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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