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Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, JANUARY 18, 1870.
Rights of Congress.
Matt Carpenter, of Wisconsin, yesterday
asked Senator Sumner in debate upon the Vir-
pniabill, “Has Congress the right to force
Constitution upon Virginia ?' ‘ ‘ Un question
abi.y,” and no doubt Sumner spoke to the ex
tent of his capacity and liberality; for ho is one
of the sort aptly termed “learned fools”—men
whose natural stupidity, as John Randolph said,
has been gTeatly aggravated by study and reflec
tion.
Now it is as logically impossible that a free
government should become the instrument of
tyranny, as that Truth shall vitalize and circu
late Falsehood. Congress can rightfnlly dono
thing at war with tho fundamental principle of
the government itself, which professes to derive
“all its just powers from the consent of tho
governed.”
Congress may provide for punishing infrac
tions of the public peace, but not by forcing -
Constitution upon an unwilling people, or in
any other way inconsistent with the rudimental
notions of civil liberty. Congress may provide
for the punishment of theft, but if it should do
SO, by denying all rights of property, its remedy
would be just as logical and constitutional as
that which proposes to punish rebellion by sap
ping tho foundations of the public liberty.
This Congress has done to punish so-called
rebellion in the South, and in so doing, it has
been forced confessedly to travel outside tho
Constitution, beyond which Congress is legally
as powerless as a village debating society. Con.
gross has not a particle of lawful power beyond
that granted by tho Constitution or arising by
necessary incident from the grant. In order,
therefore, to punish the Southern States in an
unconstitutional manner, Congress was forced
into the most arrant usurpations of power
which, in tnm, bringing it in necessary conflict
with the Executive and Judicial Departments of
the Government, forced Congress to the addi
tional necessity of virtually subjugating those
departments and monopolizing the entire power
of the government. So one wrong leads to an.
other.
And Congress is now in that condition in
which she is compelled to uphold these usurpa
tions, and can never consent to a peaceable res
toration of tho equilibrium of tho government.
She is bound to porsevere in tho assertion of
these lofty and usurped prerogatives, no matter
at what risk or danger; and sho can continuo
this course so long as backed by a popular ma
jority : but just so soon as an Executive shall
arise who can bring the popular sanction to the
maintenance of the constitutional powers of Tils
office, Congress will go to the wall ignominious-
fy_the shadow of a shade of the impudent body
which proclaims with Sumner that it has tho
right to force a constitution upon tho people.
A Letter from Hon. Jolm A. Wimpy.
The Hon. John A- Wimpy, of Dahlonega,
Georgia, member of Congress elect from that
State, sends us the following:
Dahlonega, Ga., January, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger—Deab Sms:
Inasmuch as you published a correspondence
between certain parties in New York and my
self, you will, I hope, do me the justice to insert
tte enclosed extra from the Mountain Signal in
your next issue,
And oblige yours, respectfully,
John A. Wimpy.
Now, it is no extraordinary thing for tho edi.
tors of the Telegraph and Messengeb to be
requested by gentlemen assailed by others to
print rebuttals; but this is the first time we
were ever asked, as an act of justice, to defend
a man against himself. We have no space to
spare for tho two columns from the Mountain
A brief statement of contents will, how-
ever, be quite as nuuucuai h. .u... .— M
republication of the whole document. In the
way of exculpatory evidence, it i3 nothing more
than tho statements of certain persons that
during last Fall they hold conversation with the
Hon. John A. Wimpy, in relation to tho circu
lars of Wogan & Co., and heard him say, or
understood him to say, that he' was laying a
plan to entrap the said Wogan & Co.' The par
ties who give these certificates, are Wm. D.
Bentley, Ordinary of Forsyth county; Alfred
Harris, Notary Public of Lumpkin county; P.
O’Conner, Atlanta; M. H. Van Dyke and T. H.
Kilgo, citizens of Dahlonega. With this plain
and bare statement of the substance of Mr.
Wimpy’s defence against himself, the public can
come to whatever conclusions they may think
proper.
Coox Hollow Debating Society.—The Coon
Hollow Debating Society, having Gen. Terry’s
adjournment of the so-called Georgia Legisla
ture np for discussion, tho Secretary of that
body has addressed Us an inquiry for precedents.
He wants to know if a case of the kind has oc
curred sinco Cromwell adjourned the' Rump
Parliament, sine die, at tho point of the bayonet
Yes: Since that time Buonaparte dispersed the
Council of Five Hundred, and wo think, (but
are not sure,) that Old Peter tho Testy silenced
the High Council of Dutch Burghers with a
squirt gun and the sturdy blasts of the trumpet
of Antony Van Corlaer. We have no time for
historical reference, but will assure the Secre
tary that if such adjournments by military pow
er have been uncommon in the past, they are
not unlikely to be more frequent in the future.
From the way things are going on, we judge it
will not be more than ten years before this
puissant Congress, which can trample on tho
Constitution and pull down and setup States by
yeas and nays, will see itself driven out of
the Capitol by some spurred and epanletted
military chieftain, the representative of a vic
torious military executive. When Congress
has pushed tho Executive to tho wall, it has ne
cessitated a fight for self-preservation.
Reconstruction Doom.
Reconstruction is doomed to destroy Radical
ism or the people. It will not halt in its steady
tramp over the people until its tyrannical forces
are overthrown or they have succeeded in do
stroying the public liberties. The rapidity with
which Congress has mounted to absolute and
illimitable power in the United States, within
the last few years, almost amounts to a coup
d’etat. It has never had a parallel in tho regu
lar operations of any government.
The Long Parliament throw tho British con
stitution overboard, and monopolized all pow
ers in about tho same time, but they did it by
revolution and military force. They broke
down tho Executive by force of arms. Our
Congress, on tho other hand, has prostrated all
the other departments and dethroned the Su
preme Power—the people—withont a pitched
battle, and in the course of a peaceful adminis
tration of the government. The only hand
lifted in opposition, was that of Andy Johnson,
and it was struck down in a guffaw of popular
derision.
No man in the United States now pretends
that tho Constitution is the slightest restraint
upon Congress, or, worse still, that Congress is
any restraint upon itself. It violates its own
legislative committals and enactments, with en
tire indifference. It is freely admitted by
friends and foes of the radical majority that
Reconstruction is now worked solely in tho in
terests of Congressional usurpation.
The States are admitted upon the sole condi
tion that they shall bo active adherents of the
Congressional supremacy party, and assist in
the work of binding and fettering the people of
the so-called loyal States. The people of the
South are disunionizod and disqualified for the
purpose of dragooning these so-called Southern
States into tho business of destroying the liber-
ties of tho Northern peoplo—to stifle and nullify
their suffrages by bogus representatives in both
houses of Congress—by bogus voters—by so-
called Constitutional amendments — the off
spring of undisguised fraud, violence and in
timidation.
Those unhappy peoplo of the North who were
seduced into the prostitution of the Federal
Government to purposes of force and tyranny,
and to substitute the armed will of a conqueror
for the consent of the People, now find them
selves in process of being mastered, bound and
enslaved by the scum and off-scouring of the
people against whom they bore arm3. Such are
tho fearful retributions of history.
Let the peoplo of the North toil and struggle
for their liberties as best they may—let them
debate and argue grave constitutional questions
with all their learning and eloquence—let them
rouse their masses by the most patriotic mo
tives to the assertion of their constitutional
rights and the defence of their liberties, and
they will probably find all their efforts unavail
ing against a Senate and House of Representa
tives packed by the force of disqualification—
carpetbagism and cornfield negroes—against a
judiciary cowed, emasculated and depraved,
and against bogus Constitutional amendments
enforced upon the country by all the arts of
the ballot box staffer or tho packed jury—by
the creatures of Congress flaunting in the trans
parent disguise of State Legislators, and pos
sessing not tho first legal qualification for the
position. 9
The people of the North console themselves
that these tyrannies are practised against the
Southern people “outside tho Union,” and fail
to see that we are used “outside tho Union” as
battering rams to throw down the defenses of
those who are “inside tho Union.” Our hands
are employed against our will in forging the
chains of those who are pluming themselves
upon being our masters and conquerors. One
cornfield negro in Mississippi or South Carolina
who does not know a letter in the alphabet, has
practically tho power of a thousand intelligent
frppmen in the State of New York.
And so we muio vu, „.w. , _
swift and straight career, to that lawless ty
ranny which is no better than mob rule. A
government of five hundred tyrants outside of
fixed law, is exactly five hundred times worse
than the government of one tyrant. There is
no seenrity for anybody except in going with
the crowd. Minority is death.
And the government having thrown aside tho
shield of fixed fundamental law, has itself no
moral defence, but is remitted solely to the
force of numbers. It dominates so long as it
wields that force—and is dashed to ruins when
the force is against it.
And this is, in fact, the future to which Con
gress is remitting itself, nnd remitting ur all
“outside tho Constitution.” The whole coun
try is travelling downwards, almost without
alarm, to an awful perdition. It is impossible
that any moral, social or political force can be
held or controlled so as to bo harmless or ben
eficial, except by fixed laws, founded upon the
principles of rectitude and beneficence. IVhen
is wielded “outside of law,” and in the in
terest of wrong and injustice, it then becomes
terrible monster, as dangerous to its keepers
as to tho public at largo. It cannot bo con
trolled with any certainty, and when it breaks
loose, it scatters terror and destruction far and
Anarchy is only this lawless powor
broken loose; and this reconstruction doom
becomes a question of universal lawlessness
whenever Congress, having usurped universal
power, fails in its ability to retain and control
it, in the interests of tyranny.
A True Idea or the Noetueex Gexehals.
The suspicion is gaining ground that had we
put in.Grant &, Co. at tho time we did McClel
lan they would, in all human probability, come
out as well plucked as ho was. Theso last great
heroes of the war had the good luck to bo in
command when the Confederates had no longer
the fierce armies that sent ours whirling back
into ’Washington. Tho war had ended in the
South, nearly a year before we learned the fact
at the North. Of course this is neither patriotic
nor loyal. One ought to puff, and snort, nnd
bump one’s head before the idol of the day,
whether he has brain or is only stuffed out with
old newspapers.—Don Piatt.
Mu. Peabody’s Real Estate ix Exglaxd.—
The seizure of Mr. Peabody’s , real estate in
England by the Crown, as that of an unnatural-
ed alien, who cannot lawfully hold real estate in
that realm, is the subject of much animadver-
No doubt, however, it - has been been
done in the interest of the heirs. The will can
not be probated, as matters stand; but so soon
as title to the property is vested in the Crown,
it will doubtless be made over to the heirs in
accordance with the terms of the will.
Terry’s Order Setting Aside the Re
construction Bill.
The following is the official text of Terry’s
order for a military commission to try Demo
cratic members of the Legislature for refusing
to be intimidated by Bullock and his myrmi
dons.
Hxadqu’s Mtt.ttat Distbict or Georgia,)
Atlaxta, Ga., January 13. j
General Orders No. 3.
In pursuance of instructions'received from
the Headquarters of the Army, a board is here
by appointed to enquire into the eligibility of W.
T. "Winn, of Cobb county, John J. Collier, of
Dooly county, A. W. Holcomb, of Milton coun
ty, \V. J. Anderson, of Houston county, B. B.
Hinton, of Marion county, and C. J.Welborn,of
Union county, to seats in the Legislature of
Georgia, under the Reconstruction Acts.
The board will meet and organize at oncc,and
will have power to administer oaths and send
for persons and papers. They will permit the
persons whose eligibility is in question to ap
pear before them either in person or by attor
ney, and will also permit the appearance befose
them of persons who deny the eligibility of said
W. T. "Winn, J. J. Collier, A. W. Holcombe,
W. J. Anderson, B. B. Hinton and G. J Wei-
bom.
The board will keep a complete and accurate
record of the proceedings and of all the testimony
which may be given before them, and will
transmit the same to these Headquarters with
its report.
DETAIL FOE THE BOARD.
Brevet Major General T. H. Rnger, U. S.
Army; Brevet Brigadier General T. J. Haines;
U. S. Army; Major Henry Gocdfellow, Judge
Advocate U. S. Army.
By order of Brevet Major General Terry :
J. H. Taylob,
Assitant Ajatont General.
Official:
R. P. Haixes, A. A. A. G.
Another.—And now comes a “painful rumor”
that one Clapp, Government Printer, and “loil”
almost to the point of sanctificatioD, “ has mis
managed and misappropriated the funds of his
Bureau”—in short, as Mr. Micawber would say,
stolen them. Of course Clapp will be white
washed, and probably retire from office with
u_uch sympatLy an I greenbacks end be elected
to Congress next fail.
Husbands and Handcuffs.
Naturally there is no connection between
theso two facts, but, abnormally, there may bo.
If a Benedict-is found wandering about the
streets of New York wearing this sort of jewelry,
tho connection is at onco apparent. Snch was
the case recently with n man named Coates,
who stated that his spouse had thus decorated
him—for pure meanness, of conrse, asseverated
Coates. Mrs. C., however, deposed that C. was
very objectionable ruin-sucker indeed, in as
much as ho was in tho habit of pawning divers
articles of their joint property in order to
get a supply of that innocent beverage. As sho
couldn’t make him listen to reason any other
way, she resorted to tho handenffs and hence
Coates perambulating as aforesaid:
Mrs. C. is justifiable, of course, in essaying
the reformation of her bibulous spouse; but
she ought to show that this hand-cuff business
was the last resort. Did she try cold coffee,
damp sheets, denial of latch-key, sulks, and
mother-in-law, before resorting to this extrem
ity? There are vast public questions involved
in this case. Think of it ye “club” and “lodge”
men! Suppose it is settled that a wife may, in
her own discretion, handcuff her husband when
ever she don’t like his walk and conversation—
where will you be? Dost see your danger?
What a ridiculous spectacle would you present
at least once a month, promenading with brace
lets of this fashion. We snbmit that a petition
to Congress to so amend the Gonstitation of tho
State of Matrimony that the rights of husbands
may .not be thus violated, is imperatively in
Reapfeabaxce of the Rev. Cooke.—The New
York Telegram of the 13th says tho Rev. Eloper
Cooke made a reappearance in the New York
World office on Thursday evening and proceed
ed to assault the editors of that paper for their
publication of his exploits. Ho was committed
to the Toombs and released next morning, no
one appearing against him. The whereabouts
of his victim was not known. The case is in
time fer Sunday exercises to-day by ReT.
Frothincham. .
Tho Happy Family.
Washkgton, January 10, 1870.
The debate in the Senate to-day on Virginia
was interesting and spicy. Mr. Stewart called
np the joint resolution reported by the Judiciary
Committee, before the holidays, for the admis
sion of Virginia. This bronght ont Mr. Snmnc-r,
who appealed for delay. To this Mr. Stewart
would not listen, declaring his intention of forc
ing a test vote. Ho said the fate of the Fifteenth
Amendment, which Sumner had voted against,
was involved in CoDgress keeping faith with
Virginia. Mr. Snmner stated that he had voted
for the Fifteenth Amendment, whereupon Mr.
Stewart produced the journal, and proved that
Mr. [Sumner’s name was not recorded on the
passage of that Amendment Mr. Howard crit
icised severely the opinion of Attorney General
Hoar, that the test-oath should not be required
of tho Virginia Legislature, and Mr. Snmner in
timated that he thought tho opinion of General
Canby of far more weight than the Attorney
General’s Mr. Morton advocated immediate
action on the bill. ;Mr. Drake denounced Vir-
ginia as the most perfidious of all the Rebel
States, but if tho Fifteenth Amendment was se
cured beyond peradventare, he did not care if
shb was not admitted daring the next decade.
Of the Southern Senators, Messrs. Warner
and Sawyer earnestly advocated immediate ad
mission, both declaring that the time for the
administering of test oaths and tho rnlo of the
bayonet had gone by. Mr. Wilson twitted Mr.
Sawyer with not having properly studied tho
meaning of the Reconstruction acts, and ex
pressed his desire to seethe leaders of the South
on this floor, and not petty politicians. Mr.
Fowler pitched in also, not that he was very
anxious for the immediate admission of Vir
ginia, but to repel slanders which ho said had
been uttered upon Tennessee. Ho declared
that Congress, nor bayonets, nor anything else,
could Repnblicanizo Tennessee; that it had
been lost by the dirty ambition of would-be
leaders—those who were at the beginning of
the war the most rampant rebels. The Senate
finally went into Executive session, without
reaching a vote.—Special to the Iribune.
The Income Tax—January Dividends
not Taxable.
The income tax law expires this year unless
renewed by Congress. The Philadelphia Ledger
says that the law as it stands requires a return
of all incomes for the calendar year np to De
cember 31, and provides that in the next suc
ceeding March and April the tax shall be as
sessed and collected. No losses sustained before
or after the calendar year can bo allowed, nor
can any income reserved outside of the calendar
year be made amenable to tho tax. Now, tho
income law is virtually dead as regards taxation
fnvigyQ- «nd will so remain unless Congress
by legislation gives it new.UIe; nnd yet all the
canals and railroad companies paying coupons
and interest due on the first day of January,
1870, are deducting the tax as required when
the income law was in continuance. This is
clearly wrong. Those coupons and this in
terest are not liable to tax nnder any of the
provisions of tho existing income tax, and
by no rule of right or reason can tho five per
cent tax be deducted from the amount due.
Suppose Congress should not re-enact the law,
can there be any question that tho companies
will be liable to bondholders for the amount
withheld? All the companies paying interest
dne after the 31st of December, 18G9, should
act as if there was no income tax, and if they
withhold the tax, should not let it pass from
their control to that of the Government, for
tho almost universal opinion is, they will have
to pay the bondholders tho* fall amount. It is
no answer to say that tho income accrued in
the half year ending with December, and there
fore may be deduted January 1, for all the rul
ings and decisions on that point have been con
strued strictly as to the time of the receipt of
income, as well as to tho time losses were act
ually realized, or repairs actually made and
paid.
Singular and Fatal Accident.
At Monticello, Indiana, on Saturday, a man
named Gerlack was engaged in making some
repairs to a wagon, the axle of which had bro
ken in two. He was trying to take the “thim-
blo" off one end of the axle, and for that pur
pose had placed it in the fire. Ho seems to
have stopped blowing np the flame for a mo
ment to move the axle for some purpose, taking
hold of tho wooden end. Just at this moment,
and while the jagged, splintered end of the half |
axle was pointed directly toward his body, the'
thimble exploded, driving the wood about five
inches into his body, and inflicting such terrible
injuries as to cause his death within five hours
thereafter. The theory on which the accident
is accounted for is, that the broken axle had
been lying ont in the rain for some time and
was pretty thoroughly saturated with water.
There is frequently quite a considerable cavity
between tho thimble and the end of the axle. On
placing tho thimble in the furnace fire, steam,
afterward turning to gas from tho intense heat,
was generated. The water had rusted the bolt-
screw at the head of the thimble so as to render
it perfectly tight, and the swelling of the wood
had produced a similar effect at the other end.
Consequently, when the steam was generated
and turned to gas an explosion necessarily fol
lowed, there being no ontlet. This is n most
remarkable accident, though we are informed
by some of our wagonmakers that they have
heard of similar occurrences before.—Lafayette
Journal.
A Philanthropic Dnkc.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger ; Some
time last year the Duke de Polignac invited
communications to be-sent to him at Paris,
France, on the subject of injuries sustained by
the cotton plant from insect or other enemy.
In reply to a communication so made, the
Duke, in a letter dated Paris, 3 Rue de Berry,
December 15th, 1869, remarks that so far as a
rapid perusal of tho “Cotton Planters’ Man
ual,” enables him to judge, cotton worm, fly,
and caterpillar are all the same insect
various stages of transformation, and concurs,
with his correspondent, that if tho question is
susceptible of being elucidated, it is only
through microscopic observations, and, for this
purpose, is desirons to refer the subject to the
scientifio men in Paris and reckons upon the as
sistance of M. Pasteur, who hasbeen very success
ful in his investigation of the silk-worm disease,
which in the latter years had proved very injuri
ous to that branch of French national industry,
and threatened it with complete destruction,
when M. Pasteur, through well directed re
searches, found the cause of the disease and in
dicated the remedy, and who owes his most im
portant discovery to microscopie investigation.
The Duke adds that in order that experments
might be made, it would be necessary to procure
specimens not only of the insect in its various
stages, for those might be replaced by accurate
engravings, but also of seed and leaves, both of
damaged and undamaged crops, and that the
necessary materials for scientific researches may
be directed to him, through M. Newton, at the
above address; and the Duke will take the
greatest pleasure in mailing himself the medium
of any steps that may be taken towards the so
lution of a problem which is of snch moment to
humanity, and especially to the country and the
peoplo with whom it is the Duke’s greatest de
sire always to remain identified.
The season of the year is unfavorable for ob
taining all the specimens mentioned in tho
Duke’s letter—but, believing it to be of great
interest to all engaged in cotton culture, direct
ly or indirectly, the foregoing synopsis of the
correspondence is sent for publication, in the
hope that it may circulate and fall nnder tho
observation of those who are most competent
to judge of its importance, and to avail them
selves of tho kind agency of this most friendly
Duke, at the proper season.
It will bo interesting to ascertain if tho in
sects which damage the cotton plant are ovipa
rous, and, if so, where they deposit their ova.
Knowledge is power, and the ascertaining theso
points may, possibly, be the means of prevent
ing tho propagation of these destructive insects
or of destroying their ova, and thus saving the
cotton plant or preventing tho blight of the pod.
When we call to mind the amount of misery
caused by tho potato blight; the grape blight,
and the silk worm disease in Europe, no efforts
should be spared to guard against a similar in
fliction on the cotton planters of America, and
the philanthropic exertions of the Duke de Po
lignac, toward the investigation of the subject,
will, doubtless, bo highly appreciated and meet
with a grateful response from various quarters.
A.
The New York Cotton Market.
Willoughby writes from New York as follows
to the Constitutionalist of the 18th:
Within a few days the cotton market has
seemed to bo in a critical condition. Tho Boll
party appears to have lost confidence, and the
demand for fntnre delivery has becomo almost
still, at a decline of while cotton on the
spot has declined but £c. in the past week. This
cannot be ascribed to the course of gold, for al
most all agree that gold is likely to react to 130
daring the spring months; bnt there are some
inings in the prospects at Liverpool and at tho
South that cause buyers to pause. It is now said
that the East India cotton will reach Liverpool
mnch earlier than usual, through the Suez Ca
nal, and that consequently there may be a glut
of cotton in that market in April and May,
while as respects receipts at the ports, statistics
have been published which show that since the
war the receipts to January 1, have averaged only
about 38 per cent, of the crop, and cannot bo
estimated over 47 per cent for the current
crop. This will give a total crop for 1869-70 of
2,850,000 bales, and is more likely to exceed
than fall below this figure. I touch upon theso
matters, because I feel it my duty to keep your
readers advised of all matters bearing so close
a relation to their interests. I have been quite
disposed to tho opinion that middling npland
could not be reduced belovT25 cents in this mar
ket, bnt I most confess that my faith is a good
deal shaken.
Tliat Meeting, Thursday.
From the Constitution, of yesterday morning,
we copy the following account of what was
dono at the meetingcalled by Bryonc tnatmorn
ing, and mention of which was made in our tel
egraphic column yesterday:
People’s Meeting Yestebday Evening.—
At half-past three o’clock yesterday afternoon,
the people, irrespective of party affiliations, as
sembled at the City Hall in large numbers. On
motion of Hon. Dunlap Scott, of Floyd, Hon.
J. E. Bryant, of Richmond, was called to the
Chair, and Major John T. Borns, of Chattoog3,
requested to act as Secretary. On taking tho
Chair, Hon. J. E. Bryant explained the object
of the meeting in a torse ^md pointed manner.
As a Republican and Union soldier, ho pro-
nounced.the proceedings of the BIodgett-Bul-
lock faction an outrage on tho people. He
knjw Gen. Terry to be a high-toned and hon
orable gentleman. The present was a meeting
not of partisans, bnt of the people against the
Jllodgett-Bullock ring. The bold and unwar
rantable proceedings of that faction was, in his
opinion, to cover np their financial operations.
He- counseled wisdom, coolness and courage,
and advised the people not to listen to tho ad
vice of Democratic editors employed by that
faction to counsel them to do just what Blodg
ett would have them to do. It is not our pur
pose to follow him through his strong and for
cible speech. He urged the appointment of a
committee of both parties to suggest a course
of action.
On motion of J. H. Caldwell, a committee of
nine were appointed.
The Chair appointed J. H. Caldwell, IV. F.
Holden, C. K. Osgood, Dunlap Scott, I. E. Shu
mate, F. M. Harper, Milton A. Candler, IV. C.
Smith and C. B. Wooten.
On motion the meeting adjourned to meet at
the City Hall, at 10 o’clock a. si. to-day.
Supremo Court of the State of Geor
gia—December Term, 1S69.
DAILY FBOCEEDKGS.
Thubsday January 13, 1870.
The Court met pursuant to adjournment.
S. Percy Green, Esq., of Dalton, Ga., was
admitted to the Bar.
Argument in the case of the Howard Manu
facturing Company vs. the Water Lot Company,
was resumed and concluded. Messrs. R. J.
Moses, Jr., and Wm. Donghorty for plaintiff in
error, and Gen. Henry L. Benning for defend
ant in error.
Cases No. 13 and 14, from the Chattahoochee
Circuit, having been continued, were passed.
No. 15, Chattahoochee Circuit—Elam vs.
Hamilton—Injunction, from Marion—was dis
missed for want of prosecution.
Pending argument in No. 1C, the Court ad
journed till 10, a. m. to-morrow.—Era, 14ffc
The nitre depository at Malden- Mass., now
contains nearly four thousand tors of nitre,
which is ns much as can be safely stored at ono
place, and it is proposed to erect another deposi
tory, which will render the government inde
pendent of private speculators in-the event of a
war. A site in the middle States i3 recom
mended.
A letteb from Richmond, Virginia, says:
“The agent here of the Virginia and Tennessee
Railroad says that this line is daily crowded to
the extent of its capacity with negro laborers
going South and Southwest. Whatever may be
the more remote effect of this remarkable
exodus, it is certain that it saves the negroes
anebthe State from the quasi famine threatened
by the failure of the crops last summer.
More About Cook.
The Conrior-Joumal’s New York special of
the 11th, furnishes some additional episodes in
the career of this festive Methodist parson,
whose elopement with ono of his flock we
chronicled a day or two since. It says:
The Rev. Horace Cook, who ran away with
Mattie Johnson, a young school girl and mem
ber of his congregation, formerly occupied a
pulpit in Flashing, L. L While stationed at
that place he was discovered to be paying much
attention to a beautiful married woman, whose
husband was abroad. This circumstance gave
rise to gossip in tho village, and Cook soon after
resigned his charge.
He next turned up as the pastor of the
Methodist Church at Mamnroneck, N. Y. While
at this pl&co his tender regard for some of the
lady members of his f^pek became a matter of
public scandal. His conduct in ono instance
resulted in separating a husband and wife, ow
ing to Cook’s attention to tho latter.
Another lady, at this place, it is said, became
very warmly attached to Cook, and Mrs. Cook,
not liking the attentions that her hnsband be
stowed on this woman, resolved on giving her
a public chastisement, which she did one day at
the Mamaroneck railway station. Tho woman
came to this city in the morning with Cook,
and, on her return to Mamaroneck, was con
fronted by Mrs. Cook, who upbraided her'in
the presence of a crowd of attentive listeners.
When Cook returned, he also was met at the
depot by his wife, and reprimanded iu a short,
sharp, and decisive manner. Cook, ht the time
of this conversation, in 1858, was a clerk in tho
carpet store of Hiram Anderson, in this city. It
was, prior to this conversation, his intention to
enter the dramatic profession, and it is said
that for a time he followed the vocation of an
actor.
THE ATLANTA CONGRESSIONAL
AGENCY.
Tile Georgia Bill Violated— 1 The House Ad
journed by Bnlloclc to Hinder Sworn
Members from Taking tbeir Seats.
Atlanta, January 13, 1870,
Senate.—Senate called to order by President
Conley.
Prayer by Wesley Prettyman.
Journal of yesterday read.
T. G. Campbell moved that the Senate ad
journ until to-morrow, 10 o’clock a. m.
A vote was taken, and the President an
nounced that the Senate was adjourned.
Several colored members of the House occu
pied seats on the floor of the Senate for a short
time, but left in response to a communication
from the Governor.
Thubsday, January 13,1870.
House of Repbesentatiyes.—The House met
at 12 si. , to-day, and was called to order by A.
L. Harris, Speaker and Clerk pro tem.
Prayer by Rev.
Calling of the rqll continued at the county of
Twiggs.
Members appeared and were qualified as fol
lows :
Twiggs ; Towns—Geo. W. Johnson;
Union— : • Upson ; Walker—W. B,
Gray.
Here the Hon. Dunlap Seott asked the Chair
•if members who were not here when their
names were called, and who had since arrived,
wonld be allowed to appear and qualify. Harris
said he wonld not determine this question at
this time, nor until after the roll was called
through. This means?
Walton—J. B. Sorrels; Warren—John Neal,
S. Garder, (o.)
[While Gardener was being qualified, Foster
Blodgett, Jr., appeared upon the scene, and
whispered words of instruction, perhaps from
Autocratio Headquarters, into the ear of Harris,
the Satrap. Tweedy and McWhorter ealled
into the Council.]
Ware, Joseph D. Smith; Washington, W. G.
Brown; Wayne, G. W. Rumph.
Harris announced that the Clerk wonld read
an order from the Provisional Governor and the
endorsement of the Genera! Commanding.
[copy.]
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. IS, 1870.
That an investigation may be made into the
right of certain persons to hold seats in the
House of Representatives under the Reconstruc
tion Act: It is ordered, That the Clerk pro tem.,
as soon as the calling of the roll shall have been
completed, will declare a recess until Monday
next, at 12 o’clock, an
Rufus B. Bullock,
Provisional Governor.
Headquarters, Military Distbict, Ga.,)
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 13, 1870. j
In order that time may bo given in inquiring
into the qualifications of certain persons who
are alleged to be ineligible to seats in the House
nnder the Reconstruction acts, I approve of the
foregoing order. Alfbed H. Teeby.
Brevet Maj. Gen. Commanding.
Webster—G. S. Eosser; White—C. H. Kytie;
Whitfield—J. E. Shumate; Wilcox ; Wilkes
Richard Bradford end E. Belcher, (colored.)
Worth-
Hon. D, Scott here announced that Hall, of
Glynn, and others, were here, ready to take the
oath, having been delayed by Providential caus
es, from sooner appearing. Harris refused to
allow them to be sworn. Scott asked him if he
had not allowed others to be sworn in after their
counties were passed? Harris said, “No.”
[How about John A. Madden, of Barke?]
[In accordance with military order, Harris the
satrap, announced a recess till 12 sl, Monday
next. ]— Constitution.
Explosive Kerosene.
Wo have received from the Metropolitan
Board of Health a oopy of its report for the
year ending November 1,1869. We give the
principal points:
EXPLOSIVE BUBNKO FLUIDS.
In consequence of the nnmerons and serious
accidents resulting from the explosion of bnrn-
ing fluids, the chemist was, on the 10th day of
November, directed to investigate the quality
and kinds of burning fluid in common use.—
Seventy-nine specimens of kerosene were pur
chased from as many different retail dealers in
various parts of the town, and submitted to the
proper analysis and tests. Of this nnmher
seventy-eight samples were found unsafe. The
dangerous ingredients were found to be ben
zine, gasoline and naphtha, cheap oils which
are employed by retail dealers to adulterate
kerosene. The proportion of these oils to the
kerosene in the samples examined varied from
ten to ninety-eight per cent. The test used was
fire, by which it can be determined at what tem
perature the oil evolves an inflammable vapor-
the
Death of Mbs. Yason.—The Albany News,
of yesterday, says:
The nnmerons friends of the Hon. D. A. Vn-
son, of oar city, will be grieved to hear of his
sad bereavement in tho death of his wife.
Mrs. Yason died yesterday, A. M., after a
protractedillness. She leaves several small chil
dren, to feel with their father, this greatest loss.
Lauob.—Many planters in this county are
still on the hunt for labor to till their ground.
We learn from a gentleman recently from Biker
county, that the difficulty of procuring hands is
much greater there than iu this county. Many
negroes in that county thus far decline making
contracts.
The oolored people of Washington are to
have an organ. Stella Martin is to be the edi
tor, and Fred. Douglas corresponding editor.
which oil itself may be kindled with a burning
match—tho “burning point.” The vaporizing
mint of good kerosene should not be mnch be-
ow ono hundred degrees Fahrenheit, nor its
burning point below one hundred and ten de
grees Fahrenheit. The tests of the samples
purchased showed the vaporizing and burning
points as low as eighteen degrees Fahrenheit.
The chemist also examined the various kinds
of cheap lamps in use, and found that, in the
brass lamps, at the end of seven hours burning,
the fluid had reached a temperature varying
from seventy-six degrees to one hundred d
grees Fahrenheit, and in the glass lamps seven
ty-six degrees Fahrenheit. A recent law of
Congress fixed one hundred and ten degrees
Fahrenheit for the burning test, bnt that law
had been repealed. The fire laws of New York
fix the burning point at ono hundred degrees
Fahrenheit, bnt that has proved too low, as is
shown by the great increase in the number of
burning casualties. To meet this defect in
tho law, the Board, on the 25th of January,
adopted tho following ordinance:
No petroleum oil, kerosene oil, or other liquid
having like composition or qualities as a burn
ing fluid as said oil, shall be kept or offered as
a burning fluid, for lamps or any like receptible,
for the purpose of illumination, nor shall such
oil or fluid be purchased for use, or be used as
a burning fluid for any snch lamp or receptable,
or be kept for snch use, unless all such oil or
fluid shall be of’such quality and ingredients
that it shall stand and be equal to both the fol
lowing tests and conditions, io-wit: 1. That it.
shall not take fire or bum at a temperature be
low one hundred and ten degrees Fahrenheit.
2. That it shall not evolve an explosive vapor
below one hundred degrees Fahrenheit.
Under this ordinance upward of four hundred
retail dealers of adulterated kerosene have been
bronght into tho courts of New York and Brook
lyn.
Hailed Cotton Seed.
We saw, yesterday, some of the cotton seed
that had been through Shaw’s Holier. The
kernel was thoroughly separated from the hull,
and made a very olean and inviting appearance.
About two-thirds of the kernels were whole, the
other third broken, and the two descriptions
well separated. Both being entirely clear of
hull, the only difference in value is in the ap
pearance of the whole kernels. The hull of
chaff is delivered by itself, and'is said to be
very valuable as a fertilizer. The Huller will,
it is said, hull in this manner one hundred bush
els per day. Messrs. Hall, Moses & Co. are the
agents in this city. ,
It is perhaps useless, after stating the above
facts, for ns to say a word to planters concern
ing the economy and value of this machine. It
seems to ns that by greatly enhancing the value
and adding to the uses of the refuse of the cot
ton crop, it will prove of immense benefit to
planters. Instead of being a dangerous food
’for stock, the cotton seed thns prepared may go
very far towards fattening all tho pork needed
for the plantation and feeding the milch oows
through the winter. Or, if [ referred, the hull
ed seed conld be shipped to the oil manufactur
ers at a small cost for freight,- and thns turned
into ready money. But wo believe that it will
be found the better econemy on most planta
tions to feed the hulled seed to stock, especially
as the manure obtained from snch feed is said
said to be so far superior to. that produced by
any kind of grain now used. We have already
published comparisons based upon experiment.
[Columbus Enquirer 13fA
The Foub Peb Cent. Loan to be Taken by
Foreign Bankers.—Two representatives of for
eign banking houses (one from London and one
from Frankfort) have arrived in this country
for the purpose of making propositions to the
Government to negotiate abroad a four and a
half per cent, loan, should Congress authorize it,
on the plan submitted by Secretary Bontwell in
his annual report, and which will be considered
at an early day by the Senate Finanoe Commit
tee. They state that if the interest is made
payable semi-annally in London, Paris, and
Frankfort, they will be able to effect the sale of
at least $200,000,000'of such a loan. Pending
the action of Congress on this question, the
terms on wbioh the foreign houses will under
take the proposed loan will be submitted to the
Secretary of the Treasury. These are of course
based on a ooiLmision, which, it is said, will be
mnch less than v,paid for selling the five-
twenties.— Wash. Br't. Sun. .
Climate and Immigration. m
Tho South has an advantage over other sec
tions of the Union which no misgovernmentean
neutralize—a benignant climate. Elsewhere
winter arrests the operations of the working
man. The meohanio is housed or suffers terri
bly. The mill-wheel is frozen by the stream
upon which its revolutions depend. The fields
are locked up by frost or imbedded in a thick
pall of snow. “The ruler of the inverted year”
paralyzes industry by the touch of ~ his ioy
sceptre.
Bnt all the while with ns, the mellow earth,
the kindly heavens, the unchained exulting
streams, minister to the wants of men. A few
brisk winds, a few frosty mornings, a few sharp
bracing days, are all the rigors of winte?that we
know—if rigors be indeed tho name for that
salatary discipline which girds the loins and
tightens the sinews for the labors of the ad
vancing year. The contrast only serves to lend
a charm to the gracious season, which, like the
Scandinavian mother, tosses her nursling into
the snow-wreath only that she may take him
back, thrilling and all aglow, to the warmth and
refreshment of her bounteous breast Thank
God! we have something that Congress cannot
reconstruct, that a motley Legislature with its
musky exhalations cannot becloud or befonl,
that Scott, Eimpton & Co. cannot “bull” np or
“bear” down—something inalienably onr own—
“These days so sweet, so calm, so bright—
The bridal of the earth and sky 1”
This advantage which we have enjoyed with
out realizing how great it is, is beginning to ex
ercise its jast influence, and will contribute
more and more, in the years to come, toward
onr prosperity. Eirst the spoils of war invited ad
venturers, who flocked southward, like buzzards,
to feed upon the dead carcass of slavery. Of
these obscene birds we have had more than our
share. Then came invalids, like Mr. Derby and
Mr. Weed in quest of health. Then came self-
indulgent reformers, like Mrs. Stowe, athirst
for oranges. Then came capitalist, covetous of
cotton. Soon we shall have an important and
nnmerons addition to onr population in the im
migration of laboring men from Europe. Al
ready many of the English artizans are peri
tioning the government for the nse of the na
tional vessels to transport them to the tropical
colonies of the empire. Bnt these islands can
not compete with a continent. When once the
ride has fairly set in, it will seek America. And
in all America there are no fields so inviting as
those whose white fleece have clothed the na-
nakedness of the world—no clime so propitious
as that which “ warms in the sun and refreshes
in the breeze” above ns and around ns, and
makes the dreariest season of onr year the bland
harbinger of spring.
' Mr. Cornell, of Ithaca, Now York, has re
cently imported some English builders into that
city. Of these, one of the most intelligent has
written several letters to the London Spectator,
giving his impressions in regard to this country.
He finds the wages of labor higher here than in
England, even relatively, although the expense
of living is also higher. Food is more abundant,
bnt with less variety from meal to meal and
from day to day. Clothing is coarser. The ale
is scant and poor, and the whisky deadly. Bnt
the great trouble is the climate. His fellow
workmen are obliged to betake themselves to
some other employment than their proper busi
ness during the severe months of winter. They
become glass-blowers, wheelwrights, hunters,
teamsters and the like. And the result is that
the quantity and quality of the work done is
sensibly affected, according to the old saw, “a
jack of all trades is good at none.”
The letters are very suggestive, and to us
very encouraging. For we have more than
the physical advantages of the North, and in
addition, enjoy the generons climate for which
the frost-bitten artisan is yearning. The sys
tem of slavery, which he was taught to re
gard as a degradation of labor, has perished.
The arts of unprincipled men who have sub
sisted npon social disorder are losing their
power. Tims the main obstacles to immigration
have disappeared or are disappearing. We shall
soon have a fair field for industrial competition
with the Northern States. No fear for the re
sult ! We can offer to the capitalist and laborer
work for every month in the year, from Janu
ary to December—gliding water wheels, when
the wheels of the North are blocked with ice;
free rivers, when the rivers of tho North u~o
frozen; open roads and clear fields, when at
the North the whole country is one unbroken
drift of snow; a winter balmier than a Northern
spring. The Northern _game of abolition is
played ont; that sentiment which was capital
has dissipated its resources ; that policy which
made Mason’s and Dixon’s Line a Chinese wall
to the foreign immigrants has overreached it
self. And now the way Southward is open, and
the people and the land invite!
We shall have laborers from Enrope beyond
all question. And we shall, as certainly, draw
V-.—h "nd tbe. NorthwAfrit.
[Ctumeston Arei
A MIGHTY WORK.
Hie Process of Bridstnir the I
«• thePter* areBuiiSiWttl
nmph of Science. r^,|
A reporter of the St Louis Democrat oi i
the following graphio description of hewn?!
Eads is sinking the great iron caissons f 0 5|
piers to the bridge across the Mississippi
Two immense piers are to be constructs J
the nver of solid stone Masonry . These ni I
to be substantial, must rest on tho solid r^1
that lies fifty, sixty or a hundred feet under i? I
sand, nnder the water of the rnshirm rxTI
The question was how to get down aU thff’l
feet through water and sand, and lay the ni^I
in the empty space. Bnt this was lmniaeH?]
ble, if not impossible, and Mr. Eads’ sci^i
and wisdom selected another plan, toS?!
though not original with him, has been ere.? !
improved on by^him, and applied morosensS
and effectively than it was ever done befell
This plan was to build within a caisson tillTI
rock was reached and the pier completed
to make this comprehensive to every chili?\
shall be illustrated very simply. 7 Mdl1 "
ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE SKKKQ CAISSON
Did yon ever hold a goblet bottom side ,
and press it down into a vessel of water’ ril
yon have yon know the water does not erf.,
into the empty tumbler, bnt the air in it
the water out, and as yon sink it and press?
down it drives tho water np the sidesoftb
vessel. Now suppose instead of the goblet r™
hold an inverted metallic vessel in the sin 1
way, the same facts would be tree as lom?
the air was inside of it If the bottom oftb; I
inverted vessel were flat, yon conld pet a
on it, and another, and another, until y ou >U CS
weighted enough to sink it to the bottom ofto
water, when yon have a pier of bricks \-
this is exactly what Colonel "Eads has ( io 5 « •
building the eastern pier of the bridge n?
his inverted “pan” is of the size he Wsbeg t’
bottom of the pier to be, and is 40, so or eo
feet across, as the case may be. Of course tU
immense “iron dish,” bottom side np, washed
in position on the water by machinery, m
then laid solid courses of stone masonry on the
“dish” or “caisson.” and as ho built the vreieht 1
pressed it down into the river, and now it ha. “
reached the bottom of the river, nnd even six
feet into the sand, and the pier is forty or fiftr
feet high. But it has_ yet to sink fifty or sixty
Contents of the State Road Treasury.
In explanation of the statements made in the
editorial colnmns of the Constitution of Wednes-
das evening, relative to the assets turned over
by Mr. Blodgett to his successor, Mr. Harris,
the Superintendent, has sent ns the following
facts:
The dne bills mentioned as among the assets,
were given by employees on the road for money-
advanced npon their wages. When the regular
pay day comes round these dne bills are taken
up, and hence are in reality the same as cash
when held against the creditors of the road.
Such has been the custom, more or less, with
all railroad corporations, and of tho ’Western &
Atlantic nnder former administrations.
The warrant No. 312, and notes and other pa
pers, were turned over to Mr. Blodgett by his
predecessor, Mr. Clayton, and receipted for as
cash. They were in the Treasurer’s hands, with
the approval of the former Superintendent, at
the time Mr. Clayton was superceded by Mr.
Blodget; and Mr. Blodgett simply turned them
over to his successor as they had been turned
over to him.
! The sundry notes from Jared I Whitaker to
be paid in printing,” etc., and which the Consti
tution represented to amount to “$7800,”
amount only to about Si800; and these were
approved and ordered by the former Superin
tendent, Mr. Halbert, as appears from the fol
lowing card of Mr. Isaac P. Harris, the present
Treasurer:
■ Western and Atlantic Railroad,)
Treasurer’s Office,
Atlanta, Ga., January 12, 1870. )
Col. F. Blodgett, Superintendent;
Dear Sns: I have no papers on J. I. Whita
ker, except some $1,800, approved and ordered
by the former Superintendent.
Yours respectfully,
, Isaac F. Harris.
This money was advanced to Mr. Whitaker
on account of printing done, and not merely in
anticipation that work wonld be given him. The
same thing was done by order of Campbell
Wallace, in 1868, in favor of all three of- the
daily newspapers then published in Atlanta.
When final settlement was had, those due bills
for money advanced on account of printing
done, were taken up, as these will be, npon
final settlement. And after a final settlement is
had with Mr. Whitaker, there willl still be ft
small balance in hi3 favor.
The advances are claimed to be legitimate
and proper, under that section of the Code
quoted by the Constitution, and which authori
zes the Treasurer to “retain such amounts,” in
making his monthly payments to the State
Treasurer, “as the Superintendent may direct.”
The amounts abve noted were retained by order
and direction of Superintendent Halbert, &nd
that officer had the precedent of Campbell Wal-
laoe and other former Superintendents, n« less
than tho nsn&l custom of alL similar corpora
tions, os well as the law of the State to sustain
his action. In accepting the trust of State
Road Treasurer, Mr. Blodgett receipted for
such assets or “chips and whetstones” only as
were ordered and offered by the Superintend
ent ; and, in turning over the funds to Mr.
Harris, he offered the same kind of assets (and
none other) that he had accepted from Mr.
Clayton, and received a dear receipt therefor.
The above statements are furnished ns as the
facts in this matter. Of course our purpose is
to do simple justice to all men—both friend and
foe—and we, therefore, give these faots to onr
readers.—Constitution \Zth.
A Strangs Thing.—Yesterday and the day
before, the itedioal manipulators of the organi
zation of the Legislature have worked with
closed doors. Nobody has been admitted to
the galleries and lobbies except parties with
printed tickets; and the tiokets have been spar
ingly given out, except to Bullock’s favorites.
What does it mean ?
The Georgia Bill didn't provide for a secret
Star Chamber session. What dark purpose has
animated the conspirators, that the light of day
and the sorotiny of the people has been so sed
ulously avoided ? This is another of the re
markable features of this legislative farce.
Congress didn’t exactly fix up matters to suit
this juggling band. Their fantastic capers are
refreshing. They still run their schedule of
rollicking comedy and grave tragedy.
[Atlanta Constitution, 13tk.
feet further to meet solid rock, and the saad
cannot bo displaced a3 the water was, but oust
be removed by artificial means, and this iavrhat
is being successfully done now. Of course ss
the sand is dug away from under the sides’ of
the caisson it will sink just as fast To ffin t]^
away men must get into the “up-turned dish - ’
or “caisson,” or “air-chamber” nnder the pier
and work there. We will explain how this is
done.
ENTERING THE ATR CHAMBER.
Every one will understand that tho air in the
chamber most be very much condensed, and
that most essential requisite is that it must be
kept so, and not allowed to escape. If a direct
opening were made to it anywhere, the escape
of air wonld cause the water and sand to wash
in from underneath, the vacate would be in.
Btantly filled, and there wonld be the end of
sinking the caisson and the pier. Colonel Esdj
has arranged a very simple and perfect way of
entering this chamber, which is now six or eight
feet lower than the bottom of the river, and
yesterday we went down into it and saw the men
at work. In the centre of the pier he left a dr.
oular well, nicely finished with brick sides, and
six or eight feet across. This well reached to
the very bottom, is now fifty feet deep, and his
a flight of steps built circling, next to the wall,
from top to bottom. Down these steps we went
together to the bottom of tho well. There ve
fonnd a door of an oval shape, and abont bra
feet in diameter. Looking in we saw a room
abont six feet high, deep and wide—a sort of
cold and damp “oven.” “Crawl in and I’ll fob
low,” said Col. Eads. In we went through the
oval hole,knocking off a hat, and slightly bump
ing a head. CoL Eads came also, with a pine
stick and a lighted candle stack on it, or ire
should have been in Egyptian darkness. The
Colonel closed the little iron door by which we
had entered, and it shut us in “air tight.” He
"then pointed to another similar door right op.
posite, and said: “That opens directly into the
air-chamber nnder the whole pier. I will let the
compressed air in here gradually, and when the
equilibrium is established, that door will opes
of itself, and we will go in through it.” So say
ing, he turned the faucet of a brass stop-cock,
the air from the air-ohamber came singing
through it like steam from a boiler valve. The
strange sensation crept over ns: What if some
thing should burst down here ? What power
could open the door behind ns, now being held
by the giant pressure of the compressed-air?—
Suppose fainting, came over one, and this roar
ing, ringing, thundering in the ears should last
for life! But in just one minnte and a half the
—--i* - f »nnro<i.^aa_floor opened, the ears
were all right, and with no unpleasant sensation
we were in the condensed atmosphere, and
crawling through the door stepped npon the
sand into the air-chamber. Ten or a dozen men
were hard at work, each with a candle, the huge
caisson was all around ns, glistening with wa
ter-drops and from rust in solution, and the flat
iron roof was overhead, with all its ton3 of
stone and pier abovo us. The sand was damp,
bnt not wet, as the compressed atmosphere
drove all the water out through tho sand and
np through the water, which we had observed
before we came down, to be bubbling all around
the pier, like champagne in a glass.
WHAT WE FOUND UNDER THE PIER.
We walked all abont the air chamber from
end to end, and side to side, and saw how the
sand is removed, and how the air is supplied
for the inmates to livo on. Powerful air
pumps, worked by steam on boats npon the
surface of the river, force water down tubes
that are run through the stone work of the pier,
and they keep the atmosphere pure. No less
than seven powerful sand pumps are also seen
with their feet projecting down to the bottom
and lifting it np through the pipes, and throw-,
ing it ont above the river. Three of these
pumps will take this sand away as fast as work
men can lay the stone work on the pier, and in
four hours the pump we saw at work took ont
54 cubic feet in eleven minntes, or one hundred
cart-loads in about four hours. But how can a
pump throw out sand ? some one asks. Just as
silly as we were before we saw it! A tempo
rary well, or box, is put nnder the foot of a
pump, and a large hose brings down water from
a force pump above. The hose opens in the
box, tho water is sucked up the sand pump, and
two or three men shovel sand into the boi to
mingle with the water and be thrown out with
it—and that is how the sand pnmps work
their success has been fully tested—the work is
going on satisfactorily—and if good luck hap
pens, Ool. Eads will find his first great pier
resting on the solid rock within thirty days
from now.
(
A Mali Applies for a Lire Insurance
Policy and then Suicides.
Ope of our insnrance agents yesterday related
to ns a case showing that men will sometimes ■
even end their days by self-destruction for the
mere sake of filthy lucre. On the first of Jan
aary a man residing at Junotion City, Kansas,
made application to the agent at tiiat place, of
a life insurance company, for a polioy of $l,00o
on his life. The application was forwarded to
the district agent of the company, in this oity,
reaching here on the 21st iust., and was the
same day forwarded to the office of the compa
ny in St Louis. On the 3d instant the man
committed suicide at Junction City. The coro
ner at that place happened to be the examining j
physician of the company, and at onee notified
the agent here of the fact. The latter at once
telegraphed to the offloe in St Louis, the dis
patch reaching there in advance of the applica
tion. The policy, of course, was not issued.
The man is represented to have been a very
ignorant laborer. He undoubtedly supposed
that the risk on his life commenced from the J
moment he made the application. In this he I
committed a fearful mistake, and instead of de- J
frauding the company, only defrauded himself j
out of existence.
General Tkrbt.—Since the appearance of bis j
recent report on Georgia affairs, General Terry, I
in command of that department, has been the j
subject of most scurrilous abuse from “unre-1
pentant” journals all over the Southern States, j
There has been nothing too harsh or abusive for I
the Georgia prow to say concerning him. The 8a-1
vannah Republican, however, has the manliness I
to stem this tide of vituperation. It pronounces j
General Terry “a high-toned officer, a man of j
liberal and conservative views and sentiments, I
and kindly disposed to the South.” The RepoH
lican speaks justly. A more thoroughly upright I
man never wore the Federal uniform than the I
hero of Fort Fiaher. He i* as unassuming ash*I
is braye, and both in public and private msm-|
feats a determination and purpose to do as nest i
right as possible. Georgia is fortunate in b*T-|
ing such a man in command of the department, f
Ji. T. Commercial Advertiser. '
Fortunate indeed!
Hon. John Huylcr, extCongreasman
New Jersey, died Monday from injuries inflict*
cd by a drunken man, some weeks ago.
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