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mm Th.e Greox'a'ia "Weeklv Telearaoti and ©C- A I. e saoixaei?- Telegraph and Messenger. MAOON, JANUARY 25, 1870. State Agricultural Society. The President of this body pnblishes in an Atlanta paper, of yesterday, a call for a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Society, in Atlanta, on the 10th of February. A full at- tendance is urged. Through Tickets Abound the Would.—The Chicago Tribune is informed that a leading Postern railway has an arrangement nearly completed to issue through tickets by rail and steamer around the world. It is believed the whole thing can be completed by the first of February. The tickets are to be good until nsed, giving travellers an opportunity to make excursions in Japan, China and the Holy Land, or wherever tourists may be disposed to leave the main line of travel. The arrangements are now complete, and prices fixed from New York as far east as Alexandria, in Egypt, and west to Yokohama and Shanghai. An agent is now on his way to arrange with the English steamship lines between China and the head of the Red Ses, and the railway to Alexandria. As soon as this is done it will be announced in New York by Telegraph, and the tickets will be ready for delivery. A table of distances, with time between important points, etc., is to be printed upon them, and a synopsis of all in- formation that will be essential to the traveler. The whole trip can be made inside of ninety days, and the entire cost will be about seven hundred and fifty dollars in gold. Cheesing Signs.—The World’s Washington correspondent of the 13th says that the debate of the day before, in the Senate, on the admis sion of Virginia, disclosed “ft recoil from the aggressive polioy of Sumner and Butler, a ten dency to go back to the constitutional doctrines of State equality, and to abandon the deviltry of perpetual reconstruction. The policy of test oaths and disfranchisements is plainly losing ground and becoming disgusting to its anthors. Bayonets are spoken of irieverently, as it was lately the style to refer to the Federal Constitu tion. The carpet-baggers show that they are tired of the nltras and their dictation; and on the other hand the nltras cry out impatiently for a real South, nnd a representation of brains and character. It is not singular that leading Radicals, opposed to the admission of Virginia, Bhould be anxious to close the debate as injuri ous to the party.” “The Pen is Mightier than the Sword.” That depends upon these facts: Who holds the pen, and who bolds the sword. If the pen is in the hands of those who love and revere const! tutional forms of government, with its system of checks and balances, and the same bands hold the reins of Government and administer its laws, then the pen is mightier than the sword; bnt if, as is now the case, military or ders take the place of law and authority, and the people are powerless to resist the great in fraction of ancient rights and privileges, the sword is mightier than the pen. Chips. The-Senate unci Constitutional Law. Senator Morton proposed as amendments [to the Virginia bill] that the restrictions of the Fourteenth Amendment forever apply to Vir ginia, and making the acceptance of office con flicting therewith a penal offense.—Press Dis patches of the \ Wu Senator Morton is confessedly the ablest among the Radical Senators—the “whale among the small fry’*—and it is inconceivable that he should seriously entertain the notion that Con gress can bind Virginia in that way; bnt if he really appreciates the absurdity of his own proposition—why did he make itf Perhaps in the way of popular clap-trap—a sop to the Radi cal Cerberus outside the Senate. Senator Morton here proposes that Congress shall absolutely go beyond the power of all the States or the people, (or whatever he may choose to consider the source of sovereign power) ijt the enactment of Fundamental Law. Nay more; he invades in behalf of Congress the sole prerogatives of God Almighty, and proposes that Congress shall establish immuta ble laic. We read that the Medes and Persians boasted that character for their statutes; but this swelling pretension was so poorly supported, that nobody, since that time, has thought it worth while to set up the blasphemous, wicked and ridiculous assumption, until Senator Mor ton revived it in behalf of tho “Supreme Con gress” on Monday. God alone hath power and wisdom to ordain immutable law, and his laws are rightfully and Hon. A. II. Stephen's. We have seen a letter from this gentleman, dated Crawfordville, 17th instant, in which the writer says: “I am now a little better than I have been— am able to sit up, read and write a little; bnt I cannot walk or even stand without assistance. “Please accept my thanks for the interest yon manifest in my well-being, both physical and spiritual. Be assured I am perfectly resigned to the will of God in all my afflictions. I en- The (j!--*>rgla Press. The Savannah News publishes the appended letter as apropos to the times. Harris is now -Supervisor and Master of Transportation on the State Road, and acting as Bullock's minion in organizing the lower branch of the Congres sional Agency at Atlanta. Can’t somebody np there have this letter read in the Agency ? [confidential. 3 Cleveland, October 3d, 18C(i. Mi/ Dear M. :—I want you to do me a favor deavor, with the patience of Job, to bear what-1 without delay. Yon know we have several times Tj. talked about getting up an endorsement of your ever awaits me under His dispensations, and j btnnble gg forPoetmasterof 8*yanna^ by with a full faith m His mercy, through the men as p A . T -, etc., etc. atoning mediation of the Redeemer; and also Can yon do it for me now—the day you get this? further, with a firm belief that “all things work i 'Twonld be invaluable to me, and save the ap- together for the good of those who love God” I thoVo^sTe^G^eraKth Xor and put their trust in Him. of transmissal signed by yourself, in your news- “A leading object with me for years—indeed paporial capacity, stating that it is gotten up in from early youth, has been so to live—so to m !i temporary absence from the city on leave; — myself in s.l fLi.^so fo by tho assistance of Divino Grace, all the duties I Southern representatives from the start, and of this probationary term, as to be ready to any other good things you know bo well how to leave this sphere of existence for another, a sa 7- above to be in yonr lotter of trans- brighterand abetter one, whenever the sum- mwwl, remember.) * ® be in Washington next ° , , ’ . ,, week, and will call the. matter up, and get it mons for my departure may come. This world, pnt through. Now do not delay, S , bnt put however mnch I may have been engaged in its it throngh on the fast line. Try to have it mailed active scenes during my day, has never had any | by Monday or Tuesday, October Oth; then Til real attractions for me. I have, it is true, taken B et u ’7 th ° r “ e '«^^ ate ? ote a * , . , . - same time, addressed A. L. Hams, Special a deep interest in them, bnt at all times more Agent p Q Department, Washington, D. C. from a sense of duty, than from any other con- The Radicals are raising hell np here, and sideration will sweep Ohio. I think it would be a good ..I „„ feel • i. i. | properly immutable, becauso he is omniscient— on * n onr Sfhte, and in reply to yonr inquiry on (j 0( ^ 51 C onld be prevented, bnt it can’t omnipotent, and seetb the end from tho begin- this subject, all I can say is, that if I utter no think the Radicals will hang themselves with ning. He is never surprised, and never changes * he J? 3 S^notTee 2«.Jbe°a Sion-tbo Union ca/nS be^ept hisopinion. Ho has no space to learn and no op-1 feeble as lam, it isonly because I do notsee I aivMea aa ifc ia now _ Tlje Almighty won’t al- portnnity for reason and experience. Not so I anything I conld say or do could possibly I j ow Respects to A . P——, j , B—, with men and human political institutions. effect an Y 8° od * God, in his infinite mercy, | and all the other spirits of Savannab._Ever, The States of the Union, in convention as- onl y known what i 3 to become of this country sembled, or by the separate consent of their and institutions. several Legislatures, may ordain what is called 4 * «» sa y 110 more now > ***& to re P eat Fundamental, Organic, Supreme er Constitu thanks for your letter, and return to you my tional Law; which is paramount authority nntil best wishes, now and forever. repealed or modified by tho samo power which Yours truly, called it into being. Bnt, obviously, it is 1m 1 possible both in fact and reason, that sover- I The Name “Puritan.” eignty should fetter itself—or that «>» oanvon- J E. 13. svnipple says that the name “Puritan” tion of the sovereign power should bind another I willneverdieoutof New England hearts. “Their The Star Chamber Court of Gen. Terry, to try protested members of the Legislature and the Supreme Court of Georgia, both in session in the samo town and at the same time, fills the zeddeBt Republicans and the darkest hned Rad icals, with.ineffable delight Tell Brown, Warner and McKay, to lay asido their robes, and get down from the bench, un til the Star Chamber or Drumhead finishes its work, and by that time we shall have no need of a Supreme Court of the State, for the State itself will be dead. Chips. A. L. Harris. The News reports the arrival there, with her family, on Saturday, of Mrs. Hyona B. Stow and family, on their vay to Florida. She ought to go down there and hide herself in a swamp, till called for by the Eight thousand nnd one bales of cotton, weighing 3,000,450 pounds, and valued at $1,000,000, were oleared from Savannah on Saturday. in late. It might contract engagements with a I <*ildren, in all times, will arise up and call them I Strange Dbappearance.-Early in the mom-: . ° b blessed. A thousand witnesses of their conrago, ing of last Saturday a little boy of about ten or third party which should impose a moral or their industry, their sagacity, their invincible per- eleven years of ago left his father’s residence equitable sanction upon successive organs of severance in well doing, their love of free insti- and has not since been heard from. It seems the sovereign power; bnt as it wonld have no tntions, their respect for justice, their hatred of that about the hour of six a. m. he camo down power to enforce these engagements, they can- a11 ar ° n . nd us ’ and bear grateful evi- stairs having in his possession a revolver, and “ ... ^ ■ dence daily to their memory. Every spot of immediately left. His parents have no idea as not partake of tho nature of law. The sover- I England earth has a story to tell of them; I to tho motive that prompted his departure. It eign power cannot transcend or subordinate the every cherished institution of New England so- is supposed, however, by them that he was per- sovereign power. One manifestation of it is of ciety bears the print of their minds.” sunded off by a youth whose name we have, but «*»> «a««, with another, and cannot on.e, a law which cannot bo repealed. Mr Whipple ahonld hare e one farther and r£mZ°li included other hearts, also. We are very sure 1 the nnme and deeds of Puritanism will not soon be erased from Southern hearts and memories. A century of Puritan repression and reconstruc tion will not do that. What Southern children will riso up and call them—especially thoso whose parents lost their lives nnd property in a war precipitated by Puritan greed and hate—we need not say. It don’t commence with the let- , . 1 shot Dr. Redwne, of that city, a few weeks ago, has been released from prison on $5,000 bail. One of the Bullock organs at Atlanta—not the Era, however—compliments in its Monday’s issue, B.’s and his subordinates administration of State Road affairs, very highly. As one of many proofs of the justice of this whitewash, we copy from the organ—same date—this para graph : Accident on the Western and Atlantic And so, coming down lower in the scale of political organization, we get to subordinate functionaries, such as the Congress, the Presi dent and other officers created by the funda mental or organic law. These all have just that exact measure of power with which the Constitution arms them, end no more. Outside of or beyond that measure, they are legal nul lities—their acts are not only void, but are high The Rome Southerner has the report of Chief I Engineer C. M. Pennington, on the Memphis Branch Railroad. Tho 127^ miles will cost $2,200,000, or $17,303j per mile. The survey was finished 20th of November last. The road is to run from Rome, Georgia, to Decatur, Al- [ abama. Dr. Harrison Westmoreland, of Atlanta, who crimes—usurpations—thefts of power—which torb > though. Ten times ten thousand witness- are punishable by the provisions of the funda mental law. No one of them is better or more I powerful than another, so as to be able to bind successor in office, because each has the same measure of power prescribed by the same authority which calls them into existence and governs them—to wit: the Constitution or the [ fundamental law. It is very true that the action of Congress, A colony to settle in Georgia is now forming in this city, under the direction of Rev. Mr. Field, of the Five Points Mission.—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser. We hope the colonists will not be drawn from that classic, precinct. We have now jnst as many representatives, native and imported, of the cattle who live in and around that spot, as is healthy. They will all be wanting to go to the Legislatnre as soon as they come, and if not allowed to do that, would just as soon steal a county or two and run back to New York, as not. The Commcrr Solution. - Tho Atlanta Express explains the abnormal abdomen of organizer A. Harris, the four hundred pounder, by premising that he had swallowed a drum. Substitute mail bags—borrowed from the P. O. D. when he was post-master at Savannah, to haul com into his plantation near that city—and you have the ex. planation. If farther information is desired upon the subject, Mr. Woodward, special agent of tho Post-office Department for Georgia, is fully competent to give it. Transfer of English Cotton Mit.t.s to Amer ica.—An exchange says it is reported that John Bright is building cotton mills in America, and that Whitworth, the great English machinist, has already an establishment on this side of tho water, manufacturing cotton machinery. The best class of English mechanics, too, are emi grating to the United States; and a letter from London speculates upon tho probability that ere long “Lancashire will bo a weird wilderness of smokeless chimneys.” The Cosmopolitan Monthly.—Wo have the firstnumber of this Atlanta literary venture. Itis the legitimate successor of Scott's Monthly, and presents quite an attractive appearance, both exteriorly, and as to its table of contents. The opening article is by W. Gilmore Sims, and the remainder by other writers of recognized stand ing in the field of letters. We wish it every sucoess. W. Henry Wylly is the editor, and the price is $4 a year. The Southern Witness.—This is the name of another new paper published at Monroe, Walton county, that has reached this office. It is rather a clever looking sheet, and is edited by an honest, conscientious man—Rev. G. -A. Nanally. * We wish him great success, though how two papers are going to make fortunes in that county, we don’t exactly see. A Savory Comparison.—The Courier-Journal is really not at all polite to Dr. Butler. It says “that Virginia hangs upon his word, and that is like hanging to a dunghill It involves nothing bnt filth and suspense.” If the Doctor conld hang upon Virginia or anything else that would bear his weight, what a blessing it wonld be to the country! Woman Suffrage.—The woman suffrage peo ple are creeping ahead by very slow degrees. Wyoming has yielded, and granted suffrage to women; Colorado will, it is evident, follow suit. Michigan sets an example for the recognition of woman’s rights by opening the State University to the fair sex. Encouraging. — In fifty libel suits against newspapers in this country, during the last ton yean, the damaged parties who brought them only got $3,000, cash in hand, to heal their wounds. Detecting counterfeiters a la Wimpy vs. Wogan & Co., is a much earner and surer way of getting rich. Monday being consultation day for the Su preme Court, there was no report in the Atlanta papers, of yesterday, and consequently we have none thia morning. Alluding to chignons, Mrs. Clever said: “A girl now seems all head.” “Yea, till you talk to her," replied Mrs. Clever.—Punch. es of their avarice, their selfishness, their hatred of all who did not think as they thought, and do as they bid, their contempt for laws and consti tutions, and love of perseention and tyranny, will alway be ready to bear damning evidence against their memory. Every spot in all this broad land that coffins the ashes of a victim to tho late war; every crushed and stricken widow and orphan whose woes call to heaven tho President and the courts does frequently I for justice; every ’desolate hearth-stone and I Railroad.—The trains on the Western and At- bind their successors in office in a legal sense; ravaged homestead; all, all have a story to tell delayed 8nndayon ac * but that is in cases where this action invokes or of Furitan iniquity that will make history shud- coaohes and tho R i P e ping^ar off the trackfs'at- involves the authority of the supreme or funda- ^ er > an ^ P^t themselves upon its page3 is let- urday night, two miles below Adairsville. The mental law—as in the case of treaties or other ters °f ineffacable infamy. accident was caused by a rail breaking. No one contracts where the rights of third parties are are perfectly willing t«t leave the jadg-1 was in i nred and no damage was dona to the cars involved. Hence the idea which discloses itself ment and punishment of Puritan deeds to this The Atlanta Era of yesterday has the three in this Congress so frequently that they can tie I arbiter. Truth can neither be bribed nor bnl- following cheerful items. We don t say any- up future Congresses, so as to create perma- J lied, and Truth will one day pronounce a doom Giing by way of comment, but we do “a de il nent and immutable laws, is so absurd that any list will make these eulogists of Puritanism linking: schoolboy ought to be ashamed of it. I call upon the hills and mountains to hide them. Robbery. ’Hie Lyon House, kept by _ „ . . ... ’ .. , . ... . , .. . Miss Greene, was entered by some bold robbers Bnt Senator Morton’s idea 13 more ridiculous The day may be distant, and it may be near, on Saturday night The rooms of nearly all the still, because he proposes by the power of this I trt it is marchiDg on, pari passu, with the pro- I boarders were visited, and something, either so-called “supreme" Congress to impart to the gross of a true civilization, and the vindication money, jewelry, or clothing, was taken from Fourteenth Amendment an immutable validity of the purpose and efforts of the defenders of e ? cb \ They tried the door of one Toom oocn- . v 1 * * p le( j a j a jjy an a her daughter. The young Virginia which, as we have seen, all the sov- genuine liberty. Until that day, we can bear lady g awa £ e> anA frightened tho robbers off ereignty of the States and people thereof could with this Puritan stench, even though it be with threats of a repeater that she had at hand, never give it It is as blasphemous and ridicn- stirred oftenor than ever, heretofore. | The robbers have not_been apprehended. Ions a moral and legal absurdity, as the build- A Halting Special. ingot Babol wao a phymcal and religious ab- ^ j al dispatcll from Atlanta, due Mon-1 Frida Y ni 8 ht a ? d f and ![y . nr,iclea stol ® n - The surdity. - . - f ■. v . robbers entered while the inmates of the house The tricks of this Radical Congress with con- , j. a .? g were all asleep. cKinfinuaT inn, l r ha,f -P ast tGn - 1110 Atlanta tine, it seems, was Sttll More Robbery.—The office of Antbo- 8 * ‘ deranged by the storm. The press dispatch, of j ny Murphy was burglariously entered on Sunday night, and sundry important articles were taken. Messrs. Jas. Todd, of Louisville, Ky., T. M. N. PhilHps, of Kentucky, r J.' R. Clapp, W. Hughes, and' Gen. R. H. Chilton have be«n elected Directors of the Columbus Manufactur ing Company, with Gen. Chilton as President. Their factory is tanning 4,500 spindles, and has made Ilf per cent on its capital in the last sir months. The Columbus Enquirer has seen a cotton blanket which was made forty years ago in France, and which has been constantly in use in this State ever since. It was sent to W, H, Young, President of the Eagle and Phoenix Company, by Chancellor Lipscomb, with the following letter: . ; V UUNIYEBSITY OF GEORGIA, " > Athens, Jan. 14, 1870.) Dear Mr. Young : I send by Express a cot ton blanket, manufactured many years ago is France. It has been in the possession and use of the Cobb family for more than forty (40) years. I thought that it would interest you and Dr. Bussey to see it and to notice how it has borne the wear of years. If you think proper, you may have it hung up in the office of the Eagle and Phoenix Company as a relio of the past. Yours, very truly, Andrew A. Ln-scoMR. Mr. T. W. Lane, who was announced some time ago as junior editor of the Savannah Re publican, has changed that relation to “Occa sional Contributor and Correspondent”—his healtl^ and strength not allowing him to per form the duties of the former position. The editor of tho Sandersvillo Georgian has had a conversation with one of tho merchants of that place, recently returned from Savan nah, which contains some items of interest. The editor says: . He tells us that the demand for fertilizers is so unprecedentedly largo this season in Savan nah, that manufacturers have instructed their agente there not to sell any except for cash or approved city acceptance. This demand will interfere considerably with the use of fertilizers by many planters of limited means who have not the cash to spare, or a factor upon whom to draw. There is also an an apparent reluctance on tho part of commission merchants to grant ad vances, and for which relnctance they give many reasons; one—the main one—is tho lack of promptness on the part of many planters to meet their liabilities at maturity. Factors complain bitterly of the many disappointments they are subjected to during the months of October and November, when their own papers mature, and the farmer, who has received tho advances, fails to send forward his cotton, if the ruling price at that time does not happen to suit him. They are determined to make plant ers feel the necessity of being prompt, and bring pbout a healthier state of affairs. Still another reason, though not as weighty a one, is the announced intention of many plant ers to increase the production of cotton to the neglect of grain crops, and thus probably pre cipitate a material decline in the price of cot ton daring next season. The Georgia Railroad and Banking Company has declared a sc-mi-annual dividend of four per cent.—payable on and after to-day. Business e? New York.—A correspondent of the Charleston Courier says business is very dull in New York since the holidays. The retail stores along Broadway are complaining of the want of customers, and A. T. Stewart alone has discharged about seventy-five men sjjnce New Year’s day. Owing to tho mildness of the sea son the clothing trade has suffered terribly, and there are indications of a large number of work ingmen’s strikes during the coming spring. The Albany Nows says the planters of that section are preparing for grand crops. The mule market is lively, and sales df ten or twelve a day have been sold for ton days past, at from $180 to $225. Guano is making history and the “situation’ begin to smell of phosphoric acid and dissolved bones. The Chief Engineer of the Brunswick and Albany Railroad has a corps organized, and made a start Tuesday to locate the lino from Albany to Wanesboro. Four thousand tons of the Fish-plate pattern iron have been recently purchased, which, with that purchased before ; will lay eighty or eighty-five miles of track. Into ignorance of the mere hornbook of polit ical science, as from the wretched legal absurdi ties into which their crimes against- constitu tional law have driven them. The man who knowingly violates law, is compelled by bis con- same date, from Atlanta, was sent round by tho way of Augusta: Atlanta, January 17th. Telegraph and Messenger : The Senate met and adjourned—having done science to set up some defensive sophistry, nothing. Tho House met. Members not pres- however wretched and unsatisfactory even to I en t; when their counties were called, qualified, himself. Itis, in fact, a heavsn-extortedtribute Members filling vacancies were not allowed to to his own rational and moral nature. Adam qualify—including members from Irwin and set it up for the very first offense. “ The wo- J Taliaferro, who were elected after tho general man whom thou gavest me—she tempted me.” election ordered by Gen. Meade. He knew that was no valid defense. It outraged | The House was adjourned by order of Gov his own reason and sense of justice, as he ut- emor Bullock, till Wednesday next, to allow the tered it; but conscience compelled him to an- f Military Commission timo to act on tho cases A strenuous effort was made to force open his safe, but it was ineffectual, and the baffled bur glars were forced to retire without accomplish ing their purpose. The Monroe Advertiser tells the following. Great Expectations.—Some of the niggers hearabonts expect great things from George Clower in the Legislatnre. We overheard a little knot of them discussing tho matter the other day: “He’s gwine to raise wages," said one. “And make silver money common, and let brack folks vote wuss’n ever,” said another, and so on through a long string of absurdities, that only the blackest sort of a nigger conld imagine. There was one person of color in swer something, and ho had nothing better to of members against whom the plea of ineligibility the group who didn’t put much confidence in Say ‘ ' haS been Purred. Before adjourning, an order | KS’coSnS^whiTh? fired This , w | hearors in ouick succession* of high political crime, outraged every sound member to draw fifty dollars from the State '“How much does George git ?” said ho. The theory of tho structure of this government, and I Treasury. . I group looked troubled. “He gits nine dollars of the rights of the people and States under it A dispatch was read from Congressman Ed- “ da L don,t ho -l The crowd S avo nn nnw il- Andthe farther theygo in their iniquity,the | munds, intimating that tho Government would | aXTESe? lfne'sGetrgeTloeT’t more stupid and assinine become their pleas, I countenance no interference in the organiza- defences and remedies, nntil it is a fact which tion of the Legislatnre. A strict compliance cannot be denied that any sensible child of ten I with the Reconstruction Act is all that is re- years, wonld smile at their ridiculous, incongru-1 qnired. ous and inconsistent propositions and reason- j General Terry is known to have said he is do* in S 8 - | ing nothing but complying with orders. The dey?” George’s friends left in disgust, ami the practical moko was the victor. The Advertiser regrets to see so many Mon roe county farmers giving mortgages on their prospective crops for supplies with which to They themselves can’t state and defend their Military Commission got through with all the carr Y on tbeir farms - own legislation upon the Southern States with- I Senators’ cases to-day, and will hear arguments cotton receipts at Forsyth, np to out laughing at its absolute self-stultification. A 0 f counsel to-morrow. They have adjourned da,e > ar6 4,841 balea > a g ainst 4.2G8 bales up to legislation based upon the assumption of the further investigation till Wednesday, on which April 13th last season. The total receipts this absolute inviolability of the Federal Union— boUl b °nses will probably organize and go season will probably reach 0,000 bales, which proceeds thereupon to turn the States oaf to wol4c ’ TheSavannahNewsentereduponthetwenty- of the Union, and then proceeds to exa&of them The Culture of Fish. first year of its publication last Saturday, Col. conditions of re-admission, which can be legally I There is no part of the world wher6 tho rear- I W. T. Thompson was its first editor and is still complied with only by States in the Union—a I ing of fish wonld probably be attended with I occupying that position. May he and the News legislation which denies the States the power of more satisfactory results—pecuniary and die- both live to see many more happy and prospor- self-govemment, and yet compels them to amend tetical—than this region of Georgia. Our rivers, ous anniversaries, the fundamental law of the Union—which con- I which formerly swarmed with choice varieties of From the local columns of tho News we make founds and confnses in a meddley of imbecile ab- the finny tribe, now, as a rule, yield only the tho following extracts: surdities and self-oontradictions, the conditions slimy sucker, catfish, and the coarse red-horse— Unfortunate.—Bishop Beckwith fainted twice of the most utter territorial pupillage hnd mili- I the better varieties all having become extinct during the services at Christ Church on Sunday tary domination with those of a State vested by the muddying of the streams. evening. His labore during Saturday and Sun- with all the attributes of sovereignty, is the But the country abounds in chrystal springs— the crowded condition of the Church, caused his melancholy but befitting offspring of a Congress j pellucid streamlets or “branches'' (in tho com-1 physical powers to succumb. We are happy which is a carricature on statesmanship, and a I moo parlance)—and little / transparent lakes or j however to state that he experiences no serious disgrace to common sense and reason as it is to | ponds, which art and a very little labor conld I ihuossfrom the above mentioned indisposition. patriotism. soon convert into nurseries of choice food more An Unfortunate Exclaimed.—A young girl, I ««?>•"» *■>»«™«—"»* «p»“ I soil One of these fish nurseries to every plan- day, returned to her home in New York. Her tation would give it inexhaustible supplies of family had been in search of her for some time, I healthful food, and in thicklv settled neighbor- nnd on ^' 1C discovery of her whereabouts, a gen- | market. The River.—The Savannah river is reported Believing that the attention of the people by the two steamers, the Carrie and the Swan, j should be called to this inatter, we have copied, | to be in fine boating condition. The former The State Road.—We are informed that sev enty-two car-loads of freight arrived on the Western & Atlantic Railroad on Sunday. This is a lively business. Freight comes in so rapid lyover this road that itis with difficulty that the depot can be kept cleared. Within the for ty-eight hours ending Monday morning, the 17th inat., at 10 o’clock, this road transported to Atlanta one one hundred and forty-four car- I ...Hi _JIPi loads of freight of which eightv-three were I- - .... . , , ’ . , *L. ’ I brought to port 532 bales of cotton, the largest stock, approximating in numbers to fourteen m edltIon > an illustrated article upon Fish car g 0 from the Savannah river this season, and hundred mules, three hundred hogs and four Breeding from the January number of the the latter 490 bales, the largest freight of hundred head of other Btock, or a total of two Rural Carolinian.; and we also invite attention [ throngh cotton from Augusta, thousand one hundred head of live stock.—At- \ i 0 the advertisement of that invaluable maga zine, in the appropriate place. lanta Era, 18 th. WeU, what have you to show for all this bus iness ? Where is the money that it must make The New York correspondent of the Boston for the people whose property this road is ? 1 Courier says it is asserted that the experiment What has become of it ? ers want to know. Wanted to Know?—There is no such paper as the Telegraph-Messenger published in Ma con. Did our friend of the Atlanta Constitu tion lose his glasses in that tumble at the rink? That’s what the own. | of an American Punch, with $50,000 capital, is to be tried in that city, this year. The late Frederick 8. Cozzens was to have been the ed itor. Largs advertisement of L. H. Wing’s 48 Second street. The Coitnnbn3 and Augusta papers report very heavy reins and a fine prospect for freshets in the Chattahoochee and Savannah rivers. The Sandersvillo Georgian reports quite a re duction in the number of negro laborers in that county in the last two years.. The Columbus Bun says it is probable the real estate assessment of that city, this year, will show an increase of several hundred thousand dollars over that of last, and that it will reach four millions. Proposition for n National Constitu tional Convention. The Washington correspond :nt of the Balti more Gazette says: The Radical leaders confess that the validity of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments is at least questionable. Nothing certainly could bo more disastrous to the public peace than a doubtful fundamental law. The action of Con gress (besides) for the past eight years has been confessedly in repugnance to the Constitution as it stood prior to the war. Under these cir cumstances, it is suggested by the Congressional organ, as the only means of repose, the assem bling of a Constitutional Convention. Ar it strikes me as not only an important admission on the part of the Radicals, bnt as containing some grains of common sense not often fonnd in Radical newspapers, I append it in tho wri ter’s own words: “It has been suggested that, to provide a de finite quietus for such questions, it may be nec essary to convoke a Constitutional Convention, which should recast the entire Constitution, with all its amendments, taking advantage of the occasion to affirm the sense of the country upon any desirable modification of that instru ment.” Ham’s Improved Cotton Planter. We have examined this Machine, which is adl vertisod to-day. It is very simple in construc tion. A light wheel revolving in front a la wheelbarrow, turns a coarse-toothed saw feeder in the box, which drops the seed or guano with perfect regularity by a steady and continuous motion, and the flow of seed or fertilizer is reg ulated by contracting or enlarging the appertnre in the box. It is obviously a very complete machine. It is sold at $12 00, and may bo bad of Messrs. Wrigley & Knott, who are tho agents for Macon. • Atlanta (’augrcs.tional Agency. No New Developments. Counsel Busy with Their Arguments. A Snap Judgment Threatened. The Fog Still Impenetrable. Atlanta, January 18—Night.—There were no new developments to-day. Tho counsel are busy writing out their arguments on the ineligibility of Senators. Some of the Representatives who were cited to appear before the Military Commission are known to be stricken from the list of ineligibles, from the vagueness of charges and the inability to sustain them. Many of tho Democratic members being absent, it is hinted that tho House may probably organize to-morrow by taking a tump judgment. Both sides arc canousiug vigorously and trying to harmonize discordant elements. Various other rumors are afloat, but lacking reliability. Persons one thousand miUs off know about as much of affairs hero as we do. Geoi.gia. Bullock Adjourns the Agency Until Bond ay. Judge Brown Creates n .Sensation. Agency will Probably Org Mouduy. Special to the Telegraph and Messenger.) Atlanta, Jauuaiy 19.—Rawls, of Effingham coun ty, was qualified in the House to-day. Immediately upon tho assembling of the two houses, an order from Provisional Governor Bullock, approved by Gen. Terry was read, adjourning both till Monday next. Judge Brown’s letter, construing tho reconstruc tion act, creates considerable sensation. Tho opinion generally prevails that the House will organize on next Monday. Georgia. FROM WASHINGTON. Wasainoton, Januaiy 18 —The Senate has before it the California whisky seizures. The House is talking about the Island Navy Yard. Tho Election Committee’s report upon the South Carolina case will be up soon. Tho snb-committees aro at work on the Louisiana cases. It will probably bo two weeks before they aro considered in full committee. In the Reconstruction Committee a general re moval of disabilities was discussed. The bill will be prepared the next meeting. Secretary Boutwell sells a million of gold to-mor row and buys two millions in bonds on Thursday. Fislc and Gould seem careless about obeying the summons of the Gold Committee. Corbin is too ill to appear. The specie broker of Gould and Fisk swears he was employed to buy gold in sums not less than a million at any prico, which he did at rates ranging from thirty-four to sixty per cent, for one million, Revenue to-day $122,000. The Committee on Foreign Relations have con sidered tho San Domingo treaty, but taken no ac tion. Coin in the Treasury $55,000,000 cash and $50,- 000,000 gold certificates. Currency $7,000,000. Great interest is here manifested in the Virginia admission discussion to-day. There has no pro gress been made towards final action, and there is no excitement beyond that caused by Sumner’s pbil- lippic against Governor Walker. Butler and Bingham were on the floor of the Sen ate, urging their respective views. Hamlin ha3 been appointed President of the Smithsonian Institute, vice Fessenden, deceased. FROM WASHINGTON. A Fnlmiuation from Forney In Bul lock’s Defence. Special to the Telegraph and Messenger.) Washington, January 19.—Forney’s Chronicle of this morning says: “Wo.are authorized to say that Gov. Bullock, of Georgia, is not & candidate for the United States Senatorship from that State.” It says further: “It is Governor Bullock’s intention to re main in Georgia and give his entire time and labors to the building up of his State, as an humble instru ment of reconstruction in the hands of the Ameri can people. Georgia, just now needs to be broken in with a pretty firm hand, and the country should be glad that there are some men to undertake the job.” Dalton. | It appears to the night editor of the Teleobath and Messenger that whatever of importance at taches to the foregoing telegram, could have easily been entrusted to the mails, and should it have failed to reach ns altogether, the readers of this paper would not have suffered to any great extent from tho miscarriage. Who cares anything for For ney’s oxiinion, or for any defence he may make of Bullock. Mr. Dalton ?j Special to the Telegraph and Messenger.) Washington, January 19.—The President has is sued an older to Gen. Terryiforbidding A. A. Harris, or any other appointee of Gov. Bollock, to proceed with tho reorganization of the LegUliture, as the Georgia act as interpreted by the Preei -.ntonly au thorizes tho Governor to convene the Legislature; and the United States District Court, at> provided in said act, being only the tribunal that can try and con vict members of tho Legislature who swear falsely. Senator Morton, in a speech to-day denied, that the President had authorized or approved of tho actionof a military court of enquiry to sit in judgment upon the eligibility of members of the Georgia Legisla ture. Pittsburg. withdrawn, when Mr. Edmunds* adopted—45 to 16-.and the Senate adioarnea J? I out final action. The Chronicle has the following special » Mississippi: Jackson, January 19.- '“elsey 1 *^*.1 Governor A3com i United State* Senator for the ten® commencing year from next March. General Ames is elected for the hnexpired t of five years. Thera was a great contest f 0I ' term expiring in 1871 and the election was unanimous. Revenue to-day, $568,000. The screw steamer Congress will sail in af eW(Jj . a for Samana as flag-ship of Commodore Green ; the steamer Colorado will relieve the Delawue 1 flag-ship in tho Asiatic Squadron. 1 The Election Committee reports in favor of r i Wyick. • ./I] The friends of Virginia seem very much diecon, i aged by the course of events to-day. The grv,I object has been to get the hill back into the Ho^* with an additional amendment, and much delar * - apprehended. ■ ALABAMA LEGISLATURE. Montgomery, January 18 The Senate pjc, a the bill regarding the Mobile city government, l it is so mangled' as to leave the appointment w a the Governor and Senate. The committee reported that tho Selma. n«j and Memphis Railroad, as' far as built, and was ample security for the sixteen thousoJ dollars per mile of State endorsement. ! In the House a 1 bill was introduced to relieve a -1 personsmamed duriogtho war from tho obligati, . created. This is done in consequence of the tec - dictum of the Supreme Court declaring all \ .legislatures,’judges, constables, ate., war illegal. A bill was also introduced an i n f ar J ! to allow the sexes to cohabit provided they *relT>. eral in their conduct and are willing to oecupv u»- relationship of man and wife. FUODI LOUISIANA. New Orleans, January 18—The P.epublicun vg i upon Casey continues. The Republican of fla morning contains a leng letter from Senator Bioh j animadverting severely upon Collector Cater-[ charging him with deception and bad faith in hitj tention of dishonest men and Democrats in ^.1 tion, and says: “It is true the Louisiana delegation j had no voice in his appointment, but they accept^ | him on his fair pledges, and now that they har ( j been so shamefully broken, I feel it my duty to re. j pudiate him. I cannot but think that when the Pret. 1 ident comes to fully understand how the Custom.! house has beon managed by Casey, he will give ^ I a sound Republican and anhonestmaa for Collect? I of the port of New Orleans." The Government Coast Survey schooner Vanraf sank near Pass a’ L’Outre. Steamboat Lizzie GUI sunk on Sunday at Serai S Grass Bend, in twelve feet water. TERRIBLE STORMS. Cincinnati, January 18.—Unusually heavy atom.I trains delayed and much damage done through:?? the country. Louisville, January 18.—A terrible storm strsaS Cave City, Kentucky. Four persons were instant? j killed—eighteen hurt. Every house between Glasgow and CavoCityvijl prostrated by the storm. Twenty-five Jives lost Eligibility Question—Chief Justice Brown’s Opinion.—At the saorifioe of all onr remaining available space, wo give room for Chief Justice Brown’s opinion on the effect of the oath pre scribed by the act to promote reconstruction in Georgia, which came to hand in the Atlanta Constitution of yesterday. The Chief Justice, it will be seen, is far more liberal in his inter pretation than the. Atlanta Intelligencer, which is somewhat marvelous. We are glad to see an exposition of this oath from a source which, at least, cannot be charged with partiality and bias in favor of the Democrats, and wa will do Judge Brown the justice to say, at the same time, that we do not believe he sympathises with the schemes to distort this Congressional legislation in the interests of public plunder and spoliation. The so-called South Carolina Legislature has repealed the act dividing the State into town ships. To pnt the system into operation would have cost the tax-payers (i. e. white people) more than a million and a half dollars, and knowing that fact, we are agreeably surprised that the negroes and their allies allowed it to be repealed. The Christian Freeman states that Eugenie has purchased the burial place of the Virgin Mary from the Sultan for $4,000. The Empress probably has been “sold” and not the burial plaee of the Virgin. It looks very much like a put-up job. A New Name fob It.—The Atlanta Intelligen cer says a certain individual (whose name it withholds) while making his way over a court room in that city yesterday, fell down, rolled over, and got up with the exclamation, “ Please your Honor, I ana paralyzed, bnt not drunk.” The Griffin Methodist Church have recently raised the salary of their pastor, Rev. Arminios 'Wright, to $2,000 a year. CONGRESSIONAL. Washington. January 18 Senate—Tho Cali fornia whisky seizures was argued at great length. Tho Virginia Bill was resumed. Mr. Thayer con cluded hi3 speech.- Mr. Nyo followed in a lengthy and strong speech. He said Congress must bo true to Virginia and itself, whatever Virginia might do in the future. Mr. Drako followed against admission. Mr. Stewart spoko strongly in favor of it. Mr. Morton, of Minnesota, followed in favor of it, and was interrupted by a motion to adjourn, which pre vailed. A proposition to fix the time to-morrow for a vote was voted down. House—The League Island Navy Yard and ap propriations were considered throughout the day. Nothing whatever of general interest. Washington, January 19 House—la the House the General of the Army was asked by what authority or under what law the officers of the United States Army occupy seats in the Georgia Legislature. A bill was introduced amending the Bankrupt Act and exempting from its operations certain Life In surance polices. The League Island Navy Yard bill was discussed. A hill continuing the income tax, passed. The following tax resolution, that whereas doubts have arisen and conflicting decisions been made in the different departments of the Government in re gard to the construction of tho laws relating to tax incomes, it is hereby declared to bo the true intent and meaning of the act relating to that subj ect, that all persons are liable to the payment of their proper income tax accruing and to accrue, for and during and up to the end of the year 1870, and that the as sessment and collection of any sub-tax accruing in the year 1870, and remaining unfixed on the first of Januaiy 1871, may under the existing provisions of the law be made in the said last mentioned year. The Pension appropriation bill for thirty millions passed. Whittemore offered a resolution authorizing the Committee on Freedmen Affairs to send for persons and papers in reference to employment by the Bu reau, of persons who committed perjury in taWng the test oath, which was passed. The House adjourned. Senate.—Tho Judiciary Committee reported ad versely to the bill making rules of evidence in the State courts prevail in Federal Courts. Committees report nothing. A communication was received from Mr. Fillmore enclosing the resolutions of the Louisville Commer cial Convention, in behalf of the Southern Pacific Railroad. After discussion of the franking privilege, the Virginia Bill was resumed. Mr. Wilson moved a recommitment of the bill. This was voted down, and a motion to postpone the whole questioti to February, and an amendment admitting the Con gressional delegation on the 4th of March, were Turbulence Threatened in Paris, Paris, January 18—Yesterday, Le dfeneBdt] published the following: “Madrid, January 17—A public meeting st twenty thousand Republicans by a unanimous vote, congratulate the Republicans of Tarie and degiuti Rochefort, tho devoted champion of Democracy.” In the Corps Legislatif a debate on Rocbefer, was opened. The Chamber was crowded—all ds deputies and. a full Ministry being present. Th left centre proposed the abandonment of the pro* cation. Ollivier desired a vote—otherwise the urn- is try will resign. [Applause.) Rochefort made a violent speech, declaring th ministry determined to get rid of him. A crowd a collecting: a large police force is at hand. Five O’clock—Large crowds are collecting. Th guard has been doubled. Half-Past Five—The crowd is not allowed to a:-" preach the Chamber. Six O’clock—Tho Chamber arraigns Rochefort tj a vote of 226 to 34. The announcement caused i great demonstration of favor. Rochefort is anxng ’ the people in the Place de La Concorde. Half-Past Six—Another Rochefort dcmonstn-J tion in the Boulevards, Mont Maitro. Eight O'clock—Crowds axe still collecting and shouting for Rochefort. The military dispersed a crowd of Rochefort'.- friends on the boulevards Mont Af&itre, withot: any conflict. The police were very active all nlghi There was considerable disorder, and many arrest* At this hour, noon, the city is quiet. Deputy Bashail is dead. FOREIGN NEWS. London, January 18.—The News has an article ol ; the Winnepeg rebellion, bnt does not attach math! importance to it; hut the Red River people cannot S hope for the recognition of their colony while the^ rebellion lasts. ' -“M Paris, January 19.—Tranppman was cxecutecl this morning. His last words, loudly spoken, were j ‘I persist I bjave accomplices now, certain.” Prince Tierre BonapartewiU be tried at Versailles. | Some High Court will try Prince Murat for strit; ing a magistrate recently FROM ATLANTA. Atlanta, January 19 Ex-Governor Brown,J Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia, I gives hia official opinion on the eligibility of Logie-! latora. He says—[And here follows the articles which is copied on the second page, from tho AUm-j Constitution.] Tho Senate met at ten o’clock and took recetel to 12 o'clock, and then adjourned till Monday nei‘.| at IS o’clock. The House was called to order at 12 o’clock. One member qualified, no more appearing. An order was road : from Governor Bullock, ap-I proved by Gen. Terry, taking recess till Monday, »:| 12 it. The pending investigation board of officers rutfl at 10 a.,M,, Counsel for. defence not being read;! with the argument, the board adjourned till to-j morrow. FROM NEW ORLEANS. New Orleans, January 19—The Citizens’ Baid| has been accepted as the fiscal agency of the city. Alfred Penning, an eminent citizen and lawyer! is dead. All the Courts haTo adjourned as a iuarl| of respect. GENERAL NEWS. Providence, January IS.—Rhode Island has rati-J fled the Fifteenth Amendment. Columbus, January 19.—The House votes on tht j Fifteenth Amendment to-morrow. Mobile, January 19. The British ship India:! Chief, from Cardiff, loaded with railroad iron, pre viously reported ashore on the outer bar, went t(| pieces yesterday, broken in two. The crew and twt| hundred and fifty bars of iron were saved. The American ship Mermaid, cleared for Penevl cols on the 14th inst., by A. J. Ingersol A Co., wer.J ashore on the west bank of the outer bar yesterday f Many efforts were made to pull her off, but failed j The crew will be rescued. St. Louis, January 19.—Pierre Chantean and Eij Senator Green are dead. Missouri has adopted the Fifteenth Amendment I Augusta, January 19.—The heavy rain oontinuer | The Savannah river is rising, and a freshet is tri prehended. RiTT.nn.ri contractors will examine the advert tlsement of “Proposals” from Hon. Eli Shorter, President Vicksburg and Brunswiclj Railroad Company. Supreme Court— Borutug Session. Atlanta, January 18,1870. After delivering the opinions in the cause; | which had been argued, argument was resume* and concluded by M. J. Crawford, in No. -’wj Chattahoochee Circuit. 1 Evesxeo Session.—No. 21, ChattahoocW'I Circuit, is John W. Dner, Ordinary, vs. Pek’I soa Thwe&ti, administetor. Mandamus. Mosoogee. Peabody & Brennan, N. L. Howard, for pl»^ j tiff in error. H. L. Bennins for defendant. Pending the argument for defendant in e**^| Court adjourned till 10 o’diook, a. k, to-***! row.—Atlantis Constitution, 19IA