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Tlie Greorsia "Weekly Telegra/pli and Journal .&
Tfefcjjraph and Messenger.
DECEMBER 2118G9.
(Doing Up.
A pcrthm «f Atlanta went np in the balloon
Hyperion, "Diierinber 10th, and have just come
down. h-t landed six miles north of Alpha
Bet* Qnaw Win, twenty-six miles from Ma
rietta. Urn wards of the excursion are fonnd
in all the itirto papers of the 15th. The ob
ject of the •stoetkl expedition was to knock a
hole through the sky and see if there was any
thing ItfotkM.
The uuairaHtos seported that above Atlanta
nothing waa to he seen, by reason of an extra
ordinary and naaataral brilliancy below, which
obfuscated mortal vision, producing an effect
similar to snag TaliwiT11rirn_ as particularly de
scribed by Dr. Dm in voL 2, p. 139.
Outside the radios af this corrugating reful
gence, however, all was dark. With the aid of
a powerful gls* Prof. Halsey could see nothing
bat a certain donee stosarity and opaqueness. Dr.
Steele, with the aid of two glasses of unusual
power, failed to penetrate the gloom. The em
inent "scientist,” Pxot Avery, tried a remark
able combination of three glasses, with no moro
satisfactory result, except he expressed a doubt
whether he did not m* stars in the infinite
space.
Prof. Watson then brought his singular skill
Into requisition, and by a combination of a
great variety of glasses produced such a concen
tration of light as struck him blind, and be
could see nothing.
After a supra-lunar oontfxmanoe of five daya,
as we have stated, the party were let down from
the heights of Che Empvrcsm, as St. Paul was,
in a basket, satisfied that there was nothing
above Atlanta worth seeing.
The hole they punched through the sky wall is
to be mended by Er Lawskc, by a delicate kind
of celestial trepanning, in which the rivets will
not be seen—the expense to be defrayed by the
sale of the empty champagne baskets brought
down by the Committee.
The Atlanta Political Slander 91111.
Some of the Georgia papers print the follow-
lowing as a recent and audacious emanation from
the slander mill.:
Atlanta, Ga., December 12.
"The Democratic newspapers throughout this
State are unanimous in denouncing the letter
and statement recently written by Congressman
Nelson Tift in favor of reseating the negroes.
They say that its publication was entirely un
authorized by the Democratic party. They are
a unit in opposing the reseating of the negro
members and the expulsion of white members
disqualified by the third section of the Four
teenth Amendment.
“They also strenuously urge the defeat of the
Fifteenth Amendment
“The Republicans heartily endorse the Presi
dent's recommendation and the people general
ly favor and will acquiesce in prompt action by
Congress.” J. G. B.
Now, inasmuch as only some three or four
Democratic papers in Georgia agree with Mr.
Tift in favor of reseating the negroes, a* an al
ternative to another reconstruction, we think on
that point the mill turned out a truer grist than
usual. The statement, however, that "the peo
ple generally favor and will acquiesce in prompt
action by Congress,” is a shocking falsehood.
The prospect of another unsettlement has had a
very depressing effect upon the people, and
given rise to great anxiety. The people feel
themselves oppressed by taxation. The tax-
collectors complain of great backwardness
among the people in meeting their obligations,
and threaten Hoods of executions. The people,
on the other hand, see no end to public waste,
extravagance, and misappropriation in the
State. They are much discouraged. The meet
ing of business men called in Macon to-day is
an evidence of increasing anxiety. The people,
of course, acquiesce—that is, nobody proposes to
fight Congress, or Bullock, or Terry—but they
acquiesce in political, just as they would in na
tural death—because they can’t help it.
The Railway .Situation in Georgia.
■We commence to-day the publication of a
short senes of papers upon the railway system
of Georgia, by a leading mind in the State, The
first is devoted to a very interesting historical
review of the origin and progress of the sys
tem—a clear and succinot narrative, which will
be new to many of our younger readers. Im
portant practical deductions affecting existing
enterprises will no donbt be brought before the
people in the course of these articles; but of
their nature and bearing we have no informa
tion. We speak simply with reference to the
eminent source from which they come. Thoy
will no doubt be in the highest degree worthy
of pnblie attention, and it is the hope of the
author that the press of the State generally will
republish them.
■# IX »
The Supreme Coubt and Legal-Tenders.—A
Washington correspondent of the New York
Journal of Commerce now again states that, not
withstanding positive assurances to the contrary,
reiterated time and again, there are the best
grounds for belief that the Supreme Court of
the United States has decided the legal-tender
act unconstitutional He adds: “Men of promi
nence who inclined to this belief previously,
have, since the reading of the President’s mes
sage, been convinced.” “What does that return
to specie payments mean ?” asks one. “Simply
that tho legal-tender act is unconstitutional, and
the Supreme Court has forced the recommenda
tion,” was the answer. “Let them decide as we
know they will deoide, and where will we be ?”
These remarks occurred among the congress
ional financiers of the Republican persuasion,
and have cast a gloom over those who have pet
theories to advanoo. These theories are nume
rous, and it is added that a careful canvass in
both Houses shows that the uppermost theme
now is the finances.
The Hex* State Fair.
We print in this edition an article upon th*
question where shall the next State Fair ba
held ? in which much is said to the discredit of
Savannah, particularly, in which we do not
sympathize at alb On the contrary we should
bo very sorry to believe that the people of that
large and flourishing city are not quite as pa
triotic and unselfish as those of any other place.
And while upon this subject of a State Fair,
we wish to correct, so far as the limited experi
ence of Macon at the late Fair can enable ns to
do it, the idea that these assemblages are of any
value in the way of trade and business. It may
be that the experience of Macon was exceptional,
but it was thus and no other. The livery sta
bles, hotels and restaurants, no doubt, made
money; but all other branches of business lost
by the Fair. Trade was much duller than usual
daring the Fair week, for people did not come
here to trade or do business, but for recreation.
They had no time or care for it, or to read
newspapers. They bought none and subscribed
for few. Of the many who came from a dis
tance to canvass for periodicals of various kinds,
not one succeeded. Of tho many projects of a
business character which had been deferred for
maturity to tho grand gathering at the State
Fair, not one got a hearing. Of the thousands
of money payments which had been deferred
till the parties should meet during tho State
Fair, not one in twenty were made.
We repeat, little or nothing waa done in the
way of general business during the whole week.
Trade was remarkably dull, and meanwhile
every householder was under heavy expense for
purposes of hospitality. In point of money, we
doubt not Macon lost by the Fair. She spent
thousands to get it up—thousands more to en
tertain visitors—and received a good deal less
in tho ways of trade than she would have done
in any ordinary business week at that season of
the year.
We say this not in way of complaint, but to
correct misapprehension, and to explain the ex
isting indifferenoe of Macon as to whether the
next Fair be here or anywhere olse. The en
terprise unfortunately turned out equally bar
ren of enterprise and glory.
As to the project for future State Fairs sug
gested by our correspondent, we agree with
him. A joint stock company is far better to be
entrusted with the control of these things—as
is the case in most of the tates. They shonld
be managed as a bnsiness enterprise, by men
who have a bnsiness risk in them, and are,
therefore compelled to attend to them in a bus
iness way. Pre-eminently they need the
guidance of practical business minds and thor
ough, systematic, laborious attention.
The germ of such an enterprise has been
started by the purchasers of the late Laborato
ry building, and with good management and
energy it could be successfully carried out. By
fitting np the grounds handsomely as a place of
public resort in fine weather—which could bo
reached by line railway—by keeping np a trot
ting park and race course, and holding a well-
managed Central Georgia Fair every year, it is
possible they could get a fair return for their
investment.
But this idea of a State Fair in which stock
cannot be allowed to rnn against each other, but
most against time, strikes ns as too startling
and shocking for the age. The morals of the
country will revolt at it. It is sacrelegions. To
be betting against time and running against
time is awfully irreverent even, if the Executive
Committee insist upon it The moral sense of
the people will require that the animals shonld
rnn against each other rather than against time.
The Tenure or Office Bill.—The Tribune's
Washington special of the 10th says the House
Judiciary Committee has ordered its chairman
to report a bill absolutely repealing this bill,
bat that its fate in the Senate is very uncer
tain. Many of the Senators are still of the
opinion that the act gives them no more power
over appointments than is delegated to them by
the Constitution, and the President has no jnst
reason for asking its repeal.
The Next Great Fight. -In the course of a
speech in the House last week on the census
bill, Mr. Butler declared that “he wanted to
know the statistics of railroad transportation, of
the express business and the telegraph business,
because he looked forward to the time within
the next ten years when the country would have
to grapple with those great interests and take
oontrol of them.”
We copy on our fourth page some reflections
upon the Georgians by the Rural New Yorker.
It is good to look at onrselves through strang
ers’ spectacles, even if they are a little obBcnre.
One thing, however, we will offer: If the Bnral
New Yorkor will only come down into Georgia
yet onoe more and point ns put those thousand
of cotton bales wasting in the fields for want of
picking, he shall be handsomely rewarded.
Suez Canal.—A dispatch from London, tho
10th, says the steamer Brazilian from that port,
which was built expressly for the Suez Canal
traffic, has been found to draw too much water.
A dispatch from Port Said, announces that she
attempted to make the passage a day or two ago,
but was obliged to discharge half her cargo to
get through.
Forney’s Calculation.
We see from an “ Occasional” letter in the
Press, that J. W. F. puts the number of negro
votes to be added to tho Radical strength in the
Northern States by the success of the Fifteenth
Amendment, much below Mr. Grinnell’s esti
mate which we published a few days since. His
calculation is twelve thousand for Pennsylvania;
Ohio abont eight thousand; New Jersey about
four thousand; New York abont ten thousand,
and Delaware, about three thousand.
Well, this is not so bad as we thought. If the
Democrats of thoso States can'tmanage the Rad
icals, plus even that number of “new ish,” they
are not the fellows we take them for.
And besides, don’t the crazy conspirators who
are plotting this outrage, calculate upon a turn
ing of the white stomach in thoso States some
day. Tho black doso may be sweet to thou
sands now, who will yet spew it, and thoso who
administer it, out of their mouths as nauseous
beyond endurance. We believe that four years’
working of this monstrous iniquity will so sick
en the nation that he who proposes its surest
and speediest squelchiDg, will bo the foremost
man of the day.
Curions Pride.
And now Gov. Walker, of Virginia, comes be
fore the Reconstruction Committee and boasts
the honor of conceiving that iniquity, tho Fif
teenth Amendment. Nevada Stewart, its repu
ted author, must, therefore, strip off his bor
rowed plumage, and stand forth a la jackdaw.
Pride in such an offspring is something that
we cannot understand. It is as if a man shonld
want the unsightly deformities and loathsome
sores of a child, and, uncovering them to the
world, invoke its admiration. Gov. -Walker, if
correctly reported—we find the statement in the
Richmond Dispatch—is certainly not the man we
thought him, and we fear tho people of Virgi
nia who elected him have caught a Tartar.
So much for hybridism in politics. Like all
crimes against reason, wisdom, principle and
nature, no matter where or how perpetrated, it
carries in its diseased body seeds that shall
surely fructify into a fearful punishment.
General Amnesty and tbe Test Oath.
The Washington correspondent of tho Rich
mond Dispatch, nndcr date of the 8th instant,
says that Stewart’s amnesty bill, and Ferry’s
bill repealing the test oath, were both talked
over the day before in caucus, and it was fonnd
that those in attendance were about equally
divided in regard to the moro jnst turn which
these Senators are disposed to take. It is easy
to be seen, however, that there are not a few
among the Republican members of Congress
who strongly favor the abolition of all proscrip
tive measures. It is certainly the best card they
can play. * Other radicals oppose “letting np”
on the South, because they fear it will lose the
States to the Republican party.
Bullock and Tilt Before the Commit
tee.
Our Washington correspondent gives a lively
report of the testimony of these parties before
the Senate Judiciary Committee. Representa
tive Tift appeara to have lost his patience and
long-suffering, and entirely loosed the reins of
a mighty and unsparing indignation.
Land in South Carolina.—We print, this
morning, says the Charleston News of tho 14th,
reports of saleB of land in eleven counties of
South Carolina, on Monday last. Prices gene
rally were fair, with an upward fendency, and
in Abbeville, Snmter, Spartanburg and Lancas
ter, there was a decided advance in the selling
rates. At Georgetown, five tracts of land for
which Governor Allston paid $222,500, sold for
$42,700, and a large quantity of pine and swamp
sold at from 8 to 22 cents per acre.
The Weekly Telegraph and Messenger.—
Two editions of this journal are printed to ac
commodate mails. One is issued Monday end
tbe other Thursday. The circulation of thia
paper is unrivaled. A few advertisements are
published at the rate of ten cents a fine.
The Georgia Press.
Savannah.—The News says that two Bombay
gentlemen, Mr. Mooljee Thackersay, a Hindoo,
and Mr. Toolsidass Jadavjee, a Brahmin, whose
extensive tour through this oountry bos been
noticed by the press in the many places which
they have visited, arrived in that city Sunday
and took rooms at the Screven House. Daring
the day they were “the observed of all observ
ers,” and excited the special attention of the
darkey waiters about the hotel, who were at a
loss to understand the courtesies which the visi
tors received, as they are almost as dark as
themselves, but the visitors’ features are of a
different caste, and their hair perfectly straight.
Both of the visitors are dressed in European
style, with the exception of handsome Turkish
caps. They come with letters of introduction
to some of our leading merchants.
In a bar-room row in Savannah, Saturday
night, Dan McConnell was cut in the head with
a bottle, and Wm. Donalson shot and seriously
wounded.
The ship Orescent City, which cleared from
Savannah for Liverpool on the 30th of October,
with a cargo of cotton—4,084 bales—valued at
$5G4,555.20, was abandoned at sea on the 14th
of November.
The South Georgia and Florida Railroad has
been opened for business to Station No. 2 (Pel
ham,) on the line now being rapidly built be
tween Thomas villa and Albany. Trains from
Thomasville will run tri-weekly, leaving Thom-
asville on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,
at 6 a. m., and leaving Pelham, returning, at 6
p. m., connecting both ways with trains on tho
western division of the Atlantio and Gulf Rail
road.
From the News we also get these additional:
Heavy Exports Foreign and Coastwise.—
Messrs. "Wider & Fullarton cleared on Saturday
last the American ship Charlotte Oates, for Liv
erpool, with a cargo of upland cotton, consist
ing of 3,540 bales, valued at $398,980 79.
J. H. Graybill cleared the British bark Nor
wegian, Murray, for the same port, with 3,013
bales upland, and 59 bales sea island cotton,
aggregate value $334,G14; also the British bark
Crown Jewel, Coming, for the same port, with
2,035 bales upland and 24 bales sea island cot
ton, aggregate value $225,GIG 54.
Messrs. Gourdins, Young & Frost, cleared the
British bark Delta, for Havre, with 1449 bales
upland and 60 bales sea island, valued at $117,-
288.59.
Making a total of foreign exports, 10,186
bales, representing a value of $1,136,400.92.
In addition to the above, the following coast
wise exports by steamers sailing Saturday were
made:
Steamship Huntsville, for New York, O. Co
hen & Co., agents—1340 hales upland and 35
bags sea island.
Steamship San Jacinto, for New York, J. W.
Anderson’s Sons & Co., agents—1562 bales up
land and 15 bags sea island.
Steamship Tonawanda, for Philadelphia,
Hunter & Grammell—557 bales uplands.
Steamship Carroll, for Baltimore, J. B. "West
& Co.—229 bales cotton.
A total coastwise, 3798 bales, making a grand
total, foreign and coastwise, 13,954 bales.
A Wonderful Freak of Nature.—Among
the arivals in our city on Saturday was Master
Zack Gaultney, a deformed boy. He is cer
tainly an unparalleled anatomical monstrosity,
and should be seen by all who are curious in
such matters. He was born in Macon county,
Georgia, is fifteen years old, and only forty
inches high; his legs, arms, feet and hands are
formed of knotty substances, the latter being as
large as a man's.
First Freight.—The first down freight from
Macon via the Macon and Brunswick and At
lantic and Gulf Railroads arrived Satnrday
night-. It consisted of one hundred bales of
cotton.
Atlanta.—We quete, as follows, from the
Constitution:
A Heavy Fee.—We saw a lawyer wending his
way homeward, yesterday evening, with a coun
terpane he said be had received as a fee from
a woman in a divorce suit.
Tee Balloon Excursion.—Professor King
and Dr. Albert Hapo, reached this city yester
day morning. They descended about six miles
north of Alpharetta, in Milton county, 2G miles
from Marietta, at dusk Friday. The place se
lected for descending was a cotton patch, and
they landed within fifteen or twenty yards of a
dwelling. The balloon traveled about forty or
forty-five miles, and reached a elevation of a
mile and a half,
Brunswick.—The Appeal, noticing the fact
that the weather is qnite cold down there, very
Celti8hly remarks, in the same connection, that
'single people are thinking of getting married.
The lumber mills of Brunswick are very busy
just now, with great quantities of timber com-
ng down tho river.
The Appeal notes the arrival there of several
gentlemen who had ridden horseback all the
way from Marion county, Florida, to investigate
the prospects, inducements, eto., that are ex
tended to those who wish to make Brunswick
their future home.
Tho first through-train on tho Macon and
Brunswick Railroad, arrived at Brunswick on
Thursday with a number of passengers and
Borne freight.
The Star of yesterday, says:
Real Estate Sales.—On Tuesday last tho
Pilkinton real cstato in Griffin was sold for
cosh, as follows: One-half tbeRied, George and
Patterson comer to John D. George, for $4,-
200; a small two-room dwelling, nearly outside
the corporate limits, in West Griffin, to Bob
Skinner, for $480; the Lunqnest house, on
Solomon street, a short distance from Hill
street, to Dr. Banks, for $1,375; a very com
mon house near the court house, to Dave Patter
son for $735; a vacant lot, 30 by GO foot, in
rear of Patterson’s store, $340 to S. 0. Weims.
The Monroo Advertiser local has heard a
level headed darkey express himself as follows:
“Well, you see, honey, I’m kinder jnbious uv
dese new white folks. Dey mont ev sot ns free,
but I don’t put any ’pendcnco in ’em. ’Cause
all dey gives us is votin’—an’ you better bleob
mo, chile, dat aint gwino to hold out. Niggers
is obleeged to have vittles and cloze."
9Ir. Forney on Georgia.
In his “occasional” letter, of the 10th, to tbe
Philadelphia Press, Forney sets out as fol
lows:
As there is no longer any doubt that Georgia
will be restored in accordance with tbe re-
commenadtions of the President and the ap
peal of Gov. Bullock, the vote of her Legisla
ture for tbe Fifteenth Amendment is as sure as
that of Texas or Mississippi, both of which have
elected Republican Legislatures by very large
majorities.
That seems to settle the point of Forney’s
opinion as to probabilities at that date.
A, Georgia Manifesto.
Our Washington correspondent sends us a
manuscript copy of a manifesto against the
third reconstruction of Georgia, which would
be published tho day following simnltaneonsly
in Washington and Baltimore. It is a rapid re
view of the whole Georgia question, and an un
sparing onslaught upon Gov. Bullock and the
destructives. It will be found somewhere in
this edition of our paper.
Railroads In Middle Florida.
The Tallahassee Sentinel is informed that it
has been decided to at once extend the railroad
from St. Marks to Spanish Hole, thero connect
ing with lines of steamers between Havana and
Now Orleans. This extension, when completed,
will make St. Marks one of tho most commo
dious and convenient harbors on the Gulf. It.
is expected ihat the work will be completed
within three months.
The extension west of Quincy is being pushed
forward, nearly twelve miles being ready for tho
rails. Fifteen hundred tons of iron have been
purchased, and are now on the way to this State.
We understand that the company are already in
receipt of letters from the Board of Trade of
Columbus, Ga., and from points on the Chatta
hoochee river, for through bills of lading to New
York by way of Eastern Florida porta.
Tbe Legislature t* be Seagirt or Ral
lied.
The best informed men in Washington say,
Georgia will not be immediately given over to
the sword, bat that the Legislature will be offer
ed the opportunity of reseating the negroes and
passing the Fifteenth Amendment. We regret
to say there is nothing in tho past history of
that body which could possibly lead to the hope
that it had integrity or courage sufficient toper-
forrn its plain dnty to the people in this emer
gency.—Columbus Sun.
Let our friend of the Sun console himself.
We have little idea that Gov. Bullock is going
to permit any action of the existing Legislature
to reseat the negro members. As the democra
tic vote on that question will be divided, a ma
jority probably standing upon the res adjudi-
cata, it will be easy to draw off the radical vote
so as to dbfeat every attempt at accommoda
tion. Thus, between Res Adjudicata and Goy.
Bollock, Congress, if that body waits at all upon
the action of the Georgia Legislature, will feel
itself impaled on the pin-hook of a false point
of honor, to tnm the State, over to the plastio
hands of R. B. Bollock, to be reformed and re
constructed after the best existing models of
“republicanism” in the South,
The engineering whether in the way of “buy
ing or bullying” will therefore, in any event, be
all against and not in favor of reseating the ne
groes by the action of the Georgia Legislature.
The thingjto be won by the res adjudicata men
besides the point of law and honor they raise,
is to shut out tho negro for the “balance of the
session”—it being conceded on all hands that he
must come in ever afterwards if elected. The
thing to be won by Bullock is entire and irre
sponsible possession of the.State for an indefi
nite period. The stakes are not by any means
equal, but the co-operation will be perfect. The
parties will bo actuated by entirely different mo
tives, but the condition and circumstances must
inevitably shape their action to the accomplish
ment of one and tho same result
The North Georgia Conference,
Special Correspondence Telegraph and Messenger.
Rome, Ga., December 14, 1809.
In my former letter I failed to remark about
the city of Rome, the seat of tho Annual Con-
ference. I had been aceustomed to visit Rome
before the war; indeed from the time when the
venerable Judge Underwood, who had, as usual,
turned his grey horse Rapley on the common to
graze, and was informed that Rome had a city
government, and nis horse had been arrested
and pnt in pawn, remarked with a sneer: “Call
Lome a city, might as well call a thrip a half a
dollar. ” But now it is a city of fair proportions,
and has from 7000 to 9000 inhabitants. Its rail
road facilities are of a superior character; and
when the road is completed to Dalton, Rome
vill be on tho line from Mobile to New York,
and mnch of the travel now passing through
Atlanta will come this way. Tho people of all
this Northwestern part of the State will look
kero for its best grocery market, and onr At
lanta people may begin to look to their laurels.
Messrs. Editors, I believe Rome bids fair to be
one of the first cities in Georgia.
The Conference decided, to-day, to hold its
next meeting at Augusta.
Daring the session this momiDg, Dr. Jesse
Boring made an interesting report on tho Or
phans’ Home, which it is proposed to get np
under the direction of tho Methodist Church.
He supported his report with a most eloquent
address to the Conference.
The Bishop and his cabinet have not yet com
pleted tie appointments, but will probably read
them out this evening. I hope to get the ap
pointments before I leave. N.
Middle Georgia Fair Company.
We copy the following from the Eatonton Pres3
Messenger of the 15th. It develops a praise
worthy enterprise—one worthy tho intelligence
and energy of Putnam cosnty and the district
referred to:
We are advised that steps are being taken to
unito Green. Morgan, Jasper, Nowton, Putnam,
Jones, Baldwjn, Washington and Hancock coun
ties, in a grand Agricultural Fair enterprise, to
bo called the-'Middle Georgia Fair Company.—
Looking to this end some of our enterprising
men in Putnam are now moving in tho matter,
and before bng we expect to learn that a capi
tal stock of $15,000 has been taken and that tho
work of preparing a splendid Fair Ground near
Eatonton the center of this district, has been
commenced. In fact, wo have no donbt of it
ourselves, for we know tho men engaged in the
enterprise, and know that the word fail is not
their vocibulary. This section of country is
really Micdle Georgia, and a finer farming sec
tion is not to be found on this continent. With
the enterprise recently infused among the farm
ers, and tie real earnest manner in which they
are workiiig, wo know an exhibition could bo
gotten np hero which would be the equal of any
in the State. We earnestly trust that our
brethren of the press in the adjoining counties
will take np this subject and let us prepare the
minds of our citizens for taking hold of this as
a Middle Georgia enterprise that most help the
country, ind pay its own way and yield a hand
some dividend beside to tho stockholders.
Makimet’s Birth Day in Cairo.
Mahomet’s birthday was celebrated at Cairo,
on tho lstultimo, when the prostrate bodies of
fanatics were ridden over by the Sheik of Bek-
ree, livo makes wero eaten, glass crunoked and
swallowed bodies slashed with swords, cheeks
and breasts pierced with sharp metal instru
ments, which were left stioking in tho wounds
thoy made, and hundreds of men and boys
shrieked and writhed and wrestled in what pro
fessed to be mad ecslacy of religious fervor.—
All this was gone through in tho public streets
in broad laylight, and in the presence of as
many lookers-on as could be crammed together
on the flat roofs, or could seo from tho windows
of the houses, or at, the gratings of the mosque
at which tho festival culminated. It is said
that the Sheik was drunkduringthe ceremonies.
His eyos were closed throughout, his face was
whito to ghastliness, his body bad the helpless
swaying motion of a corpse hold up. He was
gorgeously dressed, and wore an immense tur
ban of a green shawl pattern. His hands held
the bridle, but they wero limp and useless, and
his horso was led by two attendants. As ho ap
proached, tho convnlsivo twitching of tho armB
and legs of those prostrate grew more and moro
pronounced, and then the trampling under foot
began. Sometimes on the centre of the back,
oftener between two men, so as to stand on tho
fleshy parts of tho side3 of both, the horso went
steadily on until all down had borne a portion
of it and its rider’s weight. No one seemed
mnch hart, however. Tho very tightness of the
packing gave a certain power of resistance to
tho concrete mass of humanity, and directly the
Sheik passed, those behind jumped up, many
of them going forthwith into convulsions.
Decisions of the Supreme Court of
tbe State of Georgia.
From the Atlanta Intelligencer.)
Tuesday, December 14, 18G9.
The Court met pursuant to adjournment.
The following judgments were rendered :
Brown, O. J.—James Stewart and Allen S.
Cutts, plaintiffs in error, vs. Benj. Mordeoai,
defendant in' error—complaint and petition to
transfer the same to the 5th Circuit Court of the
United States from Sumter Superior Court.
Judgment of the Court below affirmed, and
transfer allowed.
D1 P. Gibson, plaintiff in error, vs. C. 0.
"Williams, defendant in error—complaint and
motion for new trial, from Lowndes county.
Judgment of the Court below affirmed, and mo
tion refused.
James H. Hill, plaintiff in error, vs. Wm. O.
Fleming, defendant in error—rule against as
signee in bankruptcy, from Dougherty. Judg
ment of the Court below reversed on the ground
that the whole proceeding was without authority
of law, and was unauthorized and erroneous.
William Mitchell, plaintiff in error, vs. Benj.
Mitchell and Benj. Willis, defendants in error—
Dissolution of injunction, from Worth, Judg
ment of the Court below reversed on the ground
that the Court erred in dissolving the injunc
tion. As the parties to the conveyance were
volunteers, it was not necessary that the donee
be cognizant-of the mistake, if it is clearly and
satisfactory shown that the donor acted under
the mistake when he made the conveyance, and
did convey his dwelling house and the cleared
lands adjoining it, when he did not intend to in
clude them in tho conveyance.
MoCay, J.—A. T. Burke, et al, plaintiffs in
error, vs. Robert S. Anderson, defendant in
error—Equity, from Pulaski. Judgment of the
Conrt below affirmed.
Levi G. Hollaway, plaintiff in error, vs.
Frances Chiles, Administratrix, defendant iu
error—Motion to set aside a judgment, from
Mitchell. Judgment of tho Court below af
firmed, and motion refused.
Covington Dumas, Administrator, plaintiff in
error, vs. Jesse Robson and L. D. Mnnroe, de
fendants in error—Motion to open fi. fa., from
Calhoun. Jndgment reversed on the ground
that the Court erred in passing a judgment on
part of the issues submitted to him, and refer
ring another part to a jury; and on the further
ground, that the record introduced, and which
waa the only evidence upon the point, did not
show that the consideration of the debt, on
which the jndgment was founded, was slaves or
tho hire thereof, and the Court ought, upon the
whole case, to have opened the judgment and
ordered it to proceed for one-third of the
amount duo before the judgment in 18G4.
Warner, J.—It. G. Fulgham, plaintiff in er
ror, vs. B. B. Johnson, defendant in error—quo
warranto and rule nisi, from Pulaski. Judg
ment of the Court below affirmed.
Samuel Lindsay, former Sheriff, plaintiff in
error, vs. Benj. F. Cock and John Thompson,
defendants in error—rule nisi, answer and de
murrer, from Lee. Jndgment of the Court be
low roversed, on the ground that the Court erred
in holding the Sheriff liable for the value of the
bank bills upon the uncontroverted fact stated
in his answer, that the bank bills were of but
little or no value.
George F. Robinson, plaintiff in error, vs. J.
B. Ross & Son, defendants in error—motion to
dissolvo an injunction, from Lee. Jndgment of
the court below affirmed in refusing to dissolve
tho injunction, and in refusing to revoke the
order oppointing a Receiver to take charge of
tho plantation, stock, crop, etc., for the present
year; but it is tho judgment of this court, that
if, in the discretion of the conrt below, it shonld
be necessary to keep tho property and planta
tion in the hands of a Receiver until the final
termination of the litigation between the par
ties, then tho complainant should be required
to furnish said Receiver with all tho necessary
means and supplies to make a crop, and carry
on the plantation for the ensning year, as is
specified in the written agreement for the lease
of the premises, for the mutual benefit of tho
parties, as stipulated in that agreement; and in
tho event the complainants shall fail or refuse
to do so, then the order appointing a Receiver
should be revoked and set asido.
McCay, J.—Thomas C. White and J. S. White,
plaintiffs in error, vs. Wm. M. Haslett and El-
iert M. Rucker, executors, defendants in error
—Relief from Elbert; and Thomas C. White,
plaintiff in error, vs. Dillard Herndon, defend
ant in error—Relief, from Elbert. Both these
cases were retnrned and argued together at the
last June term. Jndgment of this Court ren
dered to-day, reversing the judgment of the
Court below, on the ground that the Court erred
in dismissing the affidavit, without permitting
the defendant in the judgment to set up against
the jndgment the equities provided for by the
act of 1808, known as the relief law. Brown,
O. J., concurring. Warner, J., dissenting.
George T. Connell, plaintiff in error, vs.
Thomas Vnngh, defendant in error—Relief,
from Carroll. Judgment of the Conrt below af
firmed.
John McK. Gunn, plaintiff in error, vs. David
H. Jones, defendant iu error—Motion to set
aside a jndgment. Judgment of the Conrt be
low reversed, on the ground that the defendant
did not show any equitable grounds of defense,
which would authorize him to open the judg
ment.
Wm. Reimshart, plaintiff in error, vs. Jesse
E. Hann, defendant to error—Relief and Hole
on foreclosure of mortgage, from Bryan. Judg
ment reversed on the ground that the defendant
in the judgment did not prove such facts as en
titled him to any equitable relief under the Act
' 18G8.
No. 17, Southern Circuit, Gardner and Sprad-
ley, vs. Kersey, et al.—bill and motion for in
junction from Lee—was called in its order and
argued by Messrs. Fred H. West and D. A Va-
son for plaintiffs in error, and by Col. W. A.
Hawkins for defendant in error. •
No. 18, Southwestern Circuit, Johnson vs.
Stewart—equity and rule for contempt, from
Lee—was withdrawn.
The Court announced that it would adjourn
for the Christmas holidays on Wednesday, 22d
inst, till the 2d Monday in January.
The Court then adjourned till 10 a. m. to
morrow.
Accident on the Wilmington and Manches
ter Railroad.—Two oars on the down passen
ger train of the Wilmington and Manchester
Railroad, were hurled down an embankment ten
feet high last Monday afternoon, bat nobody
was seriously hurt.
A New Orleans reporter was being shown
through the Insane Asylum, tho other day, when
ho encountered a very pretty bine-eyed damsel,
who at once rushed into his arms with the ex
clamation—“Oh! my dear husband!” The re
porter wished to soothe the agitated feelings of
the little unfortunate, and stroked her hair ca
ressingly, ns he replied: ‘‘Why, my little dear,
did you think I would stay away from yon?'’
“No,” she innocently replied, “you always liked
to kiss mo." “But you know you are insane
my dear," he said. “Yes!" she replied weari
ly, “that “the reason I kiss you!”
A New Orleans wife,, left at home one even
ing by her husband who “had business down
town,” accepted a friend’s escort to the theatre.
The fates deore'ed that her husband should oc
cupy the next seat, with another lady, the occa
sion of his urgent business. As soon as the wife
mado the discovery she leaned over and whis-,
pored viciously: “Charles, who is that hussy
yon have with you ?” “Sister of that fellow you
have with you.” There was no need of further
explanation.
Destroying States.—The Richmond Dis
patch, a Grant paper, Bays of the deposition to
overthrow tho State Government of Georgia:
“The sending baok that State to the origiual
position is a matter somewhat infringing princi
ples indispensable to a confederacy of States
esistingeyenonazery moderato basis. If the pro
posed interference with Georgia be interpreted
as no more than proper, and within the purview
of the - power of Congress, then, indeed, the
States are at an end, even in the mildest form
of their existence."
BY
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, December 14- — Revenue to-day
$200,000.
Admiral Poore, of the Fowhattan, has arrived
from Key West with thirty-six of the Lilfian’s crew.
Attorney General Hoar decides that additional
legislation is necessary to enable the Federal Gov
ernment to hold certain cemeteries in the South,
tho owners must have compensation for their lands.
Washington, December IB.—Attorney General
Hoar has reeigbed upon his nomination to tbe Su
preme Bench. This is probable, but not officially an
nounced. Thera is wild speculation regarding his
successor.
The North Carolina bondholders are urging fed
eral interference in North Carolina finances, on the
ground that the federal government must enforce
the Constitutions adopted under the Reconstruction
acts.
A large amount of assorted war material, landed
at Fort Maria, Jamaica, for the Cubans, baa been
sized by tho British authorities.
Tho Committee to whom the matter was referred,
report against the modification of tbe present regu
lations regarding stand casks.
The President has nominated Hoar as Associate
Justice of tho Supremo Court, and Purviance At
torney for tho Western District of Tennessee.
Revenue to-day quarter of a million.
FIKASCm ABD
The Doctors and the Negroes.—In the Uni
ted States Senate Thursday—
Mr. Sumner offered a resolution instructing
the Committee on the District of Columbia to
inquire into the propriety of repealing the char
ter of the Medical Society of the District of Co
lumbia, and of such other legislation as may be
necessary to secure medical practitioners equal
rights without distinction of color.
Mr. Snmner said this medical Association had
refused to admit to membership certain colored
practitioners in the District, one of whom had
served with distinction as a surgeon in the late
war. One of tho clauses in the charter of this
association provides that none of its members
shall hold consultations with any medical prac
titioners who have resided in the District for six
months without becoming members of the Soci
ety. It was a disgrace to the civilization of the
age that this medicAl Society was attempting to
plant itself in opposition to eqnal rights, and ho
now gave notice that so far as he was concerned
he did not intend to allow it to do this if a law
of Congress can prevent it. These colored
practitioners were entitled to the same privi-
eges here as the white ones. This attempt to
proscribe the colored practitioners was not only
degrading to them, but degrading to the Society.
Patterson inquired how a reform was to
be effected. Snppose the charter was repealed,
what would that accomplish ? You could not
then compel the white practitioners to consult
with the colored.
Mr. Snmner—No. You Cannot do that, but
there certainly is some remedy. The idea of
repealing the charter has been suggested by
some of the Society, who will then organize a
new society, where toleration shall prevail.
The resolution was then adopted.
[Yet some people think Sumner is not crazy.]
The "Word Negro.—Forney’s Chronicle says:
“Considerable sensitiveness is manifested at
every colored convention about the use of the
word negro. The body now sitting form no ex
ception, a discussion having arisen the other
day concerning its appearance in an offioial doc
ument. Mr. Langston, apparently, was the on
ly defender of the obnoxious adjective. This
feeling, we think, is uncalled for and mistaken.
Negro is a good Latin word transferred to En
glish, meaning black. If the word is shameful,
the fact must be more so, and the colored men
make an admission against themselves in object
ing to it. This word came into the English lan
guage long before Amcrioa was discovered, and
consequently cannot be looked on as a term of
derision or reproach.”
The Citizen says tho Selma, Rome and Dal
ton Railroad is employing 2,000 hands, and ex
pects to reach Dalton by the 1st of January
next
Dr. Livingstone’s last African discovery is of
a tribe that lives altogether in underground
houses. Some excavations are said to be thir.
ty miles long, and have running rills in them.
The queens of fashion have decided that
brown hair shall resume its legitimate sway.
Empress Eugenie is a second cousin of De
Lessepa.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, Docember 14.— House — Another
bill has been introduced providing for tho admis
sion of Virginia on certain conditions. Referred to
the Reconstruction Committee. Cross purposes in
tho Committee are apparent. Tho whole matter
has been postponed to Saturday, ostensibly because
the various bills are not printed. The Committee
has taken no action yet regarding Georgia.
The Committee on Ways and Means was directed
to inquire into the expediency of abolishing the
revenue machinery, and apportion taxes among the
States.
Cox introduced a resolution that “ people learn
with horror and indignation of the treatment of
American citizens held as Fenian prisoners by Eng
land.”
The Secretary of War asked for information re
garding deepening the mouth of tho Mississippi.
Tho conditions of tho words of tho bill for the
admission of Virginia are “That tho Constitution
is never to be so amended as to deprive any citizen
or class of citizens of the right to vote in that State
who are entitled to vote by the Constitution^hereof
now to be recognized; or of the right to sit on ju
ries ; or of a right to equal participation in the
school fund and school privileges as now recognized
by such Constitution. Provided that any alteration
of such Constitution may be mado with regard to
tho time and place of residence of voters.
Senate—Thurman presented a resolution from
the Ohio Legislature, withdrawing her assent to the
Fifteenth Amendment.
Cole presented a resolution directing the Finance
Committee to enquire into the expediency of taxing
whisky one dollar per gallon.
Kellogg introduced a bill improving the bayou
Tech, and repairing the New Orleans Custom-house.
Tho Senate adjourned in honor of Fessenden.
The Senate is eulogizing Fessenden.
Washington, December 15.—House—A resolu
tion was introduced for the Committee on Public
Safety to take cognizance of steamboat running
and other disasters widely published.
The Census bill was continued to adjournment.
Senate—A resolution was offered authorizing
Delano to offer a reward for assaults on Rjvenue
officials.
A resolution for adjournment from the 22d to the
5th January was concurred in.
Sumner presented a potition from the recent Col
ored Labor Convention, pray mg for a division of the
pnblie lands in the South among them.
In opposing the motion to adjourn to the 20th in
stead of the 5th of January, Sumner said: We
have Georgia, Virginia and the cable connection with
France pressing us for consideration. Pomeroy said,
and Cuba. Snmner said, the least said about that
the better.
Brownlow had a long personal explanation read
from the clerk’s desk. In speaking of Stokes and
Butler, ho said that they were two beautiful pinks
to be assailing him; that the rejection of the Fif
teenth Amendment by the Legislature was an act
of perfidy.
Carpenter signed against the departure of tho
Spanish gunboats, maintaining that actual war ex
isted ; that our proper attitude was absolute neu
trality.
The Senate adjourned without action.
FROM ALABAMA.
Montgomery, December 14.—To-day the Senate
discussed, without definite action, the omnibus rail
road bill. It proposes to issue State b-mds to cer
tain roads to tho amount of several millions, for
which the State is to hold the roads’ second mort
gage bonds; and to endorse to the extent of several
millions more tbe bonds of several other roads, for
which the State is to hold tho first mortgage bonds.
It is thought the bill cannot pass through. Strong
Boston and lobby influences are pnshing it. Both
Houses will adjourn to-morrow until the 10th of
January.
It lias been raining hero for twenty-four hours,
and the river is rising.
FROM VIRGINIA.
Richmond, Docember 14.—The Grand Lodge of
Masons to-night elected Thomas F. Owens, of Nor
folk. Grand Master; William L. Maule, of Rich
mond, Deputy Grand Master; Robert E. Witbera,
of Lynchburg, Senior Warden; Wm. H. Lambert,
Junior Warden; Thomas M. Dudley, of Richmond;
Grand Treasurer; Dr. John Dove, of Richmond,
Grand Secretary; Wm. B. Taliaferro, of Glouces
ter, Senior Deacon; Judge Richard Parker, Junior
Deacon.
GENERAL SEWS.
Philadelphia, December 14—The Haytien steam
er Triumph, formerly tho Confederate ram Atlanta,
was disabled in going down the river, and was towed
back.
Frankfort, December 14.—The voto for Senator
is as follows: Stevenson, 47; McCrcery, 46; Turn
er, 17; Finley, 10; Boone, 2; Rice, 5; Be<$, 3;
King, 3.
Boston, December 14 Half million of dollars in
the defalcation of the Howard National Bank.
New Yore, December 15.—Sherman has arrived
hero and will remain several days.
Everything is ready for the departure of the
Spanish gunboats.
Terre Haute, Isd., Decombor 15.—G. S. Barlow,
of Florida, was fonnd dead here, from Buicide.
Fortress Monroe, December 15.—A northeast
storm prevails.
Frankfort, Rs., December 15 On the second
ballot, Stevenson had 53; McCreary, 54; Golladav-
16; Finley, 10; Beck, 1. Tho Legislature then ad
journed.
BIOBILE RACES.
Mobile, December 15.—The winter meeting at
Magnolia race course, commenced to-day. First
race, two-mile heats, won by Carrie A. Hurton—
time, 3:56j£, 3:51}$ and3:59)£. Coquette, seoond
best. Donavon was distanced after winning the
first heat. The mile race was won by Corsican in
1:55)£; Larken, second; Whiscnhunt, third.
FOREIGN NEWS.
London, December 14.—China has ratified Bur
lingame’s treaty with England.
The Btcamer Monarch, with Peabody’s remains
on board, has been detained by a gale.
Mnch alarm is created by the Buddon appearance
of rinderpest in the great cattle Bhow in this city.
Lisbon, December 14.—The breach between the
King and the Duke of Gald&hana is widening daily.
The resignation of the ministry is honrly expected.
The military movement headed by the Duke of
Galdahana is assuming threatening proportions.
Disorders are reported at Oporto.
Havana, Docember 14.—The Spanish man of war,
Isabel, with crows for twelve gunboats, sailed for
New York. The steamship Teutonia sailed to-day
for New Orleans.
Liverpool, December 14.—The steamship City
of Brussels made a trip from New York in six days,
being tbe quickest time on record.
London, December 15.—The London Times,
editorially, while admitting tbe improved quantity,
quality and price of India cotton, it does not con
sider possible the displacement of the American
description.
The Brazilian minister has resigned.
Cotton—Receipts t<*U y , 779 1*7
shipped364. «*!e» jjJ
Receipts for the week ending thi- * |
above included, 4155 bales; ^
3192; shipments 2645—shown for ^
ceipts for the last week over those“ »<v
fora of 963 bales; increase of sales
The market during the week closing £*•
has been generally firm and active
advanced smee onr last weekly reportu* ^
demand has been greater than the *>»
much all the week, as holders are still
a rise in the spring; and under this <
ton is rapidly accumulating in u,« JT* 08 *
houses in the city. Tsr ‘ otl a
To-day the market was rather eari.i- u,
last few days, and operations were
•idcrably by the scarcity, or tightnel
The market closed qniet this evening
nominal for middlings. 6 ” «cqfc
MAOON COTTON STATEttOrr
Stock on hand Sept 1,18C9-baios
Received to-day 0 • 15
Received previously ..7.7.7 ."’"51
Shipped to-day. I
Shipped previously 785,0^
Stock on hand this evening —-
«*>!
Financial.—Our money market h« tieht..j
a little the past week, and we have W ^
complaint of the scarcity of money. <^ a TT®*
however, discounted to a limited extent at tt *'
rates
The stock and bond market continues *6,7
operations are limited. We lower SosuZ.
Baijroad stock $2 perfhare and quote ‘
EXCHANGE on new toss.
Buying
Selling ..7. .7.7.7 Hfit
UNITED STATES CURRENCY—raV« *
Permonth {SSt
*X9p«(U
GOLD AND SILVER.
Buying rates for Gold . .
Selling 1
Buying rates for Silver 2
Selling j
RAILROAD STOCKS AND RONTw ' *
Central Railroad Stock •
Central Railroad Bonds I
Macon & Western Railroad Stock •SI
Southwestern P.ailroad Stock * |
Southwestern Railroad Bonds ..77" |
Macon <fc Brunswick Stock 7 -1
Macon & Brunswick Railroad Endorsed BoZ'"" £ I
Georgia Railroad Stock iSI
Georgia Railroad Bonds 7 I
Muscogee Railroad Bonds * ‘Jl
Atlantic <fc Gulf Railroad Stock u 1
Augusta & Waynesboro Railroad Stock SI
South Carolina RailroadStock 77 '«,vl
Cotton States life Insurance Stock.
Groceries and Peovtsions—Trade in tkijlice'ui 1
been moderately brisk tho last week and the deamj I
for leading articles has been steady and generCv |
strong. Prices, however, have ruled yen stead,
and after carefally reviewing onr list have but !n
changes to note. Wo quote:
BACON—Clear Sides (smoked)....3 22^,
Clear Rib Sides (smoked)... 22 <3
Shoulders - 13 |
Hams (country) SO @ a
Hams (augar-cured'l 27Vfl «
BULK MEATS—Clear Sides ISkio hy|
Clear Rib Sides is" i-? jj3 I
Shoulders UVa uv I
COFFEE-Rio 22 @ a* 1
.Laguayra 80 @ S3
Java 43 G 15
DRIED FRUIT, per pound 10 0 ]W|
RICE per pound 9VQ m
TEA—Black 1 50 0100
Green 2 00 @250
BUTTER—Goshen 50 @ fit
Tennessee Yellow 40 @ 50
Country 30 @ «
CHEESE—According to quality... 22 0 ii
EGGS (scarce) 65 @ !5
LARD— 22 @ 55
SUGAR—According to grade.... 16 @ a
MOLASSES—According to grade.. 65 @ 75
FISH—Mackerel, bbls, No. 1, 2, 3. 15 00 624 Ot
Kits 2 75 @50!
Codfish per pound 10 @ 12* I
SALT—Liverpool per sack @ 2 5t
Virginia 2 50
WuISKY—Common Bye 115 @ 10
Fine 2 50 @5M
Com 1 25 @ 130
Bourbon 360 ©SW
ALE—Per dozen 3 00 @400
TOBACCO—Low grades perponnd 50 @ 55
Hedinm 60 @ 70
Good .’ 75 @ 80
Bright Virginia 85 @100
Pancy 125 @150
FLOUR—^Superfine per bbl..... 7 00 @ 7 50
Extra 8 00 @850
Family 950 @10M
Fancy Family Brands 12 00 @13 K' j
CRAIN AND HAY.
CORN—YeUow, Mixed and White. 140 @145
MEAL 145 «tlK
GRITS @ 1
OATS..... 90 @1#T
WHEAT—Per bushel 150 Q3M
FIELD PEAS 2 W
HAY—Northern 190 @2«[
Tennesse Timothy . 2 w
HerdsGrass 2 00
Tennessee 200
bagging, VI bs and twink.
BAGGING—Borneo, 25f lbs. per yard.. 31
Kentucky Roll. 2>6 “ “ “ •• 28K
BALING TWINE, per pound. 25
IRON TIES—Arrow, per pound 8
DOXBSTICS.
Macon Shirting
DcarEsncs—3-4 per yard
SmnTiNQ—7-8 peryard
Drilling—Heavy Brown per yard 18 6^
Heavy Georgia Stripes “ q
Osnaeueos—No. 1,8 22
No. 2, 7 “
Richmond *»
Milledgovffie. No. 1 - 22
Flint River. No. -9®
.15X3
ax ,,
13X9 “
LATENT MARKETS BY TRLBG*i**j
Domestic Markets.
New York, December 15. noon.—Cettos 7® I
at 25}£. .
Flour dull and 5 lower. Wheat dull; non-
lower. Com @12 better on light ei’-rPjg
heavy; new mess 32 00. Lard dnll at Ions S|
Turpentino dull at 43>£. Rosin quiet a.
strained. Freights dull. .. ■
Stocks weak and unsettled. MoneyJ if
Sterling, long 8%; short 9)£. Gold fist-J j,]
ex-coupons 14. TennesBees, ex-coap<®2 £.^1
42. Virginias, ex-coupons 49; new 55.. I
old 68; levees 6s 60Jf; 8s 70. Alabama & S'-^ I
Georgia 6s 82; 7s 94. North Carolmas, I
28J~- South Carolinas, new 721£. ,,
New York. Deoember 15, evening.—W‘ tou ' I
Bales 3000 bales.
Flour dull; superfine State 4 45(84
fair extra Sonthem 5 40(80 00. Whs*** ^1
1@2 lower; winter red Western 129,<?l 0 : ^,(1
mixed Western 113@114Vj. Lard.lower; v-A
(«>19?£. Whisky more active at 1 OS. ^1
quiet. Turpentine 43K@^b Roata 2 ^. ■
drooping; cotton, per steam 5-16 ''X- . h mil
Money, after fluctuations, closed *t < ,, c\I
Sterling stronger at 8%@9. Gold lower -^s
Governments steady. Southerns general. g
Stocks active and very feverish. 5 “
Baltimore, December 15.—Cotton, ua
lands held firmly at 25. " . f
Flour doll but prices steady.
1 30@1 40. Com firm; white 855186:5- , ^
Oats 56. ' Provisions unchanged; emau
Whisky 1 02@1 03; stock scarce. . , s ,
Savannah, December 15.—Cotton recs.^,
bales; sales 400; exports 3209; middling" •
kotfirm. q -() t«
Augusta. December 15.—Cotton sales #
receipts 1240; middlings 23jj; market
prices easier towards close.
Charleston, December 15.—^
bales; sales 680; exports coastwise 1
steady; middlings 24@24)£ . —„
Wilmington, December 15.—SpW 8 . —
steady at 40. Rosin dull; atr«j|«f ,
Turpentine steady at 1 65(®2 80. Tar s
Cotton steady at 23>g@24. .
Louisville, December 15.—Corn q 016
Provisions steady. Whisky 97. du y ; 1
Cincinnati, December
large; new 74@75. Whisky dull aWWSftj ,t Si *
dull and little demand. Mess Fp.K
Bacon drooping; shoulders e ‘
Lard dull; kettle 18J(. firm: - j. E
St.. Louis, Docember 15.—Cora , ^ j>crt s
fancy white sacked 90@95.- Whisky
at 31 00. Baoon quiet. _ _'nts5fl'
Mobile. December 15.—CottonreceP j ,
exports 377; sales 1860; demand fa*
firm; middlings 23?£. rotten
New Orleans, December 35-—f ; vorT >ooi =**5
bales; receipts 4200: exports, to» l*v
Barcelona 609; market more active
M &ur qniet; superfine4 75;
ble extra 6 00. Com firmer of *
Bran 115. Hay 29 00. Mess Port ^
Bacon, shoulders 16&; c.ear n ^ ig il-'*
sides 21; hams 27. Lard earferjt^ jiai*
21K@21^- Sugar fimer, prune UA
@70. Whisky 1 05@1 OT. york ®6 h * ’
•Gold22*. Sterling32. New * or)k
count.