgia' will go forward committing her cause to a God of Justice, and to the intelligence and patriot ism of the people. The Atlanta Coal Convention. We presented yesterday reports of the two days’ proceedings of this Convention—copying those of the first day from tho Constitution, which reaches us in tho morning, and those of the second day from the Intelligencer, which comes by the evening mail. In the Constitn- tion’s report of the second day wo find certain proceedings set forth more at length in respect to establishing a Marino Coal Station at Bruns wick, as follows: Col Hulbert offered the followingresolutions, which wore adopted: Resolved, That this Convention, fully appre ciating the importance of establishing and maintaining a coal station for Atlantic steamers on our coast, will use every effort toward ac complishing this desirable object. Resolved, That the Chairman of this meeting appoint a committee of five to confer with.Le Barron Drury upon the practicability of supply ing Brunswick with coal with a view to making that port a regular coal station for Atlontio steamers. The Chair appointed as that committee Col. E. Hulbert, G. H. Hazelhnrst, President M. and B. R. R.; A. J. White, President M. and W. R. R.; Milo Pratt. Etnas Mines; A. S. Mariner, Coal Greek Mines. We may add, in this connection, that the scheme of a Brunswick coaling station for steamships originated with the steamship com panies represented by Mr. Drury, and Bruns wick has been selected for its accessibility and depth of water, while it is also said that the bit uminous coal of Tennessee and Kentucky prove to be belter than the Northern coal for the gen eration of steam. We find also that the following paragraph from tho report of the Committee on Demand and Supply, was omitted: The demand for the incoming year will un doubtedly be so great as to double that of the current year, and, conseneutly, the number of ears required will not be less than seventeen hun dred. Now, the Convention actually provided three hundred cars to do this work—that is to say, about one-sixth of the number which the Com mittee say will be required. It seems to us there is a good deal of room for a general rouse? ment among the railway companies concerned. Most people in these times are wishing to do all the profitable business that comes to hand. The roads should shape their plans so as to do tho business of the country—they should either shoot or give up the gun. Acquitted.—CoL Tom Taylor, formerly com manding tbe first Kentucky regiment in the Confederate army, and who killed a Captain Cleveland, in Mobile, several months since, was acquitted last week, after an exciting trial, last ing several days. - v' The Georgia Press. Augusta.—The Constitutionalist, in an article on the “ Georgia Bill," refers, as follows,'to the probable action of the Democratic members of the Legislature: When this illegal body of Congressional tools shall have assembled together, it may be the duty of all tho true men thus accidentally con nected with it, to refuse participation in its pro ceedings, jnst as it may be proper for them to abandon it altogether. In such a case, the Congressional conspirators who formed this un lawful Assembly may, by the power of a license which defies all limit, rake up, after a fashion, dummies to take their places. But in this event, the fraud perpetrated will be all tho more glaring and the force employed all the more abominable. Mr. Morton himself, the author of this last iniquity, let ont the secret when he said, in his seat in the Senate, that “Georgia never would adopt the Fifteenth Amendment except under compulsion.” The “ compulsion” has come; we are saved from stultification at last We have to thank him for another thing. He has afforded the first square issue with reconstruction. Henceforth, in Georgia at least, Congress must assume re sponsibilities which were once so adroitly thrust upon our people. AU that Congress can do in future must be done by “compulsion”—and compulsion invalidates consent The day is coming when Mr. Carpenter’s fears shall be re alized—the day of retribution when the “South files her bill of Exceptions,” and there will be just judges to hearken to her claim; or the day is coming when tho cause lost in Georgia shall be lost everywhere in the Union, and a military despotism and popular serfdom begin their iron task. From the same paper we get the following local items: At an early hour yesterday morning, Assist ant Assessors E. A. Corry, David Porter. H. S. Belcher and W. F. AoldeD, Deputy Collector, J. E. H. Couturier, Guager, and Tho3. R. Har per, Assessor’s Clerk, <Jf the revenue office of this city, seized a still, of the capacity of 120 gallons, for alleged violation of the revenue laws, in Columbia county, on the Fury’s Ferry road, about eight miles from Augusta. The still was the property of Mr. James Burrough, who was arrested by Assistant United States Marshall Porter, ana gave bond subsequently in the sum of $2,000 for his appearance when re quired. About five thousand gallons of corn mash, ready for distilling, were turned into an adjacent creek, and the building destroyed. A very stable adherent of the former military City Council, declared, confidentially, yesterday, that he had received dispatches from Blodgett and Bullock, urging him not to leave the city under any circumstances, as their old city gov ernment would be reinstated, and they desired him to take charge of the city stables, which were to be re-established. . Atlanta.—The Constitution, in calling atten tion to tho 5th section of the Georgia bill, which provides: “That if any person shall, by force, violence or fraud, willfully hinder or interrupt any per son elected from taking either of the oaths or affirmations prescribed, or from participating in the Senate or House of Representatives, af ter having taken one of said oaths or affirma tions and otherwise oomplied with this act, he shall be deemed guilty of felony, may be tried therefor by the Circuit or District Court of the United States for the District of Georgia in which the offence is committed, and shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor for not less than two, nor more than ten years, and the jurisdiction shall be sole and exclusive”— Says very aptly that “ hate is always short sighted. A relentless Congress over-reached itself. The above sertion applies as well to Rad icals who would displace legal Democratic mem bers as to Democrats. “ Let Governor Bulllock and his creatures be ware how they seek by force, violence or fraud, to wilfully hinder or interrupt Democrats from taking tho prescribed oaths, or participating in the legislative proceedings, or an indictment for felony in Judge Erskine’s Court will be the re sult. “Let them watch well their proscriptive ten dencies. Let our Democrats feel that this sec tion of an odious bill furnishes them unexpect edly and unintentionally the strongest sort of protection against Radical machinations. “Let the Radicals remember also that an er ror in construing tho law of disability will not save them. The very act of wrongful exclusion means prima facie force or fraud. And ten years’ labor in tbe penitentiary don’t compen sate for the luxury of illegally triggering a Democrat out of the Legislature.” The Peachtree Street wall of a new building going up on the Norcross comer in Atlanta, gave way Thursday afternoon with a terrible crash, tho bricks and mortar falling outside, the timber inside. There were some twelve or fourteen workmen on the building at tbe time, and all succeeded in escaping without injnry, except Mr. John Boutwell, who had his arm dislocated; Mr. John Parish, who had his head fractnred; a negro mortar-carrier, who was severely injured about the bead and breast, and another negro slightly injured. Columbus.—The Sun concludes an article on tho Georgia bill with the following cheering words: Everything is not lost. There is much to be struggled for, and much to bo saved to men not afraid to struggle. It wonld seem that the pas sage of such an iniquity as the Georgia bill through the House, with but two dissenting votes from a great and powerful party, sounded tho death knell of the State, and ushered in a consolidated despotism. This, the future alone can determine. Bnt as there is a ressnrrection for those who die in the Lord, so will men and States rise again who go down clinging to prin ciples that can never die while human hearts send life blood to bnman brains. The Enquirer says that on Wednesday a horse attached to a buggy conveying Mr. A. P. Redd and lady up tho Girard hill took fright, yester day, at some boys firing crackers, and in bis ef forts to run threw the lady and gentleman into a ditch. No serious damage done. Savannah.—The News devotes a colnmn and a half to a discussion of the probable conse quences to Georgia and her material interests of the new reconstruction bilL It thinks that the co-operation of enough Conservative mem bers of tbe Legislature may be secured to avert many very serious ills. It calculates that with the negroes reseated, there will still be a Demo cratic majority in the House of seven or eight, and that if thirty Democrats are ousted by the new oath, there wonld still be hope that proba bly twelve or fifteen of the twenty-seven Radi cal majority thus secured, would not abet Bul lock, in all his schemes for our ruin. Premis ing, however, that the Legislature may be so purged as to give a hopeless majority againBt us, the News thinks the proper way to block Gov. Bullock’s game is for the Democrats to resign before the Legislature meets. Its argu ment is as follows: Gen. Meade declared them to be elected; Bullock’s bill recognizes all as members of the Legislature who were declared so by General Meade. They are members of the Legislature as it now exists, and if after having been so recognized, having served in that body, they see fit, for private reasons or reasons satisfactory to themselves,they see fit to resign, by that act they create a legal vacancy, and wo know of no law, either of Congress or in tho Code, that authori zes Bullock to appoint their successors. As they have been declared elected by the recognized authority, if they resign and give no reason for so doing, there is no legal way to fill the vacancy thus created but by an election, in whioh event the proper persons, who could take the now tost oath, would be returned without doubt; On the other hand, if these Democratic members of. the Legislature, in response to Bullock’s proclama tion, appear at Atlanta, and decline to tako tho new test oath, then, according to the late act of Congress, Bullock would have a pretext, (but no authority whatever even under that act,) to ad mit others, minority Radicals-whom they had defeated in the eleotion by the people to their seats. By- resigning previous to the assembling of the Legislature, giving no reason, they will estop Bullock or any one else from inquiring into their'eligibility or ineligibility, and all that Bullock can “legally” dp, either under the Code of Georgia or under the late act of Congress, Is to order an election to fill the vacancies caused by resignation. Atlanta.—We get the following item from the Era Mr. J. B. Stewart, formerly connected with the Southern Express office in this city, was drugged and robbed while coming up on the Macon and Western road yesterday. He went to sleep on the train, as he supposes, and knpws nothing further that occurred until he arrived in Atlanta. He had been here some time when he was aroused from his stupor and discovered that his money and some valuable papers were gone. Only a few persons were on tbe train with him, yet he has no idea who committed the robbery. Snow fell in Marietta on Saturday last. A young man named Hawley died in Cherokee county laEt week, from an overdose of benzine whisky. He had never been drunJT before. The store of Carter & Hardaway, at Bnmes- ville, was entered and robbed on Sunday night of a lot of clothing, jewelry, bats, eto. Henry G. Cole, of Marietta, has given $6000 to the Female College there. Four Oaks. In a work recently published and for sale by Mr. J. W. Burke, entitled “Southland Writers, we meet with the following notice of “Four Oaks,” a recent novel—the production of Mrs. E. W. Bellamy (Kamba Thorpe), of Alabama: Mrs. E. W. Bellamy (Kamba Thorpe) has not as yet accomplished a great deal in the litera ture of her oountry; but wbat she bas published she has cause to be proud of. Her novel of “Four Oaks” was published by Carleton, New York; 1867. The Round Table, under the im pression that Kamba Thorpe was of the mason line gender, thus alludes to “ Four Oaks:” “This is a story of every day life, in which all the incidents are probable, and what is yet more rare, the characters are all perfectly natu- raL A number of men and women, differing in age though not in station, are brought together on terms of pleasant acquaintanceship, and there is a more liberal allowance than usual of intelli gent men and brainless nonentities; of sensible women and those torments of modern society, women of an uncorf-'-i ago on the lookout for husbands; and althi a there are no diabolical villains, there are m:sohief-makers enough to occasion unpleasant complications, which, to gether with mysterious miniatures and family secrets, combine to sustain an interest which the events of the story would not otherwise suffice to keep alive. “The scone opens in the pleasant town of Netherford, whore, after a severe round of in troductions to the forefathers and relations of the heroine, we are presented to a charming, good hearted and beautiful girl, a little spirited, rath er self-willed, and somewhat too self-reliant, bnt so true and honest, so free from all the vices which attach to the fashionable and fast young lady of the day, that we are grateful to the au thor who awakens our interest for a woman equally endowed with vitality, modesty,and com mon sense. There is an absence of all romance about a life passed among snch restless and ill assorted people, as form the society of Nether ford, bnt tbe author has refrained from giving ns any exaggerated or extravagant scenes; he is thoroughly consistent and natural, and his im agination has evidently been greatly assisted by personal observation.” From an extended notice of the book by a Southern editor and critic of experience, (Maj. W. T. Walthour,) we extract the following: “We have subjected this volume to a careful reading—a reading much more carefnl than we are in the habit of giving to any new novel. We confess having commenced ‘Four Oaks’ with some nervous apprehension—fear lest it might prove like too many books by Southern Authors, which task the ingenuity of an indulgent review er to effect an awkward compromise between candor and charity in the expression of his opin ion. They have to be ‘damned with faint praise’ or eased off with unmeaning platitudes. ‘Four Oaks,’ we are happy to say, is not one of such books. 'Wo have read it through with continu ally increasing interest, and have laid it down with that paradoxically pleasant regret which busy people rarely have the luxury of feeling in finishing a book—a regret that it is ended.” “We have never read anything more thor oughly and unaffectedly natural than the char acters, the conversation, and incidents of this book. It exhales the very odor of the groves, the fields, the forests, and the ancestral homes of Virginia or tho Carolinas; and yet, as we have already said, neither Virginia nor Carolina is mentioned. There are no tedious and elab orate descriptions of scenery or analyses of character; the touches that set them before us so visibly are imperceptible. The humor of some passages is delightful. It must be a dull soul—totally insensible to mirth—that can read unmoved snch scenes as the account of the first meeting of the Quodlibet, or that of Mr. Dun bar’s courtship, or his prescription of earth worms and turpentine, or soma others that might be specified.” “The sum of the whole matter is that ‘Four Oaks’ is the most delightful book that we have read for a long time. It is the very book to be read aloud either by the winter fireside or the summer sea-sido, with one congenial listener or a circle of snch listeners, and to leave all parties more genial, more happy, more thankful to the Creator for his good gifts, more charitable to wards his creatures. It is very rarely that wo conscientiously recommend the author of a new novel to repeat the effort, but in this ease wo very mnch hope that ‘Four Oaks’ is only the beginning of a series. ‘Kamba Thorpe’ has not mistaken her vocation. “Wo forbear to say anything moro in praise of ‘Four Oaks.’ What we havo said is not said from any unduo partiality, for wo know the writer only by reputation—scarcely even by name.” Mrs. Bellamy is a widow, and is a teacher in a Seminary at Gainesville, Alabama. Her es says contributed to the “Mobile Sunday Times” are beautiful and elegant articles, and we im agine she is an ardent lover of “nature and of nature’s God.” The book will shortly be on sale at J. W. Burke & Co.’s. Items. Provision and fuel cars are to be run on the Pacific Railroad during the winter, to keep the passengers from freezing and starving. Hebe is a funeral speech which a Paris paper assures us was actually pronounced at Mont martre the other day, by a father at the grave of his son: “Gentlemen," said tho father, in a voice full of emotion, “the body before me was that of my son. He was a young man in tho prime of life, with a sound constitution, which ought to have insured him a hundred years. But misconduct, drunkeness and de bauchery of the most disgraceful kind, brought him in the flower of ago to tho ditoh which you see before you. Let this be an exnmple to you and your children. Let us go hence.” The average daily attendance in the pnblio schools of Ohio, during the year ending August 31, I860, was 431,885. Tho total number en rolled was 739,971, showing that 305,0S6 chil dren did not attend school at all. Berlin dressmakers havo remonstrated with the Prussian Queen, because she ha3 her good clothes made in Paris. The cotton brokers of Memphis, last Satur day, resolved to form a stock company to com press their own cotton rather than compromise with the consolidated companies. They re jected the offers of Cincinnati presses to com press at seventy-five cents. The death of Cardinal Fentini, a native of Rome, is announced. There are no^r sixteen vacancies in tho Colloge of Cardinals, and it is understood that the Pope will make no nomi nations to fill them during the sossions of the Council. The Last Coal Mine Catastrophe. Tho Pennsylvania coal mines are furnishing some horrid episodes in history. The last acci dent, at Stockton, Luzerne county, was terrible. The miners wero working the colliery too near the surface—leaving a crust of only twenty feet in thickness, upon which was located two blocks of houses numerously tenanted—there being on an average two families in each house. All of a sudden, at about three o’clock in tho morn ing of the 18th, this crust gave way for the space of one hundred foot wide and one hundred and fifty feet long, and the houses and their sleeping tenants sank down into -tho abyss. More awful still—tho debris of these houses soon took fire from tho stoves in them, and_ the by standers were compelled to listen to the horrid shrieks of the victims below—hopelessly en tombed and burning to death. Some were res cued or saved themselves, but at least ton per ished in this awful manner. - . . ' V * . MORE PROMOTION FOB GEORGIA Alleged Crimes—Outbreak Threatened— Radicals Waiting for the Outbreak—State to t-c put Under Martial Law and the Ont- bronkera Hanged—Georgia to be Hang np as a Braised Monument of the Rebel Ifon—A BUI to be Offered Effectually to Disable the People, Leo, the Washington correspondent of the Charleston Courier, has the following, which, if not true in any or all particulars, at least shows what idoas Are floating about on the surface at Washington, and possibly suggest some expla nation of that proposition in the press dispatches of yesterday that the people shall hold a Con vention and pledge the State to reseat the ne groes and pass the Fifteenth Amendment,where upon Congress will repeal the act promoting reconstruction: Washington, December 20. — Asensational rumor circulates among tbe supporters of the Georgia Coercion bill, to the effect that a seri ous outbreak is threatened in that State against the Federal authorities and in opposition to the President’s plan for reconstructing it The Radical Senators place confidence in the rumor, and are consulting npon the additional measures which may be necessary to meet the exigency, As soon as an overt act shall be committed, it is proposed that the State be put under martial law;, and, farther, (that several of the most prominent leaders in the movement be arrested and tried for treason. The Georgia Coercion bill, which has passed the Senate, will be hur ried through the House to-morrow, and will be signed without delay by the President. This bm provides for the employment of the army and navy to enforce the exeention of the act, npon the call of the Governor. It is intended that Governor Bullock shall proceed at once to call the Legislature in conformity with the Force bill, and to carry it into exeontion. Such is the state of feeling in Georgia, as we know from other sources, that some excitement may be expected, but no action that can proba bly be considered as treasonable. It is urged thatit will be unsafe to withdraw the United States troops from Georgia, even after her ad mission, and her compliance with the terms of Reconstruction, imposed by Congress and the President. The opponents of the Coercion Bill in the Senate showed that there was really very little ground for it. As to the expulsion of negro members of the Legislature, it appears that there were but four or five of such members, and that their votes wonld not have infln- enced the majority of the body; and, fur. ther, that Governor Brown had assured tho peo ple of the State that the reconstruction measures only required that the negroes Bhonld be allowed to vote, and not that they shonld be eligible to office. As to other ' members, it was also al leged that they were all, or nearly all, duly qualified, and were entitled to their seats. Be sides all this, it was declared that the Legisla ture, as constituted, intended to accept the Fif teenth Amendment, if it was left to their dis cretion. Congress would like to keep Georgia out of the Union, and under military government, as a memorial of the war. They will do this if they can spare the vote of Georgia for the Fif teenth Amendment. This again depends upon the action of the Ohfo Legislature this winter. Senator Sherman says that if the members from Hamilton county vote according to the sense of their constituents, then Ohio will sanction that amendment. It is admitted by bim and by all jurists that a legislature may rescind the act of a prior legislature in regard to the constitutional amendment, as well as anything else. Another bill is to be offered in relation to Georgia, which will be an effectual law against the eligibility of any citizen previously involved in the rebellion to any office, unless his dis abilities be removed by Congress, and also in flicting penalties npon those thus conditioned, who may have taken office. This law is to be retrospective and will punish members of the Legislature and others, who have heretofore held or now hold offioe in the State. This very honest provision was to have been adopted as a part of the coercion bill, but Sena tor Morton withdrew it, proposing to offer it in a separate bilL “WOGANJtOO.” A Note from tbe Hon. J. A. Wimpy. To the Editor of the Tribune. Sir—In' to-day’s Tribune I notice a corre spondence between certain parties in New York city and mysel_f, from which it would appear that 1 was acting in concert with them in cir culating spurious money. In justice to myself, I beg leave to say to your readers that I am the author of the letters, and the identical person represented in them. But the motive which prompted me to engage in this correspondence was just the reverse to that you attribute to me. About the first of October last several of the most worthy and respectable citizens of Dahlon- ega (among whom were M. H. Van Dyke and Thomas H. Kilgo, the former a miner, the .lat ter a merchant, and both well known in New York City as gentlemen of undoubted integrity) stated to me that quite a number of confidential circulars were being sent to persons in and about Dablonega by these parties in New York, proposing to sell counterfeit money, and ex pressed to me a belief that an illioit traffic of this kind was then going on between persons abont Dablonega and these men in New York, from the foot that there was at that time an un usual amount of spurious money in that neigh borhood; To guard {the good people of my county against this evil, it was agreed I should employ myself in tracing up and bringing to justice these New York coun terfeiters. And for this purpose I wrote the letters you publish, and would, I doubt not, in a short time have not only given the whole thing publicity, but secured the arrest of the guilty persons, with sufficient evidence to con vict them. On or about the 1st inst. I gave my views and purposes in this matter toP. O. O’Conner, a .prominent merchant in Atlanta, well known in New York as a gentleman of un sullied character. I say this much, and will send statements, as soon as practicable,-from those gentlemen above named, verifying the same, to place myself right before those who have no acquaintance with me. Those who know me, even in the absence of confidence in my integrity, will not do my understanding such gross injustioe as to believe I would hazard my sooial and political standing by writing snob let ters and trusting them to the mailbags and Neyr York counterfeiters, without ample evidence to establish my innocenoe. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, John A Wntpr. Washington, B. O., December 18, 1869. We publish this morning a card from Mr. John A. Wimpy, the Dahlonega lawyer and Con gressman, whose correspondence with Messrs. Wogan & Co. on the subject of supplying Geor gia with counterfeit money has already been aid before the public. Mr. Wimpy says that he was actuated by a laudable desire to bring the rogues to justice and entrap them into some act which conld be used is evidence. If he bad read The Tribune as carefully as all lawyers and Congressmen shonld, he would have known that his schemes “to give the thing publicity” were superfluous, as the swindlers have repeat edly been exposed in our columns, and the chief difficulty in the way of convicting them of cir culating counterfeit bills is the fact that they don’t circulate any. They only take the money of men who want to be rogues. Mr. Wimpy has probably discovered that the occupation of an amateur detective has its dangers and dis comforts, and that a Dablonega lawyer who un dertakes to beat the eminent firm of Wogan & Co. at their own game is not likely to get any body into trouble bnt himself. The foregoing appears in the New York Tri bune, of the 21st. We commented on this piece of special pleading yesterday. Wimpy styles himself “a greenhorn” in his voluminous cor respondence with “Wogan k Co.”—and we do not believe he misrepresented himself. Bnt people generally are not so green. From the Maryland Farmer. ] * >P **U. We have so often referred to the .a i. of deposit, that home-Ll^® V. •“ft! economi calof any quality of these may be vastly the mg due attention t° the ^ hl< * ^Icontain all or j-, in nothing uU&f fXri’ghUf' our farmers found more wantm„ it preservation of his manure pile® ^ in ti e number of instances the liquid ^ manure, containing in a concent*™f* 1 ? 11 of tL out into the bam-yard loffiftS wasted by drying winds, and suffered to & fire-fanged and comparatively ^ inattention and neglect EvereTr?/Hi from the barn-yard is an acre Zeldin profit at harvest and rendered fertile by the game and inorganic substances «. sources outside of the bam-yird ^ fr °* menting the manure thus obtained .a? 5 *- only to the general productiveness of aS •<* but to the market value of the ’and. u- underrate the advantage of rommerciti&f* zers, for we know that, in a concentrate/^' theyfnrmab, whenprepared by the best J/ 0 ^ trustworthy manufacturers, anam 0 nr,t A plant food to the soiL BntromCS^e when libentily applied, utheyoffigfr aotion is to last through several they are to assist in thf 8115 restoration of the soil—such fertilizer cost a considerable amount of monev main reliance of every fanner who deril T economise his means should be upon wA 5 manures and well made composts stock is housed, well fed, and keDt ’in dition through the Winter, ever? tea of manure, saved as it should be with all i ^ riching.salts, will convert twenty additSj * loads of rough fibrous material, woods iS 1 etc., into a compost that will be eanal load, to the bam-yard manure itself’ Zja. properties of his compost will not be’ fw- but will assist greatly in tbe permanent ra tion of the soil Here thenflre thirty first-rate manure made upon the farm ortrf every ten loads piled up in the bam-yard Tfc 1 are few farms of a respectable size reasonable quantity of stock is kept, that1 not turn ont two hundred cartloads of marr^ annually, and this two hundred cart loads W be made six hundred by collecting an adeiS quantity of materials for compost and conVwt ing the whole by fermentation with bam manure into a fertilizer of the best qnjitr Does any man doubt this ? Let him read admirable pamphlet, “Dana’s Muck Manual'• which, though issued years ago, still remains', standard authority on the subject. The process, too, is easy. It involves no extra outlay of consequence. It is simply k l ting to excellent use the permanent hands of the farm, in collecting materials for compost, and the horses of the farm, that might otherwise he standing idle, in bringing those materials bom* The following process, published by thewrita of this article nine years ago, has stood the left, and, if strictly followed out, will satisfy aar fanner of its unquestionable value. It is pnj. per also to add that the suggestions were deriv ed from the Manual to which we have alreti? referred. Beeclier on Woman’s Suffrage. The Rev. Henry Ward Beecher defined his position on female suffrage very gingerly, at a Brooklyn woman suffrage meeting. We clip the following from the Tribune’s report: Mrs. Burleigh opened the meeting, intro ducing Miss Anthony. Referring to the absent Anna as “that great and heroic young girl,” she proceeded to say that it was a false theory that all women were born to be supported. Her voice was low and her manner listless. Sud denly she turned to Mr. Beecher with a char acteristic shrug: “Mr. Beecher, I can’t speak; the spirit doesn’t move me. I can face a lion’s den—walk through it—but I can’t speak here to-night. Do get up a fight—then perhaps I can speak.” — Mr. Beecher, with happy facility, sprang to the rescue, declaring that this confession of Susan’s was a most humiliating one. He had believed women competent to take care of themselves, and if he had been asked to point ont the woman who could do this with the great est ability, he would have named Susan An thony. This unexpected burst of modesty and diffidence ought to delight the old fogies. After all, however, though women may put on the airs of men they’re not. men. While men are oaks and pines, women are beautiful, twining vines. He expected to be called to account for these viows; nevertheless, he felt that woman was made to be a helpmeet, a dependent crea ture. So it must be, and I hope for one it al ways will be. Ho could.not concur in this movement if it was to make woman unwomanly —to make her a man. Wo have enough men already. What we want are women of noble moral elevation, of rich and pnre affectional sensibility, of delicate and sensitive percep tions, who will intelligently bring these quali ties to bear in pnblio affairs. It has long been believed that the virile clement'alone is com petent to control and direct. Do you suppose that any one could give such noble counsel to young men beginning life as Lncrotia Mott—a model woman, a mother ? It’s as disgusting to unsox a woman and make her a man, as it would be to make a woman of a man; wo don’t seek to change woman’s sphere—only to enlarge it, to increase the breadth of her functions. Sho must stay these tides of brutality, these tides of selfishness that afflict both tho civil and so cial worlds. He specially opposed, he said,|the social philosophies imported from abroad, which tended to disorganize the household. Because he advocated the liberty of woman to exercise all her powers, he didn’t believe that 401) out of every 500 women wonld become public speakers. Is every man an orator ? Be cause. men can. vote, does every one of them run away from his business toettend the primary meetings ? If God gave woman power as artist or preacher, she should exercise it; but this doesn’t imply that more than ono in a thousand will do it. He advocated the fullest and freest education for women. To make woman a good housekeeper, he argued, Bhe should be made intelligent. He held that to place a row of pins straightly on a paper, it was better to have a college-bred man than a dullard. If the day shall come in which woman shall be released from these thralls that now bind her, we will find that they’ll have grander ohildren, make sweeter homes, and have a brighter, nobler in fluence than the world has ever known. There are many things that he wonld criticise, had critioised, but ho felt that the cause was so just, so good, it was bound to succeed in spite of the mistakes of its best friends. Mr. Beecher again referred to the broader education of woman, and said that a sad com ment npon her present condition had been made by a mother, who, when told that her child was a daughter, had simply said “O, God!” Her own life had been so scarred with misery that Bhe conld but bo unhappy in bringing another woman into the world to suffer. He hoped that women were to bring to the conduct of the world tho influence of tbeir best judgment, their no blest culture, and their purest prayers. The audience applauded Mr. Beecher enthusi astically. Miss Anthony again attempted to speak, evidently in weariness of spirit. Sho denied that woman would ever unsex herself, and thought faithlessness in God was evinced in the idea that woman, left to the instincts, of her own moral nature, wonld ever cease to be woman. Her work was not speech making but agitation. She prepared the way for others. In explanation of her “diffidence,” she said that the audience was bo dreadfully disappointed that Miss Dickinson wasn’t there it scared her out of her seven senses. She declared that married women wero at the bottom of the whole thing. As long as they voluntarily give to anothorthe.earnings of their hands they de grade the labor of all other women. Retiring, Miss A. said, sotto voce, to Mr. Beecher, “Isn’t that good pluck, eh ?” A Georgia family has arrived as emigrants in Kansas, consisting of father, mother and sixteen children, none of them under six feet tali “FETCH HER OUT.” A Rare and Blessed Speetade In CsUfomli Twenty sears Ago. In those days, men wonld ffoek in crowds to catch a glimpse of that blessed spectacle, a wo man ! Old inhabitants tell how, in a certain camp, the news went abroad early in the morn ing that a woman was come! They had seen a calico dress hanging ont of a wagon down at the camping ground—sign of emigrants from over the great plains. Everybody went down there, and a shout went np when an actual bona fide dross was discovered flattering bb the wind ? The male emigrant was visible. The miner said: “Fetch her ont 1” He said: “It is my wife, gentlemen—Bhe is sick—we have been robbed of money, provisions and everything, by tbe Indians—we want to rest.” “Fetch her out! We’ve got to see her!” That was tit* only re ply. He “fetched her out,” and they swung their hats and sent np three rousing cheers and tiger; and they crowded around and gazed at her and touched her drees, and listened to her voice with the look of men who listened to a memory rather than a present reality;. and then they collected $2500 in gold and gave it to the man, and swung their hats again and gave throe more cheers, and went home satisfied. A year or two ago 3 dined in San Francisco with the family of & pioneer and talked to his daughter, young lady whoso first experience in San Francisco was an adventure, though sha herself did not remember it, as she was only two or three years eld at tbe time. Her father said that, after landing from tbe ship, they were walking np the street, a servant leadRng the party, with the little girl in her anus. And presently a huge miner, bearded, belted, spur red and bristled with deadly weapons—just down from a long mining campaign in the mountains, evidently barred the way, stopped the servant, and stood gazing, with a face all alive with gratification and astonishment. Then ho said reverently: “Well, if it ain’t a child!” And then he snatched a little leather sack out of his pocketand said to the servant: “TheTe’s a hundred and fifty dollars in dust there, and Fll give it to you to let me kiss the child!” That anecdote is true. But see how things change. SittiDg at that dinner table, listening to that anecdote, if I had offered double the money for the privilege of kissing the same child, I would have been refused. Seventeen added years had far moro than doubled the price. [ Correspondence Buffalo Ex. Opening of the French Chambers. The scene at the opening of the French Chambers is described as dazzling in the ex treme. A gilt arm-chair served as the throne, on the right of which was the Empress’ stand. In front of the throne were cardinals, ministers, members of the privy council, marshals, admi rals, grand crosses of the legion of honor, pre r sidents and members of the Council of State. This was a very brilliant sight, from the various costumes worn by these functionaries, and adorned with ribbons and crosses, some of them mounted with diamonds. M. Rouher’s grand cross of the legion of honor, given bim by the Emperor, cost $12,000 (gold). As soon as tho Emperor's arrival at the Lou vre’s portal was announced, Princess Clotilde, Princess Mathilde, and the Princesses Murat, followed by the ladies of their household, came ont of the drawing room, where they had been waiting, and, preceded by a master of ceremo nies, took their seats on the Emperor’s stand. Her Majesty’s armchair was nntenanted. Prince Napoleon headed the procession, followed by the Imperial Prince and the Emperor. It was observed that his Majesty appeared to be in ex cellent health; he is regaining fleBh, walks firmly, and with an elastic step. The Imperial Prince still looks very delicate, and with a strong tendency to consumption. After the de livery of the speeeh, which was printed, the newly elected deputies were called to take the oath of allegiance. Rochefort's name was greet ed with peals of ironical laughter. He is being severely left alone by his associates. In the first place, the bam-yard should be 10 constructed as to retain all the liquid portion of the manure that is derived from the stables and cow sheds. It should be hollowed in tie centre, and the soil of which it is compost should be made »»compact and retentive w pee- Bible. It shonld have a firm broad roadway en circling the hollow provided for the reeeptin of the manure, so as to allow the passage ot carts and wagons for convenience of loadirg, and also for the better accommodation of tie stock, when turned out either for water or&iritg. All the central portion of the yard shonld tie deeply bedded, with refuse straw, woods’ earth, and every variety of rough fibrous material that it is possible to collect together, and npon which the voidings of the cattle are-to be thrown. Fie underlying stata of rough material will sens to absorb the liquid portions- of the manors tad thus prevent it from running to waist Feu to the bam-yard may be heaped up, for subie- quent use, an abundance of the same material —woods’ earth, the scrapings- of ditches, maid weed, turf of hedge rows, sea ore, where it ii to be had, and, in short everythingabont a fsa of vegetable origin that is capable of being de- oomposed. “Daring the winter, as the manure accnm- lates from the stable, and catile-sbed, and bog- pens, fresh additions from the heap colleoiei outside, Bhould be made to it in the proportion of two-thirds of rough material to one of bus yard manure. These additions shonld be regs- larly made from time to time, until spring is about open, when the whole contents of fit bam-yard should be thoroughly mixed and in corporated together, and then thrown into heap, to undergo the process of fermentation, without which the substances of which they an composed wonld fail to be sufficiently solabbto meet the immediate wants of the spring crop. “Another, and, perhaps, with some fanners, a more desirable mode of preparing eompsts is to haul the materials for the compost heaps to the fields which are to be fertilized, anita haul out to the same place the manure which has accumulated in the barn-yard, andthe« buildup tbe compost heaps, layer bjUytt taking care to make the first layer entircijc- rough material, then following with the Mu* drawn from alternate layers, making each suc cessive layer thinner than the one which pre ceded it.”* After fermentation has well sc! break down the heap and mix as before. Wendell Phillips on the RampP Newbubxpobt, Mass., December 1.— Phillips, in a speech at the Lyceum last mg-- demanded of Congress to assume the ment which the Executive had abdicated; t-y it compel the States lately in rebellion to &• ucate its eight million dunces, and that_ if fuse to do so, then the government ite**; the expense of all the people, shall assume t-. duty, afterwards sending the bill to the •' ent States. It must protect the citizens as as legislate for them. The war has not en “vt’ it has just begun. In the latter.P 01 ^ 0 ? 0 ^ lecture, the speaker severely criticised the bune for virtually saying, on Saturday _ that we could not carry on this gofcrniuec les3 we entreat Jeff Davis to come aiid he-P Mr. Phillips said the Southern whit« s _ got tbe business and the wealth, and hare t tured the Supreme Court. A worse Taney wields its thunderbolt to-day— a r ., Republican—a man who drags tb ® f, through the infamy of Tammany aiUJ - ^ means to contest the election with the can j of the Republican party. If the I party had a brave man at its bead,' ^ marshal its forces and nail its colors, - . givene8s,”~to the mast, and absolutely nate every Northern mind With ths*®J\ speaker oonclnded with a demand that t • should be given to the blacks as free*? * m ble, and spoke with great force of tiie _vUis | tide of Orientals to tho Pacific to be a greater act of American civilize" | anything it has yet experienced. Making a New Sea JL del*-' The Ibbepbessebus Andrew.—A late Wash ington letter gives the following: ‘‘From Ten nessee recent advices have been received here to the effect that Andrew Johnson is in no wise dismayed or east down by the late election. He is said, on the contrary, to be in the most buoy ant and rosy frame of mind—McGregor on his native heath. The result of the election has caused a very decided manifestation of popular good will for the ex-President, and an equal ex hibition of displeasure for the leaders, by whose jealousy and ambition his defeat was secured. That he will come up again is not doubted, or that he will stea’dily increase his hold on tho people. If Brownlow should die. it is said that the present Legislature would elect Mr. John son to the vacancy.” The manager of a country theatre, peeping through the curtains between the acts, was sur prised by a glimpse of the empty benokes. “Why, good gracious,” said he, turning to the prompter, “where is the audienoe ?” “He has just stepped out to get a mug of beer,” was the brief reply. The London Spectator defends Messrs. Motley and Johnson from the charge of subserviency to English interests in tho Alabama question, and says that the English people believe that the latter impartially took in them and their din ners. ' -a . ••- The Italie, of Florence, says that i seps, after having connected {Lascf proposing to create a new one. R gested that the Sahara is the bed of I displaced by some natural convulsion- ^ I led M. de Leaseps to send engineers to ^ the region, and their report has that the Sahara at the point nearest “ " f 0 is twenty-seven metres below the w sea, and that the depression increase*.^ towards the interior. He believes, .Jystt*. that a oanal seventy-five miles long jsl I flee to flood the Sahara from the R* I thus restore the desert to its pniaev I ' It wonld be rash to assert that I impracticable; bnt it is not likely_ to . ^ is-1 npon without a careful flueuce it might havo upon the clini 0 f tW I boring regions, and especially upon Mediterranean and Southern -“ ar0 .rT s nt^| not venture to say precisely-how ^ I tion of a great sea fora great desert the meteorology of large portionso and Europe, but we doubt whethe . interested will decide to risk th« uelu * experiments . ^ General Pnm publioly d fi ctof S Q ffli«6, has been no change in the opinio . ish Government or Cortes on tho 0^ prob*']| monarchy. The Duke of Genoaffi j^l receive the crown, but should h government will not favor the es» a republic. A Sacramento ordinance niiS^jS ployment of women in 8 ®*9“ 1 fhat jt is o but the naloon-keep^™ claim to ,„ P n tatiosal mad©r tho.