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L€t and & atera.-wryrtWwWW 'rmmuei *; ... , „ . Telegraph and Messenger. 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. “* 4«wwm la * “* 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. iufcr:. " 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** '.d4vL.LV' eSSL" r - -V*'J ,T ' ' v *"5 « A Borne . notreeBONdSBt writes the . ttonfasdardeto at ttnFtth, as foilo*^ ^*SgSlaSi££'j' 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 ** property’ 'of beiWl , Iftertl bymcdff ieT Horn < , or exsepAi •fSift