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^ , | 1 Hr "1 ing thns, tint I ■will bo satisfied, myself,
Tdofifraiyll -&tl U. MCSSCHffCr. : mg you in person before the thirty days
i P I will como by myself, without any per:
MACON, DECEMBER 28, 1869.
Qotc a Prominent GeorEta Radical
Proposes lo “ Expand the C'nr-
renej."
The Hon. John A. "Wimpy, , of Dahlonega,
county of Lumpldn, State of Georgia, Las got -
ten himself into what would be considered by
an honest man “a regular fix.
is a very loyal man-—so loyal, indeed, that his
party ran him for Congress in the Cth District,
against Col. J. H. Christy, of Athens. He was
defeated, Lnt contested the election, and,
though unsuccessful, has in his pocket, ready
for fulure use, no doubt, a certificate of elec
tion, signed by Governor Bullock. When he
knocks at the door again with this certificate
and tho one we publish below, if ho doesn't get
admission we shall be vastly surprised,
ing thns, "but I will be satisfied, myself, by see’
7 —' ““TwRawh
person with
mo. I have been raised here in the mountains,
and never have been farther North than Wash
ington. You may know that I will bo ?>■
. A. * CREEN-HOBN’
when I ge t to New York. ... . .
“ I want to make a ‘big heavy thing 7 out of
this thing, end believing I can do it successful
ly, with my standing and influence in the monn-
- tains, I write you this, and whenT- get to At-
The Hon. John lanta and Washington, I shall telegraph yon for
information where to find you and how. And,
sirs, believe me to be yours in confidence,
(Signed) ' “John A. Wimpy.”. •
X.have destroyed your letters as directed.’
Supreme Conrt of Georgia.
■,'y \ ~ Decembeb31, 18G9.
The Court met pursuaht to adjournment.
Tho following judgments wero rendered, to-
wit: i I
' ° I John Atwell, Executor, plaintiff in error, vs.
Such Ami E. Holliman, defendant in error—Dower,
a “trneblno’'ashe—one who has such a “wring 1
of the true metal" has a right to demand full
recognition by and follow&hip with his party as
sociates in. 0dndresg.
It seems that a notorious swindling firm in
Now York city, Wogan & Co., who announced
themselves, per very private circular, as dealers
in. counterfeit money, haVo recently come to
grief, their correspondence falling into tho
hands of tho police. Tho New York Tribune
from Quitman, judgment of tho Court below
reversed on the ground that the Conrt erred in
ruling that the Executor had no such interest
in the land a3 authorized him to traverse the
return of the commissioners, who assigned tho
dower.
Samuel A. McNeil, Administrator, plaintiff in
error, vs. Cyrus B. Harkie, et. al. defendants
in error—motion to set aside a judgment, from
Randolph. Jndgment reversed on the gronnd
that the Court below erred in setting aside the
execution, as the plaintiff had tho right to sign
up judgment against the defendant and bis se-
has gotten hold of it, and in its issue of the cnr ities for the amount of tho verdict ns ovont-
18th, publishes a portion of it, of which Wim- ual condemnation money.
pv’s is a fair specimen. We give it in full, as | M. S. Grubbs. Administrator, plaintiff in
, .. , .. .. T , error, vs. D. G. McGlaun, defendant in error—
good reading for the times. It shows what sort Eqn5ty from yvebster. Judgment affirmed.
of creatures “reconstruction delights to honor I Addison B. Brown, plaintiff in error, vs. Wm.
in Georgia, and of what material the chosen 1 Simms, defendant in.error—Relief, plea and de-
VMSeli of Radicalism nro composed. Doubtless mnrrer, from Stewart. Judgment affirmed.
Col. Christy will give tho facts wide circulation
in the Sixth District Wo hope so, anyhow.
Here is (be first letter Mr. Wimpy writes:
“Gusts: Your letter of tho 15th ult., which
was sent »o a friend in East Tennessee, was the
other dnj confidentially handed me, asking that
in error, vs. Alfred Kersey, ct aL, defend
ants in error. Judgment affirmed.
Trowbridge, Dwight & Co., et aL, plaintiffs
in error, vs. Annie E. Rawson, defendant in
error—Injunction end its violation, from
uuici- „ , i , WKi , I Dougherty. Judgment reversed, on the gronnd
h8 embark into tho business of circulating conn- I that the Court below erred in its judgment in
terfeit kk noy. I am a lawyer here at this I this case, by holding the defendants below in
place, in good standing. Have a lucrative prac- I contempt for. bringing tho suit in the U. S.
tice, and above suspicion. I have a vast deal Court generally; the fact being that it was not
of influence before the people, and as an ovi- I a violation of the injunction to proceed in said
dencc of this I was conrt against property which had passed out of
llkctld to Tim xlud coxgbess Rawson’s hands before his death and ontho
, , m _ . . . , farther gronnd that the court erred In directing
last was a year ago so Iwant to try and ^ defendant to dismiss his suit in the Circuit
mrcnlatc some of your counterfeit m-aiey. Court This Court being of tho opinion that
“This section of the State, continues Mr. whilst a stato conrt may punish its suitors for
Wimpy, is far off from the railroad, and tho contempt 0 f its process, by suing in another
people «ve ignorant and are withont a currency ; nr isdiction, it has no power to direct the dis-
—cannot pay their taxes without a great sacn- ^ 5ssal of said snit .
flee. You may put mo down ns ^ John Neal et al., plaintiff in error, V3. Geo.
one of the ‘true blue,' I Patten, defendant in error—Motion for new
and will not blow on you! I know I can circn- trial, from Mitchell. Jndgment of the court be-
Ute a large quantity of yonr currency and can low reversed, on tho ground that the conrt erred
make it profitable to me as well as to you. You I in overruling tho motion for a new trial, and in
will therefore send to me five hundred dollars charging the jury that tho defendant’s answer
in one dollar bills and five hundred in five dol- I responsive to the bill was evidence, without
lar bills. Send the above by express and direct charging that when not responsive, it was not
thns, “Hon. John A. Wimpy, Dahlonega, Ga., evidence, and without calling the attention of
via of Atlanta, Ga." C. O. D. By this means the jury to tho application of tho rule to tho
I will be suro to get the package. According I bill and answer before the court,
to your letter above referred to tho amount or- Stephen King, plaintiff in error, vs. tho State,
dared will come to three hundred dollars, which I defendant in error—Bigamy, from Webster.
I will pay at the express office. Yon will order I Jndgment reversed on the ground that the court
that tho money bo collected on delivery. I am below erred in overruling tho demnrrer to the
willing to invest largely in the matter for I indictment, this conrt being of the opinion
know I that the indictment did not sufficiently show
i oak it pat. that the defendant had a lawful wife living at
“I need not reiterate to you what can be the date of his second marriage. _
done. Be sure and send the counterfeit money Michael Gormley, et. ah, plaintiff in error,
as ordered above, so that I can get it at an early I s ; J°bn L. Larramore—Complaint from Ran-
day. I will be in New York in December next, i Jndgment of the conrt below affirmed.
and Representative Hawkins, aro engaged in pre
paring a protest against tho legality of the Tennes
see election, and praying Congress to set it aside.
A private dispatch from Paris says the expatria- j
tion of the Jews from Russia has commenced."
The President has nominated Stanton, vice Greer,
[for Jndgo of tho U. S. Supreme Court?] and tho ratification by Virginia of the Fifteenth.
Welles R. Rice, tor Surveyor of Customs at Solma, The vote of Georgia was essential, he said, in
order to make sure of Ohio and Rhode Island.
TOO LATE FOB BASICAL EEPENTANCE.
“Finally,” said Mr. Morton, very honestly,
and with some appearance of contempt for the
hesitating Senators, “ if wo have done wrong,
it is too late to talk about it now. It looks liko
weakness and cowardice.”
Ala.
The Spanish correspondence published is very
voluminous, but no now facts.
Tho Supreme Court decides—Chase, Field and
Miller dissenting—that where a State Legislature
grants a franchise to.a corporation, and in consid
eration of the corporation’s establishing tho enter
prise contemplated, exempts the corporation’s
property from taxation. A contract is created be
tween tho corporation and State which no subse
quent Legislature or change of State constitution ita ^ y conl mander to pnt through the ratification
Objections to a juror, because his name does
not appear on the list of jurors on file in tho
clerk’s office, must bo made before verdict is
rendered.
J. Heinekin and G. W. Palmore, plaintiffs in
and will see yon personally on the matter.
Yours, etc., Joint'A.-"Wimpy,
“P.-S.—Yon will find ont who I am by con
sulting McKillop, Sprague & Co., New York, as
well as John Livingston.'"
The rectivcra of the letter were apparently I $5 ro . r > YS - Grist, defendant in error—
suspicions of Mr. "Wimpy’s franknesi, and re- Motion to set aside a judgment on a noto for
tamed the letter, indorsed on the back as fol- slaves from Early. Judgment reversed on the
lows: “We return your letter, supposing that I ground that the conrt below emed m setting
some one got the letter heads out of your office judgment. It being the opinion of
and wrote this. If yon are in earnest, write court, that while the court below may not
again." To this comment the writer of the let- ba T° bad jurisdiction ta set aside the judgment,
ter responded by returning the same letter, with I lfc -7 e ^ no i ariS( ‘ lctl0n *° sofc as ^° anc *
this not indorsed underneath the comment s amend it. . .
“Dahlonega, Ga,, October SO, I860. Alexander Shaw, plaintiff in error vs. the
Genii ; I am in earnest Send tho goods as Slate defendant m error-Simple Larceny, from
ordered herein, and fail not. I return this let- Randolph. Jndgment reversed on the ground
ter asbeing my instructions in the matter. - *hatO» G< ?" rt be j ow e ?. ed ln not , 6 f“ ln 8 * e
yours, etc., John A. Wimpy. Write me by re- verdict aside and granting a new fatal, on the
tummail wind you do iu the premises.” *
Again, on November 14, Mr. YYimpy writes was charged in the indictment as the actor,
to "Wogan &. Co., evidently in reply to a letter I or absolute perpetrator of tho offence,
he has received, as follows: Wm. McAffeo vs. Littleberry Mulkey, de-
“Deae Sirs :-Your letter of the 9th instant, f enda ^ in error-Motion for now trial, from
inf nr miner me that you sent mo $3G7i in ones, a ^™ e d* #
and twos, and fives, is to-day received, and I TOUmmtamno, plaintiff m error vs. Robert
thank you much for your promptness, and in G?®*’ defendant in error-Motion to set aside
s v s I a judgment, from Webster. Judgment reversed
*“■“44<hr} tbpl Wowcrred i» M
. . . . 1. _ , , charging tho jury that if the fi. la. was made by
but I will loaveinafew day3inNew York to de f endan ti n Confederate treasury notes,
see you and have a personal mtemewwith you a j ter tR e f a iiure of tho Confederate government
before I take tbe package out of the office. And ^ tlien tll0 Confederate government notes
it becomes necessary for me to explain to you failed witt it> and that the payment in that enr-
the reasons for this which has come to me since | renc wa3 Bot „ „ ood and va ] id payment of tho
I last wrote you. Sirs, you may have the ut- f^
most cohfidence in mo; fori will not betray "p q Parkerson, plaintiff in error, vs. Win.
you, or any ono elso engaged m the business— R Sess i onSi defendant in error-Motion to
but to tho reason why I want to see you before ored5t fa ^ th salo of pr0 p 6I ty, from Ran-
I Kft the package. I wrote to. a firm by tho 1 do]ph _ jndgment affirmed,
name of _ 1 Charles Lynch and James L. Pollard, plain
Noyes & Co., 90 \Y all st., tills in error, vs. Basil Pace, defendant in error
on the 2Slli of September last, for $100 worth of 1 —Homestead, from Randolph. Judgment re-
currency, the same as I wrote you. I versed, on the gronnd that the court below
On tbe 20th,day of October the saidNoyes & 1 erred in overruling the demurrer tothe appli
Co. wrote to me to this effect. (Here is a copy cation for a homestead, and also on the further
of the letter): “Oct. 26th, 1SG9. Hon. John ground that the.court erred in deciding that an
A. "Wimpy. Dear Sir: Goods have been sent appeal from the judgment of the Ordinary did
as desired, c. o. d., $100. Have you paid on it not bring up the entire case in its totality into
yet or not? Let know. Respectfully, j the appellate court, in the same manner as in
‘‘Noyes & Co., 96 Wall st.” other appeal cases from the Court of Ordinary.
• The above is a copy of their letter to me. John Bonner, plaintiff in error, vs. J. B.
Immediately upon the receipt of this letter, I Martin, defendant m error—Relief, from Car-
sent $100 in the hands of my clerk, who did not roll. Judgment of the court below reversed,
suspicion anvthing of the kind, to lift the pack- on the ground that the court erred in refusing
age out of the office at Atlanta, which he did 1 to open the judgment and allow the evidence
by paving the $100 and express charges, and I to supporbtlie pleas of tender to be submitted
brought the box to me, and when I opened the to tbe jury under the act generally known as
box, to my great astonishment, sirs, there was I the relief law.
nothing in the box except newspapers wadded A. B. Simms, Esq., from Covington,Ga., was
up, and a piece of ore weighing about three admitted to the bar.
pounds. So my $100 and oilier expenses were Argument in the case of Sharp & Brown, vs.
gone, and I have not yet received wliat I or- E. B. Loyless, was resumed and concluded,
dered; but in the bottom of the box was a slip K. F- Lyon, for plaintiff in error, and W. A.
of writing, of which the following is a copy: Hawkins, for defendant in error* .
“This is done to mislead the detectives. It will The case of Jowers & Oliver vs. Goodwin,
be r*!iit to you free of charge by express. Keep w> withdrawn, _ . .
cool—do not mention bur name-destroy all the case of Kirkland & Co. vs. Herrington
trace of our Jettem. Shall’ we send your letters ® diminution of the record was suggested and
along with it ? 3-^ I ,h0 cafi0 continued,
I HAVE BEEN “KEEPING COOL 1
can impair.
It i3 stated that General Canby has written
letter adverse to Virginia’s admission withont strin
gent restrictions.
The Tenneisio Constitutional Convention is car
ried by a largo majority.
Tho Executive session of tho Senate lasted four
hours, and was mainly occupied in tho discussion
of tho President’s refusal to send tho documents
called for by tho Judiciary Committee.
It is stated on good authority that tho Alabama
and waiting patiently for the package to come
but it has not come—and I fear I am swindled
out of one hundred dollars, beside other expen-
All cases from tho Pataula Circuit having
been disposed of, the Court adjourned till tho
2d Monday in January. ;•>:
RFAOINUW THE WORM).
sea to the amount of $!5. The receipt whioh I x{, c j»angUtcr of Tan Dorn’s Slayer Takes
ta signed by Noyes & Co. is dated on the 9th the Block Veil.
Oct. lost, at 96 Wall street, N. Y. Now T —os I __ _ • _ . _
acting in good faith and me.v i nothing but bus- T f uu 1>(r -
ineaa with Sirs Noyes & Co. I received a letter I Tno secluded and elegant chapel of the Cori-
from them which led me to correspond with vent of the Visitation, on Cass avenue,' was
them. 1 * irNoves&Oo. send on the package or- crowded yestorday with ladies and gentlemen,
dered by me and I receive it before I start for the occasion being tho interesting and impres-
New York to see yon in person, I shall be in- | sive ceremonials connected with the. public re-
daced to lift yonr packago sent mo out of the
express offico at Atlanta. Having lost $100 up
to this time in tho business of trying to get and
obtain I shall know that I am
ception into conventual life of two young ladies,
one assuming the irrevocable or black veil, and
the other tho white symbol of her novitiate.
An episode of this character is one of pecn
liar attractiveness, even to those immersed it
secular concerns, and, whatever creeds may be
embraced in the audience, none can be indif
ferent or insensible to its influence. In itself,
the spectacle of two fair girls in tho radiant
bloom of yonthfal life, deliberately abjuring
DEALING WITH FAIR MEN.
who would not take any advantage of me. Sirs:
I shall not betray yon, neither shall I even men
tion your name to anyperson living. I. want to
start from'here about the 23d of this month for |
Washington, and when I get to Atlanta I will I t ^ 0 wor i dj J which moans everything earthly
a telegram what day I will be at your m ost treasured, and assuming the obligations
JS Nassau street; and if I can be made sat-1 aad entering the permanent seclusion of con-
!f®? d k 0 .* c ^ tains J* bat 5 on sa y la in I venlual existence, has a serious, if a half
F?, ^ it out of the offico. I am of too mour nful, beauty of its own. But when it has
. touted means to let any moro money slip out annesed to it the solemnity of religious ccre-
of my fingers as I did to Noyes & Co., 9G Wall monials, it becomes ono which leaves on the
street. ~It would brake me. If your money is m ; nd a vivid and enduring impression,
what you say it is, and is so well executed as re- The lady who assumed tho black voil yester-
presented, I can make ^ day was Miss Clara Peters, daughter of Dr. IV-
a “bio thiso" j ters. Bhe is a convert, we are informed, from
out of it; fori tell you there is no currency the Protestant faith, and in her profession ns a
and change in this section of the State. I know nun evinces the reality and earnestness of her
I can make great use of it, but I am satisfied convictions. It is a year ago since she entered
that I can ruako belter use of 5s than Is and 2s, the order and assumed tho white veil. She be
because there is no suspicion resting against the comes in religion Sister Mary Panla.- . >_•,
five bills, but there is in l ’>i* country suspicion [ The other young lady who made her first
against \s andZs, as being counterfeit.
“Yonr letter, I must confess, has the
profession was Mies Jane Sheppard^apparently
not more than twenty years of ago. '.
WRING OF THE BIGHT METAL,
and which is much more satisfactory to me than
those of Me.-jjra. Noyes & Co.; but to be sure I
am right and to know that I am dealing with
business men, I must see you in person before * bo t acolu ® tax.
wh*tf ayy0U nny mon °y* without seeing just
BUSINESS IS BUSINESS.
T hops yon will not think hard of ms for do
. The United States contains G,f OO,OCO dogsc
A. tax of one doQcr a head on tkeso yaUmble
animals, would go a great way towards relieving
A IloMCEOp.vTnic College in Washing
ton.—Mr. Srunner has introduced a bill in' the
Senate to iticon cuv.o an institmion of this
Hn3ta*vt-1 7 /- - - v.*;-
The Georgia Horror In the Senate.
"We copy the following from the New York
World's report of tho Senate debate upon and
passage of the bill to promote tho reconstruc
tion of Giorgia:
A FIELD LAY Hi THE SENATE.
The Senate began to-day with a pretty full
attendance of members, it being understood
that this was to be tho field day, and that the
Radicals would strive to push tho Georgia bill
to a vote, for the double reason of manufactur
ing a Radical province and of stopping a de
bate which had already elicited a damaging con
troversy among their own Senators.
DEBATE ON GEORGIA ^RECONSTRUCTION.
The bill oamo up as unfinished business, Mr.
Saulsbnry having the floor. This gentleman
made a very strong speech, exposing with much
FROM WASHINGTON.
BULLOCK ADDRESSES THE RE r
CONSTRUCTION COMMITTEE, j
TIFT DENOUNCES HEW.
THE DEMOCRATIC MEMBERS DE
FEND GEORGIA. -
Special to the Telegraph and Messenger.]
"Wasuikoton, December 20.—The Reconstruction
Committee met to-day to discuss Georgia matters.
Gov. Bullock made a speech, designed to show that
withont farther reconstruction the State would go
to pot. I power and sarcasm the principles °of the bill
Mr. Tift replied, and is said to have denounced and C0U rse of the Radical party. Bollock,
Bullock in unmeasured terms. Ho said no wonder the carpet-bag lobbyist and engineer of the
Bullock wanted to upset and disorganize the State j bill, came in for a notice, which was caustic,
government of Georgia, inasmuch as a proper in- but only revealed a little of his mischief,
vestigation of his life and conduct by tbe judicial the engeteeb of the bill—caepei-bag' imtit-
tribunUs would result iu his being transferred from dence.
tho Governorship to tho Penitentiary. This worthy was conspicuous on the floor to-
Bullock retorted that he had come hero to have j day, as usual, superintending: tho proceedings
hia official and not private lifo looked into by Con- designed specially to secure him a seat in the
f - rrnn - - Senate. It is said that ho has already selected
The House galleries aro crowded to-night, but place i n the chamber, and it is certain that
. fa . fln to-day ho was to be seen lounging about with a
not moro tba* half a dozen Radicals are on the brazen look , nnd a cigar in his mouth, as if to
floor. Tho Democrats aro nearly all in their seats. mar i. y , contemptior tho body ho was then
Butler bespoke forbearance on the part of tho using to shield his vitality and promote his am-
Democratic members towards liis protege, Bullock, bition.
The arguments of tho Democratic members in a vote to be fbessed.
defense of Georgia wore logical and convincing, "When Mr. Saulsbury had finished, Mr. Car.
and wero listened to with groat attention by tho pentor gavo notice of the determination to press
crowd in" tho galleries. Dalton. the bill to a vote this day, thns giving promise
of a night session.
FROM WASHINGTON. SPEECH OF SENATOB STOCKTON.
Washington, December 20.—'Tho Treasury holds After a brief executive session, tho debate
ono hundred and eight millions of gold, including "was resumed by Mr. Stockton, (New,Jorsoy,) in
thirty-eight millions of gold certificates. BoutweU a speech which was complimented even by his
directs the omission of Tuesday and Friday’s sale opponents, as forcible and impressive.
gold this week. This order does not affect the TnE hadioals oveeeeaching themselves,
sale of gold on Thursdav, nor the purchase of bonds Mr. Ferry, of Connecticut, was ready to snp
advertised. Ho also'orders tho payment of tho P ort tbe bil J, tot not to require the Fourteenth
Januu7 interest on .ft.r do-
bate. . I idity, led Mr. Mort^vAl-^Jxier boar, to with-
Tho Florida delegation liavo appealed to tlio | draw this part of 1 'i ago on th n ^ A more severe
President for troops to support the Stato govern- commen*-ry on t». - * *An.y of his amendment
ment. Tho delegation includes tho Adjutant Gon- than Con Irvativo could possibly make. Mr.
oral, Secretary of Stato, and a Stato Senator, all Conlding, (Radical, New York,) also opposed
negroes. _ | the requirement of the ratification of these
Revenue to-day, $642,000.
talk was loud and disorderly. Bullock seemed
terribly put out, and there was certainly a screw
loose in tbe Republican camp. Carpenter moved
to adjourn, and then, withdrawing it, moved
that when the Seriate adjourn it adjourn to meet
on Monday noxt. ; - ' i*~. •.' >T
Mr. Drake roso excitedly, and denounced with
heat tho motion to adjourn. He said, to the
surprise of the Senate, that he did not under
stand this proceeding on part of Republican
Senators to adjourn because the bill had been
amended. Georgia might stay out for over be
fore he would vote to punish a man for involun
tary aid to the rebellion. Moro confusion en
sued until Mr. Carpenter withdrew the motion.
It was now 12:30 o’clock.
Mr. Casserly, who fought tho bill with great
ability and tact, now worried tbe Radicals with
various amendments to it, designed to tako the
control of. the military from Bullock, and vest it
entirely in the President,all of which wero voted
down. . .
Mr. Trumbull wns absent. He is understood
to opposo the bill.
Mr. Howard moved on amendment so as td
relievo from disabilities only these acting undor
direct physical force, and this was agreed to.
Tho Ultra-Radicals finally fashioned tho bill
their own way, and then passed it by a party
vote at 1:30 o’clock.
Tho session, which was of unnsn-d interest,
kfitl lusted thirteen hours ; nnd n St..: • admitted
bnt yesterday, into the Union is. if the Sonate
has its way, remanded to be a military province.
amendments, ontho ground that it would’•*,
xwveuuom-fixed ammunition to the enemy.
Tho Tennessee delegation, except Senator Fowler j J
A RADICAL DILEMMA.
So many Radicals had spoiled his amendment
that Mr. Morton now thought it was time to say
something in its favor. He showed that the ob
jections of Messrs. Carpenter and Conkling ap
plied equally to tho ratification of tho Four
teenth Amendment by the rebel States and to
A NON SEQTimill.
This made a marked sensation, bnt Mr. Ed
munds still further startled his friends by asking
Mr. Morton, “ Why not at once require the mil-
of the amendment?”
A TILT BETWEEN THUEMAN AND SHEEMAN.
A vory interesting encounter then followed
between Messrs. Sherman and Thurman in re
spect to Ohio politics, in which the former was
decidedly unhorsed, Judge Thurman speaking
with even more than his usual power. Mr. Nyo
pnt in an interjection from his seat, and he too
got a quietus.
CLAMOR FOB A VOTE—A RECESS.
Mr. Drake and his brother Radicals now clam-
„ . .... , , . ™. , - ored for a vote, but tho Conservatives had some
Claims negotiations will bo re-opened m W**-1 speeches to put in, and the Radicals had to fall
k'Ston. - back on their dinners and a night session.
CONGRESSIONAL. ! THE NIGHT SESSION.
Washington-, " December 20.—House — In tho After tbo recess the Senators generally came
House, on tho regular call of Slates, the Georgia back, and tho galleries were full of people, at-
bill was laid on tho Speaker’s table. An attempt traded by the unusual circumstance of a nigh
will be mado to pas3 it withont reference to the | session.
Committee on Reconstruction. This Committee I senatob davis speaks.
have heard Bullock and Tift on Georgia. Tho din- r t-. - _ , , „„
cuseion was mostly personal, and somewhat bitter. ,, Mr - Ga 5 rott Dav “ continued a long speech on
Tho Election Committee have reported nothing. question, receiving no attention from his
Tlio bill for distributing tho number and rank of I political oponents, but a good deal from the gal-
leries, and it began to look as if tho vote would
Government employes among tlio several States and
Territories, passed.
Tho Georgia bill was taken up. A vote on it will
be taken at 3 o’clock to-morrow. Several amend
ments wero proposed, all of which Butler, who
championed tho bill, opposed on the ground that
not come on till a late hour; but the Radicals
plainly meant to pass the bill, either with or
-without Morton’s amendment.
NORTON—NYE—CASSERLY,
The evening waned. The audience in the
whilo tho hill was not in all respects satisfactory tho g allenas tb i? ed > but lha * J bo Senate floor in-
amendments would cause delay. Bingham will op- Chamber we re thronged by members of tho
pose the bill. j House and other privileged persons. Mr. Nor-
Tho night session was for debato only. 1 t 0Di taking the floor after Mr. Davis concluded,
Butler stated that tho Committeo postponed the Lmade a vigrous protest against the bill. Sir.
Virginia bill because (it hadnot got sufficient evi- Nye followed in _ a post prandial speech in his
dence. old stylo, his voice being thick from some cause
Farnsworth moved to suspend tho rule and pass I —probably from emotion. Ho was followed by
a resolution that Virginia is entitled to represents Mr Casserly tho new Democratic Senator from
vote of 63 to 10G. ^ . strong and, in some respects, a brilliant argu-
Tbo Speaker decides that tho Georgia bill is open ment, attacking without gloves tho measures
to amendments, and that a motion to postpone will before the Sonate nnd tho Senators on tho oppo-
bo entertained. Bock’s amendment rcqmr03 a day sito side of the Chamber for their tergivorsi-
for the reassembling of tbo Legislature—not less I ttons in regard to it. In the course of his re-
tban thirty nor moro than sixty days after tho Gov- I mar ks, he replied to Mr. Conkling, who had as^
. ,, nil 8umed that tho Democratic party wore bound
omore pioclamabon ordcnng an clection to Cll va- (hQ rcconstrnction policy of Mr. Johnson;
can^-and inserting the word “voluntary » to* t & tho had never aporoved of it; the Demol
of direct physical forco in tho oata declaring ‘tot l aatio party h ad never indorsed it
the person taking it, had not engaged in rebellion. 1
Wittemoro introdnoed a bill calling together tho
Virginia Legislature. It imposes the test oath and
scats those having tho next highest vote where
majority of tho candidates were ineligible.
Sesate—The Senate is discussing custom houses.
A FOUR-SIDED DISCUSSION.
An interesting nnd exciting debate here en
sued, three, or four Senators joining in it,
among them Judge Thurman, who said that in
the autumn of 18G3, tho Republican party of
Ohio had endorsed tho policy of Andrew John-
A bill was reported exempting canned fish from I son np to the hub. There Mr. Sherman roso
da ii cg and said that this resolution' was a year ahead
Mr. Trumbull, from tho Judiciary Committee, re- «*«*» struggle with Congress. Mr Thurman
, „ ... ’ . ,?v I said it was after tho development and maugnr-
ported a j on. ^resolution declaring Yirgmia enatled aUoB of thQ policy of Mr. Johnson. “It was
to representation in Congress. | sa j d jjr.- Shorman; “the policy was an-
A bill waa introdocod for tho adjustment of tho nonnced j n September.” Mr. Conkling, edr-
French spoliation claims. reeling, said it -was in October, and neither
Executive session—Stanton was confirmed by a seemed to know tho notorious fact that in May,
voto of 46 to 11. J 8 G 5» Mr. Johnson, in tho North Carolina pro-
’ ■ ««► - clamation, had developed his wholo reconstruo-
FROJI SAVANNAH. tion policy.
Savannah, Decomber 20 Tho United States flag the vote.
ship Severn,*with Roar Admiral Poore, of the North [" After Mr. Casserly had finishod, at about 11
Atlantic squadron, has arrived off Tyboo bay with | o’clock, the voto ensued on Morton’s amend-
tlio officers and crow of' tho Caban privateer steam- ment requiring the ratification of tho Fifteenth
cr Lillian, who wero captured by tho Spanish au- Amendment as a condition precedent. There
thorities with that steamer and - released. They " as a 8 eU6ral Bllanca f‘ be ^ ot0wa , s takon > bat
, „ vT „ r- -.1 the first names showed tho Radical camp were
wero brought from Nassau, N. P., by tho United I f orex t r cmo measures; only a few Radicals voted
States steamer Powhatlan. to Key West, and tranB- no- q’ij 0 yeas were gg, the noes were 15. Tho
ferred to tho Severn, by which steamer they wero next amendment was ono to punish persons for
brought to thin point. This steam tug Christiana, I holding office who wero embraced in certain cat-
bronght them to tho city yesterday afternoon. This egories of a very wide-sweeping character. Mr.
morning tho C5tv Council held a meeting and ap- Thurman said it would embrace ninety-nino ont
propriatod a sum* of money to send tho released ? f every hundred persons. He went on to show
% .f . .. . . ... . „ how much broader it was than the Fourteenth
Cubans to their homes. Most of. them aro from tho t Amcndment) acd that involuntary aid to tho
Northern States. . • Confederacy wns punishabio by this act. Under
Ti'vtM I tho effect of this discussion, *Mr. Morton pro-
« « tt , ~ , ceeded to withdraw his amendment. Mr. Thur-
New Orleans, December 20.~ThoHonaton Tele- maa then went on to mako a logical, animated,
graph reports returns from ono hundred and nine- incisive dissection of-the bill nnd of the history
teen counties. Davis’majority620. Only soven conn- I of the Legislature of Georgia,
ties to hear from. The Legislature is: Senate, 18 bullock as a raoMPTEB.
Republicans; 14 Conservatives,and 3 to hear from. Among the scenes during its delivery were
Tho House is, 36 Republicans; 45 Conservatives, and ] an interruption by Mr. Drake, who was instant-
3 to hear from. Gen. Reynolds has ordered an clcc- ly snubbed nnd despatched ; Bullock, tho ear-
tion in Navarro and Milam counties, which did not pet-bagger, moving about uneasily, and trying
various seats of Senators, as if to see which
voto at tho general election.
FROM "VIRGINIA.
Richmond, December 20 Gen. Canby has or
dered that ono per cent, of the interest duo Janu
ary 1,1809. on State coupon bonds, and ono per j theso things did not tnrntehe speaker from his
I would suit him best; and, lastly, Mr. Nye,
leaning back in his chair fast asleep, with a
face, certainly not handsome, turned to the
ceiling, and his hands folded like those of a de-
I parted saint who had gone to his rest. But
cent, on registered bonds, Bhall bo paid oh tho first
proximo. *. • ___
-- , GENERAL NEWS.
. Sak Franceco, December 19.—Throe hundred
Chinese, under contract for three years, will reach
New Orleans about tho tenth prox.
New -York, December 20.—Eighteen Spanish gun
boats liavo departed for Cuba.
rHiLADELrnn, December 20,— 1 Tho ram Tri iniph,
formerly Atlanta, has gono to sea. It ia rumored
that sho is in tho Caban interest, and. ia after tho
Spkn bh gun-boats which left New York last Salrir^
day..j ; VV , ; >' «v
Albany, N. Y., December 20.—Shepard & Co.,
dealers in flour, have failed for $100,000.
Raiaiigh, December 20.—The General Assembly
r.Gjoum&d this morniug until January 10th.
V^^v^-^5f«rei«n NEWS."
Roxr, December 20.—Cardinal Matluou takes a
rue*sage from tho I’opo to NapoleoD.-
jQr.&5»v 1 •. rj • ■ vte'.
line of argnment, which was ns close and ef
fective as his denunciations of this wrong were
powerful and excoriating. Mr. Casserly moved
to striko out the words “involuntary aid” from
tho bill, and even Mr. Morton said it ought to
come "out. Mr. Carpenter seemed ready also
to concede to this, bnt Bullock went over and
took a seat by the Senator, who rose and ob
jected to the change. In a word, tho Radical
Senators appeared throughout the debate liko
hr.If-trained actors rehearsing a piece, with
Bullock for stage prompter.
Even Mr, Sawyer, of South Carolina, roso to
protest against this feature. Ho said it would
c-mbraco nearly everybody. He himself was
forced to do duty in the home guard.
THE VOTE TAKEN.
The vote was taken amid deep interest, many
Uadicrt voting aye, and others with loud noes,
as if indignant at this desertion by their friends.
The amendment was carried by 29 to 22.
.1:1 ’ * WHY IS THIS / v-' 7
Sumner appeared to ho faiiousphto privat
tions, when the public mind i 3
great questions involved in tho prT ‘ l ‘ U ° f tbt
ores of Congress for the
unoffending citizens, who arc only cngag<
peacefully attending their private nfftirv wby,
let-him arrest—yea, imprison, shoot and hang
“The blood of the martyrs is the‘seedoFtne
Church.” Ilels not worthy of liberty who is not
willing to be its martyr.
Above all, let us still preserve our manhood,
and do nothing which can possibly bo con
strued into our assent to their reconstruction
infamies, however often repeated.
We still have bright skies, fertile soils, and a
healthful climate. These are the gifts of God,
and are above the power of Congress to recon
struct, and beyond the reach of even Radicals
to steal or carry away.
Let ns devote all our energies to the sole work
of enriohing onr fields, beautifying our homeB,
multiplying onr productions, erecting foundries,
building factories, and developing in every form
our vast material resources. ‘fQ&y
Toward the colored race let ns redouble our that may suggest food "fJr thorr-t* 11 ^ . KDre i
efforts to be just, kind and forbearing. They mode of encouraging the nm-.-mi f.l’, . to tba
are not the authors of onr wrongs.
*8TIIA HARPlJiU OS «v
ntlng Abwit the Stat»‘•.Sun
Editors Telegraph anA
people doubtless wifi think that IA , *’ 80:54
lar taste in scribbling about inanswq ^
tllA r\nkU« n . u ‘ eXlllbi.
f,; H of tt e
Ked
tho State of. Georgia. i t tf
persons will set me down n C
Rome is burning.”
From the Chronicle and Sentinel.
Notes on flic Situation.
- by n. n. muu. ■ .JB
“What shall we do now ?” is a question every
hour repeated. Perhaps the wisest answer that
could bo given to this question is this: Do
nothing; say nothing. All I shall add, is only
added to make tho wisdom of this answer ap
parent. fi -
Of the legislation now being hurried through
Congress concerning Georgia two remarks may
Jbe predicated:
First. This legislation intends both injury
and insult to our.poople.
Second. So great is the injury, and so inex
cusable the insult intended, that the men in tho
Congress who propose them anticipate violent
resistance by onr people, and, thereforo, havo
authorized the President, on tho requisition- of
Bullock, to employ tbe army and navy of the
United States to cnfoce the legislation. ""
What a commentary is this on free govern
ment ! _ What a work for tho army and navy of
rt’^Jlnited States in a time of peace!
- *• w is not (he Union of onr fathers. This is,
emphatically, a Reconstructed Union. Alas, for
such a Union! Tho ingenuity of man, in its
most devilish exercise, could not provido moro
certain schemes to promote hate and to produce
wars and successions of wars in the far {?) future
than these measures of Congress, which, under
pretence of reconstructing the Southern States,
are really destroying all tho States, and the lib
erties of all the people of all the States.
Bnt this legislation now being enacted by
Congress suggests some valuable lessons which,
if well learned by onr people, -will go far to
compensate for the evils proposed.
1. When the reconstruction .measures were
first proposed in 1807, there were some good
men among ns who thought it would be better
for our.people to participate in the work of re
constructing the State government, with a view
to mitigating or defeating its evils. To these I
humbly, but most earnestly replied, that we
could not succeed by participation in defeat
ing the work of reconstruction, because that
work would be entrusted to men who, under
military protection and by frauds and false
counting of votes, would, in any event, declare
the measures successful, while, by participa-.
tion, we should be hypocritical in seeming to
help a purpose we despied; would relieve the
iniquity of much of its odium by giving it onr
seeming assent, and would thus be parties to
our own degradation and bound by the results.
Or, if by any means, we should succeed in miti
gating the evils, Congress would either not ac
cept the work, or, afteraccepting, would, under
pretence of frand and deception on our part, re
call their acceptance and order tho work of re
construction to be done over again. In the
light of subsequent events, and, especially in
view of the present legislation, will qny man
longer doubt tbe wisdom, propriety and de
cency of non-participation in this work of self-
destruction and 6elf-degradation? Tho only re
sult to us of participation is to lose our own
respectability by imparting it to the scheme for
our ruin.
2. The itching for office which too many have
manifested during this rule of infamy has been
a source of no little mortification to many of
onr people. Wo havo been constantly assured
of great horrors if we did not have Represen
tatives in Congress! For myself, I am free to
confess, I have always thought that our people
ought not even to desire representation, until
they could choose their own representatives.
Indeed, a man of truo honor, Bhould feel insult
ed if even snspected of a wish to get an office
while his superiors were proscribedby a wicked
nnd unconstitutional disfranchisement When
thieves seek agents it is honorable to bo reject
ed as unworthy.
If, then, this legislation shall convinco our
people that they can gain nothing by accepting
and taking part in this reconstruction iniquity,
and shall act as a caustic to bum out all desire
for Federal office in every decent Southern man,
its evils will become moro tolerable, and what
onr enemies intend for our utter discomfiture
may become tho beginning of oil redemption.
There is another effect of this legislation to
reconstruct tho State again which is not wholly
destitute of a compensating consideration.
There was quite a number, perhaps a majori
ty of our people, who had becorno disposed to
make a concession to Congress and the feelings
of the Northern people in a spirit, of concilia
tion for peace. In this spirit I am of tho opin
ion tho Democrats of tho Legislature had con
cluded to reseat the negroes and ratify the
Fifteenth Amendment. Tho result of such
voluntary action would either have dismem
bered the Democratic party of the State, and
caused tho formation of a* Republican party,"
which might havo controlled the State; or, to
prevent this result, it would havo compelled the
Democrats to bo reconciled to theso acts, and
not to have made the support of theso measures
a test of party fidelity. But Congress has pre
vented tho voluntary adoption of tho measures,
and has provided for their forcible adoption.
Congress has ordered that these measures shall
not be adopted by those who could have had
any claims to represent tho intelligence, and
virtue, and will of tho State, and has ordered
them to bo adopted by thoso who will most cer
tainly represent neither tho people, nor the
honor, nor interest nor will of the people of
this State. Thus we nre relieved of all odium
which might attach to a voluntary adoption of
these measures; of all danger of a dismem
berment of the Democratic party by reason of
such adoption; and of all obligation to respect
tho adoption as binding when made by the car
pet-bag strangers, deluded negroes, aqd thiev
ing outlaws whom Congress has entrnsted with
these measures as alone worthy to pass upon
them. I confess there is much in this fact to
gratify me. Tbo real people of our State aTe
relieved from the necessity of passing through
the only ordeal in which i had reason to fear
their manhood would bo forgotten. My opinion
upon the eligibility of tbo negroes under the
negro Constitution was well known. But the
Legislature was the sole judge of this question
for themselves. To reseat them after unseating
them would have been to admit themselves
stultified, and to abdicate their own independ
ence as a co-ordinate department of the State
government. So the principle of the Fifteenth
Amendment is another subversion of the whole
system of the American Government, and no
earthly consideration could induoe me to sup
port it. Yet, I confess I had mado np my mind
to regard with tolerance those who shonld differ
with me on these questions, especially whero it
was known that Bullock was really anxious for
the defeat of both the negroes and the Fifteenth
Amendment, as means of enabling him to indace
Congress to remand tho State to a Provisional
Government in order to extend and enlarge his
own powers for thieving. But Congress, afraid
the excuse for oppressing us would be averted
by the Legislature, has relieved the Legislature
of the humiliating iniquity of averting it.
It is well known agam that the present Leg
islature has been lavish—even reckless—in cre
ating debts in behalf of plunderers for the
people to pay. Kow that Congress has declared
the Legislature which created these debts only
provisional, the people will not hesitate td.de
clare the debts so created to be only provisional
also, and that, too, in spite of any ^provision by
Congress to the contrary.
" My humble opinion, therefore, iri that our
people should receive this additional attempt
by Congress to destroy them as the Roman Sen
ate received the invaders of their country—with
quiet dignity and stolid indifference. Let it be
'our study henceforth to care as little as possible
for federal affairs, and as much as possible for
our own. If President Grant shall"deenTit his
duty to " employ the array and navy of the
"□rnfed States toguard and protect uuassaulted
thieves and robbers, let him so do. If he shall go
Nino out of
ten. of them wish to do right. I doubt whether
tbo same number of any other color or race of
tbo human family could pass tho same orde als
through which they have passed during tho last
four years and do as .well as they have done.
With a few wicked or deluded exceptions, they
will join U3in bringing contempt on all these
Congressional iniquities and on their authors.
The black angel of political, social and moral
death is deepening the shadows of his wings
over the Coalmen*. These shadows will cer
tainly settle in the thick darkness of despotism
and sorrow on the Northern people. Then the
sun of liberty will dawn again upomihe South.
That dawning will reveal us with coffers refilled,
with waste places rebuilt, with resources ol ail
kinds at home, and with sustained honor and
unsullied manhood preserved. And, to these,
whatever else ’honor can commend, or virtue
desire, will bo added for us and for onr children.
I thank God that I was bom in the Sonth, and
with a spirit that knows no fear of her enemies,
and would not escape a fall share of her suffer-
Rome is burning.” Not so. I am^- 8 ^
ent to the danger that threatens n< 1
myself powerless to accomplish anvii L ee!
salvation. Stabler penri tin n
that can be written on the vitfli,.; 643
political issues now before the conrt-!^^
it my humble task to sav yet someH in’ Md bi
that may suggest food for tboulf f^
[fl of encouraging the pursuit#
onr material prosperity. J
-To notice some of the pointsin \L r ,
of the 15th December: You 6 av
stables, hotels and restaurants, ho cwS-
money; but nil other branches of bn ^
by the fair.” This is, without
In another .paragraph, however, you
In point of money, wo doubt Tint i T emat *:
by the fair.” In this I thff you jfc?!?
taken. There were" probably twenty-fi^jg*
sand visitors in your city during the T; ® ,. 01 "
your exhibition was kept open. To 1
each one left in Macon ten dollars idj i
faU far below the mark. Twenty five ^ °
each person would be much nearer thoT?
figures. Simple multiplication, then
us the sung little sum oiBixhunarea’nr,l*f T!
tv-five thousand dollars.
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Mattie in the Senate—The “Georgia
Horror"—note in the Test Oath—What
Georgia may Expect—Going to Ron a Mile
a Miuntc— AH the States on the Bond
Where nre the Breaks ?—Sundries.
Special Correspondence Telegraph and Mcteenveri]
Washington, December 18, 1869.
The battlo has been fought in tho Senate, be
ginning yesterday morning and ending “under
the gas-light” at 1:30 this morning. Morton’s
bill, known to Democratic Congressmen as the
“Georgia Horror,” passed, (with amendments
to bo referred to hereafter) by a strict party
vote of 49 to 9. Tho speech of Mr. Saulsbury,
who had the floor at the expiration of the morn
ing hour, was a masterly effort. The galleries
were crowded as they have not been, before dur
ing tho present session; and tho speaker was
listened to with tho closest attention. He argued
that Georgia never had been out of the Union,
and that tho whole policy of reconstruction had
been inconsistent, and was only .to subserve
party ends. These aro brave words and true,
and they struck home. He was followed by
Senators Stockton, Ferry, Daivs, Casserly and
Norton, against the bill, and Messrs. Conkling,
Nye, and others, in favor of it, reports of whose
1 •.narks will reach you in advance of this let
ter. Mr. Morton’s amendment having been
adopted by a vote of ayes, 38; nays, 15; he
then offered another amendment to the effect
that “every man who had ever held a federal
office, and who bad ever taken ap oath to sup
port the Constitution of the United States, and
who had ever engaged in voluntary rebellion
against the United States, and whose disabilities
had not been removed, shall be deemed guilty
of misdemeanor if he attempts to hold any office
under the United States, in the State of Georgia,
and shall be liable to fine and imprisonment.”
The amount of tlie fine was understood to be
$10,000. Mr. Thurman said this would bar out
ninety-nine in every hundred of the people of
Georgia, and was much more sweeping than
the Fourteenth Amendment. Mr. Morton
finally consented to withdraw his amendment,
but said he did so to incorporate it in a general
bill, applicable to all the States.
There is a small grain of comfort in the fact
that the bill, as passed, mokes a hole in the test
oath. This is found in an amendment, moved
by Mr. Howard, striking ont the words “or in
voluntary,” and substituting, “except such as
were compelled by physical force to engage
therein (the rebellion). The bill was referred
to tho Jndiciary Committee, and will be reported
by them to the Honse as soon as it meets on
Monday morning. Butler says the House will
pas3 the bill fifteen urinates, after it is received
from the Committee.
Georgia knows now what is before her, and
what she baa to expect from a Radical Con
gress. Well may sho say, “blessed are those
who expect little, (mercy) for they shall not be
disappointed.”
How fast we are reaching despotism and cen
tralization, only the close observer of events as
they transpire at Washington can know. That
this whole reconstruction business is manipu
lated in the interest of party supremacy,. is ev
ident to all. The new census bill is an engine
contrived for the same purpose. That it is the
determination of Congress to continue recon
struction so long as the Southern States shall
prove refractory to Radical rule, and shall re
fuse to accede to the illegal and arbitrary re
quirements of the dominant party, has been
plainly shown. Congressman Stokes, of Ten-
nessco, strikes the key-note of the Radical pol
icy when he says, in a letter recently published:
“I have no hesitatation in saying that Congress
possesses full power to re-enter the late rebel States
:o>d reconstruct them again, and as often as tiie
Constitution (?) is trampled under foot and the
fairs of Congress are set at naught. 1 ' But why the
rebel States alone? Will “reconstruction”'stop
then ? Most assuredly not. The Northern
States which dare to “set at naught” the illegal
requirements of a corrupt and fanatical Con
gress, will come in for their share of recon
struction, by and by, if the course of Radicalism
be not stayed. Congress has now hilt two ob
stacles between it and supreme control over the
destinies of this country—the Supreme Court of
the United States, and the Executive. It lias
already initiated legislation for the destruction
of the first; its victory oyer the last is assured.
These are facts which should be generally
known and understood. It is a gloomy out
look into the future, but is there no remedy ?
It ia not to be expected that the Executive will
succumb without a straggle. Indeed, the Presi
dent showed symptoms of rebellion yesterday.
It has leaked out that the exeeutive session of
the Senate, which lasted about twenty minutes,
was held at the request of Mr. Trumbull, Chair
man of .the Judiciary Committee. It appears
that the President had a number of letters of re
commendation upon which he had made the ap
pointments for Cirouit Judges; that the Jndi
ciary Committee had asked for.them, and that
tho president had positively refused to allow
them to be seen, on the ground that it was not
necessary that the Senate should know what
reasons he had for making the nominations, in
timating that it was nobody’s business but his
own. People are asking “which governs the
country now—Grant or the Constitution ?” And,
“will the President be impeached?”
Secretary Fish treated the House with similar
contempt the other day,"in positively refusing
to transmit the correspondence with Sickles in
relation to Cnba, as reqnested by a resolution
introduced by Mr. Wood, of the Committee on
Foreign Affairs. What will the House do about
if? YY’kat will tho Senate do ? We shall see ore
long.
The rejoicings over the.prospective downfall
of ex-Inipeacher Ashley are fervent and general.
The name of his successor as Governor of Mon
tana has been seat to the Senate, and will no
donbt be confirmed.
Mr. Reavis, the capital mover, who has been
distributing his pamphlets so lavishly amobg
members ?f Congress, has himself moved to St.
Lonis, whtre he proposes the Capital shall fol
low him. He left, in 'a' second-hand book, store
on Pennsylvania Avenue, several cart-load3 of
his documents as souvenirs of his visit.
Stanton u^ll be placed on the Supreme Bench
vice Grier, Resigned. So says everybody.
The President is looking for a nobody, it ta
said, to fill Ebar’s place in the Cabinet Brains
are at a discount with him ; bnt presents and
partisanship tre potent
One of Georgia’s delegates from the Louisville
Convention, Mr. Gaskslt, has arrived kerf.
This is the mast disagreeable day of thdseaao
Sam Bard i3»eie. Rama,
less than the amount mentioned was ndfedV
your city circulation by those who attended
splendid exposition. It matters comperath-/.
little what branches of business first reeci *
the'benefit, as it finally permeated all c w
Surely you did not expend anything likehalf
million in preparation. 1
Yon conclude that tho enterprise was “barm,
of glory.” Here, gentlemen, speaks out voir
genuine, native modesty, that will not allows
to “see yourselves as others see yon.” Mscm
did win unfading laurels. What matters it tM
many of the details of tho management
criticized freely, apd, in some instances sW
ly ? Is it possible that anything cf the kind cS
be gotten up and conducted to a termination
without undergoing the samo ordeal? Even
writer, so far as I have observed, while pointicj
ont tho errors that struck hia attention hss
first or last, proclaimed that tho fair was full j
credit and honor to Macon, to Georgia and to
the South. Every reflecting man who attended
it entertains tho same opinion. Visitors from
other sections were lavish in their commends,
tion, while those “lo the manor born,” atlweii
homo with feelings of pride, and of gratitude to
tho people who had shown to tho world whet
Georgia can do. In this lies your reward. At*
although it is hotter that yon should at least to:
lose money by the operation, it is not, toff*
sordid consideration of dollars and cents, but ti
the noble ambition ’of developing, advancin;
and elevating our beloved country, that I con
fidently believe we will, next year, witness ia
Macon a still grander illustration than any vs
have yet seen of the capacities of Southern soil
and Southern people. Potntz.
IVIint it Costs to Board at a Washing,
ton Hotel.
From the Cincinnati Ennuireri]
The Arlington is the name of a new hotel just
opened here, on a scale'of magnificence and ex-
pense never before heard of at tho capital. I
used to think the charges at Willard's wero
pretty high, but they look like positive gratu
ities compared to the demands at the Arling-
ton. It is very well located, in tho most fash
ionable part of the city, and its furniture aid
appointments are much finer than anythieg
outside of New York, and than most inside ol
it. At the suggestion of a friend, and in his
company, I went np there the other day, think
ing we could find two rocftis in which a couple
of bachelors could spend a pleasant winter.
Yes, certainly, the landlord had what would
just 6uit us. 'First, ho showed U9 a parlor and
bedroom on the second floor. Everything was
new and.beautiful.
“How much for these ?"’ said my friend.
“Well,” said tho landlord, after a pause, “wa
ask $700 a week for theso two rooms.”
“Jeewilikens,” said I, “do you think mj
name is Sehenck, or my friend’s Garfield? Or
do you think I’m Ben Butler and he John Lo
gan ?”
The landlord was surprised that we should
think $700 a week a high figure for two rooms,
and assured us that ho was very certain of rent-
ing the apartments for that sum before many
days. Several Congressmen had been looking
at them, and they didn't seem to think the price
extravagant.
Well, wo didn’t look at nny more rooms in
that house. As neither cf us happened to be
long to the whisky ring, or the tariff ring, or the
Pacific Railroad ring, we were very certain wa
couldn’t stand it, even on the fifth floor, if that
was the way tho second floor started ont The
whisky ring is “sour - grapes” with the most of
ns. Upon my word, I tried to get in once, but
they black-balled roe on the gronnd that 1
would tell aU I knew about ns soon as I got ma
terial for a good letter. Sharp fellow3 those
whisky ring men.
T have since learned, however, that §i00a
week is not considered a high fignre for J?®® 3
and accommodations at the Arlington. There
are two families living ‘.here at***'' rate of vA;
000 per annum each. One is tee family uf
General Fremont, and .the other of a pnvate
citizen of Washington, who thinks he f» r ' !
money by the operation.
The Georgia Bill in the Senate.
The World’s Washington correspondent sam-i
ming np his-report of the debate ia the nenatef
last Friday, upon tho bill “to promote tbe in--,
construction of the State of Georgia ’ says: i
On th^< whole, to-day's deb.-to n the
liko yesterday’s, was decidedly damaging to “
Republicans. The difference between tho posi
tions of Messrs. Conkling and Carpenter, ont _
one side, and Morton, on the other, was amp.
whether Georgia should bo coerced directly j
condition precedent or by condition sub*e<l n fi<
in order to made up the number requisite to -•
able Congress to declare tho Fifteenth “ IDv "
ment carried; bnt the debate elicited. 7
damaging confessions, - and, as Mr. mo - ■
rightly argued, it involved an emphatic condem
nation of all the proceedings by which tae
fication of the Fourteenth Amendment wa
leged to be secured, and also vitiated b0 '
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. ^
violent proceedings were now ttGnnttcu
too indefensible to be repeated on Mr- Bo 111 _ ,-
theory, the bill was wrong ; all tho * £«•*”_
cals how agreed in was the one end of
Georgia a Radical Slate an< .
turc so as to secure two additional J
ators. - V -
mZ Georgia. . /r
Special Tc’fjr.11 ■ Corrcepon !■:■ :ce -V !u
Journal.} 1#fi9
Washington, December 18,1 -
The bill to reconstruct Georgia, havir. -TPl 1
fl
alegar
the Senate this morning at half p.-->t l! " ;
,‘fiiocfc
, Ia ** 1 — ‘
after a continuous session of thirteen -.
understood that the programme is to r
tially repeated in the House op Monday, w-
the bill reaches there. The object is to p~*
measure so the President can sign it beto*
holiday recess, and anticipate thereby
tion of the Georgia Legislature, wluoa -
otherwise meet the first week in January. ^
Conservative delegations here say that.
Legislature wero allowed to meet witio • ^
gressional interference, it would ,. s9 .
oolored members in accordance wit fit
lutions passed last session, to this MW-u
That if the 8upretne Conrt of the Stats
that the expulsion was illegal, tWJieg’u*
bers world be restored. Gov. Bidloc*.
the resolution, bnt as the Supremo W'
decided the expulsion illegal, theI'C3 ls j.;,
ready to restore them. The Senate
probably pasrf the Houso, with the exa f'
the Legislature shall ratify theFifteenth-
ment before being entitled to readmit
Coal Mine "Disaster.
Hazelton, December 18.— h terr.b e s ,
accident occurred at 5 o’clock this
Stockton, near this place. A . nor i0*
in, filling the shaft and tunnel with £ dot a
masses of earth, carrying two large hous^ ^
with it, and choking up the
mine. There were ee veral persons ra m* .jfajg.
houses at the time,'who were carne“
. the falling mass and instantly klUC n 'fin** 1 *
.impossible to Nlch the bodies. f e:i
said to be in tlfe mine, and it
instantly killed. Ten peieiIBBNtt" 6 ", - ca ts
tares. Efforts are being made to I
bodies; The houses fell" forty " ec - l
breketi to fn
> PofeTLAND, _
. fynikSlg for the
The Governor
mber jg.-PwpamG 0 ^ j
.bblion of Peabody ■
L oxfer out tho State