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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 ( liters ry veq Hava ktfff 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: