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Newspaper Page TextThe Gfeorgia 'W'eekly Telegraph. THE TELEGRAPH. MACON, FRIDAY, MARCH 12,1862. Cora Crops in West Georgia, « ln a recent visit east of this city, says the ombns Son, in portions of the counties of Mnsoogee, Talbot, Marion and Chattahoochee, are were pleased to learn that the planters had been much slandered os to their disposition to go it largely on cotton. We found them alive to the importance of the bread question, and de termined to plant a sufficiency of com to snpply farm wants. Few havo been able to procure the number of hands they worked last year, and -to make up the deficit in labor, many aro ar ranging for guano for cotton, with the hope of getting as great a yield of cotton this year as last, from less lands and with less labor. Georgia and one of Her Faitiifol Ser vants. "We make public, says the Columbus Sun of Thursday, the following interesting letter re ceived by us from Washington on yesterday. The writer is a member of the Reconstruction Committee: Washington, D. C., Feb. 27, 1869. Con. Lamar—Dear Sir—We have determined, at last, to let Georgia alone. Our Committee today unanimously laid it over to next Congress. There was a steady persistent effort to exclude your State, and an equally persistent one, on our part, to prevent action. We have thirty more members next time. By the way, from first to last Tift has stood by us, watched and worked, as Brooks aptly said today, with the persistence of a Yankee and the zeal of a Georgian. Yon are all much indebted to him. I never saw a more honest, earnest man. Woman suffrage has been defeated in Neva da and Minnesota. The members of the Legis lature of tho latter State were so ungallant as to record their abhorrence of the doctrine at a time when tho editors of the Revolntion were holding s woman’s rights convention at their capitol. If, says the Troy Times, woman suffrage is defeated in a Stato like Nevada, where the men stand ready to offer inducements to women of almost any class and condition to come and relieve their -solitude, it needs no prophet to foretell its ntter defeat in more populous States. Already this movement is bearing such fruit aI must make it unpalpatable to tho mothers of the land. Its chief organs advocate divorce as the common and proper way of making husband and wife har monize. But it is the experience of the world, that, when the sacredness of tho marriage tie is cnee infringed, the demoralization of society rapidly follows. ' The Memory of an Old Roman.—The no less eccentric than famous Henry S. Foote recently delivered a lecture at Nashville, upon the “Life, Character and Times of Titus Pomponius Atti- cus.” That eminent Roman was bom 109 years before Christ, and was the cotemporary of <Gtesar, Bratus, Marins, Sylla, Hortensins, Agrip- pa, Antony and Cicero—the latter addressing ’-/jta*ny of his letters to him. He was one of the • most honorable, high-bred and truly cultivated men..-ofHke Roman nation. He wrote a history of bis country covering a period of seven hun dred -years, and also a history of illustrious Roman families—all of which have been lost. .Hie Lecturer certainly‘had an interesting theme. Point Clear Hotel, Mobile.—This favorite watering place was sold last Monday by Maj. Thos. LeBaron, and was purchased by Cols. A. J. Ingersoll and J. McCloskey, for the snm of $10,000. At the same time 234- acres of land on Government street in this city were sold for $310. The Tribune says: This is some of the cheap- •est property that has been sold in this city for many years, as this tract is worth four or five times more than it sold for. '■‘■Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.—Tho - Augusta Constitutionalist learns from the Wash ington Star that 4000 shares of the Wilmington «snd Weldon railroad have been purchased by -Baltimore capitalists, and tho control of the road boa passed into Baltimore interests. Baltimore has now the control of transportation via the Chesapeake from Baltimore to Washington. Beg Pardon.—A compositor yesterday made ns speak of the freedmen as “sons of ham.” It is a mistake—it should have been middlings. The same ehap refused a capital letter to the god Meroury, and therein displayed a scandal ous disrespect to the household deity of most of the leading politicians, sages, warriors, philan thropists, and office-holders of the day. The man has no reverence. Hour and the Cabinet.—It comes up to the surface that the notorious Joe Holt last week, in some way or other, proenred Forney to ru mor his name in possible connection with a Cab inet appointment, so as to see whether folks ap proved of it or not To-day the same Forney withdraws Holt’s name, and it is believed that the universal cry of disgust whieh arose at the very proposition has pierced tho cnticle even of Holt— Washington Cor. N. Y. World. Invitation to adjourn.—The people of Cobb county held a public meeting on tho 2d inst to invite and entreat the Legislature to adjourn sine die. On the same day said Legislature re fused on the 12th. Their ears are stopped by nine dollars per diom. None are so deaf as those who iDiU not hear. The Economy of Advertizing. The attention of a considerable portion of the Georgia Press seems latterly to have been drawn a great deal to the subject of advertising —the philosophy of prices—the evils of under bidding, etc., eta, bnt it is a matter to which we should not speak, except to correct a state ment in the Savannah Daily Advertiser of the 4th inst, in respect to the Macon Daily Tele graph. The Advertiser says: The Macon Tklgerafh, reaching into almost every town and village in the State, and acknowl edged to have a list of subscribers greater than any Georgia paper, thrives on rates that would bring smneB to the face of a Savannah merchant. We beg leave respectfully to demur to the invidious attitude in which we are placed by the foregoing extract from the Advertiser, in respect to its contemporaries, and think a little inquiry by the Advertiser, among the merchants of Savannah for whom we advertise, would en able it to correct this statement. The Tele graph is not unmindful of the great advantages it offers as a vehicle for advertising patronage, and steadily refuses to receive it excepton terms commensurate, in some good degree, with the facilities offered by our circulation, and har monious with a consistent, settled and intelli gent business system. We never accept adver tisements at rates below compensation to fill up space, for we have no space to spare; and if we had, the cost of blank paper in our editions would mulct us in too great pecuniary loss on every such engagement. And, in fine, we feel certain, that instead of undermining the busi ness of contemporaries by inadequate prices, there is not one of them in Georgia who would not be very willing to take every advertising contract of the Macon Daily Telegraph off its hands at the rates under stipulation. Having, in justice to the Telegraph, ventur ed this much in regard to personal and private concerns, we are tempted to add a word more upon the general subject of the economy of advertising. It is a vast and growing concern, and only of late seems to be beginning to be pursued on any thing like sound and systematic principles. Ac tive and intelligent business men now account advertising as a regular expease as indispensa ble to business as rents, and we see it stated in a New York paper that it ordinarily amounts to about twenty-five per cent of current expenses. Thus the great Stewart himself very recently ex pended forty-five thousand dollars upon one The Cabinet—Its meaning. Gea Grant’s Cabinet appointments Bustain all j the inferences we drew from his Inaugural It j is not a party Cabinet, in any offensive or ag- j gressive sense, and it is, so far as we understand t its personnel, such a board of counsellors as a j Chief Magistrate, bent on discharging his trust without fear, favor or partiality, would be likely to call around him. He has passed by all the JBY TELEGRAPH. FROM ATLANTA. The Radical {State Convention. Legislative Proceedings, etc. Special to the Telegraph.] Atlanta, March 5—Night. ,, . . . . , . -i, The Republican Convention, called by Blodg- oldstereotyped, rusty, fusty, null-horse Radical J to thaCity H all to-day. It was leaders, and taken new men-so new that we temporarily olsanizcd rtth Donning in the Chair, single advertisement in various papers through out the country, and yet many people would think A. T. Stewart & Co. beyond the necessity of advertising. The prices paid in Northern cities are deter mined purely by circulation, and they vary from two dollars to one cent a line. There is no at tempt to establish a scale of uniform prices, be cause such a scale would evidently be prepos terous, both as to the consideration to the ad vertiser and the expense to the publisher. An advertisement might be priced a dollar and placed before a thousand people at a cost to the publisher of fifty cents—and the same ad vertisement might be priced at twenty dollars and pnt in the hands of three hundred thousand readers at a cost of fifteen dollars. It is for the advertiser to settle the question of the sound economy of the relative expense as compared with the relative advantages. Both are adver tisements reading precisely alike in the single copies he has before him, but be, himself, must see that an uniformity of price is out of the ques tion. The same consideration must affect prices, though to a less extent, in Georgia. An adver tisement in a paper of small circulation and not much sought after, is manifestly worth very little compared with-an advertisement in a standard paper of large circulation, which is eagerly read, and to which the people are habitually ac customed to look for information and advice upon all matters of general interest. Tho announce ment of the advertiser gains great advantage from the wide circulation, character and weight of the vehicle he selects. Besides, it costs the publisher much more, and both these points justly demand increased compensation. It is for these, among many reasons, that we are un able to discover any philosophy in the proposi tion to demand and prescribe uniform rates, as has been suggested. Uniform rates are ex ploded. We have no idea intelligent advertis ers will pay them more willingly than they would agree to sell one bushel of com for a dol lar and ten bushels of com for a dollar. are unable to locate all of them. Washburne is the only one of the number who has ever made any figure as a partizan; and his and a committee appointed to report names of Pres ident, Vice-President, eta Tho committee reported the names of B. Conley, of Richmond, for perma- last demonstration in the House of Represento- i nent President—and Shipley, of Floyd, for Secre- tives will be well recollected by the country. It: ^ry. was a terrible onslaught upon his own party for j committee of twenty-ono was appointed to the extravagance, corruption and abuse which ] *declaration and resolutions. pervaded aU departments of the j speech abounding in abuse meted out, heretofore, istrabon. This speech washeld up by the Bern-j by th0 Eepnblica £taking occasion to call the ocratic press as a full confession of all tho enor- opposition the “ defunct Ku-Klux Democracy,” mities charged to the account of tho Radical j which e ii c it 0 d immense cheers from whites ana party. It was not understood, at the time, bnt! blacks. He was violent in his gesticulations, urging perhaps we can understand it now. It was eith er a bold manifesto from the conscious leader of the incoming admipistration, or it now stands endorsed by the new President as a trumpet note of admonition and warning, foreshadowing his inexorable determination to grapple with the hydra of political and party profligacy. Nor less portentous of this purpose is the se cond nomination on the Board; which, now, however, in the changed condition of the coun try, ranks as in the British cabinet—the first in importance and responsibility. The merchant prince of New York—A. T. Stewart—the man of many millions—of unrivalled financial and exec utive ability—who holds proverbially so tight a rein over his own army of employees—whose business operations excel in magnitude those of many of the small governments in tho world— this man will be a terror to faithless fiduciary agents of the government. They will find it hard to cover up their tracks. As to all those powerful and unscrupulous New York rings who have so long battened on peculation and knavery —they may as well hand in their chips. He knows all about them and their day is over. Tbe Treasury has, perhaps, never had at its head a man of so great shrewdness—of such complete executive capacity, in the way of busi ness management. We do not, of course, com pare him with Gallatin, Hamilton, and other profound fiscal economists, who have adorned this position at different periods in the history of the country; but in point of capacity to manage the public revenue with skill and econ omy, and to enforce accountability and integrity in its collection, we believe his superior has never presided over the Treasury department For the remainder, all new men, and to a great extent unknown to the country, we can only say that their selection in preference to all the known and recognized leaders of the Re publican and Radical parties, shows the deter mination of Gen. Grant to put affairs on an en tirety new trade, and to carry on an indepen dent administration—independent of all cliques and rings by -which the money and patronage of the Government can be perverted to base anti unworthy purposes. We may be sore there are sore beads among the Washington Radicals to-day. Scores of Radical leaders, who for four years past have been under the impression that they owned the country, are wen-nigh bursting with indignation. They are equally astounded and mortified at the audacity of Gen. Grant, who has crowned months of refusal to take them into bis council and confidence, with nominations of- new and unknown men who were never heard' of when tbe country was “being carried through the throes of the great rebellion"’ on their own Alan- tean shoulders. One can fancy Sumner, Wil son; Bingham, Butler and the rest pouting over the ingratitude of republics, and speculating how long before it will be necessary to throw one more Tylerizmg President overboard, an other Johnson and another Jonah in the ship bearing the fortunes of the great “party of mor al ideas.” Ah, how long? Cuba and the Alabama Claims First.—The New York Herald, of the 3d, says, “ in conver sation with General Reynolds yesterday, Gene ral Grant is understood to have said that recon struction could take care of itself, and that Cu- l ban independence and the Alabama claims wonld rrequire attention first.” A Mania.—A correspondent, sending us some subscribers from Crawford, says there is a -“mania for the Weekly Telegraph,” in those -regions. We have got a receipt for it, and hope it will grow. It is a manageable disease and sure to benefit its subjects. The March number of tbe American Horti culturist has been received- It is a very in teresting publication- We can recommend it very freely. It is published by Orang Judd & Co., 245 Broadway, New York. $1.50 per an num. Melancholic. A dispatch of the 2d, from New York, says: Leading Republicans here, by various cau tious expedients, indicate much dissatisfaction with the aspect of affairs at Washington. One of them declared that Gen. Grant seemed to have no just idea of the force or scope of moral influences, but understood bnt brute force. ■ Well, we think “leading Republicans” have dealt too long and too constantly in “brute force” to object to it Dougherty County Republicans on Recon struction.—The Albany News says: The colored Republicans of this county, yes terday, sent a dispatch to Hon. Nelson Tift, ex pressing contentment with the present govern ment of Georgia, and remonstrating against any further Congressional interference. ‘.Thx old flag carried by the Louisville Legion «in its Mexican campaign, twenty-three years ago, search for which was instituted by the sur viving members of that corps, is in the posses- iion of Mrs. Mary L. Riddle, at Niagara, Canada West. Mrs. R, came into possession of the flag about fifeen years since. It was presented to the Legion by Miss Sallie Ware, and was carried by that corps at the battle of Monterey. General Grant ami Georgia. We clip from the Washington correspondence of the Baltimore Gazette, tho subjoined very interesting report of the interview of General M. B. Young, of Georgia, with General Grant, upon the status of Georgia: Mr. Boutwell, Chairman of the Committee on Reconstruction, had given notice that he wonld, on Saturday morning last, call for a vote on tho bill annulling tho present State Government of Georgia. It was well known what tbe result would be. Georgia would be remitted to a mil- despotism and her privileges as a State in the Union bo scattered to the winds. Tbe Hon. Pierce Young determined in the last resort to appeal to the President elect, and for this purpose he sought and obtained an inter view with Gen. Grant on Friday last. The Gen eral received him cordially, and listened earn estly to his statement. Mr. Young spoke of the impending danger to the State of Georgia if Mr. Boutwell carried out his programme, and ex plained how Governor Bollock had defeated the effort made by tho Legislature of Georgia to submit to the Supreme Court of that State the question as to the right of freedmen to hold office—the only question now at issue between the State and Congress—and an issue, too, which Congress had just surrendered in the proposed constitutional amendment. Gen. Grant promptly answered that no one could deny tho fact that Georgia was a State in the Union and now entitled to representation in both branches of Congress: that Congress had, by solemn enactments, declared this fact, and that it was no more in tho power of Congress now to remit Georgia to a state of military gov ernment than it was for Congress to annul the State government of New York or Massachu setts. He said ho could never sanction any ac tion on the part of Congress which contempla ted an interference with the State government of Georgia, and that ho wonld take occasion to communicate with the chairman of the Commit tee on Reconstruction. Mr. Young then alluded to what he considered the fixed purpose of the dominant party in Con gress, as regards Georgia and the other South ern States, when General Grant interrupted him by saying that he hoped it was perfectly under stood that he had been elected the President of the conntry, and not the President of a political party, and as the National Executive he should consider and protect, as far as his Constitution al powers enabled him, the rights and interests of all sections. That this pledge will be faithfully observed finds an earnest in the fact that when the Re construction Committee met on Saturday morn ing, Mr. Boutwell, instead of calling for a vote on his bill, annulling tbe State Government of Georgia, he announced, to the great surprise of his Radical colleagues, that he had concluded to let the bill go over to the next Congress without further action on the part of the Committee. This Unexpected turn in events, seems to war rant the belief that the distinguished Chairman, who, by the by, has some Cabinet aspirations, had received a revelation from some quarter which influenced his action. The interview, as given above, between tho Georgia Represen tative and General Grant may furnish the ex planation. A German baker in Philadelphia found him self tinder the necessity of chastising his son for pilfering. The boy being rather strong was able to resist successfully. Thereupon the parent hired an assistant and administered the flagellation with a hoop-pole. AVhenthe boy cried for quarter, the philosophic baker granted it, saying, “I youst don’t lick you no more for shtealin’ mino money, but I geefs dis man half a dollar to holt yon down, and now I geefs you dat much worth more.”- Plantation Economy.—The Atlanta Intelli gencer says: Thousands upon thousands of dollars have , >ne from Georgia this season to other States 'or mules, horses, and bacon. A lingo part of this money could have been retained at homo- by a little labor. The economy and profit of plant ing, or farming consists greatly in selling, not purchasing. "We are conscious of the trouble and expense that now attend the raising of meat or mnles; still, it can be accomplished, and that in a beneficial and paying manner. "We met Mr. Lewis Tomlin a day or two since, and he informed ns that he had killed this -winter one hundred hogs, weighing three hundred ounds each. And hundreds cf others might iave been equally successful, thus providing their bacon and adding to their wealth. Tbe great advance and high price of sugar and molasses should stimulate our planters to re newed efforts to bring the making of sugar and syrup from sorghum to more perfection. In days gone by we have seen sorghum very nearly equal to Demarara sugar in grain, strength and flavor. The revolntion in Cuba has advanced the price of sugar, and will check its production, and the other islands that raise it may become involved; therefore we make this suggestion. Cotton—Statistical Information.—From the circular of Easton & Co., considered in this sec tion the most reliable of New York brokers, we copy and condense tbe following interesting in formation : Total receipts at all the United States ports since September 1, 1868, to February 26th, 1,610,924 bales, against 1,621,871 to same date last year, showing a deficit in receipts of 10,947 bales. Of tbe receipts the exporters have taken 865,196 ; spinners 404,736. Tho stocks have increased 305,965. Deficits in shipments to Liverpool, as compared with last year, 160,736 bales. The stock in the interior towns are 81,713 bales, against 90,175 in 1868. “The re ceipts in March, 1868, were 245,375. The re ceipts this March will be 40,000 bales less, not because planters will hold back, bnt becauso there is certainly less cotton to come in”: Statistical Position : 1869. Stock in Liverpool 282.000 Afloat from India 104,000 Afloat from America 145,000 Stock in London 108,150 Afloat for London 60,000 Stock in Havre 50,761 Afloat for Havre 36,210 Stock in United States porta 384.559 Stock in the interior towns 81,713 Total 1,252,402 1,179,244 Excess in visible snpply 73,158 Stock of cotton held by Manchester spinners at tbe mills now 78,000 bales, same time 1868, 187,000 bales.—Sun. 1868. 201,550 100,000 180,000 92,848 22,000 40,597 25,823 336,751 90.175 The Right Sort of Prosperity.—A corres pondent furnishes as with the statement that the interior town of Springfield, Ohio, has sud denly sprung up from an obscure village to the dimensions almost of a city with sixteen thou sand inhabitants, with its hundred thousand dollar opera house, first-class hotel, etc. Three hundred buildings, costing nearly a million dol lars, were constructed last year. This is the re sult of a legitimate manufacturing business, in cluding such products as reapers, mowers, grain drills, cider mills, lead paints, manufactured tobacco, etc., realizing two millions and a half per annum. How different prosperity like this is compared with that of those mushroom cities that rise up on oil bubbles, gold and silver mines, or any other of the humbugs of the day which glitter for a brief period and then burst into tom air, ruining all the uninitiated who have been so imprudent as to enter into such wild goose speculations! And yet this thrifty Ohio town is but one out/of many hundred others en joying a similar degree of prosperity. Verily, the growth of the great West is truly gigantic and substantial.—A~ew York Herald. How suggestive is this paragraph to every townsmen in the . South. Wealth, population, and every element of prosperity follow manu factories. A patent fora “snoring preventitive” has been applied for. It consists in the application of a clothes-pin in the nose. frequently that Congress would yet see that peoplo should not be ostracised on account of uttering Union sentiments,and that life liberty and property were protected. He was followed by Harrison, (colored) of Han cock, who. whilst demanding equal rights in every- thing, jury included, was summarily cut off by the committee entering tho Hall. A declaration was read setting forth many facts concerning the present Legislature, requesting Congress to call the original Legislature together and discarding all who could not t ake the Test oath, It eulogizes Grant. Colfax and Bullock, and endorses Grant’s inaugural Blodgett read the declaration, together with a res olution endorsing Grant. The report was adopted by a rising vote, all, both whites and blacks, stand ing up. Peirce, cf the Second Congressional District, in troduced a resolution complimenting General Sibley on his administration of military affairs, which was adopted, without dissent. Pierce immediately offered another resolution de nouncing the conduct of General Meade, to the ef fect that he had not faithfully complied with in structions, and took occasion to say that all he (Meade) had dene only tended to promote treason. [Sensation.] Harris, of Newton, interrupted him and hoped the resolution would be withdrawn, being foreign to the matter for action. Pierce would not consent to a withdrawal, but reviewed the course of Gen. Meade at length. Hulbert made a motion to lay tb3 resolution on the table, which was adopted—many dissenting. Resolutions censuring Bard and Bryant were ruled out of erder. One resolution recommends the reassembling of tho Constitutional Convention. Several'members of the Legislature were present, swelling the number of delegates to abont 180. After the adoption of a resolution by Lee, of Newton, complimenting Blodgett, and commending him to all Republicans- for a faithful advocacy of principle, O'Neal mado-a long speech, taking these grounds: Was the State reconstructed, and if she was, why was not Hill and Miller admitted ? The Convention then adjourned sine die. Not many persons were in attendance in the gal lery. House.—Tip House refused to adjourn in conse quence of the meeting of the Convention. The bill creating the Miiscogeo Circuit was recon sidered. A bill giving physicians liens on homestead, for services rendered, was loet. The House went into Committee of tho Whole on the Appropriation bill. A section was passed, giv ing 813,500 to the Blind Asylum, including 82,560 to build a wall. The amount charged for lighting the Capitol is twenty-three dollars per day. No night session was held. The Secretary refused to approve the gas ac count. Tho guarding and heating of the Opera House coats 81875 per day. * The House spent all the afternoon in discussing the General Appropriation bill. W. The Iit'gislnlcre to Adjourn on Friday Next'. The Fifteenth Amendment. Speriolto the Tei'egroph.] ■ Atlanta, March 6—Night. In tbe Senate an effort was made to reconsider the vote of yesterday by which the bill disfranchis ing all persons who refuse to work on the public roads, bnt it failed. Mr. Adkins moved to reconsider the vote passing the immigration bill. He took ground that it would work against-the interestaof the colored race, and the bill was merely introduced to create a few sinecure offices. He said the State should first be properly reconstructed before she attempts to de ceive foreigners into immigrating to Georgia. First, protect the negro and improve the morals of the community, and then immigrants will flock to our shores. We should also abolish the Kn-Klux Klans and punish midnight assassins. Mr. Adkins’ motion was laid upon the table. The resolution of the House to adjourn on the 12tli, was concurred- in. Mr. Hungerford’s motion setting apart Monday next to consider the Fifteenth Amendment, came up. Mr. Candler moved to amend by adding the fol lowing : “ Provided the Senate is officially notified that the samo, has passed Congress,” which was agreed to. Mr. Nnnnally moved to lay the whole matter on the table until- this Legislature is notified by the Secretary of State of the United States. Hasty ac tion would be discourteous to that official. Mr. Kunnally afterwards withdrew his motion, which was received by Mr. Higbce, and was agreed to—yeas. 20; nays, 11. Several Northern States-having voted down negro suffrage in popular elections, it is believed to be the policy of the Radicals to fasten the Fifteenth Amendment upon them in the way of retaliation, for forcing the suffrage on the South. The committee appointed by tbe Radical Conven tion yesterday to proceed to Washington and lay the declarations and resolutions of that body before Congress, leave Atlanta to-night. In the House, Mr. Nisbet moved a resolution to appoint a committee to wait upon the Governor and request him, if he has an official copy of the Fif teenth Amendment to transmit the same, but the House refused to suspend tho rules. The appropriation bill was considered most of the morning. The Attorney General’s salary was fixed at two thousand dollars, without perquisites. He is also to serve as Attorney for tho State Road without extra pay. The Committee of the Whole finally rose, and the bill passed, and was ordered to be transmitted to the evening session of the other house. From Washington. Washington, March 5.—The Good Will Fire Com pany, of Philadelphia, wheeled out of the procession yesterday,in consequence of being preceded by a ne gro organization. Tho chief topic this morning is the loss of wear ing apparel at the inauguration ball. Immediate personal clothing was torn to pieces in pushing through the crowd. Everybody lost their wrappings. The Cabinet"will bo sent so soon as Grant is in formed that the Senate is in session. Tho secret lias been maintained to the last minnto. The President nominated Sherman as General; Sheridan as Lieut. General. Gen. Schofield to be Major General; Augur Brigadier General, and Columbus Delano Commissioner of Internal Rev enue. All theso, with the Cabinet, were confirmed. The Star has tho following: “Judge Hoar, the new Attorney General, for seven years past has been upon the Supreme Bench of Massachusetts. He is about fifty years of ago, and for many years has enjoyed a very successful practice at his profes sion. He is a man of the highest integrity, and very positive in Ms manner. His brother entered the House of Representatives yesterday, as the'new member from the Worcester district. "Adolph E. Eorie,of Pennsylvania—the new Secre- tary of the Navy—is a retired merchant of Phila delphia. Having, for* many years, been engaged in the East India trade; from which he reaped a princely fortune. He is regarded as one of the wealUnest men in tho country, and is a man of tho Mghcst character; never having been mixed up in mnL' behalf of the Union, and for several years Vice- President of the Union League. In the summer he resides at Forreetdale, near PhiladelpMa, where he has a magnificent estate; but in the winter he re sides in Philadelphia.” The following is a repetition of the Cabinet:— Secretary of the State, ElihuB. Washburne, of Illinois; Secretary of the Treasury, AlexanderT. Stewart, of New York; Secretary of the Navy Adolph E. Borie, of Pennsylvania; Attorney General, Eben B.T. Hoar, of Massaschusetts; Secretary of the Interior, Jacob D. Cox, of OMo; Postmaster Gen eral, J. A. J. Cresswell, of Maryland; Secretary Schofield remains Secretary of War, pro tern. Revenue, to-day, §600,009. Washington, March 6.—The House is not in ses sion. The standing committees will be announced on Tuesday. The Cabinet met to-day—absent Messrs. Hoar and Cox. The Cabinet appointments excite no enthu siasm. MicMgan, Wisconsin, and Illinois have ratified the Fifteenth Amendment. Tho wind is blowing a gale. Three hundred and fifteen Cuban prisoners wil certainly go to Fernando Po, many of them belong ing to first Cuban families. [Fernando Po is an island off the coast of Western Africa, about thirty- five miles long by twenty-two broad, held as a penal establishment by the Spanish Government.] Seward left yesterday, after twenty years residence in this city. Grant has not announced his private Secretary. His staff officers are acting in that capacity. Senator Hamilton, from Maryland, Is quite sick. Sherman retains Dent, Comstock and Porter, of Grant's staff, in their former positions. Tho Assistant Secretaries were called to the WMto House to-day and ordered to do only the usual rou tine of business, until the new Secretaries are in stalled. Sherman is sick. It is said that Washburne will decline the SecretarysMp of State on account of ill health. Customs from the 22d to the 27th, inclusive, 84,- 704,000. Judge Busteed. who was expected to resign after a favorable investigation of his case before the House Judiciary Committee, will probably proceed to Alabama and hold court. Delano will qualify on Wednesday as Commis sioner of Internal Revenue. The wind is very high. Coagressional. Washington, March 5.—House.—The House is discussing the Louisiana credentials, on the mo tion to refer them to the Election Committee, Several members were sworn in. The credentials of the Louisiana delegation were referred to the Election Committee, to report whether the informality is fatal to this report. If favorable it will seat the Louisiana members. An effort lias been made by the committee to consider all questions regarding the Louisiana elections as having failed by a largo vote. The newly elected Kentucky members were sworn in. The announcement of the Cabinet created, such confusion that recess was declared. On ro-assembling, Woodward (Democrat) said, “as to the gentleman selected for the Secretary of the Navy, a more conservative or respectable citizen was not to be found in Pennsylvania.” The case of the Georgia claimants wa3 referred to the Election Committee. Further election of officers showed 123 to 59 as the relative strength of both parties in the House. Seats were drawn. House adjourned. Senate.—Tho Senate passed some formal resolu tions and are waiting to hear from Grant. Brownlow’s arm had to be supported while-lio was being sworn ir.. Thayer introduced a btil repealing the tenure of office act. Conkling introduced a bill establisMng mail stea mers to Europe. A bill was introduced for the more equally dis tributing tbe national circulation. Edmunds introduced a bill modifying the tenure of office act. Also, a biB enforcing the fourteenth amendment to tho Constitution and restoring Re publican Government in Georgia Ferry introduced a resolution regarding the re moval of political disabilities. Several Pacific Railroad bills were introduced. Sawyer offered a joint resolution, providing for a Joint Committee of three Senators and five Congress men to consider applications for removal of. disabil ities. Williams gave notice of an amendment to the tennre of office hill, suspending its operation until 1873. Senate went into executive session and adjourned. Washington, March 6.—Senate—Sumner intro duced a bill securing equal rights in the District, and moved its present consideration. 'Vickers ob jected. It went over. It is the same bill Johnson pocketed. The following bills were introduced: For reorganizing the Navy Department: for de fining and amending the act punishing crime against the United States; for repealing tho eighth section of tho act establishing a Treasury Department; for prohibiting further treaties with the Indians; for improving, and enlarging the harbor of Mbbile. The Chair laid before the Senate the following from the President: “To the Senate of the United State* : Since-the nomination and confirmation of Alexan der T. Stewart to the office of Secretary of the Treas ury. I find that by tho eighth section of the act of Congress, approved September 2d, 1789, it is pro vided as follows, to-wit: (Section here quoted.) In view of these provisions and tho fact that Mr. Stew art has been unanimously confirmed by tho Senate, I would ask that-he bo exempted by a joint resolu tion of the two Houses of Congress from the opera tions of tho same. U. 8. Grant. President." Sherman introduced a bill repealing the said eighth section, but providing- that the Secretary shall act in no case in wMch he is personally inter ested, and asked the present) consideration of tho bifi. Sumner objected. Ho thought the matter ought to receive the most careful and profound considera tion. The resolution to consider tho Indian treaties in open session, was adopted. The resolution establishing a joint committee to consider applications for the removal of political disabilities was considered. Sawyer explained that the object was to secure uniformity of action of the two Houses. Fessenden, and several others, opposed the reso lution. Trumbull thought there ought to be a special com mittee, as business overburdened the Judiciary Committee. Stewart said there were four thousand applications on file, dnd bushels of papers. Ferry advocated a gen eral removal of disabilities, wMch ho thought could bo done with safety and benefit to the republic.— Ho thought such a bill would receive the sanction of both Houses, if those who had been members of Congress had held commissions in the army and navy were excluded. The resolution was finally re ferred to the Committee on Reconstruction. Senate adjourned. Orders from tlie President. Headq’bs of the Armt, Adj’t Gen.’s Office, Washington, March 5,1869. General Orders No. 1.] The President of the United States directs that tho following orders be carried into execution as soon as practicable: 1. The Department of the South will be command ed by Brigadier and brevet Major General A- H. Terry. 2. Major General G. G. Meade is assigned to tho command of tho Military Division of the Atlantic, and will transfer his headquarters to PhiladelpMa, Pa. Ho will turn over Ms present command, tem porarily, to brevet Major General T. H. Rnger, Colonel 33d Infantry, who is assigned to duty ac cording to his brevet of Major General while in tho exercise of this command. ,a, 3. Maj. General P. H. Sheridan is assigned to the Department of Louisiana, and will turn over t command of tho Department of the Missouri, tem porarily, to the senior officer. 4. Maj. General W. S. Hancock is assigned to the command of the Department of Dacotah. 5. Brigadier and Brevet Major General E. B. S. Canby is assigned to the command of the First Mili tary District, and will proceed to Ms poet as soon During tbe war be was an active worker in 1 as relieved by Brevet Major General Reynolds. 8. Brevet Major General Gillcm, Colonel 24th Infantry will turn over the command of the Fourth Military District to the next senior officer, and join Ms regiment. 7. Brevet Major General J. J. Reynolds, Colonel 26th Infantry, is assigned to the command of the Fifth Military District, according to Ms Brevet of Major General. 8. Brevet Major General W. H. Emory, Colonel 5th Cavalry, is assigned to the command of the De partment of Washington, according to Mb Brevet of Major General. By command of the General of the army. E. D. Townsend, A- A. G. General Grant’s Cabinet. Washington, March 6.—-The following Cabinet appointments have been nominated and confirmed: Secretary of State—E. B. Washburne, of Illinois. Secretary of the Treasury—A. T. Stewart, cf New York. Secretary of the Navy—Adolph E. Borie, of Penn sylvania. Secretary of the Interior—J. D. Cox, of OMo. Postmaster-General—A. J. Cresswell, of Mary land. Attorney General—Gen. E. It. Hoar, of Mass achusetts. Secretary of War—No person named. General Schofield remains as incumbent for tbe present. From Atlanta. Atlanta, March 6.—Senate—On motion to sus pend the rules to take up the resolution adopt ing tho fifteenth amendment, the amendment of fered providing tho Senate is officially notified that the samo h3s passed Congress. Tho amendment was agreed to and the resolution tabled—yeas 20, nays 11. Another motion to make the fifteenth amendment the special order for Monday, was also lost, and a motion to lay on the table agreed to—yeas 19, nays 12. Tho resolution to adjourn sine die on the 12b,inst. has passed both Houses. House—A resolution was offered appointing a committee to wait on the Governor to ascertain if the fifteenth amendment had been officially trans mitted to bis office from tbe Secretary of State. If so, request him to send it immediately before the House, with such recommendations as he may deem necessary. Representative Saussey favored the resolution, and said it was a good one and very im portant. If the Governor has tMs article he may be holding it back to create the impression that tho State of Georgia is holding out against Congress. The House refused to adopt the resolution—yeas 84, nays 80. The general appropriation bill was 3. It appropriates 85.000 to the Georgia Pen itentiary: 812,000 to.the Deaf and Dumb Asylum; §15,000 to furnish artificial limbs to maimed sol diers ; §380,000 to pay the interest on the public debt for the present year. A committee of seven, four wMte and three black, was appointed to go to Washington to present cop ies of the resolutions adopted by the Republican Convention yesterday. They leave for Washington to-night. From Louisiana. New Orleans March 5,—The Legislature ad journed sine die last night, at midnight. Among its last acts were the adoption of the joint resolution endorsing. Grant's Inaugural, and tho passage of the General Appropriation bill. The lat ter makes special provision for the payment of in terest on both 6 and 8- per cent, levee bonds. The five million levee bond bill, passed in the House a few days ago, failed to reach the Senate. The Governor lias signed the joint resolution au thorizing tbe Governor and Treasurer to negotiate loans by a pledge of tbe Stato bonds, whenever deemed necessary, to meet tbe payments of inter est : also the biU authorizing the city of Now Or leans to issue five millions gold bonds—three millions of wMch are to be used exclusively as exchange for outstanding city currency; tho balance to cancel indebtedness. Tbe bill providing for revenue for tbe State con tains a clause licensing gambling houses at five thousand dollars. Steamship Sunk. New OnuEANs, March C.—Steamship Pantheon hence for Liverpool, with 16000 bushels bulk wheat and six hundred bales of cotton, sunk last night, jnst outside the bar. at Southwest Pass, in conse quence of a collision with the tow boat Heroine The Pantheon had been stuck on the bar for the last three days, and bad just got clear when the ac cident occurred. No particulars. General News. Detroit, Mich., March 5.—Bishop Lefun is dead, aged 65 years. He was ordained Bishop in 1841. Baltimore, March 5.—One hundred Cuban refu gees arrived in this city, on steamer Cuba, yesterday. Augusta, Maine, March 5.—The Senate has rat ified the fifteenth amendment. Princess Anne. Md., March 5.— Four negroes were hung to-day for the murder of the Captain and Mate of an oyster boat in 1863. The negroes con fessed their guilt. Baltimore. March 6.—Rev. Dr. Charles Gillott, Agent of the Protestant Episcopal American Board of Missions, died here suddenly to-day. Richmond, Marth 6.—The jury in the case of James Grant , changed with the murder of IL Rives Pollard, brought in a verdict of not guilty, and tho prisoner was discharged. A movement of applause in the Court room was checked by the Judge. Fortress Monroe, March 6.—Snow storm here to-day. From Cuba. Havana, March 5.—H. C. Hall has assumed the duties of Canal General. He is widely esteemed by Americans and natives. The additional export duties realize three thou sand dollars daily. Havana, March 5.—Later advices from Remedios report tho number of insurgents increasing. Pros pects gloomy. Weather unfavorable for sugar rais ing. Advices from Cienfugos are mcae favorable for the Government. The cholera is abating at Sante- ago de Cuba Foreign News, London, March 5.—Tho pacific declaration of the King of Prussia gave great satisfaction here. Mr. Goshen, President of the Poor Board, in Ms report to Parliament, recommends tho removal of restrictions from emigrations, and advices the giv ing of inducements and otherwise encourage the emigration of paupers to America. Madrid, March 5.—The committee of fifteen, se lected by Cortes to draft a Constitution, define tho rights and liberties of the people and submit a form of government. London, March 6.—The English and French jour nals warmly eulogize Grant’s innaugural and argue that the paragraph on foreign policy indicate peace. The published report of the'Pope’s death is dis credited. Paris, March 6.—Bullion in the Bank of Franco has increased one millon franks. Late Paraguayan advices state that Lopez still heads the-army and is fortifying in the interior. Dissension among allied commanders lead to the resignation of Coxias and Herool, and Brazilian General de Senzu Correl. London, March 6.—Ten monster petitions has been presented to the Queen, praying for amnesty for tho Fenian prisoners. Madrid, March 6.—The subject of a Government monopoly on salt and tobacco produced in colonios, has been referred to a select committee of Cortes. A San Francisco paper gives an elaborate review of the mining operations on the Pacifio coast daring the year 1868. Mining for the precious ores is carried on actively in nineteen counties in California, in which about 5,000 quartz mills, valued at $G,500,000, are em ployed. $10,000,000 are invested in water trenches. Nevada has 168 quartz mills, Oregon 21, Idaho 43, Montana 601. In the Territories of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Washington, although large deposits of the precious ores are known to exist, mining operations are not con ducted on any considerable scale. The general yield in the year 1868 is the largest in toe his tory of mining in the United States, one of the causes being toe introduction of improved and much cheaper methods of eliminatingtoe pre cious metals from their native ores. The total yield for the year is set down at about *§65,000,000. Who Governs Best ?—The Duchess of Bar- Kings govern by toe advice of men, and the Kings by the advice of women. ” Letter from Uharlcatoa. Charleston, 8. C., February 22, i860 Editors Telegraph : This is the anniversary of the birth of Washington, a day, in time past sacredly observed as a holiday, and bringing with its annual return a grand parade of the militaries of Charleston. How changed is fh 6 observance of the day from the past—not that these people fail to respect the memory of the patriot, hero, statesman, bnt that their surround- ings are" such that they cannot evidence their respect for his wisdom and virtues without of. fonding the Republican notions of their masteis. There is to be, however, a private reunion of toe Washington Light Infantry, and a banquet at which the old school Republicans will renew their memories of toe past and invoke the spirit of the Father of his country upon the inheritance we have fallen heir to. In my last I promised to write upon the sab- ject of fertilizers—certainly this should be done in a prolific way, if contact with phosphates and guana has the same happy effect upon toe mind that they are said to have upon the soil. I wish however, to treat the subject, as it forms a fea. tore of the commercial interest of this metrop. olis. Judging from the immense amount of these materials seen blocking the railway depots, our farmers havo learned to appreciate their value, and have made large investments in them to be returned, with a heavy interest, when the crop of another year is harvested. Hitherto these fertilizers have been imported, or mans, tured from imported materials. The Peruvian Government, indeed, has found a great source of revenue from the immense deposits of guana found on the Pacific coast, while more than one dealer in America has realized a handsome for. tune in manipulating this guano with the phos- phates and carbonates of lime. • The day of im. portation, however, in this branch of our com. mercial relations is at an end. Through the scientific researches of Professor Holmes, of this State, and Dr. N. A. Pratt, of Georgia, there has been introduced to the com mercial and agricultural interests of toe South, inexhaustible beds of native bone phosphate, underlying the Atlantic coast of South Carolina. Through the courtesy of the Hon. Hr. Mem- minger, I have been furnished with a history of these deposits, as reported by Dr. Pratt, which furnishes quite a fond of interesting detail In communication of the character of this, it is necessary that I should forego the pleasure of extracting from this valuable work the physical or chemical Mstory of these beds, and will con tent myself with saying that the deposit is not the calcareous marl fonnd all along our Atlantic coast, sonth of toe Chesapeake Bay, bnt ap pears to be the vast funeral pile of innumerable animals who, at one period in the world’s histo ry, were gathered here to die and be buried by the strata of subsequent ages. Perfect speci mens of bones are found, and toe teeth of im mense animals, some weighing two pounds, are exhibited in a fine state of preservation. This bone matter undergoing chemical trans formation has given to the marl beds in, wMch it is fonnd a large per cent of that valuable fer tilizing matter, phosphate of lime. Several Companies are engaged in mining and in ex porting tho crude material, while one, under the supervision of that estimable Christian gen tleman and enterprising citizen, Mr. Memmin- ger, with onr Dr. Pratt as analytic chemist, is preparing the native deposit for the use of the agriculturist. Thus, Mr. Editor, has been given to this noble old city, burned and battered by thousands of shell, a new field for commercial enterprise. A large capital has been drawn here to enter it, and the result must be of the happiest character to toe city and to-the rural districts. Having an engagement to visit the harbor, I will bid yon adieu until another leisure moment ^ H. D. C. Preservation of Meat. From the Southern Dispatch.] A professor Gamgee has within tho last two years, we believe, brought to public notice an invention of his own for preserving meat with- oni salt so that it may be kept for an unlimited jeriod, retaining all toe freshness of newly- rilled meat. It oreated quite a sensation when first announced. At once was presented the idea that animals might be slaughtered in fer- fect health near the green pastures where they had luxuriated, and their meat, being dressed and preserved, could be safely conveyed to the great cities and then be served up sound, pala table, and nutritious, to toe inhabitants. All the painful and wasteful process of transporta tion of immense droves alive in railroad trains, arriving at their journey’s end in bad condition and bad health, would be avoided, and in num erous ways the comfort and convenience of man would be promoted. Especially would toe bene fit of this invention manifest itsef by toe curing of toe meat of toe vast herds that roam the plains of North and South America, whose carcasses, disrobed of their skins, are left to decay or ba devoured by wild beasts. The anticipation of the great revolution that such a discovery would produce was pleasing. The question arose, however, as to the cost of the process. There was toe trouble. Its utility depended altogether upon its cheapness. We apprehend toe Professor has not yet reduced it down to toe practical point, as no progress has been made thus far in the introduction of his cured meat as an article of commerce. We saw last summer a fillet of fine veal and a fine cMck- en, that had been cured for four weeks, exhibited at toe White Sulphur Springs - They were cooked there, and a number of gentlemen tested both, and testified that they were as sweet and juicy as though killed within twelve hours. We could readily believe this from the appearance and odor of the meat. We had not heard of Professor Gamgee’s in vention for some months until a day or two since, when the following proceedings of the American Institute Farmers’ Club came to hand: The New Mode of Curing Meat.—A series of experiments have been conducted by order of General Eaton, Commissary of Subsistence in Washington, to test the value of Professor Gain- gee’s process of preserving meat. Dr. Graig- of the army medical department, has presented a long report on the subject, setting forth the details and principles involved in the operation and the satisfactory results obtained thus far: I. That that toe gasses used in Professor Gamgee’s process are eminently preservative in their action, and render meats incapable of de cay with less addition of any foreign ingredient thnn any process hitherto employed. 2, That the preserved meats retain a perfect freshness without adventitious smell or taste. 3. That toe process has been so simplified as to render it extremely cheap and of ready ap plication. If this report be fair, we shall probably soon hear further of the invention. Political Prayers.—I rjever hear this sort of thing that I am not remindedpf little Choptanb- as we used to call him up the Mac-a-cheek, who had his wife arrested for assaulting him with® fire-shovel while at his devotions. It was an aggravated case. But Mrs. Choptariks asked to be heard, and ahe said that little Chopp/ “didn't dare to give her any of his sars in h^" talk, but he abused her in his prayers, and on this occasion he was on his knees, with a crowd about toe door, gathered there by his ‘hollenn and ‘a callin’ on toe Lord to forgive this black hearted woman.' 'Make her tell the truth," Lord, he halloed, ‘and make her quitgaddw about and a-lyin’ to the neighborsand * couldn’t stand it, and jist took him a swipe the flat of the shovel; and I'll do it again. — Don Piatt. From Spain to Oregon.—Some years since » wild goose was shot in Washington Territory' and a few grains of wheat were taken from b* s craw. Being very large and full, they were pre served and planted. The yield was found to be so great as to lead to its propagation, until this variety, which is known in toe Territory ** “Goose Wheat,” has become a standard one in that section of the country. Samples of w* wheat were recently sent to the Agnoultoral De partment at Washington. Upon examining tbe samples at the museum, of which there ^ some two thousand varieties, toe same was found, being one of the samples sent from the Paris Exposition, and grown in Guena, Spain.