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COX ST ITTJTIOX ALIST.
AUGUSTA, GhA.
THURSDAY MORNING, FEB. 3. 1870
AMERICAN MAGAZINES.
ECLECTICS.
Many of our readers are doubtless fa
miliar wit|> the Eclectic Weekly, which for
three'years past has been issued by Fields
& Osgood, and edited, we believe, by
Thomas Bailey Aldrich, under the name
of Every Saturday. Since the first of Janu
ary, it has been transformed into a large,
quarto-sheet, ornamented by steel engrav
ings of the costliest and richest style of art.
The numbers now before us contain several
wonderful sac simile (reduced hi size), of
portraits by Greuze, and artists of equal
celebrity. One, the head of a “ Spanish
Boy,” is startling almost in its life-like
effect.. The deep midnight eyes look out
upon you with an expression, strange, medi
tative, prescient, and the naturalness of the
outlines, and vivid contour of the features,
are as true to the type of the race which
the painter had chosen, as to the general
characteristics of a thoughtful, perhaps
somewhat exceptional boyhood.
Os the minor engravings, two are par
ticularly worthy of notice and comment.
The first of these represents a section of
the vegetable department of “ Covent Gar
den Market,” London, wherein appear a
score of women, young and old, shelling
green peas at the height of the season. The
contrasts are exceedingly well managed.
In the foreground, we have a couple of
aged crones, with that expression of
hopeless resignation upon their faces, which
is often so pathetic in the aspect of the
poor, from whom hope and youth have fled
forever ; while toward the background we
observe a farmer’s boy,'' loaded with bas
kets, whose stolidity of mien, as he peers at
a-well dressed woman near the counter or
stall, evidently bent upon purchasing, is
the very neplus ultra of bumpkin impassi
bility.
Better even than this is the picture upon
the opposite page, revealing the. interior of
one of those quaint, rural churches, which
more than anything else in England, im
press the American traveler with the an
tiquity of “ Our Old Home.” The building
in question is Fairfield Church. Evidently
the artist has made his sketch in sermon
time, for the figures of the two aged people
with the sick boy in front and fresh Eng
lish faces that are seen blooming behind
this pathetic group are too natural not to
have been drawn from life. The invalid
boy is, perhaps, the chef d'atuvre of the
piece. With a crutch listlessly allowed to
rest against his right shoulder, his nerve
less lips half opened, and a death-like pal
lor overspreading his face, he looks toward
the pulpit, which is iust out of view, and
seems to be trying to fix his attention
upon the words of the preacher.
The whole engraving is admirable—a
gem of art. As for the literature of Every
Satiirdtiy, it is, as usual, various, and ju
diciously culled from every source attaina
ble by the editor and compilers. The best
magazines and journals of Great Britain
and the Continent are made to contribute
to its neat clear-typed pages.
Moreover, the proprietors announce that
Mr. PickEhs’ new serial story will soon be
published In the columns of Every Saturday,
simultaneously with the appearances of the
• monthly parts in London. This novel, (pro
fusely illustrated,) will be printed from
advance sheets furnished by the author
himself, and will thus make its first ap
pearance before American readers, not as a
pirated production, but as a work fairly
issued, and very liberally paid for.
Over and over again, we have referred in
these columns to the rare excellence in
every respect, its excellence typographical,
and its excellence intellectual, of The New
Eclectic published by Messrs. Turnbull &
Murdock, Baltimore.
But we regard it as a duty to return once
more to this subject, and to urge upon all
our readers who can afford it, to sustain
practically, and without farther delay the
only first class monthly magazine we nojtv
have at the South Under discouragements
which only the publishers can fully ap
preciate, this noble periodical has for years,
maintained not merely a distinctive South
ern tone, but has illustrated with undeviat
ing energy the highest standards of art,
scholarship, and general literary progress.
Os late, it has improved, instead of retro
grading in merit. No longer an eclectic
merely, its pages have been adorned aud
vitalized by brilliant original articles from
many different sources.
Its arrangement of various departments
is, to our mind, fanltless. The tact and
good taste of its editors must be univer
sally acknowledged; aud yet, strange to
say, the publishers find themselves compel
ed to notify their subscribers that the New
Eclectic cannot be maintained at its present
standard, unless its circulation is largely in
creased. “We have labored,” they remark,
“ unremittingly, without remuneration for
years, and having spent many thousands in
the effort to establish a magazine that
should be a credit to the South, we think
that we may now reasonably look to our
subscribers aud to all friends of Southern
literature for more material assistance than
has yet been given.”
“ There is one way in which the success
of our enterprise may be secured at once.
If each of our present subscribers will con
tinue his own subscription, and secure
one new subscriber, our list would imme
diately be increased, to a self-sustaining
point.”
How simple, easy, and yet efficacious iathe
plan of action suggested. The individual
expense and trouble it involves, are next to
nothing. Surely enough of patriotism, in
telligence and scholarship still exists
amongst us to warrant the hope that our
. appeal in behalf of a most meritorious work
may not be utterly in vain.
Apropos of The Eclectic , the January .num
ber contains a review of “ Vashti,” by Wm.
Hand Bbown, which, despite its brevity, is
an exhausting piece of criticism.
With as much of good natured badinage
as the circumstances of the case would ad
mit, he shows how unredeemably vicious is
the style of the book, how unnatural are
}te characterizations, and how rambling
and inconsequent, in its plot.
As regards the nature of.the dialogue in
“ Yashti,” we cannot resist the temptation
of giving a few specimens, quoted by the
Reviewer. The hero, Dr. Gray, recom
mends one of the heroines, a Miss Salome
Owen, to study systematically, whereupon
she Informs him that “ knowledge per . te
has no more value in her eyes than a hand
ful of dry dust of those Atures found in
the cavern of Aturulpe!”
On one occasion, when pushed beyond
his usual angelic patience, the Doctor
bints that Miss Salome is apparently
possessed of a devil, she turns upon 'him
with, “ and like R. Chaim Vital, you come
to pronounce Nidui, and banish my dlaboll-
cal guest;” yet, afterwards, she admits
that a demon does, sometimes take posses
sion of her, “ whose name is not Suset,
but a fearful Ruach, demanding the ban
Cherem."
“ Would,” says Mr. Brown, “ that his
name had been Suset, and that the ban
Cherem , if indeed efficacious in silencing
noisy emptiness ( miach ) were at. the critic s
disposal.”
Again, this fearful young female is made
to complain that “ Idleness has nearly ruin
ed her; but she adds, “ 1 shall take industry
by the horns, and laying thereon all my
sins of indolence, drive it before me as the
Jews drove ApopompaeusWhat is Apo
potnpams? Only a scape-goat, reader, but
mark the resounding grandeur of those
mighty Greek syllables.
Lastly, Miss. Salome, who had begun
with snubbing, ends with professionally
loving Dr. Gray. Alas! his heart was set
elsewhere; and though Solome had consti
tuted him “ her sole Melek Taous, adored
with more than Yezedi fervor,” she became
agonizingly aware, that his “ life must ever
run as an Asymptate to her own.”
Truly may the critic declare that both
Mrs. Wilson and her characters seem to
follow the suggestion of Clove to Orange,
“ Pry’thee, let’s talk fustian a little, and
make men believe we are great scholars.”
Mrs. Wilson has often been charged
with pedantry. She rightly complains that
such a charge is unjust. Pedantry is an
uncalled for display ot learning. “ Now,
in her book,” says Mr. Brown, “there is
an unnecessary display, but it is not of
learning. Burton, beginning every sen
tence with a classical quotation, and Po
litiant, who cites Aristotle to prove that
tickling provokes laughter, are pedants;
but the irrepressible “ author of Beulah ”
belongs rather to the category of that old
lady who exclaimed, with enthusiasm,
“ Oh, those precious, precious words, Meso
potamia, Pamphylia, Thrace!”
Our New York Correspondence.
New York, January 29, 1870.
It is only the beginning of 1870, and yet
the discussion of probable candidates for
the next Presidency is often heard in cir
cles that make no claim to political leader
ship, aud this fact indicates that the sub
ject receives attention from the mass of the
community. One purpose seems para
mount in both parties, and that is to shake
off the military domination which for ten
years has influenced, if not wholly con
trolled, the adjustment of every important
question. It has been suggested in some
quarters that we are likely to have tour
candidates for the Presidency, after the
manner of 1824, and that possibly the elec
tion may be carried into the next House of
Representatives.
Probable candidates can hardly be named
as yet. The speech of Mr. Dawes, and his
excellent bearing against the assaults of
Butler, have brought him to the front
rank among the very quiet but very saga
cious and determined enemies of Grant.
Aud it is evident that Grant is losing
ground very rapidly in his own party. He
might recover himself by dismissing Fish
from the State Portfolio, and restoring the
Army and Navy Departments to civil con
trol; and he may do this when he sees that
it is absolutely necessary; in which case he
will be a formidable candidate for re-elec
tion, to which he undoubtedly looks for
ward ; it will not, however, be as General
Grant, but as President Grant, that lie will
be continued in office.
With regard to the Democrats, we have
not, as vet, more than two candidates
worth naming. The elections last Fall
settled the fate of Pendleton and Packer.
Gov. Hoffman, of New York, aud John
Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts, have a
very important following. They are both
of that moderate grade of Democrats whom
the Republicans have never denounced as
“ Copperheads.” Mr. Hoffman’s patronym
ic would give him a strong vote among
those exceedingly clannish people, the Ger
mans, who can seldom be induced to vote
against one of their own nationality, and
such many will believe Mr. Hoffman to be.
He is, besides, a gentleman of p«p«J«r men
ners, and a statesman of elevated A r iews.
But he has to bear a great, weight in the
odium which attaches to Tammany Hall ;
and his best .friends admit, with a sigh,
that in the measures brought forward at
Albany, with reference to this city, there is
a purpose “to keep the word of promise to
the ear aud break it to the hope;” which, if
not soon abandoned, and Tammany’s pet
institutions subjected to the test of the
Democratic principles, will bring Gov.
Hoffman's political careui tu au cmij oufi
inglorious termination. John Quincy
Adams, although fbr several years openly
affiliating with the Democratic party of
his State, aud twice its candidate for
Governor (running largely ahead of his
ticket), stands in much the same relation to
the people of the couutry, and enjoys the
same large share of their confidence as Mr
Chase in 1868, with this difference, that the
Democratic party would now be much
more in the spirit of accepting Mr. Adams
as a candidate than it. would have shown
towards Mr. Chase then. Mr. Adams
would attract to him large numbers of Re
publicans who are anxious to shake off af
filiation with that party, but who would
hesitate under aDy other candidate. It has
been suggested, iu view of the discouraging
aspect of affairs at Tammany Hall, that
the Southern Democrats ought to organ
ize of themselves, aod ran a candidate for
Presidency ou the basis of their own prin
ciples aud objects; not so much in the
hope of immediate success as a view to de
velop aud concentrate public opinion upon
issues which the Northern Democrats en
deavor to evade.- This is an important
thought. We should fight the next nation
al contest to establish principles, with a
view to the future, unless it shall be deem
ed best to first overthrow Radicalism at all
hazards. It is to be hoped we shall make
nosuch miscarriages as in 1868, when we
neither established a principle nor secured
a success.
A leading topic of discussion is our ex
traordinary mild Winter. January has
thus far been as warm as was last October.
We have had no sno / since early in De
cember. The Hudson river has been open
to Albany for the first time in January in
more than forty years. The ice men are in
despair, and have quadrupled their prices.
In protected spots flowers have appeared in
bloom, shrubs are putting forth leaves,
and buds on the trees are swelling. The
last fact excites apprehension for the crop
of fruit next season, lest it shall be cut off
by late frosts in its premature development.
The present generation have seen no
weather to equal this Winter since 1851,
wheu the Albany boats resumed their trips
in February, and thousands attended the
display of fireworks on the balmy evening
of Washington’s birthday.
We have had a flurry in cotton. Un
favorable reports from India started up
Liverpool, and a falling off in receipts at
the Southern ports contributed to the ex
citement. But the close is flat, and it
begins to lie suspected that the East India
reports- were put in circulation by the
“ bears ” for the purpose of enabling them
to get out new lines of “ shorts ” at higher
prices. At any rate, it. is felt that the mar
ket will soon be subjected to a severe test,
and all reports, as well as information, are
seized upon with avidity by one party or
the other.
The very eminent surgeon, Dr. John
Murray Carnochan, who has been recently
nominated by Gov. Hoffman for the posi
tion of Health Officer of this port, was, it
seems, originally from Savannah, having
been born in that city in July, 1817. He
was educated, however, in Edinburgh, and
having graduated with honor at the Uni
versity, returned to the United States, be
ing then but seventeen years of age. The
choice of a profession was now before him,
and determined upon that of surgery, he
entered the office of the celebrated Dr.
Valentine Mott, then at the zenith of his
fame. In 1841 Dr. Carnochan visited Eu
rope, and remained for six years in attend
ance on the principal hospitals of Paris,
London and Edinburgh, and soon after his
return to New York published a medical
treatise which at once placed him in the
front rank of the great surgeons of the day.
For excellence in the art of surgery, a gift
from nature is as requisite as is excellence
in that of poetry, and it is to this gift
of nature that Dr. Carnochao is indebted
for the pre-eminent rank to which he has
attained. For many years he was Professor
of the Principles and Operations of Surge
ry in the New York Medical College, but
his private practice finally became so ex
tensive that he was compelled to discon
tinue his lectures. Socially, he is one of
the most attractive of men ; of au elegant
aud commanding presence, and though fif
ty two years of age, does not appear to be
more than forty.
The Rlchardson-McFarlaud marriage Is
not the only one which Mr. Beecher has
performed at the Astor House, nor is it the
only one performed under his auspices, to
which some mystery is attached. In May
last, a marriage was solemnized there,
which has not yet been recorded in the
Register’s Clerk’s office of the Board of
Health. Quite lately the Register Clerk
wrote to Mr. Beecher requesting him to
send a certificate to the Board of Health,
and to this communication no reply being
returned, a messenger was dispatched from
Dr. Stiles’ office iu Brooklyn to Mr. Beech
er, who said he had no recollection of per
forming any such marriage ceremony, while
Mrs. Beecher informed the messenger that
she perfectly remembered the occurrence.
Upon this the Register Clerk immediately
wrote a note to a relative of the bride, who
seemed most anxious that the marriage
should be recorded, informing him of Mr.
Beecher’s reply. The gentleman then called
at the office and produced the original mar
riage certificate which he had given the
bride when he married the couple. Mgf
Beecher, however, has still sent no certifi
cate to the Register’s office. There is a secret
history of the case, which is at present with
held.
At Ntblo's, Fechter,. who has drawn
large audiences and won high enconiums
from the Press, makes his appearance in
The Duke's Motto ; at Booth’s, Emma Wal
ler and Booth alternate ; at the Fifth Ave
nue, a local comedy, entitled Surf, bv Olive
Logan, being a representation of fashion
able life at the sea side, is proviug suc
cessful, aud at the Grand Opera House a
new spectacular drama, which, it is said,
has been twelve months in preparation,
and which, it is expected, will take New
York by storm. It is entitled Twelve
Temptations. At the Theatre Francais
there has been a slight revival of Cpera
Bovffe, Mrs. Howard Paul taking.the part
of Im Grande Duchesse. In a short time
Italian Opera, with the same troupe which
performed earlier in the season, will re
commence, and ere very long we may
probably look for Unglish Opera again
from the Parepa Troupe, and a Spring se
ries of concerts from Carlot.ta Patti.
Willoughby.
[From the Atlanta CoDßiltution.
Judge Warner's Opinion on the “ Eligi
bility" Question.
AN ABLE BTATE PAPER.
Atlanta, Ga., January 31, 1870.
Hon. Hiram Warner, Associate Justice Su
‘ preme Court of Georgia:
Dear Sir: We respectfully request your
opinion as to the eligibility of members of
the Georgia Legislature, under the provis
ions of the recent act of Congress, entitled
“ An Act to promote the Reconstruction of
Georgia.”
J. E. Bryant, Dunlap Scott,
J. H. Caldwell, M. A. Candler,
A. J. Williams, C. K. Osgood,
J. E. SutJM.vrE, J. T. Burns,
W. F. Holden.
Atlanta, February 1,1870.
Gentlemen : I have the honor to ac
knowledge the receipt of your note of the
31st instant, requesting my opinion as to
the proper construction to be given to the
late act of Congress, in regard to the eligi
bility of the members of the -Legislature
under the provision of that act. This is
the second time my opinion has been re
quested in regard to that question. Prior
to the organization of the General Assem
bly, any expression of opinion on my part,
calculated either to encourage the members
thereof to take the oath prescribed, or to
intimidate them from tuking it, would have
been both indelicate and improper. But
as the Legislature has now been organized,
however unimportant my opinion may be
considered, when in conflict with that of
Mr. Attorney General Farrow, still, no
valid reason presents itself to my mind
why it should not now be expressed to
thoSE* who d©aiiv» In know it, tko movo on
J/CtJailer <tq It polato to a 111 \i\ iYlf-ll
the whole people of the State have a deep
and abiding Interest.
In the construction of the act of Con
gress to which my attention has been call
ed, there are three points to be considered :
First, how tiie law stood at the time of the
passage of the act ? Second, what was the
evil or mischief which the intend
ed to remedy ? Third, what was the remedy
that Congress intended -to provide to cure
this evil or mischief which existed?
Ry the Constitution of the United States
a certain enumerated class of State officers
were required to take an oath to support
that Constitution, as well as the officers of
the United States. The existing evil or
mischief was that certain officers, both of
the Federal and State Governments, had
taken this oath and thereafter engaged iu
insurrection ov rebellion against the United
States, in violation thereof. It was con
sidered by Congress to lie au evil and a
mischief to allow that class of persons in
the State who had sworn to support the
Constitution of the United States aud there
after engaged in insurrection or rebellion,
to be members of the State Legislature.
In order to remedy this existing evil or
mischief, the act of Congress under con
sideratson was passed, and should be so
construed as to suppress the mischief aDd
advance the remedy. Now, if any mem
ber of the Legislature has ever held an of
fice under the Government of the United
States, or been a member of any State Leg
islature, or held any civil office created by
law for the administering of any general
law ofa State, or for the administration of
justice therein, and was required, and did
take an oath, to support the Constitution
of the United States, and thereafter en
gaged in insurrection or rebiflfon against
the same, he is inelligible, for the reason
that he is within the mischief intended to
be remedied by the act, as well as by the
Fourteenth Amendment ofthe Constitution,
which the act was intended to enforce. All
other officers of a State, who were not re
quired, and who did not take an oath to
support the Constitution of the United
States, were not intended to be embraced,
and are not embraced within the act; be
cause they are not within the mischief, as
contemplated by ft, neither are they with
in the reason or spirit of the act. They,
not having taken any oath to support the
Constitution of the United States, have not
violated that oath, and do not labor under
the same disability as those who have tak
en and violated it. If we construe this act
of Congress in relation to the subject mat
ter of it, in connection with the third sec
tion ofthe Fourteenth Amendment of the
Constitution, the same result necessarily
follows. Besides, it is apparent on the face
of tin: act that Cougress did uot intend to
impose or create any otherdisability on the
members of thq Legislature than was im
posed and created by the Fourteenth Amend
ment of the Constitution; for it is expressly
declared, that it the memberclairaing a seat
will swear that he lias been “ relieved by
an act of Congress of the United States from
disability, as provided for by sectiou 3, of
the XlVth Amendment to the Constitution
of the United States,” that he is then eligi
ble, surely Congress did not intend that
those who had not been relieved by Con
gress, and were required to take the first
oath specified in the act,should labor under
other, or different disabilities, than those
whose disability had been removed by Con
gress. If the disability of the member has
been removed by Congress, then he is eligi
ble to Ills seat in the Legislature. What
disability? The disability imposed by the
3d section of the XlVth Amendment, and
that 3d section defines and declares that
disability. If the disability imposed by the
2d section of the XlVth Amendment does
not exist, as applicable to the member claim
ing his seat, then he is eligible under the
act. If the disability imposed by the 3d
sectiou of the XlVth Amendment did exist,
as applicable to the member claiming his
seat, and that disability has been removed
by an act of Congress, then he is eligible
under the act. The disability is the same
in both cases. In the one, the disability
has been removed by an act of Congress ;
in the other, it has not; and in the latter
case, the member claiming his seat must
swear that he is not laboring under that
disability.
It is a sound and well established princi
ple of the law, that statutes creating disa
bilities, being penal in their character, must
be slrielly construed. My conclusion, there
fore, is, that all persons who held office,
either under the Government of the United
States, or as a member of the Legislature of
any State, or who held any cml office
created by law for the administering any
general law of a State, or for the administra
tion of justice .in any State, who were re
quired and did take" an oath to support the
Constitution of the United States, and
thereafter engaged in insurrection or rebel
lion against the same, are ineligible as mem
bers of the Legislature under the provi
sions of the act, unless relieved from that
disability by Congress ; and that all other
Stale officers who were not required, and
who dul not take an oath to support the
Constitution of the United States, are eligi
ble as members of the Legislature—they
not being within the mischief which the act
was intended to remedy. It will be per-
ceived, that if the late act of Congress was
intended to create, and does create, other ,
and different disabilities than such as are j
imposed by the third section of the 14th
Amendment, that then those members
whose disabilities were removed by Cou
gress prior to the passage of this last act
have not had those other and different dis
abilities, imposed by the last act, removed
by Congress; but only such disabilities
as were imposed by the third sectiou of the
14th Amendment. It would seem, there
fore, that if other and different disabilities
were ia fact created and imposed by the
Gate act of Congress, that the members who
have been relieved by Congress from their
disabilities imposed by the third section of
the. 14th Amendment should now be re
quired to swear that they were not labor
ing under any *f the other and different
disabilities imposed by the late act, if in
deed that act does in fact create and impose
any other or different disabilities ; for it is
very clear that Congress has uot relieved
them from any disabilities created aud im
posed by the late act of Cpngress. Dili
Congress intend to impose other aud differ
ent disabilities upon those members who
had not been relieved therefrom by Con
gress, than upon those who had been so re
lieved 9 In my opinion, such was not the
intention of Congress In passing the act
under consideration.
Very respectfully, your ob’t serv’t,
Hiram Warner.
To Messrs. J. E. Bryant aud others.
Hot Shot from Senator Candler.
In Atlanta, the other day, Sen ator Cand
ler, in Messrs. Bullock & Terry’s Senate, in
commenting on the resolution of Senator
Harris, said, as reported by the Constitu
tion :
I desire to know under what law we are
proceeding. If uuder any law of Georgia,
we want to follow it. If under military
law and order, let us abide by that. I
understand that the Code of Georgia is no
longer to be taken as a guide by the party
now in power ; that you will not regard its
provisions or that of the Constitution. May
not we, a little minority, ask where you are
taking us? Under what system of law,
under what rule, under what military
order! Y r ou have us in your power. You
can do with us as you please, but certainly
you will grant us the poor privilege of
knowing the mode in which your acts to
wards us are to be regulated. If we, as a
body, are assembled for the purpose of de
grading us, for the purpose of being a mere
machine, molded at your pleasure to effec
tuate your purpose, to be made and un
made as will best suit the purposes
and designs of the dominant party, we
want to know it. What are we? Are we
a body capable of action, responsible to any
one? If so, we ought to have some voice
—some discretion allowed us, as to how we
shall act, or who shall compose a part of
this body. You pretend that this is a Sen
ate, the Senate of Georgia, but you take
from it the right to act as judge oi the elec
tions, qualifications, etc., of its own mem
bers. You propose to us that Gov. Bul
lock shall say who are eligible to seats
here. Whence does he derive any authori
ty or right to pass on this question? Un
der wh&t law? Meade’s order does not
mention these men. They are not known
to the military authorities; they are not
knowu to Congress, from whence all know
ledge allowed to avail anything in these
times seems to come. Has Gov. Bullock
got secret information to put them in and
run tin* m.ufcin# it to hi,‘l own
nnltAn ,».. —* : -a - *- * - ■ ..... .
The resolution of Mr. Merrill, to inquire
of the Governor who was next eligible in
the place of Mr. McCutchins, deceased, was
met, as It ought to have been, with muni-*
feat displeasure by the Senate. Mr. Mer
rill went too far. His zeal has transported
him, in this instance, beyond the bounds of
ordinary decency, and his only excuse for
the resolution was a rumor of the deceased
Senator's ineligibility. When Radical pro
scription goes so far ns to tear up the dead,
and rob it of its last habiliments, and that,
too, by a man who has so long enjoyed the
confidence of the citizens of Georgia, i: is
time to pause and ask, Guam an finem istie
furor jactat f agaiust such nieauness. This
is unjustifiable, without law, and destruc
tive of the liberties of thu people of the
W.liole country.
Sir, we are not used to such things; we
want, at least, some show of law, or some
written order of some sort aud from some
body, by which we can, or should, or must
regulate our proceedings. We protest
against this resolution. It is Tt>
to the Senate, unauthorized by any law
recognized here, or by any order issued by
the military authorities of the United
States. If you are determined to victimize
us, let it be done with some show of de
cency—some regard to rule or order. We
protest that Governor Bullock has no tight
to put men in this body, and that it is our
duty, our privilege aud right to say to
these new comers, whence come you ? aud
by what right, do you claim to enter here?
You are not known in General Meade’s
order, nor in any act of Congress. Sir, we
have had outrages enough. The heart
sickens at the memory of them. Vindictive
oppression has been and continues to be
the order of the day. We are powerless to
resist it, we can only protest. .
Georgia Reconstruction.— Georgia is
now passing through the hard ordeal which
visited Tennessee. Many of the profes
sional assassins, peripatetic mountebanks,
strolling mercenaries, ex-gamblers, pimps
and deck-hands who figured in Tennessee
have reappeared in Georgia, as disfin
guised persons. This blackleg is a “Judge.”
That rouuder is a “ General.” The other
thug is an “ Hon.” So on through the
whole disgraceful catalogue of loyal peo
ple.” Terry and his tribe are of course no’
better; and next we shall have a “ loyal
militia,” then loyal murders by the score,
then loyal plunderings anil conflagrations.
Finally perhaps desperation will start up
an organization for the protection of the
people. Then proclamations and invasions.
Finally, after the usual course of riot mil
plunder has run itself out, we shall have
peace. But Bullock and his gang willfl'st
stuff themselves with pillage ; and Georgia
will come out of the business poor indeed-
This is reconstruction.
Revelation.— While Commissioner Dea
no, ofthe Internal Revenue Department,is
putting the screws to about every person fte
can who pays taxes, Mack, the Washington
correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirei,
is putting the screws to him. Mack sayi
that Delano, in 1850, or thereabouts, form
ed one of a gang of four who swindled th*
Government out of upwards of $136,000.
The frand was in the construction of light
houses on the Pacific coast, and the evi
dense of the guilty participation of Mr. De
lano therein is on file in Washington. The
Commissioner at that time was a New
York banker; and it was probably in re
cognition of Ills “ past services” that a Re
publican administration placed him in Ms
present responsible position.
Cotton prom a Sand Plantation.—Ths
other day one of our manufactories bougbl
a bale of cotton weighing 1,050 pounds.—
When opened it was found to contaiß 562 %
pounds of sand, dust tfcc. Adding t» this
28 pounds of bagging and rope, and snb
straeting from the whole amount, it was
found that of the 1,050 pounds only 459h£
were cotton. Jerusalem! sand as high as
choice cotton. Os course buyer will go
back od buyer until the packer Is found.-
A sand plantation, at this lick, will pay
Immensely, and some owners will yet get
into penitentiaries for such stealing.
[ Columbus iSun,
FUNERAL NOTICE.
•THE FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES OF
Mr. and Mr.-.. Joski h T. Dbrkv are respectfully In
vited to attend tbe funeral of their infant eon, from
the residence oi Mr. Wm. C. Derr,, on Walker street,
TIIIB (Thursday> MORNING, at 10 o’clock.
Georgia State Lottery.
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
Orphan’s Home and Free Hchooh'
The following were the drawn nuinhria, in the CHy
plementaiy Scheru-, drawn at Augusta, Oeorgia,
February 2.
MORNING DRAWING—CIass 55.
48 51 01 70 37 46 08 49 64 30 1 46
12 Drawn Numbers.
EVENING DRAWING -Class 56.
46 45 17 54 8 77 74 64 51 43 14 39 31
13 Drawn Numbers.
feb3 1
SPECIAL NOTICES.
NOTICE.
ATTORNEYS, PARTIES, JURORS AND
WITNESSES are hereby notified that, 1b conse
quence of His Honor Judge Gaksbtt Andes ws, who
wifi preside at the first week of January adjourned
term of Richmond Superior Court, not reaching this
city in time, the Court will uot meet until TUESDAY
MORNING, the Bth inst., at lOo’clock, a. ra., instead
of Monday, tbe 7th in-t., as heretofore ordered.
E. M. BRAYTON,
ieb-3 1 Clerk Superior Court, R. C.
IRRITABLE INVALIDS.
ludigestion not only effects the physical b*ealtb, but
the dispositions and temfers of its vieiims. The
Ivspeptic becomes, too, in a measure, demoralized by
his sufferings. He ie sub ect to fits of iriitation, sul
lenuess or despair, as the case may be. A preter
natural sensitivem ss, which ho cannot cootrol, leads
b’tn to misconstrue the words and acts of those
around him, and his intercourse evt n with those
nearest aDd dearest to him is not (infrequently marked
by exhlbitfous of testine-s foreign to his real nature
These are the mental phenomena- of tbe disease, for
which the invalid cannot be justly held responsible,
but they occasion much household discomfort. It is
to the interest of tbe borne circle, it is essential to
family harmony, as well as to tbo rescue of the prin
cipal sufferer from a stale uot far removed from in
cipient insanity, that these symptoms of mental dis
turbance be promptly removed. This can only be
done by removing their physical cause, a derangement
of the functions of the stomach, and its allied viscera,
the liver and the bowels. TJpon these three import
ant organs Hostetler’s Stomach Bitters act simulta
neously, producing a thorough and salutary change
in their condition. The vegetable ingredients oi.
which the preparation is composed are of a renova
ting, regulating and alterative character, and the stim
ulant which lends activity to their remedial virtues is
the purest and best 'hat can be extracted from the
most wholesome of ali cereals, viz: sound rye. No
dyspeptic can take thil genial r storative for a siDgle
week without experiencing a notable improvement in
his genera! health. Notoaly will his bodily suffer
ings abate from day to day, but his mind will recover
rapidly from its restlessness and irritability, and this
happy change will manifest itself in Ids demeanor to
ay around him. lebl-tfebls
MILEAGE TICKETS.
o
Charlotte, Columbia & Augusta * 1
Railroad Company. I
Oksbhii. Fbkioht and Tickwt Orrioa, j
Columbia, 8. 0., January 28,1870. J
MERCHANTS AND OTHERS DESIRING
MILEAGE TICKETS, good for Five Hundred or
One Thousand Miles, can procure th< m by leaving
Until- address with any Station Agent on line of road,
or upon applic ition to the undersigned, at following
prices:
For One Thousand Miles S3O 00
For Five Hundred Miles a..... 18 00
E. R. DORSEY,
janßo-8 General Ticket Agent.
WIRE HAILING, FOR
/\ A A 1 Rncmjig Oerae'ery Lots,
- sL_Jffl. C ttsges, Ac.; Wire Guards
Mai r ttore Fronts, Factories,
Asylums, &c ; Wire Webbing, Rice Cloth, and Wire
Work. Also, Manufacturers of
FOURDRINIKR CLOTHS.
Every information by addressing
M. WALKER & SON,
No. 11 North Sixth Street, Philadelphia.
jan2B-Iy
StV GETTING MARRIED-Essays for Young
Men, on the delights of HorriP, and the propriety or
impropriety of getting Married, with sanitary help for
those who feel unfitted for matrimonial happiness.
Sent free, in sealed envelopes. Address,
HOWARD ASSOCIATION,
Tox t\, hiladelphia, Pa.
—f
From and alter this date, all purcmu.ua Tor account
of the city will only be made upon orders issued from
this offl -e. J. V. H. ALLEN,
jan*is-tf Mayor.
JU2T OUT.
CHERRY PECTORAL TROCHES, superior to
all others for Colds, Coughs, Sore 'Throat, Bronchitis
and Hoarseness.
None so pleasant. None cure so quick.
Manufactured by RU 3HTON *U< Astor House,
New York.
No mere of those horrible tasted, nauseating Brown
Cubeb things.
For sale by W. H. TUTT A LAND at Proprietors’
Prices. jantJ-dAc.tm
DANCING CLASSES, AUGUSTA HOTEL.
l’RuFd. NICHOLS A MILAM, in order to secure
certain days for the I.e sons, have removed from Va
tr.nic Hull to tbe above Hall Classes for Ladies,
Misses and Masters on FRIDAY and BATURDAY
aFi’BWHOONV, at 3)4, t*. m. Classes for Gent*
THURSDAY and FRIDAY EVENINGS, at 8, p.
m. - ian2s-tf
Marhlcized Slate Mantels*
, RICH AND ELEGANT DESIGNS.
More durable and at half the price of Marble.
Carefully packed and shipped to auy part of
tho country. Send for circular.
T. B. STEWART & CO.
jac3o-3m <305 Sixth Ave., New York.
POPLAR LUMBER.
TL HE undersigned is prepared to furnish
POPLAR.LUMBER, Id any quantity, at $3 per
hundred, delivered at Leesville Depot, Char
lotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad. For
further information, address
• AARON TAYLOR,
Gilbert Hollow,
feb2-6 C., C. & A. R. R., 8. C.
Mrs. M.*A. BINDERS, 1101, N. W. Corner
Eleventh and Chestnut Bts., Philadelphia. P**-
Old established and only Reliable Paper Pat
tern, Dress and Cloak Making Emporium.
Bpring Opening of Paper Patterns March Ist,
1870. Mrs. Byuder’s recent visit to Puis en
ables her to receive Fashions, Trimmings and
Faucy Good* superior to anything in this coun
try. Sets ol Patterns for Merchants and Dress
Makers now ready. DRESSES and CLOAKS
made iu 24 hours’ notice. TRIMMINGS,
Lace-, Gloves; Ribbons, Jewelry, Fans and
Embroideries. GOFFERING MACHINES
for sale. Goods sent by Express to all parts
of the Union. feb2-3in
T HAVE just received another lot of “COAL
CREEK COAL.” Orders to t>« filled must be
accompanied by Cash.
Ym at Georgia Railroad, corner Jackson
and Fenwick streets.
WM. P. DEARING,
f'eb‘J-3 Agent.
DANCING ACADEMY.
o
Profs. Hett and Cooper
Would solicit the attention of the public
to their Dancing Academy. F'eeling as
sured that all who witness the progress
made by their pupils, will give them
their patronage. jau3o-tf
PRICES REDUCED.
During the month ot February,
J. Muirpliy & Cos.
No, 214 Broad St., Under Masonic Hall.
Will close out their Fall. Stock of Ladies’,
Gent’s, Misses’ and Children’s
3300 ts and Shoes,
Sewed and pegged work, at greatly reduced
prices, to make room for Spring Goods.
janSO-B ’ ;
New .Advertisemenls
GIRARDEY’S OPERA HOUSE.
Sliakspearisn Tragedies!
r+—
THIRD APPBaRANCB
OF THE POPULAR YOUNG ENGLISH
TRAGEDIAN,
MR. NEIL WARNER,
WLo will appear this
Thursday Evening, February 3d, 1870,
As the JEALOUS ’MOOR, in Sbakspearo’s
noble Tragedy, entitled
Othello,
THE MOOR, OF VENICE,
0THELL0......... L.' Mb. WARNER.
Probably no one of Bhak ipeare’B plays, with
the exception of “ Hamlet.” 1b more popular
in the repreßentation”uTan thin. It is believed
to have been one of the author’s last, as it is
one of his greatest, dramatic achievements. The
advocates for the preservation of the unities of
the drama find in tjlie construction of this
tragedy an argument in support of their theory.
Dr. Johnson with truth, that had the
scene opened in Cyprus, and the preceding in
cidents been occasionally related, there had
been little wanting to a drama of the most ex
act and scrupulous regularity. And a writer in
Blackwood's Magnate asks, “ In what play oi
Euripides is singleness of interest more com
pletely preserved ? The haughty bearing, con
scious pride, but ardent love of the Moor ; the
deep love of Desdetnpua, nourished, as we so
often see iu real life,' by qualities in her the
very reverse ; the gradual growth of jealousy
from her iuooceut spipi tiveness of manner, and
the diabolical macblritttions of lago ; her mur
der, in a fit of jealousy, by her despairing hus
band, and his self-sacjclfice when the veil was
drawn from his eyes-j-are all brought forward,
if not with the literal strictness of the Greek
drama, at least with as much regard to unity of
'time, place and action, as is required by its
principle.”
—
TO MORROW (FRIDAY) EVENING,
Mr. Warner’a Itenrfit,
When be will appear as the CARDINAL
DUKE, lu Bulwer’s splendid play, in
five acts,
Richelieu;
OK. THE CONSPIRACY.
SATURDAY EVENING, LAST NIGHT,
Shak-peare’s Grand Historical Play of
Richard 111.
In announcing MR. WARNER, the Manager
unhositatiDgly endorses him as one of the few
Grand Actors of the age. He has been secured
at a heavy cost, to secure tbe presentation of
Shakspearian and other plays in the very best
style.
NO PLAY WILL BE REPEATED !
PRICEB OF ADMISSION.
Dress Circle and Orchestra Chairs...sl 00
Reserved Seats 1 50
Gallery 50
Colored Gallery, 50c. Entrauee on Ellis
street.
Seats can be secured at Geo. A. Oates’ Book
and Music Store. feb3-l
“FERTILIZERS,
By POLL*HD, €i X & CO.
AUGUSTA PRICKS:
L. 8, Hoyt’s Improved Ammoniated
Bone Superphosphate.
(Substitute for Peruv.au Guano.)
Caeh : S7O 00
Time..- 80 00
Glasgow Company’s Soluble Phosphatic
and Ammoniated Guano.
(Equal to Peruvian.)
Cash. fro 00
Time. 1 80 00
Dissolved Bones Ammoniated.
Cash \ |65 00
Time.* 75 00
(Substitute lor Sea Fowl )
Cash f«5 00
Time : 75 00
Merryman’s Raw Bone Superphosphate
(Soluble).
Cash 160 00
Time 70 00
Sea Fowl Guano (in Savannah).
Cash $67 50
AMMONIATED DISSOLVED BONES.
By John Mer,<iyman A Cos.
Cash
Time :
Land Piaster.
Cash ... S2O 00
Time 25 00
Also, Agents for jdHN MERRY MAN &
CO., Baltimore, Md. |
Sales are payable by Planters’ Drafts
on good Factors, maturing Ist November,
1870, without interest. Drafts to be stgued
and acceptance, arranged when goods are. ship
ped.
Pollard, fox &■
foie Agents for Middle Georgia,
273 Broad Street,
febS-lm Augusta, Ga.
COAL CREEX COAL
I HAVE just received » fresh supply of the
vt ry best quality COAL CREEK COAL ev?r
brought to this city, which will be delivered
(tree from dirt) at 111 p*)r ton.
iG. S. HOOKEY. .
feb3 (5 ! 210 Broad St.
NOTICE.
We have this day associated with us Mr.
L. A. B. REAB in the (jlrocery and Commis
sion business.
FLEMING & STAPLES.
for past favors, we hope, by
promptness and a strict Attention to business,
to merit a liberal share i4 the future.
FLEMING; STAPLES A CO.
feKUfi
notice”
The Company, or Copartnership, known
as the DORN MINING COMPANY, and here
tofore carrying on business at the DORN
MINES, so-called, in the Abbeville District,
and Btate of South Carolina, was dissolved on
the 14th day of October, 1869, and no longer
exists. - „ C. H. McCORMICK.
feb2-3 R. M. FUNKERBOUSE.
FOUND,
A. GOLD BRACELET, which the owner
can have by proving property and paying for
this advertisement.
M. E. BOWERS,
feb3l At Plumb & Leltner’s.
Exemption of Personalty.
— l
GEORGIA, RICHMOND COUNTY :
OKDiiiAßv’sOrFioß soasiiD County, £
Augusts, February 2,1870. S
Nellio Christian having applied for exemption of Per
, sonalty, I will pass upon the same at my office, in
Augusta, cm Monday, tho 14th day of February next,
at 10 o’clock, a. m.
Given under my hand and official signature, this 2d
day of February, 1870.
, SAMUEL LEVY,
feb3-2 Ordinary.
Use Russel Coe’s Su
perphosphate. It is the
JBest. 4
. WANTED,
EXPERIENCED SALESMAN, who
can Influence trade, in a Wholesale House.
Address . P. O. BOX 431,
feb3-2* Charleston, 8 C.
REPORT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA f, 1
|P| jpp I Jig.
At Close of Business on the 22d of January, 1870,
Loans and Discounts.... $688,061 07
Overdrafts 351 ST
United States Bonds to
Secure Circulation 500,000 00
Other Bonds 5,000 00
Due from Redeeming amt
Reserve Agents 2,400 00
Due from other National
Banks 50,771 80
Due from other Banka
and Bankers * 59,631 28
Banking House 40,000 00
Current Expenses 7SB 01
Cash Items (including
Revenue Stamps) 20,8:27 48
Bills of other National
Banka 75,121 00
Fractional CnrreDcy (in
cluding Nickles) 3,649 32
Legal Tender Notes 188,177 00
Three Per Ceut. Certifi
cates 50,000 00
1,684,778 86
STATE OF GEORGIA, COUNTY OF BTCHMOND—
I, George M. Thkw, Cashier of the National Bank of Aogugta, Ga.,
swear that the above statement is true, to the best of my knowledge and belief
• ' G. M. THEW, Cashkr 1
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this Ist
day of February, 1870.
ADRIAN C. IVES,
Notary Public.
Correct—Attest:
B. H. WARREN, )
W. E. JACKSON, } Directors ■
J AS. T. GARDINER ,)
«i. i ptf i Humid
• - __ •
DISSOLVED BONES,
Land Plaster, |
m
UMIUTII IIU m
1 ■"■■■ tv-—,.
JPurity of all articles sold by us guaranteed.
Refer to the prominent JPlanters of Greorgia.
JOHN MERR YM A.N & CQ.,
decl4-3tnd*c tJaltlmOl S«
MILL POND
AND
CHANNEL OYSTERS
UP PLIED in quantities to suit purchasers.
Orders from alt jfarts of the interior solicited.
Address Thos. McCrady, Agent, P. O. Box 339.
Charleston, S. C.
References.—James Adger & Cos , Hon. J. B
oampbelt. Dr. Bt. *»■ "■ . I n, ¥ mj enn i n
Mccraay ® oon, W. G. Dingle, Jut»ll?S“‘ n K , b
octlfe-Sm
Carpets and Shades.
For a Large and Choice selection of new
Carpets and Shades, at low prices, go to
James G. Bailie A Brother's.
CARPETS M ADE AND LAID PROMPTLY.
deo3o-3m
HARDWARE !
HARDWARE! HARDWARE
John & Thos. A. Bones,
(AT THE OLD STAND)
185 Broad Street,
(ESTABLISHED IN 1813)
Take pleasure in announcing to their cus
tomers, and the public generally, that tbey are
now in receipt of a very large stock of
Hardware,
embracing almost every article known to tha
trade. Their importation of
Swedes Iron
AND
English Blow Steel
This season is unusually large. Their stock of
Table and Pocket Cutlery
la very large, and from the best M anufacturers
—such as Joseph Rodgers <Ss Sons, George
Woatenbolm, Fred Ward, Luke Firth, Their
supply of
CARPENTERB, WHEELWRIGHTS AND
BLACKSMITHS’ TOOLS
Is very extensive*
Guilders’ Hardware,
In great variety.
Plantation Supplies,
Such as AXES, HOES, CHAINS, PLOWS, ol
the best brands and in great variety.
All of the above ate o/ the Best Quality, and
offered for sale at the
Lowest Market Bates.
TJse Bussel Coe> 5 s Su
perphosphate. It is the
feest.
Capital Stock Paid in... ' |
*SOO Os,
Surplus ....$90,000 00
Discounts
Profit and Loss 35,857 oo
National Bank Circula
tiou outstanding
Individual Deposits
Due to National Banks..
41,884
Due to other Banks
"" 2,8^,
Dividends unpaid
51!) I
; i.6hiJ
WANTED,
A. PLANTATIO>K»ygom 200 to SOOX a
convenient to this city or rai/foafh*». Mip£
well adapted for Cotton and Graiu, witki
provements and necessary-Woodlaud.
Apply by letter, giving lull description, to
deoil-tf p. (>. BOX NO. lfis
1 AIMS,
DEALER IN
HORSES AND MULES.
»i j. b. yorv«' u ''
Grey Eagle Stables, Ellis street. AngrDi* ”
N. B.—Will also SELL and B|L’Y H 4® 3
art! MULES on commission.
__
FLOOR OIL CLOTS*
OP SUPERIOR QUALITY
"ViTe Invite the a.ttenrtlc,n of the f ,,H
sens of AuguiU and vlidnlty to a I* l **
•t Mh of the above CkKjda. .lost op** "*
In Quality and Style f they are ua** r
pa seed by any House i n t |, e United H*" 1
James fj. Bailie A Broth*' 1
JanPlm
lARY m BUU INSTITUTE,
FOP* YOUNG LADIES,
At WKixm&e, (No. 3, Central Railroad ,)
OoMMENCES JANUARY, 1870.
I’irst Terna ends in JUNE, 1870.
For particulars, apply to
Miss MARY ANN BUIE,
} in2o-tf Whitesville, No. 3C.R R ■ g?;.
Pen Lucy School For Boys,
Waverly, near Baltimore, Md»
ThK SECOND HALF SESSION of d> i!
School will begin sth FEBRUARY. Boy* ***
chaged from the time of admission. J
Sch id has never been in mora snccessfn! op s
tlon.
No Boys who have been iu any Coiled *
be received.
. For Circulars, apply to
R. M. JOHNSTON-
Wavshlx, Md., January 26,1870.
]an26-dtfebls
FOR RENT.
The DWELLING over the “Mechanics’
Bank ”
. ALSO,
Tfic BANKING ROOM. Apply W
jt nB6-U H. H. STEIN