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Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON, FEBBPABY_I 1 jS72L—
Tho Agency in Operation.
The Atlanta Agency, it seems, is fairly, or un
fairly, started at last, and the “ reliable gentle-
joan” reports that the Reconstrnctors and De
structors hare everything their own way, and
wffl be able to wort their own will upon Geor
gia to the fullest extent We shall all see and
probably feel what their purposes are in due
♦,-ma, and, meanwhile, let us not run ahead of
the music to see trouble and misfortune before
they come. The true course of our people is
to arm themselves with patience and fortitude,
and resolve to endure with quiet composure
what they cannot possibly remedy or redress.
"While we are careful to improve every chance
whioh offers for self-defence and omit nothing
which may possibly subserve the ends of good
government and self-protection, we are not
called upon to vex ourselves by apprehension,
or by any opposition to the dominant faction,
which is clearly ill-timed and futile. The good
book enjoins ns “Fret not thyself because of
evil doers.” Let ns attend to our farms and onr
merchandise—our great material, social, intel
lectual and religious interests—satisfied that,
after all, however Congress and the radicals
may rage, they cannot take ns from under tbs
government and superintendence of God Al
mighty. They cannot stop the sun from shin
ing, the rains from falling or the herbs from
yielding fruit after their kind.
An old farmer, the other day, had the true
philosophy. Says he : So long as they cannst
stop my com and cotton from growing, let them
rip. They will bleed my pockets heavily, bnt I
will work tnS harder and pray for better luokin
the T"'Violence and rascaii-
patience with their _ s much „ pos .
** * ut l S2 wearout the devilry of the Kadi,
cals and Congress by good farming al^d minding
my own business. I will offset their maJ? V0 ~
lence with the smiles of my wife and children
and the beneficence of Nature.
The history of mankind from the creation, is
at best bnt a struggle of honest toil against tho
damnable extortions, cruelties and injustice of
governments, and we in the South, since the
war, have been but remitted to tho common
fate. We make a fuss only because we have
been raised to freedom, and deluded into think
ing onr once happy exemption from the com
mon lot of mankind, a thing of coutso. Bnt in
becoming more or less the sport and prey of in
justice and oppression, - wo only sink to the
common level and have no special right to com
plain. "
Let the people learn more to seek their solace
in improving their private conditions. Let
them apply themselves vigorously to industry
and sonnd personal, household and plantation
economy. Let them surround their homes
with all the substantial comforts of life, at
tend more strictly to all their social and re
ligious duties, and turn a deaf ear and a blind
eye to politics, until an occasion arises in
which they can do their political condition
some servioe by mixing in this turbid and dir
tf element. Let os have time, faith, patience,
and well-directed energy, and, perhaps, in the
Providence of God, onr political affairs may
improve. If not, so long as we improve onr
pecuniary, moral and social condition, we shall
at least make some offset to the political de
generation.
A New Agency.
A very singular ””2^, dispatch to-day states
that Senators Ferry, Edmunds and Carpenter
aro considering the statns of Georgia, whether
as individual Senators or as a committee, the
dispatch does not say. They are talking abont
going clear way behind the adoption of
tho State Constitution, and reappointing
Gen. Roger as provisional Governor, and de-
r 1 —•• *U*U*M. tmm ... I.. L—» of m
Constitutional Convention, as wo suppose. This
would‘take ns back to the begining, and give ns
a start de noto. We beg Messrs. Ferry, Car
penter and Edmunds to go a step farther. Take
us back to the year 1775, in good old colony
times, and then turn ns loose to shift for our
selves with the lights before us.
‘‘Much dissatisfaction and difference of opin
ion exist in Congress about Georgia,” saith the
dispatch. That’s unfortunate. Down here there
is bat one opinion among all men willing to
cam their own bread. The sentiment nmotfg
all such is entirety harmonious; bnt we do not
obtrude onr opinions on Congress. Wo can’t
help ourselves, and therefore put onr thoughts
in our pipes and smoke them with emotions too
deep for ntterance. Why should Congress, with
whom we aro as clay in the hands of the potter—
we say, why should Congress feel “muc7i dissat
isfaction?”
Cannot Congress please itself? Does it hear of
the slightest resistance to its will ? Does not the
dough become perfectly plastic and resistless,
just as it kneads it ? Whether they make ns a
vessel of honor or dishonor—a whistle—a penny
trumpet—a cock robin—a rabbit or a negro
drinking enp—don’t wo stay made just as their
hands leave ns ? What, then, is the matter with
Congress ? Is Congress ashamed to have the
poor endorsement of the Atlanta agency to the
Fifteenth Amendment ? Do they think the
thing a little too barefaced ? Do they dislike
to count such an ogency as the voice of a State
ratifying and confirming tho Fifteenth Amend
ment? Do they see the people hooting at the
' wretched imposture ? Posterity pointing at it,
as the “damned spot”—children hooting at it I
What is the matter ? Must we prepare tho way
for a reconstructed agency ?
Tee Washington correspondent of the Balti
more Sun thinks that Congress is not very anx
ious to admit the unreconstructed States, and
says: “It is all a sham that they are disturbed
by the cry of rebels. The truth is that they fear
the political power of the Southern States on
financial and other questions, and this makes
New England so much opposed to admission.—
-The cry of ‘rebel* is a convenient one for them
to use to cover up their real motives.”
And well they may. When the South gets in,
and this political business is fixed up, a Wes
tern alliance is os snre as death or taxes. The
Westand South will smash New England mo
nopolies like eggshells. The Puritans robbed
US of about $4,000,000,000 worth of slave pro.
petty, in tho name of God and humanity. We
will, in the name of justice, and for the common
interest find some way to unlock their coffers
and make them take their chanoes with the rest
of the people. With the negro question out of
Bight, New England may lookout for the hand
writing on the wall. It is a grim satisfaction to
reflect that Southern hands and heads will have
a vast deal to do with it, too.
Toe Southern Plantes and Farmer.—We
find the January number of agricultural
magazine on our table. It is a pamphlet of
sixty-four well filled pages, and published in
Richmond by Charles B. Williams, Editor and
Proprietor, assisted by John M. Allen, in the
Agricultural Department. It is an old periodi
cal, having been established in 1840. Subscrip
tion prioe, $2 a year.
Tnwim Accident.—During servicM at St.
-Joseph's Chapel, Liverpool, last Sunday, a false
.alarm of fire was raised, and a panic and rash
, occurred. Fifteen people were trampled to
death and a great many badly injured.
The first number of the Georgia Collegian, _
semi-monthly publication, under the manage-
ment of the stadante of the Untoeroity of Geor
ge, will shortly make its sppearaaoa.
- Now for It.
We suppose the wreckers at Atlanta are gloat
ing, with greedy eyes and slobbering lips, over
tiie sure prospect, as they see it, of the oldship,
high and dry on the reefs, cargo and treasures,
completely at their mercy. They have crawled,
and slandered and showed false lights, and done
things almost unspeakable in their infamy to
effect this object. In all.the annals of this
sickening business of reconstruction, there is no
more loathesome and disgraceful chapter than
that which records the triumph of the Georgia
Radicals. It has peculiar features of odium
about it that, so far as we know, are unmatched
elsewhere. We have exposed them heretofore,
however, therefore ne ed not say anything farther
here and now.
The prospect, apparently, is dark enough,
bnt let ns not take the blues. The Treasury
will be mercilessly depleted, and kept in that
condition, of course. Taxes will be high, prop
erty low, and business flat. All these evils must
result from such an administration of affairs as
is promised by the developments at Atlanta.
To expect anything else would ba folly. If we,
in common with the vast majority of the peo
ple of Georgia, are not wofully deceived, the
object of all this wretched *tyranny and fraud
of a second reconstruction, is plunder. If it is,
the evils we have named are obliged to follow.
The tax-payers of Georgia aro going to be as
wholly at the mercy of the spoliators, as ever
disarmed travelers were under the guns of a lot
of brigands. We may as well make up our
minds to it at once—provided, of course, fu
ture developments do not show a lack of
strength and unity on the part of the plunder
ers that we do not mark now.
Now what are the people to do ? We hardly
know what to say except to urge them to “push
material interests, and put-
ting as mnch money as possible in their pockets.
That is the first and most important matter to
be looked after. Next, no resistance to law,
and a sedulous care to keep the peace and pre
serve public order. It may be difficult enough
get along any way, and therefore so mnch
themor'C yeason to make matters just as smooth
as possible. Nelt; let every man commence
when the spoliators begin ill?* 1 raid, and keep a
, _ „ ? . - .in—, wouiainnve again, jjisk says ne naa a long
record of it When a job is done, n — conversation with Grant to this effect, and the
the penitentiary. We saw another bale atone
of our warehouses the other day, which in the
centre had about one hundred pounds of fine
sand. The sample was the heaviest we ever
felt. Sixteen of seventeen bales were found
water packed the day before. Fanners make
nothing by such practices.
Smash Up on the Opelika Road.—Yesterday
was the regular up day on the Opelika
road.' The train from here for Montgomery
bad a car ran off near Salem, and one freight
train ran into another near Yongsboro, thus
blocking np the road completely. It has been
proposed to pul broad wood wheels on the cars
and ran them over the dirt road for safety,
speed and convenience. • /
Will be a Long One.—It Is'- probable the
present session of the Superior Court will be a
long one—continuing some six weeks- perhaps.
Southern Fair Association.—To last night
$3500 had been secured. Three men subscribed
$2000. Many moneyd men have not yet been
seen. It is not doubted that the requisite
amount can be obtained—say $10,000 or $15,-
000.
THE PRESIDENT AND THE GOLD RING.
Fisk and Gould’s Testimony.
The Washington correspondent of the Balti
more Sun epitomizes the testimony .of Jay Gould
and James Fisk, Jr., given last Saturday before
the'House Committee on Banking and Currency,
engaged in the investigation of the gold frauds
and collapse in Wall street last September.- We
append a portion of the Sun’s report:
In the meantime Mr. Gould had become ac
quainted with the President’s brother-in-law,
Mr. Abel R. Corbin, and they frequently talked
over the effect of the decline of gold on the
business of the country, and both agreed that
no man was then making a dollar in legitimate
.trade, and that it would grow worse as gold de
clined. Corbin believed with Gould that if this
theory were correctly represented to the Presi
dent and Secretary Bontwell it might induce a
change. Accordingly Mr. Gould wrote to Mr.
Bontwell, and received a reply which did not
indicate what the Government would do infinan-
^MjEwaslieno^hisway to Newport on board
of Fisk & Co.’s steamer. Gould wrote a letter
to tho President stating that he had information
that three hundred vessels were then on the way
to Liverpoolfrom Mediterranean ports, engaged
to move the crops in Europe. Gold was then
33 and 34 in New York, and In sending this let
ter to the President by Mr. Fisk, Gould request
ed the latter to say to Grant that if the Govern
ment would decide not to sell gold, the price
could be put up in the market, the crops could
bo moved by rail to New York, and thence by
water to European markets, and that business
would thrive again. Fisk says he had a long
and who helped it along. Let all their schemes
go down in black and white. Memory may
fail, bnt figures won’t. It must all bo atoned
for some day—tho whole bill must be settled—
and therefore no item should be overlooked.
Let these wreckers and their abettors under
stand that yon are keeping books, and that
when your time comes the whole account will
be squared. Let them know that what theyget
must be cash in hand. No promises .to pay will
be worth a cent. Let them understand that
taking stock in schemes of future plunder is a
losing business. The whole load will be pitched
to the dogs the very first whack the people get
at it That is settled, if anything is. If any
man is fool enough to go in with these
plunderers, thinking to realize a good thing
some day out of the spoliation of his
fellows, let him be warned in time. If
he don’t get his pay beforo they are driven
from power, he won’t get it afterwards, certain.
The people will not pay the debts saddled upon
them by Radical rascality.
Bearing all these thiDgs in mind, and draw
ing the consolations therefrom that they furn
ish, we think tho people can survive even four
years more of Bullock’s rale.
The Georgia Press.
The Chronicle and Sentinel hears very gen
eral complaint of tho scarcity of labor in that
section. In some neighborhoods, large planta
tions are entirely destitute of hands, while in
more favored localities the supply is a little bet
ter. All accounts agree, however, upon the
main fact, that unless labor can be secured
from other sonrees, a large breadth of land will
> an ——ii>i«.ua. ...
There has been no apparent emigration from
this section. A few isolated cases are known
where a single hand here and there has left, but
no general removal has taken place. The
scarcity is mainly attributed to the fact that
fewer women and youths hire this year than
formerly, and to the general desire on the part
of large numbers of negroes to squat npon the
old worn out land of planters and farm on their
own hook.
Within tho last few days several planters
have sent to North Carolina for laborers.
A female infant, apparently two or three
months old, was found at the door of tho Au
gusta Orphan Asylum, on Monday morning.
The child, from its clothing, which was marked
“Lemmel” and was of fine quality, and other
circumstances, was evidently that of a woman
in the highest walks of life. A woman’s foot
prints were found near the door.
The Chronicle and Sentinel says that if re
ports it hears are trne, the actual amount paid
into the Treasury from the nett earnings of the
State Road, for the last six months, does not
exceed fifty thousand dollars, if, indeed, it
reaches that sum.
The Constitution has the following article on
the organization of the lower branch of the
Congressional Agency. We ask attention to it,
especially by the constituents of these erratic
gentlemen:
The House Election.—The House partially
organized this morning by the election of Mc
Whorter for Speaker. The vote stood 76 for
McWhorter and 52 for Bryant, 4 for Price and
and 1 for John Smith—133 all told.
The following Democrats took tho responsi
bility of going against the party action:
Harrison, of Franklin; McArthur, of Mont
gomery; Parks, of Gwinnett; Radish, of Ap
pling ; and Smith, of Ware, voted straight out
for McWhorter, the candidate of the Bollock
faction.
V. P. Sisson, of Fulton, threw away Ms vote
on John Smith; known to fame though unknown
to the Legislature.
Morgan Rawle3, of Effingham; Irwin, of Hab
ersham; Tomlin, of Randolph; and Welchell, of
Hall voted for Price in the face of the fact that
he declared he was^iot a candidate.
It is with profound regret that we learn of the
action of these gentlemen. They have destroy
ed the unanimity of the party, when the one
hope of success was in entire unity and have
contributed to, if they did not secure the tri
umph of the Bullock faction in the organization,
with what result remains to be seen.
There were a number of Republicans who
would have voted against McWhorter if the
Democrats had stood united; but they were un
willing to tear off from the party on tMs ques
tion without the certainty of success.
H the five Democrats who voted for McWhor
ter, bad voted for Bryant, the vote Would have
stood, MaWhortar 71; Bryant 57. Adding the
five who threw away their votes, and we should
have had, McWhorter 71; Bryant 62. We are
assured that more than five of McWhorter’s vo
ters would have gone for Bryant, with a united
Democracy. This would have given the Speak
erahip to Bryant, and secured Conservative
oommittees, and the prestige of a Conservative
victory.
There was no political principle involved, bnt
simply a question of expediency to expose the
destructive rule of a faction.
The Democrats stand responsible for this de
feat Let them be as pure as they may be in
their motives, they have, in the hour of peril,
left the party, secured the triumph of the ene
my, and the fact remains prima facia a blot
upon their political reoord.
From the Columbus Bun of Wednesday we
quote as follows:
Iron tor Cotton.—One of oar manufactories
bought a bale of cotton the other day weighing
1,025 pounds, which, when opened, was round
to contain a large piece of boiler iron. The
metal was in the centre of the cotton. Iron —
be bought far obeeper than 23 crate per pound.
Of eouiae the teller suffered. The termer who
brought that bate of cotton to the city, if ha
Inew the fact whra he sold it, ought to be amt to
result was that the President wrote to Bontwell;
but we learned subsequently that tho latter had
made-no reply.
WHY BUTTERFIELD WAS APPOINTED.
The witness then detailed how, through Cot-
bin’s influence, General Butterfield was made
assistant treasurer at New York. It was first
intended to make Catherwood (Corbin’s son-in-
law) the assistant treasurer, but it was opposed
on the ground of relationship, and Butterfield
was put in. This appointment confirmed to
Gould Corbin’s influence with Grant, and, they
both talked over frequently the financial situa
tion. Corbin said gold ought to bo higher,-and
he believed it could be put up and money made
out of tho transaction. Having got Butterfield
in tho proper office, Corbin said he had. con
ceived the idea of controlling the Government
-on the gold question. Gould says that Corbin
commenced at once to interview Grant, and that
he (Gould) afterwards interviewed Corbin.
The latter reported that he conld regulate Grant;
and on these assurances the first transaction
was made.
MRS. grant’s PIN MONET. v ~
Gould testifies that he bought two 'millions
and a half of gold at 37. Half a million was for
Mrs. Grant, half a million for General Porter,
private Secretary to the President t’ ao res j
was divided between Corbin and’Gould. Fisk
.lues that Corbin told Mm that Mrs. Grant’s
gold had been sold ont and netted a profit of
$25,000 wMch had been remitted to her at
WasLin^ton. This was in the beginning of Sep.
tember,“audit Appears from the evidence that
Fisk did not step into iuC jpecfilitlCfi until
then, when Gould introduced him to Corbin by
letter, which was followed by a three hour’s in
terview. Corbin said on tMs occasion to Fisk
that everything was fixed ; that the understand
ing with Grant was perfect; that no gold was
to be sold by the government and that no un
easiness need be felt, and that Fisk could go on
and buy. The latter says he was inclined to
doubt Corbin’s statement at first, but he was so
explicit in his details and positive of the results,
umi uu imuny uciioveu m no D aia. vurau ic-
peated: “I am right behind the tofone. Give
yourself no uneasiness.”
TUB PESIDEST IN THE RING.
About September 15th, Corbin applied to Fisk
and Gould for a trustworthy, confidential man to
take a letter in great haste 'to the President, who
was then at Washington. Pennsylvania, and to tele
graph instantly back what the President said. W.
O. Chapin was the man selected. He received the
letter from Corbin at 6 A. at., and started for that
place, reaching the house where Grant was staying
at 7 a. si. the next day. He sent np a card, *‘W. O.
Chapin, from Mr. Corbin,” and the President came
down at once, and, receiving the letter, partially
read it, went ont of the room, and in abont fifteen
minutes returned, and said to jMr. Chapin,‘‘ifis all
right.” Fisk testifies that soon thereafter they re
ceived a telegram from Chapin saying, “Letter
delivered. All right.” This was the Wednesday pro
ceeding tho Friday of tho panic. The next, day
(Thursday) Corbin was interviewed and stud to Fisk,
“All is now right. That letter has clinched it.” Fiek
and Gonld then say that on that state of facts, that
the government wouldnot interfere! the aftomoon
of that Thursday they .went into Wall street and
commenced to buy gold.' When they Commenced
gold was 8G^,‘and before dark it v&b 41. Fisk in
terpolates hereian account, of, the ;dmn?r given by
members of the Union Leaguo to Secretary Bout-
well, in New York, on this very afternoon, at which
ho says the bears failed to get anv financial infor
mation, which caused a split in their ranks and com
pelled them to commence to cover their “shorts,”
thereby adding to tho general influence that was
sending gold upward. This was incidentally, ho
adds, a part of tho combination.
BLACK FRIDAY.
On Friday morning—known as the dark Friday—
Fisk testifies that Gonld and himself reappeared in
Wall street, and that William Belden, a banker,
came to them and said he had hoard that gold was
going still higher; that Fisk and others were buy
ing, and that to get in the pool he would give Fisk a
letter—which was read to tho Committee—authoriz
ing him to buy and eell, and that he would stand the
profit and less. One Albert Speyer, who has been
examined, was Belden’s broker. Speyer was at once
sent to the gold room to buy, and found gold had
risen to 43. He filled his orders and came back, and
said he believed ho would “buy some on liis own
hook.” FiBk says he told him that the thiDg was
beginning to look scarce, and if he wanted some of
it the quicker he got some of it the better! (There
was great laughter in the committee room at the
manner in which the witness related this. J When
Speyer got back to the gold room befound great ex
citement, and participating in it himself, he bought
all the way to ICO. being one of those kind of men,
said Fisk, that he believed if gold rose to 160 in
in three minutes, that it would go to 300 in an hour.
While this was going on in New York the witnesses
state that they learned that Secretary Bontwell was
cloaeted with President Grant in Washington at
10:30 a. »., and abont 11:30 overcame an order from
tho Secretaiy to General Butterfield to sell four
millions of government gold. The first they knew
of this was when this man Speyer- came into the
back office of Heath & Co., hatless and with his
shirt collar tom off, shouting in a frenzy of excite
ment, “Mein Gott, Mein Gott, the whole thing is
played out. Bontwell has sold- four millions; and I
gots fifty millions at 60!” j-
THE SMASH-tP.
The witnesses detail how they left the street by
the back door, fearing violence in the excitement,
and got np town where Fisk at once saw Corbin for
an explanation of this sudden action of the govern
ment. addressing him thu3:
“This is a d——d pretty job you have set up.”
“What situation aro yon in ?” inquired Corbin.
FiBk answered: “We can’t tell yet. We may all
be rained; we don’t know.”
Mr. Corbin answered. “There must be some mis
take. Our arrangements were explicit, and Bout-
well must have sold gold contrary to Grant’s or
ders.”
Later In the evening of the same day, at another
interview, Corbin said he and his wife would go at
once to Washington and have the sale of gold with
drawn. Mrs. Corbin said that she had received a let
ter from Mrs. Grant saying that she wished “the
speculation was over; as itmadejier husband ner
vous.” i**i.-I ,
This was the last that Gould and Fisk saw of
Corbin. J ay Gonld testifies that Assistant Treasur
er Butterfield was in the speculation, and that he
(Gonld) was carrying gold for Mm at the time.
At the close of Fisk's statement, the Chairman of
tbe Committee said: “Are you able to atate of your
own knowledge if any government official was en
gaged in this transaction?” Fisk answered: “lam
under oath, and I have stated exactly to the Com
mittee what connection any government official had
with it. I have stated to yon the precise offices in
which Grant figured, and I anderrtood it on the in
formation derived from Mr. and Xn. Corbin."
In concluding, Hr. Fisk asked tbe Committee to
summon Corbin, Mrs. Corbin and Kn. Grant, and
submitted that the Erie Railroad, New York Cen
tral, and Atlantic and Great Western were doing a
rtrj poor business, owing to the fall in prices caused
by the decline in gold—tecta, they maintain, that
justify their position last spring on this
:B*S" TELEGRAPH.
FROM ATLANTA.
Special to the Telegraph and Messenger.']
Atlanta, January 27.—A communication was read
from Bullock, relative to seating members in place
of the ineligible ones.
Mr. Bryant made a lengthy speech denying the
right of the next highest candidates to seats.
Tbe Speaker ruled that the law and precedent
Van-anted the swearing in at once of the new mem
bers.
Mr. Shomate appealed from the decision, taking
the ground that we were not organizing under the
laws of Georgia.
Mr. O’Neal sustained-tbe Speaker’s decision.
Mr. Scott indulged some caustic remarks upon
the decision of tbe Chsir. hTO
Mr. Turner epoke sustaining the Chair.
Mr. Price spoke characterizing Bullock’s message
as untimely, and said the House should organize
before this subject is considered.
On taking the yeas and nays, the Speaker was
not sustained—the vote being 63 to 65.
A motion to adjourn was lost. •
Pending a motion to elect a pro tern. Speaker, the
House adjourned to 3 o’clock.
After reassembling, considerable discussion
sprung np in reading Bullock’s communication of
this morning.
Fending the discussion, the'Honse adjourned.
The Senate did nothing bnt qualify Welch ana
Burton.
The Republicans seem determined that the House
shall not complete its organization till these new
members are qualified.
Rmmor says that Underwood succeeds Chief
Justice Brown.
All tho present incumbents of the State House
offices remain but Angier.
Blodgett, Parrott, Farrow and Mott aspire to Sen-
atorships. Georgia.
FKUA WASHINGTON.
Washington, January 27 Mr. Porter announced
the approval of the Virginia bill.
Platt, Ridgeway, and Miliins were seated.
The House voted to seat Porter, hut he is not
here.
Gibson, who is not present, will be seated upon
appearing at the bar of the House.
Hooker, HcKenzio and Segar’a cases are held by
the Election Committee for further consideration.
The Senate resolution, nullifying tho decisions of
Revenue officers regarding whisky seizures, was in
definitely postponed. This action releases a million
of dollars worth of California whisky
No action yet regarding the Virginia Senators.
Revenue to-day, $679,000.
Delano has gone to Ohio for ten days.
The President has nominated John Ortoro, for
merly editor of the Memphis Post, Commissioner
of Education, vice Bomar.
Corbin, the Presidect’s-hrother-in-law, was before
the Gold Panic Committee to-day.
Senator Lewis, from Virginia, was seated iG-d»v.
Porter, after a struggle, was also seated.
The President, replying to Mayor Bowen and
others, regarding Washington, denied any intention
of recommending appropriations for improvement
in Washington. Such recommendations would be
disregarded. The Western members wero especial
ly tenacious on this subject; but tho year closing
March 3d would show a great reduction in tho pub
lic debt, and less taxation, and Congress, by that
time, might see tho necessity of improving the
capital. He had no doubt tho time would come
when Cabinet Ministers would be furnished with
houses free of charge by the government.' To sup
pose that men representing tho nation could, on
the pittance of $8,000 a-year, give grand dinners
and recent.™^ - was 8 i m p]y t jj; on i 0 na.
There is no necessity of the Senate passing the
bill abolishing franking privileges. Dawes’ speech
to-day was considered a complete vindication.
Gen. Terry officially-communicates to tho War
Department concerning the organization of the
Georgia House of Representatives. After a care
ful examination of the law, Terry says he is con
vinced that no authority exists for giving the seats
of ineligible members to those receiving tho next
highest vote. Members from newly restored States
get no hack documents, they having heretofore
been distributed.
CONGRESSIONAL. _ 1
Washington, January 27—House—A bill estab
lishing certain steamship lines, was introduced.
The Secretary was aBk«i why tie allows the col
lection or certain liarbor fees in New York after the
Supremo Court declares them illegal.
A bill allowing Virginians who have conscientious
scruples to affirm was passed.
Mr. Porter, after a prolonged debate, was seated.
The Speaker announced a special committee on
Postal Telegraph, consisting of Washbumo, of Wis
consin, Lawrence, Dawes, Davis, Paljner, Wood
ward and Beck. . *
A bill abolishing tho franking privilege was
passed—174 to 14. It repeals all laws and parts oj
laws giving to any officer or department of tho Gov-
erment or other persons the right either to send or
receive through tho mails, free of postage, any let
ter, document or other mailable matter.
Dawes made a successful defence against Butler’s
attack on him regarding extravagance. Among
other statements, Dawes said that after visiting the
departments and remonstrating against extrava
gance, he (Dawes) visited tho President, who said
ho knew littlo of any other than tho estimates of
tho War Department, which he was satisfied could
not bo cut down.
A joint resolution forbidding assessments from
subordinates for presents to superior officials, was
passed, and goes to the President.
A motion to call np tho hill creating Omaha a port
of entry, brought forth expressions in favor of
the abolition of many unimportant ports of entry
now in existence.
Senator Lewis from Virginia was qualified.
Tho bill making Omaha a port of entry was finally
passed.
Tho Currency hill was resumed and discussed to
adjournment.
FROM VIRGINIA.
Richmond, January 27.—General Canby, to-day,
issued an order that &U military commissions acting
under the reconstruction laws will cease, and all
citizen prisoners be turned over to the State courts;
that all citizen prisoners undergoing the sentence of
a military commission shall serve ont such sentence,
unless released by an United States Court; and that
all civil officers appointed under the Provisional
Government shall vacate when their successors are
elected or appointed, nnder the new Constitntion.
Gov. Walker has issued a proclamation convening
the Legislature on Tuesday, February 8th.
John L. Marye, Jr., of Fredericksburg, was to
day appointed Lieutenant Governor, by Governor
Walker, to fill a vacancy occasioned by the election
of Lewis to the Senate.
FROM ATLANTA.
Atlanta, January 27—Tho Senate qualified iwo
members to-day from the Eighth and Tenth Dis
tricts.
The House received a communication from Gov.
Bullock endorsed by Gen. Terry, which was read,
stating that certain persons were here claiming the
seats of those declared ineligible by the Military
Board, they having received the next highest vjste.
Bullock recommends that they be allowed to take
their seats, also, that General Teny endorsed this
course, but was willing to submit the question to
the House. The House refused to seat them by a
vote of 63 to 65.' ’ !
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, January 27—The Legislature has
passed a joint resolution petitioning Congress not
to reduce the duty on sugar and molasses.
The bill amending the gambling law reinangueates
the old system of private gambling and black-mail
ing.
The State Central Committee and Collector Gassy
in conference, agree that sixty-four changes should
be made of lukewarm Republicans and Democrats
in custom houses, and their places filled with active
Republican politicians.
Flies In the Beeenstroetion Lock.
Washington, January 27.—Senators Carpenter,
Edmunds and Ferry are considering the status in
Georgia. They will favor a new election throuj^iottt
toe State or the reinstallation of General Eager es
Provisional Governor. nRii
Both toe new election and retestaUetiOD of Ro
ger seem probable.
Much dissatisfaction end difference of opinion ex
ists in Oongreea about Georgia.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Paris, January 27 No eeoonat Of troubles in
Paris or elsewhere.
The French army will not be reduced this year.
The rote and discussions on commercial questions
were compromised so sa to prevent the threatened
change of the Ministry.
The Papal authorities have forbidden the publi
cation of toe Bishop of Orisen's letter to Archbishop
Kalinea. It is supposed the Bishop of Orleans com
mits himself against toe Pope’s infallibility.
The Duke of Bromelier, a leading Orieaaiat, is
dead. He was eighty-five years old.
Madrid, January 27 Snows delay toe election
returns. The known result* show five Unionists—
ten Democrats, and six Progressives, and one Car-
list.
The defeat of Montpenaier is confirmed.
The Spanish Consulates at Mobile, Charleston and
Galveston, are abolished.
The Spanish Consulate at Mobile is transferred to
a Vice Consulate at New York.
Authorities classify the Deputies elected to fill
vacancies as follows: Progressionists, 18; Repub
licans, 4; Unionists, 3; Absolutist, 1.
Havana, January 27.—YalmazedareportsBayamo,
Ignoli, and Manzamilli tranquil, while Guantonoma,
Baracoa and Sanbago are in tho hands of toe Insur
gents.
London, January 27.—An agent leaves soon for
New York, to protect foreign stockholders in Erie
by voting stock held abroad.
GENERAL NEWS.
Cincinnati, January 27.—Col. Digby, of the Eng
lish army, married Miss Lillie, daughter of W. S.
Grosbeck—Bishop Rosecrans, Catholic, and .Mr.
McUwaine, Episcopal, officiating.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Hie Prince—Don’t know How to Treat Him
—Congress and Southern Hallways—More
Currency for the South and Southwest.
Washington, January 26,1870.
Wditors Telegraph & Messenger:
Prince Arthur had just arrived when J closed
my letter . of Saturday last. Sunday he at
tended church, and he has since been engaged
in sight-seeing and being seen. The city news
papers have described daily what he ate, drank
and wore the day before; what he said, what
did, and who were his visitors. These impor
tant foots have also been’ telegraphed north
ward, eastward and westward. It is not every
day we have a Prince among ns, yon see. There
is, however, a good deal of misconception con
cerning this visit, which, if the Prince reads the
daily papers, must affect him unpleasantly.
(Hie people do not seem to know how to treat
him, nor the papers to treat of him. The fact
is that he came to Washington, as any English
man or Frenchman would have come, to see
the American Capital, and those who fill, how
ever unworthily, the highest offices in the gift
of the people. He bears no message from his
royal mother, and.his visit has no diplomatic
importance whatever. Ho does not care to be
Btared at or lionized, and good sense, as well as
common politeness,would dictate that he should
be treated with at least tbe conrtesy due to a
private citizen. As it is, tbe press and people
are swayed by two impulses— toadyism and
blackguardism. Tbe latter impulse seems slight
ly the strongest. The papers call him a “Bojnl
Snob,” and tbe people after staring him out of
countenance, and making him the target of in
numerable opera glasses and eye glasses, pro
nounce PrillCC Arthur asallow, stoop-shouldered,
oommon-looking boy. Qur 'aSt young men
pronounce him verdant looking, because like
most English yOntbs, be retains a boyish look,
and in this respect differs from “Yonng Amer
ica.”
Bat the truth is, he is a nice looking boy.
This is not only my opinion, bnt tbe opinion of
a very charming young lady whom I heard make
at the Capitol on Monday last In fact, Prince
Arthur looks very much as the Prince of Wales
did when he visited this country in 1860. I do
not see that wo exalt onr Republicanism by
calling Prince Arthur a snob. Neither do I see
why we should abuse him in tbe press and ont
of it, because be happened to be bom a mem
ber of tbe Royal Family of England. I don’t
suppose be conld have helped it, if be bad wished
to. In this respect an unborn member of the
Royal Family has no more choice than an un
born member of the Smith family. Bnt every
body knows, or ought to know, that Queen Vic
toria is a good woman, and a good mother; and
that she has brought np her children as any
good mother would who was not a Queen, and
whose sons and daughters were not Princes and
Princesses. I know of no reason, therefore,
why, when one of Victoria’s sons visits this
country, he should not be exempt from both
toadyism and blackguardism, which are as dis
tasteful to Prince Arthur as they are to every
person of refinement.
Anything relating to railroad construction
in the South is interesting to all sections,
for by and by the smallest local road will
form a portion of a great net work of railways
extending through all the Southern States, and
across the continent to the shores of tbe Pacific.
There are now pending before the United States
Senate a number of bills relating to railway con
struction in the South and Southwest. A bill
introduced by Senator McDonald, of Arkansas,
asks fora grant of land in aid of a railroad
and telegraph line from the junction of the
Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to the Mexican
boundary, at or near Presidio Del Norte, on the
Rio Grande, with a branch east of 9S degrees
of west longitude, to Lawrence, Kansas—dis
tance 1400 miles. Mr. Kellogg, of Leuisiana, in
troduced three railway bills at the March ses
sion. The first is entitled, ‘.‘The Pacific Cen
tral Transit Railway.” It proposes to ran from
New Orleans to the Rio Grande, in-the -direction
of the Mexican port of Mazatlan on the Paoifio.
The next is for a Southern Pacific railroad near
the thirty-second parallel of latitude, the length
of which is to be 1900 miles. The third bill
asks for the right of way of the road from New
Orleans to the Rio Grande, in the vicinity of
San Bias—a total of 12,000 acres, with a guar
antee of interest at 6 per cent, (coin) to the
amount of $1,500,000 per annum.
A bill introduced by Senator Nye, of Nevada,
provides for the construction of a railroad from
Galveston, Texas, to Fort Gibson, in the Indian
Territory, with a branch to Little Rock, Arkan
sas—distance 700 miles, right of way 800 feet,
making a total grant of 24,500 acres. Senate
joint resolution No. 9, proposed by Senator
Morton, of Indiana, provides for granting the
right of way to the Memphis, El Paso ana Pa-
cifio Railroad, giving the company 20,000 aores.
There are several bills revising land grants,
lapsed by reason of nnfulAilment of the law.
Among these is one for a road from Selma to
Gadsden in Alabama. By Senate bill 109 the
grant to the Selma, Rome and Dalton Road is
confirmed. Senate bill No. 148, offered by Sen
ator Spencer, of Alabama, gives the right of v
and ten sections of land per mile to the “New
Orleans, Mobile.and Chattanooga Railroad Com
pany”—length of road, 600 miles. Mr. Spencer,
also introduced three railway bills—1st, for a
road from Belma, Alabama, to Memphis, Ten
nessee. 2nd, from Decatur, Alabama, to Aber
deen, Miss.; and, 3d, from Chickasaw to EDer-
ton. Length of the three roads, abont 570
miles. The total number of miles of road pro
posed under these grants to the South and South
west; (without estimating amounts included in
grants already received,) is 6,920 miles; land
grants aggregating 125,781,400; subsidies in
toe form of guaranteed six per cent interest on
a total of $93,800,000 bonds, toe annual inter
est being $5,956,000.
The present session has already ratified toe
introduction of additional railroad bills into the
Senate. Mr. Kellogg, of Louisiana, has intro
duced Senate bill No. 389, making a grant of
lands to the North Louisiana and Texas Sail-
road Company, to aid in the construction of a
railroad from the Texas line, west of Green
wood, via Greenwood, Shreveport, and Monroe,
to a point an tbe Mississippi river near Vicks
burg The bill ree'tes that by an set of Con.
grass, approved Jane 3, 1866, Ueds were grant
ed to aid in the construction of this roed, and
that by tbs terms of tbs giant, the road was to
have been completed by tbe end of ten years
from the date of said grant, or the lands revert
to the United States; that the road was com-
plsted an part only at to* beginning ofth* war,
and work on it was entirely suspended during
and in consequence of toe war, and the com
pleted part greatly damaged and destroyed by
the military forces of both armies daring the
war; that the North Louisiana and Texas Bail-
road Company are now at work, repairing and
rebuilding that part of the road thus injured
during the war, and they now ask for a new
grant of land in aid of tbe undertaking.
Mr. Kellogg has also introduced Senate bill
No. 388, to aid in the construction of a railroad
and telegraph line from Marshall, Texas, to San
Diego, California, with branches and connec
tions. This appears to be an opposition scheme
to the Memphis and El Paso Road. The route
of this proposed road is from Marshall, Texas,
by the most direot and eligible route to be de
termined by the company, to a point on the
Trinity River, in Texas, near the 32d parallel
of north latitude; thence to a point at or near
El Paso; thence, through New Mexico and Ari
zona, to a point on the Bio Colorado at or near
the southeastern boundary of the State of Cali
fornia ; with branches, namely: from Marshall
southeastward to Opelousas, in the State of
Louisiana, to connect with any road or roads
that may be constructed to meet said road at or
near Opelousas; from a point between the Trin
ity River and Marshall northward to Folton,
Arkansas; from a point on the main line, not to
exceed sixty miles from San Diego, northwest
ward to San Francisoo. The capital stock of the
said company stall consist of one million shares
of one hundred collars each, whioh shall, in all
respects, be deemed personal property, and
shall be transferable in such manner as the by
laws of said corporation shall provide. The bill
asks for certain privileges, comprising grants of
land, etc.,subject to the following conditions:
“That the company 6hall commence the work
on said road within one year after the passage
of tMs act, and shall complete not less than fifty
miles per year after the seoond year, and shall
construct, equip, furnish and oomplete the
whole road within tenyears.from the passage of
this act.”
As “Dalton” got a rap over toe knuckles for
reposting by telegraph what Forney’s Chronicle
said of Governor Bollock, the reconstruction
job, and toe United States Senatorship, it is
only fair that be should be credited with the
later dispatcb, in the same issue, to whioh the
telegraph, or toe types, or both, give the smoky
signature of “Pittsburg.” Although the state
ments put forth in this last dispatch have been
discredited in some quarters, and were attacked
by Butler in toe House yesterday, I still adhere
to them, knowing my authority to be undoubt
ed. For toe withdrawal of toe order then re
ferred to, or for subsequent changes of policy,
I am of course not responsible. What I sent
was a trne statement of the case £S it then
stood.
It looks now as if the South and Southwest
will be able to secure more currency or circulat
ing medium. Sherman’s speech in the Senate,
the other day, was a strong argument in favor
of those sections. He said that three States,
with one-fifteenth of the population—Massachu
setts, Rhode Island and Connecticut—have
about one-third the circulation, while tbe South
ern States, with a population of eleven millions,
have not had the bank circulation of Massachu
setts, and the West is almost as badly off. The
bill under discussion provides for toe issue of
coin notes, and for an additional circulation of
$45,000,000, of which it is proposed the South
ern States shall have $25,289,570, and too West
ern States toe remainder. This bill was under
discussion in the Senate again to-day, and ~
with opposition from M” Sumner, who pro
ceeded to Sie nis views on.the finances at such
length as to pretty effectually clear the galle
ries ; and especially the ladies’ gallery, where
Mr. Sumner fondly imagines he has his most
devoted admirers. The more these Radical
meddle with toe finance^ inore glaring the
fiYluouues of their utter inability to control
them.
Butler got off his speech in reply to Mr.
Dawes to-day, which he had advertised so ex
tensively beforehand. It fell very fiat, how
ever. Mr. Dawes’ arraignment of the adminis
tration for extravagance has had its effect all
over toe country, and all Mr. Butler can do or
say now will not neutralize it. Butler read to
day from printed slips, and as he held the paper
close against his nose, and very often lost his
plaoe, he did not appear to even his nsual ad
vantage.
The President signed the Virginia bill to-day.
There will be no opposition to her Senators, but
some of the Representatives will have a hard
time of it. It is to be hoped Mr. carpet-bagger
Porter, the hero of the ball and chain, may be
unseated.
The Darien surveying expedition has sailed
from New York, and is expected to reachits des
tination abont the 3a of February.
Mareizek’s Opera Troupe is drawing crowded
honses at the National Theatre. Mira Kellogg
was enthusiastically received last evening, it
being her first appearance in toe opera here for
three years.
The attempt to establish a Democratic daily
here, is likely to prove a failure. The Demo
cratic M. C.sdonot feel inclined to subscribe
$100,000 for the purpose, and a daijy could not
be sot afloat in Washington for less.
Dalton.
Atlanta Congressional Agency.
From the Constitution.]
Friday, January 28.
Senate.—Senate met at 10 o’clock, and was
called to order by the .President.
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Prettyman.
Roll called and journal of yesterday read and
approved.
On motion of Mr. Harris, toe Senate took a
recess till 12 ar.
12 O’CLOCK M.
Senate met at 12 o'clock ir., and was called to
order by the President.
Mr. Speer moved that toe Senate adjourn un
til to-morrow morning at 10 o’clock.
Mr. Nunnally moved that they adjourn to
meet January 29th, 1900.
Mr. Brock wished to know if toe President
had any information which he could give the
Senate as to any certainty of a session being
held to-morrow, or- at any other time ?
Tho President stated to toe Senate that he
was looking daily for a communication to the
Senate, and did not know when it might ba re
ceived.
Mr. Speer’s motion was carried, and toe Sen
ate adjourned till to-morrow, at IQ o’clock a. m.
House.—House called to order at toe hour of
12 o’clock, ax., by tbe Speaker, Hon. R. L.
McWhorter.
- Prayer by toe Rev. O. McWhorter.
Anderson arose to speak. Tbe Speaker said
toe first business in order was the reading of toe
Journal of yesterday. Mr. Anderson said there
was no Journal of yesterday, as there was no
Clerk duly elected and authorized, and he pro
tested against any reading of the proceedings of
yesterday.
The Speaker overruled the objection, and one
Johnson proceeded to read the Journal.
Mr. Shumate, of Whitfield, said toe Journal
of the 26to inst should be read; but the Speak-
er ordered the Journal proceeded with.
Mr. O'Neal, of Lowndes, arose to speak, but
the Speaker said he wished to have on order
read from the General Commanding.
A Mr. Newton then read a communication
from Gov. Bollock to Gen.■'Terry, asking for
his written approval of his order of yesterday.
Gen. Terry’s reply was that he approved of that
order.
O’Neal, of Lowndes, moved to reconsider the
action of the house on yesterday in reversing
toe Speaker, and made a speech, and resigned
the floor to Darnell, who called (he previous
question.
Mr. Price, of Lumpkin, raised a point of or
der. He said that Mr. O’Neal never gave any
notioe on yesterday of a motion to reconsider.
The Speaker overruled him, and said his ob
jection came too late.
Numerous members attempted to be heard,
but the Speaker poshed the question to a vote.
Mr. Scott, in toe din, moved to adjourn, and
called on toe Speaker to sustain his ruling of
yesterday. Tiie Speaker overrated tbs motion
to adjourn, and the vote being taken, declared
toe motion carried.
The Speaker then put the questior, »hnii the
decision of the Speaker be sustained?”
On this question the yeas and nays wero
oalled.
When Mr. rumlin’sname waa eaSed, he arose
to say tost ho regarded the whole fifing as pre
matura, and therefore voted “Ha”
The yeas were 68; nays 5ft.
The Speaker declared the motion to —itiain
the Speaker carried.
Mr. Tweedy offend a resolution, whisk was
road.
This was, with a number of whan sea a, that
the House seat the claimant members.
Mr. Bryant arose to a point of order.
McWhorter wouldnot notice Urn, hot nut the
previoua question and declared it oa&iea.
Yeas and nays were caBed.
Mr. Bryant agate demanded to be heard on a
point of order but amid much confusion „ .
Speaker bullied him and everybody elseo«M
points of order. oat «(J
The clerk pro tem., Ur. Newton, (ss anw f
ed by the President) proceeded with the
the yeas and nays. Hie confusion and,
was so great that the responses or ni«n T r
bers could noth*heard. s
Newton, fits pro tem. clerk by appob
of McWhorter, and toe Speaker rushed the '
and verification thereof ao rapidly that nWki
amid the noise, could not tell how they
corded as voting, but the Speaker ded!?
there were 65 yeas and 50 nays, and tWf
claimants should be sworn in. 1
Mr. Scott gave notioe that he would to-n
row morning move to reconsider, and that
swearing therefore could not proceed, and'
protested against it ^ 1
The Speaker overruled the objection, and i
reeled toe claimants to come forward a: "
qualified.
Mr. Scott then moved to adjourn, and saUI
the Speaker waa an honest man he would' ^ 1
jk [Torrible row.]
Great confusion followed at these arbitn,
measures. Tweedy’s whiskers approached^
ant, and there was great danger of instantT
Usion.
Loud cries of order.
Mr. Anderson, of Cobb, obtained the
and asked that toe motion to adjourn be
drawn. He said he was for order and tbe d'
nity of the House. The honor of the mem&
demanded it. Let the swearing proceed, ul
would preserve his self respect The SpeabJ
had refused to hear any points of order
even though they were oppressed, he deaa- ’'i|
order. If the Speaker forgot his self-resneM 1
that was his own concern.
Order was restored.
The motion to adjourn was lost
The following persons then came forward mI
were qualified:
Gass—W. L. Goodwin.
Carroll—-J. R. Thomas (o).
Upson—'William Guilford (o).
Jones—Hutchings (o).
Fulton—Henry O. Holcombe.
[Mr. Holcombe bowed very low when he tod!
the oaths.] "
Spalding—Charles O. Johnson.
[This proves to bo the one who was fignriij
as a quasi Clerk in the House to-day and yest«, ■
day. After being sworn he stepped back aajl
continued the caU.] 1
Dooly—Joseph Armstrong.
Gordon—J. B. Nesbit
[No credentials of these members were oil
fered, but they were passed in, all in a bunch.'!
Tbe Speaker then declared that the next bust!
ness in order was the election of a Clerk. *
John J. -Newton, (of some county?)
Mark A. Harden, of Bartow,
Spalding, of ,
Cleghom, , of Mnsoogee,
Were announced as candidates.
Mr.' Scott stated that he raised this point ti
order, that there were other members here tohj
sworn in. He mentioned members elect nn&j
Bullock’s proclamation, from Madison, Telfaiiti
Marion, Wilcox and Irwin counties, and dJ
manded that they too be sworn in. |
The Speaker said they might be sworn in af:e|
awhile, but not now.
Mr. Scott then said that be desired to saytl
if it were true, as the Speaker said, that he i
acting under positive orders from Mr. Bailed
or Gen. Terry, he had no more to say, he subl
mitted to the bayonet; bnt if this thing vecl
proceeding according to the Speaker’s own x
tionjrad absolute wilL ^ ai ’ be fonnd st(
10 Z attempting to prevent this, and i
the other outrages of this day, upon the Consii
tution and toe laws of this State, and this dl
grantly unjust trampling upon toe rights of til
House, and the good people of thi3 grand c'.J
but down-trodden Commonwealth. (Imm®*!
applause.! -— |
The Speaker said he would have the galleiia|
cleared and Jhia dignity preserved. ?
When Mr. Scott’s name was called in the el»|
lion of clerk, he said believing the ConstitnfeJ
and laws were being overridden, he would ml
vote. - - I
The Speaker then declared that the vole sto-xl
as follows: J
Number of votes cast 128—necessary toil
choice 0.->. *•» » >f
139
Newton
Harden......;.....
Claghom..
Carrington
Spalding
A. L. Harris
Leave of absence was here granted to seTerij
members.
Motion to adjourn was lost.
Motion to go into election of messenger xk|
made and carried.
Mr. Tomlin nominated that well known ahi
faithful old public servant, Uncle Jesse Oslic,
Sims, (c) nominated Moses H. Bently, (c.)
The Speaker declared toe vote stood as fd-|
lows:
Total number cast, 000.
Necessary to a choice, 00.
Bently received 00.
Oslin received 00.
The Speaker declared Bently elected Messes!
ger. j
[Applause from Radical side. No objectic:|
from the Speaker.]
The Speaker then said that toe election fo:|
Doorkeeper was in order.
A. H. Gaston, of Bibb, J. Lraeberger, Jesse I
Oslin, James B. Gordon and T. N. Satterne!i|
were nominated.
CoL Tnmipseed nominated bis particnli:|
friend, A. L. Harris. [Mnch applause.]
The Speaker said, “Nothing like fidelity—;!
has its reward.” i
The Speaker declared that the vote for Doc-fj
keeper stood as follows:
Total cast 118; necessary to a choice, 60. I
Gaston, (c).. 5*1
Lineberger KI
Satterfield -j
The Speaker declared Mr. Lineberger elected. I
Some indignant African objected to this Ml
incorrect. The Speaker ordered the vote veri-1
fied again, and announced that it thus stood: I
Lineberger 6l|
Gaston, (c) ,...:Sl
Satterfield
And that Lineberger was elected.
House then adjourned till 10 o’clock a. ji. to-S
morrow. - _ ]
The Speaker first announcing that he would!
to-morrow, ask leave of absence for himself for|
a few days.
Leave of absence granted to Warren, of Quit-
man and Tumlin of Randolph. I
[After the adjournment, Tweedy, Fitzpatrick I
and another Bnllockite, made a furious assault |
npon Capt. J. E. Bryant, of Augusta.]
Bow Pomp anti Cuff Tax the “Buck-
r»su”
A Charleston correspondent of toe Hartford!
Times furnishes the following facts and figure* |
of negro taxation in that city:
I send you an official schedule of our city tai l
ation—the printed returns for the last fiscal yd 1 !
made up to the first of September. The rate oc I
real estate is 2] per cent. The total city till
you will see amounts to $651,881 62. Of tin J
amount $500,519 75 is derived from real esiattJ
Of bonds, eta., returned for taxation, the?
amount was only $1,271,371 and the tax asses
ed was $6356 85; the tax on dogs 2 per cent-!
yielding $1022; on sales of goods, of all kinds I
4 per cent., $59,347; sales on cotton J per cent I
$21,633; an income tax, 3 per cent., $7379;I
receipts at ootton presses, 3 per cent., $12841
sales of stocks and bonds, $ 1931, and so on, I
through the long du»m»l chapter. It all coino j
on real estate, whioh pays about 5-6 of the city I
taxes levied upon Charleston oadtr this nondel
script rale of mil. nig. What a story for bust I
stem and money in the South! Why, sir, ontbij
top of all this city tax there is a State tax ot|
$1 20 additional—by Which $20,000 pays $'kj
taxes.
We are not quite ao bad off as this in Geor-J
gia yet, but there’s no telling when our tiR*|
will come. Tbs first step was taken t-
such a consummation on Wednesday, in the I
ganization of the Agency at Atlanta. When
reach it fully we haven’t a doubt but that
lode & Co. wfD improve upon Boot! and t*!
gang. Those Democrats and snti-Radieab *^1
voted for McWhorter for Speaker, or tin* f |
away their votes, will hardly find much coneo^l
tion in that ccodHias of affairs foe thsir squen* j
ishnraa or something wane. We ask toeir4|
tontioo, especially to then* facte and figure*-
The provincial _
coed a decree imputing an si
cents per pound on coffee, to take effect on * ,
after toe first of Fehruroynsat. Troop***!
being sent into the south eC Hayti ton®!?
rone unimportant ptdT’ * * —-
threatened the- new
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