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Newspaper Page TextThe Greorgia "Weekly Telegraph. THE TELEGRAPH. MAOON, FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1862. Making Merry. The Northern papers,more especially the Rad icals, see an infinite fund of mirth in Ex-Presi dent Johnson's valedictory. The Tribune says Johnson began M3 career with an humble at* tempt at playing Mose£—then Bacchus—then ancient Pistol, rfnd now winds up with an at tempt to copy Washington. Nothing strikes the Northern mind as so supremely ridiculous as an appeal for the Constitution. They care as little for it as the old Texans used to for a pro test; and any man who says “Constitution” begins to twaddle at once. Talk to them about protection—trade—greenbacks and they under stand you. All the rest is foolishness. They want no Constitution bat the ballot-box, and are sure the ballot-box will always be quite as sat isfactory in its verdicts as it is now. These Northern people are a gay set on magna charta —fundamental law and the written defences of life and liberty. Ball aud Supper at (Gordon. It will bo seen from the advertisement that there is to be a grand Ball and Supper at the Gordon Hotel, under tbo auspices of our friend Folsom, to-morrow evening. Great prepara tions are made and it will be a gay time. Par ties can leave Macon by the C o’clock train, Wednesday evening, and be homo by the next morning train at half past six. We are under many obligations to Capt. Folsom for a special invitation to be there, but the fact is, one of us tried the “light fantastic” for a single night last Fall, and it Inid him up ten days. This was a suggestive hint in the matter of locomotion wMch must not be forgotten. Not that any of us are getting into the sere and yellow loaf—no, no—not at all. Far from it. Quite the reverse. But there is something in the disjointed condi tion of the times and the gravity of our position and standing, unfavorable to saltatory perform ances. That's it—precisely. We know our weakness-ess-ess-es. Fond of round dances, wo might find ourselves again vis-a-vis with some beautiful widow, forget our infirmities and nev er know when to stop. The Press ami the Cabinet. There seems to be a very marked coincidence of opinion among tho leading and intelligent press of Georgia in respect to the Cabinet and its meaning. All agree that it is a east made np in snblime disrespect of party demands, and in dicates a purpose, on the part of tho new Chief Magistrate, to “ run the machine” on his own responsibility. See the extracts on our first Page- m A Wooden Railroad. The Chronicle and Sentinel recommends building the road from Louisville to Augusta with wooden rails. The distance is forty-three miles, twenty-six of which have already been graded for a plonk road, and the Chronicle and Sentinel thinks tho whole can bo done for ono hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. Meetings are to be held at Louisville, Key’s Mills and Wavs’ Church, on the 27th inst. Sen hit it to the People.—The Columbus Sun slates a fact and mnkes an honest proposition, as follows: “Although Atlanta may intrigue and spend money to retain tho Capitol, her hold npon it will be ever precarious so long as sho has the appearance of a usurper. When tho Congressional elections shall have been ordered, let there be a voto of the people on this question of the Capitol. If the people decide for Mil- ledgeville, let tho champions of Atlanta be con tent If for Atlanta, let Milladgevillo and its adherents be satisfied.” Bolting the Fifteenth Amendment. The Indiana Democrats took all the means God and nature had put into their hands to de feat the fifteenth amendment. As soon as the session opened on the morning of the fourth instant, fifty-nine Democratic members offered their resignation, thus breaking the quorum and bringing the session to an end. The coup d’etat was not unexpected, it having been de termined npon in caucus the night before. A few members remained in order to make the calls of the Honse and otherwise prevent any further legislation. This action of the Demo cratic minority left matters in a very bad state, not a single ono of tho appropriation bills hav ing been passed, and the benevolent institutions, prisons, etc., are left unprovided for. Had the bolt been postponed until the afternoon, these would have been passed, and there could have been no danger of pressing tho passago of the Constitutional amendment. A caucus of the Republican members was held immediately, but it was found that nothing could be done to help things. A committee of two Senators and three Representatives was appointed to issue an ad dress to the people of the State. Governor Baker has issued writs for special elections in the vacated districts, and will call a special ses sion of the Legislature to meet in April Sthiopian Jnrics. They are engaged in some heavy experiments, just now, with negro juries in Louisiana. The N. O. Times speaks of one jury made up of elev en negroes and one white man, who had been trying some difficult and abstruse questions— one of them a case in which a colored man had sued the city of New Orleans for §27,000 dama ges on account of the alleged doings of a mob. On tho day before, that is, on Monday, a diffi cult and intricate insurance case, wMch should properly have been tried by a select jury of merchants, was submitted to a jury made up from this panel Ono of the lawyers ou the side that lost, asked a great, heavy negro juryman on what principle he rendered his verdict:— “Wall, massa, I dink you cliumpt bought a cat in a bag—dat’s all I got to say 'bout it.” In an other ease the attorney of one of the parties in conrt, aggravated by the monstrous decision of the black jury, remarked to the Judge, that, “a verdict rendered by a jury of stolid, ignorant, and incapable negroes, who ought to be in the corn-field instead of the jury-box, should not be recorded.” Thereupon one of the jurymen, a big, saucy, ragged, dirty, squalid specimen of Ms race, marched within the bar to the table occnpied by the lawyers and addressed the judge thus: “Mister judge, I wants to know ef dese here lawyers has de right to make dese ’tacks on us jnrnsns, and if we aint got no ’dress for such sich carryings on? I aint no corn-field hand; I is a voter and got my ragisty papers.” Failing to obtain satisfaction, he went off muttering, “I'll have de lawyers what insulted us brnng up under de ’siruciion law anyhow.” “Representative Men.” The Columbus Enquirer of Sunday, editorial ly points ont the nature of Gen. Grant’s response to the demand of the Radicals, through McClure and others, that he should put “representative men ” of tho Radical party in tho Cabinet. The Enquirer says: “Washbume comes nearest to ‘filling the bill,’ bnt his close personal relations towards Gen. Grant, and tho fact that he lives in the same town with the General at once accounted for the cause of his selection. Audit is a significant fact that though his name had been canvassed in connection with other Departments of tho Government, no ono had supposed that a man of Ms second-rate abilities would be chosen for the most important and responsible Cabinet po sition. Stewart was never a politician, and would never have been chosen had the wish of the Rad ical party of New York been consulted. Cox was Governor of OMo when the war closed, an nounced himself shortly afterwards as opposed to negro suffrage, and has been shoved into the background by Ms party ever since, until Gen. Grant brought him forward again as a Cabinet officer. Hoar and Borie are wholly unknown in all political contests. Creswell is a “ Southern loyalist,” whose present intense Unionism was preceded by devotion to the South and sympa thy for secession. He may be the “ representa tive ” of one element of the Radical party, bnt it is certainly its meanest element. No Cabinet position can ever give Mm respectability. Tho total exclusion of all the favorite “ repre sentative men ” of the Radical party from the Cabinet must be very galling to them, and sug gestive of a “ hard to travel” in the immediate future. Gkakt, Alexander & Co., contractors on the Macon and Rronswick Railroad, have made ap plication to the City Council of Angnsln, to tiro the chain-gang of that city to work upon the railroad. There are sixty-odd members of that interesting fraternity, and the Finance Commit tee report that an acceptance of Messrs. Grant, Alexander & Co.’s offer will save the city §300 per month. The Chronicle and Sentinel thinks the Augusta chain-gang' will soon be breaking ground on the line of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad. Second the Motion—Canine Payments.—A correspondent of tho Newnan Herald retaliates npon the Legislative proposition to tax dogs by the suggestion “that each member of said Leg islate take two dogs at fifty dollars each, for the service rendered tho State. This will do much to reduce the number of dog3 that aro so destruc tive to the interest of all concerned and be a fair compensation to tho men who receive them.’ — — . M» - -* Pebiodicix&> — Twelve Times a Year, for Mnw>h—a Louisville periodical at §2 SO per an num, by F. L Dibble & Co. Peterson’s Ladies’ National Magazine for April is al'.o « ban:’. Both, we presto.. - be found at Havens & Brown's. The Westminster Review fob Januaby.— Scott’s reprint was received yesterday. Also, Littell for last week, No. 1292, and the Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, by W. H. Bid- well, Editor; published by E. R. Pelton, 108 Fulton St, New York. L abge Sale of Lands. —Seventy thousand acres of land in Florida, will bo sold at Jacksonville on tho first Monday in April next, for division among the heirs. These lands are Spanish grants, and comprise some of the most valuable lands in the State. An Opening.—The Bainbridge Argns calls for the establishment of a saw mill in or near that place. It says it has been impossible to buy a hundred feet of lumber in Bainbridge for a month past. Where pine timber is so plentf ul, that lumber should be scarce reflects npon the enter prise of the people. Fobnex says of the Inauguration Ball: “ Tho statement that the colored people would bo pres ent, was, of course, erroneous. I did not see one. The intelligent people of that race are too proud to subject themselves to reproach, and the others had too much sense to please their enemies by going.” Tho Atlanta New Era pays a compliment to Mr. Tumlin, of Randolph, for the energy and perseverance with wMch ho worked through the House of Representatives the bill to incorporate and extend State aid to the Bainbridge, Cuth- bert & Columbus Railroad Company. Stale Reading.—Northern speculations about the Cabinet read stale. Not one of them hits the mark in any singular particular, except that Schofield is to hold over. Evidently the news came npon them like a thunderclap in a clear sky. / The New York Herald predicts that Grant will make his administration historical by re cognizing belligerent rights of tho Cuban revo lutionists, and then tho independence of Cuba. On She MigSi 5Iorsc. . Pride, saith the good book, is going before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall The doom of nations and of men is ever writ ten by the finger of fate, like that of Belshazar, when the heart is uplifted with swelling vanity; and we might well reason from these premises, that surely some great misfortune—soma terri ble humiliation is soon to befall the American people; for the ceremonials of the late inaugu ration have developed such a monstrous infla tion of vanity, that perhaps it will be a merci ful dispensation of Providence wMch pricks the wind-bag and lets off the superfluous gas. Here is a sample brag from the Herald: A new era commences to-day with a popula tion that may be practically estimated at any figure between one hundred millions and five hundred millions of people, marching shoulder tos houlder under a system of political consoli dations on the broad path of empire. Their arms are the steam engine, the electric tele graph and the independent press, and tho victo ries they will acMeve aro beyond the wildest dreams of human thought to-day. The last gen eration compassed progressfrom the slow coach to the rapid car, from the uncertain sail to tho certain paddlcwheel and has served its appren- ticcsMp with the electric battery. Whosoever believes that we stop hero deceives himself as greatly as did Calhoun when he believed he could carry our social and political system back to the feudal age. Secretary A. T. Stewart’s disability. “Disabilities” are as common as mcasels, but wo never thought they were going to break out in the ranks of the “trooly loyal.” This, how ever, seems to he the melancholy case with Hon. A. T. Stewart, President Grant’s appoin tee to the office of Secretary of tho Treasury. He is, it seems, disabled by the act of Septem ber 2, 1789, and Congress is now considering whether they will grant Grant’s request and re lieve him. Section ninth of that act is the bar, and we find it sat forth in Brightly’s Digest, as follows: Sec. IX. No person appointed to any office instituted by this act, (Secretary of the Treas ury) shall directly or indirectly be concerned or interested in carrying on tho business of trade of commerce; or ba owner in whole or in part or any sea vessel, or purchase by himself or an other intrust, for Mm, any public lands or other public property; or be concerned in tho pur chase or disposal of any public securities of any State, or of the United States; or take or apply to his own use any emolument or gain for nego tiating or transacting any business in tho said department, other than that allowed by law. And if any person shall offend against any of the prohibitions of this act, ho shall be deemed guilty of a Mgh misdemenor, and forfeit to the United States the penalty of three thousand dollars, and shall, npon conviction, be removed from office, and forever thereafter bo incapable of holding any office under the United States Provided, Tliat if any other person than a pub lic prosecutor shall give information of any such off once,npon wMch a prosecution and conviction shall bo held, ono half the aforesaid penalty of three thousand dollars, when recovered, shall be for tho use of the person giving such infor mation.—Brightly'a Digest, page 884. JBY TELEGRAPH. FROM ATLANTA. State Aid to Railroads. Penitentiary to be Leased bnt. Education Bill Passed tbc Honse. The rage for lifo insurance, and the active competition for premiums among companies exceeds anything in tho financial tine since the South Sea bubble. Equality Niggers. We believe the Savannah negroes aro going to demonstrate a capacity in some departments of life equal with the whites. Now what better could a London or New York footpad do than the following? We cut the acccountfrom the Republican: Last evening, about half-past seven o’clock, an elderly gentleman named John Wallace, a stranger in the city, while bargaining with some negroes in the neighborhood of the Central Railroad depot, to perform some services for Mm, thought the bargain would ba sooner con summated by giving them a drink. He accord ingly invited the party into a bar-room, where he treated them. Upon proceeding to pay the score, he imprudently opened a pocket-book containing eight hundred dollars in greenbacks, from which ho took a bill, and settled with the keeper of the place. The mode of treatment proved effectual in coining to an understanding with tho negroes, and Mr. Wallace started off, bnt ho had only gone a short distance when Ms progress was suddenly arrested by a pair of strong black arms tightly encircling his neck, while a pair of black hands pulled off his overcoat—in wMch was tho pocket-book and the §800—in a remark ably short space of time. The job was finished by snntcMng Ms hat off his head, and tho ne groes—three in number—taking to flight and making their escape, notwithstanding Ms shonts for “ Police 1” *■ The Earth Closet ami tlie Treatment oi* Wounds. To the Editor of the Evening Poet: you were foremost in calling the attention of the American public to the Earth Closet Sys tem—the use of sifted dry earth for the deodor- iation and disinfection of human faces—and thus become the pioneers of a reform that promises not only unspeakable relief from the gravest annoyance of our ljves, but the preven tion of the greatest waste of the fertility of the earth, it is just that to yon should be communi cated an outgrowth of this system that offers, if possible a still greatly benefit to suffering hu manity. One of the experimental commodes sent out by the Earth Closet Company was placed at tho disposal of Dr. Addineli Hewson, of the Penn sylvania Hospital, in PhiladelpMa. Its intro duction into the surgical ward, where it has been for two weeks in constant me by about twenty patients, and has been subjected to the severest test possible, has been so entirely sat isfactory that it is proposed to substitute earth closets for water closets wherever these exist in that institution. At the time of its introduction there was lying in the ward a patient suffering from a very se vere compound fracture of the lower leg. The wound was in an unhealthy condition, and its exudations, amounting to a pint in twenty-four hours, were so offensive as to came a sickening and even dangerom stench, that the excellent ventilation of the ward and the me of the usual disinfectants were hardly able even to mitigate. It occurred to Dr. Hewson to test the power of dry earth to absorb this odor, as it had that of excrement. The effect was magical. Not only was the offensiveness entirely overcome, but the effect on the character of the wound itself was such as no previous treatment had been able to compass. 4 The suppuration was, within a few days, so reduced that the daily dressing of a sin gle half pint of earth was not even saturated; the edges of the flesh wound lost their inflamed character; the intense pain of the sore was en tirely relieved, and a healthy granulation has ensued. Such an indication of a newly found healing agent was not disregarded. On Monday last, being in PMladelpMa, I was invited to attend the morning dressing of the earth-treated wounds. This is what I saw: First. Two patients suffering from serious varicose ulcers, after prolonged suffering, and with little relief from the usual treatment, have ceased to be offensive to their ward-mates ; they find their sores growing daily smaller; and pain and inflammation have left them; and they feel the certainty of an early cure. Second. A railroad brakesman, whose hand was—a year and half ago—crashed between the coupling heads of two cars, and who has never been free from pain, and seldom from intense lain ; whose band from the wrist to the knuck- es was a festering mass of carious bones and inflamed flesh, and whose system had been so reduced that lie could not have survived the amputation which alone can entirely relievo him, is now happy in freedom from pain. His flesh-wound has taken on a healthy character, and his strength Is fast returning. He even hopes to save his hand, but the long-continued decay of tho bone makes this impossible. Third. Another brakesman, suffering from a precisely similar injury, in no respect less seri ous, but received within a few days, was imme diately treated with dry earth. Its constant ap plication has entirely prevented i ulimmation, and a healthy healing of the flesh u.ad knitting of the bone will soon return him to Ms duties with two useful hands. Fourth. A farm laborer, on Friday last, had three of his fingers nearly cut off and his hand fearfully tom by a horse-power hay-cutter. Since the first application of the dry earth (a few hours after the accident) he has been free from pain, and he will save his hand. Fifth. On Saturday last a laborer engaged in breaking np condemned shells, exploded one that was charged. Tne powder burned his face and arms, and (seriously) one of his knees, which was struck by a fragment of the iron, that completely shattered the knee pan. His bums and the fracture were immediately dressed with dry earth, and the freedom from pain and the absence of inflammation have been as marked in tMs case as in the others.- Without this dres sing tne knee joint must inevitably have become involved, fend the leg must have been lost. Now the wound is evidently healing, and (although it is too early to speak positively) there is every reason to hope that the only result of the injury will be a stiff knee. Sixth. Within a few days a woman was brought to this hospital with her neck and a large part of her body very severely and dang3rously burned. That sho could escape long agony was beyond hope. Yet on Monday her eyes was clear and calm, and her voice was strong, and when the doctor asked her how she felt, she said she was a great deal better, and that she had no pain. Seventh. Last Wednesday an entire breast was removed for cancer, and the wound was dressed with dry earth. It is now healing ra pidly. There has been no inflammation and no suppuration, and tMs woman, too—calm and happy looking, with a healthy color and a steady voice—spoke far more than her cheerful words in thankfulness for her relief. Surely, with our gratitude to the Vicar of Fordington, who has conferred the greatest ben efit on the human race that it has ever been given to one man to accomplish, we must unite our thanks to the senior surgeon of the Penn sylvania Hospital for thus applying the princi ples of his invention to the saving of life and limb, and to the alleviation of unspeakable suf fering. And the end, I trust, is not yet. It seems in evitable that the pustules of small pox must give up their pain and their offensiveness at this magio touch of mother earth, and if it is true that its contagion spreads from its exuda tions, may we not hope that Dr. Hewson has bound its feet as Mr. Moule has those of chol era ? Bespectfully, Geo. E. Wabixg, Jr. New York, February 24, I860. Governor’s Veto or Memphis Railroad fillip etc., etc. Special to the Macon Telegraph.] Atlanta, March 8—Night. Senate.—Tho bill to permit tho Directors of the Grifliij and Alabama Railroad to build a road by the most practicable route, passed. Tbo bill authorizing the Governor to lease out tbo Penitentiary for a term of years, after considerable discussion, was passed by a decided majority. The two House bills on tho same subject were laid on the table. _ Tbo bill granting State aid to tho Brunswick and Albany railroad was made the special order for 8 o’doqk, p. M., in the afternoon session. Tho same being resumed at that hour, Mr. Bruton offered a resolution to refer tho matter the Superin tendent of Public Works, to see whether it damages other roads wherein the State is interested—lost. The bill, without discusion, was put upon its pas sago, and it passed—yeas 24, nays 1-4. Mr. Smith, of the 7 th District, gave notice that he would move to reconsider. The motion for night sessions was lost. House.—A long resolution was introduced in reference to funds illegally drawn by warrant, ac companied with a resolution instructing the Attor ney General to institute suit upon the bonds of tho Comptroller and Treasurer of the State, to recover the amount. Bethune’s substitute to tho same was laid on the table, and the original made the special order for Thursday. The educational hill of Mr. Parka passed after many efforts to substitute the Senate bill—ayes 87, nays 37. The Governor’s veto was road of the bill granting aid to tho Memphis branch road, on the ground of its injustice to the State road. Ho urges the State to build the same and recommends its purchase. It was made the special order for to-morrow. The election of domestic and foreign immigration commissioners was set down for Wednesday. There is some talk of extending tho time for ad journment a few days. W. From 'Washington. Washington, March 8 Tho Committee on Ac counts finally sanctioned the amount ordered by the Honse, and Col. Hunt and the negro, Menard, contestants from Louisiana, have [twenty-five hun dred dollars each. The Senatorial caucus took no action in Stewart’s case. It is understood that Stewart's resignation is in tho hands of the President, who will send in anoth er name—Boutwell, it is said. Revenue to-day §6s5,000. Gen. Sheridan comes here immediately on a tele graphic order. Col. Wn. G. Moore, late Secretary to President Johnson, is ordered to duty under Paymaster Bryce. Capt. Wright Reaves, also Secretary to Johnson, has a year’s leave of absence with the privilege to travel beyond the United States. No action was taken by either Congress or tho President, regarding Stewart, to-day. Stewart proposes that unless Congress removes the difficulty to make an absolute transfer and dis position of all the profits and interests of his busi ness while ho remains in office, three prominent gentlemon as trustees, to have absolute use of tho profits and remains for public charity, in New York, the trustees to select charity and objects, with abso lute control, whereby Stewart divests himself of any interest, whatever, in his business. Applications for office overwhelming. None will be considered by the President unless made to a Cabinet officer in charge of tho Department where the office is solicited and located. The President receives official calls daily, between ten and twelve ; after that hoar there is no admit tance except to Cabinet officers, or by appointment. The Cabinet meets Tuesdays and Fridays. On Cabinet days general visitors will be received, only between ten and twelve. Gen. Sherman takes formal command of the army to-morrow. the Metropolitan Church, walked nearly to the altar, but finding no special preparation made for them, departed. Apology was made from the pulpit, to tho effect that hereafterspace would be reserved for tho President. There is much speculation and consultation over relieving Stewart from incapacity to be Secretary of the Treasury. There is a desire not to embarrass Grant in the commencement of his administration, which it is generally believed will lead to the action he suggests. -• New Yobk, March 7.—In a lecture in Jersey City, Wendell Phillips commented on Grant's Inaugural. He urged a vigorous, and if -necessary, sanguinary policy toward England as the only means to securo a lasting peace. Foreign Hews. Haiti, March 8.—Salnave has attacked AuxCayea by sea and by land* He was repulsed. Madrid, March 8.—An incendiary fire occurred at the Royal barracks to-day. Rosie, March 8.—The reported death of the Pope is false. St. Johns, Newfoundland, March 8.—The Legis lature has adopted the resolution in favor of the Confederation. The Memphis Avalanche ox the Inaugubal —The Avaloncho of the 6th says: Not a word is said of the Congressional scheme of Reconstruction. Urging the necessity of more fully restoring civil law to all parts of tho conntryisthe only reference to policy for the South. And this contains nothing proscriptive. But the new President has no unkind word for “rebels.” Ho speaks to tho whole people. The word “South” is not mentioned; rebellion ap pears but once; and no class is pointed to a back seat. There aro numerous allusions to “the country,” and “tho people,” and “patient for bearance of one toward another throughout tho land” is soelmnly invoked. We repeat, there is much in the address which will moet with gen eral approval; but little especially significant. The announcement of tho Cabinet will revoal what is in store for ns. ...... { ,A New Constitution. The New York World and its correspondents are talking about a Convention of tho States to The result of the legal inquisition into tho j form a new Federal Constitution. Two in- Grant-Pollarcl murder in Richmond, is surpris- quiries arise in onr mind in relation to that ing, and needs explanation. ' proposition : 3. What sort of a Constitution JIabtin Van Buren, late ex-President of t£e United States, once remarked to a gentleman ♦big city: “I have niade'it a rale of my life always attend church on Sunday, and I have counseled hundreds of young men to do so, for it rarely, will occur that one who maintains the decorum consequent upon a habitual weekly cleansing of person and decency of dress, and r , ongTes3icnaJ. Washington, March S.—House The Honse is not in session. Senate.—The following bills were introduced: To prevent the private sales of gold and securi ties by the Treasury, and requiring autograph; ap plications for the removal of political disabilities; amending the judicial system. Tho resolution for a joint committee on disabili ties was tabled. The bill enforcing the fourteenth amendment and to secure a Republican Government in the Southern States was referred to the Judiciary Committee. Tho bill erasing the word white from the charter and ordinances of tho District, passed. The Senate is voting for Chaplain. First ballot— Rev. Mr. Newman 23: Rev. Mr. Chester 10; Rev, Mr. Witherington 10; Rev. Mr. Grey 7 ; Rev. Mr. Bates 6; Rev. Mr. Nourse 2 ; Rev. Mr. Kelly 1—no choice. Second ballot—Rev. Dr. Newman 35 ; Rev. Dr. Witherington 7 ; Rev. Dr. Chester 7: Rev. Dr. Grey 5; Rev. Dr. Nourse 7; and Newman was de clared elected. During the contest, Yates said he conceded that the merits of the Rev. Dr. Newman, as a political preacher, were unsurpassed; but he thought it was time to have a little less politics and a little more religion in tho prayers. They had politics enough in the Senate without putting them into the prayers. The Committees announced Chairmen as follows: Foreign, Sumner; Finance, Sherman; Appropria tions, Fessenden: Commerce, Chandler; Manufac tures, Morton; Agriculture, Cameron ; Military, Wilson; Naval Grimes; Judiciary, Trumbull; Pos tal. Ramsey; Public Lands, Pomeroy;' Private Lands, Williams; Pensions, Edmunds; Bovolution- aiy Claims, Yates; Claims of the Homo District of Columbia, Hamlin; Patents. Willey; Territories, Nye; Pacific Railroads, Howard; Mines, Stewart; Education, Drake; Revision of Laws, Cawkling. Senate adjourned. From Atlanta. Atlanta, March 8.—Tho Senate to-day passed the general educational bill. In the Republican Convention held here on the 5th a resolution ftas adopted that the Government of Georgia i» as .practically and completely under the control of those who spurn tho Government of tho United States and the policy of Congress as it was during the rebellion, and cannot, thoreforo. be recognized as legally or actually reconstructed; therefore, they earnestly and urgently ask Congress to provide for a rigid enforcement of the laws thei eof, under the authority of the United States by reas sembling the persons elected to tho General Assem bly in April last, and the exclusion from the organ ization of those who are ineligible under the law. This was the resolution passed instead of one calling for a re-assembling of the Constitutional State Convention. Congressional Election. Editors Telegraph : Please publish the enclo sed article taken from the Columbus Enquirer, of the 4th instant. This is no time for us to for get or ignore the fable of Hercules, the Wagon er, nor yet the old adage that “ the Gods help i those who help themselves.” B. j Editors Columbus Enquirer : An election for a member of Congress for this District, is to be held in April, and I am of opinion that a Con vention should be held forthwith for tho nomi nation of a candidate to be ran and supported by the Democratic party for the office. I am aware that in August last Mr. Buchanan was nominated for an election to have been held in November. Bnt many reasons now exist why a new nomination should be made. The Dis trict has great need of a Representative in Con gress at this time, and should have a good one, if possible. It is well known that Mr. Buchanan is ineligible under the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and if elected could not take his seat. The result of his election, probably, would bo to seat his ob noxious opponent. But would not other results of equal or greater disaster follow ? I think so, It is well known that Gov. Bullock is striving to put us back under a provisional government.— Our Senators are still unseated. Representative Christy, (in like condition with Mr. Buchanan) although elected before the Fourteenth Amend ment became a part of the Constitution, has nev er yet had his disabilities removed, and the order is, as we understand, that when the Clerk shall call the roll of the new Congress, for organiza tion, the names of members from Georgia aro not to be called. Again: During the last Presidential canvass the Central Executive Committee of the Demo cratic party of Georgia were called together, and declared that the party did recognize the validi ty of the Fourteenth Amendment as part of the Constitution, and would abide by it until legally declared to be inoperative. And at this time we are looking hopefully to General Grant to inaugurate a policy more favorable to ns than that Heretofore pursued by the Radical party, and to recognize Georgia as a State rightfully in the Union and entitled to all the rights of a State as such. Now, in view of these facts, is it our policy, and can we afford, by casting onr suffrages for Mr. Buchanan, to place ourselves, as a party, in open hostility to this Fourteenth Amendment and give the lie to this pledge of the Executive Committee, and give our enemies tho use of so potent a weapon against us as would be this charge of open and avowed hostility to the Con stitution of the United States as it is—and all for the purpose of paying a useless compliment to a gallant political military leader ? Before this is done the will of the party, in this changed condition of affairs, should be again consulted and unequivocally expressed ; and I insist that a convention be called at an early day, and I suggest the third Saturday in March as the day, and Columbus as the place, for the holding of a convention for the nomina tion of a candidate, and that the Presidents of the various Democratic Clubs of the District be requested to see to it that the call is responded to. I see that a correspondent in your paper has suggested the name of the Hon. E. n. Worrill as an unexceptionable candidate. I approve of the suggestion. He would represent the district ably and faithfully, and if nominated would be elected, and if elected could take his seat in the new Congress whenever any one of the Demo cratic. party from Georgia shall be allowed a seat, and will aid Tift and others in their noble effort of pouring oil upon the troubled, waters of strife. These suggestions are made, Messrs. Editors, with no unkind feelings towards Mr. Buchanan —far from it. I know of no one more deserv ing than he, or one whom the people would more delight to honor. But I cannot consent, in this crisis of our affairs, to give him a suf frage that will be of no manner of benefit to him or the country—that may result in putting in place and power a person wholly unfitted for the position—that may be used by our enemies to onr irreparable politicalinjury—and if “mad ness ” is to continue to “ rule the hour,” that may be construed by onr insatiate foes against our gallant paroled soldiers, thus voting, as an i ,Jiu V™?™ overt infraction of their paroles. warran . “ Let us have peace.” Pax. General Assembly of Georgia. REPORTED SPECIALLY FOR THE MACON DAILY TELEGRAPH. Atlanta, March (j, 18G9. Senate—The Senate met. A motion to reconsider tho action of the Sen ate, by Mr. Smith, (3Gth) relating to the bill prescribing the penalty for refusal to work on the public roads, was lost by the casting vote of the President. A motion to reconsider the immigration bill by Mr. Adkins was, on motion of Mr. Winn, laid on the table. Mr. Brock moved a reconsideration of the ac tion of the Senate in relation to the amending of tho act for the relief of debtors and allowing executors etc. to give evidence of loss or depre ciation of trust property. The motion pre vailed. Mr. Htmgerford asked a suspension of the rules for tho purpose of taking up a resolution adopting the fifteenth amendment to the Con stitution of the United States. Mr. Candler desired to know if any official information had been received by the Governor from Congress a3 to its passage by that body, and if the Governor had made the same known to the Legislature. The President stated that no notification had been yet given officially. Tho resolution was not taken up. On motion of Mr. Nunnally the rules were suspended to take np a joint resolution advanc ing Samuel Bard, State Printer, the snmof §5000. A motion by Mr. Coleman to refer tho matter to tho Committee on printing, was lost and the resolution agreed to. Bills were taken up for first, second and third reading, and tho following passed. A bill changing the lines between tho coun ties of Baker and Taylor. A bill amending an act incorporating the town of Americas. A bill allowing either party to give notice of certiorari within five days. The House amended by striking out “five and inserting “ ten,” which was concurred in, and the bill passed as amended. A bill amending the charter of the Griffin and North Alabama Railroad. A bill incorporating the Rome Iron Manufac turing Company. A bill amending the Code in relation to exec utors de sou toit. Sir. Moore asked a suspension of the rules for tho purpose of taking up tho bill bringing on elections of members of Congress, which was not agreed to. Mr. Smith moved that the Senate vote on the ratification of the 15th Amendment at 12 m. on Monday, tho 8th inst. Mr. Candler offered an amendment to the fol lowing effect: “ Provided, that the General As sembly bo officially notified of the passage of said amendment by Congress.” Mr. Moore offered an amendment striking out “Monday” and inserting “Wednesday, 10th inst.” The motion did not prevail Mr. Nunnally moved to lay the whole matter on the table until the Legislature was notified officially on tho matter. Air. Nunnally withdrew his motion. Air, Higbeo moved that the whole matter be laid on the table, upon which motion the yeas and nays were called, when they stood as fol lows : Yeas—Alessrs. Adams, Anderson, Bums, Can dler, Bolman, Corbitt, Dickey, Gignilliatt, Gra ham, Griffin of the 0th, Higbee, Holcombe, Jor dan, Lester, AIcCutchen, McWhorter, Moore, Nunnally and Sherman—19. Nays—Messrs. Adkins. Bowers, Brock, Bru ton, Hungerford, Jones, McArthur, Smith of the 7th, Smith of the 3Cth, Stringer, Welch and Wooten—12. The motion was declared adopted. Air. Bruton offered the following resolution: That tho Governor be further requested that if he has no information on the subject, that he forthwith request Congress to hurry up and send it along quick. The amendment created much merriment, but was lost. Mr. Holcombe asked a suspension of the rules for the purpose of taking up a resolution ad journing on the 12th inst.,which had been passed by the House. The rules were suspended and the resolution taken up and agreed to. Air. Winn offered the following resolution to the effect that the General Assembly was willing to ratify the fifteenth amendment, when it was officially notified of its passage by Congress. The President declared the resolution out of order inasmuch as the matter had been already acted on. Air. Hungerford offered a resolution request ing tho Governor to furnish the Senate with of ficial notification, if he had any, of the passage of the fifteenth amendment by Congress. Mr. Adkins offered a substitute which did not prevail. . • Tho hour for adjournment having arrived the Senate adjourned leaving the resolution of Mr. Htmgerford for future action. House.—The House met. Mr. Hudson moved a reconsideration of tho action of the House of yesterday in relation to the bill having evidences in criminal cases re ported stenographically. The motion did not prevail. Air. Price moved a reconsideration of the bill requiring Justices of Peace to return names of tax payers in militia districts to the Tax Receiv er, which motion prevailed. Air. Crawford moved a reconsideration of the bill prescribing the manner of directing bench The English IPress ou the Ala&ntna Treaty. The London papers have elaborate editorial comments upon the rejection of tho Alabama claims treaty by the Senate Committee. The Times believes the real ground for the rejection is the charge of British bad faith made in the Boston petition, signed by George B. Upton and others. The Daily Press says: The English people will be unanimous in feel ing that their concessions put them in the right in this matter before the moral judgment of the world. We have satisfied the government which first advanced the claims upon ns, have conceded everything which American diplomacy felt it could fairly insist upon, and it is np^noV for ns to take any further step in tho matter. It is quite impossible for Englishmen to understand what their American cousins want, and wo can now do nothing but wait for some intelligible exposition of their requirements. But it must be dis tinctly understood that we wait in the . full conviction that we have granted all that could be granted; have satisfied to the full all the de mands made upon us; and have thus complete ly cleared ourselves from all responsibility for tho failure of these long and troublesome nego tiations. We, at least, went into those nego tiations with a desire to Bettle them, and that desire has prevailed over every other sentiment. Wo were anxious to close up an open wound; to remove cause of offence; to give a costly proof of onr desire for peace, union and broth erhood between kindred nations. Henceforth, no responsibility belongs to us. We shall re gret that a perpetual danger to onr friendly re lations should exist; but if these Alabama claims remain forever unsettled, tho blame will not rest on England. It must be clearly under stood that, though we may stand upon our con cessions, and grant them as readily to the gov ernment of General Grant as we have done to that of Mr. Johnson, new proposals for settle ment must now come from the other side if they are ever to be made at all From Virginia. Richmond, March 8.—A large number of promi nent Republicans are hero to-night, to go over to jho State Convention at Petersburg to-morrow. The fight for tho nomination for Governor will bo be tween Wells, the present nomineo, and Clements, who is on tho present ticket for the office of Lieu tenant Governor. A warm time is expected in the Convention, as the charges recently made by Sen ator Nye against Governor Wells, in connection with the salo of internal improvements, will be brought up by his opponents. Lieut. Chandler, late U. S. District Attorney, is also prominently named for Governor. President’s Inauguration Among the Financiers. The money dispatch to the Louisville Journal dated New York 4th, says: Government bonds advanced slightly on the reception of Grant’s inaugural. This document was well received in business circles, but had only a partial effect. Tho total absence in it of any allusion to the Republican party and its platform occasions an angry comment among the Republicans, which, together with the fail ure to repeal tho civil tenure law, creates ap prehensions of an early collision between the President and Congress, and until matters are better defined, the speculation halts. General News. A Clerical Buitoox.—Forney’s Press chron- Fobtree3 Monroe, March 8.—The schooner Kings- | ides the following from the Ameriaan Athens: ton, from New York, for Baltimore, encountered a j R ev . Mra Fulton, of Boston, in giving notice °f gale on Saturday night which split her sails. She ! of the inauguration prayer-meeting at the Ale- l«o4 Ium* rooirttnn want ami KrnVo lum main Vi.^nm 1 lAtiann rtVInfllf ThllWuln v Rffirl •. i ionaon, twelve o’clock, Thursday, said: “Now I that the nation is to have the extreme privilege would be made when Sumner, Greely, Phillips, j becoming attendance at church, will fall much TiiEiiENDore Raft.—A raft, one of the largest B _ own j jfjg. gtaufon and the negroes, belowthe standard of respectability ina com- Suptoe rive" yesterday 0 by twcTtogs. stripped ™k; and 2. mother any more ■ M toi—a „„„ fofif of timber, end I attention would be paid to the new than to the Read it.—The Northern reports say General old one. Grant read his Inaugural from manuscript. lost her maintop mast and broke her main boom. CmcAoo. March 8.—The roof of a burning build- .... ., , ,, ,. , , - ..... . ., “ , of having the ‘curse removed which has so long mg gave way last night precipitating four firemen ! it becomes us to pray that the boon into the flames. Their bodies have not boen re- - granted U8 by the people may under the gui- covered. dance of God, prove to be a Grantfrom heaven." Washington, March 7.—Air. Johnson visits Balti- *»- more on Wednesday; returning, leaves for Ten-' The invitations to a “hard times party” in nessce via the Orange and Alexandria route, the last Wisconsin are issued on brown paper, and the of the week ■ instructions to such guests are to dress in every- Grant, wife and son, with a small party, entered clothes brin 8 crackers in his pocket. The motion did not prevail Mr. Nesbitt offered a resolution to appoint a committee of three to wait on the Governor for th- ■ purpose of ascertaining if the amendment to the Constitution of tho United States, known as article fifteen, had been officially transmitted to him by the Secretary of the State, and if it had to request him to transmit it to the House with such recommendations os to him may ap pearance*.-. ry. » Air. Scott hoped the rale would not be sus pended. He could not see why the gentleman was in such a hurry for actiou on the matter. He believed if the gentleman was to speak his honest convictions he would say that this was not in harmony with his feelings* Mr. Saussey hoped that the resolution would be adopted. He thought it right that they should show that they were willing to act on that amendment which Congress had adopted and which they themselves approved of. Air. Price, as a member desiring to voto in telligently upon it, hoped that if it was in'the hands of the Governor he would bo called upon to furnish it with his own recommendations. Air. Harper, of Terrell said it would be pre sented to them some time, and he thought this as good a time as any other to take action on it. Mr. O’Neil favored the motion. Air. Anderson wanted the amendment brought before the house and passed if it was what he thought it was. The yeas and nays were called for on the motion to suspend tho rules, when it was lost by a vote of yeas 84; nays 40. The general appropriation bill being the spe cial order, was taken up, the House going into a Committee of the Whole, when the following sums were appropriated: Five thousand dollars or so much as may be necessary to the Georgia Penitentiary. Twelve thousand to tho Deaf and Dumb Asylum. Air. Hull, of Merriwether, offered an addi tional section appropriating fifteen thousand dollars to furnish artificial limbs to the maimed soldiers of the State, which was adopted. Three hundred and eighty thousand dollars to pay tho interest on the public debt for the present year. Air. Anderson offered an additional section appropriating one thousand dollars salary for tho Attorney GeneraL Ho offered a section for tho purpose of set- tiingthis matter. Ho understood thatno salary ( had been fixed, and that Judge Lochrane and others had boen employed by the Governor to do business which properly belonged to that office, and he wanted tins thing done away with and the duties of the Attorney General defined and done by that gentleman, whoever he might be. Mr. Scott asked for information as to who the Attorney General was. He had understood that other lawyers were employed by the Gov ernor, and he did net want to have a man paid who was not attending to bis duties. Besides, Air. Farrow, who, he thought, filled that office, held that there was no legtd State Government, and as that was his position he must necessarily admit that there was no such offioe as Attorney General. Mr. O’Neil spoke on the motion, bnt bis re marks were, as usual, so indefinite that he coalc not well tell what he was saying or what pdsi tion he took in the matter. answer, throwing himself upon the intemmn.. of the Chair, which he evidently hoped rale the question out of order. ° B ‘ ; ' Air. Scott—If the gentleman does not nadt. stand tho question, I will explain it to hh^ tr ' Air. O’Neil understood the question very* and was not afraid to meet it, but it wnu open up business which was not befon - House. Here ho imploringly looked at the Cfc • again, but the Chair, the cruel Chair, did « see him, nor declare the question out of ord--' Mr. Scott simply wanted to know when* the Legislature had the power to create tVoV fice of Attorney CeneraL . O’Neil understood the gentleman’s an> tion in its full scope. It means, in other wiJi “do you think this is a legal body ?” Mr. Scott said that what he wanted to fc, was whether the gentleman was in favor <jf against the motion, as ho was unable to din? his real position from his remarks. jj e wanted to know if he thought the Lerislat- was “covered over with the slime of deceit." Air. O’Neil was not afraid to answer hia u. he would like, before commencing, to knowtra he would get ample time to do so. " ' . Air. Scott simply wanted to know if a* L gentleman held tins body to be a legal on-'- gentleman, ought to remain in it. ” * Mr. _ Scott had reference to a speech of V. O’Neil’s made the day previous at the Convention, in which he denounced the Leri ' ture as an illegal body, and “covered overVw the slime of deceit.” Air. Flournoy hoped tho discussion would tt- minate, as it was, in his opinion, disrespectfi The Chair said tho discussion was talia- -' wide a range, and was becoming too general' Mr. Phillips read the Constitution in refit to the matter, stating that that settled the q- tion very clearly. ^ Mr. O’Neil said he would not have dev^, from the subject matter before the House flk had not been led off from it by the quests which had been put to him. Air. Scott said it was not his object to open any discussion, but he did wish to know how gentleman stood, and if he made a quotst from the gentleman, he did not think hen opening up any controversy thereby. Air. Price offered as a substitute that the _ ary be set at two thousand instead of one tQ sand dollars a, year, and that the Attorney Ge: eral bo allowed to receive no fees or cnx meats. Air. Anderson accepted the substitute. £. understood that the present official was receh ing three thousand dollars a year 0s Attom for the State, and this substitute would pren him from holding two offices. Mr. Scott wanted the person filling the o£ to be confined to its duties, and if that were d he would vote for it by way of compromise. The substitute was then put and adopted. Several additional sections were offered, ql propriating five hundred dollars extra to taries and clerks in both Houses, all of were lost The committee then rose, reported tie back to the House with amendments and it passed as amended. Tho House adjourned. Extraordinary Phenomena. EXCITEMENT IN LONDON WITH BESAED 10 SHE UALISM—STABTLINO STATEMENTS OP DCBCS HOME, THE MEDIUM. London Correspondence of the Aew York Timet.' 1 At this moment, next to the ritualist cost versy, I am inclined to think that the most citing topic in London society is Spiritatt It has even been brought into tho new phib phical society, the Dialutical which has sen young lords among its members, if not elde soap-boilers. Making a call in Paternoster n the other morning, I met a barrister of so literary and scientific as well as legal repute and social position, who gave me an accour, some recent manifestations in the presencs Air. Home, which have been witnessed t hundred or more noblemen and literary; scientific notabilities, and which are more tonishing than anything that has happened, j haps, for centuries. Passing over the i manifestations, such as the raising of l bodies, playing on locked pianos, or so tha; keys can be seen to move without finger- come to three or fonr distinct manifestatic the testimony to which is. very difficult to over. My informant i3 a man in every way re; and the other witnesses, whose names j confidentially given me, not only belong to highest circles of politics and society, but men eminently capable of forming a cor judgment. In several instances the body o£ Home has been elongated by measurement u^ the wall and lying on the floor, to the eitea eight or nine inches, and then shortened much—making a carefully measured differ; of a foot and half. He has been at di&i times raised into the air from the height of; feet to that of a higher ceiling, and c round the room in the clear view of all pi who have had the means of assuring fln that no deception was possible. He was horrizontally out of a window in the third of the honse of Lord——, and brought in *1 window of another room, some thirty feet tant, having been carried through the ah 1 feet or more from the ground. Finally, W on several occasions taken a large live coal: a coal fire, held it in his hand, and laid it * hands of other persons, without even tho of fire, or the sensation of heat being per by them. My informant showed me Vcel own finger had been burned in testing flu ■ ty of this manifestation. He assured *. he had seen Air. Home go to a large and lay his face npon tho white hot coals, out even singing his hair or beard. As ti- pretty strong story, I beg to append the f: ing, which I find in the Spiritual ADgwr this month. Air. Hall is the well-knowi of the Art Journal—his wife, Mrs. S. C. well-known as a writer, and lias lately a pension from the queen. “No. 13 Ashly Place, Victoria street, S Sir ; 1 state facts without explanation or meat. On the 27th day of December l*'- ting with nine otherpersons in my drawinil Mr D. D. Home left the table, went to» fire, took therefrom a lump of 'livis? brought it to the table, and placed it nhoj 1 Not,a hair was singed, nor did I injury. The coal remained upon my a minute. Mr. Home then took it as-i * it in Airs. Hall’s hand without injury t» ho afterward placed it in the hands of t* guests. The gas light and two car—.' burning in the room. I and tho nine sons* present would c|eposo to these W* Your obedient servant, S. C. The editor adds the following note: conference at Lawson’s rooms, JanaMT H. D. Senckin, who was present ondhjj 0 publicly stated the facts hero given bj/r" and added several instances of t;-‘ he had witnessed. The first test, L« * now been seen recently, at differeit more than fifty persons in the sner* its neighborhood.” . I may add that I know Air. Jench'A * he is a gentleman of high scientii-t ^ xnents as well as social position, an® } say, every way to be trusted. If value in human testimony, in proof® whatever, there can be no doubt a l ~'- and genuineness of the facts above you may judge of the perplexity ana tion of men of science, Fellows of “* e . ciety and other fellows, who thiiu «. duty to understand everything, to er r* they do not understand, ond-to'hav* ready for every fact you can bring a long time they scornfully, and then denied tha facts, but whan a man in every comply by men of scienw J guished as himself, and worse stu- •] lords, who declare that they have sc-ex the very facts he desires, it be corn- ting. Air. Scott asked what side of the question the j gentleman was on. ! Protection. Illustrated.—Tn e ^ correspondent of the Cincinnati y \ (Republican) publishes the f°, sketch of the protectionist and his c. raj Let mo illustrate. I go, like an *»^ axe-handle business. I find that it ■ Axe-handles can be bought cheapf-.^l than I can make them, so I hasten tl gress and state my grievances. torest, says the sepulchral Kelly, d protected. It is a great interest, ec-u i head, Wilson, Shennan, Wade 'I great interest, shieks the Tnbim 6 1 forthwith a law is passed, forcing ^1 purchasing an axe-liandle to pay E1 .f -, | instead of twenty-five. This is J tion to American industry. That 1 ^ ™ my industry at the expense of the indefinite that he coaid per. But then he had no business i s sftvini? or what ndsi- ' chopper. Why don t he make • Serves him right. mueman was ou. > Hundreds and p-ji Air. O’Neil had not investigated the matter Read*, take a share m the counuy w very thoroughly and could not then say. ' rality, legislate bmld miumhes^ >( Mr. Scott asked if it was his opinion that the J respectable, who would be jan Legislature could create such an office. 1 later if ^eir solemoome , Here Mr. O'Neil paused, looking completely er s clerk, and their eyes lost, and for several seconds unable to speak.— j rubbed daily again He however recovered himself, but shirked the 1 as his do.