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’Weekly Tele^ramli and Journal &c Messenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
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MACON, FEBRUARY 4, 1870.
A Minnesota farmer has cleared $150,000 in
three yean.
Nobib Carolina proposes to exempt cotton
and woolen mills from taxation for five yean.
The chivalrous Pollard, is writing unpleasant
things about his wife in the Baltimore papem.
TWwnrr. Webstxe’s old farm in Franklin, New
Hampshire, was sold a few days since for $15,-
000. ^
Ohio needs reconstruction. One thonsand
divorces were granted in that State daring the
year of grace 1869.
The fourteen freshmen who were suspended
at Williams College, last term, have been al
lowed to return this term.
The Messrs. Fairbanks, of St. Johnsbury, Vt.,
have used at their extensive scale works during
the last year nearly 3,000,000 feet of lumber,
the largest amount ever consumed in twelve
months.
The Mobilianb.—Last week the Lydia Thomp
son Troupe retired from the Mobile boards to
make way for Jefferson and his Rip Yan Winkle.
Lydia carried the hearts of the gay and festive
Mobilians by storm.
Don PiAiTsays the Prince was not escorted to
church, Sunday, by a baud of music, because
“the bands were engaged in burying deceased
darkeys. All the brass bands of Washington
bnry negroes in the day time, and serenade the
Mayor at night.”
No Ice Down East.—The Tribune says con
sternation prevails among the ice cutters on the
Maine rivers. New companies have been formed
and new houses bnilt for gathering the winter’s
harvest, but scarcely any ice has yet been ob
tained.
Mbs. Evans Wilson, the author of “St. Elmo,
was on the train which met with the recent ac
cident near Cleveland, and was, perhaps fatally
injured.—Charleston Courier 21 st ult.
Mrz. Wilson was noton the train in question,
and consequently was neither fatally, or in any
other way, injured.—[Eds. Tel, and Mess.]
Taming a Demagogue.—Contrary to the gen
eral expectation, Rochefort, since his sentence
to pay 3000 francs, and serve six months im
prisonment, has shown no disposition to oppose
its enforcement, either in the columns of the
paper, La Marseillaise, from the public nos
trum, or through the regular channels of the
court.
Steeling Lanier.—The funeral of Sterling
Lanier will take place this morning at the Mul
berry Street Methodist Episcopal Church at half
past 10 o’clock. The deceased was long identi
fied with the active business life of Macon, and
bis death removes one more of the ancient land-
markers. A fine old gentleman—a true-hearted,
honest man.
The Sixteenth Amendment of the Constitu
tion of the United States is now before the peo
ple on the recommendation of Boston. It pro
vides that no citizens shall be disfranchised on
account of sex, and Congress'shall have power
to enforce this amendment by appropriate leg
islation.
Vermont is to submit the question of Woman
Suffrage to the people next May. ■
Broke Out in a New Quarter.—The United
States Consul at Athens reports the total de
struction by earthquake, on the morning of De
cember 29, of the town of Santa Maura, on one
of the Ionian Islands of that name. At the date
of the advices, January 1, ten dead and fifty
wounded men had been taken from the ruins.
There was not a house left standing. The sur
vivors slept in the open air or under tents.
Menznoitis in Atlanta.—The New Era of
yesterday says that Hon. S. A. Darnell, mem
ber of the House of Representatives from Pick
ens county, is very ill with the Cerebro spinal
Meningitis. He was about during the forenoon
of yesterday, though he complained of not feel
ing well. At dark last evening his.illness was
considered very serious. Several cases of this
fearful disease have been reported in Atlanta,
though none are reported as having been fatal.
General Ihrie, Paymaster U. S. A., has re
turned from Alaska, bearing with him a recom
mendation to President Grant from General
Thomas W. Sherman for the sale or lease of the
fur seal islands of St. George and St. Paul. He
proposes to the Secretarv of the Treasury to
pay a quarter of a million dollars in coin yearly
for the exclusive lease of the islands for a term
of twenty-eight years, provided the islands are
continued as military reservations. He will en
ter appropriate bonds with acceptable sureties
in San Francisco for tho faithful performance
of the same.
Square on the Head.—Don Piatt, the Wash
ington correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
mercial (Radical,) hits tho nail fairly on the
head, as follows:
“The policy of vengeance has been tried, and
it ends in the mournful announcement that re
construction is a failure, unless we can raise
up a new people—a people we have conciliated
and protected to reconstruct upon, instead of
the people wo have persecuted. We have
kicked with vigor, and the more we have kicked
the deadlies has grown tho antagonism.”
The same writer deolares that the small men
who wrangle over the South fear her still.
Louisiana State Fair.—The Mechanics and
Agricultural Fair Association of Louisiana, at
New Orleans, send us the prospectus of their
fourth grand Stato Fair, to take place on the
grounds of the company from the 23d of next
April, to and including the 1st day of May.
Their premium list covers sixty pages of the
pamphlet and includes $1700 in premiums on
Cotton alone. The brokers and-factors of Now
Orleans offer $500 each for the best bales of
long staple, short staple and Peeler cotton; but
nobody offers, so far as we see, a premium for
the best product—per acre—per five acres—per
ten acres—twenty acres—fifty acres and one
hundred acres, so as to touch the root of tho
business and show what can bo done by Louisi
ana in the way of cotton cropping.
A New Army Bill.—The new army bill con
cocted by Logan, of Illinois, has been reported
to the Honso of Representatives, and will
probably pass both Houses. It provides for an
Army Board to revise the army list and examine
all officers. Those who do not pass the examina
tion are to be mustered out. The generalship
and the Lieutenant Generalship of the army are
to be abolished upon the death or resignation
of the present incumbents. The number of
Major Generals is to bo reduced from five to
three, (good bye, Hancock!) and of Brigadiers
from eight to six. The President is authorized
. to select, without regard to seniority, such Gen
erals aa are to be retained. The heads of de-
‘ partmebta and chiefs of staff are to have the
rank and pay of a Colonel instead of a Brig
adier General, and all brevet ranks are to be
abolished. The retired list is to number two
hundred and fifty officers and no more. The
pay system is revolutionized. Pay is reduced,
Wanted a Situation!
Judging from the newspapers we should say
about twenty per cent of the young men of the
country are out of employment Never has
there been a time since 1837 when work was so
scaroe and the range of employment so rapidly
diminishing all over the country—the cotton
growing States excepted. A few of our great
mechanical pursuits—ship building for exam
ple havo ceased almost to exist and all are
curtailing their operations—from the Govern
ment downward. The Government has dis
charged thousands of hands within the last few
days. All the mills and mechanical shops are
diminishing products and turning workmen over
to idleness and want; and the same is true of
the mercantile establishments. Tho consump
tion of goods is rapidly falling off—for tho
masses of the people are becoming too impov
erished to buy with liberality.
We have, in fact, entered, as a people, the
narrow and difficult path of liquidation and re
sumption ; and it is bound to be a long and a
rough road to travel to tho masses. To the
laboring people of tho country it will be a route
through the Slough of Despond; but to the
bondholders and contractors a highway through
the land of Beulah. To the former, heavy
taxation will be supplemented in its grievous
effects, by scant employment, unsatisfactory
business and diminishing values of most all
kinds of their property. To the latter the sun
will brighten and tho birds sing loader with
every onward step. With every new advance
their bonds and securities and cash aro rising
in relative value, till their capital is doubled in
relative power. The end of the roads will dis
play a little and all-powerful monied aristocracy
on the one hand and a fearfully distressed and
impoverished people on the other.
If there be any sanctuary or refuge from the
storm ahead, we believe it will be found in
Southern agriculture. This is, in fact, the only
industry in the country which wears a bright
and promising outlook. The western farmer
may produce food in abundance, but food is
not aU of living, and already he is groaning
over low prices. The Southern farmer can, if
he will, prodnee food and produce cotton, to
bacco, sugar and rice, which do not and may
not feel, to a very injurious oxtent, the depress
ing effects of the crisis. The probabilities are,
that for years to come, cotton, at least, may be
a remunerative crop, and well reward the indus
try of the cultivator.
We say, then, to the young men of the South
and the North—you who want “situations”—
here they are by the thousand, and the only
promising situations we can discover. Possess
yourselves of a small tract of Southern land and
pitch in like a man to hard labor, resolved that
its products shall carry you safely through tho
long pecuniary night ahead of us, and furnish
you a home and a competency. It is a marvel
that any young man should want a better situa-
tian, than he can make to his own hand under
the smiling skies of this Southern land, and the
various and rich crops Providence holds out as
the reward of a vigorous and intelligent indus
try. "
Georgia Academy for the Blind.
We have the eighteenth annual report of this
institution for tho year 1SC9. It has thirty-
three pupils, and was carried on at an expense
of abont eleven thousand dollars for the year,
not including two thousand five hundred dol
lars expended for fencing and repairs. The
Board of Instruction numbers five, of whom
Prof. W. D. Williams, A. ML, is principal.
The studies pursued were spelling, reading,
arithmetic, English grammar, geography, ele
ments of natnral philosophy,chemistry, astrono
my and geology, rhetoric, moral and mental
philosophy, algebra and geometry. It is claim
ed that tho pupils have made as rapid progress
in all these studies as any pupils endowed with
all the physical senses. Music has also been
pursued with wonderful success, and is a source
of unfailing delight to the pnpils. The Princi
pal acknowledges the receipt of two copies of
the “Old Curiosity Shop,” printed in raised let
ters at the expense of the. author, Mr. Charles
Dickens.
Mr. Williams, who has charge of this institu
tion, is rarely endowed by nature and education
for this important and responible position, and
brings to his work the experience of many years
of .actual service. He is a patient, benevolent,
gentle and kind-hearted man—untiring in his
efforts to benefit the unfortunate subjects of this
noble charity. The total receipts from pay pnpils
for the year amounted to only six hundred and
sixty-three dollars, which together with the
State appropriation for maintenance, amount
ing to eleven thousand dollars, was expended
with the exception of eight hundred and twenty-
two dollars and sixty-seven cents, balance on
band.
Poor Fellow.
The New Era says the Telegraph and Mes
senger, “ true to its Democratic instincts, com
bats the education of the masses.” May God
bless the poor ignorant creature and give him
honesty and candor. The Telegraph desires
nothing more than the education and elevation
of the masses, and would seek to inspire in ev
ery man an ambition to improve himself intel
lectually, morally and pecuniarily. But when
it comes to taxing ono mass to improve another
mass, nothing comes of it but oppression, injus
tice and tho tax-collector’s per centum. What
ono gets for nothing ho does not value, while he
who is coerced into subsidizing the cause of ed
ucation instinctively hates it as thq quasi
source of oppression and robbery. We believe
Government should confine itself to its legiti
mate business, and leave churches, schools, corn
fields, kitchens and private families to be regu
lated by the people.
Dr. W. A. Mathews.—This gentleman, who
was declared by "the Agency] to be entitled to
the seat of Hon. Wm. J. Anderson, of Fort Val
ley, in tho Senate, by reason of haviDg tho next
highest vote will now doubtless take the seat, os
we learn that meetings of citizens, regardless
of party, were held in Fort Valley and Perry, re
questing Dr. Mathews to do so.
The unwarrantable ejection of Col. Anderson
In this case iR relieved of a'great deal of its un
pleasantness, by tho fact that his seat will be
oecupied by an honorable, high-toned,Southem
gentleman, in whose keeping every interest of
Georgia, social and political, will be safe.
Would that tho same could be said of the rest.
Beniamin Roach shot and killed his brother
David, at Wolf Lako, Yazoo county, Mississip
pi, on Wednesday last As represented by the
Yazoo Democrat, it was one of the most cold
blooded murders ever perpetrated. The mur
dered man was sitting by tho fire reading a
newspaper when shot.
At the late Woman’s Right Convention, in
Washington, amembersaid that “womanwants
bread, she wants work, she wants clothes.” Es
pecially clothes. If there is anything a woman
wants worse than clothes, it is a' husband—un
til she gets him.—[Chicago Times.
Bullock in Danger. —The Constitution refer
ring to. that Washington dispatch published a
fews d-\ys since with reference to Roger's ap
pointment as Provisional Governor, says :
Among the facts that aro undoubted,, is that
Governor Bollock's bold usurpations of au
thority, and rash violation of the Georgia Bill,
have endangered his official tenure greatly, and
nearly Becured his removal. At one time the
order oame for his removal, subject to General
tsonnfr,' taken is/refion : but finally “discretion” de- I
^ .1 an.-a. mms Meat of tbeaaare I scattered about over im -
, ^ . J be ought to have been!
Another Stride.
The Senate Postal Telegraph bill which the
Committee on Postoffices reports with a recom
mendation that it pass, is another stride by
Radicalism towards a partisan despotism. With
the postoffice and telegraph service of the coun
try in the hands of the Government, that is, the
Radical party, there will hardly be any hope at
all for an overthrow of its power. When they
get control of the telegraph, the railroads will
be next in order for seizure. What a tremen
dous power these institutions will concentrate
in their hands is apparent at a glance. Every
body knows and feels the grip of the hand that
reaches out through the postoffice service, and
what an enormous engine of corruption it
moves. Its employes, with scarcely any excep
tions, from the highest to the lowest, are blind,
unquestioning, zealous servants of the party in
power. In elections their strength is thrown
solid for it, and if it ordered them to go beyond
their duty and make their office a direct and
avowed partisan agency few would balk. That
they have not gone further, heretofore, is
simply because they have not been bidden to
do so.
Now, add to this army of drilled partizans
the thousands of telegraph operators and rail
road employes, and what limit is there to the
power they en masse and by virtue of their po
sitions will have ? At a signal from Washing
ton the country can be flooded with any story
that will ensure partizan success, no matter
how wild, and its refutation denied transmission
over the wires and railroad lines. The party
at Washington may assault the opposition line
at any point, by means of these agencies, and at
the same time paralyze it for defenso. 'Suppose
the telegraphic lines of the country all in Radi
cal hands and in the heat of a bitter campaign.
What is to hinder their being closed to Demo
crats at a signal from Washington ? Upon what
ground does anybody ask ? Disloyalty, for ex
ample — something, anything that may bo al
leged to be inimical to the government.
There aTe a thousand pleas that might be
set np in defense of such action. It is a char
acteristic of tyranny that when it deigns to
give a reason for its acts, to find them plentiful
as blackberries. Depend upon it, the party that
Bastiled, shot, and hung at will through the
North, that cheated McClellan oat of the soldier
vote, and that has carried reconstruction
through at the South, will not lack for reasons
when fresh spoils are at stake.
We do not know that this bill will become a
law, but it will most surely if the Radicals com
prehend the power it gives them. There may
be enough Trumbulls, Ferrys and Stewarts to
reject it, but we doubt it. We are prepared to
see it rushed through, and the telegraphic busi
ness of this country subordinated to keeping
in power the party that has ruled and robbed
the people for ten long,black, bitter years. God
save tho poor, dishonored, mutilated, fragments
of liberty and the Constitution, may well be
the prayer of every patriot heart, if this fresh
triumph of despotism is achieved.
Pleasant Amusements.
Very often, when children get together, they
want to havo some kind of amusement that is
new. They get tired of the old ones. And then
the question comes np:
“ Who knows a new play ?”
Let me tell you about some plays very com
mon at the West, among children. They may
be new to some of yon at least.
One is called “Guess.” Itaffords a fine chance
for the display of ventriloquistio powers, and is
quite amusing.
The children form a circle, each one joining
hands with those on each side. Then some one
is detailed to act as “ Guesser.” This one takes
his place in the ring, and is blindfolded. He is
then given a stick. He then says “March!”
and the circle moves around until he says
“halt!” He then reaches out his stick and
touches some one in the circle. The person
touched takes hold of the stick. The “Guesser”
then asks: “Who is it?” And here the fun
comes in.
The person who holds the other end of the
stick mnst respond to all questions asked him
by the “Guesser,” but must try to alter or dis
guise his voice in such a way as to deceive the
other. If the “Guesser” fails to name the right
person, after asking five questions, the circle
marches again, and another member has to go
through with the examination. If, however, the
“Guesser” calls the name of the person he is
questioning before the five questions are asked,
this person takes his place in the ring, and he
becomes ‘‘Guesser.”
Another very popular play, and a very amus
ing one, is called “State Coach.”
The children sit around the room, taking care
that every seat is occupied so that one boy or
girl is left to stand in the centre. The person
thus left standing proceeds to give each person
in the room the name of some part of the stage
coach. For instance, one is given the wheels,
another becomes the axle, another the tongue,
one the reach, another the tire, and so on. If
desired, some one can be called the horse, an
other the tugs, and the different parts of tho
harness be divided among the children. It
affords much amusement to give some one tho
name of grandma, another that of grandpa,
and another grandma’s snuff box or grandpa’s
cane.
The person remaining standing then begins
in something like this way:
The driver got np one morning and hitched
np his horses. He got out his coach and ex
amined the tire, looked at the wheels, the hubs,
and the axles; fixed the reach, cleaned the
tongue, and put on the horses. He then drove
down to the house and got grandma and grand
pa, her snuff box and his cane, and started off.
He went about a mile and then the stage coach
tipped over.”
Now the fun is like this: If you had the name
of driver and I was a hub, and Johnney,here, was
a tongue, when the person who stands in the
centre calls our names—that is, you understand,
the names ho has given ns, we must get up and
turn around and then sit down.
Thus, if he says “The driver got up,” you
must get up and turn around; and then he goes
on—“and looked at the hub of his wagon
wheel”—why, there I, being hub, must get up
and turn around; and if any one in the room
happens to be called a wheel, that person must
go through the same performance; and when
he tells abont the tongue, then Johnny must re
spond in the same way. If yon should not re
spond when he calls your name, you must pay a
forfeit Yon see, therefore, that you must be
on the lookout, and not be caught napping.
When he says the stage tipped over, then en
sues a general scramble, for we must all change
seats, every one mnst secure a new one. Of
coarse the person who stood in the centre will
aim to secure a seat, and if he gets one, it is
plain to see that some one mnst be left without,
as there were only seats enough for all the
children but one at the commencement of tho
play. The person left standing must take the
place of the one who told us about tho stage,
and see what sort of a story he can get up about
the different parts of the coach, the harness,
grandma and her snuff-box, and grandpa and
his cane.
Be lively and keep on the alert, for ten
chances to one he will call your namo when
least yon think. This is a very lively play, and
I know you will like it. Try it.—By E. E.
Bexford.
Labor Reform Convention—The Plat-
form—Nominee for Governor.
Concobd, N. H., January 28.—The Labor Re
form Workingmen’s Convention, claiming the
control of 8,000 voters in the State, assembled
to-day, and chose Chas. T. George, of Bara-
sted, President. Resolutions were adopted or
ganizing a distinct political party; not to make
war on the rich, but to protect labor; opposing
the repudiation of the national debt, bnt say
ing its payment should be made in such maimer
as to fall upon all alike; opposing grants of
pnblio lands to railroads and speculators; de
claring national basks monopolies and green
backs the best currency; indorsing Congress
man Dawes in his speech and declaring it the
key-note of the labor reform pferty; exacting
that duties shall be taken off teas and sugars;
demanding the repeal of State laws preventing
saviDgs banks taking over 5 per cent, interest
while national banks take from 8 to 12; de
manding a law to prevent the employment of
femaleB and minors in factories'over ten hours
per day, and complimentary to soldiers of the
late war.
Samuel Flint, of Lyme, was nominated for
Governor. He is an old freesoiler and an advo
cate of the payment of bonds in currency and
1 h to the homeboiar—r • — »> >■! ■■
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
A Big Fuss /»ver a Small Subject—“ Loyal”
Art—Bon well's policy—Theatrical—Ter-
rltorinlizlig the District—News, Gossip.
etc. I
Washington, January 29,1870.
Editors Tclefraph and Messenger:
There ha? not been, during the present ses
sion of Corgress, a livelier or more spicy de
bate than tiat in the House on Thursday over
Porter, ore of tho carpet-bag Congressmen
from Virginia. In July, 1864, this Porter de
clared, in a drinking saloon in the city of Nor
folk, that “This Government is a G—d d—d
humbug from beginning to end,” and that he
“wouldrather live under Jeff. Davis’ Govern
ment than this.” In reply to a question from a
bystander, ho said, further: “ Yes, by G—d; I
stand here in the city of Norfolk, and proclaim
loudly and above board that the United States
Government is a bogus, rotten and corrupt Gov
ernment from beginning to end.” Upon these
and other charges Porter was tried by a military
commission, found guilty, and sentenced to six
mouths in iail. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler ap
proved tho finding and sentence. Upon this ro
cord, Mr. Wood, of New York, opposed the ad
mission of Porter to a seat in Congrefes. During
the debate which followed, Mr. Holman, of In
diana, said, as reported in the Globe:
“And yet this House excluded Judge Young,
of Kentucky, and John Brown Young, of Ken
tucky, for words uttered before the beginning
of the war, before the crash of arms had stirred
up whitever of patriotic blood there was in this
Iand.nords far less obnoxious than those proved
to haw been uttered by the gentleman whoso
claims are now being urged for a seat on this
floor. Thoso words of Judge Young and Mr.
Browl were brought up here six and seven years
aftervard for the purpose of excluding Conserv-
ativesfrom seats in this House; and yet those
words of defiance, these words of enmity utter
ed agiinst the United States and her chief ex
ecutive officer, proven by a solemn rocord of a
court-martial, are deemed as nothing when
urged against this gentleman, who is willing, if
admitted here, to stand by that majority which
now controls the affairs of the country, so far as
the House of Representatives is concerned.”
Mr. Vtnrhies took the ground that the Honso
had no p»wer to make inquiry as to Porter.
“His constituents sent him here, and back of
that we cannot go.” In replying Mr. Holman
said:
1 Sir, tie fact cannot be evaded that this
House hasexcluded from membership here men
elected by conservative constituencies who, at
tho very intsot of the war, in the year 1861,
had uttereq indiscreet words in condemnation of
the policy which was then opening upon the
country. In this cose a record is brought in of
deliberate conviction of n citizen by court-
martial, approved by a military commander,
for the utbranco of disloyal and treasonable
words, proved, established, and not controvert
ed, for even the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr.
Fame] does not dure to rise in his seat and say
that this re-oird is not a true record, and yet this
citizen so convicted is to bo admitted to a seat
upon this fbor to legislate for loyal men. If it
is admitted that new views have been adopted
and that a ntore liberal and enlightened policy
is to be panned hereafter in this House, a poli
cy which shill secure in future to the American
people Representatives in Congress chosen by
themselves ind for which they alone are respon
sible, then Hook upon it os a significant fact,
but I do not indulge much in any such hope.
This case will at least make a precedent.”
Mr. Sargent, of California, charged that the
Democrats, from the earliest outbreak of the
rebellion, threw themselves in the scale against
the country. In the Thirty-Seventh Congress
they insisted here, in my hearing, that there
was no right to coerce a sovereign State, and
they assailed Mr. Lincoln because he called
troops here to defend tho capital, and assailed
onr soldiers as Lincoln’s hirelings.”
Mr. Cox—That is not correct. I made among
tho first, if not tho first speech against secession
that was made in this House. The Democratic
party in this House were divided, as we all
know, and the Democrats of tho North stood al
most as one man by the side of Judge Douglas
in that controversy with the South. I speak of
the Democrats in the North. We never gave
any countenanco to the doctrine of secession;
and I will say to the gentleman that when a
member of his own party in the Congress then
referred to, y?e then member from Kansas, Mr.
Conway, introduced a deliberate proposition
here, in the form of resolutions to dismember
the country, his party never undertook to expel,
or made a motion to torn him out; bnt; when a
Democrat from Cincinnati, Mr. Long, made a
speech here looking in that direction, a major
ity hero voted to expel him. I voted at that
time, as I shalLvote now, with the gentleman
from Indiana, plr. Voorhies,) for the constitu
tional and sacred right of representation. We
should not exclude any man on account of past
expressions. If that were done, then half the
seats on the Republican side of the House would
be emptied by reason of the disunion sentiments
of their occupants before the war began.
A Democratic member called attention to tho
fact that a leading Radical newspaper, the New
York Tribune, had advocated the right of the
Southern States to secede from the Union.
Mr. Woodward, of Pennsylvania, referring to
the statement of Mr. Sargent that the Demo
cratic party of the North was opposed to the
war and in favor of secession, said: “On the
contrary, I affirm that if the Democratic party
of the North had not recruited your armies the
Southern Confederacy had this day been an es
tablished fact. You are indebted to the Demo
cratic party for the suppression of the rebellion.”
Mr. Morgan read extracts from tho leading
Republican newspaper of Ohio favoring dis
union, one of them using these words: “South
Carolina does not want to secede. Let ns ex
pel her.” And again. “Why should the free
men deplore the loss of the Union?” Mr. Mor
gan concluded as follows:
“And, now sir, I am about to repeat a charge
which I made on this floor but r. few nights ago;
it is this: I charge that the leaders of tho Re
publican party, knowing that a large majority
of the people of the South loved the Union and
that secession could not assume the proportions
of war unless great military leaders were fur
nished to organize and command the insurrec
tionary armies, President Lincoln accepted not
only tho resignations of Robert E. Lee, Joseph
Johnston, Albert Sidney Johnston, and James
Longstrcet after tho war had commenced and
Fort Sumter was surrendered, but he accepted
the resignations of one hundred and eighty offi
cers, knowing that most of them resigned for
tho express purpose of taking up arms against
the Union. And certain it is, sir, that had not
Mr. Lincoln furnished military leaders to the
rebellion there could not and would not havo
been any formidable armed opposition to the
constitutional authority of the United States.
Then, let not these stale calumnies be again
repeated; and let tho great truth be acknowl
edged here, as it will be declared by history,
that the Union was saved by the people and not
by a party; that the country belongs to the peo
ple, and not to a faction which stole into power
while the people were battling for what they
supposed was iue Union of the Constitution.”
Butler came to the rescue of Porter; and in
defending him made use of the Scriptural quo
tation concerning joy in Heaven over the one
sinner that repenteth. Mr. Eldridge retorted
as follows:
‘The gentleman from Massachusetts [Mr.
Butler] tells us that they have repented, and
he is very fond of making the quotation that
“there is joy in heaven over one sinner who
repents,” eto. It maybe bo—he may be right—
and I could not help thinking that there is no
gentleman upon this floor who could create such
a thrill of joy in heaven by repentance as he
could.” [Laughter.]
After some farther miscellaneous debate, Mr.
Carpet-bagger Porter was duly sworn in. There
was much disorder during the discussion, mem
bers leaving their seats and gathering around
tho speakers, and the hammer of the Speaker at
times beat a regular tattoo. The extracts given
above are all from tho official report in the
Globe ; and; will, I think, prove interesting
reading to the public generally. It is well, at
any rate, to have some of the facts given placed
on record.
Some of the deoorations of the Capitol build
ing are not exactly calculated to please the
Southern eye, or to aid in bringing about a pa
ternal feeling between the North and South. In
the rotnnda we see Liberty cased-in armor, and
flourishing a sword, while cowering at her feet
are President Davis, Vice President Stephens,
Gen. BobertE. Lee, “Stonewall Jackson," and
other notabilities of . the Confederacy, clutching
half-oxtinguish torches. This pleases the car
pet-baggers who misrepresent the Southern
States in Congress, and fires theForthern heart;
but the picture is not one that would please a
true Southern man. If you ascend to that por
tion of tho dome whioh brings you face to face
with this “truly loyal” painting, your will have
* Ua nf * lone exolanation of its meaning,
the persons it represents, eto., delivered in a
nasal key by a yankee who receives a salary
from the Government chest for this purpose.
Perhaps the Southern visitor to the Capitol
would like a memento of his visit to carry home.
Here hangs a photograph of the Triumriri
Americani, representing in juxtaposition, and
in the following order the profiles of Washing
ton, Lincoln and Grant! medallions in has re
lief, may be had at a reasonable prioe. Wash
ington, Lincoln, Grant! Was there ever ex-
emplified so abrupt a descent from greatness to
nothingness; Lincoln, with all his defects, had
some brains—Grant has none. The pitiful in
sult to the Father of his Country by linking him
with such men as Lincoln and Grant is, how
ever, beneath contempt.
Well informed Treasury officials state that
Secretary Boutwell will not alter the present
financial slate with respect to gold sales and
bond purchases; bnt will continue it through
tho months of February. This is opinion only,
and must be taken for what it is worth, as the
Secretary has a habit of saying one thing to
day, in relation to his financial programme and
doing something quite different to-morrow.
The admission of Virginia into the Union has
left that State out in the cold, as a part of any
of the military departments, and Gen. Canby
finds his occupation gone. He must be provid
ed for, of course, and so the General of the ar
my will make up a military division of some of
the Middle States and Virginia and give the
command to Canby. This will not deprive Gen.
Megde of any of his authority as commander of
the Department of the East, bnt will relievo
him of some of his duties and cares.
Messrs. Lane and Keene announce “Our
American Cousin” for Monday night, at Walls’
Opera House, the same play which was per
formed on tho night of the assassination Presi
dent Lincoln, Miss Keene and Harry Hart sus
taining the same characters played by them on
that evening.
The Board of Trade of this city has declared
in favor of the proposed territorial government
of the district of Columbia, aside from political
considerations, bnt purely in the interests of
bnsiness.
A bill has been introduced in the House for
abolishing mileage. How patriotic our Con
gressmen are becoming!
The Judges of Federal Courts, especially those
in the West, are petitioning Congress for in
creased compensation. They say they cannot
live respectably on their present salaries.
The Senate Committee on Post-offices, favor
Senator Ramsay’s postal telegraph bill.
Hon. J. B. Howell, the new United States
Senator from Iowa, received the congratulations
of a number of his friends last evening.
A bill was introduced in the House yesterday
to provide for the collection of debts due by
Southern railroads.
The House met to-day for debate only. Bun
combe speeches have been the order of the day.
Two hundred dollars were offered for a ticket
to the ball in honor of Prince Arthur.
Prince Arthur shows a strongs partiality for
brunettes. The blondes are in dispair.
The departments aro unusually barren of
news. Dalton.
FISH MIGRATION.
Appemrnnce of Strange Members [of the
Finny Tribe in New York Lakes,
The appearance of a new and strange fish in
Lakes Ontario, Seneca and other inland bodies
of water, has been more than once referred to
in these columns and a description of the fish
given to the public. It resembles the shad at the
Atlantic coast and rivers more closely than any
other that we see. The difference is, however,
considerable, as will be shown.
Theso fish appeared in the waters of Western
New York two or three years since, and they
were thensmall—so small that they conldscarce-
ly be taken in tho nets and seines in nse. It is
evident that these were immigrants, all young—
a detachment of Young America in the finny
tribe who had left the fatherland or sea—and
had gone into tho lakes to seek new homes,
where they could find better food and incur less
hazard of being devoured by the monsters of
the ocean, who are supposed to use sardines and
other small fry, as men do pepper and salt to
season a meal.
A year or two in the cold, fresh water of the
lakes improved their condition vastly. They
grew finely, and last year they could not escape
the meshes as before, and were taken into the
markets plentifully with other fish, with which
tho fishermen had a better acquaintance. These
strangers were a little bony, not more so than
the shad, and are scarcely inferior, exoept in
price, which makes a great difference with the
people who feel inclined to be snobby in an epi
curean way.
•Seneca Lake abounds in these fish. They are
seen there in shoals that might be measured by
acres. To estimate their numbers would be a
^useless task with a hope to make an approxima
tion to what they really are. The largest of
these fish weigh scarcely two pounds, and these
have just attained their growth. There is every
indication that this fish will be hereafter abund
ant in the lakes. The inquiry naturally arises
as to the name and origin of this strange fish.
Citizens of Geneva sent a sample of these fish
to Professor Agassiz, supposed to be better
posted as to piscatorial matters than any other
man. He pronounced the fish a freshwater ale-
wife, but did not, we believe, attempt to ac
count for its recent appearance in the lakes.
Various theories were advanced by those who
knew nothing of the matter. The prevailing
notion among the more intelligent who have
thought on the matter was that the fish had
come into the lakes from the Atlantic by way of
the St. Lawrence. This belief Is now tolerably
well established, as the same fish has been
found in the Atlantio waters, evidently an old
resident there.
Seth Green, who is up to such matters, had
given some attention to this strange fish, and
did not, wo believo, exactly coincide with Agas
siz as to its character. Tho other day while on
a visit to Chesapeake bay, he discovered this
strange fish, or others of the same family, in
great abundance. They were sold in the Balti
more market under the name of brim shad and
mud shad. In Norfolk they aro known as giz
zard shad, so styled because of their having a
mnseulous stomach peculiar to fowls, and which
is not common to fish, if it is ever found in any
other than this variety. Mr. Green, by careful
examination, became satisfied that the brim
shad or gizzard shad of the Chesapeake are one
and the same with the strange fish in our lake.
Until a better is found, our people may adopt
one of tho three names given them in Baltimore
or Norfolk, for these fish,which have been hith
erto nameless. It is not nnlikely that the fish
of this family may be found in the Atlantic
bays, far north of the Chesapeake, from one of
which they may have gone np the St. Lawrence.
They probably made their way from Lake On
tario into Seneca lake by way of tho canals and
rivers, which form a channel from one to the
other.—Rochester Union.
Talic Care!
The Richmond Dispatch had bettor “mind its
eye,” or Virginia will be kicked out of the
Union before she is fairly in. Such paragraphs
as the following are exceedingly “disloyal,”
though very logical. They suggest what holy
Ben and manly Chawls call “treachery.” Says
the Dispatoh, under the head of a “ New View
of the Fifteenth Amendment:”
The moment the ratification of the Fifteenth
Amendment is completed, it will become a part
of the Constitution. The moment it becomes a
part of the Constitution it wiQ render null and
void any existing law that may be inconsistent
with itself. Now, under this amendment, every
State will have the right to require any qualifi
cation in a negro voter which is also required in
a white one. It follows inevitably that the mo
ment this amendment becomes a part of the
Constitution, all that part of the act admitting
Virginia to representation in Congress whioh is
inconsistent with the amendment will be at once
done away with and be as if it had never been.
This we lay down as certainly true.
“ Mr. Marshall, Are Ton Sick?”
A Washington correspondent of the Courier-
Journal tells this story of the gifted Tom Mar
shall, of Kentucky, and a Lexington editor,
named John Hogan, as related by the latter,
himself. Said Hogan:
He and Tom had been on a bender the pre
vious night, and at last took lodgings at the
Phoenix Hotel, Lexington. Of course, the ma
tutinal cocktail was in early requisition. John
ordered a brace of ■ them. “ Mine stuck,” said
John, “ but Tom’s came up with a heave. Like
a d d fool,” says John, “ I thought I had to
say something, so I said, ‘Mr. Marshall, are
you sick ? ’ Tom raised himself up on his arm,
and with eyes glaring, and an expression of in
tense scorn, ejaculated: ‘ Hell; to see a gentle
man vomiting, and ask him if he is sick.’ ”
John says, from that time he has never tried to
relieve the embarrassment of a situation by any
malapropos interference.
The first ten performances of Mr. Booth’s
Hamlet, this season, brought, $27,290 into the
treasury of the theatre.
By telegraph.
FROM ATLANTA.
The Congressional Agency Adopts the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth. Amend
ments. '
Bryant’s Protest Unnoticed.
The Agency Declines to Investigate
Bullock’s Financial Operations.
The Agency Agrees to Adjourn on the
I4th Inst.
Special to the Telegraph and MeeeengerJ]
Atlanta, February 2 House.—Bryant’s protest
on the illegality of the organization of the House
was ordered to he put on the journal.
Gov. Bullock sent in his message, enclosing Gen.
Terry’s acknowledgement of the legal organization
of the two houses, and says this is the first legal or
ganization de jure of the Georgia Legislature, un
der the reconstruction acts. He gives an elaborate
review of the history of the last two years in the re
construction measures. Coupled with this was Bul
lock’s message, recommending the immediate adop
tion of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments,
and adjourn to the 14th inst., and to appoint, a
joint committee to investigate the charges of finan
cial mismanagement against the Governor. Ho
clearly indicates that new stato House officers
must be elected.
Mr. O’Neal, after the reading of the message, of
fered a resolution ratifying the Fourteenth Amend
ment.
Mr. Tweedy called the previous question—ayes
71; nays nothing.
Mr. Bryant made a point of order that a quorum
not voting, the resolution was not adopted.
He also read his protest, saying that the House
was illegally organized and could do no legal act.
The previous question waB called on O’NeaTa res
olution, accepting the expunging by Congress of
certain sections of the Georgia Constitution. Ayes,
71; nays, 1.
Bryant made a point of order that no quorum was
voting. The Speaker ruled that he could not enter
tain the point,
O’Neal offered a resolution to ratify the Fifteenth
Amendment, and called for the previous question.
Ayes, 55; nays 29.
On the Fourteenth Amendment the Democrats and
Conservatives did not vote. On the Fifteenth, the
Democrats divided—some voting (or and others
against it. Hall, of Glynn, said that Congress was
deciding the question for Georgia, and not the State.
Ho thought the ratification now void. He voted no.
Tumlin offered another protest, declaring the
Fifteenth Amendment tho crowning act of Radical
ism, repugnant to himself and Ills constituents.
Bryaat offered a protest to this proceeding.
Scott offered a resolution requiring the Governor
to order elections to fill vacancies. It was not taken
up.
Mr. Caldwoll offered a resolution requesting that
Congress relieve all citizens of Georgia of their po
litical disabilities—the Republicans generally voting
no. Tho resolution was not taken up.
Mr. Bethune offered a resolution to appoint a
committee to investigate the financial operations of
tho Governor. Tho resolution was lOBt.
Mr. Bethune offered a resolution requesting Gen.
Terry to issue an order prohibiting the collection ef
executions on claims prior to June, 1865. It was
not taken np.
On concurring with the Senate resolution to ap
point a committee to investigate the financial ope
rations of the Governor tho rules were not sus
pended.
The Senate passed a resolution ratifying the
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, also as
senting to the fundamental conditions, relative to
repudiation, stricken out of the Georgia Constitution
by Congress.
Both Houses agreed to adjourn on the 14th of
February. Georgia.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington,Februaiy 2.—Senate—Five hundred
copies of charts of the bay of Samana were ordered
printed.
The currency bill was resumed.
The bill passed providing for tho issue of forty-
five millions of additional national bank circulation
to banking associations, to be organized in the
States having less than their proportion, under tho
present apportionment of the 80,000,000. A new
apportionment of this additional amonnt is to be
made as soon as practicable, based upon the cen
sus of 1870.
Section 2 provides for the retirement monthly, of
an amount of the 3 per cent, certificates, equivalent
to the issue of circulating notes.
Section 3 authorizes any bank in a State having
an excess of circulation, to remove to a State having
less than its proportion, with a view to the equaliza
tion of the currency throughout the country.
The remaining sections provide for the establish
ment of banks upon^gold basis; the Comptroller
of the Currency to issue to them circulating notes,
not exceeding in amount eighty per cent, of the par
value of United States bonds deposited by them in
the Treasury. The banks are to keep on hand, in
coin, twenty-five per cent, of their outstanding cir
culation. Provision is also made for the withdrawal
of twenty millions of the present national circula
tion from States in excees of their proportion after
the forty-five millions now authorized shall bo ex
hausted. The bill passed by a vote of S9 to 23.
Trumbull reported, with amendments, the bill to
secure to all persons equal protection of the laws—
extending the provisions of the civil rights bill to
Chinese.
Mr. Howe addressed the Senate upon the hill to
repeal the neutrality act of 1818, which prevents
Americans from enlisting in or fitting out vessels for
the service of a foreign government with which the
United States is at peace.
Senate adjourned.
House.—A report was presented from the Com
mittee on Foreign Affairs in reference to the impris
onment of American citizens by Groat Britain for
political offences, closing with a resolution that the
President communicate information concerning the
subject. The committee expresses sympathy with
the subject of tho resolution. Speeches were made
on both sides of tho resolution, which went over be-'
cause of the expiration of the morning hour.
A i esolution was adopted instructing the Commit
tee on Foreign Affairs to enquire why Cuba was not
recognized as a belligerent.
The Senate hill appropriating $30,000 for the
poor of the District of Columbia, allowing $10,000
worth of condemned army clothing to be distributed,
excited considerable discussion; Logan arguing that
it was not proper to appropriate money for the use,
perhaps, of election purposes. HeBaidif fashion
able people in Washington would devote money
spent for receptions and ornaments to charitable
purposes, there would be no need to call upon
Congress to aid the poor.
Knott asserted that the effect of the bill would
be to draw negroes [here from other States, who
would out vote the resident citizens.
An amendment by Logan, for issuing rations by
the War Department was adopted.
The House adjourned without disposing of the
bill.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, February 2. — Revenue to-day
$046,000.
The Senate considers in special session to-mor
row the funding bilL
The Foreign Relations Committee will report
against raising the China Legation to a first-class
mission.
It is stated that the bill restricting the printing
of public documents will save $1,500,000.
The census is to be taken under the regulations
of 1830. The time for the new regulations by Con
gress having expired, statistics will be collected by
marshals, with such changes'regarding negroes aa
the changed circumstances render imperative.
The President has approved the bill extending the
port of New Orleans.
Ames’ conduct excites unfavorable comment at
army headquarters. Ames most resign.
It is stated that Sherman telegraphs Gen. Terry,
by order of the President, that the Senatorial elec
tion of Hill and Millar are regarded legitimate here.
The effect of this order forbids the Legislature elec
ting other Senators.
Georgia affairs are having serious' consideration
in high executive and leading Senatorial quarters,
but nothing absolutely known. The principal per
sons decline authenticating the rumors of authori
zing any publication.
FROM ATLANTA.
Atlanta, February 2.—The Governor’s w^t,
including the correspondence with Gen. Terr/?' 1
read to-day. Gen. Terry acknowledges the Qo/JJ !
nor’s notification of the organization of the Gen*,] (
Assembly, and informs the Governor that W \
Houses are now properly organized for the purpon i
of assenting to and complying with the condifl? <
imposed by Congress, for the restoration of th* 1
State to its original relations with the nation. Th ]
Governor reviews the old organization in erpejjj. j
the colored members. He quotes the separate aJ ’
of Congress relative to reconstructing the rebri
States. Also Gen. Terry’s report of August Ru *
and action and report of Congress to the JudicUn ■
Committee appointed to investigate the credential j
of Joshua Hill, Senator elect from Georgia. ‘
Recapitulates facto covering the political histonj
of the State from adopting the act of March 2,186; ?
declaring that until the people of the rebel st/'j
are admitted to representation in Congress, cirt 1
governments that exist shall be provisional on]?. |
subject, to the paramount authority of theUnit’j,
States, at any time to abolish, modify, control c:
supersede the same, up to tho present time I
right being reserved by Congress, endu ever witli
drawn or expired by any legal apt. “* 1
The Governor recommended the adoption of tb
Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments, andoc®*
eludes with the desire for the good of the uho”
people that a citizens’worth shall be„determic e ,j v! 1
hie own efforts, neither advanced nor retarded 1 1
birth, color, religion or political opinion.
The House adopted the Fourteenth Amend ae . (
by a unanimous vote, and tho Fifteenth by 53
Tho Senate ratified both the Fourteenth and W
teenth Amendments by a vote of 27 to 10. *
Both Houses adjourned till the 14th instant.
Atlanta, January 31. — Tho Senate spent ft
morning session in discussing and arranging —w
portant preliminaries.
The Committee appointed to wait on the Gover.!
nor reported that the Governor would notify £.,
Commanding General of the organization of the I
two houses, and would communicate with them gj
Wednesday.
Brock Introduced a resolution calling on retry [
and Bullock to stop proceedings on contracts prior i
to Jane, 1865, which was ruled out of order, on the'
ground that the organization of the two houses U; j
not yet been recognized by Terry and Bollock.
Bryant, in the House, offered a protest agaiast!
the illegal organization of the House.
After considerable discussion of this subject, the j
House adjourned till Wednesday.
Speculation is rife on the cause of so long an si ji
joumment. Senator Edmunds’ dispatch may hsre j
something to do with it. Members can’t unde:.'
stand why Bullock allows each member to draw three"
hundred dollars from the Treasury, which order wu,
issued to-day. Geoiigu.
FROM ALABAMA.
Montgomebv, February 2—Tho Senate concurred f
in the amendment of the House to the Mobile bS!
authorizing the Governor, without tho consent o! I
the Senate, to appoint the Mobile city officers. The j
balance of the session was consumed in discuss^ j
the removal of disabilities. The proceedings were!
very disorderly.
In the House, tho committee to wliomwiar».I
ferred the resolution censuring the clerks for i.::- j
ramuses, reported that the fault was with nreahn j
who could not Bpell correctly or write legibly, sd I
recommended tho appointment of a clerk to putil |
bills m a readable and grammatical shape.
GENERAL NEWS.
New Yobk, February 2.—Ockersbansen A Bro'i j
sugar refinery, on Bose street, with a heavy lot d I
wagons has been burned. Loss half million.
Nobeolk, Februaiy 2.—Tho schooner Florence, ]
for Savannah, is ashoro on Rocky Island.
New Orle ans, February 2.—The steamship Cull, I
hence Tuesday for Baltimore, has broke her propel t
ler and returned for repairc.
Gov. Warmouth baa appointed James Grihiu!
State Auditor, vice Wickliffe suspended in come- ?
quence of articles of impeachment brought against "^4
him.
Tho Grand Jury found two bills against Perry ful
ler, lato Collector, and his associates, W. 0. Gttj, I
F. A. DeWolf, Robert S. Sproule, W. A. West m3 J
Marx Dinklespie. Five affidavits charge a conspi> j
acy to defraud the Revenue Department.
Dr. Hoda, a prominent Cuban, telegraphed to Kq y
West to ascertain if it wa3 true that Castovon, ed-^
itorof the Vos de Cuba, had been cowardly aseu-jj
sinn&ted by the Cubans as reported. Tho follov-f
ing was received as a reply;
Key West, February 2.
J. G. Hoda, Hew Orleans:—Untrue. Castovoii
slapped a Cuban’s face, when his adversary fired)
killing him.
[Signed] J. M. Retebs.
MEXICO—JUAREZ GONE UP.
New Obleans, February 2.—News from Mexico i
via Brownsville, represents that tho revolnticMijl
party in Mexico is daily strengthening. Genenli I
Macias, Zarqui, Espinosa, Eavillo, and others, act]
raising troops to aid the rebels.
ThoYera Cmz Espiranzasays effectively: The ai- j
nation of Mexico is growing worse every day, aa! j
even those who seemed to have more confidence i: [
the future bow down their beads under the weigh >
of a bitter disappointment. There is not a mo1a a
found to allay the storm which threatc-ns to tin: sc j
unfortunate country in the horrors of a civil
The revolution in great proportions has broken ok*
in the States of Puebla, San Luis Potosi, Guanij:-]
ato, Quiretaro, Morales and Acapulco, and in «l
the Government attempts to overcome it with i21
troops.
DEBT STATEMENT.
■Washington, February 1.—Debt decrease, $3,-1
933,664; Coin balance, $101,600,730, includins «50,-1
000,000 coin certificates: Currency in Treasury, ]
690.800; purchased bonds and interest, $92,03-jj
3S4.S6.
ALABAMA LEGISLATURE.
Montooxeery, February 1.—The Senate pas3 xd • |
resolution to adjonrn until Saturday next.
A bill was passed by the Senate yesterday, wtid j
allows Senators to retain their seats until 1875.
To-day was consumed in discussing disability w ]
morals.
In the House a bill wa3 passed allowing tho Guv J
ernor to appoint Mobile city officers.
The railroad bills will probably come np to-ffihj
row.
Paris, February 1.—There has been a remark I
ble increase of small pox within tho past few dajv-J
The Pope has had an epileptic fit. It is not a* - !
sidered fatal
GENERAL NEWS.
Savannah, January 31.—In regard to the reports-j
assassination of a Bevenuo officer, the Mornic-j
News of to-day contains the following: “A repcj
hag been industriously circulated in Radical circls]
that Wm. Brent, an assistant assessor of the I-S
ternal Revenue at Blackshear, Ga., was assasabj
ated on Friday night last, by parties unknovtj
From a reliable correspondent at that place we 1M>*|
the following particulars, which were brought !
light by the coroner’s inquest, composed of leadffisB
citizens of Pierce county. It appears from the £'T
dence, as stated by our correspondent, that the ^1
ceased committed suicide, as his own revolver
found a few feet from his body with one chamb;l
discharged. His wife testifies that she only bei'P
one shot. - The cause of this rash act is unknotfj
bnt already the unfortunate man’s doath has
tamed into another ‘Rebel Outrage,’ and the : j
formation has probably ere this been sent to bY'- j
ington and Atlanta by the Republicans."
Memphis, January 30.—J. S. Ramsey, a
known citizen of this place, was mutdered by I 'f
groes near Cherokee, Mississippi. L
The steamer, America, hence for Fort Smith, *-'3
the 19th Infantry, sunk. Four deck hands lost-
8an Francisco, January 31 Advices from -
Luis Potosi report the secession of that State bo^J
rously signed. The citizens are enthusiastic or# |
FROM NEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, Jan. 31.—Tho Consolidate! 1
Of Louisiana has been robbed of nearly fifty 1
sand dollars, evidently the work of exp
cracksmen. , „
A peremptory mandamus has batoa issued fw®
Sixth District Court, requiring the State Tre***
andiuffitbrtorde«#e«Hfly 1 i#fh*money tort
licenses, eto., and ordering that a sufficient
eet aside to pay the constitutional officers of
State.