C'lje ©lttkl]) Constitutionalist
Wednesday Morning, Jan.. 24,1866.
OUR LITEBARY COLUMN.
CHAPTER V.
“The Mountain of the Lovers.”
An Ancient Isqend of Bohemia.
Many centuries ago, in wild Bohemia (it was
during the most sombre period of that epoch
known as the “dark ages”), there lived a feu
dal Baron, haughty, passionate, and prejudicial,
who, like the giant Earl Doorm, “ compelled
all creatures to his wilL’*
He belonged to a class of lusty tyrants, well
represented by the husband of the brave 1 Go
diva,’’ who loved nothing so dearly as a flagon
of strong Rhenish wine, except, perhaps, the
baying of blood-bounds, as they tracked some
insurgent vassal to bis last refuge in the forest!
He possessed a magnificent beard, flowing,
after the fashion of a dark cascade, down his
breast, and his thick, untended hair rustled
angrily a full yard behind, while he strode,
with uneven Btep, and bent, shaggy brow, un
der the rafters of his rugged hall. He pos
sessed, also, (the great brute I) a magnificent,
daughter, of whom the arch-fiend himself could
hardly have been more unworthy. Hers was
the form of a queen; tall, stately, and graceful
as the beech tree in spring, but her face was
all sensibility, its prevailing expression being
an innbeent candor, which blent—oh! h, w
charmingly—with a look of sweet, tender, vir
ginal diffidence!
The young squires and bachelor knights of
the country worshipped Katrina. Those who
had yet their spurs te win would think of her
deep eyes, so inexpressibly blue, upon the eve
of joust or tournament, and swear, for her
sake and the dear hope of gaining her love, to
strike such doughty blows upon the morrow,
that not Sir Tristrem, nor Launcelotof the Lake
oould have stood against the spirit and force
put into them.
And warriors of acknowledged fame came
from far and wide—from Brittany and Langue
doeqe, from Spain and Italy, and Provinces
from Germany, and even mist-encircled Scot
land, and'the cold Northland Isles, arrayed in
steel armor, inlaid with gold, and bearing her
colors on lance or helmet 1 Unnumbered were
the mimic (but sometimes fatal) conflicts
fought, and mighty was the prowess displayed
in Katrina’s behalf.
Indeed, things went so far, at last, that the
very name of this peaceful and gontle girl, who
oould aoaroely brook the sight of blood, were
it that of a hare or bird, became the signal
for mortal strife between kinsfolk, and even
brethren! Therefore, the Baron, her father,
known as Robert the Rttde, indulging In many
blasphemous imprecations, because of the trou
ble given him by such eager suitors, selected
from amongst them a knight after his own
soul—that is to say, a wine-bibber and glutton,
with, the muscles of Anak—-whom he insisted,
in his usual stern and peremptory manner, that
Katrina should marry torthwitb I
“By tje Kings of Cologne 1 my pretty dem
oiselle, ” he grumbled through his huge
beard, “a proper man I and a stalwart 1 with
store of guilders beside, and as fjnd of that
white face of thine (in sooth, it ir<w pale while
the Baron spoke I) as black BesH yonder Is of
her pups! Gramorcy! a right goodly matcbl So,
get thee ready girl, for it lacks just.flve days to
Whitsuntide, and (chucking her with the
grace of a bear under the chin) "thou must be
made an honest wife of on that blessed morn,
no sooner, no later—'tis my will!’’
Alasl for Katrina; like many another un
fortunato maiden, beforo her time and since,
she could not use her heart liko a puppet, nor
bend her inclinations thus suddenly to this des
potic command. Withotit daring to utter one
word of reply, she crept to her little turret
chamber, and thero wept exceeding bitter
tears.
For Katrina, unknown to all, had now, for
two anxious years, loved with the passionate
ardor of a soft, yet profound spirit, ene whoso
foot had never presumed to approach the
threshold even of the. Baron's dwelling. This
was a young forester; litho, active, handsome,
and somehow with good blood in hU veins,
who had once saved her life and the Baron’s
(at the dread risk of his own), when the twain,
driving homo in a sledgo through the dark v
wintry forest, were set upon by a pack of fam
ished wolves!
Scant enough, by St. Peter, were. the
father's thanks; but Katrina's heart swelled
with grateful emotion; and when next she met
Oswald, accidentally in the wood*, still maimed
and scarred from his fearful encounter, all the
woman was declared, and in a voice tremulous
and slow, but divine, he thought, as the voice
of angels, she faltered her acknowledgments,
* and passed in a strange flutter of agitation
from hia view. Ay I but from his heart,
nevermore!
In lonesome walks, under immemorial trees,
making a twilight of high noon when the moon
glanced slyly through opening glades or dew
lit branches, by the pleasant fountain, which
teemed in Us flowing to mnrmur her name
with reverence— the midst of the
chase, with his arrow fitted to the bow-string,
he would pause and droop, and his strong arm
was lowered unconsciously to his side, and a
glamour came over him, wherein he saw, no'.
, the fleet quarry which bounded along the bill,
P but glistening eyes, and a pitiful, pale forehead
bent gently near his own.
Time went on, but did not cure his madness.
In such oases it seldom does. What was wore*,
his infatuation was shared by another. Had
he not saved her life, and to whom should a
lift thus rescued properly belong? The old
atory, render, the old, old story 1
Oar high-born maiden, proad, too, for ell her
sweetness, turned from gorgeous Baronial in
signia, from towns, courts, and castles, from a
score of her equals by birth ; above all, from
the wine-bibbing young Kuigbt, with the
thews of “ Anak,” to the humble forester,
whom her farcy clothed with a radiant and
manly beauty she had met no where else on
eartb.
What wonder, then, that the father’s corns
mand should have overwhelmed her ! And
since misfortunes come not singly, it happened,
by doleful chance, that tidißgs of those stolen
meetings in tbe wood were, on the self-same
night, brought by a certain malignant spy to
tbe Baron’s ear. Ha who conveyed them shud
dered at the look which the savage bandit (for
be was little belter) gave him in reply. Yet
not a word spake he; only his steel dagger
cleshed with an ominous ring, as he strode
heavily amoDg his dogs.
On the next day, but one, the whole country
side was alive with hundreds of spectators,
who, at due summons from Robert the Rude,
had assembled to behold an extraordinary, and
unparalleled trial. There rose in tbe vicinity
a lofty mountain, of such marvellous steepness,
so dangerous aud full of pitfalls, that the came
and the perils of it had become famed through
out Bohemia 1 Now, with the licence of a
Feudal Lord, in the excess of his. tyrannous
auger at the mean weakness, as he counted it,
of his beautiful daughter* and the audacity of
Oswald, bis forester, the Baron had issued a
sort of Pronunciamento to the following effect,
causing tbe same to be proclaimed abroad,
with many circumstances of scornful pride,
and ceremon
"Whereas: my daughter Katrina, untrue to
her blood and lineage, has dared to bestow her
affections, (sought af er by many noble knghts
with honorable fervor, and "deeds of daring
do,”) upon a base born hind, a serf and mis
erable slave, we hereby declare for her punish
ment and his, that Oswald, known as the For
ester, shall, in the presence of my vassals and
neighbors, be compelled to carry Katrina in
his arms, without any help, stimulant, or sup
port whatever, from the bottom to the top of
Mount Klimmel; failing in which, the said Os
wald shall be buried alive in the deepest dun
geon of my castle, there to perish wretchedly,
as behooves in tbe case of a vile bondsman,
gnilty of so damnable presumption I
' But should tbe said Oswald succeed in his
undertaking, he shall be free to depart from my
territories unmolested, and not only this, but
he shall be free to bear Katrina with him, par
amour , if it so pleaseth him, seeing that the
disgraced damsel is no longer daughter of
mine!”
This decree having been twice read by the
Baron’s Seneschal in a loud voice, Oswald came
forward, pale, and yet with a calm, determined
countenance, (for he alone of all the crowd
ooked not upon the venture as utterly desper
ate.) He took tho half-faiting-Katrina very
tenderly and slowly in his arms, and one who
watched them closely might have remarked, aB
he did so, a quick, tremulous thrill shoot
through his whole frame, which, on the next
instant, was straightened firmly and proudly,
while the head of the girl, with its glory of
golden hair, sank, like the flower of a broken
lily, upon his shoulder. At this sight, so natural
aDd touching, a low murmur seemed to agitate
the throng, and some of kindly spirit groaned,
and turned their eyes momentarily away. And
now the trial has fairly begun 1 Clasping his
precious burden delicately, yet tightly to his
breast, Oswald, with measured foot-fall, essays
the cruel Height. For more than a third of
the way he labors upward, hardly pausing, and,
apparently, quite at ease and unwearied. The
Baron bites his lip until the blood spirts along
his grey doublet! A breath as of intense relief,
comes from the silent, motionless, expectnnt
hundreds. " Surely,’’ thought they, “if thus
far he has succeeded, the priz* may yet be his I”
But scarcely has the thought struggled into
form when tho (tires ter is observed to stagger
and stumble violently. Is he down ? No 1 no!
but God’s mercy 1 what an escape 1 They
have grazed the edge of a treacherous pit,
partly concealed by grass and stones, with a
sheer descent of three hundred jagged feet,
awful to look upon! Up again, and still onward 1
At length, however, it is fairly perceived that
Oswald suffers. His limbs drag heavily ; the
people below can almost fancy they hear him
pant. And the Baron’s dark face relaxes ; he
smiles grimly, anticipating triumph, while here
and there from out the crowd may be caught
the stifled sobs of sympathizing women ! On
ward, and upward stlil ! More heavily drag
the limbs, and tbe pauses are frequent and
agonizing.
Ohl he can never accomplish it, never 1 —
But see 1 the brave youth—hero, If hero ever
lived—shifts his burden from the left shoulder
to tho right; he appears to progress more rap
idly and freely, and now, with one convul
sive,'gigantic, over-mastering effort, (the goal
being fully io sight,) he totters up the slope,
falling, it is true, but falling only when he
has reached the topmost point of the tremen
dous eminence 1
What a shout rent the air from those quiver
ing, all but maddened spectators ! Universal
sympathy is enlisted ou tbe part of tbe lovers.
Old and young alike, regardless of danger, has«
ten up the mountain to aid and cheer them,
one of Katrina's former suitors, a gallant
young nobleman, being conspicuous in tbe front
rank.
They reach the great knoll at tbe summit,
and there, rigidly locked in one another’s
arms, lay the helpless pair, pallid, breathless
and—quite dead 1 Oswald's great heart broke
in tbe very momenta of victory, and the fair,
faithful creature he loved, through the intoler
able anguish of her sympathy, perished witt
and/or him, her hair covering, in a golden
shower, his neck and brow, and her lips, as in
their last, desponding kiss, pressed fondly on
his own!
Os Robert tbe Rude our chronicle saith, that
whilst mgaged upon tbe evening of this day
of dolour, in brutal carousing at his own board,
there entered to him anon a knight with clcsed
visor, who presently stabbed him twice across
either shoulder, leaving the brutal Baron a
corpse in his desecrated Hall.
It bath been supposed by diverse persons
that bis Slayer was the same young knight who
displayed such sympathy with tbe lovers— al
beit a discarded suitor himself on the occasion
of theif deathly trial.
The Latest Sensations.
Below we give our readers a chapter of the
latest Yankee sensations :
attempted assassination or sbnatob wade—
HB RECEIVES A “ MYSTERIOUS VISITOR.”
The Washington Chronicle double leads the
appended account of an attempted “ outrage "
on Senator Wade, of Ohio :
Oa Wednesday evening last, between eight
and nine o’clock, a man of unusually large
proportions, dressed in gray clo‘hes, called at
theresidence of Hon. Benjamin F. Wade, Uni
ted States Senator from Ohio, on Four-and-a
half street, and asked to see the Senator. He
was shown up stairs by the servant to Mr.
Wade’s room. After being seated he stated
that he was trying to obtain employment in
the United Bta‘es navy ; and asked Mr. Wade
to sign a paper of recommendat on for him in
order to further his object.
Senator Wade refused to do so, saying he
did not know him, and advised him to pro
cure the signature of some person to whom he
was known. After listening to this reply, the
strange visitor, whose physiognomy Mr. Wade
described as singularly malicious and brutal,
looked at the Senator with a significent scowl r
which the latter plainly interpreted as mean
ing mischief.
At this juncture of the interview, Mr. Wade
arose, and, stepping into an adjoining room,
armed himself with a loaded pistol, and quietly
returned again into the room where the man
in gray was sitting.
After looking at each other some time in
silence, the man began the conversation bv
saying : “ Aint you going to sign my paper f”
To which the Senator returned an emphatic
negative, adding that he had no knowledge of
him.
Matters bow began to reach a crisis. The
stranger arose to his feet, drawing out a bowie
knife about twelve inches loDg, and remarking,
“ I suppose you know we are now alone, sir,
in this room.” He was proceeding to unsheatb
his weapon, when Senator Wade sprang to his
feet, and drawing forth his pistol, placed it
within a short distance of his head, telling him
to cles.r out immediately or he would shoot
him.
Taken somewhat by surprise, the man in gray
began to find his way to the door, followed up
closely by Senator Wade, with his pistol still
in close proximityUo his head. The Senator,
with true Western politeness, saw his visitor
down stairs, and, before reaching the door, qui
etly informed him that he had a great notion to
shoot him anyhow. Upon this the stranger de
parted.
During the visit he failed to prodace any
papers for signature, and evidently made this
a mere pretext for the interview. At the time
of the visit there were no persons in the house
beside Senator Wade, except Mr. Matthews
and his lady and a servant.
[Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun ]
THE CHRONICLE’S WADE ASBABBINATION BTORT.
Washington, January 14, 1866.—The story
of the Chronicle about symptoms of renewed
rebellion, because of tbe strange conduct of
some fellow wbo drew a knife when in Senator
Wade's room, is ridiculed for the reason that
the Chronicle has imposed two big hoaxes upon
this community. One was the Griffin tale, and
the other the alleged cruelty of Texas physi
cians to the brother of Andrew Johnsou. The
same fearful fellow that waited upon Wade
subsequently called on Senator Wilson.
THE ATTACK ON SENATOR WADK.
The threatening demonstration made oa
Senator Wade last Wednesday night by a mau
we’l know to another Senator, upon whom he
called a short time after leaving Mr. Wade, but
not in the way of menace. The offender is
from Massachusetts, and has heretofore been
in trouble both here and elsewhere.
4IREAT EXCITEMENT AT THE CAPITAL—SENATOR
SUMNER THREATENED.
[Washington Chronicle, 15tb]
On Saturday night the Hon. Charles Sumner
had a box sent to him at his rooms, wb ch, on
opening, be found to contain a human finger,
accompanied by a note in the following words:
“You old son of a , I send you a piece of
your friend’s finger. If your bill passes, I
will have a piece of your body.
A Union Man.”
No clue has [yet seen discovered whereby
to trace this strange missive to its origin.
[Correspondence of the New York Herald ]
Fortress Monroe, Jan. 12, 1866.
Regarding tho alleged plot to rescue Jeff.'
Davis, of which I wrote in my last letter, there
are no specially new or exciting developments.,
A rumor prevailed that two or three vessels i
having suspicious parties on them unable to I
satisfactorily account for their presence here j
had been ordered away, but I find, on investi- 1
gation, there is no truth in the statement.—
Vessels arriviug are still searched, however,
and a careful watch kept night and day upon
the movements of ail species of water crass,
from the ponderous seagoing steamer to the
lightest Liliputian canoe creeping in the still
midnight hours amid the docks and shipping.
A steam tug with a guard of soldiers exercises
this nightly vigilance, and not a vessel, or
boatman stirs but a challenge is sounded and
an accounting for the movement has to be ren
dered. Much more thaD usual strictness is
enjoined also as to admissions inside the fort.
Passes are most rigidly examined, and undergo
the supervision of two sets of sentries—one out
side and the other inside the main entrance—
instead of only one, as formerly. A couple of
saucy howitzers have, since the excitement,
been placed facing the principal entrance, in
tended, of course, to extend the primal honors
of welcome—aud a warm welcome it would be
—to those audacious enough to effect an in
gress here otherwise than through the kindly
courtesies of the military authorities. I need
not go into all the details of defensive prepara
tions. It is only necessary to say that they
are ample for any emergency.
The presumption is thet Jeff Davis, the es
quorum pars maqna of all this present excite
ment, knows nothing about it. Recent orders
still ibrbid any officer or other peason saying a
word to him, and he certainly would be likely
to keep close mouthed on this subject if he
knew anything about it, even were there no
order hermetically sealing his Ups upon the
subject of conversation. It is possible and
more than probable that be may may find
difficulty in accounting for the extra guard
placed over himself and the late rather abrupt
and marked change of deportment toward
him as a prisoner. Be his thoughts what they
may, he grins and bears it with impassioned
grace. He still enjoys hjs meals, and they
continue to be made of the best tb- market
affords: has the same, if not a growing relish
ing fondness for bis pipe ; as zealously appre
ciates his daily out-door walks, shows no
flagging interest in his daily perusal of the
papers and books allowed him, is still most
scrupulously careful—not to say femininely
fastidious—upon the subject of his toilet, and
makes bis own bed and sweeps his own room
daily, as of old. Hi3 health also continues
excellent—to himself and to friends and foes
the chief consideration of all.
From the Richmond Enquirer.
SENSATION AT FOBTBESS MONROE—SUSPECTED
ATTEMPT TO RESCUE MR DAVIS.
The“reb<l” sojourners at Old Point Comfort,
most of whom have been engaged there in the
United States Ordinance Department, were
startled and surprised Sunday morning by the
promulgation of an order requiring them to
leave the place. Ore hour was given them to
depart, and as no steuner was at hand they
passed tin night in Hampton, and yesterday
morning "run the gauntlet” to the wharf at
Old Point, and took the steamer to Richmond.
They numbered between forty and fifty men,
many of whom left their baggage behind in
their hurry. The agent of the National Ex
press and Transportation Company, located at
the Point, being in the “rebel” category, un
able to bring off his office property, turned
over his keys and the contents of the office gen
erally to the agent of the Adams Express Com
pany, who happened to be a Northern man.
The reason assigned for this summary order
was a report that a plot was in progress to
rescue Mr. Davis. Upon what amount of
truth this report was based we have no means
of ascertaining, as the whole procedure was in
accordance with an order from the War De
partment at Washington, which, it is to be
presumed, acted Upon secret evidence, the par
ticulars of which it has Dot yet thought proper
to divulge. In pursuance of the details ot the
order, tbe guard on duty at and around the
fort was trebled, and the bridges over the moat
were drawn. Tbe "exiles,” who reached the
city last night report that the restrictions upon
the privileges of Mr. Davis had been increased,
and that now he was not even permitted to
speak to the Lieutenant of the guard placed
over him.
It is difficult to conceive how the United
States authorities could be induced to give cre
dence to any such report as that, from which
all this sensation has been produced. If there
can be any truth in it it reflects seriously upon
tbe sanity of such as may be concerned, but it
will find few rational men to believe it in the
South or elsewhere. The whole affair has the
appearance of a Radical design against the
South, in which the authorities have been
duped ty hired agents, and a sensation, preju
dicial to the restoration of confidence between
the two sections, created for party purposes and
effect.
Gen. Merger. —How His Property was
Confiscated. —The New York correspondent of
the Baltimore Evening Transcript furnishes an
interesting paragraph relative to tbe confisca
tion of the property of Gen. H. W. Mercer, now
on trial in Savannah:
In 1863, a gentleman named Benjamin F.
Mudgett informed Mr. G. Delafield Smith, the
United Slates district attorney in this city,
that the Confederate General Hugh W. Mer
cer owned 613 shares of the stock of the Minneo
BOta Mining Company, besides some $9,000 of
dividends due upon the stock. In accord
ance with the act of Congress cf 1862, the
property was seized by the United States mar
shal. Tbe law in such cases gives the govern*
meat one-half and the informer the other half,
but it hasjust now leaked out that the district
attorney refused to enter judgment for the
joint benefit of Mudgett and the government,
unless Mudgett would agree to employ as his
counsel one of tbe district attorney’s employes,
and pay over to him one-half of the proceels
due him. This Mudgett at first refused, but
finally consented, fearing that h» would not
get anything at all. Smith finished up the pro.
ceedings and sold tbe shares, tbe moiety of
which, about $30,000, were handed over to the
United States government. Mudgett, however,
had to wait some time for his money, and
finally received about $15,000, the remainde
being kept by Mr. Smith, as fee for his em
ploye, who, as Mudgett subsequently ascertain
ed, never did one moment’s work for the case.
To recover the balance of the money due him
Mudgett has instituted proceedings in court
against the ex-United Mates district attorney.
The latter, I understand, now is very anxious
to settle the matter, aud fears that the case
may be too much ventillated for his own good.
But it is time that the public should know how
the radical office holders lined their pockets
during the war, and this case is one in point.
A Bloodthirsty Governor— The Baltimore
Gsaette, referring to the late inaugural of the
Governor of Wisconsin, says:
In that inaugural ho asserts with a breadth
! of comprehension which becomes a Governor
1 of Wisconsin, and an exact adherence to truth,
, which is the peculiar characteristic of his type
. of republicanism, that the American people de-
I mand that the Supreme Court of the United
States shall convict and hang Mr. Davis ; and
i also, that tlie American people, of whom the
Governor of Wisconsin is the self appointed
spokesman, further declare they will not be con
tent until this edict is carried out. The Wis
consin Governor evidently looks upon the Su
preme Court as nothing more than a mere ma
chine for registering wbat he gratuitously as
sumes to be the popular flat. In giving public
expression to this opinion, he not only insults
the digeity of what he himstlf styles “ the
highest tribuual in the land,” but makes it dif
ficult to decide whether the predominating trait
in his own character is that of a fanatic or a
fool.
A Tough Yarn bt aCruissr.— “ Our ship,”
said he, “ was for the space of fourteen months
becalmed in mid-ocean. During this time we
had not advanced ten miles nearer the oort of
our destination. Our provisions were all gone,
and nothing bat starvation appeared in pros
pect for ns. We had made up our minds
that it was over with us, and starve we must,
when we encountered a fearful gale of wind.
It came so suddenly noon us that we hadn’t
time to take in a single sail. The squall stri
king the ship, rolled ber clean over, her masts
going down on one side and coming up on
the other, and scrquickly did she perform this
revolution, that no one on board was ever
wetted. When she arighted our astonishment
was great atbeholling a monstrous dolphin,
violently kicking, transfixed upon the foretop
mast, and a huge swordfißh in a similar con
dition, npon the main top mist. Also trana
npon the jib boom, kicking and flopping
like all poMened, was as fine a halibut as you
ever laid eyas on. We now bad an abundance
of provisions, and I was all right, earing a
tad cold, which I took daring the gale.”
COMMERCIAL.
AUGUSTA MARKET.
Augusta, Jan. 23, 1866.
Financial.
GOLD—Buying at 140 ; eelMne at 142.
SlLVEß—Buying at 135 ; selling at 140.
STOCKS AND BONDS—
Central R. R Bonds 80a85
Central “ Notes 90
Central “ Stocks... „ 70
City of Augusta Bond* 75a78
City of. Savannah Bonds ; 77
State of Georgia Bonds, old 75
Georgia Railroad Stocks 70
Georgia Railroad Bonds 95
Georgia Railroad Notes 97
COMMERfcIAL.
COTTON.—We Bote a decline of one to two
cents since nor last report. Th« market for the
past week has b«en quiet, holders being indw
nosed to sell at present rates, and buyers unwill
ing to advance. The ua r avorab!e reports from
Liverpool and New York have had a depressing
eff ct upon the local market, but we do not alto
gether attribute the quietude of our market to
this cause, as it is mainly attributable to the
great scarcitv of money, which at present exists
here, and which will, we fear, con'inue to ope
rate on our market for some time to oome.
Messrs.
deb'ed for the following corrected prices current,
report as follows:
The Cotton market is dn l ! and quiet. Mid
dlings. 41a4?c, and Good Midd ings, 43c.
Receipt* for the week ending Saturday, Janua
ry 20 tb, 1866, 4 577 bales. Shipments in same
’ime, 4,497 bales.
DOMESTICS—
-4-4 AUGUSTA SHEETINGS 31c.
7-8 " “ 26c.
DRILLS—33c.
PRINTS—Dark, 24.26 c.
YARNS—Assorted numbers, 76a80 cts per lb.
BAGGING—Gunny. 37$c.
R O PE— He nap, Rich ardsonV Greenleaf, 24a 62c.
CUT NAlL'S—Assorted sizes, sll per keg.
IRON—loi*l2 cents per-lb
CAST STEEL—3O.iSJSc per lb.
LE * THER—SoIe. Ssaso cents per lb. Uppers,
$35 SSO per dezen. French Calf Skins, SIOO
asl2o per dozen.
SOAP—Brown, 16*18c.
CANDLES—Star, 31a32c. *
OATS—SI 25 <sl 80.
CORN—SI 65'$1 75 per bu*hel.
HAY—SS 50s$3 75 per 1001 ha.
WHEAT—Nominally. $2 5053.
FLOOR—Stovall’s Mills. Superfine, sls 1 Ex
tra do, sl6 ; Double Extra do $lB
BACON—Clear Sides, 18a22c ; Shoulders, 141
17c.
LARD—Prime Leaf, 28a24c;
BUTTER—Choice Goshen, 45a50c.
CHEESE—Western Reserve, 25a26 ; English
Dairy. 29;»Slo.
MACKEREL—No 1. in kits $4 00a$4 25. *
COFFEE—Rio', 35a87e.
SUGAR— Brown, 1608 c ; Crushed and Pow
dered. 28i30c.
MOLASSES—Cuba, 75a90c.
RICE—New crop—lsal7c per lb.
TEAS—Nominal.
LIQUORS—Corn Whisky, $2 75a52 80; Rye
and Bourbon, s3ssl 50.
SEGAR a —Domestic, $25n575 per M.
APPLES—SB*SIO per bbl.
POTATOEO—S6,iS7 per bbl.
ONIONS-$6 per bbl.
SALT—Liverpool, |4*ss per sack.
SHOT—Bags 25 lbs. $4 50a$5.
DRUGS AND MEDICINES—Package Quo
tations.— Reported by Wm. H Tutt, Wholesale
Druggist,—Opium sl2; Camphor. $1 75 ; Mor
phine, sl2 per ounce: Epsom Salts, 10c.: Quin
ire, $4 per ounce: Ri-Carb Soda, slßc.s Sal
Soda. 10c; lodide Potash, $5 60 ; Alum. 12o.;
Annatte. $1 16; Assafoet ; da. 40a76c.; Borax,
50c.; Balsam Copaiva, $1 50; Sulphur, lie.*
Calonrel, $2 ; Castor OH, $5; Alcohol. s6as7 •
Cochineal, $1 60a$2 ; Chloroform, $3 50; Cop.’
peras. 6c; Snlph Ether, $2; Glycerine, sla
$1 SO ; Ipecac. $6; Gum Arabic, sorts, 65c.; Ginn
Arab’e. picked, $1 15; Gum Tragacantb, sorts,
65c; Gum Tragacanth, white flake $1 20c .; Li
corice. 60«T5c: White L»ad„ 15a25e.; Mercury,
in flasks, $1 25 ; Sugar Lead, white, 85c.; Sugar
Lead, brown, 65c.
hi »» $ mm —.
War News from Ireland. —There was a re
port a few days since that a collision had oc
curred between a body of Fenians in Ireland
and a detechment of British troops and con
stabulary. The statement, conveyed through
some mysterious channel, was not generally
credited, but it created intense excitement in
Fenian circles. The following announcement,
in the latest number of the Liverpool Post, in
dicates that if an outbreak has not actually
occurred, fears were entertained that one was
imminent:
"Two regiments have been suddenly sent cfF
to Ireland, one from Manchester, the other from
Chester. The Manchester regiment, twelvehun*
dred strong, was aroused at three o'clock in
the morning, and by eight o’clock they were
en route for Liverpool, whence they were to
embark at six o’clock. Sevan officers, absent
on leave, were ordered by telegraph to report
themselves at Clarence dock by five o’clock
yesterday evening. Our information is, that
the Chester regiment was ordered with equal
haste for Dublin, via Holyhead Movements
such as these will create a deal of uneasiness,
and they must indicate either a serious danger
or remarkable credulity on the part of the au
thoriti s. No doubt the troops which have been
sent are Englishmen. For the 1 last few days
there have been statements made as to certain
very extensive- designs being' entertained by tbe
Dublin Fenians, and these have been supported
by the measures taken by the authorities.—
Agitation has prevailed at Limerick, fostered
by the hasty transfer of troops from place to
place.”
On this the New York Times remarks :
"The military movements would seem to in
dicate that there has been an outbreak in Ire
land ; but our Dublin correspondent shows
that such is not the case. The government was
actuated simply by prudential motives under
the apprehension of a disturbance. But these
precautionary measures have been carried into
effect with a precipitancy that is not consistent
with the dignity and self-reliance of a power
ful nation. The hot ha3le with which the
proceedings were conducted suggests that they
were prompted by an emergency of a very
threatening character. Soldiers are not aroused
from their slumbers at three o'clock in the
morning without Borne pressing call for their
immediate action; and the circumstance of
this early summons and rapid embarkation of
troops from pc iota most available from their
neighborhood to the Irish coast, has the great
er significance in view of the fact that the
British government has hitherto abstained
tom any demonstrations that might create the
impression that the Fenian movement was at
all formidable.”
Injudicious. —We notice that at least one
newspaper in the State, has published the en
tire Report of the Commission appointed to
prepare a system of laws for the government of
the freedmen in this State. We were asked to
do the same thing, but declined for the reason
that the code has not yet been adopted, and
might mislead some people ; and also for the
reason that it has not yet been laid before the
Legislature, for the consideration of which
body it was prepared. This document would
not have been made pnblic by the printer, bat
for the reason, that the Senate directed its
Secretary to forward two copies to each Senator,
so soon as printed.—Milledgeville Union.
