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“ERKOK CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WREN REASON IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT IT.”—Jefftnon.
VOLUME XXII
ATLANTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1870.
NUMBER 17
lllfchli) Jntftligcnrfr
ATLAli a GEORGIA.
Wmirmsday. April 27, 1870.
On i;rurml Imuttir.
It se?in«, liorri recent im< rmation, that the
Pre-iiient Ims changed his rrind in regard to
the gonerd Hn.noty, which, some short lime
»go, it was authoritatively announced he de
signed to recommend in a special message to
Congress. Our inlormstton comes Irom the
Wushineton correspondent of the New Yorfc
Herald, who states that in a brief conversation
with the Presidf nt on the 15th inst., be asked
whether he intended, as reported several times
lately, to issue an amnesty proclamation, or
send at-ptcial mete age to Congress recommend
ing the removel ot disabilities caused by the
Fourteenth Amendment. The answer was,
and we invite the special attention of our read-
eis to it:
•*No, sir, Ijdon’t issue any amnesty proclama
tion at nil. My predecessor, Mr. Johnson, ex
hausted that thoroughly [smiling], out it is
quite true that I did some time ago contem
plate sending to Congress a special message
recommendiuu the removal of all disabilities,
and thought that a fitting occasion for a mes
sage ot the kind would be on the re-admission of
Texas and other Slates to the Union, believing
it would have the effect to promote good feeliug
throughout the South, hut since then there have
been so miiii3' complaints about outrages com
mitted in the South, and the frequent requests
to officers ior military interposition in some
Slates, like T. nnensee and North Carolina, that
I have reconsidered my resolution, and come
to the conclusion that so long as the stale of
society in those districts is such as to call mil
itary aid to preserve order, it would be useless
to secommend to Congress the removal of dis
abilities lor the present; therefore, I cannot
send that message to Congress.”
The same cot respondent then asked the Pre
sident ii it was true that he had a message of
the kind prepared ready to send to Congress ?
The answer was: “Yes, sir,” and he, the
President, went on to slate, that the document
had beeu ready, but. its piesentation was aban
doned for reasons already stated. We are told,
also, that the message was a brief, but states
manlike document, urging CoDgress to remove,
by proper enactment, all disabilities imposed by
the Fotirb cuth Amendment, under one simple
condition, to wit: A|»|»earance of all applicants
in open court, and enunciation of such a desire.
It, will he seen, so says the HcraUTs correspond
ent, that the di orderly class South, who
have teceiitly riven rise to much cause of
complaint, have a great deal to answer for.
And so ainutsly lor a time, at least, has been
abandoned, and the “ stulexina alike document”—
one that would have done credit to the Presi
dent, has In on 41 laid upon the table.”
That President Grant lias been deceived into
au abandonment ot his noble purpose, as shown
in the forcgoiug, we huve uct a doubt. But a
lew days ago, we published Chief Jiistice
Chase's letter to the colored persons of
Cincinnati, who had assembled in mass
meeting to celebrate the passage of the
Fifteenth Amendment, In which he advised
tbtm to recommend the removal of all political
disanili'ies from the white men of the South.
This is in strong contrast wjth the action ot the
President, and a solution of the question, "what
can have influenced him, aside from his own
explanation, as given above, to abandon his de
sign in regard to a general amnesty?’
is called lor. The Influence to us is apparent.
It cousists in advici s which he receives Irom
almost each Southern State regarding its con
dition. Such, tor instance, as the following
telegraphic correspondence between Gov. Smith
and Senator Warner ot Alabama:
Washington, April 14.—The following tele
graphic eonvspouucnce took place to-day:
MuNToomkiiy, Ala., April 14.—To Hon.
Willard Warner, You have doubtless learned
of recent acts ol lawlessness in Green and other
counties m <>ns Stale 1 have matured and am
putting m operation a vigorous policy, which
will not only stop violence but bring offenders
to punishment W. H. SMITH,
Governor of Alabama.
Washington, April 14.—To Gov. Vff, K.
Smitii, Montgomery. Alabama: 1 am rejoiced
at y< ur tel. gram The President, Congress aud
thecouutr> will sustain you in the bold action
to enforce law and give safety to all classes ot
our citizens. Let the rebels be forgiven aud
murderers bung. Amnesty and the halter will
give us peace aud salety.
Willard Warner.
Similar dispatches have been received at Wash
ington Irom other Southern States, and though
they otiginate irom sources which the Democ
racy ol those Stales denouneeas unreliable, still
they are from sources which the President re
gards differently and placis confidence in.
Under tb s state ot things, the South will
have to hear patiently what is inflicted upon
her, aud the Southern people so conduct theui-
selvts as to wear away the slandeis put upon
them by their enemies. Let Geotgia, for in
stance, lie guided by the grand motto which
long ago their lathers adopted—Wisdom,
Justice, Moderation,”—and tbe day is not
distant, wheu tho.-e ot them who labor under
political disabilities, will be freed from their
shackles, and again resume their citiztnship in
the lull meaning ot that word. It is time that
every Georgian should understand and fully
appreciate the" political situation,” and govern
tliemsilvcs accordingly.
On the Subject ot Voting.
“A bill,’’ says the Washington correapon lent ot
the Baltimore Gaz.He, “is now pending in the
House, which shows conclusively, the dtsign to
place the whole subject of voting under Con
gressional control. It it another step in the di
rection of ceutrnlized despotism. It provides
that no citizen ot the Uuited States shall be re
quired to write, print or place Wls name on auy
ballot, or to do anything whereby the identity or
mune of any }>ci sun casting the ha'tot may be
known; aud, bli ther, makes the printing or
writing of a voter’s name on the outside of the
ballot punishable by a tine of one thousand dol
lars and one month’s imprisonment. If Con
gress assumes power to enact such a law as this,
it may well b<- asked what th>y cannot do in the
way of iuterlciiug in {State elections. In simple
truth, we are already living under an oligarchy
ot unlimited power. The revolution is an ac
complished H*t
That Congo ss has transferred the Republic
that once was, iuto an oligarchy of unlimited
power, is a fact licit did not need the introduc
tion ot such a bill to establish. The lact fca3
beeu long since most forcibly established.
Ilia. Liut'oln,
President Grant has received a letter lroui Mrs.
Abrabaui Lincoln, staling that she was still
in Germany aud not in vary good health, but
very much in need ol assistance. Tilts, she
sees, has been proposed in the bill pending in-
the Senate logive her a pension, but the delay in
acting on it she is ULable to account for. The
President, it is staled, will probably send the
lelter to either the Senate or House Committee.
The Senate Peusion Committee, however, have
already agreed to report a bill giving Mrs. Lin
coln a liberal pension..
Note* on tlie Ball wav Situation-No. 7.
Editors Telegraph, and Messenger: One ol
the most cutious teaturcs in the history <>t rail
ways in Georgia,i>rtbe part played by our cities
in regard to the connections ot the tracks ot
separate lines within lb« ir o>>rrorate limits.
The policy pursued in this respect has been
sbort-eighteo, narrow and illiberal t>> the last de
gree. Our ritiea have all made commendable
efforts to attract produce to tbeir markets; hut
they have, at the same time, done what they
could to obstruct its cheap and rapid transit and
r< mi.val 'o its legitimate destination. They
have indeed, by their n fnsal to permit the con
nection ol railway lines within their limits, im
posed a heavy t*x open the produce and busi
ness otthe couotry, aDd have tin teby inflicted
much injury upon the people.
A brief relerence to ihe action of each one ol
nur cities in the matter lure referred to, will not
prove uninteresting.
In ac cordance with the request ot the Mayor
and Council of Macon, a public m< eting of citi
zens was held in that city on the 22nd of July,
1836. and a series of resolutions adopted in re
gard to the entrance ot the Monroe (now Macon
and Western) railroad into the corporate limits
The resolution, in emphatic terms, declared it
to be “the sense of this meeting that the en
trance o< said road into the corporate limits of this
c ity will have a ditect tendency to depreciate
the value ot real < stale and check the rising
pn*perity of the city. That the Mayor and
Council of the city of Macon be, therefore, di
rected to take all legal measures to prevent any
further operations or excavations by said c oin-
pany or its agents within the corporate limits
ot the city,” etc.
Mr Lewis L. Griffln, the President of the
road published an article in reply to the resolu
tion adopted by the meeting, saying, among
other things, that under a vet bal agreement with
the city authorities the railroad company had
commenced work within the corporate limits,
aDd that the company had been driven out at a
loss ot Irom two to three thousand dollars, a
considerable sum to a railway company in those-
early days His article was spirited, and he
threatened to establish the depot ot his road in
Vineville, and to bring the agricultural interest
to bear with hostile force against the city and
its business. This strange and suicidal action
on the part of the city led to a warm discussion
in the newspapers, and produced much surprise
and ill feeliog towards Macou generally, and es
pecially in those portions of the State which
were tributary to the rising young city.
But this singular hostility on the part of Ma
con to railways terminating there, was not limi
led to the Monroe road, but extended to the
Central road also. As early as 1841, or two
years before the completion of that magnificent
work, the citizens in town meeting assembled,
adopted resolutions expressive of their opposi
tion to the crossing of the Central road over the
Ocmulgee river at Macon. So decided was this
opposition that the authorities of the road were
forced to stop their work on the east side of the
liver, or to cross above or below the city limits.
With the Monroe Railroad depot in Vineville,
and the Central depot in East Macon, the two
roads would have been separated a distance of
nearly two miles, as well as by the Ocmulgee
river.
The obstruction occasioned by this gap at
Macon became so serious that the Legislature
determined that it should be stopped, and to
that end it passed an set in 1850, the preamble
to which is in these words:
“ Whereas, There has been expended in the
8tate by incorporated companies, and Irom the
8tate treasury, very large sums of money for
the purpose of opening and eonstnicting'rail-
roails from the seaboard to the western limits
of the State; and whereas, in order that the
State and citi/eus thereof should derive the lull
benefit intended by the line of railroads so con
structed, it is expedient that the transportation
of freight and passengers over said line should
be as tree from interruption and trans-shipment
as possible. ”
The act proceeded to give the Central, Macon
and Western, and Southwestern Companies au
thority “ to unite their roads in one common
depot at or near the city of Macon, so that the
cars of the respective roa Is may pass from one
road to another uninterruptedly.” In other
words, the companies were authorized to make
the connection outside and around the city, in
the event that the Mayor and Council persisted
in their reiusal to allow the roads to be united
within the city limits.
The passage of the act had the desired effect,
and the roads were connected within the city in
the latter part of 1851, after eight years of effort
on the part of the companies, and as many
years of steady refusal on the part of the city.—
The connection was permitted on two princi
pal conditions, to-wit: fir?t, that the companies
should pay the city annually $5,060 lor the
privilege, and second, that the rates of freight
between Griffln and Savannah, and between
Oglethorpe and Savannah, shall be, and remain
always at least one-filth more in the respective
cases than the rates ot frtight between Macou
and Savannah!” In addition to the proviso
regarding Griffln and Oglethorpe, and the pay
ment by the companies of $5 000, annually, the
city also reserved to itself the right to lax 44 the
depot buildings and other property of said com
panies, and ot each of them. ”
The crossing of the Savannah river at Augus
ta, and the connection of the South Carolina
aud Georgia Railroads through that city, was
not accomplished without great delay, vexatioo
and expense. 1 am not informed as to the year
when the South Carolina road was finished. It
was the first considerable road constructed in
the United States, and at the time ol its com
pletion it was the largest railway in the world.
It was probably finished as early as 1838 or 1840.
The Georgia railroad was chartered as early as
1833. And yet the city of Augusta never gave
its consent that these roads might be connected
until 1857! All freights sent from Charleston by
rail, and from Savannah by river, destined t<>
points in the interior of Georgia and Tennessee,
and all freights Irom the latter direction des
tined to the sea, had to be transhipped at Au
gusta at heavy expense, and hauled in dravs
trym one depot to the other, or to the river
wharves, a distance of nearly a mile. The de
lay and tax on through passengers, though not
so great, was vexatious enough, as all travelers
to points north of Augusta well remember.
lu 1852, the South Carolina Railroad Com
pany purchased Irom Augusta the right to cro-s
the river into the city and erect a depot, for o e
hundred aud fifty thousand dollars! In 1S57,
the South Carolina and the Georgia Railroad
Companies purchased the privilege of connect
ing theii tracks through the city at a further
cost ot seven thousand dollars per annum, or a
round sum of one hundred thousand dollars
cashl
Other hard conditions were exacted by the
city and yielded by the roads. Amoug other
stipulations, there was one that the South Caro
lina road should at all times, Sundays excepted,
forward daily from Augusta at least oue thou
sand bales ot cotton, if so much should be offered
tor transportation. There was another still
more signlar provision: Having charged the
companies $250,000 lor the privilege ot mossing
the river and connecting their tracks, it was
further covenanted that the South Carolina
Railroad Company should not, “ for all time to
come during tbeir existence as a corporation,
without the previously obtain* d consent ol the
city ot Augusta, establish on the Georgia side
ot the river any depot, other than that provided
tor within the city limits, nor anywhere in the
State Qt Georgia make, nor under any pretext,
whatever, permit the making ot any actnal or
virtual juuciion of their road with any other
railroad, or with Buy plank road, within twenty
miles ot the proposed sites of the Augusta de
pots.” For the breach of this covenant, if the
city authorities exaaed the same, the South
Carolina Railroad Company was to pay the sum
of two hundred thousand dollars by wav of
liquidated damages! In other woids, having
made the roads pay $250,000 for the privilege
of connecting their tracks through the city, the
latter then refused to permit them to make anv
other connections under a penalty of an addi
tional $200,000. One would suppose that the
connection at the city was an injury to tue latter,
since it charged such an enormous price for the
privilege; and yet. having provided lor that
connection, the city retused to allow tiie roads
to make anv other junctions, even with a plank
road, within twenty miles ot the city, without
paying lor that privilege, if required, Dearly a
quar er ot a million ot dollars I The right to
tax the property of the connecting roads was
reserved to the city.
The city ot Columbus displ.yed more fore
sight aud liberality in the m .tier ot the connec
tion of the railways lerminaiinir at that point
than either Macon or Augusta. The city coun
cil ot Columbus, in 1858, authorized the Musco
gee railroad company, and the Montgomery and
West Point company, to build a bridge across
the Chattahoochee river anJ unite their tracks
within the corporate limits, upon condition that
the Muscogee company pay to the city 44 the
sum of '$2,000 lor the first year alter the connec
tion is made, and the sum ot $3 000 per annum
every year there*to r. The said payments to
cease at the time wht n the connection between
the said Mtlscoiree tail road and the Mobile and
Girard railroad shall l>e m ide and completed.”
In plain term.-, the city sought to encourage the
companies whose roaits terminate at or within
it-, limits t.. cross the Chattahoochee and unite
their tracks; aud alter the Muscogee company
should connect its road with the Montgomery
and West Point road, it required the former to
pay into the Ciiy Treasury $3,000 per annum
until it should als-o unite its track with that of
the Mobile and Girard railroad. It did not even
reserve the right to tax the property of the con
necting roads. Instead ol exacting the payment
of a large sum lor the privilege ot coming into
the city, a penalty ol $3,000 per annum was im
posed upon the Mip cogee company, alter uni
ting its road with the Montgomery and Went
Point road, until it should also establish a con
nection with the Mobile and Girard road. This
penalty was to cease as soon as the last named
connection was established.
The tracks ol the several roads terminating at
Atlanta were all united belore there was any
city there.
But little freight passes from the Central to
the Atlantic and Guit railroad or fioon the lat
ter to the former, yet the roads were connected
through the city of Savannah daring the war.
This connection has since been discontinued;
for what reason the writer is not informed, nor
does he know what the feeling in Savannah is
in regard to the connection. It is manifest,
however, that the public interest would be sub
served by the connection, and by the extension
of the trackirol the Central and Atlantic and
Quit roads to the river, and, it possible, by an
elevated railway above aud along River street,
it that be the name of the street immediately
on the water.
Such has been the action of our principal cit
ies touching the connection of railway lines
terminating within their limits. This action
Was short-sighted and illiberal. Short-sighted,
in that the cities, instead of allowing the stream
of trade and travel to have a natural and easy
ebb and flow, they sought to dam it up, to the
great injury of the country upon whose pros
perity they depended. Had the roads at Ma
con and Augusta been united three miles be
low the former, and three miles above the
latter, what would be the present conditions of
these cities? The policy of the cities was illib
eral, in that some ot them imposed heavy pecu
niary penalties upon the roads for connecting
tbeir tracks, when such connections benefitted
those cities quite us much as they did the roads.
And these penalties are not paid by the roads,
but by the people who patronize them. The
harder the terms imposed upon the roads, the
higher must they make their tartft of charges
to enable them to meet those terms. It is the
consumer who pays the duty on imported goods,
just p.9 it is Ihe patrons of the railroads who pay
the tax exacted ot them for connecting their
tracks. The $5,000 annually paid to the city
of Macon by the three, roads above, and the
$17,500 interest per annum on the sum exacted
by the city ot Augusta from the South Carolina
and the Georgia roads, is neither more nor less
than a special tax levied upon the public for the
privilege of passing through those cities with
their luggage and produce 1 The term exacted
by the former city in regard to the rates upon
lreight shipped from Griffln and Oglethorpe,
while not benefitting Macon, are an injury to
Griffln aud Oglethorpe.
The singular prosperity of Atlanta depends
in no small degree upon the facility with which
the people can reach the city and pass through
it,, instead of laying a sort ot embargo upon
produce and travel, the city has the sagacity to
exert itself to increase the facilities of the same.
And yet hardly a passenger or pound of freight
passes through the city without leaving some-
thirg behind. Histokicus.
Lopez of Paraguay.
The death ot this remarkable man, accounts
of which have recently been reetived, calls lor
more than a mere passing telegraphic report of
it. The man who baffled the powerful govern
ment of Brazil and its powerful allies for years,
Don Carlos Antonio Lopez, has made his name
famous in his own land, and respected abroad.
The following sketch is from a source that has
watched the career o! this remarkable man, aud
will be read with interest by & people who have
their own “Lost Cause” to deplore, and who
feel that valor does not always win against num
bers and can "therefore sympathize with the
great Puraguau “rebel.” With no resources,
it says, “save those of his country, anti
with no shadow of aid excepting that given by
his own people, including, in his military forces,
the women and even the children he has
beaten aud humiliated his imperial foes, and
maintained the independence of Paraguay for
yearn. The Paraguayans took s:eps to secuie
their independence in 1811, but ihe independence
ot Pariignay was not torinally acknowledged
by the other Slates ol La Plata until 1852.—
Lopez was ejected President for 10 years in
1844, re-elected at the expiration ot tuat term
ie>r 3 ye:.is, and a:ain elected (t» 1857) for 7
years. In 1853 t his government sent an expedi
tion an a ms t him for the destruction ot one
man’s life by a shot fired from a Parguayan lort
upon the Wales* Witch, a United States vessel
sent by us to survey the La Piata and its tribu
taries. Lopez escaped a conflict with the Uni
ted States through the mediation of Urquiza,
of the Argentine Cm federation. What most
rendered Lopez a great man were his courage
(“ Pluck ” is a belter word.) and his unwavering
firmness of purpose. No disaster appeared to be
equivalent to the overthrow of his self-reliance,
or compel him to halt in his offensive and de-
lensive operations against the enemies ot his
couutiy. Detea's that would have vanquished
almost any other man, and reverses and straits
i hat would have reduce! even the best of the
world’s heroes to submission, seemed only to in
spire bim with renewed energy, and to suggest
to his ingenuity new methods of preserving his
a'titnde and going ahead with his designs. If
tie be really dead, Brazil will no doubt conclude
ihat this war is concluded and that she will
meet wilh no more noteworthy resistance in the
prosecution of her purposes concerning Para
guay ; but perhaps she had belter not be pre
cipitate in reaching this conclusion. If Lopez
represented the courage, tenacity, lortitude and
adaplahiliiy to circumstances of bis people,
Brazil may have to fight an indefinite period
ere she gains (if ever she gains) possession of
thecuuutry.”
From the New York Snn.
From the PnlpU to the Bar-Room.
Yesterday morning the Rev. Charles B. Smyth,
ot B.ack Crook notoriety', held forth in the
Eleven Street United Presbyterian Chnrch, on
the McFarland case, to a very large audience.—
Alter denouncing in unmeasured terms those
“ pulpilicians ” who are more ambitious to con
trol arbitrarily the consciences of men by sen
sational and tree lave teachings than “by exam
ple to lead them into an humble obedience to
Christ,” Smyth pitched into an editor of a daily
journal, 44 the effus.ous from whose pen,” said
he, “ have loosened the morals of a rqan then
youtblnl, whose soul is now in eternity, and for
the alleged killing of whom auother human be
iug is on trial. Such mea,” continued Smyth,
“ are apt to favor the abolition of capital punish
ment,” Smyth then quoted from Solomon:
44 Whoso committeth adultery with a Woman
larketh understanding, he thet doeth it de
stroyed hi* owu soul. A wound and dishonor
shall he get, and his reproach shall not be
wiped away. For jealousy is the rage of a
man ; therefore, he will not spare in the day of
vengeance; he w;!l not regard any ransom,
neither will hebecuutcui though thou givest
maoy gilts.”
Srnyih demanded a law prescribing Je uh as
the punishmenc for adultery. After he had
finished the sermon, Smyth called together the
six reporters who were present, and asked them
to take some refreshments. Then he led them
to a well-known liquor and refreshment salJbn
on the avenue near by’; and they passed in by
the private door.
Beefsteaks and oysters Laving been ordered
Smyth turned to the reporieis and ask d them
what they would drink. Their ordeis having
heen giveD, he himself requested the barkeeper
to bring him “Jsome of the same.” This turned
out to be gin and milk, of the former of which
liquids his reverence took five fingers, swallow
ing the dose with evident relish. The viands
having been disposed of, ail arose to leave, and
Mr. Smyth, turning to the bar-keeper, carelessly
requested him to 44 haog that up.” The bar
keeper, who seemed to know Him, said, 44 all
right ” and the party passed out and separated.
A New Paper.
We lay before our readers the following pros
pectus of a new city paper, which has been laid
upon our table, one feature of which, while to
none we take exceptions, all being creditable to
the enterprise of its propt ietors, is flattering to
its prospects, and that ia, it will have 44 cash in
baDk.” With this, a grand desideratum in the
publication of a newspaper, it will doubtless
prove what it has our good wishes for, a suc
cess ;
44 THE ATLANTA DAILY SDN.”
On the morning of the 18th ot May next,
The Daily Sun will rise to the “music of the
lime*.” It will appear ia Atlanta. Ga., and it&
patrons will be famished light every day, for
five dollars a year, or once a week, for the small
sum of one dollar per annum.
The object ot this enterprise will be to make
money; bat to accomplish this, there shall be
do sacrifice ot principle on our part, while an
honest eflort will be made to advance the inter
ests of our patrons.
2he Sun will be backed by the best of talent
in its sanctum; indnsf-'y, experience and econ
omy in its business room, and cash in bank. -
Published in the interest ot no special politi
cal party, it will suffer itself pinned to the coat
tail, ot no man, while the opinion of any man,
honestly expressed, will be respected. In the
discussion ot public measures, whether Federal,
Stale, or Municipal, it will invariably espouse
the right, if apparent; it not, it will strive to
manufacture light enough for the occasion. In
politics, us in everything else, this newspaper
will run an independent schedule. It will abuse
no man, nor set of men, w-mtonly ; hence, no
bids will be made for hush-money. Its appro
val, disapproval, or reticence, not heing in the
market, proposals will not be tolerated. When
duty demands the exposure ol crime, it will be
done, and that fearlessly.
No effort will be spared to make 41 The
Sun ” a permanent medium ol intelligence to all
classes of citizens, containing, as it will, the
latest telegraphic news, foreign and domestic,
together with whatever of interest the promi
nent journals of the country may afford.
Planters, Mechanics, Merchants, Professional,
Literary and Educational Men, will find in its
columns their several departments ably repre
sented. In short, we shall work for the moral,
social, and material growth of Atlanta; the ag
ricultural, mineral, mechanical and commercial
interests of Georgia, and the welfare of the whole
country. Hence, no tears will be shed over the
prosperity ot any particular section.
To all live men and women, wheresoever dis
persed around the globe, we send greeting, and
cordially invite them to come to Georgia, and
help ns build up the fortunes of her people.
Progress is the watchword, and he who lags is be
hind the spirit of ihe age.
A. M. SpeIQHts & Co.
Atlanta, April, 1870.
YOB THS ATLANTA INTELLISYNCEB .
IHy mother’s Grave.
BY GKO. W. O’*.
Jonesboro’, April 13!h, 1870.
The sombre shades ot evening cast her mantle
o’er the silent home ot the dead as slowly 1
wended my way to that little mound of grass
which held all that was dear to me in life, my
mother. Tread lightly, wake not her sweet re
pose; her spirit watches from that celestial
home above. The trees and flowers wear on
their self-same bloom and every little star which
shines from-out- a purer and better world than
this, seems but to me the dying flickerings ot
the lamp of life. Music, soft music, whosejnel-
ancholy tone so oil poitraye.i to me the deep
feelings of my nature, hushed be you now, aye
and forever.
Shades of my departed mother speak to yonr
son from the portals of your sileut tomb; tell
him of that world beyond; tell him of the great
recompence laid up in the eternal hereafter as a
reward for a Christian’s life, that by your ad
monition, his lite might be checked, else in the
wild vortex of vice and debauchery it may be
forever lost. Is it not so, mother, if a Christian
dies shall he not live again ? Beyond the grave
Hope provides an elystnm of the soul, where the
mortal mu9t put on immOrta’ity, and life be
comes an endless splendor.
Farewell, lovely mound of grass; daily will
I visit thee, trusting that the advice transmitted
Irom the spirit ot my mother, may teach her
son the doctrines of Truth and Religion, and by
her intercession before the throne of that All
wise and Merciful God she may obtain pardon
for her son.
From the New Orleans Picayune, April 12.
WHOLESALE FORGERY.
Several New Orleans Banka and Broker*
Victimized.
Early yesterday morning, it was ascertained
in financial circles that a large number of forged
Auditor’s war rants had been suddenly thrown
on the market. These warrants were variously
estimated to range in amount irom $500,000 to
$700,000. The very large amount, and the in
fluence it must necessarily exert upon the money
market, could not help producing the liveliest
leeliDgs ot alarm, surprise and curiosity.
The immediate cause, however, of this intelli
gence gaining ground was the discovery on the
part or Mr. Straus, a broker on St. Charles
street, ot the tact that he had imposed on him
a large number ot spurious warrants. It seems
from Mr. Straus’ statement that his loss exceed
ed $140,000. These warrauts were purchased
by him late Saturday evening. From whom it
is not stated ; bat irom observations made to
parties with whom he conversed, it would seem
tnat he purchased directly from Wicklifie, the
late Auditor, himsell.
It is necessary to state that all these warrants
bear the signature of Mr. Wicklifie—the lorged
or real signatures. Having his Bnspicions ex
cited as to the genuineness of his warrants by
rumors which were circulated early Monday
morning, Mr. Straus proceeded wilh his war
rants to the Auditor’s office to have them com
pared. As soon as he reached there and the
books were gone over, no doubt remained.
They were forgeries They were so pronounced
by the Auditor, and indeed, the books bore
ample evidence ot the fact.
The Bank of America and other public and
private banks, it is understood, have suffered to
a greater or less extent. Indeed, the amount of
these forged warrants will very nearly, if not
quite, reach $700,000.
The question is, who pat them in circulation ?
Of course, the public feel an interest in this ;
but the officials charged with the investigation
of the affairs are reluctant in exposing the
names of the parties implicated. It was not,
indeed, until nearly noon that Mr. Straus com
municated the affair to the Chiet ot Police. His
iniorraalion decided tnat officer in the arrest of
Mr. James H. Mushaway, a gentleman long
connected with Mr. Wicklifie in business. It is
not, however, as yet understood that Mr. Mash
away is at all implicated in the forgeries. It
may have been thought that information could
be obtained from him. He was taken to the
Central Station and locked up, but no charge
was made against him, and we are allowed to
see him.
In Ronmania, persons sentenced to death are
laid fiat on their backs on a bench ; their hands,
feet and breast are securely fastened to it, and
the executioner then draws from his belt a small
knife with a sharp blade, and cuts the throat of
the struggling criminal. Sometimes, when the
latter belongs to a deserving family, the execu
tioner, before catting his throat, knocks bim on
the forehead with a wooden clnb, so as to sum
him. Criminals who commit offenses of less
importance are more or less severely cudgeled.
Women are whipped with a birch rod, and, it
they are habitual thieves, they are, besides,
branded on the right shonlder with a red hot
iron. A very peculiar punishment is inflicted
on adulterers and adulteresses. They are pat
into a pillory for three hoars, and two holes are
then cat in their noses. The man’s hair is
shaven off, and the woman is branded on her
lelt breast.
Schofeld to succeeo Thomas.—The pub
lished rumor that Brigadier General Pope, now
commanding the Department of the Lakes, is
to succeed General Thomas in the command of
tne Military Division of the Pacific, is untrue.—
Major-General Schofield, commanding the De
partment of the Missouri, will more than likely
be assigned to the post, in accordance with his
express wishes to that effect. As lar back as
when he was Secretary of War, he applied to
be sent to California, but General Thomas want
ing tbe place at the came time, General Scho
field was obliged to content himsell with the
promise that be sbonld have tbe relosal of it in
case of a vacancy.— World Cor. -
Full Negro Equality.
At the Fifteenth Ami ndrnent celebration in
New York, a letter was read from Senator Sum
ner, ef Massachusetts, in which he says :
44 1 do not thick the work finished so loDg as
the word 4 white’ is allowed to play any part in
any legislation ; so long as it constrains the
courts in naturalization ; so long as it rales pub
lie conveyances—s’eamtx ats and railroads ; so
long as it bars the doors ot houses taxed bv law
to receive people for food and Edging, or
licensed as places or ummeoients; so long as it
is in onr common schools.”
This is another advance movement on the
part of the Massachusetts Senator. Having
been successful in treeing the negro, and in hav
ing secured the adoption of the Fourteenth and
Fiiteentb Amendments to the Constitution—a
Constitution, which over and over again, upon
the floor of the Senate and the House, has been
declared of no binding force upon the legisla
tion of Congress—the step is taken to lorce
social equality between the races, which we
have no doubt, will ts persisted in with the
same pertenacity aDd perseverance that resulted
in the abolition of slavery, though it surely can
not be attended with the same success. As a
cotemporary remarks, 44 this is a hold step lor
Mr. Sumner to take, but lie is fanatic enough to
do it. Will his party follow him in this crusade
for tbe glory and grandeur of the negro, or will
they stop and demand that there shall be some
legislation looking to a reduction of tbe enor
mous taxes which are so heavily oppressing the
people ? It cannot be that the people ot the
North will permit the important questions ol
finance, tariff and taxes to be much longer over
shadowed by the dark cloud ot negrophiliam.”
Governor Bard.
We transfer the following biographical sketch
of the lite of Dr. Samuel Bard, late editor of
the Atlanta 44 New Era,” and now the Governor
of the Territory of Idaho, from the Republican
of Sing Sing, Apt il 14th, 1870, to the columns
of the Intellioencbr, and extend to him our
best wishes for his fnturesuccess and prosperity:
Samuel Bard, of Georgia, recently confirmed
as Governor of the Territory of Idaho, was born
in the City of New York on the 18th of May,
1825, and hence is now in his forty-filth year.
In 1831 his mother removed with her family to
this place, where was laid the* foundation of
young Bard’s education. At the age of twenty,
endowed with a strong and energetic tempera
ment, be followed in tbe footsteps of many such
men and went West, where he remained for
some years.
In 1850 he removed to Louisiana, which was
bis home until the breaking cut of tbe war. In
1852 he married Miss Martha A. Beard, a wo
man ot superior intellect and rare accomplish
ments, daughter of Ishatn B. Beard, Esq., a
wealthy planter of Carrol Parish. In 1855 he
was elected, by the Democracy, Superintendent
of Public Education for the Stale of Louisiana.
In July, 1866, he took up his residence in
Atlanta, Georgia, and the following October as
sumed charge of the Atlanta Daily New Era,
the brilliant success oi which, under his man
agement, is seen in the lact of the greatly in
creased price for which he disposed of it in a
few weeks since over and above what it cost.
We have often heard it said of him 44 that he had
to an extraordinary degree the faculty of taking
a dead paper Irom its coffin and making it a live
paving|and popular institution.” The Governor
ha9 had, directly and indirectly, a long connec
tion with the press, running back some twenty
odd years.
Governor Bard was educated a Democrat, bat
on the closing ot the war be withdrew from
that party and co operated with the National
Republicans, seeing, as he thought, that ruin to
the Booth and disunion to the country could
best be averted by such a course, so far as he
had any power in the matter. Since that time,
therefore, he has been a moderate but a pro
nounced Republican. As lar back as June, 1867,
seeing the necessities of the country, and be
lieving that there was one man above all others
who had the power to bring peace and recon
ciliation to the land, he raised the illustrious
name oi General Grant for President Grant
was nominated; and through the campaign and
since, and up to the last, Governor Bard has
sustained the President ardently, firmly, and
with unswerving faith in the great idea which
inspired his coarse—the common welfare and
peace of the whole Union. He is one of those
who believed in the issues which the war bad
raised in onr politics, that the conquered should
accept the terms of the conquerer. He has,
therefore, firmly stood by President Grant from
first to last in the enforcement of all the recon
struction laws, arguing and urging with unceas
ing pertinacity that they should be carried out
wnh unfaltering fidelity.
Being a man of strong convictions and de
cided character he has, like all such men; strong
friends and decided enemies. In Georgia, the
field of his constant and arduous editorial labors
in behalf of reconstruction is conceded on all
hands, by friends and foes, that be bas done
very much to flank and destroy modern Democ
racy, owing to the skill, moderation and firm
ness with which he advocated the Republican
policy, seeking wisely rather to win thinking
and reasonable Democrats to the Republican
side by appeals to tbeir patriotism and reason,
than driving them by unnecessary violence fur
ther away and into greater hostility; re
cognizing the indisputable truth, that bmlding
up anything like a strong Republican party in
Georgia could only be done by winning converts
from the ranks of tbe oppsition.
As a Southerner, by long residence at the
Sooth, and knowing critically the temper of the
Southern mind, he sought to enlist in tbe
Union’s behalf the sympathies and affections of
the Southern people, as a thing most vital to be
gained, not only lor the advancement of tbe
Republican policy throughout the Squtb, bat for
the nnity and well being, peace and concord of
all sections of the country. Tbe measures of
reconstruction he considered adequate to these
ends, and hence he has stoutly sustained the
President in carrying them into practical effect.
As a stump orator, the Governor, has a wide
and enviable reputation, both North and South
In fact, his greatest strength is on the stump,
and we shall expect him to win many Demo
crats to the Republican standard in the great
and growing Territory to which the President,
in his wisdom, has seen proper to assign him.
The Undulating Mrs. Kate Chase
Sprague.—One more sketch before the galler
ies are cleared. Before ns walks, or rather ud-
dulates, a slender lady of finest mould, wilh tbe
most delicious carve of throat and chin possi
ble. It recalls at QDce that throat of Ethel
Newcome, Thackeray praised so much. Add
to this, a youthful cheek, that charming nose,
straight in itself, while it relieves the line of the
brow, bright, deer-like eyes and spirited poise
of the small head, smooth, white complexion,
with a streak of red in the cheeks, burning like
the flame in au opal, sloping shoulders and a
gracetnl hand. Such is the presentiment ol
Mrs. Sprague. I could scarcely believe her to
be eighteen, by gaslight. I had imagined a slim,
cold beauty, like most of the society belles, and
this exquisite creature, with uplifted head like a
deer just risen from its couch of fern, took one
all by blissml surprise. It is so seldom one
meets a woman capable ot looking a heroine.
Most women are to one’s Ideal like discolored
pearls. Of course you want to know what she
wore. Id. n’t know what she hadoo SLeremind-
one ol Miss Muloch’s detr-thioated heroine in
“ A life tor a Lite,” and th : - tw > have been as-
6.x i .ted in my mind ever since You know
I’m not given to raving about beauties, bat this
woman has made maoy delicate impersonations
possible.— Washington Letter.
Long Dresses.—One of onr lady readers
writes, requesting us to protest against the
threatened revival of this fashion, and says that
she and a lew other brave sonls propose not to
yield to any snch tyranny. Although as in duty
bonnd to come to tbe rescue of suffering beauty
aud wade through blood and fire to serve
“Heaven’s last best gilt,” the magnitude of try
ing to stem a fashionable torrent requires im
possible power. This “long dress” question,
wilh its inconveniences and untidiness, is oue
the ladies alone can control, and for a rash jour
nalist to lay his sacrilegious hand npon any of
the mysterious belongings of a woman’s toilet
is to invite bis own destruction.
Yon may break, yon may rain the men if yon will,
Bat the length of your dresses will linger arc and you
still.
Fou the information of our readets, we lay
before them the following special dispatch on
Georgia affairs,‘from Washington to the New
Era, which appeared in the columns of that pa
per this morning:
Special Dispatch to the New Era.
WASHINGTON,
Washington, April 19.—5, P. M.—The Sen
ate took a i t cess until half past seven this even
ing, without a vote on the Georgia bill.
The day has been occupied by a long address
read by Mr. Fowler, and an able speech from
Mr. Tbayer.
Judge Edmunds made a personal explanation
to the effect that he was, or claimed to be, still a
Radical Republican.
Mr. Sehuiz is in the middle of a speech,
which will be concluded when the Senate re
assembles.
After that, Mr. Trumbull will close the debate
and the vote will take place.
The correspondent of the New York Tribune
states IkatiJoshaa Hill endeavored to persuade
him to transmit the slander charging Gov. Bul
lock with baying Senators to vote against the
Bingham amendment, and that Hill subsequent
ly gave the report to the Cincinnati Commercial
and the Baltimore Gazette reporters on Thurs
day last.
THE VERY LATEST.
Washington, April 10—12 M.—Mr. Trum
bull's closing remarks were followed by ap
plause in the galleries, which the Chair promptly
suppressed.
At 11:20 the Senate proceeded to vote on the
pending amendment.
Senator Wilson moved an amendment to
strike out ihe Bingham proviso and insert a pro
viso extending the term of the Legislatnre till
1872.
Senator Pomeroy moved to amend Mr. Wil
son’s amendment by substituting therefor this
amendment, declaring the existing government
of Georgia provisional, and constituting the
Third Military District, and providing for an
election for a Legislature on November 15th,
1870.
Mr. Pomeroy’s substitute was agreed to.
Yeas 37, nays 24, as follows :
Yeas—Messrs. Ames, Anthony, Buckingham,
Carpenter, Casserly, Cole, Corbett, Oragin,
Davis, Edmunds, Ferry, Fowler, Hamilton, of
Maryland, Hamlin, Harlan, Howe, Kellogg,
McReery, Morrell, of Maine, Morrell, of Ver
mont, Patterson, Pomeroy, Pool, Pratt, Robert
son, Sanlsbnry, Sawyer, Sebuiz, Scott, Sherman,
Stockton, Thurman, Tipton, Trumbull, Warren,
Willey-37.
Nays—Boreman, Brownlow, Drake, Fenton,
Flanagan, Hamilton, ot Texas, Harris, Howard,
Howell, McDonald, Morton, Nye, Osborn, Ram
say, Revels, Rice, Ross, Spencer, Stewart,
Sumner, Thayer, Williams, Wilson, Yates—24.
Cameron, Gilbert and Chandler, against the
Amendment, paired off with Bayard, Vickers
and Conbling in favor of it. The question then
being on inserting the amendment of Wilson as
amended by Pomeroy, in place of the Bingham
Amendment in the bill involving the striking
out of the latter provision. It was determined
affirmatively. Yeas 36; Nays 23, as follows:
Yeas—Abbot, Amo, Anthony, Brownlow,
Buckingham, Carpenter, Casserly, Cole, Cor
bett, Davis, Edmunds, Ferry, Fowler, Hamil
ton of Maryland, Hamlin, Elarlin, Howe, Kel
logg, Greary, Mot rill ot Maine, Morrill, of Ver
mont, Patterson, Pomeroy, Pool, Pratt. Robert
son, Saulbury, Sawyer, Schurz, Scott, Sherman,
Stocktdn, Thurman, Tipton, Warner, Wil
ley—36.
Nays—Messrs. .Rnremau, Drake, Fenton,
Flannagan,Hamillou of Texas, Harris, Howard,
Howell, McDonald, Morton, Nye, Osborn, Rev
els, Rice, Sp’-ncer, Stewart, Sumner, Thayer,
Trumbull, Williams, Wilson, Yates—22.
The bill was therefore amended as proposed.
Mr. Wilson moved to postpone lurther conside
ration of the bill indefinitely. Lost—yeas 23,
nays 39 Sumner moved to adjourn, remark
ing that the bill had been so changed that It
would not be known by the oldest inhabitant.
[Laughter ] The motion was subsequently
withdrawn. Pomeroy then moved his amend
ment as a substitute for tbe whole bilk It was
agreed to—yeas 38, nays 23. Mr. Nye congrat
ulated the Democratic side on having voted
solidly to put Georgia back under military rule.
Mr. A. G. Thurman, on behalt ot the Demo
cratic side, declined to be led into a discussion
at this time.
Mr. Drake offered an amendment authorizing
the President to suppress domestic violence, to
suspend the writ ot habeas corpus, and to make
municipalities responsible, in damages, for in-
j uries to persons or property within their limits,
and not suppressed by them. It was rejected—
yeas 30, nays 31. Mr. Drake renewed the
amendment, omitting the part relative to the
suspension of the habeas corpus within the lim
its of municipalities. Adopted. Yeas 32 ; nays
26.
Senators Trumbull and Edmunds expressed
the opinion that tne suspension of writ was in
cluded, and Edmunds moved to add to the
words, 44 that nothiug in the act shall be con
strued to authorize such suspension.” Rejected.
Yeas 29; nays 39.
Mr. Pomeroy ottered an amendment repealing
certain laws so as to permit the organization
and calling into service tbe militia ot Georgia.
Agreed to by a party vote. Yeas 48, nays 9.
The bill was then read a third time and passed.
Yeas 27, nays 25.
Yeas—Ames, Anthony, Buckingham, Car
penter, Cole, Corbett, Cragin, Edmunds, Ferry,
Hamlin, Howe, Kellogg, Morrill, of Maine, Mor
rill, of Vermont, Patterson, Pomeroy, Pool,
Pratt, Ross, Sawyer, Schurz, Scott, Sherman,
Tipton, Trumbull, Warner, Willey—27. .
Nayes—Boreman, Chandler, Drake, Fenton,
Flanagan, Fowler, Hamilton, of Texas, Harris,
Howard. Howell, McDonald, Morton, Nye,
Osborn, Ramsay, Revels, Rice, Spencer, Stewart,
Sumner, Thayer Trumbull, Williams, Wilson
Yates—25.
The Senate adjourned.
Reminiscence of the Rebellion.—The
last official business transacted by President
Lincoln was to receive the visit of an officer
of the War Department, who came to
take his directions respecting Jacob Tompson.
Intormatiaa Irad reached the Department at
about 3 o’clock in the afternooa of April 14,
that Jacob Thompson, the leader among the
Rebel agents in Canada—concerning whom it
had repeatedly been reported by our secret
agents there that they were considering plans to
as8as.-inate the President—would he in Portland,
Me, the next day, in a certatn disguise, to take
the steamer which would leave lor Halifax.
When this information was submitted to Mr.
Stanton he said instantly, *■ Arrest him!” “Bat
stay,” he added, “you had better go over and
find out what Mr. Lincoln desires. Tell him I
think Thompson ought to be arrested.”
Mr. Lincoln had finished his labors for the
day, and was washing his hands in a side room.
When iold that Jacob Thompson was coming
into Maine, that he would be in Portland in dis
guise the next forenoon, he said: 44 Well, I
guess you bad better let him run.” 44 But,” was
the answer. 44 Mr. Stanton thinks he had better
be arrested.” “No,” said he, “lethim run. He
can’t do any more barm now. When yon find
an elephant running, the best way is to let him
keep on. Let him get out to England if he
wants to. We shall have enough of them on
our bands without taking him too. Tell Stan
ton yon had best let him slide.”—N. T. Bun.
Authentic Advice* from Cuba.
Key West, Fla., April 14. - A itheotic advi
ces received from Cuba to day, represent that
General Jordon is still in tbe field, fighting at
the head of the patriot foices. Gen. Goyen-
roche was defeated la3t wees near Bega. There
was an engagement on u.e 6:h, between
Muyara and Bagneron, m um Colon District.
The Spaniards were again detested.
Edward Natles, of the United States, was shot
at Fort Cubanas, on the 8th inst. Consul Gen
eral Biddle had previously telegraphed the
facts in bis case to Washington, and made an
appeal to the United States Government to m-
tertere and save Natles’ life, bat he had re
ceived no answer on the day of execution.
PATRIOT REPORTS.
Washington, April 15.—The friends of Ca
ban independence have received letters, statiDg
that the laborers on the sugar plantations near
CoIod, have beeu obliged to abandon their work
on account ot the advance of a large body of
insurgents, and that the Spanish troops had re
treated ; also that a column ot Spanish troop?,
under Gen. Yenroche, had been twice deieated
and driven back to Puerto Principe, and that
General Jordan is still in command of the pa
triots.’
Ben. Perley Poore.
An article going tbe rounds of the papers,
descriptive ol Washington letter writers, says:
44 There’s Ben. Perley Poore who is probably
the most successful, as to his emoluments, and
his employers are satisfied as to other essentials.
He is a clerk to the Committee on Printing,
which pays about $2,500 a year, gives him pos
session of the committee-room and the privi
lege of the floor of the Senate. He has a soft
place, has Perley, and the light labor of corres
pondence is the jolliest employment imaginable,
when performed in the midst of luxurious sur
roundings and to the music of $5,000 a year. He
has the pay of a member, with more advan
tages.”
The aforesaid Ben. is not “ unknown to fame ”
in Georgia. When quite a youth he essayed to
conduct a Whig journal in Athens, in this State,
bat made a failure therein, bis first connection
with newspaperdom. Ben., it wa3 then said,
was rather too fast a young man for the seat of
Georgia’s University, and made a rather inglo
rious retreat therefrom. We next heard of him
as the foreign correspondent of a Boston journal,
since which time he ha9 won a literary reputa
tion, and is now living in clover, with his soft
place to the Committee on Printing and 44 the
privilege of the Senate.” When some years ago
we met Ben. in Washingion City, he had grown
from being a lithe, sprightly youth to a robust
manhood, and had forgotten his press efforts
and residence in Athens, till we reminded him
of it. Ben. was, even in his early manhood,
during his residence in Athens, a warm sympa
thiser with the African race, and his republican
ism now is the natural result of his early
attachment to, perhaps we ought to say, opin
ion ol, them. As a letter writer, or Washington
correspondent, he now stands at the head of the
list.
From Atlanta to Decatur.
For some time past, says the Nashville Ban
ner, “endeavors have been made to build the
road from Atlanta to Decatur, where the Mem
phis and Charleston and Nashville and Decatur
railroads would be tapped, and by means of
which the State road wonld be flanked. The
parties who were expected to build this road
were, naturally, the city of Atlanta and the
Georgia Railroad Company. Two contractors
have offered to build the’ road—one for fifteen
thousand dollars per mile in gold, cash; the
other for twenty-seven thousand dollars per
mile in currency, ten thousand to be paid cash,
and the balance to be taken in stock and en
dorsed bonds. The Directors of the Georgia
Railroad have determined to accept the last
offer, and will pay five thousand dollars per
mile, the city of Atlanta agreeing to pay the
other five thousand, and a committee was also
appointed to manage this affair.”
This would be a consummation 44 devoutly to
be wished.” We have always felt satisfied that
when the proper time come for action, the
Directors ot the Georgia Railroad would move
in the proper direction, and with efficiency too,
to secure results in which it and Atlanta have
so deep an interest.
American Author*.
Mr. Jenckes, of Rhode Island, has introduced
a bill in the House of Representatives to amend
the patent and copyright laws. In doing so, he
made, it is reported, statements in regard to the
treatment of American authors, which will be
cotmdered as anything but complimentary by
them, at least snch as have beon laboring under
the hallncination that their works were placed
it) some conspicuous place to be admired by
everybody who visits the national capitoL He
bas discovered that in the Department of the
Interior there is a sepulchre in which forty
thousand books are entombed. The room in
which they are stored is accessible only by clam
bering np a narrow Btaircase, and over an arch
way. The room has no daylight, and if tbe
books are to be examined, it most be done by
candle light These books have been consigned
to this literary tomb as a result of the provisions
of the copyright laws now in force. This law
requires that a person wishing to procure a
copyright must send a copy of his book to the
clerk’s office for transmission to the Patent Of
fice. The books thus transmitted have been
deposited in the lumber room above described,
where many of them still remain in tbe original
packages.”
WASHINGTON.
ANTI WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
Washington, April 18.—The movement in
opposition to woman suffrage here has been
quietly making progress until it has culminated
in an’organiz ation called the Sixteenth Amend
ment Society. Two meetings have been held.
A memorial to Congress—drawn up by Mrs.
Admiral Dablgren—bas been handed around in
polite circles. It bas been signed by Mrs. Gene
ral Sherman, Mrs. James Brooks, Mrs. Captain
Morris, and others. It is said that Mrs. Post
master-General Creswwil approves tbe move
ment, and will in due time sign the paper.
TltE MORMONS.
It is telegraphed here that the Mormon Church
has sent on Elder Orson Pratt to make a per
sonal appeal to Congress not to pass tbe House
polygamy bill, now pending in the Senate.
Pratt was sent here in 1862 on a similar mis
sion.
THE LEGAL TENDER CASE.
The argument on tbe legal tender question in
the Supreme Court has been postponed until
next Monday.
GENERAL BUTLER
proposes to offer in the Houses a bill abolishing
the income tax, and instead thereof assigning
five per cent, of interest paid on all invested
capital, including national and State bonds, on
aliloans running longer than one year, divi
dends of banks, insurance companies, railroads,
etc., and on mortgages, leases and rents ; one
per cent, on successions, legacies and deeds of
gifts other than for charitable purposes, when
property falls to one next in blood not of collat
eral branch three per cent; when of collateral
branch, five per cent, when a stranger or corpo
ration, etc , all these collections to be made by
stamps. Aho.he proposes to tax manufactu
rers and the sale of spirituous and fermented
liqnors, to abolish the office of Assessors and
Assistant Assessors of internal revenue, and es
tablish snch other offices for the collection ot
the tax on whisky and tobacco as is necessary,
and to repaal all other internal taxation.
How Uncle Sam’s Money Gobs.—More de
velopments are being made as to Radical man
agement of government fnnds. This time Sen
ator Pomeroy, ot Kansas, is involved. The
Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette says: “ A short time ago the Secretary
of tbe Treasury sent a communication to the
House in answer to a resolution asking how the
appropriation of $100,000, made when slavery
was abolished in the District of Colombia, to
enable all those emancipated, who desired it, to
emigrate to Liberia or some other point, had
been expended. The letter gave a detailed
statement, and closed with a note saying that ot
the amount expended, all had been accounted
for by tbe several disbursing officers, with the
exception of $25,000 advanced to S. C. Pome
roy, which amount still remained to his debit
unaccounted ior. It now appears that when
this letter came ont, Pomeroy lacked the vouch
ers for over $9,000, and the latter had been run
ning along since the fall oi 1862. To square
np the case, be filed bis own affidavit, setting
forth that he had expended the lands as directed
by Mr. Lincoln. This paper is now under con
sideration in tbe Treasury Department. Sena
tor Pomeroy says, after be had contracted for a
ship and supplies to take colored people to
Ichrigny, Seward came down on the enterprise
with a heavy hand, and obliged him to stop
operations. Pomeroy then claims that Mr. T.in.
coin told him to pay off the damages to the con
tractors on the best terms possible, and get out
of the adventure. The result was that not a
single emigrant got out of the country, although
every dollar ot the $25,000 got oat of the
Treasury.”