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The ®nd of a Romantic Adventurer.
DEATH OK HENRY BUROEVINK, rilE
“lIF.no OF CHINA."
How a North Carolina Boy Became r.
Mandarin of the Bed Hutton.
From the Washington Morning st«r
Late arrivals from China bring oonfit
mation of the death of tit is romantic anti
C'~ed voting man. A prisoner in tne
daofhlseruel and treacherous enemies,
heavily ironed and subjected to inconoerv
able hardships, death by drowning or any
means, must have been a welcome rebel.
But what a sad termination to the wnu
and favored dreams of his boy!mod where
in he loved to picture himself us the A >'
ter or Nations, the Architect of l.ni/dn s.
Thecarec. of Henry Burger me is more
than romantic, “stranger '‘ u f n .^ io ?,’
and deserves a better record than the
meager and often iucorrect paragraphs
which have from time to time appeared m
the columns of European and American
naners. He was born in Newborn, North
Carolina, in the year 1836. His father was
a Frenchman —an officer in the uranu
Armv of Napoleon. Subsequently he "as
in the service of Spain, and came to Amer
ica in the capacity of Surveyor General or
Florida, married an American lady, ana
died In 1843, leaving a family, consisting ot
his widow, two sons and a daughter. Ihe
eldest son was, if we mistake not, a briga
dier General in the Confederate service,
and is at present a citizen of Arkansas,
where the daughter also resides, being tlie
wife of Mr. Thomas P. Watson, late ot
Washington city.
Henry Andua Burgevine, the youngest
of the family, came to Washington City
with his mother and sister in 184*>. ' ,r ';
B. having been left in very straightened
circumstances, had in view the prosecution
of certain claims against the Government,
growing out ofthe purchase of i- loridafrom
Spain. Being unsuccessful in this, she,
through the aid of tlie Hon. A\ illit- P.
Mangum, obtained a situation as page in
the U. 8. Senate for Henry, and on this
pittance, increased by the product of teach
ing a small school, the widow and her two
children lived for many years in quiet ob
scurity, (on the west side of 1-th street,
nearC.) „ .. , ,
From his earliest years, Henry displayed
a great love for books, and left no.opportu-1
nity unimproved to store liis mind with
useful knowledge. At 17 he understood j
the Greek, Latin and French languages; j
wan proficient in the highest branches ol |
mathematics, an accomplished draught#-]
man, and studying civil-engineering and)
naval architecture. During the interval :
between the sesions of Congress, lie was
among the students at the Washington |
Seminary, (Catholic.) but he accomplished
more by night study and a systematic j
course of reading, having access to the
Congress library.
In these days of his early youth the wri
ter of this sketch hasoften heard him speak
of his plans for the future, in such terms hs
would lead a stranger to suspect his sanity.
Now it was to build up an Empire in
Egvp l ito tmite nations of the Orient;
to regenerate China and found an enlight
ened nation of 400,000,000 of people; to
found anew Assyria, with a Nineveh for
Its capital, and so on through a long train
of schemes, all of which were sublime, if
not practicable.
In the spring of 1853, Burgevlne, whose
settled purpose it had been to seek his for
tune in foreign lands, bade farewell to
mother, sister and friends, and arrived in
New York with a few dollars in his pocket.
No one know exactly where he was going,
or for what and it is likely his
own plans were somewhat disarranged by
the fact of his being without a penny in a
few days ; and compelled either to return
to Washington or take passage in some
ship and work his way. He did the latter,
and six months after wrote from Ban Kran
eiaco, then from the Sanwtch Islands, next
from China, then from Australia, where lie
worked in the gold mines for a few weeks
with success. ,
The next we hear of him he had been
"wrecked on the ooaf.i, forty miles from
Bombay.” After this he was six months
in Calcutta, learning the Hindostanese
language, and regretting he did not under
stand the Arabic, that he might take
"command of a sob all vessel trading to
Judia, on the Red Sea.” Next ho was on
a British man-of-war as sailor. Then for
a few months, weary enough to be sure,
with his head shaved in the hospital at
Naples. And next, tcmpora mutantur ,
leading the life of a quiet gentleman in
London. And finally, after more than
four years of wandering, he appears like
an apparition to his friends at Washing
ton, bronzed, and bearded like n pard.
Remaining a few months at the capital,
he removes to Detroit, Michigan ; accepts
a position as Clerk in the post office, and
edits the Vindicator, a Democratic paper
in that city. And here it may be as well
to Btate, tliaf in matters of literature Burge
vine possessed a most excellent taste.
Had he adopted that as a pursuit, his suc
cess would have been certain. He wrote
much, and published enough in prose
and verse to exhibit hi# talent in that line.
But he preferred a life of action, and was
frequently heard to say he would rather
"make history than write it.”
Burgervine’s manner of life at Detroit
- was too tame for him. He groaned under
the common-places of every day life, and
longed to be yet again chasing the phan
toms of ambition, which had already led
him so far out of the beaten paths of life.
As yet, he had accomplished nothing. He j
must be up and doing if a name were to be I
achieved lor himself.
In 1859, Henry Burgeviue again left the
shores of America, alas! never to return.}
This time his schemes were more tangible.
History could give him notable examples ,
of men who had risen above their kind a#; (
if by magic in the great political convul-!,
slons of the world. China should be the j
field of his glory, for here a gigantic war ~
had raged for years, and here, If any where,
was the place to win distinction.' power, \
empire! To China he went, and the rest
of his story is the history of China for the \
last five year. Whether Burgevine went
with "Ward from this country, or met him ‘
first In China, the writer cannot say. At
all events, they were friends—Ward being I
first in command and Burgevine second. I
In a great and successful battle Ward was I
killed, and Henry Burgevine became com-1
mander in chief of an army of 160,000 dis
ciplined men, mostly Europeansand Amer- 1
leans. In the eyes of our hero it was the
first step to a throne. After setting forth
these facts in. a letter addressed to Thomas
Young, Esq., of this city, he says ; “After
years of patient labor, watching, waiting
and suffering, my day has at last come.
In two years I shall rule China !”
The and ream was never realized; the life |
which was all action, all hope, and all am-1
fcition, has gone out in wretchedness al- j
most unparalleled. The mother, to whom
in his palmiest days Burgevine transmitted
a sufficient sum to make her comfortable j
in her last hours, was spared the misery of}
outliving him and of knowing how hej
died. Sne expired peacefully in this city j
about one year since, and lies in Green
wood Cemetery.
It is almost impossible to estimate the
advantages to the world which have been
lost by Hurgcvine’s failure in China. Had
he achieved all his ambition hoped for,
civilization and the highest enlightenment
would have followed him, and an empire
such as Napoleon might have dreamed of,
would have dazzled the eyes of the world,
wd the name of Burgevine, which in a
few years will be lost to all, save a few that
JbMwaad loved him, would have appeared
among “the few immortal names that
were not born to die,* 1
Burgevinv wa« a scholar, a mno of re
fined tastes and literary habits; modest,
simple and unafibeted lit his manners; in
clined to he silent and gloomy nt times,
but generally nffhble ana pleasant, seldom
speaking ot* himself; indeed, it was with
she utmost difficulty his most intimate
flieuds could get at'his history. No for
eigner, who has, up to this time, been iden
tified with the Chinese war, has had » tithe
of the ability of Binge vino. Nor has the
world known the real scope and extent of
“that ulc^pU'! B * m>ul wliii-h perished in its
1 ' * ... ;i w, \Vftl*jl UULllltll.il
Burgevilie succeeding ard, assumed .
command of die Imperial army, which I
post lie tilted with great credit and din-1
tinetio/i for over a year, when, unfortu
nately, he had trouble with the Imperial
authorities in relation to the payment of)
his forces, and finding his career ham
pered, his restless ambition led him to take
service with the rebels. A large reward
was offered by tBo Imperialists for his
head, and, after several months lie was
captured; but owing to the protest of our ]
Consul ids life was not taken, but the Im-,
pe rial is Is resorted to an old and barbarous
mode of punishment, of kicking open the
wounds lie had received in battle, and then
turned him over to the American Consul.
Burgevlne then went to Japan, where he
remained unlit he bad recovered from the
brutal treatment lie had received. Some
eight or ten months ago lie returned to
China to try and retrieve his fortune, But
lie was very soon taken prisoner by the
Imperial Government, amt, as we are in
formed bv late advices from China, was
drowned'while in irons. Burgeyiue, while
. he was in favor with the Imperialists, was
a mandarin of the “Tied Button,” and bad
1 the power of life and death over two large
■ j cities.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
SENATE.
Milt.kdofat li.k, Jan. 27. 1866.
The Senate met at 10 o’clock.
Mr. Turner moved to reconsider the Bill
(lost on yesterday) for the relief of Arthur
Hutchinson—passed.
The bill to punish seduction with death
was laid on the table for the present.
Mr. J. A. \Y. Johnson offered a resolu
tion for the appointment of a joint com
mittee of the two houses to visit Stone
Mountain to see " hat arrangements canbe
made for the establishment of a State Pen
itentiary ai that place.
J leave of absence was granted Magars.
Mims and Gresham fora few d.ivV
Mr. Bedford introduced a bill to define
and punish capital and minor offenses
when committed by persons of color. The
bill defines as capital offences punishable
with death ; insurrection or attempting to
excite it, poisoning, or attempting to poi
son; rape on white or colored females, as
sault on a white person with attempt to
kill; maiming; burglary, arson of any'
description; murder of any person; rob
bery by open force. The bill provides to
punish minor offences with corporeal pun
ishment in the judgment of the court.
Air. Brown —A bill to provide for the
payment of oeffiers presiding at the polls;
Mr. Owens —A bill to repeal section
2635 of the Code and to substitute another
therefor.
Mr. Strozier— A bill to incorporate the
town of Smithville.
Bills were then read the first time, and
House Bills the second time.
The Senate, on motion of Mr. Bedding,
adjourned till 10 o'clock Monday morning.
The House met at 9 o’clock.
Prayer by the (Chaplain.
Mr. Dorsey, of Hall, moved to reconsid
er so much of the action of the House on
yesterday on the passage of the bill amend
ing the road laws of the State. Carried.
The bill to alter the salaries of Solicitors
from SSOO to $22-5, -was taken up. After
some discussion the bill was put on its pas
sage, and the yeas and nays being ordered,
there were yeas 74, nays 74. The Speaker
voting in the negative the bill was lost. In
this bill the salaries of Judges ofthe Su
preme Court Is fixed at $3,51>0 per annum;
those of the Judges of the Superior Court at
$2,500; those of Solicitors at $500; those of
Secretaries of the Executive Department
at SI ,800; that of Governor’s Messenger at
$950.
A bill for the relief of T. \V. Flemingand
all others similarly situated. It contem
plates reimbursement- by the State for
money taken by him while acting as Col
lector at Augusta. Considerable discussion
was had on the bill, which being put on
its passage was lost.
Mr. Ridley, of Troup, introduced a bill to
prevent the spread of small pox in this
State. '
'Leave of absence was granted to Mr. Hol
lis, of Marion.
House adjourned till 9 o’clock, Monday
morning.
SENATE.
MIEEEDUEVIELE, Jan. 29, 1866.
The Senate met at lot o’clock pursuant
to adjournment.
The hill to alter th* ;in<> between Irwin
and Wilcox countie-. was passed.
Mr. O. P. Beall iut induced a bill to alter
the charter of tin- town of Outhbert in
Randolph county.
1111.1.S ON THUtn BEADING.
Bill to authorize ordinaries in certain
oases to issue letters testamentary. Pass
ed. This bill coni' mplates case s in which
testatoi s, through over-sight, have omitted
to name their executors.
Bill to amend section 2430, of the Code.
Passed.
Bill to amend section 3452, of the Code.
Dost. , *
Bill to appoint certain persons therein ,
named, trustees of the Knoxville Camp
Ground. Parsed.* The bill provides for j
die sale of the Camp Ground.
| Bill for the relief of Arthur Hutchinson, j
!of Campbell county. Passed. Hutchinson
I living in Campbell county and having re- |
dueed by sale his land in Clinch county be
i low s,hub acres, asked to be relieved from j
. tax fi fas.
; Bill to amend the charter of the city of
• Amerieus. Passed.
Bill to change the place of holding Jus
-1 Bee# Court in the 9”th district of W asnChg
} ton county to Bandersville. Passed.
Bill to prescribe the oath to be adminis-
I ten dto voters. Referred to the Judiciary
Committee.
j Bill to authorize the several counties of
this Btate to issue bonds for the purpose of
raising money for immediate use, Passed.
Bill to extend .lie corporate limits of the
town of Forsyth. Passed. The bill ex-
I j tends the limits one-half mile in every di
rection from the court house.
Bill to suspend the operatiou of the 1528
section of the Code in certain counties. — |
Passed. It refers to such counties in which ,
the standards of weights and measures |
have been destroyed. ]
Bill to legalize the issue of bonds and bills j
by the City Council of Atlanta. Passed.
NEW MATTER.
The rules were suspended and Mr. Gib
son, of Richmond, introduced a bill for the
relief of the banks of this Btate. 50 copies
ordered to be printed.
Also a bill to release the banks from the
payment, of debts created so: war purposes.
50 copies ordered to be printed.
Also a bill to release from personal liabil
itiy the stockholders of banks. 50 copies
ordered to be printed.
Mr. Strozier—A bill for the relief of the
officers of the banks. 50 copies ordered to
be printed.
Mr. J. A. W. Johnson Introduced a reso-
lotion i in lieu of one he had previously
fared) for the appointment of a join (com
mittee, to examine into tire condition of
the Penitentiary buildln* “tthis place, as
certain at what cos* they may be made
suitable for the reception of convicts, in
quire into <Oe cost of erecting similar
building' - at other places, and reqiort the
result t<> the Legislature. The resolution
ii as agreed to.
Oil motion of Mr. Moore the Senate ad
journed.
HOUSE.
The House met at 9 o’clock. Prayer by
Rev. Mr. Brooks.
Mr. Snead, of Richmond, moved to re
consider the action ofthe House in the re
jection of a bill for the relief of Thomas \V.
Fleming, of Augusta. The motion was
lost. -
Leave of absence was granted Messrs.
Baynes, Frost, Durham. Kirby and Mc-
Whorter, of Oglethorpe, foi a few days.
NEW MATTER.
Mr. Womble, of Epson—A resolatiou
! tlint from and after the 10th of February
no new matter should lie introduced in the
House. Also, a bill to pay some lit and
proper person to keep in order the State
House Clock for the present year.
Mr. MeCutliins, of Pickens—A bill for
the relief of orphans.
Mr. Woods, of Morgan—A bill for the
j relief of Asa T. Zaeliary of the county of
; Morgan.
Mr. Moses—A hill to authorize Ordimu
j ries to administer oaths and receive the
same pay therefor as Justices of the Peace
Mr. Howard, of Lumpkin—A resolution.
; that the call of counties shall be made but
1 once a week hereafter.
Mr. , A resolution that a commit
tee be appointed to inquire into the order
given by the Governor to pay over to the
principal keeper of the Penitentiary $lO,-
IHKI.
Mr. Johnson, of Henry—A bill to define j
vagranev, and to punish the same.
Air. Phillips, of Habersham —A resolu
tion, that whereas, this House lias not re
solved itself into a debating society, no
member shall speak more than once on
the same subject, nor longer than five
minutes' A motion to take up the resolu
tion was lost.
Air. Ellington, of Gilmer —A bill to in
corporate the Ellijay Alining Company.
Air. Williams, of Dooly—A bill to pre
vent the distillation of corn, without a
license.
AB - . Adams, of Clarke —A bill to levy
and collect a tax for the county of Clarke
for the year 1866.
Mr. Harrison, of Chatham—A bill to
define the mode of paying the Solicitor of
the Eastern Circuit. Also a bill to in
corporate the Savings Bank of Savannah.
Air. Kirby, of Chattooga—A bill ttj give
Attorneys time to make out bills of certio
rari in certain cases.
SENATE BILES .ON THIRD READING.
A bill to change the line between Worth
and Irwin. Passed.
A bill to amend the 10th Paragraph, 2d
Article, Part Ist, Title 16th, Chapter sth,
of the Code. Passed.
Bill to prevent the granting of licenses
to retail spiritous liquors in Louisville. —
Passed.
Bill to establish a seal to lie used by the
Secretary of State. Passed.
Bill to allow persons living on the Wes
tern and Atlantic Railroad to build stock
gaps on the same. Passed.
Bill to punish the felonious taking away
from the premises of another, timber, rails,
fruit, cottou, etc., and hunting and fishing
on the enclosed and unenclosed lands of
others, fixing the punishment for the same
at $-500 fine and imprisonment. Referred
to the Judiciary Committee.
Bill to fix the ages at which persons shall
work on public roads. The Bill fixes the
ages at from 16 to 50. Passed.
House adjourned.
Tinkering the Constitution.
That monument of human wisdom and
statesmanship, the Constitution of the
United States, as it came from the hands
of the great political architects and con
structors of the olden time, is threatened
to be such a piece of patchwork before
long, that none of its friends will know it.
The triumphant sectionalism and fanat
icism of the day, which lias so long brand
ed that instrument ns “a covenant with
Death and Hell,” intend, before they get
through with their improvements, to make
it a faithful transcript of the crutfe and
morbid fancies which flit through the
brains of a modern reformer, bent upon
realizing his Utopia by force of law.
The Constitution, as it stood, was not
only an original, grand and harmonious
system of purely fundamental law, but it
was a carefully digested and settled com
promise between sovereign and independ
ent States, each paragraph of which had
been made a subject of long and earnest
deliberation, in connection with the other
parts. It constituted a solid and consist
ent structure, designed to last until the
end of time, and, therefore, wisely divest
ed of all cumbersome detail, and every
thing in its nature temporary and fuga
cious. While it laid down all the grand
limitations and grants of power with une
qualled precision and clearness, fit design
edly left, where necessary, a wide scope
for construction, in order to adapt it to
the exigencies of a long and eventful ca
reer.
What a magnificent retrospect, to recur
to that era of great and good men, so ear
nest —so wise—so careful —so profound
pursuing their patient and original elabor
| at ion of anew and nobler system of gov
' eminent yet known by man, anxious only
ito be unprejudiced —to be right—to be ju
dicious—to make a permanent and satis
factory government for themselves and
their children.
What we see now is just the converse.—
Instead of a compromise between indepen
dent Btates or statesmen of different sec
tions, the new Constitution, to be embod
ied in numerous amendments, is to be the
arbitrary dictum not alone of the mere pol
iticians of a single section, but of a single
party, inflamed with all the pride, preju
dice, liatred and eontemi t engendered by
a bloody and victorious war. Instead of
rest rioting itself to fundamental principles
and organic institutions; there are half a
score of propositions to incorporate in the
Constitution more or less of the mere party
riff-raff of the day—measures and expedi
ents which can have at best, nothing but a
temporary utility, and therefore should
have as little place in the written funda
mental system as a sumptuary enactment
in the Decalogue.
It would appear that the politicians who
are strutting their brief hour in the Capitol,
solemnly impressed with the idea that wis
dom will die with them, and the country be
unable to take care of itself after they have
left the stage, are determined upon making
adequate provision for the future safety,
by putting all their peculiar notions and
nostrums Into the Irrepenlable shape of or
ganic law.
We have not undertaken to keep count
of the Constitutional amendments already
on the tapis, but it strikes us there can
hardly lie less than twenty; and yesterday
we were duly and solemnly notified in ad
vance by telegraph, that one more and a
stunner was shortly to issue forth from the
Reconstruction Committee—an amend
ment for the protection of whites and
blacks alike, which the Committee hither
to lacked the Constitutional power to re
port. That Constitutional power they
must now, of course, derive from the anti
pttlavery amendment, and we presume the
protection to white and black contempla
ted by the forthcoming amendment, is
some new and striking development of the
South-hating negrophily of Messrs. Ste
vens and Sumner.
We apprehend that this whole batch of
amendments, when perfected in Congress,
" ill lie presented to the South as a nine qua
non to re-admission to that body; and in
Tr.is shape the Constitution lose its last
semblance of a voluntary compact, and so
far as one great section of yie country is
concerned, be nothing more than a mere
capitulation, extorted by force from a de
fenceless people, by the haughty and ty
ranieal dictation of conquerors.
Such is the Constitutional statesmanship
(so-called) of the present day, as contrast
ed with the wisdom of the fathers. Aran
and his passions soon puss away, but na
tions are immortal. The haughty and
vindictive politicians of to-day arc possess
ed by one all-consuming passion—tosweep
out from the organic law every tiling stand
ing in the way of inflicting a satisfactory
retribution, and of burning into the body
of that instrument the resentments, the
passions, fancies anil conceits of a person
al, political and sectional triumph. What
a fell precedent, where the victim may in
the lapse of time become judge or execu
tioner! Truth is said to be eternal and
omnipotent, and public justice certain.
The Southern States will one day be in
the Union —will one day hold the balance
between the East and the West—will one
day lie powerful, and how much better
that they should remember a generous for
bearance in tlie hour of their humiliation,
than a relentless and haughty proscrip
tion. — Journal & Mcxsaigtr.
Immigration.
There is yet little northern or foreign im
migration to Georgia, except what may be
discovered among the traders anti mechan
ics in the town, or is embarking in the lum
ber business near the seaboard. We count
ed upon a large accession by immigration
to the population of Tennessee ; but the
newspapers of that State say there is none
worthy of mention. One would naturally
suppose that a fertile soil and a mild and
healthful climate would at least divert a
portion of the stream of foreign immigra
tion which is pouring into the hyperborean
regions of the northwest; but so far, not a
rill tends southward. Is this the result of
mere temporary causes —the unsettled con
dition of the country and the absence of ad
equate protection to property rights ? or i
it the working of a general law of coloni
ration, apparent enough when we look at
it, but which lias generally escaped obser
vation and remark.
Whatever may be the reason, the fact is
too plain for dispute, that tlie white race
shuns approaches to tlie tropics, as a gen
eral tli ing. The Spaniards and the French
have to some extent colonized southern lat
itudes, but it has been comparatively a slow
and feeble process, and the mongrel popu
lation of Alexico and Soutli America dis-
plays but little of the foreign stock. Noth
ing like the broad, constant and ample tide
of foreign immigration displayed in the
north-western regions of the continent, has
been visible any where else, although the
cheapest and most fertile soils —the most
salubrious climates—the richest crops—the
most valuable mines and inexhaustible
storesof vegetable wealth, have been tempt
ing the world of adventurous poor for a
century.
Such an effect as this would seem to
challenge inquiry after a cause more radi
cal than any hitherto assigned. In the
South, in the days of slavery, the existence
of that institution was assigned by its ene
mies and accepted by its friends as she all
sufficient reason why the foreign emigrant
seldom or never crossed our borders, and
we were told and believed that when sla
very was gone, the labor vacuum would be
filled at once by a rush of white men from
abroad. Bo far, we see, this expectation
was erroneous; and we might have been
led to doubt it originally had we but at-
tentively considered the ease of Mexico
and other equally salubrious and inviting
countries of the South, where slavery had
long been abolished. If we had studied
the case of Jamaica alone, that would have
proved peculiarly embarrassing to this the
ory. There is no spot of green earth more
tempting than Jamaica, and it has the ad
vantage of being a British dependency un
der a British administration. How, then,
did it come to pass that British emigrants
turned away from Jamaica to seek our
Northwestern territories and Canada, leav
ing their government to the doleful neces
sity of drumming up Coolies to cultivate
the soil of that fertile island?
Ts there not in the Northern races an in
stinctive aversion to tropical climates or
anything bordering on them ? If not, can
it be a settled indisposition to live among
the hybrid races which pre-occupy and
doze away existence in those favored re
gions ? If this be the reason, the emancipa
ted blacksof tlieSouth will provea more fatal
oar to white colonization than did the race
in a condition of legal subordination to the
whites.
It is to soon yet to come to settled con
clusions about our Southern future in res
pect to foreign and Northern immigration,
but experience, so far, it must be confessed,
is well calculated to awaken reflection.
The practical question is, must tropical, or
approximately tropical, countries forever
remain unimproved, unless cultivated un
der a system of compulsing labor —like that
which has perished in the South, or which
now exists in the East Indies, per force of
the teeming native population? It is an
uanlterable natural fact that the teeming
plenty of Southern latitudes, not crowded
with population, shall .shift them into
thriftless poverty and sloth. — Journal and
’ Mnmenger.
MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL
Weokly Review of tiio Macon Market.
Journal and Mhhkenofr Office, 1
.Monday, January ii*, 18*16. I
GENERAL REMARKS.
Tlie past week's business will not proba
bly balance with that of the previous
week, although there is ns good feeling in
financial affairs and in the market gener
ally. The weather for toe most part lui*
been fair, and favorable. Tin recent pay
ing off of U. 8. troops at this jioint lins
rendered money somewhat easy second
hand circles.
CITY COTTON MARKET.
The decline in the New York and foreign
markets has had a depressing effect upon
the cotton market generally. Transactions
have been very scattering and decidedly
cautious. The total sales of tlie week will
not reach more than 265 bales, at figures
ranging from 34 to 38 cents —tlie best arti
cle in tlie market only bringing tlie latter
figure.
The market is somewhat unsettled, but
the following may lie considered fair quo
tations :
Ordinary 30©32
Middling 34© 35
Strict Good Middling 36© 37
Receipts,soo bales; shipments, 460.
MONEY MARKET.
Little demand in the market for sight
exchange, with a good supply, which may
1 be quoted at par.
The following are the quotations of our
principal brokers for Bank Notes :
GENERAL REMARKS.
WORTH. WORTH.
GEORGIA: Bank of Georgetown,...lo
CR R & IFk Cos 95 “ $ Vowlx’ref re
GHR&Bkco f, .. osVV,::::::re
Marine Bank, 75 .. )fs
1], 8 Mji'dle Georgia 70 Commercial Bank, 10
0 ml Exchange Bank....’. 10
t)i„. LL tV-Li ’ Farmer s & Ex. irk 10
llanter * Bank 10 Merchants - Bank 10
Meh t» A PFU Bk . .10 , VopU .. s BnnU 30
Thriher - & Mecii’s B'k„ls
limner Cutter sB k o Planrs - B k p a i r neld,..ls
8 ?. ,,k <>f Athens, SB state Bank lh
.. °i 1.1V.V f- southwestern It RBk 25
of Columbus. “Ll'ninn K-inL- fill
“ of Empire Xtate...lO 1 nlon BauU 011
“ of Augusta,.... 2»> ALABAMA:
Aug ta Ins. A Ok (_0,...1ti
Pi tv Kk of Augusta 10 Bank of Mobile 66
Mechanic’s Bank 10 “ ot Montgomery...,.)
Union Bank, 10' “ , ®
B k State of Georgia,....2a C enti nl 8ank,.... SO
'Commercial Bank, 20
south Carolina: j Eastern Bank, 45
Bank of Canulen, 15 Northern Bank, 45
“ of Charleston, 10 Southern Bank 65
Bank of Chester, 15\
DRY GOODS.
A lair business is reported both at
wholesale and retail, with no material
change in figures. The following are the
quotations of leading houses :
Wamosetts Prints, 25 27J
Americans, 25 30
Richmonds, 25 30
Phillip Allen, 274 32}
Pacifies, “ 274 32}
Spragues, 28 35
Merimacs D 274 33
“ W 28 33
Scotch Ginghams, 45(2 60 50© 85
Lancaster ’ 30@35 40@50
I>. I 35(2)37} 40© ; 45
J bl’clid 45©50 50©60
27} ©3O 30 ©4O
32© 37 38© 40
...An 55©60 60©75
e oat*spool cotton, 125
DOMESTICS :
The supply is good of Sheetings. Jobbers
quote Macon, 35; Augusta, 34}; Osna
burgs sellin at 35. Tlie stock of yarns is
light at $3 55 by the bale.
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS:
There has been an average business done
in Hus line. Large stocks are being re
ceived by our merchants since the rebuild
ing of che bridges above. No material
change in the prices reported last week.
Bacon, —Hog round, 20c., Hams 22c.,
Bides, 22c., Shoulders, 20c. Average rates
22c.
Flour. —Extra family, 810 to SIT; Extra
superfine, sl3 to sl3 50 ; good superfine,
sl2 to sl3. Good supply.
Corn. —Wholesale, $1 50; retail, $1 75.
Price looking downward. Supply aqual
to demand.
Sugar. —Brown, 21 to 20e.; crushed,
powdered and A. from 27 to 300. Stock
fair.
Coffee.— Wholesale, Rio, 35 to3Sc. ; Java
50 to 51c. Retail. Rio, 45, Java, 05. Sup
ply good.
Tobacco. —Wholesale, 50 to $1 ; Retail,
$1 to $2. Stock not very heavy, but equal
to the demand.
Candy.— 3B to 45c.; stock light.
Cheese. —Wholesale, 28 to 32; Retail, 50
to 50c.; stock coming in, ami equal to the
demand.
Ilutter. —50 to 65 cents.
Syrup. —Sorghum, 60c to 75c. Best ar
ticle, wholesale, 75c. to $1 ; retail, $1 25.
Lard. —Wholesale, 20 to 25c.; retail, 25
to 60c.; stock light and demand good.
Pice. —Savannah, 20c.; country, 12to 15;
scarce and in good demand.
Sweet I'otatoes. — Wholesale, $1 ; Retail,
$1 50. Supply good.
Irish Potatoes.—Wholesale, $1 50; Re
tail, $3 per bushel. Stock small.
Mackerel.— No. 1, $5 to $5 25 per kit;
No. 2, $4 .50 ; No. 1, bbls., S3O ; No. 2, $25
to $27.
Cod Fish.— Light demand at 20c.
Herring. —Sl 50 per box. Light demand.
Candles. —Wholesale, 32 to 34c.; Retail,
45 to 50c. Stock large.
Soap. —According to quality, 15 to 25c.
Stock, light.
Apples. —$6 to $8 per bushel. Very
scarce.
Dried Fruit. —ls to 25 cents per pound ;
stock light—good demand.
Fagging.—Gunny, 41 to 43c by the bale ;
market well supplied. Kentucky, 40e.,
scarce ; retail, for Gunny, 4|Pe. Said to be
advancing. Worth 30c per yard in New
York.
Dope. —Machine, 24c ; Richardson, 25c ;
stock not heavy—demand light.
•Salt. —Wholesale, 3 to 3sc; retail, 44 to
•se. Stock not so heavy.
Snuff. — Wholesale, 80c to $1 ; retail, $1
25; stock good.
Pea.—sl 50 to $2 50, according to quali
ty ; stock equal to demand. “ '
‘ Liquors. —Whisky, rectified eorn-essy [ i
S3 .50 ; Rye, do $4 50 to $7 ; , T 's3 50 ;j 1
Brandy, $0 to sl2; Gin, S3 ; T>er gallon ; ’
American Brandy, $4 to f per case, SIT.’
Wolf . Scb-Fort Wine §376 to ,
fr V de stock of Liquors In 1
market good and equal to demand. All
brands of fine Whisky are looking up,
caused be a scarcity in the Northern nut
kets.
J. W. Fears «Sr Cos., Third street, give the
following r.s the actual figures at which
transactions aie taking place in the fol
lowing articles at their wholesale house :
Oils, White Lead, Glass and J'ut/y.—
linseed $2 50 per gallon; tanners’ bank,
$2 50; White lead, $32; Glass—B bv in,
$8 50 per box ; 10 by 12, $9 50 ; 12 by hi,
sll ; 12 by 18, sl2; 11 by 15, $lO 50 ; 26 by
35, $25. Putty, 20c. per pound.
Miscellaneous. —Concentrated Potash
S2O per case; concentrated Lye, $lB ; lump
potash, S2O; small packages, cask, sl7 ■
Soda, keg, $18; in 1 11) papers, S2O. Palm
soap, $lB. Turpentine soap, 16c; Hliot,
$5 50. Powder, keg, $lB jquarter keg, $5,
Half bbl Butter Biscuit, 18c; do Sot la, 26c
per pound ; Soda biscuit by the box, 23c.
Pepper and spice, 45c per it. Ginger, 40c.
Oysters, 2lb.cans, $7 50per dozen; Oys
ters In 1 lb cans, f t 50. Can fruits, $8 per
ilozen. Pickles, pints, $5 per dozen ; quarts
$7 50; half gallons, slo 50. Starch, 16e.
Nails, 4d to l()d, 13} per lb, by tlie keg.—
Tumblers, per doz. $2 25 to $2 50. Wes
tern reserve cheese, 28c; Hamburg. 29c.
Macon candy, 45c; steam, 40; fancy, 55-
East India Rice, 25c; Layer raisins, whole,
$9. Wire sieves, NO. 14, $6 ; 16, $6 50 ; IK
$7; 20, $7 50; 24, $8 per dozen. Axes, S2B
per dozen; Sweede Iron, 14c ; Wide Iron,
14c; Steel, 15c ; Hoes, (sl4 per dozen,) uml
Axes very scarce. Wide Plow Steel 16c;
Trace chains, 6 feet, $2 00 ; 7 feet, $2 25.
Gunny Bagging, 41c. per yard ; Hope, half
coils, 22}c ; coils, 22c.
Milledgeville Correspondence.
Mileedof.ville, Jan. 29, 1866.
Tlie bright and beautiful Sabbath called
forth saints and citizens to the house of
God. The churches all were well attended.
Dr. Lovick Pierce preached in the Metho
dist Church in the morning cud at night ;
his sermons were clear, strong, pointed and
practical. In the afternoon, all the Sab
bath Schools of the city assembled togeth
er in the Methodist Church, and after sing
ing by the school, addressee were deliver
ed by Mr. Stewart, Representative from
Spalding county, and Messrs. Butler and
O. L. Smith, of the Senate. The occasion
was pleasant, and no doubt profitable.
There, perhaps, never was a tirno when
the true interests of Church and State so
urgently demanded that special attention
be given to the intellectual and moral cul
ture of the children of the country.
In the Legislative halls nothing of spe
cial interest is now transpiring. Since
some bills have been introduced proposing
to hold the Railroad companies of this
State to the tariff of charges allowed by
their Charters, several of the officials of
these Roads have visited us, and are now
here looking after their interests. The
State should deal liberally with these
Roads, and yet rt is true, no doubt, that
their charges for freight and passengers are
extravagantly high and should be reduced
by Legislative action, ns they cannot be
reached otherwise.
To-morrow is the day appointed for the
election of United States Senators. The
canvass is very active. It is now thought
that Mess re. A. H. Stephens and Joshua
Hill w ill be run for tlie long term; ami
Messrs. Gartrell, Jas. Johnson ami Peeples
for the short term.
Mr. Stephens is not a candidate, he does
not seek the position, but the general con
viction as to his ability and his accepta
bility both North and South, prompts his
friends to elect him even in the face of his
expressed wishes.
What will be the result <>f these elections
no man may predict. Tlie result of the
former elections before this I legislature
would certainly deter any man from risk
ing a prediction ip this ease. . L.
Loss by the War.
In an article upon taxation, the Consti
tutionalist furnishes the subjoined state
ment of the losses of taxable property in
Georgia by the war:
At the beginning of tlie war, the taxa
ble property of the State was $644,049,(MS
Os this sum there has been lost by confis
cation, value of slaves, $572,0h>,490. Bank
capital, $17,162,072. By fortunes of war,
money at interest, $112,261,877. ItesUm'-
tion of property, $75,000,000. Total sbjv
539,439. Leaving a balance of $167,
609, or about one-fourth of the property
taxed by the Slate as enumerated in in«
digests.
That is a bad showing, but it does not
comprehend the sum total of property
losses by any means. Add cities, village*,
and isolated dwellings burned by tlu ‘
thousand; mills and manufacturing estab
lishments burned, railroads and bridges,
hundreds of miles of fencing, inconceiva
ble amounts of household furniture, weal
ing apparel, jewelry, etc., etc., stolen and
destroyed.
BriV- An imposter sty'iiig ' imsclf G. K
McCook, of the celebrated fmnfiy
of Ohio, was arrested in M tty*? ll * Vlou J
Wednesday. He has been tra “ 8 ()l£
the country personating Gcneif
and carried on very boldly. A Ic’U r was
found on hts person indicating n<
gaged in counterfeiting.
gress'who" voted fr/Sp "nffrage here
but whose constituencies oppose it <*»
ht “lf it were only possible for the Rep“£
beans t<> be as honest in regard to juffrag
so Connecticut in New York, in M
for instance as they arc in a
where they have no interest except as*
it would he an encouraging «£*’
| hut in the present infirmity of hßinwt
ture we must expect to see them.
removing motes from eyes j D
Potomac, while they wink of th*
i eyes east ot' the Hudson ainJ.yj K , na nie9of
| Ohio. It is refreshing from ODn-
I the four Republican f£ V or of a measure
necticut recorded '‘Republicans of tlieii
repudiated by ~owsbow careful we ar«
| own Btate. Uncos of others, and b<>w
!of the oerf our own. —National fntelh
\ mlnxll'
*’ it***. A report was in circulation two
weeks ago that the President would speed
j ily issue a proclamation declaring the
| hellion at an end, and civil law restored
throughout the late insurrectionary Stale*-
His delay in so doing is now attributed to
| the non-arrival of expected official cort'es
pondenoe from Prov isional Governor Haw
lltou, of Texas.