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The Telegraph and Messenger
MACON, GA., JUNE. 17 1879.
—Advioes from Vermont and New Hamp
shire show heavy frost Saturday n'ght, with
mu ah damage to crop3.
—Senator Thurman, it Is said, is probably
the moet acoompliehed scholar now in Com
gross. Hs delights in literature, and man
ages to keep pace with current publications.
—The first important shipment of gold
from ttffi oonatry to Europe, since the r
sumption of specie payments, took plaoe
Wednesday, when $25),0C0 was sent out by
the steamer Algeria.
—Qreat 'excitement is ciuscd in French
and Dutch Guiana by extraordinary finds of
gold lately, and a deposit of lead and silver
has been discoverel on the Thames River,
New Zealand.
—The Bismarck cf to-day Is certainly not
a handsome man. Ho is so fat as to be metre
unwieldy than ever; he has a puffy and un
healthy look, and his appetite hesitates
never. Bread and cheese and beer are said
to be what he especially likes.
—‘I want to see the Princess,’ said an old
woman at Kingston, aa the vlceregil party
entered their carriages. ‘Here aheis—take
a good look at her,’ said His Excellency,
giving hi* wife by the shonller and drawing
her forward, amid cheers and laughter.
—It is reported that the belles of the pre
sent season in London are Lady Lonsdale,
Lady Mandeville, and Mrs. Paget, the last
two Americans and all three married ladies.
The girls of the - period are to be.pit!
^^[^kftsn^ , their # charmer*the young
frisky matrons oorry all before them.
—Of eleven female candidates who pre
sented themselves for the first examination
for the degrees of the University of London,
six were placed In the honors division, four
were declared entitled to exhibition, and
one was second In the whole list Of candi
dates. The standard of the London Uniter
sity is a very high one.
—Prinoe Napoleon Jerome Bonaparte has
a veritable museum of Napoleonic relies.
There is tho sabre worn by the great Emperor
at the battle of Marengo, a silver dreetiag-
oate which he gave to King Jerome, the lit
tle three-cornered hat, and the field glass
with which ha watchod his battles.
—Fohr hundred thousand persons, accor
ding to the Bailway World, are employed on
the railroads In this country, and five times
as many depend upon the roads for support,
{t to also estimated that between $330,000,-
000 and $403,000,(00 tie annually paid to
employes and to persons who famish the
companies with supplies of various kinds.
E—The Immigrant arrivals at Oaatle Garden,
New York, are as la’geas at any time in our
history, If not larger. Each successive week
they grow larger. Last week they exceeded
eight thousand, and the prospects are that
the current wogkwiD foot up an even larger
total. 2
—Cetawayo is determined to give the Brit
ish the trouble cf another campaign rather
than Surrender unconditionally. The Brit
ish wisely think it beat to administers
thorough and final chastisement. A policy
Involving a single concession to stvages al
ways cost more in the long run than to
carry s war once begun to euccessfal termi
nation.
—Beaton is now being paved with the
aonhaltte-li* in dace of Other paving mite-
and is five inches deep and four inches square
superficially. Its base is pulverized lime
stone, which is cemented by aephaltum and
crude petroieom. The blocke are struck out
by s steam press, and each block baa s p-os-
sure of fifty tons.
—Ibto the Omo Elxctios the Washing
ton correspondent cf tbe Baltimore Sun
says from information received here it is
learned that with very few. exceptions the
German Democratic press, not only of Ohio,
but of tbe whole county, brva declared
against Swing on account of his greenback
ideas. If Mr. Ewing does not get tbe Gor
man Demoorstio vote ho stands li'tleshow
of an election. The general talk, however,
ie the other way.
ADzxixFramaxb —1 singular install a s
0J the verification cf a dream oecured in
£glkcount#ihi.,wbtfiedays ago. ‘Adoring
daughter of Mc. flyi dreamed one night that
She had been bafned to death. Next mom'
bag oh* want with her brother into the com
field to keep the birds from the planted com
Aa it was cold they built a fire, and while
they were warming themselves the clothes
of the gid caught fire. Her little brother
tried toefitiDgaiah theflrmes, but could not.
She died the newt day. - ! i Ai—A « iq
A Bxvmu of Paosrram: —Tho mayor of
Montgomery, Ala , in his annual me;eago,
says the real estate market in that city Is
growing mom active, that a large number of
new buildings are being erected and others
are under contract, and that transfers of
real estate are being made with an activity
Which puM^saaneaiiy riseia values. The
gfite of taxation bss been reduoea to $120
Oh the $100. Other Alabama towns, parti-
eolarly in she northern part of the State,
'firnlah evidences of a; revival la their in
creasing business Industries.
•-Texas has enacted a local option b«U-
puneh law. Each county in the State may
decide, as heretofore, whether aioohoiie
beverages shall or shall not be sold within
its borders, and, anonidthe verdict be in
favor of the sales, then the oounty authori
ties may decide upon the nnmitr of places
to be license* and provided with bell-pun-
ohee. Tbe Galveston Nears estimates that
300 Monties will adopt the bell-punch sys
tem, and that the number of punches requir
ed Will be about 4.000. It is a singular fact
that, notwithstanding tbe prevalence of
violence in Texas, the sale of liquor is strict
ly prohibited in many oonnties of that State.
<—Strange nischanoes with fatal reanlts,
eays the New York Son, are daily happening
here and there. A Boston butcher ran
against a knife that Isyon a block, sevored
an artery, and bled to death. A Denver
WDfittncaught her foot inn railroad frog,
ahd oould not get loose before n train ran
oVer her. A Vermont farmer easesed with
n straw fat his mouth, drew it into, bis lungs,
sad dled choking. Ahorse kicked a Michi
gan boy into a deep well, wberebe was
drowned. The abne flew off the foot of a
kicking mule, in NiehvUle, had fractured the
stall of a baby. An Oregon girl swallowed
her engagement nag, and lived only a week
af terward. While standing on bis head, on
the top of* high femes post, aa Ion boy
lost bis balance, fell Into a tab of hot water,
and was fatally scalded. A etone, thrown
by a playfellow, broke a glass from w hich a
St, louts boy was drinking, driving some of
fctts pieses down his throat, and he died a
tom days afterward ki great agony. Looking
np to Watch ths flight of an arrow, a Nash-
vBe woman did not see it descending direct-
ly over her head, and the sharp metal polat
penetrated her brain through one of her eyes,
killing her instantly. -» >v> jui »-.«
We are authorised bj tbe Chancellor
of the University, Bev. F. H. Mel), D. D.
LL. D., to state to the Board of Visitors
that in consequence of the commence
ment of the Atlanta University happen
ing on the 2B1 instant, which would in
terfere with the time cf their meeting at
Athene, they are requested to appear at
the University Library on Saturday, tbe
28th instant,(hi lieu of the first announce
ment which was for Tuesday, June 24 th),
to'begin the examination of tho papers
Of tbe Senior class.
A Necessary and Noble Enter**
prise.
We are pleased to state that our
and indefatigable Superintendent of Pub
lie Schools, Jfr.B. M.Ssttler, of whom
not even his worst enemy oan Bay that‘he
is not both competent and z salons in ~
discharge of hie duties, ia abont to
vote all of hie energies during the pend
ing vacation to the raising of a sufficient
fund to remodel, in fact reconstruct the
school edifices in tho Polhill lot. It has
been ascertained by actual and carefnl
calculation, that tbe sum of $3,000 wil
suffice to transform the present subetan
tial two story building now standing oi
tbe premises, into a handsome and com.
modious structure of ample oapacity to ac
commodate comfortably the 300 children
who now attend the North Macon Gram
mar eohool. Those who are oonversont with
the orowded, it may be said jammed,
school rooms now in use, will at onoe see
tbe absolute necessity of tho present
movement. Think of a chamber, (the
school room of Miss Guatin,) 19 feet in
length by 19 feet in width* and a ceiling
only 10 feet in altitude, furnishing but
3,610 enbio feet of epics, into whioh
thirty-tight pupils are packed with little
more than standing room. Or another,
meshuring 30 feet by 10 feet, into whioh
ate huddled fifty-two eoholare. How
suggestive, in a hot summers day,
ot the Black Hole of Calcutta, or
some of the poor school establishments
wa read of in Dickens works where squa
lor, filth and starvation prevail. Not that
our excellent teachers are not models of
neatness themselves, and work like beav
ers to preserve order and cleanlineea
among their pupils. But what .can be
space for each? Per contra, in the South
Macon Grammar School the apartments
are 13x30, with ceiling* thirteen lest
high, and are provided with modern win
dow-sash to let down from above, and with
two ventilators to each room,
The revered Dr. Nottingham in his
admirable report aa Chairman of tbe
Board of Health, the preparation of
which in addition to an arduous prac
tice, boat the community his voidable
life, raid there should not be more than
one occupant ot a school room to every
200 cubic feet ,of epaoe. Miss Gustin’a
school allows precisely 95 feet to each
pupil. Think of this parents, end then
tremble for the consequences in the form
of typhoid - fever, dyptheria and other
malignant complaints.
It ia to avoid such dreadful catastro
phes that Mr. Z ttler has consented to
devote his om, season of recreation to
the good woi L uf supplementing the old
accommoiatiuLs with others more com
modious and healthful.
With characteristic energy he has taken
the field already, and procured from one
gentleman a volunteer subscription of
$100, from another $50, and from ~
third $25.
This is a matter that touches very
neatly the interests of a very large por
tion of the commnnity, and we trust sll
will respond as liberally as possible to
bis appeals. What can be compared to
the proper education and pbyBioal well
being of onr children?
Adjournment of Congress.
The House yesterday adopted, appar
ently without division, a concurrent reso
lution to adjonra at 12 o’clock on Tues
day, l?th instant. That day is tha an
niversary of the battle of Bunker Hill—
a faot which might possibly have sug
gested it to the patriotism of Congress.
The resolution was sent to the Senate
,v - z'-mmittee on Ap
propriations. No acuor mac body will
agree to it.
That Congress mnst see its way clear
to an early adjournment, is also apparent
from the fact that SeBator Salisbury, as
Chairman of the Committee having
ohsrge of the Spofford-Kellogg case,
warned tbe parties yesterday to hurry
np their movements, aa Congress would
adjonra by the end of this or beginning
of next week. And so there is little or
no doubt that we are coming to ti^e end
of the famous extra session of 1879.
There are various opinions abont this
extra session and its probable effeot upon
the fortunes of patties. A few deys ego
tha Republican brotherhood were no
doubt sincerely exultant over the failure
of tbe Democrats to aooomplith a single
end they proposed to accomplish by it.
They intended to pbliterate or modify
some of tbe war legislation of tbe past
seventeen years, founded on the assump
tion that millions of the people of the
United States are hostile to tbe pnblie
Welfare.
They wished to make the beginning of.
a retara to the usages of peaoe and pnblie
oonfldenee; bat they have been defeated
ia every thing by the veto—no doubt in
opposition to ell ths original purposes
and oonvldliona of Mr. Hayes himself,
and with the single purpose to proteot
the Badioal parly from the popular bal
lot. -
At first the Republicans were vary hap
py over their achievement*, but jaat now
they ore not so happy. None of them
are pleaeed with tbe doctrinal positions
to wbiob they have committed them
selves. Tbe sober second (bought makes
them spprsBeosive. Tha cobweb logic,
Whioh Wes.good enosgh In the beat'of
debate, looks flimsy now, and they see a
hard row on tbe stump before them, un
less political opponents ore more feeble
and Inaptthsn common. This, we feel
confident, ia about tbe state cf Republi
can judgment just now.
On tire other hand, the Democrats who
were very sore over their defeat ore be
coming more reraioilod to it *sthay
stody the political attitude on both sides.
They see that nothing but tbe “Grant
boom” and a new eruption of the section
al volcano, ore going to deafen ancMlind
the American people to the heresies pre
sented for their endorsement. It seems
lees probable than it did that this country
is going to take the back trad; for oentral-.
ism and imperialism against personal and
locftl freedom. Hence the extra- session
will break np with no special exultation
on either side. Both wUi be anxious.
Nobth GzosgIa Aobiccltubal Ocn-
uxso.—We acknowledge the reeeptUn of
an invitation from Messrs. John W. Hea
ley, James J. GaiLl&rd, H. Emmet.Wilson,
George R. Brown and Charlee C. Power,
stqde&ta of the Dahlonega North Geor
gia Agricultural College, to attend the
commencement of that growing institu
tion on tbe 22d,23,24th.ond26th.of Jane.
The oooasion will be rendered more in
teresting by a grand festival whioh hoe
been tendered (^eiihral Toombs as s tes
timonial of gratitude for his efforts in se-
curing the Gilmer fusd t<fr tbe benefit of
tbe oollege.
It would afford the writer unqualified
pleasure to attend the commencement
of the Dahlonega Agricultural College,’
whioh ia aa atrong aa ever, despite the
ravages of the fire fiend, and ia destined
to become a blessing and honor to pur
commonwealth, but. other public duties
he will be called upon to discharge at
that time will demand Iris presence else
where. Most heartily, however, do we
wish euocese to President Lewis, Frofes
sor Gaillord and their associates in the
great work of educating the mountain
eers of Georgia.
—Information received by the Indian
Bareau from Fort Belknap states that 800
lodges of Sitting Bull’s Tpsi-n- are reported
south of the BrIUsb line. They have not aa
yet oommltted any acta of direct hostility.
Tho Southwest Georgia Agri
cultural College.
It will be remembered that the present
Legislature before taking a recess passed
an act establishing a branch of the State
Agricultural College at Cuthbert, Ran
dolph county, Georgia. Since that pe
riod the eltiz ms of this enterprising lit*
tie city have not been idle, but ore pre
pared to donate ample grounds, a commo
dious bailding, and probably the most
beautiful and appropriate site in the
State to the proposed foundation.lt is sot
too much to say that with proper ef
fort two hundred joutha can be
congregated there to be instructed
in the practical sciences,and seat forth as
pioneers of civilization, and model farm
ers, engineers and bridge makers
leaven the land with their example and
intelligence. Many of them, however,
would doubtless first complete their stud
ies at the University, which is the parent
fount of our system of State education.
In this way the branch colleges will act
as feeders to that venerable and illus
trious institution.
No more salient and appropriate spot
than Cuthbert could have been selected
as the site of one of these district col
leges. ‘
Possessed of pure water, as healthy as
any location in the State, elevated, dry
and salubrious aa she ie, and already an
educational centre, what more could be
required ?
We are glad, therefore, to chronicle
that on Friday the 17th instant, the
JIW-a—« -A 4h>* Oam4Wa4 Oeovgia Ag.
ricultural College will hold a meeting at
Cuthbert and inaugurate all the neces
sary steps to give force and effect to the
late act ot the Legislature. Hon. John
T. Clark and Judge Arthur Hood will al
so present the claims of the inchoate in-
stitntion to the Trustees of the Stats
University at their annual meeting be
fore the commencement in August, We
have little doabt the project will meet
with tbe success it so eminently de
ceives.
Hr. John sing Tells Bow Kel
logs Was Kleettd,
Mr. Joseph J. Johnson, one of the col
ored witnesses for Kellogg, whsirhe ap
pealed before the Committee 'was con
fronted, like the others, with an affidavit
on ’(other side, of whioh the following is
an extraot:
1 was a member of the Republican
caucus. I made a motion, which was
carried, to have Mr. Kellogg come in a-d
address the caucus. He did come in and
said that he had stood by the Govern
ment and risked his life for it. That if
they had intended to drop him they
could go to hell, and he would turn mat
ters over to tbe Democracy. I com
plained of his language to Lewis J. Souer,
and he said that Kellogg had to be elec
ted to save the Government. Mr. Jones
told me he was going to Governor Kel
logg to get some money. Sometime after
Jones came to my room and told me that
he had got tbe money. He showed me
an order on Auditor Johnson, signed by
Kellogg. I, myself, went to Kellogg
and told him that I was hard up.
He wanted me to stand by him and go
to Colonel Souer and he would give me
satisfaction. I went to Souer and asked
him if I voted for Kellogg for Senator if
he would give me a position in the Cus
tom Honse. Souer said that it did not
matter much what was done afterwards,
but that everyone who voted for Kellogg
I asked if I would
then promised my vote, which promise I
kept.
After the vote about four or five days I
was called into Mr. Sonet’s private room
and he paid me the $200 agreed upon.
George Washington, member from Con
cord, was waiting to be called after me.
When I got my money Washington got
his. I saw' him getting money. Tbe
next who come in after Washington was
Anderson Tollener, of Conooxdla. I was
still watohing-outside of the door and
looking in. I saw Boner pay him money
also. - Saw Baptiste Drew, of Rapid
River,(go into the private room. When ho
came out I asked him it he got his money
and he said ’yes/ and showed it to me.
J. J. Johnson.
Upon being asked whether his state
ment was true, the witness shcfflsd and
finally Aaid he did not remember saying
What was In that paper. He asked Kel
logg to lend him some money, but be
said be had none and that Soner wonld
lend him some. That was not for any
eleotion matter. He • acknowledged,
however, that tbe paper was read to him
before he signed it.
A Great Steamship.
The Arizona, ot Williams and Gaion’a
Liverpool line, made her first appearance
In New York harbor last Sanday night, in
seven days (torn Qaeenstown. She is a
new iron ship and next to the Great Eist-
ern, the largest steamer afloat, measur
ing 6,000 tons—465 feet long—40 feet in
width and 37i feet in depth—with a pro-
peir-<r power whioh pushes her through
the * ,.er at the rate of seventeen miles
an hour, with a consumption of 100 tons
of oosl per dagtfH
Iter appointments for passengers are all
ts magnificent os can be described, and 1
She can accommodate two thousand of
the latter at onoe. A great floating city
ie the Arizona—nearly three times the
size of our New York and Savannah
steamers, which are certainly big ships.
Macon, June 11th, 1879.
Editors Telegraph, and Messenger s I
oan toll of a freak in the vegetable king
dom whioh is something new in my oxpe-
nenoe. Early m the spring I planted
wstermeibns in toy garden, and kept them
from being killed by covering them with
papers on frosty nights. When the
weather beoame warm ths vine* grow np
vigorously, and eoon spread out in all di
rections. They are eight or ’ ton foot
long and full of bloome, bat, strange (to
sty, nothing in Hie shape ora Melon has
made its appearanoe up to this time. I
cannot acoount for this utter bemuses*
on enoh luxuriant looking vines. I some
times think tbe cold frosts may have des
troyed the frattfprodaoiag property of the
vise, while tha! vine itself sjill grow
and flourished; but this theory does not
exactly satisfy my judgment Then again,
I think the manure, whioh consisted of
takings of tha loose surface from under a
dwelling hoase, may have been too
strong or unsnlted to watermelons. This
theory, however, olio foils to be satisfac
tory, so I am still at a loss bow to ac
count for the failure. Can yon advise os
what to do ? We wan* to make a water
melon in that patch. If you tuggest no
remedy, I am going to out off tbe vines
nShrthe roots, and try it again and
Will report" resell to. ' W.ri
Rxhaxxs.—Have patients. Your ex
u her ant vines will yield fruit after (hey
have expended the first vigor cf the fer
tilizers used so freely. We have hadron*'
cambers, squashes, and melon* to bloom
for weeks without produhing substantial
fruit. Bat after awhile, when the plant
sobers down and matures, ‘then the blos
soms will each come forth with a diminu
tive melon, tqnaah or cucumber thrust
fqrth at the end of the bloom, whioh in
due season will reword your labors.
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Grant’s Propellers.
Explaining at length who and what are
pashieg Grant into the Presidential ehair
again, the Philadelphia Times, a paper
with no Grant sympathies, says the blurt
dera and follies oftbeDenaooratio leaders
are doing it mora'thah' w sJl eI*e. .’ They
ought not to have done this, that, and
the other. They might have known that
it would have produeed this, that and the
other effeot—ail of which and much
more of tbe same sort is plainly re
ducible to tbe postulate that they
ought not to ^ave done any thing and
should not have been in Congress at all.
it ia the fact that the Southern men—
brigadier* or what-not—can keep on good
term3 with the Northern majority only
on twp conations—.they must keep out
of eight or holler for the Republicans and
curse themselves. - If they will do either
of these tbings the Republicans will “let
them offbut so loDg as they set up to
be Congressmen, with views and respon
sibilities of their own.it ia certain they can
have no peace. They will always be full
of crimes and blunders and wil! always
be making capital for the stalwarts per
force of their own unpopularity in tbe
stalwart latitudes. • - j.' o
Itia too clear for dispute that a very
different rule of moral and politioal ethics
applies to them from that which isap
plied to men who "saved the country,
Their ease is a gross exaggeration of the
one complained of by H«udy Andy in
Lever, wb» plaintively remarked ti>»fc.
when a “glntleman'’got on a spree, he
was only a little fresh, ..bat drunk was
the word tot a poor man, and the jastioe
sent one to jail and invited the. other to
dinner.
It will be a long time before a South
ern politician can do anything which, in
the North,will not be a crime or blunder,
unless it be done to order end by particu
lar and universal request of that part of
the oonntry.
In the case in point,the fact of a House
fall of “Southern brigadiers’’ is itself
crowning and especial grievance which
calls for Grant and is some way or other
a renewal of the antler, carpetbag and
African statesmanship of ten yeiiia ago.
It is a shame that the so-called conquered
rebels should have Representatives and
Senatori able to treat public questions as
intelligently as those from other
parts ot the county, and feeling it
a sworn dntv so to treat them. - It is
not surprising that when Bach men up*
lift the voice all that they say should be
pronounced absurd or dangerous. With
dummies in their places there would be
no oomplaint. But able men, noting un
der the impreeeion that they are &b mneb
Senators and Representative as anybody
are intolerable. The thing looks particu
larly impudent and offensive,
Thus these blunders appear to be paet
other remedy than the mollifying influ
ence of time. The Southern Congress
men, we are quite certain, will continue
to feel and act as if they had duties and
responsibilities, and were rightfully
there; but the Northern brethren mnst
have time to become reconciled to what
seems to them an impudent assumption.
The [Approaching session ot
tho Legislature.
KC SERIOUS DIFFICULTIES IN THE WAY,
In the communication in our Sunday’s
issue under the head of “Local Legisla
tion,” the writer anticipates that consti
tutional difficulties will render almost
impracticable any such legislation at tbe
approaching session. We think, howev
er, that a careful examination of the ma
chinery provided in the constitution will
ehowthat his apprehensions are not well
grounded.
The constitution is very rigid in its re
quirements. First, that the committee
on local legislation shall be appointed
within five days from tho organisation;
second, that no local bill shall be read or
considered'by the House until the same
haabeen reported by the committee;
and, third, that this committee shall not
consider or report any such bill to the
House, unless the'samo shall have been
laid before it within fifteen daya after
the organization of the General Assem
bly. It Is true, that the General Assem
bly was organized In November last, and
If there were no qualifications in the fore
‘going provisions it would necessarily
follow that there could be no local legis
lation at the approaching session.
Bat recognizing that peculiar cir
cumstances might require a relaxation
to the rule, the framera of the Constitu
tion further provided that tha second
and third requirements oould be dispens
ed, with by a two-thirdi vote of the House.
The peculiar circumstances exist at pres
ent. As the Constitution foiled to desig
nate the manner u which shonld be
advertised ths intention to apply for the
passage of local bills, there could be so
Bulch advertisement or notice of each
intention prior to the November session.
Therefore, those who desire legitimate
local legislation, and who have now ad<
vertised their intention to apply for the
tame, will present themselves at the July
session, after the expiration of the fifteen
dije, it it true, bat still at the first op
portunity whioh the law boa mode prac
ticable. This will clearly call for tbe
exercise of thff discretion whioh tho Con
stitution vested in the Honse to meet
such cases, and all proper bills which
have been advertised will doubtless be
admitted without disunity by a two-
thirds vote. If. so the difficulty will
vjaish. Upon examination we find that
the committee on local legislation mu
duly appointed by the Speaker of the
base at the proper time, and its chair-
on is Mr. Hammond, of Thomas oonn-
■, a thorough and active lawyer, most
admirably qualified for this position of
difficulty under the new Constitution.
. The. length of time required for the
transaction of legislative business under
the new Constitution will be no greater
at the adjourned session than at any sub
sequent seesio«. These provisions are
permanent, and apply to one session as
well as to another. They make the pro
cess of legislation slower than hereto
fore, bat wnile there are aome valid ob-
ections to the innovation, haste in leg
islation t* to be depreoated. Dispatch is
desirable, bnt it ie very poor economy to
attempt to save money by hasty legisla
tion.
We ore inclined to think that import
ant daties will rest npop tbe General As
sembly at the approaohing session. Cer
tain kinds of looal legislation ore to be
depreoated, and it ia due to this fact
that many persons condemn ail of it in
discriminately. Bat maoh of it is cer
tainly important and neoeaeary at this
time. For instance, itao happens, we.
believe, that Macon, Atlanta, Augusta,
Savannah and Columbus all desire amend
ments to their several ohartera as to mat
ters concerning thsir respective bonded
debts, involving millions of dollars. The
government of the county of Bibb haB
given . notice of an application for
thV passage ofY some half dozen
bills by the operation of whioh
it is contended, much money will be
saved to the county. We cite these
simply as instances. Similar demands
in greater and less degree exist in the
majority of the counties of the State.
Bat aBido from the demand for local leg
islation there are many matters ef a gen
eral character which will require action
oh the part of the Legislature. Changes
in general laws are not deeirablo unless
necessary. The adoptied of the new con
stitution has mode many of theso changes
indispensable, and it would certainly bi
anomolous to be living under one consti
tution and still continue in force, the
statatee framed for another constitution
in many respects altogether different.
What are the particular laws whioh re
quire thus tq.be remodeled it ia unneces
sary now to designate. In addition to
these Bubjeots matter of legislation
there are several particular aubjeotB
■which theLegielature cannot ignore.
1st. The law regulating railroad
tariffs, a moat delicate and difficult prob 1
Iem for eolation, and yet one made
necessary under the new constitution.
2ad. The penitentiary system. We
ore not prepared to say that the facts re-
quiro that any change shonld be made
bat it is true that under the ohargea
whioh were made dnnng the last
session a very thoroogh examination of
them is expeoted by the pnblie.
3J. Tbe wild land matter ie n most vo
luminous anbjeot,and one in wbioh many
of the oitizsna of the State are vitally in
terested to the extent of millions of dol
lars. A committee is now in session in
Atlanta collecting e>ideno» and its labors
will doubtless be continued until the
meeting of the General Assembly,
4tb. The oosfltot over the endorsement
of the Northeastern Railroad bonds will
probably be inaugurated, however, un-
jast and greatly to be depreoated.
These, and other matters which we have
not epaoe to particularize,necessarily asm
bine to make the approaohing session
one whioh must necessarily be laboriona
and diffioalt. To disoharge their daties
properly the members will need not only
ability and fidelity, bnt great patienoe,
end the' support of all intelligent citizens.
We have heard it intimated from a high
source that with proper rulings os to the
time consumed in tbe various debates,
and tbe salntary interposition of tbe “pre'
vions question” when neoeaeary, the sea-
ton oan be abridged to six weeks. We
shall be satisfied if it terminates in two
months. Certainly there will be no diffi'
cnlty In getting looal legislation through
without delay, as it ts seldom that even a
single objeolion ia raised to the passage
of any private bill where no constitution
al point is involved.
After the presint exceedingly impor-
n«—Ums- mnrcfifnlirtn llflfftng b6€j
folly interpreted and habilitated wil
begin to work smoothly. Bnt it takes
time to inangurate tbe nnmerons chan
ges required in tbe fundamental law.
[From an Oooasional Correspondent.]
Texet's Mux., June C, 1879.
Editors Telegraph Sc Messenger—The har
vest of smell grain in this section is jtiet
over, and notwithstanding the declarations
of the weatherwise that wo wonld all by this
time bave plenty of rain, aa “ it always rains
when folks are catting grain, yon know.”
Old Proba” has yet Nitbheld ths precious
showers from tbe tblrsty fields. iThe drought
is beginning to be felt, too ; In some locali
ties very much worse than others; for while
some ns t*o weeks agojbsd land too wet to
Tbe Diflerence.
Two babes were bom in tho self-same town,
On tbe Ten sous day;
They laughed and cried in tbeir mothers’
aims •
In tbe very seif-same way.
And both were as pure and Innocent
As falling flakes of snow;
But one cf them.iived in a terraoed home,
And one in the atceot below.
fields at anytime to beep dry, so partial
were tbe clouds in tbeir vidtatiena 1 A regu
lar “ United States” rain jnst now, would bo
very acceptable, generally, I hough I’ve no
donbt that there ere many who would like to
hoe over this little paten of cotton, plow
over that small field cf corn, or hanl in a
few loads of oats, before they are quite
ready for the refreshing drops to descend.
Next week, or next month it would be tbe
same; so if the Baler of the universe were to
wait for all to be ready, we would get no
rainataU. •
The yieldof small grain cannot be definite
ly determined as yet, since there has been
but very little threehed. Compared to last
year, however, I think it Is safe to say that
in this vioinity at least, oats are not so good,
while wheat ts probably abont the same.
Boat on the blado of the latter is almost
universal, the “Hardaway rust-proof" not
escaping. In common with nnmerons others,
I entertained great hopes that there hid
been found a rust-proof wheat, especially
when a fanner of ths great, good esnee,
care and discernment of this Thomas ooun
ty gentleman gave outito the world what he
considered to be such; that be has been
mistaken in regard to ». however, is proven
by the experience of a frifend of mine who
procured some of tide wheat from Mr. Hare-
sway, himself, and tried ’It, and like tbe
balance of the wheat in this section, it had
nut in plenty on the blade. I was very
tarry to see it, too, for perhaps if there
oould bo found a variety of wheat as sure to
make a crop with favorable season* as oats
now are, there wonld bq much mare of that
Hi
rusted this season In Southern Georgia; it
may be peculiarly adapted to that ollmate,
and not therefore subject to rest, there.
The Superior Court ln Ferey kas been in
session now two weeks end still “the mill
grinds.” Bosiness is bring dispatched with
commendable rapidity and efficiency. The
Grand Jury for the first week meant exactly
what they said in the clause oommending
Hie Honor for hie efforts in this direction.
Though not proceeding to the length to
whioh the Bibb jury did, it is easy to infer
from the tone of their presentments that
they wen in fall sympathy with that body.
Daring the time of their silting, each ques
tion* and suggestions to them by oUtasna on
the streets aed in tbe stores ae the follow
ing were quite common i “If hat will yon do
about tha Bibb oonrty presentments ?”
“ Will yen endorse them ?** “ Yon ought to
endorse them; heartily, if yon do .nothing
more,” etc.; and I Imagine that seme parties
are disappointed at tbe gentle manner in
which the theme was touched upon, bnt tak
ing into consideration the immense stir al
ready created upon the topic aU over the
State, I oofiosive that the presentments do
very well as they ore. Jnige Simmon# ex
preseed himself very, well pleated with them
and promised to “ fight it ont on that line if
it took all summer,” at deer tbe dockets,
which hs thinks can be done at the next term
oftheoonrt. This has nbt been accomplish
ed, I believe, “ in the memory or the oldest
inhabitant ”
U was quite sum ting to ia outsider to
note the aertoos attention pad by the law -
yera present, especially those from your
city, to tbe reeding of the preomtments by
the Clerk. Every word altered fell upon
their eager ears, and when the conclusion
Was reached and nothing said of th* Bibb
pceseabnsntsi there ran along the line, I
oould almost fancy, a sigh, whether of re
lief that there wos no attention made of
their patriotic efforts to retaid the progress
of jmtioe, cor of vexation that there was pre
sented so opportunity for them to move for
a “ rule nUL’ f or some other kind of “foie"
against tho jury and vent tbeir swelling vo
cabularies of dispraise at them, at well aa
tbe rerieott of the Jury box who so far vio
lated tbeir ideas of propriety u to plaoe
therein the names of man who wonld not
say that lawyers, like king*. “ can do ne
wrong.” In the anbUma words of the clas
tic (I) Ulysses, X would urge the injunction :
“ Let u* nave peaoe !’•
Most respectfully,
Yzarrag.
P. 8. June 9lb—The United fit atee” rain
has come and farmers are happy, except
those that have grass, 11 one of wbom I am
which.” Y.
Two children played in tha self-same town,
And the children both were fair;
Bat one had her carls brushed smooth and
.v-;»jgna,, ‘ ' ~
,5hs other had’ tangled hair. *
Both the cteldrtn grew apace, - - V •*
As All onr children grow:
Bat one of them lived in the tenaced house,
And on* in the streets bsiow.
Two maidens wrought in the self-same town,
And one was wedded and b sieved;
Tee other saw throa.h the curtain's part
The world where her sister moved.
And one was smiling a happy bride,
The other knew care and woe;
For one of them lived in a terraoed house,
And one in the streets bsiow.
BY TELEGRAPH.
YfASHETOTON, Jane 11.—The Senate re
sumed tbe consideration of the MoDocaid
bill to authorise the use of troops in oertam
cases and to repeal the election lews.
Mr. Hill, of Georgia, began speaking on
the McDonald military bill at 12:35, say
ing that he Intended to reply to personal
allusions, bat not to retaliate nor to mike
a personal attack on any 8enator.
Mr. Hill showed that hie vote is the
Georgia Convention was against secession,
bnt the eeoesston resolution was adopted
by the convention, and, after that, it woe
only a question of whether the oitizeue of
a Seate should uphold ite solemn notion
in convention. He therefore signed the
ordinance ot secession, after ite passage,
os did -all his colleagues, though one
third of the members voted with him
•gainst it.
In the House, Mr. Stephens, from the
Coinage Committee, reported a bill for
Two women lay dead in the self-same town, I the adoption of the metrio system of
And one had tender care,
The otner.wtt left to die alone
* On her pallet bo thin and bare.
One had many to mourn her lose.
For the other few teen would flow;
For one hod lived in (he terraoed house,
And one in tbe streets below.
If Jegns, who died forrich ana poor,
Iu wonderful, holy love,
Took both the staters in his seme,
And oarried them up above,
Then all the diffesehe* vanished at last,
For in heaven none would know
Which or them lived in tbe terraced house.
And whioh in the street below.
[Advocate and Guardian.
weights, measures and coinage, which
woe printed and recommitted.
Mr. Carlisle, from the Committee of
Ways and Means, reported Senate bill
allowifig vinegar factories whioh were es
tablished and operated before the first of
March, 1879, to commas their business
by the nee of alchoholic vapor even when
within 600 feet of a distillery or rectify
ing house, prohibited by existing law,
under regulations take prescribed. The
bill was passed.
Mr. Carlisle also reported a bill direct
ing tbe Attorney-General to adjust or
oompromtae the claim of tbe United
States, under tbe will of Joseph L. Lswis,
passed. (Tfaie is a esse in whioh Lewis,
formerly of Hoboken, New Jersey, left
an estate of about a million of dollars to
Inflating Again.
The Now York Herald, of Monday,
SSf •!|5wH&wE5JS55«S3!K
real estate, principally on the east side of I fiabt)
the city, “at an enormous advance.” Dubuqui,' Jane II.—A terrifio wind
This is attributed largely to the effeot of I storm passed over this city Monday night,
. sSs'/JSi •LTXl!
general return to the city of a large por- j among which are the Baptist Church,
tioa of that business population which j Third Ward School-house, and Walter’s
has been crowded out of it for fifteen or J on Eighth street.
i,i„v I The greatest damage was done m the
twenty years piBt by high rents. These j ] am ber yards, where piles of lumber
people oonld occupy cottages in the I were caught up and scattered in all di-
country towns round abont at low rents, I notions. Ingram, Kennedy A Day lost
and still reach their business earlier ip I RIO.OGO worth of loge, whioh broke from
a.. ir [the moorings end went down the river,
the morning than if they lived m distant Te legraph communication woe e_
part* of the city and were compelled to [ tirely cat eff—not a single wire being
travel by street railways and stages. j left, end communication was not estab-
Bnt with the elevated' railways all this *“£? ni * ht - , ’
' . r „ .. | . But one life was lost as for os known—
was changed. Half an hour will place I of a small boy upset in a boat. The
them in almost any part of the island at j storm was confined to a Very narrow
a cost of five cents, and hence city lots I limit.
for building purposes are in new demand. I xu ^j road commun ^ oa ^ on Wfta not inter-
Batindependently of these considerations I fL _ ,, _ _ . ,
. • f , . - .. Washisgton, Jane 11.—Hon. Proctor
real estat e ia reviving raptdly under the Kaott of lhe House Judiciary Committee,
general impetus of improving trade aid I submitted to the Honse to-day the com-
baem»B?. Every thing is reviving. I mntee’s zepoit upon the Presidential
message vetoiog Hones bill number 1382.
. . _ . known as the military interference bill.
A SingaIarJy*Dceorated Snake, xiie document is six or seven thousand
CrawfordviUe (Ga.) Democrat.] I words in length and takes up and ex-
We do not like to tell snake stories; I amines in detail all the objections made
they are.dangeroa3 applications to one’s j by the President to .the bill in question,
reputation. Bnt Mr. James Iogram, of I It begins by stating that the danger
this county, sends us a specimen of a I to be apprehended from tbe presence of
snake—a kind we never saw before—so j troops at the polls is sufficiently appa-
pecuiiar that we are compelled to take | rent and has been repeatedly pointed put.
notioe of it. The snake is thirty-one | Long ago aa 1863 Congress found it nec-
and three-quarter inches in length, of a I esssry to pass a bill to obviate it by
trim, slim_ shape, and is strangely I strictly prohibiting military interference
marked, having sll the totters of the al-1 with eleotione exoept upon the call of the
phabet in plain characters upon its back | State or to keep the peace at tbe polls.
■n large capitals. No one to whom it has I That the bill was approved by Linooia
been shown knows any name for it or I and is now in force as sections 2002 and
ever saw one like if. I 5528 of tbe revised statutes. The words.
Keep the peace at the polls” not in the
YFhmc Coxatmins Fui* itaxee -Just 1 “"““‘J ***** of * ha bi ['’ but wel ® Rdded
now there seems to be a diffsrenoe of opin- in the Senate against tbe remonatranoes
ion hare among moo.of looisty u to what I of tbe majority of ite supporters who
tbe white cravatTolongln rogue, Vhouldbe f o^uek h,lt ou<i ha l, e r^ a bo precall
■ till WAMt taliilA IiaU slis4«ia M-.V I. . . . a .. »
uree will plaoe thu proposition b9» nn j
doubt in any candid mied. It ia s ^
terot regret, therefore, that the P, e ,f
dent should have assumed a noain.»-
utterly without foundation, SffiSJ*
borne in mind, however, that
2002 and 6528 neither confer th* “
irnr impose the duty upon any cffiwTi
the Unued S:aUa to keep pe** aktbf
polls. Congress has no constitution,!
power to oonfer euoh authority or to im
pose such a duty Both power and data
belong exclusively to the several
os was distinctly held by the Sap,!!!f
Court in the comparatively recent c..!
of the United States vs. Couikshauk et sl
2nd O to, page 551. The same prinriril
woe also enunciated by the same ref!?
in 1842 in the case of the State of P c nn a ,i
vania va. Prigg, 16 Peters, paea fi 7-
nor can it be said that the mere nmei
to execute a legal process carries with
authority to preserve the peace Ifth„
marshal shonld be forcibly resisted in
the execution of a process In his h» n d»
the persons restating would, m held in
the com of the United States, ts Oruik
shank, before cited, be guilty of twofligl
tinct offenses, one against the United
States in resisting ite process and ona
against the State m violating iu peso*
and the authorities of the United State*
would have no more jurisdiction of the
letter offense than the State authorities
would of the former. That this wastes
the opinion of the present Secretary of
State is shown by the following
extract from a letter of jurisdiction
to the Marshal of Florid., wriUeu bv
him, August 20th, 1860, while Attorney
General nnder a former administration-
“The special duty and authority in the
execution of a process issued to you must
not be cenfounded with the doty and au
thority of suppressing disorder and pre-
serving peao«. which under our aovtm-s
mmt Delongs to the civil authorities of the
State and not to the civil authorities of
the United States, “It may be repealed
J£S£ fore ’” 8a J 8 * to® * 8 P®rt “tnat sections
2,002 and 5,523 ot the Eevieed Statutes
ao not authorize tho officers ot the United
States to keep the peace at the polls bnt
merely to otherwise insure and they can
not be rattonally construed to confer
any amhority or impose any duty.
Tbe final objection of the President to
tbe bill is that it discriminates in favor of
State and against national authority by
making it lawful nnder roue circuinstan
ces to use tbe army to prevent violence
in the conducting of State elections, snd
unlawful to do so in the conducting of
national elections. Upon this point the
report says: ‘-The common sense of the
country understand* that all eleotlons ins
State, whether for members of Congress
or local offioers, are by the same electors,
and those electors derive tbeir power to
vote, as was deoided by the Supreme
Court in the ooee of Miner vs. Happen-
sett, 21 Wall, page 176, from the State
and not from the United 8tatee. It is,
therefore, ss much -in the power
and duty of tbe State government to
maintain peace and order at elections for
Congressmen' asst elections for State
offioers. Ia oonolnsion tbe report earns
np with n reiterated- statement that the
federal government bts not and oannot
derive from Congress any right to pre
serve peace in a State either at the polls
or elsewhere, unless called npon by the
proper State authorities, and that it is
difficult to eeo how a distinct reservation
to tne President of the power to suppress
an insarreotion against a State when
properly oailed on, oan be said to dero
gate from authority of the United States.
The report oloses with the request of’the
commutes to be discharged from farther
consideration ef the Bubject.
Washington, June 11.—In the Senate
upon the expiration ef tbe morning hour
the McDonald bill, repeating the election
laws, was taken np, and Mr. Hill, of
Georgia, proceeded to speak thereon, with
jlill worn, whlli others hold thftt\ho black I evade with impunity the penalties
cravat should now oocupy its place. It may DreeC rib«d To remove that nretext
be interesting to perrons oonoemel with I .. lo r * mqTO , R* 9 * 00
this important mattir to know that for the | J* 1 P r8Te ®* to" rocarieuoo of tbe prao-
Iatest adfioe* Paris is equally divided on I tlo «B alreadjl shown to be dangerous, the
this point. The black drees coat reigns an-1 present Congress, in making tbe appro-
preme there, now that ths President of the priatioce for the support of the army,
French ttepublio is a civilian; bat the color j struck oat ths words in question. Tbe
of the cravat causes maoh discussion. As a ] Prerfpent thereupon returned tne bill
»X 9 Z£& taSUStiMtlJ&SitoS ^^‘atiq^bgrarotohtaopto-
able elabs in Paris the black tie hoe been {? D » ,* 8t ’ ifc w “, 8eoon “»
exclusively adopted, especially for dinner. I ** tronld prevent civil nfflsere from using
If yon want to be thought young, adopt white; «vil force to keep the peaoe at the polls
if yon are willing to be considered old, adopt I and third, the method of tbe repealing
black, which ta another way of Baying tnat I clause in question was hot in harmony
white wifi continue to prevail. | with the executive taste. Tbe first two
objections the oommitteo for the present
Fraonta th* Yibginia Debt.—There is I passes without a remark. With regard
■xys the Richmond State, no longer any I to the third, the report says the
donbt abont the success of ths fencing pf l manner of the repeal was in .striot
plow, others, and they too alirimt tar near „
eat neighbors, did not have to leave theta th epnbUodebt. The State agency has open-1 co^mllyio the constitution end the
a^Wlrsfne (fie V9.wsre.Jt rm,„ I HlleS Ot the 110090 . &&a justified D?
•d books far tho deposit of bonds. | cnme rou 9 'precedents in the annals
of Federal legislation. The latest of ;these
haveoome in, we hsor, faster (hau tho.qlerks
enter them. Ths new bond* are not j precedents wss contained in the army np
yet ready for iaeue, bat the ogenqy ** giving j propriation bill for tbe preeent fisoit
certifies tea convertible into bonds os soon as
the engraver can deliver the latter, which
will be about the 15th instant. The certifi-
oites have already been placed on the mar
ket, and are 51% bid, 52 asked. Five thou
sand dollars sold, the first issued, at 5!%.
year, wbioh tbe President signed withont
objection, notwithstanding the provision
contained therein prohibiting tbe ase of
the army as a posts comitatus. Ic might
not be improper, therefore, for tbe Presi
dent to devote Borne attention to tbe con
sistency of his own reoora, if not to the
ordinary proprieties hitherto observed by
the Chief Magistrate in communicating
With the supreme Legislature of the
oonntry. The report then recites the
special reference to the recent attack on
sort Bathtnc At Heme.
Scrme gentlemen of tha-city who have
been to Cumberland Island reoently have | p re para*Uon and passage of a separate
oancladed to inaugurate bathing la fresh I measure of the same nature, with a view
wrter.. and accordingly have made or- I to obviate the President's objections to
rangemente for Um erection ofroverol ‘S*^
bath houses at MoCali’e pond, jest four thea up end examines
milejfrhinthecity.’where those who enjoy I in course the President’s reasons for
aquatio sports can have on opportunity-! vetoing the measure in question. With
or indulging. Commodious and suitable I 1° toe first of them, that the bill
® , , ,, I is unnecessary, tbe report says: “Wheth-
bath bouses will be erected, one for ladle* w ^ oplQ i 0 o 0 « the majority of the Rep
anfi tbs ether forgentiemekt. | repentatives of thepeople is entitled to
Aepaeewhero the banka of the pond I W>T consideration M the hands of the
and all old timber, etc., will be carefully I possible to read the two veto messages
removed, so ns to insure safety and | together, without being struck by their
pleasure. Several boats will also be at I markefi difference in tone. As regards
advantage to be gained is that the bath- j (h^ all the adthortty to use the army at
era can acquire the art of swimming, the polls, evan in *id of the civil offioers,
whioh is almost an impossibility in tbe waa tacitly, if not expressly abjured. In
sari df the oaitn .i the eeeoud message, however, there is no
sorr «tne ocean. guQh diablAi | aer / j t j. admitted that
The place will be kept m firut-clsse I the elections ought to be free from mili
style. The idea is a novel one. and it Ury interference, but no intimatiion that
thought the plan will be a source of much | such interference would be unlawful. On
d1 ura. I the omtraiy the inference from tho
* I second message ie that under certain cir
cumstances it would be eminently proper.
Tbe Baltimorean. j The entire argument against the neces-
One of the best i#ookty journals now •^IrobiU.is therefore lefttorat,
j. ,, „ 1'* . , . upon tho Presidents- assertion that the
published la the Baltimorean, issued bjt J have not been arid aril! not be used
MeaBra, Crutchfields & Haas,of Baltimore. J to interfere nilkthe elections daring hi*
It ia the most popular society journal ] adtutairtration* but hie term of office will
that circulates' through the South. Th# I 3?®** 8n4 °P* n * on “Wf change.
xmnor (wJUmmU feJh uK _, fV 1 Tha •ubiecta'of/n 'deepot must depend for
paper i# always freeh and newsy, with I Becor ity upon the . grace of their
flashes from the ( World of fashion, I master, but n free people will insist
glances at the stage and green-room, apro the guarantiee of positive
bright with well-timed, dramatic enti- J* w ’ _ *- ba 8ecs f^ objection oi
oisms, with * sufficiency of either light I consideration ie that it wonld abrogate at
fiction or historical remiaiacencea, end I certain times and places a number of the
the editorials ere always up with the existing laws, especially section 5298 of
limes, sensible and w, 11 considered The b^'htoj^jXs™
paper ia eofficienily democratic to b® I Jaokson nnd Lineals, and contains the
popular, and yet select enough to merke principle acted upon, by four Presidents
a mention i* Us ooiumns desirable. It I mete endeared than aU others to the
courteous proprietor muoh success. It da J t h»d examine^ the facta cennectod
has just entered upon its eighth volume, j with the'traniactibns to wliichhe alludes,
he would have found,that neither of the
rklteroattaeui BxhibiMon. | illustrious patriots refetted to either
_ 57 -2 ,, I did or pronosed to do anything which
The inauguration of the commence-1 woa ]fi no t have been lawful under
meat exercises of the Wesleyan Female ] strictest letter ot tbe bill which he new
College, will take place this evening in I vetoes. In proof of tide assertion toe
the PhUomatheon exhibition at tha 0*1- recit *» the droumrianoea of the
““““““ ■* «“• I “whisky rebellion of 1793, the con-
lego Chapel commencing at 8:15 o’elook. sptracy of Aaron Burr, the nnliiification
The exhibition has been carefully proper- I movement of 1832 in South Carolina, and
ed and will prove very interesting. In toe outbreak of toe late eivli war. It
., , . -t? , 4 m * , J adds. “A sufficient answer, however, to
the society there » some fine musical j this objection ta that it ta untrue, The
talent, and in this respect it will be an- ! various itatnn to whioh ho xofors, in-
perior to serenl whioh haa proceeded it* j rinding section 5298, ere *o completely
The Philomatheans never fail to attract »brogated>y tha ^approved byfteri-
, | dent Lincoln, February 27th, 1865, a*
large audience, end these initial ax- could have been by tote
erciaes of the commencement will be I hill had the President signed it. A
greeted with a full chapel. j mere glance at the two meaa-
to tbe secession of Georgia.
After describing the state of feeling in
the South at that time, Mr. Hill read ex
tracts from the minnfes of tbe Georgia
Convention of 1861, showing that he was
one of the minority party whioh tried to
postpone the resolation of secession until
after consultation with other Southern
States and a meeting of the Pesoe Con
vention at Eiohmond. He both spoke
against the resolation and voted against
if. After the ordinance ofseoesaiou had
been drafted he mode another effort to
get a substitute which embodied the
views of toe opponents of secession sdop«
ted in plaoe of it, bnt failed. The ques«
tion then was whether he shonld approve
the solemn soliou of his State or not,
Noting more con’d be done, and when it
cime to signing the ordinance every man
affixed bis name as an attestation of his
readiness to abide by tbe solemn decis-i
ion of i he Stats. These facta hs aaid
Mr. Blaine had misrepresented. A persis
tent effort had also been made by the Re
publican press cud others to hold him
np to execration a* a brutal, ornel man,
and he bad been charged with introducing
retaliatory war measures in the Confed
erate Senate. He quoted from the rec
ord to show' that the charge was unfound
ed and malioiouB. He undei stood that
agents had been sent through the Sonth
by hie opponents to look up his "record,”
but no word of his would ever be found
to justify the charge that he had spoken
disrespectfully of the anion ot these
States nnder the Constitution. Upon this
subject he defied malice. Ho said ho had
never been on extremist in politios and
consequently during the war ho had been
blamed by tbe books! uniats as a national
ist and woe now blamed by the oonsoli*
danoutats element aa a secessionist. He
then spoke at some length upon the pend
ing politioal questions and closed with an
eloquent appeal to the American people
to abandon sectionalism, whether tend
ing towards semsuon or despotism, and
return to constitutional government os
inaugurated by Madison and expounded
by Webster. Mr. Hill’s remarks were
frequently Interrupted by applause in
the galleries, end e large number of visit
ors occupied Mats on toe flror daring its
delivery.
Mr. Bisine gave notice tlsthewon.’d
reply at another time.
Mr. Book from toe appropriations
committee reported back with sundry
amendments the legislative and execu
tive bill, which was ordered printed and
pntoa tbaoelendor. After the executive
session tbe Honae judicial expenses WU
laid betore the Senate and referred to the
appropriations committee, and the body
adjourned.
In toe House the bills relative to the
removal of eases from toe State to tbe
Federal courts was referred to the com
mittee of the whole, with the under
standing that it ahould not be broaght
up again at the present session. - Ibe
army appropriation bill was then taken
np, and on motion of Mr, Johnston, ot
Virginia, section 9, regarding army pre
motions, was stricken ont. Mr.
Baker, of Indians, moved to strike ont
the sixth section, relating to the compen
sation of the. army when used at the
polls. -
i Mr. Girfieldjtben made a speech upro
military Interference to whioh he saw
the only military interference he had aver
seen was when he voted at Chattanooga
for the Governor of Ohio in 1863, mw
the sheila from the serried enemies of »e
United States bunting over his hero-
He said toe idea that the army is S po
lice force woe so absurd that he hopw
no member oa his.side of thellQ0®»
weald give toe least reason tor the beuw
that be favored it by holding tost roofiw
6 repealed, suspended or modified .an?
statute no# existing. • . M
Mr. Clymer replied to Mr. Qartetai
saying that in April they had been ceuro
revolutionist#; yesterday they men oe»
nounced as nuliifier*, and to-day to®
gentleman (Mr. Garfield) blondlg de
clared tost the- rixth section of toep®>“'
ing bill which waa in effect identical*!*
the sixth section vetoed, the army
woe meaningless and cf no effect. **:
marks were also mode by Mr. Cj**
New York; Baker, of Indian*. *cdseT
oral amendments proposed njw
Tho committee toes rose and
toe Mil with the omendnante adopted
in the oommittee, which were agreed to
and toe bill passed. Yea# 172, naj* * u
Adjourned.