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MACON. FEBRURAY 23, 1875
Tin; st. Louis Times says that the state
of General Frank Blair's health is such
that there is hardly a possibility of his
surviving until spring.
Retreat op To* Scott.—Colonel Tom
Scott has withdrawn his forces and aban
doned bin intention of making further ef
fort to secure a subsidy for the Texas
Pacific.
"We learn from Southwestern Georgia
that farmers aro not so backward in their
operations ns was generally supposed,
As a general thing, they are ready to
plant corn, and next week, if the weather
is favorable, will eee stirring times in
that line of business.
The message of the President on the
Arkansas question has brought the Troy
(N. Y.) Press to the following conclusion:
" Grant has shown his hand. His policy
is henceforth to be an irritating and ex
asperating one. He does not want peace,
he wants power, and means to have it at
any cost.
The arithmetic man of the Boston
Post says that, “of the seven daily papers
in New York that supported the Bepnb-
lican party when it came into power six
are now outspoken in their anti-Bepubli-
enn sentiments, and the seventh mani
fests a very weak attachment for the
party in power.
Jennie June writes that "Jay Gould
at one time offered a million of dollars
for the puxchaso of the Times, but Mr.
Jones, a good, clear-headed, business
man, with a natural pride in a paper
which no ha3 built up, told him money
would not buy it; that New York City
did not contain enough money to buy the
New York Times.
The Heathen Chinee has located in
Boston, and opened a laundry. He
washes a dozen pieces for eighty cents,
going for the clothes and returning them
the fourth day, as good as new. With
commendable deference to Puritan preju
dices, he announces tbRt there will be
"no washee on Sunday.”
Dr. Wilkes, in bis recent work on
physiology, remarks that "it is estimated
that the bones of every adult person re
quire to be fed with lime enough to make
a marble mantle every eight months.”
It will be perceived, therefore, that in
the course of about ten years each of us
eats three or four mantelpieces and a few
sets of front door etep3. It is awful to
think of the consequences if a man should
bo shut off from his supply of lime for a
■while and then should get loose in a cem
etery. An ordinary tombstone would
hardly be enough for a lunch for him.—
Philadelphia Bulletin.
In its money article of Saturday, the „„„ „
New_ York Tribune says that the leston en f orco an unconstitutional and oppres-
Au Bxtra Session.
There is great talk about an extra
session of tho Forty-fourth Congress.
It is said that the Eadical members are
Eo inexorably bent on crucify ng the
Southern States, that they will let most
of tho appropriation bills go by the
board, rather than risk the passage of a
einglo one of the measures designed to
crush out the constitutional rights and
liberties of the so-called reconstructed
States.
This may be true; but it is questiona
ble what Radicalism will gain by passing
these measures and then leaving the
question of pecuniary ways and means
to give them vitality to the forbear anee of
a Democratic House of Bepresentatives.
If the President is empowered to sus
pend tho habeas corpus and declave mar
tial law at his discretion, what sort of an
army appropriation bill, for example,
will the next House of Bepresentatives
be inclined to pass ? Certainly tbey will
not supply him with money to violate
the constitution and overthrow the pub
lic liberties.
Tho Constitution (section 0, article I.)
declares that “the privilege of the writ
of habeas corpus shall not be suspended,
unless when, in cases of rebellion or in
vasion, the public safety may require it.”
It is only in very great public, peril that
this writ may be suspended. A mere
state of war, unless accompanied by
actual invasion of the soil by a foreign
foe, will not justify the suspension; and
there most be actual rebellion against
the Government, threatening its author
ity and existence. The proposition of
Congress, therefore, to arm tho Presi
dent with power to suspend tho writ at
his discretion on no better apology than
the alleged existence of civil disturbances
and infractions of the rights of negroes*
is in flagrant contempt of this provision
of the Constitution, calling for the exer
cise of every legal measure of preven
tion ; and a Democratic House of Bepre
sentatives would be inexcusable if it
failed to interpose against the consum
mation of this deadly measure, every
lawful means of crippling the energies
of the Executive Department for the
work of destructive usurpation. There
should be no public money whatever to
be applied to this insane and destructive
purpose, which if persisted in by the
President, should be carried out only
by a mere plunder of the National
Treasury.
That this course will be actually taken
by the next Congress, if called into extra
session under the threatened contingency,
we do net doubt. It has long historical
precedent to sustain and approve it. It
has ever been an effective resort of the
British House of Commons to curb royal
encroachments on public liberty, and is a
recourse suggested and justified by the
very proprieties of the c-ase. It is a foul
wrong upon the people to apply their tax
money to the uses of their own oppres
sion and misgovernment, and the leg
islator who furnishes the material aid to
taught by the recent railroad war should
not be forgotten, to-wit: that the busi
ness necessary to make railroading profit
able does not at present exist, as may be
seen in the fact that even at the low
rate of 30 cent3 on grain from Chicago to
New York, the shipments from tho for
mer place have only averaged about one-
third of what they were one year ago at
the rato of 55 cents per 100 pounds;
while tho receipts at the same time of
wheat at Chicago have been less than
one-half of what they were last year.
The Third Term.—A "Western dis
patch from Eadical sources says the events
of tho last two weeks have developed a
strong feeling in favor of the third term.
Members of Congress who have hitherto
W.n opposed to the scheme, who hate
Grant, and wta have not sympathized
with him in the ring wbtoh ig working
or his renomination, now begin toconcedo
that a third term nomination is almost
inevitable. A leading Republican mem
ber of Congress from Pennsylvania says
that Grant has the whole thing in his
•wn hands, and that he is evidently
determined to play every card in his hand.
A correspondent wishes to know what
wo mean by tbo "conceit” of President
Grant that should be taken out of bim.
"Wo mean that ho has taken his own
course and the course of a paltry ring of
personal associates, upon the presump
tion that civil wisdom wo3 born in him,
when ha should have consulted men of
experience and information in pnblic af
fairs. £Ho has thrnst his worthless
relatives into oiHco and called about him
a very inferior class of men, because he
liod tho conceit that ho had saved the
country, and that his doty consisted in
indulging his caprices at the general ex
pense. And so he has squandered the
Louisiana Finch.
The Senate is in awful incubation on
the case of Pinch. It eat all Wednesday
night, and by noon dispatches yesterday
was still sitting, and had been sitting
twenty one hours. Tho occasion was
Pinch, and at half past nine yesterday
morning Pinch seemed to be in a pinch;
for Senator Edmunds (certainly one of
the most inexorable of the Badical Sena
tors) had moved to substitute for Mor
ton’s resolution seating Pinch, another
deolaring Louisiana without a Constitu
tional Government, and providing for a
new election throughout.
What will come of that we will not pre
tend to forecast; and how far in the in-
terests of peace we would be willing to
defraud the whites of Louisiana out of
rights and privileges fairly won in a law
ful election, wo are quite thankful we
have no call to decide. Certainly wo
should require their assent to a declara
tion of the forfeit, in respect to the
wretched cheats, usurpers and impostors
who are now riding on their necks.
inheritance of bis party, and is bringing
it down, beforo its time for gray hairs, in
sorrow to tho grave; and his trusted
counselors have no better remedy to offer
than to legalize the suspension of the
writ of habeas corpus.—Cincinnati Com
•mcrciaL
New Hack Sister in New York.—A
correspondent writes; "Ono of the new
institutions of New York is the Univer
sity hack establishment. It ho3 been
impossible for a long time to get a ride
in a coach in New York without paying a
largo price. For a short distance, $2; a
medium ride, $5; to the park, $10. The
new concern that I refer to has a great
quantity of cabs as elegant as private
turnouts. Tho price is $1 for any part
of tbo city. But the system is what co n-
mends it to public patronage. A cab can
be summoned from any hotel in tho city
at hour of tho day or night. The price
is no more at midnight than it is at
noonday; during a violent storm than it
is in sunshine. If a driver ia known to
chargo moro than the regalar fare ho ia
instantly dismissed. This is probably
the stopping stone to introducing the
cheap cab system of London into New
York.
Good.
We rojoice to seo that tho Senate has
refused to follow tho unwise lead of the
House in exempting $100 worth of pro
perty from its proper share of tho burden
of taxation. We condemned tho action
of the Speaker pro tem. in giving the
casting vote in favor of the exemption,
and wo have seen no reason to change
our views. His argument in justifica
tion of this vote, though quite able and
plausible, by no means satisfied us of
the correctness of hi3 position, and sub
sequent reflection has only strengthened
our convictions in that direction. It
may be a popular measure, but it is
neither a wise nor just ono. Wo are
gratified to seo our position so emphatl
cally endorsed by the Senate, and we
trust that body will adhere to its
■ition.
sive statute is as much particeps criminis
as he who votes for the statute.
The Forty-third Congress then must
pass tho supply bills to carry out these
legislative enormities, as well as tho
measures themselves. An extra session
of the Forty-fourth Congress will not arm
Grant for an invasion of the rights and
liberties of the people.
The Southern Oppression Bill.
The Herald special of Monday says the
opposition to extreme measures has con
siderably increased in tbo House since
the Arkansas message appeared. There
aro Bepublican members who favor
strong legislation, who yet are shocked
at the President’s tone and do not any
longer like to trust great and unlimited
powers in his hands. The Arkansas and
Louisiana Committee, when their reports
are discussed, will give occasion for the
utterance of feelings which have been
long pent up, and an attempt will be
made to rescue the Eepnbliean party from
the position in which the President has
placed it. "I for one,” said a Republi-
can yesterday in conversation, "am not
content to 6eo my party used as a tail to
tho President’s kite. Wo cannot afford
to go tho way ho is steering. The coun
try will not stand it.” Another said,
"bad as Andy Johnson was, he, at leas,
regarded Constitutional methods. -He
was a tiresome creature, with his Consti
tution, but he was safe. This man goes
the other way, and it is not a safe way.
We have gone far enough and wo ought
to tie up beforo the boat goes further,
for his drift is dangerous.” “I don’t
mind dying, but I don’t want to dio like
a dog in a ditch," said a life-long and
zealous Bepublican; "if the party has
done its work and must die, all right;
but I don’t like to see it go down dis
honored and stained.” Thera 13 a great
deal of private talk of this kind and the
opportunity is near at hand when it will
be beard openly on the floor of tho House.
It needs only a fair opportunity. If the
carpet-bag Republicans were ont of tho
way it is even possible that an attempt
would be made to repeal the Enforcement
acts, and it is certain that many Bepub-
licans would vote for such a repeal rather
than trust the President, in the absence
of Congress and with the temper he has
recently shown, with such powers as tho
caucus bill proposes, and as tho Arkansai
message shows that he wonld uso without
stint.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Last year was a terribly hard one on
tho steamship lines plying between New
York and various European ports. There
aro fourteen of them, and their total re
ceipts for the year were $30,153,885,
against $57,577,250 in 1873, showing a de
crease of $27,423,365. The quickest trip
during the year between New Yprk and
Queenstown, was made by tho "City of
Brussels,” of the Inman Line, in seven
days, twenty-two hours and three min
utes.
A fire at Savannah in a certain locality
known as "Frogtown,” Wednesday morn
ing, burned ten houses valued at about
$4,000. They were mostly owned and oc-
cuD ; ed by negroes.
The Savannah News says on Tuesday
morning "a committee of tho Board of
the Central railroad, equipped with a big
bag weighing abont ono hundred and
fifty pounds, and containing the fare bills
lately in circulation, proceeded in a phae
ton to the furnace at tho machine works
of tho company, and there consigned this
heavy representation of wealth to the
greedy flames.”
Biver Pirates at Savannah.—The
Advertiser of Wednesday, says :
About 2 o’clock yesterday morning, as
the ship Gen. Sheplev was lying moored
at tho lower (Tyler) cotton press, her
commander, Captain Hutchins, was dis
turbed in his sleep in his cabin by voices
alongside opposite. Leaving bis bunk
and going on deck, his attention was
drawn to a boat fast to his vessel con
taining loose cotton that shone snowy
even in the dim starlight. Walking to
the for’ard hatch, which had been broken
open,and looking down, be descried ,
man packing cotton in bags. He pounco a
upon the intruder, and capturing him by
presenting his Auger to his head like a
pistol, pulled him on deck and handcuff
ed him. It was subsequently ascertain
ed that two bales of cotton in the hold
had tie3 cut and bagging ripped off
preparatory to being moved. Tho pris
oner was securely kept until early yes
terday morning, when a warrant was
procured from Magistrate Abrams and
ho wa3 regularly taken into custody. Ho
gave his name as George Watkins. Tho
fellow offered the captain a hundred dol
lars to let him off and not prosecute him
and refused to implicate the other parties
engaged in the transaction. The cotton
stolen from the ship, in all amounting to
several bales, It is thonght has been
housed at a certain place on Hutchin
son’s Island, and was to have been moved
last night.
The Savannah Advertiser is of opinion
“that a healthy working Badical minority
is about the best thing we can have in
Georgia to keep our politics of the right
color.” But what is a “healthy” Badical
minority ? It seem3 to us there is a mis
nomer lurking around that word in con
nection with Radicalism in any shape.
The Chronicle and Sentinel has some
statistics about the five wealthiest coun
ties in tho State, which may bo of inter
est. The counties are Chatham, Fulton,
Richmond, Bibb and Muscogee. The
first comparison is in regard to the value
of city property, and the figures are from
the Comptroller General’s report. These
figures show that tho city properly of
Bibb has increased in value during the
past four years $395,000, or about 10 per
cent. The city of Chatham has de
creased $988,000, a loss of more than 7
per cent. Fulton shows an increase of
$1,225,000—a gain of nearly 12 per cent.
Muscogee shows an increase of $125,000,
a gain of little more than four per
cent. Richmond shows an increase
of $917,000, a gain of nearly fourteen
per cent. As to solvent notes and ac
counts, it is shown that they have de
creased in Bibb during four years $130,-
000, or 14 per cent. In Chatham there
has been a decrease of $573,000, or more
than 13 percent.; in Fulton an increase
of $1,008,000, or more than 60 per cent.;
in Muscogee there is an increase of $251,-
000, or over SO per cent.; in Richmond
there is an increase of $1,615,000, or
nearly 90 per cent. As to the value of
merchandize, there has been an increase
in Bibb of $20,000. In Chatham there
has been neither gain nor loss; in' Fal-
ton there has been a gain of $291,-
000; in Muscogee a I033 of $158,-
000, and in Richmond a gain of
$7,000. The value of stocks and bonds
is : Bibb, $265,000; Chatham, $979,000;
Fulton, $290,000; Muscogee, $177,900;
Richmond, $1,178,000. The value of Na
tional Bank stock is, in Bibb. $161,000;
in Chatham, $2,011,000; in Richmond,
$1,814,000. During the past four years
the aggregate value of the whole prop
erty in Bibb county ha3 increased $1,-
496,000, or more than 17 per cent. In
Chatham it has increased $S44,0Q0 or 4
per cent. In Fulton it has increased $3,-
962,000, or 24 per cent. In Muscogee it
has increased $429,000, or nearly 6 per
cent. In Richmond it has increased $2,-
526,000, or over 16 per cent.
The Chronicle and Sentinel says twen
ty-six execntion3 "representing four thou
sand one hundred dollars, were levied by
sheriff Sibley Tuesday morning upon lo-
motivo No. 8, R. E. Robbins, belonging
to tho Port Royal Railroad. Thi3 was
dono upon foreclosure of laborers’ liens,
as reported in the Chronicle and Sentinel,
of yesterday. The President of the road
afterwards gave a replevy bond, and the
locomotive was delivered over to tho com
pany, so a3 to take tho passenger train
out Tuesday evening. Wo learned yes
terday that tho compromise offered by
Mr. Thomas P. Braich, President of tho
company, was not accepted by counsel
for the employees. Meantime, the latter
arc at work as usual. A number of law
suits will probably grow out of the mat
ter.”
Charles H. Wilding, a Prussian by
birth, but for many years a citizen of
Columbus, where ho followed tho occu
pation of boot and shoemaker, was found
dead Tuesday morning near the intersec
tion of Franklin and Oglethorpe streets,
with fourteen stabs in his body. Peter
Finnegan was afterwards arrested and
confessed himself the perpetrator, hut
claimed that he acted in self-defence.
Fearful Mortality. — JNiw Athens
Watchman, referring to the recent small
pox scourge in one or two neighborhoods
in Clarke and Oglethorpo counties, says:
No new cases outside of families in
which it first broke out. There have
been twenty-two deaths altogether. It
is hoped that those still suffering will re
cover. This visitation has proved a fear
ful scourge to the neighborhood involved
—the mortality having been very unusu
al. There were, wo beliove, about fifty
cases. Twenty-two deaths out of that
number is certainly very remarkable.
We have heard a story as to its origin
which, if trne, should admonish all to bo
very careful about handling clothing be
longing to any cno affected with the dis
ease. It is said that a lady gave to a
negro woman an old dress which had
belonged to a relative afflicted with small
pox many years ago, and which had been
carefully washed several times. Tho
negro woman carried it to a white lady to
get it altered to tho present style, and
handling this old dress communicated the
disease! Not having been exposed to
small pox, no one dreamed that she hod
it, and consequently, her neighbors visit
ed her daring her illness and attended
her funeral in largo numbers after her
death; and this accounts for the rapid
spread of the disease.
Three old citizens of Gwinnett county,
Messrs. Joshua Hill, Frederick Hart and
Levi Deaton, died last week, all quite
suddenly. One of them was 102, and an
other 90 years of age. The latter had
lived in the same place seventy years.
The Hinesville Gazette says Mr. Law
rence Pearson, of Tatnall county, has
quite a number of banana trees bearing
fruit on his plantation near the month of
Ohoopie river.
The Rome Commercial says tho Rome
Bolling Hills will resume work next Mon
day. Also, that the'Messrs. Noble, pro
prietors, recently bought of the Georgia
Railway Company 350 tons of old iron,
consisting of car wheels, axles, etc.
The Fort Valley MTiTo-bas the follow
ing amount of a novel law case:
McArthur is a dealist, McGhee is a
faimer. They reside in Taylor county.
Mr. McArthur put in a set of teeth for
tho farmer, who paid him with a buggy
worth some twenty-live or thirty dollars
more than the bill, tho balance to be paid
in cash. The tooth carpenter failed to
pay the balance due, and returned the
good buggy and took another one which
he accepted as full payment fortbo debt.
McArtharusedthe buggy several months
before he returned it. Leaving Butler,
he went to Upson county and was fol
lowed by McGhee, who had him tried be
fore a country Magistrate for the rent of
the buggy, charging twenty-live cents
per day for the uso of the s*me. The
dentist plead a “set off,” by charging the
old farmer the 6aoie amount per day for
tho use of the teeth. The Magistrate
rendered his decision in favor of the de
fendant, and threw the plaintiff in allthe
costs of prosecution.
The House, says the Savannah News,
has passed a sort of diluted usury bill.
To be perfectly consistent now, the Leg
islature ought to re-enact the Ren law.
That is to say, having passed a law osten
sibly to prevent money lenders from
charging usurious rato3 of interest, they
ought now to pass a bill enabling plant
ers to buy suppUes at exorbitant prices
by mortgaging something which they
haven’t got. Which is usury and which
isn’t ?
Waeeseoeo claims a very remarkable
woman, and she belongs to a very re
markable and, wo may add, a very dan
gerous family—to marry into. She gave
birth to five children in ono year—triplets
in January and twins in December. Her
mother had previously given birth to
triplets, her sister is the mother of three
pairs of twins, and each of her two daugh
ters has given birth to triplets. The
times are really too hard for such foolish-
THE PRESIDENT AND THE FORCE
BILL.
lie Craves tbe Autocratic Power—If
Congress Refuses it lie May Take
It—Prospects of tbe Proposed Leg.
Illation.
Special Dispatch to tha Baltimore Sun.}
Washington, February 14.—Several
members of the select committee to in
vestigate the condition of affairs in Ala
bama, which has charge of the caucus
bill to regulate affairs in tho South, called
upon the President last night for tho pur
pose of ascertaining his views on the bill.
The President said the bill had his entire
approval, and he hoped i‘ would become
a law. This measure, or something like
it, was needed, a fact which he supposed
was as well known to the majority m
Congress as to himself. Some of tho gen
tlemen expressed a doubt a3 to the pas
sage of the bill, whereupon the President
said even if it passed tho House and
failed in the Senate, or could not com
mand a majority vote in either house, it
would do no harm to press it to a vote.
He believed the moral effect of the pas
sage of the bill would be so great at the
South as to dispense with all necessity
for executing its Drovisions. What the
lawless element of the South needed was
an indication of the determination of
Congress and tho Executive to repre33
lawlessness, to maintain order, and to
preserve life and property. The Presi
dent said, whether Congress passed any
measure with regard to the South or not,
he had determined to do his duty. He
did not court responsibility that properly
belonged to Congress, but as tho head of
tho government he would not shrink it.
If Congress adjourned without action it
would be a sort of encouragement for the
bad element of tho South to continue in
their present course, and it might become
necessary for him to proceed to greater
extremes than a mero suspension of the
habeas corpus. He would do what he
conceived to be bis duty at all hazards,
and then appeal to tho people to support
him.
Tho committee held a meeting yester
day, and agreed upon their report, which
thoy will present Tuesday or Wednesday.
The report concludes with the caucus
bill and a recommendation for its pass
age.
Gen. Butler stated yesterday that he
had grave doubts of the passage of the
bill, because, he added, there are so many
weak kneed Republicans in Congress.
Although ho was not present at the cau
cus, ho will support the bill. General
Coburn, the chairman of tho committee
which has charge of tho measure, is con
fident that the bill will pass. This is
also tho opinion of Gen. Albright, of
Pennsylvania, another member of the
committee, though they have not made a
canvass of the House.
Plain Talk from an “Organ.”
The Chicago Tribune (Republican) is
pointed and severe in its comments upon
tho President’s message on Arkansas af
fairs. It says the defects alleged in the
Arkansas constitution aro “ neither grave
or vital,” and adds:
“ Tho instrument was ratified by the
peoplo. Now it is the judgment of the
highest authorities on constitutional law
in this country that such a ratification
cures all defects. Judge Jameson haB
shown, in his work on constitutional
conventions, that scarcely any such con
vention has ever been held in precise
accordance with legal forms. In nearly
every ease there have been somo irregu
larities or defects, bnt popular ratifica
tion has cuted them all. If we apply
this sound doctrine in Arkansas, every
excuse for interference fails. Tho State
has tho Republican form of government
guaranteed by tho constitution of tho
nation. Governor Garland finds no ono
to dispute his authority at homo. Only
a few carpet-baggers oppose him at
Washington. Tho laws are in force.
Tho judiciary is firmly established.
Peace and quiet reign over the State for
the first time since 1861. Tho de facto
government is also de jure, as wo have
shown. It is a fait accompli. It has
possession. It is respected by tho ma
jority and obeyed by all. Interference
with it would be a blunder or worse.
Moreover, we have ono “ hell ” on our
hands in the South already. This is tho
limit demanded by the most orthodox
creed. Louisiana is enough. Aro wo to
organize another “ hell ” in Arkansas for
the sake of a crowd of carpet-baggers ?
Let us keep our hands off. Perpetual
meddling will only make matters worse.
Arkansas is getting along remarkably
well, and tho executive authorities at
Washington had better let well enough
alone.”
The Potomac a Sheet of Ice.—The
Washington Chronicle of Monday says :
Tho ice blockade on the Potomac still
remains intact, and will probably con
tinue so for many days, for the ice extends
from Williamsport, whore it has covered
tho river for a month, to a point as far
down as intelligence has been received—
not floating ice, but ono solid, compact
and unbroken sheet, reaching from shore
to shore, and varying in thickness from
six to fourteen inches; some of tho blocks
cut from the docks equaling in size those
brought from Boston. Tho surface of the
river is dotted all day by people who
have been walking and Bkating upon it,
and who pass across tho channel with as
much impunity as if they were walking
on solid ground. Hundreds have crossed
and returned, on the icy bridge, and
many persons, who lire along toe river’s
banks miles below the District Rne, and
whoso business or pleasure induces them
to como here, use the hardened surface of
too water as their road.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Na croNAL Hotel. )
Atlanta, February 18,1875. J
THE HOMESTEAD IN THE HOUSE.
In the afternoon session yesterday, toe
House reduced the present homestead to
$700, specie value, by a vote of 107 to 49.
Members say, toe bill will pass also
without doubt in the Senate.
All honor to tho people’s representa
tives for this initiatoiy movement in the
direction of reform. It is the entering
wedge, we trust, which will rend in frag
ments the several iniquitous provisions
that disgrace our present Constitution.
True, it is but toe beginning of the tedi
ous formula which must be undergone
ere any constitutional change can bo ef
fected, yet it is a substantial beginning,
and will do much to satisfy the peoplo
for the loss of the Stato Convention bill.
ATLANTA ANTAGONISM,
too, will now disappear, and to forever as
she thinks estop the revival of that
measure, all the weight of her influence
will probably be given henceforward to
correct, and extirpate the few grave de
fects in the fundamental law.
With toe Argns eye of Grant upon ns,
perhaps it was best not to press a Con
vention at present, or afford even the
slightest pretext for his interference with
toe local government of Georgia.
En passant, we are glad to chronicle
that the chairman of the appropriate
committee, to whom was referred the
preposterous joint resolution of Senator
Arnow, have agreed to recommend that
"it do not pass.” So will that witless
fulmination die, even in its first incipi-
ency. ,<
THE GOVERNOR AND THE STATE UNIVER
SITY.
His Excellency Gov. Smith is by no
means wedded to the plan submitted for
tho reduction in number, and change as
to the manner of appointing the Board of
Trustees. His main object was simply to
call attention to the subject, from the
fact that too great size of tho Board
forces many members to absent them
selves from it3 regular meetings, and di
vides thoir responsibility too much. No
thing more will probably ever come of
the movement.
THAT HAN OF DESTINY,
ex-Gov. Brown, killed it with a single
blow. Though out of politics, and busily
engaged in other pursuits, this wonder
fully sagacious individual yet retains a
most astonishing hold upon the people.
Resolute, wiso and indefatigable, opposi
tion seems to vanish before his every
movement. The ex-Govemor is trne as
steel now in his political opinions, and in
tho councils of the nation, at this emer
gency, his voice would be potent indeed.
Those who exclaim against this remark,
and lift up their hands in holy horror, are
simply reminded that there is
NOT A LIVING POLITICIAN
in the country of twenty years’ expert
once, who has not changed his base more
than once.
Even the Democratic Toombs began
one of his cataract-like harangues before
the Madison convention in 1844, with the
characteristic objurgation, " Stand aside
and let me have at the Democratic rascals.”
Colquitt, Cooper and Black deserted
their party. So also did John Tyler, An
dy Johnson, A. Q. Stephens, B. H. Hill
and hundreds of others who have always
been esteemed good and great.
Let the "dead past bury its dead.”
Everything mortal and political is in a
constant stato of transition, and we deal
with the opinions and events of to-day
only. Therefore, though Gov. Brown
desires no office, and is not recommended
for any by the writer, still his reasoning
applies with equal force to
HON. B. H. HILL,
who would bo willing to serve tho Stato
at Washington. By all means, we say
to our friends of the "Ninth,” don’t
bide such a brilliant light under a bushel,
but place it on a pedestal in the Federal
capital.
- Thus far four counties have declared
unanimously for him, and private advices
state that two-thirds of tho others will
follow suit. The question of his eligibil-
ity has been satisfactorily ascertained,
and no impediment exists to toe election
of tho distinguished gentleman if tho
peoplo will it. With “Andy” in the
Senate, and “Ben” in the House, won’t
tho Radicals have a lively timo when
they begin their deviltry again ?
A MODEL LEGISLATOR.
In reply to too very forcible and
capital speech of Senator Kibbce yester
day, in'favor of exempting certain State
bonds from taxation, his talented brother
McDaniel, from tho Twenty-seventh Dis
trict, said, among other pertinent
things—and it camo from him, owing to
his infirmity—in spasmodic and emphatic
jerks—“I n-never b-b-borrowed a cent
in my life, and I never will; nor should
toe State do so, save in the greatest
emergency.” He thought neither bonds
or anything else should bo exempted.
To tax these Stato securities, however,
would bo
"ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL,”
as the avails of tho tax would be more
than counterbalanced by the consequent
diminished market value of tho bonds.
Mr. McDaniel is a gentleman of decided
ability and spotless integrity, and makes
a most admirable member.
COMPTROLLER GENERAL GOLDSMITH.
The chairman of tho Financo Commit-
too pay3 a most deserved tribute to the
industry, fidelity and skill displayed by
thi3 official, in the management of his
complex and laborious department.
He says, in concluding his report, “The
efficiency of the Comptroller General, W.
L. Goldsmith, and the faithful discharge
of his official duties, commend him to the
confidence and gratitudo of tho people of
the State.” It is very pleasant to place
such instances on record in these demor
alized times.
We are gratified to state the Bibb del
egation wero a unit in faTor of the lien
bill, and Mr. Craig, though modest and
unobtrusive, makes a sensible and excel
lent representative.
IT IS DUE TO GATT. BACON
also, to mention that his negative vote on
the homestead exemption, in no sense re
flects his opinions upon the propriety of
that provision in toe Constitution. The
question.of expediency at this particular
juncture, growing out of the possible
effect upon the elections of 1876 by the
proposed reduction, alone determined his
vote. A truer man to toe country, or
moro potential champion against Radi
calism in all it3 phases, homestead or
otherwise, does not exist in the State.
Of him it can bo said (and to his honor
be it spoken) that not one day has he ever
been absent from hi3 scat, in all hi3 legis
lative career.
THE SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATIONAL BILL.
This measure, of which School Com
missioner Orr is the father, thou gh lost by a
small majority in tho House yesterday,
was almost unanimously reconsidered this
morning.
Speaker Hardeman vacated the chair;
and delivered a powerful and most ad
mirable speech in it3 behalf. It was a
genuine Hardeman effort, which i3 com
pliment sufficient. The unanimity dis
played in the vote for reconsideration,
grew out of the fact that the act will be
made operative only upon such counties
a3 agree to its provisions.
The Commissioner thinks if the bill be
comes a law, as it surely ought, and prob
ably will, that not less than fifty or sixty
counties will go to work under it. It
provides, in brief, as follows : In addition
to toe poll tax and revenues under toe
present law, to make the free school sys
tem really effective, every county through
its local commissioners is allowed
TO LEVY A SUPPLEMENTAL TAX,
provided in all cases a majority of two-
thirds of toe voters sanction it. This large
majority is required as an adequate pro
tection to the whites. • In tho matter of
high-schools, each district shall peas upon
their establishment in like manner,and by
a similar vote assess tho amount of tax
required for their support. Schoolhouses,
too, when not elected by voluutary con
tributions, can only be constructed by
special tax when two-thirds of the voting
population concur. Mr. Orr has labored
like a bea ver for the pa3-age of this bill,
and it is befieved that all of the counties
will soon avail themselves of its salutary
provisions.
LEGISLATIVE ACTION TO- DAT
Up to this hour (1 p. m.) toe House,
besides reconsidering the educational bill,
passed Dr. Carlton’s Agricultural College
bill, which was defeated, and then recon
sidered yesterday.
The act gives $3,000 to the Dahlonega
Agricultural branch of the University
forthwith, and $5,000 for three years to
toe parent agricultural college attached
to the University at Athens.
ANOTHER LIQUOR BILL,
passed th*s time for forty counties (not
the local option measure), which requires
the consent of iwo-lhirds of the voters re
siding within three miles of any whisky
mill to render the traffic legal. Now is
toe time for toe wives of drunken hus
bands to show their electioneering skill.
Drive tho maudlin vagabonds at too end
of your broomsticks to the polls, and
make them vote no.
In the Senate,tos morning was devoted
to the reading of House bills. Nothing
of importance transpired. This branch
of the General Assembly being fewer in
number, and more manageable, is at tbe
present date fully up with its docket, and
will be ready to adjourn when the forty
days expire. Tho admirable manner in
which President Simmons dispatches
business has contributed also no little to
this result.
FROH WASHINGTON.
at their hands. To. Mr. McL. we are in- I
deb. ioi* very special favors.
On board wasa^oasaat'ana intelli-1 ^ ^n(^ack a«^ 9t Sf Ct
£2 who°have I
vast forests of the far distant frontier
State of Maine.
This individual gave an account of a
mill on tho Kennebec river which iun3
four gangs of saws, and cuts 500,000 feet
of lumber every day.
No wonder that company is on the ram-
page for more timber, and have just pur
chased a principality of land in Virginia
atfjty cents per acre, and are now pros
pecting around Pensacola, detcimined, if
possible, to gobble up tbo wbole Stato of
Florida.
Moral. — Let Georgia husband, and
jealously preserve her boundless forests
of yellow pine. The time is near at hand
when they will be more valuable than tho
gold mines of California. Houses and
ships must be built while “grass grows
and water runs,” and onr Southern for
ests will soon bo almost the only resource
on this continent.
A TRUE STATESMAN.
Chatham, as well as Bibb county, has
just causo to bo proud of her delegation.
Senator Lester is a man of mark and
great influence in the body of which ho
is a member. In toe House too, Lawton,
Thomas, and the genial Warren, who is
always willing to take* the back track
when he thinks he is wrong, and says an
"honest confession is good for the soul,'"
are representative men in eveiy sense of
the word.
To Dr. Thomas too people will owe a
lasting debt of gratitude, if his State
board of health measure, which has
passed the House by a band some majori
ty becomes a law. The Doctor has de
voted all his energies to this object, which
is really the most beneficent project that
has been presented in either House. He
is a forcible and eloquent speaker, and
his utterances carry great weight with
them. The bill will doubtless pas3 the
Senate also, unless the members are too
economical even to provide for toe
hygienic wants of their constituents. But
to Gen. A. R. Lawton, we think toe palm
for good statesmanship ought to be
awarded in the present Legislature. This
EX-qUARTERMASTER GENERAL
and hero in too Confederate service, who,
now, as in former years, occupies the re
sponsible position of Chairman of the
Judiciary Committee in the House, has
himself introduced but three bills during
the present session; less than the num
ber presented by the most obscure rural
member of that branch of the govern
ment. But in his official capacity he has
acted upon more than three hundred, and
in every possible instance ignored them.
His motto is, that too true aim of toe
statesman should be to
PREVENT LEGISLATION
whenever legislation can be avoided.
These words should be inscribed in let
ters of gold on the wall above toe chairs
of the presiding officers of the General
Assembly.
The friends of General Lawton will be
sorry to learn that he i3 at present suffer
ing from a severe cold and sore throat,
which are almost epidemic in this rough
climate.
The House is now holding three ses
sions a day, and by tho aid of the previ
ous question, and refusing to call the
yeas and nays, is getting through its vast
accumulation of business with commend
able celerity. It is now thought that the
session will be prolonged only for a few
days, and that tbo Legislature will be
able to adjourn too latter part of next
week. Amen to that proposition.
MACON AND BRUNSWICK RAILROAD.
Nothing has been done respecting this
road so far, save to guarantee the Jenkins
bonds and repudiate toe $600,000 bogus
bonds issued by the thieving Bollock.
The general impression is that it will be
again placed npon toe market for sale.
A GENIAL SON OF ERIN.
Accompanied by a brother editor, at the
invitation of that whole-souled, talented,
and jovial Irishman, Hon. O. A. Loch-
rane, we paid a visit to his office, and
were regaled not only with “old port”
and "mountain dew,” but listened to a
succession of acecdoto3 and humorous
speeches from this versatile genius,
which would have made an anchorite re
nounce his vows and laugh outright.
Fortunately, his elegant lady made ono of
the party,so of course toe "proprieties”and
the best of order prevailed. "With charm
ing naivete, the excellent woman remarked
that she was "exceedingly fond of the
Irish.” Ought not her liege lord to be
stow a diamond necklace npon that loyal
wife for this soothing utterance ?
BRIDGING THE CHASM.
A little dinner party accomplished this
herculean task for better than Horace
Greeloy was ever able to do it.
The dramatis persona; were Major Al
fred Calhoun, editor of the Columbus
Sun-Enfuirer, who enacted tho part of
host, and though formerly a Federal
officer, and wounded no less than six
times at Jonesboro, is to-day wielding a
trenchant pen in behalf of the South,
and besides, is the prince of clever fel
lows and a perfect gentleman. The
next in that little coterie was Major-
General Charles H. Field, of Long-
street’s Corp3, who commanded Tigo
Anderson’s and Benning’s Georgia Bri
gades, and two others from Alabama
and Texas, respectively. Then camo
GEN. WILLIAM S. WALKER,
who led a division of Georgia and South
Carolina troops on the Carolina coast,
and afterwards did gallant service in Pe
tersburg at toe head of Evans’ South
Carolina brigade. Last, and not worth
mentioning, wa3 your humble servant
and correspondent.
There was undoubtedly a “feast of rea
son and flow of soul,” but trine had noth
ing to do with it. Albeit.Modam Cliqaot
was on hand, with all her exhilarating
and mantling charms. No. It was a
simple reunhJh of true hearte who re
joiced thu3 to bury the hatchet, and in
augurate the feign of peace and good will.
It would bo a breach of confidence to re
peat the bon tnot3 and capital things
which emanated in turn from the “blue”
and "gray,” and wo simply conclude this
notice of that modest banquet at tho Na
tional Hotel, with the remark that we
wish Grant’s Louisiana Congressional
Committee had been there to take notes.
F2ES0NAL.
Our fair city 13 represented hero by two
learned limb3 of the Jaw in tho persons
of Col. E. F. Best and Jame3 T. Nisbet,
Esq., both clever gentlemen, and dis
posed to do as little mischief as the letter
of toe law will allow. But alas! there
is no end to the.latitudc of the legal stat
utes. Slake all you can, get all you can,
and if tho worst comes to tho worst go
into chancery and "peg away” forever, is
the common rule, and ho who violates
the divine injunction and embarks on
tbe sea of litigation, must tako the
chances of shipwreck. Yet when a fel
low is in trouble, how he doe3 hunt up
his lawyer, and hang upon his utterances
like a maiden upon the fond blarney of
her lover.
Gentlemen, pray listen. Wo have no
quarrel with you. AU we ask, is, that the
millennium may come soon, when the
lion and the lamb shall lie down together,
and Othello’s (the lawyers’) occupation
will be no more.
HOMEWARD BOUND.
We are again afloat on toe rail (exause
the misnomer), and streaking it for the
Central City, under the kindly care of
conductor T. C. McLendon, one of the
most obliging and gentlemanly officials
in the world. Indeed, all of the officers
of tbe Central Railroad are courteous
men, and no passenger suffers for aught
H. H. J. AND THE ATLANTA PRESS.
That incorrigible wag and marplot,
Abrams, goes for the unfortunate writer
this morning in this style:
“‘H H. J’ has been writing to tho
Macon Telegraph and Messenger about
the Atlanta papers. If brother Clisby
does not hear from Jones during the next
few days, he can come on to this city and
weep over bis remains, as last night all
toe editors in town wero arming with the
avowed purpose of slaying him.”
This is certainly a big joke. Our At
lanta friends are given to joking Thus
the News says to the General Assembly,
’’adjourn and go home,” when it would
Coming SlrurslKi,, ,: a
Civil KlBhts - th *
maty ana Financial CeglsiiJlo' 0 '
Tlie Pi esidcnt Bobbins Aro.,,, dl t n ~
Specjul Dispatch to tho Baltimore Sun/] tC
THE DISTRICT BILL.
atstssrjssgSi
Senator Morrill now says that he intend
to make another effort to obtain acb™
°? the b * U \ but there is no rL oa T
change tbe belief that there is nc l^
pect for its passage at this session,
Morton s motion to proceed with the ‘
CASE OF PINCHBACK
wa3 adopted. Mr Sargent, of Californh
who obtained tho floor, made a
loil speech, in which he demonstrated
that no one caneicelhim in d-nun
tiou of the Southern people, or in suS'
viency and approval of what tho PrrS'
dent ha3 done, or may do, concernin'*'
Louisiana or any other of the Southern
States. He had not one word to
about Pinchback, but left no doubt of hn
Governor Morton hss
given notice that to-morrow no intend
to commence “ as
THE “SITTING OUT” PROCESS,
but he may, perhaps, be induced to
defer this till the next day, in conse?
qucnce of the funeral services, which ars
to take place over the remains of Mr
Hooper in tho House. After to-morrow
the Senate will commence its daily ae--
sions an hour earlier. If the Prachbacli
matter is to be proceeded with, an aimed
dry up their pap and break tho heart of I s f™ a of the Senate may be
the concern'if they did. The Constitution ! AT , tbe 4th of
talks like the Delphic oracle, and seems £*
happy in the grandiferous results of their
transparent lottery. This every one
knows is a stupendous joke. So also the
Herald, in the face of the bailiff’s staff,
and the menaces of an ex-Senator and
valiant Confederate General, says it has
the "largest circulation,” ergo, i3 the
most prosperous journal in Georgia. Now
this is a jest too obvious to be pointed out.
Well, brethren, "pitch in” and let us
have fun _ We always did admire Fal-
staff and his men “in buckram, and re
gard that lover of “sack” a3 toe proto-
type of tniifions. Brag on, nobody is
hurt, nobody deceived You really are
clever fellows, and we will help to blow
your trumpet if you will only take the in
strument from your lips a second, to allow
us a chance to do so.
As for that "arming,” it didn’t scare
the writer “worth a cent.” Not even the
"double bairel” of our irate (in a horn)
contempotary can shake our nerves. And
if one of the editors and correspond
ent of the Telegraph had encountered
the armed host of the Atlanta press men,
he would at least have "died game.”
Alas that neither time or space will
permit him to relate anything more of
what he saw in the trip from Atlanta to
Macon. Good-bye. H. H. J.
The Jndi.
ciary Committee reported back this after
noon
on
Democratic Congressmen
State Conventions.
Western Press dispatches of Tuesday
say there have been general consultations
of late among Democrats in both houses
upon the expediency of Southern States
calling conventions to change their con
stitutions, and it has been agreed, with
much unanimity, to discountenance such
conventions. The question first came
from Georgia some weeks ago, and Sena
tor Gordon wrote strongly deprecating
toe movement. Not long since there was
a conference at Raleigh of a number of
the most prominent Conservatives in
North Carolina, upon the propriety of
calling a convention. The . matter was
referred to Senator Ransom, and he con
sulted with Democrats freely in both
houses, and wrote back that the entire
body of Conservatives here were opposed
to the holding of such conventions now,
in any part of the South. Within a few
days toe Texas Legislature has consulted
delegation toe of that State here upon
the same snbject. There was a reply sent
to-day, signed by the whole delegation, •
urging that no step be taken to call a
convention. Tho objects of these conven
tions, as stated to the Southern members
here, was not to change those portions of
the constitutions relating to questions of
toe present government, or those grow
ing out of tho war, but the replies, in all
cases, were that no matter what the rea
sons were, it was altogether inexpedient
at the present time to call constitutional
conventions for any purpose whatever.
THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL,
and Mr. Edmunds announced that ho
would call it up at the first opportunity.
There is no doubt that the entire Uadi-*
cal strength of the Senate will stand by
the bill, and an all night session is cer
tain to ensue npon it.
The President was at the capitol again
to-day, and sent for Senator Edmunds,
tho chairman of the Judiciary Commit
tee. He urged upon Mr. Edmunds that
the civil rights bill should bo passed with
the least possible delay, and that Sena-
tor assured toe President that nothing
should be wanting on his part to carry
out his wishes.
The Democratic Senators will oppo;o
this _ bill with as much vigor and more
obstinacy than at the last session, but if
tbey do not persist in the fight it will
most certainly eo through the Senate
and r.-ceive toe President’s approval be
fore the 4tn of March. It has not yet
been developed whether the Radical ma
jority m the Senate will hold on to the
partisan matters to the exclusion of tha
appropriation bills, or proceed with tho
latter as soon as they 'are ready to be
considered. Some of toe extreme Radi
cals are in favor of
Ife-Enactment of the Lien Law
We find in tho Atlanta News, of Wed
nesday, the yeas and nays on the indef-
inate postponement of the bill to re-en-
art the lien law:
Nays—Messrs. Atkinson, Anthony, Ba
con of Bibb, Bacon of Liberty, Black,
Battle, Bennett, Binion, Carter of Ap
pling, Carter of Walton, Craig of White,
Camp. Carlefcon of Clarke, Ciymes, Cal
houn of Fulton, Cobb, Candler, Clements
of Irwin, Qhristian, Clarke, Duncan,
Davis, Eakes, Fannin, Fain, GlisBon,
Gray,.Graham of Dade, Graham of Tel
fair, Grimes of Muscogee, Hamilton of
Clinch, Hamilton of Floyd, Holland,
Hutehinson, Hutchins, Harroll, Hender
son, Jamison, Jones of Burke, Jones of
Rabun, Kennedy of Emanuel. Kilpatrick,
Lawton. Little, Leverott, McKinley, Max
well, McGill, Mattox, Moss, Miller of
Marion, Marshall, Neal, Pierce, Parker,
Peden, Pitman, Shewmake, Sharpe, Saun
ders, Stallings, Smith of Dawson, Skel
ton, Spinks, Stewart of Rockdale, Searcy,
Speer, Simpson, Terrell, Turner of Brooks,
Turner of Floyd, Thomason, Tumlin,
Tootle, Wilcoxon, Ware, Winn, Warner,
Wofford, Barnwell.
Nays—Messrs. Anderson of Cobb, Ad
ams, Allred, Asbury, Alderman, Baker,
Brown, Battle, Blue, Beall, Craig of Bibb,
Carleton of Greene, Calhoun of Mont
gomery, Culver, Clements of Whitfield,
Chappell, Dugger, Duggan, Dyer, Duke,
Fredrick, Furlow, Fickling, Fort, George,
Grimes of Miller, Hoge, Harrison, Ham
mond, Jones, of Crawford, Kennedy of
Bullock, King, Lang, Lindley, Leach,
Lane, Livingston, Mathews, McAfee,
Meadors, Miller of Ware, Nelms, Padget,
Peeples, Potts, Phinazee, Patton, Rankin,
Ridley, Shellnut, Smith of Lowndes,
Smith of Webster, Simmons, Scott, Shar-
man, Turnbull, Warren, Whittle, Wilson
of Fulton, Wilcox, Winningham, West
brook, Wessolowsky, Wiloher, Wimberly,
Willis of Greene, Willis of Macon, Walsh,
Walton, Worther.
Got Its Back Up.
From the New York Tribune.]
The President has succeeded in reviv
ing the third term discussion with great
er animation than ever, but it is an ani
mation which will not help him. His
Arkansas message has convinced all
doubters that he is willing to resort even
to desperate means to secure his ends,
and from ono end of tho country to the
other there is a sterner attitude toward
him than has ever been exhibited before.
It takes the American people a long time
to get ite back up, but when it once does
get it np, woo unto that man who caused
toe elevation. The President has started
the erection; if he continues his present
course it will proceed with such rapidity
a3 to give him too worst shaking up of
his life.
A nine hundred and ninoty-nine years’
lease has just run out in England, and
the estate has reverted to toe representa
tives of the original pwners. The land ia
at Woolwich, and was church property
one thousand years ago, bnt was leased to
toe Crown for military purposes.
LETTING THE APPROPRIATION RILLS GO,
and devoting the rest of the session to
getting through their political schemes.
They say that the President can call the
new Congress together at once, and that
the Democratic House wonld not dare to
incur toe responsibility of refusing the
necessary appropriations to carry on tho-
government. The Committee on Appro
priations of toe two houses are, kowever,
not inclined to let their bills go by de
fault. The Indian appropriation bill, as
amended by the Senate Committee on
Appropriations, is now on the table, and
a motion to proceed with it will be made
in a day or two, when the majority wilt
then be called upon to show their hand.
Tbe question of the
RECOGNITION OF THE KELLOGG GOVERN
MENT
by the Senate is involved in tbe reso
lution for toe admission of Pinchback.
The President had also some conver
sation with Mr. Edmonds on this mat
ter to-day. The President also sent for
Representatives Hoar and Frye, who re
mained with him for some time. He de
sired to ascertain for himself what vieiM
they had formed during their investiga
tion in Louisiana, and impressed upon
them hi3 opinion as to what was proper
to bo done in toe premises. It is thought
by toe Kellogg party that he found more
willing listeners in Messrs. Hoar and
Frye than in the members of the Arkan*
sas committee, when reasoning with them
m advance of toe preparation of their re
port.
The Louisiana Reports.
From the N. Y. Herald, 17th iust.1
While awaiting the official report of
that part of the committee of Congress
which was last in New Orleans the public
will be glad to learn from an authentic
source what view is taken of the evidence
by the Louisiana Conservatives. This
rational curiosity will be satisfied by the
letter which we print this morning from
Mr. Zacharie, who served as chairman of
toe Conservative committee beforo tho
Returning Board, and also before both of
the sab-committees of investigation. Eo
other gentleman on toe Conservatito
side has had Buch opportunities to he
perfectly well informed, or can speak
with so much authority as a representa
tive of that side. Mr. Zacharie’s clear
statement will assist the public judgment
in its estimate of the forthcoming official
report. We will refer particularly to
only two or three of bis points, which vo
prefer to notice in a different order from
that in which they stand in his letter. <
We first <mll attention to $Ir. Zacharie’s
statement as to General Sheridan’s parti
cipation in the events of January 4, when
the five Conservative members were
dragged ont of the Legislature. General
Badger, toe Superintendent of Police,
testified on cross-examination that Sheri
dan, through Emory, by means of the po 1
lice telegraph, gave the orders and in
structions on which De Trobriaud acted
on that occasion. This testimony, if true,
proves that President Grant was either
insincere or misinformed in that part o.
his Louisiana message where ho stated
that Sheridan had nothing to do with the
transactions of the day. Mr. Zacharie
asserts-that a strong effort was made to
induce the last sub-committee to tale
testimony on this point and that they rc-
fused, by a tie vote, to go into the inves
tigation. Theca is really no point oa
which it was more important to learn the
truth, Dut the friends of Grant ar.d Sher
idan on the committee were too wary
take too risk of bringing out awkward
facta. ■
Another striking point in Mr.Zachriee
letter relates to the charge of intitni^ -
tion in the election of 1874. He declares
that there were no other evidence to sty’
port toe charge than mere impression
and hearsay by persons who were either
State officers under Kellogg or Federsj
officers under Grant. Finding facts scarce
they fell back upon the Colfax and Cox-
shatta massacres, trying to make oat tj
inference from those horrors that tu e J
must have had an intimidating effect os
black voters. Mr. Zacharie explodes tto
inference by showing that more blta***
than whites were registered and voted
proportion to their respective numb*--’
as given by toe census, in toe parish*
where Colfax and Coushatta are situate*--
"If the civil righto bill becomes a law,”
said a gentleman, Saturday, "I, who
never voted any other than the straight-
est Republican ticket, will never vote
that ticket again." "Count me in with
you,” said another Republican.—Pennsyl
vania Miners’ Journal.
The Tote In the Senate on Exempt!*
We find in toe Atlanta News the
and nays on toe motion by Senator G- -
more, of toe Sandersville district, to - f
on the table the House bill GX8inptj®j
$100 worth of personal property*^:.,
taxation. The record stands as loll* ’
Yeas—Messrs. Arnow, Black, b >
Cannon, Crawford, Deadwiler,
Felton, Gilmoro. Hester, Hopps. Bo ,
Hudson of the Twenty-fifto, Kudaono
the Twenty-eighth, Kikbee, EnigW,
ter, McDaniel. McDonald, O'D^.
Peavy. Perry, Rutherford, Slaughter ar
Wofford—25. „ , £r .
Nays — Messrs. Brimberry, C*-
Chastain, Freeman, Graham, Matt ,
Mattox. McAfee of the Thirty-sag
McAfee of the Thirty-ninth, Pejns, iw
inscat, Wilcox and Wileon—M.