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IM* (»•«;. . :uvl VVv'-l<iv% on* third ti. > |»< p'Kv< d # by* tfoo for«ty\om<* < * 1 >i* s 5. rents ; to Candors * . t h; * ;sTA .* <- A s *, 1 .2 IMV If (J. • !l .•;:•■ .-.•: (faswohlvilltN : ■ aff.*'z at ( i.-Foldvillc, in No-; too ;I* !lit-, rtf. was at the time, ami ■, 01..1 v.l.:rt t -vt.j-f ;y commented upon 1 a j oi-.'iori <l’ ilio I’u of tlie Slate, wo Jim teiinwing nt fftimt of the engagement, 1 u! !i !.:• • been funiii-hcd to’(lie (Mlumbus !•'..: / ■'./• ljy ono who .waxen eye-witness . an f active participant in that ill-starred > 'Hi i Hullo of GriswoMviUe was a severe sin I jf. - *. :1 eofitci t, and many atl un ■ i" ■'■<• report. jiave .•.one forth in rela ,li " . - ii. tin tint t'-‘d el' November, IHfil, i 1 t, tho tuiliiia an 1 State !':»■ • t ; • pui in motion to vote :; r ■ : • * ' , < ;: • o * 1\ hen v.e • ot . ;!*}'.• ■«. * u.t i to'-jui ea ■ : Gem ral »•;. : f t- > • <.i. jro.ijk.-vi-. 1 t:, . ft- • ore l in': flrein tOWII, i l.nnt" .nt.leaiivi with tJ;eaemro rest ,|;|:.l , ■ ! ;t.d n l:fa... . . tl. nr at!i y thi-iovii up Wi.v. te. hi! dim: with t.oi ie m. e were halt .on Gm ed.v. of to" , ;■ • ;ni Ii iuj» tavorahl-* tor reserve po: i (i,i.i i. Tim den -n wood ) which surrounded tie- Mpen ii Id enabled the General to Hank mi heli ends, of the enemy's position, wiii: ni! osiny to their view his move m i 'i'iie writer was inconimaiid of the j i : iivii . -nt Georgia Stato laiiv, and was , ini’v I of th '(I uieral’ < prtrtu e, which : ate Line I rij add and ido v ere to wait lor ii, > !. m vn the Hank-, and then llv i ■ a hr: i > were to ehar.eo across the ti '.! ■u" ■ th min from. I’ll' i" v. ; wall planned, hut owine to mi eel,elision, I presume, of the : t - shed down or i'.;l ti' ■ .V•! e la. ". 'oe them to the tr. a f : ■ him 1 ' en -aliwied (.ii w'h i tlinf ti;iy i. • ■ ! «i .ii•• wh .. h < .. ! « • :i . X .is'. i\pi{ain Auuv'ivonV . ki ..it !» i and i:s \ :.* *t riiidihad I'.i- oomir.and n It!- :i Yi'ry dltiivui; in:t;;cr to , .trry out 1 in ti, •„i tie extension »i‘ a plan. I sstu ti Phi s lie was unletv.l to give tattle to lion. Hooker's , ! h? did it! I have access to no t by wliteli a oerm-t rejiort > V «um bers might be furnished. lion. Philips' oor.'ta.nid emild :i « xoecd twenty"ive l n" e. 'I mu-ketlt ■oker’s corps had i .. i ey the ‘"hundred • w. inn - > praise the eiiorts of •i. ; . . \vii-> had sor.s far %. • ; .i:"!o ii. I’s. • n n : .tit i.v the lighs of their . —i,.: v. keatt.l grand cliil : . i k ■ .at ath tusaud del to * me and burn tbeir h, n "'me:!: ir country. iMi Oil*"- \ (.KARLKSTOXIAX IN THE , a Si R\ ICE,— Tbe foi« 1... . in; a vrhate letter, dated San- .e. January hi, Ims teen fur war,: ,!m i.istoa a- m m./ lor publi cation : - ~ T nine rail 10.-s was very heavy. • hi’, the Liberals lost only two hu:> l .’.it l titty kill, J, wounded tod nti-si: It pain.- me to record the losrof ipti-in Stiurt.-of the cavalry, wha # was jmrtiitly wounded. am! fell in the haads of the enemy. Captain Stuart was a native of Chari,- .on, S. C.. and sort ed in cur gloriou. Lm; iut viunatc. army throughout, lie arrived ja M .-.-o last December, and iintneiii itely united his destiny with the Liberal (Jocomment, and by his dashing bravery ami.-tend, manly conduct had won the animation of his superior and all who knew him. * * * Yctur son. Geo. ir. Dill. jvXT' NsiVK c’titE.-—We barn from the Home (r ■ that a large fire, involving v 1" I ,mired at Cniontown, Ala., on the it instant, by which a large part o j* (1, village was consumed. Some twenty-f ,ve buildings Wi re burned, includ in'two Jmuds, town hall, postoffiee, five jgS livery Stahl-, etc., ole. W jbuUt i-d.WJKK). TLc KcconstrucUon Biii. iloa#s: 9 tih>varmn<:nt* "ni ; -ri •f: . : Kjor:du ifie Third rtyrt r .Xi i>-L-dppi and Arkansas iho Fourth 1/i-triel, ami l/>uisi ana and Texas tiio L'ilih auihority Mithiiitlie ti :• aiXv:* peace ami co...urns: and to ;/v eii,, iiS ismatUcttohifc'fprS ti-£i 'ftrlltK JUaßOieiu, 11 ffcSv : • fa i-e -rftiy' l-a the trial or offenders, he e ti! V.: ve pov., • to ortpinTsse. ml)iuh y «<-i ui- :,vm ..r t.-i- ! fereaje, m. ' .- Bar of , lltirlei'tiiis tK t. l i.e !v : u.ur voiil. j Section a. And ’ <• ti further < 'j’liat ! unnt-eesiiiiry de/ie, ami iro cruel or un usual puiii’diineuc f.hall liejiillieieii; and qfl lanueifee ol’ any military cum mission tin* lit,i or liberty of any pen-un shall tie e.' y and Hill: I : , y*p. * ■ i / the ofliei'r ill e aitmaml of the. hi :ric,,; ami the laws army shah i; fii. -c'eii i,y this a, ', es -ept in -0 far ■*. they eonttiet -with its provisions; prdvi i**ci, that no sentence of ; liealli mi,ler tho [.:■ ivisions of this act shall lie earric.l into nfae; without the ajiprovul i of tin* Presiii ut of the ( nileh -States. Section a. it. furl u:r , 'tied, That • when tile people of a:y one o »i 1* rebel . • Stutes shall ha vo f-irmei! at! insTitutloinil ; •jfOvm-iimeiit- in eoiifonnity with the Con- \ ■ tifu*.ion of tiie Uriilei 1 State ~ pi ail respeets i I'M I,y ti-e mam eiii/.im.s ot ■ nit! State. I tweiit.y-ouo year.) old and upwards, of i whatever i .i'-e, color or condition, • who I year pfovi ■ii.-i in the day ol such election, ! exec; sin ia . im y lie di * fro neh i-.i-d* for p'trtjcipatinn in ivnelli.nii or for felony ;U , eonimon , :■ ;ch t'oni• uliou ! shall lie ertjdved l.v I such wersons , have the ipu'ir'lie r. 1 •*.- in ‘ > hued liv stUntion KhaliV'e'udopte'i hy a'ln 'ij.iri'y’V.'' the persons voliii** ■ . die tpicstiou of re. i lieation wlio are (p!.. pc i as eLee.toi's fir delepates, and won .-ueh < 'on..; itution shall tin vo been submi:P'd to Congress ter examination find ape-■ mil, and ( ■ uicres a shall have approved the Mime,' ami when ' said State, by a vote ot* it < r,e ; ,ds!atui-e, , elected under said (t.uislitntion, shall have adopted the Aimindinout to the Constitu tion of the United- States proposed by the Thirty-ninth Congress,and known as article 1 i;an.l when said article snail have become a pu t of the Constitution of tiio United I States, said Slate shall be declared entitled to representation in Congress, and Sena tors mid llepr.esentatives shall be admitted therefrom on their taking tho oath pro scribed bylaw ; aud thereafter the preced ing sections of this Act shall bo ill,operation in said State; provided that no person ex cluded from lee privilege of bottling ollieo Ji.v tin.' sail I proposed Am >ir! ment to the i t ai !i. u! io'.v• »f • i 1 Uni:. . - »,es i ,«*l I.* e!i;:i to election as a mcniper of a con-.| vnuii’iii to tiauie .a ' eifusiitnUon for any I thi : be! .my such ocr . ,j£;. .titi Or. tVThrtittr /i'hat 1 u • II the pco.'hj pT n.-v'd Kch.l States . h.dl b >.v j w’.e'hiilt'.hJ t»> re|ire-»ntatTonin tlm (’•*. •< th%TJ:,;tc.,: »any civil > ri a .-(■rhineo;* \vl,:*iw may t c®: Jtheivin shall Iv* deoui . pr "isidnal riuiy, nndnin. all y» a t i,tec.:;, f:i the parambun.t'am ;j n .a-,:. r.n, iccatyr*-. ') a;r-,r', re- :, : , ioc s other, who tu-e uaiikiil i > vote utniar the under the proved ms 6f the third urliclo of : said Uunstnulionai Aaittudmt nt, The proviso in the sth seCti it* is wliat? has been eallctl \\ iliianis’ Amendment, j And the 6th section is the Shellabarger Amendment. The vote on agreeing to these Amend ments —the proviso to the sth and the insertion iii'the 6th section in the House was ys yeas to TO nays. Upon-the adop tion of the bill as amended the vote was— yeas ilio and nays 46, a strict party vote. The Bill thus amend. 1 was scut Lack to the Senate and was concurred in by a vote with the m\i rity, ami, v,c, as his tea.- now threaten ii. Our readers can, each f. • I.imiv'.f, ileter niitie whether ho con see. i.i thiseru* i and revolting measure, a mode oy which die country can be r-.-ened i'rom the perils ; which now surroun I It. Vi e eoni'ess that we shrewdly suspect that such a prospect must be, even to the Maryland Senator, in "mortai dim.” above nil! ot’ M \ Shorui.-m, wo give the wl.ich wore ■I ut the last of Cdiigro.-.-', ami wltlelt is v. ii rred io and made a part or the Sherman IUII. By taking the two measurer together, va; : ii :i' .Mi': o* i '..•;,.;u:c.;, , ;u:nviy : Section t. At l i m •! nnturaii -d in lin* l nil- and S •, iii.t viii,'. vi to its? iurisiiirlion tiler, ’. lire ciii.Yr.s ot t.. * 1 United States an i iSri ■ ■ • wherein they reside. No State shall m dee or < ufoix e any law whAhsh;:: ~c : privilege' . or'itui.iutii' . i-.'s . : i... <”. . ie J n,i, : S.ntes ; nor -mil any si prive any : pcr> '.it of life, liberty or prupertv. witlioi.t due process a taw. h r i ny t i any ; r smi within its , uriseUcih a . pro- Uvtionof the laws. Section U. Representatives shall Ik? ap ■ ■l'.ioi: -J among the several Stales accord ing to their respective numbers, counting tlie whole number of -persons. excluding Indians n t taxed* But wb nert r t .... to vote at anv election for lay choice of *t and Vi . judicial oeiecrs, or ay. mlvrs of the l.egi- - ■ iate.re thereof is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty one years ot age, and citizens ■>: .tie I’nitt and States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in* rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the num ber of such male c;ti*cn< shall hear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of ret: in such State. Section if. Hiat no person shall be a Senator or 15c; r, -enutive in Congress, or « •of i csii nt aud Viee-Pres'i'd nt, . | ho.-t any ot.tce, civ :i or military,under the rr.:udSu:os, or under any S:ate, who. previ . . an ; liiptnber of Congress, or as aa ofheer of the , United States, or as ant ref any Stale 1 1 tfislature, or as anexccnn.. or judicial officer of any Stair. t.> . .. t\r. tuiioii of tin' Unit.,l s. ; . •-hCi have en gaged in insurrection or re!>e!iion against the same, or given aid and comfort to the oik mies thereof. But Congress may, by a vo;e of two-thirds of each House, remove such disabilities. <* s. lion f. The vaf.'iiy of the public debt ; of Ua? United States authoVized i ylaw, in cluding debts incurred for payment of pensions aud i 'unties tor service iii sup i prissing insurrection or rebellion, shall not be questioned. But neither the Uni ted States nor any Stale shall as.-ume or pay any del>t or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the ; United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave • but till such debts, obligations, and claims shall be held illegal and void. Section o. The Congress shall have power to enforce by appropriate legislation the provisions of this article. Waterbury, Conn., produces half the brass made in this country. Recruiting for the regular army in New York is very brisk, owing to the number i of men out of employment. nltirliing Developments at liashin^ton. V. c ». below, the l-.-.tor of the Wash- Johnson, of :: ary land, i.-.cl voted for tho Sherman •. i, v... I.■ had our misgivings as to the Pi .:. although our ■ iii.. ... bui i*;-di'.y, state that the i expected on Monday; ilia:; that he bud to save himself, bowed to the Iladltai Stevens, arid we find that his : action wi -but a foreshadowing of the Pres- Tiie Actca in pubii.-liing tiiis letter says: "V. c print the subjoined rather remark , able letter from our Washington corrcspon- I dent, without giving our. assent to all he ays. .Since he wrote Sherman’s Bill, with the amendments of Wilson and Shellabar gi.r. which we publish elsewhere, has passed both houses of Congress, and now only awaits the President's signature or veto. As wo have said elsewhere, we are inclined to think that dir. Johnson will sign the * i- :it ■ a. mat our correspondent thinks iii.owi.-e. lie is in a position to 1 1* • •/•;: li ;.i,d. whether cr not tilings will turn i fial a i.e - ti&e alone .will telL” ', | . ... .., .jfa:,i, t r o ¥ i,xtnrA | jsaoit. i'ebtiiary 18.—In my last • r to the ->«*’( ', I gave to its readers, •.••i ini u i-i serve, the tacts and cireuin atieuding the real or assumed ■ii . -l ion of Audi eiv Johnson, in the posi ; l.; e .•'.iiaad-uHiieiit of what has been known iiilh ::•■, :.s liio Adminisiration Iteeon- j j si.m.-i,. c policy, j-'roin tne premises then : put lor;:, ia substantiation oisucli a change ; of front bn the part of the President, 'J | do not, upon tlii: second thought, amlJ .v. it!i fresh an/t reliabje iiifoi-iiiafioii if|)oifl : i nr -oiijcct, ill the least depart. 2*'ay, i : • 1 caiicil upon to reiterate that Mr. | Join, ui lias espoused, so far as solonui ' ad:: ,is feu can i oi.iinit him To anything, Or : . : d'iUoli.'li A Inellli ment me. Jm i ; tr?;--! Suffrage. Tiie suc-cessivoTicgotia ; lions by vTiicii this was brought about are a lo'.cn to iiave I,ecu incepted by u non i onicinl ini-1 most notorious eontiUehtiiil j fi,cnil-o. : Mr. Jplmson’s, win), with one : ot I'cr gentleman, initialed the movement! i by tendering some twenty Kn.Ucu! niem ; 1 , f the liousc, wiili Hingliam and ; J: - :d : icir I,••.cl, a ebnm)higue supucr nt tho l'.u'o Hoorn in the Metropolitan | Hotel of this city. What follows?' Con- I cession and proposals to treat on the i part of the guests. Not at all. The | latter, in full suspicion of overtures that I mi mid come i'ropi the President, remained : dumb upon the political status of the ~.■.■ iini.ii Inch- tongues were loosed ,f* .'lie- poivocal intimation ujion tho isn't ■ • r* eiitertaimiM timt the President v. mi; , lie glad to see any one of them, or I eoilcc i velyj and that no doubt the associa te 1 ; . iv-nd < lull.ll i'iy sail:— I Upon dlls iiint they spake, audit ;* :.-i-;:od iii a iwinkling that an inter- j \ : oiunl be ItaiiaftiK: White House on ng night. insultation has • i c pmeished a-crtcs of letropoiitau papers, to i he effect : . :• v. end be found in due time that the President and t ingress w* re not very far removed after atj. .Vov.- 1 happen to I die : iiu! a.: ihi e.' iif tin- Washington cor- I-—l’.oiideni s*;f the ii e*'/,/, iinmwr l li<:raid, I are uily acquainted with the extent and : tajr; yet mark | 'how differently they are led: The writer I : of the 11 'urid shrewd and diplomatic cor ; respondent that lie is—can and does littlo I j more than hint in his dispatches of the • -juirpoia end drift of tho negotiations in j a* re:: m licit it is the policy j , ofti;".: mrnal lie represents to hope against ! Ir. Join m will not be hd j : asiri.y. Vet I know that the editorial that j a .onre ’ n tho li 'oiid on Tlnirsday or in. i. of !a iv. .e!;, and directed warning iy a::.! almost personally to the President I ii;. a tills very sii-jcet, was moved and i vrittmi upon the ea'.ulld advices they rc th ir a eat ni M ad:...mi in. ; fee iii •:. i iicc.*rd with any move- j me.iV that wi:l* (eyd to do away with i the U.ui. • with which ite principal editor, | fir.*! upend, is eonstaiitiy .assailed, be "::ui r ?Tf -. line . . «:: 1 steps ill inarelling wi.h oii.ii,party, is perforce the only paper ii i * that *cni» speak its mind, and ud ,:U4>li.*ii ;i,,) tenth in all liii« in\s : : fT, , ..fO, full blOW'ii, - nit . a.. „.v wil -i the strength of tb I . wiiie.i i: i.:e..)d, in an editorial ; >vs in lavi , itepe.iciimont, eann t ui'...nin e, :le: time, even admit 1 is aware that a coalition on the part of wing of tho 1 deal party and tho : ■Pr, uident i-.iay possibly take place. Wi; AT AI.I. THIS IN'DIt'ATKS AM) THE 1)H --IIOT’US TO HE MAIM*: TIIKBKFBOM. Tiie events of to-day, so far as the action i of the House is concerned, would indicate, j even if there were any lack of private and , | straightforward corroboration, that the j ] surrender of Air. Johnson lias been even j j more submissive than I affirmed in Sa i turduv’s letter. All day long. Messrs, i | ISingliaiu, Blaine and Thayer, with other j I of the parties to tiie alliance with ilio Kxe- | i cut ive, have been lighting for the concur- j 1 rence of the House with the Bill passed j after a night-long debate in the Senate yes ; day, and which i ; i -sentiully the some as introduced by Thud. Stevens, saving the | addition of Blaine's amendment stipula . ,• : when the excluded Suites have ra i iie.l tli * Uoiistilutional Amendment and ilc -iared for itnpaiTial suffrage, tho mar- ] ,:.i'. surveillance of the States shall cease, id they become entitled to represent;!- ! ! Now, rdi Ibis is fraught, with'certain r.n i.iisfil.abo- indications of a perfect, yet ~• -i ,• • tictween the President and t ,■? :abi :ii • t.f Mr. Blaine. It is so re • ■v.n'.z. and I‘iiti.e floor of the House, audtho i.i • ..... riiy. and the Stevens’ . v. i; g< ft..' Radical party, are preparing to : s: ike ham's upon the vote which is to be m itt , : : >-iin»rrow, to satisfy tlielr res -1 ■i. ,' part.v purpose in securing the de ..-.it of tlio iiiii. i know positively, too, : i,,at in the event of that contest being so ; s to liaisg upon the cast of a lialfu .I ..n voi.'s*,t’ooper, l.sifwitli and Tay- I lor, of Tennessee, intend to change their 1 votes and record themselves on the side of ! tin- Senate thus giving the j {} iv to iianii's engineering the conferences i. I with ihe President. Tun.-; is Mr. Johnson's doable scheme niul dip!, iuaey immasked, and it remains ~ ii io in : ie the dupes : and vvlte.hrr in the cxereiso of this qnestion d ji ■ ss i, he lias been . : ipoii ,woi king the g lod <if :-, • it ,:;ii l\v wheedling and dividing tlieir | fi nget'ssioind i-iietu i(\s. I'' ’or my ]i irt, l sin ■ ■-i ■ iii>j> -that tlie laU' r.whoHyeharitab'c ; i. ; . . may come :rne, bill 1 will own id." 1 am whoiiy convinced, should the - . itary Bill pass, it will be : mud to have < hiaiucii stt -li supremacy in id. : iov.se by al> bailee of power of which Iv. Johnson is :lie exclusive keeper, and s•• 11uentiv that it will return to the ; t'apit.d a la-.v as fully fledged as the auto :■ of lac Presiib lit can make it. EFOKMATION OP TUB CA«I3TET. * v , ne tiling yon may lie sure, am ■H : present Min.stcr, as an entirety, • ng for this pc : itieal world, and . . ; ■ vmg the first to abandon hi i port : 1 he if. >.i0:.,-1, . lion, ral itandail, unit*. 1 with :: toieiatiiy good prospect of and. si . ■ Mr. Seward, thirles ... ■s A i uiis ;i. th.' tatter, and Horace mail bags prominent names for tliesucces- VIDJiX. KRarj- biivorithU’st at the South. * no Cißv’iniit- i h.< s commenting upon the fth Sherman Bill, says : “The Soat’i .in people are to be place* andi :.n’ itary vassalage. Can it be that the X rthern anil Western' nten, when they i’i.'tr votes t .i place such men ps -vr . ■ ’..';!i!: a ;i:y in Congress, con ... . . that till} weal: to ufmee their power ! Do they realise the fact that, ;o L., the South subjected, a Standing army of one hundred thousand meu will not he .sulßclent ? Are they prepared to endure a perpetual system of taxation, under which that of England even appears b.h; . By this act they have converted the 5: mil into a gigantic Ireland, and an irobud that will bo more troublesome iu of any foreign imbroglio than the 'Green Isb’ is to England, for its hate whl be solid, •compact and undivided. 1 lore is a precious .g-ta/c to the “War lor , the Union.’ as Lyy.oaitical a motto as ever was invented y liars and sneaks. Had such a consummation as this been iores aa, we are satisfied that not one in ton of the brave mfti who shouldered a musket for the preservation of an un uividod country, but would have been j content to embrace the alternative of cer tain black journalists, and let the Union slide. The enslavement of a brave, gallant and impulsive people, however they may have erred, will be recorded as one of the j monstrosities of the age. The question is i not alone whether the South will endure it, for we err if the manly heart of the North Is not indignant athhe outrage upon its old associates of the early Revolution.” M- -i of rare intelligence are naturaiiy solitary. i Sylvanus Cobb, Jr., tbe story writer, !■ leads a church choir. AUGUSTA, #A,, TvEDN 1 ' L\RCH 6, 1867. Sen.'ior Doolittle, of Wisconsin. Vv’e give below the remarks of this dis . tir. nislied Conservative upon the Stevens i Scoo!;?.truction Bill ia the Senate of the V. *S., oa the 36th inst.: .. i wi i| . wish so plead for what I think the life ol the republic,and forlliat spirit which },avts it life. I stand hero also to answer for niy t:on < ■ certain lumhimental : *.•,-.• . •> ; ii.:. .' which the Sena: r from Mr. saehu sti on my right ilr» Sumner) is the; g:... advocate an.i champion. I have been s r i .-re than eighteen months denounced in r. y State by many of my former polit ical u-soeiates and 'friends* for foreseeing tiies * logical results which have now com. : which are now pending before this Senate in tiie biiis which have come from , the li mao of Itopresentatives; lor do- j nonliving them in advance; for asserting j to the people of Wisconsin, over and over again, that yielding to those fatal here- : ; sics would of necessity dissolve the Union and establish a concentrated j military despotism. I have, sir, 1 expect, ! been most severely denounced through- j : < ::: the Stated'Wisconsin, ami elsewhere; that denunciation Isas been carried laopi . an extent as to culminate at last in the I resolutions of the Legislature qf Wisconsin instructing me to resign my seat in this j hiKly. i say, therefore, Mr. President, as ' X stand here to-day, i stand to; plead for the life of the liepublie; to plead for the ! spirit 5h which it lives, and witliout which ! it is dead.-. And, sir, 1 am here to'acswer , | formysojf, because* I iiave been pleading i I for, .wiUt ail tiie power Hod ha«(givep mti, L for tiie hist twoygMS in my own I this Hehwtr? 'ttr.d* eiscSvhci're”: Hted !i,"'sir; If j shall in' tills uiscussion give utterance to deep and earnest conviction in strong and ! earnest language, Senators will under i stand it is witii no disrespect, to them. It > j is because iny soul is filled with senti- j ments which language can hardly utter. ; | Never before jn my life, though I have . I stood in many* a scene and have often : ! rioeii lie re, but never iiave 1 felt the weght j of that responsibility resting upon me j which is upon me now. Never before in my life was there it time when my heart | would go up, and ask Almighty God to { give me power to give utterance to the ; truth, as it goes up now. No such i ; measures were ever before presented in an I Anierii-iui Congress. What are they? | ! Ca’.l tliem by what name you v*ill, they line in si , : oce a deciaration of war | I against ten Suites of tho Union. They are | I nothing to .v- hoy are nothing less. We j know, sir, Cm: lie* rebel lion inn liocn sup | pressed. Wo : .low that every armed - ted r, '.a tjir> Potomac to the Bio ! Granite, ia'- fill»d *red ids arms and ! pli'ilgiii anew ills allegiance to Hie j Constitution, the Union and the flag. We know that there is not 'one armed -uhlier against tiie republic thr.iu ■: i . the wlii'ic <*f our vast domain. Wetr*--,'-, ir, that in Utoso ten. States civil govern' a i-•, in form, have been re-estab lished i voice of her peojile, I “and that | with ail ■ nachinery of their civil gov ernment. ,I. •y.iu'u in full operation. Wo know, s:*'. teat peace lias been declared by tiie authorities of ibis government, pur suant to arts of ( 'ongress conferring that j authority. Jn ail l/ t; States of this Union j i peace has come. But, sir, what do these j bills propose? They propose tat open a ! direct war on every form of civil govern : ment within these States. They propose to supersede and annul them all—to take front all tiie people ol these States all voice in tho power which is to govern! them. Tho bayonet, and the bayonet- alone, in the hands of the soldiers, to bo the law of the '• Mates. All resistance is to be overcome ; j the States are to bo taken possesion of, and nil civil institutions are to be subsidized to | the bayonet. That is war, Mr. I'oolittle I then entered upon a criticism of tho details of tho bill, and afterwards referred, at con siderable. length, to the resolution instruct ing him to resign—denying the right of : the Legislature or Wisconsin to issue such instructions—and reviewing the votes and | speeches in the Senate, and the acts of his j public life which had caused these resolu , lions to be passed by what he. termed the ! Kadi -tU of the Wisconsin Legislature. ‘ Ho then contdniled tiiat Tio had not abandoned the principles of the Baltimore Platlyrru of ltWl, but that lie was stili in favor of it, and of the police of rpeonsmte- ! iioa !iy Mr. 'Uiueoln. Con-; corning the Louisiana bill, he *®aid its titie should be amended so as to read uoial to ft store civil but to or-o ganize lie'l in tiie State of Lonisinia. .(Applause in the galleries, mingled with hisses.) Mr. Hoolklle concluded* hie speech at 3:35. The Presidential Accession.—The ( House of on SaturJay i ♦ ~' it err-cte 1 , <(•(■.. That in ca-'e of the re vai, death, resignation or inability Id . and * f the President and Vice-President | of; United States, the President of the Send }>i’otern, and in case there shall be ! no President of the Senate, then the ! Spc-a'.ct of the House of Representatives for the time being; and in case there shall ; be no 2 ’ > eaker of the House ofllepresenta tives, then the Chief Justice of the Su ] preme Court of the United States, and in ! ease there shall be no Chief Justice, then | (lie Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States who shall have been longest I commissioned, shall act as President of the I United States until the. disability be re moved or a President shall be elected aud I qualified. See. 2. That whenever the office of President and Vice-President shall be vacant, the Secretary of State shall, if the i Senate and House of Representatives, by . | concurrent resolution, so request and direct,'forthwith cause a notification there of to be made to the Executive of each ! State, and shall also cause the same to be j published iu at least one of the news papers printed in each State, specifying that electors of President and Vice-Pres ident of the United States shall he ap ! pointed in. the several States cm the ! Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November then next ensuing. Provided, That there shall he the space I of sixty days between the date of such no j tinea ti on and the said Tuesday, hut if there shall not be the space of two months ■ between tho date of such notification and ilio said Tuesday, and if the term for which tint President and Vice-President last in office were elected shall not expire on the 31 day of March next ensuing, then tic: S creiary of State shall specify in the notii'i.Mttmi tiiat the electors shall be ap ii.iiii' 1 on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in month of November next ensuing. v i it time tbc electors shall ■ iuteil, and the electors :.*!.:ii tit ■' • ihUr vote on the next * en-'.te:' : p ipointitient of electors as aforesaid on «#st Wednesday jh I!.;.:' cv, . • ■: codings and duties of s: j c-1-. o' * > al-*'i • is shall i.e in pur- I suaneo of the diresti is prescribed by law. tic.-. hi ,r wi'never ihe office of Pres nd V'ico-Ptesident sliall both, becomt • . nt, when Congress is not in 1 session. ' .1! be the duty of the officer ! dischar. the duties and powers of the office of id* *it forthwith to is.-ue a prodamat it com ening both houses of tho (.’ongress of the United States within sixty days after assuming the duties of 1 'resident of the United States. Newspaper Enterprise in the-Far West. —Benjamin C. Freeman, the cor respondent of* the New York Tim- A has made a journey across the plains to Salt Lake City. In his last letter he give. the j following amusing account of the history of a newspaper, started at the first town on .this side of Brigham Young's settlement: Laporte, the last town west, east of Salt Lake, reposls under a sturdy old hill, and is a place of promise. _ It already has a hotel, a church and a billiard saloon, and will toon print a paper. There was a_ pa • per primed at Laporte for a short time, : .: things that were. It had r; \ I was av. ■.... very weakly, in iaet. Tlie first issue was edited, put in type, printed and circulated I by one man. The most flaming advertise ment in the paper was ‘"Wanted—ACom - posit w. Apply at this office.” A defunct miner, wh s had come West to seek his fortune, and hadn't found it. applied, “at this office” —the only building in town with a broad roof, which looked badly, by the way, during a storm —and a got a sit uation." lie became the ‘"foreman,” aud the owner was the ""editor. " Tiieie was but one ‘"galley" in the effiee. and that was Generally used by the editor. The foreman, ; I ter Siting Ills stick with type, would tie ; j. .' ii with a string, and hang it up on a ’ n . Twelve nails full made a galley, and C; .'.luted a day’s work. When the edi t-.r ent out "‘collecting' the foreman wv . have the galley to himself—he often ; had i to himself The second issue was a suee: The “form” was‘"planed " against the wall with the hed of a boot, but the whole : •iUo went off- —it soled welL The next issue was suspended on account of a violent storm, which lasted a week.. There was a little scarcity of news during the f liowing week, owing to the fact that the ; reman had been in jail. The next week it again appeared, but for the last time.— For this reason: The editor attempted to pay off his help in brooms. The indignant compositor told the editor to go , and again went into the mountains for gold.— His fate is not known. The editor did not go below, certainly, for I met him at Den ver. A census of Alabama, taken in Im o, shows that the population of that Istato has only increased ninp thousand in the i past six years. The total population given 1 bythis census is y73,fis6. The l’residcat and tangresw - ; The Northern and Western Ar.irnsls come to us tee ming with hn Senator Sherman's Picconsiruetqtai ..Bit], j sonic denouncing in outrageous measure, but tka ?n^)Ari£pH&i . , >. but,:.. 1 ■■■■■■■■-iitc-r y it inform.: lb? P.'C?:,. :.t in .edi.; policy is dead, veto oite-fiht veto, ’ lit. Johnson is urged to ho**' to-, the 1 ceases to quarrefc with that body ou the | question of the reconstruciiou find resttoa-, lion of the Sbutii, tlie v sword of impeach-; ment will'assuredly fail on hi* head.., Tl therefore urges upon the Executive ii make a virtue of necessity and graceful!/ Submit to the Radical program m 5. ■ I ■ Almost iu the same breath, hoyevet, this tame paper denounces the new Tariff Bid, the currency and national bankag Si'.,teui,A»d calls on President Johnso;uo tifte a iktu jtud stand the present of Con/lfss \ •with regard to . the ricancas: la'* - endon'tliesO questions,- By usifft: ids Veto povfcr. The Herald claims that, by opposing tlfese mensures, 'he can lay down such a policy as tBo mass of the peojile will approve and Con gress will not venture to deffcaW f What inconsistency ! The President, in one instance, is urged to submitkto the will of this fanatical, sectional, ant irre sponsible party, and in another he b most zealously rfceommonded and apposed to to fight them to tho hitter end. It com mon parlance this would be flyin ', from the "frying pah into the fire.” ButPresi dent Johnson is not the man to be titimi dated, neither by the threats of Hun cal papers or Radical Congressmen nor cajoled into violations of his solemn con stitutional obligations and his duty so the whole country by either their tlirajLs or | flattery. Parthc.' concessions woutf he I characterized as weakness, and the itadi i cals, having him •■umpietely at their I mercy, would not l-msitato to “push him to tho wall.” Boll:teing hiuireli', as he most assuredly is, t be right, he will stamp the obnoxious and uncons'titut*)nal j enactment of Congress, placing te'n -F.tites i under tho control of a military despoljsm, !. with tiie sea! of disapproval, lli-tm-y will record his veto of the Plierman Bill aaonb . lof the most noble act sos his life, white the passage gi' tills cryi utrage hy Confess j will be stamped iguJ* * j In order that our ' may knot in j what Kght this Milita.. . is vidw*. (by 1 some people fit the Nm West viito : diaveffol gone mad witi- ticism, ;v‘e j present some extracts. The Times, whieh’ com s the way) from Hartford, Conn., tin. . laraetcrizes it: , ■ “war. “Congress declares war tip ,n the South. ! It makes the dedaratioh wt, n the Mouth ! is at peace and in strict obedience to the | laws. It tntfkea •it liy a party .decree, j Under a law or Congress tho President was : authorized to issue.t proclamation, deolar i ing ihe civil war at an end, when, in his ! judgment, it should come to an end. The President has issued the prociumalion, deeianng peace, and an end to ttjftwhr. j For two years there has been peace ir: the South, aud .the, laws have been eniorced without tUhii^illy. •‘Now Congress declares war upon that people, who have not shown the indication oi' itnhnvi'ul conduct, Iu ous—:■ Ijencfs the privilege of tho vri-it ,of .'irtfetoe over the Sot. h '-aiii’i Osta'iih~.h a ttift'diyy* government there. "viati the j te,ueh moos.roils worn ? Is tho jn't-vodent :o lio established, that Congress by .a party vote, declare upon ::;:y. _oi i.ie i Union, at any time when party r.i.tljghity in.tv demand it? If so, >,.»:• v’» New J-3:ig ■ land—for llie* day is fust, approaching when { party and sectional hate will assail her, if j such doctrines are to prevails’ The Now York Express is deservedly se vere : THINGS MADE WORSE AND WORSE BY OP POSITION. The Revolutionists now in power tell the Democracy,— ! "The more you oppose, the worse we : will act.” Very well, say we—but wo shall not the loss oppose. Military despotism is not to he substituted among us, in this country, I and over such Slates of the old original I Thirteen, as Virginia, tiie Carolina?,°a'id : Georgia—without opposition. On the way to the Dead Sea "1 Desi-iod-an, we will ever ; keep on remonstrating, j Revolutions generally have to run out , -therefore, this iui <at t-h© bet- Uromwell only ina e Cromwell worse bv opposing lii in. 't a,' .1. i * *..'pendents would not have cat oli't.cU , i i.Vciurlc'itho Ist, if tho Presbyterians had n t heeii Crotn well!s eueini': . No ..toccjljins, ho Marats I tan ton?, am! Koiioq.terrt*.?, wouhl have : existed, it the Girondists had not stood in their way'. j Thus, 'in our country, though resisting, WO see tho Kevol.i:..:i must no on. The quicker tiie Fre.-ident is ex;, ilu.i from Washington perliaps the holier—with Wade, or Oiiandler, to act in nls place. ; This will cut oil the /ado I,oven.incnt from that winch k.:; o- rts Covcminent i tin: moral semet pn oi the P ; : r . The. .quicker the Supi erne C6urt ol the United states its overthrow n the I .. q itis ' I quicker bring on Anarchy, an:', through ■ Anarchy, alone, at times, can Order be cot. j Military desp< llstn m iv be th - result in a ■ Cromwed ora Napoleon- -but a Cromwell : is worth a thoie-an i Pra: ‘O-C.ii’.-ieu-eboncs, i arid one vt; ■<-*< » is worth a wholo regi inento:' it *b -pierres. The Hump i av/.v.-; in YvV-hington has Utterly ove; iis.’ov. a Bn.' UonMitatiifi, of the Uniled . s iit r cue hail es the - tiiirtee States. It but awaits th opportunitw'to govern .!:i.• nail' n itgitiu xv-tli Marshnis, anil to" throw the upp-HUp,,, Fort Fai'avetta or Fort \Vamm." "ibe Bumpers will re-ib. all this—,,< us ttiey_(h>.rc. I-'uhie’s new Military Bill in tin; House c; Representatives is i preparing tin' way ibr ,in another s:';hkl - army. Thaii. Sic . t enorted an Arrnv Bill which strips tbo civil i ioverii ! ment of tlio commandoftiio Army, ami nuts it uuder the e ntrol of t ■ Htunn But few, save liewii'i kc.-p V-'.'d on Congress, have ail idea of hfifj wo are exactly redoing wlnn tlie Romans .did, under Pump w a:..i (kg first Ciesars —under 1 'rjimvo!!, and u,,. der the Girondists : " Jacobin:, French Kevr.lmion :n the As• f there is a struggle to ve. The . voted, 'i tairsday, to •. . j n ! Greenbacks, alias .. . Titc ; s nothing new under the • the K>, repeats. Men in lUG i . very men a.s in A. I>. 1, and .A Pi. , 1». ITSiJ. We, Americans nru. vanecd in a single liberal id ' mt on :sg , contrary, we are undoing ~ work o.';h e Barons"of Rnnnymeile. .if r < the Bill of Bights, the iii. "f Our instituti ns no w, iu in the protecti mif pro;" . are b-hi .q tii? I-lßgiish, ami a .-.tb "■ r ipp .p Viet ;riii is far kotlor pw c in property and liberty than ; of American people, ■S.oixi. 1 ." : u of whom are of the purest Anglo-Saxon blood, with very little intermixture. THE XESSOXS OF HISTORY. All patriots who avoulil guide their j i country to a happy issue out of her present troubles should study lessons of policy to be learned from the annals ofSwitzeriand, ; which, after the Sunderbund war, hurt no i hair of any man's head, pilfered no man's property; and from th" aunt Js of France, . which, after La Vendee w..s s acitied, disturbed u • mar- in it, eiil.er in Mcrty or ■ estate, and urisely- forbore to execut-: th e ■■ ( .-.a /. though l* . Empire ; stood in need of every man. an ; ... : the mast I w ... M ■ ■ - lessons, for the Sunderbund h*a left i Switzerland, and La Yen dee, i rative, more united than over.—f;/...V : H dleUu. The Locbviue Jot wo: i Prentice} sine declilo'l an-1 bad u.. lig'.-.i-y does repeat itself, and, with the exautple of so many terrible instances ct retribution before their c-ycs. the F.adtcal- are going it, blindly. God send to them speedy over throw and destruction! Thu Mili ary Bill.— A Military Bid or a Reconstruction Bid or whatever else it may be .ailed has p.—d bviu Houses of Congress. It has been sent to the I rvsi f„r J,; s signature, but, tom the political character of the two bodies that ,■ vp i.assed it, and from Ins own; wears iinn-' ed to feel surx- that he will put his vet.a ur.-u it. He is bound todo bis duty, whatever tbo Scr.:.;- m. : H-J we of Repre sentatives and the rest in the world may ‘k-jlj,. 3511, which has passed Congress aud which will certainly be jiassed over the Executive Department of the Government, establishes Military Governments, Miii t liv Despotisms, over the ten Southern | i States, and disfraucitises all persons who I j Vere prominent officers, militarv or civil, I in thrf rebaUjoa. " v : The peoplfi of the South, if wise and pru dent, can live for a timo under such a | damnable tyranny as this, hut, if they consent to it. they deserve it. They don’t ! cleservft it, ar.,l they will never consent to : it- Tucv would s Alter e their beautiful i *'.* trite wheiri: u beneatli a second Dead j Sit. ffiierefi not a man in Congress, not I myit/. Bauieal, wiio thinks, or pretends to M-unif, that any of the Abolition projiosi -1 tm-nXin regar ;to tlqj South are eonstitu j tioiyl.- Tin.* (.’angressional Radicals scorn J.t-iO/.Coustitiuion. They deride it us an [ tii'i of it lUJK- turn un their noses at an itH’e of fortv-il ve d--grtv». They tisuip | t: X'’,v, " t ■ do what titey please, meivly j Hying “ifthe Constitution and the laws i in our way, so much the worse for the | yonxlitution and the laws.” ii :lrc ' to expect?' What- is before |s?. Who can answer? Presidqpt Jobn ifcon is bound by his oath of office to main (tain the, C* institution and tiie Laws. If ' Congress make an audacious attempt to destroy or paralyze tho other two Depart-?) ments of the Government, wha| will be ■ liis duty? The answer to this question, if fttade by him, demands the noblest cour age and the highest statesmanship. We do not assume to render the answer. We have confidence iu the President and his trusted advisers. We cannot possibly escape the apprelien sio;i that, whatever eonrse tiie President may take in regard to the atrocious Bill of •Congress, a terrible civil war is imminent. Jf ’-A, Heaven avert it ! The country lias flteljbred to the utmost extent of its power to endure. Would tints all knavish politi cal madmen might perish of their own madness ! The following proceedings is tb_e United Stales Soiiitle, on tho 21st, show 'what is being bone in -relation 'to confiscated lands, and lands sold for taxes: Mr. Frelir.g'iuyson reported from tho Judiciary Committee, the House Bill to restore the possession o/ lauds confiscated by tho authorities of. the is.ates lately in rebellion, with an amendment. As amend ed-the bill provides that in cases where shell confiscations have been made, the ! loyal citizen so deprived oil Ids property | :s hereby declared seized of the same, and i -on complaint of such persons, their heirs ! or assigns, to any justice of tho Supreme Court ol the United States, or distfiet judge of the district wherein tho laud lies, or to any United States commissioner for said district, accompanied with satisfac tory evidence of the title. Ac., such justice or commissioner shall certify the farts of such proof, and ’deliver the same to the commanding officer of tho military forces stationed within tho said State or district, which officer shall restore to the persons i aggrieved tho property thus confiscated, ; and protect him in the possession of the same.' Mr. Sherman introduced a bill to con firm the sides made by the District Tax Commissioners for South Carolina to per sons in the army, navy and marine corps, j such sates being made under the eleventh j section ot tiie act for the collection of t diie.-t tax, Ac., and under instruction j from tiie President, upon tho terms yet forth in tho conditions of sate ; Provided, That up greater sum [shall ho .repaid as overplus to the purchaser than the amount actually paid by him : and *u case of failure to comply with the terms named, such property shall be resold by tiie Tax Commissioners, they being auihorized £o make one bid on each tract on behalf of j the (bitted Stales. Referred to tho Com- i mitl.ee.on the Judiciary. Cve.fivib's lliss iHiiaii of the Bump j Parliament. Tb-t '. x of January, 1653,. is tjio date of tiii- -.■'‘.movable event. The Parlia ment by which Charles I. had been met and overti me, had dwindled down by various p aliens to about fifty-three members, wl,o aimed at becoming a sort of mild oligarchy for the administration of’ tho commonwealth. They were delibera ting on a bill for tire future representation, in which they should have a permanent place, when Cromwell resolved to make an end of them. It was the last incident in the natural series of a.revolution, placing military power above ail other: Qrcmiweirhaving ordered a company of musketeers to follow him, entered the j House in ‘‘plain black clothes and worsted j stockings,' 1 and sitting down, Bst-ened icv’| ;; ; idiy tu.Y. 0'.,,, ileai . t toTper.k. In the course of Ins "address Tie j lb! kill •: ; : of jaw: e, till at length Sir Peter’ Went- i worth interrupted hint .with a remonstrance again.; such language. Then blazing up, - he sell: “We have had enough of this; 1 will put an end to your prating.” Stepping into the floor of the House, and clapping on his hat, he commenced a violent harangue, which he occasionally emphasized by stamping with his feet, and which ©ante mainly to this: “It is not fit you should sit here any longer—you j have sat too long for any good you have j beoa doing lately. You shall now give | place to better men.” “Call them in!” he (exclaimed, and his officer, Harrison,' ancj a file of soldiers, entered the. House. | Then proceeding: “You areno Parliament! j Some of you are drunkards” —bending a J stern eye upon Mr. Chaloncr; “some of you are- a word expressive ofa worse j immorality, and he looked at Henry j Merlin and Sir Peter Wentworth, “living j in Open contempt ot God’s commandments. Some ofyoju arc corrupt, unjust persons; how cau you boa Parliament for God’s j people ? Depart, I say, and let us have j done with you. Go!’ ! Ho lifted Ills mace from the tahle and j gave it to a musketeer, to be taken away. J He caused Harrison to give his hand to j | Speaker Lenthal and lead him down from j | die chair. The members, cowed by Ins j [violence and-the sight, of his armed men, I i mpved gloomily out of the House. “It is | | tjjo Lord that hath caused me to do this, j |hi said. ‘ I have sought that he would i ! i-ather slav me than put me upon doing ] tils work.” Sir Harry Vane ventured a i,i; ■. ir:,!,: -. “(!;•. Sir Harry Vane,” ex- I claim-"l the Ii i!»l General, “the Lord! froth Sir .larry Vane i” Wlieh i | aIJ had pons cut. ho came out too and ! i locked the door. Prom that, time he was | master of the three kingdoms for about j | five and a half years. How an Innocent Man was Convicted and Hung. ! In the recent trial of the parties charged with the murder of Captain J. F. Gruber, Mr. Tolly, one of tho‘counsel for the dc i fen narrated the following story : -Tli > whole cii'o was made up of elrcum , stautial evidence of the loosest character, ; and to illustrate how guardedly even the i b<..st and strongest circumsiantial evidence I must be taken, be referred to a trial that j took place in this very court about thirty ! court, and Mr. Muzureah was the attorney ! general. There then lived ou the Bayou road a man twenty-five or thirty years old. 110 was no': an educated nor a wealthy m.:: was hi nest. and had «>o I verv in'irm in health, lie made his livcii hool ■ going to the Bayou, St. John ! every ning. and catching fish to- soil m th : t the n m irning. <)n . whi ■ sitti; on the Bayou i , .- usual, he saw a lady dressed in i white, company with a gentleman-, : walkn.g- a the read beside tho Bayou.— l’hcy v.e. . irrclling; as they passed him, and his at f tien was attracted by hearing them riuar: ■. W* After tin ’-tssed, he resumed his fish in.* and v,v::L-l until he had caught his usual supply. He then started home with his basket. As he had reached the place known as the ‘'Coquet" lie heard a loud cry. Advancing in the direction of the sound, he saw a woman in a whrte gown lying on the pavement, and coming to the woman, he perceived that a dagger had been stabbed into her bosom. Think -1 iag to relieve her, he took the dagger by the handle, an l drew it out. As he did so, a watchman "Txq -d him. The woman was killed. ’ . . , The poor fisherman was tried for the taur-dor. The case was made out c.early Si.-uus-t him. die had been detected in the .cry u.:t, bending over the bongo! the- H j - .-as convicted, and was hung at Congo .‘ v • i a::iv-. A Lout Ax Uivßihs after a trial ■< .uic-Jiif's :eoes*, A c;rizc-n called' a-, a juror said he did not wi 1. to be on the vary, end wished to speak a few words to the judge, /ihejudge allowed him a private conversation, *1" dug that he might have scruples auout M pita! punishment, the judge asked bun : 11 that was the reason he objected to being on the iur- "Vo,” be answered, 'that »=* not L-; reason. I saw the fisherman i hung for the murder of my wile. Beam ?ot do it. I killed her myself, from jealousy." The judge sat retrihed. ine • man made for the door, escaped, and has nev.jr been heard of since. i he largest room in the world, a. sintoe roof, and unbroken by pulars or other oo structioiLs, is at St. Petersburg, uussia.— It*> 650 feet in length, aud 150 feet in Ortadth. A man of fifty-eight, in Napoleon, Ar kansas, said he would drink a gallon ot 1 liquor in a day or die. He did both. OUI MASHIM!Toy COKHESrOAIIEMI). ! -Bt Obnoxious Hecoiistruction Scheme A agrees. upon—RaerdyJohnsanvoteji for \ it, mult however—Speculatio/usas | ,toth •? PresiJejti's Position thereon — Tom- | ■ I’ermtce ~>ihe J/uj iiol — Thail. Stevens a , Ii arheigtonum—Meeting ofthe HepilUi- ! can Association—Doorkeeper of the ; Senate (iuiuntnaJ-—John li. Surratt- Fate of the Dautiriipt Hill, •ctc.fcic..- I V\ ashington, Eehruary klst, ISfiT. I After weeks of hieket-iiig and quart-eiiiug I that would .havo Wei! hceome a ; ot house, .but liar-jiy _th;; R:m aaf Congress', a Bill j Las at law L. :n agreed upon' by both House.-; ior tue yarpos-.* of seeuring a more eiueient (ron'enmient” tor j tne Southern ..States, aud, although It is | i nni'dly.ie.ss objectioaable in any point than j | the original Military Bill, it received the | votes of. fi ome who it was thought would j never give their consent to it The Radii ,eai papers and orators are now al] gran uiloque.ntjy t roclaitniug that "day light” is looming up. and their ortfttn of this city tho Chroiuch —lias two-thirds of a column tiiis morning, double lJtded, glo rifying .tiie action oi’ Congress, and pro claiming that, under God, tiie Radicals have saved the Republic. Hon. Revordy John son, ot Maryland, is receiving tributes from Radicals -high in power for his vote : o.ntheJi.h. and many icgardit as tyiindica tion that Trodden t Johnson will give it his j signature. The. dominant party asscrtihat ' ii he doejj not, the Fortieth Congress will ■ not only impeach iiim i'yt* his restmanoe ; to the ♦will-'of the* Tliirtw(paithl >, €batre3a. '■• '-■ * • - ■ • * pass , a bHI-fof the Vmdn <.ficieiit govern j ment" of the -South, to which, in se verity, tic one which will be* presented ' to the President to-day will be- wild iu comparison. Speculation* is rife as to what the President will-do. I learr: that : Secretary Stanton has asserted that, sh his opinion, the Prdßdeut will not yield,to j the Sherman Uniendmenf, as it passeij Congress additionally amended, :bui that | ho insists upon the of jps former posilioW All these matters, watch have been in the dark .for so long, legist I#* solved very soon, for the*'resident lull either sign, veto, or pocket the bill, whiifh, will become a law on the statute bool* at any rate, aud there w:!i be oppor tunity of forming a definite ojmmm as to what lies in the luturg’as fur tis tW quarrel between tho two most, prominent branches of the Government ape con*, earned, * Since Congress, on lastSahliath cvtfiiing, inaugurated a Temperance Society in tiie Hall of the House of Reprcscntative#whci! several Senators and members of*the lower* House made a i'uature of it by. signing the pledge and making, “eloquent repi-irks” on the subject, the clerks in sev.e-ai p/ the Depart men ti; have taken up tlic cue,!* and are organizing -till over she city. .They* .will hardly be able to use their temperance I tracts as campaign documents. Temper*, mice ami 'religion will nut sjtdl we|l in the* traces with Ratiistdisi* Tlutd. weven# did not attend the'meeting, ijeidier did he sign tiie call ; hut Wilson satisfied the audience by: explaining that Mr. Stevens had not a drop of in toxicating liquor for thirty years; This, then, is a decision ex cathedra that neither lager beer, ale, old rye whiskey, nor sparkling champagne is intoxicating. No one 1 asked Ray questions as to, the predi lections whieh Thud, has for tho existing game ot faro and its concomitants. The Congressional Temperance' Association will hold another meeting on the evening of next Sabbath at the same place, and it is intended, if successful, to establish tem perance as one of the the Radi cal platform. ♦ The Republican Association, of this city— a baml of miserable Radicals—held a meet ing last night to hear the reports of their spies and determine upon further action in behalf of the freedwen. One of the mem bers had complaints to 'make, Against a door-keeper or the Senate gallery? who, lie stated, had made discriminations- as to race and color in admitting parties to the portion ol the gallery under his charge by assigning to the negroes-trho Said colored people—a, particular' part'of the building, A committee of oue was appointed to in vestigate this, matter, and it is presumed , j that Senator Sumner will see that the, : ftiiending.officer is retnovech. The.,colored,j ■ Fourth Viftfra oftTihfei™' where" 1 arp f e!efel'] tion wh'l soon -ji; had To fill a vacancy in j ; the Board of Aklermen; occasioned by life : recent.ileath oi a mem; ‘r. They are a6- j tively at work, 1 and Mark hearts with white skills arc helping Congress to degrade j the nation’s capital. Surratt is one of the absorbing topics of \ interest in Washington, and various spec- j ulations exist with regard to his fate.— Many believe that it will he impossible to convict him as accessory to the assassina tion of Mr., Lincoln, either before or after • the fact, as it is asserted that the -part in which Surratt lent himself related solely | to his abduction, afid ho left the scene when lie became convinced that his death j was intended. The Sicatara, which con | veyed the prisoner from Yilky Iq-anca to j this'country still lies oft’tho Navy Yard. ■ She will probably return to her station in 1 the European squadron. . _ ; Fears are entertained with regard to the j safety of the Bankrupt Bill, which was | passed by (he Senate, as it came from the House of Representatives, with only a.few ' unitnporff.nt amendments. There is a strong >y here to defeat it,if possible— among whom is noted Stewart, the great. New York dry go **.U man. lie is a “lion” • among tho New York members. Sumner will make a strenuous effort to • ’nave black soldi*; r-t commanded and con-' trolled by negro (miters. This will be done so as to place tiie people of the South as ! ! much as possible under ihe ban of negroes ! j should Congress decide to establish mili tary forces in their midst. The white of ; ficersofthc FrceJmcu’s Bureau oppose it, * I however, and it will not pass. The weather is in a liorribl# condition. In the past two day ;-we have had rain, j snow and hail in superabundance. Loco • motion in the streets of Washington is in characteristic slushiness, and at every cross ing one is beset by at least a trio of juvenile j Africans —(I beg pardon Freed mm) —im- ploring i-’.nt’i's i'**r keeping the pathway dear''. Their reir.'UscTation is not very ex tensive in (■i-mpari.-.mt with their numbers. Forr:-t is jicr'orming at tho National Theatre :t*<! lira wing crowded houses, notwitiislat: *!.i t . weather. We are to have Pare] a te>oii in Emlt.-h Opera. Arlington. P. S. Parties known to be on the most 'intimate terms with Bm President assert that lie will veto the Senate Reconstruction Bill with the House a.m-ndmenfi, and that | he will abide the issue tints made with his . enemies. They declare their purpo.s- to • ■ should the President picket the Bill he will be impeached. Stanton must have been right in assigning to tiia President his old original policy for Ins iutuic guidance. We may have stirring times in less than three weeks. Arlington American Bonds Held Abroad. — There is.some difference of opinion as to the total amount of American bonds hold by foreign capitalists. *Mr. McCulloch estimates it at $600,000,000, the New; I York Tribune at' $1,000,000,0005800,- i 000,000 would probably be about correct. In 1554 the amount of American sceuri- \ ties held abroad was estimated at $440,- I 000,000; and in 1860 at $500,000,000; as the United States national debt at ■ tjiat time was but s‘.**looo,ooo, at least $450,000,000 of the estimate was invested in other than Government stocks. Add I to this the Secretary’s estimate of United | States bonds now held abroad, and it will - make up a present aggregate of about ; $800,000,000. * Furniture Fashions in Paris.—The • Paris corre: pendent of the London Quern ’says:—“Thejmwest fashion in Paris— where even thSashion of furniture chaflges , i completely every two or three years—is to 1 i have dining-room chairs no longer covered j with morocco or moleskin, but with dark : cloth, the walls equally hung with dark | colored velvet paper, or cloth, and relieved by candelabra?, behind which arc attached plates of metal or of glass, the whole being highly ‘becoming’, as the well informed and well-spoken dealer told me, to ladies in full dress, whose brilliancy the contrasting dark shades set off. Some houses confine their manufacture entirely to certian periods; j so. at. a certain dealer’s, who had some * j magnificent specimens of Louis XIII. fur niture, imitated), I was told that he never i designed or worked later than the Louis j XIV. style, and there much of the casing was in sycamore wood, bearing much analogy to the pear-tree wood, though not of so fine a grain, and not so expensive. It is impossible to give moderate-minded English persons an idea of the extent and universal spread of extravagance in the way of furniture in this country. Orleans papers .-ay the freed men throughout Louisiana, having spent their money during the holidays, are re turning to work with more good will than * was anticipated. NEW SERpjS VOL/NXVJ. NO. xO - ax- . . . -ate _ 4mMMVMCATED.f Detention iff' Railroad Travel at Atlanta. Drumming articles have lately beeff* in dustriously circulated o*this Subject, well j calculated to faisload if alkfUed tq jjasri I witliout novice. The leading ohjeeNof' ! these articles seems to be tffhtud tiie Pres- I idea?of* tec Georgia Railroad responsible ] for# . their grievances. These »r teles art* equally rcsuuka! ( !#ior an utter 1 jof truth. q§ a gross puryer.’iqn oi' fliers , ' “Tne recent ehfnjj* fa :ho schedule on ! the rilt.tin line from 51.. .-Ha,a»»'ii%-j®tgouf't 1 eiy, Aittinta, Au;:r*stu, jiigcip t* 1 j iiave put it out Os UK' power oi the lvtiox vjlie and LynMtbtr.-g'rtujife to cohnac- with ; , the .xu.uustii ime at Atiaiita, gottig V,, -t, j : ac.' From this a stranger would suppfiso I j that ad this trouble was caused by a reefent j chattel* ou the line iuu:-*tcd. Nothing «of I the kind! The recent change was made I ym the Knoxville route, aud t hat, too, with- j out any invitation-to a conference, to sec if i the connection at Atlanta could not be ; harmonized! * “ 5\ e iearti that there is no detention at Atlanta going North ami E >t—the State I Road Hieing able to cotitroi a connection ! in that dircetion.” J;7, odd dh iip! 'And ' why does It note eUtitrul a eouucenon going ! South in tl’c same way? The sehedumVii' | I the Augu.*#t -line tosuit*»t. aim it ! coutroi?(ii by. reining to 'it. j faithful aud offiporiy.»'TMb Mate | Road have no control :n the matter. li' otherwise, does any sane ti!#mj'Mc that i on a linjfeif 71 j| miles of road tmT%idc of: i Waxh‘Wjt>m. i-tiihour could not La glfeicd^ , .*»- *c,i«s •* A <t„ a, if ] ihe ntenaggjsiot tne Ivuoxvuie line Wished | it?* This, -with some m'oncsfc-s&ns : c ttid prqjximjiteie riy the cu]:Cr line, j would the object.. Th#. erip ,| pled j:ty the War, lines At '-.*• l.’ii-'u The "sehdUulc duff 4 oout-l.#d by the tides' and boa: eopntflion#a! Mobile. Aware of I this iitfi, ITiaye hejrd'lt_ ■ 1 that the change’’ ygm dmtmii by the - ; iinet'otrp! of especially fin* the puifosejf breaking up tiie New*Orleans traveldiy the seaboard foute. ll' fliej%car»i dictate their own schedules, tred by thi i aid of i’ij r*Hy editors, drutnmls "and l deau-beaiis, tiie scab: :i line, Uac, into g clos»-cbnncetion with ' them, by homing back its own travel, they Would uoi two-tWrdtfhf tho travel, aS’-stated “ would: gw, the wjiole ! - ' '’This is understood to be the ft.Mt’of the I Presid-.il! "of the entire line from IVest PoitiUo Augusta, who persistently refuses,, to make change, in the face olithe sact 1, i that the portion of life I* id between Ai lanti: and West Pojnt isia severe sufferer from t.h%di veriKow>of travel lipm its natural j ch.mM.”* . , *,• t , j #Now, it wiU oriareely he l:.-iiovcuthatthis< I &so#tr‘'.HrpsuHht offfintiit Jjtu has i rfeyef been applied so by the Oincei'-*<)t the T State Road, or anybody cfsifr tomhk,* tiie Sj change suggested! Kimwqjg the ci .uia I stances, feriH knowing who wr. rojpunsible, I jhey probably thought it would bo sheer ; inipUdeueii to ma::o any s'm-h request, j ‘%e only* rcqftest has 1 n A,rough the I I MontMuo eyjiapcnd Kirnrmcnd.i in Mt | lania «Pii;.athize wSimly with the suffer ings of tl.a people oi' Montgomery, and give the edildts "reliable isiib'n;,aik:n to make tft:y us ( ; they can of it.” Tis : was kind ami disinterested, no -<lou ; *,, Tor ig-: norant pcqile npght peii !i:--c A -’stes by theK“ong route, and csp("siat!.y tho Ana tnessie route, .which make? the . aure time North, andis yci-y'popi,i:ir. “The intention of Mr. Kin r 1 1 evidently to coniine die travel to the Aug . -,a. route. ' This lutfnmmt do, 'except by corn noting in time, “'his, from the greater distance, he cannot do. As well might ho undertake j to turn water up stream as to change travel from its legitimate channels. ’ ’ | “It would be better iar t:i! parties to connect with the W. & A. Railroad, ar- 1 riving here at ft 15, PfflL; and I am of the opinion that Messrs. Cram & Jordan are : willing to do so. But tho Atlanta A W. j P. Road, in which the Georgia Read owns ! a large interest—having the sumo Presi dent—will not consent to it.” “I atp of opinion” that Messrs. Cram & j Jordan will consent to no such thing, or suffering, _as their roads are by this want | 1 oi.eqisneettou, they would have made some-j j proposition to. that effee:. ft has been 1 .<AYxSStVs rei'nF* ! iateu by Urn tides and the steahihnat eon 1) iicctKai at Mobile. No request lias ever i ! been 'inado that did not amount to unmiti i-gated 'Sacrifice--on one side, without any concession on the,-other. Why send the passengers out of Atlanta, utiless they can proceed without interruption? Better stop them, if they must be stopped, in that pleasant city, than -stop them at West Point. The folly of any effort to compete against diii’erctice iu distance, is most vividly portrayed by very striking compar- j isops; there is some difference t»- distance, but the advantage in grades, alignment and climate, give higher speed and surer : connections,, especially in winter, than by the mountain route. 'Jim time is under stood to be now tiie same g .ing Forth, \ and tho . Auamessie route is decidedly, and by common accord, the mo.fi pleasant i route ever traveled between the North and South. As drumming i • the Old rof the , day, and the main object of ail th ' ,: unfair and untruthful articles, ! i impose to do a j little of it myself, in favor of tint mute. It truthful traveler, who pays his fare, will i give it a trial. The time being the same North; could j easily be made the same both w.q ; 0;/ the \ eminent of one man. He ii sai l to lie a ! man of large means and stixn? will, but 'to obtain his consent is no dt -mod as hope less a task as to turn the Mississippi "vp { stream.” After reading these extracts it wii! hard- ! ly be credited that this great architect of j mischief is perhaps loss responsible for i •this confusion than any other railroad manager from New York (o New Orleans.*! He was rather disinclined to any change for the present from the old schedule, and | ■ -h& the convention at New York declining j , to run the schedule prepared in the time j : allowed. Other officers, however, ca tof • Augusta ninlsouth <f .I/O. /./, temained j . and adopted t»w sell.: ii!.: nh-.'er which wc i are running. It was adopted with rcluc- \ , tancc, and cflnscn! only - : * run it in : preference to :;t • *:t. :. is > and mail . .at Augusta, and .. -as* Or-: j!to be i the wish of th u ousit. Since the res - ;' • hsduloon the other lines, in.'.b iv 1: . been inces- ' : santto restore t'.i •*: t - ;. m, and it is j ! believed that n -i :.. • ;• ; i raised | by anybody to. r<. t a s the connection ex ; eept by .himself an 1 Mr. t’oli.ir*!. The latte.- simply pr 1 that th nger ; should be slop!)-:!,'.' .in -is-/, uik! placed upon the lay ib: . si: -, ; the . ,*lule now stand.-', would :> ivo delayed them twenty-four hours J ;>*•]!:. -• i:-> move made in the proper' (hr ■ s fir. Coin went North a short time ■ n v/bh in..'.ructions j to sec the managers ca ' of Aa s ta and ascertain whether smart thy could not be ; . done to remedy this crying evil. A meet- '■ | ing is appointed for Thursday next, and it * ' »to be ho; I that something maybe done, j What i ■ wantin ; is »imj ly this : The 1 Seaboard line slmnl-i! s permitted to re- 1 ' tain its j . cessary tom:.idle it to make the cormec : tion at Mobile, and it tin State road will j runup a little, and th.- othtr line; will lull back a little, tiio oif. s, i.. probably be I ' accomplished. it Uft usd, however, that not much is lobe expected from the State Bead. It . • ;:v. to bolotig, bo !;/ and son', to tits; N *:!:;•:.:■!! ore. If is used as a '.sideline, and jr a schedules are dictated en ii ly by ... Its \V . an : Northern connocUoxx at Chattanooga arid . Dalton have been constantly hampci -1 and : deranged by changes on that„line. At one time there was rio connection with the 1 Georgia Hoad at Atlanta, going West, * because the train could not or would not : wait twenty minutes ! Any reasonable arid possible sacrifice will be made to accomplish the object proposed, but to surrender everything and get no: h ing, is what cannot willingly be sulmit j ed to. * • Mr. King is severely lectured touching his own interest or the interest of the It' s Ihe vq; presents. The lecture would ho.more kindly received if ba on facts and e . a more friendly quarter. 11. indeed, he is . abstraction, and by ' persistently refusing” to do that which nobody ever r;ropo.-ed to him. ho isdecidedly the most- df-sacriucing man of the age, for, individually, he owns more than double as much stock in the victimized Roads South of Atlanta as he owns in the Georgia Railroad, The President of Both lloads. Smuggling.—The Government has re | eeived information of the seizure of a lot of hogsheads of sugar imported from Cuba, landed at Bull’s Bay, South Carolina, without payment of duties, and then car ried into the country. On seizing and opening them, each hogshead had a barrel in the centre of the sugar. Seven barrels were filled with West India rum, on which the duty was over S7O a barrel, and five | barrels with high priced segars, &e. French savants predict that the eom ! ing summer will bo cold and wet\ “Kuarantees.” Republican leaders say that they demand of the South “guarantees for, the future. ’ r * . * •» * - * t The SoutMl defeated iu the civil war, lias \ *tbrown down JiUr anus. '•j * She lias abandoned seebssfon: She has abolished slavery. .Side takes the oath to support thd* Com 1 stinition. p She. agrees to standby the‘United States j, debt in’ good faith, ;md to stay lier full share of it. She the Confederate debt and all debts contracted by her in aid of the eivij war. ~ She agrees to statnrhy the Union, j Can any honorable tnan ask more of her j than this ? • * , < Butwhc don’t allow her negroes to vote. IN or Joes Connecticut, Nor do twenty | other States North ami West “She treats the rtegroes *badly.” In ! what respect ? * She has made them free. TJuey may go and came as white men go i and.coi.ne ; and they are urged to work, with good, wages offered to them. | Many of them refuse to work, and lie ijie , • and dissolute, a burden upon society. Tho stories about the bad treatment of the blacks at the South ary false—they are told by malicious persons, #ho desire trt trouble. |jleven contrabands from the S#utlb* were moirn itiinnuanly trftifrfi I herein Connecticut, diking the lait? severe i snow strom, and in Iterfiord too, S |»t%i they groft ever WeuuM while thM wore is thYSoutli'. * so # ’j# Tlijgoufljvrh jmople. sttippeil of thsu ’Wpcas- except the sail on which thev re "tPT: are doing all they can for thcnWelvch aid the Iteedptegtfee*. IW urgSjhmne gnkes to walk —they spared cffort*tPlroi Tnolarid under ointj-iyitioiw and to a vaf siacrable degree they arc ‘stiedfeedTng; but. tjuif ■;eatyst ilrawbt.uk is the ! i'usal ol V part of tlia negroes to labor, | though those nOgweo.have not a moi-sel of | food ora rag of clothing, except what is ; funnslftd them by ntcir late masters or the <?ov«ii3fcnt of die United States. These arc the nag.ops, lately set free, that are abused. But whdt “guarantees for the future’* ! are we ffi have ?' I! we force upon the South the “Amend ment’ which their humilfci tion, will that be a guarantee ? If so, of what? Oij/ricmjship or hatred ? , Ii we deprive them of representation* swhich the Constitution to therfl, will that make them fripnds of the Union ? Is this the way to guarantee their support of a government in wliieh *the.v ate not allowed to participate? #Thcy have done all that a defeated peo ple could honorably do., I !ul the BadigoJx persist in makjj^-war, ujiitn ’ tliem—ln re* w>nstrumiiiaphem,.in (dkin‘j?them, hhtal -1 lowing no Toso ,to hreak up thep-’Siste govennnenitj,' and pufUiom info thdliamlsl or the ne groes. ’And this is to be the boasted giar antee. Os what?—hate, vengeance, enmity. The guarantee for the*safety of out l uiop is in peace, j'riendship, mutual cohfidfihoe, equality in represontatiuir, and the eqtiuli-. t.v ot thoßtatuwand in tluslonkg— Mari -. ford T>m%. ■ ■ - *[ MvsTinious Dauixil j/i jfcEit.— Yasterdjty eveoiud, just bci'ora sunset, a wy worthy Hian, wlv# hiid l»eett-.a private in Captain Uutiic! I’itinaii svompany, -was murdered on the Peachtre# road, in less than two miles from the passenger iu a bold yet very mysterious manner.- Jjist before that tftno, Judge Pittman and Col. Prather, formerly one o t‘ the pro prietors pt the Am, had passed the spot outward in a btlggy, and haying gone about’ 1 Imil a mile neywia, turned to come back. I they met several wagons' and carts, and finally came to this, in which was a yoke of I oxen, and a few feet from it, in the road, the murdered man, Mr. John Plaster, who ' was about thirty-five years of age, and who had been to town with a load ofwood. There 1 was a wound in the forehead, and one in ; the back of the head, as if a ball or slug j had passed entirely through the brain; but it,was impossible to say whether he was | shot from the front or rear. The hole in j the forehead was not round but irregular, j The object of the murderer, it is difficult Ity divine, as 11$ was a peaceable and inof- Wten.MVC citi/.. n, ::i:d ..mild kftrdttßk-.. had f money enough to have temafai^M'pr’.t^k ‘ til ■’ i eken Where they ! lefi him in an unconscious and dying state, : and returned to the city, whore, meeting With Dfs. Alexander and Campbell, they communicated the circumstances, and the two physicians went to examine the un fortunate victim and see what could be done for him, if anything. To Itave so cold-blooded and so causeless a murder committed on one of the most traveled highways leading to the city, within two miles of its and in tho broad light ol day, is something unusual here, and is certainly alarming. We trust that nothing will be left undone calculated to lead to the discovery of the murderer and bring him to justice. Wo did not learn whether Mr. Plaster left a family or not, but the presumption is that lie did. He lived about three miles from town.— Atlanta New Era , What the Southern Rads say op Military G oveknmenx. —The Southern Republican Association, at its meeting here last night, did riot show much favor for the new congressional military plan for governing the South. In speeches made, Senator Fowler, of Tennessee, expressed his disapprobation ; Colonel Ross, of ! Missouri, did not think it right to put the 1 people of the South under military despot i ism ; and General Jack Hamilton, of Texas, said the Bill was u cunningly | devised scheme, a pretence to do some • thing by.a Congress which had failed to ! meet its pledges, and looked to purchasing ; the fidelity of military officers, which was ; not worth the price, sonic being tyrants by i nature, and others by circumstances. Othcrjs, however, as Mr. Griffin, of Mobile, Ala., Judge Halstead, of Louisiana,-judge I Sherwood, of Texas, favored | military gov i eminent. Finally, resolutions offered by Mr. Field, j of Miss., were adopted, declaring first, i tnat all rebel have forfeited the right of ! being protected by the government, and have forfeited their political right; second, that .justice should be done the loyal izens of the South; that national dignity and security demand that in any pluu of reconstru tion adopted by Congress disloyal per-:ms should be ignored; third, that any ufin tered or disloyal person j may bo restored to citizenship by the rc ; commendation of the State Legislature, a'ter full reorganiz ition and the approval : of Congress. Another resolution, offered ■ ' Mr. ileisland, was also passed, declar ing that the plan of reconstruction will not be acceptable which does not provide tor | civil government in conjunction, with the I military power. It is announced, in ad dition, that General Hamilton and the j Southern loyalists of his stripe will hold a public meeting to impose the military j scheme— Sim. An Ingenious Machine.—An ingen ious mcohauic of San Francisco, California, ha* recently invented a machine for lay ing .railroad tracks, which must work a revolution in ilrat character of labor, as it can lay the ties and iron, and complete as it : , a <1: *.nee of two and a half miles per day, w 4 h the aid of twenty men only. Lho modal ;s now on private exhibition, | and l;as berm examined by the most j experienced railroad men in the country, and pronounced perfectly practicable and | simple. The road must first be graded, of I course. The balance of the work is ad mirably performed by the machine, and the only work to bo done behind is the fill ing in or anchoring the tics. It is alleged that ox Governor Sanford has examined it, and pronounced it perfectly feasible and practicable, and he is considered high uu • thority, having had great experience in . that line of business. The machine will cost about $2,500, i complete. It not only lays the ties with i mechanical, precision, but cuts the grooves ■ for the ram* and lays them ; drives the > and completes, in the most minute : particular, the entire work. It carries its i ioad of ti -and fails, and occupies a space ! equal to about two platform cars. Several ! °i tk nm-t enterprising capitalists have f v- I '■ oo enterprise in band, and a ma chine .y, practical work is being built. Ibai.-'O"\i,.--Vi e hail a call yesterday | front Mr. h ion Butcher, one of the most ; brilliant young men in the State. Mr. Hatcher was a member of the press gang, and for some years the heavy man of the Augusta Constitutionalist. lie is a grace ful writer and excellent reasoner, and well understands the politics of the country. While acting under what he conceives to be a correct principle, he is fearless as a lion. I"'* ir some months he has been lecturing ! in different cities of the State upon Ine Wits of Georgia.” This lecture is highly * commended by those members of the press who have had the pleasured listening to it. We hope yet to hear him deliver it in this city. He is now on his way to the West and Southwest He will remain in the city for a few days —Atlanta JSeio The New York Tribune calls Congress j “she”—an insult to the fair sex.