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: ^^T1iAR0H 18, 1870.
" ..liCtflu-s of Senators.
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' rfff SEN-ATOM—MB. munstui.
. ^.1 of the Democratic party in the
I ^ the Hon. A. G. Thurman, of Ohio—is
WrTTjnm sort of men. Iron-gray tinges
:c ‘"t.joir his form, thongh not over-toll,
,fOuip‘ t ' . £is face j s 8e t and hard. There
M^^mnch fii?ht as force in that man. He
I 11 '' 15 ? rtrike, intents and presses his way
thron-'h what be would accomplish—
m birth is seen in his thin, nroscu-
fc' irs if the next fifteen years do not give
^l chance to make his own place in the
L »f° r pjrty, there will be some wasted
r^Sties for Hr. Thnrman to answer for.
If® MB. SAULSBURY.
I . r SanUhnry, the silver-tongued and ex-
r n5 oonhl he tile roost effective man on his
"rfZ oor.ia only take a few eloentionary ex-
* 1 110 His voice does not assort with his fine
... |,is admirable, genial character.
JjjJ of i3 * hat of Mr - 0rator Paff
tbo as t w0 tones in his voico,
nnchalf »« F!at> and . tb ? reat G , below -” v
. x ne ’ ;« A for an orator a surely enough,
l‘0" 0 ‘c in ] s bary has the choice of thirteen
F Sentt .. ah nature speaks in him, “not exactly
p* . mf »nt, however. A sentence from
p the pa J 1 ' rons iy enough, and gives np the
im °F e ,M s etto. Naturally, his voico is one
P o8t ,a r „ organs in the Senate, but he does
LmU h»w to use it.
U J mb. DAVIS.
L j can never see the small, spire form
WetfcM pains-taking face of Garrett Davis,
v., nt thinking what a woman said when he
wiated out to her: It was: “I think his
v“ r most have been fond of children to have
M i that one.” His face is like one of those
,j for children on a nnt-shell, quaint, lined,
ftcJorless, but bale. He is a relic, and a
ta esutious, conscientious gentleman of
1 school—a little choleric at times, but a
of ancient nurse to the whole body usually,
I1ATARD AMD STOCKTON.
I Senators Bayard and Stockton are an elo-
r. tl j 0j for tbe latter can say as much as any
r 0 ,jj tr ’ Senators on the floor. When he
rV ( i,e ghosts of classic oratory seem draw-
but they never quite get in. Yet it is
£> fur the Senate that it has men like Stock-
sho have not quite lost the impetuosity of
am nature in the calm of senaatorial oppres-
Mtt. WILIilAMS.
•sator Williams, of Oregon, is one of the
t resolved men of concentrated strength in
ii rrlwle body. lie does not speak so much
, Senator Williams’s high, cold, watch-
face seems pallid with suppressed energy,
ben he speaks, the knots and tangles fall
der his direct strokes like sword-cuts. There
j preface, no ornament, in what he says.
H s ,j, a t common-sense, irresistablo logic,
Mi is ihe only eloquence that is natnral to-
^ \mericans are not excitable people in the
,rity, and eloquence, so-called, does not
It, thongh it may tickle them. To their
site rhetorical cadence destroys tho value
L irgnuient. So we hope that in a few
Xiths flights and sing-song of oratory will
L rav to tba unembarrassed tone of one man
tin? with due deference to another.
r-AitsoM nr.owNnow.
L the ancients used to set a coffin at their
W to keep iu mind the fate all mnst come
[the Senate retains that suffering, qnivoring,
forcible piece of hnmanity known as
nilow, of Tennessee. He sits there pa-
t!v, in the high-backed, hair cloth chair,
i one leg supported on his desk, almost
reless, saving tbe constant twitching of tho
ides in every part of his form. He is a me*
,, and the sight of this man, in his pride,
> so helpless among them, must be a sug-
Jtion to his colleagues.
NORTON AND gPBAOUE.
people of Minnesota must have been
:eeuf “grave and reverend” material when
sent tbe young D. S. Norton to represent
in in the Senate. For decency's sake he
old have powdered his head at least, to pro
ve the semblance of age, for he is a David
fontbfnl looks. Senator Sprague goes round
h his hojish figure surmounted by a frank,
nstaking face that is growing old, if he does
seem to lie. The impression about tbe
>de Wand Senator is, not that he is remark-
for the brilliance of his talents, bnt what
letter, a dilligent worker.
HOWE AND TBUMBULL.
nstor Howe, of Wisconsin, has a face liko
of a nice old school-boy, gentle, kind and
l Tbe sight of that benevolent pale face
Ihe silvery hair, is the pleasantest in the
«!r. lie seems a sort of Senatorial Melanc-
L His neighbour in the arm chair is a man
iqnally unchallenged character bnt opposite
it Indeed it seems as if dne regard for
wtlies tad placed Mr. Howe and Lyman
mbnU next each other. The compressed,
••tore of Senator Trumbull is relieved by
inoffensive friendliness of Howe. By the
Mr. Trumbull has the air retained from
«rly experience as a pedagogue of an old
ischiol-master looking np and down for his
-A It is a legal face—something sallow—
gray, close cut hair, firm mouth and steel-
eyes, with a suspicious gleam of fire in
> that betokens the keen darts he is ready to
at his opponents, when colled for. He is
adless worker, rarely idle.
POMEBOY.
aator Pomeroy’s head is a continent in it-
*o expansive and round. One would say it
fid be laid out in town lots, at least, with
ige green in the centre. A man of substance
“> both corporally and in property. He
athehandsome house next the Arlington
lel. and has one of the sweetest wives, of
•on lineage, that man should be blessed
He is a well known supporter of women’s
y and promoter of temperance; all of
™ data not keep pubUc opinion from dis-
nng the man. It is thought his bill for tho
prtssionof nuisances abont the capital is
“'cd by a heartfelt desire to do away with
The biU is clearly snicidaL
MB. HARLAN.
abused men
he didn't
what is said abont him. He is well
? to have preserved a fair character till he
into the Department of the Interior, from
i no man ever yet escaped with a clean
*bon, deserved or not. “I told him,”
*°old friend of his the other day, “not to
pt the post of Secretary of the Interior, for
“•never escaped villifying before he got
a gh with it.” In company he is a slow, but
Wkefi, his sentences well weighed, and
•with alow, ploaFant lone, as if he en*
respite from political strifo. He is oue
* solid men of Congress, and one would
ve was a good Methodist, only anxious to
>!one, to do his duty as a Senator tho rest
"days.
MB. BUCKINGHAM.
•lot Buckingham, of Connecticut,has ono
••tew, which can be called patrician faces
nngttss. There are such in whom tho im-
3 chancier seems to be developed more
*cb generation, till it hardens the features
Porphyry. There is ancestral dignity, in-
*o worth in them, and self wUl of grand
“.v, compared to the cringing, venal, sen-
common. The Senator has that fine
* ** at seems small, bnt betrays condonscd
-'•Irtngth. His ruffled, close curling,
. symmetrical head, and decided re-
, ‘•••ores, render him next to Mr. Sanls-
\ . buJsomest man present. Add to
“» w like most of the well descended mem-
' eit oer House, a hard worker.
Alii. mabAAt
■nalor Harlan, one of the worst abu
“Mhiogtoa to-day, looks to me as if 1
trre half what is said about him. I
Mb. OONKLING.
dor Conkiing I cannot admire,because he
handsome fora man of brains, thongh
•» certainly room enough for them in that
rtiv d ’ nnder Bs crop of waving curls, in
Jr® «ps wheat with tho sun on it. Spite
oeauty he wears at times the air of a
w ? r ^ er which redeems him. Men do
, <>e handsome. Character moulds
di i/Tt 3 pother or no; contrary a woman
obr , * n tint and form,|becanse sho
( : ther cbaracter en °ngh. to snake a differ-
Ma. sumnkb.
a lr J e gnlar faces in Congress are the one,
tv tbe mean, the vapid, the
ln 3omitable, the far-seeing, can-
-,,i ®,, on 8- Some women oaUed Mr. Sum-
-Ifcfr,' 6 day- Now, I detest that
E i win!P°“°y on some points, bnt Ms faoe
'rr. 0 one the most attractive in the
^noo iw ia P*?°«P5 on * inteHigenoe,
: 0 f " xere » and when he shakes off that
t0 fl*leepy mastiff, which he chooses to
•«JAiD>,’. and tia ®y® dears, and his shoul-
8^ten, one sees how Charles Sumner
led the politics of tho Republican party so long.
To my oye he is a beautiful man—as men ought
only to be—incorruptible - and strong.
CAETESTEB, OF WISCONSIN.
Senator Carpenter has a face like a corpulent
fed eagle. The. head declined, the subdued
face, tho iron gray crest give the idea of an
eagle resting on hi3 perch; but there is a light
in his oye like smoldering coals, and a Napole
onic touch of expression which reveals an in
tensely ambitions, strong-willed, fiery-hearted
man. I see by the list that his term of office
expires in 1S75. The date might as well be
moved some years farther on. That man is in
the Senate and he will stay there, or bis heart
will be under the pavement not above it. He
will not be President. He is too strong a charac
ter for that. But while Presidents hold their
office for years and Senators almost indefinitely,
a man of just ambition in the latter position has
no need to sigh for the other.
MR WILSON.
The benign face of Senator Wilson looks mild
as that of a Catholio priest among such 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 step3 about the capitol ore haunted
by a string of forlorn creatures in limp veils
and rusty dresses. Senator Wilson and Itepre
sentative Ames are a sort of benevolent firm
in Congress, to such as reaHy have a claim for
help
BETELS#
Senator Revels, in glossy black suit, with his
oylender-shaped head, and dust brown complex
ion, studies tbe Constitution diligently, as if it
were his prayer-book. Ho seems modest, and
deeply impressed with the dignity of his snr-
roundings.
THE LtXHSLVA TRAGEDY.
Killins of the Joneses, nml tile En<l of a
Twenty Years Fend.
We published, some time since, an account
of the killing of Gen. St. John LiddeU, of Cata
houla parish, Louisiana, while eating Ms dinner
on board a Mississippi river steamboat, by Col.
Chas. Jones and sons, of tho same parish. A
telegraphic item a few days afterwards informed
the public that the Joneses, father and eldest
8on,had been taken from the custody of the sheriff
and shot to death by an armed band of twenty
or moro, supposed to be the frionds and old ar
my comrades of Gen. LiddeU.
The New Orleans Picayune, of Tuesday, gives
the foUowing particulars of the tragedy.
THE BLACK BIVEB TRAGEDY.
The rnmor is current now that young Jones,
who escaped from the house tho night his father
and brothers were killed at Harrisonburg, made
his way down to New Orleans, and is at present
in our city. At the time the attack was made
upon the honse, and when it wa3 discovered
that it was useless to make any defense, he left
his father and brother and went np into the
second story. From thence he passed out of
one of tho windows, and by cliDging to the pro
jecting brioks of tho chimney, managed to con
ceal himself in its shadow until after the search
was over and tho attacking party had left
As soon ns ho conld get down with safety, h®
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 Jones and his sons, it appears, were ex
pecting an attack, bnt did not expect it to come
before the examination took place.
When the attacking party announced them
selves from withoffl. Col. Jones seemed to take
in tho sitnation iiPa moment, and remarked:
“There they are.” Besides the ladies in the
house, there were present Elijah B. Cotton and
Sheriff Bcllord.*Beforo tho door was broken in,
the younger Joneses, it is said, proposed to
their father to make fight, but he replied that it
was useless. As soon as the door gave way,
the parties attacking ordered aU the females
and innocent parties out of the bouse, and Col.
Jones, throwing a sheet or counterpane around
him, passed ont with tho 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 tbe
picket fence in the rear, through which he was
passing, when he was discovered and shot
down.
Mr. CottoD, it is said, expected that, as the
excitement was so great, he might be shot also;
bat as soon 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 unwiUing to express an opinion pro
or con in the matter of the kiUing.
Words of Soberness,
Moore’s Kural New Yorker repents of its
artiole of January 15th, headed “Shall We Go
South ?” and in a recent nnmber indulges in
the foUowing sonnd and sensible remarks :
Nor do we forget that the Southern people,
i 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.” We do not forget what the
wreck of war is, nor how disheartening mnst
have been the look-out for the people of the
South when the war ended. We know, and
have not asserted to the contrary, that there
are very many men in the South who are ac
tively and successfoUy engaged in its industrial
redemption.
There 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. Young Echols, editor of
tho Kural Southerner, at Atlanta, is a worthy
example of what the youDg men of tho South
may do, and of what many of them, we hope,
are doing. And such young men as Echols
should bo honored and encouraged. As we 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 our opinion, a moro inviting field with
in the Republic. Bat such men should go there
to work—not to speculate; not to enter the po
litical nor the professional field.
The South has too many poUticians and pro
fessional men now. She needs workers—men
who will co-operate with the best men of the
South to develope her resources, build up man
ufactories, regenerate her soils by skillful cul
ture, and ultilize her natural wealth. Wo have
no word to say to discourage men with such,
motives from migrating to the South. And
that such men may succeed notably there, we
have evidence enough. The True brothers,
from Western New York, ore examples of what
tho young men of the North may do there.—
They are the sort of “carpet-baggers" the South
needs, and tho class her best and wisest men
will welcome.
Troutdale, N. J,
The Newark Advertiser, speaking of Dr.
Slack’s trout ponds at Troutdale, N. J., says:
Trout raising hero has been entirely success
ful, and very profitable. -A spring supplies the
water for the ponds, wMch 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 moro elevated, into
the tMrd. The ponds have hard graveUy 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 produce another supply of spawn
for the next season. Tho eggs are then placed
in,hatching boxes, wMch aro sliaHow pans,
through 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 fiao,
and deposited upon the water with a syringe.
At tho end of five months each one of these in
fants begins to think himself quite a fish, and
is transferred to the first pond, and remains
there tiU one year old, when he 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 Ms
tail with a “shoo fly, don’t bodder me” air, tiU
the fly comes along, and then he is “bodderd”
with a line, and hauled up at the rate of one
dollar per pound by New York epienres, for
whom Trout dale is a favorite resort.
Dr. Slack is no novice in this business. He
is thoroughly versod in tho piscatorial science,
and is practical in aU his operations. Ho has
acquired a vast fund of scientific knowledge,
and holds a diploma from ono of the Mghest
coUeges in France, as well as others from dif
ferent medical and literary institutions in
America.
Visitors to Troufdalo 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, and their profits next year wiU not faU
much short of $25,000.
A Terrible Suicide.—Through the kind
ness of a correspondent at Chenoa, we have
the following account of a hotrible suicide
which was committed a few miles South of
Pontiac, on the Chicago and Alton’Eailroad
on Saturday afternoon last: A girl by the
name of Lucinda North, aged about sixteen,
living near that place, has been for some time
keepinccompanv with a man whom her father
opposed. On Friday they had a quarrel over
the matter, in which her father whipped her,
and finally turned her ont 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 ner a short distance ahead
of the train, and in the act of throwing her
bonnet, shawl and muff into tho ditch. She
then deliberately laid down aside the rails
with her head on one of them, and beckoned
to the engineer to come on. flo 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 Our 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 KnorriHe Press and Her
ald of yesterday, says:
Andy Williams, a oolored boy, was brought
from Chattanooga yesterday, and plaoed in the
oounty jail, to await the next session of the
Supreme Court, wMch meets in September.
The prisoner has been under arrest daring the
past two years, and convicted twioe, for the
murder of Rodolph Deutoh, committed about
four miles from Chattanooga, nearly three
years ago. -
A negro named Israel Myers, of Baltimore,
has been appointed a special agent of the Poet-
office Department at large, at $1,200 per annum
and $3 per diem.
Tine Church and State Move.
There has been of late a convention in ses
sion at Pittsburg, engaged in drawing np 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 the articles of this indictment, or, to
put it as a tho convention put it, one of the reso
lutions adopted, refers to the necessity of af
fording “tho fnUest security against a corrupt
and corrupting church establishment;” by
which, we take it, tbe convention means to al
lude to that Catholic faith professed by so large
and respectable a body of our fellow-citizens.
Now, wo 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
tho careful attention of the reader to the ex-
Mbit thus made:
HOME. | PITTSBURG.
Canon XVIEL Who- Resolved, That civil
soever says that tho government is ground-
power necessary for the jed, Uke the family, in
government of a civiljthe principles of tho na-
stato does not emanato ture of man as a social
from God, or that one [creature; and that it has
is not bonnd by Divine, its powers and functions
law to submit himself .thus determined by tho
to such power, or that'Creator, and is, there-
such power is repng- fore, like the family, an
nant to tho natural lib-'ordinance of God.
erty of men, let him be j Resolved, That na-
anathema. .lions, as sovereignties,
Canon X. Whosoever wielding moral as well
says that the church is as physical power, and
not a perfect institution having moral as weU as
but merely a corpora- material effects, aro
tion, or that itis of such moraUy accountable to
a nature, with regard to God.
civil society or the state,! Resolved, That the
as to be subject to tern-1 proposed religious a-
poral power, let Mm be mendment 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 church tho pow- union of church and
er to direct only by ad- state, wiU afford the
vice and persuasion fullest security against
those who turn aside, |a corrupt and corrnpt-
not to compel them by'ing church establish-
orders, by coercion, ment, and form the
and by external verdicts strongest safeguard of
nnd statutory punish- both the civil and re-
nents, let Mm be an- ligious liberties of all
thema. {citizens.
The worthy gentlemen who met at Pittsburg,
rod drew np, among other resolutions, those
ibove set forth, would doubtless consider it a
tery grievous thing were any to charge them
*ith seeking a union gf church and state ; and
yet, see how closely the utterances of these gen
tlemen, who express an abhorrence of that doc
trine agree with tho declarations of those other
gentlemen ot Home who do really believe in
chnrch and state, and are, therefore consistent,
at least, in their opinions as above given. So
remarkable a similarity, much as it may grieve
our Pittsburg friends, does mean church and
state; and that meaning is intensified by the fact
that prominent in that convention were such
weU-known politicians as J. W. McClurg, Gov
ernor of Missouri; General O. O. Howard, of
the Bureau ; and Bishop Simpson, of the Meth
odist Ohurch. 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 union of chnrch and
state.
Savannah.
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 cf Savannah in stretching out her
railroads to the Alabama River has already
exhibited the fruits which follow commercial
spirit and activity. Her prospects are better
to-day thaa ever before. Only last week a lot
of ground upon what two years ago wa3 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 roads and pusned forward the Georgia
Central over all opposition; which has at
tracted a large portion of the cotton from the
great cotton belt, 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 doesnot pause at the Alabama.
Already she aids in the completion of the link
to Selma, and thus draws to herself the royal
staple from even 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 396,810 bales of cotton. Will we be
far wrong in saying that her receipts_will be
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 sho draws supplies away from that city.
Savannah, thus becoming to tho interior
through tne enterprise of ner citizens, what
New Orleans was before the war, what reason
can exist why she should not furnish onr 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 and Cadiz; she ships lumber
to every important port of the world: she
sends the 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,
but 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 intenor to buy their
goods at Savannah, and they promise to sell as
cheaply as New York. We hope that the in
vitation will bo responded to. Every South
ern man should be proud of Savannah, and
should do all in his power to build up aSouth-
em metropolis on the Atlantic coast.—Mont
gomery MaV.
FRO.II U ASIIIXGTOS.
Special to the Telegraph and Messenger. ]
TVaeiiinoton, March 11.—Senator Revels (negro)
produced a memorial to-day, purporting to be re
ceived by telegraph from Georgia, protesting against
tho passago of tho Bingham amendment, on tho
ground that it wiH deliver tho colored people, bound
hand and foot, into the hands of their most relent
less enemies.
They hold that it is necessary that tho Stats Leg
islature should be reconstructed so as to securo the
passage of a law for tho protection of tho 90,000
colored people of the State of Georgia. They
want the election laws amended so that colored
voters can go to the polls without the risk of vio
lence and bloodshed, and without giving tho Stato
to the extreme Democratic party. The Georgia
bill is tbe order cf the day for Monday. Opinions
diffc-r widely concerning tho fate of Bingham's
amendment. Dalton.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, March 11.—The Supremo Court, on
motion of Phillips, who advised the Court, directed
that Verger should be turned over to tho civil au
thoritics and- tho 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 Hovels, against Bingham’s Amend
ment.
Revenue to-day, $315,000.
A delegation from national banks is hero, lobby
ing against the funding bill.
Washington, March 12.—Troops will ho sent to
Tennessee to aid in the enforcement of tho 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 fato of tho
amendment is doubtful unless tho Democratic Sen
ators vote for tho bill as it camo from tho ;House.
It will bo remembered that tho Democrats of^tho
House voted for the amendment, but they, en masse,
voted against tho Georgia bill as amended, and the
Democrats of tho Senate seem inclined to vote tho
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 9th. Ho had an interview with tho pro
visional President and Cabinet of Hayti, and ex
plained that pending tho present negotiations be-
tho United States and St. Domingo, this govern
ment would protect tho Dominicans against any
hostile power. Tho Haytien authorities hopedjlhat
tho friendly relations between tho United^States
and Hayti would not bo interrupted, and wliilo
aware of their weakness, they knew their rights
and would prccect them to tho best of their ability,
and that they must be allowed to choose their own
policy. Poor heard unofficially that the authorities
were displeased with what they donsidored tho me
nacing attitude of tho United States. Rumors,
which proved unfounded, of a collision between tho
United States and a Haytien war vessel, had been
in circulation. Tho United States Dictator is also
at Port-au-Piince.
Revenue receipts to-day, $3GS,000.
Tho Secretary of tho Treasury has allowod to bo
protested some of tho unendorsed Texas indemnity
bonds, holding that according to tho principle do-
tided in tho case of Toxas vs. Whilo and Childs,
they aro not negotiable and will bo paid only to
Texas.
CONGRESSIONAL .
Washington, March 11 Senate—Tho Senate
considered tho San Domingo treaty
Gen. Babcock and Commodore Porter addressed
the Ccuuuittee in explanation and support of tho
treaty. No action.
The Senate is on Indian hills.
The protest of tho Georgia colorod legislators says
they represent 90,000 colored voters in Georgia,who
by the passage of this amendment will be delivered
over, bound hand and foot, to their most bitter ene
mies; that tho colored voters will bo driven away
from the polls.
On motion of Trumbull, Georgia was made special
order for to-morrow.
A motion for the Joint Committee on Indiian Af
fairs was defeated by Colfax’s vote.
The Funding ill was resumed.
The Senate passed tho Funding bill; SG to 10.
Tho Senate adjourned to Monday, when the
Georgia bill will bo tho special order.
House.—-The House is on patents.
Tho morning session was consumed with private
bills. After a struggle between tho friends of tho
Deficiency and Tariff bills, tho Tariff prevailed.—
Tho House went into committee of tho whole on the
Tariff bill after one hour’s speech.
The Deficiency bill was taken up. It aggregates
$2,500,000, including for repairs of custom houses:
Savannah, $15,000; Mobile, $15,000; Richmond,
$25,000. No action.
The Houeo meets to-morrow for debate.
Washtnoton, March 12.—House—The House
proceedings were uninteresting. There was a mea
gre attendance of members.
London, March 12.—The journals consider the \
French note to Rome a diplomatic error, into which -
Ollivier was led by following the advice of Jules j
Favre.
FROR GERA.
Havana, March 11.—Two schooners, with their
decks crowded with blue clothed men, escaped
Spanish steamer by reaching shallow water on the
coast.
Captured correspondence shows that soveral In
surgent Generals aro forming clubs adverse to
proposition for annexation to the United States.
GENERAL NEWS.
Jackson, Miss., March 11.—Alcorn has been in
augurated. His inaugural regarding judges, who
have a long tenuro under tho Constitution says:
“Our Judges must be men of standing. That sotioty
cannot presume to ignore. They must be men
learned in tbo law beyond their fellowB—men of
courage and of conscience in hearty accord with tho
mission of tho men charged with tho consolidation
in this Stato of tho work of reconstruction.
New York, March 11.—Tho Mechanics’ Bank has
resumed specie payment with a circulation out, of
$50,000.
Tho steamer Smidt, from Bremen, January 20Ui,
which was given up for lost is now coming up tho
Bay.
New Yobk, March 11.—Tho steamer Smidt made
a voyage south of Bermuda in consequence of a
broken engine. She encountered successive hurri
canes.
Auoubta, March 11.—Ben Godley, negro, was
hung at Waynesboro, in Burke county, for tho mur
der of Adkins Lewis. The murder was committed
last summer.
Oil City, March 11.—A fire which threatened the
destruction of the entire city, was, by great exer
tions of the peoplo, extinguished after burning a
railroad train and a nnmber of tanks.
Cincinnati, March 12.—Many of tho Ohio dis
tiileries refuse to pay, and others pay under pro
test, with a viow to bringing suit, under the forty-
eight hour fermentation assessment.
New YobKj March 12.—Tho Smidt reports that
while cripplsd and lying to, unable to make the
least headway off Azores, tho Captain saw a largo
threo-masted steamer. It was dark, stormy night,
and ho waB unable te make her out.
Cincinnati, March 12.—A religious revival is pro
gressing. 2,000 persons have been added to tho
churches recently, and not embracing all tho con
verts. Many of whom have not yet joined.
New Orleans, March 12.—Samnel F. Wilson, of
the N. O. Picayune, is dead—ag^d 65 years.
Brevet Brigadier General Mima S. Miller, Deputy
Quartermaster General, U S. A-. died suddenly
yesterday—aged 56 years.
Bichnond, March 12.—The Conference of the
three Republican State Committees held to-day,
agreed to call a conference for the reorganization
of the party, to meet here April 6 th.
The revenue officers at Fredericksburg yesterday
seized fifteen thousand cigars, and twenty barrels
of whisky, for alleged violation of revenue laws.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Rome, March 11.—Pontificial Court contests in
emphatic terms the claims that the French Govern
ment should be represented in the Ecumenical
Council. Tbe Baden North German Gazette says
the claim of the Pope to infallibility only shows
how liable to error he is.
Paris, March 11.—Louis Noir, whose brother
Pierre Napoleon killed, complains that prosecution
seems directed against his dead brother rather than
Pierre.
Paris, March 11—Ex-Queen Isabella of Spain
and her husband, Don Francisco D’Aseis, have
agreed to submit their differences to arbitration.
The tribunal will be composed of five persons, one
of whom will be Jules Favre.
Tbe Radical journals of this city attack Jules
Favre bitterly for having promised his aid to the
ministry.
; LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE.
New Orleans, March 11.—Tho Educational bill
has finally passed.
Tho House baa passed a bill giving tho Louisiana
Sulphur Mining Company $300,000 in State bonds.
Havana, March 11.—The cholera has entirely dis
appeared from Santa Sp&itus.
Masons aro still in imprisonment.
Mayor’s Court.—The Mayor was still without
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
tho morals of this community or not; but we do
know that when the Mayor has nothing to do in his
Court, it hears very heavily on “ ye reporter,” for
when he fails to get an item there in the morning
he is crest-fallen tho rest of the day, and the hope
of furnishing something interesting and readable
for the next paper deserts him, and, Micawber like,
he can only wait for something to turn up.
Heavy Bains.—Between midnight and day yes
terday morning several heavy rains fell in this seo-
tion, when it held up again until about ten o'clock
a. M., and then it came down for a while in perfect
torrents, and tapered off into a steady, all day’s
rain.
At twolvo o’clock yesterday the river at this point
had risen abont twelvo feet, and was still rising at
tho rate of two feet per hour. It will be booming
high this morning.
Wet Cotton.—A planter drove np to a warehouse
in this city yesterday and threw out two bales of
cotton for storage and sale. Tho cotton was very
wet, and after weighing it the salesman made a fair
reduction on the weight, as is always tho case when
wet cotton is offered for storage. This tho owner
refused to allow, and tho salesman reminded him
that it was customary, and that he was under oath
to weigh cotton fairly, and if he was to receive cot
ton in euch condition as that was without making
some reduction for tbo water that was in it, ho
would violate his oath, and that ho could notreceive
it otherwise. At this tho owner got angry, and re
placing the cotton on hia wagon, drove off to an
other warehouse, whore the salesman re
fused to recoive it on the same grounds the first one
had. Still insisting that no reduction should bo
made for water in his cotton, the planter drove off
to a third warehouse; but we did not follow him
up to sec how the matter turned out.
Just hero we would stato that all our salesmen
are under oath to fairly weigh cotton, and standing,
as they do, botweon tho buyer and producer, they
can, possibly, have no interest or motive in defraud
ing cither. Besides, wo know all onr salesmen to be
gentlemen of character, honor and integrity, and
do not believe either of them could be induced to
falsely weigh a bag of cotton for anybody, or nnder
any circumstances. So tho conduct of tho planter
in question was a little strange, to say the least
of it.
Fruit Prospects.—We 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 littlo later than usual. He also expressed
the opinion that the general fruit crop in this seo-
tion was as yet uninjured. One cold epell 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 dangerous to them.
We can all but sincerely hope that such is the
fact, for tho froit trade of this section is an im
portant item during the early part of summer, and
brings to our people a largo supply of pocket
change, which they would leally 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, appleB, Ac.,
which sell at good prices in Northern markets, and
yield a handsome income to fruit growers. Bnt
aeido from tho pecuniary value of the fruit crop,
our people conld scarcely get along without the lux
ury through the summer.
A Failure.—Between 3 and 5 o’clock yesterday
morning, an effort was made by eight or ten ne
groes, to escape from their cell in the city gnaid
house, bnt, fortunately, their operations were dis
covered just in timo to prevent their escape. They
had cut through the heavy planks which lined the
ineide of their cell, and were making a hole in the
outer brick wall through which they could pass and
let themselves down to the ground by means of their
blankets tied together. In picking through the
brick wall they accidently let a brick fall to the
ground, and it was heard by Messrs. Craig and
House, who immediately examined into the cause of
tho strango noise, and they discovered the ominous
holo in tho wall On repairing to the cell it was
found that tho negroes would have been ont in ten
minutes but for the fall ef the fatal brick, as ,they
had their blakets tom into strips and tied together
and all were abont ready to take leg trail
Pretty Steep.—We saw a gentleman plank dovn
three eilvor quarters for three drinks of whisky
yesterday, and he got no change in return—twenty-
fivo cents a drink in silver, gold, or greenbacks,
beiDg the price at that bar. He sonsibly remarked,
as ho left tho door, that he would not darken pt
again in a sweet while at those rates.
Returned.—Dr. Lindoman, surgeon chiropodist,
has returned for a fewd&ys. If you have corns,
bunions, or bad nails, don’t fail to give him a call,
as ho cares them without pain or drawing blood.
Ladies attended at their residences without extra
charge. Charges moderate. Rooms at Brown’s
Hotel. Office Lours, from 9 A. M. to 8 P. M.
Tns Dollar Store.—Tins establishment took
liko wild-fire among our citizens on Friday last, the
opening day. It was crowded by both ladies and
gentlemen throughout the day, and the sales, we
understand, amounted to over $1500.
MARRIED.
On tho 9th, by the Rev. E. W. Warren, at the
residence of Mrs. E. B. Lamar, in Ymeville Col J.
DuBosk Bnm, of Montgomery, Ala., to Mrs. E. G.
Gilmer.
OBITUARY.
Farsungdale, Ga., >
March 9th, 1870. /
Deputed this life on the 7th nit., at the residence
of J. H. Holland, of Jasper county Mr. JohnHinos,
in the 70 th 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 came, 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, hut leaves many friends to
mourn his Iobb. Joe.
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It contains the same elements of fertility as Soluble
Pacific Guano, except that itis not famished with
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of tho plantation available to the higbost degree an el
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Agent at Macon Oa.
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—AND
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96 Bay Street,
SAVANNAH, - - - - - GEORGIA.
TAGGING and ROPE or IRON TIES advanced on
J Crops.
Liberal Cash advances made on consignments of
Cotton.
Grateful for liberal patronage in the past, a con
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seen in operation at the Tretnont Mills, Lowell,
Massachusetts.
r description and prices, address
C. F. BATTLES, Agent, Lowell,
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DIED.
At the WeBleyan Female College, on Thursday
evening, March 10th, Mrs. Julia M. Fullkb, late
ono of the assistant teachers in that institution.
Mrs. Fullkb was the daughter of Maj. J. B.
Nickelson, some time since a highly respected citi
zen of Greensboro, in this State. For several years
she had been an exemplary member of the Presby
terian Church. 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 til the pupils and inmates with whom
she was brought into contact. Iu her, religion took
its loveliest form; and all laments for the sore loss
of the surviving relatives are intermingled with
gratitude for the privilege of daily intercourse, fora
time, with euch a sweet Christian spirit. Her re
mains are to be interred in tbe family bcrying-plaoe
in Greensboro. J. M. B.
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In Brunswick, Ga.
flONSISTING of LOTS, finely situated, of large
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Descriptive pamphlets and maps can be seen or
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the whole capital is guaranteed for the security of
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Rope made to persons sending ui Cotton for sale.
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ADAMS & BAZEMOBE,
Cotton Factors and Commission Merchants,
MACON. GEORGIA.
W ILL oarry on the Warehouse and Commission
business after the close ot the present Cotton
season, at the Planters’ Warebonse, on Fourth street,
near Passengor Depot, and opposite the Brown and
Spotswood Hotels, where they will be pleased to tee
all their friends. We are prepare*! to extend the
usual accommodations to planters. We have secured
the services of J. E. Crosland, of Twig. t county, who
will take charge of tho books and financial depart
ment of the establishment.
The friends of Judge Peyton Reynolds will find him
on hand at all times to welcome them. We bespeak
for our firm a share of tho patronsge extended to tbe
old firm, pledging ourselves to leave nothing undone
on our part to merit their favors, eto.
P- S.—Mr. Crosland will be pleased to see his
friends at any time and render them all the assistance
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New Combination!
T HE undersigned, having associated themselves
together lor the transaction of a General Com
mission and Warehouse business, will, under the
firm name cf
CAMPBELL & JONES,
Reopen the old” Harris” Warebonse, corner of Sec
ond and Poplar streets, on the first of August next,
for the reception of Cotton. The house wiU be pa. in
thorough repair before that date.
We have engaged the services of Mr. R. H. HUTCH
INGS, of Jones county, who wiU be phased to serve
his many .friends.
Our Air. Campbell will, for the present, be found at
tbe office of E. A. Wilcox, Esq.
As our Mr. Jones' membership in tbe firm of Ad
ams, Jones A Reynolds continues to tbe close of tbe
season, be may be found at tbeir W archouse until we
occupy our new quarters.
_ We are prepared to extend tbe usual accommoda
tions to our Plnnting friends.
We refer to tbo business men of Maeon generally.
CHAS. P. CAMPBELL,
late of E. A. Wilcox A Co-,
DONALD B. JONES,
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