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The Gre-orecia, TV"eekly Tele^ra.-ph and. Journal & JVTessenger.
Telegraph and Messenger.
MACCN. JANUARY 4 1670
London dispatches aver that the tenor of the
news from Borne indicates that the doctrine of
Papal infallibility is losing ground in the coun
cil.
The New York World aptlyfcalls Mr. Trum
bull's speech in the Senate, on "Ms bill'for the-
regulation of the Supreme Court, “an obituary
notice of that tribunal.”
Thbee United States Senators are to be elecfc-
ted by the Mississippi Legislature at its coming
session, two to fill the present vacancies and one
to succeed the term which expires on the 4th of
March, 1871. a
Glynn Sufebiob Cotnsr adjourned on the 20th,
after a laborious week to the first Monday in
February. Tho Court sentenced three convicts
to the penitentiary, as follows: John Dukes,
convicted of burglary, for the term of five years,
Henry Jones, bnrglary for the term of five
years, and Tom Jones, convicted of forgery,
for the term of two years.
IinnoniTioN to South Carolina.—The Laur
ens villo Herald says: “About twenty German
laborers have arrived at this place within the
last ten days, through the agent of the Newber
ry Society, Mr. F. W. Brnggeman, now in New
York. They consist of young, halo, strong, and
intelligent men and women, familiar with agri
cultural pursuits. They appear in good spirits,
and tho parties engaged in their introduction
are delighted at their arrival.”
Dr. David Livingstone.—The foreign mails
bring the full extracts from Dr. Livingstone’s
letter, dated July 8tb, 1869, near Lake Bang-
weolo. The important points have already
been received by the cable. As far as matters
of personal interest are concerned, it is gratify
ing to learn that Dr. Livingstone does not in
tend to run the fearful risks he has heretofore
encountered. lie says: “I shall not follow the
Luababa river in canoes, 'as we did the Ram.
best. This was insanity, and I am not going to
do any more mad things, merely to please geo
graphers, who are mostly insane.”
The Laws Against the Drummers.—The
Commercial Travelers' Association of New York
held their regular annual meeting on Tuesday
last. The subject under discussion was the
Wood “test case,” with reference to the law in
the Southern and Western cities, which prohib
its a commercial traveler from offering goods
for sale without sample, unless he take out a
license from $100 to $400. The Association
has engaged to raise $10,000 to defray the ex
penses of carrying the case to the Supreme
Court of the United States. Members have al
ready, it is said, paid in some 20 per cent.
In consequence of the recent seizure of all
the sugar in the bonded warehouses of New
York and Brooklyn, for alleged frauds in weigh
ing, trade in that article has been seriously in
terfered with, and the price has advanced from
two and a quarter to two and a half cents per
pound, according to grade. A contemporary
hopes that it will not turn out by and by, that
the officers, engaged in making tho seizure were
in a combination to get up a corner in sugar,
and invoked the power of Government to do
what they lacked the nerve and capital to ac
complish in the usual way. But stranger things
have happened.
A letter from Virginia states that the de
mand for negro labor in tho far South increases,
and gentlemen are now in various parts of Vir
ginia hiring hands for the plantations in Missis
sippi and Louisiana. There are also agents
there for whole communities of planter in the
Gulf States. Mr. C. E. Moore, of Selma, Ala.,
is in Virginia after one thousand laborers, and
fifty families for the Borne and Dalton Rail
road—offering $1 25 per day, and free trans
portation. In Richmond a labor agent adver
tises for negroes by thousands at from $15 to
$22 50 per month, and some offer in addition
separate houses, rations, garden patches, the
privilege to raise pigs, fowls, etc., and free
transportation by rail. All of these hands are
for the cotton and cano plantations.
Another Gold Panic.—The New York
World, of Saturday, says: “Wall street wit
nessed another gold panic yesterday, the most
exciting since tho famous affair of September.
For two hours the excitement in the Gold Boom
* was intense, and within half on hour the trans
actions must have reached the neighborhood of
rty millions. Gold fell to 120£, the lowest it
*8 reached since September 25, 18C2. The
quotation at G r. m. was 120|. Secreta
ry Bontwell’s action in selling Government gold
was tho cause of the panic. It was generally
believed last night that there would be a further
decline to-day. The flatness of gold is bringing
down wholesale prices throughout tho country,
and spreading disaster in the commercial
world. Failures of large houses continue to be
reported. The stock market yesterday was un
settled and lower. The Government bond mar-J-with the object to be accomplished,
ket was heavy, and prices declined.”
Cotton Gardening.—The experiment has
been successfully tried in Georgia of starting
cotton plants in a hot-bed, and setting them out
in the ground when already somewhat grown, as
cabbage and tomato plants are treated by mar
ket gardeners. Considerable advance and im
provement in the crop is thus secured.
The foregoing appears amung the items in the
Charleston News. It is a matter of fact that in
this county 487 matured bolls were counted at
one rime on one stalk of cotton, seventy-one of
which bolls produced a pound of cotton in the
seed. Suppose by this method, suggested and
practiced to some extent by Mr. Poullain, cot
ton a foot high or more could be transplanted
into a well enriched and deeply mellowed field
in April and begin producing lint in June, with
say four and one-half bearing months before it.
Suppose ample distance were given the cotton
in the check so that thero were no more th»v>
2,500 plants to an acre. Suppose good cultiva
tion, and no extraordinary accidents—what
would be the product of an acre ? We submit
the problem to the Farmer's Club.
Masonic Calico Ball in Albany.—We are in
debted to the managers, and the courtesy of
Colonel Styles, of the Albany News, for an in
vitation to attend a Masonic Calico Ball in Al
bany, last evening. The invitation came in
rime but found us in bad plight for thebalL—
The junior member of the editorial staff was
stretched on. his bed with rheumatism. The
next in order of years is a Presbyterian and of
too serious a turn of mind, we fear, to turn his
foot in that way. The third wa3 two hundred
miles off. The fourth, the veritable “old un'
himself was bom too old to dance aud has not
yet arrived to years of discretion on that sub-
jeot. The case, therefore, was desperate and we
were obliged to givo our Albany friends the go
by—but wo did the next thing to going—we
wishod them well with all our hearts.
The same response is in part, also applicable
to the courteous invitation of our friend Colonel
W. D. Mann, of tho Mobile Register, to attend
the great dinner of the croft, provided by his
munificence at tho Battle House in Mobile. The
hospitality of tho warm hearted Mobilians would
have filled our hearts with gratitude and our
heads with champagne. We are much obliged
to them for remembering ns.
The Situation in Georgia.
We copy from the Chronicle and Sentinel, of
Tuesday, an editorial call for a meeting of the
Democratic Executive Committee and a gener
ally. advisory constellation of the Democratic
stars therein named. Perhaps in such a fog
combination of these intellectual luminaries
may create a radianco which will pierce the
gloom and show ns the path out of our difficul
ties—who knows? At all events it conld not
well add to the embarrassments of the crisis.
We also copy from the same paper a very
alarming statement of the dangers which me
nace the State, growing ont of the Georgia Bill
and the proceedings to be had thereunder? We
say in all courtesy and kindness, that we conld
wish these alarms had been more timely, not
only npon the part of tho Chronicle and Senti
nel, bnt also npon that of many other of the
Georgia Democratic presses. We wish they
had been in time to curb the precipitate action
of the Georgia Legislature—or in time to reverse
it—or in time to have brought the whole moral
power of Georgia npon Congress, with ample
assurances of reversal so as to have deprived
that body of the last pos3iblo pretext for the
Geoigi i Bill. True, it might have been no use,
and true also it might have staid this proceed
ing.
We could wish, for further illustration, that
this demand for a meeting of the Executive
Committee might have long preceded, instead
have followed the action of Congress, and called
for prevention, instead of cure. But when con
cern and precaution might have been of nse,
they were not called for by any considerable
portion of tho press, and tho efforts of tho rest
to awaken a just apprehension were stigmatized
as the conceits of timid souls and servilo and
truckling minds. But valuable counsel most
be predicated npon a just sense and apprehen
sion of impending peril, while that which pro
ceeds from too lively an idea of present and
actnal danger, serves only to confuse, bewilder,
embarrass and cripple.
We recall to tho minds of the Chronicle &
Sentinel, and other contemporaries, that even
since the passage of the Georgia bill was assur
ed they have failed to realise the alarming ap
prehensions now expressed. That many of them
have declared the Georgia bill far bettor than
that amonnt of alleged self-degradation which
wonld have been incurred by tho Legislature in
reseating the negroes for tho “balance of the
session,” and the Chronicle & Sentinel itself, as
late as the 19th instant, has declared that there
was “no special cause of alarm” and the ap
prehension among the people was far greater
than the occasion called for.
We do not propose to endorse these last
opinions to the full extent—by no means. We
would have done and advised almost anything
which could have been done in conscience and
honor, to have avoided this cnlamity—for we
hold it is bound to prove a great one. But still
we may snmmon our confidence and say with
the apostle “we are cost down, bnt not destroyed
—we are perplexed bnt not in despair.”
Some of the alarms of the Chronicle and Sen
tinel we think are more or less groundless.—
Among these is one that the Congres3iotihl
agency established as a Legislature by the
Georgia bill, will annoy the people by laws for
mixing colors in railways, steamboats, churches
and theatres. Fortunately, the Constitution of
the State declares in section 11, article 1—the
social status of the citizen shall never be the
subject of legislation—and under this provision
the Supreme Court of Georgia has already de
cided all such laws null and void.
Then, too, about the subversion and destruc
tion of public justice by negro jnries, the Con
stitution provides, section 23, article 5, that
selection shall be made “of upright and in
telligent persons to serve as jnrors.”
The truth is, and let onr people realize and
take comfort in it, that the great over-rnlieg
force in our political community of Georgia is
Fnblic Opinion. Thi3 public opinion asserts
itself with almost the s&mo silent and irresisti
ble power which is displayed by tho Forces of
Nature.
It may, for a time, be confronted, opposed
and thwarted by tho machinations and contriv
ances of ontsiders and their representatives,
but these inventions act much like tho contriv
ances by which the little boys dam up a branch
in order to make a miniature lake for their toy-
boats. Tho water soon rises—overleaps the
dam and resumes its way to the broad level of
tho ocean. The power of man cannot retain it,
except at a prodigious expenditure and loss
which creates so vast a reservoir as to bring into
operation only another resource and force of
Nature which exhausts the ever recurring con
tributions by the processes of evaporation and
absorption.
Now, it is just so in Georgia as a political
community. Public opinion is the steadily ac-
cumulating power which must control public af
fairs. The contrivances of Congress and the
Destrnctionists are the juvenile dam to stop its
way. But it will soon accumulate its volume
and power and overleap their dam, and they
can't stop the current to any serions extent ex
cept at an expense altogether incommensurate
They may
legislate and proclaim and order and quarter
soldiers and bristle bayonets rill they are ont of
breath and out of pocket and worn out, and all
this time public opinion has been accumulating
head against their contrivances, and at the very
time they are most tired ont with trying them
on, it is ready in its greatest energy to assert
and resume its own course and sweep away
their obstructions. It is the old story of Mrs.
Partington against the rides.
In Georgia we have a sound public opinion.
Congress may obstruct it a while, and that is
all Congress can do. Congress may flout bad
laws in onr faces—harass ns by fraudulent tax
ation—waste—knavery and maladministration.
This we must anticipate and bo prepared for.
But let ns do the best we can to diminish these
evils, and be patient, quiet, vigilant and care
ful. See that we make no more blunders. The
party strategy of such rimes as these is not to
be determined by the books—it is not estab
lished by precedent—or settled by legislative res
adjudicates !
We say, then, never fear for the grand future
of Georgia. Congress cannot bedevil her as it
haB South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi—
bnt they will emerge in time. The whites will
control this State in spite of all Congress can
do. Oar correspondent of the “Notes,” in an
other part of this paper, takes a very encour
aging view even of the immediate oondirion;
but whatever may be the immediate condition,
the ultimate condition is assured. Let no man
doubt it.
Tennessee.—The Nashville Banner says Ten
nessee is in danger of sharing the fate of Geor
gia, and reports Senator Fowler as of opinion
that a bill to remand the State back to a territo
rial condition is in course of preparation, and
will be passed in Congress so soon as it reassem
bles. The^Banner calls npon the approaching
Convention to be on their guard, and says the
first blunder will be seized npon as a pretext to
retnro Tennessee to nnreconstrnction.
The Mobile and Girard Railroad.—The Co
lumbus Sun says though the structure is ready
for them, the rails over the bridge across the
Conecuh have not been laid. The officers of
the road hardly expect to reach Troy before ibe
latter part of January. The contractors have
promised and disappointed nntil there, is no tell
ing when anything will be finished.
. I Advice' Gratis.' "”'”
We are vastly more pnzzled than enlightened,
or edified, by the conflicting counsels of news
papers and correspondents about what Georgia
ought to do in this muss into which Congress
has plunged us. One insists that the members
shonld pay no attention to the proclamation—
stay at home—mind their own business and
treat it with silent contempt. Another says they
should all resign. Another insists they shonld
go and refuse to take the oath and thus carry
ont the maxim, that one man can lead a horso
to water, but no number can compel him to
drink.
And besides these and numerous other recom
mendations at home, we see a good many from
Democratic newspapers abroad. The Now York
Express of the 24th has the following:
AFFAIRS IN GEORGIA.
Gov. Bullock is urging on Gen. Grant to nse
the bayonet in Georgia to onst the Legislature
and, says a correspondent—
“ intimations have reached Washington to the
effect that the white members of the Legisla
ture, who cannot take the iron-clad oath, will
not allow themselves to be onsted and the ne
groes reinstated, unless they are compelled to
do so by military force.”
We trust this is so. A member of the Legis
lature should surrender his trust only on, and
under, the bayonet There shonld be no resist
ance—no fighting—but what the people need to
see, especially the people of the North, is a dis
placement of the Legislature by tho nse of force,
as Buonaparte displaced the Legislature of
France.
The Northern and Western people can only
be nroused to a sufficient comprehension of the
condition this Government is in—now in mili
tary hands—by the exercise of such powers as
these.
All that would be very dramatic. To prick
out the recusant andnonjuring members of the
Georgia Legislature with bayonets in the rear,
might make a readable passage in history for
future generations—to go alongside of the dis
solution of the Rnmp Parliament, but the New
York Express misses it a great deal when he
thinks it wonld arouse the Northern and West
ern people “to a sufficient comprehension of
the condition this Government is in.” Every
Radical among those people would say l ‘saned
'em right,'' and every Democrat wonld only raise
his hands a little higher in holy horror; bnt as
the Radicals outnumber the Democrats, the po
litical situation would remain essentially un
changed.
But some will ask, “well, what have you to
advise.” We are doubtful whether any advice
is worth one cent, and whether we, as a people,
are not remitted only to tho chapter of acci
dents and contingencies. The troth is, wo do
not know how tho manipulations of the great
firm of Congress, Terry & Bullock, will leave
the Legislature. How they will interpret and
how apply the purge, and what will be the re
sult of the application. Whether it will leave
both Houses the remorseless and helpless regis
ters of edicts against right and reason—or
whether, when the very worst is done against
these bodies, there may not still be left, in one
or both, such a remnant of grace and conscience
as may serve to protect the State, to an extent,
from the worst designs of these parties, and
save her from being the utterly helpless prey
of the spoilers.
But however this may be, one plain and in
evitable assumption should settle the impolicy
of all the recommendations that Democratic
members shonld resign, stay away, refuse to
take the oath, and so on. It is a fact that no
efforts of this kind will prevent a quorum.
There is bound to be a quorum. The nine dol
lars a day alone would bring a quorum, advise
how you will.
Assuming this fact, then, all the schemes on
the part of Democrats to frustrate their own
representation in either body, become simply so
many schemes to assist the Destroctionists.
They will be much pleased to have every Dem
ocratic Senator and Representative stay away.
Then what better course remains than that all
shonld go and as many get seats os can. That
they should agree among themselves to do the
best they can to prevent all threatened evils,
and nse their utmost influence to induce mem
bers of the majority to pursue the same course.
The State now appeals to these Democratic
members to be on their very best behavior.—
To quit their everlasting sponting—to be quiet—
observant—watchful—prompt and patriotic.—
The least that they can do for Georgia, after all
their calamitous mistakes, is to see that she
sustains no injury which may be prevented by
caution, skill and address on their part.
In brief, we have no other advice in the
premises than that we shonld do the best we
can do, and no very well assured hope that
much can be done at best. But we feel well as
sured that nothing can be accomplished by any
of the devices of resistance, either passive or
active. We must do what any man would do
when his house is on fire. Go in and save what
we can, and trust to time and opportunity to ad
just our difficulties with the incendiaries.
One of our old farmer correspondents says
they may do their worst—if they can’t stop tho
«nn and rains, and growth of corn and cotton.
The forces of nature are a little too much for
Radical malice—if they were not, we shonld have
to emigrate.
~tDn*lerMilitary Government Again.
We were told yesterday that in the course of
its bright and sunny hoars, Gem'Teby would
issue an order re-establishing military govern
ment. We said nothing about it at the time—
first, because we had no opportunity.!# speak
as editors do, and, secondly, did not like to dis
turb the night’s', rest of any reader. He conld
know nothing about it if not told.
Some have pretended to feel a pain in the hip
or left leg every time they are transferred from
one kind of government to another; but now
we put It to them seriously—did you feel such
a pain yesterday when you were transferred
from Bullock to Terry? H yea, describe it ?
It is important to science that this curions af
fair should be investigated; aud it can be well
settled in Georgia, where we have had a dozen
different governments in the last five years, and
may have twenty in the next Wo pop in and
ont like the clown in the empty hogshead—how
you see us, and now you don’t.
We know little about Terry, but suppose, like
most of tho old regular army officers, he would
bo a gentleman if Congress wonld let him alone.
But he is forced into bad associations which
have more or less a damnifying influence on
his mind and morals. However, we’ll make the
proposition at a venture. If Terry will take
this Government of Georgia as a permanent
job, we’ll agree to enlist under him as a “loyal”
subject—pay the -regular taxes—give up our
share in Congress—never be represented there
•keep the pence indefinitely and absolntely,
and let him boss the whole concern, work the
State on an economical basis, and pocket the
balance as pay and profits. And further, we
think we could secure a majority of votes to
sign this agreement, and thim put a final end to
construction, and dc-stroction, and all thestruo-
tions.
We had rather take onr chance under Terry
at a venture, ,than.under Bullock or Congress.
We don’t know him, but the others we know
too well. We hope he will lake this scheme
under consideration, and when ho once gets the
government again, hold on to it like a snap
ping-turtle and never let go. Vivo le Terry!
Georgia, nnder his sway, will rival the viceroy
alty of the renowned Sancbo.
If He Had Only Known.
The Newark Journal contains a speech from
a Mr. Noble, a real hard-homed fiery-mouthed
abolitionist, who has lately been South and
says:
“If he had known as much in the past of the
character of tho black race as ho knew through
his visit to the Southern States, his conduct
might have been different. While there, he
took notice of what ho saw and made inquiries
everywhere. The black people were not as well
off as previously, and they were so thriftless
that if they got a dollar they spent it in gewgaws
and finery instead of providing for their actual
necessities. He said they would not work
steadily long, and conveyed the idea that there
was little hope of their elevation.”
There is not a doubt in the world that if all
the abolitionists “had only known” what they
are going to know before long, they would have
been the last men on earth to have freed the ne
groes and started “manhood suffrage,” which
like enough will cost them all they’ve got.
And no doubt these wretched Radicals who are
pulling down the pillars of constitutional lib
erty, if they only knew that their own heads
would at last be smashed by the falling stones,
they, too, would quit the business. But they
don’t know, and the worst of it is, they come of
breed who will not be informed. They are
great deal too wise in their own conceit to
learn wisdom from history or philosophy, or
anything else but their own crude notions, and
must learn from experience. Then they will
find out what is what “if they had only known,”
and quit the monopoly of instructing.
S'ST TELEGBAPH.
Works of Col. N. C. Munroe.
IVe have a letter from Mrs. Hutton, in which
she writes: “I have copied and collected a great
deal of my dear father's writings, and wish to
bring out an edition of them to honor his mem
ory. I think I can have them printed and sold
at about $2.50 the two volumes. The first of
hese volumes to contain the memoirs, poems,
and a portrait, and the second, tales, essays etc.,
with possibly a picture of his home. The books
to be neatly bound; and all I could make over
the expenses of printing and binding, I would
devote to having a life-sized bust of him sculp
tured ihere for the “Munroe Library,” in
Macon. I am trying to induce some friends to
procure subscribers. Can you assist me in any
way in the sale of the work 1”
Probably the most effectual way in which we
can render assistance is to publish the proposi
tion and thus call the attention of the numerous
friends of Col. Munroe and his family to the
proposition. Subscriptions, we have no doubt,
would be numerous in Macon, if any body can
find time to collect them. They might be left
with Mr. Boardman or Messrs. Burke & Co.,
either of whom, we doubt not, will take pleasure
in assisting in so pious and patriotic a work.
Cuba.—The New York Tribune of Monday
has a report from Washington that the adminis
tration has now nnder earnest consideration the
propriety of changing its course with regard to
Cuba, and to speedly recognize tho belligerent
rights of the insurgents. This course is impell
ed by the evident feeling of the people of tho
country and the temper of the majority in Con
gress. The report farther states that Secretary
Fish and Senator Sumner have expressed with
in three days such views as would indicate a
changing policy toward the Cabans and a high
er confidence in their fntnre.
Goins Up.—The Cuban patriots are in a bad
way. The latest advices from Havana say :
“ The news from tho interior is unfavorable to
the insurgents. Many are soliciting pardons;
and where they continue to resist, the troops
are slowly bnt surely driving them back. A
battalion of Cuban volunteers arrived to-day
from Spain.
Mr. Davis.—The newspapers say that Mr.
Davis has just received ten thousand dollars by
devise from an Englishwoman.
A Christmas Row in Savannah.
The Morning News, of the 27th, tells the fol
lowing :
On Christmas afternoon, between the hoars
of three and four o’clock, our community was
startled by the report that a serious and dis
graceful riot had occurred on thf corner of
South Broad and East Boundary streets, and
that one policeman was killed and another dan
gerously wounded. We at once repaired to tho
Police Barracks, where we were given all the
information which we desired by the polite offi
cers who were on duty. Upon arriving at the
Barracks we found His Honor, the Mayor, who,
upon hearing ol tho unfortunate affair, hastened
to the police station, and seemed much affected
at the occurrence.
We conversed with Mr. Taylor, »ne of the
policemen, who was present daring the riot,
and almost miraculously escaped being killed
himself. From him we gather tho principal
facts of the case, which are are as follows:
It seemstbat policemen Riley, Taylor,and Sul
livan were off duty at the time,and on the corner
of South Broad and East Boundary streets they
saw two negroes engaged in a fight, one having
a club and the other handling a butcher knife,
the blade of which was thirteen or fourteen
inches long. At this point there are two gro
ceries, one kept by Henry Fields, colored, and
opposite, there is one equally as disreputable
kept by a white man by the name of Burch.—
Policemen Taylor and Riley seeing the distur
bance attempted to qnell the same, and arrest
the actors. As soon as they attempted to dis
charge their duty they were assaulted by forty
or fifty other negroes, coming from both Bides
of the streets, using clubs, staves, stones and
pistols. Policeman Sullivan at once went to
their assistance, with pistol in hand. Ho was at
once struck on the head, his pistol wrested from
his hand, and by bis own weapon shot dead np
on the spot. Up to this time the real perpetra
tors of tho deed are unknown, bnt our detectives
ore npon their tracks and we trust before anoth
er edition of tho News appears we shall have
the gratification of announcing to onr readers
the capture of the murderer.
We take the following local items from the
same paper:
Over two hundred arrivals occurred during
the past two day8.
Savannah accommodates at present an un
usually large number of New York business
men.
Col. Nickerson, of the Screven House, feasted
his guests on Christmas.
The river is rising very rapidly, and we can
expect a heavy freshet.
Another English steamer arrived here yes
terday.
A freight train on the Central road ran off
the track on Saturday morning. The accident
delayed the passenger train down two or three
hours. A run off also occurred on the Atlantic
and Gulf railroad the same day. Nobody hurt
in either case.
It is stated that the first trains will run
through on the Savannah and Charleston rail
road on the ,3d of January. \
A Significant Admission.
Our merchants and planters are doubtless as
competent to estimate the competive strength
of American descriptions of cotton as the Lon
don Times. Nevertheless, the admission by
that journal of the impossibility, nnder present
or contingent ciroumstances, of displacing cot
ton of, Southern growth with cotton of British
India growth, is very significant. Opinion
among English cotton spinners, after a long al
ternation of hope and disappointment as to tho
feasibility of such a development of cotton cul
ture in British territories as wonld render them
independent of the American supply, has been
verging of late towards tho view expressed by
the London Times, which paper, no doubt, is
well persuaded that it reflects or anticipates tho
general conclusion of the cotton-buying classes
in England when it acknowledges the invincible
tenacity with which American descriptions of
cotton hold, and are destined to hold, their
place in the English market. Such an utterance
by so prominent and influential an organ and
leader of English thought cannot fail to turn
the attention of the active manufacturing inter
est of England more earnestly than ever to the
importance of promoting an enlarged produc
tion of cotton in the South. There is but one
way of rationally; approaching ihis. subjeot—it
is to send English capital to the South for tho
purpose of increasing the amonnt of labor and
the area of land devoted there to the production
of cotton.—N. 0. Com. Bulletin.
FROM WASHINGTON.
Washington, December 28.—A heavy earthquake
is reported in Eastern California, and -throughout
Nevada. The shocks were felt on the lowest levels
of the minee. The vibrations were from north to
to south.
Tho regular session of the French Corps Legisla-
tif opens to-day.
The steamship China brings thirty-six thousand
cards of Bilk worm eggs from China and Japan, for
Lyons, Franco. They will come overland to New
York, thence by steamer. ' ,> ; '
Postinaster-General . Creswcll has gone to Now
York to attend to European mail transportation.
Tho steamers refuse to carry the mails at the re
duced rates.
The Protestant and Catholic mission houses at
Nankin, China, have been destroyed by a mob, and
and the inmates barely escaped.
The new translation of BurliDgame’B credentials
shows that ho was accredited to lesser powers, and
accorded no plenipotential powers.
The departments close at noon—little buEiness
transacted.
Rufus R. Wade has been reappointed special agent
at large on mail depredations.
There was no Cabinet to-day.
Gold in-tho Treasury, $107,000,000; gold certifi
cates, $37,000; currency, $10,500,000. The Treas
ury statement will show a decreasoof probably
$7,000,000.
Tho Tribune says a test case, selected by the
brokers, has just been decided by tho Court of Ap
peals in this city, reversing a previous judgment of
the Supreme Court, and fixing the principle that
when a broker buys stock on a margimfor. a cus
tomer, he is not at liberty to sell it because it falls
below the margin, without giving notice of the time
and place of sale. Considering the stock as tho
property of tho customer, the Court in this instance
makes tho broker who sold under such circum
stances liable for the highest price tho stock may
hayo reached, even to tho date of this trial. This
will be new doctrine to Wall Street.
It is reported that E. J. Oakley ha3 been embez-
lipg tho funds of tho Merchants’ Exchange Bank
for a long time. The deficit roaches two hundred
thousand dollais. The surplus of the bank amounts
to eighty thousand, sfter paying the dividends.
In the case of Romain Lawrence againstB. F. But
ler—the Twiggs Sword case—a motion was made
to vacate the order of arrest, on the ground that
tho taking was nnder orders of the United States,
and that there was no conversion. Decision re
served.
The Postoffice authorities are negotiating with
Inman, Aucher and several other lines, to carry the
mails at reduced rates. Tho negotiations are not
yet concluded.
Washington, December 29.—Tho Mexican Com
missions have as yet mado no legal decision—in fact,
the Court is not yet organized, tho Umpire being
absent—Cushing, who represents Mexico; objecting
to Ashton—the latter, who represents America, is
objecting to tho Mexican nomination of Umpire,
which is referred to the Englishminister, Thornton.
This morning's Chronicle says that the statement
sent from this city to the New York Tribune, and
published in that paper of yesterday, imputing cer
tain views and purposes on the Cuban question to
tho President, Mr. Fish, Secretary of State,-and
Senator Sumner, is, in all its assertions and infer
ences, utterly without foundation.
Bevenne to-day $320,000.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, RichardsoD,
positively quits January 1st.
Senator Pratt, of Indiana, has resigned.
It is now said that the decrease of the public
debt will hardly reach three millions of dollars.
The agricultural report just out makes the cotton
crop 2,700,000 commercial bales, fully equal to three
millions bales of four hundred pounds each.
FROM VIRGINIA.
Richmond, December 29.—The Stalo Central Com
mittee of the Seceding wing of tho Republican
party has prepared a bill to he submitted to Con
gress, providing that tho Legislature shall meet and
take only the oath prescribed in tho Fourteenth
Amendment, and go on to elect State officers aud
Judges, after which it shall adjourn, and its work bo.
submitted to Congress, and if approved, the State
shall then be admitted.
The Chamber of Commerce to-day adopted a pe
tition to Congress to release from payment of reve
nue tax. whisky or tobacco which may be destroyed
by firo orwreek. ,i ,
Dr. James Dave, a well known physician died to
day.
FROM SEW ORLEANS.
New Orleans, December 29—A large number of
vessela from foreign ports with cargoes have ar
rived. AmoDg them is tho new steamship States
man, of the New Orleans and Liverpool line.
Tho regular session of the Louisiana Legislature
begins On Monday.
A match game of base ball was played to-day be
tween the Mutuals aud the Lone Stars, at which
three thousand spectators were present. It becom
ing daTk at tho seventh inning, tho game wo3 called,
with the following result: Mutuals—1, 2, 2,1, 6,
4, 0,—1G; Lone Stars, 1,0, 3,1,3, 0, 2,—10, The
Mutuals will play tho Lone Stars again Saturday,
the Southerns on Sunday, and start for home on
Monday.
FROM CUBA.
Havana, December 27.—The holidays are paseing
tranquilly. --
Jobs Crcspcles and Jose Bubo, convicted of at
tempting to incite tho Catalan volunteers to rev
olution, were garroted on Saturday.
Arrived, City of Mexico, from Vera Cruz: Rap-
idan, from Now York; Teutonia, from New Or
leans.
GENERAL NEIVS.
St. Louis, December 23 Fearly five hundred
Chineso will arrive hero to-night. They will imme
diately proceed to Texas to work on railroads.
City of Mexico, December 23.—Mr. Seward has
departed for a tour to interesting points in the in
terior. He will leave Vera Cruz on the second day
of January.
The government troops havo gained several im
portant victories over the Malcontents, the most
formidable of whom have fled to the mountains.
Augusta, December 28.—A serions row occurred
at Dcering, Columbia county, yesterday afternoon,
in which A. N. Hodo and Ellis Adams were shot and
killed and Diap Hodo wounded. Whisky was tho
cause. There was no politics in the qn&rreL
New York, December 28.—The investigation of
the Merchants’ Exchange Bank irregularities show a
deficit already of $150,000, and it will probably be
muck largor. The names of the defaulters havo
not transpired. The bank claims ability to meet
liabilities.
Charleston, December 28.—The officers of the
fleet of thirteen Spanish gunboats now anchored off
the Battery, were entertained at a collation to-day,
given by the municipal authorities. The fleet will
remain here for three or four days, and, it is ex
pected, will m&ko this port their rendezvous. The
frigate Fizarro and three gunboats are expected to
night.
Philadelvhia, December 28.—Rev. Father Du an
is dead. He was pastor of Phillip de Norr church
in Southwark during the native American riot.
Chicago, November, 28- — Gov. McDougall is
about abandoning North-western Canada, leaving
the insurgents in quiet possession.
New York, December 29.—It is reported that
Creswoll has contracted with tho Williams and
Gnioa and National steamship companies for At
lantic mails.
St. Louis, December 29.—Two hundred and fifty
Chinese departed on the steamor Mississippi, for
Texas railroads.
Convention or Vengeance Hire.
A special Washington correspondent of the
Atlanta Constitution indites a flaming letter to
that paper of the 28th, calling upon the Conser
vatives to hold a State Convention—pledge the
Legislature to adopt the Fifteenth Amendment,
or prepare themselves to endure the following
troubles set forth seriatim:
1. All emigration to Georgia will cease.
-2. All persons living beyond the limits of
Georgia will not likely invest their means in
district controlled by military authority.
3. All persons residing in the limits of Geor
gia who possess ready means will certainly mcrve
to a place of security.
4. The construction of railroads and factories
will cease. ■ ■ ■ 4 ,
5. Labbr will be disorganized, and as a con
sequence, no crops made.
G. The lands of the State depreciated.
7. The credit of business men seriously in
jured.
8. A general loss of confidence, followed by
lawlessness and violence.
Such must be the inevitable effects of the
act “to promote reconstruction in Georcia
What will Bullock do ? b '
1. He will organize a Legislature that will do
whatever he says. Does not the act give him
this power ? For the day has passed to say, so
and so cannot ha done. Men said, in solemn
accents, that Congress dare not pass this very
act. Notwithstanding, it has been done. ■ ■’
2. After having a Legislature organized to
smt him, the Governor” win settle his obliga-
Ji° n lA 0 Cvugtess by ordering the adoption of
the fifteenth Amendment. That done, Congress
loses sight of Georgia and turns its attention
to Tenessee, or some other field for vengeance
and rapine. .-
3. “The Governor” will order the passage of
an act to organize a colored militia for the bet
ter seourity of life, liberty and property, andfor
the further prevention of Ku-Klux outrages.
4. He will fill every office in the State with
his particular friends.
5. He will have an act passed for the purchase
of the Opera House, for half a million.
6. He will have an act passed ordering the
sale of the State Road.
7. An enormous tax will be levied to. build
new lines of railroads, and to perfect a system
of free schools.
8. An enormous amount of State lands will
be issued, simply to be sacrificed in the mar
kets.
9. The State will be plundered and bank
rupted.
A hungry swarm of Bullock’s attachees hov
ered around the Capitol pending the passage of
the Georgia outrage, and now that the deed has
been consummated, with sharpened beaks and
voracious stomachs, tho dock is beginning to move
Southward. Their threats of vengeance and
gain found free utterance after the passage of
the Act. Poor Georgia will be denuded of the
last ounce of flesh and robbed of her last penny.
Ten thousand carpet-baggers are now ready
for the journey to Georgia; many on the way,
and the rest only waiting to procure transpor
tation from the head of the Freedman’s Bureau.
They will be at the meeting of the Legislature.
We submit the writer is inconsistent when he
says immigration will cease, and then threatens
ns with ten thousand carpet-baggers. We
should take whole list of his troubles—the en
tire Pandora’s Box—rather than vote for the
Fifteenth Amendment—on the principle that it
is better to starve than steal.
FINANCIAL AND OOMMERnr^j
Duly Review of the Market.
A Leaf from History—The Secrets of
the Impeachment Trial Revealed.
A correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette has
recently revived some of the corruption stories
that have hung about the impeachment trial of
President Johnson ever since the result of that
famous attempt to thrust a President of the
United States from the magisterial chair for po
litical and party motives. The names of Gen.
Butler, Cornelius Wendell and other prominent
politicians, figure extensively in this story,
which will wind np with the details of a political
compact alleged to have been entered into with
Mr. Johnson, by which he was to give assur
ances of good behavior, and make such Cabinet
changes as were suggested to satisfy the Sena
tors that would vote for acquittal.
TIIE MONEY CHARGES OP CORRUPTION
are three—one of $50,000, in the form of a bet
by Radicals, ostensible -impoachers, that Mr.
Johnson'would be arquitted, the theory being
that the President’s friends would cover thebet,
and that the Radicals would see that there wa3
no conviction, in order to win—that is, a pur
chase of acquittal for SoO.OOO ; the second pro
position involved $165,000, which, it is asserted,
was raised by Johnson’s friends, from operators
chiefly in New York, without the President’s
knowledge or wishes, by the advice of Cornelius
Wendell, who said the way must be bought out,
and thought it could be clone for $200 000. The
money was handled by middle men, but it is not
shown that any Senator touched a dollar. The
third inoney proposition, it is charged, came
from General Butler, the imiieacliment pros
ecutor, who, it is alleged, wished to buy off
Wendell with a check for $100,000, signed by a
prominent Senator. Wendell’s came was to en
trap Butler in this offer if it conld be made di
rect, and expose him in open Senate. It is as
serted that General Butler drove in a close
carriage to the rear of Wendell’s house and
waited some time to get him out, hut was un
successful, and that Wendell, on his part, could
not get witnesses to the $100,000 proposition,
and so both matters stood off.
OFFICE TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER 11
December 29—Evening, 1869’! j
Corros.-Veiy little offering. No ch jjl
yesterday’s quotations. A strict article of New Y^l
middling commanded 22* cents. It fractional
from that figure to 20 cents. t! ®
Cotton 22@22*.
Bacon.—Clear sides 21*<322; dear sides 21@2iwl
dere lS^ 17 '^ dCarrib bu!k 8idei3 18: bulk sho^. j
Dard—by the keg 22@22*.
Salt—Liverpool, per sack, $2 25.
Corn—white $1 40® $1 45.
Business has been active in all branches of tra^J
LATEST-MARKETS BY TELERRap
Domestic Markets.
New York, December 29, noon Cotton steady
25*.
Fionr 5 better. Wheat 1 lower. Com 1 low».
Pork quiet: mess 30 00030 25. Lara quiet. Tori
pontine quiet at 43*. . Rosin steady; strained 2rv-
@2 10. Freights quiet. ■
Stocks weak and unsettled. Monev 7. Exchanm,
long 9: short 9*. Gold 19*. 1862s'l2*. Tennev
see 6s. ex-coupon 53; new 47*. Virginia'Gs, ex-con
pons 47*; new 54. Louisiana 63. old 70; new crv.
levees 6s 64: 83 82. Alabama 8s 91; 5s 61. G eo 3'
6a 61 asked: 7s 94 asked. North Carolinas, old 401V
new28*. South Carolinas, new 80.
New York. December 29. evening Cotton
dosing quiet; sales 3300 bales at 25*.
Flour 6@10 better oh low grades; superfine o f , f .
4 75@5 00; common to fair., extra Southern i
6 00. Wheat a shade better but quiet; the timm,.
of holders restricts the export demand
1 83@1 37 Com heavy; old mixed Western1 u?
Pork unchanged. Lard, firmer at 18®lSk WhiA,
98@1 00. Turpentine 43@45. Rosin 2 OOfflS orf
Freights firmer; cotton, per steam *.
Money very stringent at 7 for gold. Sterling
heavy and lower at 8*@S*.' Gold dull and hew?
at 19*@19*. Bonds weak. 1862s 12*. Stools
active bnt weak, dosing quiet.
Baltimore, December 29—Cotton nominal » t
2i j f lour dull; business light. Wheat steady. Cor
active; receipts small; white 85ra87: vellow 88
Oats and Rye dull. Provisions'very dull and'™!
changed. Whisky 1 00.
Virginias, old 31*; 1867s 46 bid.
Savannah, December 29.—Cotton receipts 255;
hales; sales 350; exports 6539; middlings 23*; nut.
ket firm.
Avan
bales; w
mand, but dosed quiet and*easier; middlings 22*|J
-ott^xa, December 2D.—Cotton receipts 580 j
8; saTea 560; market opened firm with a fair de-j
Charleston, December 29.—Cotton receipts ll^i
bales; sales 450; exports to the Continent 3601
coastwise 1476; market quiet; middlings 23*. |
Wilmington, December 29.—Spirits TurpentictJ
quiet. Rosin dull and lower; strained 1 50@1
Crude Turpentine unchanged. Tar steady at' 15'|
Cotton steady at 23023*. • * A
Louisville, December 29.—Provisions firmeJ
Mess Pork 30 00. Bacon, shoulders 14*; clear Bid
18. Lard 18. Whisky 95.
Cincinnati, December 29.—Com firmer at 7og“l
Whisky 947295. Mess Pork 29 00. Bacon in fair d~|
mand; shoulders 14; packed sides 17. Lard higlj|
St. Iouis, December 29.—Com, yellow 82; choisH
liifA 00. \VMslnr ATaca T>rv**lr OQ kaiH
30 00. Bacon, shoulders.nominally 14014* Lit!!
16*@17.
Mobile, December 29.—Cotton sales 1000 hdoj
receipts 1612; exports 6473; market dull; midi ■
23*(<i23*.
New Orleans, December 29.—Cotton receipts2i
bales; sales 5600; exports to Havre 3235, to Eos!
1383: market active; high grades scarce and fiir
middlings 24@24*.
Flour firmer; superfine 5 25; double extra 51
treble extra 6 00(26 25. Com dull at 88(290. Ox
stock light; choice 68; St. Louis 70. Bran 115. Hi
24 00. Mess Pork 30 00@30 25. Bacon unchanged
Lard, tierce 18*@18*: keg 20(221. Sugar and W
lasses quiet. Whisky 90(21 00. Coffee unchanged
Gold 20*. Sterling 30*. New York Sight**
count.
7+
Forelgn Markets.
London, December 29, noon —ConBOla 92k 3
rmSo SR J
Bonds 86.
Later.—Consuls 92. Bonds 85*.
Tallow firmer at 45.
Liverpool, December 29. noon.—Cotton mark!
opens steady; uplands 11*@11>.<; Orleans 115£@
119*; sales 10,000 bales.
Later.—Cotton unchanged.
Lard flat at 75s. Bacon 63s6s.
Liverpool, December 29,. evening.—Cotton closed
heavy; uplands 11*; Orleans 11*; sales 12.W
hales; for export and speculation 3000.
Bed Western wheat 8s3S8s4d.
Paris. December 29, noon.—Bourse opened quiet
Rentes 72f70c.
THE POLITICAL BARGAIN
is said to have been made at Mr. Reverdy John
son’s house, between Senator Grimes and the
President, when tho wishes of Senators Hender
son, Ross, Fessenden and Trambudl were made
known, that tho President would give assurances
that he wonld do nothing for vengeance after
acquittal, and that he wonld change his Cabinet,
so as to make it less objectionable. The Presi
dent, it is stated, consented to this, and his case
was insured.
In the conference, it is stated, Mr. Evarts
was cast for Secretary of State, Reveidy John
son for Attorney General, Groesbeck, of Ohio,
for Secretary of the Treasury. The President
made known his intention to place General
Schofield in office as Secretary of War, which
was satisfactory. Of these names, Hon. Rev
erdy Johnson, it is alleged, withdrew at his own
request, and Evarts was substituted.
radical inferences.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Paris, Dceomber 28.—Tho Emperor accepts tho
resignation of tho Ministry. Tho Emperor's loiter
to Olliver requests him to name persons who, with
himself, wfil form a homogeneous Ministry, faithful
ly representing the legislative majority, and resolved
to apply, in letter and spirit, the “senatus consul-
turn” of September 8.
London, November 28.—Tho new Austrian and
Chinese treaty forbids Consols engaging in trade.
Bristol, Eng., December 23.—In the theatrical
panic eighteen were killed and many hurt.
Paris, December 28.—The new French Ministry,
under the leadership of Olliver, will probably soon
be announced.
In all th'13 story it does not appear that money
had any effect. It is not shown that any Sen
ator’s vote was bought, either for or against re
moval, but there is some reason to believe that
a good deal was pocketed by irresponsible lob
byists; who, in their greedy career of gain, have
soiled alike the names of President and Sen
ator. ’ That some Senators, as the New York
Post well says, “feeling bound to vote against
the removal of the President, yet thought it
prudent to see him before the vote was taken,
and get his promise to conduct himself with
propriety, appears not to us improbable. But
even this story must be held in doubt until Mr.
Grimes returns to this country, and has the op
portunity to speak for himself and Mr. Fessen
den.” The New York Post, also says in this
connection that it is a little odd that out of this
whole impeachment scandal, Andrew Johnson
has so far come with clean hands; and that the
person whose reputation has been most severely
touched by the “revelations” made from time
to time, is Johnson’s most bitter prosecutor,
General Butler. It is probably true; as Mr.
Maynard, of Tennessee, once told several of the
Congressmen most prominently concerned in
the impeachment—“You made a blunder in
charging Jolinson with corruption in money
The story of George Peabody’s love is au
thentically told by a writer in the Providence
Journal More than thirty years ago a Provi
dence school girl, of rare beauty and good fam
ily, found her first love in a youth of a neigh
boring city. They were “engaged,” but he failed
in business, could not afford to marry, and re
leased her from her engagement, she going to
Europe with her friends. There die met George
Peabody, then, comparatively speaking, a young
man, but one who was already making his mark,
and whose wealth was beginning to pour in on
every side. He became enamored of her beauty
and grace, and finally made to her an offer of
marriage. After some hesitation, she accepted
her new suitor, and returned to America his
affianced wife.' Here she met her former lover,
the old affeotion returned, and she began to pine
away in an appropriate manner. At length she
told all to Mr. Peabody, and be, with that man
liness that characterized his every action, gave
her up, and, in due time, she was married and
settled. This is the one romance in the Ufa Of
the great philanthropist. The lady was left a
widow not 1 many years of
whether Mr.
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