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The Greorgia "W'eekly Telegraph.
THE TELEGRAPH.
MACON, FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 186D.
The Fifteenth Amendment.
We have little idea that this amendment will
become a part of the Constitution. Twenty-
eight States are necessary to the ratification.
Forney, in one of his occasional letters to the
Philadelphia Press, makes ont twenty-five States
certain, and in those he counts Indiana, Iowa,
Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, and Rhode
Island. If he gets the. whole twenty-five, he
counts on three more from the States of Ohio,
Virginia, Mississippi, Georgia and Texas. Too
many strings—some of them are bound to snap.
Infbrmatlon Wanted.
The agent of the Associated Press at Wash
ington telegmphecl us on Wednesday, that “the
Senate Judiciary 66mmitteefias reported a Geor
gia bill, with amendments.” And - again:" “An
amendment forcing a republican government
on Georgia was made to the bill for enforcing
the fourteenth amendment” And again, on the
18tb, that “the Reconstruction Committee con
sidered Georgia to-day.” That was information,
so far as it went; but could be not have strain
ed a point and told ns what the Georgia bill pro
posed to do with us, what was the amendment
forcing a republican government on Georgia,
and what the Reconstruction Committee consid
ered in relation to Georgia ?
Hon. John II. Christy on the Situa
tion.
Hon. John H. Christy, Democratic Represen
tative elect from the Athens District, has re
turned home, and gives his views of the polit
ical situation in Washington, as follows:
At Homs Again.—The editor of the Watch
man has returned to his post, and has barely
time to announce that he will next week and on
sundry occasions hereafter, give his views in
reference to men and things, both at home and
elsewhere.
As to the question of representation in Con
gress, his residence at Washington has satisfied
mm beyond doubt that no Democrat will be ad
mitted, no matter how great his majority or
how often his disabilities may have been re
moved. Col. Switzler, of Missouri, whose ma
jority was 1GOO, and who was intensely “loyal”
during the war and could take the test oath
forty times a day, was rejected by a large ma
jority, and that, too, after the committee of
elections had twice reported in his favor! The
same was true of Col. Hunt, of Louisiana, whose
majority was eleven thousand! Other like
cases might be cited. There is not a man in
the House who expects to see another Southern
Democrat admitted, whether he has disabilities
or not
The Radicals are distrustful of Grant—there is
much dissatisfaction in regard to his Cabinet
and other appointments—and things generally
are in a ferment
Gen. Bkecbneidoe.—The New York Tribune
says Gen. Breckinridge has a fine opportunity
to display great statesmanship in Kentucky:
“The graceful and wise little speech made
the other day by Mr. John C. Breckinridge,
on the occasion of his return, after a four
year’s exile, to his old homo, suggests the work
for which the country looks to this gentleman,
and which, as we hopefully trust it may
yet receive at his hands.”
It goes on to advise him to come ont in favor
of all Congress has done, help to bestow suf
frage upon niggers and all, and, in a word, be-,
come a first, class radical. It says Kentucky idol-'
olizes him, but it would not “idolize” him long
on that line. __
Minister to Mexico.—John Wilkes, the edi
tor of the Spirit of the Times, is a prominent
candidate for Minister to Mexico. He is the
head center of the sporting fraternity of the
United States, and as such, would be a brick
among the cock-fighting Mexicans. He could,
at odd hours, teach them all new points in draw-
rvnV^- * ugv, vuudv-o-juca, nOIBe-
racing, prize-fighting, etc. On such interna
tional questions os the relations of a jack to on
ace, how the yerkor takes the right bower in
a game of uebre, be is a sort of supreme court,
and from bis opinion there is no appeal. Both
countries will be greatly benefitted by this ap
pointment—this one in getting rid of him, and
that one in receiving such a valuable acquisition
to her scientific department.
General Hancock and the Governorship
or Pennsylnania.—The Democrats of Pennsyl
vania speak of running General Hancock as their
candidate for Governor. As soon as Grant was
inaugurated, Hancock was sent to Dacotah, a
command not at all commensurato with his high
rank. This looked very like the new adminis
tration was piqned at him for his friendship for
Mr. Johnson. We presume the Democrats of
Pennsylvania so think, and propose bringing him
back as the Governor of their State.
The Pacific Railroad.—Track-laying npon
the great road to California is progressing very
rapidly. On the 4th instant, four and one-half
miles were laid, and on the 5th five miles.—
The whole route is now rapidly drawing towards
completion. It will certainly be opened in May,
so the papers say.
Removal to Macon.—The Columbus Sun says
the work of repairing the cars and engines of
the Mobile and Girard Railroad, hitherto done
in Girard, will next month be transfered to the
shops of the Southwestern, formerly Muscogee
railroad.
Bbownlow’s Met.ibh.—Warrants amounting
to $55,000 have already been drawn npon the
Treasury of Tennessee to pay off Brownlow’s
ragamuffin rapscallion melish. The amount of
service performed up to date consists of raping
one negro girl.
Election for Justices of the Peace.—It will
be seen by a notice published to-day, that an
election for Justices of the Peace and Consta
bles, for Bibb county, will take place on the 3d
day of April. The notice of the Ordinary des
ignates the voting places.
Forney Invited to See the Dishes Washed
Up.—The irrepressible J. W. Forney has re
ceived no appointment from Grant yet The
fat offices are either all gone or spoken for.
The chances are that he will receive a ticket to
see the dishes washed up after the feast is over.
Death of Grant's Real Estate Partner.—
H. Boggs, who was formerly a partner of Gen.
Grant in the real estate business at St Louis,
died on the 15th. Ho was to have been made
surveyor of that port
Mark Train says he expects to see Seward in
the deaf and dumb half-orphan asylum for blind
and indigent widows before many months.
Rocheford says: “It is a hundred times better
to be the natural son of a great actreiis than the
legitimate child of a crowned goose.
The Hon. Lucius J. Dupree, who h as been a
prominent man in Louisiana, is dead.
Awful !—The Columbus Sun says:
“We heard a prominent and intelligent gen
tleman, who has spent some weeks a.t Atlanta,
remark that the Radicals in the Leg jsJature pos
sessed more dinity, intelligence and honesty
than the Democrats.”
They must be nice Democrats. They must
be dear, if the above be true, at a plug of tobac
co per diem, much less nine dollar t per day and
Kimballs trimming!.—Constitute nuxiist.
Gen. Loiiostreet accepts the office of Sur
veyor of New Orleans, and will be co ufirmld
despite of the oppoeition of Brownlow an. I Sum
ner. Forney’s Chronicle comes out in
dorsement of the Longstreet appointment
The Legislative Muddle. *
The antics of tho Legislature upon the fif
teenth amendment are without interest It
seems, at last, to have been finally defeated by
the vote of Mr. Conley, the Radical President of
the Senate, and one of the most ultra Re-recon-
structionists. Conley was afraid the passage of
the amendment might impair the chances for
further reconstructional fuss in Georgia, and,
therefore, gave his casting vote against it, al
though claiming to be an especial and particular
advocate of the fifteenth , amendment. That is
in strict harmony with the course of the ultra
Radicals throughout. They dodged the vote
upon the passage of the amendment in all cases,
and.were always on hand when it came to vote
upon reconsideration. Grant says ho wants
peace, but they would not have it for any money.
The practical result of the failure of the fif
teenth amendment will simply be the reassem
bling of the negro Legislature at the cost of
about two hundred thousand dollars to the peo
ple, and its passage by that body. He is ver
dant who supposes Georgia is not to be compelled
to endorse that amendment by hook or by crook;
and we are not prepared to say that an endorse
ment by this Legislature would have been ac
cepted if it had been made, and toe certainly
would not have made it.
There was, in truth, but one course for this
Legislature to have pursued, in harmony with
the interests of the people. It should in tuo
days have determined what it could do to
make fair weather with Congress, and then ad-
joumed short off, in order not to burden the
people with the expenses of two Legislatures,
which, in all human probability, are now inev
itable. .
Instead of that they have held on at $9 a day,
and have displayed a recklessness in all their
expenditures and appropriations, which wo do
not like to characterize in appropriate terms.
After this shameful profligacy, they go home
and give place to a second onslaught upon the
people—another session of the original piebald
Legislature, who will repudiate all they have
done and bleed the people a few hundrod thou
sand more. Such scandalous indifference to
every interest of an oppressed and impover
ished people—such contempt of all representa
tive dnty, we have never before witnessed or im
agined. And, if Democrats are guilty of it, who
are snpposed to represent a constituency which
will suffer from such malversation, what can be
hoped or expected of others who claim a con
stituency which will not suffer to the amount of
a dollar, no matter what corruption or waste is
perpetrated ?
We have been equally amused and amazed
at the course of discussion upon this fif
teenth amendment! Some democratic mem
bers, in the effort to kill it, assert roundly that
the right to vote carries with it inevitably the
right to hold office; and, if so, it is clear they
were false to their oaths in voting ont the col
ored members. That is the ground taken by
the Governor, and if it be correct, evidently the
constitution was violated when the negroes were
declared ineligible.
The session of Wednesday ended, appropri
ately enough, in a sort of general row, with the
praiseworthy object to defeat the purchase of
the Opera House as a capitol, in contempt of all
the stipulations under which, in an evil day, the
capital was carried to Atlanta. That, like the
fifteenth amendment, will probably bo perpetra
ted, should it fail to pass this session of the Leg
islature. The purchase of a new capitol build
ing at such a juncture as this will be a fitting
climax to the operations of this General As
sembly.
Yesterday was fixed for adjournment f ine die,
and we hope the Legislature has stuck to it. If
we could not have another in ten years we should
rejoice all the more.
Tlie Governor of Kentucky nntl tlie
.a — vutimcuit
In transmitting the fifteenth amendment to
Constitution to the Legislature of Kentucky,
Gov. John W. Stevenson discusses its merits at
length.
He says the direct effect of its ratification
will be the subversion of our present system of
governments, in that it will ignore the relations
easting between ihe States and the United
States; obliterate and destroy the division be
tween the delegated powers vested in the general
Government and those vested in the States; it
utterly absorbs the reserved rights of the States;
its purpose is to annihilate State governments.
It takes from them powers expressly vested
and reserved; and by abrogating the partition
of power between the Federal and State govern
ments, whose mutual action and reaction were
looked to by our fathers as checks to prevent
either from encroaching on and absorbing the
powers of the other, and as limitations to keep
each other within its proper sphere, utterly de
stroys the equilibrium of the entire system. The
result must be, that a consolidated central gov
ernment, with the States as mere abject append
ages, will supplant the wise and beneficial du
plex system of government formed by the Con
stitution of the United States in 1787.”
It is revolution. It destroys and supersedes
the original sovereign power of the several
States. “This amendment elevates the Fed
eral Government to the absolute and supremo
author^y in onr federal system against the in
tention of the framers of the Government,
against the letter and spirit of the Constitution,
and in violation of the understanding of the
people of tho States when they ratified and
adopted it” “Above all," he says, “the
amendment is sought to be ratified by Legisla
tures chosen by the people before this amend
ment had passed the Congress of the United
States, and, therefore; fiot chosen as agents,
who can safely, in their action, reflect the pop
ular will in adopting or rejecting it” In con
clusion, he admonishes tho Legislature to yield
to no wild theory, to attempt no rash experi
ment! “History and experience both admon
ish ns that a period of angry, passionate, po
litical excitement is no time to meddle with
the limitations and checks of our fundament
al law, placed there by the wisdom of our
fathers as barriers against tho frenzy of popular
excesses. Let us rather stand with stouter
hearts than ever by the old charter of our
rights!”
As there is next to no Radical party in Ken
tucky, of course the amendment will bo over
whelmingly voted down by the Legislature.
Congress has never attempted any direct inter
ference with the internal affairs in that State,
and therefore the negroes are not-allowed to
vote and hold office. This amendment was par
tially suggested for the benefit of that and other
Southern States which did not secede and which
gave the Radical Congress no excuse to impose
governments upon them. The people of Ken
tucky have never been under its hack, and still
lift up their heads and speak boldly ns freemen
did of yore.
Meningitis in Sandersvillc.
The Central Georgian, of the 17th, announces
several deaths of cerebro spinal Meningitis, in
Sandersville. Two young men, brothers, John
and Ezekiel Kelly, aged respectively seventeen,
and nineteen, died on the 9th and 10 th instant,
after an illness of afew hours. Willie Newman,
son of Mark Newman, died on the 14th, at the
age of twelve years. Flora Brantley, daughter of
Dr. S. D. Brantley, died on the 16th, and an in
fant daughter of the same gentleman was very
sick. Other cases were reported on Tuesday
morning.
A Model Philanthropist.
Wendell Philips is a very perfect embodiment
of the modem philanthropist. In one of his
recent speeches ho invokes Congress to “ cover
the South with cannon, banners and scaffolds,
till full security of person and property is en
joyed, and till it can be said, with tenth, we will
have peace.” .
In the spirit, Philips is a cross between one of
Mohammed's armed propagandists and Crom
well’s roundheads—in the '-'"however, he
prefers scolding to fighting. He is hot for rec
tifying all wrongs with halter, sword and bayo
net with fire and murder—provided he him
self is left at home to sip his tea and lecture, and
is-not-called npon to furnish anyxf the supplies
or pocket money necessary to the operation.
He loves his dollars, of which Ihehasa great
many, and he would not have one of them miss
ing on any account.
Ho has, also, a profound esteem for Philips.
He thinks Philips is the greatest gfenius of the
age, and counts confidently on length of days
for him from the very impossibility that Provi-
dence will be able to manage the world without
Philips. The problem which puzzles him most
of all is how the world got along before Philips
was created. Tho unaccountable delay attend
ing that event would mortify Philips very much
did he not see that the confusion affairs got into
compelled Providence to send Philips into the
world to straighten them.
Philips loves the people so well that he could
kill every one of them for not behaving better
and doing as he tells them to do. It delights
hisphilanthropic soul to see their heads smashed
for being so contrary and obstinate.
He is an ardent devotee of civil liberty, which
consists in covering tho land with cannon, ban
ners and scaffolds. He is “ consecrated” to
liberty of speech, which lies mostly, in lectures
by Philips, and let no devil of a hearer dare
wag his tongue in opposition, on pain of death.
Tho milk of human kindness flowing from
Philips’ breast is of the most valuable character.
In a co-agnlated state it has been reduced to sul
phuric acid and bleaching powder and used in
tho Lawrence Mills for many years. It will start
any color except wool-dyed African black, upon
which it will only take tho hair off and raise a
blister.
Philips despises all conservatism except in
respect to his own property and person; but if
there is anything he thoroughly loathes it is to
see any other man wirigh prudential considera
tions against his lectures. Every such man is af
dough-face, a dastard and a traitor.
Wendell Philips is a scholar principally in thf
department of invective.. He finds his vocabu
lary much circumscribed by the meagre resoul-
ces of Webster’s largest dictionary, and spends
days and nights and much green tea in elabort-
ting from its scanty resources those compound
and conglomerate expressions of scorn aid
abhorrence which so much enliven and adorn Us
lectures and mark him the leading authority of
the age in the science of objurgation.
He is, in truth, an Alkaline philanthropist of
the most improved species. Like Balaam, be
is a prophet of wrath, but can beat Balaam and
his beast both in the way of talking. Ho is the
prince of scolds—the Demosthenes of denoun
cers. His bosom warms to humanity like Nebu.
chadnezzar’s fiery furnace. His heart over
flows npon human wrongs and human woes- and
follies like the crater of Vesuvius or Mauna Loa.
His tears of sympathy blister wherever they fall.
Before Philips and Brownlow die, Boston
should make haste and found a College of Blis
tering Billingsgate ; or it may be feared they
will go up or down and leave nobody worthy to
take their mantles. Let these great masters in
the art of objurgation take a class of disciples
forthwith before their anathemas are blunted in
the decrepitude and imbecility of age. Build
them a hall—put the big organ in it—summon
a. Wro—coil Army Kelly, uadysumton, Susan
B. Anthony, Annie Dickinson, i and let them all
blow together till they are hoarse.
FROM ATLANTA.
The Fifteenth Amendment Dead
Ditto the'Opera Home Pnrchase.
Adjournment of the Legislature.
Special to the Telegraph.]
v, ■~ rr < - Atlanta',' March 18—Night.
Senate.—The Senate attempted to reconsider the
iosa of theflfteentb amendmentyesterday. Itfailed
by three votes. ... ., . - r
Most of the day wis' consumed with hills of alo-
cal character. Both houses consumed Borne time in
adjusting the differences between them, on bills of
a general character. .
House In the House last night there was much
excitement in regard to the resolution purchasing
tlie Opera House. The opponents of the measure
determined to Btampede rather than support it—a
majority persisting in pressing it to a vote. Amo
tion to make it the special order for to-day was vo
ted down. - -,
A vote was taken on the resolution and resulted
in yeas 51,: nays 9—no quorum, eighty-eight heini
necessary.-
This morning the Speaker decided that notwith
standing there was no quorum in the vote of last
evening, still the resolution was adopted.
A motion was made by Mr. Scott, and supported
ably by Mr. Caipenter, of Hancock, to postpone the
matter indafinetely. It was adopted—yeas 64, nayB
67; and so the Opera House will not be bought this
session. Loud applause followed tho announce
ment of the vote.- .
Tbfjtbfll to elect Congressmen on tho first Wednes
day in May was passed.
The Assembly will adjourn sino die to-night, un
doubtedly.
Z. D. Harrison, Esq., will furnish, in pamphlet
fora, the laws for tho present session.
If is due Messrs. Kimball to say that their fight
fora sale of the Opera House was a gallant one.
cafnly submitting, however, to tho, will of the ma
jority. ■ W.
Grant and the Tcniirc-of-Ofllw Act.
The following special dispatch from Washing
ton v to the New York Commercial Advertiser,
confirms what we said yesterday in reference to
tho suspension of the Tenure-of-Office Act. It
is a movement of the Radical politicians in their
own interest simply—to'untie the hands of the
President in order that he may appoint their
party and personal friends. But if this dispatch
states the case correctly, the President will hard
ly bo content with a suspension—he demands an
“absolute repeal” of the act. It is a pretty
quarrel as it stands, and it will be a matter of
some interest to see which party whips:
* Washington, March 13.—Tho President in re
spouse to applicants for offices, plainly inti-
inaJedlEat, -pendfngthe absolute repeal of tho
Tenure of Office Bill, there • would bo scarcely
any offices at’his disposal.- - Except in the event
of resignations or in the cases of charges of mal
administrations, distictly preferred and-sus
tained on apparently credible, evidence, he
would, as a rule, make no removals, and would
not authorize the Heads of Departments to
make any.
In reply to the objection that there was a
number of Johnson men and Democrats in va
rious departments of the Government, General
Grant said that he could not help that, as the
responsibility of their continuance in office de
volved entirely upon Congress. If Congress and
other narties were satisfied with affairs as they
stand, he would be quite content.
These views, distinctly and emphatically an
nounced, have for the time being turned the
pressure of tho office-seekers from the President
to the Senators, for the prompt and uncondi
tional repeal of the now’obnoxious law.
Atlanta, March 18.—A motion was offered in the
fhnatc, to-day, to reconsider tho adoption of the
tfteentli amendment. The President ruled the
notion out of order. An appeal was taken from
the decision of the Chair, which was sustained, and
the adoption of the fifteenth amendment was de
feated—yeas 13, nays 16.
Both Houses agreed on adjournment, sine die, to
night '
Florida Internal Improvements,
The following was introduced in the Senate
on the 9th inst, and referred to the Committee
on Public Lands:
A Bill granting public lands to aid in the con-
struction'of a steamboat canal in the State of
Florida.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States of America in
Congress assembled, That there be, and hereby
is, granted to the.Withlacoochie and Lake Pan-
soffka Steamboat and Canal Company, for the
purpose of aiding said company in constructing
and completing a canal from Lake Harris to
Lake Pansoffka, to deepen the Withlacoochie
river to. navigable wafer, and build the necessa
ry locks in such a manner as to make steamboat
navigation-complete from the Atlantic ocean to
tho Gulf of Mexico, four hundred thousand
acres of public lands, to be selected in subdi
visions agreeably to the United States survey,
by an agent appointed by tho Secretary of the
Interior, from lands subject to private entry:
Provided, That said sections shall all be made
j from alternate and odd numbered sections of
I land nearest the location of the canal in said
From 'Washington. I State not otherwise appropriated before tho
— „ . . , j passage of this act, nor from lairds to which tho
■The President signed of pre . einption or homestead have at
tached. ■■■
Washington, March 18.
the hill for strengthening the public credit
William A. Richardson accepts the Assistant Sec
retaryship.
There were neither nominations nor an executive
session to-day.
Mr. Johnson left to-day. He leaves Lynchburg,
bound westward, to-morrow.
H. C. Niles has been appointed a clerk in the
Treasury Department.
The Supreme Court will argue the great Missouri
test oath case, on Wednesday—Drake, for Missouri.
Montgomery Blair and ex-Attomey General Evarts
are for Frank P. Blair, Jr.
Tlie Pressure of the OlHcc Seekers.
The following is a special dispatch from Wash
ington to the New York Times:
The pressure for office is beyond conception-
It is far beyond that of 1865, and folly equal to
the pressure of 1861, when there was a radical
change in the administration from Democratic
to Republican. Members of Congress are be
sieged in the most unmerciful maimer. They
bar their doors against tho army of comers,
they approach their lodgings through alley-ways
and by back staircases, to avoid the applicants.
They seek refuge in tho out-of-way places, and
pass sleepless nights because of the anxious
throng who besiege them at all hours and upon
all occasions.
What is worse about'it is that in the chaotic up
heaval of things political here, it is impossible,
even for members of Congress, to tell, with any
thing like certainty, what they may expect.—
Never was there a worse time for calculations
for patronage based solely on political service.
Slates are at a discount—they are made and un
made daily. Recommendations for office are
little better. Nothing is so efficacious except
strong personal influence, which carries with it
a solid conviction of worth and merit. Impecu
nious office-seeksrs are rapidly losing their pa
tience. Their resources are rapidly becoming
exhausted, and in a few days hundreds of them
will depart, sadder if not wiser men. Very lit
tle progress can bo made on any subject until
this office pressure abates; it occupies three-
fourths of the President’s time and the time of
his Secretary.
President Grant is growing weary and ex
hausted under it, and ho is daily drawing the
line closer as to tho number and character of
visitors. This he must do, or cease to be any
thing more than a mere listener to the wants,
claims and desires of thousand of people, with
out power to act.
It will take about thirty days for this state of
things to abate. An early adjournment of Con
gress will greatly facilitate it
“Southern Representatives and Senators.—
See, says the New York Express, how six of the
Southern States are represented in the Senate
of the 41st Congress:
Alabama, Willard Warner, of Ohio; George
E. Spencer, of New York. Arkansas, Alex. Mc
Donald, of Illinois; Benj. F. Rice, of Maine.
Florida, Thomas W. Osborne, of New York;
Abijah Gilbert, of Michigan; Louisiana, Wm.
Pitt Kellogg, of Illinois; Jno. S. Harris, of Penn
sylvania. North Carolina, Joseph O. Abbott,
of New Hampshire. South Carolina, Frederick
A. Sawyer, of Massachusetts.
In the House: Arkansas, Logan H. Roots,
of Illinois. Florida, Charles H. Hamilton, of
Pennsylvania. North Carolina, C. L. Cobb, or
igin unknown; David Heaton, of Ohio; John
T. Deweese, of Indiana. South Carolina! B. F.
Whittemore, of Massachusetts; C. 0. Bowen,
of Rhode Island. This is giving the Southern
people representation in the Federal Govern
ment. /
The FiFiEENfen Amendment in the West.
Tho Legislature of Minnesota, largely Radical
in both branches, has refused to act upon the
proposed Fifteenth Article of the Constitution
of the Unitedjstates at this session, and the
leading Republican press of the State commends
“its decency in refraining from intermeddling”
with the question at all.
The Cincinnati Gazette, the ablest of Western
Radical journals, is decidedly opposed to its rat
ification, and calls it a “botch" which “will not
-withstand popular discussion,” The Gazette
also predicts that “a Legislature could not be
chosen in Ohio which would adopt it.”
The Indiana Democratic members of the Leg
islature resigned in order to defeat its ratification
by leavingfthat body without a quorum. Gov
ernor Baker (Republican) has issued writs for
an electiorii to fill said vacancies, and all the
members rire again candidates, with the avowed
determination, if elected, to resign again, if nec
essary, tol prevent its adoption.
What a striking contrast to our own Legisla
ture does-the action of these Western men pre
sent? Vj7here is now the boasted political integ
rity of Qeorgia Democratic legislators ?
ZChronide <& Sentinel.
The New York Tribune highly compliments
an en- General Breckinridge for his decision not again
) to enter into political strife.
The (
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ity of Key West, Florida, is at present,
overrun with Cuban refugees, and eve-
steamer, yacht or smack arriving from
i, is generally crowded with them.
Congressional.
Washington, March 18.—The House is consider
ing the Pennsylvania election contest. The Election
Committee consider Louisiana to-morrow. The Re
construction Committee consider Georgia to-day.
The Committee stands six and six in regard to Mis
sissippi— tho point of difference being, whether
Grant or the Convention shall appoint a Provisional
Governor.
The Senate bill selling the Chattanooga rolling
mills was passed.
The Reconstruction Committee will report a bill
extending the time for tho removal of ineligible of
ficers, with an amendment extending an extension to
Mississippi and Texas, which involves its return to
the Senate.
The Ways and Means Committee reported a bill
to-day amending the tax hill; among other tilings,
extending tho time for withdrawal of whisky from
bond to April, 1870.
Farnsworth reported from the Reconstruction
Committee a hill extending the time for the removal
of officers in Virginia, Texas and Mississippi
Butler expressed regret that, as chairman, he was
compelled to oppose tho hill introduced by the com
mittee. He contended there was no necessity for
extension.
Paine, of the committee, opposed the measure.
Tile House refused to second the demand for the
previous question, by ayes 50 to nays 70, and the
bill was recommitted.
The joint resolution restoring Blanton Duncan’s
property passed—ayes’82; nays 76.
House adjourned.
Senate.—A bill was introduced constructing a
military and postal road from Galveston, Texas, to
Fort Gibson, with a branch to Little Rock.
The Tenure-of-office repeal was resumed without
action.
The Senate adjourned.
General News.
New Yoke, March 18.—Capt. Armstrong, of the
fever ship James Foster, is dead, of fever contracted
during the voyage.
New York, March 18.—Senor Morales, fully em
powered by President Cespedes as Minister from the
Provisional Government of Cuba, has arrived. Ho
goes to Washington to seek recognition for tho rev
olutionary Government.
Tho steamers Emily L. Sondcr and Moneka, of tho
Charleston line, were sold at aution to-day—the first
for 835,000, and the latter for $30,000.
Sino Sing, N. Y., March 18.—Three men, in at
tempting to escape, were shot to-day.
St. Louis, March 18.—The report of Gen. Cos tar’s
capture is false.
Baltimore, March 18 Dr. Mudd arrived to-day
in the steamer Liberty.
Wilmington, Del., March 18.—Tho Senate, to
day, by a strict party vote, rejected the fifteenth
amendment. .
The War in Cuba.
Havana, March 19.—Yesterday there were many
rumors of unimportant engagements.
Troops have just been sent to Remodios.
Two Mexicans have arrived at Loracinqua, who
were imprisoned on suspicion of being Rebel officers.
Foreign News.
Madrid, March 18.—Barricades have been erected
and some fighting done in Andalusia, Exenise and
Mnrtara. Two killed and wounded at Murtara.
Minister Sagista advises the Cortes not to enforce
conscription. •
Madrid, March 18.—Celestino Oloyaga, a mem
ber of tho Cortes, has been killed in a dueL
Sparks from Prentice.
President Grant had to recast his Cabinet.
He didn’t cast it according to the notions of his
friends. All of them wanted to have casts of
their own. Each had a cast in his eye.
Several Northern papers speak rather de-
spondingly of the prospects of their section. If
the North wants to borrow trouble, the South
has enough to lend.
Washington is overflowing with.a boundless
multitude of people. Many of them sleep in
tents, and not a few in the open air. Take out
tho office-hunters, however, and there wouldn’t
be half enough left to support tho hotels and
boarding-houses:
The Washington correspondent of the Port-
land Advertiser says that Gen. Butler lately
“lost his eyesight entirely for three-fourths of
an hour." We suppose that when he recovered
it he felt a sight better.
Seventy-two years ago, Washington, and
thirty-two years ago, Jackson, as each laid aside
the cares and responsibilities of office, delivered
a farewell address.—1E Y. Commercial.
So Washington and Jackson, you say, “ deliv
ered a farewell address. Could they getup only
one between them ?
Insurgents Applying for Recognition.—New
York, March 16.—CoL Stockton, of Pennsylva
nia, has arrived at St. Harks, Florida, from a
camp of Cuban insurgents, with an address from
the Supreme Junta signed by Gen. Cespedes,
asking for recognition and giving numerous rea
sons therefor.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That tho
said canal shall be and remain a public highway
for the uso of the Government of tho States,
free from toll or charges upon tho vessels of
said Government, or upon vessels employed by
said Government in the transportation of any
property or troops of the United States.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That be
fore it shall bo competent for said Company to
select the said lands, said Company shall file in
the office of the Secretary of tho Interior a map
and plats of the said canal; and the Secretary
of tho Interior shall designate an agent to in
spect the said canal, and when he shall report
said canal completed as herein provided, the
Secretary of tho Interior shall issue to said Com
pany the patents for the lands herein granted.
• Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That said
steamboat canal shall be at least sixty feet in
width, with a depth of water of not less than
six feet, with locks capable of passing boats not
less than thirty feet in width and one hundred
feet in length, said looks to be bnilfc of yellow
pine, cypress and live oak timber.
The Boundless West.
SPECIMENS of its journalism.
The following amusing burlesques of tho style
of journalism prevalent in the far West, were
copied recently into an English paper, with se
vere comments upon the shocking condition the
American barbarians of the plains.
[From the t.03 Jiartchc Hotel.
“A stranger, wearing a stove-pipo hat and a
boiled shirt, arrived in town yesterday, and put
up at tho Nugget House. The boys are having
a good time with that hat this morning. The
funeral will take place at 2 o’clock. Dog Rancho
is unhealthy for swells. ”
Front the Stare and Bare.]
“A child of Whiskey Ben had an altercation
with tho Methodist preacher, over at Michigan
Gully last Sunday, and ended the discussion by
caving in his abolition head. The boy has been
presented with a new revolver by the Cumber
land Presbyterians. ”
From the Frog Spring Herald.]
There is a man in town who claims to bo the
man that murdered Sheriff White some months
ago. Wo consider him an impostor, seeking
admission into society above his level, and hope
people will stop inviting him to their houses.
From the Calaveras Herald.1 12
The scoundrel that tipped over our office last
month will be hung to-morrow, and no paper
will be issued next day.
From the Uangtoicn Gibbet.]
A little bit of romance has transpired to re
lievo the monotony of our metroplitan life. Old
Sam Cloggins, whom the editor of this paper
has so often publicly thrashed, has returned
from Mud Springs with a young wife. He is
said to be very fond of her, and the way he came
to get her was this: ’ Some time ago he courted
her, but finding she was on the make, threw her
off, after shooting her brother and two cousins.
She vowed revenge, and promised to marry any
man who would horsewhip us. This Sam agreed
to undertake, and she married him on that
promise. We shall call on Sam to-morrow with
our new shot-gun, and present our congratula
tions in our usual form.
From the Siekigon Knock Down.]
A painful incident occurred in Frog Gulch yes
terday, which has cast a wet blanket of gloom
ovor a hitherto joyous and whisky-loving com
munity. Dave Sprigger—or, as he was famil
iarly called, Murder Dave—got drunk at his
usual hour yesterday, and, as is his custom,
took down his gun and started after the fellow
who went home with his girl the night before.
He found him at breakfast with his wife and
thirteen children. After killingthem, he started
out to return, but being weary, stumbled and
broke his leg. Dr. Bill found him in that con
dition, and, having no wagon on hand to con
vey him to town, shot him to put him out of
his misery. Dave was dearly loved by all who
knew him, and his loss is a Democratic gain.—
He never disagreed with any but Democrats,
and would have materially reduced the vote of
that party had ho not been so untimely cut off.
From the Rigger Ilill Patriot ]
Four babies who had been put into the cage
at Hell shaft, yesterday, while their mother
played a game of draw, climbed over the side.
We did not learn who won the last’ pot.
Financial Views of Mr. Boutwell.—As Mr.
Boutwell’s views with respect to financial mat
ters have been the subject of a good deal of in
quiry in tho last daj» or two, we will (says the
Boston Advertiser) remind our readers of his
remarks in the Republican State Convention
last fall, and especially of the following sen
tences :
Wo do not propose to tolerate, sanction, or
permit an ireue of demand notes, payable in
coin, to be exchanged for tho time bonds of the
United States. Wo intend to limit, and, if nec
essary, to diminish gradually, the volume of pa
per money, until t approximates in value to the
standard of coin. We intend that there shall
be one currency for the bondholder, the mer
chant, the farmer, tho pensioner and the laborer.
That currency shall he of the value of gold.
"When this is done the public debt will be paid
as the resources of the country may permit, and'
to the satisfaction of those who pay, and of those
who receive. When the credit of the country is
restored, as it will be by the single fact of the
election of General Grant, we can issue bonds,
payable after ten or twenty years, bearing a
lower rate of interest, and thus save annually
the sum of twenty or thirty millions of dollars.
But, first of ’all, as a means of restoring the
public credit, the people must dispel by their
votes the apprehension of national dishonesty
in the public finances. The Republican party
knows no policy in finance but honesty. ”
Gederal Assembly of Georgia.
REPORTED SPECIALLY FOR THE MACON
DAILY TELEGRAPH.
Atlanta, Wednesday, March 17th.
Senate.—The Senate met as usual.
_ A motion by Mr. Hinton to reconsider the
bill to open Oconee River up to Parke’s Mill,
in Greene county, prevailed, and the bill passed.
The following bills were read ft third time and
passed: *
A bill incorporating the Vann’s Valley Manu
facturing Company.
A bill incorporating the Georgia Benevolent
Mutual Life Insurance Company.
A bill changing the time of holding the Su
perior Court of Paulding county.
A bill incorporating the Savannah and Tybee
Telegraph Company. -
A bill changing the lino between the counties
of Cherokee and Pickens.
A bill incorporating the Georgia Land, Im
migration and Manufacturing Company.
A bill authorizing Clerks of the Superior
Courts to amend fi. fas. and issue alias execu
tions in certain cases.
A bill for extending the time for the collection
of taxes in Schley county.
A bill for the relief of J. W. Kemp and J. H.
Hill, securities on a penal bond in Sumter Su
perior Court.
A bill extending the time for the collection of
taxes in Columbia county.
A bill for the relief of J. H. Stockton, of the
county of Columbia.
A bill changing the line between the counties
of Clayton and DeKalb.
A bill explanatory of an act providing for the
education of indigent maimed soldiers.
The Senate rescinded its action levying a tax
of one dollar per head on dogs.
The Senate adjourned to 2p. m., in respect
to the Hibernian Society in the Representative
Hall.
House.—The House met as usual.
On motion of Mr. McCullough, the House re
considered the resolution lost yesterday, ap
pointing cortain commissioners to contract for
the pnrehaso of the Rome Railroad.
Mr. Flournoy then moved to take up the res
olution in order to make a final disposition of
it, which motion prevailed.. He thought the
only parties who could bo benefitted by this
purchase were the owners of tho Rome Railroad,
and did not think the members who should vote
for such purchase could justify themselves
in the minds of their constituents. He was ut
terly opposed to any such ridiculous proposition.
Mr. Felder thought ho would be doing injus
tice to his constituents unless he raised his voice
against a measure which would impose such ad
ditional taxation on the people of Georgia. He
believed that the appointment of the Commis
sioners was equivalent to the final purchase by
the State of the railroad. He stated truly that
all the Commissioners even now have expressed
their approbation of the scheme, and knew that
members would not have the manliness to vote
against any recommendation which such men
as Hulbert, Wallace, Stephens and Cooper
8honldmake. He was in favor of excluding
from the Representative Hall men who have
been sneaking around canvaising for this, their
darling scheme.
Mr. Crawford thought the gentleman from
Washington, (Mr. Flournoy,) was prejudiced
against all measures giving State aid to Rail
roads, or looking toward a purchase of the same.
He thought that his constituents would be satis
fied when they see the practical benefits arising
to the State from the purchase of the Road.
Mr. O’Neal, of Lowndes, said that he sup
ported this resolution because he was informed
by divers reliable railroad men of Georgia that
the purchase of the Rome railroad and its ex
tension to the State line was essential to
tho protection of the business and inter
ests of tho State road which ho believed to bo
true. It cannot be denied that this road will
be a feeder to the State road. It is our duty
to watch and protect the interests of tho people
in this State road. This resolution merely au
thorizes the commissioners to negotiate for this
purchase, subject to the ratification or rejection
of the General Assembly. The character of
Alex. H. Stephens, Campbell Wallace, Mark
Cooper and E Hulburt is a sufficient assurance
to men that nothing wrong will be done in the
premises. Shall we sit idly by and allow com
peting lines of railroads to sap and destroy the
State Road ? I say not.
Mr. Phillips, of Echols, offered an amend
ment to tho effect that any contract which the
commissioners might make shall not be\ consid
ered a final purchase unless ratified by the. Gen
eral Assembly.
Mr. Price, the introducer of the original reso
lution looking to a purchase of the Road, ac
cepted this amendment, and the resolution so
amended, was adopted by a vote of—yeas, 62;
nays, 58.
The House here took up the Appropriation
bill, and refused to concur in the Senate amend
ment giving extra pay to the Clerks. The bill
was then returned to tho Senate.
In accordance with a resolution passed some
days ago tho Htft.se adjourned to make way for
tho HibemiaBencvolent Association, which was
to occupy the hall at ilA o’clock a. m.
evening session.
House.—The House met at 3 p. m. and took
up the Senate resolution providing for the pur
chase of Kimball’s Opera House as a Capitol.
Mr. Carpenter, of Hancock, moved to lay the
resolution on tho table, which motion was lost.
Tho yeas and nays were called several times
and considerable bushwhacking indulged in on
the question by the members opposed to the
purchase withdrawing from their seats to the
door of tho hall and thereby leaving the body
without a quorum.
The House adjourned.
It would bo impossible to describe the con
fusion which existed during the time the ques
tion of the purchase of the Opera House was
before the House, and I must say that if it were
not for the zeal evinced by the opposition the
fraud would now be upon the State of Georgia.
The fact is, the House broke up in a row
rather than adjourned.
EVENING SESSION.
Senate.—In the Senate, this morning, the
fifteenth amendment was discussed, Mr. Nun-
nally speaking against and Mr. Smith, of the
7th District, for its passage.
Mr. Bums moved to indefinitely postpone,
which motion prevailed only by the casting
vote of tho President, the yeas being 17 and
nays 17.
The following is the voting; Yeas—Adkins,
Bowers, Burns, Candler, Colman, Griffin (6th,)
Harris, Higbee, Hungerford, Jones, MoArthur,
Mc'Whorter, Normally, Sherman, Speer, Welch,
Wooten.
Nays—Adams, Brock, Bruton, Collier, Corbitt,
Fain, Graham, Griffin (21st,) Hinton, Jordan,
Lester, McArther, Moore, Nesbitt, Smith (7th)
Wellborn, Winn.
Democrats voting yes, 5.
The Augusta Factory.
We passed a very pleasant hour yesterday at
the above magnificent factory, the pride and
boast of our city and State. Through the kind
ness of Messrs. O. G. Lynch and Mars on Hill
we were shown through tho entire building and
premises. As there is some interest now mani
fested in tho South, and in onr State in regard
to Cotton Factories, we give our readers the
benefit of a few items, which perhaps have not
yet been published, and may interest them. The
motive power of the factory is altogether by
water, procured from the canal, and calculated
at 400 horse power. There are now in opera
tion 508 looms, running 15,000 spindles, mak
ing an average of 51J yards of cloth to the
loom, and in the aggregate twenty-six thousand
one hundred and sixty-two yards per day,
giving daily employment to five hundred opera
tives, and using up one hundred and five bales
of cotton per week. It is claimed by those
who are posted in these matters, that the Au
gusta Factory makes more cloth to the loom
than any institution of the kind in the world.
There is also attached to the Factory a black
smith shop, machine shop and a carpenter shop,
which do all the repairing, and in which is made
a great deal of the machinery required for use.
This institution has at its head W. E. Jackson,
Esq., as President, and Francis Coggin, Esq.,
as Superintendent, to whom the stockholders are
indebted for the high state of proficiency which
it has attained, and bringing into every depart
ment gentlemen who thoroughly understand their
business and are so well qualified to fill their po
sitions. We learn that the stock of this compa
ny is now selling at $160 per share.—Augusta
Constitutionalist.
The crowds which infest the White House are
simply frightful, and the President says he has
no hope of an abatement until the offices are
filled. .' i
About six weeks ago Eva Wentworth, of this
city, accidentally eut off the thumb of her left
hand. Dr. Griswold was called in, and, upon
examination of the wound, ooncluded to try an
experiment He took the severed piece—which
had lain in a cold room for an hour and ten
minutes and was apparently dead—moistened it
in warm water, and fastened it to its place.—
Soon the parts began to unite, new skin formed,
and a new nail is now growing. When we saw
the thumb, a few days, ago, it was nearly well;
the girl could use it, and there is scarcely any
scar visible.—CirdevilU Democrat.
TIIEOLD BED GATE.
BY DORA DAVIS.
Once more in the dying day,
By the old red gate I stand ;
Tho clover lies dead at my feet,
Its blossoms are white m my hand;
While shadows the locusts are weaving
With a dull, unacknowledged pain,
For time to come back I am wishing,
With the gift of my youth again.
) Oh! to stand in the amber light,
With my beautiful dark-eyed love,
When the clover lay groon at our feet,
And the locusts were blooming above
To hold a white hand at parting,
And touch the red lips of the girl,
When the moon rose over the lakelet,
Which shone like an Orient pearl.
She is lying asleep in the churchyard,
'Neath blossom, and bough, and vine;
My name is inscribed on the headstone—
The name that was hers and mine;
And garlands of wild clematis
Are shrouding the dark-eyed Kate,
Whose lips met mine when we parted,
Way down by the old red gate.
The daisies were whitening the hill-side,
And gemming like stars the heath,
When I stood with my pale-faced darling
Close down by the waves of death;
So close that I heard in fancy
The rush of tho fitful tide,
And the dripping oars of the boatman
Who wafted away my bride.
Ah, well! the years that have lingered,
So freighted with sorrow and care,
For tho saint-white race in the coflin,
Have silvered the brown of my hair.
I am looking from life’s west window,
Tlie sky is cloudless and clear;
But I know by the lengthening shadows
The sunset of death is near.
When the bells that rang at my wedding
For joy, shall solemnly toll;
And the fortress, so frail and stricken,
No longer shall prison my soul;
In the light of the glad to-morrow,
IR go from tlie old red gate,
To find in the great hereafter
My beautiful, dark-eyed Kate.
A Little Boy’s Pocket.
Do you know what’s in my pottet?
Such a lot of treasures in it!
Listen now while I bedia it;
Such a lot of sings it hold,
And all there is you sail bo told:
Every sin dat's in my pottet.
And when, and where, and how I dot il
First of all, here’s in my pottet
A beauty shell—I picked it up;
And here's the handle of a tup
That somebody has broke at tea;
The shel’l a hole in it, you see;
Nobody knows that I have dot it—
I keep it safe here in my pottet.
And here’s my ball, too, in my pottet,
And hero’s iny pennies, one, two, fre,
That Aunty Mary gave to me:
To-morrow day I’ll buy a spade,
When I'm out walkin’ with the maid;
I can’t put dat here in my pottet,
But I can use it when Fvo dot it.
Here's some more Bins in my pottet!
Hero’s my lead, and here’s my string,
And once'I had an iron ring,'
But through a hole it lost one day;
And that is what I always say—
A hole’s tho worse sin in a pottet;
Have it mended when you’ve dot it.
[Hearth and Home.
The Scramble for Office.
Washington, March 15, ISO.
The scramble among the office seekers groin
more interesting every day. The White How
and each department are thronged by well-
known politicians both in and out of authority
They come as self-constituted delegations, au
thorized committees, and as individuals, to pod
their own claims, or to urge those of frieni
with whom they have a perfect understandir^.
The number of vacancies created, and the rhe-
ber of apointments made, however, are strange-
ly out of proportion to the pressure brought ft
accomplish these objects. The President aii
his Cabinet officers do not appear to be infect
ed with tho general desire for speedy action.
The lobbies around the Senate were almost s
fully occupied throughout the day as on ar
other of the past week. Somebody circulated:
canard that President Grant had sent in alxc
half-past one a batch of over 200 nominations
This news traveled quickly over to the Hons
and drew the lingering crowds in that qasrfet
across in the Senate direction. The general im-
pression was that this great host of nomination!
was headed by a dozen heavy ambassador and
collectorships, anil, in consequence, expectation
was on the tip-toe to find who the liig guns
might be, while each small office had half & dot
en eager expectants as to which might be tlie
lucky fellow named.
An old rule of the Senate, however, haring
been revived to prohibit any nominations being
opened before executive session, all the nevri
mongers in the. lobby were disappointed, «s
had to wait for hours before they got a ctos
to gratify their curiosity. Then it turned cp|
that only four paltry nominations were sent i
by tho President, whereat there wa3 disgust n
deed. The few confirmed iu secret session hi|
been already well known, and expected to 1
passed on favorably. The only one about vM
any curiosity existed was Longstreet’s, whii
however, was not reported from the Con
tee on Commerce, but was freely declared
of confirmation by half a dozen Radical Sc:
tors.
The Bill to Sustain the Public <
Congress has passed and sent to Gen. Gr
the following bill to sustain the public credit: |
Beit enacted, etc., that to remove any don
as to the purpose of the Government to
charge all just obligations to the public cr
ors, and to settle conflicting questions and i
pretations of the laws, by virtue of which c
gations have been contracted, it is hereby p
vided and declared that the faith of the Uni
States is solemnly pledged to the payment i
coin or its equivalent, of all the obligation; 1
the United States not bearing interest, kno«*J
United States notes, and of the interest-ben*
obligations of the United States, except in c
where the law authorizing the issue of anvs
obligation has expressly provided that the s'
may be paid in lawful money or other cum
than gold and silver, but none of said inW
bearing obligations not already due shall
deemed or paid before maturity, unless at s -
time United States notes shall be comer
into coin at the option of the holder, or ■
at such time bonds of the United States be
a lower rate of interest than the bonds to be ~
deemed can be sold at. par in coin: and ttet^
ted States also pledges its faith to make pfg
sion at the earliest practicable period for tw
demption of the United States notes in c#o\
The Democratic politicians have p«
that the policy announced in this bill must®
mately lead to repudiation.
Josh Bitxtngs on the Live Man.—
man iz like a little pig—he iz weaned ;
and begins fer tew root airly.
He iz tho pepper-sass of creation—m 6
spice of the world.
The roan who kin draw New Orleans a 01
es, in January, thru a half-inch augurb^i T
sing home sweet home while the molas^J
running, may be striktly honest, but am t •
den enough for this climate.
The live man iz as full of bizziness
conductor of a street car—he iz oftenlike«
net, very bizzy, but about what the Lom |
knows. .
He lites up like a cotton factory,
any more time tew spare than a school-W.
Saturday afternoons. *
He iz like a decoy duck, always above
at least eighteen mouths during each yf ar -,
He iz like a runaway boss—he gets tne
of the road.
He trots when he walks, and only l ,eS
at-night because everybody else dnz. . . ( ,i
The live man is not always a deep Rm* J
he jumps at conclusions just as a frog p'U-j
don’t always land at the spot he iz looking-|
He iz the American pet, a perfekt mysje^j
foreigners; hut haz dun more (with caa V t ]
to work out the greatness of this country
any other man in it.
He don’t always die rich, but alwaysR
zy, and meets death like an oyster, witn
fuss.
Wild horses are so numerous in the Or*
District of New South Wales that they
come a positive nuisance, and devices *e
ping them at their favorite watering P la "j
resorted to. Those branded are impooB
be claimed by the owners—the rest are sm
skinned, it not sold at auction. One “ _
and eighty of them were sold at two cents J
at BJaquey Pound. Skins, at Sidney, wew
one dollar, and hair fifty cents per ponna-
Labor seems to be uncommonly Bcar0 ^
farm districts. A friend fro™ “yLJ
hood of Col&parehee informed us a
that it is utterly impossible to. procure
that section: