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The Greoi-tria "Weekly Telofrra/ph.
THE TELEGRAPH
MACON, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1869.
“A Hard Saying.**
TIia New York and Northern Radical papers
■generally, are terribly exercised over General
Grant’s declaration to McClure,of Pennsylvania,
- -that, although elected by a party, he did not con
sider himself the representative of apoliticalpar-
ty. A great deal of ingenins special pleading
is resorted to to break the force of this remark.
A very little explanation it Beems to us, will
make it clear. If the reader will call to mind
every indication which has fallen from Grant, as
to his administrative policy, he will find that all
begin and end in the single purpose of break
ing up the political rings which are preying upon
the Treasury and perverting every exercise of
official patronage.
To accomplish this work, whom will General
Grant bo forced to combat—Democrats who
have no official patronage, no access to the pub
lic funds—or Radicals who fill all the offices and
•disburse all the public money? Plainly his
••contest lies with the latter, and all the action
since the election betrays a profound conviction
of this fact, both upon the part of Gen. Grant
and of his quasi Radical supporters in Con
gress. On the one hand, Gen. Grant has never
■consulted a man of them in reference to the
composition of his cabinet He has not only
kept them at arms’ length, ret using to accept
their advice or confidence, but they have been
as sedulously befogged as his open political foes.
He is equally determined not to make a cabinet
■ in their interest and not to give them a chance
to foil his purposes by operating upon his cabi
net in advance.
On the other hand, the Radical leaders fore
warned of his purposes, have assumed an equally
defensive attitude. They refuse to repeal their
’laws fieing the hands of the President knowing
"that those hands must be raised against the
wholo brood of political cormorants. Thus, be
fore the inauguration, both parties have armed
for a hostile straggle, and when Gen. Grant de
clares, in advance, that ho is not the representa
tive of a political party, he but anticipates the
result of a very brief official experience,wherein
if he persists in his great declared policy of re-,
'form, be knows he will be compelled to enforce
it in defiance of the Radical organization in Con
gress.
News from Washington.
The special telegrams in the Louisville Cou
rier-Journal say there will be but one more
meeting of Mr. Johnson’s Cabinet, which will
take place to-day.
Gen. Grant has not yet prepared his inangur-
al address. He says it will be brief and wilj
cover the general views of his administration
which will be economy and retrenchment, with a
full collection of the revenue through the ap
pointment of honest and efficient officers.
The Radical politicians were gathering in
Washington, in great force, from all parts of the
country. The New Yorkers were confident that
Hamilton Fish, from that State, was to be made
Secretary of the Treasury.
In relation to Georgia, wo note the following
item:
Mr. Bcntwell failed in committee to take np
the Georgia case, the Democratic members op
posing and several Radical members being in-
. different. It is now probable the action pro
posed by Bontwell & Co. to unseat the Georgia
members will never be carried out, and there is
„• right good authority for stating that Gen. Grant
is strongly opposed to this scheme, regarding it
as revolutionary and totally unnecessary, and
■that his opinions and wishes have been conveyed
to prominent Radicals. Boutwell is a most in
tractable man, and may nevertheless make the
attempt, bnt it is not believed the committee
will adopt his report. The carpet-baggers from
other States have also determined to sustain the
• Georgia members, as heretofore stated.
'Brownlow’s Legacy to Tennessee.—We find
in the Nashville Banner “General Order No. 4,”
of one “Joseph A. Cooper, Brigadier General
Commanding” the Tennessee Militia. The said
order directs five companies to proceed to Maury
county, suspend.-Cho civil law, take charge of all
such mattery, forage off the county, etc. It
.•says: “Any person, or persons disturbing the
public-pence will be arrested and tried by a mili-
ttary court and summarily dealt with.” Here
fa a milc-stono on the downward road.
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Cou> Weather.—We have had another spell
.©f severe cold. At sunrise Sunday morning the
mercury -indicated twenty-five, and at eight
•o’clock on Monday morning it stood at twenty-
eight Probably Sunday night was colder than
■ Saturday night There was plenty of ice both
nights. March, therefore, at least in respect to
temperature “comes in like a lion,” and by the
old saw should “go out like a lamb.”
Dinner to Gen. Breckenridgz-—The New
York Sun gives an account of a grand “blow
out” alleged to have been given at the Man-
hatten Club Rooms last week, in honor of Gen.
Breckenridge. The affair, it says, was kept a
profound secret from the press, though, some
how, the Smr man got in, provided tho account
‘isto be believed.
Receipts at the Pours.—For tho past week,
ending Friday, 55,000 bales have been received
at all the United States ports, against 71,000 the
previous week and 00,000 the corresponding
week of last season. This shows a falling off
from the previous week of 15,000 bales, and tho
corresponding week of last season of 84,000.
The Baltimore Sun’s correspondent says the
remains of Wire were found entirely naked, not
a patch of clothing being in the box. His skull
hod also been removed, leaving only the trank
and limbs. ‘
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No Anniversaries. — It is stated that the
American Bible Society will not hold its usual
anniversary meeting in May next, and that
other religious and benevolent associations have
determined to follow the example.
-Mr. and Mrs. Hary Watkins gave a'perform
ances out in Hancock county the other night, or
rather two other nights. Tho local paper says
they had to use white sheets for scenery. ,
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Ma Stephens.—The Augusta Press of Satur.
day regrets to leam that the recent cold snap
operated veiy unfavorably on Hon. A. H. Ste
phens’ recent injury. He is again entirely dis
abled.
Hon. Jaaies Dixon, whose term of office in
the Senate expires to-morrow, has been nomin-
Whi ated to the House from the first Congressional
•informa District of Connecticut.
Thomas Jones. Sr., a venerable and highly re-
•Ajegiaiati gitizen of Thomas county, died sudden-
■ oocaaiom y ^ apoplexy, on Thursday last.
**' lrK du Qjt^uax. Gbant is said to receive letters and
lent bath l am phi e(3 addressed to him’on financial and
Airy roomth e r subieots.to tho amount of six hundred
^"nrodsdaJy.
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. Tim Pork Chop of the West, according to the
Columbt -ost indications, will show a falling off from
front year, of at least fourteen per cent.
Cocnty.—The Columbus Enquirer is
*335 bales jirmed, by & letter from Marion, that Wm« B.
anmption. than been elected a Representative in the
r ^ c ^> isiatnre fOr that county, to fill the vacancy
g^ffiffsioned by the death of Wm. M. Butt. ■
W6. tottd r^ ICE ' 8 1-i.iGmn.iTY Resoi.ction, it will be
ICOj [i by Monday's proceedings, having been
d by the Governor, now slumbers on the
of tho House. '
The Old Congress and the New.
The Fortieth Congress has ono more day of
life left to it, and then its record will be closed
np as one of the most audacious, reckless and
tyrannical legislative bodies known to mankind.
The country is in no condition now to judge of
that Congress; but a few years hence, if Provi
dence b»s decreed that civil liberty shall main
tain an existence in this country and the Gov
ernment be controlled by fundamental law, the
Fortieth Congress of the United States will be
as strange and surprising a study as the Long
and Rnmp Parliaments.
Like them it aspired to and usurped despotic
and illimitable power—extinguished tho Execu
tive and the Judiciary and acknowledged the
control of neither law nor precedent. Like tho
Long Parliament, particularly in the later stages
of its history, the Fortieth Congress has, by its
interminable twaddle, disgusted mankind with
oratory and the gift of speech-making—by its
unconscionable roguery, masked under profes
sions of extraordinary public virtue, patriotism
and religions principle, brought all professions
of honesty, principle and loyalty into contempt,
and dono more than any and all other Congresses
of the United States to deepen the profound
popular distrust of that branch of government
Tho people, not alone of the South, but the
reflecting portions of tho North, are beginning
to look npon Legislative bodies, whether State
or Federal, as complete failures in respect to all
tho ends for which they were designed—as dan
gerous nuisances—as fountains of political and
moral corruption, and to draw a long breath of
relief whenever the blessed words “ adjourned
sine die” greet their rejoicing eyes.
Unluckily the Fortieth Congress is to be suc
ceeded without intermission by the Forty-first
Congress; which, we are told, will be in session
at least a month. We have little doubt it will
sit into dog-days. The elections, unfortunately
have produced no great change in the material
of the new body, and it will not be long in in
augurating a straggle with the new Executive for
the perpetuation of its usurped supreme powers.
Every member knows, for example, that the so-
called tenure-of-office bill is a grossly unconsti
tutional trespass npon the powers and preroga
tives of the Executive Department, bnt almost
eveiy member is not only (so it is said) interest
ed in controlling Executive action for the bene
fit of personal friends, bnt the entire majority
have little disposition to give np power. So there
is to be a fight, in all probability; and that will
consume time as well as breath.
If Gen. Grant temporises and refuses to make
the issue npon the very threshold of his admin
istration, he will be whipped. If he makes it—
if be insists npon the foil measure of Executive
power and prerogative, as established by law
and precedent, and strikes, os he declares he
will do, a death blow at official malversation,
corruption and fraud, it will be one of the stor
miest administrations ever seen, bnt he will go
throngh triumphantly. Congress will find, to
its astonishment a very different state of popu
lar feeling from that which existed two years
ago. It will find that the people are tired of
them, and will back the President in the largest
exercise of Executive power to put down the
reign of humbnggery and corruption.
C’liu't Help it.
A friend writes that if our Georgia Legisla
ture refuses to pass the 15th Constitutional
Amendment, the State organization, in all hu
man probability, will go np. That is so; and
hence, just as with the 14th Amendment, we
shall make no quarrel at all with members who
vote for it, although we could not do so. They
must do as “seemeth unto them good.” They
have the alternatives before them. The Con
gress of the United States will undoubtedly hold
the sanctioning of the amendment as clear evi
dence that Georgia is in the Union, and the re
fusal to accept it will be punished by turning
her ont. That is the way the States are called
npon to “deliberate” upon constitutional
amendments in these latter days of political
blessedness and freedom.
Bnt speaking for ourselves only, we repeat,
that that amendment, although it does not
change matters in Georgin a particle—although
it simply incorporates into the Constitution of
the United States, what is already by fair or fonl
means, law in Georgia, strikes a death-blow at
the Constitution as framed by our fathers. With
the States alone rests the whole question of citi
zenship. A man is a citizen of the United States
only in virtue of being a citizen of a State. He is
constitutionally known to the Federal Govern
ment only as a citizen of a State. Now this
amendment empowers the Federal Government
to make citizens of States and to interfere be
tween the Governments of the States and the
inhabitants of the same; and it would take
much more space and time than wo have now at
disposal to point ont the logical sequences of
this new grant of power to the Federal Gov
ernment It is enough to say that it works a
fundamental and radical change in the whole
political system of America, as now hy law
established. It theoretically destroys tho gov
ernment, as a government by States, and strikes
death-blow at State independence.
Trae, you may reply that State independence
as to the fact is already gone, and so it is ; bnt
the Constitution still exists, as a silent protest
against the usurpation, and never should our
hand draw the lines of obliteration. The time
may come when the Constitution shall be reas
serted. •
We would go as far as almost anybody to
avoid the evils of re-Radicalizing reconstruc
tion in Georgia. We would have assented to a
reference of the question of the right of ne
groes to hold office to the Supreme Court, and
pledged the Legislature to abide by their de-
eison: because therein no vital political princi
ple was practically involved. It is trae the
members stalled on the issue that the Houses
were the Constitutional judges of the qualifica
tions of members. But that is a proposition
clearly subordinate to the settlement of the
great question as to the rights of citizens
under the State Constitution, and manifestly if
the Courts of Georgia decide that negroes are
entitled to hold office in this State, the Legisla
ture must succumb to that ruling.
Bnt be this as it may, wo individually could
not vote for the 15th amendment, oven to pur
chase an escape from another reconstruction,
while, at the same time, wo shall make no is
sue with those who think differently. Let them
go ahead, and God save us all.
The Guano Trade.
We saw yesterday a train of fifteen cars,
loaded with guano from away np in the State
of Maine. It was being unloaded at a point
where mneb more was deposited. This trade
has suddenly assumed extraordinary propor
tions, which is the natural consequence of the
great demand. Eight or ten times the amount
of a few years ago has been sold here this sea
son. This Will furnish an interesting basis for
statistics of the forthcoming cotton crop. The
scarcity of labor has forced tho planters to cur
tail their available land, and to make np for
surface, they have extensively resorted to ma
nures. This will keep up the average yield of
cotton since the war. It is altogether practica
ble to raise one bale to every acre npon onr
Southwest lands, by tho use of fertilizers. The
main point in securing this yield is to apply
enough of tho proper sort and in the proper way.
We have the greatest abundance still on hand,
and planters can get it with or without money,
from most dealers.
It is estimated that California swung into
1SG9 with 90,000 more people- than in 1868.
A Week’sDoingsin Atlanta.
the opera house baix-—Georgia out of the
UNION—THE STATE TBEASTJBY THE 3HTCHEL
CULM, ETC.
From our Special Correspondent ]
Atlanta, February 27—Night.
The god of the winds and the storms has
been busy for some days in this locality, and
nothing can now be seen, if seen it can be, bnt
dost and frost, whithersoever yon turn. For
my part, I am almost blind, and Ido not believe
that “a bit of dust” could mount from its kin
dred clay without paying my poor optics a visit
I trust our good neighbors of Macon city have
better luck, and trust that March will never
visit them before it is born.
THE BALL.
The Messrs. Kimball held a grand levee on
Monday night last, (22d instant,) in the base
ment of the new capitoL It was indeed a most
excellent affair in its way, and gave general sat
isfaction. I am ingreatdoubtthatwehaveever
had anything of the kind to smpass it in this
city, and there is one thing of which I am very
certain, namely: that there never has been so
good-natured a mingling of friends and foes.
Bullock, the Governor, was there, and so was
Joe Brown, the ex-Govemor. Then there was
Bryant and Blodgett, and Tweedy and Conley,
and your own Sparks and Fitzpatrick. While
on the other hand, we had Normally and Cobb,
and Tomlin, and other arch loyalists and unre
constructed rebels. It did do me the extremest
good in the world to see his “Excellency” dance.
He mnst have been studying bis attitudes for n
month previously, he looked so exquisitely grace
ful, and then he is such “a handsome looking
man” that he dazzled the eyes of all beholders.
It is well that Georgia can say she has had at
least one good looking Governor by the grace of
God and the new Constitution. I am very sorry
that I did not se e his ex-Excellen cy try a little gam e
on the “light fantastic,” for it is the first time I
have ever seen him anywhere without having a
“finger in the pie.” General Meade was there
and paid his proverbial attentions to the ladies,
but the great success of the evening was the
feast, (I am getting poetic.) That supper gave
general satisfaction; and all jesting apart, the
Messrs. Kimball have demonstrated the fact that
they know how to get np a good tiling in a good
way. The ladies (I never say God bless them
for they always pass me by) were there in pro
fusion, and added their wonted grace and charm
to the scene, and what between brave men and
fair women I do not think I shall ever look npon
it’s like again. “Help me, Cassius, or I sink,
said Cresar, and if I do not cease to think on the
brilliant scene and fly to some more congenial
theme, I am afraid I will need the assistance of
some kind friend to help me from the ball-room.
This being the case, I do not know what more
saving subject I can look to for relief than
GEORGIA OUT OF THE UNION.
Poor Georgia. Where is she now? Can any
body locate her. She ain’t even as w«Uoff as
the Irishman who was half way in and half way
ont of the gate of hell, for she ain’t either in or
out or half way in or half way ont A few days
ago there was quite a sensation in town about
certain dispatches which arrived from Washing
ton city, (not Washington, Wilkes,) to the effect
that Georgia was ont of the Union. Now, why
do I say not Washington, Wilkes ? It is because
no person would be surprised if that sturdy old
veteran, General Robert Toombs, were to assert
that Georgia was ont of the Union, bnt when it
came from that most noble and powerful Gov
ernment which spent so mnch to whip her in,
men’s hearts did stand ajar, and no wonder
wherever you went you were greeted with the
interogatory, “Did you hear that Georgia is out
of tho Union?” And onev very intimate friend
said to me “well this is a bad state of affairs.”
I inquired “what is it” why, said he, “did yon
not hear that Georgia was ont of the Union ?”
Oh, certainly, I answered, bnt that is nothing
new now; she left the Union eight years ago and
has never been anle to get back since, no mat
ter bow hard she labors to do so. Bnt if she is
just put ont or has been out at all she is tho only
one of the galaxy that has accomplished the ob
ject for which they went to war. Do not regret
it,my friend,but rather rejoice that site does not
possess that servility which it is necessary she
should possess in order to be ranked as a second
rate State or anything else the tyrants may
choose to call her. “You are right,” said my
companion, “and from this day forward I shall
rejoice more than ever that I am a Georgian.
Far better is it to be Ireland or Foland, or Hun
gary, than the sycophantic slaves which our
masters would make-of us.”
I mention this little colloquy in order to show
you what the prevailing opinion is here and in
order that it may bo understood that the turn
ing the State ont of the Union, in which she has
not been for some years, cannot possibly disap
point any body.
Fresh nows arrived, however, and while the
Radicals were laughing and insinuating that it
was their influence with Congress that brought
about the sad catastrophe, they soon became si
lent again and contented themselves by saying
‘wait awhile, it won't be long before it is done.”
THE STATE TREASURY.
The Governor sent Mr. Farrow to investigate
affairs at the State Treasury yesterday, and I
understand the interview was anything bnt a
pleasant one. N. L. Angier told the Ambassa
dor that ho had not time then to attend to tho
matter, npon which the latter returned back to
whence be came, bearing the nows to his patron.
He had not been long gone, however, before he
returned and informed tho Treasurer that it was
the will of the Governor, that he (Farrow)
should proceed at once with the investigation,
but the stubborn Angier was not to be moved
from his position and H. P. Farrow withdrew,
intimating that he would call again on Monday
morning at 10 o’clock.
Your readers can judge from this, what is the
feeling which still pervades the minds of men in
official life, and I am not so certain that be
fore tho thing is over the peopio will not have
to donote more funds from their already well
exhausted coffers.
THE MITCHELL CLAIM.
This matter, which is now pending the action
of the Legislature, is quite a sensation here,
and thO minds of men are well divided with re
gard to it There are many for, and many
against the retrocedingof that five acres of land
which old man Mitchell presented to the Stato
of Georgia before his death, but from what I can
learn I do not think the claimants will succeed
in recovering it even from the Legislature.
Candler made a very telling speech in the
Senate on the law and reason of the case, argu
ing that the State having once received it,it was
her’s and it can't well be token from her.
There is a powerful influence being brought to
bear by tho friends of the claim, and I am sat
isfied that they will move heaven and earth to
accomplish their scheme. The nnmber of lob
byists is great, and all of them are men of in
fluence. I have been told by old men and men
of experience, that they have never known so
powerful an array of talent and wire-pulling
concentrated npon any ono single case, and it
will be a miracle if the State can manage to
“ hold her own ’’ in the premises. A few days
win, however, determine the matter, after
which I shall be enabled to give you additional
facts.
IMPROVEMENTS.
The city of Atlanta is fast growing up; new
buildings are climbing from the ground daily
into mid air and I think that by next fall she wili
wear a very respectable and business like ap
pearance. Large warehouses are being or have
been erected in many parts of the city, and'
many a blank spot whioh but a few weeks ago
was lono and desolate bears, now a neat brick
building or echoes the busy hum of labor in
erecting one. The new Georgia depot is an ex
cellent building and does gTeat credit to the
architect, Captain Max. Corput. Looking at
the now depot, though some distance apart,
stands the extensive Lager Beer Brewery of
Messrs. Mercer and Fechter, which is renowned
for turning ont as good an article for libations
as any which even Philadelphia itself can boast.
The brewery supplies the entire city and many
parts of the State. It would be a good thing if we
could boast of having a great many more home
manufacturing companies, which would like this,
keep money at home instead of sending on to
onr already rich and vain neighbors in the
North.
grant’s inauguration.
There will be quite a number of people from
this State in "Washington on the 4th of March,
to witness the inauguration of the new Presi
dent. I understand that there are one hun
dred and seventy-two negroes from different
portions of the State, going on as a delegation
to grace the great display, and to offer np ho
sannas to the Lord for having given them free
dom and “massa Grant” for a new master.
THE RADICAL SPLIT.
The Central Executive Committee of tho
State held a meeting here last Monday, for the
special purpose, I believe, of ousting Sam Bard,
Bryant and others, who dare to oppose their j
will. I understand from persons who were pres-
BY TELEGRAPH.
FRO.« ATLANTA.
More of the Mitchell Claim.
Message from the Governor.”
Killing time at Nine Dollars per Day*
Making an April Fool of the Negro.
Constitutional Convention.
Speeial to the Telegraph.]
Atlanta, March 1—Night.
Senate.—The Governor’s message was read in the
Senate relative to the proposition of the City Coun
cil of Atlanta to have a joint committee appointed to
investigate the contract between tho city and the Con
stitutional Convention in regard to the location of
the capitol at Atlanta.
Tho Governor says that Angier’s attack on him
was for partxzan purposes. His opinion is that the
city should have furnished all facilities needed for
government purposes for ten years free of expense
to the State. He advanced tho Eimballs money to
be certain that tho halls were ready for tho January
session, and thinks he was not doing wrong in doing
so. He pleads precedents of his predecessors, and
the Council are ready to refund the money should
the Legislature decide tlrnt it should do bo. He
hopes a joint committee will be appointed to invest
igate the matter.
Tho Senate did not appoint tho Committee.
The house received and read a similar message,
deferring action until they could hear from the Sen
ate.
. _ , . . , Mr. Wooten spent one hour and a half in discuss-
ent, that Bard and Bryant were .there on the oe- j ^ tho MitchoU daim; ono of the abrest 8peeche3
casion and made speeches vindicating 'them- j ever a e ij voro q & the Senate chamber. Ho was truly
selves,but finding that the majority wasmexora- i eloquent; his arguments of the strongest kind; hfa
ble and that they were abont to be dropped j deductions conclusive, and showing an amount of
from the honored roll, they left tho room, there
by preventing farther action, as they were es
sential to a quorum. These two worthies be
longed to the sub-Central Committee, and it was
when a motion was made to dissolve that body,
knowing the object in view, that they seceded.
They are now enrsed worse than ever. Bob
Toombs, or Ben Hill and a Democrat .cannot
edify a Radical any better than by abusing
them. It was, I believe, decided at that gather
ing of a mixed community, that your fellow cit
izen J. Clarke Swayze should be brought here
to ran his paper and take Bard's place, which, I
have no doubt, will be done, as they cannot cer
tainly doubt his truth or be mistaken in his loy
alty. For this purpose, I believe, they have
subscribed some money, and ere long the New
Era will be numbered among the things that
are past and gone, without one friend to shed a
kindly tear. “ How fallen is the mighty
Mac.
The Suez Canal.
In all human probability this great work will
be completed some time during tho present year.
The canal is to be 100 miles long and 328 feet
wide at the water’s edge, with a depth through
out of 26 feet—which is quite sufficient to al
low the passage of tho largest ships now npon
the ocean. Says a correspondent of the Lon
don Times:
“The direction is nearly north and south, with
a few turnings, bnt no locks or bridges. There
will be a slight tidal current along it, bnt no
one can soy at what interval. Already abont
fifty miles of the cut is filled with salt water, and
is traversed daily by numerous small vessels
and some steam-launches and maiiboats. The
sensation of wonder at the prodigious scale of
the operations in progress increases day by day
as one moves along what seems to be a wide
river, with villages on its bonks and smoky fun
nels and white sails on the surface. Of the fifty
miles many parts are not wide enough yet for
large vessels, and only a small portion is ex
cavated to the full depth. The remainder of
tho canal is more or less dug ont. While some
parts are quite dry, others are put under water
to moisten, the sand; others have great blastings
of rooks, and one long section of 20 miles has to
wait until the sea is admitted into the great dry
basin of the future lake.
The dredging machines are forty in number,
and each of them cost ,£40,000 (?). They de
liver the sand to barges to be carried out to sea,
or pile it npon the banks, in some places to a
height of fifty feet. The expenses at present
amonnt to £200,000 every month, and the work
has already cost £8,000,000 sterling.”
The eanal runs from the Mediterranean to
the Red Sea, right throngh an immense sandy
desert. The sand of this desert, almost inces
santly blown in clouds on the wind, is mention
ed wife a certain sort of seeming consciousness
of its becoming ultimately a cause to defeat tho
whole object, by filling np the canaL “The
quantity of sand,” says Yan Nostrand’s Engi
neering Magazine, “whisked from the plain and
cast into the canal water by a wind like this will
be a serious matter to deal with. One ounce of
sand per square yard amounts to 500 tons on the
whole canal, and the wind sometimes blows in
this way for a month together.”
These facts n^nst cause a shrug when contem
plated by the architects and builders of this gi
gantic canal. But if successful it will open np
a new ronte to India, or rather be the exclusive
route, for it will not be more than one-half the
distance now traveled.
legal research which jnstTy entitles him to occupy
tho foremost rank as a sound lawyer, clear beaded
and masterly debater.
House.—The House spent considerably time in
trying to undo some of its Saturday’s work.
The resolutions referring tlie eligibility of colored
men to hold office, and which had been vetoed, were
taken np.
A motion to postpone the matter indefinitely', as
also to make it the special order for tho first of
April, and also several other minor motions were
lost, when they wore laid on the table for the pres
ent. .
Both Houses spent the afternoon session in acting
upon local bills, and many wero-disposed of.
Humor says the call re-assembling the Constitu
tional Convention will be issued, probably m to
morrow’s papers. W.
From Washington.
! Washington, March 1.—The Provisional Gover-
! nor, of Mississippi, (Gen. Ames) is here,
j Farnsworth, of the Reconstruction Committee,
| says nothing further will bs done this session re
lative to the removal of disabilities.
Internal revenue, to-day, §1,250,000.
One hundred and ten bills are on -the Speaker’s
table awaiting action.
Seward announces, publicly, his- retirement on
March 3d.
Hamilton Fish, of New York, is- having a house
fitted up here. ,
Fessenden is prominent for President, pro tem. r
of the Senate.
Senator Brownlow, with an escort? of twenty per
sons, lias arrived. They say a man attempted to
shoot Brownlow at Charlottesville, Ya., but the pis
tol was wrested from the ruffian by tho party.
The Supremo Court decides adversely to the value
of the War Deportment obligations, known as the
Floyd acceptances.
The Supreme Court, to-day. reaffirmed the legali
ty of old contracts. Tlie present case was from
Baltimore, involving a perpetual lease made very
long ago, in which it was stipulated that the rent
should be paid in gold or sovereigns.
The Treasury is advised that the celebrated Brand
cases, ia Now Orleans, terminated favorably for the j
Government on all points at issue. The amount in-!
volved aggregates nearly half milUion dollars. The
decision will settle the revenue questions, which had
been at issue many years.
Farragnt will be here to-morrow.
Notwithstanding rebuffs, office-seekers swarm at
Gen. Grant’s headquarters.
The Senate is on appropriations.
The House is on invalid pensions to-night.
Grant will not resign his Generalship. He con
siders his office of General of tho army terminates
with his oath of office as President.
preprinted for four revenue cutters—one for Charles
ton and one for Mobile, and a quarter of million for
the Freedman’s Bureau was erased. The amend
ment payingVinnie Ream $5000 on the account of
the Lincoln Btatue, passed.
The House took a recess.
More About Gen. Grant.
New York, March 1.—Tho following is the Tri
bune’s account of Gen. Grant’s visit to the House
on Saturday:
Gen. Grant came down to Congress yesterday and
had a talk with Representatives Boutwell and Gris
wold. It was immediately hinted that Boutwell and
Griswold were going into the Cabinet, but it appears
that the General only wished to consult with these
gentlemen abont some legislation in regard to the
reconstruction of Georgia. The General is also de
sirous that provisions will bo made in tho army
bill which will prevent him from nominating. Sher
man iB to be General; Sheridan to be Lieutenant
General; Schofield to be Major General, and Rey
nolds and Sickles to be Brigadier Generals.
The committee of five from Mississippi, represent
ing tho extreme Bidicals seem discouraged with the
course of Everts. They have been here many weeks
working hold, but the current seems to be against
them.
From Louisiana.
New Orleans, March 1—Judge Darrell, in the
V. S. District Court this morning, decided the first
of tho great wino cases which have been on trial
over a month, in favor of the government, on these
points: because of fraudulent intent ip not proper
ly verifing the invoice and declaration; because of
false invoices as to the land of wine; and because
of undervaluation. This is regarded as a test case.
A bill was introduced in the House to-day and
passed to a third reading and engrossed, providing
for the issue of five millions in thirty years C per
cent, gold bonds, for the payment of which the guar
antee of tho U. S. government is to obtained. The
bonds are to be sold in the mtrket or hypothecated
for loans. The proceeds of such bonds is to be used
exclusively for building and repairing levees and
other public works under the control of the board
of public works. The interest and principal to be pro
vided for by a special tax on the proceeds of all
swamp lands otherwise undisposed of.
A joint resolution ratifying the fifteenth amend
ment was passed by both Houses to-day.
Destructive Fire in Jackson, Miss.
Jackson, March 1 A largo fire broke out this
morning, at 3 o’clock, and burned the Clarion news
paper, job office and book-bindery. Loss 825,000.
The property was partially insured—most of insur
ance was in Northern companies.
Geo. C. Eyrich’s book and stationery store was
also burned. Loss $15,000. Insured for $9,000.
The fire which originated in tho Clarion office was
the work of an incendiary. The Clarion will resume
publication to-morrow.
^Reconstruction—CaUing the Next Soil.
Washington, February 28.—The Kansas Legisla
ture has adopted the Fifteenth Article.
The Clerk of thoHonso has not yet made the roll
of the next Houbo. Tho recent statement that he
had excluded Louisiana and Goorgia was. to say the
least, premature. In fact, few credentials have yet
been presented. Regarding Georgia, it seems un
derstood if certificates from Governor Bullock are
of tho osnal form, the names will be placed on tho
roll; bnt if the Governor makes the certificates a
vehicle of argument or explanation, tho Clerk will
hold them for tho consideration of the House.
Invention ©f a New Compass, Which.
No4 Affected by Local Attraction. **
From the Richmond Enquirer ami Examiner.]
We have already mentioned that a citis»* .
Roanoke county, Va., Mr. Samuel Custer h -
invented a compass, which he claims will
the grand desideratum of navigation, in fnrnii
ing a needle which does not deviate frotrTa'
magnetio meridian under the influence of if?;
attraction, whether that attraction results
Interesting from General Grant.
Washinotos, March 1.—A delegation of Southern
representatives waited on Grant to-day. Whitte-
more, the chairman, stated they bod called to make
known, to the General tho confidence of the loyal
people of the South in his administration, and to
acquaint him with the condition of affairs and wants
of the people in those States, and their indulgence
of the hope that this section would be remembered
by him in tlie selection of his cabinet.
General Grant, in bis reply, stated that he was
glad to receive them, and assured them that, under
his administration, hewould endeavor to have af
fairs satisfactorily conducted in the South, but gave
no intimation as to wbat his intentions wero in refer
ence to a member of the cabinet from that section.
He stated that military matters in the South would
be changed, and commanders af signed tc daty who j
were in sympathy with the administration. Inreply
to a question as to whether Gen. Sheridan would bo
placed in command at New Orleans, he stated that
that officer would probably remain for the present
in the West, where he had been so successful in
quelling the Indian disturbances.
Congressional.
Washington, March 1.—Senate.—A bitter contest
occurred over the motion to erase tho name of Gen.
Asa Rodgers, Auditor of Tiiginia, from the disability
bill.
Nye said Wells had decided to fell Virginia inter
nal improvements at a sacrifice, and that Auditor
Rodgers was an obstacle to the job. Hence the de
sire to retain Ids disabilities which would alienate
him. A.
Trumbull said, (speaking of tho demonstration of
the Grant and Colfax clubs against Rodgers): “It
the Senato is to be governed by such associations it
had bettor dissolve.” The discussion was uninter
rupted by tho regular order.
Senate.—The bill for the relief of certain compa
nies of guides and scouts in Alabama, passed.
After a sharp debate on tho removing of disabili
ties reported at coon, tho Senate resinned the Army
Appropriation bill.
Inferior View orThings in Cuba.
The Providence Journal has been permitted
to moke the following extract from a letter re
ceived by a gentleman in that city from an
American gentleman now in Havana:
“So much alarm is felt here that Americans
seldom go out in the evening, or even move
about oxcept with great caution, at all times.
We have little news except the rumors connected
with the insurrection on the island. The situa
tion of things looks worse and worse every day,
and you can hardly imagine the intense hatred
that now exists between all Cabans and Span
iards. Report says that there are some twenty-
five hundred Cubans confined in the “Mony ’
among which are many of the best and most re
spectable people of Havana. These people are
often taken from their homes at night, carried
to prison—that is,Moro Castle—and there locked
np, without having their cases investigated in
the least Great fears are entertained that there
will be a serious outbreak in Havana on the 22d
of February, that being the day when the am
nesty expires.
“ To give yon on idea of the savage feelings
of the Spaniards, I will mention an event that
occurred bnt yesterday. A captain of the vol-1
unteers in a publio cafe stood before a party of : House.—The House is considering the right of the
soldiers, and taking his glass in his hand, which j Secretary of the Interior to restore tho Washington
was filled with liquor, he emptied it on tho i relics to (ten. Leo. The Judiciary Committee has
head of one of the party, saying: 4 As I ; c i 0Be d tlie evidence against Judge Busteed and ia
baptize you with this liquor to-day,, so will I, jj ear jj,g the argument. The impression is strong
baptize you with the blood of Cubans on the ask to bewhich
“People are, with reason, getting much fright- j 'rill end the matter,
cned, and are leaving every day in any vessel j Tho Reconstruction Committee agreed to report a
where they can find passage—whether a steamer, I bill ramming political disabilities without an amend-
ship, or small craft. I am glad teat onr Gov- j ment. There aio three bills pending. The ono
ernment has a large war-steamer in the harbor, j w hich the Committee adopted as abore is the ono
andlonly wish there were more here, including ! wb ich contains tho name of Judge Parker, of Vir-
a monitor or two. A family of the highest re- | gin - a> Ma Gen , MoomaI1) of Mississippi.
STand Should seek one ofoZ i » is ^P^iMe to move through the Capi-
war-ships on that day ns a place of refuge.” j tol on account of the crowd, and every train brings
— «•*— I recruits. ! :
The Inauguration Ball. Bills introduced under regular call: A bill grant-
Don Piatt, of the Cincinnati Commercial, | ing bonds to the Tennessee and Coosa Railroad,
writes as follows about the inauguration ball and : Several bills relieving political disabilities,
the Ethiopian dilemma: Tho bill authorizing tho Secretary of War to ap-
I am here only as the chief chronicler of j point» commissioner to report regarding the spans
events, and havo no opinions of my own, one bridges over navigable streams, and until Con
way or the other. So far as I am individually j gross acts forbidding bridgos over the Ohio of less
concerned, I believe, if I went to the bull at all than four hundred feet span, was passed—4>4 to. 59.
—and that I won’t do—I would ns soon kick np ; Tho bill withholding bonds from the Pacific Rail-
my heels to the magic strains of horse-hair and road until a first class track ,is guaranteed, was
cat-gut in company with a well-dressed, well-bo- 1 passed.
haved colored gentleman, as an unwashed.Dem-. q;he joint resolution declaring valid certain decla-
St But the f“tk patent,Xuffour^oloi- ; r ‘ Uon8 Te ^ Constitutional Convention hi
ed friends persist in going, aid it is known that. corporate^ tho inter-oceanic railroad, was tabled,
they are to-be admitted, tee attendance of white ; ^gw* offered a resolution of enquiry regarding
women will be sparse. A few strong-minded ‘ the restoration of Gooi-gc Washington’s property to
ladies, from New England, who look at society General Lee, and forbidding its restoration. Pend-
serenely from behind gold-rimmed spectacles, jpg Congressional enquiry and action it passed by
and whose principles and appearanoe are a sort a vo t Q 0 ; 119 ^ jj .
The House meets hereafter at 10 o’clock in the
morning.
A bill allowing Mrs. Susan Shelby, of Port Gibson,
Mississippi, $5000 for captured cotton, passed.
The House went into a Committee on Misceliane-
of prohibitory tariff to love-making, will alone
grace.the festivities on that great oooasion.
The cotton speculators’ ery, that the crop of
1868 was large, having been contradicted, the
word now is, that the production of 1869 will bo
exceptionably great. Bnt the planters know
better. ' • -/ . V
ons Appropriations.
Three hundred thousand dollars more were ap-
General New*.
Concord, March 1 Tho thermometer at sunrise
this morning was 38 degrees below zero.
Poughkeepsie, March 1 The river is frozen and
navigation is again suspended.
Fortress Moxboe, March T.— Twelve negroes
broke jail at Hampton yesterday about night. Two
were charged with rape, and others with minor
offences.
San Francisco. March 1—The Union Pacific Rail
road is still blocked with snow. No trains from
Wasateche since the 12th of February.
Tho latest from Nevada says ineffectual efforts
were made to make the fifteenth article the special
order for Monday. Its passage is improbable. Tho
opinion is prevailing that it prevents Asiatics from
becoming citizens.
New York, March 1.—A Spanish man-of-war
boarded the schooner Wide Awake off Sand Keyes,
on February 19tb. She was cruising for a small
steamer reported to bo carrying recruits and stores
to Cuban rebels.
Richmond, February 28.—The Court-house of
Buckingham county was burnt on Friday. All the
papers and records were lost;
From Caba.
Havana, February 28 Several Cubans surren
dered in hope of clemency bat wero taken from the
prison at Santiago by the military and shot.
It is reported that vessels from Southern ports
affected a landing with supplies and refreshments
for Cubans.
Foreign News.
San Domingo, February 20.—The coffee and sugar
crops are short, but the tobacco crop shows an in
crease. '
Marine News.
Savannah, March 1.—Arrived, bark Mary G. Reid,
Havre; schooner Jed Fryes, New York. Cleared,,
barks Kengerin Grimsby and Jessie L. Pool and.
schoener Edward Stale, New York: steamship-
America. Baltimore.
Sngar and Molasses.
The following taken from the Boston Traveler
of the 15th inst., may be of some int erest to tea
community in view of tee rapid advance, the
past week, in sngar and molasses in this city,
and the present high price which these products
still maintain.
Tho disturbed condition of Cnba has unsettled
tbs prices of sugar and molasses in all onr mar
kets, and, although the stocks of. both are much
larger than they were at tee corresponding pe
riod of last year, yet prices are bounding up
ward, somewhat like gold in the dark days of tee
war. A prominent sugar firm stated this fore
noon that they could give any quotations, owing
to the fact teat prices had'advanced so rapidly.
Bnt tee trade has become almost stagnant. Only
those who were compelled to bny to meet imme
diate wants wero in the market, and these pur
chased only small lots. A wholesale grocer
stated that he was selling sugar between luiand
20 cents per ponnd, bat remarked that in the
stores prices were even higher.
Accounts from Europe show teat tee market
for Cuba.produce aae as- much excited as our
own. This will stimulate the export of sugar
from the Mauritius, Manilla and. other Eastern
ports, so?that those who can offord to wait, have
no causa to fear a famine in sugar. The same
cause has affectedmolasses, which may be qnoted
by wholesale between forty-five and seventy-five
cents per gallon;, but these rates are far below
those current in the retail stores. Syrup and
honey are also higher and tending upward.
Those who are fanuliar with tee trade of Cuba
say that the' disorganization of labor caused by
the-insurrection will bo the means of diminish
ing tee production one-half, even if the insur
gents were defeated to-morrow and harmony
restored.
Harper’s Bazar gives the following sensible
reply to a correspondent:
Your husband’s salary of $1,000 a year, upon
whioh he, yon, and two children are* obliged to
live, seems a small sum, from a rich man’s point
of view, bnt a very considerable amount in tee
eyes of tee poor, who are the great majority of
mankind. Most families in the United States live
comfortably upon less, and more might do so,
were it not for the undue proportion of their in
come spent to “keep np appearances.” We are
generally too anxious to pass for being richer
than we are, and therefore sacrifice much of our
substance to show. When conscious that we are
laboring truly to get our own living, and to do our
duty in that state of life in which it hath pleased
God. to call us, however small may be the result
according to this world’s computation in dollars
and cents, we have no reason to be ashamed of
it. There is, however, a false shame which often
induces an expenditure for worthless tinsel in
order to give a spacious glitter to a moderate
competence, which thus becomes soanty, while,
more judiciously used, it mightprove abundant
Continue your courageous straggle with life, bnt
do not waste your resources upon any false
bravery of conduct or appareL
The Academy of Sciences of Paris has re
ceived a letter from Mr. Janssen, dated Simla,
(Himalaya,) December 25th, in which he stated
that the purity of the Indian snn had enabled
him to continue his observations on the circum
solar regions, and teat he had ascertained tee
existence of a very low atmosphere around the
son, but intimately connected with the protub
erances, and observes that this atmosphere ex
plains the phenomena of refraotion remarked
on tee solar surface in examining the spots. He
adds that it plays an important part in all tee
luminous phenomena manifested by the visible
envelope of the solar globe, and especially in
the faoulse, and that the diminution of intensity,
whether calorific, photographic or luminous, so
often ascertained on the sun’s limb, is chiefly
owing to this atmosphere.
tion. it professes to do four tWp. . f*??•
show the presence of a local attraction (*},•{
no other compass does); 2. To show tied,
tion of the local attraction; 3. To show the C '
tent of the local attraction: 4. To indirJ 1 '
under all circumstances, the magnetic merfd'
as. truly as does any other compass when vu
no loc j influence. This compass is ea r? f:
differentia construction from any other
pass hitherto used. 0c -
It consists of three systems of magnetic -
dies, arranged in different horizontal pw ; '
The upper is composed of twomagnetizedb '
connected with a graduated card like an ord?*'' I
ry compass. The card needles are attached?'
an axle. The two lower systems of magneto •
needles are attached also to an axle —both to'*
same axle. The lowest system consists of
a dozen magnetized bars, arranged, (witheTi
ilar piles) in the same direction, and attached?’
a perpendicular (graduated) rod. The mi.w
system of needles consists of two magnehV ■
bare, attached also to this particular rod ..'I j
slides up and down this rod. "When pkeed^' I
board of an iron ship, for example, the aid? I
system of needles is adjusted at a point qjT I
rod which repels tee upper needles back to tT I
magnetio meridian. It is only necessary to S? I
just this middle system of needles with it'"" |
ence to the local attraction existing on board '■ a
that particular ship. No change in thedlv f
tion of the ship makes any difference in^l
pointing of the upper needle, while tbelor fr -|
systems which have a graduated card attach I
to-the upper end of the axles to which th«» jVI
attached, which card indicates the nioivig’l
of the two lower systems of needles, town I
like an ordinary compass. 1
Interesting Obituary Notice.
YTe copy the following from the New p,
correspondence of the last Montgomery ifo-
tiser. It is very interesting “if true,” but»
are inclined to believe the subject of this not*
will straggle and gasp a long time yet:
New Yore, February 20, lsg.
Editors of the Adcertiser: Myprognosfest;
of a few days since has been more than r?>
ized. Yon may rely on it that negro ■ ^
dead! I have watched the Radical
tently and all sing the same song 1
Ichabod, thy glory is departed! 1 It
console the Advertiser, and the staunch Sod
cm press, as it consoles me, their fellow to
here, to know that we have fought the good id
from midnight until dawn, and that we hare;
fought-in vain.
It is certain that the North refuses to
negro suffrage, and that tens of. thousand j
hitherto Radical voters have revolted on
question against the rule of tee Goni.
Oligarchy. All hail to the glorious- Democrs.-
in whose common sense, and courage, andri
statesmanship, and real humanity to the U
man, the safety of tho country may yet be
sored. All shall find true freedom and pry- ]
tion under tee flag of a restored Union; k
that flag, whether streaming in the breezes
tee Atlantic, or shadowed in tee glassy waie
tee Pacific—whether fluttering in the gala
the Canada frontier, or floating lazily best:
the Tqpan skies, must be upheld by the vl
man as-his natural birthright; and-neither Ar
can, nor Mongol, Indian, nor nondescript, d
ever deprive him of his inheritance, i n:
that negro mijfrage it dead.
’ Respectfully yours, &
In corroboration of what our able and fail
correspondent writes to us under date of Feb-
ary 20; we will stato teat tee Kansas Sezuto.
the llih inst., refused, by a decided vote,
strike the word “ white” out of; their State C<
stitiition.
General Grant and Party AUcgian
The-Western press telegrams, gpve tho lot;
ing report of General Grant'3 dedaiahe
MtCihre, alluded to in onr dispatches vests?
Among the numerous calls nt General
headquarters to-day was O. K.'3feClrrre,ofP<
sylvania. * Mr. McClure asked General G;
dire ally if ho would appoint Governor Cali:
a place in his Cabinet. The General hh
that it would be impossible to. do so. Hi. I
Clare then said in that case be felt corspelbi
say that to give satisfaction in Pennsylvam
appointment mnst be given tosomesm:
lni3- been prominently identified with!it
publicans, and an active politician. Toils
what he said, he mnst be no such man ltd
Stuart, Basie, Smite or West.
General Grant instantly replied he cacti
see what objection any loyal man could hr
such a man as Mr. Stuart, who had d*
much for the country and. was so widely b;
Mt. McClure then mode some remarks ebK
prospects teat if such appointment weR*
made, the Republican party would he ids
in tho Pennsylvania eleation for Governori
full General Grant replied:
‘I am not myself a Representative dj
political party, although a political party «W
me.” General Grant ooncluded, "I woalj
have you to understand teat Mr. Stuart is]
man selected.” The interview has been tj
talked about to-day. Mr. McClure says k
no doubt from what was said teat Stuart ? j
man selected for the Cabinet
That is certainly a very pointed
and one likely to give umbrage to then
party.
George D.' Prentice. Hodgson d|
Montgomery Mail, who is on tee wing,
ter from Louisville, thus draws a pen-j
what time’s wear and tear has left c£ tk ]
gifted and brilliant George D. Prentiss
Yesterday I had an interview with Y’ ■
tice. He is not tee man he was ten yeas J
Indeed his genius is gone, and his pas* j
mere wreck. His family is broken ■' ]
dead, one son killed on tee ConfedtRj
another settled on a farm down, the ri^T
the old man, verging on. three scored I
cooks his breakfast, and dinner in
on tee third floor of tee Courier builS; I
lives only in conversations about the ;*' j
man once wielded an imperial power r;
wit and his music. Now ths world h- 1
past him, and he lie son tee shore a me r ; *l
ed wreck, just as we will all lie if ' r ' J
reach throe score years through »
Such is life! To-day an emperor,'
cypher;
Congressman Bingham-
One can see, writes a corresposiH
Piatt.) that a joke can be got into ib- T
man. only by a surgical operation. He
a cawpen, and solemn as a gatepost. ' i
life is real, life is earnest, and he sat" 1
sombre main in search of those foofewpl
the shipwrecked brother has left us
rnonial and a legacy, to take heart k j
words to teat effect.' His solemn j
is so written over by the lines of th°®PJ
it looks as if a bewildered traddle-bug\l
in ink, had ran furiously over it, whu e 1
forehead appears as if it were retiring'j
brain for further reflection. His big
gleam at you as if saying, “I ant ciy
ghost,” whale the few grizzly locks ove-^
look like the nodding plumes of
hearse. In a word, Bingham is a p
funeral, and when he says, in deep s
tones, that come bushwhacking "P
unknown recesses of his stomach, tus-
us are the gathered wisdom of a “°U|
life’s solemn main is pontooned viuj 1
graves,” W6 shiver, and wish
go and order a metallic casket, ana |
with it.
The Capital.—We clip the folio'll
tee Savannah Republican:
The Atlanta Intelligencer says
danger of the seat of government -J
back to Milledgeville. We are
The change was made through frar* 0 '^ I
majority of the people wish to see j
undone. Why will the Legisbfurj- -
diaregarding the popular will on U 11 * _
Even thongh Atlanta should
thirty-five thousand dollars of wmdj
has been robbed, it will be no r^® 30 ”,- {
interests and desires of the peop le
should be set aside.
The net proceeds of Dr. Blacksbetr’*
Friday evening amounted to ffW- M
The lecture is generally conceded W ]
were present to be the moat elegant ^
discourse that has h*eu delivered ®
along while. Hiseabjeetwas tbs
Soul to Physiology." We should be “ 1
see it to print.