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Th.eS Careorft*!^
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACON DECEMBER 3# 870.
A Lying Spirit.
Tfco foreign wtfr telegrams eeem, like Jekosc-
phat, to be possessed by a lying spirit Yester
day there van a ■wholesale lie dispatched to the
New York Tribune fromLondon, that Gambetfa
had asked an armistice and acknowledged the
thorough route of the army of the Loire. All
false. Then, in the night te!egran»«there was
a singular illustration of lying from the army of
the Loire. The French report says the enemy
attacked us and were repulsed, and the German
report says the enemy attacked us violently and
were repulsed. They can’t state trnly even the
point of which paity made tho attack—because
in this esse the assaulting party made tho fail
ure. The nrmy of the Loire has been destroyed
by the Prussians some tour or five times and is
again nsed up to-day.
PaOTECT TUB CABBAGE3 AND TULNIPS.—Tho
New York papers say the e&tihg-houso keepers
in that city are importing vegetables from Eng
land and find they can pay freight and duties
and save mopey by the operation. This result
is charged ta tho middle men in Now York who
vegetablos soon amass a fortune out of the farm
ers and the consumers, and tho market rogula
tions of thei cities generally aid them in the en-
terpriso. It is certainly a queer business that
common vegetables should bo imported three
thousand miles from England where land holds
a tenfold valne over the most valuable American
soil. Won’t Congress. Yaise the tariff on turnips
to meet this extraordinary condition ?
Removal op the Capixax..—-The invitation of
the Washington negroes to President Grant to
join them in welcoming Congress, has drawn
from that functionary a declaration that the
Capital can bo removed only by the same vote
which is required to amend tho Constitntion of
the United States. It can't be done by an act
of Congress. Pray, Mr. Grant, is it possible
thero is anything which an act of Congress
can't do ? When it can abolish “all distinctions
on account of color or race,” it should be able
to abolish the Capital and make a new one, and
even create a world.
The Cable.—Peter Cooper gives notice, in
the New York papers that all efforts to repair
> the cable b&ve been unsuccessful, but will be
continued, though with less probabilities of
success than in a more favorable season of the
year. Meanwhile, busioess accumulates, and
the tariff on the French cable has been increas
ed to $15 for every message of ten words or
less, and $1.50 for every addition word. Mess
ages must be limited to fifty words.
The Superior Court in Illinois has just ruled
(in Brinkman agt. Tbeis) that it was not slan
derous for the defendant to say to the plaintiff:
“You cheated many people.” “A charge cf
cheating,” said the Court, “cannot be made the
basis of an action, unless the particular act of
cheating is connected with tho plaintiff’s busi
ness, so that special damages may be declared
on.” .
Mzssns. PubseA Thomas, of Savannah, whose
character as merchants is well known, have an
advertisement setting forth the virtues of
Mapes* Superphosphate asa fertilizer. Mr. H. L.
Jewett, of this city, is thoir agent here. They
also advertise all kinds of coal for general use.
They keep a large supply on hand. We invite
the attention of our readers to the same.
Mb. William Brales, senior proprietor of
tho Boston Post, who died last Thursday, aged
85, left 10 children and 40 grand children.
Heaven send that no such blessings are showered
on the head of any member of the fraternity
down this way. The poor house, we fear, would
be solo beneficiary.
Fatal Aocidest.—Wo learn by a letter from
Montezuma, received yesterday, that on Snn-
day last a young man named Randolph Riggins,
living near that place, was accidentally shot as
he was raising his gnu from the ground, and
died from tho wound on Monday night
The World, with a view to discoaraging the
Philadelphians from starting their proposed
European line of steamships, compares it to
running packets from a cemetery. That is
laving sore eyes with brine.
Cotton Fob Future Dexjvebt.—Murray, Fer
ris & Co.’s circular of December 10, says the
closing rates for December market werelfjJ; for
January, 15j; for Febrnary, 15jJ; for March,
15 7-16; and for April, 14 j.
It is said that the first tears Dick Yates and
Zach Chandler, two of the shining lights af
lollty in the Senate, ever Bhed, were the other
day when tboy heard of the burning of Driggs’
distillery at Buffalo, N. Y.
. The Boasted Eoonoux of Grant’s adminis
tration is illustrated in the fact that its civil
and miscellaneous^. expenses are about eight'
millions more than they eTer were beforo.
Gbxelet on Pobteb. — We haTe enjoyed
watching the flight and marking the true aim
or many winged shafts, shot by the press of the
country at that mean spirited sniveller, Admir^
at Porter, but none of them with more intense
satisfaction than the following from Father
^ gnbjggja ownbgjr: It
Since Ilonry, of Germany, stood shivering
’ ■‘lii'hfs p’tii'Hice sfiikf under the sttotvy towers of
Pope'Gregory, we-donbt-if the world has seen
any sack abject spectacle of contrition as is ex
hibited in AdiAim Porter’s letter of recantation
to the President. A lover could scarely have
penned words Jf more slavish devotion to his
‘ offended mistress A school-boy could scarcely
have been drivon into bnch cringing remorse
by the brandishing of biroh. We cannot read
this 1 ichryiuose love letter, without the excla
mation of Bolingbroke at the bedside of the
dying poet rising to our lips—“Alas! poor hu
man nature 1” • .
u ■ i. Clienp Tuition.
t . Bowdon College, in Carroll county, Georgia,
■' is one of the most flourishing educational in
stitutions in the State. Its rates of tuition for
a four years’ oourse are $140—one fourth pay
able annually, and for a single year from six
teen to thirty-six dollars. Board is from twclvo
to fifteen dollars a month. The College is un
der the charge of Rot. F. H. M. Henderson,
assisted by a competent Board cf Instruction.
See advertisement.
“Knmpe^niHc 1 ,” A
Tho fate of the efforts to got up vJBpuipcr-
mise tickets” with the darkies has been most
lugubrious. Mr. African has met them with a
suggestive contempt Such propositions by
Democrats are indeed tho mere outgrowth of
laziness an indisposition •to put forth tho ef
fort necessary to carry this county. Tho county
can be carried by the Democrats if they wiil
only nut their shoulders to the wheel and give
an honest and earnest effort to do it. And wo
ought to be ashamed of ourselves for even ac
cepting a compromise which should bind intel
ligent men to vote for candidates wholly unfit
for the positions to which they aspire. Let U3
quit the business and spank any man with a
shingle for proposing it hereafter. We can
carry this county triumphantly if we will. _
First, let us have a good ticket of men who
wiU work and are qualified for the office: such
men as Bacon, Phillips, Thad. Holt, Wm. H.
Ross, Nntting, Lee Jordan, or many others of
that kina who could be mentioned. Then we
ought to, put downthis folly of fifty independent
candidates running for the other county offices,
and nominate a good candidate for each and
pledge ourselves to support him.
Intelligent white men of Bibb county, we
have got this thing to do or see the county and
all its interests go to destruction. Look at the
t . , , . _ - - v.uij puuuu interest, and
every private interest, so far as itis to be affect
ed by a total public demoralization, if you
longer permit yourselves to be idle and listless
■•-groaning over the grotesque absurdity and
rascality of the situation, while there's not a
man among you doing as he ought to do and
can do, to save himself and the county. Come
ont, then. To work! and let ns pnt down this
carnival of-foliy, brutish ignorance and rampant
impudence ahd'bnaVery/
The Georgia Senatobship.—A Washington
correspondent of tho Constitutionalist, writes
that the Administration programme with regard
to the Senatorial claimants from Georgia, is to
ignore the claims of the whole batch, and have
a new election by tho next Legislature, and
that the administration candidates are Amos
Akerman and Judge McCay. The lovely Blod
gett, we infer, is not considered “respectable”
enough to represent the party and the Adminis
tration, as a Radical Senator from Georgia.
Louisiana Sugab Cbop.—Tho New Orleans
Timos thinks there will be an increase in the
sugar erop over last year, amounting to about
25,000 hogsheads. Tho sugar and molasses are
both excellent. The grinding season has been
very favorable. Labor, however, is very high
—rongiug from tfty to sixty dollars a month.
Southern Credit, and Who has Be-
istroyed It.
Tho editor of tho New York Daily Balletin,
a financial organ, most have enjoyed a pretty
intimate acquaintance with Bullock, Scott, and
other carpet-bag, so-called Southern Govern
ors, or else he could not have so thorough a
knowledge of them and their ways, as a recent
article shows. He declares it peculiarly unfor-
Innate for the South that her financial matters
are in tho hands of political adventurers, and
mourns the time “when it was a sufficient guar
antee Of a Southern State obligation that it was
backed by Southern' men of inflexible honor
and conspicuous integrity. At present, there is
scarcely a State in the South whoso debts have
this sort of backing.”
He then goes on to expose tho inside work
ings of tho corruptionists and plunderers who
are ruining the Southern people, as follows:
Their schemes have been, in most cases,
hatched in Wall street banking houses; and
the legislators, governors and officials, have
been paid tools for carrying ont the plans of
shrewd bankers. Tho main point aimed at was
to produce the -widest possible fluctuations in
the prices of the State bonds, irrespective of
the interest of the State, the party to be
“milked” being the innocent publio. Most of
the States have fonnd It necessary to issue new
obligations to provide for their over-due bonds
or thoir unpaid interest. These new issues
have, in most cases, been pnt ont by secret sale
on tho market, and in amounts known only to
the negotiator and the clique. In anticipation
of the issue, the parties to the secret would sell
on time large amounts of the State securities,
and so soon as the new bonds had been mar
keted, the fact would be announced, with the
result of a heavy fall in the market valne of the
obligations, affording the “ring” speculators an
opportunity for covering their previous large
sales.
In other instances, a legislative ‘'ring” has
authorized large issues of bonds to railroad
schemes for which there was no necessity aris
ing ont of the commeroe of the State. These
loans had the donble speculative advantage of
involving large contracts for building the roads
and of yielding a profit on tho manipulation of
the bond market, the gains on both operations
falling into the bands of the clique. In other
instances, the political speculators have sought
illicit gains through factitious expedients for
stimulating the credit of the State. In these
cases, they would first of all buy through New
York capitalists large amounts of the obligations,
and then augment the taxes to retire unexpect
edly a considerable amount of debt, and, as a
still further expedient, compel certain corpora
tions doing business within the State to bold a
considerable nmoant of the State obligations,
which the corporations had to bny from the
clique.
To our certain knowledge, State officials have
contrived to make large profits directly through
commissions paid by the bankers negotiating
loans for the State. We know of instances
whore finance officers have boldly proposed, in
letters to New York bankers, to give large com
missions on the sale of securities, provided the
allowance should be divided with them. And
equally possible would it be to cite instances in
which a Governor ora Comptroller have deli
berately involved the State in advances upon
secret issues of obligations, the effect of which
could only be to embarrass the finances and
weaken the credit of the Government.
The only remedy for all these evils, as the
editor is forced to acknowledge, is the “restore-'
tion of unimpeachable Southern citizens of the
old standard to representative and official posi
tion.”. -i '• ; ,vj.;;{) •:• ji)l
The San Domingo Project.
Senator Sumner has pulled off his coat to
take that San Domingo ball of the President
by the horns. Mr. S. has introduced a resolution
catling for all the correspondence and papers
relating to this project of annexation, all in-
Ktructions to our diplomatic agents, and all pro-
iocols on the subject, and for all Dominican
debts and liabilities, ail the provisions of Dom
inican constitution on the subject of selling the
national domain, all treaties tying np Domini
ca, all communications on this annexation
soheme from Hayti, all instructions to our na
val squadrons on the subject, and all reports
from our naval commanders concerned; and
also for any information tending to show what
European power, if any, proposes to acquire ju
risdiction of any part of the island, and; if so,
what part; and also the position of President
B.iez, tho negotiator of the treaty of annexation,
end how far he has been maintained in power
bj United States versels-of-war, and so on to
tho end of his numerous requisitions.
The Herald says this resolution discloses Mr.
Sumner’s line of attack. He intends to prove
jobbery in this transaction—that it is a .little
scheme betwixt Baez, the President, and a nu
merous ring to turn an honest penny—that
Baez is kept in power by the United States
Navy against the will of the San Domingo ne
groes—that he is under an avalanche of debt—
that the Dominicans are opposed to annexation,
and nobody wants the island bnt the President
and tho ring. Upon that the Herald pnts after
Sumner with both its fists, and is amazed that
annexation should be opposed by objections
so paltry, pitiful and contemptible. We have
little doubt, however, that the President will be
able to force bis pet measure through Congress,
and as little that ia the 6bape in which he pro
poses to carry it, it is another practical abroga
tion of the Constitution.
Heads Up! Exes to the Right—Dbebs!—
Mayor Huff gives ns a startling speech this
morning, which promises lively reforms from
the very boots of the police to the topmost pin
nacle of the monicipal temple. The Mayor is
right. Slovenliness is the parent of waste, de
cay and general mismanagement. Make them
too the mark throughout.
The Virginia papers are pitching into the
railroads of that State very vigoronsly on ac
count of their bigh passenger rates, which
areSlto 6 cents a mile. The unwisdom of the
railroad folks being so greedy is demonstrated
by the roads paying no dividends.
“Democrat.”—Your communication -was re
ceived too lato for appearance this morning. If
will have due consideration to-morrow.
The Army of Ihe Loire Again Gobbled uj»
—Tbc Armistice Story False.
London, December 10.—The German advance
oh Havre has turned aside to Dieppe, which
was probably occnpied to-day. , ^
The Duke of Mecklenburg reports & severe
battle with the army of the Loire at Beaugency,
whore the French were reinforced. Fifteen
hundred prisoners and six gnus were captured.
The remainder of the French army is on the
road to Bourges. It will be captured or beaten.
Another account says thkt after the fight on'the
7th the Bavarians threatened Beangenoy and
the forest of Marchaoix. The French were re
inforced, but the Prussians took Bravant, Bea-
mont, Mosas and Beaugency. On the 9th,
Bouvalet, Yillerclan and B.-rnay were captured.
The rumored rupudiation of the neutrality of
Luxemburg is regarded as extremely improba
ble. Bismarck would hardly, at this timo, thus
defy Belgium and the Netherlands. The rumor
of an armistice is utterly unfounded.
Berlin, December 10.—The bombardment of
Paris is not dictated by any special influences,
but by purely military reasons. The new levees,
"of the Landwehr are destined for a reserve di*
vision, -which will reinforce the army in the
fip-M _—iv.—a no irrench are
the apparent object of- the resolution to.which I they rule with plagues worse than tho frogs and
il tha las!. res!in" lice of EcvDt. This is truth, and truth is eter-
it was to surrender and mutilate-the last resting
place of thousands of Union dead, held that
it would be, if not unprecedented, at least un
parliamentary to deny to a member a simple
request for leave to introduce any legislation
not in itself insulting to the Senate.:
Carpenter inquired whether Trumbull could
state a proposition more flagrantly insulting to
the Senate than to remove the slaughtered dead
of the Union army from Arlington for tho pur
pose of restoriDg the farm to its rebel posses-
assnmirig the offensive before Paris in large
force. They were repulsed at nightfall after a
day’s artillery fight General Montenffel was
ia Dieppe on Friday. The French at Ham cap
tured a detachment of Prussians with artillery,
London, December 11.—The Duke of Meck-
lenburg telcgrhphs the Duchess Devout an an
nouncement of the victory on the 9th,
.The wife j)f L John jSlid^.is dead.
Lille, December 10.—General Dfjen Court,,
arrived from Paris by balloon, says on the 30th
of November and 2d of December, the Prus
sians lost fifteen thousand prisoners and six
guns. He says Paris suffers no privation- Ham
and St. Quentin are occupied by the French.
St. Pktxbsbubo, December 13.—The bank of
Rnssia has advanced her rates of interest from
eight to nine per cent.
"Washington, December 13.—The House de
voted tjie morning hours to important postal
laws—resumed tho report of the Ways and
Means Committee, and heard the delegates from
the Virginia National Tobacco Convention.—
An impression exists that there will be no mate
rial change in the tobacco tax.
In the Senate, McCreery, supporting his Ar
lington resolntion, delivered a touching eulogy
upon General Leo, which was listened to with
solemn quiet by the Senate and occasioned an
audible sigh of emotion in the galleries.
Boston, December 13.—The city of Lowell
has elected a citizens' candidate over the Re.
publican candidate for Mayor. The city of
Newburyport elected a Republican Mayor.
Congressional.
Washington, December 13.—House.—The
Franking privilege was abolished, bnt papers
are allowed free exchanges, and circulation of
weekly and semi-weekly papers within the conn
ties where published. Vote 103 to 65. The bill
then passed.
The Ways and Means Committee was directed
to inquire into taxing manufactured tobaoco
uniformly sixteen cents.
Butler presented a petition from two thou-
sand New Englanders, asking non-intercourse
with Canada for alleged fishery outrages.
Two Virginians were relieved of disabilities
—adjourned.
The House lain caucus to-night on amnesty.
Senate.—A billwas introduced reviving the
land grants to UqeSelma, Rome , and Dalton
Railroad.. nor*' 7i i,
Mr. McCreery asked leave to introduce a res
olution, of which he gave notice yesterday,
proposing an investigation, with a view to the
restoration of the Arlington estate to the widow
of General Robert E. Lee; the removal of the
grave yards of the premises, and a general res
titution for any incumbrance placed there in
the interest of the Government.
Mr. Edmunds hoped that leave would not be
granted, as the proposition to dig up the bones
of our dead soldiers, in order that certain prop
erty might be given back to its rebel owners,
was to his mind perfectly monstrous. While
entertaining tie highest respect for his friend
McCreery, he -Roped the Senate would never
entertnin the proposition.
MoCreery then occupied twenty minutes upon
the subject. He referred to the circumstances
attending the reoent death of two of the fore
most Generals on either side, in the late war—
Lee and Thomas. He spoke of the friendly in
timacy existing between these Generals up to
the commencement of the rebellion, when
Thomas followed the starry emblem of Union,
and Lee resolved to stand or fall by the State
that hadgivan him birth; "of the general.sorrow
and respect whioh manifested itself in either
section, succeeding the mournful intelligence
of their decease. He proceeded to eulogize the
inflexible virtue, military genius and valor of
General Lee, remarking that the American peo
ple would never relinquish the property which
they held in the name and fame of the great
Virginia!). He then referred to the principal
historic features of Lee’s campaigns, to show
that, with the means at his command, possibly
no other man oonld have accomplished results
so vast While possessing great ability, he was
devoid of ostentation, and from the testimony
of his most intimate acquaintances, be was sin
gularly exempt from the faults and follies of
other men. His life was that of a hero, a Chris
tian and a gentleman. There might be those
iq the Senate who would derive eomfort from
casting aspersions upon General Lee’s charac
ter ; but all sections of the country would even
tually accord to his merits their just deserts.
The loved partner of his bosom still lives, and
in her behalf justice was now implored. She
belonged to a race fond of bestowing charity,
but poverty could not force her to accept it.
Would the Senate now remove the barrier that
excluded hex from Arlington ?
Daring his remarks MoCreery reviewed in de
tail the salient feature of General Lee’s civil
and military services, particularly his recent
efforts in connection with the Jefferson College,
his revolutionary ancestry, and sincere devo
tion to duty. Referring to the sword as the
least capable of aU tribunals to decide a cause
upon its merits, the speaker went on to argue
that the judgments of the sword had not always
commanded that universal respect which would
have been expeoted from a court of so large a
jurisdiction, and that history had enrolled the
names of Hampton and Sydney upon the list of
martyrs in the sacred canse of right.
In response to McCreery in the Senate, Ed
munds said that instead of being wedded to tho
institutions of Virgins, General Lee was the
ward of the nation; that the nation had fed,
clothed and educated him; that he lived at the
capitol, but when the eapitol called upon him to
defend the flag under which he had been pro
tected and honored, be deliberately turned his
back upon it and planted his cannon insight of
the oapitol he had sworn to protect and defend.
Bnt he (Edmunds) wouldn’t dignify such a. pro
position by discussing it. General Lee was : now
dead. The only regret he thought that any
right manded man, who believed in tho war,
would have was that General Lee had not died
either in bis youth, or in his patrlotio man
hood, or even that he bad not died earlier than
be did, by the hand of the law, which would
have atoned in some measure for his crime.
Trumbull, while disclaiming sympathy with
Trumbull replied that while the resolution
was, without doubt, repugnant to the sense of
the nation, it was not, in a personal sense, in
sulting to the Senate. He was averse to the
adoption of any precedent the effect of which
would be to prevent the free exercise of a right
guaranteed to a member of tho- Senate. Ed*
mends and Stunner cited two instances—the
former, the case of Texas, the latter, a bill for the
repeal of the fugitive slave aot, when.requests-
for leave to bring in the bills were refused.
Five additional instances were enumerated by
the Vick President.
Morton pretested against the consideration
of the resolution. He had heard wbathe never
expected to lkar, a eulogy' upon the character
fitt Too) ‘ wifhm sight of tho graves of the.
victims of Ms rebellion. Hampton and Sydney
died hot for human slavery, but for liberty.
This man, General Lee, was of all others the
great sinner. He-had sinned against light and
knowledge. His reyohitictoiiy ancestry, his
oath of fealty as an officer of the United State?,
his finished education and high abilities, all
forbach him thus to sin, ; and the enormity of
his crine could not be concealed by* decorating
his gra7e with flowers of rhetorio. In a word,
it was now proposed that the Senate should
gravely oonsider a proposition to degrade the
memories of the patriotic dead of Arling
ton, by removing their bones to less hallowed
gronnd in tender consideration of the rights of
the wicow of the' arch rebel of the most wicked,
rebellion in history.
Scott said that the' coupling together of- the
namesof Thomas and'Lee recalled the utterance
of Stephen A. Douglas, made at the time'those
two Generals resolved to tread in opposite paths
—that at that time there was but two classes in
the nation—patriots and traitors.c-The patience
with which the Senate of the United States had
to day listened to an etflogy upon the chief con
spirator in an attempt to tear down the Gov
ernment, was bnt another illosiration of that
unparalleled magnanimity and mercy which had
characterized the treatment by the Government
of those engaged in the rebellion. Had the sub
ject of that eulogy succeeded in his effort where
would the American Senate now be sitting ? By
his triumph slavery would have cast its dark
shadow all over this land of freedom from S'.
Lawrence to the Golf of Mexico. To-day. the
doctrine of secession lay buried beneath the
bones of thousands who fell, that their blood
might seal the covenant of the nation. Yet to
day wo behold the spectacle of a resurrectionist
coming here to drag the dead doctrine out from
beneath the bones of the nation’s martyrs.
"Wyley characterized the resolution as moBt
insulting and shocking to the sense of the Sen
ate and country, and as abhorrent to humanity.
Though personally tenacious of the rights of
individual membora, he could not vote to re
ceive it.
Sawyer said the Arlington estate, like thous
ands of acres of property in the South, had
been forfeited and sold at publio sale for
non-payment of taxes, and bought by the United
States in tho absence of any memorial from
Mrs Lee. He regarded the contemplated in
quiry as utterly worthless, as the faols he had
stated were well known and needed no verifica
tion.
• Saulsbury disapproved of that part of-the
resolntion looking to the removal of- the graves
from Arlington, bnt he could not see that: the
merits of the cause in which General Lee.was
engaged, were at all in controversy. Here-
garded the question as one simply of ability of
the Senator to exercise his right to introduce
business.
%Nye said the nnseemly haste in certain quar
ters to restore traitors to favor could result in
no good. The verdict of to-day and of posterity
is and will be that General Lee was a traitor.
Flanagan, in some general remarks, spoke of
Lee as a great traitor of the age, whose influ
ence had carried into the rebellion the flower of
the Southern youth. Davis, tho other great
traitor, still lived, and in the light of recent
events it was not unreasonable to expect an early
move to make him President.
Sumner desired that parliamentary law shonld
be administered upon the present occasion with
the utmost rigor, with a view to a most sum
mary disposition of the resolntion. He had
nothing to say of General Lee, except that his
name stood npon the "catalogue of those who
bad imbued their hands in their country’s
blood. He was content to hand him over to
the avenging pen of history. He regarded the
resolutions as indicative of the sentiments of
the political associates of the Senator from 1
Kentucky; as prefiguring the policy they would
establish ’should they'obtain power,' 4 policy
which was to take the old rebellion by the hand
and to install it in the high place of power.
Could he make : bis'-toiee heard from Massachu-
setts to Louisiana, it would be to warnbbt fell#w-
oeuntrymen, especially of thb South; Whioh no w
showed its hsind In the'proposition of the Sen
ator from Kentucky. He stated that he was 1
present when Secretary Stanton gave the order
for the interment of the dead bodies of Union
lice of Egypt.
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CoiiitresslonnJ.
Washington, Desembor 11—Senate—The Ju
diciary Committee have made an unanimous re
port that Indians aro not oitizens of the United
States under the Fourteenth Amendment of tho
Constitntion—tho treaties and laws always
having regarded them its independent nations,
and not t) bo interfered with iQ their loyaf ad
ministrations.
The Senato was engaged- 'all dBy dis
cussing tho charity 1 ftind for Government
employees, and compensation to a Kentucky
-fedoral soldier for property destroyed during
lbs war. - ;a. ' o. •- .• WrohAro
Hotrste. —The Hous'e considered the bill for a,
full knd general' gtocb" of amnesty and oblivion
of all wrongful adts, doings or omissions, of all
persons 1 engaged in4he ! war of the late rebellion.,
The exceptions are-ab follows: Educated • at
West Point or Annapolis;' members of t either
hoilse of ' the federal Congress; heads of federal
executive -departments; ministers abroad;
judges of ihe federal courts, and those holding
•similar offices in the-Confederate Government;
members of conventions who voted for, or
signed an ordinance ofifsibessioit, or governors
1tf fflltr*- v;l • A : ’ M ■- Cinnf-uWafaa TuV."
iroated cruelly, or. otherwise than according to
lhei.usages.of i war, federal prison ora; persons,
entrusted with .funds which they have not ao
countedfor;- all deserters and bounty jumpers.
Property exceptions follow, all property, wherein
the United States, or third parties, have become
vested by Sale, .forfeiture .or confiscation, arid
lands used now, .Or heretofore,for federal com
eteries. .i -fecoTu oJj umr.. . .
Every right of action and liability arising, or
any ordinance, law, qroontrac^-toju^of re
bellion ; ond every such right shall be deemed
invalid, i*. .: oiieor r.iM, ::fc]
Butler reported the bill inexpedient. Butler
said it was mutatis mutandis, from the amnesty
bill passed by the English Parliament, after the
Scotchitebellioa of 1745. , f He quoted from the
body of the.pet, and. jefen$d to the exceptions
in it, among which, all persons by the name and
clan of McGregor, and all,- who had been in
fnvor of having the Fijench army invade Great
Britain.. He wished that ihu state of the coun
try was such that all of- the exceptions could be
stricken out; but such ,was not,the state of the
oouutry. .The bill, swept out everything that
had been done, wrong on.flae/rifle,, as well as on
the other, and said that ,no more, suits could be
brought for acts done, or,/committed during the
war, either by those who warred in behalf of the
United States or by those who warred against it
He said that it threw the mantle of charity
over all. The bill excepted the leaders of
the rebellion, but why should they not be ex
cepted ? They had played for empire and lo3t,
and Bhould now take' the penalty of loss. It
would bo seen that the first exoeption only ap
plied to those military and naval officers of the
United States who had reoeived their education
at -West Point or Annapolis, . It did not apply
to officers who had not been so educated. As
to the provision referring to national cemete
ries, he said he thought it time, after hearing
an eulogy in the Senate on General Lee, that
the idea that these cemeteries could be in any
way tampered with should be put an end to. If
Union soldiers did anything daring,the war,
they oertainly conquered enough land to be
buried in. He w anted the bill, passed, if for no
other reason, so that that question might be
settled forever.. An. objection had been made
to the bill, that it waa pot- ,a general amnesty.
He was not Um. most forgiving of men—he
trusted he wak. not. the most vindictive. He
could remain unforgiving as long as his neigh-
.botyandhocpuld-forgive an.honorahle oppo
nent quite as early as his neighbor; bnt when
ho did forgive, he forgave all oyer, and when
he did not forgive, he remembered all ojter^
i-Lawrence asked how . many parsons the bill
would relieve. , .... ... ' " i t
Butler' replied that it’ would, under legal
trouble or vexation, relieve" every min who
helda pasi office^ was sheriff, or constable bo-
‘fore the war, and had taken air oath to support
the Constitution. ’As to tha excepted classes,,
all that they had to do was' to come to Congress
hereafter, and petition for the removal of
theirdisabilities.
Beck offered a substitute for the-hill as fol
lows : That all persons, other than those here
inafter excepted, now disqualified to hold office
by the 3d section of-the 14th article of the-
amendment to the Constitntion, are hereby
relieved from such disability, and the same is
hereby romoved from and after the passage of
this act, except front tho following classes of
persons: First, whoever, having been eduoated
at the militaiy academy at West Point, or. the
naval school at AnnapoliB,. shall have engag
ed in the rebellion and insurrection against
the United States Government, or given
aid and comfort , to : . the. enemies, there
of. Second, whoever, having been a mem
ber of either honso of Congress of the
United States, shall have, engaged in rebellion
against the santep-ox.'igiven.aid and eomfort to
the enemies thereof.: Third, wdhoever shall have
held the office of head of one of the executive
departments of the government pf, the United
States, or minister plenipotentiary, or minister
resident, or judge of any court nnder the
United States, and shall,have engaged inthe re
bellion or insurrection against the same,
given aid and comfort to the enemies thereof.
Farnsworth offered a substitute for the whole
bill, as follows: That political disabilities im
posed by the third section of, the Fourteenth
Amendment of the Constitution ara hereby re-
woved. -il£—Kttr vadnrmeG ,**nY waV f *44
soldiers at Arlington, arid that Stanton stated & l
the time his purpose in selecting the place, was
to forever prohibit the reinstatement of the
Lee family there; that if they did come- thPy
might enchanter the ghosts of their victims.
He quoted the epitaph above the grave of
Shakspeare, wMohhe now proposed to- write
above tho grave of every one' of J otiif 'patriot
dead: " vr-ovt-
‘‘Good friend, for Joeua’ sake, forbear
To dig the duet enoloaed here. ■ t " ”
Blessed be the man that spares tliess stones; -
Acc-nret be lie that moves my bones.”
Mr. McCreery stated that the resolution was
in no sense an embodiment of the Democratic
sentiment, but had been submitted npon bis in
dividual responsibility, without consultation
with his colleagues. He then asked to with
draw the resolution, whioh was refused, though
finally permission to introduce it was also re
fused.
"Washington, December 13.—Admiral Boggs
relieves Glisson of the command of the Euro
pean fleet. Glisson will be retorod.
The President has nominated Alfred Pleason-
ton, of New Yoik, Commissioner of Internal
Revenne.
The Senate again discussed Porter’s nomina
tion. No result.
' 0. O. Bowen, member of Congress from South
Carolina, -was indicted in the District Court to
day for bigamy.
Governor Bard writes to the President an
eight page pamphlet. Bard cannot follow the
President into the support of extremists. Bard
says: “I could not have known that Georgia
was to be kept in a state of perpetual bondage,
the prey of irresponsible demagogues, the as
sociate in misery with South Carolina and
Louisiana, whose Governors, Scott and War-
month, form with Bollock a triumvirate of un
mitigated political scoundrelism, without pre
cedent since the latter days of the Roman Em
pire, and have cursed, the States over 'wh : oh
tion removing all political disabilities from all
persons, exoept such as were Senators or Rep
resentatives in Congress in the years I860 or
ti/31, or ware in either of suoh years officers in
the army or navy of.the United btates, heads of
the deparfmeuts of the United States, Judges
of the United States, ministers, and except all
persons who, in jriola^on of tbat amendment,
have held office since the 1st of June, 1870.
Butler announced his purpose to have the
voio taken on the bill at 3 o’clock to-uiorrow.
Bock opposed the bill. He said that he would
have offered snch a substitute as that offered
by Mr. Farnsworth, but that he feared that the
House might not be prepared to vote for a gen
eral removal of disabilities ; but might do so
when certain classes were excepted. He hoped
that the House wonld adopt the substitute of
fered by Mr. Farnsworth, but if not, then he
hoped that his own substitute wonld be agreed
to. He argued that nine-tenths of tbe matter in
the bill was matter over wMch the Reconstruo-
tion Committee had no jurisdiction, but belong
ed properly to the Judiciary Committee, and he
expressed the fear that if the bill was passed
by a simple majority, it would be contend
ed that It was valid, in reference to all
snbjeots in it; that it did not require a two-
thirds majority, while in reference to the re
moval of political disabilities, it wonld not be
valid. He declared that instead of being a bill
granting general amnesty, it waa a bill or patns
and penalties ; a bill making odious discrimin
ations. Ho had never seen a bill that was fur
ther from carrying out the objects whichlt pro
fessed to carry'out. It was a bill adding insult
to injury. He believed that the Republican
party and tho Republican press desire to have
general amnesty extended. He thought that
party had lost State after„State by Congress re
fusing to pass such a bill. That it wonld con
tinue to lose State after State so loDg as Con-
gress maintained that position. ,
Poller advocated the adoption of tho Farns
worth substitute! He believed tliat that "prbp r
osition would be found to bo not only tho most
gen: rons. bnt the most patriotic and iiie wisest
proposition in that respoct before tho House.
He argued at length against those provisions of
the bill relating to legal proceedings and right
of action and property.
At the conclusion of Potter’s remarks, the
bill then went over till to-inorrow.
Dawes, from the Appropriation Committee,
reported a Legislative, Judicial and Executive
appropriation bill, which was made the special
order for Tuesday next. It appropriates about
$20,000,000.
"Washington, December 14.—Congressman
Bowen gave five thousand dollars bail to answer
tbe chargo of bigamy. Bowen asks for an early
trial.' " ' :
Gporge E. Haste has been appointed Coliefctor
of Customs at Vicksburg.
There is before the Supremo Court of the
"United Slittes a case from the Southern District
of New Yofk, which involves the right of mer
cantile agerities to collect and communicate
their merchant subscribers, information con.
corning the financial oonditibn and character
merchants throughout the country, as a privi-
y; t - uualcarion,-ana <-m—.,i..«I
question, whether such mercantile agencies
have been hitherto conducted iix * this country,
shall longer exist.
The Republicans held and adjourned caucus
to-night. ! " Not more than fifty members were
present. Among tho speakers were Sheldon
and Morey, of Louisiana, who advocated a gen
eral amnesty, stating that the State, in the re
osnt election,-, had repealed the provision
their Constitution imposing disabilities. Wu y
Porter, of Virginia, and Bntler,’of Tennes
see,-wore against, amnesty. Other- speeches,
were made, and the caucus adjourned sine die,
without taking a vote on xny proposition.
Howard, Commissioner of the Freedmen’s
Bureau, says the educational woik is closing.
The appropriations .being nearly exhausted,
have been compelled to announce that no fur
ther aid can be granted in support of schools,
and; to discharge all the Superintendents
Education in the several States,, and close their
offices- - nnijfi
Buffalo, December 13.—The National Board
of Trade amply referred the subject of the
Pacific railroad to the Executive Council to re
port. No other action taken. No subsidies
«M«R x< ; vni-r * •
Boedeaux, December,It.rrThe Government
has been instituted here. Vigorous measures
are decided upon.. Large reinforcements are
going forward , from all points from the sonth,
perfectly armed and equipped.- .
New Yobs, December lS.—The World’s
special from London of the 10th says: Bis
marck; declares that he will not treat with the
Tours Government, because it connived at bad
faith. Its officers broke parole. The Paris
government has just refused a summons to sur
render. They will-fight to the last man.
Wood writes from headquarters at Meung on.
the 9th: Meeklenburg had three days fighting
with the 16th and 17th French corps. The
fight commenced on the 7th, near Menng. The
French fought with wonderful obstinacy. The
German loss was groat, bnt tbe French loss
greater. The French are now retreating to
ward Vierzon, pursued by Prince William, of
Mecklenburg. More fighting is expected to
morrow.
Macklear reports "on tho 10th: The centre of
Prinoa Frederick Charles’. 1 army is at Orleans,
the left wing at BesnpeoOv, and the right wing
near Gien. Aoavalry division, followed by in'
fantry, proceeded soutn from -Orleans .to Vier
zon. Monteuffel is operating to occupy Dieppe,
Havre and Rouen. (.W e* nnrl !ti<
tiuJl B. MoAtpin’s tobacco- factory is 1 burned.
Loss on stock $100,600, .and on the building
$30,000; fully insure A. The falling.walls killed
■one'and-hfaVt another... - - G .-
Steamers make daily trips between Partai
Rosa and Key West, between which the- Gulf
cable i3 quiet.
Germans. Jluvtaff npon CUerboiirg— Paris
Niimiiiom-d to Surrender mid vSu-.es *0
do It-Ccrmnin I'oiiijiluiu tliat a lie French
t rcrent a Bumhardirient—Eastern 4j.ucs-
broken out Airnin. , :a j i,
New York, December 14 —A Hereld special
from-Havre says there is mneh.excitement oVer
a reported mutiny in the, fleet—the sailors re
fusing to go to Cherbourg. Shota were fired,
some of which struck the forecastle of tha Shen
andoah. The advance on Havre w«s a feint to
cover an attack on Cherbourg. The Shenandoah
will take American women and children from
Cherbourg in case of a bombardment. There
are four French iron clads in Cherbourg harbor.
The World’s special from Tours, of the i Itb,
states that a dispatch from General Dechaizy,
says the result of the four days’ fighting near
Beacgency was substantially a French victory.
The army now holds positions only five miles
distant from those held on the 7th. Three
Frenoh corps are close at hand. The Frenjb
loss is not greater than that inflicted upon the
Prussians.
io aim- nvJiu-ji- .fcvM*. ,
Versailles, December 8.—The summons to
Paris to surrender, was flatly refused. It is
doubted whether, the threatened bombardment
era be effected.. No guns are in position, though
at hand, and could soon be mounted, did the
fort* permit! [No doubt. Yon speak like a
prophet.] Threp hundred guns oonld be placed
ia position during a.night, but tbe forts would
silence them at dawn.. miuoenxui) j "*!
Baras els, December,11.—'The Prussians are
preparing to occupy Luxemburg. The occupa
tion is sanctioned by the King of Holland,,,
r the first see- Bnusiiatfl, December , Hv—Garibaldi has re-
ii« d a 8 ig ne abis command and returns to Italy.
.Constantinople, December 10.—Diplomatic
negotiations between Russia and Turkey are
utjf atisfaotory. There is danger of a conflict at
any moment. '
London, December 12.—The Eastern ques
tion ia again agitated. The Russian Minister at
Constantinople demands further amendments.
England is tnkieg precautionary measures.
The Shipping Gazette deplores the Fxonch
determination to defend Havre on account of the
destruction of property involved.
Washington, December 14.—In the House
resolutions of tho Board of Trade for the im
provement of the Louisville canal, and the
mouth of the Mississippi, and tho prevention
of bridges obstructive to navigation, were pre
sented. Resolutions for a world's fair at Phil
adelphia, in 187C, are pending.
In the Senato the Committee on Coinmeroe
were instructed to inquire" Into the expediency
of a ship canal connecting the Mississippi with
tho Gulf of Mexico. -
Nashville, December 43.—Not a barrel of
salt is in the city for sale.
Raleigh, December 14.—A resolution im
peaching Governor Holden of high crimes and
misdemeanors iu office was reported to-day by
the Judiciary Committee, and passed by a vote
of 60 to 3. There was a long and interesting
debate prior to the passage of the impeachment
resolution. To-morrow a committee will be
appointed to inforin the Senate of the action of
the Housa; also a committee of seven.to draft
articles of impeachment and oonduet the trial
before Senate. Under the statutory law passed
by tbe last Republican Legislature, the Gover
nor will be suspended from Executive functions
at soon as arraigned before the Senate. Chief
Justice Pearson will preside at the impeachment
trial, when some startling developments are ex
pected" to be made..
Richmond, December 14.—The recent muni
cipal election, carried by ihe
was taken before U. ; $. |o
morning, by tho Republic.,n^, f, ir ' *** 8*
derthe new Congfessional i avT ' ^ aoil ib
It is reported this afternoon that ni „
authorities raided on a German
suspected of defaulting tho reveal * ■
were indications of having been i rr »‘ ,
in tho classification of imported
alty for which is confiscation, and if
ernmentcan prove tho facts it will k
tho largest on record. a <!t -1!
Tho late General Agent of th 8 1
Press Association, denounce as Stavr'^
the news as now published bv tw ‘ 6
The St Pierre has
cargo of armsand loOmen forthe Fren^ 1
Mabshall, Tex., December H__n •'
of buildings on the east side ef n. 6 T*
square, except the market house and M ***
office, have been burned. W '
thousand dollars, fifteen thousand 1
The loss will fall principally o\ ^
W..H. Pollard, Johnson 1 * Co
& JohnsoD, O. J. Taylor, A. cjkfn.ru 5"*
•fe Son. and A. Runicke. B. Stin
New Orleans, December 14 tj, re
states that Judge Dunell has S"**
rest of Perry Fuller and Wood-'a rc -Sf-
Custom House frauds. Them,t,- Ti ? apsoa for
reported stolen from the Commit 3 b ° Di «
ler was vouched for by Senators p' 0Eer " PnI '
Donald. Neither Fuller nor X .
■when called for trial. f W0D appealed
Foreign Intelligent
London, December 13.—The rinK,
ted by a report of an import^ dln»,T, Ur; "
Bismarck, declaring tilt
longer respect the neutrality C f ll Eo
and wonld annex that State to the eWf
other dispatch Btatea the bombsrdmenuV^
has commenced. Several dC-Xf r*®
Meung state that letters from English n**®
with D’Chausey make it certain the tin W
have greatly misconstrued themultof
tions near Beaugency. The German ilf"
were 10,000. The Bavarians rdas^ii^
tinue ijhe struggle, and were allowed t<X
to Orleans. Thus weakened, Frederidcfi
abandoned the advance on Blois. The FrmT
are retreating before Frederick Chi-iL
Beaugency.. a “
London, December 13.—The Genma he,
ties command every point of Paris. \'Z
Dame presents as fair a target as did thesC
burg cathedral. The bombardment is
the 19th of December. IM ‘ 01
Havre, December 12, via London, Deoeahr
13.—The Prussians are in forte at Benzenli
sixteen, miles hence. Havre is defended Im
large force and 350 guns, manned by carina
Tbe population are eager fori the fight n-j
rumored that Trocbu has cut through the iw
sian lines.
Boedeaux, December 14.—Gambetta vdia
on tbe 11th: I have retained to Tours. iyi
General Chansey yesterday, continuing
fully to defend the lino of the Loire. Ithifi
the situation so good, that I may go to Borden
and see what can be done with the second
army. It is reported that Bonrbaki reraised
the Prussians on the 12th.
Beblin, Deoember 13.—The following to the
Queen has been received by telegram from the
King: General Headquarters, Tuesday lsth.
After four days of fighting around Baugencr,
the French retired to Biois and Touts. Their
loss was severe. Many deserters come into out
lines here.
Brussels, December 12.—The Independence
Beige says at midnight, on the 6th, a letter
from Moltke arrived at Paris, announcing the
capture of Orleans and summoning Puis to
surrender. Trochu summoned bis colleague,
Pioard, to treat for honorable terms. Trochu
said the overtures disclosed tbe enemy’s appre
hensions, and represented that France hid
everything to gain by a prolongation of the
struggle, and Paris could bold "ont a long time
yet. The committee unanimously resolved to
continue the war, and rejected the proposal for
a surrender. jl:
Vienna, December 1L—All tho journals de-
noonoe Prussia's coarse towards Luiemburg;
and calls npon the powers to rise andrepresa
the insolence whioh renders all treaties uselass.
The Judge tVho Disliked Smells.
Judge (out We3t, of course.) bated, to
put it mildly, the smell of musk. Oao hut day,
the mercury standing 90 degrees in the shade,
the judge sat in his office, lolling in his easy-
chair, placed jnst in the draft—tbe little there
was—doing his .best .to open up tbe mystery of
an'old opaqve “last will and testament” sub
mitted to his judicial determination. Just is
the-breeze grew sensibly strong and refreshing,
tha judge’s olfactories contorted under tbe smell
of musk. His honor looked up from tbe ancieit
document he was considering, and beheld a Wj
standing in the open door. Wirt a gentlavarc
of his hand, as if motioning her to lamest
side, the judge greeted het with, ‘‘Beg jour
pardon, madame, bnt yon don’t smell well.
“Sir,” replied the astonished dsme, inatoM
that would have frozen a less imperturbable
man in his seat, notwithstanding tbe eioesav*
heat, and threw herself ont of the office.
The judge dropped to the contemplate®: or
his paper. Directly a stern voire greeted aim
with, “Are you the ohap that insnlted ay
wife?” — t-. .
. Again the judge looked up from »»." ,0 ?r
and seeing a strong-built min standioi! m **
doorway frowning upon him, answeredpromp.-
ly, “No,Bir; please be seated”
- “Didn’t you just tell my wife she*™ 111 '
thundered the, man. -,
“No, sir, sail the judge, very firmly; "t*®
incapable .of saying that to anybody. _
The man turned square on his heel, mm '
reotly returned with hie wife; s»yiog,
that the feller ?” pointing to judge.
“Yos,” said-a be decisively. ... »
“\YeU,”-Baid her husband, “he says h« ®
yyon stunk.” , « ^.11
%o,'’ replied she; “he said I didYt to*
W “Oh !” broke in- the judge, in
tone, “a misapprehension. It must M
madams, that you didn’t smell well, 01 ,'v
would have smelled me. You have »
have you not?” ' •, , . . y,
The huaband relaxed his fist,
Wife, emiled, then, turning to tbein«a
“Squire, you re a ente one; you II do f
Arid the judge got a good ease and a f«‘
The Atlanta Era tells the following:
A City Belle’s Advsntubb.— A
lin and its Results.—A young
certain city; not a thousand miles from-A ,
bejog on ft visit to some of her plan n .
Was enjoying a horseback ride, ona n n ® ^
ing, in company with a gay party, * , r
met a bright eyed country lass, with
mg car's, who waa on her way to a ck> .; M
grooery, to sell a jar of butter. A conv , res t
ensued and the little pedestrian expresse fc
admiration for the jaunty little riding a
by the city belle. ,
Tbe latter said, ‘.‘Yoarhair ia much P*
than my hat and I wonld rather have »• ,.j
The oouatry girl, much surprised, re f*
will swap with you.” .
The bargain was instantly struck 80 ^
tie cracker, drawing a pair of sousors cJ
pocket, clipped off her flowing ‘ r ' c "I’ v-liet-
her hat, and went on her way rejoiomft , ^
ing that Solomon, in all his glory, was
so gorgeously arrayed. ' Our fair eque*
delighted with the adventure, toox ^
home and was aboat to braid |f >
horror, “she had borght more tha , ^
bargained for.” After shaking it well an ^
ing it up carefully in s napk n, she g
the cook and asked fear to bell i* wwt-j
to save time and trouble, threw it iat .. ini
then boiling that popular country “j 0 „ j#
and. turnips. Great was the ® 0DS " f«et w**
the household, after dinner, when {“ ^pri-
discovered. Cook wa» called »n to ** jj jyl
maud. But, after patiently tata«m\»
was to be said. Cool expressed the
vas all right, after alL The h
the pot well greased and ready **
ate use. Result—a tableau at » f
stersatiott. Details left to the imagii^u
tha reader.
* ■* v. bop* 8
The Meeting To-Dat.—it i* *° f pens-
there will be a general turn out to- 3 7 ^
oerats and Conservatives to etteo t ®
to be held at the City Hall, at U oC . ' ^
understand the objeot of the me ® ^ 0 f w
should feel the neoesity and importan . ^
present. We have not the
more, and hope that it is scpeifluow