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Tli© Greoraria Weekly Teleaya/bli and Journal <Sc Messenger, Telegraph and Messenger. MACON, MARCH 1C !S70. of by ^Pb* Legislative - Niggers ix the Field. The telegrams say the Legislative niggers of Geor gia have protested against the Bingham amend ment Wo don’t wonder. It I s n °t often that Legislative niggers, or any other sort of niggers, oan get nine dollars a day, and the Bingham amondment, which cnts them off of two or Ihree years of employment in legislating at that sate of wages, is worse than, musty hoo-cakes. We don't blame them for spitting in the face a- Bingham amendment and protesting telegraph. But, then, those niggers know, just as well we do, that their services as legislators are not worth half a dime per thousand years. Turner is the only one of them who has spelled beyond t a ba—except Alpeora, who got as high a-a-B-c-a-l—rascal—a mean fellow—a rogue—a triekisb, dishonest fellow—particularly applied jo men and boys guilty of the baser crimes, and jBggera who rob henroosts and “suck aigs. Affairs in Cuba. Jt seems impossible to get reliable accounts teom Cuba. A private letter in the New York Stent doted Havana, 26th February, says: Bren the Spaniards and officials here hnvo wme to admit that in the late battle the Span iards lost thirteen hundred of their twenty-three kondred; and to save their honor, while they admit their defeat, they insist that the insur gents were sis thousand strong. One thing is certain : tho insurgents in arms are from twenty to thirty thousand, and if they had muskets and ammunition they would number 100,000. Now while such statements as the foregoing aome from Cuba, Mr. Sumner, in bis recent avowal of friendliness for Cuba, claimed in ■nbetance that tho war there did not amount to am emeute. Wo get, however, rumors by tele gram that some extraordinary development is Skely to be made in a few days which will put aaev complexion on Cuban affairs. A Barlxceper Flanks the Negro Bights Bill. A Columbia correspondent of the Charleston Obcrier, tells a good stoiy of a very sharp bar keeper of that city. The negroes, much elated by the passage of the Civil Bights bill, were going around drinking at various saloons, to pot it in force. One hotel keeper was asked for a drink by a party of negroes, and it was refused. They asked for a reason. He said, “I don’t like you. X sell liquor to whom I please. I don’t like yocr clothes; I don’t like your action; I don’t teke your talk; you don't behave like gen tlemen ; but mind yon, I don't object to you on account of your race, color, or previous condi tion.” The income tax will certainly bo reduced as proposed. The pressure toward that end is aaid to be enormous.—Buffalo Commercial Ad vertiser. Those who know, say and have sworn to it, that measures pass or fail in Congress, accord ing to the quality of pressure used. E. G.: If tho pressure takes the shape of a greenback bill of $500 denomination, or a check therefor, it is generally found to be irresistible. We say *500, as that seems about the figure for an average Kadical Congressman. TPe think it de cidedly too high, but that's the lookout of the bstyer. Thebe are now twenty-two negro clerks in Government employ at Washington. The Washington Republican, of Wednesday, aaya the Committee on Banking and Currency, im obedience to the resolution of the House of Sepresentatives, has considered the proposition U> increase the curroncy to fifty millions of dol- tete, and will report a bill making the increase at greenbacks. The only question with the aocamitteo was whether the new issue should be ia National Bank currency or greenbacks. Tint San says Great Britain is strengthening bte naval armaments, and it is not denied in the Foreign Office that the threats of Gen. Grant +Tia bottom of BiKMliHnMr* mono. Tho object of parading the English iron-clad at Annapolis was to favorably dispose Congress toward the construction of similar vessels for tho United States navy; and it is argued that ike increase of the British maritime power i an analogous increase obligatory upon i American Government. Good. On Monday the House of Representatives, by a very decided vote, refused to authorize fur ther inquiry by the Postal Committee into the sabject of telegraphing. This is just as it should ho. We trust that this ridiculous movement has bad all the little life there was in it effectually knocked out. Let it never be resurrected. ZrxcE the story has been told of how Judge Breckinridge married a girl whom he saw jamp over a rail fence with a pail on her head, al the girls in Orange county, N. Y., are said fla spend their time in watching the road, and whenever they see a carriage approaching with a man in it they seize their pails and go for a fence. Georgia Patents. The following patents were granted to Geor gia inventors up to March 5th: Abner White, Xseon; Hook for Harness. John D. Dunn, Griffin; Combined Cotton Chopper and Culti- vtki. E. P. Cook, Cartersville; Head Rest. X7.‘. Mnlkey, Walton’s Ford; Ointment for Jboises and Bums. Several prominent druggists of New York •ty were served with processes Wednesday, fenn the United States Court, under an indict- aaant for violation of the Internal Revenue fern, by failing to affix stamps to bottles of im ported perfumery. A fine of fifty dollars is at •ached to each offense. Gxx. 0. A. Battik and Major D. S. Chilton, agents of an insurance company—the Life As- aariation of the South- after a canvass of six weeks in five counties of West'Alabama, reach ed Montgomery a day or two since with policies •[insurance amounting to $800,000. This is tte champion canvass, so far as we have heard. A rich max died in Maine recently, and his Bttt words to his heirs were: “Plant me as ■eon as I am cold, and don’t cart me around for •ado show. Remember Peabody." He was baried aooording to his request, and he is now enjoying himself. Dl Jbim W. Leftwich, ex-Mayor of Mem- D*, and for one term since the war a Congress* Eton from Tennessee, died in Lynchbnrg on Sfenday. The Nashville Banner says mules are begin ning to oome back in that direction from the Seath. A earload arrived there Monday, and teromore Wednesday. Jt Washington telegram to the Baltimore Son any* fee general bill for removing all political feaaknilifs is under consideration in committee, amd there is searoely a doubt of its passage. Aoeemmo to fee eminent French physician, BK.' Levy, the average duration of life among fee Jews in-36 years, while among Gentiles it is «aly 2$ yean. Nashville Union says the peach crop has gone twining d la Jim Fiak’s NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION. The Democracy!' Small by degrees, and beautifully less, is the New Hampshire Radical majority. In 1865, G,071; 1866, 4,C5G; 18G7, 8,146 ; 1868, 2,523 I860. 1,607; 1870, according to latest dispatches, about500. Never was the descending scale more handsomely illustrated. The labor reform and temperance candidates made but a small diver sion—tho former getting about 4,000 votes and tho latter less than a thousand—a result which must egregiously disappoint them—surprise the public, and particularly astonish the Demo cratic Executive Committee of that State. This Committee actually undertook to take down tho Democratic ticket and recommend tho Democrats of New Hampshire to go for the La bor Union ticket. Not improbably, bnt for this silly movement on the heels of the election, which must have confused and unsettled the Democrats, Bedell tho Democratic candidate, would have been elected. Some of the politicians seem to be bewildered in their judgment of tho people by the stale and continuous cry of the Radicals that tho Democratic party is dead. If that bo not the case, how happens it that so many are appa rently coquetting with new political organiza tions or looking for deliverance from oppres' sion to so ne new combinations independent of, or more or less antagonistic to, Democratic tra ditions, policy and principles ? It is the common fashion of tho wiseacres— the men who can see through a millstone with out spectacles, to talk about the Democratic “Bourbons,” and to say they can never see or reason—can never learn nor unlearn. Now it is precisely such men as these who are blind to the most wonderful and yet most patont fact in American politics, and cannot learn the alphabet of the present or the future. The great fact of American politics—that which overshadows all others in its grandeur and prophetic potency, is that the Democratic party, midst all our horrid civil convulsions— bereft of nearly all patronage and power—weak ened by the most extraordinary defections—as sailed and persecuted with a virulence resembling to some extent, the achievements of religious bigotry in darker ages—holding out no promise of pelf or gain to its supporters—and resting solely upon the sober political convictions of the American masses, stands, at this day, really and truly a majority of the American people. And all the frauds of the opposition in the way of counting, disqualification, vote manufac turing, and so on, and all the wealth of the five or seven hnndred millions of. annual public plunder, and nil tho influence of tho trained le gion of office-holders and the untold millions of moneyed capital wielded in support of Radical ism—and the systematic proscription of Demo crats by the Federal and State governments— the tremendous preponderance in the issues of tho newspaper and periodical press—and nil the religious denominational and clerical influence which has been brought to bear against it, have proved utterly unavailing to impair tho stamina of that organization in tho hearts and judgments of the sober, reflecting people of the country. As the Democrats did in New Hampshire this week, so do they everywhere, all over the con tinent—go to the polls and show the same erect and undaunted front—generally a little stronger than tho last time, and in the grand total of the popular vote a mere trifle less than the paajority of tho whole number, even under the most un favorable circnmstances for comparison and computation. This we call the grandest and most significant political fact now in existence. After nearly a century of life—the most of it spent in govern ing the country—at the close of a decade of civil ruin, the party stands to-day the most sturdy and harmonious party in existence on the continent, and bound, in tho judgment of most candid men, to reassumeits sway over the American empire so soon as the foul offspring of civil war and fratricidal strife shall have lost a little of their poisonous vitality. And why is this ? We answer, because the aeiuoo.atic theories of the character and tradi tions of the RepubUo are. after all - vepieu views oi tne people. These views have been, to some extent, obscored and sup planted temporarily by the passions and preju dices of sectional war, but are bound to reas sert themselves, because they are sustained by history, reason, practicability, and consistency with all the instincts of the American heart. So surely, in a short time, the wandering sheep will be regathered in tho old fold, and again di rect the onward progress of tho country in the career of publio and private liberty, toleration and constitutional law—local independence and self government—Federal accountability—tho independence of the co-ordinato departments— equality of rights and equality of burdens—in dividual freedom and official responsibility to the people. Now when tho politicians can bend this gigan tic and venerable institution to the uses of their little plots and bargains for new parties, we shall expect to see onr adolescent fops using the big Georgia live oaks for supple-jacks. But tho men who are blind to the wonderful fact of tho stubborn immortality of the Democratic party, consider everybody Bouibons and old fogies who donbt that they can use the Democratic party of tho United-States in some new politi cal compound just as a cook would use salt in a dish of porridge. Tbe Capstone of “Cheek.” We have read, in onr day, a good many out givings of pure, unadulterated “cheek.” but never anything at all approaching, in sublimity, the following from Forney’s Press. We shall attempt no comment apon it, for, as in the case of the man who lost the ashes, justice can’t be done the subject. For the benefit of Radical neophytes in the business here in Georgia, we publish it as a modeL The italics are ours. Now that the great national questions which we have inherited from the time of slavery, and which were protracted for years after the war by the criminal misconduct of the Johnson Ad ministration, have been substantially settled, it is time that the mutual independence of all sections of our common country should be cheerfully acknowledged. It is time that the Southern States, thick uere the chief sufferers in the admitted anomalies and incongruities of a “reconstruction” which they alone had rend ered necessary, should bear their part in the restoration of good feeling between'North and South. The South admits its urgent need of Northern capital and industiy, and calls loudly for both. The North is more than willing to do its part, and it will be conceded by candid Southerners that the great mass of those “ Yan kees" who hate taken up their abode in the un reconstructed States are animated by the most cordial good will toward their former foes, but present neighbours and friends. According to the latest statistics, Englishmen are about two inches taller and more than seven pounds tighter than Americans of the same age and similar pursuits. Cheap Horses.—A Los Angeles, California, paper says that one thousand horses were lately sold in that place at five dollars a head. In Montreal, the policemen go round and com pel householders to remove the enormous icicles pendant from the eaves. Miss Emwa Jones has been elected a professor in the new University of the Paeifio at Ban Francisco. In the three days that Jefferson Davis was at Huntsville, Ala., he took over COO life insoranoe policies. A majority of fee shares of the Thomaston National Bank, in Maine, are owned by women. A Cotton Bureau. The New Orleans papers are complaining of the virtual oontrol which New York City has as sumed over the cotton markets of this country, and of the mfluenoe which she is enabled to ex ert even over foreign markets, owing to the faot that she has become the centre of telegraphio information from all points in tho cotton grow ing region. They maintain, with good reason, that the interests of tho North as a consumer, and that of the South as a producer, must ne cessarily bo adverse. The one desires to buy as cheaply, and tho otjier to sell as dearly, as possible. With a view, therefore, of counter- teracting, as for as may be tho existing North ern control over tho price of our great staple, they nrgo the establishment in one of tho load ing Southern seaports of a cotton bureau, the proposed organization of which is thus sketched in tho Picaynno : A superintendent and a sufficient cumber of clerks are to be employed, who are to keep tip a regular correspondence with tho most reliable and well informed parties throughout the entire South. The country will be dividod into dis tricts, and from the first planting of the seed, throughout tho season, minute information will he obtained from each as to the acreage, tbe stand, tho weather, tho appearance of tho worm or any other enemy, the yield, tho character of the labor, and, in 'short, every item calculated to affect the crop. Weekly bulletins of the in formation thus obtained, generalized yet sup ported by proofs, are to be published and sent abroad. In addition to the above, correspon dence is to bo kept up with all the great con suming centres, as well as with India, Egypt, Brazil, eto., with a view to obtaining early and trustworthy information as to the crops of other counties and the prospect for consumption; and an elaborate yearly statement of tho crop and consumption of tho United States is to be pub lished at the earliest possible time after the 1st of September. The suggestion is an eminently proper one, say the Charleston News, and we candidly con cur in the opinion; but we cannot help thinking that tho South already possesses, if her people will but use it, the power of regulating the price of tho staple throughout the world, by a process far more direct, simple and certain than the machinery of such a bureau as that proposed. Let our planters but resolve to act upon the principle that the cotton is to be henceforth merely the money crop of the Southern States —let them take care, in the first place, to pro- duco on their own soil enough grain and provis ions of all kinds to make living cheap and food plentiful among ns. If their efforts for the growth of cotton be strictly limited to the sur plus land and labor that may be available after the first result is provided for, there need he no fear that the staple will at any time hereaf ter fail to pay us a handsome profit. Tlie Negro Cadet. Tho Mobile Register pities that negro boy tho Beast has nominated to West Point, and thinks he will have an awful rough time of it as a “Pleb.” We hope so, sincerely- But let this black dose be vigorously admin istered, nevertheless. May be the white stom ach will heave at it after a while. Then poor Coffee will bo cast out os the political Jonah of the century, upon very dry land—so very dry that he will just dry up, unless his old master, the Southern “rebel,’* helps him. The man who lives ten years will, in our judgment, enjoy the immensely pleasing spectacle, of seeing Cuff and his wife and children, going for his present carpet-bag owners with a most delight ful vim. Itwilltak9 just about that many years to get the idea into his head that tho C. B’shave been squeezing him like an orange for their own peculiar use and benefit But when he does, mind your eye, C. B. tbe Bontxrell, on a Reduction Taxes. of Tho Washington Republican, of Wednesday, says that a leading member of the House of Representatives, from Ohio, with several of his constituents, called on Secretary Boutwell on Monday, and, in conversation with him, said they hoped he would shortly recommend a re duction of taxation; that they desired particu larly that the odious income tax should be re pealed. The Secretary replied that he dis- 0 ....— .mm ui regard to mat tax; he was not only opposed to its repeal, but even to its reduction, believing it to bo the most just and equitable of all the systems of taxation; that out of 40,000,000 of people there were only about 250,000 who wero affected by this tax. He had no objection to repealing tho tax on transportation, which amounted to about §8,- 000,000, and on licenses, making about $8,000,- 000 more, but was opposed to interfering with income tax. A reduction of that tax to threo per cent, would amount to about $8,000,000, and he hoped it would not be done. Buried in Roses.—Our confrere of the Au gusta Constitutionalist promises to reward a paragraph in this paper upon the Augusta Fair, as follows: If our gallant brother should visit us in No vember next, we promise that the incompara ble ladies of this region will present him with a boquet ns big ss the “mammoth ox,” and a thousand times moro precious. We expect to be there, and if unable to sus tain such a weight of beauty and fragrnneo as a boquet as big as the mammoth ox,” we could certainly never “go down” under more gratifying circumstances. To sink into insensi bility and oblivion in such a sea of womanly and floral beauty would be a rare exit. In fact wo have read nothing like it Mythology tells us of a youth who died of his own loveliness, but we should evanish a martyr to the beauty of the Augusta belles^ We read, too, of the swan who breathes away his life in his own melody, bnt that is not a case in point The unfortunate Clarence, who expired in a butt of Malmely comes nearer to a precedent, bnt who shall compare the belle3 and their flow ers to vulgar wine! Not we. ‘Woman is Coming."—Miss Anna Dicken son’s time is up. Good bye Nancy to Cady Stanton, Mrs. Bose, Lucretia Mott, Susan B. Anthony, and all the other tights in tho celes tial firmament of woman’s rights and female eloquence. All these arelost in dark eclipse by the apotheosis of Miss Lillian S. Edgarton, of tho Hnb, who is now lecturing on “woman is coming,” with a point, power and beauty which floats the souls of the Bostonians on an atmos phere of bewildering and dazzling glory. Miss Lillian is only twenty-two, a commanding beau ty, with the voice aqd manner of a Siddons or a Kemble. Boston has gone mad, and is ready to swear woman instead of "coming" has only just come, and this is no oompliment to wives and sweethearts who got there some time ago. Decline or the Bar. The New Orleans Picayune, noting the scarci ty of really eminent lawyers, attributes the de cline to the slovenly scanner of turning out young fledgelings for the Bar. We should say that these strictures are applicable to all other professions. The Constitutionalist points a moral in this case with a little anecdote. A student is np for examination. Quoth the Pro fessor to the candidate: “ Quid est ereare f” To him the student answers: “Oreare est fa- cere aliquid ex nihUo.” “Ergo," retorts the Professor, “ereamus te doctorem /’’ That’s not Ciceronean, perhaps, but there is a strong leaven of truth in it Thn death of James Robinson, the champion circus rider of America, is announced in our Western exchanges. He is reported to have died at Cincinnati, very suddenly, of hemor rhage of the lungs. This is about the tenth time James has been killed by fee types. The Georgia Press. The Cartersville Express says : During tl&e past month we have been called upon to chroniole the death of several of the most prominent and esteemed citizens of this county, among whom were Jesse Baker, Dr. ■ J. W. Curry, and F. A. Huson. Wo are again.re quired to add to that li«t Madison McMuriy and Nail in Howard, vko havo died within tho last week. The former was, for ninny years beforo the war, a citizen and merchant of Cass- ville, in this county. The latter was one of, if not the very first, citizen who fettled in Car tersville. * u T ;. " ' t " From the Savannah Nows wo quote as follows. The Republican puts tho number , pf jijalesqf cotton burned at five hundred. d--..rj .t-.tA' ’ Cotton Fire.—Just beforo wo wore gem;;; to press the exchange bell struqk tho alarm of,fire,. ^ for tho Third Firo District. • Hastening t° tho point indicated, wo found the flame's proceeding from tho warehouse, formerly Guilmartin’s,‘now owned by Wilcox, Gibbes & Co., Situated on the north side of Bay streot, between Bull' and Whitaker. - • 1 *•' In the building was stored between one hup-, dred and fifty and two hundred bales of upland nnd Sea Island cotton, owned by L. J. G ml mar tin A Co. -j. . r- j. The tire originated on the second floor, front ing rivGr street, and when first discovered by the policeman, tho flames wore seen issuing ont of tho window on tho second floor. The delay occasioned by a confusion in the alarm given, gave headway to the conflagration, which soon consumed the building and the cotton stored therein. We understand that tho cotton was insured and the fact that a box of matches were found on tho steps near the pointof origin leads to the conclusion that the fire was the work of an incendiary. As we go to press the fire is still burning, though under control of the Firo Department. The Republican has the following: A Stricken Firm.—Death has made sad havoc in the commercial house of Adams, Washburn & Co., of this city, within tho last few days. They had two book keepers, Mr. N. L. Hub- hard and W. Caper Adams, both excellent young men, twenty-two years of age each, devoted friends, laboring together during tho day and occupying the same bed at night. Last week Hubbard was taken ill with acute inflamation of tbe bowels, and Saturday breathed his last. While ill, his friend Adams was taken down with erysipelas, resulting in fever, which terminated fatally yesterday morning. Both were young men of excellent character, and highly esteemed by their employers and all who knew them. Mr. Hubbard was a native of St. John’s, New Brunswick, and came to this city abont two years ago. Mr. Adams was the son of R. D. Adams, ofEa- tonton. His father arrived just in time to see his dear boy breathe his last, and take, his re mains, which were escorted to tho depot by a number of friends, back to his home in Putnam. The Rome Courier contains the names of sixty-two persons in Polk county, Ga., who hkve /availed themselves of the homestead ex- The Era says small loads of soggy oak wood sell for $1 50 each in Atlanta. As it takes two loads of lightwood at $1 25 each to bum one load of such wood, wo fail to see tho economy of the business. After the 13 th inBt through trains for Louis ville will leave Atlanta at 7:30 f. m., and make the trip in twenty-six and a half hours. The Era lets the cat out of the bag about those neckties. It says that “young men labor ing under the tangle-ating influence of nitro- glycerinous extracts have adopted the luminous neckties now in vogue, because they serve as balance-poles, and enable them to keep their feet, upon the same principle that a rope-walker keeps to his perch.” A'bumptious XVth Amendment down at Sa vannah tried to murder another Amendment and rape tho Amendment’s wife, on Wednes day. The Columbus Enquirer says: There was a hard freeze yesterday (Wednes day) morning, and the forenoon of the day was unusually cold for March. The fruit crop and early vegetables, we fear, are destined to stand a poor showing this spring. We heard a col ored weather-prophet assert that the season will be cold, late, end backward, because the course of the moon is so far north. The Romo Southerner says that the Oosta- naula River is booming from the late rains, and that farmers along its banks fear for the safety of their wheat crops. The Columbus Sun says 300,000 pounds of hides are sold annually in that city. At 7 cents a pound they represent a business of $21,000. Thero is a freight blockade on tbe Montgom- a us umcers tele- r>.!«» uautuau. graph to Louisville, not to give through bills of lading beyond West Point.' The Summerville (Emanuel county) Academy was burned’a few days since, as wo learn from the Chronicle and Sentinel. The books and furniture, even, were not saved. We got the following items from the Chron icle and Sentinel, of the same date : Election in Burke County.—Some weeks since the Clerk of the Superior Court of Burke county died, and the Ordinary of the county or dered a new election to be held. The election took place daring the latter part of last week, and though there were several candidates in the field, the contest seems to have been principally between two of the aspirants—Messrs. Scalesand Williams. Tho polls were not opened at several of tho precincts in the county, and a very tight vote was cast, Mr. Williams being elected by a small majority. The Police Force.—On yesterday we were informed tbat the police force of Augusta is to be, or bas already been, reduced to thirty men, exclusive of officers, and that those who have been rotainedhave had their measures taken for uniforms. The Reminiscences of an Old Georgia Lawyer.—Some dayB since, in noticing an article contributed to the Scientific American, from the pen of “Elzey Hay”—who is suppos ed to be a daughter of Judge Garnett Andrews, of this State—the Chronicle and Sentinel sugges ted the propriety of the latter’s writing a book of his own. A few days since we received a letter from Judge Andrews, stating that he has in press, “Tho Reminisences of an Old Geor gia Lawyer.” It will be pamphlet volume of abont ono hundred pages, made up : of profes sional reminiscences and anecdotes; and, the author says, is intended more to “collect from his profession material for a book than pretend ing to be one itself.” The Langley Manufacturing Company.— On yesterday we were informed that two hun dred and forty thousand dollars of the capital stook of this company had been taken, leaving only sixty thousand moro to be subscribed. The Constitution says Thos. Ford, a olerk at government headquarters at Atlanta, died very suddenly, of heart disease, Thursday morning. The supply of fruit at Atlanta is exhausted. During the past season, one merchant shipped over one hundred thousand pounds to Chicago. The Albany News says: The B. & A. R. R.—We are pleased to report satisfactory progress with this great enterprise. Hulbert is now laying a mile a day, and will be in time to the junotion to meet the require ments of the State Aid bilL There is an efficient corps of engineers on the section between Waresboro and the Alapaha, another between the Alapaha and this city, and still another on the line between this place and F.ufaula. The corps on the section between this city and the Alapaha have had a hard time of it among the hills of Worth, and after running about one hundred and thirty miles, have suc ceeded in finding a maximum grade of thirty feet to the mile. The last heard from them, they were up to their arm-pits in Little River, They were all well and fattening on it. The Cuthbert Appeal learns that one day last week a deliberate attempt was made to throw from the track the train on the Fort GaineB branch of the Southwestern Railroad. A number of cross-ties and pieces of timber were placed upon the rails, but fortunately dis covered in time to prevent the catastrophe. One negro who has been arrested confesses the deed and implicates others. The Era says In all the three coal yards of Atlanta, there was no ootl on Thursday. T. J. Murphy, a printer, attempted to oom- mit suicide in Atlanta, Thursday night, by stab bing himself in fee left breast and head. Drunk. Several members of the Agency, in addition to the twenty or more who reside there, were in Atlanta Friday. emption. , Tho Columbus Enquirer says : Heavy Frost.—One of the largest of the win ter occurred yesterday morning. Ice was also plentiful. Another frost may bo expected this morning. The winter begins at the leaving off ph.ee this year. The Sun says Columbus cotton speculators havo lost $300,000 this season. The Sun calls attention to the oheap freight tariff on the Chattahoochee river, brought about by competition. It says : It takes about $3 50 to carry a bale of cot ton weighing 500 pounds to New York; One lino of boats advertise to carry a bale to New Orleans for 50 cents. The steamers also take freight at ten and five cents per barrel, and carry passengers to Eufaula, ninety miles, and give two. meals for 50ots and $1, and Apalachi cola, Borne four hundred miles, famishing all meals, for $3 50 and $1 75. The rates are due to competition, and may be made still lower. The Constitutionalist says that Professor King made a successful balloon ascension in that city, Thursday. The balloon went up a mile (?) The Newnan Herald publishes the following letter: Bowdon, Ga., March 8, 1870. Dear Herald—On the 19th February Mr. Robert Pesnel, of Calhoun county was shot dead off of his horse while riding along the road in company with his wife. Mrs. Pesnel was also shot through the body, but is not yet dead. It is thought she will recover. No clue as to who did the horrible deed. I have also learned that a gentleman was murdered some where near Ed- wardsville, in the same county—did not get his name. It is supposed that he was killed for his money, as he was seen that day with a small purse of specie, and when found the money was missing. No clue to the perpetrator of this deed either. Respectfully, N. S. Tho Savannah Republican gives these addi tional particulars of the fire there Thursday night: The bnilding destroyed was of brick, four stores and au attic, and contained two hundred bales of upland and three hundred bags of sea island cotton belonging to Messrs. L. J. Guil in arlin & Co., all of which was insured for sixty thousand dollars in various companies. The bnilding was owned by Messrs. Wilcox, Gibbs & Co., and was insured. The building adjoining on tho west caught fire, but was saved through the exertions of the firemen, who worked with a zeal that never flagged, many of whom had narrow escapes from injury. The fire is supposed to be the work of an in cendiary. The Newnan Herald says Judge Bigby, of the Coweta Circuit, “docs not recognize the re lief (Brock’s) resolution, recently adopted, as of any effect, and will proceed with the busi ness of the Conrt, as if it had not been adopt ed. It is understood that Gen. Terry has posi tively refused the order to enforce it” Bigby had better not let Bollock catch him at any such independent administration of the law. He wasn’t put on the bench for that purpose. The Chronicle and Sentinel says a negro wom an named Jerry Ford was burned to death in Hamburg Thursday morning. Whitley.—It is now said that “Senator’ Whitely made his debut at tho Augusta and not at the Athens factory. Whereas tho editor of the Watchman says :— This is no disgrace to him. Tho disgrace con sists in the fact that an immediate secessionist should turn Radical. We are aware that many have done so, bnt it is none the less disgrace fuL The truth is he behaved whitely during the war, but blacJdy after it.—Constitutionalist. According to the “Weekly Young America," a new venture of Talbotton, that place has eight Ministers of the Gospel; eight lawyers, eight Doctors; eight Publio Officers; eight Dry Goods Stores; eight Groceries; eighty Private Resi dences; three Hotels; three Newspapers; four Churches; two Colleges; one Steam Mill; one Manufacturing Establishment; twenty Mer chants; twenty Salesmen; tenMechanics; a Hook and Ladder Co.; a Brass Band; and an eminent divine once said “More morality, and less reli gion, than any other town in Georgia. The Atlanta Era, of yesterday says : At a late hour last night reports reached here that a serious difficulty had occurred on the line of the Brunswick and Albany Railroad. It is generally known that, by terms of the law grant- inff St&te trt iMiilpaaJa, EVOil 13 V-UHiptHSCl to complete fifty miles of its track by the 18th day of the present month. Some 80 or 100 of the employees of the road, knowing this, and led on and instigated by designing men, think ing that thoy might, by unreasonable and ruin ous terms, extort from the company large ad vances, banded together by force to prevent the completion of the work. They have left tho road themselves and now threaten to prevent, by force and intimidation, any laborers from doing the work necessary to complete the road within the time required by law. The officers have telegraphed to General Terry to send troops sufficient to quell any dis turbances which might arise. It is stated that General Terry has ordered troops in Charleston to proceed to the scene of the disturbance at once. They will probably reach there to day, and then tho disturbances will be quelled and the work be allowed to proceed uninterrupt edly. The United States District Conrt commences its session, at Atlanta, to-morrow (Monday) at 10 o’clock, A. M. Dr. Nathan Tucker, an old and prominent citizen of Laurens county, died on Saturday, the 5th inst. Both Covington and Atlanta have the mea sles among their infantry. The Covington Enterprise says William Owe-as, a citizen of Newton county, who never went in debt in his life, died last woek, aged 92 years. A clear case of cause and effect. The Thomaston Herald says there have been only nine deaths in Upson county from menin gitis during the last month. Governor Balloek. Governor Bullock, of Georgia, last evening reaeived a letter signed “B^itus," in which the writer stated that he was in possession of cer tain papers containing statements injurious to Bollock’s reputation, and that the same would be made public unless Bollock at once departed for Georgia. Bollock will publish a card in one of the morning papers, to the effect that he does not need this silly threat; that he is not afraid of any charges that oan be brought against him, and that he is determined to stay here and attend to the interests of his State as long as his services are requisite. The above is thought of sufficient impor tance by Forney to telegraph as a special to his /Philadelphia organ, the Press, of the 9th. “Brutus” no doubt is none other than Bollock himself, or some of his sattelites, and bis letter doubtless a part of the scheme to inflame Con gress up to the point of passing Butler’s bill Dense. The bill recites in the preamble that tt pie of Georgia have framed and adopted *1 stitntion of State government, whioh is- 4 “ lican ; that the Legislature of Georril under said constitution bu ratified ih, , teenth and Fifteenth Amendments toth f stitutio-i of tbe United States, and that formance of these several acts in - a condition precedent to the repr^ent/.^" the State in Congress. 14101 The bill, therefore, declares that the Georgia is entitled to representation in th 1 grass of the United States, provided that? any member of the Legislature of g»y shall take or resume his seat, or any said State shall enter upon the duties ofhf flee, he shall take and subscribe, and file ; office of the Secretary of State of Geor. permanent preservation, an oath or in the following form: I> — , do solemnly swear (or gia.1 without Bingham’s amendment. We have no that I have never taken an oath as a lintf. rlranTvf /tnvcelf 4V\nf fViIa ia ttia AAvro/'f. ba. DollP7PSS. OF Rfl an ni)i<vow . ■» sort of doubt ourself that this is the correct so lution of the matter. What statements more damaging to Bullock’s character than have already been made could be produced now, we are at a loss to guess. If every honest man in Congress has not already been abundantly convinced on this head, by Bryant, Caldwell and Angier’s expose, we are sure any additional facts would be superfluous. It would be “carrying coals to New Castle,” sure enough. Bullock’s declaration of his intention to stay in Washington in the interests of “his State,” is the most insolent piece of cool hypocrisy we have ever known, even from him. It will hardly impose even on those who are aiding his unholy plot against the peace and safety of the people of Georgia. They know, very well, that to give him what he asks will produce a condition of affairs here that will sorely result most disastrously to onr every material interest, and stir np strife and bad blood to the boiling point. They know that he and his are after plunder and revenge against the white people, and nothing else. But then it will be made to serve the purposes jof Radicalism'elsewhere, and that is sufficient. We repeat our belief that “Brutus” is one of the busy B.s, bnt if we are mistaken, and some hot-headed blunderer has thus put his foot in it, we hopb he will come home right away. Such threats are the food upon which Georgia Radi calism thrives. Thoy have done ns immense disservice already, and at this particular junc ture are especially hurtful. We hope to hear no more of them under any circumstances. Let our fight against this wicked conspiracy and its concoctors be made openly and above board. Let ns show them that what we think and say oi|their deviltry, is superior to conceal ment. We have nothing to be ashamed of. We havo fonght Bullock and his stipendiaries in the broad tight of day, and in an open field. Let ns not go to guerrillaring and bushwhack ing, now. We expect to crash ont, at the bal lot box, the whole concern this year, if the Bingham amendment passes—two years hence, if it does not. Let our triumph not be marred by the recollection that it has been won by practices that have pilloried in eternal shame the leaders of the Radical party of Georgia. Congress, or as an officer of the United or as a member of any State Legislature^ 1 !, an executive or judicial officer of \u V StatTI support the Constitution of the United SuiJ and afterward engaged in insurrection o-rSj lion against the same, or given aid or comflnJ the enemies thereof; so help me Gcd ”orn “ tho pains and penalties of perjury, (i s affirmation: I, , do solemnly s**! (or affirm) that I have, by act of the United States, been reheved from th9* (< l bilities imposed upon me by the Fourth I Amendment of the Constitution of the rr* j States; so help me God, or under the p&in?^! penolties of perjury, (as the case which oaths or i and certified by any officer laVrftByanU^I to administer oaths. And anv Demon I deemed guilty ot perjury, and shall be nnniA, therefor by imprisonment not leas a .i tuJ, u oa A Klacori “Kebel” Mixed up with the Georgia Bill. From the following extract from the publish ed report of the debate in the Honse on the Georgia bill, we see that a Maconian was deoor- ated with the censure of the Beast. We sup pose he referred to our clever young friend of the legal profession, A. O. Bacon, Esq. We beg to offer onr congratulations : Mr. Woodward (Detn., Fa.,) concurred in the views expressed in opposition to the bilL He did not rise, however, to discuss it, bnt to have read at the Clerk's desk a letter which he had received from a highly respectable gentleman in Macon, Ga., correcting statements by the gentlemen from Massachusetts (Butler). The letter having been read, Mr. Butler, (Mass.) rose to close the debate, and proceeded to defend and advocate the bill. He remarked that the person whose letter Mr. Woodward had read by the clerk was a pretty person to undertake to advise or lecture fee House. He was a rebel named Bacon, a mem ber of the Agricultural State Fair Committee, held reoently in Macon, which had refused to permit fee United States flag to be raised over the Fair bnilding, although the building itself belonged to fee United States, Mr. Woodward asked Mr. Butler to whom he referred ? Mr. Butler—To the writer of that letter, Mr. Bacon, is he not fee same man ? Mr. Woodward—I do not know feat he is fee same man at all, and I desire to say— Mr. Butler (interruptingly) I did not yield for fee gentleman to state WHAT HE DOES NOT ENOW, . that would take too long. [Laughter.] Mr. Woodward—X want to a cc as to that flag matter. Passage or the Georgia Bill in the llouse. The New York Herald's special report of the Georgia Bill throoghfee Honse last Tuesday reads as follows:— Washington, March 8, 1870. Another Triumph of Conservatism—Butler and Bullock—Iniquitous Georgia Recon struction Bill Defeated. General Butler and Governor Bullock, of Georgia, met wife a crashing defeat in the House to-day by fee adoption of Bingham’s amendment to the Georgia bill. All of Bullock’s lobbying for fee last three months here, together with his dining and wining of Congressmen with a view to get snch a bill passed as would give hima perpetual lease upon the Gubernatorial office in Georgia, goes for nothing. Should the Senate endorse fee action of the House, Bullock will be compelled to retire from office wben bis term expires, like any other gov- emor. The trrpmf u»o Gourgia billy aa reported from the lie construction Committee by Butler, - vr-d to keep Bullock in office and to secure the election of his confederates to fee House and Senate of the United States, as well as feeir retention in the State offices. But Bingham has upset these calcnlations, and fee whole combination bas oome to grief. Bing ham’s amendment provides that none of the offices now filled in the State of Georgia, wheth er by appointment or election, shall be vacated by fee act, nor shall it be construed to extend fee official term of any offioer of fee State be yond fee term limited by the constitution of the State. This is a fatal shot to the Bullock faction. It puts Mr. Bullock out of office two years hence, instead of four, rs he had contemplated. That part of the amendment which provides that the people of Georgia shall not be deprived of their right under their constitution to elect Senators and Representatives in fee year 1870, bnt that such election shall be held in fee. year 1870, either on the day named in fee constitution of Georgia or such other day as the present Legis lature may designate by law, disposes of Blodg ett and the remainder of the Bullock party, and gives the people a chance for a new deal. Bingham’s speech in fee Honse yesterday had a marked effect upon the fortunes of Bollock, as well as upon fee fate of Butler’s bilL Butler tried to offset it to-day by one of his best ef forts, but it did not take. In vain did he pa rade the usual array of murders and other out rages said to have been committed in Georgia. 'While Butler was speaking, Bullock and his satellites were busy among the members lobby ing for votes. The question was taken first oa Bingham’,i amendment Butler, seeing defeat inevitable, thought he would delay it a little by calling fee yeas and nays. In the meantime Bullock plyed his vocation, bnt when fee vote was announced it stood—yeas, 114; nays, 71. The bill, as amended, was finally passed by a vote of 125 to 55. Bingham, of course, was jubilant. Butler got bis ooat and went home, and Bollock retired, reflecting upon fee uncertainty of human events. Butler threatens to get Bingham’s amendment defeated in fee Senate. year, and not more than ten years, and -1 be fined not less than $1000, and not’ninn> $10,000. And in all trials for any riolm;™ ^1 this act the certificate of the taking of either nil said oaths or affirmations, with proof of thll signature of the party accused, shall be uS! and held as conclusive evidence that such o^l or affirmation was regularly and lawfaUv^il ministered by competent authority. E T enl suoh person who shall neglect for the period 21 thirty days next after tho passage of this act £ I take, subscribe and filo such oath or affirmatim I as aforesaid, iB to be deemed and taken, to hi I intents and purposes, to have vacated his' offi« I It is furthur declared that the State of gU gia is admitted to representation in Conpe* 1 as one of the States of the Union upon the fi I lowing fundamental conditions: first, that th I Constitution of Georgia shall never be *1 amended or changed as to deprive any citim I or class of citizens of the United States of th right to vote who are entitled to vote by tit | constitution herein recognized, except as apta-1 ishment for snch crimes as are now felonies it 1 common law, whereof they shall have been dah I convicted under laws equally applicable to all I the inhabitants of said States; provided, Hat I any alteration of said constitution, prospectm 1 in its effectB, may be made in regard to the I time and place, of residence of voters. Sm.1 ond, feat it shali never be lawful for the Stab ] to deprive any citizen of the United States®I account of his race, color, or previous condi. | tion of servitude, of the right to hold office to. I der fee Constitution and laws of said State,® upon any such ground to require of him 1.7 other qualifications for office than such as m required of all other citizens. Third, that th Constitution of Georgia shall never be» j ardended or changed as to deprive any citizen or class of citizens of the Untied States of the school rights and privileges secured by the Con stitution of said State. j “Provided, That no Bection in this act con tained shall be construed to vacate any office now filled in the State of Georgia, either by | election of the people or by appointment of the Governor, thereby and with advice and consent j of fee Senate of fee State; neither shall this he construed to extend the official tenure of any offioer of Baid State beyond the term limited by the Constitution thereof, dating from the elec tion or appointment of snch officer, nor to de prive the people of Georgia of the right unde: their Constitution to elect Senators and Repre sentatives of the State of Georgia, in the year, 1870, or in the day named in fee Constitntiou of such State, or such other day as fee present Legislature may designate by law. correction On Thursday last, about noon, three men in a buggy drove np to the Farmers’ and Mechan ics’ Bank in Birmingham, Pa. Two of the men entered the bank, one of whom knocked down the Cashier, who was the only employe of fee bank present, while the other went behind the counter and seized all the money on fee desk, amounting to some $20,000, placed fee money in a basket and ran off. A crowd col lected and panned, catching two of fee men and scouring fee money. Bad News. The Cheapest One Yet.—A Boston lobby- man—Stanton, son of fee President of fee Al abama and Chattanooga railroad—swears fee Alabama Legislature is the cheapest one he ever dealt with. Stanton has not struck fee Agency yet.—Macon Telegraph. Look ont 1 Stanton will be along in Georgia next Almost twenty-five miles of this road runs across fee corner of fee Agency. It is true Alabama has indorsed for these twenty- five miles equally with the other miles lying in the State, and has also shingled it with a second mortgage to cover fee pro rata part of fee two millions extra, bnt that will not prevent Stan ton from coming in under fee Georgia-aid law also, and taking on another mortgage at fee rate of $12,000 per mile. The Telegraph may rest assured that fee Agency will be struck vet. CMontgomery Mail This is bad sews. We were in hopes feat all fee swindling and plundering of Georgia tax payers would be confined to fee “inride ring” at Atlanta. But here is a prospect of a heavy raid by outriders. Mayhaps Bullock & Go. may object to letting Stanton in. In any event, though, we stick to our original proposition, that Stanton can bay fee purchasable part of the Agency dog cheap. Texas Crops in 1869. The Galveston News says the crop of wheat for the past year, in that State, averaged 11.1 bushels per acre; average prioe per bushel on the 1st January, 1870, $1 70. Bye yielded 17.3 bushel per acre; prioe, $110. Bailey yielded 26.6 bushels; price, $104. Oats, 28.4 bushels; prioe, 70a Com, 32.5 bushels; prioe, 73c. No returns of buckwheat. Potatoes, Irish, 182 bushels per acre; price, $1 80 per bushel Sweet potatoes, 180 bushels; prioe, 69a To bacco, no returns. Hay, 1.69 tons per acre; prioe, $14 18 per ton. Sorghum molasses, 98 gallons per sere; prioe, 80a per gallon. Tbe Law of Homicide. As defined in the Code of Georgia : and as ap plied by the Supreme Court. Prepared 1« fee younger members of the Bar, and for stu dent at law. Composed by Wm. M. Reesi, of Washington, Georgia. This is fee title of a pamphlet of sixty pages just issued from the press of J W. Burke & Co. from tho pen of the late Judge of the Northern Circuit of Georgia, who has won a distinguished reputation both as a lawyer and a judge. The Law of Homicide is practically more unsettled than any other branch of commercial jurispru dence; and very naturally so,because fee animus, and the circnmstances attending the homiside wholly constitute the legal character of fee act: and these are most commonly investigated and determined under more or less bias of the judg ment It is not to be denied feat there is a growing latitnde everywhere in the int irpretation and administration of fee law on this point, and that fee area of so-called “justifiable homioide,” whatever it may bo in theory, is, in fact, con stantly enlarging—much to the hazard of that sacred inviolability of human life which it is the most important office of civil government to protect and maintain. We believe Judge Reese has done the State a service in preparing this elaborate and enlightened exposition of the lav upon tins important subject. It i3 a brief work, but remarkably well arranged and clear, and the result of much studious and patient investiga tion. The Bingham Amendment to the Butler Bill. In fee adoption by the House of the Bing ham amendment to tho Butler bill, for the ad mission of Georgia into the Union, we see man ifested, for the first time since the close of the war, a disposition on fee part of that branch of Congress to heed fee calls of onr people for even-handed justice, and to save fee State from that extended Republican rule, which, in the absence of that timely, and we may add, saving amendment, would certainly be fastened upon her—not two more years only of that party’s domination in the State, bnt wife that, who can tell how much longer its power might be ex tended, or what other political disasters might not follow these two more years of power? From this, fee Bingham amendment, for we be hove it will pass the Senate, has saved the State. Upon this we congratulate the Democracy of Georgia. From ont of darkness there now comes light. They will now soon have fee opportu nity given them, whioh otherwise they would not have, of electing a new Legislature—one of different political complexion to that whioh now exists a blight upon our once grand old Commonwealth.—Atlanta Intelligencer, lltA. Lost fee printing, as sore as you’re bom!! Woman Suffrage. Punch hits the cacklers for woman suffrage this hard lick: The rights of woman who demand, Those women are but few; The greater part had rather stand Exactly aa they do. Beauty has claims, for which she fights At ease wife winning anna; The women who want woman’s rights Want, mostly, woman's charms. Nettie Chase, a daughter of Chief Jus tice Chase, is about to publish a book on the nursery song* of several lands, each one with an original illustration of her own. The lady is said to be an unusually fine artist Left with a Blessing.—The Ocala East Flor ida Banner, a Radical paper, left feat party Is* Saturday with its hi mating is the following words: After eelm and sober thoughts tad thorosgh investigation we have arrived atfeiaoocoln*k» That ‘The Great Repabltoea Party of Flori da,” as it is penegyrioslly termed by stump or ators and weli-known “httie lodges, ” is ft* most corrupt, disgraceful tad degrading party ever known in fee polittoti history of anyBtste ” r^fam-t disytoe to ty jygs «d w® t prctontfWi oUulfiu uOCtns® ®^ rights to all,” t “tomxiing brats tad ttoBW cymbal.” ©IpijiL ’..W M-'j vt te- ,