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01,1 iSeries—Vol. 25. No. 122.
the constitutionalist
THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1875.
Railroad Schedules.
Revised - * Corrected by B, P. Brown. Gon
orH, ; i'-kei Agent. Planters’ Hotel.
Ltsaves Augusta —4:20 a. m. and 8:20 p. m.
Arrives at Augusta..7:2s a. m. and 8:00 p.m.
Arrives at Port Royal 8:00 p. m.
Heaves Port Royal ..9:30a.m.
GEOKGLA ItAILROAD.
t.ea res Augusta at 8:45, a. m. and 8:15, p. m.
Leaves Atlanta at 7:0O, a. m.and 10:30 p. hi.
Arnvesin Augusta 3:30, p. in. andß:ls,a.m.
Arrives in Atlanta at 5:45, p.m. and 6:25, a.m.
SOUTH CAROLINA RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta at 9 :00, a. m. and 6, p. m.
Arrives Augusta at 5:15, p. ra. and 7 :50, a. m.
MACON AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Leaves Augusta at.10:45, a. in. andß;lsp.m.
Leaves Maeonat. .6:30, a. in. and 8:00 p.m.
Arrives at Augusta. .2:00, p. m. and 8:15 a.m,
Arrives at Macon at.6:40, p. m. and 7 :40 a.m
CENTRAL RAILROAD.
3 ,eaves Augn -ta at 9:05, a. m. and 8:10, p.m.
Arrives at Augusta at 4:00 p. m. and 7, a.m.
0 lABLOTiE COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAIL
ROAD.
Le ives Vt ji.-ra at 9:30, a. m. and 4:15, p.m.
a r. i resin Augusta at s :05, p.m. andß:4s, a.m
BY TELEGRAPH
ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.
The News More Favorable to the
Democrats—No Election of Gover
nor by the People— Congressmen
in Doubt.
Concord. March 10. — One hundred
and eighty-four towns give Cheney
(Rep.), 29,568 ; Roberts (Dem.), 28.388;
scattering, 500. Last year these towns
gave MoCutehins (Rep.), 26,027 ; Wes
ton (Dem.), 25,820; scattering, 1,657.
This shows a net gain for Chenev of
2,118.
Later— Thirty-one towns in the
Second Congressional District give
Pike (Rep.), 4,811; Bell, (Dem.), 5,034 ;
Fletcher, 30. Forty-five towns in the
Third District give" Blair (Rep.), 7,452;
Kent (Dem), 7,029; scattering, 59.
Fifty-nine towns in the First District
give Whitehouse (Rep.), 9,993 ; Jones,
( Dem.), 10,023 ; scattering, 195. Whole
number of towns in the District is 87.
Later.— Late returns of the night
seem to have changed the face of the
election somewhat, making what at an
earlier hour seemed an overwhelming
Republican victory rather doubtful.—
Returns of the Congressional districts
are meagre and insufficient to indicate
results positively. The Republicans
claim to have elected Pike in the 2d
district and Blair in the 3d, and think
Jones, the Democratic, candidate in
the Ist district, is defeated. On the
other hand the Democrats claim to
have elected Jones in the Ist, Bell in
the 2d, and think the later returns
may show the election of Kent in the
3d district. The 2d and 3d districts
seem doubtful, with the chances some
what in favor of Jones in the Ist. The
Republicans claim to have elected the
Governor, but the latest returns have
reduced the gains, so that there is no
election by the people. It seeme not
improbable the Legislature will be
very close.
The Election in Doubt—Both Sides
Claiming the Victory.
Later —Two hundred and four towns
give Cheney 33,584; Roberts, 32,476 :
White and scattering, 590. These towns
last year gave McCutchens 29,344;
Weston, 29,582 ; Blackman and scatter
ing, 1,840, which is a net gain for Che
ney of 258. There are 28 towns to be
heard from.
Later returns from 232 towns and
wards give Cheney (Rep.) 37,012 ; Rob
erts (Dem.) 36,096 ; White and scatter
ing, 624. The net Republican gain over
last year is 2,869. The remaining towns,
last year, gave a Democratic majority
over all others of 790. This indicates
that Cheney and Roberts will run with
about an even vote; scattering votes
defeating election of eithpr by the peo
ple. Both parties claim majority in the
senatorial districts. The Democrats
claim the House by 15 to 20 ; while the
Republicans also claim 13 majority in
the same body. In the First Congres
sional District the election of Jones,
Democrat, is conceded by both parties.
Blair is elected over Kent, Democrat,
in the Third District; White, in the
Second, is still in doubt and confident
ly claimed by both parties.
The Monitor, Republican newspaper,
claims Pike and Blair, both" Republi
cans, are elected to Congress ; that the
Republicans have a good working ma
jority in the House of Representatives,
and that the Republicans have elected
six of the twelve Senators, with several
• districts in doubt.
The Patriot (Dem.) says there is no
election of Governor by the people;
that the Republicans have five Sena
tors and the Democrats five, with two
districts in doubt, and that the Demo
crats have a majority in the House of
Representatives.
The Patriot also claims the election
of Jones and Bell, Democrats, to Con
gress, with the 3d District in doubt.
The People (Dem.) also claims a sub
stantial victory for its party, with the
exception of the 3d District, which it
considers doubtful.
WASHINGTON.
Nominations and Confirmations.
Washington, March 10.—Confirma
tions : Belivin, Pension Agent, at
Baleigh; Kansier, Collector Second
District of South Carolina ; Martin,
Postmaster at Montgomery, Ala.; Web
ster, Postmaster at Orangeburg, S. C.
Nominations: J. Burnham Kinsman,
District Judge Western District of
Arkansas. Capt. John C. Beamont to
be Commodore in the Navy.
The Cabinet decided yesterday to
discontinue the compelitive feature in
civil service reform.
British Vice-Consul for Savannah—
The Nomination of Glover With
drawn.
Alexander Harkness has been recog
nized as British Vice-Consul at Savan
nah. Nothing later from New Hamp
shire.
The nomination of Glover as Post
master at Macon, Ga., will be with
drawn.
MISSOURI.
Bloody Doings Over Civil Rights.
St. Louis, March 10.—Civil Bights in
the interior of the State resulted in the
killing of one negro, who interfered
with a bar-keeper for refusing a drink
to a black man. Another trouble re
sulted in missing a negro, but killing a
boy and man by wild shots.
I lie fails. soixf titatioimlM.
FOREIGN.
Rumors cf a French Coup d’Etat—The
French Muddle.
Paris, March 10. —Rumors of a con
templated coup d'etat by the Bonapart
ists are in circulation and causes some
uneasiness.
Panama, March 10. —Capt. Lull’s sur
vey for a canal across the isthmus con
tinues with favorable results.
Bread riot in Bogota. All the baker
shops are gutted.
London, March 10. —A heavy gale.
Disasters are reported on the English
and Irish coasts, and several lives were
lost.
A motion jvill be made in the House
of Commons to adjourn over the Easter
holidays, from the 22d of March to the
sth of April.
The Times' Paris special says the
Ministry was upset by the Bonapart
ists who persuaded MacMahon to op
pose Duke d’Audifret Pasquier. M.
Wallon was also opposed by the Bish
op of Orleans in behalf of the clergy.
The correspondent says MacMahon,
while urging Buffet to accept, several
times threatened to resign.
UNION PACIFIC.
Election of Officers.
Boston. March 10.—At a meeting of
the Union Pacific stockholders, to-day,
of the 367,150 shares of the company,
329,668 were cast for the following
Board of Directors: Oliver Ames, of
Boston; Elisha Adkins, F. Gordon,
Dexter ; Benj. E. Bates, Oliver Ames,
2d, and Ezra H. Baker, of Boston; Sid
ney Dillon, of New York; Charles J.
Osborn, Jay Gould, Geo. S. Scott, Sam’l
M. Mills, James D. Smith, and Joseph
Richardson, of New York; G. M. Dodge,
of lowa ; and John Sharp, of Salt Lake
City, Utah. Adjourned.
ATLANTA.
The Racee—Suicide of a Jealous Black
'Barber.
Atlanta, March 10.—Races opened
to-day at Oglethorpe Park. The three
quarter race was won by Mattie O.—
time, 1:20. The mile dash was won by
Century—time, I:s6>£.
A negro barber, to-day, shot himself
in the heart with a pistol. Cause, jeal
ousy.
Civil Rights the Real Cause of the
Suicide.
The negro barber that suicided here
to-day was one of the party who,
upon the passage of the Civil Rights
bill, visited bar-rooms in the city, and
demanded the same rights as white
men. This conduct resulted in the
loss of patronage. He bitterly regret
ted his conduct, and the depression
produced by the loss of business is the
only cause known of the suicide.
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PENNSYLVANIA.
A Veritable Banditti Sheridan’s
Chance.
Munch Chunk, Pa., March 10. —On
Tuesday evening, at 12 o’clock, about
one hundred Moliy Maguires passed
through Ashton, near Summit Hill, all
armed, some with clubs, others with
pistols and guns, all masked. They
were in search of Luke Sweeney, who
the Molly Maguires claim is a working
blackleg, lie and several others were
notified to cease work, or take the con
sequence, and they promised to do so
in order to save their lives.
THE SENATE.
More Pinchback.
Washington, March 10.—In the Senate,
immediately after the reading of the
Journal, the consideration of the reso
lution for admission of Pinchback was
resumed and Merrimon, of North Caro
lina, continued his argument in opposi
tion to his admission. After Merrimon,
McCreery obtained the floor and yield
ed for executive session.
ST^LOUIS.
The Chandler—Buel Slander Case.
St. Louis, March 10. — It is decided in
the Chandler-Buel slander case that
the Poland gag-law does not apply to
Buel. Recourse must be had to the
laws of 1789. The indictment is faulty
and Judge Treat, United States Dis
trict Court, has no jurisdiction. The
District Attorney gave notice that he
would appeal. The case comes before
the Circuit Court in the March term.
ELECTRICFLASHES.
A number of fishermen from Sand
wich report three vessels sunk, two
missing and five men lost.
The Ohio State Grange reports 1,146
working Granges ; membership, 65,000.
Marine Disasters.
Phiadelphia, March 10.—The Tona
wanda, from Wilmington, reports that
she passed, off Chencotique, a schooner
with main-topmast gone, apparently
bound in the capes ; also a quantity of
lumber and bulwarks of some vessel
off Cape Heulopen ; also a light ship
and deep bark ; also saw the wreck of
the bark Cienfuegos. She lies iu the
track of Southern bound steamers, and
her spars are floating round her, mak
ing her very dangerous.
The schooner Laura D. Frow, from
St. Johns for Havana, was abandoned.
An officer and first mate, were washed
overboard. The captain and five men
were found clinging to the rigging.
A French. Ministry Formed.
Pakis, March 10. —It is officially an
nounced that a Ministry has been form
ed as follows : Buffet, Minister of the
Interior ; Dufare, of Justice ; Leon Say,
of Finabce ; Wallou, of Public Instruc
tion ; Vicomple Demaux, of the Right,
of Agriculture; Duke Do Cazas, of
Foreign Affairs ; Gen. Cissey, of War ;
Admiral DeMontaignae, of Marine;
Calleaux, of Public Works.
Telegraph Dividend.
New Yoke, March 10.—The Western
Union Telegraph Company declared a
quarterly dividend of two per cent.
Geraniums will Drive off Snakes.—
Every species of snake may be perma
nently driven away from an infested
place by planting geraniums. In South
Africa, the Caffir people thus rid their
premises of snakes. A missionary of
South Africa had his parsonage sur
rounded by a narrow belt of geraniums,
which effectually protected the resi
dence from any kind of snake. A few
yards away from this geranium belt, a
snake would occasionally be found. It
is well known that the whole geranium
genius is highly redolent of volatile
oils—lemon scented, musk scented, and
peppermint scented. What, therefore,
is a very pleasant nossgay for man is
repugnant t# the serpent tribe.
AUGUSTA, GAI.. THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH 11, 1875.
[Special Correspondence Constitutionalist.
LETTER FROM WASHINGTON.
The Forty-Third Congress—lts Say
ings and Doings—lnjurious Conse
quences of Imprudeut Speeches by
Democrats- -Senators Bayard and*
Hamilton, Logan and Conkling—
Grant and a Third Term—The
“ Southern Address.”
Washington, D. C., March G, 1875.
The Forty-third Congress is num
bered among the things that were. Its
proceedings have been marked by in
tense sectional animosity and partisan
ship on the pars of the Republicans,
and an immense lack of wisdom and
policy on the part of the Democrats.
As I said in a former letter, I am con
vinced that it would have been better
for the country and for the Democrats
bad not a single speech been made by
any one of them this session. When
Congress assembled in December there
were great dis3ensions in the ranks of
the Radicals; they were divided among
themselves; their party was disinte
grating. Had the Democrats kept
their mouths shut, instead of indulg-
ing in so much of the rant and rhodo
montade, and personal denunciation of
Grant and the military, which has
characterized the speeches of many of
them, this disintegration would have
continued ; but the policy pursued by
tbose who have assumed the leader
ship of the Democrats has had the ef
fect of welding together the ranks of
their political opponents and uniting
them in the carrying out of the pro
gramme of the Southern Republica is.
As an example of the effect of personal
attacks on Republicans by Democrats,
take that of John Young Brown on
Butler. Butler is personally odious to
most, if not all of the Radical leaders,
who would really be delighted to see
him bereft of all political influence ;
and, in point of fact, he was at a com
paratively low ebb and on the down
grade on the Republican side of the
House when this onslaught was made
by Brown. This, like the “presto” of
the magician, changed the situation at
once, made Butler a sort of hero, and
elevated him to a prominence and gave
him a power which he could not other
wise have attained. I doubt if Butler
would have taken five thousand dollars
for the occurrence. Just so it is with
every abusive, denunciatory epithet
applied to Grant, Sheridan, or any
other of the military heroes of the
North by Democratic speakers or
writers. It but serves to rally the
masses of the Northern people
around them and keep them
in power and place, just as Brooks’
caning Sumner made a martyr of him
and gave him a position in the Senate
for fifteen years. Every utterance of
that kind, written or spoken, is seized
with avidity by the Radical leaders and
used with disastrous effect upon those
from whom they emanate.
Let me give you one or two other in
stances. You know in what high esteem
I hold Senator Bayard, of Delaware. I
regard him as the ablest find truest of
the Democrats in the Senate, worthy
of the historic and chivalric name he
bears, and I hope to have, at least, the
pleasure of voting for him as the
Democratic nominee for the Presi
dency. You doubtless concur with me
in my opinion as to him if you have
read his speech on the Louisiana ques
tion, or are at all familiar with his record.
And yet this Se ator, altogether ad
mirable as he is, in the intensity of his
devotion to constitutional liberty and
abhorrence of every thing which savors
of despotism or centralism, used an ex
pression which was at once pounced
upon by the Radicals and turned to
good account for themselves.
Mr. Bayard, in speaking of the ban
ditti dispatch, said “ Sheridan was not
fit to breathe the free air of a Republic.”
It was an unfortunate remark, and
the only one in his masterly speech
which the Radicals could turn and
twist to their own advantage. You can
readily see how Logan, Conkling, Mor
ton, &c., would seize and comment
upon such an expression. “ What!
the man who had drawn his sword and
bared his breast on many a hard
fought field for the purpose of saving
the Union—the man who had faced
rebel bullets, swords and bayonets, and
charged to the cannon’s moqth in de
fense of this Government —has it come
to this, that gentlemen shall stand on
this floor and denounce such a man as
being unfit to breathe the free air of a
republic ? Is it not time indeed that
the true friends of the Union should
rally to a man around those who car
ried its flag safely and triumphantly
through all the dangers of a terrible
and bloody rebellion, when such utter
ances as these are heard in the United
States Senate ?”
It is after this fashion that Radical
leaders comment on such imprudent
expressions from Democratic Senators
and Representatives. When Mr. Ham
ilton, the Senator from Maryland,
in the course of his speech, allud
ed contemptuously to the soldiers
iu New Orleans as “ hirelings,”
Mr. Conkling was quick to retort
that “ but for such “ hirelings’’there
might not now be a Senate Chamber
to echo with the eloquence of the hon
orable Senator from Maryland. But for
these “ hirelings ” we might not now
breathe the free air of a Republic.”
It is certain that, but for such
“ hirelings ” we should not breathe
the air of a free Republic. These
“ hirelings ” have less place to rest
their feet than the birds of the
air, or the beauts of the field. If they
remain soldiers they must be some
where, and wherever they are, South
of Mason and Dixon’s line, they come
betwixt the wind and somebody’s no
bility. If they doff their knapsacks,
and with honorable discharges in their
pockets, and v\ earing the scars received
on stricken fields, melt away into so
ciety and locate anywhere in one-half
the Republic, they are loaded with op
probrium ; they are stigmatized with
the epithets of “ carpet-bagger,”
“ scalawag,” “ white nigger,” and the
like. They have earned their revilings
in recent years. One political party
never called soldiers “ hirelings ” until
they were marshalled to trample down
a rebellion which lifted its bloody
hands to stab the Republic to the
heart. It is a curious coincidence that
hatred of soldiers blossomed out about
the time they were hurrying to the
burning battle-fields of the rebellion.”
I give you these quotations from the
speeches of Radical Senators, that our
people may see with what telling effect
imprudent speeches—even the slight
est—by Democrats can be used by the
Radicals in a campaign, and the vital
importance tc the Democracy of mak
ing their war on principles only, and
not on Grant; or Sheridan, or the
United States soldiers.
Would it not be the better policy,
while condemning, always and ever,
in the strongest and most powerful
terms, the evil and unconstitutional
measures which have brought such
mischief and ruin on the country, to
abstain from personal revilings against
those who may be called upon to exe
cute them (even though they may just
ly deserve censure for their manner of
doing it), especially such as Grant,
Emory or Sheridan, who hold the same
places" in the hearts of the people of
the North that Davis, Lee and Jack
son do in the hearts of the Southern
people ? Is it not better not to let
the principle for which we profess to
contend be lost sight of or sunk in a
mere personal warfare on any man,
and above all, on the man or men, but
for whom, Senator Conkling asserts
(and the people of the North believe)
that “ the bloody hands of a rebellion
would have stabbed the Republic to
the heart ?”
Is it not better to make the issue
Democracy or Constitutionalism versus
Centralism, and fight it out on that*
line, than to make it simply Democracy
versus Grant, and go into another cam
paign under the battle-cry of “ any
thing to beat Grant ?” The tendency
of the Democrats is too much towards
the latter course, and, I greatly fear,
will, if persisted in, lead them to a de
feat as disastrous as that to which the
same cry led them in seventy-two.
The campaign |of seventy-six will
soon be upo i us. I will not stop now
to consider the combination of circum
stances which has made Grant the for- t
midable candidate for the ne.it Presl-*
deucy which I think he is—“what’s
done is done.” It only remains now to
be seen whether or not the Democrats
will pursue that course which will un
der his nomination and election sure—
whether, in a word, they will or will
not profit by experience. Nous verrons.
One thing, I hope, the Democratic
party has learned from the past,—that
is, the utter folly of allowing them
selves led by the nose by New York
politicians. Surely it has experienced
enough of the disasters of such a lead
to be deterred from following it in the
future. If lam correctly informed the
idea of the late address of the South
ern members to their constituents
originated in the brain of a. vreii -known
New York politician, prominently con
nected with that chapter of calamities
in the history of the Democratic party
written under the head of “The New
Departure.” One less fitted to lay down
a wise and successful party policy than
this same New Yorker could hardly be
found. The “ Southern Address ” was
utterly uncalled for and ill-timed, and
is only another instance of the folly of
the Southern Democrats permitting
themselves to be led by such unsafe
guides. The fact that the Radical mem
bers here were much pleased by the
issuing of the address is evidence suf
ficient of its impolicy, without the com
ments upon it by the Radical papers,
which you have doubtless seen.
And from the extracts I have given
from speeches of Radicals I hope our
people will understand fully another
thing, namely, the spirit and policy of
the Radical party, and the damaging
effects of every action and utterance
which can furnish the slightest pretext
for stirring up the bitter feelings of the
war. You have seen how one word,
let fall in the heat of debate from the
lips of a Democratic Senator, furnished
the opportunity for Senator Conkling’s
finest oratorical flight and most power
ful and effective appeal to the war pas
sions of the Northern people. His
speech was circulated throughout the
North to an unprecedented extent, —
being scattered all over New Hamp
shire within the last few days, in view
of the approaching elections in that
State. Richmond.
SENATOR GORDON’S VIEWS.
The Object of His Visit to New
England—Feelings of the Two
Races at the South—What •He
Deems the Cause of the Strife.
The Boston Advertiser says :
Senator Gordon, of Georgia, and
Representative Lamar, of Mississippi,
arrived in this city last evening on their
way to New Hampshire, where the for
mer will speak in Concord on Monday
evening and the latter in Manchester.
These gentlemen said, in conversation
with an Advertiser reporter last even
ing, that they came with feelings very
different from the ordinary feelings of
politicians. Their people were too
serious to think of mere triumph of
parties. They were just in that condi
tion when they were willing to embrace
anything that promised relief and good
government. The sum of all they
wanted Was honesty in their public offi
cers. Speaking of the condition of
property in New Orleans, Mr. Gordon,
quoting from a letter of a lady friend
residing there, said it cost more to pay
the taxes than could be obtained from
rents. The lady continued in the let
ter : “We are called a company of mur
derers and assassins. I tell you that
where one white man can be found who
has committed a murder, for any
cause at all, I will name to you two
who have committed suicide from
sheer desperation.” This was simply a
private letter written to a friend, with
no expectation that it would be made
public. She subsequently gives a long
list of names of prominent citizens of
New Orleans who had gone mad and
taken their own lives. “It is a horrid
state of society and government,” add
ed Mr. Gordon, “ that drives people to
that sort of resort.” They had come,
he said, with the hope that by an hon
est, plain representation, braced by
facts and by the testimony which they
propose to present, mostly from Re
publican sources, they can show the
people of the North the true condition
of the Southern States. They felt sure
that whenever we did understand, as a
brave and generous people, with a com
mon history and a common destiny
with theirs, we would not tolerate the
abuses to which they were subjected ;
the interference of the Federal Admin
istration. Of course, if they could not
redeem themselves through the ballot
box they must go on suffering, but they
wanted the same rights at the ballot
box as we had. They did not want
men forced upon them by fraudulent
elections, as was done in Arkansas, as
was done every year in Mississippi, and
as was done last year in Louisiana.—
They had come here not to make po
litical speeches, but merely t*> spread
out before the people their con lition.
jUSpeaking of the condition of affairs
in Georgia, he said there had not been
a life taken in that State, unless it was
in an infrequent drunken street row.
The negroes lived happily and peace
ably. * He suggested that it was not a
very good argument for those who
tried to make it appear that the whites
were hostile to the negroes, when in
this State, where the former race out
numbered the latter four to one, quiet
reigned. He mentioned as one signifi
cant fact that the Legislature appro
priated the same amount of money for
the negro college as for the college
which was the pride of every Georgian.
In all the States tne older citizens saw
that the negro, so far from being re
sponsible, was simply made the tool in
the hands of men who used him for
their own purposes. A bad govern
ment was the continuous source of ir
ritation. It was perfectly impossible
for anybody to conceive of a race of
intelligent men, who, knowing that
their whole prosperity, everything they
had in the world, depended on keeping
the peace between the races, should turn
out and kill the negroes wholesale.—
For example,—his home was four miles
in the country from Atlanta. Every
thing he had on earth in the way of
house-keeping, his farm, mules, corn,
fodder, hay, houses, everything was in
the hands of negroes while lie was in
Washington, and not a white man upon
the place. He knew the sentiment of
the Southerners upon the questions of
race and color, and he could affirm that
there was no hostility toward the negro
as a man. Mrs. Gordon and himself
had gone away from home and left
their entire family, their little children,
in the hands of their negro servants,
with not a white man anywhere about.
His children slept with their colored
nurse at night, and he had no objec
ton to the association, except as it
might influence their morality. The
danger of this was much greater than
before the war. Then the negro was in
the control of his master. He was told
not to swear, not to drink, not to use
obscene language among the children.
There was no such control over him
now, and not having any power to con-.
trol him in any way to prevent any arts
that would mislead him, he was filled
with apprehension. It was not a re
pugnance toward him, but a distrust of
him.
The negroes on his place worked his
farm, and he divided its products
equally with them. Every man voted
against him every time. They had
been with him ever since the war, and
had never voted with him, and they
did not dare to. He cited an instance
which occurred when he was running
for Governor. His carriage driver, a
boy to whom ho was very much at
tached, and who was devoted to him,
came to him, very much affected, and
said to him : “ General, I would vote
for you, but I must be candid with you
and tell you the truth ; I am afraid to
do it. My own color will charge me
with deserting them, and these white
men who have been looking after us
tell me that I will not bo safe if I de
sert my color. And I want to ask you
whether it is true that if you are elect
ed we wifi all be put back into slavery
again.” “I laughed at him,” Mr Gor
don said, “ and replied, Don’t you know
that it would be utterly impossible ; if
the whole Southern people were united
as one man, and should attempt that,
they could accomplish nothing by it.
If the whole power of the Government
was given us,” he continued, “ its ar
mies, its navies, its courts, its Con
gress, one man in five thousand could
not be found who would put the negro
back into slavery again. We don’t want
slavery any more.” The negro vote
was dividing more and more every
year, and he was sure the time was not
far distant when parties would be
formed not upon the color line at all.
It would have come long ago if it were
not for those men whose interest it was
to keep up the party line. To show the
kind of influence these carpet-baggers
had over the negroes, he said that af
ter he had addressed them in favor of
reform legislation, someone of these
would rise and say : “ Don’t you re
member he fought to keep you in slav
ery? Don’t you give him the power
again, or he will put you back into
slavery.’, The effect of this appeal to
the passions was apparent.
He thought the Civil Eights bill was
not desired by the colored people. They
preferred, as a mass, to be by themT
selves, in the cars, steamboats or ho
tels ; and in closing the conversation he
remarked that not a single outrage or
disturbance through all the Southern
States had occurred which could not be
traced to the unjust administration of
the Government as its cause.
The Weather.
War Department, )
Office ok Chief Signal Officer, V
Washington. March 11—1 a. m. )
Probabilities:
For the Gulf States and Tennessee,
falling barometer, southerly winds,
warm, partly cloudy weather, and oc
casional rain.
Report of the United States Signal
Service Bureau.
Augusta, March 10—4:16 P. M.
Augusta, 62 deg.—Fair.
Buffalo, 29 deg.—Light snow.
Charleston, 58 deg.—Clear.
New Orleans, 65 deg.—Clear.
New York, 40 deg.—Fair.
Washington, 36 deg.—Threatening.
A Merciful Judge.— At Chester, Eng
land, a woman was recently tried for
killing her husband. The testimony
showed that she bore patiently long
continued provocation. At last, in a
moment of ungovernable irritation,
she threw a sharpened steel at him,
struck him and fatally wounded him.
The Judge believed from the evidence
that the consequ nces of the act were
deeply deplored by the wife ; that she
did all in her power to aid the man af
ter wounding him, and therefore, al
though the jury convicted, he made
the following unique address to the
criminal:
“All the real right in this case was on
your side, all the real wrong on your
husband’s, and God forbid that I should
punish you. I will be no party to it, I
will not even make this judgment com
plete. I will not allow it to be said by
anybody t hat you are a convicted felon,
for a conviction is not complete until a
sentence is passed, and I mean to pass
no sentence at all. I shall merely ask
you to enter into your own recogni
zance to come up for judgment if call
ed upon ; and nobody in the world will
ever call upon you—God forbid they
ever should.”
A novelty in the mode of hanging
criminals was recently introduced at
Newgate, England. Instead of erect
ing the usual scaffold above ground,
a pit was dug in the soil, and a trap
door made level with the ground,
opening into the pit. The convict was
pinioned by the executioner on the top
of the trap, and at a given signal the
drop fell, and the unfortunate ceased
to live.
Great Salt Lake is frozen over, and
the pious Elder, standing on the shore,
points with admiration to a dozen or
so of sylph-like forms gliding graceful
ly over the ice, and proudly exclaims,
“Them’sall mine.”
It is a c urious coincidence that Matt.
Carpenter stepped into the Senate the
very day that Johnson stepped out of
White House, and now Matt, steps out
of the Senate at the very time that
Andy steps in.
Garibaldi is said to look and dress
like the b’hoys that used to wear soap
| locks and run “wid der mercheen.”
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL
AUGUSTA DAILY MARKET.
Office Daily Constitution alist, J
Wednesday. March 10, 4 P. M. j
Financial:
Gold—Buying’ at 113 and selling at 115.
Silver—Buying at 102 and selling at 105.
Sight Exchange on New York, buying at
par to % premium, and selling at % pre
mium.
Cotton.
The Augusta Exchange reports the mar
ket continuing quiet to-day, with a better
demand prevailing at unchanged prices.
Th 9 closing quotations wero: Good
Ordinary, 14%; Low Middling, 15%; Mid
dling, 15%.
Receipts of the day, 237 and sales, 254
bales. The receipts at all United States
ports were 9,053 bales; same dav last year
14,982 bales.
Produce.
BACON—Clear Sides, 12%@12%; C. R.
Sides, 12%@12%; Shoulders, 9%. Dry Salt
—C. R. Sides, 11%; Long Clear Sides,
11%; D. S. Shoulders, 8%'33%; Bellies,
11%. Tennessee Meats—Sides, 12%@12%;
Shoulders, 9%@10; Hams, 15.
II AMS—Can vassed, 14%.
LARD— Choice, In tierce, 15; kegs and
cans, 16.
BAGGING AND TIES.-Domestic bag
ging, 12%; Borneo bales at 12%; Gunny
bales, 11; Ties, Arrow, 5%; Pieced, 4.
BUTTER—Goshen, 40@45; Country, 25;
Tennessee, 25.
FLOURr— City Mills are $6.25@6.50 for su
perfine; $6.50@6.75 for extra; $7@7.25 for
family; and $7.50@7.75 for fancy; for
Western and Country, wo quote superfine,
$5.50@6.00; extra, $6@6.50; family, $6.50@7.00
and fancy, $7.00@7.50.
CORN—Prime to choice white (new dry)
$1.08@1.10; yellow and mixed, $1.05@1.07.
Small lots, or less than car load, 3@5
higher than car load or depot rates.
WHEAT—Light stock; choice white,
$1.43; prime white, $1.40; amber, $1.38; red,
$1.32%@1.35.
OATS—Mixed, 83@85; white, 85.
CORN MEAL—City, $1.10; Country, sl@
1.05.
EGGS—Per dozen, 22.
Note.—We give wholesale rates. Prices
for small lots of the articles we quote are
higher in proportion.
TELEGRAPHIC MARKETS.
FINANCIAL.
London, March 10—Noon—New Loan,
3%.
Paris, March 10 -Noon.—Rentes, 65f. sc.
New York, March 10—Noon.—Stocks
active and strong. Money, 5. Gold. 115%.
Exchange—long, 481; short, 485. Govern
ments dull. State Bonds quiet.
Gold opened at 115.
New York, March 10—P. M.— oney very
easyat2@2%. Sterling lower at 480. Gold
active at 115%@115%. Governments active
and strong; new s‘s, 14%. States quiet and
nominal.
New Orleans, March 10.—New York
Sight, % premium, sterling, 553%. Gold,
114%.
PRODUCE.
Liverpool, March 10—Noon.—Bread
stuffs quiet.
New York, March 10—Noon—Flour quiet
and steady. Wheat quiet and steady
Corn firm. Pork firm at $19.35@19 37%.
Lard firm; steam, 13%. Turpentine quiet
at 36. Rosin and Freights unchanged.
New Orleans. March 10—Sugar in
good demand and firm, with light supply;
inferior, 5®5%; common, 6@6%; fair to
fully fair, 6%@7%; prime to choice, 8%.
Molasses in good demand and stock di
minishing; common, 45®53; fair, 53@05;
prime to choice, 56®68. Coffee in good de
mand ; fair to prime, 17@18%.
New York, March 10—P. M.-rßouthern
Flour firm, with fair inquiry; common to
fair extia, $5®5,70; good to choice ditto,
$5.75@8. Wheat a shade firmer at $1.23®
1.26 for Ninter red Western; $1.26@1.26%
for amber ditto: $1.28@1.34 for white West
ern. Corn steady and in moderate demand
at 83@84% for Western mixed; 84@84%i0r
yellow Western; 84 for white ditto. Coffee
quiet and firm at 16@18%, gold, for Rio
Sugar firm and in fair demand. Rice quiet
aud unchanged. Tallow firm at 3%. Rosin
and Turpentine steady. Pork firmer; mess
job lots, 519.35@19.50. Lard firmer; prime
steam, 13@15%®14. Whiskey firm and
quiet at $1.12. Freights steady.
Baltimore, March 10.—Flour fairly ac
tive and unchanged. Wheat in good de
mand, local trade firm, Pennsylvania red
$1.18@1.20; others unchanged. Corn weaker
for Western and Southern steady; Southern
white, 81@84; yellow, 80@82. Oats and Rye
dull and unchanged. Provisions firmer and
active. Pork unchanged. Bacon -shoul
ders. 8%. Coffee quiet and unchanged.—
Whiskey, $1.03, some asking, $1.04.
COTTON.
Liverpool, March 10—Noon.—Cotton
quiet and unchanged; middling uplands,
7%; middling Orleans, 8@8%; sales, 12,-
000; speculation and export, 2,000; to ar
rive 1-16 cheaper; basis middling uplands,
nothing below low middling, shipped
March and April, 7 15-16; ditto deliverable
May and April, 8: basis of middling Or
leans, nothing below low low middling,
shipped February and March, 8%.
Liverpool, March 10.—2 P. M.—Cotton-
Sales, 6,700 American.
New York, March 10—Noon—Cotton
quiet; sales, 109; uplands, Orleans,
16%.
Futures opened quiet and easy, as fol
lows: March, 16 7-32, 16 9-32; April, 16 17-32,
16 9-16; May, 16 15-16'. 16 31-32; June, 17 7-32,
17%.
New York. March 10—P. M.—Cotton
quiet; sales, 175 bales at 16%@16%; net re
ceipts, 389; gross, 6,682.
Futures closed easy; sales, 17,900 bales,
as follows: March, 16%, 169-32; April, 16%,
16 1-32; May, 17 132; June, 17 1-32,17%;
July, 17 19-32,17%; August, 17 23-32, 17%;
Ceptember, 17%, 17 3-16; October, 16%, 16
21-32; November ,16 7-16; December, 16
7-16.
New Orleans, March 10 Cotton dull
and irregular; middling. 15%; low mid
dling, 14%; good ordinary, 14%; net re
ceipts, 3,555 bales; gross, 3,696; exports to
continent, 1,450; sales, 4 000.
Savannah, March 10.—Colton quiet;
middling, 15%; net receipts, 1.136; ex
to Continent, 1,350; sales, 532.
Mobile, March 10.—Cotton quiet; mid
dling, 15%; net receipts, 627; gross, 629;
exports coastwise, 2,202; sales, 600.
Charleston, March 10.—Cotton quiet;
middling, 15%; net receipts, 689; exports
to Continent, 431.
Galveston, March 10.—Cotton dull and
nominal; middling, 15%; low middling,
14%; net receipts, 796; exports to the chan
nel, 42G; sales, 20.
Wilmington, March 10.—Cotton dull and
nominal; middling, 15%: low middling,
14%; good ordinary, 14%; net receipts,
248; exports coastwise, 591.
Norfolk, March 10.—Cotton weak;
buyers and sellers apart; middling, 16;
net receipts, 896 exports coastwise, 1,025.
Baltimore, March 10.—Cotton quiet and
firm; middling, 16%: low middling, 15%;
good ordinary, 15%; net receipts, 25;
gross, 297; exports coastwise, 135; sales,
415.
Memphis, March 10.—Cotton quiet and
steady; middling, 15%@15%;net receipts,
496; shipments, 1.556; sales, 1,800.
Boston, March 10.— Cotton unchanged;
middling, 16%; net receipts, 481; gross,
2,526; exports to Great Britain, 1,047; sales,
97.
Philadelphia, March 10.—Cotton quie;
middling, 16%; net receipts, 130; gross, 375.
MARINE NEWS.
New York, March 10. — Arrived: West
ern Metropolis, Selesia, iEtua, Acapulco
Arrived out: Otago, Lake Superior. Ella
S. Bayer, Prince Louis, Avondale, Jesse
BoylOj Cliai lotto, Andronona, Pentrovella,
Parthia, Sandeuiandeii, Northampton,
irromossia*
Homeward: Walter Howe, Prudent®.
HARDWARE.
1,000 kegs nails.
1,000 DIXIE PLOWS.
2,000 PAIR TRACES.
150 TONS IRON.
50 TONS STEEL.
100 DOZEN AXES.
PLOW SHAPES, SCOOTERS, SHOVELS,
TURN PLOWS
and sweE PS ,
Heel ScrewN,
Clevises, Grass Rods, Plow Handles,
And a general assortment of
HARDWAIIE
FOR SALE LOW FOR CASH.
MOORE & CO.
243 Broad Street,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
jan9-c3m
NOTICE.
MM. J. MILLS t LARK has an elegant
PASTURE at his place in Beech Is
land, and will take good care of all DRY
MILCii COWS entrusted to his keeping, at
moderate cost.
Orders left at this Office will reach him.
jan2i-2w
PREMIUM CHESTER WEITE PIGS—
a pair. Chester County
MAMMOTH CORN, and inmorted BEL
GIAN OATS, 4 lbs. by mail, $1; peck, $2;
% bushel, $3; bushel, $5. Circulars and
Sample Packages of Seels FREE for two
stamps. Address N. P. BOYER,
feb2s-c3 Parkesburg, Chester co., Pa
CANCER.
TO PHYSICIANS AND OTHERS.—For a
small consideration, 1 will send a pre
scription ti: it v.’iil euro ..a Cancers, speedi
ly and painlessly. A4dres
G. F. O’BKYON, M. D„
janift-eim Wayneerilfe -n. C.
Captain Jack’s Cigar Store,
75 JACKSON STREET.
AU GU STA, GEORGIA.
THE CAPTAIN begs to call the attention
of dealers to his luge a nd varied block
of DOMESTIC CIGARS, which he will sell
at bottom prices.
Aduress, P. QUINN,
OCtl7-tt m bljriiot# 'll
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TTITE want 1 cdi Agents everywhere, and
V T one G -1 A, nt in each State, for
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a weekly Journal of 16 pages, beautifully
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of Christian Thought, Effort and Progress;
of Current Literature and News; of Finance
and Commerce. It is to supply all Cris
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such a metropolitan paper as they need.
Our Editor-iu-Chief.
CHARLES F. DEEMS. D - D.,
is so widely known as a ripe scholar, an el
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worker in the cause of Christ, and as the
possessor of the highest order oi Literary
ability, that his name is a tower of strength
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torial excellence, we shall puolish a sur
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It is proposed to publish once a month
or oftener, a full report or abstract of a
Sermon or Lecture by Rev. Dr. Deems. !
Thus the thousands from dinerent parts of
the land who crowd the “Church of the
Strangers” will have a memorial of the
service which they attended, or the repre
duction of some other discourse from the
same preacher. The CHRISTIAN AGE is
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It contains 250 portraits of leading Meth
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tory as an agent can handle to advantage, j
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FOR THE CHRISTIAN AGE.
Iyl3-tf 13 University Piare New York.
THE NEWSTYLE!
Neat and Light, Pretty, Cheap !
HOME SHUTTLE j
JUST received and on inspection at
Rooms 148 Broad street.
Call and see it before buying any other
make; it is to your interest to do so, and is
all I ask. It lies flush with the table,
makes the Elastic Lock Stitch alike on
both sides, precisely the same as the high
price Machines, aud does every variety of
work done by any Machine (no matter
what the price paid for itj or no sale, and is
the most simple and durable in construe- i
tion of any in the United States. Money !
refunded, after ono week’s trial, if disap
prov ! of.
Six different styles. Price, $25 to SBO. 1
Sent to any address on receipt of price, or
by Express C. O. D. Address
. A. B. CLARK,
148 Broad street,
eell-suwefr&ctf General Agent.
To the Land of Flowers !
VIA
Tlie Magnolia Route.
LEARNING of the intention of parties in
Augusta to visit Jacksonville, Florida,
1 have determined to place on sale, until
the 15th March next, Excursion Tickets to
that place, good to return until May 31st,
prox., at sl9 each. Parties taking our 8:20
p. m. train secure Pullman Palace Sleeping
Oar accommodations through to Savannah,
arriving at 6:30 a. in., where they have am
ple time for breakfast. Leaving Savannah
at 8:20 a. m., by the Atlantic and Gull Rail
road, they arrive in Jacksonville at 9:15
p. m.
Tickets on sale at Planters’ Hotel and
Ticket Office, Union Depot.
T. S. DAVANT,
feb2B-tf General Passenger Agent.
New Billiard Saloon!
PLANTERS’ HOTEL,,
Open MONDAY, February 15th.
public are Invited to eall
fbl4-W
JNew Series—'V01. 3. No. 50
Bill Oil I HI. MSI 1 .
HOWE’S
U. S. STANDARD
SCALES.
Report of the Judges at the Georg!.
State Fair, held at Macon, Novembei
18 L 1873, and Atlanta, October 25, 1874:
“ We, the J udges, agree that the HOWE’S
are entitled to the Premium for the
BET AM) MOST ACCURATE SCALES.”
ALSO,
TWO PREMIUMS
At the Savannah Fair.
PAGE & CO.,
General Agents.,
J PARK. PLACE, IVtH’ York,
Full line of
Scales, Weigh-Masters and Cottoi
Beams and Frames
constantly on hand.
MOORE •& CO.,
AGENTS,
AUGUSTA, GA.
ianSt-lv
GREAT
TEXAS LAND
DISTRIBUTION!
A FARM FOR, #3!
A Pine Dwelling, a Splendi.l Business
House, nr a Building Lot, for $3.00.
$ 800,000
Worth of Real Estate
TT7TLL !>e distributed among the ticket
Tv holders at Houston, Texas, March
15, 1875. The first gift will be a Fine Brick
House, on Main street, rental SI,BOO, valued
at SIB,OOO, and the smallest gift will be 40
acres of land or a Building Lot. The dis
tribution comprises over 60,000 acres of
good laud, in thirty-eight growing coun
ties. The press of Texas and the South
west commend it to the kind attention of
the public. The State authorities en
dorse it.
Circulars., giving description of the prop
erty, the plan of drawing and other infor
mation regarding Texas, will be furnished
on application.
Every Postmaster is authorized to act as
local agent. Tickets, $3. Ten per cent,
discount allowed on a club of ten tickets or
more.
We refer to all Banks, Bankers and busi
ness men of Houston.
For tickets, agencies and full particulars,
address WAGLEY A LOCKART,
Managers, Houston, Texas.
janio-dtewaciw
FIRST AND FINAL
POSTPONEMENT
OF THE
GRAND GIFT CONCERT
110 HAVE been given in tlie City of Greens
. boro, N. C., on December 31,1874, for
the purpose of erecting an ODD FELLOWS’
TEMPLE, has been postponed until
Wednesday, March 17th, 1875.
, At which time the Concert will certainly be
given and the DRAWING GUARANTEED.
A partial drawing could have been made
at the time appointed, but numerous letters,
from Agents and ticket-holders, urge the
Manager to make a short postponement in
order to secure a full drawing.
THE GRAND GIFT IS THE NEW AND
WELL-FURNISHED
BENBOW HOUSE,
WORTH $(10,000.
Grand Cash Gift ! $ 10,000 00
Real Estate Gifts 81,000 00
Cash Gil ts 82,500 00
Grand Total $164,000 00
References.—We refer, by permission,
to the fo lowing gentlemen of our city, and
would bt giad if the credulous would write
to any' of them:
R. P. DICK, Judge U. S. District Court,
Western District of N. C.
THUS. SETTLE, Judge Supreme Court.
T. B. KEtKJH, Register in Bankruptcy.
RO. M. 'DOUGLAS, U. S. Marshal.
W. S. BALL, Editor “ New North State.”
DUFFY & ALBRIGHT, Editors “ Patriot.”
CHAS, E. SHOBER, of firm of Wilson <fc
Shober, Bankers.
JULIUS A. GRAY, Cashier of the Bank of
C?ro© rml>oro
R. M. STAFFORD, Sheriff of Guilford.
J. D. WHITE, Postmaster.
ODELL, RAGAN <fc CO., Merchants.
J. W SCOTT, Merchant.
Price of Tickets, $2.50; Number of Tickets
issued, only 100,000.
How io Remit.—Money should be sent
1 by Registered Letter, Post Office Order, or
Express, with name. Post Office, County
and State, of the purchaser, written plainly.
For farther particulars apply to the
Manage! - . Box 8, Greensboro, N. C.
CYRUS P. MENDENHALL,
Manager.
AGENTS WANTED.
jan!9-t u t hsat&cl m
STANDING COMMITTEES OF
City Council of Augusta,
AND BOARDOF HEALTH.
1874-75.
FINANCE COMMUTE—Barrett, Siblev,
Ford, Carwile.
- Streets AND Drains— Meyer, Bennett,
Boar dm.in, Evans.
Police— Evans, Meyer, Philip, Carwile
Houghton Institute— Ford, Carwile
Sibley, Barrett. ’
Bridge, Liver Bank and Wharves
Sibley, Bsrrett, Bennett, Bcardman.
Pumps, and Weeds- Bennett, Thompson
Evans, ]3oardman.
Engin:2v— Philip, Carwile, Barrett,Thomp
son.
South Commons— Sibley. Pournelle, Ben
nett. Hill.
TuEKU.Tr Springs and Water Works
—Boardman, Meyer. Evans, Philip.
Market —Pournelle, Meyer, Bennett, Hill.
Health— Ford, Thompson, Pournelle,
Boardman.
City Tall —Hill, Sibley, Evans, Bennett.
JAiL-Thompson Pournelle, Philip, Hill.
Lamps— Hill, Ford, Sibley, £vans.
Canal -Meyer, Philip, Barrett, Hill,
Hospitals— Evans, Ford, Hid, Meyer
Printing— Carwile, Sibley, Philip. Barrett
Magazine and Military —-Pournelle*
Hill, Thompson, Ford. *
Shows and Exhibitions —-Bennett
Thompson, Evans, Boardman.
Kailhoads— Carwile, Pournelle, Siblev
Ford.
Special W ater Works —Boardman Bar
rett, Si Ley, Bennett.
: Cemeteries —-Thompson, Pournelle,
; Boardman Philip. ’
Board of Health.
From Council—Ford, Thompson, Pour
nelle, Boardman.
First Ward-j. T. Bothwell, J. W. Bess
man, Sainue 1 Levy.
Second Ward—Joseph Myers, Z. McCord.
= John SL Clark.
i Third Ward —R. A. Fleming, C. K. Stone,
I John J Cohen, Sr.
I Fourth Ward — Dr. H- Rossignol, F. Cogin,
1 W. D. Bowen. dee6-