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MACON, FEBRUARY. 1 18 70,
■ »A SnuDH ImotiiD.—The Bitbh consul
ht New York, Mr. Archibald, has deliberate] y
■polled a Untehw sensation story now. going
the rounds of the press. The tale in question
■elates to a “ Hiss Gray, a Fort Edwards milli-
star, who had became the fortonaio heiress of
919,000,000, of which she had received an in*
stafanent of 98,000,000 from the British consul
in New York. Me. Archibald cruelly says: “I
have neither received from Mias Gray nor have
I paid to her any money whatever; and I may
add that I have no knowledge of any money
having been left to her in England.”
■ Tan Richmond journals announce the strike
of the hands at the “Old Dominion Don and
Nail Works,” against a redaction of wages from
seven to six dollars a ton for puddling. About
three hundred men have stopped work.
A strike has taken ptaoe at the tobacco fac
tory of Cameron A Bro., Petersburg, Virginia,
against a reduction of twenty-five cents per
handled. About seven hundred persons are
out of work, to whom $1600 a week have boen
paid. This factory is the only one that has
keen at work thin-winter.
Tux Tubmip Coktbovzbsx.—Mr. J. P. Boque-
more, of Barbour county, Alabama, sends ns,
by express, a single globe turnip, with whioh
be expects to “out-do” tho achievements of
Vineville; but not so. Mr. Roquemore[s turnip
weighs only nine pounds and a half, whereas
the turnip sent by Mr. J. A: Virgin, of Vineville,
weighed twelve pounds. Wo cheerfully admit
that Mr. Roquemore’s is a turnip—yea, a huge
one; bat it does not take tho lead. We have
this year one turnip weighing 4j—two weighing
18j—one weighing 12, and one 9J—showing
that this is a good turnip country even in a bad
season.
Gjust!—In the passage of the Virginia
* j*«trictions expressly
»• - d—
■oui. —.
—• T *v "Auditions anu
The Quarrels or Reconstruction.
Congressional Reconstruction is surely des
tined to show long lists of slain and wounded
before many yearn, and is already disclosing
some bloody noses and bruised eyes. Senators
Trumbull and Sumner had a passage-at-arms in
the Senate last Friday which displayed, on both
■idea, a good-deal of venomous scratching. The
ball was opened by Mr. Trumbull, who, irritated
by a long course of dogmatism and misrepre
sentation upon the part of Hr. Sumner, girded
up his loins and fell upon the great apostle of
isms and false lights and liberty, in a downright
personal assault—with all the nervous irritation
of a man too thoroughly enraged to measure
language very nicely. News of the onslaught
spread and soon gathered a crowded auditory in
the Senate Chamber. For a couple of hours,
Mr. Trumbull lambasted Sumner, for bis arro
gance, . assumption, misrepresentations, and so
on, and Sumner answered with quite as much
excitement and temper.
This quarrel concluded the “discussion” upon
the Virginia bill, and was followed by voting
upon the amendments, and then upon the bill as
amended, wbich was passed—18 to 10—by a
strict party vote. These amendments apply
the Fourteenth Amendment test oath to every
State officer and .Legislator, and declare that
Virginia is admitted tc Congress upon the fun
damental conditions that no amendments in her
Constitution shall ever be made to change the
existing Btatus of the negroes in relation to
voting, holding office, or school rights and priv
ileges.
We have heretofore taken occasion to remark
upon the legal value of such fundamental con
ditions. They are so absurd in theory, that it
fcUlwiu* v.
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tacked on, the Senate showed a contempt for
that illustrious personage and his recommenda
tions, that is really painful. They have flung
the gauntlet down directly at his feet, and no
dan not take it np. The Senate have measured
him and find that they have nothing to fear.—
They may do pretty much as they please here
after with his appointments and recommenda
tions. And so one more bladder is pricked and
collapses into a limp mass that “points a moral"
if it does not “adorn, the tale.”
is wonderful any man laying claim to political
information would be guilty of putting them in
form of law; We repeat again the opinion then
expressed, that the Reconstruction legislation
of Congress is destined to destroy the Radical
party or the government, and the popular liber
ties. The enormous usurpations which have
been perpetrated in the course of this legisla
tion, will either bring upon the dominant party
* h *> indignant rebuke and repudiation of the
— »T<nhecked by the people,
How to Stowage Agricultural Labor.
“Goodmore”in this edition of «h* Tkuk>bafh
un> Mmraoxa, gives us some sensible sugges-
tiws and proposes to pursue tho subject The
troth is, our agriculture, j ust now, resolves itself
pretty much into a question of administrative
oapeoity—the power of controlling minds and
concentrating physical energies in the most ef
ficient and economical manner. That is a faculty
apparently innate in some, while others appear
to be more or less naturally destitute of it. By
all, no ‘doubt, it can be acquired or cultivated
and improved by diligent observation, study and
careful practice.
The grand basis of this faculty we should say
may be found in two conditions. One of these
is self control. The man who cannot or will not
govern and control himself, need hardly seek to
control and govern others. Unless he is armed
with illimitable power, and rulee by sheer ter
ror, his own unsteadiness, inconsistency and
unreason will divest him of all moral dignity
and force, and excite the same passions,-disor
ders and irregularities whioh he manifests.
The second of these grand foundations is
justice—perfect justice—or rather, we should
say in this particular oase, such imperfection of
justice as leans only to the side of liberality.
The negro must feel'perfectly safe in the hands
of his employer. He must see and know that
all his interests are protected, and that he has
a firm, reasonable, just and liberal friend in
his employer. When a planter has surrounded
himself with a company of good laborers, every
one of whom is firmly impressed with these ideas
of himself; and then seeks, by intelligent
methods, to identify them with his plantation
and future, we think he is establishing condi
tions upon which he may reasonably predicate
career of prosperous planting.
We think that the wide difference in the ex
perience of farmers with their colored laborers
is, in a great degree, traoeablo to the ability
and painstaking of the planters themselves to
establish these fundamental conditions of good
and efficient government. It is a subject upon
•which too znuoh can hardly bo thought or
■written; but upon which wo have now no leisure
to enlarge.
What the People Want!
—-Mini* the Senate
Thx Richmond Dispatch, speaking of the ex
odus of the blacks from Virginia, says: The
sews from the country is that a sort of panic on
the subjeot of emigration rages amongst the
blacks. On Monday upwards of three hundred
came by the Danville train from Halifax to lake
the Southside road at the junction. They were
destined for the Gulf States. Mora than three
hundred were left in and near Halifax waiting
for an opportunity to take the train. We learn
that the passion for travel and for making way
towards the tropics is widespread and enthu
siastic.” -
On. Bctleb failed twice in the House on
Friday, to get the floor to reply to Mr. Dawes’
speech of Tuesday, and to defend the adminis
tration from the charges of extravagance which
the latter made so glaringly. Mr. Dawes, not
withstanding the abuse heaped upon him by
some of his own party, intends to stand by his
record, and will make a speech in defence of his
first one. He has received letters from Horace
Greeley, the editors of the New York Post, Bos
ton Traveler, and other Republican journals,
warmly commending his expose of extrava
gance. -
A Radical member of the House of Repre
sentative, in his private room the other night,
at Jackson, Mississippi, was criticising the lan
guage of members of African descent, and
making sport of their saying “dis,” “dat,” “lad
der,” etc. He said he was so ashamed of one
of the oolored members, who kept on talking
so long, a going on with his foolishness and
negro talk, that, arter a while, when he took his
seat and sot down, he felt a great relief.
Bad xos Mibstssttpl—According to But
ler, General Ames, recently elected Senator
by means of bayonets and black ballots from
the so-called State of Mississippi, is what the
street boys call “a bad egg.” Butler says of
him: “Ames is a protege of mine. There is
not a more promising young man in the coun
try." Fagin’s praise of the Artful Dodger was
not more conclusive. Ames is clearly “on the
make."
Hxa.tt on Schenck.—The Rev. Dr. Noah H.
Schenck, who puts money in his clerical purse
by lecturing on “names,” recently held forth in
New York. He dosed his address with the fol
lowing conundrum: ‘‘Does any one suppose,
if I had my way about it, I would have named
myself Noah?” “No,” responded a voioe, “nor
Schenck either.” 'Which really was not at all
courteous to Schenck and his mellifluous name.
Americat: pSSOpre-
will soon'eventuate in the practical eubternu*.
of the whole system of government and the
destruction of the public liberties.
A Discrepancy.—Mr. Secretary Boutwell es
timates the “wealth of the nation” at about
fifty thousand millions of dollars. Mr.. Com
missioner Wells thinks it is about twenty-three
thousand millions. For estimates from the
Treasury Department, here is a somewhat ma
terial discrepancy.
Fob Shake!—A Washington paper announces
that “ex-Secretary Boric, accompanied by his
lady,is now at Secretary Robeeon’s.” His “lady!"
What a faoe of brass that paragrapher must have!
The worst of it is, that Boric has a family. What
will Mrs. Borie say when she bears of such con
duct ?
Thundeb in Winter.—Wo see that Professor
Espy is explaining why there is no thunder in
winter. If he had spent the present winter in
lffaccw, he oould have been spared the explana
tion. We have been getting about as much
thunder and lightning as we sometimes have in
nidmunmer.
Radical Mass Mima in Atlanta.—Hie
Bullock wing of the Radical party had r mass
meeting at Atlanta on Monday night Judge J.
B. Parrott presided, and speeches were made
by Messrs. A. T. Akerman, John Milledge, and
F. S. Fitch, of the Griffin Star.
Mmim A. T. Stewart A Co., who generally
do a steady and con-fluctuating business, have
discharged sixty of their olerks since the first of
January. Glatuk A Co., have been obliged to
-dispense with, fifty-six of their men, apd Spal
ding A Co., thirty.
Wasbusoton Cm, it is said, “is bankrupt—
has overdrawn her bank account $10,000, and
cannot borrow a oent” If Washington really
wants money, why doesn’t she do as everybody
else there seems to be doing—steal it?
Good Adyiob.—An old Now England farmer,
when an his dying bed, said to his son—“John
ny, don't get in debt! That is say last sad
eoUum advioe—don’t get in debt! But Johnny,
if you do get In debt, let it be for manure.”
A asmniur In New Orleans i| sheet to sue
the Western Union Telegraph Unn lor $10,00Q
damages for incorrectly sending or delivering a
telegram, occasioned by inefficient operators
who were employed in the late strike.
Cot*. W. S. Rockwell, well known in this
Slate, died in Harfotd eounty, Md., la* Bun-
*7
The Protective question.
While the attention of the Southern States is
very naturally engrossed with the talk and leg
islation primarily affecting their own section,
and the smallest conceivable interest is felt in
any of those great topics of party controversy
which half a generation ago were all absorbing,
it is, nevertheless, not uninteresting to note
the progress of Northern opinion upon a lead
ing one of those topics, to-wit: the so-called
“Protection to American Industry.”
It Is a curious fact that throe of the leading
and most popular monthlies of the North, in
their February numbers, publish simultaneous
ly the most trenchant assaults upon the whole
system of protection. Putnam and Lippincott
particularly, treat the subject with rare ability
and comprehensiveness, such as is seldom dis
played in the speech of a politician; and as
the bias of both of these magazines is strongly
radical, the fact of tho appearance of such ar
ticles is significant of a great change in the
Northern mind upon this subject.
-Both of these magazines display in a strong
light the absurdity and injustice of tax legisla
tion in the interests of classes, and claim that
this ridiculous and unjust concession has done
more than anything else to sap the foundations
of the public morality and to enconrage the idea
of living by public plunder. Outof this protective
system they allege has sprang all those fraud
ulent rings and gigantic and corrupt lobby in
terests, which have made so mnch of the national
legislation a stench in the nostrils of all honest
and patriotic men; and the remedy is in laying
the axe to the very root of the tree of special and
discriminating legislation.
We may assume, as a settled fact, that public
opinion in all parts of the country is gathering
so much head against protection that it will
soon he compelled to give way. Some of the
tariff duties will perhaps be materially reduced
this session.
The March of** Reconstruction.”
The Herald of Friday, speaking of the Fif
teenth Amendment, says:
It is the provirion authorizing Congress to
enforce the amendment by appropriate legisla
tion that creates the most apprehension among
its opponents. It is feared this power will be
stretched to an arbitrary extent, even to the ap
pointment by Congress of inspectors of elections
in the several States for candidates for Presi
dential electors and members of Congress,
which will be nothing but a restoration of the
military ballot system in vogue during the war,
by and through which the votes of thousands of
good Union war Democrats were never heard
from. Furthermore, it is feared that these voteB
will be counted, not where they may have been
polled, but under tho eye of Radical committees
of Congress, who can “strike” and “repeat” at
will. It is believed that this is a part of the
Radical programme—indeed, it has been pro
claimed in Has city to be tueh by a leading New
England Radical.
We had something to say on tins subject yes
terday. We stand to the conviction, then ex
pressed, that this is the Radical programme.
Just so sure as the people of the North do not
throw these conspirators overboard before they
have time to pnt their machinery in motion,
♦ha very same deviltry and fraud that have “re
constructed” the South will be used to “recon
struct” those States at the North that vote
agaimif. the Radicala, Mark the prediction!
Nxw England Slaves.—At the Woman’s
Suffrage Convention on Friday at Washington
City, a Miss Collins was introduced as a Lowell
factory girl, of Boston, and made a speech
which did not fall very musically upon the ears
of some of the New Englanders present. She
made a comparison of the black slaves of the
South with the white factory slaves of the North,
declared that the Southern slaves of a form
er day khew nothing of cruelty and tyranny. It
was necessary to have been a factory girl in
New England to appreciate the highest order of
■Uvea. She also said that the reason the Puri
tan mill owners didn’t whip their slaves as the
Southern planters used to do, was because they
wouldn’t stop their factories long enough to do
it. ’ I /
Mss. Grant and thx Gold Bind.—A Wash
ington special to the Charleston News, dated
the 23d, says:
Fisk and Gould both testified yesterday be
fore the Banking Committee. They asserted
that by the representations of Gorton, tho
brother-in-law of Grant, which were sustained
by corroborating evidences of his intimacy and
influenoe with tho President, they were led to
believe that President Grant had decided not
to sell the government gold. .They therefore
bought. On (ha first transaction, Mia. Grant’s
share of the profit was twenty-five thousand
dollars, which was remitted to her. They fully
implicate Butterfield, and held one million on
margin for him.
Ms. John HxsstKAN, of Baltimore, so well
known to the people of this seotion as a dealer
in fertilisers, has jnri been elected Treasurer of
tfe State of Maryfand.
Thosouoh DpADMNo.—We have Copied a val
uable editorial on this important subject, 'from
the Southern Farm and Home.
Census Taxes.—The Griffin Star says Dr.
Bud, late off the Atlanta New Era, is to be
FROM ATLANTA.
Nothing of Interest firom the Agency.
Its Action is Subject Altogether to the
Orders of Terry nnd Bnlloeh.
Special to the Telegraph and Messenger. 1
Atlanta, January SB.—The Senate met and ad
journed to-day without doing anything. *
The House met this morning, but did nothing
and adjourned, by Bullock’s and Terry’s order, tifi
Sr. x It again met at 3 p. sl, and another order
was promnlged adjourning the House until 10 a.' k.
to-morrow, when, it is thought, another order will
be received for the House to organize.
It is generally believed that Terry will' settle the
eligibility question under instructions from Wari*-
iagton, and that but few if any will bo excluded. -
Geosoia.
The Agency Elects a Speaker.
Certain Members Declared Ineligible;
The Manipulation Secures a Majority
in the House for the Republicans.
Ik L McWhorter Elected Speaker.
The Speaker Declares for no Special
Policy.
Special to the Telegraph and Messenger]
Atlanta, January 26.—The Senate adjourned as
usual, having done nothing.
The House met, when a general order was read,
declaring Donaldson, of Gordon, Taliaferro, of
Fulton, and Nunn, of Glassoock, ineligible and pro
hibiting them from participating in the organiza
tion, and also declaring sixteen seats of members
who refused to qualify vacant; Wilcher being at
home sick, had not appeared before the Commis
sion, and his case is held in abeyance.
The election for Speaker resulted as follows: R.
L. McWhorter, 76; J. E. Bryant, 62; scattering, 6.
Mr. McWhorter was conducted to the Chair by a
committee of two, composed of Messrs. Bryant and
Dunlap Scott, when he made a short speech, not
committing himself to any special policy.
The House adjourned till ten o’clock to-morrow,
when the organization will be perfected.
Some think the applicants for the seats of dis
qualified members will be sworn in before complet
ing the organization. The Republicans will proba
bly have the House by eight majority.
Nothing is known as to the decision on Senators
accused of ineligibili ty.
. ~—*• Tune Excursionists arrived this after-
1 ‘ “i«m. They will
r~--—r—3r?—' zt? r. V*i rzf--
Ssnate.—Hr. Ho well, elected from Iowa, was
sworn ia*. * k»AW ,HWW(X» »m
Resolutions of the Kansas legislature were pre
sented, askfair ter tho removal «f the Capitol to
Learaiwarto Ra«a|yaUe%^>^.^
|1 hill-maahiiwtiikirifiil pwrirkflsajnin jl>mil linnl if
Merchandise at Mobile. ^
The Currency bill was resumed sod fifccue
adjournment.
Horns.—The Houee to angagad'ltfch the League
Island faffi.
TW» Election Committee to relieved from aecrec; r
gasfcngcommittees procnsEkgs. No objection to
Porter in the Committee, though they maybe made
in the House.
The President baa certainly approved tho Virginia
bill, though it has not yet been officially anuouaoed.
The Committee of Mines were directed to invest
tigate the Avondale disaster, and report whether
Congress has power to regulate mining.
The General of the Army asked whether any of
ficers of the army were receiving pay As army and
civil officers.
The League Island Navy Yard bill waa tabled by
a vote of 94 to 67.
A bill extending the port of New Orleans waa
passed. It goes to the President.
The House went into a Committee of the Whole
on the Civil Appropriation bill.
Mr. Butler read a long speech dealing mostly in
figures, but attacking Mr. Dawea very sharply.
Mr. Dawes closed his reply as follows: “lam
ready, and I contemplate voluntarily to Bnbmit my
self to the judgment of my constituents whether I
have heen faithful. I do not, however, in view of
the duty of the hour, which is to call attention to
the expenditures, propose to be diverted from
that grave duty by any paltry debate here with aDy
live man on the miserable' and unimportant ques
tion of my own wisdom and folly. I trouble not
myself about my record. If posterity east a look
at it, it will vindicate itself, and if it do not, it will
not make any difference, and now I more that the
committee rise.
The New York Tribune,»».
about the Virginia tall, says:
The great majority of quiet, sober, thinking
men of all parties are pervaded by the spirit of
Gen. Grant’s adjuration, “Let ns have peace.”
They want the Fifteenth Amendment qnickly
ratified and proclaimed the fundamental law of
the land; they want all the States represented
in Congress, and all their people clothed with
civil and political rights. They want to be done
with reciprocal hates, and spites and recrimina
tions ; they want to stop wrangling about dead
issues, and take hold all together, and rebuild
the shattered fabric of our national solvency
and prosperity. Such is the spirit, such the de
sire, of the American people; the narrow
minded, small-souled politicians who would
keep them at feud over by-gone causes of quar
rels, misrepresent and libel them. * ‘How loDg,
O, Lord, how long?”
If the people want all this, or any material
part of it, they have shown very little discrim
ination in the selection of their offloial agents.
These were—nine ont of ten—the offspring of
strife, the seam of the seething cauldron of
civil war. Bom of the spirit of sectional ha
tred and war, the atmosphere of peace and
comity will be fatal to them, and hence all their
labors have bat one end—to fan the flames of
discord. That is the philosophy of the moral
war of Congress on the South, whioh has been
fiercer since the surrender than ever before,
and seems to gather new venom and fury with
every new success. Congress is irreconcilable,
because reconcilement and peace will lay many
hot Radical champion in Congress on the
shelf forever.
The Hon. John A. Wimpy, Again.
We are heart-broken to observe that this dis-
dinguished leader of the Georgia Radicals, who
was so unfortunate in his efforts as an amateur
detective in the case of Wogan A Co., has not
been treated by his party friends of the New
York Tribune near so kindly as he was by bis
party opponents, the Telegraph and Messen
ger. We gave him the benefit of his denials,
affidavits, etc., bat Mr. Greeley rather mbs the
former insult in. In witness whereof we quote
as follows from the Tribune of Friday. It cer
tainly has not the “ wring of the right metal ”—
for Wimpy:
Mr. John A. Wimpy, of Georgia, member of
Congress-elect and present dignitary in his own
county, who has been handlingpitch in a serene
conviction that it would not defile Wimpy, comes
once more to the fore, commanding an attach
ment of affidavits loud to rescue ms wounded
honor. A man who holds a business correspon
dence with a counterfeit note concern is not
proved to have had an itching palm; but then,
as Thoreau says, “some circumstantial evi
dence is very strong, as when yon find a trout
in the milk 1” Mr. Wimpy’s witnesses declare
that, as honesty is the best policy, therefore
they cannot believe—up, never—that he could
have been so short-sighted or so reprehensible
as to have hankered after unlawful gains, save
with an eye to the confusion of Satan and all his
works. The martyr, it appears, had observed to
these admiring friends more than onoe, and with
a ohild-like exuberance of delight in his own
sagacity, that he “felt be had ’em,” or words
thereunto corresponding. But whether this ex
ultant sense of possession was kindled by the
prospect of nabbing manufacturer or manufac
ture doth not so clearly show that he who runs
may read. There is, we may say, a disappoint
ing vagueness about all these disclaimers which
suggests a oonsoious reticence on the part of
Mr. Wimpy’s following. We are glad to see
that the future legislator is himself upheld in
these unpleasant moments by the proud con
sciousness of worth, and that we are not to be
deprived in the national oouncils of that sagaci
ty, that sharpness, that quick scent for a rogue,
and that rare personal integrity, which have so
signally availed their possessor in his now
famous transactions with Wogan and Company,
dealers in counterfeit currency warranted to de
fy detection. Mr. Wimpy, like (Edipns, must
fulfill his destiny. “God sends country law
yers and other wise fellers To start the world’s
team when it gets in a slough.”
A Fat Jobl—A bill has been introduced in the
so-called Legislature of South Carolina to au
thorize the issue of $824,000 worth of State
bonds, to pay the principal and interest of a
loan made in July, 1864, and February, 1868, by
the Charleston Savings Institution to the Bank
of the State. The loan was made in Confeder
ate currency, which in July, 1864, was werth
about five cents on the dollar in gold, and in
February, 1865, was worth two cents on the dol
lar in gold.
At the sale of the assets of the Charleston
Savings Institution after the war, this daim,
($250,000,) was sold for $2,240. The bill pro
poses to pay the claim, with interest, by giving
$324,000 in State bonds, worth, at 80 cents on
the dollar, $259,200, which, deducting the orig
inal price, $2,240, leaves a profit of $256,960
for the loyal patriots who bought the claim.
Thx Virginia Bill.—Of the passage by the
Senate of the Virginia bill, Mr. Greeley speaks
in the following extract. He was evidently on
the brink of a ostaraet of “onaa” words when it
was written. He seems bent on having Beast
Boiler, Bullock, Blodgett A Co. bring him to
trial and punish mem for “disloyalty.!* If he
should he executed, we speak new for a lock of
. that marr eloos hajj, and his last essay on farm
ing: m
Thh Atlanta Amkix.—The record of the
Agency lax Monday, as it appears in the Atlan
ta papers, adds to what waa in our dispatch
oodythe aiders in full of “Provisional” Gov
ernor Bollock and Gen. Terry.
* Dm. John M. Oasxoohan, the distinguished
surgeon, recently appointed by Governor Hoff
man Health Officer of the port of New York,
was bon in Savannah, in 1817.
The Uiw—.—
noon. A tremendous crowd iuo» ——
remain over till night.
ALABAMA LEGISLATURE
Montookert, January 26—The Legislature, for
the past week, hat been engaged on local bills. To
day the time of the Senate was entirely oonsumed
in discussing a memorial to Congress for the re**
moval of disabilities. No action.
The Senate bill loaning State bonds to the amount
of three millions, to the Alabama and Chattanooga
Road, is to 'come np in the House to-morrow.
Meetings for the past two nights, in opposition to
the bill, have been held at the capitol—and to-night
the friends of the bill are haring speeches, eta.
The city is crowded with emigrants for Texas and
Louisiana.
NEW ORLEANS.
T '«fnalature
FROM SAN FRANCISCO.
Saw Fbawosoo, January 26.—The British ahto
Barringer, from Australia, brings the foBaMng pc -
fitical prisoners, sent from Ireland to the British
penal eeleutos in 1865 and 1867; their terms of
transportation vary from five years to lifer John
Kenny, Senate & Postman. Deuato
Maurice FJgenboheB, Patrick L. Epey, Thomas Eg-
gorty, David Joyce, John fibehan, Patriot Wall,
Michael Moore, David Cummins, Eugene Geary,
John Welch, Patrick Damn, and Patrick Dennis
They were entertained alffl provided for by the
Fentons hero.
Captain Smith, who commanded at Galveston
when Horaoe Lane was captured, waa killed in
Alaska by a drunken Indian. The Indian vrae
hanged. -
FROM ATLANTA.
Atlanta, January 28.—The House of Bepreenata-
tivee wee organized to-day, and elected B. EL
McWhorter (Republican) Speaker, over J. E. Bry
ant (Conservative,) by twenty-four majority.
Three members, Messrs. Donaldson, Nunn sad
Taliaferro, were declared to be ineligible by the
military commission. The seats of sixteen mem
bers were declared vacant on account of their re-
fatal or failure to take the oaths required by the
laws of the United 8tates.
Georgia.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, January 25.—The weather continues
very thick.
0. B.' Luck, of the Spottswood Hotel, is here, to
invito Prince Arthur, in behalf of the citizens of
Richmond, to visit that city. Mr. Luck visited Mr.
Thornton and was informed that the Prince woujd
go no farther South now, but would probably visit
the South before returning to'Europe.
Revenue today $643,000.
Coin in the Treasury will show but $54,000,000;
currency $5,000,000. The debt statement will show
hut a slight decrease.
The President has nominated Franz Zugel, Asses
sor of the Sixth New York District; Jos. H. Black-
bum, Marshal of Middle Tennessee.
The WayB and Means Committee voted on admit
ting coal free. The vote stood, ayes: Harper, Al
lison; Maynard, Brooks—five; nays, Kelly, McCar
thy! Blair, Schenck—four. It is apprehended that
Maynard will change his vote.
No more fifty cents fractional currency will be is
sued on account of counterfeits. .The Treasniy is
preparing a new design.
The Government sells a million dollars in coin to
morrow, and buys a million dollars worth of bonds
on Thursday.
The Virginia Senators will be sworn in upon re
ceipt of the President's approval of the bill, unless
some Senator objects, of which there is no present
prospect, when credentials. go to the Committee
on Elections. The Committee will hear Begar to
morrow on his claim to a seat as Representative
from Virginia at large.
To-day, in the case of Wallace vs. Simpson, the
action of the House indicated clearly a determina
tion to refuse seats to a minority of candidates,
where a majority of candidates are ineligible. This
is the first time the House has snubbed its Election
Committee. They reported in favor of Wallace—
Simpson could not take the oath.
It is expected that the President will inform Con
gress early to-morrow of his approval of the Vir
ginia bill.
To-day’s Tribune says: “ The House has adopt
ed the Senate’s proviso action on the Virginia bill
without amendment. The terms on which, at length,
Virginia is to be admitted, wore yesterday set forth
in our columns, and may bo found again to-day,
embodied in the report of the proceedings. We do
not need to repeat that we deeply regret the result,
finally attained at the end of these weary weeks of
debate and recrimination. Congress prescribed
certain terms for the admission of Virginia. The
State complied to the full with thoee terms. Con
gress now prescribed fresh terms. This is punish
ing tho treason of Virginia in 1861 by bad faith on
the part of Congress in 1870. We do not believe
such a course to be statesmanship, or a sound party
policy, and aggravating as is the wrong done Vir
ginia, we believe she will suffer less from it in the
end than will the party that has wrought it”
Washington, Jannary 26.—The President signed
the Virginia bill this morning.
Revenue to-day $375,000.
The Virginia bill has been signed by the President
and sent to the State Department. The omission to
send it to the House to-day, was a blunder.
CoL Pennybacca is commanding in Mississippi
vice Gen. Ames, who has leave of absence.
The Committee on Military Affairs have agreed to
report a bill appointing a committee of five to ex
amine all officers below Brigadier General, with a
view of dismissing the incompetent.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, Jannary 25.—House—The House is
discussing the League Island bill.
The House voted 103 to 73 that neither claimant
from the Fourth South Carolina District to a seat
was entitled to admission; but after much eon-
fusion and some excitement, the whole matter waa
tabled and recommitted to the Election Committee
for examination on its merits
The evening session was for debate only.
The morning hour was occupied with the Callfort
nia whisky seizures; no action.
Hr. Bheiman’s Currency and Gold Note bill was
resumed.
Mr. Sumner called for the reading of his bill and
offered it as a substitute. Mr. Sherman retorted
Sumner's waa a funding bill, and bad no pertinence
to the matter under consideration. The matter pro
posed by Mr. Snmner was now under consideration
by the Finance Committee. Discussion continued to
adjournment
Senate.—The Senate is discussing the California
Whisky bill.
Mr. Robertson, presented a huge bill removing
individual disabilities.
The Election Committee have before them, sev-
eralof the Virgima Representatives, to wit: Pcxter,
on account of alleged bad record for loyalty; Begar,
on aooount of the doubtful legality of his daim as
Representative at large; Booker and McKenzie on
account of their seats befog contested. These cases
will be retained by the Committee for farther con
sideration. The balance of the delegation will be
admitted upon the usual oath.
The Virginia Senators are not here, and no action
has heen taken regarding them.
The Virginia bill is engrossed and is now in the
Senate waiting for Colfax’s signature. Immediately
upon its retain, it will go to the President.
today, sod if the President's approval to returned
in time; several of the Virginia Representatives«tU
be seated to-day. [MtrabUs dictuij ;
A bill dedicating agricultural lands of California
to homestead and pre-emption purposes, passed.
withdrawn.
The Darien Canal survey expedition will he paid
from the appropriation of forty thousand dollara,
made in 1806.
League Ielaod waa dtocossed at great length.
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tfliwA.'
New Orleans, iannaiy 25.—in h»
last night at midnight, the Chattanooga Railroad
bill passed the House, after a session of
nearly twelve hours of confusion aild dis
order. The Bulletin safB it Is doubtful if a
more confused, excited and disorderly legisla
ture has ever boen seen on this continent, or any
where else. At another stage of the proceedings,
Mr. Lowell distinctly charged that there were mem
bers voting for this hill who had been pud to vote
for it. The charge brought him a crowd of excited
members, and to picture the sceene of disorder at
the moment would he simply impossible. A score
were addressing the Chair and addressing Lowell at
the same time, gesticulating in a menacing way;
and one who raised his voice above the rest signi
fied that Lowell was paid in the interest of Charles
Moigan. To-day Wiltz asked leave to record his
vote against the Chattanooga Railroad bill, a bill
which he did not hesitate to pronounce as the most
outrageous and villainous that was ever enacted by
any deliberative assembly.
The Georgia Press.
From the Atlanta Intelligence r of Monday we
extract the following:
AkoThkb Mujtabt Tribunal.—We learn that
General Terry appointed an officer to sit as
Umpire between a Mr. Arnold, of Palmetto,
and a negro named Cupid Hutson, in the set
tlement of their account* From what we oould
learn, Mr. Arnold had employed Cupid to work
on his-farm- upon the UgW terms given by
planters to freedmen. Two years have passed
without a final settlement'and there was a wide
difference of opinion between the parties as to
what was Mr. Arnold’s amount of indebtedness.
Cupid claimed a very large amount, and Mr. A.
claimed to owe but one hundred dollars. The
offloer decided that Mr. A mold should pay four
hundred and ninety dollars into the hands of
Cupid's lawyer, which was done. This was so
ordered, in order that some negroes to whom
Cupid was indebted, might have time to pnt
in their olaims. Our informant was not certain
as to the exact figures in his statement, but this
statement is true in the main.
Foktt Acrjss and a Muijl—The negroes in
Atlanta, buoyed np by recent political develop
ments, are exultant over the idea that the long-
talked-of forty acres and a jnule, are about to
oome in dead earnest. We have heard of sev
eral boosts of the kind having been made by
them within the last few days, to highly respect
able white men.
The Dahlonega Signal says that a bloody
affray took place on Wednesday, of last week,
on the Black Mountain road, about three or
four miles north of that place, between Scion
-T K. and Bear John Woody, in
' '’"rtantiy killed,
toogatoi
n fa ru mored 1
FOREIGN NEWS.
Madrid, January 25.—The vote in the Cortes, ex
cluding Bourbons forever from the throne, was re
jected; yeas 38, nays 55.
Paris, January 25.—The strike at La Creuzot has
ended.
Madrid, January 26.—The election in Oviedo is
progressing. The Duke of Montpensier’s defeat is
considered certain.
The Marquis of Perales is running in Madrid as
successor to Serano. The vote last night stood:
Percies nineteen thousand; Guesales, Republican,
fifteen thousand, and the Carlist candidate, five
thousand. The elections continuejthree days longer.
Elections for vacancies, so far as heard from,
show four Orleanists, five Progressionists, six Re
publicans and one Carlist.
Havana, January 26.—Captain Boit, commanding
the loyal Gneiilloes captured Insurgent Generals
Morceno, Lena and Feguiards with the family
of Feguiards, near Bay Guedo Boit, and with his
prisoners had arrived at Santiago. The Insurgent
leaders' Inns and Santoa have surrendered.
Frederica Gras, Chief of Staff to Gen. Covado,
and bis brother Ramana Eseauted, are at Cienfu-
gss.
London, January 27.—A great meeting was held
here to day to promote immigration to the Prov
inces. The Lord Mayor presided.
A writer in the Times is astounded at the annexa-
tion of Dominica, which la only adding other negro
communities to those so difficult to manage now.
FROM VIRGINIA.
Richmond, January 25.—Jeter Phillips, who was
to have been hung to-day for the murder of his
wife,- was respited till February 25th. This is the
ninth''respite the prisoner has had. His case
has been taken out of the hands’ of the State au
thorities under the reconstruction fairs.
Gov. Walker has commuted to imprisonment for
life the sentence of David Crawford, colored, con
demned to death for rape on It white girL
After the occurrences stated in the noon'dis
patches relative to the admission of the State, the
oolored people organized a political meeting and
kept up their speaking till bight, when they ad
journed with cheers for the admission of the State.
The guns used to-day were the same used in sa
luting the flag when the United States troops occu
pied the city in 1865. The officer commanding was
a native of Richmond.* * '
The weather here has been so warm for the past
week that the trees are leafing.
A salute of one'hundred guns waa fired in the
park at noon, in honor of admission. About five
thousand persons were present, two-thirds of whom
were colored. Flags were raised from the custom
house and the capitol. Gov. Walker spoke for a few
minutes, congratulating the people on admission
ane predicting a glorious future for Yirginla. A ool
ored Conservative end a number of colored Repub
licans made political speeches—the burden of the
latter being that U the State did not follow the
spirit of the reconstruction aote she would be put
back as a Territory. .
Richmond, January 26 Governor Wallfar, upon
receipt of information of the President’s signing
the Virginia bill, will issue a proclamation calltag
the Legislature together on February 8 th. General
Oanhy will give up all control of State affairs when
the Legislature meets and fills aril offioes now filled
by military appointment.
There was considerable excitement along the
streets this afternoon, caused by en attempt of cot
ored rowdies to ride in a “ white ball ” street oer,
instead of a colored car. Four were arrested, and
the station-house was surrounded by an excited
crowd of negroes until a heavy police force was
brouhgt on the spot This disturbance was made
in accordance with the programme announced in
speeches by the negroes at the oelebraticm yester
day.
GENERAL NEWS.
New York, January 26 The Erie Railroad strik
ers in Jersey CSty attacked the workmen. Bricks
and ptetote were used. The police arreeted the strik
ers’ leaden.
Portland, January 96.—Tho Peabody funeral
fleet has arrived.
Nxw Yoxx, January 26.—Arrived, the Arizona
from Aspinwall of the 17th with $88,872, in treea-
ure. No news.
Mobile, January 27.-Rev. fi*. Henry NOes Ptoxoe obatruotiaas is the xiTer
_ waa coosecratod Bishop # ArkwosM yesterday. '
The Secretary of War was asked about the Nesfa* Bfcbop Herae was formerly Paator oj StoJohn.’e _
Vflto and Decator railroad eompeuy. ! ; dhcrdh, of thk tffiyi Btitopr Young, 8$ Florida;. ». j—*
- T wag»er v rf Louisiana, Qufotard, of *- WHfal.
A bSi giving General Mower’s Widow e pension of
fifty denxra a month, meeting with v>bjestioa, wee, VoAtefose! of Illinois, end
were present The oeremony was
Cbahustoh, January 26.—The French aloop-of-
war, Shuler, six days from Port anPrinoa, arrived
to-day, and reports that flebtava waa ssnfanosd to
&sath sod shot on the lOtofast.
doehran, sum —.
which Bear John Woody wan ^—
and J. K. was very severely, though perhaps
not fatally, cut in tho side by Cochran. The
cause at the difficulty was purely of a family
matter, and can be in Z0 sfe construed aa
arising from politios, as all parties oonoeZZ.
were Republicans.
The Savannah Republican, of Sunday, says:
Accident.—On Saturday, morning, the day
through freight train on the Central Railroad
was thrown from the track by running over a
cow. Six oars were considerably damaged. In
consequence of this accident, the passenger
train was delayed about two hours.
Militant.—On Friday last, fifty recruits for
the artillery arrived in this oitv. Twenty-five
remained at Oglethorpe Barracks, and twenty-
five were sent to Fort Pulaski on Saturday by
the steamer.
The Monroe Advertiser says there is great
oomplaint among the farmers in portions of
that oounty and Batts of the scarcity of negroes.
In a great many instances, Coffee plainly refuses
to oontraet, except upon the most outrageous
terms, and much trouble is created in oonse
quence.
The Advertiser is also glad to learn that the
heavy rains which have been falling lately have
not materially injured young wheat. A very
large extent of land has been devoted to this
cereal, and if the seasons are at all propitious,
a large crop will be made.
Hon. R. R. McCutchen, of 'Walker county*
State Senator from, the 44th District, died in
that oounty on Thursday night last, aged sev
enty-four years.
The Constitution announce* that CoL Halbert
has accepted the position of General Superin
tendent of the Brunswick and Albany Railroad,
and has entered upon the duties of the position.
The reoent controversy between the Atlanta
Intelligencer and Chronicle and Sentinel, has
.been brought to an abrupt conclusion by the
latter after this fashion:
This conduct—these cowardly calumnies of
Jared I. Whitaker, proprietor of the Atlanta In-
telligencer upon us, and his well known pubtio
profession of his relations to society, leaves us
no other course than to publish wlmt the public
has long since suspected him to be, a bass and
unprincipled traitor to kis party, an infamous
slanderer and a contemptible apologist for theft
and robbery.
Enterprising “Fifteenth. Amendments” are
“improving the shining hour” by stealing cot
ton bales from trains on the Southwestern Rail
road.
The Constitutionalist is informed that a Mr*
Langston, living near Thomson, Columbia coun
ty, was burned to death on Sunday morning by
her clothes tilting fire.
A negro named John Callahan, of Burke
eounty, who had stolen $40, a pistol and some
clothing, from a fellow freed man named An
thony Sears, wafi pursued by the latter with a
party and captured near Augusta. The money
was found on him, and the darkeys organized
a court and tried him. The verdict was going
to jail or a hundred lashes. ' The thief choee
the latter, and after thirty-five well laid on,
they let him off.
Bullock's organ at Atlanta please oopy.
The Constitutionalist, of Tuesday, says:
Wait mb Mas “Bullocx.”—We are informed
that a gentleman oonnected with the Fort Royal
Railroad had yesterday secured five or aivhaoite,
and was soeompanyingthem to their labors on
the line of the road. The railroad party were
met and interviewed by a strapping buck ne
gro, who, ascertaining the destination of his
oolored brethren, remarked that they had better
return to the city and wait a day, until they
heard from “Mas Bullock." And they re
turned.
A negro man who entered the yard of lb.
Jack Welsh, near Columbus a few nights sines,
to steal chiokens, was seized and ao badly bitten
by a dog that he died in a very short time.
The Sandentville Georgian is pained to learn
tire death in New York, on the 17th, of Dr. J.
J. Newsom, formerly of Washington oounty.
The Federal Union says Weak MoDauial, ooa-
vietod of murder at the last tans at Wilkinson
Superior Court, and brooghato that city fax
safe keeping, broke jail and made his sees pc mi
the afternoon of the 9th inst. He waa under
sentence of death, but, we lean, had been re
prieved till 11th of Marah next He elfeetod
bis escape by pickings bole through the walk
Outbagx in Hum Countt.—A flnstairHj at
tempt was made to rawanit a rape upon the
person of a respectable lady in Hanry eounty,
one day last week, by a.u$S$ aooundwl named
Ben Usher. The fellow fatted, by the super
human efforts of the lady,Andrea away, tank
My alarmed. A nuNtbar vt persona storied;
pursuit of him, but at hat aomunfa he**
^ , __
Thomas mater, the driifC.f^flktyilt r it M
drewasd onBundky ffisfaMko i r ' - '
The Savannah Republican my* c thq City.
from
$160In $1TT| l ilHsulIjnmfai tin^JjJ ‘
sadteftFto alley tax from $COto$M.
The GeiaaarilfeEegfasayBtiMfmaagflfathe
second notion of .tea T Vt Taflrrmd hs
gun. There wiB bentbooaaai haai* a* wqtjt
in two Fee**
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A Borne . notreeBONdSBt writes the .
ttonfasdardeto at ttnFtth, as foilo*^
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iPgSgf
“Can’t Roost Hnml”-A treveffi nB .
pondeni of the Chronicle and Senifoel
following story. Ha writes from Od«
oounty: 8
Arriving at Bairdstown, I called at
denea of Mr. W. D. OheSy aSSS&Jf
and wife, sons and daughter!, wen all
I want in and sat down for a few moment,
was somewhat struck with the curiosta’
seeming impudence of a negro citi *
She asked me If I was a “NorthJro or.c
B ®* n * Says If ‘‘why do woti ask m
“® eoan89 »” she replied^
are a Northern man you can’t roost abonii,
Mid you had better leave.” Well bnt,
I behave myself, can’t I stay ? ’ sn P
4 . “ No ’”?l 6 re P ,ied »• “there are so ma n , t
utrough the country doin mischief s
know who to trust, and if yon are /
you will have to lekve.” * on ° <
That “close devotion to books and gi^jt
very good, indeed “lounging carelessly ’
the girls, and “selecting sweethearts” i. '
better. s
An Athens correspondent of the Conati< fa-
writes as follows from that classic retreat • *
There is alarger number of matrlcri J
this opening than there has been siaeeTh 8
The general status of the students i 8 L»
than it has been since the famous class J ,7
grftdottdd. - - v
Amid the confusion of the present, it
possible to judge, but my general ideak,
a dose devotion to books and girls, *ili
ize the coming session. ’
The young ladies turned out in f a u f or ,
fancy finery this afternooon, and proraenw
Pnnee Avenue with beooming vigor -whiiT?.
students lounged carelessly among them and.
looted, each man, his sweetheart for the coo*
session. The charming creatures were critia
surveyed, and where one was found who i
the bill of her oritib, she was instantly ch
by him as the target at which he will
love-tipped arrows for the next six mow!
Those who were so unfortunate as to strifes
fancy of two or more ofjthese young jworshin
of women and wisdom, will have an amomtJ
soft-soaping to stand that is awful to i
plate.
From the Atlanta Slander Mmj
The following is the telegram alluded to f
our Washington correspondent. We omit j
discussion upon it:
From the Daily Congressional Globe, Jctm,,]
Mr. Howard. I do not wish to prowj
discussion: but as bearing somewhatupoai
of interposing safeguards in out l 1
* * -«Tid to the chair a telq
x . ’"ofe!
qnrm i .
fatten here, I beg vo^._
whioh I have just received from
friend of mine in Atlanta, Chi., and I aria
indulgence of the Senate to have it read, As
igg tbe condition of things in Georgia. It j
■ tins to ns alL
inteib—. w *. The secretary win r
The Yice-Preaiuc^- *-
the paper, unless objection be m&ue.
The Chief Clerk read as follows:
Atlanta, Ga., January 10,1870.|
Dean Sib—Knowing the deep interest*
feel in the operation and effect of the late *
to promote the reconstruction of Georgia,"
the passage of whioh yon took such a distil
guished and effective part, I take the libertjf
communicating a few facta in relation tot
present political situation in this State. As
the conflicting and doubtful statements of i
newspapers, affected and controlled by pni
spirit, the conclusions of an impartial sped
upon the spot, with ample opportunities of a
serration, I hope will prove of interest as«
as use to yourself. The first great fact wli
almost immediately strikes attention in d
State, is the fact that the whole commnr
here is divided, politically and socially, isj
two parties, the one loyal, and in favor of u
United States ’government, and the others
posed to, and entertaining a bitter and ins
cable hatred for it.
When I say they are thus opposed tot
United States Government, I do not means
present Administration alone, but the u|
Government itself. No matter how repre
ed, they hate it, its flag, and all that apper
to it. It is true they call themselves Bo
erets, in order to nominally identify then
with the party of that name North, and so g
themselves an appearance of being a natid
party; bnt this is a mere ooverfto hide
real sentiments, and I verily believe that i
the honest Democrats of tho North known, i
now know, the real spirit of these men,:
would indignantly change their name r
than share it with them. When the late (
gia set was 'passed, its first effect waa to qij
and subdue the rebel element to a great ex
bnt it was not very long before they regaii
great portion of their audacity. They had jj
ceeded so well before in nullifying and i
ing powerless, in all its important features, ^
former bill that they took courage and )'
diately began to look about for some i
however desperate, to override the provwj
of the present act and seize upon the ”
government.
The bill waa, however, so skillfully daj
and wav ao far-reaching in its requireu
that no other device oould be found to i
its operation bnt the desperate and infu
one of concerted and deliberate perjury. 1
leaders, some of them high in position and]
fluenoe, openly advised such a plan of opr
tion; inducements, promises, and threats f
freely offered to lead to the desired re
Then the newspapers, veiling their advioe i
a very thin disguise, through which each r
sive feature of criminal intention was d
seen, advocated this polioy of perjury. A|
liberate oonspiraey was formed to seize i
the 8tate government, the leading featm
which was that the Democratic members oil
General Assembly, and such others, whonj
Bryant, they could purchase and intimii]
should one and all, whether disqualified or I
walk up and take the oath prescribed 5/1
set, knowing that by so doing they oould f
the control of the Legislators, and, just as]
did before, snap their fingers in the face d
United States government, and do as <
pleased. Suoh was the plan of operatiNj
cided upon by these oonspiratore. Aid
Ml this was quite apparent, being a mi
publio strSet-talk on their pert, yet I mustj
less thet I did not believe they would dw
carry it oak I did not think that these 1
would be so lost to all feelings of honor'
you know we hear a great deal of “Sou'”
honor, chivalry, and all that—and self-ru.
as to deliberately, and with offloial recon
prove it in most eases, commit perjury.
But from the first day of the eenvei
the General Assembly all doubts were at asl
I was present in the House and saw these j
one after another, walk up and with their r
on the Holy Bible swear to what they kr
be false ; and had not General Terry, i
posioaoed of wisdom and sagacity as
xtotism, intervened end organized a 1
juire into the eligibility of those pets
act of December 22,1869, would have 1
no more account than sb much blank f
Gen. Terry to doing right; be should not*
tottered with. No other oourse of actios)
that which he has adopted oan reach tij
and defeat the objects of the oonspiratc
hope that Congress will stand firm, tost a
its auemhere wm be Influenced by the sti
oft-repeated cry that the military should i
terfete In the affairs of this State, ntilitr"
pptism, and all that. I sofaaanly i
that if not directly sustained by the i
of mfliUrypewer, the act of December ft]
or any other act whioh Ooegreas may pt'
not be worth the paper on which it i»i
The truth is, that Cbe Stale of Georgi
deyjpst.se much ip estate of rebellion^
it was, and should be treated liiy
oordingly. Neither life”
a. Before I a
free that
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