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1826.
MACON, TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 1870.
YOL. LXIV.-NO. 33
I f 0 r the Telegraph and Messenger.
“Bex.”
, or COLUMBUS.
I f. of mine, be glad! the ting is come!
ting—who never came befc
Ji« king-
never came before,
eta?, tl,{t ** bin rightful homo,
name him “ Conqueror 1"
nibomieff^’ to ° k * p! dyking is comet
° him come in, oh open every door,
3 ' , , ,, 10I1 toped and waited still for him,
,he only one! though at thy call,
r* tbe tingiy crown have worn before,
•TjlXerf/ «» e amon ° thcm M
hwt named " Conqueror!"
_ him in my dreams through these long
fre m
rtars—
rri iiaeed the vision ere it flow afar—
, j wept the rapturous, blinding tears,
^ j named him “Conqueror!”
injtben to-night we, too, at last, did meet,
*^ho B o'er before in lifo bad been ao near,
v c'ii heart fell down humbly at his feet
” named him “ Conhneror!”
01 tin*' h cre in thy crown—thy sceptre—all
115 kingdom; it bath had no king before;
jisiot macb, get some would give their soul
Jo he #* Conquerer / Ionk.
Ao». 23 rd, 18G9.
[ For the Telegraph and Messenger.
To Miss M .
Whene'er I look upon thy face,
Or catch the gleam of thy dark eyes,
X tliauowing of thy pure soul’s grace,
In matchless sweetness seems to rise.
Oh! if in all this earth there lives
X heart from stain forever free;
If e’er aneb gift the Father gives,
Ita Bpotlcas beauty lives in thee.
Xba “cap ot water’’ thon hast given;
X saddened heart touched by thy love,
Starts np to/eel the storm cloud riven
Xnd ''peace, descending like a dove.”
Words could not bear thy worth to me;
Good deeds alone the measure prese;
Kav He who loves thee give to thee
X life of heavenly pleasantness.
T. M. S.
. An Exquisite Ballad.
HnTeiy beautiful verses, subjoined, were writ-
la It Mr. Joseph Brennan, one of the most gifted
mu* Irishmen that over plunged into so abortivo
artrolntion as was that of 1818.—Augusta Chron-
Mi and Sentinel.
Cone to me. darling. I'm lonely withont thee,
Pit time and night time I’m dreaming about thee,
h'irtt time and day time in dreams I behold thoe,
Cowsleome tbe waking that ceases to fold thoe;
Cone to me, darling, my sorrows to lighten,
Cooe in thy beauty to bless and to lighten;
Come in thy womanhood, meekly and lowly,
Come in thy loTingness, queenly and holy.
nllon shall flit ronnd the desolate ruin,
allin* of Spring and joyous renewing;
nd thoughts of thy love and its manifest treasure,
re drc’ics my heart with the promise of pleasure;
ih! spring of my spirit! Oh, May of my blossom,
tune oat on mv soul till it burgeon and blossom;
!be wait of nv life has a rare root within it,
Lsd thy fondness alone to the sunlight can win it.
Figure winch moves like a none through the (
;ith a reflex of heaven,
Features lit up with
Eyee like the ekies of poor Erin, our mother,
| Where sunshine and shadows are chasing each other,
Emiles coming seldom, but childlike and simple,
And nooning their eyes from a heart of a dimple.
Oh .' thanks to the'Savior that even the seeming
la left to the exile to brighten his dreaming.
Ton have been glad when yon knew I was gladdened,
User, are you ead to hear that I am saddened ?
Oar hearts ever answer in tune and in time, love,
As octave, to octave, or rhyme nnto rhyme, love.
I cannot smile, hut your cheeks will be glowing;
lea cannot weep, tint my tears will be flowing;
loo will not linger when I shall have died, love;
And I could not Uto withont you by my side, love.
Come to me. darling, ere I die of my sorrow,
iiae on my gloom like the sun of to-morrow,
Gtrong, swift and true as the words whici I speak,
tore;
Tith a song at your lip, and a smile on your cheek,
lore;
Ccoe, for my heart in your absence is dreary;
Hwe, for my spirit is sickened and weary;
Cose to the arms which alone shall caress thee;
Onus to the heart which is throbbing to press thee
A Question.
As Annie was carrying a baby one day,
Toeaieg aloft the lump of inanity.
Djjr to ita father and mother no doubt—
Tothcreat of the world a mere lump of humanity—
“a came along and was thinking, maybo,
nil as mach of Annio as sho of the baby.
l»llook at the darling,” cried Annie in a flutter,
i.ST®* its locks round her finger a twirl;
"I was a man I know that I couldn’t
i j*^ M P* D K ®y hands off a dear little girl.”
*« Sam g»ve a wink as if to say “maybe
w the girls I’d rather hug you than tho baby!”
Wm it,” sho cried, though sho still hugged it
u ejoeer,
It < mouth’s like the rosfes the honey bee sips!,’
haaiooped to obey, and, as heads came together,
Owe chance to arise a confusion of lips!
it occurred it might have been, maybe,
flat etch got a kiss, Sam, Ann and tbe baby I
kihtrf to toll just what was tho matter,
For the babe was the only one innocent there;
Annie flushed up like a fall blown peony,
Acd Samuel turned red to the roots of his hair;
»tte question is this—you can answer it maybe—
~ Annie kiss Sam. or did both kiss tho baby ?
The Days That Are no More.
^"n.the Argosy.1
memories of green and pleasant places
"hare happy birds their wood-notes twitterodlow 1
A. love that lit the dear familiar faces
We buried long ago!
I °c> barren bights their sweetness we remember,
tsA backward gaze with wistful, yearning eyos,
4 hearts regret mid snowdrifts of December,
Bummer’s sunny skies.
51 »4bcmrs that seemed their rainbow tints to bor-
aoms illumined psge of fairy lore;
'"Rut days that never lacked a bright to-morrow,
wys that return no more.
: r Widens with their many blossomed alleys,
) m - i npe roaeB breathing out perfume;
vJ 10 . no °k8 in green sequestered valleys,
fco Pnipled o’er with bloom.
•ssta
mu on sue river e icrn-friogcd I
“‘reamed, white-rayod, silvery cold.
Letter from Mr. R. W. Phillips.
Atlanta, Gi_, March 6,1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger .-—The re
port of tho Judiciary Committee in the Senate
in regard to Georgia shows that we need not ex
pect any favors from Congress. It goes on to
state that many wrong things had been done in
the organization of the Legislature, and winds
np with the significant edict that no further leg
islation is necessary—meaning, doubtless, by
Congress.
I wonder if the members of that Committee
are ignorant enough to think that the plunder
ers who are now in power in this State will cor
rect the abuses to which they allude without
compulsion from the .all-powerful and eternal
body to which they belong. I can inform them
that there arenot many sensible men in Georgia
who believe it. If let alone, they will continue
to devour and destroy the hard Tamings of the
people until they are choked off l>y the strong
arm of some friend of good government, who
respects the rights of the citizens of an op
pressed and down-trodden State.
The arguments made by Bryant and Caldwell
before the committee clearly sustain the fact
that the organization of the Legislature was il
legal, but Democratic aid and sympathy consti
tuted the serious and fatal charges that distroy-
ed their influence with Congress. There were
a few men in the Legislature who foresaw the
result and so counseled and advised, and even
refused to support Mr. Bryant for tbe Speaker-
ship for fear it would destroy his influence at
Washington, as it was known that he was one of
the leading Republicans of the State, especially
with the colored part of the party, and that his
opinions were considered orthodox with the
Radicals^; but their counsels, unfortunately for
Georgia, wpre unheeded, for I have great fears
that all is lost, and that onr people must contin
ue to be hewerB of wood and drawers of water
for their imperious rulers. It is true that every
patriot must regret that Congress is controlled
more by a partisan spirit than principle. This
was shown immediately after the surrender, as
well as on other occasions, when Gen. Pope
withheld the funds appropriated by law for the
benefit of the State University at Athens, sim
ply becanse Ben Hill happened to cheer a young
man who was repeating an argnment in opposi
tion to Radical usurpation.
Again it was shown by refusing to allow Hill
and Miller to take their seats in the Senate of
the United States, because they were elected by
Democratic votes. Bath Houses of the General
Assembly had been purged by order of General
Meade. Gov. Bollock commissioned them,
and no one at the time questioned the legality
of their election—but Democratio aid was the
unpardonable offense—and finally, to cap the
climax of infamy, the committee admitted that
the testimony of Bryant and Caldwell carried
with it the coloring of truth in regard to Bui
lock’s usurpations, but their report means that
it would be a source of gratification to the
Democratio rebels of the State for Congress to
interfere. Therefore they say that no farther
legislation is necessary. Such are the facts
now staring us in the face. Can any patriot
love such a government ? Can aQr government
stand the shock of snch outrages? We are
taught by history that it was corruption that
caused the overthrow of the republic of Rome,
after her pillars had been upheld by the strong
arms of the friends of liberty for four hundred
years, bat it is greatly to be feared that onrs
cannot stand the revolutions of the first cen
tury. When Congress can create and abolish
the governments of the original States of the
Union that framed the Constitution, as well as
any other, at will, what greater power can they
ask for?
It is virtually establishing a dictatorship. It
is really the great act of rebellion upheld by
those in power, which must lead to the over
throw of the American Republic. I can but
believe that the people .of the North, becanse
they achieved a triumph during the past strng.
gle, are now slumbering over a political volcano
which will sooner or later destroy the best gov
ernment tho world ever saw. It ha3 been truly
said, also, that tho first gun that was fired at
Fort Sumter was tho death knell of the Repub
lic, for it requires no great amount of states
manship to discover, however men may differ
in opinion, that the great body politic of this
country is now in tbe agonies of death.
R. W. Phillips, of Echols.
• raoorl&nd’e bleak we wander weary hearted,
many & tangled, wild and tbomy maze,
•.““wring as in dreams, the days departed,
jo by.gono happy days!
rT 0 ® 5 * ix Germant.—Ladies hero are snr-
^d at woman’s position in America, and
Eaoc ked at tho modern idea of woman’s
rK That a gentleman should givo up to a
e*T,r 3 **** * n a cr °wded house or public con-
JJJJ is an astonishment to them; they nev-
arrv 13 °* snc ^ a ^“8 in. Germany. Wives
- 7 garments and packages for their hus-
; f j ' and not husbands for their wives. Mar-
_ Wanen expect their husbands to spend
g* 6ve oings at the club or museum, the coffee
or oeer house, instead of being society
iev m aad ma king home attractive. It is per-
S* Proper for a young lady to go home
(jjJWJh the streets in the evening—it
n-4„ “fibly improper for a young gentle-
o accompany her—Letter from Oettengen.
,*' he Siath of France a number of Carlists
discovered by the authorities, who
Te »«nt them North.
The Cold Market.
| From the N. Y. Herald 5th. J
The continued decline in goldis cansing agreat
deal of speculation and anxiety as to how far it
is likely to go—whether it will come to par with
currency—and what will be the consequences.
Of course those who are in debt or who have
large stocks of goods or securities on hand which
have been purchased at high currency prices are
trembling, while the creditor class of the com
munity are exulting at the prospect Every one
argues upon the probable future course of the
gold market according to his wishes or inter
ests. Nor is it easy to form an opinion as to.
how far gold may decline or what reaction may
take placa.
At the present time there is a plethora of the
precious metals in the great financial centres
of Europe. They have been accumulating
largely in the banks of England and France,
and money is so abundant that it is loaned at
two and a half per cent, interest. This plethora
and the exportation of United States securities
abroad, with tho largo amount of products ex
ported, prevent a drain of gold from this side.
Here is the real secret of the fall of gold just
now. As long as the cotton crops and other
products are going ont and a large amount of
bonds are exported to balance the trade against
ns there will be no demand for gold. Another
cause is found, too, for the equalization of
trade and value of the precious metals in tbe
operation of tho telegraph, which brings the
commercial nations of Europe and the United
States in instant communication.
Bat we have yet to see to what extent and
how long the exportation of onr prodnets and
bonds will pay for onr importations. If we
knew that we might form an opinion as to the
price of gold in the future. We must not for
get that the more bonds go abroad the larger
the debt on the other side becomes—the great
er will be the demand for specie hereafter to
pay the interest. At the same time should
peace continue in Europe and money remain so
abnndant there, largo sums may be sent to this
country for Investment, and thus help to in
crease onr products. It is not wise, therefore,
to jump at conclusions from the present state
of things.
A Washington dispatch of the 4th instant
says: “ Tho President was congratulated by
all the members of the Cabinet, at the meeting
to-day, on tha result of the first year of his ad
ministration, particularly on the information
bronght in by Secrotary Boutweli that gold had
fallen to thirteen and three-eights. This had
the effect of producing a conversation concern
ing the probabilities of the very early resump
tion of specie payments, which ended in the
general disposition among the members of the
Cabinet to let the future prosperity of the coun
try regulate that action as it has been regulated
by the peaceful condition of events for the
past two years."
FROM WASHINGTON.
Got. Bollock Before tbe Senate Judiciary
Committee—The Georgia Bill will Pass—
Tbe Senatorial Question.
Correspondence of the Telegraph <fc Messenger.
Washington, March 2, 1870.
According to the programme previously an
nounced, Governor Bullock appeared before
the Judiciary Committee of the Senate this
morning, armed with a pamphlet of fifty-six
pages, which he confidently hoped would anni
hilate his enemies, endure the seating of the
“bayonet Senators,” Whitely and Farrow, and
lengthen the reign of carpet-baggers in Geor
gia. Close at the heels of his Excellency was
his pet poodle, Blodgett, nicely oiled and cnrled,
and wearing a smile which would have tom the
manly bOsom of Smiler Colfax with envy had
he but seen it.
Messrs. Conkling, Carpenter and Thurman,
of the committee, were absent; and thus es
caped being bored by the reading, by Governor
Bollock, of the before mentioned pamphlet.
Before he had oonclndcd, a more weary-looking
set of men than the Jndioiary Committee I
never saw. Bullock is much subdued since he
was so severely snnbbed by Conkling, Carpen
ter and others, and he read in a low, monoton
ous voice, that was rather conducive to somno
lence. I am not quite sure that one honorable
committee-man, who covered his face with bis
hands, did not get a cat-nap. If he did, I am
sure the other members of the committee en
vied him. Yon will receive a copy of the pam-
plot, and I only need say that it is a character
istic production, and folly discloses the hoofs of
the Bullock. Mr. Caldwell received agreat
deal of Gubernatorial attention; and will please
consider himself annihilated, squelched and po
litically done for. The words “rebel,” “trai
tors,” “house-burners," negro-worshippers,
“rebel Eu-Klux,” “rebel fault-finding and
abuse,” appear frequently; and ou one page
the Governor perpetrates the charming allitera
tion of “Billinsgate and bullets.” The Governor
is also well up in the tricks of typography. He
damns Caldwell with italics and stabs him with
exclamation points. He “goes back” on Judge
Gibson by declaring that the Judge did not ap
pear in his behalf on a former occasion. There
is evidently a mistake somewhere; bat as Bul
lock's memory is treacherous he may not have
intended to state an untruth. Everybody knows
he would not do that, except under strong prov
ocation!
When Bullock had concluded there were no re
marks from any member of the Committee,
and after standing hesitatingly for a second or
two, he pat on bis hat and walked ont—the
other gentlemen present following soon after.
The truth is that the committee had decided'
on their report last week, and it was drawn np
and ready for presentation some days ago.
Bullock wasted his time in appearing before
the committee to-day. His statements did not
receive the slightest oonsideration,nor cause the
alteration of a single word in the report, which
was presented to the Senate to-day before the
expiration of the morning honr. My telegrams
have anticipated the main points.
There were present before the committee to
day, of the Bullock party, Messrs. Blodgett,
Tweedy, Higbee, Hillyer, Rice, J. N. Clift, Dr.
Pierson and W. H. McWhorter. Also Mr. Bry
ant and others of the anti-Bullock delegation.
Mr. Bryant is working very industriously to
ensure the defeat of Bullock’s various schemes,
and to obtain justice for the State. I think his
labors will commend him generally to the peo
ple who have beenso outrageously swindled and
outraged by Rufus B. Bollock.
•A gentleman called on Benj. F. Butler this
morning, before the hero of the Dutch Gap
Canal had breakfasted, in relation to the Geor
gia bill reported by the Becpnstruction Com
mittee, and which will come np in the Honse at
an early day. Butler received his visitor pleas
antly, and disavowed any intention of inflicting
farther injury on the people of Georgia; but
the bill which imposes the same conditions on
Georgia that have been imposed on Virginia
and Mississippi, will be laid before the House;
end it is my belief that it will pass both houses
after protracted debate. This belief is founded
on the fact that Georgia, through the machina
tions and falsehoods of Bullock and his allies,
is regarded as the most rebellious and incorri
gible of all tho “wayward sisters”; and I do not
see how see she can be exempted from condi
tions imposed on the State of Mississippi, whoso
FROM WASHINGTON.
The Georgia Bill-Speenlatlons on the Sit
uation—A Compliment to Bingham and
Farasworth—B. F. Butler—Bevel*—and
aoon.
Washington, March 5, 1870.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger :—To-day
will be devoted exclusively to the debate on the
Georgia bill; and Monday a vote will be taken.
The questions will have been decided before
this letter reaoheB its destination, and it would
be useless to indulge in prophecies. Butler has
been retained by Bollock; and of course urges
Bollock’s views as to an extension of official
terms. Mr. Farnsworth opposes this, and
thinks the State should be admitted under the
old act of reconstruction, and that no farther
legislation is necessary. Mr. Bingham, who
has prepared himself thoroughly, will take the
same ground Monday. It is to be hoped there
may be such a division of opinion on these
points among the Badioals that, together with
the Democrotio votes, Butler, Bollock & Go.
may be inglorionsly defeated. I would rather
the vote were to be taken on any other day
than Monday; for the Demooratio members,
many of them, slip off to their homes in Mary
land, Pennsylvania and New York on Satnrday,
and often fail to put in an appearance on
Monday morning. ,
Bntler has the power to force a vote at the
expiration of the moning honr, and he will let
no favorable moment escape him. If, in the
event of a close vote, which is not improbable,
Democratio members Bhonld, by their absence,
permit Bntler to wmak Bollock’s will upon
Georgia, they will have mnch to answer for.
Bat the troth is, many of the Northern Dem
ocrats manifest very little interest in Georgia.
They only wish to sie the mnoh vexed Geor
gia question settled, and it doeB seem to me
that eome of them dan’t care mnch in what
way. In the eases of Virginia and Mississippi,
two Radicals, Bingham and Farnsworth, sood
forth nobly to do battle for the Southern
people ; and now that Georgia is in peril from
the machinations of carpet-baggers, and the
trickery of Beast Butler, they buckle on their
armor again in in defence of the right against
oppression and fraud.
There are very few in the Demooratio .ranks
who have done as much as these gentlemen
to ward off the blows which Butler’s cowardly
and vindictive spirit prompts him to inflict on
the Southern people. At least they might be
ready with their votes, and I trust every Dem
ocrat will be ready on Monday next.
“Benj. F. Bntler, Criminal Lawyer. Prac
tices in all the Courts and in the House of Rep
resentatives.” If it were considered profes
sional among the legal fraternity to advertise,
some such card as this would be published by
the attorney of Whittemore, now tho attorney
of Bullock & Company, against the State of
Georgia. Of course there could be no objec
tion to this if Mr. Butler would resign his seat
as a Member of Congress; bnt the two posi
tions do seem rather conflicting.
Senator Revels is aping Sumner already. He
does not wish to be disturbed in his considera
tion of the public business, and announces that
he will reeeive no cards from visitors while the
Senate is in session. This is Sumner's rule.
Next we may see Revels imitating the tie of
Snmner’s cravat, the cat of his coat, and even
the deep bass tones of tho windy and egotistioal
Massachusetts Senator. Thus will Sumner be
broukhtinto ridicule by his own pecnliarpet
and protege; at which no one need feel con
cerned, however.
There was a slim attendance of members at
the session of the House, to-day the seats of
the Democrats especially, being generally empty.
Bullock occupied a seat on the extreme Demo
cratio side of the House for some time, and
seated by him was a negro, who seemed very
much at his ease, though ho might have been
in better company.
The general opinion in best informed Con
gressional circles, to-day, is that tbe Georgia
bill will pass the Honse on Monday; bat its de
feat in the Senate is considered certain. The
members of the Senate Jndioiary are almost
unanimously opposed to the bill, and will op
pose it in their speeches, and by their votes.
For five long years the Badical party have
been at work reconstructing Georgia. They
have not yet succeeded in finishing the job to
their satisfaction, and one might well &Bk when
they will become satisfied with their undertak
ing. As Mr. Farnsworth well said, yesterday,
we (the Radical party,) have got in a muddle
with the reconstruction legislation, and the
sooner we get ont of it the better. So every
body seems to think, outside of a few bitter ob-
obstructionists in the Radical ranks of Con
gress. So say snch Radical journals as tho
New York Tribune, and the Nation.
On the floor of the Honse to-day I noticed
Messrs. Bullock, Blodgett, Whitely, Farrow,
Clift, Price, and Dr. Bard, and iu the gallery
Messrs. Bryant, Angier and Bowles.
The Farepa Rosa English Opera Troupe closed
a highly successful engagement at the National
Theatre to-night, with the new opera entitled
“Tho Puritan's Daughter.” The theatre has
Radicalism is beyond suspicion. I must state, J"" “ led *® overflowing every night, although
the prices of admission were more than doubled.
however, that others, who may be bettor in
formed than myself, think differently. It is
claimed that powerful influences will be bronght
to bear at the proper time; and that especially
in the Senate will Georgia find many new and
strong friends. I hope so, most sincerely, but
am unconvinced stilL
It will be observed that the senatorial ques
tion is not touched upon in the report of the
Judiciary Committee. Tho impression seems
to bo gaining gronnd in some quarters that
Whitely and Farrow will get their seats,
though I know of no reason for such
elusion. Others are quite as confident that
Hill and Miller will be admitted, or at least
Mr. Hill, whose chances are considered some
what better than his colleague’s, owing to his
political faith. Somo time since the opinion
was general that Miller would be admitted, and
Hill would not. So we go—all sorts of rumors
obtain currency, and conflicting statements and
contradictions meet you at every turn. A grain
of comfort is found in tho reference to the or-1
Mrs. Bowers commences an engagement at
the National Monday evening, and the Chapman
Sisters at Wall's Opera Honse. Dalton.
The earthquake in California, on the 17th
ultimo, was not so disastrous in its results as
at first supposed. The tremor in San Fran
cisco was perceptible about 12 o’clock, M.,
and the rush from tho hotels was almost uni
versal. Tho pavements in front of them were
crowded with frantic forms in every variety of
dress and undress. Many streets were black
with people, who had rushed headlong down
the stairs in their haste to escape from out the
°° n ' numerous tall buildings. When thb shock
subsided, every corner had its eager group,
either staring with blank faces at sundry omi
nous looking cracks in houses just vacated, or
gesticulating rapidly with their hands to con
vey to those who had not felt tho shock somo
idea of its violence. In some localities the
oscillation was barely perceptible; in other
places it was sufficiently violent to throw off
their feet those who did not happen to be
standing firmly at the time.
At various points, within a radius of one
ganization of the present Georgia
in the report of the Judiciary Committee. The Yi S rations appear ed to be from Southwest to
declaration that this Legislature was not law- j Northeast, and of sufficient force to sensibly
folly organized, it is hoped, may vitiate the
election of Whitley, Farrow and Blodgett.
Bollock was on the Senate floor this morning
for a short time, but received no attention from
any one. He said a few words to Senator Mor
ton, and then sneaked ont. Dalton.
The latest advices from Aspinwall report that
the United States steamer Nipsie had arrived at
that port on February 9tb, and remained there
repairing machinery until February 17th, when
she sailed for Caledonia Bay to land the party
of engineers detailed to survey tho route of the
canal across the Isthmus of Darien. The dolays
attendant upon this enterpriso seem to bo innu
merable. The Nipsio had not been absent from
Aspinwall for twenty-four hoars when she re
turned, having only proceeded eighteen miles
on her course. The cause of tho return was
the failure to obtain laborers at Porto Bello, in
consequence of the fears excited by probable
attacks from the Indians on the Isthmus.
sway brick buildings and cause the occupants
to seek the streets. The shock appears to
have been more sensibly felt by those who
were in large buildings than by those who were
in the streets at the time. Some place the
length of its duration at thirty, while others
at as low as fifteen seconds. In many stores,
. goods were thrown from the shelves, doing
1 considerable damage. In Vallejo, the shock
was slight and only lasted about fifteen sec
onds. At Petaluma, the shock was more se-
although of short duration, it had the
General Quesada, of the Cnban army, ar
rived in New York Tuesday. He was loudly
cheered on landing at Jersey City ferry, and
acoompanied to his hotel by a large crowd of
Cabans. General Quesada will probably be
tendered a publio reception by the Cuban
Junta.
effect of driving people rather precipitously
into tho streets from brick and stone build
ings. Slight vibrations were also felt in San
Rafael, Santa Rosa and other places, but the
accounts do not disclose that the loss of prop
erty was very severe.
A "Washington letter says: “San Domingo
will be admitted as a State of this Union before
the end of tho present session of Congress. The
‘acquisition’ will add to the publio debt four
times the amount the Secretary of tho Treasury
pretends he has reduced it Besides, the gov
ernment will have made an addition to the na
tional harden of an entire nation of paupers.
I verily believe the annexation of Central
Africa, from tbe rise to tbe month of the Qnar-
rie River, would find advocates among the ne
gro lovers of this Congress.”
WASHINGTON NOTABLES.
Pen-Portraits of Some of the Women of
Society.
A Washington correspondent of the New
York World furnishes the following interest
ing pen-portraits among others:
MINNIE SHERMAN.-
But the I street house has this-advantage
now in that there is a young lady'daughter to
assist in making the entertainments'agreeable.
Miss Minnie Sherman enjoys society very
much, indeed, albeit she has the credit of be
ing somewhat impassive. She is pleasing in
her appearance, and is more of the blonde
than of the brunette order. Her face is by
some called “coldly intellectual,” by others,
“statuesque.” But her quiet manner is more
to be attributed to her having been an invalid
for some time than to any intentiOhal reserve.
She was so unfortunate as to be thrown from
her horse, while riding some two years ago,
and she was so seriously injured that for a
long time there was no hope for her recovery.
It is not quite a year since she was first able
to go into society; and she found it so pleas
ant then that at the first of this winter she
declared her intention to accept every invita*
tion sent, even at the rate of four or five ev
ery evening.
A story has gone the rounds that she de
clined dancing with the Prince, on the score
of a previous engagement; bat that is not
true, for she did dance with him. With re
gard to the loeket Prince Arthur sent her, it
was a delicate mode of returning General
Sherman's generosity in presenting H. R. H.
with a very handsome rifle. It contains his
own picture, but not his mother’s.
There is never any dancing at the Sherman
receptions. Mrs. Sherman disapproves very
decidedly of the round dances, and never
permits her daughter to dance them.
HRS. SPRAGUE.
Two or three years ago no sketch of Wash
ington society would have been complete with
out giving to Mrs. Sprague a prominent place
iu the foreground. For several winters her
Saturday receptions, which were always mat
inees dansantes, were the handsomest as well
as the most charming of the weekly attrac
tions. Of late she has passed very little of
her time in Washington, and when here has
entertained but seldom, having given herself
up in a great measure to her maternal duties.
Thu3 far this season an elegant dinner and a
musicale, to which last a very few were invi
ted, have been the only occasions on which
her house has been open to her friends. Much
has been said of the beauty of this lady, her
grace and superb dressing, and that has been
but little exaggerated. Mrs. Sprague has
fine eyes, a well-shaped head and graceful fig
ure, though perhaps she is a trifle too slender.
All these advantages show better as belonging
to Mrs. Sprague, arrayed in costly costumes,
than they ever did when Miss Kate Chase ap
peared in very ordinary apparel.
The taste in dress of this lady has ma
terially improved of late years. She no
longer wears a huge diamond ornament on
the top of her bonnet, as she did in the winter
of 1865. Indeed, her dress is more noticed
now for the sake of the well-known taste of
the wearer than the wearer is commented
upon for the display made by her dress. Mrs.
Sprague has a bright intellect and a good deal
of diplomatic capacity. She is a devoted
daughter and a careful wife. A story is told
of her at a State dinner at the White House
in the early part of Mr. Johnson’s administra
tion, which shows her disposition to exercise a
wholesome influence over the husband of
whom she has never appeared prond. Sena
tor Sprague’s seat at this dinner was between
Mrs- Stover and Mrs. Dixon. His wife’s was
on the same side of the table, a few seats be
yond. At that time Mr. Sprague was not,
by any means, a temperate man, and he par
took so freely of wine that not one of his
neighbors, seeing him stretch out his hand to
replenish his glass once more, said gently, “I
would not take any more if I were you;”
while the latter said, “There are a pair of
bright eyes looking at you.” “D—n them!”
exclaimed the excited man, “they can’t see
me I” and refilled his glass as he spoke. But
instantly the owner of the bright eyes in ques
tion, radiant in pink satin, point lace, ana dia
monds, leaned forward, and fixing the keen
eyes on her husband, said earnestly: “Yes,
they can see you, and they are heartily
ashamed of you.”
MISS CHASE.
Miss Nettie Chase is, perhaps, more uni
versally liked than her more haughty sister.
She is not only a young lady to be admired for
her stylish appearance and ease of manner, but
more for her mental acquirements. She ha3
great taste and ability as an artist, and of her
drawings a gentleman who is permitted the
privileges of herportefeuille says: “Some of
her productions are really miracles, of their
kind, bringingupinstantly and vividly both
Cruikshank and Hogarth, of neither of whom
is she a copyist”
The Chief Justice has taken a house this
winter, and no longer shares that of his eldest
daughter. Miss Chase does the honors of
her father’s house with much grace, and fills
her position with the ease usually acquired
only by long experience.
Another of the beauties of whom muoh has
been said and written is Miss Blanche Bntler.
This young lady is one who h&s the rare ad
vantage of appearing lovelier in her own
home, and . when dressed simply, than she
ever does with brilliant surroundings. She is
a blonde of a peculiar type, that so seldom
seen, where hazel eyes, made dark by lashes,
are accompanied by a skin dazzling in white
ness and purity, a brilliant ooior, and hair
which is of the famous golden hue, with a
tinge of red just sufficient to make it glitter.
Miss Butler’s amiability and lovable disposi
tion are subjects of as much remark as is her
beauty. In particular her friends epeak of
the relation which exists between her and her
father, just what it should between father and
daughter, but what it rarely is in our day.
Saturday’s Debate in the House on
the Georgia Bill—-Farm'sworth,
Radical, Gives Bullock A Co. a
Dose.
Washington, D. O., March 5.—Tha debate
on the Georgia bill was resumed. Mr. Farns
worth continued his argument against the bill.
He contradicted the statement made yesterday
by Mr. Bntler, that only two members from
Georgia had been admitted to the house in the
last Congress, and those through a mistake, the
fact beiDg that six out of Beven were admitted.
In the criticism of the theory of the Govern
ment that Georgia was only provisional, he
called attention to the fact that Governor Bol
lock, of Georgia, had not been signing himself
“Provisional Governor of Georgia," bnt “Gov
ernor of Georgia.” That his messages to - the
Legislature were not addressed to the Provi
sional Legislature, bnt to the Legislature of
Georgia. That the test oath, which all offi
cers of Provisional Governments were required
to take, was not taken by the officers of the ex
isting State Government. Besides, he also
wonid know whether a Provisional Government
could ratify an amendment to the Gonatitation
of the United States. What becomes of the
ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment by
the Legislature of Georgia if the theory was
correct that the Legislature was only provision
al and illegal.
Mr. Lawrenoe replied that a Provisional Leg
islature is just as lawful and regular, and had
the same power within the scope of its author
ity as any other Legislature.
Mr. Farnsworth remarked that the logio of
the bill, as well as of the speech of Mr. Butler
yesterday, was that everything done by that
Legislature, including the eleotion of United
States Senators, was illegal, therefore its ratifi
cation of the Fourteenth Amendment was also
illegal. Why not as well declare that Bollock
shall be Governor of Georgia for six years or
for life. Why, it was monstrous, and more
monstrous still in the face and eyes of the faot
that the same Governor was charged with steal
ing the appropriation money of the State. The
only excuse for the bill was that if not passed,
the Republican party would lose the next elee
tion in Georgia. He was also afraid they would
lose the next election in the State of New
York.
Mr. Stevenson, of Ohio—How would yon
save it ?
Mr. Farnsworth, ironically—Why, of coarse,
pass a law installing Republicans in office there,
and providing their tennre of office shall be for
life. There is an easier way of maintains onr
asoendanoy in the nation than by holding elec
tions. That way is by the act of Congress
that is the way to do it. The gentlemen from
Massachusetts, (Mr. Butler) had yesterday raised
the cry of murder in the House. Whenever he
wanted to pass one of his reconstruction bills,
he got up in tbe Honse and cried “murder,
murder," and by a howl and cry of that sort,
got a bill passed. Whenever one of these bills
were to be passed, the Washington Chroniole
published an account of some great outrage
and immediately the Be construction Committee
waa called together and a bill reported to the
House. He remembered that last year a gen
tleman, a very clever fellow, bnt a man
whose politics was always those of the
reigning dynasty, who had sold arms to
the. people of Georgia in the winter of
1861 and 1862, with which to shoot down
Union soldiers went to Georgia, and with the
assistance of Got. Bullock, manipulated the Le
gislature to get a committee appointed to ex
amine his claim for the payment of those arms.
The committee was manipulated so as to make
a favorable report, but the Legislature refused
to adopt or pay the claim. Thereupon the man
came to Washington full of sorrow his heart
wrong to its depth and with tears in his eyes
over the terrible persecution of the negroes and
loyal men of Georgia. That man was in favor
of the reconstruction of Georgia at once. What
was his tough story ? It was that he oould not
get his $2500 and interest for arms that he had
sold in the State of Georgia. He (Farnsworth)
felt that the passage of the bill and the pro
longing of the terms of office of the men who
now controlled the State would be a most infer
nal outrage on the tax payers of the State. He
believed the bill was in the interest of a people
who desired to perpetuate their reign, so they
might put money in their parses.
Mecca.—It is announced that an unusual
number of pilgrims a?e expected to be present
at Mecca on the occasion of the festival of the
“Arafatt.” Over one hundred and fifty thou
sand visitors, it is anticipated, will be present
in Mecca. The pilgrims visit Mecca in the
Dhnlhajja,” or month of the Pilgrims, com-1
mencing this year on March 4th. One of the
rites consists in standing on Honnt Arafatt,
near Mecca, nntil sunset. This ceremony takes
place this year on Friday, March Ilth, the Mo
hammedan weekly holy day, and, according to
tho traditions of that sect, confers as muoh
merit as three visits to Mecca in other years.
The immense crowd now assembling in the vi
cinity of Mecca have been Bnbjectedto sanitary
Grant and the Gold Gamblers—A
Doubting Thomas.
The Washington correspondent of tne New
York Sun, (Republican), evidently belongs to
the “Doubting Thomas” family. He says of
Grant’s connection with the gold panic:
Washington, March 4.—Whoever will take
the pains to examine with care the testimony
before the Committee charged with investiga
ting the gold panic of September last, will see
that in spite of all the whitewashing endeavors
of the Chairman and his assistants, the conven
ient memories of some of the interested wit
nesses, and the disappearance of the most im
portant part of the Grant family correspond
ence, there is mnch that is mysterious, suspi
cions and damaging to the oocupanta of the
White Honse, male and female. It is demon
strated beyond all doubt that they knew a large
speculation was on foot, and that they were to
benefit by it, at least partially.
The refusal of Gen. Grant and his wife and
sister, to make any statementSbefore the com
mittee may bo considered very politioin some
quarters, bnt with reflecting people, the failure
to explain satisfactorially the transactions with
Corbin and Company cannot bat leave a bad
impression, especially after tho mercenary incli
nations which have been so painfully evident
in those quarters.
It is no secret here or elsewhere in well in
formed circles that the President has received
At least $250,000 in the foim of substantial
presents, to say nothing of the stocks in specu
lative enterprises which have been donated to
him and his staff to secure their favor. An in
quiry of this kinds, if folly answered, would dis
close some interesting information.
A curious faot is current in these puts, whioh
illustrates the general praotioe and principles of
those high in authority. It is stated that a
brother of the President not very long ago bad
a note discounted at one of the national banks
in New York, which happened to be the deposi
tory of the U. 8. consular fund. The person
concerned came to Washington, made his state
ment, and the note was paid; but the consular
deposits were immediately afterward transfer
red to the banker Seligman, a {favorite with
General Butterfield and at the White House.
For what reason this change was made some
people will not be at a loss to imagine. That is
the way business is now done in Washington.
New Orleans Cotton Statement.
We qnote, as follows, from the Picayune of
Saturday:
Office or the Picatcnx,')
Friday Evening, Haroh 4, 1870. j
The sales for the past three days sum np 17,-
COO bales, making, with the addition of 1200
bales to the reported sales during the first three
days, a total for the week of 36,300 bales,
against 41,450 last week and 33,500 the week
before ; and tbe week’s receipts 39,656 bales,
already made its appearance among the pilgrims an ’ d 16 * 82 £ lit year. Receipts proper sinoS
““to? th ® GnK. *nd & & feared ; September 1st, 839,788 bales, against 675 541
that the deaths from that disease may be u nn- j ^ Th ” weeV8 exporti comprise 33,068
merons as in the year 1865, when the mortality i emb racing 21,558 to Liverpool, 3397 to
was frightful. . j Havre, 566 to Cronstadt, 1950 to Barcelona, 471
The Boston Traveller says that those to Boston, 1348 to New York
gaged in the boot and shoe trade have not “ d900toMob c Si os 8XATEK ™
found the sales of the season thus far quite np owi-j a nwo ^
to their expectations. There are more houses K od sUce statement..... fe^soi’
m the trade than heretofore, and the demand Arrived previously 878,390-884,891
for goods has not increased so fast a3 the fa-; ———
cilibesfor supplying them. Sales have been ^ 4 A 1t 1M SSSiBM
made at small profits to the manufacturers, ci^pSd'yV".V.T.V.V.':.V.629,836-640,988
and with the competition as sharp as at pres-
enfc the business must be conducted with pru- Stock on hand and on shipboard244,673
denco, to prevent a positive loss. To-day’s exports embraoe 10,586 bales to
Liverpool, and 566 to Constadt. Receipts prop-
Equal rights at the refreshment tables of e r since Friday evening, 37,935 bales, against
Washington reoeptions are not looked upon with 44,620 last week, and aunee September 1st, 839,-
favor. 788 bales, against 675,641 last year.
Labor Unions No Where.
The sugar planters of Louisiana, determined
not to be out-done by the negro labor unions,
offer through the West Baton Rouge Sugar
Planter the following magnificent terms to field
hands. Tho delicate phraseology in which they
couch their seductive pro positions surpasses even
the benignant suavity of tbe great Chief of the
Freedman's Bureau, when he is treading on the
tail of a million dollar speculation:
In order to populate our plantations with la
dies and gentlemen for tbe ooming crop season,
we respectfully beg leave to offer the following
terms to talented artists who distinguish them
selves in the specialty of cultivating a branch
of our great national staples :
“The ladies shall dictate their own terms ss
to position and convenience, and shall receive
three times morothan they demand, with foil
privilege to increase the same to any amount.
Sumptuous apartments are provided, with polite
and attentive waiters, who will serve them with
delicate nourishment in the mornings, and as
certain their desires for the day. If suffering
from the slightest indisposition or disinclined
to participate in the innooent recreations of the
field, no demand upon their services will be ex
acted, and a band of music shall be in waiting
to produce enlivening and entertaining sympho
nies. If enjoying the most profound health,
carriages are engaged to convey them to and
from the scene of their rnstio recreations, and
be in constant attendance upon their pleasure.
The better to preserve the beauty and freshness
of their complexion during the noontide heat,
umbrellas will be used to protect them from tbe
rays of a vertical sun. Sponge cake, ice-cream
and lemonade will be liberally furnished daring
the day, or any other refreshment—the comfort
and convenience of the ladies being more high
ly prized than filthy lucre. Bala will be given
every night daring the week, or oftener if de
sired, and New Orleans shall be laid under con
tribution to famish talented musicians. It is
particularly desired that the ladies should make
their minutest desires known, in order that they
may be rigidly oomptied with. At the close of
the season one-half of the entire crop shall be
divided between the ladies, and a donation of
$1,000 in gold shall be made to each, (whioh it
is hoped will be cheerfully accepted), with the
privilege of as muoh more as may be desired.
“Gentlemen may also dictate their own term*
—wages being of slight consideration compared
with the welfare and happiness of our newly
enfranchised fellow citizens and brother*. In
all cases their desires, tastes and inclinations
shall be consulted. Their apartments will be
decorated in the most luxurious manner, not
omitting Turkish baths, which may be ordered
at any hour, with the necessary assistance.
Wines, liquors, cigars, etc., of the most ap
proved brands, will be famished stall times
and in any quantity. Several of the moot fa
mous chefs de cuisine have been engaged to serve
np all the delicacies of the season Jn tire most
recherche and approved styles. Servants will
be in attendance to assist in dressing, and to as
certain their wants for the day. The choicest
steeds will await their pleasure for recreation,
or oonvey them to their labors and back. | If
desired, accomplished and gentlemanly asaist*
ants shall hoe, plough, Ao., so as not to disturb
their doles far niente. Schools for the angelie
little cherubs will be established, at whioh not
the slightest allusion shall be made to the ver
nacular of Dahomey or Ashantee. Tha dead
and living langnages shall be taught in their
pristine parity, and all the embellishments of
fashionable life freely encouraged. All pater
nal care imaginable shall be exercised to secure
the most ample satisfaction in regard to health,
comfort and convenience. No gentleman man
ager ahail, under the severest penalty, so far
presume as to ring a bell, blow a horn, or beat
a tin pan, with a view of referring to periods arf
commencing or discontinuing rural occupations.
Any interference or impertinenoe on the part of
the manager must be promptly reported, and
will be summarily punished by forcible eject
ment from the premises.
Beantifal Tribute to tbe SoutSs.
We copy the following beautiful tribute to
Virginia and tbe South from tbe Baltimore
Episcopal Methodist, of tbo 12th instant:
And yet, amidst all this desolation and rain,
did the world ever see anything like the un
complaining dignity with which the Sonth has
borne a hideous vivisection that left it at the
time bnt a ghastly semblance of life? We
confess that not all the magnificent valor that
won her thousand victories, not the fiery onset
of Jackson’s Scotch-Irish, nor the superb com
posure with which Lee directed the advancing
tide of battle, or covered the slow and sullen
retreat, has ever so electrified or melted onr
whole souls as the sublime fortitude with which
the South has borne the most unspeakable
woes.
“The Niobe of nations, there she stands,
Childless and crownless in her voiceless woe,
An empty urn within her withered hands,
WhoBO holy dost was scattered long ago.”
Nor is this all. The Virginia thus treated,
tho “lone Mother of Dead Empires,” is also
the mother of that Union from which she has
been kept out like a leper, and only admitted
now under the most tyrannical and exaspera
ting conditions. The corner-stone of this grand
constitutional fabric was laid by the hand of
the giant who now stands at the threshold of
of the temple, his hair shorn, his eyes put
out, and for the present making sport for the
Phillistines. It is Virginia, that proud old
colony, which, having no quarrel of her own
with the King of England, yet took np, from
generous sympathy, the cause of Massachu
setts ; Virginia, but for whose Washington
the Revolutionary War would have been a dis
astrous failure: whose Jefferson wrote the
Declaration of Independence; whose Patrick
Henry roused the nation to arms with his fiery
eloquence; whose Marshall was the glory of
American jurisprudence; whose Madison, Mon
roe, Harrison, Taylor, adorned the Executive
chair; whose Winfield Scott and Rough and
Ready were the leading military figures of the
Mexican war; with troops of her valorous
sons in the war of 1812 ; whose statesmen
have illustrated the councils as have her sol
diers the camps of the Republic— this is the
good old commonwealth which, for five long
years, has been gronnd to the earth under the
heel of negro and military vassalage, and is
now only permitted to enter the edifice which
she made by her own hands, and adorned and
immortalized by her genius and virtue, from
its foundation to its pinnacle, as a captive and
a slave.
Tbe Income Tax.
It is apparent that some modification of the
Income Tax will be made; if, indeed, it is not
repealed altogether. Certainly, it should not
exist as it is. In point of fact this tax ex
pires with the present year, in spite of the at
tempt in Congress to prolong it by a resolution
of interpretation. The modification of this
law rests with the people. Let them poor in
petitions upon Congress, and let them write let
ters to the members, urging them to make a
change in the law. The rate of taxation should
be rednoed, and the exemption should be in
creased. The tax is inquisitorial and unpopular.
It opens the way to fraud and corruption, and
it is reasonably liable to the charge of anoonali-
tutionality. There is no especial need of haring
so large a surplus in the Treasury. Tha peo
ple are less anxious to pay the debt speedily
than to be relieved of the burden of taxation.
The President and the Secretary of the Treas
ury are desirous of showing a reduction of
debt. This is a commendable ambition, but it
is one that can be postponed for other elalias.
The people, with taxation rednoed, will be all
the more able to commence the work of paying
the debt.—Com. Ads.
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A manifesto from the Emperor of Fiance, it
is reported, wifi appear ou the 4th instant, tha
birthday of the Prinoe Imperial.
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