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British Government Buying
Telegraph Cables.
WASHINGTON.
NO Papers.

No E1PcESs
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.-The Senate Judi
ciary Committee were unable to consider
the subject of Mississippi, in connection
with it representation in Congress, be-
cause Of the non-reception Of official pa
pers, but will hold a special meeting as
soon as they arrive.
The Reconstruction Hash waiting
for the Butler.
The Committee on Reconstruction have
before them bills relative to Georgia and
Mississippi; also the bin to enforce the
18th and 18th articles of the Constitution of
the United States. Nothing definite on
these subjects will be done until the return
of Gen. Butler
Warranted.
Warrants issued from the Treasury De
partment during January, were as follows ::
Civil and miscellaneous and foreign inter
course 80, 696, OIL; war S., 800, 2GO; navy
So, o36, 800; interior, pensions and Indians
S6Gl, 042; total S12, 59f, 243. This does
not include warrants issued on account Of
the public debt.
From virginia ut Large.
Searger, who was elected to Congress at
large from Virginia, was assured this morn
lHB Bl MT. Kane, CHAIRMAN OF Inc commit
tee, that his case viii be taken up Friday
and his claims fully and fairly considered
Mining.
The Committee on Mines and Mining
to-day agreed to report Representative
Sargent's bill, providing that miners may
acquire filters TO Placer mines, but not to
veins or lodcs.
The resolution of the House directing
the Committee on Mines and Mining to in
vestigate the cause of the Avondale disas-
ter was referred to a subcommittee, con-
sisting of Mr.. Roots, of Arkansas, Mr..
Strickland, Of Michigan, and Mr.. Hawkins,
of Tennessee.
Annexation.
A public meeting several thousand strong
this afternoon adopted resolutions faYoring
the consolidation Of Washington, George
town and the remaining portion of the Dis
trict of Columbia into one government. A
committee was appointed to urge such &C
ion by Congress.
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the Fourteenth Amendment unanimously
and the Fifteenth by a voth of 50 to 81
The Senate ratified both the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments by a vote Of
% to 10.
Message from Bullock
The General Assembly received the mes
sage to-day from the Governor, including
the correspondence with Gen. Terry, IN
which Terry acknowledges the Governors
notification of organization of the General
Assembly, and informs the Governor that
both Houses are now properly organized
for the purpose of asserting to and COM
plying with the conditions imposed by Con
gress for the restoration Of the State TO its
Original relations with the nation.
The Governor reviews the action Of old
organization in eIpelling the colored mem
bers, and quotes several acts Of Congress
relative to the reconstruction Of the late
Rebel States.
He also reviews Gen. Terry's report of
August Il, and the action and report TO
Congress of the Judiciary Committee APP
pointed TO investigate the credentials Of
Joshua HILL Senator elect from Georgia.
He recapitulates the facts, covering the
political. history of the State from the
adoption of the act of March ., 1861 de-
claring that until the people of a rebel State
are admitted to representation in Congress,
their civil government that exists shall be
provisional only, subject TO the paramount
authority Of the United States at any time
to abolish, modify, control or supersedC
the same. That right reserved by Con
gress has never been Withdrawn, nor has
it expired through any legal act OF
Georgia.
The Governor recommends the ratiica-
ton of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments, and concludes with desire
for the good of the whole people, and the
hope that a citizens worth may be deter,
mined by his own efforts-neither ad
vanced or retarded by his birth, color, re-
hgon or politics.
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PIsOSPHORIC SHOWER IN CALI
FORNEA

A resident of Sierra Valley writes as fol
lows to the Downieville Messenger Nature
also furnished us with another wonderful
phenomenon-a phosphoric shower. On
Christmas Eve, while the rain fell IN tor
rents, persons who happened to be out In
the storm observed fine display Of
luminous globes attached to whiskers, hair
and garments. The light emitted dad not
resemble electric sparks. but rather the
pale light of the FREELY. The drops Of
liquid light could be detached by the hand
and held out to view four or five seconds
before disappearing. So far as heard from
the phenomenon was only observed at a
point one-half mile east Of Sierraville, where
the highway crosses assertion of soil impreg-
mated with mineral element from the hot
springs
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NEW SERIES, NO. 446.
corporate the jackson and Fulton Railroad
Company. Adopted, and the bill passed as

corporate the Jackson and Fulton Railroa'
Company. Adopted, and the bill passed a
amended
SENATE BILLS ON SECOND READING.
To amend the laws for the government
OF the Hospital for the Insane. Passed.
To incorporate theMemphis APps0l Pub
Ashlng Company. Passed. Or.
To incorporate the Fayetteville Steam
Wood Works Company Passed.
NEW BUSINESS.
By MIR. Etherdge-A bill to change the
time for holding the election for county
officers from the first Saturday in March to
the fourth Saturday. Passed and referred
to the Judiciary Committee.
By Mr.. Bryant-A bill providing for the
collection Of the revenue. The bill aboI-
ishes the Office of Revenue Collector, and
imposes the duty of collecting State and
county taxes upon Sheriffs. Passed first
reading and referred to the Committee on
Finance and Ways and Means.
By MIR. Hart-A resolution to prevent
the Introduction Of new bills. 1t provides
that after Tuesday, Feb. 8, 1870, no new
bill, except Of a general character, shall be
introduced. Laid over under the rules.
The Senate adjourned until tomorrow
at IL A. NJ
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ENGLAND.
Governments Invests S4,0OO,OOO IL


Governments Invests sI,OOO,0O0 in
Gable.
LONDON, Feb. according to the
proposition of the act of Parliament en-
towering the government to take posses
sion Of telegraph lines in the kingdom, the
Treasury Department yesterday paid e726,
600 for the cable connecting England with
Germany by way of the Island of Nordeng.
Chinese.
The Globe correcting the statement
made by the Times, says the objections to
the treaties with China, are confined to
doubts about the faithful observance Of
their stipulations by the Chinese.
Touched.
SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 1.-The steamship
Union touched here yesterday on her way
10 Bremen
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PRUSSIA.
congratulations.

BERLIN, Feb. 2.-The Faculty Of the
University Of Breslau have congratulated
DIR. Donunger on his opposition TO the
declaration Of Papal infallibility.
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NEW MEXICO.
COnsIigu1iOnaI.

Denver, Col, Feb. 1.-The New Mexico
Legislature has adopted State Constitution
TO be submitted to popular vote on the
first Monday in October
Under the new tax and funding law,
territorial warrants have risen from twenty
five to fifty cents on the dollar.
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MEXICO,


New ORLEANS, Feb. 2.-Thc news
from Mexico ria Brownsville represent
the revolutionary party in Mexico as daily
strengthening. Gems. Macias Yarequi and
Pinosa Davillc, and others, are organizing
trOOps to aid rebels.
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WINNIPEG.


loRoETo, Feb. The Dominion Gov
eminent has ordered the construction of
large number Of boats, to be thirty-six
feet long, six feet wide and three feet deep,
for the purpose Of sending men into the
Winnepeg settlement on the first opening Of
s.r,ffug
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AFRICA.
Burned ns n wizard.

LONDON, Feb. "a letter has been re-
ceived here, from Capt. Cochrane, Of the
Royal Navy commanding at Petrol Station
of the African Coast, he reports that Dr.
David Livingstone, the celebrated African
traveller had been burned as a wizard, by
a Chief in the interior.
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AUSTRIA.
An ArchducaI EugttEve.

vienna, Feb 9.-The Archduchess Eliza
beth, Of Austria, has fed TO America, hav-
ING embarked at Hamburg.
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MAINE.


AUGUSTA, Ne, Feb. 2.-In the House
an order was introduced directing inquiry
into the expediency of abolishing corporal
VVDighmpnt
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WISCONSIN.
Vice HODlXfuS.

MILWAUKEE, Wis, Feb. David At
wood, of Madison, wSs' nominated to-day
by the Republicans for Congress to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the death Of Mr.
HOPKINS.
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smithsonian.

The Speaker announced the appointment
of Messrs. Poland, Garfield and Cox Re
gents of the Smithsonian Institute.
Cuba as u BcIIigerent.
Mr.. Logan offered resolution declaring
that the people of Cuba have for more
than fifteen months carried on active hos
tilities against Spain for independence !;
that they have established and still main
tain a defacto government, and now occu-
by with their armies and control large
portion Of the island; and instructing the
Committee on Foreign Affairs to inquire
what reasons, if any, exist why the Repub-
lie of Cuba should not be recognized by
the United States Government as belliger-
ents. Adopted. srg
Little Rock TO Fort Smith.
Mr.. Roots introduced a bill to amend the
act of April 10, 1869, extending the time
for the completion of the first section Of the
Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad. Re
ferrcd i.
Meteorological.
Mr.. Paine introduced joint resolution
authorizing the Secretary Of War to pro-
vide for taking meteorological observations
at military stations and other points in the
| interior of the continent, and for giving
notice on the Northern lakes and seaboard
| Of the approach Of storms. Passed.
Naturalization.
| Mr.. Davis, from the judiciary Commit
tee, reported back the bill to establish
uniform system Of naturalization. Re-
committed.
| Treasury Leak!
MIR. Ferns offered resolution Of inquiry
as to special agents and assistant special
| agents Of the, Treasury Department
amount of mileage paid them, etc Adopted.
Digging at Dawes.
Mr. Banks asked the Chairman of the
Committee on Appropriations to state
whether that committee had considered
any measure for the relief Of a large num-
Der Of mechanics discharged from navy
yards in various parts of the country.
Mr.. Dawes replied that a bill for that pur-
pose was before the committee and would
| probably be reported tomorrow morning
| after conference with the Navy Depart
| ment
$4,000 and Clothing and RauOns
| for EaIrant Negroes.
The House went into Committee of the
Whole, Mr. Terry in the chair, and took
up the Senate bill appropriating $50, 900
for the poor Of the District of Columbia,
allowing $40, worth of condemned army
clothing to be distributed, and assigning
the storehouses in Judiciary Square to the
Womens Christian Association, to give
employment to INDECENT women.
The bill gave rise to considerable discus
sion. Several amendments were Offered
but none adopted, except one by Mr.. Lo
gan for the issuing of rations by the Wal
Department, leaving the other provisions O
the bill for clothing ETC., as in the original
The committee rose and reported the bill
to the House, which, without final nc.
ton, ut 4:2O, adjourned.
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ROME.


ROME, Feb. 2.-Since the assembling of
the Council, seven of its members have
died, and four have left the city.
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SPAIN.
characterization Of tho church.

MADRID, Feb. I'm the COrtes today
Senior Costiller made an effective speech
against the payment of the clergy by the
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NEW JERSEY.
Isn,t Afraid.

TRENTON, Feb. The Assembly yes
terday rejected the Fifteenth Amendment
by a vote of 80 TO %.
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The committee of the Alabama House
of Representatives on enrolled bills recent
ly ''reported in favor of employing
scholar to overlook, correct the spelling
and make good grammar of all the bills
introduced in the House before the bills
were brought up on a second reading"
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SWITZERLAND.


ZUaCU, Fob. DIR. J. Dabs, of this
city, hasLeeu chosen President of the Swiss
Confederniun
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HAVANA, Feb. 2.-The funeral of Caste
nor took place ta-day. The procession
occupied two hours in passing a given
point. The Captain General announces in
public order to-day that he will take the
children of the deceased under his special
protection
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AN Indiana paper tantalizes its readers
with this atrocity: z'Have you heard of
the man who got shot2 No, how did he
get shot? He bought EN-"
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CUBA.
Wholesale Murder.

New York, Feb. 2.-The following dis
patch WAS received at the Cuban headquar-
ters in this city: 1t is reported that $50
persons were killed in Havana on the 31st
by volunteers.
A great fire took place in tho negro
quarter of Havana, called Jesus Maria, the
gona Dipht
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Neutrality.
HHnITSE.

The Committee on Foreign Affairs re-
ported several private bills, which passed
Poor White Trash in British Dun.
geons--not Negroes.
They also reported the following resolu-
ton:
Resolved, That the President of the
United States communicate to this House,
if not incompatible with public interest,
any information which may have come to
his knowledge concerning American citi-
zens, whether native or naturalized, who
may be at this time confined in the jails or
prisons of Great Britain, for political Of
fences, and any facts in relation to the
treatment Of such persons which he may
feel at liberty to communicate.
After discussion by Swan and Wilson, of
Minnesota, in favor of, and Willard and Cox
against the resolution, it went over till the
,,,orpi,,r hour To rz orrovv-
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In addition to the above, Mr.. Peabody
made large number of donations for va
nous public purposes, ranging in SUMS
from $3.50 to 81, 900, and extending back
as far as the year 1885.
The amount of property lef; by him st
his death is estimated at about $4,000, 900
in value. With the exception of a few
requests in the viii, this amount is di-
rccted to be distributed among his rela-
tiyes, including one brother, one sister,
and about fourteen nephews and nieces.
On his last visit to mis- country he Iii
vided among them 1900, 600, and the
property left at his death is to be dlstribu-
ted in the same proportions to each as
were awarded by him in that gift.
SINGULARLY confused ideas must the
sons of Erin have of death, for it is re-
lated of one who wishes to inform friend
in a neighboring town of the death Of q
fellow workman, that he sent a dispatch
signed with the deceased mans name,
reading: 'James, come home; / 1iec
last night - and an Irish lady, in her will,
ordered her body 10 he opened after her
death, lest she should be buried alive. A
somewhat similar story has been floating
about the newspapers, of SmithsOn, the
founder of the Smithsonian Institute He
had five doctors, and they had been unable
to discover his disease. Being told that
his case was hopeless, he called them
around him and said ''AIy friends, L de-
sire that you viii make post norton
examination of me, and find out what alls
me, for, really, have heard such long
discussions on the subject thatI am dying
to know what my disease is myself. " 1t
was an IIibcrnian gentleman who told
friend who was studying for the ministry,
81 hope / may live to hear you preach
my funeral sermon ~ who, being asked
to 90 on the deck of a vessel when she
was laundering, said he did not wish To
see himself drowned; who remarked,
with much good sense, that "a man gets
poor show who waits til he is kilt before
he acts ON the defensive;T and the follow
ing is found on an Irish tombstone:
'Here lies John Higley and his wife, who
were drowned in their passage from
America. Had they both lived they
would have been buried here.
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MIR. PEABODT,s DONATIONS.

The following list embraces all the more
important public gifts of hIr. Peabody to
various institutions and charities, during
his lifetime, including the requests con
tanned in his last viii and testament;
To the State of Maryland for ne
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THE CONVENTION.
TwENTY-FIlss-T DAY.

WEDNESDAY, Feb. 2, ls70.-The Con
vention met at $50 o'clock a. M, Presi-
dent Brown in the chair. Prayerby Rev.
DR.. Baird, of the Cumberland Presbyte-
rian Church "a -. -
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Annexation.
ATLANTA.


ATLANTA, Feb. The House ratified
the Fourteenth Amendment unanimously
and the Fifteenth by a voth of 50 to q.
The Senate ratified both the Fourteenth
and Fifteenth Amendments by a vote Of
p to 10.
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NEW BUSINESS.

By Mr.. Hart-A bill to incorporate the
Mt. Vernon Iron Company. Passed.
By tho samoa bill to incorporate the
GAINESVILLE Manufacturing Company,
Passed /
BY Mr.. Cooper, of Davidson-A bill
for the relief of n. Hobson and others. 1t
provides that the net proceeds or earnings
of the Edgefeld and Kentucky Railroad,
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Mr. Etheridge, from the COMMITTEES OF
Conference, on the dissgreeing votes of the
Senate and House of Representatives on
Senate amendments to House bill directory
to the revenue officers, submitted a report.
Tho committee recommended that the SEN
ate recede from its amendment to the sec
ond section of the bill, and that the section
be amended by striking out the words
First National Bank of Memphis, where
they occur in the fourth line of the second
section, and insert the words ''The Union
and Planters Bank of Memphis, and that
the bill then pass. 1850
The report of the committee was adopt
cd and the recommendations cOncurred in
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Before the reference was made MIR.
Etheridge said that the tone of the message
did credit to the Governor of the State. He
said that one Of his constituents had been
at his back urging HIM that something
should be done to allow him to return home
and enjoy the peace he was entitled to as
citizen. He was glad the message had been
addressed to the Legislature. The Cover
nor had written it in the proper sense of
his responsibility. The very best citizens
of the State were fleeing from their homes
because combinations were being formed
throughout the State against them. The
Judiciary Committee should act promptly
upon this matter. OBI -. -..s..
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We were pleased to see in town ycster.
day, our friends, Charley Warren and
Isaac Dean of Silver Bow. Mr.. Warren
has sold his Bowling Gymnasium TO Mr..
VIM. 81. Patton, and invested in French
Gulch. He has bought 1900 feet-claims
II to 25-snd 10 working . large force on
them.
On lest Tuesday Mr.. Geo. McCausland,
Mike Moran, Low Russell and Chas. War.
rem struck diggings In the gulch two and
half miles below Silver Bow. They sunk
shaft, struck bedrock at ten feet, and
got t2.90 cents TO the pan on bedrock.
They arc opening the ground and will com.
inenco sluicing early next week. About
1000 feet Of tho gulch In the vicinity has
been taken up already. Il ID thought they
will prove good diggings. aFE ST.. -.l.t
Nessrs Delangcr s. Allen arc building
reservoirs on Divide Greek. Hereafter the
ditch will carry Is inches of water four OF
I've days In the week, where there 10 mono
OOWs .....H. s..zE-... a. ,.e -. - tai ,......E
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MITRAHLEUR&.

There 70 word used in the dispatches
that You do not find in the dictionaries
word ''NSlraNewr." The Prussians captur'
cd number from the French, and It is
matter of doubt, from the manner in which
the kilograms were published in some East
ern exchanges that should know better.
whether "k;troiuevr" was . weapon, .
branch of the service, . species OF battle flag
Or something after the style of an Amcri'
can ''contraband."
The French lost four In one fight They
are to he congratulated on the loss. for the
X;traiueur is nothing more than the coffee
mill gun" with which the rebels were to be
annihila.cd oil the way from Bull Run to
Richmond, and which turned out the big.
gcst inanimte humlug ever experimental
with in the Union armies. 1t is revolving
rifle affair. about the size of portable corn
shelter, worked after the same manner, by
two men, and has = capacity of over one
hundred shots minute The barrel pro-
trudcs through bullet proof shield, behind
which the men work. one loading with the
crank and one aiming. 1t is light aud cau
he transported rapidly by one horse or .
couple of men. If each shot would count,
five of them would wipe out regiment in
two minutes, and the two men working
them be perfectly safe. That was the theory.
They were taken into the Potomac army by
the dozen. They were very cunning and
sanguinary looking allies. They would dash
to tho front and whip IN army before the
slow infantry could como up. Mechanics
had eurpas.eL humanity. No more drafts
or big bountics; no slloddy contractors could
impose on them, or rascally co,nmissarys
stuff then with mouldy hard tack. One day
one of them got into fight. It discharged
itself ct tho wrong end, blew up the opcr.
ators, and was knocked into su,itherccns by
q rebel shell. At the end of the Peninsula
campaign they lad not been of any service;
were IN the road, the laughing stock of the
boys, and were piled around the country,
like old tanning mills about country barn
sheds. Somehow they come to be con.
sidcred ill-omencd, and were not seen after
the Peninsula campaign. Not long ago the
inventor tackled Napoleon, and getting up
~ improved pattern, they were introduced
in the French army rs Nisrai1eurs. The
Prussians have taken in few Of them, and
the remainder will be marked Il s. c." and
sold for old iron, without they are decided
improvement on tic Yankee invention.
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SECRETARY SANDERS.

rcIsonss s~Stss~ S~f~.~. sss aoss,oll.;n1 nf
Secretary Sanders. He is from Davenport,
Iowa, and belongs to the newspaper frater-
nifty. He was in Sherman's army, and Is
spoken of o General Sanders. He is com.
mcndcd by good authority q - gentle.
man of the best type-one whom Montan.
aims will like" and is - man Of fine
ability" He is friend of Governor Potts.
and the change having been determined
upon, We believe tho Governor was request.
cd 10 name . successor. Governor Potts
and Secretary Sanders may be expected In
Virginia by Aug. 25th, at which place they
will first stop.