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pli and Messenger.
jIACON.
MARCH
1870.
jjUctclics of Senators.
(V KVrM-l
TB r. sesxtobs—mb. thubjun.
...s of tba Democratic party in tbe
'the Hon. A. G. Thurman, of Ohio—is
K^djUion; bin form, though not ovor-tall,
I* 0 ® and his face is set and hard. There
* ouch figW 88 f° rc0 in that man - Ho
1 !.rike. hot ents and presses his way
, SU1WI _. n lJ
K* what he would accomplish.— ter for that. But while Presidents hold their
l^irth is seen in his thin, rnnsen- office foryears andSenators almost indefinitely,
nJ&n birth is seen in bis thin,
kVi-T- w t be next fifteen years do not give
chance to make his own place in the
PPr.;. party. there will be some wasted
r'^T'ticsfof 5Ir - Thnrmttn to answer for.
ynt. sxctsnnnT.
, rSaulshury, the silver-tongued and ex-
B#W ' aid bo the most effective man on his
on lr take a few elocutionary ex-
ifhC His voice dots not assort with his fine
sis admirable, genial character.
life of »pt*H°8 is th8t 01 Mr - ° rator PQff
thetones in hia voice,
if «»s Flat, and the roat G below.”
■ One-paiT ora tor’s surely enough,”
K) ne y 0 ' c , . jjn-bas the choice of thirteen
k” 1 «ai! wwtespeaha in him, “not exactly
i imcant,however. A sentence from
L «sosoroo^y enon S^) anti gives up the
r °? e . falsetto- Naturally, his voice is one
artfUns to the Senate, but he dots
hftovTouseit
I 81 ' mb. DAVIS.
. jam never see the small, spire form
piios-tuking faco of Garrett Davis,
‘®V.vj„lu,g what a woman said when ho
j on t to her: It was: “I think his
1 have been fond of children to h&ve
Ff.i", one.” His faco is like one of those
ta th»t one. .... .....
T • ’.r.-n on u nut-shell, quaint, lined,
rVrffts, but bale. Ho is a relic, and a
oatiotw, conscientious gentleman of
L&iebool—• little choleric at limes, bnt a
IaM school*
fJjjjcitnt nurse to the whole body usually.
IlilABD AND STOCKTON.
gi0K Bayard and Stockton are an elo-
Jin* for the latter can say as much as any
foi'rt Senators on the floor. When he
kbL the ghosts of classic oratory necin draw-
Kjbai they never quite get in. Yet it is
|f$nbe Senate that it has men like Stock-
I violate not quite lost the impetuosity of
' mature in the calm of senaatorial oppres-
JJB. WIT.TJAMS.
r Williams, of Oregon, is one of the
freMiIved men of concentrated strength in
thole body- He does not speak so much
L SeMtor Williams's high, cold, watch-
ce seem* paUifl wlth suppressed energy,
a he speaks, the knots and tangles fall
t his direetstrohes like sword-cuts. There
T preface no ornament, in what he says.
Ibu common-sense, irresistable logic,
i is (he only eloquence that is natural to-
Americaas are not excitable people in the
it, and eloquence, so-called, does not
ihongh it may tickle them. To their
(thetorical cadence destroys the value
k So we hope that in a few
itie fights and sing-song of oratory will
ndo the unembarrassed tone of one man
i lith due deference to another.
PAESON BEOWNLOW.
Itiiiscientsnsed to set a coffin at their
Lto keep in mind the fate all must come
>e Senate retains that suffering, qnivering,
[forcible piece of humanity known as
v, of Tennessee. He sits there pa-
.. ia the high-backed, hair-cloth chair,
[oae leg supported on his desk, almost
Jess, saving the constant twitching of the
let ia every part of his form. He is a me-
Land the sight of this man, in his pride,
jg so helpless among them, most be a sng-
pn to his colleagues.
SOKTOS AND SPRAGUE.
i people of Minnesota must have been
eo{ “gave and reverend” material when
feat the young D. S. Norton to represent
I in the 8enate. For decency’s sake he
n have powdered his head at least, to pre-
ithe semblanceo( age, for he is a David
pthfnl looks. Senator Sprague goes round
ya boyish figure surmounted by a frank,
‘ mg face that is growing old, if he does
to he. The impression about the
) Mud Senator is, not that he is remark-
r the brilliance of his talents, but what
v, • dilligent worker.
BOVZ AND TRUMBUDB.
rllowe, of WisconsiD, has a face like
fa nice old school-boy, gentle, kind and
Ihe eight of that benevolent pale face
’s silvery hair, is the pleasantest in the
He seems a sort of Senatorial Melanc-
I His neighbonr in tbe arm chair is a man
% unchallenged character but opposite
Indeed it seems as if due regard for
" ss had placed Mr. Howe and Lyman
Inert each other. The compressed,
we of Senator Trumbull is relieved by
fftnsive friendliness of Howe. By tbe
r. Trumbnll has the air retained from
f experience as a pedagogue of an old
taoJ-master looking up and down for his
It is a legal face—something sallow—
ay, dose cot hair, firm month and steel-
with a suspicious gleam of fire in
at betokens the keen darts he is ready to
Jkij opponents, when called for. Ho is
t worker, rarely idle.
POMEBOY.
r Pomeroy’s head is a continent in it-
P *tp»nsive and round. One would say it
I«laid ont in town lots, at least, with
| peenin the centre. A man of substance
[Mi corporally and in property. He
phaodaome house next the Arlington
I *r- has one of the sweetest wives, of
I liteage, that man should be blessed
I de is a well known supporter of women's
to!!!, promoter of temperance; all of
J*** not keep public opinion bom dis-
Rjhe man. it jg thought his bill for the
^•on of nuisances about the capital ia
^ oy a heartfelt desire to do away with
The bill is cloarly suicidal.
MB. HARLAN.
; ;t Harlan, one of the worst abused men
teuton to-day, looks to me as if he didn’t
what is said about him. Hois well
preserved a fair character till he
■^tie Department of the Interior, from
-minever yet escaped with a clean
■!u Reserved or not. “I told him,”
J 1 of his the other clay, “not to
Impost of Secretary of the Interior, for
T* t « escaped villifying before ho got
frith it." In company he is a slow, bnt
f*?Mns sentences well weighed, and
a low, pleasant tone, as if he en-
p’-te from political strife. He is'one
td men of Congress, and one would
|**»» good Methodist, only anxious to
'**«, to do his dnty as a Senator the rest
*1*.
MB. BUCKINGHAM.
pr Buckingham, of Connecticnt,has one
F w i which can be called patrician faces
r m S ‘. are such in whom the im-
l character stems to bo developed more
l®f ner4t t°D, fill it hardens the features
IL'TJTv There is ancestral dignity, in-
I la them, and self will of grand
l®waparedto the cringing, venal, sen-
- -acommon. The Senator has that fine
, , --u .11, bnt betrays condensed
[.- rengih. His rnffled, close curling,
•^symmetrical head, and decided re-
.•‘f’ fender him next to Mr. Sauls-
r? lit “ som68 t man present. Add to
L .J 1 ie . ! r uost of the well descended mem-
| —eer House, a hard worker.
KB. CONKUNG.
-Cockling I cannot admire,because he
fora 018,1 of brains, though
j room enough for them in that
under its crop of waving curls, in
^heat with the sun on it. Spite
j I he wears at times the air of a
t [. , rlce . r which redeems him. Men do
Jvf ODofisome. Character moulds
iKi or no; contrary a woman
rC2?X to tint and form,|bacause she
I. cnaracter enough to make a differ-
led the politics of the Republican party so long.
£o my eye he ia a beautiful man—as men ought-
only to be—incorruptible and ttrong.
« * '■ Carpenter, op Wisconsin.
Senator Carpenter has a face like a corpulent
fed eagle. The head declined, the subdued
face, the iron gray crest give the idea of an
eagle resting on his perch; but there is a light
in his eye like smoldering coals, and a Napole
onic touch of expression which reveals cn in
tensely ambitions, strong-willed, fiery-hearted
man. I see by the list tntt his term of office
expires in 1875. The date might as well be
moved some years farther on. That man is in
the Senate and he will stay there, or his heart
will be nnder the pavement not above it. He
wiU not be President. He is too strong a charac-
a man of just ambition in the latter position has
no need to sigh for the other.
MB WILSON.
Tbo benign face of Senator Wilson looks mild
as that of a Catholic priest among snch hot-
hearted Senators as Carpenter and scathing
Trumbull. People know his kindness and he is
besieged accordingly by all the women in want
of a helping hand, who have a clean record to
show. His steps about the capital are haunted
by a string of forlorn creatures in limp veils
and rusty dresses. Senator Wilson and Repre
sentative Ames are a sort of benevolent firm
in Congress, to such as really have a claim for
help
BEVELS.
Senator Revels, in glossy black suit, with his
cylender-sbaped head, and dust brown complex
ion, studies the Constitution diligently, as if it
were his prayer-book. He seems modest, and
deeply impressed with the dignity of his sur
roundings.
THE LOIJIS1NA TRAGEDY.
Killing: of the Joncsra, anil the End of a
Twenty Years Fend.
We published, some time since, an account
of the killing of Gen. St. John Liddell, of Cata-
honla parish, Louisiana, while eating his dinner
on board a Mississippi river steamboat, by CoL
Chas. Jones and sons, of the same parish. A
telegraphic item a few days afterwards informed
the public that the Joneses, father and eldest
son, had been taken from the custody of the sheriff
and shot to death by an armed band of twenty
or more, supposed to be the friends and old ar
my comrades of Gen. Liddell.
The New Orleans Picayune, of Tuesday, gives
the following particulars of the tragedy.
THE BLACK BIVEB TRAGEDY.
The rumor is current now that young Jones,
who escaped from the house the night his father
and brothers were killed at Harrisonburg, made
his way down to New Orleans, and is at present
in onr city. At the time the attack was made
npon the honse, and when it was discovered
that it was useless to make any defense, he left
his father and brother and wont np into the
second story. From thence he passed out of
one of the windows, and by clinging to the pro
jecting brick3 of the chimney, managed to con
ceal himself in its shadow until after the search
was over and the attacking party had left
As soon as he conld get down with safety, he
procured a pirogue and paddled along down the
river. He was finally, it is said, taken on
board of a steamboat, and it being suspected
that some of the attacking party were on board,
he was concealed by the officers in the hold of
the boat until she reached this city.
Col. Jcnes and his sons, it appears, were ex
pecting an attack, bat did not expect it to come
oefore the examination took place.
When the attacking party announced them
selves from without, Col. Jones seemed to take
in the situation in a moment, and remarked:
“There they are.” Besides the ladies in the
honse, there were present Elijah B. Cotton and
Sheriff Ballord.* Before the door was broken in,
the younger Joneses, it is said, proposed to
their father to make fight, bnt ho replied that it
was useless. As soon as the door gave way,
the parties attacking ordered all the females
and innocent parties ont of the house, and Col.
Jones, throwing a sheet or counterpane around
him, passed ont with the rest, and had reached
the front gate before he was discovered and shot
down.
The elder of the two sons passed out at the
back door, and had reached an opening in the
picket fence in the rear, through which ho was
passing, when he was discovered and shot
down.
Mr. Cotton, it is said, expected that, as the
excitement was so gTeat, he might be shot also;
bat as fjoon as it was .discovered who he was,
he was assured that no harm would come to
him.
The panic in Catahoula is so great that the
people are nnwillmg to express an opinion pro
or eon in the matter of the killing.
Trontdale, K. J..
The Newark Advertiser, speaking of Dr.
Slack’s trout ponds at Trontdale, N. J., eays:
Trout raising here has been entirely success
ful, and very profitable. A spring supplies the
water for the ponds, whioh are three in number,
two hundred and fifty feet long, by fifteen wide,
and so arranged that the water may be drawn
from the first and second or more elevated, into
the third. The ponds have hard graveHy bot
toms, and are kept free from weeds. When
the spawning season arrives the female trout
are caught and the spawn squeezed from them
into a pan, with a depression in the bottom.
The divested mother is then thrown back into
the water to prodace another supply of spawn
for the next season. The eggs arc then placed
in hatching boxes, which are shallow pans,
throngh which water constantly runs. In about
forty days they hatch. Soon after they are re
moved to troughs, in a building where they re
main for about five months, their diet being a
pulp strained from fresh beef, chopped fine,
and deposited upon the water with a syringe.
At the end of five months each one of these in
fants begins to think hinself quite a fish, and
is transferred to the first pond, and remains
there till one year old, when ho takes the sec
ond degree and is removed to another lodge.
At two years he becomes a 20-incher. and goes
to_the_ angling pond, where he gaily whisks his
tail with a “sho9 fly, don’t bodder mo” air, till
the fly comes along, and then ho is “bodderd”
with a line, and hauled np at the rate of one
dollar per pound by New York epicures, for
whom Trontdale is a favorite resort.
Dr. Slack is no novice in this business. Ho
is thoroughly versed in the piscatorial science,
and is practical in aU his operations. He has
acquired a vast fund of scientific knowledge,
and bolds a diploma from one of the highest
colleges in France, as well as others from dif
ferent medical and literary institutions in
America. e
Visitors to Trontdale are treated with gen
erous hospitality, and instructed in all the arts
and mysteries of trout raising ; but two large
blood hounds, one an imported Russian, keep
nocturnal prowlers at a respectful distance.—
These ponds have been in operation about three
years, arid their profits next year will not fall
much short of 825,000.
The Cbarcb and State Move.
There has been of late a convention in ses
sion at Pittsburg, engaged in drawing up an in
dictment of infidelity against the American
people, specifying that said people have no re
cognition of God in their fundamental law.
One of th<3 articles of this indictment, or, to
put it as a the convention put it, one of the reso
lutions adopted, refers to the necessity of af
fording “the fuUest security against a corrupt
and corrupting church establishment;" by
which, we take it, the convention means to al
lude to that Catholic faith professed by so large
and respectable a body of our fellow-citizens.
Now, we mean to compare divers of the resolu
tions adopted by this convention with certain of
the canons in the schema lately put forth in con
nection with the Ecumenical Council, and desire
the careful attention of the reader to the ex
hibit thus made:
BOME.
Canon XVIII. -Who
soever says that the
power necessary for the
government of a civil
PITTSBUEG,
Resolved, That civil
government is ground
ed, like the family, in
the principles of the na-
state does not emanate tore of man as a social
from God, or that ono^creatore; and that ithas
is not bound by Divino'itspowersandfunotions
law to submit himself j thus determined by the
to such power, or that Creator, and is, there-
such powor is repug-'fore, like the family, an
nant to tho natural lib-'ordinance of God.
erty of men, let him be Resolved, That na-
anathema. tions, as sovereignties,
Cason X. -Whosoever!wielding moral as well
says that tho church is'as physical power, and
not a perfect institution having moral as weU as
bnt merely a corpora- material effects, are
tion, or that it is of such morally accountable to
a nature, with regard to God.
civilsocietyorthestate,! Resolved, That the
as to be subject to tern- proposed religious a-
poral power, let him be ruendment to our na-
anathema. itional Constitution, so
Canon XII. "Whoso-|far from infringing any
ever says that Christ, individual’s rights of
our Saviour and Sover-jconscience, or tending
eign, has conferred up- in the least degree to a
on the chnrch the pow- union of church and
er to direct only by ad-state, will afford the
vice and persuasion fullest security against
those who torn aside, a corrupt and corrupt-
not to compel them by
orders, by coercion,
and by external verdicts
and statutory punish-
: uents, let him be an-
t thema.
lug church establish
ment, and form tho
strongest safeguard of
both the civil and re
ligious liberties of all
citizens.
Words or Soberness,
Moore’s Rural New Yorker repents of its
artio'.e of January 15th, headed “Shall \fe Go
Sonth r and in a recent number indulges in
the foUowing sound and sensible remarks :
Nor do we forget that the Southern people,
; a whole, are doing nobly, industrially, de
spite the disadvantages under which they labor.
We do not forget that tho war left them “with
out capital, without efficient labor, and without
banking facilities." Wo do not forget what the
wreck of war is, nor how disheartening must
have been the look-ont for the people of the
South when the war endod. We know, and
have not asserted to the contrary, that there
are very many men in the South who are ac
tively and successfully engaged in its industrial
redemption. *
Thero are many noble young men who are
entering into this work of regeneration with
great vigor, and with a right discernment of the
needs of the country. YuUDg Echols, editor of
the Rural Southerner, at Atlanta, is a worthy
example of what the yonDg men of the Sonth
may do, and of what many of them, we hope,
are domg. And such young men as Echols
shonld be honored and enconraged. As wo said
in our former article, the young men of the
North, with practical knowledge and skill, and
a will to work and identify themselves with the
industrial development of the South, cannot
find, in onr opinion, a more inviting field with
in the Republic. Bnt such men should go there
to work—not to speculate; not to enter the po
litical nor tho professional field.
Tbe Sonth has too many politicians and pro
fessional men now. She needs workers—men
who will co-operate with tho best men of the
Sonth to develope her resources, build up man
ufactories, regenerate her soils by skillful cul
ture, and nltilize her natnral wealth. Wo have
no word to say to disconrago men with such
motives from migrating to the South. And
that snch men may succeed notably there, wo
have evidence enough. The True brothers,
from Western New York, are examples of what
the young men of the North may do there.—
They are the sort of “carpet-baggers” tho Sonth
needs, and the class her best and wisest men
will welcome.
c Way.
NR. SUMNER.
[ f aeea to Congress am the one,
Hie mean, ihe vapid, the
“i the far-seeing, can-
b a. «• Some women called Mr. Snm-
day. Now, I detest that
RHfe« *ome points! but to Uoe
Tk.„ n ® Jr Hi® moet attractive in the
.. .. to is dcmention IniAlliMtuia
(i,. — perception, intelligence,
andwhen he shake, off that
mastiff, which he chooses to
“ bi* eye clears, and his shonl-
a ’ on * sees how Charles Sunnier
A Thurible Suicide.—Through, the kind
ness of a correspondent at Chenoa. we have
tho following account of a horrible suicide
which was committed a few miles South of
Pontiac, on the Chicago and Alton Railroad
on Saturday afternoon last: A girl by the
name of Lucinda North, aged about sixteen,
living near that place, has been for some time
keeping company with a man whom her father
opposed. On Friday they had a quairel over
the matter, in which her father whipped hen
and finally turned her out of doors, and told
her if she married the man in question he
would kill her and her husband. On Saturday
afternoon, the engineer of the train going
north, discovered her a short distance ahead
of the train, and in the act of throwing her
bonnet, shawl and muff into the ditch. She
then deliberately laid down aside the rails
with her head on one of them, and beckoned
to the engineer to come on. He was unable
to stop the engine, and the train passed over
her, literally grinding her to pieces. The only
way by which she was identified was by her
bonnet and shawl. Onr correspondent adds
that.she was a nice little girl, who had worked
in his family, and left some two.months ago,
with the intention of being married in Janu
ary.—Peoria Transcript, March 4.
Back Again.—The Knoxville Press and Her*
aid of yesterday, says:
Andy Williams, a colored boy, was brought
from Chattanooga yesterday, and placed in the
oonnty jail, to await the next session of the
Supreme Court, whioh meets in September.
The prisoner been under arrest during the
past two yean, and convicted twice, for the
murder of Bodolph Deutcb, committed about
four miles from Chattanooga, nearly three
years ago.
.4 negro named Israel Myers, of Baltimore,
hai been appointed a special agent of the Post-
offioe Department at large, at $1,200 per annum
and $3 per diem.
The worthy gentlemen who met at Pittsburg,
lud drew up, among other resolutions, those
jbove set forth, would doubtless consider it a
rery grievons thing were any to charge them
vith seeking a nnion gf church and state ; and
yet, see bow closely the utterances of these gen
tlemen, who express an abhorrence of that doc
trine agree with the declarations of those other
gentlemen ot Rome who do really believe in
chnrch and state, and arc, therefore consistent,
at least, in their opinions as above given. So
remarkable a similarity, much as it may grieve
onr Pittsburg friends, does mean church and
state; and that meaning is intensified by the fact
that prominent in that convention were such
well-known politicians as J. AV. McClurg, Gov
ernor of Missouri; General O. O. Howard, of
tbe Bureau; and Bishop Simpson, of tho Meth
odist Chnrch. We beg these gentlemen, and
those others with whom they are associated in
this matter, to have a care as to what they do.
This country has already griefs enough, with
out bringing in as a fresh disfraction the blood
stained old dogma of a nnion of chnrch and
state.
BY TELEGRAPH.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Special to the Telegraph and Messenger. \
Washington, March 11.—Senator Revels (negro)
produced a memorial to-day, purporting to be re
ceived by telegraph from Georgia, protesting against
the passage of the Bingham amendment, ou the
ground that it will deliver the colored people, bound
hand and foot, into the hands of their most relent
less enemies.
They bold that it is necessary that the State Leg
islature should be reconstructed so as to secure the
passage of a law for tho protection of tbe 5)0,000
colored people of tho State of Georgia. They
want the election laws amended so that colored
voters can go to the polls without tho risk of vio
lence and bloodshed, and without giving the State
to tbe extreme Democratic patty. The Georgia
bill ia the order of the day for Monday. Opinions
differ widely concerning the fato of Bingham's
amendment. Dalton.
FROM WASHINGTON.
WAsnisaTON, March 11 Tho Supreme Court, on
motion of Phillips, who advised the Court, directed
that Yerger should be turned over to the civil au
thorities and the habeas corpus in his case dis
missed.
The President has pardoned two negroes, Addison
and Sorer, sentenced by military commission at
Manchester, Ya., to imprisonment for life for
murder.
Georgia’s negro legislators have protested by tele
graph, through Bevels, against Bingham’s Amend
ment.
Revenue to-day, $345,000.
A delegation from national banks is hero, lobby
ing against the funding hill.
Washington, March 12.—Troops will he sent to
Tennessee to aid in the enforcement of the laws
The Democrats of tho Senate aro in accord with
neither the Bullock or Bryant party,- and their action
on the Bingham’s amendment is somewhat doubt
ful, unless Georgia Democrats, who they say have
kept aloof, take some action. Tho fate of the
amendment is doubtful unless tho Democratic Sen
ators vote for tho hill as it camo from the House.
It will be remembered that the Democrats of the
House voted for the amendment, but they, en masse,
voted against the Georgia bill as amended, and the
Democrats of the Senate seem inclined to vote the
same way unless supported by some positive demon
stration from the Georgia Democrats.
Dispatches from Admiral Poor mention his ar
rival, in the flag-ship Severn, at Port-au-Prince, on
February 0th. Ho had an interview with the pro
visional President and Cabinet of Hayti, and ex
plained that pending the present negotiations be-
the United States and St. Domingo, this govern
ment would protect tho Dominicans against any
hostile power. Tho Haytien authorities hopedjthat
tho friendly relations between the United States
and Hayti would not be interrupted, and wliilo
aware of their weakness, they knew their rights
and would protect them to the best of their ability,
and that they must bo allowed to choose their own
policy. Poor heard unofficially that the authorities
were displeased with what they donsidered the me
nacing attitude of the United States. Rumors,
which proved unfounded, of a collision between the
United States and a Haytien war vessel, had been
in circulation. The United States Dictator is also
at Port-au-Piince.
Revenue receipts to-day, $368,000.
The Secretary of the Treasury has allowed to be
protested somo of tho unendorsed Texas indemnity
bonds, holding that according to tho principle de
cided in the case of Texas vs. White and Childs,
they are not negotiable and will bo paid only to
Texas.
London, March 12.—Tho journals consider the j
French note to Rome a diplomatic error, into which
ClHvier was led by following the advice of Jules
VmC f -*—** ■■ * ▼ »
FROM CUBA.
Havana, March'll.—Two schooners, with their
decks crowded with blue clothed men, escaped a
Spanish steamer by reaching shallow water on the
coast.
Captured correspondence shows that several In
surgent Generals are forming dnbe adverse to a
proposition for annexation to the United States.
LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE.
New Orleans, March 11.—The Educational bill
has finally passed.
The Honao has passed a bill giving the Louisiana
Snlphnr Mining Company $300,000 in State bonds.
Havana, March 11.—The cholera has entirely dis
appeared from Santa Spiritua.
Masons are still in imprisonment.
Mayor’s Court.—The Mayor was still without a
case yesterday and consequently there was nothing
done in this Court. We don’t know whether the
decline in gold and cotton is unnecessarily affecting
the morals of this community or not; but we do
know that when the Mayor has nothing to do in his
Court, it bears very heavily on “ ye reporter,” for
when he fails to get an item there in the morning
he is crest-fallen the rest of the day, and the hope
of furnishing something interesting and readable
for the next paper deserts him, and, Micawher like,
ho can only wait for something to turn up.
Heavy Bains.—Between midnight and day yes
terday morning several heavy rains fell in this sec
tion, when it held np again nntil about ten o’clock
a. 31., and thon it came down for a while in perfect
torrents, and tapered off into a steady, all day’s
rain.
At twelve o’clock yesterday the river at tins point
had risen ahont twelve feet, and was still rising at
the rate of two feet per hour. It will he booming
high this morning.
Wet Cotton.—A planter drove up to a warehouse
in this city yesterday and threw out two bales of
cotton for storage and sale. The cotton was very
wet, and after weighing it the salesman made a fair
redaction on tho weight, as is always tbs case when
wet cotton is offered for storage. This the owner
refused to allow, and the salesman reminded him
that it was customary, and that ho was nnder oath
to weigh cotton fairly, and if he was to receive cot
ton in snch condition as that was without making
some reduction for the water that was in it, he
would violate his oath, and that he conld not receive
it otherwise. At this tho owner got angiy, and re
placing the cotton on his wagon, drove off to an
other warehouse, where tho salesman re
fused to receive it on the same grounds the first one
had. Still insisting that no reduction should be
made for water in his cotton, tho planter drove off
to a third warehouse; hut wo did not follow him
np to see how the matter tamed cut.
Just here wo would state that all our salesmen
are under oath to fairly weigh cotton, and standing,
as they do, between tho buyer and producer, they
can, possibly, have no interest or motive in defraud
ing either. Besides, we know ail onr salesmen to he
gentlemen of character, honor and integrity, and
do not believe either of them conld be induced to
falsely weigh a hag of cotton for anybody, or nnder
any circumstances. So the conduct of the planter
in question was a little atrango, to say tho least
of it.
CONGRESSIONAL .
Washington, March 11 Senate—The Senate
considered the San Domingo treaty
Gen. Babcock and Commodore Porter addressed
tho Committee in explanation and snpport of tho
treaty. No action.
Tbe Senate is on Indian bills.
The protest of tho Georgia colored legislators says
they represent 90,000 colored voters in Georgia,who
by the passage of this amendment will be delivered
over, bonnd hand and foot, to their most hitter ene
mies ; that the colored voters will bo driven away
from the polls.
On motion of Trumbull, Georgia was made special
order for to-morrow.
A motion for tbe Joint Committeo on Indiian Af
fairs was defeated by Colfax’s voto. •
The Funding ill was resumed.
The Senate passed tho Funding bill; 36 to 10.
Tho Senate adjourned to Monday, when the
Georgia bill will bo the special order.
House.—The House is on patents.
The morning session was consumed with private
hills. After a struggle between the friends of tho
Deficiency and Tariff bills, the Tariff prevailed.—
The Honso went into committee of tho whole on the
Tariff bill after ono hour’s speech.
Tho Deficiency bill was taken up. It aggregates
$2,600,000, including for repairs of custom houses:
Savannah, $15,000; Mobile, $15,000; Richmond,
$25,000. No action.
The Honso meets to-morrow for debato.
Washington, March 12.—House—The House
proceedings were uninteresting. Thero was a mea
gre attendance of members.
Fbuit Pbospects.—Wo heard a gentleman state
yesterday, who has a . fine peach orchard, that he
still had hopes of a good crop of peaches this year,
though the late cold snap would probably make the
crop a little later than usual. He also expressed
tho opinion that tho general fruit crop in this sec
tion was as yet uninjured. One cold spell has fol
lowed another so closely, that the tender twigs on
which tho fruit is germinated have not had time to
reach that point of maturity when a frost or cold
snap is very dangerouB to them.
Wo can all hut sincerely bopo that such is tbe
fact, for the fruit trade of this section is an im
portant item during the early part of Bummer, and
brings to our people a large supply of pocket
change, which they would really miss in case of a
failure of the fruit crop. Two or three of our gro
cery merchants box and ship North annually thous
ands of bushels of early peaches, apples, Ac.,
which sell at good prices in Northern markets, and
yield a handsome income to fruit growers. But
aside from the pecuniary value of the fruit crop,
our people could scarcely get along without the lux
ury through tho summer.
Savnnnali.
We are glad to see that the people of Ala
bama are turning their attention to our South
ern Atlantic cities in the way of trade. The
enterprise of Savannah in stretching out her
railroads to the Alabama Iliver has already
exhibited the fruits which follow commercial
spirit and activity. Her prospects are better
to-day than ever before. Only last week a lot
of ground upon what two years ago was a
common of little appreciable value, was sold
for over $4,000, a price equal to that of the
best lot in the heart of business in our own
city. This is an indication of what Savannah
is, and of what she will yet become. This in
crease in the value of property has been
brought about by the mercantile spirit which
has established lines of steamers to Northern
and European ports, which has wiped out
rickety Toads ana pushed forward the Georgia
Central over all opposition; which has at
tracted a large portion of the cotton from the
great cotton Delt, and which has, in fine, made
Savannah the entrepot and the depot for the
entire belt of splendid prairie land which
stretches westward to the Alabama River.—
Her enterprise does not pause at the Alabama.
Already she aids in the completion of the link
to Selma, and thus draws to herself the royal
staple from oven the very doors of New Or
leans.
From what she has been able to do with the
terminus of her roads on the Alabama River,
we may judge of what she will do when her
control over the railroads westward extends to
Vicksburg. Since September 1st she has re
ceived 390,816 bales of cotton. Will we be
far wrong in saying that her receipts will he
doubled when she touches the Mississippi?
When doubled, her receipts will be but little
behind those of New Orleans. Indeed, they
will be nothing behind those of New Orleans
since she draws supplies away from that city.
Savannah, thus becoming to the interior
through the enterprise of her citizens, what
New Orleans was before the war, what reason
can exist why she should not furnish our mer
chants with eyeiy variety of imported and
home manufactured articles? She looks out
upon the Atlantic; she has direct steam navi
gation with Europe; she ships cotton to Liv
erpool, Havre ana Cadiz; she ships lumber
to every important port of the world: she
sends tne grain of the up country to South
America; she has enterprising merchants,
and men of large wealth devoted to her pros
perity ; she has men not only of large wealth,
bnt what is better, of enlarged views. These
men, with the advantages possessed by their
city, are determined to make her the Atlantic
metropolis of the South. They are now ask
ing the merchants of the interior to buy their
goods at Savannah, and they promise to sell as
cheaply as New York. We hope that the in
vitation will be responded to. Every South-
era man should be proud of Savannah, and
should do all in his power to build np a South
em metropolis on the Atlantic coast.—Mont
gomery Mail.
GENERAL NEWS.
Jackson, Miss., March 11.—Alcorn has bcon in
augurated. His inaugural regarding judges, who
have a long tenure under the Constitution says:
‘Onr Judges must bo men of standing. That society
cannot presumo to ignore. They most he men
learned in tho law beyond their fellows—men of
courago and of conscience in uearty accord with tho
mission of tho men charged with the consolidation
in this State of tho work of reconstruction.
New York, March 11.—The Mechanics’ Bank has
resumed specie payment with a circulation ont, of
$50,000. >
The steamer Smidt, from Bremen, January 20th,
which was given up for lost is now coming up tho
Bay.
New York, March 11 Tho steamor Smidt mado
a voyage sonth of Bermuda in consequence of a
broken engine. Sho encountered successive hurri
canes.
Augusta, March 11.—Ben Godley, negro, was
hung at Waynesboro, in Burke county, for the mur
der of Adkins Lewis. The murder was committed
last summer.
Oil Cur, March 11.—A fire which threatened the
destruction of the entire city, was, by great exer
tions of the people, extinguished after burning a
railroad train and a number of tanks.
Cincinnati, March 12 Many of tho Ohio dis
tilleries refuso to pay, and others pay under pro
test, with a view to bringing suit, nnder tho forty-
eight hoar fermentation assessment.
New York, March 12.—The Smidt reports that
while crippled and lying to, unable to mako tho
least headway off Azores, the Captain saw a largo
three-masted Bteamer. It was dark, stormy night,
and ho wsb unable to make her ont.
Cincinnati, March 12 A religious revival is pro
gressing. 2,000 persons have been added to the
churches recently, and not embracing all tho con
verts. Many of whom have not yet joined.
New Orleans, March 12.—Samuel F. 'Wilson, of
tho N. O. Picayune, is dead—aged 65 years.
Brevet Brigadier General Mims S. Miller, Depnty
Quartermaster General, U S. A*, died suddenly
yesterday—aged 56 years.
Bichmond, March 12.—The Conference of the
three Bepublican State Committees held to-day,
agreed to call a conference for the reorganization
of the party, to meet here April 6th.
The revenue officers at Fredericksburg yesterday
seized fifteen thousand cigars, and twenty barrels
of whisky, for alleged violation of revenue laws.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Roue, March 11—Pontificial Court contests in
emphatic terms the claims that the French Govern
ment shonld be represented in the Ecumenical
Council. The Baden North German Gazette says
the claim of the Pope to infallibility only shows
how liable to error he is.
Basis, March 11.—Louis Noir, whose brother
Pierre Napoleon killed, complains that prosecution
seems directed against hia dead brother rather than
Pierre.
Paris, March 12.—Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain
and her husband, Don Francisco D’Aaais, have
agreed to submit their differences to arbitration.
The tribunal will be composed of five persons, one
of whom will be Jnles Fane.
Tbe Radical journals of this city attack Jules
Fuvre bitterly for having promised his aid to the
ministry,
A Failure Between 3 and 5 o'clock yesterday
morning, an effort was made by eight or ten no
groes, to escape from their cell in the city guard
boose, but, fortunately, their operations were dis
covered juBt in time to prevent their escape. They
had cut through the heavy planks which lined tho
inside of their cell, and ware making a hole in the
outer brick wall through which they conld pass and
let themselves down to tho ground by means of their
blankets tied together. In picking throngh tho
brick wall they accidently let a brick fall to the
ground, and it was hoard by Messrs. Craig and
Honso, who immediately examined into the cause of
tho strange noise, and they discovered tbo ominous
hole in the walk On repairing to the cell it was
found that tho negroe3 would have been out in ten
minutes bnt for the fall of the fatal brick, as they
had their blakets tom into strips and tied together
and all were about ready to take leg trail
Pretty Steep.—We saw a gentleman plank down
three silver quarters for three drinks of whisky
yesterday, and he got no chango in return—twenty-
five cents a drink in silver, gold, or greenbacks,
being tho prico at that bar. Ho sensibly remarked,
as ho left tho door, that he would not darken [it
again in a sweet while at those rates.
Returned.—Dr. Lin [Ionian, surgeon chiropodist,
has returned for a few days. If you have cornB,
bunions, or bad nails, don't fail to give him a call,
as he cureB them without pain or drawing blood.
Ladies attended at their residences without extra
chargo. Charges moderate. Rooms at Brown’s
Hotel. Office hours, from 9 A. M. to 8 P. M.
The Dollar Store.—This establishment took
like wild-firo amoDg our citizens on Friday last, the
opening day. It was crowded by both ladies and
gentlemen thronghont the day, and the sales, we
understand, amounted to over $1500.
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W. P. GOODALL.
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For Composting with Cotton Seed.
VHIS ARTICLE IS MANUFACURED AT THE
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Pacific Guano, except that it is not famished with
Ammonia. It is prepared expressly for composting
with cotton seed, which turaisaes the element of Am
monia; the object beine to render that side product
of the plantation available to the highest degree an el
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tion, apply to tneunder8igned.
ASHER AYRES,
Agent at Macon Ga.
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General Agents, Baltimore.
Terms—$45 cash, or $50 on 1st November. 1870, for
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WK.H.TISOS.
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MARRIED.
On the 9th, by the Bev. E. W. Warren, at the
residence of Mrs. E. B. Lamar, in Vineville Col. J.
DcBoke Bibb, of Montgomery, Ala., to Mrs* E. G.
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OBITUARY.
FABMINQDAI.B, Ga., >
March 9th, 1870. {
Departed this life on the 7th nit, at the residence
of J. H. Holland, of Jasper county Mr. John Hinas,
in the 70th year of his age, after a few days’ illness,
of typhoid pneumonia.
His body has returned to the bowels of the
“Earth” from whence it cams, and his spirit, (I
trust) to God who gave it, he having lived a mem
ber of the Primitive Baptist Church, for forty years.
He had no enemies, but leaves many friends to
mourn his Iosb. Joe.
DIED.
At the Wesleyan Female College, ou Thursday
evening, March 10th, Mrs. Julia M. Fuller, late
one of the assistant teachers in that institution.
Mrs. Fuller was the daughter of Maj. J. B.
Nickolson, some time since a highly respected citi
zen of Greensboro, in this State. For several years
she had been an exemplary member of tho Presby
terian Chnrch. A violent cold contracted in the
course of the winter resulted in pulmonary consump
tion, which rapidly did its work. Not too rapidly
for the sufferer, however, for whom death had no
terrors. From the earliest period of her confine
ment, her Christian faith rose sublimely over the
physical evils of her condition, and she “longed to
depart, and be with Christ” Though she had sus
tained her connection with the College only a few
months, yet she had ingratiated herself into the af
fections of all tbe pupils and inmates with whom
she was brought Into contact In her, religion took
its loveliest form; and all laments for the sore low
of- the surviving relatives are Intermingled with
gratitude for the privilege of daily intercourse, for a
time, with such a sweet Christian spirit Her re
mains are to be interred in the family burying-plaoa
, in Greensboro. j. X.B-
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general; commission merghants,
96 Bay Street,
SAVANNAH, - - - -
GEORGIA.
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TT business after the close ot the present Cotton
season, at the Planters’ Warehouse, on Fourth street,
near Passenger Depot, and opposite the Brown ana
Spotsvrood Hotels, where they will bo pleased to fee
all their friends. We are prepared to extend the
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ond and Poplar streets, on the first of August next,
for the reeeption of Cotton. The house will be Putin
thorough repair before that date.
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