Georgia Historic Newspapers

    The 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.