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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.