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■- ^ p* . ■ The Greoi*"ia ^W'eekly Telegraph and Journal <te HVlessenger. 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 ,rowSroehtigeSk*ad hadhegwtow* 5 *j $ ■