Georgia Historic Newspapers

    the weekly constitutionalist.
(From the X. Y. Day Book.
Financial and Commercial
Commercial stagnation Is on the increase.—
From all parts of the country we get indications
of the approach of the long looked for crisis,
the great avalanche of failures which is to sweep
over the country, carrying sorrow and despair
into many a household not yet dreaming of the
change they are doomed to undergo. When,
two years ago, this journal told the people that
the moment the war closed the effect would l>e
that of the breaking up of the disease of a fever
stricken patient, a general prostration and weak
ness of the whole system, the recuperation of
which would be slow, scarcely a merchant be
lievCtl the assertion. So strangely demented
were the masses of the North, the manufacturers
particularly, that they could not be made to
understand the trade relation which the two
sections had sustained ; these ignorant and in
fatuated men, who had for years, prior to 1800,
fattened upon the wealth of the South, without
realizing it, were truly in the condition of hogs
under an acorn tree, munching the fruit daily,
but never looking up to see where it came
from. Wetold the producing classes, who,during
the war, were going on in a reckless carnival of
money-making, that their good fortune (!) pur
chased by the plunging of the country into one
of the most brutal civil wars on record, was
but temporary, and the pecuniary success they
were enjoying would be short-lived; that
peace would produce a general prostration,
and reduce to pauperism one-half of those who
by war had been elevated into what they sup
posed to be permanent prosperity; but these
manufacturers could not see it, "and on they
rushed into new and enlarged outlays, and the
present year opened with thousands of the
most impracticable schemes' which the inge
nuity of a speculating world could concoct,
and it opened also apparently with the most
dazzling prospects for the legitimate business
world, who fancied they saw a restoration of
the magnificent commercial transactions of
1859 and ’6O, with increased profits and a more
extended field for operations. EAen to-day
the manufacturers and merchants, the great
railroad and freight lines of the North, the in
land navigation companies on the Western
lakes, all of whom have done a huge business
during the period of hostilities, are perplexed
to understand why trade has fallen off, why
the huge operations of 1860 to 1865 are not to
day in full force, why goods do not sell. In the
summer of 1865, when hostilities ceased, the
South, bare of everything, raked up what little
means it had in certain localities, and came
North for supplies. That trade was soon ex
hausted. The demand was lightand soon over,
New England never, in her profound igno
rance, understanding the dependence she was
under to the South, during the war, dismissed
from her mind altogether the fact that she had
ever done any business at all with that despised
section, and the sixty millions per year which
the South had paid her for merchandise, was
iorgotten, or dimly remembered as a dream
rather than a reality. “Oh, we can live with
out the South!” was the taunt of her purse
proud Lawrences and her Spragues. “ All 6he
has ever had we have loaned her, and her boast
ed products of cotton, sugar aud tobacco we
have raided ourselves, for’it was our capital
that enabled her to produce them.” How often
that insult has emanated from the lips of the
New Englanders in times past! What is the
state of things now ? The South is prostrate.
Her cotton crop will not be over one million of
bales, not over one-quarter of her usual yield,
and the proportion raised of her other products
will be still less. In the face of this we still
hear the cry, “Oh, we get on without the
South!” The New England political econo
mist declares that a cotton crop of one million
of bales, worth forty cents a pound, adds as
much solid wealth to the world as four millions
of bales, worth ten cents per pound. Thissort
of logic is a fair specimen of the brains of the
cotton lords of that section. Wc have heard
this reiterated again and again, and the practi
cal character ofthe idea is well illustrated when
we assume that if one million bales of
cotton, at forty cents per pound, adds
as much wealth to the world as four millions at
ten cents, certainly two hundred thousand
bales at two dollars per pound are equally ser
viceable to the great human family; or say fifty
thousand bales at ten dollars per pound. Such
is the logic of the New England cotton manu
facturers. But stagnation rules, and the groat
masses are consuming slowly under the stag
gering cost of productions. The manufactu
rers and the merchants are gradually drawing
nearer and nearer the brink of the precipice
over which they must inevitably topple. We
do not see what can save them. They have
pushed up prices beyond the reach of the con
sumer. He has for the past four years, though
a peculiar state of existing circumstances, been
enabled to pay these prices; but now he has
dropped down to the lowest point of consump
tion, and the importer and manufacturer are
staggered at the small amount of productions
he demands. He can buy no more, for the gulf
between the cost of necessities and his ability
to pay is two wide to be spanned. The entire
machinery which makes up our present system
of political economy is radically wrong, and
the whole country is now verging toward uni
versal bankruptcy in consequence of the at
tempt to adjust trade and commerce upon
these false principles. The industry of the
South is paralyzed. A section of our people,
with whom we have had trade relations for the
past eighty years, are now in the lowest stages
of poverty. Their labor system, their capital,
Is destroyed, and ten millions out of our thirty
millions of whites plunged into the depth of
penury. Hitherto the trade we have had with
that section has been the basis of $1,100,000,000
of exchange yearly. This is now almost en
tirely blotted out. Can we of the North expect
to thrive under this state of things? Again,
general consumption produces general produc
tion, aud general production is based upou gen
eral industry; universal industry is universal
prosperity; but general consumption is only
fostered by low prices, hence to-day consump
tion is restricted because prices'are too high. A
prospering nation is that where wealth is equal
ly distributed, when the consumer and producer
can meet on that healthy level which enables the
one to afford his products at the lowest possible
rate commensurate with the labor bestowed
upon them, that the other may be induced to
demand the largest amount his means will allow
him to consume. Political economy tells us
that general, wide-spread, universal and varied
industry in every department of production will
alone make a prosperous nation, for this state
of things conduces to low valuations, which, in
turn, conduce to general and extensive con
sumption, and the results are general prosperi
ty. The nation has then, under the principle of
universal industry, not only a sufficiency of the
necessities of life, but of its luxuries also, and
also, by this general industry, a surplus of year
ly wealth, which docs not concentrate in the
hands of the few, but is distributed equally
among the wealth-creators. Monopolies are
disastrous to a people, though as a rule bene
ficial to the monopolists themselves. All laws
which sustain and foster monopolies are fatal to
Prosperity of the nation at large. The
of Rhode Island, who to-day are huge
♦ceted by laws passed byacor
"" especial benefit, arc
" n w suffering
per
and lienee the decline of the demand for goods.
” e hour tills week whispers of an alarming
character. Parties in New York, who have been
supposed as solid as the Bank of England are
said to be tottering. One huge drv goods house,
the amount of whose business' was in 1805
enormous, reaching some sixty millions, is
said to be on the brink of the precipice, and
unless trade assumes its old condition, in a week
or two, it will go by the board. Hundreds of
smaller concerns, in all sorts of lines of busi
ness, are threatened with bankruptcy, and
rumors from the West and the East are of like
character concerning all the great mercantile
interests of the North. The cry is, “if trade
docs not soon commence, we are ruined.” Gold,
in the meantime, is falling, which, while it bene
fits the great masses, is disastrous to the mer
chant aud manufacturer. How is it now, trades
men of the North? Has the despised South
anything to do with the stagnation of your
business ?
The range of gold last week was from 1341-3
on Monday to 130 on Saturday, and this fall ac
celerates the commercial crisis we may now ex
pect at any moment.
The closing stock sales of Tuesday were not
note-worthy. The market was quiet aud no
fluctuations had taken place in any department.
Quotations were but slightly changed from the
closing sales of Saturday' The New York
bank reports showed a decline, in loans, $2,-
371,138; in specie, $619,893 ; in deposits, $928,-
497, and an increase in circulation, $1,039,151,
and in legal tender, $5,585,657. Loans were,
$333,088,000; specie, $16,563,000; circulation,
$331,033,000; deposits, $180,515,000; legal ten
der, $64,341,000. We note a rapid decline in
the late real estate speculation. Lower values
are now being established, and parties who have
been drawn into contracts for new leases under
the fever which produced the huge advances,
are endeavoring to seek some mode of extrica
tion. The late real estate sham was a bold
sham, one of the most heartless and sordid
tricks ever played upon the mercantile classes
by grasping speculators. Ever 6ince the new
year set in trade and commerce have been
growing weaker, and instead of an advance of
rents generally, circumstances demanded a re
duction, not only of btores but dwellings. The
business world, not only of New York, but of
the whole North, have not been so illy able to
pay their legitimate expenses in the past ten
years as they are to-day. Probably the daily
loss of the mercantile classes of New York, at
this moment, could not be covered by half a
million of dollars. Gold closed at the last sales
of Tuesday at 129 1-3. With the fall of gold
the profits of the merchants vanish like the
mist. Ben. Franklin.
Too Tonic.
[From the Richmond Examiner.
There was a grand sauer krout convention in
Chicago the other day. All the smokers of
meerschaum pipes, imbibers of lager beer, aud
consumers of Dutch cheese, left their affection
ate “ vrows ” and went to a political meeting.
In other words, the “Dutch have taken Hol
land,” and the Germans of Chicago have been
sitting in judgment upon President Johnson!
The Arcopagi of Athens, who held their ses
sions at night, that they might not be diverted
by objects -of sight, or influenced by the pres
ence and action of speakers; who sat in the
open air and took cognizance of high crimes,
impurity and immorality, were as mice to ele
phants when compared to thi6 assembly of irate
Teutons. The braying of asses, the cackling of
geese, and the gobbling of furious turkey cocks,
shrink into insignificance when compared to
the “ resolutions ” of this meeting. They ut
tered a great many sage and decent things—too
many for our notice at present, but among oth
er things they resolved “ That the President’s
harangue to the assemblage in front of the
White House; his general behavior on that oc
casion, especially his denunciation of two mem
bers of Congress, whose loyalty to the Union
and freedom is above suspicion, must be re
garded not only as an affront to an intelligent
and liberty loviug nation, but an unprecedented
aud ill-boding departure from the dignity and
proprieties of a position hitherto universally
revered.”
“Upon what meat” (other than herrings,
cheese and hog flesh) “ have these Teutons led,
that they have grown so great ?” Is there any
thing about the atmosphere of Chicago whicli
speedily converts a greasy, swilling German,
fresh from the “ faderland,” into a Chesterfield
or Beau Brummel, competent to decide upon
the “ dignity and proprieties ” of the position
occupied by the President of the United
States ? We have Germans here in Richmond,
but they are quiet, well behaved citizens, who
know how to conduct themselves, aud who do
not put on the conceit and folly by which the
world now knows and laughs at their brethren
in Chicago.
Who has constituted these people, who came
from some little German State as large as the
palm of our hand; who probably left their
country for their country’s good, urged by hun
ger and the request cf friends; who have proba
bly been in America a twelve month, and have
yet been here 100 long—who, we repeat, has
constituted these ignorant, wild foreigners as
judges of the “general behavior” of our Presi
dent! They know as much of “general be
havior,” “dignity and the proprieties,” as a hog
does of holiday, or a dog of good whisky. In
grates and dotards ! is this the respect and grat
itude which they have for that man who stood
alone by the Union when every other Southern
Senator and Representative left Washington
and hurled scorn and contempt at Andrew
Johnson for not following them ? Was it for
this that the present Executive of the Union in
curred odium and obloquy in his native South
all during the four years of the conflict? We
have some degree of patience aud toleration for
native Americans irt their abuse of Presidents,
because we are devout believers in a free press
and free speech. But when unfledged foreign
ers, especially Teutons, lecture the highest offi
cial in our Government on good behavior and
good manners, we feel like making the quarrel
our own.
We will admit that these indignant Germans
are good judges of sauer krout , onions, cab
bages, Bologna savsages, tripe and chitterlings,
but that they are profoundly versed in the hu
manities, decencies or amenities of life we ut
terly deny. It was only with the aid of such a
man as the notorious Dana that they were able
even to concoct such disreputable resolutions
as were passed at the meeting to which we have
alluded.
It ill becomes the adopted citizens of this
country to be using such language towards the
Executive of this Government, and if they real’
ly believed he could he guilty of “ coups d' etat'-
and “usurpations” they would not dare do it;
for political courage is not characteristic of
Germans.
Infanticide. — The crime of foeticide, as it is
now called, has been properly the subject of
newspaper comment. The extent of this crime
is not exaggerated; indeed it is not realized.
A fact has just come to light in a village not
more than thirty miles from Rochester, that
shows how frequently this crime is committed,
and with what impunity. In cleansing the
vaults attached to a hotel—a first-class hotel—
the workmen removed no less than eight bodies
of infants in all stages of decomposition. One
of these was enclosed in a satchel, another in a
pair of soldier’s pantaloons, while others were
evidently deposited without covering. How
this was all done, and just when, is a mystery
' o-h cannot be disclosed. The hotel is much
1 l v travelers, and guests at the hotel
” "se deposited among their
’ of and concealed
'" ♦us could
[From the National Intelligencer, 14th.
Financial
MiNmcrt HE of Partisan Capital in a
Fiscal Bureau—Remarkable Letter of
Comptroller Clarke.
Treasury Department,
Office of the Comptroller of Currency,
Washington, March 10, 1806.
Dear Sir : Your letter of yesterday is receiv
ed. My letter of the 24th ultimo, in answer to
yours of the same date, was so altered belorc it
was published as not to indicate to whom it was
addressed, and had no other object, and I think
had no other effect, than to simply express my
objections to your loan bill. Ido not see any
impropriety in my giving publicity to my dis
sent from your views of public tinaficial policy.
In accepting the otiicei hold I did not surren
der my independence of judgment nor my free
dom of action. I have made no concealment
from you, or any one else, of my views in re
gard to the bill from the time it was first pro
posed by you.
After a lapse of twelve days yon notice my
letter to you of the 24th of February, and quote
my statement therein that “I suppose there
must be at that time, including deposits in na
tional banks, at least one hundred and fifty
millions of dollars in the Treasury ofthe United
States.” To this you now reply that the actual
amount of money on the 34th in the Treasury
and in national depositories, to the credit of
Government, exclusive of special gold deposits,
was one hundred and eleven million one hun
dred and forty-nine thousand six hundred and
thirty-two dollars and twenty-nine cents, slll,-
149,633 29.)
I cannot see any valid reason for your ma
king a distinction between gold deposits and
deposits made in currency. Both alike are
stated in your monthly reports as liabilities and
assets, and you have the right by lnw to use a
portion of the gold, as you can safely use but a
portion of the currency deposits; because you
must be prepared, by having a reserve on
hand, to respond to the call of depositors. In
this view of the case, there is no reason why
you should not add your gold deposits to the
$111,149,633 29. The special gold deposit, as
appears by your statement ofthe first day of
this month, was $12,627,600. This, added to
the amount that you state was in the Treasury,
&c., on the 26th of February, wiH make $123,-
777,332 29.
Giving you the benefit, as I have, of gold de
posts swelling the aggregate of money on
hand. I now unhesitatingly slate that your
statement just made to me, as well as your pub
lished statement showing the condition ofthe
Treasury and the public debt on the first of
this mouth, is inexcusably erroneous.
You state the amount of coin in the Treasury
to be $55,736,192 12
Currency 60,383,767 13
Total $116,018,959 24
Your monthly statement made the first of
this month shows that you have retired $6,466,-
850 of compound interest and United States le
gal tender notes. This amount must have been
paid before the date of my letter, and as there
is.no law authorizing you to retire any ofthe
compound interest notes in any other way.than
by converting them into 5-30 bonds, and no law
authorizing the retirement of any ofthe United
States legal tender notes in any other way than
by converting them into compound interest
notes, aud no appropriation or provision made
by Congress other than that now mentioned, I
cannot understand why these compound inter
est notes and United States notes should not be
counted and included as currency on hand.—
You have just as much right to re-issue them as
to pay out any other Government notes, and uo
right or authority to cancel them.
It also appears by your last monthly state
ment that you have sold during the month,
witiiout any authority of law, $10,672,700 of
5-20 bonds, and purchased $11,956,000 of 7-80
notes, making your purchase $1,283,300 more
than your sale. This sum also should be in
cluded as money on hand. I will remark in
passing that you have the right to convert 7-30
notes into 5-20 bonds as the former nature, you
have no right whatever to buy or sell them.
You have omitted entirely from your state
ment of the Ist of March, as you have uniform
ly omitted from your monthly statements for
several months past, the amount of money on
deposit in the national banks. The amount so
held on the 24th of February, the date of my
letter, must have been about $28,000,000.
Taking, therefore, the amount stated by you as
on hand the Ist of March in coin and curren
cy $116,018,959 24
Add the amount of United States
and compound interest notes re
tired 0,400,850 00
And 7-30 notes purchased over the
amount of 5-20 bonds sold - 1,283,300 00
And also amount of deposit in na
tional banks .... 20,000,000 00
You must have had a total amount
on hand of 151,768,944 24
Add to this the premium ou the
balance of the coin on hand,
after deducting the amount of
coin to be returned to deposi- •
tors, say .... 15,000,000 00
Making a total currency value of
money in your custody on the
Ist of March instant - - 166,768,944 24
. This is manifest from your own showing, in
your published statement of March Ist, except
ing the item of deposit in the national banks.
The report of the banks will show that I have
not over-stated the amount of those deposits.
I will now state the amount of money that I
suppose was in the Treasury and ou deposit in
the banks as set forth in my letter of the 24tli
of February, deriving my knowledge from other
sources than exhibits from your Department.
The regular report of the Assistant
Treasurer in New York, pub
lished within three or four days
after the date of my letter, shows
that the amount of money on 7 i
hand in his office, at that time,
was over $109,000,000
It is fair to add to this amount the
compound interest and United
States notes said to have been
retired, as they must have been
paid for before that date - - 6,466,850
1 estimate the amount in thJTreas
ury in Washington and in the
hands of Assistant Treasurers in
Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston,
and in the Pacific States and the
eleven Southern States, and in
the various depositories in other
States, aside from hanks, at the
very moderate sum of-- 12,000,000
The currency value of the gold
over its reported value - 15,000(000
Total $170,466,850
It seems to me to be apparent that this
amount, which I supposed to he available in
the Treasury ou the 24th of February, is far
short of the reality, and exceeds what you de
clared it to be in your last monthly statement
by more than $54,000,000.
I will add that I can show to the satisfaction
of any one that neither of your monthly reports
for the •ist few months has shown within
$50,000,000 the amouut of money in the Treas
ury or on deppsit in national depositories.
An accurate sLatemcnt of the condition ofthe
Treasury is not merely a matter of interest to
the public. It is of grave consequence that
Congress should be correctly informed as to the
actual resources of the Government, that it may
legislate intelligently and appropriate wisely.
’ —'ll call your attention to another matter.
"i report you state that you will
' ,<>f K)o,ooo more than your
♦brough the rc
-egret to
•rd to
an
economical administration of your resources,
you will have a surplus ou baud at the close of
the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1866, of nearly
1 or fully $200,000,000, instead of being short
i $112,00(1,000. The difference between my esti
i mate aiul yours is more than enough for the le
| gitimate requirements of the Government for
the entire next fiscal year, commencing the first
d# of July next.
j It is only from a sense of duty that I have
gone into tills discussion to which you have in
vited me; and as there are various' and contra
dictory statements in regard to the differences
: between us of views anil estimates, I feel that
no harm will be done, and, indeed, that it is
proper to make public this letter. If I have
erred in any of my statements or estimates, I
shall be glad to be corrected, and to have the
public advised of the correction.
Very respectfully, yours,
Freeman Clarke.
Hon. Hugh McCulloch, Secretary of the
Treasury.
reply of the chairman of the hank com
mittee TO HON. FREEMAN CLARES’ CHARGES
AGAINST SECRETARY M’CULLOCH.
In the House, on Thursday, in reply to an
interrogatory, Mr. Hooper,' [Republican) of
Massachusetts, said that in reference to the
statement made by the Secretary of the Treasu
ry on March Ist, lie would say that it appeared
that there was in the Treasury at that time fifty
five millions of dollars in coin and sixty millions
in currency, making a total of one hundred and
fifteen millions. Now the letter of the Comp
troller referred to stated that the statement of
the Secretary of the Treasury is inexcusably er
roneous, and goes on, among'other Items, to state
that the Secretary has omitted to give the
amount of deposits in the national banks be
longing to the Government, which amount, the
Comptroller says, is twenty-eight millions of
dollars. Having seen this letter, the Ways and
Means Committee appointed a sub-committee
to visit the Treasury Department to investigate
the alleged discrepancy, aud see if it had any
foundation.
He learned (said Mr. H.) that the statement
of the Secretary of the Treasury of the public
debt was correct. The amount cf money in
the nationnl banks ($28,000,000) was included
in the $116,000,000 reported in the Treasury by
the Secretary on the first of March. This letter
of the Comptroller made it appear that there
were $170,000,000 In the Treasury, and he goes
on to show that some retired notes and 7-80
bonds ought to have been included in the Sec
retary’s exhibit. Then the Comptroller adds
fifteen millions to that statement as the differ
ence between gold and currency, should the
Secretary sell the fifty-five millions of gold at
the present premium. But, as the Secretary
has not sold the gold, it should not be added
in, for the fifteen millions of additional curren
cy were not in the Treasury. The statement of
the public debt made by the Secretary of the
Treasury, he repeated, was entirely correct.—
He had include# the $28,000,000 now in the na
tional banks, and he had not sold the gold in
tlw Treasury. The result of the investigation
of the Sub-Committee on Ways and Means wag
that there were $115,000,000 In the Treasury.
[From the Toledo Blade, (Kep.)
Loyalty at the South.
The newspapers of the extreme stripe are
engaged in picking out oi the testimony before
the Reconstruction Committee 6uch statements
as show evidences of a feeling of discontent and
dissatisfaction on the part of the people of the
South, which, to us, seems to be an unprofitable
business. ****** «
All we can expect of them—all we have any
right to demand of them —is submission to the
laws. The hotheaded returned soldier will vent
his spite in words for a time; the planter whose
home lias been destroyed will curse the blue
coats who did it; but if they yield Obedience to
the laws, and fulfil all the conditions the Gov
ernment imposes upon them, it Is all we can
expect or hope for.
The extremists who arc. insisting that they
shall be held in a of bondage until they do
love us, ask what guarantees have wc that they
will not again rebel ?
1. Their lack of strength. Were they strong
enough to again rebel, they would not have
stopped when they did. They laid down their
arms because they could no longer wield them
—now they are witiiout arms and disorganize!!,
while the Government is stronger than ever.
2. Jiieir iutercsts. They are literally ruined
and must have a term of peace to rebuild their
broken fortunes.
They are made of the same material as other
men. They fought for their idea—they lost;
and they are making the best of what is left
them. Asa matter of course they will save
out of the wreck all they can, and will strive to
get back into the Union witli as much of what
they weut out with as possible.
It is the duty of the Government to readmit
them on such terms as will guarantee a lasting
peace, and make another rebellion impossible.
But to hold them aloof until they profess tc
love a Government they do not love—until they
kiss the band that smote them—until they are
so changed as to" worship a system they were
educated to oppose, is to pass a sentence of ex
clusion on at least the present generation. We
can force them to obedience, hut uot even bayo
nets can take,them farther.
It makes uo difference to the Government or
the people what they think, so that tluilr acts
do not run counter to the laws made for them.
The old feeling will die out, and the ancient
love for the Government will take its place,
and this result will be reached before the pres
ent generation fades away, if prudent councils
prevail at Washington. There should be in
ducements held out for loyalty, as well as pun
ishment for disloyalty. It should be made to
the interest of the Southern people to yield a
willing assent to the requirements of the Gov
ernment, and in a short time the anti-seccssion
iste of those States will control them.
The admission of the Tennessee and Arkan
sas members is the first step to be taken in
this direction. There can no evil result from
it, for Congress has the power to guard itself
against the admission of improper applicants.
No man can take the test oath who would not
he an accession to the strength of tin: Union
majority.
Let them in, and, in doing so, put a premium
en Southern loyalty.
New Constitutional Amendment Agreed
Upon. — Washington, March 17. —Tin- Senatorial
caucus held another meeting to-day, and receiv
ed the report of the committee, appointed at
the previous meeting, on a constitutional
amendment to he proposed in the Senate, as
well as in the House, and passed, if possible,
at an early day. It seemed to be the prevailing
impression that no amendment, not basing re
presentation on votes, could succeed, and it
was therefore agreed that the Senate should
unite on the following:
“ Representatives shall be apportioned among
the several States which may be included with
in this Union according to their respective
numbers, counting the whole number of per
sons in each State, including Indians not taxed;
but whenever, in any Stare election, the fran
chise shall be denied to any portion of its male
Citizens above the age of twenty-one years, ex
cept for crime or disloyalty, the basis ol repre
sentation in such State shall be reduced in the
proportion of the number of male citizens ex
cluded to the whole number of male citizens
over twenty-one years of age.”
Death of an Esteemed Citizen. —We re
gret to announce the death of Mr. Robert Ellis,
a well known and esteemed citizen of our Dis
trict, at his residence, near Due West, on Satur
day last, the lOth hist. The disease was drop
sy, the result of an organic affection. Mr. El
lis wa3 an estimable man in ail the relations of
life —a good citizen, a humane master, a kind
neighbor, a last friend—charitable, liberal and
public-spirited, his death is a public loss. He
leaves many relatives and friends to deplore his
loss. —Abbeville Prett, 16th.
[From the N. Y. Herald, 17th.
Interesting Letter from Chiba.
Havana, March 10, 1866.
THE LATE REVOLUTION ARY DEMONSTRATION.
The Sagua newspaper, of the sth inst., pub
lishes the following regarding the late outbreak
at Villa Clara, which I translate literally :
I Our meritorious guard has just rendered an
| important service. It appears that a band of
I highwaymen, consisting of some fourteen or
| sixteen fool hardy individuals, armed with cut
lasses, knives and muskets, attempted a rising
at \ ilia Clara, or some point in that district.—
Their intention apparently was to get up a sort
of marauding expedition, and their suspicious
proceedings created considerable alarm in that
peaceful section of the Maud. They first made
their appearance iu the Calaliazal district; but
information of their arrival having been re
ceived by Don Jose Hernandez Galvez, com
manding the civil guard iu that district, ho im
mediately started in search of them with a por
tion of his force, aud, supported by the lieu
tenant commanding at Cicufucntos, he came
across them at a point called Tagudyabon, in
the district of Sau Juan de los Remedies. Some
shots were exchanged, and, finally, the civil
forces succeeded iu capturiug twelve of the in
surgents, among whom were Don Ventura,
Rosen, Andres Lopez, Maximo Guerra, Anto
nio Rodriguez and Augustin Milian. They
were taken to Remedies and duly delivered to
the custody of the civil authorities to await
trial.
The parties implicated are stated to belong to
the respectable class of society. Villa Clara,
whol e the demonstration took its rise, Isa town
of considerable importance on the north side of
Cuba, distnut about sixty leagues from Havana.
Its situation is favorable for a revolutionary
movement, as the eastern portion of the island
is the most mountaiuous and the most disaffect
ed, being inhabited by a manly class of country
men, termed greajirot.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT. i
[From tho Pronsa of March 7.
The report which wc copied yesterday from
the Sagua, regarding the capture of a number
of individuals suspected of being about to get
up a marauding expedition, turns out to hare
been greatly exaggerated. Tho truth of the
matter, as wo have learned from sonreos worthy
of credit, is ns follows: Some dozen or more
individuals were drinking together in a tavern
(bodega,) when one of them, being excited by
his potations, expressed himself in violent
terms against the Government, and a lieutenant
from Taguayahon, who was present, rebuked
the man, and fearing that the dispute might eud
in violence the civil guard were notified, who,
meeting two of the party coming out of the
tavern, arrested them for carrying arms without
authorization, and after inquiring the nnnies of
the others they arrested them also and handed
them over to the officers of Justice at San Juan
de los Remedies. Upon investigation it appears
that the man whom the licutcnaut had reproved
is addicted to drunkenness and in the habit of
talking wild when under the Influence of liquor,
and that the others belong to the respectable
class of society, having never offended against
tho laws.
THE CARGO OF AFRICANS.
The Spanish war steamer Neptune arrived
here this morning (as I stated in my letter for
warded by the Moro Castle,) having In tow a
coasting selioonor with a considerable number
of Africans on board. It is reported that the
blacks were transferred from a brig which land
seveu hundred of them at San Antonio. The
owner not appearing they were purchased by
Senor Marty at tho rate of fifteen ounces ($225)
each. The total number of Africans taken by
the Neptune is estimated at nearly one thousand
five hundred souls.
The British steamer Bolivian appeared off tho
port the evening before last, from New Orleans,
and the Captain not understanding the signals
from tho Moro fortress “not to enter at, night,”
was fired at with blank cartridge and had to
wait till next morning.
SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH TO THE UNITED STATES
AND MEXICO.
Late papers fjom the United States say that
an American company has obtained from tho
State of Florida the right to land and extend
telegraphic cables from the shores of that State
to the island of Culm and the Bahamas. This
compnny is probably not aware that by a royal
decree, dated Madrid, June 30, 1865, the exclu
sive right to land telegraphic cables on the coast
of Cuba was conceded to a Spqpish company,
orgnnized uuder tho Marquis Marianao, Count
San Esteban, Don Arturo de Marcoartu, and
other distinguished capitalists, for thd purpose
of connecting tho “ ever faithful Island” with
Mexico and the United States.
FREE SCHOOLS IN CUBA.
The Prensa, of the 21st ult., lias a long leader
in reference to public education In this island,
eulogizing the Government for, and congratu
lating the country upon, the solicitude bestowed
upon this branch or the public service. It snys
that although the amount devoted by Govern
ment to gratuitous education in this Island was
only $134,000 in 1854, no less than $460,000 is
now allowed to the free schools In Cuba, and
that, considering the population, this is a very
large amount. The Sigh, in au article of yes
terday, ridicules this estimate and compares
Cuba with the city of New York alone. The
contrast will open the eyes of many besides
those of the editor of the Prensa.
THE BEOAK TRADE.
An exposure was made some time ago by the
European press, denouncing the ingeuiou*
frauds committed in Germany and elsewhere,
to the great injury of the genuine article, both
in spurious manufactures and in the exporta
tion of segars for reimportation.
A number of our manufacturers lately held a
meeting to devise the best means to put a stop
to the practice. One of the remedies proposed
was to establish a newspaper, exclusively In de
fense of their interests. The idea of having a
newspaper is not anew one, as the Honradcz
Cigarette Manufactory has had one for some
time, tinder the direction ol the proprietor him
self.
THE AUOUELLES CASE.
Tour readers may recollect that against the
sentence passed on Argueiles last year he made
an appeal to the Supreme Court of Spain, which
is still pending. It is said that he forwarded
“certain documents” home with a view to im
plicate others and to vindicate himself in that
business to whicli he owes his disgrace; but
wliat is certain is tlift he is still an inmate of the
Havana “Tombs,” or Carcel l'ublioa. He seems
to be badly provided for, in a pecuniary view,
ns lie scut the other day to get some money
from a “friend.”
’ LOCAL NEWS.
The Captain General lias given permission for
a joint stock company to build anew theatre
on one of the empty lots between the city walls
oftliePuerta de Colon and Pncrta de Tierra,
and which is to be under bis hnnimcdiate pa
tronage. The edifice will consist of four sto
rice—the first for shops, theseeond for a Cuban
Aitbonamm, the third for a theatre and the
fourth for a hotel. The capital of the company
has not yet been named, but is to be made up
by shares of six ounces (£102).
It is reported that Senor Teodoro Guerrero,
a member of the Council of Administration, and
a man of whom the Captain General entertains
a very high opinion, will shortly be appointed
to the office of Political Secretary of this Gov
ernment.
Patrick Henry.— This eminent Virginian
left in Ills will the following Important passage:
I have now disposed of all my property to
my family ; there is one thing more I wish I
could leave them, and that is, the Christian re
ligion. If they had that, and I had not given
them one shilling, they would be rich ; and if
they had not that, and I had given them all the
world, they would be poor.