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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 ?’
