About Weekly Georgia telegraph. (Macon [Ga.]) 1858-1869 | View Entire Issue (March 12, 1869)
ZBnBBMBKBaHBBHHBMBBtaaaaa The Greoroia, -"Weel-cly Telegraph. TIMS TELEORAPH. MACON, FKE2-AY, TIABCH12,1669. l>cnt!i or It. IH- Orme, Senior. t -\Ye arc pained *t® Kara, 'from MUIedgevfQe, that the venerable R. M. Okie, Senior; editor of the Recorder, died in that city last Monday. "Wo got no partictfltrs. Mr. Orme is believed to have been the didest conductor of the press in Georgia, and -perhaps,*tho -whole Southern country. His editorial career dates back nearly ■ half a century-; and embraces the most interest* ing, exciting and brilliant, as well ns disastrous periods in the oU-il and. political history of, Georgia. The-subjugation. and degration of the State—4he loss of a large-portion of his emple‘ property, and-fhe apparent extinction of consti- tutional liberty-in the. South,, were blows too heavy for the old veteran. He lost his mental: elasticity under-the severo-pressure of these cal amities, and notlong ago gave expression m Ms paper to feelings of utter and hopeless 'weari ness end disgust. 'SChe .public and hi3 own per sonal misfortunes, mo doubt hastened his-death. Philosopher Greeley • at the Inaugura tion Ball. We have the authority-Of & dispatch to the Louisville Courier-Journal, for the statement that Philosopher Greeley, of-the. Tribune, went to tho inauguration ball, 'W*3 knocked about ruthlessly by crowds of strong-minded women— saw none of the colored brothers and sisters there—lost his hat—that dear old bell-crown— tore his white coat—lost his temper—swore like our army in Flanders—and finally escaped with ■ the loss of one. shoe—trodden upon under the heel by an irrevalent imp-fcf humanity—by wMch-the unfortunate philosopher was precipi tated down half a flezen door steps on all fours fortunately with no [further injury than a few scratches on tho noee, face rrnd palms of the iinn/ia That was the main part of the inau guration to Philospher Greeley. Fnncrnl Discourse. “Gbesswell?” •“'Creswxll'?”—Wo never heard-of that name but once before ; and Ma- oauley, or somebody-dlso, tells actory about old Mother Cresswell, a notorious pander to the eor- mpt minions of the *Conrt of Charles II. Old Mother Cresswell died, and the Court Chaplain wagered a-cask of Burgundy with that monarch that he would preach af uneral sermon over the old l>elldame, in which nothing bat good should lie said of the dead, and it should all be tru-e. Charles accepted the wager, and -the chaplain won it, by saying, •“ That .however lightly i rreverent persons had been accustomed to speak of the honored deceased, it was equally certain that she was bom well, married well, lived well and died wp|i; for she -was bom a Hopewell, she married * Cresswell, -she lived incCamberwell and died in' -Bridewell.” Boston os "iNAUOUitATrow Day.—The cannon was fired and.tiie banners flying in 'Boston on the day of Grant’s inauguration. It wa3 a holi day by common consent. 'They had a prayer meeting, of course, and the prayere mixed a good deal wifhjsolitics. "Nearly all Clergymen of the city participated an hour or more in sol emn prayer, invoking the divine blessing upon the President, the Congress and the -country, and imploring riie forgiveness of God -for the indiscretions of ihe outgoing President. ” Cer tainly ! Andrew • Johnson may consider .himself in luck after all ; Boston has made it ail right for him. He nead’nt fear any punishment for ,• the awful sin he committed in refusing to carry . ont the plans of {as Radicals. Absolco UJ Gen. Dissatisfaction, According to Northern accounts, has taken -eom- . mand of the -Radical camp. They damn the inaugural with very-faint and equivocal praise, and the Cabinet with the most unreserved cen sure. • ■They take consolation, however, in the hope, that some members will not accept end others will resign from incompetency, or some other reason, and the- Cabinet will, therefore, have to.-be “ reconstructed.” They were bent on reconstructing Grant's administration before it had bean in existenoo.forty-eight hours. Cuba—Af hat the Ihccegents Repoet.—Late accounts from the insurgents in Cnba state that ■ they have 6,500 men in the field, of whom 2,000 . are armed,, whilst the .others fight with such . weapons as they can obtain; that they hold two- i thirds of the inland towns ; that its entire cen- • tre is impassable to the Spanish soldiery; that <<he Government has hod no communication with Nenvitas or Puerto Principe for four months, and that Valmazeda lost £00 men ont of 5,000 in his retreat from Nenvitas to Bayamo, picked off by insurgent sharpshooters. “All we want,” say the Cabans, “is arms and monitions— arms for 40,000 men who now fight with boughs of trees, forked at the end, and woqden .cannon, which are good for only -.three rounds, the fourth round, as a rule, burst ing them.” Ecclesiastical Rapacity.—One of the strang- cat scenes which has been witnessed in this crooked world, for a long time, must have been tho M. E. Church Conference in Alexandria. The chief matter of discussion in that reverend body was the success they had met with in wresting the church buildings and property out of the hands of the-Southem Methodists, and the hope was expressed that in no great time they would be ably to make a clean-sweep in the bastard State of West -Virginia and throughout the old Dominion. An assembly of reverend -divines pattering their prayers and psalms of congratula tion over-their-success in tho unrighteous acqui sitions of property not their own! Gen. Gkaxt's .Inconsistence.—A New York dispatch says much amusement was caused in political circles in that city, by a publication ex posing tho inconsistency of General Grant in re fusing to take advice of his political and person al friends in the formation of his Cabinet after having attempted to force President Johnson to continao Ms personal enemy Stanton in the War Department Important Medical Discovery.—A remarka ble medical discovery has recently been made in ,:he treatment of deafness by Professor Scott, of $he New York Medical University, by which the mast apparently hopeless cases are radically cured. The method consists in introducing atom' zc d oxydo of phenyl directly into the cavi ty of the tympanum. No unpleasant sensations are produced, and a feeling of clearness seems to follow the application. Numerous cases are daily treated successfully at the University. New Hampshire Ejection.—Tho New Hamp- •aMro State election for Governor and State offi- .oers (ook place yesterday. The Democracy are making a-square fight in opposition to universal negro suffrage. Being the first election since the adoption cf the 15th amendment, the result will be looked, for with interest A Duke of Orleans now exists for the first time since 1842. He was three weeks old last week. His mamma is the Countess of Paris, who was confined at ^Twickenham, England, on ihe Cth .of February. Ihe young Duke is a great-grandson of Lonitd?hilippe, by both father and mother. Emigration fjom the Antipodes.—A party of distinguished gentlemen from the Celestial Em pire passed through Knoxville, Tennessee, a few days since, an route for Westers Tennessee, where they expect to settle and engage in the culture of the tea plant. They are to bo followed by another party who are iooking out a suitable location for an extensive Fire Cracker Factory. Georgia stud I.onisi:r:ui X.uf£ ont-An* other Slow. We see the Clerk of tho House omitted the States of Georgia and Louisiana in his call of Representatives to the 41st Congress. This omission raised a strong protest from the Dem ocrats, for whom Mr. Brooks, of New 1 York, was chief spokesman. The call was interrupted by the clamor, of contestants on both sides for neariy an hour, daring wMch excitement rose to the highest pitch—a go rid deal of minatory language was interchanged—calls for arrest were furious, and, fora time, personal collisions seemed not improbable. Finally, the contest was withdrawn without any particular reason apparent in the report of the tumult, and the call of States pro ceeded with Georgia and Louisiana omitted. This is incidental notification that the House does not consider G eorgia and Louisiana prop erly reconstructed and entitled to representation in Congress. True, neither have elected Con gressmen, but both were nevertheless entitled to be called. Therefusal to call them is re-af firmation by the House of the Forty-first Con gress of the decision made by the same body in the Fortieth Congress in the electoral canvass. That body, it will be recollected, raised the same question as to Louisiana and Georgia, and de cided it, so far as the House was concerned, against those States by a strict party vote. They declared that Georgia and Louisiana should not be counted. The Senate, in joint session, over ruled the House, and in so doing raised a simi lar tempest with the House majority that the Democrats did last Thursday in the effort to defeat the same proposition. Thus tho House must bo considered to have twice affirmed, in different sessions, that Geor gia and Lonisiana-shall not be considered States of the Union. We are now to-see what positive and affirma tive action of Congress is to follow tMs negative assertion. Meanwhile we have Gen. Grant’s unofficial declaration that he considers Georgia in the Union—that it is absurd to deny our title to be a State of the Union. We have the Senate’s action, (whatever that may go for) insisting upon tiie count of Georgia in the electoral can vass, and we have the declaration of various leading Radical organs that, after what has passed, it is absurd to deny that Georgia is not legally reconstructed and entitled to the position of a State of the Union. The ca60 of Georgia, therefore, seems to complicate as we move along, and it is onr mis fortune to breed a row in Congress whenever we come up in that body. We are evidently destined to bo “a bone of contention,” an “ap ple of discord.” or any other acceptable figure of speech wMch may set forth an inoffensive and harmless cause of quarrel. We see the Georgia Radicals at home are split up into several small pieces over the status of Georgia. We see tiie Senate and House of Re presentatives of the United States, in conven tion assembled, going into a perfect storm over Georgia—even the gentle Ben. Butler himself, fairly dancing with rage and shouting until black in the face for the members of the House to kick the Senators out of their chamber; and now we see the new House in a foam so soon as Georgia is mentioned, and the members chal lenging each other to a resort to force. We see, too, that the House majority is evidently al ready at issue in opinion with the new admin istration, as to the course which shall be pursued towards Georgia; so that really it would ap pear, in spite of ourselves, and notwithstanding our utmost efforts to harmonize the country— to conciliate Congress and the powers that be. and to maintain so profound a quiet and sub lime an acquiesence in, and resignation to, the fiat and will of our Radical dominators, that the world has never seen the like ; we say, notwith standing all these, it seems that we are provi dentially and judicially set apart as a sort of moral and political cayenne pepper in the ten der optics of radicalism; so that whenever Georgia comes up the whole eamp is straight way in a blaze, and they strike about so wildly and blindly,in the excess of furious indignation, that they knock each other over and terrify spectators. Well we can’t help it. We have •only to keep quiet and say notMng. Mobile Register on the Cabinet. The Chevalier Bayard of the Southern press has this to say about the new deal of the De partments : Another Presidential parturition! And tMs time more than a mouse is bom. Every Rad ical leader will exclaim with Hamlet: “ How now! A rat ? Dead for a ducat, dead!” We see now, why Grant would not “ send for ” the toaders. He meant to leave them out in the cold, and had no use for them. But, oh, Gemi ni ! what a row there is going to be about Gen. Grant's ears. There is no XVth Amendment in that Cabinet. The Sumners, Wades, Wilsons, and all the head devils of destruction “ severely let alone.” Won’t they howl? Won’t they hang on to the tenure-of-office law ? Won’t the breach grow into a gulf betwoen Grant and the political extremists who had to take Mm ? Won’t the “rings’’swear like tho army in Flanders ? and won’t Grant before long have to cry to Dem ocrats, when he wants a good measure put through Congress, “Help me, Cassius! or I sink?” For our part, we are pleased with the animus that breathes out of the tout ensemble of tho cab inet We could tell better if we liked its per sonal material, if we only knew who they all were. But who is Borie? Who is Hoare? And wMch Cox is it ? They are all unknown to fame. They are all like Grant, “not politi- cians,” and that is the good feature in it. They are evidently selected as General Grant's per sonal and trusted friends. Mr. Stuart, the great dry goods man, holds the most important port folio, and if he manages the public finances as skillfully as he has done Ms mammoth New York establishment, so mnch the better for the Treas ury. We should like to know how many Gov ernment bonds he holds. Mr. Washbume, of the State Department, used to be accounted a Rad., but his Conservative lectures to the ex tremists in the House are yet fresh from his lips. Of the rest we know nothing, except that Mr. Creswejl was late Senator from Maryland. The General hangs fire on the War Minister, and we have to wait for the coming man. Wo await, also, with meekness and patience, to hear what the Radical Senators and newspapers have to say about it. Richmond Dispatch on the Cabinet. The Richmond Dispatch of Saturday, after a personal notice of each member of the Cabinet embodies its ideas of the whole, and its mean ing, in the following: This Cabinet, while composed of men all, we suppose, belonging to the Republican party, is yet selected with such little reference to party leaders as to be entirely in keeping with the oft- expresssed sentiments of General Grant, show ing Ms independence of party. In his inaugural he declares that the Presidency had come to him “unsought,” and that he commenced “its duties untrammelled”; and he has steadily avowed the determination to be governed alone by “the will of tho people.” The Cabinet he has selected must be tested by its official conduct General Grant evidenty means himself to be an active and controlling Chief Magistrate. He will see that public duties are discharged, and will re lieve the Government of incapacity, whenever it appears in Ms Cabinet or elsewhere, by re movals and new appointments. General Grant, in framing tMs Cabinet, has left out the political hacks—those drilled and disciplined leaders in partisan warfare—and he lias no doubt done so to get rid of their arro gance and their prejudice, and passions. He aid not mean to gather about Mm men prone to dictation. In avoiding them he facilitates the way to peace and practicalizes his administra tion. _ Joshua Hum.—The Hon. Joshua Hill hod on interview with tho President on the 5th. Wo hope he secured a through ticket; bat it is donbtfnl. '■ A writes in Good Words says: “In family affection and feminine chastity, Ireland can challenge tho world to equal her. From Washington. HOW LONG THE GABISKT WILL LAST. However, it is well understood among the friends of the administration that the present Cabinet is going to pieces at an early day. Gen. Schofield intends to returnto the army mid Gen. Cox is to bo transferred from tho Interior to the War Department. The Northwest is to step into the Interior Department in the person of Jos. F. Wilson, of Iowa. Borie, -who has not accept ed yet, may decline, when- a new man will have to be selected for the Navy. Department. Wash bume lias not decided to stay in the State De partment, and will probably resign. This may give the Resident an opportunity to heed the expressions of discontent and disappointment that run in the press and among the -people without regard to party, ever the existing Cab inet. FOREIGN MISSIONS. It has been ascertained from a reliable source that among the first of the the President's of ficial acts will be the recall of Reverdy John son, General John A. Dix, and Watson Webb, Minister to Brazil. At present no one can even conjecture who will succeed to tho English and French embassies, unless Washbume goes to the latter. CoL Burbridge, of Kentucky, is strongly named for the Brazilian Mission, being indorsed by over one hundred Senators and Representatives. It is said that William Cam- back, who was beaten for the United States Sen ate from Indiana, aspires to be the successor of George Bancroft at the Prussian Court. [Louisville Courier-JournaL People Who Drink Wise not Drunkards.— There are no drunkards in the wino districts of Europe. Prof. Lewis Agassiz recently replied to a question pat to -him by a Massachusetts Temperance Committee, that in Switzerland wine is so much the beverage of the common people that “when one is not able to supply himself -with it he is a pauper,” while it is con sidered one of the charities proper for the poor. “I do not,” says he, “know a more cheerful, temperate and steady class of people than are the peasantry and citizens of Switzerland, gen erally.” Of the Germans, he says they live on bread, beer and a little meat, and sometimes without any meat at oil; but be thinks where beer is drank the people are not so sprightly as where they drink wine. As for drunkenness, he did not know what it -was until he went to England. For this reason, and also because he is a tem perance man, he hails with joy the efforts made to raise wine in this country, and he adds that if we can have pure unadulterated wine “we will have no need of “license or of proMbitory laws.” In answer to a question regarding the general use of stimulants by men, and in all ages of the world, the Professor says that in the human body “there is a class of agents which tend to check or to retard the disintegration of tissue. In the process of life, there is going on all the time a construction of wearing away, which is continued every moment or life. We find tea, tobacco, fermented liquors or alcoholic beverages distributed wherever the race is found, and they seem to afford the opportunity of checking a too rapid destruction of the tis sues, and so keep the balance right, and the in dividual in health.” BY TELEGRAPH, The Situation in Spain.—-The Constituent Cortez have appointed a Committee of Fifteen to draft a constitution and form of government. As the republican party is in a hopeless minor ity, tMs proposition, wMch is to be submitted to the people for ratification, is almost certain to embody some sort of limited monarchy. That people are not prepared for a republican gov ernment, wMch they very well know. A Row Among Soldiers—The Atlanta Era of the 9th, says : A collision took place on Washington street on Sunday, between a squadron of cavalry and a detachment of artillery, all belonging to tho United States service, in wMch three men were wounded by pistol shots and three more severely beaten. The difficulty occurred at Hortonville, a delightfully classic location somewhere near the jail; and, as was the case in the Trojan war, it was all about a woman, or rather about some women, who reside at Hortonville. One branch of the United States soldiery claimed the women as personal property, a claim which the other disputed, and like the beautiful Helen, the wo men were the cause of a bloody conflict, with the result above stated. No lives were lost, nor were were any of the combatants fatally injured. Peace has been declared, we understand. “Savannah is Doomed,” are the startling words which in blood red colors glare dire ven geance at us from the pampMet entitled the “ Great Earthquake by -which the Destruction of Savannah and the Surrounding Country Within a Radius of Fifty Miles is to be Accom plished.” Tho date of this dreadful mishap is fixed on the seventh of June next. The News, from wMch we cut the foregoing, gives notice in advance that it will suspend pub lication but a single day on account of the ca tastrophe. The price of town lots has not been affected. The Bill to Strengthen the Public Credit. You remember the old story of the bull-fight on the bridge. Brindle butted Buck off into the river, and then backing, ins ome astonishment at his valorous deed, tumbled off on the other side. We backed the Democracy into the Salt river, and this bill to strengthen our national credit looks as if we were tumbling, foremost, into the same stream. A Sugar Crop in Dooly.—We think the ex ample of onr friend Woodward in Dooly county, is worthy, of special imitation. President Lopez.—Some curious letters of the Paraguayan tyrant, Lopez, fell into the hands of the Allies after the battle of Angostura. They are addressed to Gen. McMahon, the American Minister, and refer to the fact that the latter has accepted the keeping of a will be queathing all the property, rights and claims of the Dictator to Madame Eliza A, Lynch. It ap- S ears also from the letters that General McMa- on has assumed the protection of the cMldren of Lopez. The person known as Madame Lynch is the mistress of Lopez. She is Irish by birth, and is the wife of a French surgeon whom she left about seventeen years ago for Lopez. She is described as a woman of fine personal appear ance, still bearing the marks of the beauty by wMch Lopez was first captivated, and exercises great influence over the Paraguayan President. She has borne him several children. Lopez has never married. __ At a meeting of the retiring members of the Fortieth Congress, last evening at the Seaton House, it was remarked that the name of Gen. Grant was not. spoken during the evening, nor were the Cabinet appointments allnded to ex cept in the case of Mr. Borie, who, it was said, hod declined the honor conferred. All present were Radicals.—National Intdligeneer, 5th. The New York Times on the Cabinet.—The Times of the Cth, says: The Cabinet as a whole will not commend it self to the favor of politicians, because it has not been taken from their ranks; nor are the men who compose it sufficiently well known to the public at large to command in advance the full confidence of the community. But in the very freshness of its character, in the fact that its members are business men rather than poli ticians, and are likely to make the practical in terests of the country their first care, we see ground for believing that tho Cabinet will, by its practical working, vidicate the wisdom of its selection. Tribune on the Cabinet. — The New York Tribune’s specials upon the Cabinet, say; It is difficult to give a fair idea of the popnlar feeling, but there is no disguising the fact that the announcement caused great disappointment at the OapitoL Messrs. Washbume and Cress well are looked npon as tho only politicians of national reputation among the selection. A New Dodge for Bashful Lovers.—A nice way of overcoming bashful scruples has been found in North Carolina. At a recent wedding a guest proposed that one man in the company should be selected as President; that tMs Presi dent should be dnly sworn to keep entirely se cret all communications forwarded to him in Ms official department that night; that each unmar ried gentleman and lady should write his or her name on a piece of paper, and under it place the name of the person they wished to marry, then hand it to the President for inspection, and if any lady and gentleman had reciprocally chosen each other, tho President was to inform each of the result, and those who had been reciprocal in their choice were to be kept entirely secret. Af ter the appointment of the Pnesident, communi cations were accordingly handed up to the chair, and it was found that twelve young ladies and gentlemen had reciprocal choices, and eleven of the twelve matches were solemnized FROM ATLANTA. Adjournment Decided Upon. Nothing Else Important. Special to the Telegraph.] Atlanta, Mareh O—Night. Senate.—Mr. Smith, of the 7th, made a motion to reconsider the action of the Senate in the bill granting State aid to tho Brunswick and Albany railroad, the interest on the bonds to bo payable in gold, it gave rise to considerable discussion. Mr. Smith delivered an able speech in favor of bis motion. The opponents of the hill favored reconsideration for the purpose of amending the bill so that the State should endorse the bonds of tho road to the amount of $10,000 per mile, in specie-ordts equiva lent. Mr. Burns, after a few remarks called for the previous question, but afterwards withdrew the Ms message requesting the repeal of the act ex cluding Stewart from tho Treasury—granted. Several propositions for a removal ot political dis abilities were referred. Osbomo introduced a bill granting lands to build a steamboat canal in Florida. The following bills were introduced: A bill authorizing the construction of bridges over tho Mississippi, above the month of the Missouri. Also prohibiting sales of gold by the Treasurer. Tho following was received s “ I have tho honor to request to be permitted to withdraw from the Senate the message requesting the passage of a joint resolution to relieve tho Secretary of the Treasury from the disabilities im posed by section eight of tho act of Congress, ap proved September 2d, 1789. (Signed) “ U. S. Grant.” Sumner moved to lay tho messago on the table and order it printed. Sprague moved that the request be granted, wMch was adopted. Senate adjourned. Waohisoton, March 10, Noon..—Senate—The , i Senate considers tho teuure-of-offioe bill after mom- Mr. Colman moved to lay the motion on tho table i. . ““ . * , , , ._ —adopted, yeas 22, nays 15. Parliamentary usage requires a two-thirds vote to ing hours. Bills wore introduced for levees in Mis sissippi and Louisiana, and for amending the act takofrom the tablo any bill where an effort has b^n i providing for a provisional government for Virginia, mado to reconsider. Mr. Holcombe gave notice that ha -would make the motion to-morrow. Mr. Smith, of the 3Gth, made a motion to recon sider the action of the Senate in reference to hir ing out convicts—lost. Tho bill to prevent monopolies, and tax railroad companies, was laid on the table. The resolution of Mr. Candler that E. Hulbert, C. 17811006 and M. Cooper be appointed to negotiate for the purchase of tho Rome branch road, provided the sum do not exceed $300,000 for the twenty miles, after considerable discussion, passed. House.—The House held no session last night for want of a quorum. The House to-day refused to reconsider the edu cational bill. The bill to aid the Van Wert Railroad was lost. The resolution to prolong the session one week, of fered by McWhorter, was lost—it requiring two- thirds to rescind—ayes 75, nays 62. There was some argument for prolonging the ses sion. There are 300 bill’s on tho Clerk’s desk yet to be acted upon. Fitzpatrick moved to adjourn sine die. Lost by a small majority. The bill to remove tho Capitol was then put to a vote, wMch stood ayes 78, nays 51. Tho action of the House on this till will be re considered to-morrow, as fotty-eix members were absent and not voting. A proposal is made for the State to buy tho Opera House for $250,000, the City Council of Atlanta to pay $100,000 toward the purchase. W. FROM ATLANTA. FlFiecaitli Amendment iu both ileuses CiiaractcristiclIc.s.saselrom(iovcnior Bullock. Afiter Angier Again- Special to the Telegraph.] Atlanta, March 10—Night. Senate.—Most of the morning session was con sumed in reconsidering bills. The Governor sent in a message containing the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Mr. Wiria offered a resolution looking to its adop tion. Mr. Hinton moved to lay the whole matter on the table for the present—lost, ayes 13,^nays 1C. The whole matter was then made the special or der for Friday next, on a motion of 3Ir. Wooten, who supported the same in an able speech. The Governor, in his message, urged the General Assembly to lose no time in its adoption. It was specially designed to secure political privileges to the colored man; that this Assembly had violently wrested them from him, and it wifi not be recog nized as valid by the power proposing the amend ment unless the Assembly reverse its action. Ho urges that by its adoption, and permitting all to vote, it carries, necessarily, the right to hold ofiice. Foreigners, after becoming naturalized, vote and hold offices, except that of President, and can the native bom. who are enfranchised, be any the less eligible ? On the contrary, the native negro, hav ing been made a citizen, will he eligible to offices wMch are denied to foreigners. Enfranchised by this means, the representatives of the colored race will bo hoard in the Council Halls of the nation. By prompt action now, we shall have the State re stored to all her rights and privileges in the Union. He takes the ground that tho Fourteenth Amend ment is yet disregarded in this State. The bill granting aid to the Brunswick and Albany Railroad was ordered to be transmitted to the House. Mr. Candler offered a resolution, requesting tho Honse to return the bill, thus bringing up again the whole subject, pending which the Senate adjourned. House.—The Honse reconsidered the bill remov ing tho Capitol to Milledgeville, by a vote of 81 yeas to 52 nays. The resolntion adopting the fifteenth amend ment was made the special order for to-morrow. On the motion to lay the matter on the table, it was noticed that some of the extreme Radicals de clined voting. Conservative Republicans and mod erate Democrats voted against the motion. It is surmised that the amendment will be adopted. The House voted to extend the session until Thursday next. The bill declaring void all sales, unauthorized, of wild lands, passed. The bill compelling Ordinaries and Sheriffs to ad vertise in a paper in their own county, and if there was none, then in the paper having the largest cir- cnlation, was lost. ** The veto message from the Governor, of the res olution making an advance of five thousand dollars to the State Printer, was received. The message reflects severely on Angier. It says the failure of Bard to get his money arises from the fact of unau thorized dictation by an individual who has, lately, exercised the privileges of Ms office simply to pro mote his own arbitrary views, in utter disregard of the duties pertaining to Ms office. The resolution was passed over tho veto—yeas 79, nays 31. No election of Foreign Commissions, as tho hill has not yet been received from tho Governor. There are about forty aspirants for the office. W. Congressional. ■Washington, March 9.—House—E. B. Wash bume, Secretary of State, lias resigned 1ns seat in the Honse. Dr. Butler, a Lntherian preacher, of tMs city, has been elected chaplain of tho Honse. A resolntion that all credentials, papers, etc., re garding the election in Louisiana be referred to the Committee on Elections, with instructions to inves tigate all matters thereto pertaining, with power to send for papers and persons, was adopted. House.—Schenck introduced a bill reducing to one action the amending of laws relative to Internal Revenue. He explained that the bill embraced all the modifications and alterations suggested and passed at the last session, thus making the bill as perfect as possible. It was referred to the Commit tee of tho Whole, and ordered to be printed. The resolution appointing a Joint Committee on Indian Affairs, was' lost. The following select committees wore ordered in tho House : Nine on Census ; a Joint Committee of four from tho Senate, and four fro the House on re trenchment ; Committee on tho Pacific Railroad con sists of fourteen members; on Patents nine mem bers. The Reconstruction Committee has been renewed by a vote of 109 to 42. The bill repealing the tenure-of-ofiice law passed, by a vote of 143 to 16. Nays—Arnell, Bates, Farns worth, Farriss, Hotchkiss, Jenckes, Lawrence, of Ohio; Maynard, Schenck, Smith, Stokes, Taffe. Till- way, Ward, WMttemore and Willard. Honse adjourned to Friday. Senate—The bill for strengthening tho public credit was reported on by tho Finance Committee, favorably. A bill granting a right of way to the Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Railroad was introduced. Sherman introduced a bill repealing the Tenure- of-office. and asked present consideration. Sumner objected. \ v ,, ... s The President’s .-.message was read, withdrawing Texas and Mississippi. No developments have been made regarding the Secretary of the Treasury. Tho tenure-of-offieo bill was resumed. The friends of tho repeal struggled to pnt it on its passage, but it was referred to the Judiciary Committee by a vote of 33 to 25. A bfll strengthening the public credit, was taken np. Ferry introduced a joint resolntion that the act re moving ineligible civil officers in Virginia, Texas and Mississippi, shall not take effect until thirty days after the passage of tMs resolution. Referred to the Judiciary Committee. A bill was introduced to pay loyal claimants in the late rebellious States. It contemplates their com missioners appointed by the President. Very full caucus of Republican Senators-to-day. Anthony was unanimously nominated for Presi dent pro tern, of the Senate. The Senate has determined to act only upon the folio - ,ring general questions this session: The repeal of the tenure-of-office act; tostrenght- en the public credit; to redistribute banking cur rency; to reorganize the Judiciary; to enforce the fourteenth amendment; to relieve political disabili ties ; to reorganize the navy, and the Georgia ques tion. The motion not to consider Georgia this sesion re ceived only seven affirmative votes. Thayer, Edmunds, Carpenter and Snmner urged its immediate consideration during this caucus. A proposition to restrict business this session hav ing been made,it was insisted,on the part of Southern Senators, that legislation was required for the settle ment of claims of loyal citizens; also, that Sumner's bill preventing intimidation of voters, etc., should bo passed. In addition, they insisted that there should be some general friendly legislation for the recon structed States, in order to create a better feeling, that they might understand that they were not neg lected by other sections. Radical Convention of Virginia, Petersburg, March 9.—Tho Republican State Convention met at noon. Tucker, an anti-Wells man, was attempted to be declared temporary chair man, when the Wells men resisted, and a general fight ensued aronnd the chairman’s stand. A strong police force interfered and separated the combat ants. Burgess, Mayor of the town, appeared and made a speech in behalf of peace. The rival candi dates for temporary chairman followed, advocating force. Another row ensued, and the Mayor ordered the police force to clear the hall, wMcli was done. Tho delegates are now scattered about the streets. It is not known where they will meet again. Later.—Alter the stormy scenes of this morning, it was announced by the Mayor that the Convention would reassemble at the African Chnrch. In a short time, the delegates were assembled and the disor derly scenes renewed; but the Mayor gave his per sonal supervision, with a strong police force, to the organization, wMch was effected after much excite- vnent—Jenkins, a Wells man, being chosen tempo rary chairman. The Convention then adjourned till 10 o’clock to-night. During tho session to-day, a telegram was receiv ed from Gov. Bullock, of Georgia, desiring a har monious Convention and the renomination of Wells. From Virginia. Richmond, March 7.—The Supreme Lodge of tho Knights of PytMas assembled in annual session at Covenant.Hall tMs morning. Representatives were present from Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, District of Co lumbia and Virginia. Reports were received from all of the above named States, also from California, Nebraska and Louisiana. The reports of tho Supreme Chancellor, Samuel Read, of New Jersey, and of the Supreme Scribe, C. M. Bartow, of the District of Columbia, were read, showing a membership of over fifty thousand, with two hundred and fifty lodges and eight grand lodges. Seven thousand six hundred and twenty-seven dollars and eighty-eight cents as a widows and or phans’fund is now in the Treasury, as shown by the report of the Supreme Banker, Wm. A. Porter. Daring thepast eight months four thousand three hundred and eleven dollars and sixty-three cents has been expended for relief. The subordinate lodges have on hand the snmof sixty-four thousand seven hundred and twenty-nine dollars and ninety- one cents. The session wifi continue four days. From Washington. Washington, March 9.—General Adelberi Ames heretofore Provisional Governor of Mississippi, is assigned to tho command of tho 4th Military Dis trict. Lieut Col. Biddle is ordered to report to Gen. Ames for duty. STEWART DECLINES. Stewart has positively declined the appointment of Secretary of tho Treasury. The document indicated last night was dnly exe cuted ; but as doubts and opposition were still ex isting and expressed, Stewart withdrew and Grant haa accepted his resignation. Hoar has accepted tho Attorney Generalship, wMch shuts out Boutwell from the Cabinet. Revenue today $1,000,000. Borie, Washbume, Schofield and Creswell attended tho Cabinet to-day. The caucus committees of both Houses agree to adjourn, if possible, within thirty days. Washbume took formal possession of the State Department to-day. Washington, March 10.—The resignation of Dix, minister to France, has been accepted. In the Supreme Court, Evarts introduced Ms suc cessor, Judge Hoar, who was qualified as Attorney General. Mr. Stewart and family will depart for New York to-morrow. General Hatch. Colonel of the 9th cavalry will succeed General Howard in the Freedman’s Bureau. New Secretaries are at work in all departments ex cept the Treasury. Two republican wings from Mississippi have had several meetings without compromising their diffi culties Misapprehension having arisen from recent dis patches regarding tho Busteed case, tho following from tho official record is telegraphed: Mr. Wood- bridge,by unanimous censent, moved that tho Com mittee on tho Judiciary ba .discharged from further investigation' into the official conduct of tho Hon. Richard Busteed, Judge of tho United States District Court of Alabama, and that the testimony already taken be laid on the table. The motion was agreed to. SurgconJohn Moore has been ordered to the first Military District as medical director. Colonel Henry A. Morrow relieves General John S. Mason, in Texas. Commissioner Rollins, in his valedictory said tho interest of the revenae has been sacrificed that the unworthy policy of reconstruction might be forced upon an unworthy people. Bad men and bad women have controlled presidential nomina tions. Also, that the country has abundant reason to believe that the expectation of pardon wifi hereafter stimulate violations of the revenue law. The Supremo Court is arguing a mandamus com pelling a collector of taxes to receivo the issue of Tenneessce banks before the war. Veto Message of Governor Bullock- Atlanta, March 10.—The Governor’s Message, transmitting the fifteenth amendment, was taken up and read in both Houses to-day. The Governor says it is a source of great gratification to the lovers of liberty and republican principles throughout the country, that Congress lias given us this further pledge that the declaration of our fathers, that all men are created equal, shall be recognized as a reality, and is no longer a mere empty sound. The equal rights of every man, either by himself or bis election as a representative, to participate in framing laws by wMch he is to be governed, and the selec tion of persons to execute them, is the very foun dation of a republican government; and that one race or color shall undertake to exclude from polit ical privileges any other race or color, is not only a practical denial of tho principle on wMch our inde pendence was originally delcared, and the govern ment subsequently founded, but displays a thirst for power—natural, it is true, to human nature, but by no means creditable to its sense of justice. The colored race is free all over this broad land; ■one more step was needed, and this amendment, if adopted by throe-fourths of the States represented in the Union, completes it. It will then be written in tho fundamental law, abovo tho strife of faction and the reach of passion, that all men, without dis tinction of race or color, shall havo equal political privileges. Were there any doubt as to the suffi ciency of tMs amendment to confer equal political privileges without regard to race or color; were it uttered that the right to vote did not necessarily in clude the right to hold office, it would certainly be dissipated and refuted by the arguments advanced in the debates of Congress on the passage of the joint resolution proposing this amendment, as well as by the expressed opinions of tho soundest law yers in the nation. Foreigners deprived from voting or holding office in their own country may become citizens and en franchised in tins, and are eligible to any office except President, Vice President and Senators of Congress. Can native bom be less eligible? On tho contrary, native bom negroes having been mado citizens and voters by the National Constitution, will be eligible to offices which are denied by the Constitution to the enfranchised foreigner. Adopt ing this amendment wifi, therefore, bo hailed as the final triumph of freedom and equal rights for all, and wifi blot out distinctions of political rights based upon race, color or previous condition as to Blavery. Its adoption by the nation wiil be the consummation of tho progress of ihe last eight years toward the perfect accord between the theory of Republican ism and its practical enforcement. In ratifying this proposed amendment to the Constitution of the United States, we Bhould remember that we there by renew, for ourselves, obligations which wo have not heretofore fully recognized. To be consistent and give evidence that wo act in good faith, we must at once voluntarily yield to the colored citizens tho rights wMch have been wrested from them, and restore their representatives to their rightful po sitions, that their voices may be heard in your halls and their votes recorded npon public measnrse. Tho ratification of the amendment by your body and a recognition of its requirements, together with those of the fourteenth amendment, wMch are as yet disregarded,will. I sincerely hope and confident ly believe, secure for us a full and complete recog nition as a State, and definitely settle our political differences, and set at rest, finally and forever, the feeling of uncertainty and insecurity wMch now ex ists and disturbs a large portion of our people. The fifteenth amendment was made the special order for Friday in the Senate, and for tomorrow in the Honse. Sherman Assumes -Command. H'dq’rs Army, Adj't Gen.’s Office, March 8. General Orders No. 12. By direction of the President of the United States, the undersigned hereby assumes command of the Army of the United States. His general staff will he, Brevet Major General E. D. Townsend, Adjutant General; Brevet Major General B. B. Marcey, In spector General; Brevet Major General M. C. Meigs, Quarter Master General; Brevet Major General B. B. Eaton, Commissary General of Subsistance; Brevet Major General J. K. Barnes, Surgeon Gene ral; Brevet Major General B. W. Brice, P. M. Gene ral; Brevet Major General Joseph Holt, Judge Ad vocate General; Brevet Major General A. A. Hum phreys, CMef of Engineers; Brevet Major General A. B. Dyer, CMef of Ordnance; Brevet Major Gene ral A. J. Myer, Chief Signal Officer. His personal staff and Aids do Camp, with the rank of Colonel, from this date, will be, Brevet Lieu tenant Colonel J. C. McCoy, Second Lieutenant 2d Infantry; Brevet Lieutenant Colonel L. M. Dayton, Captain 7th Cavalry; Brevet Lieutenant Colonel J. C. Andenried, Captain 6th Cavalry; Brevet Briga dier General C. B. Comstock, Major of Corps of En gineers ; Brevet Brig. General Horace Porter, Ma jor of Ordnance Department; Brigadier General F. T. Dent, Lieutenant Colonel 33d Infantry. W. T. Sheehan. General Georgia Press »i> the Cabinet, From the Columbus Enquirer.] The names announced by telegraph, as those of the gentleman nominated by General Grant as his Cabinet officers, took us so mnch by sur prise that we were slow to give up the notion that the dispatch was a hoax We have onl? to say of them that the selection evinces as lit- tie regard for the preferences and suggestions of the Radical politicians of the country, as did the tone of the Inaugural address. The address and these nominations must satisfy the Radical Congressmen that General Grant has “set up for himself,” and increase their distrust of him But this distrust is a hopeful indication for the country. Only two or three of the men named as Cati. net officers are known to the country generallv, and none of them rank as men of eminent abiii'. ty. The very selection of such men is indica tive of an attempt to break loose from the evil influences and corrupt practices that have so much perverted and disgraced the Government We can only take hope from what we have seen so far, and wait for further developments. From the Savannah iferninp Neic*.] The telegraph announces the Cabinet appoint, meats of President Grant, and makes allusion to the excitement which the announcement caused in the House. We can imagine the sn-1 prise the politicians must have experienced jf the formation of a Cabinet composed with only one or two exceptions, of gentlemen as little known in the world of statesmanship or politics as -was Gen. Grant himself only a few months since. So obscure, politically, are most of them that their names, much less their characters end qualifications, are known to but few out of their respective neighborhoods. With the exception of Mr. Washburn and Mr. Stewart, we do net remember to have.seen the names of either of tho gentlemen mentioned in connection with a Cabinet appointment. It is evident that Gen. Grant has selected his advisers for other reasons than their eminence as party politicians. May we not regard fids fact as an indication of the purpose to be the President of the people and not the intrnmeat of a faction ? from the Augusta Chronicle <£• Sentinel.] Upon the whole, this is. the weakest Cabinet that ever undertook to manage tho affairs of our Government. General Grant seems to have been guided in its selection by two considers, tions alone. The first seems to havo been to get rid of the leading politicians of his owe party, and the second to draw around him men whom he could fashion and mould to his own modes of thought and his own views of policy. Perhaps the question of retrenchment in the expenditures of the Government was also con- sidered in these selections. From the Columbus Sun & Times.] Grant has brought about him a Cabinet coo- posed of men, who will bo entirely subservient to his views in every particular. These appoint ments make it more manifest that he intends to run the government just as he would manage a military camp. His placing Wnshbnme in s position for which ho is utterly unfitted exhib. its his quality of gratitude in a very strong light In his selection of his Cabinet, as in his inau gural he goes for tho bond-holder against the poor men of the country, and makes it more certain that his administration will excite name- diate and violent opposition in Radical ranks. A late Washington dispatch says: “Leading Republicans here, by various cau tions expedients, indicate mnch dissatisfaction with the aspect of affairs at Washington. Oue of them declares that Gen. Grant seemed to have no just idea of the force or scope of moral influences, but understood but brnte force.” F.-om the Atlanta Constitution.] We are pleased to seo that President Grant, in the selection of his cabinet, has discarded the old weather-beaten politicians, and called around him, as advisers, comparatively new men. There will be angry growling among the old bears, hut all the better for the country. From the Savannah Republican.] With the exception of Mr. Washburn, as Sec retary of State, the appointments doubtless dis appointed everybody. We know too little of the rest to offer on opinion. • * * * * * We hope they willgivePres- ident Grant good advice, and aid him in restor ing the Government to what it should be. Itti evident that the extremists have been disap pointed, and we may look for the loudest sort of grumbling. It will be seen that the views of the Georgia press run pretty mnch in the samo channel The Montgomery Advertiser says: We think this Cabinet will most probably prove a dead "failure, and will bo speedily dis solved. There is but one construction to be placed upon the selection of these non-repre sentative persons, and that construction is that President Grant desires it to bo understood tbit he does not intend to “run” the Governmnni as a Radical machine. These Cabinet officers can not be said to be either Radicals or Democrats. From Mexico. Havana, March 9.—A steamer has arrived from Vera Cruz. She reports that Negreto has been routed and escaped with a few adherents. Gen. Halo was killed and many rebels captured. Col Prieto, implicated with Negrete, was cap tured near Vera Cruz and taken to that city and shot. The insurrection at Meridia yesterday is over. The ring-leaders were shot. Rosecranz and Juarez are frequently closeted. From Cuba. \ Havana, March 10.—Several skirmishes are re ported in the sugar district. Many reports are circulating regarding Grant’s intentions in reference to Cuba. General News. Rochester, N. Y., March 9.—The boiler of a flour and lumber mill exploded to-day, killing four per sons. Augusta, March 10.—A quantity of Tobacco was seized hero yesterday, at the Sonth Carolina rail road depot, by the United States Commissioner, for a violation of the revenue laws. The tobacco was consigned to a merchant at Savannah. Press Telegraph Service. The Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel justly says: Any movement, looking to a disruption of the existing news service of the Southern Press, should be carefully examined into. No undue haste in experimental attempts, merely for tho sake of change and with the bare hope of a bet ter and che&por service, should be encouraged without a full knowledge of tho undertaking, and the ontlay necessary to the proper and ef ficient conduct of on independent news service. The enthusiasm of some of our brethren of the Press npon this subject, which is of great con sequence to the press and people of the South, seems to have got the upper-hand of their bet tor judgment, but wo feel confident that the older and more experienced publishers in tho Sonth will enter into no new and complicated scheme unless it can be clearly demonstrated that a change will prove beneficial to the pnbUc and profitable to themselves. The Association known as the New York As sociated Press has brought the telegraph ser vice to its present state of perfection. To this Association does it owe its paternity, and in our lengthened intercourse with it we have found its managers courteous, liberal and just We are in the main satisfied with onr present telegraphic reports, and we intend to receive them from the New York Association Press until we are assured of the fact that a better and cheaper service can be introduced, which, from the lights before us and the experience behind ns, we think exceedingly doubtful A Bridal Tour on a Handsled.—An enter prising young man lately took unto himself a wife at Green Bay, and wishing to keep np with the customs of the day, and as he boasted not of a large amount of “filthy lucre,” concluded to take a “bridal trip” on ms “own hook,” and ac cordingly fitted np a handsled, and placed there on Ins fair bride and his “worldly goods,” and Started on the excursion. He first went to Men- asha, then crossed the lake to Stoekbridgo, made a voyage to Chilton, and thence back to Stock- brigde again, drawing his fair burden all the time, up hill and down, over roads both good and bad, with a commendable spirit of energy and perseverance, living upon what they coma “pick up,” and lodging where best they could. When last heard from they had started for Min nesota, where they propose to settle an a home stead.—Calumet [Wisconsin) Reflector. Colonel W. T. Stockton, an old citizen of Quincy, died at his residence in this place yes- day.— Monitor, oth. Yew YorJc Spring Trade—Southern Buyers in New York. From the Neto York Time*.] The general impression in regard to the ensu ing Spring trade is that it will be rather mod erate. We have conversed with the principals and managers of some of the largest houses, and they concur in the opinion that notMng vaj brilliant is to be expected. Already a numbs of Western and Southern merchants are regis tered at the hotels, and a moderate amount of business has been transacted, principally by tie latter. At the. Astor House the majority of Southern merchants are from Georgia and’Ala- bama. At the St. Nicholas and Metropolitan they are mostly from Virginia, Louisiana and the Carolinas. There are some Western menat the Fifth-avenue, and of course a few at the other hotels; but Southern men in the majority elsewhere. This is accounted for by the fact that there ii not mnch money available in the west at pres ent For two years past the crops havo bet: poor; and now the farmers are holding bad produce in the hope of high prices. A slognt tion of business and a want of capital are the re sults of tMs condition of things. It is likely t: continue until the canals are open when there probably be a very large movement of and other produce of the western soil; and tie: we shall hear of greater alertness on tile part d western jobbers. Tho transactions of the Southern merchaW in dry goods are principally confined to fabria of domestic manufacture—that is, the materi! which fashions articles of prime necessity. 0$ house, it is true, reports Southern jobbers bal ing both foreign and domestic goods; but does not appear to be the general complexion^ their trade. Southern men are buying w? cautiously indeed. “The Southern trade,” ^ the manager of one of tho great firms, ‘Tstki healthy indeed. Southerners are buying with great care, and paying for them.” indeed, is what might naturally be expec 1 ^- from the condition oftho Southern States- W want everything; and what money theyti” must be judiciously distributed so as to meet i-’- or at all events, the most pressing of their ne cessities. At Stewartis during the past week gentlemen from Virginia, North and South Caro lina, and Louisiana, have been buying mode rate stocks of domestic goods at thirty days. I is believed that the South will disappoint those who expect an enormous trade. Very little has been done by Western m er " chants in dry goods during the past week; bo- if the weather continue favorable, another W*** will bring better prospects. All Westoro hoo- may now be described as “conservative,”^- such it will probably remain during the pres© ! year. The wholesale boot and shoo trade dees no look promising for a heavy spring business- Sole leather is two cents a pound higher than was last year, and is not likely to rece& Heavy kip boots are worth $2 a case more tn^ they were last spring, and all other articles o. this department are held at equally high rates Wo hear, from a wholesale commission W**’ chant just returned from the East, that the ufacturers are very busy all through Massac-^ setts and New Hampshire; so that commission houses here will have all the goods they wants^ soon as they need them. A heavy stock ono high prices does not look very promising, ^ the commission dealers seem to take mattooj pleasantly. TMngs, they say, look a greato 64 ' more healthy now than they didlastyear. was tho Presidential trouble ahead, and ties with the Sonth not clearly solved, bo everything seems to promise fair, and the SonJ-' em men are buying very well and very j a ® ciously. There were several large Southern buyers in the shoe trade last week, and mo>y are expects d in that which is upon us. ” hear of very few sales to Western men. , The hat, straw and fancy trimming have hardly yet commenced. Tho indicatm®-’ are that they will be moderate. Such of the South Carolina negroes a» called upon to pay taxes receive the eoDe<? with surprise and indignation, and ask bn • “Don’t you know that we elected you ?’
