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TEE WEEKLY 00H8TITUTI0HALI8T WEDNESDAY MOKNINO, MAY i, 1660 Club Rates for the Weekly Conniuition nlUt. That every one may be enabled to sub scribe, and receive the benefits of alive jour nal, we offer the following liberal terms to Clubs; 1 Copy per year - - - -$3 00 3 Copies per year 7 50 5 Copies per year - - - -, 12 jOO 10 Copies per year - - - - 20 00 We trast that every subscriber to the paper will aid us in adding to our list. OBOPS ASD CURRENT NEWS. Our subscribers and friends in the coun try will confer a favor on us and our nu merous readers by sencyng us items as to crop prospects and general news in their different sections. We trust that each subscriber will consider himself a special correspondent for the Constitu tionalist, and thereby add to the interest of the paper. THE MEMPHIS COMMERCIAL CONVEN TION. In October last, a Commercial Conven tion m*t at Norfolk, Va-, which inaugurat ed great enterprises for Southern contem plation. When this Convention adjourned, it was unanimously agreed that a second meeting should take place at Memphis on such a day as the Chamber of Commerce of that city might direct. Pursuant to this design, the Memphis Chamber of Commerce has fixed upon the 18th day of May next as the time for holding the second annual convention. Froift the circular announce ment of the committee, we learn that one of the objects Is to secure the cordial and active co-operation of the people of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys in the effort to build up direct trade with Europe through South Atlantic seaports. Another object is to discuss the necessity for a railroad from the Mississippi to Iht Pa cific Ocean over a route unobstructed all the year round. A third subject will be that of leveeing the Mississippi, so as to utilize permanently the most productive cotton lands In the world. A fourth subject will be that of Inmi ff rati >n. The committee very properly declare that these and kindred topics are worthy of the consideration of our wisest and most patriotic men, and, sustained by the solid citizens of Memphis, they Invite such of their Southern brethren as may lie deslg good work they have In hand. To facilitate the deliberations of the con vention, the Committee of the Memphis Chamber of Commerce suggest the follow ing ratio of representation*: * “That the Governor of each State and Territory will appoint a delegation, not ex ceeding ten for the State at large and one lbr each Congressional district. *' That each city or town will appoint but two delegates for a population under five thousand, and one fby each additional ten tllonsaud. “ That each incorporated railroad, steam boat, manufacturing or ' mining will appoint but two delegates. "That each Chamber of Commerce or Board of Trade will appoint but one dele gate for every one hundred members or fractional hundred. “ Every one appointed or specially in vited,.is requested to notify the committee if he Ciui attend, and take with him some form of credential as a delegate." In such a convention as this Georgia must not be unrepresented. She is more or less deeply In Pressed In. all the subjects to bo discussed, and cannot but bo greatly benefited by their practical consummation. The direct trade with Europe is something intimately worthy of the attcutiou of our seabord cities. It Is of Immense importance to.all of us, fbr so long as we remain mere ly an agricultural people, we can never hope to be strong, rich and dominant, like our Northern neighbors. The war has forced us out of the ruts, pleasant though they were, of pastoral life. We euter upon anew regime now, and tho waters are to wash us power while the land grows glad with tillage. The time has come when it behooves us to start business somewhat on our own account and in our owu ships send atjroad such articles as we produce and re ceive lu return, at our own ports, such fabrics as we need. The Northern Pacific Railroad, built at such enormous cost by Government subsi dies, is demonstrated to be a swindle and a failure. The official investigation It is pricked this costly bubble, and discovered that it was blown by a corrupt ring of 4< official and unofficial speculators in wild lands and visionary town lots.” Botweeu I Omaha and Sacramento, the road is declar ed practically useless, as this extract, from the report of the Senate Committee, abun dantlv testifies: First—The known effects of drifting snow upon the railway Hues of Central Illinois, and of the hilly districts of New England and Pennsylvania. Second—The known depths to which snow flails and packs in portions of the Rocky Mountain region. Third—The extraordinary height of the grades arid sharpness of the curves | u the passage of the Sierra Nevada. Trains In Illinois have often been snowed under, and travel and traffic du nnd out of Chi cago hare beco completely embargoed Railroad communication In Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania Is often *u* pended In Winter. These vicissitudes take place In Bute* where labor is abundant, where the stations on the lines are very near together, where ftiel and food, draught animals and tools, are plenty ami nearest bis. Rut the line between Omaha and Bac ramsuto Is at peasant almost a continuous wilderness portions of It never will Its settled. Population is seams—help Is trouble pannot be had outside of the train j —the stock of accessible fuel may be limit ed to the. supply on the cars. In the deep ! i cuttings, and in some of the canons of Da- j ! kota, Utah, Nevada and California snow Is I well known to drift chockfull to the top and to pack hard. The depth of snow in j places traveled by the overland stage- • sleighs has been credibly reported at from 30 to 40 feet, and it was not melted till Jnne. Granting the efficiency for roofing —granting the adequacy of machinery to accomplish as ranch on "the 1 nion Pacific line as on the Chicago and Northwestern, or the Albany and Boston, there remains a risk, which must be constant with the re currence of Winter, that the operations of this Pacific Road may experience long and serious interruptions, accompanied occa sionally with shocking* misfortunes. If such interruption should take place, the ef fect upon the new trade from Asia to Eu rope, across to the United States, would be very damaging. They would characterize the* route as one not to be relied on by in ternational commerce.” For two hundred, miles then the snow, in the Winter season, makes the Northern route impossible. If the are ever to be successfully joined together by Iron bands, the South will be the seat of this prodigious enterprise. On the subject of immigration we may much to teach and much to learn. In the yeare gone by, Southern Commer cial Conventions Were mere laughing Stocks ; not that a vast amount of talent was not expended in speech-making, but because nothing specially practical ever eventuated trom them. All this has been changed. To all intents and purposes, we have become as worldly-wise as the Yan kees themselves. Even our Northern neigh bors appreciate this fact, and, as far off as Boston, we get words of encouragement and prophecy. Referring to the Memphis Con vention, the Boston Poet says : .“ The South Is evidently about to start afresh on the race for wealth and power.— In the next ten years, beyond a doubt, we shall find that the fifteen States which com prise the Valley States, and whose Interests arc wholly agricultural, will be the weal thiest portion of the Union. * * The South Is to become rich and prosporous by developing immigration and laying hold of the great assisting enterprises of tffe age.— Establishing direct commerce with foreign ports; laving the rails of an unobstructed road to the Pacific ; redeeming and securing rich lands that are rendered valueless by inundation; encouraging the steady flow of immigration, and diversifying the objects of Industry to the largest exjtcnt; these are the means by which that section bf the coun try is to become restored, and, once being restored, to take its place in the Union witli the influence that legitimately be longs to It. The West aud the South to gether, both being agricultural In their fundamental interests, will very shortly throw two-thirds of the votes lu Congress; and these being backed by such material prosperity and growth as the world never before saw, it is not necessary to empha size the inference which so naturally fol lows. A full convention at Memphis, on the 18th of May, will go far to develop a group of facts in the economy of the na tional resources which have never yet re ceived that attentive consideration which they so strikingly deserve.” If this grand luture for the South is thus more radiantly should It appear to South ern men ? If Georgia is to make good her title as the “ Empire State,” she must bc stjr herself aud not permit such au oppor tunity as this to elude her. We trust the press of the State will ventilate this theme, and wo hope the business men of every town and hiunlet will see to It that the Georgia* delegation ranks second to none at the Memphis Convention, on the 18th of May. ANGELIO. The possession ol public office, especially if it be in the postal service or Treasury Department, does not improve the quality of gentleness in woman. We have already had occasion to allude tq the disgraceful revelations of the Treasury; we aro now Impelled to notice the mysteries of the Post. It seems that a certain Miss Angie King was In pursuit of an appointment as “ Post master” (official term) at Janesville, Wis consin. Meeting with’some obstacles in her way, she proceeds to brush them ofT by in ditiug the following letter: Janksvii.i.e, Wis., April 13,1860. Mg Dear Mrs. Livermore : At present I do not feel at liberty to ex pose all the “ wire-pulling” of theqmiiticlans in the ease of the J anesvllle Post Office.— llut I assure you that “ thereby hangs a tale” that I Intend to narrate, if they do not ” come down handsomely ” with the “sugarplums.” Truly yours, Angie Kino. “ Dear Mrs. Livekmokk ” Is the editress of the Chicago Agitator, and, as iu duty this Interesting and deli cate epistle. It Is stated by the Northern press that the expressions used In this dainty missive are such - as obtain among the painted Anonymct of bagnios and dance-houses. The woman, however, ap parently understood the nature of her an tagonists, for her threats were duly attend ed to, aud all the sugar plums appertaining ! to desire were immediately showered upon her. She obtained the Poet Office, and the i " politicians ” who crossed her path have : purchased silence by compulsory candy and gift-enterprise pap. If ANorc and her crowd are finally to rule Y ankee laud, as they propose, we advise the males to emi grate to Paraguay, where such women are under most absolute control, and, at a des perate pinch, tried by conrts-martlal and shot to death with musketry. Danukhovs.—Ever since his rejection of a small sop from Government, Dak a, the editor of the New York Sun, has grown more and more venomous. Here Is tils latest spirit-photograph of the President- General who wished to cheapen him into a pratser: “ Grant Is to be pitied. Poor fellow, he's like the yellow dug In the menagerie—he Is ; too small fora lion, he don’t look like a j tiger, and nobody wauls U> see a dog. HU Cabinet don't suit the people, his appoint-i menu don't plaaae the Beasts, and polltl etsuir Impose on him." Wa would suggest Parana ('AIOWKIX a* an excellent person to tackle with Dana. * BALNAVE OBJECTS. • —•— The potentate of Haytl, and various and sundry of his minions, are terribly disgust ed at the appointment of a negro Ambassa dor from the United States. Not only is the high and mighty Salnave offended, but the white men who represent England, France and Spain are in a deuce of a poth er. The American Consuls kick against it, and so do all other trooly loil white men who hang on the public teat in Hayti. Naval officers of the United States are es specially chagrined and mortified. The worst, pnkindest cut of all is conveyed in this extract from a letter to the New York Herald : “Rumor says that President Salnave (ne gro) was heard yesterday to remonstrate with the American merchants in town against this measure, and that the parties present all agreed in sentiment. The Presi dent remarked (so the story goes) that he alreadv had more more black men here than he could take care of. lie considered the black race equal to the white race, but asked very pointedly whether onr Govern ment entertained such sentiments, and if so, why we did not send black men to re present us in England and France % He said the questipn was. not what he thought about the equa’ity of races, but that he did not consider this discrimination in favor of Haytl to be complimentary.” Here’s a conundrum for Quant and his party. Ye gods ! is it not a pretty muss and. ought not a citizen of the United States to be proud of his country ? VILLANOCS RHYME.— “ O, woman In our hours of ease, Uncertain, cov, and hard to tease, . ‘ When pain arid anguish wring the brow, Avery great convenience thou.” , \ Petersburg Index. “ O, woman in our hours of 6ase, Uncertain, coy, and hard to niease; Bat ah! when pain and anguish rack the body, She is almost equal to an apple tnddy!" [Dr. Bagby at 17. “ O, woman, in our hours of ease. Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, When lack of cash occasions trouble, Don’t you wish you could undouMe ?” [Southall at 18. Here is an impromptu of our own: O, woman in our hoars of ease, Uneerlain, coy, and hard to please, . Undoubled once, for cash or pain, You pine till doubled o’er again. The Black Art.— The friends of the Philadelphia negro, Bassett, cheated Fred Douglass out of the Hayti nomina tion by “ borrowing some of the meanest arts of while 'men. in order to deceive the Govern ment." ' Wendell Phillips says this, and, of course, distinctly hints at “ Gov.” Bullock and his crowd. The Serpent’s Tooth. —That good and great man, Forney, exhausted the measure .of his two papers in puffing Ckeswkll, the P. M. General, into notoriety. Forney called upon His High-mightiness the other day, wreathed in smiles of expectation. GreswEll played the part of Malvolio, and, watch, in hand, saluted Forney thus: “ I give you ten minutes.” Forney wilt- The World Moves. —The old* protec tionists of New England are now blatant for free trade; because (1) it will benefit New England. an<\ because (2) the Radicals desire to take this wiud out of Democratic sails. Ten years hence, Boston will canonize Jefferson Davis and desire the restora tion of negro slavery. Wait a bit—wait a bit. _ Iron in Food.—We read as follows in the New York Mercantile Journal: “ Mdnskmr Saquct. a French chemist, has just invented a salt of iron , which may be mixed in the substance of the vai ions pastes and preparations that are put up for soup ! It makes these preparations keep longer, and imparts no disagreeable taste. Iron biscuit we have seen, and tried to bite iu the ordinary way, at more than one hostelrie, but—iron soup!” We welcome the change. Anything to avoid hair iu the biscuit and fly in the 30U p. Compensation. —The Mobile Tribune is hard on fecund stump speakers. It says: “ Only the clash of arms can silence the stump speaker, and put forward over his head a man whose trade is not that of talk ing. To be sure, the clash of arms may ! substitute a silent' ass for a noisy one. | But if we must anoint an ass, who will not 1 be grateful to the animal for holding his tongue r ! Paraguay. —When last heard from, Presldeut Lopez was at bay with 4,000 i men. For the sake of diversion, he is re ported to have shot all Paraguayan women detected conversing with the allies. To give 1 domestic spice to this amusement, he has 1 put iu trons his own sister and brother. ! Paraguay is evidently the last ditch of | woman’s rights. | On the Tatis. The old original aboli j tiouist Hale is said to have smuggled car- I pets into Madrid to prove his attachment to great moral ideas. The old established teat-sucker, Sanford, bids, it is said, for a retentiou of the official udder by running laces out of Brussels and hanging them on the necks and shoulders of Senatorial wives and daughters. Sckrkndehed.—The Metropolitan Hotel and Everett House in New York have sur rendered their prejudices in favor of negro applicants for board. The latter accepted the stamps of a colored brother, and the former allowed “Lt. Gov.” Dunn, of Louisiana to register his name aud—sleep with the waiters, ail of whom are Ethlo i plans. A Gentle Hint.— The Springfield ■ Mass i WepuWic.j/i says : i “The appolutmeut by General Grant of a J colored reveuue officer In Georgia Is a gvu lie lilui to the rebels there of a hat they 1 must come to.” When Roan told Gxant to “go to hell,” was that a gentle bint from a Radical ol what he must come to I Dkmnition Cash.— The Boston “ Peace Society ” is clamorous for greenbacks. The New York Day Book calls it a “ bloody blackguard ” and adds: “ There was not a worse hell-hound of war in all this country tlfan this same Peace Society.” Why don’t the Peace Society apply to Bullock. He’s the man for their money. A Queer Costrast.— The Quakers sent to convert and pacify the frontier savages are represented by the New York Tribune as “ men of personal integrity and pure lives.” All the human scabs in Yankee land are deemed appropriate apostles for the white men of the South. Ghostly.— Apropos of the Mumler trial and spirit communion, the World says: “ Let ghosts of pith and moment be gal vanized and made to relate something worth knowing. Let the world be informed by even so trivial a shade as that of Billy Patterson who struck him.” We thought it settled that Billy Pat terson was struck by the ghost of an idea. . Marriage Extraordinary.— The widow of the late lamented Lincoln is reported at Berlin to be engaged, matrimonially, with Count Schmitzehweil, grand chamberlain of the Duke of Baden. Napoleon’s widow married a one-eyed charaberiain; old moth er Lincoln displays better taste by select ing a functionary with two optics. Poor North Carolina !—Bogus Sena tor Abbott, of North Carolina, defended Burnside because he was the first to in vade the “Old North State.” Fancy a Georgia Senator eulogizing Tecumseh Sherman. We may have this mockery yet. At Loggerheads. —The Mobile Board of Trade refused to co-operate with the bogus City Council in welcoming the Illi nois “ink-slingers.” Ye Board will take the editors in hand when ye scallawag and ye carpet-bagger have exhausted them. Fame —Parson Caldwell, in his phil ippic against Farrow, alludes to onr towns man Coggin as Scoggins. That’s almost as bad as the mutilation of the name of Byron’s friend killed at Waterloo— *« His name was Grove, and yet they print it Gross.” Imperialism. —ln a recent speech, Sena-' tor Nye said : “ General Burnside resides in Rhode Island, and wears the gubernatorial crown.” “Gubernatorial crown,” that is a good one. We are very nigh imperialism. A Duck. —A certain Miss Emma Webb, witty and pretty, is about to lecture on “ The Rights of Husbands and Babies." — Whereby she picks up the “ rejected stone” and heaves it at sour and mongrelish Anna Dickinson. Man-Steak. —lt is now said that Mr. J. o i’nv colored, declined the Liberian Mission from well-founded apprehensions of cannibalism. He is opposed to furnish ing chops to his countrymen abroad. Sprague. —The last effusion of the Rhode Island Senator will exhaust all the non pareil type in the Globe office. Well, it was a nonpareil affair. Reconstructed.— The pugilist Barney Aaron repudiates in his challenges all dis tinction on account of race or color. Make him a foreign consul, by all means. “ Still So Gently.”— The World thinks Coxe, the thieving Loyal Leaguer, stole cigars in order to present them to the Presi dent-General. Tenderness is recommended. Second the Motion.—The Columbus Sun recommends Bci.lock, Farp.ow & Cos., to Liberia, Hayti, etc. . Instinct. —The instinct of a carpet-bagger must be immense. See how promptly Ab bott donned the mongrel-puppy skin. Grant’s Peace— So Far. —How is all this to end ? We cannot conjecture ; but, after all, it does not look much like “peace.” So far as the several factions, sections and races which make up the Republican party are concerned, they have no right to com plain. For instance, a Radical is made Secretary of the Treasury, a Conservative Secretary of State, a reconstructed Rebel General is made Governor of New Mexico, numerous women arc made postmasters, as they are officially called, an Indian is made Commissioner of Indian Affairs, a nigger is made Minister to Hayti, and another to Li beria. A Chinaman or two as Consnls to the Central Flowery Kingdom would make the thing complete in regard to races— white, yellow, red and black. Still, we can not positively say that all this will give us peace in regard to the spoils, or in the mat- ter of retrenchment, economy or reform. The soreheads threaten a mutiny in the camp, and some of the lucky onesi on a re consideration, have been thrown out. Upon the whole, in the proportion which the candidates bear to the offices will be the disappointments and wrath in the party Unless, therefore, General Grant shalP in the interval strike for a higher game than the division of the spoils, the results of the coming Fail elections, we fear, will not be very flattering to the ad ministration and its new and sweeping law of rotation.— Hew Tork Herald. “He Nebber Stole Dat Chicken,” ob Wells’ Defense Illustrate#,—Old Vir gluia geullcman—"Jim, you black rascal ! 1 know you stole that chicken ; 1 saw you eatine him.” * Injured Innocence—“’Fore God, old mare dls nigger innocent as new born baby—he nebber stole dat chicken—nebber had no ban bout dat rooster. Dls chile too well rased for dot sort work, speshlly dl« time o’ day. He oebber took him. sah—neither ! Tbank God for dit! ht only holt dt light for dat dam rat eat liam, and hope eat him all. Yah ! Yab I Shaw, poor trash, 'tain no use cornlu’ die plan tvtlon with spectatlon of catln while folks' I thing*, when dey don't low spectable cnllnd , one* no *lch privilege*. D*r now, tab- done mode clean breast, and dl« nigger Innocent •urs'a yon born to llv* and die. You just orttr to n> ait him ohtrttar, to atop d«aa golnt on, for I tali# yon, aab, 'fore God, !'•« g« nigger, If yon only hab daeonldauce iu me, old boa*.' Lynthhurf .Yon There I* s largs ImmlgrsUon Into Wsstsrn Tsunssse* (Correspondence N. Y. Herald. The Last flours of a Degenerate Senate. MOKE PERSONAL EXPLANATIONS IN THE SENATE —SENATOR NYE ATTEMPTS A RE PLY TO SENATOR SPRAGUE—LITTLE KHO DY’S STATEGY. Personal explanations have been the spe cial order of the morning hour in the Sen ate for several days past. This has served to vary the doll monotony of the executive session, for these “ personals ” are generally spicy; besides, in executive session there is no audience belore which honorable Sena tors can exhibit themselves when they set about to wash their dirty linen. What with the correction of newspaper state ments, the growl about Grant’s distribution of the spoils and the standing comedy of Sprague vs. Anthony, Ives, Brown & Cos., the habitues of the Capitol have not missed their little recreation since the “ birds of passage,” as Sumner calls the members of the House, took their flight. It was gen erally understood that to-day Senator Nye would pay his respects to little Spragne for the complimentary appellations of “ char latan” and “harlequin” bestowed upon him in the latter’s speech of a few days ago. The galleries were not unusually full when the Senate met, but the people kept dropping in until by the time Nye got the floor there was a good sized audience pres ent. The Senator frem Nevada has the reputation of being something of a wag. He is occasionally given to ridicule and sarcasm, and sometimes wields these keen weapons of debate with great skill and power against his antagonists. When he arose in his place to-day, therefore, all present as well as the audience in the galleries were on the qui vive for some thing of a rare, spicy order. Perhaps no man possessing the peculiar qualities attributed to Nye ever had a better oppor tunity or was favored with a better subject: Sprague entered the Senate Chamber just as Nye commenced his speech, with a huge portfolio under his arm. After depositing his coat and hat Jn the cloak room he walk ed deliberately to his seat, without seeming to notice anybody or even to recognize what was going on. Nye spoke directly at Sprague, who sat gazing at him in a cynical sort of a way, with his chin resting on his bosom. For some reason or other Nye made few or no points. He failed to rivet the attention of his audience, and only raised a feeble laugh by reading from Webster’s Dictionary the definitions of the .words “ charlatan” and “ harlequin.” There was no sarcasm, no successful attempt to turn the enemy’s guns upon his own columns. — He eulogized the legal profession, the mili tary prowess of General Burnside, quoted Scripture and thanked God for the defeat of the Union army at the first Bull Run battle, and Various other “ blessings in dis guise.” The real subject, Sprague, was scarcely touched, and when Nye finished his speech and sat down everybody said that Sprague had still the inside track.— The performance to-day seemed to have been, agreed upon some time ago. How many rehearsals may have been had in anti cipation of it not known, but it was evident there had been a good deal of prepara tion. No sooner had Nye taken his seat than three or four Senators were on their feet,' and among them Sprague, who was manifestly eager for the Tray. Abbott, of South Carolina, was the lucky man recog nized by the Chair. He was asked if he would yield to Sprague, but he shook his head contemptuously towards “ Little Rnody’s” seat, and signified that he want ed to go on. He took up a pile of manu script and commenced a panegyric on the life and military career of General Burn sirtp. There was nothing In all he salu about Sprague, and the whole speech was so dull and stupid that it kept the presid ing oflicer busily rapping with his gavel to preserve order. When he concluded, Morgan thought it necessary to add his tribute to. General Burnside, and assured the Senate that the military hero was born in the same town with himself; that they were boys together, and intimated that whatever Rhode Island might think of Burnside, Indiana was proud of him. In the skirmish, Sprague had been lost sight of thus far. Everything was now Burn side. A stranger happening in at this point would doubtless have been impressed with the idea that it was “ funeral day ” in the Senate, and that Burnside was the uu fortunate subject of the sickly oratorical effusions common on such occasions. Old Zach Chandler took down from the shelves of the Congressional Library the dusty tomes about the conduct of the war and overhauled all the sunshiny spots in Burn side’s military record. Simon' -Cameron wanted to say something for Burnside, but the Senate began to be nauseated. At length Sprague got the floor. He looked around eagerly and yet leisurely, first on the Republican and then on the Democratic side of the chamber, as if he meant to assure himself that Burnside was comfortably buried, after the Congression- al fashion, then opening his portfolio, he exhumed therefrom, first a huge pile of let ters, and then a manuscript speech, all of which lie arranged with great deliberation on the desk before him. He had evidently expected Nye’s attack, but, judging from his speech, he had no idea of the Burnside movement, and was not prepared for it.— The spirit of “ Little Rhody ” was up, how ever, and she launched out boldly at the jolly Senator from Nevada. Sprague evi dently felt that he could go it alone for a few minutes, at least, without his manu script. He commenced iu good style, hit ting right and left, and apparently careless as to where his blows fell or who was hurt. His manner was unusually earnest, aud his voice was pitched in a key which made him audible over the whole chamber. Fi nally, seizing his manuscript, he rushed in front of the “telegraph pole, Sherman,” and out into the centre aisle in an excited manner. He was then on the subject of ADthony and Ives & Brown, whom he terms “ Anthony’s owners.” Poor Antho ny was presiding at the time, as mild as a lamb, and some timid people supposed that the wrathy Sprague was rushing madly to the chair for the purpose of dragging his colleague therefrom. But the little man stopped when he reached the main aisle, and commenced to read in a loud tone from his manuscript. At the end of every sentence he would stop and look Anthony squarely in the face, with ar savage gaze. He got through the first page of the, manuscript, which was fastened together, very smoothly; when he went to turn over, however, there was evidently some hitch, and he stopped all of a sudden in the mid dle of a sentence, as if he had ran against a snag. The person who put the manuscript together had failed to page it properly, and Sprague turned over the sheets for some time to find the place. First he would han dle the manuscript nervously, In his anxiety to get the connection, and then look up it Anthony to see if he showed auy signs of rejoicing at his embarrassment. To have done so would have been a fresh eatmt belli. Fortunately for Anthony he did not move a muscle, but was looking aroaud the Senate as If In search of sympathy. At length Sprague got his manuscript In order and proceeded with hla aneech, talking all the time at Anthony ami accusing him of all manner of crimes. The denouement to the whole affair was tha proposal of Sprague to read through the huge bundle of letters which lay og the table ou the desk before him. The first one was from a son of Cnas. .Francis Adams, but Sprague read it in snch a low tone of voice that its contents were intfudible. He kept on reading letter after letter, to the infinite disgust of the Sena tors, until at last Trumbull begged him to suspend. Sprague was not to be put down in this way. If he must stop he would have some recompense for it. Trumbull would give him anything if he would only stop. “Will you allow me to print such of these letters as I choose iu the Globe, in connection with my remarks, if I stop ?” inquired Sprague. “I am sure there will be no objection, sfijd Trumbull. “ I hope,” he added, “no Senator will object,” laying emphasis on the word “ no.” Sprague had got all he wanted, and quiet ly sat down. He afterwards notified the Globe reporters that, in accordance with the privilege granted him by the senate, he would give them enough letters to coyer half a dozen copies of the Globe. With Sprague’s speech there was considerable disappointment. When he opened in such slashing stvle he raised the highest expecta tions. It was believed he would proqeed in regular order to grapple with all his oppo nents,‘and that the “mutton head,” the “ pukes,” the telegraph pole ” aud all the rest would regret the arousing of the Prov idence lion anew. But Sprague either got a sudden stroke of mercy or was short of ammunition, and, therefore, omitted to at tack his adversaries singly and collectively. A NEW SENSATION AT THE CAPITOL —A DUEL IN PROSPECT —SENATOR ABBOTT BREATH ING VENGEANCE AGAINST LITTLE RHODY. There is a prospect ahead of a scrimmage between Sprague and Abbott. The former in his speech alluded to two Senators as the mastiff and the mongrel puppy dog.— Abbott, supposing Sprague applied “puppy” to him, has prepared a speech, which he intends to deliver if he can get the Sen ate to sit with open doors for a few min utes. In this speech he will call upon Sprague for an explicit explanation, and If he discovers that the term puppy was in tentionally applied to him (Abbott) by Sprague, lie (Abbott) will then do desperate things. He will firstly demand a retrac tion, and, that refused, will insist upon the satisfaction recognized among gentlemen. His friends say.he will, assault Sprague, if no other method is left him, and wallup Little Rliody from the Capitol to George town Heights. The newspaper men are on the look out for a lively sensation. Half-past Eleven o'Cdock, P. M. Sprague, who had been In his seat most of the evening, has just pat on his liat and coat and gone home. It appears that a friend, learning of Abbott’s purpose, called Sprague out of the Senate and informed him of it. Sprague said Abbott had just been up and’ asked for a few minutes of open session in order that he might-make a personal explanation relative to Spragne’s attack. Sprague thereupon arose and said that if he was attacked any more in the Senate he would not only read letters, but he would let out all that was in him. Gar rett Davis went over to Sprague and ad vised Idm to keep cool and say nothing. Sprague asked the advice of the friend who called him out of the Senate, and he was told that the best thing he could do would ' be to go home and not come back again during the session. Sprague took the ad vice, aud immediately thereafter left the Senate. Another version of the story is that Sprague has gone in pursuit of his shooting irons in order to be ready for the fray. ABBOTT DETERMINED ON SATISFACTION— NYE ADVISES THAT LITTLE lIHODY BE SENT TO BED. Quarter-past Eleven, P. M. The Senate doors have just been thrown open, and a rush has been made for the gal leries in expectation that Abbott will make his speech about Sprague. On geiting in side the scene was anything but pictur esque. The Senators were sitting in all sorts of positions, some with their legs cocked on their desks, some smoking, some leaning over as if half asleep, and all look ing anything but fresh. Abbott was al ready on his legs, about to open his batte ries upon Sprague. When he commenced speaking profound silence reigned, and eve ry eye was fastened upon, him. You have an account of his remarks in another col umn. All that is left is to describe the ef fect when Abbott exclaimed, “Inasmuch as the Senator has skulked out of this chamber, I intend to have satisfaction outside of it.” A dozen Senators sprang to their feet, shouting “ Mr. President r “Mr Presi dent !” “ Mr. President!” Sumner’s voice resounding in thunder tones above the rest. Abbott’s face was flushed and angered, and the outcries of some of his fellow members calling him to order heightened his excite ment. When something like silence was restored, Sumner, in solemn voice, called the attention of the President to Abbott’s belligerent language and attitude, with a view evidently of having him reprimanded; but the sympathy of most of the Senators was with Abbott, and Sumner, though look ing as determined as a lion and talking down all objections, held his ground until Abbott’s words were read by Mr. Murphy, the reporter, and Abbott himself explained he had no duelling intentions ; but Abbott still declared he would demand satisfaction outside the Senate, and somebody shouted out, “ What kind of satisfaction ?” Nye ex claimed, “Spank little Spraguey, spank him and send him to bed.” This caused a little laugh and ended the incident merrily. [From the Montgomery Advertiser. (Juba and Crawfishing. But what about Cuba, Grant’s warlike propensities, and Bank’s sympathizing reso lutions. Here we have another Lion in the path. It will be remembered that some fifteen years ago France, England and Austria guaranteed the title of Spain to this famous Island. It is onr impression that they will now defend Spain as against tB6 United States in the vindication of that title. If our voice could be heard we would advise the United States to avoid any Cuban com plication, and Cuba if resolved on revolu tion to make up her mind to depend alone on her own arm. The United States can lend the Cabans no money, as a matter of course, with our present enormous debt and tremendous taxation ; and should France, England, and Spain combine their fleets they would surround this unfortunate Island with a thousand batteries of floating artillery, while no man could possibly get from the Uuited States into Cuba, or escape front Cuba into the United States. The moral of what we have written is this, that if the people of this country wish to avoid the possible blander of a ruinous foreign war, to be attended necessarily With national bankruptcy and civil commotions, and on the other hand to avert the disgrace of perpetually crawfishing from positions assumed without proper investigation or reflection, they had better get rid of the cor rupt and Incompetent men now in control of our public affairs as quickly as possible. Durlug s recent performance of “Romeo end Juliet,” st Marblehead, Mas*., the fair Joliet’s question In the soliloquy before taking the sleeping draught, “What If this mixture does net work wall r wa* answered by sa urchin la the pit, “Then lake a doae ol pills." The •fled upon the sudisoe* can be imagined.
