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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 1866-1877 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1870)
>L») SERIES, V iL. LXXVII. Chronicle & f cntinel. TEH )l* Oh Nt'HSCRIPTION. dIlLi. IK ' m ri& II 03 T- -•* month* . S . . yrxr . . 1000 TKI-WCZKLT. V :: Three !.. Dth«V..‘ !. !! * o*oo " "«**-*• ■ ,» i ' 3 oo WKBMCBBAT MOBII*** FKBRUART 9, tommerfCal Fertllliero. The extent, value and importance of the trade in commercial fertilizers is at tracting very general notice throughout the Sooth Atlantic States. This is com paratively anew element of trade, and from its peculiar character, one in which the temptations to commit fraud are quite as great a3 the facilities for its successful accomplishment. The real value of the various articles of fered in the market depead upon a scienti fic combination of certain elements which agricultural chemistry has shown to be requisite in all soils to secure remunerating crops. These elements nny exist in larger or smaller proportions than are necessary or requisite, or they may be totally absent ' from a given article offered in the market, and yet not one planter in a thousand would be able to detect the deficiency by the striotest scrutiny. In the - archase of other leading articles for the plantation—bacon, rice, tobacco, salt, iron, mules—defects which would ren der the article valueless or materially di minish in value, can be readily detected by the experienced planter through the sense of touch, smell or sight, but, how ever acute these organs may be, they af ford no adequate test for the value of any of thc*thou-and and one compounds now in the market, labelled “fertilizers,” and offered as genuine and valuable articles to the Southern agriculturist. Two samples of commercial fertilizes, one of very high grade, containing in well balanced combi nations all the necessary elements of high fertility, and' another .utterly worthless containing nothing but sand, water, and a trace of ammonia to maze it “smell,” may be placed before a hundred of our best planters and we doubt if a single one would be able to distinguish the worthless spurious article from the genuine and real ly valuable fertilizer. This should, by no means, bo considered as a reflection upou the intelligence of planters. As we have before stated, tiio value of a fertilizer doponds entiroly upon the presence in sufficient quantities of cer tain chemical substances, which science and practical experience have discovered to be absolutely essential to the vigorous growth and full development of our orops of corn and cotton, and which elements of fertility should be so combined as to produce the greatest amount of good from the smallest outlay of money. Whether or not a bag or barrel of “fertilizer,” offered by the dealer to the phuter, contains in suitable propor tions the requisite amount of plant food, can only be ascertained by a rigid ohemioal analysis. To do this requires not only requisite scientific requirements, but also the appliances and conveniences of a labor atory. Planters, as a class, can possess neither of those requisites. Hence their liability to be cheated when making their purchases of commercial fertilizers. The vast extent of this trade, and its in timate relations with the great source ot Southern prosperity, demands such legis tiVe aotion as will best protect planters from the impositions which have been and are still practiced upon them by fraudulent and dishonest manufacturers. The Legis lature of this Stato, at its last two sessions, passed bills on this subject, which expe rience lias proved to be defective and wholly insufficient. The law, as it now stands, benefits no one but the Inspector. The honest manufacturer who makes a good fertilizer, and the dishonest one who mixes indiscriminately sand, street garbage, water, red dirt, and a little ammonia, re ceive the same benefits (? I under the lqw— that is bath articles are analyzed, if the in spector is competent to make the analysis, and a stencil brand showiug the/uct of in spection —nothing more—is placed upon each sack or barrel, and there tho matter, ends, alter the inspector has pocketed his fees. We published tho statement a few davs since of Professor Willet, of Meroer University, to tho effoot that a fertilizer used extensively in this State, and analyzed by him, contained upuardi of forty per rent, of sand. In speaking of this state ment of Prolessor. Willet a few days since to an eminent chemist of this Stato, and an “Inspector of Fertilizers” under our late law, aud expressing our surprise at the ex tent of the adulteration exposed by Professor W.’s analysis, ho surprised us still further by declaring tha* fertilizers were sold in this State which contained over sixty per cent, of sand and insoluble matter —that ho had analyzed the articles, and spoke accurately. It is but just to state also that this geutlemau remarked further, that a largo majority of the fer tilizers ho had analyzed were really val uable. But what planter caD toll, if the article containing upward of sixty per cent, of sand and one really valuable is put beforo him, whioh is the inferior and ~-hioh is the better article ? We want a law upon this subject simi lar to that enforced iu .Maine, There each manufacturer is required to stamp upon each sack, barrel or other package the full analysis of its oontents —how much ammonia, how much Phosphoric acid— how much phosphate of lime—how much soda aud potash, and how much, sand each sack or barrel oontains. Then the planter could tell what he was buyiug. The Maine law provides that it any dealer or manufacturer shall make a false publica tion if the constituent parts of his fer tilizer he is liable to a heavy fine, one-half of which goes to the party who detects the fraud. A bill oontaiuiog similar provis ions is now before the Maryland Legisla ture, and we trust that the military council now in session at Atlanta may promulgate an order or la.v containing the main | features of the Maine law. It will per- j haps be too late to do much good the j present season, as most of our planters j have made their purchase's—some of them no doubt of sixty per cent, ot sand—but j it will be in time for the next season's operations. A remedy for this great evil is imperatively demanded. The real value or cost of tLe various articles offered in the market at the highest price, range, ac cording to the analysis made by the chemist of the Agricultural Bureau, and of Professor Johnson, of Yale College, from three and a half to fifty dolliars a ton. These sell for about the same price— that is to say from seventy toeighty dollars a ton. Until suitable legists ion can be obtained planters must rely entirely upon the char acter of the manufacturer or his age pis, nd the experience of his neighbors who hare used the different brands- In this city there are several large manufacturing establishments where fertilizers are made aod compounded of the very best and most valuable constituents and in which there is no sand and other insoluble matter- These are home enterprises and should on that account secure liberal patronage. We have also agencies of the most reliable and honest Baltimore and Northern manufac turers—those whose fertilizers have stood the test of actual experiment- The South Carolina Phosphates have been fully tested and we learn with the best results- In the absence of necessary legal pro tection, we advise onr planting friends to examine th* advertising columns of the Chronicle & Sentinel, where they may select a good fertilizer from any of those whoso names appear in .them. We do not advertise worthless sands and water com pounds. Only those articles which have : been proved by actual test to be valuable, or ' those whose manufacturers areaknown to be honest and reliable, are recommended by the Chronicle & Sentinel. Search our columns and make your selections. Look Here upon this Picture and on This. The following official communication from General Terry to the Adjutant Gen eral of the United States armies, we clip from the Philadelphia Press : Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 26,1870. General E. D. Townsend: The House was organized to-day by the eleotion of McWhorter (Republican candi date) as Speaker. Three persons were excluded as ineligible ; eleven of these in quired into were pronounced eligible; six teen, who refused to take the oath, were declared to have become ineligible by their refusal . and one, whose ease was tent to the board, having failed to appear, and being absent from the city, was forbidden to take part in the organization. After a careful examination of the act of December 22,1 decided that the fourth section would not permit me to seat the next highest candidates in place of the persons found to be ineligible. Alfred H. Terry, Brevet Major General. On the 27th January, the day after the above official communication was sent to the war office, Bullock sent a message to the House of Representatives recommend ing the House to “seat certain persons who received tho next highest votes to the members declared ineligible under mili tary orders Nos. 9 and 10,” and declaring that “General Terry endorsed the course.” This recommendatory order from Bul lock was laid on the table because a ma jority of the members did not believe Bul lock’s statement that Terry approved his order. The next day Bullock seat another communication to the House containing a letter from Terry fully endorsing Bullock’s previous order. Here is Terry’s letter to Balloon: Atlanta, Ga., January 28, 1870. Gov It. li. Bulloclc, Atlanta ; Governor —The communication sent by you to the House of Representatives yesterday, was submitted to and approved W me. Very respectfully, your obedient servant, Alfred H. Terry, Bvt. Maj. General. On the 2Gth, Alfred H. Terry, Brevet Major General, reports to his superior officer that after a careful examination of the law he is satisfied that he ha's not the power to order “that seats be given to the next highest candidates in place of those declared ineligible,” and two days after the same Alfred H. Terry, Brevet Major General, orders the House to do the very thing which he admits he has no right to do himself. This is a fair sarapb of Radi cal interpretation of power, and shows to wjiat extent military despots will go to accomplish their illegal and revolutionary designs, Will They Do It 1 The Committee to whom was referred the credentials of the Georgia members of Congress, claiming seats in the present Congress, have reported against the claim, on tho ground that they were elected members of the last Congress, and cannot hold over to tho present session. By this deoision an election during the coming fall for members of the Dcxt and for the unexpired term of the present Congress should be held. The Legisla ture will doubtless attempt some gerry mandering process by which it may deprive tho people of the State of fair aud faith ful representatives. As tho Districts now stand it is quite certain that the Democrats will carry at least five out of the seven, and we believe that with a fair election we could secure every District in the State. General Terry. After a careful examination of the act of December 22, I decided that the fourth section would not permit me to seat can didates having tho next highest number of votes in the place of persons found to be ineligible. • Alfred 11. Terry, Brevet Major General. Yet Terry endorsed Bullock's recom mendation, and used bis power and iuflu onco to consummate the outrage. Will our friends of the Savannah Republican and Chronicle & Sentinel favor us and the public with their views of Terry ? [ Columbus Sun. VV ith pleasure. We have before given our opinion of Gen. Terry, based upon tho statements of his friends and those who knew him well beforo the war. We have watched his course since tin meeting of tho Legislature with much interest and (candor compels us to say that wo have | been somewhat disappointed in ouresti- S mate of the man. We showed yesterday Terry’s incoisis tenoy in relation to tho seating of the text highest on tho poll in place of those mem bers declared ineligible. In this miter we suppose that Gen. Terry recoived posi tive instructions from Washington. He could have hardly gone back ou his >wn record iu so short a time unless compiled to do so by superior power. Terry is a military offi er, and as such is bouni to execute promptly and faithfully all oilers he may receive without question as to heir expediency or propriety. Further than this, Terry is a Repibli ; can—his reputation, whatever it mi' be, j is inseparably connected with the smccss ol his party. He is doubtless sincee in his attachment to .Radical principle and policy. Like most of his party E the North, he believes that its succe: and perpetuity iu this State depends uainly upon the efforts of Bullock and Bbdgett, and hence as the recognized Repnsenta tives of the party they have his :ountc nance and support. We have prety good authority for saying that Terry basis poor and contemptible an opinion of th* brace of knaves as the Columbus Su. or any other honest man. He knows tfcir pri -1 vate and public history well, ad as an honest man can entertain for them io other than feelings of loathing andconteapt. General Terry is not responsible br the j Legislation of Congress which placd the ; people ot this State again under a tilitary i despotism. He is here as the Fxcutive j officer of Congress in enforcing thei views i of loyal reconstruction. He has, pchaps, been as liberal and magnanimou in bis ; treatment towards the people as an; other 1 military satrap would have been. le has been imposed upon by bad men—hs had many munchauseo tales of hidcas bar barities committed by the whites upc loyal [ Union men, carried to him by bee and i corrupt persons, and has been too (pick in I giving ear and credit to these sale and : calumnions reports. We know thathe has i in his official correspondence wih the i Federal (government, done the Stat great injustice, and we believe that heis now satisfied of the fact That he is iclined to hear both sides is shown by hfc inter view with the Columbia Committee pub lished elsewhere in this issue of ounaper. In eeneftision. we repeat what w< have before said, that we shall not enftr into any wholesale denunciation of Terry, merely because he is, for the timebeing, the ruler of the State. The postuuiis not of his own seeking, and at best mu* be w trying aud perplexing one- Wi shall watch his conduct closely, and wen we find oooduct worthy of commedation shall not withhold his just meed of 'raise, and when he oversteps the boufcary of right, justioe or the law, we shx be as prompt as our friend of the Sun h eon ie and. Mknigetis.—The Bain bridge Sn says thk tisease is committing great radges in Soutn Georgia. At Quincy quite t nam ber of citizens have died with ft, i«d gen eral gloom pervades the place, lie dis ease appears to prevail among ths blacks to a greater extent than the whites Don’t Like Their Company. Revel, the negro elected to the Senate from Mississippi, has arrived at Washing ton to claim his seat as soon as his State is r.-admitted into the Union. Already leading Radicals are looking up pretexts to refuse their ebony ally a seat beside them. As was done ia the House in the case of Menard, negro Representa tive from Louisiana, they hope to delay finai action until the short term for which Revel is elected will expire. It is claimed that there is a eoostitu tioral difficulty in the way, and all at once Radical Senators become great sticklers for the Constitution. That instrument de clares that no person shall be eligible to a seat in the Senate who has not been seven years a citizen of the United States. Ne groes have been citizens only since the passage of the Civil Rights bill in 1867, anil therefore no negro is eligible to a seat in the Senate. This is Radical interpreta tion of negro rights under the Constitu tion. Fair at Augusta. The Augusta merchants are forming a joint-stock company for the purpose of getting up an Agricultural Fair in that city next Fall. The Chronicle & Sentinel, ever alive to tie city’s interest, and full of vig orous energy in promoting her enterprise, is zealously engaged in working up the important project. It savs the whole amount of money originally desired, has been subscribed, and that a considerable number of citizens desire to become sub scribers who have not had an opportunity to do so. Judging from the sensible and cheering views ot our cotemporary, the enterprise will prove a grand success. The people of Augusta know bow to do such things, and we shall be greatly sur prised if their Fair does not excel, in its attractiveness and practical benefits, the mammoth State af/airi Since writing the above, the Chronicle & Sentinel, of the 29th, brings us the gratifying intelligence that the company was organized on the evening of the 28th, by the election of the following officers : President, W H Tutt. Vice-President, R Y Harris. BOARD OF DIRECTORS. P J Berkmacs, E H Rogers, T H Nelson, A R Wright, T P Stovall, Jas W Bones, G A Oates, W H Warren, Dr. Beckwith. The amount of money at first required was SIO,OOO, in shares of SIOO each. At this meeting, in was found that the entire stock had been taken, and it was deter mined to inet ease the capital stock; The books were left open for that purpose, and sixteen shares were immediately sub scribed. The company adopted the name —“Cot- ton States’ Mechanics and Agricultural Fair Association of Augusta, Georgia,” and took tha initiatory steps for a grand exhibition next fall.— Albany News. You are right, brother Styles; we do in tend to have “a grand exhibition next fall,” and shall expect, you and your host of friends in Southwestern Georgia to be present and share the hospitality of our citizens, and give, by your competition, additional interest and value to the exhi bition. A large and splendid premium list will, we are informed, be published in a few days, and we shall rely upon our friend of the News to aid us in giving it a wider circulation in his part ol the State. We hope to make the exhibition credita ble to the State and the whole South. It is not organized for the benefit of any par ticular section, although located at Au gusta. There is no part of the South richer in all the elements of material wealth which thc“Cotton States’ Mechan ics and Agricultural Fair Association” pro pose to foster and develop than chat of Southwestern Georgia. We want the co operation of her intelligent planters and mechanics, her business men and capital ists, and feel quite sure that the News' will, for the sake “o’ Ould Lang Syne,” give us a helping hand. Wake Up. Wiiat Judge Andrews Endorses. ~ The Atlanta Era reports Judge Garnett Andrews as speaking as follows at a receht Radical meeting in that city: “He fully and heartily endorsed the ad ministration of General Alfred H. Terry and Governor Bulloch, and believed that under their wise and judicious counsels the Empire State would be restored- to full fellowship with her sister States, and peape and prosperity prevail throughout the glorious old Conmonwealth.” If Judge Andrew* thus enunciated, his Judicial head will scarcely be chopped off. We prefer to believe that-our contempora ry of the Macon Journal and Messenger, from whose columns we clip the above paragraph, has confounded Akerman with Judge Andrews, or that the Era has drawn upon its fancy. We have not been advised that Judge Andrews has been hobnobbing with tho destructives in their love feasts.—. Constitutionalist. The Chronicle & Sentinel directed attention to this report of Judge Andrew's speech on the 30th ult., and expressed doubts as to the correctness of the remarks attributed to the Judge. Since then we have seen a fuller report of the “Lecture” as it is called, in the new Radical organ, which does not oont tin the above endorse ment of Bullock’s administration. Our sprightly neighbor, we fear, has been taking a Rip Van Winkle nap re cently, and in his dreams has had visions only cf the “beautiful blondes in stockenet dallying before the footlights. ” Wake up, neighbor; the world is moving around you still. Dream less of stage beauties and delve more in the mass of dull exchanges which lie untouched on the floor of your sanctum. If you will tase the trouble to examine your files of last week’s Atlanta exchanges, you will find that Judge Andrews has been indulging in the de lightful and instructive amusement of “hobnobbing with the destructives in their , love feasts.” How in the world our friend got Aker man confounded with Andrews we are at a loss to discover, unless the acheing sensa tion produced by the sudden waking from his “blonde” dreams left a painful cODvic ! tion that when so much acheing was felt, an Akerman must be at the bottom of all ( the trouble. Be just, neighbor, if you do : dream. “Prices or Fertilizers”—Correction, Editors Chronicle & Sentinel: I thank your correspondent, “Agricola,” i for calling attention to a serious nurneri- i cal error in my article No. 2—Prices of Fertilizers. _ The error originated thus: The prices of 1 solub.e and insoluble phosphoric acid and of ammonia, as given by Professor John- s son, viz : 12* coots, 44 cents, and 14 cents in gold, were reduce! to currency, by ad ding 30 per cent., making respectively 161 cents 5 8-10 cents, and 18 2-10 cents per Pound. The prices of soluble and insolu- j b!e phosphate of lime were then deduced from the first two, by multiplying by six and dividing by 13—the round numbers used by Prof. J. Through inadvertence, 1 the Value of ammonia was reduced in the same way; and a further error of multipli cation also occurred, as I find by reference to the original notes. It should not have been reduced at all, but should have re- i mained 18 2 10 cents per pound, in curren cy. As this error does serious injustice to all ammoniated manures, the rule for cal culating the values is hero repeated, with the necessary corrections. •'The calculation would be made as fol i lows, following the scale of Professor J ohn son Soluble phosphoric acid at 124 cts., insoluble phosphoric acid at 44 cents, and nitrogen at 17 cents, »» gold, per pound, will make soluble.phosphate lime, insolu ble phosphate lime, and ammonia, to be I worth respectively 74 cents, 2 6 10 cents, and 18 2-10«en:s per pound, or $l5O, $52, . and $364 per ton, in currency. Multiply ! Lbe per oeut. of soluble phosphate, insolu ble phosphate and ammonia in a given ma nure, then, by these valaes per pound, and we will have the value of 100 pounds of the fertilizer, and this result by 20 and we will have the value of a ton. _ For instance, one fertilizer is adverti-ed ; to contain soluble phosphate of lime 29.51, bone phosphate lime 10.67, and ammonia Sob pbophate, 10.51, at 7J cents $2 21 Insol. phos-, 10 67, at 2 6-10 28 Ammonia, 2.83, at 18 2-10" 52 Value of 100 pounds $3 01 Value of a ton ; 60 20 Very respectfully, J. E. Willet, 1 Mercer Uni certify. AUGUSTA. GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY" 9, 187<> The Augusta Cotton Factory. A Northern man, who visited the Au gusta Factory, communicates his observa tions to the Atlanta New Era in the fol lowing article, which we copy from that paper: The Augusta Cotton Mills Company started about 1850, and after a struggling existence failed in 1858, when the property was bought by the present company for $140,000, without paying any tash, only giving their notes extending over nearly four years. Soon alter this investigation, the new company applied to Mr Francis Coggin, who was then engaged in manufacturing at Lawrence, Ma—■ , to visit Augusta and examine the <y*edition of the property, and estimate cost of reconstruction and putting the mills in operation again. Mr. C. found the whole property in a dilapi dated condition, much of ihe machinery bsmg broken down and useless. He was, however, employed in the spring of 1859 to commence repairs and put the two large mills into working condition, a task which few, except among indomitable Yankee workers, would be found capable of its ac complishment. The water-power, which comes by canal from tbc Savannah river, has been greatly improved and utilized on a permanent scale. New flumes constructed of brick and stone ; a substantial storehouse, fire proof, erected, and a large number of tene ment- built of brick, for the accommoda tion of employees. This latter improve ment is worthy of special remark, as wo have never seen more evident regard for the comfort of those who labor in similar establishments, and, it may be added, as a peculiar characteristic feature, that among all the employees there :a not a single for eigner, German, Irish, or colored person— in fact, colored persons are forbidden em ployment on the premises by the charter of the company. On looking through the various depart ments of the mills, we were struck with, the extraordinary intelligence and general appearance of the employees, so different from the mixed appearance of the laboring classes usually found in manuiacturing es tablishments in the North. We made this remark to Mr- Coggin, who accom panied us through the investigation of the mills, and he replied that he had never seen so many intelligent and reliable em ployees in any similar establishment, and with evident pride, remarked: “All these are native born Georgians.” The present company, organized with a capital of $200,000, which has been in creased since, o t of the earnings of the company, to $600,000, and although the war followed close upon its beginning, by the skill and energy of if s management the whole amount of purchase money, $140,000 as before stated, was paid off out of the net earnings in the first two years of busi ness. The wh le capacity of these mills, as now running, comprises 15,000 spindles, 508 looms, consuming 130 bales of cotton per week, and the annual product, on the average, is 52 j yards of fabric to each loom per day—say 25,000 yards per day, and over 8,000,00 P yards per annum, including sheetings, shirtings and drillings. All this is produced by the average num ber of 500 employees—more, probably, than is produced by the same amount of employees and machinery, in any establish tnent in the country. It will surprise some of our Northern manufacturers to know that these rniljs are not surpassed in the economy and perfection of working; but nevertheless it is true’ Every improvement and new de vice in machinery has been adopted, and for many ingenious and useful improve ments, the company are indebted to the indefatigable energy and skill of Mr. Cog gin. ’ • The picking room is protected securely from fire by a novel and common sense ar rangement of perforated iron pipes, run ning over the ceiling and so connected with the water-pipes, that in case of fire, a per fect showering fl od of water is poured over every part of the room. Asa further protec ion, small houses have beeu erected on the premises at con venient points of access to the main build ing, in which a large coil of hose is so sus pended that instantly on an alarm being made, it can bo stretched to its utmost length, and the water let in from the hydrant, connecting at every hose-house •n the premises The arrangements for flooding every floor in the main building is equally com plete, and much more elaborate tnau we see in many first-class mills. Governor Sprague recently visited these mills and pronounced them equally,if not more com plete and successful than most of the best' managed mills in the country. Since the close of the war, there has been added to these mills $150,000 worth ol new machinery, and the Company have paid to tho stockholders regular quarterly dividends of five per cent, and in addition, made an extra dividend out if their sur plus earnings, to say nothing of a large surplus now remaining in the Treasury. The aggregate net earnings of these mills, since the war, has exceeded SBOO,- 000, out of which $540,000 has been paid to the stockholders, so that now, the stock of the company is valued at $l6O per share, and none for sale. It will be refreshing to “old croakers” north, who have no laith in Southern en terprise, to read these statements, which are given without any exaggeration, and are simply facts,‘ho,', g whatcan bedone in this section of the country, even under the depressing influences of our present position. H. G. B. Blockade in Western Freight — The Macon Telegraph and Messenger says dispatches were received in Macon, on Wednesday, from Louisville houses, sta ting that shipments could not be made in consequence of the Louisville acd Nash ville aud Nashville and Chattanooga Rail roads bring chocked with freight. It is said that there are no less than sixteen hundred carloads ac Nashvilie awaiting transportation South, and at le ist half that number at Chattanooga. In conse quence of this, bacon, bulk meats, corn and other produce are getting scarce in our market. From the Louisville Courier-Journal. The Fifteenth Amendment—How Kadi cats will be Deceived. Very often in life we experience only discomfiture out ot that which we looked to with the longest aod surest hope. No man can foresee the play of events with sufficient accuracy to determine in advance precisely how this or that cirftumstance, cr this or that principle is going to affect the main project which he has in view.. Omens' of evil become blessings in disguise. An ticipations of good vanish with the realiza tion. We are constantly deceiving our neighbors. Presently we get to deceiving ourselves. Parties are especially exposed to delu sions of this nature. They are at once passionate and imaginative, and an idea, fairly set in motion seems to run along the entire line until it possesses all is length and thickness. This is due partly to ig norance and parily to a mechanical habit ot following. “We fall,” says Gu zot, “as we lean.” Our desires continually carry us away with them ; and we do not com monly stop to question their promise until the impulse has subsided. The Democratic party, to take a ready example, made a great mistake in what it expected of the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. The Kansas-Nebraska bill, which embodied that repeal, was made a test question, and no man was held to be a good Democrat who did not stand up squarely to the t,-ack. The fidelity of eveiy Southern politician was suspected if he flinched for a moment. Time went on. Old Buck came in‘.o the Presidency on a flood tide, and begat at once to carry ! oat vigorously the policy of the party in the new territories. But the result did not answer the anticipation ; and in the end it turned out that the repeal of the Missouri ' Compromise had strengthened the enemies j of slavery instead of enlarging the area of what was called the slave power. Both Kansas and Nebraska grew into ultra Re publican States. The middle men, such asßobert J. Walker andFrederick P. Stan ton, went down between two mill stones; and in 1860, as in 1856, the Kansas-Ne braska bill was the strongest weapon that was used against the Democratic party- The Fifteenth Amendment, it seems to us, is a delusion of the same sort. It has haunted the Republicans a long while. It is the last of the questions which were given to the country by the war, and which belong immediately to the passions and rationale ofthe war. The Republicans i ought to desire to keep it open as loDg as possible, for they have everything to gain from it as it stands. But when the Fif teenth Amendment becomes a sealed book there will be an end ot legal artifices in behalf of the civil and political status of the negro. He has been made a freeman, a citizen and a voter. What else? To this extent laws can cet afnly be made effectual. But no further. To “take another Step in I advance” is iiu possible in law. The very 1 next step beyond is an invasion ot human nature. Yet the more irresponsible of the Radical leaders will attempt to force the Republicans to take it, and in doing so will divide their strength. Every one of tbc Southern S (ates recon strueted under the Fifteenth Amendment will, fall into the hands of the Democratic party and the Republicans can pot risk a division ia the North. On suffrage they can hold together—not on any proposition concerning the negro. Suffrfge being settled leaves the ultras nothing to do but to agitate for 'social equality, which can not be made to work a politic? Ijpstrutnent. Besides, the disappearance oFthe negro question as alive and progressive element in our politics will cear the field for new divisions and combinations upofi financial topics from which the Dsmdbrats have everything to hope. So that the jubila tion in Radical circles over thp Fifteenth Amendment is pure effervssbencc and amounts to nothing at all. Avery few months of universal suffrage wiU develops the truth of this most thoroughly. As to the principle of State rights which is struck at by the 15th Amendment, New England had better look out. She is now the apostle of centralization, when she owes her own unequal power to the strict observance of State lines and jurisdiction. Virginia was cut in two. Texas is to be cut in four. The same power may reduce the six New England States to one. This is the moral part of the Fifteenth Amend ment which the sharper of the Yankees should look to. The South went to war to preserve slavery lost it. New England is trying to ruin the South in order to. get a consolidation of the government by which she can only apprehend die loss of her individuality and power. J. Fisk, Jr., and Jay Gould, These two prominent actors in the gold gambling speculation have evidently stirred up the family of the brothers-in-law. The special of the Gazette pen-pictures the two worthies in a manner altogether suited to tho subject and interesting to the readers . contrast between the two men. The two men are the opposites of each other, almost as unlike as two men can possibly be. Gould is quiet ia manner, and reticent in speech, while Fisk is noisy, and pushimr, and garrulous to the last de gree. Gould gave his evidence with cau tion and precision. Fisk was profane, and oratorical, and dramatic and highfalutin. Gould deliberated on every answer he made, and went no further than necessity required. Fisk poured out a torrent of words, and was no more to be checked than the Niagara in its flow. Gould gave no extraneous information, but Fisk con tinually slopped over. There was no busi ness in the room while Gould sat in the witness chair, but the two hours of Fisk was abroad farce or a roaring comedy from beginning to end. His story is racy to read, but the flavor of his action and ges ticulation is wanting. He was very anx ious to be present during tho examination of Gould, but the committee of course did notallow this. “I have never been sepa rated from Gould before,” he exclaimed in high tragic manner to the committee. When Gould reads the story told by his adjutant, there is a chance for an explo sion. ROMANTIC MONEY. Fisk’s style can be seen in one of his answers. When asked what had become of a certain twenty-five thousand dollars placed to Mrs. Grant’s credit, he replied: “Its gone where the woodbine twineth.” He was Bombastcs Furioso from begin ning to end, and kept the committee in a fever of suppressed laughter. SOME INFORMATION RECEIVED, They began on Gould with a large num ber of carefully prepared questions. With Fisk they could do nothing but allow him to go on in his own way and manner until he got through. Gould gave them some information, out of which they hope to make points against other members of the ring. fisk’s costume. Fisk could not sneak of poor Spcyers as a “Dutch Jew,” or a “German Jew,” but staggered the committee by'calling him “that Saxoniau Roman of the Coming Band.” Gould made no pretence and at tracted no attention. Fisk was gorgeous with striped pantaloons, brown velvet coat, a square yard of shirt bosom, half a rod of gold chain, a diamond as large as a walnut, and a nook-tic of the latest and loudest swell pattern. Both of them went back to New York last evening. Resolution to Hitch Chattanooga on to Georgia. The following resolution wa» offered by Mr. Nesbitt, of Dade, on Saturday. It was laid over till Monday: Whereas, It is manifestly to the interest of the people of the State of Georgia that that portion ofthe State of Tennessee over which the Western and Atlantic Railroad has been built, shall become a part of the State of Georgia; and, whereas, a conven tion of the people of the State of Tennes see and the General Assembly of said State are both now in session, and anopportunity presented for negotiation for the acquisi tion of so much of said State as may be necessary to accomplish this purpose. Therefore be it Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That His Ex cellency the Governor be authorized, and he is hereby directed, to appoint three commissioners from the House, two from the Senate, and teD from the State at large, w.ho shall immediately proceed to the city of Nashville, in the State of Tennessee, and take such steps as may be deemed by them necessary, by negotiation with the Constitutional Convention of the State of Tennessee, or the Legislature of said State, n w in session, to acquire, by purchase or otherwise, and add to the present limits of the State of Georgia so of the soil of the State of Tenne.-see as may be included in the following boundaries, viz: begin ning at the northwestern corner of the present boundary of the S;ate cf Georgia, thence extending the present line between the State of Georgia and Alabama north westwardlyito the cootre of the Tennessee river, thence with the centre of said river, with its meanders, to a point opposite the centre of the mouth of the South Chicka mauga creek, thence with the centre of said creek to where the right of way of the VV estern and Atlantic Railroad crosses said creek, thence southwardly with the cast side of the right of way of said rail road in such a manner as to include all of said right of way in this new line to the present lino betweeu the State of Georgia and the State of Tennessee. Resolved, That said commiss’oners will, as soon as practicable, report their action in the premises to this General Assembly for ratification or rejectirn. Special Correspondence of the Baltimore Gazette. TBI>CE ARTHUR. Prince Arthur is winning golden opin ions here from all sorts of people. He is at once abundantly gracious and sufficient ly dignified. The court journals of this morning give full accounts of his attend ance at the reception of the Presidenfess yesterday. He was immediately admitted upon the dais, and assisted in the cere monies, together with the British Minis ter, Hon. Mrs. Secretary Routwell, Right Hon. Mrs. Marshal Sharpe, Right Hon. Mrs. Senator Schurz, Mrs. Dick and J Mrs, Gen. Logan. The President was ab ' sorbed in business, and did not make his I appearance. “At precisely 3:15 and. m.,” we are told by one of the court organs, the “royal visitors left the reception, and the Prince, escorting Miss Nellie Grant, led the , way to the conservatory, followed by Mrs. Thornton and General Badeau, ‘ the other ! gentlemen of the suit in company with General Babcock. The beautiful flowers and slants the object of admiration by all the royal visitors, and the Prince 1 expressed his gratification at the privilege afforded to indulge his pet taste. hi LOO Nellie obtained a beautiful camelia, which ! -'he gracefully presented to his Royal Highness, and the Prince accepted it with many thanks. Some time was spent in examining the rare plants.” The flower so “graciously presented” to “His Royai Highness” is known to botan ists as the Camelia Japonica (the Japan rose), and it signifies “admiration” sym bolically. Bnt notwithstanding this and other circumstances, I disregard the popu lar rumor ot a meditated attempt to settle the Alabama claims by and through an alliance between the reigning families of the two hemispheres. lam not altogeth er oblivious of the fact, of the British Par liament of 1708, nor, in all probability, does Mr. Fish suppose that the English people are yet in the humor to disturb its limitatirns of repeal, even in favor of a Grant-Dent dynasty, however remote the contingency ot its success to the English Crown, Prince Arthur being only the third son of the reigning family of Great Britain and Ireland. But “when iQ the coarse of human events,” and through the efficient agency of the bayonet, a little more of stability shall be imparted to the "tenure i of office” of our beloved Sovereign, and when it shall be made manifest, or even probable that Prince Telensacbus, now at West Point, is to succeed his father the present American Ulysses, I confess that I see nothing at all absurd in supposing that, with the American realm in his, grasp, he would be justified in aspiring at least to the hand of one of the younger branches of the House of Hanover. It must be remembered by all, at home and abroad, princes as well as peasants, that this i" a great country, and the time is rapidly passing away when we can be sneezed at by foreigners, however high they may stand in their own country. - Correspondence of the Worhl, FROM WASHINGTON. THE ANTI-FRANKING BILL. Washington, January 29. —Quick work was made this afternoon of the House Pos tal Committee's bill to abolish the frank ing privilege. It was reported to be laid aside for lurther debate, but members cried out from all parts of the hall, “let us pass it now;” and, after a brief discussion, it was passed by 174 to 14, and was sent to the Senate. The bill provides for total abolition after July 1, 1870. Postmaster General Cresweil was on the floor of the House at the time, and seemed much re joiced at the success of his pet measure. DAWE’S REJOINDER TO BUTLER. Mr. Dawes, Chairman of the Commit tee on Appropriations, closed the day’s ses sion of the House with a most effective re ply to Butler’s speech of yesterday, and in defence of his own of a week ago, wherein he showed up the extravagance of tho ad ministration. Mr. Dawes fully sustained the truth of that by the facts and figures, Ho which he mainly confined himselt. ’ He took the estimates of Andrew Johnson’s Cabinet of the last year, and those of President Grant’s Cabinet made for the next fiscal year, first asking members to follow him in detail with their own official books of estimates, which most of them did;' and he showed beyond all doubt that this administration had asked for over forty millions more than the last one. Robeson had asked for three millions and a half of ap propriations for navy-vards, where ex-Sec retary Welles had only asked four hundred thousand, and so on with other depart ments. Mr. Dawes, after proving all this, devoted himself to Butler’s speech, and to his (Dawes’) position as a Republican. In making this expose, the House gave him close and patient attention. THE CURRENCY—DEBATE IN THE SENATE. The Senate took up the currency bill, and it was discussed pretty thoroughly during the day. Mr. Howe opened the debate, and, with a most accommodating spirit, expressed himself in favor of the bill with or without any or all of the pend ing amendments. Mr. Morrill, of Ver mont, on the other hand, wanted nothing but the naked bill as reported byM’ae com mittee, and, following the example of Mr. Sumner iu giving his views on the ques tion, did ‘not fail to berate the South soundly, and assert that her people, being rebels and contumacious opponents of “loyalty,” as the word is defined in the North, and are not therefore entitled to any particular favor, and must be satisfied with such financial crumbs as Congress may choose to dole - out to hej. Morton pitched into the Eastern bankers, whom he charged with being “monopolies, organ ized to compel tribute from the South and Vvest,” and told the Senate emphatically that if Congress did not now come forward to the assistance of the West and South, the West and South would ere long hold themselves, and ask no odds of Congress. Bryant's Protest. In the report of the House proceedings yesterday, allusion is made to the protest of Capt. J. E. Bryant. As part of the history of the times, we give it below. In the course of the argument, Capt. Bryant read the following telegram from Senator Edmunds: Washington, January 28. Col. J. E. Bryant: Judiciary Committee instructed to en quire into question of further legislation, as to the organization of your Legislature. Justice and fair dealing most be the guide. One cause of our last action was the ad mission of persons not having a majority. Geo. F. Edmunds. The protect is as follows : Mr. Speaker : The authority tinder which this House has assembled and or ganized, is an act of Congress, entitled “An act to promote the Recon truction of the State of Georgia,” passed on the day of December, 1869. The provisions of that act having been openly and repeatedlj vioiated in the or ganization, is illegal, and all proceedings are absolutely null and void- Section first of said acts is in these* words : “Be it enacted, etc., That the Governor of the State of Georgia be, and he is here by authorized and direc ed forthwith, by proclamation, to summon all persons elect ed to the General Assembly of said State as appears by the proclamation of George G. Meade, the General (Jommanding the Military. District including the of Georgia, dated June 25th, 1868, to appear on some day certain, to be named in ‘said proclamation, at Atlanta in said State ; and thereupon the said General Assembly of said State shall proceed to perfect its organization, in conformity with the Con stitution and laws of the United States, according to the provisions of this act.’ The persons elected to the General As sembly ofthis State, as appears .by the said proclamation of Gen. Meade, were sum moned to meet in this city on the 10th inst., by the proclamation of the Governor of this State, issued in accordance with the said act of Congress. It was the right and privilege of the House in conformity with the said act of Congress to proceed to perfect its own organization ; but in violation of the provisions of said act, the Governor appointed and directed one A. L. Harris, a man completely under the con trol of the Governor, he being an officer on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, to orga lize the House. The 83id Harris arbitrarily adjourned the House from day to day in violation of law, thqs preventing the members thereof from perfecting their own organization in conformity with law, and by force, violence and fraud did wilfully hinder and interrupt the members elected as aforesaid from tak ing part in the organization aforesaid, according to the law afore-aid. Section 4 of said act is in these words: “And be it further enacted, That the persons - lected as aforesaid, and entitled to compose such Legislature, and who shall comply with the provisions of this act, by taking one of the oaths or affirma tions above prescribed, shall thereupon proceed in said Senate and House of Rep resentatives to which they have been elected respectively to reor anize said Senate and House of Representatives re spectively by the election and qualification of the proper officers of each House,” It is clear that only those persons named in the said proclamation of General Meade, and who have taken one of the oaths prescribed by said act, can partici pate in the re-organization of said House, and that all persons named in said pro clamation who have duly qualified by tak ing one of the oaths prescribed can partici pate in said re-orgaDization; but in viola tion of said act R. A. Donaldson, of Gor don county, E. M. Taliaferro, of Fulton coun'y, and J. 11. Nudd, of Glasscock county, persons named in said proclama tion of Gen. Meade, who have duly quali fied by taking the oath prescribed by said act of Congress, and have filed ihe same in the office of the Secretary of State, have been wilfuliy hindered and interrupted from participating in the proceedings of this House in violation of the provisions of said act ; and W. L. Goodwin, James R Thomason, William Guilford, Jacob P. Hutebi gs, Iloory C. Holcombe, 0. John son, and J. B. Nesbitt, persons whose names do not appear in the proclamation of Gen. Meade, have been allowed to participate in the re-organization of this House, in violation of said act of Con gress; I, therefore, respectfully declare, that this House has been organized in violation of law, and that there is no pre cedent for* the acts that have been done, and the proceedings we have witnessed in the re-organizadon; I therefore, respect fully protest against the illegal re-organi zation of this House, and against any further proceedings berng had until the - House is re-organized in accordance with law. J. E. Bryant, Os Richmond County. Supreme Court. lp the Supreme Court room yesterday! we observed among the small Dumber present a remarka ble proportion of past celebrity. Among the most noticeable were Iler sehel V. JohnsoD, twice Governor of Geor gia, and both United States) and Con federate States Senator. Robert Toomb3, United states Senator ; Joseph EL Br >wn, four times Governor of Georgia; R. F. Lyon. Judge of the Su preme Court of Georgia ; Julian Hart ridge, Confederate States Congiessman ; General Lawton, Quartermaster General of the Confederate Army, aud others.— Atlanta Constitution. Judge Warner’s Opinion on the “Eligi bility” Question. AN ABLE STATE PAPER. Atlanta. Ga., January 31, 1870. Eon. Hiram Warner. Associate Justice Supreme Court of Georgia : Dear Sir : W e respectfully request your opinion as to the eligibility of members of the Georgia Legislature, under the pro visions of the recent act of Congress, enti tled “An Act to promote the Reconstruc tion of Georgia.” J E Bryant, Dunlap Scott, J H Caldwell, M A Candler, A J Williams, C K Osgood, J E Shumate, J T Burns, W F Holden. Atlanta, February 1, 1870. Gentlemen : 1 have the honor to ac knowledge the receipt of your note of the 31st instant, requesting my opinion as to 1 the proper construction to be given to the late act of Congress, in regard to the eligi bility of the members of the Legislature under the provisions of that act. This is the second time my opinion has been re quested in regard to that question. Prior to the organization of the General Assem bly, any expression of opinion on my part, calculated either to encourage tho members thereof to take the oath prescribed, or to intimidate them from taking it, would have been both indelicate aud improper But as the Legislature has now been orgamzed, however unimportant my opinion may be considered when iu conflict with that of Mr. Attorney General Farrow, still no valid reason presents itself to my mind why it should not now be expressed to those who desire to know it, the more es pecially as it relates to a question in which the whole people of the State have a deep and abiding interest. In the construction of the act of Con gress to which my attention lias been called, there are three points to be consid • erd: first, how the law stood at the time of the passage of the act; second, what was the evil or mischief which the act was in tended to remedy ? third, what was the remedy that Congress intended to provide to cure this evil or mischief which ex isted ? By the Constitution of the United States a certain enumerated class of Sta,e officers were required to take an oath to support that Constitution, as well as the officers of the United States. The existing evil or mischief was that certain officers, both of the Federal and State Governments, had taken this oath and thereafter engaged in ■insurrection or rebellion against the United States, in violation thereof. It was consid ered by Congress to be an evil and a mis chief to allow that class ‘of persons in the State who had sworn to support the Con stitution of the United States and there after engaged in insurrection or rebellion, to be members of the S ate Legislature. In order to remedy this existing evil or mischief, the act of Congress under consid eration was passed, ami should be so con strued as to suppress tho mischief and ad vance the remedy. Now, if any member of the Legislature has ever held an office under the Government of the United Statos, or been a member of any State Legislature, or held any civil office created by law for the administering of any general law of a State, or for the ad ministration of justice therein, and was re quired, and did take an oath, to support the Constitution of the United States, and thereafter engaged in insurrection or re bellion against the same, he is ineligible, for the reason that he is within the mis chief intended to be remedied by the act, as well as by tho fourteenth amendment of the Constitution, which the act was in tended to enforce. All other officers of a State, who were not required and who did did not take an oath tosuoport the Consti tution of the United States, were not in tended to be embraoed, and are not em braced within tho act, because they are not within the mischiet, as contemplated by it; neither are thev withiQ the reason or spirit of the act. They, not having taken any oath to support the Constitution of the United States, have not violated that oath, and do not labor under the same dis ability as those who have taken and vio lated it. If we construe this aet of Con gress in relation to the subject-matter of it, in counection with the third section of the lourteenth amendment of the Consti tution, the same result necessarily follows. Besides, it i3 apparent on the face of the act that Congress did not intend to impose or create any other disability on the mem bers of the Legislature than was imposed and created by the fourteenth amendment of the Constitution; for it is expressly de clared, that if the member claiming a seat will swear, that he has been “relieved by an aet of Congressjof the United States from disability, as provided for by section 4, ofthe XlVth Amendment to the Con stitution of the United States,” that he is then eligible ; surely Congress did not in tend that those who had not been relieved by Congress, and were required to take the first oath specified in the act, should la bor under other or different disabilities, than those whose disability had been removed by Congress. If tho disability of the member has been removed by Congress, then he is eligible to his seat in the Legis lature. What disability ? The disability imposed by the 3d section of the XlVth Amendment, and that 3d section defines and declares that disability. If the dis ability imposed by the 3d section of the XlVth Amendment does not exist, as ap plicable to the member claiming his seat, then he is eligible under the Act. If the disability imposed by the 3d section of the XlVth Amendment didexist, as applicable to the member claiming his seat, and that disability has been removed by an act of Congress, then he is eligible under the Act. The disability the same in both cases. In the one, the disability has been removed by an act of Congress; in the other, it, has not; and in the latter case the member claiming his seat must swear, that he is not laboring under that dis ability. It is a sound and well established priori-' pie of the law, that statutes creating dis abilities, being penal in their character, must be strictly construed. My conclusion, therefore is, that all persons who held office, eith r under the Government of the United (States, or as a member of the Legislature of any State, or who held any civil office created by law for the adminis tering any general law ot a State, or lor the admiuistration of justice in any State, who were required, and did take an oath, to support the Constitution of the United States, and thereafter engaged in insurrec tion or rebellion against the same, are in eligible as members of the Legislature under the provisions of the aet unless re lieved from that disability by Congress ; and that all other State officers who were not required, and who did not take an oath to support the Constitution of the United States, are eligible as members of the Legislature— thxy not being within the mis chief which the act was intended to reme dy. It will be perceived, that if the late | aot of Congress was intended to create, and does create, other and different disa bilities than such as are imposed by the 3d section of the 14th Amendment, that then, those members whose disabilities were removed by Congress prior to the passage of this last act, have not had those other and different disa bilities, imposed by the last aet, re moved by Congress; but only such disabili ties as were imposed by the third section iof the 14th Amendment. It would seem,’ | therefore, that if other and different disa i bilitios were in fact created and imposed ! by the late act of Congress, that the mem ; bers who have been relieved by Congress ! from their disabilities imposed by the third section of the 14th Amendment, | should now be required to swear that they i are not under any of the other ; and different disabilities imposed.by the I [ate act, if indeed that act does iu fact cre i ate and impose any other or different disa ! bilities; for it is very clear that Congress i has not relieved them from any disabilities I created and imposed by the la'te act of Congress. Did Congress intend to impose : other and different disabilties upon those members who bad not been relieved there- I from by Congress, than upon those who I had been so relieved? fn my opinion, ’ such was not the intention ot Congress in • passißg the act under consideration. Very respectfully, your obedient ser vant, Hiram Warner. To Messrs. J. E. Bryant and others. From Mexico. New Orleans, February 2, noon.— News from Mexico, via Brownsville, repre sent the revolutionary party in Mexico daily strengthening. Generals Macias, Zarequi, Espinosa, Davill, and others, are organizing troops to aid the rebels. The Vera Cruz Esperanza says the situation of Mexico is worse every day, and even those who seemed to have more confidence in the future, bow down their beads undes the weight of a bitter disap pointment. There is not a means found to conjure the storm which threatens to sink our unfortunate country in the horrors ot a civil war. The revolution, in great proportions, has broken out in the States of Puebla, Sar, Luis Potosi, Guanajuato, Queretaro, Moralos and Michoacan, and in vain the Government attempts to over come it with its troops. NEW SERIES, VOL. XXVIII. NO. 6. BY TELEGRAPH. FROM ATLANTA. TELEGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE OF THE t CHRONICLE & SENTINEL. Atlanta, January 31, P. M. SENATE. The Senate this morning at ten o’clock. After prayer aud the reading of the journal had been finished, there was in troduced a resolution from T. J. Speer authorizing the President of the Senate to appoint the usual standing Committees of that body. Adopted. In response to an inquiry whether the introduction of lulls was in order, the President decided that it was not, as the Senate had not been informed whether its officers were acceptable to the proper authorities. A motion to procure a Chaplain was ta bled. T. J. Speers said that he wanted no prayers. He was able to do his own pray ing. . M. A. Candler said that he believed in the efficacy of prayer, and it ever a delibe rative body needed the prayers of Christian men it was the present Senate. A message was received from the House announcing that the organization of that body had been perfected. Tho appointment of a joint committee to wait on the Governor was carried. C. B. Wooten, from the joint committee to wait on the Governor, reported that Governor Ballock informed them that he would transmit the resolution of the Sen ate and the House to Gen. Terry, and have a communication for the General Assem bly on Wednesday. A resolution appointing the regular hours of meeting at from ten to one. o’clock was adopted. W. Brock offered a resolution calling on General Terry and Bullock to issue a pro clamation and stop all judicial proceedings on contracts entered into prior to June, 1865. Messrs. Candler and Wooten made points of order on the resolution. It was out of order, as the organization of the Senate had not yet been reoognized by Gen. Terry. The point was sustained by tie Presi dent. HOUSE. J. E. Bryant presented a written pro test against the decision of the Chair on last Saturday in refusing to entertain an appeal from his decision. The protest charged the House with having organized in an illegal and unau thorized manner. It specified, among other things, the admission of certain per sons not named in the order of General Meade, and asserted that certain members have been prevented from taking their seats J. W. O’Neil said it was an established rule that a protest in legislative assemblies must be couched in respectful language Bryant’s protest was disrespectful to the House, the Governor, and to the General commanding. If Bryant did not recog nize this as a legal body, let him withdraw. Such a protest was without precedent. Bryant was in contempt of the House, and members voting for recording the protest admitted its truth. If they voted for it let them depart from a body which they declare illegal. The Speaker said that the protest was undignified and would not be entertained In his opinion the House was legally or ganized. In reply, Bryant read extracts from a letter stating that Senator Carpenter de nounced the aotion of Gov. Ballock as usurpation. Bryant said the House was illegally organized, and he would act with any party to save the State from ruin. Ho did not care whether the protest was re corded or not, as he would appeal to Con gress and the people of the United States and of Georgia. Those men who now de fended the action of the House would yet live to regret it. Dunlap Scott reminded tie Speaker that on several occasions he had assured him that when the House was organized he might file a protest. Be expeettd to offer this protest in a day or two He wished to know where was the disrespect ful language in Bryant’s protest? No sensible man in the House or out of it be lieved that the House was legally or ganized. He quoted from a dispatch of General Terry’s to prove that the House proceeded in an illegal manner, and Gen eral Terry was compelled to report it to General Sherman. One of these dis patches stated that there was no authori ty for seating members receiving the next highest number of votes in the places of those declared ineligible. After some discussion on the subject the House adjourned until Wednesday, and also the Senate. The Blodgett-Bryant and Tweedy trial is still slowly progressing. No new de velopments. Atlanta, Febuary 1, 1870. General Terry has issued a general order declaring Frank BenDett, Representative from Jackson county, and Frank Wilchar, from Taylor, eligible, and the previous or ders in their cases revoked. the fourteenth and fifteenth amend ments. . It is probable that the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments will be ratified to morrow. THE LITTLE PERJURER AS A PEACEMAKER ? The B.yant-Blodgett case was concluded to-day. Several Radicals of the extreme stripe endeavored t 5 show that the “.Little Perjurer’s” object was to make peace. Parrott, one of Bullock’s Radical Judges, swore that Blodgett took no part in the cowardly attack upon Bryant. THE PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION. The following report of the examination in this case is from the Constitution of yes terday : The preliminary examination of .Super intendent Blodgett was closed yesterday. The evidence being through, Henry Hiil yer, Esq., opened for the prosecution in a fiery and forcible presentation of the points of the case. Gen. Wm. Phillips followed, making a handsome effort for the defence. Judge Pope, in a lengthy speech, the sum. of which w s that the evidence of Capt' Bryant was inadmissable; that it was a malicious prosecution; there was no possi ble cause for Blodgett to be bound over; that no conspiracy or cam bination was shown; that he was acting for peace; that it was a trifling case anyhow. George Hill yer. Esq., closed tie argument, in behalf of the prosecution, in a clear, cool and convincing speech, noted for' iu logic and fairness. He said that be was no politi ciao, and in this ease rose above party prejudice.and would argue the cause just as be would aDy other cause- The Blodgett party had a right to entertain and expre-s their political opinions anywhere, and the law would protect them in it. The same right was guaranteed to Capt. Bryant, Both stood equal before the law. Bryant was a sworn Representative, in the discharge of his duties. In the dis charge of that duty he received two marked insults. While he was addressing the Speaker and detailing a conversation with General Terry, Mr. Tweedy violated the rules of the House to insult Mr. Bryant by a side remark, thjit “General Terry never told you so.” Mr. Bryant replied: “He did tell me so.” This colloquy continued, urn 1 Tweedv said: “Then you mean to say that General Terry is a liar?” i Mr. Bryant replied : “If you say that General Lorry mover told roe so, you are a liar.” Tweedy was in the wrong—he was the aggressor. Bryant told the truth. And the case could well be rested upon the truth of his statement of what General Terry told him. No gallant Irishman would ever strike an antagonist from the rear. Here the speaker paid a glowing tribute to the warm-hearted sons of Green Erin, many of whqin he had fought side by side with in the late contest. The attack on Captain Bryant was a dark and damning act. -Ffteen or twenty men stop an ud a-tired and peaceable man at the threshold of the Executive Department, the foun tain head of justice, and beat him, and cut his head to the bone. In the House Capt. Bryant observed Blodgett address the Speaker, which was a violation ot the rules of the House, and of which he had a right to speak. The Speaker never denied the statement, but said he was not aware of it. It was not denied because it was true. Mr Blodgett’s vengeful look at Capt. Bryant certainly betrayed any thing but peace. Had Blod gett went to Tweedy and told him not to attack Bryant, Tweedy woald have obeyed him. But Blodgett was on hand at the very time and place to do the most harm to Capt. Bryant. He kept Bryant’s on'y friend from assisting him. The civil law forbid : actions for words spokcti in debate; ; the criminal law does not permit the use [of tie olnb. Where, in the annals of party strife, has a ease been known in Georg’a, of political opponents commit ting such violations of law upon one an other ? It w is an able effort and listened to with marked attention. Notary Public Smith derided to dis charge Superintendent Blodgett without cost. George Hillyer, Esq., then announced that the charges against the other defen dants were dismissed. But Justice Smith announced that he would try the cases this urn rning, against them for assault and battery. 'Die question was freely asked: How cao a Magistrate decide the grade of an offense without an investigation? How, when the warrant is for assault with ioieot to murder, can he reduoe the grade to as sault and battery, without an investiga tion ? Does not this singular procedure show that the judgment of the court was fully made up before hand ? Atlanta, February 2, P. M. The proceedings of the Legislature to day hr ve. been of unusual interest, from the fact that by them Georgia has been added to the list of States which have ratified the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution. That this ratification has been obtained fraudulently and illegally, there can be no doubt, and a protest has already been offered against the action, but ,th it Congress will eagerly reooguize the action the Bullockites here say there is to question. THE SENATE. The Senate met this morning at 12 o’clock and was called to order by the President. After prayer and tho reading of the jourmi' had been finished, a message was read to the Senate from the Express Agent in response to the resolution passed on Saturday, appointing a committtee to wait upon 1 iui and ascertain if the organization of that body was entirely satisfactory to himself and the commander ofthe Military District. BARKIS IS WILLIN’. The message stated that the Governor had i immunicated to General A- H. Terry, the commander of the District, the tact of the organization of the Senate, and that the latter declared it to be en tirely satisfactory. BOTH AMENDMENTS ADOPTED. The fourteenth and fifteenth amend ments to the Constitution were then put before the Sena! e, and were adopted al most unanimously, though several Sena tors absented themselves and thus dodged the question. The vote upon the amend ments stood as follows ; For ratification..... 27 Against j Majority... 26 Tiie Senate adjourned until next Mon day, the 14th instant. BUY INT GETS HIS PROTEST THROUGH. T e House met at twelve o’clock, pursu ant to the adjournment of Monday. After the reading of the journal, J. E. Bryant, of Richmond, made another charge with hi& protest against the illegal organization of the*House, and this time was successful. He got his document through this time, abd tho protest was or dered to be spread upon the journal of the House. AND PRESENTS ANOTHER. The message from Bullock which had been read to the Senate,’ was read to tho House, and, in accordance with its recom mendation, the ratification of the four teenth amendment was brought before the Hou and che amendment deoLred to be ratified by a vote of seventy-one ayes to no nays. A large numher of tho members shirk ed a vote, and J. E. Bryant rose to a point of order. He said that there was not enough members to constitute a quorum, and that conseq- ently the resolution of ratification was not adopted. He also read a pr Rest claiming that the House was not legally organized, that it could not do any legal act. None of the Democrats or Conservativo Republicans voted for or against thp ratifi cation of the Fourteenth Amendment. THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT. The Fourteenth Amendment having been declared ratified, a resolution ratify ing tho Fifteenth Amendment was intro duced. Upon this resolution the Demo crats and Conservatives split, two voting against, others for it, and some not voting. When the name of R. B. Hall, (Rep.), of Glynn, • was called, that gentleman arose and said that as .Congress had decid ed that Georgia was not a State in the Union, he believed the ratification would be void, and, therefore, voted nay. W. M. Tumlin, of Randolph, offered a written protest, declaring that the four teenth amendment was the crowning out rage of the Radical party, and utterly re pugnant to his constituents. The Speaker, declared the resolution rati fying the amendment adopted by the fol lowing vote; For ratification ...53 Ag; in st 2 Majority ....51 Bryant offered a protest against the pro ceedings concurring with the Senate. BULLOCK’S FINANCIERING. A resolution was introduced appointing a cummittee to investigate the financial operation" of Bullock, but the House re fused to suspend the rules, and the resolu tion was not taken up. J. 11. Caldwell, (Rep.) of Troup, offer ed a Joint resolution, asking Congress to rem >ve the disabilities of all citizens of Georgia. The House reused to suspend the ruies, and the resolution was not taken up. Most of tae Bullockites voted no. Marion Bet.huor, of Talbot, offered a resolution to invesiigate the financial ope rationsof Ballock. Lo-t, and the House adj jurued until the 14th. BLODGETT AND TWEEDY and Fitzpatrick were discharged to-day without a trial. TO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS From Atlanta, A tlanta, February 2, p. m. -The Gen era) Assembly received a message tc-day from the Governor, including his corre spondence with General Terry, in vhich General Terry acknowledges the Governor’s notification of the organization of the General Assembly, and informs the Gov ernor that both Houses are now properly organized for the purpose of assenrieg and com lying with the conditions imposed by Congress for the restoration of the State to its original relations with he nation.. Toe Governor reviews.the action of the old organization in expelling colored mem bers and quotes the several acts of Con grei-s relative to reconstruction in the lute rebel States; also, Gen. Terry’s report of AugusJ 14th, and the action and report to Con .-less of the Judiciary Committee ap ..united to investigate the credentials of Joshua Hill, Senator elect "from Georgia; recapitulates the facts covering tbe no ideal history of the State from the adoption of the act of March 2d, 1867, declaring that until the people of the rebel States were admitted to representation in Congress, the civil gov ernments that exists shall be aorovisional only, subjeettotheparamount authority of the United States, who at any time can abolish, modPy, control or supersede the • same, and up to the preseo t time that right, reserved by Congress, has never been with drawn or expired by any legal act. The Governor racommended the adoption of the 14th and 15th amendments, and con eludes with a desire for the good ofthe whole people; that a eitizsu’s worth shall be de termined by his own efforts, neither ad ■ vanced nor retarded by birth, color, . reli ! gion or politics. * The House adopted the 14tti amend ment by asfnaDimous vote, and the 15th by 53 to 24. The Senate' ratified both tbe 14th and 16th amendments by a vote 0f27 to 10. Both' Houses adjourned till the 14th inst.
