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mM: The Greorgia eelcly Telogra/ph.. eWWWOBfc THE TELEGRAPH. MACON, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1SC9. .• The Chinese Puzzle.” We copy from the San Francisco Bulletin a report of another and important stage in the progress of the great Chinese problem in Amer ica. We may remark, in relation to the devel opments of this article, that a remarkably hos tile feeling already exists among the whites in California to these Celestial immigrants of both sexes. In fact, it has embittered to such a de- gree as to threaten a war of races, insomuch that the philosopher of the New York Tribune has felt himself called upon to protest in the name of God and humanity against plots and designs for the extermination of the Chinese, which he hints are rife on the Pacific shore. Every thinking man will.see in this grand ad vent of the Celestials upon onr western coast; the establishment of a new point of historic de parture in the American future. The landing ' of these swarms of Chinese women puts a new phase on the whole immigration movement, and changes it to a grand campaign of occupation, under which, in a very few years, the Pacific States will substantially pass into the hands of Bulletin to show, that the Chinese in California already number men of capital among them, and with their indomitable industry, sharp in tellects and frugal habits, the Anglo-Saxon will be no match for them in the race of accumula tion. They will grow in financial power as fast as they increase in numbers; and the ratio of their numerical increase by immigration will, of course, be prodigiously accelerated by their growing wealth. They will control California probably in less than ten years, and California itself will become but a way station in the on ward march of Western colonization by the Chinese. The account of the Bulletin shows that this female immigration bears all the most odious of the Coolie trade, and the women are, in fact, bought and sold. The Indiana Imbroglio. The telegram announces that all the Demo cratic members of the Indiana Legislature who resigned, in order to leave the Legislature with out a quorum and so prevent the passage of the fifteenth amendment, have been re-elected. This will enable them to bring the Legislature to terms. They will compel it either to adjourn the decision of the question to the next session and so give the people an opportunity to pass upon the amendment, or they will resign again and leave the government to be carried on without an appropriation hilL The Radicals in Indiana will therefore be forced to concede the postpone ment, and beyond this the extraordinary opposi tion of the Indiana Democrats will not go. If the people elect members to the next Legislature who will support the amendment—well and good. But the Indiana Democrats are right in demanding that this amendment, before becoming, by con sent of Indiana, a part of the Constitution, shall he passed upon by the people in the election of a new Legislature. Alrican Barbarism. A chapter 1 in African barbarism is now open ing all over the country which is compelled to arrest theattention of the American people and supplant, for a time, the. operations of the po litical outrage manufactory of the Southern Radicals. Tho blood fairly curdles at the hor rid crimes wo are compelled daily to record- committed by the blacks upon yrhites and upon persons of their own race and color—crimes, the unexampled atrocity of which is as wonder ful as themeagemess of tho temptation—the paltriness of the inducement to commit them crimes so bloody, sensual and beastly as to jus tify hesitation in admitting a bare recital of them to the columns of the newspaper press. But it is duo as well to truth as to public and personal safety that the people should see what dangers threaten the lives end persons of tho defenceless, and the necessity of on extreme caution against exposing those under their pro tection to liability to such horrid outrage. The truth is, the restraints and the discipline of slavery were necessary to keep the unedu cated African within the pale of civilization. Ho is a sensualist by constitution. To passions and appetites much stronger than those of tho white race, he adds a very small counterbalance of the intellectual and moral faculties. His in+ttnimnuM does not extend to comprehending to see a legal sanction inflicted. He could un derstand a fine—imprisonment—the whipping post, or the gallows. But it may well be doubt ed whether tho moss of freedmen are at all re strained from crime by tho apprehension of punishment, which may possibly reach them through the slow process of a preliminary ex amination, indictment and trial by jury. That is something too far off and too uncertain to act as a detergent. Massa’s whip promptly admin istered was a far more efficacious restraint than the law ever can be, though it inflicts, in due season, the penitentiary or the gallows. In this situation, stuffed with ideas of his equality with, or, in fact, superiority to the whites, and di vested to a certain extent of those social and moral restraints which formerly governed him, it can be readily seen that the more brutal and ignorant are often but little safer than wild beasts or lunatics. The smallest provocation— the slightest temptation, may lead to any horrid crime. Examples of this fact we reported yes terday ; two more are related in our columns to-day, and but a few days ago an intelligent little white girl was brutally butchered, near Macon, by a negro woman, to obtain possession of three dollars and twenty cents, in order to buy cakes and candy with the money. Such events as these are bound in time to open the eyes of people. They are occurring in the North as well as the South. A horrid in stance was narrated yesterday in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and they frequently happen in the North and West, wherever the emancipated freedmen have found their way. They are practical illustrations oi tho absurdity of the dogmas of negro equality, and will, in time, it is to be hoped, bear fruit in better sense, better legislation, a more prompt enforcement of it and greater precaution on the part of the whites. Emma and Martha are both of highly re spectable parents and are relatives. After Needham bad confessed these hornd enmes he was asked why he did it? His reply was he aid not know-only the devil got into him. Needham is a copper colored mulatto, about nr , rears old, about five feet eight inches m height and weighs in the neighborhood of one hundred and forty pounds. He was a man much inflated by freedom nnd had a bad character for honesty, but in other respects had excited no particular notice or apprehension. Northerners Coming to Georgia—On the steamer Charleston, which left New York yes terday for the city of Charleston, says the Chronicle and Sentinel of Wednesday last, we learn by telegraph, was a large number of Northern people coming to seek homes in Geor gia, Sonth Carolina and Florida. Let them, and just as many more as will, come. For Georgia we tender them a cordial welcome, and feel as sured that if they come to this State they will have no cause to repent their choice. In any section that they may choose to locate, whether they come as emigrants to labor, or as invalids in search of health, they will find an abundance of fine land at fabulously low prices, and be re ceived with that kindness and hospitality for which the Empire State of the South has been so long noted. The Aie-Lute Railroad.—The Atlanta Con stitution says, we visited the Air-Line Road yes terday, and found the work progressing with vi gor and dispatch. Hands are actively engaged in excavating earth to make several large fills. The road was fortunate in securing the services of such men of unbounded energy and vim, as Messrs. Scott, Bondurant and Adams. The cul verts (and their name is legion), are being con structed by Cousin John Thrasher. Everybody knows that Cousin John never half does a thing, so the mere fact of his having charge is a guar antee that they will be done. Ere November’s blasts are heard, the first twenty miles of the road will be completed, We consider the “Air- Line" a fixed fact, and bound to go through. Who Has Lost a Male ? Vienna, Ga., March 25, 1SG9. Dear Telegraph: On Monday last, Mr. Lilly, of this place, went out into the woods near town, to see to his hogs. Whilst ho was attend ing to his hogs, a negro man came, leading a mule through tho woods, nnd inquired for the Hnwldnsville road. Mr. Lilly directed him how to get to that road by going through town, which he seemed unwilling to do, and appeared anxious to go round town. Mr. Lilly intimated to the negro that there must be something wrong and that he thought it probable that tho negro bad committed some crime and was running away, whereupon the negro fired his repeater at Mr. Tilly Mr. Lilly took shelter behind a yoke of oxen and cart, and the negrO mounted the mule and jgdlqged J?£ He says his name is Jim Brasley and that his home is at Griswoldville, Georgia. The mule is a medium sized, dark bay mare mule about five years old, and is no doubt stolen propety— the negro having told three different tales about the mule, On Thursday last, 23d iast, two white girls, aged respectively fourteen and eleven years, were on their way to school in the eastern part of the county when a negro man came up to them and caught one of them under each of his arms and told them that he would cut the throat of the first one that hallooed or made any noise — the younger girl, being badly frightened, screamed out, whereupon he out her throat from ear to ear. The negro then took the other girl into the woods and gagged her by tying a forked stick in her month—be tied her down and violated her. person and kept her gagged and • tied down in the woods for six or seven hours, After the negro had accomplished his hellish purposes and satisfied his brutal passions, he went off to get a spade to bury the girl he had killed, and whilst he was gone the girl managed to get loose and went home gagged. Shepaed Rogers, i BY From Atlanta—Anotfaer Dodge by Dr. Bard, of th^ Hew Era. Atlanta, March 25.—Tic following is a synopsis of an able argument by oaa of’the ablest jurists of tho South—sincere and wthout reproach—a mem- ber of Georgia’s Legislatire-a Republican, and a determined supporter of I Grant’s administration. It will appear in to-morroi s New Era: Ho says: I consider the fifteenth amendment a Republican measure. It wjaproposed by republican Congress—wa3 warmly urfod by President Grant, a Republican President, iniis inaugural address, as tho best solution of remaiing questions growing out of the reconstruction polirof Congress, and is right in itself, and settles tb suffrage question and makes it uniform all oyr tho Union; entertained these views, and consideid it the duty of every true Republican to support it fit was the duty of the Re publican members of th (Legislature to take hold of it with energy, as a Repulican measure, and invito Democrats to come npo it as an administration measure. Many of thenvero ready, in honest good faith, to have done so. tins would have been tho first step to harmony ad good understanding be tween Republicans and (at wing of tho Democracy which is willing to give on. Grant a fair trial and support his administratb. if as Aviso and liberal as all are now satisfied it dl be. But to my astonish ment and regret, I sooifound this was not tho line of the State administrion. Gov. Pollock withhd tho amendment from the ojcgioiauire as Jong jla he could do BO without cre ating too much seiiiion. Finally, when he could not bold it longer ti trout an untruthful reply to in quiries of both Ruses, he sent it in, accompanied by the message md recommending its adoption. The message wtia characteristic document on the line of his onoiea. and was clothed with such language and nlfl with such expressions as might reasonably bo ejected to give Democrats firm sup port, as they id expelled the negroes from their seats. He tatted them with liis construction of the amendmem which he said would, if adopted, give the negroi the right to hold office and reseat them. He knew thj was the surest way to frighten them from the upport of the amendment. Bullock intended to dre tho Democrats from its support, and opposed rivately its adoption. Whilst re commending ibublicly, to satisfy tho authorities at Washington,|io did everything possible, by him self and liis oihials, to defeat it. The fifteenth amendment in/Ae House was a plain and simple resolution of aoption, adopted by 49 Democrats for and 48 agains'it, few Republicans voting for and against it, thi balance of the Republicans dodging or refusing tl vote. In the Seats, 3Ir. Conley, the bosom friend of Gov. Bullocland a warm supporter of his policy, voted for a indefinite postponement. Tho next rm , , . , , . . morning it ys brought up and ruled out of order The negro has been arrested and is now in L toeVnXntotthe&nrte-, but on an appeal jail charged ■with^ tlje crimes of rape and mur-i f rom the deision of the Chair, a final vote was der. The relations of tbo girls would have : taken, two-tirds of the Republicans voting against killed the negro on sight had they not been pre- j its adoption,or by absenting themselves during the vented by the citizens from so doing. ! discussion, i Men holdup the highest appointments in Bullock’s gift, andknom to be on his line of policy were active in the lobb; and upon the floor, electioneering Tho Auditor vacated liis office to-day, and the Governor has appointed L. T. Delassize. a colored man and a member of the State Board of Education, as acting Auditor. tm ■— General News. WnartSGTON, March 25.—Tho wreck referred to in the dispatch of the 24th proves to be that of the brig Model, of Portland, Me., bound to Savannah. The crew was pickod up by the Bcbooner Kate Rich and brought to this port to-day. The vessel was a total loss. Mobile, March 25.—No races to-day. they have been postponed until Saturday. Foreign Hews. Madrid, March 25.—-The committee on Cortes reported a Constitution for a monarchy. The King to reign eighteen years: Senators thirteen; Mem bers of Congress three years; Church and State separate. Cortes has passed the conscription law. Marine Hews. Savannah, March 25.—Cleared, steamers Living ston, New York: America, Baltimore: hark Oscar West, Grunsby, England. Arrived, barks S. W. Swasey, New York; B. B. Walker, Boston; schooners H. G. Bird, Rockland, Me.; C. W. Holst. Baltimore; Haynes, Boston. From Cuba. Havana, March 23.—Twenty-five insurgents, mostly of high rank in the rebel army, were captured and executed within five leagues of Trinidad. The situation in that quarter is more serious than it hitherto had appeared. TheEco, a newspaper of Matanzas, professes to have re ceived intelligence that Florencio Jiminez, a rebel General, has presented himself to the Spanish authorities to receive pardon. He says that other leaders, members of the revolution ary junta at Villa Clara, will follow his example, provided their lives be spared and they be guar anteed safe conduct, to some port from which they may sail from the Island. The Nassau Herald reports the capture of the American brig Mary Lowell, at. Ragged Island, by a Spanish man-of-war. The brig, at the time of her capture, was in the possession of the British custom-house officers, on charge that she was carrying arms and supplies to the insurgents in Cuba. The British war steamer, Cherub, has sailed from Nassau for Ragged Island to investigate the affair. The Havana Government is fully advised of the conduct of the commander of the Spanish war steamer. The Peruvian monitors remain at Ragged Island. During the voyage one of the rams broke loose and ran into the steamer Havana and sunk her. Several of the crew of the Ha vana were drowned. The New General.—General Sherman is now trying his hand to stop the biggest leak in the Treasury—the army. He is shelving all idle officers, dismissing useless soldiers, breaking up unnecessary camps, and petulantly snapping at every man who remonstrates with him in carry ing out these wholesome measures. It would be a good idea to muster out the whole force with the exception of enough to take care of public property. This army costs us fromseven- ty-five to one hundred million a year. The New Spanish Government.—The Cortes has at last agreed npon a form of government. A king whose tenure shall be eighteen years, a Constitution, Congress, etc. The Church and State to be separate. This is a decided im provement npon tho imbecile, intollerant and bigoted concern of a government they had there up to a few months ago. Grant is tired of Congress already. At an interview the other day with the President, one of the Military Committee of the House said he thought Congress would not be long in ses sion. Grant responded: “I am glad to hear it. I think an early adjournment is the very best thing Congress can do.” Hon. Pierre Soule.—Tho N. O. Times, of the 19 th, contains the melancholy announcement that application has been made to Conrt for the appointment of a Curator to take charge of the affairs of Hon. Pierre Soule, he having become hopelessly insane. Strange Omission.—Will the Atlanta papers do the public the favor to publish & list of acts passed by the Legislature at its last session?— They are looked to for such information, and we take the liberty of reminding them of the fact.—Savannah Republican. •Rgn Sulphur Spring in Florida.—The Flor- dian mentions the discovery of a Red Sulphur Spring near Tallahassee, which is valuable as a remedial agent in scrofulous and malarial dis eases. _ There is an old lady in Lynchburg, Va., who says she made a pair of socks last fifteen years by merely knitting feet to them every winter, and legs every other winter. Buffalo has given Grant a pair of boots, and St. Louis has sent him a coat Every one of the contributors i« now vigorously besieging him for an office. The Legislature of Ohio has passed a bill in- . damnifying fill citizens who lost any property by the raids of General Morgan. A Frenchman has brought suit against the publishers of the new official paper, for send ing him badly printed and inferior copies, and tittA punoUudly. Tho Horrid Knrder and Outrage near Drayton. Editors Telegraph : While traveling between Byronville and Drayton, in Dooly county, Ga., on Tuesday, the 23d, and upon coming to tho residence of Mrs. Moat, at C o’clock in the af ternoon, I met three gentlemen oi >^y ance, two of whom had guns. Upon inquiry, they informed me that they were looking for a colored man who had cut the throat of one child and gagged another. At the residence of Mrs. Brown we learned that the body of the child had been found and the murderer caught. We went to the spot where the child was found. Its throat was cut about four inches. The sight caused feelings of indignation which can scarcely be described. I there met Mr. Stansel and family, who related to me the circumstances of the outrage as fol lows : The murdered child, Martha Holland, was an orphan, eight years old. Her father and mother are both dead. She had been left to the foster ing care of her half brother, Mr. John Holland, who, desiring to send her to a school in the neighborhood, rather remote from where he resided, made arrangements to board ber with a gentleman by the name of Holder, living about one mile from the school house. Mr. Henry Stansel also sent his daughter Emma, about twelve years of age, to the same school. Emma passed Mr. Holder’s every morning and calling for Martha they walked to the school to gether. Mr. Stansel had a negro man in his employ by the name of Needham, who worked npon a small farm near where Mr. S. resides. In pass ing to the school house, the little girls had to go through a long lane. It seems the negro had gone to a field near it that morning, with his plow and mule, but without doing any work, waylaid them in tho comer of the fence. This was on Tuesday morning. When the girls ap proached, he seized and carried them to the woods, threatening that if they hallooed he would kill them. The younger child, Martha, being much frightened, did halloo, when the brutal beast stabbed it in the throat. Emma says Martha groaned once and died immediately. Needham then tied Emma’s wrists and gagged her—putting a stick cross-wise in her month as far as ho could, and securing it in that position with a string tied to each end of the stick. After this he takes the body of Martha—car ries it about fifty yards, where there had been a number of pine poles cut for building a house, and put her body in some of the pine tops and covered it with others. Ho then returns to Emma, and takes her (still tied and gagged) to within thirty yards of where he had placed the body of Martha, to another parcel of pine tops— tied her to a sapling and covered her with other tops, in which condition she remained, in inex pressible agony, from about eight o’clock in the morning until between four and five o’clock in the afternoon, when she managed to pick the string to pieces with which she was tied, and though exceedingly frightened, fearing the de mon would discover her if she moved, yet be lieving it would bo death if she remained, she determined to attempt an escape, and actually succeeded in reaching the residence of Mr. Hol der with the gag in her mouth, which she could not extricate until Mr. Holder cut the string and took it from her. After this, she started for home, accompanied by one of Mr. Holder’s daughters, and commu nicated the appalling facts to her parents, and told them she knew where Martha’s body had been placed. The neighborhood was aroused, and some of the people accompanied Mr. Stansel and daughter to the scene of the outrage, while others started out in search of Needham. It was not long before Needham was found, hiding in some broom-sedge, near where he lived. He started to run, but was overtaken and com mitted, and yesterday was on his way to jail in Vienna. Emma says: that after she was tied Need ham returned three times, she thinks to see if she was still there. The last time he left was about twelve or one o’clock. It was ascertained that during the afternoon Needham went to one of his colored neighbors (a ditcher) to borrow a spade. The general opinion is that the use he intended to make of the spade was to bury both victims. He prob ably intended to kill Emma that night, and then i to bury the corpses of both the children. Diabolical JIurdcr. We learn from officer W. D. Oliveira, who has j against it. iThc reasons given for this was that it just returned from Clinch county, where he has ; would defea BuUocU ’ 8 policy at Washington,' urg- -■ r 1 rMi ing&tthe village of Imrton, at Station 12, on tha I oot U.o fifteenth amendment, tool ooutJ Atlantic and Gulf railroad, administered poison j not trust Ongress any further. Bullock played a in roasted potatoes to two colored children, nam- double gaae in recommending tho adoption and ed Charles and Mary Mack, which produced death J privately ojposing it with all his power and patron- in about thirty minutes. There being no officer j age, or it vpnld have been adopted by over two- at the village, the citizens called upon officer Oli- i 0 f branches: that the impression is at- srMssrtKrKss are not acting in good faith, but it was tho honest view of the Democrats that the North intended to The officer, accompaniedby Wm. GugleandWm. Cameron, pursned him and after an exciting chase, succeeded in capturing him and disarming him of a revolver, a bowie knife and a quantity of ammunition. He was taken to the village and turned over to Messrs, win. OaiUClUU MUU X>. Simians for safe keeping until he could he turned over to a county officer, from whom, however, he soon managed to make his escape. 1 Officer Oliveira followed him into a swamp, and succeeded in arresting him a second time, and turning him over to the same parties from whom he had escaped. This time he was se curely manacled so that it was impossible for him to escape; officer Oliveira then took the train and proceeded to Station No. II, where he reported the facts to the Coroner and Dep uty Sheriff of Clinch, who proceeded forthwith to Station No. 12, the Coroner to hold an in quest, and the Deputy to take charge of the prisoner. It seems that Mary Mack, tho mother of the mnrdered children, who claims to be a widow, has been living with Mnckall for some time, and that recently she abandoned him nnd came to Savannah, leaving her children on his hands, and that his object in poisoning them, was to rid himself of tlie expense and trouble of sup porting them. Tho boy was four years of age and the girl three. Many of tho citizens who witnessed the children in the agonies of death were so exasperated that it was with difficulty that they could be prevented by cooler heads from executing summary justice npon the fiend in human form.—Savannah Republican, 2Uh. The Missing United States Marshal.—It is now considered no longer a matter of doubt that — Dickson, United States Marshal for Georgia, has absconded and gone to parts unknown. The general impression here, how received we know not, is that ho has gone to Cuba, bnt we doubt it. After diligent inquiry, we have been wholly unable to learn to what amount the Government and private parties have suffered from this de falcation ; the loss is generally believed, though, to be quite heavy. Those who are best acquaint ed with his business affairs and course of life do not believe that he took any considerable sum with him. Between several losing enterprises and fast living, very large amounts, considera bly beyond his income, were doubtless absorbed, and the day of reckoning approaching without ability on his part to respond, he considered it prudent to leave the country. His official bond is signed by two of tho “solid men” of Savan nah, and calls for twenty thousand dollars, be yond which his indebtedness will prove a total loss.—Suvannah Republican. Power or tbe Class Interest. New England, with a population less than the single State of New York, has more influence in the government than half a dozen such States. In the arrangement of the Standing Committees of the Senate, the following chairmanships are given to that section: Foreign Relations—Sumner, of Massachu setts. Military Affairs—Wilson, of Massachusetts. Appropriations—Fessenden, of Maine. Pensions—Edmunds, of Vermont. District of Columbia—Hamlin of Maine. Public Buildings—Morrill, or Vermont Auditing Committee of Contingent Expenses —Cragin, of New Hampshire. Printing—Anthony, of Rhode Island. Thus, out of twelve New England Senators, eight of them are made chairmen of important committees—such as the foreign relations, mil- itaiy affairs, appropriations and pensions. In truth, it would seem that New England is now running the Senate of tho United States. As the Cincinnati Enquirer says, “ it has been so ever since the Republican party came into power, and will be so long as it is retained in it. New Eng land is tho head nnd the West the tail of their organization.”—Tallahassee Floridian. Fight in Mississippi. Memphis, March 22.—On Saturday night a skirmish took place near Batesville, Mississippi, between a body of disguised men and a squad of United States soldiers. After sharp firing the maskers fled, bnt were pursued and one of their number captured, who proved to be Jesse Rhodes, a citizen of Panola County. The mas kers had threatened to lynch a negro in the neighborhood, and the commanding officers sent a detachment to protect him. The par ties met in the woods, and a collision ensued. Rhodes was sent to Vicksburg, yesterday, in. irons. Bbownlow’s Thieves and Assassins. — The Avalanche’s Brownvillo (Tenn.) special, seven p. m., says a hundred militia arrived there yester day. After pressing all the horses in town, they started for Woodville, where a squad of militia was fired into a few; days since. It is feported that to-day they destroyed a store, and then had an encounter with some armed men, by which the militia lost fifteen killed. This is not fully confirmed. Considerable excitement and anxiety prevails there. Business is entirely suspended. Welcome to Tennessee.—The Nashville Ban ner welcomes a colony of eighty Pennsylvmia farmers to Tennessee. They brought their fanning implements and will settle near Tullfe- homa. Georgia—Governor Bullock and His Friends. A writer in the Washington Republican gets off the following in regard to Georgia matters. It should not be forgotten that the .Republican is a Radical Republican paper, and speaks tbe wishes and sentiments of a large number of the Republican members of Congress : “It appears clear to me that Congress will not separate until after having remitted Georgia to a territorial or provisional State government under entire military domination. I have never seen men more sick of their friends than are the Republicans of Congress just now of Governor Bullock and his immediate supporters in the Georgia Legislature, who have, in acting on the proposed fifteenth amendment to the Constitu tion proved themselves quite as unreliable as the adopt the fifteenth^ amendment, and this was . rebels of the v.,dy, and quite as unworthy as thought to be a propitious time to settle tbo whole ■ they to be intrusted wr the management of tbe t£uoo«t,—. jt a n, Ilepul.K-o^ measure, and Re- p u i,ij c of any portion oi tne people. publicans had no excuse lor voting against it. Tne whole question is. that a few desperate Rad icals, who want things in their own hands, look with great interest to his trip to Washington, and that, backed by Attorney General Farrow, they can make President Grant do as they please, and thus shatter the frame-work of reconstruction and destroy peace and harmony. Thousands now support the general policy of Grant who were heretofore opposed to him, and they consider the reopening of the re- conststruction question the greatest misfortune that can befall Georgia. Congressional. A NEW GEORGIA BILL. Washington, March 25.—House.—The Mississip pi bill was postponed until after the morning hour The Reconstruction Committee had no meeting to-day. The Election Committee was heard on Louisiana. No action. A joint resolution restoring the jurisdiction of the Court of Claims to cases of citizens in the loyal States, for vessels impressed during the war, was passed by a vote of 87 to 80. Upson replaces Poland on the Reconstruction Committee. A bill restoring a republican government to Geor gia was introduced and referred to the Reconstruc tion Committee. It reassembles tho original Legis lature and imposes a test oath of qualification, and declares the expulsion of colored members void. The Mississippi bill was resumed, but laid aside for tlio tenure-of-offico bill, which, after a strong debate, was referred to the Judiciary Committee by a vote of 95 to 79—only ten Democrats voting nay. House adjourned. Senate.—Mr. Hamilton, of Maryland, has been seated. Mr. Rico introduced a bill restoring a Republican Government to Georgia. A motion to consider it failed, by 40 to 15. , Tho bill providing for the redistributing and issue of an additional fifty millions of national currency was considered, hut without action. Amendments to the National Junction Railroad bill, connecting tho North and South roads around Washington, was adopted and it goes to tho Presi dent. Senate adjourned. From Washington. Washington, March 25.—In an absolutely au thenticated interview between Grant and tlio Mis sissippi delegation, who are urging Grant’s assis tance in passing tho pending bill, Grant doubts whether tho bill will restore peace to Mississippi He favors appointments by tho military Governor, with a resnbmission of the Constitution, with a asperate vote on objectionable features, some of which, ho says, probably would, and perhaps should be de feated. .; Mr. Johnson’s physician has left for Greenville, in response to a despatch announcing Mr. Johnson's dangerous sickness. Young's wiveshavo reached Chicago. The Governor of New Jersey, in a message, ar gues against ratification. Rhode Island has postponed action. Indiana returns opponents in special elections. Mr. Boutwell wants legislation for redistribution of national currency. Customs for tho week ending March 20, $4,- 166,000. The President has nominated Edward L. Plumb Consul-General to Havana; Alonzo P. Connell, Sur veyor of Customs, at New York; E. A. Merritt, Naval Officer of New York; Julius Emmerson, Assessor 3d Louisiana district; James A. Cooper, 2d Ten nessee district; Isaac J. Young, Collector of the 4th North Carolina district; Julia P. Woolfolk, Postmistress at JackEon, Tennessee, and James T. Smith, Collector of the 2d Mississippi district Quite a number of Northern nominations. Tho Executive session confirmed Bancroft Davis Assistant Secretary of State; James H. Casey, Col lector of Customs at New Orleans. Manta Era. A Darned Claim ou Grant. A Washington dispatch to the New York World says: It is one of the most anomalous and romantic incidents connected with tho hunt for place here, that in this city, at tho present moment, look ing for an office, are members of a family liv ing just out of St. Louis, who knew Mr. Grant several years ago, when he used to haul wood from tho city to tho farmers in the suburbs. Tlio plea special which they putin is that on one notable occasion Mr. Grant carted some fuel to them, and that the mother of the household called him in the back kitchen and carefrdly darned a considerably dilapidated overcoat of the then teamster and now President. Since then the family have met with reverses, and and hearing of tho “great American gift enter prise” set up in this city since March 4, have sent on several of their number for an office for the husband of the lady who sewed the histor ical garment several years ago. Preparation for Whitewash.—Whitewash is one of the most valuable articles in the world, when properly applied. It not only prevents the decay of wood, but conduces greatly to the healthiness of all buildings, whether of wood or stone. Out-buildings and fences, when not painted, should be supplied once or twice a year with whitewash, which should be prepared in the following way: Take a clean, water-tight barrel or other cask, and put into it a half-bushel of lime. Slake it by pouring water over it, boiling not, and in sufficient quantity to cover it five inches deep, and stir it briskly till thoroughly slaked. When the slaking has been thoroughly effected, dis solve it in water, and add two pounds of sulphate of zinc and one of common salt; these will pre vent its cracking, which gives an unseemly ap pearance to the work. If desirable, a beautiful cream color may be communicated to the above wash, by adding three pounds of yellow ochre; or a good pearl or lead color, by the addition of lamp, vine, or ivory black. For fawn color, add four pounds of umber, Turkish or American, the latter is the cheapest—one pound of Indian ted, one pound of common lampblack. For common stone color, add four pounds of raw umber, and two pounds of lampblack. This wash may be ap plied with a common whitewash brush, and will be fonnd much superior, both in appearance and durability to the common whitewash. {Journal of Chemistry. From lomsiana. ^”'* ! | New Orleans, March 25.—Upon the statement of State Senator Lynch and State Treasurer Dou blet and his chief Clerk, relative to warrants drawn by Auditor Wiekhffe, that the payment of coupons was fraudulently issued, the grand jury to-day found a true bill against the Auditor for misdemeanor. The fraud appears to have been discovered in Janu ary last, but upon being confronted with it the Au ditor refunding the amount of coupons ($2000) no disclosure woe .mode till r the 23d inat.— Senator Lynch giving os his reason fears of its effecting the credit of the State. Bonner advertises as an attraction to tho Ledger a forthcoming series of article£by twelve members of tho United States Senate. Among them, we trust, there will be one on temperance by the Hon. Richard Yates; one on Marriage, by the Hon. Chas. Sumner; one on Honesty, by the Hon. Simon Cameron; one on Virtue, by the Hon. S. C. Pomeroy, and let us hope that the whole wiR conclude with a dissertation on the influence of garden seeds upon American Statesmanship, by Vice-President Colfax. The Ledger man should have gone to the old and new members of the House for something real ly instructive. Thus, Butler, on Spoons; Mul lins, on Rhetoric; Schenck, on Poker: Stokes, on Loyalty; or Ashley, on Town “Sights,” would be very interesting. — Cincinnati En quirer. Athleticism, pursued with so much devotion in the English schools and universities, is now becoming the subject of severe criticism in the English journals. Young men, it is asserted, go to the universities professedly to read, but instead of attdhding to their books, pass their time in rowing, cricketing, running, jumping, throwing hammers and “putting” weights. Ath letic sports are practiced to an extravagrant ex cess, and time and money wasted, while the op portunities of acquiring a finished education are lost. Not only are the ordinary courses of poli tics and contemporary history beyond the knowl edge and interests of these muscular young students, but the young men, it is asserted, grow up to manhood painfully simple and loutish.— The hardening, vulgarizing effects of athletic amusements, pursued beyond the point necessa ry to preserve health, it is contended, are visi ble in the rising generation of Englishmen. A disagreeable coarseness of thought and aetion, it is stated, is impressed upon the young men of the schools and universities, and accompanies them through life. Fire at Dawson.—The Journal of yesterday (Thursday) says:. About 11 o’clock last night, our quiet little city was aroused by the alarm of fire, and was found to be the business office of the Dawson Manufacturing Company, which had too for advanced in burning to be saved, when the citizens got there. We have not, as yet, learned the loss. 1 No idea as to how the fire originated. Chinese Women. Soio they are Imported into San Francisco— Harder* and Abductions Consequen t upon the System. From tbe San Franc inco Bulletin. March 10.] Within the past few weeks there have been several cases in which Chinamen were assassin ated by men of their own race, and only last night a man was shot and desperately wounded by another Chinaman. The courts have recently had several cases of conspiracy to murder, ab duction, assault to Mil, etc., before them, and some are still pending, in all of which Chinese ‘ are parties. In each instance, tbe troublo has grown out of the strifo among these people to obtain possession of Chinawomen brought over in large numbers on each steamer from Hong Kong. The pertinacity with which the quarrels are kept up, and the outrageous acts of violence which have resulted, demonstrate the deep in terest which these people take in the matter, and should suggest to our local authorities the necessity of dealing with it according to some plan which has not yet been tried. The scheme by which the system of importing Chinawomen is carried on is an exceedingly complicated one, and yet it rests on a small pivot here. Some time since, it will be recol lected, the six Chinese companies combind for the avowed purpose of preventing the importa tion of Chinese girls and women for the pur poses of prostitution. The managers were shrewd. They knew the value of a moral sup port in a community like this, and set about to secure it The plan on which they were to work was published, and the police authorities were enlisted to assist them in canning it out On the surface it all seemed right; it appeared to be a very commendable and effective plan for getting rid of or checking a monstrous evil. In reality, however, it is nothing less than a cunningly devised scheme to effect precisely what was pretendedto be opposed. Cargo after cargo of females, mostly young, came over.— Some of them had relatives here and reached them, bnt the rest were “consigned” to certain parties here who had bought the in China, while others were sold here to any who would pay the required price. An average consignment was worth to the Chinese from $4,000 to $5,000. From the lot a few would be selected and sent back to China, to show the Americans that the plan was a highly moral one and deserved their support. Bnt dissensions and jealousness arose and the writ of habeas corpusvns invoked. The decision of the Fourth District Court exploded the entire system, and reduced the traffickers in women to the necessity of prosecuting their business by the old methods, which, still illegal as the other, had not the outward appearance of a moral movement in aid of Christianity and general social viatne. The original plan was to kidnap, maim or kill and that is the plan which is now being acted npon with bloody consequences. The shrewd conductors are enabled to a certain extent to use and abuse tbe processes of law for their ne farious purposes; and when these fail they do not hesitate to resort to murder for the accom plishment of tho same ends. "Whatever crowd or combination of Chinamen get possessio nof the women who are being brought here monthly in such large numbers make no difference. They are all alike anxious to realize the profits of their sale, and they are large. So lucrative is the business, notwithstanding the little draw backs of conspiracy and assassination which are encountered, the chiefs are enabled to hire white men to go to the steamers and assist them, paying them from $20 to $100 for their services. Some time since one Chinaman established himself in China for the purpose of shipping women like cattle to this port. His name was Kum Cook. The branch house here encounter ed obstacles. Four women whom he sent over were taken away from bis wife by the aid of several regular policemen, and they were sent away. At the present time it appears that a man named Ah Fook enjoys a monopoly of tho traffic, and by shrewd means, on the arrival of the last steamer, he procured the aid of officers of the law to get and keep possession of his large consignment of females. He first caused it to be whispered in the ears of Chief Crowley that certain parties were going to the steamer dock and would fight ten possession of the women un less a posse were sent down. 1’Uey were arming and there was great danger of a riot. Tho facts proved that a riot was threatened, and it was only by chance it did not occur. However, men were stationed at the gates, and a Chinaman, in order to get through to the steamer must have tho Mail Company’s pass with the mark of Ah Fook, “C. A.” on it. Some who did not have that indorsement were turned back. The result was that thre6 hundred and ninety-six China women were hauled off tho deck in baggage wagons, like so many calves, and taken to the various alleys designated by tho head importer. Toproveat a successful combination of hisrivals, he divided the cargo into three parts, and they were discharged simultaneously at the places pointed out by his agents. The man Ah Fook is very successful But he he is in mortal fear from his enemies, his rivals in the trade. They held a meeting recently and authoritatively offered a reward of $1,000 for his head, and $500for that of each of his agents. An assassin was procured who undertook to shoot him; but, as it proved, killed the wrong man. They agreed to pay all the expenses of his trial if he should he arrested—if sent to the State prison $100 per mouth to defray extra ex penses, and they bound themselves to send his family $100 per month in the event of his being hung. Men who attended this meeting were ar rested and examined on a charge of conspiracy, but the court dismissed them. At once word was sent to Ah Fook that he must leave the city or they would butcher him; and they openly declared that before the sun shone to-day they would have killed some of his gang. He has a body guard constantly. Part of tho time it con sists of Chinamen, at other times he is protect ed by a guard of policemen. He does not stir from his room alone. True to the threat of last evening, during the night two Chinamen—Chun Chun and Ah Mow went to the door of Ming "Wing, one of the par ty of Ah Fook, on Jackson street, and called mm out of his room, saying they wanted to rent a room from him. He stepped out, saw who they were, and turned to go into the room, when Ah Mow shot him through the body, in flicting a dangerous, perhaps fatal wound. They ran out, flung the pistol into the street, and es caped. This is the last development in the case; bnt the people may rest assured of one thing, the evil described is making rapid pro gress, and calls for some extraordinary measures for its suppression. It will not do for the lo cal authorities to become indirectly and inno cently participants in tho horrible traffic. We fail to see why the Chinaman who obtained the 396 last sent, had any legal or moral right to their custody, or why only his friends were ad mitted through the gates on that particular business. One man was engaged by a Chinaman to go by the last steamer from China and procure him a female. The man is a lawyer, and the China man agreed to give him $100 for the job. We are not informed whether he succeeded. Still another attorney was offered the same price for a similar purpose, and we know of a half a do zen or more other Caucasians who are of so much importance in the estimation of Chinamen, and of so little of their own, that they have re ceived or been offered pay to assist in the work of properly distributing Celestial females to the “consignees.” A Photograph from fife. the widow cliqdot. From Don Piatt, in the Cincinnati Commercial.] In this hasty sketch of the lobby I mnst not leave out the more prominent figures found in the gentler sex, who lend their charms to facili tate and felicitate Congressional justice. I at tempted a sketch of the powerful but delicate and subtle influence that has mode itself felt here. Let me give you, in a few words, a more prominent one. The lovelier half of an animated creation af fect the Capitol. At all hours the tide of wavy folds and bright colors ebbs and flows along the beautiful stairways, or gathers in eddies about the corridors, or settles for a brief space in the galleries. When an unnsual number appear, like rows of bright flowers, in the last named lo cality, the handsome Conklin g, or the fascina ting Windom, or my bandit of a Logan rises to bis feet and pours out floods of eloquence on the question at issue, being generally some question of order and of intense interest to tho fair, ones above. These are mostly belles of Washington and visitors at the capital; but dotting them at in tervals are ladies we come to know in time, as the fringe work of the lobby. They press claims with more or less success, some by their beauty, some by their tact, and some through sheer per tinacity. That tall and rather handsome, and a some what overdressed woman, with tho bright eyes, aquiline nose and prominent chin, fair, fat and forty, is the widow Cliquot—surviving relic of the once gallant Maj. Cliquot, who departed this life in the most heroic manner, in the Quar termaster’s department—leaving as a legacy to his dear Maria a slight defalcation of $10,000, To recover this from the Government, the dis consolate widow come to Washington, and met with such success that she remained to help others and enrich herself. She has a loud, clear voice, a ready laugh, a coarse wit, and the im pudence of his Satanic Majesty. While she carries the larger part of her business by as sault, she holds on without conscience or prin- ple. It is not long since that whispers went about of a little scandal managed by the widow. She has, generally, a younger creature under her control, who is more shy, fresh, and therefore more attractive than herself, and when the coarser charms fail, it is said she puts forward her little ward. A gentleman of high official and political po sition was once ass enough to be turned into the widow’s net by this bait, and being a prominent man of family, did a very silly thing. He be gan with bouquets and little presents, and .pro gressed with little notes on to long letters, until one bright day he found the cold shoulder given him by his youthful charmer, and received the fearful intelligence that his’ infamous conduct was known to the protector of this child-like in nocence, and that all his letters were in the hands of this dragon of virtue. The unhappy Solon did not know whether to commit suicide, get drunk or run away. The surviving relict of the gallant Major softened. She advised the poor man. Ho was to repent, mend his ways and settle a handsome sum, in h’er hands, upon the child. Whether this advice was followed or not, they had peace, and the gay widow came out resplendent in new furs, more “moire antique,” fresher velvets, and no end of stunning jewelry. Moral—Don’t try conclusions with the Widow Cliquot. A Characteristic Order from Gen. Sherman. The Washington Express publishes tho following paragraph under the caption of “An order not to be executed:” Gen. Sherman has an indifferent opinion of the morals of the “Federal City” and their influ ence on army officers and men. An officer re cently called to confer with him as to the break ing up of Lincoln Barracks, near the city, and asked him what he should do with the property. “ Burn it, bum it, sir 1” said Sherman, impetu ously. “ General,” said the officer, “ please put your order in writing, and I will obey. ” “Bum it! bum it!” again exolaimed Sherman. The officer asked his written orders therefor, when tbe General asked what was its value. He was informed that it was worth $200,000. “Well,” said Sherman, “the fact is, this city is a bad place for soldiers, and I want to get them all away from it. You had better put it up for sale and dean the thing oat quick.” Subsequently, Gen. Emory called to ascertain what orders he had for his department. “ What department?” inquired the Commander-in-Chief. “ The Department of Washington,” said Emory. “Bustedup; busted up, since yesterday; am, going to get all the troops out of the city.” No Danger.—“Mack 1 ” the Washington cor respondent af the Cincinnati Enquirer, differs from General Frank Biair in the opinion that Grant will declare himself dictator. He says : “When men talk with fear and trembling of a military dictatorship, or a Cromwell or Napoleon, I tell them there is perfect safety against Giant’s ambition in Grant's mediocrity. There is not a ' Napoleon to the square mile of suoh men, nor a ; Cromwell to fifty generations of them. ” An Execution at Constantinople. Another rare sacrifice to justice occurred re cently in a street near Ak-Serai. The victim in this case was a Musselman Albanian, named Hassan, who, about a fortnight ago, violated and then murdered a woman at Scutari. Ho had entered the house, in a lonely quarter of the Asiatic suburb, in the daytime, and finding tho woman alone, perpetrated his double crime, and afterwards decamped with wbat light valuables he could carry off. The police, for a wonder, succeeded in tracking him, and, as he was identified by some one who had seen him enter the house, he finally confessed the crime, during his second or third examination at the Zaptieh. From the first there was no chance of his escaping capital pmishment, but his sen tence was, as usual, concealed from him till the last. The execution had been delayed for some days, owing to the difficulty of finding a gipsy —the usual finisher of the law in Stamboifl—to undertake the job for the modest fee offered by the authorities. The Zingaree, however, hold ing out for better pay, a policeman was at length induced to do the work, and, without pre vious hint of his fate, the murderer was Tossed from his sleep at sunrise on Wednesday marz- t g to go down, as he was told, to a steamer for ile to Trebizonde. On reaching tho spot se lected, the party of police escorting him halted, and the first intimation the wretch had of his fate was the question if he desired to say his prayers. He replied in the negative, and the executioher then advanced and attempted to throw a looped cord over Ms head. Manacled though he was, he resisted for some minutes, struggling fiercely, and screaming in a manner which, early as the hour was, speedily gathered a crowd into the previously empty street. At length the cord was got round his neck, and, al ter a further short resistance, he was strangled into insensibility. This done, the body was bitched up to a hook in the doorpost of a neigh boring butcher’s shop, with, the feet barely o£ the ground, and left to die out thus, under watch of a single zapieth. As usual, there was no excitement among the spectators, and in less than half an hour after the murderer was dead only some three or four loiterers lingered near the spot About one v. m. the body was cat down and carried off in a Back for buriaL A Teutonic View of the Situation in Virginia. A German railroad friend of ours has gives his views on the situation, which we think worth producing. He says: Dis gontry is von grate gontry, but de troobfe is so much greader as de gontry, .vich is so greri as never vas. Seemour und Plair—dat’s vof ( kind ov man I was; and now I bees de sace dings vot I never vas before. Ven I come u dis gontry, twelf years ago, I finds beace asl j plenty, nnd nickers vas wort a tousand dollar, nnd now dey ain’t wort a tarn. Den de war nil | fitins come, nndlshoined de soldcliers, undl staid mit em until I didn’t git shooted, und &} I cooms home, und de war vas over, und nicker wasn’t a nicker no longer. Und inst-1 von de droobles gittin over, dey coom’d vors as never vas before, nnd mine fran said, u Da> | yon glat ter war is ofer—ain’t it?” Und ISJ “No, py dam, it ain’t.” Und I gits mad, ®; tints I go back mit de ole gontry; und ven I tin® vot I tihks, I wakes oop one mornin, but my fa* tells me, “Votyontinks; I got tree plindn** s —und I bets nodings. Von ov em is a vita nc» und his name "Veils; nnd de oder is a mala 11 *’ mice, nnd Ms name Lindsey; nnd de oder-“ black mice, und Ms name Bayne; und I hi® to myself—I tints, by shorgo—I vill dem mices. Und so I vatetes em in der purl in. Und, yon see, der black mice, ri® * name Bayne, he sleep in de comer offl i: - droonk; un der mnladder mice, vich is I Lindsey, he sleep in der oder comer ora *• droonk; nnd der vite mice, which is name 1 I he sleeps in der carbit-pag. Veil, in der m°“ I in, ven I vas vatchin de mices, I seed Bay® 8 " I up and roob Ms eyes nnd say, “Inderbekinfj J aU men was greeted vree und equaland I sey say ven he vake up, “ Less oos opprf' :;; ' I der tifficoolties;’’ und Veils he shooras oop I der carbit-pag, und he say, “Mine wrentt I mine brodders, led oos haf beace;” und wj I all git togeder, und vas shust so happy 8® * E£ ., I er seed before. By Shorge, I tinks dat isg^'I I don’t tink vot I leaf der gontry now, I dinks vot I shitop der droobles. Now, I der dree mices, und dey is berficaly happy- E I wMte mice ain't shealous von der biact mice. I gauss he is so blind vat he gant see him. black mice nnd der muladder mice ain’t she 5 ^ I von der wMte mice begause vat dey can ‘.-.I Mm, und dey is all free and equal, und dev a® I cares a tarn, und dey don’t got no use for I gonstruction acts und the zivil rights pill;" t j I it ? By Shorge, I say, mine fran, I got got ’em. Let der Amerigin beeples vot low I gontry all git blind, und den dey will • an I nnd eqnal, und dey will don’t vant no zivil rifc^ I pill, dere will be beace, nnd peer vill be stf “ I by tarn. Andt it ?—Exchange. False Packing.—Judging from the wMch we clip from the Columbus San, ^ I wrong practices must exist in that market- A Good Suggestion.—We have heard it -I gestedthat farmers who wish to cheat mb J should place in their bales rocks and pw^vj iron instead of wet cotton. They am ® ,1 easier picked out, and not so easily < ek . Resampling is very apt to reveal defects. will checCt; therefore let something be | which will count. “ Mv dear,” said a rural wife to her j on Ms return from toy®, “ what was the ■ eet thing yon saw in bonnets in the i | “The ladies’faoe8,jmylove.” . Don Piatt says SUaioa 18% have tie^ 1 lUh iliawon. Xhe oMy qo*u»»tr"” m iTMah^itt , -*ci "*«•/; 5
