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THE GEORGIA WEEKLY TELEGRAPH
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TIIF. RADICALS FUXGHHG.
"Whether from genuine remorse of con
science^ fears for their own popularity, it is
^TZjnnah Herald of Friday con- evident that the Radicals of the so-called
a- r —— Tiirirr* Lw Congress arc flinching from the performance
of a portion of their published programme.
The latter consideration is, doubtless, the sole
„ »hle argument* from Judge Law
TeT * , grown, before the U. 8. District
i to the Teat Oath., The
gTA cotemporary, says the Nashville
Banner, places among the head-lines of an ar
ticle on “Southern Opinion,” the following:
“Orations over the rebel dead! Garlands for
tbeir graves! No flowers lor Federals!”—
Dow very unfair and uncalled for is this at
tempt to make an argument out of the most
natural and inevitable of circumstances!—
The Confederate dead were our neighbors,
relatives and friends, and the ceremonies
which we observe in honor of them are purely
religious and personal, not political. Those
who fell on the other side were not our rela
tions, neighbors or friends, and why should
we weep for them 1 ’ Monuments in their
name are going up all over the North 7 eulo
gies of their deeds are being pronounced ev
ery day; and yet, if a tew widows and or
phans of a loved one here in the rioutli at
tempt the like, it is seized upon by the ghouls
of Radicalism, who respect the dead no more
than the living, for a little capital, and
bandied over the country to prove that “the
rebels are as disloyal as ever.” Out upon
inch hypocrisy! Begotten in a wicked spirit,
it cannot taint any just or good man, North
or South. '
MATTERS IN PULASKI. * '
Hawkinsvillb, Ga., May lOtb, 1886.
Ifeurt. Editor*:—We are having a remakn-
bly dull time in our town now. Business is at
»atand still with no prospect of reviving
toon. A steamboat arrives occasionally which
afford the boys and freedmen some amuse
ment, as they generally make a rnsh for the
river when the whistle blows.
I hear great complhint from the fanners on
account of the failure of the cotton seed to
germinate, and I do not think there will be
half a crop made. The freedmen, I believe,
do as well as could be expected; there are ex
ceptions to the general rule in every case.
The health of this section was never better,
® fact, the Doctors (of which we have plen-
lj), are very near idle.
1 am well pleased with your paper, and
<1° not hesitate to recommend the “Weekly
Telegraph" as the largest, and best paper in
South. May your dimentions never grow
tes for want of patronage.
Respectfully yours,
Sidney.
(Wirt, in °PP " " »ilowed a week to pre- moving cause of their drawing back, for their
r g. Attorney
bis reply*
„ „« State.—The Louisville Journal
^ perfectly evident from certain
^logy used by President Johnson in his
P proclamation, that he ia not prepared
P < * ce P h#t West Virginia is constitutionally
The rightfullness of her claim to be
a state may well be questioned.
“ inclined to think that what was the
* Dominion once will be the Old Dominion
jjiin*
tu0UH Furniture Store.—The adver-
• ment of Mr. S. Harrington, furniture deal-
U *L in Savannah. Mr. II., has been twen-
in the business, is an excellent judge
'floods in his line, and his connection with
JJ, manufacturing nml jobbing houses
Vartb, affords him peculiar opportunities for
Punishing the latest styles and at the lowest
narKet prices. Persons visiting Savannah will
pvc him a call.
LouisviU-k Courier.—We were gratified
tt rday, by » visit from Mr. John Ulrich,
'Z general agent and special correspondent
f the above able and popular journal. He
• irao ngst us with the view of extending the
business of the “Courier,” which, we take
pleasure in saying is one of the best and most
Lrited newspapers in Kontucky, being con
trolled by men who have no sympathies bc-
romi the South and a constitutional Union.—
ITe commend Mr. Ulrich to the courtesy of
our citizens.
Military Murders.—.The Supreme Court
of the United States has decided that the trial
of civilians by military commission is uncon
ditional. Alas! exclaims the Louisville
Journal, the decision cannot bring back to
lift the civilians who liavo-becn tried by such
commissions and executed! It is a sad and
strlul thought that they were put to death
illegally*
It is a sad and awful thought. Poor Wirtz
w d Mrs. Surratt sleep in their graves, the
Tictims of military usurpation and tyranny.—
They would have walked the earth still had
the law prevailed, and if their ghosts do not
ntuni to haunt their murderers, it will be
because their consciences arc too scared with
iniquity to feel a pang of remorse.
Savannah and Memphis Raii.road.—The
Legislature of Alabama, at its late session,
changed the name of the “Opelika and Tal
ladega Ilailroad,” to the "Savannah and Mem-
pbis Railroad.” This road is designed to ex
tend Item Opelika to Tuscumbia, in Alabama,
connecting at that point with the Memphis
and Charleston Railroad. The distance from
Tuscumbia to Savannah, by this line will Ire
530 miles of which 318 miles, from Savannah
to Opelika, are now in operation. This road
was begun in the fall of 1800, and fifteen
miles of the work partially completed. J.
It Slaughter, Esq., President of the road has
issued a circular, setting forth the advantages
of tlii* route, and directing the attention ot
capitalists to it as a desirable investment.—
lie claims that it will pass through a country
rich in agricultural as well as mineral re
sources, will be a favorite route from the At
lantic to the Mississippi—constituting almost
an air line.
County Elections.
Bartow County.—Hon. T. H. Trippc, was
tiected Judge, and William J. Conyers, So
licitor.
Polk CouNTT.-Daniel Roberts, was elected
Joflge, and Irvin Thompson, Solicitor.
Clark* County.—Asa M. Jackson, was
elected Judge, and James C. Barton, Solici
tor.
Walton County.—Dr. F. S. Colley, was
•lected Judge, and J. W. Arnold, Solicitor.
Jackson County.—William M. Marlcr, was
tlected Judge, and W. J. Price, elected So
licitor.
Banks County.—Capt. D. G. Candler, was
tlected Judge, and Maj. Madison Bell, elected
Solicitor.
Hajif.rkiiam COUNTY.—Cicero Sutton, was
elected Judge, and Alexander S. Erwin, So
licitor.
Baldwin County.—Capt. Thos. W. White,
was elected Judge, and T. F. Newell, Solici
tor.
shameless^ breach of faith with the South,
and manifest desire to execute tlieir cruel
revenge upon a fallen foe, even though the
constitution and liberty should be crushed by
the blow, prove that nothing is too wicked
for them to conceive and attempt. All moral
and legal restraints have long since been cast
off as troublesome shackles on their diaboli
cal will, living policy as their only counsel
lor and guide.
It is, at all events, worthy of remark, that
this party of revolutionists have abandoned
one of their leading and favorite measures for
degrading the South—universal negro suf
frage. Sumner and Stevens, with all their
newspaper organs, great and small, for months
after the opening of the session, would hear
to nothing else. There could be no compro
mise. The battle was fought to give free
dom to the slave, not so much for the love of
freedom, but that the power of the slave
might be felt in the government—the govern
ment that they bad formed and which could
not stand except on the shoulders of the
negro. Give up s^ch a chance of perpetuat
ing power and spoils in themselves! Never.
However, it has been given up, from no
regard for the South, but on the admoni
tion gathered from the fable where the dog
lost his meat to win a shadow. In their at
tempt to get the vote of the negro, they saw
they were about to lose the vote of the
white man. One or the other bad to be
abandoned, and the negro went by the
board.
The second manifestation of tlieir craw
fishing propensities is to be found in the vote
of the Senate, on Friday, in opposition to the
reconsidered amendment to the Postal Appro
priation bill. In this case the despotic fac
tion in that body, had, by a large vote,
usurped the constitutional power of the Presi
dent to make his own appointments of purely
executive officers, by declaring that no officer
appointed daring the recess of the Congress
should receive a dollar of pay until they had
ratified his nomination. The object was to
prevent the President from removing from
office, the enemies of his administration—
men, who, instead of serving their country
and lending their influence to the restoration
of the constitution and the Union, were
leagued with ‘"traitors,” to overthrow the one
and keep asunder the other. Such an aggress
ion upon the rights of the Executive had
never before been attempted in the history of
the government. The innovators, though, be
came alarmed, and why t Did they become
convinced of the wrong they had done a
co-ordinate branch of the government f Not
at all. This was a small matter, or no matter
at all. They found that the President was
determined to make the removals as regards
all obnoxious officials and to appoint nobody
in their places, thus bringing the wheels of
the government to a dead pause, for which
the Radicals would be responsible to the peo
ple! Here was the secret oi their sudden
alarm, and they took the back track, passing
the bill without the amendment.
These are significant and encouraging facts.
They show two things: first, that there is a
public sentiment at the North opposed to
outrage and wrong; and secondly,.that these
lawless men in Congress are afraid of it.—
The South, then, has something to build a
hope upon—tlieir year#,, if not thiir sense ol
right and patriotic duty.
In addition, to these facts, but a few days
ago, Mr. Forney, their acknowledged spokes
man and editor of the Washington Chroni
cle, clearly intimated that the most objectiona
ble sections of the “Plan of Reconstruction”
might bo modified, under certain circum
stances, so as to make it, after all, not a very
nauseous dose to the Southern people.
We throw out these things as straws, to
show that the enemies of the South arc at
least wavering in their malignant designs.—
Let the Southern reader bo not too far en
couraged however, for the Radicals are relent
less, and may let go at one point only to take
a better hold at another. In no event should
we allow any sort of appearances to divert us
from that sacred religious duty to ourselves
and the cause of free government, to submit
to no further condition as a means of recover
ing our constitutional position and rights in
the Union. We have already done all that a
free and high-minded people could do, and
every step beyond it is one of disgrace for us
and our children. Let the South stand firm
as a rock where the it, fold her arms in quiet,
spurn every unworthy overture, and await the
sober judgment and patriotism of the Amer
ican people. These will in due time vindicate
her claims and restore her to every right.
LETTER FROM AUGUSTA.
Augusta, Ga., May 1st,1866.
Dear Telegraph .-—Crops in this section look
tolerably well, considering the “pluvius”
weather. Rain has fallen abundantly. The
late election for County Judge gives unmixed
satisfaction to every moral and upright citi
zen. The Judge elect is a man noted for great
integrity of character, and whose word is
bond sufficient in itself. The “Constitution
alist” under the skillful management of Dutch-
er, Randall and Walsh, is a first class journal.
The Chronicle & Sentinel, reduced to a very
low ebb by Morse, has regained in a great de
gree its former popularity and influence, un
der the command of Gens. Wright, Atkinson
and Calvin. In ante-bellum times, Uump
tpealcing was considered “Ranee’s ’ forte; du
ring the late “rebellion” our “once enemies”
but “now fellow-citizens,” imagined that^fylit-
ing was his peculiar lino; but people arc be
ginning to believe that “our Ranee” has
• struck his talent” at last, as an editor. He
certainly knows how to lead the columns of
his journal.
The Mayor of the city is working vigorous-
y to prevent robbery and the cholera. Ow
ing to the extravagance of his predecessor he
found ihe city bankrupt But Messrs. Ram
sey and Estes, of the Finance Committee, de
vised a plan to restore the credit of the city
and pay every dollar of indebtedness. K hile
other men are pushing themselves fonvnrd,
Gen. LaFayctte McLaws, with that timidity
characteristic of great men, remains in the
background, Why his great capacities nnd
superior qualifications are not brought into
active exercise for tlic benefit of the country
by some Railroad, Express company, or other
corporation, instead of being “cabinncd, crib
bed and confined” in a little county otlicc
that don't yield him enough hardly to pur
chase the necessaries oflife, is passing strange!
No wonder, our great men aro seeking homes
in Mexico, and other lands, when we suffer
them to “rust” here in our midst. Inertia is*
death to un active mind.
A project has been started at Scottsvillc,
Va.. to settle lands secured in Venezuela by
one Dr. H. M. Price. Tlic list of directors
embraces the name of Gen. Kershaw,of South
Carolina. A gentleman in this State has re
ceived scrip for 60,000,000 acres in Venezuela-
There may be “some gum” in the enterprise:
who knows? Trade is stagnant Nothing
seems to stir it Effort arc being made to re
organize the Sons of Temperance in this
State. Prominent among those engaged in
the noble work is W. G. WUidliy,P. G. W. P.
We understand that he answers all letters ad
dressed to him for information on that sub.
ject
The small-pox has dwindled down for wsnt
of subjects. Tattoed faces are quite common.
The hymeneal fever is on the intense, as the
prospect for a large blackbery crop Is very
flattering. -‘Flies” are numerous, yet the
price of sodawatcr remains the same.
U No Hoo.
For the Telegraph.
Our Women.
Whither are ye drifting ? Seems not this an ap
propriate question, when we look upon the beau
tiful crowds of women Dos ting along our streets,
decked out in all the gay trappings of fashionable
fineryJ
If we allow the fair “divinities” to answer onr
first question, doubtless the reply would be “We
go to the Bazars of fashion. Know yon not that
the new goods nave arrived and all the latest
Northern styles are to be seen now! Do you
blame our eagerness t Think of the years we
have been deprived of fine dressing.”
We th think of them, think ot them always. O,
woman, never did you appear more lovely than
when through those four bloody years you scorned
the dictates of Dame Fashion, reduced yourselves
to reasonable dimensions, and spent the time, not
devoted to the needy soldier, in repeiring your old
clothing or stitching on the neat homespun made
in our own looms. Never liefore were yon so hon
ored by those whom you then delighted to please.
Then it was yon cut loose the trammels 01 the
fickle goddess tbst had bound yon so long, and we
beheld yon in your native character. True, noble,
lovely women.
“The hand that madtryou fair mude yon good,”
but, alas, how weak! A mind of wax to be
moulded alternately by gcqd or evil—“By force,
by fraud or skill.” A heart relying never upon its
own strength for support, but with tendrils ever
reaebiug out and cliuging around whatever can
"sustain them. Happy for v ou, and for mankind, If
some careful hand gather up those tender fibres
e’er they trail in the dust, and twine them in the
right direction around the firm pillars of virtue,
religion and morality. If 11 be otherwise, and they
ore Kit uncared for by such a band, how many oth
ers aro ready to direct them over the light frame
work ot vanity and deceit? Sure it is, those ten
der fibres must cling to something, or in other
words, they must be direct*^.
Naturally a creature purs and lovely, worth the
worship our sex are ever so ready to yield to
you. Why is it, O, woman: that you listen so
readily to the tempter, and allow yourselves to bo
swayed by every passing bieeze?
Shame that wc can have cause to exclaim with
the poet—
“ Maidens like moths are caught by glare,
Aud mammon wins his way where seraphs might
[despair.”
Couvinced that, despite all the false glare by
which you are aurtouuded, there is still much of
the true woman left, that your hearts are not so
strongly bound to the Goddess of fashion, as not to
be severed. I dare not to advise or to warn, but
to beseech yon to pause aud think where you may
be drifting, and where yon may be leading those
who support you. Tue present is gloomy enough
the future may be made doubly so.
During the years of adversity, where wc were
struggling and dying tor freedom, you stood by us
to the last; made every sacrifice willingly and
gracefully. When it waa all over, and our wild
visions of victory and independence were crashed,
we were humble by defeat, stripped of our pos
sessions, the thought ot one great treasure left,
gladdened our hearts amid the deepest gloom.—
Our true hearted women were left us. In all the
broad desert, that one bright Oasis cheered our
eyes. Like the way-wori traveler ovsr Sahsra’a
du-ty plain, we turn with eager eye* and yearning
hearts to that bright, blooming spot. At last It is
gained. The weary traveler searches in vain for
the pure fountain wherewith to quench his thirst.
Searches in vain! He finds only soft mud. Tho
water is all gone. All gjven to make the beauti
ful green thing that disappointed the weary heart
ed traveler.
Ladies, may we not be campalred to that travel
er* Docs the fountain of your hearts well up for
as, or has it not ail been bestowed upon your
selves t Beautiful and blooming you are, but I
verily believe that the God, Goddess or Demon of
Dry Goods, have stolen your hearts from us. Man
might once have boasted that he conld command
the”worship of woman, but ’Us no longer so, for
she Is too madly enamored of finery to worship
any other idoL
GenUemen it ia time to rally; to sound again
the tocsin of war. W« roust defend ourselves.
Can we sit tamely by and see a “love of a bon
net,” a “duck of a dress” and the “Dearest hoops’
fake possession of the hearts that should be ours,
in part at least? We are about to be crowded
off the stage—let us make a great effort to defeat
the dry goods. Talk not of peace, when we are
losing our treasures, our jewels. ^ Where are ou;
women ?
"Should a prophet say that/om is made of liv
ing clay,
By Alii! I would answer nay.
Direct it and see. Take away tho tiny, beau
teous, immortal part, and what remains ? A
monument of vanity, made up of cotton, linen,
silk, steel, false hair, false flowers, false complex
ion, false teeth—but I forbear. To enumerate
the many things it takes to make up a fashiona
ble lady is a task for a better mathematician.—
A wonderful composition, from the top of her
flower-crowned head to the hem of her trailing,
dust-covered robe!
To the hoop and tho trail the ladies are too
cloaely wedded to bo moved towards reiorm.—
We despair of moving them on this point. They
are determined to occupy all tho room possible
and to keep their feet hid as long as there is a
dollar left to buy hoops and trails.
After a while wo can throw away the old-fash
ioned broom and let the petticoat do all the sweep
ing. The trail around the feet is dirty enough,
but not to be compered with that around the
neck and down the back. Ladies, for years you
have railed at the sight of a long beard, and wo
must either shaTe clean or keep well trimmed,
leat we excite your disgust. You don’t like the
beard that nature put* on our faces, and we don’t
like the beard that art put* on tho back of your
neck. We beg you to begin to trim or shave
your waterfalls. Let them/off in reality.
Well might a foreigner exclaim, on going to
our places of public resort, “Are these the South
ern women, they who have passed through the
bloody and uusuccesstul war. Aro these they
whoso property is gone, whose homes have so of
ten been msde desolate? Women are said to
be naturally religious. Let us see her then in
the House of God. Surely that should be s place
where fashion could be forgotten. Tho House of
God! “Put thy shoos from off thy foot, thou
itandcst upon holy ground.” Would it were so
indeed. Alas! If our eyes wander from tho sa
cred desk where the bread of life is about to be
offered, shall we see bowed beads and thoughtful
faces, and a holy reverence that seems to say
“Thou God scest me ?” Ah truant eye*! no more
can the sacred desk fix your gaze. A living
breathing flowergarden Is before you, and look
you must. You are but human eyes.
There are no bees yet a humming round to per*
vade tho house. Whispering and tittering voices
mixed with tho rustling of silk, the shuffling
shoe?, the tinkiing of jewels make us forget the
place or mistqko it for a theatre. Powerful must
be the influence, full of eloquence the voice that
can fix those wandering eyes, those smiling lips
and quiet tho busy multitude. A display of dry
goods is certainly the order of tho day. Who
cun lieten to tho sermon and forget tho finery?
“A beautiful fool dre'sed up in fine c:othcs
Is like an old hog with a niig in his im,e.
This couplet has been applied to you ladies,
but it is more suited to those Nut-shell* of male
humanity, who are fond of aping you in the dis
play of dry goods. To you I prefer to say
To dress a beautiful woman all up in fine clothes
Is like pouring on cologne to perfume tho rose.
The question naturally arises: Are we again a
happy and prosperous people, that so much time
and money can be spent to adorn our women. If
so, wbat means the late appeal of our Governor to
men of capital? Ask not these questions of the
gay and giddy throngyou nleet in public. ’Tis not
the whole of lire you see abroad. There artfhomes,
cold and desolate homes they are, where dwell
minds too wearied by care to think of their gar
ments. Their trails are made by ragged shreds,
they have no time to repair. Their eyes gaze with
more eagerness upon a crust of bread than other
eyes upon a “water-tall.” They dare not mingle
with onr dressy throng—their war-worn garments
must not brash against the new robes. The con
trast would be painful on both sides.
Stranger—These are the women Ms patted through
the war, and who have not yet forgotten it Many
dainty hands and fair brows are there, unadorned
and uncared for by the world.
Do our fashionable women know anything or the
poor suffering women, white women, and white
children, who live among us ? Surely not,or some
of their finery would be converted into bread.
iu«i u j Fokstth.
iVo learn from the Memphis papers
that on Monday night last, while Col. Heart,
the senior editor of the Daily Commercial,
was sitting at his desk writing, two shots
were fired at him from the opposite side of
the street, the balls lodging in the wall just
above his head. The assasins, three in num
ber, (discovered by the police in a few mo
ments afterward, as they were making off,)
attempted to murder Coi. Hcart from a posi
tion under the shed of the Adams Block.
Fortunately, the deadly missives missed their
aim.
Telegraphic Items.
VETO OF THE COLORADO DILL.
Washington, May 10.—The President has
written a veto message on the Colorado bill,
but it is not yet received in Congress. The
new funding bill will probably be amended,
and its passage is confidentially expected,
and the tax on tobacco will probably be
changed.
INVESTIGATIONS into the merchants’ na
tional BANK FAILURE.
As the investigation into the affair of tlic
Merchants’ National Bank of this city ex
tends, the more is the complete rottenness of
the concern exhibited. It has transpired that
in addition to the Government losses already
published there were $250,000 deposited by
T. J. Hobbs, the disbursing clerk of the
Treasury Department. The indications are
that the wreck is complete, and the deposi
tors will get little or nothing.
THE CATTLE PLAGUE.
Well informed persons in regard to the
matter assert that not less than 500 cows died
in this district and its vicinity during the
last six months from the disease known as
the cattle plague. Some dairy men have been
compelled to abandon their business entire
ly, owing to the great mortality among tlieir
stock. The disease, it is alleged, was intro
duced here from Pennsylvania. The same
authority states that the prevalence of this
disease accounts for the poor beef to be found
in the markets. The disease being incurable,
the cattle arc killed as soon os attacked and
sold to unsuspecting citizens.
SECRETARY M'CULLOCII ON DIRECT TAXES IN
80 UTH'CAROLINA.
In a letter dated May 2d, 1860, addressed
to Richard Middleton, Jr., of Charleston, 8.
C., in reply to inquiries on the subject, Secre
tary McCulloch says: All I can do for the
relief of the people of South Carolina in re
gard to the direct tax, has already l>ecn done.
All sales for taxes have been suspended until
Congress should have an opportunity of act
ing definitely upon the subject. 1 have no
power to withdraw the tax commissioner-nor
to suspend the collection of taxes from those
who are able to pay them. What action Con
gress will take on the subject can not now lie
determined.
From the August* Chronicle & Santinel, 10th.
Meeting ot the Stockholders of the Mil-
ledgeville Railroad.
The Stockholders of the Milledgcville Rail
road held an adjourned meeting at the City
Hall, yesterday morning,
The hour appointed for the assembling of
the Convention having arrived, the President,
Hon. John P. King, took liis seat, and di
rected the Secretary, Judge Olin, to read the
minutes of tho former meeting, which were
confirmed.
After the reading of the minutes the Presi
dent, in stating the object for winch- the
stockholders had been convened, said that,
for himself, he had not felt disposed to incur
the expenses incidental to the completion of
the road, because of the high price of iron,
and tho limited resources of the Company;
besides, the amount necessary to the accom
plishment of the object ($250,000) wns not in
the hands or at the command of the Com-
pany.
Tiie importance of the road.to the public,
however, and the fact of a decline in the price
of iron, together with an improvement in the
credit of the company, demanded that ad
vantage should be taken ot these, and meas
ures adopted looking to the speedy construc
tion of the road.
The call of stockholders was then ordered.
Mr. Turner, of Hancock, moved to dispense
with the call of the roll, for the reason that
much time would be consumed thereby.
Mr. Phinizy, Jr., who, with Messrs. Botli-
well and Gargon, represented the city of Au
gusta, opposed the motion. He wished to
know the amount of stock represented, by
whom, and by what authority.
After some discussion the views of these
the waterpower vyas sufficient for anv pur- £ g.'Iany of the Pontons were not as provident
poses whatever. lie waa confident that Uxc as the “chaste and godly” Mr. Maverick, "for
sites for such buildings would be cheerfully j Mr. Moore says that generally “negro children
FlSASCiiL lNO (OWIFittm.
given to the Company.
The President assured the speaker that, at
the proper time, due attention would be ac
corded the proposition he made on the part
of his constituency
There being no further business before it,
the Convention adjourned.
Massachusetts and Slavery.
From the Richmond Times.
We owe to Mr. George H. Moore, the Li
brarian of the New York Historical Society,
many thanks for the masterly and merciless
exposure which be has just published of the slave was ever born on the soil of Massnchu-
impudent and utterly unfounded assertion of setts.” In 1773 the Supreme Court of Massa-
were considered as an incumbrance in a New
England family, and were given away like
puppies.”
Or the morals, manners and hideous condi
tion of tlic Massachusetts negroes, decency
forbids us to say anything more, but the
pages of Mr. Moore’s history arc replete with
facts which show that their condition was in
finitely worse than it has ever been at the
South.
The work before us c.learly demonstrates
that both Sninner and Palfrey have falsified
history in their declarations that “that no
gentlemen were harmonized, and tho calling .\ ue y,T~“P°“ “ J uaL w . urre :
of tho roll was omitted, and a Committee ou should deliver them into ourhands, we might
— - - - ’ easily have men, women and children enough
to exchange for Moors [negroes] which will
Proxies appointed.
Messrs. John Phinizy, Jr., of Augusta. Tur
ner, of Hancock, and Wellborn, of Warren,
constituted that committee.
Having conferred and examined the author
ity for proxies, the committee reported the
total number of shares represented by proxy
to be seven thousand and thirty-five.
The Committee's report was adopted.
Stockholders present were then directed to
report to the Secretary the number of shares
they represented. Compliance with the or
der revealed a representation of two thousand
four hundred and forty-nine shares.
On motion, it was ordered that the Compa
ny issue bonds to the amount of two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars tor the purpose of
pushing forward the work on the road.
Atter some discussion on a question of fi
nance, the Convention proceeded to the elec
tion of a President and Board of twelve Di
rectors, with the following result:
president.
Hon. John P. King.
DIRECTORS.
B. B. DeGraffenreid, T. M. Turner,
M. H. Wellborn. J. T. Gartrcll,
John Phinizy, Jr., W. A. Ramsey,
James T. Bothwell, Josiah Sibley,
J. E. Marley, 8- D. Heard,
B. H. Warren, _ James Gargan.
Tlieir term ot office expires in October.
The Secretary, by order of the chair, read
a resolution, which was adopted by the Board
several months ago, providing for the ap
pointment of a Finance Committee.
The President deemed It advisable to rcucw
that resolution, and suggested its amendment
so that the clmir bo empowered to appoint a
new Committee.
The amendment was offered and adopted.
Mc.'.-rs. Heard, Phinizy. ,Ir.. and Sibley were
appointed in accordance therewith.
Mr. DeGraffcnricd desired to say to the
Convention that the citizens of Milledgeville
were anxious that the road shonld be speedi
ly finished. To that end they were willing
to lend any assistance jn their power. He
spoke, moreover, of tlic advantages offered by
Milledgeville as a place where the Company’s
machine shops could be erected. Said, wood
was very plentiful and cheap there, and that
Mr. Chas. Sumner, that “no person was ever
born a slave on the soil of Massachusetts.”—
Not only has Mr. Moore unhorsed Sumner and
brought all his pretensions of historic verac
ity to grief, but lie has punctured in many
places the gaseous volumes wherein Professor
John Go.ham Palfrey has glorified the holy
horror of those bogus saints, the “Puritan
Fathers,” to “traffic in human flesh.”
The peculiar value of Mr. Moore’s “Histo-
S of Slavery in Massachusetts” consists in
e calm, dispassionate way in which he dis
sects and utterly annihilates all the romance
with which New England writers have sur
rounded those hard, harsh, cruel, truculent
adventurers, bigots and sanctimonious hypo
crites, whose landing at Plymouth Rock
should ever lie regarded as an irreparable
calamity, like tlic appearance of small-pox
among the Indians and the rinderpest among
the English cattle.
If |be ruling passion of the early settlers in
Massachusetts was not burning witches and
persecuting all who difiered from them in re
ligious faith, it certainly was the enslavement
of human beings. The array of evidence col
lected by Mr. Moore from the early records,
statutes, ordinances and annals of the Massa
chusetts Puritans, renders this fact indispu
tabic. Immediately after their landing at
Plymouth Rock, and before they were strong
enough to reduce the Indians to slavery, they
sold white offenders against theircode of bar
barous Blue Laws into slavery, perpetual and
temporary. After tlieir famous raid upon it
slumbering Pequod town, the enslavement of
Indians became a regular business with the
Saints.
From the accounts of the Colony of Massa
chusetts for receipts and expenditures of an
Indian war commencing 1745, and ending in
1746, Sir. Moore. finds among the “credits”
the following humane item: “By one hun
dred and eighty-eight prisoners of war sold
into captivity, £397 18s. OOd.” At that time
the people of Massachusetts, the African
kings and the—Algerines—were the only bar
barians engaged in the export of slaves.—
The Puritan lathers sent off ship load after
ship load of Indian captives to foreign coun
tries. In the “Plymouth Record,” volume v.,
page 173, in August, 1675, there is an order
for the sale in “foreigne countryes” of “one
hundred and twelve Irtdians.” The accounts
of the “Treasurer of ye Colime” give us
most interesting statistics of the extent of
this traffic of the “elect of God’ 1 in human
flesh.
In September, 1678, one hundred and sev
enty-eight “ prisoners of war ” were put on
hoard a vessel commanded by “Captain
Spragile, and sold into Spaine.” A humane
Puritan named Eliot petitioned the Council
to stop this traffic, but his petition was utter
ly disregarded and the traffic flourished. In
1776 one hundred and fifty Indians came in
and voluntarily surrendered themselves, pray
ing mercy of the Puritans, but they were
“sowld lor slates,” remarks Easton in his
Relation,'’ and were “ shipped out of the
coontrie.” The wife and child of that most
celebrated of Indian Kings—we allude to
Philip of Mount Hope”—were sent to the
West Indies and sold. This Indian Princess
was the daughter of good old Massasoit, the
first and best friend of the Puritans in New
England, whose faithful friendship saved the
Plymouth Colony from destruction upon
more than one occasion. This fact Edward
Everett states in one of his orations. Finally,
the Christian nations to whom these captives
were sent refused to buy them, and a cargo
of North American Indians were sold by the
Puritans ot Massachusetts to an African
Prince. This was carrying the slave trade
into Africa with a vengeance. Sir. Moore
devotes forty-eight pages of his elaborate his
tory to the traffic which the Puritans carried
on for nearly half a century in Indian cap
tives, the preachers and elders writing long
and sanctimonious arguments to prove that
they were trafficking m human flesh in strict
accordance with the “ will of God.”
One of “Ye Saints” in 1637 coveting on In
dian prisoner of war, proposes to buy “the
chattel,” after the following characteristic
fashion:
“It having again pleased the Most High V?
put into your hands another miserable drove
of Adam’s degenerate seed [meaning Pequod
prisoners of war,] I am bold to request one of
the children. I have fixed mine eye one this
little one with tlic red about his nccke, but I
will not be peremtory about my choice.”
One of the early “Wintiirops,” in 1737*
also craving a share of the spoils of a success,
ful midnight foray upon some Indian village,
writes: “Mr. Endccot nnd myselfe salute
you in the Lord Jesus. Wc have heard ot a
dividance of women and clnldcui in the Bay
and would be glad of a share, viz: a younge
woman or girle and a boy if you thinkegoou.
I wrote to"you for some boyes for Bermudas,
as I tliinkc is considerable.” This exempla
ry gentleman was in the foreign trade it
would seem.
Emanuel Downing, who married into the
Wintliroi. family, and who settled in Massa
chusetts as early ns 1638, in writing to John
Wintliroi- in 1648, furnishes us with a most
luminous illustration of the views of the Puri
tan fathers on the subject of human slavery.
“A warrc with ye Narragansett [Indians] is
vcric considerable to this plantation, for I
donkte whether it bee not a synne in us, hav
ing power in our hands, to suffer them to
mayntayne the worshipp of ye devill, which
they doe. If, upon a just warre, the Lord
be more gaynful pillage for us than wo con
ceive, for I do not see how we can thrive until
we get into a stock of ilatee, sufficient to do our
lurineu. I suppose you know very well how we
shall mayntayne twenty Moors cheaper than
one English servante. The shipp that shall
bring tho Moors may come home laden with
salt, which may bcarc most of the ekardge.”
Here we have a direct proposition to ship
to Africa Indian captives, and bring back a
cargo of more docile slaves, to help the Saints
work out their great destiny as the elect of
the Lord.
Mr. Moore shows that, in tho “New Eng
land Magna Charta,” the Body of Liberties of
1641, the Puritan fathers legalized the en
slavement of “captives taken in just wars,
(they never engaged in “unjust wars,”) and
of such strangers (meaning negroes) as were
sold to them " Slavery, as it existed in Mas
sachusetts, was. wc hestitate not to say, the
most shocking, brutal and inhuman ever
practiced upon this continent. Had the
authoress of Uncle Tom’s Cabin laid the scene
of her libellous romance in Massachusetts, in
the seventeenth century, it would have been
true to nature.
Mr. Moore, to show what negro slavery
really was in Massachusetts in 1839, quotes
tlic following passage from Jossclyn's account
of his voyage to New England: “About 9
o’clock of the morning Mr. Maverick’s negro
woman came to my chamber window, nnd in
her own countrie language and tunc sang very
loud and shrill. I understood she had been
a Queen in her own country, and observed a
very dutiful and humble garb used townrds
her by another negro., who was her maid.—
Mr. Maverick, who was desirous to have a
breed of negroes, and therefore, seeing she
would not keep company with a young negro
man lie had in the house, lie commanded him
“wiil shenill she” to lie with her! "Which was
no sooner attempted than she kicked him out
again; and this she tookc in higlie disdain,
nnd was the cause of her grief. Refreshing
commentary this upon the manners and mor
als of the ‘Saints.’ ”
Liverpool Markets.
Litebfooi, April 23.
COTTON KABUL
The Cotton market opened buoyant, with an advance
ofU@ld. v lb. but closed henry with the'improvemcnt
p.irtiv lost. The sales for lour dsys were bales,
including ltfiOO bales to speculators and importers.
Utua BSPOBT.
The Manchester market tins been firm, with an up
ward tendency, but closes less firm.
bixabstnrrs, ac.
The Bread*tufl« market has been qniet and steady.
Messrs. Richardson, Spence k Co, and Wakefield, Nash
A Co. report: Fl<*ur quiet sod nominal. Wheat quiet
and steady. Corti steady; mixed88s.fld.@29s. “ .
rtOTISION JLAtUT.
The Provision market ii, dull. Messrs. Bigland. Athra
& Co* and Gordon, Bruce A Co. report: Pork dull.
Bacon easier Lard dull; .no sales Tallow inactive.
Batter dull.
PCODUCX min.
Sugar steady. Coffee quiet and steady. Rice quiet
and steady. Linseed Oil doll at 12s. Resin »:<•;. Jy at
8s Gd for common American. 8pirits Turpentine quiet
and steady. Petroleum inactive, but firm.
Very Latest Intelligence.
Livaarect, April 37—Evening.
COTTON/^ The sales of the week were 90,000 bales,
including 10.500 bales to speculator - aud 34,500 bales to
exporters. The market opened firmer, with an advance
oflffd 9 fit on American, which was partial y lost, C'o*
sing at an advance on tho week of B> on fair
UMlsy(Fri<
Middling.
! New Orleans l'Xd 1-i^Kd
Mobile ISa 15*Jd
Uplands 17%d D!(d
BREADSTUKF8.—The market is inactive and nomi-
The length of this article constrains us to
leave much the larger portion of Mr. Moore’s
history of slavery as practiced among the
Puritans unnoticed. It is a wonderful and
startling record of the horrors and terrors of
slavery as it was practiced for more than a
century in Massachusetts and other New
England States.
nally unchanged.
PROVISIONS.—The market is doll.
London, April 37—Evening.
Consols closed at 86J£®87 for money. The weekly
return of the Bank of England shown a decrease in bul
lion of £38,001.
AMKUCAS saecaiTics.
U. S. Five-Twenties. 70@TOW.
Illinois Central Share*. sOJjWWU-
Erie Shares,
London Markets.
London, April 90.
Breadstuff* quiet and steady. Sugar firm and quiet.
Coffee quiet. Tea steady. Rice steady. Tallow quiet
and Many.
Conso's closed at 87@S7Jf for money.
axinicon stctminc.-.
The market is firmer. II. S. Fire-Twenties, 7
TOJ4; Illinois Central R. R„ S0@81« ; Lria R. It., 52J4.
chusotts declared that a negro born in New
England was the slave of the owner of his
mother. So, at a later day. in 1799, it was
decided by the same tribunal that a certain
negro born in the Province, in "Wexham. was
a slave from 1765 to 1776, when she was
freed by special deed of emancipation. Three
years later'the same Court and- the same
Judges, by a unanimous opinion, held a negro
girl born in the Province to have been the
lawful slave of a citizen. Ample evidence
can be found in many portions of Mr. Moore’s
work that the children ofslaves were actually
held and taken to be slaves, tlic property of an<r middling qualities. The sales today (Friday) were
th owner ot the mother, liable to be sold and ?000 bales, the market dosing quiet and easier. The
transferred precisely like other chattels, and I authon " d 4 ao ** ,lons
held as assets in the hands of administra-1 F " ,r -
tors. With a cruelty which nothing but the
truth of history justifies. Mr. Moore traces
the original fugitive slave law provision in
the Federal Constitution to “Articles of Con
federation of New England of May 19tli,
1643,” which “Confederation,” while it was, j
in the language of those who framed it, in
tended principally to “advance the Kiugdomc
of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to enjoy the
Gospel in purittie,” also took good care to
provide lor the recovery of fugitive negro
slaves. The Saints, in their articles of con
federation which provide for the rendition of
slaves, scntentiously remark that “such ser
vant is parte oi the master’s estate, and tar
more considerable parte than a bcaste.” In
the early days of Massachusetts, when the
Saints solemnly re-enacted the laws of Moses,
they attempted to justify all of tlieir cold
blooded nml atrocious misdeeds towards the
Indians and negroes. Then they dwelt, as
Mr. Moor - shows, with great delight upon the
justification of negro slavery by the Old
Testament, and insisted that it was a divine
institution. We find a reference in the vol
ume before us to many of tlieir scriptural ar
guments. Here are a few of them :
“1. These Blackamores are of the posterity
of Cham, and therefore under the curse of
slavery.”—Genesis ix. 25, 20, 27.
“2. The Nigers are brought out of a Pagan
country into places where the Gospel! is
wholesomely preached.”
“3. The Africans have wars one with an-
btlier. Our shipps bring lawfull captives tak
en in these wars.”
In the “tax laws of Massachusetts -‘negroes
and Indians being rated with brutes,” Mr.
Moore gives us a noble argument of Judge
Sewell, in 1716, to prevent the discontinuance
of such a revolting classification.
“It has been asserted,” says Mr. Moore,
“that in Massachusetts the miseries of slavery
were mitigated,” but the record does not bear
out the suggestion, and the traditions of one
town at least preserve the memory of the most
brutal and barbarous of all, “raising staves
for the market ” The first newspapers pub
lished in New England illustrate among their
advertisements the most hideous features of
slavery, as it existed among the most remorse
less adventurers, who, even in the name of
God, practiced innumerable crimes and vices.
The advertisements in the early New Eng
land papers relating to the negro slaves are
exceedingly curious. Negro men, women and
children arc mixed up in the advertisements
with sales of wearing apparel, gold watches
and other goods. “Very good Barbadoes
rum’ is oficrcd with “a young negro that has
had the small-pox” and competitors offer
‘likely negro men and women just arrived.”
‘Negro men new and negro boys who have
been in the Colony some time,” and also “just
arrived a third parcel of negro boys and
girls.” A “likely negro wench” is also adver
tised for sale, “with a child six months old,
to be sold together or apart,” and “a likely
negro man taken by execution, to be sold by
public auction at the Royal Exchange Tavern
at six o’clocck this afternoon,” must conclude
these extracts.
Netv Orleans Market*
• Niw Oblians, May SV
COTTON.—Wt- hive no alteration ot any kind to re
port in the increment in the leading staple rince our
lost. Offerings were of a restricted character through
out, and the demand vru* mostly confined to small lots
for tilling up previous purchases One list, 596 bales,
barely good ordinary, was taken at 31 et«, however, and
the Valance «r»s of too restricted a character to justify
any actual alteration in quotations. As an indication of
tiie movement, we would remark, however, that good
ordinary still rules at 30(<j31c, and low middling at 33®
34 ceuu:
Ordinary 27 *28
Good Ordinary 30 a 31
Low Middling 33 a St
Middling IIS a 36
The total sa'ca for the day were 900 bales, divideti-
atr.ong fi i e buyers.
statement of cotton
Stock on hand Sept 1 1103 &3,239
Received to-day 1.031
Received previously. 083,720—6S9.701
772.040
2.801
. ...614,316—017,177
Stool: on hand 156,763
The exports comprise 2174 hales for Liverpool, 405
biles for New York, 72 bales to Boston, aud 10 bales for
Baltimore.
SUGAR AXI> MOLASSE3.—The receipts from the
coast since yesterday been is iihds. of Sugar—no
Mo’atses. There is a good sitpp'y of both foreign and
domes:-,- product, > ou hand: out there is no demand
for roun J lots, and but very little for retail lots. Wc,
however, repeat our previous quotations, which are
merely nominal, ns follows:
Interior Louisiana 7 ©9
Common to Good Common 10 (o 12
Fair to Fully Fair ia>£@14)7
Prime 15 @15J4
Choice 15%<&16 •
Cuba Sugar at 14}£@I5c for fair to prime.
Louisiana Molasses at 45<(&50a p. gal. and Cuba at 42©
45c gal, and Cuba at 43@*5c gal. We have no soles
whatever to report to-day.
Total roccired
Exported since onr last
Exjwrted previou-ly
Nr* Oelean' 5 , May 6.
COTTON.—Depressed; low middling S2S34e. Sales
400 bales; rert ipts to day. 84 bales; receipts for four
days 3 4&S bates, against 6.073 hales same days last week;
exports 2.963: stock on hand, 15,719 bales.
FLOCK—Advanced 59 cents. .
COBS’—80t8>S2J<Ce for mixed and yellow.
FORK.—31 75'-iiS{2 00.
OATS—50 cents.
TOBACCO —Kail’ 14©16> (.
BACON—Shoulders, 13 ItJ^c; Mess Pork. fSS.
HAY is $».'
SUGAR—Fair to felly fair, 14@14!^c.
MOLASSES nominal.
GOLD.—129.
Sterling, 32 Francs, 4.10. New York cheeks Jgcdis,
Freights to New York, to Liverpool, 9-16<sj)g; to
Havre 13^.
An amusing story is told in the Paris
clubs: Not long since a foreign prince made
d heavy bet that he would be arrested by the
police without in any way committing an of
fence, or provoking the officers. A member
of the Imperial Club took up the bet. The
prince then went to a fashionable cafe, dress
ed in an old hat, a ragged blouse, and boots
dilapidated, and placing himself at a table,
ordered some coffee. The waiters, despising
his costume, took dio notice of him. The
prince put his hand in his pocket, and dis
played to them a bundle of bank notes. The
proprietor of the cafe thereupon ordered the
cofiee to be brought, and sent to the nearest
police station. An arrest followed, the prince
was taken before the commissary, to whom
he stated who he was. and was conducted to
the very gentleman with whom he made the
bet to prove his identity. The bet was paid.
- A farmer called at the house of a law
yer to consult him professionally. “ Ist’nt
Squeernt home?” he enquired of the law
yer’s lady, who opened the door at his sum
mons. He was answered negatively. Disap
pointment shone in his face; but, atter a mo
ment’s consideration, n thought revived him.
“Mebby yourself can gi’ me the necessary in
formation, as well as t’ Squeer, seen as ye’re
his wife.” The kind lady reaylily promised
to do so, if, on learning the difficulty, she
found it in her power; and the -other pro
ceeded to state tho case a3 follows : ’Spooze
ye wur an old white mear, and I should borry
ye to gang to mill, with grist on yer back,
an’ wc should get no farder than Stair Hill,
when all at once ye should back up, and rear
up, and pitch up, and kneel down backwards,
and break yer neck, wlio’d pay for yo ! Not
L deam me if I would!” The lady closed
the door.
53?” George Peet, the hotel proprietor at
the foot of Owasco Lake, Cayuga county,
who was arrested some months since for the
murder of his wife by poison, but broke jail
and escaped to Canada, was rearrested not
long ago. On Friday last, when on the train
from Rochester to Auburn, in custody of two
officers, he asked permission to go into the
water-closet, which was granted—his custodi
ans neglecting the precaution of going with
him. Not returning tlic door was opened,
when Peet was discovered with his throat cut
from ear to ear. He was already at the point
of death and lived but a few minutes longer.
|gir*Thcrc is on exhibition at Baltimore a
model, some twelve feet in diameter, of a re
volving vessel, the invention of Mr. George T.
Snyder, of Lancaster, Penn. The great novel
ty embraced in the construction of this vessel
consists in a very simple application of the
lhotive power, by which this vessel is made
to roll over the water instead of running
through it, and so completely arranged that
passengers nnd freight, remain stationary,
while the hull of the vestsel is rapidly revolv-
Cincinnnti Market-
' Cincinnati, May 6.
FLOUR—25c higher nnd unsettled: holders disposed
not to sell. Superfine. do extra, $10©lpJ4 ;
family to fancy $11J£<»$14)<;.
WHEAT— No. 3. red. $2 103215: No. 1, S190©200;
No. 2 old red, *2 55@2 75; No. 1. S2 80.
9,'ORN—Steady, at o9c for mixed in elevator and 69©
70a in sacks.
WHISKY—223 t**al.
PROVISIONS—Mess Pork, 30 cents; Bulk Meat s,12*a
15cts >1 !b. Lard, 22c. Bacon. cts, and 17% lor
Shoulders, Sides and Clear Sides.
LARD— Dull at 22c.
GROCERIES in lair demand.
RYE—Dull; 78@SSc.
BUTTER—45 348c.
CORN—Mixed. 58c.
OATS—44c and firm.
GOLD— I2SK- buying rate.
Louisville Market.
Louisville, May S
TOBACCO.—Soles of 56 hhds. of Leaf Tobacco, at
prices ranging from 80©t CO
PROVISIONS—Mesa pork, 833 00. Bacon—Shoulders
1314: clear sides, 18V<c.
FLOUR—Superfine, 8800; Extra Family. 312.
CORN—Mixed Corn 63c in bulk.
OAT-*—,7 0 .
LARD—In tierce, 20c.
HAY-lo«!e<! IS.
WHISKY—Katv $222.
New York Dry Goods Market.
• Niw Yoaz, May 0.
The Dry Goods Exchange report to-day is as follows
jobbers’ prices.
BROWN SHEETINGS—Cohassett, 23c; Cabot A, 20c
P< BLEA<mKD SHIRTINGS—Warn suits, 40c; James
town. 22c: Plymouth A. 20c.
PRINTS—Cocheco, 19c; Garner*Co., 18c; Amoskeag,
15c; Wamsutta, 12>2o.
DELAINES—Manchester. 22’4c; Pacific, 22’£c.
GINGHAMS—Glasgow. 23c: Hartford, 22c.
BROWN DRILLS—Tiger A, 24; Dover. 17Uc.
CORSET JEANS—Pepperel. 25: Bates, IS}*-.*.
TICKS—Easton A, 3J; Prescott. 50c.
STRIPES—Amoskeag, 84c; Thorcdyke, 33c.
SHIRTS—J. W. L. Standard Dress, No.25, $189dea;
J. W. L. Standard Dress, No. 210, $25 9 doz.
HOOP 8KTBT5.
Bradley’s Do plea Elliptic and Empress Trail, in good
<! s! T?A A. T. Myers’ IX L, !*.£ inch tapes, 20 to 40
hoops, 40 to 70c; 3 Inch tapes, 20 to 40 hoops, 50 cents
to $110.
Thomson French Elastic Springs, 75c to $101.
Thomson Boulevard Woven Zephyr, 55c.
Decrrasrd Importation or Drt Goods —The imports ot'
foreign dty goods at New York continue to decrease,
the total for the week being only about one million of
dollars. The following comparative statement is from
the Journal of Commerce:
For the week. _ 1864.
Entered port $1,319,856
On market 1.822665
Since Jan. 1st. 1864
Entered port $33,477,140
On market 36^81,078
1866. 1866.
$1,122,498 $U'1SJStU
1.336412 1,603,974
1865. 1S66.
$15,269,630 $55,640400
17,101425 52,759,877
AiiRU>ta Market.
Attorns, May 9.
THE COTTON MAIKZZT.
COTTON.—Quiet. Some little demand for the better
grades. Prices range from 26 to 29c.
THI XONXT MARKET.
I GOLD—I o better demand. Brokers selling at 128.
SILVER eominues unchanged—134.
Sales ot Old State 6 Per Cent. Bonds, 86.
A True Bill Against Mr. Davis.—The
telegraph announces the finding of a true bill
for treason against Mr. Davis, by the Grand
Jury of the U. S. Circuit Court at Norfolk.—
Of the men who form that Grand Jury, our
readers will have their own opinions, hut we
feel very safe in saying that they arc not Vir-
Atlanta Market.
Atlanta, May lk
There was considerable activity ia ‘he market yes
terday. with stiff prices in all prominent articles of irer-
Ch <xir'n.—There was a general inquiry for White Com,
md we heard of seteral transactions at ft 30. Yellow
and Mixed was held at $127*4 for the best article, though
one or two houses shipped off lots at $1 *5. The stock
in store is quite light.
BACON has advanced in sympathy with the Western
market-. Wc quote as follows:
Shoulders (very scarce) IT cents.
Plain Western Hams 2. ;C3 “
Canvass Hams “ M “
Ribbed Sides 19 (£20 “
Clear Ribbed Sides 19?i -3) “
Clear Sides---- 20 fjil
The stock on the mtrket is only moderate, aud soles
have been readily effected a: tho above figures.
Th»re has been an advance in Flour toe West,an,
while the .warket hero is a :tiv »and stiftoar quotations
remain unchanged.
TUB «0Xr.T MARKET.
GOLD is being bought at 25 and - id at *v
MLVER—Buvinc at 17 and - s: 22*
HANK UIU-S-No ehsng-.
Lucky Man.—General Grant wns present
giniatu. "Wc hope ourNorfolk conteinpora- seven huutJsetl .nrt,3 eighty boxes of
ries will publish their names and nativities. ■ cigars in one day.