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ATLANTA, GEORGIA
Saturday Morning, Feb. a, 1867.
Note of tbe Secretary or the Meeting;.
Tho explanatory noto of J. Henley Smith,
Esq., does not appear this morning, from the
fact that it was not sent Into tho office until dark
yesterday. It will receive tho proper attention
to-morrow.
“The West Point Obsorver.”
Wo notice that this excellent weekly paper is
now under tho editorial control of W. L. Hah-
bison, Esq., who in a happy salutatory defines
tho position of the paper. Wo wish all con
nected with tho enterprise success. West Point
Is an excellent location for a weekly paper, and its
“Observer" should bo generously patronized.
A Good One,
Wo notico tho following in a late issue of the
Augusta (hmstitutionatist:
Married, at Amcricus, Georgia, on tho 27th in
tent, by the Rev. Georgo II. Colt, Dr. L. F. W.
.mlrows, editor of tho Georgia Citizen, of Macon,
stent,
Andrews,
Georgia, and .Mrs. Mary E. Lamar, of the former
place.
Wo may now hope for an increased number ot
Georgia citizens.
We trust that tho "hope” ol our worthy Au
gusta cotemporary will be realized, and that the
days of our friend the Doctor and his accom
plished Bride may be long in tho land that has
been so depleted of population.
The Labor Question Annin.
In a late number of the Columbus Sun we find
tho following extract from a letter addressed to
the New York Tima by an Augusta correspon
dent of that paper. Referring to the question'
of labor in our State, and the drain made upon
it by parties engaged in the business of enticing
away from it the freedmen “ to the manor born ”
into Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana, the
writer draws the graphic picture we here present,
endorsing it as the result of our own personal
observation at tho depots, car-sheds, and other
places in the Gate City:
Tho individuals engaged in this charming oc
cupation are rarely the planters who need “the
help.”
They are generally agents impelled by
the commendable desire to promote agricultural
prosperity, and serve "the poor darkey," with
their economical and benevolent tastes, slightly
stimulated by the receipt of a little friendship's
offering, in the shape of five or six dollars for ev
ery negro they translate to the Mississippi and
Arkansas Edens. Theil activity and zcnl are
only equalled by the exuberance of their laticy in
describing the terrestrial paradise which they
seek to develop. When they meet a benighted
African who they think will listen to the voice of
the charmer, it is delightful to see how their face
beams, and how philanthropy and six dollars in
greenbacks make nil their sensibilities como out
‘‘strong in blow." Their affectionate familiarity,
their tender inquiries for the "old woman and the
children," their compassionate sorrow when
they hear “we havn’t made much this year,” and
their unalterable resolve to put “every nigger in
ind I
the way of making his fortune,” and become a
large lauded proprietor in little or no time, would
touch oven the cynical heart of Miss Evans’ St.
Elmo. Their first proceeding is to establish an
allianco (offensive and defensive) with the “Bu
reau,” whose local representative they rarely fail
to secure as an earnest coadj utor. The next step
is to enlist the preaching, school-teaching, savings-
bank-founding freedmen who have no visiblo
means of existence, and obtain from them the lo
cal habitations and the names of all the negroes
in tho the vicinity who mny, can or will be bam
boozled or swindled into leaving their homes and
employers and go with them into the cane-brakes
and fever swamps which abound near the Father
of Waters, and then they commence their active
operations, coaxing and wheedling every negro
they can get to listen to them, or that the Bureau
can drag within their reach from daylight till
dark, and then sending the preaching, school
teaching nud savings-bank-founding vagabonds
to visit “tho quarters" at night, and induce as
many as possible to desert their employers and
go to “Tennesseo”—a geographical name of mul
titude, which comprehends every place iu the
wide world except tho spot where the victims
were born and raised, and where they havo con
tracted willingly and contcntodU to labor tor tin
iruutireds or these agents are now at work
and “ the cry is still they come.” 1 uover see one
of them that I do not think of the louts for the
Peter Funk auction rooms in New York. They
nil have the same functuous, glozing manners.—
They wear ponderous watch chains and cluster
diamond (?) pins. They frequently display, ac
cidentally on purpose, plethoric pocket books of
an infinite number of compartments, with a
greenback of a large denomination bursting its
calf-skin bonds and struggling to display itself.
They all wear paper colars and bob-tail coals,
and some of the more elegant smell horribly of
patchouli and rancid pomatum. They offer-
own "large planting interests,” and are alway
on terms of the closest intimacy with all the most
prominent gentlemen in the State from which
they pretend to hail, and invariably call them
Juck and Bob and Jim, aud their wives nud
daughters, “tho old woman and the girls.” Sun
day is their great day. It is no day ot rest for
them. On the contrary, it is the day on which
their energies, mentally and bodily, are strained
their utmost capacity, and that philanthropy and
six dollars a head are blended harmoniously t<
tho widest extent.
They are evidently reaping an abundant bur-
' ' Wes
vest. Every train going West is loaded with
their victims, and success only seems to stimu
late them to renewed effort. They are doing a
great amount ot mischief to the agricultural i
terests of this portion of the State, aud it is a r
markable evidence of the law-abiding spirit of
the people that they are allowed to pursue their
calling unmolested. Did they coniine their ope
rations to the towns and cities where freedmen
are abundant and labor is neglected, and where
larceny in its various degrees is the means ol ex
istence which is relied on ns the most productive
though the most precarious, they would "do the
State some service” by inducing the objects of
their anxiety to migrate. But they seem to pre
fer the plantation negroes, and those who
have already contracted for this year ari
tbe prizes they most covet. Planters go t<
bed at night with tho satisfied conviction thtft
they have all the hands they need, and dream
of rich harvests and full pockets at the end
of tho year, but awake in the morning to
find their quarters tenantless, to hear that all the
hands “ is done left 'fore day this morning,” and
to ascertain on further investigation that their
mules and wagons have been taken “ to haul the
plunder to the depot,” or that their corn cribs
and smoke houses have been put under contribu
tion to provide the marching rations of their late
laborers. The whole neighborhood when such
things occur becomes demoralized, work is left
undone or neglected, employers who ought to be
attending their fences and plowing, are obliged
to go out to “ hunt new hands,” and the best in
terests of the country are damuged.
To prevent this labor stealing would be a le
gitimate and beneficial duty lor the Bureau to
perform. When a fair contract has been made
and approved, and the fees paid on it, it ought to
be the duty of the Bureau to prevent its viola
tion. But if there be uny doubt on this point
there can be none that it is the duty ot the Bu
reau agent, who has confirmed a contract and
received his fees lor doing so, not to be a parl y
to its violation, not to encourage the negro to
break his engagements, aud not to tell the em
ployer, who seeks his interference and protec
tion, “My dear sir, labor like any other commod
ity is subject to the inexorable laws of supply
and demand, and neither you nor I can con
trol it.” An indignant planter to whom this
speech was made, und who evidently had not the
lear ot the Bureau before his eyes, replied : “ I
suppose by supply you mean the number of
lots I paid you for ratifying my contract, uu
demand you mean the number which the negro
thief has given you for helping him to steal my
laborers.”
The English Press on Impeachment
We havo beon pretty liberal with fitrnishing
the readors of tho Intelligencer with oxtracls
from tho leading Radical, Republican, and Con
servative journals of this country upon tho sub
ject of Impeachment. A day or two ago wo pub
lished an able articlo from the Loudon Tima,
written by one who is studying and calculating
tho effect tho proposition, if carried to oxtremes,
is to havo outside the nicro local politics of the
United States. But tho Tima, which is the great
organ of popular opinion in Great Britain, is not
tho only torcigu journal which is discussing tho
question. Tho French, aud all the chief organs
of English thought, “treat the impeachment busi
ness as by far tho most sorious and perilous pro
cedurc in our political history,” aud most of them
apply to it the term revolution, as indicative of
the fact that this government is being transform
ed and rapidly losing all ils more liberal and bet
ter features. The Times, the Tail Mull Gazelle,
and the Saturday Review so regard the question,
and so speak of it. The Times lemarks that the
“trial of tho President will transform the Consti
tution,” aud tho following sentences give the
points of its opiuion:
“It may be, and no doubt is, galling to the
domiuant party in Congress to lie thwarted ns
they have been by one man ; hut the Constitution
gives him the power, aud it is ol that they ought
to complain. It is, in truth, tho Constitution,
rather than Mr. Johnson, which is now tho ob
ject of assault; it is the Constitution, rather than
Mr. Johnson, which is in dauger. If the articles
of his impeachment bo truly drawn, they will
make the first charge against him that he has
used all the powers of his office, and by the side
of this all his other offenses are as nothing. Let
the impeachment be prosecuted with the deter
mination which is said to inspire its managers,
and its results will ho much more portentous
than the mere removal of Mr. Johnson from his
place. The Presidency itself will cease to he
what it has been, and the balance which now ex
ists upon the legislative action of Parliamentary
majorities wifi vanish. * * * We need.not,
however, dwell upon the future, it is sufficient to
note the phase through which the American
Constitution appears to be passing, the danger
that the artificial balance of powers, the checks
upon impulsive legislation, the independence of
the Executive Government contemplated by the
iouuders of tho Republic, will be all swept
away.”
The Pall Mail Gazette points out the lack of
definition in ail the accusations against President
Johnson. After a keen discusion of this point,
and after expressing a fear that the judicial view
of the case may bo lost sight of in tho excited
state of party feeling, it concludes by the utter
ance of a strong hope that
“ The Senate will give the world one more ex
ample of the tact which is so often overlooked
and obscured that tho passionate external vio
lence of tho American character and manners
overlays and conceals a solid foundation of good
sense, moderation, and regard for law which
makes itself felt in tho long run and on great oc
casions.”
The Saturday Review treats the proposed im
peachment at length, aud with signal ability. It
analyzes the powers of the different branches of
the government, ns set forth in the Constitution,
shows the peculiar position which the President
has among the rulers of States, and tries to dis
cover his culpability as set forth in the various
charges brought against him:
“The President,” it remarks, “stands on a
present basis of Constitutional right, while Con
gress is acting in formal defiance of the Consti
tution, and seems inclined, according to the latest
accounts, to set the Constitution aside altogether,
and to assert for itself the omnipotence of a
British Parliament—the right of altering all taws,
whether fundamental or incidental, whether part
ot the original compact of Union or mere meas
ures of Congressional legislation, by a simple
majority of both Houses. * * * The
charges against him, correctly estimated, amount
simply to this—that in the exercise of his execu
tive power lie lias set at naught the wishes of
Congress, and acted upon his own judgment;
that he has carried out his own policy, and not
tho policy of a majority of the two Houses.
And it is plain, not only that an impeachment
on such a ground as this would he a gross abuse
of a remedy intended for a very different pur
pose, but that it would totally alter the existing
relations between the Executive and the Legis-
tne Federal Uovcrnment. The Federal Consti
tution has explicitly made known the purpose
for which the formidable weapon may he drawn.
It was never meant to euable Congress to get rid
of a political opponent. Had it been intended
that Congress should be able to remove a Presi
dent for political reasons, a machinery less cum
brous aud less cruel would have beon applied.”
We agree with the New York journal to whose
columns we are indebted for the foregoing ex
tracts from the leading Britisli organs, that there
is nothing particularly novel about the views
there expressed, and that they do not shed any
new light upon constitutional questions. Bui
they indicate the drift of intelligent European
thought upon the most important matter in cur
rent American history, and show what is here
looked upon by many only as a subject of Con
gressional finality and partisan animosity is llicrc
universally regarded as ot the gravest national
import.
It may not be out of place to remark here, that
a gentleman who lias just returned from a trip
to New York and other Northern cities, informs
us impeachment is there considered a foregone
conclusion—the general opinion being that the
majority in Congress will press the matter to a
crisis, though it should utterly destroy the credit
of the government at home aud abroad and pre
cipitate the country into a another conflict, more
bloody nml fatal in all its consequences than the
ono from which it emerged a short time ago.—
We hope, however, tlmt wiser counsels will yet
prevail, aud that something may occur to defeat
the schemes ol Stevens, Sumner, Wade & Co.
the
Brevities.
A chatty correspondent says that in splto of
tho gloomy foreboding of tho political thinkers
and the currency linkers, Now York rcvols In '
perfect blnzo of enjoyment. Though tho streets
aro full of hungry mechanics out of work, and
flic garrets aro grim pictures of squalid poverty
and want, tho theaters and opera houses aro
crowded, and tho drawing rooms aro vocal witli
balls, masquerades, and social diversions of
gayest charaetor.
There must be something the matter with
General Grant. The radicals arc beginning
doubt whether ho will do to hitch to. They
agino he is not sound on tho “great ahsorbin
question” of oqual rights, and the Indepeiuti
admonishes its friends that it will do no harm
watch him.
It will be remembered that the distinguished
statesman and political economist, ex-Major
General N. P. Banks, declared during ids admin
istration over Now Orleans and a small portion
of Louisiana, that tho emancipated negro would
make three hogsheads of sugar where, as a slave
lie made one. The general must lie delighted
sco how true a prophet ho was 1
Mr. Drake, the new Radical Senator from
Missouri, introduced info the Legislature of tlmt
State at the session of 1859-’G0 a resolution
sell free negroes into slavery. Ho didn’t only
troducc it, hut urged ils adoption in a speech
inordinate breadth and ponderous duration. But
Mr. Drake is progressive, and now advocates uni-
venal suffrage for the negro and a limited fr
chise for his white brother.
A Baton Roucie merchant, so suys the Advo
cate, was astonished lately at receiving a hill
lading in which, among other articles, was
item “ten boxes tom cats." It proved to lie
Cincinnati abbreviation for “tomato catsup.”
Josii Billings says: Courting iz like two
tie springs uv water tlmt start out from under
rock at the foot uv a mountain, and run (low;
hill side by side—singing, dancing, separating
from each other, eddying, and frothing, aud k
kading—now hiding under tho bank, now
uv shndder; bimeby thn jinc, and then go si
The Richmond Times snys: The river is still
frozen tight to about forty miles below C
Point. Now amf then tho waves have broken
the ice and thrown it with great force against
the wharves on the lower James, having in t
or three iuslances broken them down and washed
them away. Nothing short of n heavy freshet
will carry the ice out of the river, and this
will have very shortly.
The Montgomery ,1 dvertiser of the 29th lear
that there is much suffering among the poor pe
pie of that city. No government supplies lmd
been received for two weeks up to tlmt time, and
many women and children lmd been appealing
to private charity to save them from starvation
Many of the women represented tlmt they h
gone two days at a time without bread for them
selves and their children.
BY TELEGRAPH.
,yjnr pork associahIo press dispatches.
lit-
The Fire at l.af-range.
The Reporter of Friday contains the following
particulars of the late tire at LaGrauge :
About nine o’clock on the night of the 24th a
lire was discovered in the store of D. It. .Morri
son A Co., which destroyed the nine brick store
houses on the west side of the public square.
The following persons are the sufferers :
\V. I. Godwin's store room was consumed.
His stock was saved, hut considerably damaged
All covered by insurance.
The Capital op Ai.auama.—Tbe Judiciary
Committee of the Alabama House of Represen
tatives has reported fuvorably as to the bill to lo
cate the capital of the State at Mobile. It pro
vides that the change shall take effect in August,
1867, and shall be null and void unless the au
thorities of the county or city of Mobile notify
the Governor, within ninety duys after the ap
proval ot the act, that the necessary building
shall be furnished for the purpose indicated free
of expense to the State.
The Augsburg Gazette has a long editorial iu
which it complains bitterly of the arbitrary in
terference with its circulation by the government
pfflrj.u in France. It says, that of its thirty is
sue* per month, hardly ever more than six or
seven reach the subscribers; tbe rest are confisca
ted In Hie Press Bureau attached to the post
office.
by insurance.
F. A. Frost—Store room burned ; loss $2,000;
i insurance. Portion of stock saved. Damage
covered by insurance.
D. II. Morrison & Co., lost their entire stock,
with the exception of one show case. Covered
by insurance.
J. N. Cooper—Loss about $1,500. No insur
ance.
Peabody & Dill—Loss not exceeding $200.
No insurance.
Dr. N. N. Smith’s office and stock of medi
cines was destroyed. Loss about $2,000. No
insurance.
James Turner—Stock saved. Damage cover
ed by insurance.
Hall A Yancy—Principal stock saved. Dam
age covered tiy Insurance.
Goilfred Kcner owned two of the buildings
destroyed. Loss $(i,00u. No insurance.
B. II. Bighorn also owned two of the build
ings. Insurance, $-1,000.
T. J. Thornton’s rock building was destroyed.
Insurance, $1,000. J
Wise & Douglass saved the greater portion of
their stock—loss not yet ascertained. They
were insured for $15,000.
It lias been impossible, as yet, to ascertain the
losses sustained by the respective sufferers—sup
posed not to execeed $35,000.
The fire was undoubtedly the work ot an in-
uudoubtedly
ceudiary.
Spuing Wheat from Russia for Distribu-
tion.—The Commissioner of Agriculture is in
receipts of a lurge quantity of the celebrated
AmantaU (spring) wheat from Odessa, Russia,
imported by the department for distribution
among the agriculturists of sucli sections ot the
country as successfully cultivate spring wheat.—
The weight of this grain is about sixty-five
pounds, nud its superiority, it is stuted, lias been
tested during the past season on the experimental
farm of the department. It will bo distributed
with the assurance that its general introduction
wili prove of great benefit to the wheat-growing
interests of the United States.
The Boston 'Transcript says.- Three conduc
tors on the New York and New Haven Railroad
The South is simply a shuttlecock with wltic
politicians arc playing a game that involves pil
fering ot tho Treasury and the gratification
vaulting ambition. We are very poor, ver
helpless, and have nothing left, us save honor,
won by men who bore muskets against destiny
Let us, then, meet our fate bravely, plant cotton
line corn, and dig potatoes.
The Chicago Tribune is urging Congress
go ahead with tho work of reconstructing-
rather, of destruction. It says: “LelCongrcsi
by one brief act, that may be framed and passed
in two days, put the stamp of usurpation upon
these bogus governments, nnd prohibit their
longer continuance. Then the country will have
its instructions obeyed; then Andrew Johnson
will have to choose between obedience to the
laws and treason; then the country will know
what is beloreit, and if there is to be a war be
tween traitors, led by the President and the oo<
months lienee.”
TnE Bitldeford, Maine, Journal tolls a hard
story about a drunken man in Saco, who droppe
from his mouth a piece of cracker he was eating,
when a little dog immediately picked it up and'
ate it, and in lerfa than an hour swelled up nnd
(lied. Powerful liquor.
Forney’s Press says: “An influential gentle
man from Alabama writes that, with a good
Union newspaper, sufficiently well sustained
get a fair start, Alabama would throw a mnjtti
ty of her white population for tho Republican
candidate for President in 1808’’—which means,
of course, tlmt some loafer who lirnls it impossi
bie to earn his bread by honest endeavor, de
sires alms of the "loyal” that he may make
money enough to endure the contempt of his
neighbors. *
Radical Mr. Bingham, of Ohio, says : To sub
mit a constitutional amendment for ratification
in the excluded States and then to deny their or-
ganized and “sovereign” existence, is an incon
slstcncy not easily explained. They can ratify
only as States; and if they are States when the
ratification of an amendment to the constitution
is concerned, they are also States as against tho
terriorinlizing programme of Mr. Stevens.
Louis Napoleon's so-called “reforms” do
not appear to impress his subjects very favora
bly. If those “reforms” lmd not been coudi
tiotml, with restricting the freedom of debate iu
the Chambers, it is probable the result would he
different. The Emperor 1ms made a blunder
trying to cover up a bail tiling with one or two
good things, aud his popularity suffers accord
ingly. But Napoleon is not the first distinguish
eel individual who has made those sort of mis
takes.
Some of the Radical papers are moralizing
upon the indecencies and scurrilities of the
Rump Congress, ns manifested in the course ol
debate almost every day now. The New York
Repress remembers that there was a time when
these things use to he charged to the “planta
tion manners” of the representatives from the
slave States—but now that there are no slave
Slates, and no representation from the South at
all, the “plantation manners,” it seems, remain,
“Rev.” Joel Lindsley, the clergyman who
whipped his little son, three years of ago, tc
death at Shelby, Orleans county, New York, has
been convicted ol manslaughter in tho second
degree—the penalty of which, we believe, is hard
labor in the Slate prison for a term of years, or
for life, at the discretion of the court.
\Y e learn through a New York paper that
re construction makes but little progress in the
House, and none in the Senate. Indeed, the Re
construction Committee lias not been in session
since Congress met in December, and us things
look now Mr. Stevens’ Territorial bill will die ol
divided counsels, if nothing else.
Many a fool has passed for a clever man, be
cause lie has known how to hold his tongue;
and many a clever man has passed for a fool be
cause he has not kuown how to make use ol it.
The places of amusement in Boston were
well patronized iu 1800, the total receipts of the
theaters and the opera house being $775,578, not
counting the receipts for December. Probably
if the sums spout in attending transient exhibi
tions, that appeared from time to time in the city
were reckoned in, the grand total expended iu
this direction would not fall far short of $1,000,-
000—a pretty large sum lor this Puritan people
to spend thus.
Private intelligence lately received from New
York represents the money maket there as much
more stringent than might be inferred from news
paper accounts.
The National Banks of North Curoliua all
seem to be doing a prosperous business. The
National Bank at Charlotte has declared a divi-
Con«re*»lonit #roeccd!n*»
Senate.—Tho Tnriil bill passed by a vote of
27 to 10, and goes barb to the IIouso for con-
4
currouco, in niuendmotjs.
The bill directing II I Clerk of llto House to
placo on the roll ot tlicf next Congress only tho
States represented no/, passed by a voto of ill
to 0.
Several Senators prised lavorite hills, but all
gave way for the Bankrupt bill, tho considera
tion of which was res lined, but without definite
action, the Senate ailjiirneil.
jjjh
House.—Captain J|>hn A. Webster, of the
steamer Mahoning, waj allowed to receive a chro
nometer from Englank for valuable efforts iu
saving English vessclson our coast.
The Committee onHVays and Sloans was in
structed to inquire iito the expediency of tho
destruction ol confiscated stills, ami selling the
same as old copper.
The Senate hill regilating the removal Irom
office was taken up, add tho amendment extend
ing ils provisions to Cnplnet offlccre lost by a vote
of 70 to 79. Several other amendments were re
jecteil, when a motion to adjourn prevailed.
Wnsliingloil Mattcra.
Washington, Fell 1.—The President lias
submitted to the Home a mass of Slexicah cor
respondence, most of which has been heretofore
published. The Government declines to inter
fere, with the present lights before it, in the con
flicting claims to contracts for the Tehuantepec
transit routes. Mr. Seivard directs Minister
Campbell to gel information thereto.
The Hon. Philip Johnson, of Pennsylvania,
is dead.
Jay Cooke, ut Pennsylvania; Governor Smith,
of New Hampshire; Titos. B Page and Jjio. 11
W. Ellis, of Ohio; E. G Hayes, of Indiana, and
other prominent bankers and business men, have
had a consultation with the Comptroller nml
Secretary of Hie Treasury, and an interview
with the Senate Finance Committee, and all have
agreed on a bill retiring compound interest notes
by issuing to National Banks temporary loan
certificate's, bearing four per cent., payable in
lawful money on demand. This temporary loan
shall not exceed a hundred millions.
Washington JHultor*.
Washington, Feb. 1.—The National Banks
are working to defeat the bill retiring their
notes.
The transfer of the Indian Bureau to the War
Department originated with Colonel Parker, an
Indian member of General Grant’s staff.
The President submitted to the Senate reports
in reference to the capture of Mr. Davis. They
aro voluminous.
Labenoist, a prominent St. Louis banker, died
in Havana a few (lays since.
It is said that the Portuguese Senatorial action
favors the abolition of slavery in the Portuguese
colonies.
Woolen lUillo Burned.
Tavnton, Mass., Feb. 1.—The Dighton Wool
en Mills burned. Loss $120,000.
Capture of Ortega.
New Orleans, Feb. 1.—Advices from Browns
ville confirm the capture of Ortega by Juarez.—
lie was betrayed by chiefs who pretended to es
pouse his cause.
Death of a ItllHNissIppiuu.
Washington, Fell. 1.—Dr. Stephen Duncan,
late of Natchez,Mississippi, died to-day.
BY THE ATLANTIC CABLE.
Interesting Foreign News.
London, Feb. 1.—It is announced that the
Austrian troops iu Mexico do not leave that
country with the French forces,
nuDointed Italian Emuasona-
Oount Barroll has been
Pants, Feb. 1.—A morning journal to-day
contains an editorial protesting against tile ren
dition of Lumaranik, a defaulter to the British
Government.
Honors to Voting Bennett.
Paris, Jan. 31.—Young Mr. Bennett is to have
an Imperial audience, and a gold medal trom the
Rochelle yacht men.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
RY TELEORAfot.
Now York ITIorkot.
[MORNINU.]
New York, Feb. 1.—Gold, 858. Exchange,
108J; Sight, Og.
Flour nml wheat dull and drooping. Corn
dull nnd heavy. Rye dull and drooping. Oats
dull and heavy. New mess pork $20 81; Old,
$19. Lard 12 to 138. Whisky nominal.
Cotton dull and heavy at 338 to 84 lor mid
dling uplands. Freights dull and drooping.
[kvkniko.]
New Yohk, Feb. 1.—Cotton one-half cent
lower. Sales 550 bales, at 33 J cents for middling
uplands. Flour more steady, higher grades de
lining. Stntc, $9 10 to 11 00; Ohio, $10 90
to 18 30; Western, $9 to 12 25; Southern, $11 25
to 10. Wheat quiet nnd unchanged. Corn
luiet and steady. Sales of 28,000 bushels.
-Mixed western $1 09 to I 118. Oats more active.
Western 00 to 03 cents; State 07 to 09 ; New
mess pork, $12 to 18; Extra, $17 to 20. Pork
closed firmer. Lard more active; bills 11J to 12
cents Old; 12) to 188 lor new. Whisky quiet
Sugar quiet. Muscovado sold for 108 cents
Molasses steady, 400 hhds of New Orleans sold
at 838 to 88 cents. Other groceries quiet and
dull.
Darino Robukry.—The Nashville Banner of
tho 30th contains the following:
JSHSP&P onSSu^nie ami
Kentucky, last night, at about half past eight
o’clock. y Flvc medium-sized awn ^me wdfonly
In upon Mr. Wheatley, agent of the LKmlsvlfie
In upon Mr. wneaiiey, ageuv u. ““- “ d
and Nashville railroad, and express agent, and
..iL.ii i,ii>, in nnen Ins safe and hand ovor
compelled mm to op im
the money ho had belonging to the^railroad
and express^ootnpany. Tiiev then left as sud
denly as they had come. Tho amount they
secured Is not yet known. The citizens are<mt
after the villains, with u fair prospect of over
hauling some of them.
Stagnation of Business.—A private letter,
dated New York, January 20,1807, was received
yesterday from a distinguished gentleman, who
has the means of knowing whereof he writes,
and who snys :
“Let me tell you that tho wild frenzy of
Congress is producing its natural fruit. Stagna
tion ot trade aud business of all kinds, depreci
ation of values, and a general distrust of Gov
ernment and everybody is the order of the day.
This is truly a cheering prospect for the busi
ness men ot the country.
Proposition to Impeach Gen. Grant.—
Under llaining captions the Cincinnati Commer-
rial publishes a dispatch from its Washington
correspondent, in whicli lie discloses a plot of
General Butler, Hon. Mr. Ashley, and Thad.
Stevens to “impeach” and attack Gen. Grant,
as well as the .President. It was detected aud
defeated by -Mr. Bingham, who ascertained that
a feeling of intense bitterness existed against
Gen. Grant, whom these Radicals seemed to
regard as about us bad ns President Johnson.
Jolly for Wine Bihhers —The Montgom
ery Mail says a gentleman in Paris lias written a
letter to Governor Patton, in which occurs the
following pleasant information lor wine bibbers;
“ Wine can be made in this State for about
eight cents per gallon ; and independent of the
great profits which will follow from its produc
tion, which will not for some years exceed the
home demand, there arc consequences of amoral
nature llowing from the consumption of wine
rather than alcoholic drinks, which is so com
mon amongst us, lending to the establishment of
a higher and more elevated public morality.”
]STew Advertisements.
sign ot* tho Blar Iron Boot,
WHITEHALL BTIIBRT.
J usT RECEIVED, some New Styles «f Gent’e end
ladles’ Over-Shoes, Gent’s French Call, Dress, and
W A , t«; I 'onh.fd,a’fu,Ulock ola.i kind, a.d style, ot
Bhoe-forthe city trade. ^ A w poBCE .
foM—at
Direct Importation
B
RADII'S CROWN1IOK8,
Hradc's Patent Hoi
Plow Bteel-all sizes,
Sweeties Iron—all alzcs,
Trace Clialus-Twlstcd and Straight,
and from Factory,
Bcovfi'l Hoes—No«. 1,2, a.
All of which nrc offered to the trado at very low prices,
for cash.
febSI—lit
Era copy.
McNACQT, OllMOND & CO.
sitter; mowAKD.
E nltovc reward will he paid for Uto arrest and con
finement In Jail or a Freedman by tho name of JRBB
IIUCHINSON. who absented himself from me on Wed
nesday Mth ultimo, (In Atlanta.) Ho Is about as years
old, of dark gray color: had on a blue pair of pants, badly
the inf-jorconrtof
JAB. M. KILBY.
G~BA FTBlT AP P L E T B E E S
P’ O It HAI/E.
I HAVE a few thousand Grafted Apple Trees foreale.
Ten varieties—Bummer, May. Yellow Jane. Bed
iin..,, winter. Manunm. Lady Unger, Pound,
Juno, Horse. Winter. Mangnm, bndy Finger.
Llmbertwig, Wlml. drab,I tomandtaBhoekly.
I will do up ill doth and draw, and deliver ut the Jone«-
•pot, Macon AWeatem Railroad, at $1) per linn-
boro Depot, Mucon
dred, on receipt of the money.
Address mo at McDonough.
fub2~3t*
MARY 8. DAILEY.
Auction Suio,
AUCTION SALE;
I WILL sell at Public Auction, on the nit, *
IH’AItV, 1M7, at Government W„e|,nJb*
Decatur and Ivy Htrcots, Atlanta. OA
ovemment Store.:
I Horse,
1 Mule,
4 ft. B. Wheel Mole liar
. 4 H. S. Usd Mule HanST’
d Riding Bridles,
2 Riding taddlei,
1 ml Carpenter’ii Took
1 net Muddler** Took '
1 Hnddler’s Iforce,
160 Grain Hark*,
Uniform Con i a,
? pairs Private's Metnllc Sr.;„
13 Flannel Hnck Coat*
1f>0 pair* Hooter*.
7ft pain Stocking
•1 ureal C'o.itf,
1*2 Woolen Hlanketr,
■W yd' "t one and one-half |-l ,
1 Hospital Tents.
(i Hospital Tent Flies
a Wall Tents,
X Wall Tent Flier,
U Common Tools.
Terms : Cash on delivery, In U. H. Correoc,
JunOT— 1 It First Lieut, ir.ih r. i' lnry.A^j
CATALOGUE
sale
BOOTS AND SHOE}
-yylLL ^he sold WEDNESDAY, FEBIWyj
By
IHKN AND BOV’S CLOTHING.
W E are now idling off all oar Heavy Winter Clothing
and Piece goods, HEGAUDLES8 OF COST I
HERRING * LEYDEN.
Who Were They?—The steamer Villo tie
Paris, says the Netv York Herald, which sailed
hence for liurope yesterday, received on board at
the last moment, it is said, six Fenian chiefs.—
The questions then recur, who were these six
mysterious Fenians? Whither bound? How
much money have they carried away ? What is
the manifest destiny of this money ? And is that
famous muu Stephens among the missing ? We
pause for a reply.
Chicago Ahead.—Chicago leads the world in
wickedness, folly and extravagance.
Ristori states that her receipts at her perform
ance one evening, at the Opera nouse were the
largest since her debut on the stage, amountiug to
$4,800. Moscow ranks second, aud Brooklyn
third. Of the $4,800, her personal share is $2,
000. Her own personal receipts since her arrival
in this country, iu September last, have been
$130,000.
CITY CHECKS
fllAKEN AT MARKET RATES for all Heavy Clothing
J? and Piece Goods alter thlB date, by
fal)2—Im HERRING & LEYDEN.
BULK MEAT, OB NEW BACON,
(NOT SMOKED.)
H AMS, Shoulders, Clear Sides. Clear Rill Sides.
Lard, in barrets and cans. Now in Btore and for
A. K.8EAGO,
Commission Merchant,
Corner Forsyth and Mitchell streets,
Atlanta, Ga.
feba—.It
Meal for Less than Corn,
^ LARGE LOT IN STORE. For sale by
A. K. SEAGO,
CoramiBaion Merchant,
Corner Forsyth and Mitchell Streets,
Atlanta, Ga.
BRICKS.
170,000 BRICKS. For sale wholesale or r
’ ‘ ’ A. K. SEAGO,
Commission Merchant,
Corner Forsyth and Mitchell streets,
feb2—fit Atlanta. Gt.
A fond and doatiug wife,Mrs. JauoM. Sweet
of Kennebunk, Maine, lias been indicted lor the
murder oilier husband, Dr. Nathaniel Sweet, last
fall, by poisoning him with strychnine. She
says that she only put it iu his whisky to cure
his love lor liquor, and that she accidentally gave
him an overdose.
A Washington correspondent says “pro
traded clerical service in the Departments has
tendency to destroy the intellectual virility of the
male sex, aud endow it with all the weaker trails
of the womanly character.” In other words,
ten years of department clerking will come very
near to make a woman out of a man.
Duplex, of the Natchitoches Times, overheard
tiAu uuiifcnmiluii or two ouuio iMuiviuuuia un
Christmas day, during which one asked the other
what he made during the last year? “Nutfin;
worked lor de seventh, and the boss only made
a fifth; darlore, I got nutfin.”
Ihe Difference.—An exchange says a com
pany iu Home, Georgia, are now making nnd
selling iron at fifteen dollars a ton, which com
mauds in New York from seventy to ninety dol
lars.
Death of a Veteran.—Captain Juo. B.
Nevitt, who commanded a gun boat in tip.* af
fairs around Now Orleans iu 1812, died ut Natch
ez a lew day ago. He was 84 years of age.
Minnesota still has Jell 30,550,000 acres of
public lands open to settlement under the tree
homestead law in tlmt State—an area larger thn
tho whole State of Ohio.
OPERA HALU
Saturday Evening:, February 2d, 1807.
Grand Attraction^of the Season!
Mu. \V. II. CRISP anj Mb. HARRY CRISP, Father and
Son, In two magnificent leading characters,!
Roderick Dhu aud the Knight of Snowdoun,
In the romantic and chivalric Drama of the
Lady of the Lake!
Mrs. JESSIE ARM ANT as .ho Maniac Blanch of Devon.
MUSICAL OLIO AND JtOABLWO FARCE
fubl—at
IBultiniorc market*
Baltimore, Fob. 1.—Cotton, middling up
lands, 338 to 34 cents. Coffee firm and inactive.
lour, prices iu favor of buyers; Howard Street
Superfine 11 ceuts. Wheat, Winter lied, $2 80 to
3 20. Corn, good white $1 03 to 1 05. Oats
advanced 2 cents, 50 to 58. Sugar, stock re
duced, 10j to 10| cents for refining. Clover
seed 0 to 0& cents.
MORGAN & CO.,
I.E9ALB Ann RETAIL UEALEB8 IM
FURNITURE,
WHITEHALL STREET, ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
FULTON SHERIFF’S SALE.
W ILL be sold, before tho court house door in the city
of Atlanta, Fallon county, State of Georgia, be
tween the lawful hours of sale, on tile first Tuesday in
March next, the following properly, lo-wlt:
One painted 10 gallon keg, 1 small tub, 4 spittoons, 3
small looking glasses, 1 large mirror frame, 1 counter nnd
small lot of shelving. All levied on by virtue of a dis
tress warrant Issued bv W. M. Butt, J. P , In favor of
Lewis Scofiold against Frank Keller and Dennis Gmdler
Property pointed out by defendant. February i, 1S67
W. L. HUBBARD, Dep. Sheriff.
Printer's fee $2.50
febS—td
DRY GOODS!
REDUCED PRICES !
TALLEY, BROWN k CO.
Are offering tho following Goods at Reduced Figures:
SILKS,
FRENCH MERINOS,
EMPRESS GOODS—
Black, and in Colors,
DELAINES,
VELVET CLOAKS,
And a Variety of
Dress Goods of all Descriptions.
They keep constantly on hand,
EMUROIDEIRIES,
HOSIERY,
O LOVES,
Domestics, ac.
tar COUNTRY MERCHANTS are especially Invited
to examine oer stock. Samples sent when requested.
Janil—3m
BANK S, E DDL KB AN t((|
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
,0410 Census Booth and I
Which will positively be knocked off lo ih. |,;,a_ J
der, without roeerve, embracing everv -iv| e ,u”J|
Merchants from all parts of ibis and adloliiLi
will find It to their interest lo attend this,
sale.
Two thousand Cases will he sold rcgardlan/-.
Bale will commence at lOo’clock, Fehrnarrlih J'l
tine till all are sold. 1
tlnne till all arc sold.
Fer
lognes
particulars, see small hills and tirrnkn r,l
inmished the day previous lo Ihe .air M
BANKS, EDDLKMANAC0 I
janlS—Id
-— ( A CO
(Successors to Eddlcman i |i«i I
Cherokee Block, IVarkTrs, I
GOVERNMENT AUCTION SAII
I WILL Sell at. Public Auction, on the 5th iIat o'fc
RUARY, 1867, at Government Warehouse, fo*.
Decatur and Ivy Street*, Atlanta, Ga.. ato'clock, 11
the following articles of Government Stor*?*; 1
4,917 pound* Corn Meal.
30 pounds Corn Starch,
7,869 pounds Hard Bread,
400 pound# Salt.
280 pounds Flour,
250 pounds Pork.
Terms: Cash on delivery, In U. S. Currency. I
CHAS. a. IlSLIY L
jan27—7t First Lieut. U. S. Inf j. A.C.I I
Cten’l Coinmisaioii -'tlmhantl
AND DEALKHSIN
GROCERIES AND PR0DU0|
No. 18 Alabamu Street,
ATLANTA, GEOBGlll
H AVE just received, nnd offer for sale at low*
the following
FRESH ARRIVALS:
• 260 barrels Flour,
600 sacks Corn,
200 sacks Virginia Salt,
60 barrels Sugar—various grades.
60 bags Coffee, *
50 barrels Golden Syrup,
25 barrels Molusses,
25 half barrels Family Mackerel,
26 kits Family Mackerel,
50 boxes Crackers—Soda, Butter, Picnic and
21 dozen Painted Buckets
2ft dozen Brooms,
60 boxes Soap,
5 barrels choice Bourbou Whisky,
6 one-eighth casks choice French brandies I
CLAYTON ADAIR.
Commission Merchant*]
No. Id Alabama Sow
COTTON YARNS.
20 BALES COTTON .YARNS. For sale by
CLAYTON & ADAIR.
ftCALES.
A N assortment of SCALES from the Orest Bad
Pennsylvania, said to be nn imprur-
‘ un »i fiiduuntciurers prices, iremfil add
CLAYTON A ADAIR,
GUANO.
PACIFIC GUANO, one of ihe vcrjrtal
tlllzere for Vegetables. Fniiis. (Jrnii,. nnd Cor
Vegetables, Fruits. Grain, andC
CLAYTON Js. ADA1K,
Commission Merchuu
No. lb Alabama 8u-
TOBACCO.
100 BOXES CHEWING TOBACCO, ot I
10 cases Smoking Tobacco, iu X ffi, 1 lb, undil
packages.
CLAYTON & ADAIR,
Commission Merchant
No. 18 Alslmina bi*
lanll— 3in
PRATTH, EDWARDS A
Having tAken the
Large and Commodious Fire-Proof Warehtr
FORSYTH STREET\ - - - - ATLAXTA, GEORG'
/^IOHDIaLLF invite the attention ol Dealer*tot
Large aud Full Stock of
PRODUCE AND PROVISION
RAGS! RAGS! RAGS! RAGS
100,000 LBS.
11 I*- ti {r n \v ante cl
SUCH AS
Mobile ItlurkcK.
Mobile, Feb. 1.—Sales of cotton, 350 bales,
and dull. Middling 308 cents.
London and Liverpool Jlarkct.
[BY THE CABLE LINE.]
Liverpool, Feb. 1.—Noon.—Cotton bits un
dergone no change. Brokers’ circular reports
sales of Hie week at 09,000 bales. To-day 7,000
bales. Middling uplands at 14J.
London, 1* cb. 1.—Noon.—Consols advanced
eighth. Five-twenties quoted at 72 11-10.
have received tbeir discharges for "picking.” One I dendof ten per cent, from its earnings for the
of them, it is said, made some fifty dollars a day past six months, and carried five per cent to the
in that manner. | reserve fund.
Contracts Made In Coulederute Honey.
A decision was made a few days ago at
Charleston, South Carolina, by Chancellor
Lesnebnk, which establishes a precedent in that
State for all cases involving the payment of
debts or obligations contracted in Confederate
currency. The principle is held tlmt debts con
tracted in Confederate currency must lie dis
charged on the basis of Die value of that cur
rency, as compared with gold, at the time that
debt was incurred, and consideration given
therefor.
Parlor Sets, Bedsteads,
MattruHses, Bureaus,
Wash-Stands, Wardrobes,
Tables, Safes,
Lounges, Chairs,
Gilt Frames,
Pictures, Shades,
Looking Glasses, Ac.
Short Profits and Quick Sales!
jan-37—ot
CHARLES JBOlijVEFELD,
Undertaker.
RAGS! RAGS! RAGS! RAGS!
the HIGE8T MARKET PRICE PAID FOR RAGS,
SIMS, ROBERT & CO.
febl—2t
ALEX. M. WALLACE,
Commission Merchant
Forsyth Street, next to Ope
ATLANTA,
House,
• • • GEORGIA
Special attention given to tho sale of
Baen, lard, Floor, Coro, Toliactt, it
State Sovereignty.— 1 The mono on the seal
of the State of Illinois is “State Sovereignty-
National Unity.” This is regarded by some o
the Radicals as disloyal, and accordingly a move f
ment has been made in the Legislature ol that
State to expunge the assertion of “State Sover
eignty" which it contains.
™»u>uueiurcr or, and Dealer in Fnrnin,r„
' Wa '“
gSSttsfSSHRbtB
— Janafi—g|„
ON HAND AND TO ARRIVE.
A very Large and Superior Lot of
, LEAD,
WINDOW GLASS.
PUTTY AND PAINTS
Of all Colors, Low for Cash.
REDWINE &
FOX,
C ZZ-*T M 3ml 8 ‘«*. AUama, Georgia
Arkansas.—A Little ltock dispatch says a
call, signed by citizens of Arkansas throughout
the State who served in the Federal army, 1ms
been made fur aconvenlion at Van Buren, oil the
25lh proximo, to protest against the overthrow
of the present State Government
GItU.fr HAUUAIN ! ~~
wimn de"Krt'“ > " d,c<l i “ 1 “ l liberal
Orders aocompanted wf.h ,h?, ,. d k°" ‘i:’"' 1 '’ in
juration, and satisfaction"iTgo'K 7^3
— MNT S
letters, speeches, d-c 01t
HON. ALEXANDER II. .STEPHENS,
BV HENRY CLKVEL.
Late Editor of the Augusta (Oa.) Constitutionalist.
Don of theVorkl'^AdUregs °" r tC ™“’ “ uU " ,ul1 descrip-
JauXr-ntdalmw* NA1I0NAL CO.,
I50X **42, Afluutrt, Ga.
On Hand and for Sale.
’braeandpoouds Pork, (salted i
Jhose wishing",; goM^o“k“wLw» to
Jan 16—1 m
Comer Whiteha. sMSSMEs
nud Mitchell tttreeU,
Atlanta, Ga
coal iron.
—ALSO—
elthe^'ft^oJ w“terTo^ L'd'."ll , Aer < ? B . b * run wlth
alkx. m. Wallace
NUB8K HINTED,
c. W. All AIR,
HACKS
5000 S p SACKS - *«* received and for
LANGSTON, CRANK & HAMMOCK
Jams Grocers and Commission Merchants
_ — Alabama Street.
Enfeebled ud BeUc.te Cod.tituUoa
JEM ■a'afsisM.
and enable yooto_ al«5o weU * feeling
Who Would not be Well 7
S ^^|;CONSTITUT10NS restored by “Helm
The Glory of Man la Strength. '
T ^Wn^B^ry^f“1? »«■
CON8ISTINU OP
1000 ba*s Corn,
100 barrels Superfine Flour,
100 barrels Extra Flour,
100 barrels Extra Family Flour,
200 barrels Extra Fancy Flour.
75 bales Ilay,
Bacon Sides, Hams, Shoulders, Cement, aud all kindl
Prod,,ci; - PRATTE, EDWARDS 4 00-
PLOWS.
W E are also Sole Agents for the sale of the ccIcbnM
Hall, Moou Jt Miller Plow, to which we ladled,
imcntlon of dealers and planters.
- JBBIJ—3m PRATTE, EDWARDS 4 CO.
CHOICE CREOLE SYIII P,
TN barrels and half barrels. For sale by
i.-on < LANGSTON, CRANE A llA
WANTED.
50000 p iV, UNDS 00011DHIED MU,T
, , LANGSTON, CRANE A HAMMOCK,
janS0-lw Alabama Street
LEND TO THE LAND.
h*ve for sale the following FERTILIZERS:
Kettlesnirs Manipulated Guano,
Alkaliue Phosphate,
Aminouiated Alkaline Phosphate,
„ bv G. Ober, Baltimore.
Reed s Phosphate.
Ordera eo'ltefted! 0 “ re “ ITcr ’ d ,0 ,llc
„ LANGSTON, CRANE A HAMMOCK,
janju—2m Grocers nud Commission Merchant*.
braiding and embroidery stamps.
I 7 aa ° ¥ re * A - braumuller, Wj*5
mill Si e K l, .^ eent for “BORDEN’S” Excelsior Braidig
1“ Lmbroiderlug Stamps for Ihc Stale of licorgl* *!»
wm„d assortment iu the South; therefore!
donnrailn® wllu wl »h to do stamping or b»« *
, rail »nd sco her assortment. Stamps furnleh*
»y the doxen at manufaetdrers’ prices.
r*v-n . 8. P. BORDEN-
KVoTTl i C( /. mruen d c d by Peterson, Godey’s Ladj i Boj**
country^" 9 * e ’ “ Il<1 T ' l yl Q r’a Bouton as the beet In lu -
janfi—im g.p.B.
JUST RECEIVED AND Foil SALE.
Fresh from Landrcth A Son, a Large Assortment d
Garden Seed und Onion Sets.
REDWINE A FOX.
Corner Whitehall aud Alabama Sts..
Atlanta, U*
Jangfi—3m
Great Reduction in Prices!
1 K BBLS new ORLEANS MOLASSES, to c!o«
* o conahniment.
consignments.
W half boxes Candles,
26 boxes Candies,
ID sacks Coffee-Cheap,
II) car loads Bacon to arrive, Ac.
Langston, crane a hammock.
J*n31-lw
DO YOU WANT
good laborers?
f-L •ypply M many good Scotch Farmers, Boh**
°r Gardeners, as I receive orders for.aj
Anre n?? V 1 * 1 ?! of March next, deliverable from ljt®
v f( ! “A* 1 of May. Who will engage for a term of Ihs*
years. For particulars, address
Jamil—ttimari
R. J. MOSES,
GolnttibmL
I-.ooIt to Yonj- Interest’
|TUte no mor. Unplommai and Dmaf. Eemadla.
I .YOR "Bn..-.. ,] 1 J
J. a*.
»« ABK OrrERIXU
inducements to cash purchased
5S® flud H greatly to their Interest to examine a*
fler cite '
price, before KTyllfSe.hSm
jan»-Jm
REDWINE A FOX,
Ut
Atkuu,'