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Critgraplj rf &«agtr - FRIDAY, Hif 28, 18SO. The Democracy of-Hacon Moving. Action of the Democratic Execu tive Committee. Macon, Ga., May 22,1880. Pursuant to the call, the Democratic Executive Committee met at tbeprart house this morning at 10 o’clock. A quo rum being present, it was Resolved, That the Democrats of this county meet at the court house on ti e first Tuesday in June, at 12 M-» purpose of sending delegates to the St ate convention, to he held in Atlanta on the Oth day of June.' . * ! There being no further husmess^tlie meeting adjourned. 1 , G. W-GuSTUf; Chairman. . W. Dessau, Secretary. Erom the above, it will he seen that the first step has been taken for the organiza tion of the Democratic campaign in Bibb county. We trust that, casting aside all apathy, and with a full consciousness of the tran- Scendant importance of the issues at stake in the pending county, State and national elections the Democracy of Macon and.Bibb county will turn out as a unit when sum moned to attend this and every other pri mary meeting. The great fault of many of our best citizens is that they allow mat ters of supreme political importance to go by default, because of their own indiffer ence and supineness. If the people will it, there can be no rings. Then let them, ab initio, turn out unanimously at roll call this fall, and the Radical enemy will be beaten, and all go well. Remember to be at the court house on the first Tuesday in June. —It forty million barrels are required every year to hold the wine crop of France, how many people are required to hold the contents of the forty million bar- Mis? —A terrible incident from Nihilist life is reported from the Russian district of Putiloff. At the moment of his arrest a young nobleman was shot by his own fa ther. The fattier then shot himself. It used to be a common thing for sailors to refuse to go to sea on a Friday. We hear nothing of this ia these steam boat days. Steam has made everyday alike. Wherever steamboats and steam engines appear superstitions disappear. Drought in Jamaica. — A dispatch from Jamaica to Jacksonville states that island to be suffering severely from drought. Water is sold for six cents a gallon, and the cattle and live stock are dying of thirst. The growing cane is in danger of being seriously cut off. —The Hon. Fernando Wood informs the Express that of the eight Democrats on the ways and means committee five are revenue reformers on principle, three are for reform until it pinches local inter ests under their watch case, and one of the three continually thwarts the chair man’s reformatory enterprises andendeav- ors. . —A Moscow correspondent of the Co logne Gazette describes the misery and Southeast of Russia - as ‘unknown 0 in memory of man. No food is to be got for the horses and cattle for any money, and the animals are consequently dying everywhere of starvation in the Transural Steppes and the Don Steppes. —Blaine is considering the propriety, or rather expediency, of going to Chicago to manage his own case. He is reported as sayiug of his case iu 1S70 that he failed solely through bad management, and that if he had been conducting the case of a man who came as near the nomination as he (Blaine) did, and failed to secure it for him, he would immediately abandon politics as a field of effort in which he was not skilled. —A curious car on the Boston and Al bany railroad is provided with various devices for testing speed, strains, obstruc tions, resistance, and other matters con nected with the running of trains. Dif ferent pens, attached to ingenious ma chinery, record the distance and time, the slips of the driving wheels on the rails, the exact elevation of the "outside rail at every curve, and many other points of valuable information in practical railroad ing. The Streets of Paris.—Paris has S'® miles of paved streets. Stone blocks are used on 204 miles; macadam on 82 miles and asphalt on 19 miles. The macadam has been abandoned on ac count of the expense of maintaining it in good order and the impossibility of keep ing it free from mud and dust. The cost in Paris for stone-block pavement has been $2.90 the square yard, against $2.50 for asphalt. In Washington, the new stone-block pavements have cost, on an average, only $1.90, and the asphalt $1.47- —An ice machine Just set to work in New York prodnees ten tons of ice in thirty-six hours. It consists of a large tank in which galvanized sheet-iron boxes full of water are placed, each box being forty-two inches long, twelve inches wide and six inches deep. A reservoir containing water charged with chloride of magnesium and chilled by means of coils through which a gas composed of ether and sulphurous oxide is forced, communicates with the tank, and the magnesium water circulates around the sheet iron boxes in a continuous current, freezing the water as it goes. —The Washington correspondent of the Sun says the proper application of the principle of res adjudicata seems to be of greater interest than the manner in which Republican members of the Louisiana Legislature were bought and sold. Thus far not an argument has been made which mars in the slightest degree the so lidity of the arguments advanced by Sen ators Hill, Bailey, Pryor, Jones, Sauls- bury, Moigan, and others as to the right ®f the Senate to reopen the Kellogg case. No sincere attempt has been made to disprove the charge that Kellogg bribed membeos of the legislature to vote for him. What a Grant Pater Says of Brother Blaine.—The Burlington Uaickcyc says that the profuseness with which Mr. Blaine’s canvassers are lavish ing money in all parts of the Union is ex citing general remark. Mr. Sherman’s agents in the South are reported as being as discouraged as they were astonished at the large amounts of "money, spent in the South in Mr. Blaine’s interests. “Where I spent one dollar they spent a hundred,-’ said a Shermau agent in Louisiana. We do not understand that it is charged that Mr. Blaine is using the money corruptly, or in other thap a legitimate manner, nor would we credit such a charge unless cor roborated by the facts, but it is evident that the Blaine canvass is being pushed Yrith a vigor and prodigality that is possi ble only with a very liberal bank account to draw upon, It is West Feint After All. Jt EHMSBimlOJialHofAt. .emtonews: Of:U»J^VL Ol. fbaJntaw (Whittaker) - is guilty, he rnust hav*a <Wt WhUtaker all token Idairtbf a very singular construction and a’conscience curiously warped by his ex perience at West Point.” So it Isa West Point after all, whether West Point or Whittaker did that little piece of’possum playing. If the cadets did it, that is an illustration of “West Point methods and manners.” If Whittaker did it, it is a still stronger illustration, for it shows that he has been corrupted by these methods and manners. The same reasoning is applied to tie outraged brotherhood who used to patrol the Southern States, getting up harrowing tales of murder of the defenseless Afri cans, at a remorseless sacrifice of their own garments, shot through and afterwards dipped in bullock’s blood. If these mur ders were committed, they showed the bloodthirsty and lawless spirit of the Soutli. If they were not committed, what but the same spirit could have emboldened men to perpetrate such frauds? The fierceness of that negrophily which pursues West Point, will be seen in the very manner in which such papers state thd events of the trial. This trial has been > so scrupulously impartial .as to lean_al ways toward Whittaker, arid yet the Tribune introduces its article as follows : “It must be admitted that Recorder Sears has succeeded in surrounding Whit taker with a pretty strong, net work of circumstantial evidence pointing to him as the writer of the anonymous note of warning, and by inference as the author of the assault upon himself. At the same time there is a possibility of his inno cence.” As if Recorder Seats had been toiling might and main to secure Whittaker’s conviction. This is a shameful misrepre sentation. But the fact is, the brethren feel mortified at the signal miscarriage of this last outrage experiment. It promised to be a serviceable electioneering hobby, hut now it is spoilt. Congress. Washington, May 20.—In the Senate, The Prospect for Cheap Bread Next Year. It is stated upon Ligh English authority that there have been seven partial fail ures in the wheat harvest for the past nine years, involving a loss to the United Kingdom of 30,000,000 pounds sterling. The falling eff has been from the usual average of 29 J bushels per acre to 25 bushels, while at the same time the aver age decrease in acreage has been fully 16 per cent. The last crop (1S79), which was the worst in nine years, fell short 48,504,000 bushels of the estimated nor mal average of 90,424,000 bushels, or more than one half. Still, owing to the abun dant crop in America, prices ruled unu sually low, and tenants could with diffi culty meet their obligations. The oute look so far the present season is very fa vorable. Per contra, in the United States the in crease in wheat production has been from 259,000,000 bushels in 1872, to 450,000,000 in 1879. If, therefore, the growing crop as is confidently predicted, in this country, should equal the yield of last year there The New York Sun, qf Wednesday, says that after his morning recitation, yes terday, to Captain Sears, his -instructor, cadet Whittaker was detailed to the court room in West Point to hear Stenographer Adams read over the answers to the ques tions that Captain Sears, in his capacity of recorder, had put to him on Satitrday. Afterward the colored cadet was asked whatever questions were suggested by the reading of his previous testimony. “In a letter written April 5,” said Re corder Sears, “the letter to your mother, not mailed, but which you cave me, -you use the expression, ‘I have a queer fore boding of some ill, though I hardly imag ine the cadets could do me any bodily harm.’ Did you have such a forebod ing?” “I did, sir,” said the cadet; “I was thinking and referring to the note I had received warning me of danger.” “Did these thoughts occur to yon when, a.few hours later, you were awakened by a noise at the latch of your door?” he was asked. “No, sir,” he said. “Are you not surprised that this did not occur to you?” “No, sir.” After this the recorder asked where the man, who sprang on the witness while in bed, placed his hands. Whittaker said near his neck and shoulders. He said that when his ears were being cut he struggled and moved his bead to and fro. Major Mordecai asked Whittaker to ex- - ilain why the cuts were so clean. Whit aker could not explain it, he said. Recorder Sears, in the course of the ex amination, came again to the cadet’s trunk. He found in it a band made of- a torn belt like those with which Whittaker was tied. This one was tied around the cadet’s light trousers. It was marked with Cadet Alvord’s name, and came from the commissary’s, where the trousers werh mended. The cadet said he did not know that he had it. The recorder again referred to the trank to say that, although Whittaker said he had bought a black necktie like the one that formed part of his bandages none was found in his trunk. Finally, Che recorder announced that “the post commander or any officer in com mand of a military body, either of soldiers or cadets, has a perfect right to inspect all baggage or luggage at any or all times. This is a part of military discipline.” Captain Raymond asked Whittaker why, when a man was on him in bed with his hands on his shoulders, he did not strike his assailant? Whittaker replied that he did struggle, but that the man had him down. He had no purchase to draw back and strike. The captain asked him whether his hands and arms were free when his ears were being cut. Whittaker said they were, but that he did not hit any one of his assailants. He threw his hands up to protect his ears, but he did not strike out. “Do you mean to say that with your head free, your hands free, and yout arras free, your ears were cut?” “I was struggling, sir, all the while,” the cadet replied. He added tliat the man who cut his ears held a candle in one hand, cut his ears with the other, and at the same time assisted another man to hold him down. Professor Greener was the other wituess of the day. “Have you any reasonable suspicion in regard to any one who may be connected with the assault upon Cadet Whittaker— anything of such a nature as would war rant your bringing it before the court?” lie was asked. “I have,” he replied. “I should prefer giving it to counsel,” uM tiiU wit Mr. Morgan, from the select*committee ties, -^-itbout regard to their political opin- on counting the electoral vote, Teported - -- ° Ex-Got. Jos. E. Brown, Senator. The appointment of ex-Govemor Jos, E. Brown Senator from Georgia in place of Gen. Gordon, resigned, will be another surprise to many of our readers. But, while the popular ideas, of this gentleman are many and various, his ability and ca pacity to fill the office with dignity and distinction will not be doubted. The ap pointment is also little more than com plimentary. The vacancy will be filled by the legislature next November—so that, unles3"thisappointment shall be-rati fied by the general assembly, if Congress should adjourn on the 31st, the ex-Gov- ernor’s term of service would be less than ten days. Senator Butler’s Speech on the Kellogg-Spofford Case.—The argu ment of Mr. Buffler, of South Carolina, as reported in our dispatches, against the un seating of Kellogg, on the ground that the Senate had no “legal and constitutional power to unseat a member who had been admitted after a contest upon the merits of his case, except on motion to expel,” however distasteful to D eurocrats and mor ally wrong, carried with it much weight and plausibility. He argued, forcibly also, that by this action a “stinging rebuke” would be administered to Republican pre cedents in the past. On the ground of policy and expediency just at this juncture, the Senator was doubtless right. Bnt it is a humiliating “in equal numbers from different political parties,” and insert the words, “Solely with reference to their fitness for their du- “will be such a plethora of the staff of life suppose, will go at something else until another famine abroad and scarcity at home impel them to embark again in the cultivation of the e'ereals. For the next twelve months at least, however, the pros pect is excellent for that greatest of bless ings—cheap bread, though it is rumored that pending the next harvest a syndicate in Chicago is ari anging to purchase 4,000,- 000 bushels of wheat yet to be received before August, with the view of establish ing one more brief corner in prioes,ere the new crop causes the expeeted tumble. We sincerely trust the speculators will come to grief and fail in their conspiracy against the poor consumers, spectacle and a blot upon the escutcheon of the government that a member desti tute alike of standing and integrity, aud notoriously not entitled under the laws of his State to the exalted position he fraud ulently fills, should be permitted to re main in undisputed possession of it. But, as in “war,” we suppose, “all is consid ered fair” in politics, and the Radicals, at least, Syill be deprived of another potent engine for mischief in the Presidential canvass. —“Prisoner at the bar,” said the judge to the man on trial for murder,” is there anytliing you wish to say before sentence is passed upon you?” “Judge,” replied the prisoner solemnly, “Judge, there has been altogether too much said already. I knew all along'somebody Would get hurt if these people didn’t keep their months shut. It might as well be me, perhaps, as anybody else. Drive on judge, and give us as little sentiment as-you can get along on. I can stand hanging, but I hate gush!” “Women Never Think.” If the crabbed old bachelor who ut tered this sentiment could but witness the intense thought, deep study and thorough investion of women in determining the best medicines to keep their families well, and would note their sagacity and wis dom ia selecting Hop Bitters as the best, and demonstrating it by keeping their families in perpetual health, at a mere nominal expense, he would be forced to acknowledge that snch sentiments are baseless aud false,—Picayune. m!7-2w cions he handed to Lieutenant Knight in writing, over the professor’s signature, as promply as possible. Finally the recorder announced that he had no more evidence to submit, and that he could not present his argument on the evidence until Monday next, by which tune he hoped the counsel for Mr. Whit taker would be ready with his presenta tion of the cadet’s side of the case. He said that the testimony in the case covers 2,500 pages. - THE ALBANY FAIR. Grand Success-Races - Fireworks - Ranee, Etc. Special to the Telegraph and Messenger 1 Albany, May 21,1SS0. The. Albany fair opened yesterday morning with a small attendance, but it steadily increased until in the afternoon, the attendance for the fust day was larger than at any previously held here. In the afternoon the regatta came off. The con test was very exciting, and was won by Mr. Nelson Tift. A purse of $75 was pre sented to the successful oarsman. Exhibits were never better than at the present fair. The vegetable display is ex ceedingly good. The productive soil of Southwest' Georgia cannot be surpassed in the world. Stock exhibits were also very fine. SECOND DAY. The weather this morning was fair and beautiful, aud by three o’clock one of the largest attendance ever witnessed in Al bany was to be seen on the grounds,. All the adjoining counties were well repre sented. The sheep raisers of Worth county bringing in their crop of wool were to be seen in great numbers. Ma con is well represented, Messrs. James H. Campbell, Charlie Solomon, Charlie Cox, Wm. Anderson, R. H. Smith, Wylie Barnes, J. E. Mann and many others be ing present. THE RACES. At 10:20 this morning, the first race was called—a running race, half mile dash, between Lady Liglitfoot, entered by A. J. Walters, Daisy, entered by J. A. Walters, Lady Gay, entered by R. N. Westbrook, and Pollie Myers, entered j>y Proctor & Bro., of Forsyth. In drawing for position, Daisy got first place, Lady Gay second, Pollie Myers third and Lady Liglitfoot outside. Lady Gay wins the first heat, making the time in 51{ seconds. In the second heat Lady Gay first posi tion, Pollie Myers second, Daisy third, Lady Lightfoot on the outside. Lady Gay wins again in 51{ seconds. In the third heat, Lady Gay wins the race purse—$80.00; Lady Lightfoot second purse—$50. This race was very exciting, and many -dollars changed hands by the specula ting boys. In the .afternoon a trotting race came off between Barnie Wilkes, entered by Jor dan Walker; Ed Mac, by C. C. Skillman, of Eufaula; Harold, by John Marr, of Macon. First heat, mile dash, Barnie Wilkes came in first, Harold second, Ed. Mac third, maxing the time in 1:16*. Second heat, Barnie Wilkes came in first again, Harold second. Ed. Mac was distanced. Time on this was 3:09. Third heat, Barnie. Wilkes wins the race, Harold second. First purse $100, second $35, third $15, but was not deliv ered on account of Ed. Mac being dis tanced. This ended the races for to-day, but several more are booked for to-morrow. PYROTECHNICAL DISPLAY. The exhibition of fireworks passed off brilliantly. A large crowd witnessed the display. THE BALL, this evening was the most pleasant of all. Albany’s fair and beautiful young ladies, handsome and polite young men gathered at Tift’s Hall, and a better time was never participated in. Among the visiting young ladies present were, Miss Bruce of Thomasville, Miss Nellie Shef field and Miss Florrie Allen, of Americus. The floor managers were Mr. George Col- l’er aud Pan! Hill. AMATEUR PERFORMANCES. On Wednesday evening the young ladies and young men gave a highly entertain ing performance. Among the young ladies were Misses Annie Rawsori, Stella Wight, Ella Bacon, Nettie Cutliff, Mary Cutliffi Neila Bacon, Willa Oliver and Emma Daniels, of Albany’s fair daughters. The house was well filled and every one was highly pleased with the entertain ment. Marshall. with amendments the bill introduced by him to enforce the observance of the con stitution of the United • States in refer ence to the election of President and Vice- President of the United States, which was placed on the calendar. Mr. Edmunds stated that lie and Mr. Teller were unable to conciiriif the report of the majority"of the committed. / Mr. Morgan, from the'same coriimitteo, reported adversely or R" bill Introduced by him providing that thb • president of the Senate-shall submit-to the Senate and House of Representatives, when assembled to count the votes for,: President and Vice President, all packages purporting to con tain electoral votes. Indefinitelyjpost- poned. In the House, Mr. Page, of California, presented a memorial of the San Fran cisco . board of trade, representing fifty millions of capital, in favor cf the construc tion of an inter-oceanic canal by the Nicaragua route. Referred. . Washington, May 20.—The House re sumed consideration of the bill to regu late the municipal code of the District of Columbia, which, after some amendment, was passed. The House then went into committee of the whole on the state of the Union, and took up the hill relating to public lands. It provides that when any lands of the United States shall have been entered and government prices paid in fall there for, no suit, civil or criminal, by or in the name oftne United States, shall thereaf ter be maintained for any trespasses for or on account of any material taken from said lands, or on account of any alleged conspiracy relative thereto prior, to the ap proval of this act, provided that tl(e de fendant in such suits shall exhibit to the proper court or officer evidence of such entry and payment, and shall pay all ac crued costs. • . It further provides that the price of certain lands now subject to entry shall be reduced to $1.25 per acre. An amend ment was adopted providing that this act shall not apply to lands in California, Oregon, Nevada or Washington Territory. The bill was then laid aside for favorable report to the House. The next bill was that to transfer to the States titles to all islands, beds of lakes (not navigable), bayous, sloughs, etc., which at the time the public lands were surve5 T ed by the government, were not surveyed. Pending the discussion, the committee rose, and the House took a re cess until 730, the evening session to be for the further consideration of reports from the committee on public lands. Washington, May 20.—In tbe Sonate, Mr. Randolph, from the committee on commerce, reported favorably the House bill changing the boundaries of the York- town. Virginia,collection district, and ex tending the Richmond district to include West Point. It was thereupon passed. Mr. Moigan introduced a bill to remove the political disabilities of John H. For ney, of Alabama. Referred. The Senate then proceeded to cons’der the calendar, and took up the hill establishing a retired list for non-com missioned army officers. After some dis cussion of various amendments proposing to increase the number of colored cadets at West Point, which were all rejected, Mr. Kirkwood moved to add to the bill that “when an enlisted man has served as such for fifteen consecutive years honora bly and faithfully, and last five years thereof as a non-commissioned officer, he shall be eligible for appointment- as sec ond lieutenant in any corps of the line in which he has served.” Adopted. The bill was then read the third time and passed. • Mr. Garland spoke in support of tlia resolutions unseating Kellogg. He dc- nieaaiij agreement tty wlilcli Duller and nciiugg wnTrscttcO) atta YUgUCQ UlSt HUT principle of res adjudicata could not bind the Senate, or the rights of States, as it did individuals, even admitting that the new evidence of bribery and corruption did not warrant the reopening of the case and the expulsion of Kellogg. He proposed a resolution declaring Kello; not elected, and his seat vacant. Mr. Kellogg took the floor and reviewed the evidence, claiming that the affidavits against him were proved to be foigeries; that the witnesses to bribery were shown to be poijurers, and that the evidence iu his favor was cut out and suppressed in making up the report. He said his agents sent telegrams in cipher because,as one of the visiting statesmen said, if persons did not want their private affairs published to the world they must use cipher in tele graphing from New Orleans. He trans lated some of the telegrams. “It is im portant that boat be mooli?’ meant “It is important Murray be prevented from tes tifying falsely.” Efforts had been made by Spofford’s agents to suborn Murray. It could not he shown by the testimony that Murray was ever improp erly approached as Vance’s translations would indicate. There was nothing in the telegrams. He had offered to trans late them before the committee, and failing to get an opportunity, had told a man who he knew would tell Hill how to translate them. Hill then told the Sen ate an expert had deciphered them to him. Hill knew “Rose” did not mean Marks, but said it did iu order to support his the ory that witnesses favoring Kellogg were put in the custom house. He admitted the Correctness of Hill’s reading of the dispatch telling Badger to “send appointments” while Shennan was away—that Hawley was easier; aud said it resulted from use less severity in enforcing the civil service rules. The -dispatch Hill translated as telling Badger to send witnesses corrobo rating Murray and money would be ready at the hotel, meant send corroborative witnesses as to a quorum iu the joint as sembly. Tiie money part was made up by Hill. He read several other telegrams, showing by contemporaneous evidence that they were merely directing what witnesses should be sent, etc. He also claimed that the question of bribery was not now an open question, hut was comprised In the merits of the case, decided in 1877. As lie had the floor only by the courtesy of other Sena tors, he would reserve further remarks till ar other time. The bill to reimburse Joseph R. Shan non, of Louisiana, for a boat impressed into the government service during the war, and destroyed, was discussed and replaced on the calendar, to allow the facts to be more fully presented to-mor row. The Kellogg resolutions were laid aside on motion of Mr. Bayard, and the mar shals bill was taken up. Without action thereon.the Senate adjourned. Washington, May 20.—Senator Gor don was in his seat in the Senate to-day, and will continue to occupy it. until Iris newly appointed successor shall arrive from Georgia, which will probably be next Monday. He received, night before last, the following telegram from Governor Colquitt: “On behalf of the people of Geotgia, I beg that you recall your resig nation. If you cannot do so uncondi tionally, withhold it at least until the meeting of the general assembly.” To this Gordon replied that while he was anxious to oblige the governor, he could not consistently delay jus resignation, as private interests demanded his personal attention immediately. Tbe Senator has recently received, and has now under consideration, several very advantageous business offers, but will not decide which oftliem he will accept until he reaches his home. General Gordon enjoys great personal popularity, and is highly respected by Senators and Repre sentatives of both political parties here, and many of them, to-day took occasion to express to him their personal regret at his impending retirement from the Senate. Washington, May 21.—In the Senate Mr. Bayard moved to postpone the calen- dar and take-up the marshals bill. For reasons which- lie did not care to obtrude on (he Senate, lie was extremely anxious to leave the city to-day; and wished to have the measure disposed of, if possible, before he was obliged to leave. ■‘u’lie motion was agreed to. Tlie pending . question was upon Mr. Conkliug's amendment to insert tbe words “appointed only,” so that the bill would refer only to deputy marshals appointed to serve In connection with t ie election. It was rejected by a party vote. Mr. Hoar moved to strikeout the words In the House, after the reading of the journal, Mr. Hooker, of Mississippi, called attention to the fact that, at last night’s session, Wednesday night had been set apart for the consideration of theUte rat ification bill, tliu3 setting aside the pend ing business, being the Choctaw bilk He contended there had been an understand ing between himsejf and gentlemen from Colorado and Kansas, and that this should not be done, and intimated that these gen tlemen had acted in bad faithin the mat ter. He moved that the journal be so changed as to allow the Choctaw bill to he also ; considered Wednesday night, and upon that motion being defeated he inti mated that, the gentleman from Colorado (Belford) would have a sweet time in getting his bill through. On motion of Mr. Evans, of South Car olina, the Senate bill to furnish a bronze statue of General Daniel Morgan to the Cowpens centennial committee of Spar tanburg; South Carolina, was taken from the Speaker’s table and passed. Washington, May 21.—In the Senate, Mr. Hoar’s amendment was rejected by a party vote. . < Mr. McMillan moved to add to the bill: “Provided that marshals for whom depu ties shall be appointed, under this act shall not be liable for any acts of such deputies.” Mr. Bayard said there was nothing unreason able in this proposition, and accepted it. The amendment was agreed to. "Mr. Edmunds spoke at some length in opposition to the bill, arguing that the special deputies for which it provided were to be entirely out of the control of tbe executive officers, and were to have no control over one an other. The result would be sev eral deputies of different parties all practically marshals in chief, and quar reling, or liable at any time to quarrel among themselves. Furthermore, the bill did not specify ‘the length of time that these special deputies were to serve, nor define the powers with which they were to be invested. There was nothiug in the bill to indicate that the special deputies for which it provided were to have the same powers as those con ferred on special deputies by the present law. After some few other remarks, he offered an amendment .which he said would remove the objectionable features of the bill, which he had pointed out. The amendment, however, was rejected, and the bill was read a third time and passed by a party vote—2S to 17. The Senate then proceeded to consider the legislative and judicial appropriation- bill. The committee’s amendment was agreed to striking out the House clause providing that the salary of storekeepers and gaugers, at distilleries mashing'less than sixty bushels of grain daily, shall not exceed fifty dollars monthly, while the distillery is in operation, and thirty dollars when not in operation, and at all other distilleries storekeepers and gaugers shall not receive exceeding fifty dollars monthly while the distillery is not in op eration. The committee’s amendment was agreed to striking out the House clause providing that public lands situat ed in States in which there are no land offices, may be entered at the general land office, and that the necessary proof and affidavits required in such cases may be made before some officer competent to ad minister oaths, etc. At 5:30, the consideration of the bill having been finished, it was read the third time and passed. Some discussion then took place upon the question whether the Senate should resume consideration of the Kellogg- Spofford resolutions, or give preference to Mr. Morgan’s resolutions, with regard to the presidential electoral count. The Sonate, by a vote of 25 to 14, finally deci- uea urtnwiinwj All the Demo crats voted for calling up Mr. Morgan’s resolution without reiteroncw to (Loir atti tude toward the Kellogg resolutions. The Senate then adjourned. The House, as the regular order, pro ceeded to the consideration of the bills reported yesterday from the committee of the whole relative to public lands. The first bill to be considered was that rela tive to public lands,according to the agree ment entered into yesterday. Mr! Robert son, of Massachusetts, offered an amend ment limiting the benefits of the bill to persons who have taken material from public lands in the clearing of lands and working of mining claims, or for ‘agricul tural or domestic purposes, or for main taining improvements on lands of any bona fide settler, or who without fault or knowledge of trespass took such material. After a debate by Messrs. Robertson, Ha- zelton and Dwight, in opposition to the bill, and by Messrs. Herbert, Dunneli, and Vanvoorbees in favor of tlie amend ment, by yeas 98 and nays 92, the bill passed. Mr. Aiken, of South Carolina, from the committee on patents, reported a bill for the extension of letters patent for im provement of the cotton gin. After some unimportant business, Mr. Blount, of Georgia, from the committee on appropriations, reported the sundry .civil appropriation bill, which was or dered printed and recommitted. The House then adjourned. Washington, May 21.—Representa tive Blount, of Georgia, from the appro priations committee, to-day reported the sundry civil appropriation hill to the House. Tlie bill recommends aggregate appropriations of about $21,000,000, which exceeds the amount appropriated last year $1,250,000. Among the items appropriated are the following: For the Mississippi river commission $150,000; for the purchase of Confederate post-office records $10,000; for new public buildings at New Orleans $40,000; Atlanta $15,000; Austin, Texas, $12,000; for defraying the expenses of the 10th census $2,875,000; for maintainance of lights and buoys on the Mississippi and Ohio rivers $130,000; for light houses, beacons and log signals at Cape Henry, Virginia, $25,000; Mobile harbor, $0,000; Bell’s Rock lighthouse, York river, Vir ginia, $35,000; lighthouse at Georgetown, §. C., $10,000; Sanabel Island, Fla., $20,- 000; Trinity shoals, Louisiana, lightship and fog signal, $15,000; rebuilding burned wharf at Portsmouth, Va., $4,500; Florida reefs lights, $10,000; guide lights to Gal veston harbor, $0,000: guide^ lights to Matagorda hay, $20,000; to continue work on the Washington monument, $150,000. Washington, May 22.—In the Senate, the president pro tern, laid before the Sen ate a communication from the secretary of the treasury answering the Senate res olution of inquiry, regarding the method adopted in the revenue service in sub tracting the tare onforeignsugar imported in boxes. The secretary reports that 14 per cent, is allowed in such cases. This rate is thought a right average tare; but importers may insist upon an ascertain ment of actual tare in every case. In the House, on motion of T. Turner, of Kentucky, a bill was passed so amend ing the sixth subdivision of section 3244 of the revised statutes, as to provide that dealer^ in leaf tobacco who do not sell or consign for sale leaf tobacco to' an amount not exceeding 25,000 pounds, hi any one special tax year, shall pay licenses of but $5. A resolution was adopted for printing 0,000 copies of the report of the yellow fever commission, and 0,000 copies of the report of the national board of health. The signal corps station at False Cape, -Virginia, reports steamship James Gray, Whidby, from Blnisof, Africa, to Balti more-ashore off tlie station. The cargo is iron. The vessel is perfectly sound, lying in fifteen feet of water, with light southeast winds and smooth sea. New York, May 22.—In the trial of the suit of Colonel John T. Harrall against the New York Elevated railroad Company to recover $50,000 damages for injuries sustained in a collision on tlie Elevated railroad on the twenty-fifth of March last, verdict was rendered in the case to-day in King’s county Supreme Court, Brooklyn, for the plaintiff m the sum of $30,000. Washington, May 22.—In the House, the morning hour .was dispensed with, and tlie House went into committee upon bills reported from the committee on jmb- lic buildings and grounds. There was a t good deal of opposition shown in the j Ilouse aud committee to proceeding to consider bills for the erection of public buildings, Mr. Bragg being- particularly active in preventing their consideration. It being evident that no businessteouid l>i» transacted, the committee arose, and the* House, at 3:40, adjourned. In the Senate, when the morning hour had expired, unfinished business, being the resolution for a joint rule for counting the electoral vote, was taken up, and Mr. Morgan spoke in its support. '’He ex pressed the hope that discussion upon the measure would he entirely unpartisan, as tlie measure-was of great public impor tance. The. statutes already provide as fully as advisable in regard to the form ing of the-electoral college and the for warding of the lists of votes. It had not been thought liv Congress, except in the case .of the electoral commission, tliat a" rule could be adopted governing the ac tion of the houses when met to count the votes as to what lists should he- received or rejected. InlS64 a joint resolution was passed by the two houses which aflccted the rights of certain States, the latter in rebellion, regarding their claim to be represented in the electoral college. There was some doubt in tbe opinion of the President-at that time as to the propriety -of his par ticipation in legislation affecting.the elec toral count, and on the next day, after the passage of the joint resolution and be fore it went to the President, the two houses adopted its provisions as a joint rule. This was the day before the elec toral meeting. A few days after Presi dent Lincoln returned the joint resolution signed, butt accompanied by a message stating that he did not think legislation providing a method of counting the vote required the concurrence of the executive, and believed his signature had' no effect one way or another. Mr. Morgan said he referred to this fact at thejoutset of his remarks because it might become significant in the debate. It was claimed by .many that the President of the Senate had authority to open and count the votes, although he might be person ally interested in the result. Mr. Lincoln had referred to a?d declined to participate in a law which woulif otherwise have been counted against him. Mr. Morgan hoped this example, which so well accords with the principles of our free government, would be always regarded with - respect, and the opinion of Mr. Lincoln on this important subject be given the weight it deserved. The joint rule formerly in force had been abandoned by tlie party adopting it—whether for political reasons or not, he could not say. A new one was demanded for the safety of the people. He thought the one. proposed by him justly definefl the office of the President of the Senate to consist in laying the votes before the House. The rule requiring the concurrence of both houses iu receiv ing votes was palpably in violation of the constitution. It gave either house a right to disfranchise a State arbitrarily. The proposed joint rule left each House free in deciding all questions arising un der the rales. The theory of the rule Is that the States pass upon the validity of returns so far as their validity depends up on State laws. In the joint meeting of the two houses, in which States are also represented, their validity is decided up on under the constitution, and if one house upholds the action of the State, there is a majority of that house and the State as against the other house. After answering questions propounded by Messrs. Edmunds and Conkling, and alter Mr. Conkling spoke about half an hour, Mr. Morgan again took the floor and said that when lie had yielded to the Senator from New York he had not sup posed that that Senator was to make a speech. He would not comment upon that action nor he led away from the line of his argument thereby. He said “the ar gument of the Senator from New York, radiant as it was, was a mere illumina tion of my positon, not an answer to it. Tlie honorable Senator did not answer an argument which I presented, and after he lias exercised his great powers for a full half hour in his endeavor to make com- plaini e\g«hi»wt tlua rulo, It sllQWS t-1 lilt he lias not been able to state one single principle in the rule that is wrong. There is no rule or decision here that ever jars upon the sensibilties of the Senator from New York, except the color ing of ostentation or presumption by which this committee have ventured to bring forward for his criticism a certain measure of legislation, providing that which they think is necessary for the proper conduct of this great govern ment. But to controvert this, the rule in its principles had the sanction of a man who, at one time, had the ear of the peo ple of the United States, or at least oj the Republican party, and before whom those Senators,-junior and senior, bowed with absolute obedience, and whose will they seldom attempted to controvert. That man was Oliver P. Morton, who brought forward this same measure as a law, and the Senate passed the law, and the House disagreed to it when it was Republican. I dm not responsible tor the disagree ment of the houses as to that law. They acted on the idea that the enactment of the law was beyond the jurisdiction of Congress to direct the joint body how to count the electoral votes. Let us look in to the history of the joint rules. Mr. Morgan proceeded to show that for nineteen elections there had been no law upon the subject of counting the vote by the joint meeting, and said he thought it our fathers could trust the count without law for nineteen elections, we could safe ly do it for one more. Why did not the Republicans pass such a law when they were in power in Congress? Instead of doing so they adopted the 22nd joint rule, and had their count under it, which made the concurrent vote of the two houses necessary to admit a vote. Then, when it appeared that one house would become Democratic, and in order to secure Mr. Hayes’ counting in, a Republican Con gress abrogated the rale. He went on to state his objections to putting this measure in the form of a law. It brought the question of.how the votes should be counted into line with legisla tion by Congress subject to the approval of the President, who might be an inter ested party, and subject to all the influen ces that disturb party legislation. He did not wish to see that wedge driven in any further. The argument of the Senator from New York, he added, is intended for political effect, to go before the coun try as an argument against a rule per fectly fair in itself, and against which nothing can be urged, except that we did not allow Mr. Hayes to come in here'and meddle with the count of the vote. That argument will never satisfy the people throughout the country, now so anxiously awaiting some settlement of this question. They want to know of the Democratic party if this vacuum in the law 13 to be left to be filled by chance, or if we will step up to our duty and lay down a fair*rule to which no objection can be made, except that it is a joint resolu tion instead of a law. Joint resolutions operate like laws on the two houses. They not only regulate procedure, but aflect matters of tlie gravest legis lative moment, as in respect to con ference committees, for example; yet not one of the twenty-two joint rules was ever adopted otherwise than by a concurrent resolution, such as this. Not one was ever carried to the President, and now for the first time a rule which afiects nothing at all but the count of tlie electoral vote, it is said, must go to the President. That objection meaus merely this: we intend to quarrel with the rule, no matter what you present, and your present one is so indubitably fair the only quarrel we can make is to say you have not made it a law. No, sir; if we had seen fit aud had felt it the line of our duty on this great question, we would have adopted the twenty-second joint rule, and the State of New A ork, which is ready, like a locomotive, to go for ward or run backward, to stand still or move at the command of its manager, which is ready to take any action necessary in this Presidential cam paign—we should have held the power of the State ol New York, which this country dreads from one end to the other, so that it could not have changed its method of casting its electoral votes. We have dared to be fair in this ques tion, and our appeal is to the people of tlie United States for tbe honesty of our mo tives, and for the rectitude of our conduct in bringing forward this measure for tlie satisfaction of the people, and ror the peace of tbe land. At 4:30 p. m-, on motion of Mr. Davis, of Illinois, the Senate went into executive sessioix and when tbe doors reopened, ad journed. -A "Mk ■' L . Washington^ May 22.—A private dis patch received at the capitol to-day from a prominent Democratic politician, says the California delegation to the national convention stands nine for Judge Field. The convention adopted a resolution lhat the majority ofthe delegates shall cast the vote of the State. The Railroad Commission. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Railroad-corporations are admitted to be common carriers, and the State lias tlie same right to establish certain police reg ulations concerning such corporations, as the municipal authorities are conceded to have in licensing drays and vehicles to travel the streets. But the power to es tablish police regulations does not confer the right to fix the rates at which these private corporations propose to transport private freight and private passengers over a private way. It has been argued that municipal corporations have the fight to establish rates of charges made by draymen and hackmen; but these draymen and hackmen travel on the public streets; the fee of the street is still in the . municipal corporation, and it is plain that such municipal corporation can control to this extent the rates of toll charged by persons using streets or pub lic highways as a road for their vehicles. But the railway is a private way; the fee is in the corporation, and any intruder thereon is a trespasser against the corpora tion. Such clearly is not the case with a person traveling on the public highway in regard to a dray line or a hack line charg ing toll on the public highway. Judge Cooley, an eminent jurist, says on tins point: “The limit to the exercise of the police power in these cases (corporations as common car riers) must be this: The regulations must have reference to the.comfort, safety or welfare of society; they must not he in conflict with any of the provisions of the charter; and they must # not, under pre tense of regulation, take "from the corpora tion any of the essential rights and privi leges which the charter confers.” In short, they must be police regulations in fact, and not amendments of the charter in curtailment of the corporate franchise. It lias accordingly been held that when a corporation was chartered with the right to take toll from passengers over its road, a subsequent statute authorizing a certain class of persons to go toll free, was void. It cannot therefore be pretended that the police power, which gives the legislature the right to require railroads to fix blow posts, to blow signals at crossings, to trav el at certain rates of speed, to furnish pas sengers with water, lights and fuel, like wise gives the legislature the right to es tablish a tariff of charges which these pri vate common carriers may charge against their private customers. When the various railroads of the State were chartered these corporations agreed to conform to these police regulations, and to such others as the law might thereafter impose. For it is well settled that the laws governing a contract at tlie time it is executed form a part of such contract, and by this rule these coiporations agreed to submit to the reas onable police power of the State. But any regulation of police power which is unreasonable, is likewise illegal, and should be so declared. Suppose the legislature should paiss a law tliat railroad trains should only - travel a mile an hour; would any person contend that such a regulation was not a virtual abrogation of the charter and therefore void ? When it appears that an unreas onable police regulation may be void,bow much more should it appear that au inter ference with the charter which annuls the charters, should likewise be void? The freight tariff and the passenger tariff im posed by the commissioners are void, therefore, for this reason: they interfere with the right of the railroad corporations to establish their own tariffs and the courts of the State, not the Leg islature. nor the railroad com missioners, are the proper authori ties to annul tho tariffs established by tbe various railroads, if it be made to appear before tlie courts that these tariffs are violations of the franchises granted such railroads upon proper cases brought. The franchise of a corporation may be forfeited by misuse, and if a railroad ex torted money in violation of the express terms of its charter, or made such unjust discriminations against some of its cus tomers as have been complained of, any superior court of any county through which such road might run, could enter tain proceedings to forfeit the charter of such corporation; and this law was in ex istence at the time of the charter of every railroad in Georgia, and was well understood by • every t person interested in the management* of such roads. What was the necessity for this commission, I am at a.loss to understand, when the law just referred to was in force at the time of the creation of the commis sion and of the constitution of 1877, and no statement is made that this law was inoperative or inadequate. Somebody must grow into prominence by reason of inaugurating a new system of dealingwith corporations, and it was reserved for the man or men who inserted the railroad clause in the new constitution, and made the commission, to gain great glory for stumbling over a principle which has been recognized for nearly 500 years, and who so grossly misapplied the simple and ac knowledged doctrine of misuser, as to make it absolutely unconstitutional. The evils of superabundant legislation arc as thick as the biblical tares, and can not find richer soil than in the railroad bill, where they may vegetate to colossal size. Added to the fact that there was no necessity for this legislation, its positive harm must disturb the true interests of the whole State. It must weaken that respect which every good citizen is in clined to accord to the law because it is the law, and when once the people lose respect f>r the established law, which gen erally is sufficient to command obedience' to its authority, revolution is not far dis tant. _ _ Lex. GORDON’S RETIREMENT. Why He Resigned. A special Washington dispatch to the Courier-Journal reads as follows: Within twenty-four hours General Gor don will cease to he a Senator from Geor gia. He is led to take this step because lie is a poor man, and finds it impossible, with justice tfrliimself and his lamily, to remain longer in public life. Numerous interests of liiS own have been long suffer ing for the want of proper attention, and now au opportunity is presented to him to ripair the fortunes' which have been bro ken by his long public life. The loss will he a severe one to Georgia, the Senate and to the Democratic party. ' Senator Gordon lias been in the service of tlie public since his 29tli year, and he is now a little more than forty-eight. Few men have stood So high in the estimation of their people, and none have more de served the honors bestowed upon him. The legislature of Geotgia have just re elected him to the Senate, his term not expiring until 1885. In the Senate his influence has always been conservative and healthy. No one in that body has been more respected, and he has always acted in such a way as to. iiijspire thinking men of the North with the fact that the Southern people are sin cerely desirous of peace and are fitted in the cordial line for the restored Union. No man has done more than he to pro mote the interests of the whole country by advocating the forgetting of the strife in which he bore so conspicuous a part. He has been one of that coterie of Sena tors, among whom are Lamar and Hamp ton, whose patriotic aud conservative course has done much to make the South trusted. 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It lias been a long while since sucli re grets have been 'ndulged by the press and people of Georgia as have found expres sion over the proposed retirement of Hon. James H. Blount from Congress at the end of his present term. No reason has been given to tbe public why that purpose ha3 been formed, but whatever it may be, it is certain that Col onel Blount has received from all portions of the State, such assurances of gratitude for public seivice, as ought to satisfy his largest desire for praise. In our igno rance of what has prompted this step, we have no hesitation in saying it was ill-advised. Colonel Blount is now in the very prime of liis powers. He has enjoyed the advantage of eight years experience in the details of legislation, and is now a thorough master of the tac tics of deliberative bodies. He has ren dered service upon' the most important committees of the House, and recently, during the illness of Mr. Atkins, chairman ofthe committee on appropriations, he has been brought prominently to the- front and conducted the tactics of that committee with such rare skill as to win- and deserve high commendation. It has- been said, as we believe with truth, that he has made more reputation and charac ter as a congressional leader, than any member in the present Congress. •* The vantage-ground thus occupied by Colonel Blount is impossible to be at tained by one who outers Congress at a later period in life than his own. We do not remember any instance, either in En glish or American histoiy, where any man has acquired great command as a Parliamentary leader, who entered the field late in life, or who did not become the master of forensic rules early in life. It is not so much for what Colonel Blount has already accomplished in Con gress, as that he is now capable of better and higher uses still in public life, that the people of Georgia, both within and out of his district, clamor for his return to the 47th Congress. He has done well. His record is sec ond to that of no Georgian for hard work, 'and for conscientious zeal in looking after the interests of his constituents; without commanding eloquence, ho possesses in a rare degree the genius of intelligent, well- directed common sense. The influence- he lias come to wield in Congress, attests both will-power and brain-power; for no man without these qualities, could have taken his high rank among the rising statesmen of the country. Such a man is a fitting representative of a constituency like liis. 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