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LBUrt CONSTITUTION THE UNSIGNED DEED. ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1880. YOL. XII., NO. 36 INDIGNATION OP SOUTH GEORGIA. Tk« Failure ef tbe Msecs sad Brnanrick Project CtmruJ-ln Interview Witk Mr. Bacon tad a Brssawiek Delegxtioc- Tfce Goventer'e Abeenee. Colonel A. O. Bacon.speaker of the bouse u( representative*. i* in the citv attending the minieme court. We called to nee him yesterday at the Markhaiu, and probed him to find out how seriously wounded bit part of the state wm over the failure of the Ma ♦•on and Brunswick sale, Colonel Hacoo lias been sneaker of the bouse several time* and in the best authority we can find on the intention and feeling of our legislature We asked Colonel Bacon the pointed ques tion; “Wiiat waa thought in Macon of the failnre of the sale?" He replied: 4 Why, air, it waa like a thunder-clan out of a clear iky. The day before we ha t learned that tba require ment* of the ac. had all been complied witii by the purchaser?, and that nothing remained u» 1m? executed hut a few forniali- viea about which there was no doubt or ditficnDy. There**** a considerable amount of plain swearing the next mormug when T»i* CoiuTimioa told the resii’t, of the matter." ••Well, what do yen think of tlie refusal of the governor to »i*.« the deed which was demanded ■* "I don't know what may have been the terms of that particular deed, hut I think it would have been right for the governor to liave given the purchasers a proper war ranty deed to the properly. The governor ia suptiorted in his construction of his pone* under the act by very high legal authority, lint I think it very unfortunate »har lie should have held to such view of t it is imnosMble to frame « statute in w«ni» which arc not liable to more then one «on- struction, and therefore I thii k a plain, reasonable, common-sense co i*lruc"< u should have controlled rather than on which is technical. The fundamen al principle in the construction of» aiatuu? is to ascertain the will of the law msk* r* What they intended, that is the law. Now f don’t believe there was a single member of the legislature who intended alien he voted for this act that the imif.baser should only receive a quit claim deed to jne property. I certainly had no such intention, and I have Vet to see a senator or representative who "If the recollection of other legislators is to the same effect it would then seem to he conclusive as to the pro|>er construction of the act.’" "No, that cannot he said; bee me the proper construction of a statute cannot Im* determined by taking the testimony of the legislators as to their intention. Itut there aie several rules recognized by the court- by which such intention can lie ascertained. One of the most common of these is that the law makers intended that which was reasonable. The reasonable construe; ion of thin statute is that it was intended that the purchasers should have a warranty deed. It would have been unreasonable * in the extreme for the legislature to have intended and expected that the purchasers would l«y over a million of dollars for a quit claim deed to the road. Every one must know that if such intention had been ex pressed in lire act. it would have effectually driven off every bidder from the sale: and I don’t think there h anything in the act which under a proper construc tion indicates directly or by implication any such intention. Much an idea never entered the minds of the legislature or of the peo ple, and the best evidence of ft is found in the fact that the raising of the point ha* taken everybody completely by surprise. The state claims to have a perfect title to the property, and it was mteudcu to convey a l»erfect title to the purchaser. It seems to me that a refusal to give a warranty title implies a want of confidence in the till* of the state which is not warranted by the •acta of the case." "What do you say aa to the $010,000 second mortgage bonds. Don’t you recognise any danger there?" "No I do not-—the road was sold under the tint mortgage some years ago, and fail ed at the sale to bring naif what was due on that mortgage. I am unable to see how unylien can still remain in favor of the second mortgage, even if that were other wise. I doubt if the second mortgage bunds would be binding on the road. Tuey were not all issued to third parties, but the former owners of the road bud the bond* executed and divided totween themselves. It can be easily shown that at the time of the sale of the road, over $5)0.000 of these I*ouds were still in their posses- . sion." "I nder all the circumstances then, what would you say is the l»esi thing to be done?" "That's a delicate question to answer where the responsibility rests with the gov ernor; hut a* a matter of opinion, holding the views I do as to the propriety of giviug a waranty deed, I should say the beM thing still would he to sign such a deed. The limitation of thirty davs was upon the purchasers that they should do certain things within that time. I see nothing in the act which prevents the governor from executing the derd after (tie expiration of that lime, if he is satisfied the purchasers have made proper compli ance within the specified time " "What do you think of the proposition to call an extra session of the legislature?" •If it was necessaty I should say call it, as great public interests areat stake. But I do not think it necessary to put the Male io an extra expense of twelve or fifteen thousand dollars to accomplish what ran lie •lone by the simple signature of the gov ernor, a signature which 1 think he now has authority to make. The failure in this matter is a great public calamity. The Brunswick road with the which, he aid, was like a giant com pared to a liliputian, when we consider the mon opoly of the Central when the* act wan passed, and what it will be when this com bination commences to w-.rk. Onr people, aid he. are in arnest about tbia matter, and if is wrong to carry out the policy of the lase act, we demand an extra session of tire-legislature to prevent its failure, which would be a great public calamity. Judge Merabon agreed with Mr. Goodyear about the extra session, a»didMess:s Hal and McArthur. From every sr.urce we can hear that the greatest dissatisfaction exists iu southern and central Georgia over the failnre of the lease. Governor Colquitt has gone to New York. He left on Saturday night, and it is thought here that lie has gone on matters connected with the Macon and Brans trick. MRS. GREEN And Her Hoarded Trillions Well Guarded I rom Her Husband. "Gath." In the Cincinnati Enquirer. , Some time ago the president of iheLbuia- ville and Nashville and Great Southern railroad said tnat there was a woman Own ing stock in that railroad who had $25,600,- bOO. I thought over the whole range of women in this country, and failed to drop to any with that amount of mouey. I in quired of other persons, and they thought tbe woman was a myth. Itut f have nn- dvn-too^I, within a day or two. Up: there is really a woman with a fortune of that, or approx I inate, magnitude, though sbe in scarcely known to anybody in either finan cial or social circle*. a he is a Mrs. Green, the wife of a former American merchant in China, who ia him self said to be worth $.>,000,000. This gen tleman spends must of his time about the Union dub. New York, while liia wife re- rides with an invalid son at Bellows’ Falls, Vermont. She derives her fortune from a man known as "Blubber" Robinson, who owned the largest line of whale ships at New Bed ford. Mass. New Bedford, you will re member. is quite a modern town in New England, having been settled ouly ten years before the revolutionary war. It took the name of Bedford, because the laud was owned by a Mr. Rustell, who remembered that Russell was the family name of tbe dukes of Bedford This town grew rich by the address of a tpiaker named Botch, who !»er»uaded the French and British govern ments to let him ship them whale oil duty free. Then arose a magnificent whaling business for New Bedford, which, in |s3g, had 170 whale ships, employing 4.000 sail ors and which Heel brought in 160,Ojo bar rels of whale oil a year. The man knowu as "JJlnhbei” Robinson is said to have had a line of whale ships painted blue in color, and had extraordinary success, both on the sea and in the employ- it of his capital on shore. After the dis covery of gold in California the whaling business declined. and during the war of the rebellion the big New Bedford Jleet iu the Pacilie ocean w«a destroyed by one of the worthless rebel privateers. Meantime it seems that the carfully-treasured wealth of ••Blubber" Robinson passed into the hands of a daughter, educated into an extraordi nary |»as*ion for |M?nury. and taught that there was hut one commandment left to man. ami that wan to "know the value of nionev." In the city of Paris, on an occa sion, Miss Robinson encountered Mr. K 11. Green, and their fortunes were joined. She, however, kept her own separately, both in the a-iiounl and the management, and I uiider.-tand that Mr. Cisco, in New York, the banker, is her business agent and makes her investment. Mr. Green meantime hunts out investments on his own account. Mrs. Green is said to have ten thousand shares of stock in the Louisville orgunizt- tion, and considerably more than that in the Houston and Texas Central railroad. If we will suppose that these ten thousand shares originally cost $ Ida share, they have gone up about $l,U00,UUU in tbe subsequent rise of the stock. I am not sure that 1 have the figures r irrectly in my mind as to the number of shares iiossessed by this woman. The husband, Mr. Green, is said to have been originally a man of line general obser vation and respectable scholarship, but his connection with such a well-husbuuded for tune has also made him something of a monomaniac on wealth. A BOOM FOR ATLANTA. Correspondence Frank iu, Pa., Evening News* The climate of Atlanta and the region of middle Georgia commends itself to me as among the best. Tne thermometer seldom reaches over ninety degrees in summer or below eight in the winter. The breezes from the northwest render the summer mouths delightfully cool and pleasant. A Con necticut gentleman teds me that he left that state last spring and came here, and that lie never passed a more pleas ant summer, lie liked it so well that be had his family join him in the fall. There are no fogs to enshroud the advent of Au rora, but with the sunrise she ushers in the day. The nature of lit* soil ia such that it soon dries after a rain, and hence there is but little mud. One can walk all over the city and not ^et as muddy as by traversing a street crossing in Franklin. To the stranger from the north the streets of Atlanta presents many novel sight*. Street auctions, at which you can' buy almost anything ami everything ever used by mortals, are common. Yonder i» a dar key driving a poor mule hitched to an odd looking wagon or cart, sitting on a bale of cotton which he is taking to market. There a "poor white." dressed in his butter-nuts, with his two mules hitched to i a wagon on which three bales of cotton is being taken to the cotton factory. Here comes a four horse express wagon as though the driver meant business; there is ttie elegant turn- extensions authorized by the act filrnish | out of some well-to-do merchant or bank-r, the only mean* now in sight of releasing oik for a drive, and a colored man holding the whole state from the grip of the most the lines; over yonder ou the sidewalk gigantic and growing monopoly. Our peo- [ bevy of well dressed ladies on the usual pte are dazzled with the ideas ♦ if tue great ; shopping ex|iedilion women so much traffic to llow through the channels of these i delight » . the world over; there at the I’ar-reachiug coml>ination'. They do not j public fountain, at the corner of Mari- reflect that they are in violation of law, nor eita and Peachtree streets, I see HE REGRETS IT. STILL THE CONSTITUTION HAD IT. Coloacl Newcomb Speaks 0a the Briariax Combi- ration—The Question Brought to the At- tentioa of Others High im Place— The Cincinnati Bomthera. do they realize tbe evil* which they threat- I en. Capital properly employed fa a great blessing to the country; but these great combination* of capital reaching up into the Thirty millions, will make a despotism which cannot lie easily overthrown, lb.' it will coi trol the politics and the courts of the state This seems to he alrea ly much the case in Pennsylvania. 1 read aoiuc time since that a member of the Pennsylvania house of representatives rose and aaid. "If the Pennsylvania Central railroad had no farther business to bring* before the house, he would move an adjournment." * PKUCGATION FROM BRUNSWICK. After talking with Colonel Bacon, we went to tlie Kimball to see if we could find any further information. There we found a regular delegation from Brunswick and along the line of the Macon and Brunswick railroad, who had come to the city to see Governor Colquitt. Judge M. L. Mershon. and Mr. 0. P. Goodyear from Brunswick, and Mr. A. G. McArthur and Mr & A. Hall, representing people along the line of the Macon and Brunswick railroad. From Judge Mention and Mr. Goodyear we learn that the people of Brunswick were startled on the morning of the 13th on re ceipt of a telegram from Mr. Couper to Mr. Goodyear, stating that there was a "hitch in making deeds—no lease or sale." "It startled our people," said Judge Mer- shon, "like « thunderbolt. We had been l«*i to believe," he continued, "from what we had heard on the 12th that our fondest hope* would tie realized, and ever>bjdv rejoieed at tbe prospect of a speedy termi nation of our longNiroubles. When they found this sudden and unexpected failure they were stunned by the blow." "What do they say about Governor Col- quiu's refusal to sign the deed?" "They are not at all satisfted with it." said Mr. Goodyear. "Many of them are quite in dignanl and some make very intemperate utterance* over the defeat by a technicality of the policy of com pern ion’acros* our star from our ports to the northwest, which has been fought for earnestly tor the past forty yean*. The governor would hare been tri umphantly vindicated by our people if he had given any warrantee to the property." "Yes," said Judge Mershon, "the people of Camden. Glynn. Wayne. Liberty. Pierce, Ware. Coffee, Clinch. Berrien, Irwin, Dougherty. Appling. Telfair, Wilcox. Tat- nail. Ikxlge, l’u’aski. M* In tosh. lkxdy, ftuwvr. Twiggs. Bibb, Jones and Jasper, are aroused, and Consider the commercial liberties of the people of Georgia iiu|»er* tied. Twy believe that if this opportunity it lost the death knell will be sounded to the policy of competition in transportation in Georgia." These views were indorsed by all the members of the committee. Mr. McArthur aaid that the people were olored man jump off his nonde script vehicle, jamb down the crown of his soft hat and use it for a drinking cup, then jump on his vehicle and away. l.-t ns go to another street and here we see hundreds and even thousand* of bales of cotton, on each side of the street; at the dejiot are thousands more awaiting transportation. Cotton has advanced to 12,'j cents per pound, and dealers areas happy as oil men when petroleum "goes up.” The price of cotton influences business here as that of petroleum dues that of western Pennsyl vania. I like the people of Altanta. They are generous to stranger*. So far I have not been able to perceive any of that ostracism exhibited toward northern men, 1 formerly heard so much about. Its people are too well enlightened to iudulge it. Ou tne con trary they invite northern men to come and settle among them, identify them selves with them and help build up their city; ami if its climate, business, commercial, educational and social advan tages were better known. I know they would come. One can express his political views here as safely as in Franklin. I al ways had a desire to "go west," but since coming to this "Mecca of thy south." that "hankering" is gone. ON ITS DIGNITY. WilAT VICE-PRESIDENT NEWCOHB SAYS. IzmiiriUc Commercial. A Commercial representative called at the residence of Vice-President Newcomb last night, and finding him at home, the follow ing conversation ensued: "Mr. Newcomb, can you give me any ad ditional facts which are not conveyed in tbe article published in The Atlanta Con stitution? asked tbe Commercial man. • The article is substantially correct." re plied Mr. Newcomb, "bat I regret iu an nouncement at this juncture." "Will this combination involve any change in the relation between the Georgia Central mod Louisville and Nashville roads?" Nothing further than that which Would result from a closer or more intimate alli ance and entire harmony of Interests be tween tile roads. Each road will preserve its integrity unimpaired in regard to its local business All through traffic origna- ting from this section and carried over the Georgia Central lines will be operated as one system ” "What about the revolution in freight business, and the proposed new route? •Traffic will be revolutionized, and a* re gards the freight line, it is a shorter and more direct route from Chicago, St. Louis and Louisville to New York and Liverpool, and a route which can he oper ated more cheaply, than is the route by rail to Savannah‘and thence to New York and Liverpool by steamer. The whole south will not only be benefited, but it must at once rresenize the fact that ench a consoli dation will be to its interest. The south wants cheap food, which must come from the west, and will cotue by this road. Then a great railroad system such a* this will draw business from other channels, and will build lit business in every section of the south. The true course for a railroad to pur sue is to haul more cars and fuller ones. Long trains carried full In one direction, must be carried full in the opposite direction Local interests will also, and should be. care fully looked after and not be sacrificed to through burin.-s*. We look for and we intend tohavesuch an increase that our traffic will bear somel^proitoi lion to that carried by northern roods." "What effect, if any, will this alliance have in regard to tbe rumor that Uolonel E \V. Cole Is to be made president of the Nash ville and Chattanooga road?" asked the re- jiorter. "This alliance," replied Mr. Newcomb, will have no significance whatever Iu re gard to that matter." Mr Newcomb then said that he had nothing more to say; that his statement ex plained everything in brief, anil that he was sorry lie had no further intelligence to communicate at present in regard to the matter. THE NEW* IS »'lNCINXATI. Cincinnati Enquirer. The dispatch from Atlanta published in yes terday's Enquirer, giving mi account of "ihe last grand scoop" by tlie Louisville and Nashville company, has excited much com ment among railroad men in Cincinnati.and it is the opinion of those who are familiar with the? matter that, if the combination, as stated in the telegram, exists, it would he based upon a full recognition of the rights and interests of the Georgia railroad*.which, in proportion to the amount of the property they may put into the pool, will exercise a voice in its management. This is regarded good omen for Cincinnati and the set tlement of her difficulties with the Lonis- ville and Nashville railroad, as it is not sup posed that the Louisville and Nashville road and tbe city of Louisville will be al lowed to dictate terms to the entire state of Georgia and the Carolina*, and the immense railroad interests repre sented by the two Georgia railroads that are said to be scooped These new elements introduced ioto the Louisville and Nash ville combination are powerful and conser vative. and will rather give tone to the counsels of th«* new orgmizition than ac cept dictation in tbe interestof any particu lar locality. The interests of Cincinnati and her Southern railroad are not consid ered a* being placed in jeopardy by this combination. The Cincinnati Koutliern. Cincinnati Gazette. 14th. The long pending negotiation* between H. G. Huston A Co., the contractors, and the trustees of the Cincinnati Southern rail way have at last been concluded, and work looking to the qieedy opening of the road for through business has been vigorously began. The trustees hare accepted the completed portion of the road, and Messrs. Huston A Co. have agreed to finish the woik of construction under the direction of the trustees, receiving from the licensees the right to run trains over the road for that purpose. Yesterday Mr. Woodward, the suporiutendant of the Cincinnati rail road company, went down the track for the purjMiseof appointing section men and *s- signing them their work, and it is expected that within a few days the company will be pre)>ared to run regular trains through to Chattanooga, under au amendment to their license granted by the trustees. The only drawback then to the operation of the road will be the poverty of terminal improve ments here. The general committee* in charge of the preparations for tlie inau gural excursion over the Cincin nati Southern railroad met yesterday after noon at tiie Burnet house. The members present were Messrs. Krohn, Gienu. Davis, Dickerson, Hooker, Kinsey. Harper, Taylor ami Colonel Weir in the chair. Mr. J. F. B ack burn acted as secretary. It was stated that authorities of ihe railroad were unable to fix a time when they would be ready to bring the visitors to this city, and that it would require at least twenty day> after the road was turned over by the contractor be fore a date could be nxed. Considerable discussion followed on tbe subject of toe banquet, resulting finally in the adoption of the following offered by Mr. Honker: Resolved. That the entertAinmeot committee l»? requested to submit u» the general committee ptnpuMl* tor a banquet of i,. l iu0 to 2,(XX* plates, •Aid proposals to include the iuruishing of all ra bies. eba r». table ware, service, rent of music hall, and a 1 incidentals, and to include the serv ing of wine, should. th«t be furnished by the conitniuee. the executive committee to submit separate proposal* for wiue. A debate upon the subject of invitations two feet in diameter, were uprooted and ti rown to tbe ground at angles of about 10 degrees relative to either side the tornado’s path. Tbe branches of one tree were twisted off, leaving tbe butts in appearance similar to so many gimlets. Tbe Edgefield and Nashville manufacturing company’s build ing also presents an example of the enor mous lifting p'vver of tbe whirlwind. The roof timbers, caught in tlie whirl, were thrown off, at tangents, in every direction, the heavy ones, how ever, falling at angles similar to the trees at Colonel Moore’s. Most of tbe damages south of Union street (presumed to be tbe southern limit of the tornado’s path) may be ascribed to the force of a 40 inile-per-oour gale which blew from 10 p.m. to midnight and which was independent of tbe whirling force, as illustrated in tbe cases of Colonel Moore’s gronnds and tbe E. <fc X. manufacturing company. A gale blowing 40 miles per hour, with a pressure of eight pounds upon every square Coot of surface, is sufficient to demolish many of tbe weakly built chimneys, spires and roofs which fell during the storm. It is probable that the tornado was formed in this vicinity by an upward current of warm air meeting with a colder upper current. A temperature of observed at 11 p.m., last night, in connection with other at mospheric conditions, lead to this assump tion. A shed was lifted from the custom-house yard and Iandt?d shattered in tbe street which contained a block of granite weigh ing nearly two hundred pounds. This block was found subsequently some hun dred feet or more from tbe storting point, hating been lifted over another fence. This shows th* terrible force of the wind. A drove of about one hundred cows, frightened probably by the fulling of trees in the country, came into the city on the Harding pike shortly after daylight. The s orm did about $160 worth of dam age about the capitol. Several windows and doors on the west side were blown out, and in tbe upper stories and tower numer ous panes of glass were blown out, large pieces of which could be found all over the grounds. The estimated loss of Rhea & Son is $800; that of Col. William Moore from $3,000 to $.>,000; the Edgefield A Nashville manufacturing company $20,000; First Colored Baptist church from $8,000 to $10 000; Northern Methodist church from $3,000 p» $5,000; St, Paul’s church from $15,000 to $20,000; Newton McClure. $q000; John Lumsden. $1,000; Sheriff Price, $5,- 000; custom-house, $10 OOOl These were the principal losses sustained. The aggregate losses will probably amount to $75,000 The wheat in Rhea A Son-’s elevator was stored in the first story and was saved by the tightness of fhe tioor of the secorni story. The city work-house lost a portion of its roof. The Murphy block, on South Market street, was unroofed, and a loss of about $300 sustained by Kinney. McLaughlin «fc Co. Ewing. Bransfonl A Gaines, iu the same building, also suffered from the effects of the storm. Gray, Kirkntan A Co., on the public square, estimate their loss on stock at $30u. The loss on the building, owned by Mrs. Hogan, of laniisville, will exceed this uount. Thomas, Dibrell A Morgan sustained a loss of abu«t $300 on their stock from the partial unroofing of their store, in the City hotel block, public square. The loss on the PUBLIC PENSIONERS CREDITED TO GEORGIA’S QUOTA. The Discrimination Practiced Against Georgia in the Public Departments—Men Who Hover Saw Georgia Pulling the Pub lic Teat in Her Hame. Washington, February Iff 1 —I have taken the trouble to examine into the government patronage that Georgia gets from the United States, and it is pitifully srnalL Of the 0S.- 000 people that the government pays, Geor gia does not furnish 300. While of the number credited to Georgia fully one-half are not Georgians, but hail from other states. It is certainly time to equalize this matter. There is no reason in the world why such a beggarly apportionment should be given to our state, and why the northern and western states should have a monopoly of this government patronage. I believe that our southern congressmen should unite and insist upon their rights in this thing. I give a table of the names of persons ac credited to Georgia in the United States government employ, their states of birth and their salary. It makes an interesting and suggestive array of statistics, to which especial attention is invited: A. W. Reese, Georgia, clerk house committee, * jf?R. aueed. Georgia, postmaster senate, $2,048. W. H. Harrison, Georgia, clerk bouse commit- UpirKoti Itaw 1*. Georgia, superitAtiffUeht docu ment room. $2,COO. James lianlu, Georgia, clerk senate committee. 8am Cleghorn, Alabama, messenger house, tb- General C. W. Field, Kentucky, door-keeper house. $2,500. ^Eugene Speer, Georgia, tally clerk house, $2,- c — Braswell, Georgia, post-office messenger, J. G. Paine, Georgia, clerk lolding room, $1,800. Nesbit Mills. Georgia, page. $2.50per day. plished, and its subversion In form is only a question of time: and they believe this inevita- • Me result can be reached more easily and with less abo. k through General Grant than through any other man I doubt whether both of these cissies combined, number one hundred men in Georgia, but they are men of. Intelligence. and they -entertain with favor the idea of electing Genera- Grant nominally for a third term, and resily for life. selves aa his foremost irieuds in the south. __ command the offices which will then be in hi* gift. These last are more numerous and more noisy ana less inteUigent than the tint two mentioned above, but they are *“ every sense to *uthor- • $720. J. S. Dobson, Tennessee, L J. 8. Knight, Georgia, laltorer, $720. Frank Dixon, Georgia, laborer, $720. F. H. Alfrieud, Virginia, clerk senate, $2,22». <’ H. Williams, Georgia, clerk pension office, $720. George A. Gust in, England, stenographer, $1.- 800. classes too weak ize any chance of giving the electoral vote of any southern state to General Grant. • Nearly all the southern people have a kindly feeling for General Grant. He is stronger at the soudi than anv other republican. Our people never forget his mauly and magnanimous con duct toward them at toe close of tlie war. If he had manifested the same magnanimity In his ad- his seeming disregard < the returning board fraud* both iu state and fed eral election*, and his unexpected subserviency to bad men who tilled the world with scandals during his administration, have fully convinced our people that General Grant was not equal to his grand opportunities aud ought not aguiu to be trusted with power, however persona ly houest and kind he may be. it is a national c. people are not permr Views aud feelings of the southern people, and * vent such understanding, are the of both scctious. Let tue state one fart All thinking men iu the south feel and be lieve that our constitutional system of free gov. •nuneut is in verv proat »*er 5 l of dual and cum pletc overthrow. With the few exceptions I mentioned before, we are naturally more auxious to avert the overthrow than are the northern people. Why should we teel more anxious? it * ' ' southern people feel and believe strength. While not , , the sectional spirit which dominates the repnbli can party, and which enables that party to domi nate the northern people has grown to its daugcr gerous proportions through the passions engendered by secession and the war. If, therefore, this sectional spirit shall dually pluuge all soetious direction directly the opposite of secession. It is thus proper and natural that onr people in Itould b “ * CRIME AND CASUALTY. terminated with a resolution from Mr. Tay lor that the policy of the committee in re spect to ibis matter be strictly adhered to. Mr. Hooker offered as a substitute that the matter of invitations be left in the hands of the authorities of the southern railroads. Mr Kinsev thereupon move*! that the subject belaid on the table, and this was agreed to. Adjourned subject to the call of the chalr- NASHVILLE’S SENSATION. A Tornado That Carried Everything la Ita IVny. Nashville, February 14.—The tornado which occurred here Thursday night, defies description. The wind was moving at a ve locity of forty miles an hour, rendering um brellas utterly useless, signs, bricks, por tions of roofs and limbs of trees were living in every dim :ion. The lightning was sc vivid that it blinded one every few steps Tbe thunder was deafening. Rain poured down in a tlood. Buildings were shaken to their foundations. Many were im pressed with the belief that the storm was accompanied by a succession of earth quakes, but in this they were mistaken. It was the unprecedented velocity of the wind which, for a time, seemed to threaten the destruction of the entire city. Hacks were blown over. Persons were picked up and Harden, Stridden, K.bberletand Fire llARRisttrno, February 18.—Tbe vicinity ot Baiubndge, Lancaster county, and the country lor miles around, has been startled a horrible tragedy involving the death four persons. In a small frame house abutting on a public road, about a quarter of a mite from the Pennsylvania railroad, there resided Charles Lane and family, consisting of his wife and three children. On Saturday Agent ice man, living in the neigh borhood, suspected that something had oc curred in the house, as he had not seen any of the inmate* for several days. He insti tuted an investigation, and through the windows discovered Line and his wife, the latter clasping an infant to her face, and a girl, aged about five years, and a boy two years older, lying on a rudely constructed cot near by. The doors of the buiiding were found locked. One of them was burst open and the sleeping-room thoroughly ex amined. Lane, who was six feet five inches tall, lay diagonally across the bed. with no signs of life. His wife occupied a crouch ing position with her s<ull crushed and her neck broken. From the Lead to below the breast her body presented a livid appearance. She held in her arms a child ah mi three months old, which had evidently been smothered. The face of the little one was barely under tbe cover, and wa* pressed tightly against the face of its mother, both of which were flattened out by tlie contact. The b->dies of the mother and child were in an advanced state of decomposition. In an ill-provised bed wa* the dead body of the littie girl, her neck broken, and presenting au appearance indicating that she had been dead some time. Alongside of her was her little brother, who wa* on his hands and knees, his feet and |iortionsof his legs being badly frozen. He was protected by no clothing, and when the discovery of the tragedy was tirade by outside parlies, he exclaimed. Hush! Hush! They are sleeping.'’ There was considerable blood on the bed occupied by Lane and his wife, hut no evi dence of a struggle. As no implements were found about the house with wliicb the woman’s skull could have been crushed without leaving a mark, it is supposed Lane pres-ed her violently against the rail of the bed. Dr. Weseinau, of Biinbridge, made a post mortem examiua ion of the body of Lane, and discowiel mistakabie evidence of po son in stomach, and came to the couclu-iou that he died from it. Althuugh he made aminulion of tbe body of the little girl, he is convinced poison had been administered to h.r : but as her neck was also broken, lie is unable to say which caused her death. The mother aud child were placed in one lliu, and Lane aud his daughter in ser rate coffins, and all interred -n tlie ce lory in the suburbs of Uuinbridge. The surviving member of the family is being cared for oy a neighboring family, and the attending physician has holies ot his recovery. The little fellow is quite cheerful, but doea not realize the terrible situation. He says his sister is dead, but thinks his father and mother alive He says his father gave mother and sister some thing they did not want to take. It is sup- itoseii this was poison, but there was noth ing to show that the boy had partaken of any. As Lane had evinced much afi'.clion for the child, it is believed he could not find it in his heart to kill him. Dr. Weseiuun is of the opinion that Mrs. Lane was dead at least four days before the discovery of her decomposed body. The last seen of her and her children until the revelation of the tragedy was ou Monday last. Lane was alive ou Thursday and is supposed to have taken poison that night. In*the afternoon a little girl through a door saw all the inmates iu bed, and says Line kicked his wife and sp inked the little boy. Robert W. Alston, Georgia, messenger senate, 1.440. H. W. Hilliard, North Carolina, minister to Brazil. $12,000. William L- Scruggs, Tennessee, China consul, $LoU>. Robert T. Clayton, Georgia, Callao consul, Johi : 1,500. i’hillip Carroll, New York, clerk department of state, $1,200. Thomas Robinson, England, clerk treasury, SI,GUO. Allen Wood, Alabama, clerk treasury, $1,00). I. uiins D,’ Alden, Pennsylvania, clerk treasury, 1.200. Walter L. Clift, Massachusetts clerk treasury, 1,400. John T. Bivins, Georgia, clerk treasury, $1,400. ‘lhadden* Stmgiw, Georgia, clerk treasury, Arthur Clements, $1,600. George M. Fisher, Illinois, clerk treasury, .400. M. H. McWhorter, Georgia, clerk treasury, $1,200. Charles P. Freeman. Michigan, clerk treasury. 1.200- James It Dcveaux, Georgia, clerk treasury, i.-A0. Mrs. M. B. Ashburn, Georgia, clerk treasury, f'.MJO. Mrs. Helen N. Chelf, Georgia, clerk treasury, $210. W. F. Warner, Ohio, clerk treasury, $1.2 0. John P. Turner,Georgia, clerk treasury, $GGQ. Madi*ou Bell,Geo.gia, clerk treasury, $ 1,200. Mrs. Eliza Peters, District of Columbia, clerk treasury. 1000. Mrs. Ellen P- Fisher, Maine, clerk treasury, $0UO. Mrs. Anna H. Bowles, Georgia, clerk treasury, $1W). D. A. Spencer, Connecticut, clerk treasury, $8 per day. John P. Butler, Ohio, clerk treasury, $1,800. William U. H. Hart, Alabama, clerx treasury, $660. John M. Judge, district of Colorado, clerk treas ury. won. Mia* Jennie W. Franklin, Georgia, clerk treas ury $1.25 per day. Mbs Virginia Ward, Georgia, clerk treasury, SI.25 per day the south should be anxious, above all ot&er pie. to allay the section heats their so greatly iniLmed; TBia Virginia lIou*»e Delegate* Angry Witts a Magistrate. imoxp, V.v., February lt» —The com mittee of the 'house of delegates charged with the investigation of • recent affray the rotunda of tne capitol bet ween \V. \V. Archer and C. N. Harrison, newspaper re- ( iorter%and J.A Fraxier.delegate from Rock- iridge, have made a report recommending the expulsion of the former from the fiojr of the bouse daring further session* of that body. The committee rebakes the had taste and impropriety of Mr. Frazier’s oriii- blown half-way c:sra of a fellow member in aputfficnew^ } ingin the mod. paper, and in unpar.ian.emary language. | time between the commencement of the but recommend that he be re’emed from storm and the paper going to press, had to arrest and restored to his privileges a* a keep in a dead run. dodging all sorts of ob- metuber. The committee also submitted ] mructions revealed by the constant Hashes rf ._ another report setting forth that Police- J of lightning, and then were drenched to the | Missouri river, last Friday, in which the Justice Crutchfield had been guilty of con- J »ktn. It was, in fact, the roughest time notorious Jim Sauers and Mr_Somers, bis blown half-way across streets to find a land- The reporters, in the short Sirs. Beutrice Pope, Georgia, clerk treasury, Miss Susie U. Owen, < Georgia, clerk state depart ment. SHOO. William II. Grigsby, Georgia, clerk land office, l.OuO. John R. Kendrick, Georgia, inspector customs, 1 per day. Carlisle Terry, Jr., auutn. George II. Stone, New York, assistant surgeon. Georgia, survey, $35 per spector, Sl,2u0. H. I>. Headman, Pennsylvania, steamboat in spector, «i,2oa A. II. Gasteu, North Carolina, public buildings. meat, $1,500. Malcolm Frazer, England, quartermaster de- purtmeut, 1060. J F. H. Blols, Georgia, post-office department. W. W. Colquitt, Georgia, post-office clerk, $1.00). Mrs. Mary Kramer, Maryland, post-office clerk, £VU0. Robert Levitt. Georgia, post-office clerk, SGGQ. Pierce LaFayetie, ueorgla, clerk interior de partment, $720. Mr*. Annie M. Peters, Georgia, clerk interior demrtmeut. $'.*►). James G. Zachery, Georgia, clerk interior de partment, S*J0J. Edward H. Johnson, Virginia, clerk interior de partment, ma * VirgikHillyer, Ohio, clerk Interior department, Charles F. Sawyer, Maiue, clerk interior de partment. $1,600. s. H. Kramer. Marry land, watchman, $G60. ** 1 lodge*, Yermout, clerk dejmrtuieot of peo- iduct store the constitutional _ _ _ mistake so woefully unsel- tledran’d preserve the union of states their own madness so nearly destroyed. The faet 1 have just stated will explain much of south ern history since tlie war. There never was such a social, industrial, and political So also, there never was such an ordeal of humil iation. insult, robbery, and wrong as tliat through which we were forced to pass in the negro domination and^carpet-bag rule of reconstruction. That some re-entment* were provoked, I do*nct deny. That some excesses were retaliated, I ireely admit, aud that some temporary* violent remedies were re sorted to iu the de.q»eratlon of self-preservation I concede. But when the history of that terrible ordeal shall be fully known, the world will be because they knew that those who inilict-d the wrongs denved their power to intlict them from the powers engendered by secession, and because they saw also that every groan, ev. ry murmur, event protest, and every individ ual excess or iudficretion, was eagerly caught up S their plunderers, aud exaggerated and herald- before the northern people, as evidence of a continuous spirit of rebellion, in order to con tinue their oppressors iu power. * £ southern people have lost every- by sectionalism. The repubii- party owes all its successes, all its power, aud all its offices to thi* same sectional ism. The southern people desire above all things, to put au end to the sectiooalism which has destroyed them. The republican party desire above all things, to keep alive the sectionalLsm which has made them. But the republican party cannot keep alive that sectionalism if tbe north ern masses can on«*e fully understand the pres ent views and feelings of tbe southern )>cople; •outhern imls and beneficiaries of sectionalism have persistently misrepresented everything in the south, with all the energy which tne greed for power can inspire. In the last presidential count the southern democrats insisted upon submitting loss ot t president, elected by the people, rather than hazard the dangers of another civil war. Yet republican leaders who knew this fact, and who in private here expressed warm admiration for it,went home to their people and represented that the country would he in danger again, if the fouth with the democratic party should again obtain powei! And every re- ^mblican^ partisan paper daily emphasized the Duriug the late extra session it wa* well known that while the southern democrat* desired the repeal of certain laws, and most especially au odious jury law. under whi h nearly all the white men in the south could be exclu led from i without votiug appropriations —. ^ the republi- . ‘presented t* **• ~ northern people "tliat the rebels, having faib shoot the government to death, were seekit starve it to death!"—and all the republican RULE TWENTY-® WHAT MR. SPEER THIKS OF IT. The Debate on Mr. Emory Speer’s Amendment to Rule-Twenty-one, Prohibiting Riders tq Appropriation Bills—Mr. Speer Gives Hi* Reason* for It. admitted ou all occasions that secession wa* settled by the war. and it would be treason to at tempt again to assert it. But because they be- reserved to the states respectively or to the peo ple," these republican leaders and journals have actually sought to create a paulc at the north, by affecting to believe the south is again reviving the doctrine of secession. ihese instances, with many others, illustrate the two great facts. (1) that tbe southern people sectionalism. Outside of sectionalism that party has neither history, nor policy, nor purpose nor prospects. When it shall cease to be sectional, it will cease to exist. But scc- tionali-m is the very death of the south. We o m have neither hope nor life, save in a broad constitutional nationalism. It is not possible, therefore, for General Grant orauy other man nominated by the sectional republican party, to carry a single southern siate. I ad mi the democratic party Is not all that we derire. There is much in the history of that party I can not approve, and it vacillates now on some questions in a manner which i* mortifying. But with all it* faults it is the only party in sight with which any mau can affiliate who sincerely desires to frater nize the feelings, nationalize the interest*, and constitutionalize the government of the Amer.can people. Tnat would indeed be a glorious movement She communicated the intelligence to b< mother, who did not suspect a tragedy, as he had frequently abused the wife. Jhe woman was evidently dead when Lane kicked her. Lane was about twenty-four years old, amt hi* wife thirty-four. Tuey moved to Bainbriige last May trow near West min ter, t'arroll county. Aid. After living there a short time she left for her home, and after the. last child was born, when it was about three weeks* old. she returned with her children. He had meanwhile sold all the furniture, and was getting ready to leave the onmuumitr. Against his wishes they resumed housekeeping, and recently he in dicated that the people of Batnbridee would be startled by something he would do. j Yankton, D. T., February 17.—Iutelli- I genoe ho* just reached thi.* city of a fatal >unter at Brule City, 150 miles up the panmeut of agriculture. *1,0j0. W. 11. Elliott, Georgia, national board of health. $10 per day. J. »V. Carter. Virginia, public printing. «» in addition to the loregoing (tersons we have In Georgia ,V.t men employed in the revenue department as collectors, store- keejiers and gaugers of whom 27 are from other states. Their salaries range from $4 per day to $3 000 a year. There are 18 men in li;. whom 10 are from other states who receive fr mu $400 to $7(Jo per year. Theie are thirty-one men in the port col-1 lector's depar meats at .Brunswick, St. Mary’s and Savannah, of whom twelve are from other states. Of the eighty-nine whose names we have given, forty are from other states. There are thirty-three persons in the federal judiciary of Georgia, of whom six teen are front other stat .*. Aiul of the six men connected with the Atlanta custom-house, all but one are from oiber states. To sum up, there are but 23G employes of the United States government from Georgia out of !»8,00b, while of the 2-M» nearly one- half, or 110, are from other states, many of whom were never in Georgia. This is a condition of things unjust to Georgia, that our senators and representatives should take in hand and if possible remedy. Geor gia is entitled to more and her congressmen s hould git it. I hope tbe press of Georgia 3 ill ventilate and urge the reform. to honest government, into cordial co-operation. The aoutneru people would bail such a movement with delight We of the south, present no names for presidential hon ors. I believe the very best thing which could happen would be au admlnfitr-ition of the government by a wise southern statesman, for It would be the pride and pleasure of such a man. to so administer oar national affairs banish from the min 's of «he northern people the last vestige of distrust and apprehension of south- national fidelity growing out of past sectionul ** are aware that the section- . ipero. 1_ “ ' calmly on this subject, and would such a suggestion, therefore. n • thought ful man m the . south is even expect- tiug such honors. All that expect . w _ union. many such statesmen in every state of the north, in both parties: but not one such is spoken of for the republican nomi- u I can name men in New England—even in Massachusetts—who would administer the govemmeutin a spirit worthy of Washington, * ■ * ^ the southern peon’ . _ elevate to that hq position. After all, such men mnst ultimately be chose the people will lose their right to choose at a The people mnst end tbe triumphs of fraud. < BILLON GRANTISM. tempt of authority of the house iu refusing I ever experienced, to give up the parties to this affray, when Tbe stortu was very extensive, and heavy ctlted for by the house, and in saying, "that rain* were general, bat from a *outhwesier- machine (meaning house delegated! ly direction. The severity of the storm as should not run lose *urt .snd that every j to rainfall was confined to n tract starting damned one should go to jail." 1 pou rec- j from northeastern Texas and directed to owmendattoa of the committee process the northeast, as follows: Little R^ck. 170 rred upon t’rutchfield, and further I inches; Memphis, 4.00 inches: Nashville, up proceedings postponed until to-morrow; A Little Boom far Khfrman. Richmond. February !?.—A tetter signet! 11»««.— riI1F - th , irinlra . bsneath thedign I.* of the state of Georg a to be dealing in doubtful titles. If the act ia defective the |«ople in every county along the line want an extra session of the legislature to rectify the errors, and such f*:#pa taken as will surely carry out the de* *im of our people. The policy of compe tition across our state to our seaj«ort* in- domed aa it waa by four-fifths of the last legislature must be earned out." Mr. Goodyear aaid that another cause that had to some extent aroused the people was tbe new combination between he Central and tbeLotusville and Nashville. tion of supporting hint for tbe presidency, and expressing their belief that in the event of his election the colored people will find in him a friend ever ready to defend to 2 p iu., 7 ’.«o inches, showing tbe charac teristics of the storms in general. Le w increase m intensity as they advance. <A»ld west to northwest wind* have succeeded tbe passage of the storm over this place, and clearing weather may be expected. The tornado, which created such havoc in our locality, may be regarded as light in character, having no well- defined path of destruction. The whirling gyrating movement of the wind, which ue|»hew. killed each other. Taere wta a feu 1 of many years'^ standing between their families, and oa Friday young Com ers and hi* uncle came togetuer aud had an altercation. Jim grabbed » needle guu and shit his nephew in rough the body: a* ue fell the latter pulled out a revolver and shot liia uncle, silling him instantly. Baltimo&x. February 17.—Louis Mar burg. aged Jfc, ot the firm ot Marburg Bros.. tobacco manufacturers of this city, wo* found dead tin* uiuruing with two bullet wounds in hi* head at hts home in Wood park, near Baltimore. The |>istol was found lying near his side, and it is thought he oommi.ted suicide. Galveston, February 17.—Dr. J. J. The Senator From Georgia Analyxea the Makeup or the Southern Grai Element. From the Brattlebo;o (Vermont) Reformer. The letter below from Senator Ben Hill is a mauly. straightforward, temperate doc unient, which does great credit to the writer and to hts constituency, so far a* his view* represent it. It ought to put to shame every bloody shirt demagogue who is trying to retain his grasp of the plunder of office by prolong!ngl*eotional strife. heir interests. To-dav. a replv was re- j » rite principal feature of tornadoes, ap- 1 Oreilly, a' stranger here, committed suicide ceived from Sherman 'expressing pleasure I pears to have commenced at tbe edge of tne j in the station-house Sunday night by cut- at tbe kindly sentiments contained iu the 1 ooe quarter of a mile west ting his Jugular vein with a lancet. It is communication, and concluding: "All are j °* Jubilee hall, and at the house of Mrs. alike citizens of a common country, equal- | Merriman, thence progressing tn a dxrec- It cntuM to acn at and T-Jual- i UMfrorn wuthwm uuanbMK by bountU ly bound to obey it* law* and usages." and in a path one-quarter of a mile width. John Kkijly slipped on a piece of demo J The grounds of Colonel Moore, of Edge- cratic ice tne other day and dislocated his 1 field, present tbe most remarkable example shoulder. | of the gyratory force. Several trees, some said he is a prominent physician of IamtsviUe. and that he strayed to Texas while under the influence of liquor. Baipocroirr, Conn.. February 17.—The trial of Wrn. Buchaiz for tbe murder of H. tv Chulte at Norwalk, December 2s:b. 18*8, commenced to-day. >t to iateutiouai neglect, the delay in answer ing your letter of the l'Jth instant. You oak. "Do you favor G meral _ idem, under any consideration? (as some people claim.) Has Gram any following among the southern democrats? and iu cose of bis nomination by the republican*, do you think he c-ould carry a single southern state?" An«wer: I do not favor General Grant’s election to the presidency under any contingency that 1 can now imaaiue. General Grant does have some follow ing in the south, among those who say they are democrat!, but if nominated by the republican party, he could not carry a single southern state. There are a few men in the south who are still unfriendly to the union. Haring failed to dis solve that anion by secession, they now hope to ,*ee a worse result, practically, acc .mph-hed through the opposite extreme of centralism and d» spotiom. They believe this result can be reached more certainly and speedily through the third election of General Grant than by any other mean*. An illustration of this class is f r- nished in General Toombs, of my own state, who Mr. White—I rise to make a proposition. ^The Chairman—The gentleman will state Mr. White—I desire to withdraw the amendment which I have offered to tbe second clause of rule 21. inasmuch a* tbe gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Speer? >ia* given notice of his intention to offer an amendment to the next clause which will accomplish the same purpose. For that reason I withdraw my amendment. Mr. (jarfieltf--Allow me to suggest to gen tlemen on the other side that vve pass with out further debate the second clause, so that we may proceed to consider clause 3 in this rule. * Mr. White—I offered tuy amendment as a new clause, but withdraw it for the purpose of allowing the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Speer] to offer his amendment to the next clause. The ahiendmeut of Mr. White was ac cordingly withdrawn. The clerk read a* follows: 3. No appropriation* shall be reported in any general appropriation bill, or be in order as an amendment theieto, for any expenditure not pre- vioudy authorized by law, uulc*« iu continuation of appropriations for such public works and ob ject* »s are already in progress. Nor shall any any such bill or amendment thereto —.sting l*w be in order, excep such as being germane i ► the subject-matter ot the bill, shall retrench expenditure.*. Mr. Speer—I move to amend the clause just read by striking out of the latter jKtr- tion of it the words " except such as being germane to the subject-matter of the bill shall retrench expenditures" and to insert in lieu thereof that which 1 send to the clerk’s desk. The clerk read as follows: But it shall lie in order to strike any sum of money in an appropriation bill aiul iusert a les* The latter portion of clause 3 as proposed to be amended was as follow’s: Nor shall any provision in any such bill or amendment thereto changing existing law be in order, but it shall be iu order to strike out any im of money in an appropriation bill and insert less sum. Mr. Speer—I think that amendment will accomplish tbe object which U sought tube attained by all of those who desire to see general legislation divorced from the gen eral appropriation bills; and it will also ac complish fully the object of retrenching ex penditures when necessary. Mr. Chairman, in presenting the reasons why general legislation should be divorced from the unnatural union with the appro priation bills, l protest that I am not. in the slightest degree, influenced by partisan feeling. 1 take no interest in the inquiry who began to affix riders to the appropria tion bills. 1 shall not remind the republi can party of the vital legislation they have accomplished by these methods nor is it necessary for me to occupy the attention of the hou?e in defending the motives of tuy democratic brethren, their patriotism, or the purity of their purpose* in the uses they have made of the same resource*. Sir, if it is possible, at any time, to rise above the sordid considerations of party, it should be in the discussion of rules* for the permanent guidance and control of the business of legislation by this house. Mr. Chairman, all men of uli parties, it seems to tue, must agree that the practice of at taching positive laws on other subjects or on any subject to the money bills ot this house is a practice which finds no legiti mate parentage in the constitution of this government, and is fraught with mischief which at any time and when least expected may become irreparable. To abolish the practice would be a stride in the advance ment of political science which would ex cite the interest and the admiration of every intelligent patriot in this country. In the discussion of questions like this we are to some extent remitted to the dis cussion of elementary principles. The three co-ordinate departments of our government are supported by the appropriation bills of the house of representatives. Have gentle men considered what tlie failure of these bills means ? I do not mean a temporary failure; 1 do not mean a failure which can be cured by an extra session of congress, or which can be tided over by the credit of the government; but I mean a refusal on the part of the people’s representatives to grant the money necessary to sustain the govern ment. Sir, it means anarchy; it means the paralysis of.every department of this gov ernment; it means the repudiation of the national debt; it means the destruction of the judiciiry; it means the abdication of the executive: it means the dispersal of congress. Whenever the representatives of the people i>ermanently and continuously refuse to vote the people’s money to sustain the people's government, red-handed revo lution or the iron grasp of despotism will seize upon and ravage the unprotected heri tage of freemen Mr. Atkins—Has any party ever done that? Mr. Speer—I decline to yield to the gen tleman. I am not discussing this with re gard to party now. It may be very easily demonstrated that the practice of riders on the appropriation bills may at any time eventuate in the refusal of the supplies. If there is one national characteristic of the American people which is strong and in tense. it is astrong and intense party spirit. If this characteristic find* nndounded ex pression and demonstration anywhere. I say with profound deference to this imposing presence it :s in the house of representa tives. Now, sir, let us do what it is not very difficult to do. Let us suppose thdt the two great parties of this house are divided on what they conceive to be a vital political question. Let us suppose that the measure in which this ita! political diffi-rmce presents itself is in rider oil the post-office appropriation bill. Let us suppose that the party which is in a majority in this house is in a minority in lae senate; or that the occupant of the presidential chair belong* to the minority school, the p<>9t-offloe bill for the support of the post-routes and post-oifices and mail carriers of tbe great and complicated ami eneticent postal system of the United States passe* the house with the r.derat tached. [Here the hammer fell ] Mr. Speer subsequently obtained the floor, and concluded as follows: When interrupted 1 was giving a hypo thetical case of the effect of a rider of polit ical legislation on the post-office appropria tion bill. The senate refuses to concur. On _ committee of conference, both the senate and the house decline to recede from their positions. Neither party desires to strike down the postal system. The nolitical nder is the rock on which they split. They are conscientious, and they will not surrender their convictions. They are firm, and they will not abate a jot or tittle of their just de mands. The closing hour of the wioa approaches. The session ex- res. Not a dollar i* voted for the maintenance of that system which to-day is one of tbe greatest agencies of civ- if th? power of judging be not separated from the legislative and executive powers." Now. sir. does not the political rider de stroy this independence? Is is not intend ed as a threat to the senate and to the executive? Iloes it not impliedly declare that the money shall not be forthcoming to sustain the gov ernment unless the senate ami the execu tive will accede to the demands of the house of representatives? We have, within the past decade, been regaled with a great deal of eloquence iu the discussion of measures 9f this character on the subject of parlia mentary heroism. What does parliament ary heroism in this connection mean? ll means, sir, to refuse to vote the money uti les* the senate or the executive shall con clude to coincide with the house of repre sentatives. Now, sir. is not this an illegitimate exer cise oronr prerogative? Has not the senate the same constitutional right to pronounce upon tthc merits of a measure that we have? Has not the president, with the power of the veto, functions just as import ant toward the enactment of a law as con gress itself? And yet, though it is our im perative duty to sustain all the depart ments, when we send the senate and the DEATH OF DR. KENNEDY. tbe Union. I b,esst j 1 « ‘ h>t of <be just is ever aid bis life Mootewiuien, before the day of Hamilton, I with victory. ~ Tbe’poiaon woried”repIdiy’ Whn?i “Jlrieadly to tt?nnl“? h?ve may Y on * *“* h «“ . s .P ent »» '■>’ oracular ueatUe on th« subject, had I and the agitation ot the troop, was alarm! lespaired of the ..reaervati-jn of that mrion under raore for “then than for self, and is there- declared * there can be no liberty where the } ing. Washington, apprised of the design* of our constitutional system; who believe its aub- | fore worthy of the love which made it hap- * lesiiative and executive powers are united ; the mischievous advisers,appeared in a meet version in principle has already been occom- j py to him who is now at peace. * in the same person or body magistrates, or ing of the general and fieldofficera, and oon- A Brier Nkclcb ot Ills Career. The telegram announcing the death of Rev. F. M. Kennedy, I).D , will cause deep regret to many of our readers. Few men stood higher in the Methodist ministry than the deceased. He was a son of Rev. \Vn M. Kennedy, of South Carolina, who wa* contemj»orary of the late Dr. Pierce and the other noble men who established Method* the south. His son early resolved to enter the university where his father had done such good service. After graduating at Wofford college he joined the South Carolina conference. He soon rose to prominence and wa* en trusted with the pastoral care of the leading charges in the cniference. .Vs a preacher Dr. Kennedy ranked among the best in South Carolina and Georgia. He wa* a stu dent and a scholar, and his sermons were always strong and fervent As a pastor he excelled. His genial manners and hi* sweet temper made him beloved wherever be went, and congregation ever parted with him will ingly. In 1871 he wa* chosen editor of the Southern Christian Advocate to take the place of Dr. Myers, who resigned the edi torial charge of that paper. Until 1*78 Dr. Kennedy edited the Advocate with ability and success. When the paper was earned back to Charleston he left Macon and returned to Charleston where he continued hi* editorial labors only a short while. His health, which had been delicate for several years finally failed, and the last two years of his life were spent in great suffcrenng. He waa about fifty years old, and a few year* ago his friends hoped that his life would fill with its honors and its services tbe full three score years and ten. Hi* memory will be blessed a* that of tbe just is ever and bis life to support the* government provided you, the senate, or you, the president, trill consent ti> agree with our proviso. Thi* is Usurpation. This is the aggrandizement: of senatorial prerogatives and the veto power iu the house of representatives. But, sir, there is another most insidious effect which this species of legislation mav have upon the independence of the executive and judi cial departments of the government. X am discussing this question abstractly; I am speaking impersonally. 1 mean the facility it gives to congress to withhold the salaries of the officers of these departments beyond the period ojf payment lixed by the consti tution. ft is useless for gentlemen of an optimistic turn of mind to deuy the propo sition that the control over a man’s salary very likely to be n control ove‘r will. Human nature is pretty much the same thing it always has been. We have advanced but very little toward that state of perfectibility Which was im agined by Plato while dreaming in the gar dens of the academy. It was for this reason that tbe constitution wisely provides that the president shall receive for his services a tuiary which shall be paid at stated inter vals, and shall neither be increased nor di minished during his term of office. In sim ilar terms, it provides that the judges of tlie supreme and inferior courts shall at slated times receive for their services a comi»en- sation which shall not be diminished dur ing their continuance in office. The consti tution seeks to deprive congress of the power of discretionary action with regard to the salaries of these officials. Sir, I again cite the authority of Hamil ton, whose splendid exposition of the con stitution cannot be too frequently or too carefully consulted by those who desire to place a patriotic and rightful interpretation upon that instrument. It is in the Feder alist, in the seventy-third number, that he declares "the legislature, with a discretion ary power over the salary and emoluments of the chief magistrate, would render him as obsequious to their will as they might think proper to make him. They might in most cases either reduce him by famine or tempt him by largesses to sur render at discretion his judgment to their inclinations. "There are men," ho con tinue* "who could neither be distressed nor won into a sacrifice of their duty, ’out this «tern virture is the growth of few soils, and in the main it will he found that a power oyer ft man’s support is a power over his will It is not competent, for con- cress to weaken tlie fortitude of the president by operating upon hi* necessi ties, nor corrupt his integrity by appealing to his avarice." Sir, the same reasoning applies with equal force to the injurious effect on the inde pendence of the judiciary, which a dirore- tion to delay and refuse the salaries of the judges would occasion. But it will lie con tended that the political rider on the ap propriation hill will not diminish the coii- ituiional salaries^ these officials. 8ir.it will directly diminish such salaries. At best it postpones the payment. This deprives the preMdent or $the judge of the use and interest of his money, which is to diminish the salary. It does more. It violate* that provision of the constitution which declares that the salaries shall he paid at stated times. That is to say times which are to be fixed by law. To illustrate: the statutes now declare that the salary of the president shall be paid monthly. This was the law when he was inaugurated, and cannot law fully and rightfully be changed to as to af fect his salary during his term of otlic-. In other word*, he has an undeniable, vested right to monthly payments. Now, sir, I ask what difference does it make to the rights of the president whether you postpone the payment of his salary until his term of office expires,or whether, because of a political rider on the appropriation bill about which you disagree, you do not vote the money to pay his salary until his term of office expires. To him the effect, is the same. He is deprived of his money. The constitution which sought to deny *to the legislature any control over the emolu ments of the chief magistrate during his term ot office is disregarded and nullified; and, dependent upon your caprice for a support, to recall the language of Hamil ton, "you may reduce him by famine or tempt him by largesses to surren der his judgment to your inclina tions." Sir. is it safe? Is it wise? Is it patriotic? Is it indicative of permanency and durability in our institutions when constitutional and fundamental distinc tions are obliterated norm the merest pre text of the exigency of the moment, upon the most insufficient reason of party neces sity? Sir, gentlemen are fond of citing British precedents for the practice of refusing the supplies as a legitimate parliamentary re- jured them to adhere to the line of moder ate counsels and patriotic duty. By thus determining and thus acting— 8aid he, you will pursue the plain and direct road to the attainment of your wishes; you will defeat the insidious designs of your cuenjies, who are com pelled to r son from open fort* to secret artiiioe; you will give one more signal proof of unexampled S triotum and patient virtu* rising superior to ? pre#Mire of the mo>t complicated sufferings, to mankind, "hud Um day.been wonting, the world had never seen the^loSt stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.” Sir, under changed conditions this house may profit by the timely admonitions of Washington. The peace of the count!\% the regular discharge of all the func tions of the government, the confi dence of our commercial and industrial in terests, the quiet of the public mind, and above all, the supreme necessity of main taining the government, are so far superior to the importance of any mere party vic tory' that reason will not brook hesitation, and patriotism but obevs the dictates of reason. Sir, as no man can question the consistency i ^opinions upon this subject, so no man sliomddoulit the sincerity of tuy convictions or the patriotism of my motives. Sir, I re iterate that the political rider on the appro priation bill imports that the money to maintain this government may be refused at any moment. Refuse the supplies, and your government will be first palsied, then paralyzed; refuse the supplies, and Bthe mariner, as he approaches your shores, will i- u i n Vain< f<-H‘’>*!• welcome ray of the light house to warn him from hidden dan gers or to direct him to the secure harbor and the placid roadstead; refuse the sup plies, and thousands of families of innocent women imjl children who depend for their support on the good faith of the govern ment will suffer from hunger and penury; refuse the supplies, and iu the absence of the gallant defender* of our border the vile peons and fierce banditti of Mexico will sweep across the frontier, and devastation and robbery, ra pine and murder will mark the places once l , 1‘Py Domes of your citizens. Leave the Indian frontier unprotected, give unre strained license to tho cruel tribes of merci- less and revengeful savages, even now with difficulty restrained by the mailed hand of the government, and picture, if you can, the shapes of terror and despair which will sit for Household gods upon the hearts of the people of your western borders. Refuse the supplies, and you shake the credit of the g overn ment at home and abroad; you umiliate the American people; you shake . the confidence of the world in the stability of our institutions; and instead of a secure, and peaceful, and prosperous country of refuge for the toiling subjects of despotism and victims of tyran ny in the old world, you will afford the spectacle of a decaying republic, a govern ment torn by great and ambitious factions, and where power has usurped the preroga tive of the law. Sir, I do not arrogate to myself any love of country superior to those with whom I am associated. £an» sure it is the proudest de light of the America!! citizen to dwell upon the marvelous future which it requires no prophetic eye to see is the inheritance of this great union of states. There is but one danger ahead of us, and that is that we may be induced to take some departure from the constitution. As long as we hold to this rock we are safe. There is no wave of popular commotion strong enough to sweep us down. I^t us hold to the constitution; let us support the government; then, esteeming country supe rior to party; then on the plane of common humanity, a common destiny, a common brotherhood, a common country, oblivious of the past, let us labor to protect the lib erties, to increase the happiness of the union, and to augmeut the prosperity of that goodly heritage with which Divine Providence has blessed tbe American peo ple. THE REPUBLICANS. iiization on the earth, without which no modern nation can preserve its decency,and whose destruction will carry confusion and misery and distress into the home of every American citizen. Sir, it i* the political rider that ha* done the work. Sir, i* this contingency impossible? Is the picture fancifully drawn? What man among you is there who can lay his hand on his heart and, with the history of this country memory, say that the conjuncture which I have foreboded i* either impossible or im probable? Mr. Chairman, to place a measure of general legislation on an appropriation bill which mu -t of necessity be passed deprives tbe representative of all op{M>rtunity of crit icism or of independent action witn regard to that measure. How is it po«sibte in the closing hours of a session for the representative to make his notions of right and wrong effretive, when it he votes against the general legis lation he must of necessity vote against the entire appropriation ? He must vote for the bill, or he may defeat the appropriation. He surrenders, may be, his judgment and bis conscience, and votes for the bill with the rider attached Or be votes against it, and is liable to have his motives misconstrued, and not improbably will incur tbe disap proval of others when perhaps be least de serves it. But, sir, it is not alone the inde pendence of the representative to which this practice is inimical, but it is aimed likewise, whether intentionally or r.ot it matters not, at the independence of the other branch of congress and at the inde- j»eudence of the executive. 8ir. the most admirable feature of most admirable system is the complete in- dejiendence of its co-ordinate branches. It was sa.d by Hamilton, in tbe federalist, along with his honest, zealous, luminous, and masterl / advocacy of the constitution, "that no political truth is of greater value, or stamped with the authority of more en lightened patrons of liberty, than that the legislative, executive, and judicial deport ment* ought to be separate and distinct, and that it this constitution was justly chargeable with a mixture of these powers no further argument would be nece&sary to inspire a universal reprobation of the sys tem ’’ sort. ^ I should he delighted to hear the distinguished parliamentarians who so earnestly and zealously contend for the rider on the appropriation bill* point out the analogy between the refusal of the British parliament to vote a gratuity to a French sovereign to carry on one of his wars and the refusal of the American con gress to pay the men who have devoted the best years of their lives to the public ser vice for their meritorious services. The ca-es are entirely di-similar. When in British history, save in times of actual revolution, did this “ parliamentary heroism” refuse to maintain every department of the government, from the chief justice of the realm to the light- keeper on Kddystone Reef? The waves of party feeling have run as high in Great Britain as in America. They have sub merged tbe lives and the reputations of the most illustrious patriots. They have dashed with all the fury which tbe'whirlwind of passion could impart against the granitic foundation of that unwritten constitution. But, sir, tbe government was maintained all of its usual furciions; and though the eloquence of Pitt and Fox had lashed the public mind into a frenzy of sympathy, though the death grapple of Brougham and Canning made the world bold its breath, the British public were secure; they were confident; they did not question that their institutions would survive the struggle. Sir. children yet unhorn will pronounce blessing* ut»on tlie forty-sixth congress of these United States, if by your wisdom you Meeting; of tbe State Executive Com mittee. Tuesday aftemom at 2 o’clock there was a meeting of the republican executive committee of the state in the office of the Atlanta Republican publishing company. The meeting was called for the pur pose of making the necessary preparations for the coming political con tests of the present 3’car. in which it is understood that the republicans are going to take an active pare At the meeting yesterday were present: J. K. Bryant, chairman, Volney Spalding, secretary, and the following members: S. A. Darnell, C. O. Fisher, S. G. Thomas, John R. Hayes, Madison Davis, Archibald C. Wade and Jeff Long. Only two members of the committee were ab sent The following members of the state central committee were present and partici pated in the proceedings: Henry P. Farrow, W. H. Smyth, James B. Deveaux, W. P. Pledger and W. H. Harrison. After some consultation the committee resolved to call STATE RKrnilLICAN CONVENTION to meet in Atlanta on the 2lst of April. This convention will be expected to do a great variety of work. It will have to send delegates to the national republican con vention. It will also nominate electors to stand for whomsoever that convention shall nominate, and will probably put out a full state ticket for the October election. It is the purpose of the leaders of the republican party in the state to do all that is possible to reorganize their shattered strength and to make some impression on tbe approaching elections The drift of the discussions yes terday showed that there will be a more determined effort than has been made in this direction for several years past. The representation in the convention will be twice thenumlier of delegates which each county has in the lower house of the legislature, and in the temporary organization of the convention no delegates will be allowed to participate except those who hold certificates from a convention duly called in the county they claim to represent. It is certain that there will be a warm time over the question of delegates to the nstional convention. The friends of Sher man are very busy in his interests, while the advocates of Grant and other promi nent candidates are also hard at work. Georgia has twenty-two votes in the national convention, qnite enough to tnm the scale in a tight vote between two of the aspirants. There seems to be a sort of revival of interest among the republicans in this stat*, and there can be no doubt that they intend to do all they can to make a good canvass »n Georgia, both on state and national issues. FOREIGN FLASHES. relieve the public mind from the possibility of apprehension that your institutions may be destroyed, your government paralyzed, your departmentsdisorganized, your armies dUbanded, your fleets scattered like the Spanish armada, by withholding, from the exces*of party spirit, the f>ower to deprive this great government of its usual, its legit imate, its necessary support. Sir, if gentle men suppose that in this discussion of an abstract and yet a nio*t practical question I naveany allusion to the action of any party they entirely mistake the scope of ray re marks. I do not mean to say that any rider — my appropriation bill would have occa- leu tlie consequences which I have de picted, but these are consequences which may ensue at any time, and this in itself is sufficient argument that the practice is to be deprecated, must be Abandoned. Will it require any particular degree of fortitude or patriotism for gentlemen to support the reform which I advocate? I know that it will place it out of the power of the major ity to repeal at present certain measures of political legislation which I mast heartily desire should be blotted from tbe statute- book. but the good to be attained i* worthv of that sacrifice. Let us divorce general legislation from the appropriation bills. Let us enter up a decree of perpetual divorcement, and we will have given to the republican party, to the people, to history, aud to the world a signal instance of what the representatives of tbe American people are willing to do ami to suffer in the cause of that free gov ernment which was conveyed to them in title deed* indented with the good swords of their revolutionary sires. 8ir. when the continental army, with unparal leled devotion to country and to liberty, had fought out the great bat tle of revolution which gave liberty to a continent aud the hope of freedom to the world, in tbe hoar of their final tri umph insidious efforts were made to In duce them to misuse the strength which hid crowned their sacrificial struggles Tbe Attempt ou tbe Cznr—The Finan cial .Situation In Germany. London, February 18.—A Dublin dispatch to the Pall Mall Gazette this evening says that accounts from the country during the past few days have been more hopeful and are summed up in the words: Much suffering but no starvation, except in far-off islauds, to which relief is bring sent without delay or stint. In parts of county Donegal also the want is great, but the Dublin Mansion house fund has lieen made peremptory available in that quarter. In the mean while the agrarian agitation may be said to have completely ended. All attempts to get up meetings of tbe sort recently have failed. The Mansion house relief fund now amounts to £67,700; 3,440 grants in all have been made. Mr. P. Lorrillard’s brown gelding. Parole, is the favorite in the betting at 10 to 1 for the race for the Lincolnshire handicap, which will take place at the Lincoln spring meeting on Wednesday. March 17th. For the Oxford and Cambridge university boat race, which is to take place on the Tnaraes Saturday. March 20tb. the latter crew is the favorite in the betting at 65 lo 40. AFGHANISTAN. Lahore, February 1H —A Turcoman force, believed to be accompanied by Abdul'. Rahman Khan, has reached Akweba in Afghan, Turkestan. There is great excite ment at Cabal over this report RUSSIA. The Berlin correspondent of the Times telegraphs as follows: It is said that Gener al 8kobeloff will command the Russian main army of invasion in central Asia, numbering 26,000 men, which will march from Tashkend across Bokhara to meet,with a view of operating in the rear of tbe Turco mans, two other armies starting from Tchi- keslar and Krasnovodosk respectively, which will form a junction with bitn before the end of May. The mine which was exploded last even ing in the basement of the winter palace was filled with dynamite and gun-powder. The train by which it was fired can be traced to a cellar in the inner court, where a quantity or fuel wa* stored. Bald Mountain quake* Again. Spartanburg, February 17.—Mr. R. L. Taylor, of this place, who accompanied your reporter to Bald Mountain about two S ear* ago, bes just returned from the neigh- orhood and reports that the residents there felt i*evere shocks and heard rum blings in the mountain on the *28th and 29th of January. On tbe 10th of February, he heard the rumbling very distinctly him self a distance of seventeen miles. The people are considerably excited again, and confidently expect the whole mountain to fall to pieces soon.