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Probabilities:
For the South Atlantic States, north
west winds, higher pressure, colder and
clear weather.
Report of the United States Signal
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Augusta, 58 deg.—Fair.
Charleston, 60 deg.—Fair.
New Orleans, 65 deg.—Fair.
New York, 46 deg.—Fair.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.
WASHINGTON.
The Slatter Case. Pinchback’s Defeat
Conceded.
Washington, March 16. —Hope H.
Slatter plead guilty to manslaughter,
which was accepted by the court and
counsel for Slatter, Judgment will be
rendered Monday, 29th. Slatter’s wife
was ia court.
Senate. —Pinchbuck all day and to
night. A vote will be reached by mid
night. His defeat is conceded. Alcorn
spoke in favor of seating him.
It has transpired that the result of
arbitration will give the Conservatives
the Louisiana House, but retain a
small Republican majority on joint bal
lot, which, should Pinchback be re
jected, will make a lively contest over
the Senatorshlp.
Geo. A. Nolan has been confirmed
Chief Examiner of the Patent Office.
The Louisiana Discussion.
Washington, March 16.—1n the
Senate, in the debate over Pinchback.
Alcorn, of Mississippi, said he was one
of the members of the Committee on
Privileges and Elections which signed
the report in favor of anew election in
Louisiana, but now he regarded the
question of anew election in that State
postponed; the House of Representa
tives, the popular branch of Congress,
had recognized the Kellogg govern
ment as the legal government of the
State, and the arbitration now in pro
gress bid fair to adjust all the difficul
ties, as it was organized by. the consent
of the Kellogg party as well as the
aggrieved party.
Dawes, of Massachusetts, said he
thought the Senator from Mississippi
was mistaken in his construction of the
resolution passed by the House of
Representatives. He (Dawes) did not
understand the resolution when he
gave it his vote as recognizing the Kel
logg government as the legal govern
ment of Louisiana. The House voted
that it would recoguize Wm.P. Kellogg
as Governor of Louisiana ; that was
all, but it had no idea of voting upon
the legality of either the McEnery or
the Kellogg government. The House
had purposely avoided passing upon
the legality of the government of that
State. Upon the question by what right
or by what authority Kellogg .vas in
stalled in the office of Governor, the
House of Representatives took care not
to express itself.
Alcorn, resuming his argument, said
he still adhered to the views expressed
by him in the report of the Committee
on Privileges and Elections in 1873, in
regard to the election in Louisiana, the
decree of the Supreme Court of that
State, for which he had no respect, but
in the interest of peace and the
hope of setting this Louisiana
question he would vote to se \t Mr.
Pinchback. He (Piuchback) repre
sented the colored race. He was a
representative colored man. True he
did not come clothed with all the forms
and observances of law, but he did
come with the credentials signed by a
Governor who had been recognized by
the House of Representatives as Gov
ernor. If the Republican party was in
the majority in Louisiana, and he be
lieved it was, the negroes placed it in
the majority, and Mr. Pinchback, as
their representative, should be admit
ted.
Edmunds, of Vermont, said the best
reason for excluding this applicant
had been stated by the Senator from
Mississippi, when he said he (Pinch
back) did not come clothed with all the
forms and observances of law. If the
Constitution of the United States had
given the Senate power to elect a Sen
ator the proposition of the Senator
from Mississippi to admit Pinchback,
because he was a Representative col
ored man, might be considered; but
as he (Edmunds) read the Constitution,
the Senate had no such power. The
power of the Senate was to decide if
the applicant had been legally elected.
The mission of the Senate was one sim
ply to declare, and .one whose moral
was the essential reverence for truth
pnd for law, which was the only secur
ity for liberty in this or any other free
government.
Mr. Edmunds then read from the
confutation of Louisiana the clause
prescribing that the returns of elec
tions shau b e SOU t t 0 the Secretary of
btate and by him to the Legislature to
be canvassed, argued that it was
the original returns w hich the Legisla
ture must canvass,atwj not the returns
made up by any board. Tho language
of the constitution of Louisiana uoon
this subject was almost thi* Baole as
that in the Constitution of
States touching the count of the vote
for President and Vice-President. Wha.t
would be thought of that statement?
Who by law would attempt to declare
that the vote of the electoral college,
instead of being sent to the Vice-Presi
dent or President of the'Senate, should
be sent to a returning board, to be ap
pointed by the President of the United
States, and after that Returning Board
should find a result which they be
lieved to be correct they should turn it
over to the President for the action of
the Senate and House to find out
according to that return who was
President and Vice-President of
the United States? He (Edwards)
would have no difficulty iu saying that,
no matter what Returning Board had
declared the Legislature which elected
Pinchback was the legal Legislature of
the State, it was the duty of the
Senate to know whether that Legisla
ture was composed of persons returned
elected according to r.he Constitution
of Louisiana, or by some intermediate
body. He then read from the law of
Louisiana organizing the Pieturning
Board, and said the duty of such Board
was to honestly make a result of what
the original returns showd. Under the
29th section of the law organizing
the Returning Board, they had
the power to set aside all re
turns from any particular par
ish or precinct where it was proved
that violence existed, but the Board
had no power to change the vote of
such parish or precinct. The law itself
gave the Board no power to tamper
with the returns upon its own judg
ment. The liberties of the State would
be in a rather hopeless condition if the
determination of the people as to who
should be their rulers was to be con
fided to any body of men whatever.
The law organizing the Returning
Board declared that the Board should
certify to the Secretary of the State the
names of those persons which the re
turns from the polls showed to be
elected. When an examination was
made of this case it would be seen that
the Board which returned the men as
members of the Legi.-lature, which
elected Pinchback, never had any re
turns from the polls before them. It
returned these men solely upon infor
mation which they received from a
great variety of sources.
Mr. Edmunds then read from the
testimony before the committee as to
the action of the Lynch Board, and
said he well understood how men,
thinking that they were upholding the
Republican party and the party of law
and order, would wink at things which
they would severely condemn if com
mitted by their opponents. If such
departures from law were to be con
doned there was no security for liber
ty or rights of any kind. He could not
palliate such lawless proceedings, even
though, as the Senator from Missis
sippi (Alcorn) claimed, the product of
it all was a gentleman belonging
to a race, which, at this
time, it was our policy to con
ciliate. The action of the Lynch
Board could find no warrant in the law
or Constitution of Louisiana. He then
referred to the aerion of Judge Durell,
aud said there was no getting away
from the unpleasant fact that the body
of men which elected Pinchback were
got together by a system of contriv
ances which he (Edmunds) thought
were without parallel in the history
of this or any other free country. The
Senate was not trying whether the
credentials of McMillan were good, or
whether McEnery was the legal Gov
ernor. It did not follow that because
some other body of men acted as bad
as the Lynch Board, that the claimant
now before the Senate had any rights-
The question was whether Pinchback
was elected by the real and Con
stitutional Legislature of Louisiana.
It did not help the Senate to
believe as he (Edmunds) believed,
that the election in Louisiana in 1872
was carried by a systematic and vig
orous system of fraud and iutimida
tion. The Senate would violate its
duty and become a party to a revolu
tionary and fiaudulent proceeding the
moment it put its seal of approval upon
them by admitting this applicant.
Mr. Edmunds further referred to the
action of the Lynch Board in returning
men as elected from their knowledge
of how the parishes had voted in pre
vious years, and said he would like to
be a Returning Board to return mem
bers for the next House of Repre
sentatives. He might be guided by the
fact that in a majority of the Congres
sional Districts of the country for some
years past there had been Republican
majorities, and, governed by such fact,
he could put a very respectable Republi
can majority in the next House; but
he did not think such a thing could be
done. It would shock everybody. A
government of liberty had its chief cor-
ner stone in reverence for law, and
when any body of men having charge
of the Government cast loose from that
they would have revolution and the
guillotine, as in France ; tumults and
disorder of every kind, as in Louisiana;
besides, the tone ol respect for law
would be lowered. When the people
only respected law because it was
backed by power, they would very soon
either become the abject slaves of a
-tyrant or would produce an explosion
which would carry them to anarchy.
The Republican party had stood by
law, and insisted that their Southern
brethren should stand by it also. Let
the party be careful that it did not
make an example now worse than the
South had ever eriven in one sense. The
Senator from Indiana (Morton) had
argued that the Senate was estopped,
as the lawyers say, by the decision of
the Supreme Court of Louisiana. He
(Edmunds) differed from the Senator
from Indiana. The Constitution of the
United States made the Senate and not
the Supreme Court of Louisiana the
judge of the election of its own mem
bers. The Supreme Court of Louisiana
had as little power to pass upon the
question as to what body of men con
stituted the Legislature of Louisiana
as he (Edmunds) had as a private citi
zen of Vermont. No court, uo matter
how broad its jurisdicton may be can,
in a Government framed like ours, de
declare to a degree which can be
binding upon the Senate, what
body of men constitute the Legis
lature of a State. If a State Court
should say the Legislature of
the State was not the Legislatare,
there would be an act of treason, and
the Judges concurring in the opinion
should be impeached. If that august
body sitting between the Senate and
House of Representatives—the Su-
preme Court—should declare that the
body of men at the other end of the
Capitol was not the House of Repre
sentatives, how long would it be be
fore a committee of that body would
appear at the bar of the Senate with
articles of impeachment against the
Judge thereof?
Logan, of Illinois, asked if there were
two bodies of men in a State claiming
to be the Legislature thereof; aud two
men claiming to be. the Governor, how
the people could ascertain as to which
they must obey, if the Courts could
not determine?
Edmunds replied if there were fifty
Pretended governments in a State at a
time the courts of one could not decide
upon the legality of the other. Resum
ing his argument he sa iq he had lis
tened to the arguments on Louisiana
tor two or three years, and he had not
heard the most zealous advocate of the
AITGTLTSTA, GA., WEDNESI3AY MARCH 17, 1875.
Kellogg and Pinchback sides maintain
the soundness of the decision of the
Supreme Court of that State. The
Senator from Indiana (Morton) had ar
gued that the Supreme Court of the
United States was bound to follow, and
did follow, the decisions of State courts
upon questions involving only State
laws, and therefore, by analogy, that the
Senate was bound to follow the de
cision of the State Court. He (Ed
munds) thought the Senator from In
diana was mistaken in this proposition,
and read from several legal decisions
to show that the Supreme Court did
not follow the rulings of State Courts
in the class of cases mentioned by the
Senator from Indiana.
Mr. Edmunds next referred to the
argument of Mr. Morton, that the cre
dentials of Pinchback made a prima,
facie case, and. said such an argument
would have been better in 1873, when
the applicant first presented his cre
dentials. He then read from the jour
nal, to show that on the 4th of Decem
ber, 1873, the credentials of Pinchback
and McMillan were, on motion of Mr.
Morton, referred the Committee on
Privileges and Elections. On the 15th
of December, Mr. Morton reported
back the credentials, with the report
that the committee was equally divid
ed upon the question whether Pinch
back was entitled to be sworn in on his
credentials, and remitted the whole
question to the Senate, and on the
20th of January, 1874, the credentials
of Pinchback were, on motion of Mr.
Morton, recommended to the Commit
tee on Privileges and Elections, and
the committee was authorized to send
for persons and papers.
Mr. Edmunds then argued that it
was an utter confusion of terms to say
that Pinchback had a prima facie case.
He either had a real case and must
be admitted upon the merits
thereof, or he had no case at all. To
be told now that the S mate should ad
mit Pinchback upon one part of his
case and consider the other part at
some other time, was, iu all due re
spect to the Senator from Indiada, a
mockery. To do so would be an act of
injustice to the other States which
were interested, to the extent that no
man would be in the Senate who had
not the right to be there. The Senator
from Indiana (Morton) had claimed
that the President of the United States
had recognized the Kellogg govern
ment, and he having recognized it, the
Senate was bound to do so. The re
cognition of Kellogg by the Presi
dent was not the recognition of
tho Legislature which elected Pinch
back. He (Edmunds) denied that
the President had recognized Kellogg.
The President, 1,500- miles away, re
cognized the fact that it was the duty
of every body to obey the mandates of
that law. Then came the revolution in
LouiiMna, and then came the Presi
denfrwith the declaration that he would
take the man whom the courts had put
in possession and uphold him until
Congress should act. The President
had appealed to Congress again and
again to act in the case.
Morton said the President had recog
nized the Legislature which elected
Pinchbrck and read the dispatch of the
Attorney General recognizing the Leg
islature in session at Mechanics’ Insti
tute.
Edmunds said he had not forgot
ten that dispatch, but he did not
construe it in the same way as
the Senator from Indiana. If that
Senator would do the President of the
United States the justice to take all ho
has said on the subject—take his im
mediate communication to the Senate
stating the circumstances which at
tended his interference, then he would
come nearer in defining the attitude of
the President, though he (Edmunds)
was bound to say, as a Senator of the
United States, that the attitude of the
President was absolutely immaterial to
the Senate. He knew of nothing in
the Constitution or law giving the
President the right to bind the Senate,
and the President would be the last
man to claim any right to judge of
what the Conslitution has remitted to
the Senate alone. The Senate had the
right under the Constitution to decide
upon the election of Pinchback,
and no action of the President
or any one else could bind the
Senate. The question to decide was
whether the body of men electing
Pinchback was the true Legislature of
Louisiana. The Constitution said only
the true Legislature could elect a Sen
atsr, and it also said the Senate should
be the judge of the election of its own
members. The question must be met,
and it must be declared once and for
all whether the men returned as mem
bers of the Louisiana Legislature by a
board which had no evidence before it
composed the true Legislature of the
State. It had been argued heVe that
Louisiana was entitled to two Senators
on this floor. That was true; but if
this man Piuchback was not her Senator
a gross outrage upon the State would be
committed by seating him. In con
cluding, he referred to the argument
made in favor of seating Pinchback,
and said, if there was any policy in
this line of argument, although he
knew of no policy but that in which,
looking to the past, seeks the truth,
it was the policy of a strict adherence
to the law that was the guide
which, in the heat of conflict
of the tempest, of the passion
in the tumult of politics, was the sole
star to guide our ship of State
to a safe haven. To turn away from
that and speak of party wishes or
party sympathies or races, all would be
lost in that sea of tumult that has
ruined so many republics iu the his
tory of our times. He for one would
stand by the law.
At the conclusion of Edmund’s
speech there was applause in the gal
leries, but it was soon suppressed by
the Chair.
The debate continued at great length,
and is proceeding to-night.
The Senate, by a vote of 33 yeas to
30 nays, postponed further considera
tion of the resolution for the admission
of Pinchback until the second Monday
of next December.
Louisiana Radicals up to New Devil
try.
Washington, March 10. —Goshorn,
Cavanae and Packard are here. It is
stated the committee keep their decis
ions secret, in order to prevent rings
which might defeat their conclusions.
Earthquake in Mexico.
New York, March 16.—A Gaudalajara,
Mexico, letter of the 20th ult. contains
an account of an earthquake of more
than usual force, which, on the 11th of
February, shook a large portion of
Northern Mexico. The little town of
San Cristodeal was almost enlively de
stroyed, and seventy dead bodies were
taken from the ruins. The centre of
this disturbance appears to have been
the volcano of Cebaruco. The earth
quake occurred at night, and the teiror
of the people was increased by the
darkness.
FOREIGN.
Death of a Waterloo Veteran. A Car
list Traitor. Cardinals Created.
London, March 16.—Field Marshal
Sir William Maynard Gomtn, Colonel
of the Coldstream Guards and Consta
ble of the Tower, died yesterday, aged
91. He was Quartermaster General at
Waterloo, and Commander-ia-Chtef of
India in 1850.
Paris, March 16.—The Univers re
ports that Gen. Cabrara has abandoned
the cause of Don Carlos, and has made
a convention with Alfonsists, aud the
Carlists now denounce him as a traitor.
Rome, March 16.—At the consistory,
yesterday morning, Ledochowski, Mc-
Closkey, Deschamps, Gianuelli and
Bartolini were created Cardinals.—
Philadelphia, Boston and Milwaukee,
are raised to metropolitan Sees. Bish
ops were appointed for Wheeling, Port
land, Hartford and Kingston.
The Pope’s Allocution.
The Pope said: Recognizing in part
our care in these sad times to increase
your noble ofder of distinguished men
to assist in the protection of the uni
versal church, and having determined
tp discharge this duty we wished to
perform it according to the solemn
ancient rites as the dignity of the
church demands, but times are opposed
to our intention. The oppression which
we suffer is such that we have not even
the freedom of bewailing the afflictions
of the church. No wonder that those
differing from the church by hereditary
errors hate the church and strive to
attain this end. Unfortunately in
Italy, where the supreme cathedra of
truth was placed by dispensation,
the children of the faith have be
come enemies of the church and plot
for its destruction, grieving our heart;
hence have come the deplorable inju
ries to the liberties, the possessions
and the ministers of the church which
we witness and are powerless to resist.
Hence have come the greatest evils to
the souls of men and to human society,
the corruption of youth, which will
propagate the existing evils to future
generations. The educational institu
tions have been withdrawn from the
watchfulness of the church and iu
youth, which should be the seed time
to virtues, vices are rooted in schools
subject to the civil power; there is
education without faith, without
religion, ascending bo a baleful,
worldly wisdom. The education
of the priesthood even is hampered by
arbitrary rules, so that it is difficult to
regulate the course of their studies.
The army conscription laws take effect
in the ranks of the clergy. Inferior
clerics are encouraged contumaciously
to resist their bishops. The publica
tion of our discourses are punished by
the civil power. Penal laws are enact
ed against publishing Ihe acts of the
Apostolic See. The voice of the Su
preme Master, the teacher of truth, is
silenced, aud the rights of tho faithful
people are violated. Let those who
are subjecting the church, to slavery,
bear in mind that they invoke upon
themselves the divine wrath—harder
master and heavier tyranny. Lately,
in a foreign country, meetings were di
vulged distorting the Vatican decrees.
The object was to effect the viola
tion of the liberty of your Senate in
the selection of our successor by
threats of civii interference. These
acts point exclusively at our ecclesias
tical competence; but the merciful God
ruling the church providentially or
dained the firm, admirable Bishops of
the German Empire, who refuted iu
their noble declaration the erroneous
doctrines. We give the fullest praise
before the Catholic world to the said
Bishops, and approve their declara
tions and their protest. As being
worthy of the virtue, dignity and re
ligion of the Bishops, we comfirm
them in their Apostolic authori
ty, praying the Divine clemency
to dissipate the designs of our enemies,
and to end these evil days ; remember
ing that no wisdom or prudence can
prevail against the Lord. Let us offer
sacrifice in humility and fervent
prayer. Our God is just and merciful
severe against those who persist iu
their evil ways—merciful to those who
are converted to Him. Therefore, let
us turn our hearts in contrition to
Him, praying for consolation and de
liverance. He is powerful to defend
us from our enemies, preparing
us for a hereafter of eternal joy.
Gregory the Great says, “In these
tribulations, greater struggle, great
er co-operatiou, greater valor in battle
are required of the.leaders.”
We are resolved, venerable brethren,
to add to the Senate of the Holy Ro
man Church, for the glory of God aud
the utility of the church, six more dis
distingnished men whose names are
known to you, who have shown them
selves worthy of this high honor by the
discharge of the episcopal functions
with zeal, fortitude, perseverance and
learning, and by bearing cruel perse
cutions with courage and constancy.
We intend ro create five other Car
dinals. If, in the dispensation of God,
this Holy See should become vacant,
before their names are divulged, they
will be declared iu the codicils attached
to our will. We desire by apostolic
authority that they may have the l ight
of an active or passive participation in
the act of choosing our successor.
The five Cardinals reserved are as
follows : Monsignors Paeeo, Veitel
eschi, liandi, Ninno Limioue, aud Antici
Malter.
Cuba.
Havana, March 16.—Tho Insurgents
bur ned the Santa Rosa plantation, with
500 hogsheads of sugar, and adjoining
sugar fields ; also, the Dolorea and Re
fonna plantations. These estates are
in the jurisdiction of Remedios.
HARRISBURG.
A New Liquor Law.
Harrisburg, March 16.—-The Senate
passed the repeal of the Local Option,
but adopted a stringent license law,
which goes to tho House.
Tornado in South. Carolina.
Columbia, S. C., March 16.—A fearful
tornado passed over the lower part of
Richland yesterday. A house was
blown down, and two persons killed
aud several badly wounded. Trees
were torn up and twisted off.
The Sorosis.
New York, March 16. O.u hundred
ladies were at tho Seventh Aifnual
Dinner of Sorosis, Miss S. C. Crawley
presiding.
Home Again- 6 ‘l’m Not Afraid.”
Chicago, March 16.—Gen. Sheridan is
here.
A man in Paris fired five shots from
a revolver at his head, but missed
every time. He probably did it by gas
light and the light was no better than
that furnished by the Washington Gas
light company.
NEW YORK.
The Louisianna Committee.
New York, March 16.— As most of
the papers submitted to the Louisiana
Committee had been thoroughly ex
amined on Friday and Saturday, and
the claims of the contestants nearly all
decided, the business of the members
yesterday morning consisted chiefly in
preparing their report. The session
was strictly private. At the close of
the session Mr. Wheeler informed the
representatives of the press that the
committee had closed the investiga
tion, and made awards in the cases of
nineteen representatives whose claims
were submitted to them for arbitration.
From all the evidence which had come
into their possession, as well during and
previous to the investigation, as from
an examination of the election record
he said, the members of the committee
had unanimously agreed iu their award,
but, for reasons which the public
would appreciate, it had been decided
not to make the result of their delib
erations known at present. He said
the award of the committee would be
forwarded at once to the Governor,
with duplicate returns of the elections
submitted to them w for examination,
and that a special session of the House
of Representatives of Louisiana would
be convened for the purpose of taking
action in the matter. He could not say
how soon this would be effected, but ho
hoped that the decision at which they
had arrived would be approved. It
had been agreed upon after a most
careful examination into the facts
of each particular case, and was
based upon the impartial judgment of
the members of the committee. He
said he regretted very much that he
could not furnish any particulars to the
press, as the circumstances of the case
rendered it necessary that the award
should not be made public until the
Lower House of the Louisiana Legis
lature should be prepared to take final
action in the matter. It rested entirely
with that body to confirm the compro
mise which had been agreed upon.
It is understood that Mr. Wheeler
will present the report to the House of
Representatives when a special session
is convened for that purpose, although
nothing of a definite character could be
ascertained from the members of the
Arbitration Committee. It seems to
be generally understood by counsel in
the case that the Conservatives will
gain a number of seats through the
compromise.
[Rochester (N. Y.) Union and Advertiser.
BACES IN THE SOUTH.
View3 of Dr. Daniel Lee, of Nash
ville, Ex-Editor of the Genesee (N.
Y.) Farmer.
The passage of the Civil Rights bill
in Congress, has made a profound im
pression on the Southern mind. To
what level is the white race of the
United States to be degraded to stand
on the same plane with the negro ?
Every white person, male and female,
North and South, should understand
this matter of race degradation. Many
Northern men attended the late annual
meeting of the National Grange in
Charleston, S. 0., and among them a
correspondent of the Prairie Farmer,
published in Chicago. He was present
at a negro trial, and thus describes
what he saw in that paper of the 27th
ult.:
In another case a negro was tried by
a negro judge and jury for the larceny
of two sides of bacon and a sack of
flour from a white man. Only one wit
ness was called, and he testified to
having seen the theft committed. The
judge instructed the jury to go out
and remain until they had brought in
that nigger free. The jury rendered a
verdict of not guilty.
Before the negro got away from the
court room he was re-arrested, the
same witness recalled, and the court
instructed the jury to go out and re
main until they had brought the pris
oner in guilty. The jury brought in
the verdict required, and the prisoner
was fined §SO and sentenced to three
months’ imprisonment. The potent in
fluence in bringing about this change
was the promise of the loan of a mule
for a day’s ride and a dollar bill.
We have a negro Magistrate in Nash
ville who is a fair match for the above
South Carolina “Judge,” and all admit
that a bad man can prove by colored
witnesses anything he wishes in any
civil or criminal suit at law. The negro
is only clay in the hands of the potter ;
but unfortunately the clay not only
soils but demoralizes, and is likely to
ruin the potter. Ponder the following
facts stated by the writer above cited :
Yesterday we visited the plantation
of Dr. Rose, situated some two miles
from the city, and saw the magnificent
family mansion going to ruin, the cows
and sheep having free range through
its spacious halls, reposing their weary
limbs upon the marble floors. And
this is but a sample of what is taking
place all over this part of the State.
We did not see building or repairing to
the extent of §2,000 worth on the whole
trip from Washington to Charleston,
including the latter city.
Ten years of Republican reconstruc
tion since the war reconstructs family
mansions into stables for cows and
sheep, in the work of levelling man
kind downward. If the Republicans
do not aim to destroy their Govern
ment and blight their civilization for
ever, I implore them to* stop long
enough in their mad career to study
the achievements of the African race in
Africa, Mexico, Central America and
St. Domingo, where it has long enjoyed
its civil rights in perfection. Asa de
basing moral and political poison, ne
gro blood is all powerful; but for any
useful or intellectual purpose it is
worth little more than the blood of an
African lion. It has already developed
on the body of the nation a painful,
eating aad spreading cancer under the
treatment of such quacks as Seward,
Chase and Thad Stevens. The evil v. as
bad enough before they took it in
hand, but it was never so alarming as
it is to-day. It is a million votes in
the hands of a very few of the worst
men in the Republic, to use as they
please. It is between four and live
million human beings exposed to all
the vices of intemperance and licen
tiousness as freedmen, and their off
spring, with no adequate mental force
to protect themselves from poverty,
hunger and contagious diseases. It is
a national hot-bed for the propagation
of violence and crime, which a million
soldiers, or any less number, with Pres
ident Grant at their head, cannot deal
with in any satisfactory manner.—
Think of the amazing stupidity which
sacrifices the highest interests of thirty
five million whites to try the experi
ment of making a race of blacks judges,
j urors, governors and legislators over
a people three thousand years in ad
vance of them in civilization and moral
development.
Civilized man takes to sheep husban
dry naturally, savages to hunting and
dogs in preference. In twenty-one
counties of Georgia, where the two
races are about equal, the whites have
85,833 sheep, as shown by the State
census. The blacks have 265. These
color, and sovereigns.so useful in electing
Presidents and members of Congress,
keep 4,211 dogs. Did Abraham and
Lot, some three thousand years ago,
probably support more than 4,211 dogs
to 265 sheep ? If not, then the African
race of the South is hardly abreast with
the white race iu the day aud genera
tion of Abraham. Is the natural capaci
ty of the negro so vastly superior to
that of tiie Caucasian that he can, by
the aid of a school-marm, forget
his instincts and step over at a
single stride all that the white man
lias learned by study *and experience
during the lust one hundred genera
tions ? Political quacks assume this
superiority iu favor of the negro intel
lect, and therefore the African brain
and mind do not require the antecedent
training of a hundred generations to
stand the peer of the white man in ail
matters of conscience, law and govern
ment. But demagoguism and quack
statesmanship have always failed ; and
what else has the country had for the
last fifteen years ? If Senator Brown
low is not mistaken, the Civil Rights
law will operate disastrously on both
races in many ways. Ir, may hasten
the separation of the two, and the pro
tection of freedmen from sore tempta
tions to fall into the white man’s vices
and crimes, and propagate the same
involuntarily and universally.
* D. Lee.
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
AUGUSTA DAILY MARKET.
Office Daily Constitutionalist, i
Tuesday. March 16, 4 I*. M. (
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 % to %
premium.
Cotton:
The Augusta Exchange reports the
market quiet but firm, with a moderate
demand, aud sellers offering sparingly.
The closing quotations were: Good Ordi
nary, 14%; Low Middling, 15%; Middling,
15%.
Receipts of the day, 216 and sales, 398
bales. The receipts at all United States
ports were 5,774 brles; same day last vear,
9,213.
Produce:
BACON—Clear Sides, 12%@12%; C. R.
sides, 12%@1i%; Shoulders, 9%. Dp.y Salt
—O. R. Sides, 11%@11%; Long Clear Sides,
11%; D. S. Shoulders, 8%@8%; Bellies, 11%
@ll%. Tennessee Meats— Sides, 13;
Shoulders, 10; Hams. 15.
HAMS—Canvassed, 14%.
LARD—Choice, in tierce, 15; kegs and
cans, 16.
BAGGING AND TlES—Domestic bag
ging, 14%. Ties. Arrow, 5%; Pieced, 4.
BUTTER—Goshen, 40@45; Country, 25;
Tennessee, 25.
FLOUR—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 Wes
tern and Country, we quote superfine, $5.50
@6.00; extra, $6@6.50; family, $6 50@7.00
and fa cy, $7.00@7.50.
CORN—Prime to choice white (new dry)
$1.08; yellow and mixed, $1.05. Small
lots or less *than ear 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, 15.
Note—We give wholesale rates. Prices
for small lots of the artlmes we quote are
higher in proportion.
TELEGRAPHIC MARKETS.
FINANCIAL.
New York, March i 16-Noon.—Stocks
dull. Money, 4. Gold, 116. Exchange—
long, 479; short, 483. Governments dull.
State Bonds quiet.
Gold opened at 116.
New York, March 16—P. M.—Money
easy at 4@5. Sterling unsettled and de
clined to 499. Gold fairly active at 115%@
115%. Governments afctlve; news’s, 15%.
State Bonds steady, except North Caroli
nas, old, which are lower; North Caroli
nas, 20; new, 12; special tax, 3.
Stoeks closed dull and lower; Central, ex
div., 100%; Erie, 26%; Lake Shore, 73%; Il
linois Central. 101%; Pittsburg, 91%; North
western, 45%; preferred, 58; Rock Island,
105%.
Sub-Treasury balances: Gold, $50,332,703;
paid out $31,000 on account of interest, and
$99,200 for bonds. Customs receipts, $334,-
000.
New Orleans, March 16.—Exchange—
New York Sight, % premium. Sterling,
554. Gold, 115%.
PRODUCE.
Liverpool, March 16— Noon.— Breadstuff's
steady. Corn, 335. 9d.@345. Long clear
middles, 495.; short, 51s.
New York, March 16—Noon.—Flour
advancing. Wheat 1 better. Corn firm.—
Pork firm at $20.37%@20.50. Lard quiet;
steam, 14 3-16. Turpentine dull at 35%,
Rosin quiet at $2.05@2.10 for strained.—
Freights heavy.
New York, March IC—P. M.—Southern
Flour firm with rather more doing; com
mon to fair extra. $5@5.70; good to choice,
$5.7538. Wheat irregular and unsettled,
opening I@2 better and closing quiet with
the advance nearly all lost; §2.25<552 28 for
Wintor red Western; $2:23%<#2.30 for am
ber, $2.29(32.37 for white Western. Corn
steady with fair tnquirv, closing dnll and
declining at 85@86 lor Western mixed, 86<3
86% for yellow Western, 85%@8G for white.
Coffee dull and heavv and nominally un
changed. Rugar dull and heavy. Rice
steady with limited jobbing demand. Tal
low, Rosin and Turpentine steady. Pork
firmer; new job lots, $20.50(320.05. Lard
firmer and closed easier; prime steam,
14%@14%. Whiskey firmer at $1.15.
Freights quiet.
Chicago, March 16.—Flour quiet and
unchanged. Corn excited and closed eas
ier; No. 2 mixed, 66@66%. Pork buoyant
and unsettled at $19.1(K3i9.13%. Lard—de
mand light and holders firm at $13,703
13.75. Wniskoy, sl.ll.
Cincinnati, March 16 Flour steadv.
Corn dull and closed firmer at 67@68. Pork
firm at S2O asked. Lard firm; steam, 13%
bid; held at 14; kettle, 14. Bacon firmer;
shoulders, 8%; clear rib, 11%; clear, 11%.
Whiskey steady at $1.12.
Louisville, March 16 Flour unchan
ged. Corn firm at 68@70. Provisions, ad
vancing tendency and strong. Pork nomi
nally $20.50. Bacon—shovlders, 8%@8%;
clear rib, ll%@ll%; clear. 12@12%; sugar
cured hams, 13314. Lard—steam, 14314% ;
tierce, 15%; kaj* 15%. Whiskey firm at
$1.12. Bagging uuohangod.
St. Louis, March 16.—Flour in good de
mand for low and medium grades Fall and
Spring. Corn—No. 2 mixed, $64@65. Whis
key- firm at $1.12. Pork firm at $19.75;
mostly held at S2O. Bacon strong; shoul
ders, 8%@8%; clear rib, 11%@11%; clear,
U%@l2. Lard at 13%; general iv
held at 13%.
Baltimore, March 16.—Flour quiet and
steady. Wheat firmer; Maryland red
$1.20(31.28; others unchanged. Corn—Whst>
era lower; Southern steady; white South
ern 8 >@B3; yellow, 81@83. Oats firm;
Southern, 72. Rye dull at $1.03. Provis
ions strong and buoyant. Coffee quiet
and nommai.
Wilmington, March 16—Spirits turpen
tine firm at $31%. Rosin firm at $1.55 for
strained. Crude Turpentine nominal at
$1.30 for hard, $2.25 for yellow dip, $2.25 for
virgin. Tar steady at $1.40.
COTTON.
Liverpool, March 16—Noon.—Cotton
easier but not lowerf middling uplands,
7%; mid I ling Orleans, 8%; sales, 8,000
bales; speculation and export, 1,000; to ar
rive 1-16 cheaper; sales on basis middling
uplands, nothing below good ordinary,
shipped February and March, 7%; ditto,
nothing below good middling, deliverable
April and May, 7%.
Liverpool, March 16-2 P. M-Cotton
of sales to-day, 5,000 were American
sales on basis of middling uplands, noth
ing below low middling, deliverable
March, 7%.
Liverpool. March 16—5 P. M—Cotton
basis of middling uplands, nothing below
low middling, deliverable March. 7 13-16;
shipment or new crop, nothing below good
orninary, 8%. Barns and Fabrics quiet.
New York, March 16—Noon.—Cotton
steady; sales, 1,320; uplands, 16%; Orleans.
16%.
Futures opened steady, as follows: April,
16 9-16, 16 19-32; May, 16 15-16; Juno, 17%.
New \obk, March IC-P. M.—Cotton
steady; sales, 2,(’89 bales, ut516%@16%; net
receipts, 799 gross, 2,386.
Futures closed quiet; sales, 13,700 bales
as follows: March, 16 11-32, 16%; April, 16
17-32; May, 16 29-32; June, 17 7-32, 17%;
July, 17%, 17 17-32: August, 17 11-16, 17 23-
32; September, 17 3-16, 17 17-32; October, 16
21-32, 16 23-32; November, 16 15-32, 16%; De
cember, 16 7-16, 16%.
WILMINGTON, March 16.—-Cotton un
changed; middling, 15%; net receipts, 168
bales; sales, 137.
Baltimore, March 16. —Cotton firmer;
middling, 16%; gross receipts. 224; gross,
526; exports coastwise, 275; sales, 415,
spinners, 220.
Philadelphia, March 16.—Cotton quiet;
middling, 16%; gross receipts, 524
Norfolk, March 16.—Cotton quiet;
middling, 15%; net receipts, 762; exports
coastwise, 550; sales, 100.
Boston, March 16.—Cotton firm; mid
dling, 10%; net receipts, 476 bales; gross,
691; exports to Great Britain, 49; sales, 115;
stock, 19,096.
New Orleans, March 16—Cotton quiet
and unchanged; middling, 15%; net re
ceipts, 883; gross, 1,274; sales, 5,500.
Mobile, March 16. Cotton quiet; mid
dling, 15%; net receipts, 49; exports
coastwise, 207; sales, 1,600.
Charleston, March 16.—Cotton quteq;
middling, 13%; net receipts, 743; sales,
1,200.
Galveston. March 16.—Cotton quiet and
steady; middling, 15%; net receipts, 1,054;
gross, 1,059; exports coastwise, 1,474; sales,
965.
Memphis, March 16—Cotton quiet; mid
dling, 15%@15%; net receipts, 1,054; ship
ments, 1,804; sales, 1,200.
Savannah, March 16.—Cotton quiet and
easy; u i.. iliug, low middling 15%;
good ordina-wry, 14%; net receipts, 616;
exports to Great Britain, 4,200; sales, 90.
MARINE NEWS.
New York, March 16.—Arrived: City of
Meripa, Republic, Champion, City of Waco,
San Jacinto, Mississis.-ippi.
Arrived out: Alexandria, Switzerland,
Calliope, Maggie Brown.
Tort Royal, March 16 Arrived: John
W. Taylor.
Sailed: North Point, Rosalie, Carrie
Clark.
•TTJyST RECEIVED
New and Beautiful Styles,
IN Hamburg Embroideries, Imperial
Trin. iiiii ~ in pretty designs. Patent
Valenciennes latest patterns;
Linen Collars, uuffs, Ruehings and Nock
Wear in a great variety of styles.
TUCKED LAWNS, TUCKED CAMBRIC
and REVERE COfiD MUSLINS, suitable
for BIAS TRIMMING, at
MULLARKY BROS.
THIS WEEK.
Misses and Children’s SPRING STYLES,
in Striped Cotton Hose, colors new ana
pretty, and prices lower than heretofore.
Also, a full line in all qualities of Ladies’
and Gents’ Hosiery, at
MULLARKY BROS.
A SPECIALTY.
Consisting of a well assorted Stock of
Bleached aud Unbleached Taole Damasks,
Towels, Napkins, Doylies, Linen and Cot
ton Diapers and RICHARDSON’S CELE
BRATED
IRISH LINENS,
AVill be offered THIS WEEK at prices to
suit the times.
MULLARY BROS.
mh7-suthtf 262 BROAD STREET.
JAMES LEFFEL’S
IMPROVED DOUBLE
Turbine Water Wheel.
Manufacturers for the South
and Southwest.
Over 7,000 now in use, working under heads
varying from two to 240 foell 24
sizes, from 5% to 96 inches.
The most powerful Wheel in the Mai kef.
And most economical in use of Water.
Large illustrated Pamphlet sent post
free. Manufacturers, also, of Portable and
Stationary Steam Engines and Boilers,
Babcock & Wilcox Patent Tubulous Boiler.
Ebaugh's Crusher for Minerals, Saw aud
Grist Mills, Flouring Mill Machinery. Ma
chinery for White Lead Works and Oil
Mills, Shafting, Pulleys and Hangcis.
SEXI) FOR CIRCULARS.
doe?-ly
HAS! DWARE.
1,000 KEGS NAILS.
1,000 DIXIE PLOWS.
2,000 PAIR TRACES.
150 TONS I BON.
50 TONS STEEL.
100 DOZEN AXES.
PLOW SHAPES, SCOOTERS, SHOVELS,
TURN PLOWS
AND SWEEPS,
Heel ScrewH,
Clevises, Grass Hods, Plow Handles,
And a general assortment of
HARDWARE
FOR SALE LOW FOR CASH.
MOORE &, CO.
243 Broad Street,
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Organic and vol’tile matter 30.24
Yielding ammonsa 3.06
Soluble phosphoric acid... 5.94
Equivalent to phos. lime
dissolved 12.93
Precipitated phos. acid 5.73
Equivalent to phos. lime
precipitated 12.60
Available phosphoric acid 11.72
Equivalent to phos. Umo
available 25 53
Common phosphoric acid. 0.91
Equivalent to bone phos’te 1.99
Total phosphoric acid, 12. fr!
Total bone phosphate 27.57
Inorganic elements, not
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ASFLENDID REMEDY for affections of
the LUNGS, as well as diseases of the
KIDNEY. I hold two certificates from the
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whose late sickness was caused by both I>r
these complaints, and were cured by this
medicine.
MON A TROPA TONIC
Compound Bitters.
A GRAND REMEDY for the cure of
A CHILLS AND FEVER, GENERAL
DEBILITY, LOSS OF APPETITE, Nl( B.T
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Used in old or stubborn cases with the
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THE OLD GEORGIA
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QO long and favorably known, for tho
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also SKIN DISEASES, BLIND or BLEED-1
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USED in connection with the above Soap,
in old or stubborn eases, always gives
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DISTRIBUTION!
A FARM FOR
A Fine Dwelling, a Splendid Baiinrei
Iloane, or a Building Lot, for S3.UO.
$300,000
Worth of Real Estate
WILL be distributed among the ticket
holders at Houston, Texas, March
15,1875. The first gift will be a Fine Brick
House, or Main street, rental si,Boo, valued
at SIB,OOO. aud tho smallest gift will be 40
acres of Land or a Building Lot. The dis
tribution comprises over 60,000 acres of
good land, in thirty-eight growing coun
ties. The press of Texas and the South
west com mend it to the kind iiitention 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, wifi be furnished
on application.
Every Postmaster is authorized to act as
local agent. Tickets, $3. Ten per cent,
discount idlowed 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 & LOCKART,
Managers, Houston. Texas.
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EsTEEMJii) Friend— Will you please In
form your readers that I have a positive
CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.
aD j dif .orders of the Tfiroat and Lungs,
and that, oy its use in my practice, I have
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SI,OOO oo
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strong is nv faith, 1 will send a S imple
Free to any sufferer addressing me.
Please show this letter to any one you
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