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WwF vt wm HI Wm . "■ AND GEORGIA JOURNAL & MESSE!NGLER,. y>. • j. & REESE, Proprietors. ISA *’ 11 __ ■ ■■ ■ ■ L- The Family J ournal.—News—Politics—Lite rature—Agriculturet—DomssTjo^AFFAiBS. GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING rjiiisinw 1826. MACON. FRIDAY, MARCH 22 1870. VOL. LXIV—NO. 34 '... I),,- Ttlri/faph and Messenger. 1 r„ <:iil«alte» I h r 1 P° cm » “scribed to Bjv. Dr. L.tlinR n^‘ Ueiring him preach a sermon text: “Glorions things are I the ,Mn O ,‘ 0t jof God!” - 87th rtalm, 3cZ .of v |. fo not derm it bold , i gbonld answer thee, «««t inin» ,r T,ial ur^ 1 ***’ ^ 8ttt “ ne of °' <3 ’ ’ <|JS Pivid’« harp to mo. I« $«■* TtfBW. , f! Q v mnse ie nestling near, .Jit slodco does it bring; [Cat ofn’ ! , n ,beds a crystal tear ffbi-a I tliat it sbonld sing. lbo0 Last waked it, aB it slept Bacilli . Mn drooping, weeping tree. W<* iw 8orroW8 unwe P t - ^ ,t me sing wiji mo to thee. beard thy “song” of praiee I ., ^TeJ Its timid, tearful eye,— cijel on mo a wistful gaze, “^(ben looked upward to the sky. I id dm * said that it might eing I jtookmy harp off from the tree, [(ysibook the tear-drops from its wing, "^jrtBgiritU me this song to thee. I rjt thinking that thou didst not hear, I percL»i*f*> the low, deep-muffled strain, laowdll, tUrongh a Messenger, 1 E«P«t the plaintiff song again. f„ r the Telegraph and Messenger. V song of Zion. ,things! Oh, Zion, “City of our rigtiOUk God'.” ot the*. where oft bright angel feet barttnHt; thm fLe Thnc-in-One doth ever reign, and irjjl. .piad redemption plan” of Scripture to ful fil Gat«! How oft I’ve longed ou thee to p#.- _ ^ .‘hallow’d dnst,” beneath those high cdirtva! Lwiy tnv’lers faint, and weak indeed, ’twae swt [lUieituff, forever from their pilgrim feet; ail*; Ltd reached tho goal, obtained the tiuai . »d. . , Lthree who grin, by faith, the mansions of the , blot. bkigUer to their gaze it shone than “Easter . fl*V lisiraB which decked Jerusalem of old, »th that *.Vf«r emblazoned banner tlioy adore i o'tr that -vpotlewi land” will float forevor- _ tinM lofty tnrr'ts tlicy can enraptured stand, WootiiR J«r<i*nV btreatn, and all the Promised Ucd- in ait npro its battlements, “watch upon its toa’ie," Bd otolt a char.: ing view ef Eden’s beant’ons NOTES ON THE RAILWAY SITUA TION IN GEORGIA. Number Fonr. Messrs. Editors Telegraph and Messenger : The excitement consequent npon the reassem bling of the Legislature in January, and th» ex tent to which the newspaper press and the peo ple generally were occupied with the discussion of the last phase of reconstruction, made it ne cessary, in my judgment, to discontinue, for the time being, my Notes on the Railway Situation in Georgia. The publio mind having settled down to its normal condition,, however, it is my purpose now to resume the work I had laid ont, and to continue it until I shall have said all that I desire to say at this time. In order to refresh the recollection of the reader, it may not be improper to restate the positions established in the three preceding numbers of the Notes on the Railway Situation. This will enable him to preserve the connection and appreciate the argnmeut at its true value, whatever that may be. • . 1 1. It was shown that the publio mind was , deeply concerned thirty-five years ago with the i subject of railways, plankroads and canals. The ‘ great problem presented for solution at that early period related to the most practicable means and ronte for opening up communication between the South Atlantic and the Northwest, and between the South Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico and the lower Mississippi. In the out set the proposed Charleston and Cincinnati rail road met with most favor among those who were seeking a connection with the Northwest. The people of Georgia succeeded, however, in de feating that projeot, and in having the great railway lines, leading from the sea at Savannah and Charleston, to pass diagonally across the State to Atlanta, and thence to the Tennessee river at Chattanooga, and on to the Ohio and Mississippi. For reaching the Gulf and the lower Missis sippi side lines were thrown off to the west ward from Macon and Atlanta, and a connec tion formed with the Alabama railroads at Co lumbus and West Point. The Southwestern and Atlantic and Gnlf railroads point in the same direction, their ultimate object, after meeting the wants of our own people, being to establish a close connection between the ports of the Atlantic and Golf of Mexico. 2. It was shown farther that the railroad lines here indicated, with their branch roads, constituted the Railroad System of Georgia as it existed at the clcse of the war. Savannah and Savannah river was the base of the system. To reach the Tennessee and the Northwest, we had the Central, the Macon and Western, the Georgia and the State railroads. To reach the Chattahoochee and the Gulf, we had the Atlan tic and Gulf, the Central, the Southwestern, the Georgia, and the Atlanta and West Point roads. These railways, with their side lines, formed our syBtem of railways, and were capa ble of transacting all the business of our peo ple. As was stated in a former number, there was a railroad rnnning through 71 of the 132 counties in the State, and in several instances there were two or more railroads through one county. The greater part of the 44 other conn- ties wore within twenty-five miles of a railway, and there were only 17 counties in the State which were not within twenty-five miles of a railroad then already built, or 60on to be built. 3. It was shown in the third place, that onr Railway System was capable of development and expansion to any deairuble extent. The tracks of all onr roads being of the same gunge, and all connected, a train starting from Savan nah, Eufunla or Chattanooga, could run to any other point in the State reached by a railroad ; and those portions of our territory which lay re mote from the main lines, could have been easily reached by branch roads, without disturb ing the system or injuring the original compan ies. The counties in northeastern Georgia, fo. example, which had fewer railway facilities thau any other part of the State, could have been easily and naturally reached without in jury to the Georgia Road, by the extension of the Washington branch to Elberton and Hart well, and by the extension of the Athens branch to Clarkesville or Dahlonega. or by the present Air Line Railroad. Other northern and north western counties conld have been aided by side lines thrown off at convenient points' from the State Road, without damage to the latter, just as the Southwestern counties had been pene trated and relieved by the Southwestern Road and its admirably located branch lines. The counties on either side of the Central, the Macon and Western, and the Georgia Roads •mtinela of IVae*. of Faith, anil Hope have conld have been reached in the same safe and t,o<] ! satistactory way, without hurt to any existing arnnn.1 the grand old Armory of God. j interest; while all Southern Georgia and North- j era Florida coaid have had ©very needed facili- Home” of Zion, “City of onr lovo” ty ufforded them by short lateral roads running Hit we hope at last to dwell in theo above: out from the great Atlantic and Gulf Trunk j*. *** . . ... Road. The natural field for this latter road, as fe-r"* reflections.thoughts liketheae ^ of countie ’i n doth rawe. | t jjj 3 t he northern tier of oounties to ne our feeble faith and fan it to a blaze, j pj or jd U) nn( j t jj Q southeastern counties to Ala- ^Hriglitcr hopes may thro’ His Son onr bosoms barna, with such business as would naturally flow down to it through the Altamaha, the Flint and the Chattahoochee rivers. When it passes beyond this wide and inviting field, it comes to competition with other old and meritorious lineB, to the injury of all of them. These great railway trunk lines were analo gized by the Mississippi and 'its tributaries, i Those tributaries drain a vast region of terri- J not quite complete, twas finished by His tory not reached by the great river itself, and Son,— | the produce floated down them to the Missis- nuda t’ic lofty gates, and suffered, oh. wliat | sippi finds its natural and easy outlet by the k., * * I Father of Waters to the sea. So with the rail- Hia I way system devised by onr predecessors. By constructing side lines at convenient points | on the trank roads, they could be made to an- awer every pnrpose subserved by the tributa- ’ ties to the Mississippi. Every section of the I State might be penetrated, and a cheap and ex peditions communication opened up to the peo- _ pie and their produce. The streams of trade Bach indeed they liked tlio grand “redemp- and travel, taking their rise to the mountains tion nl.n " and remote parts of the State, would gradually „. ’ , ., ... „ „ , ,, grow and swell to volume, until they reached ■ag Him, they said, ‘that He was not the lineg or SSSmek “to which they Ban;" , would pour their rich and varied contributions, ^•ten they crucified Him, little did they dream, ^ ^ still more rapidly and cheaply ^ttlpod Him to oomplete the grand redemp- t 0 the great centres and marts of trade. tion eeheme; i Lit was shown, lastly, that this system was b^toiog on Him still, with hatred undimiuUh’d. established and these roads were projected by ’ " >Tja finished—it is fin- our own people, and built by their own hands, and paid for by their own hard-earned money and honest sweat, and that they are owned almost entirely by Georgians, and the widows ' - The State Road lV)t» •ho; moiui.’un |<atlw”th«y now can wander thr • w.-hv!<r of ‘ living grain” evcr fr 0 ® 1 ' ar,<J o* bu;iv IovmI companions there »re wont to Btft, tl p!»; on beav’nl; harps their holy amhems tvoct— Mttll the lovely graces do each other kies. Lid fond enileenucnt shows the acme of tlieir UiM. T» there the ‘'Weseed church" triumphantly doth Ttlllli, hi its majesty, the glory of the land, a i turn defence npon Mount Zion’s Hill, tt He luth built it by an effort of his will. It from storms, and every wintry gale; , (•'rtgunst it can the gates of hell prevail; rithith tnilta tow’r, and bound it “liko a spell,’’ Ith mountains of His power,” which gird and guard it well. «ell. *» may find that “home” the Father “lovetb »dr lath wilt its palaces, lain its mastiva floors; P»ved in streets, and hung “its everlasting doon;" this stupendous work, tha. He bad thus begun, ebb His bleeding hands. He hung them on 1 <ro,t. it was a task, He gave his Son to do,— 4 »rebellious world resting on Him, too; iH its iniquities pressing on Him sore,— ••eeini, and its revilings, patiently he bore. o anguish cried, 'Gar 8 bosom of His mother earth, And-kU : . . - tax payers of Georgia, and a subscription was • nu ith.'e, wiUi streaming eyes, she saw the deed mftde authority of the Legislature to the At- "Mdons, lantic and Gulf Road. These were believed to He aid to ter, “behold the anguish of thy Son!— be exceptional oases, though it remains to be "db sweats still divine,—while clamors filled the seen, if not by us, at least by our posterity, eir _ whether this departure from the rule of leaving beloU. • M dle.pl-’ - a °“* u ? * l *° ohen Ho deeper felt the “bon pier— Hie P , rh , g mnc i, S refreehing the recolleotio& senl," 'of the reader. Let ns now resume onr histor- ‘“Seim, moon and stars were like a “blackened iad review of the railroads to Georgia. •croll,”— J When the Central, the Georgia and Monroe, ^ mother’s boeem heaved, the earth began to (now Macon and Western,) companies under quote 1 took to build their respective roads, they were ood,.* d-. Th<m -.-sag*£2*!5!ssrr*s£ 1,- r. ~" , . , -surmountable. The Act of 1886, providing for ^ He seemed to doubt His bleased Father s - ^ oonat - QCtion 0 f the Western and Atlantic love; resigned his soul to Him who reign’d above, j ® the presence of that vast assembled host, 1 'tied again to God, then yielded np the ghost. Lsnokb. . [To be continued.'] ji lege Hill, Mscob, March 4th. Olu van's speech at a political banquet to t' 5 *. on Monday night, urged all political par- Jj* » filve tha miniatrv usistanm. and because give the ministry assistance, and because iJtton which had been committed, not to j^Hoof. He predieted that, to spite of diffl- and aecUents tmfosaaen, the ministry ^ Ntt SBMeed. ,, . road as a State work, virtuaUy gave a public pledge to the companies just named—then the only companies building roods—that the State would build a railway from the eastern aide of the upper Chattahoochee to the Tennemee, and would assist the companies undertaking to join the State work at its southern terminus. With out a continuous line of railroad leading from the Chattabooohee to the sea, it waa seen that the Western and Atlantic road would be value less. Henoe, the law promised a million of dot- lam to the oompaniee named in the act to assist them to forming the connection alluded to. The oompsnieaanew and acknowledged the value of a passage through the wmatota. The peliey at that time waa fe» tbe Stato to buildapMt, and tte private pomje«toe. a part west. Columbus failed to meet the State work. Milledgville never made the attempt The lines from Savannah, Macon and Augusta, and the State road, were oompleted and joined, after years of labor and expenditure of many mil lions of dollars. Thus was begun and estab lished, aa we have heretofore seen, the basis of a Railway System for Georgia. The State built its road but never redeemed its pledge to the private companies, who had to rely solely on their own limited means. It may well be asked, whether the compa nies between Savannah and Atlanta, and be tween Augusta and Atlanta, would have been able to aoeompluh their work, or would even have begun it, if it had been imagined that the State would ever in owning time gttutaaid to build railroads as rivals to or comoAi^fn with their lines. And it may truly btttftaMBd that they never conld. The system so established was soon greatly improved by individual enterprise. The East Tennessee and Georgia Road, the Rome Road, the Atlanta and West Point Road, the Muscogee Itoad, the Augusta and Savannah Road, the side roads to Milledgeviile aud Eatouton, to Athens, to Washington, and to Thomaston, were built to perfect harmony with the system. The South western Road leading to Albany, to Fort Gaines and to Eufanla, harmonized with the system. The Atlantio and Gnlf Road, and the Brunswick and Florida Road as originally projected, were in accordance with it. These roads, with such other side lines as might beoome neeessary in the future, constituted almost a perfect system. Certainly no other State to the Union oonldtben present a better one. A road running due South from Albany to Tallahassee, and on to the east ern end of St. George’s Sonnd on the. Gnlf, where there is said to be a good harbor, would have improved the system. This road wonld have crossed the Atlantio and Gnlf Road about midway between Thomasville aud Batobridge, and would have put the Gnlf of Mexico; Middle Florida, aud our own Southwestern oounties in easy and direot communication with the interior of the State, and onr whole system of railroads. For some years proceeding the war, a system- atio effort was made through the Legislature to disturb, if not to break np the Railway 8ystem here set forth and described. This was to be done by committing the State to the policy of general State aid to railroad enterprises. Aid was sought for one enterprise and then for another, and the most speoious reasons were of fered for each one of them. The great majority of our people, however, turned their faoes like flint against a policy wbioh was at onoe so haz ardons and so unjust. In those days our pros perity was unexampled in any part of the world. Peaoe prevailed in all our borders; money was abundant; onr labor was efficient and reliable; our crops requiring transportation were almost twice as heavy as they are now, and if there waa any need of increased railway facilities it waa greater then than now, on account of the larger freighting and passage business then offering. Bat this business, heavy as it was, was easily performed by toe then existing railroads, and as these roads had nearly all been constructed by private capital, the Legislature, then happily free from the rule of bayonets and aliens, stead ily reiused to embark upon the dangerous oa- reer to which it was so persistency invited. It is only siuce the war that this wise policy has been abandoned. In our better, and purer, Bnd more prosperous days, when publio Offioes were bestowed upon men of integrity and ability, when onr Legislature whs froo from the suspicion of corruption, and the bench was occupied by judges whose character and attainments lifted them high above the multitude—in those hap pier times, when Justice, Wiadom and Modera tion were the motto of onr State government und toe rule of conduct among our people—it wus deemed wisest and best by all concerned to ieuve to individual enterprise and capital the the work of constructing internal improvements and opening np avenues of trade and travel, and developing the resources of onr rich and teeming soil. What, it may be asked, has produced the change in this respect, which is now so painfully manifest in the conduct of our publio affaire ? Is there anything in toe general condition of toe oountry to authorize it? Is our State govern ment more firmly fixed and more wisely admin istered ? Are our people richer, and our crops larger, that railway transportation cannot be provided fast enough without calling in toe aid of the tax-payers of the State ? Is there any thing in the financial condition of toe State and the people to justify the fatal policy into which both are now sought to be dragged ? The idea seems to be getting possession of the public mind, that the State, if secured be yond all doubt, may endorse the bonds of rail road companies to any extent, without danger to toe public weal. Nothing conld be more er roneous. Lot it be admitted, for the sake of toe argument, that through toe personal respon sibility of the stockholders, fastened upon their whole property as a mortgage,or by other means the State conld not lose by its endorsement, and yet it is plain that public wealth might be great ly impaired by the grant of toe State’s credit. Railroads which do not pay are injurious to the public welfare. If capital, whether famished by the State or by individuals, be buried with out hopes of return, toe publio wealth is lessen ed by toe sum of that capital. Other interests, agricultural, meebanioal and miscellaneous.have so much of toe publio means abstracted from them, and thus double injury is inflicted on toe people. Bailroads which do not pay, will never be kept in order, and oannot, for any length of time, be kept at all by the original owners. They may be sold under exeontion, and thus come in to the hands of new owners at so low a figure as to be revived, and be remunerating. But in such case toe capital of the projectors is gone forever, and its flight oan be traced only by the tears of mined men and women. There is something exciting in toe idea of competition and rivalry. In no department of toe busy world is this excitement stronger than in toe matter of transporting passengers and prodnoe by means of railways. In many of toe States north of us experience has shown what evils spring from too great enoouragement of competition. The general blessings conferred by well managed railroads are acknowledged on every hand; and yet toe road to min may be aa sure by toe iron rail as by any other of the thou sand ways whioh lead in that direction. Is it not enough to leave the means of such competi tion and excitement to those who desire to pro mote them? Why should the State be embarked in toe strife ? The polioy of State aid, if onoe fastened npon us, would invite and enoourage this rivalry and excitement, to the irreparable injury of thousands of her people—of that por tion of her people, too, who, by their enterprise and their private pecuniary means, first brought to the State her glory and honor and power. Is there nothing dne from the State to that people? Having risen to onr present high position, shall we Itiok from under us the friendly ladder by which we have ascended? In other words, ati.n we, by disturbing the railway system of onr fathers, and by an unjust use of the taxes 2 from the labor of an over bnrthened , build up rival lines not demanded by the ts of the oountry, and tons rain the pio neers in the great work at internal improve- mant? Bat the snbjeot opens np so widely that we most reserve further remark for another time. Hraroaioua. LETTER FROM WASHINGTON. Fate of Bingham’* Amendment Doubtful-- Destructives Kefnae Bota—Tbe Agricultu ral Department—Funding and Army Bills —The Female Bohemians. Washington, March 12,1870. Editors Macon Telegraph and Messenger : Georgia is having a respite to-day. The Geor gia bill had been made toe special order, but toe Senate having exhausted itself over the funding bill adjourned to Monday, when the battle of Bolldok against Georgia will commence. It is donbtful now upon whose banner victory will perob. Bullock and Butler are lobbying industriously and openly on the Senate floor, to toe great disgust of lookeis on. It is to be hoped that when it comes to a vote Senators will re* sent this imperttnenoe. If they do not they will but seal their own degradation. Forney’s CUrotiiola teems daily with Ees editorial and lies telegraphic in the interest ol Bullock, while the Republican sajs nothing. Oio is believed to be the paid' orfcairof-BtUlock, and tha other ia not. This makes the difference. The BullooJc party profess to be Bangnine us to the result of the contest in the Senate over Mr. Bingham’s Weekly Rename or Foreign Afflrin. txkpabxd vob ths txusobapb and wrawnis. Gbbat Barrain.—In the Lower House the Irish land tenure bill waa debated. Ths Irish members, at a private meeting, have adopted a resolution to propose amendments to toe bill without opposing it generally. Gladstone, alluding to the Fenian prisoners, declared that they were separated from the ordinary criminals and reoeived a much better treatment. The wife of O'Donovan Roues bed been permitted to visit her husband In hie cell, where she had congratulated him on »/wyt of his improved appearance. [Langhtm^Lip There are rumors afloat that the government intends to suspend once more the act of habeas corpus in Ireland. There is little hope left for the safety of the the steamship “City of Boston.” The steamer “Druid," whioh was sent from Halifax to cruise for the ill-fated vessel, has returned without any result. In Europe they give her up aa lost, and the insurance companies decline any insurance on her altogether. As no floating abipwrecks have been met with,.it is probable j iTEEunmu. ~ f Hafety to Ufe Demand tlieir General Fee. From the X»io York Evening Pott. The Railroad Commissioners of the State of Massachusetts have made e report upon the use of steel rails in this oountry. They addremed e circular to the officers of ell the railways in , the oountry, asking them if they used such ; rails; when they began to rue them; the weight' per yard; the relative cost of steel and iron rttkk bow long steel rails will last; their dors-' bffily compared with iron rails; comparative breakage, end several other questions of simi lar import. To these questions the oommiseioners reoeived replies from fifty-seven railway, companies, A Debate la the Freaeb Chaaaberef Ueputies-The Heathen Ctagna •tonal Agencies Nowhere. The official abort-hand reports of the pro ceedings of the French Corps LcfiaUtU we still as incomplete end unreliable m erar be fore. A Belgian paper gives the following acoount of the terrible row which took piece the other day at the Palace Bourbon, Bad of whioh the Journal Officiel de'l Empire gives but a. very meagre Betti >uut; M. OUivier, Minister of J ustioe—Mr .Pres ident, the Chamber knows that our.inteo- twenty of which had not used steels, and eleven i ’ had tried them only experimentally, but U0 Ju]ea Favre-Don’t speak of your ihton- oientiy to pronounoe them superior to iron rails. Twenty-six roads had laid steel track in amounts from 100 to 15,000 tons, and their reports were favorable to the use of such rails, especially where the track is subject to heavy service. Up to February of this year, the entire amount of steel traek laid in this oountry is 49,800 tons, Of these’irafle'f toatt^ “^y of^Tou’’foui^red onthe ^to5!8 mile.of ratiway. Oftoreer.il. cheers onthe right and in , he renter.] Let hinhsea with evervrhino on ho«rf some were manufactured In Europe and others the Minister of Justice proceed without fur- tionsl You are truckling to the court, aud belying your past! . _ President cchneider—M. Jules Fa*ra, I have not heard what you said, but your ex cited gestures plainly indicate that you viola ted the order of debati*. [Denials on the left, cheers on the right and in the center.] Let high sea with everything on board. Fkakcz.—At a political banquet Emile Olli viermade a manly speech in -whioh he called He amendment, but have backed down when beiu j upon all parties:to support the ministry, have been offered. On the whole they look , -urged them not to keep aloof because mistakes rather blue, aud I sincerely hope they may have j bad occurred, but io {mint out the road to ini- causj to look blue. You will no doubt have ; provements. He expressed his conviotion that toe result by telegraph before this letter reaches ; ilia ministry would atill suooeed. A society you. _ ' • called the "Friends of Order” has been organ- Having a few moment's leisure yesterday I j ized for toe purpose of opposing revolutionary paid abrief visit to the Agricultural Department. ' riots in Paris. to me one of the most iuteremiug places in or j Eight hundred conscriptB made a revolution- about Washington. Not the least important: i ary demonstration by marching in a line and branch of the Agricultuial Department is the j with a crape banneret their head to the office chemical division, though it doubtless receives j of “La Marseillaise,” where they halted to sing loss attention than it deserves. The appropria- f (hat famous revolutionary soug. The police tions have been ao exceedingly small tbttt the j did not attempt to interfere with toe procession, division has had rnauy difficulties to contend i The press blaims toe government for with- wito; but its present usefulness can burdly bn [ bolding any particulars respecting the pretend- over-estimated. A chemical library is being i ed conspiracy against the State and the Emperor, collected as rapidly as possible, and a valuable j Seven members of tbe editorial staff belong- nucleus has already been gathered. The min-1 ing to “La Refoxme” hate been sentenced to eral collection, though small, is valuable and in- ] from one to four months’ imprisonment, and to teresting. It is intended this shall be extendent | pay a line in addition for having violated ths bo as to embrace specimens of soils, marls, min- i press regulations. erals, etc., from all parts of toe country. Many, BdZire, attached to “La Marseilhisc,” was experiments bave been made by the chemista J sentenced * to three months’ imprisonment be- of the Department with the sugar beet. Last t cause he had cheered toe Republio in the pres- year twelve varieties were planted, and analyzed ] ence of toe Emperor. for toe pnrpose of hkct.mining their relative sa- j, Renan, the writer of “La Vie de Jesas," has gar producing qualities, the kind of soil best ; been re-instated iu his office as Professor at toe suited to their growth, etc. I saw here speci- j College de France. mens of beet root auger from Chatswortb, Illi-! It is positively resorted that Darn, toe Min- nois, where after expending ten hundred and ! iater for Foreign Affaire, has sent a note to fifty thousand dollars, a company formed there j R omo> protesting against the Papal Syllabus, for manufacturing beet sugar, abandoned the and intimating that France, by the proclamation undertaking. This loss and subsequent failure : „f Papal infallibility, might be induced to with- inight have been arrested bad the couipuuy con- • draw tier troops from Rome, suited a competent chemist. One great canto ! Nobth German Oontxdkration.—'The latest of this failure to estubliHh a new industry was j picture of Wilhelm von Eanlbacfa, the celebrated the nature of the soil in whioh the beets were .- painter, has attained a rapid celebrity, not only planted. Au analysis made at tbe Department from its intri laic merits but also from the in- showed tost tbe soli wus much too rich, aud -. trigoea by wbioh the clerical party has suc- oontained too great » proportion of potash salts ; needed in stopping its exhibition at Munich, for toe successful cultivation of the sugar beet, j -puo artist, wishing to represent a gloomy epoch Had earlier application been ramie to the De- | Immunity, chose his suhjeot from the dark partment toe large expenditure of too company ; records of the Holy Inquisition. Peter Arbuett, to no purpose might havo been saved. This is-: u Grand Inquisitor, is celebrated for hiaiueroi- ono indication of i he value of the chemical di- ! j eH8 raging against all heretics. The picture vision to the country at large. • | represents him as u tottering old man, whose A series of experiments are now in progress j f ftuu betrays the most implacable religious fs- witoanmuc, with a view to ascertaining tha com- | nariemui. Two rnonka and vnrioaft officials of parative value of the American ami Foreign : (t, B Inquisition complete toe session of the holy Sumac. The foimer i-ella for about $95 per ton, j office. Arbues bos just loaned fioiu the portal, and tbe latter for double an much or $200 pec I n f txie gloomy building abti pauses under the *—- The experiment* thus far show kk large » i statue of the Mater DolorosA to pronounce jndg. [ in this country, and the coat, delivered here; ' varied from 50 per oent.'more to a little over 100 per cent, more than the cost of iron rails. Tbe Eastern Railroad, in Massachusetts, has four hundred and ten tons of ateel rails; weigh ing from flfty-eix to sixty pounds per yard, »t a cost of $150 per ton, against iron at $80 per ton at the same tints. Thene were laid in Septem ber, 18C8, and July, 1869, have stood toeaever- est tests, and are apparently as good aa new now. The Boston and Maine Company pat down a mila of aush track, whioh shows no per ceptible wear. „ Mr. George Stark, manager of toe Boeton and Lowell road, does not think, after experiments, that publio aafety or tbe iutereata of toe road would be promoted by exchanging iron rails of the best quality for steel. Ho writes that the manufacture of steel is liable to quite as much imperfectiou a* the manufacture of iron; that Blight imperfections, comparatively harmless in iron, are fatal to steel: that the rails ooet more than they are worth; and that they cannot be re-rolled, as iron rails can. In toiit last objec tion the commissioners think that Mr. Stark ia mistaken, aa recent experiments show that old raila and the “stub ends” of new rails have been { ton. Th* Monvmxht to Stoniwall Jackson. Ex-Governor Letoher, of Virginia, has pub lished a statement respecting the proposed monument to Stonewall Jackson, saying £50,- 000 is needed, and that no local or section^ views restrict the scheme—that it ui national in its design and the North has cordially re sponded to the appeal, and *he East and tbe Weetsro moving. It is proposed to erect a memorial chapefin the Military Institute in fatiiwtm, and, should die funds oolkoted IHfipkL ft statute is bronee or marble, to per ccntHge of tannin in the American Sniuko . jdhu; upon a fatally of heretics who are kneel** as in thu Sicilian. j mg before him. The rage imprinted on his An analysis is being made of thu sweet pn- . | aa tures would alone auffioe to show tost the tato to show the proportions of starch and mi- ; mipplioants had little to expect from his mercy, gar it contains, tha result of which may iead tli evou ,q itl point with his crutch to toe the establishment of new branches of industry. - ,; re smouldering tn the back ground? ami filling Mexico sends here » jalup roof, desiring t-» the whole scene with smoke. He leans on the know its valuo ua compared with other julup i two monks, ouo of whom has a highly sensual roots, from which is extracted the medicine so ' exprureiou of counteuuuce, while the face , f toe generally used. Also, specimens of earth from • other is marked by gloomy fanaticism. A third which the Mexicans make soap. ; monk is employed in gathering together the Experiments are shortly to he made with ce- 1 confiscated property of the heretics, und a long reals grown iu the different States of the Union, procession bearing too form of the cruoifiod Su- for the purpose of ascertaining their compare- viour ure escorting condemned prisoners to toe tive food value. The result of all experiments and analyses of interest appear in the reports of tho Department, and are thus disseminated far and wide for tbe information of tbe people. The chemical division of tho Agricultural De- stake. The groups of inquisitors 'are said t> be exoelleutly conceived and executed. Spain.—Oariiatio disturbances are again re ported from Aragon and Segovia. The question “Who shall bo king?” is not partment costs the Government but SJ3G0O per HI1 inch nearer its solution than six months ago. annum. Only two pursons are employod—Prof. - The members of the government disagree on Antisel, chemist, and Dr. Titden, assistant - point as much as ever, chemist; while there is work fur at least a dozen ' Admiral Topete is the only adherent of too chemists and as many olerks. Letters and spa- ' Duke of Montpensier in too Cabinet, When, oimens for analysis pour iu from every quarter. : therefore, Prim seized again an opportunity of Many Bpooimens of mineral ore are received, declaring his opposition to toe Duke an King of some of which reqnira several days’ attention, Spain, Topete felt offended and tendered his re- and for which no charge is made. If toe Gov- ; signation. He was, however, finally prevailed ernment is really bent on economy it should n pon to remain in office. take measures to release toe Agricultural Bu- j Queen Isabella is spending her immense for- reau of much of this work, and allow the chem- • tune at the rate of fire millions in eighteen ists to devote themselves exclusively to agrioul- - mouths. Ab this extravagant way of living may tural chemistry. As no charge is made for an- eveu waste an enormous fortune, Francis of alyzing specimens sent in, their number is im- Assisi, her royal oonsort, has deemed it prudent menae; and it would perhaps be aB well, if, as ^ Be j ze his wife’s personal property to aaro the I remarked before, the Government really . infants of Spain from penury. In the mean- means economy, to impose a small fee in such time the parties at war have ooine to an under cases sufficient to cover the cost of labor and standing, and a court of arbitration in Paris will material expended. ' settle toe differences between the royal couple, Congress progresses slowly with the work be- j amicably. Dissipation seems to be contagions fore it; and the result will either be an nnnsu- ’ i n that quarter. The Countess of Girgenti, a aUy long session, or what is quite as probable, daughter of Isabella, has preferred suit against important bills will be hastily rushed through at. her husband for squandering her dower. The the eleventh hour, resulting ia much crude and . Count of Girgenti is a brother of the Ex-King unwise legislation. _ Two important bills have ' 0 f Naples, now living in Rome, been disposed of this week so far as one branch Trie Cortes has granted the proseontion of tho of Congress is concerned. The Senate has Bishop of Santiago. passed toe Funding bill, whioh has been the Italy.—Thei news from Rome b nninterest- bane of toe reporters, the horror of those who j U g > The Infallibilists are endeavoring to carry visit toe Senate galleries for amusement, and (he proclamation of the dogma by every poeei- the bore of Senators themselves; and it now ble means, but the opposition is gaining ground, goes to the House. Gen. Logan has carried It is difficult to predict the final decision of toe through the House, without division or impor-, Council. The educated olasaes in Europe, es* taut amendment, toe bill reported by him from pe 0 ia]ly in Germany, are greatly opposed to the Military Committee for too reduction of the j>„pal infallibility. Numerous addresses of oon- ormy. The bill redaoes the army in numbers; gratolation have been sent to Doellinger for his and pay some toirty-three per oent., and is re- . famous and elaborate proteet against infallibili- garded aa substantially a Democratic triumph. • ty f rom all parts of Germany. King Ludwig, of The fate of this bill in toe Senate is, however, Bavaria, has written a letter to the ohampion, considered doubtful. Suohis the Congressional learned professor urging him to continue in de record for the week, closing to day. In reality, fending toe State againat the undue influence but four days out of the seven are devoted to 0 f t h e church. national legislation. The Senate rarely meets j The address of infallibility presented to the on Saturday, and the House only for bunoombe ’ p 0 pe was only signed by two American bishops, speech-making; and Monday is private bill j The Armenian Catholics, who have so em- day. This leaves but four days in whioh to at- t phatioally protested against the supremacy of tend to toe business of the country, and toe i Home by declining to acknowledge toe authori* daily sessions average about four hours' dura- : ty „f their Patriarch, have been exoommuni* tion. Of these fonr hours at ieaat three are de- j unfed by toe Pope. Tbe Turkish Government voted to personal explanations and persdnal, presented them with a mosque in Constanti- oontrovereies. This leaves fonr hours per week : QO p] e f or their religious service. The- Pope for national legislation. When the daily coat of has sent Monsignore Pingin to the East with a Congress to the oountry is summed up and set against this fonr hoars' weekly service, it will be found that the people pay very dearly indeed for their Congressional whistle. Among the lady correspondents now in Wash ington are Mrs. Grace Greenwood Lippinoott, (G. G., of the New York Tribune,) Mrs. Briggs, (“Olivia,” of Forney’s Press.) Mrs. Mary Clemmer Ames, (of toe New York Independ ent,) Miss Sherly Dare Dunning, and Mrs. Har riet Prescott Stafford. Mre. D. P. Bowers closes an engagement at the National Theatre to-nigbt. She was pre vented from appearing on Monday last by ill- ness, and only appeared daring the last thttp nights. She has not had very good houses; while the Chapman Sisters, “the violate of the stage,". »"3 toe inimitable Bishop, have had crowds of visitors nightly at Wall's Opera House. Owen announoes an engagement at the National Monday evening. Dalton. view of repairing the schism. Jabbo. New Orleans Cotton Statement. From the Pioayune, of Sunday, we quote the ootton statement of that point np to Satur day, tha 12th ifstant: Stack cm hand Sept 1, 1869 (bales) 770 Arrived since last statement 2,564 Arrived previously 92S,753-A26,81T 937,087 The Income Tax. The Washington Republican has “good au thority for saying that there will be important modifications in the inoome tax,' made by tbe Committee of Ways and Means, whioh will go far to remove the objections entertained againat this law by tbe business men of tbe country, among whioh will be the removal of the danse authorising informers." A Washington letter of Thursday nays: “The cadetshio stir-about is producing re sults already. Colonel Prosser, Representa tive from tire Nashville District, has instruct ed the head of the oolored schools in Nash ville to call for a competitive examination among the colored scholars, and will give his nomination to West Point Academy to the best scholar among them. _ Persons interested in seeing the West Point Military School broken up are exultant over the recent ac tion of Radical Representatives in this re gard." _____ Tzbbb hundred aad thirty.reran doats— of re graduated iaat weak in Phi tafia 1- re-rolied successfully. ther interruption. M. Ollivier—1 shall always be proud of having belonged to the ‘ Five” of 1857. [Tu multuous interruption* on the left.] M. Gauibetia—The men who elected you then, nmv repudiate and despite you! President—!, call you to order, M. Gambet- ta! [Cheers on the right, laughter on tha jif. Gambefta-—I only state a hi.-torical fact- You had better call history to older, Mr Pres ident. [Loud applause on the left. Noisy in terruptions un the right.] > -q -At is M. Ollivier—Your intemperate and unjust interruptions can not make any impression oa me— _ Jules Ferry—No, all you care for is office, office, and big pay ? [tries of “order 1 or? dor!"] • ! President—Sit down,-M. Ferry 1 I call yow to order! Jules Ferry—That is an honor tome. [Sev eral members ou the right rise and demand a renewal of the call to order.” President—1 beseech, you, teuil.-men, to lo The Boston and Albany road has laid 1,200 tons, equal to twelve uillea, since 1865, and finds that ihe steel rails were m good order after three and a half years, at points -where iron rails did not last one year. Seventy-one raila have broken. The Boston and Providenoe road has laid and used, ainoe 1865, fifteen miles of steel traok. One hundred daily trains have ) passed over these rails, yet the traek shows no 1 signs of wear, while iron rails on the asms road have been renewed thirteen times. The cost was 100 per cent more than for iron. The manager remarks that ateel rails must be per fectly rolled, as toe slightest flaw may occasion them to break like icicles. The Old Colony and Newport Road bought a few tons of steel rails in 1864, at a coat of $9Q in gold per ton, agaiust $75 in currency for iron; thfcae raila have outworn tive leuewals of iron rails. The Vermont Central reports favor ably on the use of xteel rails to a limited extent sinus 1867. The President of Ogdeusburgh and Lake Ohampluiti Road thinks that steel rails, at $140 per ton, are cheaper than iron rails, which 'must be removed once iu seven years. The managing director of tbe Grand Trunk Railway approves of steel rails und bus tried them satis factorily, but says: “Wt*. do not propose at present, to relay any portion of the Portland line, which is in the United States, with steel' railB owing to the excessive cost which that: measnre would involve, from the high duties- now rnlinginyour country upon imported steel." Tbe remaining loads mentioned iu toe odm-: missioners’ report are in different parts of the ; ( | quiet. Let the orator proceed. M. Ollivier—My fatt er taught me-r-" (farmer Pages—Don’t speak of your father. He i- a Republican. What right have you, a renegade, to refer to him? c M. Ollivier—M. Gamier Pages has no right m -peak to me in that manner. President—It is inexcusable on the part of 31. Gamier Pages. [Loud cheers on 'the Pelfetan—Call M. Ollivier to order, Mr. President, for slandering bis father, Demoa- tlieues— [lioud riv-i*! in the hall* whioh drowns the voice of M. Pelletan, and goes on fur .-cvt-ral minute’*. The President ring* Ilia ball for some time.] ; - President—Order, gentlemen. Take your seats! Let u* bring thi« unpleasant ipeident to a oiose! [Very good! very good! OOjthe right.] r Jules Favru— Of course, you aiweyW want to 'tiHe discussion when it doc* not suit you. [Hisses in the winter.] President—Order! onoe' more, order! M. Oiliver—This unqualified attack on me will not si.orcu mo. Wheu hiv Majesty, the Emperor— _ Oamhcita [sneeriItaly]—HiaMgjetfy! Oh. courtier, oourtier 1 [Oalls to order.} nmo P.rsident—D-’ not interrupt ths speaker. Oiliver—When the Emperor— - a*w . Pelletsn—Ynu mean Bonaparte ? Ki rairv —Tin: hero of Koulogtic ? • And of Magenta? Grenier <!«: <.'a-.signie .... United States; theiruumsgeM in general report re, j l au *Wr do i he left.] iu favor of the Use of steel roils, and assert their f r.fc.J. Jules Fat e—>>o, .i E>tr« decided superiority over iron, especially where sovere service is necessary. From all these reports frum all sections of toe country tbVi commissioners deduce : I. That extremes of temperature do not injuriously af fect steel rails. ‘J That their durability far ex ceeds that of the best iron. 3. That heavy grades aud sharp ourvos do not materially affeot the wear of steel rails. 4. That the rails should be inspected, with a view to the detection of flaws, before laying, thereby obviating risks to Ufe and property. 5., That holes in the rails for spiking them down should be drilled, not punched. Steel welded on iron bases are approved. Of 21,786 auoh rails, made at Trenton, and laid on the Erie road, only 107 proved defective. Ex periments show toe comparative strength of ateel and iron rails to be as 5 to 3, and toe com parative stiffness at 4 to 3. Steel rails are needed to meet the requirements of locomotives, the weight of whioh has been more than dohb* led siuce their first use in this oountry. Exoept for heavy traffic, they say it is not necessary to use steel rails, if only care is taken to select the best iron ones. It is r .re economical to use steel rails, if they cost not over fifty per oent. more than iron ones, but the present and proposed tariff must be reformed before tbe uat of steel rails in this country can become general. These in brief are the conclusions of the commiasiouere. who era Messrs. James C. Converse, Edward Appleton and Charles F. Adams, Jr. Their report furnishes still further evidence of toe injury which is done to the general interests of the country by the mo nopolist tariff, which makes steel raila so un necessarily dear aa to check their use. There is no doubt that the safety to life on railroads de mands the general use of steel rails. But toe mmgm . I. tat»$arg 1..' iidmontet—This Ts al.-oininabie ! . J ules Ferry—Don't mention that man here any more. [Nearly the whole rjfht rises and utters ioud shouts of indignation ] President—If them interruptions do not watte I sliall lie obligud to suspend the sitting. No further interruptions will be tolerated. [•‘Very good," in the center.] - ok M. Olliver—Why at! this excitement? I was going to ssy that, when the Emperor— Gambetta—kes, when the Emperor paid you for your treachery to the Democracy by —[Tumultuous calls to order.] Jules Favre—That is so. Gamier-Pages—HDtoiy proves it Ollivier—1 indignantly deny that I erar Violated my pledsrea. -ojfatt; f- - VT? Jules Ferry—Until Bonaparte made yea his minister ? Oh, no, you aid before 1 President—This is intolerable. The Minis ter must absolutely be allowed to go on. Ollivier—Ob, let them go on. I do not care. ■ ■ Gambetta—You do not care for anything. Jules Ferry—Exoept office. [The noire at this moment becomes so deafening that noth ing oan be heard any longer.] M. Ollivier—(When silence is established at las)—1 hurl bade your accusations. Garnier-Pages—But you cannot refute them. President—Another interruption, M. Gar- nier-Pagee, and 1 Khali oallyou to order. Briet is at last restored, and M. Ollivier If allowed to proceed. a oi Blovlgett. The Chicago Republican is a little revere duly on steil rails has made them so dear that „ p0n political friend Foster Blodgett, Unl it if while, as will be seen, they are laid over the | . , a , . n Canadian part of the Grand-trank line, the I ^ States senator elect from Georgia. ^ manager* of that road oannot afford to lay them j true the distinguished ‘Senator is under an ia toe United Btatee Thus the monopolists iu indictment tor perjury, but we leave it to the iron and steel actually endanger and sacrifice ; ... ... the lives of the traveling publio, to fllltheir own I ®* n< * 1< * reader to eaj if the.ftflt Justifies tho pockets. j Republican in talking about him thus: *«“ «——* of ,t—Urd»j, we find tb. ! following: A dispatch from Atlanta to Washington city having stated that a Convention of the Deroo- oontest the seat of Joshua HOI in the United States Senate, served twelve months in the rebel army. Mr. Blodgett himself testifies. ^aticparty of Georgia will be llied by a me- j under he enlisted for twelve months’ jontyof the Executive Committee, in the event • Knt .... x- __i_ of the passage of tbe bill for the admission of | 8emc f . m it?. 1 ^ tfc ^ t Georgia with Bingham’s amendment, the under 1 - j 811 mouths. His ekeure if that his signed, as Chairman of toe Executive Commit- 1 property was liable to be confiscated and him- tel deems it due to truth to say that no such self and family were exposed to dtpgsra from call is contemplated by any member of the Com- {the rebel populace, which ooold Only be avert- mittee, so far aa he is apprised. No member of ed by his enlisting in the Confederate service, the Committee, or other person, has requested Supposing all that Mr Blodgett nya to be Him to convene the Committee to ooneider the true, how does it make him superior to Jrehua calling a Convention—nor will he, : Hill, who was exposed to the same dangers as propriety of i| voluntarily, do so, as he knows of no neeeaaity . JJ r , Blodgett and yet never found it i for snob a Convention at present, and is opposed to ^ „ p a ~j nat the United Staten. to ealling one. E. G. Cabash*, j e Ohm’n Ex. Com. Dem. Party of Ge. Baeon Nathaniel RothhohuaS'* distin- | guLthed member of the ftmone family of I wealthy bankers, died in Paris on February 19th. He was the third eon of Baron Na r Complimentary. The Lynchburg News, of Monday aaye: About a dozen negro members (so-called) of i than RothsohilJ. end was born in 1812 and tbe Georgia Legislature passed through this ; a igq-j married his cousin, Chtrlotto, tlaugh- sit; Saturday morning, en route to Washington, ; ter 0 p Baron James Rothschild. Baron to assut Bullock end his cUque of dirty Radicals J(k who died not long ego, was famous for to defeating tbe Georgia bill no. pending **- hifl i mmen ae wealth: bat Baron Nathaniel, H ..fit,”.IT" *P-*P mantine nuts." If they should happen to reap : ^ -^ anywhere in oor neighborhood we ahoald keep j incapable Of using ate hmoe, ess BNUM WM a aharp eye on our old rooster, tough re he ia. still unclouded and his bmn aahve, M tbte v 1 1 hie adviee continued to be reoeived with high PfserodtefSi of the flontt Carwlitut j regard aad ooufidenoe by Ac fim. First eoteed Senator—You’re a Bar. | Tffll NaahviBa UteM, «f Saturdiy, teg*: Bseoad colored Senate*—You’re a thief. “We learn that 90 the reten ef oea ftep^ Third colored Senator-Hold your tmgae.re ^..^.re L—a. fhr Hill Intibl — M wiB be in the penitentiary in h»«un ■ road. thnlaMW W*«ffil* «fc)» *» 1MM* An ninety days. ft ’ . A- V.}/ V V A ■V-tv •rtrt'.v